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THE WORKS THAT I DO BEAR WITNESS OF ME PHOENIX AZ 51-0413 63

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Good evening, friends. It's a--as usual, a great privilege to be here again tonight. And just take a few moments of your time to speak, the rest of the time, I will want to put in praying for the sick. I'm... We had a glorious time last night when the people all passing through the lines. And I think that more or less gives the people an idea, to know that their pastor has the right to pray for the sick. And he does. And then when I'm gone, I--I want you to remember: when you get sick again, or something happens, you go to your pastor. He--he's the man of God, that God sent to--to give you deliverance through his prayers when he prays for you. And you just believe him with all your heart when he prays, and believe that God hears his prayers, and God will do it. You believe that, don't you?
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Now, just two more nights of this service after tonight. And we've had a lovely time here at Phoenix. I've enjoyed every hour I've been here. It's so heavenly like. In the daytime when I go to pray, I-I usually go out into the desert. And it's so peaceful like, out there, just seems like that God is near. How are you, Brother King, all right? Fine. God bless you. First time I'd seen him for years. But I just recognized him. And I am happy to see in the building tonight, that they say that many of our Spanish friends from the Spanish church has been coming down to--to see us. And I appreciate that. I'd sure like to see that little choir sing again that they have there, them young ladies with the--wore them white veils and so forth. I thought it was so saintly looking. I would like to ask that maybe Sunday afternoon, they might do that. I hope they do sing for us. That's...
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Brother Lewi Pethrus from Stockholm, Sweden. It's the head of the Filadelfian Church, the greatest Pentecostal church in the world. And I had a meeting there for him and, when I was at Stockholm. And they had... I don't know how many thousands. A thousand of them come down and beat a drum, and send so many thousand up this a way. And send another... Beat another bunch of drums, and send so many thousand that way, 'fore you could get through the
building to start ministering. And then one night, I seen five hundred people... While I was praying for the sick, I stopped, and I said, "I don't know," through an interpreter. I said, "I feel very strangely led. But it seems to me the Holy Spirit wants to fill people." And I think it was five hundred registered that they received the Holy Ghost at one time in--in the--in the place where it was at. And so Brother Pethrus, I will be very happy to get to see the old brother tomorrow night.
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It's just like my old grandfather, that just went to meet God not long ago. Of course, he was quite a bit older than Brother Pethrus. He was--he was ninety-seven, ninety-eight, I believe it was, years old. And I was thinking that was some age, my grandmother died a hundred and ten. And so my grandfather, on the other side, died at ninety-something. My grandmother, on my mother's side, died at thirty-something. So... But most all my father's brothers died young. My father died at fifty-two. The generations are getting weaker and wiser as the Bible said. So we'll be happy. All of you bring your friends out tomorrow night. We'll have Brother Pethrus to speak a little for us tomorrow night. Would you like to hear him? He can speak in English just almost as good as in--in Swedish. A very fine brother. You'll enjoy him very much.
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Now. And then Sunday afternoon, the Lord willing, "The Life Story" for Sunday afternoon. Try to bring all the sinder--sinners that you know. Now, that's the day that I want many sinners to come out, so we can have an altar call. Let's ask God to give us at least from three to five hundred souls Sunday afternoon. Will you--will you pray for it? And now, you'll have to get them out here. Each Christian, make up your mind to bring some sinner friend Sunday afternoon. And--and we'll do everything that we can to have an altar call. And then let them go to the church of their choice, to go back to the churches, wherever they can pick up a--a membership.
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I remember one Sunday afternoon, Pensacola, Florida, I seen two thousand accept Jesus at one time. That's the biggest call we ever had in America. And I just heard from Brother Baxter from British Colombia, which is to be the manager of the meetings in Africa. And we're to leave for Africa on October the first. And our first meeting is in Johannesburg, October the fourth in Johannesburg, Southern Rhodesia, South Africa. And we're going... There's a little discussion whether they get the
natives, or the--or the mixed. And so they're just going to have the mixed audience down there. They... Since that lady went down there, Mrs. Nightingale, I told you about the other night, that was so bad in the field. My, we hope to have a great landslide for the Lord. And I--I'm going to depend. And nights, when I go into the platform, if God lets me go and live to go; I'm going to think when I walk up there, I can just shut my eyes and see a lovely bunch of people, in Phoenix, from different places, praying for me. That's... God will help me. And I'm going to depend on you.
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And if you ever want to do anything for me that'll please me, you pray for me. That's the... That's one thing that I--I want you to do, pray for me, 'cause I know prayer changes things. It even changes God's mind about things, changes God's program. Do you believe that? God can pronounce a certain thing. It's going to be just that way. And prayer will change His mind about that. It has been done. Remember when Hezekiah was going to die, and the prophet went up and told him to get his house in order? And then the... Hezekiah turned his face to the wall and wept bitterly before the Lord. Said, "Lord..." He'd walked before Him all those years with a perfect heart. And he wanted to be spared fifteen years. And the prophet was done gone. But the Spirit of the Lord come upon the prophet, said, "Go back and tell him I heard his prayer." And after three days, he's coming down off the bed. After three days, he's coming off the bed. See, God could've took him off the bed right then, couldn't He? Don't you believe that? But we have to know God's program and things, just how He is.
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Now, we're going to read some of the Word, and then just a comment or two on It. And then we're going to--to start the prayer line, because I have... This has been a fast day, fasting and praying that God would grant His blessings upon you people tonight. Now, over in the Book of Saint John the 4th chapter, beginning with the 46th verse, I wish to read. And then I want to read just a--a little bit out of the 10th chapter of Saint John, the 22nd and the 25th verse inclusive. And as I read, I want you to listen real close now, to the Word. Now, faith cometh by hearing, and hearing the Word. Is that right? That's how we receive faith is by hearing the Word. Now, listen closely. So Jesus came again into Cana of Galilee, where he 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 come down, and heal his son: for he was at the point of death... (Now, watch this distress.) 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. (Now, Jesus, look how He answered him back. See? He said, "Except you see signs and wonders, you won't believe. And he said, "Come down ere my child die." Now, he's trying to get Jesus to go to his house.) Jesus said unto him, Go thy way; thy son liveth. And the man believed the word that Jesus had spoken unto him, and went his way.
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Now, get the order of it. Now, he wanted Him to come down and pray for him. But Jesus kinda give him a stoppage. He said, "Except you see signs and wonders, you won't believe." Said, "Sir, come ere my son--my child would die." He said, "Go your way; your son liveth." And the man believed what Jesus said. And as he was now going down, his servants met him, and told him, saying, Thy son liveth. And then enquired he of them the hour he begin to amend. And they said unto him, Yesterday at the seventh hour the fever left him. So the father knew that it was the same hour, in which Jesus said unto him, Thy son liveth: and himself believed, and his whole house. This is again the second miracle that Jesus did, when He came out of Judaea in Galilee. Did you notice, he referred that gradual healing to a miracle. And he wanted... The man wanted Him to come down and pray for his son, and He wouldn't go. But He said, "Thy son liveth." And the man believed what Jesus said. The man believed the Word Jesus said. Now, that's the point I want you to get: Believe what He said is the truth. Then when he met them, met his servants, the next day, he... it's... He said, "There's your son's still alive. Your son liveth." He said, "Well, what time did he begin to amend?" He said, "At the seventh hour yesterday, the--the fever left him." About two o'clock, I guess. Ninth hour is at three. So I guess about two o'clock yesterday, said, the fever left him. And the man said, "Yes, that's about the same hour when He told me my son was going to live." And he believed and all of his house believed with him, because that Jesus said the Word, and the man believed the Word. See what I mean?
Now, what if the man said, "Now, wait a minute. I--I want... I want You to come down and pray for my boy." The boy probably would've died. See? What if he'd say, "Now, I--I know... I believe You and everything, but I want You to come pray for me." But the man believed what Jesus said. He didn't go. He didn't grant him his request. But He met what he wanted, his son healed. He said, "Thy son liveth." And he believed it. Now, just another piece of Scripture in the 10th chapter, the 22nd verse beginning. And it was at Jerusalem the feast of... dedications, and it was winter. And Jesus walked in the temple in the Solomon's porch. Then came the Jews around about him, and said unto him, How long does thou make us doubt? If thou be the Christ, tell us plainly. (Now, listen.) Jesus answered them, I told you, and you believed not: the works that I do in my Father's name, they bear witness of me.
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Let's bow our heads just a moment. Our heavenly Father, we thank Thee for the witness of the Holy Spirit in this room tonight, or this tent--tabernacle. We thank Thee for it. And we believe that the report of the... Jesus being the Christ, the Son of God, is the truth. We believe it because the Bible says so. And we accept it by faith, Divine faith that's been placed in our heart by the Holy Spirit. We believe it with all of our heart. And we believe that He is the same Lord Jesus today that He was yesterday, and will be when we see Him coming. "This same Jesus that was taken up will show--so come in like manner as you see Him go into heaven." And we know that He promised to be with us in the form of the Holy Spirit plumb to the end of the world, the end of the age. He said, "These signs shall follow them that believe." And tonight, we're thankful to be represented here, or gathered here, rather, in a group of people that represents this glorious Gospel of deliverance. After nineteen hundred years criticism, trying to destroy the Bible... Infidels has raised and fallen; many persecutions, more persecutions upon the Book than any other book in the world, but yet it's the greatest seller the world has. "Heavens and earth shall pass away but My Word shall never fail."
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And tonight, here in the city of Phoenix, this land of the sunshine, Thou has people scattered throughout the earth bearing record of the Light. Shine upon us tonight, Lord. Send the Holy Spirit, and may He just get right down in every heart tonight, real apostolic faith: those who are willing to seal their testimony with their blood,
believing the true story of the Lord Jesus. The Angel's Word, "Behold, I bring you tidings of great joy, for now, in our hearts, is born Christ the Saviour, by the Holy Spirit." Thou did know, that many times, looking down through the age, that You'd see that men would tamper with the Word and try to confuse people. But we're so thankful that You made a way: You said, "I'll be with you. I'll be even in you to the end of the age." And we feel, know that You're here tonight; and our works that we come out, worship You, step out on Your Word. By faith we believe it; works perfects that faith. And we're happy to be among those people.
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Now, Lord, I've testified in this building, and across almost the entire world of the great Angel Who came up to Thy humble servant, just a little baby laying there in the bed on a corn shuck pillow, and a straw mattress. And now, tonight, Father, You're moving, showing signs and wonders. The great atomic age is here, nations against nations, kingdoms against kingdoms. The people are nervous. You said it would be fear upon the earth, perplexity of time, distress between the nations, men's hearts failing. Oh, what a day that we're living in.
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May the Christians rise, shine up the armor, let the colors go to streaming, stand in this great rank of believers saying that Jesus is the same yesterday, today, and forever, looking for Him to come the second time in glory to redeem all those from the dust of the earth that sleeps that's died in Him. Then we won't have any more healing services, Lord. It'll all be over then. For this mortal will take on immortality, and we'll have a body like His own glorious Body. We shall see Him, kneel down and rub His feet with--bathe it with tears of joy, that He's let us overcome, and come to His house to live, set down by the evergreen trees where the crystal waters are flowing before the throne. There with Everlasting Life, we then profess to walk up and down in the leaves of the healing of the nations to study war no more; and all the plowshares and, or the swords will be bleat-beat into plowshares and pruning hooks. And there'll be no more war or strife, no more sickness; and Satan will be bound and cast away. Oh, for that great hour, Father, help us to prepare now. For we ask it in the Name of Thy Child, Jesus. Amen.
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We all look for the day that when we won't have to be sick any more. I think of the great time that our Master will be here, how that He will take us then, and we'll have no more sorrows, or heartaches. Now, I want you to pray and be much in prayer while I speak to you just for a few moments. I promised you, I wouldn't take much of the time so we can have a good long prayer line. I'm going to stay just as
long as I can. I asked Brother Sharritt and them tonight, let me stay just as long as I possibly could. Now, I notice the wheelchairs and things are thinning down. The--the Lord's been healing the people, and they're getting well and going home. And we're happy for that.
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And now, I want to speak just a moment, or just bring your attention to a few words here that Jesus said, "The works that I do bear witness of Me." The things that I do, what I say, is what bears record of me. And that's what bears record of every person. Do you know, I'd rather you'd live me a sermon than preach me one? It'll be a--a better evidence that you're a Christian. Isn't that right? A live a sermon. And what we are is--is what we live, what we do. Our actions shows what we are. And if we say we have faith, and then afraid to step out and claim our faith and put it to work, then our faith doesn't do us much good, does it? The Bible said that faith without works is dead, just as the body without the spirit is dead. So is faith without works.
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We must believe Him. And as we believe, we must act on our confession. When we... We can't say it conscientiously, unless we really believe it. And then if we really believe it, then we can say it with all of our hearts and know that God answers our prayer and gives us the desire of our hearts. I don't know whether I'm going to be able to speak much or not, friends. I just feel the Angel of the Lord is so near. Now, it's been marvelous down through... If I should go tonight... Last night there was a man setting here in the building. Come down, shook hands with some of his friends, went home. And this morning he's gone to eternity just in a few moments with a heart attack. You here tonight and don't know God, why don't you receive Him? Why don't you accept Him? And see, you don't know just what minute or hour these things are coming.
Now, along the journey, it's been very good for me to get to meet with--with God's people. And I look out and see some of you here, old veterans that's fought to win the prize and sailed through bloody seas, as the story goes, or the song. I think of how--how little my life is, and what--how little I'm doing for the Lord. I'm just running over the road that you--you carved out. There's only one defect that I find amongst the Pentecostal folks. You know what that is? It's such a division among the people in their different organizations, is--is--is the thing. I wished I could see you all with one heart and one accord. I--I wished I could. That's been my heart's desire. That's right. I've longed when I first come...
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I was ordained in the Baptist church. Everybody knows that. And then I left the Baptist church, because I--I seen the--the thing... I say this with godly respect for every organization. I have nothing against any of them. But it becomes a political warfare amongst the people. And the people don't hardly know how to take a hold of God. Like when I was here before, the group called the Oneli... Oneliness was the ones sponsored my meetings. The other group would have nothing to do with it. This time, it's just vice versa. Threeliness this time. Twoliness is having it. Now, if you got a Twoliness, Fiveliness, or whatever it is. I don't care what you believe in, brother. It ain't what you believe, it's Who you believe: Jesus Christ. And the people, look like it's so hard for you to get your hearts together. If you would break that down, people, I... and just... I... Let the fellow believe whatever he wants to about it. Them things are-doesn't amount to very much anyhow. It's just... The thing of it is, God gives those the Holy Ghost who obey Him. Is that right? And if you've got the Holy Ghost, you've obeyed God. So let the other fellow believe anything he wants to, but have fellowship with one another. Be brothers. But as long as you argue...
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Look. Of course, this being a city of tourists, you may not love me after tonight. That's right. But I--I--I'm around over town and feel that pressure of the Spirit. And I--I have... I don't know. Many, many things I don't know. But I do feel that opposition pull. That's not right. That's not right. I've been anointed with this Spirit for the last two or three hours, and I--I know He wants me to say this. And--and dear Christians, as long as you do that, and ministers, you're going to stay in the kindergarten where you're at right now, and you'll never know no more than fuss and fight with one another. That's all. Until you get big enough to walk out there and shake hands with your brother and have fellowship, God will bring you up and restore all the gifts back to the Church, and take the Church home. That's right. But until you get big enough to get out of that traditional denominational barrier... Oh, it's horrible. I tell you it is. It's... Politics? You talk about our nation being on, just look at what disunity in our nation's doing. Look what's happened right now, right in the time of war. Isn't that horrible? That's a disgrace to our nation. Well, it's more than a disgrace to--to Jesus Christ, the Church in the dis-unity it's in just before the coming of the Lord and the loosening of the antichrist on the earth. And here we are, and separated with denominational barriers. "I'm a Methodist, praise God. You couldn't shake me, I'm a Baptist. And I'm a--a Assembly of God. I'm a Church of God. I'm the United Pentecostal church." And oh, my. What are any of you anyhow? That's right. What's any of us? Nothing,
but what God would let us be. And it's all in the grace of God. So let's look to Him, praise Him, and associate with our brother.
If the brother's in a error, don't push him down. He's as far as he wants to be now, farther down. Help him up. Give him a hand. Lift him up. Love him. No matter if he can't agree with you, love him anyhow. That's right. And just don't act like it; do it. Pray that God gives you that kind of a heart, and then you will do it. That's right. Now, it can be done. Now, I deal with all you bunches. That's right. And I don't care who sponsors the meeting. That doesn't make any difference to me. I'm glad that one and then the other can do it. But it doesn't matter to me. I don't even know which is which, and where is... I don't care, as long as you're Christians. As long as you love the Lord, I love you. And if you don't love the Lord, I love you anyhow. So--so--so I--I want you to do that when you meet one another on the street, have the greatest of fellowship and friendship, have prayer meeting, union prayer meetings together. And if you'll do that and break down that barrier, God will--you won't have to have some of these people around--going around over the country here and a lot of impersonations, you'll have the genuine article of the Holy Spirit. That's right. That's true.
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After all, I'd rather have the love of God sealed in my heart than all the gifts there is in the Bible. That's right. I thought of that here a few nights ago. My little girl called me, and I told her... She wanted me to come home to her. She loves me, oh, my. And so I--I... She's... I told her I sent her a little doll. But she didn't want the doll. She said, "I want you, daddy, not your doll." See, she wants me. Well, that's the way I think about Jesus. I love His gifts and things to help His people, but I want Jesus. The love of God, sealed in your heart, pressed in until all the world's pressed out and you see nothing but the Lord, to love Him. And as you love one another, you love the Lord. If you don't love one another, you can't love the Lord. He said so. That's right. And God can't move into you.
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But did you ever see a--a... I believe, brother, that many times, that if the Church, a lot of times, would just let the Lord, give the Holy Spirit to the people... I'd better keep still. People, you won't have nothing to do with me at all. But... Listen. I--I... Will you... It won't hurt your feelings, I hope I don't. But look. You know what hurts the Pentecostal church? Is when you first started and the Holy Spirit begin to fall upon it, different men
have different ideas. And they went off and broke up, and made different organizations and things like that. And they got people down at the altar, and got them all worked up and excited, and--and got them to speak with tongues before the Holy Ghost really come in. And they went out and lived all kinds of lives 'cause they didn't have the Holy Ghost in the first place. And that's just exactly what's done it. If you'd let the Lord add to the church daily such as should be saved, then it would be different. That's right. Keep your hearts together and move on. That's true.
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When God once signs His Name across something like that, signs your name, or the Name of Christ, and a notary takes the seal and puts on there, and presses that thing down. Brother, it's there to stay, what I mean. You know what I'm speaking of. Now, I'm not preaching eternal security either, being a Baptist. No, that's not... That's not what I'm talking about. But I'm talking about... It's just no easy thing to rub away from the Holy Ghost when God once seals that love into your heart. The things become so dead, the things of the world if you got the real genuine Baptism of the Holy Spirit. That's right. Now, that's what caused a disgrace upon the Church, because people just get their fleshly ideas, and get to running away with things. And that causes these different denominations and things. You just got... "Well, I belong to this one. And they don't get along good with that group, so I won't either." Break that thing down. You people do it among yourselves. If you're organizations won't do it, grab a hold of your brother's hand and shake his hand. Do it anyhow. We got to get ready for Jesus' coming. That's all. That's right. And love it. And the heads of the church will finally have to come together, or God will get them out. Brother, I may get run out of here after awhile if I keep that up, won't I? But that's the truth. And God knows that's the truth. And I'll be responsible at the day of judgment if I'm not telling you the truth.
So this big country here with all these big fine churches, going around over and see this big one, and this one, and that one, all Full Gospel churches. If you'll just come together, oh, my, why, there would be such a--a revival to sweep Phoenix here. Well, you just isolate yourself from one little group. Nobody's going to believe you anyhow. And they oughtn't to. I wouldn't if I was a sinner. I wouldn't believe you. No, sir. When you talk about the love of God and don't show it, then I--I think you're talking about something you ain't got. That's just exactly. By their fruits you shall know them. That's exactly right. Amen. So get your hearts together and be one in Christ. And then when
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they're start an old fashion revival in this church, and join in with this one... Well, down there in Kentucky where I come from, if it was the Methodist, or the Baptist... Well, what difference? Did it make any difference? Well, they all went down there and the Baptist preacher baptized Methodists [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] Or Methodist baptized the Baptist, and they all stick together down there. You talk about Baptist, brother, we ain't got that... Missionary Baptist is not for...?... shake your hand, put your name on a piece of paper. We get down at the altar and beat one another in the back...?... come through...?... That's right. I grab a picture of the...?... When they could come together... Look. When Solomon built the temple, they was cut out from all over the world. But when they come together, there wasn't a buzz of a saw nor the sound of a hammer. Every block, no matter, if this one might've been cut like Oneness, and this one Twoness, and this one Threeness, and this one Fiveness, or whatever it was. But when they come together, they went dovetail one with the other. That's right. And there wasn't any arguing; there wasn't any buzzing; there wasn't any fussing; they just went together and made the temple of God. That's right. And I believe that God is cutting out everywhere borned again children of God, and going to bring them together. I may not live to see it, but I hope I do.
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But someday, you're going to have to... You remember, there's young people setting here. Someday those denominational barriers, and ideas that fanatics has got out there, and scooped around, and separated the people, will be taken away; and God will bring His Church together and take It home. Just as certain as anything in the world. That's... They're going to come; that's prophecy. Remember that. I spoke that in the Name of the Lord. Now, you can put that down upon the book. Now, that was true. I didn't know I was saying, going to say that. Now, that's right. That's how God will bring His Church together. You can depend on that. And as long as you argue and fuss with one another, you're in the kindergarten. God will just keep you there, till you learn enough to get out of it. That's all. Amen. Well, praise the Lord. All right. That's right. Get out. Have faith. Step out on the Word of God. Jesus said, "They..." The disciples come, said, "We seen one casting out devils and we forbid him." There starts your denomination again. Said, "Forbid him not." Amen. Be one with him; that's all. Go join up. If they won't join up, don't forbid him; go on. That's the way to do.
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Now, watch closely. Jesus said, "The works that I do bear record of Me." The works that you do bear record of you. Jesus said,
"This will all men know that you're My disciples, when you have love one for the other." Is that right? Then your works bear record of you. When you... "And a man that says that he loves Me and hates his brother--loves Me who he has not seen, and hates his brother who he has seen; he's a liar, and the truth's not in him." Is that right? That's exactly the truth. Friends, that Gospel wasn't written in vain; that's the truth. We look over these great big Greek words and so forth... Somebody told me not long ago, said... I was talking something on this order. He said, "What business you got saying that with a seventh grade education." I said, "I might not read but the seventh grade, but I read a whole carload of them. I know what I'm talking about. If it's up to the seventh grade... And I know one thing that people look over, trying to get to their people educated; they send them off to these cemeteries... or semina..." It's all of the same thing. That's about right, a dead place.
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A seminary preacher always reminds me of an incubator chicken. A little old incubator chicken, just chirp, chirp, and ain't got no mammy to go to. And that's just about the way this reading, writing, and arithmetic, and gets them great big swell words. Why, you go over the top of the common people anyhow. So what of it. You look way out--out there, and leave out judgment, and mercy, and so forth, which you should know. And the love of God, that's shed upon our hearts by the Holy Ghost, that tears down traditions and builds us up in Christ Jesus, new creatures in His love and power. That's the things that we ought to have. Amen. We go over the top of that, and go out there and some great big Greek words.
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Somebody told me, said, "Well preacher, you don't know the Greek words." I said... "You don't know the Bible right. If you knowed this word don't mean this, it means that." I said, "Brother, I know the Author better than I know His Book." Amen. I'd rather have the Author anyhow any time. His Book's fine. That's right. But I'd rather know the Author. Wouldn't you? And you know Him by the love... "Though I speak with tongue as men and Angels, and have not charity, it profits me nothing." That's right. Right. Now, I'm not against speaking in tongues; I'm not against any of God's gifts, or any of His blessings, or the Holy Spirit. I'm just saying, we're leaving off that one thing that's more important than all: That's the love of God (Amen.) that makes us one in Christ Jesus.
What's the matter with me here tonight? Huh? Didn't I get on the hill of praying for a half a day here, and come back here and
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preaching the Gospel before the people in a healing meeting. I don't understand it. But maybe God wants it that way. All right. Whatever God wants. Amen. I never... I was going to speak tonight about how to believe His Word. But It was started something else. Well, He's here. And if I speak the truth, God bears record of me, and if I don't speak the truth, He will have nothing to do with me. Is that right? And remember, little children, I don't care what church you belong to, or what you have done, how well you've done this or that, or the other, how much you've put into the collection plates, or if you're a deacon, preacher, pastor, or--or be a lay member, or whatever it is; you'll never come into the Kingdom of God until the Holy Spirit has sealed you in the Kingdom by His Divine love, that the whole Christian world is your brother and sister. That's right. The world's sealed out, and the God sealed in. When you love one another truly with Divine Christian love (That's right.), then you know the Holy Spirit really is working through you then. That's right. Then by their fruits you shall know them.
Now, oh, I just love Him. One of these days when I come back from overseas, if God permits, I just want to cross across the country holding revivals somewhere, just taking the Word, and--and preaching the Word, and calling for sinners; where we just have to talk on Jesus, simple as--as rough as corn bread and molasses, but it--it--it'll... It's good. Am... It's--it's right. What you know, tell what you know anyhow. Now. Now, remember, I say this, I ha... Remember, no difference with the denominations. Whether you belong to the one church or the other church, that's just organizations that's got together to keep out a lot of fanaticism and things, which is a very good thing. I'm not against the organization. No, sir. But I'm against them barriers that keeps the organization away from somebody else. That's--that's the thing it is. See? It's to keep you from having fellowship one with another.
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Now, do that. Have fellowship with all people, all God's children. And when we get up there, you'll find it'll be that way when we get to heaven. Now, God bless all the organizations. They're just fine. I have nothing against none of them. I don't belong to any of them...?... I try to stand in the breach here, and say, "Jesus loves you all." See? Just stand in the breach and... Quit arguing about one another's religion and so forth, and--and stand that... Stand there and love one another. And then, if you don't do that, if you can't do that, then you ought to come to the altar and get right with God. That's right. Well, you say, "Brother, I've been a deacon for twenty years." I don't care how long you've been a deacon. Deaconship ain't going
to take you to heaven. It's the Blood of Jesus Christ that's shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Spirit's going to take you up. That's right. So you must be right with God, with a good mellow sweet feeling towards everybody, ready to do a favor and be a kind brother to--or sister to the person that you really know is your enemy. The Bible said, "Love your enemy." That's true.
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Now, we pass over those things. These great words that we learn, and things that we do, and gifts, and everything, that's fine, but you'd better get the Giver before you start after the gifts. God can't trust His gifts with everybody. Do you believe that? When God gives you a gift, you have to watch what you're doing with it. Do you believe that? Did you know a man could take a gift of God and send his soul to hell with it? Do you believe that? Certainly. How many believes that Moses was a prophet, let's see your hands? Sure he was. He was a--one of the elect prophets. He was a major prophet, the forerunner of Jesus Christ. He was a priest in his office, just like Christ is a priest in the office.
And watch. God trusted Moses, found favor with him, and made him a great prophet, and give him great powers. And Moses... God told Moses, after the Rock had been smitten once, He said, "Go out and speak to the Rock." But Moses was angry. And he went out and said, "You rebels," to the children of God. "You rebels. Must we fetch you water out of this Rock?" And he smote the Rock...?... and he smote It again. And It brought Its waters. But that broke the whole program of God, right there. Any Bible reader knows that. That that's the one place in the Bible where God's entire program was broken. For the Rock was Christ. Is that right? And the judgments of God only smote Christ one time. He was only smitten once. And from this on, you just speak to the Rock, and It brings Its Waters. You don't smite It. He don't have to die to save you. He don't have to die to heal you, or heal you. He's already died once to heal every one of you. And you just speak to the Rock, and It brings forth Its water. Amen. There you are. Speak to the Rock and It will bring forth Its Water. Are you on speaking terms with Him tonight? Speak to Him; He will bring forth the Waters; the Waters of Life, Waters of healing. "Where The Healing Water Flow," you've heard it sung a many times. That's right. Just speak to Him and see if it isn't right.
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he had power to bring forth the Water out of the Rock, whether it was God's will or not. Did you know that? Everybody will admit that it wasn't God's will. But Moses done it anyhow. He had power. God entrusted him to be a prophet. And He give him those powers to do that. And He found out that His servant failed Him, and he glorified himself in the stead of God. And then what happened? God dealt with Moses then. Didn't He? Not with the children, with Moses. The Holy Spirit is given to a man, and gifts are given to a man; but you have to watch what you're doing with those Divine gifts.
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Look at Elijah. He seen Elijah go up and asked for a double portion of his Spirit. He was a young fellow. He went baldheaded when he was young. And when he was on his road returning home, a bunch of children run out and said, "Bald-head, old bald-head, why didn't you go up with Elijah?" And that angry prophet turned around there and cursed those little innocent children in the Name of the Lord. And two she bears come out of the woods and killed forty-two little innocent children. Is that right? It's the Bible. You think that's the nature of the Holy Spirit? No, sir. No, sir. But that prophet was anger, and he had power to do that. He could curse those children if he wanted to. He could take it or leave it. Do you believe that's endued with people who are gifted from God? Sure it is.
Look at the prophet Elijah. When he was setting down there, and he said... Here comes Jehoram, Ahab's son, and here comes Jehoshaphat. The king of Edom had come down. Wanted to consult him, and he said... When he said, "Why don't you go to your mother's god, to your father's god?" He said, "If it wasn't that I respected the presence of Jehoshaphat, I wouldn't even look to you." Is that right? Now, it was in the prophet's will to do whatever he wanted to. He could lead him, or take it or leave it. Is that right? That's the Bible, if you believe it. But he said, "Nevertheless, bring..." He got all angered up, said, "Bring me a minstrel." And the minstrel begin to play, and the Spirit come upon the prophet. And then he begin to see a vision. He said, "Go dig some ditches. Dig deep ditches," and told them what all would take place. And it took place just exactly like the prophet said. Is that right?
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So friends, find Divine love and favor with God. Then God, if He finds favor with you, will give His gifts into you. But first, find the Giver. Seek the Giver, then the gifts will come as God sees fit to give it to you. Do you believe that? So now, when you go around like this, and different people seeking all night for gifts and things like that, go back till you find love, till
you shake hands with your brother across the street then. Then we'll talk more about getting the gifts then. That's right. When you get the love of God in your heart, then you talk about the gifts.
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Now, what a harsh message tonight to a group of people waiting for healing. But I can't help this. Something is just making me say this. I'm trying my best to quit. Now, that's the truth, friends, from my heart. I'm trying to quit, but It just won't let me quit. I--I don't know. God will, at the day of judgment will know. I had a-something here to speak about tonight in the Bible. But it's just something that, when I start it just whirls me right out, out into something else. And I'm not a fanatic. And I know that God is here. And I know the Holy Spirit is here now to heal the people. I do not understand all of His works. I remember the first time I... Just after the Angel of the Lord had appeared and told me to go pray for the sick people, and He'd make-make them well, if I could get the people to believe me.
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Brother King, the last time when you was here, I was with you up the little Spanish church. There was a... Only way I knew the people, was when they had a germ disease. It would vibrate over my hand. Remember me telling you that it'd come a time where the people secrets of their heart would be known? Is the... That's what the Lord has done. That's what He's done now. And hear me. Listen w--word of God, it's still in its infancy. Can you bear me record of that? It's in its infancy. If I can only keep humble before God, and God will let me live, I believe the hour's coming. Feels like I'm in a little tributary here out to a great ocean out yonder. Someday, He's going to let me cross that last mark down there, out into that tribut--not the tributary, but out into the main lands, main waters, bodies of water, then great things will be done just at the end before the tribulation.
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Now, remember, when that Angel that told me that... I remember the first time, I went downtown to... My little girl, she was just about two weeks old. I asked the Lord if He'd wait till she was born, then I would go out for Him. I went down in town to cash my check. And I went into the--the drugstore to get my check cashed, 'cause I had to get some bottle caps for the baby to drink catnip tea, I believe they call it. And I--I--I think that's what it is. You mothers know how... a catnip tea... So... And I was to get some bottles and caps for it. And so I went in to cash my check. And I noticed as I went in... I still had my uniform on. I was state game warden of Indiana. And I went into the drugstore. And there was a bus that stopped out there, and a fellow got off and looked at
me kinda odd. I went in, and in a few minutes I'd forgot all about it. And I come back out, and there was that fellow standing there looking at me again. I thought, "He don't want to... He wouldn't try to hold me up, me armed and everything else, so..."
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And I started walking on, he just... counting my change out, put it back in my pocket. And I felt a hand lay on my shoulders. He said, "Sir." And I said, "Yes, sir." He said, "Pardon me." He said, "Are you an officer?" I said, "I work for the Conservation of Indiana here." And he said, "Well, I seen you go in just a few moments ago. And I thought maybe..." Said, "I'm wanting some information." He said, "I'm... I live in Paducah, Kentucky." He said, "And I been failing in health for some time." He said, "Last evening," he said, "while I was asleep, I dreamed I saw an Angel come down from heaven. And He come and told me to come to this city of Jeffersonville, and ask for somebody by the name of Branham." And said, "I thought maybe that--that you might know if there's anybody here named Branham." My, my heart just felt like it would have come out of me. I stood there. I said, "My mother runs a little boarding house around the corner." He said, "Is her name... Is your name Branham too?" And I said, "Brother, come here just a minute." I stood on the corner, and I told him all about--about three weeks before that, that this Angel came down, and how this nurse had been down, had been... When I took hold of her hand, it was... She was healed with a cancer and from twenty-one years, graduate, and all what had taken place. And he started crying, and we knelt right there on the corner of Court Avenue and Spring. And I prayed for him. And when I raised up, the people were standing back with their hats off, standing there in respect to prayer. And God moved down and healed that man right on the corner where he was at. Why? God had foreordained, and it must come to pass.
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I remember when I told the--a bishop there, I said that I'm to go out and pray for people, and a great crowds will come from everywhere. And I'm to pray for monarchs and kings. Why, he said, "You eat something for your supper and had a nightmare, boy. Go on back home." And did you notice in the "Voice of Healing," Brother Gordon's little paper that he puts out. In there, that same man come back, Doctor Roy Davis, and testified that he was ashamed of himself for the things that he had said, and he himself prays for the sick now. Oh, my.
I remember one night at Camden, Arkansas, I was standing speaking like this. And the Angel of the Lord came in. And a minister by the name of Adams, his father was a minister here in Phoenix long ago. Some of you might've knowed him, a fellow by the name of Adams, I believe. Used to be here long ago. I don't know whether he was a Pentecostal man or what. His son, as soon as that whirl come in and settled down where I was at... The picture of It's back there in my book. And he run to me to grab my hand. And when he did, He just blinded his eyes, and...?... his head down. And a reporter standing there shot the picture. The next morning, I never forget it. I was up there. I heard someone knocking on my door. He was a man watching the door; he was arguing out there. He said, "Well, I just want to speak a word to the brother." He said, "I'm a reporter." He said, "I can't help who you are. My orders is let nobody in there; it's prayer time." And so I went to door and asked him come in. And he came in. He said, "Brother Branham." He said, "Looky here." He showed me that picture. Said, "Last night, I thought that was psychology myself. But here it is in the picture." Said, "Here it is. It's absolutely took the picture." And he said, "I belong to the Baptist church. But I want to receive the Holy Spirit the way you all got It." And I said, "Well, all right, brother."
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Somebody knocked at the door again. And what it was... I thought it was the room lady, and it was the--the manager of the hotel. A lady come in; she was swinging the key around on her finger. She said, "Brother Branham, I was down there last night. I seen that too." And she said, "Look." She said, "I--I--I want to be borned again. I..." The manager of the hotel... And then, I raised up the curtain there, I had the lights on, turned the lights off, raised up the curtain. I'd say, "See that little white road coming down through them pines up yonder?" I said, "About five days ago, I stayed about four hours up there looking down over this city." Said, "God..." I was just a baby in the way then. About... Been about a month or two after It come to me. I said, "Please let Your Angel visit down through that city and stir them people like never before." There they knelt on their knees there, both the reporter and the manager of the hotel. And both got saved and borned again.
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About a hour later, a little boy came to the door with a message, a little telegram boy. He said, "Brother Branham, my daddy was laying over last night. He's had something wrong with his back
for years." And said, "He's healed." He said with those tears running down his cheek, and he said, "I want to know Jesus too. I got a different daddy now." I said, "Bless your little heart, honey, shut the door and come in here. He's here, and you can find Him right here." There that little fellow knelt on his knees, and put his little cap down on the floor, gave his heart to Christ, went down the room a shouting and praising God, rolling his hands around." What is It? The grace of God that's shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Spirit.
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Next day they taken me down to a little church there where I was to speak for a little while. It's pouring down rain. And I had come out of the church. Wasn't having no healing service, just to speak. And I started out of the service; I'll never forget it. And two policemen was standing there to take me out. I started walking out. And people just screaming, standing there, and--and trying to get in around where the line was. And when I started out, I kept hearing somebody hollering, "Mercy, mercy, mercy." I looked, standing on a little knoll, right in kinda back of the church, there stood an old gray-headed colored man, just a little rim of hair around his head here, and he's gray. And he was holding his hat like this. He stood off from the white people, standing off hollering, "Mercy, mercy, mercy." And I thought, "Poor old fellow." And I started to move on. I felt Something move. I looked back again. I just felt It pull, like that. I started turn around. That police said, "Where you going, reverend?" I said, "The Holy Spirit wants me to go up to where that colored man..." He said "Don't you do that, boy. And these white people are pulling at you like that." Said, "You'd cause a race riot." I said, "I can't help what your laws are. The Holy Ghost tells me to go to where that man is." And I went on up there where he was at.
Now, when he did, I... They ring--put a little ring around like that to keep the people off. And I never will forget. His wife, said, "Honey, here comes the parson now." And I got up real close to where he was, and he said, "Oh mercy, mercy," holding his hands up like that, and his cap in his hand. And I said, "What do you want, sir?" He said, "Is you Parson Branham?" I said, "Yes, sir." He said, "Just a minute." He put his hands on my face; said, "Is--is this you?" I said, "Yes, sir." He said... "Yes, sir."
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He said, "Parson Branham, I--I wants to tell you something." I said, "Go right on, uncle." And he said, "My old mammy had the same kind of 'ligion you got." And I... Religion. Said, "She got the same kind of religion you got." Said, "I lives about a hundred miles from here." And said, "My old mammy's been dead for many years." Said, "I's been blind for nearly ten years now." And said, "I never heard of you in my life. And last night after I went to bed, I woke up." And said, "Just as plain as I ever seen of my old mammy, she was standing by my bedside. She said, 'Honey, rise and put on your clothes and go to Camden, Arkansas. You'll get your sight.'" Oh, my. Oh, when I think about those things. I can see it now. There that old-aged man standing there, I thought about old blind Bartimaeus at the gates. I said, "Heavenly Father, I do not know what to do, only put my hands on this brother." I said, "God, I don't understand his mother coming to him in a dream." I said, "I cannot understand this; only I ask You to give him back his sight." I turned around like that, started to walk away. He said, "Thank You, Lawd. Thank You, Lawd." She said, "Honey, do you see?" Said, "Sho I sees ya." Said, "I told ya, I got down here I'd see." She said, "Why, you really see, honey?" Said, "Sho, see that red car aroun' by them people? That's the car I was going to. She said, "O Jesus." And they throwed their arms around one another and started screaming. What was it? God.
People may not recognize God's gift when He comes down from heaven. But God's able to speak through some other resource and to reveal it down. I tell you, when God sends anything... The wise men realized. Nobody else see all, that Star, but them wise men. They were looking for it. And Jesus is here tonight in His power, all of His power to heal every person that's in this building. If you're looking for Him, you'll find Him. He's here. There's a fountain open tonight. Brother, when a man hunger and thirst for God there's bound to be something in there to create that thirst. If there's no... If...
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How many believes you can be healed by Divine healing? Let's see your hands. What put that in your heart? That's a creation. Is that right? There's a creation in your heart making you believe that. Before there could be a creation, there had to be a Creator to create it. Sure there is. Here not long ago I was reading where a little baby eat the pedal off of a bicycle. The doctor said, "You know what's the matter?" Said, "The little fellow's craving sulfur in his body." There was a deep in
there calling for sulfur (See?), something in there that was calling for sulfur. And David said, "As the hart thirst after the water brooks, so my soul thirsts after Thee, O God."
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I'm a hunter myself. And I know what it is to see the hart wounded, running. And he's panting, looking for the water brook. If he can ever get to the water... The hounds were behind him. If he can ever get to the water brook, he'd get some water, he will live. If he can't find no water brook, the hounds will catch him soon. Here you are tonight, wounded by the devil. He's shot cancer into you, blindness, deafness, crippled, and everything else, arthritis, heart trouble. He's shot that into you with his arrows. And the demons of hell is galloping behind you. If you don't get to the water brook, thirst after God... Hallelujah. If there's a thirst in your heart somewhere for a water brook, it shows there's a touch of God somewhere, where mankind can find. "There is a fountain filled with Blood, drawn from Immanuel's veins, where plunged beneath the flood, Lose all of their guilty stains." Oh, how I love Him.
Heavenly Father, we thank Thee tonight from the depths of our heart that there is a fountain open tonight, healing fountain coming from God out of heaven, with His radiant powers pouring through, enough to take a cancer ridden person to good health, make the blind see, the deaf hear, the dumb speak. O eternal God, how great You are. How Your ways are past finding out, but with childlike simplicity, we receive You, Lord Jesus, with a undying love in our hearts. We love You, Lord, with all reverence; and You get all the adoration of our hearts. We adore You, Lord, Thou matchless Christ of God. Oh, how we count it a joy tonight to worship You in the way that's called heresy, the way the people does not understand, to be thankful that we're on that side. You said in the last days there'll come scoffers, making fun, blasphemers, disobedient, unthankful, unholy, having a form of godliness and denying the power thereof. And then there'd be another group that these signs shall follow them that believe.
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Oh, how happy I am tonight that You counted me worthy, Lord, not by me, but by Christ, to be over on that side, where the powers of the Holy Spirit has opened the fountain there filled with Blood coming from Immanuel's veins, where by His stripes we're healed. Oh, how we love You tonight for placing us here in Christ Jesus, setting together in heavenly places, filled with the Holy Ghost, seeing His power moving out there on the audiences, healing the
sick, giving deliverance to the captive. How we thank You tonight. Now, eternal God, if I have testified of the truth tonight, and Thou art the truth; then O eternal God, I've tried to glorify You before the people. Now, magnify Thy servant's words, Lord, that they are true, by sending that Angel down here tonight in our midst to heal the sick and the afflicted, to reveal the secrets of the hearts of the people, in this day that the hearts of many might be known. Grant it, dear heavenly Father. May You get glory out of this service. And tomorrow night, Lord, may the press be so great, people under great anticipations, until the sick will be healed from everywhere. Sunday, give us hundreds of souls saved. And Sunday night, may it be a climax, that'll break down the walls, and may there come an old fashion revival sweeping through this valley; where on top of these mountains, behind cactus... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] there behind rocks, everywhere, will be men and women seeking God, every night, crying out, O God, and every church coming together like a sound in the mulberry bush. Grant it, Lord, that there'll come another day of Pentecost when we all get in one...?... place, and baptize this little body, this little valley down here, Lord, of this Maricopa Valley. May literally thousands of saints be borned into the Kingdom. Hear the...
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Enemies are try to rob God's children of their God-given privileges of--of Divine healing, salvation, and--and so forth. He set them scarecrows up. And I--I... Some of them are setting up in the trees, and some on telegraph poles, and some are even setting on a fence post right next to the patch. And I thought, "You--you got them right here in front of me for some cause." I thought, "Well, that's just like--just like the meetings." Some set way off; they're scared to death. They won't even come around the meeting. And the other one gets close enough to be setting right up at the patch. But to my surprise, setting right on the arm of that scarecrow set two big blackbirds, just a eating to who wouldn't have it. And the rest of them flying around chirping and squawking.
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Now, I said, "I'm just going to ask in my mind, 'Why don't you come down out of that tree and eat too? Are you hungry?'" Just starving to death. That's the way with people, just starving to death. You say, "Well, why..."
I said, "Why don't you come out of the tree?" If he could speak, he'd say, "Well now, looky here. Look at that old scarecrow." Well, you'd have to admit that there's strawberries in there all right. Now, you said, "Is there any strawberries?" Yes, there's strawberries. The freeze didn't kill them all. But thank God that the freeze never killed all the holiness out, and the movements of the Holy Spirit. Now... Got frostbitten a few times, but we got over it. Amen. Just a little scare once in a while...
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All right. I love it, don't you? Notice. And these others were so close to the top, till they was looking right over it, and could even smell the strawberries, no doubt. But I say, "Why don't you get in?" "Well, look at the scarecrow." Well, I say, "Look, setting on the scarecrow, setting out there eating just as hard as they could eat, and bright eyed as they could ever be, and fly right up on the scarecrow, set there and eat the strawberries." Well, brother, there's no condemnation to them that's in the patch. That's one thing sure. They wasn't condemned; they was setting there eating just so hard they can. And I say, anybody that's in Christ Jesus has no condemnation, no fear. All things are passed away of the old worldly fear and doubt. And you're just setting there with your hearts open eating just as hard as you can eat. Well, you know what? An old scarecrow is a dinner bell sometimes to those who believe, a meal ticket. Yes, sir. You go to seeing something like that...
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Now, God is in His people, always been a miracle working God. All ages when they had revivals breaking out, they had healing: Martin Luther, John Wesley, Sankey, Moody, oh, others you could call. John Wesley... I stood near the shrine not long ago, that's built of him there, there at England, where that he was preaching Divine healing and they turned a fox loose, and a bunch of foxhounds and scattered his audience. John Wesley turned and pointed his finger in that man's face, and he said, "The sun will not set on your head three times, till you'll be asking me to pray for you." And as the sun went down that evening, the man died with cramps in his stomach. And Wesley never got to him. And when Wesley was here in America, in his textbook, or his little book, notebook, he was going to pray for a woman riding his horse, and he--the horse stumbled, and fell, and broke its leg. And John Wesley went in his pocket and got a bottle of oil, said, "Almighty God, You made this horse's body the same as mine. I've got a need to be there," anointed the horse with oil, and rode it away. Now, that's Wesley's own word. Today they want to set it out of church, nearly.
Brother, we've just fallen away. We've had scarecrows, but get around behind it.
Now, the devil's trying to keep you away from God. And we've got to have a bogus dollar... If we've got a bogus dollar, rather, we've got to have a real dollar for it to be made off of. When you get off the boat in India, you'll find Hindus out there, old hypocrites trying to lay out in spikes to clown a little for the tourists. But back in there is some real genuine Hindus who really cut themselves, and walk through fire, and everything, making sacrifice. Some of them never take their hands down for twenty years, till their fingernails growed through the back of their hands nearly, crying for peace in their soul. They're real sacrificial people. But they're in the wrong worship, of course. But some will come out and clown. We have those things.
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Someone asked me not long ago, said, "Brother Branham, if that Holy Spirit is so great," said, "I've seen people who's stood in the meeting, and--and shouted, and praised God, their tears running down their cheeks; and they would come out and do things that--like sinners, and go to sinful places, and live in sin." Said, "Was that the Holy Spirit making those people shout?" I said, "Yes." Said, "Oh, do you mean the Holy Spirit would fall on a person like that?" I said, "Yes." Jesus said, "A sower went forth and sowed some seeds. And a--a enemy came behind him and sowed some tares. And the husbandman said, 'Shall I go pull up the tares?'" Said, "If you do, you'll pull up the wheat. Let them both grow together. And at that day, I'll send the Angels, and they'll gather all the tares and burn them, and--and the wheat will be taken to the garner." Hebrews 6 says that it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, made partakers of the heavenly gift (partakers of the Holy Spirit in heavenly calling), tasted the good Word of God and world--power of the world to come; if they shall fall away, to renew themselves again to repentance; seeing that they crucify themselves afresh the Son of God, and count the Blood wherewith they was sanctified an unholy thing. For... (Listen closely now.)... For the rain cometh oft upon the earth to dress it, prepare it. But the thistles and thorns are to be burned.
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Notice. In this same wheat field that was sowed, in there is briars, creepers, stink weed, everything, all growing together with the wheat. And when the drought is on, the creeper is just as thirsty for
water as the wheat is. The water is sent for the wheat. But the creeper's just as glad to get the water as the wheat. And by their fruit you shall know them. In the meeting the Holy Ghost falls over the building. But those who live godly in Christ Jesus are the people that'll be taken into the garner. And the tares--not for us to judge--but will be burned at the end. You see what I mean? Then don't judge a person because they--they shout, or 'cause they could praise the Lord. Judge them by the life they live. And if they're not living the right kind of life, don't turn them down; pray for them. That's the way to do it. And convert them from a nettle weed to a stalk of wheat. Amen.
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Now, the people's attitude... Some people make up their mind, that when they come to the meeting, that they're coming to find something to criticize. Well now, Satan will be sure to show you that. If you come determined, you're going to find something good, God will show it to you. Now, it's your attitude, dear Christian. And notice. Now, when Nathanael, he kinda made up his mind that when he come, he wanted to see what good could come out of Nazareth. And Jesus saw him coming, and He knowed he was a just man, a good man. And He said... Jesus said to him, said, "Behold, an Israelite, indeed, in whom there is no guile." And so, in other words, if I'd say he was coming in the prayer line here, a man, I'd say, "Why, behold, there's a Christian, a good truthful man." "Why," he said, "how'd He know anything about me?" He said, "Before Nathanael got to you--or Philip got you, you were under the tree." And watch. Quickly, he didn't judge Him to be a spiritualist. He didn't judge Him to be something wrong. He said, "Thou, Rabbi (Master), Thou art the Son of God, the King of Israel." Now, he become a follower of Jesus.
The woman that touched the hem of His garment got the blessing that she asked for. He felt virtue go out. But when them men that knowed He was a prophet (as the woman at the well knew He was a prophet), put a rag around His eyes, and hit Him on the head with a reed, and said, "Now, if you're a prophet, tell us who hit you." They didn't feel no virtue, did they? It was the way you approach it. And when you're coming to the Holy Ghost, if you're looking off to somebody that's clowning with It, you'll never feel no virtue. But if you'll just get that out of your mind, get the scarecrow back, and say, "Lord Jesus, it's my heart. I'm coming. What will You do for me?" you'll receive what you come for. That's right. For, "Blessed are those
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who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be filled." Is that right? Amen. Oh, we love Him. How wonderful that He is.
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And now, for in defense... As some people has made the remark that the only thing this could be would be spiritualism... Now, brother, it's all right what you say about me. But be careful what you say about God. Well, perhaps what if you could be wrong? If you're wrong, you could cross the separating line, would be no forgiveness in this world or the world to come for you. Did you know that? Jesus said, "Whosoever speaks a word against the Holy Ghost, it'll never be forgiven in this world or the world to come." Is that His Word? Just as essential as whosoever borned of the Spirit of God... Except a man be borned of the water and Spirit, he cannot enter the Kingdom. All those are Scriptures. And that's the reason we should let our yea be yea and nay be nay, and watch what we're doing. Be careful.
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Now, I am just trying to speak of this Angel of the Lord. I do not worship that Angel. And God, Who is listening in now... Do you believe He hears us now? He is my sole Judge that I never... In the first place I'd say this: I believe that if I'd even made the attempt, that the Angel Himself would correct me. For I truly believe He was sent from God. Now, you might not be as firm to believe that as I, because I've talked with Him, and I know Him. And if there'd be fifty of them standing here now, I would know Him from the rest of them. I'd know His voice for one thing. I would know His looks for another. And He's a... He's a Man--a Man just as I am, and just as much human looking as I or you. And He looks to be a Man in His thirties, I'd say, a strong looking Man, folding His hands. I realize that there is false angels. But every spirit that's not of God does not confess that Jesus has come in the flesh is of the wrong spirit. That's right. And I know there's been false angels. But when they testify of God and prove to be of God, then we believe those.
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Now, Angels has always been ministering spirits that's sent to the church. Is that right? All through the apostolic age, or apostolic age, they had ministering Angels that went with the apostles, the disciples. Is that right? And most always, they appeared to them in a form of Light. Is that right? A Light shined down upon Paul (Is that true?), blinded him. Peter was in the prison, and a Light shined in, the Angel of the Lord, and told him. Many different places in the Scriptures refers to Them as a Light through the Pillar of Fire that followed the children of Israel: a Pillar of Fire. And this...
Any Bible teacher knows that the Angel that led Israel was the Angel of the Covenant (Is that right?), which was Christ. Amen.
Notice. Now, as Jesus, or the Christ... Moses suffered the loss of his--the throne that he would've had in Egypt, esteeming the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures of Egypt. He chose to follow a Pillar of Fire (An Angel of God appeared to him in a burning bush), rather, than to be king of Egypt. Now, Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever. Is that true? And if He appeared to Moses in a form of a Pillar of Fire that led the children of Israel... As He led them in the natural, so could He lead His church in the spiritual today. They were on their road to the promised land. Is that right? We're on our road to the promised land. Is that right? "In My Father's house is many mansions. If it wasn't so, I would've told you. I go up and prepare a place and come again to receive you unto Myself." Notice. Now, God in the Pillar of Fire led them... And then when He was here on earth, Jesus, He said, "I AM the I AM. I AM THAT I AM." Which that was the I AM that spoke to Moses in the bush... And now, He says, "These things that I do shall you do also, and greater than this; for I go to My Father." Is that true? Now, when Jesus was here, and the people came to Him, He did not profess to be able to heal anybody. Is that right? He said, "I can do nothing... The Son can do nothing in Himself. But what He sees the Father doing, that doeth the Son likewise; for the Father loves the Son and shows Him what things that He doeth." Is that right? Saint John 5. Now you see, He said, "I can do nothing in Myself," taking no credit.
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Flesh cannot glorify, or glory in the Presence of God. It all comes from the supernatural. Now, He said, "What I do, is what I see My Father doing." Is that true? Well then, when Nathanael came to Him, the Father had showed Jesus, standing here, what Nathanael was doing before Philip found him. Is that right? Amen. "These things that I do, shall you do also." Is that right? "Greater things than this will you do, for I go unto My Father," more of them. Now, that same Spirit... Not because that I'm here. Why, I have no more to do with it than anybody out there. It's because that He is here. Christ is here, the Holy Spirit, the Angel of God. And I'm merely just a mouthpiece for Him. And Moses was just a mouthpiece for Him. And Jesus was a Mouthpiece for God. And He died to redeem us sinners, that the program of God might be carried on down through the age through the church. And ministers that are consecrated to God, become channels where God can speak through, preach the Gospel, heal the sick, show signs and wonders.
And we've lived down through the time of the preaching, and teaching, and so forth. And we've got into a place now to where the church is so broke up, till God is just bringing in again, the supernatural to serve a people. Now, man can come and claim anything. See, a man can say anything that he wishes to. But for him to say it is one thing, and for God to confirm that is another thing. And then when God confirms that it is the truth, then we should believe it, oughtn't we? Amen. Now, that's just as plain as I know to make it. So when you hear somebody say that Brother Branham was a spiritualist, you tell them that was wrong. I'm a Christian. I'm saved by the grace of Jesus Christ, by His atoning Blood at Calvary. And tell me when ever you've seen a spiritualist healing the sick and doing... You say, "Well, Brother Branham, that looks a whole like it." Sure. Then it looked a whole lot like it when Jesus was here. And they called Him a spiritualist. How about when the--Jesse lost some mules and he sent his sons to hunt them. And they said, "If we had some money, we'd go down and see the seer, Samuel, and he'd tell us where the mules was." Sounds pretty funny there, doesn't it? Does it? And they met... Samuel, met him on the street and said, "Go on back home, 'cause the mules has already went home. I'm going home with you."
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See, people, a long time ago you ought to have come to God and got yourself settled down, know where you were standing. The Bible said in these last days that there'd be a famine, not for bread and alone, but for the hearing of the Word of God. And men would go from east, west, north, and south trying to find It, and would fail. You better get sealed into the Kingdom of God by the Holy Ghost, while you got a chance. You talk about a confusing time; it's a coming, when the Bible said, "They'd be so close till it would deceive the very elect, if possible." Is that right?
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Now, another question I want to clear up. Someone said, "It doesn't mean that you're a Christian because you heal the sick, or cast out..." That--that's true. That's right. He said, "Many will come to Me and say, 'Lord, Lord, haven't I cast out devils in Thy Name, and in Thy Name done mighty works?'" Jesus... Now, listen. Jesus said, "Depart from Me, you workers of iniquity. I didn't even know you." Now, these people claim they done it. But they did not do it. That's right. For He said, "I never knew you." They just claimed they done it. How could you write a check on me without me knowing? No. See what I mean? I checked with the bank.
Jesus said, "Many will come and say, 'Lord, have not I...'" He said, "I didn't know you." No, you never... See? Many will confess and say, "I have cast out devils in Thy Name, and in Thy Name I prophesied," preachers and so forth, and everything. He'd say, "Depart from Me, you workers of iniquity. I didn't even know you." Some people might've went out and had some kind of a fleshly idea, tried to get popular, or some big education, or could speak a few swell words and made some money out of it. Jesus said, "You workers of iniquity, I didn't even know you." And iniquity is something that you know that you ought to do and will not do it. That's right. And every man knows that he's got to be borned again by the Spirit of God. You've got to receive the Holy Ghost. To turn It down is just the same as to turn Jehovah of the Old Testament, down in that day, or Jesus in His day: Same penalty and worse if you turn down the Holy Ghost. And it's not very well-thought-of. It's talked about.
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And all that live godly in Christ Jesus will suffer persecution. The devil's always been after the church of the living God. Is that right? And it's always had a black name. Jesus was born in this world with a black name, as illegitimate child. Did you know that? Supposed to be born a--a child out of holy wedlock, Jesus had that hanging on Him. But in His heart He knew He was the Son of God. That's right. And men and women, you know where you stand tonight. And there's only one more Person knows it; that's God knows where you stand. So if your heart's right with God. Really live for Him. Be true to Him. Love Him so much that He--everything else becomes secondarily. And then you'll love the Lord with all your heart, with all your strength, with all your soul, with all your might. God will lead you then. "The footsteps of a righteous man is ordered by the Lord."
Now, these things that you see done, I believe that I--reading these Scriptures and so forth in this Bible, how about many times... Brother Pethrus, I guess he told you about the resurrection of the little boy, or something another (I just went out there at the side of the road to pray in my car again, trying to get myself back a little bit, so I could get into the service.) of the things that would take place. Setting there in Lapland where I couldn't even speak one word, and half the Finns couldn't, or Swedes. And there the Holy Spirit would set in and tell people things all down. They were just in one accord, everybody just pleading out for God, and just great signs and wonders. There was no friction. There's sometimes you get in such a rut till there is no really setting right to a man. Is that right? You just get to a place till subconsciously you're disbelieving when you don't want to do that.
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See? The thing to do is lay down everything and believe with all your heart.
Now, I believe that at--that tonight, I could say this... Outside I said I would tomorrow night. Now, when we come here to this--your city about five, four years ago, there gifts of healing was only working by holding the person's hand. And if God will permit a cancer case tonight, I want to show it to my minister brothers, that the effect that that literally takes upon the human body. Nothing that I have in myself, it's the beat of that demon power pushing back to me. That don't mean nothing. I take hold of you in my hand and show you it just, swell a nearly, again its size, and white, big white things will run over the top of it, like that, holding that person's hand. Now, what does it. I can't tell you. My hand just gets numb. That don't have one thing to do with Divine healing, no power at all to heal. That's just a reaction. When my body becomes anointed with the Spirit, that's that germ disease out there reacting back. Now, I can go down here and take ahold of a cripple, and it won't work at all (See?), because there's no active germ of disease there. If there is, it'll tell me.
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Now, and I said then, God promised me if I'd be faithful with that, it would come to pass that I'd be able to--to tell people what they had done in their life, and to... Is that right? And many of you Phoenix people know that's true. Oh, here it is, just exactly. Now, the Bible says if there be one--something or another in there about a spiritual or prophet among you, and what he says comes to pass, then hear it. Is that right? "For I'm with... If it doesn't, then don't believe it, for I've not spoke." See? Now, what I'm trying to say to you, that God is here. He's confirmed the things that I have said. That--that's true. He's done that. And I believe that He will continue to do it.
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And tonight when we call these people to the platform and pray, I want every person in here to... this night, to help me. And if I can... Now, when I'm talking to the person... Now, looky here what a statement I made. How many's here for your first time? Let's see your hands, you're first-timers...?... Each night there's a group of the first-timers, maybe a hundred or hundred and fifty: oh, more than that, maybe two or three hundred. Well, that's when... We're happy to have you here. And now, I want you to notice. Now, here's people setting here, and I don't know... God in heaven knows I don't one thing about you. I don't know. There's... They look like they're...
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I see one, two, three, four--four or five prayer cards right here. There may be some setting all out through there. You've got prayer cards. On it, you'll find a number. And that number will just be--will just be called up here just merely to keep the row, I'd say it, "Well now, we're going to pray for some tonight, ever who wants to be prayed for, stand up." You know what starts.
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And we've tried every way in the world to send... We used to send the prayer cards to the ministers. And the first minister got all of his people in, that was about what lasted the meeting. It take about five nights to get all his through. And then if he failed to give somebody one of the prayer cards, he give an outsider, then his congregation fell out with him about it. And then we said we'd go to a prayer meeting, and all was there was first there first served. We give out the prayer cards and just keep right on down till we got the whole bunch. Then people flying in, spending their money, and things like that, was coming in, maybe have one day to spend, and have to go right back. Well, there's no need of coming if you can't be there the first day. The prayer cards give out. And that'll take care of the rest of the meeting. So then they... I figured the only way that I knowed how to do was to come down and give out prayer cards every day. And everybody has just as much chance as the other one. That makes it equal for the, maybe, for the people here. The minister's not responsible. Nobody's responsible. I'm not myself. I give them to my brother, and he gives them out, or somebody, or my little boy this time. And I thought, surely, the people would respect the little fellow to give out the prayer cards. And he give them out. And no one in the world... Only time I come here to the platform...
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I used to have a little child to stand up and count. And where he stopped, that I would... And then we'd start the prayer line from there. It got so people would put their little children up in front so they could count of it. That was--don't think they'd do it. But it--it would do it anyhow. So the only thing I knowed to do was to come here at the platform, and say, "God, where shall we start that prayer line?" And start it from right there. Then sometimes we stop, like last night...
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And by the way, last night I called someone, a certain number. I don't know. I was calling on down through the place, just a one here and there, just whatever would drop in my mind, I would call it. And when I got home, somebody had give the little boy a letter, or somebody. It was laying on my table when I went in home. And one woman said, "I have followed it as long as I can, Brother Branham.
And the next thing is suicide." And she described her case. And my little boy, and Brother Sharritt and them, said, "Brother Branham, that's the same woman that come to the platform last night," and described the same things, her setting on the platform. And the woman was healed last night in the meeting, setting there. How God had that number out there. He just called it, just picked it out, like that, to stop a suicide case. You see how it is? God is so wonderful. Just believe Him with all your heart. He'll bring it to pass. Now, God will confirm His Word with signs and wonders following It. We all believe that. We believe that with all of our heart. And now, He's here and can do all things.
What time is it, Brother Hall? I guess I'm awfully late. Yes, all right. I haven't got a chance to say how I appreciate Brother Hall. I've just been talking so much. I've talked more in this meeting than I have in a dozen meetings since... before there. There's just something about Phoenix that I love. I don't know. And it's just something in my heart goes down all... Since I was a little boy setting in school, I used to read of Arizona, how I always longed to go to Arizona. And when I get here, I just get beside myself. And this morning in that ministerial group, to see that wonderful fellowship, my heart just went right out to them brothers. And now, all of you cooperate together and have a great church here.
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Brother Hall has done a wonderful job. I met Brother Hall some time ago. He's been a bosom brother to me. And I tell you; I've been with Brother Hall a long time. And I believe Brother Hall lives just exactly what he talks about. And that's right. A good man, a Christian man... Brother Lindsay has gone back to the "Voice of Healing." He has a lot of--of subscribers and things. He has to be there. Perhaps Brother Hall and I will be together the rest of the summer, all but when I meet with Brother Baxter, another fine Christian gentleman, Brother Baxter. We'll be going to Africa together pretty soon. Now, God bless you all. And let's have our prayer line now. First, let's bow our heads for just a word of prayer. Everybody be deeply and sincerely... And forgive me for talking too much and taking up time. I want to pray for just as many as I can get through this line tonight. When I talk a long time to a person, He keeps telling what's wrong with them, and what's this, and what's that. As soon as I can see the first speck of faith, I--I dismiss them, just so they can go ahead and get well.
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O Father, You're here. We love You. This morning in the
fellowship to see that young man come up, pulled out of that little box his glasses, that he had to put in his eyes to see. I don't know, but he felt in here. I called him out the other night in the audience there. Been in that condition for a long--eyes going blind. And now, he's packing them artificial eyelids or lens in his pocket. And through the power of the Holy Spirit looking through them eyes, how we thank Thee, Lord. Hearing those that said, "I was sick. Diabetes was killing me. And now, I'm healed." Hearing all these great testimonies that's coming in from the meeting. We thank You, Lord. We thank You for the wonderful fellowship.
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And now, may the Holy Spirit meet here. And dear God, now I've talked a long time. Many have talked; the people are well worn. They've been setting. But I thank You for them. They're not weary. They're still waiting to see You. They've loved You. They've believed You before they could even see any move of You. And now, You're beginning to reveal Yourself closer. And after a while, we shall see You appear. You revealed Yourself in Your Word years ago to our fathers. In this last days, has been coming down by the Holy Spirit, and now, coming into a healing manifestation of the supernatural. The next step will be: Jesus to appear. And how we thank You, Lord. And now, may all these poor sick people here tonight believe with one accord, and every one of them be healed, Lord. Thou knowest who's coming to this platform. You know how many of them cards that's out there, and what the disease is, and how long the people's going to live. There might be some that must have faith right now, or tomorrow may be too late. Now, Father, in that group, You call Your people. Give them faith to be healed. Grant it, Lord, for we ask it in the Name of Thy Child, Jesus. Amen.
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All right. Thank you so much for your kindness, and if I ask you to bow your heads... I just looked over the audience. And even standing on the outside, the people had their heads down. No wonder God's working through you like He is, because you have a great respect. I believe, not because I've been here, but because we've got together, I believe God's blessed us. Don't you think so? May be... It made my heart feel happy and rejoicing. Now, there's a group of prayer cards out there. Where's Billy? How many did you give out today? A hundred? That's fifty more than we have been giving out. All right. Maybe we can call... Just let me stand tonight as long as you can. And now, I just then, I felt the Spirit of the Lord come down on me just then. Just then He touched me. That's right. God, Who is my
Judge, He's standing here now, just now, whirled down over me just then. I feel It now. And my hands are beginning to numbing, feeling strange. My lips get so thick. Sometimes you'll notice me rubbing my face. Feels like my lips are that thick. It just...
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And if I don't talk very much to the person, I can get more through. But if I go to talking... You've noticed that, haven't you? The more you talk to a person, the more It begins to show. And sometimes I get them at home, in my home or somewhere, set them down to themselves and just set and go to talking. The Holy Spirit will just talk a hour right down along the line. That's the reason out in the meetings they keep my staying secret, 'cause when they get ahold of... And what that just weakens me right down. And when I get to the meeting, I'm just all out. See? That's the reason we try to... As long as I can live, we want to share It along everywhere so everybody can get a view of It and start praising God and believe in Him. All right, sonny. So you give one to a hundred? Let's make the first... What? "Q." Q-1 to a 100. Well, let's begin... Where'd we start last time? Seemed like we begin at 1 last night here; 1, I believe we begin at 1. Well, let's begin 25 tonight. Let's begin 25 to 35: Q-25 to 35. And you watch your cards now.
And if you're not able to get up, then just--just hold your card. When you see... If you're number twenty-eight and you see three passed through, then hold up your card (See?), and tell the ushers. They'll come get you and put you right in the line anywhere. Now--now, this is the ministry, friends. This is to make faith. It's a power. I--I--I wouldn't say a gift of Divine healing, which it is. Anybody that's got faith in healing has the gift of healing. See? Anybody that believes in Divine healing and believes in prayer for the sick, that's a gift. But now, to heal somebody, no, I can't. The only thing I'll be able to do, would be know what's wrong with you, or know why that you can't get healed. Now, remember this. Listen close. Remember this, that "Q"... What was that called for? 25. Q-25 to 35 first. Q-25 to 35. Look on your card.
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Some Spanish brother ought to speak that so that they would understand. Somebody can speak Spanish, say, "Q-25 to 35," please. Anybody speak Spanish here? Come here, brother. I'm sure I couldn't say that unless the Lord was telling me. All right. [The brother makes the announcement--Ed.] Thank you, brother.
All right. Q-25 to 35 first. Now, as soon as we can get through with those, if you have good faith, those that's coming in the line, then I'll--we'll call another number, or either just start and start picking numbers around all over through the whole thing. And I--I want you to see, my dear brother, sister, that coming up here, it doesn't matter. I--I don't say, "Well, let Mrs. John Doe, or this over here, comes." It doesn't matter to me. I--I have the... I don't know where to start and what to do. I'm just leaving that to God. And only thing it will do will help you build faith.
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You--you could come here and stay on this platform, and I could pray for you until tomorrow night at this same time, and it would never have a bit effect on you until you believe that God heard my prayer. Is that right? But you can't come here and stand here without me knowing what's wrong with you. That's right. Yes, sir. And the things that's causing you, your sins, and the things that you've done. It'll certainly tell you that. That's a gift that God gave to me. See? That's my possession that God gave me. But now, the other, Jesus Christ has already done that for you. Nobody can do it, because He's already done it. We believe in prophetic things, don't we? We all believe that.
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And now, everybody reverent. Is that your first patient, Billy? All right. Bring the man along. All right. Brother Sharritt, you just watch. And if there's some of them kind of sickly, set them a chair so they can set. All right. That's fine. Now, I'm sure that all of you... How many love God? Let's see your hands. All right. Now, you love Him. And I--I... By His grace, I trust that He'll let His humble servant bring His Presence down to you all now. See? That's what I pray that God will do. Now, here stands before me a--a Spanish or an Indian brother, perhaps Mexican brother. And there's something that's wrong with him. I--I do not know. I can't tell you. And I'll have to find out. Then if he'll believe, well then, he will be healed. If he doesn't believe, he couldn't be healed if Jesus was standing here and wearing my suit, standing right here, he couldn't be healed. He'd have to believe. I don't see what more He could do now than what He's doing.
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Now, everybody real reverent. Just be as reverent as you can and listen close. And I'll just try to get just as many through... 'course, if It goes to stopping me and pulling me, and many people are kind of halfway faith, then It goes to moving out and tells something else, and something else, and something else. Then first thing you know, It tears me away.
And they're standing everywhere, watching me. 'Cause last night was--was kinda hard. And I'm spending my life for you people. You understand. Come, sir...?... Yes. I perceive that you're a Christian man. You believe in God. I believe that, my brother. Isn't that a strange, how that makes you feel standing here? Yes, sir.
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Now, I was reading awhile ago, in the Scripture where Nathanael came to Jesus. And Jesus, when He seen him coming, He called him a believer too. Now, when you come, you might not have been a believer. I would've knowed it. But I knew you was a believer. I said you are a Christian. That's something like the same Spirit. Is that right? Now--now, we'll see what our heavenly Father will reveal to me. You know that He's here. You have a--a feeling. You know that there's something different. Isn't that right, sir? Hold your hand up so your Spanish people can see. There's something near. Now, we're strangers here, brother. We never met in life, never met before. But, brother, I see your trouble. You have rheumatism, don't you? Yes, sir. You did have. You're free from that now. Jesus Christ has healed you. Raise your feet up-and-down like this. You are healed, my brother. You can go and be of a good courage...?... Thank you, brother. Let us say, "Praise the Lord."
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Some of the Spanish brethren get around him and thank the Lord. And he's wonderfully... Now, how did I see that? The man has attacks, and his hands hurt. I seen him setting behind a house, a rubbing his arms first, setting behind, or leaning back with a chair. If any of his loved ones are here, might know that he's setting like that. And then I seen sometime, he was trying to get up from a bed. And he just couldn't hardly make himself out of bed. And it--it was hurting. Anyone here know the man? Raise your hands if anybody knows the man, anybody knows of him. You know that's what was wrong with him? Is that right, brethren? There's your witnesses out there. You see that... See? Amen. Now, that's a vision that is seen. See what I mean? Now, everybody be reverent. Now, is that the same kind of a Spirit that was upon our Master? He told him, said, "Before you come, I seen you when you were under a tree." I seen him when he was getting out of the bed, and when he was setting behind the house. See? All right. There it is, the same Holy Spirit. Isn't He wonderful?
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All right. Now, bring the man here. Howdy do, brother. You're
a believer. Yeah, you're a minister too, aren't you? And your--your eyes is what's bothering you. Isn't that right, brother? Go, and God bless you, my brother. Heavenly Father, bless my dear brother, and give him his sight normally again. His heart's full of love for You. And I bless him in the Name of Thy Son Jesus Christ. Let's say, "Praise the Lord," everybody. How wonderful our Master is. All right, you bring her. How do you do? You speak English? A little? All right. Are you an Indian? I thought so. Are you Apache? I--I want to come, visit your people again. Were you up when I was at the reservation, San Carlos? You was? I have great respect for the Indian people. I love them. And God loves you. And we are strangers, you and I? But you have been sick for some time, haven't you? Yes, ma'am. You--you have a--a female disorder (Isn't that right?), and a heart trouble. Many times, you get upset. When you lay down, the heart bothers you worse. I see you reaching for your breath. Is that right? You're healed, my sister. Jesus Christ makes you whole. Heavenly Father, we bless our dear sister, now, may she be a great testimony among her dear people in Jesus' Name. Amen. God bless you, sister, dear. Now you go and be healed, Amen.
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Let us say, "Praise be to God." All right. Everybody reverent. O God, if--if there's a Apache Indians here, I've got your telegram from San Carlos. And I may have to leave real early Monday morning to go home to get my wife, to get back to California for the summer. If I don't go, I want to have two or three days up on the reservation with you people. And if I do go, maybe I can get a day at least on my road back to stop in and see the Indians at the reservation at San Carlos. If the missionary is here, I will try to be back right away to be with you dear people. Sometime, if you would like for me to, I'd like to come and be your associate pastor out there for a little while, just to be with you, to help you out on for a while. I don't like to see people pushed back. No, sir. I think we owe the Indian plenty. Amen. God bless them. I've never seen one come through the line yet but what was healed. That's right. Them and the Spanish, humble, very humbly, they believe what you tell them. And that's what it takes.
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All right, Billy, bring the... How do you do, sir. Well, as soon as you walked up, when you were setting there you were thinking about, "Well, this is the time that I've wanted to be here." Isn't that right? And when you were there, a real strange feeling come over you while you were setting in the chair. Is that right? That's when your heart trouble left you, brother. You can go ahead home now and thank the
Lord. Let us say, "Praise the Lord Jesus." All right. Now, you're going to get well, brother. Just go ahead. Believe the blessing of God is upon you. Have faith. Just praise Him. Forget all about it. Just go ahead. The promise is yours now. It's yours. God has promised it in His Book, promised it through His prophet--or servant. Is that right? Amen. Remember, believe.
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Howdy do? Speak English? Look...?... Could you come just a little closer to me? You love the Lord? I believe you do, sister. Wouldn't you like to be a testimony up there on the reservation of your healing when I come back? Was you up there the last time I was there at San Carlos? You remember the lady? I wanted her to give me that little black-eyed baby? She said, "No." She didn't want to lo-give me her little baby. It was pretty, the little baby. You've been sick some time, for years back. You started getting nervous first, having funny feelings, weary, strange feelings. Then all at once, you begin to spit up, something in your mouth; your stomach begin to hurt. And now, you're sick at your stomach. That's right. You have a peptic ulcer in your stomach, caused from nervousness due to menopause, change of life. Let me have your hand. The Lord Jesus loves you. And He died that you might be well. He sent me as His prophet to tell you what is truth. You believe true? I'm going to pray and ask Him. You go home and you can eat what you want to without any trouble. Almighty God, have mercy upon this dear woman, standing here with truly a real faith. And You're standing here showing me a vision of what she's done. And I pray Thee, heavenly Father, to grant Your blessings upon her as I bless her in Your Name. May she go home. May this condition leave her, she be a good well woman to testify of Your glory. I ask this sickness to leave her in the Name of Jesus Christ. Amen. God bless you, sister. Go on your road, eat now. You're all right. Let's say, "Praise the Lord," everybody. Oh, my.
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Just ask if everybody can, just to leave the platform, just let maybe one or two that's going help the people. Then if anything does happen, then I'm--we're better prepared for it. You understand, don't you? Trust that you will.
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I've done all that I could this past week to--or the both weeks to try to see our Lord help you dear people here. There's been many things that I've wished would've taken place, and may yet tonight. And I pray that it--that it will. And I--I have been trusting to see everyone healed at one time. Then in the meeting, I see many things that--that's been done, many things that people... I see them setting out there sometimes, looking at me, trying their best. And I'll think, "Oh, I've seen that they were healed. But I'll test them in a few minutes." But it--it's done past my mind; I forget about it. And they're healed.
For instance, there was a little girl here the other night. She was in the building. She was suffering. She was... Probably wasn't over eight or ten years old. She may never be back in the building again, as far as I know. But the child had a burst appendix; the parents didn't know it. The appendix was bursted inside the child. That baby's healed, healed setting here in the meeting. I know that. There's a lady here that's got a little baby that's got a--a affliction on its arm. And it's a very serious thing. They had it here last night. I seen the baby setting before me. That baby's going to get well. That's right. See, that's right. But there's many of those things that I--that I--I see, but I don't have time. But what it is, friends, that--that doesn't mean so much. The thing of it... As long as their faith will touch God, they'll see theirself that it's done. You see? So... that it's over...
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If I speak it, what I speak here confirms what I'm talking about. If I speak not God's Word... But I--I have a Witness, and God is my Witness. It--it... I'm thankful to have my brothers as--as witness of the Gospel. But I have a--a witness with my brethren and my friends. And I have a... The greatest Witness is my heavenly Father Who confirms what I'm saying to be the truth. And I'm so thankful for that. Then it isn't I that does the healing, which you know. So if you say it to the people, as long as I see they got healed, that's all I care for (You see?), to see that they got the blessing.
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Now, tonight will probably be the greatest of all the nights. The great anticipations, the great strain, the people are pushing, trying to
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get in, trying to get healed, will be the--the great time. And many will be healed tonight. I just have a feeling that tonight will be one of the greatest times of healing we've had in all the meeting. And I--I believe that it'll be tonight. Now, as we're speaking today of "Life Story," I... While I'm--I'm telling my part of things... And I know that I have many fellow citizens here that have had like manner of things. And let us all...
How many people here is away from home? Let's see. This is not your native home, let's see your hands. You're from some other city, somewhere else. Oh, my, half of us, oh, more than half is away from home. And no matter what city we're from, or where we come from, if it's just a little... As the minister said the other day, the little church in the desert he was pastoring. No matter what it is or how humble it is, it's like the old proverb, or the old song, "There's No Place Like Home." Isn't that right? No place like home...
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And if you'll notice, always before a people die, you'll--you'll notice they'll always have a longing to go back to the old home place again. My father, before he left, he hadn't been down to his old home place for many, many years, some twenty-five years, I guess. I seen him setting on the beam of--of the plow one day, he was crying. I was just a little lad; and I didn't know very much about it. I said, "What's the matter, dad?" He come over, said, "You don't understand, Billy. But someday you will." He said, "I want to go home. I--I want to see the old homeplace again." You know, it wasn't but a little bit till he... After he visited his old home, he--he went away.
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My father-in-law, he went squirrel hunting one day, and I said-he said, "Brother Billy, you want to go with me?" And I said, "No, Brother Frank, I don't want to go." He was born up above Utica, at that place called Battle Creek, old home place. There's an arsenal up there now. Oh, my. And there's an arsenal, Indiana Arsenal's there. But that was just before the arsenal was built.
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He went up there, and he come back down, and he--he was crying. And I was going with his daughter. And I said, "What's the matter, Brother Frank?" He said, "Billy, I set upon the old place up there today," and he said, "where the old house used to stand," said, "the old spring along over on the side of the hill." Said, "I could just hear my old mother say, 'Oh, Franky.'" Well, a few days, I buried him. Maybe it was a call coming from another land. He could hear the echoes across the earth.
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Did you ever notice a person when they're going? I've stood by many a person, held them in my arms and watched them when they were going. I find it very strange. Please, ministers, excuse this. This is not a doctrine. I don't want this congregation to think that this is a doctrine. But I often wonder if when we are going... I'll give my story first here.
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I stood by a man not some five or six years ago when he was going. He'd just been saved a little while. He was setting in a chair. He was all swollen up with heart trouble. He belonged to a certain church there in the city. And I said--went to him; I said, "How do you do, Mr. Bledsow. Do you know me?" He said, "Yes. I know you, Billy." He said, "Billy, I think I'm going." I said, "Are you ready, Mr. Bledsow?" Said, "Oh, yes, Billy. I've--I've made my calling with God. I've answered the call." He said," I'm ready to go if He calls me." And said, "I believe He's calling me." I said, "Well, if you're ready Mr. Bledsow, are you willing?" He said, "Yes, Billy, I'm willing." And I had prayer with him, and went out, was talking to his wife, setting there. And he was looking across the room, talking. And we'd just been in prayer, and the Holy Spirit was in the room. And he raised up; he said, "Mother, why, I haven't seen you for years." Mrs. Bledsow said, "Dad, are you delirious?" He said, "Well, don't you see her? There she is." He said, "Sis?" Wasn't a little bit till he was gone.
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I went to a man here sometime ago, killed in an accident. He
was just dying. Come out of the accident, like manner. I seen many of them going that way. And I just wonder, that if when we're coming... Even death is hard. Jesus fought against it: "Is it possible this cup should pass?" But when we're coming right down to the end of the road... And I watched my wife when she went. And I--I wonder, when we get to the end of the road there, if God just doesn't say to mother or some of them on the other side, "Look, daughter's coming home this morning. Go down there at the bank of the river, watch for them." We get to see them when these eyes are becoming transformed from the natural to the supernatural. In that vision, when it's catching on us... It's a fog just dries away there, and we can look the other side and see them coming down to the river. I hope that's so. I don't know. I couldn't say it's true; I don't know. But I've seen that many times. Our loved ones pass on...
Many of you here, most of you are more like myself. Seems like yesterday I was just a little bitty old boy. And here I am. I look at my hands, and I think, "Oh, my." And I--I see myself, as--as just creeping along. I'm getting up in the years. I've yet... Well, it seemed like yesterday I just a little boy playing marbles. But here we have no continuing city, but we're seeking one to come whose Builder and Maker is God. I think of when I was a little boy, we used to live in a little old cabin. There was a bunch of trees around it, a little old apple trees, and some big ones. And I remember dad used to come home from work. He was a real full-blooded Irishman. His black wavy hair and blue eyes, small man about my size, but he's sturdy, husky built. He was a logger. I'd see him roll his sleeves up like that, and his muscles in his arms. Oooh, my. I wanted to be like my daddy. And I thought my daddy will live to be a hundred years old. But he died with his head on my arms at fifty-two. We don't have any continuing city here, but we're seeking one to come.
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I used to look at the little old house we lived in, little old log house boarded over. I thought that house will stand for a hundred years--hundreds of years. But there's a housing project there now. We don't have any continuing city here. I used to see out in front of the door when a bunch of those
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Branhams... There was ten of us in the family, nine boys and a girl. And when there was about five of us, when we... I was... To begin with my life story there, we used to have a place wallowed off out in front of the grass--or the porch. Look like where a bunch of little opossums had been playing, wallowing around, all of us.
Mama used to call dinner. And she would have a big old kettle. Did you ever see one of them big old kettles, had three legs? Great big old kettle, you put...?... How many ever seen one of the old kettles? Oh, my, just look at that. Ha. We all know what good eating is then, don't we? Just as slick as it could be on the inside. And she'd cook mulligan stew. That's very Irish. How many knows what mulligan stew is? It's beef, barley, potatoes, yes, there you are, carrots. We chop it, put it all in together, cook it up, and then leave it set for two or three days, keep eating out of it. Last day it was better than the first, because the cabbage got the taste; and potatoes, potatoes, and cabbage, and licked it all up. Dip it out with a teacup. Yes, sir. Mama got a big old dipper.
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And we had a spring down below the house. And--and I used to go down there, and had a gourd. Used to dip the water up in an old cedar bucket with a gourd. How many knows what a gourd is? Say, I'm not the only country boy here today, am I? No, sir. I feel better now. Makes my clothes fit me better. I know what you're talking about. All right. Had an old gourd, lay on that old spring. My, what a time. And back under a rock, had the butter setting there, you know. All right. Couldn't keep the cream there, because there's too many little Branhams, and that... Yes, sir. We all liked it.
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So pop used to get seventy-five cents a day and a bucket of milk every night. Mama would skim the cream off of it to save for the butter. And so that'd keep as long. Sometimes it'd sour, nearly before you got to churn it. We used to churn it in a... Had an old churn, and had a lamp chimney setting on top of it, you know. You rise it upand-down. Did you ever do that? My, just looky here, brother. My, did you ever grind coffee? Have the coffee mill set... Oh, my, that does it. Well, how many's here from Kentucky anyhow? Let's see your hand. Oh, my. Well, anywhere along here... We're in a different day
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now, aren't we? You press a button, and the nation goes to work. That's right. So them was good old days, I guess. Anyhow, we had a little more brotherly love and feeling for one another in them days than what we do now. And...
I remember when dad used to make seventy-five cents a day, he'd come in home... Now, my daddy did that which was wrong. He drank. And he'd go pay off his bills, and what he had left, he--he'd drink it. And I hate to say that, and it's... But it's truth. If I have to tell anything, I--I must tell the truth. No matter if it's black against me, why, it--it's black. That's all. See? If it's something scarey to me, well, I might as well tell it here, because it's going to be on the canvases of the skies someday for everybody to look at. Not only had--would I confess it, but I'd been lying. So I'd just rather go right along and just tell the truth about it, and let it be just the way it is. Daddy drank. Not only drink, but he made the--the whiskey. And when he would come in at home and--and drink right after he'd get his groceries all paid, so forth, he would--he would drink up what he had left. But I don't care what he ever done; I love him today in his grave. That's right. He was my daddy.
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And look, young children, young folks, I don't care what it is; you always have a respect to your father and mother. I think one of the awfullest things that I can hear little children say, or young folks, "the old man" and "old woman." Listen. That's not the "old man" and "old woman"; that's your daddy and mother. And someday, when you see them going out of the room head first, and the wheels beneath the casket, squeaking, you'll know it isn't the "old man" or "old woman" then. That's right. You hear the preacher say, "Ashes to ashes, and dust to dust," you realize the best friend you ever had on earth is going down. The trouble of it is, you learn too late. Don't weep, and cry then, and send lots of flowers, give them to them now. Be a good boy or good girl.
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I remember when old dad used to come in, his shirt patched upon patch. And he'd stand there, and sun burned his back into his shirt, till mama'd take the scissors and cut it loose from his back. Seventy-five cents a day in the log wood to make me a living? Sure I
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love him. Yes, sir. Every time that I pass by the grave and see the snow banked up there, I just feel like if I'd just throw myself down there, warm up the ground where his body lays beneath there. But he's not there. I had the privilege of leading my daddy to Christ before he left. And I seen him stare and fall back across my arms and looked up at me. "Honey." He went out to meet God. I baptized my mother just a little bit after my conversion. And last Easter morning, I baptized my boy. I've got a little girl five years now; she's been dedicated. She's coming on. And if God lets me live, I'll do everything I can to see her baptized in...?...
My little boy now, I took him right out of col--out of his high school. I'm going to send him up here if I can to this Assemblies of God, or whatever it is up here, around Dallas somewhere, to finish up his high school, and on to college; to get him in amongst Christian people where he can work and people that's got the Holy Ghost, that'll help him come through and put the right thing before him. And if he goes wrong, he will go over the Bible, over the Holy Spirit, and over a daddy's prayer that prayed. That's right. He will have to cross over all that before he can ever go to hell. And I--I believe if you'll pray and hold on, God will answer your prayer.
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And my daddy, just before he left, he--he--he called for me. He'd been... He'd... Poor old fellow, I hate to say this. It just kills me to say it here; he died hungry. That's right. My daddy died hungry. And he... It was during the time of the depression. We work--couldn't work, and couldn't find nothing to work, and he was sickly, and we was just barely making on it, just--just dividing what we could divide. But I know he was hungry, 'cause we hadn't eaten since the day before. And he had a heart attack, and I stood by his bed. And I picked him up on my arms, like that, and he looked at me, and went out to meet God. I believe someday I'll see him again. Mother, she's getting aged. It won't be but very much longer. Every time when I leave her, her old quivering lips when she kisses me, she says, "Honey, someday, you'll return and mother will be gone." I said, "Then mother, I will come where you are someday." That's right. I'll get there.
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And so I remember one day we were getting mar... When they were young, when I was just a little bitty fellow... Daddy was eighteen years old; mama was fifteen when I was born, just children. And we was children with them, growed up with them. I think that's a good thing. I do. My little girl, when she gets to be any age, and she finds a good Christian boy that she wants to marry, I'd rather she marry him and settle down, be a lady, than be out in some of these roadhouses running around and what they call, "having a good time." That's right. The Bible said, "Let your daughters marry young." Some's already turned aside after Satan. And I ain't meaning for little bitty kids to get married now. Let your father and mother, they know. They're Christians; they can instruct you.
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And I remember how we used to go to town on Saturday night, go in and pay the grocery bill... We'd all get a treat of candy. You remember when we used to get a treat? Oh, my, that old peppermint stick candy, remember that? Boy, wasn't that real candy? Oh, my. I remember we'd all get in the little old jersey wagon, we called it up there. You all called it buckboard here, I believe. We put some straw in the back and a whole lot of quilts, and get in there, and all that bunch of kiddies. We had a little old mule. We'd drive about seven miles down to the city and stop. Dad would go in, he and mother and get the groceries and come back out. And I remember we used to have a--a two gallon can of coal oil. We burned coal oil lights. You've done that, haven't you? Many of you, burn the coal oil light. Did you ever get to a place where you didn't have enough oil for the wick to reach in there, pour water in it, and let it get up there so you... Oh, my. That's... Take a big old potato, and stick it over the stop, so going home, you know, wouldn't shake the coal oil out of the can, get it on the groceries. Them was great days, wasn't they? That's right.
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So we remember going up, we'd set there. And when pop would pay the grocery bill, and come out with a little sack of candy. Mr. Grower would gave us--us a sack of candy when we'd pay the grocery bill each week. And then we'd come out. And maybe there'd be about five sticks, or maybe four sticks, and five little Branhams for it be divided amongst. Boy, there'd be about five sets of little blue eyes, every one of them watching that candy and if see it was equally divided. Had to be equally divided. We'd break that candy, you know,
suck on it. I had a little trick I'd do. Here am I. Monday wasn't a blue day for me. I'd take a suck on my piece of candy a little bit, wrap it up in a piece of paper and put it in my pocket. Then on Monday morning, mama'd say, "William." Say, "Yes, mama." "You have to go to the spring and get a bucket of water." I'd say, "Humpie, if you'll go get the bucket of water, I'll let you suck on my candy till I can count ten." I said...?... I'd have this old piece of peppermint, you know. Oh, my. It was the real thing. Did you ever eat it with salted crackers...?... My, oh, my. Listen. I guess tomorrow, I could go and get me a whole box of Hershey's if I wanted to, but I... There's no candy like that. That's the best there is. Like when you're just a little kid, that old peppermint... My, I'd get... long as candy lasted, I loafed. I'd keep that candy and wait for the--for the work, something hard I didn't want to do, you know, and then I'd get my brother to do it, some of them, you know. And they'd go ahead and eat their candy up, and I'd save mine.
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I--I remember when daddy used to shave. He used to have a shaving brush made out of shuck. How many ever seen a shuck shaving brush? Well, some of you has. I shaved with them. Take the old shuck like that... Did you ever have shuck pillow, where you take the pillow, and strip the shuck and put it in there? Why sure, and a straw mattress... And take this old... Had a little piece of glass drove up where we used to wash out there, you know, at the old wash bench. And them little fellows would slick their hair down so tight on those little...?... They had an old bench built back behind the table. And mother would call dinner, and all of them... We'd go under the table and everywhere getting up there. And she'd set the great big bowl out in the middle of the table, like this, and--and bake the corn bread in the pan. How many ever ate corn bread baked in a pan. Oh, isn't that fine?
And you know, I used to set right on the corner next to daddy. And we'd pass the bread, and I'd break the corner off so I get plenty of crust around, you know. That was good, down on the corner. Go around... And you know, we broke bread then. Now, you cut it with a knife. Well, then you'd--you'd--you broke bread. Used to say that Jesus broke bread and blessed it. He never cut it. So... And so that wasn't our reason of it; we'd just break it. Each fellow'd break him off a piece, and go right around the table. And that great big old pot of beans there, with that big piece of jowl in it. Say, you know, that wouldn't be bad right now, would it? That-that would be fine, even right now. That's good eating. Yes, sir.
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And then we would have a big day. And Sunday, we'd have a pudding. How many ever had the old sweet pudding, you know? You used to make it up in the pan. We had a little, some kind of a little dabs of stuff right out in the middle of the pan, you know. And that was a rarity. My, be glad to get a hold of that. Brother and I used to argue who would sop the pan. Did you ever sop the pan? Oh, my. We're just a big bunch of kids growed up yet, aren't we. So we'd get out there and sop the pan. My, what a time we would have. And I'll tell you; that puts me in the mind of an old fashion Holy Ghost meeting. But one good thing: we're not sopping the pan any more now, all this old... We ain't just getting a taste now. That's right. And God comes right down with us and gives us a foretaste of glory Divine.
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And then, not long ago, I was coming out of a meeting. I--I passed by and seen that old place. You don't know how it made me feel. I remember when we used to go to school down there, a little old fellow. I didn't have no clothes to wear, and getting ragged. I remember I went to school all winter one time with a coat on. A rich lady had give me that. And I didn't have no shirt. I took this coat, it had a little old eagle on the arm. And I thought that was the prettiest thing. And--and I'd take this coat. And I had a big catch then, I'd pin it up like this. And so kinda got on till the springtime, and it was awful hot. Teacher said, "William, why don't you take off that coat." I--I said, "I'm chilly." I couldn't take that off; I didn't have on no shirt. So she said, "Well, you're probably catching a cold, William. Come over here to the stove." My. She put on that stove on over there, an old country school there, you know, and the sweat just run off of me. She said, "Are you comfortable?" I said, "Yes, ma'am." I--I couldn't get that coat off there, why, I had no shirt on, I just couldn't do it. I went home. And they had to be some arrangements made for that, you know, because I didn't... I'd... She'd see me... I'd just set all winter with that coat on, till...
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I remember one of my cousins that come over to see us. And the... She... They had the three of them, two boys and a girl, and the girl was about my age. So she left one of her dresses there. See? I took the skirt part, cut it off real low down here and put it on for a shirt. I went to school, you know. And it had that little, you know, little stuff on it. What is it they call it? Riff-raft? That... Rick-rack.
That's what it is. Little rick-rack all over the sides of it. [Congregation laughs--Ed.] I said something wrong there, didn't I? What is it? That's what it was. Yes, sir. It was all over it, you know. And so I--I... Some of them said... laughing at me. And I said, "Why, what do you think that is? That's part of my Indian suit." Sure looked funny with all that stuff on it. Oh, my, what a life.
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I remember in 1917, we were in school. And come a great snow in Indiana, and the... Oh, the drifted sometimes as much as seventeen, eighteen feet high. And it started raining and sleet. It froze a crust, oh, some inch and a half thick. And all the boys at school went sliding, you know, on their sleds and things. We was too poor to have any of that. We got something to eat, we done well. So they... We didn't have... Brother and I didn't have any sled, but we got us a big old dishpan out of the dump. We'd put our legs around one another and slide. We wasn't in as much class as the rest of them, but we were sliding just the same. So we were--we'd go right on down the hill turning around, and around, and around in this old dishpan. That served as a sled till the bottom come out of it. So we went down and got us a log. And we took pop's axe and we chopped it up like that, the end of it. We made us a sled. We'd pull this little log, you know, and go on to school. We got down there.
And I remember, that winter there was a--used to be a--a magazine they sold, called "Pathfinder." I don't know whether you ever heard of the old "Pathfinder." My, I might be talking to a lot of b--boys that sold it. Anyhow, and that was of the time of war, and everything that was big enough to put on a uniform had a uniform on. Everything was... Oh, the highest respect was for a uniform. When I used to see those soldiers come up the road. We had a big old sassafras pole out there, and we'd run the flag up on it. We'd get that flag up and see all those soldiers have to stop and salute that flag, 'fore they passed it at--at school, you know. And oh, my, we'd have a big time out of that.
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And I'd see those soldiers, them wrapped leggings, you know, and everything. Oh, my, how I wanted to wear a uniform. I said, "When I get to be a man, I'm going to be a soldier." Well, I was too little then. And when I this other war come along. I guess I wasn't man enough. I tried to enlist, and then they wouldn't have me. So I finally got to join the army, a uniform. I might not show it on the outside, but I got it on the inside. That's right. I joined the ranks of
Christianity. In there I have a uniform on called the baptism of the Holy Spirit. I'm in a great battle, doing everything I can. And I--I might not be able to... I can feel It. I know It's there. And that's the main thing.
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And Lloyd Ford, a friend of mine, he went to school down there. I guess Brother Curtis is laughing now, the boy that's here. One of my friends, remembers Lloyd. And he--he was selling this "Pathfinder," and he'd got him a little Boy Scout suit. And oh my, how he--he looked so nice in that scout suit. I said, "Lloyd, after you wear that out, will you give it to me?" He said, "Yes, I'll give it to you." My, how that old suit lasted. Went off a long time. One day I said, "Lloyd, what about that suit?" He said, "Well, Billy, I'll see if there's--where it's at." He come back, and he said... Next day at school, he said, "Well, Billy," said, "I tell you." Said, "I wore it out, and my mama taken the--the part of the salvage and patched dad's clothes." And said, "And the--they made dog pallet out with the coat, and it's all gone." Said, "I haven't got a thing of it left but one legging." I said, "Bring me that." I wanted something.
So he brought his little old legging, about that long, had a little draw string in it. Many of you remember what they was. I wore that around the house, and I thought, "Oh, if I could only wear that to school. Wouldn't I--wouldn't the kids look at me, (you know) this legging on?" So I--I went out to school, and I put it back in my coat. I was riding down on the sled, on this old log sled, you know, down to the bottom of the hill; and the log turned over and over. And I wanted to get some excuse to put that legging on. So as soon... I said, "Oh, I hurt my leg." Not half as bad as I was acting like. I said, "Oh, my leg. It hurts." I said, "Um." All the boys standing around, saying, "You hurt yourself, cornpicker?" Kentucky. I said, "Yeah, I hurt my--my leg." I said, "Oh, it just reminds me, I've got one of my leggings to my scout suit here, that'll help it a whole lot. I put it on. They all got away from me.
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And I went--I went to the board. You used go up to those old blackboards, you know, to work your problems? Just wash one hand, the one you had to hold up to the teacher, you know. So I got around like this, and I put both legs together like this so they wouldn't know, and hold out like this, and stand sideways to work my problems. Begin... Everybody looking at me with that legging on. All the kids got to laughing at me, and teacher made me go home. I got to
crying, so she run me home. So I had to go home. I... Oh, my, that's... As I say, God finally dressed me up on the inside. I'd rather have it on the inside anyhow.
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I'm American; I love my nation; I'm willing to go to war any time it goes to war. There's just Branham after Branham laying dead around France there and Germany. That's right. Many of them are laying there waiting for the resurrection. And I'll... If it would come necessary for my country, I'd be very happy to lay myself with them, to keep freedom where we can have religion, and like we've got it now. No greater nation in the world than our America. I mean that from my heart.
Long may our lands be bright, With freedom's holy light. Protect us by Thy might, Great God our King.
But dear Christian friends, I had rather be in the army of the Lord, than any place I know of. That's right. 'Cause I know that someday we're going to a land where there's ceaseless ages; we'll live there forever. And--and if I'm not man enough to be out in the army to fight with the armed forces, then God give me a job here to fight the powers of the enemy. And I am a soldier after all, one in the ranks with you, dressed with your type uniform and your brother in--in the service.
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Now, how them old days, they really tantalize us. And there's many things happened that I wouldn't have time to tell you, along the road. But you know how it is in old school days. Wouldn't you like to go back there again? My, go back to just... I wished I could live one day again. I wished I could get by that old table that my daddy built on top of a stump. And I--I would like to go back there, and set down there, and just live one more day. I'd give all, if I had a hundred million dollars laying on this platform. God knows my heart. And I realize that night after night, I wrestle with demon powers, and I'm not immune from them. They can come to me. Remember one time, some boys who thought they had a gift of healing? Said to a man who had epilepsy, "I adjure thee by Jesus Who Paul preaches, come out of it." The devil said, "Paul I know, and Jesus I know, but who are you?" Is that right? You have to watch what you're doing now. Be sure that you're called for these things. And the men was jumped on, stripped the clothes off, and run through the streets naked.
Now, if I had this platform laying full of money, millions of dollars, and could pass it every bit away, just to see one more scene; and that is, if I could see my old dad enter that tent right there, come walking right down this way, and reach up his hand, and catch me by the hand, I'd give it, everything I ever had in my life, or ever would have, if I could just hold his hand one more time. The real things of life are right around you; you don't see them. That's all. You don't know it till it's gone. That's right. If I could just once more see dad, but I can't; he's gone on.
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On down through life, many times I... You seen in my little book there how the Angel of the Lord appeared back in those days when I set right on a keg, when I was only about eight years old, or nine, watching the whiskey still run all night long, and get right up and started down packing water back to this still. And it was right down my road back from the pump where the Angel of the Lord spoke to me, said, "Don't you never drink, or smoke, or defile your body in any way; for there'll be a work for you to do when you get older." Like scared me to death.
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I remember one day, my daddy was going down to the river, he and another man. I was trying to find favor with this man, 'cause he had a good boat. I wanted to pull the boat. We got ten cents a dozen for finding bottles for them who was--the moonshiners that was fixing the whiskey. And I had a--an old paddle, and we'd... That river'd be up. We'd have to paddle, we didn't have no rudder on the old boat. And had to bail the water awhile and so forth, trying to get along to find the bottles, the brother and I. And this man had a fine duck yawl. And I... He acted like he liked me, and I--I wanted to keep favor with him.
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And we started across a little tree. And dad just set his leg across like that, to cross over the little blown down tree. And when he did, he stopped, pulled a little flat bottle of whiskey out of his pocket, handed it over to the next man to take a drink. And the other man taken a drink and handed it to me for me to take a drink. I said, "No thanks, I don't drink." I was about eight, nine years old. He said, "What? A Branham and don't drink?" Most all Branhams died with their shoes on. So he... I said, "No, sir, I don't drink." My daddy said, "No, I raised one sissy." Oh, my. A sissy. I said, "Give me the bottle." And my daddy looked at me. I took the bottle, pulled the stopper out of it, just as determined to drink it as I am to finish up my service this afternoon. I turned that
bottle up, and started to take a drink. When I did, I heard them leaves in that bush again going, [Brother Branham illustrates.--Ed.]. That's the way It appeared to me when at first, just like a roaring of leaves. Looked up and seen about the size of a barrel going back and forth through the trees. And there a human voice spoke to me and said, "Don't never smoke, or drink, defile your body." And I... Now, He said to me, "Don't smoke or drink."
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Now, I'm not preaching against one thing or the other. He told me not to smoke or drink. If you smoke and drink and say you're a Christian, that's up to you and God. But He told me not to do it (See?), not to do it. And so I didn't. I've heard many people say, "Well, I--I drink a little bit, a sociable drink. And I... And I use... I smoke, and it don't condemn me." Well, maybe you just ain't went far enough yet. That's right. That's all. You get a little farther on and you'll--you'll understand. That's right. That's right. You won't have no desire for that.
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And so then when I was standing there, and I took the bottle just as determined to drink it as I could be. And I heard that going, [Brother Branham illustrates.--Ed.]. I dropped the bottle, and screamed, and run up across the hills through the fields. And they laughed at me. Then along about... When I got to be about eighteen, seventeen, eighteen years old, like all boys I got a little girlfriend, you know. You know how that goes. Now, don't you men look at me like that. You did the same thing. See? And you know how pretty she was. You know, she had eyes like a dove, and teeth like pearl, and a neck like a swan, you know. And there you are. And I just... You loved her, and the prettiest thing you ever seen. And oh, she was pretty.
And a little country boy that lived there by me, he said he could get his old daddy's--daddy's old Ford. We had to jack the back of it up and crank it, you know, with that back wheel, you know, going. We got us a couple gallons gasoline. I had about forty cents. And we got our girls, and going to go riding. So we went out. I was so bashful. My, I set way over on one side of the car and looked at her. She was pretty. My. She was from the city, and she just moved out there. And I thought, "My, she's a pretty thing." And I looked at her, and I'd say, "Yes, ma'am. No, ma'am." Watch her, you know.
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And so we stopped to get some sandwiches. And I went in, got
the sandwiches: Get a ham sandwich for a nickel. So I got some Cokes and come back out. And we started eating the sandwiches, drinking the Cokes, having a wonderful time. I took the bottles back. And when I come back out, to my surprise, my girlfriend was smoking a cigarette. Well, that was just about the time that girls started smoking cigarettes. Well, I've always had my opinion of a woman that would smoke a cigarette, and I haven't changed it a bit. That's right. It's the lowest, most degrading thing that a woman ever done was smoke a cigarette. Worse than being drunk on the street. Now, watch your face get red. That's right.
Listen. Let me tell you something. Brother, that's the biggest fifth columnist we have in America. I'm not afraid about Russia coming in and whipping us, or some other nation come in and whipping us, we're whipping ourselves by our own morals is degrading us... That's right. Brother, it ain't the ap... It ain't the robin that pecks on the apple, that hurts the apple; it's the worm at the core that kills the apple. That's right. And I tell you, brother: You let a woman get an old time taste of salvation, and it'll straighten her up. That's right. It puts you in the... or a man, either one. That's exactly right. Amen. That's right.
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Well, I'm not here to preach the Gospel; these preachers do that for you. You see? You don't want me to go to preaching to you like that. I tell you, that's... You would hate me, sure enough. 'Cause I believe in a real old fashion Gospel that straightens a man or woman up, and makes me puke up the devil (That's right.), and get right with God. That--that's just little... I oughtn't to... I mean vomit it up, and that, instead of that... use that word. Well, I'm just as sick when I'm puking as you are when you're vomiting; I'll tell you that. So it's all just the same, you know. All... Some them fine words, I don't know much of them about it. But it's the truth anyhow. I'll tell you though, you get God in your heart, and It'll sure make you fix yourself up. That's right. It'll bring the real thing out.
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I wanted to find a girl that... Didn't want nothing to do with one that smoked cigarettes. And you know, sir, I get the statistics from the government. And they claim that eighty percent of the women that has their babies today can't raise them as mothers ought to. Cigarette smoking mothers, their babies don't reach eighteen months old. They take nicotine poison and kill them. They have to raise them on the bottle, on cow's milk. Talk about a fifth columnist. What all will America be? Here not long ago, I was in a barber chair. And there was a fellow
setting there, and he was just a shaking and a trembling. And he got up and said, "Aren't you Preacher Branham?" And I said, "Yes, sir." He said, "I--I--I appreciate..." And just smoked as hard as he could, "I appreciate your--your--your comments the other--the other day on the cigarettes." Then he give me his story. He said, "My father and mother both smoked. And when I was born," said, "I cried the first six months of my life." And said, "They couldn't understand it. And one day when the doctor came," said, "stand there. My father lit up a cigarette and was smoking," and said, "I quit crying. The doctor said, 'Wait a minute here.' Said, 'Take that baby outside.' Took outside, I started crying, brought me back and smoking cigarette smoke into me." And said, "I quietened." Cigarette nerves... "They had to give him nicotine from that time." Said, "Looky here at me now; I--I just can't stop it. My daddy and mother, oh, said they was the cause of it." What will his children be? There you are. There you are, brother.
I tell you: It's a shame and a disgrace. If you women smoke cigarettes, for goodness sakes, today, get away from it and stay away from it. Be a real lady right to the core. That's right. Yes, sir, stop it right now. And I tell you now: If God don't think no more of you than the Angel of the Lord does against that stuff, you have a slim chance when you get to the--to the gates of ever getting in. And that's--that's right. You don't have to do that. There's no sense of it. Now, if it's something to eat, or something like that it would be different. But that's something that's no--no need of, no sense of it.
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Now, watch closely as we have to hurry. I'll get started over on the Gospel and forget about my life's story. But anyhow, I remember her setting there, you know, when she was smoking that cigarette. I said... She said... Blowing it out of her nose, you know. And that fire fly. If God expected you to smoke, He'd put smoke stacks on you. So she setting there blowing it out of her nose like that. Now, that just degraded her to me right then. And she said, "Will you have a cigarette, Billy?" I said, "My." I said, "No, ma'am. I don't smoke." She said, "You don't drink now, and you don't dance, and you don't smoke," said, "what do you like to do?" And I said, "I like to go fishing and hunting." 'Course, that didn't interest her. So she was... She didn't care about that. She said... And she got to laughing at me. She said, "You big sissy." Oh, my. My girl called me a sissy. I said, "Hand me that package of cigarettes." And I got a hold of one, just as determined to smoke it.
God is my Judge, when I started to light that cigarette, before I could strike the match, I heard that come again, [Brother Branham illustrates.-Ed.].
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And they turned... I got out of the car, crying, and they turned the lights on me, and let me walk up that road, following me with their lights on me, singing to me and making fun of me, because I was too much of a sissy to smoke a cigarette. It wasn't I was too much of a sissy, but God was preserving that gift for this day. That's all it was. And me, I was determined to do it. But it was God protected it in that day, course...
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Thank you, honey girl. Thank you, sweetheart. Ain't that lovely? Let's say "Praise the Lord" for the little girl. [Congregation says, "Praise the Lord."--Ed.] God bless you, sweetheart. Fine, fine. God bless you, honey. God bless you. Look at her little...?... Well, bless her little heart. [A sister speaks to Brother Branham--Ed.] What... God bless you...?... Well, God bless her little heart. I want to give this testimony here. The little girl was unable to speak or anything when she come four years ago. And she brought this as a little commemoration for healing, as she was healed four years ago. Let's say, "Praise the Lord," every one. [Congregation says, "Praise the
Lord."--Ed.] LIFE.STORY_ PHOENIX.AZ SUNDAY_ 51-0415A E-53 Going to get well? [The sister continues talking to Brother Branham-Ed.] What? What was the matter with him? Her husband was healed a
few nights ago. Said he was setting near the post there and was called out with cancer. And he's healed. There he is standing in the aisle back there. Let's say, "Praise the Lord." [Congregation says, "Praise the Lord."--Ed.]...?... Let's say, "Praise the Lord" for that. How wonderful. [Congregation says, "Praise the Lord."--Ed.] Her husband. That's fine. Said he come up from down around Douglas, or somewhere, that--that the--from Brother King's church. All right. We're thankful to hear of them. That's mighty nice, a little commemoration to come back just to--to give it me. I'm... A little Spanish girl. She was awfully afflicted, and she couldn't speak. And her little hands was just growed together, or something another, as little stubs then. I believe the child will be all right now.
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Now, back to the life story, of when we were in the... That night, the--the girl, when they turned the light on me and let--made me walk up the road. And I went up and set down in a field and cried. And I was ready to try to take my life. I said, "Oh, I just don't know. I--I'm ready to--to--to end this thing." I said, "How in the world could I ever go through life and--and everybody against me?" Looked like
when I'd go home, they'd have parties and so forth. Then when I would--when I would try to get out with people, I was misunderstood. I never was understood right until I got amongst this group of people. That--that's exactly right. Then I had people who understood me and loved me. And then on down, some of you might wondering, being so backward and bashful, how I ever come to get married. I'll tell you about it as quick as I can.
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Oh, my. That... After that girl done me like that, I just soured myself against the women. I said, "I didn't have nothing to do with them at all." And I thought that was horrible. I said, "I'll never have nothing to do with any more girls. I'll never go out with one as long as I live." I'd go down the street, and I'd see one on one side of the street, I'd cross over and get on the other, if I thought she was going to speak to me. I was really against it.
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So, one day I happened to be out making a high-dive somewhere, out of a tree. And a car drove up, and a young lady stepped out. And there it was again. So there it all started. She happened to be a Christian girl, my little boy's mother. And she started me going to church. And I went with her for about six or--six or eight months. And she was such a nice girl, so friendly, and nice, and ladylike. That's the type of girl that I liked. Only her father was... Well, he done pretty well. He had a good job, making about five hundred and something dollars a month on Pennsylvania... organizer on the Pennsylvania Railroad. I made twenty cents a hour. He drove a--a Buick, and I had an old T-Model Ford, backslid. So I... Quite a difference in the way we had to--to live.
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So I liked her, and I went with her. So I remember... I know I had to either marry her, or--or ask her if she would marry me, or--or let somebody go. She was too good a girl just to take up her time like that. She'd make somebody a good wife. So I didn't... I wanted to be... I loved her well enough, that I didn't want to ruin her life like that. So I said, "I got to make up my mind now, and I haven't got the nerve to ask her." So I--I said, "Now, what can I do?" So I guess you wonder how I ever asked her. Well, I--I--I tried to ask her. And you know how that great big lump comes up in your throat here, and you can't swallow, you know, when you're trying to say anything? I'd say every time I'd go... "Now, I'm going to ask her tonight. Yes, sir, I'll do it." And I'd be telling her say, "Now, ten minutes more by my watch, I'll ask her." I'd--I'd say. Then she'd roll
those eyes, didn't do any good. I couldn't ask her. So guess you wonder how I ever got married. I wrote her a letter and asked her. Yes. I wrote her a letter, and I... Now, it wasn't a "Dear Miss..." It had a little more mush, as we call it, than that. And I wrote it.
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And I remember I wrote it all out, and I asked her if she'd marry me. And I didn't have nerve enough to give it to her, so I just put it in the mail. So I put it on--on Monday morning, went on to work. I had a date with her for Wednesday night to go to church. And so I... As Wednesday night begin to come along, I--I--I begin to think about it, "What if her mother got a hold of that letter, and that... and she didn't get it?" And then her dad and I were very good friends. Her mother too, but her dad was just a fine old Dutchman. And he... But her mother, she was a--she was kind of a little fritzie, you know, and she... I guess she thought I was a little trashy for her--her daughter. And so I... She was a good woman, but I was--just wasn't up in the place to marry her. That was all I know. And she didn't think so much of me. But I tried to treat her nice, but I just couldn't get on the good side of her somehow.
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So--so I remember, I got to thinking about it, and I was scared to death to go up there that night. So I got my old Ford finally, dressed up with the best that I owned, you know, and went up there and stopped in front of the house. And I knowed better than to blow the horn. Oh, my. She was a lady. Yes, sir. If your girl... If you love her enough to go with her, go in like a man and enough to get her. That's right.
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So I'm... I knew better than to blow my horn. So I got out, walked out of the car, and walked up to the door. And I thought, "Oh, my, this is all of it." I [Brother Branham knocks--Ed.] knocked at the door like that. And oh, my heart was racing as hard as it could, you know. And I thought, "Who's going to come to the door." I could just see her mother come look at me, "William, I got that letter." Oh, my. So I said... Hope come to the door, and she said, "Oh, hello, Billy." And I said, "Hi, Hope." Her name was Hope. And I said... She said, "Come in." I thought, "Oh, oh. Uh-huh, they're getting me inside. And then I know I haven't got a running chance then. What--what will I do about that?" So I said, "Well, I--I--I will just wait out here. It's awfully warm." And she said, "Oh, step in. Mother wants to see you."
And I thought, "Oh, no." You know how Satan can lie to you, you know, and tell you, that's it. That's it. So don't never... Circumstantial evidence won't do every time (You see?), so...
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I stepped in the door with my hat off, with all my Sunday manners. My, I was just best that I knowed how to act. And I said, "Sure is warm, isn't it? My." Just going. She said, "Yeah, I'll be ready just in a few minutes." And so her mother come in, and she spoke just as nice. And I thought, "Oh, oh. She never got that letter. Uh-huh." So then I got feeling pretty good. And so, I went on down; we went to church, and she said, "Let's just walk to church tonight instead of going in the car." I thought, "Oh, oh. She got it." Ha...?... So we went down and walked to church. I never heard a word Doctor Davis said that night. He preached and preached, and I was setting there thinking, "Yep, this is my last date. She'll tell me as soon we get out here, 'That's all off now. I got your letter, and that's... '" You know how...?... think, you know. You keep thinking, it'll be a realizing to you after while, you know.
I could just hear her saying this was all, and I thought. "Oh, isn't she pretty. Isn't she a nice lady. Don't I hate to hear this time come." I didn't even hear what the preacher was saying. After the service was over, we started walking on down home. She never said nothing. I go along. When we come out from under the trees, you know, the moon shining bright. And I'd look over in those dark eyes, you know. And I said, "I hate to hear her say it, but I-I..." After while I got pretty brave. I thought, "She never got the letter. It just stuck in the box; that's all." Got to breathing better. I said, "She'd done named it to me before now, if she'd have got that letter." So I was going along, you know, feeling pretty good then. And I was walking right along. We was walking along, she said, "Billy." And I said, "Yes." She said, "I got your letter." Oh... Oh, my. And then she just walked on, never said a thing. I said, "You did?" She said, "Uh-huh." That's all. Just went walking... You know how a woman can do, just--just keep you in suspense, you know. She said... Just walked on, never said a thing. And I said, "Uh... Hmmph... Well, uh... Well, uh, did you read it?" She said, "Uh-huh." Oh, she'd got it. I said, "Did you read all of it?"
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She said, "Uh-huh." That's all she said, just kept on. And I thought, "Oh, girl, do something and...?... kill me." And just on like that. And she just kept on going like that. And after while, oh, I said, "What'd you think about it?" She said, "It was all right." Well, we got married...?... We got married; that was it. So...
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But one more thing. When she was... I remember she told me I had to ask her mother for her. Oh, my. I said, "Honey, look. Let-let's you and I make an agreement. See, we're supposed to be fiftyfifty on these things. You ask your mother, and I'll ask your daddy." She said, "All right. Very well." I said, "That's all right." And so, I thought I could get by pretty well with Charlie, 'cause I'd... He liked me real well. And I... He understood me more.
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So that night, I remember I had to ask. I sat there and I... My, I wasn't having me a good time at all. He was playing the victrola, you know. And I went outside. I got to the door, and she looked at me. You know, I was going to go without asking him, you know. And I said... And Charlie was setting there typing on the typewriter, you know, and it was nine-thirty. Time I had to go...?... He said... I walked to the door, and I said, "Hmmph, Charlie?" He said, "Yes, Bill." I said, "Uh--uh... Could I speak to you out here just a minute?" He said, "Yes?" He looked over at Mrs. Brumbach, and she looked at me, you know. Oh, oh, oh, oh. And I said, "Here's where it all ends is right here." We went outside. Then I thought maybe that Hope had already told her mother, and her mother had done told him to say "No," you know. So I had it all fixed out how it was going to be. "Well, how are you, Bill?" I said, "Oh, pretty good." I said, "Sure is a nice night tonight, isn't it, Charlie." He said, "It sure is, Bill." He said, "Yes, Bill. You can have her." I started... Oh, my, what... I like him yet today. He just went home to glory a few weeks ago. God bless his soul. You don't know what he saved me then.
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I said, "Charlie, look. I'm as poor as I can be. I'm working down here in a ditch for twenty cents an hour." But I said, "I love her with all my heart. I can't clothe her, and feed her, dress her the way you can. But, Charlie, I'll say this: I'll be as good to her as I know how to be. I'll work until my hands run blood to make her a living." He put his hand over on me, he said, "Billy, look. I'd rather you to
have her and be good to her. After all, happiness does not consist of how much of the world's goods you own, but how contented you are with the portions that's allotted to you." That's right. I said, "Well, Charlie, I'll be just as good to her as I know how to be."
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And we was married. And when we got married, we didn't have nothing to go to housekeeping with. We was very poor. I didn't... I--I was the one married her, and she was the one taken me to... 'for I to support. And we were happy, just as happy, some of the happiest days of my life. I'd just... Along during that time, I'd just been ordained to be a--a minister. I didn't have no church as yet but we was just preaching around wherever I could in tent meetings and so forth. And I went to work. And I never will forget how we set up housekeeping. We went and rented two rooms for four dollars a month. Who doesn't know, that wasn't much. And some lady give us an old folding bed. Did you ever see one, the folding beds? And I went down to Sears and Roebuck and got me one of these little breakfast sets without being painted. And I remember, I painted them. And right... On the seat and on the table, I painted a big shamrock, being Irish, you know. And so I--I painted a big shamrock. And--and we went to housekeeping. I went over to Mr. Weber's, Brother Curtis back there, one of his--some of his people, and he dealt in used goods. And I bought an old second handed cooking stove for a dollar and seventy-five cents. And I paid, I believe it's a dollar for new grates and put in it. And we--we started to housekeeping.
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But we were happy. We were happy as we could be. We just had one another, and that's all we cared for. We loved the Lord with all of our hearts. And that's how we lived, just as happy as we could be. And I remember one day then I wanted to go on a little fishing trip up at Mishawaka, Indiana. That was my first time to ever come in contact with any Pentecostal people. And I went up to old Brother Ryan's and went fishing. On my road back, they was having a... It was the--the P. A. of W., I believe it is, or P. A. of J. C. I think the organization's died out and gone now, but--or reunited with some other organization.
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But anyhow, there's a preacher by the name of Rowe at Mishawaka, had the tabernacle. Some of you might know him, a Reverend Rowe. Well, yes, there's people with their hands up knows Reverend Rowe. Well, it was at his tabernacle. I was coming back, and I--I seen such a crowd of people and heard
such a noise, and I thought, "Well, where in the world's all that noise coming from." And I went down there. It was religious people. And they was a screaming, and shouting, and jumping, and running, and carrying on. I thought, "What kind of a bunch of people is that?" So I drove my old Ford over to one side. I only had about a dollar and a quarter, and to live on. And so... Enough gasoline to get back home, about two hundred and fifty miles. And I walked over there and went in. And those people, I never seen such church manners in my life. Umm, my. They were dancing; they were running; they were screaming.
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Why, I said, "What kind of a people is this?" I thought, "I'll just slip inside the door and watch what they're doing." Why, they're clapping their hands, and they're screaming, and some of them beating the tambourine, and some running up and down the boards, and some dancing and running around." I thought, "Well, what's wrong with those people?" Never seen anything like that. So I got inside the door. Now, it never rubbed off, but it begin to get on me. I begin to looking around; I thought, "Well, you know what? They're awful happy, awful free. They're just a little bit more freer than I am." So I said, "Maybe the Lord's got something that I don't know nothing about." So I begin to look at them. And somehow, I begin to get a love. I seen they loved one another. And those women would grab one another, hug one another, and kiss each other; and the men throwed their arms around one another, and hugged each other. Why, I never seen that before. I said, "Say, this is--looks good to me. Believe I'll just stay. They said we're going to have services tonight."
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So I had a dollar seventy-five cents. And I said, "No. I've got to spend at least one more dollar of that to go home on. Now, it'll leave me seventy-five cents. I can't rent a room." So I went down and got me a--about two dozen rolls. And I said, "I can live off these for a few days. I'm going to look around here and see what this is all about." So I went out in the--got me a place in a corn field located, where I could sleep that night. I come back down to the service. And that night, he said, "I want all the preachers to come to the platform." And I guess there's three or four hundred preachers got on the platform. They was having a conference. And they had to have it up there on account of the... Well, the southern states wouldn't let the colored and white together. So they was having it up there. And I noticed all them preachers.
And that night, they had their main speaker was an old colored man. They had to lead him out to the platform. Had on one of them little bitty--them cut away preacher coats, you know, the belt and collar. Just a little rim of white hair, and the poor old fellow come out there. And all that ministers that day had been speaking about Christ, and how great He was and everything. I was listening to them. Said, "All the preachers come to the platform." I went up and set down with them. "We only have time," they said, "just to have the preachers say who he is and where he's from." I just raised up, and I said, "Billy Branham, Jeffersonville," set down. The rest of them along like that. Went on along down the line.
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This old preacher come out to preach. He said he had--was going to preach the message that night. And the old fellow come out. And I thought, "Poor old brother. He was just all crippled up like this." He come out. And he took his text from over in, I believe, in Job 7:27, or somewhere there. "Where were you when I laid the foundations of the world?" Said he, "When the morning stars sang together, and the sons of God shouted for joy." And instead of preaching what He'd been done out here on earth, he took Him up back yonder about ten thousand years before the world was ever formed, brought Him on down across through the skies, and come down the horizontal rainbow back yonder in eternity somewhere. When that old fellow got anointed, he jumped up in the air, kicked his heels together, hollered, "Whoopie." Walked off of that platform, looked around. He had more room than I've got up here. He said, "You ain't got room enough up here for me to preach." Walked off. I said, "That's what I want. If--if It'll make an old man act like that, what would It do to me?" I said, "That's the thing I want. That's what I want." I said, "My, what a wonderful people."
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I went out that night, and I got down in the old corn field, and I prayed and I prayed. Nobody knowed me. So I took my trousers and put them between the seats of the Ford and pressed them, you know. Took the back seat out and the front seat out, put them down. Probably you've done the same thing, pressed them overnight. I laid down over there in the grass, and I prayed nearly all night. And next morning they said they was going to have breakfast at ten o'clock. I wouldn't eat with them, because I had no money to put in the offering. And I just had my rolls. So I--I eat my rolls, and come by a hydrant down there, and got me some water, come on down. Now, I'd been welcome, but I just didn't want to do it, because I couldn't help them out. So I didn't have the money to... But I was wondering what they had spiritually. And I... And then that morning, they started singing that little song, "I Know
It Was The Blood, I Know It Was The Blood." And oh, my, they was having a real time.
So after they got through with all the jubilee part, then he said, "Last night on the platform, there was a--a young minister by the name of Billy Branham." I thought, "Oh, oh." Said, "If he is in the building, tell him to come forth and speak for us this morning." Well, I never even seen a microphone before. And I was sitting back there with a pair of seersucker trousers on and a little T-shirt. I just hunkered down real easy, you know. So they said... That fellow come up again, Mr. Kurt, you all may know of him. Yeah...?... from Cincinnati. Reverend Kurt, he's a chart teacher he was there at the meeting. He said, "Anybody outside know where Reverend William Branham from Jeffersonville." Said, "Tell him to come up at the platform and come to the service." I got down real low like this. I was setting right beside of a colored man. He looked over to me; he said, "Do you know that guy?" My, what was I going to do? I just couldn't lie. I said, "Yes, sir." And he said, "Well, go find him." Well, what was I going to do? I--I--I just couldn't lie to the man. I said, "Hold over here a minute, brother, and I'll tell you something...?..." I said, "I'm he. But I can't..." "You is?" I said, "Yes." I said, "I can't..." Said, "Go on up there." I said, "Let me...?..." I said, "I--I got on these seersucker trousers and this T-shirt." I said, "I can't go up." Said, "Them people don't care what you dress like. Get on up there." I said, "No, no." And in--and in just in a few minutes, he said, "Did anybody find Reverend Branham?" That colored man said, "Here he is. Here he is. Here he is." Seersucker trousers, T-shirt, talk about...?... Wonder what...?... My...?... you know. All them people looked at me, them people who really have their religion, you know. And me up there my old cold Baptist ways, you know, and the... got up there, you know. And I said, "My." I thought, "Lord, if You ever helped anybody, You help me." I said, "I'm grateful to..." I finally thought, "Well, what am I going to read? Or what am I going to do?" I was so nervous, I just couldn't hardly hold myself together.
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And I got over here, and I jumped over to Luke there where It said, "The rich man lifted up his eyes in hell and then he cried." I just happened to fall on, "And then he cried." I took that little three
words, "And then he cried." I started talking. Everybody got to hollering, "Amen." And then I cried. First thing you know about--about two hours later, become...
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Outside. The next thing I know, It done got on me or something. I got out of that...?... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] Some fellow walked up with a big pair of boots on, big Texas hat, said, "I'm Reverend So-and-so." Elder, I believe he called his name. I said, "Are you a preacher?" Them Texas boots on, and a big hat. Well, I'm not so bad off after all. I said, "You a preacher?" "Yes, sir. I'm a Pentecostal preacher. I..." Said, "Why don't you come down to Texas and hold a revival for me." I said, "Me?" He said... I said, "Look--look, brother," I said, "I--I just don't know religion that good." He said, "I don't care. Come on down, I like it," he told me.
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About that time a fellow tapped me on the shoulder, said he was a preacher. And he had on a little old knickerbocker golf pants like, you know. He was a preacher from Florida. I said, "Well, my seersucker trousers are not so bad after all." Well, I looked around like that, and they had...?... A woman come up was a missionary to the Indians. And why, I had all kind of places to... Why, my, you don't know the places I had to go. And I went out there and got down in the corn field, and I just praised the Lord for giving me the opportunity, jumped in my old Ford, making forty miles an hour: Twenty miles this way, and twenty miles up-and-down this a way. Down the road...?...
When I come home... When I got home, my wife, bless her heart, she was waiting as usual. She'd run out and meet me. She seen me coming. She's real... had a little old long black hair, pretty eye--brown eyes. She come running to me. She threw her arms around me, her and the baby. And--and she said, "Oh, I just know you've had a good time fishing and... up there in the lake." I said, "Honey, I want to tell you what I done." I said, "I--I met the best people in the world." She said, "Well, what?" I said, "The best people in the world. You talk about people that's not ashamed of their religion, you ought to see them." I said, "They clap their hands, and they scream, they run all over the floor, and everything." She said, "What?" And I said, "Yes." She said, "Where they at." I said, "Up at Mishawaka." I said, "I'm going to tell you something. Looky here." I pulled out a long piece of paper. I said, "They want me
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to hold revivals for them all over the country." She said, "You?" And I said, "Yes." She said, "Sure enough. Is that right?" And I said, "Yes, sir. They told me I could hold revivals for them." And she said, "Well..." I said, "Will you go with me?" She said, "Sure." Bless her heart. She said, "Sure, I'll go." And that's a real wife, go with you through thick or thin.
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Well, now, when I started out to hold the meetings then, I was going to go to hold them. And I went and told my mother. She said, "Well, God bless you, honey." She said, "Years ago down in Kentucky at the old Lone Star meeting house, we used to hear the people shout like that long time ago, and had that kind of a demonstration." Said, "But it faded out." And--and--and I said, "Well, mama, these people, It ain't faded out of them." I said, "They sure have got a...?..." And so she went...?... things.
When we got to her mother--got to her mother...?... When we got over there, why there's where the trouble started, right there. She said, "William Branham, do you mean to tell me that you'd take my daughter out amongst a bunch of trash like that?" I said, "Well, look, Mrs. Brumbach. They're not trash." She said, "That's a bunch of holy-rollers." She said, "And you take her out of here, she'll starve to death." She said, "Today she might have something to eat, and tomorrow she might not have nothing to eat." But brother, I come to find out what she called "trash" was "the cream of the crop." And bless my heart...?... And said, "You mean to tell me that you'd take..." Said... And Hope started crying. And she said, "Mother..." She said, "I--I--I want to go with him." And she said, "Very well, Hope. If you go, your mother will go in a grave heartbroken. That's all." And then Hope started crying.
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And--and there, friends, is where my sorrows started. I listened to my mother-in-law in the stead of God. He was giving me the opportunity. And there this gift would've been manifested long time ago, if I'd just went ahead and done what God told me to do. But instead of that, I didn't want her to be angry, and I didn't want to hurt nobody's feelings. And so I just--just let it go like that. Just walked, I just said, "All right, we won't go." And right there, the sorrows started. Immediately after that, my
father died. My brother was killed a few nights later from that. I almost lost my own... I lost my father, my brother, my wife, my baby, and my sister-in-law, and almost my own life within about six month's time. And just started going down. My church, pretty near everything went down, down, down. Hope taken sick.
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Just right after that, the 1937 flood come on. And when it did, the... I was--got a job then. I went to working for the conservation. And I was patrolling out in the... So when I--the floods begin to come up and you remember hearing it here. Many of you was there, and how people being washed away and things. And Hope taken sick. She was going over to get me a--a Christmas present. And... the Foxe's "Book Of The Martyrs," is what I wanted for a Christmas present. And she got me a little fish box. And when I come in that afternoon, she was laying on the floor, fainted. And I called our family doctor, Doctor Adair. And he--he came up there, and he said, "Well, Bill, she's got pneumonia." So he said, "You have to stay up all night...?... nights." And during that time... Before that, a little girl baby, little Sharon Rose (Bless her little heart. She's in heaven too today.), she had been born into our home, just the sweetest little thing you ever seen, just a few months old.
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And so then I remember that Doctor Adair told me, he'd say, "Have to stay up late, Billy, keep the children out of the room here." And said, "Stay up and--and--and give a lot of fluid that night." And I did. And the next morning her mother wanted to take her down at the house. And she didn't care too much about Doctor Adair, and taken her out and throwed her into the--the tubercular. So then, I remember the flood coming on; they rushed her out to the government depot, out there for the hospital. And--and, oh, that part of the night, it raining, twisting, blowing; and how brother, sister...?... now. Always mind God. No matter what it is, God says for you to do. And I tell you, today, that God in heaven, Who looks down upon me standing in this platform, will forgive me. I know that many thousands of souls that I'll have to answer for at that day, for listening to somebody else instead of God. That's true. Now, I remember out there that night. They taken her out to the government barracks where, used it for people who are in hospitals. And the floods were on.
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And I was down trying to patrol. I slip out to see her. And she was sick, and both babies had taken pneumonia. And they were laying there sick and... And I'd worked back. They was calling me
everywhere in patrol car I was in... I went downtown. And--and I was coming up the street along about eleven o'clock. And the old dike had broke through up there. And down through the other part of the city it'd washed, just washed out. And they didn't know how many was killed or--or nothing. And such a horrible time. And I remember I heard somebody hollering and screaming. I looked way over there past Chestnut Street, a big two story building and it was shaking like this. And there stood a mother out there with her baby in her arms, and the building going down, screaming for mercy.
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Well, I lived on the river, and I thought I was a pretty good boatman. I'd get... went and got my boat out of the back of my car, and set it in the water, the little patrol car I had. And I set the boat in the water. And I got out there to her, and got her in and two or three other girls in the--in the room. And I got them out. And just the time I got them to the bank, they heard... She said, "My..." She fainted. She hollered, "My baby, my baby. Get my baby." I thought she'd left her little bitty baby in the room, and I'd left it.
So I started back. And the water just a twisting; I couldn't hardly make it. And I finally got way up this way and come down, and caught a hold of the--of the--the outside post and tied my boat, and went in. The baby she was talking about is the baby she had in her arms, about two and a half years old. And then when I heard the building go out from under me... And I run out real quick, and I fell in the water, probably twenty-five feet. And I fell in the water, and just got a hold of the boat like this to pull the... keep it from pulling my boat down too. And undone the... loosed the--the knot in the rope, fell into the boat. Then came freezing like that. I couldn't get the outboard motor started on it. Out into the river, I whirled right out into the main part of the current, me pulling and pulling. And it wouldn't start. Them great waves, almost as high as this building here, licking up like that, and that little bitty boat like that, and me out there...?... Ohio Falls, just about a mile and a half below me there, going right to them, which meant death at any minute... And there, brother, I had to think it over, whether it was trash or not. I was going out to see.
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There, pulling on that rope, and it wouldn't start, and I'd pull again, and it wouldn't start. Sick wife and baby laying out there, just lost my daddy and everything, I knelt down in the boat, and I said, "Oh God, have mercy. Have mercy. I don't want to die out here in this river like this. And I want to raise them children. Please, dear heavenly Father, if You'll just let it start, dear God."
And that boat rocking from side to side like that, me trying to pull then. I thought, "Oh, it--it can't be but just a little bit farther to the falls. I knowed that was the end of all of it then, 'cause them big waves like that, and they're coming back this way, take me right into the whirlpool there. And it's seventy or eighty feet deep right straight down through there. In normal times if anybody ever goes in there, that's all of it. And hang on those big rock ledges down through there. And there seldom ever find their body.
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And so I just praying out there, and I said, "God, I know I've done wrong. I know I oughtn't to have listened to what I did. Please, dear heavenly Father." Just trying to start. And just in a few moments, it give a couple of little sputters and started. "Oh, Lord." Back in. I landed, come back and give it all I could, and heard... cutting this way, and praying my gasoline hold out. Finally landed way down towards New Albany there, the other corner. And--and got in and went back and got my boat--or got my car. And when I got up there and found out about the mother, and everything was all right. I slipped out to the ho--or the government hospital to find out how my wife was. I was going to talk to her about it. And I went out there, and they was just laying in little old army cots. And when I got there, it was all covered over with water. Where were they at? Then I started screaming to the top... And I got excited then.
Major Weekly, a friend of mine there at the government, he walked up to me. He said, "Reverend Branham?" I said, "Yes, sir." He said, "I don't think your wife is gone." Said, "I think they got everybody out of there." Said, "I think they went to Charlestown, a city about twelve, fourteen miles above here." Said, "I think they went out in a cattle car." Her with pneumonia and it sleeting and blowing like that. Two sick babies and them with pneumonia, one of them just eight months old. I thought, "Oh mercy, they was on a cattle car." Then I jumped in my truck and run out there towards--to get the road to go to Charlestown. There's about six miles of water where the Lancassange Creek had come through like this to get back. I run down and got my speed boat, and I'd tried my best to get through them waves. I'd hit like this and go plumb back around like that, and I tried to duck the waves.
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And out there, I got cut off from everything, out there myself. And I set out there marooned for about eight days where they had to
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drop me something to eat. I had a lot of time to think over on who I was going--going to listen to, God or somebody else, let it be one who loves his mother or whoever it was. You listen to what God's got to tell you...?... I'd set there and I prayed and cried... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] Got to make your stand. And then instead of standing up against it, I thought more of some--what some woman respected than what my own conscience and God was planting in my heart. I said, "Oh, God, what can I do?" I looked down there and I met another fellow, and I fixing...?... "Did any of them in the hospital get drowned, you know?" He said, "No, I don't think there was." He said, "I think they all escaped." And said, "Reverend Branham, I think your wife was on a box car, and they took her out to Charlestown when that boat went up."
Well, I run down to my car and got my speedboat, and come back up and put it on the back of my truck. Run up and started to cross. I set up there to...?... was back to it, and about six miles of water just waves through there. Some of them said, "That train?" Said "It washed off the trestles right up there." Oh, my. There it was again. I tell you, brother, back down in behind this heart, there is sorrows that you know nothing about... Then I put that boat in the water, and I tried hour after hour to pierce that current. And I couldn't do it. And then the water cut me off, and there I was marooned out there for about seven days I set out there. I had plenty of time to think things over. When the waters got down...?... I had two choices. I walked up there...?...
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They had on boots. I was going just as hard as I could. I run up to an old friend of mine, Mr. Hayes, called him Colonel Hayes, superintendent of the public service company. I went up to him, and I said, "Mr. Hayes." I said, "Did that train come through with that bunch of people fr..." He said, "I don't know, Billy." I said, "Let's go." We went on down through... Just a little bitty city there, about two or three thousand people. We went everywhere. Nobody had heard anything of my wife. Oh, I thought, "Wife and babies are wound around some bailing wire or something or other down there in one of them swamps, and maybe plumb down in the south somewhere; swelled up, laying there in a bunch of bushes, drowned." "Oh God," I said, "what can I do? What can I do?"
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I went out. We went down to the railroad station. And there's a dispatcher there said, "Just a minute." Said, "I believe that train come through." Said, "The engineer of that train is here in the city today." Said, "He was supposed to be down here in a little bit to take a train out." Said, "I'll ask him." After while, he... I run to him as soon as they told me that was him coming." I said, "Sir, did you drive the train from the government depot that come through?" He said, "Yes, I drove that train." I said, "Do you know Charlie Brumbach?" Said, "Certainly." He said, "His daughter was on the train on back there with two sick babies." And I said, "That's my wife, sir." I said, "Where they at?" Said, "They're--they're somewhere. I let them off at, I believe at--at the Kokomo, Indiana." And I said, "You did?" He said, "Yes."
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And I started at foot to walk. Could... I was going to get there some way. I begin to come almost beside myself. I started off. I met a man. He said, "I know who you're looking for, Billy." It was a friend of mine. Said, "You're looking for Hope, aren't you." And I said, "Jim, you know about her?" Said... I mean at... not at Kokomo, it's Seymour, Indiana. He said, "She's laying up there in the Baptist church at Seymour, Indiana, dying with tuberculosis, laying by the side of my wife." And I... or "my girlfriend." And I said, "Dying with TB?" Said, "Yes, Bill." Said, "I hate to tell you, but you wouldn't know her." I said, "Is the babies alive?" Said, "I don't know nothing about the babies." Oh, my. I said, "Oh, can we get there?" Said, "I got a secret road." Said, "I can take you." And we got in there late that night, in the--the basketball arena where the Baptist church was fixed up for the--the refugees to come in. And they said she was down there. And I run through there screaming top of my voice, "Hope! Hope, honey! Where are you? Where are you?" And I looked.
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Oh, I will never forget that. Back over there on this old government cot, I seen a little bony hand raise up. That was my darling. I run to her real quick. I fell down at her. Those dark eyes was sunk way back in her head. She'd falling lots of weight. I said, "Sweetheart?" She said, "I look awful, don't I?" I said, "No, honey. Is the babies all right?"
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"Yes," she said. "Mother has the babies." Said, "Billy's been awfully sick; Sharon's a little better." And she said, "I'm awfully sick." I started crying, I said, "God, don't--don't take her from me. Please don't, Lord."
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I felt somebody touch me on the back. It was a doctor. "You're Reverend Branham?" And I said, "Yes, sir." "Come here just a minute." Said, "Aren't you a friend of Sam Adair?" And I said, "Yes, sir, I am." He said, "I hate to tell you this, Reverend Branham, but your wife's a dying." Said, "Your wife's got tubercular. Sam told me to tell you just to make her comfortable, and not to be excited around her." I said, "She dying, doctor?" I said, "She can't, doctor. That's all. She can't do it." I said, "I love her with all my heart, and I'm a Christian." And I said, "I just--I just know she ain't going to die. I just can't think of the thoughts to think that she'd be taken away from me here, and with these two little babies, how could I stand it?" He said, "Well, I hate to tell you, but," said, "there's nothing can be done as far as I know."
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I went back to her, trying to brace myself up and talk to her. A few days we took her home. She just kept getting worse and worse and worse. Went to Louisville, and they had specialists and everything. Took her out to the hospital. Doctor Miller from the sanatorium come down and looked. He called me out to one side, said, "Reverend Branham, she's going to die." Said, "There ain't nothing can be done for her." Said, "She's--she's going to die." I said, "Doctor Miller, honest, isn't there something I can do? Could I take her to Arizona? Could I do something for her?" Said, "t's too late now, Billy." Said, "That--that's a... That's galloping tubercular." Said, "It--it kills them right away." Said, "Her family's had it back behind there," which I knew later that they--they did. And said, "She's just broke with it, and it's got such a hold on her." Said he'd give her pneumothorax treatments and everything. And said...
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And I'd hold her hand when they were boring that hole in her side to collapse them lungs. If I had it to go over, it wouldn't be done. And she'd hold my hand there, bless her heart. I'd have to almost pull her hand off of mine from suffering, holding where they'd bore that hole in there and collapse the lungs on the side. And that was tubercular traveling right on up like that. I knew she was going, and I was doing all that I could do. And I'd work at night. I remember, I was out, and I heard a patrol sign come through. It said, "Calling William Branham. Come to the
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I never will forget; I took off my hat. Setting in the truck, I held up my hands, and I said, "O Jesus, please don't let her go. Let me talk to her once more before she goes. Please do save her." I was about twenty miles away from home. I turned on lights and everything. I went down the road real swift, stopped in front of the hospital, and throwed off the gun belt, and into the place I went real quick. I started walking down through the Clark County Memorial Hospital. As I started down through there, I looked, and I seen poor little Doctor Adair come walking down through there with his head down. God bless that man. And he--he looked at me like that when he seen me. He throwed his hands up like that and started crying and run in the halls. And I run up to him, put my arm around him, I said, "Sam, is it?" And he said, "Billy, I'm--I'm afraid she's gone now." I said, "Come, go with me, Doc. Let's go in." He said, "Bill, please don't ask me to do that." Said, "Oh Bill, I love you." He put his arms around me. Said, "I love you, Billy." He said, "We've been bosom friends." He said, "I can't go in and look at Hope again." Said, "That's like my sister laying there." Said, "She's baked me pies and everything." Said, "How--how could I go in and see her going like that." Said, "Come here, nurse." I said, "No. No, let--let me go myself."
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And the nurse said, "I'll take you in, Reverend." Said, "Here's some... Here's..." Tried to give me some little old medicine there to quieten. I said, "I don't want that." I walked on into the room, shut the door behind me. I looked over there. They done had the sheet pulled up over her face. I pulled that sheet down and looked. She was real thin, and she was drawed up like this. I put my hands on her; perspiration's real sticky; her face was cold. I shook her. I said, "Hope, Sweetheart? Please speak to me once more." I said, "God, have mercy." I said, "Never again will I think them people are trash. I'll make my stand." During that time, we'd both received the Holy Ghost. So I said, "Please, will You, Lord?" I shook her. I said, "Oh, please speak to me once more." And I--I shook her again like that. Those great big dark eyes looked up at me. She said, "Come near." And I got down real close to where she was. She said, "Oh, why did you call me, honey?"
I said, "Call you?" I said, "Sweetheart, I thought you were gone." She said, "Oh, Bill..." About that time the nurse run in, said, "Reverend Branham, here." Said... "You had that little medicine?" I said, "No." She called the nurse, Miss Cook. She said, "Come here." She said, "Set down just a minute. I've just got a few minutes left." And she was Hope's friend. And she was biting her lip. She said, "When you get married, I hope you get a husband like mine." And that... You know how it made me feel. She said, "He's been good to me, and we've loved each other the way we have." And said, "I hope you get a husband like mine." I--I turned my head; I couldn't stand it...?... walked out of the room.
I walked over to her I said, "Sweetheart, you're not going to leave me, are you?" She said, "Oh Bill." She said, "You've talked about it; you preached about it, but you don't know how glorious it is." Said, "Just before you called me, there was something in white was taking me home. I was going down through a great big place where there was pretty trees and big birds and swings. I was at perfectly at peace being taken my home." I believe she seen paradise as sure as I'm standing in this platform. She said, "You've talked about that wonderful Holy Spirit, Bill. But you don't know how wonderful it is when you come to cross. That's the reason I'm going, brother. I know it's real. I've seen it at the end of the road." Yeah, you can call me holy-roller, if you want to but let me die one; that's the way I want to go. Yes, sir. She said, "Oh, you don't know how wonderful it is." She said, "Sweetheart, you know I'm going, don't you." And I said, "Yes."
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She didn't mind going. She said, "Oh, it's all right, Bill. I hate to leave you and the children. But oh how wonderful that place is over there." She said, "I want to go back." And she said, "You know why I'm going don't you?" And oh, that's what killed me. I said, "Yes, honey, I know it." I said, "If we'd have minded God instead of your mother, it wouldn't have been this a way." I said, "I'm going with them, don't you worry." She said, "Promise me that you'll preach it as long as you live." I said, "So help me, God...?..." I said, "I'll do all that I can, honey." And she said, "I want you to do a few things for me. Will you?" I said, "Yes, I'll--I'll try." I said, "I'll do all I can." And she said, "Remember that time when we was in Louisville, and-and you wanted to buy that rifle to go hunting." And I just love guns. And she... And it taken three dollars to make a
down payment on it. And I said, "Yeah, I remember it." She said, "We didn't have no money to pay for it then." And I said, "No." She said, "Sweetheart." She said, "I wanted to get you that rifle so bad." She said, "I've been saving for about eight months." And she said, "After I'm gone, would you go home, look up on the folding bed under that paper, and you'll find the money there. You'll..."
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I think she had a dollar seventy-five cents saved towards it laying up there. You don't know how I felt when I picked up that dollar seventy-five cents and looked at it. She said, "And another thing..." One time I bought the wrong pair of stockings for her, I'd never-didn't know what kind of goods to call for, and I called for the wrong thing. And she told me about that. Then she said, "I don't want you to live single. I want you to promise me that you'll take my children and promise me you'll get some good girl that's got the Holy Ghost, and get married, and she'll be good to the..." She said, "Then they won't have to be pulled about from pillar to post." And I said, "Honey, I--I can't promise that." I said, "I love you too much to ever get married." And she said, "Please, please." And I said... She said, "You can't take care of that little girl and little Billy." I said, "Oh honey, don't make me promise that." She said, "I made you promise me you'll do it."
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going?" And she said, "Yes." I said, "Is...?... If I'm alive, I'll be on the battlefields somewhere preaching the Gospel when Jesus comes. But if I'm not," I said, "I'll be planted by your side." And I said, "When the dead in Christ arise, if I happen not to be right with you, if I'm out in the field somewhere, and you go...?..." I said, "You go over to the east side of the gate. You stand there. When you see Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob coming up, you scream, 'Bill' just as loud as you can." I said, "I'll get the children together, and I'll meet you there." She said, "I'll be looking for you." She threw her hands up like that. And I kissed her good-bye. She went to be with God. That's my date with...?... I'm living as true as I know how to keep it. Someday I'll be there by God's grace.
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And I seen her going fast. And I said, "Sweetheart, are you
When I returned home, oh, how I felt. I just couldn't hardly
stand it, how they'd--they taken her down to the undertaker morgue and then they embalmed her body and laid her out. I was laying there that night; I happened to look. Somebody knocked at the door, Mr. Broy come up, he said, "Billy," said, "I hate to tell you the bad news." I said, "Brother Frank, I know she's down there in the morgue." I said... He said, "That's not all of it." Said, "Your baby's dying too." I said, "My what? Sharon's dying?" Said, "Sharon's a dying." Said, "They just took her to the hospital, and Doctor Adair said she can't live but just a little bit longer."
I couldn't stand up. They picked me up. I set in a little old Chevrolet truck. We went out to the hospital. I jumped out of the car, started in. Nurse said, "Reverend Branham, you can't go down there." Said, "That's... She's got tubercular meningitis. She's caught it from her mother, and it's went to the spine." Said, "You can't go in there on account of the little boy." And I said, "Nurse, I got to see my baby." She said, "You can't do it." When she turned her back, I went in anyhow. And I went down there in the room. And there, flies was in her eyes. Just a little old hospital out there. And I took this little old mosquito bar, what it was, shooed the flies away from her. And I looked down at her. Her little fat legs was moving up and down. Looked like she was waving her little hand.
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I remember when she used to... The wife would put on her the little three corners and set it out there in the yard. And I'd come along that... Just the way I touched that little siren, and she'd know it was me. And she'd just jump and go "Goo, goo, goo." And I'd pick her up in my arms, and she'd love me. And I seen my baby going. Oh, God, I just couldn't stand it. I thought, "Oh, God, what could I do? What can I do?" I knelt down, I said, "Heavenly Father, please don't take her. Take me in her stead." I said, "Let me go. You're--You're tearing me to pieces. Let--let me go." Just then as I raised my eyes up, I seen a dark-like veil floating down through the... I knowed she was going. I raised up and looked down at her, at the bed at her, her little fat arms, waving. It was a spasm like. And I looked at her. Why, she was suffering so hard till her pretty little blue eyes were crossed, one of them was.
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in three months time in my meeting. I've never seen one cross the platform without being healed. And then I think of my little baby. Sometimes God has to crush a rose to get the perfume out of it, you know. I seen little Sharon, and her little eyes crossing, her little lips quivering. I said, "You know daddy, honey?" And her little lips quivering like that. I seen her little mouth coming open. I knowed she was going. I laid my hand on top of her like this. "God bless you, darling. You're an angel. You're going to be with mama. Someday dad will see you by God's grace." I raised my hand, I said, "Lord, I know I've done wrong. But as--as Job of old, though You slay me, yet I love You. I can't help it. I love You in my heart. You're just about to kill me, Lord." But I said, "I--I love You anyhow. Take her, Lord. Not my will, but Thine be done." Felt like every bone in my body come unjointed. I...?... In a little bit, the Angels of God come took the little thing, took her home. I took her down, and put her in the casket... her mother.
We took her out to the cemetery. The minister stood there. He took a handful of ash--of dirt. Said, "Ashes to ashes, dust to dust, and earth to earth." I heard the ropes squeaking as they let them down. Then like the breeze coming down through them old maple trees, said,
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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'll gain the portals, There to dwell with the immortals. Someday they'll ring the golden bells for you and me.
I returned home. I couldn't be satisfied. I could see my wife going, but that baby, how could I give it up? What could I do about that? My, I went on back to work. One morning I was climbing a pole working as a lineman. I hooked my belt like that. And I was singing up there, working around the primaries. I was singing,
On a hill far away stood an old rugged cross,
The sun was just coming up. That cross-arm on the pole made my shadow on the side of the bank look like a body on the cross the way I looked. "Yes, it was my sin and shame that put Him there. And I was the one who nailed Him to the cross, the Prince of Life." I said, "O God, but in heaven somewhere, You've got my little girl." And there, I become almost frantic, almost a mental collapse. I took off my rubber glove. Twenty-three hundred was running right by the side of me. I said, "God, I hate to be a coward, but Sherry, honey,
I'm... Daddy's coming to see you this morning," as I laid my hand down on that wire. Why, it broke every bone in my body. How I don't know, unless God had foreordained that this gift should go forth.
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The next thing I knew, I was sitting on the ground, perspiration running off of my face. I took off my spurs, put them in the truck, went down and went home. As I went around the house, I picked up the mail. Went around the house... And few months had passed, turned cold weather, frost was coming up through the floor there. I wouldn't go nowhere. I said, "We didn't have very much, but what we had..." We--she and I had lived together with it. It was home sweet home to me. I don't care how it was, it was... It was her furniture, and I wanted to stay at home. When I went in the house, first letter I looked at, Miss. Sharon Rose Branham, eighty cents, Christmas saving. Oh, my, it was all over again. I knelt down on the floor there. I started crying. I said, "God, please have mercy upon me. I'll take my own life."
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I'd been a warden. In the room I had a gun. And I went in to get this gun. And I put the shells in it. And I pulled the hammer back on the gun. I said, "Lord, I--I'm... I've gone wild." I don't know. I was out of my head. I put it up beside of my head like this. I said, "Our Father Who art in heaven, hallowed be Thy Name," squeezed the hammer, it wouldn't fall. I said, "O, Lord, I can't even take my own life." I threw the gun down, shot it off through the house. Went on like that. I thought, "O God, why, I've gone crazy. I've lost my mind." And I...?... on at work.
I went to sleep. And when I went to sleep, I dreamed. I thought I was out west here somewhere. I always loved the west. And I had on one of these big hats like the cowboys wear. And I was going walking down through the prairies; there's an old prairie schooner laying there and a wheel broke down on it. I was singing,
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The wheel on the wagon is broken, Sign on the ranch, for sale.
Going along like that, I looked standing there, and there stood the most beautiful young blond-headed woman standing there that wou-hair blowing; she was dressed in white. That's the prettiest girl I ever seen. I tipped my hat; I said, "Howdy do, sister."
And then she said, "Hi, dad." And I looked around; I said, "Dad?" She said, "Yes." And I just said... I said, "Well, I don't understand this." I said, "You call me your daddy." She said, "Dad, you just don't know where you're at." Said, "This is heaven." Said, "Down on earth I was your little Sharon Rose." Said, "Don't you remember your teaching of immortality?"
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I teach that there won't be little bitty babies like that in heaven. We'll all be one age and one size, immortal. You have to always be that way. We'll just be... There'll be no real old people and no real little bitty babies; we'll be just one age, the youth forever. And she said, "Don't you remember your teaching of immortality?" I said, "You're not Sharon?" She said, "Yes, daddy." I said, "Well, Sharon, honey, I don't understand." She said, "Where's Billy Paul?" That's her little brother, the one that's here. I said, "Well, I left him just awhile ago. But I don't understand." She said, "Daddy, mother's waiting for you up home." I said, "Home?" I said, "Honey, I never had a home. Branhams are vagabonds like." I said, "I never had a home." She said, "But dad, you got a home up here." She said, "Turn, look this a way." I looked back there and I seen the glory of God coming up. And I seen a great big pretty mansion there. She said, "That's your home, daddy." Said, "Mother's waiting for you." She said, "You go on. Mother wants to see you. I want to wait here for Billy."
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And I took right up through there. I got to the door, and there she come out to meet me as she always did, not sickly, not all drawed up and eat up with tubercular. She come out with her arms out, that black hair hanging down her back, dressed in white. And she said... Held out her arms to me and I run to her, grabbed her by the hands and knelt down. I said, "Oh, Hope, honey." I said, "I met Sharon. Didn't our darling make a pretty woman?" Said, "Yes, Bill." She said, "You're worrying too much, honey." I said, "Worried? How could I keep from worrying?" And she said... She said, "Look." Said, "You're just worrying about Sharon and I." Said, "Don't worry about us. We're so much better off than you are." And I said, "Well, honey, everything's been going wrong, and everything..."
She said, "I know all about it." She said, "Now, stand up."
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And I stood up and I looked at her, and oh, she looked like she did the night I married her. And I looked at her building. She said, "Won't you set down?" And I looked, and there's a great big Morris chair setting there. And I looked over at her. She said, "I know what you're thinking." When we didn't have any chairs... We had the old hickory bottom chairs. You know what they are, cane bottoms? We had two or three of those. And I wanted a--a Morris chair to set in. They could finance us fifteen dollars, and I paid three dollars down and a dollar a week. And I got one; and I paid up to about eight or ten dollars on it. And I just couldn't make the payments. I just couldn't do it. I couldn't shave that dollar out. And I went about two or three weeks behind, and I... They sent me a dun; they was going to come get it. And I wrote them, told them they'd have to come.
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And I remember the day they come and got my chair. Wife baked me a cherry pie, and she had it all fixed for me when I come in: a real wife. God bless her. Her grave may be white with snow, but I still love her. And then she... When she had this pie, I thought there was something happening. I went in; she was talking. She said, "Now, I had some of the boys to dig some fishing worms." Said, "We're going down to the river." She knowed I love to fish. Said, "We're going down to fish tonight." I said, "Well, honey, what's the matter?" She said, "Nothing." After supper, I felt something. I said, "Let's go in the front room." She said, "Bill, let's go fishing first." I--I knowed what it was. And I walk--got up and started walking to the door, and she come put her arms around me. They'd come got my chair. I'd work all day and preach half the night, then I'd set in this chair and study when I'd rest and go to sleep. And they'd come gotten it. I owed money on it and couldn't pay it. They had to come and get it, and I never will forget how we felt.
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And she'd recognized that when we were standing talking. She said, "Do you remember that chair they come and got?" And I said, "Yes, honey." She said, "They'll never come get this one. This one's yours." She said, "Set down." Said, "Promise me you won't worry." She put her arms around me, and I said, "Honey, I promise you I'd never worry again."
I woke up and I was in the room, and I could still feel her arms around me. But from that day to this, I haven't worried about it. They're beyond the blue.
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Someday, I got to go too. Each one of us has to make that journey here. Oh, my, a life, brother, sister. Scars and cuts, and went through that stream of poverty, and tears that paved the way...?... You don't realize. No wonder that sometimes it saps the very life from me. But today, I'm trying to be as reverent as I can be before you. I'm trying my best, coming right back serving that same people that was considered trash at one time. They're my brother and sister, and I love them with all my heart. And I'm taking that gift and going day and night. We been here two weeks when it's nearly got me to a place I have about an hour and something sleep last night. What do I... I was keeping my promise to God. Yes, sir...?... into all the parts of the country wherever I can go with a reverent, sincere heart. I want to serve God until the day He calls me home. There's a beautiful home, oh, over the sea somewhere.
Some woman said to me not long ago, said, "Brother Branham, when you going to get some rest?" I said, "When I cross over the river. I got a home over there and loved ones. I got a chair to set in. I'm going to cross over one of these days." She told me, said, "You're so tired and...?..." I said, "Yes." Said, "You been praying for the sick so much." I never prayed for the sick like that before. So one of these days, setting on the platform like this, God will open up the windows. I'll be a--maybe an old man shaking on a cane. But He won't turn me down. I'll cross over as sure as I'm standing here, if I can only prove faithful to my Saviour is my plea. He will bear me away in that day. Don't you believe that? We'll be faithful. That's right.
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Friends may come and go. When the way growing drear, precious Lord, lay Your dear hands. When my life is almost gone, at the river I stand, guide my feet, hold my hands. Blessed Lord, take my hand and lead me home. Let me...?... my Saviour. If I'm faithful
to Him, someday He will guide me to the other side. I trust that every one of you here, friends... If there's one here who's not ready to meet God, listen to me as I speak to you in the Name of the Lord. You've got the good opportunity now. You've got a wonderful time to come and accept Him. With my Bible over my heart, someday, everything that you've ever done in this life will be naught unless you give your life to Christ. Come with me. If you love me, let's us go together.
There waits for me a glad tomorrow. (Sing it with Where gates of pearl swing open wide, And when I cross this veil of sorrow, I'll stand upon the other side. Someday beyond the reach of mortal Kin Someday God only knows just where or when, The wheels of mortal life shall all stand still, Then we shall go to dwell on Zion's hill.
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O God, someday these wheels are going to stop this old body, all of mortal life will stand still. Then oh, like a tooth coming from a body, been extracted, He's going to go...?... on will break through, and our souls will plunge into an eternity. Help us, God. Help us today. Grant it, Lord. May sinners without a way come in today, Lord, and be saved. Come to the fold, come to the Shepherd, find faith and shelter. And may they see that by Your poor disobedient servant's mistakes that they can be blessed. O God, I think years ago if I'd have went on and done what You told me to do, how many more people'd been saved today. I'm sorry, Lord. Help me now, will You, Lord? Bless everyone that's here, and the sinners here, bless them, Lord. While we have our heads bowed, the sister's playing there... the brother, "There Waits For Me A Glad Tomorrow," I wonder how many sinners in here, put up their hands and say, "Brother Branham, pray for me. I--I'm unsaved and I want to be saved." God bless you. Oh, my, hands up everywhere.
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Look, if God will hear my prayer to heal the sick, don't you think He will hear my prayer to help save your soul? How many now, while we're singing that song in a few minutes, "There Waits For Me A Glad Tomorrow." Will you come down here and shake my hand, stand here at the altar just a moment that we have prayer. Don't you love Him? Oh, what could you do? Here the other day, a young fellow come hear me in the meeting. He set here, and he just give his life to Christ, and went out and was killed instantly on a tractor. Another man standing the other night
holding his hands went home and died in a little bit. Oh brother, if you know not God, how about coming down. Won't you come right now while we stand and sing, if you be will. You that wants to find peace with God, believe that He is, my brother. If you need something from God--salvation--won't you come just now. All right. All right. Give us... All right, that's... All right, that's okay. That's all right. "Almost Persuaded." All right. "Almost Persuaded." God bless you.
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Just comes down and shakes my hand. Come all the way from South America to meet this time. Won't you come too? Come down. God bless you, sister. That's the way to come. Now, remember, friends, this may be...?... your opportunity. God bless you...?... Oh, that's all right. Come, stand right here. Just stand right here. Come right around and stand. God bless you, brother. That's wonderful. God bless you, sir. Oh, my, look at them coming. Won't you come?...?... God bless you, brother. Oh, that's marvelous. Come right ahead. All of you today that needs, come right here. Gather around the altar in an old fashion altar call. Now, everybody together now while we sing. Come right on down. We'll get down here with you people. I believe God will save everybody that's unsaved...?...
... now to believe; "Almost per..."
Come right down this way, brother, so I can see you just in a moment. Won't you come now?
... to receive; Seems now some soul to say, "Go, Spirit, go Thy...
God bless you, young lady. That's right. Come right on in.
... most...
Christians, pray, everywhere now. Everybody not stirring, less you're coming to the altar.
... on Thee I'll call."
Friends, God is here. He's calling for you. If you're backslidden, come on. You need God, come on. This is the time. Make your calling now. What a wonderful time to know right in this revival you were saved, resurrected in by the Holy Spirit here...?...
... Oh turn not away; Jesus... (Come down to the altar. That's... ...?... dear Lord, Angels are lingering near, Prayers rise from hearts so dear; O wand'rer, come.

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Won't you come now? People coming. Just think, what if you could step over and open up the gates of hell and look down in there. There's a people set right on them same benches where you set. Yes, sir...?... They had the same opportunity that you have. Mothers and daughters are weeping. Fathers and mothers holding each other's hands. Won't you come? You're invited now, Christian, today. We believe that the Holy Spirit's going to fall in here in a few minutes. It's a great... Isn't this wonderful? Can't you feel that, friends, that heavenly atmosphere around the people now? Angels of God mingling near.
Won't you come? This is the hour... You've always wanted to be saved, haven't you? This is the time to fulfill the things that you've promised God. Remember when He took the baby? Whenever it died, or some of them, you said, "I'll be a Christian." You haven't fulfilled that yet, won't you come on down? Take your stand. Come on now while we gather around, everyone. Everyone, backsliders, and sinners, gather around the altar now for an old fashion altar call. Christians, pray now. Reach to somebody setting near you. Ask them if they're a Christian. Say, "Come on down at the altar." We want those who are backslidden. Here's many of the Spanish standing around, Indians.
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Oh, Jesus is concerned about this. What's this meeting been going on for? What's the Supernatural showed? Here He is. He's here now. Hear me, believe me. Everybody that'll come here believing, will be saved right now if you'll just come. The doors of mercy is open now. In the morning may be too late for you. Won't you come? How many here has not received the Holy Ghost, let's see your hands, that wants the baptism? A few of you, walk right down...?... Come right down the aisles. Come right on down. Won't you believe He will...?... give you the Holy Ghost now? Without being born again you're lost. That's--that's right. Come right on down the aisle. How wonderful. Christian, get your sinner friend, come up around the altar here where...?... one of the greatest times that you've ever witnessed, I believe.
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Here comes a poor boy walking on crutches. God bless you, boy. Have faith in God. Give your life to Him right here. Throw your old crutches away and walk out without them. God will heal you while you're standing there. Come near now, you that has a need of Him. Oh, my. Just look now, coming down the aisles...?... Gathering in closely everybody now. I believe God is going to pour the Holy Spirit upon this building here in a few minutes. The Glory of God will be falling. People will be coming through with the baptism. Sinners will be saved, backsliders returned. It's here. Walk up, dear friends, a little closer. Come a running...?... Now's the time. Sinners, ask God to forgive you. Raise up your hands and say, "Lord, have mercy on me, a sinner, for Christ said it." Oh, my. Here it is all over the building, everywhere now. Hallelujah. Thank you, Jesus. O God, baptize them with the Holy Ghost. Forgive these sinners of their sins, Lord. Return faith that they'll...?... the glory of Jesus.
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Recently she had sent one of those handkerchiefs to her sister for her little baby that had a clubbed foot. And she told the lady; she said, "You tie the handkerchief on its foot, and the Lord is going to heal it." So she left the handkerchief on about two weeks, and it got so dirty. And she said, "You can wash it, and then put it back on." So she did, and the handkerchief got--getting kind of old and worn. She said, "Well, there's no difference in the baby's foot." Said, "I guess I might as well take it off." And she said, "Oh, don't you do that." Said, "If it comes to pieces, you tie it with strings, then tie it back on there." She said, "Because I know that it will get well." She'd seen so many things done in the meetings.
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And the woman did that--or, she just had a few strings of that handkerchief tied on the baby's foot. And one morning, she went to get the baby, and the Lord had been there that night. And the baby's foot was straight. And she brought the baby to the meeting to show, and brought the
strings that was left on the handkerchief, and had the baby's picture before and where it was then, how the little baby's foot was clubbed in like that, a little baby about eight or ten months old, and there was the little baby's foot just as normal as any other baby. Now, what if she just throwed the handkerchief away and say... Well, that's where we miss the blessings. We're afraid to wait on God just a little bit. See, see? You've heard that, "Only wait. Again I hear that whisper. Only wait. It won't be very long. Even now the Father's hand is pleading. Soon with Jesus we will sing the victory song." That's right. Just wait on God. Believe it, confess it, stay with it; and God will bring it to pass for you.
Which... I'd be happy to send, write to you, do anything that I-I could. And if you ever want me to have a personal letter, just write on it, "Personal," and my secretary won't even open it. He will wait till I get home, or send it to me where I am. If anything that I can do to help you, I'll be glad. Now, if it's anything concerning the religious idea, I'd rather you'd ask your pastor, because I don't--I don't like to do that (See?), 'cause I'm out here praying for the sick. And you take your local pastor and something like that. If there's anything that I can help otherwise, I will be glad to do it.
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Now, I believe I have covered everything that I know of, of thanking you dear people for all that you've done. And now, may God be with you. And I want to read just some Scripture a little bit. And then we're going to start the prayer line, and we're going to expect our heavenly Father to do exceedingly, abundantly, above all that we could even...?... Aren't we? That's what we want Him to do tonight, is to do the great, the impossible things to do, to make all these sick people well. And I want you to do this for me tonight. This is a strenuous time, great anticipations. And dear Christian friends, from all my heart, I--I tried just hard as I could in this meeting. I've watched...?... over these wheelchairs, night after night. There's only been two or three of them that's been healed. I've watched. Usually I try to call somebody that's not on a wheelchair when I'm talking about their diseases, 'cause anyone could look at the person in a wheelchair and know what's wrong with them. That's not a mystery. But every time that I'm talk to the person a little bit, then watch them, I see what's their trouble. But then it wou--it wouldn't be right for me to say that they were healed. God wouldn't respect me if I--if I didn't tell the truth. You see? And they wouldn't be healed. When I see them healed, then I say it.
And I want all you people suffering here... There's people laying here on cots and stretchers, probably with arthritis, and all twisted up or bound up. And some of them laying here in chairs, and people leaning on canes, and crutches, all along here. I want you people to do this for me tonight: I want you to pay real close attention to what I'm going to say in a few minutes. And then I want you to accept my word and believe me. Will you do it? And just... Don't think that your case is too hard. What is a hard case with our Lord? When I... With my Bible here can testify of three people that I know has died and passed into eternity; some--one of them even pronounced dead by the doctor and gone on, their loved ones had done gathered; and it's alive tonight. See? It's alive. And cases of... You take your cancer. You take your cancers when they're eaten up, the flesh is all gone away, and they've been eaten up. And here they are tonight.
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A lady came in not long ago, her boy is an exterminator at Texarkana. I was down in, I believe it was at Dallas where we was having a meetings. And she came through the line, she had her handkerchief up like this. And she was trying to hold my coat. It was a... We was having what we used to have, the fast line. She was holding my coat. And she... I thought she was weeping. I took a hold of her hand. And there, a big cancer begin hitting, hearing, it makes a funniest kind of "thrrrr, thrrrr" [Brother Branham illustrates.--Ed.] And I held her hand. I said, "Sister, do you know you got cancer?" And she dropped her handkerchief down, and her nose was eaten off. And she said, "Yes, sir. I've been being treated at Memphis, Tennessee," said, "for a long time. My doctors give me up," a young lady about thirty-eight, forty years old, maybe just a little older. And I said, "Well, that... Do you believe?" And she said, "Reverend Branham..." She herself was a pastor. And she said, "I have... Ever since I've heard of your meetings," she said, "I've always said, 'If I could just attract you're attention to get you to know that I want you to ask God for me to be healed, I'd get well.'" And I said, "Bless your heart, sister. God will surely reward you for that."
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And one night, about two or three months after that, here come a young fellow running up through the building. He said, "Brother Branham..." Asked me if I knew this lady he had by his arm. And I said, "No, I don't believe I do." It was his young mother. And she wasn't only healed, she had her a nose. And so she said, "When it started, just...?... quit hurting that
very night." And said that one morning when she got up and looked (she had a cloth over it) in the mirror... Why, her children was excited and everything. The flesh was growing back. And she didn't only have a healed nose, but another nose that growed out to where that one had been eaten. And she went to testify to her doctor. Now, listen to this. She went to testify, said, "Don't you remember me?" Said, "Yes, but what's happened?" Said, "Well, I've changed doctors." And she... He said, "Well, who's your doctoring with now?" And said, "I'm doctoring with Doctor Jesus." And said... You know what that doctor asked her now? Think of this. He said, "I don't believe I ever heard of Him. Where's His practice at?" Would you... "Where's He in practice at?" She said, "In glory." That's--that is right.
Now, dear friends, those things are not made. I'll give you name and address. You can write and look at the woman yourself. And oh, thousands of cases. Now, if only one case could be definitely proven to be healed, that would prove that God was a Healer. Is that right? How many in here's been healed by Divine healing, let's see your hands. Just look. Seeing that we're compassed about with such a great crowd of witnesses (See?), now let's believe Him with all of our heart tonight. And then I want you tonight to do this: to accept Him as your Healer. If you're blind, crippled, or got heart trouble...
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Now, the worse thing there is, the quickest thing, and one that kills more people than anything else is heart trouble. Number two is-is cancer. Number three is tubercular. And those are the three major enemies of the human race here in America. Now, looky here. I see people here, old mothers leaning on their crutches. I see them setting in wheelchairs, and the poor little fellow setting here all drawed up. And I... Why, he wants to be up and be well. I look at an old dad setting out there drawed with arthritis. And he's weeping now, looking at me. He wants to be well. But those people may live an ordinary lifetime just in their afflictions; they suffer much until arthritis gets at a certain stage, and then it's-it's painless. All the bones run together.
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Now, but, friends, but they live maybe several years. But a man with a heart trouble or a cancer's got to have some help right now, or he's going to die right now. See? And so now, I want tonight, being that you've seen so many things, I want these people on these stretchers, and wheelchairs, and on
crutches, and supports; I want you... I'm going to pray God will give us a prayer line in a few minutes, and start praying for the sick and-and the afflicted. And if--if your prayer card is called (Amen.), when you come up here at the platform, I want you to believe with all your heart that you're going to get up from that chair, or cot, or stretcher, or whatever it is, and get off of this platform and walk off of here well. See? Now, I will not... I cannot tell you whether you will or not, but I can only say what He tells me to say. And if you'll do what He says, then you'll be all right. If you... If I ask you to--to get up, you get up. I don't care how bad you're crippled, you get up. Just make your effort. Stop... Start and watch what happens. See? I've never seen it fail. And I won't tell you till He tells me.
Now, I asked you people the first night that I come here, that if these signs didn't take place down through the meetings, the speakers of the people's hearts, things that they'd forgotten for years, the diseases showed, and all like that, perfectly, everyone perfectly; then you say that... If I... If that didn't happen, then you could say I was a false prophet. But if it did happen, I said, "Give God glory." Is that what I said? Now, I want to ask you, has it happened? If it has, be honest, raise your hands if it's happened, if you've seen them things take place. Thank you. How many's here for your first time, let's see your hand? People's here for your first time? Just look at them here for their first time. Now, how many here will testify to those people that's here, by raising up your hands, that those things really happened. Let's see your hands. Now, you first time people, look. You'll see the discernment, tell the people what was wrong, tell them the things of their life.
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Now, sometimes I have to hurry right through sometimes, just so It gets three or four or five things to the person that--that they know back. If you set down and talk, just as long as you're talking, that vision will keep moving. And then you... When It stops, then if you want... start again, just keep talking, It'll start again. I have no control of It. And now, I'm testifying that myself, I--I'm the least among you. You heard my "Life Story" this afternoon, and you know that I--what I've had to come through. And I'm--I'm the least among you. But I am very thankful for the opportunity to represent my Master before His children. See? That's right. God bless you. I want to read some of the Word now. And we'll go to the service just in a moment. I want to read from the 4th chapter of Saint Matthew, to begin with the 23rd verse.
And Jesus went about all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues... preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing all manner of sickness and all manner of disease among the people. And his fame went throughout all Syria: and they brought unto him all the sick people that were taken with divers diseases and torments, and those which were possessed with devils, and those which were lunaticks, and those that had the palsy; and he healed them. And there followed him a great multitude of people from Galilee... and from Jerusalem, and Judaea, and from beyond Jordan. Now, just for a--a brief moment's talk, I'd like to take this for a text. In the 17th chapter of Saint John, the 1st verse. Jesus... These words spoke Jesus, and lifted up his eyes unto heaven, and said, Father, the hour is come;...
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Can we bow our heads. Our heavenly Father, solemnly, reverent, we bow our hearts to You just now to thank You for this great meeting that we're now coming near to the end, and ask of Thee to make this the climax, the great climax that many... Not only many, but that all the people who are setting present that's sick, or possessed with foul spirits, that they may be delivered tonight, and that You might receive glory. Father, I thank Thee for the ministers, my brethren, that's sitting here with me tonight to lend their faith in this healing line as I pray for the sick. And I pray that Your Spirit, the Angel of God, Whose servant I am, may come tonight and vindicate His great Presence to be here and make it an outstanding time, that the people may never fear no more; but to know that the supernatural great God of Heaven is here among people, and is now working among His children, that they may... If they start to do anything wrong, that they will know that there's an all-seeing eye watching them; and if they would do something right, know that there's a heavenly Father watching them Who will in return give them a reward. For we reap as we sow. Now, Lord, I pray Thee with my whole heart, soul, and mind that You will make this meeting a great blessing, and may the people understand these few words. And I pray that You'll circumcise the lips of Your servant and the hearts of Your people, that I may speak the right thing and they may hear and believe. For we ask it in Jesus' Name. Amen.
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Now, let us all, for just a--of this next part of the service now, and the prayer line, let's just settle down, all around the outside. And I thank you young people for your fine behavior or--or at the tent. And now, here's your mothers and dads. If they're not yours they're
somebody's that love them just as well as you love yours. And they're wanting to get well. And I'm trying to do all that I can to help them to be well. And I'd appreciate anything that you all would do for my mother if she was sick or in need. And I know that you'll feel the same way towards me.
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And now, everyone listen as close as you can, and--and believe with all your heart. Now, I'm not a speaker, and I don't aim to preach. That's right. But I just want to speak a few words so that your faith will not fail you now. Now, we'll talk for a moment about gifts. The gifts of God has always been on the earth. Many times, God couldn't find anybody to put them on. But listen closely. God never takes His Spirit from the earth. God will take His man from the earth, but never His Spirit. Did you know that? The Spirit that was upon Elijah came upon Elisha (Is that right?) in a double portion. Came on down in John the Baptist. Is that right? So God never takes His Spirit, He takes His man. He taken His Son up to heaven, sent back His Spirit. And He promised that He would be with us to comfort us unto the end of the world.
Now, I want you to notice that it's the same Holy Spirit that was in the days of the apostles, are here--is here now (present tense), in this meeting working among the people. Now, it behooves us to realize this: that it isn't your brother, I. It is your Lord, Jesus, Who is here. And we're all representatives of His. Now, we know that's the truth. Do you believe that's true? Now, that His Holy Spirit is here, and He's just as willing, and He can work through the people as the people will let Him work. Do you believe that? Now, there was many things that Jesus Himself could not do because of unbelief. Is that right? Many things He could not do. We hate to think that, but He could not do it because of their unbelief.
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Now, the right mental attitude... All you along here, do you understand what I mean when I say, "The right mental attitude?" That's... Your right mental attitude towards God's Divine promise will bring any promise to pass. Now, maybe you don't believe that. You say, "Well, my faith is weak." I wouldn't confess it. See? Don't let the devil know that. Always say, "I've got good faith. I believe God with all my heart." See? Don't testify nothing of the devil. And when you accept Him as your Healer, don't never act like you're sick or crippled any more. Believe that you're healed. Take Him at His
Word. Then it's all over on God then and not on you. See? You... As long as you take God at His Word, then the Word will produce what It promised to do. Is that right? Now, have faith, believe Him with all your heart.
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Now, Jesus here was speaking, He said, "Father, the time has come." Now, there's seasons for everything. Do you believe that? You sow in a certain season, and you reap in a certain season. And there's seasons when the time comes that's right for things to happen. Do you believe that? The time came one time for God to destroy the world with water. And He sent a man by the name of Noah. And God got the world ready for judgment. And He taken... The time came for Noah to go into the ark. Look. Noah could not go into the ark before God was ready for him to go. But when the season came for Noah to go into the ark, God shut the door behind Noah. Is that right? All the opportunities for anyone else to ever enter, it was gone, because that God had closed the door. And there's coming a time when God's going to close the door for every one of you. Do you believe that? A man, certainly, can sin away his day of grace. Do you believe it? If--if--if someone... Take hold of that here. Some of the ministers go out there and pray with them, if you will. Bring them out to the side there. Probably someone fainted; it's so hot in the building. And take them out there so they can pray with them, a couple of the ministers.
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Now, look this a way, friends. This is the Word of God. If you're concerned about being healed, listen to what I'm saying. See? Listen to me. Satan made that person sick, certainly, to attract your attention to get away from what I'm trying to tell you. That's his business. And I'm determined tonight, by the grace of God, to see God's great hand move in here no matter what takes place. And then--and I want you to listen to me, so watch this a way. Give me your attention. And now, if you will just only believe and take God at His Word.
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Now, notice. When the time came for Noah to go into the ark, the doors closed; but they would not close until that time came. It can--came time one time for the children of Israel to be delivered from--from the Egyptian bondage. And when the time of the promise drew nigh, there raised up a Pharaoh who did not know Joseph. Why? The season was there. They'd respected Israel till that time. But the season was there for no more respects that God could shower down His judgments upon the people. The time had come.
One time, the Hebrew children, when they were carried over in Babylon... Listen. The time came when they had to stand for what was right. The king made a--a proclamation. And he said that whosoever will not bow down to this image shall be throwed in the fiery furnace. The time came for Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego to show their colors, their faith in God. So they turned their back to the image. They said, "Our God is able to deliver us from this fiery furnace. But nevertheless, we'll not bow down to any of their images." There it was. It was time, the season was there. So then the time came that when he was going to throw them into the fiery furnace, burn that religion out of them.
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That's what the devil tries to do all the time--burn you up on something, make you sicker when you're prayed for, make you think you've lost your experience with God. He's a lying to you. The time comes when you have to stand on God's Word. Stand alone. But when that time comes, stand there. There's got to be a time when you've got to separate yourself between your feelings and your faith. That's the time it is tonight. The time comes that when these Hebrew children had to seal their testimony by a fiery furnace. I can see them that morning. Let's look immediately. I can see them that morning. There'd come a great time in Babylon. The king said, "Now, look. We've got some fanatics down here. And they're 'causing us a little trouble with their religion. So we'll just build a furnace fire over there, and heat it seven times hotter than it ever was het. And we'll burn that out of them."
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Could you imagine burning the Holy Ghost out of a man? Can't be done. Notice. I can see the king set himself upon a throne. His...?... hour ti--time came. They bound these Hebrew children, put them in front of a stair and started walking up a platform that they were to fall into this great furnace. I can hear Shadrach say to Meshach, "Say, did you... sure you prayed through?" Sometimes when Satan puts the heat on, we have to stop and check up. "Lord, do I truly believe You?" I can hear Shadrach say, "Yes, it's all prayed up now." The...?... said, "You want to take that back, boy?" "Nope. We're willing to seal our testimony with our own life. We're ready now." I can hear king Nebuchadnezzar say, "Now, if you'll bow down to the image, I'll take it back." "No. We've took our way with the Lord's despised few. I'm going through with it." The time was for decisions, just a few minutes left.
Many of you are setting here tonight in that same condition: heart trouble, bound in these chairs, and on these crutches and things. Just a few minutes left in this meeting. Make your decisions. The time has come for you to do it. Either you've got to believe what I've said to be the truth, and what God has wrote in His Bible; or walk away in the same condition. But the time has come. I can hear him say, "All right. Walk them on up." The heat begin to get a little bad. Don't worry. If you accept Him tonight as your Healer, Satan will put the heat on you tomorrow. Don't you worry about that. Yes, sir. They started walking a little farther, and I can hear him say, "Are you sure you're prayed up?" "Yep." "All right." Got right up the steps to about one step. They begin to feel fainty, like they was going in. In a few minutes, I can see these guards with their spears ready to push them over into the fiery furnace that was het seven times hotter than it ever was het.
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Notice. We're painting an awful dark picture down here. Let's turn our camera up this way once. Oh, my. Always when there's anything going on down here, there's something going on up there also. There's always two sides to it, you know. When Satan's on the job, Jesus is also. Ever who you yield your faith to, that's the way it's going. Give it to Christ. Let's look up this way. You know, I can see Him setting up there in His majesty. His priestly robes draped around Him, looking down. I see coming to His right a great Angel. His name's Gabriel, great Archangel. He comes running up, pulls His sword. He said, "Master, have You looked down in Babylon? Your people's taking a stand for You down there. The hour has come for them to stand, and they're taking a stand. But that bunch of people there is going to push them into that fiery furnace. And let me go down there. I'll clean that thing up." I believe He could've done it. Yes, sir. He said He will give His Angels charge over these. And I believe the Angels of God are encamped about those who fear Him.
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I can hear Gabriel say, "I'll go down there, and I'll strike Babylon off the map if You'll let me go down there. Have You considered them?" I can hear the Master say, "Yes, Gabriel. You're a wonderful Angel. You've obeyed Me, and set at My right-hand ever since the day that I created You. But I can't let You go. Just can't let You go." Then I see coming this way comes another Angel. You know, God's got Angels in heaven at His command. I can see another one coming
up, look at Him, He rushes up. He's called Wormwood. He falls down. He has controls of all the waters. I can hear Him say, "Master, down in Babylon Your children has took a stand, and they're going to throw them in the fiery furnace this morning. They're almost there. And I've stood by Your side since You created me. I have the controls of the water. In the antediluvian destruction, I broke up the springs of the deep, I swept over the earth and destroyed the whole world with water. Let me go down there this morning. I'll wash her off the face of the earth." I believe He could've done it, don't you? I can hear Him say, "Can't let You go. You've been a good Angel, but I can't let You go.
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"Have You considered them?" "Yes. All night long I've been watching them." Brother, His eye's on the sparrow, I know He watches me. He's watching you. He's seeing how much faith you got, how much you got, how much you got. He wants to see what kind of a stand that you'll take. That hour has come now. What are you going to do? He said, "I've watched them all night long. I heard every prayer they prayed. You Angels has been good Angels, but I can't let You go, for I'm going Myself." Amen. I can see Him rise from His seat; the priestly robes drop around Him. I can see Him say, "Come here, east wind, west wind, north, and south." Everything obeys Him. I can hear Him say, "Get over here," that big white thunderhead out yonder where it's at. I can see Him roll up to His throne, step over on there. Oh, my. Reach up and get a hold of a zig-zag lightning, pass by the Tree of Life and pick off a pine. "What's the matter?" "I'm going to Babylon this morning. My children has took a stand. I'm taking a stand too."
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My, my. About that time Shadrach and a Meshach, and Abednego went down into the fiery furnace taking their faith--final stand for the Lord. And about the time they got into the fire, there was a fourth Person like the Son of God standing there fanning away the breezes down there. Oh, my. His eye is on the sparrow. If He would come all the way from glory to Babylon for three children, how much more will He come to Phoenix tonight for all of those who are setting here bound. The hour has come. Father, the hour has come. The hour has come for you. You're going to make your decision now.
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The hour come for some more boys one time, about four of
them setting at gate. The Syrians had besieged Jerusalem, or Samaria. And they didn't know what to do. And they were covered with leprosy; they couldn't go in. They were outside the gate. They said, "Why do we set here until we die?" Amen. "Why set we here until we die?" In this city, they were boiling one another's children and eating them. You remember the case. The Syrians was camped all around, starving them to death. There was only two roads. They said, "If we go in the city, there's nothing to eat there. And if we set here, we'll surely die." Many of you are setting in the same place tonight. You've went to the doctor. He's done all he could do for you. If you return, he can't do no more; he's done told you so. So why do you set there till you die? They only had one opportunity. If they go down to the enemy's camp, if they spare them, they'd live. But if they killed them, they'd just going to die anyhow. They was going to die setting there. So they was willing to take the chance. We'd call it a starvation committee formed right away. They come to a quick decision.
You must have it the same way tonight, a quick decision, now. Choose you this day Who you'll serve. Take God at His Word. The Word's been preached; the signs has been done; the Holy Ghost is here; the time... The hour has come for a decision made amongst the people. What more can God do? Sent it down with signs and wonders, discernments, proved it scientifically, put it on a picture, sent it across the world. Thousands times thousands are witnessing. Others are being healed. What about you? They arose in the middle of the night and started down towards, walking by faith towards the host of the Syrians. And God honored their faith. And He caused a great storm to come on the desert, a roar, run all the Syrians away. They went right on in. They got plenty to eat, got some wine, got happy. My, and they didn't only save their own life, but they saved the whole city. There's a lot of sick people here with heart trouble, lot with tubercular, and lot was bound in chairs. Why, don't you tonight, why do you set there till you die? The hour has come for you to make a decision, now. God can't do no more about it, it's up to you. You've got to make the decision. "Why do we set here till we die?"
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And look, you're not invited to go down, and you don't have to go down to an enemy's camp. You come to a Father's house where He's expecting you tonight. He wants you to come. He sent His Son; He died; He put the deposit in there for your healing. And the hour has come for you to make your decision, now. Amen. The hour has come. There was a little woman setting one time with a blood issue for many years. The blood was flowing from her, and she couldn't get it
stopped. She spent all of her living with the doctors, and they couldn't do no good. And she said within her heart, "If I could only see that Man, and touch to the border of His garment, I'll get well."
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The hour finally arrived. They heard a noise down there, a boat just landed. Here come the little woman, my, trying to get through to Him. What was it? The hour was there; her opportunity was there. And here she comes, pressing right on through the crowd. Them old people saying, "Go back. They'll put you out of the temple." She pressed right on. She didn't stop for any of them. Some of them said, "The days of miracles is past." That didn't stop her. She pressed on. The hour had come for her to touch. That was all. She'd go right between their feet, anyway she could get until she got her heart's desire. She touched the border of His garment. And immediately (Amen.) the blood issue stopped. The hour had come. Amen. The hour has come. Wished we just had a little time on that, but I've got to stop now.
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Look. The time has come now where you've got to make a decision. I put this challenge to anybody to accept God's Word, no matter what's wrong with you, if you'll make your heart right with God, and promise God that you'll serve Him, and then take Him at His Word. Don't pay no attention to the results you have then, just believe, and God will bring it to pass. "Whatsoever things you desire, when you pray believe you receive them and they shall be given to you." You shall have them if you believe you receive them. You see what I mean? The hour is here. "Father," said Jesus, "the hour has come... or, the time has come." The time has come when the world's full of scoffers, like the Bible said it was: heady, high-minded, lovers of pleasure more than lovers of God, truce breakers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good. The time has come. The time has come when the signs should follow the believers. The time has come for the Church to move up or go back. You have to make your decision. Isn't that right? The time has come.
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And the time's come now for this revival to--to come to a close. And dear Christian brother, sister, with all my heart's love for you, I don't know how our Lord Jesus could do anything else to bring your faith to where you should be healed. Is that right? Remember, in the days of His ministry, He passed by hundreds and hundreds of people, twisted, blind, and everything, and walked right on by them, because they didn't have faith to be healed. He said... Walked right by the Pool of Bethesda where great multitudes was laying there, lame, halt, blind, and healed one man that had an
infirmity for thirty-eight years, and passed the group on by. Is that right? Saint John 5. And they questioned Him. He said, "Why, the Son can do nothing but what He sees the Father doing. And whatsoever things that the Father doeth, He showeth the Son. The Son can do what the Father has already done." Now, what happens? The person believed. They believed. They accept it. And then God shows the vision to His Son, His Son reveals it. And He said, "Now, these things that I do shall you also, and greater, for I go unto My Father." Is that right? Now, them same signs and wonders are here. We've just got to close, 'cause it's getting late. I'm sorry that I've been this long.
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Now, look, dear friends, again tonight the hour is here now. The time is come for a decision. The time has come when I've got to call a number of people. My little boy said, "I just filled both pockets full of cards, daddy, and just give them out everywhere." All right. I want you all to--to be ready now to be healed. I believe with all my heart that God is going to help you. What do you think about it, lady, for that baby. Do you believe that with all your heart? Do you believe, little boy, would you here. You do? What about you, lady, you believe with all your heart? And you there, do you believe? You do; I know you do. Do you believe with all your heart? You do? Down through that way, do you believe with all your heart?
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Now, look. You do this: you do... This time... Paul said, "Be a follower of me as I follow Christ." If the Spirit of God, Who came to me that night and said that I was born in this world to pray for sick people (See?), that I was to pray for sick people all over the world. (I'm making one of the... a tour that'll practically cover the world now.) And He told, that as I pray for sick people, don't... Didn't say nothing else about it. The Bible said, "If they lay hands on the sick they shall recover." Jesus sent His Word, and He healed the sick in many ways. Then when I questioned, told Him that they wouldn't believe me, He said, "You'll be given two signs as the prophet Moses was given two signs." Now, that wasn't easy thing for me to say, because it was... I had to take that Angel at His Word. And I took Him at His Word. And He's confirming the same.
And as well as I love you people here, and wish that I seen and know you're near to us, and coming here that's been sick and
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laying out here in these... in sunny slopes, and around trying to get rid of tubercular and diseases, how I... My heart goes for you, how that I want to see you well. Now, please believe this tonight, if Jesus Christ were here, if He'd stand right here and offer prayer for this entire crowd, and you would everyone believe it with one accord, God would heal every person in the building. He will do it.
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Now, I'm going to ha--have--I'm going to have a prayer line, call up some people and pray for them. I don't know, I'm just going to do what the Lord tells me to do tonight. I don't know how to...?... How many wants to be prayed for, let's see your hands? My, my. Many, many hundreds. Now, look, dear friends, I--I'm... I wished I could just come down and take each one of you here at the platform, stand you up here. I realize that brings faith. Certainly it does. That brings faith. When you're told of your troubles and so forth, and sometimes things back in your life, and things that you've done. That does. But just as God has on these here that'd be on the platform, He has the same attitude towards you out there. Don't you believe that? Now, everybody be reverent. How many's going to believe with all heart, and be praying out there that God will heal you? All right. I believe that He will now.
Let's bow our heads. The sister or brother, whoever is playing there, I want you to play "Abide With Me" just now, if you will. I just feel the Angel of the Lord is near now. Our heavenly Father, we love Thee tonight, dear Jesus. We love Thee so much. Thou did first love us and gave Thyself for us. And now, tonight, here's the purchase of Your Blood here before me, many poor, sick, crippled up people. And I know, Lord, that if You don't help, there'll be many of them won't be here in a few days. They'll have to pass beyond the veil. Save them, Father, now I pray. If they be not Christians, save them, that You would take them home to glory. And Father, I pray that somehow, that while I am ministering by Thy Spirit tonight to Your people, that they will see and believe with all their hearts; and may this be a great night. Father, I pray for these here that's--that's bound on these chairs, and crutches, and stretchers, and cots. And, Lord, them people that's really sick, You know every one of them. Give me favor before them, will You, Lord? that they might just say, "Well, I--I'm going to... I'm going to take his Word for it." Lord, I'm trying to tell them it's Your Word, not mine. Grant, Father, tonight, that great things may be accomplished for the glory of Thy Son, Christ Jesus. For we ask it in His Name. Amen.
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All right. Billy Paul in? What? What you... How many'd you give out? Hundred? What's the letter? All right. I'll tell you what let's do, beginning with--with Z. Z was the letter that they give out today. Each day we give out so many... Then all I don't get, Brother Hall and them gets them the next day and prays for them all. And then each night, we give out a-a new group of cards. If you will, just continue play that while I'm praying for the sick, if you will, sister. I just love that piece, don't you? "Abide With Me." God grant that He will abide with us.
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Now, I want all you people in here, out there, wherever you are, I want... Now, if your prayer card is, or, is called, I want you to-to line up. And if it isn't: until it's called, just hold your place and wait. Be reverent. And then, just keep praying. Just keep praying. And say, "God, I believe everything that's been said. I believe Your Word. I believe It with all my heart. And I believe Brother Branham's told me the truth, and I'm going to believe that I'm going to be healed and well, right now." And now, to the--to the rest of you that's around, out through the outside, remember now, let me make this, 'cause this is really lawful that I do this. I'm not responsible for critics, 'cause these diseases go right from one to another. You know that... How many knows that to be true? Been in other meetings and seen... They'll go right from one to another. So now, remember, cancer, or whatever it might be, or epileptic, or something, coming into the line, it's... If you don't be reverent, I--I will not be responsible. And you might bring the patient to the platform, but if it's an irreverent spirit, it--it certainly won't come out. That's right. 'Cause He said, "If you get the people to believe you," then I have the authority from my heavenly Father to ask and believe that He will do it. But if the person's been irreverent, I have no authority, no faith for it at all. See? It's those who have reverence. So let's... What was that? Would you please pray for...?... now...
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Will everybody be in prayer now? Let's just begin out there. Let's begin with the number-1, and start from number-1 and line up over here. Number-1 prayer card. Fine. Then Z-number-2, number-3, number-4, number-5, on down, number-6, number-7, number-8. How many can you put down there, Brother Sharritt? About ten or fifteen, line up down there somewhere. All right, everybody reverent. Take ten first, so you won't get them all... everybody have to stand a long time, 'cause seldom we ever get over that. Yes. Yes, sir. Thank you, brother. All right...?... Billy, check all these along here. Some of them are hard hearing and things. Look
along on these and see if--if any of these crippled people here's got them. If they have, then you pick them up ever where they're at. Z-1 to 10 or 15, somewhere along in there. Check all them.
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I've been calling here two or three nights, and I've been wanting to see someone get up here, and I... Maybe that's selfish. Maybe I oughtn't to do that now, maybe God forgive...
Be really reverent, and be respecting with all your heart now. All right. Now, some of the... If they got... Did I get too many up there? Okay. We... Sometimes we... It's--it's slow, and have to wait just a little bit. And tonight, of course, it's going to be a little strange. My minister brothers setting here on the platform, and I'll be conscious of that; they're men of God.
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But do you realize... Looky here, friends, from this side's coming spirits, from this side's coming spirits, here's coming spirits, and here's coming spirits. Mighty easy to get mixed up. Don't you think so? It is. We even have... You notice, of a night time, I usually turn the patient around this a way to talk to them. You know what that is? Get my back to you all. See? That's true. And I want you to... As you're standing here tonight, a praying. Down there in the prayer line, I want to ask every one of you if you believe with all your heart that God's going to make you well? Do you believe it? All your heart? All right.
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Come ahead, brother. Come here, sir. Are... You believe with all your heart? Do you believe that Jesus Christ, the Son of God... that He died to make you a whole person? Do you believe that I am His servant? All right...?... You got several things wrong with you. One thing, your eyes are going bad...?... What it is, is a hardening. The eyeballs are becoming hard. The--the nerve in the eye is becoming hard. That's what's doing that now. As I...?... Now, do you believe if I will ask Him, my brother, that He will grant your request? Well, you believe that? All right, let's bow our heads everywhere. Dear heavenly Father, the Author of Life and the Giver of every good gift, send Thy blessings upon the man and heal him. May he receive his blessings just now, go off the platform and be well, for we ask it in the Name of Thy Son, Jesus Christ. Amen. All right, brother. Go home...?... Let us say, "Praise be to God." Now, everyone reverent.
You brethren be in prayer, if you will. It makes it kind of... awfully hard. I'm not try... I'm so conscious, not... As you brothers believe, God know, you're believing. But you see, you're human beings. You got a spirit. And that spirit's moving every way like that. It's like...?... All right, lady. You come now. I want you to look right this a way, sister. I want you to believe me with all your heart. It's kind of a little hard. I can't get the anointing just the way that It should be. You see? And I--I want you to--to--to believe me. You know, many times our Master... Sometimes He took a man by the hand, and led him out of the crowd, and went outside the city, stood out there and talked to him. Remember that? See? One time, there was a whole bunch of people in, and they were weeping and all tore up, confused. And a little girl had just died. The people were all confused about it. And Jesus put every one out of the house, and took the mother and father with just some of His campaign men--Peter, James, and John--walked in the room, took the little girl by the hand, called her life back. You remember that?
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Well then, it was also practiced down by Saint Peter when Dorcas died. You remember that? The widows up there were all weeping, because that--that she'd been so kind to them. And Peter come in and seen them all tore up; he put them out of the house so he could find what God wanted to do. See? Well now, here it is. Hundreds of people setting there, wanting to get in that line. See? He's got them...?... See? And it makes it hard. And I'm just talking to you like the--the Master that talked to the woman at the well. Now, we're strangers, aren't we, sister. We don't know each other. We're strangers in life. If there's anything to be known of your life, it would have to come through the supernatural. Isn't that right?
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I--I believe that you're a Christian. I believe you're a Christian woman, and you have been for some time. You're--you're awfully nervous for one thing. As your nervousness is--type of nervousness, a worry nervousness. Isn't that right? You're awful person to take other people's troubles too, aren't you? You cross some bridges before you get to them and call it. Isn't that right? Now see, that always happens before... Something's blocking you like there, because you made plans, and it never comes out that way. You get in your mind something that's going to happen, and it doesn't, it just takes that way. Isn't that right? And you're... Now, it stopped on me just a moment. It's kind of hard. Now, everybody be in prayer, please.
Now, just look this a way, sister. I just want to talk to you (See?), just order to contact your spirit. I seen a vision coming up from a child, from a little girl. And I--I... It just... I have to speak it as it's coming (You see?), or I--I don't get it. Now, just keep praying.
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You're conscious that something's here, isn't It? You're conscious. It's the Spirit of the Lord. You believe it? Yes, ma'am. I see it coming back again now. Oh, yes, you--you have something... It's in your... No, it--it's your stomach, isn't it, that--you have stomach trouble. Isn't that right? Yes, ma'am. I--I see it's the foods and stuff that you can't digest right. Isn't that right. It's something like...?... that's caused you to have like a spasm in the stomach, 'gurgitation, sour, and your teeth become sensitive, cause you to have persistent headaches and things. Isn't that right? That is right. Is that true, sister? That wasn't me talking now. That was Something else talking. That's the Angel of the Lord. Do you believe me as His prophet? Would you obey me as His prophet? You go and eat anything you want to, your stomach trouble's going to be all right. You're healed now, sister. God bless you, sister, and may the Lord bless you.
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I felt another stomach trouble or something right in here, moving somewhere, just the same time she was healed. Now, just a moment. Them spirits sympathize one with another. That's right in this a way. I can tell it. I can see the two was crossing up. Somewhere there was a--cross up. Now, everybody be real reverent. Just reverent till I can see it again. Was that what it was, sister? God bless you, my sister...?... Aren't you one of these minister's wives. Didn't I meet you the other day? That's right. All right, you were believing for her. That was your faith, sister, that was pouring in. That's right. That's right.
All right, sister, you--you come forward here. Now, there's a minister's wife setting there. See, it's her faith, sister, brethren. You understand? It's your faith. You believe me. Just believe one time. Look. A minister testified at the meeting the other day that God said, "I do a work, though it be done by a man, yet, you'll not believe." See, I'm trying to say that it is not me. Your faith is what operates that. Without faith, there's nothing... You can't receive anything. The people who beat Him on the head with a stick and said, "Prophesy," there was no virtue at all for them. See? It's those who believe.
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Now, you're the patient. Now, I want you to kind of come over this way just a little bit, if you will. I want you to stand right there,
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and I want you to clear... Just let--let yourself be quiet. I just want to contact you... It's just a little difficult. See? You don't understand what I mean. Now, you are... We're strangers, aren't we? I've never seen you, knowingly. I--I don't know nothing about you. And we've just met here at this time. Now, the Holy Spirit is so timid, you know, very timid. And I must find favor with Him first. Now, brethren, you that's setting here to my right, now can you under... can you understand... feel what I'm speaking of? Now, that's the Angel of the Lord is coming to me now.
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Yes, your health hasn't been good for a long time, has it, sister? Of course, like the lady that just passed through, you're-you're nervous, extremely nervous. Your sight's not good. You're-you're near-sighted, aren't you, sister? Your sight, you don't see very good. You've been that way for some time, haven't you? And you... Now, I just... Just look this way. You--you remember when the Master was talking to someone? And He had a personal contact. He sent all of His disciples away, and a lady came out to the well. Is that right? You remember that? Yes. And He said one Word to her, "Go, get your husband." She said, "I have no husband." He told her she didn't. Isn't that right? You're a Christian believer. And you've been seeking God for a deeper walk with God too. And I seen you praying. Yeah, there it is. You've got stomach trouble too, haven't you? That's right. Go home. God blessed you, and you're healed, my dear sister. God blesses you. Let us say, "Praise the Lord." Everybody, real reverent. My, friends, you know the life that I take from a human.
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All right, come ahead, sister. Howdy do, sister. Of course, I can see you're wearing glasses, which is... No doubt you have something wrong with your eyes. But I just want to talk to you just a little bit...?... Do you believe with all your heart? Yeah, I believe that, sister. Yes, sir. You're good conscientious person. I believe that. What would you think that is that you feel at this time? Do you believe that's the Spirit of God that...? You--you believe it? It's like a reverence, isn't it, sister? You have complications, many things wrong with you. 'Course, this is your age. You've had an old trouble that's bothered you for a long time. You also have stomach trouble too.
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EXHORTATION.OF.DIVINE.HEALING_ LA.CA TUESDAY_ 51-0501 E-1 [Brother Hall speaks and introduces Brother Branham--Ed.]
God bless you. Good evening, friends. I'm very happy to be back in California again tonight with you people again. Thank you very much. [The congregation applauds--Ed.] Thank you kindly, and God bless you. I appreciate that. And it was quite a struggle this time a-coming back, not to come back to you, but under the circumstances now, it was kindly hard for me to get in, but I wanted to live true to my promise that I had promised you people. Being another meeting in the city, Mr. Freeman's meeting, and I knew nothing of it. And I was asked to cancel this meeting because of it. And after I had promised you I'd come back, I--I couldn't do that; I hope it doesn't hurt Brother Freeman...?... [The congregation applauds. A brother makes a statement concerning the meeting--Ed.] No, no, it wasn't. It was...
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I believe someone is... I know what is the place before it gets here; it's my birthplace, isn't it? Well, God bless you, sister. Are you the same lady that drawed the other? The same? You bring... What is your name? [Sister says, "Lujack."--Ed.] Lujack, it'll hang loveliest, in my room. I thank you so much. Thank you, sister, very much. God bless our sister. It's of my birthplace, she painted it. Amen. She painted it. Oh, my. Forty-two years ago, the sixth day of April, that's where God gave me my life on this earth, beginning at that place, in this little cabin here near Burkesville, Kentucky. And she's probably got the picture out of the book and painted it. And I certainly appreciate someone like that. Thank you very much, sister. God bless you. And may God have you a palace to live in when you cross the river on the other side, sister, is my prayer. I shall take this home, and it'll always be a treasure of mine as long as I live. I'll remember this memorial came from here. God bless you, sister.
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want one of those pictures too? That's the--Mr. Upshaw the--the Congressman that was healed. Now, this is on canvas, and it lasts on and on. And she gave me one the last time I was here of the Bible and the--and the hour. And I have it hanging in my room where all the sick that visit me comes to look at it like that. And I certainly appreciate that so much. I expect I have to take that down to my home place and show them down there and say it come from California.
Well, this is the beginning of another meeting, and I trust will even be a greater meeting than the other one was because of His glory. And I'm so happy to be here with you all again tonight. You won a place in my heart that--that'll always be. I thank you very much for your kindness. And now, we do not wish to be doubling a meeting here. And I was speaking of Brother Freeman's meeting. I--I've never met Brother Freeman, no doubt a real Christian gentleman. And I didn't know nothing about his meeting coming. And I just got a letter a few days ago just before--the day before I started out here, something about asking us if we could cancel this meeting. I set down, and I thought it over. And I thought, "Well, I promised those people I would be back. And if there's just... If I just spend few days, I'll keep my promise to someone who's kept their promise to me." And I--I appreciate your loyalty.
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And may God bless our Brother Freeman, give him a great meeting while he's in the city. And I know he's up against a whole lot by having a tent up and so forth. And I'll just do anything that I can to help his meeting along, for I--I love the brother and all our brethren that's out preaching the Gospel and trying to help get somebody in better health or--or get their soul right with God. There's nothing any greater than that, to try to help somebody along. And we trust that this--that our meeting won't interfere anything with Brother Freeman. And now, we are--start our regular services tonight. And we are--just don't have any set time. We're going on just as long as we can.
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I've got to go to Grant's Pass and then back over in another part of California. And then we go to Des Moines, Iowa, Sioux Falls, and from there to Cleve--Toledo, and then to Erie. And then I follow Billy Graham at Memphis, and--and then I guess from there to Shreveport, and then to Southern Rhodesia, Africa, and then up into India, and back to Jerusalem, and then back home again around Christmas if the good Lord is willing. I don't know; He may be here before that time. And I... We all want to meet up there (Don't we?), up in the air when we go up to meet Him in glory. And that's the great event that we're all looking for, isn't it? And you're... That's when we'll get together and have each so much time, that... We'll just have all eternity. We're in--in time now, but we'll soon go into eternity and then it'll be over for time space.
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Now, most all of you were in the other meeting, I suppose, and
I--I trust that you understand the--the operation of the way I have to pray for people. [A brother says, "A lot of new ones, Brother Branham."--Ed.] A lot of new people... That--that's... How many people that has never been in my meetings before, let's see your hands? Oh, my. That's-that's fine. Thank you for coming tonight, and I trust that our heavenly Father will do you good while you're here, that He'll do something for you that you'll love Him a little more than what you do now. And I trust that He will do that, and if my praying and asking Him will do it, well, I--I--I'm sure you'll get a blessing. Now, many of you has attended healing services, and many of our brethren have different ways to conduct them, and that's the way, perhaps, the Lord has told them to do it. And I--I have to conduct it in the way that the Lord has told me to conduct it. You see? And I'm...
Just had a lovely meeting at Phoenix about three weeks ago, and I come through there yesterday, day before yesterday, and was at one of the churches that while passing through, and my, the people are still being healed. And there was a lady had come that had a--a great goiter on her throat, and she'd gotten two or three prayer cards, but never had gotten in that meeting, in the prayer line to be prayed for. And but she was just believing anyhow. And one morning she'd gotten up and was doing something... Now, the lady may be setting present now for all I know, that was... And she felt something cool go through her, that she said, and the goiter had disappeared. There was no more of it at all, and it's...
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I--I know this, dear Christian, friends, that it's a noted fact that--that God is our Healer, and there's nothing that any man could do. And now, there may be some of you here from different churches that's--that's not full Gospel churches. Perhaps may be some of you are from churches who maybe doesn't practice Divine healing. If--if you are, I would just like to say these words to you, that we do not claim to have any powers to heal anyone, and no one has power to heal anyone. See? Healing is already purchased at Calvary. The only thing that we try to do is point the people to their redemptive blessings. See? Jesus redeemed us from our sickness when He died, and He redeemed us from our sins when He died. And it's... The work is complete. The thing we have to do is to accept it.
Now, we know many brethren has different ways. The main principal way of Divine healing is preaching the Word, so people could
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hear. Faith cometh by hearing, and hearing of the Word. And they preach Divine healing and prove it by the Scriptures that Jesus Christ died for our sickness when He died for our sins. And that is true. I believe that's undisputable with Bible scholars, that--that Jesus, when He come to destroy the works of the devil, He--that sickness is directly the work of the devil. It--it... We can't pin evil things on our heavenly Father, because evil can't come out of good. It--it has to... Good comes from good. And God is all good. There's nothing evil about our heavenly Father. And He's all good and Satan is the enemy.
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Now, sometimes, I will admit this, that our heavenly Father sometimes chastens us with sickness, permitting Satan to do it, to try us sometimes to--to bring us back. If we go out of the way, then our heavenly Father might let something happen to us to bring us back. But it'll only be for the good. See? The chastening of our Father is not pleasant for a season, but finally it brings... All things work together for good to them that love the Lord. And if I was way away from God and out of the will of our heavenly Father, why, if God would just... That He could do something for me and--and help me to come back, why, I would appreciate our heavenly Father, wouldn't you?
Now, this being the first night, I just want to talk just a little while to you till we get ourselves mainly in the... [Blank.spot.on.tape-Ed.]... as well in our churches, we know that. And then there's in Divine healing the full Gospel people, oh, I've seen many of them, being that this is a full Gospel church... Many times, I guess, that-that I'm no judge, but many times people maybe act like they just got the Holy Spirit, when really they haven't got It, because their-their life doesn't prove it. You see? That... It just isn't there. And they may shout like the rest of them, and they may make demonstrations like the rest of them, but if they don't live the life to back that up, then it's--it's not right. You see? It--it proves it.
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And someone ask me not long ago on that question. "Brother Branham, do you really think that they are shouting under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit?" I say, "Yes." You'd say, "Well, how could the Holy Spirit fall upon them, if it--and make them shout if they aren't the blessed of God?" Well, I believe Jesus, in Hebrews the 6th chapter, said that the rain come oft upon the earth to--to prepare it, to bless it and so forth. But in the field the sower went forth and sowed seeds and they were good seeds, but an enemy sowed thistles and thorns and so forth behind it, and when the rain fell upon a wheat field, why, it waters
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the thistles and thorns just the same as it does the rest of them. That's right. It's the same unction of the Holy Spirit. Sinners sometimes gets happy and free, but that still doesn't mean they're saved. You have to be borned again to be saved.
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Now, when the... Now, Jesus said let them grow together and at that day, as He spoke here in Hebrews 6, that the thorns and thistles which was in the wheat field would be gathered and burned (See?), to the judgment. But the--the fruit, of course, we're known by our fruit, the way we live. And now, the same thing is by Divine healing. Now, many brethren or--have a way that they probably lay hands on the sick, or I seen some of them shake them, and some of them put their hands on them they'd fall down on the floor, and they'd--and--and different ways like that. I--I do not know. I--I cannot say. That God works in mysterious ways, His wonders to perform, and God is working, as long as the people are getting healed and they're pointed to Jesus Christ, amen. See? Now, here not long ago, I seen that a brother was stomping his foot real hard trying to make a demon go out. Now, I don't believe you could scare him. I--I don't believe you could. No, he... When... I don't believe we... The thing we have to do, if I can get you audience to see this right now, that's... To be healed is just as sound and solid as the faith in God that does the healing. See? And you must be built first upon the Word of God, 'cause when the storms come, it'll never move from there. It'll stay there.
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If you know first that Jesus Christ taught Divine healing and give it an issue to His church to practice it until He returned, then you'll see that it is. He said, "Go ye into all the world and preach the Gospel. These signs shall follow them that believe." Why? "If they lay their hands on the sick, they shall recover." Now, that's--that's His last words. He was taken up into heaven. "Go into all the world and preach the Gospel." And the Gospel never come by word only, but through power and demonstrations of the Holy Spirit. You see? So it's to demonstrate the power of the Holy Spirit in our lives, each one us, now, by the acting upon our faith in God for Divine healing. So then... And other things, redemptive blessings... So now, all the things that's--that's done is the people to believe God's report of it and believe it.
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Now, I--I think if you dear people will bear with me on this just for a moment, that when our Master, when the--the demon of-or from Gadara there, when he came out, this demenic--demoniac came out and saw Him, He... There wasn't no demonstration. This
demon knew Him. He said, "We know who you are, the Holy One of God. (You see?) Why comest Thou to torment us before our time come?" They recognized that still faith that He had, like virtue going from Him. See? And the woman touched the hem of His garment; He felt the virtue leave Him. Now, see, it's a--it's of faith just as sane and solid as it can be, to look at the Lord Jesus and believe it with all your heart, accept your healing and be made well. See?
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Now, I realize when a person's healed... Oh, I've seen them scream and praise the Lord. I did too, when I was healed. I certainly still screaming and praising the Lord about it, because it was really something to me. And now, I want you all to--to do that. When God heals you, be happy and testify and praise the Lord for it. Just keep in the... And one thing is stop fearing. Oh, the... When Jesus rose from the dead, He said, "Fear not. I have overcome." See? It's...
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Everything is don't fear; be ready now when you're called up here or when you're setting in the prayer lines out there... All that's the prayer line. And when you're setting there just be ready to receive. Just be ready. And just when you feel that your faith is appropriated or not--enough to receive it, say, "Thank you, Lord." And that settles it. That's all. That... You received it. Don't you believe you can be saved right--without coming to an altar? It's routine to come to the altar, but you don't have to be. You can be saved because you believe. You can be healed because you believe. See?
And remember, that no man has any power to heal anyone. And no matter how much you believe that virtue goes out of your hands and arms or whatever. It's not that, because Jesus has already done that. When He died at Calvary, He redeemed you from your sickness. That's right. And you have to accept it. It's a faith that you have in that that does the healing. Now, that's inquestionable too, because we've got thousand times thousand of evidences to prove that--that lame, blind, halt, and everything... Look setting here at the senator, Mr. Upshaw, tonight standing here that was a cripple for all these years, sixty-six years. Look at him tonight (See?), up like a little child, so full of glee he run up and shook my hands and hug me when I come in. Why, he was all... Now, that's the proof for one thing, isn't it? And others who has been blind and death and dumb... Now, we know that the redemptive blessings included Divine healing, so let's believe it with all our hearts.
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Now, the way that the blessing that comes through this... The Angel of the Lord, and Whose servant I am, when I was a little boy born in that little log cabin forty-two years ago the sixth day of April according to the Kentucky count... That's the... They have no... There's no doctors, so they just... My... The year the old snag blowed away upon the hill, that's the year that I was born. My brother was born at tomato picking time, if you know when that was. Why... And so that--that was the count, and... That's awful to say that, but it's true. And... But that's the way it was. So I suppose I'm somewhere along there. So then at that time... To the only way that I can justly say it, that-that God has sent some of us in the world, some to be teachers, and some different things. Don't you believe that? And--and some of us be musicians and different things.
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And my coming into the world for the purpose, that I just found recently in the last five years, was to pray for sick people. Now, He told me that when He sent me... A supernatural Being... God in heaven is my Father and He'll bear record of what I say if it's the truth. God will always do that. He'll bear record of the truth. Now, I could come here and tell you that God was in a certain-certain thing. Well, any man can say anything he wants to. But now, for a man to say anything is one thing, and then for God to--to verify that, it's something different. That--that's--that's different altogether.
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And now, I... The only thing that He told me, if I'd pray for the sick people, and get them to believe me, be sincere when I pray, that no disease would stand before my prayer. Now, that's true. Now, that doesn't mean that my prayer has anything to do with it; it's the people's faith. He's always had an object somewhere for people to look at or something or some... Look, the brass serpent... Why would He have that brass serpent there, as some...?... The woo-the water on the pool of Bethesda, why was that water? Why they's no virtue in it? It was just something for the people to do to step in.
Jesus went and spit on some mud and made a little cake and put it on a man's eyes. He didn't have to do that. Do you believe that? He...?... another man's ears and spit and touched His tongue. And He had... He didn't have to do that. It was for some symbol. Is that right? Naaman was suppose to dip seven times in the Jordan. Why, he didn't have to do that. It was just a symbol that the prophet give him to do, something to do. And God sends some of us forth to do certain
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things. And then we see that God has proved what He said He was to that person, and then God testifies the thing the person testified of. That makes it truth, and then we believe it and get well. See what I mean? And I was suppose to pray for sick people.
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And I noticed when I was just a young Baptist preacher, why, my, the people would come up in our congregation; we'd pray for them; they'd get well. Now, I didn't know nothing about any gifts of healings and so forth. And I went out to the hospital, and I used to go in out there, and the nurse when they'd see me come in, say, "Well, you'll get well now. Here comes that preacher to pray for you." Well, I didn't know nothing about Divine healing, but when He met me and declared that I was born to do that, I still questioned about going out and meeting the public, say, like this. And then He told me... I said, "Sir, they will not believe me, because," I said, "I am uneducated and I'm not qualified for--to do that." And He said, "I'll be with you."
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Now, He--He was a Man. Now, He... How many's heard the story of it? How many has not heard the story of it? Let's see. And well, it--it was the... Just briefly to those quickly... There when I was born in this little cabin, which the writer of this book has the book back there at the desk, has all been tested down through critics and everything before we could publish it and so forth. That morning when I was born down there in this little cabin, He... A white Light, about the size of a, oh, I guess about like a pan or a little larger about like a, oh, something that I imagine about that shape, came down over the bed about a minute or so after the midwife had laid me in my mother's arms. And the--the little old window there, as you can see there's no glass. They just shove the window out and-little old door like. And there It come in... In a little old bed in the corner, a straw mattress, and shuck pillow... And the people of the mountain country didn't know what It was, what happened. They all started weeping.
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Later on when I was about three years old, I remember hearing a voice speak to me and tell me that I would live near a city called New Albany, and I live in three miles of New Albany. I've lived there all my life. And I was living in Kentucky then. This was two hundred miles farther north. And then at seven years old, while I was packing water in a little molasses bucket, why, it was a Voice spoke out of a bush in a whirlwind, and told me never to drink or to smoke or to defile my body in any way that there'd be a work for me to do when I got older.
Then He started immediately after that to moving upon me; It'd show me things that was going to come.
I was raised in a home that was sinful. My father and mother, their people before them are Catholic. And my father and mother married out of the church, and they had no religion at all. And I never was in church till I was a young man, about twenty years old, twentyfive. That's horrible to say that, but down through life I didn't smoke or drink or so forth. And always It would meet me and tell me different things that was going to happen. Then when I become a minister, it got worse. And then I received the Holy Spirit, it just kept going on. And then later on, why, He met me, and It--It was a Man. I was setting in...?... of a room in a little cabin where I used to hunt at, and I was praying. And I seen the Light come in the room. It appeared visible. They have It on pictures back there that was taken, and scientifically proven and all that... It's been through the critics and everything. Then they--they brought into the-the government affair, and checked it and so forth. And when this comes...
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It comes in the meetings, many times while we're having the meetings, just like this right here now. And so this time, when It came, I just seen a Light shining on the floor, and It come across the floor walking to me, a Man some two hundred pounds, dressed in a white robe, had dark hair to His shoulder, very pleasant sort of a Man, and I could not move; I was just shaking so. And He... I heard His voice, oh, ever since I was a little boy, but I'd never seen nothing but a whirlwind and different--and a--a Pillar of Fire like. And now, when He got real close to me, the Man then when He spoke, He said, "Do not fear." I knew It was the same Man, that same Voice that talked to me since I was a little boy. And He said, "I am sent from the Presence of Almighty God to tell you that your peculiar birth and life has been to indicate that you're to pray for sick people to take this to all the world." And said, "If you'll be sincere when you pray, and will get the people to believe you, nothing shall stand before your prayer. For this cause you was born."
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Now, I can only be honest. You see? That's what I've always tried to be: honest and--with my people, with God's people, my friends. And I--I said, "Well, Sir, I'm born and raised in a poor family." And I said, "I'm uneducated and I--I--I couldn't go." He said, "I'll be with you." And I said, "Oh, I'm... They wouldn't believe me."
He said, "As the prophet Moses was given two signs to a-vindicate his ministry (He'd sent him to Israel, you know, to deliver Israel.)," said, "so would you be given two signs." Said, "One of them will be, that you'll take people by the hand, knowing nothing of what's wrong with them, and tell them what's wrong." Said, "Then if you'll be--if you'll be reverent," and said, "it'll come to pass later that you'll know the very secret of their heart." And He said, "If you would question of this..."
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If I sent the Spirit that our Master said that was upon Him would be upon His people. See, see? And when He told Philip, when He came to Nathanael, He said, "I seen you..." Said, "When did You know me?" He said, "Before Philip called you, when you were under the tree." See, see? He said--He said then to the woman at the well of Samaria, a Samarian woman--Samaritan, rather. He said, "Go get your husband." She said, "I have none." He said, "You've had five." Now, Jesus said, "These things that I do, shall you also. (See?) Greater than this shall you do (or more), for I go to My Father."
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That's how our brother Senator here was healed. When I was standing here looking at him out there over the audience, I seen a--a bench come down and right over, kinda this way from that clock, I suppose, be north. Right in here I seen a bench and I seen a man there, and I seen the people applauding him. I seen him with a big kind of a collar on. I seen a young man fall on a hay rack or something there and hurt his back, begin to talk to my... And there It went. And I looked down, and I found the man. He was setting back in the audience there in a wheelchair, but I didn't get it just right. I didn't see him healed. I didn't say nothing about it. Already while I was standing here, already seen two people healed right here in the meeting tonight (That's right.), standing right here now. Oh, I know they're healed right now. That's right. And it's... I noticed it. And then when I was leaving the platform, I told my manager, Mr. Baxter, about it and that was--which was managing the meetings at that time. And the... When I went out then I seen Mr. Upshaw healed and happy. And I told Mr... I seen there it was. And here he is. He's well.
And I can only see... Now, the first time... How many remembers before when that part of the--of the operation of the
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Spirit of God that come upon I, His humble servant? You remember when a gift, could show the people by the--holding my hand and knowing what was... You remember that part? Do you remember hearing me say that the other would come? You remember that? And it has, hasn't it? That's it. Now, remember, it's going more than that. See? It's moving all the time upward. Now, you... Now, those things... Now, the people can come to the platform. I can only pray for them. They'll be all kinds of diseases. Now, it is possible, and will be... Now, you remember this. This is the only thing that I can say; God said in Hebrews 11:2, God testifies of His gift. Do you believe that? God testifies.
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Now, the person can come to the platform, and if I've got a good clear and there's not too many pulling, I can usually begin... And I don't--don't use my own thoughts or mind about anything. You'll tell them what's wrong with them. Perhaps if the faith is not there right, It'll tell them of the disease they got, and perhaps what they done in life that's caused them--reason they can't get healed. But now, for the healing, it only comes through our Lord Jesus Christ. Everybody know that? Now, that's all I can--I can do, friend.
Now, this is the... And do you know Jesus our Master never claimed to be a Divine Healer? Did you know that? Now, watch what Jesus said... Now, we're just going to... Now, if some of you might go away and say, "Well, I don't know what kind of--that is or what it is." Jesus said, "Verily, verily I say unto you..." When the Jews was questioning Him, when He healed one man and left a big bunch of cripples laying there at the pool of Bethesda, He said, "The Son can do nothing in Himself, but whatsoever He sees the Father doing, that doeth the Son likewise." Is that right?
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And now, if you'll pray out there and believe with all your heart that what I told you is the truth, and Jesus died to heal you, and you believe it with all your heart, then God will heal you where you are in your seat. Then He'll reveal it to me and let me know what you had, and what's happen to you, and what will be. You see what I mean? Now, that's... Now, it... Isn't that lovely in Him? Now, it's not... It's--it's just the idea that the only thing that... I did foretell different things that He did that comes to pass. And many of you have read it in books and so forth about even people... Two or three cases now we have on record that's absolutely been dead and passed away from this life. And I--I was with a lady the other day at Phoenix, Arizona, Mrs. Hattie Waldrop at her... She had died with cancer of the heart and
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the liver. And he... And her doctor was there and said, "Just want to shake your hand." And he had... She was dead--been lay--laying dead in the prayer line, covered up. And she... That was three years ago or more; she's just as well and normal as she can be.
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Only thing I could see a vision, see what's happened, and there it is; and I just act out. It's just drama to me. I just act out what He shows me to do. Do you understand now? So it's not me; it's our heavenly Father just showing me what--and-and in that channel where He has placed me. I use that to the best of my knowledge to help His people along, thinking that someday when I come to the end of this journey, I may, if Jesus tarries, I hope to be able to serve His people until I'm an old man. And--and I'll do it with all the reverence in my heart to Him that I know how.
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And remember, friends, you are... I--I love you, and I must be honest with you, for... I have a little boy here, little Billy. It's... He's here on the platform or down here somewhere. I have him with me. If you want to love somebody, if it's between me or he, you love him. See? That's my boy. And if our heavenly Father wants me to love somebody between He or you, love you. You're His children. You see? Wouldn't you rather someone love your children than to love you any time? Well, our heavenly Father, what about Him? If we being carnal know how for good things for our children... See? And I love you, and I'm here to help you.
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And now, when He placed me in this channel of this prophetic gift, whatever it might be, I do not know, I'm... The Bible is open here before me; I do not know just what to call it in the Scripture. Brother Hall and them speaks much about it, but--about it being some prophetic gift. But in there I try to... When He places upon me, I try to glorify our heavenly Father. And He... Whatever I can to help His people, that's what I do, and God bless you.
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And most of my people, a lot of them has been long life people. For instance, my grandmother Branham lived to be a hundred and ten. My grandfather Branham lived to be ninety-some odd, Grandfather Harvey, from my Mother's side, lived in his nineties, but my grandmother she died with staunchlow about--about thirty-six, thirty-eight years old. My father died early, fifty-two, with a heart attack. And most of my mother's people, who I take after, is... When they get old, real old, they usually get a palsy, shake a whole lot. I
remember old granddad, he--he just shook constantly all the time like that, especially when he'd get a little excited. And if I live that long, I may too. I don't know. This body wears down like an automobile wears out. But if it does, and I come to the end of my road; and I can look back and think of the meeting here in California and different places when I was a younger man, think of all of these people... And I know that it's coming to me then, and I'm fixing to go. And I'm standing an old man, white... What hair I have will be white, stooped in my shoulders, and a cane in my hand shaking, and I feel the waves of death coming over my soul, I want to serve His people and serve Him so now, that when that time, I'll raise up my hands and drop my cane; I believe He'll come and meet me then, take me to a better land.
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Now, you pray for me as I pray for you; God bless you while we read just a Word of Scripture, and then we'll bow our heads, and have a word of prayer, and go right straight into the service. In the book of Matthew beginning with the 23rd verse of the 4th chapter... And Jesus went about all Galilee, teaching in the synagogues, and preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing all manner of sickness... all manner of diseases among the people. And his fame went throughout all Syria: and they brought unto him all the sick people that were taken with divers diseases and torments, and those which were possessed with devils, and those which were lunaticks, and those which had palsy; and he healed them.
[A brother in the audience cries out loudly.--Ed]
And there followed him great multitudes of people from Galilee, and from--and from Jerusalem, and from Judaea, and from beyond Jordan.
Now, can we bow our heads? It's all right. If our brother has accepted his healing, it's all right. God bless him. Our heavenly Father, we thank Thee that You are lovely Jesus as in Your people tonight making them as You are, making them a body. And if this earthly tabernacle be dissolved, we have one already waiting, fashioned in heaven waiting to go to, just to step out of this old wrecked building that we live in here into a new one. But, our Father, the reason that we are here tonight in these services to see these buildings and tabernacles that we have our dwelling in now, some of them are very badly riddened
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with diseases that Satan has--has did. And we're here speaking of You, the great Divine Healer. And, Father, I pray tonight that You'll deliver every one that's in the building tonight from all their diseases. And as You come forward, coming down from glory into this little building here tonight, coming from thousands and thousands of Angelic beings there tonight that's before You, and You promised that wherever two or three was gathered together that You would be in their midst. How wonderful to think that the Lord Jesus is here with us tonight, and to grant to us anything that we desire.
And, Father, my desire is tonight, personally, that You will magnify Yourself before the people in this day to let them know that Your Spirit, that Your Word, that Your promise... Oh, Master, Your promise... It is written in the Scripture that You healed the people, that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet. You did these things that it might be fulfilled. And O Lord God of heaven, these things we do tonight that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by our Master, "These things that I do," He said, "shall you also." He knew the hearts of people. He knew what was wrong with them. And His Spirit is here. He healed the people. And, Father, this is tonight to fulfill which was said by our Master, "Go ye into all the world and preach the Gospel. Lay hands on the sick and they shall recover." And grant, Lord, that You'll send tonight, Your great Divine Angel, Your healing Spirit; maybe it's the same Angel that was on the pool of Bethesda; we do not know. I do not know Him, Father in that way, His Name. Maybe it's the same Angel that followed the children of Israel, that led them, rather, in a sign of a Pillar of Fire. Maybe that's the same Pillar of Fire that we're looking at. Maybe He's here tonight. I trust that He will be and will show great signs and wonders. And may there come a stirring among the people quickly, for we realize Lord that we just have a few days to be here.
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God, bless our Brother Freeman. Lord, you see how these... I don't know how it happened this a way, but Thou does know. And I pray God that You'll bless him tonight and give him a great service down there. And may many many of those people down there be healed tonight, the lame walk, the blind see, the deaf hear, the dumb speak, oh, people be saved. And grant it, Lord, that there'll be great stir down there in that tent tonight, and may many hundreds of people be healed and saved.
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And, Father, get--grant tonight in this little group that it'll be likewise here for Your glory, that You might receive glory, and all these people around in the city here might know that You're the Lord Jesus in healing, and saving, and soon coming. We believe the end is here close. When we see the signs appearing, we know that You're near Your journey back here. God, bless us tonight and send Your Angel to discern these spirits and to cast them out of the people, by the Name of Your Child Jesus Christ, we ask it. Amen.
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God bless you all, and may He add His--His tender mercies to you. Let's begin our prayer line over to the right here. And let's call up the first group and--and... What... Where'd you... What numbers did you start it from, 50 or from the 1? [Brother answers, "1."--Ed.] 1, let's begin at 1, and take the first ten over here. What's your letter of the... S, S-1 to 10 stand up first, and--and then maybe if we get finished, why, we'll have some more in just a few moments.
EXHORTATION.OF.DIVINE.HEALING_ LA.CA TUESDAY_ 51-0501 E-45 And now, you that's setting near... [Blank.spot.on.tape-Ed.] If--if you didn't believe me, didn't... Now, I don't want to
say believe me. That... I don't mean that by it; just... I'm just the least among all of you. I'm your brother and not worthy to be called your brother. That's right. And I--I don't say that to be humble. I say that from my heart. See? I've learned this, friends, that God knows what your heart is. See? And if you don't speak from your heart, then you're a hypocrite. Is that right? And I really mean it. Some... I look out here and see you old people who's had the Holy Ghost for years and fought back there when it was hard. And me standing here much younger than you and just... And, my, when you had to stand on the street's corner, maybe had four or five listen to you and some of our meetings run up to thirty-five and forty thousand. See? Well, my we're just will put--run the highway that you've already paved for us. See? We're not worthy to be called your--your--your brethren. But you pray for us now. And as you believe, having faith in God, asking God to help you and so forth, God will grant it to you. Do you believe that?
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Now, let there--I've... Sometimes I have to wait just a little bit. Now, on... All of you understand this being the first night, I'm going to pull these mikes out a little bit, because talking to the people sometimes they don't pick it up. And now...
Now, at the close of the service we may... We have no certain definite time. We may be here three nights; we may be five nights; we may be eight or ten nights for all I know. I don't know. That depends on how the Holy Spirit moves. And if... That's right, "Only Believe" real slowly. And you--and you pray for us now and--and God will--will grant you your--your healings and so forth.
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And I just see Brother Shrew taking recordings. Is that-is that right, Brother Banks? Fine. I just... If I... And when the Spirit of the Lord is on, It's so sensitive, just any little thing you... Oh, It's very sensitive. How many realizes that? Just real sensitive, if something moves contrary or... Was you ever so deeply sincere praying somewhere and somebody step in the room or slam the door? See? Now, that's the way it is when this Anointing comes down. I feel It moving in from out here and out there and around here. That's the reason I ask them to leave the platform in there so that I can have at least just one side, 'cause it's hard... Maybe here sets a person with a cancer and that's coming in just... [Brother Branham makes a whistling noise like whirlwind--Ed.] and here's one standing here maybe with heart trouble, and then here's them two hitting against me and... See? You can see what I mean? But I thank God from the depths of my heart with my Bible over my heart, and not one time in five years has It ever failed to be the solid truth right at the platform: not one time. And I'll take anyone to record here in the building that's been in my meetings time after time. It has never failed to be exactly the truth. That's right. And--and then if the patient hasn't got good faith, well, then it'll maybe take a little time to build them up. You'll have to tell them something else and get them to talking.
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Now, let's just kinda pray again just for a moment, if you will, 'cause been talking and it makes it kinda odd for me. Now, dear Jesus, now we're here and we've ask You, and I've explained all that I know how, and it's getting a little late; we don't want to weary the people. But now, Father, I have tried with all my heart to let them know that You are here and willing to heal each one. Now, I have told them that You have sent Your humble servant to encourage them to believe on Your Son Jesus. And by signs and wonders that You have given me to perform is for their encouragement and the vindication that Thou has sent Thy humble servant to pray for their diseases and afflictions and they will get over it. Now, Father, I've done all that I know how. And now, I commit
it all to You for a great service this coming this week. Grant it, Lord, beginning tonight. May many of the people in the audience just believe with all their heart when they see the evidence of the great Angel of God, which I know is on the platform now. And may He move up to Thy humble servant now, anoint my human body that Jesus will be manifested before the people. Hear my prayer, Father, for I ask it in Jesus' Name. Amen.
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Oh, my brother, do you believe Him with all your heart, you kneeling here. God will surely take care of this for you. Now, do you believe that He'll hear my prayer? Our heavenly Father, as our brother comes kneeling at the platform now, he's terribly tormented, and he wants to be a real Christian, a real man. God, be merciful to him, I pray. This power of the enemy that's driving him into these things that-that's not right... But Thou art here, heavenly Father, and I pray that You'll heal him, and from this night may he be well. Satan, you who bound the man all these years and caused him these heartaches and troubles, in the Name of our Lord Jesus Christ, leave the man. Come out from him. God bless you, brother. Go delivered now. [The brother continues to talk--Ed.]...?... Amen. Brother, those things I do know. You-you can go home and be...?... You're welcome, my brother...?... deliverance now if believe...?... Uh-huh...?... on your road now, and go believe forever, and be whole, my brother. God bless you. Yes... [The brother asks if he may say a few
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He was just wanted to speak a word. The man has been in an awful condition. And, 'course, it was too low here for you to hear what was going on, but the man has been in a--in terrible condition ever since a little boy of--of about seven years old. And he's had... just couldn't... He's been fasting and praying for this tonight, and he was warned. And so he came, and God has delivered him. He said, "Could I just speak a word on..." [The brother testifies to the congregation--Ed.] God bless you, my brother. How wonderful is our Lord. Isn't He wonderful? If you will believe. He is just been revealed down here to the brother just by telling when he was a boy, and what he done, and all about it in there. It wasn't... He brought it right on the microphone. It's... He's wonderful, isn't He? Amen. And... Now, if God knows what has been in your life, He knows what will be in your life. Is that right? Now, you just go believing;
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that's all. All right, you bring the--the lady here if you will. I think we ought to say, "Thank the Lord," don't you? Say, "Praise the Lord." ["Praise the Lord."--Ed.] Now, brother and sister, we're in no hurry, you know. There's just all these things... That means a lot to that man, since he was a little boy, has been that way, and the Lord has delivered him.
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Now, howdy do, my sister dear? You believe with all your heart too? Our Lord is always near to heal the needy and the--the sick. Now, sister, there was... Our Master one time, He was speaking to some man. Or perhaps, let's think, He had a prayer line somewhere, was praying for the sick. And there was a man come up to Him and he said, "Behold, an Israelite in which there's no guile." He told him what he'd been doing and so forth and said... He said, "How'd you know I was a believer?" A Christian, you know, as we'd call it now. He said, "Before Philip called you, when you was under the tree, I knew you." And he said right then, "Thou art the Son of God, the King of Israel." Isn't that right? And he believed Him with all of his heart. And do you believe like that with all your heart? Believe with all... Do you believe that--that this what I am speaking of is our lovely Lord Jesus Who loves you and--and wants to make you well? Is that right? Well... And you believe that He knows what's been in your life back before, hasn't He? And He knows right now what's wrong with you, right now. And He knows what will be hereafter. Isn't that right?
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Well I believe right now that you're in a balance right at this time, because as soon as I said that, I seen something happen and seen what was wrong with you. Suffer with a tumor, aren't you? Isn't that right? You want to be rid of the tumor? Come, come here just a moment. God bless you. Our heavenly Father, this poor sister is so in need. And I pray Thee to be merciful to her now, and I bless her in the Name of Thy Son Jesus, that this tumor will leave her, Lord. And, O Father, be merciful at this hour. And may others be healed of tumor at this same time out there in the audience. Grant it, Lord. And may the Spirit that's here at the platform now, that we are both aware that's anointing down here at this time... We pray that You will let Him bless her as I--as a--Your servant, minister to her the blessings of God by laying on my
hands upon her that was commanded of our Lord Jesus. And I say to this tumor: leave the woman in the Name of Jesus Christ. Amen. God bless you, sister. Go, be well now. Yes, it's...?... you back down. Go and believe with all your heart.
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All right, let's say, "Praise the Lord, everybody. [Congregation says, "Praise the Lord."--Ed.] Now, now, look for Him. He is here. Now, He'll only reveal Himself to those who believe Him. How many... You here in California blessed with a great observatory up here, planetarium, where you see stars way out. I believe a hundred and twenty million years of light space you can look out through that glass, one of the largest in the world. They had those, not that type, but they had planetariums and so forth and stargazers in the days of Jesus. But there was a star that passed through the land. And three men followed that star, and no one else saw it but them, for they were looking for it. They were looking for the star of Jacob to rise. See? They were down in the country there where Balaam, the prophet, had spoke that this star of Jacob would rise. Now, you look for Him. Believe Him with all your heart. All right, that's...
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That's--that's... Is that the patient? Is that the--the patient, son? All right, you come right up, lady. Now, every one be real reverent, just as reverent as you can. You don't have to bow your heads to pray. You... I just want you to... When I ask you to bow your heads... Sometimes a spirit gets real contrary, and they just don't want to come at all. And that's the time you have to have an authority. Do you believe in that? See? Now, there's sometimes if a person's faith will come up, but maybe they don't have enough faith and it--it's just waving there, and there's a demon trying to hold a, maybe a little unbelief there, just kindly skeptical, sometimes you have to--to command it out. See? And if you do that, then they're angry. That's when they go from one to another. And when they come out... You know Jesus said to them demons, "Come out." And they said, "Suffer us to go into them swine." See, a devil is helpless if he isn't in a body somewhere. See? He's just a spirit in the world until he's in a body, and then he-he can torment us.
Now, our sister coming here, the lady, has come forward to be healed. Now, every one be just reverent, and
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just... Here's what I want you to do when I say, "Be reverent." Just--just set and say, "I believe that with all my heart." Say, "Lord, I--I believe that You're there at the platform, and You're going to help our Brother Branham right now. And he's going to know all about that woman, and he's going to be able to pray a prayer that'll heal the poor thing." That's what I mean being reverent. Just think. What if that was your sister, your wife, your mother, or someone? See, see? You'd--You'd want them healed, wouldn't you? And you do to others as you'd want... to do to you (You see?), if you were up here.
Now, sister dear, you just come near. And I just want to talk to you just a moment. And what I do that for to speak to the person is merely to contact their spirit. You see? You realize that we're dealing with spiritual beings. Isn't that right? It's a--it's a spiritual being. See? You and I are human flesh. It was born in this world. And now, you're... Inside of you is a spirit. And inside of me is a spirit. Well now, if the spirit of sickness or something has come upon you... And then... Now, I don't know what that is. I know that you're a lady standing there, and--and I don't know nothing about the inside part. Now, the only thing that I know is when this Spirit of God comes down here and He'll speak through here to that what's in you. You see? Now, a person... If I can contact your human spirit (You see?), to--to myself that gives us a--gets you in the--the place--contact. That's right.
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Like Jesus, He talked to the woman awhile. He said, "Go bring Me a drink." She said, "Why, it's not customary for you Jews to ask us Samaritans." He said, "But if you knew Who you were talking to (See?), you would ask Me. (See?) And I'd give you drink that (See?) that you don't come here to drink." Now, that's the same thing this is. See? Now, I... You--you're conscious that there's something going on now, don't you? You know that--that... You--you know there's something going on, a strange feeling in your inner being. Is that right? Now, what it is, it's that gift a-moving. You see? It's not my gift: God's gift. See? His gift, I'm not it. I'm just... If you see the picture back there, you can see my picture too, but I'm not It; It's a separate Person. But I'm just a--like the brass serpent. You see what I mean? See? Just... You're just looking this way, and I'm just... See? Now, there, that's it. That's the idea.
You're suffering, aren't you, sister? You got kidney trouble, haven't you? That's right. A kidney trouble. You're real nervous too, aren't you sister? [Sister says,"I guess I am a little bit, but not as much as I thought I would be. Praise the Lord."--Ed.] Yes, it is. Yes, sir, that's it. See? I mean, not be meant... What I mean, just kind of... You're a deep thinker, that kind of a nervous, always just thinking ahead of time too. That's right. All right, sister, come here just a minute. Now, will you bow your head. Dear merciful Father, I pray that You'll be merciful to our sister tonight as I bless her now for her healing. Satan, you who bound her, in the Name of Jesus Christ, leave the woman. Come out of her. Now, will you do as I say do? Go on and don't even think about your kidney trouble no more. It's going to leave you. Now, I tell you what... Now, you may have symptoms for at least, oh, eight or ten days, the burning and so forth and the weakness, but that'll clear up now, and you'll be all right. You go and God bless you. Amen.
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Now, sister dear, I want you to look this way, and just believe with all your heart. And you will, won't you? You--you believe. You want to be well. I perceive that you're a believer, a good believer. You're not very... You're--you're a--a deep believer. You hold on to what you have. You was praying awhile ago, wasn't you?...?... Wasn't you happy when you got that card this afternoon or tonight? And now, you thought, "I'll be rid of my heart trouble now." Isn't that right? Now, you can go on your road. You are healed. Let us say, "Praise be to God." [Congregation says, "Praise be to
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Everyone reverent as you... Trying hard, aren't you, dad? Poor old man laying here on a cot praying... I see a woman laying over there trying to look right at me, just trying... Just keep on praying now. Have faith and believe. All right.
Come forward, lady. You believe, do you, sister? You-you believe with all your heart? And isn't He wonderful? That's when they're... Sometimes we get in such a condition, you know, or sickness and everything, and then God comes along and heals us, and lets us get well, and spare our life a little longer. That's--that's the way He does and He's so lovely to us. Isn't that right? Had a strange feeling come to you then, didn't
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you...?... then. And now, lady... Now, just...?... Your heart trouble's done, sister. You can go on your road. Let's say, "Praise be to God." [Congregation says, "Praise be to
God."--Ed.]
Now, let's say that you believe (You see?), without even being prayed for. She's healed. God healed her right there, made her well...?... Now, you might say, "Brother Branham, how do you know she was healed?" I got real weak. You see? I know when it--when it went away she got... Now, just have faith, and believe with all your heart. Do you love Him? Now, this is wonderful to begin the first night and see It so richly in here now. It's just... Anything could happen. And-and... Now, if you just be real reverent...
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How do you do, sister? I was just watching a lady that's packing a little baby. I was trying to find out what was wrong with it. You see? Now, only believe. Just fear not. Have faith in God and believe. Now, sister dear, you are conscious of the fact that you have made a testimony by coming up to this platform here. Now, you've come to this platform before this group of people here as a witness that you believe in Divine healing. Isn't that right? And--and I have told you that I have no way of contacting you only by spirit. That... It will have to be--come through the Lord Jesus and His mercy. And if you're ever healed or anything is ever known of you by me, will have to be through Him. You realize that. Yes, ma'am. Yes, ma'am. You seem to have a very good spirit, sister. Oh, yes, ma'am, had much trouble, haven't you now? And you're suffering now with a cancer. Isn't that right? Come here just a moment with me.
The Almighty, Who stands here as a--my witness knows that this supernatural Being that Who I speak of, and my Bible is here before me, this supernatural Being, testi--in the testimony to me which I will have to answer before all you people and God at that day for these words that I say... The supernatural Being that spoke to me said that, talking about praying for the sick, He specified one disease. He said not even to cancer shall stand before the prayer. There's been more cancers healed than anything else. Now, I--I wouldn't say that, friend, unless it was... Oh, my, certainly it'd have to be.
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Now, mother, I have no way just... I just seen your suffering, and seen what you were doing. And it come before me. Now, I'm going to ask God to bless you and to let you get well. And you'll give Him praise, and you'll never no more say... And you'll give Him praise for the rest of your life, won't you, sister? Jesus of Narazeth, bless our dear sister. You said, "Whatever you bind on earth, I'll bind it in heaven. What you loose on earth, I'll loose it in heaven." Now, You promised that, Father. "And these signs should follow them that believe." And now, by laying my hand upon this dear old mother's hand, that's bound here by a demon that would take her life in the next few weeks, but I pray Thee, Lord, to be merciful. And I now, in the Name of Jesus Christ, loose the woman from this terrible thing called cancer. Come out of the woman in the Name of Jesus Christ. Go happy, believing Him, praising the Lord. Let us say, "Praise the Lord," every one. [Congregation says, "Praise the Lord."--Ed.] Now...?...
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Now, watch. Now, just a moment. There was something happened just then. Now, another cancer spirit... Now, everyone be just reverent. Now, let's see where it was. Be real reverent. There's somebody was suffering with a cancer just then that... I felt it strike again. Look this way again, mother, you standing here. No, I believe it's still--maybe still on you. Come here just a minute. Just... No, ma'am, it ain't. It isn't. Stand right there just a minute. It's in this direction here. Now, stand right there just a moment. Let's see. Look this way, sir. You on the cot. Let... You look up here at me. Here it is. Just a moment now. Everyone reverent. Have you believed me, sir? Do you believe that I am God's servant, that I am His prophet, that He sent me here for you? You're suffering with--with a cancer: cancer. I believe it's cancer of the blood. Isn't it leukemia or something like that in--in your blood, isn't it? And it--it's in your blood. It's leukemia. That's right. You're all... You're... I see... You're--you're swolled up inside the inward glands, the spleen, and through the kidneys and stomach. Isn't that right? Oh. Everybody reverent. Does anybody know the man in the building? Anyone know him? Is that truth? If it is... If that's truth, is the truth? I can tell there's something move... Yes. Oh, yes. They know all... That's all right. Just be... Just stay where you. That's okay. I just want to... I seen it. It left him... Now, be real reverent, my brother. I--I--I'm just going to ask... I see it right there... They... The... You can go ahead and by now, sister.
I thought that cancer had crept back again. And what it was, was this man here praying. You see? When the cancer let loose of this woman, it--it hit on that man there. You see? They're--they're in sympathy one with another. You understand what I mean? Now, see? It's--it's kindred spirits. You know what I mean. Doves stay with doves. Scavengers... See? It's like buzzards, you know; they're together. It... And that's the way this kindred spirit, that cancer. Cancer is a demon. It's a devil. That's what... Now, be real reverent, and believe with all your heart. All right.
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Mother's trying to pray, aren't you, mother? Now, just have faith for the... I see you coming down through there. I believe that the--the baby's going to be all right. Now, just-just be reverent now. Now, just... Everyone... Now, don't go and be excited. See? It excites me a little, but don't get excited because I do. Because I... You see what I'm up against here. I'm working under a strain. He'll--He'll come down over me and go [Brother Branham makes a noise like blowing wind--Ed.]... like that. Then you have to watch when it tell you, just feel it hitting everywhere. You have to be careful. Then sometimes it'll jerk here and then some over here... I'm just trying to take my time just as I can. All right. See?
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nothing to be weary, but it's--it's something kind of an awe, sacred. Now, that's that anointing that I feel. You see? It's--it's on me now. That... If there's anything wrong with you... If you believe that that is the Angel of the Lord, God will reveal to me what's your trouble and--and then you'll get well. And if He'll hear. You believe It's the Angel of the Lord, you do? Have you got... You're nervous for one thing, aren't you, real extremely nervous? I see that. Haven't you got something wrong with your ear or something like... Is in it your... I believe it's your right ear, isn't it? Isn't it your right... That's your... Say, you're... Ma'am? [Sister tells Brother Branham something--Ed.] The one... The right, I seen that there.
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Say, don't you work in some kind of a telephone affair or something? Is that right? I seen you there with that... I seen one of--that thing over your ear like that and I wondered
if... Yes. I just didn't see no trumpet in your ear, but I could see in the vision there, some... Oh, a headset. Well, oh... I... You take telegrams. I seen it was something like that when I seen the thing sticking up on. Come here, sister. Merciful God, bless our dear sister now. I pray that You'll be near her and may Your Spirit come upon her just now and bless her. Knowing that there's a great supernatural Being here at the platform standing between she and I here, as brother and sisters in the Lord Jesus, and I pray, God, that her faith in Him to believe it, that Thy servant has testified of that which is true. And there's no way for her to doubt any more, for I have spoke of it being from You, and she's witnessed it by feeling and telling her even the things of her life. Then I bless her, dear God. And, Satan, you who's harmed her, leave her in the Name of Jesus Christ. Come from the woman. Now, look this way. Oh, yes, sister, it's all right now. God bless you, sister. You're... You've been seeking for a deeper, better walk with God too. That right? You're going to have that also. God bless you, sister. Now, let us say, "Praise the Lord." [Congregation says, "Praise the Lord."--Ed.] Isn't He wonderful, marvelous? He--He knows everything. There's nothing that He doesn't know. And He's the Witness.
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Now, if you'll just give me a few more moments to get at least what's in the prayer line there, then I'll--I'll dismiss just in a little bit. Would you bring the lady, please. Now, everyone just reverent for a few moments. And you out there in the audience be--be praying, down in this a way, up all around now. God bless you, brother. Now, would you... It's... I just want you to... You look very healthy, young lady. But of course, there's something wrong or you wouldn't be here. You're a little nervous. Yes. 'Course that's just a little excited now too, because it's that this is a very sacred thing to you, isn't it? You regarded it that way. Isn't that true? And you've respected it, haven't you, sister? And you--you had that in your mind before you come here. Isn't that true? And because you have believed that, God's going to let you get over that diabetes and you're going to be well. God bless you. God bless you, my sister. Now, you can go and the Lord Jesus is going to...?... and heal you. And let us say, "Praise be to our Lord Jesus." Isn't He wonderful?
Now, some of you here, these stretchers or cots and... Just a moment. You on the cot, lady, you look this a way. See? You believe with all your heart? Now, I cannot heal you. I--I don't know you. I've never seen you in my life knowingly. But our heavenly Father knows all about you. And He will make His secrets known to His servant as He will. You believe that? And... Yes, you must believe God or you can't live very much longer. You're conscious of that, aren't you, sister? You have a severe heart trouble. Isn't that right? Why don't you accept your healing and stand up in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ. Let us say, "Praise be to God." [Congregation says, "Praise be to
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Everyone reverent now. Believe with all your heart. Now, she's...?... accept her healing. Let's say, "Thank the Lord." Some of the ushers pull the stretcher out of the way there so she...?...
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Sir, why don't you accept your healing? Let's say, "Praise be to God." [Congregation says, "Praise be to God."--Ed.] Now, everyone just a moment. Now, what's--what's the... You have a--your hand onto somebody. What's that, a little boy? Set him up just a minute. Look this way, young man. Is that you... The lady gave me the picture just a few moments ago. Aren't you? I... Now, that's as far as I--I know, but I seen your hand on that child there. You're interested in him in some manner. Look this a... Oh, yes. I can't say what will or what won't. That child's suffering with a, I believe it's asthma, isn't it, or something? Isn't that right? He has a hard time sleeping. Isn't that right? Isn't that right? Oh, heavenly Father, I bless this little lad right now, that You heal him and make this the greatest night of his life, Lord. That You'll take this away from him and may he recover and get altogether well and be healed and a well young man, in the Name of Thy Son Jesus Christ, I ask it. Amen. Now, look this way. Oh, God has a...?... or want to show it to the loved ones. All right. The baby's going to get over that, little honey, this little sister. That's all right. It's going to be... The baby will get well.
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Now, don't fear. Look this way everybody. Here back in this section, back in this way, look and believe now with all your heart. I'm watching these crippled people. I see arthritis and things. I'm... And there's a lady setting here that I... She was here at
the other meeting, I believe; I'm not sure. The lady here, she's a very religious woman and a fine lady. And I--I trust that this will be the time of your healing, my dear sister. You belong to church. Isn't that right? Have--have--have faith. Now, somebody without cards or some without a prayer card, look this way. So you can see the lady with arthritis setting here has--has laid there with a heart trouble, swelling and so forth.
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Now, look this way from away over from. You believe with all your heart there? Just a moment. [A baby in the congregation is crying--Ed.] The little baby there... Just a moment. A little girl, there with her blue... No, it's just a little bit behind her. I believe it's a--a colored lady setting there. I believe she's the one pulling so. Or... Are you praying, lady, there? I believe it was the mother of the child there... I can't get them separated, just... Stand up. I want the colored lady to stand up there. Yes. You're suffering too, aren't you, sis? You have stomach trouble...?... in the stomach, isn't that right? You can go on and eat what you want to. Let us all just stand and pray, just then if you will. Merciful Father, we thank Thee for...?... In Jesus' Name I pray that You'll heal everyone in Divine Presence.
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Thank you, brother. Good evening, friends. Very happy to be here again this evening to pray for the sick and the afflicted. I trust that this will be a great night, that there'll be no one left that's even sick or on cots or anything when the service is over tonight. May the Lord add His blessings. I just thinking I had a little too much volume somewhere: it was a rebounding. Well, I feel good tonight and just happy. I just had a good season of prayer awhile ago and just seem like that our Lord was so near, and I just ask Him with all my heart if He would just let the meeting just be even a greater meeting than we had, that--that the poor, sick and needy would be healed tonight of all manner of diseases and things would be healed. I pray that God will grant it to His mercy.
Now, I want to... I was just listening a few moments ago to Brother Hall's message about the supernatural. It was really wonderful. I appreciate that: that we are working by the supernatural. Everyone that cometh to God must believe that He is and a Rewarder to him that diligently seek God. Now, we do not work upon what we see or what we feel, but by what we believe. Isn't that right?
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My voice is just a little bit hoarse. Thank you. Can you hear all right back at the back, way back? Way back at the back, can you hear all right? That's fine. Thank you. I don't have a very loud voice, and I'm not too big to begin with, so it-it's a... When I was borned I weighed five pounds, and I got a bad start. And I haven't... out-growed it yet. So I--I--I wished I was bigger for one purpose: I could maybe have more room to love the Lord more. I've just--just... And if it's any--He's any dearer and better to the big people, I certainly admire them, because He's certainly wonderful to me. And I love Him with all my heart. Wonder how I ever got along those years that I lived without him. It's been a... I was telling my little son. If there's anything that I have to regret in my life, that I did not turn to Jesus when I was a little boy, just a little bitty boy, and serve Him.
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Now, we're going to take tonight our... 'Course we realize, knowing that another service is going on in the city (I'm very conscious of that.), of Brother Freeman's meeting, and our crowds are not very big yet. And while this is, I was-just thought maybe that I would take a few minutes each night to teach just a little on the Word and kinda run just a--maybe a little series in--in the book of Exodus here, and just speak on it a little while each night and watch the clock and try to get out in time that we would have a little prayer line. Now, each evening... And as Brother Hall was saying a moments ago (If I understood him right, I was downstairs, or down in another section of the church down there.) that the leading, the principle of the meeting is to inspire faith, that each individual would--would accept Christ as their Healer and--and would be healed. That's what the purpose of the meeting is for. See? It's impossible almost for me to get to each one. And I hurry just as quick as I can. If you'll notice with each patient, when I think that the appropriate faith is there, I go ahead and pray for the person. Now, it'll be just the same for each one of you out there in the audience. Each one of you that'll accept it and
believe it, it'll be just the same to you there as it is up here. Now, the only thing this does to the person that does come up to the platform, it'll almost could tell whether it's really, really faith or not.
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Now, you meet me on the street and say, "Brother Branham, what about..." I probably know nothing about that. But now, on the platform when someone meets me, then I--it's not me that's speaking. When you hear my voice speaking when that inspiration is on, I--I have no more control of that than you know what you're going to say next New Year's day. I--I do not have no control of that; It speaks Itself. It's my voice, and I'm listening to myself talk just as you're listening to me now talk. I hear myself, what It says to the people. And-and then I know then... Sometimes take ahold of their hand, I'll wait there, and after while I'll hear what It speaks, just hear myself speak, talking to the people. It's a very strange feeling. And under that anointing, being that my services are so close together, that it's best for me not to be too much under it at a time in one service. And Moses of old was committed--the Lord committed to him two signs to do before the people. And he performed those signs one time and that's was all he did it. Israel believed from then on and--and followed the leader. Why, these signs, is not for you to follow me, but to follow what I tell you. And that sign is this: that you are to follow the Lord Jesus Christ. The Holy Spirit will lead you. And then when you're told something up here at the platform, you must believe that with all your heart. And the purpose of this is that the people... There may be somebody in the prayer line tonight that I'll know, have met somewhere else. Probably when that anointing was on I would not recognize them: sometimes I do and sometimes I do not. But if--if I would, well, er... Now, I've met... Two or three times I've met people like that, but very seldom. Then I have no way of knowing what's wrong with that patient or what they've done in their life. And many things that--that they do not wish to be told out here at the platform, but I can't help it, It--It speaks Itself.
Now... And if It tells you exactly what has been in your life, and you know that, you--you--you're aware of that, and you're aware... The first thing when the patient comes, if you'll watch then when they come reverent, when they get real near, watch the expression on their face change. It'll change me, and I... Some of them... There's a picture back there when the Angel of the Lord was up
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over me when they had the picture taken. Said, "Brother Branham, that don't look like you." No, it set... When It's just that close to you It just changes you; you're--there's something different, you're... Something happens. Then when the patient's coming, they will... If they're a believer... Now, if you're not a believer, if you're just coming just for curiosity, or maybe you're a little skeptic about the Angel of the Lord, you'll never notice it. See, only those who are looking for God are the ones who find God. Only those... When the woman touched the hem of His garment, why, she said, "If I may but touch Him, I'll be made well." Why, she thought the virtue went out; she got what she wanted. But those who put a rag over His face and--and smote Him on the face and said, "Now if you're a prophet prophesy and tell us who hit you." they didn't feel any virtue at all. They wasn't feeling for it. They didn't believe it. But the ones who believed it was the ones who received it. And that's the way it is with salvation. Those who believe God... If someone said, "I do not believe in the baptism of the Holy Spirit." He'll never be able to receive it until you believe it. That's right. You got to believe it. For all things of God are by faith.
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And then when you see the person here... The benefit of having them on the platform... Usually I would never have to have a prayer line, just stand here in the audience and maybe speak to the people right out in... I have done that, but it's so strenuous. Usually I have to wait till the anointing gets real deep and then maybe I can single out the people where they're--the sick ones out in the audience. Many times I see the people that's crippled, or afflicted, or something like that, and I--I know what's wrong with them, they're... I could tell them what was wrong, but that's no mystery; anyone could see anyone was crippled. That... Any could say, "Well, sure, he said that person had arthritis. Why certainly, look at them all crippled up. And that man's blind, that they're leading him around, why, he's blind. Why certainly, anyone would know that." But the person that looks healthy and then go down and tell that person, now, that's the difference. That--that--there's where the mystery part comes, that's not a mystery, it's a--for the people, the children of God to recognize that their Saviour is present. You see?
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Now, I truly believe that the coming of the Lord is nigh at hand. These things would not be taking place, children of God, unless something was going happen. Now, I do not claim
to be knowing all things of God. And I do not say that this is what the Lord has told me, for many times I say things, "I believe this or believe that." like you do. That doesn't make it so. I can... You say, "Brother Branham, you pray for me. You believe I'll get well?" Yes, I can believe it, but I won't know it until He tells me so. Then when I see the vision that it is, then I know it's going to be. And in doing that that weakens my faith a little on the other side (You see?), because I'm looking to that direct positive side always. And that's what hurts in my meeting many times. The people watch to get into the line to get that direct positive side of what's going to happen to them. You see what I mean?
And--and as far as I know, the best of my knowledge, to all of the people that I--have come before me to be prayed for, there has never been one time in all my life that I can remember praying for the sick when I absolutely saw the vision and told them that the Lord Jesus had healed them but what was well. Now, I never seen it my... See, I never seen it... I seen... Many times I've seen the people on the platform and knew they were going to die: turns dark around them. And I--I know they're not long. I'll say, "Go, and may the Lord Jesus bless you. Go, and have faith in God." Now, maybe He show me that that person, death is on the person, I can't overcome it. Maybe if I could set down with that person awhile, talk with them, take a long time, twenty, thirty minutes, sometimes a hour, and just speak to the person till God will show the vision, then there may be something told to that person that would cause them to repent of something that--that's maybe--or some promise they could make to God that would bring God's favor to them and heal them, because many times God pronounces something and then He changes His mind on it. Did you know that? A king one time was told by the prophet that he was going to die. You remember that? And the prophet, after he give his message, walked right back out of the room, and the king turned his face to the wall and wept bitterly, said, "Lord, I beseech You. I've walked before You with a--with a pure heart." And now he wanted his life spared for fifteen years so something to glorify God. And the prophet had done gone, but the Spirit of the Lord come upon the prophet after God done told him he was going to die, said, "Go back." And the prophet told him in three days he was coming off his bed, that God heard his prayer. So prayer changes things. Isn't that right? So prayer changes things. So therefore, I ask the people then to
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Now, but each individual... And my--my business here, I see our land that... The reason that I'm figuring on... This will probably be my last trip through the country for some time, unless the Holy Spirit leads. Our... We're got many great campaigns out on the field, hundreds of them. I noticed in the "Voice of Healing" this month (Brother Lindsay's paper back there), there was many many new ones had come in. And look like we're kinda getting in one another's way. So it's a--too many in--even in one city, so I think that God used me to go out, which I'm thankful to let the little sparks begin to fly now that the thing is kindled everywhere. And I pray that God will not only use those brothers out there, but will send hundreds of more campaigns everywhere, everywhere. And I feel that after a bit I'll probably spend a--most of my life in the--in the foreign field. And I come and... And 'course I'll have to have a little finance to carry me on, and then maybe have a few meetings till the people send me again back into lands of the Africa and different places. Now, I don't believe it'll be very long till our Lord Jesus comes.
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Now, remember this. Now, this is not the Lord speaking; this is your brother, Brother Branham. And the best of my knowledge... Now, just remember this and watch it close. We are in for the end time. Watch geographically where your war is coming out. See? Watch the Gog up there coming down (See?), down in Turkey and so... The battles will not be settled in Korea but over there in Palestine. See? We're--we're near. And I--I'd appreciate it... And yesterday I--or this morning, I believe it was, I almost...?... joy when I heard that-that the Brother Graham, Billy Graham, is going to have a meeting there in Washington. I--I was so happy for that, but I'm--I'm just a little afraid that is, that we've sinned away our day of grace. I--I believe we're in for it. When we come to a place where we join up and won't--and would throw aside the Bible and not even offer prayer, nor nothing else to appease some ungodly nation that doesn't believe in God, we're in for it. That's right. Yes, sir. I said that from the beginning, so how can two walk together except they be agreed? That's true. And when we throw off Christ, we--we refused the cross, and now we got a double cross, haven't we? That's right. That's--that's what it is. All right, so much and God bless you now, as...
I want to read just, set, maybe three little, or four little sermonettes like, or little teachings here on the Book of Exodus. I want to read some out of the Book of Exodus over in the--the 3rd chapter. And I will watch the clock and hurry. And just as it gets time, then I'll cut off and take up again tomorrow night. We want to study just a little bit in the Book of Exodus. How many would like that, let's see your hands; just--just study a little bit on the Church? Now, the 3rd chapter, I'll read for a portion of Scripture. Wish we had time just to... At home, we used to take these lessons in Exodus, and Genesis, and so forth, and just teach them, just those old nuggets. And oh, what a time we had with them. And I thought it would... I would just like to try it again right here while we're not crowded, just for a few nights in Exodus the 3rd chapter. Listen closely now to the reading of the Word. Now Moses kept the flock of Jethro his father in law, the priest of Midian: and he led the flock to the backside of the desert, and came to the mount of God, even to Horeb. And the angel of the Lord appeared unto him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush: and he looked, and, behold, the bush burned with fire, and the bush was not consumed.
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Now, shall we bow our heads just a moment. Our heavenly Father, we have come here tonight for a compound reason. We've come that people might be saved by believing on the Lord Jesus, then that they--the sick might be healed by believing on the Lord Jesus. Therefore, our fathers has taught Thy Word, and You have worked great miracles with our fathers. And we are--are happy to be their children today, to inherit the rights of being a free American where we can open the Bible and teach, and believe God, and worship Him according to the dictates of our conscience. We're very happy for this privilege. We ask You to bless those who paid the supreme price on the battlefronts everywhere that's given us this hour of freedom. O Eternal God, have mercy. But we realize that the dark clouds are floating high now, and that they're going to get darker according to Thy Word. And we're so thankful to know that we're children of the Light tonight, that we have the Light of God in us. And we are happy that our heavenly Father has so blessed us in this last day, of pouring out His Spirit, giving us the Holy Spirit to live by and to
enjoy; and now, has given us great signs and wonders: mysterious things to the world, but not mysterious to those who believe in You. For we've been looking for these days.
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And now, to think that here on the platform in this tabernacle where once stood great men, the founder, our brother, Paul Rader, and many of those great men who stood here. And tonight, the Christ that they preached is coming down in great power, manifesting Himself, sending forth His Angel to declare His Light. O God, have mercy upon us. And may we pinch, as it was, our conscience, waking ourselves up to the realization that the time is drawing nigh. Deliverance is at the door. And we're ready for the journey. Help us to put on the full armor of God now tonight, get ready, buckle up, shod ourselves with the Gospel, put the helmet of righteousness, the breastplate, and the armor, and take the sword, and go forward now (Grant it, Lord), as full dressed warriors tonight of Christ. May every demon of darkness be driven back. May the power of the Holy Ghost come down in this building, the Angel of God appear visibly right here on the platform tonight, giving us such a shaking like we've never had before. Grant it, Lord. May many be healed tonight and saved. For we ask it in the Name of Thy Child, Jesus. Amen.
I believe that all of the old things was a type of the new to come. What Israel was in the natural, we are in the spiritual. God leading Israel naturally, was what He's doing for us spiritually today. We're all very familiar with this Scripture that I've just read. And we're going to try to set forth tonight, God preparing for the--the journey, God setting His Church in order, then God's exodus of the Church--taking it out, God's journey with the people in the wilderness. And then the last call where Joshua takes the children of Israel over into the promised land. Oh, I trust that God will make Hisself visible to us, so real. I don't know what more He could do. He's never done hardly anything in the ages past any more than what He's doing now. And to think that we have the privilege of being alive here tonight. Well, that thrills my heart beyond my words to utter, how I appreciate that what God is doing for us now in this present day. And to think that God has given me the privilege to share His blessing with His people, you, the purchase of His Blood. That I, by this that He has given, might be able to show Him to you, and to bring you to a closer fellowship with Him, that's more than my heart could even comprehend.
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Now, we all are familiar with the Scripture of how Israel came down into Egypt. It was because of a famine. He was driven down there from starvation. The story is very pathetic. All the Old Testament speaking of the New... I believe in Hebrews 12, It said, "Seeing that we're compassed about with such a great cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin that does so easily beset us, that we might run with patience the race that's set before us." Amen.
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All right. Joseph, one of the patriarchs, sold down into Egypt, perfect type of Christ, betrayed by his brethren, sold for a few pieces of silver--about thirty pieces, about like Christ was. He wore a coat of many colors, as Christ was seen in Revelations 1 setting on a throne and a rainbow over Him... There's seven perfect colors representing the seven church ages. Rainbow representing a covenant, He was to look upon as jasper and sardis stone, which was Reuben and Benjamin, the First, the Last, He that was, which is, and shall come, the Root and Offspring of David, the Morning Star... How marvelous. And with the covenant to His Churches, seven golden candlesticks behind Him, each candlestick representing a church age. And we're living in the Laodicean age, the last. And He was standing with His hands out to look upon. And there, one hand like this was Alpha, the other one as Omega. As the lights went out, on up to the dark ages and come down; just as they come in, so will they go out, the same kind of Church, same kind of signs, same kind of people, Alpha and Omega.
Oh, my. Then I think of God speaking to Joseph. After he was taken up, he was the blessed child. There's why I believe that men are borned in this world to do certain things. Joseph could be nothing else but a prophet, for he was borned a prophet. God foreordained Joseph to be a prophet. No matter how much cursings and kickings he got around, he was God's prophet. He had to be. Gifts and callings are without repentance. Notice. Then he was taken up, supposingly, out of the pit to have been dead, like Christ was raised up. And he set at Pharaoh's right-hand. When he was in his prison, like Christ with His cross, there's one thief lost and one saved; so was there in Joseph, one butcher and the baker, one was lost and one was saved. Joseph foretold them what would be their destination, and so did Jesus at the cross. And notice. Then when he died, Joseph, he made mention of
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his bones, saying, "Surely God will visit you someday. And when you go out, take my bones with you." What a perfect type of Christ, exactly.
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Now, those Hebrews, when they were being bondaged and beaten, and the taskmasters upon them beating them, slaves; many an old Hebrew would pass by that coffin and would look in there, and see the bones of Joseph. He could look up and say, "Someday we're going out, for our prophet, our brother, has said that someday his bones would go before us. God's Word said that they would go out of there." God had told Abraham years before. And they had a promise. And every tired Hebrew could look upon that and say, "There's the promise of God." What a great promise we have today. When we stand at the grave and see our loved ones go down, a few of those flowers crushed in the minister's hand, ashes to ashes, dust to dust, and earth to earth, but down through the old pine trees whispers, the wind blowing,
There's a land beyond the river, That they call the sweet forever. We only reach that shore by faith's decree; THE.ANGEL.OF.THE.LORD_ LA.CA WEDNESDAY_ 51-0502
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Notice. Then we look at that tomb, that grave mound up. Then we can look over yonder in Jerusalem. There's one that's empty. He's coming again to receive those... All that are dead in Christ shall come with Him. God shall bring them from... And today, when we bury or children, and our mothers and fathers, we hear that ceremony. Then we sh--close our eyes, look away to Jerusalem. "If I go away, I'll come again to receive you unto Myself, that where I am, there ye may be also." Taskmasters and sickness may drive us. That's right. It's drove us. Death has drove us to the grave. But as Paul of old, when he was ready to die, and they fixing the chop block to fix--cut his head off, he said, "O grave, where is thy victory? Death, where is thy sting?" In other words, "Death, you're coming. You're trying to scare me, but you can't scare me." The grave said, "I can hold you." "You can't do it, for in Jerusalem there's an empty tomb. You can't hold me. Where is your sting? Show me where you can make me scared of you. I'm not afraid to die. Grave, show me your victory. You can't do it, for I can point an empty tomb to you, and I am in Him. And those that are in Him will God bring with Him." There you are. Just as sure as He arose from the
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What a perfect type Joseph was, and Christ the antitype. Then we notice that years passed by, and they fared sus--sumptuously. But finally there rose up a Pharaoh who did not know Joseph. God was fixing His Church now to bring It out. And I believe that we fared sus--sumptuously. In the early days there was a great persecution against religion. And as we know in Revelations and so forth, where the woman fled into the wilderness and was nourished there for a time, time, and the dividing of time. And we're down to that end time now.
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The word of the little lamb that rose up in Revelations 13, a lamb. Two little... Probably a little horn--civil and ecclesiastical power. But after is lamb, freedom of religion and so forth. But after while, he spake like a beast, like the dragon, and exercised all the power the dragon did before him, a bitter religious persecution. We're nearing that time. You remember, Church, that you're living in the best day that you've ever will live in, right now, until Jesus comes. It shall gradually... Not gradually, but rapidly get worse and worse. When Russia goes down there to get that oil, look out. That's all she needs. That's what the prophet said it would do. And we're ready for it then. So Church, get ready to meet Christ. He's sending great revivals and meetings, and stirring the full Gospel people. Signs and wonders appearing everywhere, Great wonders to draw His people together. And one day He shall come, the deliverer.
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Now, notice. Just before He taken them out to the promised land, they begin to cry, bitterly cry. The taskmasters was heavy. And he begin to bitterly cry to God. And when they did, God had a little boy born down there, a very peculiar birth, Moses. You know the story of how he was put in the bulrushes, and the--the little ark was slimed and pitched. And Pharaoh's daughter raised him, or was supposed to be her foster child. And when he come to the age of where he should be on the work of God, why... about forty years old, one day he went out and identified himself with Israel thinking surely that they ought to know that he was their deliverer. And when he killed the Egyptian, slew him, the next day he found Hebrew brethren stroving amongst one another, and
they discovered his sin and told him. And at this Moses fled into the wilderness, rejected of his brethren, just like Christ was rejected of His brethren.
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And notice. Then Moses taken unto himself Zipporah, a wife... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]... So one morning there, the Pillar of Fire came out of the heavens and dropped down into a bush. And Moses looked, and the bush was on fire, but the bush would not burn up. God was doing all of this to attract the attention of Moses. And when God saw that Moses turned aside... Oh, my. How today the Church is in bondage of sickness. The Church is crying, been crying for years for deliverance. Some of you old people here has cried to God for numbers of years, "God send the gifts back to the Church." Have you done it? Many of you. Years ago, sent and prayed all night at a time. And we're on the age of the march, I believe. We're ready. God's calling His Church spiritual together. Just as all the Church come together... The word "church" means "the called out.
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Today we come through all kinds of dogmas and denominations. And each fellow having his own idea, "Look through my glasses and you'll see Him." But God has got to a place now that He's sick and tired of those things. And He's calling His people together in one accord, setting together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus, Christ coming down with them revealing Himself to them. Amen. Oh, my, I just love that: Church spiritual, getting ready now.
All right. Notice now, that... Then when God spoke to him, attracted his attention by a Pillar of Fire that fell into a bush and begin to burn and pop, and burn. Now, looks like if it was fire, it would've scorched the bush or burned it. But it was a supernatural Fire Who could burn the bush, and yet it would still be there. Amen. I'm thankful tonight for a supernatural, the Holy Spirit, God's Flame of Fire, Who could come down in the human heart, burn out all the sin, unbelief. Don't harm the person, but It purges him, make him grow greater, be stronger, more faith. And He comes tonight in that way. He can come down into a human body, drive out the power of cancer, tumor, cataract, tuberculosis with fire, heavenly Holy Spirit Fire falling from God out of heaven. Why, my, that's no mystery. If He can burn inbred sin out, how much more can He
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burn cancer out by the same Holy Spirit. Amen. We've got witnesses on both sides. Men and women who were once sinners lost in sin, come to the world speaking lies, shaped in iniquity.
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A harlot on the street, so immoral that hardly maybe a decent person would look at. The Holy Spirit can take that same woman and make a saint out of her, take the desire of sin from her. When the religions of the world met here some forty years ago, old Doctor Magney represented the Holiness religion of America. When all Buddha had their say and so forth, their beauty, the different isms put forth their beauty and their flowers, and all their different flowerly speeches, our little brother stood up. He told a story of a vile woman that lived in Oklahoma years ago who broke all the speed laws coming through the streets driving a carriage with a cigar in her mouth, a big gun on each side. And she killed so many men, and done so many bloody deeds until when the law caught her, they poured tar and feathers on her, and taken wires to kill her. They wouldn't want to get that close to her. When he told the story with such--with such a spiritual feelings to it until his audience was sitting on the ends of their seats, ready to hear what he had to say. Then he said, "Gentlemen of the religions of this world, has your religion got anything that would clean the hands of this vile woman?" No one said nothing. Tears rolled down his cheeks, as he clapped his hands together, jumped up in the air, kicked his heels together, said, "The Blood of Jesus Christ won't only clean her hands but will clean her heart." Hallelujah! Yes, the Blood of Christ won't only clean hands, but it'll clean the heart, make the vilest sinner a new person, purified, cleansed by the Holy Spirit, give them their inheritance that they lost long ago by the fall, put them in relationship with God to become sons and daughters. Amen. It's enough to stir the heart of anybody.
Just as sure then that Jesus rose from the grave, so will we. Them that are in Christ, there... Then I seen Moses as he turns aside to look at the bush; he sees the fire burning. Then God seen He attracted Moses' attention. And when He did that, He said, "Take off your shoes, you're on holy ground." Well, what if Moses said, "I'll just take off my hat?" That wouldn't work. He said, "Shoes." That's right.
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Somebody said, "I'll just join church, and that'll be just as good." He said you got to be born again. That's right. Join church is all right, but He said you got to be born again or you won't get into the Kingdom of heaven. That's old fashion preaching, but it's the truth, brother. That's right. It'll make a new creature out of you.
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All right. "Take off your shoes, come in respects; you're on holy ground." He seen this Pillar of Fire. He said, "I've heard the cries of My people down in Egypt and the reasons of the taskmasters, and they're groaning and crying to Me all day and night. And I've come down to deliver them. And I'm going to send you down there now." Oh, my. Deliverance on the road. Yes, sir. Just as soon as He gets an order, deliverance is there. He's setting the picture together now for a great drama. I believe that God that lived in Moses' time is the same Jehovah today. And I believe now that the Holy Spirit has come upon the Church, calling the people out, getting them ready. The word "church" means "called out." God's called out of every denomination a people, cleansing them from their sins, filling them with the Holy Spirit, setting them aside for service, for the great march is coming.
Just reminds me of here not long ago, I was asking them about the picture of "The Last Supper" (Someone give it to me recently.), of how the painting, the light in it. And it cost the man the lifetime that painted that picture. Any famous picture, before it can be put in hall of fame, it has to go through all the critics first before it can be put in the hall of fame. And then after it's passed all the criticisms, and still can stand the test, then she's hung up in the hall of fame. The little Church, for years it's been pushed back. This is big words for a Baptist, but it's been pushed back, called holyroller, a bunch of people that's crazy, acting foolish. That's right. I know we got some impersonators. That's true. But we've got some genuine Holy Ghost material. Yes, we have. The devil will point you to the bad side every way. Lets the off-falls. Just remember, in there... She's been criticized and criticized, and pushed back.
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As I said the other night, many times I look out and see these old dads out here and mothers who stood on the street corners and testified, when people would laugh at them and
starve them to death, nearly. And here we come into big fine churches like this. Why, I'm just running down the highway that you paved. That's true. But brother, the little Church has been pushed back and pushed back till after a while God has come down here in these last days. He sent the gifts, putting His Church in order. She stood the criticism. They said, "Pentecost and Holiness will die out," years ago. But It's becoming the greatest Church there is on the face of the earth. Last year, nationally know, one million five hundred thousand conversions last year. Hallelujah! What's the matter? The gifts are in Her. Churches from everywhere is pleading to see it. Hallelujah! God's going to hang Her in the hall of fame.
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One of these mornings, She'll go up in the air to meet the Lord after She's went through these hard tests. That's right. Great picture, persecuted, laughed at. But God's bringing Her out. She's held right on. You cried for deliverance. Sickness broke out among you; diseases, cancers, blindness. That's the thing that's been harming the Church. Then the Church begin to cry, "O God, send the restoration of the gifts." Oh, my. I hope you pardon this personal expression, but about a few years ago... I believe with all my heart, the same Pillar of Fire that came down in the burning bush, swept to this earth again. I believe It's in our midst tonight. If God could do that, and bring deliverance in the days gone by in the church natural, so will He in Church spiritual. And I believe tonight, that the same Pillar of Fire that led the children of Israel is here tonight leading the Church spiritual now, delivering them. You can only be di--delivered by faith.
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God went down there and told Moses, "Set yourself. Go down there and tell the people. I'll harden Pharaoh's heart, 'cause he don't believe." And do--could you imagine, that how a man that rejects Light... When God went down there with Moses, it wasn't Moses; It was God. And God said, "I will send an Angel before thee to keep thee in the way, and to bring thee to the place that I have prepared." Is that right? And when the children of Israel seen this Angel, He was a Pillar of Fire. Is that right? Amen. I'm just old fashion enough to believe that God is the same yesterday, today, and forever. That the same God, with the same power...
Now, when He appeared back there first, He was a whirlwind in a bush to me when He appeared. And I come as Moses of old to tell you not to follow me, follow Christ. Believe Him, that He's here--here to heal all the sick and the needy. Do you believe it? And I believe He's here to heal those who have need of Him, save those, put those in harness of God (Do you believe that?), send them out to be soul-winners and to preach the Gospel. How marvelous He is. How good.
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Now, notice. In the old days, when God told Moses, "Now, you go, and I'll send an Angel before you to keep you in the way, and to bring you into the place which I have prepared. Beware of Him. Obey His Voice, for He will not pardon your transgressions, for My Name is in Him." That Angel was the Angel of the covenant, which was Christ Jesus. The people, many of them, did not believe it. Those who did not believe, perished. Those who did believe went on into the promised land. And the men who reject Light went into total darkness. And I believe today, those who reject the Holy Spirit in the Light of God, the days of miracles, and so forth, go out back into total darkness. Did you see how Pharaoh's heart, how dark it got. He did not have nothing to do no more with the Israelites. He showed them no favor, because he hardened his heart against the Light. And men who harden their heart against the Light walk in darkness. Amen.
Time's up. Brother, sister, in the Name of our Lord, please get me right now. What am I trying to say to you? That God Who came out in the old days, and led the Church of God out of the--Egypt, the bondage into freedom, has come down again in the same manner to lead His Church spiritual out of bondage of sin first, by the Holy Spirit, sickness next, and the third step is to go into glory: take this mortal and make it immortality, the transfiguration of the human bodies, to transform them into the perfect image of the Son of God. Please, believe with all your heart. I can't make no one believe. I--I can only... I can only speak what I--my convictions is to be truth. And if I speak the truth, surely God will confirm the truth and will heal the sick and the needy.
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Now, as I pray for the sick, I want each one of you out there to be--to be aware of this: That the Holy Spirit is right
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out over this audience tonight to heal anybody that's in the audience. Now, this may be a little different from what you--you seen of brethren pray for the sick. I can only do as God tells me to do. I can only say as He says for me to do. And if I tell the truth, then God will testify that I told the truth. Now, what I'm afraid of is this, dear friends. What I'm afraid of, if it was back there, it'll have to be that way. Because when our Mast... when Moses came, many refused Moses because he was a man. When Jesus came, many of them refused Jesus because He was a man: Said, "Him being a man make Himself equal with God." Now, He was God manifested in the flesh. So there'll never be a man like Him on earth. That's right. There'll never be a man like Him. But He ordained certain things to be done. And then, it's so hard sometimes for people to see that, because a man said so. He said, "I'll do a work in the last days; though a man bring it, they will not believe it." That's right. He... That's the Scripture. How many knows that's Scripture? He'd do... "though a man would bring it, speak it." Now, it's hard. The hardest thing that God has ever gotten to do--or had to do, was to get one mortal to believe another. You'd believe anything almost, but a--a one person believing another. That's a hard thing. And I've... I have just taught this. For years I've tried... Ever since I've been out to stand back and try to keep out of the picture, just as much as I possibly could, so they would see the Lord Jesus. See? Stand back... And I want you now to look to what I'm pointing to, not because I'm telling you this: That the Angel of the Lord... How many's seen the picture of It back there at the counter? Let's see your... You should see it. I wished I could afford to give them--and give them every one to you. Just about cost us what we got on there. And we'll be glad if you can get it. We just a very few of them left that we have.
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But first they had it so copyrighted and everything till we couldn't even touch it by no means. But I got a hold of it. And there, they was charging so much for it and everything, till they made thousands times thousands of dollars out of it, over there in Houston and around. And then when I got a hold of it myself, myself, I let it back to the people just at the cost. First I was afraid to touch it. There is the same supernatural Being. I say this as a minister of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, fearing God, knowing that someday I must stand before Him in His
Presence to give an account for every word that I've said on this earth. I realize that. And I may be wrong. And if I am wrong, Almighty God forgive me, for I don't mean to be that way. But awhile ago when I made a--a personal, just a little personal saying about myself, about ten people got up and walked out. Well, there it is. If people were concerned about your soul, friends, you'd set down and solve the thing through, and not be so cut and dried in your own ideas. Someone's got to go to heaven, and someone's going the other way. So I guess there you are. "They have ears but they can't hear, eyes and they can't see. Is that right?
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Now, I want you to know that that Angel of God is no more to do with me that It is to do with you. That It's an Angel sent down from heaven. And if you don't believe Angels are ministering Spirits sent from the Presence of God, then you don't know the Bible. Yes, sir. Someone said, "Brother Branham, Angels is only for the Old Testament." Why, that's a error. The New Church had more Angels ministerings than what the Old Testament did. Yes, sir. Well they said, "The Holy Ghost leads the Church." That's correct. The Holy Ghost is over all. This is the body. And it's true. But there's also ministering Spirits sent from the Presence of God. We know that Mary and all those, they seen Angels. And we know the New Church seen Angels.
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How about, you say, "Do you believe Philip had the Holy Ghost? Philip the evangelist?" After the Pentecost, he had the Holy Ghost, didn't he? But Who was it told him to go out to the desert at Gaza? The Angel of the Lord came down (Is that right?) when he was having that revival at Samaria. Peter had the Holy Ghost. Do you believe that? And while they was having a prayer meeting for him at John Mark's house, the Angel of the Lord... What was it? A Light shined in the window. And the Angel of the Lord touched him and dropped the shackles off of him, and put him outside of the building. Is that right? And Peter had the Holy Ghost. Is that right? Paul the apostle had the Holy Ghost. Do you believe it? But after fourteen days, after no sun, moon, stars, Paul was absence for a long space down to galley, praying. And he came out on the deck and said, "Be of a good cheer, for the Angel of God, Whose servant I am, appeared to me last night and told me what things would be. And I believe God. It'll be just as He showed me." Is that right?
The whole Book of Revelations was showed John by an Angel. "I, Jesus, have sent My Angel to testify." Is that right? So Angels are ministering Spirits, usually come in the form of lights. And I truly, personally, as I started to say awhile ago, with my Bible over my heart, I believe that the Angel of God... I've seen It since I was a little boy. In that little cabin they I told me He come in, that you seen the picture that the lady drawed last night, of a little cabin where I was born. That doesn't make me even equal with the Church, or the people. That's right. It isn't the idea today, who's great and who's not great. The idea of it today is to get people to believe the Lord Jesus.
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Now, God always works through man. Man is God's agency. Do you believe that? Jesus said, "As you have believed in God, believe also in Me." Now, the people that believed in God crucified Him. Is that right? thinking they were doing God's service. Now, I want to be honest with you. I think and believe that... The only way I can see that God sent His Angel down. I've seen It many times. I've... It's... I happened to be borned at that time, or somehow to... God just had mercy upon me and give me the privilege of taking this out. And that doesn't mean even I'll be saved. I may be lost, maybe lost at that day. If I am, I'll love Him no matter where I am. If I've got a conscious of Him, I'll still love Him if He turns me down. I'll love Him with all my heart.
Now, I believe He sent His same Angel. I have seen It. I've told people. Hundreds of Christians seen It come down visibly before ten thousand people one day when I was baptizing. They looked at It and seen It; the papers carried articles of it. Said it looked like a star appearing over a Baptist minister while baptizing at Jeffersonville. I seen It up there near Ft. Wayne, Indiana, that night when I was standing there. And It come right down through the building. I was praying for a little boy, crippled. And there was a Nazarene girl playing the piano there, "The Great Physician Now Is Near." And I was praying for the little boy. And I thought the custodian turned the light in my face. And I thought, "That's ill-mannered." I looked up, and here come that Whirl of Fire, going, "Whew." [Brother Branham illustrates.-Ed.] Come right to me where I was at.
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I dropped the little boy, or he jumped out of my arms, or something. His little feet was drawed down by polio. And his-he hit the floor, and his little feet become normal. I'll give you the mother's address and those that... There he started walking off. His mother fainted when she seen the little lad. The Angel of the Lord was still near.
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The Nazarene girl looked up. And when she seen what had happened, she jumped up from the piano right away, and her hair fell down. She begin screaming and shouting, and the piano played the song completely through, "The great Physician now is near, the sympathizing Jesus. He speaks to drooping hearts to cheer, no... There seventeen hundred people rushed to the altar, giving their hearts to Christ when they seen the ivory keys of that piano moving back and forth, the "Great Physician Now Is Near." I tell you: God's still God. Here at Camden not long ago, when I was trying my best to explain to the people. They were setting starchy. Down through the audience, I said, "I will not have to speak farther. Here He comes now." Here He come down through the audience, whirling around. A minister from California by the name of Adams up here, rushed to me. The Light was so, he stopped and shut his eyes, like that. And a photographer setting close took the picture. There it is in my book.
Then down at Houston, Texas, when a... own... Right in my own faith, the Baptist church, a minister discussing before many many thousands of people there in a big stadium. They was all discussing. This minister said, "I'd like to see that miracle worker. I like to see him," just acting smart. And Doctor Bosworth, he was the manager at that time, said, "I know Brother Branham's in here." I was up in balcony thirty. He said, "If he wants to come down and dismiss the audience, all right." When I walked down, I said, "Brethren, I only testify for the truth. I am not a Divine healer." I said, "My literature is published practically in every language under heaven; I've spoke direct or indirect to around five or six million people. And never did I ever say that I was a Divine healer. But to the contrary, I said Jesus Christ is the only Healer there is." I said, "He has sent me with signs and wonders," I said, "which is infallible. I can prove that tonight." I said, "That's infallible. And if I speak the truth, God will testify of me. If I speak not the truth, He will have nothing to do with me." And about that time from heaven, here He come whirling down
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And a photographer who had been hired, on the American Photographer's Association, come there to take six pictures of the man that was holding the debate--by the enemy. He snapped six pictures of him. And they asked all of them, the Look, Life, and Time, and them reporters to get back, take no pictures because they sell them. And this man run forward and shot a picture of It. And that night... He was an Orthodox Jew. The other man that was with him was a Roman Catholic. They took the picture home, put it in the--the acids to develop it. And to find out... And when they brought it out, my enemy's picture... Not my enemy, I wouldn't say that. He was an enemy of Christ, saying that he did... even denied healing of Christ. He said, "Lazarus died, and Jesus spay--supposed to rise him again," said, "then he died again." He said, "When this corruption puts on incorruption, this mortal put on immortality." Doctor Bosworth said, "I believe every word of that. But we're talking about Divine healing, the earnest of our salvation. That's what we're speaking of. If there's no Divine healing, there's no redemption of the body. We have the earnest, the down payment of our salvation now." Amen.
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Notice. And then when the man pulled out those six pictures of the minister that was debating that the Divine healing, and I was a devil and so forth. Every one of them was solid black and blank. There's his name and address. Send to the American Photographers Association and find out. When he pulled out the one he snapped, there was the Angel of God's picture whirling around where I was at. The first time in all the world's history that a supernatural Being was ever photographed. It was rushed to Washington, DC, copyrighted, sent back and give to George J. Lacy, J. Edgar Hoover's, examiner. They kept it two days at the Shell Building in Houston. And when he come over there, and they all set out there together to find out what it was all about, he said, "Whose name is Branham?" I said, "Mine, sir." He said, "Stand up." He looked, said, "Mr. Branham, you'll die like all mortals do. But as long as there's a Christian civilization, your picture will never die." He said, "Because it's the first time in all the world's history that a supernatural
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Being was ever photographed." He said, "The old hypocrite has always said, "They... Scientifically, you can't prove there is a God." But said, "That has to be changed now, for here's scientifically... The Angel of God was there, and the Light struck the negative." There it was. There he signed... wrote out a big document, signed his name to it. There it is right back there. You can look at it yourself. There's the Angel of the Lord.
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Brother, sister, if I don't come here tomorrow night, and you never see me again 'less I'm in a casket somewhere, I still say that God has testified that I've told the truth. The Church knows it by signs and wonders; the scientist knows it by scientific research. And this same... I believe that's the same Pillar of Fire that followed the children of Israel. It's not me; it's Him. He can fail to come tonight. I have--have nothing to do with it. It's your faith that believes that it brings It down here to this present tense. Hallelujah. Don't think I'm excited. I'm not. I know what I'm speaking about. The Angel of God on the water of the pool of Bethesda, it was not the water that done the healing; it was the Angel that was on the water, and the faith of the people that stepped into it. Jesus said, "I can do nothing in Myself, but what the Father showeth Me to do... Whatever I seeth the Father doeth, that doeth the Son likewise."
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It's your faith. God has to have some sort of an object. He sent His Word. You... That's the real foundation there, the Word. Then He finds out that people has misconstrued It and set it this way and that way. Then when He sees the end drawing nigh, the time for deliverance again, He sends an Angel down out of heaven that verifies it, proves it scientifically to the Church by the witness today. If Jesus should come today, the world is without an excuse. Amen. He's here. Someone said, "Brother Branham, aren't you afraid to make such statements as that?" No, sir. I've stood before tens of thousands, critics setting everywhere. I've never seen a time but what God always brought the deliverance. I've seen the critics come. A hypnotizer once was going to come to hypnotize...?... Yeah, what the... And the man's paralyzed yet tonight. That's right. Said, "You child of the devil, why do you try to deceive God?" One come to the platform one time, making out something; a minister of a certain church. His sins was called out, and he fell on the platform. We're not living in the days of playing church;
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I'm thankful to be alive tonight. I'm thankful for the privilege to witness for my Lord, the power of His resurrection. Yes. And if no one in the world ever believes it but myself, I believe it with all my heart. But I'm thankful to give witness to tens of thousands, yes, into the millions that believe it, and believes. And I believe that God's going to let me live to pack it until all around the world it's been circulated. I believe when I get into those dark lands of Africa over there, where those poor people that's deprived and set back, I believe there'll be literally thousands times thousands of them accept our Lord Jesus when they see His power, and feeling the sweetening in different places. When they see them miracles raise up and tell the people, even when they're speaking their own language and tell them what it was, and it'd perfect every time. They'll fall by the hundreds at the altar and repent of their sins: Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today, and forever. Amen.
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Let's bow our heads. Our heavenly Father, oh, my heart gets warm, real warm. The old world is judgment ripened. It won't be long till it'll be over. But oh, Father, while the hour of visitation is here, grant that Your children will see Lord, quickly. May great faith be built, translating faith, great faith that'll just make the people be ready for the great translation. Now, there's sick in here tonight, Lord. They're needy. Help. May that great Pillar of Fire that's showed there in the picture... Lord... That that I feel moving in my soul now, quietening these nerves from... I--I believe, Lord, that You're here to make manifest that what I've said. Grant tonight that Your people will be caught away on the wings of faith, flying beyond this faltery sense bound world, bound to their senses. Grant tonight that they'll break out into that realm of faith beyond the senses, and accept You, and believe, and walk from this building, and be made well. Grant it, Lord. For we ask it in the Name of Thy Son Jesus. Amen.
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You love Him? Honestly, tomorrow night I'll try to get just a little earlier. I love you, and you got such a respond out there. I don't get a chance every often to push my soul out like that and feel good. I--I just get a great big loving something
out of it. I just... Last time when I was here, Brother Baxter was here and preaching hard. And I just wanted to talk to you so much, I just... I started preaching one Sunday, and the Holy Spirit caught me away. And the first thing I knowed, I was... Somebody had me outside. And I never did get to finish up. So I--I thought, "Oh, I'd just like to get a hold of that audience sometime and set them for a few days like that till we build up to a certain place like that, to a climax." I believe God will sweep over this building. May He grant it, and just heal every person in here before this service is over. Oh, I want to see it so bad.
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Right here where Mrs. McPherson went down, Paul Rader went down, great warriors of faith has went down here. O God, let me do it too, is my prayer. Let me stand here. Let me bring that faith that they've taught to a realization to the people, where it'll be a citywide sweep everywhere. Then men and women will realize that the great Physician now is near, the sympathizing Jesus. Yes. That's what I want to do.
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Over on the east coast, they're always hollering to me, "Why you going to the west coast." Everybody pulls out to Los Angeles. Maybe that's God's place. That's right. Right here is probably where judgment will strike. And that's right. Let's get ready. My, this will probably be the first place it'll be hit, right in here. O Church, hold to God's unchanging hand. Pray. How many will pray this week that I'll see my prayer answered, that God will sweep us something over this building that'll heal everyone that's in the Divine Presence. I seen it one time in Vandalia, Illinois. Is anybody here was at the Vandalia meeting that night, when that great claps fell down in the meeting like that? And every wheelchair, every stretcher, every blind person, every deaf, dumb, every one of them was perfectly healed, plumb to the end of the audience. They just pilled the old things in the corners like that, twenty or thirty of them in the corner. And God, how He worked. I want to see It again. God, grant it in California, is my prayer. There's one of the great feelings of me to returning back again. I want to see it.
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I love Paul Rader. Oh, I was a little boy, set at his feet back there when he was teaching. He preached. I remember one of his sermons he preached when he was in some land, and oh, what taken place. And he's setting on the log, saying,
"I'm riding on it; I'm riding on it." He had malaria fever, or something or other, done blacked out and God healed him, and he believed it. I'm standing in his platform tonight. O God, have mercy. Yes. May God grant the great healing. Now, let's call the prayer line. Where'd we call from last night? One? All right. Where... How... Did you give out what today? All right, let's start somewhere over, let's get eighty, start from eighty tonight. Wha--what you--what's the letter? S, S-eighty, eighty to ninety, that'll be eleven. Let's try them first. You--You here now which crippled in the wheelchairs and things, well you just--you just keep watching and look this a-way and if you've got a prayer card hold it up. I don't see but about two or three with--with prayer cards. Watch the--the different ones now in these chairs and things, line up quickly now. Let's sing if you will, "A Great Physician Now Is Near." Oh, let's everyone believe that He's going to show Himself tonight, before the audience. If you'll just give me a few minutes, and everybody be reverent now, just a few minutes now. Oh Father, help me. Do Lord, speaking now, the hour is getting late. But I pray God that your Angel will anoint Thy servant like never before. Grant it Lord, that these next few minutes, grant there'll be more healings done as ever been done here in the last revival that I had, Lord. Grant it, in Jesus' Name, I pray.
THE.ANGEL.OF.THE.LORD_ LA.CA WEDNESDAY_ 51-0502 E-56 The great Physician now is near, The sympathizing Jesus, He speaks the drooping heart to cheer, Oh, hear the voice of Jesus. Sweetest note in seraph song, Sweetest Name on mortal tongue, Sweetest carol sung, Jesus, blessed Jesus. [Brother Branham begins humming "The Great Physician."--Ed.] ...carol ever... [Brother Branham speaks inaudibly to someone--Ed.]...you say
she was...?... God bless you...?... God...?... prayer right now. God bless you. Everyone be just as reverent as you can. This--this brother says he's drove five hundred miles. His daughter's dying in Pasadena with a cancer. And said, "Oh, have mercy, have mercy." Dear Jesus, please. The meeting's just starting now. Grant Lord, that just now that the same Angel that came into the prison bars where Peter was laying bound with his feet and hands. He couldn't get up, and he was going to be killed the next day. But down at John Mark's house, they were praying. And then the Angel shined through the window, and Peter was
delivered. Grant just now that the Angel that I have spoke of, the Angel of God will shine into that hospital where that woman's laying bound by that demon. May his power be broken. May she be delivered as Peter of old, be brought out of the hospital and turned free to serve the Lord. Hear the prayer of Your humble servant as we ask this in the Name of Jesus Christ. Amen. God bless you, my brother. Go now. And as you believe, God is going to grant it to you. Amen.
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All right, bring your patient. Have faith now. You believe do you, dad? You believe? Let me hear from her. Let me hear from you. Amen. He feels His Presence now, believes that God has done the works. How many believe with me now? That's right. Now, it's late. And if everyone will be just as reverent as you can for a few minutes now... Don't stir if you possibly can for a few minutes. The anointing is great upon me just now. Look friends, I--I'm telling you from my heart (See?), just as sincere as I can: The Angel of the Lord's here now. The Angel that I speak of, the One that's there on the picture, is right here now. That is right. Believe now. I want to talk to the people. You be just reverent. Believe with all your heart that God will grant it. Maybe the people get even healed without discerning their conditions to see what's wrong with them. Everybody reverent please.
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Now, good evening, mother. It's kinda shook me just a little too, and I--I want to kinda quieten myself as I talk to you. You love Him? Do you love Him with all your heart? With all your heart? Yes, ma'am. Been serving Him for some time too, haven't you? Since a little child, a little girl...?... It started...?... condition. Come a long ways, and now you're bothered with a nerve trouble, isn't that right, sister? Yes, sir. You've been... You've tried everywhere, tried to have... You've had many specialists to look at you, haven't you, to see if they... No one knows what causes it. Is that right? That's right. All right. This what is speaking now knows what it is. Our heavenly Father, be merciful to this mother. As she's standing here, she wants to be healed. She's sought many doctors, but none can do her any good. Like the woman with the blood issue, she'd done many things, and spent all of her living with doctors; none could heal her. But she said within her heart, "If I can touch His garment, I'll be made whole." And this woman has been to many doctors, as I seen them examine her, and see them shake their head, and telling her
get next to herself; as she witnessed back on this microphone that it was so. Grant, Lord, Your blessings upon her. Poor thing, she wants to live. She's getting aged. But You appeared to Abraham when he was a hundred. And You give him a promise, and he believed You for twenty-five years before it come to pass. But he counted those things which were not as though they were, and You rewarded him. Age means nothing to You, Father. You're Divine. You're the Creator. Help me to have faith for her, seeing her there many times being prayed for in a prayer lines. But O Eternal God, hear the prayer of Your servant tonight, give her relief at this time, and she'll believe You. Thou demon, oh, you've hid from the doctors, true. But you can't hide from God. Come out of the woman in the Name of Jesus Christ. Raise up your hand. Say "Praise the Lord." Go on off the platform; you're well.
Let us say, "Praise the Lord." All right, bring the lady. God healed her. That is right. Do you believe me as God's prophet? You want to be healed? Forget about being nervous; you're already healed, sister. God has made you well in the Name of Jesus Christ. God bless you. Let's say "Praise the Lord," everybody. Amen. A usher caught it too, down there. See? All right. Everybody reverent. All right, bring the lady. Come quickly. Believe on the Lord. Now, He's here in a great power. You remember, they led the lady to the platform. There she goes, walking out. Everyone reverent, believing. You believe, sister? All right, your tumor has left you, sister. Go off the platform and rejoice. Say "Praise the Lord."
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All right, bring your patient on. God bless you, brother. Go on rejoice and be well. Amen. Howdy do, sister. Do you believe me as God's prophet? With all your heart? You want to get rid of... What you want to bel... You want to get rid of your arthritis, don't you? Raise up your hands and say, "Praise the Lord." Now, jump your feet up. Now, go off the platform believing with all your heart, and you'll be healed. Say, "Praise the Lord." That's what He's trying to get you to praise Him for. Let's say, "Praise the Lord," everybody. Believe now. The lady stumbled on that. I'm afraid of that. All right, bring the lady. Just a minute. Just a little afraid she missed it. But wait till they...?... Get her in the... Howdy do, sister. Look this a way. Do you believe with all your
heart? That... Wear glasses. That's from astigmatism from your eyes. But you're nervous, aren't you? I see you... Yes, you've got stomach trouble, haven't you? Peptic ulcers in the stomach. Go home and eat what you want to...?... Let us say, "Praise the Lord." He's here, friends, if you--if you believe Him.
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All right, bring your next patient. Everybody, reverent. Have faith. Here stands faith by my side. You believe, don't you, mother? You want to be healed? All right, forget you ever had a cancer. God just healed you of it. Go off the platform and say, "Praise the Lord." Let's say, "Praise the Lord," everybody. That's the way to believe the Lord. Have faith. Jesus said, "These signs shall follow them that believe." Is that right? "If they lay their hands on the sick they shall recover." Is that right? If I lay my hands on you, would you be healed of arthritis? Go, and as you have received, believe it in the Name of the Lord Jesus. All right. Amen. Let's say, "Praise the Lord," everybody. An old mother setting here in a wheelchair. She's happy about the rest of them being healed, aren't you, mother? You're trying to have faith, aren't you? I see your conditions. You-you--you're--you've been paralyzed, haven't you? Is that right? On the right side mainly. You've got a paralytic stroke. You're suffering with a gallbladder trouble too, aren't you? You have a gallbladder, kind of a nervous condition. Now, if you'll believe with all your heart... Now, just have faith. There's somebody behind right there setting there, pulling in on the same thing. I'm... Just see what was wrong. I see it coming. Just keep praying just for a minute.
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All right, everybody believe. Come on, now. Bring your patient right quick. Everybody reverent now. Now, keep praying, sister, looking this way. You do this: you look and believe that God has told... This is the truth that what I'm telling you now. Do you believe it? Have faith now. Howdy do, sister. You believe with all your heart? Do you believe our Lord Jesus is here to make you well? Now, we're perfect strangers, aren't we, sister? Now, just a minute. I want to talk to you just a little bit. I feel it shaking. Maybe I--I want to talk to you, just to see what the Lord will say. Do you love Him with all your heart? Are you conscious of this Something near now, aren't you? You know that there's Something near that's taking place. Now, that is the Spirit of God.
You're--you're have a... You're worrying about something. You're bothered, upset. And it's not--it's nervous for one thing. You're real nervous, aren't you? kind of a mental nervousness, kinda causing you to--oh, have all kinds of funny feelings and so forth. Isn't that true? Then that mainly works on you in the afternoon, along late in the evening when you get tired and run down. And you... That has caused a trouble. Now, if I can just get to it. Just keep praying now, just a minute. It's... That's what's caused your trouble. It--it's from a nerve condition. Now, I want you just to remember that I--I'm talking with you just as Jesus talked with the woman at the well. And this, sister, this is what's standing near is not your... This is your brother. But that what's speaking, and on your heart is the Spirit of God. Do you believe that? Oh, yes, I see what's your trouble. You have a tumor, don't you? That's right. Isn't it a tumor? That's right. Do you believe that God's going to heal you? In the Name of Jesus Christ, receive your healing.
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Let us say, "Praise be to God," wonderful. All right. Bring the ladies together, right quick. Come, sister. All right, now everyone reverent just for a few moments now. And we... Now, sister, I want you to look this a way, so I can kind of get it to talking just a little to you. Now, sometimes, it--it depends on how long you talk to the person, how It reveals. I have to come in contact with you. Sometimes I look around people with great faith, and just speak what's wrong with them, and quickly they get healed. But I'm trying to fight that off now, you see, to see just what is going to take place. Now, do you believe me as God's servant. Do you believe with all your heart that Jesus Christ has sent me to pray for the sick? And if I would--should lay my hands upon you, you believe that that which you're now feeling coming this-between you and I now is the Spirit of God? You believe that with all your heart? All right, sister, you've suffered quite awhile with what's wrong with you. You've been prayed for before. You've been in lines, had prayer. You had prayer at home for it. You're suffering with a heart trouble. Isn't that right? Yes, sir; it's a nervous heart. Now, I... You--you believe that God will make you well if I'll ask Him? Come here. O Jesus, now realizing this number one enemy takes more people than anything else, You sent Your delivering Angel to deliver the people. In the Name of Jesus Christ, may our sister be healed.
God bless you, sister. You may go and rejoicing, happy. Say, "Praise the Lord."
All right, come ahead, lady. All right, everybody reverent. Do you believe, sister? I want you to look this a way now. Have faith. Believe in God with all your heart. What do you think about all this? Think it's wonderful? Do you believe It's the Spirit of the Lord? Do you believe that that what you feel now is the Spirit of the Lord? I see down in your paths it's been shadowed, hasn't it? many shadows. Now, everyone reverent. Now, it's just... It's kinda... I don't see just exactly for the sister now. Remember, friends, I have to see this. This has to come. I'm trying not to touch her body. If I touch her body, in a moment It would probably tell me what was wrong. But I'm trying to do it by seeing, to see if I can see a vision (You see?) just before it happens. Everyone believe. How many believes that God's able to do this through His servant? All right. Now, Satan's trying to battle me here. Just a moment.
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I want you to just to--just look this way, sister, and believe. I want just to talk to you just a moment. I... You're--you're truly made up your mind that--that this is truly God's way of healing you. Is that right? You believe it with all your heart. You're nervous, aren't you, sister? You're--you're very nervous now. Now, you--you can't... You feel that Something strange around you. That ain't--That isn't going to hurt you. That's the thing that'll heal you, if you're ever healed. Because I believe It's the Lord Jesus. I feel... Yes, it's in your... You got kidney trouble, haven't you? And it's in your back. That's right. All right, come here and be healed. O God, Author of Life, have mercy upon this woman, before she gets this uremic poison and kills her, Lord. Satan's determined to send this woman to a premature grave. But Lord, I come tonight in the Name of Your Son, Jesus Christ. Satan, turn the woman loose. In the Name of Jesus Christ, I rebuke thee. Amen. You believe? Go rejoicing and be happy.
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Let us say, "Praise the Lord," everybody. All right, bring the lady. All right, everybody reverent just a moment. Come forward, mother. I see someone on a crutch here. I'm... Now-now, He may not tell just what caused her that to--to be crippled. Just a moment so that you will see that the Holy
Spirit works on the crippled the same as It does on any. Now, I can't heal the woman. God knows that. But I can, by the grace of God, by this gift, I can tell her what's wrong with her, and what's caused it and so forth. That's right. Now, I could stand here and pray for you till I got to be a real old man. It would never heal you. But you can't stand here without me telling you what's wrong with you and what's in your heart. Because that's the gift that God give to me. That's to my--to work with it as God will let me. And... But now to heal, Jesus is already done that.
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Now, I'm going to talk with the lady. Now, mother, I--I want you to believe with all your heart that our Lord Jesus is here. Now, we're strangers, aren't we, mother? We've--we've never met in life. We're strangers. And never... And now, do you believe that by the grace of God, I'll be able to help you through prayer? You--you believe it, and you believe that what I ask Him, He will grant to me? Now, if I--if I asked you... If--if I... You know we're... I know nothing about you; it's just... No, I don't know nothing about you. But I'm trying to speak with you. You're--you're human, mother; you got a spirit that I have got to contact also by this gift. And as your faith pulls It down, It comes over me and speaks Itself. See? It's not me operating; it's you. You see? You're the one that's doing the operating. Now, I'm... I just... The talking to you. Do you love Him with all your heart? With all your heart? With all your heart. God bless you, my sister. God grant you a closer walk with Him, mother. Yes, mother, isn't that cane that's bothering you; you have cancer. Isn't that right? It's cancer. That's why you're weak on it. Is that right? Come here and be healed. Our heavenly Father, help our dear sister. O merciful Father, grant the healing of our sister. Thou demon called cancer, in the Name of Jesus Christ, leave the woman. Come out of her. Believe now, mother. Put your old cane on your shoulder and walk on out of the building...?...
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Let's say, "Praise the Lord," everybody. There was something shook me at that time when I called that cancer. There's... Now, just a moment. If I can find it in the audience... Everyone reverent now. The little boy, I see you got a prayer card in your hand, honey. Now, just a moment. Look this... It's not cancer there. Just... Here--here it is. It's a lady laying on the cot here. Isn't that right, sister? You believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and God will heal you of the cancer. You've had it
for a long time, haven't you, sister? Been bothering you for years. Isn't that right? I see a long space of darkness. Isn't that right, dad? Do you believe she can be healed? With all your heart you do? Mother, do you believe it? Now, look. I'm going to tell you your trouble. Here's your trouble. You belong to church. That's right. But you're not as far along in God as you ought to be. You want... Isn't that right? You're trying to have faith. You belong to a certain denominational church. Isn't that right? I could call it right now, but... You wish for me to call it? Would that help you? I believe, if I'm not mistaken, it's the Methodist church you belong to, either Methodist or... It's the Methodist church, and I... Is that right? All right. You believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and He will heal you of that cancer right now where you're at. Amen. Amen. Believe it. Accept it. Raise up. Throw your clothes back. Walk out of the building and be healed, and go home. God bless that woman. God heals Methodist, Baptist, Presbyterian. She's standing up to accept her healing. Out of the crutch--out of the cot. Let us say, "Praise the Lord." Take her right on out. Walking by faith in the Name of the Lord Jesus.
The great Physician now is near, The sympathizing Jesus; He speaks the drooping
(Look going out that door, bound
past... )
Oh, hear the voice of Jesus. Sweetest note in seraph song, Sweetest name on mortal tongue; Sweetest carol ever sung, Jesus, blessed Jesus.
All right, be seated now just a moment. I don't know what happened to the woman. Just a moment now. Everyone reverent. There was somewhere I spoke to a--spoke to a little boy. I believe it was right here. I seen something on the little boy, but I couldn't get--get what it was. Honey, you're setting there, a mighty sweet little boy. I want you to stand up just a minute. I want you to look at Brother Branham. Do you believe me, honey? You do. Well bless your little heart. Now, I've never met you in my life. I don't know who you are, nor nothing. But I want you to look this way, and I want you to... Do you believe if our Lord Jesus was here... Do you remember when He--He took up little boys like you and blessed them? and--and said, "Suffer little children to come to Me." Didn't He? Well now, if He was here tonight, what would He do for you? He would heal you, wouldn't He?
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I want you to lay your prayer card down there in the
seat. I want you to come up here to me. Something's wrong with him. There's too many pulling right in there. I can't find out what it is. If I can get the little fellow here by myself. Come here, little boy. Now, I want you to look this a way. A fine little boy... Yes, honey boy. It's a rupture (Is that right?) in the rectal, I believe. Is that right? A rectal trouble... All right, little boy, come here. Jesus has gone up to heaven, but He sent Brother Branham to lay hands upon you. Do you believe that? Father, I obey the commandments of my Lord, that this boy will get well from this trouble. In the Name of Jesus Christ, I ask it. Amen. God bless you, honey boy. Let us say, "Praise the Lord." Oh, my. Be reverent. How wonderful. Oh, lad, he wants to shake hands with them all over there. Isn't He wonderful?
What's you looking so strangely about, sister? You're wanting to be prayed for, don't you? You're trying to get... You said in your heart, "If I could get up there, I'll be healed." Is that right? Lay your prayer card down and come here. Yes, ma'am. That's right. Come around here just a minute. Good faith. The reason I'm bringing her up here is because she wants to come. It's in her heart to come. She just wants me to touch her. She's already healed. She wants me to come touch her. Wasn't that a very strange feeling come over you when you--I said that to you? Come here just a minute. Now, your female trouble is gone, sister. You can go off the platform rejoicing. Serve the Lord now with all your heart.
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Let us say, "Praise the Lord." The colored sister setting there. She wants to be healed too, don't you sister, sitting there on the end there. All right, stand up on your feet. All right. You want to be over that nervousness, don't you? Isn't that right? Raise up your hands, say, "Praise the Lord," and be over it. God heals you now. Amen. Let's say, "Praise the Lord." How many believes with all your heart? Stand up on your feet. Let's be healed, every one of you. O Jesus, Son of God, heal... Every one... I just touched a little baby with eczema broke out on a rash for God to heal it. Lay your hands on one another there, you people. Lay your hands over on each another. That's right. O God, have mercy just now. Heal those that's in need. May the Holy Spirit fall upon this audience just now, and heal every one of them. Satan turn them people loose. In the Name of
Jesus Christ, I adjure thee to leave them.
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Thank you, Brother...?... Sorry I was late. Good evening, friends. I'm awfully sorry I was late tonight. I just was praying, and got just kind of caught away. I just seemed like I couldn't get away from it. And I happened to look up, and I said, "Oh, my." And my little boy had been walking up-and-down the streets. And he said, "Daddy, where have you been?" He thought something had happened to me. But I'm very happy to be in, and to minister to the people again tonight. And I wish to--to make... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] right straight to the prayer line.
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Today, God has seemed to deal with me today upon some serious things. I--I've always wanted a place where I could pray for many people. It's always been a defect, seemed like, in my meeting to try to get the people... (Thank you, brother.), to try to get the people to believe the... just to accept God. And I understand today that some brother that had a paralyzed arm. That was just straightened out for him. Now, a man that's been paralyzed for... There he is back there, waving is arm back there. I guess he's just testified... That's wonderful. That paralyzed arm, waving. Now, that's the way. That's the purpose of my meetings. See? I... It isn't a self-glory. It isn't nothing that I can do. I just try to introduced to you the One that's out there among you now (See?), to do the healing out there. It's---it's nothing a personal something that I had to do; it's Him that's right where you're setting right now. He's right by you. It's faith in Him. But it's been so hard to get people to believe that, to real... When they see one coming to the platform and get ministered to, and--and see the faith of the person build right up like that and be healed, then they all want to... they just won't sep-accept it out there; that's all. They just... It's hard for them to do.
And today I have wondered and prayed today. And last evening, someone told me, said, "Another brother would pray for five hundred people while I was praying for five." Well, maybe that's right. Maybe that's the way the Lord wants the brother to do it. And I--I've always thought instead of personal contact with the people, if--if I could get them, not so much in contact with myself, but in contact with Jesus... That's--that's way. I want them to come in contact, because I'm just as your brother. There's nothing about me that could help you. And it's Him. And He's right over you just everywhere, just like the air that's in this room here, the Holy Spirit is.
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And now, I'm very thankful that--that God is confirming that what I have--or, have spoken to be the truth. Now, there's the brother that was in the meeting yesterday, a paralyzed man, today, a well man. I never touched him or nothing. He looked up here on the platform; he seen the Holy Spirit doing signs and wonders out there. He just said in his heart, no doubt, "That's what I... Why, Holy Spirit, You healed me too. So I'll just accept You." And there it was. And that's happened. The congressman, Brother Upshaw here, who was crippled for sixty-six years. I never even touched the man in no way. I just stood here. I did see a vision of the man; that is true. And then he just accepted what I said. That was all. There he is; he's walking. See? I never had nothing to do with it. His faith in the Lord Jesus Christ is what made him whole. That's right. See? "Thy faith has saved thee." And when faith come, he wasn't afraid, and put the works with them. And so faith without works is dead. See?
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And thinking... Some of them said, "Well, so many people come, though, Brother Branham," someone said to me, "for you to pray for them. Well, [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] they want you to pray for them. No matter, you don't have to have... take so much time with each one, just so you have a prayer for them. That's what they want you to do, is pray for them." Well, I--I can... I can do that. I just... Anything that your faith looks to; that's what I'll do. I... As long as it's in Christ Jesus. You know, one time, it's different people. Of where maybe that this man could receive his... from his paralyzed arm, healing, just by believing what I've told him to be truth.
If--if the people could see this and believe this, that I--I would not tell you anything wrong willfully. God knows my heart. And I--I wouldn't do that for nothing, because I would have to answer for it. And I would be just truthful and honest with you. So therefore, when I say that Jesus has already healed every one of you... When He died at Calvary, He healed every one. He atoned right there. That's when your... when the debt was paid for sin and sickness, and all the attributes of sin. Now, sin is the cause of sickness. Before we had any sin, we had no... Now, sickness is either a direct or indirect cause by sin from the fall. Maybe nothing you done, something your parents done, you just inherited their weaknesses and so forth. I... For instance, my father drink, and was a terrible drinker. Well, I would've been a drinker, but the Blood of Jesus Christ cleansed me from that. See? I never drink in my life and don't crave it. But... And all of my people used tobacco, every one of them both chewed and smoked, most of them. And why, I, by nature... Just like a--a grain of corn, it'd have to be... If it's a grain of yellow corn, it'll be yellow corn, unless there's a conversion made. Well, I--I never did smoke in my life, and never even craved it. But the Blood of Jesus Christ did that. See? See?
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Now, that's the same thing. If you have a inbred weakness from some sickness that you inherited from your peoples back in the generations, which each one growing weaker and wiser; the Blood of Jesus Christ atoned for that at Calvary. You've got a right to accept it and be healed. That's what... See? Now, sickness is an attribute of sin. It's just one of the things that come because of sin. Now, if you've done something in your life that you know that's wrong, well you make that right. That's usually the cause here at the platform, is to trace down and find out something in their life there, that they did that caused them not to be able to be healed until they are--until they make that right. And then when they make that right with God, then God will heal them. See what I mean? God will--will--will heal them if they'll--if they make that right. Now, I... That's what... But if you know in your own heart whether you've done something wrong or not, don't you? And so you make it right anyhow.
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Now, it is the truth that when the appearing and the
commission that was given... Let me repeat this slowly now so that you'll surely understand. I never heard Brother Hall's sermon tonight. I just got here. Sometimes I hear a portion of it when I'm standing back there. But he told me he was going to explain to the people. Now, when He met me, He told me that I was born in this world to take this to the people, to pray for sick people. And if I would get them to believe me, and be sincere when I prayed, that no disease would stand before the prayer, not even to cancer. Now, that is true. And then I questioned the supernatural Being that was speaking with me, the Angel of the Lord, Who said that He was sent from the Presence of God. And He told me that I'd have great congregations of people across the world, and would pray for kings and monarchs. I have: kings of the world. And--and praise the Lord they were healed. See? That's...
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Now, it was hard for me, with a seventh grade education, and just a local game warden working for a living with some children to take care of a living in a two room cabin. How was I to ever--to meet kings and monarchs, and great men of the world; and congregations from east, west, north, and south to come to s--see me to be prayed for. That was more than... That--that shock at that time, that my faith could-could--could comprehend. Then He said to me... I said, "Sir, they wouldn't believe me. Why, I couldn't talk." And that's true yet. I can't talk a real good conversation with people, because I'm not educated enough. My... I was coming down the elevator of the hotel that I'm staying in. I believe it was last night. I was saying something to an elderly woman there. There was a big fellow standing there, said, "You sure from Texas." Said--said, "Your talk sure sounds like you're..." I said, "My mother was. I'm from the south." But I--I just can't... There's just no... I haven't got the--the ability to make a speech even. And sometimes at a ministerial's dinner and so forth, I--I just let my manager, some of them, talk, because I can't--to make a sensible talk to the people in a way that educated men like that should talk to one another. That's the reason someone comes to the platform and introduces the things, is because that I... my ability is not enough for that.
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But He told me that He would give me... When I told Him that the people would not believe me... How would a king
or a monarch, or an educated person. Most of them that looks to wisdom in the--of the world, and talents of that type, listen to a man that talked like me? They wouldn't do that. And so I said, "They won't believe me." He said, "As the prophet Moses was given two signs to vindicate his being sent of God (See?)," said, "so will you be given." Now, that was something not in the educational realm, but out in the Supernatural realm. See, see? And said, "The first thing, you'll know diseases by taking people by the hand. And then it'll come to pass, that you'll know the very secrets of their hearts, and the things that's happened in their life, and be able to tell them from the beginning to the end." And said, "They'll believe this." Well, I said, "I will go." He said... He first He said, "I'll be with you." And I said, "I will go." And the Light gathered up around the Angel; the Angel went up in the light; the light kept whirling in the room, and went out of the room. And I'm... That's all I can say. That's all I know.
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And I've been going forth, and have almost covered the world now. And the message has been... When He said He'd be with me, He has been at the platform, He's done great things. I do not say that everyone I prayed for was healed. No, now don't get that. No. But I say that everyone has ever come has been told what was wrong with them, and the things of their life, and so forth like that. If I would set and talk to them a little while... Now, the great complaint... There's no question about that; that's known everywhere. The great complaint that I hear, that I don't minister to enough people. Well, maybe I've got too much on the other side. Maybe I have.
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I've thought this: If I could--could pray and God would do something here in the Supernatural realms to let you know that He was present, and then surely you would take my word for it. See? You'd take my word. And then I'd tell you He was out there and would heal any of you that would confess His-Him to be your Healer. Remember, He can never do nothing for you until first, you say He's done it; believe Him, and accept it, and testify of it. Did you know that? He's the High Priest of our what? Confession. Hebrews 3:1. Now, He's setting at the right hand of the Father, to make intercession upon our confession. See, we've got to believe it,
accept it, and confess it. And He's before the Father to make good anything that we confess in the redemptive blessings, of course.
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Now, Jesus said, "Whatsoever things you desire, when you pray, believe you receive them, and it shall be given to you." Is that right? "And verily, verily, I say unto you, if you should say to this mountain in your heart, be cast--plucked up and cast away (or removed) and doubt it not (but now watch), but believing that those things that you say shall come to pass, you'll have it." See? "Whatsoever he saith..." See? Whatsoever you confess. If you, in your heart tonight... If you're... If you're dying with heart trouble, if you've got cancer, if you with the appropriated faith... If you believe with all your heart, and just something is anchored there that says, "I believe Jesus Christ. I believe Him with all my heart, and I now accept Him as my Healer, and I believe that He heals me." And from your soul believe that, then say, "I am healed."
Let him that's weak say, "I am strong." See? Just say in you heart that "I am now strong. I have now accepted Jesus as my Healer," and never have any negative testimony any more, just believe it, God is under obligation, or Jesus Christ is-sitting at the right hand of the Father to accept you; for He's setting there the High Priest of your confession to make good before the Father anything that He died for, that you're confessing that He done. There you are. Now, Divine healing cannot be any plainer than that. It's to the weakest. You do it... Any... Remember, God's Word will defeat Satan anywhere, anyplace, any time, and any condition.
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When Jesus of Nazareth... I believe the--that the Father was in Him, that all the great things that was the Father's was given unto His Son, all the great blessings and gifts; for He was just expressed image of the Father. And in Him dwelled all the richness of God dwelling in Him here, looking up. And I... He said, "I and My Father are One. My Father dwelleth in Me." Just as Jehovah... Just what Jehovah was, Jesus was. He was the expressed image of Him. He was God shaped out here, and all the powers of God formed into, and put in a human body. He said, "It's not Me that doeth the works; it's My Father that dwelleth in Me; He doeth the works." Now, He had all those fine gifts at His command. But when Satan found Him, He didn't use those gifts. When Satan said,
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"If Thou be the Son of God, change these stones to bread. Turn them into bread and eat, for You're hungry." He said, "It is written..." And he taken Him up on the pinnacle of the temple, and he gave Him Scripture. And he... Jesus said, "And it is also written..." And when he set Him up on top of the mountain and showed Him all the kingdoms of the world, said, "I'll give them to You." Jesus still never used His power. He said, "It is written... It is written..."
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Now, in His first battle with Satan, He officially... Listen close now. He officially overcome Satan and all of his powers by the Word of God, the written Word of God. Now, these, our brethren, who's out on the fields tonight a praying for the sick; that's what they're doing. They're ministers. Every minister in here, any minister that believes in the Word of God could start a healing campaign, and has a right to. That's exactly right. If you feel led to do that, go do it. For it's this a way, friends. You say, "Am I sure that I can be right, Brother Branham?" Don't go because I told you, but I'll give you general orders. Jesus, His last orders--and that's general orders from the headquarters, "Go ye into all the world, preach the Gospel to every creature." Is that right? "He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved, and he that believeth not shall be damned. And these signs shall follow them that believe; they'll lay their hands on the sick and they shall recover." Every called child of God, every minister that's ordained of God has a right for a healing campaign if he wants it. Go on, brother. I don't blame you.
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I was looking and seeing little--little groups here and there, that say, "Well, there's too many of them?" No there's not. Every one of them's having success some way. And every person can be healed, glory to God for it. That's right. Everyone, everyone... It's a good thing. Now, a few years ago when I started, there was none of that going on. And the only thing that this has done, and this supernatural, has wakened ministers out of the sense-bound realm into a place to where they see God is present. They take His Word; start a healing campaign; God heals the sick. You see what... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] That's just exactly. Search it through anywhere you want to, and see if there's anything any more Supernatural than that. That's right.
But wonderful what God is doing. He started... He started a universal revival of the outpouring of the Holy Spirit. Now, we're very thankful for that.
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Now... Now, after the Word, and reliable men who's able, many, many times more able... There's ministers setting right here now, many of them that's a thousand times more qualified to speak that Word than I am. That's right. I don't know too much about it. I don't know the Book; I know the Author right well. So I--I... But many of them are--are more qualified to speak the Word. And I love Him, and He... we have just a personal contact. Well if I can't explain His Book, He comes down upon my ignorant and illiterate being, and manifests Hisself in another way, see, and it lets the people know that He's present. And He loves me and I love Him. Now, He's here tonight.
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And now, Brother Hall said, "Brother Branham, I believe the people are... their faith is... They've seen so many..." And I say this with--with a humble heart. O God, have mercy upon my soul. And many people has come by. I seen the time when they just touch your clothes, or something. Now, that sounds like... If I'd speak that to unbelievers and critics, which I know is present, you'd--you'd think that--that... Now, you say, "I didn't know you were here." Oh, I did too. Certainly I know you're here. And so you--you say, "Now, he's trying to get somebody to touch?" No, dear brother. You're mistaken there. Far be that from me. God knows that. And I'm not here in California tonight because there's no other place to go. I'm not here trying to crowd in on someone else. I have a tabernacle at home where there's... If I'd start a meeting and announce it in the paper, there'd probably be three times the group that's setting here, standing there.
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Here a few nights ago, I was there for one night, and they couldn't even get the people for city blocks around, right at my own home. Why would I be here? Because I feel that God wants me to be here. That's right. That's why I feel like that I'm here. And--and I'm not... And--and the Word that I have spoke, our heavenly Father has confirmed them to be true. So I... There's nothing for me to worry about. If I die tonight, I... All right. It's okay. See? I don't want to die. I--I want to stay and live with my wife and family and children, and--and--and
preach the Gospel to God's people until Jesus comes, if I can. And I'm not trying to get someone to touch my clothes. There's nothing to me. That's right. But to that person that believes that I've told them the truth, it'd be something to that man. That's right. There was no more virtue in that coat than there was in the brass serpent. But if your faith looks that way, that's what you ought to do. Isn't that right?
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To Jesus of Nazareth, as I said last night, the woman touched His garment, virtue went out. Another one put a rag around His face and spit on Him and hit Him, and hit Him on the head, said, "Prophesy." There's no virtue to them. One wo... man said one time, said, "Lord, I'm not worthy that You'd come into my house." Jesus said "I will go down to heal your son." He said, "I'm not worthy that You'd come into my house." He said, "I'm a man under authority. And I say to this man, 'do this'; and to this 'do this,' he doeth; and I say to this one 'come,' and he cometh."
Now see, that Roman recognized that Jesus of Nazareth had the authority over sickness, for he was a man in authority. And he knew what he said, it had to be. See? Now, he says to this man, if he's going that way, he said, "Come back this way," he has to do it. He has to, because he's in authority. Do you know whereof I'm talking about? All right. And he knowed Jesus had that much authority, and more, over sickness. He said, "I'm not worthy that such a holy Person as You would come under my roof. But I know what authority is. You just speak the Word, and my servant will live. Just speak the Word." And Jesus said, "As thou hast believed. All right, go, thy son liveth," and so forth. All right. That's His... That's His Word. And His written Word tonight is a Seed that'll take life as soon as you believe His Word. It's just the same authority tonight over all sickness as It was then. And these Supernatural acts is to bring your faith back to Him, quicken it right quick (See?), make it quickened to Him. Now, but Jairus, he just couldn't see that when his daughter was die--dead. He said, "My daughter is dead. But come lay Your hands upon her." Now, if Jesus would've said, probably, "I'll speak the Word," Jairus couldn't hardly see Him speaking the Word. He wanted Jesus' hands to be laid upon him. And as soon as Jesus took the daughter by the hand, it confirmed his faith, and there it
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Now, many people say, "Brother Branham, the Angel of the Lord told you to pray for the sick. And I want you to personally pray for me, and I'll get well." Now, that's--that's right. That's what He told me. But I know He will do the other way. But tonight, I've wanted to get the prayer line with, maybe without the discerning part, and just pray for the sick. Oh, take them... Not pass them through a fast line where they have to go through like that, talk to the person and pray for the sick. And I believe we can get a great number of them prayed for tonight. And then, I'll do that if you'll do this with me. If you will believe that I have told you the truth. And if I ask God, you have faith in my prayer that God will hear my prayer, and you'll go out of here, and say, "Lord, I'm going to be well from right now. I'm going to believe it." Would you believe that? I want to see how much audience I got to believe that. Well that's wonderful. That's wonderful.
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I shall read a little Scripture here that's always come to me. And then at that time, we're going to start praying for the sick. Joshua, the 1st chapter, 2nd verse beginning. My servant Moses is dead; now therefore arise, and go over this Jor--Jordan, thou and all the people, unto the land which I give unto them, even to the children of Israel. Every place that the sole of your foot shall tread upon, that I have given unto you, as I said unto Moses. From the wilderness and this Lebanon even unto the great river, the river Euphrates, all the land of the Hittites, and unto the great sea towards the going down of the sun, shall be your coast. There shall not any man be able to stand before thee all the days of thy life: as I was with Moses, so I will be with thee. I will not fail thee, nor forsake thee. (You don't know what that meant to me when that--this first come to me. It's been my life.) Be strong and of a good courage: for unto this people shall thou divide for an inheritance the land, which I sware unto their father to give them. Only be thou strong and very courageous, that thou mayest observe to do according to all the law, which Moses My servant commanded thee: turn not from it to
the right hand or the left, that thou mayest prosper wheresoever thou goest. This book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth; but thou shall meditate therein day and night, that thou mayest observe to do according to all that is written... that thy ways may prosperous, and then thou shall have good success. Have not I commanded thee? Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the LORD thy God is with thee wheresoever thou goest. That's the Scripture that was ringed in my heart when I was sick. It's been something that's stuck to me since I was converted. I believe it with all my heart that God is here tonight, and that God is going to do great things.
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I've kinda got to a place where I want to get more boldness. I want to take the initiative side, regardless of whether it's under the discernment, brother... I want to go forward and challenge the enemy in--in--in a bold... I'm more like a timid sort of a person. And I only try to work as I see the Spirit of God working. And then I speak, and that's... But that's not exactly of faith; that's seeing exactly what's going to happen before you say it. I want to step out with faith tonight. I want to come out with when something new that I haven't done before. Take the other side and say, "Satan, Jesus Christ sent me to do this. And you've got to leave the people." And just make a bold command without even seeing anything, believing it with all of my--my heart. And I believe God will confirm it, and great signs and wonders will be done. And I'm putting it to the test tonight. It's a new place.
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All my life, I've wanted to read that Scripture in my lesson--Scripture lesson, knowing that sometime, that God was... what that meant to me. And tonight's been the time where I was going to come to the other side without the discernment, just going right out and pray for the people and command that spirit to leave the people that's got them bound; not knowing what it'll be, but put myself and them too out there on God's promise, and stay right with it. He's told me if I pray for the sick people, that they'd get well. And I believe it. I believe it. And tonight, as I just... I believe Satan's keeping me too coward. That's right. He--he's let me just hold that there. I believe God wants me to move right out. And I'm going to go right out and start praying for the sick, and pray for as many
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Now, the discernment's here. God is here. Oh, yes, He is. He's here. And I know the Angel of the Lord has been with me since over an hour ago. And I know that's true. The power of the Holy Spirit is right upon me now (That is true.), this Angel of the Lord, and He's here and can discern anything. And that's true. But then, not so much for that. I want you to come and let me pray for you. For He told me if I'd pray for the sick, and be sincere when I prayed, and get them to believe me, that nothing would stand before the prayer. I believe it. Now, I believe the hour is come when that's been confirmed enough. It's been here for two weeks or more. You've never seen It fail a time. And It never will fail, because It's of God. That's right.
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Now, my commission was to pray for the sick. And that's what I'm going to do. I'm going to pray for the sick, and just get as many as forty, fifty, or sixty through a night, maybe more than that, maybe a hundred of a night, and just pray for the people, stand here and have an individual prayer for each one. And then I want them to leave the platform rejoicing and believing what I've told them to be true. Now, I have spoke and God has confirmed. How many believes that's true, that He has confirmed what I have said? That's the truth. You bel... You know that, and now I want you to believe. But now, let's... for instance, someone might say, "Well, I believe maybe the Spirit left Brother Branham, like this." No sir, I just told you from my heart, I'm stepping out on the other side to take the...?... to claim my given rights from God. That He told me to pray for the people, and get them to believe it, and they'd be--get well. And I believe it with all my heart. Now, let us have prayer. Our heavenly Father, I believe that I am right tonight. I--I believe it with all my heart. I believe that You want me... And these people are setting here; they're looking, and they're just wanting to come here and be prayed for. And many of them has accepted what I have tried to tell them in Thy Word. Cripples that's been crippled for years and years, was crippled many many years before I ever come on the earth they were bed-fast and cripples, and tonight is a walking and well, and normal people. Your Word is confirmed, Father. Signs and wonders have been done. But it seems that the people are just a little anxious for me to ask You individually for each one. O Father, I pray that You'll
heal the people tonight. Grant it. And speak to Thy servant. Now, Lord, if I am in Your will by doing this, may every one that I pray for tonight... Or I would say, Lord, knowing that many will come maybe that doesn't have faith, if You just let seventy or eighty percent of what I pray for tonight be back tomorrow night testifying it's--of a results that's happened to them, I'll go forward in faith, Lord, believing that I am moving according to Your will. I say not this for the audience to hear, but I'm speaking to You, Father, in the Name of Your Son, Jesus Christ. Amen.
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Isaiah 53: Who has believed our report? and to whom is the arm of the LORD revealed? Now, my little boy, I think has give out... You give out prayer cards... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] Pray for all of them, every one... And I... Every one that I can pray for... Now, each afternoon they're given out, and at night. Now, we could start a prayer line and run a few up, bring a few under the discernment. It's here. God is here to grant this to us. But it isn't necessary. But how many here's got prayer cards, raise up your hands? Let's see you that's able. Well there's a group of you. Now, what number did you start with? 50? 51 to a 100. That would make fifty. And maybe then for... What is the number--what's the letter? O? All right. And maybe then after that... Is there anyone here that got old prayer cards from the night before, and the other nights back, let's see your hands? There's a group of them here. All right.
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Let's just have one or two up here, just to the platform, just that... I--I don't say they'd be healed, but that you might know the Lord is here to speak the things. Let's bring up prayer card... Now, I don't know your numbers. You're out there. Each one's got a number. Look on your prayer card with letter O, and let's bring up... What'd you say? 51? Let's bring up 63. Ever who's got prayer card 63, just to pull it out of the audience. Let someone out there... Look on the... Turn your card over there, you, and see if one of you, anybody here is got six... Have you? 63. Now, just a moment. Now, let us just pray now, that our Lord will be near. I'm going to pray for every one of you tonight, I believe. All right, now everyone reverent. All right. Is that the 63? All right. I just want to... just to talk to the sister just a moment.
Now, how many understands thoroughly that I... Let me speak this now. That our Lord Jesus commissioned me when I was born in this world to go pray for sick people. That's my life's 'lotted to me to do that. How many understands that? And when the Angel of the Lord appeared to me... Down through life I did not know what It was until He revealed Himself a few years ago, speaking this, that I was to pray for the people. And if I could get them to believe me, to believe that God heard my prayer, and I was sent to pray for sick people, that they would be healed of whatever disease they had. Now, do you understand that? And then I questioned the Angel, and told Him that I did not believe the people would believe me. You--you understand that? And He gave me two signs: said to do these signs before the people, and by this, they would believe that God had sent me to do this. See what I mean? Now, how many understands that? That's right. But just... That doesn't have anything to do with the healing. Oh, a person could come here and be ever so sick, and you tell them what was wrong with them, unless their faith is anchored in Christ, it--it's that... See? But this is the vindication.
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I wish this audience could feel just what I feel right now. It's a--it's a sacred, real... I just feel it just pouring over me now. The sick person's standing near me. And now, I do not know the lady. I--I never seen her. As far as I know, I never seen you in my life. And I--I don't know nothing about her. But God knows all about her. He knows all about her. I believe He would reveal to me what is wrong with our sister. Now, if He does, then God be glorified. I shall ask God to heal her. And if God does, we'll be thankful for the Lord to do it, won't we. All right. I want everybody to be reverent, while I just... This is just one out of the bunch, and just called her up. That's all right. Just so that you'd know, and the lady knows here that there's--there's no way at all that I'm--have any contact with her outside of... Just have to be from the Holy Spirit some way.
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I wonder if you'd just... If I could just have a place I could get her relaxed just a few moments. I feel the pressure of nervousness, that she's--she's nervous. It's... Just bring her a chair. I'll bring one also, and just set down by you. Just a moment, sister.
Now, I do not want you to think, sister dear, that this is any other purpose but just for the glory of God. And it is the Holy Spirit of God that's here present now. Now, to the audience, if I could get each person to set like this here, and talk... But I'm going to have to move myself around just a little bit because of the audience. It's just coming in with a vibration from the audience, as I would not say, some kind of a--a pressure of sickness pulling. And I might get mixed up on what I'm saying to the lady. But now, I wish just to set down and talk to you, sister dear. Now, you were probably surprised when I called your card tonight. [The sister says, "No, sir. I prayed for it."--Ed.] You'd prayed for it. Well, you wasn't surprised. You believed that you were going to be called tonight. You did? Now, the order of me talking to you is only to contact you, to see what is wrong, like Jesus spoke to the woman at the well. And all at once, He changed His conversation. He said, "Go, get your husband." Isn't that right? And she said, "I have none." He told her she had five. And then when that was done, why, she said, "I perceive that You are a prophet." And our Master said, "These things that I do shall you do also. And greater than this shall you do (or more), for I go unto My Father."
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And now, that's the purpose of me here tonight, is before this audience of people, and not for show my own. My Father knows that. It--it's for--that they might believe on our Lord Jesus. And I don't know. That microphone's not--might not be packing that out. I don't know. But whether it is or not, I--I can't say. But I know that--that He's here, His Presence. And I believe that you feel and notice that there's something going on, something taking place. The reason I'm talking fast is to keep It from speaking out, you see, until I got through talking to you.
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Yes, ma'am. You've got a serious trouble. Isn't that right? It is... It isn't known by doctors what it is. Doctors don't... And you've been to specialists with it, haven't you? Isn't that right? You've been to some renowned men, great men. I see a great office. You... Wasn't you examined, or something or other, in a great office recently? Is that true? And you have some kind of an infection or poison that's went through you. Isn't that right? Itches you there. It wants you to
scratch. Isn't that true? Something happened then, didn't it. You're blessed, sister, of God. You're going to get over that. You're going to be well. The Lord Jesus...?... Father dear, You are here near. And I thank Thee for Thy goodness and mercy. Now, bless our sister. The doctors do not know what's wrong with our sister, but Thou does, Lord. And You reveal all things to Your servants. And now, have mercy, Lord, and bless Thy servant. Satan, you who've bound her, come out of her in the Name of Jesus Christ. And my sister, I bless thee in the Name of Jesus Christ. Amen. Now, you go from here tonight believing, and you're going to be well. Now, you go believing and thanking God with all your heart. Walk close, as you have been praying for that close walk with Him. Go, and just walk with Him, and believe Him with all your heart, and you'll be a well woman again. God--God bless you, sister dear.
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I just take that just a little bit, so maybe I could get another one. Say, bring me pra... What was her number? 62? What was her... 63? Bring me 80. Bring me prayer card 80. Who's got prayer card 80? O-80. If anybody here has prayer card O-80? Or... Is it here? Is no one got prayer card 80? Oh, well... All right, you come then. Now, everyone reverent. Please, friends. I want you to know that our Lord Jesus Christ is present to heal all those who are... [Brother Branham is interrupted: "On the card it said, 'Skin disease.'"--Ed.] While our sisters... [Brother Kopp said, "Last night we
watched the cards and not one thing missed the whole evening. I think that's remarkable."--Ed.]
Now, sometimes the people... I don't know what they write on their cards. That has nothing to do with it. That doesn't-doesn't mean a thing, the card. She had the itching on her skin. Well, that's--that's all right.
How do you do. Isn't our Master lovely? Well, I--I love Him very much. And I'm... I believe you do too, sister. Now, the--the Spirit of the Lord is present, and our Master is always full of love and compassion. You have a great faith, but there's something seriously wrong with you. You have... You've lost a lot of weight recently, haven't you? Much weight: I see a vision before me of a woman much larger than you are. And it's been brought down by some kind of a... It's a nerve trouble. Isn't that right? Not only that, but you have a--something wrong, you can't eat.
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Isn't that right? I see... God bless you, sister. That's enough for you. You may go now. God bless you, my sister, and be healed. Almighty God, have mercy upon our sister, and bless her in the Name of Jesus Christ, I pray. Amen...?... and her recommend...?...
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Will you have another one? All right. Call me a prayer card... Let's see, call... What was that? 80? Well, call... Let's see, what would we call next? Say, 90? Let's call 90. All right. What? O--O... Call it, O-90. [A brother calls prayer card O-90.--Ed.] Let Brother Hall call that one so he... All right. Everyone reverent. Is O-90 not here, then get O-100. Oh, here... O-90? All right. Come down, sister. Well, I appreciate you being in mission work. That's a--a great work to be in for our Lord, sister. I--I do appreciate any soldier of the cross. I--I love God's children. And God loves His children. And now, you're aware tonight that you're in Presence of a prophetic being, aren't you? And it's a... I can feel the effect It's taking on your spirit now. And It's no more than the Spirit of our lovely Jesus, sister. Now, you are stranger to me. I--I do not know you. I know nothing of you. The only way that I'd know anything, would have to truly come through God, is that right? It would have to come through God. There's no other way that I have of knowing.
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Now... But now, the people... I think a whole lot with we people, that we just, you know, just kind of take God as like the reading, and writing, and arithmetic: what we learn by the Word. And It just becomes the Word, and we know that in our mind. But we're afraid to accept It, to bring it to life. Don't you think that? You do? The reason I'm talking to you, just a little tightened up (You see?), just a little upset, because of your calling here, and coming present. And anyone who comes near feels it (See?), especially when I'm contacting that person. Now, you understand what I'm speaking of. All right.
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Now, that you might not think... That you might not come... Which it isn't in your mind, but it is in some sitting out there: mental telepathy. Mental telepathy is to concentrate upon a number or something that you have in your mind. That's true.
But the power of God, through a Spirit of a prophet knows things that you don't know in your mind. Isn't that right? All right. May God of heaven grant that to me tonight, to know something to get--to encourage your faith, that you know nothing about in your mind, that you're not even thinking about. For God in heaven, Who is my sole Judge, and knows that I--I know nothing about mind reading. I know nothing of it. Only thing I see is a vision. And I tell what I see. You're conscious of that, are you? You believe that what I have told you is the truth?
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Your trouble is in your lower part of your body; it's in your bowels, I believe. Isn't that right? It's in your bowels. Now, just a moment. I... You had some sort of a trouble when you was a child, a little girl. You wearing a, look like kind of a checkered looking dress. Say, you had a fall, didn't you. Didn't you fall into a hole or something somewhere? Is that right? Did--did you fall into... I believe it was a well, wasn't it, or something like that? And it's... You've been injured. Is that right? God bless you, my sister. Is that true? You wasn't thinking nothing of that. If that's true, God is here to witness it. Our heavenly Father, this poor child since a little girl, has been injured. This accident's tore loose her bowels, Lord, and they're not right. But Almighty God, the Creator, bless this, our sister, and grant, Lord, that she may be healed tonight. O Father, I bless her for this purpose, that she might glorify You, in the Name of Your Son, Jesus Christ. Amen. God bless you, sister. Go with all your heart.
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And now, let's see now, what times have... Well, reckon we'd better start a prayer line? Now, just a moment. Now, do you believe with all your heart? Let us say, "Praise the Lord." Now, somebody here without a--that hasn't got a prayer card, that nobody's--you haven't got a prayer card. How many here that hasn't got a prayer card that's sick, raise your hands, that hasn't got a prayer card, raise your hands? All right. There's so many of you, I don't know just where... Well, somebody consecrate down there, down in this corner, way down. Now, just believe, some of you down there. All right. Just a moment now, everyone. I believe--I believe the lady there I see, setting right through here, that's got a white coat on, the white coat, setting right there, right through here by that gentleman. Right there, yes. Stand up just a minute, sister.
You believe with all your heart? You want to get rid of that tumor, don't you? You want to be healed. You have no prayer card, but Jesus Christ make you whole. God bless you and heal you of that.
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Now, somebody in this section with... Look this a way and believe now with all your heart. How about the lady on the stretcher there? All right, lady. I want you to look this way. I want you to believe that I am God's prophet. Not a... Not in myself, I have nothing to do with this, God ordained this to be so. Do you believe me? I--I am not able to heal you, my sister. Only Jesus Christ can heal you. But you being a stranger, and no contact with you at all... Now, you're... I see you're very thin. Yes. You've been bed-fast for a long time, haven't you. I see a long stretch of darkness around you. Also this, you're suffering with heart trouble. Isn't that right? Is that true? Now, if you will believe on the Lord Jesus with all your heart, God will honor your faith, and you can be healed. Now--now, it's not too far. I know you're awfully weak. But if you'll just believe on Him with all your heart... There's so many people a pulling and trying... This lady here with this green looking coat on setting here is trying awfully hard to come in contact with the Spirit of God. Isn't that right, lady? You was setting there praying or something, for me to just speak to you. Isn't that right? I'm not reading your mind, but that's true. Just stand there, or... you know. Do you believe me as God's prophet? Do you believe that what I say is the truth from God? To vindicate that, if I tell you what's wrong with you, will you believe me and accept me as God's prophet? You have cancer. Is that right? Jesus Christ make you whole, my sister. God bless you...?...
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Everyone have faith, believe. Now, back in this section. Just so that you know, people without prayer cards or something. See? Somebody that knows nothing, or plumb out of contact, back in here somewhere, believe. Here--here's a lady setting here with a red coat on, setting looking right at me. Your trouble there, sister, yes. You're... You look this way, kind of an aged woman. Yes. It's your eyes is what's bothers you, isn't it? You've got a... You got glasses. Of course, any... It look like someone... We... You... That's... God bless you, sister.
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Say, let the next lady raise up, next to you there. Let
her raise up, 'cause her... You with glasses on, people would see that. That's all right. You can be seated just a moment. You look this a way, lady. Are you sincere? And you accept me as God's prophet? Do you believe that with all your heart? Do you believe that I've told you the truth, that Jesus Christ blessed His humble servant from birth to come here, and these signs that I'm speaking of vindicates what I've said to be the truth? Lady, you're a stranger. I never seen you in my life. No way in the world... There you are, just setting there. A lady's come in and set down. Now, you believe that with all your heart and look this a way. My sister, God is going to reward you of your faith. You've been suffering with a stomach trouble (Isn't that right?), ulcerated stomach. I see you refusing food at a table. That's right. You're going to be a well woman. You go on out, and believe the Lord Jesus with all your heart, and you shall be made well. Everyone that believes that with all your heart, you can...
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Thank you, Brother Hall. All right, friends dear. That... I want to get back a little bit. The... That anointing is so strong, that when they'd interrupt me... And the people, if... As long as on you, you just keep feeling It; It jumps and pulls you like that. Do you believe that I've told you the truth? May God bless your dear sweet hearts, every one of you. I love you, and I'm here to help you. Now, as they bring the people, may they... You bring your patient. Now, I just want to pray. And as you... I pray for you, you go through. And let the piano constantly play, 'The Great Physician Now Is Near." Don't you believe He's here? All right. Now, everyone just coming through...
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Come, mother. You believe now with all your heart? Our dear heavenly Father, I accept Your Son Jesus now as the Healer of this woman. And heavenly Father, I pray that she'll be healed tonight. I lay my hands upon her in commemoration of our Lord Jesus Christ for her healing. Amen. God bless you, mother. All right. All right. Do you believe now, sister dear? You believe that Jesus Christ will make you well? You--you believe that He will. And you believe that if I'll ask Him, He will let you get well without telling you? You realize I know what's wrong with you, don't you. You--you know that? All right. And I--I want you to--to believe that that heart trouble will--will... Well, God bless you,
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sister. Our heavenly Father, I pray that You'll heal her, Lord, and make her well. I bless her in Jesus' Name. Amen. God bless her.
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Now, sister dear, you believe with all your heart, do you? You believe that Jesus is here to make you well? You... Do you believe that if I ask Him without telling you... You're-you're wanting me to tell you what's wrong with you. I know you do, but that's what your faith is in, isn't it? All right. Now, if I... I'm just going to pray for you and ask God to heal you, you believe you'll get well? Our heavenly Father, bless our sister, Lord. We realize that she must get well right away. And I lay my hands upon her, and I rebuke this demon that's binding her. In the Name of Jesus Christ, thou demon called cancer, leave the woman. Come out of her. Amen. God bless you, sister. Go, and be well. All right. Howdy do, sister. Do you believe with all your heart now, that you're going to get well if I ask the Lord Jesus? I'm afraid I oughtn't to have had that discern...?... the people. [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] Amen. Let--let's say, "Praise the Lord," everyone, now. That's right, sister. God bless you, sister. Amen. Oh, my, now that's the way to do it: come by and accept it, passing by.
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You believe, brother? If you do, the arthritis will leave you, and you'll be well man. Go to praising God. You believe, sister, with all of your heart? You believe the heart trouble will leave you? It has then. Then...?... Now, go on; believe you're going to get well. You believe too, sister? God bless you. In the Name of Jesus Christ, receive your healing then...?... Right. Her sight come to her here. Let's say, "Praise the Lord," everybody. Let's stand up and rejoice, everybody, and accept the Lord now as your Healer. Praise the Lord. That's the way, sister. Amen. A blind woman received her sight, standing here. She threw her hands up to the light. Let's raise our hands and praise God, everybody. Heavenly Father, thank You for Your goodness and Your kindness. How we love You and adore You, Thou Great Physician. Marvelous, Thou art, Father. We love You and praise You. Get glory from these services. Magnify Yourself among Your people. We love You with all of our hearts. In the Name of Jesus Christ, we praise Thee. The audience said, "Praise the Lord." There's her daughter down there hugging her, and she's screaming, waving her cane
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You believe, sister? Go and be healed in the Name of the Lord Jesus. Go rejoicing if you believe...?... Amen. Aren't you happy? The Bible said, "and the people glorified God." Sure, you can't hold your peace. He said if they hold their peace, the rocks will cry out. A woman blind for them years, receiving her sight... Look at them weeping and crying and hugging each other here in the corner. It's marvelous. Sight flew into her eyes when she believed on the Lord Jesus. Now, it'll be the same thing to all that believe. Oh, my, how marvelous. Oh, how we love Him. Now, just come one at a time and be in single file. Oh... She's just so happy she don't what to do. All right. Well, if they're glorifying God, let's us too. Praise the Lord. Oh, Jesus, we love You, and praise You, and adore You: You're wonderful and glorious. Magnify Yourself, Lord. Get glory now. Stir this city like never before. May the Holy Spirit literally wake up thousands because of Your glory, Lord. Grant it, through Jesus Christ's Name.
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...?... rest awhile...?...
[A man says, "He's just going to rest a moment. Then they're going, take the line through. Amen. All right, come right up here." Here's the lady that wants to testify. She was blind when she came through the line, but now she can see:" The woman says, "Oh, blessed to the Lord. I see. I see. Jesus heals. Well...?... Oh, glory, glory to God...?... When I first woke up this morning, before I moved Jesus say, 'I walk with you.' Oh, He walk with me and He talks with me, and He tell me, I..." A man says, "Told me she could only see light and dark before. Now she sees our faces and some more. Praise the Lord. Amen." She continues praising the Lord. "Glory to God. Hallelujah. Oh, glory to Jesus. Praise His Holy Name." A man says, "She could... She could just barely see light from darkness and now she can see people's faces now...?... Amen. Now everybody be steady now. We're going to see greater things. Brother Branham's coming back in just a moment. Amen. You may be seated. God bless you. You may be seated. Amen. Now, it's all that's needed, my friends, if these folks will come through the line, looking unto God, believing Him, all they need to do is to just receive their healing. That's all they need to do is right here. Hallelujah. Amen. Now, Brother Branham, don't you do another thing: just stand there and let them go through the line and they'll be healed and... Glory to God."--Ed.] AS.I.WAS.WITH.MOSES_ LA.CA THURSDAY_ 51-0503
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I've tried to be honest. It's the truth, friends: He promised me that nothing would stand before the prayer. Now,
everyone come reverently. Come, sister. All right. You're wanting to be healed, aren't you? You believe that if I'll pray for you, you'll be healed? Wouldn't you like for me to tell you what's wrong with you? Your heart troubled, wasn't it? You can go on and be healed now, mother. Be well. All right. You believe, brother? Go on, get over your heart trouble also and be a well man...?... the Lord Jesus. Those people are healed the same as the blind woman was. They'll see it. They'll be all right. It don't physically show now, but it will be. Let's say, "Praise the Lord." You believe, mother? O, Lord God of heaven, blessed by Thy Name. Heal our sister now, in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ. May she be well. Amen. Believe it now. Go rejoicing. Be happy. That's right. Amen God bless you, sister. You've longed for this moment, haven't you? Your faith has made you whole, sister. Go and be made well. Let us say, "Praise the Lord." You believe it? Go, rejoicing, stomping your feets up and down, saying, "Praise the Lord. There he is, loosed from his arthritis and spinal trouble that the Lord...?... You believe too, sister? You want to get over your arthritis, don't you? All right, just raise up your hands. Wipe your feet up and down like this. Go off the platform. You're free now. Let's say, "Praise the Lord." Look. Before I look at this woman, she had the same. Thing's healed too. Didn't you have arthritis? Raise your hands up. Stomp your feet up and down. Claim your victory right now; in Jesus Christ; you're free. Go off the platform rejoicing. Go and be healed in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ. Oh, wonderful. Here it is. This is it. Amen. This is what we long for.
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Believe, sister. In the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ, receive your healing. Raise up your hand. That's right. Amen. Go off the platform rejoicing. Be healed, sister. You believe? In the Name of the Lord Jesus I bless thee for thy healing. Amen. You had many things, complications. You also had arthritis, didn't you? Raise up your hands; you're healed. Amen. Bring your feet up and down. That's right. Go off the platform happy. Amen. You believe, sister? You want to get over that heart trouble, don't you? In the Name of Jesus Christ, may it leave you. Go off the platform thanking God for it. Believe with all your heart for this...?... this little baby. You believe it'll leave it? In the Name of Jesus Christ I bless this child for its healing. Amen. Go, put a string around it tonight. Measure it, and bring back the part that shrinks off tomorrow
night, for me. God bless you, brother. Amen. Let's say, "Praise the Lord." Oh, my, anything can happen. People, be God-conscious now. I'm not excited. But I know Who I believe. Believe with all your heart. Receive your hearing, in the Name of Jesus Christ. Go off the platform rejoicing. Amen. You believe with all your heart? In the Name of Jesus Christ, be healed. Go believing now with all heart. Raise up hands...?... Do you believe with all your heart, that God will make you well? O heavenly Father, I pray that You'll take this demon away from the woman. Come out of the woman in the Name of Jesus Christ. Look, lady? You've been bothered a long time, haven't you? Mental, nervous depression, is that right? Demons; something haunts you and scares you. Is that right? You accept me as God's prophet? Raise up your hands and say, "Thank the Lord for my healing." Go off the platform and forget all about it; be well. Amen.
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All right, sister. You believe with all of your heart? Looky here. Now, so that you'll get settled down now... You're nervous. You believe with all your heart? You believe that God sent me to do this? Never seen you in my life, as I know of; you're a stranger, is that right? I want the people to know that the Holy Spirit... No matter... Think I'm excited, but I'm not. The Holy Spirit's here. Do you believe it? You're wanting to get healed of a cancer, isn't that right? Go off the platform and be well in the Name of Jesus Christ. Amen. Let us say, "Praise be to God." Oh, my, this is what we need. This is it. This is the time. Is this the patient? Howdy do, sister. Look like you're distressed. You believe me as God's servant? You believe that this Spirit of God is here now, if I shall touch you, you'll get well? You're an awful deep thinker, aren't you, sister? Got a weary spirit too: always worrying about things you haven't got no business to be. You're nervous, upset, caused you to have acid in your blood which has give you arthritis. Is that right? Go off the platform and be well in the Name of Jesus Christ. Go and be healed. Let's say, "Praise the Lord." Believe, my brother. Do you believe with all your heart? Heavenly Father, I pray that You'll bless this brother and heal him in the Name of Jesus Christ. Go believing now, my brother. Be well. You believe, brother? Now, you've caught my hand. Yes, sir. I know what's wrong with you: cancer. Now go off the platform and be well, in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ. Let's say, "Praise the Lord." You Believe Him?
Just a moment. Now, some of them here didn't have prayer cards, hasn't got no prayer card. Now, the prayer card don't have nothing to do with it. Now's the time to be healed. Remember, the Presence of the Lord is near to heal. You believe it? Look this a way, audience. Now look this way and believe that I've told you the truth; you shall see the glory of God. What do you think about it, lady, setting there? You believe me? Stand up just a minute so you'll be above that pull. You're a stranger, aren't you? You have no prayer card or nothing. You just walked in this meeting and set down. Is that right? You've had an awful life before you: lot of worry, troubles. You've been studying here lately. Isn't that right? That's right, exactly. And you're suffering now with a cancer. Isn't that right? Go home and be healed in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ. Amen. Hallelujah. All right. How about the cripple that--laying on the cot there? Look. Why, I'm looking right between the arms, there... Wait a minute, brother. That lady there with her hands up, laying there bound up on the cot. Look this way, lady. Do you believe with all your heart? You believe that God sent me here? You have no prayer card, do you? No prayer card or nothing... We're strangers, is that right? No way in the world will I have knowing anything about you, except it would be from God. Is that right? I'm not able to heal you, sister, but if you'll believe on what I'm speaking, and what's speaking at me now, you'll get healed. You believe that? All right, you're just about dead, aren't you? You have a terrible tumor. That right? Won't you stand up on your feet and accept your healing. Come out of that condition. You've been bedfast a long time. Let her friends help her. Get her up. Stand on her feet till she receives strength. She can walk home. Take... The audience... Amen. There, she accepted it.
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Everyone, just a moment. Have faith now. Here it sits yonder. Just a minute. Here's a man setting near the door, looking right straight at me. You have no prayer card either, do you, sir? A little fellow... Say, I see something strange about you. Just a moment now. It may be the lady in front of you, here. Just a minute now. Every one, reverent, if you will. Now there's a--a pulling now. Yeah... Over this way a little bit, ladies, will be... Let me see the man just a minute. Sir, you... That's right, you. Say, you--you're bothered... Well, you're a cripple, aren't... You got... You're--you're crippled. You--you have a--a... Let's see, I... It's some kind of a--something wrong in your spine
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has got you crippled up. Isn't that right? That is right. It's a-something like paralysis of the spine. Is that right? Is that the truth? Why don't you stand up and accept Jesus Christ as your... There he is, healed. Praise the Lord Jesus Christ. Let the whole audience believe on the Lord Jesus and be healed right now. Let's raise our hands, everybody, giving God praise. Heavenly Father, in the Name of Jesus Christ we love You and pray, God, just now, that Satan will turn loose of everybody in this building and they'll be healed.
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Thank you, Brother...?... Good evening. Thank you, brother. Good evening everyone. Very happy to be out tonight, feeling good. I'm feeling good since the meeting last night. It was such a great blessing to me to see that poor blind woman receive her sight. And many others... I got an encouraging letter today that some lady (probably is present now) was telling me about some of the things that happened in her neighborhood yesterday after night before last's meeting, how that the Lord restored hearing to a woman that was--been totally deaf for a long time. At the... Said... Claimed the Angel of the Lord came into the house where she was at, and gave her her hearing. And she can just very... We would like to have her testimony, to write it out back there. And so, that's very fine. And we're happy for that. Just very happy. And so we were planning on... Was going to close the meeting Sunday night, but we decided we'd better not do it. Maybe we better go on just a little longer. We was... We were going to... [Audience applauds.--Ed.] Thank you. Thank you a whole lot. Thank you so much. That makes me feel good.
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The reason that I was doing it, was not because of no cooperation here, but was in respects of Brother Freeman. You see? And I didn't want to be holding the same time he was. And if I thought that I was hindering his meeting in any way, I wouldn't do it. But I--I--I just had a little note a while ago, so I feel a lot better about it now, that it's--it's all right, so...?... Thank you. Thank you very much. It just got a little mixed up among some of the ministering
brethren, that our meetings got twisted up and we got in the same city at the same time. And I'm sure we wouldn't want to do that. But we don't want you people to think that we're just trying to rush in on you.
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But I believe like... I believe Jacob dug one well, and the Philistines drove him away, and he called it malice. And he dug another one, and they run him away, and he called it strife. But he dug the third one and said, "There's room for us all." So I... That's the way... Thank you. Thank you much. So when Brother Freeman and I was in that little city, Chicago, well, I left it alone, walked away, you know, and we had... But there's room for us all in California there. We got us a big well out here...?... Someone told me there's four hundred and fifty square miles of this city. So there's plenty of room, isn't there. Lots of sick people too. So many of them come here for their health. And I just trust that God will give us a great meeting here, both of us, and will bless the services everywhere, and all the campaigns and ministers everywhere.
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And tomorrow, the Sabbath, let's pray that God will just give many souls across the nations, everywhere, to His glory. After all, we're going home pretty soon, you know. And we're just getting ready now. So let's just keep all cleaned up all the time. So we don't know what time it might happen. And we love Him, and I'm sure you love Him or you wouldn't be here. And there's some little speck in your heart that you love God, or you wouldn't come here at all. You'd be somewhere else. So we're happy that you do. So that... Last evening was such a--a great meeting, and--and this tonight we expect to be another great meeting for our Lord. May He just add His blessings. And now, tomorrow afternoon, the Lord willing, I--I want to speak to you tomorrow afternoon, just... Well, if you'd call it "try to preach." I... As I told you the other time, I'm kind of a spare tire when it comes to preacher, you know. I... when... You know, when you have a flat, you use a spare to roll in on. So we have... But we haven't got no flat, but they're just going to use it anyhow.
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So tomorrow afternoon... I always try to speak in the afternoon. And the people take a--a missionary offering for me that--that helps the overseas missionaries over in the foreign
fields. I never knew what missionaries was till I taken a taste of it myself. It's glorious. But oh my, if there's anyone needs help, it's a poor missionary on--on the far flung fronts there where he has to go up against everything; and especially those who are battling the battle with the supernatural. And so tomorrow afternoon... I--I believe that's two-thirty, isn't it brethren, is when we have...? Two-thirty tomorrow afternoon. And we'd be very happy for you if... If your church doesn't have service... Now, tomorrow's Sunday. And--and your own churches have service. So we'd be very happy, if you don't have any service of your own, that you would come. 'Course, if you've got a service in your own church, that's your duty to stand at your post during the time of your service: every person at their church. But if you have no church, and you... or it's not having church at your place, come out and be with us. And remember again, all the campaigns going on around over the city and everywhere. And God... And pray that God will send more reapers in the harvest, for we certainly need them.
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And so many of our dear people are sending me invitations to come and go to dinner with them, and--and... Oh, I certainly wished I could do it to--for everyone. And I would like to do that. But it's--be kind of hard for me to do. I'm afraid if I go with one and not the other one, it might make them think that I thought a little more of that one than did the other one. And I don't. But I--I love all of you. And I want you to love me. And if we love the Lord, we'll feel that way about each other. So... And then we'll... Someday, I'm going to go to dinner with all of you. Amen. Won't that be wonderful? Now, just think, after the battle's all over and the smoke's died down, we come up, meet our loved ones, and then meet Him. We set down at the table across from each other. Won't that be wonderful? There'll never be a crutch or a wheelchair around the table, never no... Oh, won't that be marvelous?
And then when we see all of that setting along there, I look across the table and I say, "Well, God bless you, brother. My." And then we'll... We just have to cry a little bit. Don't you believe so? If we can, we'll just cry a little bit for joy. And then at the head of the table, will come out our King in His Majesty. He will walk down along all of us, and put His arms around us, and say, "You've suffered much. You went through
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much for Me." He wipes all the tears away from the eye; "Now, don't cry any more. We're--we're... It's all over." Oh, for that great time when...?... That's why we're here, isn't it? Won't it be wonderful to feel His arm around you, and say, "Now, don't cry. Enter into the joys of the Lord. You've fought a good fight." So while we're here and got this opportunity, let's make it a good fight, a real fight.
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Now, I want to read some Scripture, and we're going to start right straight into the prayer line, so we can have good time, let the people out early, so you won't be late for your Sunday school in the morning. And we're trying to make a habit, if we can, letting out real early, and so the people can go to work and come back again, so--for the following night. How many's here for your first time? Let's see your hands, those... My, that's wonderful. Let's give them a hand, all of you here that's...?... That's wonderful...?... My, we're so glad to have you here and get acquainted with you. I wished I could shake your hand and make you welcome. But I pray that the Holy Spirit will just put His arms around you and say, "Here's what he means, that you're--you're welcome."
And now, in the services, our services are a little different from usually in Divine healing services that we come to. It's under the operation of a supernatural Being Who I--met me a few years ago. And being that this is strictly a Baptist doctrine, I... You hear me refer to a lot of times, about being a Baptist. Now, I'm--I'm not a--a Baptist. I'm a--I'm a Christian. That's it. I could still be a Baptist and be a Christian, understand. But--but not long ago at Little Rock, I... There was a man that had some crutches, and he was--was--been on them for years. And he got into the line, and the Lord healed him. Oh, he was so happy. And he was a shouting, going down the street with one crutch hanging over the other one, testifying to everybody, down through Little Rock. And the next night, he come back in the service, and he raised up, he said, "Say, Brother Branham, I heard you say... I can't get this straight." He said, "Now," he said, "when I heard you preaching, I was sure you was a Nazarene." That's what he was. Said, "I was sure you was a Nazarene." Said, "Then I seen all the Pentecostal people, and I said, 'No, he's Pentecost.' And here you say you're a Baptist." He said, "I--I can't get that." I said, "Oh, that's easy, dad." I said, "I'm a Pentecostal, Nazarene, Baptist." So that's what I am. Yes, God loves us all.
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Through His Son, we're all sons and daughters by being borned again in the Kingdom.
And so I was... Truly, I... That's... I was ordained in the Missionary Baptist church, and haven't been ordained in any other church since. But coming into Divine healing services, I make it a inter-evangelical, just a interdenominational for everybody. Just... God never questions in the line whether you're a Methodist, or Baptist, or Catholic, or what you are. It's your faith you're healed by. By your faith you're healed. And... But I wouldn't want you to think now this is just exactly a Baptist doctrine when I say that gifts and callings are without repentance. I believe that they're foreordained will of God.
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When I was a little boy... Today... That lady that made that picture of the little cabin that I was borned in, that was very nice. And when I was born, there was a supernatural Being came into the room, just about the size of one of those lights there. It followed me all the days of my life to this time. I didn't know what It was. I... My people before me were Catholic. I'm Irish on both sides, father and mother. And there's forgiveness for that. So I--I have... And someone said, "You being Irish and from Kentucky too, oh, my, that makes it awful." So I... But God had mercy to me, and He made a Christian out of me by His Son Jesus Christ. And I'm so happy. And then when I became a Christian...
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When I was a little boy, before I was a Christian, This would come to me, and would speak to me, and tell me things that were going to happen. Well, It would scare me to death, nearly. I would be nervous and trembly about it. But It would... It spoke to me the first in a bush, just like a wind whirling in a bush. And It told me never to drink, or to smoke, or defile my body, that there'd be a work for me to do. And down through life, I've tried to live to be a gentleman. And I was misunderstood. And even my father said I was a big sissy, because I didn't drink like the rest of the Branhams, and--and so forth. But there was something in my heart wouldn't let me drink. It was Christ. And I have a idea. I may not be right on this. I think that God was preserving this for His people, that they might benefit by it. I could figure no other way, because by nature, I was the other way. So all my people drink and so forth.
And just like if you plant a grain of corn, if it's a yellow grain of corn, it'll produce yellow corn. See? But... Unless there's a conversion made. And at this time, God did it.
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And so then later on, It wou--it would come to me, and would speak to me, and tell me things that were going to happen. Well I stayed away from It. And after my conversion, my own church, in the Baptist church, I took it up with some of the ministers and so forth. And they advised me to stay away from it, and never have nothing to do with it, it's wrong. "So, if anything comes to you," said, "we... Them days of--of the supernatural... And that's on the other side." Said, "We live by the Word." And I read one day where the letter killeth, but the Spirit giveth Life. So I tried to push away. I recognized it. Set down and tried to consider it just in the best way that I could. And I said, "Lord, if I've been wrong, forgive me."
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And It came into the room and walked to me that time, a Man, somewhat six foot tall, but of an olive looking complexion, dark hair to His shoulders, weighing about two hundred pounds in human weight, and told me that I was brought to this world to pray for sick people. If I'd get them to believe and be sincere when I prayed, that nothing would stand before the prayer. I questioned the Man, a being poor for one thing, and I-uneducated. And I said, "People would not believe me." I said, "I couldn't make people believe me." And He told me I'd pray for kings and monarchs, and so forth. I could hardly believe that. A boy with a grammar school education, and to pray for, and for kings and monarchs, I couldn't hardly believe it. Yet I knew that It'd never told me nothing wrong. But He was standing near. I'd heard the voice, and seen signs.
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About twelve years ago, I was baptizing my first group after my--one of my revivals at Jeffersonville, Indiana, where I lived at this time--my home is, rather. And standing on the banks of the Ohio River where [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] had gathered out. And while I was baptizing... It was two o'clock in the evening, on June. And the seventeenth candidate, I was baptizing in water at the Ohio River at the foot of Spring Street. And I heard Something speak, and I felt Something take a hold of me. And I looked up. And when I did, coming down from glory came this whirl coming down where I was at.
"Courier Journal Newspaper" packed an article of it, said, "A mystic star appears over a local Baptist pastor while baptizing in the river." They couldn't make out. Oh, up to probably ten thousand people saw It as It moved down where I was at, and went back up in the skies. Come right where I was and went back up into the sky. Well I... Many asked me what It meant. And I said, "I do not know."
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But then when this came, and He told me... This time He looked, He... It was a Man. When I told Him that I was afraid people wouldn't believe me, He said I'd be given two signs as the prophet Moses was given, to vindicate, or to (other words) make plain to you people, or any people, that I am telling the truth. See? That's it. Now, man can say anything. But if God doesn't speak back that that's true, then it isn't true. But if God testifies that it is truth, then I would believe it. If God said so, I would believe it. Now, I want you to believe that it's true.
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And He told me I would know diseases by taking a hold of a person's hand first. If I be reverent and--and go on, it would come to pass at a certain time that I would be able then to know the things that people done in their back life, and--and be able to tell them what would be before them. And then while I studied a moment, He referred to the Scriptures that I many times do, about Jesus of Nazareth, knowing that He was misunderstood, and let me know that I would be misunderstood. And I am misunderstood by many. But I am very thankful that many have believed the message. And Jesus was misunderstood.
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There came someone to Him one time. Nathanael went and got his brother. That's just where this Angel referred to. Or--or, Philip went and got Nathanael. And when he came, Jesus said, "Behold, an Israelite indeed, in whom there is no guile." He said, "Whence knowest Thou me, Rabbi?" He said, "Before Philip called you, when you were under the tree." And watch his heart. Now, he could've backed off and said, "There's some kind of a trick to this." He would've never received the blessing that he did. But he said, "Thou art the Christ, the Son of God, the King of Israel." And he fell down to worship Him, and he gave God praise. His heart was ready to receive after Jesus had vindicated Himself to him, that He was
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Then a woman, one time came to Him at the well. And He talked to her a little while to contact her spirit. And He spoke to her, saying, "Go get your husband." She said, "I have none." He said, "You've said well; you had five, and the one you have now is not your husband." Said, "I perceive that You're a prophet," and so forth. As she went and told her people, "Come, see a Man Who told me everything I ever done." She was little excited, He never told her all things, but He knew if... Now watch this. She knew if Jesus knew that, He knew all things. See? That's right. He knew all things. If He knew that, God could reveal to Him.
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Now if you'll notice, my dear Christian friend, fellow citizen of the Kingdom of God, that Jesus testified while on earth, that He did nothing in Himself, that He only did, what the Father showed Him, by vision to do. Is that true? That's right. See? Only by what the Father showed Him. See? He said, "Verily, verily, I say unto you, the Son can do nothing in Himself; but what the Father showeth Him, that doeth the Son." Did you notice when Lazarus had died? Jesus... They sent for Him to come pray for Lazarus. He didn't come; He just went on. Wonder why? He had a vision that Lazarus had to die. So when He went on, if you'll notice the Scriptures close: He goes on. They sent again. He never came. And on... Then after He... He said after while, "Our friend Lazarus sleepeth." Or he's dead; He told them in plain words. And so He said, "But for your sake, I'm glad I wasn't there. But I go wake him."
Now, according to His words of Saint John 5:19, the Father had already showed Him what was going to take place, because He said, "The Son can do nothing but what the Father shows Him." Is that right? And at the grave, watch His prayer. He said, "Take ye away the stone." But if he's going to raise, why take away the stone? The women had something to do. You see? He said, "Take away the stone." And He said, "Father, I thank Thee that Thou has already heard Me. But I said it for these who stand around."Just a routine prayer, and always--just to let you know. Then He called Lazarus from the--from the dead.
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Now, that same... And in our Master doing those things, and making those predictions, and saying only what the Father showed Him. Only... He knew where two mules was tied one time. He knew where there was an upper room to be made ready and a man would be packing a pitcher. Well, I've been accused of being a spiritualist. I've been accused of being a medium. And somebody told me the other day that... said, "Do you belong to..." Was there ever a group of people owned this church called "I AM," or something like that? Somebody asked me if I AM." I said, "No, He IS, and I'm His servant." I said... He said, "Aren't you holding a meeting up there were the I AM's was?" I said, "I AM is still there." I AM, that's our Lord Jesus, our--our God, His Father. "I AM THAT I AM."
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Now... that is misunderstood, dear Christian friend. By the grace of God... I--I--I am not none of those. I'm--I'm your brother. I am your brother. And I may not be blusterous, and can tear down and build up, and shake down like some great powerful preacher. I don't claim to be. And my timidness, I can't help that, that's the way God made me. I--I just have to be what I am. That's all. And just is the way He wants me to be, that's the way I have to be. And I only do as He says do. And... First, that would hurt me... One time at a meeting in Cleveland not long ago, there was a colored man walked up, and said, "Can I get a prayer card to have my fortune told?" Oh, my! To me, that was... I--I pray that God wouldn't hold that against the poor brother. He was drinking, but he--he... I ho... trust the God won't... Remember, you could blaspheme the Holy Spirit there. You see, see?
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Although, friends, Satan has got something to pattern, or impersonate anything God has. All the things that he has, he had to impersonate God with it. But where there is a--a false, if--there's got to be a true one somewhere for it to be made off of, or it wouldn't be false. Is that right? If you had a bogus dollar, well there's got to be a--a real dollar somewhere. Or if it isn't, that's the original (See?), and it would not be bogus. But Jesus was misunderstood too. He was crucified. They called Him Beelzebub. And Beelzebub is a fortuneteller, or demon. Did you know Beelzebub was a devil? The prince of the
devils. And they said His work, His--His doings where He could foretell things, and see things that was coming to pass, and "He cast out devils; it was by the power of Beelzebub, who was the prince of the devils." They knowed His power was way above all the prophets. They knowed He was on a higher level than any of the prophets, for He knew and understood, and the Father was with Him, and so forth as He claimed, and God was confirming what Jesus was saying to be true. But the outside ecclesiastical world, the religious world was the ones who said He is Beelzebub. "He cast out devils through the prince of devils."
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But did you notice, the devils when they met Him, they said, "We know who You are. You're the Son of God." That's right. And they had to recognize His authority. Now, if they called the master of the house, Beelzebub, how much more will they call those of His disciples? You see what I mean? And I--I hope that I haven't given anyone an impression that I was here to try to do wrong. I--I would rather go home and not try, than to try to be a deceiver. Someone was in the building the other night, had a great strong feeling of that, that I was a deceiver. And so I knew it. And I told my son about it. And today, a letter came in from a lady that's been...?... My boy looked down, said, "Look at there, dad. Just what you..." I said, "Sure. I knew it was coming (See?), 'cause He showed me it was coming." I said, "He was there the other night." Did you hear me speaking out, "I'm not a deceiver," to the man setting back there? I knew he thought that, said I was a faker. Well, if I'm a faker, come prove that I'm wrong. That--that's right. See? I--I--I am nothing but a servant of--of the Lord. It's like you are, that's a Christian. See? And I can do nothing within myself, only what the Lord shows me, that I can do. I can't do no more than He shows me to do. And in these visions, He shows me things that will come to pass, shows me things that people has done.
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For the first, about two years... or, a little over two years, about three years, only way I could tell was when I held a person's hand and it would show a strange look upon--on the hand. And perhaps God knew that that was going to cause a little confusion. Can I say something from my heart, if it's all right? See? There was so many--some people went forth and had strange feelings in their hands afterwards, you know. And they got the
wrong impression, thinking you heal people by some feeling that you had in your hand. Many would come to me and say, "Brother Branham, feel and see if I got healing power." No, I tell you now: you haven't. The only healing power there is lays in Jesus Christ. That's right. That's all. That's all. The only thing you can do, is point people to that. And that's all I can do, or anyone else can do, is to point people to Jesus Christ Who has already healed them. When He died at Calvary, He paid the supreme price. He paid... All the redemptive blessings that He died for at Calvary, is already paid for before God. The debt is fully paid. And you're excused before God. You're taken out of the pawn shop. That's right. The only thing you have to do, is accept faith in Christ, and walk out of the pawn shop. That's all.
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He's our Kinsman Redeemer. Isn't that right? That God was manifested in the flesh to take our place, to be a Kinsman to us. As in the Book of Ruth, and Exodus, and so forth, how it preaches--teaches there of how the--we become kinsmen to God. And God came down and dwelt in His Son, Christ Jesus, became Kinfolks to us. And He was our Kinsman Redeemer. And a public testimony was to be made before Israel at--at the gates, as Boaz kicked off his shoes to show that he had firmly redeemed Naomi. And in redeeming Naomi, he got Ruth the bride. And Jesus, when He redeemed Israel, He got the Gentile Bride. He made a public testimony. He was lifted up between heavens and earth as a Ensign, right outside the gates of Jerusalem. And there's where the supreme price was paid. There's where we was redeemed. And all of our inheritance was lost--our health, our strength, our salvation--all that was lost back there in the fall, was redeemed at Calvary. There it is.
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And my brother, sister, it isn't how graceful you can pray, or how much penance you can do, it's your faith to believe that He's done it for you. That brings you forth. That's right. Every sinner is saved tonight in the sight of Jehovah God. But it'll never do you any good until you accept it, and believe it, and confess it. And then He's the High Priest of your confession to make it right before God. And any redemptive blessings... If you're weary... "He was wounded for our transgressions, bruised for our iniquity; the chastisement of our peace is upon Him; with His stripes we're healed." It's already done. You just accept it.
Now, a minister can take the Word and explain it. I'm uneducated. I do... know too much about the Word, only the plan of salvation and things that God has revealed to me. It never come by seminary or teachings; it came only by revelation of the Spirit. And what I know, I know that God gave it to me. And then, knowing not too much about the Word, He gave these other things that might be a confirmation to you people that I'm telling you the truth. And God knows of all the... I've preached before millions. But there's never been a time that I've ever said that I had one thing to do with it, it... All glory goes to Jesus Christ, the Son of God Who redeemed you back there. And I only can speak and say as He speaks and says. And I believe tonight, if I was leaving the building tonight to never to return again, I believe you people would have to give a witness that's been in the meetings, anywhere in the nation or out of the nation, that knows that every time that the patient... When I set down with a patient, no matter who they are, when or where.
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Like the lady I met in the park the other day down here. She was coming across the park. She'd come from Illinois, and she was very sick. And she came across the park, and she said, "Oh, Brother Branham..." And she started over there. And I set down by the side of her. And there the Holy Spirit went back. And she may be present now. I guess she is. And He went back and told her all down through her life, setting there in the park (See?), and about... You've never seen a time, any of you, but what It told just what was the matter with the patient, and the things back in their life, what has been. Is that right? And that's... How many knows that's the truth? Now raise up your hands as a--as a vindication that. See? Now, that doesn't heal. That's just an a vindication (See?) that Jesus Christ is present.
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And the last two nights, friends, we have just turned the people loose on their own faith, and bring them through here. And I've just tried to stand here and take the initiative side, and just... When the people come, just keep from getting into-speaking to them, but just praying for them and pass them through here. And God has worked marvelous things for us. And I'm happy and thrilled over it, because I can meet more people. Usually taken them one-by-one, one-by-one. It takes so long to get into the--to get a--the appropriate amount of people.
But now, I'm getting to a place where I can take fifty each night. And I believe before the week, next week, I'm going to be doing a hundred or more each night. I believe that God can...
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And I want each one of you, when you come through here, regardless of your condition, I want you to accept Jesus as your personal Healer, and go out of here believing, testifying, claiming your healing before you feel it or anything else. Now, the elderly lady last night that was blind. They got the poor old thing to the platform. Just as... Of course, the anointing was hitting awfully hard. She was right in the first of the line. And I said, "Set her down." I thought I could get to her in a few moments. I seen she was blind, bumping into things. And--and they tried to set her down. She come through. And I put my hands on her and blessed her. And as she started on past, just as the Spirit turned her, it pulled me around. I knew it was over then. There she was, received her sight.
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Someone tell me she's setting back there reading and things like that since, and how that God had blessed her. And how thankful we are. And others who has been deaf, and some that were dumb, and all different types of diseases has been healed in the meeting. Now, we're expecting great things. I just happened to look at a little lady setting here sick in a chair. Now, God be merciful to all. Now, I want to read some Scripture right quick now, so we can get our prayer line going. Are you ready to be prayed for? Have you believed with all your heart? Oh, may God bless you.
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Stranger in our gate, you may have not never seen the-the supernatural discernment of diseases. I don't know what the Holy Spirit will do. I... Maybe He will catch someone in the line, or someone ask me what's wrong, or something like that in their life. They may be somebody sinful pass across the platform. He may call me right there and stop it. Usually, after they've been in the meeting and seen so many of the things called out, they usually repent before they get to the platform, and get ready; because many horrible things has been told to people, and so forth, over the platform. And you're witnesses of those things.
Now, I want to read some Scripture right away so that if... My words will fail. I'm a man. But these Words won't fail. This is God's Word, It can't fail. Now, how many in here have faith in Jesus, let's see your hands? Oh, wonderful. All right. How many believes He's the same today as He was yesterday and every day? Oh, that's fine. I want... Now, that's your faith. Now, I want to show you what else I want you to have tonight. The 14th verse of the 2nd chapter of Saint James. And I will read even the 26th inclusive. Listen close to the reading now. What does it profit, my brethren, though a man say that he has faith, and have not works? can faith save him?... (It can't. If you believe God will save you, you've got to believe it and then confess it that He has done it, before it will come... And then it works righteousness. You see?) If a brother or sister be naked, and--and destitute of daily food, And one of you say unto them, Depart in peace, be ye warmed and filled; notwithstanding ye give them those things which are needful to the body; what does it profit? Even so faith, if it has not works, it's dead, being alone. Yea, a man may say, Thou hast faith, and I have works: show me thy faith without thy works, and I'll show thee my faith by my works. Thou believest there is one God; thou believest well: the devils also believe, and tremble. But will thou know, O vain man, that faith without works is dead? What... Was not Abraham our father justified by works, when he had offered Isaac his son upon the altar? Seest thou how faith wrought with works, and by works was faith made perfect? And the scriptures was fulfilled which saith, Abraham believed God, and it was imputed unto him for righteousness: and he was called the Friend of God. Ye see then how that by works a man is justified, and not by faith only. Likewise also was not Rahab the harlot justified by works, when she had received the messengers, and had sent them out another way?... (Now, the last verse, listen closely.) For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also.
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Now, all you with faith, and you're afraid to put it to work, it won't do any good. Why not--why not just lay aside everything that's unlike faith. Believe and act on what you believe; not what you--what you feel, or what the senses bear witness of, but what your faith bears witness of. Is that right? You have faith in God, and then act like you have faith in God. Now, if Abraham says, "I got faith in God," but was afraid to offer his son Isaac, then his faith was no good. Paul justified Abraham by faith. Paul was talking about what God seen in Abraham. But James justified him by works. James was talking about what man seen in Abraham. See? God sees your faith; man sees your works. And if you say you have faith and are afraid to step out and make works out of it, then it don't do no good. It will never do you any good. You've got to believe it. You've got to accept it, and you've got to act like it, haven't you?
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Now then, you think it was a easy thing for me to come when that Angel came to me. And nothing like that, as I knowed of, since the days of the apostles, had ever happened. For me to step out before thousands, and sometimes as many as twenty-five and thirty thousand people in a single meeting, and say... and make a challenge of that type, when there sets "Look, Life, Times, Colliers," critics, doctors and everything trying to find one flaw with it. You think that was easy? But brother and sister, I believe God, just what He told me, and it would be that way. And when I stood there and said kings and monarchs of the country will be calling for me to pray for them, was that... I believed it because He told me so. And the greatest king in the world sent me cablegrams to go pray for him, with King George of England, and different ones like that. And great men all over the country...
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Here, there was a great man right here, setting here that wore crutches for a long time, the congressman of the United States Congress, setting here Mr. Upshaw set here, was a crippled for many many years, sixty-six years, injured. And here he is tonight without his crutches, without his chair, without anything, walking just as normally. The Holy Spirit is true. God does... That's him with his hands up. If some of you have never seen him, that's him here. How many ever seen--never seen
Congressman Upshaw, the congressman? Let's see you raise your hands. Well, he was a invalid for sixty-six years. He fell. And while standing here on the platform, when I walked up... Eternal God, Who is my Judge, knows I never seen or heard of the man in my life, not know him. I'm uneducated. If I'd had any education, I would've knowed this man. If I'd been in libraries and read books, and... He run for president, I think, in 1926. And he... And a great man from Georgia, but I never knew him.
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And one night, I walked into the platform here. Mr. Baxter had just left the platform. I looked, hanging right out here, and I seen the White House, seen all about it. Begin to speak, and I couldn't tell. And I told Mr. Baxter. In a few moments, It fell and I seen where the man was setting. I seen it was him, seen him get hurt when he was just a little boy. And he'd been a crippled for all... And I started to leave and the Spirit of God begin to fall. And a woman had raised out of a wheelchair, and some more things had taken place where the Holy Spirit revealing to them. And as I started, Mr. Kopp here, the... Brother Kopp, the pastor run up there. And I said, "Go tell the congressman that God has healed him. I seen him, going walking away." Here he... Would you stand up, congressman, just so the people could see you? Here he is. The--the congressman of the United States of America that was a crippled for sixty-six years. Let us say, "Bless the Lord." God bless you, my brother. And they could say nothing evil of it, for the man stood with them that had been laying at the gate for forty years. And this man was sixty-six years an invalid. Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today, and forever...
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How did Mr. Upshaw... I never seen him in my life. I knowed nothing of him. How'd I know he was a congressman and who he was? But the Holy Spirit revealed it here at the platform. See? He revealed it. His... Makes His secrets known... Now, that's nothing to do with me. See? I... Just happened to be that I was born for that purpose. See? Just like the pool and the water of Bethesda. It couldn't say, "Look what a great water I am." For when the Angel went off of the water, it was just water. Is that right? That's right. Now, I'm just your brother, by the grace of God. But when the Angel of the Lord moves down, It becomes then a Voice of God to you. Maybe it... If I offended you by saying that, forgive me. But I felt that
might been resented. But I am God's Voice to you. See? I say that again. That time was under inspiration. See? And I--I felt bad about the first time, but It repeated it. Now see, I can say nothing in myself. But what He shows me, I say it. You believe it and watch what happens. See, He did. After setting in great meetings...
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Now, looky here. Mr. Upshaw here sets under Mr. Freeman's preaching. And Mr. Freeman, oh, my, is probably a powerful man in Scriptures. I do not know Brother Freeman, only just by seeing his picture. But no doubt, he's a wonderful man of God. And Oral Roberts, my, he's... I know Oral. And Oral's a wonderful man of God, a great preacher. And Brother Ogilvie, I've met him twice, a wonderful man. And Brother Upshaw set there and those men praying for him. But what happened? It happened to be just the season. And then when it come along, and he seen the--the supernatural moving... See? Isn't it wonderful? And God sends His Word, then He sends something to confirm that, to back it up. You see? So we have all of it. And we ought to be thankful for it, don't you think so?
Now, he said in his testimony, he said he believed that I had... The Word of the Lord was speaking through me. So down went his crutches and things, and away he went, normally and whole. See? I would not have told that man that if first I did not know that God had told me so. See? That's right. And I'll try to be honest with every one that I know how to be. And I... If there's... Jesus said, "Whatsoever you bind on earth shall be bound in heaven. Whatsoever you loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven." Now, we can do that as the Father permits. Now, may the Lord Jesus bless you.
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And now, to some of you that's strangers here, if the Spirit of the Lord, which is present... If He does not detect or say anything concerning the audience, why... or--or tonight, or anyone in the line, it--it's vindicated already by these people that it's true, because tonight... each day... Today I haven't. I've just tried to stay happy, and--and pray, and, you know, and--and walk around, and rejoice. When I get under the anointing, I lose... I'm losing on the average about two pounds a day when the--when the--when you're under that anointing. I've lost, I believe, six pounds I think it was, or something, since I've been in this meeting.
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So today I've just tried to relax myself, and just go out. It's something that does to me, that takes the human part away. And therefore, we know you couldn't live very long like that. And now, you pray, and I'll pray. And then when we line the people up for the prayer line, God, I'm sure, will hear prayer and answer.
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Shall we bow our heads. Dear heavenly Father, I am very thankful tonight to have this privilege of being numbered among this group of Christians--this group of God's saved people, sons and daughters of God, that's on their road tonight to that great happy region beyond the stars, beyond all sickness, trouble. I'm so thankful, Lord, that by the grace of Christ, that You called me to be their brother. How thankful I am. And now, dear Father, I am very thankful that Thou has so witnessed to the people since the beginning, and the things that You've permitted Your poor illiterate servant to say, that-showing that it was You speaking and not a poor unlearned person. That You've brought it to pass, that great men and kings of the earth... And I believe that more is still coming.
And now, Father, it's my privilege to be here in California tonight where great services are going on everywhere. Your servant, Brother Freeman, is down at the corner there. You know where he's at, for You're with him. And I pray that You'll heal many down there tonight. Grant, Lord, that many of those poor people... Many of our colored friends are in there. God, I pray that You'll bless them and heal them tonight. May it be a great night. And we hear over at the Temple, the... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] where Your servant, Mrs. McPherson... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] Touch every one tonight of those poor sick people that comes in to be delivered... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] Grant it, Lord. And all over the world, remember all Your children tonight. Heal them, Father. Bless every minister and every one of Your handsmaids, and those who are trying to put forth an effort to-to get something done for You in this great harvest field. Bless them all.
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And then, Father, remember us tonight here in this little group tonight. We pray that many will be healed, many will be saved, many will be convinced of Your Presence, Lord. And may all of us, with Thy servant included, and all the ministers, and all of us here, will go from the threshold of this house
tonight a better Christian than we were when we entered, with more faith in You, and more love for You, Father. Grant it, these kind blessing. And if it be Thy Divine will tonight, Lord, that if there be some come across the platform who are crippled, and it be Your will, which I believe it is, to give healing to them immediately in the form of a miracle--spontaneously, that the people out in the audience might see and believe with great faith, I pray that it'll be so, Lord. But howbeit, if not, when we ask You, we believe that we receive what we ask for.
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And Father, I pray that You'll give them great faith, that they will not be disappointed, but will go from here happy, rejoicing, looking for it at any time, trying every minute of their life to walk better, or to--to see, or whatever might be their trouble. And if it be Your Divine will to reveal the secrets of the hearts of any of them, that's caused them to be in this condition, speak to Your humble servant, Lord. Behold, I stand trusting that the Blood of Christ will cleanse me from all my sins, that I'll be a channel that You can speak through this night to Your people. Hear my prayer, Father, as I ask it with all the sincerity of my heart, in the Name of Thy Son, Jesus. Amen.
Now, beloved Christian friends, I want all of you out there to be in prayer with me. All of you, many of you probably will not be in the prayer line and--that wants to be in the prayer line. I--I wish I--I could. As the faith keeps building up, I believe we're going to try a hundred maybe tomorrow night, if the Lord willing. And then if we can go on for a hundred, if there's not too much of the discernment, then I can make it all right. You see? But I... In-in that, when it comes up, there's just many things... Now, when he starts playing that music right there, I can begin to feel It coming down. There It is. See? Look, Christian friend. I don't know where they--one of those pictures are. But you've seen it, all of you. Have you... Most all of you seen the picture of It. It's back there at the counter. It's been proved by the scientific world that It was an Angel of God by the best examiners America has, the FBI.
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Now, He's here now at the platform. It--it is true, dear friend. I don't know how to make you believe it, but it--it is true. And if you will not look at the man, your brother, but if you will look to what I'm speaking about, the Lord Jesus, and
His healing Angel at the platform... Do you believe God has Angels of healing commissioned. What was it on the brass serpent then? What was it on the water of the pool of Bethesda if it wasn't an Angel came from heaven down. See, see? I'm not God's gift. The Angel is God's gift. It came out of heaven. I came from the earth, and He came from heaven down to enshroud, or inclothe an earthly vessel to speak to earthly people (You see?) that--that they--you would believe on Him; not on me, on Him what I'm talking of. And by doing so, God will heal you.
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Let's call our prayer line now. What--what--what numbers--or, letters and numbers did you give out, son? 51 to a 100. And what's that letter? U. Still in U. All right. 51 to a 100. Now, let's see. How many... Let's see, is 51 prayer card here? Somebody raise up a... Just raise up your hand's got 51 prayer card. Right there, 51 prayer card? Is 52 here? All right. 53 here? Now, that--that's the way to come. Now, that's the way just to--to bring them out. Now, I could... If you want to, we could bring those people up here, and God would just tell exactly what was wrong with them, or I could call one out of the audience, or somebody without a prayer card. The anointing's here. The anointing of the Holy Spirit is here present now to heal. Now, how many... Now, call... Let's see, how many's here... Why, we could call the whole group at once.
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You all have faith. Now, remember, you that's coming, you get right here. And when you pass here, you believe you're going to be healed. And the rest of you, be seated just for a little. And the lady in the--the cot, you got a prayer card too, sister? Have you? Huh? Just a moment. My son has just told me. Now, them with the cots and wheelchairs and things that's going to be called in the prayer line, if you'll line up right down here when I--we call your number, I'll come down pray for you. You won't have to even bring you to the platform if you don't want to come. Or if they want to lift you up... I see the little lady here's got a--a... Look like she's setting in a chair.
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Now, 53? 54? 55? 56, 57, 58, 59, 60? You line right up along here, right in--in numerical order just the way you are. All right. All right, 60? Is that about...
All right, just a moment. I believe there's something wrong somewhere. Oh, it's someone to get... The little girl, is she... Wait just a moment. What... Is someone to pack her over there? Just let the little thing set there. You got a prayer card, honey? You've got a right to be prayed for. Just a moment. Leave her set there in that seat.
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What do you think about this, sweetheart? Do you believe this is truth? What do you think that strange feeling that's coming over you now is? That's the Holy Spirit, isn't it? You believe that, do you, honey? You believe what Brother Branham has told is the truth, that the Angel of God sent me to know these things? You believe that? I see you're--you're crippled or something. I believe you have one limb amputated. Is that right? Is that right? Yes, that's... I don't know you, do I, honey? A brother walk in there, and see, it broke kind of vision. Now, just a minute. Now, everybody be reverent again just a second. Now, look this way again, honey. I just want to contact. See, there's many people out there trying to believe, and that's... Now, yes, uh-huh. You have a... you've... A cancer did that, didn't it, honey? Isn't that... You take... and amputated your leg. Still in your system, still going through. Isn't that right? I'm going to pray for you right now, honey. Our heavenly Father, that poor little girl setting there, I believe You're going to let her live, dear God. Have mercy upon the child, lovely little thing. Grant her healing just now. I pray this blessing in the Name of Jesus Christ, the Son of God. Amen. God bless you, honey. Are you believe you're going to get all right now? You believe? You accept it now? God bless you; that's fine. You are. That's right. He met you.
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What you say? Oh. Oh, all right. 51 to a 100, line up. From 51 to 100, line up over that way. Everyone be just as reverent as you can, believe with all your heart. What was the... [A brother comments on the little girl's card--Ed.] Oh, yes, I seen it. That doesn't heal, it just... But I do believe with all my heart... I couldn't see. The people was moving so, I'm going to get closer to the girl before... I believe I... What... When you're healed, I see a white Light. That same Light goes around and just blesses. It's like a blessing. I see It, and I believe the little girl's going to be all right. I believe she's all right, sister. See? I believe you have nothing to worry about, honey. You're going to get well.
All right. Now, everyone... Now, they're kinda maybe a little... Now, the ushers will see that they come kinda in numerical order, 'cause I don't know just how that these things will be. I just have to--to... as the Lord moves on... Now, Everybody reverent now. Now, how many is back there in the prayer line now is going to believe with all your heart that-that you're--that you're going to be made well. Believe it with all your heart, that you're going to get well. Do you now commit yourself to the Lord Jesus and say, "I now accept You, my heavenly Father, as my Healer. And by Your grace tonight, no matter what happens, when I am coming through that prayer line, I accept Your blessings. And I believe that when hands are laid upon me that I'll get well. I'll never have a negative testimony no more. I'm going to believe the Lord"? Will you raise your hands, say, "I believe that, and I now confess that"? God bless you.
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Now, someone said one time to me--not to me, but to another brother, a--a minister con--attacked him, said, "Oh, that's a shame. He tells the people though go believe before anything's happened." How are you going to be healed except it's by faith? Abraham believed God, that He was going to let him have a child by Sarah; and it never happened for twenty-five years. And he growed stronger all the time, believing it was going to happen. And we're the children of Abraham. Is that right? All right. Now, everyone just as reverent as you can be. Now, maybe that the Holy Spirit... Just a moment. Now, maybe It will give just a--a little of discernment till I can get under the deep anointing, just for a moment. And--and then... So the people can come through. And I believe if they'll come through and just believe, like stepping into the pool of water. As the Angel of the Lord is here at the platform, and He will do it. Now, let's pray. Father, You know all things; I know nothing. But we--we pray that You'll come now in a great visitation, and bless Your people, and speak to them, Lord, just now, and heal them. And may You give a manifestation that You're here and are--as with Your servant. Grant it, Lord. And may each one be healed in Jesus Christ's Name. Amen. Amen. All right, be in prayer now. And if you will...
Now, you bring the... your patient. Now, just a moment. Now, I don't know just exactly what. Howdy do, lady. I was kinda getting this up so that the patients coming through, you know, why, they would--they would be able to--to hear... I mean the people out there would hear the patient (You see?) is
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what I mean. And you have... You come to be prayed for. And you're perhaps wanting to know a little something about yourself, because that I--I--I feel that there it's something that you're desiring to know: your--your conditions. You're nervous, aren't you? Extremely nervous. And haven't you lost quite a bit of weight too? I see a lady standing before me that's much heavier than you. And say, aren't you a minister, or something like that of the Word? Don't you teach, or something there like? Yes, that's what I thought you were. Uh--huh. Do you believe now? You're all tightened up all the time. What it is, is you've put yourself in a strain. You've been through quite a bit of strain anyhow. You started worrying not long ago, and looked like something happened to you that you got to--just all tightened up. Now, that is nothing but the devil trying to hinder you. Now, it's Satan trying to curse you and throw that before you. And as... You mustn't accept it. You must throw it down and--and believe now. Is that the truth? Well, come here just a moment. O Father, I thank Thee for Thy mercies and kindness. And I pray Thee to heal our dear sister just now. Thou demon, leave the woman. Come out from her. In the Name of Jesus Christ, leave her. Now, looky here, sister. You accept it now? All right. Go rejoicing and happy, and get into the work of the Lord.
Let us say, "Praise the Lord." Now, the lady... The lady's going to get all right. Now, she'll be all right. Now, just a moment. Now, standing here to my side stands Someone else. Now, everyone just... Come here, sir. [The brother asks a question.--Ed.] Sir? [The brother asks, "What's wrong with me?"--Ed.] Well now, if you'll just look this a way and believe me as God's servant... Now, we're--we're strangers in--in this life's journey. I--I do not know you, my brother, no more than you're just standing there. And I perceive that when you walked up, there's a welcome spirit. And you're suffering too. That's right. And you--you have a stomach trouble, isn't it? Yes, sir, that's right. You're suffering. I see food come before you and then go away, so I know. Say, aren't you a minister too? You're a minister of the Gospel also. Isn't that right? Yes, sir. And--and you're--you're a believer, aren't you, brother. And you want to be healed, don't you? You come here just a minute now, brother. Our heavenly Father, I hold my hands on a... Your servant tonight, Lord. And the Bible has said that if they lay hands on the sick they shall recover.
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Satan, turn this man loose. You're trying to bind him. In the Name of Jesus Christ, leave the man.
Now, my brother, what has caused your stomach trouble has been something similar like the lady that just passed. It's a nervous condition. You've been nervous for quite awhile. And lately, it's been worse than ever. Isn't that right? Yes sir. And then you've had lots of trouble that's caused this and so forth. Now, you go right on. I told you the truth. Is that right? You're a minister. Raise up your hand if that's true. That--that is true. All right. Now you... No way of me knowing that only through Jesus Christ. Is that right? You feel... Now, being a--a Gospel minister there, you feel that there's something strange right here, or a feeling of--of love, and like... Is that right? Now, so the people will see that that's right, raise your hand.
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Now... Now, that is the Angel of the Lord that this minister is a witness, what He spoke to him. Now, what more is this, the Spirit of the Lord. God in heaven knows I know nothing of the man no more than... But standing here at the platform just now, as he walked up, I felt a welcome spirit. I said, "You're a Christian believer." Now, that's the same Spirit that said through our Master to Nathanael, "Behold, an Israelite indeed, a believer, an Israelite in who..." And he said, "Whence knowest Thou me?" And here, I seen him, his trouble, his things and stomach condition and so forth, what was right. He feels the witness of the Spirit. Is that the same Spirit that the Lord Jesus Christ promised us that would be here in the last days? God bless you, my brother. Go and you're going to be a well man. And God bless you and be... Let us say, "Praise the Lord." Everybody. And believe with all your heart that God is here to make well all those who believe.
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All right, come now, sister. What would you say if I told you you were healed setting there in that chair. You are, sister. Go on your road and rejoice and be healed. Amen. Now, that the audience might understand, some of the people... I want some of you without any prayer cards out there to look this a way. I want you to believe. The little sister that just passed by there, and been suffering with that diabetes and stuff, she's going to be all right now...?...
Now, just a... have faith. Now, wait. A lady is looking at me here on a cot. Now, lady, I want to contact you by just talking to you. You have no prayer card. And you're stranger, and I don't know you. But you're suffering with a arthritis. Isn't that right? It's got you crippled up too. Isn't that right? And now, if you will believe with all your heart... And when God's miracles, or things begin to happen on the platform... If I was in your place, I believe I would say, "Jesus Christ, I accept You now." There's a man's here pulling right across the lady setting here in a wheelchair, that I can't see what's a happening. But I--I believe if you just accept Him with all your heart, God would unbind you, and you could get up and go out of the building and be a well person. Now, think of that. You're trying to have faith, aren't you? You're trying to have. You have a desire in your heart too, don't you? I see a close walk with God, to walk closer than... by Him. I see that above you. A shadow like pulls around above you.
Somebody else just made a... Just a moment now. The Spirit of God is moving. I believe it's the lady setting right... or the man, either, right here just... No, I believe it's the lady back there on that seat. There's something wrong. Blood, isn't it, sister? Ain't you anemia or some... Yeah, right there. Isn't that right? Stand up on your feet. Jesus Christ makes you well. That... Amen. The lady right... Yes. There's another one right behind her too. That's right. Stand up, lady. That's right. You're going to get over that. Now, wait a minute. The lady, your friend setting there by you, cancer case. All right. Stand up, sister. The Lord Jesus will make you well of that cancer if you just believe. Amen. Now, everyone reverent as you can be now. All right, sonny boy, bring the lady.
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Are you a believer, sister? You believe the Holy Spirit is here now? You believe that this what you feel is Him? I--I bless thee, my sister, for your healing in the Name of Jesus Christ. Go and be well. God bless you. Have faith now, every one believe with all your heart. Now, little sister, how are you feeling about it this afternoon? Are you a believer? You believe that--that God sent me to do this for you? You--you truly believe it with all your heart? You do? What would you think if I could be able, not knowing nothing about you, tell you what's wrong with you? It would be wonderful, wouldn't it? Now, look. So that you will know this to be sure, you've been this way for quite awhile, haven't you. That's right. Since
small. And of course now, your eyes is astigmatism, what's causing that. Your eyes are not very good sight. That's one thing is wrong with you. That's not all. Then you also... I see that--that you've never satisfied yourself in the way that you've tried to serve God. You've always wanted a deeper walk with God, because I see a shadow following your path. You're suffering with a heart trouble, too (Isn't that right?) that's bothering you. Isn't that right? Now, what if... Is that the truth? Have I told you the truth?
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Now, will you accept my word as God's servant? If that... If I know what has been in your life, do I know what will be in your life? Will you now say before God that you take Him for your Healer, and will go along with your head up, and rejoice, and praise God, and live as close to Him as you can, and be a well woman? Would you like to do that? Come forward. Our heavenly Father, I bless this young lady. Take away all the things. She's pressing hard, Lord, towards that goal there, trying to get there. Satan's determined to send her to a premature grave. But You're here to heal her. I bless her, Lord, that this heart trouble will leave her, and she'll be a--a well woman in the Name of Jesus Christ. Amen. Now, you believe it? All right. You may even remove your glasses, sister, and go off the platform and be well. Bless you. Let's say, "Praise the Lord." Everyone.
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All right, come. Now, it's her hearing. I see that now in your... It's your eyes are very bad. You're going blind. And you believe that God will make you well? With all your heart? See, somebody's standing there, crossed me up then. I happened to catch it just before it got into there. I see what... Now, you're going blind. And Jesus Christ is here to give you your sight, mother. Do you believe that? With all your heart? Now, mother, you may be a little aged, but God loves you. When I hold your hand, I think of my own dear mother at home tonight, is praying for me. She does every night. And one of the greatest mother day blessings you could receive right now, outside of your--your salvation, which you have, that you would be--to be able to see good and get around again. Wouldn't that be wonderful? Now, mother dear, I--I know that one of these days, that you and I are to stand before our Lord Jesus. Now, I'm going to ask Him to heal you. And you believe that what I have told about Him is the truth. And I want you to bow your head now.
My Father, as a dear mother leans her head on my shoulder, weeping, blind. Satan has did this evil to her. Nerves give away in her eyes, and she's gone blind. But Thou art here to restore her sight, Father. She's standing so humbly and submissive tonight. I'm thinking of Sarah of old, and thinking of blind Bartimaeus at the gate, the man that You spit on clay and anointed his eyes. And now, Father, if You were here tonight in a body of flesh setting among us, she'd run, lean her head over on Your shoulder. You'd bless her, dear Father. And I know my... I'm a very poor substitute. But dear God, if You were looking for righteousness, where would it be found? So Father, I bless her, that You'll give her her sight again. In the Name of Thy Son Jesus, may this blind spirit leave this aged mother, and may she be able to see now in the Name of Jesus Christ. Amen.
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Now, mother, I want you to look here to me. You see me? You see me good? I want you to put your finger on my nose, just so that you'll know that... Can you see my fingers? All right, could you see my fingers now? You can see them? How many have I up? Well, how many now? There you are, mother. You have your sight. What has happened, Satan, a blind spirit... Now, the Bible said when the deaf and dumb spirit... Now, the doctor would say it was--it was your ear drums went dead, or your eyes went dead, the nerves, you know. But listen. What it is, the only thing he says the nerve went dead. But what made it die? There was something taking a hold of it supernaturally. It didn't die all over your body. It just died there. All right. Now, if I had a transparent band around my hand, holding it like that, it'd shut the circulation off. See? Well then, all the salve I put on the fingers wouldn't help it. The thing to do is get this loose so nature can flow again. Is that right? Well, the energy of the--the sight, the optical nerve, wasn't flowing in your eye because a supernatural being, a demon, a blind spirit had caught your nerve and holding it. See? Now, he's gone. That's the reason you can see better. You're going to be all right. Can you see good now all right? She says she sees well now. God bless you, my mother. Go off the platform by yourself, rejoicing and praising God. Let us say, "Praise be to God."
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last night totally blind, can He give you your sight, sister? Now, what I want you to do, is to believe that This which is near now is to bless you. Now, if you will believe with all your heart that God will do it, He will flow right down to you and heal you, and bless you, and take that away from you. Your eyes are--are going bad. They're getting worse constantly. Isn't that right? That same thing. It's a power of the devil, sister, that's shutting off... Doctors can do no more about it, because (See?), it's--it's over; he's even said so. Now, when that... It's just shutting off the nerve there, the optical nerve. The energy won't flow through it no more. Now, the nerve's not shut off in your hand, or--or not nowhere else. It's in your eye. If it was in your ears, then you couldn't hear. Now, the doctor would say the nerve is dead. Course, he just works on the five senses. But Jesus said, "When the deaf spirit went out of the man"--the deaf spirit. "When the blind spirit went out of the man." See? He... It's a spirit, supernatural. Now, do you believe, that upon the authority of God's Word, that I have been sent here to pray a prayer of faith for you that'll cast that spirit away from you, and you'll get well? Come forward, my sister.
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O God, think, a white cane in her hand on the street. This is the hour. O God, seeing a vision there that they'd turned her down and nothing can be done. But Thou can heal her. Satan, leave the woman. Thou blind spirit, come out of her in the Name of Jesus Christ. Amen. You believe now? Why, remove your glasses and go on. Uh, huh. There she goes without her glasses. And she was... All right. Everyone come forward now. Everyone believe with all your heart.
Howdy do, sister. I see you're wearing glasses also. Yes, ma'am. Now, we'll... Now, I want you to--to look to--at me. Now, we're strangers, aren't we, sister. I'm not trying, just enough till I can see what's wrong with you, and then we'll go right ahead. Now, I want to--to--to speak to you just enough to contact. No, but it's not your eyes that you're interested in. You have arthritis, don't you? Isn't that right? All right. I want you to come here just a moment. Our heavenly Father, Satan has bound our sister, but Thou art here to deliver her.
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Turn her loose, Satan. In the Name of Jesus Christ, come out from the woman. Now, will you obey me as God's servant? Raise up your hands in the Name of the Lord Jesus. Stomp your feet up-and-down like this. The arthritis has gone. You... Amen. Now... She is not stiff no more by arthritis. God has healed her from it. Not only that, but her eyes also is healed, which was astigmatism. It's gone from... Cataracts behind the eye. Now, everyone be reverent and believe with all your heart. Have faith in God, and God shall bring it to pass.
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All right, bring the lady now. All right. Howdy do, sister. I--I see you're reading a--a paper here, been of the congressman's testimony in there. That was wonderful, wasn't it, mother? It's very fine. Yes, ma'am. You have several things wrong with you Isn't that right? A kidney trouble's been bothering you for time, an old female order and stuff. And then you have arthritis also, don't you, sister? I see you trying to get out of a bed at morning. You get stiffed over the night. Isn't that right? That's right. Raise up your hands. Jesus Christ makes you whole right now, sister. Let... Step your feet up-and-down like this. Stomp them up. Don't be afraid. Move your feet up-and-down like that. You can receive your... That's right, mother. Go off the platform saying, "Thank You, dear Jesus." It's over. Let us say, "Praise be to God." Our sister's healed. That's right. Now, everyone reverent as you come.
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All right, just a moment. Let me have this one more, if you will, under the discernment. That's what you wanted me to say anyhow. You were wondering. Now, don't be nervous. You see, you have been nervous for some time. Now, this that you feel now, sister, It's nothing to harm you. It's something to help you. See? It's something that'll help you. It's the Angel of God. It frightens your--your soul, of course. Now, you're extremely nervous, aren't you? You've had that since you've--coming out of the menopause now. You've been in it for some time. Isn't that right? Exactly right. Get real weary feelings come over you. Isn't that true? And another thing, have you got sugar diabetes too, in your blood? Is that true? That is right. All right, a kidney trouble that's been bothering you. It's sore and tired. In the evening late, you go set down in a chair to take... Isn't that right? God bless you, mother. Go off the platform and be well in the Name of the Lord Jesus. Let us say, "Praise the Lord." All right. Everyone reverent.
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...?... Like over this audience now. It just looks like kind of a milky looking, kind of like a creamy look is hanging in the building. Why, It's the Holy Spirit. And--and friends, It's just all over you. And It... If... You can be healed if you'd just believe it. Now, if I can, if God help me, I'm going to try to pray for the audience. And I see we got some people down here in the wheelchairs. I'm going to come down and pray for you. Now, don't let me get too weak before I get to those people in the chairs. Now. And now, sister, while you're there on the cot, try... I'm trying to see you if I possibly can. I don't know what's happened, there's two--in between here (See?), it's got me shut off. Now, try to believe with all your heart. And you there with the crutches, my brother, in the chair, have faith now. Believe with all your heart.
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Now, will everyone help me pray for these people while we pray. Father, bless our dear sister tonight; and may she be healed now, and leave this building well in the Name of Jesus Christ. Amen.
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Come away from here. If you...?... Howdy do, little sister. Oh, my, I... What's... You know what's your... You want me to tell you your trouble? Is curvature of the spine. Isn't that right? All right. God bless this poor little girl, and may she get well in the Name of Jesus Christ. Oh, God bless this little girl, Father. I pray that You'll heal her and make her well in the Name of Jesus Christ. Amen. You believe she'll be all right? Come, sister. Father, I pray that You'll bless our sister, and make her well. In the Name of Jesus Christ, I ask it. Amen. [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] God bless you, sister. All right. Come, lady. Father, I pray that You'll bless our sister and make her well as I bless her in the Name of Jesus Christ. Amen. Howdy do, sister. Yes, you--you have faith, don't you. You believe that the arthritis has left you, sister, already. You can praise Him for it. All right. You likewise, sister. Go, believing now with all your heart and receive it in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ.
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Everyone believe with all your heart. All right. Do you
believe it'll leave him if I ask? In the Name of Jesus Christ, may the little fellow be healed, and mother also. Go now, he's going to get well. The trouble's going to leave him. He will be... All right. In the Name of Our Lord Jesus Christ, I ask for the healing of my sister in Jesus' Name. God bless you, sister dear. Do you believe, sister, with all your heart? In the Name of the Jesus Christ, I ask for her to be healed. Now, that... Come, sister. You believe Him with all your heart? All right. If you will, God will let you get over the heart trouble. In the Name of Jesus Christ, I ask...?... Amen. You believe, my brother? O God, I bless my brother for the healing of his body in the Name of Jesus Christ, the Son of God. Amen. You believe now, brother, with all your heart? Something happened. I must tell you this. See? 'Cause you--you can't get over it 'less--'less I tell you. And if I tell you, you accept me as God's prophet? You have something you're hanging onto, that you don't give up (Isn't that right?), a habit that you have that you must give up before it... Exactly. Go. God bless you.
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All right. Will you believe, my sister? In the Name of Jesus Christ, I bless you, sister, for your healing. And go believing now, and you shall have your healing. All right. Do you believe, my sister? So many things--weary, premature menopause, arthritis, and just also... Isn't that right, so bad. Go and be healed, sister, in the Name of our Lord Jesus. All right. Come, sister dear. Heavenly Father, bless our sister and heal her just now. In the Name of Jesus Christ, I ask it. All right. Are you believing, sister? In the Name of Jesus Christ, I bless thee for thy healing. Go, rejoice now, saying, "Thank You, Lord Jesus." All right. You believe now, sister? In the Name of Jesus Christ, I ask Him to heal you just now and be made well. Go say, "Thank You, Lord." Now, audience... People, you--you go to thanking God as soon as you leave here. Say, "Thank You, Lord. Thank You, Lord." Everybody reverent.
Now, you believe, sister? In the Name of the Lord Jesus, heal our sister for Your glory. Amen. All right. Now, sister, what do you think about it? Do you believe with all your heart? Just a moment. It's kind of talking there, kind of shaking me a little. Look this a way just a moment. I see something strange working on you, that... You're a little scary, aren't you? You're... Well, what it is, is the
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time of life that you're in. You have a female disorder. So now, I want you to go and be healed in the Name of Jesus Christ. All right. All right. Do you believe, sister? In the Name of Jesus Christ, I ask for your healing. Grant it, Lord. Now, go rejoicing, being happy. All right. Do you believe, sister? Would you like to eat like you used to? Isn't that right? and have a good stomach again? God bless you. Go and do just as you want to do. Amen. In the Name of Jesus Christ...
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All right. You want to be over the female trouble, don't you, sister, and be made well? Go ahead, and God bless you. Let us say, "Praise the Lord." I just can't hardly get... All right. God bless you, brother. Go eat what you want to now, and be of a good courage. And God is going to bless you and make you well. All right. Come now. All right, brother. If you believe with all your heart, you'll be made well and your eyesight will come to you good. God bless our brother in Jesus' Name. All right. God bless you, sister. Come now. You want to get well, don't you, get over your heart trouble?. In the Name of Jesus Christ, may she be healed.
What about it now? Everybody... What say? Want me to get in there? Is this all of them? Or have you got a few more left? Now, they put the people over... the wheelchairs. They're going to line up, and I'm coming down, going to pray for the rest of these. And go right on through praising...?... And get rest of them...?... He's going to bring the rest of them through. All right, bring the lady right on. Come on, sister dear. All right. Heavenly Father, I pray that You'll bless our sister and make her well in Jesus Christ's Name. Amen. How long has that been on your hand...?... Come, sister. Wouldn't you like to eat and be normal like you used to be? How would I know that was what was wrong with you? Only through Jesus Christ. Is that right? Now, you know you're blessed of God, and you're going to get well, aren't you? God bless you, sister dear. Amen. All right now, sister. Oh, many things you're suffering with: heart trouble, and having a bad nervous condition. O dear God, I pray that You heal our sister and make her well in the Name of Jesus Christ. Amen...?... That's what your nerves...?...
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All right. Oh, my. Brother dear, I see you're on a crutch. What do you think about this? Do you believe it to be the truth? You do? Now, I--I can't heal you, my brother. But I'll be able to know what's wrong with you, if you'll believe me as God's prophet. Do you believe that with all your heart? You do? That which is now you're feeling, and the Spirit by, that's the Angel of God. Your trouble is unknown to man. You just get real weak, don't you, just get weak, awful weak? And you walk on that... About a--a little bitty piece of time, and then you just give out and set down. Is that right? That's right. How would I know that you were doing like that? Only through vision is only way that I'd know, 'cause I don't know you. Is that right? What it is, your nerve system is give down, brother, in your spine. Now, come here just a moment. O God, bless this man. Give him strength. You said, "Let him that's weak say, 'I am strong.'" Grant it, Lord, as I bless him in the Name of Jesus Christ. Amen. I want you to walk off the platform. Take your old crutch and throw it down there and go on home...?... you never have no aches.
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All right. Come, sister and be healed now in the Name of Jesus Christ of your eye trouble. Amen. God bless you, sister. All right. Do your believe, my brother? In the Name of our Lord Jesus, heal my brother. Amen. You believe, sister? In the Name of the Lord Jesus, heal my sister. Do you believe, sister? In the Name of Jesus Christ, receive your healing. Amen. In the Name of Jesus Christ, receive your healing, my sister. Go, rejoicing now. You believe Him sister? In the Name of Jesus Christ, receive your healing. Amen. Praise the Lord. All right... Let's all of us say, "Praise the Lord." Just raise up our hands and praise Him. All right. Now, there's a group of people sta... down here in the wheelchairs that we haven't got to. Now, I want everybody to pray with me now. These people doesn't have prayer cards. And I'm just going down to pray for them anyhow, because they--they're setting here. Some of them, I think one or two has prayer cards. And I want to pray with them. I want my minister brothers to join in with me.
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Now, I'll be able to tell each one of them how it happened, and all about it. But to heal you, I can't. But I want
to ask you something. Will you accept my Lord Jesus as your Healer if I'll come pray for you? Let some of the ministers line up here with them so... also that they can... they can be in on this, the whole... I want the audience to be reverent. God may perform some mighty miracles right here. I just see crippled and the afflicted, real crippled and twisted up so that they can't get out. Just let them set down there. Now, everyone reverent. Let some of the ministers stand right back here. Christian friends, how many will join with me in prayer while I'm down here ministering to these people? Will you believe with me with all your heart? Will you be reverent and keep your head bowed, and be in prayer? And we're asking our Lord Jesus to heal these sick and a... What if this was your people setting here. Some of them all twisted up and--and crippled, and some totally blind, holding canes in their hands. I believe our Lord Jesus will heal them.
Now, everyone be seated, all but the cripples. Just the cripples here now. [A brother instructs the congregation.--Ed.] Now, to you that's crippled, and all twisted and afflicted here, my heart goes out for you when you see me here on the platform pronounce blessings upon some of the people. There's been several of them here that's all crippled and twisted up has been healed. You've heard of that. For instance, Mr. Upshaw here that was crippled for sixty-six years. There's not a one of you that was in the condition that he was in since a little boy, and tried to be healed when he was seventeen years old when he had his back first broke. He was like President Roosevelt, our late president, from his waist down, is where it had him. I only could do as God told me to do, to see a vision and tell him about it, what would happen.
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Not only he, but others have set here in wheelchairs, that's not in wheelchairs tonight, that's been healed. Many of you know that. Phoenix, week before last, and how that God taken them from the wheelchairs. While I'm standing here, I'm watching you. I could tell you what was wrong with you. But the reason I don't some... most of the time speak to wheelchair cases, somebody'd say, "Well, anybody could look down there and say, 'That man was crippled.'" That's right. My ministry doesn't lay so much in that; it's to see a healthy person and then tell them what's wrong (See?), healthy looking person. And if... you'll notice it.
And tonight, the audience, to you strangers, I've tried to keep It back just as much as possible, to retain my strength to come down to pray for these people. Now, I'm going to ask you something. Do you believe that I've told the truth? You cripples and things? It... I--I'm going to come down and--and-and ask God to bless you, and pray for you each individual. And I want you to believe that God is going to let you get well. Now, He may do it right now. If you feel that ty--the faith that you're going to stand up, all right. If you do not, well then believe that He's going to heal you. If you've got that much faith, it'll take it a long time to bring it out. But Jesus said, "According to your faith, be it unto you." But now, if you have great faith, you'll be able to be healed right then. I see some blind men setting here with canes. I want you to believe. And I want all of the audience... What if this was your dad and mother or somebody setting here?
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Now, let's be sincere. Only thing I can do is go pray for them. Now, if they want to know what's wrong and what happened, God will reveal that. That can be done. But they want to be prayed for. And they believe if I'll come pray for them, God will let them get well. And I believe if they'll believe it with all their heart, it'll happen right now. And if they'll do it... And if it doesn't right now, don't be discouraged. It may be in a--a half hour from now; it may be in a week from now. I don't know. But it'll be, if you believe it. According to your faith, be it unto you. If that's Scripture, let the audience say, "Amen." Now, you believe with all your heart.
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How many times we see them out of the insane institution and in straight-jackets and things, and they're home now and normal people. See? And all kinds of afflictions... Now, the minister brothers are going to be praying while I'm praying. And I wonder if the audience will do the likewise. If you'll bow your head, and Brother Hall, you stay at the microphone here. And sonny boy, if you'll go with me down in the line. I'm wanting God to call my boy to pray for the sick. And I'm wanting to see something happen first to vindicate it. You see? And I want him to be with me when this is going on. All right. You be talking to the audience. [Brother Hall speaks to the audience
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Christian friends, to you who believe with all your
heart... Now, everyone just as reverent as you can be. I do believe that God has blessed each one of you for your healing. A man here is testing his eyes back and forth here that was blind. Another lady putting her feet outside of the wheelchair here, a colored lady, she's going to be up from there in a few minutes. Here's another lady has got up. All right. Now, just everyone reverent. The Holy Spirit has... The people are blessed; I believe with all my heart. Now, I want the audience to stand up, everyone in the building. Minister friends, I want you to walk forward now and put your hands upon the--upon the afflicted. My minister brothers here, walk forward and lay your hands on them, so you can assist them in helping them in their faith to raise up from the wheelchairs and be healed. Now, I want everyone to raise your hands to God, like this, while we pray.
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Now, lady, the colored lady here, I want you to rise up from there. And this lady here, and over there, I want you to believe now with all your heart. All Christians pray. Now, Father, we have blessed these people in Thy Name, knowing this one thing, that Thou has promised that, "Whatsoever things you desire, when you pray, believe you receive them." If You could take that poor woman that was bound and twisted there on that cot, out of that cot, You can take every one of them, Lord. Grant just, now that they can be healed and made well. Hear the prayer of Your humble servant, Father Now, grant it, Lord. Satan, you who bound these people, they have been prayed over. God's blessing's been asked over them. You are a looser.
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In the Name of Jesus Christ, rise up from there. Here comes a lady paralyzed out of the chair, coming up, ri--raised up. Looky here, coming out of the wheelchair, walking without... Praise the Lord. Here comes another one up. Another lady paralyzed from the wheelchair standing up praising God. Let's raise our hands giving God praise everywhere. That's right. Rise up over there. In the Name of the Lord Jesus, stand on your feet. Little boy, stretch forth your hand there and be made well. Wheelchairs are moved back. People are falling in the wheelchairs and having a glorious... Hallelujah! Praise be to God.
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...?... Thank you. My, he shouldn't have said that. Now, to you dear strangers, he was just making--trying to make me feel a little more encouraged to stand up here; that was all. I don't even claim to be a preacher. I--I just like to get around where there is preachers and I... Mine is praying for the sick. And I'm happy to be here this afternoon to--to see this audience, and to feel the Spirit of the Lord here, and to enjoying those blessings since last evening. I was noticing in the last evening service, those cripples and setting in those wheelchairs, how that they got up, walked out of those wheelchairs. And I... Now, they're not here; I don't see a one of them this--this afternoon, not a one that was there as I see, knowingly. But I notice one thing: just the ones that was dealt with the longest was the first one'd got up (Did you notice that?), the very first ones that got up. And there's something about it that I don't understand. And since last night I been praying to wonder what that...Why? Why would that? So you pray with me that God will make it known.
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Now, I thank you all so much for the missionary offering for this afternoon. If our Lord tarries and permits me, I want to go over to Africa, and then we come back to--to India, and from there to Jerusalem to--in this next missionary tour. And my heart is bleeding for all those countries. Sister Hall was saying; she said, "None of that for me, over way in there," said, "I don't think I..." I said, "Fleshly speaking, I--I don't desire it, but there's something back there that's making me go (See?), just--just making me go." And with the love for those who need Christ, I want to go.
I got a--a book from Africa not long ago and it's the colored man, old, he said, "White man, white man, where was your father?" He said, "Here, I'm old, and dull at mind, and I've just now learned of Jesus. If I would've knowed Him earlier, I could took Him to my tribes." And I thought, "Well, I won't have to answer for my father's generation, but I will have to answer for mine, for what I do." And under the difficults that I have to labor under, and so
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forth, I want to do all that I can for our Lord, all that I can.
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As far as I know of in human life, I only have...Thanking God as far as health and everything, knowing that I was once a blind man and--and--or so blind they had to lead me around... And my eyes sight's 20/20 now. And so I--I was once real sick: I couldn't eat nothing and stomach trouble so bad. And I'm healthy and happy, can eat anything. There's only one thing that bothers me, as I know of. And there's none of us perfect; we know that. And that is, the meetings, when they carry a little long, it puts such a mental, nervous strain on me, because you're just on the point at any moment. See, in my meetings there's setting hundreds, sometimes in big meetings where is many thousands gather, of critics that would--just trying their best to find one thing to talk about. And I'm conscious of that when that's coming against me. Then the Holy Spirit moving down to be able to know what's wrong with the people... And I know that He knows all things. And that... Under a few minutes under that (Oh, my.), it'll take more off of you than you could hit with a sledge hammer and--and rock pile for two days straight without even laying down, resting.
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You know, according to modern science that speaking, ministers, who just speaking to an audience of people, takes more strength for them in twenty minutes of speaking than eight hours in physical labor. That's what a--a tear down. Now, multiply that by about one hundred and you get some conception of what it is. And so that's the thing that I desire all you dear Christian people to pray for me that God will somehow... I don't know. I once wondered how He could--how He got tired, and being the Son of God, but I know now what it is. It's a... It isn't a--it isn't a physical stain. It's a more or less, I'd say, a mental strain: nerve and mental. See, it--it moves over you and you're just at the age, coming in the meeting... Not this afternoon, but at night time...
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There's sets one out there, maybe out... Maybe here sits a poor person with a cancer, setting there. Just one word will do the work. Here come a minister up, a few moments ago, setting over here; an aged man had had a growth on his lips. He told me he'd been preaching, I believe, nearly forty years, and--a Pentecostal preacher for forty years. And said I told him all about his conditions in a line somewhere, and God taken that
thing off his mouth. And there he sets. You see? And a... and I thought, "That man was preaching the Gospel 'fore I was borned."
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And here, come up here... Now just one word here, the Congressman, Mr. Upshaw from the Congress of the United States, setting here. Invalid for sixty-six years and me standing here under inspiration and seen a vision when the man had just been brought in: of where he was, and what he done, and what happened. And here he is today, walking around like the rest of us. See? That set under things for years... And last evening, I watched that woman laying there that was bound with arthritis. I was told when they brought her in, taken three men to bring her in there, she was--how she was, and how that...There she's...After dealing with her a little while, going down there and laying hands on her, she got up.
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Here set a woman in a wheelchair: her feet hanging down and such a condition there. And I--I talked to her. And while speaking to her, the Holy Spirit begin to reveal to her. And--and I said, "Now, in a few moments when I go to the platform, now if I look down at you, I want you to obey what I tell you. And when I got to the platform, up she got out of the wheelchair. There she was...?... Oh, well, now, those things is what makes a... Did you know that most all poets and--and prophets, and so forth, are considered neurotics? Did you know that? You--you don't believe that, but I'm going to... I'll prove it to you.
There's a land somewhere that the human person... And one out of every ten thousand Christians knows no more about but just by faith to believe about it. But there's a place that a human being, while yet in here, can be lifted up into that spot. Now, it is not a rejoicing time like you just lifted up in joy. I seen much joy, not enough real solid faith to cure a toothache. You see? That's the joy of the Lord, not the power of the Lord. See? I--I want more joy of the Lord. That's what I desire. And that's what you have need of. But, not long ago, Stephen Foster... My little son's setting in the back of the building, it's--was his favorite poet. Many of you know Stephen Foster, know of him: He was--gave America some of its best folksongs it ever had. Now he was considered a neurotic. And he'd...When he wrote, "The Old Kentucky Home"... "My Old Kentucky Home..." that's just a little ways
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from--from where I live now and just about seventy miles from where I was born. And two--about two summers ago I visited "The Old Kentucky Home" for my first time. And I was setting at--at the bench or the desk where he wrote that song. (And it's world famous.) And I was looking at his picture and where the seraphim, the angel was supposed to have touched him to give him inspiration to write it. The guide and so forth had done left out of the room. I was setting there, and I thought, "Mr. Foster, you look like a very intelligent looking man." I thought, "Why? What made you do what you did?" Now, he would write a song and he had it in his mind. But after he'd get through writing a song, coming down out of that inspiration, he'd get drunk: go out on a drunk. And finally, he got to such a place till he called a servant, ordered a razor, and committed suicide, cut his throat: Stephen Foster.
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Not long ago, I stood by the side of William Cowper's grave. He wrote,
There is a fountain filled with blood, Drawn from Emmanuel's veins. And sinners plunge beneath the flood Lose all their guilty stains.
In London, England... And I stood there by his grave, and I laid my hand over on the tombstone, and I thought, "God rest your gallant soul." I thought, "Mr. Cowper, why were you considered a neurotic?" You know, after he wrote that song, "There is a fountain filled with blood, Drawn from Emmanuel's vein," he came out of that inspiration and got--went down to the--to a cab--tried to find the river to commit suicide, to drown himself in the river. William Cowper; that's his history right there by his grave. Then I remembered the prophet Jonah, how that he was going down to Nineveh, take him a ship to Tarshish. And the inspiration of God fell upon him, and he went down and gave his prophecy before Nineveh where God sent him. And they even put sackcloth on the cattle on the hills. And God spared that great city. And such inspiration... Then went up and set down under a gourd, or a tree, and prayed for God to take his life. Is that right?
And I thought of Elijah, who went out there and set by the brook Cherith, and was fed by the ravens. And he closed the heavens that it wouldn't rain. Then he opened up the heavens and brought down water, brought fire out of heaven the same day, and then when the inspiration left him (by the
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threat of a woman), run out into the wilderness and prayed for God to let him die. Is that right? Now, I could go on and on, but what is it, friends? Men who are--are brought under such tremendous inspiration of another land... You go out of this world, somewhere else, way up. And then when you're--when you're up there it's all right. Or when you're down, it's all right. But when you come in between there... Now, as long as the inspiration was on them, they were all right. But when the inspiration leaves, that what hurts.
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Now here, not long ago, standing in meetings and finding so many people desiring... And I just stayed for discernment, so much, and one meeting right after the other, not having no interv--just--just constantly... And for eight months I couldn't get up or down. I stayed right in between there. You know the time it was, when they rushed me everywhere. Even to the Mayo's clinic said, "There's not a earthly chance for him." That's right. See? Now, when it's...You're up or down. When you get down, why you're seem to be all right, when you're up... But in between there, that's what hurts. And now, what does this all say? It all says this, friend: that there's a land beyond the river somewhere, way yonder, somewhere, that we're going to. It's heavenly there. So we do not understand those things, but misunderstood, but we try to do the best that we can for the imbetterment of human beings by Jesus Christ, while we have time to work.
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And I desire your prayers for me that I will maintain the strength. Since the time of that, I have been healthier than I ever was in all my life, more healthier. I never weighed over a hundred and thirty-five pounds in my life. And I weigh a hundred and fifty-five now. See? And because that I--I took Christ. I promised Him that I'd never abuse myself any more like that, that I would... I'd... When I got tired and so forth, I'd leave. I didn't care what the meeting was doing, I'd come apart into the wilderness and rest awhile (See?) and then go out again somewhere. But under management and so forth, where they've got these itineraries made up, and you have they get the auditoriums, it just certainly keeps you pushing like that to go, to keep it up. So God bless you.
One word I want to say about... Someone asked us about if I would speak the time that our--our baby was born.
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Mrs. Copp just told me she'd just received a letter from my dear little wife at home. If there's anybody at the Branham family that deserves credit it's the--the--my wife, Mrs. Branham; she's a lovely little character. I wished I could've brought her with me, but I can't because the baby was too young. I went for her to bring her here. I want you to meet her. Sometime on my return I hope to be able to bring her. She's only... (Thank you. Thank you. I appreciate that.) And she's thirty years old and almost white-gray. And five years ago, her hair was as black as it could be. But you set at the phone where sometimes sixty long distant calls an hour, day and night, and at the door where this, that, and (Oh, my.), it won't take it long till things will change. But, friend, I say this with her: we're only sorry that we haven't got a thousand lives to give for Him Who gave His life for us. That's right. The public, sometime... You have your individual case to deal with, but when this case, in the spirit line, you've got the--literally millions pulling to you. See there? And there... It's more than what people think it is.
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I had prayed so earnestly, reading in my Bible one day, after I come back from overseas. My first wife died many years ago. We lived together three years. Two little children was born in our family. One of them remains: is at the back of the building now, our little boy. The little girl died with the mother. I was single for several years: her begging me at her death, "never to live single, but to get some good Christian girl who would take care of the children," not knowing that the baby'd be buried in her arms; but it died immediately after her--few hours. Which was perfectly healthy at the time of her going... I lived single for several years. Then my little boy entered school, I--I got married again.
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And we lived together four years and God gave back another little lump of sugar... My little girl, little Sharon that was taken from me, He gave me a--a little Rebekah. And I love her with all my heart and I feel that God sent her. She's a very living image of the other little girl. And then, seemed like she was going to have no more children. Four more years have passed. And when I come back from overseas, I was reading in Cleveland, Ohio, or not Cleveland, but I believe it was Minneapolis, taking the Old Testament, a subject to read. And I was reading of Joseph. And he just outstands to me, Joseph does, of all the patriarchs. And I got down on my knees, and I asked our Lord if He would give us another child: possible, give us a little boy. And I would name him Joseph, if He would give
me another little boy. Immediately, after that, about a month or so, I knew my wife was to be mother. I looked forward for the coming of a little boy: Joseph. And when he was born, or to be born, I said, here at the tabernacle...You all sent so many nice presents and things which will always be remembered in our hearts. And I'm sure the heavenly Father has a record of everything up there. And I pray that He'll bless you.
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And I wanted to go home to go to meet the child, to see what would happen. I wanted him to take my place. I wanted someone to take my place, that I would know that the mantle would be on my children, if it could. And it's always been a little place out there, if I could just press over... I see things in part, but I... It just seems like I'm just living a little tributary to a great lake just beyond. And I always thought if I could just get past that one place, oh, my... And maybe I... My background's being so sinful, as I explained, that my people were all sinners before me, and I was raised in a sinful home. And then, trying to keep myself from sin at that time, as much as I knew how, I thought maybe God would let my children come into the blessing, the full blessing. And maybe my little boy would fully be a prophet sent from God; I pray to that. When I went to meet the little baby, as a nurse from Mayo's had been healed of a cancer a few years ago, given up to die, she was our nurse. When the--the baby was brought and--or come to meet it, instead of the Spirit falling to the baby, it fell back this a way again. And I--I believe it's just ahead of me. I- what I've ask for is, I believe that God has it just ahead. I believe I'll live to see it. And that's what I pray for.
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My little boy which is with us now, soon be sixteen years old, he was... He seemed to be a good boy. He minded me, and was very lovely little fellow. But I talked to him about being baptized and making his public confession of Christ. He lived good and everything, the little fellow. But about a week after that, I walked into the house, and he come without me asking him anything, said, "Daddy, I want to be a Christian; I want to serve the Lord." My Joseph was right with me when-and I didn't know it. The little baby that I thought would be Joseph is a little girl and I called her "Sarah." I'm thankful for her. I love her with all my heart. I had a boy and a girl; either which way it went would be all right. But I so wanted a--a--a boy. As far as so I--he could be a minister of the Gospel. And I believe that God is calling my little boy back there, going be minister of the Gospel. I...
Thank you. Thank you. Seeing the wisdom of God, now, I more understand. If you ask God, God will give you the desire of your heart. I don't believe if the little baby would've been born to have come up to the age to be a minister, Jesus will be here before that time, I believe. And God just throwed it over on my little boy back there and that--and we thank you for your kindness and God bless you.
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Last time...Now, I've taken about fifteen minutes, or twenty, there, in explaining those things, so I'll try to get out real quick now, in the next hour. As I've told you before, and many of you people now... As a preacher, I am not. I--I just... Oh, I don't know... I used to think that... When I was first ordained in the Baptist Church, oh, I'd carry the Bible down the street, and they call me, "Reverend." My, I was a big fellow. When I got to meet some real right down preachers, I--I kinda decided I wasn't. You know I told you about riding the horse, you remember the last time? I believe I was here about... I thought I was a cowboy at one time, when I'd put cockleburs under our old tired horse and get up on him and he would--on the saddle, you know, and he'd just bawl a few times. And I thought I was a real rider. My father was, but I was--wasn't my--wasn't he. So then, I went to Arizona one time and I seen them really ride in one of those rodeos. And I went out to be a rider too like my dad, but when I seen them riding them outlaws, I--I knew I wasn't no cowboy by a long ways. So... I thought I was a preacher when I first ordained, but when I got around where some preachers could really preach, I quit saying I was anything about a preacher, because it was another case of maybe "the cockleburs under the saddle." So... But what I do know of it, I like to tell it to someone else. That's right.
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Sometimes, in the meeting this way, just to have...?... relax myself and speak to then, oh, I take a little old text somewhere in the Bible and speak on it a little bit. And I was going, ask Brother Copp awhile ago, what was that I spoke on the last time I was here. And I think he said it was a--it was, "Four Ways of Seeing God: God in His creation, and in His Son, and so forth like that." And so now, this afternoon, I want to--to read some Scripture. And probably some of you has been here; I've read this before. I was going to speak on, "Come and See a Man." The woman at the well, she said, "Come, see a Man that told me all things." Kinda lengthy, so I'm going over to the resurrection of Lazarus here, if the Lord willing, at the eleventh chapter of St.
John, in the Gospel. If you'll listen closely now while we read, and go right straight into the service. And you pray for me, will you? all of you? And tonight, come out believing there's going to be a great outpouring tonight. I want to see the time in this meeting that there will not be one wheelchair, or blind person, or anything left that isn't healed, that... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]
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Meetings that's going on around the city: Brother Freeman, and--and the other brethren and sisters who's holding... And I pray, out of this meeting... Some colored Brother came, said, "Brother Branham, pray that God will send me into the harvest." Another minister come, "Pray that God will send me..." Go, brethren, God bless you. Just go right on out. They're just everywhere. Dash out. There's a many, many peoples in need. And now last night, there's been three or four wheelchairs been made empty now. And we pray that God will heal every one of them and make them well.
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Eleventh chapter of St. John, listen closely now, beginning about the eighteenth verse of the eleventh chapter of St. John. Faith cometh by hearing, and hearing of the Word. Is that right? Read the Word. Now, you can mark it if you'd like to refer back to this Scripture. And I'll try my best, watching the clock, to be out within forty minutes or forty-five, fifty minutes, somewhere along there if possible. Now, the eighteenth verse, we--we begin reading. 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. When Martha, as soon as she had heard that Jesus was coming, went and met him: but Mary set still in the house. Then said Martha unto Jesus, Lord, if thou hadst been here, my brother had not died. But I know, that even now, whatsoever thou wilt ask... God, God will give it thee. (I like that, don't you? "Even now, whatever You ask God, God will do it. No matter what's happened, what You ask God now, God will do it.") Jesus said unto her, Thy brother shall rise again. (When that kind of faith comes, something has to happen.) Martha saith 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. And whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die. Believest thou this? She said unto him, Yea, Lord: I believe that thou art the Christ, the Son of God, which... come into the world.
Let's bow our heads just a moment. Our heavenly Father, many years has passed since these words were first written, since this scene took place down there in a lonely little graveyard, where two broken hearted sisters and loved ones weeping. But way down beyond the tears, there was an expression in their heart to believe that God's Prophet stood on the earth, the Son of God, and was able to deliver to them the desire of their heart. And we, this afternoon, after many years, and these things are written that we might understand, we too believe that God will withhold no good thing from them that walk upright before Him. He'll give us the desire of our heart. And You know my desire this afternoon. You know the desire on every heart in this building this afternoon. And Father, while we're here in this healing campaign, if it should be called such, we pray, God, that in this hour while I'm to speak on faith, I pray that faith will move over this audience and there'll be such a great response to it, that the cripples will just get right up out of their chairs and walk out; the blinds will throw down their canes and raise up and receive their sight; cancers will vanish; and sin will fly from the sinners; backsliders will rush to the altar. Grant it, Lord. And may there be such a great hour now, like we've never seen before. Grant it, Father, because we ask this for Your glory, in the Name of Your beloved Child Jesus Christ. Amen.
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Our setting of the scene for this little text, if I would say it'd would be, "Believe This... Believest Thou This?" for this afternoon. Now, I just...Will you give me your undivided attention just for a few moments, and pray for me? Now, during the time of our Master's life, this had come to the place to where He had become very popular. When He was first here, in His first claims, He was not very popular. But when they begin to see the physical results of His ministry, then they were willing to--to admit that there was something about Him, especially the common people, they heard Him gladly. They still hear Him gladly.
I've never desired to be rich. I've... I--I believe Solomon, I believe, had the most level prayer to God that I ever heard. He prayed that God wouldn't make him so rich that he would forget God, and yet, not to make him so poor that he would have to steal. So just the comforts of life is what we desire. Is that right? And that's about where the most of us stand, I guess, and very fortunate and thankful to have that. Jesus dwelt amongst the poor and the humble. If you'll notice Him in calling His ministry, He--He never--He never called the-the rich; He--He called the poor. When He was born, why, they never--the angels never went down and sang in the temple, about--to Caiphasis and the high priest and those, and told them about, "There's born tonight, in the city of David, Christ the Saviour." But there, the angels came down and give this salutation, or the visitation, rather, to the shepherds and peasants, the poor people.
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When He called His disciples, He never went and got the educated priest out of the seminaries. He went down on the river and got fishermen, peasants, poor people that they would have nothing. That the--the world could say, "Why, yes, they become great men because they had a great background. They had this...." They had no backgrounds at all, and He just picked them up like jewels out of the dirt and made their names immortal among men today: Peter, James, John, and so forth, fishermen of lowly peasant-type people. And I'm so glad that God still deals with poor people and common people, for we don't have much of this world's goods. We don't desire this world's goods. If there's anything that we ought to--not to desire is too much of these things: just enough to live by, that's all.
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If I'd probably taken the money that had been offered me, I'd be an independent rich man. But today, as far as I know, I own this old backslidden Chevrolet truck, out here, about six years old, and a Pontiac about three years old, that I take my wife along in when I take her. And the clothes that we have on and what we have at home, that's all we own (That's right.), everything that we have. But I'd rather live like that and have favor with God, than have the best movie star home there is setting on Hollywood hill over here. That's right. That's right. I'd rather feel in my heart the Presence of Christ that I feel now, than to have the riches of this world. That's right. I love Him and He's Wonderful.
And He came to this world as my example. And He came as your example to be--to just be content with such as we have. And when He was borned in the world, He had a--a hard start. When He was born, He was borned in a manger in a barn. Could you imagine a birth of that type? No lower birth could be, I don't expect, than to be born in a manger. And before He even got here, it was tacked onto Him of being a illegitimate child, that He was absolutely a--an illegitimate child; that Joseph was his father and he was going to be born out of holy wedlock, and that was not nothing but just Joseph's boy. Now, that... And you know, that old curse hasn't left today. Many people actually believe that.
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Why, here not long ago, I was up in the mountains where I go for a little retreat to rest and hunt. And I was up there, and there's a--a man, a cowboy riding along with me, the rancher. And I'd met him, and he said... I was hunting, and he said, "Well, get on my horse here, ride along." He said, "Where you from?" And I said, "Indiana." That's been a few years ago. And he said, "What do you do for a living?" I said, "I'm a game warden." He said, "Well, they're not welcome in this country." I said, "Well, I'm here... I..." And he said... I said, "That's what I do as--to make a living," but I said, "otherwise, I'm a preacher." He looked and said, "A what?" And I said, "A preacher." Said, "You look too intelligent for that." And I said... I said, "Well,..." I said, "I tell you..." I said, "I--I-I think that's a mark of intelligence." And so he said..."Oh," he said, "you don't believe that story, do you?" I said, "Yes, sir. I believe it with all of my heart." He said, "Do you really believe that He was--the virgin birth, as it was said?" I said, "Yes, sir, I really believe it."
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Well, we went arguing along about it for a long time, and he--he said, "Why, that couldn't be so, preacher." He said, "That's against all scientific... It's against... All science." says, "it can't be so." Said, "Trees has to be--have pollen, one to another." Said, "They have to actual be a--a literally a father
and mother before a baby could be born." And I said, "Do you believe that there's a God?" He said, "Certainly not." And I said, "Oh..." He said, "That's a Santa Claus story." And I said, "Oh, you think so, do you?" And he said, "Yes, sir." And I said, "Well, every man..." I said, "Good thing this is America: we all have our own ideas," but I said, "for me He's more than life." And he--he just got right back at me, fiery, you know. He said, "You know now, right down to the bottom of your heart, that's just because you read it in the Bible." I said, "No, sir. That's one reason. But the next reason, the reason I know He is: He lives in my heart." I said, "I know that He is." He said, "Could--could you--could you prove that He lives?" I said, "Yes, sir." I said, "Go back over my life and see what I was, and what I am now," and I said, "There proves that something has happened." He said, "Well, it's against..." Said... I said, "You will admit that that woman, that He had an earthly mother, as the Bible said?" Said, "Oh, yes. He had a earthly mother." "But it's impossible now, for a child to be born with a heavenly father, a Spirit, without being a natural man." Said, "Yes, that's right." I said, "Well, I want to ask you something. If that's... If He... If you'll admit He had a mother, and He couldn't have a--a supernatural being for a father, then how did the first man get here without father or mother? How'd he ever get... Let him be monkey, tadpole, whatever you want to call him, how did he get here? He had to have a pappy and mammy from somewhere. Isn't that right? He had to have..." He walked on--went on a little farther, riding along. And after while, I said, "Can you answer me where the first man come from?"
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He walked--rode on a little piece, and after while he pulled his big hat down over his eyes. I didn't know what he was doing. I looked. He looked sideways and was looking towards them snow peaked mountains. We were up there hunting; the tears was dropping off his cheeks. He looked right at me, and said, "I lift up my head unto the hills, from whence cometh my help? My help cometh from the Lord." He rode back there with his horse and put his arms around me, said, "Preacher, I got respects for you." Amen. He said, "There's
been a lot of preachers up here that come and tell me..." Said, "I wanted to find one man that really believed it was so." I said, "I believe it with all my heart." We go up there hunting and we sleep out on the snow. And at night time, after the day is over, we've been different places, coming in... And he... I usually go up in June, sometime (I won't this year.) and salting the cattle. When the rounds-they're putting out the salt and things, I ride right with them. Then when we all round through the daytime, then at night he pulls his camp bag right up next to me. And everybody gets asleep, and he reached over and got my hand; he said, "Parson," said, "Isn't He wonderful?" Amen. Oh, hallelujah. Yes, sir, brother. He's still the Lord Jesus...
You know, springtime here in California now. I'm amazed of a morning to hear those birds and doves out there, how they're mating and fixing their nests. And I just think that bird could lay a whole nest full of eggs. And no matter how much she would hover them eggs and try to keep them warm, if she hasn't been with the male bird, they'll never hatch; they'll lay right there and rot in the nest. Isn't that right? And friends, that's... We know that the germ of life comes from the male sex. You're your mother's flesh, but your father's blood: life comes from the male sex. A hen can lay an egg, or a bird, and it won't hatch. I think that's just about what that I said, a lot of times, the matter with our churches today: like a--an old nest full of rotten eggs that ain't never been with Jesus Christ. And that's the reason they just got it reading, writing, and 'rithmetic, don't know nothing about Jesus Christ. Might as well dump the nest out and start over again. Don't you think so? Time to get an old fashioned Holy Ghost church: somebody that's been in contact with God; got a borned again experience, till they can stand for what they know that's right. That's right.
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Said, awhile ago, some of them said something about Peter on the day of Pentecost. Well, listen. I've been along these Holy Ghost meetings now for some five years. And Peter said on the day of Pentecost, "This is that." And if this ain't that, I'm going to keep this till that comes. I'll tell you that. You can criticize it, say what you want to, but I believe it's the real old fashion baptism of the Holy Ghost just exactly like it was on the day of Pentecost. Amen.
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Oh my, I can see our Master when He come with that
blackness behind Him and saying: that He was an illegitimate child. But God sent a warning always before the coming. He sent a man by the name of--of John the Baptist. He was a great forerunner of Jesus. God always sends a forerunning before some great event. Whenever you see angels will come to the earth... For instance, maybe the Angel that deals with God's humble servant here. That's a minor, no doubt, Angel of healing, or something. Or the Spirit of some great something that's--that's here, one of God's attributes. I do not know Who He is. But when you hear of Gabriel coming to the earth, something's going to happen then. Gabriel announced the first coming of Jesus, and He will announce the second coming of Jesus. Gabriel, the great Archangel Who stands in the Presence of His Majesty... How marvelous.
Now, I could think of when Zacharias... God setting Hisself in order, getting His church ready... Zacharias, the great high priest--or great priest, rather, he was to burn incense. He had a home that was consecrated to God. God give us some more homes like that. Yes, sir. They believe God and waited on God. And Elisabeth, his wife, was barren. She was way past the age now, and she was barren. And down--had pray for years for God to give them children, but seemingly, He had not done it. Sometimes God holds off to the very last moment, just to see what you will do about it. Oh, my. I feel kindly religious right now. I--I really do, when I think of His goodness, how that many times that He holds it right off to the last moment to see what you'll do about it.
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Down in Babylon, if I can you jump back for a minute...Thinking down there, that how that the Hebrew children, He let them get right up to step off into the fiery furnace before He ever showed a hand. Is that right? Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, there they was. They had purposed in their heart that they wouldn't bow down to the king's image. And He let them come right up to the last moment. Let's just look at that just for a moment. It's a little off the lesson, but let's look: God waiting to the last moment. No doubt, brother, you've been in that chair a long time, but God may be waiting till the last moment, see what you're going to do about it. Maybe you setting there too, sister, it may be just waiting till the last moment. Maybe this is it.
I can see Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego say, "You can burn us. You can do what you want to, but we're going to hold fast to that what's right. And you today, you can make fun of me, call me holy roller, whatever you want to, but I'll hold to God's unchanging hand. If He could bring one from a wheelchair, if He can bring the Congressman of the United States, from a cripple from sixtysix years, to a perfect, well man, He can do me the same way. Though it linger, yet will it speak. The vision will speak; it has to. "He that readeth, let him run."
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Notice, then when it come down to that great hour, I can see king Nebuchadnezzar (representing the world) saying, "Well, all right, we'll just burn some of that religion out of them." You know, that he may not be called Nebuchadnezzar today, but he's still in the earth, his influence, the laugh, "Burn it out." Mockery... And said, "We'll just take some of that religion out of them. We'll heat the furnace seven times hotter than it ever was het." And I can see Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego in a prayer meeting, knowing God was able. There they go on the death march. The next day the king sets up and says, "Now we'll see what takes place. When we put the heat on them, they'll deny it then, like the rest of them." And don't you think the devil ain't here to put the heat on you when you claim your healing, or salvation, or the baptism of the Holy Ghost? He'll throw the heat to you. Yes, he will.
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Then when they got at that great hour, walking up the gangplank, as it was, to drop off into this furnace, seven times hotter than it ever was het... Notice, I hear Shadrach say, "Meshach, you're sure you prayed through?" Oh, my. You better know it. He say, "Yes, I prayed through." Take a hold of hands then. Here they go walking on up, up to the very next to the last step. Men begin to get fainty from that hot heat coming out of there, the intense heat of the foundry. Or push them on up into there, or this furnace, rather, with these spears... Looks like God has just forsaken and turned His back upon His people, no answer to prayer, no nothing. Fainty, sickly, staggering right on up, going into the furnace standing firm on their conviction: "God is able to deliver us from this fiery furnace, but nevertheless..." Going right on, and the heat's on. Amen.
That's the way it was, Congressman. You said, "Don't give up." All right, stay right there. "God is able to deliver us from this fiery furnace." Just a few more steps, I can see Shadrach look at--at Abednego, to see the last time before they step into the furnace. Looks like pretty dark, doesn't it, the picture I'm painting? Let's turn our camera now. Amen. All the time there's something going on down here, there's something going on up there at the same time. Amen. We only look to the earthly side. But let's look up there. My, I can see Him setting there in His majesty (Oh, my.), His kingly, priestly garments hanging around Him, setting there. I can see a great Angel coming up. You believe God's got angels in heaven? They're at His command. Is that right?
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I can see one of them come up; he's called Wormwood. He's the angel over all the waters. I can see him rustle up, quick up beside of the throne and say, "Master, have You looked down, down there? Why, they're fixing to burn up three faithful believers." I can hear the Master say, "Yes, Wormwood, I've watched them all night long." Brother, His eye is on the sparrow, and I know He watches me. I know He sees everything that's going on right here now. He knows. Not even a sparrow could fall in the streets. I hear Wormwood say, "Back in the antediluvian destruction, You give me the authority and I broke up all the fountains." You know Wormwood in--up there has control of the waters. He said, "I've washed the whole thing off. Let me go down this morning and I'll wash Babylon off the face of the earth." I believe he could've done it. You say, "Well, I tell you... You can..." "I can't let you go."
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Here comes another angel. Who's he? Let's see, maybe He's Michael. Let's think He's Michael, the great Angel that stands in the Presence of God. I can see him draw His sword and say, "Master, look down there. One more step and death's right before them! Have You considered them?" "Yes." "Let me go down there; we'll see who's boss when we get down there." I believe He could've done it, don't you? I can hear Him say, "Michael, you have obeyed Me since the day that I created you, but I can't let you go because I'm going Myself. This is a Man-sized job." My, my. I can see Him rise up
from His seat; His robes drop 'round Him; walk out there and say... Way back over there in the north, I can see a great big white thunderhead; I can hear Him say, "Come here." Amen. Everything in the heaven obeys Him, but man thinks he knows more than He does (You see?), so he can't obey Him.
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I can see Him say, "Come here, East wind, North, South, and West. Get under this thunderhead; I'm going to drive you like horses this morning." He'd takes that big thunderhead, step out on it like a chariot, reach up and get ahold of a zigzag lightnings out of the skies and crack it across the sky. King Nebuchadnezzar could hear it down on the earth down there. And about that time He passed by the sea of life and picked off a palm. When they made their last step into the fiery furnace there was One like the Son of God, standing there fanning away the--all the breezes like that; talking over the future for them. I tell you; He's God today. He knows all things.
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He has angels in charge. When He knew His Son was coming to the earth, He said, "Now look, there's a good man down there by the name of Zacharias. I want you to go down and stand by him, and I want you to speak to him." And I can see Zacharias go in now. He's down at--at the temple, and he's making his wave here before the altar, burning incense. The people in the congregation was praying. And as he turned, there stood Gabriel (Oh, my.) standing by his side, said, "Zacharias, fear not!" Hallelujah. That's the Word: "Fear not." You got faith in God, stand pat, God will do it. Now, I'm not excited, I just feel a little good. See? Notice, I get a little noisy, but I don't mean nothing by it. If you felt like I did, you'd be noisy too maybe. Look. All right. I can prove anything without emotion is dead. So your religion hasn't got any emotion about it, bury it somewhere and get one that's got some life in it. Amen. That's right.
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Now, notice. I can hear him say now, "...?... when you go home after the days, your--this administration here, you're going home, and your wife is going to bring a child, and you will call his name John. Now notice, that man who had read the Bible over and over, prayed and so forth for God to give him children... "How could these things be?" And he said, "Because you have doubted my word... I'm Gabriel. My words will be fulfilled in their season." Hallelujah.
Oh, when He speaks it...When He sends an ordained angel out of heaven, it has to come to pass. Amen. Said, "I'm Gabriel. And because you've doubted my word, you will be dumb till the day the baby's born. My word will be fulfilled anyhow." Amen. All right. And when he come out and beckoned to the people, he went home after the days of the ministration, and his wife conceived. Now look, he ought to have believed it: there was Sarah and Hannah and many examples in the Bible that showed it had been before, but he doubted it in his individual case.
Now, to you people here in a wheelchair, if those people here last night walked from a wheelchair; if this man from a crippled bed, and so forth for all those years, it's so in your case. Amen. All right. Notice, there he was. He went home. And after the days his wife conceived. And at the point she was about six months, along something like that, then God sent Gabriel back again. Amen. Here he come. I see a little old girl living down there in Nazareth, just the--out of a poor humble family (And her name was Mary.), about eighteen years old, engaged to a man that had been married before, had some children. And here they come along. She's walking. Maybe it's wash day. She's got the water on her head. Maybe it's Oriental type packing water from the well. And all at once a big bright light flashed before her. And there in the bright light stood Gabriel, the Angel of God. Said, "Hail, Mary. Blessed art thou among women. You've found favor with God. And you're going to have a child, knowing no man. And He'll be called the Son of God."
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Look, the priest doubted Gabriel's word. But Mary... And he had something to believe that'd happened before that time; but Mary didn't have nothing: never a baby had been born without being, well, like man and wife. But she was going to have a baby by the Holy Spirit. And instead of doubting him, she said, "Behold, the handsmaid of the Lord. Be it unto me according to Thy Word." Hallelujah. Oh, that's what we need is some more Marys. Take God at His Word. She didn't wait till she felt life; she started right then testifying she was going to have a baby. Hallelujah. As soon as God's Word sinks in your heart, get up and give a testimony, and... "Hallelujah." That's it. When God takes the Holy Spirit and brings that Word to you and makes It alive to you, a reality that your faith, stand up and claim it. You don't have to feel nothing, see nothing, or nothing; you have to believe
something. Amen. I'm not amening myself, but it means "so be it."
All right. Watch this. There He is. She said, "Behold, the handsmaid of the Lord. Be it unto me according to Thy word." She took Him at his Word and begin to rejoice. She had to testify about it. And as soon as real genuine Christian faith anchors in a person's heart, let them be bound in a wheelchair, blind, whatever it is, they'll tell it. That's right: "I'm healed." "How do you know you are?" "Jesus said so and I believe it." There you are. Yes. Oh, I like to throw that in the devil's face. When he stood there at Mayo's... The Mayo's, them group of doctors around me said, "Reverend Branham, you're finished." Jesus said, "I'll heal you." Hallelujah. I took Him at His Word. Yes. He hates me; I know he does. But Christ loves me, 'cause He redeemed me. All right. Yes, I like to push it back at him every time I get a chance. He said, "You don't feel any better than you ever felt. When I come out come out of there, I said, "Old boy, if you want to hear me praise God, stick around. You'll hear me." Yes, sir. I mean to praise Him till death shall set me free. Yes, sir. Let it be little, big, wherever it is, He's worthy of all praise and glory.
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Oh, my. There He was. Took Him at His Word. She started telling people about it. She heard... The angel told her about her cousin. Mary and Elisabeth were cousins. And so she went up out of--to Judaean to her cousin Elisabeth, to tell her the great news and to appreciate the angel's visit to Zacharias. She said, "Now, it's six months with one who was called barren." So I can see Mary going along the road, just full of happiness (No sign of life nowhere, nothing at all.). She had the promise. That's all she needed. Glory. Said, "Oh..." I wish you could see it. The promise is all you need.
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When I spoke to a Baptist bishop, overseer, general overseer of the conference, he said, "Reverend Branham, aren't you ashamed to make such statements as that?" I said, "No, sir." "You think that you..." I said, "I can, for Christ promised it." Hallelujah. It's mine, I believe in it. Christ died that I could have that privilege. And today I stand still on it. Hallelujah. Yes, sir. Mine because He gave it to me. He died and He sent the Holy Ghost to persuade
me to take it. And it's mine and it's yours. Every redemptive blessing of the Bible belongs to you. Hallelujah.
All right. I see her go up there now, and Elisabeth, her cousin sees her coming. She's so happy along. And here comes Elisabeth out to meet her. Oh, my. She puts her arms around her, and hugs her, and says, "Oh, I'm so happy..." and so forth, like that. They had love for one another in them days. We lost that now. That's right. There's no more love among people hardly, 'less it's the saints of God. Why, used to be down on the farm, down there, if we run out of money, we could go over to the neighbor and borrow fifty dollars, maybe, till we harvest... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] Hallelujah.
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The Bible said, "Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever. He was a man. When He come down off the mountain that night, hungry, and He was looking for some to eat around a fig tree. He was a man when He was hungry. But when He took five biscuits and fed five thousand, He was God. Hallelujah. That's right. He was a man when He was laying there on the back of that boat that night, so tired from healing the sick and the virtue going out of Him, till He was so sleepy till the waves didn't wake Him up. The sea, angry, ten thousands devils swore they would drown Him that night. He was a man when that little old boat, like a bottle stopper jumped about on the sea. He was a man when He was laying there asleep. But when He rose, put His foot on the brail of the boat, said, "Peace, be still." He was more than a man when He stopped the roaring seas and parted the waves. God was in Christ, reconciling the world to Himself. He was the Divine Son of God. Hallelujah. He was a man when He cried for mercy at the cross. That's right. He died like a man, crying for mercy, the cross, but when He rose on Easter morning, He proved He was God. [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]
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Every poet that's ever mounted to anything, any man that ever mounted to a hill of beans, believed in Him, had faith in Him as being Divine. One said,
Living He loved me, Dying He saved me; Buried, He carried my sins far away; Rising, He justified, freely, forever; Someday He's coming, O glorious day.
What do you think about Him, Eddie Perronet? When he was there in prison they were making fun of him, he wrote with a
pen when the Holy Ghost touched him. He said,

All hail the power of Jesus' name! Let angels prostrate fall; Bring forth the royal diadem, And crown Him Lord of all.
Blind Fanny Crosby, what do you think about Him? 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?" [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] BELIEVEST.THOU.THIS_ LA.CA SUNDAY_ 51-0506A
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Hallelujah. The Bible said, Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever. [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] Believest thou this? He's Divine. Believest thou this? He's the Son of God. Believest thou this? He's here now. Believest thou this? He's the One that's made Lazarus come from the grave. He's the same great Jehovah God. Let's stand and accept Him. O, Almighty God, send Your mercies, Lord. We believe You with all of our heart. O Master of life, pour upon this congregation now forgiveness us of sin. Heal all the sick and the afflicted. Get glory out of this service, Father. Grant it, Lord. He's here now to save. Believest thou this? This is Him now that's moving on your heart. Believest thou this? He sent me here to pray for you. Believest thou this? An Angel met me not long ago, said if I'd be sincere when I prayed, nothing should stand before the prayer. Believest thou this? Do you believe it? Accept Him right now as your Healer. Stand up on your feet and be made well. Every person that's in Your Divine presence... Hallelujah...?...
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Thank you, brother...?... Good evening, friends. Happy to be back again tonight to minister again. We're very happy for the results of last week's services, and how our heavenly Father has blessed in such a great way. Many of them has already given in their testimony. Some colored lady just come running up just now and placed a
testimony or something in my hand, said, "I was healed." And-and I see different ones that tell me about, and their letters come in, of how different afflictions has left their body. We're so happy because that our Lord is here to--to make Hisself known to the people by healing their bodies, forgiving their sins. And we trust that the next days of this meeting will be more than what the first part of the--this last week was. May God grant it to all.
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And we're happy to be here in this city. And knowing that other great campaigns are going on in the city, we pray for each of them, that God will--will work great wonders in their meetings also. We've been trying to get out a little early each night, so that we can give the people an opportunity. Many of them has to go to work. And after being here for two weeks before, and speaking many things that the Lord did, and giving testimonies, speaking on the Word, I feel that all's about necessary now is to be praying for the sick people. And last night, we had a glorious night of cripples, and them out of the wheelchairs and things being delivered. That was what many people term the evidence of--of a miracle. Not altogether, that isn't right. Anything that's contrary to--to the regular run of anything, the run of nature or something is a miracle.
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Jesus healed a boy one time by... He spoke a Word to his father. And the next day... The boy's fever left him that day and he begin to amend. And the Bible called it a miracle. This is again the second miracle Jesus did when He came into Galilee. First, He turned the water to wine. Now, that water would have been wine someday anyhow, perhaps. But it'll have to go through the regular procedure of going up into the grape vine, coming out into the grape, and being brought back, and so forth like that. Jesus just bypassed all that, because He was the God of nature. He just bypassed the vine and everything, and made the water right into wine, because He had the control of all things. Didn't have to be distilled, or however they make wine. I don't know. But they... Anyhow, He just turned it right into wine there. And that was what we would call a miracle.
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Then the next thing He did, was to just speak a Word.
The man was trying to get Him to come pray for someone. He said, "Go your way; thy son liveth." And the next day, his father come to the place where he--his home in his own country, and he met one of his servants. And he said, "Thy son liveth." He said, "What time did he begin to amend?" He said, "About a certain hour yesterday." And Jesus... Or the man knew that that was the hour that Jesus said, "Thy son liveth." And himself believed. He believed what Jesus said, and he said, "This is the second miracle when the fever begin to leave."
So we're happy that our Lord is working miracles all over the world. I just heard a sailor boy on the radio a few moments ago. I tried to get this temple over here, the Evangelist, or Angeles Temple. Oh, they have religious program all the time. And I have a little radio I pack along with me for that purpose, especially when I come out here. And I was hearing on a radio from... a broadcast from down to some sinner down here, that, a sailor boy that just come back from overseas or something. And said in Korea and different places, having a great revival. Oh, my, isn't that marvelous? Our Lord is coming back to earth again. All nature is groaning for that day of sweet release.
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Setting at a table here some time ago with some fine Armenian friends of mine up at Fresno. I was very thin then. A lady wanted to help me. And she come out, and she said, "Brother Branham, take these." And it was medicine. And I looked at it, I said, "Well, thank you." I didn't want to hurt her feelings by it. And I--I don't take much medicines. I said, I..." And I said, "It's all right. Now, it's all right." And there set a doctor setting right there by my side. He said, "Let me see what it is." And he looked over, and it was some kind of a vitamin. And the doctor said, "Brother Branham," said, "that's not a medicine." Said, "That's a vitamin." I said, "Well not... See, it's all right." I said, "Medicine's okay." And I said, "I don't mean to disregard anything that'll help anybody. No, sir. I... Anything that'll help you, I'm for that. That's right. That's mercy." And I said, "I don't disregard it as medicine, if it was medicine anyhow."
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He said, "But here's what it is, Brother Branham." He
said, "Our land has become so poor. All the vitamins pulled out, till it's artificially fertilized and things, to when we eat, we don't get the right amount of vitamin no matter how much we eat. It's just bulk." And said, "We don't get the vitamins. And everyone should take those vitamins." You see, the ground's wore out. Everything's just... It's just the end, isn't it? That's right. It's just the end. That's right. Looks like the old world's a reeling in home. One of these days, there'll be a big atomic or hydrogen explosive somewhere will start a relay of that chain of items of splitting. And I don't know what I'm... maybe what I'm talking about. But I feel that somewhere in there, she'll be destroyed again by fire.
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And ten... I say five hundred years from tonight, this little group that's setting here will be somewhere. That's right. And wherever we are then, we'll be where we'll have to be to spend eternity. And tonight, it may be a decision time, and the last time that some of us will have to make our decision. Let's make it tonight in the One Who, the only Man who ever proved that what He was. We have many great religions in the world, of philosophers and so forth, Confucius, and Mohammed, and different ones. And at the grave of Mohammedan, for two thousand years now, they've led a white horse daily, expecting him to rise and get on that, and ride away to victory, and ride the world down. But he died, and he's laying in the grave. Confucius, the great Chinese philosopher, and--and the founder of Buddha religion and so forth, of all those religions, they're all dead and gone. But there's only one man Who says, "I have power to lay My life down and take it up again." And He proved that He had the jurisdiction over death.
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His followers coming down from the great Saint Paul. When death strikes them, they're... I've seen them many times. Their eyes are glant--glazed, look like shine like an Angel, scream, "O death, where is thy sting? Grave, where is thy victory? But thanks be to God Who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ." He's the One that I've got my confidence in tonight. He's the one that I love. And I know that you love Him too. So let's worship Him with all of our heart. It's my lot tonight to bring this part of the ministry, as His servant here that's... Where His other servants are all over the world... His Gospel's went around the world. And I'm here tonight to try with all my heart to bring the facts of a risen
Jesus Christ in the--in the midst of this audience to you people. Please receive Him, and believe that His Words are true.
Now, in here His written Word. And it... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]... his friend. And he jumped off of the tractor, run through the field. They grabbed one another up in their arms and lifted each other up and down, praising God. He was a friend to the king's private secretary, King George of England. Coming into the Jeffersonville office there, came a cablegram from King George of England, "Brother Branham, I understand through my secretary that one of his friends was healed of multiple sclerosis. I desire of you to come pray for me, that our Lord Jesus will heal me." And I know the Angel of God which said, "You'll pray for kings and monarchs and great men." Oh, I asked Him if I could go. Now, King George of England is healed of multiple sclerosis. He's well. He's a well man. His ulcers is gone. Oh, my.
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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, I was blind, but now I see. AT.THY.WORD_ LA.CA SUNDAY_ 51-0506E
I think of the time coming down through Louisville, Kentucky, feeling along the stone wall, big glasses over my eyes. I couldn't see where I was going. Someone walked up to me and said, "Do you believe Jesus Christ can heal you?" Oh, my. Tonight, my eyes are 20/20. I can read newspaper print five feet away from me. What was it? The power of resurrected Jesus Christ, the Son of the living God, Which is in our presence now. Certainly He is. Oh, Christian people, talk about a day of Pentecost, what could happen in this building tonight would make that look little back there. That is true. Oh, if you could just get with one accord, have one alternative: that is to see God glorified.
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When Jesus was here on earth... Now, I know a lot of people said I was a spiritualist, a medium, and I was mental telepathy. And any one with good common sense knows better than that. That show that there's a mental deficiency of those people that think that. That--that's right. Not long ago in a certain meeting at Cleveland... Brother Hall was at the meeting. A doctor came into the meeting. He said, "Oh, it's mental telepathy." He said... He said, "I want..." Told
one of the ladies that just been healed. She said, "Oh, that brother's doing miracles in the Name of the Lord Jesus." He said, "Well, I want to see him." Said, "What you want to see him for?" He said, "I got something wrong with my leg." I said, "Doctor, it's not your leg; it's your head what's wrong down there." I said... That's right. Yes, sir.
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Talk about mental telepathy... My, it's the power of Jesus Christ in His promise by His Word, that He said He would do these things in the last days. And they're here to vindicate His Presence. Amen. Do you believe that? No, sir. He was called a spiritualist and a medium too (That is true), called Beelzebub. One time, there was a man came to Him by the name of Philip. And he got saved, and he went and got his brother, Nathanael. And when he told him, said, "Come, see Who I found, Who Moses and the law spoke of, Jesus of Nazareth." He said, "Could anything good come out of Nazareth?" a little critical. Said, "You come and see." And when he got down there to Him, He's... Maybe Jesus was having a prayer line, praying for the sick. He seen Nathanael coming up; He said, "Behold, an Israelite in whom there is no guile." Went ahead... And he said, "Whence knowest Thou me, Rabbi (or Master, Reverend, whatever you want to say, Teacher)?" And He said, "Before Philip called you, when you was under the tree..." He said, "You're the Son of God, the King of Israel." And he fell down and worshipped Him, become a disciple. Is that right?
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Now, what if he'd have walked away and say, "I... You know, that's mental telepathy. I've got to study that thing out." You'll never figure God out, so you might as well forget about it now. You've got to believe it. God is not known no other way but by faith. You have to accept it. Then there was a woman coming out from the well to get some water, about eleven o'clock in the day. Probably she'd been out all night and didn't get up early enough. Or maybe she was so ashamed of herself, she didn't go out with the respectable ladies. But she came to get some water from the well. And when she did, why, there Jesus was setting at the well. And she came up, and He spoke to her, and said, "Bring Me a drink."
And she said, "It is not customary for You to..." He talked to her a little while, and He said one word, "Go get your husband." She said, "I don't have any husband." Said, "You had five." She said, "I perceive that You're a prophet." She went into the city and said, "Come and see a Man that told me all the things I ever done." See?
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Now, Jesus said, "These things that I do shall you also, and greater than this (or not greater, but more of them) shall you do, because I go to My Father." Do you believe that? That's the promise, is it? And when Jesus was here, healing the people... Listen closely, we're going to call the prayer line. When Jesus was here healing the people, He said He did it that it might fulfill the Word of God. Is that true? Now, I want to ask you: since that time down to this time, I've never seen, or never knew of this Spirit being in the world: never read of it, or any book or anything, teachers, and so forth. It's the hour for It to be here at the Church. That's right. Here it is. It's here in vindication. It's here in regards to God's Word, to fulfill what Jesus said would come to pass. Now, It's moving on. While It's here, you receive It, believe It, accept It. Say, "God, I believe You with all my heart." And He speaks of Jesus. Jesus is the One. Jesus is the One paid the price. He's the only One can heal you. You just have faith in Him, and believe it. And this Angel of God vindicates that He is here; His Presence is here, and His Word is being fulfilled. Do you believe it? God bless you.
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Now, we... Is Billy Paul near now, to see how many cards they give out? My boy, if he's near... All right. while he's coming, I wish to say these words, that... I suppose he give out fifty cards, probably in the service this afternoon. Now, while we're waiting on him, let's just have a few of the people that's got maybe some certain diseases, or got prayer cards, or so-and-so; they'd like to be... How many's already seen the discernment? So, let's see how many's already knows that that's true, that It sets right here, tells the people the secrets of their hearts, the things that they've done way back in their life, and so forth. Is that right? Tells them all about their lives and so forth...
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Now, we know that that is truth. Is there anybody here
that's got a prayer card, that's going to be prayed for tonight, that has never seen the discernments of the Spirit of the Lord? Nobody. All right. Then you're the ones that's the ones asked to believe. You're the ones to--to take on and believe. Has anybody found out where the boy is at yet? We have to kinda put a bell around him, won't we? Whew. Did someone wake him up? His face turning red now, he--he's an Irishman too, although his mother was a German. His... He was borned on Friday the thirteenth at three o'clock in the evening. We was going to call him jinx. But I... We don't believe in that, do we, son. No, we... His mother was a German, and I was Irish, so instead, we call him Hiney Michaels. But God had us to call him Billy Paul from his father and the great Saint Paul the Apostle.
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And I'm happy tonight that I believe that with all my heart now, that God is going to send my boy into the ministry, into the fields to win souls for Him. I just brought him from the regular high school and putting him now in a college, a Christian college. First, before this in this, he was converted recently, came in. I'm... He's wanting to receive the baptism of the Holy Ghost. And I want him to get that. That seals him away in the Kingdom of God then. "Grieve not the Holy Spirit of God whereby you're sealed until the day of your redemption." And in the last days, there's going to be two classes of people: them that has the seal, and the others will have the mark of the beast. That's right. So the Seal of the God is the baptism of the Holy Spirit. Ephesians 4:30. Is that right? The Seal of God...
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All right. Now, we're... Most everybody here has seen the discernments of the spirits, of how that the Holy Spirit does these things. And I've tried to keep myself from It tonight, to see if we could keep from having that, if possible. But God knows all about your heart. He knows every one of you, and He... Only difference it does, when you call the people up here, it gives them a present contact. Did--did you ever... Have you noticed their faces when they be come up here when the anointing was on, when the anointing was on? Now, I tell you what happens. How many seen the picture of the Angel of the Lord, where it's been tested over there? Just a very few. How many has not seen it, let's see your hands, never seen the picture of it? Well my. I guess we're completely out of them, long ago. And the picture of It, scientifically proven by scientists. That's right. The best that we have.
Ma'am. Sister Kopps wants to be prayed for, now. Dear heavenly Father, I pray Thee to be merciful to our dear sister just now. Grant just now for her healing. May the Holy Spirit come upon this woman. We know that she does a great work here with her husband, working for You, singing, and teaching, and doing many things around the church here. We feel that she's worthy of this blessing that we're asking. And Lord, Your servant, with my hands upon her, I ask that this will be the turning time, right now. From this hour on, may it leave her and never return again. In the Name of Jesus Christ. Amen. God bless you, Sister Kopps. Let us say, "Praise be to God." Believe Him.
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Excuse me. Now, praying for her brought that Spirit down on me again, now. See? It come down. I believe I'll call just two or three out of the audience. Will you be reverent while It's here? I didn't... I was trying to keep away from that, but maybe the Lord had something else different. Let's just call maybe a certain prayer cards. Go get me prayer card... How many is there along there? Let's see you all with a prayer cards. How... Is it from 1 to 50? In Y's? Y's, 1 to 50 I thought. All right. Y's 1... Bring me... Let's start in... Let's bring me number 3, number 3 prayer card. Who's got number 3? And then we'll take another number away over in the... somewhere. Maybe get two or three. Anybody with prayer card number 3? All right. Come ahead, lady, if you have prayer card number 3. And--and let this lady come up on the platform.
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Just a moment now while the anointing is near. Everybody reverent. While she's coming, I--I wish you just know how this feels here, what a--what a feeling of a--a great supernatural feeling. I'm going to just... Maybe I can stand up for a few minutes. That's all right.
Here's what happens, friends. Now, right now, God Who loves us all, that Being, that One, I--I... You may not be able to see It, but It... Something's happened to me. Now, It's... I-I feeled It. I feel different, kind of a strange feeling of awe and reverence. And It's here now. And there's not a thing but what He knows about. He knows all things. He will reveal it to me just as He will let me know it. All right, you bring the lady on over.
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Now, this lady here is just one. We'll call maybe another number or two out in the audience. Now, don't--don't motion or hold your card to me. I don't know what... I don't want to know that. See, see?
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Howdy do, sister. I want you to come just a little close. Do you had the prayer card number 3? Is that right? And do you love our Lord Jesus? Do you believe that He is near? You do? Now, that feeling... Now, audience, that's what I want you to get at. Watch the people when they come, when this is anointing like this. See? Now, I don't know nothing about the lady. And what am I trying to do now? God knows I know nothing about that woman. Only thing that I know, that she's a lady standing there. She was called by a number on a prayer card, just happened to come up here. You don't even have to have your prayer card. You know that. My, hardly any of them last evening had prayer cards. The prayer card just keeps everybody from rushing up at once, so we can be in order and have some kind of a system to it.
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And now, that's near. Now, in a few minutes... Now, if It would... If It does, I don't know It will. If It does, you'll see It. It'll move down over me. Now, It's--It's here now, real close. Now, the One that does that speaking is ma... just a... Is right here near. I don't see It. I have seen It. Hundreds and thousands have seen It. But now, It knows just what's wrong with her. It's the Spirit of God. The same Pillar of Fire that led the children of Israel is right in our midst now. See? Now, if It does... Now, if someone don't get in line out there... There's so many people trying to believe now. And now, but you watch her, just what takes place now.
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Now, I want you to talk to me, sister, so that I'll be able to see just what's wrong... Now, I--I can't heal you, you understand that. You--you know that, sister. Yes, it's the Lord Jesus. You're Spanish, I suppose? Italian. And are... Do you believe Him now with all your heart? With all your heart now? Now, if you and I... Are you American borned here? You born from across the sea. Well, you from across the sea and me over here, it'd have to be some--something or another contact. Is that right? Yes ma'am. Now, this that you feel is the Spirit of the Lord. And now, I'll have to let Him do the speaking. 'Course, you being the first patient, it may be just a little strange for a
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But you--you... I see that there's been a great change in you and your nerve condition in the last year or so. Isn't that right? You're begin to get extremely nervous. Isn't that right? And now, that you might know what that is, it's a--it's a strange feeling that just strikes you... It's spasmly like. It'll strike one time; then it'll be off and you'll feel good; then you'll... Is that right? I see you. I see you where you're standing, and where you're--you're--you pray about it. Sometimes when it hits you, you try to go and pray. Isn't that right? I see you with a light looking like dress on. And then, you are... You're su... There's something wrong with liver too, isn't there? Don't you have a liver trouble? Isn't that... Yes. Uh-huh. It comes down and... That is right. And you have something wrong in the... and you... Well, you're just a almost a wreck, aren't you? Don't you have a hernia also? Isn't that right? Both sides are hernia'd. Isn't that right? Yes ma'am. I'll call... Yes, ma'am. Isn't that true? You... But you've tried so hard. I see you've been prayed for from this, and it seems to get no results. Isn't that right? See? Yes.
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Now, I want you to come here just a minute. Now, sister, I--I--I'm here to try to help you. And I--I want to help you. And the only thing that I can do now, is... Jesus said, "If ye believe that I am able to do this..." And do you believe now that I have told the truth about this Angel, and He told me if I get the people to believe me and be sincere when I prayed, nothing would stand before the prayer. You believe it? Come here and let me pray for you. Our heavenly Father, seemingly while speaking to the woman, her faith moved way up. And knowing that this ulcerated liver here will cause great trouble quickly if something isn't done... And Father, I pray that You'll heal her. Grant it, Lord. I lay my hands upon her in commemoration of Your Word. The last Words that uttered from Your lips as You were going up, You said, "They shall lay hands on the sick; they shall recover." I believe You, Lord. In the Name of Jesus Christ, I ask for her healing. Amen.
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What do you think, sister? You're going to be well? You are, sister. God bless you. Go... You've been worried about your eyes too, haven't you. It's been bad. Yes. Weak--weak eyes. Go, take them off, and just go on, and forget about it,
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Now, the Lord is here to heal anybody. Now, let's see, what was her prayer card number? 3? Let's try another one, a little... Let's try 7. Who's got number 7? Just a card number 7. If 7 isn't here, let's try 25. Here--here's... Wait a minute. Right here. Number... That little boy started up. Was his number 25? Well, bless his little heart. Bring him anyhow. God bless his little heart. Oh, isn't that lovely, a little lad? All right. Let me have the--this man first. Howdy do, sir. No, I just want to speak to this man just a moment. Sir, I want you to come this way and believe with all your heart. I want to ask you a question, sincerely. We are strangers. I--I do not know you, and I don't know whether you've ever seen me before or not. I--I'm just talking now before this anointing comes. Therefore, if there's anything known about you, it'll have to come supernaturally, won't it, sir? That... You... Just so this audience of around, nearly three thousand people I guess, wants... Just so that... I'm trying to get before the audience, not myself, dear brother; I'm trying to get the Lord Jesus before the people. And He sent this Angel to vindicate that I am His servant. And He sent me to--to prophesy in His Name, and to say things. And He gave these signs of vindication. You believe that, do you, sir? With all your heart...
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I feel now just your welcome spirit, that you are a believer. Now, I want you to come just a little closer to me. I-I am not trying to--to--to read your mind, sir, at all. You don't believe that, do you? No, 'cause that would just be something that you had on your mind. I pray that God will go back and do something that's not even on your mind so you'll know. You see? Now, the... There's something wrong with you, no doubt, or you wouldn't have gotten that prayer card. And--and then you-you've come up here to--to be prayed for. And you've confessed your faith by believing, that He will heal you. Now, what I'm trying to do now, is just speak to you to contact your human spirit. That'll br... Your faith... You see? Your faith operates this gift. See? Your faith brings it down on me. And then, when It does, It starts...
See, Jesus could do nothing except the people believed Him. Is that right? You ha... You ha... See, you believe in God;
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you believe in the Son, believe in the Holy Ghost; that's the Trinity. We believe in that. See? But then, in order for this to operate, you must believe me, not as Them, but They sent me here for this. You understand? Yes, sir. You understand. My dear brother, I--I... You can tell now that something's taking place, can't you? I feel it. Yes, sir. Now, you have... You've been a sufferer of TB. Isn't that right? Yes, sir. Yes, sir. You... Say, you've got... You've got a desire of so... Yeah, you're a minister, aren't you? Isn't that right? Yes, I... And aren't you planning a trip on going somewhere, maybe a... Isn't that right? Across the sea? You're going to missionary, aren't you? God bless you. I see that that's so close there. My brother, go in peace. The Lord Jesus has made you well. Go, God bless you.
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Let us say, "Praise the Lord." Do you believe Him now with all your heart? Now, the man's healed. I seen him getting ready, making himself ready. And I seen trees a blowing in another nation. And I couldn't help from saying it; It just spoke right out to me. Now, now, you all are aware there's a supernatural Being here. Is that right? It's the power of the Lord Jesus Christ. These things that I do shall you also. Is that the same way that... How about that man getting hisself ready going somewhere, and something's going to take place, and so forth. I don't remember it just what it was. But anyhow, what I told him, isn't that just like when Philip come to see the Master? Well, then the Master's Spirit... He said, "A little while and the world will see Me no more." Now, the world would come in here; they'd say, "Mental telepathy." "But yet, you shall see Me, for I'll be with you, even in you to the end of the age." Amen. Now, you believe, don't you, with all your heart.
All right. Is that enough to prove it to you, that the Lord Jesus... What? All right, we'll start the prayer line in a few... If you wish to, or you want to call some more out of the audience. I don't like to get too far under this... What? Oh, excuse me. All right, honey. Come here. I'm sorry, honey. I'm awfully sorry. What a fine little lad. Now, just a moment. Now, little lad, I want you to come here just so you just lean up against me, like this. I want you to put your arm around me. I think you're a fine little boy. Now, so that the people can hear you, I will just look this other way, so that I'll not be
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looking at your eyes (You see?) so it's just... I'd say for the people to look at me, but I want you to hold on to me.
Now, in here... Now, a long time ago, there was a wonderful Person here on earth, and His name was Jesus of Nazareth. And He was the Son of God. Do you believe that? You, you do. And He... And He came down on the earth, and one day the disciples were... They were by Him. They--they put the people away, because the people were thronging upon Him. And they'd touch Him, and virtue would go out, and He'd get weak and so forth. And so they had to keep the people away from Him. But some little boys, about like you, come up one day, and little girls. And He... They, the disciples started to put them back. He said, "Suffer little children to come to Me. Forbid them not, for of such is the Kingdom of God."
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Now, if Jesus was here tonight, He'd take a hold of you, and you'd set on His lap, or something. Wouldn't you like to do that? Oh, I would too. My, I would. Now, if... Now, you believe that Jesus of Nazareth sent Brother Branham down here to do His work? You believe that. Bless his heart. That little faith pulls it right down. There it is. This little lad is suffering from a nervous trouble. Isn't that right, sonny boy? That's right. You can't sleep at nights, can you, honey? Honey boy, you've had a great desire in your heart. You wanted to be a minister, isn't that right? That's right. God bless you, my sonny boy. Our heavenly Father, I bless this little boy in Your Name, and may he be healed. And may he go home tonight and sleep just as sound. May the nervousness all leave the little lad. And may You give him the desire of his heart, to become Your servant. And may he grow in strength and favor before God and man. May he make a great minister of the Gospel, Father, if You tarry that long. I bless him now for his healing, in the Name of Jesus Christ, the Son of God in Whom he loves. Amen. My little boy, the nervousness is going from you. You're going to be a normal well little boy. God bless you, honey boy. God bless you, honey boy.
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Oh, my. Isn't Jesus wonderful? He certainly is wonderful. Now, that you want to call some other card, or... All right. There's--there's... Oh my, isn't that wonderful. Eighty-eight and about six there, talking to each other. Both of them healed
by seeing a vision of the Lord. Mother, what was said to the little boy, it said... Praise the Lord. Is that the truth? Was that the truth, whatever it was? Father, is that right? If it is, raise your hand so the people can see it. That's truth, for the parent says it's true. Hasn't the little boy longed to be a minister, talked about it? I could hear him as he said, "I want to be a preacher." You see? I heard his little voice out. And I know it's true when I seen the vision of him, seen his nervousness, restless at night, turning, get up, and so forth. Isn't that right? Makes him weak in his kidneys and everything. That... Isn't that right? Now, he's going to get all right. He will be over that, and he's going to be all right. Now, don't fear.
The Lord Who knows what is, knows what was, and knows what will be. Is that right? And by this same voice speaking what was, that you know; what is now, which you know is present tense, He knows what will be. Have faith in God and believe Him. How many believe Him now with all your heart? There couldn't be a solitary person come to this platform without being told. I don't say they'd be healed, but could be told just... And longer you talk, more it is. All right, call your prayer line together. Get everybody together now, and--and we'll... All from prayer line number 1 plumb on up to 50, while we all stand and sing, "Only believe, All things are possible, Only believe." Everyone now, while the rest of you line up, get yourselves over here in order. Prayer card Y 1 to Y 50. All right. Let's sing now. Give us a chord, if you will, brother.
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Our heavenly Father, oh, we didn't mean to take so much of Your people's time. Tomorrow they have to work. But O Father, just looks like I can't get away from that. It just seems to grip and pull at me. I look up the clock and see it's getting along time that we should be--being dismissed. Lord, there's... These people here's been given a prayer card. They are supposed to be prayed for. And we pray, God, that You'll bless them. And not only them, but everyone's in the building. May great signs and wonders be done tonight. Grant it, Father, in the Name of Thy Son Jesus. Amen. Y 1 to 50. Prayer card Y 1 to 50, and be it lined up. And now,
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Now, to the strangers in our gates, we--we love you, and we want you to be just as reverent, everyone, as you can for a few moments. There's people down there who's got cancer and all kinds of diseases. Now, I'm going to ask prayer for them and lay hands on them while you join with me in prayer. Will you do it out there in the audience? Will you promise? Just think, when you used to go at the picture show, and it was nine-thirty, you never noticed that, did you? You'd stay and see the other show. When you went to the dance, you danced all night. What about now? [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]... the Lord's work.
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Now, all you cripples move up... Or they'll get you up here, as I see they're getting them up, so that we can have prayer for them. Last night, I come down among them, and several of them got up and walked. And I think there isn't but about one left in the building tonight, one lady that I seen. And she's here somewhere. I seen her awhile ago, that was here last night. One lady out of the whole group of la--yesterday that wasn't healed as far as I know. Some of them setting there crippled up with arthritis and everything, rose right up. One woman on a stretcher, bound tight, rose right up and walked out of the building, normally. How marvelous God is. Isn't He wonderful? Now, He will do the same thing tonight. Now, everyone be reverent, and we'll pray now. And you... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]
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Now, we're going to try... Now, Brother Hall, I'm going to make a promise to this people here. How many of you will do this: if you'll be real reverent, be seated and be reverent, and let Brother Hall watch the clock for the next five minutes. And after five minutes passes, then let... till I can kind of get away from this heavy anointing, 'cause it'll going to calling the disease of the people, I'm afraid. And if it does, then we'll just start the people, just let them come right on through the line and pray for them, lay hands on them, believe they'll get well. Do you believe it'll happen if we come through the line? You out there in the line, do you believe it?
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And now, remember, tomorrow night, the Lord willing,
we want at least a hundred people prayed for tomorrow night. Would you like that? Say "Amen." A hundred people... Let's come real early and get the people right through and pray for them. All right. Now, I know the anointing's still burning down. Brother Hall, I want to ask you a question I've never asked before. Can you tell when that's near like that, when that anointing near? You stand here? You--you can tell. I just wondered after It being there. I noticed the patients coming; I always notice that. I remember one night, Brother Hall was suffering hisself. And I was trying to show something, and I found Brother Hall with a... with a disease on his--of his liver. And he said that there'd been something wrong with him. He just told me that it was all sluggish and everything. He had abscesses on his liver. It's all right now. [Brother hall says, "I'm twenty-nine now."--Ed.]
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All right. Come ahead, brother. All right, sir. You come here now. And get your... the people together. Now, everyone in prayer. And right after about five or eight minutes from now, I want Brother Hall just to get the line started so you'll sh--bring the people right on through, 'cause we won't get them prayed for. And we're... And you pray for us out there, will you do it now? All of you's going to be in silent prayer as they come through. Now, come here, brother. Do you believe with all your heart? Believe that God is here? Now, I want you to look this way just quickly while I... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]
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Lady right away. Now, sister, come quickly. I see you have something wrong with your eyes too, don't you? 'Course, that'd be one thing you'd want to be prayed for. Isn't that right? But besides that, you have a tumor. Is that right? Go, God bless you and be made well. Let's say, "Praise the Lord," everybody. Just this, everybody just praise the Lord. Now, be happy, and... All right. Bring your... Are you the lady that's to be prayed for? What do you think about this, sister dear? Do you believe it is the Spirit that was on Jesus Christ? Now, we're strangers aren't we. You just come up here and that's... You just come up. Now, if there's... You know that I'd have to have some way of knowing there's something wrong with you. Is that right? If I will tell you, will you accept your healing in Jesus Christ? Is arthritis. Is that right? Go off the platform...?... Let's say, "Praise the Lord," everybody.
Come here. Bring the lady. Howdy do, sister. You're wearing glasses I see. You're very thin; you look delicate. And you'd like to be well. It looks like... Of course, one thing would be your eyes are bad. We know that. Anyone can see that. But I want to see if there's something else, if the Holy Spirit will reveal to me. Yes, it's in your blood; you're anemia. Is that right? Go off the platform and get well in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ. Say, "Praise the Lord," everybody. All right, come ahead, sister. Come here. Believe with all your heart. Do you believe? Do you believe that Jesus Christ sent me? Oh, isn't He wonderful? I see you wear glasses too. 'Course, that's caused from astigmatism in your eyes. It's been there for, oh, long, long, long time. Isn't that right? When you was a child... Now, I want you to watch something. But besides that, you're suffering with heart trouble. Is that right? Go, get well in the Name of the Lord Jesus. Praise the Lord.
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All right, sister, you had heart tro... [Blank.spot.on.tape-there, but it's done gone from you. So you can go on off the platform and be made well with all... Let us say, "Praise be..." Say, "Praise the Lord." If I could just get the people... All right, come now. Believe with all your heart. You believe, honey? You want to be well? Them eyes is bad too, aren't they, sweetheart? In the Name of the Lord Jesus, I bless thee, honey, that this will leave thee and never bother thee no more. Amen. God bless you, honey. Take them off. Amen. Let's say, "Praise the Lord." Oh, how marvelous, how marvelous!
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All right, come forward, sister. Do you believe with all your heart? We're strangers, aren't we? You just come in here. There's something wrong with you. Is that right? I tell you what it is, sister. It's just the time of your life. You're nervous. Isn't that right? Real, real nervous. You're bothered with that. It's just a premature menopause a working on you. There's really not... You think there's lots wrong with you, but it's not. It's... That's the main thing. You believe me as God's prophet? In the Name of Jesus Christ, I bless you, my sister. Go off of here be happy, and don't worry no more about it. Let's say, "Praise the Lord," everybody.
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All right. Come, sister. Amen. Howdy do, sister. All
right. You're awfully nervous, aren't you? And you're suffering with sugar diabetes. Go off of the platform and get well in the Name of our Lord Jesus. Let us say, "Praise the Lord," everybody. All right. Come here, sister. Do you believe with all your heart? Do you believe Jesus Christ is here to make you well? Would you accept it if I told you... If God can reveal to me what's wrong with you besides your eyes? I don't mention that, because you're wearing glasses, and you'd know that I'd know that. But I tell you, sister, weaving between you and I are something moving like a heavy vibration, dark, death like, settling around over you. It's a cancer. Isn't that right? Go off the platform. Accept your healing. You'll get well in the Name of the Lord Jesus. Let's say, "Praise the Lord," everybody.
All right...?... All right, after this lady then, we'll start the line. Come here, sister. I want you to look this way and believe with all your heart. Do you believe with all your heart? Don't cry, mother. The Presence of the Lord Jesus Christ is here. I know It's here. My own lips is so thick and feel so anointed. There's Something here. And if I can just get quiet just for a moment till the vision moves without touching you. I could take you by the hand. In a moment He would speak. But I mean just by a vision. Here, lay your hand on--on mine. Look this a way. You're suffering with stomach trouble. Isn't that right? Go home and eat what you want to. Jesus Christ will make you well. Let's say, "Praise the Lord," ev--everyone.
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Now, sister, being that you set there suffering with TB, you can get up and go on home and get well. God bless you, sister. Amen. All right, let the people there... Open up the line let them...?...
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[Brother Hall says, "Now, just take him by the hand. I'm going to hold him up."--Ed.]
God bless you, Christ. God bless you, God. God bless you, Christ. God bless you, Christ, I pray.
my sister, and heal you in the Name of Jesus
my dear sister, and make you well. Believe in my sister, to heal you in the Name of Jesus my sister, to heal you in the Name of Jesus
God bless you, my sister, to heal you in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ, I pray.
In the Name of our Lord Jesus Christ, heal my sister. In the Name of our Lord Jesus Christ, receive your healing, my sister. In the Name of Jesus Christ, receive your healing, my sister. In the Name of Jesus Christ, receive your healing, my brother. Stomach trouble's going to leave you gradually. All right. Go, sister. You're bothered aren't you. Know you must have healing right at once. It's left you, sister. The cancer's dead. So go praising the Lord. All right. O God, in the Name of Jesus Christ, heal my sister, I pray Thee. In the Name of Jesus Christ, heal this woman with this diabetes, Lord, in the Name of Jesus Christ. Come, sister, believe. In the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ, may my sister be healed. In the Name of Jesus Christ, may our sister be healed. In the Name of our Lord Jesus Christ, may our sister be healed. God bless you, sister. You believe with all your heart? Your arthritis will leave you, sister dear. God bless you.
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All right. You believe with all your hearts? I believe I'm... He--He--He... So...?... How many wants to be healed just now in the audience? Will you do something for me at this moment? Will you do something for me? Do you believe He's here to heal you? I want to ask you something. How many sick people's here, raise up your hand? Now, you people that's well, you that's well, lay your hands over on that sick person, will you? You're God's child, just the same as any of the rest of us. Lay your hand on one another. Ministers down there, some of you ministers, come here and lay hands on these people along here. Let's bow our heads, everywhere. Dear heavenly Father, so much, so many things. I'm getting weak, Lord. You know that. And I--I pray that You'll be merciful to this audience tonight. May they be healed, dear Father. May the power of sickness, the devil, Satan, may they turn this people loose tonight. May every person here be healed in the Name of Jesus Christ. Now, you can...
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Good evening, friends. That was just in time, wasn't I? I'd had to spring that one on a run to get up, because a... Brother was just giving the testimonies of everything happening. And--and Brother Hall just wanted to bring the xrays to show me that he was healed and so many talking about great things. And today he was reading letters that, oh, my, it just stirred my heart. The mail's so heavy, it'll take me a week to get through it. So I'm happy to hear those wonderful testimonies.
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One lady was telling me in a the letter today about... She was... Cancer in the very worst stage and that I had saw her in a vision, and was at my hotel room, and come, and spoke, and told who the lady was and what her conditions was. She was healed and normal and well now. The lady's in the audience. Oh, God bless you, my sister. And many other great things that our Lord has been doing, and I'm just so happy and then many of meeting me and saying different things happening. I just trust that they'll never cease, just keep on going, and... How many's been healed in the meeting, let's see your--been healed by Divine healing? Let's see your hands in the meeting. Oh my, just look. Some of them crippled, been people blind, and deaf, dumb, and in chairs, crippled up, paralyzed. How our Lord has worked with us in great, marvelous ways, and how happy and thankful we are for that tonight.
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I was just talking to my Brother Shakarian. Now, all of you know Brother Demos. He's here somewhere. I think he's setting right over here to the right. How many knows Demos Shakarian? Let's see. Oh, sure. Would you stand up, Brother Demos? There's something... Just raise yourself up, will you? Oh, I... Brother Demos Shakarian...?... Nearly all of you know him here. He's from down Downey around here. A very fine brother that we've had much friends. No one knows this man of course. This is Congressman Upshaw. He--He... Was talking to him back there and I have-was just thinking... I could... Tonight seem like that God put it upon my heart tonight to come and maybe just before going to Africa... I would like to have my farewell meeting, maybe at my hometown in Jeffersonville.
If I could get that auditorium there, right where the--this was ministered to me. And I would like to have my farewell meeting there. If I can, I'd like to give everybody an invitation to come. All my friends... At my home I'd like to gather a big group of us together and go right to the little cabin where He met me and talked to me then. And just a-gather out there on that hill by the thousands and offer our praise to Almighty God right there for what He's done before we plunge to dark fields of Rhodesia and in India, and--and down in--and back into Jerusalem. I would be so happy... I don't know whether they--they--whether I could get that at that time or not. It seats several thousand people, and I would be happy to do it. If it is, I'll have it announced in papers and things. And if you're vacation is that time; I wished I could say I'd pay your way up there, but I'll take up a offering and do the best I can. If I take up an offering... I never took one in my life. So I might be easier to almost have hitch-hike if you take my offering.
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I told you about one time I started to take my first offering. Did you ever hear me about the first time I started to take an offering? I couldn't do it. I told my wife... We got in one of those places where we couldn't make ends meet, you know. And I said, "I'm going to take an offering tonight. " She said, "I'm going to set right down in front and watch you." And so, we was just had a tough time. We almost had to do it. I thought, "Well, I just can't make that. I just got to do it." I never did take an offering in my church, so I... Not because they wouldn't give it to me, 'cause they would, but I just... I was big enough to work, so... I'd... Right now...
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Now, this is not to be--to be humble, or it's not to show off, but from the bottom of my heart, I wished I had a place where I could work while in these meetings (That's right.) so I wouldn't have to even take up an offering or something. That's the truth. I just dread the thoughts of taking up an offering. Don't know why, but I've often seen that three things that hinder a minister. One main three things, one of them is money, and the other is women. The other one's popularity. That's exactly right. When a man gets to a place, he just has to scream, and cry, and carry on, and think so much of money, he forgets God; he's gone. That's all there is to it. That's right.
We have to meet expenses and so forth, and the next thing, when... I have the greatest respects for women, Christian women. I think that a good woman is a--one of the best gifts that God could give a man outside of salvation. I believe that. A good woman, but... I better keep still right there. I married a little old fat girl up there I love with all my heart. I've never seen a woman to take her place. So I know as long as I stay a Christian, I'll feel that same way. That's exact.
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And the next thing is--is popularity. When... Sometimes God can give a man just a little bit of--a few friends or something and--and they... Which we all love friends. Now, don't get me wrong. I just love friends. But when you get to thinking... Maybe you'd had a little audience of people or something a little above the average, begin to think, "Look who I am," brother, you're on your road right down right then. That's right. That's... So it should be that way. God knows what's best. That--that's true. And you have to watch that. Satan sure throws it out there, awful flowerly. But if we just stay under the Blood, and you pray that I will. Now remember, I'm... I could fall, but if you keep praying for me and God keeps loving me, I'll make it. And I believe if He prayed for me and I try my best, God will continue to love me then. So I'm... I pray for each one that way.
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And that's the reason in my meetings I usually have a night for ministers to pray for the sick. Last time when I was here, you don't know the fine letters I got at home, you minister brethren. Every meeting I always try to get the minister, the local pastor before the people, let them come and pray for the sick. I--I'm not the only person to pray for the sick. No, sir. Any Christian that believes in Divine healing is ordained to pray for the sick.
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You notice, one night I'll have you stand up and put your hands on one another, and if the person gets healed, then the person say, "Well, sister So-and-so had her hands laying on me." See? Or, "Brother So-and-so had his hands laying on me." Many times a Christian has his hands laying on a sinner. He said, "A Christian man laid his hands on me and I got well."
See? After all, it's the Lord Jesus that does the healing. See? It isn't who's doing the praying; it's Who's doing the healing and who's doing the believing. That's the main thing. It's your faith that heals you (See?), not mine, yours. And so there... I like to have a night and let all my ministering brethren. come up and stand up and let the people come and pray for them. And when the anointing of the Holy Spirit's down, then let the people come through the line, and the ministers lay hands on them and--and... Oh, my. It gets the ministry before the public.
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And you don't have to wait till somebody's got a healing campaign in town to be healed, because your pastor or your neighbor that's a Christian, anybody's got a right to pray for you. The Bible said, "Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another that you might be healed. If there's any sick among you let them call the elders." Now, we call them in our groups, we call them the deacons. See? The... "Let them call the elders of the church, let them anoint them in oil." It's not call the "elder" but "the elders," plural, two or three. Where two or three are gathered together and agree and pray (See?), that's the way to do it. And after all, we're here to glorify our Lord Jesus Christ, His mercy and His goodness to us. And we're thankful for Him.
Now, beginning on the fourth day of June, our dear Lord being willing, we're to begin over here at this Bible College at... You know where he said last night. I can't speak Spanish, so the... [Someone says, "Costa Mesa."--Ed.] Yes, sir. That's where it's at right where he said then: Costa Mesa? Is that right? I'm improving, Bobby. And so I... That's where the next meeting is going to be at Costa Mesa. And... I got that wrong now there, did I? [Someone says, "About right."--Ed.] Just about right? He said as near as he was, so I'm getting along pretty well. So that will be the next meeting after Oregon, going up to--to Grant's Pass with our Brother Hall, where a people up there has went out and built a big tabernacle and we went up there in one meeting and almost, I think, almost paid for the thing, didn't we Brother Hall? Paid a whole lot on it in one meeting. See? And so then with the... We're going back again this time. I wish you all had them big tabernacles everywhere, just everywhere. You got one here in Los Angeles, and--and they should have them everywhere over the country, that when we can't get those auditoriums, there'd be big tabernacles open (You see?), like that.
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The world with their jazz bands and things has the auditoriums all tied up. But I'm thankful for places like Calvary Tabernacle and different places like that. We can--we can come in here and have a meeting. Thank you. [Congregation applauds-Ed.] Thank you very much. And so this time it's in a tent. And we were out there today looking the place over, and it's a very nice place. And we--we hope we have a good meeting in there. Tell your neighbors down in that part of the country to come. Now, the Lord bless you each one.
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I think that this meeting has--has already produced a great result. And--and the fact that we're all kinda in strain because of so many different meetings going on in the city, and we... I haven't heard of--from Brother Freeman, but I know he's having a good meeting. We're all praying for him that he will have a good meeting. And we got crossed up a little bit there, not he and I, but through some way a misunderstanding or of management getting the meetings together. They didn't understand either. But it might have been God's will for us to do this (You see?), that we--that we can see that we're brethren, and at the Angelus Temple and the other places where the meetings are going on.
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And I understand that Brother King or Cain. [Someone in Brother Paul Cain is to come in, beginning, I guess, Thursday night. Is that... [Someone answers, "Starts Thursday night."--Ed.] Thursday night in this very tabernacle here. And we pray that God will give Brother Paul Cain a very wonderful meeting here with hundreds of souls saved and many healings, and fill with His Spirit and goodness, getting ready for the coming of the Lord. I'm happy that Brother Kopp here throws his doors open for all of us to come in here at this--this temple. And the board of deacons and whoever, what the control is, management... I want to say another thing for our ushers and so forth that you got here. They're wonderful men. So happy for them.
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Now, I wish to read just a few words. I'm not sure whether I read this since I've been here or not. But if I do, why, I don't mean to retrace things, but I've been around down in...?... so long here that... This is the longest I believe I
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ever come and stayed in one place since I been in the ministry, is right here in Los Angeles. And this is my second trip back in a--a few months apart, few... And--and then nights run anywhere from three to five nights, and we're on the move somewhere else. Now, in the Book of St. Luke the 2nd chapter... I'm going to watch the clock and do my best. I talk too much. Mother said I talked before I walked. You know what the old saying is, "Your tongue's your ruin." That's right. Maybe that's right, but I'm talking for the Lord now.
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And so, in the 2nd chapter of St. Luke, beginning with the 25th verse, just to read just a few verses and then pass a few comments and then to call our prayer line... Tomorrow night after the main line is--one of the lines are over, I'm going to have a ministerial night. I want all the cooperating pastors to get their place here and to set up here on the platform with me, while... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] ... group the people up, and--and let all the pastors be out here and along with them praying for them after the service and-that you all might see great signs and wonders to be done. Then Wednesday night is closing night. Now, in... We read this way in the Word of God. And, 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 unto him by the Holy Ghost, that he should not see death, before he had seen the Lord's Christ. And he came by the Spirit into the temple: and when the parents brought in the child Jesus, to do for him after the custom of the law, Then took he him up in his arms, and blessed God, and said, Lord, now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace, according to thy word: For my eyes have seen thy salvation,
We bow our heads just a moment. Our beloved Saviour, tonight we're happy for this privilege to gather here in the house of God in the company of this people to worship Thee, as David of old said he would praise the Lord in the congregation of the upright. And we're so thankful tonight that the Spirit of God still makes our hearts rejoice to praise Him in
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the congregation of the upright. And now, Father, grant tonight that in each heart there will be a manger made or a room made that Jesus of Nazareth might come in with all the fullness of Divine faith, that He might stand in each heart tonight and take the initiative side and--and take away all doubt, throw away everything that's unlike Him, Lord, all the unbelief and skeptic ideas, and just take over the heart, and oh, what our eyes will see then. What a night this could be, Father, just by every Christian with one accord while we're gathered here where the Holy Spirit has fallen many times. Save; fill the believers; heal the sick and the afflicted, and constantly meetings are going on. What a place and what a time just now for Him to come tonight just at the eve of the closing of this meeting, Lord, and sway every heart to Him with full assurance that He's here, present tense now, to deliver every person that's in the building from anything. And every redemptive blessing is theirs by faith, by believing just now.
God, for these next few minutes just hide us away. May the shades be pulled down of the cares and thoughts of this life over our memories and our hearts. And may we just see Jesus and Him alone. And we know that if we could draw a picture of the love of God, ten million times more than the seas of this earth, banked into one tube a few inches across would reach billions of miles beyond the stars. And thinking of the pressure that there would be on the bottom of that tube. How that water with all them billions of tons of pressure trying to press down, and yet the love of God is searching our hearts tonight, great powers of strength that He would like to find one little crevice to leak through, to come into our lives and give us this great power and unction beyond even man's understanding. Grant it, Lord, tonight that the doors of heaven will be pulled back and the Holy Spirit will take over full control. May our souls be flooded with such a rush that we'll forget all about being crippled or being sick, and just rise to the feet, glorifying God, taking Him at His promise, claiming His redemptive blessings. For we ask it in Jesus' Name. Amen.
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I'm thinking just now of this aged old priest that we just read about by the name of Simeon. And he was a man who waited for the consolation of Israel. There's been times where the church has got real low, but God has never been without a witness since the world began. He's always had somebody that He could put His finger on and say, "That's My servant. And I can send him anywhere I want him to go and he'll go." Aren't we happy for that? God's ministry...
And the day had got very dull in those days. There were hundreds of people, thousands of them that had turned away from the traditions and away from the faith, gone back, lukewarm. But there was a little remnant who looked for the consolation of Israel. That was John the Baptist, and Simeon, and Ann, the prophetess at the temple, and many more who waited constantly believing that God would fulfill His promise. They was waiting. They believed. No matter how long the promise had been, they believed that the woman's seed would come and would bruise the serpent's head like God promised.
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Now, the waiting of the Messiah had been four thousand years. And in every generation they had looked for the Messiah to come, but that didn't stump Simeon. He was an old man in his eighties, but still he believed that he would see the Messiah. And he had a long white beard, I can imagine, and white hair. And he was a--a great man among the people. He had a great prestige. But he had a testimony besides that. That's what I like. Besides all of his scholarships and all of his popularity, he had a humble heart before God, a receptive heart that God could deal with. And he had a testimony by that that he was going to see the Lord's Christ before he died. Think of it.
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Great men, David, Solomon, Elijah, Elisha, Isaiah, Jeremiah, a string of prophets and righteous men had looked for the coming of the Messiah for four thousand years: great men. But yet this man, even eighty years old, approximately. He was an elderly man, believed by theologians he was in his eighties. An old man and yet went around and said, "I am not going to see death before I see the Lord's Christ." Why, they'd say, "Simeon, why do you think that?" "Because the Holy Ghost revealed it to me. And I'm not going to see death until I see the Lord's Christ. And I believe what He says is the truth." Amen. Oh, my. That'll get us feeling religious right away, won't it?
You know, I feel religious once in a while. I can shout. Yes, sir. You might... That's... I know salvation don't altogether rest upon shouting, but that goes with it. That's right. And yet somebody said, "You're an awful noisy Baptist." Well, I'm a Pentecostal Baptist now, you know. So I got the Holy Ghost. So I--I--I... When the Holy Ghost comes in, He
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Now, I think of Simeon, the Holy Spirit revealing it to him that he was not going to die now until he's seen the Christ. Although he was awfully old, but... And he had a lot of prestige. Now, what if he thought, "Oh, wait a minute, maybe that's just an expression down there. Now, I--I--I just... Maybe I'm just--I'm just a little worked up. I'd better not say this around where people can hear me, because I've got a great prestige. I belong to the big church, you know, so I'd better be careful." But he believed God. And he believed what the Holy Ghost said, it was the truth. And he expected to see Jesus be--or Christ before he saw death, because the Holy Ghost revealed it to him.
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How many times God's working with people in the ages past... When you're expecting anything... And the only way that you can be expecting is upon some sort of a revelation or a promise. If I told you I was coming to Downey, California, over here to this place in California on the... I... That's where it's at, Costa Mesa. If I told you that I was coming to Costa Mesa... If I could spell it, I'd write it down, but seventh grade education couldn't get that out. Anyhow, if I told you I'm coming on June the 4th to begin there, you kinda believe that I'll be there, don't you? If I say I-I'll meet you there, well, if all possible, I'll do it. Because a man of his word will be honest and keep his promise, let alone a Christian. Now, there may be something happen that I can't, but as far as I know, the Lord willing, I'll be there. Now, you'd believe that. And the people believe it, so they're are fixing to erect a big tent down there and fix it up. Now, that's because that we promised to be there. I promised I would come back here. And when I got here, found out other meetings was going on. Oh, my. I thought, "I'd better get back," but I promised that I was coming. So I--I had to stay here. I promised it. And so God has rewarded us for keeping our promise.
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Now, Simeon believed because the Holy Ghost had promised him. He was looking for it. If you're expecting it, you got something behind that you believe that God has promised it, then you got a right to expect it. Is that right? When God
promises it... Now, I might break my promise, 'cause I'm a man. And your friend might break his promise or her promise, but God won't break His promise. He can't, because He's God. Can you imagine how pure and unadulterated His promises are, how infinite? Why, if I'd go to a spring and my grandfather drank out of that spring and it was clear, and--and testing the water, it was a hundred percent pure... My father drink out of it; it was hundred percent pure. And all down through life, I'd dranken out of it at a hundred percent pure, why, I'd have enough faith to go back and believe if I take a drink of water, it would be all right. Wouldn't you? Through the generations, down through several generations, it's been proven one hundred percent pure. Why? Because the stream that's a gushing it up, where it's coming from, its foundations down here, its bed, is throwing up pure water. Now, if it'll test one hundred percent pure, how much more will the promise of God test one hundred percent right. Because the basis of it, God's Word comes from God, which is infinite and pure and holy, and He can't lie, for He's God. There you are. Now, when God promises anything, say, "That's right." Amen.
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I was thinking when I was talking to the Congressman this afternoon, when I met him, about when he'd been all these years on these crutches and crippled, and the times he'd been prayed for. But he had stood here, and he had seen what the Holy Spirit had said to every one while revealing the hearts and the secrets of the hearts. And he seen that when He'd told people, no matter what was wrong with them, that they were healed, they got up and acted on it and was well. Then he thought, "Oh, if he could only tell me." And there the Holy Spirit fell down, told him his condition and all about it, and said he was healed. Up he got. He believed it. No matter what the ifs, how long he'd been crippled or what it was all about, God had done made the promise, and it was him to believe it. Amen. God's promised, "Where two or three are gathered in My Name I'll be in their midst." He's here. And whatever they agree upon and ask, they shall receive it. Whatsoever things you desire when you pray, believe you receive them, you shall have them. They'll be given to you. Now, isn't that wonderful? That's the promise, God's promise. We believe it. I believe it's so.
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Not long ago standing at the place when the--this Angel,
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Daniel, when they told him they was going to throw him into the lion's den, he was expecting God to be there. He believed that he lived right before God and he had a right. And every day he raised the shades, if there was any in them days, towards the temple and looked towards that holy temple and prayed. Because he believed that there was a--a burning sacrifice on the altar at that hour at the temple, and he believed that God heard his prayer, because there was an innocent substitute died in his place making an atonement. And when he went into the lion's den, he did not fear the lions because he was expecting God to deliver him. Amen. Jonah, there's the man that had a lot of symptoms. People think that... When I look... They was prayed for, and say, "Well, my hand isn't any better." That don't mean you're not healed. When you're prayed for, you're healed. And frankly, you're healed before you're prayed for. For Jesus died at Calvary to heal you and paid the price.
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If you had a watch in the pawn shop, somebody went down and--and paid the pawn bill, or ever what you had on it, and the man gave a receipt and sent it back and said here you are it's paid off, you've got a right to go down, not pay for the watch again, go down show the receipt and take your watch. Is that right? Or whatever you got pawned... And listen. The devil put us in the pawn shop, back there from Adam's sin. But Jesus came down and paid the pawn bill, wrote it on the Word. I got a right for it. Amen. "Satan, get back." I got a right for it.
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Mayo brother told me, "You can't get well." I said, "I got a right to." Amen. My... He said, "Well, you inherited it from your father." I said, "But my heavenly Father redeemed me." Amen. I'm out of the pawn shop now. Amen. So just move over Satan. He said, "I'll just pull symptoms all around you." And I said, "Stand around, listen at me testify. I'd like for you
to hear me." He said, "I'll make you sick." I said, "I'll testify that much harder. I'll make that much more testimony. If you want to hear me praise God, stick around a little while, you'll hear me." I just kept praising God and made it so hot for him he had to flee. Just heard him [Brother Branham makes a noise hitting his hands together--Ed.] scoot off his old slewfoot right down the street as hard as he could. Had to. Why? The Gospel of Jesus Christ, through the power of the Holy Ghost, was burning him up. Amen. He had to. God's Word's right. We've got a right for them redemptive blessings. Let's expect them. Believe them. God's going to bring them to pass, don't you believe it?
I am not taking very much discernment these nights. I just turned myself loose to feel good with the Holy Ghost with you all while I'm here on this time. And we got a right to anything God promised. Just claim it, receive it; believe it; go on. You got any symptoms, forget about them. The symptoms don't mean nothing. That's right. Just believe it.
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Not long ago in Houston there was a boy came by, I believe I might've told you about it the last time I was here. So many things that's happened... There was an old man... I'll tell this one then. There was a fellow named John Rhyn, and the fellow was blind. And he was at the meeting here and at Fort Wayne. And he come in the meeting. They was several thousand people had gathered in that night, and about two nights after the piano had played "The Great Physician now is near the sympathizing Jesus," when the Angel of God in a whirl of a halo whirled down in the room where I was at, and I thought the custodian turned the light on me. And here... When I had the little boy in my arms, I dropped him, and, why, the girl, Nazarene girl, playing the piano, she jumped up and started running and screaming. She seen that little boy walking off the platform normal. Why, she jumped up. And she was playing "The Great Physician," and it just kept playing on,
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About a night or two after that, this old man came through the line. I prayed for him, had a line coming just as fast as they could. Two men was leading him. He was blind. And he said, "Is--is--is this Reverend Branham?" I said, "Yes, sir." And he said, "Well, heal me," said. I said, "I can't." Said, "Well, why can't you?" I said, "Jesus already done it." And I said, "I couldn't do what He's already done." He said, "Well, can..." He said, "Will you pray for me?" I said, "Yes, sir." And I prayed. I said, "Do you believe me?" He said, "Yes, sir." I said, "Go on. You'll get your sight." He said, "Well, just a minute." He held me by the coat. He said, "Just a moment." Now, he said, "Will I receive my sight?" I said, "Yes, sir. You're going to receive your sight, going to be all right."
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And He said, "Well..." walked off on along little piece, and he come back. Said, "Say, you told me I was going to receive my sight." I said, "That's right." He said, "You said I was healed." I said, "You are." He said, "Well, you told me I was healed, and I can't see." I said, "That don't have nothing to do with you seeing." I said, "I told you... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] The man, by the way, was Catholic by faith. And I said, "Look, sir. You told me that you believed me." He said, "Well, these other people are talking about out here, they're healed and well." I said, "You are too, sir. Get... Give the Angel of the Lord a chance to..." And he said, "What must I do?" I said--I said, "Do you believe what I told you?" He said, "Yes, sir." I said, "Well, I want you act like it?" See? I said, "Go on off here testifying, saying, 'Praise the Lord. He healed me.'" He said, "All right." They led him off, and he hollered, "Praise the Lord for healing me."
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The next night the old fellow interrupt the meeting four or five times. He was setting up in the balcony. He'd say, "Everybody be quiet a minute." He'd raise up and holler,
"Praise the Lord for healing me," and set down. And I was speaking, you know, when he'd say, "Just a minute, Brother Branham." He'd holler, "Praise the Lord for healing me." The ushers went over there, and I shook my head; let him alone. See? He was having a good time at it.
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Well, afterwards he went out on the street, and he sold papers, and he was, "Praise the Lord for healing me." He'd holler, "Extra, praise the Lord for healing me." And the people laughed at him, made fun of him. They thought, "The old man's gone crazy (You see?), went crazy over religion." See? So they had thought he was ready for the institution. So he went on like that for several days, guess up to two or three weeks. And one day a little newsboy was sold papers near him, led him over to a barbershop to get a shave. And the barber, a little smart aleck, was always trying--had more sense than he had gumption to know how to take care of. So he was whetting his razor, and he had Mr. Rhyn shaved about halfway down on his face. He said, "Say, dad, I heard when--that you went up to see that Divine healer not long ago." He said, "Yep, I went up to see him." Said, "I heard you got healed." He said, "Yep, praise the Lord. He healed me." And his eyes come open in the chair. He looked around; he said, "I am healed now." And he jumped out of that chair with the towel around his neck, and out the door he went, the barber behind him with a razor, down the street. Now, he couldn't see perfect. He could see objects and everything, screaming to the top of his voice. And that man, John Rhyn's in Dowagiac, Michigan, as far as I know tonight, preaching Divine healing by faith. That's right. What was it? He expected God to heal him.
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Jonah, backslid... (Now, you know I'm not a Baptist. All right.), went in the belly of the whale, missed his calling, went... God had him tied hand and foot, throwed him out in a sea, probably three or four miles deep out there from Nineveh. Look at him now, on a stormy sea, hands tied behind him, backslid, throwed out into the sea; a whale swallowed him. Yes. You believe that? I believe the whale swallowed Jonah like the Bible said.
A little girl once... I think this is Brother Rediger said this, Paul Rader's friend, and I believe it was at the Fort Wayne
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Tabernacle. A little girl got saved, and she was coming up the street. She had the Bible over her heart and just singing, you know, and her hair plaited back, and her little face a shining. And she was singing that good old hymn. So there was an old infidel standing on the side of the street. He looked over at her and said, "What you so happy about, sis?" Said, "The Lord saved me." Oh, said, "I'm happy." Said, "Are you saved?" He said, "Oh, no. There is no such a thing as that." Said, "That's all you know about it." Said, "Well..." Said, "Do you believe that Book you got in your hand?" Said, "Yes, sir. I believe every bit of it," a little old girl all fired up with the Holy Spirit, you know. Said, "I guess you believe that story about the whale and Jonah." She said, "Oh, yes, sir." Said, "I believe it. Sure it's the truth." Said, "How're you going to prove it besides any other way... besides faith?" She said, "Why, when I get to heaven, I'm going to ask Brother Jonah." He said, "Perhaps Brother Jonah won't be there?" She said, "Then you ask him." That's right. "You ask him." You know where he'd be then. All right. I believe it's the truth. Amen. Yes, sir. If the Bible said Jonah swallowed the whale, I'd believe it because it's the Word of God. Amen. All right.
There he is now, backslid, stormy sea, hands tied behind him, belly of a whale. Every time that fish eats it goes to the bottom of the sea and or the... A gold fish, when you feed him, he'll go down and throw his little swimmers out and rest at the bottom of the water, the bowl. He's found his prey and fed and went down to rest. The whale probably after he got a bellyful of backslidden preacher went down to the bottom of the sea, throwed his wings out like that, or his fins, and he was going to rest awhile. Here this Jonah was down there, seaweeds wrapped around his neck. Oh, talk about symptoms, he had a right to have them. If he looked this a-way, it was whale's belly. If he looked that way, it was whale's belly. Everywhere he looked was whale's belly. My, you're not even in that bad of shape tonight, no matter where you're at tonight. Look around everywhere, whale's belly, he had plenty of symptoms, didn't he? More than you got... But you know what he said, "They are lying vanities."
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He said, "Lord, once more will I look to Your holy temple. Now, I ain't going to look at the symptoms. I ain't going to look at how deep I am in the sea. I'm not going to look to my backsliding. I'm not going to look at these seaweeds around my neck. I'm not going to look at the whale's belly, but I'm going to look beyond that to Your holy temple." Amen. There you are.
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Now, he knowed if he could ever pierce through that symptoms, three miles of water, through the whale's belly, onto the temple and get a prayer through to God, something was going to happen. Amen. I can see him turn over on his knees and say, "Lord, I'm sorry I backslid. I'll take the right road if you just let me out here." And you know what? Why, he had faith. When Solomon dedicated that temple of the Lord, he prayed that if God's children be in trouble anywhere, would look toward that temple and pray, then let God hear from heaven. And Jonah believed if he could look towards that temple, he had God's promise that he was expecting the whale to get him out. God made that old whale so sick till he puked him up on the shore. That's... Well, I... Excuse me; I didn't mean to say that. Vomited him up on the shore. [Congregation laughs--Ed.] I didn't aim to say that folks. Honest I didn't. Anyhow I'm just a country boy, but I'm just as sick when I'm puking as you are when you're vomiting, so... All right. He put him out upon the shore. Is that right? Aw, it made him sick. If you go into a church that don't believe in Divine healing, claim your rights in Christ, you'll have the same experience. That's right. Fellowship not with darkness.
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Notice, he looked towards God's holy temple, and if Jonah in the belly of the whale could look towards a earthly temple, where Solomon prayed, how much more ought we tonight look towards the heavenly temple, where Jesus sets at the right hand of God, shaking His Bloody garment, making intercession for your cancer, blindness, whatever it might be. Hallelujah. Oh, a brand new case of old time Holy Ghost religion (Yes.) brings you out of it. Expecting his prayers to be heard... That old whale went right on toward Nineveh just as hard as he could go. God set an oxygen tank down in there and kept him alive. All right. He got it somewhere; I don't know where God put the tank there, but he had the oxygen there that kept him alive. All right.
Like God told Elijah, "Go up and set down up there at the brook Cherith. I've commanded the ravens to feed you." My, they said that fellow's crazy, you know, making such a prediction like that, like the Holy Ghost talked to him, and said it ain't going to rain until he calls for it. You ever hear of such a thing? God told him so. He believed God. He went right up there by the brook Cherith and set down. Every morning here come some ravens, packed him along some food. He set down, and handed it down to him, he eat...?... God, knelt down and got him a drink of water and went on. Dinnertime come along, here come the ravens back, give him some more. Say, "Where'd them ravens get it?" I don't know. They got some sandwiches somewhere. They had meat and bread. I don't know where they got it, but they brought it. Elijah accepted it and eat it and lived.
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A doctor one time said to me; he said, "Brother Branham, don't you believe those people was shouting and going on like that, don't you think that's just emotion?" I said, "No, sir." I said, "It's the Holy Spirit." Said, "Where's it come from?" I said, "I don't know. He brings it. I accept it. I live by it. I don't know where it comes from. God commanded it to come. I believe it." Hallelujah. Yes. He said it was so. I believe it. Oh, do I feel religious right now. Um. [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]
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I think after my poor grammar last night, I feel very sorry for what I said last night. I will have to apologize for that poor grammar. I didn't--I meant to say "that whale vomited him up" and not--I didn't... I felt very humiliated today about that. I caught myself, and I didn't mean to say that. I--I was probably just all kind of worked up and didn't notice what I was saying. So I'm sorry about that; I didn't mean to do that.
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Most of us through this last week, or through the week-I've had a very lovely audience. And tomorrow night we expect it to be our--we trust that it'll be the greatest night of this revival anyhow, the one that's on now. I want to try tomorrow night if we can, to--to see how many that the people that I can minister to. And then the next night, well, Brother Cain will take right over to minister to the people after that.
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And the purpose of--of having a minister's night before the people, is that I want to get the pastors and the local ministers before the people at a... Divine healing has many times been very much misinterpreted, about Divine healing. That just certain people has the rights to pray for the sick people and them be healed. But that's misunderstood. The--Everybody that believes in Divine healing has a right to pray for the sick. See? And it isn't a one man, or one evangelist, it's for whosoever, everybody.
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A fine group of ministers here tonight. And if they're not pastors of local churches. I trust that in the next few weeks God will have them out on the field somewhere praying for the sick. If I had any way at all, or any authority to send them, I'd sure be happy to do it. For each one of them going out, they would reach into a group of people that was in need, somebody surely would get healed somewhere. And if there's just one person healed, that's--that's one. My, what if that one would be you. See?
And I've noticed in the--Brother Lindsay's paper that "Voice of Healing," there's many in there, many, many ministers. I think any minister that wants to be represented in the paper, that's trying to do what's right, can certainly have a itinerary in the paper. I think that's way Brother Lindsay carry's her. And I've noticed there's just picking up all the time, many, many. And every one of them, they have a place in the paper
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of different people got healed while they were praying for them. So I put all that together, wouldn't that make a big meeting? That would make a real meeting. So one of us can't pray for all the sick; and we need many, many, many, more.
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And I trust to God that out of this meeting that many of the peoples, many of the ministers that hasn't--in all time work for the Lord in their churches... I think a pastor, if he's called to be a pastor, he should be a pastor. And I want all peoples to know that that pastor has just as much right to pray for the sick as any other person, just as much right.
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Healing: There's no one in the world... Now, get this real close. There is no one in the world that could do one thing for you towards Divine healing, only to get you to believe in what Jesus has already done. See? People say, "I have healing power in my hands. Lay..." That's wrong. There's no such a thing as that. Now, get--you just get that away from you. When anyone says that, you know they're... They may be honestly, but ignorantly interpreting God's terms of Divine healing. That's right. For no one, no matter who it is, no one could already do what Jesus has already done. For healing was in the redemption, the redemptive blessings. One of them is Divine healing, and Jesus paid the full price for that at Calvary. Only thing you do is accept it.
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I--no matter how much I would pray for you being a sinner, my prayers might help you, and my persuasion might help you. But I couldn't forgive one sin of yours. God has already did that; you have to accept it in Christ. When Jesus died, He saved everybody, as far as God was concerned. For He paid the full price of human redemption. And we just, but...
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Now, don't think that I'm a Universalist that believes that everybody's saved and will be; I do not, no, sir. I believe that all those--everybody was saved as far as God was concerned, for Jesus paid the full penalty for sin when He died. Now, it will never do you no good until you accept it. See? You have to accept it. And it's not how hard you cry, how much you beg, how much you persuade; it's a surrendered heart to God with faith believing He done it. Even our altar calls that we have, in bringing people up around the altar, they didn't do that in the Bible time; that's a tradition
of our people, originated formally in the Methodist church. But look, it's a good thing. I don't like this dry-eyed repentance. I like to see somebody get up and really be sorry for what they done, and really mean it. But no matter how much that you pray, you'll never be forgiven until you believe you're forgiven, then you confess that you are, then live like you are. And no one will still know, no matter how much you cry, how much you pray, how much you shout, how many times you speak with tongues, or whatever you do, you're still not, until the fruits of the Spirit bear record in you. For "By their fruits, you shall know them." That's right. "By their fruits..."
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There's going to be a redeemed body. Many of us people say, "Well, that person's going to be there, because I heard them shouting and praising the Lord. Sometimes we like to take a person in that way, but that's not what Jesus said. Sometimes we say, "Oh, they'll make it because they was so filled they spoke with tongues." That's still wrong. That's all right, but it's still wrong. Shouting's all right too. But the only way you'll ever get in there when--it's by the fruits of the Spirit. "By their fruits you shall know them."
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A tree might have sycamore bark on it, but if it's a bearing apples, it's a apple tree. That's right. It's a apple tree because the sap, the life on the inside of the apple--of that sycamore tree is changed to apple trees life and bearing apples, in a kind of a... No matter what outward demonstration you give, as long as the inward, here, is the Holy Spirit, it'll be the fruits of the Spirit, long-suffering, goodness, meekness, patience, gentleness, faith, temperance. Satan can copy any kind of a gift, any kind of a manifestation, but he can't love. God is love. that's right. See? Satan can't love. You see a man humble, and loving, and good to his neighbors, and a good citizen, a good fellow, and a good man, and a Christian man, full of love and humility; you watch that man. See? That's right. He's good charitable, long-suffering, you can talk about him, it's a--all right, he forgives you, don't make any difference to him. There, that's the real man; keep your eye on him. See? That man bears, he's an example.
But no matter how much he shouts in church, and how much he does this, that, or the other, and still hasn't got that,
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Paul says, "Though I speak with tongues of men and angels; though I have the--all these other things; and have enough faith to move mountains, and understand all the mysteries of God. And I've been through all the seminaries, and know it all, up and down one side and the other; and have not charity, it profit me nothing."
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Not long ago, my little girl called me, when I was here the other time. It kind of give me a thought. She said, "Daddy, I want you to come home." And I said, "Honey, from Texas I sent you a--a little doll." She said--she's just four years old. I said, "I sent you a little doll, honey." She said, "I got it Daddy." And I said--She said, "I want you to come home, daddy." And I said, "Well, honey, I sent you a little rabbit from down Chattanooga." She said, "I got it, daddy." But she said, "I want you to come home." See? And I said, "Well, honey, I--daddy..." She said, "Daddy, I love you, and I love the gifts that you give me, but I want daddy."
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That's it. All these gifts are wonderful, but I want Father. I love these gifts, the hearing and the manifestations, the praising God, and shouting, and healing, and speaking with tongues, and the interpretation of tongues, and all the different gifts. I love to set and watch them. I have not them, but I love to watch them in operation in the Church. But after all that, I want Jesus. I--I want it. His gifts are fine, but I want the Giver in here. See? That's right.
So Paul said it was possible for him to do those things without having the Giver, "Thou I speak with tongues as men and angels, and have not charity, it profit me nothing." See, see? All right. Now, love one another. Above everything that you do, love one another. And as you love one another, you'll love God. See? You love each other and you'll love God. For God is love. And a man that walks in love, walks in life. And perfect love casteth out all fear. Then if you can take Him at His Word, and not fear a bit about it. Say, "Lord, I love You; I know You're going to answer because You promised me You would, and I just know You're going to do it." See? And it takes away all fear.
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Now, tonight I'm just talking for a little like this that you might know that these things that are going on and taking place in the meeting, are only vindications of His Presence being here. And He is--He just isn't bound to my prayer or to the pastor's prayer; to any person in this building or anywhere else in the world that believes that He will answer prayer, that's who He will answer for. And a person might be standing here, with ever so gifted of God, and yet they could never do nothing for you, until first you believe that they were able to do it.
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I want to read just a little Scripture before I express that thought: Hebrews 11:1. Now, faith is the substance of things hoped for; the evidence of things not seen. Now, faith is the substance. Now, it isn't just a--a makeup, or a thought, it's a real substance. It's something that's just as real as any other sense of the body. There's these five senses that control this body, and there's two senses control the inward man. And that's faith and unbelief for the inward man, see, taste, feel, smell, and hear for the outward man.
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Now, I believe the last time here I had a demonstration and showed you how that the different senses would operate. For instance, like by faith, you'd say... Now, you don't have to see by faith. You say, "that shirt's white." All of you that have your correct sight know that if your sense is correct, it says it's white. And now, they say, faith--seeing is believing. How many has heard that expression? "Let me see it and I will believe it." Oh, I--I can prove to you, that's wrong. That's wrong. Seeing's only one...
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Come here a minute, Reverend Kopp, if you will. Stand right there. Just watch this demonstration. Stand right back here. I want you to watch whether seeing's believing or not. Now, I believe there's a man standing before me with a suit on, blue suit, and he's got a--a red rose in the lapel of his coat. How many--how many believes that I'm right? Let's see now, believes that? I--I miscalled that. It was a carnation instead of a rose, but I--I... [Brother Kopp says, "Seeing wasn't believing then, was it?"--Ed.] That's right. How many believes that man's standing before me? Let's see
your... You know he's standing before me. All right. Now, I know he's standing there too, because that I can--I can see him. My sight is correct, and I believe in my sight. And I--I'm thankful for my sight. One time I was blind, so blind I could just make out objects, and they had to lead me. My eyes are 20/20 now, because Jesus Christ healed me. And I--I believe my sight. And he's--he's standing there because I see him.
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Now, it's totally impossible for me to see him, is that right? My back's turned to him. But he's still there. You want to argue with me if he's not there? You just try to out argue me. You couldn't do it. Now, that's the same man standing there. Why? I noticed he had a piece of paper in his hand; it's still there. See? And he... That's the same man. Yet I do not see him, but yet I know he's there. How do I know he's there? I feeled him, is that right? Then seeing isn't believing, is it? Feeling is believing in this case. Now, I will just argue with you all night, that that was Brother Kopp.
Now, I want you to start talking, just repeating a Scripture, when I tell you. Now, I do not see Brother Kopp, I do not feel Brother Kopp. Start quoting a Scripture. [Brother Kopp says, "Revelation 1:7."--Ed.] Brother Kopp's standing there. I don't feel him, I don't see him. You want to argue with me? I know he's standing there. Why? I could hear him. Then seeing is not believing, is it? So then forget about that. God bless you. See? No, seeing is only one of the senses. And see, taste, feel, smell, and hear, that's... God never did intend for man to use those to recognize God by. God made man in His own image first, and God is a Spirit. Saint John 4: They that worship Him must worship Him in Spirit and truth.
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But then when man was put in human flesh, then God gave him five senses to contact, not God, but his earthly home. These things, the senses of the body, is only to declare, or to contact earthly things here on earth, not heavenly things. And then your inward man is the spirit which has two senses: faith and unbelief.
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Now, watch. Faith is the substance, just the same as my
sight says, just the same as my feeling says, just the same as my hearing says, my smelling. See? Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things you do not see, taste, feel, smell, or hear. See what I mean? They are direct.
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And now, to say with, and feel just a little bad about having to say it, that about ninety percent of the people that come to the platform has hope instead of faith. See? You just-you... I've heard people come and say, "Brother Branham, I've got all the faith in the world." Oh, my, that's a whole lot. All right. Jesus never questioned, when He came back would He find respects? He never questioned whether He'd find saints; He never questioned whether He would find righteousness; but what Jesus questioned whether He'd find or not, is what I'm trying to uphold. "Will I find faith when I come back?"
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Faith, you must believe. And upon believing, the only way that faith can be based sanely and sensibly for Divine healing, is upon the written Word of God. This is the Foundation. And I'm very illiterate, but I believe I--if the person would sit down and just not try to argue, but would just try to be like a brother, I do not believe that there is a bishop in the country could, run over Divine healing, of my own interpretation in the-show in the Bible. I believe that I can prove that if there is no Divine healing now, that when you die you're finished forever, there's no more to you. This is the earnest of our redemption. This is...
And we have the earnest of our salvation. And salvation was both physically and spiritual. He told a woman when she touched the borders of His garment; He said, "Thy faith has saved thee," physically saved her. She was saved physically; she had a blood issue. And she believed if she could touch Him, she'd get well. Now, that was her faith. And the only way that Jesus interpret that was to say this, "That I can if ye believe that I can." Is that right? "If you believe that I'm able to do this," is that truth? He said to the blind man when they came in. He said, "do you believe that I'm able to do this?" They said, "Yea, Lord." Then He touched their eyes, saying, "According to your faith (Is that right?) be it unto you."
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Now, closely, I want you to notice this. God shouldn't have to have this, but He's always had to have it, seemingly, some object that people could look to, some object like the brass serpent. Now, they should not have had that, they should've believed God. But for a memorial, that there'd been an atonement, or was one coming, which the brass serpent spoke... Serpent spoke of sin; brass spoke of judgment, for judgment already; the brass serpent represented the brazen altar: sin already condemned and judged. Like Elijah went up and looked, and Gehazi said, "Why, the skies are like brass," judgment. Brass always speaks of judgment. The brazen serpent, serpent spoke of sin. It was nailed to a pole, showing that sin would be nailed to a pole, a tree, someday for a compound cause. When the brass serpent was lifted up in the wilderness, it was for forgiveness of sin and healing of the body. Is that right? Jesus said, "As Moses lifted up the brass serpent, so must the Son of Man be lifted up," for the same cause. One was type, and the other one was antitype. And you mean to say that there were more blessings in the type than there was the antitype? Could not be.
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So I won't--we won't have to go in that 'cause you taught that with these evangelists, and pastors, and so forth, till you know it's the truth. That the healing is in the atonement. Healing--sickness is an attribute of sin. And when Jesus killed sin, or atoned for sin, He atoned for every attribute. Everything down that was caused in the fall, Jesus atoned for it. Oh, my, that makes us feel our Methodist bones getting tickled up. Look. I don't want to get started preaching no more. So, my. Now look.
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When the brass serpent was lifted up in the wilderness, it was for a--an ensign, that God said whosoever looks upon the serpent, believing, will be healed of their snakebite, and the snakebite was caused because they had murmured against Moses and God: sinned. And God made an atonement for sin. And in there their sickness was an attribute of their sin. You see it? The snakebite that was killing the people was an attribute of the sin that they had committed. And when Je--when God made them an atonement for their sin, it brought in the attribute--their healing. See what I mean?
When Jesus atoned for sin, He atoned for sickness. "He was wounded for our transgressions, and with His stripes we are healed." The apostle said, "By whose stripes we were (past tense, already) healed." It's already done; the--the price was paid.
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Now, the people come and looked upon that atonement and was healed. After--after while that thing become a idol to the people. And the prophet run, and got the thing, and took it out, and tore it up, because the people were worshipping the serpent and instead of the God that it represented. So then God made another way for the people. He put an Angel, that came down on certain seasons, and went into a pool of water and troubled the water. Do you remember that? And whosoever stepping into the pool first, was healed of whatsoever disease they had. See? Why couldn't they have got healed some other way? But they had to have something they could look at, something they could believe in, something that your eyes could see. All right.
After the days of that, came along Jesus. He was God's Ensign. And He was lifted up. He ascended on high and give gifts back to men. And men received the baptism of the Holy Spirit to be made deity himself. Now, that didn't set very good. But that's according to the Word. A man or a woman that's borned of the Spirit of God is a part of God. Amen. You are sons of God and daughters of God. Didn't Jesus say, "Isn't it written in your Scriptures, your laws, that you're gods." Not to forgive sins now, but you're sons and daughters of God, limited to your faith.
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And the very God, back there in the beginning that rolled the world, the moon, the stars, and made them from things which do not appear, or made them out of things that do appear. Out of things... And where did He get the material to make it? He spoke it into existence by His Word. He said, "Let there be." And it was so: Deity. And that--a portion of that deity dwells in the heart of every borned again Christian. Hallelujah. Then what did He say, "Ask what you will, and it'll be given to you." There you are. Deity, it fell on the day of Pentecost. It's still falling. All right.
And men are regenerated, made a new person, sealed into the Kingdom of God by the Holy Spirit. The life of Christ
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pressed into them. All their drinking and immoral habits, and everything go out. The love of God is like a Notary Public: takes a seal and presses it until the inscription of that seal is pressed in the paper over the signature. Oh, my. And when Christ signs your name on the Book of Life, and the Holy Spirit presses It in there until the Life of Christ is formed in you (Hallelujah.) becomes deity. Men and women are sons and daughters of God. It does not yet appear what we shall be, but we know we'll be like Him. For we shall see Him as He is, have a body like His own glorious body. And we're waiting our perfect redemption. Amen. You believe it?
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Our bodies are groaning, and we have an inheritance. And we're children now, heirs of the Kingdom (Oh, my.), kings and priests unto God offering spiritual sacrifices. What does a priest do? Make a sacrifice. What is a sac--a spiritual sacrifice? That's what these sons and daughters do, which are kings and priests, yet not in full possession, but they're making sacrifices, offering to God spiritual sacrifices: the fruits of our lips giving praise to Him (Amen.), fruits of our lips. You say, "Brother Branham, I just don't feel like praising Him." That's the time to make the sacrifice. Praise Him anyhow. Kings and priests, sons and daughters offering spiritual sacrifice, the fruits of our lips, giving praise unto His Name.
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While we're groaning, veiled in this tabernacle of humiliation, we have the earnest of our perfect, complete redemption back like we was in the beginning when God created Adam in the garden of Eden. We have a foretaste of glory divine by the baptism of the Holy Ghost, the refreshment coming from the Presence of God to water the Church to make it grow in grace. And when we're sick we have redemption, the blessing, the attributes of the death of Christ. Divine healing as a fore-sign to us that someday this mortal will take on immortality. Yes, sir. Amen, Oh, my, marvelous. He's here to do it. Glory. [A sister speaks in tongues, another sister interprets--Ed.] Jesus... [A
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Blessed be the Lord. Now, this Holy Spirit has spoken; it's time for the prayer line. These ministers are standing here, which is the ministers night. I'm so thankful to hear that message confirm just what I was saying going back. I'm going
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to read what... How many knows these ministers here on the platform? Let's see your hands, you know these ministers? How many in here know these men setting here, that they're ministers of the Christ of God? Not too many of you. Well, they're God's children. This is the night that I--we've given to them for the services that God would--would bless and would heal the people as they pray for them.
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I want to read some of the Word just now again. Listen to the last message that fell from our Saviour's lips, then believe: Mark the 16th chapter, the 14th verse beginning: So after He had appeared unto the eleven as they set at meat, and upbraided them with their unbelief and their hardness of heart, because they believed not them which had seen Him after He was risen. And He said unto them, Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature.
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Now, many people just call It the Word. The Word is right. But the signs follow the Word. Paul said, "The Gospel came to us," something like this, "not only in Word only, but through power and demonstration of the Holy Spirit." Now, to prove that that's what he was speaking of, listen: ... preach the gospel to every creature. He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; and he that believeth not shall be damned. And these signs shall follow them that believe; In my name they shall cast out devils; they shall speak with new tongues; If they take up serpents... or drink deadly things, it shall not hurt them; if they lay their hands on the sick,... they shall recover. So then after the Lord had spoken these things unto them, he was received up into heaven, and sat on the right hand of God. And they went forth every where... they went forth preaching every where, the Lord working with them, confirming the word with signs following. Amen.
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How many's been here in the other meetings this week, let's see your hands now, all over the building, everywhere? You see what a... the Holy Spirit has done, don't you? Right here by this platform there's been man who been crippled for
more than fifty or sixty years. Invalids raised up and walk out of the building normal and whole. Those who've been blind since little children, not just mythically, thought, but receive your sight, and walk away. And things--the Holy Spirit has been here and has revealed the secrets of the peoples' heart every time, perfectly, told every person their disease and what was wrong with them and... Is that right? That is right.
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Now, that wasn't because that I was here; that's because that He is here. See? He is here. Now, He's here tonight. And we've been taking, just having about fifty people, but how many's here to be prayed for tonight? I want to see your hands, I don't care where you are in the building. There's probably right on three or four hundred people, maybe five hundred people to be prayed for.
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Now, this night as I annou--been announcing it, and tonight, everybody, I believe, is going to have a chance. When one gets tired, the other one can stand. And we can start right now while it's early, I believe, and pray for everyone that wants to be prayed for. And then--I want you to believe me, honestly, dear Christian, I--I don't hardly... You might not like me, but I don't see how you could keep from believing but what I told you the truth. That's... You--you might not like me. You say, "Now, I don't like... Brother Branham's all right, I guess, but I just don't like him." Well, that's--that's your--whatever you think about. I want you to like me.
And if there's anybody that I didn't like, why, I would try to make it right with them. And I'd try to be as sincere and act like a Christian as much as I can, be at my home or anywhere. Everywhere I go I--I've always tried to do what was right, and try to live what I speak about and talk about. And I'd rather any man would live me a sermon than preach me one. For we're written epistles, read of all men. I'd rather live right, and have my name up clear, where my Master could say, "He's a Christian," and the people say, "He's a Christian. I don't know one thing I ever seen him do wrong." And if--or something on that order...
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Now, if I have, if I have found favor with you, and I believe that God has proved to you by the things that I have
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testified of, three weeks now, that I have testified of the truth. And God has come behind me and testified that I have told the truth. Is that right? Now, that's in above question. That's the truth. And I--I never, never tried to--to express my feelings towards people any more in my life than I'm trying to get you now to believe me.
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I--I say this, dear Christian, that if you will... Now, if you're a sinner in here, and you'll confess your sins, or if you've done anything wrong in life, if you'll ask God to forgive you, and then come through here to be prayed for, believing with all your heart that God is going to heal you... And no matter what's wrong with you, when you get to this platform... Well, if--if you're a--if you're blind, hold your hands over your eyes, and as soon as the hands are laid upon you say, "Lord, I receive my sight." And if--if the person's deaf, or hard of hearing, somebody will teach them that's setting next to them, tell them as they come across the platform, hold their hands on their ears, or something, then when they get here, say, "Lord, I receive my hearing." Those who are sick, many of you here are past doctors aid. Medical aid can't help you, especially heart trouble, cancer, and so forth like that. They're trying hard, medical science. I pray for them. There's not a day past but I don't pray that God will give into the hands of men somewhere, that'll find something to help these people. I don't believe we could actually be a Christian without doing that. That's true. Could you imagine some poor suffering person that somebody could do something for to help? When you say, "Pray for medical science?" Yes, sir. I mean that.
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Now, keep your heart towards God. Now, God used remedies Himself. Isaiah went and got some poultice that was made out of figs and put them on Hezekiah to heal him of his boils. And many things was dipped in water. And Jesus put some mud on a man's eyes, mud, the very thing that medicine and things come from. Medicine does not heal. No doctor could say that medicine heals. Medicine only assists nature. God's the only Healer there is. That's right. Now, there's lots of doctors when Jesus come on the earth; He never condemned a one of them, never said a thing about that. They're all right. And the day that we're living in, where there's millions and billions of people, and a earth full of germs and diseases, what in the world could we do if we didn't have these things? [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]
So dear Christian people if you've got a human heart, let's look at the thing right. Now, taking medicine or anything hinders your faith, keep away from it. See? But I will tell you... Now, I know you said, "Well, I know doctors that laugh at Divine healing." I do too, and I know preachers that laugh at it too. That's right. Many of them laugh at it. Frankly, to be honest with you and my Bible, I found more unbelieving preachers in Divine healing than I have doctors. 'Cause many, many, fine doctors comes to my place to be prayed for. And we set right down in the room, heart to heart, and talk. I never have heard a one yet, but what didn't tell me, "Why, Brother Branham, I believe." And especially a surgeon, said, "I've laid people out," and said, "why they just quit breathing. We'd take them down and after while they start; there they go again, breathe and get well. What did it?" He said. I said, "God." He said, "You're right." Said, "We might move an appendix that's ruptured, but we can't heal the place we cut. God has to do that." A dentist could pull a tooth out, but who's going to heal that socket? Medicine does not build tissue. Medicine only keeps the thing clean. A doctor might set a bone in your arm, but he can't produce the calcium and stuff that heals the arm. God has to do that. That's right.
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And just like in the realms of the Pentecostal church... Oh, I don't want to say this or not, you might not love me so much. But if you had kept fanaticism down, and kept it running clean and clear, this world out here is a hungering for what you got. That's right. If you'd a let--add to the church daily such as be saved, and not broke off your little denominations and fussing with one another, the Church had been gone on in glory long ago. That's right. Amen. That's right. Amen. Thank you.
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And that's the sole purpose of my ministry, is to see God's Church welded together. See? Don't make any difference what the other one believes, that's all right. If you're borned again of the Spirit of God, you are a Christian. See? For you're born again. See? But you must be borned again. Must be borned of the Holy Ghost, must come into your life, and that makes you a Christian. That seals you until the
day of your redemption. As long as you live right, and keep Him with you, you'll make it, Ephesians 4:30: "Grieve not the Holy Spirit of God, whereby you are sealed until the next revival? until the day of your redemption." That's right.
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The Holy Spirit witnesses, and receives you, and God receives you and puts His seal upon you, and He brands you. I've herded a few cattle. I remember when we used to bring the yearlings in, branding time. We'd go out there and have to throw them down with a rope and hold them, and get a big old hot brand and come out and stick it on it; he'd bawl and snort awhile. But brother, he was all fixed up. We knowed who he belonged to.
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Sometimes somebody have to get out yonder and burrow around a little while. But when the Holy Ghost burns all the devil out of you, you know what side you're on from then on. That's right. Jerk the hobbles off of him, he will almost have a running fit, but he--he is branded, brother. I'm telling you, I've seen them come up from the altar have a running one too, just as hard as they could go. But they were branded. When the Holy Ghost ever seals you into the Kingdom of God, there's something happened that you'll remember as long as you live. That's right. No matter where you wonder, you'll still remember that, and you'll be--you'll be haunted till the day you die if you don't serve God from then on. That's right. Yes, like the dove that went out of the ark. She went out and she couldn't find no rest for the soles of her feet till she come back and knocked on the ark door. She come back.
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Now, the signs that God permits and does, that's--that's the Holy Spirit here a working with the people. Now, He's here. He knows everything that's in your hearts. He knows all about you. He's right here now.
Now, look, to heal a person, I couldn't do it, or no one else can. Jesus could not heal no one except first they believed that He was. And there was no virtue in Him unless they believed there was virtue in Him. Some people one time, they wanted some curiosity. They tied a rag around His face, and they hit Him on the head with a
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reed, said, "Now, if You're a prophet, prophesy and say who hit You." He never even opened His mouth and said a word. He didn't clown for nobody. No, He was the Son of God. But a poor little humble woman, who really believed Him, and had a blood issue, she slipped through the crowd and touched His garment, and He said, "Virtue has gone out of Me." It's the attitude of approach. And when you're coming tonight, how can you hear except it be a preacher, and how can a preacher preach 'less he be sent? Now, the--I want you to realize that the--my main reason here now, is to introduce to you a phenomenon of God. Now, you couldn't come here without me knowing what was wrong with you. You couldn't stand here.
I've set right across the table and talked to ministers, when I was eating them--eating with them at the table, and walk right outside and put my arm around them and tell me that they was living in adultery. And he said, "Brother Branham, please don't, oh, don't--pray God that..." and thing. You can't keep that. That's a gift that God gave to me; that's mine. And I want to use it just as respectful, and as honorable, as I know how, and only to glorify Him. And what--all He will let me know, I want to magnify Him by it. See?
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But I could stand and pray for you until this time next year, and it would never do you a bit of good until first you accept Jesus Christ as your Healer. And if any of these ministers standing here would be standing in my place, and you'd come and believe that God hears their prayer, you'd be healed just the same as you would be if Jesus Himself was standing here praying for you. That's a hard word, isn't it? But it's the truth. He gave all the power and authority that He had to His Church, and you're just afraid to act upon it. Now, you believe that?
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Now, look, if God has confirmed what I said to be true, I want to ask you something. Hasn't every person that's come here to the platform, if I'd set and talk to them a little bit, go way back in their life and pick up things and bring it right down, so that--just bring it down and say what they'd done back in life and troubles that they had had, and everything, just exactly perfect... Is that right? If it is all you people be here for a witness to the others, raise your hand if you seen that--that... There you are. Any time in any meeting,
anywhere, since I made this claim over four years ago, it's been just exactly the same. You who's been along in meetings for a long time, different meetings, raise your hands, see if that's so everywhere or anywhere, in other meetings. See? Now, that shows that there's some supernatural Being here. Isn't that right?
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Now, just look at the people's been healed. Look at the things that's taken place. Look at this old brother, the Congressman (He isn't here tonight.), that was a cripple for sixty-six years, paralyzed from his waist down. Set in great meetings back yonder with Billy Sunday and all them great men, and down through with Paul Rader and Rediger, them men who taught Divine healing down through the age. Men, Mr. Freeman, and Mr. Ogilvie, and many of those men who preached Divine healing, that set and prayed for him and everything. But he just couldn't take a hold. And then when he come in, and I walked in here, never seen or heard of the man in my life, and seen that vision come there, seen him as a--in the high courts and things like that, and spoke. And I wondered where it was at. Looked around a few minutes and spoke to a little colored girl laying over on this side. Then a few minutes, I seen a doctor standing there with something on his head, and begin to describe, and the lady begin to weep. Looked back, and I just see it, and then seen the man walking out, and the man said, "Well, if God is here to know my life back there, it's the truth." And he threw down his crutches, and there he went (See?) perfectly normal. That was in February. He's been here every night. But tonight, he had to speak tonight, is going to be back tomorrow night.
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He's wrote every king, I believe, every governor, of the congress, the president, Churchill, and all of them, sent them his testimony about it. And King George of England is going to-I guess send him back his testimony. I have a photostatic copy of King George's thanks for my prayer and things when he was healed of multiple sclerosis. And other great men across the nation in fulfillment...
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Now, I've tried to be honest; I've tried to be as true as I know how. Now, please, my Christian friends, accept my word now. Now, I speak now upon the authority of the Angel of God Who is coming nearer and nearer me all the time here at the platform.
And on the Word of God which Jesus Christ inspired to write-men to write. If any of you people coming through this line, will, and these men and myself standing here laying hands on you, believing that you'll get healed, you'll be a well person. Now, if you can believe it, and if you can't get enough faith up, come try it, confess it anyhow, and hold with it till it does come to pass. See?
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Now, do you believe that I've told you the truth? All the credit's given to Almighty God, the Gospel I'm preaching, centered firmly upon the Word of God. And this signs that He's given now is in fulfillment of what He promised, "These things that I do shall you also."
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And now, you ministers here as you go pray for the sick, you probably never will, and it probably won't be in my age, never again for these things; and don't try it, unless you know that God is speaking, 'cause something would happen. But you're ministers; you're children of God, and people are sick. Look at the hundreds of them there. Go out, get going, pray for the sick, get them started, build faith, lay your hands on them. You got a right to claim it. Go and do it in the Name of the Lord, every one of you. See? Go out into the highways, hedges, byways, everywhere, claim this Gospel.
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Many of you ministers that's out there, that come in late and isn't represented on the platform, do the same thing. Go out somewhere, you women even, in your neighborhood, go at the hospitals, pray for the sick, believe it, exercise your faith and do something for God's children quickly before Jesus comes. Now, don't say, "Well, maybe I wouldn't be able, Brother Branham, to tell them the secrets of their heart and all this, that, or the other." You don't have to. You don't have to do that. You pray for the sick. This is an evangelistic affair here that inspires. You have to be borned under a--a sign to do that. You have to be ordained by--by that to do that. You have to be ordained to do a certain thing. That was given plumb back maybe thousands of years, I don't know.
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But now, that doesn't have nothing to do with the healing; it doesn't make anybody any more righteous than the rest. It's just something that I want to be true and honest with
you. When I stand up there by the judgment, I will have to face what I'm talking about. See? Don't try to impersonate. If this man prays for the people that holds their ears and jumps up-and-down and screams, don't try to impersonate him. What the Lord tells you to do, go do it. If He says go at the hospital, kneel down and pray silently, you go do it. If He tells you go over and pray for somebody in the building when they're sick here, and our meetings are going on, walk right over there and pray for them. That's right.
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That's a gift, the gift of the Holy Spirit. Nine spiritual gifts are operating in the body. And tonight it may be on this person, tomorrow night on that person, one over there. And you do what the Holy Spirit says do. For it's the gifts, nine gifts that's in the Body, working in the Body everywhere. And the Body ought to be working together, tempered together. We get all the dross out, it would be that way too. Amen. All the difference...
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Now, God bless you all. Now, I believe my little boy give out prayer cards here today. He give out fifty, I believe. Z Where's he at? Z 1 to 50, I think Billy give out, yeah. Is that right Paul? Z 1... Reason I call him Paul, at home all around Indiana, my name is Billy too, and his, and his' Billy, so I have to call him Paul, so they know which, what we're talking about. Now, he give out fifty prayer cards. I would like for those... Now, let's see, how many here on these cots and stretchers has these cards along here? I see only one on the stretcher right now. I think you didn't get in this afternoon. We were-didn't get back in time. But now, I tell you what we're going do, besides that we're going to try to pray for everybody.
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Now, this lady laying here in a cot, now, just a moment. You have the prayer card, sister. Do you believe with all your heart? You--you do. You believe that God would heal you? You believe that He's here to make you well? I want you to look this way. I want to ask you just as humbly as I know how as a minister, you--I see you have a prayer card there. Now, I'm not able to heal you my dear sister, but I can tell you, if God will permit me, just what's wrong with you. Do you believe that? You believe that God would let me do that? And you know sister, I--I know nothing about you, but I want you to look this a way and just believe with all your heart. You do? All right. Do you believe me as God's servant? I'm just trying to
get you to talk to me, like the Master at the well. You see? Yes, you have tumors, don't you? Yes, you do. And don't you have heart trouble too? Isn't that right? All right. You been very much weary lately, haven't you, sister? Won't you just get up from your cot and go on home now and believe.
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She is accepting her Healer and healing, coming off her stretcher. They're raising her up to give her a lift. There she is. Amen. Let us say, "Praise be to our heavenly Father." Now, you may thank the Lord with all your heart. Now, that lady had a prayer card. Now, somebody in here that hasn't got a prayer card, I want you to raise your hands, or somewhere around where you haven't got a prayer card. All right, just a moment. All right, now just reverent. Now, you that don't got no prayer card and don't know nothing about me, and no contact with me nowhere at all, I want you just to-to look this a way and believe, somewhere now. Just a moment.
Yes, the lady that's setting there with the pink dress on. You look this a way, sister; you ain't got no prayer card, have you? Suffering with a cancer. Isn't that right? Stand up on your feet. Now, go home and be well and forget about your cancer; it's gone from you, sister. You have none.
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You believe the Lord? You people with your prayer cards now, Z 1 to 50, line up here, numerical order, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and on like that. When you're praying for the sick and talking to them, more you pray, more you talk to the person, the more you know of them.
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I'm going to have my minister brothers, if they will, to stand right back here behind me just a moment. The reason that I said someone without a prayer card, some of them think, you know, that looking at the prayer card that the person thinking about what, it'll be mental telepathy. But it is not. It is--I take those who don't have prayer cards. That doesn't matter. Anybody in the audience, wouldn't make a bit of difference; you know that. The people come here and told of things they done when they were little children, and so forth. Isn't that right? And that's not mental telepathy, anyone. It's the power of Almighty God. Now, if you don't believe it, it'll never do you any good. But if
you do believe it, it's healing for you. Everybody be reverent. Now, bring those with prayer cards Z-1 to Z-50. And let them line up in numerical order, right along here: Z-1, Z-50. And then immediately after that, when those go through, we're going to line up all that wants to be prayed for in that aisle, then all that wants to be prayed for in this aisle, then all that want to be prayed for in this aisle, and all that wants to be prayed for over there. And bring them right around, and pray for everybody tonight. You believe we can do it? Are you going to accept it as your healing? Now--now, just let those stand up first who have prayer cards.
All right, sister, you believe with all your heart? Suffering TB ain't you, sister? You've had tubercular a long time. Isn't that right? How would I know what was wrong with you if God wasn't here? Just stand and let--look at me just a little bit, I want to talk to you. Now, you're a stranger; you just walked up here. And when I looked around at you, something spoke from you. I tell you, sister, you're worrying a whole lot too, aren't you? Huh? You've had this before. Isn't that right? And you got well, and you're afraid it's come back on you again. Isn't that right? I want you to go from here tonight and believe with all your heart that it's finished, and you'll be well. You believe me? Come here. Our heavenly Father, we bless our sister for her healing tonight, in the Name of Thy Son, Jesus Christ. Amen. Now, look sister, quit your worrying. Go on off the platform, eat, have a joyful time in the Lord and be all right.
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All right. Everybody just as reverent as you can be now. Just a moment. I want just the anointing to get down on me and then I'm going to have the ministers to step out here around me, like that, so we can start praying for the sick.
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Tomorrow night we want everything lined up here just as cl--close as we can for all discernment, if we possibly can. Just so that... We'll know and the Holy Spirit will be here to speak with us. And now, He's here now. But after a few times that I can feel the anointing coming real deeply, then It'll--It'll go to moving upon the people. All right, bring the patient.
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Are you the patient, sir? All right. You look rather pale;
you're pro--bound to be sick. You believe me as God's servant? You do, do you, sir? All right. You're suffering with heart trouble, aren't you, brother? Go on off the platform now, the Lord Jesus Christ of Nazareth, make you well.
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Every one be reverent, everybody just as reverent as you can be now. All right, just, no one... Just be reverent. Now, just in a moment. Now, everyone be--be reverent.
How do you do, sir? You love Him, don't you? How marvelous. You have a good, fine, spirit, my brother. God will bless you. And the great thing that you thought you could get rid of that TB, you'd just be fine and dandy, and God would make you well. He has. So you can go on off the platform now. Go on to the fields, where you're wanting to go on, and God bless you, my brother.
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Let's say, "Praise the Lord," everybody. Bring the patient. Now, howdy do, sister? Now, we're strangers aren't we, sister? I never seen you in my life. Some... They give you a prayer card and had a number on it, and you lined up in your number there. Is that right? And I--God knows I don't know what you got wrote on your prayer card; that's nothing to me. I don't know. But I--I will be able to know by this gift that God has given me, what is wrong with you. Will you accept it? And if I will be able, through the power of the Holy Spirit, which you now feel... Is that right? Been having lots of trouble. Let me tell you something now as I see you. I see the vision of it. You--you walk strange; there something... It's an arthritis, isn't it? Isn't that right? That's right. It's acid in your blood, which is cause you... You get stiff and everything, isn't that right? Sometimes have quite a time of it, early in the morning especially, when you get up. Is that right? Will you believe me as God's prophet? Go off the platform and say you're well.
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Ministers walk over here, get right over. Ministers line up here, just... I don't want to get too deep under that before it happens. All right. God bless you, my mother, and heal you.
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Now, let the ministers get right over here in the line. Where's that minister, evangelist, Brother Cain, that never had
his name... Yes, it's a praying King, Cain. If he is, let--bring him in here too. And line up here ministers, double line, right along the side here now. All just line right up this a way now, over here, yes, that's right, right down in there. Now, you people standing out there in the line... Now, ushers, I want you to watch the line. Ushers, up here in front. I want you to watch the line. And as soon as this line goes out, let them over there raise up, then these here. And every one of you now, together, let's make a committal. All you that wants to be healed tonight, put your hand on your heart. Almighty God, hear the prayer of Your servant. You see us, You see the sparrow fall, and I know you see these people. And I pray, Father, that You'll heal every one of them. And now along with them, we commit ourselves to You for healing of the body, in the Name of Jesus Christ, the Son of God. Amen.
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May God's blessings rest upon you all as you're coming. Now, reverently, let some of the ministers line up here now, on this side over here too, brethren, a double line over here. And I want you so you can lay your... Let the lady stand there, that's all right, Billy. That's all right, let--let the ministers stand right there. All right. Now, come on brethren, if you all want to get into the line here, and line up here and be standing for prayer.
Now, I want the audience to see that I'm trying my best to get Jesus before you, and my brethren before you. See? I love these men. They're God's servants; they're God's sons. If we go to heaven, we're just... All right, Brother Cain, come right out here now and stand here so you can pray for these people too. I want you to stand right over here. Brother Cain will be represented here of nights to come. Now, I want you to come hear him. And now, we're standing here now to pray for the sick. Now, everybody reverent as they can be. Now, as the people begin to come... Now, I want you people to look this a way. Now, there's going to be many people healed here tonight, because these ministers are going to lay hands upon them, and God is going to heal them according to their faith.
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Now, this gift of this knowing knowledge, and so forth like that, as I say, just because it don't fall upon them brethren... It may never; I don't believe it will as long as I'm
living. After I go, it'll probably come on someone. But look, because the Holy Spirit, the same Angel has already said that. So I--I know that's--that's that way.
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Now, notice. But these men are called of God to pray for the sick just as much as anybody is called (See?), much as anybody. Now, as they lay their hands on the sick, I want you to watch now, as our little Brother Cain here, and these others, lay their hands on the sick, and these pastors. Watch what happens to the sick. If they'll believe and pass off this platform, they'll get well. The cripples will lay down their canes here. The cots that the ushers pack up, leave your cot laying here. Push it over to the place and walk off. The wheelchairs, push your wheelchairs over this way, walk off this a way. Are you going to do it? Are you believing God? Are you accepting Him? Friends, quit playing now, come on, let's get down here to God, right now. All right. I want just a little anointing, so that I can see what's taking place. Now, just a moment, where I can step back here where you can watch the ministers gather in, where I will just be one of them laying hands on the sick. Now, reverently. Now, which is the patient? Where is the patient?
Are you the patient, sister? All right, you come here. You know that there's no connection between you and I. I know nothing about it. Is that right? Now, this is going to be harder. 'Course, standing this group of ministers and everybody, different human spirits a moving. Now, brethren, if you will, just be real reverent and don't put your mind on me, just be looking. I want you to look this way to me, sister, and believe with all your heart. All right. You accept me as God's prophet? Do you believe that what I say is the truth? You do. I see a lady standing before me. You have many things wrong. You've had one trouble that's bothered you a long time, and you're suffering with an arthritis. Isn't that right? An old female condition's been there for a long time. Isn't that right? All right, raise up your hands like this, say, "Lord Jesus, I now accept You as my personal Healer, right now. And my Healer, I am now healed by Your stripes." Raise up your hands and say, "Praise the Lord." Now, raise your feet up-and-down, like this. You have no more arthritis, sister. The female trouble has stopped, and you're going away completely well.
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All right, bring the next patient here. Come here, lady. Now, you're a stranger to me, aren't you? I wish you'd turn this way just a little, this a way. I do not know you, and you do not know me. We're perfectly strangers. But you're aware that there's something going on here, don't you? You know that. And as I'm talking to you, you know that you're being contacted by some being of some sort, isn't that right, in the supernatural realm? Now, before me sets a table with food, and a woman refusing it. You have stomach trouble. Isn't that right? Go eat what you want to; Jesus Christ will make you whole.
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Now, my Christian friends, do you believe my brethren? Do you believe what the Spirit of God is in our midst? Gather in around here then? Everybody in the audience, with your heads bowed, let's pray now as these people pass through the line, now as they go by. All right. Everybody bow your heads and pray. Sing "Only Believe" out there, you, as they pass through. Ministers lay your hands upon the sick now, as they pass through. Everybody in prayer now, as we sing.
Only Believe,
Now, as you come through, believe. [As Brother Branham continues

to pray for the people, he cannot be heard clearly--Ed.]
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I want to say that I'm very happy. I want to start this tonight, that this elderly man who's eighty some-odd years old, about eighty-four years old. He isn't able to work no more. He's served his time. And if he has the enthusiasm to scatter the Message of Jesus Christ, I want to help him do it. God bless my brother. All right. Go ahead, Brother...?... May God bless each one. Come here. [Brother Hall asks, "What are you going to start it with?"--Ed.] I'm going to start it... [Brother Hall asks, "Some money, huh?"--Ed.] Some money... [All right good, I will help you start it."] All right, sir; that's fine. God bless you.
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Just I want him to say a word. All right. Come here,
Brother Congressman. This is the former Congressman of the United States. One time, one of the greatest men in our nation. God... He was crippled for many many years, sixty-six years, was healed here in this meeting. And I feel a great honor tonight to stand before a man, or with a man like this. That these crutches supported him for all those years of his youth, while he was being prayed for time after time to be healed. And at the age of about eighty-four Senator...
[Congressman Upshaw give his testimony: Just eighty-four. And I'm eightyfour years young, speak three and four times a day, preach the Gospel of the Christ Who saved me, stood by me on bed seven years, and made me happy, and then took me off of the crutches that I have used for fifty-nine years and now, glory to God I'm walking--Ed.] TESTIMONY_ LA.CA WEDNESDAY_ 51-0509
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Praise the Lord. And you know what this offering is for? He's not able to send this testimony around the country. He's... He can't do it. He's aged, and he has no income. This here offering is to help him send this to all the big men, rulers, and so forth of the nation. God bless our gallant brother. And I want to give him an... this welcome here, to anywhere in the nation that I have meetings or in the world. I'd be very happy to see Congressman Upshaw come and stand by me at the platform while in services.
[Congressman Upshaw gives comment: Remember, I'm sending this folder to every congressman, and senator, the president, and his wife, and now sending this week to the king of England for whom he prayed, and Winston Churchill. And I'm going to send them to Joseph Stalin. God have mercy on his soul--Ed.] Amen. Amen. [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] TESTIMONY_ LA.CA WEDNESDAY_ 51-0509
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Good evening. I'm happy to be out here again tonight in the representative Name of our Lord Jesus Christ, and His great mercy for us. And I'm sorry that this is the last night, because you're so good and nice to me, till I--I'd like to stay with you. But I... It... I have need. Thank you, sister dear. And it... I have need to go somewhere else with the Gospel. And I trust that our Lord has done something here in the--the meeting that has give all you people a sufficient faith to believe in Him, and to love Him all your days of your life.
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I realize that there is many here that's listening to me now, that I will probably never see no more on this earth. This will be our--probably our last meeting time this side [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] of glory. And I want to have this appointment with each one of you, that if you shall go before I
do, that... I believe the Bible statement of the Lord Jesus Christ is true. I believe all that the Bible says is true, that there will be a resurrection of the dead. And that those who... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]... those which are waiting, shall be changed and made a body like His, and will be caught up together to meet Him in the air, and forever be with the Lord in the air. I trust by God's grace to meet all of you there. May God grant that we can all meet and be there together in that great glorious time.
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I know that our Lord has been very gracious to us this week, and the weeks that we have served Him here. And He's been to us joy, and peace, and health, and strength. And I--I believe that God will do great things for us tonight here in the midst of His people, and that He will do great for us tonight. I want to say that a young minister, Mr. Cain, I believe it's, if I'm not mistaken, Paul Cain, is going to continue the revival on, beginning tomorrow night at the regular time, I guess, of seven-thirty. You're all accordingly invi--cordially invited out to Brother Cain's meeting.
And I don't know just when that Brother Freeman, William Freeman... I do not know Brother Freeman. I know of him. But I have a love for Brother Freeman. And he's having a tent meeting here in the city. And I don't know just when he's going to close his services. And then I hear that they have the prayer services for the sick at the Temple, the Angelus Temple. And many other little places in the city is having prayer for the sick. And I--I trust that God will do great wonders for you all while I am gone, and especially save all the lost, and--that they might find peace with God. Now, God will grant these things to us if we'll have faith and believe Him.
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Now, then this coming Tuesday, we start a Grants Pass, Oregon. And we're to be there for about five or six nights. Then on the Apache Indian Reservation for two nights after that. 'Course, that's just for the Indians up there. I shall never forget the last time up there, the simple faith of the people. And then we come right back to Orange, between... I believe I have a correction in that. What is the... between the... between Santa Ana and Costa Mesa, the Southern California Bible School grounds. We'll begin June the fourth. You're all accordingly invited.
Then I go north, and from there to Africa, India, Jerusalem. And I trust that by God's grace, that some glorious day, that I'll be able to come back here again to see you all. And thank you very much. And... Thank you.
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And I--I pray that God will bless you all, and keep you in health and strength until we meet. And if some of us do go out, well, let's remember our Lord, that He and His Kingdom, and believing that He will bring us together again. And we won't be praying for the sick then, for there'll be no sick there. That'll--that'll be marvelous. [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]... and I'm away and overseas among the peoples, I certainly solicit tonight an interest in your prayer, that you will pray for me sincerely with all your heart until Jesus comes. Pray for me.
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And now, I want to say to Brother Kopp of the tabernacle, and to Sister Kopp, that I appreciate their welcome to me to this tabernacle this time. And they've invited me back again. And I certainly appreciate that with all my heart. And to all the cooperating ministers that's cooperating in here, and you who've come in to help us, we're very thankful to you. And to this fine group of ushers and so forth, we're just so grateful to you also. And to all the peoples, to each one of you that's give me a little presents, I seen them every one, and thank God for every one.
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A brother recently, when I was here before, understanding that I like to hunt and was going over to Africa, and the... When I was a little boy, I often wondered if I could even get a book to read about from there. And now the Lord is going to take me over there. And after all of this services is over, they're going to take me hunting. And a brother here gave me a rifle. And I--I am very thankful. The other day, he give me the cleaning rod and things to it. Oh, I'm just pray that God will bless him. And some brother gave me to go over, the other day, a--a box of fishing flies and things, for he knew that there was good fishing over there. I appreciate that. He made them with his own hand. That might... That just seems real. Someone sent me some boxes of candy. One sent me this tie chain the other day. And some of them sent me some tithe in an envelope. Oh, you don't know how I... I just can't get to you personally to say, "Thank you."
A brother here in the beginning of the service gave me a watch. He said, "I have two, brother, and I don't need two. I'll give you one." So that--that was very lovely. And I appreciate that. And just to say, "Thank you," that's so little. But I say this, God bless you, and that's much. You see? And I... And you remember, your heavenly Father knows just what you have done. And He said, "Insomuch as you have done unto the least (that's me) of these little ones, you have done it unto Me." And I'm sure God will reward you. Many of you has put you in a portion of your living here to help pay the expense as we've went along, and in the love offering for Brother Hall and I. And we appreciate it with all of our heart. And in this, Brother Hall's a married man, has a church and a family. Mine... Just everything that I don't have to live off of, just... I have to live. I put it right into missionary, and send it away. And so it'll go for the glory of God, that when that day comes, I will... I want my record clear at that day, that I have been a good steward over His welfare, and done all that I knowed how to do to glorify His people, by such as I had to do with. And God bless you all.
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And now, as the meeting starts in, I--I may not get a chance to say good-bye to you. Oh, I--I do not... Or, I'd say it like this: so long, not good-bye; 'cause we'll be together forever. There is no the good-bye, no, no. So I--I want to tell you just farewell for a while. And hoping to get back again with you. And if I--the anointing gets down heavy and I don't get to say it, I want each one of you to know. Some of you, I haven't got to answer your letters yet, because there's been hundreds of them. And send your letters right on home to--any time for anointed cloth, or anything. Just send it right on to Jeffersonville, Indiana, and I'll be glad to pray over the cloth. You don't have to send the cloth. I'll furnish that, send it back to you. What I want to see, is get well, be happy, and be saved, and--and serve the Lord. That's what I--I want you to do. Now, God bless you all.
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I want to read some of out of the Scriptures tonight, for I will be speaking just a few, very few moments upon the Word. And for... I feel that our Lord Jesus has already confirmed His Word many--many times over and over again. And I want you to be the judge of these things. If--if God hasn't testified that I have told you the truth, that I--I believe that you know that, that I have told you the truth, that God has testified of--of these things.
Now, I want to read some out of the Book of Matthew, the 9th chapter. I just been in prayer practically all along, and I... The anointing of the Spirit is great upon me. I don't have to wait for Him, for He's already here now. And I believe that He is going to do great things for us tonight. I prayed awhile ago that our heavenly Father would do more signs before the people tonight than any night in the entire service, that--that it might leave California in such a revival of-a condition, that there'd be a old fashion revival go from boundary to boundary of--of the country here. And I pray that it'll continue on and on as Brother Cain and these other ministers are ministering to the people through the country.
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Now, in the 9th chapter of Saint Matthew, beginning at the 27th verse, I want read about three places in the Scriptures, and then testify just a moment. And then we shall go right into the prayer line. And when Jesus departed thence, two blind men followed him, crying, saying, Thou Son of David, have mercy on us. And when he was come into the house, the blind men came to him: and Jesus said unto them, Believe ye that I am able to do this? They said unto him, Yea, Lord. Then touched he their eyes, saying, According to your faith be it unto you. And their eyes were opened; and Jesus strictly charged them, saying, See that no man knoweth it. But they, when they were departed, spread abroad his fame in all that country. And as they went out, behold, they brought unto him a dumb man possessed with a devil. And when the devil was cast out, the dumb spake: and the multitude marvelled, saying, It was never so seen in Israel... (See what Jesus said a dumb was, it was a devil. Not just a dead vocal cords, but a devil had done that.) But the Pharisees said, He casteth out devils through the prince of the devils. They thought He was a mind reader, or a spiritualist, or something. But Jesus had the will of the Father to fulfill. The 35th verse: And Jesus went about all the cities and villages, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing every sickness and every disease
among the people. Now, over in the 4th chapter of Saint John, I wish to read a few verses, beginning with the 14th verse: But whosoever drinks of this water... drinketh of this water... (If you notice, it wasn't just take a drink and walk away and forget about it. It's drinketh. That's continuation. Keep drinking.)... But whosoever drinketh of this water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him... well of water springing up into everlasting life... (Drinking all the times. This is the conversation with the Samaritan woman.) The woman said unto him, Sir, give me this water, that I thirst not, neither come here to draw. Jesus said unto her, Go, call thy husband, and come hither. The women answered and said, I have no husband. Jesus said unto her, Thou has well said, I have no husband; For thou has had five husbands; and he whom thou has, is not thy husband: in that thou say is true. The woman said unto him, Sir, I perceive that thou art a prophet. The 14th chapter of Saint John, the 12th verse: Verily, verily I say unto you, He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto my father.
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Can we bow our heads just a moment. Our Saviour, we thank Thee tonight, for these Words; they are Life unto us. "My Words are Life," You said. They give Life and Light to those who hear and believe. And in believing, we have Eternal Life, for they are they which testify of You. And now, Father, we thank Thee that Thy Word has been made manifest to us through salvation, Divine healing, and many other of the attributes of Thy death and atoning at Calvary for our fall from Eden.
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And now, dear God, we thank Thee from the depths of our soul for this meeting, and for all that it is meant to--to all of us. And we pray Thee, Father, that Thou will continue in this meeting. And as Thy servant go somewhere else from tonight to minister to others, as Thou has said, "I must preach the Gospel to others." I pray Thee, Father, to be with Brother Cain as he ministers on here in this platform. Help him, dear God, to
preach with such great force and persuasion, that men and women will come and give their hearts to Thee and be borned again. And bless him, that whoever he prays for, may they be healed. Bless the pastor, Brother Kopp. Grant, Lord, that whoever he prays for may be healed, and who he speaks to may be saved. Not only he, Lord, but all the pastors and the evangelist that's in the building tonight, wherever they preach or pray, may God answer their prayer. Bless Brother Freeman tonight in his meeting in the tent. I pray, Lord, that great signs and wonders will be done there. May his preaching and praying be the results of causing many to come to the Lord Jesus and be saved and healed. And all through the nation, bless all.
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Lord, we ask tonight to bless our nation, the most greatest and powerful nation of the world, the Joseph of Jacob's blessings, who is made his bow strong, and trusted in the might of God. But we know it's time for the vine to come back over the wall again now. And we realize that we're at the end of the age. And this great marvelous nation, starting out a few years ago to forsake God as a hog goes to its wallow and a dog to its vomit, bringing in whiskey and putting it on the street corners, and putting our young girls and boys in the barrooms, and bringing the vulgarity out of Hollywood here, the nest and depths of sin... O eternal God, what else could we expect but judgment. When mercy is overstepped, then judgment must come. And God, I pray that You'll draw Your people together with the cords of love and bind their hearts together, that soon when that Gabriel walks to the great banisters of eternity and sounds that trumpet, the approaching Christ, may Your Church become together and go up in the air to meet You, before these great judgments shall blast the earth with the curses of God. Oh, have mercy, dear God.
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There may be some in here... This maybe there last night and last opportunity. Grant, Lord, that they will be saved tonight and filled with Thy Spirit. May every sick person in here be healed tonight. Grant it, Lord. May there be such a scream go up, Lord, until tomorrow, that the city will be awakened with great testimonies everywhere, and men may come a conscious of God, and get away from this earthbound senses, move out into the realms of the supernatural and believe the Lord Jesus Christ. Grant it, Father. Anoint Your servant tonight, O God.
If I found favor with You, Lord, I pray that You'll send a double portion tonight; that it'll be that I will not speak, but let the Holy Spirit speak, in Who I testify. And may in speaking, may great signs and wonders break forth, and may this whole audience break forth for that living Water, springing up like geysers out of the soul, Lord, that You told this Samaritan woman about. And may we lay our tired, weary souls at Your feet tonight and drink until we bathe into the beauty of God, until we forget all about this sense-bound existence, and move out yonder into a place where the spheres beyond the stars, where we can find favor with God, find healing for our bodies, and rest for our souls. O God, hear my prayer as I sincerely plead with all my heart. In the Name of Thy beloved Son Jesus, we ask it. Amen.
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We sing this song, "Our Lord Is Coming Back To Earth Again." I believe that He is coming back to earth again. And now, God bless you. And just for a few words. I have refrained from testimonies in the meeting this time, because of the other time here. I thought I might walk back over a testimony. But a few moments ago, I was thinking of the testimony at the Indian Reservation. I shall never forget that. There was many thousands of the Apache Indians gathered out at San Carlos. And when I begin to speak through an interpreter, why there was not many seemed to believe. An Indian is a person who is very strange. He just believes when he's convinced, and then he's convinced forever. And so I was speaking to them, and many seemed that they just listened, but never noticed very much what was going on.
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Then when the prayer line started and a few of them come... The first woman that come was a woman with a venereal disease; not because she was immoral, but because the way she had to live. Now, I think if there's one thing that this nation has done... Now, I'm an American. God knows that. There's a many a Branham... I probably flew over their graves in France and so forth, four brothers in the last war, and going in this, and maybe a son too, shortly. And if it come to the colors tonight, I'd be happy to walk out and give my life freely, like my brethren has, who stained the soils of the foreign countries with their blood for this liberty that we have tonight. I... But if there's anything that I can think of that's put a stain on our flag, is a way we've treated the Indian. That's right. We send billions of dollars to Russia for them to shoot it back at
us. We send it to Japan for them to fix a war to shoot back at us. And our American Indian laying out here starving to death, that's not right. It's not right.
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And I... There's nothing I could do about it. I wish we had more men in the congress, like setting here. I'd take a trip up there and find out about it. But we--we... I'm so afraid it wouldn't work now. But I think that they've certainly been treated wrong. And after all, this is their country. And we just come right in and pushed them out. And the reason that we come in and pushed them out, is because they were disunified. One group was in... They fighting among one another. And right now, listen, we're reaping what we sowed. We're getting dis-unity (See?), stir up. All right. It may take it a long time, but it comes home. Don't you never worry.
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Now, and at... In their reservation that night when this woman was told of her disease of what she had, she looked at me so strangely when the interpreter told her what I said. Why, she wondered how I knew that. And he... she tried to tell her about... of what the... it was. And the woman was healed. And next coming through was a man. He had glaucoma of the eyes which is very popular amongst the Indians. And he was healed. And the next coming by was a little girl. And at that time, I did not see the visions like I do now. It was in the early part of my ministry, four years ago. I took hold of the little girl's hand. There was nothing to move. And I--I said, "I do not know what's wrong with her. It's not a germ disease, because it doesn't... it doesn't... I don't feel the reaction of a... the presence of another... a germ besides the germ of life." And so, she asked the lady. And the lady told her, said, "Her deaf, dumb. (See?) Fever many years make her that way." And so I took the little thing in my arms, and I prayed, "God give me favor now. Do something that these people will understand."
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And when I got through, I--I knew she was healed, and I tried to get her to say something. She started mumbling off something. And I said to the interpreter... She was smiling. I said, "Oh, she'll speak better." Said, "Her speak heap good now." So... And then they begin notice. And the next one come through was a little boy. And you know
how... Now, if there's an Indian setting here, I'm not saying this... No, my grandmother come off the Oklahoma reservations herself. So then, I... Their hair coarse. And I said, "What's the matter with him?" I... And she caught him by the top of the head, rough you know. She pulled his little head back, and his little old eyes were setting right in like that, crossed. And I looked at the little fellow, and I took him up in my arms, and I laid his little head over on my shoulder, and I started praying. After I felt the Holy Spirit had healed him, I asked them to raise their head. And I turn him around, and his little old eyes were just as perfect. I had him rolling his eye.
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And oh, the people begin screaming. And looked like a great dust storm coming up. And like a stampede. And they put their hands around like this, and I had a prayer line then. Oh, my. And they was just standing everywhere. And coming to me was a... somebody, an old woman with crutches and made out of broom sticks. And she was trying to get to me. And they was a--some young people trying to get ahead of her. And Brother Moore and many of them was trying to put them back. After while, she got to where I was. And I let her come up. She had real wrinkled face, and her hair hanging down, leather plated in it. And when she finally got up to me, arthritis. And she was standing like that. And she looked up at me, poor old thing. The tears running down them big wrinkles like that. She looked at me just so pitiful. Took one crutch in her hand, took the other and handed them to me, straightened up, walked right on off the platform. Just... Now, that's all she needed. Simple faith.
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And then, oh, great things was taking place. It was almost daylight. And I was just barely holding up. And these Indians came through wet, plumb up around their waist. And I asked the interpreter, I said, "What's the matter with them?" She said, "They thought you were fake first." Said, "They see that take place; they run out into the deserts and getting their loved ones. The ford is twenty miles below here." Said, "They just walking right through the river, coming on over." And wading the river... And there stood a great big fellow, great strapping looking fellow. His lips was blue, and he's a shivering. It was cold on that desert. And--and he was just shivering like that. It's right near the mountains. You know where San Carlos is, perhaps. And--and I looked and he had a board. They didn't have stretchers and things like we have. But he had a board, and
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And I said to this big fellow, I said, "You speak English?" And he said, "Little." And I said, "Aren't you afraid you'd get pneumonia?" I said, "Well, wet like that?" He said, "Jesus Christ is take care of me. I bring my daddy." And I said, "Oh." I said, "You believe if I'll ask Him, Jesus, to heal your daddy, He will heal him?" "Yep." I said, "Pass him through." He went by, and I just laid my hand on him. I said, "God bless you, my brother, and heal you." Passed right on through, and I called another. In a few moments I--I heard an awful scream going on. I looked, and the old man had the board on his own shoulder, waving at everybody, going along like that, just as... What was it? Simple childlike faith to believe.
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Now, see, we... We're very suspicious. And we going to try to look in there and see if we can figure it out. There's where you lose. You can't figure God out. You got to believe Him. See, see? He that believeth, not he that can figure out, he that believeth. See? And so, when they seen that the signs of God was brought into their midst, with all their heart... Not just going up and saying, "Well I--I--I kind of believe it. I'll..." With all their heart, they just throwed their heart open, and that's what taken place. And my, I told them I... They... Some of them got around that I like to hunt. And their reservation's posted, you know. But my, they... Some of them asked me, said, "Are you a hunter?" I said, "I like to hunt." And--and they was going to saddle their ponies right then and take me hunting, to where I could catch turkeys with my hands almost. They--they had... And many of them give up their superstitions and so forth, and--and become saved. And we had a great time up there. And I'm to return back there in a few nights. Oh, I just wonder what it'll to be when I get in this time. And many dope fiends, and narcotics users, and so forth, everything just taken place in the meeting. And we're thankful for that. And now, He wants to be the same thing here in California.
Not long ago... Many of you know Captain Al Ferrar, no doubt at all, the head of the juvenile on the... J. Edgar Hoover... on juvenile. He was in France recently. He was in my meeting. And he was telling me, taking me out for place, and was telling me how much he's seeking God. And he retires now, in a little over a year, and he wants to go with me in my meetings, and to... And he was telling me, said, "I heard your sermon the other night, Brother Branham, about how that--that sometimes the people try to see if their children gets so much education, and they learn tap dancing and so forth. They're mindful of those things. But to know God..." And he showed me on the map of the United States, that some of our worst criminals come out of the high cultured educated groups of people in societies. They get so smart till they think they can outsmart the law. See?
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Now, listen. I'd rather my boy there know Jesus Christ and the forgiveness of sins, if he was so dumb he didn't know his ABC's. That's right. I--I would rather he would do it. That's right. Now, I'm not trying to say your children should be dumb and ignorant, or so forth. That's not. But brother, education has been one of the biggest hindrance that the Gospel of Jesus Christ has ever had. In the seminaries it's reading, writing, and arithmetic. And some of them know no more about God than a Hottentot knows about Egyptian knight. That... You know that's true. And it's--it's all right to be educated. I don't want you to be illiterate. But the thing of it is, you put so much stress on that, and not enough on Jesus. You see? That--that's it. Here's the One you want to speak of. And then when you get real smart, you say, "Oh, my, Doctor So-and-so knows more about it." Maybe he does. Caiaphas ought to have knowed Jesus too, oughtn't he, and so ought the priests in them days. But they didn't know Him. And so is it today.
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Now, He's here, and He loves you all. And I want you all to be healed. I want every person in here to be healed tonight. And all along the lines here, you without prayer cards... You with or without prayer cards, I want you to believe with all your heart that Jesus Christ is going to make you well. [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] Afraid. [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]
Jesus always said, "Fear not." Do not fear. Don't fear. Don't do that. If you do, then God can't work with you. And if you do believe, then God can work with you. Isn't that right? Now, have faith in God. I believe that's what Jesus said, "Have faith in God." Now, how many has believed with all your heart, let's see your hands? Way up now, way up high. Now, how... Thank you. Now, how many of you has never been in our meetings before, one of my meetings, let's see your hands in here? Oh, my. Each night there's hundreds that never get into the meeting.
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Now, for the... a few nights, we have been trying to have meetings where we just call the people up and pray for them, like the other brethren do. That is not exactly the--the-the gift that God gave me to do. He wanted me to pray for them. But these signs and wonders was to be committed to the people, that they might see and believe. And now, Jesus said in the Scriptures here... Now, when He was here on earth, He did not claim to be a healer. How many knows that's the truth? Jesus was not a Divine healer. And if Jesus did not claim to be a Divine healer, how much more ought we to claim not to be a Divine healer? Jesus said, "It's not Me that doeth the works; it's My Father that dwelleth in Me; He doeth the works." Is that right? Now, how many knows that's the truth? All right. Saint John 14.
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All right. Now, Jesus... The only thing that He could do... Now, in Saint John 5:19, He passed by a pool where there was hundreds and hundreds of people laying crippled, and lame, halt, blind, withered, waiting for the moving of the water. Is that right? And He passed by, and He healed one man who had an infirmity (maybe sugar diabetes, maybe TB) for thirty-eight years. And He said, "Would thou be made whole?" He said, "I have no one to put me in the water. When I'm coming, somebody steps down ahead of me that's better off than I am. And I have no one to put me in the water." He said this; He said, "Rise, and take up thy bed, and walk." Is that right?
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Now, the Jews questioned Him. He said, "Verily, verily..." Listen close now. Give me your attention. "Verily, verily, I say unto you, the Son can do nothing in Himself: but whatsoever things He sees the Father doing; that doeth the
Son likewise. For what the Father does, He shows the Son." Is that right? Saint John 5:19. Something in that manner. I don't know whether I was word by word, but that was the--the meaning of it, that, "Whatsoever the Father doeth; that doeth the Son likewise." Now, Jesus plainly stated then that He could do nothing in Himself, but first He saw the Father showed Him what the Father had done. Is that right? And then He went and done what the Father showed Him to do. Is that correct? Did I make that clear?
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Now, a man came to Him, quoting. And in my text tonight, or Scripture reading, He set by the well. And did you notice, it was a long ways for Him to go up to Samaria. He could've went around the mountain here to Jericho. But He had need to go by Samaria. I wonder why. Did you ever notice? It was miles out of the way to go up there. But He went by the way of Samaria. And it was about noon time, so He sent His disciples to get something to eat. You believe He knew what was going to happen? Certainly He did. And a woman came out, and so the woman... He begin to talk to her. And He finally told her, said, "Go, get your husband." And He... She said, "I have none." And He said, "You've had five, and the one you have now is not your husband." Is that right? She said, "I perceive that You're a prophet."
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He told Nathanael, He said, "Before Philip called you, you were under the tree." And Nathanael said, "You're the Son of God, the King of Israel." He knowed where two mules was standing hitched at two ways. Is that right? Where two ways met... He knowed where a man would be packing a jug, or... in the street, would make the upper room supper ready, and so forth. He knew where there was a fish that had a coin in his mouth. Is that right?
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Now, Saint John the 14th chapter and 12th verse, when He was leaving, He said, "These things that I do shall you also. And greater than this shall you do, for I go unto My Father." Not greater in quality, but greater in quantity. For no man could do any more than He did. He stopped nature... Oh, He just done everything. And no man could even raise his own
body from the grave, or God raised Him up from the grave, rather, and done great things. He raised the dead. But now, He said that there would be a Church in the last days. There'd be a former and later rain would be pouring out together in the last days. I believe that we're living in that day.
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And I am one, that's borned out of season from you Pentecostal brethren. I was raised up in no church at all. When I was a little boy, this Angel, this Light Who came over me... And there, down through my life, not knowing what It was until I received the baptism of the Holy Ghost, and He called me to be one among you, to be with you. And I thank God for that privilege of--of giving me that opportunity. Now, I have been here, and I don't know when... I may never be able to get back again. But I hope that I will. But I have been here trying to declare to you, that God has done these things to vindicate that what I am telling you is the truth. Now, that isn't because that I am here. When I'm gone away from here, Jesus will be here just the same as He is when I'm here, or any one else will be here. He will be here to heal the sick, and to do just the same things that He could do any time. And if He was standing here tonight, wearing my suit, my shoes, He could do no more for you than what He does right now. Do you believe that?
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Now, He said, "I have greater testimony than John, for My Father testifies of Me." Is that right? Now, the Father testified that--that Jesus' testimony was true. Now, the Father will testify, and has testified, that I'm telling the truth about Jesus. Do you believe that? Now, God bless you. Now, it's getting late, and I want to call the prayer line, and I want your undivided attention. Our heavenly Father knows everything in this building. He knows every one of you. If you've ever had a bite to eat in this life, our heavenly Father has given it to you. If you've ever breathed in your lungs, our heavenly Father produced the air that you breathe. You owe Him all things. And He can make known to you the things that you've done through your life. But to heal you now... He can do that through me. But to heal you, He can only do it through Christ, His Son.
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Now, I'm going to call a prayer line, and just start calling a few at a time, and pray for as many as I possibly can tonight. And I'm going to ask you to do me a favor. I'm going into pray just in a few moments. And while I'm praying, so I
talk myself right away from the anointing just a few moments ago, feeling the love for you and your pressure coming in, me trying to look away from you, till I want to be just a little more anointing than what it is that when I--when I call the line. And I want you, and you that's standing... I feel sorry for you standing, and many on the outside. When we... I come up awhile ago to pick up my little boy, there were people going away from the church.
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Now, I hope that after I've fulfilled this itinerary and come back from overseas, the next time that I come into the cities anywhere, I'm not coming just to stay a day or two. I want to come till I can stay until I'm finished, till God is finished, and--and then... Thank you. I want to stay until it is finished. And then, I won't have any itinerary; I'll go home then and wait until our heavenly Father tells me to go somewhere else. See? And then there's getting to be so many on the field, so many brothers praying for the sick. And I trust that there'll be twenty-five go out of this meeting to pray for the sick everywhere. Let them go everywhere. But there's so many till in these major meetings, until we're getting in one another's way. And I feel that I ought to move back and go over into Africa, and places like that where there's no one at over there. And the people are helping me to go.
So let us bow our heads now for prayer. Father, I--I've almost tried to stall time tonight, knowing I dread leaving these people. They've been good to me, and I love them. And look out there and see once in a while they--while speaking, they'll wipe a tear from their eye when I say I don't know whether I can be back again, and to hear say, "If I can come back," and hear them applaud that they love me... And it's hard, Lord. I--I know what it was to You, and how You loved Yours to the end. God, give all of us a love for each other unto the end, that we'll have love and confidence in each other, and in Thee, until Thou does come and get us. And then may we live neighbors to each other in heaven, where that we can just go down there the last night of the--the great supper when we finish up earth's journey...
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And You said, "I will drink, more the fruit of the vine till I eat and drink anew with you in My Father's Kingdom." When we come there to that great wedding supper, and we look
across the table at one another, O God, just to slip a little handshake over while the tears of joy rolls down our cheeks. The King come out in His beauty and wipe all the tears from our eyes then and say, "Don't cry. It's all over now. There'll never be no more healing campaigns up here: no more tired restless nights, no more wheelchairs, graves, sickness." Oh, for that great day. And then You'll say, "Enter into the joys of the Lord." Oh, I long to hear that at that day, Father. And now while we're here together, and all of us longing the same thing, make us true stewards. May we shape our lives by self control, that we'll know by the help of the Holy Spirit to have a full confidence that Jesus will say, "Well done, My good and faithful servant." at that day.
May we be upright, honest and true. May we be the kind of a Christian that would be a credit to any community. Grant it, Lord. May we be men and women such as You could lay Your hands upon and say, "My servant. Behold, this is My servant in whom I am delighted. I can send them; they'll go. They know how to speak and when to speak. And I can be with them." O Father, grant that blessing to every one of us. Now, as Your humble servant is to commit his part now into bringing forth the present living evidence of a risen Jesus Christ Who rose some nineteen hundred years ago, Father, may the Angel of God, Who came to me was a little boy, and has been with me down through my age; may He come tonight and anoint Thy servant with great power, that this audience will be illuminated with His great august Being. May It sway over the building till people will just lose sight of their diseases, and sway on out into those spheres there where they can see Jesus, and take His Word. May every one be healed. Grant it, Lord. We'll give the praise and glory to Thee, for we ask it in Jesus' Name. Amen.
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Now, I've asked tonight. The light's so blarey... I--I prayed, God. How many's seen the picture of the Angel of the Lord back there? Just raise your hands. I haven't one here visible. Wish I had some more, but we haven't. It's been scientifically tested. I--I'm praying God will let Him come visible before this audience tonight. That's the reason I had that light turned out. For instance, if He comes, you'll see there's no shadow. It's Him (You see?), that He's here. And I want Him to do it so bad. And if I've prayed wrong, God forgive me, for He will let as He will.
But I have seen times where whole audiences of thousands, ten thousand at one time seen Him coming right down at two o'clock in the afternoon and standing over where I was at, when the newspapers flashed it everywhere. And right there in Houston when my critic's standing there, making fun, this man and everything. And he had a man to come take his picture, and took six of his pictures. And so that he could ha... show the people what he looked like while he was holding the debate with my manager. My... At that same time, God came down. And when he taken my picture, all the other man's pictures was blank, every one of them. And here, when this was taken, here was the Angel of God standing there. They sent it into the laboratories in Washington, DC, and it was copyrighted, and went through the greatest tests that could be of the greatest... George J. Lacy, the greatest man on research there is in America. And he kept it for days, and brought it out. His report's on the record there. The first time in all the world's history that a supernatural Being was ever photographed, that it's there.
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So if I never return here again, the testimony that I have testified is proven amongst the Church, amongst the scientific reg--realms, and I have told the truth about Almighty God. That's true. God bless you.
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Sonny, where are you. All right. What--what's that letter, Z? I just want to line them up. It's awful crowded. We're going to start from the beginning. Z 51 for the first five. Then we'll take another five, another five, another five, another five, just go on. Z 51 unto 55. Let them first five stand; then we'll call another number, and then another number; and just keep on like that. Now, I want all of you to be reverent. And I'm asking if the organist will play one of my favorite hymns tonight, if she will. I want you to know; I love an organ. And I want her to play while I'm praying, real low, "Abide With Me." And I want all of you to be in the Spirit of God. And I trust that God will send His Angel visible tonight before every one of you. And when you see Him, and if you do see Him, I trust that each one of you will rise to your feet, give God praise.
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And you've seen me. I just represent Him, just like the pool of water at Bethesda. That pool was not the gift of God. It
was just something that the Angel of God came on. Is that right? It was not the gift of God, neither am I God's gift. This... Yes. Someone there said claims that they had seen It already. Amen. Let's say praise the Lord. [A sister speaks with tongues.--Ed.] O God. [A brother gives the interpretation.--Ed.] [A sister gives a testimony.--Ed.] Yes ma'am. God bless you. Now, friends, these are unsolicited testimonies. I have nothing... I know nothing of them. I never said it. And this, as I understand right, I'm new amongst Pentecostal people. But if I understand it, that's the Holy Ghost speaking and interpreting.
Now, I'm going to be honest. I was a critic of that one time. I--I didn't criticize at the people, but in my heart I couldn't believe it. And the first time after I got started out amongst the Pentecostal people, I was at San Antonio, Texas. I started walking across the platform my first night, and someone up in the gallery spoke with tongues like it fired from a gun. And another man over here give the interpretation of it. And that man interpreted exactly the same thing that Angel said when He come on me twelve years before that, standing in the Ohio River. And I said, "Do you know me, sir?" He said, "No sir." I said, "Do you know that man?" He said, "No sir." That convinced me.
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And up here at Santa Rosa not long ago, the minister may be standing present now; they was having a Saturday night of a playhouse. We had several people, about like here. And they was trying to put a man out of the prayer line. And he kept saying, "I'm not wanting in the prayer line; I'm wanting to see this minister." And I said, "Let him alone," down like this. "What do you want, sir?" And he said, "How do you spell your name?" And I said, "B-R-A-N-H-A-M." He said, "Mother, that's it. That's it." And a lady came forth.
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They had an old paper, turned yellow. They were evangelists, belonging to the Assemblies of God. And twentytwo years, that would be about... That's four years ago, it'd be about twenty-six years now. Twenty-two years before that, one said they had a gift of speaking in tongues, the other one had the gift of interpretation. And when they were... Said they were down praying, twenty-two years before that, and the
interpretation come. And this was one of their messages they had laying back, said, "THUS SAITH THE LORD, in the last days before the coming of the Lord, I'll send My servant, William Branham, up the West Coast with..." And there it was wrote on old paper. And then one night, I was coming out of Seattle, and there was a man standing over there. And he had a book under his arm. He kept telling me, "Brother Branham, you're in the wrong church." And I didn't know what he was talking of. And he put the book under my arm. It was called the Mormon Word Of God. I don't know what it was. It's a--it's one of their prophets of The Latter Day Saint, some bunch of them, that they claims they see the neophytes. And--and back there a hundred and... long long... how long ago it was, it... on a certain page there... I have the book in my library. It prophesied, their prophet, and said, that, "In the last days that Germany would have a--a ism called Nazis." And it went ahead and said, "In that day, let W-i double l-i-a-m, William Branham be called and set aside in humility for the service that I have called him to." That's right. Wrote years... Friends, I can stand here for hours saying things that He has done. And please, do not think that I'm trying to say...
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This... Here's what I'm... That Jesus Christ is in our midst now. He's here to heal everybody. And please, these are Pentecostal people, your own people here's testifying and saying these things, what you have received the Holy Ghost by. Have faith in God. Have faith. This is the hour of your healing. Believe now with all your heart. Z. Is it 51 where you give out? Z-51 to 5, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55. All right...?... All right. Now. Now, and then after that, we're going to call another number somewhere else. And then we'll just keep on till we... Will you stay with me just a little while, will you, and pray? And you people around the walls...
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Now, I'm going to ask you this: If something happens in the line, and it--it starts... If--if an insane, or an epileptic gets on the platform... And sometimes when they come, they carry on awful. And if it seems to get away from me and you hear me say, "Bow your head," do it right away, because it'll go from one to another. That's right. I seen as many as twenty fall with it at one time. That's... It--it'll do it. Do you remember in the Bible, where some man went down. He thought he had a gift of healing, 'cause he seen Paul casting out devils. Acts 19. And he called over a man who had
epileptic fits. He said, "I adjure thee by Jesus who Paul preaches, come out." The devil said, "Jesus I know, and Paul I know, but who are you?" See? And there he came out, and he went, and the man jumped on, stripped their clothes off of these boys, and they run through the streets naked. Isn't that right? So you have to watch. Now, it goes from...
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And one time, Jesus cast out some demons out of a man from Gadara, and they went into a herd of swine. Is that right? Demons are powerless unless they're embodied. So they begged for mercy, even to go into swine. 'Cause Jesus wouldn't permit them in a human body. So now, if you're irreverent, keep your head up, or a critic. Remember this, I will not be responsible, But if something happens and you're reverent, and keep your head bowed, I will be responsible. You can come here, and I could take... God will heal that person. But if you're irreverent, you might come and it wouldn't go anyhow. See? So you just... I seen it worked over and over. How many's been in my meetings and seen such things happen, let's see your hands? All right, there you are. There's... It's so you just have to be careful. Now, just be reverent and pray, and believe that God is going to heal. Now, I want them to come one at a time, till I get real tired. And then if I get tired, maybe I'll get me a chair and set down. And now, you all just be reverent and be in prayer. Will you promise me that now? You promise me now that you'll be in prayer and real reverent. All right. Sonny boy, bring the lady.
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Father, we thank Thee for Thy mercies, for all that You have done for us. We love You with true love in our hearts. And now, I'm thinking of the great morning of the resurrection after He went from mortal to immortality. He rose up from the grave. His poor little old disciples scattered about like sheep without a shepherd... Standing by the tomb, stood His dear mother, weeping. Daylight was breaking; doves was flying around, cooing. He said, "Mary." She recognized Him. And Father, You raised a resurrected Lord among us tonight. May the signs and wonders that You promised be committed tonight. And please, dear Father, hide Thy poor humble servant away just now. And if there be someone here just a little critical, as I feel that there is, I pray You forgive that person, Lord. May something be done that'll cause them to
surrender to Thee just now, in the Name of Thy Son Jesus Christ. Amen.
All right. Are you the lady that's to be prayed for? Now, I don't want to be excited a bit tonight. I want to get myself into a place as the anointing comes down, that I'll be able to know and to speak to my people. And my mother, you're--you're here to be healed, and you want to be well. And you're wanting encouragement for your faith, and something to help you. And I'm going to try, if I can tonight, to just speak to the people in order not to touch them till after I see it by a vision or some other way, 'cause I see some... There's so many that claim they have healing power. And they said healing in your hands and things. You know, it's-that's wrong.
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Now, I just want you to relax yourself, and just feel that you're near our Lord. And I feel that I'm near our Lord, and I know He's here. And when He comes near, why, He will speak and--and say what--what is wrong, and all about it. And if... You believe now with all your heart? And you accept this as being the truth? You do. Sister, standing near you now is darkness. And you're suffering with a heart trouble. Isn't that right? And you've had a--a another ailment; you're extremely nervous, too, aren't you, sister? Yes, you are. You have... getting weak quickly, very weak, weak spells like. I see them. But you've prayed much about this to be healed. Isn't that true? What do you think of that now? Now, did you hear that voice speaking? That was my voice. But it wasn't me speaking it; that was something else. I heard it.
Now, was that the truth, what I told you? Is that the truth? No way in the world I would know that, only through God. Is that right? Now, do you accept me as His servant? All right. Will you ob--obey and do what I tell you to do in the Lord then? If He will let me know what has been, He would let me know what will be. Now, you go home, and just don't even say you ever had a heart trouble, and you're going to get well-well. God bless you, my sister. Now, go. And the Lord Jesus bless thee and make thee well. All right. Everyone--Everyone be reverent and believe with all your heart.
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Yes, sister, you just might as well walk on across. You're healed already before you...?... God bless you, sister. That's real faith. That's the way to believe. Amen. Everyone just reverent as you can be now. Now, He's near. He's here to heal, to do... Now look, let the lady... Bring her. See? Bring her. What do you think, sister? Isn't He lovely and wonderful? Do you love Him? You've been failing too, haven't you, sister, suffering, weakness. You got a nervous heart that's bothered you. Isn't that right? And I'll tell you something that you might not have known, so that you can see whether this is true or not. You been having times that you been getting real weak too, haven't you? And late in the afternoon, isn't that right? And at night, kind of a restless feeling, isn't that true? It's a tubercular, sister. Didn't know whether you knew it or not, but it's a... If there's a doctor standing close, knows that's exact symptoms of tubercular. Come here just a moment.
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Our heavenly Father, our little sister has been suffering. She's nervous and upset. But Thou art here, lovely to bless her and to make her well. And I pray that You'll grant it, dear heavenly Father. Heal her now and make her well, as I bless her in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ. Amen. Now, look here, sister. Do you... You believe, don't you. And you believe that... You know that I have told you truth. Is that right? I didn't... I don't take too much time, 'cause I got too many to go. You see? Now, I want you to do this. You go and be happy. Try to rest just as much as you can, because you're nerves is doing a great deal to it. And you're going to be well. You're going to be over it. God bless you, sister. Let's say, "Praise the Lord," everybody. All right. She, I don't think she knew that, but that's true. All right.
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Bring the lady, come. Now, everyone just as reverent as you can be now. Our sister, you... Do you believe that--that I have been truthful and honest about these things? You do. Yes, I perceive that you're a good believer. I say that, so I can contact or have a conversation with you. See? Just to talk to you. And I don't know you. If I ever seen you, I don't know it. But then I'm just trying to--enough till I can see what's wrong with you, and then--and ask God to help you. And by that, I just have to keep talking until He takes over. It's near. Now, you're conscious that there's Something near you now. Isn't that right? And just in the last few moments, or few seconds, you begin to feel a kind of a sacred awe. Isn't that right? Now, that is your faith. It's come in contact with the
Angel of the Lord, which is pulling It down on me. See? Now, you believe me? You'd like to get rid of that tumor, wouldn't you? Wouldn't you love it? Huh? Do you believe if I'll ask Him, He will? Come, sister. Our heavenly Father, I pray Thee to be merciful to our sister and to bless her, and may she be healed tonight in the Name of Jesus Christ. Amen. You also had other things that was wrong. But you're all right now if you want to know. God bless you.
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Let us say, "Praise the Lord." Now, I felt that same spirit move again just at that time. Now, somebody was healed of a tumor at the same time. Now, just a moment. I--I--I... Friends, I'm not a fanatic. No sir. Now, if I can find where he's at. Now, everybody just be reverent, and just let me watch the audience, till I see where it was at, to where the Holy Spirit moves. And just then I knew it left, but I... [Blank.spot.on.tape-Ed.]
So many pulling tonight. I trust to God that I... He's never let me make a mistake on it yet. And if I... There's so many a pulling. It's kind of hard when my patients is coming.
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And are--are you waiting for your next... Oh, that's all of them. All right. 50... What was that? 55? All right. 56, 57, 58, 59, and 60, let them come. Y 56... 55 to... Or may... That was Z. Pardon me, son. I... When the anointing's on, I'm just watching every little move, because I don't know just what's going to happen. I have to watch and just be ready for when it happens. While we're waiting, someone out here in the audience, look and believe. Have faith in God and live. I see a lady setting there with her hands like this, praying with all--all the strength that she has to pray with. You believe me, mother? Do you believe that God would reveal to me here what's wrong with you and your conditions? I tell you what I want you to do the next few minutes, I want you just to set there and pray, and say, "Dear Jesus..." Maybe you never got any prayer card or nothing. But I want you just to say, "Dear Jesus, I believe with all my heart that our brother has told the truth. And this what I feel now is the Holy Spirit moving." Will you believe that? Stand up just a minute, till I can get you above the other people.
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There's so much faith coming in there. She's very sick. Now, this lady here, you see, she has no prayer card or
nothing. It's someone standing outside there thinks this is mental telepathy. You haven't... We have no contact. Do you want to be well, sister? Do you accept me as God's prophet? With all your heart? Your heart trouble has left you, sister. Now, you can go home and be well. God bless you. You're going to get well. That's what was wrong with you, wasn't it? You go on. You can be well, be made well. What say? All right. All right. What do you think, sister, setting next to her? You're disappointed, wasn't you? 'Cause you didn't get a prayer card? Isn't that right? But I see there's something wrong with you. You're pending an operation, girl. You knew that, didn't you? Stand up on your feet just a minute. I seen a man move before you with a white coat on. Look this way to me. You accept me as God's prophet? Had tumor didn't you? You won't need that operation now. Your faith has saved thee...?...
All right, Billy bring the lady. Reverent, everyone, be reverent. Believe with all your heart. Oh, what He could do for you now. All right, everyone just as reverent as you can be now. Howdy do, lady. Come right this way, if you will. I just want to be close to you. I'm trying to keep conscious of being near this microphone, so that when He goes to speaking, I don't know how loud my voice is, so that I will know. See you have a very straight look, lady. Do you believe the Lord Jesus with all your heart? Do you believe in the Holy Spirit? Do you believe me as His servant? You do. I--I believe that you're telling me truth. And there, I see you're trouble. You have stomach trouble, don't you? Isn't that right? It's a--a nervous condition that's caused the stomach trouble to come on. It's an ulcer. It's right on the bottom of the stomach. You have burn, and it sour in your stomach and so forth, making it a kind of unpleasant. Isn't that right? And smothers sometime, and lay down it might make you heart flutter, because it's... Isn't that right? Sometimes you've wondered if it wasn't heart trouble, but it isn't. But I'm not reading your mind; I'm telling you what is truth. Is that right? I see you raise up in bed sometime, you know, and... like that. Now, do you believe that God will make you well? Let me have your hand. Our heavenly Father, Thou has said, Whatever you loose on earth would be loosed in heaven; what you bind on earth will be bound in heaven." I ask Thee to be merciful to our sister and to loose her from this stomach trouble tonight, and may she go and be well. In the Name of Jesus Christ, I ask it. Amen.
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See, at this time, you feel... So that you would know. While I was looking on the vision, there's many things seems to be wrong with you, isn't it? But sister dear, it-it--it isn't as much as you think it is. It lays within one thing, and that's your age (You see?), for the menopause-premature. Go ahead, you're going to be all right now. Go on, eat, just act like you always did. Give God praise.
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Let us say, "Praise be to God," everyone. Have faith in God. Believe Him with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your strength. All right, bring the--the person. Now, everyone just as reverent. How many have went through the line? Not too... Oh, well, that's all right. Now, if we're just a little late, you all just be reverent. I'm going to be conscious of that clock. You see? Now, everybody just be reverent.
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Now, howdy do, sir. Do you believe with all your heart that my prayer would help you get well? You believe that. And you believe that what the Angel of God has told me is the truth? You're waiting for me to tell you what's wrong with you. And I'm waiting to know what is wrong with you. Yes, sir, it's in your blood, your blood stream. Diabetes, I believe is what you have. Is that right? Yes, sir. Come here just a moment. I--I bless thee, my brother, in the Name of Jesus Christ. And God, while the anointing of the Holy Spirit is on Thy servant, and I have my hands laid upon him, may the diabetes leave him and never return, in the Name of Jesus Christ. Amen. God bless you, my brother. Go, and may the Lord be with you and help you.
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All right, bring the--the little--the man. Now, everyone real reverent. What you thinking, sis? Believing? With all your heart? All right. Brother dear... My, you're trying to have faith, aren't you, sir? Would you obey me as God's prophet? You have tried; you've prayed for a long time for the opportunity to come before me, haven't you? And you told someone recently, "If I could ever walk before Brother Branham, I would get well." Is that true? Kind of a dark headed person. Your arthritis leaves you, my brother. You can go home now. You're going to get well. Your faith has made you whole. God bless you.
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Now, everyone reverent. Be reverent while I...?... All
right. Now, everyone real reverent. Just be reverent with all your heart and believe. Now, before I turn my head, this woman's got the same thing, 'cause I feel it moving, just it's... Wasn't yours arthritis, sister? You had it? Now, go and get well. God bless you, sister. Go and... Yes, sir, that's right. Made you well. Shake your hands up and down like. That's right. See? Now, believe with all your heart. There you are. Her hand was--was... She made her hand go, wave back and forth like that. She said, "My hand." I said, "Move it." And there she goes, moving her hand back and forth. Let's say, "Praise the Lord," everybody.
All right, come, sister dear. Now, everyone real reverent. Now, howdy do, sister. There's quite a... Would you just go--come this side of me just a little. Thank you, sister. And it merely just to get to talk to you just a moment. You suffering, want to be well. You want a close walk with God. Isn't that right? And to be healed of your heart and things, and trouble that's wrong with you. Isn't that right? Will you promise Him, if He will make you well tonight... And besides that, your-your sight isn't like it ought to be. You're near-sighted. I see you with a book. You holding real close to your--to you when you're reading. Now, that desire of walk with God, God is going to grant it to you. And you go and be well in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ. And God...?... Let us say, "Praise the Lord," everyone.
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All right. Is that all of that group? All right. Let's have then from... Where was we? Where was the line? 60? Let's have the 65, Z 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, and stand them up. Now, everybody, be real reverent. Have faith in God, and God shall bring it to pass. Do you believe that? Now, just a little longer. It's just a few minutes until ten. If you'll just wait, this is my last night here. Please, just everyone... When you move or stir, it just shakes me now. I lose the anointing so quickly. I'm very... The Holy Spirit is very timid. How many knows that? Very timid... If you'll just be reverent just a little while longer. I--I will dismiss the audience if you will, 'cause it shakes me so bad. Just be reverent if you will. All right, everybody reverent. And you bring the man along.
Good evening, sir. What do you think of all of this? It's just the truth. And you would love to be made well, wouldn't
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you? You've desired it for a long time. Isn't that right? And you are wanting to know, wondering just what I'm going to say now. I'm not reading your mind but I can feel that pulling like that. All right. Will you accept and believe what I tell you? If I know... You know I know nothing of you, my brother. And if I could... If the Holy Spirit, by His servant, will speak and tell you your conditions or so forth, whatever it is, then you'll accept it with all your heart. Isn't that right? There it was, heart trouble. Is that right? Go and get well. Jesus Christ makes you whole. Let's say, "Praise the Lord," everyone now. Believe with all your hearts. All right, bring the--the lady. Sister, before I look at you, I want you to come right... You--you just come right around here by my back, like this. I--I ask sometime. I want you--I want you just to believe with all your heart, so that... Someone know that... said, "Look... You look them in the eye, Brother Branham." Oh, that doesn't... You think I don't know you're saying that? Oh, yes I do. Yes, I do. It's not me; it's our heavenly Father. He knew their thoughts. And that's the reason we're covering this up.
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Now, sister dear, you... I'm not looking at your eye, but I want you to... ask you something. Do you believe that what I have told is the truth? All right. You've been suffering with a nervous trouble, haven't you? All right, go and be well. Jesus Christ maketh thee whole. Go on and don't think no more about it, just rejoice and be happy. That's exactly. You're nervous. It's a real nervous condition. And you want to live a close life, and Satan's telling you you can't do it. You go on and do it in the Name of the Lord Jesus. Let's say, "Praise the Lord" with all of our hearts. All right, bring your brother. All right. Now, go believe it. See? Have faith in God.
Now, there's a--a colored brother standing by me. Can you hear my voice, sir? All right. Now, I don't know you, and you don't know me, as far as I know. Have we ever met in life? No, never met in life. There's no way at all for me to know your conditions, unless God would show it to me somewhere here. Is that right? All right. I am going to look to my heavenly Father, and your heavenly Father, and ask Him to help me to help you to have more faith. And you believe me, do you, sir? Do you accept me as God's prophet? You do. I see you, sir, trying to move from the bed. You're stiff, either crippled... No, you have arthritis. Is that right, sir? Go and be healed in the
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Name of Jesus Christ. I see it. Amen. Let us say, "Praise the Lord," everyone. You believe with all your heart? All right. Bring the next patient, son. Everyone reverent. I seen the man. He gets... He--he almost got crippled here not long ago. He stepped off or something, and hurt hisself. And I didn't know just what it was. And then, I seen him again when he started to move from the bed, and he started rubbing hisself like this. I knew it was arthritis.
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All right. Now, here stands, I believe, the patient's standing by me. Is that right, Brother Hall? All right. The lady's here. All right. Lady, do you believe me as God's servant? The lady here? Do--do you believe me? You do. Come up a little closer, will you, sister, up a little closer this a way. You believe me as God's servant? Do you believe that God is able to show to me what is wrong with you? You do. Well, sister dear, I want you to accept me now as your brother, and as God's servant. And you're suffering for some... Yes, you are suffering with a real nervous condition, that's due to a time past of menopause. Also for that, you have a kidney trouble that causes a burning in the kidneys, that you have that. And you have a--an outstanding female trouble. It's almost gone into a cancer. You have female troubles. Isn't that right, sister? You bel... Is that true? All right. Do you believe that I am God's servant, and if I shall ask Him, you'll get well? Receive your healing, my sister. In the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ, go and be made well. All right, everybody.
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All right. come, honey. Oh, your eyes giving out. Is that right? How long have you been this way? Long time. Will you come right here and just lean your head against Brother Branham. Almighty God, Author of Life, touch this child, Lord. Thou can heal her and make her well. Thou spirit that's done this evil on this child's eyes, I adjure thee to leave her. In the Name of Jesus Christ, come out from the child. Look here, honey. Look straight at me. Now, look right this way. Your eyes are normal, str... Can you see me good now? You're all right? Amen. Now, you can look around at her, her eyes just as straight and normal as they can be. And she's healed and well. God bless you, honey. You go and be well in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ. Let us say, "Praise the Lord." Do you believe with all your heart?
Now, how many... We got up to 60 something, haven't we? Let's rest. Let me call just somebody out of the audience, just some of the other... Just call card after card. We won't have to take them routinely like that. 60? Let's a... Does it go to 100, son? Who's got prayer card 70? Let's see prayer card 70. Is it here? Let's call 80 if... Where? Oh, it's--it's coming. Oh, I beg your pardon. Would you let me set down just a minute? I'm getting very weak, if you will. All right. Just a moment, sister, it would be... See, it... I have to wait just as they come. Just be in line, and so I can wait. Bring me a chair, and let the lady set down if you will. I just want to rest just a little bit now. That's all right, I'm getting awfully weak...?...
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Howdy do, sister. Are you believer, sister? All right. Now, I just want to rest just a little bit. I get so... Wait till I speak to this audience just a minute. Audience, don't--don't think anything wrong. I--I just get real weak, and my--my face is so numb. It feels like my lips are that thick. And I--I just can't stand up under that very long. You see? And I--I just must set down a minute. You all will forgive me for a minute? Now, you--you might not understand it, just if I can talk just a moment. See, these are visions, friend. And the prophet Daniel saw one vision, and he said he was troubled at his head for several days. Is that right? Well, just look at the visions are coming along now. And if it--it--it just takes...
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Jesus, a woman touched His garment. Those people have faith who come here. And she touched His garment, and He said, "I perceive that virtue..." Well, what is virtue? Virtue is your strength. Is that right? Strength went from Him. Once I didn't know what it was. Someone was trying to tell me. I said, "I'm ashamed of myself getting weak." He said, "Brother Branham, that's virtue." Well, my education is poor. I didn't know what "virtue" meant. I thought it was something pertaining to Jesus, and I wouldn't say it. And then I looked it up, and it said, "Your strength." So I--I--I knew then that that's really what it was, truthfully. My strength just comes so depleted, that I can hardly stand up. And my lips, my mouth feels real strange, because It's not me; It's the Angel of the Lord speak...
Has anyone got that picture here near? Well, that picture of the Angel of the Lord... That they would just... Here's one right here. I would like for the audience who did never see it... Some of you with your picture, would you just hold it behind you so that ones behind you could see it. And it's... That is what's a doing the speaking now. Could I have it, sonny boy. There it is. [A brother explains to
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I have nothing to do with this, friend. I'm a man like the rest of you are. Now, there it is. That's the One that--that the government... The best research in the United States has had this picture before it could be published out like this. And it's truth. There it is with the signed George J. Lacy behind it, from the--the best that there is in the research in--in America. Thank you. And give that back to the correct person. Now, I just want to rest just a moment. And then we'll talk to our sister. And... (Yes, thank you, brother.) Now, this is not at all some... Because that I am weak in body, it is not. I'm strong in body. I won the bantam weight championship a few years ago in boxing. I can walk thirty-five miles any day over any kind of country, get up and do it the next day. It's just very weak. Passed a physical examination recently, a perfect examination at Mayo Brothers. It's not that. But one of those visions will take more strength from me than ten hours of a sledge hammer. That's right.
Now, this lady here, she's just a prayer card. We'll call some more, if the Lord will permit us. (And you got the... Yes. Yes, sir.) Well sister dear, I'm happy that you got the prayer card. And I--I trust that--that something will be done that our Lord will glorify His Son, Christ Jesus, between us. That not only to you, but to the people out there in the audience, that they might see and be healed also. Now, we are perfect strangers. I--I do not know you. And I--I don't think you know me. No, you might've heard of me. Now, what I'm wanting to do is just to contact your spirit. And there's so many people out in there pulling. I don't think they hear us. I--I'm... I don't think they do, because there's some interference in the... They may be now. See? Now, I'm not sure. I can't say whether they do or not.
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But I want you to just talk to me. And I want you to answer me. And now, you... If we've never met in life, don't know nothing about each other... You were given a prayer card, and--and--and you got the card, or... Have you got it? Or did you give it to somebody down there, to keep you lined up
here so you could be called. Probably if you hadn't had that number, you might not have been called. And again, you might have been called like some of those along there who didn't have prayer cards and was called. Now, you--you may think that I am just stalling for time. I'm not. I'm--I'm trying to get into the Spirit of God. And you're-you're a believer. I perceive that you are a Christian now. And you're deep in trouble, sister. You--you have... You're suffering. You must... You... Yes, it's cancer. Yes, ma'am. And you've... Say, you're--you're a stranger here. You've come a long way. You're from a large city where there's hardwood grows. Isn't that right? There... Isn't there a--a lake or... Let-let me say Chicago. Would that be about right? [The sister says, "...?... in Evanston."--Ed] All right, sir. You go back to Chicago and forget you were ever sick. You're going home to be a well woman, my sister dear. [The sister testifies of her healing--Ed.] Yes, ma'am. Yes. Yes, ma'am. You... He... God bless you, my sister, and go. Now, she's just a little weak because the vision was strong upon us.
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All right. Let's see, where did...? Where... I called another one. Oh, I called... What did I... Did I call another one? Oh. Oh, well okay, bring her on. Good evening, sister. Do you believe? With all your heart? You're a very fine person. But you've had a lot of trouble, haven't you, sister. You got an inward trouble now. Isn't that right? Say, you just went through recently a operation, haven't you. Two doctors, I see a thin looking man. Somebody was very friendly. One man seems to have a little gray hair tipping it. Isn't that right? I believe it was the... I believe he was in his office. I see a lot of little tools laying to the side. Is that true? And I believe that was a gall stone operation or something. Wasn't it? Or something the gallbladder or something? Yes, that's it. You've had another one. I see that. It must have been tumor, or something. Isn't that right? Tumor is right. Go, sister, your inward trouble has left you. Believe, and you're going to be well. God bless you, my sister. Go and be well.
Let's call one more. Just call one more. Call... What... Was that... What car... 80. Call... Let's call 90. Just call 90. Then...?... the prayer card...?... And then we'll--we'll call a line. Good evening, sir. He's lovely, isn't He? Yes, sir. He's very lovely Lord. And one time when He was here on earth, He was at... He was God manifested in the flesh. And He went about
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doing good, healing people. And He set down on a rock one time by a well and begin to talk to a woman. And He told her that what--what her conditions was. And He had no way of knowing, only as His Father would reveal it to Him. You believe that, sir? And one night, maybe this time of night, He set upon... Maybe the picture shows that sometime upon top of the building, as was the Jewish custom, an oriental custom. And He talked to a man one night by the name of Nicodemus. Told him, "Except a man be borned again, he could not enter the Kingdom." Is that true?
Now, I'm just talking words, brother, to see how the inspiration is a coming (You see?), to find what my heavenly Father would want to tell you. And you've come tonight as a perfect stranger to me, my brother. I--I don't know you. And you don't know me, as far as I know, 'less it's just by hearing of me or something. And now, I'm here to represent our Lord Jesus. And you and I are just men setting here. And there's perhaps something wrong with you. I don't know just what at this time. But our Lord Jesus promised tonight that He would send these things down to us in this day, and we would be-could use them for His glory. Is that true? My brother, you're--you're aware that something's happening now, don't you? There's something taking place right now. Isn't that marvelous, when you feel that contact? Now, the Spirit is coming on me, and It's coming on you. But before we go under It, that the audience might know that I am telling the truth, raise your hand it--to them. Isn't that right? A feeling of reverence. Isn't that right? Not like you want to shout, but if anything, you'd want to cry, is that reverence. The anointing of this is different. Now, I shook it just a little. Now, if there's anything in the world that I'd ever know of you, my brother, will have to be coming from God. Is that right?
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Well brother dear, you--you are suffering. And you're very nervous, awfully nervous. And that nervousness is caused by a prostate trouble that you have. Isn't that right? You have a weakness of the kidneys also. Is that a truth? And brother, I see a--a doctor before you. You just been examined, and I believe you're up for an operation. Isn't that right? You're figuring on an operation right away. Say, I feel though, you've made preparations for something else. You've just been saved too, just converted. It's been recently, 'cause you had on that same suit of clothes. Isn't that right? Well, don't you fear for your operation, brother. Jesus Christ the Son of God has made
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I see a lady setting there, right here. She's suffering with a anemia condition. Isn't that right, lady? On the end of the seat there. Aren't you anemia? Yes, ma'am. That is right. I'll try the one next to her. Let the young lady look this way, setting next to her. Do you believe, young lady, with all your heart? Believe that Jesus Christ will make you well? All right. You're... Stand up a little bit, so I can see you just a little. Raise... Yes, it's you there with the... You believe now? Oh, yes, it's a nervous condition, isn't it, sister. And a female trouble. [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] All right. You go and be healed. The Lord Jesus make you well with all the heart, every...
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Why, it's the lady setting right here. Do you have a tumor also, sister? Go across the platform, receive your healing. God bless you, sister dear. Amen. Go now with all your heart to get well. Let us say, "Praise... [A brother interrupts Brother Branham: "Brother
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Oh, I don't... Them cards hasn't got nothing to do with it. I don't know what them people put on their cards. If you believe with all your heart, you can be healed without a card. God will tell you what's wrong with you with--regardless of whether you have a card or not. How many believes that with all your heart? Amen. Now, just be reverent everywhere. We must be reverent.
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right with God. It's right along in here. Aren't you trying, somebody in there trying to give up a habit or something? Right... I see a vision of a lady, and she's standing before me. I don't know where she's at. But a lady that's trying to give up a habit, that's trying to... She's a cigarette smoker. Isn't it you, sister? Stand on your feet. God has freed you from that now. God bless you, sister. All right. You shall have your deliverance. Amen. Praise be to the Lord Jesus. Look this a way. Somebody down in here. What about the lady over here in the cot, stretchers down there, whatever it is.
The whole crowd's getting misty to me now. I'm trying to speak, I hope you hear me.
Lady, in--in the cot or stretcher, or whatever you are, look this a way and believe me as God's prophet. Do you believe me as God's prophet? You're... See you're without your cards and things, and you believe that God is able to make me known to--to--to me what's wrong with you? Yes, you're suffering with something wrong in your throat. Isn't that right? Don't you spit up blood or something? I see you with a--a plate--something in front of you with blood on it. Is that right? Not only that, you're refusing food. You have a stomach trouble too. Isn't that right? Well, why don't you stand on you feet, and Jesus Christ will make you well. Stand up. Amen.
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I--I wonder who else would want to be healed at this time. How many of you wants to believe me as God's prophet? You want me to... I can tell you what's wrong with you. Who wants to be and believe on the Lord Jesus at this time? Around through the building, oh, my, it's getting mixed up now. I seen a cancer move just then. I believe it's right behind... It's either this man here there... No, I believe it's the lady with the green dress on back there. Didn't you have cancer, sister? All right. You can go home now. God bless you. Every--everyone reverent, just--just a minute. Have faith. I'm trying to see this young lady here for something. She--she's wanting something, and I can't tell just what it is from here.
How many wants to believe with all your heart? Is our Lord Jesus present to heal? Is our Lord Jesus here to make well everybody in the audience? Will you accept me as His prophet, His servant, I mean, His servant? Will you believe me as His servant? What about you, lady. Young lady in the wheelchair, and all along there, will you accept this as truth? Will you now do this for me and for your own good? Will you raise your hand and say, "Lord, by Your grace right now, I will accept You as my Healer. And from the--this day hence, I shall never testify of nothing else but of my healing." Will you promise that? How many will do that, raise up your hands? "I will never from this day on, I'll never, no matter what happens, I've seen Your Spirit, and I--I believe that--that You're--that You're here. And I believe that--that--that if Brother Branham will ask God right now, that You will--that You will grant the healing of my body." Do you promise that?
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Now, just at one accord. Are you ready to settle this once for ever? I don't know anything more our Master can do. If you're ready to settle it forever, then raise your hand and repeat this prayer after me. Every person. Almighty God, I believe in You as God the Father. And I believe in Jesus Christ as Thy Son. And I believe in the Holy Spirit. And I now believe that He is present to heal me of my disease and affliction. Now, I come, Lord Jesus. I am leaving here testifying of my healing and going to glorify You for it. I shall praise Thee for healing until I'm perfectly delivered.
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Almighty God, now hear the prayer of Your servant. O Father, if we found favor in Your sight, as I stand here tonight where gallant men has stood, and this audience here blessed, they have now committed theirselves to You. And if I have found favor with You, my Father, hear the prayer of Your humble servant. O God, You know my heart. You know how I feel just now. Give me faith, Lord God, faith predominating faith. Grant it, Lord. And this audience, may You sweep over here with a great whirlwind of blessings upon their heart just now. Satan, you who bound these people in these chairs, on crutches, deaf, dumb, cancers, heart trouble, I adjure thee by Jesus, the Son of God, come out of these people. Come out and leave them go. In the Name of Jesus Christ, leave them. God, we praise You just now for Your healing power. Let the audience give out a shout like they did at the gates of Jericho, and the walls fall down. Let the cripples stand up. Let the blind people stand to their feet, all the sick and the afflicted be healed.
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Thank you. Yeah, I think it's all right. Thank you, Brother Baxter. Good evening, friends. Very happy to be here again this evening to give our expressions of love and our adoration
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of our heart to the worshippers of Jesus Christ. And I trust that this will be a great evening. If it was any more than last evening, I don't know whether we can stand it or not. Of all my ministerial life, I never seen any more of a quick falling of the Spirit of God than I did last evening. I went completely numb, just went out. I looked down, and coming over the building, and that Light just spread the whole entire building. And I tried to say something; I just couldn't say no more. And the next I knowed, there was some ushers talking to me somewhere, ever which way the--the parking grounds are.
Mr. Baxter, after he come in, I begin to get to myself a little. And he said, "Brother Branham, this is the first time in my life that I ever--was ever floored down like that." And I... Just how wonderful that God was dealing with us. I've never been able... Two, three nights, I've been trying to do this, and I packed it in my pocket. I want to express my thanks for the kindness, some presents some people sent me. And I appreciate anything that anyone does. When I first came in, there was a bunch--a bouquet of flowers, two of them setting on the table, sent from the D-e-n-n-e-r-s, Denners, I suppose of the city. They're here tonight, they may not be. If they are, I want to express my thanks to you for those beautiful flowers: the Denners.
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And then the next was, my boy gave me a letter which had a love offering in it of five dollars, that come from Brother S-a-n-d-r-e-s-k-y. He said, "I'd love to get my arms around you and hug you." Well, brother, that's a mutual feeling. I would sure like the same thing. And today, when my little boy--boy came in, he had two big jars of honey, and two boxes of these red raspberries, I suppose they are. Well, I guess the... You don't know how I appreciate it. I--I sure love honey. I love raspberries too. Mix them together and I really got them then, haven't I.
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One of the cutest little things that I ever seen was one day on a fishing trip in the mountains. I just love to fish and hunt. And I was up in the mountains fishing; I'd had my tent. And it was early spring, trout fishing, just trying to get away from the crowds for a little while. And I--I love pancakes. And I guess I got a lot of fellow citizens on that. And so, you know, I was... I like to put honey on them. And I
have one theory I still stay with; I'm a Baptist. I don't sprinkle them; I really pour it on them. So I have it covered all over, baptizing them. And always take a large bucket of honey, you know. And one day coming around, I heard a noise. And there'd been an old mother bear and her two cubs had got in my tent. They just tore it all to pieces. And I didn't have my camera. And the cutest little act... There's one of the little fellows run away with the mother. But the other little fellow set there. He'd got the lid off that bucket of honey. And he taken his paw and push down it like that, and then come up and just lick his hands. And he was mo... He was honey from his feet to his head. Just so... He looked around, it was all in his eyes, you know. And he looked at me like that, you know. No condemnation to him. He just stuck his hand back down in the bucket and got some more.

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And I thought that was just like an old fashion Holy Ghost meeting. You don't care who's around as long as you got your hand in the honey. Is that right? Yes, sir. Licking it around, so no condemnation to them that's licking, you know. It's all right. But they was--was sure having a grand time. Well, I looked at the little fellow. I laughed till my sides hurt, and I just walked away. And I still was out the bucket of honey, letting him lick. So I appreciate that very much. And we'll do justice to that honey in the morning. So thank you very much.
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And now, the services... It's awfully warm in here. And I just got to hear just a portion of your broadcast. There's... They come and got me. And it sure sound lovely, the people playing and singing, and those people on that--this thing here, you know. I'm not very much a musician, but... And on the organ and that trumpet or ever what it was a playing; it was really pretty, "Onward Christian Soldiers," and all your voices blending in. I had to shed a little tear too, because it just made my heart thrill to think that someday, the saints of God will go marching up to glory. And to see that great time...
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Brother Baxter met me this afternoon, said, "Brother Branham, you're to preach for tomorrow." Oh, my. I said, "Brother Baxter, I can't preach." And he said... after a man like that being preaching. And he said... Then he met me just a few minutes ago, and said, "The people like for you to tell your life story tomorrow." So... Oh, I can do that, by grace of God.
And I want to be here tomorrow afternoon around two-thirty, I suppose. And I expect to see you all. Be just as quickly as I can. Bring the sinner and the--the unrepented out tomorrow, so that I--we can make an altar call, and maybe God will give us many souls for His glory.
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Now, for just a portion of time, I--I want to read some of the Word, and then just pass a few comments, and maybe give a testimony, and try to get into the prayer line as quick as possible. And... Because they told me, that coming down tonight (they come and got me), that the auditorium had been packed out since about five o'clock. And someone said they was going to be here at six in the morning to see if they could get a seat up front. So, we're sorry we haven't any way to take care of any more. The fire laws just allows to have so many in here. But while we're here together, I know you've had a glorious time. If we should say, "Amen," and go home, it would be wonderful. But now, let's just, you and I, ask God, and believe that God will answer our prayer. And let's ask God to heal this rows of people through here tonight, every one.
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I... When Brother Baxter came in, and my boy was kinda talking to me. I could hear him in the distance last night. He kept getting closer. I knew I was coming to myself. And he said, "Daddy, are you all right?" I said, "Yes." I never will forget the first time the boy ever seen the Angel of the Lord at Vandalia, Illinois. And I'd had a meeting, and I made a challenge to the people, "Just bring me anybody you want to, and let me have enough time with them. They'll--they'll be healed." And they brought me a blind boy, was born blind. And I stayed with that boy about an hour and forty minutes. And he walked off the platform with his sight. And he came back, and he picked up my tie so speak... He said, "Mother, is that what you... What color you call that?" And the boy was born blind. And he was just so enthused, and the people screaming and going on.
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And when I went home that night, we was in the hotel. And I was been praying, and I was almost asleep. And I woke up, and I knew He was in the room. I couldn't tell from where He was coming. But I waited a few minutes, and I knew It was coming over this a way, coming across towards the bed. I got out of the bed. My brother and my little boy was next to me in another bed. And I felt It coming, and I got out, and I knelt down in
the floor, and started praying. He got real close. I never heard no voice nor nothing. I waited a little bit. It got closer. And I kept speaking, "What would the Lord have me to know?" And a voice begin to speak in the room and told me not to do that, not to do that. And just... My commission was to pray for the sick, and not to do that. And then when I opened my eyes, there He was, just above the bed whirling around and around. And I said, "Do--do You mind if my brother and little son could see You?" And He never made any answer back. It was done leaving me, the anointing. I seen It right off from me. And I kept my eye on Him, and He never answered me, so I thought maybe He didn't care. I picked up a pillow, and threw it over on the bed, and it woke up my brother. He said, "What do you want?" I said, "Wake up Billy." And he said, "Billy, your dad wants you." And as soon as he looked back, he let out a scream. He saw It. He begin screaming. And my little boy jumped over in the bed with me, and begin hugging me around the neck, saying, "Daddy, daddy, don't let that get me. Don't let that get me." I said, "Why, honey, that ain't what... That won't hurt you." I said, "That's the Angel of the Lord that leads daddy."
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Billy's an orphan. His mother died when he was just about eighteen months old. And he's a little orphan child. And I been daddy and mother both to him. And sometimes in going away, the little fellow used to stand at the airport and cry and go on. He said, "Daddy, don't leave me." Said, "What have I got on earth but you?" Said, "Mother's gone and everything." And said, "If--if something happens to you, what will happen to me?" So that's not easy to leave your children like that. But Jesus said, "Whosoever will not forsake his... everything and follow Me, not worthy to be called My disciple." No matter what we do, we'll never be worthy to be that. But we like to do our part. So after that night, the little boy was consoled then when he got to see the Angel of the Lord for the first time. He never worried no more when I left.
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Now, the reading of the Scripture for the text tonight is found in the 2nd chapter of Saint Luke, you who would like to refer to it and would read with me. I... You know, God's Word can't fail, can it. And now, I tell you, dear Christian friends, the anointing of the Angel of God is so strong, I can hardly look out over this audience. Now, that's right. And I don't like for it to be like that right to the beginning. And I want to talk just a little while on the Scripture. Wasn't aiming to do it, just give a
testimony. But I'll try to talk just a moment. Listen to the reading, beginning with the 25th verse: ... behold, there was a man in Jerusalem, whose name was Simeon; the same man was just, devout, waiting for the consolation of Israel: and the Holy Ghost was upon him. And it was revealed unto him by the Holy Ghost, that he should not see death, before he'd seen the Lord's Christ. And he came by the Spirit into the temple: and when the parents brought in the child Jesus, to do for him after the custom of the law, Then took he him up in his arms, and blessed God, and said, Lord, now let thy servant depart in peace, according to thy word: For mine eyes have seen thy salvation.
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Let's bow our heads. Father, the hours are moving on. Help us, Almighty God, to know Your will. There are many gathered tonight. The building is hot. Oh, we believe the harvest is ripe; the fields are ready. Thrust in Thy sickle tonight, Lord; reap. May the wine be brought from the grapes tonight, till each believer will become, as it were, drunk upon the Spirit of God, knowing nothing but the Presence of God, and His power, His redeeming blessings upon us to redeem us from our sickness, from our sins. Grant these blessings, Lord. And as Thy servant has determined by Thy grace, if possible, to speak a few words, help me, dear God. And may the Holy Spirit take the Word of God and plant It right into the heart where It belongs. And may, before this service is ended, may there be people all over the floor everywhere. May the people be up off of these cots and stretchers. May the blind be laying their canes back. May the crippled lay down their canes and crutches, and walk out. May those with heart trouble have it no more, with the cancers... Lord, we thank Thee for Your visit last night. And now, Lord, maybe a new fresh group is in tonight. And I pray that You'll heal them, every one, and make It manifested to them by the power of the resurrected Christ, for we ask it in the Name of Jesus Christ, the beloved Son of God. Amen.
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Now quickly, your undivided attention. Faith cometh by hearing, and hearing of the Word. If we'd say for a text, which it will not be, that I would say tonight, "Expectations." You know, usually you get what you expect, don't you? What you think you're going... If you come to the meeting, just say, "I believe
I'll go down. There's something wrong with that kind of a meeting. I'm going down. I'll see what's wrong with it." You will. The devil will be sure that you see that. But if you come down to see what's good about it, God will show you what's good about it. See? If you come down, saying, "Well, if I... I don't believe I'll get healed. I'll go down maybe see if I can get a prayer card. But if I don't, well, they won't..." No, that's just what you'll get, just see... And just whatever you expect. Don't you believe that? When you come, expect this: let's expect this tonight. Let's expect a great outpouring again. I believe if God would repeat that again tonight... I don't know that He will. Twice I've asked Him. I guess Brother Baxter told you the phenomenal of last night, of how that I never knew.
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Then the Angel of the Lord met me in the room, and I asked Him to do something outstanding. And a few nights ago, I asked Him if He would do something outstanding for us that night, and He did. He healed a--a woman that was deaf for years, and taken a woman out of a wheelchair. And I forget what all He done. And now, I'm asking again tonight to do something special for us. And last night I asked Him. I trust that my heavenly Father won't be angry with me for asking these special blessings. For it's written in the Word, "Except you see signs or miracles, you won't believe." And we don't want to be classed amongst such people as that. Why, we're people who believe anyhow. See, we believe anyhow, and we want to accept it.
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Last night I was wondering how there could be anyone left in the building that wasn't healed. Now, it may not be visible. Angels of God and visions appear before people, and sometime it's not for everybody. Is that right? Look at the Magis. They were the only ones that seen that Star. It passed by every observatory, passed by all the star gazers and everything, passed right on by the spiritual people, passed right on over the temple; and no one saw It but the Magis. It was for them to see it. Do you believe they saw it? I do, for the Bible said they did. See? And if it be possible that the Angel of God could be visible to some and not visible to the others.
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For instance one day when I was baptizing. There was around ten thousand people, I guess, at the bank. And there was at least seven thousand of them that seen the Angel of the Lord, and say the other three thousand never saw It. They said, "Well, I didn't see It. I heard you hollering, and seen you raise your hand, and everybody
screaming, but I didn't see nothing." You see? And that's the way it was when the picture was taken. Hundreds and hundreds saw It, and others didn't. Some of them in the Bible times, it was the same way. It's today. God will reveal Himself to those who are expecting Him. The Magis were expecting to see the Star of Jacob rise. They were from the East, and they'd listened to Balaam's prophecy, which said that there would be a Star of Jacob rise. And they were looking for It. They was expecting It. And they were the ones who seen It.
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And how many in here tonight is expecting to be healed tonight, let's see your hands? Well, you're not going to be disappointed then. If you... You just can't be disappointed if you're expecting it. If you're not expecting it, you say, "Well, I'll wait maybe tomorrow afternoon; I'll get it tomorrow afternoon." Well, that's when you'll get it. You say, "Well, I don't know. If He don't come to me personally, I don't believe I'll get it." Well, that's... Jesus said, "According to your faith, be it unto you." Is that right? A lady said not long ago... I went into a place to pray for a boy that had tubercular meningitis. He was dying. And the person said, "Oh, Brother Branham," said, "my," said, "you'll get meningitis." She said, "I run my children out. I give them vaccinations." I said, "Such faith as that would give them meningitis." That's right. You must believe. All things are possible to him that believes. Be expecting God to deliver you, for He promised it. And as soon as your faith can catch it, it's gone away. And that's right. Now, I was... Whatever you expect, that's what God will do.
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I was thinking of Simeon. In his day he was an old man. We'd call him maybe in them days an old sage. He's just... Try to picture him with long white beard. And he was a wonderful old saint of God. Now, the Bible said the Holy Ghost was upon him. Do you believe that? Yes, he--he... The Holy Ghost was on him. The... Now, always God has had someone who believed His Word. Somebody's going to expect God to fulfill His Word, while others pass It by. Now, as it was in that day, so is it now. The Church has gotten formal and got away from God. And they thought Jesus, their Christ, never would come; perhaps, maybe being many ages away. But just when they was expecting it to be way away, He was right at hand.
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Now, let's take this case now of Simeon. Now, he was a righteous old man. He believed that God was going to let him see the Christ before he saw death. Now, let's say he's eighty something years old. And then He--He had another witness there. There was
Anna the prophetess at the temple, John the Baptist, and Joseph and Mary, and many of them: a remnant. God has always had a remnant somewhere. And He's got a remnant tonight. Don't you believe that? Now, tonight, His--His remnant are composed of His Body, His spiritual Body here on earth, baptized people into the Body making us the Body of Christ. Now, that doesn't represent any certain church; it just represents all the baptized people of God into one Body. By not one church, but by one Spirit are we all baptized to one Body and become members of the Body of Christ.
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Now, in them days I can see Simeon, the old man walking along down the street, and saying, "Well, I'm going to see the Christ before I die." Could you imagine some of those scholars saying, "Don't pay no attention to the old fellow. I believe he's just... He's got old now, and his mind's kindly went away from him. And the poor old fellow, he's a good old man. But you know, an old man like that isn't going to... Why, we've looked for Him for age, and look at the condition of the world today. Why, we know He isn't coming now." But Simeon had one reason that he believed that: the Holy Ghost revealed it to him. There's the thing. God had told Simeon that he wasn't going to see death until he had seen the Christ. And he believed what the Holy Ghost said was the truth. Now, can you do that? Now, the same Holy Ghost that led Simeon, is the same Holy Ghost that's here tonight. There's not no two Holy Spirits, are they, just one Holy Spirit. Now, look at him. Now, he had to believe something more than you believe. See? People are getting healed every night, every day, and all over the world, big healing campaigns everywhere. They're getting healed. But Jesus or Christ had never come to the earth. But it was prophesied that He would come, and Simeon had the promise of the Holy Spirit, that he was going to see Him.
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Now, the Bible said... I believe David said, "When the deep calleth to the deep..." Now, if there's a--a deep a calling, there's a deep to respond to it somewhere. Do you believe that? In other words like this, as I've often said, "Before there was a fin on a fish's back, there had to be a water first for him to use that fin, or he wouldn't have the fin." Is that right? If there's a tree to grow in the earth, there has to be an earth first for it to grow in, or there would be no tree. And then... See, I love nature, to look at nature and see the sunsets and the mountains. There's something there that just calls out.
Not long ago I was setting on the porch. And wife and I, we were in a swing, swinging. The crowds had just got away. And some old sand cranes flew across, going down to the river. And they were calling. And the--a lady come up, give me a little card about like--like that, that had that sunset and evening star and one clear call for me. And I looked at those old cranes, and I said, "Look, God has fed them all day long out in the swamps. They're going down to the falls now to get with their kindred and--and there be for the night." Two little robins, my favorite birds, flew up, and went into their nest. They'd fed their young all day long. God had provided for them. And at nighttime, He had a way provided for them to roost in safety. And I said, "Surely, someday when life is ended, and the sun of my life is setting, and your life, God has a way somewhere." There's something that tells us there's something out there: The deep calling to the deep.
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I read in the paper here not long ago where a little baby eat the pedals off of a bicycle, eat the rubbers off of pencils. The doctors said what it was: his little body needed sulfur. And he was eating that rubber, because there was sulfur in the rubber. Now, before he could've--there could've been any crave for that sulfur, there had to be something in here craving it, creating that desire. And if there's something here creating that desire, there's bound to be something out there to respond to that--to that Creator, creation. In other words like this, as I'd say this. Before you can have a desire, there has to be a Creator to create that desire. Is that right? Before there is a creation, there has to be a Creator.
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And how many in here believes that there is Divine healing, let's see your hands? All right. Now, if... Thank you. If you believe, and there's something in you that says there's healing somewhere, Divine healing, there's bound to be a Creator to create that desire. And as sure as there's a desire in your heart to be healed by Divine healing, there's a fountain open somewhere. That's all. You would-you couldn't have that desire unless there would be. And you remember, a long time ago when the church got formal and everything, the people begin to crave more of God? The baptism of the Spirit come into existence. See, you were hungering and thirsting for more of God. And as long as you thirst for more of God, there's bound to be more of God somewhere to respond to that. If there's a deep calling, there's a deep to respond. See what I mean?
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Now, Simeon, he was the same way. He knew that there was a hunger in his heart. He knew that he had a promise by the Holy Ghost that he wasn't going to see death until he seen the Lord's
Christ. Now, in them days, they didn't have press and radio as we have today. So Jesus, when He was born in Bethlehem of Judaea, why there was shepherds come out and worshipped and sang, and the Magis came and offered their presents and so forth. The news didn't scatter like it does now. But on the eighth day, according to Jewish law, the woman had to come and offer the turtledove for her--and her offering for her cleansing--purification.
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Now, let's take a morning at the temple. Here's a man setting there, back in the prayer room somewhere. It was a busy morning; maybe it was Monday morning, and everybody coming and going, thousands upon thousands. Well, probably in the three or four million Jews there was in Jerusalem and around Palestine at that time, they'd be probably as many as fifty to a hundred babies borned every night, maybe more. Well, every morning there'd be a line of mothers line up here to offer their sacrifice and for their purifications, and offer the--the--according to the law. And now, look. I see Simeon back in the temple. My, I can just notice him setting back there, maybe reading the Scriptures. He had the promise now. And then into a door stepped... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]
I'm so thankful my name's on her book tonight, wrote by the Blood of Jesus Christ across it, "Pardoned." Oh, my. You'll think I'm a holy-roller after while, sure enough. But brother, when I think of the Blood of Christ that pardoned my book of sin, and throwed it in the sea of forgetfulness, it makes me get happy and rejoicing. I love Him with all my heart. If the old time power of God that's saved me and has kept me through the age. I love Him with all my heart tonight. And I take my stand with Paul of old. "In the way that's called heresy, so worship I the God of our fathers. I'm not ashamed of the Gospel of Jesus Christ for it is the power of God unto the salvation to those who believe." Marvelous, He's wonderful.
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And I see down there, when that time come for the purification of this little mother, although with her scar and things holding in her arms (Look at her.) a Baby wrapped in swaddling's cloth. That's what they tell me, what goes on the back of a yoke of an ox that plows. And they wasn't nothing down there to wrap the little fellow in, the King of glory. What do you care how poor you are. The King of glory wrapped in swaddling's cloth, rolled Him up in that... And here's the very Prince of heaven laying in the arms of a little girl, wrapped in swaddling cloth.
There stood the rich mothers. They wouldn't get along that bunch of people. They still have that feeling. They won't get along that bunch. And Mary stood there, and one of them walked away, said, "Look at her." But in her heart, she knew who she was. She knew she had God's blessings. And there she had It in her arms. Look here. That's what the natural world would think. Look around and say, "Oh, my. Look at that. That baby ain't even dressed well. And look, a peasant's offering, two turtledoves." Here stood some of them with lambs. They were rich people. But a peasant's offering...
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Then while they were standing there, and the little mother keeping it all in her heart, I can see the holy Ghost move out there in the room upon that old man called Simeon, that...?... "Simeon, I give you the promise, and you've lived faithful to it. Get up and start moving now." I can see him lay down the Scroll, walk out of the building. He didn't know where he was going. He was led by the Holy Ghost. I can see him moving around through the people, come down till he hit this line of women, start down along the line. He went right to where that little scorned woman was standing there, picked up that baby wrapped in swaddling's cloth, and tears dropping off of his beard, said, "Lord, let Thy servant depart in peace, according to Thy Word, for my eyes have seen Thy Salvation." The Holy Ghost led him to the Child.
At the same time, an old blind prophetess setting down there in a corner, the Holy Ghost spoke to her. And here she comes winding through them people like that: blind. Moved right up to where He was, and raised her hands and blessed God: led by the Holy Ghost, deep calling to the deep. They was expecting to see Him. There He was, the Holy Ghost leading them to it. For years we've expected gifts to be in the church; we've expected power to be in the church. And isn't it strange tonight that you people believe in Divine healing, that the Holy Ghost has led you here by the same channel, right to where God's blessings hangs over the building, ready to receive and heal anybody that's in Divine Presence, that'll believe It? The same God that lived in that day, and the same Holy Ghost that led Simeon, and Ann, and them to the Christ, has led you here tonight where we're gathered together in this place in the Name of the Lord Jesus to see His power move upon His people. Amen. Amen. No, that won't scare you. "Amen" means "so be it." And--and that's right. It's the truth. How marvelous
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Do you believe in being led by the Spirit? Recently, for just for a--a testimony. We was having a meeting here in Fort Wayne. I'll never forget it. Many of you here was in the Fort Wayne meeting, no doubt at all. Let's see your hands who was in the Fort Wayne meeting? What a marvelous time. That's where the man was healed with the multiple sclerosis. How many was there that night he was healed, let's see your hands? There that old man laying there, crippled up (They both may be present now.) laying like that. I didn't know. They was trying to lay the man on the platform in his white shirt there. He was a business man, had been paralyzed from his waist down for ten years in the bed. I didn't know. They--they... Some of his friends tried to get him up. The poor man was trying to touch my trouser leg. And they took him off the platform.
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I was just setting down. I went ahead speaking. I happened to look out, and I seen a vision of him. I knew he was going to be well. I seen him walking through some kind of a place. I spoke to him, he... And I said, "You want me to come lay my hands on you, don't you." He said, "Yes, sir." I walked down. The same time there, a little old man was laying there so crippled, that this man had wrote to, reached over and got a hold of my coat. He said, "Brother Branham, just lay your hands on me too while you're here, and I'll get well." And no sooner than I touched that man there, he rose to his feet. And that people went into a scream. You remember it?
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Here a few weeks ago, I got a letter from both of them. And the man that was so paralyzed, was so crippled like this, was a plowing out in a field with his tractor. The other man...?... with multiple sclerosis, came down the road and seen him. He jumped out of his car, and the man jumped off the tractor, and they run out there in the field, grabbing one another and lifting one another up and down like that. What is it? Nothing but the Blood of Jesus Christ, the Son of God. He is omnipotent in His power in...?... Why, He's the same Christ yesterday, today, and forever. His powers cannot fail, because He's God. God's Divine order of the earth, the Holy Spirit today is just the same as He was. To reject Jehovah was a penalty. You had... To reject Jesus was a penalty. And to reject this, what people call fanaticism, and what people call foolishness, is the Holy Ghost. He said, "To speak a word against It would never be forgiven in this world to come." It's more of a penalty to reject the Holy Spirit today than it would be to reject Jesus Christ or the Father. That's right. Don't you be ashamed. Stand for that which is right. I don't know what's the matter with me tonight. I'm...?... now. All right. Watch
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There in the meeting when things were going on. I remember that I was staying in the Indiana Hotel. And they have to keep the place a secret of where you stay, you know, because all day long when you get them sick people, that calls the anointing down, and you can't hardly get to the platform at night. And I remember a nurse, Mayo's nurse, one of the first healings: Mrs. Margie Morgan. Cancer went through till she only weighed fortyseven pounds. Mr. Baxter and them was talking to her the other night. She weighs a hundred and fifty-five. That's been about five years ago. The doctors said, "Oh, she'll die. She's just excited." Well, she's still excited. She's living. You better get excited then, so then it--it'll hold your life here a little while. Excitement, it's the power of Almighty God, not excitement. If it is, it'd be good for psychologists and doctors to go to teaching excitement. Excitement don't cure you. You know it doesn't.
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Now, notice. We was staying in the hotel. And the little bellhop come up, and he said, "Reverend Branham, I'm sorry to inform you, but you couldn't even get out that door this morning." Said, "That auditorium's packed full. They know you're here." We waited awhile. And no way to get out to breakfast. So after while, another one come up, said, "I'll tell you; I can take you through the basement if you don't mind, your wife and them, climb over some ashes." I said, "I don't mind." We went down, went through a big pile of ashes, and come out into an alley. We started down to the little place called Toddle House. You remember where that's at? There's where Mr. Eaton was healed that morning with stomach trouble when he run up there to pay for my breakfast.
And I remember, I had my overcoat up like this, walking down the street a holding my little girl, Mrs. Morgan on one side, and my wife on the other. We were walking down the street. I started to cross the street to go to the Toddle House, where we were eating our breakfast and our meals. And just then, I felt the Holy Spirit. You believe in being led by the Spirit now? All right. Listen closely then. It said, "Turn this a way." And I started to turn. Mrs. Morgan said, "Where you going?" My wife looked quickly said, "Spirit leading now. Just watch. Just follow him." And went down the street. I don't know where I went, but after while,
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I stopped and looked up. It said, "Miller's Cafeteria." I went in. (These people may be setting here tonight for all I know.) I went in. I got a cup of, I believe, of chocolate or something, set down to drink it, Mrs. Morgan, all of them. When we asked the blessing, I raised my head. I said something to my little girl. I seen a woman raise up. She said, "Bless God. Bless God." I thought... Mrs. Morgan turned around, said, "You're trapped in here now." I said, "Mrs. Morgan, don't say that." See? I said, "This is the Holy Spirit."
This woman come over there wringing her hands. She said, "Brother Branham, I'm from Texas." She said, "My brother is dying with heart trouble." Said, "We followed. This is about eight or ten meetings that we've been into, and we've never been able to get a prayer card that was called into the line." And said, "To get up here this time, we sold our cow," said, "'cause my... The doctor said my brother could only live a little while longer." The heart, something had injured the diaphragm. Said, "He's just got a few more weeks to live. And it was our last chance." Said, "We...?... till last night. We can't even get in to get--to the place any more." And said, "I prayed all night long." And she said, "This morning just about four o'clock in the morning," she said, "I had a dream. And in this dream it told me to come down and find a place by the name of Miller's Cafeteria, and to be here at nine o'clock and my brother'd be healed." I looked at my watch, and exactly nine o'clock. You know what took place. Yes, sir. And that boy was healed.
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I turned, and got my hat, and started out the door, and people begin screaming. That cafeteria was alive in a few minutes. I started to walk out the door. Said something, a blessing to them, started to walk out the door, and a little woman... She was at San Bernardino a few weeks ago to testify to me, was coming back from Brazil to see her daughter, which is a missionary. And she fell down on the street and grabbed a hold of my legs like that. She said, "Oh, God..." I picked her up, and I said, "What's the matter, sister?" Meda, my wife and them, they started picking her up. Said, "What's the matter?" And she was way big, malignant. And Mayo Brothers had turned her down. Her husband owns the spaghetti company here in Chicago. And she was a little woman. And she was, oh, so swollen out. She said, "Brother Branham," she said, "it's my last chance." She said, "Oh, I've just prayed and cried." Said, "Mayo's has turned me down, and there's nothing could be done about this here. I've taken radium; I've
taken x-ray treatments, and everything, and nothing could be done." And she said, "This morning, just along about the break of day," she said, "I was awakened. I was looking out. And I went back to sleep again." Said, "I dreamed a dream that I was to stand in front of Miller's Cafeteria ten minutes after nine to be healed." Oh, my. Do you believe in leading by the Spirit? Yes, sir.
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On down the street I went. Just a little while longer. (And you people from Fort Wayne and across the line know of this.) I was going down the street. My wife said, "What... Are you ready to go in now?" I said, "I don't know." We got down there, and I seen some fishing tackle. And I started to turn for that. Just then the Holy Spirit moved down again and begin to move over. This is my inside life I'm telling you about. It's happened right here in this city too, today. And then here It moving around. I felt It. I said, "Oh, It's again." I said, "Now, honey, you go on over and get the... at the drug store over there and get that little coloring book for the baby." Had to keep her in a room all day. I said, "You all go on back in. I don't know when I'm going to be able to--to... the Holy Spirit will relieve me now."
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I went on down at the... Started down at the end of the street. And I walked up there and begin to look towards that tackle and stuff. And I got back to the side; I said, "Heavenly Father, where would You have Your servant go?" I thought maybe He wants me to stand here a little bit. And I stood a little bit; nothing happened. I thought, "Well..." I started to walk towards the corner. He said, "Go across the other corner." And the cop blowed the whistle there. And I went across the other side, and stood there a little bit, about ten minutes. I didn't know why I was standing there. People passed. I was just standing there. That's all I knowed. When you're led of the Spirit, God wants you to just do what He says do. He's the One on the other end of the line doing the work.
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I just stood there a little bit. And I thought, "Oh, what is going to happen?" And a big Irish cop out there blew the whistle again; the pedestrians crossed. And coming behind was a little woman with a checkered dress on, a checkered tam, looked like a Canadian. She was packing a pocketbook on her arm. She had her head down. She went walking along like this, and she... The Holy Spirit said, "Stand over here." And she passed that close to me, just went right on by. I thought, "Why is that?" She went a little farther. I thought, "Well, that's
strange. And He told me to stand here by her. Wonder why. Maybe she just caught the blessing as went by like that."
In a few moments she turned around, and said, "Oh," she said, "Brother Branham..." And she come back. She said, "I don't... I'm beside myself." I said, "I don't think so, sister. What's the matter?" She said, "I'm from Canada. I'm only allowed a hundred and fifty dollars a year to come over here." She said, "I--I spent all my money." And she said, "I--I--I was in the hotel lobby, and I had five cents for coffee this morning." She said, "And I was on my road back to hitchhike back to Canada." Said, "I couldn't get in the lines, and I was praying." And said, "Something just turned me around and made me come up two or three blocks and walk across this a way." Oh, my. There He is. I seen her holding her hand. I said, "Is it your arm, sister?" She said, "Yes, I fell on a rock. I was riding a dog when I was a little girl, and I fell on a rock and hurt this arm like this." And while she was talking, here come her arm coming out like that. She begin screaming the top of her voice. And that big cop said, "I know who you are, Brother Branham." You talk about a prayer line, we had it all up-and-down the street there for awhile, the people standing, moving. Oh, how marvelous.
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Here not long ago, I was coming from Dallas, Texas, in spring, and I thought... I was flying back, and I was grounded at Memphis, right where my... Had to be one night on the fifth at Memphis, Tennessee. I was grounded there, and they put me up there in that, I believe, the Peabody Hotel, it's called. It's a very nice place. Myself, I couldn't afford to go in it, but the--the airlines sent me up there. And I remember that morning, they called me, said, "Now, the plane will leave at eight o'clock, Reverend Branham." Said, "They'll be by to pick you up." I said, "Yes, sir." And I got my letters ready and was going down to mail the letters. Now, listen closely, I'm going to close in a minute. And I thought, "Oh, my, I'll go down and mail these letters." And I got out and started down the street, put--trying to find the Post Office. And I was walking down the street singing that little Pentecostal song, let's see:
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Telling now, both far and wide, His power is yet the same, I'm so glad that I can say I'm one of them.
Brother Ryan, you remember, when you used to sing it. And saying, "We..." And going singing that little song. And after while, I felt
something going, "Whooo..." [Brother Branham illustrates.--Ed.] got close. I stepped back up behind a great big column there, and I said, "Heavenly Father, what would You have Your servant do?" It kept going, "Whooo..." [Brother Branham illustrates.--Ed.] I was real still a minute, and I heard a deep voice say, "Turn, go back."
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Well, I turned and went walking back down the street. I walked. And I walked on past the hotel, on down through south Memphis, just walking on and on. The sun was way high then. The sun was up, and it was a beautiful spring morning. The fragrance of the flowers in the--in the air, had perfumed the air. I thought, "How beautiful." Was going walking along there. I thought, "Lord, I don't know. You said, 'Walk.' Here I am. I'm walking." I just kept on walking, walking, walking. Walked out pretty near the other side of Memphis. And I remember going down a little hill towards where a little creek of a thing ran through this way, a little tributary there at the river of some kind. I just went walking down through there. There's was a little old whitewashed hut down there; a lot of colored people lived down in that way. I was walking down through there, singing--humming to myself,
Only believe, only believe.
Satan said, "You're going to miss your plane." I said, "I'll walk."
All things are possible.
Don't let him tell you a lie. He's a liar. When God is a leading, you go do what God said do. Yes, sir. He tells you you're healed; believe it, and just start walking on. And I just kept on like that, singing,
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I was noticing, leaning across a gate like this, there was a typical old Aunt Jemima, great big heavy set colored woman with a man's shirt tied around her head. She was leaning out across there. I kinda quit singing, humming, when I was far as that wall from her. I just went walking on by. And when I got there, she kinda looked at me and laughed, and those big white teeth showed, and her tears streaked face like that. She said, "Good morning, parson." I turned. Now, "parson" means "minister or reverend" down in the south. Said, "Good morning, parson." I looked around. I said, "Good morning, auntie." I said, "Say, how'd
you know I was a parson?" She smiled and wiped her eyes. I thought, "Here it is. Something's going on." I could feel the Spirit. I'd walked far enough then. My, when I think about it, my heart leaps.
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I turned around; I said, "How'd you know I was a parson?" She said, "Parson, did you ever read in the Bible about that Shunammite woman that had that baby by promise?" I said, "Yes, auntie. I've read that a many a time. I preached on it not long ago." She said, "I's is that kind of woman, too. And I told the Lord if He give me a child, I'd raise it for Him." Said, "Parson, the Lord give me a boy, and I raised him till he was in his teens." Said, "He took a road that's wrong, got out with some bad company." Said, "He's laying here dying now. He caught a bad disease, and the doctors can't do nothing for him." Said, "They give him all kinds of shots," but said, "he's a backslider." And said, "He laying in here dying." Said, "He'd been unconscious since day before yesterday." And said, "He don't know nothing. He thinks he's out in a big deep sea somewhere, cold." And said, "Parson, it just breaks my heart to see my boy die like that." And said, "I--I want him saved." And said, "I prayed all night. And I said, 'Lord, You give me that baby, but--but where's the Elijah?'" She said, "Now, Lord, will You help me. Don't let my baby die like this." And said, "And the Lord told me this morning..." And said, "I kinda fell asleep there in my chair; and I dreamed that I was to come out here and stand in this gate and I'd see a man coming dressed like you is." Oh, my. You know how that makes you feel?
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I said, "Auntie, my name is Branham. Did you ever hear of me before?" She said, "No, sir, I never heard of you." Oh, my. I said, "Auntie, I pray for the sick." She said, "Do you?" I said--I said, "Can I come in to see your boy?" She said, "Sure, parson." And when she raised that little old gate back with a chain on it and a plow point for a weight, for a weight behind it... I've went into kings palaces, and I went into big fine homes, but I never was more welcome than I was when I walked in that little gate that morning, under that trestle. She walked just as happy. She knew something had to happen; God was on both ends of the line.
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So I walked into the room. First thing upon there was a little old sign, "God bless our home," little old chunk stove, that we call it in the south, setting there, and a little poster bed. Here was a great big stout looking boy, about a hundred and eighty pounds, around
seventeen, eighteen years old, laying there with a blanket in his hand, going, "Mummm, Mummm," like that. He said, "It's so cold, mama. Mummm." She patted him. She said, "Mama's baby." I thought right then of motherly love. No matter what he'd done, how much disgrace; it was mother's still baby. She kissed him on his forehead. And I thought, "If the love of a mother can go like that, what will the love of God do? When He said, 'A mother may forget her suckling babe, but I'll never forget you.'" I think, "Amazing Grace, how sweet the sound, that saved a wretch like me."
Then while she was over her boy there, I said, "Auntie, let's pray." She never said nothing about his healing, she wanted him to be saved. And so before he went she wanted to have a witness that he was saved. And that old saint got down on there floor. I couldn't pray. Hear her pray, oh, my, she opened up that heart, and the tears rolling down her cheeks, she said, "Lord, if You'll just let him tell me that him going to be with--with Jesus," said, "I'll be happy," and like that. And I just knelt there and held my head down and cried like a baby. In a few moments, she raised up, she said, "Thank You, Lord." And she went over, she said, "Mommy's baby." Patted it like that. And I felt his feet, just as cold as they could be, death was on the boy. And he said... I said, "Does he...?" He said, "He don't know..." I said, I spoke to the boy, I said, "How you feeling now, young man?" He just kept going, "Hmm." She said, "He don't know where he's at parson; he ain't been conscious for two days now." And I said, "Let's pray again, sister."
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And we knelt on the floor, I said, "Heavenly Father, somehow or another last night a storm came up, and You grounded the plane." Don't you believe all things work together for the good. I said, "On my road home to the meeting," I said, "You grounded the plane. And this morning when the sun was shining, I know the hours is passed, the time now for it to leave. But somehow You led me down this way; I don't understand. But I'm putting my hands on this boy in the Name of Jesus Christ, Your Son, and asking for his life to be spared." And then no more the prayer had been made, I heard him going, "Um," said, "Oh, Mama." She raised up, said, "What do mama's baby want?" Said, "Mama, it's getting light in the room, getting light in the room." She begin crying; I raised up my hands, begin to offer praise. Up off
the bed come that big healthy boy, restored to his normal condition.
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A few months after that, I was passing through on a train, and I stopped in to get something to eat; I heard somebody holler, "Parson Branham." He was pulling one of these little old carts around like that, down there at the station working. He run grabbed a hold of my hand, said, "You remember me?" And I said, "No, I don't." He said, "I was the boy you come to that morning, that the Lord led you down there, when mammy was praying." Says, "Parson Branham, I's perfectly whole now, and I's a Christian now." Christian, oh, brother, and you know what? That plane never left, something happened to it, it was about a hour late, and I got on the plane and got home in time anyhow. Let me tell you something, "Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today and forever." His power's omnipotent, He--He can't fail; He's the same God that was in Memphis, Tennessee, that night, Fort Wayne, Indiana, is here tonight. Do you believe that? He's the same, He can't fail.
Our heavenly Father, we thank Thee tonight for Thy power, how we could testify hour after hour of Your blessings and what all that You've done for us. I'm thinking of that time down there in Memphis, and thinking of over here at Fort Wayne, and the different places throughout the nation. O God, now You're here; it may be peculiar to some people, but Lord, it's not to we who believe You to be the same yesterday, today, and forever. We believe that You're here tonight, and You're here in Your power. And as Simeon of old was expecting the promise of the Holy Spirit to let him see the Christ before he died... O God, the same Holy Spirit's here, and we're asking Him tonight, in the Name of the Master Jesus Christ, the Son of God, to let us see His great power. Not as we need to see it, for we pray that You'll do it, Lord, to strengthen the faith of others, that these next three meetings that's to be in this auditorium, may be the setting forth of an old fashion revival that'll cause churches to be filled with Your glory.
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And Lord, these ministers, Thy servants, setting just behind me tonight in prayer, O God, may each one of them be filled with the power. And may their churches be multiplied and double times double, Lord, of people getting saved. And may there be old fashion healing powers flowing through their churches, great signs and wonders. And may something happen that'll cause the city to talk for a long time. Grant it, dear God. Now, speaking tonight, in this warm building, I pray that You'll hide
Your servant behind the cross, and may the Angel of God come near. Move like You did last night, O Angel of God. Come down upon this building, and I believe if You'll give us a another chance after last night, showing Your power, if You'll give us that chance tonight, I believe, heavenly Father, if You'll send Him to manifest Hisself again, that the sick and every one in here will receive Him in one heart and one accord. And there'll be healings, Lord, that'll be talked about for months and years to come. Grant it, Lord. These kind blessings and favors we ask in Jesus Christ's Name. Amen.
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Thank you, sir...?... here. I know it's very hard (worry about), hot like this; we can't help that. I wish now, in this lovely song, "Abide With Me." In the hour of my death, when life is taking me away, or my, the Angels of God, I hope, are packing me to glory, I believe that's already settled. When they take me away I hope I hear that song being played like that, "Abide With Me." When the death is struggling in my throat, and the cold vapors floating against my soul, when I start down through that long valley they call the shadow of death, I want to see the morning star come out, light up the way for the valley of the shadow of death. And when I get to the Jordan, I expect to see two glossy wings of the Holy Ghost reach across there, and bear our weary souls to a better land. Till that time, may we live faithful to Him, Who is faithful to His Word. In the Name of the Lord Jesus. All have faith in God; all believe in God. No one doubt God, but only believe.
All right, I don't know what to do. I'm asking my minister brothers, just stay here where you're at. I want you to help me tonight. Will you do it? These men are ordained of God; they publicly come out here before the city, like this, to show theirself, that they believe in Divine healing in Jesus Christ. And they're just as much ordained to pray for the sick as anybody else there is in the world to pray for the sick. Your pastor has the same right to pray. Even the lay members have a right to pray. Is that right? "Confess your fault one to another, and pray one for the other." Everyone has a right that believes in Divine healing to pray for the sick. The only thing, it's just your faith to mount up. I don't know what the Holy Spirit... I've asked Him to bless us. I believe He will do it. Are you going to believe with me, now? You going to expect Him to do it? Then every one be reverent, and let's call a little prayer line and get started. We'll call a few and, up somewhere in the line, and then we'll... Then I want some of, other people... We just don't know what the Lord's going to do for us tonight.
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I tell you, coming over here tonight, I just said, "Lord, I commit it to You. And when I got here, all these pastors was up on the platform; Brother Baxter said, "Brother Branham, there's not a way in the world for them man to stand anywhere." Said, "Every person can be stood in is stood, and they've turned away since early in the afternoon, or the evening." And said, "There's nowhere..." And just then the Holy Spirit revealed something to me. I said, "Leave them brothers right where they are." It's not as I don't want my brothers here, but here--they're believers; you're believers, and some of them are needing healing too. And that's right. And when it's coming cross ways, this way, it mixes me up. You see what I mean? It's mixing me up. And when I'm turn sideways, if I turn the patient this way, there's no neat way of turning the patient to get out... Did you ever turn a radio on about three or four stations trying to come in at the same time? That's the same thing, when I feel the moving.
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Those are demon powers, not demon of your soul, demon of your body. Brother Baxter's explained all that to you. And when they come against that, I just... They fear, and if you notice, one here will be healed of something, and then a kindred spirit of sympathy out there, will be scared and take out of the person. Have you seen that take place? Sure, they know when they're whipped. You can't fool them. Someone... The other night I was at a place where they said they had a healing meeting, and some man was standing there stomping and kicking the platform hard, and saying, "Devil, come out of it, devil..." Now, he don't care how much you cut up (See?); that ain't going to bother him. You can't scare him. There's only one thing will move him; that's true Divine faith in Christ. That'll take him right now; he's afraid of that. That's right. When you really got the Blood of Christ behind you, backing your faith up, moving up like that, he will move away. He recognizes it. All right, now everyone be reverent.
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Where's Billy? All right. Did you give--give--what prayer cards did you give? Z, how far? 51 to a 100. Let's--let's take just about ten. Let's take 90 to a 100. Get 90 to a 100, in Z-90 to a 100, line up here according to your cards, right away. Now, how many in here hasn't got prayer cards? Let's see your hands. Oh, that's good, the front line here; that's the way. I'm glad you're here. Now, you set this way. How many down in the audience, down here, have you got prayer cards? Very few, just now and then. All right. Now, somebody look at prayer cards and see if they've--if they've got that 100 to... What was it I... What'd I'd call, Brother Baxter? Oh, 90, 90 to a 100, yeah, 90 to a 100. See, if somebody's deaf, they wouldn't be able to hear. And look at the--the one next to you and see if they've got their
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Yes, sir. All right...?... Excuse me, audience, for speaking tonight like I have; I've took up lot of your time, but I just love you so much I had to have a few words to say to you before leaving, on the Gospel. It's kinda hard when you're speaking like that, and then go right back into anointing of this other, it's--it's a different feeling and everything. It isn't like speaking or something, but I pray that God will bless each one of you now and give you... How many's going to believe with all your heart now? That's right. How many of you, just keep your hand up and saying it, like this, "Brother Branham, I'm holding on to God to answer your prayer tonight." Are you doing that? All right. You do that, that's solid almost, I'd say, one hundred percent. Something's got to happen. Brother, sister, I've said this, and I'm going to say this before the anointing comes down on me deep, don't pay no attention the way I'm acting up here, 'cause that's--that's just the... You're not in this world at that time. I know where I'm at, but I don't know what I'm saying or doing most of the time.
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Listen, the Angel of God told me, "If you get the people to believe you, and then be sincere when you pray, there's nothing will stand before your prayer." And I said, "Sir, they won't believe me; I'm uneducated." Said, "You'll be given two signs." And He told me what the signs is; you understand. He said, "When this is done, they'll--they'll believe then." And then after those signs is done, which is infallible, is it the truth? It is the truth. All right. Then you've accepted it. Now, upon that basis, anything can happen. Hear me; anything can happen. Don't you pay any attention to any senses; don't you pay any attention to any--any doubts or--or any mechanical things; you listen to the Holy Spirit tonight. And if you'll do that, and do just as I tell you to do, you'll see the glory of God. Now, I'm saying that to you down here too. And I'm saying to every one of you: Believe and be in prayer, and accept Jesus Christ as your Healer. And say to God, that you're go--that you believe that you're going to be healed. God's going to make you well tonight, and you shall receive what you've asked for. All right. Everything ready. All right, bring--bring the man.
How do you do, sir? I just try to get that around so that the people, that--that out there in the audience will be able to hear. You'll
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check that for me times, Brother Baxter. Now, my brethren, I want you all back here with one accord, to believe. Now, you don't have to keep your head down 'less I ask. But I--I want you to believe me; I'm here representing the same Gospel that you preached all these years. And you brethren, some of you here is aged men to me, and you, back when I was a little boy, you were preaching this Gospel and contending for it. And now, I'm just merely running the road that you've paved; that's all. If there's any credit, if Jesus would come tonight, I'd be happy to step back and let you all go in. For I believe you would do it before me, 'cause I'm just running over the road that you all have paved. Now, you pray for me. And as--as the people are here. I'm trying to... This is the first time I've ever done this, about first or second time, as I remember, of trying to have the Spirit of discernment while there's coming... You understand me, you brethren? It's from both sides (You see?) like that. All right, now believe with all your heart, here. All right.
All right, you come, brother. All right, yes, sir, that's all right, just so I can talk to you just a little bit. And now, I suppose we're... As far as I know, we're strangers in life. I don't... I... Oh, you was at the Fort Wayne meetings, yes, but didn't get in the--the row. I'm just going to talk to you just a little bit, because that--that's just to contact (You see?) your spirit. Now, that was a wonderful meeting, wasn't it? It was marvelous. That's where the only time that I know of, that the--that the, I believe the, that paper called "We The People," that famous book, it, that meeting went it the night that a little blind girl was healed at the platform. The Assemblies of God people, it was in your paper, and-and so forth, when the--a little blind girl came up. And then the papers wrote around there that she could not see after she was prayed for; and her father went down to the--the place, and brought the child, and proved it, and everything, when I took the little girl aside, and the blind spirit was cast away from her. Was anybody there that night when it happened? Yeah, there's hands; there's somebody waving back in there. That's right, everywhere. It was a marvelous time. Little girl was... Had a stomach trouble and lots wrong with her, and it appeared... How many Assembly of God people that takes that, what is their paper's name now? "Evangel." How many read that article in the "Evangel?" Let's see your... The Pentecostal people takes the "Pentecostal Evangel"... Yeah, there's several hands around that read the article. And that was in "We The People," international book this year.
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Now, on that... If you will, stand back this way just a little bit, back... If... No... In that--in that meeting, signs and wonders were
done, wasn't it? And I believe in that meeting I testified about being, going overseas, and that be a boy be raised from the dead somewhere, you know, I spoke of that. You remember that. That was about right on the year before it happened. But it--it happened, and God always brings things to pass just the way He said it. Sir, while I'm standing here, I see you slip back; you're a minister of the Gospel. Isn't that right? Aren't you a minister? And you're suffering with a nervous breakdown, isn't that right? Isn't that right? Well, come here and be healed, brother. Almighty God, Author of Life and Giver of every good gift, Satan, this demon come roaring out there; he knowed that challenge of faith was on him. In the Name of Jesus Christ, come out of this man, leave him alone. God bless you, my brother. You put a great strain on your nerves, and your age too. You see, it's just the time. Men goes through that the same as woman. You're going to be a well man. Go off the platform; preach the Gospel, and go on, be well.
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Let's say, "Praise the Lord." The minister will be well. Ever who's around Fort Wayne there, watch him. There's nothing wrong with him; Satan just grabbed him; that was all a scare. Many people say, "Well, you get next to yourself." How can you when something's there to scare you? And look here, reverend, you that just was healed, looky here, let you know what I'm talking about: There's at least sixty percent of these people setting right in here tonight, suffering with the same thing. They're suffering with a nervous condition. How many will be honest, that you're nervous, raise your hands. How's that. About sixty percent, is that right? All right, that shows that I'm... That God reveals to me what I'm talking about. Is that right? When that demon went off of you, they shook all through there like that. Made me blind for a few minutes. I believe every one of you right now, while that minister's healed that's bothered with nervousness, could be healed right now. Satan knows he's lost this battle. Sure, he does. He knows he's a lose... My, sure, aren't you agreeing right now; people are healed. That's true.
That can't last long brethren; that's marvelous. All right, bring your client, or--or patient. Yeah, that's right. It--get just a little behind me if you will, to kinda right along there. All right. Oh, my, people, please believe me as His servant. Something took place right then. Be reverent. How do you do, sir? I believe this is our first meeting time in life; I don't believe I ever seen you before. I've never seen you. And I... Is this your first time to see me? You had photographs; I see. Yes, sir. And you like to do that, do you photograph? You, or you do photograph? Not with camera, you don't do any photographing. You love the Lord with all your heart? I believe that. Uh, huh. Say, sir,
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you're suffering with some kind of a weakness, that you get real weak and blind, don't you? I see you sometime just kind of go down. Is that right? And are... No, you're not a photographer; you're a musician. Is that right? That is right. And say, you have--don't you have a, some kind of a gallbladder trouble, or some... Isn't that right? Come here and be healed, brother. Almighty God, Author of Life and Giver of every good gift, send Thy blessings upon this man who I bless in Thy Name. In the Name of Jesus Christ, come out of the man, thou demon of affliction. All right, sir, my brother, go and be well, in the Name of the Lord Jesus. Let's say, "Praise the Lord."
Oh, what a night. Friends, God is my Judge: I'm becoming so weak I can hardly stand on this platform. That's true, there's something taking place in the audience. All right, every one just as reverent as you can; be reverent. What do you think, sister, setting down there? Do you believe with all your heart? If you do, have faith, and God will let you be able to get up from there and walk. You over there, you put your arm around the lady. Don't let it shock you, but you believe also, do you? You believe she'd get well? Well, tell her to have faith. Don't weep, mother, have faith. You want to be well? You want to accept your healing? All right, you're suffering with a cancer, aren't you? Won't you stand up on your feet and be well in the Name of the Lord Jesus. Let's say, "Praise the Lord." She comes up out of her chair to accept it. Let's say, "Bless the Lord." Yes. Praise God.
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How many of you people don't have prayer cards, let's see your hands around? That row, look like none of you have prayer cards. What about you, lady, setting there? Do you believe? With all your heart? You believe God sent me as your--as--as His servant? You believe that I'm His prophet standing here? You accept it. All right, will you... If I'll tell you something, will you believe it? Jesus Christ healed you of that tumor just then. Stand up on your feet and be made well. All right, go home and pass it now. In the Name of the Lord Jesus. You setting next to her there (Uh-huh.), you believe with all your heart? You believe, accept this is God's prophet, this... You do? You'd like to get over that hay fever, wouldn't you? Is that right? All right, stand up and be over it. In the Name of the Lord Jesus accept your healing. Amen.
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What about the lady setting next to her? What do you think
about it, sister? You believe with all your heart? Let's see if I could see you. You believe me as God's prophet? You do. All right. You got poor circulation that's caused you to come to a paralyzed condition. Stand up on your feet and receive your healing. In the Name of the Lord Jesus. Somebody help her. There she's up. Oh, her arm come straight. Let's say, "Praise the Lord." That's the way it's done. In the Name of the Lord Jesus. Hallelujah. That's the way, sister. You're going to be a well woman. What about the man setting next to her? Do you have a prayer card, sir? Are you believe? Look this a way, are you sick? Yes. I see you are. Say, look this a way, young man. Have you been a soldier? You have. You have some kind of a jungle fever or something like, some kind of a disease like that you caught overseas. Is that right? Stand up on your feet and be made well, in the Name of the Lord Jesus. Amen.
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Who's next there without a prayer card? What about you, lady? You haven't a prayer card? You believe with all your heart? You're anemia, aren't you? All right, go home and be well. In the Name of the Lord Jesus. The man setting next to you, there's nothing wrong with him but his eyes. Stand up, brother. Be healed. Take your glasses in the Name of Jesus Christ. There he is healed. What about the lady next? You have a prayer card? No? Let's see, you believe Jesus? All right, go home and eat what you want to; you've had stomach trouble; you're healed. Stand up on your feet. Let's say, "Praise the Lord." (Give me just a minute.)
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All right, bring the patient. Everyone reverent. Have faith in God. Don't doubt nothing. Believe the Lord Jesus and you'll be made whole. You believe this? How do you do, sir? What do you think of this feeling that's coming over you now, do you believe that comes from God? You do. You should; you're a minister. Is that right? You've been out of the service for quite awhile on account of arthritis. You've been praying and trying to get back, haven't you? But your shou--put your cane on your shoulder, and go off the platform, and preach the Gospel in the Name of Jesus Christ. Let's say, "Praise the Lord." He's healed. What about you, sister? Got stomach trouble; You believe with all your heart, on the stretcher? Stand up and be healed. Take your stretcher away. In the Name of Jesus Christ. Move the stretcher. All right ministers, walk out here. Let's see. Walk down through that audience laying your hands on those people, out down through the platform. How many wants to be healed?
You there with anemia, stand up; Jesus Christ makes you whole. Amen. Get the stretchers out. What about it, setting there in the wheelchair? Have faith now. Believe. What about the boy with big...?... water-head? Lay your hands over on its head. Believe with all your heart. There it is. Hallelujah. Ministers, get down through the audience...?... yourself, raise your hands, the whole place...
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Thank you my...?... Good evening, friends. It gives me the same measure of thrill to get to meet you for our first night here in-in Toledo. Trusting that this will be a great time for all of us, a revival in our hearts of the grace of God and His power to be made known among His people again. I've looked forward for this time since I was in Cleveland last year. They told me of Toledo up here, and this is my first time to ever be at the city. Said sometime maybe I could get up here. And Brother Baxter told me that I was coming up here, I was so happy to get to come to meet new friends and to meet old. And I--I trust that our six nights of stay here will bring joy to you and myself. That I know it will be for me. It's already that way, just to get to be here.
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And above all, I trust that God will heal every sick and crippled person in our midst that comes. I believe He will. If we can just only have faith in Him, the work is complete. And now, I see it's very warm, and it's sticky. But we can't govern the weather; God does that. And I'm happy to--to be in God's service if it's real real cold or real real hot. It doesn't matter, just so He's there.
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There's a little play... a song we used to sing. "It's Heaven To Me Wherever I Be," if He is there. And I imagine, it was one of the greatest meetings that the Hebrew children ever had when the Son of God came to them in the fiery furnace in all that heat. And He... Everywhere He's at, if it's in heat, or if it's in fright, like Daniel and the lion's den, or wherever it may be, it's heaven where
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Jesus is. And He's promised to us that no matter how small our church was, "even unto two or three is gathered in My Name, I will be in their midst." So in this audience tonight, of maybe two thousand people, I'm sure that He's fulfilling His Word to be with us. Now, if we can find favor with Him, I believe that He will manifest Hisself to us and let us know that He's here by His supernatural Presence, maybe in the realms that may be a little strange to some of us. But Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever. And His power is unlimited, and His Presence is always.
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Now, just for an opening night... Can you hear all right? Is the acoustics carrying to the... I mean the voice in the back of the building all right? Can you hear back there? If you can, raise your hand. That--that's fine. All right. Now, I'm not a very good... have a very good voice that the... Maybe they fixing to step it up just a little bit. Brother Baxter has practically enough voice for both of us, so he... They have to lower it for him and raise it up for me. And... But there's some difference in our size.
And now, the meeting will be what you determine it in your own heart. Of these six nights, it can be a great blessing to you, or it can be a great hindrance to you. It can be a time that all these people setting here in these chairs can be at liberty, walking around out here on the street. It can be to those that's on the cots, delivered. To those suffering with cancer and heart troubles, and all back in here, it can be to every one of you, a deliverance. Now, if God will help me to let it be known to you just how simple it is, then you receive it.
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Now, I wish to read this Scripture which is familiar to many of us. It's concerning the Old Testament, and of the prophet Moses, and God sending him forth to lead the children of Israel. It's found in the 23rd chapter, and it's beginning with the 20th verse of Exodus, Exodus 23:20. And I'll read to the first phase of the 23rd verse. Behold, I send an Angel before thee, to keep thee in the way, and to bring thee into the place which I have prepared. Beware of him... obey his voice, provoke him not; for he will not pardon your transgressions: for my name is in him. But if thou will indeed obey his voice, and do all that I speak; then will I be an enemy unto thy enemies, an adversary to thy adversaries. For mine Angel shall go before thee...
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Now, we just bow our heads for a moment. Our heavenly Father, it thrills our hearts tonight to know that You're still Jehovah, the same heavenly Father that was in the beginning; You're here at the end. And You will always be the same Christ. And we thank Thee for Thy Divine love, to mankind. And as our hearts ponder over this subject tonight, thinking that one day we were aliens cut off from God without mercy, without God, without Christ, aliens in the world, alienated from God and from righteousness. But in due season, when we had nothing to do with it, Christ, in His love, died the innocent for the guilty, bringing us now to a full knowledge in the statues of the sons of God. It does not yet appear what we shall be, but we know we'll see Him; for we'll have a body like His own glorious body. We'll see Him as He is, free from sickness, free from sin, free from death. Oh, how we groan in the spirit to be clothed with them immortal bodies.
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But Father, while we're journeying in this life's journey, screaming from the right and left, and throwing out the life-line, bringing others to the knowledge of the saving grace of the Son of God; we desire health in these bodies. And we know that Thou has made a provided way for this. And dear God, I pray that in these nights that is to come here in this auditorium, that You will manifest Yourself in such a way till there will not be one sick or feeble person in our midst. God, I have two more meetings according to schedule before I leave for dark Africa. And Lord, here my own home lands that I love, O Father God, pour out Your blessings in a double portion. Grant it, Lord.
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And in this city tonight where we come for the first time, may the hands of Your holy Son be stretched out in tender mercy, and embrace every sick person, and every sinner, and bring them to Thee, Lord, for salvation and healing. And may the Angel of God, Who has fed me since the day I came on earth, and is here tonight. May He manifest Christ to the audience in such a way, till there won't be a lack of anything in the meeting. May faith be so high till it'll be predominate over every sickness and disease in the building. And may the Lord Jesus' Name be magnified here in this city, until there'll be an old fashion revival break out that'll go from city-wide even nationwide. Grant it, Lord, just before the coming of the Just One, Who we all look forward for His coming. Now, help me, dear God, in these next few moments speaking to the audience. Give words that'll encourage faith, for we ask it in the Name of Thy Son, Jesus, our Saviour. Amen.
My speaking is limited. I... Mr. Baxter is the speaker. But on the first night, I usually have a little more time than ever, because I come in with--out of the rush of the day, and to enter a meeting, which I've been in for quite awhile, and I'm tired and worn out. But I always take the first night, concerning the--the manifestation of the Spirit, that I might get it to the people personally. And I ask my audience each first night if they will help me as I try to, upon this night, to let the people first see the background of what all this means. Now, I'm just as conscious as--as the rest of you, that there is much fanaticism hooked into Divine healing, and to the religion which we call Christian religion today. But many of you people who are Christians, and you know there is fanatics. But that doesn't take away from Christ, that only adds to Christ, to let them know that there's got to be a real genuine Holy Spirit for the bogus action to be made off of. If there is no real one, then the bogus would have to be the real one.
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In other wise, if--if you see a bogus dollar, a counterfeit dollar bill, there has to be a real one for that to be made off of, or it would be the original and the real. So when you see somebody who doesn't live like a Christian, yet profess to be a Christian, and doesn't act like a Christian, but just simply claims to be, and--and live that kind of a way, you know that back behind there somewhere there's a real genuine Christian somewhere. See? Well now, there's many things that's put in the act of Divine healing which it is not God doing it. But behind all of it, proves that there's a real genuine God that really--a fountain open of Divine healing. You're not here tonight, I don't believe, just for curiosity. If you are, of course, God will--will see that your curiosity is satisfied. I hope and trust that.
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Now, I want to say the first thing, that Divine healing... The only way to approach anything that represents God, is smoothly and sanely, and based solid on the Word of God. If it's built on anything else besides God's Word, it's an error. It's wrong. Don't fool with it. And if--and if it wasn't in God's Divine Word tonight, and could not be proven that it is God's Divine will in His Word, then I wouldn't have nothing at all to do with it. And I would rather die a sinner than to die a hypocrite, or a deceiver. I believe I would have a better chance, if there would be a chance after death, which I do not believe there is. But if there would be, I'd have a--a better conscience to face God, and say, "God, I just didn't believe You, and I just let it go," than to face Him and be a hypocrite. I believe the Scripture says it's better to be an infidel than a
hypocrite.
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So I--I love Christ. And I may be turned down at that day. But since I have been saved, there's been something in my heart. I believe if He would appear tonight, and say, "I can't receive you into heaven, you'd turn away and go down into the place with the devil." If there is such a thing that I could remember Him while I was down there, I believe that the love that I have in my heart would burn for Him if I was down there for what He's been to me. I may not have much knowledge of the Word and so forth, but in my heart I have a love for Him that I can't express. He's more than my life to me.
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And now, Divine healing is based on His Word. And we know that God is sovereign. He's... People think that God can just do anything He wants to do. God cannot do anything. God is obligated to His Word. God cannot lie. The Bible says He can't. So there's one thing that God can't do. And when God says anything, and makes a promise, God can't take that promise back, because He's God, and He's sovereign, and He can't go back on that promise. Now, how many believes that's true? So there'd have to be no more arguing whether... Which I can prove it, or any minister of the Gospel can prove that Divine healing was included in the atonement: "For He was wounded for our transgressions, with His stripes we're healed." Is that right? That settles it just on one. Then if it wasn't in the atonement, and God's Word said so, it's right anyhow. 'Cause God is obligated to His Word. God is obligated to His...
Brother Baxter the other day in a discussion, gave the most beautiful illustration I ever heard on it. He said, "In a certain land there was a righteous king. And the king was going to execute a slave. And the--the laws of the land said that this king must kill this slave. And the slave standing before the king was trembling and nervous. And the king said, "Now, don't..." Said, "What do you require before I kill you, or have your life taken." He said, "A glass of water." And the king give him the glass of water. And he was standing. He could... was so nervous, he couldn't get it to his mouth. It was just spilling all out like that. He said, "Now, look. straighten up." Said, "I'm not going to take your life until you drink that water." And the slave looked up at him, throwed the water out. Now, the king had to let him go, for his
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word... He was a righteous king. He was a good man. And God is more than a good man; He's sovereign. And when He says so in His Word, "Whatsoever things you desire, when you pray believe you receive them." That's whatsoever things you desire. See? "These things that I do, shall you also, for I go unto My Father." That's true. He can't take that back. It's true. God has made the promise. "He was wounded for our transgressions, with His stripes we were healed." That's true.
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Now, just for a word now, when Jesus Christ... He came to rid sin. You believe that, don't you. All right. Now, sickness is an attribute of sin. Before we had any sin, we had no sickness. Sin came and sickness followed sin as an attribute of sin. We all know that. Any sickness is... May not your sins. It's either a direct or indirect. It may you inherited it somewhere, the weakness of your people who sinned, and it's dropped down. As He said, "Each generation getting weaker and wiser." But it's either direct or indirect cause from sin. Now, when Jesus... For instance, like this. If a big serpent was here, or a great big something that had me by the side with his paw, and was hurting me with his paw. Now, it's not necessary for me to have to cut the animal's paw off. But if something hits him in the head and kills his head, that kills him all over. And when Jesus atoned for sin, He killed sin and every one of its attributes. He killed the serpent from its head. Do you believe that? Now, that's true. Then if He atoned for sin, He atoned for sickness because sickness is secondarily, an attribute of sin. Our worry, our troubles, our fears, and all those things are attributes from sin.
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Now, when Jesus died at Calvary, He settled the sin question for ever before the Father, because He was a perfect Sacrifice for our sin. He was our Kinsman Redeemer. You Bible scholars know what I'm speaking of, like Boaz, when he was a... had to be a kinsman redeemer to redeem the lost estate of Ruth. And he had to make a public testimony. And then everything that Ruth had fell to him as he redeemed all of her possessions. And he... Of course, he got... When he redeemed Naomi, why, he got Ruth in, which is a type of the Gentile Bride, and so forth. But he was a kinsman redeemer. Now, God, Who is in Spirit, in-veiled Himself in a body of flesh, which was His Son, Christ Jesus. And God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself, and become kinfolks to human beings to suffer the penalty that He had put on the human Himself. And He became Kinfolks and a Redeemer. In other words, like this. We was put in the devil's pawn shop, and Jesus paid the price and brought us out. See? The price was already
paid. Now, when Jesus died at Calvary, He saved every sinner in the world that--or ever would be in the world, as far as God was concerned.
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Now, you wasn't saved ten years ago, or two years ago, or three years ago. I wasn't saved seventeen years ago. I was saved two thousand years ago. But I accepted it seventeen years ago. Now, Jesus didn't come down and die just for me, or die just for you. He settled the sin question. But it'll never do us any good until we accept it. It's your accepting of Him as your personal Saviour. And it's by faith that you receive it and believe it. Now, in Hebrews 3:1, the Bible said that He's the High Priest of our confession. Now, He's setting at the right-hand of the Father to make intercessions for us upon our confession.
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Now, remember, it isn't how much you cry; it isn't how much you repent; it isn't how loud you can cry to God; it isn't how sincere you can be; it's how much faith that you have when you come to Him. He doesn't save you on the merits of your prayer. He doesn't save you upon the merits of your righteousness. He saves you upon the merits of your faith. It's by faith are you saved, and that through grace. Now, you come to the altar realizing that you're a sinner and you are sorry for your sins. You repent of what you've done. And you can stay there and cry for week in and out. And it would never save you until you believe in your heart that you are saved. Is that right? Then you confess it. Now, He can't do nothing for you until you confess it. Is that right? For He is the High Priest of (conjunction)--of your confession. He can do nothing... "You confess Me before men, I'll confess you before the Father." Is that right? "What you say I done down here for you, that's what I say the Father that you... that I have done for you." He's the High Priest. You get that young man? The High Priest of your confessions. Now, here He is setting here to make intercessions on my confession, and I have a right to confess that He's done anything for me that's in the redemptive blessings. There you are. What was the redemptive blessings? "He was wounded for our transgressions, bruised for our iniquity, the chastisement of our peace was upon Him, with His stripes we're healed." Is that right? That's every believer's possession. That's mine.
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You know what I find in traveling? I say this with humbleness. I find two classes of people. One, the fundamental, the other one, the Full Gospel. They're both fine classes of people. But here's the
trouble. The fundamental knows what they are, positionally, in Christ, but don't have much faith to exercise it. The Full Gospel's got plenty of faith, but don't know what they are. That's right. Just like a man's got a lot of money in the bank, but he don't know how to write a check. And the other man's got no money in the bank and he knows how to write a check. If I could ever get them together. If you realize that you're a son and daughter of God, and the deposit's made in Calvary, and you've got a checkbook in your hand, write anything you want to on there, God's promised to take care of it. It's in the bank. It was deposited at Calvary. Your salvation, the baptism of the Holy Spirit, you're worries, and things gone. And every one of you can be perfectly made well, 'cause your redemption is already redeemed before God, and He's setting at the right-hand of God to make intercessions upon your confession.
I'm a Baptist, but that... Not... I'm a Pentecostal Baptist. I got the Holy Ghost, so that changed my things a little bit. But look, brother, that would almost make me shout, to think that I have a right to anything that He died for. He put it in the deposit box at Calvary, and give me a checkbook, said, "Write whatever you want to. I'll take care of it. Just send it up to Me." Oh, my. That's wonderful. There He is to make... Now, how do you get saved? Let's take it in a childlike form where every believer, no matter if you're--what church you belong to. And your pastor, if he's a right man, he will tell you that--that you can only be saved through faith, not through works, through faith. Now, you believe that He saved you. Now, first thing, that comes from the heart. You believe it. Then you walk up and confess it. Say, "I accept Jesus as my personal Saviour. I believe He saved me." There's not a physical thing in the world that you could prove that you're saved. Your eyes are the same color, got the same shirt on you had on. Go outside and the old gang says, "They ain't nothing to that." But you believe there's something to it, don't you. Now, how... What if you say, "Well I'm going to see how it works out." It'll never work out until you keep your testimony going. You believe you're saved. You act like you're saved. You say you're saved. And you associate with those that are saved, and it works salvation. Is that right? And the same thing will take place by Divine healing. You believe you're healed. You act like He healed you. You say you're healed. And He's a High Priest of your confession to make good anything that you confess that He's done before--fore the Father. There it is.
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I've seen sarcomas cancer... And brother, the kings and rulers
of the nations and earth won't call for fanaticism. You know that. But it's the truth as I'm standing here. It's God's Eternal truth. When you believe it, and act upon your faith, God will bring it to pass. Now, there's no one people... It's been said, "Well I can lay my hands upon you, and I have powers in my hands to heal you." Now, when anyone says that, you remember, that person is telling a something that's untrue. There's no one in the world can heal anybody. Healing comes only from God Almighty. Not even Jesus Christ claimed to be a healer. He said, "It's not Me that doeth the works; it's My Father that dwelleth in Me, He doeth the works." Now, if the Son of God didn't claim to be a Divine Healer, how much more a man. No man can do what Christ has already done.
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No man could save you. No matter how much he'd pray for you, you're only saved by faith. And no man can heal you. You're only healed by faith. Now, you ought to read the Word and not even have to have a preacher, just stand there and read the Word and believe It. But God is love. And He sends preachers around, anoints preachers, and they preach the Word, see it on the Word, and preach the baptism of the Spirit, being borned again. And you believe it, accept it, and get borned again. Is that right? Now. Now, you ought to believe Divine healing. But if you don't believe Divine healing, then God sends ministers around preaching Divine healing; you accept it, believe it, and get healed.
Now, since those works is been going on for many of years, God in His mercy, has done something else for us, which is, send His Angel from glory to manifest His pe--to His people the prophetic gift of God, which can only bring faith up into the level to where you can be healed, or accept your healing from Jesus Christ. Now, many of you know... How many's ever hear the story about ho-my--the Angel of the Lord appearing to me? Let's see your hands. Practically half of you here. Now, dear Christian friends, everyone understands now clearly before going to this here and start the line, that I do not claim to be a Divine healer. That there's nothing at all that I could do for you, my dear brother, sister, only pray for you. And that no other man could heal you. Only healing lays in God. How many knows that? Only healing lays in God. And I say that it's based upon the Word of God. And always the eating of the pudding is the proof of it. There's just so many now healed, till it's beyond question (You know that.), literally millions in the last few years.
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Now, I believe that gifts and callings are without repentance.
You believe that too. That's true. I don't believe that everybody's foreordained, but I believe that God foreordained certain things to happen. And it'll be there. Like I believe in the grace of God. I believe that there's going to be a Church at the last days, a Church without spot or wrinkle. And I believe that's eternally secured before God, that there'll be a Church. But now, who's going to be in it, I don't know. I trust that I will be and you will be. But I don't know that. I only live by faith. See? But I believe that there will be a Church. It'll be secured without spot or wrinkle. Who's its members, I do not know. But I believe according to Scripture, it's all those who are borned again.
Now. Now, healing... And on this mission, I was borned in the state of Kentucky, up in the mountain section in a little old log cabin. My book's back there, if you care to pick it up, why, it's all right. See? Gives the story of it. And as I was saying, my--my people, very poor, formerly, Catholic. I'm Irish on both sides. My mother's Harvey, and my father's Branham. The only change of blood was in there at all when my grandfather married a Oklahoma Indian, broke the blood a little, and have just a little colored blood by the Indian. Now, and in being... When I was born on April the sixth, 1909, about five o'clock in the morning... We lived in a little cabin. There's a picture in the book. We didn't have windows like you people have that live in nice homes. We had just a door that you push back, like a little window, you know, push back. Don't guess you all ever seen anything like that up in this country. But a little old window you push... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]... once...
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He was the voice of one crying in the wilderness. Do you believe that? God told Jeremiah, said, "Before you was even formed in your mother's womb, I knew you, sanctified you, and ordained you a prophet over the nations," before he ever come from his mother's womb. Do you believe that? Then you have to believe in foreordination. See? That's grace. Not by choice, it's by the grace of God. Now, the only way I could teach this and know it's true, which it is by the Scriptures. What? I do not know. Later, it just begin to come; it would just tell things (There's people probably setting here from Jeffersonville right now, so close to this little city.) months before things happen; my manager at the platform... Weeks before things take place, I see it. It's just as natural as you're setting there. And being a Baptist minister, I talked that to my clergymen, and my elders, and so forth. Well, they'd say, "Keep away from it, Billy. Don't
have nothing to do with that. That's back hundreds of years ago. We're living in another age." So forth.
It kept on that, got greater. I have a little church at Jeffersonville. I--I wasn't supported by the church; I worked as a game warden in Indiana, and was patrolman on high lines, worked all my life. I never took an offering in my life. And I worked, pastored a church, not because they wasn't willing to take care of me, but I was able to work, why not work. And then when... Years passed on by. Maybe in a few days I will try and get this story to you, maybe on Sunday afternoon or something when I can. Don't want to take much of your time, keeping you in this hot building. But I must give you a background, so you'll sanely know what you're-what--what it's all about. And I want you to tell others. If you hear criticism, I want you to tell others so you'll know--so they'll know.
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And now, after a bit, It... When I got converted, It got more than ever. It predicted the 1937 flood, when hundreds of men stood there, and laughed, and turned their heads; and I predicted twentytwo feet of water over the streets. Why, I stood there and seen it in a vision. They said, "The boy's gone crazy." And just a few weeks after that, twenty-two feet of water went over the Spring Street in Jeffersonville, Indiana. See? And just... It would just show things all along. Then when I received the baptism of the Holy Ghost, It got greater than ever. Well, I never noticed too much of It, till one day It was getting...?... at me so much, and people tell me, "Forget about It." And I was trying to shun It.
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And I went to a little cabin. I was scout master of the Baptist troop at Jeffersonville for years. And up at the Boy Scout camp... I went there where I have a little cabin. And I went to pray. Sometimes I'd pray all night, and maybe a day and night. And while praying there that night, about, around two--between two and three in the morning, I asking God to never let It appear to me again. And I said, "Well maybe, I'm--Maybe I'm doing wrong." And as soon as... the first time in my life that I ever embraced It to me. And I said, "I realize that..." People said, "Why, that would be the works of the devil." And then when I trying to shove It away from me, then I thought... Well look. The Scripture never come to me, but when Jesus was born in Judaea, the priests and the clergymen were all arguing what kind of buttons they should have on their coats, and some Magis followed a Star. That Star passed by every observatory there was, and every planetarium. And there was nobody seen that Star but them three
Magis. Is that right? You don't have no written record of it in history. Believers and everything walked on the streets of Jerusalem and Bethlehem, but nobody seen that but the Magis. It was sent to the Magis who was looking for the Star of Jacob to rise. Why didn't the priests and the holy men see that? It wasn't for them to see It.
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Then I see that when He was--became of age and was anointed of God to go do good works, as soon as He begin to cast out devils, you know what the priest and the clergymen said? "He is Beelzebub. He has a devil," which is spiritualist. When He knew what was in the people's hearts, they said, "He's just reading their mind. He's Beelzebub." Is that true? "He cast out devils through Beelzebub, which we all know was a spiritualist, prince of the devils. That's how He knows those things, He's a prince of the devils." When Paul and Barnabas came down from up there at Paul and Silas, a little old fortuneteller set on the street and said, "Well, them men up there..." Them clergymen said, "Well that man's of the devil. They'll just turn the world upside down; they're impostors." But that little old fortuneteller said, "Them men are men of God that tell us the way of life." And Paul rebuked the spirit out of her, the spirit of divination. Is that true?
And I said, "So could it be today, that men are failing to know that." And I said, "God, if I've been wrong, forgive me."
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And I no more than had prayed my prayer, till I seen a Light come on the floor. I looked up, and above it was that whirl of light, still there again, whirling around. But the first time in all my life... It spoke to me hundreds of times. But coming walking, I heard somebody walking. I looked like that, It scared me. It would you. And walking right to me, not a vision, just as natural as I am, come a Man about two hundred pounds in weight. He had His arms folded. He was strong looking Man, had a peaceful looking face, and very calm; He had dark hair to His shoulders, smooth face. And He walked up to me and looked down kind of pathetically, said, "Do not fear." And oh, when I heard that voice, I know it was the same One, said, "Don't smoke or drink." I knew that voice.
He said, "I am sent from the Presence of the Almighty God to tell you, that your peculiar birth and life has been to indicate that you're to pray for sick people, and take this to the world." Said, "If you'll get the people to believe you and be sincere, nothing shall
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stand before your prayer. And you're going into all parts of the world; and kings and rulers, and great men will be come and be prayed for. And there'll be great things and signs, and the great things to happen." I said, "Sir, I'm uneducated. I have a grammar school education. And I'm with my people and we're all poor. And I can't preach. I can't make a--a..." I said, "I would not be able. The people would not believe me. I can't govern my words or nothing." In other words, to-if the people would believe me. He said, "I will be with you." And I said, "But they won't believe me, Sir." He said, "As the prophet Moses was given two signs to vindicate his-his calling, so will you be given two signs." He said, "These visions you've seen down through your life will be given to you. First you'll take people by the hand, and don't have nothing to say myself," but said, "It'll tell the people what's wrong, what's the diseases they've had. And if they won't believe this, it'll come to pass, that you'll tell them the very thing and the secret of their heart. And by this, they will believe."
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And I said, "Where... Whence cometh this?" You see, I was questioned. He said, "Don't you understand?" Said, "Upon Jesus Christ our Lord." When Philip found Nathanael, and Nathanael came to Him, not to believe, He said, "Behold, an Israelite indeed..." You know the Scripture. And Nathanael looked at Him, said, "When did You know me, Rabbi?" Said, "Before Philip called you, when you were under the tree." And he fell upon his face and worshipped Him, said, "Thou art Christ." No mental telepathy there, no Beelzebub there. "Thou art Christ, the Son of the living God."
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And when the woman at the well, He talked to her a little while, and got her attention. He said, "Go, get your husband." He went straight to her trouble. She said, "I have none." Said, "You have five." And she said, "Come see a Man Who told me everything I did. Isn't this the very Christ?" He knew where a fish was that had a coin in his mouth. And He did not claim to do anything. When He passed by the pool of Bethesda, there were lame, halt, blind, withered, maybe ten thousand. The Bible said great multitudes. There was a man laying there that maybe had diabetes. He had an infirmity for twenty and eight years. And Jesus knew that he laid there. He healed that one man and left the rest of the crowd lay: Saint John 5. Is that right?
And the Jews questioned Him, the 19th verse. Listen to Him. "Verily, verily, I say unto you, the Son can do nothing in Himself, but what He sees the Father doing, that doeth the Son likewise. But whatsoever the Father doeth, He showeth the Son." Is that right? Then Jesus did nothing of Himself. He seen a vision of what God was doing, and that Jesus done. Is that right? Saint John 5:19, which there's many other Scriptures to go with it. But that's true. We believe that. He saw the vision.
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For instance the resurrection of Lazarus. "I thank Thee, Father, Thou hearest Me already." Back there, said... When they sent for Him to come pray for him, He ignored it and went on. He said, "Lazarus sleepeth, and for your... He's dead. And for your sake, I'm glad I wasn't there. But I go wake him." See? And that's assumed He already knew what the Father had told Him. He said with His own Words that He done nothing till the Father showed Him. The Angel of God declared that, that Jesus Christ said, "These things that I do, shall you do also." Do you believe that? Then if He could do nothing, take no credit for nothing, only done what the Father showed Him to do, that settled it, didn't it.
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Then that Spirit that was upon Him, He went away. "A little while and you see Me no more, yet--the world see Me no more, yet you shall see Me, for I'll be with you, even in you to the end of the world." Is that right? Jesus Christ, the same yesterday, today, and forever... If I said, "I done these things," I'd be a liar. I say I doeth them not. I say Jesus Christ shows them to me through His sovereign grace and mercy, not for my sake, for it's not my healing; it's your healing. And after He sent His Words, sent His ministers, now, He's sent His prophetic gift to increase the faith of the people to get them to believe on Him. If that isn't mercy, if that isn't grace, I don't know what is.
Now, if I come to you tonight... Listen closely. If I come to you tonight and said that I had the spirit of--of a criminal, John Dillinger, that John Dillinger's spirit was upon me, you'd expect me to have big guns and be an outlaw like he was. If I had his spirit, that's what I would do. You know, God never takes His Spirit from the earth? God takes His man, but never His Spirit. Do you know that? Say, 'fore He took Elijah, a double portion of Elijah's spirit come upon Elisha. Is that right? And several hundred years later, He come out in John the Baptist. Is that right? And is predicted to come out again in the last day. Is that right?
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God takes His man, but not His Spirit. His Spirit remains here. When the Spirit's gone, the Church is gone then. There'll be no more salvation. No more care, mercy's over then. The Spirit's gone.
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The Holy Spirit was upon the apostles is here tonight, the same Holy Spirit. God takes His man, but never His Spirit. Now, if I told you I had the spirit of--of this famous outlaw, you'd expect me to act like him, to be anointed like him. If I told you I had the spirit of some famous artist, you'd expect me to stretch the canvas across here, and catch those waves of that ocean out there, of that lake, and paint them with the foam on them like some famous artist, if I had his spirit. And if I confess to have the Spirit of Jesus Christ on us, we should do the things that Jesus did. Jesus said, "He could do nothing but what the Father showed Him." Now, when the Angel of the Lord appeared to Moses... It wasn't Moses, It was the Angel of God. What was He when He appeared? A Pillar of Fire. Is that right? And He led the children of Israel. And any scholar knows that that was the Angel of the Covenant, which was Christ. Is that right? And He's the same yesterday, today, and forever. And as He read the--led the Church back there in the natural body, He's leading us today in the spiritual body.
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And this supernatural Being (which has been a vindicated by pictures and through the American Photographers Association, through the examiners and everything, and hangs tonight in... It's the only time that a supernatural Being was ever taken. We'll introduce that later.) is here with us tonight. Now, Christians, and friends, I say: I come to you tonight, in Toledo, in the Name of Jesus Christ, representing Him as His humble servant. I have nothing that I can do within myself to help you. But He is here, and able and willing to perform things that'll make you believe in Him and accept Him. If I speak, and what I say comes not to pass, don't you believe me, for I would be false. But if I testify of something, and our heavenly Father witnesses and vindicates that to be the truth, then you believe Him. Is that fair enough?
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Any man can come here and say this or that. Well, you can say anything you wish to, if you wish to be a false witness. But you saying it doesn't make it so. But when God speaks it, that vindicates it to be so. Now, it's written that the mouth of two or more witnesses, let every word be established. Is that right? Now, I have spoke to you tonight that our heavenly Father appeared at my birth, and sent me to help you. And I stand tonight as His
servant to help you. I... It may not be according to your theological teachings. God usually does things contrary to what, way people have it figured out to be. Look at those priests. They couldn't believe Jesus come like that, born in a manger. That was altogether... He's always done that. He did in the antediluvian destruction. And in my opinion, brother clergymen, when Jesus appears the second time, it'll be altogether different than what we got it figured out that it'll be. He hides it from the eyes of the wise and prudent, and will reveal it to babes such as will learn. It's spiritually understood. Now, may the good Lord bless you. With all my heart, I pray that.
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I have no way to heal. But as the individuals come to the platform, or set in the audience... We give out prayer cards in order to keep a big commotion from turning, and saying, "We got cheated, and you didn't give us a chance to get in line." Every day we give out prayer cards, and just call from somewhere in the--in the--the bunch of cards from that night for you people to come. That don--isn't necessary. That only lines up a few here and we pray for them. And I say this with the Bible over my heart, if you, the people who has not the prayer cards, or, with or without, if you in that--in this building, and each night, will believe with all your heart that I have told you the truth, and accept Jesus Christ as your Healer, God will show me in the audience what's happened to you. Is that fair enough? That's what I say in the Name of our Lord Jesus. Not as I claim to be anything myself, I'm the least among you. And I do not say that to be humble; I say it from my heart.
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Many of you men was standing on these street corners going without something to eat, and raising your children on a few crumbs that was given you, to pave the way for this. If there's any credit give it--give it to you. I'm just following the road that you paved. So brother, please recognize the gift of God, not because it's me. It's not just with me, it's with you. You're the one. That you... I might be able to see. I might've been born for that purpose, which I was. But the blessing is for you, the individual. So believe it. Don't let it pass by. The hour's coming near. Now, you tonight... We got just a short time. Now, I want you to believe this of me: Believe that I've told you the truth. Do you believe God the Father, you believe in the Son Jesus Christ, you believe in the Holy Spirit? Wonderful. That makes you a Christian. But in order to get the benefits of this Divine gift, this Angel... May be the same One that was on the water of the pool, I don't know. Maybe It's the same One that was with Paul.
Somebody said, "Angels wasn't in the New Testament. The Holy Ghost led the Church." That's true. But brother, Angels are always ministering Spirits in every age. You believe there's Angels in the New Testament? How about Philip? What was It appeared to him? The Holy Ghost, or the Angel of the Lord that told him to go to the desert Gaza? The Angel of the Lord. Is that right? How many believe Peter had the Holy Ghost? Was It the Holy Ghost or the Angel of the Lord, when they was having a prayer meeting at John Mark's house, that shined in like a Light, and It over him like that, and touched him and broke the shackles loose and taken him out? It was the Angel of the Lord. Is that right? How many believes Saint Paul had the Holy Ghost? After fourteen days and nights on the ocean, not stars, moon or nothing, he was down in the gallery and came back out. All hopes was gone they'd ever be saved. He said, "Men and brothers, be of a good courage for the Angel of God, Whose servant I am, stood by me last night and told me there'd be no loss of life. Wherefore, I believe God, that it shall be just as it was shown to me." Who did he say did it? "I'll not say I've had wisdom"; he said, "the Angel of God, Whose servant I am."
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How many believes John the Revelator had the Holy Ghost? "I Jesus, have sent My Angel to testify of these things." Is that right? And the whole Book of Revelations was showed John by the Angel of the Lord. Is that right? And John fell down to worship the Angel; the Angel said, "See that you do it not (Is that right?), for I am of thy fellow-servants, the prophets." Is that true? The prophetic Spirit that had been on the prophets down through the age, was here prophesying through John, showing him by an Angel. And that same Spirit is in the building tonight. Now, if your eyes are veiled like Balaam of old, even to the dumb mule saw the Angel standing in the way, may God move back the veil tonight and open all of our eyes, as He did Gehazi's eyes down at Dothan when Elijah said, "There's more with us than there is with them." He said, "Well, there's only two of us," in other wise, "and look at the Philistines." He said, "God, open that boy's eyes." And around that prophet stood chariots of fire, and the hills was on fire, and Angels of fire. Is that right? He's the same yesterday, today, and forever. Don't try to figure it out, just accept it.
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I want you to believe God. I want you to believe Christ. I want you to believe the Holy Ghost. And I want you to believe me. Now,
you can believe in Them, and not believe that I've told you the truth; you'll never benefit by it. You know that? The same people that believed in God and was zealous of God, killed Jesus. But Jesus said, "As you have believed in God, believe also in Me." Is that right? They were God believers, believed in His Father, but they must believe that He was the Son sent from the Father (Is that right?) not the Father, but He was the Son sent from the Father. I'm... I am neither the Father, Son, nor Holy Ghost. I am a man, your brother, vindicated--ministry vindicated by a supernatural Being, not me, the Angel of the Lord that has come from God to minister these blessings to you. Could that electric light there say, "Look what a great wire I am?" The wire has nothing to do with it; it's the current in the wire that makes the light, not the wire. And I am as the wire. I have no light of my own, until it's turned on from somewhere else. Do you see that I give praise to Jesus Christ and to God? It's not of myself; it's of Him. You believe.
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And now, at the end of the service Sunday night, if the secrets of the heart isn't manifested, and the sick healed, the blind see, and your secrets told out, your diseases interpreted by the powers of Almighty God, then you can say Brother Branham is a false prophet. But if it is the truth, and God vindicates it to be the truth, then you accept Jesus as your Saviour, your Healer; and give Him all praise and glory, and go around and live for Him the rest of your days, telling others how good He is. That's fair enough, isn't it. God be with you, is my prayer.
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All right. Shall we bow our heads again. If our brother organist will come to the organ. O God, it's been hot in the building. Many of these dear people setting fanning, very warm up here on the stage. Now, dear God, we're not here to be seen. Thou knowest that Thy-Thy service is not a show card by no means, Lord. Neither is it any vaudeville act; it's the power of God unto salvation. I'm trying to represent You tonight, Lord, by the Angel that's been sent, and has carried me through the day; by saying to these people that You're the same yesterday, today, and forever. And I have nothing to do within myself of these things. It is You and Your Divine mercy sent to them. I've done all that I know how to do, Father. And I pray now that the Angel, Who has been with me down through the age, will come near to me now. There's many sick people setting out here, Father. There's many setting out there that's in need. I pray that You'll be with me, and will help me, and reveal to me the things that I might know that would help Your children a little closer. And God, grant that it'll be a great
meeting these nights. And may the streets pack with people, and thousands come to Your Son Jesus. And may every wheelchair be emptied. May every heart trouble be cured, every cancer... May there be great glory in the people. And may every--every church receive a great revival, for we ask it in the Name of Thy beloved Child, Jesus Christ. Amen.
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What's the letter...?... D from 1? My boy says he give out fifty cards. Look on the little card that you received and you'll see a letter on the back called "D." You'll see numbers on the back. That's card's merely to keep you lined up here on the platform. Now, let them with D number 1, number 2... Let's call... How much room, Brother Baxter, do you feel we got down there? How many could we call in there, ten, fifteen? About how many? All right. Let the first fifteen, from D-1 to D-15... You people setting near them that's got cards, they may be deaf. You look at their cards and examine it, 'cause they wouldn't be able to hear me. And line up here according to your number in numerical order. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 up in... D-10, or D-15 rather. D-1 to D-15. We'll begin with them to start and just pray for as many as we possibly can.
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The rest of you that has your prayer cards... How many in here is sick and doesn't have a prayer card, let's see your hands? All around, everywhere now, raise up your hand, sick and without a prayer card. All right. I have just a mutual idea. You're setting here mostly in front. Now, while they're lining up there the--that first group, you look this a way, friends. If there's one person in this building that I know, or recognize... God, Who is my Judge right now, I do not see one person that I know. You're strangers to me. I do not know you, nowhere. Now, in a few moments, if you see me acting strange, promise me that you won't criticize it. It may--may... See, 'cause I go... Something happens.
How many's ever seen the picture of the Angel of the Lord, one we have... Let's see you raise your hands. Many of you seen it, haven't you? Well, you all understand. You've been in other meetings. It comes down and anoints. And in the anointing, It--It does the talking. I have nothing to do with it. Now, if you will believe, and no matter what It tells you to do, you do just exactly what It says, and see what happens. Now, just... It doesn't heal everybody. It's only by faith that you're healed. But It knows. Many times I see people and see they're going to die. I never say nothing about it unless I'm directly led. If I see it turn dark around
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the people. I know they haven't got many days. But I never say that, because sometimes prayer could change things. We realize that. Hezekiah was told by the prophet he was going to die. You believe God told him that? And Hezekiah turned his face to the wall and wept bitterly, and God heard his prayer and sent the prophet back to him. Said, "I heard his prayer; spared him for fifteen years." Is that true?
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Now. Now, you without prayer cards, just as you... Probably your first night, your first meeting I mean. I give you this tonight: If you don't get a prayer card, that has nothing to do with it. You look this a way, and you believe with all your heart that I've told you the truth. And I'll watch the audience. And as I begin to feel it pull from me, and if God shows me anything concerning you, I'll speak to you. See? Now, you don't... Just forget about your prayer cards. See? Just look this way and pray. And God is able at this time to reveal it. May God grant it. Now, I want everybody to be just as reverent as they can be.
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And now, mothers with your children, sometimes, especially in epilepsy, it causes lots of trouble. And you keep your children near you. And when I tell you to bow your heads, you do it. And remember this, as I start at the beginning of the meeting, so you'll know: I am not responsible. Let me say that again, 'cause according to law, I am not responsible for anything that happens to critics during the time of the service. For be it assured to you, that these powers, which will be explained later in another service, they are absolutely demons that come from one and go to another. How many knows that's true? Well, that's fine. I thought I had a solid audience there. Remember in the Bible time, they wanted to come out? They're helpless without they're embodied. When they get embodied, then's when they're in trouble.
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Now, come lady. And now, everybody just as reverent as you can be. Now, I want the audience to watch this so... I'm trying to talk as much as I can before this--the anointing comes on. Usually I want you to watch the patient's--the face of the patients when they come. When the anointing comes down, watch the--their expression change. They realize they're in the Presence of the supernatural One. And now, the people are strange. And at first night, it'll be a little bit strange, but I want you all to be with me in prayer. And be praying out there now and just believing. And your faith will pull to me. And if it does, I see the vision; then when I see the vision, I speak of what I see, and you'll know who it is then. See? Everyone ready?
Now, you up here with the wheelchairs and things, be--don't think your case is helpless. It's not. Believe.
How do you do, sister. Now, you're the--you're the patient, aren't you, sister. We're strangers I believe. I don't believe I have ever seen you. If I have, I don't recognize you. You've seen me before in Flint, Michigan. Was you at the meeting? Just didn't get in I suppose. Best I remember the Flint meeting, it was quite a meeting. Now, Mr. Baxter was just... See, anointing comes down, and it's a... And when It does, why, sometimes my voice is... You know, they want it so that the audience will hear it. See? And now, let's see if they can hear all right. Can you hear me back there all right? Can you hear it all right? All right then.
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Now, all right. You... Now, I never talked to you or anything. I don't know nothing about you in that manner. You see, it's--It's just you was just at the meeting, the Flint meeting. And I believe the first night there, I think we had about eight thousand or something like eighty-five hundred. [The sister says she passed through a fast line.--Ed.] Oh, there was a fast prayer line that you passed through. Well probably. I--I stopped that a long time... No, ma'am. Now, what I'm trying to get at, that you and I, as far as--as knowing each other, are strangers. See, that... And I put my hand before God, I don't... I never remember of ever seeing you, and I have no way... Stand there with my head bowed, and the people just passing by me just as hard as they could. I wouldn't know, hundreds and hundreds going by. Now, there's something wrong with you, or you wouldn't be here. And you're not a critic; you're a Christian. You're a Christian. I... As soon as you walked up and I turned, I felt the Spirit witness. Now, there's something taking place to you right now, isn't there. Now, as a witness to the audience, would you raise your hand if that's true, a very odd strange feeling. Now, her faith is just now moving, the Spirit is coming on me now. See?
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Now, if I ever knew anything about you, it would have to come from some supernatural Being. I--I don't know you (See?), nothing about you. And it would have to be known. Now, you are fa--are--are aware of this, that you come here and I don't know you. And now, you have a witness there that there's something supernatural a moving. And the feeling is kind of a--a warm welcome. Isn't that right? That's... See, in preaching, you get anointed and be happy. But this is more of a settled feeling. See, It's just moving back and forth between us
now. And now, if I could be able to know anything of you, it would have to come through the supernatural realms. And you believe that It's what I say It is, the--the Spirit of the Lord Jesus Christ. Yes, ma'am. That's the reason you're here. Yes, ma'am. Now, of course, I see you wearing glasses. That would be your eyes. But there's probably something different. I don't want you to say nothing to me, just so I can see--see you.
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Now, I don't mean see... You know what... The prophet Elijah said, "If it wasn't I respected the presence of Jehoshaphat, I wouldn't even look at you." See? In other words, look to see, it means spiritually see what's wrong. Now, He's lovely, isn't He, the Lord Jesus. He certainly is. Now, perceiving that you are a Christian, and you believe the Word of God... Yes, ma'am. You're a victim of circumstances. You've got things wrong with you. Isn't that right? You have a--you have a stone in--in your gallbladder for one thing. Isn't that right? And you also have a kidney stone. Isn't that right? You ha... You're suffering... Let's see, what is that. It's a sho... Oh, it's di--diabetes, isn't it? You have diabetes. You're nervous, aren't you, extremely nervous? Life hasn't been pleasant to you either. There's... Seems like a string, yes, of down through there, a great dark string. Was that the truth what was said? Was that... It's the truth. All right. That wasn't me that said that. I heard my voice, but I didn't know... I seen you, you been prayed much. You been prayed for, by many different times, and... Isn't that right? I seen the vision before you. Now, do you believe me as His prophet? [Lady says, "I surely do."--Ed.] All right, go home, you're healed. Jesus Chirst has made you well, sister. And God bless you. Go...?... God bless you, sister. All right.
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Everyone be just as reverent as you can be now. All--All right son, you may bring the man...?... How do you do, sir? Isn't our Master lovely? Oh, I tell you, I don't know what I could do without Him. He's been my life and my joy, and all I have. And I perceive that you believe Him also. It's a welcome spirit. How would I know you was a Christian instead of a critic? It's the same Spirit that knowed that Nathanael was a--a good man, a truthful man. And now, Nath-Jesus said to Nath--or Nathanael said to Jesus. He said, "Behold, an Israelite indeed, in whom there's no guile." And Nathanael was surprised, he said, "Whence knowest Thou me, Rabbi?" He said, "Before Philip called you, I saw you under the tree." Is that right? Now, the first thing has been said to you, that you are a Christian. Is that right? You are a believer And you're suffering with a heart trouble. Isn't that
right? You may go home now for you're going to be well. Jesus Christ has healed you, my brother. And God bless you, make you well. Let us say, "Praise the Lord," everyone now. I never prayed for the first two people. Their faith healed them before they even got here. See? Now, you say, "Brother Branham, how do you feel that?" While I'm talking to the patient, I just get real weak. And I know that the blessings of the Lord has went to them and has healed them. All right. Now, have faith and believe with all your heart. How do you do, sister. Our Master is lovely, isn't He now? See? Now, I do not know at this time what's wrong with you. But you are a believer. And there's something out in the audience pulling the same way. Now, it's a kindred spirit. It's something moving the same thing that you have. See, spirits are kindred. Just like you've heard, "Birds of a feather..." See, they go together. And demon power, demonology is--works the same manner. And you're standing here at... You're my sister. You're suffering, and you... We're strangers, aren't we? And...
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Now, just a moment. I... It's someone setting right in there with the same thing you have. And it's bothering me quite... Would you turn this way just a moment. This... No, this way. You look to me, just turn this... I want to talk to you just a moment, kinda get my back to the case (You see?), because it--it--it bothers me. I can't see what it is, and it's pulling. It's a kindred... Just like... Here's what it is. You are human. And I am human. And each one of us are possessed with a spirit. And now, this in here come to me for faith. And you are suffering. And the... And in you is a spirit of sickness or something. And whatever it is, it knows that it--if I can get you to believe, it's got to leave you (You, see?), and that's the reason it fights so. That's what makes it such a pull. And it's got a kindred spirit out there pulling the same way for help (You see?), for he knows that he's troubled, for you're already healed. You had a female trouble, didn't you. You're healed. That's right. Now, just... Yes, your faith has saved you, sister. You...
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And lady, you setting on the end there; didn't you have a female trouble, setting right there then? Stand up on your feet just a minute. You're healed too, sister. God bless you; you're...?... All right. God bless you. Now, you may go. You... God bless you, sister. You're going to be well. The woman had abscess on the ovary. Now, everyone be real reverent. Believe with all your heart. God will bring it to pass.
While I was talking to that woman, a strange feeling was taking place in you, wasn't it, lady. See, that's what it was. It was coming. I
couldn't see just where it was. And I seen the Light, the Angel of God go hang over that woman. And when I spoke to her, it come down over her like that right then. And just as soon as I spoke to you, a warm welcome feeling struck you. Is that right? If it is, stand up so the people will know I'm telling you the truth. Is that right? Went over... That's when the Angel of God blessed you, and you're--you're healed now. You can--you can be well.
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All right. If you'll bring the lady. All right. Now, everyone be real reverent, believing with all your heart, and God shall bring it to pass. Howdy do, lady. My... Now, I--I beg your pardon? You're the lady that Brother Bosworth wrote and told me that you was coming to be prayed for. Uh-huh. And when did he write that? Oh, is that the letter that you said it's Brother Bosworth is sending a patient? All right. Are you... Where you from, Florida? Joliet, Illinois. [The sister talks to
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Sister, see, that's no secret to me. No. See, I understand and know that. Here's one thing that's your trouble. Do you believe me as His prophet? With all your heart? See, you've tried and tried. You've never pleased yourself with your life and so forth. You've always wanted a closer walk, and to go with God. You felt when you was a young girl that you had a calling or something to be done, and you had a call like from God. You've never fulfilled that. You've never done what God told you to do. If you'll surrender your entire being to God tonight, God will heal you. Do you believe that with all your heart? That's what you want to do.
See, sister, you don't tell me that. You've got a cancer. That's what you've got, and what's wrong with you. Exactly. You're... You have a cancer. And that's what's a hurting you right now. And you-you don't have too much longer to make your decision. And tonight you must make it for Jesus Christ, and serve Him with all your heart the rest of your days. Do you believe that? Will you accept that? You know that I've told you the truth. See, you know that part. You must receive the baptism of the Holy Ghost, and--and live for Him the rest of your days, and be a servant of His. If you'll believe that, and be reverent, and believe it, and go out of here and do as I tell you do, you'll get well. Do you believe that with all your... Yes--yes, ma'am. See, you're mentally disturbed. But that's not what I'm trying to get at. See? Is the thing for a... The first thing is first; that's God. You must receive God first. See? All right. Now, you bow your head. Heavenly Father, be merciful to this woman. I pray, God, as... stand here before her, that You'll have mercy upon her. As I lay my hands upon the woman, aware that she can't stay here much longer 'less something is done. And I pray Thee, God, to... Now, as it's been told
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to her what to do. Grant, Lord, that she'll leave here tonight with a happy condition, just surrender herself to You, and receive the baptism of the Holy Ghost, and the power of God up in her life. And I believe, Lord, that You'll call her and send her to be well. Grant these blessings as I lay hands on her in the Name of Jesus Christ. Amen. God bless you. Now, go. All right. Let's say, "Thank the Lord," everybody. All right.
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All right, come lady. All right. Everybody reverent now. Now, the next thing lays within the woman. It's got to be her, or she won't get well. All right, now just reverent. Howdy do, sister. I see you wearing glasses, which that... There's something with your eyes, but people can see that. You see? The thing of it is, if there's anything wrong with you mysteriously that people can't see. You look like a healthy person, all but your eyes, 'cause you're wearing glasses. But now, you're truly a believer (That is right.) with a real true faith. And you're a Christian filled with His Spirit. Your eyes have been astigmatized with astigmatism, it's caused you to be that way for a long long time. And you've got something wrong in your back, haven't you. Isn't that right? You did have. Jesus Christ has made you whole, sister. You can walk off the platform and be well. God bless you. Go, rejoicing and be happy. Let us say, "Praise be to God." Believe Him with all your heart now, and God shall bring it to pass. All right. Everybody reverent now.
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Good evening, sister. Isn't our Master lovely? I just love Him with all my heart. I believe you do too...?... Do you believe that that's His Spirit that you feel now? Do you believe that that's Him? You do? You and I are strangers, aren't we, sister? We don't know each other at all. And if I would know anything of you, it would have to be like Jesus... The reason I talk to you is merely to contact your spirit. You understand that. This microphone's alive. You see? And I've got to contact your spirit first, 'fore I can see what's happened in your life. See? That's none of the audience's business. I'm just talking to you. You see? And merely this is just to contact you.
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Yes, ma'am. You believe that I have told the truth? The confession that I've made, you believe it to be the truth, don't you, sister? You've been a victim for quite awhile, haven't you, sister? You've suffer with a female trouble which has caused you--for quite awhile. And you got a heart trouble that's... Isn't that right? Smothering around the heart. Is that true? And you believe that... And when you prayed... You was praying here recently, and said if-and thought if I--you could ever get to where I was, and you heard
that you--that you'd be healed. Is that right? That's the prayer that you said? How would I know your prayer when you was kneeling there by the side of that chair that day? Come here. Almighty God, Author of Life and Giver of every gift, as I lay my hands upon this little woman, and Thou has said in Thy Word: "These signs shall follow them that believe. If they lay their hands on the sick, they shall recover." God, grant her healing in the Name of Jesus Christ. Amen. God bless you, sister. Go rejoicing, and happy, and be well now. Let's say, "Praise the Lord." everybody.
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All right, bring the lady if you will. Come, sister. Good evening. It's quite a warm night we're having here in Toledo. Yes, it is, ma'am. You love Him, do you? You think He's wonderful? I'm just merely saying these words. Like the Master said to the woman, "Go, get Me a drink." Why, He could've got His own drink. She said, "It's not customary for the Jews to ask the Samaritans something." Her favors was... He said, "But if you knew Who you were talking to, you'd ask Me for a drink. And I'd give you waters that you don't come here to draw." And other wise, He was trying to contact her life to see what was wrong. And as the Father showed Him, He revealed just exactly what her trouble was, and it was corrected. Is that right?
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Is He the same yesterday, today, and forever? And do you believe that I've told you the truth, that this is Him? Yes, ma'am. I'm not reading your mind, sister. I'm just... This is the Holy Spirit of God. You've been having trouble, lots of it. I see a dark streak coming behind you, a road of trouble. That is right, isn't it? I see... Yes, here lately, you've been giving awful nervous spells, haven't you? And I see you especially in the afternoon, sometime you get... Your strength all leaves you. You set down in a chair. Seems to be gloomy around you, doesn't it? Oh, yes, I see with it... Yes, you're tubercular too, aren't you? You have tuberculosis. Isn't that right? Uh-huh. You wasn't thinking of those things back there. So it couldn't be mental telepathy, could it, sister? It's the power of Almighty God. Do you believe that? Come here, sister. O dear Jesus, You're here, the same lovely One, the Fairest of ten thousands, as the prophet said, the Lily of the valley, the Morning Star. And seeing this little mother here for the years past, and see her suffering. And as It begin to speak and reveal her heart to her, I felt that You touched her, dear God. And I lay my hands upon her now in commemoration of Thy Word. May she be healthy and well all of her life, in the Name of Jesus Christ.
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And look my dear, look this a way just a moment. I want to
ask you something. I never seen you in my life, as I know of. We're strangers together. And if there would be something in your life, whatever... Sometimes I don't... I'm not able to repeat. Well, you heard me telling you something, didn't you. That was--that was my voice, but It was not me operating it. It was a supernatural Being. And while I was talking, no doubt you could feel that there was something going on. Is that right? And did It tell you the truth? Was it the truth? Now, all right. Now, if It was telling you the truth, what was... Now, you begin to feel that again, aren't you? It's the same Spirit. I felt that He wanted me to talk to you. Yes, ma'am. If God is able to let me know what has been in your life, which you know is the truth, He lets me know what will be. Do you believe it? You're healed of your tubercular. You're going home to be well. God bless you, sister. Now, you're going to be a well woman. God bless you, sister. Let us say, "Praise be to God for His goodness and mercy."
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You feel better about it, sister, setting there? You do? Wonderful. I kept feeling It moving that way, and I kept looking. The blessing's upon the both of you. That's right. It--it's moving wonderfully. I don't remember what it was you were prayed for, but I--I know that you're healed, whatever it was. Yes. Amen. God be with you and help you. What you praying about over there, lady, setting there with a--with your head down. You're praying, aren't you? Do you s--believe that God sent me, and I'm telling you the truth? You believe that He sent me as His prophet? You believe if I'd... If He could reveal from here to there what your trouble is...? Stand upon your feet just a moment. I want you to look this a way. You were praying, and I noticed you praying. It attracted my attention. I don't know you. You're a stranger to me as far... Are we strangers? Yes. Yes, ma'am. This is going to shock you, lady, 'cause I don't believe you know what it is. You have cancer. And wait a minute. Isn't that a... You have two growths, don't you? Isn't them on your... I believe it's on your right side, isn't it? Two growths, one right... Yes, sir. That's what I thought. All right. Do you believe me as His prophet? Go believe with all your heart, and Jesus Christ will make you well. God bless you, sister. Have faith in God.
Say, the man setting there next to you, that must be your husband. I see there's a connection. I felt his spirit go out in gratitude. That's your hu... Is that your wife, sir? If that is, ra... Is that right? That's your wife. I felt the relationship. Say, you're suffering also. You have a rupture, don't you? Isn't that right? If that's right, raise up your hand? All right. Go home and believe with all your heart, and Jesus Christ will make you whole. God
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bless you, my brother. Have faith. Believe God with all your heart. All right. Bring the lady. Have faith now. Would you come forward, sister, now. Come, believe with all your heart and don't doubt at all. Do you believe me as His prophet, as His servant? You believe. God be with you, mother. Yes, you're diabetic, aren't you, mother? That old insulin and stuff is so bad. I see you with those shots. Now, is that true? And you have a heart trouble or something. I see you smother, hold your hands like this quite often. You get short of breath, don't you? Isn't that... I'm not reading your mind, I'm seeing a vision. And you have to watch yourself when you're walking on a street, don't you? Yes, I see you was in... Now, I--I see you was trying to get off of a--a curb, and you... way you was taking your time. Isn't that right? Recently, by a place where there was a signboard run this a way. Isn't that right? Mother, go home and believe the Lord Jesus Christ and be made completely whole.
Let us say, "Praise be to the Lord Jesus Christ," with all of our hearts. Bless her heart. You believe? With all your heart? Now, look. And don't nobody disbelieve. Now, you're going to see great things of the Lord done. Poor soul. Now, mother, you that was up here a few minutes ago, you feel better now, don't you? Yes, amen. What was told you was the truth, wasn't it? And you didn't thinking nothing about that. It's gone. Was that right? Then--then you know it has to come from God, doesn't it, mother? God bless you, that's fine. Sir, yes, you felt that hit you then, didn't you. All right, stand up on your feet. Yes, sir. You believe with all your heart, sir? You do? You were wanting me to contact you in some way, wasn't you, setting there wondering about that? You have something wrong with a breaking out over your body or something. Isn't it in your hands? Isn't that true? You want to be healed of that, don't you? Do you believe that I'm God's prophet? His servant? Do you believe that what I tell you would be the truth? Say, I see something standing in your way. That... You have a habit, don't you. Don't you have a habit of smoking or something like that? You smoke cigars, don't you? I see you standing on the corner with one in your hand. Forsake them cigars, and go home, and be well, my brother, and make it right with God and you shall be healed in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ. Amen. God bless you.
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Do you believe Him with all your heart? Do you want to accept Him now as your Healer? He's here. Stand to your feet, you that believe Him as your Healer at this time. Raise your hands and say, "Lord Jesus, I accept You." O God, in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ, I pray Thee heal every
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Thank you much. Good evening, friend. I'm happy to hear that testimony, always, of where our Lord has done something for some of His children. May God bless you, sister, whoever you are. And I guess I wouldn't know you if you was standing before me, because I don't get a chance... All right. God bless you. And what meeting was that in, sister? [Sister talks to Brother Branham--Ed.] Windsor? Are you a Canadian? Oh, you're from Cleveland. Yes, ma'am. I am happy that you're healed. I just trust that all that's in this meeting tonight will be as you are, shortly. God bless you, sis.
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When I was speaking to you, or whatever happened, you believed what I said was the truth. Did it come out just the way I said it would? Just like I said. If that's true, raise up your hand so you can see. See? Now, what if you'd have doubted what I had told you the Lord had said? You'd have--you'd have died, yes, ma'am, as your doctor said. You've got to believe one or the other. And God never can tell anything wrong; He always tells the truth. Well, God bless you, sister. And if I don't meet you no more in this life, I will at the other side, by God's grace. Amen. I'd like to set down with all my friends on the other side, and just talk it over, where we have plenty of time to talk it over by it.
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Now, tonight, I... It's awfully warm. Brother Baxter... Last evening it was just so hot, and we was... When I got home my coat was wringing all over, and after I kind of got to myself, after the service was over. I'm not in very good condition for awhile. I'm getting awful weak, but I've just got two more meetings now, before a little rest, and going overseas, then we'll have about two or three nights in New York City at some big boxing place there, where they have them big fights. I... We got to appear there, for two or three nights, just before going to Southern Rhodesia, Africa, to begin.
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If the good Lord willing, we hope to be in Jerusalem around Christmas. And those Jews has said to come up, many of them, as you've seen the "Look" magazine. They said, "If this Jesus be the Christ..." They never knowed nothing about it. See? They were down
in that--there for two thousand years. They still plow with old wooden plows, like they did two thousand years ago. Many of you read the article. And the Norwegian church, and the Swedish church sent out a million Bibles, New Testaments, and those Jews reading the New Testament, said, "Let us see this Jesus do the sign of a prophet, and we'll accept Him as Messiah." Oh, I hope God let's me go down there and do something that--that they'll believe on the Lord Jesus, every one of them. I trust that He will. And you pray for me, when you know it's time for me to be there in October. We begin on October the 4th, at Johannesburg.
And now, being that it's so hot in the auditorium, and it's the time of year, it's the only thing we could get, and we're happy to have it. I'm only glad that we got this, or we couldn't have come to the city. But I trust that it'll prove to be a great blessing to all of you that's here. And may many of the sinners be saved, and--and the Christians have a closer walk with our Lord, is my desire. And may all the sick be healed, and all the cripples be healed, is my prayer. I seen one time in my life, where every person in the building, or in the... It was a large tent which consists of many more than what's here tonight, at one wave of the Holy Spirit came through the tent, just as I walked to the platform, and there wasn't a crippled or afflicted person left in the building, no sick people or nothing, they was everyone healed..?... They piled up wheelchairs, and things so high, they just have to take them and throw them up like that, to get them up.
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The next morning, going down through the city, was a great, big cattle truck packing all of them, and the people that once set in them, and laid on their cots and things, walking behind, singing "Only Believe," with a police escort. I stood in the window of the hotel, I wept like a--a child. I couldn't help it. My heart, I just thought.. "O Jesus, the same yesterday, today, and for ever." That was it. And they can be the same thing here at Toledo. The only thing it lacks is just a little faith. You just believe; just believe what you hear. Now, I--I try to speak to the best of my knowledge, all that I know how, to glorify Jesus Christ, Who has redeemed us all, redeemed from everything that the fall consists of. He came as a kinsman Redeemer to redeem the human race back to God. And we have the earnest of our salvation. This that we have now, this glorious Holy Spirit, is only the earnest of our being above sin in the rapture.
And if there is no Divine healing now, there is no resurrection of the body. Divine healing is the earnest of our redeemed body. Did
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you ever think of that? If there's no Divine healing, then when you go at the grave, that's all of it. You'll be there forever, and your dust will go away, and there'll be no more of you. See? If there... We have the earnest of our salvation, and completeness, back the way we was in the garden of Eden. And I think that the power of God that would take a cancer-ridden woman here, that the doctor's has just given a few days, and she's one of the thousands that's on records, not just the man, the person's testimony, but the doctors testimony, one of the thousands. And her eaten up (with a few hours to live), by cancer, and by the earnest of her redeemed body will put her in the condition it is now, what will it be when she draws the full value off of the resurrection of Jesus Christ? That's just the down... You know what the down... the earnest is? The earnest is the down payment on anything that holds it, a surety, secures it. Now, she's just got the earnest of it by being healed with a--a hideous cancer, that would've taken her life, and here she is setting well and normal.
Now, if there never was another case besides hers, that would be a perfect evidence of the Divine will of our Lord Jesus Christ to every person on earth. See? For He never just picked out certain ones, it's "Whosoever will, let him come." See? It's just according to your faith to believe. And now, for a few moments, and I will try not to keep you like I did last night, and let you get so awfully stuffy in the building. Now, I want to continue to speak about our Lord in His ministry today. Now, there's many people in the Bible that teaches the Bible as a historical book, which It is. But It's more than a history, It's a prophetic Book also, that foretells... It tells what was; It tells what will be. Do you accept that to be truth? And now, the same Jesus that was, is, and will be... See? He's the same Jesus all the way through the Scriptures, the same Christ, all the way through. In the beginning, He was, in the middle of the Book, He's here: "Lo, I come: in the volume of the Book to do Thy will, O Lord." And in the end, He's "Alpha, Omega, the Beginning, the Ending, He which Was, which Is, and shall Come, the Root and Offspring of David, the Morning Star, the Rose of Sharon, the Lily of the valley." Why, He's just... That's just Him, isn't it? He--He's Emmanuel. He's the both the Root and Offspring of David. See?
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Now, His ministry carries on. Many people teaching the Bible as a history--history (which is very fine), that we learned in our seminaries and schools, which is fine. But brother, that's just what was; what about what's now? You can't find that in school. You don't know that by genealogy, you know that by kneeingolgy, on your knees before God. It doesn't take education; it takes a surrendered
heart. God works on the heart. Do you believe that? Now, if for instance, if today, if I could come here as it is very warm in the building tonight, and could paint you a picture here on the wall of a air-cooled, arctic place, or something, it would look very well. I'd say, "That's what was." But that doesn't make you be cool, does it, just a painted picture? For instance, you were freezing, and I painted you a picture of fire licking, and burning, like that, I'd... and people standing around getting warm, I'd say, "Looky there, that's fire." Why you can't get warm by a painted fire; it won't warm. That's something that was. You've got to have the fire yourself. What Jesus was then, He is now. If He was a fire, a warmth to the heart, and a soothing, a shelter in the time of storm, He is the same today.
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Now, someone said not long ago, "Brother Branham, preach the Gospel..." A very noted radio evangelist, a friend. We belong to the same church. And he said, "Brother Branham, while you're on the West Coast here, preach the Gospel." I said, "I do, Doctor." And he said, "Not that Divine healing." He said, "Preach the Word." I said, "The Word is what I preach, sir." He said, "Look, Brother Branham," he said, "the Gospel is the Word of God." I said, "Not altogether, brother. The Bible said the Gospel come to us not in Word only, but through power and demonstration of the Holy Ghost (See?) to preach the Word, The letter killeth, but the Spirit giveth Life." See? It has got to be... Jesus said, "Go into all the world and preach the Gospel to every creature." Then interpret, it in Bible forms means go into all the world and demonstrate the power of the Word by the Holy Ghost. "And these signs shall follow them that believe."
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Today we say, "What signs?" We go to church; we pay our dues, and we treat our neighbors right. That's wonderful, but that ain't what Jesus said. Jesus 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; lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover." [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] That's the signs that Jesus said. Our ministry has changed it over, and said, "Oh, there's a real believer; I tell you; he loves the Lord. And he goes to church every Sunday, and he pays his dues to the church, and he treats his neighbor right." That's just moral acts. The Holy Spirit in the man demonstrates the power of the supernatural, what makes him a believer. It's God vindicating that he is a believer. Jesus said, "These (not 'them'), these signs shall follow them that believe."
All right. Now, the supernatural is what blinds men. It has in all ages. But isn't it marvelous to think where the supernatural is demonstrated, "Where the eagles are, the carcass is, rather, the eagles will be gathered." Through the age it has been that way. Men walk in slumber of life, and they hear their teaching and their philosophy, and so forth, and--and that teach theologies and... But that still doesn't satisfy the human heart. And when the supernatural comes into view, like it did in the days of our Lord Jesus, after their fine priests and so forth, that they had, and their scholars, and their philosophies... When Jesus came on the scene with His, with the power and the manifestation of God, the people flocked to Him to hear, because it's something in the realms beyond. And all men knowing that soon, all the education he's got, and the theology, and so forth, will rot in the grave with him. We know that. But where the supernatural is, pierces beyond the grave. And that's what... people look, and most time, if they're critical, and they're not open up in their heart, they'll pass some opinion on it, like they did at Him, and said, "He's Beelzebub, a devil, and he casts out devils by the devil. And he knows those things, He sees them. Yeah, Beelzebub shows Him, and..." and is like that, and they pass on. But some believe Him. And those who believe was saved. Those who believed could get healed. But if Jesus Himself was standing, wearing my suit and my shoes, He could not help you any more tonight, than what He can in the form He's doing now. You know that? The Bible said there's a place that He went into that, "Many mighty works He could (c-o-u-l-d n-o-t), could not do because of their unbelief."
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When some blind men followed Him, He touched their eyes and said, "According to your faith be it unto you." The Father had not showed Him nothing about that; He just touched their eyes. But when calling Lazarus, where He'd seen, He said, "Lazarus, come forth." And to the other people who the Father had showed Him by vision, what He was to do, He called them, and so forth. Then when the others come by, He touched them, and said, "According to your faith." The woman that had the blood issue touched the hem of His garment; He turned around and said, "Virtue has gone from Me. Somebody touched Me." The Father hadn't showed Him, but it was sensitive (the Spirit), that virtue went out, for the Father had honored her faith in His Son. You see what I mean? And there she was healed.
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Now, the same word in the Bible, translated, s-a-v-e-d, and healed, is the very same word all the way through the Scriptures. Anyone knows that. Now, well, when you're--you're saved, spiritually, or you're saved physically... now, He said to the woman, "Thy faith
has saved thee," physically, saved you. Now, it's in the redemption; it's in the atonement; it's in the plan of God. You can be spiritually saved or physically saved, because He was wounded for our transgressions, with His stripes we're healed." Is that right? So it's just according to your faith. Now, in His loving mercy, after ministers, through the years, has passed through the land and preached this wonderful Word, thousands of people has been blessed, and saved, and healed, and so forth. Then, in His sovereign mercy in the last days, as He promised, when the last days... "I will pour out My Spirit." There'd be a former and latter rain; and in the latter days, He would send forth a great blessing to the people. When the enemy comes in like a flood, I will raise up a standard against it." See?
And as atheism is on the march and so forth, and the churches are falling away, and getting formal, let me say this to you my dear brother and sister, if you'll receive me as your brother, we need a revival. Now, I--I'm not discrediting anything; I'm talking to you from my heart. We're having a lot of protractive meetings, but not no revival. We're have great men out, for instance, Billy Graham, a wonderful man, Charles Fuller, Doctor De Haan, and many of the others that I could call: Hyman Appleman, and many great men. We're having great... There's also Brother Roberts, Brother Freeman, my own meetings. We're having great crowds but no revival. We're getting people to come up, maybe, and stagger along, and confess, and go back. But what we need is an old fashion, breaking up, tearing down, rooting out revival that starts in every home, and sweeps through the city, and they close all the bootleg joints and everything else, and straighten the thing up. That's a revival. See? Not just walking up and making a confession and going back, and it's no revival. That's just a form. It's a lukewarm condition. We need a real revival. And God help us to have it.
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And when you see these crowds gathering, that doesn't mean revival; that's just a gathering. But a revival is when people get really right with God, and pray through, and starts a revival throughout the city, and everything. You see? They put away sin, put away their iniquity, and...?... turn to God, turn around and start back again (See?), the road. Now, I trust it'll be that way in this city. Now, concerning the operation of the spiritual gift, Brother Baxter will teach you in his afternoon meetings and so forth, what is germ diseases, how they're demons, and how they hold people, and possess people. Now, I want to get a little story to you each night, as I can.
Tonight, I want to speak to you about the Angel of the Lord. Now, to... It's just as true, friends, as I'm... I can't make you believe it. You see? I can only speak what's truth. And your attitude towards it will determine the success it'll be for you. I have no power to operate it. If my dear mother laying here, would be on a platform would be dying, and say to me, "Son, I held you on my bosom, and you nursed life from me, and I walked away from the table when we had nothing to eat, so that when you was a little boy you could eat and live. My beloved son, tell me, what will be the outcome of me in this..." I could not say one word until first He showed me. For it's not nothing to do with man; man is completely out of it.
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Even the Son of God, He said, "I can do nothing except the Father shows Me first." And if He couldn't, how much more I, as a man, a sinner, and He never was a sinner. And He was borned the virgin Son of God. And I was borned in sin, shaped in iniquity, come to the world speaking lies, worthy to go to hell, but He redeemed me. And only hands He has on earth tonight, is my hands, and your hands. The only mouth that He has, is my mouth and your mouth. "I will be with you, even in you, to the end of the world." Is that His Word? See? Then it's Him, "It's not you that speaketh," He said, "but your heavenly Father that dwelleth in you, He doeth, will tell you at that hour." You see?
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Now, in going forth, it was very hard when I first made the announcement about the Angel of the Lord. Many people, even my bishop, pastor, when I went to him and told him, he's the head of the church in that section of the Missionary Baptist. I said, "Dr. Davis, the Angel of the Lord..." and then told him about it. He said, "Billy, what did you eat for supper last night? You had a nightmare." And many of you that takes that little paper of Brother Lindsay's, called: "The Voice Of Healing," you seen his apology recently. He said, "What did you eat for supper that night?" I said, "Sir, I don't appreciate that." He said, "Ah, go on home and forget about it."
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I said, "Dr. Davis, look, you might tell me to go home and forget about it, but God has anchored something in here. If you don't want me, there's others that will." I said, "I am under obligation to God to go." Well, it was very hard. They told me that they couldn't be done, and so forth. And my last sermon at the church was "David and Goliath," the opposition that David had. But as soon as Goliath was slain, then
others, the Israelites taken courage and went forth, and that's what's happened. When they seen that it could be done. Ministers setting on the platform, they didn't claim to be--be able to know these things, but they believed in the Word, and give them courage, and they went out: Brother Roberts for one of them, Brother Oral J... and Brother Jaggers, and all of those. They's such man in the meeting. They seen the vision, rose, and went out into the fields, and are slaying now, and they've beat the Philistines plumb to the walls. That's right.
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Now, I'm leaving the fields right away. I have one more--two more American meetings. And God only knows when I will ever have another one. I'm returning back, as Elijah, to Mount Carmel. I believe God is fixing to do something else for the Church, and I must wait on the Lord, and find out what He says do, and then there'll be a great move for the Lord. I believe we're near the coming of the Lord, when these... He said, "I will show signs in the earth below, and in the heavens above before this... the day of the Lord shall come." I've been called practically everything from a Divine healer, to the incarnate Son of God, and demon, and everything else, mental telepathy, and--and all kinds. But that still doesn't change it a bit. He's Jesus Christ, and we are His people. By His grace He has redeemed us, and that's all we are. And it's Him that does all things by the will of the Father. We believe that, don't we?
Now, many times in the meeting, the Angel of the Lord which appeared, and many of you know about, it appears like a... that night, and all down through the time, it looks like a big Pillar of Fire, about that thick, and about that big. And It comes in a licking, whirling, going [Brother Branham imitates the sound of the Angel of the Lord coming to him--Ed.] Thousands times thousands has seen It. It's appeared visibly... Here not long ago, I was standing near Fort Wayne, Indiana, in a meeting, and I was speaking, and the audience was very haughty like. It was in a theater building. And I was trying to... I said, "Now, it's the Angel of the Lord..." I just being started, and I could see the people looking one to another, and you could feel that cold feeling. And some of them, especially the sick, they wasn't thinking of that. They... The others that was acting that, they--they wasn't sick. The sick man is looking for help; you can talk to him. A hungry man that's real hungry, you can talk to him about food. But if he's eat, you... he's not so interested about dinner any more. See? Well, that's it, it's the ones that's in need. And maybe sometime, you'll be in need, too. So it'll be different. If it was your mother laying here dying, or it's your son, or someone, it would be different, and the doctors said there was no hope for them, it would be different.
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But they were acting like that. And I said, "I can't make you believe it." And I started to--to pray for the--the people that night, was going to pray, and I said... took a little boy, and the first one in the prayer line was a little boy who had crippled feet. And it was polio had drug his--pulled his little feet down, like that. There was a baby grand piano, something like this, setting down like that, and there was a Nazarene girl playing it. And so, she was playing: "The Great Physician Now Is Near," the sympathizing Jesus. And the mother of the child was setting right down here. The usher had brought the child in the line.
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And I was praying for the little boy, and I said, "Heavenly Father, I ask Thee to be merciful." And I thought the custodian turned the light in my face, and I seen it getting brighter, and brighter. And I said, "Lord..." And I thought, "Oh, my, that man, that's... If he doesn't like me, he ought to be gentleman enough not to do that." And it kept getting brighter and brighter, and I thought, "Oh, my." And I raised my eyes to motion to him to... opened my eyes, rather, to motion to him to quit doing that, and when I did, it wasn't him, it was the Angel of the Lord come whirling, like that. It was coming right to me. Now, I do not know (to be honest), whether I dropped the child, whether he jumped out of my arms, or the Holy Spirit taken him out. I don't know. But he got on the floor, and his little feet was just as normal as they could be. And here he started walking down, and the mother of the child saw it, what had happened, and she just screamed, and jumped forward, and she seen the Light. And the Nazarene girl looked up... How many Nazarenes are here, from the Nazarene church? You mean there was no Nazarenes here? And... here they are, that's fine, and back there; that's wonderful.
Well, the Nazarene people have enough religion to shout when they get happy. And so the Nazarene girl, a very attractive, blondheaded girl with long hair, she raised up like that, and begin screaming as loud as she could, and run away from the piano. And as she run away, the piano constantly played:
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The great Physician now is near, The sympathizing Jesus, He speaks the drooping heart to cheer,
And this Angel of God settled over there, seven hundred and something people come giving their hearts to Christ, falling over the aisles. He has vindicated Hisself hundreds of times. Many of the articles is written in the book back there, if you pick it up, and--of the things that I couldn't have time to tell. Well, some of them would say, "Oh, it was psychology."
And at Camden, Arkansas, we got the picture of It there; the photographer got the picture. And It--It come down through the meeting, and circled down. A minister run forth to throw his arms around...?... and was stricken blind on the platform. There's the picture of the whole thing. It's in the book. Then I was at Houston, Texas, and we were having a meeting in the music hall, which seated about four thousand people, I guess. And we went to the coliseum; we couldn't seat them, so we went to the coliseum, which seats around thirty thousand. And there was a--a Baptist clergyman down there. I won't call his name, because it's not very nice to call a minister's name, but he was out of the Southern Baptists conference, just come out of school, about thirty years old. And he put a challenge in the paper, and he said, "Brother Branham is nothing but a religious racketeer, and ought to be run out of the city, and I should be the guy that does it." So he got pretty rough.
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And I was staying at the Rice Hotel. Doctor Bosworth... how many knows the Reverend Mr. Bosworth? Nearly all of you do. Wonderful character, I thought he'd be known up around in here. And he came to the room, and he's seventy-three years old. He said, "Brother Branham, look at this paper today." A great big column in there. Oh, he just... the minister ripped me. He said, "Let's challen... let's take that challenge." I... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] This nation, it's in a crumbling condition now. Because our politics and things are so divided. That's why the Indians lost it to the white man. If them Indians'd all gathered together, there'd still be an America for the Indians. But they separated, and the tribes fighting one another, and we come in, and took it. And that's the way we're going to lose it, and that's the way the Church is losing today, because we're not together--together. And but that showed that someday... They come from everywhere, and united as one big unit, and that great big Sam Houston Coliseum where they hold the rodeos and things filled up.
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Mr. Best went over and hired a commercial photographer. Now, here's the remarks he said: "Come over and take six glossies of me (six pictures), I want to have a picture where I skin that old man." He said, "I'm going to skin him, and take his hide, and rub salt in it, and hang it up on my door, in here in my study." Could you imagine a Christian talking like that? "By their fruits you shall know them." And the first fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, long-suffering, goodness, meekness, gentleness, patience. Now, but that's what the man said. And so Mr. Kipperman, and Mr. Ayers, of the Douglas Studios, in Houston, Texas came over. And that night
there was a big platform table setting there, and they had the "Look," "Life," "Time," "Colliers," and all the newspapers, and they were taking pictures. And so when the debate started, Mr. Cy Ramsar... how many knows Cy Ramsar? He was leading the songs. And--and then when he got through, he made this remark; he said, "I seen in the paper where you was... that Brother Branham was a religious racketeer, and should be run out of the city." Said, "If the people of this city would put more time running bootleggers out of the city instead of religious men, you'd be better off."
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And there... the people begin crying, and going on. And they told me I didn't have to come down. But I went up in balcony thirty, box thirty, two police, and my brother, and wife, little girl, we went up there and set down; they'd taken me up. And I was setting there. I said I wouldn't have nothing to do with it at all. And I didn't believe in arguing. So that night watching... And when Mr. Bosworth got to the platform, he'd taken his--his paper, and he said... and people on by the sides, which wasn't on either side of the debate. He said, "Mr. Best has taken the--the side to say the... my opponent here, that--that Divine healing isn't taught in the New Testament." He said, "I've got six hundred Scriptures of the New Testament and Old, written out here, that Christ's present attitude to the people for Divine healing is the same today as it ever was. If Mr. Best will take this and disprove one of them, not by his textbook, but by the Bible, you won't have to do no more, and I will walk away and say, 'I've been in error all the time.' Anyone of those six hundred questions..." He said, "Now, Mr. Best, you're at liberty." And he wouldn't receive it. He said, "I will ask you any one of them if you'll correctly, by the Scriptures, prove that it's wrong, then I will--I will walk off the platform." Said, "That ought to be well enough; there's six hundred of them, and I want you to produce one, if you'll show me one, that's... is contrary to any of these, then I will say I'm wrong, and I will show you six hundred to start with." Said, "Looks like the odds is pretty bad there."
So he said... he wouldn't do it. So the moderator asked, and so he said, "All right, Mr. Best answer me this." He said, "Was the compound names of Jehovah, Jehovah's redemptive, compound names, were they applied to Jesus, yes, or no?" Well, that like to shook me off of the seat up there. Well, Mr. Best thought he couldn't answer. If He was--if He was Jehovah-jireh, the Lord will provide His Sacrifice, if He was--if He wasn't Jehovah-jireh, He isn't the Saviour. And if He is Jehovah-jireh, He's Jehovah-rapha, the Healer. And if He is Jehovah-jireh, and Jehovah-rapha, He's "the same yesterday, today, and for ever," so He's just the same Healer. That settled it; nothing could be said no more.
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So Mr. Best got real angry and begin to stomp up-and-down the floor, and said, "Bring that Divine healer out, let me see him."
And Brother Bosworth said, "Brother Best, I--I certainly apologize," said that--that, "Brother Branham is no Divine healer, and never said he was." He said, "Would you..." said, "Do you believe in salvation?" "Yes, sir." He said, "Would you want to be called a Divine Saviour?" Said, "If preaching Divine healing makes Brother Branham a Divine healer, preaching salvation makes you a Divine Saviour." He said, "You know you're not a Saviour." "Certainly not." Said, "Neither is he a healer. If you're ever saved it's in Christ. If you're ever healed it's in Christ. You point to salvation; so does Brother Branham. And he points to healing in the atonement. Now, if you want to argue that," said, "just step out on it (See?) for it was in the atonement."
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So he said, "You bring that healer forth, and let me see him heal somebody." And kept on like that. Brother Bosworth said, "Now, Brother Branham takes his time praying." And said, "He don't argue with people, and he just... that's..." He said, "Now, however..." (at the end of the debate), he said, "Brother Branham is in the building. If he wants to come and dismiss the audience, all right. If he doesn't, why he's not--don't have to, but," said, "I know he's in the building somewhere," said, "for awhile ago, I seen them when they come in."
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And I was setting there, and my brother, Howard... Many of you knew Howard. He was kind of, real typical Irishman, he said, "Now you set still." Standing right behind me, and two police standing there... And just as he said that, I felt Something going [Brother Branham makes whirling sound--Ed.] I thought, "Oh, no. Huh-uh, I can listen so far, but that's first. I felt It again coming down, going [He describes the sound again--Ed.] Something just picked me up. My wife started crying. I said, "Don't cry, honey." And Howard said, "Set down." I said, "It's the Holy Spirit, Howard," and he dropped back.
And the people looked up there, about that time, and they started weeping. And about three or four hundred ushers put their hands together as people pressing through trying to touch your clothes or something. It's pitifully. I know how I'd feel if my baby or
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something was sick, and the doctors had give it up, and I thought there was something could help it. I'd be trying to get in, too. And I'm only human, like anybody else, and it breaks my heart to see such scenes. And I started walking to the platform. Mr... the... Kipperman and them had took all their pictures. And when I go, they don't let us take pictures in the meeting, because they sell them and so forth. So he... they said, "No more pictures taken." Brother Lindsay and them dropped back the people from taking the pictures, and so forth.
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I walked to the platform; I said, "Don't no one think hard of Mr. Best. That's why the boys are over in Korea fighting. We can be Americans to believe anything we want to." I said, "I don't agree with his theory, not at all," but I said, "as a man, all right." I said, "Some mother loves him just the same as my mother loves me. And don't feel hard at him; he's got a right to his belief." I said, "Now, however, I--I was minded of my Saviour, when they put a rag around his eyes one time, and they thought He had mental telepathy or something, and they hit Him on the head with a reed, and said, 'Now, if You're a prophet, prophesy, and say who hit You.'" You remember that? Said, "Now prophesy." He didn't clown for nobody; He did what the Father showed Him. So they put a rag over His eyes and hit Him. And they felt no virtue, and neither did He prophesy. He didn't clown for anybody.
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And I said, "I do not claim to be a Divine healer." I said, "I only claim to pray for the sick. And I claim a Divine gift, that I was born in this world with, and an Angel of God Who comes to me in the form of a Light..." And I said, "It's come to me many times. It comes in the meetings." I said, "If I tell the truth, well, then, it's the truth." But I said, "I cannot heal any one, no more than Mr. Best, or any other man can save anybody." I said, "But they were sent to preach. I'm not very much of a preacher, but I've seen thousands saved. I've seen as many as two thousand at one altar call, but if a--but that's not what we're talking on, Divine healing."
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And I said, "Now, the person can't come here without God telling me what's on his heart, and what he's done, and the things of his life. That's a Divine gift that was sent from Heaven to me, that's my individual. God gave that to me when He brought me in this world." I said, "You can't keep your sins, and so forth, hid, and the thoughts of your heart and mind." I said, "And whatever that you've done in your life, and what your outcome is, you can't keep me from telling you that. But I could pray for you until you for... till we both got old and gray, and you with a toothache, until you accept Jesus as
your Healer, it'll always be there, for healing only is in Chr... God Almighty."
I said, "And if I tell the truth," I said, "I tell about an Angel. If I tell the truth, God will testify that I've told the truth. I said, "As Jesus told the Jews, 'I have greater works than those of John, for the works the Father has sent Me to do, the same testifies that I am sent from God.'" And I said, "If He doesn't testify, then I'm wrong. If He does testify, then I am right. Not because that it's me, but because it's He that sent me is right." And I said, "Anyone knows that God will have nothing to do with error, and if I tell the truth, then God will speak of me."
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Oh, I shall never forget it. And about that time the heavens let loose, and here He come, coming down over me, going [Brother Branham makes a whirling sound--Ed.] Everyone sit still. And the man who had taken the pictures of Mr. Best, before he knowed what he was doing, run forward and snapped the picture. God had testified. There was no more for me to do. I said, "Thank You, Father," walked off the platform. Everybody set still; they didn't know what was happening. This man, going home... Mr. Kipperman's an Orthodox Jew. Mr. Ayers is a Roman Catholic. He wrote in the paper the day before and said I was a hypnotizer. Said a goiter went off of a woman throat, that I hypnotized her. And a young soldier who'd been crippled overseas in his back, his spine, and was saw laying on a place and was told what was wrong with him, and told him to rise to his feet. And him laying there paralyzed, rose to his feet and walked out, said that man was bewitched, made all kinds of fun of me in the paper. And on his road home, he said to Mr...?... he said, "What do you think about it, Ted?" Ted said, "I don't know."
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Mr. Ayers said, "I'm a Catholic," he said, "I'm taught to believe in such things, but it can only come through the Catholic church. If it was... if he was real, he'd be in the Catholic church." And many of you... I... my former people were Catholic. Many of you Catholics in there know that we been taught that, that it has to be in the Catholic church. So did the Jews think that Jesus would come to the temple, but He didn't. He went where God told Him. God does things in mysterious ways. You wouldn't have thought He'd been born in a manger, but He was, Now, they went in. He said, "Well, let's fix these pictures for Best." And he throwed them in the acid, six of them for Mr. Best. And he shot one of them from that, but he just throwed it in.
Mr. Kipperman went upstairs to go to bed, and Mr. Best, or Mr. Ayers setting, smoking a cigarette. And after while he went in, took them out of the acid, took out one, blank, two, blank. Took out all six of them, they were blank. And when he took the next one out, there the Angel of the Lord was on the picture. And he had a heart attack. They tried to get him to Rice Hotel, of course they was guarding the door, wouldn't let them come in to where we was... to where I was at.
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And then quickly, they referred to it, and went down there, and they sent it away at eleven o'clock that night to Washington, DC, and copyrighted it. Then it was sent back to Houston. And it was given into the hands of George J. Lacy, the best examiner in the United States, ex-FBI. And he kept it, said, "Now..." a very hardboiled. He kept it and said, "Now, wait a minute," said, "I will look it over," and so forth like that. And--and he took it into the Shell Building for examination, which was... Shell Building for examination and document. He just come from California on a half a million dollar case, and they brought him over there. He kept the picture for two days; then he sent word, said, "We'll give the reading on it, and let you know about it on two o'clock, on the following afternoon, on the third day. Big bunch of photographers, and so forth, gathered in. Many of the people around the city, like the writer for the "Colliers" and "Times," they gathered in.
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And when he come out, he's kind of a red headed fellow, very hard-boiled. He walked out sarcastic; I looked at him, and looked like his face had tendered up. He said, "Whose name's Reverend Branham?" And I said, "Mine, sir." He said, "Stand up on your feet." And I stood up. He said, "Reverend Branham, one of these days, you're going to pass off of life's scenes like all mortals do." I said, "I'm aware of that, sir." He said, "But as long as there's a Christian civilization, your picture shall never die." He said, "It's the first time in all the world's history that a supernatural Being was ever photographed. But I put it through every test that can be thought, and," said, "It was a supernatural Being that's been shot." He said, "For myself, I have said and heard of your meetings, and read it in the magazines, and I heard about that Angel, and so forth. I said within myself, even to the time that I received the negative, 'It's psychology.'" He said, "But Brother Branham, the mechanical eye of that camera will not take psychology." Said, "The Light struck the negative."
He said, "My mother was a Christian. And I--I thought I was." He said, "But God have mercy on me." He said, "Come forward." And everybody started crying. He...?... said, "It was once said, Brother Branham, by the old hypocrite (he meant the unbeliever), that there's no scientific proof of the supernatural Being." Said, "Them days is passed now." He had the negative in his hand. He said, "Them days is passed." And he said, "It's scientifically proven that here's the supernatural Being." He said, "Mr. Branham, I will submit this to you." I said, "It's not mine, sir." He said, "Oh, wait a minute," said, "that negative's worth a hundred thousand dollars right the way..." I said, "If it... to me, It's worth life."
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He said, "Brother Branham, do you realize what..." said, "You'll never live to see the day that the picture comes into it's value, because the--the testator is always dead before the testament is seen." And he said, "It'll be in the days after you're gone." He said, "But right now, do you realize what that is?" And I said, "Sir, It belongs to the American Photographers Association." I said, "It... if Jesus Christ, my Lord, thought enough of me, to come down in a battle like I was, and have His picture taken with me, for the first time in all the world's history, I love Him too well to commercialize it." And I said, "I will have nothing to do with it."
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So then they asked me if I'd draw up a plan with them. The lawyers was there, and everything. The studio had the lawyers. And I said, "I will sign no papers. But Mr. Kipperman and you, if you wish to sell it, make it enough so every person (poor people) can get it." But I said, "look, another thing I will require for the sacredness of the picture, that Mr. Lacy, that you'll sign a document, so that the critics will be shut up when they look at it." I said, "and sign a document. And I will ask you, Mr. Kipperman, and you (in the agreement), that you're privileged to sell it. I will sign no papers, but you're privileged to sell it, low priced so the people can get a hold of it, and that no picture can go without a writing signed statement from Mr. Lacy, here, who's our best in America." So I'd think it was the best in the world. And he said, "I will do that." And he wrote up a--a thing, what he'd done, and went to the auditorium, he searched to see if it was a double exposure, and there just above the head, where it was settling down, was the big Pillar of Fire a whirling around, and around, and around.
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He said, "Brother Branham, in the... looking through the negative through the ultra-ray lights, and so forth, it looked like it was kind of a yellow, greenish looking fire, a milling, like this." And I said, "That's just the way It is." And people there who seen It. To my opinion, here's what I think it would be, while I read the Scriptures. First, I have the picture here; I want to show it to you. Mr. Kipperman sells them sometimes at the meeting. But when I found out that he was overcharging the people for it, I wouldn't let them sell it in the meetings. Because the picture wouldn't cost over thirty or forty cents, not over fifty at the most, and selling it for a dollar and a quarter is too much. So I... Can you see it back there?
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Now, at nighttime, when you see those things going on here, it's not me that does that; here is the One that does it. How many can see how far back, let's see your hand, way back. I will have my boy to take it to the stand back there. And in here also, if you'd like to read Mr. Lacy's write up, there it is. You can have a photostatic copy... A photostatic copy's in my book there, but they won't let us (the studios), won't let me print the picture in my book. They let me have the... this, for this is copyrighted. See on the back, and on here? And you couldn't touch it (See?), because it's copyrighted, and they've got it in Washington, DC And one of them hangs in the Religious Hall of Art, in Washington, DC, as the first photograph that was ever taken of a supernatural Being.
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You know what I think, friends? I think that here's where this is, in Exodus 13:21: And the Lord went before them by day in a pillar of a cloud (a pillar of a cloud), to lead them the way; and by night in a pillar of fire, to give them light; to go by night and day: He took not away the pillar of cloud by day, nor the pillar of fire by night, from before the people. And with a reverent, sincere heart, I believe that that's the same Angel of God that led Israel out of Egypt to the promised land in the natural, is leading us to the promised land today, in the spiritual. For "In My Father's house are many mansions: I will go and prepare a place for you." And I believe the Angel of the Lord is leading the Church today, and It's the same Holy Spirit. And anyone knows the-the Angel of the Covenant was Christ. And not... It isn't just to me, friend. I might be counted in with you, but that Angel of the Lord just doesn't... to me, it's to all of you. And He's here right now. He's right in the building. I feeled it right now, and know that the Angel... This same Angel that I'm speaking of here, isn't five feet from me right now. And when I meet you at the judgment bar, and this night is
called into--to order, see if I haven't told you the truth. He's right in here now.
Now, if this was my last service that I ever have in all my life, my words are the truth. For I have not testified of myself; I have testified of Jesus Christ. And the world, the church world, who sees It, and sees Its operation, knows and believes It's the truth. And now, the scientific world is without excuse. It's scientifically proven to the scientific world. You said, "I didn't see nothing spread about..." No, sir. They wouldn't let the "Look," "Life," and "Times," or none of the papers have it. All of them wanted it, and they wouldn't let them have it. Said if they put it in the paper... You know a Jew. Not all of them, but some of them want money. Said they'll cut it out. They're expecting to sell It, and It's sure sold thousands times thousands, and thousands of them, everywhere. And so I--I have nothing to do with it.
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But only this one thing, that I'm happy tonight, to know that Jesus Christ, the Son of God, Who's sovereign in Word and grace, has vindicated that I've told the truth. And I've told you the truth. It's up to you to believe it; that's all. God bless you is my prayer. Sonny... Ma'am? [Woman says something to Brother Branham--Ed.] Let's say, "Praise the Lord." [Congregation says, "Praise the Lord."--Ed.] That's ri... Oh, God bless you, sister. Then you know what is the truth, don't you, sister? That is true. Was there anybody else was there at Houston, when the picture was taken? A man standing right here was there when the pi... another one here, another one there, there, there. Let's say, "Praise the Lord." The Bible said, "In the mouth of two or more witnesses let every word be established." Is that right?
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Now, friends, while the little short visit is here at--at this place, let us all now just lay aside every little thought that we had, that was--maybe it was this, that, or the other. Let's just say, "Lord Jesus, we thank You so much." And for this little time while we're here in the city, may we just huddle together as a hen bringing forth her brood out of the rain. And may we all be sheltered by His love, that these wheelchairs, and these people with heart trouble, and
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cancer, and so forth, will live and not die. Will you do it? Your faith is what operates the Divine gift. So as I say, if I never appear again in public, and my life is took tonight by Almighty God, He, Hisself, has vindicated it to the spiritual world, the believers, and also, to the unbelievers. How many believes that's true? Let's see your hands. God bless you. That's fine. Now, I've took quite a bit of your time. And sonny, you come now, or get the picture, and they'll put it back there. I'm sorry we don't have them to sell, but you wan... go to look at it, and read it, why that's perfectly all right. Let's bow our heads now.
O Father, I didn't mean to take all this time, Lord. When I go to talking about You, I just love You so much that I... my heart just burns in me. I--I think of Paul preaching all night, one night about You, and a boy fell out of the window and got killed; and--and Paul went and laid his body over him, for he knowed he was anointed. He knowed the Angel of God that stood by him out there that night on the stormy sea was with him, and the boys life returned to him. And he said, "You'll be all right," and he got all right. I think of how Paul loved You. When they was building the scaffold to take his life, he said, "I've fought a good fight, I've finished the course, I've kept the faith: And henceforth there's laid up for me a crown that the Lord, the righteous judge, will give me at that day: not only me, but all that love His appearing."
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Dear Father, I ask You tonight, in the mercies, that You will send grace upon this audience. Bless everyone, Lord. And, O holy God, Author of Life, and Giver of every good gift, I've tried to testify the best that I knowed how. And I thank You for Your picture here with us. I look at It, and my heart quivers, think, "Woe is me, the Angel of God has stood near." And You've confirmed Your Word now, practically around the world; thousands times thousands are rejoicing. The scientific world looks at It, they hush It; they don't want It to get any farther. So was it in Your day. But those who are hungering and thirsting for righteousness, they shall be filled. And those who are predestinated to see the Kingdom of God shall see, "For no man can come to My Father, exce..." or "come to Me except My Father draw him." And Lord, there's those here who believe. And I pray Father, that You'll shut us together tonight in the bonds of the love of Christ, and may You stretch forth His holy hands to heal all
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And may, when the evening is over, Almighty God, Author of Life, and Giver of every gift, two more meetings to end up here in America before sailing the seas. And Lord, please hear the prayer of Your servant. If I've found favour with You, grant this to be a great night. The people has waited long in the hot building, but may tonight, something different happen. May the--the blind see, or the deaf hear, or may the lame walk tonight; may there be something great. And may the Holy Spirit stand near, call out sin, rebuke things that's unrighteous, to straighten up some poor person that they can believe.
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And Lord, while You're working here, as I have testified, testify of me, Lord, will You, tonight? And may Your Spirit come, and vindicate that You're present. And may every person that sees You, and Your wonderful way here at the platform, moving out in the audience, and picking those up. Lord, may those tonight, setting out there that won't be in the prayer line, may they have great faith and look and say, "I believe that It's the truth." Then Lord, heal them, and turn Your servant to them, and announce it to them, that they are healed. Grant it, Father. Will You hear my prayer, as I sincerely pray to You? In the Name of Your beloved Child, Jesus. Amen.
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My boy said he give out prayer cards, D today. And let's start tonight... We started last night at 1, didn't we? [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]... and I ask them to keep their head down. This cold spirit kept flowing in. And I felt where it was at, and I looked back in the audience, and a man setting there with his head up like that, and a bunch of people... I said, "Sir, would you put your head down?" He just laughed at me. And I prayed again, and it wouldn't leave the baby, 'cause He told me, "If you get the people to believe you..." And that showed they didn't believe, or they'd do what you ask them to do. So I said... tried again, and it wouldn't... I said, "Now remember, sir, see you to it, I'm not responsible."
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[Brother Branham talks to someone--Ed.]
And I said, "Almighty God, don't let this poor, little, innocent baby suffer for the guilty." And it was in a--a fit right then, and I called to God to heal it. And when the spirit was rebuked, the little baby quietened down, and that man, and about... I forget how many people, every one of them took epileptic fits, and begin jumping all over the floor, screaming, slobbering, and everything. Far as I know, got epilepsy yet today. I seen a man not long ago in Phoenix, Arizona (I suppose he's gone now), with cancer. He thought he knew everything. He said, "It's psychology." A few nights it wasn't psychology when he rushed to his doctor with cramps. He pronounced him with cancer...?... Be reverent. It's not playing church; the Lord Jesus is here. We American people are so heady, and high-minded, and haughty, till we think we know it all. We're living now upon the reputation of our forefathers.
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Thank you Brother Baxter. Thank you Brother.
[Audience claps--Ed.]
Thank you so much for that welcome. I feel real good about that. I was kinda surprised to see Brother Upshaw. I'm just a little shorter than Brother Baxter...?... It's indeed a great privilege to be here tonight. I just heard this afternoon some more good news, my wife may come up during this meeting. And--and I hope that she gets here. I say we don't, we going miss them. Thank you. Thank you. If there's any credit to go the Branham family, let it go to her. She's the one deserves it. Thirty years old and gray headed. She's seen the trouble. When my phone there I've... At times I've seen when we had, that ant--average as many, sixty-four long distance calls an hour, day and night, and the people at the door and so forth. She's had an awful time. But God has blessed us, and we're happy to be serving Him.
It was indeed a surprise to see the congressman here tonight. I shall never forget his healing. I feel that that... He was the one that the Angel of the Lord was referring to when He met me and said, "You'll pray for great men, statesmen, kings of the earth." How could I ever believe that I would be praying for people like that. My first shock was when King George of England sent me a cablegram, come pray for him to be healed of his multiple sclerosis, which God did heal him. I was... Then the night when I never knew Congressman Upshaw, when he was running... He run for president, I think in about 1919. And I think he was something in the state of Georgia where he come from, senator or something in there. He's been a internationally known man, served in the congress and retired in congress.
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And one night I walked into the Temple. And I knew no one, just as I know here. There was the wheelchairs lined up through there, why, just as they are tonight. Someone today, a business man was sitting, wanted to know why that that lady last night was healed in a wheelchair, why didn't I heal somebody else in a wheelchair? I said, "I never healed her, and I don't heal no one. Jesus Christ healed her by her... the merits of her faith. And I saw it done and I told her about it and that's all." I said, "I could tell every one of them, if He would show me. But I can only do as He tells me to do."
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And I never heard in my life of this gallant man, Mr. Upshaw. I... You know in my talk that I'm uneducated. I was raised in a big family of ten children. I got not even a grammar school education. Seventh grade was as far as I got in school. I had to go to work, take care of nine children. My father wasn't very healthy, died young, and I had to work. I never got my education, I would've knew mister Upshaw. Well, one night I walked into the building, and I seen a vision. All the wheelchairs was setting there. I looked, and I saw a young man in his teens, fall; he hurt himself. He fell on a hayrack or something. That's all I could say, knew of. I seen him in a high place, wore a strange looking collar, looked like the same man. Somebody was applauding to him. That's all I knew. Somebody said... Brother Baxter said, "You know who that was you seen?" I said, "No." Said, "That's... Did you ever heard of Congressman Upshaw?" I said, "No, sir." Said, "He's setting before you. That's him." Then I looked, and I said, "That's the guy. That's him setting there."
I went ahead and I started to look to see what would happen. I seen a doctor standing like that, thin doctor, wearing great big tortoise shell glasses. And he had one of those things out in front of his head that--glass like that they look into the mouth. I seen him shaking his head like that, and said... I looked down, there laid a little colored girl laying by him. He had taken her tonsils, and it paralyzed her from her way--or from her throat down. She was paralyzed. I looked at the little girl, and I said, "I see a doctor. He's operated, taken the tonsils from a child, a colored child who's paralyzed." I looked around this a way, and I heard someone weeping. I looked, laying down to the right was an elderly colored woman there, weeping like that. She said, "Good Lord, that's my baby." I looked laying there; I said, "Yeah, that's the baby. It's about two years since it's been, hasn't it, mother?" She said, "That's right." I said, "I imagine by the looks of it, it's about two years ago." She said, "That's what it's been." I looked back around this a way and called another to the line. And I happened to look; I seen a path going like this, or it turned out to be a street. I seen that little colored girl going down the street with a doll on her arm. That was it. Said, "All right, mother. It's over. Your baby's healed." There it was. See?
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The Spirit of the Lord come into the audience and just sapped my strength. And just as I started to go down, my brother run to me to catch me. And I looked; I seen Congressman Upshaw. And he'd been in meetings ever since he was a lad when he first fell and hurt himself. He wanted to be healed then by God. He listened to Mr. Roberts; he'd been in Mr. Freeman's meetings, Mr. Ogilvie, and many of them had prayed for him. Friends, I've got something to say along them lines after a bit. No matter how much faith you have, it'll never change the predestinated will of God. It's got to be by vision to see what happens. And as it started out, I seen him in a brown suit going down the street, tipping his hat to people like that. I said, "Congressman Upshaw is healed in the Name of the Lord." There, after laying, been a crippled for sixty-six years, laying on a bed for many years, and rolled around in a wheelchair... Sent people through college by selling books on the streets, that's now in our government; and served his time as a gallant man, as a great man, as a statesman, and congressman of our United States of America. There, that man, for the first time since sixty-six years, threw aside his crutches and was perfectly whole. He minded what the Holy Spirit said do.
There setting by his side was a woman, had arthritis just a few years, screamed, who said, "What about me?" How could I say? What could I say to her? The Father had to show me, first.
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And Mister Upshaw had heard enough of it before. He said before he come into the meetings that he knew that--that it wasn't me. That what God said, through there, he had faith to believe, for he'd seen others. And here's Mr. Upshaw and his wife setting here tonight to listen to this testimony, which is the truth. God... [Brother
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And he says, "Let's praise the Lord." Amen. That's... And here he is just as--at eighty-four years old, just as lively as any child.
Now, for any of you people, I'm... And concerning healing, I have told you many times, I can do nothing until the Father shows me what is done. Someone said, "Brother Branham, why don't you call the people up and just pray for every one of them." That's all right. I can do that. That's all right. That's not exactly the way that I carry the meetings. I carry the meetings according to the manifestation of the Spirit of God that's given me to minister to the people. Now, we do the best that we know how, to minister to them. And now, before I go any farther, I want to read some Scripture in confirmation of what I have just said. I want to read from Saint John 5, you that wish to mark them. And I... I want you to listen closely now. Now, my words is the words of a man, it will fail. But God's Word, is the Word of God which cannot fail. How many believes the Word of God is true and infallibly the truth? Thank you. Then that... It might be misunderstood, I will read about Jesus. This is in the early part of His ministry, He was declaring Himself before the people. After this there was the feast of the Jews; and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. And now there is at Jerusalem by the sheep market a pool, which is called in the Hebrew tongue Bethesda, having five porches. In these laid great multitudes of impotent folks... blind, halt, withered, waiting for the moving of the water. For an angel went down at... certain season into the pool, and troubled the water: whosoever then first after the troubling of the water stepping in was made whole of whatsoever disease he had. And a certain man was there, which had an infirmity thirty and eight years. ...Jesus saw him lie, and knew that he had been now a long time in this case, he says unto him, Wilt thou be made whole?
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The impotent man answered him, Sir, I have no man... to put me into the water: but while I am coming, another steps down before me. Jesus said unto him, Rise, take up thy bed, and walk. And immediately the man was made whole... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] took up his bed and walked: and the same... was the sabbath day. Now, I want you to read that whole chapter. But I want to read the 19th and 20th verse. When he was questioned... Now, I'll get to the verse just in a moment. I want you to watch the scene. And now, please give me your undivided attention on these lines, so there will not... It'll brush away superstitions and thoughts that should not be.
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Jesus was the virgin born Son of God. We believe that. If we're Christians, we have to believe that He was virgin born. And I believe the Holy Spirit overshadowed a little girl, Mary, and created that Blood cell in her womb that developed into the Son of God. And I believe that God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself. For he said, "It's not Me that doeth the works; it's My Father that dwelleth in Me." And now, He came by this pool in the beginning of His ministry, which was at the sheep market. We wouldn't have time to go in, 'cause you readers know what the sheep market, the pool was there at Bethesda, had five porches where the sheep came in from different parts, and the pool... to the pool.
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And now, there... Some people thought these people that waited there was superstitious. There was an Angel came down and troubled the water; that's chopped the waters; it's very dangerous water. And the first man stepping in with faith was made whole of whatsoever disease he had. Now, let's watch the picture. And around this gate now laid great multitudes. Now, what would you think consisted of a multitude? Now, we're told that a multitude consisted of two thousands. And multitudes was in the plural, great multitudes. Now, there's probably, let's say ten thousand people. Maybe they was more. But at least from five to ten thousand people we'll say.
Now, let's look what kind of a group that was: of lame, halt, blind, withered. What a--a mass of disfigured humanity, waiting for the troubling of this water. Historians tell us that they'd even fight to get into the water, cut each other with knives to try to get ahead of
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the other one, to step in to see if their faith was sufficient to make them whole. Now, Jesus passed by this pool. Now, Jesus never dressed Himself any different than any man of His day. He never wore His different... to make Hisself known. The Kingdom of God is not the way you wear your clothes; it's what's in your heart. You don't have to turn your collar around, or be called doctor or reverend. It's what you are in your heart. Jesus was a common ordinary looking Jew. And He passed through the people, and they--they'd get mixed up. They wouldn't even know where--where He was. He just walked right out. He wasn't dressed any different. Wasn't nothing queer about Him in that manner of His garb, make-up.
And He walked in, and He knew a man had been laying there now for thirty-eight years, had an infirmity. Now, look. There was lame, halt, withered; and here laid a man with an infirmity, a disease. Maybe he had TB. Might've had high blood pressure. He might been anemia, heart trouble. But he had an infirmity for thirty and eight years. He wasn't bound on a cot, or a bed, or in a chair. He said, "While I'm coming down to the water, somebody that's better off than I beat me to it." And then the Angel, as soon as the first person was healed, all the virtue of the Angel went off the water to the person, and left. And they didn't wait just for another day: until another season. Might be a month. But they waited. We can't wait for one night to another. If we don't get prayed for the first night and healed, there's nothing to it. That shows how times have changed, and what a bunch of neurotics in the age that we're living in. The Bible said it would be this a way. And we're here.
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Now, watch this. Jesus knew this man had been laying there for a long time. He knew nothing except the Father showed Him. And He went by and healed this man, and walked away from that multitude of crippled, afflicted, and suffering humanity; and walked away from them. Could you imagine, that... Do you believe Jesus had compassion? Do you believe He was full of love? Sure, I believe that. But these things that go with that, that ninety percent of the Bible readers go over the top of it. They fail to see the true of it. Sure He was full of love. And it looked like, that if He was so full of love, as we know He was, and seen those people laying there withered, twisted, and drawed up, blind, crying, no way to make a living, just begging and... Looks like that lovely Son of God would've walked over and said, "Now, blind man, receive your sight. Crippled man, you've been laying here so long, rise up. And mister, you with the withered arm, why don't you
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Instead of that, going to a man that was just sick, and had lived an ordinary life with an infirmity for thirty-eight years. That looks strange, doesn't it? You couldn't hardly understand that. Now, I want you to remember that word, "couldn't understand it..." if the Scriptures didn't declare it later. The Jews questioned Him. Now, listen what He says in the 19th verse. Then Jesus answered and said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, The Son can do nothing in himself, but what he seeth the Father do; for what soever things he doeth, these also doeth the Son likewise. For the Father sh... loveth the Son, and showeth him all things... himself doeth: and he will show him greater things than this, that you may marvel. Now, notice. Why didn't Jesus heal the withered there? Why didn't He heal the afflicted? Why did He heal a man that just had, maybe a stomach trouble, or--or something, and leave the rest of them there? Because His own Word says, "He could do nothing unless the Father showed Him." Is that right? Well, isn't He the same yesterday, today, and forever?
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Someone questioned me today. Said, "Well, if you can see all things..." I said, "I cannot see all things." He said, "Well, you--you... That one woman setting there bound in the wheelchair, you told her to rise up. And here set a whole big bunch of people setting in front of you, why didn't you tell them to rise up?" "How can I, except God shows me?" Said, "Well I had an aunt setting back there. She had heart trouble. And you healed a man setting there with..." I said, "Brother, I did not heal no one with heart trouble. Jesus Christ healed that man by his prayer. And I only seen it done." Now, He heals the cripples. But people these days... Jesus said, "A weak and adulterous generation seeketh after signs." Is that right? "Except you see miracles," Jesus said, "and signs, you won't believe." Now, there's cripples been healed. But the thing of it is, I want to get to you cripples, ninety percent of the people that's crippled, when the doctor says, "All right, you're setting there for life," they can't help it. Way down in them is something that frightens them and tells them that's going to be the truth. And you're afraid to let yourself out. Well, you're not hopeless, no more than a man with heart trouble. I stand and look at the cripples, and see what's wrong with them and
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I never speak and say, "This man, this boy here fall and died, and hurting himself, and so forth like that, and bursting up his spine, and everything." He knows that. And the crip... The people here see them and know they're crippled, and arthritis, and heart, the things like that. They see that. But what does... The power of God is, is when a man standing here looking healthy, and you tell him what's wrong with him, when to the natural eye, he looks all right. The natural eye can see the man's crippled. See, maybe his leg's bent up, or his... Or see the man setting there blind with a cane, or he's walking to and somebody leading him, or... You know he's blind. But the thing, the people look healthy.
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Oh, Christians, pinch the inside man now and wake up to the reality, that Jesus Christ is here to manifest Hisself to you. And His present attitude now is just the same to you as it--as it was to them back there. But He could only do as your faith will vindicate, or your faith will go to the Father and accept what He has already done for you. Now, to you crippled people. There isn't any of you here as bad off as Congressman Upshaw. He was sixty-six years crippled, wheeled in a wheelchair, laid on beds, helped out and went with crutches. I never seen him or heard of him in my life, and God knows that's true. And here the man is tonight, standing before you, perfectly whole. See?
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The congressman with a spiritual wife instructed in him, and say, "You believe." And him, being a spiritual man himself, believed. And when he saw the operation of the Spirit, he within himself, he said, "If God will only answer my prayer, and let the brothers see me, then I believe." No matter how many men had tried to cast out and push up, and take the crutches away, that's only... Why, I can walk down there and try to pick somebody up off a wheelchair, say, "Stand up, hold up, hold up, do this." That's just a act of faith. That's all right. If that'll help you, go ahead. Let somebody do it.
But for my part, when I tell you to rise from the wheelchair, you do what I tell you, you're going to walk. That's--that's all there is to it. For I'm not going to tell you till the heavenly Father shows me that you're healed. And you do what you're told. When you're hear at the platform, and It tells you what to do, you go do it, and you'll get well, because It's not me.
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And it never has one time in the literally hundreds of thousands, failed one time. It can't fail with you. But It's not me; It's He that does it. See? Not me, It's He. I only speak, 'cause I don't speak myself. He speaks through me. And that's mostly where...
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Now, God shows visions. I want some of them, if they will, to call my time. I... Maybe I can see the clock. I'm not sure. Five after? Thank you. If I can... Why, I don't want to go too long. I want to get a--a little story to you, each night, a little testimony. Then it's a little cooler tonight, which we're thankful for it. And dear Christian friends, I may be having my last American meetings for all I know. I'm going overseas now. And I feel the call to finish up my journey overseas in Africa, and the different parts of the world. I don't know when I can be back again. It'll only be through the will of God, and whatever He shows me to do. And I love you. And I know someday I must stand at the judgment seat of Christ to give an account for the things that we've done in this life. Now, to--for something that maybe some people here has been in the meetings and know this. And from henceforth out, I will try just to give a testimony when I come to the platform, and then leave.
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And in giving out the prayer cards of the day... Your prayer cards don't have nothing to do with this, only just a number to keep you lined up. They try to... I ask my boy... At first, we would send the prayer cards to the minister. First, I wouldn't have any at all. I'd say, "All who wants to be prayed for, come up." Oh, they would be have a fight, who's going to be in the front lines; 'cause I only get to so many, and who was going to get in. We had to do something. We give prayer cards. Then we thought, "Well, first come, first served." And the first day there, we just handed out all the prayer cards we could. If anybody else come in a little late, they were out. And just those who got the first hundred or two, was the only ones that got prayed for. If a man come in with emergency case, he--he couldn't come in before someone else, 'cause he'd beat them out.
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Then it got so, we'd give them to the ministers. Well, then... And say each minister, send him two hundred, and next minister two hundred, all the cooperating ministers. And that even caused them to lose members of their church. If someone give a member a prayer card, and didn't give it to this other person, and then the first minister got his group in; time his group got ministered to, the rest of it was finished--the service was finished. That caused trouble. And the only way successfully we've ever found of doing it, is to take
a group of cards each day, and go down there. No matter if you've been there a dozen times, or if you've been there... And then we would take them and give them out, fifty cards. Start from number one.
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And if you couldn't get up for past ten or fifteen, they say, "I don't want it. I won't be called anyhow." See? 'Cause that's about all I could get to in one night. Maybe sometimes not over one or two. And people misunderstand it. And letters flow in. "We don't get prayed for." Our Master went into a city, and healed one man, and walked away from the city. Isn't that right? And if He's the same yesterday, today, and forever. See what I mean? Now, then we figured this, and the Lord one night revealed it to me. Said, "Go down and give out a group of cards. And then when you do, let no one know from where, and go walk up to the platform." And whatever He puts on my mind, that's where I start from. And that gives everybody a fair chance every day to come in. And the prayer cards, there's more healed out in the audience than there is on the platform. You know that's true. So the prayer card don't have nothing to do with it. I ask each night, How many hasn't got prayer cards." And I try to watch over those people to see what the Lord will--will show me concerning them, and they'd be healed.
Now, it's the prayer, your prayer, your prayer. Now, remember, if you're going to be healed, don't think that somebody that's got a gift of Divine healing heals you. If you're going to be healed by Divine healing, you are the one that's got the gift of healing. It's your faith in Christ, not this person, or no other man. It's your own individual faith in Christ. How many understands that? That's the truth. I couldn't do nothing. I could pray for you. Or your neighbor can pray for you. But it's your faith that does the healing. You accept yourself, individually, what Christ has done for you. You lay hold on it, and it's truth. Now, the only thing that this does, sometimes corrects a man's life.
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I don't know, they told me... (Oh, it seems like a dream after the meeting's over, when the anointing comes.) about a man who came here last night on the platform, and the Spirit of God went out to him, and told him that he was some sort of a critic, and had been criticizing me. And the manager and them told me, the... My boy says the man humbly reached out his hand and apologized, and said it was the truth. Is that true? Then he made it right with God, and went to his place. Said a deaf woman got healed, and so forth; and a woman
in a wheelchair, and different things. They tell me. When they go to talking about it, I--I began to... It seems like it's way back. I can think of it. Last night going out, I could hear someone calling me. I couldn't tell where it was. And I had nothing to do with it myself.
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Now, here's how it happens. Now, for the next few minutes: While I was at Houston when this picture was being taken, Doctor F. F. Bosworth, one of the finest old men there is in the world... I'm anxious for Congressman Upshaw to meet him. He's going with me to Africa, Mister Bosworth. We want to see him finish his ministry and finish his course with great joy. And he's going to Africa with us. I love him with godly Christian love. And he came into my room, he said, "Brother Branham looky here." Just about a night before this picture was taken. And there he give me the picture of Miss Florence Nightingale, a great-great granddaughter of the late Florence Nightingale from England, that went down into Africa. And she was dying with a malignant growth over the...?... of the stomach. And they held up her picture.
And I thought Georgie Carter, my piano player at the Milltown Baptist Church in Indiana, was the thinnest person I ever seen. She weighed thirty some odd pounds, with TB, and been nine years and eight months on her back. And a hour from the time that the Holy Ghost showed me where she's at and to pray for her, she was playing the piano again. And she's my piano player there tonight. Six, seven years ago, she's just as healthy as anybody. But this woman was almost six foot tall, Georgie was a little woman. This woman was about six foot tall and weighed around thirty-five or forty pounds. And they had her standing up, holding her, and her body with just a small clout around her. Even as hard-hearted as I am, it broke me down to tears. And I... She's begging me, "Brother Branham, the last call. Please fly to Africa right away." Said, "I believe if I could just see you, God will heal me." Now, she did not belong to a fundamental church. Then... But she had faith. All the faith don't lie in the fundamental church, or don't-- lies in the Pentecostal church, or the Holiness church. It lays in an individual. I've seen a Roman Catholic come to the platform and be healed miraculously with things. And different people...
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I've seen in Winnipeg, Canada, a Buddha worshipper, a little blind boy converted at the platform. I said, "You being blind, do you believe." He said, "If Jesus Christus heal me tonight, I'll worship no other God
but Jesus Christus." And his eyes come open. There you are. Buddha... I expect to see Indians and Hindus in Africa, and Hottentots brought to the saving grace of Jesus Christ. Listen. I prayed, and I said, "God, I can't go down there now unless You lead me. So I ask Thee, Lord, if You'll heal that woman, that'll be a green light." And Brother Bosworth kneeling with me, said, "Go to Africa." Brother Baxter doesn't know about this even. And we joined hands there, Brother Bosworth and I, and my wife, and little girl. And we knelt down and prayed that God would heal the woman. I commit it to the Lord, and let it go. I never knew nothing about that, left it go.
And when Brother Baxter and I, and all of us arrived in London, Brother Baxter and I were going in, which he's listening... setting here listening at me now. When we were going in, I said, "Well, it'll be peaceful here for awhile." So I started up, and they paged me. And when I got there, I was wondering if it was the king's call to come to the Buckingham Palace, or what it was, immediately. But what it was, the page was to go over... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] There was a lady had just flown in front of me from Africa, and they couldn't hardly get her out of the plane: Miss. Florence Nightingale. How she knowed I was to be there, I don't know yet. And I told this minister, I said, "Take her somewhere, and I'll see you in a day or so." We wanted to go down to the palace. So he said, "If she lives that long." Said, "Brother Branham, she's dying."
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So they got her down to the place, and that day when Brother Baxter and I, and Brother Lindsay, and Brother Moore, the managers, we went down to the place. The minister came and got us, and we went up to the place to pray for the woman. When I walked in that room, friends, I--I--I can't tell you how I felt. There laid a skeleton a breathing. Now, I'm in a mixed audience. Now, you listen to your doctor, and I'm your brother. Now, please understand me in the right manner. When they brought down the cover, Brother Baxter turned his head. And she wanted... Now, she couldn't talk to me, and I had to get down and let the nurse say what she was saying. And where enough moisture was coming to make tears rolling down her cheeks, I don't know. She wanted to die. She wanted me to ask God to let her die.
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Well, I took a hold of her hand, and it cold pi--just like bones.
Her head here, the skull, how it goes together, you could see the places. Her eyes way back. And on her breast, as a woman, it wasn't, sunk down into her ribs. And when they pulled the cover down to here, her bones... her legs up here at the place, at their sockets, was just about that big around. They couldn't even find any veins to inject glucose or nothing. She hadn't eat for months, could swallow nothing. They had to put the water in her and so forth. And now, they couldn't find the veins to feed her. And there, the ring of her hip bone had growed together, and the skin from both sides of the ring was sticking together like that. You never seen such a sight in your life. I knelt down, and I said, "Heavenly Father, have mercy." I told her, I said, "I'm under no anointing; I've just come down here. But I'll pray, but not for you to die." And I started praying. And she said, "Could you...?..." I was going to get down close, and the nurse said, "She said, 'Brother Branham, I've always believed if I could get near you, God would answer prayer.'" If I was a hypocrite, God would reward such faith as that. That's true.
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And when I went to pray for her, just as I started praying... Brother Baxter here is one witness. As I started to pray, a little turtledove flew at the window, begin to go, "Coo, coo, coo, coo." And all... I started down. I said, "Our Father, Who art in heaven..." The little turtledove started going, "Coo, coo." I said, "Hallowed be Thy Name." He said, "Coo, coo," walking back and forth. And when I finished my prayer, and said, "Amen," and asked for her healing, the little turtledove flew away. The ministers remarked. And when I started to tell the woman to console her, the Holy Spirit spoke and said, "She's going to be well." And today, she weighs a hundred and thirty-five pounds in perfect health. There's a green light in Africa burning.
We went from there to Helsinki. (And I'll have to hurry, just get part of this.) Before leaving, I was at... One night, the Holy Spirit appeared to me in Miami, Florida. I seen a little boy killed by an accident and laying in a rocky looking land. And oh, at the condition that child, he... I described him. And many you people here might know it, as I--I speak of it. And I asked it... Went over to the tent, and I said, "There's going to be a little boy somewhere's going to be raised. It's a rocky looking ground. He's got brown hair, kind of bobbed off. He's got little bitty short panty-waist trousers on. His feet's going to be run through his socks, and he's--he's all mashed up from an accident. And he's going
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to be dead. And the Lord is going to bring him back." I said, "THUS SAITH THE LORD." I said, "All of you write it in your Bibles, and it'll appear in the Voice Of Healing. And one of these days, when, I don't know, (because the vision lasted some two hours.) it'll be sometime."
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And I guess this is one of the dozens and hundreds of things that He has shown. I take any person to the record, if every one of them hasn't come to pass. Then when... About two or three nights after that, they took me back behind the tent, said, "A little boy's laying back here, come see him." The little boy was drowned; about five years old, real coal black hair, well... I said, "No, that's not him." I offered prayer for consolation, and went on. I come up through the Western country, down through Canada. And I told it everywhere in my meetings. I said, "Write it in your Bible. There's one vision that yet hasn't come to pass. It's a little boy that's going to be on his road to a undertaker establishment or something, and God is going to heal him. I'll be there. It's in a rocky country, lots of trees. And the little boy's about eight or ten years old, a little flat faced, and brown eyes." And I said, "He got bobbed looking hair like a girl's hair like. He's very poorly dressed."
How many remembers me saying that? Is there anybody here that remembers? Here's one man putting his hands up here. Yes, another one over there. That was way before (See?) it come to pass. Back in there, yeah, I see your hands. All right. That was nearly a year and a half or two years before it happened. One day when we went to Helsinki, then we went up to Kuopio. It was fast time--I was fasting and praying. They sing, the Russians and all, some of them were there, and the Finns. They sang a beautiful song, "On Golgotha." And all their songs are in minor, very sad. There was an Englishman down at the bottom below the tower, drunk. We led him to Christ when we come down. I said to--to brethren, I said, "There's something strange going to happen. I feel that the Angel of the Lord is near, and it ain't even time for the meeting." We was having marvelous meetings. Thousands, they stood for a half a mile, about five or six city blocks, just as far as they could stand at three o'clock in the evening trying to get into the Messuhalli, which was then seated at twenty-five thousand or better. So then, waiting.
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And when you pass by... You could pass by them and the tears would be just dropping off their cheeks, just in respects, they would stand like that. Lovely... Oh, my. We got it easy over here. We got... We're well fed and clothed, and
have need for nothing, as we think. Brother, they could teach us Christianity. They have to pray and hold to God for everything they get. We'll get an economy someday if we don't straighten up our living in this country. I'm American, born here and generation after generation. I flew over the grave of many dead Branham laying in Germany and France, and through there, that's died in the wars. And if be my call tonight, I'd die freely for my country. But she needs some straightening up. That's exactly right. We talking about revival, and we ain't had no revival yet. We've had a lot of protractive meetings, but a revival's when they tear down the--the sheds and go to praying and get right with God. An old fashion, back woods, sky blue, sin killing religion preached that makes people get right with God, that's what we need is a revival, not a church joining. Amen. I don't know why I said that, but I've already said it.
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Notice. All right. And those people, lovely. And when we came down, I kept telling brother, "Something's going to happen." We come down the hill. And down below, a car was going swiftly. Not many cars in Finland. Second-handed Fords sell for about four thousand dollars, gasoline about a dollar and a half a gallon. Very few cars there, you see one a sparingly. And a car wreck, American made '35 model Ford, green, had run down through some school children. Two little boys started this way. They tried to run back. One went one way and one the other. And the bumper struck one by the chin. He started this way. When the driver whirled his car to the right, struck him by the chin and threw him down that way, rolled him over and over, hit the curb and up against a tree and concussed his brain. And the other little fellow, it knocked him right in front of him, hit him with the bumper, rolled over him, run over him. And the car was driving about sixty miles per hour. Rolled him up under the back, and kicked him plumb up in the air when he went out like that. And he fell like a sack on the ground. Think about a dog being hit like that or something.
Quite a while, a few minutes, fifteen minutes before we got to the scene. The little boy was laid out, dead. Brother and them went over there and looked at him. I couldn't look at the child. It--it just... Brother Lindsay came back. Many of you know Brother Gordon Lindsay. Brother Baxter, I don't think... No, he wasn't at the scene. Brother Baxter never went up with us. He was taking a walk, he and my brother. And when I got there, I... Brother Lindsay come back crying. Brother Moore come back crying, Sister Isaacson, the interpreter...
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Well, I didn't know what to think. And finally, I took a look at the boy. And I started weeping. I got a son here. And I thought, "Way away in America, my boy." Now, if I hadn't been all excited, I'd have recognized it quickly. But I turned away. It covered his little face. And I...
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Looked like Something just laid Their hand on my shoulder or something. And I turned around, there's nobody there. I thought, "Wait. What's this strange feeling?" I waited just a few moments. I said, "Let me see that boy again." And they raised the--the thing back from over him, and there he was laying there. And I said, "Ask the ministers if that boy's ever been in a church." "No." "Do they know him?" "No." I said, "I seen that boy somewhere." I looked at him again. I seen his little foot run through that sock. I looked around, I seen that rugged country. I said, "Here he is." I said, "Brother Moore, look in your Bible." Said, "What do you mean?" I said, "Look on the fly leaf, you and Brother Lindsay. THUS SAITH THE LORD, there's the boy that I seen in America. That boy will be alive in a few minutes." You'll never know how you feel when you know where you're standing. That's right.
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Said, "Is that the boy?" Brother Moore looked over the fly leaf in his Bible where many... I asked hundreds and hundreds of people to write it in there. He said, "Brother Branham, that's the description exactly." I said, "That's the boy." All right. They gathered, knelt down. I said, "O Eternal God, way in my homelands in America, one night You visit me and showed me this rocky country and this little boy. And here he lays here dead, waiting for his father and mother to come to hear this sad news." I said, "You Who separated me from my mother's womb and sent me to see these visions, now, Almighty God, speak; and death, you go hold him, I call for his life in the Name of Jesus Christ Who showed the vision." And the little boy screamed, jumped on his feet, and is as normal and well as anybody there is setting in the building here tonight. That touch came in like a streak of fire.
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That night when they tried to bring me to the meeting, why the... They was packed so far down the street, the officers, police patrol, army officers had to come and get me from blocks down the street. Coming in, I'll never forget.
I will have to hurry, just one more thing. And I'll finish up about the other boy tomorrow night. I was going into the room, two Finnish soldiers behind me and two in front of me pushing me along. And I went into the room, and they... The auditorium was packed. Oh, my. And up and down the streets, and they had tents around everywhere. And I've got some of the chief men of the city, which we'd call mayor, wrote up in their books, signed by his own name, witness of the power of Almighty God to raise the dead.
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Now, that's three times that I've seen that done. Maybe I can get to it later when Mrs. Hattie Waldorf here in Phoenix, and Ralph Perry at home. Now... That I mean's been pronounced dead, laying out... This boy, when I started in... I was going to the little room, and I heard a door shut. And there was the ladies dormitory rest room there, such as it was. And when it stepped out, the most pitiful sight I ever seen in my life. It was a little girl. How many takes that paper, "The Voice Of Healing"? You've probably seen her picture and know what I'm talking about. She had on a--a big steel thing around her like this, and one leg was a little shorter than the other. And she had no control of this limb. And she had a big shoe built on the bottom of this brace. And the brace was solid, not so it would bend the knee. It was solid. It come up around her and laced around. And there was a--a hook in the toe of her shoe, a strap come up and went over her shoulders and hooked the back of the brace. And then she had two crutches here that she walked on. And she'd set the crutches out, and she'd swing her little shoulder, and that would set that limb out. And it not being quite grown, and no use of it, the weight of it flew upon this here (You see?) support. And she would hold and walk. And that helped her walk. She'd set that shoe down, she could make a step.
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And the poor little thing standing there... And the ladies, if you knowed how they had to dress... The little thing was standing there, and little rags hanging from her little underskirt, and her little clothes all tore up. And I learned later, she was a little war orphan. Her father and mother was killed in the war, a Russian. And she come out there, and she... little ragged looking hair. And when she seen me standing there, she looked and she straightened up like that, and bowed her little head. Oh, my, something just mashed down on my heart. I looked at the little thing. I... Oh, I just had the awfullest feeling. And that soldier said, "Mum, mum," pushing me on. No... And I know she wanted to--she wanted to talk to me, only they'd been told not to bother her on the street or anything.
And I love those little old kiddies. I used to get them all in church. And when they was in the auditorium in the afternoon service... They give me some of that little old Finnish money, and I'd go out there and give it to them so they could buy their candies. And they would pull their little skirt out, and say, "Kiitos." "Kiitos" means "thank you." And they would holler, "Kiitos." And I'd have a line of kids from here back of the building following me along. I love the little fellows.
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And she looked at me like that, and her little lips started quivering, and she stood still. And I motioned to her, come here. I knowed she wanted to come. And she came over to where I was. And she got over with her little crutch and her thing, she walked over. I wanted to see what she's going to do. And she took hold of my coat and kissed me on the coat, dropped it down, looked up to me like that and held her little crutches, pulled back her little skirt and said, "Kiitos." And the tears running down her little cheeks like that, dropping off. Oh, I... Looked to me like my heart would burst. I looked down at her, and I seen her healed. I knowed God would reward faith for that. I said, "Honey, you're healed." And she couldn't understand me. They pushed me on in. We had a great meeting that night. And the people, when they would see something being revealed out there, they'd just throw their crutches away and start walking on.
And that night, they just grabbed big armfuls. You seen it in the paper, of armfuls of crutches and like that, and sticks that the people was healed off of them. They would just have... Pulled them up beside of me, and Dr. Manninen and them when they taken the picture. And I said to my brother... He said, "We got to take you." He pulled me away. And I said, "Just a few more." And God's wise providence, the very next card that was called, I heard something rattle and it was her. She was the next coming up on the platform. And here she come across. And I said, "Sister Isaacson," the interpreter, "just quote my voice." She said, "Very well." And I said, "Sweetheart, you're the little girl that met me out there in the hall." And she nodded her little head when the interpreter said so. And I said, "Jesus Christ healed you, honey. You go over there and set down, and be taking off your brace. And just when you... when your brace comes off, let your little hand slip right down like that. You're healed." I said, "I saw you in a vision. You're healed." She walked over there. The ushers begin to take the braces off of her. And just as they...
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I begin to pray for another woman that was standing there, had come up. Just then I heard a scream. And I looked, and here she come across the platform, braces, crutches over her head, and running just as hard as she could run. Like Congressman Upshaw, perfectly whole. Made well. What is it? Jesus Christ, the same yesterday, today, and forever. His power is unlimited. It's limited to your faith. Do you believe it? That's confirmed amongst thousands times thousands of people. And by the way, I believe right in my book there, I believe we have her address, and the little boy that raised... was raised from the dead. I'll get to the other one tomorrow night.
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Who has believed our report? To whom is the arm of the Lord revealed? He's here tonight. Jesus, the Son of God, to bless every one in Divine Presence. I cannot heal you. God may be able to show me what He has done for you. If you'll confess your faith in Him, and believe that He sent me to do [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] this you shall see the glory of the Lord. Let us bow our heads... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] as we pray. Heavenly Father, we just love to testify of Your way. That's just still burning in my heart, that poor little Finnish orphan, little thing with no mother and no daddy, both of them killed, poor little thing, packed about from place to place. And I'm thinking tonight of the scenes that I see here at home when they go back out to the garbage can and rake out those big slices of bread and pieces of meat. And them poor little Finns, walking the streets; some of them with little dirty hands, wringing the tears out of their little eyes. They'd be happy to have one of those pieces of bread. O God, we're unworthy.
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Some glorious day though, we'll cross the border. Then we'll set down at Your table, look across at one another, tears rolling down our cheeks from the great fights, we see many of the old veterans that's fought along in the battle. We--we'll shake hands with each other, and cry a little. And the King will come out and wipe all the tears out of our eyes. Say, "Don't cry no more now. The battle's over; you're home. Enter into the joys of the Lord." That's the day I'm working for, Lord. That's the day we struggle for. No matter whether people believe our report or not, Lord, we--we teach it, and Thou art confirming it. And we know that You're here to make known Your blessings. God, bless these people tonight, Lord Jesus. Many old dad and mother setting... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] just about gone. Doctors has turned them down. Many are setting here in these wheelchairs and think they'll never walk no more, unless something can happen. Many old brothers setting here, maybe with heart trouble, or sister that'll be
gone in a few weeks if something don't happen; a cancer eat them up. Oh, have mercy, Jesus. Be with us tonight again in a special way.
I testified of Your Angel to show visions. O Father, not that this audience could hear my voice, for I'm not speaking to them. I'm speaking to Thee. I pray God, that--that You'll show visions tonight, may appear visible if it would be possible. All over this building here, may the Angel of God throw His great wings across here, and the distilled dew drops of mercy drop from them, Lord, upon every hungry heart in here. And may they have faith to be healed tonight, and accept their healing from the Lord. If there be any who meets this qualification that Thou has required, Lord, show it to Your servant. And may He engulf Thy servant now, enshroud, Lord, and hide away. Knowing setting here is Brother Upshaw, that for sixty-six years he waited. But in the dim light of his days, You blessed him. You give him the desire of his heart. You withhold no good things from them that walk upright.
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There are those setting here who're dying of cancer, that's now well. One woman who was crippled in a wheelchair last night, she's here walking now, well. O Christ, may men and women realize, shut away their superstitions and look to Calvary now, from whence cometh our help, and may they see Him Who we're trying to represent. The Lamb of God is wounded for our transgressions, with His strips we were healed. May they see Him in His power and His glory. May they see Him in the power of His resurrection tonight. And as His disciples of old, when they were turning from Emmaus, when this audience leaves here tonight may they be like the ones that returned from Emmaus, that seen the power of the resurrected Christ, said, "Did not our hearts burn within us?" For He was there... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] Healing them. Grant it Lord. Now, I commit myself to You... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]... Glorious outpouring of Thy blessings, for I ask it in the Name of Thy Son, Jesus. Amen.
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Now, remember, as I make this statement: I am not responsible for critics who are at the meeting. Can I say that again please? I will not be responsible for critics at the meeting. If any persons are here who are just critics, or just come for curiosity, I--I wouldn't stay while this part of the service is going on. Come back tomorrow and listen at the preaching. But don't stay for this. For be it assured to you that when demonology spirit and power is let loose, it finds a place to go if it can. And unbelief, it'll certainly take its stand. (Or if you're a believer, truly, and just with a weak faith and
something happens, we can take care for that.) But when you're an unbeliever, or I--I have nothing to do with it, 'cause I couldn't make it leave you. And now, to Him that's able to keep you from falling, and can do exceedingly, abundantly more then we could think, may His grace and Being, anoint our meeting now. And may your faith settle down. And imagine seeing a--a lonely pilgrim, rejected of man, a Man of sorrow acquainted with grief, accused of being a devil, a mind reader, a spiritualist, coming walking along, misunderstood. But He was God's own Son. And He's here tonight. He's here right now with me. He's here with you, and He knows all things. I know nothing. But He can make known all things, can't He.
Some poor crippled man coming. All right, just come here just a moment. Just reverent as you can be. I wonder if the Christians realize the position that I'm standing in? Do you realize that in an audience of this type, there's superstitions, critics, and everything setting here? And I made a statement concerning Jesus Christ. You say, "Brother Branham are you afraid?" No, sir! Not a bit. I know Who's here, and I have believed Him. And I'm persuaded He's able to keep that which I've committed unto Him against this hour. The man's a stranger to me, humanly speaking. I know him not. We're strangers, are we, sir? Yes, sir, we're strangers. Now, sir, I just want your attention to talk to you just a moment. And now, there's... If we're strangers, and I know nothing of you, it'll--it'll have to come from some spiritual resource, won't it, sir. It'll have to come from some spiritual resource. You're aware that something's going on. Of course, that's just the Angel of the Lord. You are a believer? Yes, sir. You... I believe you believe. You're more then that. Aren't you a minister? You've preached a mighty fiery sermons in some meetings. Isn't that right? You've been in a hospital or doctor's office, or something, for an examination. Isn't that right? Isn't that right? Yes, sir, I see him examining. Yes, your trouble's on your liver--it's on your gall, I believe. Isn't that right? I believe you have a cancer. I believe it is that... Jesus Christ is here to make you well. Do you believe that? All right. Oh, I see--I see it hanging like that, it's the bladder instead of a... Isn't that right? A bladder. Come here just a moment.
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Almighty God, Who brought again Jesus Christ from the dead, thinking this man being a crippled, and seeing You moving up there. But he's Your servant, and this hand that I'm holding has waved sinners for glory a many a times. Have mercy, Eternal God. And while he's in Your Presence, standing here recognizing this, the last opportunity of his life to receive, may now, the blessings of God come
upon this, Thy servant. And as I lay my hand upon him, I ask the cancer to leave him in the Name of Jesus Christ. God bless you, brother. Go rejoicing now. Walk right on down. Let us say, "Praise the Lord." All right. Now everyone just as reverent as you can be. Amen. [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] Wants to praise the Lord with him. He's healed. Just realized that he just got... Yes, sir. He wants to praise the Lord from the steps, 'cause he's healed. Blessed be the Name of the Lord Jesus. We thank Thee, Lord, for Thy power, and Thy servants that loves You. And may this be a grace. May our brother preach many mighty sermons yet, and convert many sinners to the Cross of Christ. Grant it, Lord. As we offer Thee praise in the Name of Thy Son, Jesus, we give Thee the adoration of our hearts. Amen.
Oh, how wonderful, wonderful, Jesus is to me, The counselor, the Prince of Peace, the Mighty God is He; Saving me, keeping me from all sin and shame, Wonderful is my redeemer, Praise His name!
Do you love Him? May His peace rest upon you, be graciously unto you.
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All right. Lady, or I should said, my sister. You are a Christian. That desire that you have in your heart to receive the Holy Ghost, you--you want to receive It, don't you? There's been troubles that's caused you... You've been nervous for a long time, haven't you. You're sincere though. Yeah, you have a heart trouble also. It's... You still have some nervousness, is what caused that. Smothering, laying down it's worse than ever. Isn't that right? I see at the bed, trying to hold yourself like... Say, when I touch myself... Oh, sister dear, you have more than that. You have cancer; that's on the breast too, isn't it? Uh-huh. Come here, sister. Do you believe that Jesus healed you nineteen hundred years ago? Do you accept it now? Merciful God, bless this woman. May she receive the Holy Ghost, and be healed in the Name of Jesus Christ. Amen. Go, receive it, sister, and be well. Let's say, "Praise the Lord." How wonderful. Amen.
Now, I'm not an excitable person. But "amen" means "so be it." The Bible said the congregation said "Amen." So be it: Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today, and forever. Have faith now. Don't doubt. Believe. All things are possible to them that believe. Amen. How many hasn't got prayer cards, let's see your hands around. Oh, a great group of you. All right. Do you believe? All right, sister, your great faith healed you while you were setting there. Walk on off the platform. Let us say, "Praise be to God." That's the way to receive it. Nervous, mental nervousness... How wonderful. Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever. Don't you believe that? Amen.
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What are you thinking, sister? Wonderful, isn't it? You're kind of interested in that child too, aren't you. Huh? Don't you have two of them? Isn't that right? Isn't there two of them there? All right. All right. You believe? All right. God bless you. Receive your healing. Amen.
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Dad, what do you think about it? The minister there was just healed. Isn't He wonderful? You're feeling better now, aren't you? Your friend there wants to be healed too, doesn't he, setting next to you? Look around this a way, sir, just a little bit. Do you believe with all your heart? You'd like for that growth to go out of your nose, wouldn't you? Amen. Stand up and receive your healing in the Name of the Lord Jesus. Amen. What do you think about it, lady, setting on this side of him? Do you believe with all your heart too? All right. You got throat trouble, haven't you? Stand up and receive your healing then in the Name of the Lord Jesus. Amen. That makes a whole group of them healed. Let's say, "Praise the Lord." Everyone believe. Have faith in God. Come, sister. My, anemia, diabetes, heart trouble. Go and be well, sister, in the Name of the Lord Jesus. Let's say, "Praise the Lord." That's right, have faith in God.
Mister, your heart trouble was just healed, setting there. That's right. The third man setting in there. Stand up. You had heart trouble, didn't you? It just left you just then, sir. You go home and be well now, in the Name of the Lord Jesus. Amen. Don't doubt, have faith. All right, come on, sir. Wouldn't you like to get over that asthma? Wouldn't you like to get over that? Go and believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and receive it. Let's say, "Praise the Lord." Have faith. Come, lady. You believe? Do you believe God sent His gift to heal you? You do? All right, you need a blood transfusion from Calvary. You're anemia. Go forward and be healed in the Name of Jesus Christ. Here It is. Have faith. Come, lady. Look this a way. Do you believe me as God's prophet? You do? Your heart troubles leaved you then. Go home and be well in the Name of Jesus. Praise be to God. Young man back there, do you want to be healed of that TB? You do? Stand upon your feet and accept your healing in the Name of the Lord Jesus. Amen. Amen. Let us say, "Praise be to God." All right.
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Lady's deaf. Bow your heads. Almighty God, Author of Life,
Giver of every good gift, send Thy blessings upon the woman. Thou Who died to redeem, Thou Who was wounded for our transgressions, bruised for our iniquity, the chastisement of Your peace--our peace was upon You, and with Your stripes we were healed. You Who called to the deaf spirit and it obeyed You, O Eternal God, hear this prayer of Your humble servant, and I represent You here tonight in the power of Divine healing. Hear the prayer of Your servant, and may this demon that's holding the woman, shake her, come out of her. Thou demon, leave the woman. In the Name of Jesus Christ, come out of her. Hear me? All right. You have had complications and everything wrong with you. Can you hear me all right now? Can hear me now? Hear me now? You're healed. Go off the platform and be well. You're healed. Let us say, "Praise the Lord." All right, come, lady. Do you believe me as God's prophet? You do? You've had kidney trouble a long time, haven't you. Go off the platform and be well. Jesus Christ makes you well. Let's say, "Praise the Lord." Amen. He's here to heal. Do you believe it? Have faith.
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Do you believe Him with all your heart? If you do, you can go home. You won't have to fool with your cot and stretcher no more. In the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ. Amen. Amen. There she is. Take the cot out of the way. There she is. All right. Do you believe Jesus Christ? Take her stretcher away, 'cause there's somebody else setting there fixing to get healed. Be reverent. Look this a way. Believe with all your heart. All right, sir. Do you believe? Your heart trouble's done left you. You can go on off the platform. (Be our last one, and so forth). Just walk on off the platform well. You believe with all your heart? Look out there, to you without your... Look this a way. What about you, sir, sitting there with stomach trouble? Raise up and be healed in the Name of Jesus. Next man to you has got hemorrhoid troubles, haven't you? Stand up and be healed in the Name of Jesus. The lady with arthritis, if you want to believe on the Lord, stand up and be healed in the Name of Jesus. All the rest of you, do you believe Him? What about it? He's here. Stand to your feet. Raise your hand. Accept your healing. Satan, in the Name of Jesus Christ, remove from these people.
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Thank you, Brother Baxter. Good evening, audience. Yes, sir. I'm just a little shorter than Brother Baxter. We're happy to be here this afternoon--this evening, rather, to worship the Lord with you and to pray for the sick. Believing that God will help us all tonight, I trust that He will. We're sorry that the... We have no more seating room for the people. Just come on anyhow, we be able to get it somewhere, you just come right on anyhow, or necessary, why, we can take all the cars out of the back and go back there, there's plenty of room back there. So we... Wherever the Lord will provide for us. We just have to take auditoriums just as we can get them. And--and we have... We're happy even to have this. It's very hard to get them. If you excuse me a minute, I think this is a series here. Sometimes that's what does it, when they get in series.
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Now, tonight I wish to read some of God's Word. I just got here in time to hear the last part of Brother Baxter's speech, or his sermon, rather, on angels. While I was standing back there I just thought of this Scripture. I want to read it out of the book of the Acts, the 27th chapter of the Acts of the apostles, at the 21st verse beginning, speaking of Paul. Paul being ministered to by a supernatural Being when trouble was near. The Lord is a very present help in time of trouble, isn't He? So just about twenty minutes before they came after me tonight I was setting in my room, and I felt something coming near, nearer. I didn't know just what it was, and I got up, walked to the window, and looked out, kind of rubbed my face a little because I'd been praying quite a bit. I thought, "That wasn't just impression, surely. And all of a sudden It just swirled me away. And then, it was Him. And He was confirming something to me that was just fixing to happen pretty soon now, that He showed me about six or eight months ago. And he told me just to keep humble before the Lord and it would be wonderful when it taken place. So I'm very happy of that.
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Now, beginning with the 21st verse of the 27th chapter: ... after a long abstinence Paul stood forth in the midst of them, and said, Sirs, you should have hearkened unto me, and not have caught... and not have loosed from Crete, but to have... and gained this great harm and loss. But now I exhort you to be of a good cheer: for there shall be no loss of any man's life among you, but of the ship. For there stood by me this night the angel of God, whose I am, and whom I serve, Saying, Fear not, Paul; thou must be brought before Caesar: and, lo, God has given thee all them that sail with thee.
Wherefore, sirs, be of a good cheer: for I believe God, that it shall be even as it was told me.
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Shall we bow our heads just a moment. Our heavenly Father, we're so thankful tonight for the opportunity to be alive and be here on earth, at the closing of this world's history, to see these great things developing, the Words of God being materialized and brought to us by the ministry of Thy Spirit. And how we love Thee for this. And it's such a privilege to get to minister to the people in this last day, knowing that soon the sun will set for its last time, and then Jesus shall come. We'll see Him, come to His feet, lay our trophies there. Oh, for that great time that I could just crawl humbly up, lay my hands on His blessed feet, then turn with tears of joy and walk away, knowing that it's all well. To look around Lord, and see many gallant soldiers of the cross standing there, to see the man that we just read of a few moments ago in Thy Word, Thy beloved apostle Paul, to see him standing there in his robe, made white and fair, see the crown placed upon his head at the inauguration of the saints. Oh, what a day that'll be.
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And our hearts are moved strangely as we see nations rising against nations. Look over there in Jerusalem tonight and see for the first time for twenty-five hundred years, that the old star of David is waving again over Jerusalem, the fig tree putting forth its buds. To see our own beloved nation, like termites, eat the foundation out of it, men, "heady, high-minded, lovers of pleasure more than lovers of God, truce breakers, incontinent, fierce, and despisers of those that are good, having a form of godliness and denying the power thereof: from such turn away," as we hear the Spirit speaking two thousand years ago, to watch this day. And now, living upon the reputation of our forefathers, when pride and things is eat like termites the foundation of our great civilization, seeing man modernizing things, leaving off the Holy Spirit, adopting reading, writing, and arithmetic for the power of God... Oh, Father, then to see those who still have a living faith... We think of our Master when He said, "When I return will I find the faith?" He did not question about sincerity or Christianity, He said, "Will I find faith when I come?"
And we're to have this move tonight which stirs the faith of the people; we're grateful to Thee Lord, and only thankful for every bitter persecution and count it a privilege to carry the cross for our Christ. In midst of conflict, You said, "All that live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution. Rejoice and be exceedingly glad when you... they say all manner against you falsely for my Name. For so persecuted
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they the prophets which were before you." And we love to know that this is the day that these words are being fulfilled, and even tonight here before us.
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We thank You for this lovely audience here in this building tonight. Though it's warm, many are standing, but I'm thinking about one day when John came out of the wilderness of Judaea preaching. And he stirred all the regions around about Jordan. It wasn't his fancy dressing, for he wasn't dressed very fair. It wasn't his speech, for at nine years old he went into the wilderness. But it was he preached Christ. And it stirred the regions. Though in its simplicity, yet today it stirs the regions when Christ is brought to a realization to the people's heart, that He has rose from the dead and live among His people.
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Now, forgive us of our sins. As we think that we were aliens one time cut off from God without mercy, Christ died in our place, the Innocent for the guilty. And it doesn't yet appear what we shall be like, but we know we'll have a body like His, for we shall see Him as He is. In our bodies now we groan for that day; all the earth is groaning for that day. We thank Thee that Thou has made a way for us to be happy, have health and strength and to labor in the harvest for our Master. Grant Lord, that many of those who have not that privilege tonight, when this meeting shall close, may they be going out of this building happy and rejoicing, healed, many sinful be saved, many that's got cold and wandered away, be called back to the Kingdom of God tonight by the arms of a loving Father and the Spirit to woo them to God. Grant it, Lord. Hide Your servants tonight behind the cross. May the Blood stand between us and all danger. And may the simplicity of the Gospel attract the attention of everyone. For we ask it in the Name of Thy Son Jesus. Amen.
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We're happy to be in tonight, to be serving God, with you all. And now, the announcing that tomorrow and Sunday is our last days here as far as we know, then to Toledo, or Erie, and then from there to Shreveport, Louisiana, and then Southern Rhodesia, Africa, from there. Be expecting you to pray for me. As the meetings grow on it takes more of affect, all the time. Last evening I had quite a time coming out from under the anointing. Many people doesn't understand that; I realize that. I never understood it so much until about a year ago. I was... Wondered how it was that that would make a human being feel the way it does, so weak, just... Your strength becomes so depleted, I just can't stand up; I can't hold myself together. And then I start shaking. I thought,
"Wonder if that would..." But when I found out that our Master said, 'That virtue had gone from Him,' that settled it."
Then I was standing at the desk, the old Kentucky home, just across the river a ways from where I live now. It was my first trip there and I... Where Stephen Foster, the famous American poet in years gone by, who wrote his famous song, "My Old Kentucky Home..." If you'll notice, most always poets and prophets and so forth, are considered in the world neurotics. Did you ever think of that? They all always are misunderstood. For instance, Stephen Foster, I think he gave America some of its best folk songs, "Old Folks At Home, Swanee River, Old Black Joe," and many of those good old heart songs that the southerners, as they gather around on the plantations and sing, cause the teardrops to run down the cheeks of many. And while I was, had my arm laying on his desk, the guide had gone through, and some from my Sunday school class, his picture was painted there, and the seraphim that was supposed to of touched him and give him his inspiration, was painted by him, I thought, "Mr. Foster," speaking to his picture, I said, "you had it in the head, but not in the heart." He would go under inspiration from one of those songs, and he'd write the songs, and after he come out, he'd go away and get on a drunk. Stayed drunk for a long time. And then one day, after coming out from under inspiration, he called a servant, and took a razor and cut his throat, committed suicide.
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How many knows that famous old song:

There Is A Fountain filled with blood Drawn from Immanuel's veins; Where sinners plunged beneath the flood, Lose all their guilty stains: The dying thief rejoiced to see That fountain in his day; There may I, though vile as he, Wash all my sins away.
The famous English poet William Cowper wrote that song. I stood by his grave a few months ago. I just couldn't keep from shedding a few tears for him. Look there and see Charles Wesley laying there, and Bunyan that wrote the "Pilgrim Progress," the cousin of John Wesley wrote "Robinson Caruso," Wesley himself cross the road. I thought of William Cowper, he was considered in England, an neurotic, a little off. And how that he would go into the inspiration and finally he went way into the inspiration and wrote this marvelous song, "There Is A Fountain filled with blood." While he was up there, he was in the Spirit, but when he dropped back down, he tried to find the river to drown himself, commit suicide. It's so foggy they couldn't
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I thought of Jonah, a man of God, the prophet, who was spoke by God and sent down to Nineveh with a message to those people. And God was so determined and filled him so full of His Spirit. till he stayed alive three days and nights in the belly of a fish in the bottom of the sea. He came out with such power in his speech, until the people listened to him and put sackcloth on their animals on the hills. The whole city, so ignorant, one didn't know, some of them didn't know the right and left hand, but repented before God and spared their city. And then after the inspiration left Jonah, he wanted to die. Set under that tree and asked God to take his life. What was it? Prophet. I noticed Elijah, when he went up there on Mount Carmel that day and fell under the inspiration and called fire down out of heaven. And the same day called rain down from heaven. Water and rain, I mean, rain and fire from the same skies, under inspiration. But when it left him, he run out in the wilderness, and set down, and said, "Lord, let Your servant depart in peace."
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What does it speak? Misunderstood, you can't understand it. A million out of one very seldom touch the edge of it. When you go up there, there's something, you're beyond here. When you drop back down, it feels like you've lost something; there's something missing somewhere. I like to fish and hunt like a normal person does. I like to talk to my fellow man, associate. That's... But when it comes time for God to use me, He takes me somewhere I don't know nothing about. And then when I'm coming back, I lose all sight and thoughts of places, time, and where it is. But here's what it speaks to me, there's a land beyond the river, that they call the sweet forever. If there's a place where here on earth, we can rise into that spirit realm there; there's a place there where we go when we leave this body. Only a direct vindication...
I would wish tonight that everyone would try to understand closely the Angel of the Lord and His great mission and work here on earth. And because some human being, poor and uneducated, and so forth, is declaring it; don't look at the man; look at the God. If a man would run in here tonight with a telegram or a money order for you for a hundred million dollars, you wouldn't care whether he was dressed ragged, whether he was colored, yellow, who he was. It's the message that he brings. Someone said the other day, said, "I went down to your meeting the other night. Aren't you the preacher that's holding this meeting down here?"
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I said, "Yes, sir." He said, "Well, you just got a common bunch of people." I said, "Yes, sir, that's the kind that hears God." I said, "It's written in the book of Luke, 'That the common people heard Him gladly.'" And it hasn't changed." Those who's treasures are here on earth, seek the earthly things. But those who's treasures are in heaven, that's where their heart is; they look for whence Jesus shall come to take them there.
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Many times people get in such a big hurry about their healing. If God pronounces something, you believe it. Whatever He says you hold right to it. Listen at them coming from different meetings testifying. Just hold on to what's said to you. And remember, as I say tonight, feel very little to stand here and speak concerning the Scripture; I'm just a baby in the Word. I was converted in the Baptist church, and just come out from the Baptist church. I belong to no church now, that I might pull together the family of God. Not representing any one church, but only the one Church and that's the only true Church, the Body of Jesus Christ. When it first came to me, many different of the organizations... The Baptist people never kicked me out; only way you get kicked out of a Baptist conference is immoral living, not your doctrine; it's immoral living. But they didn't believe in Divine healing and gifts. They said, "Won't work." But now they see that it does.
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So I said, "There'd surely be somebody, if God had sent it, there'd be somebody who was ready to receive it." I didn't know nothing about you people then. I didn't have but a few friends. I've always been more or less, as the expression would be, black sheep. But I thank God, by trying to live for Him and do what's right, he's give me a million friends now. He will give you the desire of your heart. When I come into the church, or into the midst of you people and receive the baptism of the Spirit, first time in my life I ever felt at home. Never felt like I was with people who loved me and understood me. I was always considered something else, maybe a neurotic. But I'm glad that I--I'm home tonight with God's people.
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And understand now, the Angel of God, sometimes when a blessing is pronounced upon you, He may not be that He can't get to you right then, it might not be just instant healing, but as you believe your faith will make you whole. Some people has spontaneous faith, great faith, that deep. That's a miracle. Some of them have faith about that deep; it'll take a little while. Some has mustard seed faith, very little. But just stay with it; it'll bring you out. It'll materialize.
When God spoke, this--the--the--the dirt that you set over tonight, that's God's Word. God just said, "Let there be," and His Word materialized. Is that true? Where did He get the dirt, if it wasn't? He just spoke it, and it's God's materialized Word formed the earth that you set on. Oh, how wonderful, how past finding out. It's by faith that we believe Him. God believed His own Word, and it formed the world. If we had time to go into those things.
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Now, this I want to say, that while God sends His messengers, Angels, concerning virtue again, did you notice on the pool of Bethesda when that Angel came down? The first person stepped in that was with faith that got healed, the whole Angel enclosed him and went off the pool. You see how that is? Now can you understand? Someone said, "I don't see why that if a Holy Spirit would get Brother Branham under that condition then he wouldn't have strength enough to stand there and pray for the whole bunch." See, it's misunderstanding, dear Christian. I can't explain it, I just... You just have to take my word for it, that's all. See? Now, and then sometimes in the Scriptures, I--I may not know too much about the Word. I don't' know the Book, but I know the Author. And I--and I love Him, and I'm sure He won't let me get too far out of the way. When I say this I know I'm right, that every person in here that'll, is already healed, every one of you. The only thing that I can do, or God can do, anyone can do, is to bring your faith up to believe that. If there's any minister, any person in here can do anything to help anyone to believe, that's what you're supposed to do.
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And God in His sovereign love has sent down this gift to manifest before you to let you know that He never died back there, He rose again. And He's the resurrected Christ with us tonight, His same power, His same manifestation. Though you don't see Him, yet you know He's here. You see Him in the Spirit form working. Judas said, or Thomas, rather, he said, "If I can touch His side, and I can touch His hands, I'll believe Him." He said, "How much greater is their reward who has never seen Me and yet believe." He might not materialize Himself before you tonight, but He's here. And every Word of God is a Seed, and it'll materialize if you'll believe it. Just accept it in your heart, believe it, and it'll come to pass.
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Now, sometimes maybe if you're prayed for, you hear the Angel of the Lord speak out and say, "THUS SAITH THE LORD, you'll be well." Don't you doubt that. Remember, if it's malignant, or cancer, or growth, in about seventy-two hours you'll get good and sick. Brother Baxter's probably explained all of that, which he does in
a meeting, telling you what it all is. Cause without that, you'll sure miss your healing. You won't understand how to do it. If you don't know how to approach it, you're certainly out. So that's what the afternoon meetings are for, and so forth, is to explain that. Brother Baxter does it, for I don't have the time. And if I go into like that, then it sometimes takes the Spirit away from me, and I have quite a time getting It back. Now, how many know, ever read in the Book about Angels ministering to people in the Old Testament and the New Testament? We all have. Sometimes when a blessing is pronounced, it's pronounced on you; it has to happen. We're the only one in a hurry; God is never in a hurry. He let the Hebrew children walk right into the fiery furnace before He done anything about it. He just set in the heavens and watched them till they went in.
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Here not long ago, there was a woman, was at one of the meetings, and she had a serious stomach trouble. And she went home from the meeting. And she came across the platform, and she would, oh, she couldn't eat at all; nothing would lay on her stomach; it'd just... Acid would fill her--her mouth, and she would get all full of gas; and--and she would just be in such a awful condition, till she'd have fluttering in her heart; and she couldn't rest at night. And she said, "When I walked to the platform, looked at you..." Said, "You took a hold of my hand," and said--begin--said, "Your face changed, and something spoke in a different tone of voice, and said, 'THUS SAITH THE LORD, you have stomach trouble, but your faith has made you whole.'" She said, "I went off the platform rejoicing, the happiest person I thought there was in the world." She said, "I went in that night; I went home and I tried to eat." And she said, "When I tried to eat, it was just the same as it ever was." Said, "I stayed right with it; I didn't let go." She said, "Days after days passed. You'd done left the city and a couple more cities." And she came to the meeting; she said, "One morning I tried to eat some oatmeal for my breakfast, and it was spitting up in my mouth." And she said, "I was standing at the window washing dishes, crying, saying, 'Lord, I--I'm--I just can't help but know that it's the truth, and he told me if I'd testify to anything less, why, my faith would drop down."
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Said, "While I was standing there," said, "the sweetest feeling come over me I ever felt in my life." She said, "All the burning let up. The swelling, without belching," she said, "left me." She said, "I reached over and got a piece of orange; it usually just upset me terribly, on the table and begin to eat it." Said, "When it went down it didn't burn." She said, "I finished my bowl of oats, poured some
coffee that I hadn't drink in a long time, drank it, and it was well." She said, "I run over to my neighbor to tell her. She'd been prayed for. Few houses below me, she'd been prayed for for a growth on the side of her throat. And I went down to tell her what had happened." Said, "When I got there she was screaming at the top of her voice." And said, "The growth had just left her throat." What was it? It was the Angel of God passing through the neighborhood. His blessings has been pronounced.
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Sometimes they can't get to you just as they wish. How many remembers when Daniel, the Angel come to him and said, "Twentyone days he'd withstood," you remember that? Daniel prayed, but the Angel said, "That he had trouble there and couldn't get to him for twenty-one days after he'd made the prayer." So don't be in a hurry; just believe; have faith. And if you accept Jesus tonight as your Healer, have faith; it's got to come to pass. And another thing, I would never bring a person to the platform if it wasn't for one thing, that I might get face to face with the person. Many times out in the building you'll hear me call people, say things. I see it materialize; the very life before me materializes. Maybe I start here and look out yonder, I see a little girl, say, and it'll start materializing. I see the way she's... Something happens and I'll just start speaking what I see, and then after while it'll leave before me and maybe right along here sets the woman. She's done come down to this age, and I see where she's at. Maybe she's in a hospital, maybe something happened. I just speak that. Then maybe before I speak it, I see the person go away well. Maybe I do not; I just say, "The Lord bless you, the Lord heal you, which He already has," giving them faith.
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But on the platform I have to watch. I'm just opening up my heart; I feel that I'm before friends tonight. I have to be careful what I do. Did you know Divine gifts could--could cause you to lose your soul? See, you have to watch what you do with Divine gifts. My heart goes out. I look here and see this little water-head baby laying before me now; you don't know how my heart goes for that baby. Wished I could see what would take place. How I had the... I believe to say to that little mother there, "Oh, Jesus Christ has healed your baby; your prayers are ans..." Wished I could say that, but I can't till He tells me. And I have to be careful.
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Now, maybe the privilege of getting that person before me, maybe there's something causing that. Well, if I get it, maybe when standing before the person, or this lady setting here, you, or any of you, it might see the reason. Now, you notice I'm very particular how
I rebuke a spirit out there. Because you have to watch. Sometime God uses sickness for chastisement for the people, did you know that? Sometimes it's brought upon them for a whip to bring them back to God. And what if God has permitted something there, and I, by a Divine gift take it off without the repentance of that person. Did you notice the man here, that told me a couple of nights ago, or something or another, that was standing here on the platform that he--he professed to be a Christian; he belonged to a modern church and everything; and he had some trouble wrong with him. And I looked and I kept seeing it turn dark, and I kept watching. I seen him standing on a corner with a cigar in his mouth, smoking, like that, blowing the smoke. I said, "Sir, you have a habit, and that's what's standing between you and God. If you're ready to lay down those cigars, God's ready to heal you now." See?
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Here not long ago there was a woman come across the platform, very saintly looking woman, and she walked up on the platform; she had one ear deaf. I just detected a deaf spirit. And I tried to rebuke it, and it--and it stayed with the woman. And while looking at her, I seen a young lady standing in front of me, about fourteen years old. And she took the road that's wrong. I begin to tell. I told the woman that she had a baby before she was even married. And then she married a man; she left him. And but that was some religious cult caused her to marry some other man. She didn't love him; she left him. I said, "You're living with a husband now that you're having all kinds of trouble." And that woman fainted on the platform. And when she rose up from there, she screamed, "God have mercy on me." And when she did, God opened up her ear, give her the baptism of the Holy Spirit standing on the platform right there.
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a woman, female trouble, wouldn't leave her in the meeting. I don't know why. Richard T. Reed, Reverend Richard T. Reed, the blessed old Bible Hour Tabernacle at Jonesboro, Arkansas, was the one who baptized them into the church, the next morning; you might ask him. You have to be careful. God entrusts you with something; then you can't use it just for--for your own good. You're to use it for the glory of God. Is that right? How many believes Moses was a prophet? He was, and God loved him. And when he went down there to the rock, God said, "You go down there and speak to the rock, and it'll bring forth its water." But Moses in his anger (he was high tempered), he went down there; instead of speaking to the rock, he smote the rock, and smote it twice. That broke the whole picture of God's program. The rock was Christ; you believe that, don't you, ministers? He was only smitten
once, and we speak to Him now. Is that right? And Moses smote the Christ the second time. But that broke the whole picture of God's great program here, bursted it to pieces right there, Christ being smitten twice, when He's only smitten once. But God was under obligation, He'd give that prophet the power to do so. But God dealt with Moses later about that. Is that right?
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How many remembers Elijah? He was a young man; he went baldheaded when he was a young man. And some little children run behind him and said, "Old bald-head, old bald-head." And that prophet, angered, turned around, and put a curse on those children in the Name of the Lord. And two she bears come out of the woods and killed forty-two little innocent children. Is that right? That's not the nature of the Holy Spirit, but there was an angered prophet. See? Have to be careful what you do with Divine gifts. I'd rather see it and know what I'm talking about, then I know whether our heavenly Father has said yes or no. Surely, you can appreciate me more if I be sincere before God. Even if you... I don't get to very many of you, you'll understand. I have to know first, then I can pr--pronounce it after God has showed me. But I can do nothing till He shows me. I promise to tell you the finish of the story from Finland last night, which I've got about eight minutes to do it in.
I had just got through telling you the little war orphan was healed between the time, the two little boys that was hit, and one killed. Laid some fifteen, twenty minutes dead on the road before I came around. It showed the vision here in America. How many was here last night, let's see you, well, you remember then, of the story. Then this other little baby was in the hospital, dying. On the next day, the next morning, this mother and father of the other little boy... Had a concussion of the brain; he'd never come to himself. The fender hit him right under the chin, and turned him over, and rolled him across the road, and hit on the curbing, and up from the curbing it smashed him up-side of a tree, like that. He'd never come to; his blood was from his ears and eyes and mouth. The poor little fellow...
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And the mother and father were just frantic; they were young Finnish people, and they were trying to come for me to go down at the hospital. It's against the rules; the managers don't let me go from one place to another. 'Cause if you do that, then if you go to this place and not this place, it causes a feeling. So they just put them all in the church at one time, and there the Spirit of God operates from there. So they had to do that overseas. And I'll never forget this. Mrs.
Isaacson, she said, "Brother Branham, I tell you, those people are about to run me wild." And that night when they come in, there was the little mother and father setting on the steps. They had to drag me over them to get in. They was almost pulled my coat off, and others standing on the street. I thought, "Oh, what is it?" She said, "That's the mother and father of that little baby; they want you to go at the hospital."
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The next morning they were still there again. So Mrs. Isaacson said, "Would you just speak to them yourself, for a few moments?" I said, "Get them in the hall." And they got in the hall out there, and they went to them, and they said, "Oh, come heal our baby; it's dying; it's dying." About three days, it never come to itself. I said, "I can't heal your baby." This is all through an interpreter. I said, "I can't heal your baby." Said, "Well, you healed the other..." I said, "No, no. Jesus Christ healed the other baby, not me. See? I had nothing to do with it." I said, "Over in America He showed me a vision a year ago that this little boy would be brought back from the dead. He never showed me your boy." And they said, "Oh, see a vision for our boy." And I said, "Well, I--I can't see visions at my leisure." I said, "I only see them as God will permit them to be seen." I said, "You pray." They went on. She just couldn't understand it. And I said--she said, asked Miss Isaacson, "Ask him if my boy's going to die?" I said, "I do not know." She said, "Well, come down at the hospital, and ask God to heal him, and things." Said, "We can't do that."
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And then I asked them, I said, "Are you Christian?" "No." Neither one of them was a Christian. I said, "Well, look, if God takes your little boy home and you die a sinner, why, you can never see him no more. And if the little boy, God takes him up to heaven, and you die a Christian, give your hearts to God and die a Christian, you can go up home to heaven with your little boy and never have another accident up there. That's one thing, thank God." And I said, "There won't be any accidents up there, and you'll live forever and ever. But if you don't, you'll never see your little boy no more if he dies." And I said, "Then if you wanted a favor from me, you'd try to do something for me. And if you want a favor with God, do something for God." And I said, "Why don't you give your lives to God." And they seen they couldn't lose on that, 'cause they would be Christians. If the little boy died, well, they'd go
home with him. And if he didn't die, perhaps they'd find favor with God and he might live. So they got down on their knees, and--and they gave their lives to Christ. And when they got back up, the little mother... It sounds like a joke, but I don't believe in telling jokes from the platform and here, but it wasn't a joke. She jumped up and run over to me real hysterically, and she said, with Mrs. Isaacson's hand holding her, she said--said, "See a vision; see a vision for my boy." See? And I said, "I do not know." She said, "Come, go down now." I said, "No, God can show me in my room just the same as He can down there." And she said, "Go in and see a vision for our boy." I said, "Now, I can't make God show me a vision. Now, He may never say one thing to me. And if He does, I'll tell you. If He doesn't, well, I can't." And so, she said, "Well, we wait, you go in." That was mighty sweet, but you know you can't do those things. So Mrs. Isaacson, she finally got them to leave. And I went in the room. And about twenty minutes they called up and said, "Has God showed the vision?" "No." And about ten or fifteen minutes again they called up, "Has God showed the vision?" They did that for several times before the evening service.
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That night in the--in the service, it was a marvelous great service. Now, those Laplanders and things coming in, being healed, hundreds after hundreds of them... Never even get to the prayer line, if they could even gain the... They'd get into the auditorium; they'd stand way back there, and you'd see crutches and sticks a flying; and they'd throw down their cots that they was packing them on, walking out. That's... They just wanted to see it done; that's all, they knowed God was there. Why can't we do that? Why can't we have that simple faith? See? If we wouldn't be so trying to figure things out, it'd happen right here the same way. See? God's no respect of person; He just respects faith. See? God doesn't heal you on the merits of your salvation; He heals you on the merits of your faith. See?
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Then I--we got, went home. And when... It never gets dark there that time of year; you can read out in the middle of the street in midnight, any time, no lights or nothing. And a little later on, the sun never goes down, it just goes low and comes back. It's the land of midnight sun. So we... I went upstairs, it got dusty like, so, I was upstairs in the hotel, and I
went to the window. I had this Bible. I'll never forget this. Listen closely now; I'm fixing to close. And I had this Bible, and I went in and Brother Baxter there, and--and my brother, Howard, he--he'd been healed of a horrible thing, my brother had, sent home from the army to die. And he--we--he went with me. And Brother Baxter and he was in the same room. And Brother Lindsay and Brother Moore was in the room. Mrs. Isaacson was in her room, and I had a private room on account I stayed by myself on account of the visitation of the Angel of the Lord. And I went...
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And friends, if I had time, I could talk from here till week after week and never tell you a third of what I've seen Him do, of the great and mighty things. And at nighttime I just wonder which, what to say that He'd want me to tell you of some of the things He's done, just as a testimony. And He said I believe we overcome by the Blood of the Lamb and the testimony, is that right? He's the High Priest of our testimony, and so He... We walked in... I walked in my room; I had this here Bible that my church gave me just before leaving on the campaigns, and when I started out after the appearing of the Angel. And I had it here.
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And my brother, going up that night had give me two little pieces of candy that he'd gotten about that big. Now, please, Canadian friends, don't take this wrong, some of the most loyalist friends I got is across that border yonder in Canada. Just as loyal as they can be, and they're lovely. But they don't have things as we have here in the states. They don't have them anywhere in the world like we have it here. We've got stuff to make with. We got the best cars; we got the--the best of everything. The trouble of it is, we're so unworthy of it. And they don't have the ingredients to put in their candy, and we've got a hold of some candy in Canada, it was horrible. Just like, just something like, oh, starch. And of course, they do have good candy, but we just got some bad.
So Howard said to me, said, "Bill," and he said it kind of back away from Brother Baxter; he said, "Taste this candy here, you thought that candy we got up around Prince Albert was bad," he said, "you taste this if you want some starch." And I said, just put it in my hand, I said, "All right." He was trying to get me out of the, from the anointing, you know, shaking me a little. So we went into the room, and I laid the candy down on the desk, and walked over, I laid the Bible down. I walked over there to the window, and I looked out. And here was the Finnish soldiers and them coming down through the park just a talking about the meeting you know, and going on. And one telling how he seen certain person
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healed, and they just crowding the streets coming away from the auditorium. And I stood there; I looked way across the mountains from which the Russians come over to bomb the Finns when they was in the war. And I looked across there, I said, "Yes, the Russian planes come from that way one day, but from the east shall come the Lord Jesus, will break the skies and wings will spread their air again, but it'll be the Son of Righteousness with healing in His wings." I thought, "Oh, Great Jehovah, how wonderful, how marvelous You are. You're works are past finding out." I said, "How glorious, how I love You, what You're doing here. As soon as I set my foot on European soil, the Holy Spirit seldom ever left me; It just stayed right day and night." The ministers will tell you the same.
You'd be downtown; I'd say, "Now, when we go home, you're... It's going to be a man step out to one side, be dressed in gray. He will try to get me to go upstairs and pray for a woman. and right around the corner will be two women dressed in black, and they'll meet me like this. And you'll see a wheelchair down here at this corner. This person will be healed...?..." going... Oh, it just like that... Just ever where it was, just constant vision pouring all the time like that, how it was going. And then, I was just praising God, standing there like that. I said, "Oh Great Jehovah, how wonderful You are." I said, "How I love You, how I love You, oh, how wonderful." I opened my eyes like that; I heard something go, [Brother Branham illustrates.--Ed.] And I looked and here He was standing right by my side. He looked at me like that, He's a big Man, weigh about two hundred pounds, real dark hair to His shoulder, olive complexion, a meek look to His face, has His arms folded, white robe and barefooted. He stood right there, looked at me. And He turned His head like this and looked to that table, when I looked to that table there set a little vase about that high. How it ever got there, God only knows. But there's a little vase setting there.
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Now, that isn't vision. Now, I know what a vision is; I should know. And I know what it is when the Man's there. He's not a vision; He's just as real as any of these men standing here. He's just real; I talked to Him. And He talks to me. It's not a vision; the Man's standing there; I hear Him when He walks and everything. He's just as real as anybody else. And that Light's always above Him, just whirling around like that. He's here now, and He; I know He's here; I feeled it. And He stood there, and He said, "What are those?" And in that vase was two of those, I call them Easter flowers. I don't know whether you call them daffodils; they come up in spring, little yellow flowers like, you know. We call them Easter flowers down in our country. And
one of them was laying down like this, and the other one was going down. And, like that. And I thought... One was leaning to the north and the other to the south.
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Now, not knowing that at this time, that was the very position these two boys fell in. One was hit this way, to the north, and was run over and mashed under the car. And the other, fender struck when the car turned this a way, and threw the boy against the tree on the other side. And this one down here was all the way down. And I looked at that, and this one here on the left was going, "tutt, tutt, tutt, tutt [Brother Branham illustrates.--Ed.]" and this one was laying flat. He said it me, said, "What was that your brother gave you?" And I said, "Two pieces of candy, Sir." He said, "Eat them." And I picked up one and I put it in my mouth, started eating it, tasted wonderful. I--I swallowed it, and when I swallowed it something went [Brother Branham whistles--Ed.] And this one was laying to the north like that, stood right straight up. And this other was going, "tutt, tutt. [Brother Branham illustrates.--Ed.]" He said, "Eat the other one." And I picked it up, and it was the horriblest tasting thing that I ever put in my mouth nearly. I took it out like that, and this one kept going, "tutt, tutt. [Brother Branham illustrates.--Ed.]" He said, "Eat that one or this boy will die." I put it back in my mouth, and I started chewing it real fast, and I swallowed it. And as soon as I swallowed it this went, "Tutt [Brother Branham illustrates.--Ed.]" Both of them stood up like that. And He looked at me like that, kind of bowed His head, and that whirl of Light went "whew," He wasn't in the room no more.
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I ran out and called Brother Baxter and all of them in there, I said, "Here, get a hold of the woman, quickly, 'THUS SAITH THE LORD, that boy will live and not die.'" They'd been to call several times that day. Doctor done give him up. So she went to this little phone, you ought to see what it is, the phone there. Oh, my. Puts the little thing in your ear and turns the crank, and she called the home of the parents. The parents been called to the hospital; the baby was dying. I said, "Get a hold of the hospital and tell the mother, THUS SAITH THE LORD." Friends, it can't fail then, just can't. I said, "The baby's going to live, no matter what the doctor said, God said, 'The baby's going to live.'" So I said, "Tell her the vision has come."
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And she--and she called the hospital, and the mother come to the phone, a sobbing and a crying, and said, "Brother Branham said tell you, 'THUS SAITH THE LORD, you baby's going to live.'"
Said, "How well I know it; and about two--five minutes ago he raised up; he's to hisself and normal right now. We're going to take him home." There he was, made perfect, normal, and well. Now, what was it, friend? Was it my prayer? No, no, no. It was that little Finnish woman's faith in God that did that for her baby. That same Angel of God that showed that vision that night, Who stands here at the platform tonight, is here to perform anything that Jesus Christ ordained to be done, for He's the same yesterday, today, and forever.
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Let us pray. Our heavenly Father, oh, how my heart just burns. I think of someday when it's all over, when I get to meet all those people again. I think of the letter we got the other day in the mail, saying that man that's a buddy to Jesus. That poor little boy in gratitude, how we are so thankful. How I'm thankful here tonight Lord, to know that the visions go forth, and You permit them to be told, and then watch them materialize, for it's Your Word, Lord. You're God; You can't lie; it's impossible. And we're so thankful to know that You're here. And now, heavenly Father, as the meetings are wearing on, many are being healed. The Spirit of God is moving on mortal bodies. And we thank Thee for it.
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And now tonight, Lord, oh, please, dear Jesus, the Son of God, the Author of Life and Giver of every good gift, send Thy blessings upon this audience. They're waiting here in this heat of the evening. When the evening was set, Jesus, they brought many to Him, and He healed them by the power of His Word. And may the Word of God tonight sweep out over this building, and may the Holy Ghost be here to take that to every hungry heart and confirm it, Lord, with signs and wonders, that the people might know, that the same Jesus that they brought the sick and afflicted to many, many, years ago, sets in this auditorium tonight with the same unveiled power to reach out there, and virtue flowing through this audience to every believer. Oh, Christ of God, many things has happened since those days. Many have seared the conscience of people, and it's caused disappointments and everything, but Father, I pray that You'll brush back every scar tonight, heal every broken heart, and may the power of God once more burn in a living faith through every heart. Grant it, Lord, that Your great Name might be glorified. For we ask it in Jesus Christ's Name. Amen.
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Fifty-one to a hundred? E? My boy says he give out prayer card "E" today, 51 to a 100. I have a surprise for you tomorrow night. I want every believing minister to stand near me tomorrow night. And
let's begin our prayer line, start praying. Many of you, of course, I may get to one; I may get to five; I may get to fifty. I don't know. But I--I'll do the best that I can. I'll do all that I can. I believe you believe that, don't you? Don't you know I just love to get down there. Now, who's going to be the first one? You say, "Well, it's me, Brother Branham." Well, here's another one thinks the same way. Now, if I go, if I say, "You," and you'd come up, well then this other one will think, "Well, Brother Branham, you chose that one. (See?) He thinks more of him than he does of me." I don't. God don't think no more of one you than He does the other. He died to redeem every one of you. That's right. You're all His delegates.
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And the best that I know how to do, Christian friend, is just to give out these cards and... But--but, friends, did you notice, there's more people gets healed out there without cards, than there is healed here with the cards. See? There's more... You don't need the card; the card's just merely keep you lined up. But let's just--let's just believe Him, will you? Believe Him with all your heart; accept Him. No matter what happens, it don't have to happen right now. When--when it happens, it doesn't happen in your crippled arm in your crippled leg so much, or in your bad heart, or the cancer; it happens here in your heart. You believe it; you hold it, and it materializes.
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Every seed will bring forth of its kind, is that right? Wheat will bring forth a wheat. Barley will bring barley. Corn will bring corn. Is that right? Well, Jesus said the Word of God was a Seed. Is that right? Now, Mark 11:24 a Seed then? Jesus said, "Whatsoever things you desire, when you pray, believe you receive it, and you shall have it." Now look, the--the order of the Scripture. Believe now, you receive it, present tense; in the future it'll be given to you. "Whatsoever things you desire, if you pray, believe you receive them, and it shall be given unto you." See? You shall receive it in the future. Just accept it; believe it; stay with it. Water it; believe it; it'll come to pass. God's under obligation, isn't He? God's under obligation to His Word.
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All right, fifty? Let's start. Let's begin just the--the numbers, 51 right on like that, till we get about... Let's try about ten first and see how many we can get. From, what was that number? I mean the, E; E-51 to 61, try it, see how many we got. We got a lot standing there. E-51 to 61... Somebody look around to the bed people and see if they've got, check these cards down along here, wherever you are, and check your cards everywhere and find out.
Here's a man setting here; I see he's got a prayer card in his pocket. Check and see what his number is, there, sir, if you can. 78, all right. Just be of a good courage now, brother; have faith; just believe God. Don't think you're past hope; you're not. Abraham, when he was past the age of bearing, God appeared to him and said, "I am El Shaddai, the Almighty. "El Shaddai" means "the bosom, like a mother nurses her fretting child to health." No matter how old you are, how far you're gone, He's El Shaddai. Lean on His bosom, His Word and nurse from It. Draw from It, till your body receives strength. Amen.
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All right, have you got room for a few more? All right, let's go up to 65 then if you got some more room. All right, see if... then if we can get some more, then sometimes when the--they begin to come through with great faith... What say? What was that letter again? E from 51 to 65, then stand up. That'll bring up about a few more, and then as the line gets started, why, then it won't be too much trouble...?... Now, how many out there has not got prayer cards and wants to be prayed for, and wants God to heal them? Way, I see plumb in the back, back there. All right, I--I say this by the authority of the Angel of God. It is not this sign that does it; Jesus sent this Angel and said this, told me, He said, "You were borned in this world to pray for sick people. And if you get the people to believe you and will be sincere when you pray, nothing shall stand before your prayer." That was the commission. And I said, "They won't believe me, Sir, I'm uneducated, I can't speak like other ministers and so forth." He said, "As the prophet Moses was given two signs to a vindicate his ministry..." See, Moses complained that he was slow of speech, which was true, maybe stammered. But he couldn't speak well, and God was going to heal him of it. But He said, "Who made the mouth of man?" Moses is just what God made him.
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He said, "As Moses was given two signs to a vindicate his ministry, so will you be given two signs." Said, "One, you'll take a hold of their hand; you'll know, tell them what's wrong," not you speaking, but the Angel speaking through me. See? He said, "The next you'll tell them the very secrets of their hearts." And the first was... How many remembers when... I couldn't know nothing but what I just took hold of a hand. And how many's here remember that early day of the ministry? Do you remember me telling you it would come to pass what you see now? Is that right? Raise your hands if it is. That I said it will come to pass. Has it? The Bible said, "If there be one spiritual or a prophet, and what he says comes to pass, then believe him." Is that right? Well, I'm with that. "But if it doesn't come to pass, don't believe it." Those things are
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And now, friends, do you believe me? Then listen to what I'm telling you. Jesus Christ the Son of God healed every one of you at Calvary. And I, or no other man, can do anything about it, no more than point you to Jesus Christ, the Sacrifice of God, Who was wounded for your transgressions, bruised for your iniquities; the chastisement of our peace was upon Him, and with His stripes we were healed. Then I speak the truth. It's in Christ and not in me, or not in the Angel of God. This Angel of God has nothing to do with the healing, only to vindicate what Almighty God has done for you, according to your faith. The Angel does not heal; It only shows and sees visions. It's a messenger sent from God. How many understands now? Your healing is complete already if you'll just only believe it.
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All right, bring the lady. How do you do, lady? I just want to get this up here. Can you hear me all right when I'm talking low? Somebody tells me when the anointing comes down, that I don't talk very loud. Can you hear me back in the back if I'm talking this loud? That's fine. Thank you. Now, all of you will appreciate this. And be in prayer for me, will you do that? Now just, you don't have... Well, if I ask you to bow your head, sometimes a evil spirit rises up. You see? And when it does, it--it's a battle. And then you've got to take... How many of you read my little book back there, my book, "Man Sent From God"? That's fine. I--I hate to mention anything like that from the platform. I wished I was able to give every one of you one of them. I just wished I could, but I can't. I can't afford it; I haven't got any money to do that with. And I'm--I'm poor; that's true. God knows that's true. That's right. If I'd took the money been offered to me I'd been a multi-millionaire. But I'd rather be poor and have favor with God than the best home you got in Toledo. That's right. I'd rather have it. 'Cause this is my--my work, to serve God. That's what's in my heart.
If you go to fool... If a minister, three things, if he goes to fooling with, he's ruined. That is: first thing was money, then women, and then popularity. When he goes to thinking he's someone, right then he's on his road out. That's right. For we're all flesh, just like grass; there's no good in none of us. Only thing's good about us is what part of God is in us. And He--He's just averaged through all of us. So there's nothing, one above another; we're just all the same (That's right.), God's children; we're brothers and sisters. And I try by the help of God to stay away from such. And you pray for me that I'll always be that way, that I can serve Him till the day He comes, and we walk up before Him. Then I'll look out over this Toledo bunch
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and say, "Toledo, you lovely little audience, set in them hot auditoriums that night, I told you the truth; here's my Master to vindicate it, and say that I told the truth." See, you'll know then.
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I believe He's here tonight to vindicate it, to say that it's the truth, not wait till in the future...?... When, if I ask you to bow your head, then quickly, do it. See? Quickly bow your heads if I say, "Bow your head now." If... Sometimes epilepsy gets away from me. So it's a horrible thing, and it just attacks a person. It'll jump from one to another like that; it's very vicious. And down through the age it's had a great control of the people. You remember the disciples couldn't cast that epileptic spell out of a boy? And they brought him to Jesus, you remember that? Remember that man had epilepsy and some fellows went down there, some preachers boys and thought that they had a gift of Divine healing, went down and called over that devil, said, "I adjure thee by the Name of Jesus Who Paul preaches, come out." Acts 19, you remember that? He said, "Paul I know, and Jesus I know, but who are you?" You remember that? And that devil always knows. That's the very thing that bothers me, not knowing that, but that's what's been a long...
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Oh, sister, how could you doubt? Come here, sister. Oh, Jesus, have mercy on the poor thing, Lord. She's trying hard, but Thou art here to help her. Dear God, as Your humble servant lays hands upon her and asks for mercy, grant it, Lord. Satan, I adjure thee by Jesus Christ the Son of God, come out of the woman and don't bother her no more. Now, lady, do you... Did I tell you the truth when I was speaking, whatever it was? If you were--if you attended doctors, I'd tell you what was wrong with you and what to do. You don't need to do it if you'll believe what... It's been pains in here; you've been worried. You thought you had cancer in your lungs. Isn't that right? I'm not reading your mind, but I--I know what... See, it isn't... You haven't no cancer; that's a pinched nerve (that's exactly), coming from the vertebrae in the back of your back. That's back there in the back, is that right? All right, how'd I know that? All right, go believe now, and be well in the Name of the Lord Jesus. Let's say, "Praise be to the Lord Jesus Christ, Who giveth all good things to those who seek after Him. Blessed be the Name of the Lord."
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Now, just a moment, if I can remember, the lady is upset. And she thinks she had cancer; she's worried; she's cried; she's been
prayed for, everything. I see her standing; there's a building, something like this. There were many people rejoicing. Now, that materialized here before me. And I seen her troubled, and I looked around and I seen her holding her back like this. It's nothing but a pinched vertebrae in her back. If she was going to a doctor, I'd say go to a chiropractor and let him relieve that. But if she got faith in God, she don't need to go to a chiropractor. Jesus Christ does it for her. That's right. Amen.
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All right, everyone reverent. All right. Let's see, you're the... Oh, it's--it's a boy. All right. Well, bless his little heart, a fine boy. Now, do you believe, mother? With all your heart, you believe? Well, now you just be seated there by the--in the chair, if you will, so I can get the little boy by himself. How do you do, little fellow? My, I don't imagine this little boy... Do you like to fish? Isn't it... Every little boy... You know what I think about little boys? I think a little boy that likes to fish, and loves his mother, is a good boy. Would you believe that? Yes, sir. Oh, poor little lad. Look here, sonny boy. You and I don't know one another, do we? But you realize what's wrong with you, don't you, honey? Look, you're suffering with a heart trouble; that's rheumatic fever in your heart, is it sonny boy? Your parents are besides themselves almost. The doctor has done said he couldn't do nothing for you. You know that. But looky here, sonny boy. Jesus Christ...
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It was... I was at my mother's house, and I was going to stay all night down there. I'd been praying for the sick, and I got in late. And so I just stopped off at mother's. And I was talking to her. And we went to bed. In a little while I come--I got up. And I just couldn't rest. Did you ever have those restless nights? Be careful, if you're a Christian, that might be God dealing with you. See? So I'd got up and was walking around. And I turned... I got a burden; I thought, "Well, maybe somebody's sick somewhere, and they want me to pray for them." And I got down, and I couldn't pray through. And just went on for while, and after while, I looked across the room. And did any of you women ever wash, and bring your wash in like that, and pile it down in a chair? That's my mother. And then iron barefooted in... And if she knew I said that, she'd turned me over her checkered apron again. But I've seen the poor old thing, many times stand there, and
standing with her iron, you know, barefooted, ironing. And she...
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I thought she'd laid her clothes in a chair in the corner, in the bedroom there. And it looked like something white. And it begin coming in closer to me. I looked at it. And it wasn't the chair; it was something moving, white. And it... It seemed like I went into it, or it come into me. And in a few moments, I was walking down through a wilderness country, and I could hear a lamb bleating, going "Baabaa." Did you ever hear a little lamb cry? It's the most pitiful thing in the world. And it was bleating. I said, "That poor little thing. I'm going to see if I can find it." And I started up towards the brush and stuff. And as I got closer to it, it wasn't a lamb. It was a human. It was calling, saying, "Milltown. Milltown." Well, I never heard of the place in my life. So when I came to myself... I went to church the following Wednesday night. And I said to some of them, "Anybody know where Milltown is?" No one knew.
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So then, Sunday night, I announced it. "Does anyone know where Milltown is?" And a brother by the name of George Wright, I guess many of you that go down the Tabernacle know him. And He said, "Yes, Brother Branham, about thirty-five miles down the Southern here." Said, "I live close to it." I said, "I will be down next Saturday; God wants me to go to Milltown. There's somebody down there in trouble." He said, "Small city about five hundred people, or a thousand, down on the Southern there..." Said... I said, "Well, I'll be down."
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We went down, and I remember, I went to that grocery store where the street corner turned. I thought, "Wonder what the Lord wants of me?" I went in and bought a box. And come out there, and I thought I'd preach right here on the corner." Well, I got up on the box, and I--I couldn't think nothing to preach about. And all the folks there in the country, you know, come in on Saturday and do their shopping. Brother Wright said, "I'm going up on the hill to do a little trading, Brother Branham, got to take some eggs up there to a man." Said, "You want to ride up with me?" I said, "Yes." And as I went up, there was a big white church standing up on the hill. And I said, "Say, look. Isn't that a lovely church?" He said, "Yes, it's a pity about that church." Said, "That's a Baptist church, and the pastor there got in some trouble." And said, "The church went down, and they never had a pastor there since." Said, "The city taken it over. Congregation all left and went to other
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And I felt the Spirit of God tell me, "Stop." I went over there and the door was locked. And I said, "You go ahead, Brother Wright. And I... You come back and pick me up after while." And after he got gone, I knelt down there, and I prayed. I said, "Lord, if You want me in this church, unlock these doors for me." And so while I was praying, I got up, and I heard somebody coming. It was a man walking around. He said, "Hello!" And I said, "Howdy do?" He said, "I seen you were praying." I said, "Yes, sir. I--I just... I'm a preacher, and I just was praying here on the steps." He said, "You want go in?" I said, "Yes, sir." Said, "I got the keys." I said, "Thank You, Lord." I said, "Thank You, Lord." All you believe in that? Yes, sir. Yes, sir. He's real.
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And he opened the door for me, and I went in there, seat about three or four hundred people. And I walked up to the place. And I bowed my head and prayed. I said, "Who owns it?" Said, "Oh, the city." Said, "We just... I just take care of it here." Said, "Only thing we have in it is funerals, and so forth." I said, "Wonder if I could have a revival here?" Said, "See the city official." And I went down and asked him. He said, "Sure, if you'll put a meter in it." I said, "Well, I work for the Utility Company, I'll put my own meter in." He said, "All right." I put the meter in, and announced around there that I was going to have a revival. I never will forget the first man I asked. I said, "Going to have a revival, sir, will you come?" He said, "Say, we raise chickens around here. Ain't got time to go to no church." I said, "Well, couldn't you just let the chickens alone for a little while and come to the meeting?"
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He said, "Oh, we ain't got time for nothing like that." Said, "I got my business to take care of." Said, "You take care of your own." I said, "I didn't aim to hurt your feelings, sir." About ten days from then, you know, they had to take out time to bury the man. He died. And so they buried him right down there in front of the church.
We started a revival. And... Oh, I went out and prayed in the woods, and I thought the Lord give me a great message, and I was just burning at my heart, to deliver it. I said, "Oh, we'll probably have a big crowd there tonight. Maybe the Lord wants me to hold a revival."
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So I got down there. You know who was there? George Wright, his wife, and son and daughter. I had four in the congregation. I preached the message the Lord had give me just the same. And then the next night, there was an odd-looking fellow walked up to the outside. And he was a... They told me he was a backslidden Nazarene, once belonged to the Nazarene church and had backslidden. Had his corn cob pipe in his mouth, and he knocked it out on the side of the building, hair hanging down in his face, and tooth out on the side. And looked in, said, "Where is that little Billy Sunday they're talking about in here?" like that. Mr. Wright went back and got him, and set him down. I was up there reading the Bible, behind the pulpit. Brother Wright come up, said, "The hardest boiled fellow there is in the country, just walked in." Said, "Oh, he's a rip-snorter." Said, "His name is William Hall. He runs the florist up here on the hill." I said, "Maybe that's the one the Lord's after." So I got to preaching. Brother Wright went back to him, said, "Do you want move up front?" He said, "I'll take care of things back here. You go on up front." And as the meeting come on, when the service closed, Mr. Hall was kneeling on the rail, a praying to God. He's my associate pastor down there now. And still... A few nights there was some healing taken place. And then that started the crowd. We had to hang the PA systems out in the trees. But it seemed like, yet, it wasn't all.
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So there was a young lady that belonged to a certain church there, that I won't call no name; they don't believe in any Spirit; just the letter, "We speak where the Word speaks, and silent where It's silent." And they had made a proclamation there, that anybody that went to that meeting would be given their church letter and sent home. Her daddy was a deacon in the church. And so she got a hold of one my little books. And this lady, girl, she's about twenty-five years old now. Her name is Miss Georgie Carter. She'd been laying nine years and eight months, that she'd never raised her head off the bed: TB. And they couldn't even put a bed pan under her. They kept a rubber sheet, and had a draw sheet. I guess you know, Brother Ryan, have to pull the draw sheet like that. She'd never seen the outside world, nowhere out, even the windows, for nine years and eight months. And somebody come told me, but said, "You can't go pray for her," said, "she's crying for you." And just as soon as they said that,
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Well, her mother and dad wouldn't let me come. Said, "No, we won't let that deceiver come." And then after I got ready to leave the revival, her daddy said, "Well, he'd leave the house." And her mother said she'd--she'd leave and if to satisfy the girl. So I think they must've got permission from the preacher, just to let me come down there. So I went in to see her. And the poor little thing had my little book laying there. And on the back of the bed, before she could... Got passed, putting her hands back, the paint was all rubbed off the bed where she had held, and cried, and prayed for deliverance. But her church didn't believe in Divine healing. And she got this book, and she seen in the paper where another girl had been healed, had been sent in a vision. And she wanted to be healed.
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So, oh, poor little thing had just cried so. And I went in; she said, "Brother Branham, I just believed if you would come; Jesus would let me get well." And I said, "Will you serve Him, sister?" Said, "All my heart." And her little old arms, she couldn't raise her sputamin cup. She'd start, and she'd go, "uh, uh, uh," and then they'd have to hold the cup. She'd go, "uh, uh, uh," to spit in it like that. And that's the condition she was in. I knelt and had prayer for her, and went out of the room.
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And about two weeks from then, I was back again to start another meeting. We'd had a three, four night's meeting. And there was another minister up there, who didn't believe in immersing. And I was going to baptize a bunch down there in the river. And he'd had a revival in a tent. And he said, "If anybody, one of my congregation, even walk in that church, where that crazy Divine healer," said, "I would... I'd absolutely take them out of the church." He said, "The very idea..." Said, "That fellow will drown you in the water, you know." He said, "Well..." I went up there to have a baptismal service that afternoon. And little Georgie, I told her, I said, "Now, now, sister, I can pray for you. That's all I know." She said, "Will can you do for me, like you did for that Nail girl?" I said, "No, that was a vision, honey. I have to see the vision first." I said, "If He ever sends me back, I'll come back. But I believe you're going to get well," encouraging her faith.
And so, the last day of the service I went over to baptize at Totten's Ford. Many of you people around Corydon know where that's at. And so I went over there to baptize. And here this minister had closed his service, and all the congregation was standing on the bank. And I walked out there in the river, you know. Oh, my, that glorious feeling, the water, splashing around everywhere. And I baptized about fifty people that afternoon. And while I was standing there, just seemed like an Angels was setting on every branch of the tree.
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And I was standing there, started to pray like that. I said, "As God sent John to baptize..." And I said, he said, "Go ye into all the world and make disciples of all nations and baptize them. These signs shall follow them that believe." And about that time, the Holy Spirit swept down across that bank, and the entire congregation of that minister walked out into the river, screaming with their good clothes on. I baptized every one of them that afternoon--every one of them. That's right. That's true. Women screaming with silk dresses on, young ladies, and mothers and dads, and bringing their kiddies, and everything. I baptized till it was almost dark. They had to pull me out of the water. And so I was to have the meeting down at the Baptist church that night. I went with Brother Wright and them to eat supper. And mother Wright, she's a real cook. Way back up in the country is where they live. And I said, "I don't want supper right now." I said, "I'll go over here to pray. The Lord wants me to pray. There's something leaning heavy on my heart." So then, he said, "Well, when I ring the dinner bell, you come, Brother Branham," said, "'cause we're going to have to hurry." I said, "All right."
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And I went over there, and I knelt down. Did you ever feel like, you know, the briars stuck you, and the floor was too hard? Did you ever have that? That's the time to press on. That's the devil trying to keep you from it. Move right on. As long as you're doing right, you can't be doing wrong. See? You can't go this way, when you're going this way. And I know it's right to pray. And I just kept on praying; the--the wind blew, and a sticker hit me in the face. I just said, "Thank You, Lord." And kept on praying. And after while, I got lost in the Spirit. Did you ever get lost in the Spirit? Excuse me for talking fast like a bush on fire, but I'm trying to hurry up. But I just got lost in the Spirit. I didn't hardly know where I was at. I heard that bell ring, but I was having too good a time with God then to think about supper. And the bell rang and rang. And I knowed it was getting dark. And I was just praying. I said, "Thank You, Lord, for Your goodness."
And just then it kinda quietened down. I thought, I'd get up and go on over then. Maybe the first bunch would be away from the table. And I said, "Thank You, Lord." And as I opened my eyes, shining right down through a little dogwood bush there, was a Light, kind of an emerald-green, yellowish Light, shining right down on me. And a Voice spoke like a great deep Voice, way back there in the woods, and said, "Go by the way of Carter's" That was enough. That had it. I jumped up and started screaming, I run down. They had search parties looking for me out in the woods. I jumped over the fence and down there in the field, and jumped right into Brother Wright's arms. He said, "Brother Billy," he said, "mama's been waiting supper on you for a hour." He said, "They're out everywhere over hill here, hunting for you."
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I said, "Well, Brother Wright, I'm not going to eat supper." I said, "Georgie Carter is going to be healed completely in the next few minutes." She was about eight miles away. He said, "What?" I said, "Yes, sir. THUS SAITH THE LORD." He said, "You mean she's going to get up?" I said, "She's going to be normal and well in the next few minutes, soon as I can get there." He said, "Can I go with you?" I said, "Yes, sir." And there was a man there from Texas, just brought his wife up, and she was healed. He said, "Brother Branham, can I go with you?" He had seen the Nail girl healed, few weeks before that. I said, "Yes, sir." He said, "You mean that little pile of bones that..." I said, "She's going to be healed just in a few minutes." We jumped in the car and went down. Now, God works on both ends of the line. Don't you believe that? [Congregation says, "Amen."--Ed.]
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When they was having a prayer meeting down at John Mark's house, Peter in the prison, the Angel of the Lord was there. You know what I mean. And then this woman, the mother, Mrs. Carter... I want you all to write to her if you want to. She was very critical. But she... The little Georgie cried. She promised God if she could get healed that afternoon, she'd go down and be baptized. So... And she hadn't raised off that bed, now, her head up, for nine years and eight months. And then, she was laying there crying, and her mother got so worked up. Her mother set there, a fairly young woman, went gray-headed
and took the palsy, just setting there by that bed all the time, day and night, just what little sleep she could get. All right. Her mother went in the kitchen; she knelt down, she said, "O dear God..." Sincerely now, just been taught wrong. Said, "O dear God," said, "have mercy on my poor little girl in there, poor little thing laying there, just a few days from death. And she's laying there. And that impostor come through this country here, claiming to be something." And said, "And he's got my child all tore up." Said, "God, have mercy." Started praying like that.
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Now, here is her testimony. I don't know this; this is her words. She said, "She raised her head up like that; she was wiping the tears from her eyes. Her daughter lived next door. They was good people. And the sun was setting in the west, and was shining in like this against the wall." She said, "She seen a shadow coming down the wall." And she thought it was her daughter coming around the house. But when He got right up to her, she said, "It was the Lord Jesus Christ." Said, "He walked right up close like that. He said, 'Who's this?'" And said, they looked. And she was seeing me with this high forehead, and this Bible laying on my heart, coming, walking into the house. And she said, "Oh, mercy, I--I--I've went to... I'm asleep." She never seen a vision. She said, "I'm--I'm asleep." And she run in and told Georgie, said, "Georgie, I was out there a few minutes ago, praying, and it looked like I seen a form on the wall, looked like Jesus. And I seen that Brother Branham coming," said, "with two men following him. He had a Bible over his heart." And about that time my door closed outside, and here come me and the two men.
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I tell you. Oh, my, I feel good. Brother, you'll never know how it feels till you know just where you're standing. Then all devils out of hell can't stop it; there's nothing can. You know where you're at then. And walked up to the porch. I never... It seemed to me like that I felt myself come out of my body, and seen my body open that door and go in. And there was that little girl was laying there. And the mother just keeled over on the floor and fainted. And I walked up to the bed where she was at. I said, "Sister Georgie, even the Lord Jesus, Who you love and trusted all this time, has met me in the woods, and said that I must come and you would be made well. Therefore, in obedience to the commission that was just given me some few moments ago in the woods, I take you by the hand, and say, 'In the Name of Jesus Christ, stand to your feet and be made well.'"
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And that poor little girl, weighing not over thirty-six or thirty-
seven pounds, just a bunch of bones... Why, she couldn't have stood if she had to. Not only stood, but she jumped to her feet, screaming to the top of her voice. And there the people begin to scream. Perfectly normal and well. And her mother fainted. And her sister come running in there. And she didn't know what to do. She begin screaming, her hair... running down the road, pulling her hair like that, 'cause something has happened. Her father was coming across from his barn with some milk, in--in a little container like this. And he heard the piano playing, and he run into the house to find what it was. And there was his daughter that had never moved from that bed for nine years and eight months, setting at the piano, playing, "Jesus, Keep Me Near the Cross. There's a precious fountain, free to all, a healing stream, that flows from Calvary's fountain," perfectly normal and well! My, here come the Marengo Baptist preacher, and all of them, coming in there. And she run into the yard. She blessed the leaves. She blessed the grass. She was so happy. Brother, sister, that's been about six years ago. Tonight, Georgie Carter is playing the piano at the Milltown Baptist church where I'm still the pastor. Write to her. Miss Georgie G-e-o-r-g-i-e C-a-r-t-e-r, Milltown, Indiana. Get her own personal testimony. That same Jesus Christ that healed Georgie that night, is right here tonight, to do the same thing for every individual that's standing in the Divine Presence. Do you believe that?
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Our heavenly Father, may Thy Presence come near. O God, may It anoint every person that's in this Divine Presence now. May the power of God saturate this little waiting group here. Men and women setting there, and perspiration running off their face, they're faithful, Lord. Now I ask You, God, knowing that You have to be sovereign to Your Word. You can only heal us as we believe. But if it's possible, Lord, may the Angels of God set at every row, visit up-anddown here tonight, around on this platform, down through this audience. And may every person receive a Divine touch from Him, Who I testify of. God, grant tonight, that this will be the greatest night that we've ever seen in all the days of our life. May the power of God enshroud this building. And may these people who are faithfully waiting, fanning with the fans, may the Spirit of God move upon every one of them and heal every person in the building tonight. Grant it, eternal God, through the Name of Thy Son, Jesus Christ. Amen. Dear brethren, pray. I believe God's going to do something for us tonight.
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Would you do this for me, audience? Would you be waiting, watching, and the first touch of the Holy Spirit that touches you, in
answer to prayer, just a few moments ago, will you rise to your feet and give God glory? While the things are going on here, God is moving in the Spirit through His people. When God does something for somebody, then you stand and accept your healing also. I tell you, if you'll do that, there will be a wave of glory hit this building, and when the Holy Spirit falls in that, that's when the water is troubled. Step right in and get yours at that time. I won't be able to minister to every one of you. But the Holy Spirit can touch every one of you at the same time. Don't you believe it? Then walk out of this building, committing it to God. Testify of it; believe it with all your heart; hold unto it, and watch what happens. God will answer. Amen. You believe that?
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How many cards did you give? All right. Start right from this, just line up the line. He give F from 51. Get start it right here, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, just as many as you can crowd in there, I guess. Let it get up to about... Well, you can get... Can you get more than ten in there? All right, try the first ten, and then maybe we can get some more after that. 51 to 60, that's six... 51 to 60. And then as soon as that crowd gets down, as soon as they level down, if there's more room, step right up. Just start 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, up to 70. That crowd gets down, start right on to 80, like that. And then when that gets... By that time, every one of you ought to be in the right position, the Holy Ghost falling over this building for every one of you to be healed. Go ahead, Brother Baxter. All right, we're going to start right quick, while they're--they're lining up there and getting them--the ushers are getting those people ready. All right.
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Who has believed our report? Believe it's the truth? Wonderful. How many knows that you've received a healing this week? Let's see your hands, over the audience, anywhere. Look at there, Brother Baxter. I know that's true. How many believes you're going to get a healing tonight, from God? Let's see your hand. He will never turn you down. He can't turn you down. He's One Who can't turn you down, because He's God. Now, as far as just the people setting like this, setting in here, friends, I look down here at these people; I see one, two, three wheelchairs, four wheelchairs. Now, the rest of it, yeah, five, here's one setting here.
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Now, you people in the wheelchairs, don't think your case is... Now, what you want to do is this: accept your healing. See? Just say, "I'm healed now. I'm healed right now." See? And just keep believing it. And if you'll just only exercise enough faith, enough to get up, God
will show it to me, then you get up, like that lady did setting over there, the other night. Did you see that lady setting there in that wheelchair, all up--up like that. And I looked over there and I seen her. And I seen she'd been to a doctor and all. The first thing you know, I seen her going walking, like that. I said, "Stand up. It's over." Because God had made her whole. Now, you be in prayer, and be reverent while we pray. All right.
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I believe God's going to answer prayer. I just get everything ready, so that... I believe it, don't you? I believe there's something going to happen tonight. I'm just looking for it. I just feel it. All right. How do you do, sir? You going to believe down there now? All right. Have faith. You all going to believe along here? Along here, and back in here, going to believe with all your heart? All right, that's fine now. All right, brother. I'm... After speaking, makes me just a little shook up, you know, I get... I guess that's humanly nervous, you know, just it's... It just happens that way, I guess. But, anyhow, I've got to get myself quietened down to the anointing of that Angel of the Lord. Now, I don't mean that that would heal you. That has nothing to do with your healing: only might make your faith greater (You see?), or something like that. 'Cause I presume that you and I are strangers. I don't believe I ever met you. I don't know you. [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]
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You, you look like you have headaches or something. Some kind of a... Isn't that right, something wrong up in... Let's say it's sinus. I see you setting like that. You see?. And you're--have kind of a weak spells come over you too, don't you? Get real weak. Say, you're a minister too. I see you. You're--you're a minister of the Gospel. I see that. And you got a heart trouble; you smother, isn't that right? I see you hold your... Is that true, minister brother? Come here just a minute. We are brethren.
Our heavenly Father, I ask for mercy for my dear brother. And I pray that Your Spirit that's here now, will bless my brother. Go on him, and heal him, Lord. And may from this night, henceforth, he will never be bothered no more. In the Name of Jesus Christ. Amen. God bless you, brother. Go now, and go to be well too. Let's say, "Praise be to God." [Congregation says, "Praise be to God."--Ed.] Oh, my! Now, when I turned around like that, it just feels like a whole solid pull. You've had an operation. If I'm... See if I'm wrong. Didn't I... When I seen you covered, but didn't they remove something from your body, a rib or something like that? Oh, seven ribs from your body. I seen the surgeon as he turns. One was a tall, thin man, that done the operating. Is that right? He had a--a white thing over his face. He
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turned... There was several at the table. One blond nurse, I see go back to one side. You been nervous and weak ever since, haven't you, sister? You've been at sanatorium; nothing seems to do any good. Was that true? Come here.
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Dear heavenly Father, the poor little dying woman, comes up close to receive her blessing. I'm thinking, what would You do? Father, You'd lay your hands upon her. You'd rebuke that demon; he'd have to hear You. And now as Thou has ascended on High and give gifts unto men, and her... She's been prayed for, and her faith, Lord, is trying to believe. But ere she die, Lord, help her. Satan, as a believer in Jesus Christ, as representing Him in His vicarious suffering at Calvary, I adjure thee, by Jesus Christ to leave the woman. Come out of her. You go from here tonight, eat what you can. Weigh yourself in a few days and write me your testimony. God bless you, sister. Another thing, since you was a child, you have a seeing...?... One of your eyes...?... move them up...?... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] Just telling her something that I seen in a vision, which was...?... it... Let's say, "Praise the Lord." [Congregation says, "Praise the Lord."--Ed.] All right, bring the lady. Now, every one just reverent as you can be.
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feel it, touch that hand here. See? See what I mean? Now, it's just... That comes right to my heart. It kind of like a "brrrr." That's that cancer. It's alive. And now, the Scripture says... Now, being watching you, the cancer is in your throat, isn't it? Is that right? Yes, ma'am. I see where it's found... 'Course, you couldn't tell it outwardly, but you-you can...?... by the vision. Now, isn't it strange, that other human will put their hand on there and it doesn't make any difference? And then you walk up here and put your hand on there, and there it is. Isn't it? Now, then, there's Something here, that's got me anointed, that's able to know what's wrong with you. Is that right? What it is on here: did you see that picture of the Angel of the Lord, that I showed? You've seen It. Now, that's what It is now. Yes. The picture that I showed here, had that Angel's picture above It, where I was standing.
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Now, now, there's something wrong with you (See?), a cancer. And you lay your hand on here, and as soon as we make contact, something jumps. Now, what is it? It's the cancer on you, and the Angel of the Lord here. Now, it's trying to hold you, and God is wanting to heal you. Now, I can't make it go, but your faith in Jesus
Christ will make it leave it you. See? It's a life. Now, what is a cancer? It's a germ. It's a developing of cells. It's laying in your neck, sapping your blood, soon will have you gone. See? Now, now in the way of Divine healing, if you were the cancer, I'd just call your life out of you, and your body would drop down dead. After while you'd just decay and go away. For the first few days, if it leaves you, you'll feel wonderful. Your throat will feel good. But then, it'll get worse than ever. And you'll spit up big pieces and things. And many times, people when they get real sick, like that, they say, "I've lost my healing." Don't you believe that, if it leaves you. You keep on testifying. The man, Jesus told the man, said, "Thy son liveth," and the man believed what He said. See? You believe what's told you.
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Now, if by the Spirit of God, I was able to see what your trouble was, and your life, and you know that's true, now, what He says this way, will be true too, won't it? If that was true, not knowing, this will be true by knowing. Is that right? Now, I want you to put your hand here again. I want you to watch. Now, I want you to see; it isn't the position the hand's held in (You see?), it's just the same anywhere it's...?... here. Now, the Bible said, "In the mouth of two or three witnesses, let every word be established." Is that right? You come a stranger. I don't know you. You put your hand on mine, something flashes up. And I'll tell you what it is. There's one witness, isn't it? And you're watching it now. Look at it there. Now, watch it. I want you get up here close, so you can notice. Watch here how it comes and goes. Now, there it's dying down. See? Now, I feel it coming... Here it comes again. Now, look at it. See? It's just like waves. Now, that cancer is excited. The life of the cancer, the life of that germ in there, is excited. That's a spirit, because near here, you and I, stands the thing that can make it leave there by your faith.
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Now, I'm going to pray for you, because you know you got cancer. You've been very nervous and upset. I'm not reading your mind. But you know what I'm talking about, don't you? I don't even have to say it. But now, what I'm trying to do, is to get this to leave. Now, I'm going to pray, and I'm going to have the audience to bow their heads. I want you to watch my hand. If it--if it goes away, you're healed. That'll be three witnesses. Is that right? If it stays there, you still got cancer. Now, remember, I can't make it go. Now, the reason I ask you to--to-to watch (See?), you're the one that's got the cancer. If it goes out, there'll be a cancer at large. See? And if this, now, if your faith is all can make it go. Now, I want you to believe while I pray. And I want you to watch my hand, see if it moves in any way at all. See? And
then if that just drops down, the swelling leaves, the vibration off of there leaves, if it comes normal, just like this hand, you're healed. If it doesn't, you're not. See? I have nothing to do with it. It's your faith from here out. Will you bow your head audience? Our heavenly Father, just in order that the little woman and these ministers sitting here looking at my hand, might know that Thou art Christ, the Son of God, and know that Thy servant is telling that which is true... You said to the prophet Moses, "With them two signs, they would believe." And these people believe, without these signs. They believe You. And now, Father, I ask for mercy for this poor little woman, which we know that cannot live much longer this way. Have mercy upon her, and heal her, in the Name of the Lord Jesus. I ask for her healing.
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Now, before I raise my head, or look, it hasn't stopped; it's still running. Isn't it, lady? It's just like it was. Now, to the audience, it hasn't stopped. It's still running. Now, I can't make it stop now, sister, because...?... exposing that...?... But now looky here. Look...?... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] Claiming power over you, by the sufferings of Jesus Christ, the Son of God, come out of the woman.
Now, friends, I wasn't just trying to talk loud to you. I'm not trying to deafen your ears. But sometimes them demons gets disobedient, and then you've got to cast them out. If they could go out easily, all right, but you come to the house and you... And I told you go out, and you went on, it was all right. But when you have to throw you out, it's different. See? And you--you just can't be babying them things around. All right. Bring the...
Are you in love with Jesus? Isn't He wonderful? Now, if He was standing right here tonight, wearing my suit, He could do no more for you, than what He's doing right now for you. He could know what was wrong; He could tell you what was wrong, but He'd say, "The Son can do nothing except the Father show Him." Is that right? And He said, "Now, these things that I do, shall you." You remember when Nathanael came to Him, told him? "I knew you. You're a Christian," in other words. "When did You know me?" "Before Philip called you, when you were under the tree, I saw you." What did He do? He saw him in a vision. Is that right?
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Now, here stands a little girl, standing before me. I don't
believe I know you. Are we strangers, honey? I don't know nothing about you, do I? Nothing at all. And what, just to say... Where are you from? Ontario, Canada. And we're born many miles apart, years difference. I've never seen you, in my life. If there's anything in the world that I could know about you, it'd certainly have to come through supernatural power. Is that right? You know the girl, Brother Baxter? He's from Canada too. Through Jesus Christ we can meet on common ground, can't we? That's right. I want you to walk just a little closer. I see you're very frail. I don't know what's wrong with you. But I just want you to talk to me, as I talk to you. I don't want you to be...
LIFE.OF.DEMONS.AND.VISIONS_ TOLEDO.OH SATURDAY_ 51-0721 E-38 [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] An asthma, isn't it? Asthmatic
condition. Say, you--you've been examined in a hospital, or something for that. Isn't that right? I see a doctor is around you. Say, I see something different. You was in an accident too. Haven't you been in an accident? You were hurt, wasn't you, in a--in a auto accident? Is that true? Now, let's see if I can go back again. There's something about a doctor, wasn't it? Did you hear me talking? That wasn't me. That was--that was wasn't me. It was in my voice, but I wasn't doing that. Now, whatever talked through me, and whatever It said to you, was that the truth? Now, just--just say if that's the truth. Just raise up your hand that--that was truth. And it wasn't what you was thinking about. You wasn't thinking about those things, was you? So it couldn't be my mind-reading, could it? It'd have to go back behind that, didn't it? Things that, I guess, nobody in this auditorium would know about, 'less it was you. See? Or unless somebody that's real close to you would know it.
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Now, I told you the truth, haven't I? Now, do you believe me as God's prophet, that I've told the truth? You do what I tell you to do. I'm going to lay my hands upon you, sister, dear. I've got a little girl at home. And I know if she was sick... Now, in commemoration of what Jesus said when He died at Calvary, He healed you. And now, you're aware that some supernatural Being, which you believe to be His Presence, is here now. Is that right? I bless thee, my sister, in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ, that He take this asthma from you. And may you leave from here, tonight, to go back to that lovely country, to be a well woman, and testify of God's grace to you, all the days of your life. May He use you in starting an old fashion revival in your community, by your testimony. For these blessings I place upon you in the Name of Jesus Christ. Amen.
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What do you think, you're healed? All right, you are. Now, you
can go off the platform, healed. God bless you, sister. Let us say, "Praise be to God."
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Thank you, Brother Baxter. Good evening, friends, or afternoon, rather. Down in the south, this would be evening; and then when it gets a past seven o'clock, it's night. I think this... I never can get that all fixed up. And when they tell me I'm eating my dinner; it's seven o'clock. Mom used to call me in from plowing, why, it was dinner time at twelve o'clock. Different parts of the country they call it breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Then I feel like I got beat out of a meal somewhere, so I... Just, I guess the way we were raised, don't you think so? Well, I'm--I'm happy to be here this afternoon. It's awfully warm in this auditorium, and I trust that God will meet with us and give us of His blessing. And tonight, the closing night of the service, of--of these services, we're going to go from here to Erie, Pennsylvania. And we, all are cordially invited to come anywhere, any time; we're always happy to see our friends anywhere.
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I just met the ushers a few moments ago. And so I--I always go into the meetings; I don't get to meet no one. And then just about time you get to knowing a few of the brethren or something, then you have to say, "Well, so long; we got to go somewhere else." But this is the last of this. When I return back, if our Lord is willing, we come back from overseas, from Africa, I never intend to have another itinerary. That's always been the thing that's hurt me. Right when I'd be at a place... Now, like right here, I think if God wants us, stay right here. Now, that's right. But now, there's an itinerary: you got to go somewhere else. And that's always what hurts. I--I never want it that way; I'd rather stay right here till God said, "Now, I'm through with you here; you go somewhere else." See? Then right at the time here, when the interest of the people just getting build up now in five or six nights, till where they really begin to see, they begin to have faith...
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I believe the last two nights in this series of meetings, has been the... some of the... one of the greatest anointings I've ever felt on myself in any meeting at any place. And night before last, I never had anything to surpass that. When He walked to me face to face. I
just... I don't know when I left the platform. The first thing I knew I was in a garage out here somewhere. And it's a--it was... I asked the brethren the next morning; I said, "Was there any sick people left?" Huh. It--it looked to me like it just ought to got everybody. And maybe you wasn't exactly looking for it just at that time.
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I seen one time at Vandalia, Illinois, in the first beginning of the ministry, that when it hit like that, and there wasn't one feeble person left nowhere. They just piled up the wheelchairs, and the crutches, and the stretchers, and everything in the corners, and hauled them away. They was just... Everything hit at one time. Oh, I'd like to see that again tonight. I look down here and see many; here's about... Some of them has been healed that was crippled and different ways. And many times looking at the people I can see what's wrong with them, but that isn't it. The thing of it is; the reason that I call the people that--that look like their healthy... That's the phenomenal side, when they look healthy, and then here's something wrong with them.
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But if you'd say to somebody that's something wrong with them, and you see they're crippled, you say, "Well, you're a cripple." Why, sure, anyone can see that with their natural eye. So I might see that they're crippled and maybe something like that. But I very seldom say anything to them unless I see they're healed. Then when I see they're healed, I call them. And God has already done the work for them; they're faith has just--just reached a spot; that's all. I don't think you can hear very good behind this, does it? It's got a terrible voice, but it all goes that way.
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Now, Brother Baxter said this afternoon, that I believe with the--the, talk on my life story this aft... How many here has heard that story, let's see your hand? That... Well, just a very few. You would pardon me then if I... You'd forgive me for just, not using vain repetitions or repeat something, if I would sketch it over again for those who hasn't heard it; you will forgive me for it if you will. Just in order... It's nothing to be proud of, no, it's something to be ashamed of, the way that I have treated my Lord. But I trust that as I go back over a few pages of it, and I won't try to just, the highlights places on account of the heat of the, intense heat here. But I--I want you to make my--my blunders, stepping stones for you to Christ, that you'll bypass that, and especially the young people that's coming on and got life yet before them, until they become of the age... Now, you just look at my mistakes, and don't try to pattern after them, but you just say, "Now, what Brother Branham did, now I'm going to get past that."
You can't hear back there, can you? I thought that would be. Wonder if this microphone here's alive? If it was, maybe I could set one back this, well, it wouldn't carry back there, it'd go forward too, if there's no speaker. My, it's too bad. Well, I... All right, if you got... I was going to say, take your chair, so I don't think you could do it. Oh, that's too bad. Some, one of these days I'm going to build me an auditorium, so I can say this is the way I--the way I want it, so they have it around like that. Say, maybe that's right. Thank you. You know, being that we're speaking like that, I kinda have a little idea that that's what's the Lord's a dealing with me right now, to have a central location somewhere in America so I can be there all the time and let the people come from wherever they wish to, to the place. You see? And then I can stay there day and night. See...?... That may be the will of the Holy Spirit when you see it moving in the people. Now, that was just in my heart to think that. You see?
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And now, I feel like this Christians, now tonight... I come today, I haven't even, nothing but just my, pray two or three times today, haven't thought to be under the anointing, because I knew I'd either preach or--or tell my life story this afternoon, which Brother Baxter asked me to do that. And I feel that it might be a good thing. And now, while we're talking on that, now when you see that... Somebody say, "Brother Branham hasn't got any more meetings." Well, don't think it's because that--that I've backslidden or anything like that, but I'm seeking after the perfect will of God. There is a permissive will and a perfect will. Isn't that right, brethren? And I feel like for a long time, I kinda been in the permis--(Is that better?) kind of been in the permissive will and not in the perfect will.
Now, there's a perfect way and a permissive way. And I feel that if God, here on the platform, can show me things that has been, and in my rooms and so forth, He's able to tell me just where He wants me and what He wants me to do. But I feel as long as I've got it all hooked up, or I--I feel like then He won't put His hands on it, as long as I'm doing it. And that's the way it is, anything. As long as you're going to do it... If someone talks about you, and you talk back about them, God can't fight your battle; you're fighting it yourself. See? Just--just let loose and let Him do it. And just commit it to Him. The greatest weapon that I know of of a Christian today, is a committal to God. When you can't do nothing about it, just commit it to Him, and God will take care of it. Don't you believe that? So while I'm away and overseas, if God willing, I'm going to depend on you people to be praying for me. And especially if we get into Jerusalem.
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Now, just think of the hundreds of thousands of Jews that's in there, that didn't even--never knew that Jesus was there on earth. And now, while they sent over millions of Bibles to them, and they read of Him; they say, "Let us see Him do a sign of a prophet, and then we'll accept Him as the Messiah." Oh, my, that's what we want, isn't it? Now, if God will just move down and bring His Presence of the resurrected Christ down among those Jews, and the Holy Spirit will deal and go out there and tell them things that they've done down in their old countries and so forth like that, then I want them to accept Him then as Messiah, as their--their Redeemer. And that's going to be the thing I believe that'll bring maybe the Jews, them people that's hungering and thirsting...
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You know that's one of the greatest signs we have today of the coming of the Lord, is see those--those Jews returning from across the world. It's a wonderful. I used to sing a little song about nations are breaking, Israel awakening, the signs that the Bible foretold. Something about the fig tree budding and so forth. My, I was talking with an infidel not long ago; it's been about five, four or five years ago, he said, "Looky here, preacher, I can prove by the Bible and by Jesus Christ's Word, that you call Him, that He told something was wrong." I said, "Oh, no." He said, "Yes, He did," said, "I can prove it in the Bible." He said, "He said, over there in Matthew 24, He said, 'All these things,' said, 'when they come to pass, why then, they--that generation would not pass until they had seen all things fulfilled.'" I said, "That's just what He meant." He said, "Well, that generation's been dead long ago, long ago." I said, "No, not that generation, but the generation that sees the fig tree putting forth buds, that's the generation that's not going until... He said, 'When this generation,' the generation He was speaking of, not speaking to, speaking of. And when that generation sees this, will not pass until all things be fulfilled."
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And I believe--I believe I'm talking to people who are looking for the Lord to come. And I believe we're right in the shadows of His coming, right now. Oh, what a glorious time to know that some blessful day He will break through the eastern horizon, come down to receive His Church. I'm so happy today that by grace that He's numbered me with you all. I believe you're going there. And I believe, by His grace, that He will let me go with you. And then we're going to have plenty of time to talk, won't we? For just forever.
Now, I'm going to hurry just as quick as I can. I'm going to lay my watch out, so I won't be too long of speaking, and I'm just a little late to start. I'm always late, because I never want to get in a hurry about anything. You know, that's the trouble of us today, we're in too much of a hurry. And I... When I got married, I was--I was late at my wedding. And someone said, "You'll be late at your funeral." I said, "I hope I am." Ha-ha-ha.
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There was a fellow trying to tell me, said... He was trying to sell me insurance, and he said... I didn't have any insurance and-and so I... Not as I got anything against it, but I think many of the American people are insurance poor. So, I said, "Oh," I said... He said, "You haven't got bit of insurance." I said, "Oh, yes." "Oh," he said, "excuse me, Billy, I didn't know that you had insurance." I said, "Yeah." Said, "What kind of insurance you got?" I said, "Blessed assurance, Jesus is mine, oh, what a foretaste..." And so he stopped and looked a little bit, you know, and he standing among some people. He said, "But Billy, that won't that won't put you in the graveyard up here." I said, "I know it, but it'll get me out. I'm not worried about getting in there."...?... We're not worried about getting in there; it's getting out, isn't that right? So, the Holy Spirit is God's insurance Agent here this afternoon, giving policies out to whosoever will receive them, you can have one. If you're not saved and know not the grace of our Lord Jesus, accept Him today. "He that heareth My words and believeth on Him that sent Me, has passed from death unto Life, and not come into condemnation." Oh, I think that's marvelous, don't you? [Microphone makes loud noise.--Ed.] That thing's really loud, isn't it?
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All right, now we want to read some of the Scripture, because I do not think that any service is complete without the reading of the Scripture. How many here's away from home, let's see your hands, away from home? Oh, my, looky there. That's... There's no place like it, is there? No place like home, be it ever so humble. And I want to talk about home this afternoon, a home that I had and have, and a home that we're going to. Home was instituted by God in the garden of Eden. And now, for this we're going to read the Scripture out of Hebrews 13, beginning with the 10th verse: We have an altar, whereof they have no right to eat which serve... tabernacle. For the blood--bodies of those beasts, whose blood is brought into the sanctuary by the high priest for sin, are burned 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.
Can we bow our heads just a moment now? Blessed Saviour, Thou will guide us till we reach that blessful shore, where the Angels wait to join us, in His praise forever more. That's the words of the poet. And we love Thee today, Lord. And we realize that men that ever amounted to anything on earth, were men who trusted You. You thrilled the hearts of the poet, spoke to Your Church, made the weary to be happy, the lost saved, the sick to be well, those without hope are given a hope, and given us such a great a promise that there's a... This is just the negative, the shadow, and someday that death shall develop the picture from the negative to the positive. And when we go through that terrible acid of death, then we'll know as we're known and see face to face. And while we're here, Lord, today, preparing ourselves by singing psalms, and testifying, and reading Thy Word, we pray that You'll meet with us. And grant today, that if there be any here who does not know Thee, that they will become Thy servant today. And we pray that You'll just bless us together, and may the Holy Spirit now, just get a hold of every heart. And dear God, as I fear the moment to go back down through that long, bloody, tear-stained journey that I traveled, and review that over in my heart again, my heart is troubled. But then when I think of it, I think of the song, 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. Now, Lord, help us today, and may the Holy Spirit be here and bless us in this gathering. For we ask it in the Name of Thy Beloved Child, Jesus. Amen.
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Now, I want to speak about my, part of my life. Probably Brother Baxter has referred to you many times, and in my book about how the Angel of the Lord came to me and how that He led me through life. But I want to approach it on the other side this afternoon, from the--the side of just a human life. My father was a very uneducated person, and he probably wouldn't have knowed his name if it was wrote before him, no education, none
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whatever. We were raised in the mountains of Kentucky. My mother, her father was a school teacher, and she got a fairly good education. But if there's anybody here from down that part of Kentucky, and around in Burkesville, and where I come from, well, down there when the creeks got up, school ended. And the most of the children got their education in the corn field with the gooseneck hoe cutting out freebers and weeds. And we had a very hard time, raised very poor.
And the little cabin I was borned in had two rooms in it. I taken a picture of it recently to put in my book back there, little log cabin. My father left Kentucky in his early days, at about twenty years old, I suppose; I was about three years old. And he moved to Indiana. We lived up on the Utica pike, just above Jeffersonville, going northeast of Jeffersonville. I had my schooling there on the Utica Pike School, the old ground stands today. The tree's still around, I can't hardly pass the place without breaking down in my heart, to think of the boyhood days. And there's no days like that. My daddy's gone; he laid on my arm. As his locks dropped over my arms, he looked up at me, and smiled and closed those blue eyes, and went out to meet God, years ago. My mother, as far as I know, today is a living. She's getting aged now; each time when I start to leave, I see the poor old thing; she'll start crying and quivering. She said, "Someday you're going to return, Billy, and mother won't be here." I said, "But mother, just wait at the gate; it won't be long; I'll be coming along too."
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And she's always kind of worried about me flying on planes; she doesn't like for me to go on planes too much. But let's all of us today, most all of you have a boyhood or--or childhood, rather, experience. Let's all of us just drop back down home a little while. Wouldn't you like to go back to the old days? Oh, my, I would just give anything. Today, if I had a million dollars, and if I had it, it'd sure go in the Lord's work, right away, just as quick as I could get it. I'd build that Tabernacle and things we was talking about and what all I had, was talking. And put every cent to the Lord's work. But if I had it today, and it was to be mine to enjoy the pleasures of this life, why, if I could lay it down and once more see my old dad come walking down that aisle, and just walk up there and say, "Good evening, son," and
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disappear, I'd give every penny of it to see him. And I just... You'd do the same thing for some of your parents that's gone on. But those days are gone.
And young people here, you don't know what a good friend you got in your mother and dad until they're gone. When they're gone, then you really know who they were. And I heard many, the children these days say, "The old man and old woman." Oh, my, don't never do that. You--you don't realize who that is. They know what's best, and you don't. When I seen him when he was laying in his casket, and I seen it begin tinting gray a little around the edge at fifty-two years old, I thought, "Many a worried about me had put those gray hairs there." And how I wish I could brush them back, but it's too late then. So don't do nothing now that you would regret in the future. If you only looked for today, you'd be a miserable person; look to the end out there, and then live for that, out to the end.
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When we were little children, we lived up on the hill in a place where we had a little old, kind of a huge looking affair, half clapboard and half weatherboard, rather, and half log, the house was. But it was so strong, logs and weatherboard been put over it. I thought that house never would go away from there. Or it'll be there forever. But here we have no continuing city, but we seek one to come. When I entered Toledo and went down some of your streets here where your lovely homes are, back over this way on... The other day I was riding and stopped my old truck, and it's about half back, or I wouldn't say backslid, it's got a hundred and fifty thousand miles on it. It's just wore out; it's not backslid. So I went down some of those creeks there and how beautiful it looked. And I thought, "The lovely homes and the people just looked like lived in a paradise." And this is a lovely city, right here near the lake. Would like to live here myself. But friends, there'll be a time when there won't be any more Toledo here. That's right. One of these days an atomic bomb will strike this place; there won't be anything left of it. Now, you know that's right, we're living on up in that age now. And it's later than you think. That's right.
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And here not long ago when I heard that expression, I was thinking of when those people there in Belgium and around, returned back from the war. And it was... They had out there at nighttime, lanterns, little children run along packing the lanterns. And around on the Russian borders they were pulling at the harrows and things, scratching the ground; they couldn't disk it up. And just scratching it enough to get it stirred up to get the grain in before the snow fell. For if they didn't get that grain in before the snow fell, there would be no harvest next year and there would be... Ever--everybody would starve. And they worked day and night, just scratching the ground to get the grain in. And my minister brothers, I wonder if that ain't true in the spiritual sense today; we'd better be going day and night to get this Grain sowed in the heart. It's later than we think. The harvest is coming. Let's be day and night after it.
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And now, all of us, going, as I said, a little trip back home this afternoon... I remember the little old place where we was at; there was a bunch of apple trees stood around outside, and--and we used to come in there. Pop would... We call him papa, and so he--he'd... I thought he never would die because he was such a strong little fellow; he was a logger. He had big strong muscles and used to roll his sleeves up to wash out under the old apple tree. Did you ever have a wash pan set on a little bench under an apple tree? There was an old cracked piece of glass laying there, you know, to wash, and the soap laid up on one of the limbs...?... everybody laughing. You must've had... I'm not the only country boy.
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How many ever slept on a straw tick, let's see your hand? Well, my, I going to take off my coat; I'm at home. A straw tick, why, that's wonderful, my, shuck pillow? My, that's right. Well, that's just as America as hickory smoked ham and sorghum molasses, isn't it? I tell you, marvelous. Well, we had the old... I never will forget one night when we just filled the ticks up new after thrashing, you know, the thrasher came through, and one of the big old steam roller affairs. And I got scared, there was something in bed with me. Come to find out, mother said the tick had got a grasshopper in there. He jumped on me, and I thought something done had me, a grasshopper in a new straw that we put in the tick. And, but there's no days like them new days, is
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And I remember the--dad fixing the table, he put a board, a bench behind, built a bench where all this bunch of little Irish would run over under the table, and get to their place, wash their face, comb their hair just a slick as it could be, you know, your little old face like, slick as a peeled onion. And set up behind this table there. And we'd have pot dinner where'd they cook everything, mulligan stew. How many knows what mulligan stew is? Oh, my, that's when you boil everything, even the dishrag, I believe, and put it together and--and pour it out in the plate, you know, as you go around. Did you ever eat corn bread baked in a pan? Oh, my. Isn't that fine? Just right at home now. You don't mind me saying, "hit and hain't and carry and fetch," and all them country words then, do you? And so just right at home. And...?... Mom used to cut it in half and--and the pone, you know, and lay it on the--on the plate, and I'd set next to dad, and every fellow broke his own piece as it passed by. And I'd always get the corner, 'cause it had a lot of crust on it, and I liked that with my beans soup. You know, you know, a big bowl of bean soup and a piece of onion about like that, and corn bread, and a big glass of buttermilk out of the spring, wouldn't that be fine this afternoon? Umm um, my. That would just be fine. We used to go down to the spring down there and get that old cold buttermilk, you know, where the water tumbled over the--the old can. That was wonderful.
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And now I remember when dinner time would come and all of us gathered with our dad at the table, and he... Wonderful to live in those days. I'd like to set down there again this afternoon for awhile. And but as days pass on by, and I... We used to go to town on Saturday night. Remember when we used to go get our groceries on Saturday night, everybody? We had a old Jersey wagon, and pop would put some straw back in there and all of us kiddies would get back there, and he and Mother would set up front. We drove a little old mule; we'd go about seven miles down to the city. And pop made, I believe it was seventy-five cents a day, and he would buy all the groceries and things to last us through the week. And when he'd pay the grocery bill, Mr. Grower, the grocery man, why, he'd give us a little sack of candy, and, stick candy, old peppermint. And oh, it was good. And so...
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The thing of it was, there's about eight of them little Branhams, and maybe he give about six sticks of it, you know. So there's just about eight pair of little Irish eyes watching that candy to be broke just equally among each one. We'd set out there, you know, it'd be cold weather. We cover up in quilts; we get that candy, and all the boys would go to eating their candy. And I kinda played a little trick on them; now don't you boys try this, 'cause it might not work. So, I'd take my candy and act like I was eating it, and then get a piece of the paper sack off of the--something, you know, and wrap it up, put it in my pocket. I'd wait until Monday. And mother would say, "William." I'd say, "Yes, ma'am." Say, "Go to the spring and get a bucket of water." Big old cedar bucket and a gourd dipper, you know, and I'd have to go down to the spring; that thing was heavy. And I'd say, "Edward," I called him Humpy, was his nickname, brother next to me. I'd say, "Tell you what I'll do; I'll let you lick on this stick of candy till I count ten if you'll go get that bucket of water for me." Ha-ha-ha. Very few chores I had to do on Monday, so as long as that candy lasted. I was a businessman. Ha-ha-ha. Lick on that candy, and I'd, oh, I'd count, I'd say, "One, two, three..." "Not so fast." I'd say, "Two, three." "Now, you're counting too fast." Start over again, and he'd get a couple of extra licks, you know, and so, then he'd keep that candy there, wrap it back up till I had something else to do, you know. Had it easy then on Monday; I was a man of leisure. My, to go back to those days again. That was good candy. You know, maybe tomorrow I could go out and get a box of Hershey's, but it wouldn't taste just like that did, you know, that was really good.
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Did you ever eat it with salted crackers, them old barrel crackers, big ones, did you ever eat that and peppermint candy? Did you ever eat brown sugar with it? I tell you, the second thing I ever stole in my life, and the only thing that I know of, was a handful of brown sugar from my daddy. They had some brown sugar in a box, and made molasses for breakfast. Did you ever eat brown sugar molasses? Oh, my. So, I'm going home with somebody for dinner
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after while. I went in, my brother said to me, said, "If you'll go get the sugar, I'll get the cracker." I said, "All right." Mother and Dad was hoeing in the garden. And I went in and got a big handful, enough for both of us. I was walking out with that; you can't even look straight when you're telling a lie, you know. So I walking along like that, down along the garden, only way I had to get out. And dad turned around, said, "Where you going, William?" I said, "Sir?" He said, "Where you going?" I said, "I'm--I'm going down at the barn." And uh, he said, "What you got in your hand?" And I thought, "Oh, oh." I changed; I said, "Which hand?" You know. Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha. "Come here." Oh, my, ha-ha-ha. I didn't want no more sugar for a long time. Ha-ha-ha. Sure tasted good though. I'm talking about the sugar yet. Ha-ha-ha. When my father gave us a whipping, he had a razor strap made out of a piece of belt leather. Oh, my. I'd... He had up over the door, the golden rule, and it had all Ten Commandments on it; it was out of hickory. A limb about that long, you know, with them ten branches out on it. We got our education out in the woodshed, just running around daddy as hard as we could go, like that. [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] More dad's like that would be better off. Amen. That's right. Instead of pleasing your child and giving him fifty cents to go to the picture show on Sunday afternoon. That's it.
Come into a place not long ago, was going to pray for a sick person. Little boy come in, and a little Mary, you know, stomping her foot, she said, "I'm not going to eat this." Said, "Well, mother..." And the little boy said, "I don't know what to do with this orange." And he grabbed it and threw it against the... Said, "All right, son." Oh, my, ha-ha-ha. He ought to have been the son of Charles Branham. Ha-ha-ha. He wouldn't be able to eat an orange for a week or two. He would've cured him; he'd take ram rod right out of the old musket, as he used to call it, "Beat the devil out of us." So I guess maybe that's what it was. We thought it went out anyhow when... But he was... I love him, he never--he never give me a whipping I didn't deserve, and I love him today. That's right. Wished I could set down and talk to him. I hope to someday. I believe when we get over
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there we'll know each other, don't you? I believe I'll know you just as you--I know you now, only we'll be immortal, and we'll know each other.
Why? They knowed Elijah and Moses. And--and Peter, James, and John recognized them. And we recognize Jesus after He returned back to His glorified body. The Bible said, "It does not yet appear what we shall be," but we'll have a body like His, for we shall see Him as He is. So we will have one like that. And He was eating and so forth. Now, I just believe heaven's a real, real place that we're going. Amen. Now, I remember when I started into school. Not long ago I stood by the old place where the schoolhouse was and looked at it, and oh, I looked like my heart would break. I remember when we used to go down there at school, and--and we didn't hardly have any clothes to wear, poor little old kiddies. Dad was a strictly an Irishman; every penny it didn't take to pay the grocery bill, he drank with the rest of it. We went to school without clothes. I remember all one winter. Now, it's no disgrace to be poor, but I didn't even have a coat to put on--or shirt to put on. And I had a coat that Mrs. Wathen, a rich woman, had give me, had a little eagle on the arm, and I kept it pinned up like this and I went every day to school. And we'd have to borrow a piece of paper, didn't have no books to study out of; no wonder I'm ignorant. And didn't have, or illiterate, rather, so I did... No paper, no books, or nothing. And they didn't have it like you do now, where the--the community furnishes it, or the school. And we were...
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I remember, that year I--I wanted to study, but I--I just didn't have the opportunity: the books and things to study with. I remember it come spring of the year; I'd been all winter without a shirt. And it got kinda warm weather there, and 'fore school let out, and teacher said to me one day, she said, "William, aren't you warm with that coat on?" Said, "Take that coat off." I couldn't take that coat off; I didn't have any shirt, and it was just the skin. So I was, I said, "No, ma'am, I'm just a little bit chilly." She said, "You're chilly on a day like this?" I said, "Yes, ma'am." Said, "You better come over here and set at the fire." My, that big old stove, and she fired that thing up, and the
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perspiration just running off my face. She said, "Are you still cool, are you still chilly?" I said, "Yes, ma'am." She said, "You better go home; you're sick." I wasn't sick, but I didn't have any shirt on; and I couldn't take that coat off.
So I wondered how I was going to get to go back to school; I waited a couple of days. My father's sister that lives across the hill there a piece from us, so we... They used to come over; he had a gi... They had a girl about my age; she'd left her dress there. So I figured out one day that I could get a shirt out of that. So I cut the bottom part of it off here, and I--I took the other part and just stuffed it down in my trousers, and I went to school with it. Its little sleeves up like this, you know, and, so it had all that there... What is it you call that stuff that runs around on it like that? Oh, yes, rickrack. I had all that kind of stuff all over it like that, you know. And so I--I, they said, "That's a girl's dress." And I said, "That's my Indian suit." Ha-ha-ha. Indian suit, it was that rick-rack all over her dress, you know. And kids would laugh at me.
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And I remember, that winter at school all the kiddies... It was 1917; there was a big snow in Indiana, I guess you got it over here in Ohio too, any of you can remember back that far. So there was a... Sleeted, and sometimes the drifts would be seventeen, eighteen feet deep. And so, the most of the children had sleds, and they could sleigh ride. And brother and I didn't have any sled. So we got us an old dishpan out of the dump. And we'd get in that dishpan. It was all sleet on top, you know, and I--we'd sit down and wrap our legs around one another and down the hill we'd go, just. Now, we wasn't as much class as the rest of them, but we was sliding just the same. So we... That--that did all right till the bottom come out of the pan. So we had to hunt another sled. So we got a log, and we chopped it off a little ways. So we had to chop, bring our wood from the river, and out of the woods to burn. Each evening when we get home from school, have to saw wood till plumb dark. Then remember we got the old log, and we were going down along the--a sliding on the ice. And there's a boy went to school there.
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If I'm not mistaken some of the folks from the Tabernacle is in here the afternoon, from my church, I heard they were. It was Lloyd Ford, is who it was, to you that... And I'm sure Brother Ryan knows who Lloyd Ford is; I just seen him here awhile ago, I guess. I was talking to him the other day, and tell him about that. It was during the time of that First World War, and everything that's big enough to put a uniform on, had a uniform. And oh, I wanted to be a soldier so bad. And when I got old enough then to be in the army, they wouldn't take me. So, after all I got to join the army and put on a uniform. You might not see it. It's not on the outside; it's on the inside, that meant a Christian rank. God give me the Holy Ghost, and I'm in the war today, in the battle against right and wrong, and I--I'm for the right. And I feel my uniform whether you see it or not.
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Now, this boy, I said, "When you..." He had a Boy Scout suit, and he sold this "Pathfinder Magazine." I said, "When you wear that out would you give it to me?" And he said, "Sure." Well, I never seen a suit last so long. But after while, after he... Finally I missed him wearing it for a long time; I said, "Lloyd, what about that suit?" He said, "Why, I'll ask my mother." And so he said, "No." Said, "She taken the coat and made a pallet out of it, and the trousers, she patched some of dad's trousers with it," and said, "I haven't got a thing left but one legging." I said, "Bring me that." So I got this one legging, a little draw string on the side. Well, I wanted to wear that legging to school so bad, and I--I didn't know how I was going to do it. So I put it in my coat one day, and when I was riding on this log going down the hill, I act like I hurt my leg, and I said, "Oh, my." I said, "I hurt my leg so bad." I said, "It just remind me; I got one of my scout leggings in here." I--I pulled that legging up, and oh, I thought I was something then.
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And I remember we went up to the old blackboard. Did you ever go to country school? How many went to country school where they had eight grades...?... And I stood by the blackboard like this, to work the problem, you know. And I had that legging on that side, and I stood like this and worked sideways, like this. See everybody look at that one legging. All the kids got to laughing at me, and I got to
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crying; teacher made me go home. Ha-ha. Oh, it was a hard struggle back there. I remember one day around Christmas, Mama popped some corn. That was really a rarity. We couldn't, brother and I couldn't take our lunch like other kiddies; their mothers would bake that old oven bread, and oh, my, it was dandy. But we... They had sandwiches, make sandwiches. Or what we had, we had a little molasses bucket about this high, and on one side would be a little jar full of greens, maybe the other side, a little jar full of beans, a piece of bread, of each sticking between it, and a spoon. We were ashamed to eat before the other children, because they could have sandwiches, and cakes, and cookies, and things. And we'd go over the hill from the school and set down there. And we set these little jars between us. And God bless his heart, he's in glory today. But we would set and eat one with another, like that.
And I remember Mama popped some corn to go on a Christmas tree. We'd get an old cedar tree and wrap popcorn around it. She had enough left, till she give us little bucket, little extra bucket full of popcorn. We took it to school that day. And I begin to wonder just how good that would taste about ten o'clock. So I raised up my hand, and the teacher asked me, and I said, "May I be excused?" She said, "Yes." And as I went out through the cloak room, I took the lid off and got a great big handful of that corn. I went out and stood back behind the old chimney, and I eat that popcorn, my, it was good. When--when it's dinner time, why, I knew he was going to miss that. So, we got over on the hillside and set down. We want to eat the popcorn first, you know how kids would be. So we opened it up and about half of it was gone, that handful I got. My brother said, "Say, something happened to that, didn't it?" I said, "Sure did."
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Not long ago when I was coming from Texas in a revival, one of the meetings. I remember, we got away from the house, and some people, and there. As soon as we could get free, we went riding up the road, and I had the baby, my wife. We stopped by the old schoolhouse, and they were picking violets, my wife and baby. And I wanted a drink from that old pump again. I was drinking, and I will tell you, this country may have beautiful scenery from Florida and
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Arizona, but we've got the water around here, haven't we? Yes sir, there's no better water in the world than what we have right here in central part of America, that limestone quarry. Drinking, I was drinking that water; I leaned against the fence like this, I looked up across where the old schoolhouse used to stand; it was gone. And I remember in time of the war when all of us kiddies would stand there, and her... What socks we have on, maybe be down, our toes sticking out of our shoes like turtle heads, and our hands on one another, shoulders like that, and the teacher with that big stick, you know, lining us up, you know, tramping like that, going in.
I begin to come down the line; I thought, "Yes, Ralph Fields, he's in eternity. I called three or four more of the boys, "William Hensel, in eternity." I thought, "Who stood next to him? I did. I thought... Who, say... Who was next to me? Edward, in eternity. I look right behind me, and seen Bill Ault: eternity. Behind that, Howard Higgins, in eternity..." My, I looked up across the hill where the old home place used to stand, and there was a housing project; the home was gone. The old place wasn't like it used to be; the old spring was stopped up, the fields had become people's lawns, just in a little twenty, something years. There I begin to cry, I thought--I said, "Oh God, here we have no continuing city." When I thought, "Dad, how I used to see him come across the field, his black hair wavy, and coming across the field; he'd meet mother out at the gate and all of us kiddies, and take us up in his arms and walk into the house." But he's past; it's already fallen in. "Here we have no continuing city, but we seek one to come, whose Builder and Maker is God."
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I stood there, and I--I got to crying. I thought about the day that I took the handful of popcorn away from my brother down there. I just... First time I was ever... When I got in need I'd even eat a heel; that's the truth. I'm not just saying that, but that's the truth. I'd always... Somebody would buy me a sandwich or something, I wished I could buy it back, and I couldn't do it. And I'd had a few meetings; I'd have an offering or two. And I'd say, "Oh, God, how I wish You could lift me up here and let me take that handful of popcorn up to him today. I'd give anything, Lord, anything, if You'd let me give him that handful of popcorn." He died at nineteen years old, when I was out west working on a cattle ranch, and he died calling for me. And they could hear him from the hospital plumb into the streets, saying, "Let me see my brother Bill once more before I
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go. Tell him to be a good boy." There he was gone, and I had that stain on me of taking that handful of popcorn from my brother. I think of his grave, when we buried him, oh, we were real brothers. I remember I got one of Mama's blankets when it come the first snow; I went up there and throwed it over his grave, for I thought he'd be cold. That's before I was a Christian. But now I realize he's not there; he's gone on.
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How I begin--I begin to crying, my wife, little girl heard me, and they come over there and said, "Bill, now I thought you come home to rest." And they got me and put the baby up on my shoulder, and I looked back at the old place, and I said,
Precious memories, how they linger, How they ever flood my soul; In the stillness of the midnight, Precious, sacred scenes unfold.
I looked there, went around, we got in the car and drove on. When I was a lad I was more or less a bashful. There's many of those things I'll just let go. I was more or less bashful, and you might think this strange, but I really didn't like ladies. I haven't... Didn't like the girls at all. Because, my father, they'd go down on the river where they drink and everything, and I'd see women come up there, married women, their husbands not with them, and see how untrue they could act. I said, "If that's the way they are, I never want nothing to do with any of them." And I made my mind, that I wasn't going to never be married, never have anything to do with women, I was going to be a trapper. I love hunting and trapping.
And I guess you wonder how I ever got married. But I remember the first date I ever had, after I got to be about seventeen, eighteen years old. As all boys you know, you meet that first sweetheart, you know, eyes like a dove, and teeth like pearls, neck like a swan, and you know how it is: prettiest thing you ever seen in your life. And I--I met one. So I thought she was so pretty, my. And so the boy that lived pretty close to me, he said, "Tell you what..." He had a girlfriend too, and he said, "We'll get them together." They was in school, you know. Said, "We'll get them together, and I'll get dad's old Ford." And we had to jack the back end of it up, and put a little gasoline and crank it, you remember how you use... So we got enough to buy two gallons of gas. And we could ride a long time on that. So we got our girlfriends and was going to take them a riding. And I never will forget that night we went out. And I stopped at a
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little place to get some sandwiches and some Cokes. And so, I remember when I went in and got the sandwiches and we came out, and we drank the Coke and ate the sandwiches. I was taking the bottles back. And that was just when the girls first begin to be smart alecks, start smoking and things. When I come back out, to my surprise, my little queen was setting there smoking a cigarette.
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Well, I've always had my opinion of a cigarette smoking woman, and I never have changed it. It's the lowest thing she can do. That's right. Now, I'm not here to preach the Gospel to you; these men do that. But let me tell you something, sister: That's the worse fifth columnist that America's got. Doctors' statistics prove that eighty percent of the children if they're breast raised children, die when they're eighteen months age with nicotine poison. That's statistics, I get that from the government. And it's the nicotine...?... And here not long ago, few hours ago when I was eating my breakfast, I set in one of the little luncheon places here, and there set a lady there, fifty years old, with enough manicure on her face to... or ever what you call that stuff that, and all over her face, it would've painted a barn. And she was setting in there, and she had her cigarette in her hand going [Brother Branham illustrates.--Ed.] I--I felt sorry for the woman, so degraded and polluted.
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Well, listen brother, don't you fear about Russia coming over here and whipping us. We're whipping ourselves. That's right. Our own morals are degrading us. It isn't the robin that pecks on the apple that hurts the apple; it's the worm at the core that kills the apple. That's--that's where it's at now. Termites, they're eating our nation's foundation out. Now, don't get up and go out. Listen, I tell you. If you do, women, if you do use those things, for Jesus' sake, don't no more. Let this be the day and cease from right now on. For if the Angel of God, Whose servant I am, if you're not thought any more by doing it, when you get to the gates of heaven than what it's revealed to me by Him, you'll certainly stand on the outside. Now, remember that. You accept me as God's prophet, you keep away from such things as that, if you expect to go into the gates of glory. That's right.
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I know when He met me when I was a little boy, the first thing He said to me, "Don't you never drink, smoke, or defile your body in any way; there'll be a work for you to do when you get older." Now, when the Angel met me in the bush down there, as you know of... There that little thing was setting there, pretty little lady, smoking that cigarette. And I... She said, "Have a cigarette, Billy." I said, "No, ma'am, I don't smoke."
And she said, "Now, you said you didn't dance." They want to go to a place to dance. I said, "No." Said, "You don't dance; you don't drink; you don't smoke," said, "what do you like to do?" I said, "I like to hunt and fish..." [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]
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I just got up, and went up over the hill, and set down up there in a field that night, the moon shining down; I said, "I can't have friends; I'm a black sheep among the boys, and Lord, somebody, let-let me die. I don't want to live like this. I'm a--a prisoner and I don't know what to do." But what I see now, is all in God's great program. I might've lost a lot of friends then, but He's giving it back ten thousand times more today, by doing that what was right, to holding on to Him. And I said, "Oh, I don't know. I just might as well try to end life." And a little later on, I remember then, I went on, thought, "Well, I'll stick it out." Time passed; many things happened.
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When I got married... I met this girl. I'm so happy, my boy setting present this afternoon to know this about his mother. She was a lady, every ounce of it. She was a Christian girl. And I met her, and she was very nice. And I started going with her. And she neither smoked, drank, danced, or went to places like that. So, only thing we would do, we would go riding at night, and we had to be in at a certain time, nine o'clock. And I'd come back; she's very lady, nice parents. So I thought how nice she was, but her father was a organizer on the Pennsylvania Railroad, making about five hundred and something dollars a month, during the time of the depression. I made twenty cents an hour digging ditches. What's something to take a girl like that? But she was very lovely. Her grave today has some flowers that I just planted on it. She lies beneath there, her body. Her soul's in glory with my baby. I love her yet today with all my heart. And she's... What a lovely person.
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And she came into my life. And I knew it got to a place where I had to either say, "Now, you must..." I must marry her, or I must let her alone, let her somebody. A girl like that, a lady will certainly find somebody that'll be good to her, and I didn't make enough money to take care of her." So I said, "Well, the only thing I got to do: I've got to tell her good-bye and let some other boy that can take care of her..." I loved her enough, even though I had to sacrifice being with her, let somebody take a hold, take her that would take care of her and make her a good living.
So I tried to make up my mind, and I said, "Well, I... Maybe I can. Maybe I could make a living for her." I said, "It's so hard to do, to ask her that." So finally I thought, "How will I ask her?" And I guess you wonder how I did. I... For about a month I tried to get up enough nerve to do it. I don't know whether you brethren have that much trouble or not, but I--I had an awful time. And I'd look at her, and I thought she was pretty, and she was a good girl. And why do... I thought, "Oh couldn't we be happy together. We might not have very much, but we could be happy." And so I thought, "How will I do it?"
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So I'd try to ask her, you know, and I--I... You know how you feel, that real funny feeling, you know, and I'd just... It'd choke me up, and I couldn't do it. So you know how I--how I asked her to marry me? I wrote her a letter and asked if she'd marry me. And so I... Now, it wasn't Dear Miss, it was just a little more, what do you call that, mushy, than that, you know? And I asked her if she'd marry me. And I wrote it all out one night, you know, and I put it in a letter; and the next day I was going to work, so I dropped it in the box. And I know I was going to take her to church Sunday night, or Wednesday night.
And so, when Wednesday night begin to come I begin to get nervous, because I forgot and put it in the box and thought, "What if her mother got a hold of it?" Now, her mother's a fine woman, and she may be here this afternoon. And I'm not saying this for any harm, but her dad was just a real good; he's a real German, Brumbach. And her--her mother was Scot, and so I could get along with Charlie all right, her dad. But her mother and I just--we didn't see things the way we ought to. She was kindly, you know, kinda little classical, and I was just one of these here plow boys. So I thought, "Well now, maybe what if her mother got a hold of that, oh, my. I'll get something when I go up there." So come Wednesday I was so nervous I couldn't hardly go up. I had an old backslidden Ford, and it really was backslidden, that one was. And I could almost make forty miles an hour in it. That was twenty miles this way and twenty miles up-and-down this way, you know.
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So--so I remember, it was that Ford that I visit Brother John Ryan for the first time in Dowagiac, Michigan; you remember this story, Brother Ryan. So I remember, I thought, "Oh, my." I believe this is the first time Brother Ryan ever set present when I was telling my life story, far as I know of. This is going to include him in a few moments. And then I remember at the... I thought, "Well now, what will I do if
her mother got a hold of that; there's going to be some trouble." So when it come Wednesday night I drove up out front; I knowed better than to blow the horn, for I think this boys, if the girl is worth going with, is worth going in and get her (that's right.), not set out front and blow the horn. So I went up to the door and I knocked on the door, and she come to the door, and she opened the door; she said, "Why, good evening, Billy," she said, "come in." I thought, "Oh, oh, going to get me in there now, and shut the door, and then I would be in an awful fix, getting me in the house." I thought... I said, "Thank you, Hope," I said, "may I set out here on the porch?" Said, "Oh, no, come on in." I thought, "Oh, me." So I walked in, and held my hat in my hand, I said, "You about ready to go to church?" She said, "Just in a few moments." She said, "Mother, would you talk," oh, "to Bill while I finish in there?" Oh, my, she come, Mrs. Brumbach, come in and set down. And oh, talk about perspiring. I said, "Sure fine weather." "Yes, it is, Billy." Set there a little bit; I thought that girl never would get ready. And so, after while she come out; she said, "It's such a lovely evening, let's walk down to the church." I thought, "Oh, oh. There's goes the time." I thought, "I'd better look real good, because this is the last time I get to be with you. So, I know that. I done had it... You know how Satan will lie to you. He will have you believing anything." I thought "This is all; she's going to tell me the finish." So I went down and I never did hear what that preacher said that night. I was setting looking at her; I just thinking about how pretty she was, and how nice she was, and how I hoped she would get somebody would be good to her. And I--I looked at her, and I thought, "My." And Brother Davis is up preaching, you know, and I never heard what he said. He dismissed, and went outside; I thought, "Now's when I get it."
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We started walking home, moonlight night, you know, we'd walk under those shades of the trees, you know, when you come out she come out she had real dark brown eyes, when she'd look around, I could just... You know how you feel, that funny feeling. Now, you all did the same thing...?... that's right. I just admit mine. Ha-ha-ha. Now, isn't that right? Sure, raise up your hand. Now, that's better. Yes, sir. That feeling you know, and I thought, "Oh, my," why, I thought after we got close to home, I thought maybe she forgot it, never got the letter, you know. And I thought it got stuck in the mailbox. I got pretty game then; I was talking pretty lively going down the street.
And I just talk about next Sunday night again, you know, come walking down the street. Why, I was feeling fine. And just about the time we got about a city block from the home, she said, "Billy." And I said, "Yes?" She said, "I got your letter." Oh, my, There it went again. I said, "Uh, uh, You did?" She said, "Uh-huh."
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Well, I kept on walking; nobody said nothing. And I thought, "Woman, say something." You know how a woman can keep you in suspense like that, you know. Well, I thought, "Surely, a man ought to say amen then." Be a brave man. Ha-ha-ha. So then she said... just... I thought, "What will I do?" And she wouldn't say a word. And I thought, "Well, I've got to say something, 'cause we're just a few doors--doors from her house." And I said, "Did you read it?" She said, "Uh-huh." That's all she said. I thought, "Oh, say something, and tell me; I--I can't come back or run me away, or do something, 'cause I'm--I'm under a big strain here." I said, "Did you read all of it?" She said, "Uh-huh." I said, "What'd you think of it?" She said, "It was all right," and we got married." Ha-ha-ha. That's the way it happened. Married over here at Fort Wayne, Indiana.
And so we got married. And I--I never will forget when she told me then I had to ask her parents for her, said that was just... Oh, my, here it all... I thought I got by good there, but here that was before me. And I said, "Look, Hope," I--I said, "You know I believe we're supposed to be fifty-fifty." See? I said, "I'm supposed to be... We're going fifty-fifty on these things," I said, "let's just start it right now, what do you say?" She said, "What do you mean?" I said, "You being the girl, I believe it'd be best for you to ask your mother, and me being the boy, I'd ask your dad." She said, "Very well." I said, "Yeah. Well, you let me ask your dad first, will you?" If I get his promise, you know, first... She said, "Well, you ask him tonight."
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Well, I just couldn't do it that night after going through all that. So then I waited, next time I went up we were, went back. I set back there on the porch with her awhile, and we come in, her daddy was setting typing. And we walked in the house, and she said, "You'd better ask dad tonight 'cause we got to make ready." And I said, "Yes, that's--that's right."
So, I went in, and he was setting there typing, and I talked to her mother a little bit, you know, and looked around. I started out, and she looked at me; and I said... I motioned to her; I hadn't forgot it. So I said, "Mr. Brumbach?" Said, "Yes, Bill." I said, "Could--could I talk to you a little bit?" He said, "Yes, go ahead." And he turned around. I said, "I--I mean out on the porch. I seen him look around to Mrs. Brumbach. I thought, "Oh, oh, here it is." So I walked out to the porch, and he walked out there. I said... I just couldn't say it; I just couldn't get them wor--I'd just get real weak every time I go try to say something, you know. I said, "Sure is a pretty night, isn't it Charlie?" He said, "Yes, it is, Bill." Set there a little while. I said, "Been awful warm." He said, "Yes," said, "you can have her, Bill." Ha-ha-ha. Why, I love him today. I said, "You mean it?" He said, "Yeah, I do." Oh, my, I wanted to hug him right then. Said, "You can have her."
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I said, "Look, Charlie," I said, "I know you give her a good home." I said, "You can get her anything she wants; I can't." I said, "I'm only making a small wage." But I said, "Charlie, she couldn't find anybody that thinks any more of her." And I said, "I'll work as long as there's breath in my body to work, and make her a living. And I'll do everything that I can to make her a living." I never will forget; he's gone on too now. But he laid his hand over on my shoulder, and he said, "Bill, I'd rather you'd have her, and I know you love her, and I know she loves you. I rather you'd have her, then somebody maybe had plenty and wouldn't be good to her." Said, "After all, life doesn't consist of how much the world's goods you own, but how contented you are with the portion that's 'lotted to you." That's right, too...?... I said, "Thank you, Charlie. I'll do all that I can."
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Well, we got married; we moved into a little--a little two room place that we rented. I never will forget what we went housekeeping on. Many of you remember the depression, don't you? Oh, my. [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] About two dollars, is what the stove cost me. I went down to Sears and Roebucks and got a breakfast set that hadn't been painted, and I painted it. And I put big shamrocks all over it. I was...?... She's German and me Irish, you know, so I said, "We'll make that, paint it red with big green shamrocks on it, just... we just... We were so happy. We didn't have much of the world's goods, but we were happy. It was home.
I remember the first time that I went then... We were real happy, she was working at a shirt factory, and we were trying to get enough money together to get us some furniture. And we'd been married, oh, several months. After about a year, little Billy Paul come on the scene. Oh, she almost died. And how I walked up-and-down the floors when the little fellow was being borned. And just as soon as he was born, I heard him cry, and I screamed; I said, "Thank You, Lord, it's a boy, and his name shall be called Billy Paul." [Blank.spot.on.tape-Ed.] LIFE.STORY_ TOLEDO.OH SUNDAY_ 51-0722A
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Doctor came out in a few minutes, said, "Well, reverend, I'll charge you for this linoleum you wore out all up-and-down here," he said, "but you got a boy." I said, "Yes, his name's Billy Paul." And I become acquainted with Brother Ryan during that time; I met him at a service one day, and heard him testify in Louisville. So, he invited me, and that's when he come to my house, and he set there one day. Now, Pentecost was a strange thing to me, and how many times he tried to tell me about it. And he was--he was setting there, and he just raised up; he threw up his hand and begin to speak with an unknown tongue. And he stopped, looked at me right straight, walked to me, laid his hand over on my shoulder, and said, "Brother Billy, you're just a lad now; there's a lot of youth to you yet. But someday that's going settle down, and Almighty God is going to use you to stir the nations." He walked out.
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There's the man setting there now that did it. I love the old fellow. And he went away, went to his home, and I'd visit his home. I remember we saved our money; I never will forget how much money I had; it's six or seven dollars to make the trip, that we saved. I was tired; I'd been, as a minister and was preaching, had the little Tabernacle there. I went on a vacation; I went to see Brother Ryan, went to Dowagiac. And he, we went fishing out on the lake. On the road back I was coming home and I come down through Mishawaka. And that was my first time to ever get acquainted with the denominational Pentecostal people. And I passed by, at I believe Mishawaka, I guess, and there was a big tabernacle there, and the people was all crowded out on the streets and everywhere, they was... I thought, "What is this?" And I seen they had "Jesus Saves" and everything on the back of their cars. So I pulled my old Ford up and stopped, and thought, "What is this?"
And I went in and seen what it was, and it was a religious service. But oh, did I ever see people that didn't have manners. They were screaming, and shouting, and jumping, and that was awful for a
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Baptist. So I seen them people how they act; I thought, "Isn't that awful? Well, they haven't got any church manners at all." So, but there was something got a hold of me. And so I... That night I wanted to stay all night, and I didn't... I counted my money, and I had enough money to get enough gasoline to get home. And I went down and bought me some stale rolls. And I knowed I could stay a couple days on that. So I didn't have any room, no money for a room, so I went out in a corn field to sleep that night. But however, they asked all the preachers come to the platform, and they was having a conference. And then, that night he said, "All the preachers here, we haven't got time for you to preach, but we want you to just raise up and say your name and where you're from. When it come mine I said, "Billy Branham, evangelist, Jeffersonville, Indiana," Set down.
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So then there been many of the young ministers preaching that day, but when they brought the minister out that night to preach, a colored brother, and he was real old, and he had just a little rim of white hair around the back of his head, and a great big old long preachers coat on, big velvet collar to it. Poor old fellow come out walking like this. And he got there, and first time I'd ever seen a microphone. And he was preaching, just started to speaking; he took his text over there: Job, I believe, 7 or 8, somewhere there, "Where was you when I laid the foundations of the world? Morning stars sing together, and sons of God shouted for joy..." And the old fellow, I felt so sorry for him; I wanted to go up and hold his arms to keep him from falling while he was preaching, and he was so old. And I thought, "Why didn't they put some of them young fellows up here?" They'd been preaching all day, you know, about what Jesus done.
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But he went back yonder from about, and brought Him back across the skies like this, and down the horizontal rainbow in the second coming. And about the time he got down there, that old man hollered, "Whoopie," jumped up and clicked his heels together, went tipping off the platform, said, "You ain't got enough room up here for me to preach." I looked at that, I thought, "Brother, if that Holy Ghost will make an old man act like that, what would it do for me? That's what I want; that's just exactly; that's what I want." And I walked off the platform, you know, saying, "My." Said, "You ain't got room for me to preach." I thought, "Woo, my, he's been to a fountain of youth somewhere." I thought, "I want that."
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And that night out in the cornfield, I wanted to press my
trousers, and I laid them between the two seats, you know, like that, seersuckers, and I put them down there, and I prayed. I said, "God, that's the most wonderful people; give me favor before them. Let me find some kind of grace like that; they got what I'm wanting." So I remember, the next morning I washed up and come in; it was about ten o'clock. I could've eat with them, but I couldn't put in nothing in their offering. So I didn't want to eat with them. I had my-my buns, or rolls. And I come on in, you know, and got me a good drink at a hydrant, drove my old Ford up and stopped, and went in. And they were singing that little song they sing and clapping their hands, singing, "I Know It Was The Blood; I know it was the Blood." And oh, every one of them just a screaming and a running. I thought, "Well, what do you know about this?"
And I set down by a colored brother. And I set down there; they had the conference up in the North. So they couldn't have it in the South on account of the--the mixing of the colored and the white. And so, I set down by a colored brother there. I had on a little Tshirt, you know. Nobody knowed me, so and a pair of seersucker trousers. I was setting there listening, and a man, I believe, from Cincinnati by the name of Kirks, and he came out. Now, he belongs to one of those Pentecostal organizations, don't know which one it was, but best I remember, the man's tabernacle is named Raugh, R-a-u-gh, a German, Raugh, Raugh, or something like that. And it was a... I got set down there, you know, and I thought, "I'm going to enjoy this well today." So this minister walked out; he said, "Last night on the platform there was a young preacher here, I believe the youngest we had in the audience; his name is Branham. Billy Branham," said, "If he's in the audience? Well, we want him to bring the message this morning."
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My, I hunkered down real low so, seersucker trousers and Tshirt you know; so I got down real low, you know. And he announced again, said, "Anybody outside know anywhere of Billy Branham is, from Indiana, down at Jeffersonville." Said, "Tell him to come to the platform." Oh, I wasn't going up there 'fore all them preachers like that. And I... Why, I couldn't preach, my old sassafras, slow, Baptist ways couldn't think of it that fast, so, way them fellows was preaching. I just set real still like this. And so, got down low in my seat. This colored brother looked over, said, "Say, you know who that guy is?" Oh, I was on a spot. I said, I--I had to say something then. I said, "Look fellow, look; I'm he, you see," but I said, "don't tell them people." I said, "Look, I got on these seersucker trousers here, and this T-shirt." He said, "Them people don't care what you dress like; get on up
there." And I said, "No, I can't go up; you keep still." He said, "Anybody know what... and the where, Reverend Branham?" That colored brother said, "Here he is!" Whew. "Here he is." Seersucker trousers, T-shirt. Said, "Come on up, Mr. Branham." Oh, my, I looked back at that brother, and he's just laughing, you know.
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I started, and I thought, "Lord, I prayed, now what am I going to say when I get up there?" I started sneaking up the platform, my ears real red, you know. And I thought, "What am I going to do?" And I was afraid of that microphone hanging down there, you know. They had a hanging on a wire hanging down. And I got the Bible, and I was trembling so I couldn't hardly take a hold of it. I remember I got my text from, "The Rich Man Lifted Up His Eyes In Hell And Then He Cried," and then he cried, and then I cried. Ha-ha-ha. Something got a hold of me. I didn't know nothing for about a half hour; they had me outside. And all the screaming I ever heard in my life. Here come a fellow up from Texas, had on a cowboy boots and a great big hat, you know, said, "Say, I'm--I'm--I'm preacher so..." Well, I thought, "Them seersucker trousers' not so bad after all, then. I looked at him; he said, "I heard you was a evangelist; I want you to come hold me a revival in Texas." And another fellow walked up, had on these little old golf pants, you know, that you, knickerbocker pants. He said, "I'm from Florida; I have a big bunch--a church down there with so many people in it, will you come?" Well, I thought, "Well, my T-shirt's not so bad, these are just home folks." So I--I believe...
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And a lady come up, she was teaching the Indians somewhere. And the first thing you know. I begin to put down invitations like that, and I had a whole line of them on the back of piece of paper. And I jumped in my old Ford, and down the road I went, my, oh, my. And I run home... When I got in... She's always was lovely, Brother Ryan, you know that. You... She--she would come always... She had long black hair, and she'd come running out the door to meet me, and she said, "You look so happy." I said, "Honey, I found the greatest church in the world." I said, "A bunch of people that's not ashamed of their religion, they scream and shout and everything else." She said, "Where you been?" And I said, "Let's see, up around Mishawaka up there." I said, "Oh, you talk about a church," I said, "you never seen such. And believe it or not, let me show you something." I pulled out, I said, "I got an
invitation to come to churches enough to keep me the whole year going." She said, "You, honey?" And I said, "Yep, me." And she said, "Well..." I said, "Would you go with me?" She said, "I promised to go with you anywhere until death should separate us." That's a real wife. God rest her gallant soul today. Then said, "I'll go with you anywhere." I said, "All right," I said, "Now, we'll go tell our parents."
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I went and told... She was to tell her mother. I told mama, and mama said, "Well," said, "Okay, Billy." Said, "I remember them kind of people down in Kentucky when I was a little girl," said, "they used to have the Old Lone Star meeting house up there." Said, "People get down at the altar, and they would pray and scream and run," that's old Missionary Baptist, and said, "They've got away from that today in these churches out here in Indiana, and around." And that's a shame that we do it too. That's right. I tell you, this here kind of Baptist we have now that you shake hands and put your name on a paper; that's not the way I got it, brother. We got down at the altar and beat one another on the back, till we come through; we got something when we come out of there. Yes sir, it wasn't shaking hands with the preacher; we got saved.
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And--and then I remember, then when we started off, her mother said, "Well, Hope," she said, "You can go, of course, that's said, but I'm telling you," said, "if you do your mother will fill a grave with a broken heart." Oh, my. There it was. And here's where I made my mistake, friends. I listened to my mother-in-law in the stead of listening to God. And if I would've went ahead then, this great thing would have been manifested before this, and the Church had been farther along. But listen to my mistakes; here's where sorrow started. Hope said, "I'll go anyhow." I didn't want to hurt her mother's feelings, and her mother said, "Why don't you go up there at--at the church until you get it paid for, and then get a parsonage, and act like somebody's got some sense, in the stead of...?... You think I could let my daughter be drug around across the country, and today she eats, and tomorrow she doesn't eat? And--and never have a change of clothes on her back," and said, "and drug around with that bunch of trash." And I found out, and I don't say this, but nothing but to tell the truth. What she called the trash, I find to be the cream of the crop. That's exactly the truth. That's right. Said, "My daughter be drug around such as that..."
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Now, I never forget; trouble started when... My father took sick, died on my arm just a little bit after that. My brother was riding on the side of a car, fifteen years old. The man that he was hitch hiking and picked him up, was drinking, hit his head up side of a post, broke his neck, turned his liver over, and he died in my other brothers arms. And I was standing in the platform preaching when it happened. They come and told me. There, I tell you, the way of a transgressor's hard. Don't you pay any attention to what anybody in the world tells you; you do what God says do, no matter what it... I don't care if it's... One person come to me not long ago and said, "Brother Branham, I have THUS SAITH THE LORD; I know the Lord wants you to quit doing this and quit doing that." I said, "Now, my brother, I love you with all my heart, but don't come to me with that." I said, "Because that's not Scriptural." She said, "But I'm a prophet also." I said, "If God... I'm on speaking terms with Him, if He wants me to know anything He will tell me." That's right. I said, "Well, there was one time there was two--two prophets. One of them went down, and he was young prophet, and he prophesied against the alt... I believe it's I Kings 13, and he prophesied against the altar and healed the kings arm after he'd been paralyzed. And another prophet said, "The Lord said for you to come by my way," after the Lord told him to do something else. And two prophets, you remember that? No matter who it's a prophet, or who it is, when God tells you do anything, you do what God says do. Let everything else go (See?); you just mind God.
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And there was sympathy and feeling; I said, "Well, I tell you honey, we'll just let the thing go, and then we'll go ahead and..." She said, "Bill, I'll go with you; I'll do anything that you want to do." I said, "Well, we'll just let it go, and we'll--we'll--we'll finish paying for our church, and maybe after while we--we'll be able to go." And sorrow set in, one thing after another; trouble set in, everything. Now remember, then immediately that 1937 flood came up. I remember poor old Brother Ryan was in the city at that time, how the flood coming up, and the workers on the wall... I had an old boat there, and used to go out there. And you'd get in that boat, and stand in that boat, and float down the river, and preach to them people on the flood walls. Then over back up the river, and then come back down the river preaching to the people on the flood wall. I remember the last time I seen you, Brother Ryan, there. I thought you were gone and in eternity here a few weeks, a few months ago. I never knowed what become of him.
And little old Brother George, the night come, I remember it was just day before Christmas; wife went over the river to get the kiddies Christmas presents. During that time, been another year, and a little over a year, about a year--year and eleven months it was, between... It was eleven months between the--the two children; a little girl was born. I called her Sharon Rose, after the Bible, the Rose of Sharon. Sweetest little thing, she just got big enough till she could just goo, and she was so sweet. And I just love little kiddies.
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And then, I remember the flood came along, and--and she went over the river to get some things for the kiddies for Christmas, and I was working. And I come home, and there she'd fainted on the street and they'd brought her in. And I rushed in, looked at her, and I... Little friend of mine, Doctor Sam Adair at Jeffersonville, I thinks one of the best doctors in the world. We were schooled together, and buddied together, fish together, and you know. We did run around together. Live neighbors right now. And he... I called him; I'd just taken him down one of those--a lamp for Christmas, for a Christmas present; it was night, day before Christmas. And I called him, I said, "Sam, Hope's fainted." And I said... He--he said, "I'll be right up, Bill." He come up, and said, "Oh, my, she got a fever of a hundred and five; she's got pneumonia." And said, "You'll have to stay up all night, Bill, and give her fluids to drink." Well, I did. And that night I knelt down and begin to pray, and pray for God to help her. And when I did, I was in prayer; I seen a black sheet come down before me. I seen the 1937 flood rise and twentytwo feet come over Spring Street, begin to prophesy. People said, "You're crazy; you're off at your head." Down at Falls City Transfer Company when I gave that, down there to them, they said, "Oh, Billy, go on home." But less than six weeks from then, twenty-two feet of water measured over Spring Street, just exactly the way it said.
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And there, I seen this sheet fall, and I went to my church; I said, "I believe that my disobedience has brought sorrow to my heart. My wife was going to go." And they said, "Oh," said, "that's just your feeling for your wife." She got worse. The flood came in, broke through that night, that terrible night, Brother Ryan. You remember when the people were walking the streets and crying and everything. And I had a little old patrol wagon there, that I was working with, trying to get people out of the flood. And I went down, and there was a... My wife had been moved out to the temporary hospital at the government depot;
everything else was all under flood. And I went out there to see her; and I was looking around. And I run into Brother George DeArk; he's in glory today. And he said, "I..." he said, "I just seen you down there by the United Brethren church." I said, "Have you seen Brother Ryan?" He said, "Down by the United Brethren Church." And Brother George put his arms around me, said, "Brother Billy, if I never see you no more; I'll see you in the morning." And that's our next meeting time; he left during time of the flood; in glory today. When he was dying he looked, when he said, "Oh, if I could only see Brother Bill one more time. Oh, if he could only be here." He said, "Oh, where are you at?" He looked at the window, said, "Oh, Jesus, I knew You would come." Threw his arms out and went to meet God.
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Then I went on down, this--this flood was about ready to break through the dike up above there, at Chestnut Street. And some of them called me up, said, "Hurry down there right quick." I was raised on the river, and thought I was a pretty good boatman. I got my boat down there real quick. They said, "A woman's trapped out there." And I looked out there and heard a woman screaming, standing out on top of a porch with a baby in her arms screaming, "Have mercy, have mercy," the house shaking like that, and the flood coming down, sweeping through, eighty mile stretch of water through there. And I got my boat and started up through the alleys of the... Like this, and got it so I could get down and fall in behind the place in the current. And I landed against the place; and the woman had fainted; I picked her up and got her in the boat (About eleven o'clock that night.), two or three little girls. I got back away and got to the bank. When she come to herself, she kept hollering, "My baby, my baby, oh, don't leave my baby." And I thought she had a little bitty baby over there. The baby she had was about two years old. And I took back to try to see if we'd left a little baby laying on a bed or something, because she fainted on the porch when I picked her up.
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And when I got there and tied my boat, and I--I went in and looked all through the house. But the baby she was talking about was a two year old baby. And just about that time the house washed from the foundation. And I ran out real quick and jumped in the boat, threw my hands down in the water and pulled the slip knot, ice, sleeting, cold, the wind blowing, blizzarding. And I got into the boat; I tried to pull the string on the starter. I couldn't get it started, and the current caught me this way, got me out onto Market Street, swept me out into the river. There's the Ohio Falls crushing just below there, the waves high as this building here, romping like that
with such a current. And me standing in that boat pulling that string trying to get that motor to start, and it wouldn't start. Seemed like I could hear somebody say, "Now, where's that bunch of trash at?"
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I tell you, brother, the way of a transgressor's hard. Don't you let no one call you trash, no. I pulled that string, and it wouldn't start, and I said, "Oh, God, I did that which is wrong. Please, I don't want to die out here in this river, my baby and wife laying out there very sick. Please God, don't let me die." And I was pulling that string and it wouldn't start, and I turned around, and the boat was half full of water almost then, going on towards the falls. I know just ten minutes longer it'd be too much. I pulled again; I thought, "Oh, God, forgive me for my sins." And I pulled again; and when I pulled that time, the motor spluttered; I pulled again and it started. I whirled around like that in the boat, got back, come out way down around by Cane Run Creek, down towards New Albany. I got back up to Jeffersonville again, walked back up. I said, "I'll go out and see my wife." Said, "Your wife" said, "where's she at?" I said, "The government hospital, out there." Said, "That whole thing's washed away."
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Oh, my, then I jumped in my boat and ra--or my car, and run it as quick as I could, the little patrol truck I was in, and went out to the government out there. I met Major Weekly, a friend of mine, I said, "Major, is the hospital washed away?" He said, "Yes, it's all under water down there, reverend," he said, "but I think all the patients got out." I said, "Do you know where my wife did or not?" Said, "I don't know." And went and seen someone else who said, "Yes, your wife and all the rest of them got in a cattle car, and they've gone towards Charlestown."
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Well, I run the car out towards Charlestown, the Lancassange Creek had backed up, four miles of the swiftest water. I went, got my boat. I couldn't pierce that stream to save me; it would fly back. I met some of them there, said, "You know, when they crossed that trestle over there, the train washed off the track," between Charlestown and Jeffersonville. And there me trying to get there, and got marooned out there by myself. And I had several days to set out there and think it all over. Then when I could cross and get over again, I got to Charlestown; they said at there, "We hadn't heard nothing of my wife." I met an
old friend of mine, we went walking down the street together; he said, "We will ask that dispatcher." Dispatcher said, "Why, yes, I put off a sick mother and two children at Columbus, Indiana."
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And when a friend picked me up and took me to Columbus, then when I run into the Baptist church there, the gymnasium room being used for--a auditorium there for sick--where they put their sick. I went in there and the people crying and walking over each other, and--and the little old cots setting around. And I begin to scream; I got frantic. And I begin to scream, "Oh, Hope, where are you sweetheart? Where are you?" And I was running through there, "Where are you?" And way back over in a corner, I'll never forget it; I seen a bony hand raise up like that [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]... my darling dying. I went over there to her real quick. I looked down at her, those dark eyes was sunk way back in her head, and her beautiful smooth face had drawed in. And she looked at me. And oh, I couldn't stand it. I--I just sunk down the side of the bed, and I said, "Oh, God, have mercy." And she said, "I look horrible, don't I?" And I said, "No, you're all right, honey." I said, "Where's Billy Paul and the baby?" Said, "They're in... Somebody's got them down here in a room." I said, "Are they alive and all right?" Said, "Yes." And just then I felt somebody tap me on the shoulder, and it was the doctor, he said, "Reverend Branham?" And I said, "Yes." Said, "Aren't you a friend of Doctor Sam Adair?" And I said, "Yes." Said, "Come over here just a minute." I walked over, and he said, "Now, Reverend Branham, I want to give you the shock so you'll know," so you can get over it, said, "you wife has developed galloping tuberculosis; she can't live but just a little bit." Said, "She's dying now." I said, "Doctor, that can't be so." He said, "It is so." Said, "Now, don't you let her know it, but you just go on, 'cause Doctor Adair knows about it, and told me to tell you, he didn't want to tell you." And I said, "All right."
And I went back over there knowing she was going, and oh my... And I--I asked the doctor, after it dried up and I could take her home? We come down home; we done everything that laid in human power to try to save her life. But we couldn't do it. I give her pneumothorax treatments, went and got a pneumothorax machine.
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They didn't even have one in town. When she'd hold my hand, I'd have to pry her fingers loose from my hands. They bore a hole in her side and collapsed them lungs. If it was to go over again, I wouldn't do it. And there, how she was, suffered and suffered. Finally a great doctor from Louisville come over, by the name of Miller. He called me off to one side, said, "Reverend Branham, she can't live but just a little while longer; she's going on." Said, "She can't live."
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Now, I remember, I had to the patrol, I went on... That's when I became into the conservation, working as a--a game warden. And I had to work; I was in debt everywhere. She was laying at the hospital waiting for the last of it. And I remember being up one day, and I heard it on radio, calling me to come in. I'll never forget that day as long as I live. I stopped, took off the belt, laid down the gun, and the hat. I bowed my head before God, looked like my church had gone. Everything was gone, I just--just--I was just all out. Life didn't mean nothing to me. And I said, "Heavenly Father, please don't let her die till I can see her one more time." I was about twenty miles away from home. I said, "Please don't let her die, that I can see her once more." I turned the lights on, siren, down the road, stopped in front of the-the hospital, went running up the steps just as hard as I could. And I looked, coming down through the aisle, come poor little old Doctor Adair. I love the man; there's just something about him that I love. He's been a buddy to me. We been buddies ever since we were kids. He come walking down with his head down, he looked up and seen me and the tears just rolled down his cheek, and he turned sideways and started running to the side, and I said, "Just a minute, Sam." I walked over; I said, "Is she gone?" Said, "I think she is, Bill." I said, "Come, go with me, buddy." He said, "Oh, Bill, don't ask me to go; don't ask me to go." Said, "I--I can't go in there," said, "Hope's baked a many pie for me, and we've eat together." And said, "That's like my sister, Bill; I--I done all I can do." said, "God knows I done all I could do." Said, "I done the best I could for you, boy, but" said, "she's gone." I said, "Doc, can't you go with me?" Said, "I just can't stand it any longer, Bill." I said, "I'm going." He said, "Don't... Wait, take the nurse." And the nurse come around; she had a little old medicine there; she said, "Take this medicine just a minute," said, "it'll quieten you nerves." I said, "No, I don't want it."
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I walked into the room by myself, and she said, "I'll go with
you." I said, "No, I want to go alone." I pulled the door in behind me, like that, and walked over there; they had a sheet over her face. I pulled that sheet back. When I looked laying there, there laid my darling. I looked at her, and she was drawed up like this. I put my hand on her head, and it was sticky. I couldn't see any breath, or...?... And I shook her, I said, "Hope, sweetheart, please speak once to me." I said, "I love you with all my heart, I've always did, and I always will. Please speak once more to me." And I shook her like that. I screamed at her, "Hope." And then she--her eyes come open, those great eyes staring with death in them, just like a angel's eyes. She looked at me, and she started to smile; she motioned for me to get down, and she said, "Oh, why did you call me?" I said, "Call you?" I said, "Why, honey, I... She's... Have I done wrong?" She said, "No, you haven't done wrong," she said. Just then the nurse come running in; she said, "Reverend Branham, you'll have to come out." And she said, "Come here, Hilda," it was a friend of hers. And here's what made me feel. She said, "I hope when you get married you have a husband like mine. He's been so good to me, so understanding." You know how it make you feel. I said, "No, honey, I--I--I hadn't been able to do for you like I want to, and we'd have to figure out maybe to buy her a calico dress once every three or four months." I said, "I--you worked and help me to make a living for the kiddies." And the girl started crying, went out of the room, the nurse. I said, "Why did you tell me I done wrong by calling you back?" She said, "Oh, Bill," said, "You've preached about it, honey, and you've talked about it, but" said, "you don't realize what it is." Said, "I was being taken home by a group of white Angels." Said, "It was a-like a oriental thing with big birds flying from tree to tree, so peaceful." I believe with all of my heart; her eyes come open to see the vision; she was going into paradise. I don't know whether you believe this or not, but I stood by the bedside and seen saints going, hear them talk to their loved ones that's gone on years ago. You've done that. I just wonder this, friend; now, this is not a doctrine; it's just a thought. I wonder if that morning when death is so hard anyhow.
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I was standing by the side of a man here a few years ago; I just... He'd been a Christian for a long time, and he said, talked to me, he said, "Billy..." I said, "Is everything all right, Mr. Bledsoe?" He was about eighty years old. Said, "Oh, everything's okay, Billy." Said, "I want to see my Lord so bad. My life is all worn and gone." Said, "I want to see Him." He
standing there talking to me, his wife there. He said, "Mother, why," he said, "I haven't seen you for years." He said--said, "Billy, do you see her?" I said, "No." He said, "Do you know, mother? Mother, this is..." Oh, Miss Bledsoe said, "Honey, you're..." Said, "I'm not beside myself." Said, "Sis," she been gone for years. And I just wonder, if that great hour when we're going down, God knows that this soul's coming from the body like a tooth being abstracted from the mouth. I wonder if God don't say to mother, "Go down and stand by Jordan; son's coming over this morning." And our eyes, when it's breaking from the natural world into the spiritual world, then it becomes a visualize there, and we actually see them standing.
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I thought she was entering paradise; I said, "What did it look like, honey?" Said, "Oh, it was so beautiful." She said, [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] "What is that, honey?" She said, "I must hurry back." She said, "I guess you know why I'm going?" Oh, that's what hurt me. I said, "Yes." She said, "You shouldn't have never listened to mother." I said, "I know it." I said, "I know I shouldn't have listened to your mother." I said, "Honey, someday I will make up for it, so help me." She said, "Bill, if you'd have went ahead and done what God told you do, it might've been different today." I said, "That's right," but said, "Sweetheart, you couldn't help it, you were trying to be good hearted." I said, "I know that, honey."
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And so, she said, "Will you promise me something?" I said, "What is it?" I don't want to be a baby folks, but oh, when I think of what I done to Christ, the wrong that I've done. And I said... She said, "Promise me something." I said, "What is it?" She said, "Promise me that you will preach that same Holy Ghost Gospel until death shall set you free." I said, "I promise." And she said, "I want you to promise something else, that you'll not live single." "Oh," I said, "I can't promise that, honey; I can't promise that." Said, "I've got two children," and said, "I don't want them drug from pillar to post. You find some good girl that's got the baptism of the Holy Ghost, and you marry her so you can make a home for the kiddies."
And I said, "I can't promise that, sweetheart; I love you too well." She said, "There'll be somebody come along, Bill." Said, "Promise me that, will you?" And I said, "Well, I can't promise that." She said, "Don't let me go without promising."
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She said, "Another thing," said, "you remember that time when you was in Louisville, and you wanted to buy that little rifle to go hunting with?" I just love guns and fish and things, and I was going away, and she said, "You know that little rifle you wanted to buy, and it cost three dollars down." And I said, "Yes." Think it cost about seventeen dollars. And said, "You didn't have money to make the first payment." I said, "I remember that." She said, "Bill, I wanted to get that rifle for you so bad." She said, "The allowance that you give me," she said, "I never bought anything, but I've been saving it." Said, "After I'm gone, when you go home, look under that old folding bed up there, at the top on that paper," and said, "you'll find it laying up there." When I went home found that, about two dollars and eighty cents laying there, where she'd saved to pay that payment on the rifle. You don't know how that made me feel. She was a real girl.
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And she said, "Another thing, I want to apologize to you." Said, "I did something wrong." And I said, "What's that?" She said, "I kept something from you." And I said, "What's that, honey?" Said, "You remember that time you bought me them stockings?" And I said, "I don't know." Said, "We was going to Fort Wayne." I said, "Yes." She said, "Them was the wrong kind of stockings."
What it was; she was taking her--her bath, and we were going to go up to Fort Wayne. Her dad lived at Fort Wayne at that time, and we was going up there. And I was at the, you know where the Rediger Tabernacle is, I just had service. Bert Williams was preaching there then. And we was going to go up there for that night. And she said, "Go down and get me a pair of stockings." And I never designed clothes for women, and I... She give me about sixty or seventy cents, what it cost to buy a pair of stockings. And I went... She... There's two or three different kinds, one kind called, what is it, chiffon? Is that right? And the next is called, something another like that, rayon, right? Raylon, yeah. Which is the best?
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Chiffon, isn't it, that Chiffon? And I was... That's kind she wanted.
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I was going down the street. See, if I remembered, I said, "Chiffon, chiffon, chiffon, chiffon, chiffon, chiffon." Somebody said, "Hello, Billy." I said, "Hello, chiffon, chiffon, chiffon, chiffon, chiffon, chiffon." And I passed Orville Spawn, he said, "Billy," said, "over on the pier out there, perch is biting that long," said, "oh, you," said, "you ought to see it." And I said, "Sure enough, Orville?" And I got talking to him, and I forgot what it was. And so I went down; I knowed they had socks at the ten cent store. So I knowed the girl that worked there, and I went down there and I said, Thelma come up and I said, "Hi, Thelma." And she said, "Hi, Brother Bill." Said, "What do you want?" And I said, "Hope wants a pair of socks." And she said, "Why, Hope don't want socks." And I said, "Yes, she does, she wants a pair." Said, "She won't wear socks." I said, "She does; she wants them full style. That thing, you know, that's got that little thing in the back of it, you know. And then," I said, "she wants it full style." And she said...
Well, that's wrong; that ain't full... What is that? Fashion, Yeah, right. I don't know much about them things, so, and I--I said, "She wants that kind." And she said, "Well, them's stockings." And I said, "Oh, all right." Said, "What kind you want?" And after I done been so ignorant, I--I hated to show more of it, so I-I said, "Well, what kind you got?" She said, "We got anywhere from rayon." I said, "That's what she wants." I never heard the two different kinds; they all sound the same to me. And so I said, "That's the kind I want." She said, "Hope want rayon stoc..." I said, "Yes, ma'am." And they only cost about twenty cents a pair, something like that. She got it; I said, "Give me two pair if that's all they are." So she give me two pair of them. And so I went home. You know how you have to crow to your wife when you got a bargain, you know. And I said, "Oh, I thought I'd tell you, it's--just--just--just..." I said, "I'm Abraham's son," you know, going on to her. I said, "You women go and ribbon shop all day for bargains, and I go downtown, buy two pair of socks, have enough left over to buy a third pair if I wanted to.
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Had money left over, just two pair. You all shop in Louisville." I said, "Just, you know, you have to be Yiddish, like me, you know." Just going on like that. And she said, "Did you get rayon?" And I said, "Yes, ma'am!" They all sound just the same to me.
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So I thought it was something funny when she got to Fort Wayne, she had to get another pair of stockings. But she told me; she said, there in her dying hour; she said, "Bill, them was for an older woman; I give them to your mother." She said, "That," she said, "I kept that from you, 'cause I didn't want to hurt your feelings, that you got." Oh, my, you don't know how that made me feel then. And I said, "Bless your heart, honey." And she said, "Now, promise me will you, that you'll not..." I said, "I don't..." She looked up, she said, "I'm going, Bill." And I said, "Are you, honey?" She said, "Yes." I said, "Sweetheart, when you go..."
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Now, we don't believe... Whatever... You believe anything you want to. I don't believe a Christian dies; there's no Scripture for it in the Bible. No, sir. "He that heareth My Words and believeth on Him that sent Me, has passed from death to Life, he... I am the resurrection and life," says God, "he that believeth on Me, though he were dead, yet shall he live. And whosoever liveth and believeth in Me shall never die." That's right. I said, "Now, honey, I'll take your body out here, and I'll bury it up there in Walnut Ridge. And if Jesus tarries, I'll be in the battlefield somewhere, if not, I'll be buried by your side." I said, "That morning when the sun refuses to shine, the moon turns black like blood," I said, "the world's all cold and waiting." I said, "You go to the city gates if you go before me," I said, "You go over to the city gates on the east side, and you stand there, when you see Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, them, coming in," I said, "go to screaming 'Bill' just as loud as you can." And I said, "I'll get the kiddies together, and I'll meet you there at the gate." And she raised up them bony hands and embraced around it. I kissed her good-bye. She closed her eyes and went out to meet God. That was my last date with my wife. And by the grace of God, I'm trying my best to make double time; that's the reason I try so hard to preach day and night in one campaign after another; I'm trying to make up for what I lost back there.
Oh, it was hard when I went home. I went home, tried to go to bed. Mother wanted me to come over home; I couldn't. And then I remember, I went over to our little old place. There wasn't nothing there, and we didn't have nothing. I guess, ten dollars would've bought everything we had in the house. But it was ours. She kept it clean; and it was ours; and there was no place like home. I don't care how humble it is, there's no place like home. Mother's place doesn't seem right, nowhere else. And I went over there, and laid down, tried to go to sleep that night. I never forget it. And I know, a little old mouse had got down in the-a grate where we had some papers up there, and I heard. And it--she used to lay there and she'd have her some candy. And I sound like hands... And I got crying. And I shut the door together, and hanging on the back of the door was her kimono, hanging on the back of the door. And oh, my, there it was all over again. And while I was laying there crying, someone knocked at the door, it was Mr. Broy. He come, and he said, "Brother Billy." Said, "Yes, sir." He said, "I got some bad news for you." I said, "Brother Frank, I just took her to the morgue." He said, "That's not all of it; your baby's dying also, Sharon Rose." I said, "Surely, not." Said, "Doctor Adair's taking her to the hospital now." Said, "He thinks she's dying."
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And I couldn't hold it no longer. I got up, and I tried to walk; I couldn't do it. My strength was all gone. They'd held me by the arms. He set me in the old truck, and he took me out there at the hospital. And I walked in, and here was Sam standing at the door; he said, "Billy, don't go to her." Said, "She's dying, sonny boy." Said, "She's contracted from her mother this tubercular meningitis, and it's went to the spine." And said, "She'd dying." Said, "You can't go in to see her," said, "on account of Billy Paul." I said, "Doc, I got to see my baby." And I said, "Let me see her, won't you, Doc?" He said, "Bill, I can't do it on account of Billy Paul," said, "It's meningitis, son," said, "if you carry in you clothes somewhere else..." I said, "Doc, let me go down there or give me chloroform and let me die with her." I said, "Life, what is it to me now? Everything I've got's gone." And he started crying. I... And the nurse stood there and said, "Now, I can't let you go in there, Brother Branham.
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When she turned her back I slipped around anyhow and went down into the basement, the isolated place, a very cheap like hospital. And there, down there they had a little cheesecloth laying over her face to keep the flies off. And her little spasms she was
having with that meningitis had...?... And the flies was in her little baby eyes, and I shooed the flies off of her eyes like that, and looked down at her, said, "Sharon Rose, honey, you're not going to leave daddy are you?" And I looked at her little old fat legs, her little cripple hand, like this...?... on like that as she was drawing, quivering. And she was looking at me, little old lips quivering, I said, "Sharon, are you going to leave daddy?" And looked like she was--she was quivering so like that, and I had... She looked up at me; she was suffering so hard till one of those little baby eyes... Her little eyes was crossed like that. Looked at her suffering so, and she was, looked like she was trying to reach her little hands to me. Oh, it just tore my heart out of me. Oh, and I thought, "Oh, God." From that day... That's the reason, cross-eyed children, oh, I just can't stand to look at them. You know, God does those things; sometimes He has to crush something to get the good out of it, isn't that right?
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I seen that little thing; I knelt down on the floor, and I said, "Oh, dear God, I'm sorry that I did what I did." I said, "You took my wife, my darling away from me, now You're taking my baby. Oh God, please don't take my little girl; I love her with all my heart." I said, "I'll serve You; I've done all I know to do except go when You told me to down there." And I said, "Please don't take my baby." I said, "I love her. Oh, no, please tell me God." I said, "Take me instead of her." As I raised my eyes, looked like a black sheet coming unfolded. I knowed she was going then. I raised up and looked at her; I said, "God bless you, honey." I said, "You're daddy's darling." I laid my hand over on her head, and I said, "Oh, God," I said, "I don't know why You're tearing me up like this." But I said, Still that doesn't change my faith in You." And I said, "As Job of old, though You slay me, yet I believe You with all my heart." I said, "I trust You, Lord." I said, "Sharon Rose...?... God be with you, honey. In a few minutes the Angels will come pack your little soul to Mother. And I'll pick you up from here and lay you in Mother's arms and bury you tomorrow." I said, "Lord, I've done all I can; it's not my will now, let Thy will be done." I laid my hand on her little head like that; I couldn't hold myself no more. I felt myself slinking and went down to the floor. The Angels of God come picked her, and took her little soul away. Her little mouth quit quivering, and her little legs straightened out. God taken her away, and I stood there, my heart mashed to pieces. But I thought, "O God, oh, mercy," I said, "Lord, why don't You just take me, Lord. Just--just let me..." I said, "When I was a kid everybody laughed at me, called me sissy, and I went hungry, and went without and everything else," I said, "here it comes out to a place You give me a little home, and I tried to live right. Then You give me a little home;
don't take it away from me. God, let me go with them." I said, "Don't let me stay here any longer; I don't want to stay." I cried and...?... I said, "But God, in my heart there's something, that I love You, no matter what You've done, I love You." I lift my hands to Him.
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The nurse come in, looked at the baby and crossed its little hands. She come picked me up, went out. Few days later we took her up there on the hill, Brother Smith, the Methodist preacher standing there preaching the funeral. When they went to lower her down with her Mother, I looked at her. He got some clods of dirt in his hand, walked around, looked over at me, and turned his head; he just... Oh, I just couldn't stand it. Had little Billy Paul leaning on my arm here, eighteen months old. I said, "Billy, honey, someday you and I will go see Mommy and sissy." I heard him throw that clods on top of that casket, saying, "Ashes to ashes, and dust to dust, earth to earth." Oh, my, it seemed like coming down through the little maple trees, the breeze started blowing, saying, "There's a land beyond the river, that they call the sweet forever; we only reach that shore by faith decree; one by one we gain the portal, there to dwell with the Immortal; someday they'll ring those golden bells for you and me." I turned from the grave. I thought, "Oh, poor little old Billy, setting over my arm, didn't know what it was all about. I'd get his bottles, and put them in my pocket, and pack him like this, and walk the streets. Back and down to the... One night it'd like to kill me. I'd walk him in my arms like this; he's crying for his mother; didn't have any mother to go to. And I was walking back to the yard like this, he said, "Daddy, where is my mama?" I said, "She went to see Jesus." He said, "When she coming back, I want her?" I said, "Well, honey, I don't know. She'll come back." I started walking like this, I turned the tree where my old folks used to set. I had a little hunting dog out there; I was going to go pet it. He looked at me, said, "Daddy, I thought I seen mother up there inside that cloud." Oh, I almost fell with the little fellow; I was staggering around, fell on then. Oh, I just couldn't get up. Hour passed, poor little fellow, setting there crying for his mama. I thought, "God... Oh, I know I've I done wrong, but I... Someday it'll be different, surely.
I went on, tried to go to work. And I remember one morning, I went to work, Public Service Company, working on lines. I climbed up a pole one morning, and I was singing real early. I was singing,
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On the hill far away stood an old rugged cross,
The emblem of suffering and shame.
While I was there I happened to look up, and the sun was coming this way, and my, the sun shining against me and on them cross irons of that pole, there it was, like a body moving, the shadow on the side of the hill of the cross. I thought, "Yes, that's right, my sins put Him there. Oh," I said, "God." I just couldn't stand it; I could understand my wife going, but my baby. I couldn't get that baby, why did God take it? I looked down; I got real nervous; I pulled off my rubber glove, twenty-three hundred running right here by me. I said, "God, I hate to be a coward, but Sharon, daddy's coming home to see you in a few minutes." I pulled the glove off, intending to put my hand on that wire. It'd broke every bone in your body. I'd just got beyond myself; I was going crazy. I couldn't settle myself. And how I ever got off of that pole, I know not yet. But when I come to myself, I was setting down by the pole all hunkered down like this, a crying. And great drops of sticky perspiration was all over me. I believe if God hadn't foreordained, I believe in foreordination. [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]...?... I'd have died right there.
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And I went home. I quit that morning. I went on. I just couldn't stand it. Went over to mother's, and that evening, I was going home. And I reached around side of the door there, and picked up some mail, and when I went inside, the first letter I got said, "Miss Sharon Rose Branham," her little Christmas savings, eighty cents. There it was all over again. I knelt down by that old army cot that I was sleeping on out there in the kitchen. It had gotten cold weather, frost was up over the floor; I knelt down and I said, "God, please let me go, or something; ease my heart; I can't stand it like this." And while I was praying and crying, I went to sleep. I dreamed that I was out west somewhere. I had on one of those big western hats; and I was going down across the prairie, whistling, "The wheel on the wagon is broken." And I happened to look, and there was an old prairie schooner there, and one of the wheels was broke, hanging down. And standing there was a beautiful young lady in her teens, had blond hair, blowing, her blue eyes, beautiful. I passed by, and I-I took off my hat, and said, "Good morning, ma'am." Started walking on, whistling the, "The wheel of the wagon is broken." She said, "Good morning, dad." I looked around, I said, "What'd you say?" She said, "I said, Good morning, dad." I said, "Well, lady, you call me your daddy; you're old as I am." She said, "Dad, you don't know where you are." And I said, "I don't understand." She said, "On earth I was your little Sharon." I said, "Sharon?"
She said, "Yes, there's no little babies up here, daddy," said, "we're all the same age; we're immortal." And I thought, "Oh," I said, "where's--where's mother?" And--and she said, "She's waiting for you." And she said, "Where's Billy Paul?" And I said, "Well, I just left him awhile ago." I said, "I don't understand this."
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She said, "Mother's waiting for you up at your new home." And I said, "New home?" I said, "Oh, honey, there's something wrong here." I said, "Branhams are vagabonds; we never have homes," I said, "We're just poor." And she said, "But dad, you got one up here." I turned to look, and there was a great palace, the glory of God coming from around it, she said, "That's your home, dad." Said, "Mama's waiting for you there." And I turned, started up the walk going like this, going towards the home, singing, "My Home, Sweet Home." There she come out to meet me again. Heaven's a real place. She stretched forth, her lovely being, her arms as she always did, that black hair glistening, those eyes, once again in perfect health. She stretched her arms, and she said, "Bill." I went up to her, and I fell down like this. Many times when I come in from meetings and be so tired, she'd put her arms around me and always pat me. She said, "Oh, honey, you've tried so hard; I'm afraid you're going to break your health down while you're young," and patting me like that, on the back. And I fell down at her knees; and she put her arm around me; she said, "Bill." And I--I said, "Honey, I don't understand it?" I said, "I met Sharon down there." She said, "Yes, she said she's going down to wait for you." I said, "Didn't our girl make a beautiful young lady?" She said, "Yes." I said, "She's waiting for Billy Paul, she said." Said, "Yes, won't you come in?" And I said, "Honey," I raised up, and I said, "I'm so tired, I can't hardly stand it." I said, "I've just been praying for this sick, and praying for this sick." And I hadn't had these meetings then, remember. And she said, "I know all about it, Bill."
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Praying for the sick, that's the reason I believe that sometime my going will be from the platform. See? And I had... I said, "I just been praying for the sick; I'm so wore out I can't hardly stand it." She said, "I know." She said, "Won't you set down?" And I looked around; there was a great big Morris chair setting there. And I looked over at her, and she looked at me and smiled. She
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I went one time... I... We just had old hickory bottom chairs; I don't know what you know what they are or not, laced across with across with hickory; we had two. And there was one of them there, and I bought me a Morris chair, paid fifteen dollars for it. I paid a dollar down and a dollar a week to pay for it. And I paid about five or six dollars. I just couldn't make the payments. You know how things get hard, and you can't make ends meet; you know what I mean. And I just couldn't make the payments, and they sent me a dun; they was going to come get it. And one day I come in, and she had me a cherry pie baked, bless her heart. And she met me at the door, and she said, "Oh," want me to go fishing or something that night. And she had this cherry pie baked for me; she said--she said, "Oh, I got your the best cherry pie." She knew I loved cherry pie. And I--I thought there was something wrong. And so after supper she said, "Now, I had the kiddies to dig some fishing worms," said, "We're going down the river to fish." And I seen she was all excited. And after supper I said, "Let's walk in the front room a little while." She said, "No, no, let's go out..." And I put my arm around her, I said, "Oh, honey, you're a lovely wife." And we walked through the door, and she put her head on my shoulder and started crying; she said, "Bill, I tried hard to keep it for you." I said, "I know, honey, but we couldn't help it." I come in sometimes so tired I couldn't hardly stand it, set down in that little old Morris chair, that little footstool. I set there reading my Bible till I'd go to sleep. And it was gone then; we didn't have it. I couldn't pay for it. And I would be wore out. And she looked around, said, now when I see her in this vision, she said, "You remember that chair?" I said, "Yes." Said, "The finance company come got?" I said, "Yeah, I remember, honey." She said, "But Bill, they'll never come get this one; this one's already paid for. It's yours, set down, rest a little while."
Oh, Christian people, one of these days, I know beyond the reach of mortal kin, someday, God only knows just where and when, the wheels of mortal life will all stand still; then I'm going to make a trip to Zion's hill. There I'll see her there again, and I'll see Jesus. I'll see my baby; I'll see my loved ones.
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There waits for me a glad tomorrow,
Where gates of pearl swing open wide, When I've crossed this vale of sorrow, I will rest upon the other side.
Hallelujah! I love Him today with all my heart. I don't want to be a baby. Oh, God, have mercy. And this old...?... has crossed the streets, the tears and heartaches and troubles. Oh, Father, and I've served the Lord all of my life... Why did I...?... before. And I've tried with all my heart, dear Jesus, to live for You, to do the thing, no matter what this cross is, or how scornful it seems to be. I love You, dear Jesus, you've broken my heart over and over, but I love You for it. And I pray now, dear God, that You'll help me to fulfill the commission that You have given, that I might finish my course with joy. And someday when life's ended, and the treads that I'm walking on now with the...?... My life is more than half gone...?... Someday my soul's got to turn back yonder. Stand by me O Morning Star at that time. Crossing the country and meeting lovely friends and ministers of the Gospel [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]... praying and the sick and afflicted, see them little bed ridden mothers, oh, how I hate that demon of TB, how that broke my family to pieces. O God, help me. Help me to be faithful to the calling, Lord. And someday when it's all over, grant that this little group here this afternoon, oh I...?... the multiplied thousands of others. When the last battle is fought, the last sermon's preached, may we stand in Your Presence, Lord, rejoicing, crowned with immortality to meet our loved ones.
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And many here today seen the sad streets of life; their loved ones, their mothers and dads, children, has gone on; they know what it is to go home, if it be home. Many men here knows what it is to go home and no mother for his kiddies. Many know what it is to see their little infant playing in their mother's arms put beneath the sod. And God, we're looking forward to the day when Jesus shall come, and the graves will be opened, and those loved ones will be presented again in immortal bodies. Oh, how we love You, Lord, keep our faith solid. If there be some here today, Our heavenly Father, who does not know Thee in the forgiveness of their sins, has never accepted Thy beloved Son, the only Mediator between God and man, may they today sweetly and humbly slip up their hands and their hearts to You, and say, "Dear Jesus, here I am. Receive me just as I am, that I might give my life and serve Thee. And by Brother Branham's mistakes, I'll never do those things that You have to pull me through the gutters like that. But I'll bypass it by Your grace by touching You now. Grant it, dear heavenly Father. Bless this waiting audience.
Now, while we have our heads bowed, just a moment. I don't mean to be a baby, while Christians are praying, oh, to live those horrible hours over again. [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] Oh Lord...?... here that would come forward now to give their life to Christ? Is there someone here? If you believe that God is in our midst... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] is there some that'll just raise up their hand, and say, "Brother Branham, I haven't as yet been saved." Will you raise your hand and say, "Pray for me. I--I want you to ask God to have mercy on me"? Isn't there one in the building? God bless you, brother. One sinner who... God bless you, brother. God bless you; I see your hand. Someone else? Say, "Pray for me, Brother Branham, I want you to remember me in prayer."
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Feel real good to hear something like that of all of you, for the letter that our brother has read, and for the attitude of our ministering brethren here with us, and for the audience around, and your applauding, makes us feel double welcome to come back again. And if the good Lord is willing, and as soon as we get the opportunity, we'll return to this city to stay longer, until the thing is over. Until God tells us it's enough, time to go home. At that... [Audience claps-Ed.] Thank you kindly. I trust that the meeting has been as much blessing to you as it has to--to us. I say this, where I don't have to say it, but I say it because it's the truth. I've had larger crowds of course, and bigger places, and we've had larger crowds here if we'd had the place to take care of them. But I never met, or was in a nicer meeting, and meet--met nicer people anywhere in the world, than I have in this place. That's right. And with the... [Audience claps--Ed.] thank you.
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that--that the meeting will never die, that it'll live right on in each church and among the people until Jesus comes. That's our purpose of being here to bring these meetings. And everybody's been so kind, and you've been so nice to set in this hot building, and it very hot like this, and--and just stand along the sides, and drooping around the doors, and come in early; and oh, that's so nice of you. And we appreciate it. We appreciate this brother, I can't think of his name half the time,
here, Brother Banner, and all the cooperating ministers. We just thank God for you brethren. And you've been so good to us. We just trust that God will just pour out His blessings everywhere upon all of you...?...
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And to all you people there, they just tell me they taken up a love offering for me, a few moments ago. I appreciate that. I don't deserve it; that's true. I--I don't deserve it. But Brother Baxter said all the debts were paid and everything. And then when they do that, then they get a love offering. And we appreciate it. And I--and to the best of my knowledge, and all that I know, every penny of it I shall spend for the glory of God, the best that I know how. There won't be one foolish thing that that money will go for. Because at that day we want to be found a good and true faithful steward of His welfare. And some of you paid, maybe a portion of your living; I--I wish you wouldn't do that. Just someone, when they're taking up a love offering, throw in a nickel or something, that I--I could, you know, just something. I have, got some children, you know how it is. But I wish I didn't have to do that, but, to take one, but I do once in a while, because I just, you can't make ends meet. But we thank you for it. And God bless you, everyone.
Now I trust that... I remember in a meeting I used to tell of a little story, being that my old brother's setting here, I want to shake his hand before I start into the ministry, or ministering to... of the Word. One time I was going to take up an offering in my church. I told my wife, I said, "We just got to have..." I never took an offering myself in my life. And I said, "We got to have just a little money." I said, "I'll tell you, I'll take up..." We owed a debt and just had to pay it. And so that was my former wife, it was... I was... She died years and years ago, about fourteen years ago. And I was single for about five or six years. My little boy started in school, and I remarried again. God gave me back a perfect image of the little girl that He just taken from me. And so I'm so happy about that.
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And then, I remember one night, been about eight years ago, I guess, we got to a place where we just couldn't make the things go. And I said, "I'm going over take up an offering." She said, "I'm going to set down and watch you." And so, I went over, and I told old Brother Wiseheart, "Go get my hat; I was going to take up an offering." And he looked at me real strange, and he started... And I looked down and... I don't know Brother Ryan whether you ever knowed Sister Weber, remember her or not, Frankie's mother. And she went
down under that little old checkered apron, got out one little pocketbooks, you know, the little snaps on the top, begin to pull out them nickels. Oh, I couldn't do that. I said, "I was just teasing you, I didn't mean it." And so, Brother Wiseheart looked at me real strange and went and hung my hat up. And you know what? Brother Ryan had rode a bicycle down to my house and give it to me. Many of you's been to meeting heard me refer to that. Brother Ryan rode a bicycle down there, and he just left it there and give it to me. And I painted the bicycle, and sold it, and got the money to pay the debt off...?... I didn't need it after all...?...
My, poor brother, he gave me the bicycle, and really, I couldn't ride the bicycle, so ha-ha-ha. I did owe the debt. He done a good deed. Well, bless the Lord. That's very nice. So I thank you kindly. And it is indeed, with all sincerity, my trust that I can come back to Toledo just as soon as possible. Now, when I leave Africa, come home, the Lord willing, I'm going out to seek His face to find out which move next. I believe you all appreciate that more, if you know just exactly where to go. If He sends me to Toledo, we're going to stay to Toledo until He says, "You go somewhere else." And just stay there until it's over. Right now, the meeting's just in condition now to where we could really have a real revival, just right now. You see? All the--the spooky feelings that people saying, "Well, it might be this, it might be that." But that's all gone now; it's just a great big welcome feeling everywhere. You see? Now, that's just the way to have a revival, to really start it. Now, what do you think about four to six weeks of this would do? Oh, my, we'd have a glorious time. I tell you, I--I believe every thing in the, around would be healed if we could just one by one...
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Now, the Lord has blessed us this week. The lame has walked; the cripples has been healed; and the deaf has heard, and diseases, you know, healed, the Lord... And now, I want you to remember this, especially to the pastors, there'll be weeks after this that you'll hear people in your churches say, "Well, I--that--that stomach trouble I had left me; I don't know." And women and so forth with different troubles that you have, there's--there's been at least, I would say this, not trying to--to say anything wrong, because I--I don't want to do that, God hold me responsible. But there's been at least five hundred people, I'd say, lowly estimating, that's set in the audience that's never said a word about it, that's healed right now. Now, that's right.
The other night when... The last two nights I have never felt such a pull on me in all my life. Now, the way that feels... Come here just a minute, brother. When people are being healed... Now, I just want to take this moment to explain this. If--if when I'm talking to a person, I turn and get their attention. Like out in the audience, I'll look at somebody and see, maybe it looks kindly, well, I'll go to talking to that person. And when I go to talking, then I get in contact with their spirit. And then it seems like there's something starts pulling, just like this. And then when it lets up I get real weak. That person's healed. Now, that's all. Thank you, brother. And that--that person is healed. They may not recognize it right then, but they will later on, they'll recognize it. They'll recognize that it's been done. Now, may the good Lord bless every one of you. And just fill you with His goodness and mercy. And all you setting along here, and here I see these three or four crippled chairs setting here, and people with different ailments, that's suffering and everything. Now, you just be of a good courage, and believe with all your heart, and God's going to make you every one well.
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I don't know whether there's any laying back yonder there so far that, it's just right down here. Sometimes I miss seeing these people looking over the top of them watching out there. Now, well, I don't know what else to say, but to tell you I'm--I'm so happy to be with you, and I trust that maybe if you get a chance sometime when your own church hasn't got service, next week just slip up to Erie with us, we'd be happy to have you. And write me sometime. Write me down home. I'd be glad to hear from you. And sometimes in sending out these anointed cloths and so forth... How many believes in sending those out, those...? Oh, that's wonderful. Well, I'll tell you, if you'd just go into my office and see the thousands of healings takes place just by sending those cloths, just thousands...
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Here recently I sent one to Germany to a woman that had arthritis for years. And it was translated on the back of her German wri--writing. She got a hold of that cloth, and she pinned it on her and followed the instructions, and she said, "Now, devil, you get out." She got up and walked across the floor; she was... See? "Now, devil, you get out." Now, she just believed it. And a little something I--I hope if I told this testimony just a moment before the audience, you forgive me for it, 'cause I sometimes telling around different places, I don't know people that's been in the meetings.
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An outstanding one was one night when I was in a little church
meeting at Corning, Arkansas, just starting. And I used to take and send, give the people handkerchiefs, and in the meetings; like here, here's a box of them. I don't get a chance to minister to those, just like this, because I'm always, when the meetings going on, in deep prayer. Then when I go home, Brother Baxter was with me the other day, I've got a cave way back in the hills where I go to. I showed him where I met the Angel on the path. I was going back there all torn up, and I met Him on the path. And He told me, said, "You return back to your car, for I called you to be with Ern Baxter." And I went to him, as we been together.
So, right on that place, I go back there and pray hours after hours over every piece of goods that I send to the people. Now, I don't send handkerchiefs, because they cost about ten cents apiece, and we send out around, oh, anywhere from five, six, seven thousand a week. I don't have the money to do that. But I buy hundreds and hundreds of yards of ribbon and cut it off in little strips like this so the people can pin it on their clothes. I'll be glad to send you one. If you don't need it right now, put it in the Bible on Acts 19, and just keep it there. And if an emergency rises, take it and lay it on your child that's got the croup, or whatever takes place, and believe God. Just as a little token of His love in this meeting. And many things has been done. And it's free of charge, just send, we'd be happy to send it to you.
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Now, I, this lady, I gave her a handkerchief, she wanted me to, she said, "Bless the handkerchief." Now, a lot of people anoint them. That's all right. Anything that God blesses, I'm for it. But if you watch the Scripture, Paul didn't anoint them, he taken them off of his body (See?), just off of his body. I believe that's right, isn't it, you brothers? And Paul knew that... You know where I think he got that, brother? I think when Elijah taken the, told, said, "Take my staff and go lay it on the child." You see? Elijah knew that everything that he touched was blessed. But whether the woman would believe it or not... And Paul taken from his body, handkerchiefs and aprons and lay it on the sick, and unclean spirits went out of them, and diseases were healed. Now, it wasn't Paul, it was God. That is God, in honoring the people's faith in His servant. Well now, the same God was there, I'm not the Saint Paul, none of us are, but He's still the same Jesus. You see? It wasn't--it wasn't the Saint Paul anyhow, but it was Jesus.
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Now, this woman taken it and put it in her Bible. And a few weeks after that, she was cleaning a lamp chimney, way back there
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in the cotton country of Arkansas, and the old lamp chimney broken and cut the artery in her arm. Now, this is her story. She got a pillow slip and put over it, and it just got wet with blood. She got a sheet. Closest neighbor was two miles; her husband was in the city. And she was bleeding, getting weaker, she knew she was going to die shortly if something didn't happen. And she thought of the handkerchief; she went got the handkerchief and laid it on there. Now, here's her testimony. When her husband came in that evening... She waded, about two mile or better, through the mud with her boots on, hung a lantern in the tree, caught the Greyhound bus, and come to Little Rock where I was holding the meeting, and walked in with these boots on, holding this handkerchief, praising God. The handkerchief wasn't even stained, just a miracle, just stopped it right like that. The woman was dying; that's the only thing that she could get to like that, that she knew of, and God honored her faith in doing so.
Now, we, all we, us believe that. I sent a little thing with it; it tells you how you get to your pastor and get him to come. And--and confess your faults and get rid of everything, and then lay it on there. There's nothing in the way; God will do it. Don't you believe that? Now, God be with you. And thank you again, from the pastors to the co-workers, the strangers in our gates, the custodians here at the auditorium, all the ushers, you've all been wonderful, and may God's richest of blessings be upon you all. Pray for me while I'm going yonder to pray for someone else. I want to read just a little bit of Scripture before we start the meeting. Cause we want to get plenty of time in the prayer line tonight, just as long as we can. Then immediately after this, I got to catch a Greyhound bus and... Bump my head all morning, I couldn't get a reservation. I've got to go home, the wife is going to try to get here, and she couldn't get here, no one to bring her. So, I have to go in tonight to get her, to come back tomorrow, and--and be in Erie. So pray for me now while I read this Scripture found in Saint John 4:46, beginning: So Jesus came again into Cana of Galilee, where he made the water wine. And there was a certain nobleman, whose son was sick at Capernaum. And when he heard that Jesus was come out of Judaea into Galilee, he went unto him, and besought him that he would come down, and heal his son: for he was at the point of death. Then said Jesus unto him... (Now, listen close.)... [Blank.spot.on.tape-Ed.] Except ye see signs and wonders, ye will not believe. (But listen to this gallant man answer our Master.) And the nobleman said unto him, Sir, come down ere my child die... Jesus said unto him, Go thy way; thy son liveth.
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Now, the man wanted Jesus to come pray for his son, but Jesus told him... He didn't go pray for him, He said, Go thy way; thy son liveth. ... And the man believed the Word that Jesus spoke unto him, and he went his way. And when he was now going down, his servant met him, and told him, saying, Thy son liveth. Then enquired he (required him) saying... (Beg your pardon.)... Then enquired he of them the hour he begin to amend... then said he unto him, Yesterday at the seventh hour the fever left him... (See, he was just mending, getting a little better.) So the father knew that it was the same hour that Jesus said, Thy son liveth: and himself believed, and his whole household. This is again the second miracle that Jesus did when he came out of Judaea into Galilee.
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Let's bow our heads. Lord, now the service is almost ready to begin again, a closing night here among this lovely people. God, how did You ever bless me in such a way to bring me up and let me be able to stand and talk to such an audience of people, lovely, borned again Christians. O God, I just love You for it. And there's no words that I can find to express my thanks, that You let me meet these ministers and these people out here, lovely people, Your people, the very cream of the crop, of the earth's harvest. And not only that, to meet them and to know them, but to have fellowship with them through Thy Son Christ Jesus. And to know that I'm a fellow citizen with them, an heir of the same Kingdom of God, we're journeying through earth, going to heaven, where we'll associate together throughout ceaseless ages. Through aeons of time, we'll be together forever, not where we'll be sick again, or not where we'll be in buildings and have to crawl across the country to pray for each other, but where there'll be no sickness, and there'll be no old age, or there'll be no cripples, or no blinds, but we'll be young there forever. And we'll be in His likeness. And what a glorious time that'll be.
O Father, I just feel like just raising my hands up and just screaming as loud as I can, to give vent to the feeling that's within me, of the appreciations of all that You've done. Bless this city Lord, bless the people, bless the--the law makers of the city. And God, grant that there'll be an old fashion revival to sweep this city, Lord. And these anointed ones that's setting here in the presence tonight, these ministers of God represented here on this platform, and out there in that audience, O God, charge their life with new vision, with new power. And may there just be abundance of rain from everywhere, Lord, coming into the churches. Hear the prayer of
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Your servant now. And now, keep us ever in Your will; give us a great service tonight. For we ask it in the Name of Thy Child, Jesus. Amen.
I believe Billy has stepped out, Brother Baxter, just a moment, just till they come in. Now, have faith, don't doubt. Believe with all your heart. And let's look tonight for--for the climax of all the meeting, will you do that? I believe if God will visit us this third time, like He has the last two nights, I believe it'll settle the question, don't you? Oh, the letters are pouring in so I just... From places, about how they're being healed, and people going home and leaving the meeting going home, and then be there maybe a few hours, and the first thing you know, wake up the next morning maybe blind seeing, and the... Oh, just everything's taking place. How thankful. The thing, the people here, you don't--you don't get to hear a third of it. It's after a day or two.
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Did you notice, Jesus here? When he said, "Thy son liveth." Well, that was one day, and the next day he was going down and his son had begin to amend. He said, "This is the second miracle that Jesus did." Seemingly we wouldn't call that a miracle. But it was a miracle, because anything that's out of the ordinary, it's a miracle. Jesus told the man that his son was going to live, and the man believed what Jesus said. Is that right? Perhaps there's a hundred prayer cards in here tonight. In a few moments, I'll call from somewhere in those prayer cards. Well then, you say, "Brother Branham, then if my prayer card's not called, what about it?"
That don't mean that you're--you can't get healed. You can be healed anywhere that you'll believe that Jesus Christ heals you (See?), anywhere. Will you always remember that? Always remember, that healing... Everything that Christ can do for you is already done. Amen. See? Everything that Christ and God can do for you, is already done. Now, the next thing lays within you. If you're sinner, Jesus has already saved you, but you--when He died to take away the sin of the world, but you have to accept it. If you'd say, "I paid your way, Brother Branham, home." Well, it wouldn't do me no good 'less I accepted it. And Christ's death won't help you until you accept it. Now, "By His stripes you were healed." He healed you when He made the atonement for you. But now, it'll never do you no good till you accept it. And when you accept it, and believe it, then it is yours. Now, see, it's up to you. Now, the things that He does, He sends signs and wonders to--to prove those things, that it--that it can be done. Here... I'd like for you to write to this person, or any of these
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testimonies I give you, you--you write to them, if you wish. Is there anybody here from Jeffersonville? Let's see your hands, around anywhere from Jeffersonville? I see one way back over here, over there. What's your name, brother? Newman, and from Jeffersonville. [The brother speaks inaudibly--Ed.] Well it...
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... are possible, Lord, I believe.
Shall we bow our heads. Our heavenly Father, we thank Thee tonight that we can sing that from the depths of our hearts, "Lord, I believe." And as the father with an epileptic son, years ago, said, "Help Thou my unbelief."... We hear this question asked one day, "When He returns, would He find faith?" He never questioned whether He'd find righteousness, or whether He'd find Christians, but would He find faith when He returned, knowing that that would be one thing people would let go on? Hearing also the Holy Spirit speaking in the last days, that how these times would come: "Men would have a form of godliness, but would deny the power," lack of faith, and we thank Thee, Lord, tonight, because that in our hearts we feel that we have just a little faith. And help us, Lord, that that faith may be increased tonight, until it'd be so high, so lost in complete surrendered in Christ, until great and mighty works will be shown tonight. Forgive us of our shortcomings now, and help us. May the Holy Spirit just now, the great Officer of God here in the earth, searching out for a Bride for the Lord Jesus, and may He tonight visit every heart here in a special way. For we ask it in the Name of the beloved Son of God, Jesus Christ. Amen. You can be seated.
Just, I'm not quite as tall as Brother Baxter, and that makes me...?... [Brother Branham has conversation with someone while the microphone is adjusted--Ed.] As long as it's not in the healing line, all right. See? It's not in...?... We're indeed happy for the privilege of being here tonight to represent our--our Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ in the... We trust that the meeting will be a successful meeting: that is, that the people may have great faith in God. Otherwise, we--our meeting will not be successful. We have two more nights left in this service, and we--we trust that it'll prove to be a great success to you all.
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And now, each one of you are conscious of the fact that without faith it's impossible to please God. For he that cometh to God must believe that He is, and a Rewarder of those who will diligently seek Him. And may, tonight, while we're waiting on Him for His blessings, may He just add grace to grace for us.
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Mr. Baxter, as I was just coming up, I heard him speaking, and he had a--a very forceful sermon which I am very thankful for. It's always the preaching of the Word that brings forth the results of a great meeting. "For faith cometh by hearing, and hearing of the Word of God." In the shadows of this evening service, I wish to read some out of--of God's Word, that it might be that just the reading of the Word will bring faith. For my words, like all other man's word, can fail, but God's Word cannot fail, because It is written by God.
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And you who have your Bibles and wish to turn to this portion of Scripture, it's found in the Book, the writing of Saint John the 5th chapter. I wish to read a portion of this chapter for the--just before the evening service. And then we will call the prayer line after a few comments, maybe a testimony of something our Lord has done for us. Which, I understand that Mr. Baxter in the former part of the meetings has the testimonies that goes on during the time of these services. And sometimes I relate to some something that God has did in the times past.
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The reading of the Word now, please: After this there was a feast of the Jews; and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. Now there is at Jerusalem by the sheep market a pool, which is called in the Hebrew tongue Bethesda, having five porches. In these lay... great multitudes of impotent folk, of blind, halt, withered, waiting... the moving of the water. For an angel went down at a certain season into the pool, and troubled the waters: whosoever... first after the troubling of the water stepped in was made whole of whatsoever disease he had. And a certain man was there, which had an infirmity thirty and eight years. And Jesus saw him lie, and knew that he had now been a long time in this case, he said unto him, Wilt thou be made whole? The impotent man answered him, Sir I have no man, when the water is troubled, to put me in--in the pool:... (pardon me)... for while I am coming, another steps down before me. Jesus said unto him, Arise, take up thy bed, and walk.
And immediately the man was made whole... took up his bed, and walked: and on the same... was the Sabbath. When you return home tonight, read the continuation of this chapter. I wish to read the 19th and 20th verse, just to save time, because my speaking time tonight is just about gone. Then answered Jesus and said unto them... This is when the Jews questioned him.
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Could you imagine in the Biblical days of the Son of God, passing along the streets of the city, and how His heart was moved with the sick and the suffering. And when coming to this notable place, called in the Hebrew tongue, "Bethesda," because it had five porches, it was at the sheep market, where they brought the sheep through this gate. And there was, more or less, a phenomena of that day, that the people believed that there was an Angel Who came down out of the heaven at certain seasons and troubled the water. Now, living here by this beautiful lake Erie, most of you people would know what a troubled water was. It's a water that's... The current's moving one way, and the waves moving another way, which makes a chopped water, which is a very dangerous water for the boatmen.
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And in this pool where they washed the sheep, was just a round pool, perhaps the size of this building. And in there, at certain seasons, the water become chopped. And it had been said by someone, that there was an Angel which did this chopping of the water, or troubling the water. Of course, to some people it was only a superstition. It was not written in the Scriptures that God was going to do anything like that, so many people would not believe it. But to many people, they believed it was the truth, because it produced a results. For the first person stepping into the water, being with some ailment, with faith, the Angel... The virtue of the water, the phenomena of it, the chopped water, which many people thought was just the wind going around the wall... Which, there was a wall around the pool. And a certain way the current might be flowing from the water that's coming in, and the wind turn it back, making a chopped water. But the strange thing of it was, when the person that had faith stepped into the pool, the chopping ceased, and that person got well of whatsoever disease.
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Now, that was a very strange thing, but they could see the results of what the pool did. And they could see the results that come upon the person. So they believed that God sent an Angel down. And now, as it's written in the Scripture, we believe that it was an Angel, we Christian people, because the Bible said it was an Angel. The Bible to that time... This New Testament wasn't written. They
just walked by steps of faith, like we do today, walking in another age: steps of faith. But when our Master came, He was God's provided way for the healing of the sick bodies. God has seasons, and He had provisions made for that certain generation.
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When Charles G. Finney, to my way of thinking (and I'm just one), was one of the greatest ministers since Saint Paul. He claimed to have won a million souls to Christ. Dwight Moody in his day... Charles Finney was a--a lawyer, an educated man, and he was God's message to the world in his day, an educated man who got many hundreds of lawyers together. And you've read his biography, I'm sure, most all people who read those things, religious books. And it's a--it's a masterpiece. Then along came Dwight Moody, which was a very illiterate, unlearned man. His grammar was very poor, but he was God's Message for that age. In each age God has a message.
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And in the days when the children of Israel were journeying through the wilderness, God had a message of a brass serpent on a pole, provided for a compound reason: for forgiveness of sin and healing of their body from a snakebite, which their medical aids would not touch. And Moses was learned in all the wisdom of the Egyptians, which were very smart, shrewd, medical men. But his--his remedies did not help this certain snakebite. And we believe that to be true, because the Bible states it. And he lifted up a brass serpent, and the people had nothing to do but to look at that brass serpent and believe that it was God's compound cure for their sins, for refusing God's servant, and for complaining against him, and for the cure of the snakebite.
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Jesus said, "As Moses was--lifted up the brass serpent, so must the Son of man," the same reason. And now, that serpent was God's provided way for healing for many, many years. And after the serpent, the people got to worshipping the image, the serpent, instead of what it stood for. And that brought the people under idolatry, so the prophet went in and took the serpent and destroyed it. Later, when the people had need of Divine healing, God sent an Angel down to a pool. Now, the Scripture said that it was an Angel and was on the pool. And the first one stepping in, that had faith, got healed.
Now, the quotation of the Scripture here, claims that there were great multitudes of people who lay there, was lame, halt, blind,
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and withered, waiting for the moving of the waters. And then when the first person got healed, all the virtue of the Angel that was on the water, His powers, went into the sick person. The waters ceased, and the Angel never come back for many days, at another season, perhaps another four, five, or six weeks. But the people waited patiently for the Angel. And many of you clergymen setting here, no doubt has taken the history of it: how that the people would even fight with knives trying to run over each other to get to the pool to get in first. What a mass of humanity, suffering, that must have been.
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And when along came the virgin born, Divine Son of God, and He was God's provided lamb, provided Sacrifice, Jehovah-jireh, the provided One... And as He was born and the people of that day, of His day, especially the religious people, did not believe Him, because He never come in a classical way that they expected Him. But He came humble, born in a manger, wrapped in swaddling's cloth. There was no singing at His birth, as there is a king's birth. Mortals, when a king is born, the people sing and have jubilee. But there was no king, no people to sing at this King's birth. But the Angels came down and sang to the shepherds, "in the city of David is born Christ the Saviour."
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And some Magis who seen a--a phenomenal, a star, and they had--they even had many more observatories then than we have today, because each city had it's own observatory. And they kept the time by the stars. The watchman stood on the tower in the observatory and he watched the star. You remember, "What time is it?" he asked the watchman. He said, "The day cometh and night." They watched the stars, and they knew about what time it was. But this, now notice, this magic, as we'd put it, so even children could understand it, mysterious light came over every one of those observatories, across from the Orient. It said, "We have seen His Star in the east." But His Star wasn't in the East to them. They were in the east, looking west towards Palestine, and saw His Star. And none of the observatories, none of the historians or so forth has anything written of it, or no man in that day saw the star, except the Magi, and it led them to the Christ. It was God's provided compass.
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And those men happened to be the lineage of Ham, Shem, and Japheth, the three sons of Noah. And they came and offered gifts to the Son of God. And He said in Matthew 24, "When the gospel has been preached to all the kindreds, tongues, and nations, then the end shall be." When the fathers, who came forth in commemoration of His birth and laid down gold, frankincense, and myrrh to worship Him,
then when all their children has heard the message of the Gospel...
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Now, the Gospel, commonly believed, is the Word of God, and that is true in one sense. But the Word of God is not Gospel alone. The Word of God is the Seed that produces the Gospel. Jesus said a sower went forth and sowed seed. And some fell onto the stony places, and some fell by the wayside, and the fowls of the air devoured them. Some fell upon thorny thistle ground; some went over and brought a hundredfold. Now, the seed, you people here who are a farmers, every seed will produce if it's in the right kind of a ground. And every Divine promise of God in the Bible will produce if It's met in the right kind of a heart. It'll produce the promise. If you have need of salvation, believe that He saves you and accept His sacrificial death, and you shall receive what you've asked for. If you're weary and gloomy and feel like that everyone's against you, "Come unto me all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest." That's a seed. Accept it. And if you're sick, "He was wounded for our transgressions, with His stripes we're healed." "Accept it. It's a seed: will produce.
When you sow a seed, you don't dig it up every morning to see if it's come to pass. If you do, your seed will never come up. You got to plant it, commit it to the earth, and let it alone. It's up to nature, God, to water it and to see that it produces. Is that true? So that's the way you do the Word of God. Accept it in a good heart, already fertilized, and all the creepers, and the rocky places, and the stony doubts taken away, and in good rich soil of faith, and believe it, commit it to God, and walk away, testifying that you have received what God has promised you. And He's the High Priest of your confession, to make right anything that you confessed that He has done. That's the Gospel. Now, the Gospel isn't only the Word.
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Could you imagine people freezing to death, and I would paint them a picture of a fire. I'd say, "Look at the fire burning. Isn't it warm? Look at the people standing around, warming." But that's only a picture of something that has been. You'd freeze just the same, looking at the picture. What it takes is that fire to be reproduced again for your warmth. And the Gospel that was in that day, it's written in the Word as a history, a painted fire of what was. Accept the same seed that they accept, and it'll be a living reality in you, that'll bring you into the same experience that they had. Say, "Rev. Branham, is that the truth?" According to the writings of the Scripture, the great Saint Paul said, "The Gospel come to us not by Word only, but through power and
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demonstrations of the Holy Ghost." And when Jesus commissioned the church to go into all the world and preach the Gospel: Mark 16, "Go into all the world and preach the Gospel to every creature. He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved, and he that believeth not... And these signs shall follow them that believe..."
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Now, there's many has a profession that they believe, and today in my church, as in most all of our churches, we class a believer as one who is loyal to the church, and comes to church regular, and takes a--a place, a position in the church, and helps the church in its financial needs. But that's very contrary to what Jesus said. Jesus didn't say, "These signs will follow them: they'll take their place in church, and they'll be loyal members," and so forth. He never said that. But here's His last statement to the Church. Listen. "These signs shall follow them that believe: in My Name they shall cast out devils, speak with new tongues, or take up serpents, drink deadly things it'll not harm them. If they lay their hands on the sick, they shall recover."
And then He ascended up into heaven. And the disciples worshipped Him, and returned to Jerusalem, the Lord working with them, confirming the Word with signs following. Is that the Scripture, quoting It just as He said it. Now, I'm not respon... [Blank.spot.on.tape-Ed.]... a man laying there. Does that sound right. No, it isn't. He knew where the man was. He knew that he'd had an infirmity thirty and eight years. Now, he might've had a heart trouble. He might've had arthritis. Or he might've had TB. He might've been anemia. He might've had a stomach trouble. It was an infirmity. He wasn't crippled, nor afflicted, or disable to walk, for he said "When I'm coming down, another steps down ahead of me." But he'd had an infirmity thirty and eight years, and Jesus came by and healed that one man, and turned away and left that great multitude of lame, halt, blind, and withered. Is that right? Now, I am quoting John 5.
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Now, look at that. Could you imagine the lovely, all-powerful Jesus coming by such a mass of humanity, of blind, lame, halt, withered, and pass right along among those people, and heal one man that wasn't withered, neither was he blind, nor halt, nor crippled? But he had an infirmity thirty-eight years. And Jesus knew that he'd been this way a long time, and said to him, "Wilt thou be made whole?" He said, "I have no one to get me to the water; when I'm coming someone else steps down ahead of me." He said, "Take up thy bed and walk." And away he went. And Jesus,
with the heart of God in Him, walked right away and left that rest of that complete multitude lay there, lame, blind, halt and withered. That is the Scripture, the Gospel according to the Bible here, of Saint John. And this is not fanaticism, but all that knows that that's the truth, and I have read it from the Scripture here, would you say, "Amen." [Congregation says, "Amen."--Ed.]
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Wonder why that the immaculate Son of God, infinite in love and grace, would walk by a multitude of people and leave them laying there like that? Now, I believe, if He should've said to that cripple, or to this withered, or to this withered, or this blind man... I believe His heart went out in sympathy for them. Do you believe that? His heart went out in sympathy. And I believe if He would've said to one of them, "You get up and walk," or, "You have received your sight," I believe it would've happened, don't you? But now listen as I read the following verses, when He was questioned, 19th verse: Then answered Jesus and said unto them, verily, verily I say unto you. The Son can do nothing of Himself, but what He seeth the Father do. For what things so ever He doeth, these also doeth the son likewise. For the Father loveth the Son and showeth Him all things that Himself doeth, and He will show Him greater things, works, than these, that ye may marvel. Do you see what I mean?
Now, Jesus the Son of God, said, "I the Son of God can do nothing about that, for I can only do what My Father shows Me to do. For, whatsoever the Son seeth (amen,), seeth the Father do, these things also doeth the Son. For the Son... The Father showeth the Son whatsoever things He doeth, and He will show you greater things than this, that ye may marvel." Saint John 14:12, quoting Jesus, "These things that I do, shall you also. And greater things than this shall you do, for I go unto My Father." I quote again the Scripture, "It's expedient for Me that I go away, for if I go not away, the Holy Ghost will not come." Again, "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 age." Quoting again, Hebrews 8:13--13:8, rather, "Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today, and forever." "When He the Holy Ghost has come, He will guide you into all truth and light, and will show you things to come." True? Those are quotations from the Scriptures of Jesus' own Words.
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Now, is it strange today, then, that the Words of Jesus would be fulfilled before our very eyes? Would it be strange today if the
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people that are unbelievers would say it's the devil? No, Jesus, quoting again, "If they have called the Master of the house (which was He, the house of God) Beelzebub (which was a spiritualist)... If they have called the Master of the house, Beelzebub, how much more will they call them of His household?" If they called the main Priest, the High Priest, the Prophet of all prophets, the King of all kings, if they call He, the Power of all powers, doing His works, because He was a Seer, and the Master of all seers that was, and was before, and will come, the Head of all of it, the Producer of all of it; if they called Him Beelzebub, a spiritualist, how much more will they call those minor seers of the household. If they call the Father a devil, how much more will they call the children a devil." You see what I mean?
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So take your stand tonight, my beloved friend, on the side that Christ is on, on the side that He's vitally proving Himself to be. "And now, this is not done," quoting from my heart, "these things are not done in secret. They are done openly, that all may see." They're not in one part of the world. It's confirmed around the world, and He shall confirm it again. These things are done that it might be fulfilled, which is already prophesied in the Bible to come to pass in these days.
Here I feel the Spirit of God. Listen close. Here it comes. This is a glorious thing. This is the day of the Lord. This is the day that we should be happy. For in our eyes today, and our ears is fulfilled the Word of God to this day, that the Lord has said. Praise be the Name of the Lord. This is it, the Holy Spirit here in confirmation of His Word. The prophecy that's been already foretold and predicted, is being fulfilled now before your eyes in Erie, Pennsylvania, this night. And the Holy Spirit, Who wrote these Words, is here at this armory building tonight, to vindicate the Truth of God, according to the Word, the seed, and the fulfilling of the Word. He's here. Then let us rejoice in our hearts, and be encouraged. Let us set up, and take heed to what we have heard, 'less we should let it slip at any time. Let us believe on Him with one heart and one accord. We are limited, and I am limited, to whatever the Father would show me, that I can do; without that, I can do nothing; for I only fulfill the Words that was spoken by the Lord Jesus.
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Jesus, when He came, He said He came to fulfill the Word of God, what the prophets has said. Amen. He came to fulfill the prophecy of the Old Testament. Do you believe it? [Congregation says, "Amen."--Ed.] Now, the Holy Spirit is here to fulfill the prophecy of the New Testament. Do you believe it? Then let us be glad, for today is the great day of our Lord.
Do not be weary, you who are sick and afflicted. Do not be weary, you who are down hearted. And you beloved ones who are setting here in chairs and on stretchers and cots. According to medical science, you probably never get well. And the dear doctors has maybe done all they know how to do to help you, but they're men like I am. And God knows, if I had one bit of authority or power, I'd come right down out of this platform; there wouldn't be a sick person left in here in a few minutes. I would do it. And so would've my Master, when He passed by Bethesda, and look at that great mass of ten thousand people laying there, crippled, afflicted, and blind. But He said, "I can only do what My Father shows Me to do."
And so is every mortal limited to the powers of God. For no flesh, even the Son of God glories not before the Father, for He said, "It's not Me that doeth the work; it's My Father that dwelleth in Me; He doeth the works. He shows the Son what Himself doeth, and the Son does likewise." The same Gospel, by the same God, is here tonight. Soon we're to go to Africa in a few days. One way, I kinda hate to go. Hate to say good-bye to my wife and babies, and all. A lady, in a restaurant, the other morning, said, "Are you going to leave your little wife and those babies to go to Africa?" Said, "Yes, ma'am." She said, "What are you going to Africa for." I said, "To carry the Gospel, of Jesus Christ." And I said, "He said, 'Whosoever will not forsake his wife, his children, all, and cleave to Me, shall not be worthy to be called My disciple.'" And I said, "It's such a little thing for me to forsake my lovely little wife and babies and things, to go to the foreign fields, when He come from glory down, and died for me." She went around to get my breakfast, in a few moments she come back. She said, "Sir, there's so few people think that today." This world is hungering, friends. Give them the Gospel in its trueness, in its power. A green light, to flash to Africa...
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I was in Houston the night the picture was taken back there, of the Angel of the Lord. Two days before the picture was taken, Dr. Bosworth came in, said, "Looky here, Brother Branham." He had a picture of the late... granddaughter of the late Florence Nightingale, the noted nurse of England. Her great-great-granddaughter, I believe it was. She was in South Africa, and had a malignant growth over the...?... of the stomach. They had her holding up there, when she wasn't nothing but bones, just eat her up. They stood her up like this, she's almost six foot tall; tall, thin, blond-haired woman. She's standing like that, and her arms about that big around; I believe she weighed forty pounds, or thirty-five pounds, or something. And through her body, here, she had a small clout around her. And when
he showed me that... And she was begging. She'd sent a airplane ticket, for me to fly to Africa from there, right quick.
Sometimes when I go home, there'd be eight or ten tickets laying there from different places. And I'd just get down and pray, and ask the Lord which one to go to. The others, I return. There where the Lord leads me, I try to go. And it's--it's hard, in one way, but it's so sweet. At nighttime, when you lay your head on the pillow, to know you've done your level best to do something for somebody, no matter how much scorn there is to bear and how much cross there is. I think,
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Must Jesus bear the cross alone, All the world go free? There's a cross for every one, And there's a cross for me.
All this isn't a flowery bed of ease, friend. At nighttime, the struggles. And sometimes when demons has been ordered from people, and them fighting, and that person believing, then they'll haunt right back at you at night like that. Better know what you're doing. All right.
They give me the picture, and Brother Bosworth said, "Brother Branham, I... Here it is, all I can hand it to you." And I--I just had to weep like a baby. I just knelt down the floor and laid the telegram-the papers down there, rather, and the picture. And wife, and my little girl got down over the picture, and we prayed. I said, "Heavenly Father, You know I can't leave here, humanly speaking now, when thousands of people are waiting." I said, "But if You will just touch that poor, dear, dying woman there in Africa and heal her, it'll be a "go" light, for me to go down there, if you'll just touch her and heal her." I said, "I can't do no more about it. Now, I'm willing to leave the meeting, anything you want me to do, Father." God sometimes does that. You remember Philip? And I committed it to Him, and handed the picture back to Doctor Bosworth. And then I just went on.
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And then King George of England, you all know of him cablegraming me twice to come pray for him. When a man over here at Ft. Wayne was healed with multiple sclerosis, was a friend to his private secretary--been a bed patient ten years. I couldn't go at that time, but I know I'd be in England soon, so I just had prayer for the King. In the day that we had landed, Brother Baxter and I, the others of the--to the campaign that furnished us to go there by American money. And we landed in E--England, I'll never forget, I said to Brother Baxter, "Brother Baxter," just now maybe I will have a little
bit of rest before going into this great strain." 'Cause, we knowed there'd be multiplied thousands waiting in Finland.
So tomorrow night, if the Lord willing, I will tell you what happened in Finland. But now our time is getting by. And as I started walking, I heard someone page me at the international airport, just out of London, about twenty miles. Brother Baxter said, "Let me take it, Brother Branham." And he went ahead. There was ministers there, paging me. They said, "Come out here. That Miss Florence Nightingale from Africa, just come in a plane ahead of you. She's dying, and wants you to come to her." Oh, how could I get to her there in all that mass? I told him, I said, "You take her on to your home. I want to go down there to Buckingham Palace. And then you call me, and I will be at the Piccadilly Hotel." Brother Baxter and I fixed it up with him. We went on to the hotel.
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And on the second day, after we'd went to the palace, and up to John Wesley's place, and so forth, we came back down the Westminster Abbey. Then we went into the hotel. And this minister, English minister, called, with his little cab. And we went down to his house, and it's kindly foggy that morning. We went up... had a lovely place, and his big church. We went upstairs. And there were many of them to welcome us.
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And, oh, brother, sister, you reading that little book of mine, seeing there about little Georgie Carter, she only weighed thirtysomething pounds. Nine years and a half, she'd never moved. I thought that was the poorest person I ever seen, when she'd never raised off of her back, for nine years and eight months. She's my piano player at the Milltown Baptist Church tonight where I'm pastor. But... And the people in the neighborhood, said, "Let her get healed, and we'll all believe." But it never made one believer. So they thought she was bewitched or hypnotized. That's been years ago, and she's still bewitched then, and hypnotized. She's gained some nearly a hundred pounds since then.
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Then, this woman, when we went in there... When Brother Baxter looked at her, he--he just turned his face. He could hardly stand to look at the poor woman. And myself, when I seen her, I--I thought that my heart would swell out. She couldn't speak loud enough for me to hear her. So I got down real low, and one of the nurses translated what she said--or said to me. She said, "Brother Branham, I want to touch your hand." And oh, friends, we--we all
going to leave one day, unless Jesus comes for His Church. And we got to go back to the dust of the earth, for that's ordained of God that we should do so. When I taken a hold of that hand, I do not believe (just speaking from my heart), that a skeleton's hand would have been any more: just as cold, and just the bones. And I took a hold of her hand. And her arm was just the arm bones.
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And she wanted me to see her body. Now, I wish to make this statement; I'm... have a mixed audience here. But I want you to understand me, as your brother. And over her--her body, when they taken the--the sheet off of her, she wasn't, didn't look like a human; it looked like a skeleton. As a lady, how they're built in the bosom, everything was sunk through and there was just the ribs there. And her body was so poor, until in her hips, where the ring was, the ring in the hip, the skin had growed together through the ring like that. And her limbs was just about that big around, up here around where they jointed into the socket. How the woman was living, only our heavenly Father knows. And she was crying, the tears was running off the side of her face. And where there was enough moisture to the-for the tears, I do not know. Her legs where real blue, the bone, like on her, where they fed her glucose and stuff, for she'd never been able to swallow for several months.
And the nurse got down to see what she was saying. She said, "Have Brother Branham to ask God to let me die. I can't die." She couldn't eat. They couldn't find no more veins. And there she was just laying there wasting away. Brother Baxter, and Brother Lindsay, Brother Moore, myself, and two or three ministers, and the nurses, and the loved ones of the home; I said, "Let us bow for prayer." And when I started to pray... My Bible is open before me. And our heavenly Father is near to listen to what I have to say, and what you... Just as I started to pray, I said, "Our Father Who art in heaven," a little dove flew at the window. And he started going, "coo, coo," walking back and forth, "coo, coo." And all the time I was praying, he cooed. And when I raised up, the ministers started to say, "Did you detect the dove?" And as I raised up, the dove flew away. And as I started to say that I heard the dove... As you see here it here in the night, I had no control of what I was going to say, and said, "THUS SAITH THE LORD, you'll live and not die."
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We have a letter from her now. She weighs a hundred and thirty five pounds, in perfect, normal health. My secretary's wife sets here; she sends a picture of a different-looking person; you wouldn't
even know her, from them bones, from all the medical doctors that could be gathered together. What was it? Was it my prayer? No, it was her faith in what Jesus did for her nineteen hundred years ago. Just as you was saved, nineteen hundred years ago, and from sin and shame, you were brought to fellowship with God, not because Jesus saved you, last night or last year, but because at that time you accepted what He had already done for you. "And He was wounded for our transgressions; with His stripes we were healed."
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Now, if you will accept now what He done for you then... Now, He is the... Hebrews 3:1. He's the High Priest of our confession. Now, anyone who knows the Scripture, knows that that word is written "profession," but the same word's translated "confession." In other words, He cannot save you by the merits of your prayer. He cannot save you by the merits of your enthusiasm or your good works. He saves you by the merits of your faith and your confession. "For if you will confess Me before men, him will I confess before My Father and the holy Angels." And whatever of any re... Listen close. Any redemptive blessing that's written in the Word... Now, there's no need of you arguing of it, whether it's in the atonement. If it's in the Word, God is sovereign and has to fulfill His Word. "For heavens and earth will pass away, but My Word will not pass away." If God said so...
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God is worth no more than His Word. And if His Word is no good, than He is no good. If your word... If I can't put no confidence in what you say, you're no good. But you're just as good as your word is. And God is just as good as His Word is. And I, as a Christian believer, I believe that this Bible is inspired, and It is written by the Holy Spirit, and It is the infallible Word of God. And God is under obligation to His Word, to the believer that will accept His Word. And any Word is a seed. If you accept it in your heart by faith, and believe it, and confess it, God will bring it to pass.
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Now, may I say this again, as many time newspapers, magazines, across the world has said, called me a Divine healer. Remember, that is an error. I'm very thankful for the reports that I've had in the magazines and papers. I've had about two or three out of all that was hostile. Most all of them were very kind. "Post Dispatch," and "Chicago Tribune," and all those there, you read it in the book there. And the time where you can send right back to the papers and get them, where, the people come in and were even healed themselves, reporters, and so forth. Where they went and examined the cases, to see, taking time; instead of just--just shutting
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Dear brother, sister, there's only one Church, and that's the body of believers out of every church, that are truly believers in our Lord Jesus Christ. That's the only Church there is. We do not come into the Church--into the Church of God. We become into this fellowship; the Baptist fellowship, the Methodist fellowship, the Catholic fellowship, the Presbyterian fellowship. We become in there by a working agreement, like the unions have in the churches. But in the Church of the living God, we do not come in by letter, by--by handshake, by water baptism. But the Scripture says, "By one Spirit we are all baptized into one Body." A Christian, regardless of what fellowship we're connected with, we are borned a Christian by the Spirit of God, and we become believers on His Name. Oh, how I love Him. And how I know that you love Him. And how my desire is tonight that He shall heal each one of you.
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And now clearly understand, before we call this line. That there is no power in any man on earth to heal you in the way of Divine healing. A doctor might move a place; he might set an arm. He might remove appendix, but who is going to heal that place up that he cut the appendix out of? He might pull a tooth, but who's going to heal that socket? He might set an arm, but who's going to knit that bone together. It takes the supernatural. And all healings in the hospital, on the sick beds, in the doctor's office, all healings is God's healing. No matter what aid you use, they're only remedies; He is the cure. Remedies are aids; God is the cure. Do you understand? Now, the doctor will do all he can to help you, to aid nature, but God is the cure.
Psalms 103:3 said, "I'm the Lord Who forgives all of thine iniquity (Do you believe that?), Who heals all of thy diseases." Now, you might come and confess your sins to me, and ask me to pray for you, but I cannot forgive you. If you sinned against me, I can forgive you. But if you sinned against God, He is the only one that can forgive. And He has forgiven every person in the world, and ever will be in the world. They're already forgiven, but it will never help them until they accept it by faith and then confess it. And He's healed all the sick people, but it will never help them, until they confess it by faith, and believe it, and act upon their confession. "For as the body is dead without the Spirit," says James, "so is faith without works." You've got to believe it and act like it. When you accept Him as your Saviour, you've got to believe it and act like Him.
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Now, this... I was born into the world, not by the will of man, or not by man, but by the will of God, by Divine foreordination of God; not by my holiness, I have none. Not by my family's holiness; my family, back in the generation before, were immigrants from Ireland. They were Catholic. All the people down through were Catholic to the last generation. They went to no church at all, separated, my father and mother both are Irish: Branham and Harvey; they had no religion at all. Came on down to this... My, I wasn't in church until I was twenty-four years old. Away from church, but the...
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When I was born in a little mountain cabin in Kentucky, that Light that you see on the picture, that the scientific research of the world has claimed it to be a supernatural Being, came in the room. It's been with me since I was a little boy. And It spoke to me, and is the One that sent me this, and said He was sent from the Presence of God, and would give me these things to do before the people, and not to tell them to join the Methodist, Baptist, or Presbyterian church; but to believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and they will be made well or saved from their sins. So, I tell the Truth. And if I spoke and said it was me, myself, I would be a liar, for it is not I. But It's... I speak of Him and He is Truth. And He will testify it being true. If you people will pray and be sincere tonight, while the service is in session, if God will show me what's happened to you, I shall pronounce it. If he doesn't show me, I cannot pronounce it.
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And I, as His servant, challenge each of you sick people tonight... There's a great many cards out here. We can only call a few to the platform, because under that anointing I only last so long. The managers and my son takes me away, because I have another meeting tomorrow night. And anyone who Scripturally knows the Bible, knows what that is. Look at the virtue of the Angel, left on one person. Look at Daniel, when he saw one vision, he said, "I was troubled at my head for many days." Is that right? And night after night... Why? For Jesus said, "These things that I do, shall you also, and more than this shall you do." It's only recorded just a few times. Where He said to the woman... When a man came to Him, by the name of Nathanael, and He said, "Behold an Israelite," in other words, a Christian. Said, "When did you know me?" Said, "Before Philip called you, I seen you." Is that true? He said to a woman that He carried a conversation with, to catch her spirit, said, "Go, get your husband." Said, "I have none."
Said, "You said well; you have five." In a few times in the Scripture... But He promised "greater," which was, "more than this shall you do, for I go to My Father." Now, this is fulfilling the Word.
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May the Lord Jesus bless each of you, while we bow our heads for prayer. Our heavenly Father, we are thankful tonight for the power of the Gospel; that hungry hearts will set in hot buildings, and many a times as many as forty thousand at a time sit in the hot suns of Jamaica, and in the seas, the islands of the seas, rather, to listen to the Gospel of Christ, spoke in Its simplicity yet in Its power. And to see the Holy Spirit come down in the miraculous form, and to heal the needy, we thank Thee, Father.
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We thank Thee for this great state of Pennsylvania, for its Governor, for all the officials, and for the city of Erie. The people, the churches, every one of them, Lord, standing, their great spires pointing up to heaven, and of a morning when the bells ring, the people rush to the church to find soothing consolation for their souls, to know that this is just the shadow, the negative. Someday death shall develop the picture, and then we'll see face to face, and know as we're known. Many are sick and unprivileged of going, many of their days are shortened from the three score and ten. Satan has did this evil thing.
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And, Father, Your humble servant tonight, I pray not that these people hear me, but I am speaking to Thee, O God. May the Angel that has guided me, sent from You, and fed me the days of my life, may He stand by me tonight to confirm the words that I have said, that the people might believe on Thee, and be saved and healed. And may, after the going of this meeting, when the people wake up to the consciousness of what's just happened, may there be a revival in every church in the city. May this city, oh, be altogether on a stir for the Lord Jesus. May every clergyman of the city be inspired, Lord, when he sees his church filling up, and the people coming, making their confession, and wanting to join church and to live for Christ. When he sees the sick that was once sick, then healed and giving testimony on thousands of others, Lord, believing... Grant it, Lord, tonight that something may happen that will stir them.
Now, I have confessed before this audience, and Thee, O Lord, that there is no man which is the Divine healer or Saviour. Only Thy
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beloved Son has done this for us. And we humbly bow to give Him all the praise and glory for what He has done. And we humbly ask Thee tonight, Lord, to increase our faith in His finished work of Calvary, when the great vicarious suffering there paid the double cure price, that, "He was wounded for our transgressions and with His stripes we are healed." May that double cure come to every one here tonight. And as blind Fanny Crosby, in the days gone by, writing, the poet:
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And tonight, to see these people setting here with cancer, heart trouble, just a few more days to live, then they must answer yonder at the judgment. O God, pass them not, O gentle Saviour. But may something be done that'll stir their faith, to look up yonder beyond the doctor's care, beyond the fog and the veil: to look There and see a bloody Sacrifice hanging before Jehovah God, tonight, Who said, "This is My beloved Son, here ye Him." And we hear His voice roaring from Palestine tonight, saying, "Whatsoever things you desire when you pray, believe you receive them, and you shall have them." Grant it, Lord, that these things will be so tonight. And now, I ask Thee humbly, as Your servant, that You will hide me behind the veil just now. Take, Lord, not because that I would be worthy, I am unworthy but because that Thy people here and Thy worthy Son died for this worthy cause... If You were looking for Holy hands tonight, where would You find them? We've all sinned and come short of the glory of God. But O Father, Thy Word is determined, and It must be fulfilled. Grant, today and tonight, that the words that I have spoke concerning the Angel of the Lord in these nights past, that it may be confirmed tonight. May many of Your people believe and be healed.
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And now, Lord, I know nothing of these people here. Thou knowest all about them. And may there hearts be set to Calvary tonight to believe. And as they believe, will You show Your humble prophet, Lord, tonight, and may I be able, by the power of the Holy Spirit to see these people, and may they be healed. For I humbly ask it as Your servant in the Name of Your beloved Son, Jesus Christ, Who stretched forth His arms to heal. Amen. Every believing child of God on praying grounds? All the believers
stand together now. And as we do know... I don't mean stand up. I mean stand together in heart. Thank you. Thank you. Stand with me in prayer as a unity. Do you know where there's disunity, the Spirit of the God is not welcome?
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Did you know when Jesus went in to rise, raise up Jairus' daughter, and the people said why she... He said, "She's not dead; she sleepeth." And they laughed at Him. Is that right? And He put them all out of the building. Is that right? He taken the believers. And when Peter went in to raise up Dorcas, the lovely, charitable widow, and the people were crying and lamenting, why, He put them all out of the house. Jesus taken a man by the hand, and led him outside the city (where the unbelieving priests and them were); led him outside the city, and healed him of deafness. Is that right? And I'm sure that you Christian believers recognize my position tonight. And now, let this be known to you, throughout the building: I am not responsible for anything that might happen to unbelieving or skeptic-minded people. For, be it assured unto you that sicknesses are absolutely demons.
For instance, the deafness or dumbness... Now, the doctor said the nerves went dead in the ear. Well, what made it go dead? Why didn't it go dead all over him? Because there's a supernatural power cuts it off, and it can't function no more. Like a transparent band around my hand, if you can't see it, or feel it, that's the only sense that will declare it. And if the natural senses won't declare it, it's a supernatural being. Now, is that true?
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Listen what Jesus said, when the deaf spirit went out of the man. He could hear. Is that right? When the deaf spirit, when the dumb spirit went out of the child, it could speak: Spirit. And when they come out of one... Demons are helpless unless they are embodied. Look at the demoniac that met Jesus, from Gadara. They said, "Suffer us to go into those swines," without a body. And Jesus said, "Go." And the swines went into the fits that was in the maniac, and down into the sea they went and drowned in fits, just like the man had.
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Look at two boys in the Bible, or some vagabonds, a minister, priest's sons who went down to cast out a devil, an epileptic spell out of a man: Acts 19. And they seen Paul casting out devils; and they
seen Jesus, so they said to this devil that was in the man, "We adjure you by Jesus, who Paul preaches, come out." The devil said, "Jesus I know and Paul I know but who are you?" And the devil overcome the men, and stripped their clothes off of them, and they run through the street, naked. Is that right? Now, them devils tonight are still devils, but they call them epilepsy, deafness, dumbness, cancer, cataract. It's devils. And when they come out, they go to others. For many, many, many, across the nation tonight, are setting afflicted because of that. So let it be known, that I am not responsible for critics, only for believers. It will not come near anyone who believes what I said to be the Truth. All right.
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Now, let us... Let's see, where's my boy? Well what's... How many cards you give out? G-50 to a 100. Last night we started at the first of them, then--the night before last, then we started at the middle. Let's start at the last, the last fifteen; 85, 90, 95, a 100. Let's start in the G's. Now, that's just... Whoever you are, look around, examine the cards. Look around. Here's a man who... Yours there, sir? 70, G-70. Look around there; somebody might be deaf or something and can't hear. Look, examine their cards. G-85, 90, 85, or 85, 90, 95, 100. Start along in there and get them, the last 15 of them. And now, line up according to your number over here, if you will. 85 and--and 90-90... 85, 86, 87, 88, 89, 90, and on to a 100. All right.
How many here... Thank you, sir. Thank you, sir. Thank you, sir. How many here does not have prayer cards, let's see your hands now. Do you believe with all your heart? Do you believe that the Lord Jesus is here to make you well? All right. Now, remember, my Christian friend, I am challenging every believer in here to ask Almighty God, the Father of our Lord Jesus, to heal you. Now, these people just have a card, and on the card's got a number. And on the... The reason we do that, if I'd say here. "All that wants to be prayed for, come up." Just look what a mass we would have. And if I'd say, "All the so-and-so," like that, you'd have no one to start. We just give these cards out, and then just start somewhere along, and let them be called. No one knowing where they're to start, we decide that after we get here.
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And now here lays people in cots, and stretchers, and so forth. Someone, can you look at your card there, lady, looks like your hands are twisted like. Can you hold your card? See what number she's got. Oh, my. All right, lady, you watch this a way, and you ask
our heavenly Father to heal you tonight. What about yours? Is your card? And your card wasn't in? Now you ladies on stretchers, you look and believe with all your heart. You're strangers. I know you not. But look and believe with all your heart that Jesus Christ will be here to make you well. Do you believe it? You believe that He will? How many of you out there, that's sick now let's see again that hasn't got prayer cards, wants to be healed? That's... Well, that's just about solid, all the way across everywhere.
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Now, be in prayer, and our heavenly Father will reveal to me. Do you believe He will? All right, then you pray and ask Him to heal you. Have faith now. And may the eternal God bless each one of you. Now, all you in the line, do you believe with all your heart? Each one of you believe? All right, have faith then in God. Do I know I don't know none of you, I don't believe. No, none of you. All right, have faith now and you bring your first patient.
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How do you do, lady? Now, I suppose that we are strangers. I don't believe I ever seen you in my life. But we are--we're strangers of life, and you have come to me for help. And I perceive, immediately, that you're a Christian, a believer, because the Holy Spirit will not embrace sin. You've noticed that in the meetings, if you've been here before. When sin is at the platform, or out there in the audience, It'll call it right out. Because He can't tolerate sin; God can't. He's holy, and He can't tolerate sin. And I ask you to believe me as His servant, and you do.
Now, you just received a prayer card, and on there was a number and a letter. And it was called, and you come to me as a stranger. Now, reason I'm talking to you, is your my first patient. And I--and I must carry a conversation, in order... Like Jesus said to the woman at the well, "Bring Me a drink." She said, "It's not customary for the Jews to ask the Samaritans anything." He said, "But if you knew who you were speaking to, you would ask Me for a drink." And the conversation went on; then He went right straight and told her what was wrong with her. Isn't that right? You see, the... He promised that the things that He did, that He would grant it also, and there'd be a former and a latter rain, and in this last days that these things would come to pass.
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Now, you're aware that something is going on, aren't you? You--you know it just now when I begin to speak to you. Now,
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something happened just then, didn't it? Now, that wasn't... That's nothing to hurt you now. That's to heal you. Did you see the picture of It back there last evening? You wasn't here. I want you to pass by the desk and see the picture; you'll see what that is, the looks of it, when the best research in America, and it hangs in a religious hall of art today: a supernatural Being. Now, that the audience might know. Just since we been talking, a real, I'd say, a lovely sweet kind feeling comes over you. Is that right? If it is, raise your hand. Now, what that is, that's the Angel of the Lord, contacting. There's something wrong with you. And if... and I am His servant. Just as that wire in that light is a servant to the light, it isn't the wire; it's the electricity going through it, that makes the light, the wire cannot make no light. Neither can I know what was wrong with you, or have any Light to you. It's the--this Spirit that you now feel, that brings the Light.
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Yes, ma'am, you suffer, don't you, sister? You're an extremely nervous person. You have much trouble. And you--you are bothered with... Don't you have a lot of night--getting up at night, or something another. Isn't that right? Yes, ma'am. I see you going through the night, always with... Is that true? [Sister says, "That's true, very true."--Ed.] Then, you--you've had... I see a doctor standing near you. No, you've had several operations, haven't you? That's right. And you're real... Your main trouble lays within your back. Isn't that right? It's in your back, and that's what's caused you to have a stomach... and so forth. Isn't that true? Are those things true, lady? [Sister says, "Those are very true, very true."--Ed.] Now, no one at all... only God would have to reveal that. Now, that wasn't me speaking just then. It was my voice, but I was at several different places and seen what took place. Was it true?
[Sister says, "That's very true, two operations at one time, and five at another."-Ed.]
Now, who... I spoke that, did I, while I was speaking? All right, then who would know that except God, or somebody was in that place, to see those things take place. Is that right? Sometimes it--I don't realize just what's went on. But now, you... That feeling's not like it was is it? You see, it's gone. That was when the blessing of God was upon.
Is that the same Spirit that said to our Lord Jesus Christ, when He told Nathanael where He seen him under a tree, praying, before he come to Him, and told him he was a Christian, or a believer, otherwise? Is that the same Spirit? The same Spirit. That It came back to you again, wasn't it? You are blessed, my sister. Your prayers are answered. Your suffering is over. Christ has healed you. You are
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well. You can go and be well in the Name of the Lord Jesus. Thanks be to our Lord Jesus Christ, Who brought again the Spirit of God and the resurrected Christ, Who is present tonight to heal all that is in need. He is here, friends. I have no way of bringing Him to you. Only your faith brings Him present. And watch the patient's expression change as they come to the platform.
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Now, a few moments, if the anointing keeps coming upon me, I will be not knowing where I am. Now, be sure for the meeting tomorrow night. And God bless you now. Be in prayer out there. And you bring your next patient. How do you do, lady? Our--our wonderful Saviour is marvelous, isn't He? Yes, ma'am. Yes ma'am. Well, He's just as sweet and kind to us tonight, as He every was. Yes, ma'am. Well, believing that, makes you a Christian, when the love of God is in your heart. Well, that's, we feel that way. That's just humanly, and blessed are they that hunger and thirst for righteousness. It's even blessed to even feel that way. Now of course, see you standing there you're wearing glasses which would know... Any of the audience would know that it was it something was wrong with your eyes. And now, they look good and clear, but I believe your trouble is in your left eye, mainly. Isn't that right? ["That's right."] Yes, ma'am. And both of them are just as clear, but you're going blind in your left eye. ["That's right, brother."] Not only that, but your left ear is awful bad. ["Oh, praise the Lord, that's right."] Isn't it? Yes, ma'am. Oh, I see it's your entire left side... ["Praise the
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woman, I lay my hands upon her, and ask, in the Name of Jesus Christ, that she will get well, Lord. I bless her, as Your servant for her healing. Amen. God bless you, God bless you sister. Go, thanking... Go, now just testifying that you're going to be well. Stand right by your testimony. Amen. Let's say, "Thank You, dear Jesus. Thank You, dear Jesus." All right, bring the next patient. Now everyone, just reverent and have faith now. And if you'll believe, God will make you well. He will make you well.
Now, come just a moment, sister, dear. I just want to... There's many people out there, believing, and it makes it very hard. There's many people setting out there now that's already healed. And it--it makes me real nervous or weak. And now, you are a stranger to me, I do not know you, and to save my energy, I want to just talk to
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you a moment if I can, to keep from seeing. The vision is what hurts me. Now, you and I are strangers; we know not one another. I've never seen you in my life. You've never seen me in your life as... have you? We are just strangers. Now, I want you to give me your right hand. And now, I want you to believe me with all your heart. Yes, ma'am. You have cancer. Is that true? You have cancer, and that's on the breast, isn't it? It's on the right breast. Is that right? How would I, you think, I would know that?
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I want you to notice something just a moment. While you have your hands laying here on mine, I want you to look at my hand here. See those little white things running over my hand? That's what I would determine... I don't know what it is. I just call it vibrations. It's a live growth in you, that's got a life. It was a germ just like you was. And you begin in the mother's womb to develop cells and become a human being. And that was a germ that wasn't in you then; it's a germ of death. And it came into you and begin to build a little house, begin to develop cells, and it's become a growth. And it's developing cells, and just as much body as yours is; only it has no form, and it's not a free moral agent like you are. It has one master; that's the devil: one determination, take your life.
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Now watch here. I want you to move... The Bible said, "In the mouth of two or more witnesses, let every word be established." Is that right? That's true. Now, take your hand off of mine; look at my hand now: just normal as any other man's hand. Isn't it? Now, lay your handkerchief right here. Take this hand over here, this one, and lay this hand up on there. There's no difference at all, in my hand. Is there? Just like any other man's hand. Well, I wonder why it's from this hand, and not from this hand? Now I want you to see, it isn't positionally. You see, my hand is just normal. Now I'm going to take my hand off, and put my hand upon it. Now there's nothing.
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Come here, Rev. Baxter. I know... I examined Rev. Baxter many times, and I know there's nothing wrong, less it started last few days. Now, I'm going to lay his hand, his right hand upon mine. Still nothing, is there? Just as normal as it can be. Now, take your hand off, Rev. Baxter. I will lay my hand on; just still normal isn't it. Now, lay this hand on there, this hand back again. Now look what happens. See? See what I mean? Now, why would it be this hand, instead of this hand? When He spoke to me, and give me two signs to do before the people, like God told Moses, He said, "You take the person by the hand, the right hand."
And that goes to my heart, by the left hand. And you see there's something happens there. And now, the Bible said, "In the mouth of two or more witnesses, let every word be established." Is that right?
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Now, you've come to me, as a stranger. I don't know you. And the Holy Spirit here, when I touched your hand, told you what your trouble was and where it was located. Is that right? That's true. And I have no way at all of knowing that, except through God. Is that right? That's one witness. Is that right? A second witness, that you see it on my hand, a physical reaction. Is that right? I want my boy, which has never seen this, to come forward. My son has never seen this happen. I want you to watch, sonny. I'm going to put my hand here. You see my hand here now? Let me have your hand, Paul. I will put Rev. Baxter's hand on here. See?
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Now, watch when I put the lady's hand on here, watch what takes place. See what I mean? Now, you remember that night in Vandalia, Illinois, when you were laying, sleeping on the bed, and the Angel of the Lord was standing over me there? And I throwed a pillow over, and woke you up, and said, "Look." And you come, screaming, running over to me. That's the same Angel of God that's testifying here. It's the same Angel of God. That is the first time Billy ever seen it. All right, now lay your hand back. I want to hold your hand there just a moment. And I want you to see, sister, it's not positionally. See? Now, see it? I want you to watch it just a moment. Now, there they come in a wave. You see, see here? Little white, like little white warts. You can see it from the audience. Watch them. Now, here they come; there they come. See them running over there? Now watch, there they go away. Here they come again. There they are. Now, what is that? That's the life of that cancer, excited, the spirit of it.
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If I can only get you to believe, it's going to leave you. If I can't, it can hold you. Now, it lays in your faith in the finished work at Calvary. Do you believe that God sent Jesus and He died for your healing? All right, sister, your faith has saved you now. It stopped, audience. Come here, Billy. All right, you can go off the platform, be made well, sister, in the Name of the Lord Jesus. Your faith has made you whole. Let's say, "Thanks be to our Lord Jesus Christ." Now, not my prayer saved her; her faith. Now, she was standing there; there is three witness: the first, let's see, was... It was told her what was, she done, or something, told her something supernatural. Then the next thing happened, It spoke to her concerning what was wrong and what
happened. The next thing, she saw the physical results. The next thing, while her faith was there, the same place, the same hand, looking right at it, the swelling went down, the--the disturbance on the hand left. The life of that malignant tumor in her breast left her. If she'll keep believing... She knows it now. Ask her, some of you question her, if a real cool feeling didn't sweep through her breast, and she was healed.
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I think we ought to just bow our heads in reverence to thank our Lord. Our Father Who art in heaven, Hallowed by Thy name. Thy kingdom come. Thine will be done in earth, as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us of our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil: For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever. Amen. Almighty God, Author of Life, Giver of every spiritual gift, send Thy blessings upon this people, increase their faith that they might know this hour, that Thou has visit them, and sent back to this earth, in the form of the Holy Ghost, the risen Christ. And may we tonight, as the apostles of old on the road from Emmaus, said, "Did not our hearts burn within us," when they recognized that the Christ of God had rose from the dead and was alive among men. And tonight, we are very conscious that He has rose from the dead, nineteen hundred years ago, and liveth forevermore, dwelling in His Church, making intercessions for believers, who confess upon His works and His vicarious suffering at Calvary. Almighty God, receive our thanksgiving for Him. In Jesus Christ's Name, we beg. Amen.
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All right, bring the man. Good evening, sir. I trust that the blessing of God will be upon you, my friend, that God will do something tonight in your case to cause you to believe more on the Lord. Of course, you're wearing glasses, any one would know that-that your eyes were bad. And... But there maybe something more wrong. And now do you believe that what I have said is the truth? You believe what I said about God is true? What I said about Christ is true? And about the Holy Spirit is true? Then the Angel that has come down, that God has sent down in this last days to bless His people, after the preaching of His Word... And that those things that faith has been built by ministers through the age, and then, to think, His loving kindness to come down in the last days and do something else for us, to send a prophetic gift that would magnify Him before the people,
and get the people to see that He is just the same today. He still liveth forevermore, setting, making intercessions.
And Angels are sent from His Presence, ministering spirits, sent from the Presence of God. Do you understand, brother, that God never takes His Spirit from the earth? God takes His man, but never His Spirit. God taken Elijah, but the spirit of Elijah come upon Elisha. And then several hundred years later, it come out on John the Baptist, the same spirit, made him act the same way. And then it's prophesied, that it'll be here again in the last days. See? God takes His man, but His Spirit remains. He taken His Son, but His Spirit stayed on earth, the Holy Spirit. He sent It back to the earth to live among mankind. Are you conscious of that? You are. [A man says, "Yes, I am. I believe that."--Ed.] You believe that? ["I believe that."--Ed.]
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And then the Scripture has said that Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever. And He said, and then let's see, if that's true, then He said, "A little while and the world seeth Me no more." That's the world order, the day of the way it is now. "They'll see Me no more," because His physical Being had been given and made a Sacrifice as a bleeding Lamb, an innocent for we guilty. "And the world seeth Me no more, yet, ye shall see Me." Now, who is "ye"? The believer. "For I will be with you, even in you to the end of the world." Now, did that mean to Peter, James and John, and those standing there? They're not living tonight. They're living but in glory. But the believer would know Him unto the end of the world. Is that right?
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Sir, you're a very deep thinker aren't you? Yes, sir. Yes, sir. You--you're always studying things. All, if I'd say this, that you might know you cross bridges many time before you get to them. Now, that's--that's hereditary. You just... That's your makeup. That is true isn't it? And you're--you're suffering tonight, with a stomach trouble. Isn't that right? Because you can't eat certain things. It's an ulcerated stomach. It's been caused from a condition that come a long time ago. And you're nervous, your eyes are stigmatized, and you've been practically nervous for a long time, a inward nervous. Is that right? At your work, sometime, I notice you. And sitting down, your strength becomes so depleted at times, till you have to sit down, rest. Is that true? I'm not reading your mind, my brother. I'm telling you, as the same Spirit that was speaking by our Lord Jesus, has revealed to you what was in your life. Is that right? All right, will you be... accept me as His prophet? I have told you the truth. Is that right by a supernatural Being? Do you accept it that way? Then believe me as
God's prophet. Go home, and eat anything you want to; the ulcer is healed. You can go. God bless you, my brother. The Lord Jesus make you well. All right, everyone real reverent. Come, lady. Now, be reverent. God is going to bless you all tonight. Have faith in God.
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And howdy do, sister. I see you're--you're a believer. You been disturbed for some time, haven't you? You have something on your mind that has worried you. Of course, the time of life that you're living in is one thing, if you understand what I'm speaking of; it has got you all, very much upset. You know what I speak of, the menopause. It's made you extremely that way. Satan lies to you. He tries to make you think that you're--everything is wrong with you, that you're not going to get well, and make you think that your time is near, make you think, sometimes, you've crossed the line. But that's wrong. And you're suffering with a tumor, also, aren't you? Uhhuh. Was that true? That was all true? Now, whatever I said, it was the truth. I--I don't know you, do I, lady?" I don't know you at all. We're strangers. And that was truth. And what was said, would only be revealed by some supernatural Being. Is that right? Will you believe me as His prophet? Then come here and let me put my hand upon you."
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Father, it is written in the Word, the last words from our Master's lips; He said, "These signs shall follow them that believe. If they lay their hands upon the sick, they shall recover." God, bless this one, who I hold her hand tonight. And thou demon, you tried to hold her. But you're exposed tonight before this audience. You've hid in her, in a form of a tumor. You thought you could hide from a doctor. But you can't hide from God. He's more than a match for you. I come representing Jesus Christ from Calvary, Who won the victory over you and all your kind. And I take the authority tonight, by a commission given to me by an Angel of God, Who's present now to witness it. You can't hold her any longer. Come out of her, in the Name of Jesus Christ. God bless you, my sister. I wasn't talking rough to you. You're healed now. You can go home, be well. Now remember, you're going to feel like you do now happy, and real good for about seventy hours, maybe, seventy-two hours, seventy-five. And you're going to get a little sick spell, severe headache. Don't you worry then. You continue to thank God for your healing. That may last for awhile. You'll get dizzy, swimy-headed, upset. You're even have to go to bed. But don't be weary. Now, if I told you what was; I've told you what will be. If you know that was true, what was. Is that right? It's true what will be. Go, and may the Lord bless you, my sister. Let us say, "Praise the Lord." [Congregation says, "Praise the Lord."--Ed.]
Are you believers? Now, you without prayer cards, just a moment, just hold the line there, just a minute. Getting extremely weak... Everyone just reverent as you can be. Let us pray, just a moment. Master, it seems that my life is dwindling away from me. I don't know how much longer You'll let me be here on this earth. But I pray for many years, if You can use me. But when Thou art finished with me, may I come to You. But I know that I shall be able to stay until I have completed the work that You've foreordained that should be done. And tonight, there are those who wasn't here this afternoon to receive prayer cards. They're laying here, some of them on stretchers, and some in cots, and some in wheelchairs, some on crutches, some of them dying with heart troubles, and cancers, and all manner of diseases. I do not know them, Father, dear. But as Your beloved Son in His grace, we be made Your sons through the adoption of by the Spirit...
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I pray Thee, Almighty God, that the Scriptures might be fulfilled which says, "Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today, and forever," that Thy humble servant may now be able to see what You have done tonight, as You will let Your servant, the Angel of God, Who has been sent to that little straw tick, laying yonder in the mountains... May You be near tonight to bless Your people, and to help us, dear God, for each one of us, to see Your blessings. And may, that You have confirmed Your Word tonight, through Thy servant, may people, here, believe with all their heart. There are those setting here without cards, who cannot come to the prayer line. Many are still in the line to come. But I ask Thee, Lord, to heal tonight. And may their faith now reach up, and say, "If God is on the platform, working through our little brother, that God is here with me. And God is no respecter of person and can heal me here where I am, as He is up there healing those from the platform. Grant it, Lord.
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And may Thy holy Angel, which came and said, He was sent from Your Presence, may He now speak through Thy servant, in the Name of Jesus Christ the Son of God. Amen. "And looking steadfast upon them and knowing their thoughts..." says the Scriptures, I wish you all to be reverent and to believe on the Lord now with all your heart. Now, you're out there without any contact to anywhere, except with God, and I'm only in contact with Him as the Holy Spirit will let me be. I can only speak what I see and what I hear, that can I speak, but no more. And I want all of you, do you believe, with all your
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What do you believe people, along through here? Do you believe with all your heart? If God Almighty will show to me your conditions from this platform, and will speak comfortable words to you, you surely will believe Him. Will you do it? All right, have faith in God. I just see the Light near a woman. Oh, I--I beg your pardon, the woman has just been healed, I believe. Was you in the prayer line, just awhile ago, lady, setting right there? Was you in the prayer line? Was you healed here at the prayer line? Well, that's why It's still holding over you. I could just see the Light. The whole... It looks like... I pray God to open your eyes to see, like I'm seeing now.
Here sets a lady setting right here. No, it ain't; it's this boy setting here. Say, young man, aren't you a...? Stand up just a moment. There's somebody behind you, pulling. Oh, you're a--you're a minister, or you're going to be a minister. No, your father is a minister. Is that right? I see the church, and there's a... Oh, you are very sick, aren't you, young man? You've been examined recently by doctors, or something, is that right? In a--in a great place where there's many doctors look to... Oh, it's your heart. I see a cardiogram. Is that right? Is that true? May the Lord Jesus bless you, my dear brother and make you well. Be... God bless you. Have faith.
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The lady setting right back there. You're going blind, aren't you, sister? Something wrong with your eyes, isn't that right? I see you getting it. Will you believe that Jesus Christ has healed you nineteen hundred years ago? Rise up to your feet and receive your sight. Yes, madam, in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ. All right. The man setting right next to you there. You have asthma, don't you, brother? Isn't that right? Asthma? Do you believe Jesus healed you nineteen hundred years ago? Do you accept me as His prophet? Then raise up on your feet and accept your healing in the Name of the Lord Jesus. The lady setting next to you, you ain't got no prayer card, have you, lady? Yes. You suffer with a female trouble, isn't that right? The Lord Jesus make you well, my sister and heal you. Have faith in God.
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Over this way, how many of you believe God? Just a moment. Reverently, way back, you with your hands up, who has not prayer cards back there? Have faith. Believe now. There's so many. You, setting there, looking so strangely at me, with the tie on. You've been praying, haven't you, sir? Yeah, I see you knelt in a room. And you
prayed, "If you could ever get near me, you'd be healed." Is that right? You suffer with a kidney trouble, isn't that true? Jesus Christ makes you whole, my brother. You stand to your feet. Now, there goes that spirit, a blackness, a darkness leaving that man, seemingly you could see it, watch it. It's got a sympathizing partner. Just a moment. There it falls, just a moment. Yes, there it falls over a man, setting there with a t-shirt on, black-headed man, his hands in his face. Stand up, young man. You suffer with kidney stones, isn't that right? Accept Jesus now as your Healer, that healed you nineteen hundred years ago. Have faith in God. Don't doubt.
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What about you, lady, sitting there, colored lady? That you suffer with arthritis, don't you? Well, why don't you raise up and accept Jesus Christ as your Healer? Throw away your crutch, and go home, be made well. Have faith in God. Look this a way, you cripples and on you chairs, stretchers. You believe? Swollen spleen, coming down out of Canada, a secret has been kept from you, lady. You have cancer, also. Do you believe me as God's prophet? Do you want to be healed? Do you believe I tell the truth from God? Then in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ, rise up off of your cot, be made well. Do you believe, lady? You laying on the stretcher, you're dying. You realize that? You're dying. But you have cancer too, don't you? Then in the Name of Jesus Christ, the Son of the living God, rise up from the cot, and receive your healing in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ. Do you believe, every one of you?
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Thank you Brother Baxter. Good evening friends. Very happy to be here this evening to represent again our dear Lord Jesus. I want to compliment you on that song, as I was coming up, as you were singing it. My boy went up to the top of the steps and come back down, said, "Do you hear that?" That was very beautiful singing. I've always said, "I love singing so well, when you ever get to heaven, and when they're sing--where there's singing at, that's where I will be." I like to hear it. I used to say in my church to my people, I would say, over at the... I believe I had a little mystic thing I was telling them, I said, "The river of Life is coming down from the throne of God, it makes a bend down here," I said, "over on this side of the hill the great angelic choir,
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great singers of all ages are singing there day and night." I said, "Over on this other side there's a little tree, and I'll be setting under that little tree listening when you want to find me." I was just, merely just something that I'd say to my--my church. Whether it'll be that way or not, I do not know, but whatever it'll be, it'll be glorious as long as Jesus is there; it'll be--it'll be glorious.
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Tomorrow afternoon the brother was telling me, I was to speak at two-thirty, I believe tomorrow afternoon. And then tomorrow night is our closing service. We trust that it'll be a great thing to all of you, that God will help you and bless you each one. And I--I just know He will. I'm just trusting Him. Remember, this is one of my last American meetings. And so I'm just believing God, that it's going to be a great thing. And the first time I ever had a service here in Pennsylvania, I met some friends this morning was telling me about Brother Roberts, another brother that prays for the sick. I remember him setting on the line, side line; he watched the work. He came to me, said, "Brother Branham, you think God will do that for me?" I said, "What do you mean, Brother Roberts?" He said, "Answer prayer." I said, "He will for anybody." That's right.
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And then Brother Osborn's been here. Many of you know Brother Osborn, just love that boy. He was in my meeting the night over in, I believe at--at Portland, Oregon, when that maniac run to the platform, about nearly three hundred pound man, just out of an insane institution. He just hated preachers. He'd hit a man the day before. They was after him, the law was. He broke his collar bone, his jaw, and knocked him out on the street. And he dodged the law, and then he come in. There's five thousand, five hundred there that night. And I just walked to the platform, and I was just standing there speaking on believe. And all at once somebody come running up through the platform, running up to the platform; there's was about three hundred ministers setting in the back and they all knew the man. And he had a gray suit on, a huge man. And he come running up, just stomping like that, real fast. And I could detect there was something wrong. But I never... You know the first thing is the Word of God; that's first. That's where everything should be reverent, when that Word is going forth. And then he ran to the platform; he said, "You hypocrite," said, "you snake in the grass." He said, "I'll show how much man of God you are," said, "I'll break every bone in your body."
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And I looked around to him, and I seen he was demon
possessed. And I just led two little police to Christ, was back in the waiting room, the dressing room. And quickly, they rushed to the platform, I motioned to them. It wasn't a flesh and blood affair; it was between spirit power. And I just went ahead with the, started with the message, and these ministers, three hundred of them, started shrinking back. Brother Baxter was present, setting there. I had just had been made acquainted with him. Many ministers I guess, that you all would know. And Doctor Wyatt, you remember him? He's--he was there. And Booth, Brother Booth-Clibborn, you remember he was there, and many of them that's around the Portland, Ore--the area. And oh, what a fellow that was. He turned around he said, "You hypocrite," said, "you deceiver," he said, "you stand up here and act like that before those people and pose yourself to be a man sent from God." Said, "I'll show you how much you're sent from," said, "I'll break every bone in your frail body tonight."
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Well, physically speaking, he was certainly able to do it. And he weighed at nearly three hundred pounds I suppose, about six foot two, and arms about like that. And his eyes was set, and his teeth scissored together. I just kept on speaking. And he rushed towards me, run over to me, said, "I'll break every bone in your body." And I turned around to look at him... Now, you better be sure you know what you're talking about in them times. There's no chance there for you to, just to bluff yourself; you better just let God have His way. So I... He told me; He promised me when He sent me, that He'd take care of me; so it's up to Him to do it. You see? I just... Now, I... And He will do it, every battle. So I turned around to him; I just stood there a few moments, just a second or two, and he called me a snake in the grass again, a hypocrite. And I never said nothing, and just looked up again, he said, "Tonight I'll break every bone in your body." And he said, [Brother Branham illustrates spitting.--Ed.] He spit right in my face, like that. And I started to say something. "I wouldn't do that friends," I was going to say that. Instead of that, the Angel of the Lord come whirling down and said, "Tonight you'll fall over my feet; you'll bow to the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ."
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Now, that wasn't me, that was God. So both made their prophesies. Both made their challenges, both spirits. Now, who was right was the next thing. He said, "I'll show you how much your feet I bow to." And he run forward like that and drew back his big fist. And everybody was just spellbound. Course all those demons setting there, that was their legion. I'm sure I'm talking to spiritual people. That was legions; it all went into this fellow. Like Goliath in the day of old. And he was, oh, he made that bold challenge, and he rushed
forward, said, "I'll see whose feet I fall over." And he drew back his big fist like that. I said, "Satan, come out of the man." And when he did he went... He made a great big scream, threw up his hands, his eyes went way out like that, and fell around till the police had to pull him off of my feet where he pinned me to the floor. They said, "Is that man dead?" I said, "No." "Well," said, "is he healed?" I said, "No. It's just God showing His power to make that demon bow to Him." That was all. See? I said, "He's not dead."
How many's read it in the book? Oh, many of you have my book, the account of it. And it's... In those books I wish we had some more, but we haven't, you just send in at the office, and we will have ten thousand again right away. And Brother Osborn, his wife was setting there that night. So Brother Osborn, he said, he fastened himself up in a room and nailed the door. He said, "Lord, if You're still God like that, You can help me too," the little fellow. And then a few weeks after that he drove by, he and his wife down to our home; he said, "Brother Branham, you think God would bless me if I'd pray for the sick?" I said, "He'd bless anybody who will pray for the sick." He said, "Well, here I go." I said, "God be with you, brother."
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And he's sure done a great work for our Lord. Very, humble, sweet brother, and I love him. And I understand that he's in the states again now. He's went overseas much with the--in the islands there and done a great work for our Lord. And if he's ever near, well, you--I--I tell you, he's a good brother; you just go hear him; he's all right. He's very sincere, and that's what it takes. And I remember slipping into one of his meetings one time; he didn't even know I was there. He said, "Now, you people coming in prayer line," said, "I'm not Brother Branham," said, "don't ask me what's wrong with you; I don't know," he said, "But I know the Word said He will heal you." And he didn't even know I was there, and he never did know I was there. I just flew--just flew in, and set in the back of the building, went out that night. So he never knew I was there, but... That's what I like, is sincerity (See?), sincerity. And to brothers that's here, God will bless every one of you in your churches. You don't have to have healing campaigns, but God will bless you in your church, if you'll pray for the sick, every one of you, sure.
Now, as far as just spiritual discernment like that; there's-there's nine spiritual gifts in the church that--that's just maybe on one tonight and one the other, but there's... I say this with reverence: gifts and callings are without repentance. This will... There'll be... There's a gift in the church of discernment; that's true. You see? But a prophetic gift is ordained before the foundation of the world to come forward. That'll never be until I die; it'll go from me to someone else. You see? But that... But now that doesn't take away the--the value, the Holy Spirit that's here to do anything that you want Him to do. That's right. And every brother in the.. Every person's got a right to pray for the sick that believes in praying for the sick. That's--that's true. Now, if you'll notice in the Pentecostal realms, and in the realms of all religions, there's supposed to be in the body of Christ, nine spiritual gifts. Do you believe that? Now, that's... Now, if you'll notice, God in sundry times and divers places, and manners, spoke to the fathers by the prophets; in this last day by His Son, Christ Jesus.
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Now, there's a Body; and in this Body we're baptized by the Holy Spirit into this Body and made partakers of God and of Eternal Life, through the gift of God, which is a free gift of God is given to "whosoever will, let him come." Now, that puts us in the Body. And when we're in the Body, in that Body is nine spiritual gifts operating. See? And it will come upon one. Now here... I better leave this subject alone. Let's see, I never come here to teach; I--I come here to talk, to pray for the sick. It might be a little against your theological teaching. You see? But anyhow, God be with you, and help you, and bless you is my prayer. All right.
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Now, do you love Him? He's just as wonderful. My, He just loves you everyone. And I'm sure you love Him. Because there's a great fellowship of the Spirit here tonight. And it's just too bad we have to leave tomorrow. I wish we could stay a month and see what would happen. You see? Till we just... The first, it's all new, and then it just settle, look like it takes two or three nights to get the--the powers of the enemy, you know... Christians come in sometimes, and they--they think, "Well, I--I just have to see it; that's all." And then the next night they're wondering, "Well, how could it be done?" And about the third or fourth night they're ready to say, "Well, Lord, here I am." Well... And that time, then it's time for me to go. But when I come back from Africa, the good Lord willing, I don't aim to have any more of these rush, push, and shove, and a handful of shirts and grab a plane. I'm--I'm going to go where the Lord tells me and stay right there till He says leave. If I have to stay out on a street corners or get a field out from some farmer, we--we just stay right there till the Lord says it's time to go.
If He can show me what's wrong with people in their lives, He can show me where to go, and what to do, and how long to stay. And I've been so tied up though. I got into... Well, at first when I left the Baptist church to be interdenominational to help bring the brethren together, to do all that I could. See? I believe that we're all brethren in Christ. And I don't believe we should be separated. It's all right to have different churches, own little beliefs, but that does--that's isn't the fundamental part. The thing of it is: We are brethren (See?); we are together. We're all born into one Body. Now, I've got... I've got, had nine brothers, two of them are--are gone. And--and there's none of them that looks like me, or probably acts like me, but they're my brothers. And so, family speaking, we're all Branhams, 'cause we were born in the Branham family. And we're all brothers when we're born into Christ. And I believe that soon, why, the Lord is going to let me have an out where I can be free. Brother Baxter and I have talked it over.
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And I started in, and we, I organized a little paper called "The Voice of Healing." They still have it here. Well, I found out in that then that's there's lots of finances and things hooked up to it. And I washed my hands of that stuff a long time ago. So the "Voice of Healing" is not my paper; I have nothing to do with it, not at all. That belongs to Brother Lindsay, at Shreveport, Louisiana. And come to find out, I got into that, and I thought I was getting out of organizations, and I got into one. So, it was still just almost organized down to every one of them in there, and so I just... I belong to my--just the Lord Jesus. And then I can come, go anywhere I wish to. And whatever He leads me to do, I can be free. Brother Ro... How many takes that "Voice of Healing," let's see your hands? It's a very lovely little paper. How many takes that "Healing Waters" of Brother Roberts; there's another fine paper. And I believe, isn't Brother Osborn got one called the "Voice of Calvary?" Or isn't that something like that, something of, "The Voice of Calvary"? Or some... He sent it to me. I think he just prints it every so often; he has a quarterly or something like that. They're very fine papers, and-and may God prosper them. I believe the Scripture said they're to publish His doings, or something; so that's fine. For those men who has education, and able to go ahead and do that, why, I--I'm... That's good. But for myself, I'm not eligible to do such. I have a very poor education: grammar school, seventh grade, at that. You know that without me telling you though.
Here not long ago I was over at Fort Wayne, over here, and I was just got through the service, and I walked back in the back. And
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there'd been a little girl that been healed there that was blind. How many takes the... How many seen this here "We The People," the book "We The People"? Did you see the article in it? It's a international book, and it--and it's a widely spread publications, and it goes all over the world, translated in many different languages. And my article was in there on the religious section. And then there was... How many takes the Assembly of God paper that, what? "Pentecostal Herald," is that what it is or...? "Evangel, Pentecostal Evangel," how many takes that? Did you see the article in there, of the little girl from Fort Wayne? Well, it was just right after that what happened.
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I was back behind the curtains, and there was a man back there, I believe, that had more education than he just knew what to do with. He sure was punching me hard. He said, "Brother Branham, the very idea, you use the poorest grammar." I said, "I know it." And he said; he said, "Why, you're grammar's terrible. To stand with the crowds like you do." And said, "Your grammar's so terrible." "Yes, sir," I said, "I know that." I said, "I was borned in a poor family, and had to work all my life." I said, "I didn't get a chance..." He said, "Oh, that's no excuse now; you're a man." I said, "Well, that's right, brother." And I said, "But when I got to be a man," I said, "the Lord called me in this work, and I just... I've to spend all my time praying for the sick people," I said. He said, "Oh, there's no excuse for that." He said, "My, I here you," said, "it's a shame a word that you use." Said, "Correct yourself now." Said, "I heard you say out there tonight, 'All you people passing by this polpit,'" And said, "Why, that's terrible, Brother Branham." I said, "Yes, sir, I guess that's right." He said, "Now, that people would appreciate you more if you'd say pulpit instead of polpit." He kinda punched me a little hard, you know. And I said, "Brother, look, I love you," I said, "I think you're wonderful man, but those people out there don't care whether I say pulpit or polpit, they want me to live the right kind of life and produce what I'm talking about." I said, "That's--that's what I'm..." And I said, "Then they..." [Audience applauds.--Ed.] Thank you, thank you. That... I believe that's right. Now, I'm not trying to support my ignorance, but it's... Friends, you don't have to have a great education to know God. See? Frankly, education's been one of the worst hindrances that the Gospel of Christ has ever had. I say that with respects and reverence. That's right, the worst hindrance.
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In the garden of Eden there were two trees, one of them was
the knowledge. And the other one the Tree of Life. And when man left the Tree of Life and took the first bite off the tree of knowledge, he separated himself from God. And now he bit off gunpowder, destroys himself. He bit off an electricity, pulling the coal from the earth, where un--beneath it, is eight thousand miles of burning volcano, and these... Now, he's bit hisself off automobile, kills more people than all the wars. He's got hisself a hydrogen bomb now; I wonder what he's going to do with that. He's still biting from that tree of knowledge. And every time he bites, he just separates himself away, destroys himself. And God is not known by knowledge, God's known by faith; by faith, you believe. Not try to figure it out, you just believe. And that's the way God is known. God bless you.
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Now, can we bow our heads. Heavenly Father, just to stand at this platform and speak these few words just without, just informal, we just thank You for that, to get a chance to say, express our thoughts to the people and hear them respond back. It does my heart good to know that, Father. That these dear people setting here are Your children, and we've gathered together in the name of Your Son, which promised that "If two or three will gather, I'll be in their midst." We are here. And just in a few moments now, we're to turn the pages of this dear old Book called the Bible. I'm to read from it, Lord, some excerpts there from days gone by. And I pray, Father, that You'll make it manifest to us tonight. And when we leave the building tonight and start down the streets to our different places, may--may we say within our hearts, "Did not our hearts burn within us, because the resurrected Christ was there with us." May many of these sick, we feel the great pressure just at this time, pulling from the dying laying here. Some can't live very long; they have heart trouble and cancer, tubercular, many other diseases that will quickly take their life, if You do not let them have enough faith tonight to accept the provided way that You made for them. God, may the Angels come down tonight, stand by every patient in the building. Hear me, Father.
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And if Your humble servant has found favor before You, then answer my prayer. And may this be a night of nights, Lord, this Saturday night just before the dawning of the Sabbath. God, grant that now, that tonight, that the angels, legions of them will come down into this building. May every unkind thought, everything that's not faith be pushed back. And may there be such a respond and a combustion of faith, until the cripples will raise up from the chairs, may every cancer be healed, every tubercular, every heart trouble.
And may the glory of God so fill the building, that it'll be like the days of old, when Solomon dedicated the temple, and the Holy Ghost came in, or the fire and settled down over the altar. May the great Angel of God, Who has guided Thy servant, now spread forth His wings over this building here. And may the dew drops of the mercy and healing powers of God, drip upon each soul, until faith goes, surpasses all doubt, up into the realms beyond this... God, wake us up from this sense bound dream that we're in; may we go beyond this sphere, up into this--the place where all things are possible, and there lay hold on Eternal Life and on Divine healing, and tonight walk out of here victorious in Christ Jesus. For we ask it in His Name. Amen.
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Now, as I open this blessed old Word; it just means so much to me. I wish to read a quotations of different ones of our Lord. I wish first to read our Lord speaking of His, and a vindication, God speaking of His Son, found in Saint John the 4th chapter, beginning with the 14th verse. Jesus in His conversation at the well: But whosoever drinketh of the waters that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him... well of water springing up into eternal life--or everlasting life... (Pardon me.) The woman said unto Him, Sir, give me this water, that I thirst not, neither come hither to draw. Jesus said unto her, Go, call thy husband, and come hither. The woman answered and said, I have no husband. Jesus said unto her, Thou hast said well, I have no husband: For thou hast had five husbands; and he whom thou now has is not thy husband: in... thou saidst truly. The woman said unto Him, Sir, I perceive that Thou art a prophet. And over in the book of Saint John the 1st chapter, beginning with the 42nd verse, we read this: The day following Jesus would go forth into Galilee, and findeth Philip, and saith unto him, Follow me. Philip was of Bethsaida, city of Andrew and Peter. Philip findeth Nathanael, and said unto him, We have found him... whom Moses and the law, and the prophets, did write, Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph. Nathanael said unto him, Can there any good thing come out of Nazareth? Philip saith unto him, Come and see. Jesus saw Nathanael coming to him, and said unto him, Behold an Israelite indeed, in whom is no guile! Nathanael said unto him, Whence knowest thou me? Jesus answered and said unto him, Before Philip called thee, when thou was under the fig tree, I saw thee.
Nathanael answered and--and said unto him, Rabbi, thou art the Son of God... the King of Israel. And in the 5th chapter and the 36th verse, God speaking of His Son first, vindicating His claims. The next was John speaking of Him. Now, the Son speaks for Himself, 36th verse of the 5th chapter: But I have greater witness than that of John: for the works which the Father has given me to finish, the same works that I do, bear witness of me, that the Father hath sent me.
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That's three witnesses, John speaking, God speaking for Him, and He speaking for Himself, three witnesses that He was sent of God to fulfill the works of God. And now, He is the same today. And it's written that in this day, the things that we now see and hear, were to be here. And it's all to fulfill what the Lord has said. All Scriptures is given by inspiration. And it's the fulfillment must come quickly as the time draws near. Who would've thought, a few years ago, your great grandfather, when he met his neighbor, and he said, "You know, it's written in the Bible that there's going to be a time when the horseless carriages will jostle through the broadway; they'll rage; they'll run like lightning." Why, maybe his critical neighbor said, "Well, John has just a little bit off at his mind. He's read too much in the Bible." But his grandchildren are riding in one of those things tonight. See, when God speaks, it's forever--it's forever settled in heaven. Then that's got to come to pass. And now, Jesus came, and His healing was to fulfill the ministry of Elijah and all the prophets from the foundation of the world. He was the fulfillment of that. The law and prophets were until John, since then the Kingdom of heaven.
Now, tonight, the Holy Spirit is in His Church to fulfill what the New Testament said that would come to pass in the last days. And you see the people on the street and around who criticize and say, "Those things are not right." Just feel sorry for them. For that is the people... maybe... There's got to be somebody on that side. And remember, there'll be more than you are, than we are. See? In the last days scoffers will come. And the Bible said that they'd come in the last day and be religious people. They'd be high-minded, lovers of pleasure more than lovers of God, and incontinent, and despisers of those that are good. They'd call you holy-roller, anything they could just to make fun of you. Holy-roller, despisers of those that are good, having a form of godliness, they go to church, to Sunday school, but would deny the power thereof. Now, that wasn't to be in that day; that's to be in this day. The Spirit speaks expressly that in the latter times, that was the ending as He [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]
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Here's what it is, the antichrist spirit is not the communistic spirit. The antichrist spirit is a religious spirit. I have delivered my soul; that's what God was wanting me to, right there. Amen. Father, we thank Thee. Now, I--I am Your servant, and I believe with all of my heart as sure as I believe I'm standing here with my hand on Your Word, that that's what You wanted me to say. And I waited, stumbling around, until You spoke the Word. Now, we thank You, Lord. And we pray that You'll let men and women here tonight, be careful, walk careful. For we know it's written in these days of what would come to pass. And true to my mind now, it comes afresh that over in the book of Matthew Jesus said, "The two spirits would be so close together it would deceive the very elect if possible." And Father, we know that those things are now. And we thank Thee, and may we have this warning in our heart to watch everything that we do. In the Name of the Lord Jesus we thank Thee. Amen.
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Now, last evening, and Mr. Baxter told me that tonight he was leaving just a little early, I wanted to give a testimony. Do I make it miserable for you to hold you here long enough to give a testimony? If I do, I'm--I'm awfully sorry. And I just got to wait just a little while, to kind of get my audience settled, and then it's so much greater when we go to pray for the sick. And I'm just looking for God to do something marvelous tonight. I--I've asked Him. This afternoon I asked Him if He would do it. And I asked Him if He would help, and if He would once more... Now, last night was the only night that I had seen that was really coming down like a real meeting. But there was a real spontaneous flare of faith; the room before me lit up. And I was unconscious for quite a bit, till they got me out in the street, and it was raining. And my little boy kept talking to me, and I didn't talk back, so he just opened up the window, and the rain blew in on me, and I kinda come to myself.
I seen the time when I walked for... They'd get me out on the street, walk me for hours. See? It's not when you're up there; it's not when you're down here; it's between them places is what does it. It was kinda hard for me to understand that at first. Maybe I'm taking too much time; he's already come to the platform. All right, I'm going to finish this testimony, if the Lord willing, and a part of it, and then tomorrow evening I'll try to get some more of it. I was speaking last evening of being over in Finland; I mean in England, I believe, where the--Mrs. Florence Nightingale was healed; wasn't that where I left off? Is on our European trip. And we went from there, and just as soon as I touched the soil of the other country, seemed like the Angel of the Lord hardly left me day and
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Now, Mr. Baxter here and all of them knows. We'd go downtown; we'd be setting there; I'd say, "Brother Baxter, on the road up, there's going to be two woman come out; and they'll come from the corner; they'll be dressed this way; and they'll ask a certain thing. Then we will go a little farther, and there'd be a man come down from out of the stair; he's going to ask a certain thing. There'll be different things will happen. And you just ask him; it never fails to be just that way. And then here recently at Cleveland, Ohio. I wonder if there's anybody here was at the Cleveland meeting? Well, wonderful, now you probably heard this, just a little vindication.
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Sunday... Now, this is Saturday night; they just have to go to church in the morning, so that's all right. Attend your post of duty in the morning. And look, to all the pastors, if they don't even cooperate with the meeting, you been coming here; you give them my love and regards, will you do that? And tell them that from my heart I love them, and I trust that--that God will just bless their ministry. And maybe they grow, and your church just grow and prosper. And take good news to your churches in the morning everywhere. And you strangers here, you seen the pastors here on the platform, so forth; go into their churches tomorrow for Sunday school and have a glorious time, is my blessing to you.
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Now, this... In Cleveland it was a little remarkable case there. And many times, it happens and things takes place; I don't say nothing about it, and just go ahead, and just watch it. 'Cause I feel like sometimes I say too much to the people anyhow. And then, when we were setting at--at a luncheon, and maybe some of the ministers are present. And they kept asking me, "Brother Branham, how do you know those things?" I said, "I see it just like I'm looking at you." So, there's... And there's one man there; he may be setting here tonight. He was a rich man; he runs a bumper place where they make bumpers for cars. And he said, "Brother Branham," said, "you with that little bitty tent down there of about three or four thousand people, and the first ring or two comes around it, the rest of the people drive away." Said, "If you'd come up to the auditorium where you could seat the people..." Hundreds come by every night and they can't get in. When they get off from work and they have their dinner, why, they're down there, and they can't get in. He said, "I tell you," I think it costs around nineteen hundred for one night in the place. He said, "I'll pay for it if you'll just come and approve it."
I said, "Brother, if you'd pay for a year, I couldn't go until God tells me to go." And so, I said, "On this, outside of that itinerary, I'm under obligation to by brother, written contract," I said, "Until that runs out, I'm under obligation to them." He said, "Well, you'll have extra, two or three days," said, "come back for one day." I said, "If the Lord will provide."
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And that morning setting there at the breakfast, they asked me different questions. I believe a Ukrainian minister asked me, said, "How is that seen?" I said, "Well, for instance now, I'll be standing, looking," and I said, "here..." How many knows Brother Bowen from down there, Brother Bowen, he was present. And I don't know who the brother was I come with; he had a big blue cadillac. And--and so I got in the car, and we drove down, and--and I said, "Now, here's what's going to happen: that you might know," with these ministers standing there. I said, "Now, on the road going up the street, we're... going to be a lady cross the street with two little children with little checkered dresses on, with their little hair (What is you call it? Sweeped up or ever what it was) up like that in the back, you know, and tied on top." And some of these funny hairdos, I can't say nothing, 'cause I haven't got any to do. So, they--they fixed it up at the top. I said, "Be two little girls, and they'll be leading those little girls." And so they, I said, "Then we're going to get in the car, instead of going back in a blue car; we're going to get in a red looking car. And then, we're going to be on the street, and we're going to pass three young ladies in long costumes. And that comes to pass, then I have the right of way and God's permission to return for the service."
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Well, here Brother Lindsay and all of us, we're going along, Brother Bowen, several of the ministers talking, when the little girls crossed the street about three squares away from the place we were having breakfast, I said, "You see them?" And there he said, "Oh, my." And we went down there, and I don't know what, I believe, what happened to the cadillac, but we had to get in the other car. It was Brother Bowen's car, and it was a red looking car. And we turned out. And you know they have a mounted police there, and we were supposed to turn left coming out of the lot. Instead of going left, Brother Bowen, raised there in the city, turned right, the wrong way on a one way street. And a big Irish cop over there on a horse, oh, my. He caught him. And I mean, he really told him. We was all setting there, and he said, "Well, you're from the city here," said, "there's no excuse for you."
Brother Bowen said, "That's right, sir; that's right," and was telling him how sorry he was. He said, "We're ministers." He didn't care what we was; he was just tearing him up. And we set there about three minutes, and that cop just--just go to tear him up.
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And just then, coming from around the corner, stepped across the street, come the three young ladies with the costumes on. We had to; he had to hold us that long to bring it to pass. See? When, they passed by. I punched Brother Bowen, I said, "Look, brethren, and there they are." And everybody said, "Praise the Lord, Praise the Lord." And that cop said, "You crazy people, get away from here." Ha-ha-ha. So... Well, they thought we were crazy, but I believe Saint Paul told Agrippa, said, "In the way that's called heresy, so worship I the God of our fathers." I'm glad to join with him tonight, aren't you? But that cop didn't know what they were... They begin screaming, and speaking with tongues, and the going on; I never heard such a bunch. 'Cause there come the three ladies, young ladies with them long after supper, or ever, some kind of a costume, you know. Ah, "dinner," I believe you call it up here, excuse me.
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Down south, I can't get this fixed up. When I come up here they have dinner about five o'clock. We have dinner at twelve o'clock down there; this is supper. They call that... I think I missed a meal through the day if I... So, anyhow, just whatever; it's all right. And they passed by with those long gowns on, and there they went. And I said, "Now, we will return." And that time when we returned there was as many as three times what was in the tent there that night. See? He just approved. But see how God will do, how that cop... How, Brother Bowen lived there in the city. How many's heard that, them testify of the tent that night? Do you...? There you are. All right. And is, would Brother Bowen happen to be here? That... He might even be here, some of them ministers there. If it is, why, I wouldn't know. And anyhow, that's, those things that just happen daily.
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Now, we were in Finland, or England; we flew to Finland right away to start. At Helsinki we had a marvelous congregation. The Finnish people are so lovely and sweet. And many times when I think about how poor they are there, and how much that we ritzy Americans have, we should be ashamed of ourself. That's--that's right. Those poor people... There's a Finnish woman come on the platform the other night. And I was trying to keep myself under anointing, but when she passed she said, "Jumalan rauhaa," that's "God's peace upon you."
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And so I just, we went in there, and they--they don't... If you American women had to dress the way they dress, great big thick skirts on, great big boots, they wear. And everything they get they have to trust God for it. They're right there on that border line. That's the battlefield. And what a--a pity. And I seen, the other day I was in California, and a woman was sending in, paid eight dollars for a plate of something or another, and some women, and they were mincing around, just taste a little bit. They left it set there and paid eight dollars for it, and they raked it all off in the garbage can. I thought, "A many a little Finnish child tonight, little dirty hands wringing, and its little eyes, would be happy to have that piece of bread that they raked off in that garbage can."
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You know, we don't deserve that, American people. Now, I'm an American from generation, generation. There's a... When I was flying over France a few weeks ago, I just looked down; I thought, "There's a many American dead along there, a many a Branham laying along there that died for the cause. And if it comes my turn, I'm ready to go like they do." That's right. But oh, brother, sister, we need some correction here. That's right. It isn't the robin that pecks on the worm--on the apple that hurts it, it's the worm at the core that kills the apple. It isn't Russia is going to hurt us; it's our own degrading of our morals among us, is what's killing us. The termites has eat the foundation out from under our civilization.
And I know there was many gathered there at the Messuhalli; it seated several thousand people, and I got a picture there where they was standing, I believe, for about four to six city blocks, many deep, at three o'clock in the afternoon waiting, trying to get in to the Messuhalli, when they'd empty up and then different ones come in. And we was going to Kuopio from there. And to get this instance here, one of them comes on my mind now, that happened. God, usually, in the room He will show me something's going to happen; I'll tell the people. It may be a week or two weeks; it may be a month, maybe six months before it comes to pass, maybe just a few hours. And maybe I'll get a phone call in a few minutes, and there it'll be right there, the very thing He had showed me. And maybe the woman's setting at the phone; I'll say, "Don't you have on a dark dress, or something?" "Yes." "A certain-certain..." "Yes."
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And you live in a house, right along on the side of the walls a certain thing?" Just see it right from the phone call, like that. And tell them, "The Lord has healed you."
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And so I was, had a vision in Miami, Florida, and many of you people here tonight probably have this wrote in your Bible. And I seen a real hilly country, and a little boy was killed by an accident. And he was about eight or ten years old; he had a funny cut hair, brown eyes, fat face, and very poorly dressed. And he was run over or something; he was all disfigured up. And I seen the Lord Jesus send His angel and bring the life back to that boy. Well, I was in Miami, Florida, and I told the vision to the people, and I said, "Now, the thing to do is to write that out in your Bible. How many remember hearing me say that before it come to pass? Have I a witness? Yes, look all over the building; that's fine. And I said, "Write it in your Bible, for THUS SAITH THE LORD. You'll notice it, and it will appear in the 'Voice of Healing.'" You remember me saying that? "It will appear in the 'Voice of Healing,' a little boy," and I describes how he looked.
About three nights of the service, and they sent me back in the back, said, "A little boy got drowned out here, and the father has been in your service; and he will not permit the undertaker to move the little boy until you come and see if that was his son." I said, "I'll be happy to go." I went back there, the little fellow was about five years old, and he had real black hair, well dress--I said, "No, that's not the little lad." I said, "This little boy was not drowned; it was an accident." And I offered prayer for the consolation for the family and returned back. I went out through the west and over through Canada, and down, and every meeting I testified. It was wrote in hundreds and hundreds of Bibles. I said, "Now, you take your pencil and write in the Bible this, that I said this, so when it comes to pass you'll know it. That's the only vision," I said, "I have that's not come to pass, but it will be." I said, "Where, when, I do not know, but it will be! THUS SAITH THE SPIRIT OF GOD, for He showed it and it can't fail." And I said, "It's not impression; it was a vision, I seen it; and it's going to be just that way."
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And so we... I'd went ahead and testified of that, long time, about a year before it come to pass. And we went up to Helsinki, from Helsinki to Kuopio; it's a land kind of the midnight sun near up there, and I know... In the middle of the night, it was nothing like this dark. And then along up this time of year, why, it, sun doesn't go down at all, it just goes low and comes back again. And the people
were still poorer up in there, than they were down around Helsinki, but just as lovely as they could be. And at... We went up on a train. Now, if there peradventure would be a Finnish person in this building, my dear friend, and Christian fellow, don't think that I'm degrading your country; if we American people had in our hearts the love of God that you have from your country, with the--the things that we have, it'd be a--the millennium would be on almost here. That's right. But we got plenty; we just don't trust. We just let it go, and just kinda carefree, wouldn't walk across the street.
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Don't you think in Finland... They came by the tens of thousands, no cars; they walked. They hitch-hiked. The papers carried it, with bundles on their back. Cripples, they'd wheel one another in, any way they could get in. A fellow rode a little old thing that chugged along like that, I believe, four thousand miles to get to the meeting. And God healed him while he was there. God will respect faith everywhere it's at. And I... Some of those things just tear down in the middle of me, when I think of it. And I remember, we went up on that little old train, and they give us the best they had. And I--I went up on that little old train, first class, and I'm telling you friends, you American people, is like the--the iron pony that they had in the early days. They didn't have coal to burn; they put wood in the tinder to burn, to make their steam. And Brother Baxter said, "Had square wheels," he was so fat, and the way it would roll and toss him through the night. And they went... Oh, it was poor little people, and they just... But they was just... What they had was yours; they were free hearted.
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And when we got off up there, went into the auditorium to have the service, oh, what a crowds of people gathered, my. And I remember, the second day, there had been some wonderful healings take place, and the Holy Spirit... Here's the way it would work. Now, see, it all had to be translated. Mrs. Isaacson was our translator, and the best that I ever seen in my life. Brother Baxter, as rapid as he preaches, she'd follow him right there with his sermon in translation with it. The best I ever knew of. And she would interpret for me. And I'd be standing there, and the Spirit would come upon me, I'd say, "Here sets a person here." Now, if you notice, always in talking to people, I never look at them too long, because when the anointing's on it brings the person right to you. You see? And I always keep looking from side to side. I look at a person and catch like that, and would tell them just where they was at, and what they'd done, and all about their life, and what was wrong with them. And I'd be speaking in English, and she'd be interpreting, and that person would raise and scream right like that. Just exactly. Oh, He's
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And I remember, that one night coming in, well, I went up on the hill, at--at Kuopio, and we was coming down. It was a fast day; I fast much, because meetings going on, till I get real weak, and then I have to eat a little. But because this kind cometh out only by fast and prayer. And I don't know what time that kind's going to be on the platform. So then, I was up there and they were singing, "On Golgotha," it's a Russian song. And two or three Russians was over there. And those people... Let me drop this: Those Russians would follow me, and when I come by they just stop and the tears would just run down their cheeks like that, when I'd pass by them. They'd stand attention like that, and I'd go behind; they look and just cry.
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Look brother, it isn't the Fourth Term, it isn't the Big Four, is the answer; Christ is the Answer. They... I was an American; they was Russians; but the love of Christ is in our hearts and we loved one another. There was the embassies there with guards and the iron curtain and so forth, and them Finns and Russians right at one another's throat. But the Christians had their arms around one another, heart to heart. Why can't people see that? The god of this world has blinded their eyes. This is the kingdom of the devil. Isn't that a big mouthful? But that's the truth. Every kingdom of the world's controlled by the devil. When Jesus takes over, the king... Read Revelations. Look, when Jesus was taken in the Spirit... I know you didn't get that, so I better explain it.
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When Jesus was taken up on the high mountain by Satan, he let Him look down through the stream of time and showed Him all the world and the kingdoms thereof, and said, "They're mine." Is that right? "And I'll give them to You if You'll fall down and worship me." Is that right? Jesus knowed He'd inherit them anyhow. He said, "Get thee hence, Satan." And then over in Revelation, said, "Rejoice, ye heavens, and you holy prophets, for the kingdom of this world has become the kingdoms of our Lord, and of His Christ." And as long as they're controlled by Satan, they got that satanic thoughts and powers, they'll fight until Jesus comes. And there'll be a Stone hewed out of the mountain someday without hands, that'll break these world kingdoms into pieces; and there'll come a Kingdom out of there. Hallelujah. I'm glad tonight I'm a candidate of that Kingdom. Yes, sir. And then there'll be no more war; there'll be no more war after that.
And now those who are in that fellowship of that Kingdom, there's no war between them. A chaplain told me when he was in a concentration camp in Japan, said he was out there one day, and he knew... he belonged--he was a holiness brother. And he said he knew probably he would die in that camp. And he was getting so hungry and they wouldn't feed him, and--and old mold bread and stuff. And said he walked out there...?... let him out. Then he raised up his hands and said, "Hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah." And knelt down and said, "Oh, God, I've served You with all my heart, now if You want me to go home to glory from this place starved," said, "I'm ready to go." And he raised up, and he happened to notice that little Jap walking like this, and keep watching, and walking like that, the sentry walking by, and said he looked like he wanted to see him, so he just walked over close, when he passed by he said, "You Christian?" He said, "Yes." He said, "Me Christian too." Now, them brothers would've tore that cage down and put their arms around one another, the war would been over. You see? But the kingdoms of this world are dominated by the kingdoms, by the powers of Satan (See?); they're going to fight. But someday, "Me Christian too," will be all of us. Amen. That'll be wonderful. There's the answer to all.
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And up there, I come down off of the Kuopio tower, and when I did, they was singing up there. And an Englishman from England, a buyer, was up there, and he was so drunk, and he heard that song, "On Golgotha," and all their songs are in minor. And when he came down, why, he was weeping. And we went over to him and talked to him; he could speak English; and we led him to Christ there on the hill. And Brother Baxter and them said, "Come on in now," or not Brother Baxter; Brother Baxter wasn't along that day--Brother Lindsay. And he said, "Now, come on; let's eat." There's about thirty ministers up there. And I said, "No, I can't eat; I don't want to eat until after six o'clock." We sat down; I listened to them talk and everything, through the interpreter. And I said to Brother Lindsay and Brother Moore coming out, I said, "Something's fixing to happen." I said, "I just feeled it, that something's going to happen." And I said, "I don't know what."
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And we got in the cabs. And they don't have many cabs in Finland; the most of them are horse driven. So we was coming down in a car. And down at the bottom of the hill, there was an accident had happened. And a car, an American made '35 model Ford sedan
had struck two school children, running at the speed of sixty miles an hour. And the two little boys were going across the street; there's not many cars, so they was... And they started this a way; and they seen the car coming; and they started to run back and one run this way and one this way. And the fender, the driver, swung to the right, and when he did it hit the little boy by the chin, over this way, and just turned him over and smashed him up aside of a tree and concussed his little head in, that way. And the other little boy, it knocked him straight forward as he give a twist, and run over him, and mashed him under the wheels, and kicked his little body up in the air, when the wheels was, he'd lost control of it. And just threw down on his accelerator in the stead of his break, and it just... The little boy's body just rolled up like that, and flew up in the air, and when out in the street, and fell, like that. Oh, just mashed the little fellow.
And we were way up on the hill, way a way, and we seen the accident happen. And then people begin to run from the school, and was quite a little bit, about fifteen minutes, till we got down to where the little boys were. And they'd done took one little boy; I didn't know but there was but one of them. But the other one, they'd done got him in another car and got him away. And there's no more cars there. And I drove up, or they drove up, rather. And Brother Moore, when he got out, he started weeping, come running back to the car, said, "Brother Branham..." And Brother Lindsay, here he come; he had a little boy too; and my Billy Paul, I hadn't seen him for a long time. And Billy's mother, you know, is dead, and I've been both mother and daddy both to him. And I--I packed him around with his bottle against my bosom here, to keep it warm in the cold weather, and crying, walking up-and-down the streets. You've read my life story, like that, and don't know what to do. And the little bitty fellow leaning on my shoulder. And he's always scared when I go away. 'Course he's almost a young man now, and--but I thought of him, "What if that would be him?" And what if I'd--a telegram would come across the sea and say, "Billy Paul was crushed in a car wreck, and he's laying dead, wanting you to come home."
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And oh, how I begin to think, how that poor mother, they'd gone after her, and there the little fellow laid there with a coat over his face. They said, "Come, look at him." I couldn't look at that child. I just set there, and I was just shaking, like that, and Brother Lindsay just a holding his breath like that, and crying. He's got a little boy too. And so, finally, I took a look at the little boy. They was going to pick him up; we had to take him to a
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place. Now, if I hadn't been so excited, I'd have caught it right away. And as soon as I stepped out of the car, Mrs. Isaacson said, "Isn't that terrible?" Said... Them people said, "There's that miracle worker from America, let's see what he will do on this case." And I said, "Well, it's just people who didn't under..."
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And the chief man of the city, I guess, it was kinda like a mayor of the city, he was near. And so we--we went... I went over there, and they looked, and oh, my, poor little fellow laying there, his mouth open like that, and his little eyes open, his little hands like this. And they wear those little, I guess, they used to call them little pantywaists for boys, you know; and he had that big heavy ribbed stockings. And his little shoes was knocked off of his feet, and one of his little feet that was twisted up like this, was run plumb through, his little foot run through his--his stocking at the bottom. Oh, he was a-just horrible laying there, had eyes open like that, setting. I said, "Poor little fellow." And that just made it worse. And I--They was going to put him to the car. And as I started to turn around, I looked in front of the little boy; I felt something go, "Whew." [Brother Branham blows.--Ed.] I said, "Maybe that's just my sympathy for the little fellow." I started to make another step, something went, "Whew." [Brother Branham blows.--Ed.] I waited just a moment; I turned around; I said, "Let me see that boy again." And they pulled back the--the coat they had laying over him. I said, "I've seen that boy somewhere." I said, "That... Ask those ministers if he's been in the church, member of their church." "No." I said, "Has he ever been in the prayer line?" Brother Lindsay said, "No." I said, "I've seen him somewhere, and I don't know where, but it looks like..." And I looked around, and I seen them big rocks piled up laying there, I said, "Praise God, I know where I saw him." I said, "Brother Moore, get your Bible. Brother Lindsay." Said, "What's the matter, Brother Branham?" I said, "Look at the folder, the leaf in your Bible." I said, "That's the little boy that's going to be raised from the dead." And they... Brother Moore run over to the car and got his Bible, he said, "Brown hair, brown eyes, about eight years old, poorly dressed, crippled, been mashed by a accident, a rocky land," said, "Brother Branham, that's it!" I said, "That's him." Oh, my, you don't know how that feels; you know where you're at then. All devils out of hell, if he'd line everything there was in hell up around, it'd never stop it. It's there; it's got to happen. Now, the only thing is just drama. I said, "Now, I remember, I knelt to this side in
the vision when I prayed." You have to do just as you seen it. And I knelt down; they all gathered around. I said, "Now, watch, THUS SAITH THE SPIRIT OF GOD, this boy's life will return to him." And there he'd been dead; they'd taken his pulse and everything; he was gone. So, and all mashed up like that. And I knelt down and I said, "Heavenly Father, many thousands of miles across the sea in that lovely nation where I come from, America," I said, "down there that night when You moved into that room in that lovely place and told me that this would be; and I testified of it and stood and said that You'd bring it to pass. And now, Thy servant sees the day that is to be fulfilled." I said, "I thank Thee, heavenly Father, for the power of vision, and I thank Thee for all Your goodness. And now, Eternal God, Author of life and Giver of all good gifts, I ask You to bless this scene with Your Presence." And when the Angel of the Lord begin to move down, I said, "Oh, holder of this boy's spirit, death, according to a vision that God has already showed that you cannot hold this child; therefore, I call for his little soul to return to him in the Name of Jesus Christ." And no more than I said that, the boy jumped to his feet just as normal and well as he could be, just as perfect and normal and whole as he could be. That's wrote throughout Finland, everywhere; its scattered abroad to I tell you. That was in the evening time; the other boy, I'll get it tomorrow night.
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One more little thing, I see I've got about six minutes; I'll try to get it quickly. Oh, when I went into the service that night, and the other little boy was laying, dying, I didn't know it. And the mother just screaming and crying, trying to get to go down there to that little boy. Everywhere they talked it. It went over; I don't know how it ever got, because you can't broadcast news like that in--or anything in Finland; it's just all strictly otherwise. And then, the first thing you know, I went into the build--started to go to church that night, and the--the fame of our Lord had spread so, that He was in the midst of the people until way down, three city blocks below where the auditorium was, the streets were just packed like that. And you couldn't get near. And some... They had the militia out, the Finnish soldiers. And some of them, little tiny boys didn't look like had never even shaved in their life. And the poor little fellows. And they formed a little group to take me down through the line. And I was going down, and they were pushing people along to let me get in. So when I got to the place and started to go in where the services was, I'll never forget this. Poor Finnish people standing there, they would just start crying; soldiers stand at attention. And now just a moment, and I'm going to call the prayer line now.
I was going into the auditorium and the ladies dormitory, or rest room, such as it was. I... They'd closed the doors, the officers behind me; there was two in front and two in the back. And I was going, walking in. And the doors closed. And I looked, and a door opened over here at the rest room, and a little Finnish girl stepped out. And I'll never forget that look of that little thing. Now, I just love little children; they used to give me some of that Finnish money, and after--after they'd all get in the auditorium, I'd go down the street, and find them little Finn children, you know, and I'd give them this--this money to buy candy with. And I'd have a string of kids two city blocks long following me nearly. [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]
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And they had little, their little skirts, the little Finn girls... Now to you American girls [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] She had no control of the shoe. And she had a--a brace on either side of her, come up like this, and then around her sideways, and in the toe, I'll get it here, in the toe of her shoe like right here, she had a snap. And the snap come up on this right foot; it was her right limb, and went up here, and went across her shoulder, and hooked back here in the back to the back of the brace. And the brace around like this and down like here... And she had two crutches. And the way she'd walk, she'd set the two crutches out, and then she'd swing her shoulder, and that would pull that toe out, and set that stiff brace down to where her limb was free in the brace, and she could make her steps then on crutches, and that's the way she walked.
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And when the little thing come out of there, just about so high... You all, many of you know and seen her picture; it's in my book there, I believe. And when they come out, and she--she looked at--at me, and that little ragged cut hair, and her little skirt hanging down, just tags hanging from it, ragged. And when she looked... She opened the door and set her crutches out and looked and she seen me, she jumped. She bowed her little head down; tears dropped off of her cheeks. I knew that child wanted to come to me. But she'd been warned; they had not to come, you know. And I stopped, and them soldiers started to push me on; I shook my head, "No." I couldn't help it. I motioned for her; I know she wanted to come over there, and I just motioned for her. And here she come, setting her little crutches out and giving her little leg a swing. And when she got up, I just stood still, and see what she was going to do. I love children so. She got up real close to me, and she looked at me. She set her little crutches so she could hold on them. And she looked down; she didn't raise her head. And she took hold of my coat, pulled it up, and kissed my pocket, and dropped it back down like that. And she looked up to me, and them little baby
blue eyes with tears running off her cheek; she backed off like this, pulled her little dress out and said, "Kiitos."
And I found out she was a little war orphan, her father and mother was killed in the Russian war. And looking at her, I said, "Oh, sweetheart, God bless your little heart." I said, "You're healed." But she couldn't understand what I was saying. I knowed God would respect faith like that. I said, "You're healed, honey." And then them soldiers kept pushing me on. And I went on in. And that night, the people when the things would happen they'd just throw away their crutches and wheel back their chairs and things. You've seen the pictures in the "Voice of Healing," just armloads of crutches and clubs, they'd... And I said, "Let's call just a few more." My brother said, "Billy, you remember, long time overseas, got to get out of here." But I wasn't completely gone yet, so, I said, "Just a few more." And by God's great providence, I heard a noise, and she was the next one to be on the platform. I looked there, and I tell you: I never had such a feeling. And here she come, and she was still crying. And I said, "Sister Isaacson, come near." I said, "Quote my words; repeat my word." And I said, "God bless you, honey. You're the little girl that was out in the hall awhile ago when I come in." I said, "Jesus Christ has already healed you, sweetheart. When you go over there and have--you set down, and have someone take those braces off, and you put your hands on your little hip, and when they move this shoe and brace off of you, let your hands slip just about the same distance that your leg is short, and then let me see you." I said, "Call the next case."
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And some of the Finnish brethren got over there, was taking it off. And the other lady was standing there, the diagnoses, of the discernment of the lady was coming forth, you know, giving the discernment. And all at once I heard her scream and here she come, crutches and braces over her head and running just as hard as she could go, just as normal and well as anybody. Up-and-down them steps she went, and around and around, marvelously healed. What is it, friends? "Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today, and forever." Be humble; let yourself be the lowest of all. Don't ever exalt yourself; if you do, you're going to become abased. Humble yourself, and God will lift you up. Don't figure that God owes you anything; remember, you owe Him all. And we're not under obligation, or God's not under obligation to us; we are under obligation to God. And love Him with all your heart; believe on Him and God will bless you, I'm sure.
While we bow our heads... Father, oh, when I think of that scene that I've just reviewed again. Thinking of that poor little thing come dragging out of that room, and her respects, her love; You said, "Insomuch as you've done unto the least of these My little ones, you've done it to Me." And she had respects, Lord, of what had been told her, that You were with us and was healing the people. And she loved You, Lord, and the only way she could express her love was to try to love Your servant. And O God, grant this to me, will You? If I am privileged to cross the--the border on that day when You call in the righteous, and if I found favor with You at that day, that I can touch Your feet, crawl off somewhere, Lord, grant that I can stand with that little girl. I may never see her again in life's journey. And that little boy, You know all about it, Lord; I can just see the vision now when You showed me that little fellow, seeing his little bare legs laying there, and how he was all broke up. I remember the vision, remember quoting it before tens of thousands of people. And how standing there that day, when the Holy Spirit came down... I'm a very illiterate person, Lord; I would've never knowed that. I'd have passed on by it, if it hadn't been for Your sovereign grace to speak to me then and reveal it; "There it is." After You shown it to me, I were too dumb, Lord, too ignorant to know of it, so sense bound. God, have mercy upon us poor mortals. And have mercy on me, Lord.
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And I pray tonight, that something will happen tonight here in some manner. Now, You said in Your Word, Jesus, "That what things we desired, when we pray to believe we received them." And dear God, I was one night missing in this meeting, not because I wanted to, but Lord, You know it, it was some reason. Maybe if I'd have come on something would've happened. You had to hold me back to save me from an accident or something; I don't know, You're leading, Lord. But I pray that You'll help these people. And tonight I'm asking You, and I believe that You're going to hear my prayer, and You're going to answer. Will You give us a great outpouring of Your blessings? Just shake everyone, Lord. And may something be said or done somewhere, that would cause the people to just throw away their prayer cards and receive You as their Healer.
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And the people here on these cots, and stretchers, and chairs, and many of those who are in dying conditions, may from this hour on, they be made well by accepting Jesus Christ. Stretch forth His holy hands to heal tonight, Lord. Send Your Angel from heaven, that He might anoint Your servant with that Spirit of the prophetic Being, that would show things which was and things to come, that I might declare You before the people, saying, "That You're the same yesterday, today, and forever," the same Lord Who know where
Nathanael was, and how that he prayed under the tree, and that how that the woman at the well had the husbands, the fish that had the coin in his mouth, where some mules were standing where two ways met... Oh, You know all things, Father. Pray that that same Spirit will be here tonight and be in our midst and will help us and bless us. Increase the faith of all of us, encourage Your ministers, God, that when they return from this meeting, that they'll have Divine healing services in every one of their churches. And may we all get a fresh baptizing of the Spirit. For we ask it in the Name of Jesus Thy Son. Amen.
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Billy...?... All right, all right. Thank you, brother...?... I thought maybe you were gone...?... you were standing here. "H" My boy said he gave out prayer cards "H" today, 1 to 50. Well, I don't know where to call, let's call from 20, and 10's 30, from 20 to 35. That would be, how many? Twenty? Fifteen, that's all right. All right, 20 to 35. Let them line up in their numbers here. Now, if any of you that's got on the cots, or stretchers, or anywhere, or can't get up, has got that prayer card, hold up your hand like that when your number comes, and a usher will bring you to the platform. If you're unable or too weak to raise up, you just wait till your number... We'll begin at 20, and if you're 25, you wait till four passes, and then the next fifth one is yours, raise up your hand, and a usher will pack you to the platform.
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Now, I say this, that God alone, God is the only One Who can heal. We're aware of that, aren't we? He is the One Who heals. And I pray that God will heal every person in here tonight. When the people are brought to the platform, that doesn't mean that they're healed. There's several passes over the platform and doesn't get healed. I know of two or three that I know myself in the beginning, that--that has not been healed that passed the platform. And I--I have nothing to do with that. The only thing I can do is tell them; they have to have faith. But when you hear the Spirit of the Lord pronounce them healed, and tell them what's going to be, you mark that down; that'll be that way. Because I'm not responsible for it; He's responsible, not me. I'm responsible to come here; it's His business to take care of the rest. Now, when... Beg your pardon. You're ready, all right. Excuse me a moment; I was a little thirsty. Now, you that's in the prayer line, I want you to look this a way. Do you believe with all your heart that what you've been told, and I told you about the Angel of the Lord, is the truth? Do you see, sir. Oh... And you on the platform, lady, you believe?
Are we strangers? We... Are we all strangers to...? If he... If we are, raise your hands if you're able to raise your... We're strangers; we don't know each other. We don't know each other, we're strangers. All right. All right. Now, how many there has not prayer cards? Let's see your hands. Oh, my, the whole solid front. all right. I try to watch, usually, when I go to talking to people, if I keep my eye right on them a few moments, then I see the vision rise up; it just starts from there and just begins to raise into the air. Could I explain that just a moment? A looking at the person, if I watch them, and as I contact their spirit, well, then it looks like I begin to see something coming before me. Maybe I'll see a certain thing, an operation; maybe I will have to watch it a few minutes. And may--if the audience will keep real quiet, I can tell what the people's talking about. How many was in Cleveland that night when that woman standing there, and I couldn't get this to leave her, and she was just... I told her she was a little skeptic, and she wouldn't hardly admit she was. In a few moments I told her the-begin to repeat the prayer that she'd just said before she left the room. Was--You remember that, hold your hands up if you will?. Repeated the same prayer that she said about a hour beforehand, before coming to the meeting, just word by word. I said, "Who was in the room to hear the prayer?" "The Holy Spirit." He knows all things, doesn't He?
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Well now, sometimes if the people, if there's noise or excitement, or something... The Holy Spirit's very timid, very timid, just the least little thing, grieve It away. And do you realize now, let me show you something that's greater than it was in the days of the apostles. In the days of the apostles, they taken the people aside. Did you know that? And many people say today when I have them to bow their head, they just say, "It's psychology." Well, then they say, "You look at someone. Yeah, you're reading their mind." Well, I wonder if Paul was reading that man's mind when he said, when he looked steadfast at him like that, and said, "I perceive you have faith to be healed." I wonder if that was psychology? I wonder if it was psychology when Peter and John passed through the gate called Beautiful, said, "Look on us."? No, friends, people gets, they just get a ecclesiastical picture of some theological seminary, that teaches them so, and they think it has to be that way. God's under no obligation to no theological seminary, just to His Word. That's right. They thought they had it figured out the way Jesus was going to come, and what He ought to be, as the Master. But when He come, it was different than what they thought. See? Now, everyone reverent.
Now, you people coming in the line, by God's grace I will be able maybe to tell you what's wrong with you, or so forth. I do not know. But if I--if I don't know. He--if He don't show me, I'll just have to say, "I do not know what's wrong with you." Maybe have a word of prayer for you and let you go on. But if He shows me, and He's able to tell what was in your life, He knows what will be in your life. Is that right? Now, sometimes He tells many things. But if He can tell you one thing, He knows all things. Look at the woman at the well; He just said, "Go get your husband," told her about her husband. And she told the people in the city that He told her all of the things she ever did. He never; He just told her one thing she did. But she knew if He knew that one thing, He knew all things. Is that right? But that was just as the Father let Him know.
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Now, I tell you, maybe some of you get real provoked at me for taking my time. But, friends, I... That's for a purpose. See? We're the only one in a hurry; God's never in no hurry. See? He let the Hebrew children walk right on in the fiery furnace. If we'll just let Him alone, He will do something for us that'll be more than three hundred we could rush through here tonight. See? Just let Him have His way. You look on; believe, and have faith, and accept Him as your Saviour and Healer. But I know, brother standing here now is a Christian man. For it-it's... I feel a warm welcome of an embrace of Christianity. Now, sir, you being a stranger to me, me, I knowing you not, and you knowing me not; we're just here as two men. And there's perhaps something wrong with you. If there is, God can reveal that to me. And if He does, why, I'll be thankful, and I know it would increase your faith. But your healing, of course, would have to come through your accepting of Jesus Christ at Calvary, His death, and burial, and resurrection.
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But now, when He died and rose again, now, He ascended on high and give gifts to men. But He's the resurrected Christ; He isn't dead; He--He--He rose again. And His power, He promised to be with us, even in us, to the end of the world. That is right. Now, you're conscious that something's going on, sir. Now, to the audience, that Light that you see in the picture is real near. The man, just as certain is standing there; I never seen him in my life, but he knows that something's taking place. It's his faith, and my faith, blending together by the Holy Spirit that's near. Yes, sir, I see you're an extremely nervous person. Isn't that right? And that's caused from a physical ailment which is prostate gland. Is that true? You've had-you've had arthrit--No, you've had a stroke, haven't you? You've had a stroke; it's something hit you kinda slightly, never hurt... Say,
you're a minister of the Gospel too, aren't you? I see you standing on a platform. Now, it leaves me. Did I tell you...? Was that the truth? You heard my voice, but it wasn't me speaking, my brother. Is that true what I said? Come here. Almighty God, the Author of Life and the Giver of all good gifts, send Thy blessings upon this man, who I bless, in Thy Name. And may this be the sweetest hour of his life as he's standing here eternity ripened; his hair is bleached for tomorrow. God, grant it, Lord, as this gallant soul moves towards You. Thou Who stood by Paul and Silas, stand by brother now. And as I bless him as Your prophet, may he go from here and be a well man the rest of his days. In the Name of Jesus Christ. Amen. God bless you, brother. Go and be made well.
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All right, bring the, Brother Baxter. The... Now, sometimes I try to get my balance, my bearing (You see?) before I... If you just know what that does to you... That man that was just prayed for a few moments ago, you, if any of you know him, you--you friends of his, or his people, watch him. That man's going to be a big different in a few hours. He's gallant; he's aged. Seems like he... How many knows that man? Seemed like he, well, my. Oh, the pastor of the Italian church, well, that's wonderful. What was his--what was his discernment? Was it a... Said he... [Someone says, "Stroke."--Ed.] Oh... Well, praise the Lord; that's fine. Well let's say, "Thank the Lord." I'm glad dear pastor. Well, God knows I--I... He knows him; I don't. You see? He knows all about him. But I know the man had a, seemed like a wonderful, gallant, faith that reached out there. And I--I know God will honor faith like that.
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All right, this is...?... How do you do, lady? Now, you're the patient, and I just want to talk to you just a little bit, lady. Now, you and I are strangers of--of the--of the journey. But, and you... Now, I have no way of knowing anything about you, except God will reveal it, if we're strangers. Is that right? And then, if God will reveal it to me, then you'll know that it's--it's the truth then; you know that's right. And now, you're--are aware that something is going on, of course, like I say, and I've asked the audience to watch the expression on the patients faith--face. My words sometime are not exactly, when that moves on me, my lips and tongue feel so numb, and it's Him fixing to speak. You see? I know He will either speak or show a vision in a few moments. Because you believe, lady; you prayed much for this; you looked forward for the time, that you could stand here, haven't you? What a hour; what a time that you... I see you, yes, you suffer with something wrong about your head, isn't there, sister? I see you always holding yourself. I'm going to say... I may... It's headache of some sort, isn't that right? And that's-that has been since you was a child. Isn't that right? And you are...
Say, you have been a--you've been a Sunday school teacher or minister of some sort, 'cause I see you with a Bible at the platform. Is that right? God bless you. Something happened then, didn't it? That's when it happened. God bless you; you may go now and He will help. God bless you, sister.
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Everybody say, "Bless the Lord." Remind me to talk about that, bring that to my memory again, that case. Good evening, sister. Here stands a woman who really is a good believer. She doesn't say too much about it. But she keeps all of her things to herself. I'm not reading your mind, sister. Yes, you're very sincere person. You've had trouble, haven't you, sister? You have children? Yes. A child, that's when your trouble started. Wasn't that right? It gave you some kind of a infection, or an ulcer, or something on that side, isn't it? Isn't that right? All right, go home and be well, sister. God bless you, sister. Let's say, "Praise the Lord." God bless you. The Lord Jesus be magnified and blessed in His people, blessed in our hearts as we see Him in His power. All right, Brother Baxter will you bring the lady?
How do you do, sister? Yes, want the audience to look to her. Something's happening, isn't it, lady? You suffered so much. You've been nervous; that's been for a long time. Have heart trouble too, don't you? And a kidney trouble, isn't that right? You believe me as His prophet? Come here. The Word of God said, "These signs shall follow them that believe." Do you believe I'm a believer? "They shall lay their hands on the sick, and they shall recover." Now, go home and be well, for you are. God bless you, sister, God bless you. Let's say, "Praise the Lord." Good evening, sister. Perceive that you're a believer also. You haven't been enjoying good health for some time, have you? Yes, you're anemia. You wouldn't have noticed by looking at you, but you are. And you had a female trouble that's bothered you a long time, too. Cause you to be sick many times, have headaches and so forth. That's true. Now, you can go off the platform, for you have a transfusion tonight, coming from God. You're going to be well, sister. God bless you, go, and God bless you. Let us say, "Praise be to God."
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How do you do, sister? You believe? I see you're wearing glasses. Do you believe that God sent me to be His prophet, to help you to have faith in His Son Jesus? Satan's just a liar, isn't he, lady? He's been lying to you. And a lot of people don't sympathize with you; they tell you, "Get next to yourself." But you can't help it because you're nervous, can you? You can't help it because it's
stigmatized your eyes. But just take off your glasses and go on home, because Christ has made you well, sister...?... only go... Now, everybody say, "Praise the Lord." What do you think, mother? You believe with all your heart? Just a moment; she's Finnish, now just a second. Let us bow our heads. Almighty God, Author of Life, have mercy upon this poor, dear, woman. Just speaking of her people from across the sea. And here she stands here tonight, suffering, and I have my hands laid on her. Eternal God, Author of life, You Who raised one of her kind, that little boy from the dead, and the other little boy, and the little girl You healed her. Your blessings still rest in Finland. God bless this woman, and may her letters cross the sea telling of her being healed. In the Name of Jesus Christ I ask it. Amen. Now, Jumalan rauhaa. The heart trouble that you had goes from you. You go and be well. In the Name of Jesus. God bless you. Let's say, "Praise the Lord." Say, didn't you have the same thing, didn't you? Heart trouble. Move right on across the platform, for Jesus healed you right as you come. Let's say, "Praise the Lord," everybody. That's the way to receive it. Believe; have faith now, everyone; don't doubt.
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All right, lady, you come ahead. What I mean? I'm watching; I'm trying to help you, I--I... With all my heart, I--I love you. That's from the depths of my human heart; I do. And I'm only trying to help you, and don't misjudge me, please. Now, there's someone in here knows why I said that. You see? I know what you're thinking about, so, so... All right, sister dear. We be strangers, aren't we, sister? Wouldn't you like to eat like you used to? All right, you can from now on; you can go eat what you want. God bless you, sister. Let's say, "Praise the Lord Jesus." Have faith in God. All of you out there, pray. I trust... Now, I haven't seen exactly no certain one healed, but I've seen many things happen along there. It seems like back in this section, back in this a way, somebody's trying to believe behind me, and even turns me around once in a while. So have faith in God. All right, get ready to bring the person.
All right, sister dear, do you believe with all your heart? Do you believe that this Spirit that's now moving on the platform, is the Spirit of God? I believe that. You believe that... See, I ask you this not to get you to believe me, but here's what the Angel of the Lord, the first thing He said to me, "I am sent from the Presence of God, of Almighty God, to tell you that your peculiar birth and life has been to indicate that you're to take this gift of Divine healing to the people's of the world." And said, "If you'll be sincere and get the people to believe you, nothing shall stand before your prayer."
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Now, to get the people to believe me, and that's the reason I just, I ask you, or... When you come up, I feel the welcome spirit of being a Christian. I know you believe God then. Then the next thing, if I speak my own personal, what I represent, then I feel that reaction, whether you really believe that or not. It's only a test. But you believe me as His prophet, don't you? Because your heart trouble had already left you when you got here, sister; you can go off the platform and be healed. God bless you. Let's say, "Praise the Lord."
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Good evening, sir. Well, don't let Satan fool you any more (See?), 'cause you're all right. Just that trouble you had in the wreck shook you up a little, but you're going to get over that nervousness. Come here. Almighty God, Author of Life and Giver of every good gift, send Thy blessings upon my brother. And may this power that's trying to hold him now, may it turn him loose. Satan, in the Name of Jesus Christ, let this man go; come out of him. Go off here rejoicing and happy. Never think about it no more, brother, go on. All right. Let's say, "Praise the Lord." How do you do? Like get over the asthma, wouldn't you? Just go ahead, and praise the Lord, and tell Him that you believe with all your heart, and you shall have what you've asked for. God bless you. Amen. Let's say, "Praise the Lord." Insulin is an awful thing, isn't it for diabetes? But one shot from Calvary takes care of it, sister. In the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ...?... Praise the Lord, crippled with arthritis and got other things. God has made her well. Say, "Praise the Lord." Blessed be the Name.
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Come brother. Have faith, everybody. Let's say, "Glory to God. Praise His Name." Come forward. Oh, it's the ears. You believe with all your heart. You believe that God will give you your...?... In the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ, thou demon come from the man. You all right? You're healed, my brother, go off the platform hearing normally. See? Let's say, "Praise the Lord." Are you believing? I guess that's the end of the line. Let the audience look this a way now. How many there hasn't, you say, prayer cards, let's see your hands go up everywhere where you haven't...? That's right, all right.
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Now, I just want to talk to you just a little, 'fore calling
another line. Let's see, maybe the Holy Spirit will just speak to us out there without calling a line. That would be better, maybe. All right, you look this way, and we won't need any line. Now, I just--just want to watch, for I try to be just as sincere. Let the Holy Spirit draw me wherever He wants me to go to. See? And we're not trying to watch the audience, or talk to them as I do one by one on the platform, but where it seems like that He's calling me. Little lad, what do you think about it? Believe with all your heart? Aren't you trying to contact me by some cause? Wasn't you trying for me to speak to you? There's at least a dozen in there pulling me. Stand up just a minute. Oh, yes, the little lad there dad, I've just seen a vision right beside of him. I can see just who he is, and just a moment. I'll get to you just a second, brother, be seated. Oh, yes, it's a rupture, hernia, isn't that right? isn't that right? All right, go home little boy, believe with all your heart, Jesus Christ will make you...?... You believe God, that arthritis leave you; you can walk away from there tonight. Just have faith. You believe? You believe? All right. As you have believed, so be it.
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Say, just a moment, you, the mother setting there, looking this way, very saintly looking woman. I see something dark hanging over her. It's a, oh, yes, it has a cancer. Isn't that right, lady? Stand up just a minute. He knows his time has come. You believe me as His prophet, as God's prophet? You do that? Go home and be well from that cancer; it leaves you. I seen a dark spirit rise from her. She--her prayer... You've been setting there praying, haven't you, lady? Wanting--wanting to be healed. The lady setting right there next to you, seems like she's deeply interested in something. What do you think, lady? You believe that? You know the lady setting next to you? You don't know her. You're just so happy knowing that she got healed, is that right? Uhhuh. You suffer with a heart trouble, don't you? Isn't that right? All right, stand up on your feet; receive your healing from Jesus Christ, in the Name of the Lord Jesus.
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Now, this is strange to her, she don't know what to do about it. Something happened right... Wait a minute, right there by her, I see there's something else. I believe the lady setting right next... Did you have a heart trouble too, a rheumatic heart or something like that? Stand up, you got healed also, sister. Struck... Fooled you, didn't it? I tell you what you women do. You go to Full Gospel church and serve God the rest of your life. Amen. And receive the baptism of the Holy Ghost. Amen. God bless you. Let's say, "Praise be to God." What about you with the handkerchief up to your face there, lady?
Yes, you like to get over that tumor, wouldn't you? That right? If you believe with all your heart, you can stand up on your feet and be made well with that tumor. In the Name of the Lord Jesus. Let's say, "Praise the Lord." He's here to heal.
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In the sections this a way somewhere. Somebody look this way; believe with all your heart. Just a moment, I'm looking over these cases in here; I'll get to you; and then I want to get out in the audience where the things... They see you're crippled (See?), but I want to get to you just in a moment. Back over in here somewhere, believe. Wherever the Holy Spirit may lead me; may His Spirit guide and direct me now. 'Course sometimes it hits in a section. If I can get talking to a certain... Lady, kind of a middle-aged woman, put your hand to your mouth just then. Aren't you suffering? Don't you have something wrong with you? Are you here as a patient? Maybe she doesn't hear just well. I can't tell what... Oh, yes, it is. Uh-huh. It's not hearing; you're just hearing a rebound. You can hear me all right now don't you? Yes, yes, you have something wrong; it's sinus or something in the head. Isn't that right? That's right. All right, go home then. You accept your healing? Go home and be well, in the Name of the Lord Jesus. Amen.
The lady setting next to you looking this a way. Yours is inward trouble, isn't it, internal? All right, raise up and receive your healing in the Name of the Lord Jesus. Who's that put their hand up just behind you there? Let's see what the lady there (All right), with the red dress on, setting there. What about you, lady? Do you believe with all your heart? Oh, yes, you have varicose veins you're trying to get rid of. Isn't that right? May the Lord Jesus send His blessings upon you, bless you. All right. Just a minute, let me look down through this crippled line here. You on the stretcher there; I can't heal you, lady. And you in the chair setting here, you. Be reverent now. I just want to talk to you a minute, starting from that side coming down this a way.
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Do you believe me as God's prophet? I've never seen you in my life; we're strangers. What do you think of these meetings? You believe they're sent from God? You do. You're just a little excited. You can be healed if you'll believe. Do you ac... You believe it? I'm speaking to the lady laying, yes. You do? You accept me as His prophet? You do. Would you obey me as His prophet? Tubercular has bound you, hasn't it, sister? Isn't that true? Rise up and be healed. Who's this other one on the stretcher? What do you think, mother? You look this way, and lay your hand on the man, and look this a way. That's all right. Believe, right here, lady, with this boy here also,
here...?... being here. Look this a way sir, I just want to see what's wrong with you. Oh, yes, you're dying with cancer. Why don't you accept your healing and stand up, be made well in the Name Jesus Christ...?... Stand on your feet. Even the child...?... All right, lady...?... Heavenly Father, in the Name of Thy Son Jesus Christ, send Thy blessings upon this people and Satan, you move out in the Name of Jesus Christ, come out...?...
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Thank you, Brother Baxter. Thank you, Brother Baxter. Good evening, friends, or good afternoon. Very happy to be in this afternoon to speak to you of the love in my heart for this great Lord that we serve, Jesus Christ. And I'm hearing that glorious old song "Only Believe," and of Paul Rader, the writer of that song. And I was a little boy setting at his feet when he was writing that song. Guess, little did he know then that would be my theme song around the world. But when I was at Fort Wayne and was in the room there where Paul studying the first night there, and I heard that coming in over that public address outfit, "Only Believe, All Things Are Possible." I thought of that great gallant hero. How many ever heard of Paul Rader? Oh, practically all of you. Oh, what a heroic death he had. He never died; he just went to be with the Lord. He--he--he...
Christians do not die. There's no Scripture in the Bible that says Christians--Christians die. A man that... A person that lives in pleasure is dead while they're living. Death means separation, separation from God. And sinners are not se... Sinners are separated from God, but Christians never separate from God. They just leave the body here to be with the Lord. And Paul.. I like it so well when he went away. He was a great character to cut up. Do you remember how he used to carry on, any of you know him? He was always cutting up. There was... He'd always pulling some kind of a little joke to someone. And he said when he was... They had the little Moody Bible Institute, they had a choir there singing. And they had the shades pulled down in the room, and they were singing "Nearer My God To Thee." And Paul looked around and he said, "Say, who's dying? Me or you?" He said. Said, "Raise them curtains there, those shades, and sing some real good fiery Gospel songs." And so they begin to sing "Down
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And then he called his brother, Luke, who had been with him so long, called him up to his bed side, took his hand. He said, "Luke, we've been a long ways together." But said, "Just think of it: In five minutes from now I will be standing in the Presence of Jesus Christ, clothed in His righteousness." Bowed his head and went to meet Him. "Clothed in His righteousness I'll be standing in His Presence." I want to go like that, don't you?
Lives of great men all remind us And we can make our lives sublime, ... partings, leave behind us Footprints on the sands of time; Isn't that right? I love that "Psalm of Life." And that perhaps another, Sailing over life's solemn main, For forlorn and shipwrecked brother, Seeing shall take heart again. THE.RESURRECTION.OF.LAZARUS_ ERIE.PA SUNDAY_ 51-0729A
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Used to be, a little poems used to encourage me so. Columbus was one also that used to... that "Sail on, sail on, sail on and on." I like something that's got some courage. I just despise a coward. Don't you? Someone who's afraid... Stand up there. If you got the right stuff behind you; stand for what you think is right. Be not only willing to live for it, die for it, or anything. If it's right, it's right. Other men has died for what's right. And so, that's the way with the Gospel. If I didn't think it was right, and I didn't believe He was the Son of God, I'd be against Him. I'd be out here saying everything I could against Him, because I wouldn't think it was right. But I know He's right. And so therefore I'm... I believe it with all my heart. And if--and if just part of this is right, and the rest of it's not right, then it--it's none of it right. It's either all right or all wrong. And every word is true. You can hang your soul on any phase of the Gospel and believe it; for it's every bit truth. And just don't be afraid. If you're afraid don't do it, but if you know where you're standing, all right. That's different.
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I was just... Met some brothers there a few moments ago and they said, "We'd like to take you hunting sometime, Brother Branham." I'd sure like to go, too. I--I love hunting. That's where I found God, when a little boy. I seen Him in His nature. You can see God in His nature. Look in the trees; look in the birds; look in all--at whatever you want to. Look at a flower. No man with a right--with his right mind could look in--right in the face of one of those great calla lilies and say there is no God. I--I believe there's
something wrong with a man's mind if--if--if he would--if he could look right at that flower, see how it dies and then lives again.
Now, you people around here are painting your yards all over with beautiful flowers. I love that. Gets pretty cold up here, I imagine. Then after awhile, in a few months from now, frost will strike that little flower, and it'll bow its little head. It'll die. And the petals will drop off the flower, and the leaves will drop off and--of the stalk. And--and out of that flower will drop a little black seed. And then they have a funeral procession. God brings a funeral procession along, and He sends a big cloud across in the fall of the year. And it just cries, and the rain falls down and buries that little seed down under the ground, way down. And then the frozen winter comes along and freezes, maybe it'd freeze six or eight inches. And the little old seed swells up, freezes, and bursts open. The pulp runs out of it. Then comes on through the wearisome winter months.
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Well, you go look for your flower. There's the bulb all dried up and gone; the stalk's gone; the flower's gone; the petals' gone; the seed's gone. It bursted; pulp run out of it. Everything's gone. Is that the end of the flower? Oh, no. See? Just let that warm sun began to bathe that ground a little bit. There's a germ of life hid in there somewhere that no man can find. That flower will live again. And if God made a way for a flower to live again, what about you and I that's made in His image? How much more will we live again?
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Recently I was talking to a--a man that said to me... We were setting at the "Agricultural Hour," in a little cafeteria listening to a broadcast. And they said they had perfected corn. Scientists had so great, that they could run it through a machine, and you couldn't tell one grain from the other. You could get in a sack here, and take a handful of corn out that had been made by the manufactures, and take a handful of corn out on this side that had been growed in the field, look at them; there's no difference. Mix them up and you couldn't separate them. Take them down to the laboratory, cut them open, and each one has the same amount of calcium and moisture and so forth in it. But said, "The only way you could tell the difference was bury the grains of corn." And said, "The one that man made never was no more, but the one that God raised lived again. And I said to that old Methodist ministry, "You better hold my hand because I might embarrass you in here." Because here maybe two men, one... They may look alike, and both... May both be men... Maybe could give one another a blood transfusion. But in one lays a germ of life by accepting Jesus Christ, and the other one is dead in
sin and trespasses. God has a provided way if we will just get in that way and travel His way, we're bound to make the shore. Don't you think so?
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Now, this afternoon I'm just a teeny bit late. I think I usually start around quarter after. And Brother Baxter... I heard a remark that my wife told me that he made, saying that I was a--a preacher. Now, let me tell you first. That's an error. Be--for I'm not. I'm what you call a spare tire. You know what a spare tire's used for? When you got a flat, then you put the spare on and roll in. Now, I don't mean we got a flat. Brother Baxter, I didn't mean that. Ha-haha. I didn't--I didn't... My, I have to apologize for that. He will get me for that. But I meant it to get out my point that's what I'm talking about. I guess he's listening to me there. All right. I didn't mean we had a flat; because we haven't. But a spare tire is when you have a flat and you can roll in. But it's just in spare time.
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And usually on a Sunday afternoon Brother Baxter brings me down to--to either tell my life story or to speak a little bit about our Lord. And it gives me a release. Now, when you're preaching... Why, I could preach all day and night, and it wouldn't hurt me. That doesn't bother me a bit. But then when I had one--one case of healing or one vision before me, it takes more out of me than eight hours of preaching. See? It just tears the life out of you. See? When you're preaching, you're building up. And when this comes, it's taking down. See? There's a difference.
There's no need of me trying to explain these things friends. No matter how much I would try to explain them; I could never explain them to you. So you just try to understand (See?), and just believe me, that it's--it's something that just takes the life right out of you. One time I wondered how that Jesus could lay on that boat out there in them--in all them waves. And how could He not know that storm was going on. But I remember: He was so tired from virtue going from Him all day, and healing the people, and seeing visions, and-and it just... He was just so tired, He couldn't get up. So that--that was it. And they had to come wake Him.
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By the way, a minister this morning said, "Brother Branham, I want to correct you on something." That's all right. I'm glad to receive that. When... Anyone who can help me and--or tell me something. He said, "I hear you say at nighttime to the people,
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you're conscious of those people, some of them thinking it's mind reading, when you're talking." But said, "What knocks that in the head, when you go back and tell them things they've not even thought about for years." Said, "They know then it's... And which he said; it is mind reading, Brother Branham." And I said, "Well, I..." He said, "Do you know what those people are thinking?" I said, "Yes, sir." He said, "Let me give you the Scripture. 'Jesus perceived their thoughts.'" He knew it was a... See what I mean?
He knew their thoughts. He does yet. Is that right? Well, you know what I'm talking about, don't you? Jesus perceived their thoughts. He knew what... They said... He said, "Why reason ye in your hearts, 'Who is the greatest among you or so forth?'" And then when they said, "This man blasphemeth."... He said... He perceived their thoughts, and He knowed what they was thinking about. And He said, "Is it just as easy to say, 'Thy sins be forgiven thee,' or, 'Take up thy bed and walk'" See? Which is it? See? He... So it's just Him. It's not man. It's Christ. So have faith in Him and believe Him.
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I remember this little... I don't believe in telling jokes from the platform, 'cause it's not a place to joke. And I wouldn't want you to think this was a joke, because I don't believe in it from the platform. This is... Just a little something, you know, about... When I was first ordained a--a Baptist preacher, my, I was so happy to get that Bible. And I just carried It everywhere I went. Because beforehands I thought nothing but a sissy would pack a Bible. And so... I used to box all the time till I got my ears beat down one time. I got up to win the Bantam Weight Championship of the Three Falls Cities and then in a match. And then I thought no one could whip me, and a little boy from... Billy Prick from Huntington, West Virginia, like to killed me one night. So that taken it all out of me. But I'd had fifteen professional fights and won them all. So then, he sure fixed me on the other one though. Ha.
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So then I used to always say when I was... Them days I thought, "Well, a preacher, he was just a sissy. And I just thought maybe someday I'd have to preach." And I just thought that would be the biggest sissy that could be. And then after I got saved, oh, my, I wanted to carry that Bible. And anybody, I just liked to tell them I was a minister, was a preacher. And so the Missionary Baptist Church gave me a local exhorter
license, giving me the right to marry, bury, baptize, or so forth in the state of Indiana. And then I thought, "Oh, my. How wonderful." Somebody say, "You a preacher?" I'd say, "Yes, sir. Yes, sir." I was happy to say a preacher.
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And just remind me of... My father was a rider. And he was a very good shot. He used to follow shows. And he'd take guns, and he was one of the best shots I believe I ever seen. He'd take those great big marbles, and roll one of them out like that, and when it stopped rolling, he'd have two guns. And he'd take one gun and shoot and knock the marble up in the air and burst it with the other gun before it hit the ground. I couldn't hit a lard can setting out four feet in front of me. So I was a long ways from being like dad. But he liked to ride. And he would just break horses. That's where mother met him in the... When they was in Oklahoma, he was breaking horses. And he was a very good rider. So when I... Say, "When I get to be a man, I'm going to be like my daddy. I'm going to be a real bronc buster."
And I remember I used to... When I'd get the old plow horse out you know, of the day, and when we'd plow all day. And the poor old thing would be so tired. It was old anyhow. And the old watering trough was hollowed out of a piece of log. How many every seen an old log watering trough? They was a bunch of southerners in here today. How many has slept on a straw tick? Say, I'm not the only country boy here, am I? No, my. That's as--as America as hickory smoked ham and sorghum molasses, isn't it? Now, we'd get down there on the back by the barn. And--and I'd water the old horse. And my little brothers, I'd line them all up, and I was the oldest of them. And I'd get on this old horse. And I'd get dad's saddle, and get me a handful of cockleburs and put in under the saddle, you know, and pull it down, jump up on him. Poor old thing so old and tired. He'd just bawl, you know. He'd hold his head down and bawl. And he was trying to buck. And he was to-he was too stiff. He couldn't, and tired. And he couldn't get his feet off the ground, you know. And I'd take this straw hat off and just swing from side to side. I thought I was a real cowboy back there and just swaying around on this old horse like that, and...
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One day I decided I'd go out west. And I run off from home and went out to Arizona. I landed out there just in time of a rodeo. So I thought, "Now's the time I'll--I'll be a real cowboy. It's just in me from my dad." I said, "I know I'll be..." You know how kids are. I was about eighteen years old. I said, "I better go down and get me a pair
of chaps." And I went down and seen a pretty pair of them. I thought... I tried them on. And when I got them on, they was about eighteen inches of leather laying out on the floor. I said, "They're a little longer legged out here, than they are in Indiana." So I got me a pair of Levis. And I went out, and they let me come in the chutes. And they... The caller went forth, and they brought a horse out there. I seen those outlaws that they call them, the broncs. And so wild off them deserts, till they wouldn't even eat hay if it was laying before them. And they run them up into the chute, the bullpen, start them through. And you'd have to catch-as-catch-can when they come out. I seen them come out. When I looked at one of them I realized that wasn't the old plow horse by a long ways.
I was going to ride and make some money though, you know. And so I got out there and stood on the corral fence with all these disfigured cowboys, bowlegged, my, weather beaten fellows. And I was just a lad, you know, setting up there looking around at all these fellows. Looked, thought, "I wonder if I looked just as well as they did." So this... The caller went forth, and he said... This horse was going to be rode. A certain fellow was going to ride him. And he stood up here. And they wasn't fix a saddle on him. Just catch him as he come through this chute. And just as this horse passed through, he dropped into the saddle. My, he could've put all four feet in a wash pan, and throwed the moon over...?... I looked at that horse, and he made about two jerks sideways, and just made a sunfish. And when he did that man went up, head over limb like that, hit the ground, and the blood running out of his ears and eyes. The pickups got the horse and the ambulance got the man.
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Here come the caller by, going down through there. He said, "I will give any man fifty dollars who will ride him sixty seconds." They caught him. Everybody set still. He come right straight to me. He said, "Are you a rider?" I said, "No, sir." I said, "No, sir." That's the same way it was when I was converted and got the Bible under... I was just a local Baptist preacher. I said, "Say, I'm a preacher." And one day I was over in St. Louis in a tent meeting, and they was a--a holiness preacher there, Reverend Daugherty. And he was a Pentecostal preacher. And I went up to listen to that fellow preach. And his little girl had just, had been called to there. And that's... You've heard her story. She was the first one healed like that with Saint Vitus' dance. That preacher was in a meeting there, and he started preaching, took a text. He preached till his face look like it
was on fire. He just got so weak; he'd sunk in his knees like that, went plumb to the floor still preaching, come back up, catch his breath. You could hear him four or five squares down the street still preaching. Somebody walked around and said, "You a preacher?" I said, "No, sir." Ha-ha-ha. "No, sir." My old slow Baptist ways don't think of it that fast. That's all. So I just couldn't do it.
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But I like to get out here on Sunday afternoon like this, where you're not under that anointing, just come out to speak the Word and not under... See, you'd be surprised at night how--how much your nerves are on a tension. Just like that. Demon powers moving in here things... You've been in the meetings before and see what happened. Here come a critic, run up or say something like that, you've got to be just at the point. See? One word wrong, is all it takes. Hear someone walk upon the platform, like that man here a few weeks ago walked up there, and he said... I was just about gone. I took a hold of his hand. I was trying to keep from seeing a vision, just take a hold of his hand to pray. He laid his hand on mine like that. And I said, "Well, sir, there's nothing organically wrong with you." I said... He said, "Oh, yes there is." And I said, "No, sir. Let's see again." I took his hand. If it's a germ disease, it picks up. I said, "No, sir. There's not..." Said, "Look on my prayer card." Said... I said, "I don't have nothing to do with what you put on your prayer card, sir." I said, "Only thing I'm responsible for is here." He said... And the brother got the prayer card and read it. He said he had TB, and I forget what all things it was. And I said, "No, sir. You haven't got it." I said, "Now, you might've had a faith out there in the audience and was healed before you got here." Then he turned before that eighty five hundred people; he said, "There you are. There's the make-up. My great faith out there."
And I turned around. Just then I seen something white move before me. There it was. I said, "You child of the devil, why would you come here on the platform to try to deceive God? You're exposed. Last night you set with a man with a gray suit on and a red tie at a table. And you belong to a cert..." Well, I won't say the church, but anyhow... "You belong to a certain church. And you two got together last night and said you'd come over here. And it was mental telepathy. That the man would pick up the prayer card and the patient would put on the prayer card." I said, "You think the patient would put on their card their adulteries and things their living in and so forth like that? And you thought it
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was mental telepathy. Them would take the prayer card, and then transfer it to me by mental telepathy." I said, "That's...?..."
And a man screamed up the audience. Said, "That's right, Brother Branham. I was the one setting right with him." And here he come running down to the platform, this man. I said, "Them things will come upon you." And there he fell on the platform, grabbed me by the trouser leg, and said, "God, have mercy on my sinful soul." See? Be careful what you're doing. See? That's right. I don't care what theological teaching he has. This--this is God today working among His people. And what if it would been there, that it wouldn't been under the anointing. See there? Had to be careful. But God told me He'd stand with me. That's His obligation. It's my obligation to stand here and tell the truth. It's His obligation to stand with me. That's true.
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So it's been through the fiery test, friends. Don't believe but what it has... But thank God we're still on the victorious side today, because we're in Christ. And the half as never yet been told. It's in its infancy yet. Watch it when it comes out in its great seal yonder. It'll be a time when this old world's going to receive a shaking likes it's never had before in all the days. The great things lays ahead. Just... We can't make them come to pass, just wait as God shows them. But when we come out like this on an afternoon, so you can just kindy let your collar down like, you know, and feel free to talk, and makes me feel good. And I hope you feel the same way.
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I want to read some Scripture and maybe just past a few comments. And if I get too long, somebody raise up and tell me to quit, will you? Because I--I just love to talk so well, why, I might talk too long. And I'll try not to hold you but just a little while. Now, there's many times in reading several little texts along. And on the afternoon like this, I don't study of nothing what I'm going to say, because I never did do that. I always just let the Holy Spirit; whatever He wants me to say, I say it. Maybe I read a Scripture, never even touch it. Maybe He's got something else for me to do. That I don't know. But this afternoon for a familiar text to read that I have read, I want... I was thinking about, maybe the Lord would want me to preach on, "Come and See a Man." But I've been referring to that so many times this week. I thought I would read the--over in 11th chapter of Saint John, "The Resurrection of Lazarus." How many believes that Lazarus was truly resurrected? Let's see your
hands. Wonderful. How many Christians is in here this afternoon, believers on Christ? Let's see your hands. All over the building. Well, my. It's a hundred percent. All right. That's wonderful.
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All right. I believe I'll just approach it from another way then; instead of preaching to sinners, I believe I'll just preach to the Christians then. And may the Lord... We'll take it on Divine healing. Maybe the Lord will speak to us something to encourage you on Divine healing then. Maybe He will do it. Let's turn to Rev--to Saint John the 11th chapter. And let's read a few verses of Scripture here, beginning about the 18th verse of the 9th-of the 11th chapter of Saint John. And now, you remember to, if you want to mark the Scriptures to read at this day, that we were here and we studied on these Scriptures together: now, 11:18: 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 (Now, listen close.) Then said Martha unto Jesus, Lord, if thou hadst 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: And whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die. Believest thou this? She saith unto him, Yea Lord: I believe that thou art the Christ, the Son of God, which should come into the world.
Now, can we bow our heads when we... Our heavenly Father, we have read Your Word today of a great event that taken place many, many years ago. But it's new to us today. Every time we read it, it gives something in our hearts. And we thank Thee for Thy Word that's been preserved down through the age, and for the men who's died, and their blood has stained the earth that our Bible could be given to us today. We bow our head in gratefulness and humility to thank You for their lives. And God rest their gallant souls until the day that they take on body form again and to be immortal beings.
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And now, Lord, we believe that the same Jesus that raised this dead man from the grave, is here this afternoon. And we believe that He's able to raise us, and which He is raising the dead, physically dead, proving it with infallible proofs of statements from the doctors and so forth, who studies the anatomy of man and pronounces them dead; and then they come back to life by the power of the resurrected Christ.
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And now, there are those sitting here who are feeble this afternoon, that's in need of physical healing. And we have chosen these few words to read from Thine. And may the Holy Spirit, the third Person of the Trinity, come in now, the Promise, the Comforter, that You said You would send. And He would take the things of God and would show them to us. And as Your humble servant here speaks, sanctify the lips that speak. Circumcise them, Lord, taking away all words that would not be suitable. And the hearts and ears out there that's to--to receive it, may the Holy Spirit take the Word right straight to the heart. And may It fall on good ground, fertile, bringing forth a hundredfold. And may this afternoon, Lord, while we're yet speaking, may the Holy Ghost come into this building as a rushing mighty Wind, like It did on the day of Pentecost. May the street be crowded out here with people. God, grant it, Father. May the feeble be made well, the lame, walking, the blind, seeing, the deaf, hear, the dumb, speak, those that are bound with sickness be set free. May there be such a joy in the camp till every heart will be so thrilled till they just don't know where they're at or what they're doing.
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God, take us away from this sense bound existence; carry us out there in those realms where all things are possible. Grant it today, Lord. Repeat us another day of Pentecost. Now, upon the pressure of, and the sincerity that we're praying with now, Lord, I ask You in--to answer this prayer by sending the Holy Spirit, directing Thy servant's mind, and my thoughts and speech, and fixing the hearts out there to receive it. Lord, we don't know what to say, but Thou knowest what this audience has need of. And, God, grant that faith will be built so today, that tonight will be one of the greatest climaxes that's ever come into the meetings. May there be such an outpouring tonight, till it'll never be forgotten among the children of men. Hear the prayers of Your servant, not because that we're here, Lord, but because You are here, and the time is drawing nigh that You shall come to receive Your Church. Bless us. And if there be an unsaved one, anywhere around, grant that they'll see Jesus today and be saved. For we ask it in His Name. Amen.
Now, just for a few moments to speak on this subject of--of the resurrection of Lazarus and as a text to believe this. Now, God is so wonderful. Standing at the big observatory not long ago, where you could take and look through that glass and see a hundred and twenty million years of light space, then you could see the vastness of His universe. And you could think of... We look at this sun and think this is the only sun. There's suns, and suns, and orbits, and suns, and planets, and suns beyond this till they rank in the millions, and God over all this universe sitting there governing it. Could you imagine Who God is? Could you draw any idea Who God is and what He is? Now, I desire the prayer of you all. 'Cause you know why I feel standing here today, and I'm conscious of these ministers setting here. There's man setting here who's graduated and got the degrees, and ministers who are preachers and know how to form a sermon and set it together and let the Holy Ghost get in there. And me stand up here with my "hit," and "hain't," and 'tain't," and "carry," and "fetch," and all my poor grammar. And I feel very conscious of that. But I--I want to get away from that. That--that my brethren I know are for me and they love me. And we want the Holy Ghost to come to us today. And that's why we're here, all of us. And we want to shake away from that sense bound feeling.
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Now, God in His great universe... Could you just imagine just... Let me give you a small picture of what I think God is, what the trinity of God is. There is different arguments in the world concerning the trinity of the Godhead. If they would just... they... All of them believe the same thing, but the devil's just got between them and got them all broke up. That's all. God is just like the air. He fills all the universe... [Blank.spot.on.tape-Ed.]... His Son. Son has to be borned of. So the Logos, which was the Son of God that went out of God, that brood over the earth... Now, let's just picture that as being a white halo coming out of that space. That was the Son of God, the Logos. And there It was in space moving around, like a little child playing before the door of its parent. And He drawed in His mind what should be.
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And I can hear Him look around and say, there was nothing nowhere no--just vastness of space. The Father covered all the space. And then this God become bodilized down to the Logos. I can hear Him say, "Let there be light." And an atom bursted yonder and the sun come into existence, Deity. She begin to whirl. Millions of years rolled by. And after while a piece
flew off it. [Brother Branham illustrates--Ed.]... star. And He stood out there and watched it. And it went all down; He stopped it over here after it fell a few million years. [Brother Branham illustrates--Ed.]... off went another one. He let it fall near a certain place, and He stopped it. What's He doing? He's got in His mind now that someday there will be an earth. There'll be mankind on earth.
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God is from above. He's writing the zodiac in the sky. Zodiac starts with the Virgin, the first coming of Christ, ends up with the Leo, the Lion, the second coming. And He's writing His first Bible. There's three of them. One of them was written in the skies, one in the pyramids, one on this. Everything in God is in a trinity, like a man's in a trinity. All right. Then after He got all that written, the stars and the planets off that sun. Then I can see a big ball of ice laying yonder somewhere, this earth. And He brood over the earth, moved it over around the sun, dried it off. And He begin His creation on the earth.
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And then after He got all His creation made, He said, "Let Us," plural, "make man in Our," plural, "own image." Now, if God is unseen, if the Logos was in the form, just mythically speaking, drama, in the form of a Halo, then It's supernatural. Then He had to make a man in His own image. John 4 says that God is a Spirit. And He had to make a spirit man. And He brought it down now; there's deity cannot be seen. Deity is the supernatural. Then He brings It down from a sacred Halo to a little white cloud, something that's more visible; that's man. He give him the rulership over the Kingdom. And he governed the beasts like the Holy Spirit leads the church today. But there was no man to till the soil. Then He put man in the image of man on earth, created him out of the dust of the earth.
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And there's where science gets mixed up. They say, "No." He might give him a hand like a monkey. He might give him a face like a chimpanzee. He might give him a foot like a bear. But God put a soul in a man. This white cloud, Deity, came down, not in the animal, in the man. And now, if they want to go back and dig up some old bones, let them dig up as many as they want to; all the fossils, that doesn't have a thing to do on the bearing of the Word of God. There He is. Then here's this man. And now the man sinned. And when he sinned and fell, then that little cloud in there became marred and black. Then the Logos came down and was made flesh and dwelt among us to redeem this man back to the love of the Father. And He came in by
the baptism of the Holy Spirit and chased sin out of the human and brings man back again again in fellowship with God. You believe that? Back...
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Now, notice. Then, that's where you are. That's what's the matter with you Pentecostal people. Now, I'm... It's my lot this afternoon to preach. And I have a right here at the platform. And I don't never want to know any person from the flesh when I'm standing here. That's what's the matter with the Pentecostal people. They don't recognize who they are. You're sons and daughters of God. You have in your hand... Look. Then Jesus, it was one time quoted in the Scripture, "Ye are Gods."
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Look. Deity... I'm a part of Charles Branham, because I was born from Charlie Branham, my daddy. I'm a part of him. I've got a forehead like him. My hair was like him. I'm a small man like him. I'm in the nature like him, because he's my dad. And if we become in spirit sons of God, Deity dwells in the man. Hallelujah! Then you talk about blind eyes being open. They said nothing impossible to God. God said nothing impossible with you, if you'll believe, not with God, but you. Deity's in man. The very God that stood back there on the mythical platform of the eternities, and rolled worlds off of His hands, and created these things give you the privilege to be His son, and you're a part of Him. And God dwells in mankind, and man himself is Deity. Hallelujah! There you are. It might choke you, but study over that a little while. See? He is... God dwells in man. And man becomes a son of God, not him in himself, but the Holy Spirit that's in him is God. The Creator lives in the creation. Oh, my. How I think of that. Then stand with an unwavering faith and ask what you will; it'll be done unto you. There He is. God. There He is.
Now, before this Redeemer could come in the days of our text, when Jesus had become very popular. Although He was born with an awful scorn, He came in by the way of a stable door and went out the way of capital punishment (Did you know that?), considered a fanatic, laughed at, spit upon, made fun of, and the very God of Glory. He came in by a stable door. Why was Jesus born in a stable or a manger? Did you ever think of that? He had to be. He was a Lamb. Lambs are not born in houses. Lambs are born in the barns and fields. Abel led his lamb away by a grapevine. Sacrificed him on the altar, and Abel died on the same altar his sacrificed lamb died. And every
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believer, that comes to Christ, must die on the same altar with his dying Lamb, Christ, and die in Christ to be a new creature: die out to the things of the world and become borned again, a new creature in Christ Jesus. Die on the same altar of self sacrifice. All right.
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Notice. But before God does anything on this earth, He always sends a message, warning, getting things ready. Oh, I just, I feel kindly religious right now. Look. All right. I believe that there's a move going on now. God's warning as it was in the days of Noah, getting the people ready. Something's about to happen. The atomic powers and things are about ready to burst in upon us. Millions will die in a split second. But oh, my, God getting His Church ready for the rapture, the coming of the Son of God. Notice. Then before God sends something to the earth, He always sends His message. God sends His Angels to vindicate or to verify certain things.
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Now, there's minor Angels and there's major Angels. Now, just before the coming of Jesus, God sent Gabriel, the great Archangel. Look. For four thousand years they had been looking for the Messiah. Now, the old prophetic wheels were coming together. Just about time. The people had got off in their ecclesiastics and so forth. Some of them know no more about God than an Hottentot would know about Egyptian knight, yet they can tell you all about the Scriptures. You try to fight the devil one time just by knowing the Scriptures. He knows it better than any of you. "It's he that doeth the will of My Father."
Notice. Then they had it all figured out just how it was to be. But God has never had Hisself, left Hisself without a testimony. Now, before the coming of Jesus... Let's take God sent Gabriel down from glory. Now, you can hear of minor Angels coming. But when Gabriel comes, something major's on the road. When Gabriel comes... He's the Archangel. And there's something great fixing to happen. Listen. Gabriel announced the first coming of Christ, and Gabriel will announce the second coming of Christ. There you are. For He will sound the trumpet of God. All right. The first coming... Let's take--go back a little bit in some drama. I can see an old priest by the name of Zacharias, wonderful old character. Him and his wife Elisabeth, good people, served the Lord with all their heart. And he--mission at the temple was to burn incense over the altar while the people were praying. And they were keeping all the laws and the statues of God, walking before God, blameless.
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And I can see Zacharias at the temple that day making a sacr... people was praying, and he was burning the incense. And then, look. Coming down from glory comes the great Archangel, stands by his side and said, "Zacharias, fear not. For when you... After the days of your ministration here, you're going home to be with your wife. And you're going to bring a child, and his named will be called John." What a salute to that man. He said, "How can these things be?" I want you to notice. A man of the Scripture, a man who knew all the Bible, a priest, an elect failed to believe God's Angel. All right. Watch. Then... When God determines anything, His foreordained will has to come to pass.
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Then I can see Gabriel say, "Because you have not believed my word... I'm Gabriel that stands in the Presence of God. They'll be fulfilled in their season. It's already spoke. But you'll be dumb till the day the baby's born." Now, Zacharias had many examples. There was Sarah, past the age of bearing, ninety years old, forty years past the menopause. But because she believed God, she had a son, who the world's been blessed by. There was Hagar... Hannah, I mean. Hannah, past the age of bearing, went to the temple one day up to Shiloh, staggered in there, fell down at the altar, and threw up her hands, and screamed until the people thought she was drunk. She wasn't drunk. She was just misunderstood. A lot of people said the other night; they was going down and said, "That must be a bunch of holy-rollers up there, all of them screaming and carrying on." You're not crazy. You're just misunderstood. That's all.
Hannah was in deep sincerity. And a priest even staggered out and ask her if she be drunk. He said, "I'm not drunk, but I'm praying, 'God, take away my reproach.'" She wasn't looking to see what kind of hats the women were wearing, what kind of clothes they were dressed in. She went there to worship God and to ask Him for something. And if you've come this afternoon, no matter whether you're in crutches, wheelchairs, whatever you are, if you come to ask God something, ask and you shall receive. And she was misunderstood. But when she raised up and the priest saw that she was sincere, he said, "The Lord, God bless thee." And she thanked God, went home believing. God could've put the baby in her arms right then, but in nine months little Samuel was born. She
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Now, Zacharias had all those things as examples, but he failed to believe the Angel. And God told him... Or the Angel told him he'd be dumb. Then he went home. And his wife conceived. About six months after that, a little virgin was packing water one day. About eighteen years old, she was engaged to a widower, about forty-five, Joseph, who had four children. And she... Let's say it was Monday, that's about the worst day for women, 'cause they wash. I--I have to still pack wash water on Monday when I'm home. So there... Oh, let's say it Monday. And I see her coming from the well. And Nazareth, the meanest city there was on the earth, worst than Erie... Yeah. And there she was packing water, but she was a virgin. She lived right. I don't care how mean your city is; you can be a Christian anywhere. Amen. She believed God.
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The oriental type was to pack water on their head. I can imagine seeing the little virgin come along packing water upon her head. And all at once a big light flashed before her. There, standing in the light, stood that mighty Angel, Gabriel. Said, "Hail, Mary. Blessed art thou among women." What a salutation. She wondered at His way she--that Angel approached her. It frightened the little virgin. It would frighten you. It did frighten me. And I noticed that she didn't understand. He told her about her cousin, Elisabeth, going to have a child, being old and past age. Mary and Elisabeth were first cousins. John and Jesus were second cousins. And told her that she was going to have a baby not knowing any man. Now, look at the difference between a priest, who had plenty of examples by the Word, failed to believe the Angel's message. But the little girl... Never had a baby been born like that. But she said, "Behold, the handsmaid of the Lord. Be it unto me according to Thy Word." Hallelujah. Don't get scared. I know where I am. Look. Hallelujah means, 'Praise our God.' And He's worthy of all the praise. All right.
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She believed Him. She didn't question. She believed Him. Said, "The Holy Ghost will overshadow thee, and that holy Thing which is born of thee shall be called the Son of God." She said, "Be it unto me according to thy words." And right away she started testifying and telling people that she was going to have a baby, knowing no man, before the baby ever was born. Before she felt anything, before there was any life, any evidence at all, she went testifying that it was so. God give us some
more Marys around Erie here, that can take God at His Word. Before you see, feel anything, take Him at His Word. Hallelujah. Oh, my. I feel pretty good. Don't think I'm crazy. If I am, I'm happy; just let me alone then. All right.
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Oh, brother. Anyone that'll dare to take God at His Word, God said so. She said it's so and went to testifying of it. If God said that He would heal you if you believed Him, take His Word. Don't look how crippled you are, how blind you are. Take Him at His Word and start testifying about it. God's under obligation to bring it to pass. Amen. All right. You think I'm pretty noisy for a Baptist? Oh, Baptists get a little excited, too. I'm a different Baptist. I'm a Holy Ghost Baptist. Amen. That's right. I got the Holy Ghost. So... That's the kind of Baptist we ought to have with the Holy Ghost. If some of my brethren would step out and get the same thing, the Baptist Church would come to life again. That's right. Oh, my.
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I can see her rejoicing, happy, going and telling everybody she's going to have a baby, knowing no man. Could you imagine that? I know... The Angel told her about her cousin. And right up through the hills of Judaea she went to see her. She just couldn't stay no longer. She'd heard the good news. And I can see Sarah... or Elisabeth, rather, setting knitting, maybe. And she seen Mary coming. And she run out and threw her arms around Mary and begin to hug her. They had love for one another in them days. We've lost that today. You know it's the truth. That's right. People don't even... You can't even... Anyone go downtown, you can't speak to them hardly unless you're up in some big rank like they are. And then they go downtown and speak; they just give some kind of a silly grin. Oh, brother, I like an old fashion pump handle handshake. Get right down to the bottom of it. What are you anyhow? Amen. That's right. No love for... You don't even know your neighbor's dead until you read it in the paper. There's no love for people any more. You lost that.
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A long time ago when we used to run out of money, we'd go over to the neighbor and borrow fifty dollars to hold us over. Why, we didn't have to sign any notes. We trusted one another. You can't borrow five dollars now without a ten dollar security on top of it. That's right. No love... The Bible said, "Because the love shall wax cold the--the love... Because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold." That's what the matter with the world. They're dying for love. We got
plenty of teaching, plenty churches, but we need a love of God. Hallelujah. Know what's the matter with me today... Look. I tell you, brother. There they were. I can see her happy, rejoicing. And she run, threw her arms around her, and oh how happy she was; because that--that she heard about it.
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Now, I can hear her say... Put her arms around her, and begin to love her, and they was hugging one another. I like that. Don't you? I like to see women meet one another like that? And I like to see men grab... Awhile ago a man come out there, and took a hold of my hand, just put his arms around me, a young fellow; said, "Brother Branham, I was in your meeting. And my little girl was healed." With something, I forget what it was. And said, "You stood and said THUS SAITH THE LORD that child will be a certain thing." Watch. He said it was just exactly like that. That's right. And he put his arms around me. I like that. Amen. I'm just an old fashion, backwoods, sassafras preacher. I like it. Yes, sir. I believe in it. I believe in old time, sky blue, sin-killing religion. It don't whitewash you, but it washes you white, makes you a new creature in Christ Jesus. Amen. Makes the devil mad.
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Notice. Here not long ago I was down in Florida. What gets me is to see people who think they're better than somebody else. Brother, we got plenty of it. That's right. What are you anyhow? Six foot of dirt. I was passing by a museum not long ago, and they had the analysis of a man's body that weighed a hundred and fifty pounds: worth eighty four cents. That's right. A hundred and fifty pound man has got enough chemicals about him to make eighty four cents, just about enough whitewash to sprinkle a hen's nest. And oh, I don't know, a little bit of calcium you could hold on the end of a pen or something. Worth eighty four cents, then you'll put a five dollar hat on it and stick your nose up. It if was to rain, you'd drown. Some woman are at the... That's right. And you'll think you're something. That's right. Brother, what the world needs today, is not a new man or not a new president, but an old fashion Saint Paul's revival and the Bible Holy Ghost preached back in His church in Its power. That's right.
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We're talking about meetings and revivals. We're having protractive meetings but not a revival. We need a revival. Tear down, go down to the bottom, let the priest hold to the altar and weep. Amen. Amen. Don't get excited. That means 'so be it.' I used to have an old dog. He'd tree anything in the world but a polecat, skunk. And when I'd get him treed, he'd run around and
around, bay the skunk, but he wouldn't go and get him for me. The only thing I had to do was hold up the brush pile and pat him and say, "Sic him, Fritz." Brother, he went and got the skunk. The worst skunk that I know of is the devil. And brother, if you want to tree him this afternoon, just holler, "Amen." That's--that's "Sic him." We go get him and tree the fellow. That's right.
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Now, notice. Down there one time in Miami, there was some kind of a Duchess or something like that. Brother Bosworth said, "Brother Branham, the Duchess of something, some island, something wants to meet you." I said, "Well, who's she any more than anybody else?" See? He said, "Well, she wants to meet you. Will you wait just behind the tent?" And I said... Well, he's the manager, so there wasn't nothing I could do. And I said, "All right." When he stepped outside of the tent, there was a little old place there, a little--had roped off. And here come a woman through there with just about enough clothes on to wad a musket shotgun. She had earrings hanging plumb down like this, looked like the devil had been using her neck for a saddle and using them for stirrups. He'd rode her all over hell anyhow. That's right.
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Here she come down through there packing a pair of glasses, held out on a stick about... You know people ain't going to look through glasses out that far, holding it out like that, holding them out on a stick like that. And she walked down through there, you know, with her stick out like that, looking like that, looking down. Why, it's a wonder she didn't run over something. She looked like that. And she walked up to me. She said, "Are you Doctor Branham?" I said, "No, ma'am. No, ma'am." I said, "I'm Brother Branham." She raised up her hand. She said, "I am charmed to meet you." I said, "Get it down here, so I'll know you when I see you again." That's right. Brother, what are we anyhow? Six foot of dirt. Hallelujah. It's the grace of God that changed our hearts and...?... And not we in ourselves but it's by His grace are we saved.
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The other day I seen a little old woman passing into a big church there in the city. And she'd come down, and her daughter and them had joined the church. And she walked in there, a little old calico dress on, ever what you call a goods. And she walked in there, and the preacher said something and she said, "Praise the Lord." And everybody stretched their neck like a goose on a pond, looking around like that to see what it was. Why, it excited everybody. They
never heard anybody say, "Amen." She was from up in Kentucky there where they still got a little religion left. So then, she come around there. And the preacher said, "And Jesus Christ, the Son of God..." She said, "Glory." And so the preacher said [Brother Branham clears his throat--Ed.] Said, "I'm interrupted." Oh, brother, if you don't say it, it interrupts me. All right. Notice. And then he said a few more words and she said, "Praise the Lord. That's right." And the ushers come and put her out of the church. I thought, "Oh, yes. Her name might not be in Who's Who, but I bet it's wrote in the Lamb's Book of Life." There's where I want mine. Brother, not "Who's Who." I want my name in God's Who's Who.
A day that we're living in is a great matching time. Do you believe that? Paint your steps red and watch all the neighbors get theirs red right away: matching time. Everybody wants to impersonate somebody else: match. I always said I didn't care whether my shoes matched my trousers, or my shirt matched my coat. I want my experience to match God's Bible. When He said, "You must be borned again," when they received the baptism of the Holy Ghost on the day of Pentecost, I want that. I want my experience to match that. Amen. Peter said, "This is that." If this ain't that; I'm going to keep this till that comes. I'm going to do that. Amen. I'm having a good time with this. All right.
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I can see Mary throw her arms around and saying, "Oh, Elisabeth, how sweet it is to see you again." And said, "I've just been told that you're going to have a child in your old age." I can hear Elisabeth say, "Yes, Mary. That's right. I--I'm going to have a child. But it's worried me. See? It's six months, no life yet." Altogether subnormal. See? Life comes at about... You feel life three to four months, something like that, two and a half months. Said, "But there's no life yet." And Mary said, "You know..." Oh, my. I know I'm suppose to stay here, but I can't.
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Look. Said, "You know, the Holy Ghost come down and overshadowed me, and told me I was to have a baby also, knowing no man. And I should call His Name, Jesus." And just as she said, "Jesus," little John leaped in the mother's womb, begin to jump like that, received life. The first time the Name of Jesus Christ was ever spoke by mortal lips, a dead baby come to
life in the wombs of a mother. Brother, if It will bring a dead baby to life, what ought It to do to a born again Church. Hallelujah. That's right. No wonder It will make a cripple walk, the blind see, deaf hear, the Name of Jesus Christ. Little John dead in his mother's womb, and Elisabeth said, "Whence cometh the mother of my Lord to me?" Said, "For as soon as thy salutation come to my ears, my baby leaped in my wombs for joy." What a baby (Hallelujah.), what a Name: "My baby leaped in my womb for joy when your salutation come to my ears."
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Brother, what ought It to do to a borned again bunch of people? But you can't curse that Name, and make fun of that Name, and doubt that Name, and get the joy out of It. You got to reverence It in your heart. Believe It with all your heart. All right. Then they stayed up there a few days. Then after while little John was to be born. When he was born... At the age of about nine years old, he didn't go off to some kind of seminary or cemetery. It's a--a seminary, I mean to say. It's all about the same. It's a dead place. That's right. You know what? A seminary preacher always puts me in the mind of an incubator chicken. A little old incubator chicken will chirp, chirp, chirp, and ain't got no mammy to go to. That's just about the way with an incubator preacher, with reading, writing, and arithmetic, and know no more about God than a rabbit knows how to put on snowshoes. You know that's the truth. That's right.
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I ain't got nothing against, but we need today... I'd rather have a man with my boy, who didn't know the difference between split beans and coffee and know the Holy Ghost, than to have all the education in the world and try to pump into him. That's right. Hallelujah. I feel pretty religious. Look. Let me tell you something, brother. "It's not by power, not by might, but by My Spirit." saith the Lord. There it is. Yes sir. He believed Him.
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And now, notice. That... What kind of a baby was this to be: out in the wilderness at nine years old and staying? And when he come out at the age of thirty, brother, he had the chips flying, too. He come out on the banks of Jordan, preaching the Gospel. He stirred all the regions around about Jerusalem, come out to hear him standing on the banks. He wasn't dressed up with a great big fine tuxedo suit on and his collar turned around. No. He had on a pair of old hairy trousers and a sheepskin belt around him like that. But he stirred all the regions around about Jordan. What was the matter? He
preached Christ by the Baptism of the Holy Ghost. And I tell you brother; yet when it's preached in Its power, yet in Its simplicity, It'll attract the nations anywhere, the attractions of the Gospel of Christ. Amen.
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I'm glad Brother Baxter told me I could come down: feel pretty religious. Notice. Then the first thing you know, what did he do? He stirred the regions. One day along about eleven o'clock in the day, he was preaching and there stood a little old priest across said, "You mean to tell me, Rabbi, that the time's coming when we won't have the daily sacrifice? You're wrong." He said, "There'll come a time when a Man will be the sacrifice." "Oh," he said. "It can't be so." Got so many he had to stand him on the other side of the river, his crowds got so big. And after while, I notice and here come One coming walking down. He said, "Behold..." "Behold" means "to look at." "Behold, the Lamb of God that takes away the sin of the world." There He comes, an ordinary little Fellow walking down through there with His blue robe on and His hair a blowing, about thirty years old. Oh, what a Man. Brother, I tell you; there's the Prince of all princes, King of all kings, Lord of all lords, the Son of the living God, God's Divine Promise.
God is under obligation to take care of His promise. When God brought Israel out of the wilderness back there, out into the wilderness, rather, He promised to take care of them. And what God promised, God's under obligation to do. When they needed water, they went to the rock. When they needed food, God rained manna out of heaven. He opened up the Red Sea. Look at that manna falling down, what a beautiful type of our Church today. As God led Israel in the natural, He's leading the Church today in the spiritual. Watch this. Then when they crossed over the Red Sea, all the taskmasters was dead. The Red Sea, the Blood of Christ, the man come through the Blood be sanctified from the things of the world set over on the banks over here of a new land, a new people. There was Miriam; she got real happy. She got a tambourine and she went to dancing. Down the banks she went dancing. The daughters of Israel followed behind her dancing. Moses got in the Spirit and sang a song in the Spirit. If that ain't an old fashion Holy Ghost meeting, I never seen one in my life. There you are. After they'd crossed over into a new land, then God said He'd take care of them.
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Then I noticed that night, they didn't have any bread. They didn't care for any. But God rained manna down out of heaven, fell on the earth. And they went out and picked it up and eat it. They said it taste like honey. Did you ever eat any of it? Oh, it's good. My! You ought to taste some, honey. You know, David of old? He was a shepherd. He was the one who said it taste like honey. It taste like honey in the rock. David speaking of that... He used to carry... The shepherds used to carry a scrip bag on their sides, and they put honey in there. And when their sheep would get sick, they'd put this honey on a rock, and the sheep would go and lick on this rock. And licking this honey off the rock, they'd lick the lime out of the rock and would get well. See? They'd put the honey on the rock and get the sheep to lick. And they'd licked the honey. And licking the honey, they got some of the lime out of the limestone rock. And the lime got the sheep well.
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In the old days when people used to get mad dog bit, they would take them and put them on a mad stone. If they stuck to the stone, they got well. If they didn't stick, they died. And I said awhile ago, the worst mad dog I know of is the devil. If he's bit you and made you sick, get to the Rock, Christ Jesus. Stick to It; hang to It; hold on; don't you leave; hang to the wings of the cross and you're sure to get well. Amen. That manna again... Let me give you something else here. I just love them old nuggets, don't you? Yes, sir. Brush them up; look what they look like.
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Then God told Aaron... Now, He said, "Now, don't try to keep any of that over. If you keep it over, it'll spoil." That's what's the matter with a whole lot of the Pentecostal people. You keep it over. "I had an experience twenty years ago." Brother, that experience has got wiggletails in it today. What about right now? You say, "When I received the baptism of the Holy Ghost, I had joy, peace, and suf--longsuffering." What about now? That experience back there is done gone. What about a new one today? Each day they gathered new manna. And a manna is a perfect type of the Holy Ghost coming from God, the Sustainer to take them through the wilderness, as the Spirit is the Sustainer for us today to take us through this journey. We're on our road to the promised land. Is that right? "In My Father's house is many mansions. If it wasn't so, I would've told you. And I'll go and prepare a place for you." Is that right? We're on our way to the promised land. Notice. And we're fed daily by the Holy Spirit coming down from God out of heaven, sweet to our souls like honey in the rock. I have to have it every hour of my life or I die. That's true. It has to come to
me or I can't live. It'll come--have to come to you or you won't live. That's right.
Now, notice. I want you to get it close. Well, let me show you this type first. Moses told Aaron, "Go out and get several omers full of it, and put it in behind the holiest of holies." Then it'll come to pass that every generation after them, coming in after they made the journey, and was a--become a priest, and become worthy to go in and be a priest, they could go in there and get some of this manna, of the original manna, and taste it and eat some of the manna. Then they would tell them what it was all about. Keep this up in behind the holiest of holies. It'll stay back there. It won't spoil back there, because it's coming directly from heaven, the power of God upon the holiest of holies.
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And that every priest knew that when he become a priest, he had a right to taste some of the original manna that fell at the beginning. Now, that was their manna to give them all through their journey something as they--a memorial that God brought them from death to life, and would--fed the children of Israel. And on the day of Pentecost when our Manna come from God out of heaven after the Church was inaugurated and the baptism of the Holy Ghost was to come, Jesus said, "Be--behold I send the promise of My Father upon you. But tarry ye in the city of Jerusalem until you're endued with power from on high. After this, the Holy Ghost is come upon you, You'll be witnesses of Me, Jerusalem, Judaea, Samaria, Erie, Pennsylvania, and to the uttermost parts of the world." Amen.
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Notice. Now, they went back there. Just as they crossed the Red Sea, so did the disciples go back after the pouring out of the red Blood of Christ to cleanse the Church. And when the day of Pentecost was fully come... Oh, my. Now, look at the way we got it today. In the Protestant Church, we walk up and say, "Do you be--take the... Do you believe the Lord Jesus Christ to be the Son of God?" "I do." "Put your name on the book. Be will put you on six months probation, take you in the church. Go ahead drink, smoke, carry on, do anything you want to." In the Catholic church, we walk up and stick out your tongue, take the communion, the holy eucharist. All right. Then you become a member of the church. Now, neither one of them is right. When the day of Pentecost fully come, there wasn't a priest come up the road with a communion box
in his hand. There wasn't a minister walked out of the seminary and said, "I'm Doctor Jones now. I'll take you by the right hand, and give you the fellowship of the church, and take you in by letter."
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But when the day of Pentecost had fully come, they were all in one place in one accord, not saying, "I'm Methodist. I'm Baptist. I'm Lutheran. I'm this." They were in one place and one accord. And suddenly there came from heaven a sound, not up the road, not from the seminary, but from heaven, a sound like a rushing mighty wind. And It filled all the house where they were setting. And the Holy Ghost fell upon them. There they went out into the streets, staggering stammering going on like a bunch of drunk men. Wait a minute, friend. The blessed virgin Mary had to go in there and get the same thing. And if God would not suffer the virgin Mary to come into heaven without receiving the baptism of the Holy Ghost, don't think you can wrap yourself around some church and get in with anything less. You're going to get the Holy Ghost or be out. That's all. That's all. That's the Gospel teaching, brother. It might burn you up, and scorch you, and blister you, and everything else, but it'll do you good.
Now, as a little boy, we had to take castor oil all the time. We didn't have nothing to eat, boiled old meat skins to get the grease to put in the corn bread. And we'd have to take castor oil every Saturday night. Old tub, reach down there and get... take an old tub bath... Mom would scrub us and put some more water in the teakettle, and pour a little bit more water in, and scrub the... on us. Then hold your nose and take castor oil. My, my. I took it till I was so sick. When I'd even come into the kitchen, I started gagging. And I'd hold my nose, and I'd heave and gag. And I'd say, "Mama, this stuff makes me so sick." She'd say, "If it don't make you sick, it don't do you any good." That applies this afternoon. If this don't make you right good and sick, it won't do you any good. So... keep her up; get right; that's the only thing to do. Start over new. Amen. The old- fashion Gospel will give you a good, what you need. Amen. You know that's right. That's right. It'd make a new creature out of you in Christ Jesus. Might make you throw some things out you don't need in you. All right.
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They had to receive the baptism of the Holy Ghost, or God didn't recognize her as one of His. All right. And when they received the Holy Ghost, out into the streets they went screaming acting like a bunch of drunk men, like that, staggering around. And today they talk--taken the Holy Ghost, put a wafer under your
tongue, or shake hands with the minister. Oh, brother, I'm sick and tired of that old dry-eyed confession. There's no more to it than there is a... like a fellow trying to get a drink of water out of an old dry rag somewhere. That's right. What we need today is a good fresh baptism of the Holy Ghost come down and stir up the people again. I was watching your lake out here the other day. When I went down there, it was having a big revival. The waves were just a jumping and a bouncing and a jumping. I said, "There's no more water in it when it's smooth, but its got a revival." That's what we need today: the wind blowing on us, kindy shake you up a little bit.
Notice. And then how glorious... Now, Peter said then, "Now, looky here." All the men and the brethren run together and said, "Look at these guys (religious people); they're all full of new wine. Look at them women up there. What did I tell you. Why, they're all full of new wine." There come Peter stepping out there. I guess he was a soapbox preacher. That's what they said I was. So all right. He got his soapbox, or stump, or whatever it was and got onto it and said, "You men of Judaea, and you that dwell in Jerusalem, let this be known unto you. These are not drunk as you suppose, seeing it's the third hour of the day. But this is that which was spoken of by the prophet, Joel." He preached such a sermon, brother, till he shook the stalactites of hell down in the devil's eyes. That's right. And when he did, he said... They seen all this. Said, "This was what was prophesied to be." They said, "What can we do to be saved?" He said, "Repent, every one of you, and be baptized in the Name of Jesus Christ for the remission of your sins. And you shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost."
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What is it? It's the same promise. The same manna that fell on them to give them Eternal Life, like the manna that carried the children of Israel through the wilderness, the same baptism of the Holy Ghost carries the Church through to glory. And every man, as the Priest was then... The middle wall partition's tore down. Every man that'll come to Christ, and believe that He is, and a Rewarder of those who seek Him, and give up their sins, and throw their arms open to God, can have, not something that looks like it, some imitation of it, but a genuine heart full of the real baptism of the Holy Ghost, like fell on the day of Pentecost, make the same signs, wonders, and everything else take place. Hallelujah. You know that's right. Make you act the same way, like a drunk man. Carry on just like they did on the day of Pentecost. Every believer has a right to receive It,
just like every priest coming into the priesthood could get the manna. Hallelujah. My, wished I was twice my size; I'd make twice as much noise maybe.
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Brother, I feel real good about it anyhow. What this church needs today is a good revival, not a new doctrine, a new order, just a stirring up of what you already know about. Not long ago a brother and I were walking out along a creek. We found an old terrapin. I don't know whether you have them here or not, tortoise, turtle. And he was the funniest looking thing. He spread them feet like this, you know. And I said, "Look at that funny looking fellow." And when we got down to him, he pulled back up in his shell like that. Puts me in the mind of some of these Christians, when you go to pouring the Gospel on to them. Them old lukewarm church members pull back up in the shell, "I belong to so-and-so. Doctor Soand-so said so." Get in there. I said, "I'll make him walk." And I went over and cut me a long switch, and I poured it on him. That wouldn't do no good. You can beat them into it.
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I said, "I'll fix him up." I took him down at the creek and dumped him under the water. Just a few bubbles come up. Brother, you can go down a dry sinner and come up a wet one, just a few bubbles. You can baptize them this way, that name, up and down this way, back and forward, and sprinkle him, anything you want to he's still a sinner. That's right. I went and got a piece of paper, and built a little fire, and set the old boy on it. He walked then. Brother, what we need today is preachers back behind the pulpit that preach the power of the Gospel of Jesus Christ with Holy Ghost and fire baptism coming down upon the people. It'll make them walk then, not out here on these beaches on Sunday afternoon stretch themselves in a bathing suit. It'll make them walk to church. Not down and play golf on... O brother, does that scorch you. Walked down there this morning, little ladies laying all around down there on that beach... Little women, I can't say ladies. Ladies don't do things like that. But lay down on the beach there with a bathing suit on stretched out for a suntan.
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I got a daughter. She's six years old. Let me ever catch her laid out like that; she'll get a son-tan. But it'll be Charlie Branham's son tanning her with a board just as hard as I can. I'll have her going home with a real tanning she won't forget about for a long time. Some of the people out here talk about them old mammies up in
Kentucky being illiterate and so forth. They can come out and teach you how to raise your daughter. That's right. You put them little old clothes on your girl, and stand her out here on the street, and then some boy make a remark about her, and want to send the boy to the penitentiary. It's you the one that needs the whipping. That's right. Brother, if the love of God is in your heart, where it ought to be, you won't dress your child like that. Whew, I better shut up. These boys come to preach the Gospel to you.
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Brother, I believe in being what you are. Amen. And I believe the power of the Holy Ghost cleans you up from such things as that. Don't you degrade yourself laying out there. Listen, brother, by your diet you're known. Buzzards eats anything. Doves know their diet. That's right. They have no fellowship one with the other. Birds of a feather, flock together. Keep away from them places; love God. If you love the Lord with all your heart, you haven't got no room for such stuff as that. That's right. What we need today is another... Talk about a revival, and people acting like that. All right. Let's go on with the text. All right. Anyhow.
I can see Jesus after He was become popular, got out, and the miracles began to follow Him. He called them out and said what they were. God was with Him, manifesting Hisself to Him. And then one day He went to live with Martha and Mary and Lazarus, was His buddy. Then when He got over there to Lazarus... He left the home one day, not because He had to, but because His ministry was shoving Him away to another country. And because to fulfill a vision God had give Him. Watch. He left the home. And when He left the home, sorrow and sickness come in. And when He leaves your home, sorrow and sickness is coming in. All right.
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Lazarus took sick. Theologians believe he died with hemorrhages of the lungs. That I don't know. The Bible doesn't say nothing. Some of the writers said it was. All right. He got sick. And sometimes God tries your faith. Do you believe that? Ever son that cometh to God must be tried. Think it not strange that fiery trials come, because it's only done to perfect your faith, draw you closer. Their worth more than the gold to you. All right. Then when these things begin to take place, Mary and Martha sent and said, "Have Jesus to come back and pray for him." And Jesus just ignored their call. He went to another city farther away. Well, then they sent again. He still ignored the call.
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Now, if your pastor would do that. Oh, my. You'd say, "Why, the old hypocrite," Now, they never told me to say this. But you'd say, "The old hypocrite. I'll go over and join Doctor So-and-so's church. If he won't..." Don't you know that all things work together for good to them that love God? That's the reason He ain't got no--can't help you. He's a man of God, but he can't help you till you believe in him. You believe your pastor if he's a good man. If he believes in Divine healing, and preaches it, and stands by it, and lives the right kind of life, he's got just as much right to pray for you as any man on the face of the earth. But you've got to believe him and have confidence in him as God's man. And they sent again and He just kept on going. Now, watch. Here's the part I love. He turned around and said, "Our friend, Lazarus sleepeth," and what he really was. And he said, "Oh," he said, "If he sleepeth he doeth well." Then He told them in their regular language, the way they know. Said, "Lazarus is dead, and for your sake I'm glad I wasn't there. But I go wake him." Oh, my. God... Watch at the grave and see if God hadn't already showed Him about it. "I go wake him." They returned back.
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Well, the first day passed at the little home. They took Lazarus out, embalmed his body, put him in the grave, the breadwinner. We're taught that Lazarus was a--was a scribe at the temple. And Martha and Mary made little tapestries and things like that: their parent gone. And so the breadwinner was gone then: dark time. The second day passed. They went to the grave and mourned. The third day passed, the fourth day passed. Corruption sets in in seventy two hours, three days and nights. The skin worms was working through his body. All hopes was gone, darkest hour the little family had ever seen. Did you ever hit that hour? I've hit it in our home. Love ones be taken away and darkness.
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Darkest hour the little family had ever seen. And then Jesus come along. He usually comes when it's the darkest hour. I was laying yonder in Mayo's Hospital. Mayo Brothers looked at me, and they put me in examinations. Said, "Reverend Branham, we're sorry to inform you of this. But you're finished. Nothing can be done for you. You're finished." And then Jesus come along. Oh, my. O mercy! It may be your darkest hour now, brother, setting there shaking in the chair. I've watched you for two nights. Wouldn't it be wonderful if
Jesus come along about this time? What about you, setting there with cancer, the doctor says you can't live? Your darkest hour and then Jesus comes along. He's always there just in the darkest hour. When the Hebrew children was making their last step in the fiery furnace, then Jesus come along. When the woman with the blood issue had...?... paid all of her money out for doctors, and none could do no good, then Jesus come along. He's right there. Don't be weary. If you love Him, stay right with Him. He will be there. Jesus come along.
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Some of them said, "The Master's come." Now, Mary had always been, or Martha a little dilatory. But her heart was burning. Here she pulled down her veil over her face and away she went. I hear some of them say, "Where is that holy-roller preacher that preached Divine healing? Uh-huh. When the trial come, He run away. Didn't He? Where's He at now? Where is that Divine Healer?" Martha and them had left the church, 'cause it was strictly said anybody that followed Jesus would be put out of the temple. So there they was. They couldn't have fellowship in their synagogue no more. Lost their church, lost their pastors, lost their friends, lost everything, and everything was gone. All hopes was gone. They was setting alone. And then Jesus come by. Then Martha... I can see her pick up her garments, put it around her, start running out. I can hear some of them say, "Now, wonder where she's going?" Now, I'd just always imagined that Martha knew down in her heart if she could ever get to Jesus, she'd find out all about what she wanted to know.
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Now, back in the Bible there... Like the Shunammite woman, Martha probably read this. The Shunammite woman when she lost her baby... I think it had a sunstroke. God give her the baby. And it'd raised to be nine, ten, twelve years old. One day about out about eleven o'clock in the field with its daddy said, "My head. My head." Went in and had a sunstroke. And it died. Now she said, "Saddle an ass and go forward. Don't stop, lest I bid you. Go to the man of God to Mount Carmel." Now, she knew that God was in Elijah. Now, listen closely now just before my closing. She knew that God was in Elijah. And if she could ever get to Elijah, she might not get her baby back, but she would know why that her baby was taken. And her husband said, "It's neither new moon or sabbath. He won't be there." She said, "All is well. Go on." And they went a ride... "And don't
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I can see her come up to the man of God. Now, he didn't know. God don't tell His prophets everything. He said, "Here comes that Shunammite, and there's something wrong with her. She's got grief in her heart, and God's hid it from me." Is that right? He didn't know what it was. So he come up... she... He said, "Is all well with thee, with thy husband, and with the child?" I love this. She said, "All is well." She'd got to the prophet. She knew everything was all right then. So she rode up by the side come off... She jumped down and fell down at his feet. Gehazi pulled him back from around her master. What was that? Keeping her away. He said, "Let her alone." Said, "She has sorrow. God's hid it from me." And so she revealed it to him that the baby was dead.
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Now, look. Here's where I think Paul got the idea, minister brethren, of laying handkerchiefs on the sick. He said, "You take my staff," told Gehazi. "You take my staff; and if any man salutes you, salute him not." That's what's the trouble when we get a commission today, we got to stop and do other things. You see? But said, "Don't salute him back. And take my staff and lay it on the child." Now, ELijah knew that God was in him. And whatever he touched was blessed. And if he could get the woman to believe the same thing... I think that's where Paul got laying handkerchiefs off of his body. He knew God was in him and what he touched was blessed, but if the people would believe it.
So Gehazi went forward. And 'course the baby never woke, because the--the woman believed in Elijah. She said, "As the Lord, God, liveth and your soul never dies. I'll not leave you." So Elijah girded up his loins and away he went. Went to the house, and there the dead baby laid, and the people screaming. Well how appropriate. She'd built him a little house. So she took the baby and laid it on his bed, where he had laid. That's a good place to lay it, wasn't it? On the bed. Then the prophet went in. He walked up-and-down the floor. Walked back-and-forth, up-and-down the floor, and then laid his body upon the baby's dead body. And it sneezed seven times and come to life. God was in His prophet.
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And Mary thought... Martha, rather, said, "If God was in His Prophet, surely God is in His Son." So away she went to meet Him.
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Oh, brother oh, Hallelujah. Away she... I'm not excited. I know right where I'm at now. Now, watch. Here she went to meet Him, going right on through them critics, you know pushing on by them, saying, "The days of miracles is past." She wanted to get to Him. Now, look like when she got to Him she could have upbraided Him, scolded Him, saying, "Why didn't You come to my brother? We left everything." Well, that would been the 1951 version of it, but not then. So if she'd have done that, the miracle would never been performed. But she run just as hard as she could. And she got to Him. She fell down at His feet. Oh, I love that. Now, she come in simplicity. She come in the right approach.
If you can get what I'm talking about now. There's a way to approach: simplicity. Don't never think you're better than somebody. Don't think God owes it to you. You owe it to God. Come humble. "Nothing, Lord. I have nothing. I come humbly." Down there in Mexico when them Spanish would come, them Catholic; as soon as they'd see them things happen, they wouldn't want to be prayed for. If they could even get near, just pass by, that's all they wanted to do. And I never seen one turned down yet. Humble, 'course we've got so much education; we know all about it and all the details. See? We know too much about it.
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But here come Martha; she run up and fell down at His feet, and she said, "Lord..." That was His right title. Was He the Lord? "Lord, if Thou wouldest been here, my brother would've not have died." Oh. "If You'd been here, my brother would not have died. But even now, Lord, whatever You ask God, God will give it to You." There you are. There you are. Humble, laying at His feet, a man, looking up and calling Him what He claimed to be, no matter if the world said He was a holy-roller, and He was beelzebub, a spiritualist, a fortuneteller, she said, "Lord, if Thou wouldest been here, my brother would not have died." Confessing her faith in Him, giving Him His right title of what He was. "But even now, whatever You ask God, God will do it." Oh, I love that.
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You say, "Brother Branham, I been this way a long time." But even now... "Brother Branham, the doctor told me I had heart trouble. I might die at any minute." But even now, Lord. You say, "But, Brother Branham, I'm eat up with a cancer." "But even now, Lord, whatever You ask God, God will give it to You." He's setting at the right hand of the Father to make intercessions. "Even now, Lord, whatever You ask God, God will give it to You."
I can see Him. He wasn't very much to look at. The Bible said there's no beauty we should desire Him. He wasn't a great big six footer. He was a little frail Fellow. He straighten His little frame up, stooped in the shoulders as He was. Said He was gray in His beard before He was thirty years old. Stooped in His shoulders up like that, said, "Thy brother shall rise again." Oh, my. She said, "Yes, Lord. I know he will raise again at the last day." Them Jews believed in the general resurrection. Said, "I know he will raise at the last day. He was a good boy. And God will raise him up at the last day." I can see Jesus say, "But I am the Resurrection and Life. I am," not "I will be; I was": I am (present tense.); I am the Resurrection and Life. He that believeth in Me shall never die." Oh, my. He said, "I am the Resurrection and Life," saith the Lord. "He that believeth in Me, though he were dead, yet shall he live. Whosoever liveth in Me shall... and believeth in Me shall never die." Said, "Believeth thou this?" She said, "Yea, Lord. I believe You. I believe You're just what You said You were. I believe You're the Son of God. I believe You're the Lord of heaven that come down here on earth. And whatever You ask God, God will give it to You. I believe that You're the Son of God that was to come unto the earth." Oh, my. Something has to happen. Something has to happen. Things were coming like this, coming together. Oh, my. Said, "Where have you buried him?" "Come, and see." Here He goes.
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A little lady, belonging to a certain church, tried to argue with me not long ago, a scientist church, knowed everything scientifically. She said, "Reverend Branham, do you mean to tell me that you believe He was Divine?" I said, "I know He was Divine." She said, "He was just a man." I said, "He was more than a Man." I said, "He was the God-Man." Said, "He wasn't nothing but a man." I said, "God, was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself." I said, "He was Divine." Said, "He wasn't. He was a man." I said, "He was a Divine Man." She said, "It's impossible, and I can prove it to you by the Scriptures that He wasn't Divine." I said, "Look, lady. Almighty God overshadowed a virgin. And we know that a baby that's born through the man, that the blood cell comes from the male sex." You believe that, don't you?
Here, I notice you all have chickens and things around here, birds in springtime. An old mother bird can go out here and lay a whole nest full of eggs; and she could hover them, and stay on that nest, and keep them warm, until she gets so poor she can't fly off the nest. If she hasn't been with the male bird, them eggs will never hatch. They'll lay right there and rot. Is that right. I think that's about what's the matter with the church today. We just got a big nest full of rotten eggs. It's time to dish the thing out, and start over new again. Somebody that's been in contact with Christ... Yes, sir. And there... But when that hen can lay an egg, it'll never hatch unless she's been with the male bird. The germ comes from the man. You're not... The blood cell comes from the man.
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And we are redeemed through the Blood of Christ. And God Almighty is a Spirit. And He overshadowed the virgin Mary and created... God the Creator, created the Blood Cell in the womb of that woman, knowing no man by sexual desire. You believe it? And that Blood cell developed into the Man which was the Son of God. And through that unadulterated Blood of the Son of God, creative Blood by Jehovah, without sexual desire; through the shedding of that Blood on Calvary's cross redeems us from sin and sickness. Hallelujah. Brother, I'm ready to die for that this afternoon. If you don't believe that, you're lost. That's right. I believe it with all my heart. Yes, sir.
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I said, "Yes, He was Divine. He was the created Son of God." And I said, "God was in Him reconciling the world to Himself." She...?... "He was just a mere man. He wasn't Divine." Said, "I'll prove it to you by the Scriptures. Will you receive it?" I said, "If you can prove it by the Scriptures, I will receive it. And if I'll disprove you ideal will you receive it?" She said, "I'll prove you first that you're wrong." I said, "Let's have you at it?" She said, "When He went down to the grave of Lazarus," Said, "He went down to the grave; he cried." Said, "That showed he wasn't nothing but a man, because he had sorrow in his heart. He cried. He was a mortal." I said, "Yes, ma'am. I'll agree with you that He cried like a man when He was going to the grave of Lazarus. But when He stood there in that little frail frame straightened up, said, 'Lazarus, come forth.' That was more than a mortal there. That was God speaking through His Son." Hallelujah. And a man that had been dead four days stood on his feet and lived again. You believe that? Yes, sir.
I said, "It's true, woman. He was a Man when He come down off the mountain that night and was hungry. He looked all around over a tree to find some food. He was hungry like a man, hunting for food; He was hungry. But when He took five biscuits and five little fishes and fed five thousand, that was more than a Man. That was God in His Son speaking forth, the Creator Himself." Hallelujah. Whew. Going to call me holy-roller anyhow, might as well have a big time while I'm here. Let me tell you brethren. Yes, sir. Watch. He was a Man when He was hungry, but He was God when He fed five thousand. He was a Man when He was laying on the back of that boat, that night when the troubled seas was troubling and bouncing, when ten thousand devils of the sea swore they'd drown Him that night. Laying back there on the back of that boat so tired He couldn't move, when even the mighty waves didn't even wake Him, He was a Man when He was asleep; but when He rose (Hallelujah.), come up there, and stuck His foot on the brail of that boat, looked up and said, "Peace be still," and the waves and wind obeyed Him. He was God when He ho... When the winds and waves obeyed Him, He was more than a mortal Man, He was God.
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Brother, when He died at Calvary cross, He cried, "My God, why hast Thou forsaken Me?" He died like a man. But when He rose on Easter morning, He broke every shackle of hell, death, and the grave. He proved that He was God, Emmanuel. He raised on high today. Believeth thou this? He's the same yesterday, today, and forever. Believest thou this? He's here right now. Believest thou this? He's the One that's working among us. Believest thou this? I believe the Holy Ghost is circling this building now. Believest thou this? I believe we can heal every one of us right now. Believest thou this? Hallelujah. Believest thou this? The Angel of God is circling this building right now. I believe that any man or woman in here that wants to be healed, can stand at their feet right now and be healed. Believest thou this? Stand to your feet. Hallelujah. O God, Author of life, Giver of every good gift, send Thy blessings to this people just now. Heal every one, Lord. May Your mercy fall. May Your power be here healing everyone just now. May they come forward and be well in the Name of Jesus Christ, the Son of God. Hold your hands. Praise Him. He's here now. He's healing people; virtue's going out. Hallelujah. Believest thou this? He's here.
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Thank you very much. Good evening, friends. I'm happy to be back here again tonight. Just sorry it is the last night of this series of meetings. I don't know whether it'll be my last night in the area or not, because I may be back again if you all will let me, and the Lord will permit it, and I get to come back again. [Audience applauds.--Ed.] Thank you. Thank you so much. Makes me feel double welcome. And if the Lord will grant, the next time it maybe not be just a few nights like this. It's just such a shame looks like. Now, we're just now getting into a place that where the people are just beginning to get healed (You see?), just moving up. The ushers was just telling me about last night; my strength give away. I'm sorry that I just can't stay no longer than what I do, because my strength is just about gone. Oh, my, if you only knew how weak I was. Sometimes I try to put a--throw my shoulders back when... Oh, my, if you just knowed what was behind that. But I'm trying my very best to do all that I can. I'm really weak tonight.
Last night I was trying to say about the lady was setting right here, that was in the wheelchair. I seen her going walking. And I was trying to tell her, and I just couldn't get my breath out enough to get it. And then when I got outside, the ushers, I said, "Go back and tell the lady, them braces, to walk, that Christ has healed her." They told me a few minutes ago she just took off her braces and was walking and was well. So that was fine. And this afternoon, the lady that was here, and the Spirit of the Lord fell and pointed to her; the first time she'd walked in I don't know how long, setting in a wheelchair. Now she's walking. How the Lord has granted these things. And great testimonies going out...
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I met a lady tonight while we were having our dinner in a place, that was in the meeting in Windsor, Ontario. I think she was going to speak, did she tonight? A lady that was just... Cancer had eat her completely up in here, and the doctors just give her a short time. And how that the Lord moved down and told her, "You're going to live." See? No matter what the, what others think, said, "That's first." Now, what if she hadn't have believed that? And when she got... Went off in a few days, got a little worse than what she was; she thought, "Well, that man just told me something that was wrong." Well then, she'd have went on and died. But she believed what was said was the truth, and God rewarded it.
As I told you before, many times, time and sight is the worse enemies that God has, time and sight. You look, and neither one of them declares anything about God. You want it done spontaneously, when God takes His time about things. And let's just believe whatever's said. I don't know; it was a few weeks ago that some of the most remarkable testimonies came in. And I wondered about that meeting, why there wasn't so--too many just spontaneous healings taking place. Well, I didn't know. And come to find out that... And while I was here a lady just called me while I was here and telling me. It was several days after the meeting that a--a lady had a stomach trouble, and it was so bad she could hardly, just couldn't eat nothing but just drink barley water and so forth, very serious ulcers. And said that, I told her she was going to be well.
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And she said, "Brother, it went on for weeks, three or four weeks, and still nothing had happened." And she just kept believing; she wouldn't give up. And one morning she tried to eat some toast. And oh, said, "How her stomach burned her, till she could hardly stand it." And said, "She was crying at the window washing the dishes, crying." And said, "While she was crying, a real cool feeling come over her." Said, she said, "Well, something... And she tried to wash dishes; she got so nervous, and she turned around," and said, "her stomach was just as cool." And she eat some oats some of them had left there. And it didn't bother her. She drank a cup of coffee, which she hadn't been able to do for a long time. Didn't bother her. And she was so happy she run down the street a ways to her neighbor, to tell her neighbor about it had been to the meeting. And the neighbor had also been pronounced, was going to be healed. She was going to tell her neighbor not to be discouraged, 'cause it had to happen. The neighbor had a big growth on her neck. And she found her neighbor down in the floor screaming to the top of her voice. The growth had just left her neck a few minutes before that. And you know what it was? It--it was the Angel of the Lord passing through that neighborhood of those things that'd--He had pronounced. If He pronounces it, it's His obligation, not mine or yours. See? It's your obligation to keep on believing. It's my obligation to stay here and work for Him. It's your obligation to believe what He tells you, and God will bring it to pass.
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Now, they can't always answer spontaneously. When Paul was out on the ocean that night, and fourteen days and nights without moon or stars, why, all hopes was gone. Is that right? No hopes at all, on those seaman, oh, men with barnacles on them almost, they'd been in the sea so long. And they said, "All hopes is gone if they should ever live."
And Paul was down in the gallery, and the Angel of the Lord came to him. He run up on top the deck and said, "Be of a good courage; be of a good courage; for the Angel of God Whose servant I am, stood by me and told me last night." See, that, "Paul you're going to appear before the emperor and so forth; and God's give them all that sail with you." And he said, "Be of a good courage, for I believe God, that it shall be just as it was shown me." And they taken and eaten--eating, was encouraged because they believed. Paul believed that what God told him was the truth. Now, it was several days before they was ever shipwrecked or got on the island. But God brought it to pass, because they believed it. Don't you fear.
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Now, I want you to listen to me. The last two nights, I'll say this: I believe if I... May God help me not--not to exaggerate, but just be honest as I believe from my heart. From the pull of the strength that's taking from me in this meeting, there's at least two hundred people setting here right now that's already healed. You just don't recognize it; you just don't recognize it. There's people here that I know that's healed. Just who, sometime it's such a conglomeration there, I can't tell where it's at. But it's just... You just imagine; you take five hundred stations pulling into one radio at one time. See? It's hard. And I just raise up my hands sometimes and thank God and go [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] It--it's true it's... Do you believe it? God has spoken that I tell you the truth, and it is so.
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And you'll see many of these crippled people that's now--that's here now that's really crippled, they're going get well, just as certain as anything. They're going to get well. And they're--they're going to be, get all right, many of them. There's some of them, I see them. There's some of the people here with heart trouble, that's going to be all right. Some here with cancer, they're going to be all right. And there's been people that's passed across the platform here, that isn't going to be all right. And that's right. Unless God changes things some way. For I seen them come here and seen the very death rate rip itself, hang over them. And I--I know that they can't go long-long, unless God has something to do into it. But now, their prayer can change that. I never say nothing. A lady passed by the other night. That lady, I knew I was real weak, and when she came by, when she looked up, I said, "Do you believe?" The woman said, "Yes." I just had a little more strength; I would've have told her, "You just think you do." Faith is something that you; it's absolutely; it's not just what you imagine; it's--it's a--it's a reality. Many people... I say this with
humble humility, because I--I may never be--see you all again from tonight. There probably is people here I'll never see again in my life. But I say that eighty percent of the people that comes to the platform, doesn't know what faith is. They have a hope, but not faith. But "Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen."
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Look here, young man, you stand there. Usher, I want you to come here just a minute. And just stand here just one... Not to make you a public show to the people; I just want for an illustration. Now, walk just a little closer. How many--how many people in here know how many senses that govern the human body, control the human body, let's see your hands? How many is there? [The congregation
replies, "Five."--Ed.]
See if I name them correctly: see, taste, feel, smell, hear. Is that right? Now, that's what control the natural man. Now, I'm going to look this way. Now, standing before me is a young man. He has brown hair. He has a blue coat on, a white shirt with a blue and white striped tie. I want you to turn this way, young man. How many believes that that's the truth? How do you know it's the truth? You have a sense you possess...
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Now, there's man--people setting here who are blind that cannot see that; they don't know it. See, they have to take my word for that, and your word. But the man is standing there. But we're blessed tonight, we who can see, by the mercies of God, that that's the truth. Now, sense of sight declares it. Now, how many's heard this expression, that "Seeing is believing." All right. That man is still standing there, and I do not see him. Is seeing believing? No, sir. You want to argue with me he's not there? Well now, you can't do that. He's standing there. And I know he's there. "Well," you say, "no, he left, Brother Branham." No, he didn't; no, sir, he's there. You try to argue me out of it now. You can't do it. And I do not see him; it's impossible for me to see him now. Is that right? But I know he's there. How do you think I know he's there? [Audience answers, "You feel him."--Ed.] That's right, then seeing's not believing, is it? Feeling's believing in this. Now, that's the sense of feeling, that he's standing there. Now watch, now I cannot feel him at all. That sense doesn't work at all; I can't feel a thing. But I know he's there. Why? I see him. So there's two separate senses altogether. Is that right?
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know it was playing? [Audience answers, "You hear it."--Ed.] That's correct. Then seeing is not believing. Now, if this young man, standing there now; I see him and I know he's there by the sense of sight. I can't feel him, no other way I can contact him. Now, I know he's there, because the sense of feeling says he's there. And that's a reality. Now, everyone that has those same senses would know the same thing. Thank you, young brother. Now, what is faith? Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things you do not see, taste, feel, smell, or hear. But it's just as real as what the sense of feeling or seeing is. You know what I mean? You... How many here with good sight says I got on a white shirt? How many believes that? You believe that's a white shirt? What if I told you it was red. Would you believe it? No, sir, you'd say that shirt was white.
Now, how many believes in Divine healing? How many believes that Christ healed you back there nineteen hundred years ago when He died for you? If you believe that, if your faith declares that, that you're healed right now, just as much as the sense of sight says that that's white; it's over. There it is. See? It's a reality. It's not just a myth; it's not something imagined; it's--it's actually, you know it. There's no--no doubt nowhere; it's just all wiped out; it's gone; you know it. Now, like the young man sitting here in the chair. Young man, if you believe that your affliction's going to leave you now, and believe that Christ is going to make you well, your faith is strong enough to do it just as your sight says that's white, it's over, brother, you have to get well. That's right. Just the same as these other cripples that's been setting here.
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Now, most the time, when people are crippled... I--I very seldom call a cripple until I see them healed. Because the people... In the meetings there's always critics, and they look at the cripple and say, "Well, anybody with some sense knows that person's crippled, why tell them that?" I usually try to get the people that doesn't look like got anything wrong with them (See?), or something like that. And sometimes I'll start down a row, and just keep going down a row, till I find a sinner somewhere, like that. Where they're Christian, Christian, Christian, when I contact somebody that's a sinner, or something in their life, It'll call it out. Is that true? Has that been true? All right (See?), It'll call that out. Sometime I'll just go down a row, till I find it, maybe start down a row and can't find one, or start somewhere else and see if I can find a sinner somewhere, to where It'll call that person out. I don't know who they are in that mass, but I've got to contact each individual like that. Now, that doesn't heal
them, but sometimes that builds the faith to where they can be healed.
Now, God has been good to you; God is with you. And I want you to believe Him with all your heart. And now remember, many of you are going to be well. Many of you are going to get well; that's the truth. And now, I want... Brother Baxter said just a few moments ago, speaking to me, said, "Brother Branham, we got all of our debts paid up, and they taken up a love offering for you. Now, that makes me feel little too. You see? I--I didn't necessary want you to do that. But being that I'm going overseas, have to leave the family for awhile, and when I come back I won't have any... I was going to get me my job back till the Lord told me what to do, as a patrolman, back on walking high-lines for the public service company, till the Lord spoke to me and told me what to do. And Brother Baxter said, "Brother Branham, that'd be a stumbling block to the people." And I--I want to get alone, what I want to do is to myself, and pray. Because I believe this now is, God by His grace, has let me spearhead a revival that's swept the world in the beginning. See? Now, I believe there's something coming that's going to be a double portion to the church. And I feel that down in my heart.
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Now, back yonder the last sermon I preached in my Tabernacle was on David and Goliath. And I said, here, even my own Baptist bishop stood there and said, "What'd you eat that night?" Said, "You had a nightmare." I said, "No, sir, and I don't appreciate that. I said, "No. It was the truth, to me it was real." And he said, "You with your grammar school education is going to pray for kings, and great men, and--and statesmen and so forth, are going to be healed?" I said, "Yes, sir." He said, "Well, how do you get that?" Said, "You'd better go back over at your Tabernacle and forget about it." I said, "How can I forget about it, when it's wrote indelible by the Blood of Christ across my heart." I said, "You'll--you'll see." And he said, "I'll be listening." And you seen the "Voice of Healing" here recently what he apologized. And he's praying for the sick himself now. So that... He said, "If I'd hadn't been so backslidden, I'd have listened to the boy and paid attention to what he said about visions." You read what the Doctor Davis said.
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All right, but that... See, when God speaks anything, though it linger, it's got to come to pass. Now, I believe that God was going to
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do it, and there was that great modernistic day of scientist and everything standing out there and saying, "Days of miracles are past," and so forth. But God said, "Go." Now, I... Like David of old, he couldn't slay all the Philistines, but if he could only kill that boaster out there, Goliath. And so, when Goliath was slain, all Israel took courage and away they went. And they beat the Philistines plumb back into their gates. Well now, that's the way it's been now. Ministers has seen the vision. And Divine healing now, even the--the Presbyterian church in New York, and all them's, practicing Divine healing, having healing services on Wednesday night. Colleges are adopting it, throughout the world. In Korea they had a Divine healing service here not long ago in Korea and thousands got healed. Down in Japan, everywhere, from Australia, and around the world comes the news, great things going through; the books went forth, ministers read, taking courage and went out. And Divine healing has swept the world. Thank God.
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"And when the enemy comes in like a flood," He said, "I'll raise up a standard against it." And I believe the enemy's a dashing, and God's here to raise up the standard. That's why I go back home, to find out. Now, Lord, I done the best I could, now what do You want me to do next? And you pray for me, will you? And I--I'll always remember you. And thank you much. And I'll assure you friends, that the money that you gave tonight, a portion of your living... I'm sorry that we even have to do that. I never took up an offering in my life. My wife's setting down there, she'll probably laugh when I say this. And I remember one time... I wonder, if there's an old minister here, has been around here for two or three days. And I remember, I said to wife, I said, I come in. We had a debt we just couldn't meet hardly, and I said, "Honey, I'm going to take up an offering tonight." She said, "I'm going over to watch you." So she got a chair and set down in it; there she was a watching me. And I said, "Uh, friends, I'm going to (ahem... um) I'm just in a little tight place," I said, "(Ahem), I'm going to..." Ha. Now, not that they wouldn't do it; they'd do anything for me.
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But I'd been pastoring for twelve years, never received one penny of salary in my life. See? And I--I--I worked for a living. I was young and able, why not work. I was put here to do something, so I'd preach the Gospel in the--the night and work in daytime. I've went a many time right through with my old ragged patrol clothes on, come to a farmers house and talk to him about the Lord; they'd say, "Yes, I believe," and repent. I'd get my clothes, go right down to the river, the creek and baptize them all in the Christian faith, walk on out start on down the line, walking again. Met a hobo on the railroad track one day and led him to Christ.
Walking about a half mile to an old pond, throwed back the scum, back like that, just had to hold him down a long time to get all of his clothes wet. Brought him back up. Yes, sir, that's right. He went on the road rejoicing. Down... He wet and me too. We... And he turned one way and me the other; shook one another's hand and hugged each other, wet clothes on, going back to our work. Why, the Lord's real, He don't have to be all dressed up to do anything. The inside's where it has to be dressed to do anything.
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Then, I remember that night, we couldn't hardly make the ends meet. So I--we went over to take up an offering. And I said, "Friends, I--I--I hate to ask you," but I said, "if you got a nickel or dime," I said, "I got a little debt, and I just can't meet it, and they're pushing me," I said, "want to take up a little offering. And--and," I said, "Brother Wiseheart," bless his soul, he's in glory today, an elderly man. I said, "Go get my hat." And he went over to get my hat. And everybody... Poor little old woman setting down there, Mrs. Webber, she went down under that little checkered apron, you know how the women used to have that pocket on the inside of the apron, pulled out that little old long pocketbook, them little snaps over the top of it. It was during the time of the depression when things was really hard. She begin to pull out those nickels, every time I see her reach in there I just feel my heart go out like that. I couldn't take that poor thing's money. I looked at her; I said, "Oh, I was just kidding you all to see what you'd do." I said, "I didn't mean that." My wife looked at me. Ha.
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An old minister has been hanging around here on the street; I met him the other day up here on the street, jumping just as high as he could singing, "Old Time Religion." Name's John Ryan. Got long hair and beard; he's been around here for a few days. He--he was-rode an old bicycle down there. And he give me that bicycle. And I painted that old bicycle, and sold it for five dollars and paid off the debt. I didn't need to take up the offering, and we made the ends meet. So that was very fine. God knows all about things, doesn't He? But if I have to stand tonight before the judgment, that's one thing... There's three things that I've watched in my life, in the reading of other ministers, when God blesses a minister just a little bit on the... Now, we're all friends, aren't we? When He blesses him just a little bit above maybe someone else, or--or give him an opportunity to do a little more work for Him or something, the first thing that Satan goes to working with that minister is three things, major things. The first thing is money, women, popularity. He will work on him with money, or if he can get him to... Like his first bait, that's like in the garden of Eden. Well, or if he can get him to thinking he's something when he ain't nothing, he's got him right then.
Well friends, before God, I honestly before God; I've shunned money. A man where his wife was healed like that, little, I believe she was a little German woman that testified here awhile ago with her breast eat off with cancer. That same thing happened in California with a man that owned Mission Bell Winery, portion. And when I baptized that group, when we standing there, and I holding on for about a day there with that cancer. The Doctor Palvetus said, "Reverend, that woman is dying." I said, "Sir, would you walk out of the room just a little while?" And I got him out of the room. There the loved ones standing; I kept praying; that cancer beat back against me, beat back again. And I kept on till I--I didn't eat. They wanted me to come to dinner; I wouldn't eat. And I just stayed there, that lovely big home. And after while I called that cancer; I said, "In the Name of Jesus Christ come out from the woman." And that curtain, I hope this don't stumble you, but that curtain hanging at the bottom, while I was standing there before about two dozen people, it begin to wind up, wound plumb up against the stick like that and went "Frwit," [Brother Branham illustrates.--Ed.] dropped down and that women come to her feet; the cancer was gone. Three days from then she was doing her shopping downtown. I baptized them in an irrigation ditch out there. And that man sold out his part and sent a check to me for over a million dollars. That's right. And I refused. The people brought it out; I said, "Don't--don't bring that to me; don't bring that to me."
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In Texas and Dallas there, a rich oil man flew his--his mother in there; she was in a wheelchair. She'd been there two or three days now, I was preaching. I said, "I see an elderly woman coming in a wheelchair, gray headed, shaky." I said, "I see her rise up and go." I said, "Where is she?" Here she set out there; I said, "Woman, Jesus Christ has healed you, come to your feet." And away she went running down through the building. Been setting there about eight years. He couldn't get to me. And the next night he got a prayer card, acting like he was sick and come into the line. As soon as he come there he said, "Brother Branham, I just wanted to get near you, put my arms around you." And I said, "What's the matter, sir?" He said, "Here's a check, a little check I want to give you." I looked on there, twenty-eight thousand dollars; I said, "Oh, no, no." He said, "Here," said, "not for saying the prayer for my mother; that isn't it," said, "I'm--I'm worth it." I see... said... I said... Took that check and tore it up, I said, "No, sir, brother, no, sir. I--God never sent me to take money; He sent me to preach the Gospel."
I've got a little old fat wife back there, is the sweetest woman in the world. That's all. I love her with all my heart. There's no one else in the world but her to me. I love her with all that was in me can love a woman. Is my wife, the mother of my children back there. If I have to leave her ten years, I'd still love her just the way I did the day I married her.
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And then, friends, popularity. I know that this is nothing but a sinner saved by grace. And God can withdraw His mercy from me any time He desires. And I realize I'm six foot of dirt, going back there someday, and that's all I am. And that's... I shun human homage, to try to keep away from people sometime, when they get to say, "Brother Branham, this and all that..." I try to keep away from it. And you pray that I can always keep that in my heart, that God would be able to use me to help bring His Gospel to others. God be with you and bless you.
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Quickly now, for one little finish of testimony, and then I must go. First I want you to promise me you pray for me while I'm gone. And when I return, I'll be praying. And I hope and trust to God, that some glorious day I'll be able to return back to Erie then, and have a glorious meeting. If many of you cross the divide before that time, and you get over on the other side, remember me to my friends over there, and tell them that I'm trying my best. When you run into my loved ones, and my baby, and my daddy, and them over there, tell them I'm doing the best that I can, all that I know how to do to glorify Jesus Christ, working day and night for His glory. And someday I'm expecting to come home. And may God bless you all, give you good health and strength till we meet again is my prayer. Now, for a testimony. I was so highly elated today to meet a little friend from Finland, a minister that was in the meetings with me. And me telling about the resurrection of that little dead boy last night, you remember that? And the little girl? Why, the man knows them. And I met him today, was right with me in Finland. I shall finish the testimony, then I want the man to come for verification of what I said. That's a way across the seas, thousands and thousands.
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But just before that I remember something. Brother Baxter said there's a box full of letters setting here, handkerchiefs. Now, I-I'd rather that they wouldn't be this a way. I'd rather you'd write personally to me and let me be able to take each handkerchief and pray over it. Now, this is all right; I can pray over them in a mass form; but I'd rather pray individually over each han... How many believes in that? That's the Bible. Now, just write me, Jeffersonville, Indiana. And any time that I can
do anything for you, I'll be happy to do it. And we send out thousands, my secretary's wife setting here somewhere, who helps in the mail, Mrs. Cox. And they bring to me hundreds of yards of ribbon. And I take that ribbon and pray over it. Now, truly, the secretary and them, they make up sometimes the form and so forth, to send out. But every handkerchief and piece of ribbon that you get, I prayed over it. See? That's right. I know if it was my child was sick, or my mother, or whoever it was, I--I'd want-I'd want it done the way the Bible said do it.
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Now, many of you anoint them, the handkerchiefs. That's all right; anything God will bless I'm for it. But if you'll bear record with me, Acts 19, Paul didn't anoint the handkerchiefs, he taken from his body handkerchiefs or aprons. You see? And then we send them out and you're welcome to them. If you don't have no need for one, send, get it and keep it on the Bible, Acts 19. If a child takes a croup or something like that, or something happens, lay that ribbon upon them and find out what happens. Be sincere. It's a token of faith. But now, being these handkerchiefs are here I want to offer prayer for them, if we'll bow our heads just a moment.
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Dear heavenly Father, here's several hundred letters laying here, great box, and many of them are going out to the needy and dying. We've assembled here in the Name of Thy Child, Jesus. And we know that You're with us. And You promised us, that whatever we asked, we should receive. Now, I haven't had the opportunity to read them, but You seen the people when they wrote those letters. You seen every handkerchief that was placed in there. And I ask You, dear God, as soon as they return to their proper place, may demons come out, may sickness leave. Maybe way back in some little dark room sets an old mother and dad, very sick; they're waiting for one of these handkerchiefs to return. Maybe a little baby laying with fever, just about to pass over the other side; they're waiting for the handkerchief to return. Oh, God be merciful. And it's written one time, that when You brought Israel out of Egypt and they come right up against a mountain, the Red Sea had them bound, they could not go over. It's said by one of the writers that God looked down through that Pillar of Fire, looked at that Red Sea that had His people penned off from the promised land. And He looked down with anger, and the Red Sea got scared, moved back, and let Israel cross over into the land. And Father, Satan, like the Red Sea, has cornered off many of Your people; they're laying bound, and afflicted, and sick. And when these handkerchiefs reach them, this token of God's grace, may the same God look through that same Pillar of Fire, and may that sickness become scared, move back, and may they cross over into that
promise of good health and the three score and ten. Grant it, Father, for I go now to lay my hands and body over these handkerchiefs in commemoration of Your Word. Grant it, Lord, that each will be healed. In the Name of Thy Son, Jesus. Amen.
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God bless you. May He add His blessings to every one of you. And now, just a reading of the Word, then I'm going right to have the prayer line 'cause we want to take just as many tonight till they'll have to pack me away from here if they have to. I've asked my boy and them, let me stand just long as I possibly can. And first I want to read one verse out of Isaiah 53: Who has believed our report? and to whom is the arm of the Lord revealed? And over in Saint John 4:46: Jesus came again into Cana of Galilee, where he made the water wine. And there was a certain nobleman, whose son was sick at Capernaum. And when he heard that Jesus came out of Judaea of Galilee, he went unto him, and besought him that he would come down and heal his son: for he was at the point of death. Now, listen to this story and watch the action. Jesus said unto him, Except you 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... (Now, he wanted Him to come pray from his son. But He didn't do it. He said)... Go thy way; thy son liveth... (watch,)... And... ("and" is a conjunction)... And the man believed the word that Jesus... spoke unto him, and... went his way... (Obedience.) And when he was now coming down, his servant met him, and said unto him, Thy son liveth. (That was the next day.) Then enquired he of them the hour he begin to amend... (Get better.)... And they said unto him, Yesterday at the seventh hour the fever left him. So the father knew... it was at the same hour... which Jesus said unto him, Thy son liveth: and himself believed, and all his household. This is again the second miracle that--that Jesus did, when he came out of Judaea into Galilee.
Watch this. The nobleman, his son, he had heard of the fame of Jesus, and when he came he wanted Him to go down and heal his son. Now, that was the way he wanted it: Come down and heal him. And Jesus said, "Except you see signs you won't believe."
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And the man said, "Sir, come down ere my son dies." He said, "Go thy way, thy son liveth." Now, what if the man would disbelieve? His son would not have lived. You have to believe the Word that's spoke to you. You believe that? He said, "Thy son liveth." And the man believed the Word that Jesus said to him. Said, "That's all right, Rabbi," or Master, "If You say my son lives, that's good enough for me." And he went on back down; he didn't go like He told him. Now, it's a day's journey. And the next day he met some of his servants coming. And the servants said, "Thy--thy son liveth; he's still alive." He said, "Well, what time did he begin to get a little better, amend?" Now, watch it now, begin to amend, get just a little bit better. He said, "Yesterday at the seventh hour, well, seen the fever left him." And the man said, "The seventh hour, that's the same time Jesus said, 'Thy son liveth.'" Now, the Bi... He said, "This is the second miracle that Jesus did when He come out of Cana into Galilee." Miracle... How many of you that come in here sick now, that feels like you're just a little better, all along everywhere, crippled, afflicted, whatever, that you feel like you're just a little better than you was when you come in, let's see your hands. What's happened? Amen. There you are. You're just a little better. Sure. If you're just a little better now; tomorrow you're be a little better; and the next day a little better; you're going to get well.
Some people has great big faith like this, anything can happen. The next has faith that deep, takes a little longer. Next has faith that deep, takes quite a little while. Some has faith like a mustard seed. But if it's mustard seed faith, genuine faith, hold on to it; just keep believing it; it'll become marble faith; then it'll become grapefruit faith; and then it'll become mountain faith. It'll bring you right out if you just stay with it. Hold on to it; it'll bring you right straight to the light, if you'll stay with it. But don't be discouraged. And do not believe symptoms. Symptoms, that's the devils lie. Some people say... Well, now look, what if a little lady here, when I told her she was... I never told her; God told her that she was going to be well. Why, she said, "Now, wait a minute." The next day she was, "Well, there's that cancer still running, and I'm drawed down; I can't move; I'm on this cot I can't go. Well, maybe he was..." Second day, third day, fourth day, "Well, maybe he was
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wrong." No, if she'd have believed symptoms; she wasn't looking at the symptoms; she was looking at what the Word of the Lord said.
I walked into a man not long ago, his boy had black diphtheria. Did you ever hear of it? Horrible, works on the heart. And the cardiogram showed the heart, that it went all the way down. They called the man from the meeting, said, "Your boy's dying." And he went over there, and he said, "Can I bring Brother Branham in?" He said, "Why, no." Said, "Hasn't Brother Branham got some children?" He said, "Yes." Said, "Well, we can't bring him in." Said, "We just can't bring him in." He said, "Please let Brother Branham come in and see my boy." Said, "He's dying?" Said, "Yes." Said, "He will be dead in the next couple hours." Sixteen years old... Said, "Well, let him come in and pray." He said, and the man was Catholic. He said, "Would you refuse a priest to come in and give the last rights?" Said, "Yes, but the priest is not a married man." "But he's--he's out amongst the congregations." He talked him out of it.
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Well, they took me in and robed me all up with a whole lot of stuff over me, and washed my hands with all kinds of stuff. Walked into where the boy was. I said to the father and the mother standing there, I said, "Do you believe?" He said, "Ask God, Brother Branham." And I knelt down and started to pray. And while I was praying, the Angel of the Lord come down and said, "You shall live." I got back up; I said, "Did you hear that, brother?" He said, "Yes sir," said, "Praise the Good Lord." The nurse come back; she said, "I'm sorry, but you all will have to go right away, especially Reverend Branham." I said, "Thank you, ma'am." Started walking out... This man started walking along saying, "Thank You, Lord, Thank You." And the mother just as happy and a shouting. The nurse said to her, said, "Say, did you realize that your boy's
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dying?" Said, "Sure, I know what you said." Said, "Well," and the doctor was standing out there, was a intern. And he was... They was just as happy and shaking hands and hugging one another, you know, and thanking God for his healing. The boy just dying right out. So he said, "Well, what are you so happy about, when I... Did you understand the doctor said... Did you understand I told you your boy will be dead in two hours?" Said, "I understood what you said, and I understood what God said...?..." He said, "Well look, it's all right to have faith, but I can't see how that you can just ignore such things as that, when that boy laying there dying?" And the--the man turned around, which was a minister, he turned around and said, "Sir, looky here, you're looking at..." Said, "That, when that cardiogram shows that heart," ever-what it was, I didn't know, he's, words he was talking, said, "when that drops down," said, "all the world's history, there's never been a time that that's ever come up." Said, "Death's on the boy now." He said, "Look, sir, you're looking at that chart, and I'm looking to a Divine promise, [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] what God said."
What if two years ago, when Mayo Brothers told me I--I was finished. What if I looked to that? I looked to Hebrews 3:1 "He's the High Priest of my confession." And I believed Him, and see what He done for me. Talk about somebody having symptoms, if anybody ought to have symptoms in the Bible it ought to have been Jonah. Look at him; he was backslid; that's bad. His hands was bound behind him; he was throwed out of a ship, swallowed up by a whale, three miles deep in the ocean. When a whale eats, any other fish, he goes right to the bottom of the sea and rests his fins on the bottom. Feed your goldfish and watch them. He searches through the water till he finds his prey and then goes down to rest. And when he, down there in the bottom of the ocean in a whale's belly, hands tied behind him, backslid, on a stormy sea. If he looked this a way, it was whale's belly. He looked that way; it was whale's belly. Everywhere he looked it was a whale's belly. Talk about symptoms, he had them, didn't he? But you know what he said? He said, "They're lying vanities." He said, "Once more will I look to Your holy temple, O Lord, not to the whale's belly, not to my hands being
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bound, but I'm going to look to Your holy temple. For," I will quote it in simple words, "For when Solomon dedicated that temple," said, "if Your people be in trouble anywhere, and look to this place, and pray, then You hear from heaven."
And Jonah believed that Solomon's prayer was heard. And he said, "I'm not going to look to these symptoms; I'm going to look to the temple of God." And if Jonah in that kind of a condition, could look to a natural temple, where a nat--or a human prayed, how much more ought you setting here, where people are being healed right around you every night, look away from the symptoms here to the-not the temple of earth, but the gates of glory where the Son of God with His Bloody coat standing before the Father now, making intercessions on anything that you confess. "I won't look to my symptoms; I'll look to Your holy temple, Lord." There's where it's at. And God kept him alive three days and nights in the belly of that whale. Is that right? Vomited him out on a shore, and he give his prophecy and finished his course.
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Now, say, some of you ladies tomorrow, what if the express agent would come down to your house and say, "How do you do, are you Miss John Doe?" "Yes." "Well, I have something here for you." And you looked at it, it'd be a great big box full of rattlesnakes. Well, what a present. There's your name tacked on them. "These are yours." Are they? In one sense they're yours, in another sense they're not. Now, you say, "I don't want them." "Well, they're yours; your name's on them." Well, that's one way it's yours, but still it isn't yours till you sign for it. And if you don't sign for it, he will have to take it back. You might see all your symptoms, the devil says, "Here it is; here's your cancer; here's your heart trouble; here's your crippled condition."
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Refuse to sign for anything the devil brings. He will have to take it back. Say, "I refuse to have it. I just won't have it, no, sir." He will have to take it back in the Name of the Lord. If you believe it, and confess it, and say, "I've accept Jesus Christ as my Healer,"
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there's no affliction or disease can stay on you. Stay right with it. But the first time that you get weak and say, "Well, yes, I've still got it." Then you drop right down to where you was at. You signed for it, then took it back. Say, "Yes, Mr. Devil, I--I'll have it back." Oh, brother. You stand right there as--as long as there's a breath in your body, say, "I refuse to have it. I refuse to have it." How do you feeling? "Wonderful, hallelujah." That's it. That's right. Show the devil what you're made out of; you're borned again by the Spirit of God, and you don't have to bow down to his images. Stay right there, say, "I don't want your stuff." "Why, here's your name on it, the doctor said..." "I don't care what he said. I know what God said. Get away from here with it." That's right, that's the way to treat him; hand it back. He was the one give it to you, he will have to be the one take it back.
God, you know what? He's your Redeemer. Did you ever see a pawn shop? Oh, that's a horrible looking place. The devil put you in a pawn shop, and Jesus redeemed you; you're free; get out of it. That's right. He give you these things, but Jesus paid the ransom. And He paid the price; you're out of the pawn shop tonight. Reminds me one time, we tied an old crow up by his foot. Scared the other crows away eating at the corn field. Well, that poor old crow, he just cawed, and the other crows going over cawing to him to come, and he couldn't fly because he was tied. One day somebody come by and looked at him, said, "Poor old fellow; he's--he's just starved to death." So he just reached down and untied him and let him go. The other crows flew over and saying, "Come on, Johnny crow, let's go south; it's getting cold weather." And that old fellow been tied so long, till he still thought he was tied when he was untied. He just kept walking around when he was untied. He thought he was tied; he'd been tied so long. Maybe that's your case in that wheelchair and there and there. But remember, there was a good Man one day. The devil might've tied you up, but there was a good Man, Jesus Christ, Who redeemed you, cut every string loose from you. Hallelujah! When you see the rest of them rising to their feet and believing it, go the same way. You're free from the devil's pits. Yes, sir.
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Oh, my, what's the matter with me tonight? Amen. I believe I'll come back to Erie and have me an old Holy Ghost revival here somewhere, my, just a good old fashion time. Amen. What we need. Thank Him. I'm not very used to preaching in the pulpit like this tonight on a healing service, but I--I--I must stop. God bless you. You're free, every one of you. Jesus cut you loose a long time ago. Just refuse to have it. Say, "I haven't got it, I'm getting better and better all the time. Praise the Lord, I believe it." And watch what happens. Go out of here tonight, say, "No, I don't have to go through a prayer line; I don't have to go no more, no, Jesus, I accepted it; it's mine." Neighbor say, "How you feeling?" Say, "Wonderful.
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I remember when everything I put in my stomach would 'gurgitate; I weighed less than a hundred pounds. Every time I swallowed anything, go [Brother Branham illustrates.--Ed.] and go out." I went down and I grabbed my wife, and I hugged her and kissed her, I said, "Honey, the Lord healed me." She said, "What?" I said, "The Lord healed me." Said, "Are you sure?" I said, "I know it." Said, "How you know?" I said, "The Word said so." See? He said, "He's the High Priest of my confession--confession. I've confessed Him as my Healer." Said, "Can you eat?" I said, "Sure." And every time I'd even take a drink of water, it spurt right through my nose. She's setting back there looking at me now and know that's the truth. She said, "What do you want?" I said, "Send over the store and get a can of pork and beans. Open it up, get a loaf of bread and-and cut up my big Texas white skin onion; I want some." She cooked a big piece of ham, and I took this pork and beans, sit down and asked the blessing, said, "Thank You, Lord." Put up a big bite full.
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And The doctor said, "One mouthful of food, solid food would send you to the grave." Said, "Don't you let no solid food hit your stomach." That's what he said, and the Lord said, "I'm the Lord that healeth thee." Whom am I going to believe? I chewed up that big onion. Oh, how good it tasted. I--I swallowed it down, just as soon as it hit there like bul--a coal of fire went right down hit like that and come back up
again. I held my hand over my mouth, swallowed again. Come back again; and I swallowed it again. No, sir, we had a--a bouncing party there for awhile. I swallowed it back; it come back. And I swallowed again, come back, and I'd swallow again. Got me another one, held my mouth, poked that one in, swallowed again. Called the doctor. Doctor said, "It'll kill him sure as the world." I said, "Hallelujah, I'll die happy." I went on down through there. Went out in the yard, everybody said, "How are you, Brother Branham?" I said, "Wonderful." "Stomach bothering you any more?" "No, not a bit." That's right, going on like that. I'd believed it. Yes, sir. Went on like that, and that night when I started to lay down, oh, my, there it was, every bit laying right in the same place. Say, "Want anything for eat, for supper, honey?" I said, "Open another can of beans and slice some more onion." Yes, sir.
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I knowed God's Word is the truth! That's all. And I poured some more on top of that. It laid right there till breakfast, and I had me two fried eggs and some more ham the next morning for breakfast. I kept on like that week in and out. And I was so nervous, looked like trees was running together and say, "How you feeling, Brother Branham?" I said, "Wonderful. Hallelujah." Stomach bothering you any more?" "No, sir. No, sir." "Are you all right?" "Sure, I'm fine, doing good." "How it happen?" "The Lord healed me." He said, "Brother Branham, you lied." "No, I never; no, I never." When I accepted Him as my Healer, He healed me nineteen hundred years ago, it was settled in my soul. No matter what this was here; in my soul it was settled. I was testifying not how the body felt, what the old soul thought about it. And my Spirit said, "Christ is your Healer." I said, "I believe You, Lord." I stayed right with it. One day I kept poking it down, and poking it down, and it all left. I eat anything I want to. Went on gained about thirty-five, forty pounds and feel fine. Oh, He's a Healer! But you'll have to show your faith in Him. And don't you think it's on a... You're going to a picnic; you're going on a battleground. That's right. You're not to a picnic where everything is handed down to you in a silver spoon. You got... "If... I must fight if I must reign, increase my courage, Lord." See.
Must I be carried home to heaven On a flowery bed of ease, While others fought to win the prize, And sail through bloody seas? No I must fight if I must reign, Increase my courage, Lord; Help me and support me, By Thy Everlasting Word.
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In Finland that night, when that little girl that got healed... Where's my Finnish brother setting here somewhere? I want you just a moment. Listen to this story. You heard it last night, did you? Our brother's with us. That little old boy that was hit under the chin; he was in the hospital dying. About the second day I believe it was, had passed. And they didn't know what to do about the little fellow. I had the awfullest time. I couldn't get... I couldn't even get into the hotel. That little woman and husband laid on the steps, and they had to drag me over the top of them. And I remember that night when the little Finnish girl was healed, I went up to the room, Mrs. Isaacson said to me, she said, "Brother Branham, what can be done?" Said, "Them people's about to worry me to death." And I said, "Well, I don't know, Sister Isaacson, it's against the rules for me to go out like that." And she said, "Well, will you just meet them in the morning, out here if the little boy's still living?" I said, "All right."
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So we--she brought them up there. Where is Sister Isaacson now? Is she in the states here? She is. A very lovely person... So she made an appointment in the afternoon for me to see the mother and father. Very nice typical little Finnish family, and they set out there, and they seen me coming they started running and fall down like that. I said, "Now, get you a chair," through the interpreter. And so they--they set down there. And I said, they said, "Oh, go down at the hospital and heal our little boy." I said, "I couldn't heal your little boy." Said, "Well, you healed the other little boy that was dead." And said, "Our little boy's not dead, but he's dying; he's never come to; his brain's crushed." And I said, "Well..." A concussion, ever-what it was, and his spine in there and all. And I said,... A blood vessel had bursted on his spine, or something. And I said, "Well now, I--I didn't do it." Said, "Well..." I said, "Over in America I--I, about a year ago I saw a vision of a--this little boy being healed." The interpreter told that. She said, "Go, see
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Well, that was awful nice, but, you know, you just can't see visions when you want to. It's no more then I could say, "Dream me a dream." You dream dreams, but you don't do them yourself. So, he said--I said, "I can't do that, sister." And I told them; I said, "Are you all Christians?" "No." I said, "Look, God may be aiming to take your little boy home." And I said, "If you're not Christians, if that little boy dies, you can never be with him no more. If you die, when you die, then little boy'd go to heaven, he's too little to know about sin. But he'd go to heaven, and you won't go to heaven, and you'll never see him no more." I said, "Then if you become a Christian, and when the--if the little boy dies and goes up to heaven, then you can go up to heaven where there's no more accidents, and you'll be with him forever." And I said, "Then if you wanted a favor from me, you'd try to do something for me." And I said, "If you want a favor for--from God, try to do something for Him." I said, "Now, perhaps when you would give your life to Him, you might find favor, and He might save your little boy."
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Well, they talked it over, they--they couldn't lose, 'cause they go to heaven; if the little boy died they'd be with him forever. And if they found favor, maybe God would heal the little boy. So they knelt down, and I led them to Christ. They got up and hugged one another, and it was all right. Now, the lady said, "Go in, see vision for my little boy." Well, I said, "No." She wanted me to go to the hospital. I said, "No, God can speak to me in this room just the same as He can down at the hospital. Sister Isaacson told them. Well, she said, "You go in, and we'll wait." I said, "Look, He might not even say one word to me; I don't know." I said, "But if He does, I'll tell you. If the boy's going to die and He tells me, I'll tell you." I said, "I'll--I'll tell you if he's going to die, and if He tells me. If He doesn't, I can't say nothing." Well, finally Mrs. Isaacson got them to go back home. Well, they went back home, and about twenty minutes, they called. Said, "Has him seen vision yet?" "No."
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So, the... Now, he can put his fingers in his ears if he wants to, they're very sweet, kind people, the Finns are. And I'm not saying that 'cause the man's setting there, because he, I don't think he understands English too well anyhow. And he said... They're very lovely, kind, sweet, humble people.
So they--they don't have very much of this world's goods, but they love the Lord. And that's where the riches lays. And so they're rich in the Kingdom of God. So then, went a little while longer, and they called back again. They wanted to know if--if the vision had come yet. Well, they called several times that afternoon. That night when we come home, the little girl had been healed. I had this same Bible right here. And now, if there's any Finnish people here that... I--I don't mean to hurt your feeling about this, and I don't aim to hurt Brother Baxter's feelings either, when I'm saying this.
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But we in America are well off when it comes to eating and things like that. I was up in Canada not long ago, and we was up around Prince Albert, Saskatchewan; we had around ten thousand of Indians, and Eskimos, and all, coming down into the meeting. And over there they don't... Their candy is not as rich as ours is here. Some of it, I go... We got a hold of some over there that just almost taste like starch. Because the people can't afford it like they do here. That's true. I think Canada's a lovely, wonderful country, way larger than ours, and the resources is far beyond ours, and fine people. But they're just poor people. Their roads are bad, and they haven't got the money to build the roads. But this class of people in America's rich, richest people in the world. And then their candy was bad, and my brother Howard, he said, many of you I guess know Howard here. He--he come in; he said, coming home that night, he said, "Billy." And I said, "Yes." He said, "You talk about Canada having some bad candy," said, "taste this out of--out of Finland." Well, he give me two little pieces of candy about like that. And I held them in my hand, we was going on up steps. Brother Baxter and Howard slept together; they went to their room. Brother Moore and Brother Lindsay, they went to their room, and Sister Isaacson went to her room. And they keep me in a private room on account of visiting of the Angel of the Lord through the nighttime. He will sometimes come to me at night and tell me every person, and everything will be healed the next day. And I quote it to the managers; I say, "You watch, they'll be so many, and a person over here, and a person down there, person over here will be healed. There'll be a woman come in, dressed a certain way, laying on a cot, and she's coming from a different district; she'll be healed." Just tell them all about the meeting 'fore it happens. Well then, He comes in like that.
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So then I just walked into the room, and I took those two pieces of candy and laid them on the desk like that. And I laid my Bible down, no, I beg your pardon; I put my Bible on my heart. I
walked over there. And coming down through that park, you know, there in Kuopio, that long park, coming down through there there was those little Finns coming down through there, going home, just praising God, soldiers and all. And some of them poor little soldiers over there never shaved; they was just kids in the army. Them Russians killed them off over there like flies, and they just had the poor little fellows. And they were going along through there, and they were just talking. And I looked out. Oh, it didn't get dark there at night. And so, I looked out, and I held my hand up, I said, "O Great Jehovah God, how wonderful, how glorious." That little girl had been healed that night off those crutches. And I said, "Praise be to Your Holy Name, how I love You, how I adore You, O Great God creator or heavens and earth." Right in the same direction where them Russian planes come over to bomb you, right down through there.
I... And I was looking, I said, "Someday, Russian planes come one day, but one day Jesus shall come." And I said, "Oh, what a difference it'll be for this country then. Instead of them all running into bomb shelters and things that's built around the city here, they'll be running in the streets hollering, 'Kiitos, Jesus,' just as hard as they can. And with their hands up in the air praising." I said, "Oh, how I love You." And I felt something. And I turned, and here He stood, standing right there by me. And he had a little glass in His hand, a just about that high, and in there was two American Easter lilies. Easter flowers, daffodils, whatever you call them; I don't think they even have them in that country. Easter, long, look like a horn on a old gramophone. I don't think they have them up in that country.
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And there they was, He had them in a little jar. And he set them down before me without saying one word. And I--I couldn't... Just stood there. He's a big Man, got dark hair to His shoulder, olive complexion, smooth face, dark eyes, has His hands folded like this, always. And He took this here and set this down before me. And one of the flowers was leaning up towards the north, laid down. And the other one started going down, going "tew, tew, tew, tew, tew." [Brother Branham illustrates--Ed.] And He said, "What was that your brother gave you?" And I said, "It was a piece of candy, Sir, or two pieces of candy." He said, "Eat them." And I picked up one piece, and I put it in my mouth; I chewed it and it taste pretty good. And when I swallowed it, this Easter flower that was laying towards the north, went "thrrr, [Brother Branham illustrates.-Ed.]" stood right up. I looked at it. And I... He said, "Eat the other one."
I picked it up, and oh, my. You talk about an awful taste; I said, "Whew," I took it out of my mouth. And this other flower started going, "tut, tut, whew [Brother Branham illustrates.--Ed.]" almost to the end. He said, "Them two flowers represents them two boys." Said, "If you fail to eat this piece, this boy shall die." I put it back in my mouth, started chewing real fast, and then swallowed it. Then when I swallowed it, this one went, "Thrrr [Brother Branham illustrates.--Ed.]" stood up like that with it. And the way those boys fell, you know. One fell to the north, and one to the south. The one to the north was one was killed on the road. The one to the south was dying in the hospital; the doctors said, "He'd never come to; his brain was concussed, and there was something on his spine." Said, "He can't come." Never had washed the little boy's face. And they called and called and called all that day. And he said... This one stood up like that. And when it stood up, He looked at me, put His arms together, and I looked over and here was that Light that you see back there in the picture, going like that. And the Light settled down over the Angel; the Angel went into the Light, went out of the room. And I stood there, and I felt my hand; I bit my fingers; I was numb for a little bit. The vision left me; it wasn't a vision. I don't mean to say vision, that's... I see visions here, but that's just as real as I am, or you are. I stood and looked at Him.
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And I ran out real quick and I called, I said, "Everybody, come." And out come Brother Baxter, Howard, Brother Moore, Lindsay, all of them run out. I said, "Go get Sister Isaacson." They got her, and come down there; I said, "THUS SAITH THE LORD, call that lady and tell her, THUS SAITH THE LORD, her baby shall live and not die." Said, "Brother Branham, she called about a hour ago, and said that the baby was in the last stage; the doctor said it'd be dead in the next two hours." I said, "I can't help what he said, THUS SAITH THE LORD, the baby shall live." So she run to the telephone, and their phones there are not like ours here. And she cranked it on the side, and she got the family. And there's a babysitter there with their little bitty baby, and said, "They just called them to the hospital; the baby was dying," the little boy. And so they rang the hospital and got the woman to the phone and Mrs. Isaacson said, "Brother Branham said, 'THUS SAITH THE LORD, that the little boy will live.'" She said, "How well I know it; and he just come to himself, setting up down here just as well as he can be." Setting there normal and well. And the baby lives in Kuopio, Finland, today a normal, well child by
the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, by the power of revelations, by the power of His Spirit.
This brother happened to be along. He's a Finnish brother, he was with us; I met him today; he knows of the case. Come here, brother, what is your name now? Watkin, Waltanin. You'll have to say that brother, I'm not so good at saying them. All right, I will ask you this, those testimonies are true, are they?
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[The brother's confirmation follows--Ed: "Yes, they are really true. I was there just as a eyewitness. I come from Finland, and our assistant pastor of the church, Salem, Helsinki, and I was also there in Kuopio. We were on a hilltop all--all parked, and we came down and that accident happened there. And the other boy was raised up from dead, and the other is healed; and they are healed today. And also a little girl whom Brother Branham told yesterday, last night, she's still really healed. And praise God. And very many other marvelous things were done there. And that very great service with Brother Branham and his party was doing in Finland, it is still growing and bringing fruit for God's work. Praise the Lord."--Ed.]
Amen. God bless you, brother there. So glad to get to see you again. God bless you. Jumalan rauhaa. God bless you. Let's say, "Praise the Lord," everybody. All the way from Finland.
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Little did I know when I was quoting that story that the man would be setting here present. And this afternoon, I met him coming in. Oh, what a time, glorious time. Is there another Finn in here? The other night someone hollered, "Jumalan rauhaa," at me, passing over the platform that was healed. I guess they're not here; it was some lady best I remember. Oh, there's the lady over there. Yes, that's right. You wouldn't... Was you in Finland when I was there, lady? You were borned in Finland. Was you the lady crossed the platform here the other night and was healed at the platform? Praise the Lord, God bless you. Do you know the brother here? You should get to know each other. All right, you see who she is, brother. All right, that's fine. Let's say, "Praise the Lord."
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This is the way heaven will be, there'll be Germans, Finns, Italians, and even the Irish will be there. Amen. I said, "I know there's one there; they call him Michael." All right. God is here tonight, do you believe it? He's in His mercy, and He's here to heal the sick and afflicted. All right, it's time for us to call the prayer line now. And may God be with you. Brother Bobby, if you'll play tonight for me, my favorite song, "Abide With Me." Some morning, life is all over, this mortal life; the sun will be set for its last time. This old earth will be blowed into bits. Maybe five hundred years from tonight there'll be a... Let's draw our picture now, mentally.
Five hundred years from tonight, just imagine, I hear the winds howling; I look at the earth; it's out of its orbit. The atomic bombs has throwed her from her orbit; yonder she lays into the sun. She's whirling fast; the winds are blowing. There's not a living thing on earth. The sands are blowing across, howling. Many times, and thousands times fahrenheit of heat laying against her. No more water, but fire this time. What do I see sticking up there in the sand, oh, it's a tombstone. Somebody's name's on it. They may be setting in the meeting tonight. Where's your soul then, friend? If you're not right with God. Then let's draw a little farther out. I see God bring it back into its orbit again. She's rehabited. The wolf and the lamb shall feed together. I see a beautiful dawn, a tropic like an orient, big palm trees, and beautiful birds a singing. I come, look, walking down through the garden yonder, the white doves a flying from tree to tree. What's approaching? The One that's going to set on David's throne, and His white robe moving along. Oh, I want to stand along this side there, don't you? Be just possible that the tears comes down my cheeks while He passes by and look at Him, I say, "There's the lovely One that redeemed me."
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When the great supper's set, there we all get setted--seated around the table, the wedding supper. I'll look across the table; I say, "I recognize him; he's from Finland. I recognize him; he was of the Erie meeting." I reach across the table and take you by the hand; we just have to shed a few tears, won't we? Then the first thing you know, the King will walk out in all of His beauty; He will take His hands and wipe all tears from our eyes, put His arm around and say, "Don't cry now; it's all over. Won't have any more healing services here, no more hot nights, no more tears, no more wheelchairs, crutches; it'll all be over. Enter ye into the joys of the Lord." I want to be there, don't you?
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Our heavenly Father, abide with us until that time. May Your mercies rest upon us. May Your grace be ours. And then when there'll be one flag, one nation, one people speaking one language. Oh, what a day. Well, it may seem to many it might be many, many years off. May seem like a fancy dream to some. So is the things that we see today to others has been a fancy dream, but we're living to see it. When You speak, Lord, it's got to be so. We shall see it. Just think, we mortals someday shall see this great thing that we're speaking of, because the Lord has said so. Now, Lord, while we're in the journey, abide with us, won't You? May Your Spirit come upon Your humble servant tonight, anoint me with Your prophetic gift. May I be able to do the things that You told me to
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do. Of all these six years You haven't left me or failed one time. And I know You will not tonight. In the hard heats of the battle, You're always there; You take the part.
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And now tonight, Lord, being the closing night, I feel faith pulling hard; that's why I spoke a little. And now, Lord, may it be so tonight that there will not be a feeble person in our midst when the service is closed. We thank You for healing that woman last night and taking those big braces off of her. We thank You for healing the lady this afternoon from that wheelchair. We thank You for healing the lady with cancer. These with heart trouble and different, well, we thank You for all. And Lord, as Your servant has said, "So shall it be." For I know that You spoke these words. Many are here that's already healed; they don't realize it just now. Grant it Lord, that tonight will be a great time. For we ask it the Name of Thy Son Jesus. Amen.
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Everyone reverent. Now, is everybody going to believe with all your heart now, all your soul, all your mind? All right. Now, let it be known this way before I start my line. We're going to try to stay a little extra long tonight. And then, I want to see... How many in here believes in laying on of hands, and be...? I'm going to see if I can some way work out the Lord, if everybody don't get healed in one time, I'm going to see that everybody gets prayed for anyhow. All right.
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Now, how many in here wants to be prayed for, anywhere in the building, just raise your hands? My, there's some five or six, maybe five hundred, six hundred. I don't know; I see them out in the rows too, outside. Now, remember this, friend, now, I can't be responsible for critics. If anything happens to a critic, I'm not responsible. Any--all--all hear that, raise your hand, so I... See, I am not responsible for anything that happens to critical people, criticizing. Because remember, when demon powers come from one, they find a place to go. And they'll go anywhere that they can go. Now, I... How many is going to witness when some of them says, "Well, that Divine healer." You're going to take up and say, "Brother Branham said he was not a Divine healer." You going to do that for me? And remember that there's only one Divine Healer, and that is Almighty God. Even Jesus Christ is not a Divine healer. He said, "It's not Me that doeth the works; it's My Father that dwelleth in Me; He doeth the works." Is that right?
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I just begin to wonder and thinking, maybe because there's
not too many healed; I see them out in there in the audience, maybe they're already healed. Now, just be reverent. All right. Good evening, sister. You believe with all your heart, lady? Now, you and I are strangers, aren't we? Don't know you. You don't know me? Is this our first time meeting? It is. We don't know each other. But God knows both of us. He's knowed me since I was born; He's knowed you since you were born. And I believe He loves us both, because we're both Christians. And you being a Christian sister, and I a Christian brother, and you've heard the remarks that someone has made about this. And there's no doubt that there's something wrong with you. And you come to me as God's servant, your brother, to help you along to believe more in Jesus. Is that right? That is right.
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Well, if I can do anything for you, I'll be very happy to do it. And I... Only thing that I could do, would be ask God to let you get well. And then, if God would do something now, more than what He's already done, He's already paid the price for your healing. But you're just trying to learn how to write the check for your--for your healing. Well now, if He might do something that would speak to you of something that has been, that'd it'd have to be the spirit of prophecy, or a gift of the word of knowledge, that would go back down through your life's journey, and find something down through there, and bring it back to your memory. Then you'd say that would be something that you'd know come supernaturally. Now, as I said a few moments ago, you being a Christian; I know you're a Christian, or your spirit wouldn't be welcome. You've noticed each night, and in the lines and everywhere, a sinner's always called (See?), it--it won't embrace sin at all. You're my first patient to talk to, my first sister tonight on the platform, not a patient, but the first one that I would talk to. And after being preaching the way I was, it takes just a little time for the anointing to move on me.
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And you're--you're aware that it's, it's near, don't you? Yes. You're... And now, when you said that, you felt it more than ever, didn't you? It's coming down onto you now. Now, between you and I comes a real hazy Light. I see you now, sister, yes, you are... You have an arthritis, don't you, sister? Sometimes it--it gets worse than others. I see you with kind of a lightish looking dress on. And you're--you was walking somewhere. And you was just kind of a limping like, and you had to set down and rest. It was in a yard or something. Look like there's a lot of grass and trees around. I see also, that you have a--you have a gallbladder trouble too, don't you? I see the examinat... Say, my, you've had operation too, haven't you, sister? More, yeah, you've had two or three, four, five, six, you've had six operations. Is that right? Yes, sir. All right, come here and be healed, sister.
Our heavenly Father, and merciful God, grant the healing of my sister standing here. May she, Lord God, be made well tonight, as I bless her in the Name of Thy holy Child, Jesus. May she go from this platform and be a well woman. In the Name of the Son of God, Jesus Christ. Amen. You believe me? If I tell you that you're going to be well, you believe it? You are. God bless you...?... Let's say, "Praise the Lord." Look at her walking now. She's already healed. Let's bless the Lord. All right, bring the next lady.
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Good evening, lady. You believe with all your heart? You're trying to, aren't you, sister? Yes. Yes, ma'am. Well, do not fear. You're surprising yourself. There's been a time in your life lady, where you've been hindered. There's been many things that's bothered you. You're a tubercular case, aren't you? You suffer with tubercular. And you've had lots of trouble. You have. And you've-you've tried to have faith. Say, you--you belong to the Holiness people, the Pentecostal people, or something. Isn't that right? I seen you in the services where you're rejoicing. And you're embarrassed sometimes when you're trying to... You cough a whole lot, and many times you pretend that it's something else, instead of trying to admit that it's tubercular. You won't have to do that no more, lady. This is going to be the hour for you to be healed. Come here. You believe me as God's servant? Almighty God, Author of Life, give grace to our sister tonight, seeing her heart breaking down here, You going back in there pulling out things of her life. Satan, I come in the representative Name of Jesus Christ, the Son of God; you've hid from doctor and all, but you can't hide from God. In the Name of Jesus Christ, I lay my hands upon this woman and ask for her healing. Come out of her in the Name of the Lord Jesus. Go sister, testify and glorify God.
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Let's say, "Praise the Lord." Amen. Oh, that's the way I like to see the people come. Faith, come like Mary did, "Lord, even now, whatever You ask God, God will do it, no matter what it is." All right, bring the lady. All right, everyone reverent now and believe with all your heart. Audience, if you could only know how this feels here right now. What a feeling: Grace, grace, amazing grace. It just looks to me now, 'course I'm standing here and the anointing's here. It just looks to me that every person in the building could just raise up and be healed. That's the way it looks to me like. Now, try to hold back just a few minutes if you can. See? Just if you... That's awful to say that, but just try, so that these along here can get a view, maybe first time people here. Have faith now, believe just now that Jesus is going to make you well. Be accepting it and pray, have faith.
How do you do, lady? Now, every one reverent. Are we strangers? We're strangers, I don't remember if I ever seen you. And well, there's... If there's anything that's wrong with you, well, I'll--I'll-I'll have to have some way to find it out some way. Now, that wouldn't heal you, if I could know what was wrong with you; it wouldn't heal you. But it might give you encouragement. You're wondering what I'm going to say. I'm not reading your--Yes, I guess it is. That's right. I--I don't mean to say... I just knew what you were thinking of then, 'cause it come to me. Now, you know that's true, isn't it? You're wondering what I was going to say. Well, I'm going to tell you what I'm going to say. Your trouble is a freak case. It's hard to understand; it's some kind of a--a gland or a tube in your body has collapsed. Isn't that right? And I say it's from your ear to your throat. How about that, is that right? Go, Jesus Christ has made you well, you can be well. God bless you, sister. Let's say, "Praise the Lord."
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Just faith, that's all, I seen that laying like a tube open up, like that, coming down the side of her face. Oh, how wonderful, how amazing. No wonder he said, Amazing grace! how sweet the sound. Have faith, believe now, and God will bring it to pass. Do you believe it? What about all of you along the line there? Believing with all your heart? How about out here? You believing? All right, just keep having faith, God will bring it to pass.
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Bring your patient. Now, everybody be reverent. Good evening, lady. A timid spirit, that's the kind, usually that's kind of a little timid type. Don't have too much to say, deep thinker, always planning things ahead. Usually never happens that way though. But you had some good teaching; you--you've had many sorrows too, haven't you, lady? Had a great scare once in your life too. Something, seemed like when you was a school girl. I believe it was a dog or something along. I see something bark or go on and you jump, scream. You was just a little child. And down comes life coming down. Recently you been real nervous, oh, yes, here's something else moving up. Sister, I'm sorry, yes, I believe you know it. It's cancer. And come here just a moment. I want you take a look at my hand. I want you take your hand here and lay it on mine. Look at my hand how it turns there, see that? See those white things running across my hand? That's the life of the cancer. I'm going to take my hand off. Now, they cease. Now, I put my hand on, it's not there is it? Put your other hand here on: not there. You're just as much human in this hand as you are in this
hand, aren't you? The same hand, same person. Now, just change your hands back again, this one here. Now, look coming there. See what it is? Now, watch it just as I hold it there a moment. Watch the hand, see how it's swelling, turning dark, little white things running over the top of it. Is that right? If it is, raise this hand so the audience will know it's true.
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Now, just take your hand off of mine, just easily, there they go. Now, put my hand on there. They're not, are they? Well, I'm just as human as you. See, I want you to notice; it isn't the position that the hand is in. Now, put this one back here. See? Now, it isn't positionally the way the hand is; it's just the same. Is that right? Now, I've told you the truth haven't I, lady? And now, you see then that the truth has been told you by a vision, that something physically here is vindicating that it's true also. Now, I can't make that leave you; only your faith can. But this is going to be something. Because your type of person that--that tries to believe. But you--you're--you're the... I don't know just how to explain... You know what I'm trying to speak of, your type of person, timid, backward. And it's just something... You--you want to believe, but you try to make yourself, push yourself to thing, but that won't work. See? It's just got to be a settled faith like your mother would've told you when you was a little girl, "Darling, I'll get you a new dress Saturday night." You look forward to it (See?); you look forward to getting that new dress. Now, just look the same thing to God to heal you. Just settled, just... He's your heavenly Father. Your mother might not be able to carry out that obligation, but God's able to carry out everything He promises you. See?
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Now, look at my hand now since it's been on there a little bit. Now, now watch, when you raise your hand now, my hand will remain like that for a few moments. Now, you see, a few moments ago when your hand just laid there a little bit and it wen... You took your hand off, my hand turned normal just a way, didn't it? Now, move your hand, now watch how long it stays there. Now, look here; there it goes. See, see? See what I mean? Now, just lay your hand right back again, so the palm will hit on it. There it comes, see it coming again? There it is, see it swelling again, turning black. All right. Look lady, I want you to come this way just a minute. So that, to make your faith. Now, in your case, it's going to take a challenge. And the challenge is going to be, is going to have to command that to go out. Now, if I have to rule it out by my own faith, for God has promised me that if I be sincere... It can leave you now, and you'll know it. But now whether it will stay away from you, that's different. Because when the unclean spirit's gone out of a man he walks in dry
places. Then he returns back, is that right? And if the good man of the house isn't there to hold him off, he will come in.
Now, what we're trying to get is more strength in the good man of your house, which is faith. Is that right? Now, if you can look at here now and see that by revelation, and by something physically actually showing on your hand, on my hand, rather, that something's happening... You notice how it goes in waves like that? Now, audience, I don't know whether you can see it or not, watch here. Now, there it is. See it coming up? Watch it go, now there it's moving away. See? Now, here it comes again, look, there it is, see it? Watch it go. Listen at it that, "Thrrr [Brother Branham illustrates.--Ed.]" Just a moment, don't--don't stand that say fear. Now, can you see it? Can you see it? Now, watch. Now, there it goes; here it comes again; look at it. Here they come; there they go. Now, what is that? That's a malignant growth laying there, alive, a demon, hideous, dark. And that thing knows. See, she's a lady, me a man; we're both human. She's got a spirit that's trying to believe, and there's something on here does believe. And the only thing is get her faith up to a place to where she really does believe. It has to leave. It has to leave. It knows that. And if it--and if it--if it--if it has to, if it leaves, then if her faith will stay there, it'll take it out.
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You watch, I see the blind come to the platform and receive their sight and read the Bible. Two or three days, come back just as blind as they ever was. Say, "How lasting is Divine healing? " Just as long as faith is. "How lasting is salvation?" Just as long as faith remains. Is that right? All right. If God can make it leave here, He can keep it away. The same faith. Now, look at my hand there now. And I want you to watch my hand here. Let me, so I can let the audience... Now, see my hand? I want you to look here. I'll put my hand on there, right this way so you can see. See how smooth it looks, white. Now, take this hand, lady, now lay this hand on there. See how it's smooth and white, see now, just as smooth and white as it can be. Now, I put my hand on, now watch when I lay this hand here on. Now, lay this hand right here, lady, on. Now, look at there. Look here, see them big white things running there? That's the life of that cancer. Now, it's scared; it knows it's going to have to leave if her faith will only believe. Now, look, lady, now the... Look at that one there, see how it faded? It's a female disorder too, hitting there also. You knew that. Uh-huh. Yes, my. Say, you've had troubles haven't you, lady? You've had operations for growths before too, haven't you? All right.
Now, I want you, the patient, to come near. I--I want to station my hand here somewhere so it'll take all doubts and everything. Now, I want you to watch my hand, sister dear. Now, you... I want you, don't--don't you close your eyes. You watch my hand. I'm going to have the audience because this time the thing has to be run out. I may be by God's grace, and by my faith, it will go. But you're truly sure that something's happen, haven't you? It's there; it shows it physically. The Bible said, "The mouth of two or three witnesses let every word be established." First thing, you being a stranger and me telling of your life, and if-what was wrong with you. Here it is showing here. That's two witnesses. If it stays, the only thing I can say, sister dear, is God have mercy. You won't have much longer to be here. But if it goes, you're going to live. Now, I--I want you to believe with me, and I'll pray and ask God if He will heal you and let it go. If that stops, it's gone. If it doesn't stop, it's not gone. Now, it's being honest with you, isn't it, as--as a lady, my sister.
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All right now, audience, now remember this: now get this as a warning, you keep your head bowed until you hear me say, "Raise your head." For this is not... Now, if I'd ask it to go and it would go, all right. But when you have to put it out, it's molested. Now, I want to ask you something, ministers. Jesus said, "In My Name they shall cast out devils." Is that right? They shall cast out. Now, I don't say that I can. But the woman will know if it does, she'll know it, feel it, know it when it leaves. If it doesn't, the woman can't live much longer. Now, lady, you watch and be believing. Be believing that what's talking to you now comes from the Spirit of God. All right, bow your heads, inside and out. Now, I want you to watch; you be the judge. Now, see, you're the one's got the cancer. It can't bother you no more. See? Now, I'm going to try to lay my hand somewhere. Now, see how, what color it is? Now, look at this hand here. Now, I'll try not to move my hand at all.
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Our heavenly Father, I'm not doing this to act smart, Father, You know my heart. I'm only doing this, that this poor woman standing here, young woman, much life left; but she's in a serious condition. And I ask Thee to be merciful to her. Grant Lord, that she can be made well. She wants to live like all of us. We all want to live, and she's trying hard. And now, dear God, poor little timid thing, I realize that people maybe with a few minor troubles will live an ordinary life with them. But we realize with this cancer she can't live much longer without Your help. And I pray, God, that You'll help. And help my faith, Lord, to believe with all my heart. And send the power and the anointing of Your Angel, that He will--He--the Blood of Christ
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will stand between me and this enemy. And now, Satan, called cancer, I come in this duel of faith, professing solemn faith in Jesus Christ, claiming a Divine gift that was ministered to me by an Angel of God the hour I was born in this world. Which has been vindicated throughout the world. And you know all about Him. And this woman comes tonight for help, and I come in this channel of faith in a challenge; I claim you can't hold this woman any longer; come out of her. In the Name of Jesus Christ, leave the woman. Thou, demon, come out of the woman.
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Everyone reverent, it's still holding her; she's watching my hand. It's still there, isn't it, sister? 'Fore I open my eyes. Everyone reverent. Be in prayer. Almighty God, Author of Life, Giver of every good gift, You promised this, Lord; I believe You. Oh, hear my prayer, answer Thy servant, Lord. Give something to our sister; she's trying to believe, Lord. Grant it. Thou demon, in the Name of Jesus Christ, come out from the woman. Now, every one; there it goes. Keep--keep your heads bowed everywhere. There it goes, lady. Now, before I open my eyes, you watching my hand; it's left, has it? My hand's turned back normal, is that right? The lady, the patient, I'm asking you to speak. Yes, all right, open your eyes, everyone before I do. I want you to look at my hand. Something's happened, hasn't it, sister? What you think has happened? [Sister say, "I'm healed."-Ed.] You're healed is right, sister. Now, watch her, audience, see my hand? Now, take your hand off. Put this one here on. Now, put this one on, now, put this one on. Something has happened, hasn't it, sister? You know that physically looking, is that right? Look audience, same hand, same position, same place, everywhere. Is that right? Something happened, hasn't it? You're healed, sister. Go off the platform rejoicing and be made well. Now, everybody be just reverent as you can.
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You're the patient, aren't you? All right, sister dear, you believe with all your heart? Believe that God is here to make you well? You do. Now, what do you think about this all, you believe it's the stre--power of the Almighty God? You... Couldn't be nothing else. Well, you've been suffering with a nervous trouble for a long time. You haven't been well for long time. Another thing, you got... Oh, yes, you got something wrong in your back, haven't you, lady? I believe something wrong with one of the disks in your back. Isn't that right? Is that true? Come here. Do you believe me as God's prophet? Our heavenly Father, I ask for the healing of my sister tonight, as I lay hands upon her, in the Name of Jesus Christ, may this demon turn her loose. Come out of her.
Now, stoop yourself over. All right, here she is with a dislocated spine, back. God bless you, sister, you're healed. Go off the platform rejoicing. Let's say, "Praise the Lord."
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Do you believe me, sister? God bless you. I never will forget; I believe you're the first colored lady that's come on the platform since I have been here in the meeting. I never forget a thing that happened one time at Jonesboro, Arkansas. A colored girl coming through the crowd crying, blind. And I prayed for her back in the back of the building. Many of you's heard the testimony, haven't you? Poor thing, no one was paying any attention to her. And she was coming on. I was standing out there trying to get in, about twenty-eight thousand people had banked the place, and I was trying to get into the building. Been a lady healed with a cancer; they said she was dead. I don't know; I think she was in a coma.
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me." And I said, "What do you want?" She said, "I's lost my father." She said, "I can't find him and I's blind, sir." And I said, "Where you from?" She said, "Memphis." And I said... Looked over there and seen that bunch of chartered buses; I was at Jonesboro. I looked and seen that chartered buses setting there, I seen one of them said, "Memphis." I said, "What are you doing over here?" She said, "I come over to see the healer." And I said, "The what?" She said, "The healer." Nobody there, eight days, that's where I set at the platform for four days and nights without even leaving the platform, praying for the sick. I slept at the platform, eat at the platform, what I eat. And I said, "Do you believe that to be true?" She said, "Yes, sir." And I said, "Why, as many fine doctors as we got..." She said, "Sir, when I was a little girl I had cataracts come on my eyes. The doctor told me when they got ripe," I don't know what she meant by that, "they'd take them out." And said, "Now, they've wrapped around the optical nerve of my eye, if they pull the cataract out they'd take my eyes out." And she said, "I heard on the radio this morning, a man up here from Kennett been blind twelve years received his sight." That's what happened that morning. She said, "I come to see if I could see the man." And said, "They tell me I can't even get near the place." And said, "I've lost my father, and I--I'm
But I remember when she bumped into me, she said, "Excuse
blind; and nobody will help me to the bus." And I said, "Do you believe about that Angel?" She said, "Yes, sir." And she said... I said, "You believe that that man would pray for you to get well?" She said, "I will tell you what you do, if you'll take me by the hand and lead me to where he's at, I'll be able to find my father then." That was too much for me. I said, "Do you believe that's true?" She said, "Yes, sir." I said, "Perhaps I'm the one you're supposed to see." And she grabbed me; she said, "Are you the healer?" I said, "No, ma'am, I'm Brother Branham." I said, "Jesus is the Healer." She said, "Brother Branham, don't pass me." Poor blind girl standing there... And I said, "Sure, I wouldn't, sister. I'm sure God won't." And I never will forget, I took her by the hand and I said, "Lord Jesus, some nineteen hundred years ago there was an old rugged cross come dragging down through the streets of Jerusalem, dragging out the Bloody footprints of the Bearer, His poor little thin body, frail, fell under the load..." [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]
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Name of Jesus Christ, receive your healing, mother. Go off the platform and be made well. Amen. God bless you, go rejoicing and be happy. [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] Diabetes, go and be made well, my brother, in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ...?... All right, bring the lady here. All right, sister, yes, you believe? All right, you keep that tumor when it passes out of you, you send it to me. God bless you, sister. Amen. Let's say, "Praise the Lord." Come, sister, you believe? Wouldn't you like to be rid of that asthma? Go breathe in the Name of the Lord Jesus and receive your healing. Let's say, "Praise the Lord." Come, lady, do you believe, sister? You like get over that heart trouble, wouldn't you? Go receive your healing in the Name of the Lord. Let's say, "Praise the Lord," everybody. You believe? How do you do, sister? Do you believe me as God's prophet? You'd like to be rid of that cancer, wouldn't you? Go and be healed in the Name of the Lord Jesus and be well.
That's it, friends. Believe. What do you think setting there sister, do you believe with all your heart? You'd like get rid of that back trouble, wouldn't you? Walk off the platform the other way; you're healed. God bless you. That's the way to believe it. Now, you're doing it; now you're coming
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right. All right. All right, come, lady. What do you think about it? You believe me as God's prophet? Your kidney trouble left you, sister, coming across the platform. Let's say, "Praise the Lord." Now, you're believing. Just a moment, when I turned around that lady was healed, with that... Yes, the gray headed lady, setting here, right back there with that green polka dot dress on. You had back trouble too, didn't you, sister? All right, you're healed now. You can go and be well. God bless you, sister. Let's say, "Praise the Lord."
Bring the lady. All right, sister, what do you think about it? You believe? Put your handkerchief in your other hand, lay your hand on mine. What does that look like to you? Strange looking sight there, isn't it? It's cancer. Come here just a moment. You know when the Angel of the Lord met me, that was the first thing He said, "Till not even cancer will stand before the prayer." Do you believe it? I want you to repeat this and watch my hand. Repeat this as I say, from your heart. Lord Jesus, now I want you to watch, see that moving on my hand? Lord Jesus, [Lady repeats after Brother Branham.--Ed.] I believe You; I accept You as my Healer; I believe that there was a supernatural Being said these things to Brother Branham. I believe His Presence is here now. I accept my healing. Now, what happened? Something changed there, didn't it? Vibrations stopped, didn't it? Your faith has made you whole, sister, your cancer is dead and gone. God bless you.
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Oh, my, poor little baby, Pack it; get him over here. A little fellow, braces on his leg. Come here, darling. You love Jesus, honey? Everybody bow your head just a minute, a little crippled boy. Our heavenly Father, we thank Thee for child simplicity. Thank Thee for this darling little babe. And I pray, dear God, that You'll heal the little thing tonight. This horrible enemy has struck the little lad in his youth. But I hold his little body against mine and ask in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ, that You heal him. May this leave him. Come out of him, thou demon, in the Name of Jesus Christ. Amen. All right, little boy, you the mother of the baby? All right, take the child down there, and take the braces off of it, and bring it back on the--round the platform here walking without them. God's healed the baby.
All right, come, lady. Do you believe? Do you accept me as God's servant?
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(...?... Is that right...?... Is that right...?... How would I know...?... Is that right? You're going to be well now. That was an abscess that caused that, that draining see.) Nothing immoral, just something that couldn't be said before this audience, that only God Almighty would know. How about it, sister? Is that right. Nothing but God alone was there when this happened; that's right. The lady and God alone. It's true, isn't it, lady? Go home, for Jesus has made you well. Amen. God bless you. Are you a believer? With all your heart? All your mind, all your soul? Oh, He's so wonderful. He's here to make every one of you well. Don't you believe it? Baby, all right, lead him up on the plat... Here comes the little boy with his braces off. Let's say, "Praise the Lord." every... There's the baby, polioed, one foot up, it tickles his foot to run. Let's say, "Praise the Lord." God bless you, brother.
Do you believe? What do you think about it? Jesus is here. What do you think about it, brother? Amen. What do you think about it, sir, with a white shirt on setting there. You'd like get over that rupture, wouldn't you? Amen. All right, stand up and receive it, in the Name of the Lord Jesus. What about your wife setting there with that tumor? You'd like to get over it too, wouldn't you, lady? Raise up and receive it in the Name of the Lord Jesus. Hallelujah. There's... What about the young lady setting there with epilepsy? You want to get over it, lady? If you do, rise up and receive it in the Name of the Lord Jesus. Hallelujah! Just a moment, just reverent, just a minute. Oh, if you only knew. Where's the ministers of God that believes in Divine healing? Come here, ministers, come here in front of me just a minute, ministers of the Gospel who believe in Divine healing. I'm going to show you the glory of the Lord. Line right up here in front of me just a moment.
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One day it come to pass, it was so great that our Master could not touch the people. He sent other seventy. My brethren, do you believe in this with all your heart? How many in here is sick and needy? Scatter back this way, brethren, move way out here, make the line long. You ministers standing right out this a way now, turn this a way. You in this line, turn this a way. And you in that line over there, turn this a way. You in this line here, turn that way. How many believes that God's glory is fixing to fall on this building and there not be a feeble one among us? I believe He's here. My brethren, in the Name of the Lord Jesus, I'm asking you to represent my hands and God's hands tonight, and I'm going to stand at this microphone, bow my head in prayer while you start laying hands on these people. And I believe there will not be a feeble one in our midst by the time you get through them, laying your hands on the sick.
And I want every sick person in here, that's sick and wants to be healed, to stand up on your feet right now, you that's able to. Turn this a way, ministers, don't fail but what you touch each one. All right, you sick people, lay your hands over on one another. Turn around this way ministers, towards the audience. Are you now ready to receive your healing? That's right, the lady's already healed standing there. There's another one healed standing right there. God bless you, yes, brother. There you are; you're through with that; throw it away from... That's right. That one's healed with asthma standing right there. That lady, He healed her cancer, standing right there. Here, that lady standing right there with...?... is healed. That man there, with his eyes. God has made you well, my brother. There.
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Ministers, walk forward in the Name of the Lord, lay your hands on them. Almighty God, we come to You in this crucial moment, believing that You're here. Lord, God, we now represent You, laying hands upon the sick. Satan, you've lost the battle. Thou demon, I adjure you to come out of these people in the Name of Jesus Christ; leave every one of them. I ask in the Name of Jesus Christ, cripples, stand up on your feet. Here come the cripples up out of the wheelchairs, a cripple's coming up. The people are being healed. Accept it right now, raise up your hands and give God praise. There's a crippled woman, another crippled woman, a crippled man. The power of God is here. Go forward, in the Name of the Lord...?...
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I am very happy to be here tonight to see all my friends gathered out here. Sorry that I'm fixing to leave for a little while, but I'm thankful for this opportunity. I want to take the time now to thank the sponsors of this meeting: Mr. McDowell of the McDowell Electric Company and Mr. McSpadden of the Sixth Street Market, Mr. Morgan, and the others who are--sponsored this meeting. I come home the other day from Kansas City, and there was signs over the streets, and people passing circulars in the--the city, and I thought, "Well, they're going to have a meeting here." Then I thank them.
I thank the principal of this school for this splendid cooperation he's given to us, and these men here. They let us have this gymnasium tonight to have this farewell service. My little church is not quite large enough. I thank them, and all the janitors, all that's had anything to do in--with this service, I want to thank you. And it's--it's kinda warm in here tonight. We got a real warm reception, haven't we?
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And if the Lord is willing, in the morning I leave for the Saint Nicholas Arena in New York City for five nights. And from there my next meeting is in Southern Rhodesia, Africa, South Africa. We go from there to northern Africa, and from there to India, and then to Palestine. We be back home, if the good Lord will, the first of next year. And I was talking to the principal of the school a few weeks ago, which told me that when I return, that we could have the big gym over there for a real meeting sometime. Would you appreciate that? Let's give him a hand. [The congregation applauds--Ed.] Thank you very much...?... Thank you. I've always wanted to have one of our meetings here at home. There's something about home that, be it ever so humble, there's no place like it, is there? Home is... I'm always been more or less a rolling stone, as they call it, stalking around over the country. But some of the happiest times of my life when I hear them call on the plane, "Fasten your seatbelt; we're over Louisville." My, that's--that's nice then. I like that. I think anyone does, come back home.
My work for the Lord has been evangelistic, and I'm--perhaps will be, until He calls me home. Now, I want to ask how many of you here will pray for me while I'm gone, where I can just hear you. Oh, that'd be very fine. Thank you very much. I appreciate that. It seems to be my lot now to go into the tribes down in South Africa, helping the missionaries and so forth, down in there. I trust it'll be a great blessing to many.
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Now, being it's so warm in here, I'll try not to speak to you very long, just want to speak a little on the subject of Divine healing. And then we're going to have a--a prayer line tonight and pray for some of the sick. I've never had but one healing service: that was up at the Tabernacle about two years ago, and it was so bad, the people standing in the rain and things, so these business men of the city said they would see about getting the auditorium, if I could come down here. See? So I told them that I would be glad to do it. And we're sorry now, and I see they're standing in the halls and up and down the streets outside, so we--we thought maybe that--maybe it wouldn't be quite so many come out; that this little gym would take
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care of it. But the next time, we'll have the big one over on the other side. And I'd like to really, when I come back, maybe, to have five or six nights here in the city for a campaign, and then... [The congregation applauds--Ed.] Thank you. Thank you very much...?... Makes me feel real good to be home and see people applaud for you--they come in for our services.
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And many times, a few years ago, going up and down the street here, as a little lad, I--I never thought that I would have the opportunity to travel for our Lord. But He has so blessed the services till, well, we went internationally now around the world. And this is my second trip across, and I--I trust it'll--this time will mean more than the other. Last time when we was in Finland, Sweden, England, all through the Scandinavian countries, and down into France, and Belgium, Scotland, Ireland, there was literally hundreds, hundreds and thousands of people attended the meetings, sometime as many as forty thousand at a time, one single gathering. And they was so many healings and things taking place, till it would be almost numerous to-to speak of them.
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Now, I was just thinking of just before leaving, I was in Houston, Texas, having a--a meeting there when the--I was called to South Africa, to fly down, and to visit a Miss Florence Nightingale. She's a--a granddaughter of the late Florence Nightingale, which is the founder of the Red Cross. Many of you know of Florence Nightingale. And this is one of her granddaughters. She's a noted woman in South Africa. She had a cancer. And the cancer was in the stomach, and nothing could be done; it got too much of a hold on her before she realized it. A cancer is more or less deceitful, and she just found out. She didn't want to eat very much and just set, closing off. And when they opened her up it was impossible to perform the operation. So they just laid her back, or to die, and closed up the-the mouth of the stomach until she--or the entry where the stomach empties into the intestinal tract. They closed up there until she couldn't eat at all. They fed her glucose in different ways through her veins until they couldn't feed no more. And then they just had to wait for the death to come.
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She sent me a picture, and it's one of the most horrible looking sights that I ever seen of a human being. I thought, at the time, looking at it, it was more thinner than--than the little Georgie Carter. She's probably here tonight. She weighed thirty-five pounds when she was healed. She'd been an invalid, laying in the bed for nine years and eight months: hadn't moved off of her back for nine years
and eight months: a tubercular case. And when, by a vision, went down to the people... She lived at Milltown, Indiana, and there I went in and prayed for her, and our Lord healed her. And she's never been to bed since for nothing but just to go to bed at night: she's perfectly normal, well, the piano player at the Milltown Baptist Church, at this time. I wonder if Georgie's in the building tonight, could testify or just stand up. Just raise your hand, Miss Carter, if you're here. Usually, she's near. I guess that she isn't inside. Oh, here she is, yes. Let's say, "Praise the Lord" in this a way, just with our hands like this. That's right. [The congregation applauds--Ed.] Nine years and eight months without raising from the bed; she weighed practically thirtyfive pounds.
And there was a lady here; I forget just what her name is now. I think it's Weaver. She was a patient of some noted surgeons in the country here. And can you hear me out there? I think the microphone has gone off somewhere. All right, now that's better. I can hear the... Maybe I got something crossed up here. All right. And this Mrs. Weaver was just merely bones. Her doctor had given her until the next day to live. And she was so thin that she couldn't raise her hand hardly for me to shake her hand. While praying for her, the Holy Spirit spoke and told her she was going to be a well person. And I wonder if Mrs. Weaver is setting present now? Mrs. Weaver, would you stand up, the one that was healed with cancer in such a awful condition? Are you present now? If she could stand inside... Wave your hand to wherever you are. I can't see; so many fans, perhaps, waving. If Mrs. Weaver is near... Here's her sister setting here. Yes. Now, are--could she... Where is she at? Is she... She's at home. You're a witness of the case that... Let's say, "Thank the Lord," for--for that. [The congregation applauds--Ed.]
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Miss Margie, Mrs. Margie Morgan, twenty-one year graduate nurse, with cancer, that was dying in a hospital in Louisville where they'd--God's servants, the doctors, had done all they could do for her. And she was brought over to the house. Her husband just brought me in tonight. He said, "I don't know whether they're in the building or not." His ninety year old dad... I wonder if she's close, Mrs. Morgan, if she could raise up somewhere as a witness of the Lord's grace and power to heal? I... All at once... Oh, here she is, standing right here. Well, let's give her a hand again. She was skin and bones; look at her now, from...?... [The congregation applauds--Ed.] Some of the most noted surgeons in the country had given her up as a hopeless, dying. And there she is now in perfect health.
Prayer changes things. And this Mrs. Florence Nightingale. It was a similar case to any of those three. There's more setting here, but I just won't have time to get it, of different ones that's in the country here which is infallible testimonies of the power of the resurrected Jesus Christ. And so this--this Mrs. Nightingale, when my wife saw her picture, she started weeping. We laid the picture on the floor and begin praying. And I said, "Heavenly Father, if You will heal this dear person, it'll be a "go light" for me to go to Africa. And I just committed it to the Lord. And I was called to King George of England, to pray for him with those multiple sclerosis. I understand by the radio today, that he's got some kind of a lung trouble now. And on my road over, when we stopped at the International Airport just out of London, I heard them page me, and I seen all the guard out, and when I went up there, some of the--the church men from the high church there, came and told me, said, "Miss Florence Nightingale is just come in ahead of you here in a plane from South Africa." And said, "We think she's dying. We can't get her out of the plane." Said, "Would you come, pray for her." And I said, "Well, I couldn't wind my way through that crowd of people there," where probably, I think they judged around twenty-six thousand people. I said, "I--how could I ever get to her?" I said, "You take her to your house and we're going down to Buckingham Palace. We're due at the Westminster Abbey, and then back up to Piccadilly Hotel." I said, "You call me, and I'll go over, and pray with her."
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And I didn't get in that day. And the next day they called me, and, Christian friends, one of the most pathetic sights that I ever witnessed in my lifetime, I witnessed it then. As many of you boys here, was in the services in the last war, England, their houses are up over the business... And I was taken up to a lovely home where two nurses was waiting on this Mrs. Nightingale. And when I went in, there was several ministers there. Four of my managers went with me. And when we entered into the room, I tell you, I--I never seen anything quite like it, even with these women here. Mrs. Carter, back there, who was probably lighter in weight but she's a smaller girl. This girl would've weighed... Being that she'd have been five foot, six or seven inches tall, would probably weighed in a normal weight, a hundred and fifty or sixty pounds, maybe a hundred and seventy, tall lanky like woman. And there she was until she'd withered away.
Now, this is a mixed audience and I'm sure you'll regard me as your brother, to a... In her body in here, there was no more to it,
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that her bosom, breast, had sunk down in beneath the ribs, and when they pulled the sheet off of her, why her--she was so thin, till the-the skin, through the ring of her hip here, had come together. And where she was crying, I couldn't hear what she was saying. Some of the nurses got down real low, and she said, "Ask... Tell Brother Branham; I want to shake his hand." And when I took ahold, and they raised that arm up, and I took ahold of those bones, you'll never know what a feeling went through me: a mortal in that condition. And the nurse knowed she wanted something else, and I got down close. And so I couldn't understand her. And the nurse told me; she said, "Tell Brother Branham to ask God to let me die. I--I can't go like this." And she just withered away. And I couldn't ask for her to die after she'd prayed so hard, and she'd told God, she said, "If I can--if-if I can just..." Wanted Him to let me come down, pray for her. And she said if I'd ever pray for her, she knowed she'd get well. And such gallant faith like that. And then when I met her, to ask her to--God to let her die, that was more than what I thought would be right. And I said to her; I said, "Sister, I can't ask God to let you die. Let us kneel and pray."
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And usually, England is foggy, about--an island like. And the window was up. And I'll never forget this experience. I knelt down to pray, and I'd... Those ministers all gathered around. And I started praying. I said, "Our Father, Who art in heaven, hallowed be Thy Name..." and just as I said that, a little turtledove flew in the window and begin to walk up and down the cell--sill of the window, going, "Coo, Coo, Coo." And all the time I was praying, he walked back and forth, up and down the sill of the window. Then when I said, "Amen," the little fellow spread his wings and flew away. Those ministers raised up and said, "Did you notice?" And before I could say anything, the Spirit of the Lord came and told her that she'd be well. And I got her pictures now, after eight months. I just happened to bring it tonight, because that was my "go light" to Africa, and she's really got the country on fire. They claim there'd be a hundred thousand people at the first meeting. Here's her picture just before I prayed for her. Can you see it back there? I guess it's kindly hard. I might've had one of the ushers, if they will, to walk over here, and take this picture, and just make a little round down through there. Now, I... When I seen her; it was eight weeks after this: they was feeding her glucose and so forth. And then here's her picture at today. Miracle... Now, that's Mrs. Florence Nightingale. Her great grandmother was the founder of the Red Cross, and a--a really a noted woman that a... Teddy, son, would you come get this one also, if you will, and take it right along with you? Just walk down the aisles and turn sideways to
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It's been a long time, my dear friends, here in Jeffersonville. Probably, no doubt at all, but a few years ago, that some of the people thought I'd mentally slipped when I begin to speak of God being the same yesterday, today, and forever. In my heart there was something that anchored there that I could not get away from. And I know that someday God would give me the privilege to prove that that was right, because it is the Scripture. And today I am very happy to be in my hometown with a Divine vindication of the truth, that's universally known, that the statement that I have made concerning our Lord Jesus it's the truth, that God has testified it to be the truth. Don't never be weary in well-doing, for you will certainly reap in due season if you faint not. Always do that which is right. And whatever that God has said in His Book, you believe that; for you can hang your soul on any phase of the Word of God. You believe that, don't you? Now, whatever He has promised in the Word, that God will do; for God is under obligation to His Word.
Now, it could go on for hour after hour, but you have children; they're standing on the streets, and in the aisles, and outside, and I-I want to get into the healing service. And before that I want to speak a little bit on the principles of Divine healing 'fore we have a healing meeting. But now, if I never return from Africa... I have no assurance of it. But if I never return back, my Christian friends, I have been truthful and been faithful. And I have served God, and I've done the best that I know how. And I appreciate your all's prayers. Many of you here has prayed day and night for me; and because that I have been able to do these things for my Lord, by His grace, has been because you have held me up before the throne of God in prayer. That's the cause of it. I appreciate it, my dear mothers and dads, with all my heart. I'll never forget you. And now, if I should never return, the statements that I have made is certainly a vindicated by God to be the truth, universally, everywhere throughout the--the world.
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And I remember when I was a little boy; and this is for some of the children from here at school and so forth: no matter if you're trying to do what's right, young men, young women, do that which is right and God will bless you. Always do right. You can't be going this a way when you're going this a way. Always hold to the right, do what's right, and you'll come out right. Now, when I was a little lad, I didn't have too many friends. But I
always loved people. I wanted friends. And now, that I'm trying to serve God and do all I know to do, tonight I guess I have somewhere, six or eight million friends around the world. It just shows what God will do for you if you'll trust Him. Is that right? I'm glad to hear that, "Amen." The word, "Amen," means "so be it."
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And now, I wish to read just a little bit of Scripture from the Book. And before doing it though, I want to say good-bye to you. God bless every one of you. Thanks all--to all of you for what you have done for me and helping me and my family. In times when we were in need, you've come to us. Oh, how I appreciate it. And may the little city bring out ministers from this city that'll travel the world over and do great things for God is my prayer. Now--now I want to say this: I am happy. The people of Jeffersonville, I'm happy to know this, that the principal of our school here is a devout Christian. God bless him. He never returned a word when we ask him for this auditorium. And he also told us we could have the large one. And I certainly appreciate that. To all the staff, may God bless them.
Now, in the Book of Saint John the 5th chapter, I wish to read just a portion. You know, faith cometh by hearing, hearing of the Word of God. Is that right? All right, now listen closely as I read. After this there was a feast of the Jews; and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. Now there is at Jerusalem by the sheep market a pool, ... called in the Hebrew tongue Bethesda, having five porches. In these lay ... great multitudes of impotent folk, ... blind, halt, withered, waiting for the moving of the water. For an angel went down at a certain season into the pool, and troubled the water: whosoever ... first after the troubling of the water stepping in was made whole of whatsoever disease he had. And a certain man was there, which had an infirmity thirty and eight years. And when Jesus saw him lie, and knew that he had now been a long time in this case, he said unto him, Wilt thou be made whole? Listen closely. The impotent man answered him, Sir, I have no man, when the water is troubled, to put me in the pool: but while I am coming, another steps down before me. Jesus said unto him, Arise, take up thy bed, and walk. And immediately the man was made whole, and took up his bed, and walked: and ... the same ... was the sabbath.
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The 19th verse, when He was questioned on this... Now, I want you to notice, it looks very strange. Now, our case is just before the crucifixion, when Jesus went up to the feast at Jerusalem. And now, how many people in here are sick and needy tonight of prayer? Let's see your hand: just go up everywhere. My, just look. My friends, this is a sick world, isn't it? And look at the day that when we got the best medicine we ever practiced with; we got the best doctors we ever had (Do you believe that?), got the best institution hospitals, best drugs we ever practiced with; and we got more sickness than the world ever knowed. You want my analysis of it? We got more sin and unbelief than the world ever knowed. That's just exactly the reason. Sure.
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Now, in speaking of Divine healing, you're--we must approach it just as sanely as it is in the Scripture. Now, Divine healing has been misunderstood by many. Some people think that Divine healing is some sort of a (You know?) hocus pocus over people and put some kind of a--a spell on them that they get well, or something like that, or a hypnotism. That's an error. The Bible teaches Divine healing for this present day, and Divine healing all down through the age. Now, God always had a provided way for the people to be healed. He give it in the days of the--Israel's journey; He had the brass serpent. After the going away of the brass serpent, when people make an idol out of it, then the prophet broke up the serpent, and tore it up, threw it away. And God sent an Angel down upon a pool of water, called in the Hebrew tongue, Bethesda, at the sheep market, where they brought in the sheeps in the Damascus Gate in Jerusalem. If the good Lord willing, in a few weeks be visiting this very spot where we're speaking of.
And there was a--a--a pool there at the market. And ever so often, there was an Angel came down and troubled the water. Now, how many knows what troubled water is, living here at the river? A troubled water is when the current's going one way, and the waves another: choppy; makes a troubled water and a very dangerous water. Then people believed that it was an Angel, which God testified that it was, that came down; because there was no current in the water, but it just chopped the water, made a choppy condition. And the people lay there, great multitudes. Now, listen what the Scripture says: lame, halt, blind, withered. What a sight of suffering humanity, waiting for the moving of the water. And then ever who got into the water first, when the water was troubled, was made whole of
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whatsoever disease he had, because the--all the virtue of the Angel on the water, went to the individual and healed him of its disease. Now, you believe that's the truth? I believe it is, because it's in the Scripture. And that's why I believe it's the truth. I believe that it was an Angel, not a superstition, not somebody's theology; it was an Angel that God sent down from heaven to minister to the sick and the needy. Now, if God made a provision in the--every age, would it not be no more than just that God would make a provision in this age for the sick? Well, He has.
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Notice. Now, Jesus went up to this pool, up to Jerusalem. And going through the market, He came to this great mass of humanity. How many of you believe He was the Son of God? He was full of love and compassion, wasn't He? Well now, doesn't it seem strange that our lovely Jesus would pass that great multitude of lame, halt, blind, and withered people, and just heal one man that maybe had a heart trouble, or diabetes, or something; and leave that great mass of crippled people lay there? I believe if He would've said to all of them... Just think, this little audience tonight wouldn't be a handful up beside of what that great multitude was that laid there. A multitude consists of over two thousand people, and a great multitude. Hard tell how many thousand was there of lame, blind, withered; and He healed one man, and walked away, and left the rest of them there. Now, that doesn't... If you would look at it in the right sense, now... Note, that was strange that the Son of God would just heal one person and leave all that multitude lay there. Doesn't it seem strange? Looked like He would've heal them all. And I believe that if He would've said, "All of you is healed," I believe they'd all been well. Do you believe that?
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But now, when the Jews questioned Him, listen at what He
Then answered Jesus and said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, The Son can do nothing of himself, but what he seeth the Father do: for what things soever he doeth, these also doeth the Son likewise. For the Father loveth the Son, and sheweth him all things that himself doeth: and he will shew greater works than this, that ye may marvel. Now, Jesus said that in Himself He could do nothing; He could only do what the Father showed Him to do. That's the Scripture. Jesus said, "It's not Me that doeth the works; it's My Father that dwelleth in Me; He doeth the works." Is that right? God...
No man can take credit for healing, not even to a doctor. There's no doctor can heal you. Now, doctors give you aid, and they'll operate, and things that's necessary; but you never heard a doctor say that he could heal you; because he can't. There's only one Healer, and that is God. Now, in Psalms 103:3, He said: Bless the LORD, O my soul, and forget not all of His benefits: Who forgiveth all thy iniquities; Who healeth all of thy diseases. Now, I have never... I've had some very rank criticism. Some people practicing Divine healing don't believe in a doctor. You have--you can have your own ideas about it, but I believe in doctors. I believe God put them here on earth, and they're His helpers; but there's none of them that can heal you. They can set a bone, pull a tooth. But if they--if they pull a tooth, who's going to heal the socket it come out of? If they set a bone, they can put it together; look under x-rays, see if they got it right; set the bone. But who's going to heal you? Who's going to produce the calcium and stuff that heals you?
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Look how simple. Of all of our fine drugs that we got today, there's not a--a drug in the world that can heal a simple knife cut in my hand. Did you know that? We haven't got a medicine that will heal the knife cut. And if... Any medicine that would heal the knife cut in my hand would heal a knife cut in my coat. "Why," you say, "Brother Branham, that's getting radical." Well, it would heal the knife cut; that's what I'm speaking of. "Well," you say, "Brother Branham, medicine was made for your body (That's correct.), and not for your coat." That's correct. Now, we're going to find out Who's the Healer?
Now, we know that medicine was made for the body. But now, for instance, I'd cut my hand here, and I would fall down dead on the platform, and they could take me down to the undertaker morgue. They had a fluid, that they could embalm my body, that I would look natural for the next fifty years. And we would send--or even take me to Mayo's Clinic, and let them dress that hand every day for fifty years, put all the salve, and mercurochromes, and penicillin in my body that could be, and in fifty years from today, that cut would be there just the same as it was the moment the knife cut it. Is that right? Sure. You say, "Certainly, Brother Branham, the life went out of your body." Then I want to ask you which is the healer; the medicine or life? Life, exactly. Well, then if you'll tell me and pull out of you what part is life or nature, I can show you what part of you is God. God is Life. There you are. So He is the Healer, Healer of all diseases.
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Not long ago I was a--interviewed. I went up for an examination to Mayo Clinic, the greatest in the world. And they examined me a good examination. And it's a good thing to go by once in a while and be examined. But when I received that examination up there at Mayo's Clinic, though as thorough as it was, I never had any more examination than my own little doctor here, Dr. Sam Adair, here in the city. He could give me the same kind of examination, and to my opinion, just as good a doctor as they got there. And I'm not saying that to plug for him; I'd say that across the world.
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But notice. After giving me examination, they had a chance to interview me. And so they were talking about the work, and they said, "Reverend Branham," said, "we don't profess to be healers here." said, "We only profess to assist nature. There's only one Healer; that's God." I said, "That's right. I'll agree that a hundred percent." And one of the things that thrilled my heart the other day, after being a patient there, and the Mayo Clinic told me I was a--hopeless of ever being well... I never did weigh over a hundred and thirty pounds in all my life, a hundred and thirty-five, I guess, one time, and now I weigh a hundred and fifty-five pounds and in perfect health. Prayer changes things. The best doctors there was in South Africa and England told Mrs. Florence Nightingale that she was hopeless. But there she is. Prayer changes things.
Now, Jesus said He could do nothing but what the Father showed Him. Now, you've seen the newspapers and some of the leading magazines wrote me up, said, "Brother Branham the Divine healer." Now, that's an error. I am no Divine healer or no other man is a Divine healer. Even Christ didn't claim to be a Divine healer. He only claimed to do what the Father showed Him to do. Is that right? He was not a healer; He didn't claim to be. Said, "It's not Me; it's My Father." And if Christ, the Son of God, didn't claim to be a healer, how much more a poor sinful person like myself would claim to be a healer. It's only done through a Divine gift to raise the faith in the people. Now, Jesus, when He was here on earth, He ministered to the sick and the needy. About seventy percent of His ministry, or more, was on Divine healing; it attracts the attention of the people. Fascinates them to the thought of... The devil once told Job the right thing, said, "What would a man do for his skin?" That's right. A man will do anything to get well when
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he's sick. Maybe you've never hit that spot yet. But there may be sometime when you will hit that spot, like Mrs. Morgan, or some of these others in here that's been healed by Divine healing.
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Now, the first thing a person does when they get sick, maybe around home you have a few remedies and things you try. The next thing is--is maybe you call the doctor. That's the sensible thing to do. If the doctor can't do you no good, then you've got a right to go to God. That--that's what you should do: Call on God, and God is the Author of circumstance. He can--He can do when nothing else can do. When man comes to the end on their line, God can do. Now, notice. And never forget this, you people laying here sick and needy: The right mental attitude toward any Divine promise of God will bring it to pass. When you believe, and take God at His Word, say It's so, believe It's so, God will bring it to pass. I hope I'm not yelling at you; this thing's really got some voice now. Right. The right mental attitude towards any Divine promise of God will bring it to pass. If you're a sinner, confess your sins. Believe that God saved you, and then go testifying of it, telling people that you're saved. It'll work righteousness. After while you'll be a Christian. You believe that?
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Now look, in Hebrews 3 and 1, Jesus Christ is a High Priest of our confession. He is what we confess Him to be. And any redemptive blessing that He died for, He's setting at the right hand of the Father tonight, to make good anything that you accept in Him. My, I hope you get it. Look [Brother Branham knocks on the pulpit--Ed.], my dear friends, this is not some fanaticism, not some little worked up something in a corner. About seven or eight years ago, people said the program can't go over; it'll never be. But when the Angel of the Lord appeared to me out there on Green's Mill bank, out there in that little cabin that night, He told me to go, and I'd be praying for statesmen, and great men, and kings, and monarchs. It would sweep around the world, and now, there's a revival sweeping the world, originating in Jeffersonville, Indiana. Amen. Oh, how wonderful.
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Now, kings, and rulers, and great men, they don't deal in fanaticism. Now, I will admit the devil's got scarecrows along the road. He's got people who tries to impersonate something. He's got people... Devil's got people that impersonates a Christian, try to make people believe they're Christians when they're not. But that don't take away the value of a real Christian. To my opinion, it makes him conspicuous.
And that's the same thing on Divine healing. There's people go around with a bunch of work up and fanaticism, calling it Divine healing. That don't take away the value of God's Word and His death at the cross. It only makes it more conspicuous that it is right. For as long as there's a bogus something, there's bound to be a real one for it to be made off of. It's only a vindication that there is a real one.
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Now, notice, many has been the trials, heartaches, and hardships; but tonight we're more than conquerors in Christ Jesus. When Christ died at the cross, He was wounded for our transgressions, bruised for our iniquity; the chastisement of our peace was upon Him; and with His stripes we were healed. That's the unadulterated Word of God. Truly. Now, then He put in Calvary those great things and every... Here it is; I hope you see it. Look. Every Christian believer has a right to any of those redemptive blessings that Christ Jesus died for. There you go. But it's out of practice. People's afraid to take God at His Word. Do not be afraid. God's under obligation to make it so.
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Looky here at the people: little afflicted children setting here; people out there, some of you cancer-eaten; and--and heart trouble; and things that you can't get well by--by medical cure. And then Satan come around and try to rob you from the only hope you have? If you'll excuse this expression before a religious group: ''The proof of the pudding is the eating of it." Here's people here that own doctors of the city and around about, have said they can't live any longer, and they're living witnesses and testimonies tonight of the power of the resurrected Jesus Christ. How can you doubt? Look, laying in here in front of me. 'Course it's just a little one night meeting. Sometimes they lay by thousands. But I guess if I would collect the testimonies that I've seen take place, infallible proofs, doctors witnessed it, in the past six years I've been on the field, would make over a hundred thousand. And I've seen sarcomas cancer healed by the right mental attitude towards God's Divine Word (That's right.), if you'll believe It, accept It.
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No matter how sinful you are, no matter how stooped you've been in sin, if you'll look to Jesus Christ and believe Him as your Saviour and confess Him to be, God will save you by His grace. No matter how low you are in sickness, how bad you are, if God's servant the doctor has given you up, with all he can do, you have a right to accept Jesus Christ as your Healer and be made well. Here they are setting right here tonight: infallible proofs; not something that happened across the street, but something happened here.
Now, no man can heal you. When a preacher comes, or anybody else, and says, "Well, he's got healing power." That's an error. Healing power lays in Calvary; not in man; in Calvary. I said the other night in an international conference, where many, many thousands was setting together; I said, "I find two groups of people in the world. One of them, are the fundamental group: positionally, they know. And the next is the Full Gospel group that's got it and don't know. It's like a man's got a lot of money in the bank, but he don't know how to write a check. The other man hasn't got no money in the bank but he knows how to write a check. If you could ever get the two together, then you got something." If you would realize that you're sons and daughters of God by the death of Christ, and you have a checkbook in your hand to draw any dividends out of Calvary that Christ died for. Amen. That's right. Don't be afraid. Put it to work. Let your faith get started one time; turn it loose.
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Look, laying here tonight in here dying before me. There's people setting out here, laying out here would be dead in a few weeks from now, if there isn't mercy showed somewhere. And what kind of a person should I be? God will hold me responsible at the day of judgment if I would mislead someone. But if I know of a real remedy for you, and can introduce it to you, it'll be a blessing.
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Notice, just a few moments now, and we'll start the prayer line. Now, the only thing that a minister could do would be preach to you salvation in the cross. He couldn't save you. There's no preacher tell you he can save you. He asks you to accept what Jesus has already done. Is that right? How many of you are pastors, do that, raise your hand? Sure, you accept Christ. Now, he can preach, but he can't save; but he points you to Calvary. You accept it, then when you come up, and say, "Now, I take Jesus as my personal Saviour," you believe in your heart that you are saved. Now, the critics on the outside say, "Oh, John, there's no difference in you. Why, you look just the same as you al--..." But, you might look the same; you might not feel any different; but in your heart you believe you're different. See? Then you confess that you're different. "He that will confess Me before men, I'll confess him before the Father and the holy angels."
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Now, if you believe you're better, then you say you're better; you act like you're better. See? You say, "Yes, sir, I'm--I'm saved." You associate with those that are saved. You believe you're saved.
You act like you're saved, and it works righteousness. Is that right? That's 'cause He was wounded for your transgressions, setting at the right hand of the Father to make good anything you confess. Now, what if you come to the altar, say, "Well, I don't know." But in your heart you believe you're saved and don't say nothing about it? You'll never be saved until you believe it, accept it, and confess it.
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Well, same thing by Divine healing. "Lady, you're a very sick. You, you, you, you stretcher cases here, probably in a dying condition. I don't know you. I don't recognize a one of you. And the little girl here, I don't know her. And some other ones here, I never seen you in my life; but I'm bringing to you, my sister, a--the message that Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever. His love and devotion to you is just as it always was. And there's not one more thing that He can do in His great kingdom to get you healed, because He's already done that. Nineteen hundred years ago when He died, He saved every creature on the earth. Did He? He certainly did. "The Lamb of God that takes away the sin of the world." Now, it'll never do you no good until you accept it. Is that right? See? He saved you back there. The Blood sprayed the earth: "Father, forgive them; they know not what they do." But you're under mercy now, when--you're a free moral agent. But when the life leaves your body and you go in the Presence of God, you're already judged, 'cause God's already judged sin. Then, "He was wounded for your transgressions; with His stripes you were healed." And how can anyone do now what Jesus done nineteen hundred years ago? There you are. You can't.
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Now, the only thing a minister can do would be preach the Gospel, tell you the truth. And you believe it, accept it, act upon your confession. Go out; say you're well. Believe you're well. Act like you are. You say, "Brother Branham, should I do that before it..." You never feel nothing. Jesus never did say, "Did you feeled it?" He said, "Did you believe it?" It's by faith, not by feeling. You're not saved by feeling. Why, the devil can beat you around every stump in the country, saying it's by your feelings. I'm not saved because I feel like I'm saved. I'm saved because God's Word says I'm saved.
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Now, and listen; just a moment. The Word of God will defeat the devil any place, anywhere, any time on any condition. When Jesus was here on earth, the Father was in Him. God was in Christ reconcile the world to Himself. We believe that. All the fine qualities was in--was of the Father was in Him. But when He met Satan, look how He did. He brought it in your reach, and yours, yours, and all of you. See? He never used His great gift.
When Satan comes in and said, "If thou be the Son of God, turn these stones to bread," He said, "It is written: man shall not live by bread alone." He taken Him up on the pinnacle of the temple. Jesus said, "It is written." He took Him up on a high mountain, showed Him the kingdoms of the world, said, "I'll give them all to you, if you'll fall down and worship me." Jesus said, "It is written." See? Always, "It's written," the Word. The Word of God is a Seed. Accept It in your heart: believe It; water It; testify of It; take It as your own personal need and God will bring it to pass.
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Now, then you say, "Brother Branham, what made your ministry conspicuous?" This last statement. When I was a little boy, I was borned up here in Cumberland County, Kentucky, in a little log cabin. My dear old mother sets here tonight in this auditorium. She was fifteen years old when I was born. My father was about eighteen. The morning when I was born, he was standing with his (They tell me.)--with his hands in the bibs of his overalls. And a little old window in the side of the hut, after I was borned, a Light came into that window, settled down where I was. It's been with me from that day to this.
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When I was a child, twenty-two years before this beautiful bridge spanned the river, setting down in my yard, I seen this thing go across the river and seen the men that lost their life on it. My mother thought I was nervous. Right here at Mr. Wathen's on Utica Pike when I was packing water in two little syrup buckets, out of the bush come a sound of "Whew." [Brother Branham makes a blowing sound--Ed.] I didn't see no leaves blowing nowhere, and looked up in the tree, looked like a barrel-size, going back and forth in the tree. And out of there come an audible voice and it said, "Don't you never smoke or drink or defile your body in any way. There'll be a work for you to do when you get older." I'm at home. I'm among people. I'm among young ladies that I went with in my young days. I'm amongst boys here, boyfriends that I played together. I ask you today if you ever seen me smoke, drink, or be drunk, or--or defile myself in--in that way? No, sir. I did not. Not for my goodness, but it's by His mercy, His foreordained will for me to do this.
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Later on I become a minister. You very well remember the time when the star appeared down here on the river, that Light. It's appeared: we've got It now hanging in Washington, DC The only time in the world they had to that time, that a supernatural Being could
scientifically be proven; it proved by the FBI that is was absolutely a supernatural Being. It comes into the meeting; It's right here at the platform now. And it's not me; I have nothing to do with it. It's the Angel of the Lord. And He's here now. And a man can come through this country, tell you anything, minister can speak of anything. Man is subject to making mistakes and telling stories. Man's word's just a man's word. But when God speaks that it's so, then you believe it, because it is so. God's Word will be worth more in the next few minutes than all the words that I could say.
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I was born... I believe that gifts and callings are without repentance. How many Christians believe that? It's not what you try to work yourself up to; it's what you're born to be. See? Back in the making... You begin in your germ of life when you become germatized in your great grandfather. That's Scripture. Levi paid tithes in the loins of Abraham, his grandfather. See? All right, but your germ, your life, your soul, begin in the creation of God in the beginning. Didn't Jesus tell His disciples, "I knew you before the foundation of the world"? Called us, ordained us to be ministers of the Gospel, and so forth; it's the foreordination of God.
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Now, how many... Now, in here, in working... Now, watch. Jesus said... Thank you, Teddy. [Brother Branham speaks to Brother Teddy--Ed.] He said, "The things that I do, shall you do also, and greater than this shall you do, for I go to My Father." Is that right? Do you believe so? Now, you sick people, look here for a minute now. Do you believe that that is the truth, that Jesus said in Saint John 14:7--or--or I mean 14:12, "The things that I do, shall you also; and greater than this shall you do, for I go to My Father"? And Jesus plainly stated... Now, listen, and outside, I hope you hear. Jesus plainly stated that He could do nothing of Himself, but what God showed Him to do in a vision, that's what He done. Is that right?
Now, let's see how it works. After He made His statements of Who He was, Philip was converted, he went to find Nathanael. And when he found Nathanael, Nathanael... He said, "Come, see Who I have found, Jesus of Nazareth, the Son of Joseph." And what did Nathanael say? Now, you Bible teachers here, so what'd he say? He said, "Could any good thing come out of Nazareth?" A mean city, wicked, bad, worse than Jeffersonville. And then...?... So then he said, "Could any good thing come out of Nazareth?" He said "Come and see." And when He came up to where Jesus was, Jesus was in the prayer line. And when Nathanael came up, Jesus said, "Behold, an Israelite
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indeed, in whom there's no guile." In other words--in other words, "You're a good Christian man, a truthful man." And Nathanael was surprised, and he said, "When did You know me, Rabbi?" or teacher, reverend. He said, "Before Philip called you, when you were under the tree, I saw you." Is that Scripture? Now, what if Philip would've said--or Nathanael would've said then like many people say today, "It's reading your mind; it's mental telepathy"? Well then, the Script--would've--the thing would never been done. But he said, "Thou art the Son of God." Is that right?
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When the woman was at the well, He told her her sin, how many husbands she had. Is that right? He knowed where a fish was, had a coin in its mouth. God showed Him where this man was laying with the--the disease. And He did all things as the Father showed Him to do. Now, if I come, my brother and sister tonight, and told you that the spirit of some great artist was in me, you'd expect me to put a canvas out here on this place and paint a picture like the artist would paint it. Is that right? If the spirit of the artist was in me... And if I told you the spirit of some criminal, John Dillinger, was in me, then you'd expect me to have big guns and be an outlaw like John Dillinger was. If his spirit is in me, I'll act like him. And if we are Christians and the Spirit of Christ is in us, we do the works of Christ.
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Now, as I said before, I can do no--nothing at all but what He shows me. Now, in the meetings... (Sorry, I've pulled on that, brother.) [Someone answers, "That's all right."--Ed.] Now, in the meetings, I speak by vision. I cannot heal, but I see what's been wrong with the patient. I can tell them by the Spirit of God what to do and what will be the outcome. It will go back and tell you the things back in your life, then it will bring it up here. If you know that's true, then from here out, it will tell you what will be, and watch and see if that isn't true. It never fails.
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Now, for another case. A few weeks ago, I was standing in Los Angeles. Can you hear me in the back? Raise up your hands if you can. I was in Los Angeles, California, having meetings. Now, listen here just the way the meeting takes place, before we start. I pray; I fast. I just come out of a meeting: I've been gone now for two days; I've been home, been back to the house a couple times. Go off to myself and pray, not eating, fasting, waiting. And there's something comes down, takes over my life, my body, and I'm not myself. No more... That light can't say, "See what a light I am?" That bulb isn't making
light; it's the current going through the bulb that makes light. And before there can be any light in there, there would have to be a switch to make a contact, and then the light comes forth.
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Now, when He speaks through me, I know what He tells me. I see it just like I'm looking here. But when He doesn't speak, I can't say nothing. Or in the meeting, there I just walk into the platform. And as I walked in, I looked, I saw a stack of hay, just materializes in front of me. I begin to speak about that stack. I seen a little boy get hurt on a hay frame. I seen him years later, selling books from a wheelchair or something. I seen him a great man in a big office where a men wore a kind of rounded collars, begin to speak of it. My manager come to me or one of the ministers and said... And I seen the man setting back out there in the audience. I said, "There sets the man." Brought a wheelchairs and thing... I said, "There sets the man right there. He's under a certain church." Someone come to me and said, "You know who that was?" one of my managers. I said, "No." Said, "That's Congressman Upshaw. Did you ever hear of him?" I said, "No, sir." He said, "He run for President." I said, "It... I don't remember him." And he said, "He's been an invalid, crippled for sixty-six years." I said, "Yes, sir." And said--he said, "Well, what's going to happen?" I said, "I don't know."
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And I seen his wife praying with him. I started to turn and say, "Bring the next person in the prayer line," and when the next person started to come, I looked around here before me stood a doctor: thin fellow, wearing tortoise-shell glasses, had one of those, whatever it is that he wears on his head to look in your throat. He was discouraged; he was shaking his head. I say, "I see a thin doctor. He's shaking his head. He's--he's just performed an operation on a little colored girl; it paralyzed her. And she's paralyzed from her shoulders down." And I turned back around, and I said to my brother, "Bring me your patient." And then way down, way in, I heard someone crying, and I looked; and here was a hospital stretcher like these along here, and an old colored woman crawling on her knees, coming behind, screaming, "God be merciful to me." And I looked, and there was the little colored girl that I seen in the vision. She said, "Lordy, mercy." She said, "Parson, you told just exactly the kind of doctor that was. Is God going to let my baby live?" I said, "Auntie, I don't know." I said, "I can only speak what I see." And she said, "O God, have mercy, have mercy," kept crying. The
little thing's paralyzed. She's... I said, "It's been about two years, hasn't it, Auntie?" She said, "That's what it's been, sir." And I turned around to call the patient. I looked, and I seen something in front of me. And I seen a--something materializing, it looked like a road. But it was a street, and going down that street, went that little colored girl with a doll on her arm, walking like this. Brother, sister, all those devils in hell couldn't stop it then. I said, "Auntie, your faith has saved the child; it's whole."
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I've seen it in hundreds of cases, thousands of cases. And here before me tonight, I give any person leave. Did you ever one time ever see It say anything but what was perfectly that way? How manys been in meetings and seen it, let's see your hand? Raise your hands everywhere. There it is. Every time It's perfect, for It's God, not a man; It's God, and It can't be wrong. Then, notice, she said, "Is my baby healed?" I said, "Yes, ma'am." And she caught the little thing by the hand, and the little baby raised up, threw it's arms around mother, got up and walked out of the building, perfectly whole. People begin fainting.
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And the--the meeting went on; in a few minutes I said, "I see the Congressman. He's got a pinstripe suit on. He's healed." And he was bowing hisself like this, after being a cripple for sixty-six years. Congressman Willie D. Upshaw, former Congressman. I think it was Senator of Georgia, run for President, because of his religious righteousness about believing in whiskey, he was defeated in the race. And God honored his faith. And tonight, setting on the platform is Congressman Willie D. Upshaw, that was a cripple for sixty-six years, perfectly whole here before us. Come here, Mr. Upshaw, my brother. Here's a man that was a cripple for sixty-six years. God bless you, Brother Willie. [The congregation applauds--Ed.] ... Say anything you wish to say to the people.
THE.PRINCIPLES.OF.DIVINE.HEALING_ JEFF.IN SUNDAY_ 51-0923 E-56 [Brother Upshaw begins to speak and Brother Branham speaks to him during the testimony: You don't how happy I am to put my arms of fellowship around this dear man of God, and what he means--has meant to me. I know he doesn't mind if I say this word to you. The night the meeting closed, in which my healing came, he authorized, he knew that I wanted to cover the six states that I have not yet covered since I got off the bed where I stayed seven years. He authorized and offered me to buy a car, and he knew I had given away all that I'd ever made, helping people in distress. I think he'd be happy now, as he started it, to know that that car just lacks two hundred and twenty dollars of having enough to complete it, and start out on our--some of these trips. And that everybody that shakes hands with Mrs. Upshaw and me tonight, will have a dollar in it, or something else, and...?... and you far more than covered, 'cause you put gasoline money besides;
or if you can't do that, send it to a--a Hotel Times Square, New York, we... Blank.spot.on.tape Remember this, you who are stretched out here and want to be healed; step out as God helped me to do. I said, "God voice has spoke with me, though I asked Brother...] "Branham" [Branham said, "The Congressman is healed." I said, "It's the voice of God." And I've been the happiest man since I threw away my crutches and started out to witness to His healing as well as His saving power. The happiest man that's ever been in Jeffersonville since Columbus discovered America--Ed.] THE.PRINCIPLES.OF.DIVINE.HEALING_ JEFF.IN SUNDAY_ 51-0923
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Amen. Let's say, "Praise the Lord," for the old brother. He's just eighty-five years young. Look. Looks like if he'd have got healed, that he would've got healed back there when he was about seventeen, doesn't it? But God, down through the age, held it back. And now, he testified there and in--in Congress, and different buildings, going up there to meetings, don't you see how God's got His body work in this day? Can't you see it? Then you see the supernatural with a man laid there and was a wheelchair patient, on crutches for all those times, and now, a well, sound man, eighty--to be eighty-five. Abraham was a hundred and twenty-five years old. Before Isaac was born to him, God gave him a promise and Abraham testified of it for twenty-five years before Isaac ever come on earth. Is that right? He's the same God yesterday, today, and forever. His promises are still true.
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Now, here sets two people. I feel that I'll be back to this city here again shortly for a meeting that'll last for several weeks--or several days, I should say, God being willing. So hot, and you can't hold the attention of people when it's so awfully hot and crowded and jammed. I tried that sometimes in meetings where many, many thousands was standing in a tent. Pray for me. I love you with a Christian love, burns down in my soul. And the things that I have said to you tonight, concerning Divine healing and His power, they are true. They are true with my Bible here at my heart. They're the truth. I can make no one well.
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But I want to ask you something. There was lepers, one time, set at the gate. They said, "Why do we set here till we die? Let's do something about it." Make an effort. Get up. The doctor's done all he can do. Everything's done all they could do. The next effort... God's done all He can do. And the next thing is due, is for you to act and let your faith go to work in God's Word. Now, look, everybody. A seer... How many here ever dreamed a dream? Let's see your hand. All right. Most all normal people do. That's your subconscious, we'll call it. Now, listen to this. Your subconscious... Here's a nor-your conscious, and here's your subconscious. Where that you people
didn't dream a dream at all, theirs is way back. Now, I believe God deals in dreams (That's right.): King Nebuchadnezzar, and Joseph, and many of them, and so forth, He dealt in dreams. But a seer isn't that way.
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line. And then out of that, some of you here... How many hasn't got a prayer card, let's see you raise your hand? Oh, my. All right. I'll tell you this. If you'll do this, if you will look this way to me... Do you believe me first? All over everywhere will you believe it's the truth? That's kind of a hard way for me to ask you to pop up here in this little hot room, and people standing, and children crying, and so forth, try to chop it off a message like this, but I proceed now, and let God testify. If I--if I told the truth, that God sent this to you people, not to me, it's to you...
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There sets a man setting right back yonder now, that one of the best doctors there is in this country, told him a few days ago he had cancer through the liver. He's dying. He'd never raise. I just happen to see the man now. He was taken to Louisville to a very fine specialist by a man, a doctor here in the city who's a friend of mine, that said to do it. Took him over there, and my doctor friend called me up, said, "The man's going to die: cancer in the liver." And the man went down to two great institutions, and they both turned him down. And I love the man. He was converted in my meeting. And he was rubbing his hands. His wife was rubbing her hands and crying. And I was setting on the side of my bed, here a few mornings ago, and was going to do it, go away before daylight. And while I was setting there, I happened to look standing in front of me, and there stood a very green worm-eaten apple, knotty. And I thought, "Well, where..." And it was just so real, just like you look here. I reached out, and I seen it move. And I seen; I said... I knew it was a vision. And here come another one, and another one, and another one: five of them came. Then a great big apple came down from heaven and eat up those five knotty apples. And the Angel of the Lord spoke inside the room and He said, "This is concerning your Brother Hall." I said, "Brother Hall," went to him, said, "Don't you worry. You've had... How many--how many weeks you been sick, Brother Hall?" He said, "Five." I said, "But the time is coming for your deliverance." He was down to--wasn't it just like this picture here. And here he is setting in the building tonight, eating, going on his business, praising God. Let's say, "Praise the Lord." Hold up your hand, Brother Hall. There he is right there; that's the man. A few weeks ago... And, doctor, I seen you setting back there. There's a man who was
going die the other day. Let's say, "Praise the Lord." Amen. He's quite worthy of all praises. Thank you, sir. That's a minister from Milltown, the same place where by vision...
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I never heard of Milltown in my life. I was setting here with Mr. Wright, another man setting here. I was at my little church. Many of them was... I never heard of... I seen a vision. I heard a lamb crying, "Milltown, Milltown." I didn't know where it was at. I went to--went out, and Mr. Wright told me where it was at. And I went down there. I didn't know what to do. I'd bought a little old soap box and was going to preach on it on the street corner. The Lord told me, "Go up on the hill." And I went up there and there was a big Baptist church, which I belong to the Baptist church. And I said, "Well, anybody there?" "No," said, "there's some trouble come up and they hadn't used it for nothing." I said, "Lord, if You want me to go in that church, open the door." And the man came by in a few minutes and opened the door for me. Went in and started a meeting. Still I wondered. Mr. Hall came in that on the very first night and was converted. He's the pastor down there now.
Then I thought, "That's not the lamb." And a few days later, someone told me there was a lady down below the hill, a little girl, that had got one of my books and was reading it, and she was dying: been in the bed for nine years and eight months. I went down there and had prayer for her; her and her mother. And look--listen to this: I went away, went on out, preached my revival. Two weeks or three weeks later, I come back and had another service. She wanted to be baptized. She hadn't been out of the bed. And I went home with Mr. Wright setting here, for dinner, after I'd had a baptismal service. She cried all day. She seen this Nail girl here; she may be here in the building tonight, from the Methodist church up at--at--I forget the name of the place up here above Salem. Crippled in her right ha--right foot and left hand; arthritis had drawed her up. She was healed instantly by a vision.
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See, it's not what I do; it's what He showed me. I can't do nothing. What He tells me, I just go say it, and do it like He tells me. Here's my own mother laying here dying; I couldn't say nothing till He would tell me. See? How many understands now? It's not me; it's God. I can't do nothing till He tells me. And then, that's what the Angel of the Lord told me when He met me there at Green's Mill. Said--I said... He said, "You're to take the--this gift to the peoples of the world; and you'll be praying for kings and great men." Look at it.
I said, "Oh, I'm uneducated, Sir." He was a Man, not just a shadow. He was a Man, weighed about two hundred pounds, had dark hair to His shoulders, and had His arms folded like that. Said, "You were born for this purpose." And I said, "Sir, they wouldn't believe me; I'm uneducated." He said, "As it was with the prophet Moses, He gave him two signs to a vindicate his ministry, so will you be given two signs." And said, "One of them, you'll take hold of the person's hands, and not you speak, but I'll speak through you and tell you what's wrong with the patient. The next thing, you'll go like--like our Master did, and tell them the things that they've done in their life that's hindered and caused, like our Master did." Well, that was hard for me to stand here before my friends in Jeffersonville, and around, and make that first statement.
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But when Miss Margie Morgan there, the first one that come in, laying there so helpless, cancer eat her up, and they give her radio x-ray treatments, and the doctor said the cancer wrapped around her intestines like the root around of a tree--wrapped around. And there she was laying there. And I walked down, took ahold of her hand, and I turned it loose. I looked at her, and the Spirit of the Lord came down, and told her she'd live, and there she is. That's just one of the thousands: people out of the insane institution and so forth. He promised it. He'll do it. He's God. And down there at Milltown that day, I went on out to Mr. Wright's to eat supper. Here he sets, right here. And he... I said, "Brother Wright, I must go up on the hill to pray." And I went up--up there and knelt down in the bushes, and I was praying, and stickers sticking me. It seemed like I couldn't quit praying. I heard the dinner bell ring, and I know that Mother Wright wanted us to come. I just kept on praying and praying. I said, "Lord, what do You want me to do?" And all at once, here come that Light, came right down through a dogwood bush, shined right down on me; and I heard a voice say, "Go by the way of Carters." That was enough.
They had parties out hunting for me. And I jumped across the fence, running towards my car, and it--landed right in the arms of Mr. George Wright, standing there. And him and Mr. Brace, a man from Texas, had just come up. And his wife had been healed. They want... They said, "Do you mean to tell me that Georgie Carter will be healed?" Why, her little limbs was like a broom stick, up here around her hips. I said, "She'll be healed in the next thirty minutes. If it isn't so, then brand me a false prophet and say I don't know what I'm talking about." We got in the car. The same time, her mother had got so seriously. Her little girl had been crying. She'd laid there and set
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there by her daughter for nine years and eight months till she'd turned gray. And so she went in, was praying in the room and asking God what had happen, that I'd come through the country and made that statement to the girl, and--or the girl was all upset and so forth. And she claimed she seen a vision of somebody coming; she thought it was her daughter, next door, coming down. She looked and it was Jesus standing there, a shadow on the wall. He said, "Who's this a coming?" And she seen me get out of the car with this same Bible over my heart, and she could see all my hair being thin there, and knew it was me coming, said, "Who's this?" And she jumped up to run and to tell Georgie about it, and no sooner she got in the room, the door closed, and I was walking out into the car. God's works on both ends of the line. He's always on time.
I walked into the room under the anointing of the Holy Spirit...?... down there back yonder where the girl was, put my hands upon her. I said, "Georgie, even Jesus Christ Who you love has appeared to me, back yonder, of--of--by Mr. Wright's, and told me, come lay hands on you and you'd be well. Rise up in the Name of the Lord Jesus. And without even enough strength to... They couldn't even put a bedpan under the girl; they had to use a draw sheet for years. There's her mother. That's right. And she was in such a condition, and there they'd showed me her bed the other day when I was down there, all the paint rubbed off of it where she'd hold her hands and cry and pray like that holding it, rubbing it, that... And she couldn't even get her hands back down. When she'd go to cough, she'd go, "[Brother Branham illustrates--Ed.]" in the sputamin cup, when her mother would hold it up.
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Walked up there under the anointing of the Holy Spirit and pronounced that girl healed. And in the Name of the Lord Jesus, she rose up from there, and went out, and set down, and blessed the grass and the trees, and played the piano. And there she sets tonight as a perfect witness. And God, Who I stand before now, and will judge me at the great day, when I stand before every one of you, knows the hundreds times hundreds of those cases has happened, and there's never been one of them failed yet. And it shall not fail tonight. God won't let me down when I'm standing here before my people where I've been raised. I know He'll be here to meet me. That's right. Is that testimony true, Mrs. Carter, wherever you are? If you'll raise your hand, wherever you are. That--that's it; raise your hand. That... Mr. Wright, is that testimony true? Yeah. Any where, friends? It could be the thousands.
Now, look. People come. I'll slip away now to pray for a few moments. I want you... How many people's got your prayer cards? I believe it's--my boy said they had O's. There's a hundred of them. Let the first fifteen or twenty line up down here and come across the stage, and according to your number. Number 1, number 2, number 3, number 4, we'll just take... 'Cause you can't put too much standing room. Who's got prayer card number 1 raise your hand. Number 1? Prayer card number 1, raise your hand. Prayer card number 2, raise your hand. Number 3, number 4, number 5, just line up down here like that, right--right across the end of this line down here, while the piano plays, "Only Believe," if you will. And let's all, for a change of posture, let's stand now and sing, "Only Believe," while you line up according to your number; that's the first group. Then we'll get another group just in a moment. All right come [The congregation sings "Only Believe."--Ed.]
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Thank you. While we bow our heads now, if you will, for a word of prayer. Our heavenly Father, we thank Thee for this amazing grace; for Christ Who died for us in our stead, an innocent One for we guilty sinners. We're unworthy to come to You tonight, Father, and ask You these kind things that we're going to ask. God, don't look upon our iniquity. Look at the stripes on the Son of God's back. He was striped for our healing. We do not come in our righteousness, for we have none to offer, but we come as believers, witnesses of His in this last day. We thank Thee for all that You've done for humanity; for hospitals, and for doctors, and nurses, and the many great aids that You've give us. Lord, we thank Thee. And, Father, may yonder in the laboratories and around, may soon find something to aid cancer and heart trouble and these great things that's taking so many of the people. We pray for them, Lord.
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Now tonight, here is dying people. I--I--I don't know what to say, Lord, and here's... You said in Your Word that a prophet in his own country was without honor. Lord, will You just brush it back a little bit tonight for me? And may the Angel of God, Who's fed me all the days of my life, and helped me when I was a little old boy, running around here with one of my dad's shoes on and my mother's... Going to school and no clothes... I love You. 'Fore going to dark lands, yonder in Africa, will You come to Your servant tonight and anoint, Lord, for the service? Thou knowest that I give all praise to Thee. It's not I, Lord, but It's Thee, as Thy representative. And now, as Thou has met in others countries and around, here they lay tonight, Lord, paralyzed, laying here on stretchers and cots, and setting in chairs. They're out there with heart trouble, cancer, TB, I guess, and all kinds of diseases. I do not know one of them. Thou
knowest all of them. Father, I realize that Jesus paid the great price at Calvary. Now, will You send the Angel of God upon Your servant, that I might be able through a vision to see these people that would encourage them to believe on the Lord and be healed. Grant it, Lord. Bless them altogether now. And I'm going to wait on You. I know You're here. You said a sparrow can't fall without You know about it. And You're so sensitive to even know a sparrow that falls and every one that falls. How much more You're sensitive to these poor crippled suffering, bed-bound people laying here. Be merciful, Almighty God, and help me now. If I spoke of You, You speak of me, Lord, that I told the truth, will You, Father? And confirm it with signs and wonders; for we ask it in the Name of Thy beloved Child, Jesus. Amen. May be seated.
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When I think of His goodness and His mercy... Now, friend, I'm going to ask you something very seriously (That's right, "Only Believe."), seriously as I can... Now, if... Now, I haven't time to explain all these things; our time won't permit. There's things that go with it that no man knows; that's between God and I. But here's one thing that I do know: diseases are backed by demonology. If you don't know what I mean... Like Jesus, when a man was deaf and dumb, the doctors say, "Now, his vocal chords are dead." Said, "What killed it? Why didn't it kill all over his body?" Jesus said, "When the deaf and dumb spirit came out of the man, he could speak and hear." "Go ye into all the world and preach the Gospel. He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved. He that believeth not shall be damned; these signs shall follow them that believe." Is that right? "They lay your hands on the sick; they shall recover. In My Name they shall cast out devils."
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Now, if you're here and a critic... If you're a critic, remember, dear friend, if I was in your place, I'd have Him save me from that, for be it assured to you, that they go from one to another. Now, that's right. That's Scriptural and it happened here a few nights ago. I was speaking. I had a little baby and the epilepsy wouldn't leave it. Epilepsy's a devil. Look at Jesus, when they come up there, and they brought this boy had epilepsy. He said, "He has a devil, and oft time he falls in the fire and so forth like that," and Jesus rebuked the devil, and the boy's fainting fell away, raised up well. Look at those boys who thought they seen Paul casting out devils, doing these kind of works, and they thought they could do it too. So they went down (Acts 19), and they told a man who had epilepsy, called that devil, said, "We adjure thee by Jesus, who Paul preaches, come out."
The devil said, "Jesus I know, and Paul I know, but who are you?" And they took epilepsy themselves. You have to know what you're talking about. See? And this is no way at all.
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A few nights ago when they hired in a big city, a hypnotizer to come hypnotize me. They go around these army camps and make boys bark like dogs. You've heard of it. And I was setting before, about, around twelve thousand people. And I kept feeling a funny spirit when the anointing was on, "There's a man setting there gazing up at me like that." And I looked around again, and I seen a bunch of boys, them hiring to do that. I said, "Why has the devil put in your heart to do that?" And before the man left the building, he was paralyzed, and is paralyzed yet tonight. See? I was trying to get the epilepsy to leave this little child; there's a minister setting back there with his group of people: twenty-eight of them, that wouldn't believe and didn't believe in Divine healing. And I couldn't get it to leave the child. I said, "Somebody isn't believing." I looked back; I said, "It's the man setting there with the gray suit on, and that bunch of people with him." And I said, "Keep your head down, sir." And he said, "I don't have to." I said, "You're a...?..." I said, "Father, don't hold this poor little innocent child guilty for that person. Satan, come out and you're at large." And twenty-eight people fell on the floor with epilepsy right there. That's true. See? It's not playing church, friends. If you don't understand, be reverent. Now, remember, you are wrong...?...
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If you're reverent, whatever I tell you to do, you do it, but don't move around while the buildings--while--while the service is going on. I'll give a interviews every few minutes while the boys take me back or something. Now, when the anointing comes on, I want you to understand this. If you see me acting strange, I'm in a subconscious condition. It's when that anointing comes down, it's something else speaking, not me. Let every man know that assuredly. Now, be just as reverent. Keep your children close to you. Keep just as quiet as you can now, while we pray.
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Now, Father, please. I pray in the Name of Thy Son, Jesus, that You will come now to Thy humble servant and will help me, Almighty God, to do Thy will. Now, come near to me, Father, and anoint Thy servant and pack me from this--this sense bound existence into the spheres where You live. And may this be done through Jesus Christ's Name, that I might know the diseases and the thoughts of the people's mind. And You said, "These things that I do,
shall you also, for I go to My Father. 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 age." I believe You, Lord. Now, come, Lord. Take me away and put Yourself in, that the works of God might be done here in this city. Remember when You went to Your city, they said, "We heard Him do these things over somewhere else. Let us see Him do them here." And He marveled at their unbelief. They said, "Who is this, the carpenter's son?" Then You said, "A prophet's not without honor except in His own country." But, Father, these people here love me. They believe. And help tonight, for I ask it in the Name of Thy Son, Jesus. Amen.
Now, if they will, just let the organ and the--if you will, constantly play slow. Now, to you people out in this a way that's sick, bound, and afflicted, without your prayer cards or so forth, now, you look here. And you look this way and believe with all your heart, and accept the story I told you. Pray to the Father like this: "Lord Jesus, I know that You promised these things in the last days. Here is our brother. We been raised with him. And we know he's just a man, just a poor illiterate boy, but we believe that You're dealing with him, and I believe he told the truth. Now, if he has told the truth, You speak to him and have him to call me and tell me what's wrong with me and what I--so forth, anything that might hinder." And ask that, and watch the Holy Spirit move out over the audience then, everywhere there is in the building. He'll do it. And then, if you're a doubter and unbeliever, watch It do you the same way.
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All right. Now, be reverent, and be in prayer as you can. And bring the dear patient. Come, lady...?... Did you check these cards here, everybody? You wasn't in them numbers there, lady? Do you not get farther up the line? Look. Tell you what you all do: You start praying and believing. Will you do it? Will you there pray and believe? Will you do what I ask? Will you two ladies here, and you there, and you there, you just pray now and ask, say, "Lord, You help me." And if God will speak and help you, lady, you'll believe Him, won't you, on the stretcher, and you here on the stretcher? You all, you'll believe with all your heart? The little girl here...
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Ladies, I don't know none of you. I've never seen you in my life, as I know of. You're all strangers to me. And back out there, you that didn't have prayer cards and so forth, I don't know you. I don't know of one person here. I believe I know this lady setting there. I believe she's from Tennessee. I believe you was healed, or whatever,
your little girl or something in the meeting one time, wasn't it? I recognized her. And down--down through that line there, I don't recognize anyone. I know this lady setting here; she's a nurse...?... That's right. You're with her. All right. All right, sir. Now, I believe that's it. Now, up in the galleries and balconies, rather, just have faith and believe. Now, believe with all your heart. Just let everything drop aside. Just say, "Now, I'm going to lay everything back, and I'm going to watch."
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Now, if I've told the truth, our heavenly Father will speak it though me. If I tell not the truth, He'll have nothing to do with me. Is that fair? That's fair. Now, let the heavenly Father, Who I pray in His Name, that He'll come and confirm what I've said to be the truth. I'm just a little short, and now, the microphone to me. I don't know when I--where I'm at when I'm doing this so many times, when It comes upon me. How many knows that that's Scriptural? Why, Daniel saw one vision; he was troubled at his head for many days. Is that right? And Jesus, when a woman touched His garment, He said, "I perceive that virtue has gone from Me." Got so weak, He laid in the back of a boat and didn't even know the storm was on. Now, be reverent.
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Now, you're the patient, aren't you, lady? All right. Now, I'm-just want to talk. Can you hear my voice, back there now, to where I'm at? All right. Now, be reverent, every one. Now, I believe you're a stranger to me, lady. I don't--don't know you. And I--I've never seen you in my life. Well then, we're perfect strangers tonight. Now, of course, you feeled a real odd feeling. Now, that's nothing to hurt you. That's just the anointing that's coming on me. And--and you're believing me. See? You believe me, because I can feel it welcoming (You see?), and I know that you are a believer. Now, that won't hurt you; It's to--It's to heal you, to make you well. Now, if there's anything in your life, or concerning you, that--that I don't--I would know--have no way of knowing it, 'less it be revealed to me through the Spirit. Is that right? Has to be a supernatural One. Now, if we are strangers, hold up your hand there, so the people will see. We don't know... And the only thing that you know now, that there's a real, kind of a sacred, calm feeling here: It--it--it--it kind of satisfied feeling. If that's true, so the people can see, rai...? Right.
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Now, what it is, audience, It's moving down just now, the Lord Jesus, the Spirit that was upon Him. And my body is becoming moved out now (See?), or my life. Now, it looks milky around over the audience. See? Now, I don't whether I can talk to you much longer or
not. Now, it's for the sister. Now, I want you to understand, lady, that's it's truly just the Spirit of the Lord. And now, Jesus when He stood, it was the same thing, the same way, the same operation. And it's not me. He said, "The world won't see Me after a little while, but you'll see Me; for I'll be with you, even in you, to the end of the world."
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Now, what I'm trying to do now, is just get a contact of your spirit. See? You're human. And the woman at the well, He talked to her; said, "Go, get Me a drink," just to get a conversation. Then He told her just exactly what was the matter with her. Is that right? Now, if His Spirit is here tonight, It can do you the same way. Is that right? Now, isn't He lovely? Wonderful Christ, isn't He? I've loved Him, lady, with all my heart. I love Him now. And I done--know as I go into the dark lands there, I'll be under witchcraft and wizards, and--but I know Who I have believed, and I'm persuaded He's able to keep that which I've committed to Him against the day. Yes, ma'am. Now, I see, standing before you, you're--just been under an operation, haven't you? You've had an operation some time ago. Been years ago; it was for a tumor. And that tumor was on the face, now I believe. Is that right? I see the surgeons when they're performing the operation. That tumor's come back again. Isn't that right? Is that true? All right, you're healed now; you can go off the platform and be made well. God bless you, sister. Another thing, I noticed in there, you've been praying, haven't you? And you've never--and in your life, you haven't had a satisfaction to live just like you've always wanted to live. Is that right? That's going to be granted to you, sister. And you go on; you're going to be all right. I seen you praying, and I knew; you was praying by a chair, and that... God bless you, you go now. Let's say, "Praise be to God." It's left her. You can look at her. She's all right then. She's well.
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Oh, my, bless her little heart; bring her. Come, sweetheart. Did she have a prayer card? Hi there, honey. The mother? Don't weep, mother. I want you to look this way to me. Do you believe me as His prophet, as God's prophet? I'm a stranger to you; I don't know the baby; I've never seen her. But that baby has a heart trouble. Isn't that right? It was born with a heart trouble. It was born in that condition. Is that right? I heard a doctor say that, that it was. Now, you've prayed. And when you heard that I was going to have this meeting, you said, "If I can get it to Brother Branham, and he'll pray for it, it'll get well." Isn't that right? I'm not reading your mind. But I'm telling you what you did. Is that right? All right, bring the baby to me. Almighty God, the Author of Life, and the Giver of every good gift, I
bless this child in the Name of Thy Son, Jesus, to in--firm the faith of this mother; may the child live and be well. In the Name of Jesus Christ, I ask this heart trouble to leave the baby. Amen. Don't worry about your child. Your child will be all right. Take it off now. Let's say, "Thanks be to God Who gives us victory through our Lord Jesus Christ, brought Him again from the dead." Now, He's here to heal and to make well.
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Now, all right, bring the lady here. All right. Every one reverent. Now, if you'll notice, audience, the expression on the people's face as they begin to draw near the platform. See what it is? If you could only feel just what this is now. How many of you seen the picture of It, where they took it? Let's see your hands up like this. Where George J. Lacy, and the FBI, and all of them examined it. It's near us right here now. That's what's the matter with the lady. She feels that. Now, there's something wrong with her. I feel it moving against me (See?), just like a dark cloud going, "Whewww, whewww, whewww." [Brother Branham makes a blowing sound--Ed.] Now, what it is, I do not know. Now, I just want you to look this way, just a moment, lady. Now, try to be just as calm as you can. See? And... Now, we're strangers, I believe. I don't know you. I don't--I don't believe I ever seen you. Well, then we'd be--we'd be perfectly total strangers then. [The lady speaks to Brother Branham--Ed.] Yes. Now, there's nothing here that will hurt you, lady. Now, you--I want you to look this way to me. Just look to me and believe with all your heart you're going to be healed. Do you believe? All right.
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If--if I know anything wrong with you, it'll have to come from our heavenly Father. Is that right? Now, you just be reverent. 'Course, I see you're coughing, but that's just a tickling in your throat. Now, that isn't your trouble. I see you as... Oh, yes, you've just had surge--No, you've just been examined, and you've--you got cancer. And the cancer is located on the womb. The doctor told you there's nothing can be done for it. And now it--there's only one hope that you have, and that is in Christ Jesus. Is that right? Are those things true, what was said? Then do you believe if I ask Him, you'll get well? You'll be as Miss Morgan and them? Would you bow your head, audience? Our heavenly Father, we thank Thee for Thy mercy. And I pray Thee to bless this woman, who I bless in Thy Name. And may, now, Your Spirit come upon her. She wants to live. And I ask for this blessing. And may this hideous demon of cancer leave the woman; in the Name of Jesus Christ, the Son of God. Amen. God bless you, sister. Now, go testifying of your healing, and praise Him with all your heart.
All right, bring the lady. Howdy do, lady? Do you believe with all your heart? You are... You have real strange feelings, don't you? Especially, in the late part of the afternoon. I see you getting kind of a leery, weary-like feelings. You're nervous, is what's the matter with you. It's due to the time of menopause. It's the changing time of life. You get real weary thoughts. A few days ago, when you heard of this meeting, you told God that if you'd get--let you get up, you'd be prayed for, and you'd be healed. Isn't that right? And you're taking some kind of a shots for that, aren't you, sister? Yes, I see you're taking; I see them give it to you in the... Isn't that right? Come here. Do you believe me as God's prophet? Have I told you the truth? And you believe that comes from God? Well, if I told you what was truth, then by the Spirit of God, I tell you what's truth now. You go out of here; be real happy. You're going to be well, for Christ has blessed you, and you're going out to be well. God bless you, sister. Yes, ma'am. Could we say, "Thanks be to God." That might not seem very much to you, but what if that was you? Have faith in God. Believe Him with all your heart and God will bring it to pass.
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All right, the lady? Howdy do, lady? I believe we're strangers too, aren't we? Where was... What service were you in? In Louisville. You was at the Male High School Auditorium. Yes. We have right nice service, the best of my memory. You couldn't get a prayer card. But there--then when you got this prayer card, how happy you felt. You... Saying in your prayers, if you could get in the prayer line, God would make you well. You're wondering now what I'm going to say. You're suffering with a heart trouble. Isn't that right? You have a heart trouble; it's enlarged heart. Then you also--you... Don't you have a gallbladder trouble too, isn't there kinda... Don't you have stones in the gallbladder? Is that right? Go on your way and be well, sister; in the Name of the Lord Jesus, may He grant this. Let's say, "Praise be to our Lord." That might seem very strange to you, but that's the same thing that Congressman Upshaw, when he was an invalid for sixty-six years, was made whole. He's here. His Presence is here now. He knows all things, and He can do all things.
Do you believe that, lady? You do? You believe it, lady? You believe with all your heart, do you? What about in here? I want you to pray now. Keep praying. Believe with all your heart. All right, lady, come. Now, every one real reverent. I trust to God, we could get down in this cripple line, just in a little bit. Howdy do, lady? Do you believe with all your heart? You believe? You believe that God will make you well? You'd like to get over that asthma condition, wouldn't you? Yes. Wouldn't like... Go, as you have believed, it will be to you. And may God bless you. That was really...
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Now, just a moment. Every one real reverent now. Every one reverent. Let the lady, come.
Someone right in here is praying. Seems like something just pulls you. It's getting weak. Howdy do, lady? I perceive that you're a believer. Now, that lovely feeling... If our Lord Jesus was here, He could tell you what was wrong with you. He could help you, could He? Well then, if He was--if He was standing here, He--only thing He could do would be to tell you what was wrong with you or--or your hindrance with something. Isn't that right? See? He could--He's already made the atonement for your healing. Now, look this a way, just a moment. Would you like to be free from that nervousness? You would? Raise up your hand like this, say, "Thank You, Lord." Now, go on your road and be well in the Name of the Lord Jesus. God bless you, sister.
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Let's say, "Praise the Lord." Do you love Him? He is here now. Sister, stop worrying about your boy, back there. He's going to get all right. Little boy that was run over, he's going to be all right. Father backed over the child. See? All right, just have no fear now. He's going to be all right. Every one reverent. All right, come, lady. Do you believe me to be God's servant? You do? Do you believe that the--Jesus that bore the cross of Calvary stands present now and here at the platform to make you well? You do? Been failing for a while, haven't you? Yes, ma'am. All right, you'd like to get over that asthma that you have. Come here just a moment. Father, I bless this woman in the Name of Thy Son, Jesus, that she's made well. Grant this kind blessing, in the Name of Jesus Christ. Amen. All right, lady, don't fear no more. Go on your road and be happy. Christ makes you whole.
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Let's say "Praise the Lord." You love Him with all your heart now? You feel a lot different now, don't you? See, that nervousness has left you, that tension. Now, many times they say nervousness, "Get next to yourself." See? That isn't to be done. It's something that causes that. Now, when you're standing here awhile ago, it was like a black cloud come floating up against me, going, 'Whewww, whewww. [Brother Branham makes a blowing sound--Ed.]." Now it's gone from you. You're all right now. Now, go and the peace of God be upon you, 'cause you're going to be well. All right, every one reverent and bring the baby. Howdy do, mother? Mercy, look at the baby. You're very sick, aren't you? Yes, ma'am. Yes, ma'am. You believe He'll make you well. Is he hearing? Which ear was it in, lady? Do you believe it with all your heart? Come here, just a moment. Merciful, heavenly Father, I come in the Name of Thy
Son, Jesus, as Your servant, asking for the deliverance of this woman. Grant it, Almighty God. May she go from here tonight, a normal, well person, in the Name of Jesus Christ. Amen. You understand me all right now? Hear me do that? How long have you been that way? You're all right now? Can you hear all right. It's all gone. You're healed now. You can go on your road rejoicing. God bless you, sister. Let's say, "Thanks be to God." The little woman... Yes. All right. Everybody be reverent.
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All right, come, lady. Amen. Do not fear. Only have faith. Our Lord is here to make you well. You're--you're very fearful though. There's something wrong. I don't... Yes, I do: cancer. You know that? You're scared it's going to take you. Have faith in God. You're in His Presence now, sister. The only thing that can ever help you--can ever do you any good, you're standing near It now; not I, your brother; but this that you know It's present by you. You're conscious of that, aren't you? You know that there's something there. All right, come here just a moment. I want to show you something. I want you to look at my hand. Looks just like an ordinary man's hand, doesn't it? I want to show you the effects of a cancer. Lay your hand in here on mine. Now, look at there. See those little white things running across my hand? I would call that a vibration of cancer. Want the audience to look at that. Now, watch here. I'll take my hand off. Look at my hand now. See? I put my hand on it. Put this other hand over here on it, sister. Come here, Billy. I know there's nothing wrong with you. Touch my boy's hand here. I'm going to put--look at my hand now; just normal like any other man. Is that right? Now, watch here. I'll put my hand on. Now, put your left hand on it. Now, change your hands, sister. Now, put this hand on. Now, looky there. See what I mean? Now, there's something that you know that's there. Now, I believe in the vision told you what it was: cancer.
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Now, see, in you is a--is a--a power. In other words, it's a growth, a living. Now, when you were born, you were just a little germ in the womb of your mother. And you begin to delop--develop cells, come forth to a child, and you're where you are now: a multiplication of cells. Is that right? Now, there's something else in there that's got a multiplication of cells, which is called cancer. It's got a life, a different life from yours. It's in you, eating you up. Now, that life in there, and me being anointed, and you're... You know that there's something going on, don't you? Now, watch here when you put your hand on there, watch the results of that. Now, Jesus said in the Bible here, "They shall lay hands on the sick." Is that right? That's what He means. Now, see it? Now, when I move your hands, move it off. Watch here. I put my hand on; there's no different. Now,
audience, you see that. Now, I can't make it leave the woman. I know what she has. Now, there's a life in there; a growth, malignant. It's going to take her life, if something is... Now, the only thing could happen would be like, if you would take her life out of her, her body would drop down here dead. It'd still be here, but it would be--it wouldn't be active. But she'd finally decay and go away. Now, if that life goes out of the cancer, the cancer dies. The woman will be all right for about seventy-two hours, then when the cancer begins to decay, or rot, then corruption sets in, and the cancer's laying in her. The growth's dead, like a tumor or something, and a wad of flesh. And then the heart stream--or the bloodstream picks it up and makes her have fever and sick for about twenty-four hours, something like that, maybe a little longer. And then she gets all right.
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But now, watch here. The Bible said, "In the mouth of two or three witnesses, let every word be established. Is that right? How many says that's Scripture? All right. The woman's a stranger to me. I don't remember what was told her, 'cause it--I didn't--don't... But I know it was cancer. But what I said was the truth, wasn't it? Now, you're a stranger and we're both human. And you come here, and you lay your hand on mine. Now, first thing, there's one witness; that is, that It told you what was wrong or what was done, or... That was right, wasn't it? That's one witness. There's another witness that there's something physically taking place, that you can see with your own eyes. Look. See them little, like a warts running over my hand. See? Say, female disorder also. Isn't that right? You've had that for some time. Uh-huh. I never seen you in my life and how would I know that? You know there's a supernatural Something, anointing here, isn't it? Now, if I should take that--if it should leave you, that would stop. If it doesn't, I--I can't make it go. But do you believe me? Do you accept me as God's prophet, Jesus Christ as your Healer? You do that? And believe that I told you the truth?
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Let us pray. Now, audience. Now, this is one--a stubborn case of cancer. Whether it will leave her or not, I do not know. I want her to watch; I want your eyes open, watching my hand. May I lay--I want you to notice, lady. It isn't as somebody out there is thinking. Don't think this is mental telepathy. It is not. Now, you get that out of your mind (See?), 'cause it's not. Mental telepathy show something like this? You say, "You're reading the woman's mind." That's right, but I'm no mind reader. Jesus Christ read the people's minds. Is that right? He perceived their thoughts. But Jesus said... Did you ever see a mind reader preaching the Gospel? A doing any... You seen the little old sign setting out here on the street, charging people to deceive them; but Jesus said, "By their
fruits you shall know them." A corrupt tree cannot bring forth good fruit, neither can a good tree bring forth corrupt fruit. Is that right? And it's not mental telepathy, certainly is not. See?
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Now, as I say it, lady. See you can't... You see it's not the position you--your hand's in, it's everywhere. See? But I want you to watch my hand. If it leaves, I want you to believe. If it leaves, all right. If it doesn't, you're... Only thing I know, sister, is make peace-keep peace with God, go to meet Him in peace. If it leaves you, you're get well. Now, it's your faith in God that determines it. But I shall help as way of praying and see if it would leave you, that would encourage you. See? But it would merely come again if you disbelieve. You've got to believe. Just like in salvation, you got to believe you're saved, and act upon it. But now, every one bow your head. And if anyone setting here is hard of hearing, you tell them to keep their head down during this time, and do not raise their head till I call you. I want you, lady, the patient, to watch. You're the one that has the cancer. Our heavenly Father, Thou knowest all things and know that I'm not here trying to make a public show to display Your Divine gifts. But my heart is thrilled tonight to know that here in this city that Your--Your Spirit has anointed Your servant to see and to know of these things. And here sets my people, my brothers, my mother, many of my loved ones who's setting here. O God, how I thank Thee that Thou art ever near. And now, this lady has come with a cancer, a hideous demon called in the medical name: cancer. You would call it a demon, which it is, a tormentor of her body. Knowing that life is just a little while for her, except Thou will help her. I pray Thee to be merciful. I've ask now that this woman here might see and show the physical results, and how my arm is stiffening and dying, feels like it's--it's asleep or something, of where the power of that enemy that's sent to take her life. God have mercy. Thou spirit of Satan, who's bound the woman, in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ, leave her. Come out from her.
Now, every one with your head bowed; I haven't opened my eyes, but, lady, it hasn't changed, has it? It's just the same as it was. The cancer's still there, hidden. Now, you have faith now. Let's pray. Every one bow your head now and keep in prayer. And you watch. Father, please, if I have did wrong, may You forgive me. And this enemy is trying to hold her life. And dear God, standing up yonder, You the Spirit Who came to me that night in that room and told me to go do these things, and You'd be with me, You have blessed it, Lord, and have proven it to be true. And now, Lord, I come humbly in Your Name to ask this blessing. And I just don't... Won't You, Father, please don't hold it against me to try like this would be a public show,
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but, Lord, bless this dear woman and give her this great witness, as she's watching my hand, reverently, knowing that her life is just a few days more unless Thou will help her. And she'll go home encouraged and be made well. Bless Thy servant, Lord. I testified of You. Now, You have said, "In My Name they shall cast out devils." Help me as I go forward in the duel of faith to challenge this great hideous demon that's taken her life. Thou demon called cancer, I come in the representative Name of Jesus Christ that died at Calvary. I charge thee by His death, claiming a gift of Divine healing that was ministered to me by an Angel, that you're aware of, come out of the woman; in the Name of Jesus Christ, leave her. Now, keep your head bowed everywhere.
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Now, lady, before I open my eyes, something happened then, didn't it? You can raise your head every one 'fore I do. Something's happening. It... You're healed, lady; you know when it left you. Go home now; you're going to be well. God bless you. Let's just say, "Thanks be to God." "Thanks be to God." Now, bring the lady here again just a moment, if you will, so that... Come here, sister. I want the audience here to see my hand now. Come right back around this way to see what's happened to you. Now, awhile ago when I'd take a hold of your hand, well, big white whelps would run across my hand. Look at it now. Do you see? Now, something's happened, hasn't it? What's happened? You're hea-you're healed. Go home; be well now, sister; your faith has made you whole. Let's say, "Praise be to God." The Bible said, "The people praised God for such wonderful..." That's not me; that's the Lord Jesus, your Saviour. He's here at the platform. The very same act that was in the Scripture is being done right here. Believest thou this? All right. Have faith.
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All right. Come, lady. Howdy do? Very kind looking person, I perceive a Christian. How would I know you were a Christian? You remember, the Spirit was upon our Lord, that when Philip come to Him He said, "Behold, an Israelite, indeed, in whom there's no guile." Mother... He said, "Whence knowest Thou me?" He said, "When, you were under the tree." And I knowed you when they told you you had heart trouble. Isn't that right? Now, go and be well in the Name of the Lord Jesus. God will bless you. You're going to be... Let's say, "Praise the Lord." Let's hear this audience say, "Praise the Lord." Praise the Lord. That sounds good. All right. Come now, bring the lady, if you will. Howdy do, sister? You and I are perfect strangers, aren't we? I do not know you. I want to speak to you just a moment, something; I see it moving before me. You have a female trouble, caused a burning (Is that right?) of
the...?... seen you in a room...?... That right? Those things are true? [Brother Branham speaks to her privately--Ed.] That right? Now, nobody at all would see that, only Almighty God. Is that right? Raise your hand if that's true. Only Almighty God would know that, a what was told the lady just now. And I seen her, what she was doing and told it now. Is that right, lady? All right. You're healed. You have believed. You can go and be made well...?... Let's say, "Thanks be to our Lord Jesus," every one now. Amen. Have faith in God; God will bring it to pass. You believe? Our Lord Jesus is here now.
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Friends, I'm afraid you're not conscious of what's going on. The very God of eternity; the God Who made the heavens and earth; the God that was upon our Lord Jesus, brought Him from the dead, anointed Him and He went about doing good; is here in this auditorium in Jeffersonville, Indiana, tonight. He's here now. Be reverent; believe with all your heart. All right, bring the lady. Every one real reverent. All right, come. You're the--you're the lady, aren't you, sis? All right, come here just a moment. Howdy do, sister? A believer, well aware of where you're standing now. Now, That will not hurt you. See? That's to do you good. Now, there's something wrong with you. You are... I see you crossing a street. And you're getting down kindly slow. You have on a light looking dress and you lean back. It's arthritis, isn't it, or some...? Is that right? Arthritis? You get out of the bed of a morning; I seen you kindy move slowly, don't you? 'Cause you can't hardly get up. But you have believed. You accept me as God's prophet? Raise up your hands in the name of the Lord. Stomp your feet up and down. The arthritis leaves you; go off the platform; here is your pock-pocketbook. Saying, thank the Lord, and go ahead off, and praise Him. Let's say, "Praise the Lord." like this, everybody give God praise. All right. Have faith.
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Come, lady. Howdy do, lady? You're trying to believe, aren't you, lady? Now, have faith. I know what's wrong with you, but if you'd just get a little more faith, you'll be able to get up from there and go home. See? Now, have faith. Howdy do, lady? You're the one that's come here, the patient? I... Don't think it strange... I see a table coming before me. It's got food on it, and you're refusing it. You have stomach trouble which is caused by an acid condition, a peptic which is in the stomach caused from a nervous condition, causing your food to sour, and have acid in your stomach, and so forth. You believe me as God's prophet? Is that true? You... Is that right? You believe me as His prophet? Go home and eat what you want to; Jesus Christ makes you whole. Amen. Yes. God bless you, lady. Let's say, "Praise the Lord."
All right, bring--bring the lady here. Have faith in God. Don't doubt. Howdy do, sister? Do you believe that--me as God's servant? If I am able to know your life by the Spirit of God, then I--I be God's servant. You believe that? You also are suffering with a stomach trouble. You have a female disorder too, don't you? Isn't that right? What do you think happened then? You were healed; go off the platform; be made well in the Name of the Lord Jesus. Don't you doubt or fear any more. Just go believing. You believe with all your heart? How many of you believe out there?
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Poor old colored lady here, laying on a stretcher, holding her hand up... You believe, auntie? With all your heart? You believe I be God's servant? Remember, nineteen hundred years ago, coming dragging down through the streets of Jerusalem, come a old rugged cross, dragging out the bloody footprints of the Bearer. On His road up to Calvary, His little frail body fell under the load that Simon, the Cyrene, came by and helped Him bear the cross. He knows what's wrong with you. You believe it? You accept me as God's prophet? You believe that I tell the truth? You're setting with a heart condition. Isn't that right? You believe with all of your heart? If you do, rise up, pick up what you're on, go on home. Rise up. Don't doubt. Raise up now. There you have it in the Name of the Lord. What about you, lady, laying on this stretcher here? Do you believe with all your heart? Lady, laying here on the stretcher here, what do you think? Do you believe with all your heart? You believe I be God's prophet? You accept me as God's prophet? Do what I tell you? You're in a dying condition with cancer. Is that right? In the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ, rise to your feet, and He'll give you strength, and you can take your cot and go home. You believe it? Rise up. Raise her up out of the bed. You have faith. All right. There she comes. All right. Undertaker can come get the stretcher whatever it is.
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What do you think of it, the other lady? Laying on that stretcher, do you believe me as God's prophet? You accept me so? If I'm able to tell you what's wrong with you, you'll believe me? Gallbladder condition is about to get you. Isn't that right? You accept me as His servant? You believe what I tell you is the truth? Then, in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ rise up out of that stretcher and go home. Stand up on your feet. Get up, don't doubt nothing. That's right; give her a hand there, some of you ushers. All right, believe. Look this way, every one of you. Here. All right, lady. Look right this way, every one of you. Be reverent while they're getting up. Looky here. Do you believe back there? Some of you pray. What do you say, lady? You setting there, setting there crying and praying, tears running. You believe me to be God's prophet? You're suffering with a nervous condition. Is that right? Raise up just a
minute. I see a vision going by you. Something's happening. Here, you was in an accident not long ago. Is that right? An automobile accident. Is that true, raise your hand. Accept Jesus Christ Who's made you whole. Go home and be made well. Do all of you believe? Are you ready? Raise up your hands now. Our heavenly Father, we ask You now, in the Name Your Son Jesus Christ, to heal every person that's in Divine Presence just now, that they'll be made altogether whole. Satan, leave this congregation. Come out of every person in here...?...
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Thank you, Brother Baxter. Good evening friends, my heart jumps for joy when I think that people, I'm living in a day when people are interested enough in God to set in a meeting like this and wait through the afternoon for the evening service. That makes me happy to know that--that our Saviour still has people who love Him that much. And for just a--a service as no more than what ours is; but yet, there's enough interest there and love of God in people's hearts to make them want to set and wait for the services. That's marvelous; I know that God will surely bless you every one. Now, although the--we cannot accommodate the people in churches, that comes to the meetings, for seating room and so forth. But my favorite place to have services is in the church. The church is a place where the Angels of God encamped around. And the public places, most of the time, there's all kinds of violence and wickedness goes on, it becomes a place... Now, that is not a superstition, I can feel it and know it when we come into the meeting, that there's--there's wicked angels.
Many people speak of God. And what's an amazing thing to me, friends, that many times people speaking of God know so little about Him. See? They speak of it as... They know it as a joy, and they know they're saved; they are. But when it comes to dealing with spiritual things (See?), that's altogether a different phase. It has nothing to do with that joy that comes from God. The joy's just like, well, it's a--I would say, the bubbles on top of the water. You see? See? That's wonderful; it's good to bubble dance, as we would call it, to rejoice and the blessings fall upon you. But when you come down face to face with spirits, why, it's so much different; you'd be surprised. That's right. And now, I don't want to keep you no longer than I can possibly help.
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I want to read some Scripture, and go right straight into our service, and do all that I can to help you tonight. I can only be able to help you as God will permit it done by me. And God can only help you as your faith will permit Him to operate in you. And now, that I might be sure to get this clear; that operations of spiritual gifts are not for an individual. But the operation of spiritual gifts is to go into the church and to--to edify the church. See, it's not for me; it'd be possible, I could stand here sick, and God would be healing the people out there, and I know about it. See? And it would never touch me. See? It's just a channel that works through. You understand?
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The acoustics so much better here, can you hear me up there in the back all right? Well, that's fine. And it just works through like that. See? And it could pass right... It's just a flow of the... I believe, that even the Holy Spirit and Angels, and all are just attributes of God; it's just a part of God. It's His make-up; it's part of it that went off, His Spirit and so forth, that He created to be His helpers around in His great office of glory. And I believe they're just like secretaries and so forth, to--to help carry on the Master's work, and they come to the earth for us earthly people, and--and they... certain times and certain... I believe that we must be born for these things; I--I do that. I believe that we're all baptized with the Holy Spirit and brought into the Body. And then we become sons. But then after sons, there's a placing of sons, or the adoption of sons.
A son was born in Israel, and then after eight days he was circumcised and become an Israelite; but he was borned of the father. And then, if that child was given a tutor, Galatians teaches us, then after he was raised up to a certain age, and he become very faithful to the father's work and everything, he was a very fine boy, and was eligible to fall heir... Now, the father didn't know what he would be when he was born; he might be a gangster; he had might be slothful in father's business; he couldn't turn his kingdom and his things, his work over to that boy. But when the boy proved to be a right boy, and the tutor, which in our case is the Holy Spirit, that takes word to the Father and gives a report of what we do, then if we be found faithful for so long, like the child was. Then he was taken out in the public square, and a purple robe was put on him, and there was a law of adoption. And then that boy was adopted by the same father who gave him birth. And he was brought into the family. And then, he wasn't only ad--only a son, but he was heir, co-heir with the father of every possession he had. Did you ever study that, Doctor Bosworth?...?...
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Now, that's what's the matter with the Pentecostal church tonight (See?), too much differences. As soon as you get saved, you start this way, and a little trial comes along, and you fall off, and you go this way, and this way, and ups-and-downs, and fusses and fights, and carries on until... How could God trust you with those things? To adopt you into the Kingdom of God, into His possession, give you heir to all the spiritual benefits of... If the church would only held together and quit fussing, and splitting up, and arguing over little baptisms, and things like that, you'd been a lot better off. And one church against the other (See?); that isn't sons. God can't trust you. Divine gifts are very sacred. And remember, a person could send their soul to hell with one. If you'll notice on the platform on my cases, my patients, I'm very careful of what I say. I weigh every word. I find the condition of that soul before I say anything.
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Now, the meeting going to end now in two more nights, for this. Someday I hope to come to New York, where I could stay long enough, till you could get spread out far enough till we could get a real meeting. Now, but Moses was a prophet. God made him a prophet. And God trusted Moses, because he was born to be a prophet. God foreordained that, when He told Abraham He'd bring His people out. I believe Moses was ordained then. He was born a proper child, and when he came out, what a marvelous boy. And he had his ups-anddowns, but in the wilderness God told Moses, "Go speak to the rock, and it'll bring forth its water." Instead of Moses speaking to the rock, he smote the rock. And that was one time that God's complete program was broken. See? Christ was only smitten once; we don't smite Him any more, we speak to Him. But Moses, after the rock had done been smitten, smote it again; it didn't bring the waters; he smote it again. He was a prophet; he had the power and authority from God to do whatever he wanted to do in that manner. See? But he broke God's commandment. God brought forth the water and answered His prophet, but then He dealt with Moses later about that. He wouldn't let him go over in the promised land. You remember that?
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You remember that young prophet by the name of Elisha, who was the successor of Elijah? And he went baldheaded when he was just a young man. Some little children run behind him, saying, "Old bald-head, old bald-head, why didn't you go up like Elijah?" And in doing so, it angered that prophet. Maybe turning around, he had bald--No, maybe a hair on his head, turned around and looked; he knew it was right, the children was calling him bald-head, but it
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angered him. And he put a curse on those children in the Name of the Lord. And two she bears come out of the woods and killed forty-two little innocent children. Now, anyone knows that's not the nature of the Holy Spirit, but it was an angered prophet. See? You have to be careful, examine every case.
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Now, I wish just, watching the clock, so that we can be sure to get away in time. I want to read some Scripture found in the 18th chapter of I Kings. Elijah, one of the mightiest prophets of the day. The 18th chapter, and we'll begin at the 36th verse, when we find that Jehovah verses Baalim, where the true and false prophets came together. And there, the great warfare was on. And Elijah said, "Let's see who's God. Let the God that answers be fi--by fire be God." Now, listen what this--this reading of the Scripture: And it came to pass at the time of the offering of the evening sacrifice, that Elijah the prophet came near, and said, LORD God of Abraham, Isaac, and of Israel, let it be known this day that Thou art God in Israel, and that I am Thy servant, and that I have done all these things at Thy word. Hear me, O LORD, hear me, that this people may know that Thou art the LORD God, and that Thou hast turned their hearts back again. Then the fire of the LORD fell and consumed the burntsacrifice, and the wood, and... stones, and the dust, and licked up the water that was in the trench. And when all the people saw it, they fell on their faces: and they said, The LORD, He is God; the LORD, He is God.
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Shall we bow our heads. Dear heavenly Father, "Faith cometh by hearing, hearing the Word of God." In the reading tonight, as we're reading it, Thou art here to listen. And our minds travel back to many hundred years ago when it was a controversy between Baalim, the god of the world, or the god of that age, and the true Jehovah God. And when Elijah, Thy prophet, was so discouraged, and set up on the mountain at Thy command... And then when the time came, when You showed him a vision of what was going to happen, for truly it is written here, "I have done all this," says Elijah, "at Thy Word." He saw what was going to happen; he knew it had to happen. And we're taught in the Scriptures that Elijah was not an immortal being; he was a man subject to like passions as we are, and he prayed earnestly. And Father, we thank Thee tonight, for this marvelous gift of the Holy Spirit that's now in the church, moving. As it was in the days when Peter was on the housetop and saw the vision... When in John Mark's house, when he was in prison, the Angel came down and delivered him. Paul, preaching, said to the man that was crippled, "I perceive
you have faith, Jesus Christ heals you, stand on your feet." The man was made whole. You see the vision that he had out there on the stormy sea that night, the Macedonian call. Agabus the prophet coming down from Jerusalem, catching Paul there where the four daughters of Philip had prophesied. And here come Agabus, a vindicated prophet, taking the girdle strings from around Paul, and bound his hands and said, "THUS SAITH THE LORD."
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O God, those brethren have gone on to glory, sealed their testimony in their life's blood. And here today, He's drawing again. You'll take Your man, but never Your Spirit. And here's Your Spirit living among us today, moving in and out among us. The great Gospel age, just a drawing to the end of the world... The fig tree putting forth its bud, to look down there in Jerusalem tonight and see that flag, the oldest flag in the world flying, the first time its been flown for twenty-five hundred years. Truly, the fig tree's putting forth its buds. And now, we here in America, blessed with the Holy Spirit begin to fall in the last day, calling the people from the Gentiles for His Name. How we thank Thee to be here in this church which represented this message for years and years. Founders, many of those sleeping out yonder in the dust of the earth, but one of these glorious day breaks, Jesus shall come and all sorrow will be banished and tears wiped away. Those immortal souls that's resting yonder in paradise will come forth like Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. We shall appear here on earth, and then be caught up together to meet the Lord in the air. It does not yet appear what kind of a body we'll have, but we'll have one like His, for we shall see Him as He is. No more healing service then. For we are living with the--the Son of righteousness with healing in His wings. We shall abide under the shadows of His wings throughout ceaseless ages. Set down by the evergreen trees where the leaves of the tree are for the healing of the nations. Arms will be stacked; the smoke will dry up on the battlefield. There'll be no more wars or disappointments.
O Eternal God, let this meeting tonight be more than a healing service. Let it be a healing for the Body of Christ, bringing it together in one place in Christ Jesus that the great manifestation of the Holy Ghost could go out here and visit these sons of God. Inspire their lives till there would be such meetings take place across New York here and cause this great city to shake under the power of the Holy Spirit, the impact that might fall here. And grant it, Eternal God. We know these things work together for good to them that love You. Now, O Lord God of heaven, as Elijah of old called for mercy, so I call tonight, and we all call together. Hear us Lord, and give us a memorial meeting tonight. Grant it, Lord, one that will be long
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remembered, because the blessed Holy Spirit will come down into our midst and will vindicate Jesus Christ present, by speaking the secret of the heart, healing the sick, the lame, the blind, the halt. May there be such a joy among these people. I know this street will be crowded here, after a bit like it was on the day of Pentecost, each one with joybells ring in their heart, the Holy Spirit enshrouding them, going forth with a new vision like they've never had before. Grant it, Lord Jesus, for we ask it in Your Name and for Your glory. Amen.
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He is so wonderful. No wonder the prophet just... He called Him the Mighty God, the Everlasting Father, the Prince of Peace, the Counselor, then he said He's just wonderful. His heart just got so full of joy when he saw him he could only say, "He's wonderful." Now, just a little testimony. I will pick up tonight in our journey overseas, as I left off last night with the healing of Mrs. Nightingale. I just wonder how much impact her testimony has in South Africa when we get there, such a noted person...?... She's the great granddaughter of the founder of the Red Cross, and a noted woman. And now, ever since the hour, I believe, my feet's touched the foreign soil, the Holy Spirit never left me. It was constantly there, speaking, seeing things. We go downtown together, Ornskoldvik, and Brusenberg, and many of the places of Sweden and--and Finland. And no sooner than we get downtown, the Holy Spirit would come down and say, "Now..."
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For instance, one day Brother Lindsay and I were setting there and some of us talking, and I said, "Brother Lindsay, on the road back we're going to see two ladies will come out dressed in black, and they'll walk out on this side of the street, and they're going to come over holding their hands out, like that. They want to know what's wrong with them." And I said, "We won't be able." He said, "Is that?" I said, "Yes, that'll happen just before we get in." We'd been gone about twenty minutes and here come the ladies dressed in black. And we--I--he said, "Well, Brother Branham, that's certainly amazing." I said, "Well, just in a--a little bit from now," I said, "there's going to be a man with a blue suit on, a white hat is going to come down the stair steps to our left, is going to try to get me to go up and pray for his wife which is laying sick."
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So we went up about three squares, and turned to the left, and started down, here come the man down in the blue suit on, a white hat, and wanted me to go up. And now except something materializes in front of you, It speaks here at the platform, It speaks
wherever God desires It to speak; I have no control of It. I remember, I spoke this before. I went over, right in this same pulpit I believe, that when I would... The first It came to me I was on a train. Just left my mothers house, was going to Miami, Florida, to have a meeting there in a tent. I was going to help out, there's back about three years ago, I guess, something like that. A minister was there holding tent meeting; I went to stay with him for two nights. And on the road down I had a vision of a little boy. Now, watch your Bible here, of a little boy that would be about eight years old, and the little boy would have a boyish, a little bobbed like hair and dressed very poorly. And his little... Was going to have an accident, and his little foot would be run through his sock. He had on, very odd dressed child. I said, "He'd be killed in an accident. And he will be laying by the side of the road dead when I find him. But the Lord God is going to give him his life back again." And I made that statement at the platform before about seven thousand people that night.
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And the next night before I could get in, they wouldn't let me come in. I believe Brother Bosworth was there at the time; you remember the case. And so Brother Bosworth was amazed: I seen a man get throwed by a horse in the meeting that night, and he'd broken his arm. He was back over in the meeting, and I said, "There sets a man right back there now with a white shirt on." I said, "Stand up, sir, and stretch forth your arm, for Jesus Christ has healed you." And out went his arm...?... he was healed. And Brother Bosworth was so amazed; I remember that was his first time, I believe, of ever seeing that like that. So the--a little boy had got drowned about four or five years old, and the father wouldn't permit the undertaker to take him until... He'd been in the meeting the night before and thought that that was, might be his little son. So they met me out there, and he was screaming and going on. And so some of the ministers said, "We can't take him over there." But I said, "Let's go over and look at the little boy, perhaps it is." And I said, "I think this little boy must have hit by an automobile, 'cause he's so mashed up." But I said, "However, I'll be glad to go look at the little fellow."
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We went back out into the big, some kind of park there, where some Duchess or something let them have the place to put the--the tent up. And so then I went back over there, and it was a little black headed boy, very nicely dressed; he'd... I said, "No, that isn't the little lad, because this little boy's got brown hair, and he's--he's kind of a good size boy, about eight or nine years old, pretty good boy." And I said, "This little boy isn't dressed, or he doesn't look like the child." And I said, "It's a rocky country with a lot of cedar trees." I
said, "It isn't... and pines." I said, "It isn't this country; it isn't positionally laying. It just has to be exactly the way it's showed." See? And I said, "It isn't just exactly right."
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Now, and that's the major and the real way that God wants to operate this. Now, this is just His permissive will, this way. It's just when I come here, and pray, and cry, and beg to Him before coming, until that is laying so close it forces me into it. And you see the vision, and it'll cut off. But when it comes upon God's perfect will, it just moves down and some times I'm out for about two hours. Then He sends in different parts of the country and different places; that's just every time perfect. And here, It might call diseases and so forth, and It might see what's wrong with the people and maybe what's going to happen, but it takes constant pressing, or yielding to the Spirit to go into it. Then maybe you'll just drop in that and drop out, drop in, drop out. It'll cut off; you've noticed it like that. It'll go and speak for a few minutes; then drop out. If I keep on talking to the patient, It'll drop in again and maybe come out. But when He takes me in there, I just stay in there till it's over. My wife, setting present now, knows sometimes you're out for maybe for two hours. Not a bit of breath, you can't... Your heart's beating, but no breath. See? It's when you become into another--another world.
Now, so I offered prayer for the little lad and went on. And then on my... We went on to services. We got to, up and Mrs. Florence Nightingale had been healed, and we went on into Finland, Helsinki, and went up to Kuopio that night. And we'd had about two services at Kuopio, or three. My, the place, the people, the Laplanders and all, they'd pack in there. And the Holy Spirit, the Angel of the Lord, as It would come down, It would move, there'd be an interpreter standing here, and It move out there upon the people and I'd say, "I see a woman stand up with a certain-certain thing, and what she's done, and where's she's been, and so forth, like that." I didn't even know their language. And then when It would drop out, the interpreter would speaking, I'd say, "It's that lady." She'd raise, screaming with her hands up like that, and people would just throw their crutches away, raise up out of their chairs, and... It was God to them. And they just--they just worshipped right in with the Spirit and they received...
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Why, one night they just piled up crutches and things to try to hold them around me for them to hold like this, they wanted to take a picture of it, some old canes, and clubs, and everything, that they'd been walking with.
Then I remember, I'd been fasting; it was just like tonight. Fridays is a fast day, has been for me for a long time. Then I was up on the--at Kuopio, up at the tower, I forget the name of the tower, and they were all up there singing. Oh, them poor little Finns. They're such a pathetic thing there; those Russians just beat them down and cursed them. And--and we went up there on a little old train, honest it was pathetic, and they burnt wood instead of coal.
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And--and if you ladies here in New York had to dress the way those poor women do over there, it'd certainly take some of the prestige out of it. See them young ladies, big boots on, dresses that thick and everything. There's no foolishness about them. Everything, even their songs are in minor, everything there seems to--everything they get they have to trust God for it. And they're honest, and good, and sweet, and kind. And they see God moving like that, their hearts would just melt in them, and they just throw up their hands and holler, "Kiitos, Jesus," was "Thank You Jesus," like, you know, just with their, just scream out. And I will never forget, it was in the tower, and they were singing, On Golgotha. There was an Englishman from England down there; he was drinking. When we went down, we led him to Christ. He got so stricken by the song. And we was trying to lead him to Christ. Then I said to the brethren that was with me, my manager; I said, "Something's fixing to happen." I could just tell; there was something, the Holy Spirit trying to condition. You see? Watch how far man and Himself can get away. I said, "Something's fixing to happen; I don't know what it is."
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And after this vision of the little boy, I guess it's wrote in ten thousand Bibles right now. I told them; I said, "Write it in your Bible; find out if it isn't right. Somewhere that little boy is going to be raised." And I promised them there that night, and a few other places, "It'll be in the "Voice of Healing," their magazine, Brother Lindsay's magazine, when it comes out, "See if it doesn't happen and the boy isn't just that way. I don't know where it's going to be, but He prepared me and showed me a vision, not to worry when it comes, to walk out there." Well, it was almost two years since the vision. Well, as I was coming down the hill, we noticed way ahead of us there was a crowd of people on the road. A car had struck two little boys. And there's not many cars in Finland; I imagine it was a thirty-five model Ford, probably sold for about twenty-five hundred dollars. And gasoline about a dollar and half a gallon, I suppose would be here. So without any money, you know how--how scarce. They go--their taxi cabs are horse driven.
And so, some of the brethren were coming down in cabs, we had the pictures of it all in Kodachrome color. And then when I looked down there, and a car, a model V-8, '35 model V-8, green, two door sedan, old shabby looking car... Two little boys was running across the road, coming from school, and they got there, and this car was driving terrific speed, about sixty or seventy miles an hour coming, and the little boys got excited, and one started one way and one the other. And the driver whirled his car like this to miss one little boy, and when he did he struck the one to the left, right by the chin and just picked him up and threw him against the side of the curb and slammed up against a tree and concussed his little brain. And--and the other one, it hit him right solid like that, run over him, mashed him up under the wheel. And the wheels were spinning so fast, and the driver lost control after he--like that. Well, he lost control and the car jumped up over some rocks and went way down through a field and wrecked down into a pile of rock down there.
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And it run over the little boy, and the wheel was spinning so much, till it kicked his little body way up in the air like that, and he just slumped when he fell down. Well, they'd laid him out there, and he was dead; and they put the coats over him and things. And we come by, we couldn't get into the crowd, or cross the road, there was hundreds of people had gathered out there. And one of the chief men, I don't know, something like the mayor of the city or something, was there. And so as soon as I come up... Mrs. Isaacson; she was American born Finnish woman who was giving the interpretation. Many of you might know Mrs. Isaacson, and there's someone who knows her. And, how many knows Mrs. Isaacson in here? Now see, that's very fine, several of you know her. Well, she was the interpreter at--at the meeting. And she was my... She wrote me a letter not long ago, said, "Here's your voice to Finland." A very fine lady...
And so, she said, "Brother Branham," said, "the--the crowd just now said, 'There's that miracle worker from America, let's see what he will do about this.'" See just how carnal the people's mind can get, like that. So they'd went over there, and they'd come back crying, said... And Brother Lindsay went over, and I never seen the poor brother cry so in my life, as he come back, and just a weeping. And I said, "What's the matter, Brother Lindsay?" Said, "Oh, Brother Branham," he said, "don't look at it." Said, "It's most pathetic thing; the little boy's just crushed to pieces." He had a own little boy in America, and I had my own Billy Paul setting here, and I, my little boy. I didn't want to look at him. Brother
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Moore come back crying. Mrs. Isaacson said, "You ought to see him, Brother Branham."
Well, I thought of them brothers and their children at home, and we've been over there quite a little bit, of course I was homesick. I love my family like any other man loves their family. I'm leaving right now the sweetest little thing, a little girl baby, six months old, and she's just gooing at me the other day, I tell you, my heart was pulled apart nearly. She won't know me when I get back, but God will fix some way for us; and He has. And my little Rebekah setting up there now, looking down at me. My, she won't even go to sleep at night, 'less she's laying on my arm. And I'm a temperamental person, and I--I love my wife and family. And it's hard, but Jesus said, "Who will not forsake his own and follow after Me is not worthy to be called My disciple." I don't have very much to offer Him; that's such a little sacrifice when I think of His great redeeming love. But I'm... All that I've got, I will happily give it to Him; that's all. But no matter what we'd ever do, I know we'd never be worthy to be called His disciple. But if I knock on the door that day when I leave this earth, if He will just let me in, I'll be well paid for.
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And I went over to look at the little fellow. And oh, my, I never seen such a sight, that poor little fellow there, his mouth open, his tongue hanging out, and his little eyes set back, and his little hands like that, and his foot pulled through that sock, and little pantywaist on, like we used to wear when we were little children. And--and his oh, his foot through that sock, poorly dressed, and there he laid there and his little mouth open. I took up his little pulse and it was gone. And I put my hand on his heart; it was gone. I said, "Poor little fellow." I turned around and started weeping, turned away. And just like someone put his hand on me like that. I looked around to see who it was, and there was nobody standing there. I started to walk on, and I just couldn't make my steps. The Holy Spirit (You see?), It been warning me, that that shock was coming. You see? I'd have missed it altogether if it hadn't been a vision.
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So then, I turned around; I looked back at that child again. I said, "Take that off his face." They took it off his face, and I said, "I-I seen that boy somewhere." I said, "Looks like I--I seen him." I said, "Ask..." We had about fifteen ministers with us. I said, "Sister Isaacson, ask those ministers if he belongs to their church." She spoke to them in Finnish, "No." I said, "Has he been in the prayer line?"
"No." I said, "Something, I--I know I've--I miss seeing. That's the little boy, I've seen him somewhere." I said, "Looks like that I..." And just then, it begin to come to me. I seen that little funny haircut, them little brown eyes set, that poorly dressed, and that foot run through that sock; I said, "I know him." I said, "Brother Moore, look in your Bible, and Brother Lindsay." Said, "What do you mean?" I said, "Back there on the flyleaf." I said, "That's that little boy that I seen two years ago in that vision. See them rocky country there, them pine trees?"
Oh, my, all devils out of hell and all of his forces can't stop it then. The time's there; that's the spoken Word of God ready to come to pass. Nothing can stop it. And they got the little boy, laid in the flat there, I said, "Now, you watch," I said, "this little boy will be alive again in a few minutes." I knelt down; I said, "Heavenly Father, way over in the homelands in America, when You spoke to me one night in a vision, said, 'This little boy,' and here it is just exactly the way You said it. Then Lord, hear the prayer of Your servant." I said, "Death, in the Name of the Lord Jesus, according to a vision He give me in America, give back the life to this boy." The little boy raised up normal and well, just as normal as he could be, without a broken place on his body anywhere. I told that story right here in this--at this Tabernacle. How many remembers me saying that before I left here--'fore I left to go over there, that that would come to pass? See? And then it did.
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I don't have time to finish it. One little incident just before I close, 'cause it's getting late. I don't want to take too much of your time; I want to pray for you. And after that got scattered, I tell you, the next night, two or three city blocks, you couldn't even get around the place for the people. They had the soldiers out there, when that was noised abroad. Tomorrow night I'll get the results of the other little boy that was taken to the hospital. But this... I never forget that night when they was trying to take me into the line. Those Finns had seen God moving; that was all... Oh, they were just thrilled. I started in the line; there's some soldiers pushing me, two in front and two in the back, and the people standing there. They were just standing like that, and the tears just rolled down their cheeks when you'd pass by. Oh, my.
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Oh, Christian American, I wonder some times. Then them
standing there, some of them Russians that could cross the line; when you're born in Russia you can only go forty miles from your birthplace or you have a visa. And some of those Russians stand there; they'd stand there, and they'd see the glory of God. And the tears just roll down their cheeks like that, and they'd run to those Finns, and those Finns would put their arms around the Russians and hug one another. There's the answer. Any power of Almighty God that'll let a--a--a Russian hug a Finn, or a Finn hug a Russian... See, they wasn't angry at one another; they didn't have to... They wasn't angry; they loved one another. And Christ is the answer now. Let people quit their meanness and serve Christ. But they'll never do it, as long as this kingdoms are the kingdoms of Satan. They'll never be; they'll fight until Jesus comes. Don't you believe that?
What's the matter? Is the little boy, or child got sick or something up there, you're taking him out? I seen them leaving with the little boy; I thought maybe he'd gotten sick or something. All right. Notice, going in that night, they were pushing me along and one of the--the people... I started through a little old room there, and the-the door of the ladies rest room opened. And a poor little Finn stepped out there, a little girl. I never seen such a looking sight. And she looked at me; she bowed her little head like that; I just stood still. And the soldier started to push me on; I shook my head no. See? The other two went on, two in front of me, was going to open the door. And I knew she wanted to talk to me.
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I looked at her, she had a big brace around her like this, a big metal brace. And one leg was shorter than the other, and it was limp, just hanging loose on the inside of her brace as it run down on a big high built shoe that had a--a place in the toe here that come up, a strap went over her shoulder and hooked in the back of this big brace. And when this leg was, here, when she would let her weight down, it would hit on this brace (You see?), and she had two crutches. And she'd set her crutches out like this; and she'd throw her little shoulder; and that would pull that limb out; and she'd make her step like that as she pulled out. She was just about this high. And the poor little dear, her little skirt ragged. And I found out later on she was a little war orphan; her mother and dad was killed in the war. And there she was in that condition. And she looked at me, and--and she bowed her little head. She thought she'd done something wrong when she come out like that. And she looked up at me so pathetic and dropped her little head. I--I motioned to her.
And they give me some of that old money they had, and all-after they'd all get in the auditorium, I'd slip out and--and get that candy, you know, and give to them little kiddies. And I had a string of them as long--city block long following me. And the little things, little girls, they'd pull their little skirts out like this and say, "Kiitos," Thank you, you know. "Kiitos" means "thank you." And they'd pull their little skirts out like that and thank me, you know, for the candy. And I'd go on down and see another bunch. I had a lot of that old money, you know, I just would give it all I could do. I just love little old kiddies any how, I wallow them. And so then, I for--never forget this; she come over to me, putting her little crutches out like this, and she'd walk, and she'd put her little crutches out and walk again. And she got right up to where I was, like that. I just thought I'd just stand still and see what she was going to do. Child like, about ten, eleven years old. And she got up to where I was, and she picked up my coat like this, just put it in her little hand, raised it up and kissed me on the coat pocket, dropped it back down. I looked up at her, or she looked up at me, rather, and I looked down to her; and she had little blond hair and them little baby blue eyes. She looked up, and her little lips was quivering, the tears dropping off of her little cheeks. She pulled her little crutches out like this and caught her little skirt, she said, "Kiitos," "thank you for letting her..." Oh, my, looked like my heart was bigger than I was. I looked out there, and I saw a vision of that child going walking away without her crutches...?... I said, "Darling, I can't make you understand me," I said, "you're healed, honey, Jesus makes you..." And that soldier kept pushing me on like that, you know. And I got on in; and they had our meeting.
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And then I called out the bunch of prayer cards, and--and we was praying, and--and--and getting the people through the line. And after while, Howard, my brother, he come, said, "Time to leave." And I said, "Well, let's call just four or five more." And so then there been such a marvelous thing done; so many had been healed. And the--and God was sovereign. When I called for the next number in line, I heard something rattle, and she had the next prayer card, coming to the platform. Oh, what a feeling. There she come. And I said, "Sister Isaacson, come near, just quote my words now." And so the little girl come up to me, just so happy, you know, I said, "Sweetheart, you're the little girl that met me out there in the hall." And Mrs. Isaacson, of course, talking, you know, giving the interpretation. She... And she knew who it was. I said, "Jesus healed you, honey. Your respect for His Son out there, and for His servant, and for the Angel of the Lord," I said, "your deep reverence and
respect healed you, honey." I said, "You're well. Now, you have some of them to go over there and take those braces off of you. And when you're taking that off, hold your hands on your hip disk, and as you pull the braces off, let your little hand slide just about the distance that your leg is short, come back and show me."
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So I went on called the next one, and it was stand there, and the Angel of the Lord came down, was showing them what was wrong. And then, just about that time, I heard a noise, and I looked, and here she come running across the platform, the braces and crutches above her head, stomping her little feet, up the steps, and they all looked at her, and she went back down just as hard as she could go. Oh, I think
Amazing Grace! how sweet the sound, That saved a wretch like me! I once was lost, but now am 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! AT.THY.WORD_ NEW.YORK.NY FRIDAY_ 51-0928
Let's bow our heads. Heavenly Father, some glorious day when life is finished, the last prayer meeting is held, the great day comes when the Church rises in victory and triumph, goes up to meet the Lord in the air. And when we crown Him the King of kings and the Lord of lords, O God, I like to walk out on my little porch door somewhere up there, look coming up the road and see them, Lord, coming to set around the porch. We get each other by the hand and walk down by the Sea of Life; no hurry. There's no more prayer meeting; you don't have to rush from here to there. Cause over these thousands of dear people, Lord, that's received Thy grace and been healed. Now, Father, as I think of that poor little ragged thing, walking the streets with her crutches, no doubt many time her little dirty hands wringing, and her eyes crying for a piece of bread. And here we throw plenty out in the garbage can that would take care of her. Oh have mercy, dear God. Some glorious day Jesus will come.
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We're just about to go into the dark lands down yonder, beneath the earth, where them lepers will be setting at the gates, and poor little dark children living off of fat of animals, and whatever
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they can get. Help, dear Father. And now, tonight here in this great mammoth city where the wealth of the world almost lays, towering buildings like great canyons, as you walk through the streets. But someday, up through the we'll see the Son of God walk out there and say, "Time shall be no more." Then the earthquake, and there won't be one stone left upon another. Oh, to think, Lord, that we'll go home, then it's all over, that glorious event. But while we're here tonight, proclaiming, in our humble way, the best that we know how, the redeeming love of Christ Who came from glory all the way down here, gave Himself, an innocent substitute for we guilty sinners... And His Blood tonight pleads for our sins, "Father, forgive them; they know not what they do."
Lord, look tonight upon this sick bunch of people, some of them are here with cancer, heart trouble, and diseases that's going to kill them right away. They can't live, Lord, 'less You help them. Doctors has give them up. O God, have mercy and heal them. Also there are the crippled setting here, they may live a normal lifetime, Lord, but they're prisoners. Help them to receive tonight, that they may be healed too. And may that worst prisoner there is in the building, that sinner, far off, prisoner of...?... Like an eagle that would beat his wings till his weary eyes would fall back in the cage, he's captured. He's a heavenly bird, soars high in the air, and here he is caged up, looking up to the heavens, to where he once could be and be free. Then to see him fall back exhausted from beating his wings. That's a horrible sight, but, oh, what a much greater horrible sight it is to look down these streets tonight and see men and women who are created to be sons and daughters of God, to see them running into booze joints and honky-tonks, beating their head and wings against the bars, trying to find relief, when they ought to be soaring into heaven by the Holy Spirit. Oh, what prisoners, Lord. May something be done tonight that'll cause them to look up and say, "Lord Jesus, unlock this prison; let me spread forth my wings, fly away from this place." Grant it, Lord.
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May every person in here that's bound by sense-bound existence, only trusting on what they can see, hear, taste, feel, or smell; may they fall away from that tonight, go up into the realms of
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the higher. And may this church literally rock with the power of God. [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] Now, [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] Send the Holy Spirit, may every Angel that You've ordained to be at this meeting tonight take His place now, standing by the sick and the afflicted, by the sinner, by the skeptic. Lord, send the Angel that stood by Thy servant, [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] and proclaim these things that I've spoken to be true. That they'll know it don't come from a man, it comes from God. Hear me, Father, hear me. For I ask it in the Name of Your Son, Jesus Christ. Amen.
What He is, my friend, if He turns me down at that day and tells me, says, "William Branham, you can't come in." And if there is such a thing as having this, and I have to go away to the lower regions of the lost, I--I--I believe that that love that's anchored in my heart will live on, and I'll look up and say, "I love You, Lord Jesus," just the same. For if there was no heaven to go to, I'd still make my choice to serve the Lord Jesus. For even what remunerations there is here on earth from His blessings, I still long to serve Him. I want everybody to be reverent; I want you enter right in now to the spiritual realm. I want you to believe, and pray, and hold with me now while I'm here. This is a church house; the meetings are to raise up into a place now to where it be far beyond the other place. And you people up there, you pray, up there in that audience. Believe God; believe that God will move up into them balconies up there tonight, and back in there, and down through this a way, over the audience everywhere, and just enshroud this building. I believe He will do it; I believe He will.
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Now, here He's more willing to do it, than you are to receive it. See? Could you imagine Brother Bosworth expressing to this ocean out here piled up in one tube about two foot high, or two foot across? What a pressure there would be trying to find one little crevice to leak through. Now, divide that by ten thousand times, and you'll find the pressure of the Holy Spirit, trying to find that little crevice in the heart, that true faith can leak into there and to heal you. How to glorify the Father for the death of the Son of God... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] and I'll give you...?... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] And don't just--don't say it, mean it (See?), and then start praying. Now, that's your--that's your testimony. Then start praying until the
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appropriated faith has entered your heart. And when your--when the faith has entered into your heart, then God will pull me from here to you. And if I told you out there, your conditions, and what was wrong with you, and what God had done, and what He would do, would you believe it? You'd have to if it was the truth, wouldn't you?
Then if the Holy Spirit come down and told me to tell you... Well if I say, "Go on your road, the Lord bless you." I don't know what will happen, there's nothing happened. But when I speak to you saying, "The Lord Jesus hath now, THUS SAITH THE LORD, made you whole; you're healed." I don't care what condition you've been in, watch what happens then. And whatever you're told to do, go do it, no matter what it is, you go do it. Here a few days ago, a lady was told, she was in a dying condition, and--and horrible at that. And so she was... I said, "Now, you go," and told her what had happen; she was quivering; and she said, "Yes, yes, sir; yes, yes, sir." I said, "Look, now at about three days from now, you're going to be crossing the street, and a little newsboy is going to hit you and almost knock you down. You're going to be very provoked at it at first. And you're going to turn around excited, and you'll look up, and there's going to be a big clock in a tower striking twelve o'clock." I said, "When that happens, you know I've told you the truth and your cancer... You're going to have some time with it, but you're going to get well." And it was just exactly that way. See? The woman's well on her road to recovery now. Doctor can find no more of the cancer...?... So now, now, be reverent.
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Now, I can do nothing in myself, but it's what the Holy Spirit speaks, that can I do. How many understands that now? That can I do when the Holy Spirit says do it. Now, if the organist, pianist, or the organ, or whatever you wish, either one, I want you softly, if you can, that glorious song, "Only Believe." Paul Rader wrote that song. Not long ago in California when he was going home to meet Jesus, he called for his brother, Luke, he said, "Luke, we've been through many a tough fight together," but said, "parting time is near at hand, Luke." He said, "But think of it, in five minutes from now, I'll be standing in the presence of Jesus Christ
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clothed in His righteousness." Closed his eyes and went out to meet Him. That's the way I want to go. Let me die with the harness on me. Yes, sir. I want to go like--like one of the brethren of old, one of the gallant heroes of God, and die preaching the Gospel. I believe it; I've lived by it; I want to die by it. God be blessed now while we bow our head.
Dear Father, come near, I pray Thee. Help Thou Thy humble servant at this time, that I might know Thy Divine will and might be able to con--comfort Thy people. And may the Angel of God, Who met me that night in the room... Lord, He's never said His Name, but You know Who It was, He claimed He was sent from You. And now may He come near and minister to these people through Your humble servant. For I ask it in the Name of Thy Son Jesus. Amen. I'm just a little late; I always like to close a service by ten if possible. Now, if you be real reverent now, everybody be talking to God, praying, believing with all your heart, God will bring it to pass. Don't you believe that? Now, just reverently while I'm speaking with the sister. 'Course first, you've got to contact her spirit. See? She is a spirit; I am a spirit. Then we've got to contact each other. I want you back in here to believe with all your heart.
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Mother, this is sure a lovely tabernacle, isn't it? She's just a little bit nervous. You see? I just want to talk to you just a moment. Don't be excited. Now, we are--are strangers. I don't know you. I don't believe I ever seen you in all my life. But we are--we're strangers, and we--we're here trying to... I am trying to be God's servant, to do something with the gift of God that would help you to believe God. You understand that? Yes, you do. And if I can do that by God's Divine gift, I will feel then that much has been accomplished. Now, you're--you're suffering, or sick. And 'course Jesus healed you back nineteen hundred years ago. But it'll--it'll have to be something to quicken your faith to bring you up into that place to where you can accept it. Now, many read on the Bible here and say, "Yes, the Lord said this." Now, that's the Word of the Lord, isn't it? That's the Word of the Lord. Now, that is to the Master's multitude. It's God's Word, and we must believe that, 'cause it is God's Word. Then that's to the multitudes.
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Now, then if He should take me as His servant. And now, He never spoke this directly to you, but it's just the same as directly to
you. But He never said, "Mrs. So-and-so at a certain age and a certain time...?..." But then, He has a prophetic gift that He sent into to His Church in these last days to stimulate the faith of the people. Then if He should speak through me, that would be secondarily, but it would be His Word just the same. Now, to doubt this written Word would be sin, and to doubt His spoken Word would be sin. See? Now, you must be prepared, and all you in the prayer line, to believe. And if you do not believe, I'd just step out of the line, 'cause, be assure, you'd be worse off than you ever was in all your life. See? For He said, "Go in," what no more? That's disbelieve. Unbelief is sin, "Go and sin no more, lest a worst thing come upon you." He wasn't talking about some immoral act; He was talking about your unbelief. He that believeth not is condemned already. See? It's your unbelief is what condemns you. God don't send you to hell because you're a sinner; He sends you to hell because you reject your provision that's made for heaven. See? You just reject that... You don't have to do a thing to go to hell. Only thing you do is just reject Jesus, just fail to believe His Word, that's all you have to do. See, Satan's always put a question mark across that. But that is THUS SAITH THE LORD.
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There's... I guess you wonder why I'm stalling. See? I could feel that impact of faith moving. Just be reverent, as it's getting near me. Now, the Angel of the Lord is coming near this platform right now; I can feel It moving down. It's coming from this side here, right this a way, right down this a way. Now, be reverent. I trust that before the services are closed He will appear visibly. Now, He will before certain people. Sometimes it's before masses and multitudes, but you remember, the--the wise men, what did they see when... and they followed to Jesus? Nobody else saw it. It passed right over the observatory, every planetarium, is that right? And every city had a planetarium. They kept time by the stars, is that right? And isn't it strange that them wise men went right through city after city, city after city, following a star that even the star gazers and the men in the planetarium in telling the time and things, never saw nothing of it? They were looking for it; that's where it's at. You get what you expect.
Now, little mother, I just want to speak to you just a second now again. You're aware that something's going on; that's just the anointing (See?) that's just moving along. Now, this audience, that they might see... And a woman of your age would have no right to say anything wrong but what would be true. Now, there's a feeling that's moving to you now, warm, welcome, sweet...?... isn't that right? If it is raise up your hand? Now, see, the--the Angel of the Lord is at the platform now. And your faith is begin to pull Him this a way. That's a little bit hard, because the audience feels this impact, setting
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right against me this way, moving down with faith up there, and moving (You see?), which is causing a little interference; but that-that's all right. See, it's--it's just like a radio dial; it's just everywhere, that... You are--you're--you're suffering with some kind of a... It's in the lower organs. I see an examination of something going on there. It's in the bladder, isn't it? It's the bladder. It's a--it's a cancer, mother, on the bladder. You have other ailments too, don't you? Heart trouble and... Isn't that right? Smother a whole lot. I see you trying to get your breath, catching like, but you do that much, don't you? Wearing kind of a light checkered looking dress when you was doing that...?... All right.
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You--you're--you're a stranger here, be--you're not from this-this place, are you? You come from Pennsylvania, didn't you? Uh-huh, uh-huh. A little city, lot of trees and things around. Isn't that true? Mother, come here just a moment. Dear heavenly Father, I pray Thee to be merciful to our dear sister, to heal her of this hideous demon that's trying to take her life. May it leave her and never return. And may this great pressure against her poor heart... Grant, Lord, that she'll have many more happy days. Satan, in the Name of Jesus Christ the Son of God, come out from the woman. We curse thee as Christian believers, in the Name of the Lord Jesus, that you depart from this woman, go into outer darkness, and bother her no more. Now, just a moment. Yes, mother dear, it has left you now. You go back to Pennsylvania and you rejoice. I see a another in the city you're from begins, starts with a P too, doesn't it? Now...?... can go now and...?... healed. God bless you. Let us say, "Praise be to God" through our Lord Jesus Christ, Who gives us the victory now. We have now... There is therefore, now no condemnation to them that are in Christ Jesus, who have believed this report, and we are in Christ Jesus, and therefore there's no condemnation. God is working. All right, everyone real reverent.
And, yes, the man sets, sitting there in a chair. Everyone bow your head. Almighty God, Author of Life, Giver of every good gift, send Thy blessings upon this our brother. Satan done this evil to him, and wanting to cause him to be hurt. But Thou art here Lord, to make him every whit whole. Grant, Lord, that this spirit that binds him, may it leave him, may it come out. Give Thy servant faith over him. Thou demon of deafness, that's deafening the ears of this man, I come in the challenge of faith in the Name of Jesus Christ; you can't hold this man any longer, come out of him in the Name of the Lord Jesus. Can you hear me? Can you hear me now? Can you hear me now?
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Now, brother, you're perfect. All right, raise your heads. The man's perfect. Do you hear me? [The man says, "Yes."--Ed.] Say, "Amen." [The man says, "Amen."--Ed.] I love Jesus. ["I love Jesus."] Glory to God. ["Glory to God."] Now, what, I say--whisper, then you say it out loud. Amen, amen. You say it out loud what I whisper to you. [The brother repeats everything Brother Branham says--Ed.] Amen. Praise the Lord. I love Jesus. Praise the Lord. Jesus loves me. He does that...?... Let's say, "Praise the Lord," like this, everybody give God praise.
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The Bible said, "And all the people give glory to God." Marvelous, the man's in perfect condition, perfectly. Many times you notice in deaf people, it--it's a challenge. They can't hear, and you have to it with predominating faith, go in there. See, you enter into another line of--of... Well, there's no need of trying to explain it, because you--you--you can't do it. You see? It's in a flow, another world. Just believe; that's all. Have faith in God; God will grant it to you. All right, come, lady. Everyone real reverent. Look here: what's causes deafness? See? There's several things can do it. But you know, if you go to the doctor, and he'd examine your ears, he'd say, "Now, here, the," for instance, he says, "the--the nerve in the eardrum is dead." "Well, doctor, what killed the nerve?" "I don't know. The only thing I know is what I can see. But I know the nerve itself is dead in the eardrum." "Well, what killed the nerve?" "I don't know."
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Why didn't it kill it all over its body. Like if there a transparent band around my hand and you couldn't see it, my hand would turn black and blue and swell up. Well, the doctor might come and say, "Now, the circulation stopped in here." "Well, what stopped it?" If it's transparent and can't see it, it's, "I don't know." He can't feel it. That's the only thing that anyone can work on, is what you can see or--or feel, of some of the senses will declare. Well, now, here's what it is: It's the devil. Now, Jesus said it was. And you believe Him? Speaking in the Bible terms, He said, "When the deaf spirit come out of the man, he could hear." The deaf spirit... And if the doctor can't tell why that nerve is dead, why, it's a demon setting there, it's cut off the hearing of that ear. Now, if I wanted my hand to receive life again, is to loose this transparent band here, circulation. If nature's not hindered, why, it'll function all right. Is that right? Well, that transparent band has got everything cut off and so nature can't function. Move the band, it
won't... Might not be well right then, but it'll get well; give it a chance. And if the devil is gone out, the man can hear. That nerve becomes active again. See? And the Bible said it was a spirit. When the deaf and dumb spirit went out of the man, he could speak and hear. Is that right? All right.
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How do you do, sister? Now, I want... Which one of these is tape, this? This one? All right. Sorry I didn't see you, as I was talking. And I didn't know that you was the one to come up. Now, we are--we are strangers also, aren't we? I do not know you. But you're a little excited just now. I'm not reading your mind, but there's, everything's running through you; you're wondering. Now, you're--you're Christian. But now, I want you just to try to be just as, just looking, just try to let every nerve settle; for I am here by God's grace to help you to get well. And, of course, I see you're wearing glasses, and that's--that's one thing that's wrong with you. 'Course the audience sees you got glasses on. But they in just a few moments maybe the Holy Spirit will speak to me and tell me something concerning you. And I'll talk to you just a little while, perhaps maybe in talking to people... Now, you can't with everyone, 'cause it's something that breaks through. I mentioned glasses just a few moments ago, and I felt that. You know, even a little thing like that, the Holy Spirit so sensitive, It'll move back. There's something there that's wrong though; I can see that now. But I can't tell just what it is. And but God does know what--what it is.
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And now He is able to reveal it to me, if He will. And then if I talk to you a little while and just kinda catch the feeling of your spirit, then whatever's wrong, God will show me what is wrong. And you-you believe that don't you, sister? Yes. Your--your trouble is in your stomach. Isn't that right? Yes, sir. It's a stomach trouble that's bothering you. And I see a lump; oh, it's a tumor. Say, that tumor's in your stomach; that's where the trouble's at. It's a tumor in the stomach. Is that true? Yes, sir. Say, don't you have a, some kind of a diabetic condition too...?... That's right, you do. Say, I see you some time ago you were healed of the blood disease. And I seen that blood change back. I see a big meeting; you were rejoicing, happy. You were at a meeting where there was many people; I see lot's of people, but it must have been years ago, you look younger in there. It was the night you received the Holy Ghost. You're... Sometime ago. Is that true? All right, then you may go off the platform now well. Jesus Christ makes you...?... whole. Everyone say, "Praise the Lord." I appreciate that, audience when it goes in; I couldn't tell what it was; the people were screaming and
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Now, the lady is going to get well. She's going to be all right. She's going to be sick after a bit. In about seventy-two hours she'll get awfully sick, maybe vomit awhile. But don't worry; she'll vomit up that growth that's in her stomach, and she'll--she'll be all right. just have faith now. What do you think up there in the audience, do--do you believe that with all your heart. All of you having faith? All right. Just don't fear, only believe, and God will bring it to pass. Whatever you desire in your heart, believe. When you pray, believe you receive it, and you shall have it. Is that what Jesus said? "Whatsoever things you desire, when you pray, believe you receive it, and you shall have it." You believe it up here? Well, all right. Come, lady. [Blank.spot.on.tape-E-55
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...?... He is the Lily of the Valley, the Morning Star, the Root and Offspring of David. See, He's both the Root and Offspring of David (See?), He that was, which is, and shall come, the Alpha, Omega (that's A and Z), beginning and the end, He that was dead and is alive forever more. He's just got so many titles till we just call Him Jesus, shouldn't we. That's all He is. And He is the Son of God. And He died one day for you and I and the sins of this world. And His Blood was shed on Calvary. And that holy, unadulterated Blood... Mary knew nothing about any man. God, Jehovah moved over Mary and created a Blood cell in her womb, that brought forth the Son of God. You believe that? Then He shed that Blood, which every baby is the blood of its father, not of its mother, of its father. The blood cell comes from the male sex. And that had to be in that case, 'cause God is--is the Father of Jesus Christ, and His Blood is holy, unadulterated Blood, and He offered back to God in the--in the place of our sinful blood. Born in sin by our confession, God transformed all of our sins on Him, and He paid the price, and we're free. Isn't that wonderful? And to think, just as sure as God raised Him out of the grave, setting at His right-hand tonight, making intercessions upon our confessions, that same God has promised. He swore by this covenant, that we that are in Christ Jesus, born into that Body, shall come forth in that Body...?... to be His Bride. And as God taken from Adam a rib and made Eve out of it, He taken from the side of Christ and made the Church out of it. And we together will walk in the paradise of God someday. Won't that be wonderful? And you won't have stomach trouble there, and you haven't got it any more now. Go eat what you want you; you had ulcers in the stomach, and they're gone. Eat anything you want to,
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All right, come. Oh, what a glorious feeling, moving from that audience now, such a marvelous faith. Looks like that just anything could happen. Just looky here, friends, how--how would we have to have a few dozen come up here in the prayer line? It shouldn't be. If one person, if it's proven to be the truth, then that settles it. And now, God wouldn't let me tell you part truth and not the rest of it truth. He wouldn't stand for that. God is all truth. And remember, I tell you; the same God that's--that's here, revealing this, this is by a spiritual gift that He has given to me to vindicate His Presence with you all. And just as He is willing to heal here, He's willing to... That's His attitude toward every one of you, every one of you. He's just as willing... He never died just for this person, or that person, or that person, He died for all of you. Praise be to God. He died to make all of you well. And in His attitude is just as dear to you, isn't just the same to you, He loves you just as much as He does that colored sister that was just healed just now of the stomach trouble. He loves you just as much as He did Congressman Upshaw, there that had been crippled for sixty-six years in the field. He loves you just as much as Florence Nightingale who on that cancer over her stomach, and was gone to probably thirty pounds of weight, or thirty-five. And now weighs one hundred and fifty-five or sixty pounds. His attitude towards you with cancer is just the same as her. If God can heal one person here with cancer, He can heal every one of you with cancer. And He has healed every one of you that's got cancer. The only thing you have to do is just accept it. And I am just His servant here in a vindication that He, through His grace, might come down on me, and speak through this channel, and to--to vindicate His Presence with you. He isn't dead. He isn't in the grave; neither is He on the cross. But He's with you, even in you, and will be until the end of the age. See? Now, that is true. "And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free" (See?), if you know the truth. Now, that is the truth, if I speak these things.
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Here stands a woman; I don't know you; I never seen you in my life, know nothing of you. Well, then, you just got a prayer card out there, and was called in the line and here you stand. Is that right? Now, if there's anything... If I can tell you what is the disease that you have in your body, then that ought to prove to this audience that it's the truth come from God. Is that right? Now, if looking this a way out in this audience, if God will reveal to me what's wrong with this lady here, will you believe it? And will you accept it? For you would know that He's the High Priest of your confession, that He's at the right-hand of Father to make intercession for anything that you
confess He's done; it's all yours. The checkbook's in your hand. Everything that heaven owns is yours, you got a checkbook. The only thing you have to do is say, "I believe it; I'll sign my name to it; it's mine." Go right on out believing it, testifying of it, and you'll get well. See? Amen.
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I say that once in a while to kindly make myself a little stronger so I can go longer. All right, sister, if God will reveal to me what's wrong with you, and just tell me here... You know His Presence is close enough to make you well. Is that right? All right, what about your kidney trouble you had? All right, go off the platform and be well now...?... Let's say, "Praise be to God." Now, believe, don't doubt. Now, her only weakness there, is from the Holy Spirit standing there. You seen it how it was wrapping her up. That's the reason I know as soon as I looked at her again I knowed what was wrong with her. See? 'Cause her faith was moving right in (You see?); I could feel it pulling from me. I was getting weaker and weaker. She was healed of that while she was standing here. You see? I knew what she had. Do you believe? Up in the audience there, you believe? That's fine, God bless you. You out in here believe? Oh, how wonderful. And up in here? All right, that's wonderful, all right.
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Now, here's another lady; I don't know her. But she's a Christian. And she has faith. She's a believer, and God can reveal to me what's wrong with the woman. If He can reveal what's wrong with this woman, He could reveal what's wrong with that woman, or that person, or this one here, or that one up there, or over here, wherever. Is that right? It's wherever you set your mind and watch, it would take place. You believe that? Then have faith. Look here, sister; you believe me as God's prophet? You do? What if I told you that tumor would pass from you, would you believe it? All right, go, and believe it, and you shall receive it...?... Let's say, "Praise be to God." Now, you don't have to have a prayer card; the only thing you have to have is faith. You believe that, mother? With all your heart? You had heart trouble, didn't you? All right, stand on your feet, Jesus Christ has healed back by standing (That's right.), the lady with the black hat. That's right. Receive your healing, sister, and it's over now, you can go. Go home, be well. Thank you. Amen. Have faith in God.
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Oh, how I love Him, oh, how wonderful. I wish you could feel that--that glorious feeling here. Not only is the Angel of the Lord here tonight, but the Holy Spirit's here. For the Angel of Lord, it seems to me is kind of settle. But the Holy Spirit makes the people rejoice and
happy (You see?), and that's what does it. Oh, how wonderful. His ways are past finding out, aren't they? He lives, He lives, I know He lives. He lives within my heart. How do you do, sister? You're type of person that's once believing, you believe. Kind of hard for you to see it. You do a lot of worrying about things, cross bridges before you get to them, build castles that never come to pass; 'cause that's your nature. But if you will believe me as God's prophet, you do? All right, the diabetes will leave you and you can go home and be well. Can you believe that? Go ahead, and you have believed; you can receive. God bless you in the Name of the Lord. Let's say, "Praise be to God."
Now, before I look at this woman I can tell there's something tearing at her right now. That woman's got something seriously wrong. How do you do, sister? What'd I tell you? It's death. Now, watch. I'm not sure, just a moment. Cancer too. Now, everyone reverent and bow your head. Almighty God, Author of Life, Giver of every good gift, send Thy blessings upon this poor mortal, knowing that she can't stay here much longer unless You help her. Free her, Lord, give her her days of freedom yet, that she dies not. But may the Spirit of God come upon her, and help her, and bless her. Satan, in the Name of the Lord Jesus, I ask that you come from this woman, come out of her, I adjure thee to go in the Name of Jesus Christ, come out of her.
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Hear me now? You're all right now? There you are. You okay now? Now, you had cancer too, didn't you? You're go off the platform rejoicing and be made well; you had your hearing and your healing, go. Let's give God praise, everybody, let's give God praise. The woman had been under surgery, and everything came that, but it's... But if--if she'll just only has faith now, it'll leave her and be gone. It's--it's gone now, just keep her away from unbelievers and things. Doctors has told her there's no hope at all; they give her up. Oh, she's--she was deaf, but now she hears. Oh, my, just as sure as the deaf spirit went from her, the cancer life went from her, and she's going to live. Because Christ lives in her place to make intercession for her at the right-hand of the Father, God Almighty.
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All right, come, lady. Believest thou this, with all your heart? There's where your trouble's at, was in your heart;, you had heart trouble. Is that right? I want you to put your hand on mine; I want you to say, "Lord Jesus, I accept You as my Healer for heart trouble right now." In the Name of Jesus Christ receive your blessing. Now,
go back home in Georgia and say, "Praise the Lord." Say, sir, you had the same thing, didn't you? Yes, sir. Go on off the platform, you got well standing there...?... Let's say, "Praise the Lord." God is here; He's omnipotent, the Healer of every disease, the Alpha, Omega, the beginning and the end. Every once in a while I keep seeing the Spirit of God hanging over a lady over there with a red dress on, setting right down there. I don't know what it is, but there's--she's either been blessed, or healed, or something; it's the lady setting there with the red dress on. It keeps moving out, and it hangs over her. I don't know what it is. All right. Are you--are you a Christian, lady? [Someone says, "She was healed in one of the previous meetings, night before last."--Ed.] Oh, was you... You been healed? Well, that's what it is. Amen.
I don't remember, these things. They tell me what happens in the meetings. It seems to me like I dreamed it or something. And right now, if this audience could only know how I felt; my hands feel a bit larger, my lips feel thick. And when that Spirit comes down, I just have to listen to myself to see what I'm saying. It isn't... He just takes a hold of the subject. You see? It does the talking, not me; I have nothing to do with it. All right, be reverent everyone. Believe with all your heart, God will bring it to pass, always. How do you do, sister? My, I believe you're a nice little mother. You have a wonderful feeling to your spirit, moving, seems to be so welcome. If--it's been suffering for quite a bit though. Had an old trouble that's bothered you a long time. You know what I'm speaking of. And you've also got a tumor; you been bothered with heart trouble. But Jesus makes you whole right where you stand. You're-you're expecting of it, is what does the work for you. You're healed, go on off the platform rejoicing. Just a little still faith, just--just enough to... She was under a kind of a influence; she'd didn't know what was taking place all at once, but that's the reason I didn't talk to her no more than what I did. There's lot's more to her life, but I'm sure she understands. Jesus told the woman at the well... Just let's give God praise, she's just coming out of it now, to know what's all of it... Let's say, "Praise the Lord." How wonderful. All right, everybody reverent.
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And come, sister. Good evening. He's certainly wonderful, isn't He? To think that He would come down here and do these things for us, and bring Hisself present. See, I--I--I can do nothing of myself. I'm just His servant. See? And if I would say that I would do that, I'd be telling something wasn't true. For I--I cannot do that; I have no control of it. I do not control It; It controls me. See? It's the One Who leads me and tells me. Now, we are strangers, I believe. All through your life you've had a
hunger, haven't you? And now, here in these days that you're coming to now... Yes, I see something coming before me; it's a... Oh, yes, you have a stomach trouble, don't you? Isn't that right? You've never served God like you wanted to; you've never entered into that place that you've hungered and thirst for. Isn't that right? Right. Do you want to receive Him? May the Lord Jesus heal you and fill you with His Spirit until your heart is bubbling over with His grace. In the Name of Jesus Christ I ask it. Amen. Go now and receive, sister, in the Name of Jesus Christ. Let's say, "Praise the Lord." Have faith in God. It's such a pull, a blast right out through here. Now, I honestly, my dear brother, sister, if you would just enter into that other--that other dimension now, enter that realm... Just don't think about what, how sick you are; if you'll just move on up in here to God, where you can touch Him, something's going to happen in a few minutes, if you'll just get up there (See?), and believe now, have faith. Believe with all your hearts. God is here to bring it to pass.
There's somebody right in there keeps pulling on something, right in that way. I can't place where it's at, but my attention just keeps pulling up into that--that sphere right up in there. It's somebody praying. There's so much between me; I can't locate who you are. Have faith. Now, when I said that, it changes and comes over on this side. Here it is pulling from here. Believe. Do you? What if the Holy Spirit was here to just tell you what was wrong with you, mother, would you believe it? All right. Your heart trouble's gone. Your female's gone. And you can go...?... Let's say, "Praise be to God." Just childlike simplicity. Look, live, and believe.
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Just have faith now. Believe that God is, and a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him. You believe that? With all your heart? All right. Oh, I see right now, it's in her ears; she's--deaf spirit on her. Almighty God, Author of Life and Giver of every good gift, send Thy blessings upon this woman and heal her. Thou art here, Lord, and this devil knows that his time has come. To this woman entering into this sphere of faith here, he knows that he's got to lose; he can't hold her any longer. Thou, deaf spirit, come out of her. In the Name of Jesus Christ I charge thee to leave the woman. Can you hear me? Do you hear me? This was in the ear that's been deaf all that time. Do you hear me? Say, "Amen." [Sister repeats.--Ed.] I love the Lord. Praise the Lord. Jesus loves me. Amen. You are healed, sister, go on your road and rejoice. Let's say, "Praise be to God." How marvelous. Have faith.
You with your hand up, what do you think about Him? You want me to say something to you, didn't you? I'm not reading your mind. You believe me as His prophet? There's something wrong with you. Been wrong a long time, hasn't it? You got migraine headaches. Isn't that right? Stand up on your feet and receive your healing in the Name of the Lord Jesus. Let's say, "Praise be to God." Have faith in God. Don't doubt. Only believe. What are you setting there, colored lady, with your hand up? Do you believe I am God's prophet, that He sent me to help you? Do you believe that I will be able by God to know what's wrong with you? You've had a misunderstood life, haven't you? Many times, many heartaches and trials you've went through. I see something, dark streak hanging down a long road behind you. But you've changed now, you're suffering with a stomach trouble, aren't you? Isn't that right? Stand up on your feet and receive your healing in the Name of the Lord Jesus and be made well. Let's say, "Praise be to God." Way back there, setting there with that yellow looking... Yes, you kept looking this way so sincerely. You were praying a few moments ago; I noticed you. I felt something pull me. I don't know what's wrong with you yet, but God is able to reveal to me and tell me what is wrong with you. Do you believe that? Would you stand up just a minute? So you get a...?... The lady's trying to pull. Just a moment till I can get you just above the rest. Do you believe me as His prophet? You believe that what I said is the truth? Your faith, you believe in God the Father, the Son, the Holy Spirit? You believe in that? And you believe in me as His prophet, is that right? It's a blood condition; you're anemia. Is that right? Raise up your hand; receive your healing in the Name of the Lord Jesus. Amen. Let's praise God.
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There sets another lady setting by you there, with a pink looking hat on, setting there praying. You believe, lady? You do? You believe me to be His prophet? You accept it the same way, you believe that I'll be able to tell you what's wrong with you, and you'll believe the Presence of God is here and my testimony that Jesus Christ healed you nineteen hundred years ago, is made visible to you now, do you believe that? [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] Nervous condition, isn't that right? You think you're losing your mind and everything. See? You just... The devil beating you around the stump every way, is that right? Go home in the Name of the Lord Jesus and receive your healing for He has made you well. Let's say, "Praise be to God." You believe Him? Here sets a poor woman setting here, her hands wiggling around in the air, a young looking girl. Yes, there's something strange about that woman. I feel now a real strange spirit moving from her. It's
right down here by this end; it's a young looking woman. It's something that's beating me right now, just as hard; it's like a dark breath coming this a way. It's horrible looking. Oh, it's a epilepsy. This lady setting on the end here is a sufferer of epilepsy. Is that right, lady? If it is, stand up on your feet. The Lord Jesus Christ bless you, lady, and take those things from you.
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Hallelujah, you believe? Lady, you believe? All right, you can go home and not have ulcer any more, you can go home, be made well in the Name of Jesus. Do you believe out there? All right, here He is, do you want [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]... on your feet then, put your hands on one another, that polio victim, that you... Now, receive your healing. Almighty God, in the Name of Your Son, Jesus, may the Spirit of God fall just now and heal every person in this building, in the Name of Jesus Christ. Come out, Satan.
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Thank you, Brother Baxter, thank you much. Good evening friends. I'm happy to be out here again this evening to represent our Lord Jesus Christ and His great power to save and to heal to the uttermost. The brethren was just telling me that this microphone wasn't too good tonight. And can you hear me way back in the back? Way up high? Can, if you can raise your hand, so I can hear that, know that way back... That's fine; that's fine. I'm a little tired tonight, I was up until about two o'clock this morning, and the Lord... I got something that's on my mind, and He... I stayed right up and prayed until He sent His great power around and revealed it to me what it was. And it just turned today just the way He said it would be. And how thankful we are for that.
Now, I think tomorrow afternoon we was telling I was to speak here at the auditorium, so I--I hope and trust that you'll be praying for me. And I pray constantly for you all. We just got one more day, and then we must go many thousand miles away. But I trust that by God's grace, that we shall return safely, and be able to have someday, the type of meeting here in New York, that I would like to see: one that would just go on and on and on, until...
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People many times, when they're in the service, I'm never am around, and--and Satan takes advantage of that. Seeing it being three or four days, and it's sometimes more than that before the really, the blessing begins to take place in the individual. Then when-when Satan returns about that time, the unclean spirit that's gone out of the man, and then he tries to tempt the person again, and many times they'll give right in. And when they do, then it's over. See, if the meeting was going on, they could come back. And they could see what was taking place, and just stay till the meeting, really got settled out, you'd see tens of thousands healed, I--I believe, if we could just stay long enough.
Now, have faith. And I'll say this: that after I'm gone, well, you'll--you'll find out, there's many people that's healed in the audience already, that's, maybe they don't realize it at this time, but I--I know it is true. Now, I wish to read some of the Scripture, for my word is like any other man's; it will fail. But God's Word won't. I just noticed my good friend and brother, Brother Raymond T. Richey. I guess he's already been introduced and--and... But here I certainly have a warm Christian love for Brother Richey. He was at the auditorium the night that the Angel of the Lord's picture was taken. He was standing present at the time of the discussion when this minister came out, tried to call me a Divine healer. I told him I was no Divine healer; there's no man that's a Divine healer. No one can heal at all but God. And doctors, they don't heal; they just assist nature. They don't claim to heal, they can sew a place up, but they can't heal it. They might set a bone, but they can't heal it. And it takes God; He's the Healer. He said, "I'm the Lord that heals all your diseases." For all diseases has to be determined by God.
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Now, we're thankful for doctors, and so forth, who can give us medical aid, and set bones, pull teeth, and--and--and so forth, but them's all--all right. That's... Doctors are God's servants to the people, and they help people. In the hospitals and institutions, we're very thankful to have them. And I have nothing against them; the only thing I do is pray that God will continue to help them. For anything that'll help bless, or do anything to help people, I'm for it. And I know God is with any movement that's trying to help people. That's what we're--we should do always, is try to do something to help somebody else. After all, that's the Christian attitude towards things.
This is a great heavy burden that no one knows nothing about. That's just God and I alone. But when I do get to go to bed, what a
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wonderful privilege I have to kneel down before God and say, "Father, I've done the best that I know how today. I've done all that I know how to make life just a little more pleasant for people." And I'm sure that His blessings returns and returns and makes life a little more pleasant for me. If you want to do something for God, do something for His people. You want something good said about you, say something good about someone else. Bless someone else, and as you're blessing someone else, you're blessing God. For Jesus said, "Insomuch as you have done unto the least of these, My little ones, you have done it unto Me." So, we know that that is the truth. So, may the Lord Jesus bless us tonight now, as we read His Word.
And look, everyone now, we're here representing different denominations, Methodist, Baptist, Lutheran, Catholic all... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] types of church, but that doesn't mean that much to God, that church you belong to. It's the condition of your heart. That's what God looks at. It's not the denomination church; they're all all right...?... just working agreement like between men and so forth, and I come not representing any church. Oh, I represent the Church, the Church that every one of you represent. Them that are borned of Him are in the Kingdom of God, the Body of Christ. I've been in the Branham family for forty years; they never asked me to join their family. I was borned in the Branham family. And that's how you would come in the family of God. It's not by joining church; I have nothing against that; that's all right; and you should do that. But you're borned in the Church of God. That's your birth. And you become a child of God by being reborned again, regenerated, and become a new creature in Christ Jesus, then you are a son or daughter of God. Regardless of what denomination church you belong to.
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Now, in the book of II Kings, the 6th chapter... I just love to read this Word, and I'm... Brother Baxter was making an apology for taking up much of the time. I said, "Do not do that, Brother Baxter." For I was just standing behind the curtain listening to his marvelous message. Brother Baxter is a very much of a speaker. And I am very happy to have him in our party, to make up one of us. And Brother Bosworth here is one of the greatest teachers on Divine healing that I ever heard in my life, is Brother Bosworth. He's old, and he's--he--he don't--he won't--he will resent that. I was standing down at the Biltmore Hotel in Miami one night; he was just as gallant and standing strong and straight. And I looked at him; I admired him. I knowed that the battles that he had fought down through life's time, and I'm just following the path that he car-carved out in the wilderness. And I said, "Brother Bosworth, you're
seventy-three years old now, when were you your your best? Threw his shoulders back like Caleb of old, and said, "Right now," said, "I am right now." He said, "Brother Branham, you misunderstand me," he said, "I'm just a child in an old house." So that's the way he feels about it, and God has kept him that way, wonderful.
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Oh, if I... If Jesus tarries, and I can stay that long, let me be like that. That's right. Brother Richey here, how I could speak of him, of how down through the age when I was a little boy in school, he was out there preaching the Gospel and praying for the sick, when I was just a boy. Your mothers and dads listened to him preach the Gospel on Divine healing, both of them out of Zion, Illinois. Candidates are out from under the--the great teacher late Doctor Dowie. How Doctor Dowie in his death prophesied that I would come to that city forty years from the time that he died. Not knowing nothing about it, he died on one day, and I was borned on the next. And forty years to the day I entered the city, not knowing nothing about it. Oh, how God's great move is coming together; I hear the sound of abundance of rain.
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Now in the 6th chapter, and the 8th verse, listen closely. God never promised to bless my word, but He promised to bless His Word. And now, listen closely now, as we're duplicating the day. When this great man, Elisha who had a double portion of the Spirit of Elijah. There never was in the age, any two major prophets on the earth at one time. There were many minor prophets, but there were one major prophet. And Elijah was the prophet until Elisha came. Then when Elijah was taking off, a portion, double portion, of Elijah's Spirit, Elijah's Spirit came upon Elisha. See, always remember this, God takes His man off the earth, but never takes His Spirit. His Spirit comes right back down this a way. It come upon Elijah, went off of Elijah onto to Elisha, off of Elisha It come on John the Baptist, off of John the Baptist, and is predicted to come again in the last days, the same Spirit. See? It's God's Spirit.
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The Holy Spirit was upon the Church at Pentecost, come right down through the age, and right on down through the age to the Lutheran, Baptist, Methodist, and on down through, on into this age here. It's still the same Holy Spirit. When people's faith get up into a place they'll get the blessings, to realize it's theirs, then the same operation of the Holy Spirit will be operating in the Church like It did back there, just the same. Now, listen to this closely: And the king of Syria warred against Israel, and took counsel with his servants, saying, In such and such a place shall be my
camp. And the man of God sent unto the king of Israel, saying, Beware that thou pass not this place; for thither the Syrians are come down. And the king of Israel sent to the place which the man of God told him and warned him of, and saved himself there, not once nor thrice. Therefore the heart of the king of Syria was sore troubled for this thing; and he called his servants, and said unto them, Will you not show me which of us is for the king of Israel? And one of his servants said, None, my lord, O king: but Elijah, the prophet that is in Israel, telleth the king of Israel the words that thou speakest in thy bedchamber.
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Let's bow our heads. Heavenly Father, we thank Thee tonight, to know that the great Spirit of God which was upon the prophet Elisha, is on earth today still moving on down through the sons of God. The great Holy Spirit that was given at Pentecost is here tonight. And Thy children, many are weary and worn, been pushed about, all for their own good, their teaching, their child training, to bring them up in the admiration of the Lord. Trials worth more than silver and gold, but as it is written, "No chastisement is pleasant for the time being." But finally when Thy Church becomes to have its training, then they will become adopted sons, or placed sons, into the inherit of God which shall inherit all things and be equal in the powers and blessings as a Son of God, brothers to Him.
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We think that how He was borned in this world, the Son of God. But at the age of thirty, God placed Him. Upon the banks of Jordan that day, when He was standing in the water, dripping from His locks, God vindicated that as His Son and said, "This is My Beloved Son; in Whom I am well pleased." Adoption, placing, placing into His Kingdom for the work that He was to finish. And how we're thankful tonight that He finished the course. Then despised the shame, but bore it, and was nailed at Calvary as substitute for us, dying in capital punishment: Borned in a stable, went out in capital punishment. The King of glory come down and tabernacled among men, from the Ivory Palaces to be, take upon Himself, not the form of Angels, but as a servant of man. Clothed in humility, wandered about, no place to lay His head, slept wherever He could, scorned by the one's that He loved, and was made finally, a bleeding Sacrifice. But He pleased the Father insomuch He said, "This is My Beloved Son; hear ye Him."
Then suffered under Pontius Pilate, crucified, died, was buried, rose the third day, setting at the right-hand of God the Father, making intercessions now for we who've accepted the Holy Spirit, the third Person of the trinity. And in our hearts tonight He rules and reigns. And He has said, "Whatsoever things you desire, when you pray, believe you receive them, and you shall have them." We believe it. And now, Lord, the great dark hours is come at the end-time. Help us now tonight in this service, that God's great Spirit might come down visible among men, every person in here might know that He's standing near them. Oh, God, take the clay, the voice of mortal beings and speak, Lord, the oracles of God, that people might see, and fear God, and serve Him. And may all the sick and the afflicted here tonight, be healed everyone, may there not be a feeble one left. Grant, Lord, that this will be a night that will be a memorial night. Those who will remember this Saint Nicholas Arena will always remember tonight. Bless us now together, for we ask it in the Name of Thy beloved Child, Jesus. Amen.
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How marvelous it is to look at the Scripture just a moment, because the time is up, about twelve, fifteen minutes. I wanted to finish telling you the vision that was last night, the little boy being raised from the dead in Finland. How many here had that wrote in their Bible before it come to pass, you heard me speak of it in the auditorium, raise your hand? I asked last night? About the little boy being raised from the dead in Finland. Let's see your hands go up, the ones... All over the building, everywhere, look at it. See, that was long before it took place. Always speaks that way, and it--you just write it down, that it's perfect. For it's not man that's speaking; it's God. This is God's voice to the people, every Word of God is a Seed and will produce just exactly like it's spoke in the Bible, if it be received in good ground. Now that's God's voice to His Church.
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Now, to an individual sometimes He uses the human voice, which is secondarily. It has to compare with this of the written Word. Now in doing this, God has blessed us. And how that Elijah the prophet... And when the king of Syria declared war on Israel and there was enmity between them, why, Elijah the prophet set in his home. And he seen what the enemy was going to do. So he went to the king of Israel and told the king of Israel where that the king of Syria would be laying in ambush to--to come out on them and ambush them when they came by. And the king of Israel sent down there and found it just the way that Elijah the prophet had told him. God help us as American people, to when we can get back to God again, that God was able to help the nation of Israel through the
Divine realm that can help America tonight through the Divine realm out of all this. And that's our only hope that we have is in God. Our hope tonight is not in the atomic bomb, our hope tonight is in Jesus Christ. Christ is the answer.
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Then in... the chaplain in Tokyo, out of Tokyo in Japan, rather, when the war was going on, chaplain friend was standing there, he raised up his hands and said, "God," in a consecration camp, said, "I guess I'll come home to meet You from this place." Said, "I'd like to visit my wife and babies once more, but nevertheless, Lord, if You want me to go home from here, I'm ready to go." Watched the little sentry walking his post, he walked close to him, seemed like the sentry wanting to speak. He looked right and left to see what... He said, "You Christian?" Chaplain said, "Yes." Said, "Me Christian too." There's the answer. Not the Big Four, not the U.N., but the Christ given way. Up in Finland you'd see the Russians and the Finns put their arms around each other, and hug one another, and kiss one another with tears rolling down their cheeks. Brothers, they had nothing against each other. The god of this age is got in the hearts of leaders. All the kingdoms of the world belongs to Satan at this time. You don't want to believe that, but it's the Scripture.
Satan took Jesus up and showed Him all the kingdoms of the world, said, "These are mine, I can do with them whatever I want to." Jesus knew that, but He knew He'd fall heir to them. Said, "If You'll bow down and worship me, I'll give them to You." Jesus said, "It's written, 'Thou shall worship the Lord Thy God, and Him only shalt thou serve.'" Over in Revelations it's written, "Rejoice you heavens, and ye holy prophets, for the kingdoms of this world has become the kingdoms of our Lord, and His Christ; and He will rule and reign forever." There'll be no more war then. Leaders, selfishness everywhere. But in the midst of all of this, the Church of God is being pulled out by the Holy Spirit.
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Elijah seen where that king was going to do that, so he sent the king of Israel and said, "Now, don't go down that way." Said, "Because they're laying down a waiting." And watch that same prophet, after getting down to Dothan, did not see the... The Angel of the Lord never showed him about Syrians coming out and covering the city over, for God had another way for that. God don't show His servants all things, but He shows His servants just the Word of knowledge as much as they have need to
know. So you see it lays in God's power, not in the power of man. Though man be blessed, but yet God is the Father and Ruler over all. Balaam of old said, "No prophet can say only what God puts in his mouth. How can he speak unless God speaks." And that was true.
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Now, we read of the prophets of old, we read of the powers of God and how it operated the church. And tonight, friend here that's lukewarm and not up to where you should be in Christ, the great glorious powers of God is ruling and reigning in His Church again. Don't you be one that's behind. Do not try to be popular with the world and right with God, because you can't be. You must be right with God, and then you're not popular with the world. In this day that we're living, seek God with all your heart. Call upon Him while it's time to call, while you have a chance of repentance, and while the mercy of God is reached down to you. For the hour is coming when it'll do no good to call. It'll be too late then. Call now. If you would've lived in the days gone by when they crucified Jesus, you'd say today, "I would've stood for Him; I'd have give my life for Him." You have a more of a opportunity to do that now then you would've in them days. Stand now, the opposition is greater today than it was then.
Last evening I was speaking at the little Glad Tidings Tabernacle where we had our service, because the hall was used last evening here. I was telling of how the Lord had raised a little boy from the dead in Finland, which was seen two years in a vision before it come to pass. Now, what was it did that? Not your brother, but the Spirit of God. The same Spirit was upon Elijah, upon the--the men gone by; it's the same Spirit in the world today, moving. It sees, foretells; you notice it. I pray that It'll be in the meeting tonight to do the same thing. It was upon our Master, Jesus Christ. When a man came to Him and was going to doubt him, Jesus said, when He seen Nathanael coming, He said, "Oh, behold, an Israelite, in whom there is no guile," in other words, a Christian, a believer. He said, "When did You know me?" He said, "Before Philip called you, when you were under the tree, I saw you."
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Now, Philip didn't try to refer it to mind reading or--or mental telepathy, he just said, "Thou art the Son of God; the King of Israel." Today his name's immortal among men for his decision. Your name shall become immortal when you make your decision for Jesus Christ as the Son of God, the King of Israel. Then when He told the woman at the well about her sin. He talked to
her a little while and said, "Go get your husband." That was it; that was her, what was hindering her. He was questioned one time why He, about healing, when He seen one man that had some kind of a disease and left a great multitude: Saint John 5. They questioned Him. He said "Verily, I say unto you, The Son can nothing in Himself, but what He sees the Father doing: that doeth the Son likewise." Saint John 5:19. "For the Father loveth the Son, and He sheweth Him all things that Himself do: and He will show greater things than this, that ye may marvel," the 20th verse.
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Now, the Scripture says that Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today and forever. He did not claim to be a healer, He said, "It's not Me that doeth the works; it's My Father that dwelleth in Me; He doeth the works." He did not claim to be a great person, but what He did claim to be, He was; and God vindicated it, that He was what He claimed to be. And God will a vindicate every man that'll speak the truth. God will prove it to be so. Man can say anything, that doesn't make it so. But when God speaks, that makes it so. And He said He did just as the Father showed Him. And the Scripture says, "Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today and forever," three--Hebrews 13:8. Then Jesus Christ, if He's the same today as He was yesterday, He still does the same works today that He did yesterday. If He doesn't, He isn't Jesus Christ. And His claims are not so.
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And how does He do these works? In a visible body? No. For it's written, "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. The things that I do shall you also; and greater than this shall you do (or more), for I go to My Father." And nightly He does more in the meeting, in one single meeting He does more of telling the people what to do and so forth, in one single meeting, and it's written of Him telling the people in the New Testament (Think of that.) of three years of ministry. 'Course there's many things He did do; it's not recorded according to Luke, but the things that's written... He told a man one time where there was a fish had a coin in his mouth. He told them where some mules was hitched, two places where they come together. He knew where a man would be packing a pitcher, make ready an upper room. Just about six, seven, things is all He... Is recorded of Him saying. But He knew their thoughts; He read their mind.
Did you know Jesus read people's mind? He perceived their thoughts. Is that right? Then He knew what they were thinking about.
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He knows tonight what you're thinking about. And He's here now, and knows what you're thinking about, and can reveal through His channels what you're thinking about. 'Course we know the devil has patterns and types of everything that God has. Everything that Satan has is secondarily that he patterned off of God. Every bogus thing has a--has something original to be made off of. If there was no real dollar, the bogus dollar would be the original and the first. And as long as there is a bogus, only proves that there is a real one somewhere. Amen. A real one, so when you see something the devil is doing, remember, God's got something that's far beyond that, that he's trying to impersonate here. But Jesus said, "By their fruits you shall know them."
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All right, now His Spirit is here. He's the same yesterday, today and forever. He's moving in His Church. Church, you know what's the matter with it? Here's what it is. You're not yielding to the Holy Spirit. You receive the Holy Spirit and think, "Well, that's as much as I go." Well, you're just ready to go to work for God then. When you're in--receive the Holy Spirit by believing on Jesus Christ and receiving the Holy Spirit, then you're just a candidate to go to work for God. Then go to yielding your members to Him, see what He will have you to do. He might have you to preach, sing, testify, pass out tracts, talk to people, bring someone to church. All kinds of gifts and helps that's in the body of Christ... Some are called for one thing, some another. But no matter what you got, how little it is... You say, "Well, Brother Branham, only thing I can do; I might talk to some people." Well, that might not be very much to you, but put it in the hands of Jesus, and see what He will do with it. Like the little fishes that was in the little boys hand, it could only feed him. But when he put it in Jesus' hand, it fed five thousand. So it will be with you. Put what you have in His hand.
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In Finland that night, when the little boy had been raised from the dead, as I told you last night, the little girl. The other little boy was struck and hit over on the other side, his head, had a concussion. They called us from the hospital; the little boy was dying. That poor little Finnish mother; I never felt so sorry for her. There was thousands and thousands; you couldn't get near the auditorium. For two or three city blocks they were just blocked in solid everywhere, in Kuopio, Finland, that's near the Laplands. And oh, what a marvelous, glorious time we were having in Christ. And when I went in one night, they had to drag me across the little mother. And the next day Mrs. Isaacson said, "Brother Branham, that poor little father and mother," second day, said, "they're setting out here," and said, "it's--it's pathetic to--to see them." Said, "They're
crying; they want you to go down there." I said, "Sister Isaacson, I could do nothing, God would have to show me first." I said, "I'm praying for the child." Said, "Will you just come out and speak to them?" So they brought them in the hall. Poor little mother, she run up and said, "Oh, go, heal my baby." 'course, through the interpreter; she did not speak English. And I said, "Sister, I couldn't heal your baby." Said, "Well, they raised the other little baby after he'd been dead." Said, "You could heal my little baby; he's dying." I said, "No, ma'am, when I was over my homeland in America, two years ago God showed the vision and told just where the little boy be laying, and how it would look, how the little fellow would be." Many of you read it in the "Voice of Healing," didn't you? I told you it would be in the "Voice of Healing," and it--it--it is.
And then, the poor little thing, I felt so sorry for her. And she said... I said, "That was a vision." And she said, "Well, go see vision for my little boy." Well, that was mighty sweet, but you can't see visions when you want to, not at your leisure; it's God's Divine order, not what I will, but what He will. Now... then... Here's what taken place. I said, "Are you Christian?" "No." I said, "Look, your little boy may be dying, as the doctor says. And he will go up to heaven because he's a baby," about six, seven years old. I said, "He doesn't know what sin is yet." I said, "He will go up to heaven. And if you die in your sins, you can never be with him no more. And if you get saved, and the little boy dies and goes up to heaven, then if you, when you die, you'll go up to heaven; you'll be with him always, where there's no accidents." And I said, "And perhaps then if you wanted a favor from me, you'd do something for me, something kind. If you want a favor with God, then do something kind." And so she... Seemed they couldn't lose on that, so they knelt down and begin to cry, and pray, and gave their hearts to Christ. They raised up; then the poor little thing said, "Now, go in see vision for my little boy." I said, "I'll go pray." She said, "Come, go at the hospital." I said, "No, He can show me in my room just the same as He can show me there." I said, "He may not show me at all." So Mrs. Isaacson finally got them to leave. And every few minutes they'd call back up, say, "Brother Branham seen vision yet?" And they were interested in their little boy, 'cause the doctor said it had not come to and this was the third day.
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We just come from the auditorium that night, and oh, I was standing at the window, had this same Bible over my heart; I went up to the window; it doesn't get dark there at that time of year. There come the Finnish soldiers, and the--and the civilians walking through, just a talking to one another, you know, probably of the meeting, because they was all turned from the auditorium. The whole country in there was just working alive with people. And I put my Bible down on a table. And coming up my brother Howard, many of you remember he was with us last time here. Now if there's any Canadian people here, I don't mean to say this to any slam to your country. See? When we was in Canada we got a hold of some candy, and oh, my, they just haven't got the stuff to put in it that the American people have. Now, that's... And it was kind of flat tasting. He said, "You talk about Canada's candy being flat, taste this." And he give me two little pieces of candy, and I just laid it down on the table and walked over there. I raised up my hands like that, and I said, "Oh, great Jehovah, how marvelous You are, wonderful." He just healed that little war orphan that night, you know, who had been a crippled, and her one leg was about six inches shorter than the other one, as I told you last night. You seen her picture in the "Voice of Healing," and how she couldn't move with them, a little war orphan. And I was thanking God for her healing.
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And standing there, I felt something strange; and I looked, standing here by my side, and there He stood. He had a vase in His hand. I would call it a vase; I don't know too much; it's kind of a long tall affair. And in there was two American, what I call Easter flowers, daffodils, yellow looking. I... We call them Easter flowers in Indiana and Kentucky; I... May have a different name here, but they're kind of a yellow looking flower comes up around Easter. And they were setting in this little container that He had, little thing. And He set it down here on the table. And one of these little Easter flowers that was leaning to the north, was laying all the way down, and the other one was wilting, going down.
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And He looked at me, He's tall, big Man, about two hundred pounds, got dark hair to His shoulders, kind of a olive complexion, always carries His arms folded, comes from the right, always coming to me. He's come since I was a little bitty baby. I was just a few minutes old when He made His first appearance in a little log cabin in Kentucky. And He was standing there; He'd set those--this little thing down, was looking at me. And I looked at that, and He said, "What did your brother give you?" And I said, "Sir, two pieces of candy."
He said, "Eat them." And I picked up one of the pieces of candy, started to eating, taste pretty good, and I swallowed it. And when I did, the Easter flower that was leaning to the north, just exactly, geographically, positionally, the way the first boy fell to the north when the car had hit him, and the other one went to the south, caught him under the chin and hit him against the tree. And the other boy, it run right over him, just mashed him under the car, the one that died. And the one that was living, back in school then, and this little boy was still in the hospital, we hadn't got to him yet.
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And so, that one laying down that way, when I eat that first piece it went, whew, raised right straight up. He said, "Eat the second piece." And I picked up the piece, and oh, what a terrible taste. I spit it out like that, and that flower begin to go "tuff, tuff, tuff [Brother Branham illustrates.--Ed.]" going right down. Said, "Fail, and the boy will die." I put it back in my mouth and chewed real fast and swallowed it. And when I did it went, "tuff [Brother Branham illustrates.--Ed.]," stood right up with the other one. And He looked at me, that ring of Light that you see in the picture, came down over where He was; He went up into the Light and went out.
Brother Baxter and my brother Howard had went to their room. Brother Lindsay and Brother Moore had went to their room, and Sister Isaacson to her room, and I'd went to my room. And I run out and called, and I said, "Remember, it's THUS SAITH THE LORD, that baby's going to live, that baby's that's dying in the hospital." I said, "Call her and tell her." So then, phones that they have there, it's a little bit of affair that you kinda put in your ear, and turn a little crank. And she called the home, Mrs. Isaacson did; and the people had been called to the hospital, the baby was sinking and dying. They had a babysitter with their other baby. They went to see the last of the baby. And while they--while they rang the hospital, and the doctor came and brought the lady to the telephone, and said, "That the Angel of the Lord had just appeared in the room and saying, 'Your baby's going to live.'" And said, "How well I know it. He's setting up in there now to hisself in his right condition, ready to be washed and go home." The baby today lives in Finland, perfectly, normally and well, because Jesus Christ the Son of God had respect to the prayer of a mother. See? Not me, it was the mother's prayer, her promise to God that she'd serve Him, and the father.
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Just a moment, I'm going to start the prayer line. Last evening when we got home we had a very sad message. My wife setting here in front of me with the baby. We've got a little fellow home about six months old, and you don't know what a hard thing it is to leave that little fellow. She had a little old knotty head; she laid it over on me this way the other day, and I just felt like that my whole inner most being of my heart would pull from me. I love her with all my heart. We got a letter last night from some, from the secretary, said, "The baby's sick." Of course, the mother, you know how she felt; she just went into a frantic almost. And--and the baby's staying with the grandmother which lives quite a distance from a phone. I said, "Well, it's near midnight; don't call tonight, call in the morning."
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We laid there just a few moments; I couldn't go to sleep. I heard my wife, her breath become, coming slowly then, normally. So I slipped up, went in the other room and knelt down; I begin to pray. Along about three o'clock this morning, I looked in the room, and I seen someone coming to me packing my baby. It was choking, its little face was red; his little eyes were set. He was choking; he couldn't catch its breath, and everybody was excited. They handed it over to me, and I placed it in my arms and I said, "Oh, God, don't let my baby die; spare its life, will You, Lord?" About that time I heard it catch its breath, looked over at me, and was all right then. I handed it back, and the Angel of the Lord spoke in the room, said, "In the morning you'll receive the news that the baby has been sick; it's all right now." I waited just a little bit, went off to sleep. Woke up this morning about nine o'clock; the wife came in the room and she said, "I'm going to call the--I'm going to call now and see about the baby." I said, "Honey, you won't have to call, but here's going to be the message you're going to receive when this lady goes over to find out about it, the lady's going to say, 'The baby has been awfully sick, but it's all right now; God healed it last night.'"
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And so she called up; my little boy, Billy Paul, and all of them gathered around the phone, I said, "Watch these words, word by word." So she called and got the lady, and said, "Go over cross the field and ask the grandmother about the baby." She said, "The baby's been awfully sick, but it's all right this morning." Just word by word. Oh, friends, it would take hours to reveal; I couldn't do it; it's unlimited, the things that He does. What is it? It shows that "Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today and forever." The One that was back there with Elijah, the One was upon the Son of God, Jesus Christ, the One that's in the church tonight, the Holy Spirit
knows the secret of every heart, and knows just what will be. Do you believe that? Let's bow our heads.
Heavenly Father, bless tonight in a marvelous way. Thou knowest all things, Lord, knows that I am not speaking of myself, but I'm speaking of Thy Spirit which is here now. Oh, may the Angel of God come with such anointing tonight, and these people that's here to be prayed for, Lord, many of them, hundreds of them, and may they with one accord see the glory of God. And if it be possible, if it's Thy Divine will tonight, Father, may He appear right here on the platform visible, that every eye in here might witness to see His great form. Oh, I know that He stands near now. God, help the unbelievers tonight to know that Thou art near, and Thy servant has spoke the truth. Lord, if I speak the truth, then You'll speak of it Yourself, for Thou art the Truth. You are the Truth, the Way, the Light. And I've spoke of You, Father, and therefore I know it is the truth. And not a worry but what You will a vindicate it to be the truth tonight, before these Thy people. And may this be a great glorious meeting, and may tomorrow afternoon, Lord, may literally hundreds of souls find You. Tomorrow night give us the closing climax, Lord, what we've prayed for through the entire meeting. Bless us now together, for we ask it in the Name of Thy Son, Jesus. Amen.
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Awfully late, this is Saturday; surely, you'll be able to rest a little tomorrow. Everyone just as reverent as you can be now. Don't disturb. I'm so happy to see these brethren here, just a whole line of these recorders, and what a work they're doing for the Lord. These recordings are being sent around the nation, and they're going into homes, and into halls, and so forth. They even got it in a movie picture the other day to introduce these things. And hundreds of people are being saved and healed right through these recordings. Aren't you happy that man's got the message on their heart. Maybe they're not preachers, but they're trying to get the message to the people. Doctors they tell me, and man of--of great standing in the world are out trying to win souls for Christ. God can use these things in a secondarily way like this, may the Lord Jesus bless every one that hears the message. May they be saved and healed.
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Now, please dear friends, in the Name of the Lord, be just as reverent and set quiet as you can for the next few moments, if you will. I will try to be as hastily as I can. And then, I want to ask you one thing just before we get the prayer line lined up, want to ask you something. Now look, every person in here as far as I know, but my wife and Mr.
and Mrs. Roberson, Mr. and Mrs. Upshaw, and Miss Brown, that's the only people that I know in this entire building that I can see or know anywhere, unless it's Brother Bosworth back here, and Brother Richey, and our brother here, Brother Baxter, my son. Now, you're sick and troubled. And could you imagine? How would you want to take my place, standing here now and know that here some, between five and six thousand people perhaps, setting here and every eye on you, and in there you can feel the cold waves of skeptic and everything moving in now. Satan, restless, demon powers are moving in. You ought to know how you feel. Just cold wave after wave; then here comes faith moving in, here comes a cold wave moving in. Waves, channels, just like this radio or whatever, television. Television is waves, it materializes as the waves are brought in on a certain kind of a crystal, or whatever it is.
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And so does the power of Almighty God materialize. Vision materialize in front of you just like radio, and just like television. If God has called you to do so... You believe that? It does. It's proved. I'm going to ask you to be just as quiet as you can, and don't stir around, 'cause you're certainly an interference. And all the Christians, silently in your heart, pray for me, will you. And then, I am here representing the God that you love. And some glorious day, you and I, every person in here, will stand before God to give an account for our lives and what we've done with Jesus Christ. I want to stand that day and say, "With all my heart, dear God, when I was in New York, I tried to represent You in every way that I could. And I'm thankful that You come down and proved that what I was talking about was the truth." Then it'll be up to you what you do with it. I'll be free then, as Paul of old said, "I'm free of all men's blood." And I'll be free when that time comes, if I testify the truth, and God proves that it's the truth.
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And when someone's here on the platform being healed, let every person out there suffering, let them believe right at that time. Believe for yourself, and God will heal you. Accept it and believe it. All right. Where's Billy?...?... where's...?... All right, let's just start from 50 then, from J-50. [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] Do you love Him? All your heart? Now, kinda get just as quiet as we can before Him, so He can be where we're standing. Have you got the full fifteen, Billy? Got about twenty in there. All right, every one just as reverent as you can be now. All right, bring your patient. Everyone just as quiet and reverent as you can be now.
How many up this way believes now? How many up this way believes? And down in this way? On both sides? Oh, isn't that
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wonderful, Brother Baxter? Brother Lindsay, look a there, or Brother Bosworth, Brother Richey. We're something has to happen, friends, something just has... God knows this, that the Angel of the Lord Who met me, said, "If you get the people to believe you and be sincere when you pray, there'll be nothing stand before your prayer." [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] There'll be nothing. Just think of that. No matter what disease you have; it won't stand before prayer if you will believe. Now, what must you believe? Believe in God first. Believe in the Son of God, Jesus Christ. Believe in the Holy Spirit. Believe in Angels. And then you've got to believe me, that I'm telling you the truth. Do you believe that? Now, that's wonderful. I'm doing that for a purpose, friend. See, the enemy stands here to fight at me (You see?), saying, "Oh, that bunch of New York people, they don't believe." But the Holy Spirit's here saying, "They're wrong; it's wrong, they do believe." And that gives me the initiative side to walk out. You see? All right.
Here's a lady standing here, you're the patient, aren't you, lady? All right. Now, this lady wants to get well. I don't know one thing about the lady, I've nev... God knows, I've never seen her in my life, knowingly. She's a total stranger to me; I know nothing of her. There's anything in the world that I know, God will have to reveal it to me. Now, I don't know; I couldn't do one thing about her healing, because she's already been healed. Nineteen hundred years ago Jesus Christ put in Calvary what she needs to be healed by. Now, the only thing she has to do is accept it. And according to her faith, it'll be to her. If she believes spontaneously right now, great faith over her head, she'll go right on and be healed here. If she believes that much it'll take her two, few weeks to get well. If she's down to a mustard seed, if she'll just have that kind of faith, hold on to it, it'll bring you right out to the light; just stay with it. Believe it, testify of it, confess it, and God will bring it to pass.
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Now, everyone reverent. And everyone out here now, without prayer cards, raise your hand, and wants to be prayed for. Everybody without prayer cards, hasn't got prayer cards, raise your hand. All right, that's the way. Now, be reverent. Now, you look this a way, anywhere in the building, and believe that that is the truth, and if you're sick, accept Jesus as your healer, and say, "Lord God, to confirm my faith, to confirm my faith, let Brother Branham call me back. Let Brother Branham call me out here and tell me that I've been healed." Will you do that? And if you'll just not-just not, just kinda haphazardly go into it, but really with all your heart believe it, God will pull my attention from this platform and show me what's taking place out there, and will call you, what you
are, who you are, what your name is, and all about it. You believe that? All right, now, be in prayer now, everybody reverent.
Father, help us now. Here stands a woman, standing here by my side. I know her not. You know her, Lord. You know what she is, You fed her ever since she's been on earth, every breath that she's drawed is been by Your Divine grace. Every bit of food she's ever eat is by Your Divine grace. And I pray Thee, Lord, that if she's standing here sick and afflicted, that You will let the Spirit that was upon Your Son, Christ Jesus, come down upon this poor unworthy vessel. Unworthy is right, Lord, but if You were looking for holy hands tonight, where would You find them? We've all sinned and come short of the glory. But oh, how we're encouraged to read in the Scripture, that Elijah was a man subject to like passions as we are. It wasn't his--his morals, it was what You'd called him to be, and what he done with the gift that You give him. Now help, dear God, that Your power that would reveal to the woman her sins at the well, tell Philip of where he was at, their needs and causes. May He come tonight. As I've testified of You, now Father, testify that I've told the truth. And these people will believe You and be healed. For we ask it in Jesus' Name. Amen.
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Brother Baxter, I don't want you too far away now for a moment. Now, can you hear all right, back at the back? When sometime the anointing gets real heavy, I--they say I don't speak loud enough. You'll watch that, will you, brethren, somewhere? Now, lady, you and I be strangers; I do not know you. I'm wholly, fully, depending on Jesus Christ. And here you are, and here's several thousand people setting here tonight, and they are looking. Many of them has raised their hands as Christians. And they believe, and believe that I've told the truth. Now, see what a position that puts me in. And here you come up out of the audience there, perfect stranger, received a prayer card with a number on it, and here you come up. Happened to be your number was called. And you're the first one for the night. My, how wonderful.
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Now, if I'm able to know anything... I see you're breathing awful fast. I want you just to be, not excited, just be reverent. See? Have faith in God. Are you aware of something strange? Now, that's the Angel of the Lord. Audience, I wished you could just everyone be close enough now to feel what this is moving down; It's settling; It's coming right in from my right-hand side now, the Angel of God Who I'll have to stand before that day at the judgment, moving upon me. The lady's becoming very conscious of it now. I see a vision moving out; she's moving away from me now. Oh, what
a Light. Look to me, sister. You're trying to believe, aren't you? Suffering with asthma for one thing. You've had that for some time too. Say, I see you under an operation or something; that's been some time also. See a dark complected doctor, seems to be saying, there's someone waiting for you in a hall with a gray suit on. I see a man coming near you, yes, you got a, you're suffering now also from an examination rec... a tumor. Isn't that right? That tumor's located on your breast, isn't it, left breast, on the left side? I see the side of the table you're laying on from where they're looking. Don't be fearful; it leaves me now, just a moment. You're wanting to serve God in a different category than what you serve Him in too. You promised God if you could get well, that you would go on and seek deeper things of God, haven't you? You were praying near a side of a bed where a chair was laying, setting. Is that right? And little green looking thing hanging there on the side of the wall. Isn't that right? In the room. Do you believe me as His prophet? Will accept what I tell you? Will you accept Jesus as your Healer now? Raise up your hand, say, "I now accept Jesus Christ as my Healer." Go in peace, Jesus Christ will make thee whole. You go on your road rejoicing now, and get over your sickness. Go this a way, just rejoicing.
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Let us say, "Praise be to God." Now, everyone reverent. I want everyone to be aware that the things that I speak is not myself; that's not my voice; it's my voice, but not me using it. I go into another place and see what's materializing in front of me. The people move away. I at this time cannot tell you what was wrong with the person I just prayed for. I just seen a vision, and I just have to speak it as it comes to me. And then the person witnesses after it leaves me that it's right or wrong. All right, bring the patient. And everybody real reverent. How do you do, sir? Perceive, of course, by your dress that you're a minister. Would you come just a little closer, sir? Our Christ is wonderful, isn't he, brother? I see you're quite a believer. Yes, sir, I do. Say, you have a ministry of praying for the sick yourself. You pray for the sick, don't you? You write much literature and stuff on the same, don't you? You come from Canada, don't you? That's right. You're suffering with something wrong in your bowels. I say it's... It's cancer of the bowels, is what it is. It's got ulcerated, begin to start causing you much trouble. Isn't that true? My brother, let me have your hand.
Merciful God, I hold now in mine the hand that pens the words that brings relief and for this suffering. Satan is trying to destroy this warrior. But Thou art here to heal him. Almighty God, Author of Life and Giver of every good gift, send Thy blessings upon my brother, as I speak in Thy Name. And God if Thy servant has found favor in Your
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sight, spare the life of my brother. And may from this night on, that clear up from him and may he be a warrior on the fields up there that'll cause literally thousands to find great help. Grant it, Lord. And I now curse this demon called cancer in the Name of Jesus Christ, may it come out of him, and may the man live. God bless you, my brother. Your gallant faith has saved you; you're going home. And your ministry's going to increase, and you're going to do more for the Lord than you've ever done. God bless you, my brother. Let us say, "Praise be to God."
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Do you know that man, Brother Baxter? Well, let's say, "Praise the Lord." [Brother Baxter speaks: "I'd just like to say one thing about this man;
he corresponded with me about coming to New York. I said, 'Come.' I said, 'There was nothing I could promise.' When Brother Branham said that the man had written literature, I was about ready to jump, because his last letter to me, he sent me some of his literature on Divine healing. Everything Brother Branham said about the man is true, and Brother Branham didn't know it."--Ed.]
I only can say what God has showed me to and tells me to say. But only I can see him materializing in front of me, that I can do. Nothing else I cannot do. But the man is not going to die with the cancer; he's going to live. All right, bring the patient.
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How do you do, sister? Would you just come a little closer? I just want you near so that I know when It starts speaking, that'll-your voice will be caught in the microphone. You see? I perceive that you are a Christian. Yes. You've been very much worried lately. You are... Something has been bothering you. I see when you're standing in the room, you're worried. Say, it's in your... It's a tumor, isn't it? It's a tumor that's bothering you. And that tumor, I see you showing it; it's--it's in your mouth, isn't it? It's a tumor in your mouth; that is right. There's something happened then, didn't it? The life of the tumor left, sister. You go home to be well. In the Name of the Lord Jesus, make... Let us say, "Praise be to God," Who giveth us the victory through Jesus Christ our Lord. All right, will the lady come, please.
Oh, what a marvelous time. You just should feel now. Faith is just moving everywhere now, just moving in. How wonderful. Oh, if I only could get this one thing to the people just now. What would take place, it would be unknown to the glory that would be. Now, let's see, you're... Excuse me, sister, it kinda gets a little beside myself. Come just a little closer. I--I--I don't believe humanly speaking, that I ever seen you. We strangers? Yes, ma'am. Now, I'm just merely trying to he--help you. You are a Christian with the Holy Spirit now. What a joy that was, when you received It. I see you crying and waving your hand. Now, you're trouble now is suffering;
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you're awfully nervous; that's been on you for some time. That's caused by your age, your time of life, menopause. Then I see you have a female disorder that's bothering you, isn't it? Yes, ma'am. Upset at the stomach a lot. Isn't that true? Is that true, what was said? You believe me as His prophet? Raise up your hand, say, "Jesus Christ, I now believe that You died for my healing. I accept my healing now." God bless you, sister, go eat anything you want to, that drainage will stop. It was an abscess on the ovary, but you're going to be all right now, go. God bless you.
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Let's say, "Praise be to God." Everyone reverent if you will, please, just reverent, just a few moments. Don't move around, it interrupts me so bad here. If you just knowed how the pressure of move and how the friction between the people. See, you're in a line of--of supernatural. And just the least move you can feel Him; it's interfering, and that throws me out up here. Please, be reverent. No wonder Jesus took a man... You say, "Brother Branham, what about that?" Why, Jesus took a man by the hand and led him outside the city to get away from the crowd. Isn't that right? It was written, "Look upon us," said Peter and John. All right, come, sir. Be real reverent please, just a moment. I know it's late, but think of the suffering. You'd wait at Mayo's Clinic day in and out. I was at the Mayo's Clinic two years ago. And the marvelous thing, what thrills my heart, at the Mayo Clinic two weeks ago, wrote for my little book that you're getting back there on the stand, on Divine healing to go in their--in their lab--in their library for their students. Mayo's Clinic wrote for my book on Divine healing, and they want to know how these miracles taken place. They can't deny but what it's going on, but they want to study how it's done. Praise God. Here's a book that reveals it all. God's secret.
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All right, brother, you believe with all your heart? Your diabetes is gone from you, so you can go off the platform and be happy. All right, let's say, "Praise be to God." All right, bring the lady. Sister, have faith. You was suffering with the same thing, wasn't you? You go off the platform, get well too in the Name of the Lord. Amen. You believe with all your heart? Every one be reverent. What about way back there now, go to believing; I believe the Lord is going to break through upon this audience in a few moments. Have faith in God. Don't doubt; believe.
What do you think about it, setting there? Well, lady in that wheelchair, what do you think about it? Follow the instructions of the
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nurse. She knows of God. All right. What do you think, sir, laying on the wheelchair? Are you believing with all your heart? Have faith now. God can make... He's already done it, if your faith will just mount up. Have faith; don't doubt. All of you in the line, you going to believe now? All right, bring the lady on. Standing in our midst just now, I look down and see Congressman Upshaw who had been an invalid for sixty-six years. Run for president of the United States, known all over the nation, everywhere, in England. The man had been to a place... And the same thing is taking place right here, is the same thing when he was wheeled into California in one of the meetings. I seen the man being hurt and all he went through with. And there, setting there, been an invalid for sixty-six years; I said, "I see a young boy; he's hurt on by a hay frame near a haystack." Told the kind of a doctor and so forth, and all that he had done. And so when Brother Baxter come told me, said, "That..."
I seen where he was setting, and the man there said, "Why, that man's a congressman. He's been like that for years." And I started to leave. When I started to leave, I seen Mr. Upshaw without crutches, or wheelchair, or anything, going, walking just as nimble as he could be. And there that man, after being crippled for sixty-six years, I said, "THUS SAITH THE LORD." Here he is tonight, eighty-five years old, as nimble as any man thirty in the building. Look like if he'd have got healed, he'd got healed back there when his bones was, had good calcium and stuff. But God in His power showed that He could do all things. He's a God that was... Here He is now waving His hands to you. Amazing Grace, how sweet the sound.
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All right, lady, your heart trouble left you while you were standing there. Go on the road rejoicing and be happy. Come, lady, believe with all your heart? Wouldn't you like to lose that old tumor? You'd go off the platform being happy. It's gone from you. Let's say, "Praise be to God." Someone out there pray now, accept Jesus. Accept Him as your Healer now. In your heart say, "I believe." Way back in the back, up in there. Please everyone, be reverent; be reverent if you will. Don't doubt; believe. Come, lady, have faith. How do you do, sister? Just want to talk to you a moment. Yes, ma'am. You--you think you got everything wrong with you, heart trouble. That heart trouble's caused from indigestion; you have it worse when you lay down after eating, don't you? Your whole trouble's nervousness, isn't that right? You--it's a mental nervousness too; I see you--you holding your head like this and
walking; you think sometimes you've lost your mind. Isn't that right? But Jesus Christ heals you now. Go on your road rejoicing. God bless you, you... Let's say, "Praise be to God."
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All right, come, sir. Do you believe with all your heart? Then you won't have heart trouble no more; you can go off the platform and be well. God bless you, my brother. Let's say, "Praise be to God." I see a man setting there pulling his knees and praying and crying; he's got something stuffed in his ear. You believe, sir? 'Course I see you got something wrong with your ear. God's able to heal that ear, isn't He? You believe it? Stand up just a minute. Oh, it's not so much ear trouble; it's stomach trouble you're bothered with. Isn't that right? If that's right, raise your hand. That's right. Go home and eat what you want to; Jesus Christ makes you well. Amen. Now you all can be happy. All right, come, sister. I see between you and I drips a blood, it looks real clear. Look like it's got sugar or water in it. You're anemia, aren't you? Go off the platform and receive a transfusion from Calvary by Jesus Christ, the Son of God. God bless you. Let's say, "Praise the Lord." All right, bring your patient.
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Will you believe sister, with all your heart as you come? I see you're really sick, feeling the pressure of the enemy. You're suffering with cancer, aren't you? Come here a minute. Lay your handkerchief right here. You believe me as His prophet? Come here, want you look at my hand. Just an ordinary man's hand, isn't it? I want you to put your hand here on mine, so you touch me. Now, look what happened. See it swell up and those white things running across it. Now, I'm going to take your hand off, going to put my hand on. It's not there now is it? I want to put your other hand on here. It isn't there now, is it? Well, you're just as much human in this hand as you are in that hand. Come here Brother Baxter; put your hand here on, not there now, is it? Come here Billy Paul; it's not there now, is it? It's not there now. Now, put your hand on there, but it is now. Is that right? If that's true hold this hand up so the audience will see? Now, my hand turns real dark red and white like things running over it, is that right? Them little, it's like little pimples or bumps running across my hand. Now, watch how they come and go: there they come; there they move; here they come again. You know what? That's a life, a cancer, a malignant growth which is in you multiplying cells, trying to take your life.
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I see you've done much praying about this too, haven't you?
Seem like without any results. You tried to believe; you tried to accept it. Prayed for not long ago, and you thought you really going to be all right then, but it's proved that it wasn't so. Isn't that right? I'm not reading your mind; but I see the place where you were standing. That's right. But when you heard that I, or seen... I believe you seen something, read something that you... I see you looking down, and then I heard you say, "When I... Brother Branham, when I go to his meeting, he prays for me, I'm going to get well." Did you say that? Raise your hand if that's true. Then your faith has saved you, sister, where's the vibrations at now? They're gone. Now, you can go and live. God bless you, my... Let's say, "Praise the Lord."
No prayer, your faith makes you whole. Is that right? You're happy, are you? That's right. And He healed you of heart trouble just then. Now, you can go off the platform happy, 'cause you don't have heart trouble no more. Let's say, "Praise the Lord," everyone. What about you, sister, do you believe me with all your heart? You believe that I be God's prophet? You been suffering with a nervous, haven't you? Stand up on your feet and be well. In the Name of the Lord Jesus, and go out of the... God bless you, sister, you won't have those feelings no more now, go and rejoice. Let's say, "Praise the Lord." Just feeling something... It's different now, isn't it, brother? Amen. Amen. That's right. Amen. Your faith has saved you, my brother. All right, come, sister. You want to get over that asthma? Raise up your hand and say, "I accept You Jesus as my Healer." God bless you. I lay hands on you according to the Word, said, "These signs shall follow them that believe; if they lay hands on the sick, they shall recover." In the Name of the Lord Jesus, go and be made well.
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You want to be healed out there? You believe with all your heart? I see the little lady; you feel different about that nervousness now, don't you, sister? Was just healed, you feel different: quieter, certainly you do. Now, let everyone be reverent. You could only know, my Christian friend, what's taking place just now. I look out there, thinking now of calling another prayer line, another number just in a minute. What you got your hand up for, lady? You believe me? Lady with the red hat on there, you believe me as God's prophet? You believe God can reveal to me what is wrong with you there? Look at me just a minute. Yes, you suffer with a tumor, aren't you? Isn't that right? I see him exam... That's tumor's on the left leg, isn't it? Isn't that right? If it is, wave your hand back and forth like that. Go home and receive your healing, sister. In the Name of the Lord Jesus, He makes you whole.
Who wants to be healed? Who wants to believe? Now, may our heavenly Father speak to me just now. I see a man standing right here, right in this way; he's kind of a heavy set man; he's holding him... Oh, yes, he's suffering with a--with a rupture. I see where I can see the man; he went out of my vision just then, standing right... Here sets a man setting right here, kind of thin hair, big man. Oh, didn't you have a rupture, hernia? That's right. God bless you, my brother, may the Lord Jesus make you every whit whole. Just a moment, I see a man standing before me now, coming this a way, kind of a thin fellow, wearing a gray suit and a purple tie. There he sets right down there. Stand up just a minute, sir. Huh? The man there with the purple tie on, kind of thin looking man... Oh, yes, you're suffering with--with stomach trouble, is that right? And say, you have something wrong with your bladder too, don't you? Isn't it a bladder trouble, ulcerated bladder, is that right? Raise up your hand. Receive your healing, my brother. In the Name of the Lord Jesus.
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Just a moment. Now, be reverent friends, I'm getting terribly weak. Just a moment, believe now with all of your heart. Now, I see a man coming this a way, coming right down through here. Just a moment. The man has something wrong with his... I see, no, it's... He's examining, a doctor looking at him. He stops and comes back this a way; he's moving, yes, it's--it's his liver. He's got liver trouble. I see the man now, here he... There sets the man, setting right there. Don't you have liver trouble, sir? Swollen liver, isn't that right? Raise up on your feet and receive your healing, my brother. In the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ. Is there anyone else in here wants to be healed, that would accept Jesus as their Healer? Have faith in God. Don't doubt. Believe. Now, will you believe me? Have I told you the truth? Has Almighty God been here to vindicate that I've told the truth? You believe that's so? Believe me as His prophet: Jesus Christ the Son of God, has healed every one of you. He don't have to take you. The whole thing's moving so now, I don't know whether I can see one or not. But will you do, and do as I ask you to do? Lay your hands over on one another like this. Put your hands on one another, please. Come here, Brother Richey, Brother Bosworth, somebody right quick, come here. Give me a drink of water, right quick...?... I'm sorry, this my...?... I'm getting so weak I can't hardly stand up. O God, Author of Life, Giver of mercy, send Thy blessings upon this people and bless them, Lord. Heal them everyone, in the Name of Thy Son Jesus. I curse every disease in here in Name of the Lord...?...
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Good evening, friends. Very happy to be here again this evening to pray for the sick. Sorry this is our closing night of this particular revival. If the good Lord will permit me to come again and you all would want us, we hope to come your way again sometime to-to have a--a long meeting sometime where we can just stay on and on. The main thing about the meetings is this, one of the tragedies: We can't get auditoriums long enough to really see the meeting through, way it should be. Most of the time, is that the people are... They get... I'm gone before the results begins to show onto the people, most times. But I certainly enjoy all your fellowship, your kindness, and all that you've done; I shall never forget you as long as I live. May God bless you is my prayer. And just... You will continue to pray for me, I'm sure, being a Christian. As I try to go into other parts of the world now to bring the Gospel to other peoples: the needy, and the outcast in other lands. I certainly do solicit your prayers for me. May God be with you and help you.
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Want to thank you. Brother Baxter just told me they taken a love offering for me. I thank you so much. I'm not worthy to have a love offering; I don't do enough to deserve a love offering. And I--I would not take it. I was a pastor of a church for some fifteen years; I never took a offering in my life, never in all my life took an offering for myself or anyone else. I've always worked and--and made my living. When I come to a place this way, they give me a love offering. This is what I thrive on. I have a family, and I have--have to make some way to make a living for them. And all the money... My wife which is setting present, knows, that every penny that I don't use for our own living, just what we... We don't live luxurious; we just try to live just as, just what we can--can get by with. And what's left over out of the love offering, we put back straight in foreign missions, to go into the work of the Lord. It's not worldly things that we desire; it's heavenly things that we look forward to. Someday, as the poet said:
A tent or a cottage, why should I care? They're building a palace for me over there! Rubies and diamonds, and silver and gold, His coffers are full, He has riches untold. EXPECTATION_ NEW.YORK.NY SUNDAY_ 51-0930
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And now, we don't want to take too much of the time here in speaking just now. Just so that you will have a, just a little say, "Thank you, for all your kindness." And then, if there's any credit,
ever goes to anyone, it's a person I'm aiming to speak of just now. Men say, "Brother Branham, I know you have an awful hard time, many people calling and things." I love it; that's part of my life. But if there's... We have a very lovely little family at home. My first family was broken up by death, many, many, years ago. I was just married a little over two years, Billy's mother, she was taken home, and my baby. And then I tried to live as true to God, there when I laid my hands on my baby's head, and blessed her, and the Angels of God come packed her little soul with her mother. I put her little body with her mother's and buried them together. Billy and I, year after year go to that grave and place a flower on there, knowing one thing, that some glorious day break, Jesus shall come. Never thought I'd ever be married again. Billy got big enough to go to school. You know as Job of old, when what was taken from him, God restored. I don't believe I could've found any way. It wasn't by my choice; it was God Who gave me a companion that's really been a--a sweetheart to me and a real mother to Billy. She's just a young girl; she's years younger than I am. She's worked so hard and things, laboring in the Gospel until her hair's turned gray at thirty years old. And she certainly is a real queen to our home. Sweetheart, I want you to stand up just a minute. She's setting right down here before me. I know this is kind of conspicuous; that's my wife and friend there. Very backward, timid, little... We're country boy and girl.
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I've had many good partners in my life, good hunting partners. I like to hunt, go hunting. New York state's where I was initiated. I still love these Adirondack Mountains above any place I've ever seen in my life, the Adirondack Mountains. I have a very fine hunting partner. I call my wife "honey." I call my little girl "sugar," so we got a sweet family. She's as backward as her mother is, but I wonder if my little Rebekah would stand up just a minute, and we'll get... Oh, I'm going to have awful time doing this; I see. She's got her head down, and would you like... How about coming up here and standing with dad just a minute. Would you like for the folks to see who the real hunting partner is? Don't be bashful. You're already turning red. And she's setting there with their head down. All right, honey, oh, my. All right, Billy Paul, I don't... You know him, of course, my boy. Where you at, Billy? He's around here somewhere. He has that hard job of giving out prayer cards. We've had... That's the hardest job there is in a campaign, caused three or four different men to have breakdowns. And then Billy's trying to take that place. Just as a lad in his sixteen years, but kind of a hard work for him, but he returns back from Africa, if the good Lord willing, with me, and he enters Bob Jones College then to finish his education, whatever God has chose for him to do in life's journey. I hope that God gives him a calling then.
Not very easy leaving home, leaving our loved ones and so forth. I've got a little girl at home now; her name is Sarah, a little black-headed, black-eyed girl just as sweet as she can be. And I love her with all my heart. And we left her the other day and wife come this far. They're return home in the morning while we fly away to Africa to bring the message. Pray for them. She's the one that stands at the door, stands between the right and wrong, and shields me. I appreciate your prayers for her. May God give us a safe journey back together again.
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Now, in the meetings, many, many, many times things are said and done, so forth, that we can't heal no one; we know that. We don't claim to heal anyone; we only claim to pray for the sick; God does the healing. A ministry that the Lord has given me; it's a little, kinda little bit different from some of the minister's ministry, but God gives severally as He will. You believe that? Just as He will, that's what He--He does. And so we know that He is, and a Rewarder of those who diligently seek Him. Is that right? Now, I want to read just a little Scripture, and we'll go right straight into the service. I believe God's going to give us a great service tonight. I was just praying with my boy, and Reverend Ford come up to get me, that God would do something special for us tonight and would bless the people. Usually the last night there's more healed than there is in any of other nights, is because that great pressure, pull and--and wanting to get into the line.
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Now, it doesn't heal anyone, but I've asked God tonight to do something that's special, to heal people all the way around over the building, all the way around the building. I want Him to do it. Now, I know He's going to do it. I have never for His will, any of my life, ever got down and really prayed sincerely, but what He answered. I've never done it. Now, sometimes if I thought something that wasn't right, and maybe I was some selfish something I prayed, it wouldn't do me any good. Because if my prayer would just come back, and I would have no faith, even in the beginning it would be answered. But just trying to break through. But you can't pull nothing from God that's not right; it's got to be right.
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Now, I wish to read some Scripture in two places in the blessed Word of God. If you'd like to read them with me, or follow me, turn to Saint Matthew the 4th chapter, beginning with the 23rd verse. And
then, turn over to, if you will, in Saint Luke the 1st chapter and beginning with the, I beg your pardon, the 2nd chapter with the 25th verse. And I want to read two portions. One of these is the starting of the ministry; the other is at His death, or not of His death, at His birth, rather, pardon me. Now, in Saint Matthew the--the 4th chapter, the 23rd verse, Jesus just beginning His ministry: And Jesus went about all Galilee, teaching in the synagogues... preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing all manner of sickness... all manner of diseases among the people. And His fame went throughout all Syria: and they brought unto Him all the sick people that were taken with divers diseases and torments, and those which were possessed with devils, and those which were lunatick, and those which had the palsy; and He healed them. And there followed Him great multitudes of people from Galilee... and--and from Jerusalem, and from Judaea, and from beyond Jordan. And then over in the 2nd chapter of Saint Luke we read this, beginning with the 25th verse: ... 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 unto him by the Holy Ghost, that he should not see death, before he had seen the Lord's Christ. And he came by the Spirit into the temple: and when the parents brought the child Jesus, to do for Him after the customs of the law, Then took he him up in his arms, and blessed God, and said, Lord, now let... thy servant depart in peace, according to thy word: For my eyes have seen thy salvation.
Let's bow our heads just a moment. Almighty God, we thank Thee for this great lesson tonight. And it's written here in the Scripture, that He went about all Judaea, and Samaria, around Decapolis, and all around over the world that was known then, doing good, healing the sick, casting out devils, setting the captive free. And we know that, now that Thou has not changed since that day, that You're still the same. In the day of the question You said that You did what the Father showed You to do. In the prayer to Your Father You said that You'd finish the work that He had give You to do. And then the Holy Spirit must come upon men, and they must continue the Gospel to the end of the age. And here we are, Lord, the age is ending. We thank Thee for this great city, New York, the rise and fall of many. We thank Thee for America, a land of the free and the home of
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the brave. We realize, Lord, that much precious blood has taken the supreme sacrifice that we could be free tonight to worship here, according to the dictates of our own conscience. God bless our land.
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Remember our boys out there in Korea tonight. God, I believe if there'd been more missionaries sent in, these things would not have happened. But we have money for machinery, everything, but seem like when it comes to Your work. Father, I believe that the money that would been spent on defense would've been placed missionaries in the field, there would been no war. But I suppose it's to be this a way. So help us to do our bit, Lord. And tonight being the closing night of this series of services here in the homeland, God, no matter wherever I go, I'll still remember the great tall pines, the old flag that I was born under, my loving friends throughout the nation. God, bless them; help them, Lord, and may, while we're gone, may the great revival continue on winning thousands of souls.
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Bless this great city; send them a revival, Lord. Send Thy servants in here from different parts of the nations where they're ministering now and give this great city a shaking for God. When Thy servants come in, Billy Graham and them, Lord, pour out Your Spirit upon them. Literally thousands will be saved and turned to Christ. Help us, Lord, as we're working the row, cutting down the briars, moving back the rocks, and pulling out the stumps, the front line, give us courage, Lord, big strong hearts, buckle up the armor; give us great strength and the power of Thy Spirit. And now, Lord, bless Sister Brown, that widow; God be with her and help her. Help Brother Byrd, the pastor; these other churches, cooperating churches all out through the city, every lay member, bless them together. Father, hasten us back again quickly, giving us a great victory in Africa and through the places down there, and bring us back here for another old fashion revival, grant it, Lord.
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Bless all that's here tonight. Bless my little family as I leave them, Lord, may they be sustained by Thy grace. May the Angel of God undergird us and help us now. Bless Brother Baxter and Brother Bosworth's family; they're leaving. These other dear friends, Brother Richey, and them here, Lord, who's standing by, and many other ministers in prayer, holding our hands before God, as Caleb of old and Joshua and those who held the hands of Moses. Give us a great out pouring of Thy blessings tonight and manifest Thyself and vindicate that Thou art here. For we ask it in Jesus' Name. Amen.
Just a moment to talk. I hate to even take this time, but I just must say a word or two before leaving you. When I first come to New York, I thought, "There's a richy bunch of aristocrats that would never receive the Gospel." But I certainly was wrong. Think--think some of the sweetest, humblest people I've ever met, been right here in New York. That's true; there's so many on the streets, you hardly meet anybody... Tonight while we were having a little lunch, some people come in; they looked over that way and kind of smiled, and I thought, "That must be Christians." In a few moments they shook my hand; they said, "Yes, we're from the--the Tabernacle, the Glad Tidings Tabernacle." Now, I--I found this; I said to my wife when I went out, I said, "You can go to Finland, Sweden, Germany, France, Belgium, wherever you want to, when you find people that's borned of the Spirit, they're the same thing the world over." For we're all one in Christ Jesus, fellow citizens of the Kingdom, co-workers together in this harvest field. We have feeling one for the other.
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Now, tonight, I want to speak just a moment on "Expectation." Simeon was a man; he was old; he's way... We're taught by theologians that he was somewhere in his eighties. But he had a real heart, waiting for God. Sometimes the church has got to a place to just a very few left, believers. But God has always had a remnant of people somewhere who would believe Him. Did you know that? Look at the antediluvian world. There was just a few, Noah, his sons, his daughter-in-laws, and his wife. That was all went into the ark. Is that right? Jesus said, "As it was in the days of Noah, so will it be in the coming of the Son of man." "Straight is the gate, narrow is the way, and but few there'll be that'll find it." Oh, Christian, make yourself one of the few; you have an invitation, just move on. "As it was in the days of Noah." Look at the morality, "Eat, drink, be merry, and giving in marriage, and knew it not, till the day that Noah entered into the ark." Be one of them that goes in. Pray for me that I'll be with you. I want to be; I sure want to be; that's my heart's desire to go in at that day with you all, be represented.
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Many times here I'd like to take each one of you, and go out, and set down, and talk awhile, take you to my hotel room; wish I could do that. God knows my heart. When I was a little boy I was more or less, what they call, a black sheep of the family. I didn't drink, my people are all Irish...?... they drink; all of them smoke, gamble, and I take my gun and go hunting. None of them understood me. And when I was ordained in the Missionary Baptist Church, they
said, "Someday you'll be a holy-roller." They didn't understand me. I couldn't, well, find nowhere, nobody wanted me. And finally one day God placed me with somebody who loved me, and I--I'm happy to be one of you. I believe it's the cream of the crop, and no disregards to anyone else. Just somewhere that I just fit like a glove, I just... I never did--could find a place where...?... I was always misunderstood. And I thought, "Surely, there'd be somebody else." I always wanted friends, oh, I'd just do anything to get a friend.
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Not long ago, I remember... 'Course, my father drinking and everything; we didn't have too much of a name in the city. I used to go downtown; when I was a little old ragged boy standing there, my hair hanging down, no clothes hardly. Remember wearing an old coat to school all winter long, no shirt on, had it buttoned up like this; and I couldn't take it off. Springtime come, the teacher asked me if I wasn't hot with that coat on; I said, "No ma'am." I couldn't take off; I didn't have on no shirt. And I--and I never will forget that, and how that people, you know, always poor white trash, looking like that. I'd go downtown, go talking to somebody. If there's--if there's no one else to talk to, they'd talk to me. And I thought, "What have I done? I haven't done nothing; I haven't harmed anybody." Somebody else would come along to talk to them; they'd turn around, and leave me alone, and walk away.
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The other day I was setting on the porch talking to my wife, not long ago. I said, "Think of it, honey, a few years ago I couldn't get even anyone to talk to me; now I have to get out in the woods somewhere and hide away to have a little rest." I know, what was it? My personality? I have none. Education? I have a grammar school, seventh grade. What was it? The Blood of Jesus Christ stooped down and picking up. And I love Him with all my heart, with that undying love. It's by His merit, His love. And I see people that love me; you just don't know how I feel towards you. I'll make an appointment with you, friends; I might not be able tonight to fulfill this, but some glorious day when it's all over, we come up to glory... If you get there before I do, some morning when you get out of your palace, the sun's a rising over the horizon, look down there in a little cabin down there on the hill side somewhere you hear somebody standing out on the back porch singing, "Amazing Grace how sweet the sound"; you say, "Brother Branham made it." That'll be me. I've never been able to sing, but I've always wanted to sing, "Amazing Grace." I'll be standing down there singing "Amazing Grace, how sweet the sound that saved a wretch like me."
We'll set down together down there by Jacob's well; won't be hurry up we got prayer meeting for the sick; there'll be no sick there; they'll all be well then. We'll set down and talk a few thousand years with one another, walk up and down the streets of gold. Won't that be wonderful? That's not a fictitious dream; that's the Gospel truth. We shall see... And old Baptist song we used to sing down in Kentucky, we sang,
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I shall know, yes, I shall know Him, And redeemed by His side I shall stand; I shall know, I shall know Him, By the prints of the nails in His hands.
I'll know Him. That does not yet appear what we shall be like, but we'll have a body like His, for we shall see Him as He is. And as long as I can see Him and be with Him, no matter what He looks like, as long as it's Him it'll be heaven to me wherever it is. And I know you feel the same way. A remnant, God give me the privilege to be associated with you all tonight, a remnant waiting for God, as it was in the days of our text.
Simeon had a promise of the Holy Spirit that he was not going to die until he seen the Lord's Christ. So he went around telling people that he wasn't going to die until he seen the Lord's Christ. Could you imagine how that man felt. Going around... He was an old sage, his white beard and white hair hanging down. He'd go around telling people, "Now, I'm not going to die until I see the Lord's Christ." Why, the people said, "Maybe the old fellow's just a little bit off." But he had the promise of the Holy Spirit. He believed that he would receive--see the Christ before he seen death, because the Holy Ghost called. Now, he had that desire in his heart, because he had the promise.
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If you believe, whatever you believe... If you come to the meeting tonight, just to find something to go away to criticizing it, devil will show it to you; you'll see it. And if you come to find something about God, that you could go away and be blessed, God will show it to you. Whatever you desire, whatever you are, "As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he." You go away and say, "Well, I--I didn't expect to be called in the prayer line." Well. "I--I didn't expect the Holy Spirit to speak and call me out here." If you don't expect it, you won't receive it. But, as you believe (See?), expectancy... My mother one time sent me to a place to meet her sister. I'd never seen her. She told me what I would look like, what she would look like. Said, "Now, she'll have a high forehead." Said, "She's got dark hair." My mother's a half-breed; she's an Indian. And so she said,
"She'll have a high forehead. She's got thin hair." And described how she looks. Said, "She's thin, little woman." And said, "You'll know her by certain descriptions." And I was looking through the audience, and I had some idea of what she looked like, and as soon as I seen her I said, "You're my Auntie." She said, "Who are you?" And I said, "You know Ella Branham?" Said, "Yes." I said, "That's my mother." She said, "My sister." And there we was. See?
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Now, we ought to have some idea tonight, what the Holy Spirit in Its operation should look like. The... Jesus described to us just what the Church of the living God will look like. He said, "In My Name they'll cast out devils; they'll speak with new tongues; if they take up serpents or drink anything, it won't harm them. If they lay their hands on the sick, they shall recover. The things that I do shall you do also," know the thoughts of the heart and describe, discern, so forth. Is that right? Now, if you're looking for God, that shows that there's something somewhere here that you're looking for. Now, David said in the Scriptures, "When the deep calleth to the deep..." The deep calls to the deep, in other words, when there's a--a desire in here, there's something out there that's causing... In other... Here, before there is a desire in here there has to be something create that desire. See? And if there's a creator to create that desire of that creation. You get what I mean?
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Here, before there was a--a fin on a fish's back... You here you have much fish that gets along these bays here. Look, 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 had that fin. See, God put that fin on him to swim in the water, so there had to be a water first before there was a fin on his back. Before there was a tree to grow on the earth; there had to be a earth first for it to grow into, or there would've been no tree to grow. And if there's a desire in the human heart for more of God, there's got to be more of God somewhere to respond to that deep calling to the deep. See what I mean?
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Now, when the deep calling... Now, how many here believe in Divine healing, let's see your hands. Well, that is wonderful. All right. Now, something in your heart tells you that there is Divine healing in God. Is that right? Well, now before you could have that in your heart, there has to be a Creator to put that in your heart. See?
It's...?... Here not long ago I was reading in a paper where a little baby eat the pedals off of a bicycle, eat the rubber off of a pencil. Well, the doctor when he got the little fellow, he said... He examined him, give him this test; he said, "You know what? The little baby hasn't got any calcium in its body." Now, it's little body was made up to needing calcium; Or I beg your pardon, not calcium, it was sulfur. It was sulfur goes in the human body. He said, "The baby has no sulfur, and there's certain organs in there that's got to have sulfur." Then there's something here calling out for sulfur. See? If it's calling for sulfur, there's got to be sulfur somewhere, or this wouldn't be made to desire sulfur. See?
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And if there's something in the human heart craving Divine healing, oh, my, here we go, there is a Divine healing; there's a fountain open somewhere. There's got to be. If you're craving... When you were back yonder, just with a lukewarm experience, and your heart begin to crave for more of God, there just had to be a fountain open somewhere. Is that right? And God sent it. And when you're craving for Divine healing, there's got, there's a Creator putting that creation in your heart. It's a calling out, deep calling to the deep. There's a fountain somewhere. And Simeon had a promise of the Holy Spirit that he wasn't going to see death before he seen the Lord's Christ. There was a call in his heart. Let's drama a minute. Let's take it on Monday morning.
There's about two million Jews in Palestine, then or more, probably couple hundred babies born every night. Every day there'd be the babies. After eight days they'd be brought to the temple for circumcision, purification. And when He was born in a manger in Judaea, Bethlehem of Judaea, there wasn't no one there to celebrate His birth. So God sent some Angels down out of heaven, and they sang songs as they usually sing at a kings birth. Some shepherds out on the hills, They went and told them about it. Three Magi come following the star, that passed over every planetarium, and no one see it but those Magis, just led them to the Christ. Not much known about it, there was no press in them days like we have today, radio and television. Message was just from mouth to ear.
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Well, after eight days, let's notice, little Mary, with a black name to start with, supposingly to have a illegitimate child by Joseph, born out of wedlock. Everyone in the country then would scoff at her, "There's that woman not even married and got a baby." But in her heart she knew Whose baby that was. We was just talking on that
this afternoon. Here she comes to the temple; let's look, standing down the line, now maybe two hundred women, or three. Way down there stood some of them holding a lamb, a rich man's offering. But way down there I see a little virgin about eighteen years old, a veil pulled over her face, holding a little baby wrapped in swaddling's cloth.
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What is swaddling's cloth? I'm taught that it was a--that stuff on a yoke of an ox. And when he's plowing, that cloth they had on there to keep it from rubbing, they had nothing to put the, in the baby--on the baby, so they just unwrapped this cloth and wrapped it around the baby. And here He was standing in his mother's arms in the temple. Everybody standing back, "I wouldn't stand near that woman like that. That little old baby, must be sure poor thing, not even no clothes to put on it." But it was the Prince of glory. Here she had two little turtledoves in her hand, a peasants offering. No one paying any attention to her. Let's take way back over there in the temple, I see an old man setting there reading the scroll, the tears rolling down his cheeks, saying, "Lord, You promised me that I'd not die until I seen Your Christ. Now, I believe that You will someday; I'm getting awful old, but You'll show me someday."
About that time the Holy Ghost moved upon him, said, "Rise, Simeon, start moving." "Where Lord?" "Just move." Maybe He's speaking to you tonight, it's your time to be healed. "Rise, start moving." "Where?" "I don't know, rise." All right. Here he comes out through there led by the Holy Spirit, moves over to that line. Goes down that line, the Holy Ghost leading, come right straight to where that woman stood there in shame, with her head bowed, watching her little baby as tears dripped upon its face, in it's little swaddling's cloth. There that old priest reached over in her arms without saying a word, and took the baby in his arms, and looked up, the tears rolling down his beard, said, "Lord, let Your servant depart in peace, according to Thy Word: for mine eyes has seen Thy Salvation." [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] Way back down where half a million people were milling in the temple, was an old blind prophetess setting down there by the name of Ann. We're taught that she was blind, but she was waiting for the consolation of Israel. The Holy Ghost spoke to her. Here she rises, blind; here she comes down through the temple, moving around through the temple, led by the Holy Spirit, moved right over in front of the child and raised up her hands and blessed God.
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What is it? That same God that moved on them... If you believe in Divine healing tonight, believe there is a fountain open somewhere, the same Holy Ghost was on Simeon was on Ann, has moved you into the temple tonight, where there is a fountain open freely for healing tonight. Be expecting it. God gave you the promise that you could be healed by His power. And He's here to do it tonight. Do you believe that? How that I've seen, wondered through the meetings, how the leadings of the Spirit. There's a woman setting present now that I wish to speak to. I was in Fort Wayne, Indiana. A great revival was going on there from the B. E. Rediger, and Paul Rader, many of those gallant men. Brother Bosworth was setting; he was at the meeting, speaking. I got up in the Indiana Hotel and they found out I was in Indiana Hotel, and the usher come, a bellhop come told me, said, "Brother Branham, you can't even get down, there's so many people there."
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So they took me out. There was the place where this man with multiple sclerosis was healed, they sent the word that king George of England for me to, that king George of England sent word back for me to have prayer for him for his multiple sclerosis, which God healed him. The man had been a bed patient for ten years, paralyzed from his waist down. He was setting there, and couldn't even get in the line twisting. And some businessman that night, the last night of the meeting... Brother Bosworth setting here is a witness of this, picked him up. How many reads "We The People?" You see the article of it in "We The People," that noted book that goes around the world. My meetings was represented in there from a blind girl and so forth, in that Fort Wayne meeting that was... How many take the "Pentecostal Evangel"? It was in that too, and all around. You seen the article no doubt at all; it was represented in the great famous book of "We The People," this year.
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And then when we was going to the platform, well, this man, some businessmen picked him up; he hadn't walked for ten years, he'd been in bed with multiple sclerosis. Tried to lay him there; people was walking over him. We just had what we call a fast line. And the fellow, they pulled him off the platform; and he was about dead. And he was setting in his wheelchair again; he looked up like that. And I turned; I felt the faith pulling, looked down and there he was setting there. He said, "Oh, Brother Branham," he said, "if I could only touch your trouser leg I'd have got well." Trying to touch my trouser leg to get well. I said, "God bless you,
brother." I looked again; I seen a vision of him going walking away. I knew it had to happen then. I said, "Brother, you've been a bed patient for ten years." "That's right, sir." I said, "But Jesus Christ makes you whole." Up he got from that wheelchair, like that, and away he went.
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And there was an old man laying there, said, "If I could only touch your clothes, my brother, I'll get well." He was paralyzed, had arthritis. And I passed down to him; he put his old crippled hand over on me, said, "Thank You, Lord. Thank You, Lord, that's what I wanted to do." See, his anticipation. What? According to your faith, be it unto you. I got a letter from them about six months later, the man that had multiple sclerosis was driving down the road, and the man that had been paralyzed, or had his arthritis, was out in the field plowing on a tractor. And one seen the other, and they were buddies, set all through the meeting talking one to another. This was the last night. And there the man that would have been crippled for years with arthritis, drawed up a bed patient, seen the man coming down the road that had been a multiple sclerosis patient; and the man jumped out of the car and run through the field. And the man, the other man jumped off the tractor, and they run grabbed one another, and begin to hug each other screaming and crying out there in the field, "Amazing Grace how sweet the sound that saved a wretch like me." Yes, in there.
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I remember going out one morning, my wife and I, Mrs. Morgan, Mayo's nurse that just been healed with a cancer. They'd give her up with it and everything, and just cancer through. She weighed forty something pounds, lots worse looking than Miss, this lady that I showed you, Miss Florence Nightingale of England, South Africa, rather; lots worse than she was. And they said there nothing could be done. She weighs a hundred and fifty-five pounds now, in perfect health. She was with us, and we was going down the street; we went out through the, under the basement and come out, going down the street. And I had my coat up; I was holding little Becky, setting there in my arms. We were going down the street. And all at once the Holy Spirit said, "Don't go over to the Toddle House," where this great Mr. Eaton of Canada was healed there in that little Toddle House. Said, "Go down this a way for breakfast."
And I turned down that way, not knowing where I was going. I walked on; the women followed. I heard His voice; I looked, and I
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before a place said Miller's Cafeteria, said, "Turn in." And I went in. I got some prunes and a cup of coffee, set down. I'd just asked the blessing, and about that time somebody said, "Glory to God." Miss Morgan said, "Now, you're caught, aren't you?" I said, "But wait just a moment." And she was thanking God, an old mother got up and she said, "Brother Branham," said, "my brother here... I've followed meeting after meeting, meeting after meeting trying to get in, and I couldn't do it." She said, "And last night I prayed all night," said, "we even sold our cow." They was from Texas, said, "We sold our cow to get to have the money to come here, and the last meeting is gone tonight." Said, "We can't get a prayer card." Said, "We've had many cards, but can't be called." Said, "We know we haven't got another resource at all that we could sell to follow another meeting." Said, "I've prayed all night long, and about four o'clock this morning I fell asleep." She said, "I dreamed that I was to come to Miller's Cafeteria, and be sure to be here at nine o'clock, and it's just on the dot."
Oh, how He is wonderful. God healed the man standing right there. Turned without eating, and started walking out, the Holy Spirit leading. I went to the door, a little lady, fine dressed young lady, dressed in black, fell almost to the street, said, "Oh, my." She was from Chicago; she sets in this meeting tonight somewhere; she was here yesterday. God had spoke to her, knowing that her life was at the end at stake, and said, "Go, stand before Miller's Cafeteria ten minutes after nine." I wonder if the lady's here somewhere now; she, her husband owns a spaghetti company in Chicago. if you are raise your hand, or wave your hand, or something or another. They sent me word that she was here. There she is, right there. Let's give God praise. Right there. Cancer, malignant, way out. I think Mayo's and all had turned her down, and there she is tonight after two years. "Amazing grace." See, led by the Holy Spirit, perfect health. I think she just returned from South America; she was in a meeting here not long ago giving a testimony. All right.
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After I left her, I started on down the street; the Holy Spirit said, "Stand still." Mrs. Morgan and Meda said, "Come on." My wife. I said, "Cross the street, go in the drugstore, and get the baby a coloring book." Go on down through the basement, go up, the place is full. I said, "The Holy Spirit's not through yet." And I stood there on the corner; I got back. I love guns and fishing tackle and things. I was looking at it and watching, nobody seen me; I slipped back in the corner; I said, "Heavenly Father, what would You have me do?" He said, "Go down to the corner, cross the street, and stand there for a little bit."
I went out, and crossed the street, and stood there. This happens all the time. Stood there on the corner a little bit; I didn't know what was going to happen. Stood there about ten minutes and people kept coming and going, coming and going, coming and going. After while the big Irish cop blowed the whistle and some more pedestrians crossing. And I looked, and here come a lady with a little tam on and with a checkered like suit, holding a--a pocketbook on her arm. She crossed the street, I--went right by me like that and went on. He said, "Draw close to her." And I did. He went on by like that, and I thought, "That's strange, why did He want me to go by her?" And I stood there a little bit; she turned around and she said, "Oh," she said, "Brother Branham." I said, "Yes ma'am." She said, "Oh, I feel like I'm going to faint." And I said, "What's the matter, sister?" She said, "I'm from Canada." Said, "I'm only allowed a hundred and fifty dollars a year down here; spent all my money." Said, "I had five cents for coffee; I slept in a hotel lobby last night in a chair where they let me sleep." And she said, "I had five cents for coffee this morning; I was going down to hitchhike my way back to Canada, and I was about two or three squares below here crying, saying, I'll have to go back the way I come." He said, "Turn to your right." Then said, "I got in the Spirit, didn't know where I was at till I seen you standing here." Said, "I don't know how many turns I made." I said, "What's the matter, sister?" She said, "My arm has been crippled. I was riding a dog when I was a little girl and I hurt my hand." I said, "Stretch forth your hand; Jesus Christ has healed you." There that big cop said, "I know who you are, Brother Branham." Like that. And talk about a prayer line, we had one there on the street for about a hour then. Till some of them had to come and get me. Many, many, things, and how, one of the things, one more thing just a moment. Late... I've got five minutes yet.
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Look, quickly now, I was coming from Dallas. Brother Bosworth remembers things over there. And I was flying back. A storm come up, and I was sent down at Memphis. And they told me, the airline said, "We'll call you in the morning." I went up to the Peabody Hotel. They stayed all night there. Next morning they called me early, said, "Now, be ready at eight o'clock." I said, "All right." And I had some mail I had to mail back. And I went out, and been praying. I run down to the post office to put the mail in the box. Listenly close now to this, how the Holy Spirit leads. I went down to the post office, going down the street, I was going down singing that little song you Pentecost people sing, "They're telling now both far and wide His power's just the same." Did you ever hear
it? "I'm Glad I Can Say I'm One Of Them." I was going down singing, "I'm one of them, I'm one of them. I'm so glad that I can say, I'm one of them." I was going down like that. I started to cross the street, and the Holy Spirit said, "Stop."
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I felt the Angel of the Lord come near, and I got back up amongst some big pillars there and I said, "Heavenly Father, what would You have Your servant do?" He said, "Turn and go back. Just keep going." I turned and went walking back down the street. I walked on and on and on for look about three or four miles. Eight o'clock come, nine o'clock come. Oh, my, I knew I was... The plane's gone, but I just kept on walking. After while I was down in colored district. I looked down there, a little old whitewashed house down there, roses blooming around the door. I looked, hanging out over the gate, there hung a very typical Aunt Jemima. She had a man's shirt pinned around her head, like this. She was hanging over the gate like this, and oh, I seen her, oh, a hundred yards away. And I was singing, "Only Believe, Only Believe, all things are possible, only believe," walking on down. I quit singing, started by, I looked over, she said, "Hello, parson." I said, "How do, Auntie?" And down south they call a preacher a parson, so I said; I said, "Hello, Auntie." And I looked, tears was rolling her big fat cheeks. She looked at me; I said, "Say, how'd you know I was a parson?" She said, "I knowed you was coming."
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I said, "Well, how'd you know I was a parson." Said, "Did you ever hear about the Shunammite woman in the Bible that had the baby?" And I said, "Yes." Said, "Well, I's one of them kind of women." She said, "I--I was barren, and I promised the Lord if He give me a child, I'd raise it for Him." But said, "I done the best that I could." And said then, said, "The first thing you know, my boy took the road that's wrong." Said, "He took a horrible disease, and he's laying in there dying." Said, "The doctors can't do nothing for him; he's been unconscious now two days. The doctors give him all kinds of shots and nothing will stop it." Said, "It's done into the marrow of the bone and," said, "nothing will drive it out." Said, "He's been unconscious for two days," but said, "him a backslider." Said, "Oh," said, "I prayed all day and night, 'Lord, please send somebody.'" And said, "The Lord this morning about four o'clock, told me to go out and see a man with a brown suit on. A small man with dark hair would come down the street, that would be the parson." And she said, "I've been standing here ever since that time. I seen that brown suit come around that
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Oh, hallelujah. What am I speaking of? The same Holy Ghost that led Simeon is the same Holy Ghost leading the Church today. See? I said, "Auntie, my name is Branham; did you ever hear of me?" She said, "No, sir, Parson Branham, I never heard of you." She said, "Will you come in and see my boy?" Said, "I don't want him to die a backslider," said, "I want him to be saved, parson." And I said, "Yes, ma'am." I said, "Auntie, I pray for the sick, did you ever hear my meeting?" She said, "No, sir, Parson Branham." She said, "The only thing I know, the Lord told me you'd be a small man with dark hair and you'd have on a brown suit, you'd be coming this a way." Oh, that same Holy Spirit that lived in Simeon's day is the same Holy Ghost today. He's ready to come when the deep calls to the deep.
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Then friends, that morning... I've been into king's palaces; I've been in aristocrats homes where they're worth as many as twenty-eight million dollars or more, and I've been in the poorest. But I never was any welcome than I was in that little old whitewashed cabin that morning, when the sun coming up across the hill there, kissing away the sweetness of the fragrance of the roses as they was blooming. An old chain hanging at the gate, and a plow horn hanging down on the end of it for a weight. I walked into that little old house, there with a little old brass looking poster bed, a little iron bed stood--standing in the corner, a straw tick on it for a mattress, and up over the door it said, "God bless our home." An old wash tub setting in the kitchen, but it was home. I looked, laying there on the bed, a great big colored boy, strong looking, with the blankets in his hand going, "Umm, umm, umm, it's so dark, umm." I said, "What's the matter with him, Auntie?" Said, "Parson, he thinks he's out in a...?... sea," said, "he's been lost the last two days." Said, "He's lost and he thinks it's..." He said, "It's so cold out here, umm." I said, "Auntie, let's just pray." She knelt down, and that old saint prayed a prayer; brother, I'm telling you: I just knelt at the foot of the bed and tears just spat on the floor. She raised up, took her old apron, and wiped her eyes. Said, "Lord, don't let him die, Lord; till I hear his little boy tell his mammy that him saved."
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I felt his feet, they were cold, sticky, death was on the boy, had syphilis: went through him, nothing. They give him Salvarsan, 606, mercury, and everything else, penicillin, nothing could stop it; it
gone on. Got out with the wrong crowd. Then I knelt down; I said, "Auntie, let's pray." And I got down to pray; and I said, "Heavenly Father, that plane's hour past now, or more." I said, "But You said turn and come this way, and You said, 'They that are sons of God are led by the Spirit of God.' I don't know, Father, why You sent me down here. That'll be explained another day, but somehow, I believe this is the place You were leading me, the way it's been brought around. You showed her me coming and had me coming this a way." I said, "The only thing I know, Lord; I lay my hand on this dying man in the Name of Your Son, Christ Jesus, please spare his life." When I said that, he hollered, "Oh, mammy," said, "It's getting light in the room now."
A few minutes he was setting on the side of the bed, talking to us in his right mind. About six months later I passed through on a train, going down in Arizona on a train. I passed... I got out there at Memphis, was going up to get something to eat there. The little railroad station, if any of you was--had been there, you know how the train goes straight ahead, and the railroad station's across the front. And I heard somebody holler, "Oh, Parson Branham." And I looked, and here he come; he was one of the Redcaps there. He come running, grabbed my hand, jumped around and around, and said, "Parson Branham, you remember me?" I said, "I don't believe I do." Said, "One morning the Holy Spirit led you down to my mammy's cabin," Said, "where I was dying." He said, "Parson Branham, I's not only well, but I's saved now. I's a Christian, Parson Branham."
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Hallelujah. I say the God that lived in that day is the same God today. [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] Be expecting. That mother was expecting her boy, expecting God to do something. I'm expecting God to do something tonight. Are you expecting it? I'm expecting God's glory to fall. I'm expecting it to be such a spontaneous clap of faith here, that'll send literally thousands of these peoples into a sphere there, where they could touch the hem of His garment and be made whole. Our heavenly Father, we thank Thee tonight for the great price. Oh, God, how we love Him. When we were sinners He died in our place; He took our place at Calvary, knowing no sin, yet was made guilty of all sin. His soul went to hell, which You wouldn't suffer Your holy One to see corruption. On the third day He rose again. And tonight, like it was on the road from Emmaus, He's with us, resurrected, standing here in our midst now, the Son of God, standing in our midst, proving that He's here with signs and wonders, moving into the saints hearts by the Holy Spirit taking the Words of God and sending them out
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O God, hear the prayer of Your servant, and as this is closing our services on this tour, for this beautiful, wonderful, God save America. O God, send the Angels of God down tonight, and may there be such an outpouring of the Holy Spirit, till literally every person in the building be healed. Grant it, Lord. Please hear my prayer, God, as I try and serve You, pleading everything I've got. God, while we're trying to do something for You, help me, dear Jesus to be Your servant. And may many, many, many people's in this building tonight, every one that's sick and afflicted, be made completely well. And Lord, how happy we'll be for this. And we'll give You all the praise, all the glory. We know that Thou art here to make well, to answer. You're a loving Father, a Go-between, standing between sickness and death. Oh, how wonderful You are. Amazing grace, how You saved us by Your grace, healed us by Your stripes, made us completely overcomers of all things in the beloved Son of God. Now, grant a great outpouring tonight, in the Name of Thy Son Jesus. Amen.
Praise be to God. Someone now got healed back there. Amen, that's just wonderful. How can you hold your peace. All right. Now, let's be able to... How many loves the Lord, say, "Amen"? How many believes that you're going to get healed tonight, let's see your hand? All right. Let's... Where's Billy at? Billy, what--what's that letter? All right, Billy said they give out all the cards he had left over, hundreds... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] Only Believe, come on now, let's go, all right:
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Only believe, only believe, All things are possible, only believe; Only believe, only believe, All things are possible, only believe.
Let's sing it like this:

Lord, I believe, Lord, I believe, All things are possible, Lord, I believe; Lord, I believe, (That's right.) Lord, I believe, All things are possible, Lord, I believe.
Let's change it this way and sing, "Now I believe," now, right now. How many believes right now? All right, now, let's get it way up now, make the rafters ring, come on.
Now I believe, now I believe, All things are possible, now I believe; Now I believe, now I believe, All things are possible, now I believe. as we... Softly, let's hum it. [Brother Branham begins humming.--Ed.]
Now,
Coming down off of a mountain one morning, come a lowly Galilean, where His Father had said, "This is My Beloved Son, in Whom I'm well pleased." I see a father coming up with his child that had epilepsy; said, "I took to Your disciples; they could do him no good." Said, "Lord, can You help me?" He said, "I can if you believe. For all things are possible to them that believe." Said, "Lord, I believe; help Thou my unbelief." That same Jesus tonight is here in the midst of us all. Let's all be in prayer, everybody now, expecting to meet Him.
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Now, one by one, as you're lining up now, if you will be just as reverent. I'm going to ask you something to do for me tonight. I've been speaking to you, and I want you to do this for me if you will. Don't move around, please, please; just keep as reverent as you can, while the line's going on, 'cause it throws me out of here. And the devil just wants one thing to be made wrong. He won't look for all the good things; he will watch for that one bad thing. See? And now, just be reverent and God shall speak and testify that I have told you the truth. Now, remember this: I do not claim to be a Divine healer. I only claim a prophetic gift, that I was born in this world with, that detects, and knows, sees, just as the Father shows me. And I claim that it's the same Pillar of Fire that led the children of Israel through the land of the wilderness to the promise. Was it a Pillar of Fire? Well, when the Holy Ghost, this Angel of God, permitted His picture to be taken, that's exactly what It was, a Pillar of Fire, the same thing.
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And I know, and any scholar knows that that Angel was the Angel of the Covenant (Was that right?), which was Christ. That's true. It met Moses, in the burning bush; it was the Pillar of Fire. Not Moses done the works, but it was that Pillar of Fire that led him; That done the works. And I believe it's the same Spirit that was upon Christ, is here today. He can't heal, only He's already done the healing, already done the healing. Now, people, check one another's cards now, there might be some deaf people; I called from 1 to 20 to start with. If them are... Ushers is all your clients there? Are they all there, every...? That's wonderful. All right. Bring your patient.
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Now, please, please, friends, this is the last night, and it's Sunday night. And we got just a little time now. And maybe I got too many in here; it might shut off some of the people praying. But everyone just be seated, that's--that's in your seat now. And just be
reverent, and look this a way and pray. All over the building, everywhere, plumb back in the back, over on the sides, up this way, everywhere you are, now just be really sincere tonight, and see if God doesn't speak and confirm your faith. All right. And I believe the, one of the mangers here of the building told me that they'd fix this microphone. Can you hear way back in the back there all right? Way back in the back? If you can raise your hands up if you can hear all right. That's fine.
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How do you do, sir? I believe that we are strangers, sir. I do not know you. Now, I'm just going through this merely to--to contact your human spirit. See? Do you believe that I be God's servant? You do? Now, there's something wrong with you, and now if I, by the Spirit of God, could see anything wrong with you, I would have to be able to have some supernatural way to bring it down, is that right? Or I would know nothing about it. I... Do you love Him? Isn't He wonderful? He certainly... You're just a little nervous now (See?), 'cause it's just the tension of you standing here. But nothing to harm; it's all to do good then; it's all to help you. And that's why I'm here tonight. If I didn't think that God had sent me to do something to help these poor sick people, I certainly wouldn't be here as a deceiver. If I couldn't think and didn't know that God had sent me to help the people, I--I sure wouldn't go to Africa, I'd go home with my family in the morning, and take my job back, and go to work out there for the conservation. But I--I wouldn't be a deceiver. But I believe and know that God has sent me to help people. And that's why I'm here tonight, is because that I believe that if--if God can do something through me to increase your faith to accept the Son of God as your Healer, then you'll get healed. You believe that, don't you? You do, yes sir.
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Now, yes, sir, I see you're--you're suffering with a horrible thing; it's called cancer. Is that right? It's a cancer. That cancer is located under the tongue; I believe it's in the mouth. Isn't that right? You're awfully nervous, and I see that's a prostate trouble that's caused that. That's been some time, you've been a little upset. You never have been able to do your life, you've got, 'course you got bad eyes, something wrong with your eyes. Your hearing's not good. You've been lately feeling awfully sluggish and wore out, your strength depleted. Isn't that right? Was that true? Now, if that's true, so the audience will be able to see it, raise up this hand if that was true, every word of it. All right. Do you now accept Jesus as your Healer? I lay my hands on you and according to His Word, and said, "They shall recover." You shall have your healing, my brother, go home rejoicing and happy and be made well. In the Name of Jesus Christ. Say, "Praise the Lord." Let's say,
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Oh, this is so wonderful. Many times it gets you so weak. Last night they had a little time with me. But I realize I can't last many years like this, friend. It burns your life right out of you. Many of you might not understand why that sometimes they have to pack me off this platform. That's one case of that demon leaving that man just then, that's got me reeling, staggering. See? The human part's gone; the supernatural comes in and works through human flesh, not the human flesh, but the supernatural working through. Just like the light coming through that bulb. It isn't the bulb; it's the light, the current going through it. See? They could turn off; it's dark. Same as the human is... How many remembers when a woman touched Jesus' garment, and He got real weak. How many remembers the prophet Daniel? when he saw one vision, he said, "I was troubled at my head for many days." Is that right? Now, you understand what I mean? See, you got to break into a sphere that people know nothing about. There's no need of trying to explain it; you don't know it; it won't be known. After I'm gone this will come upon someone else. All right.
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How do you do, sister? You are the patient, aren't you? But we be strangers, I believe, lady, I don't think I ever seen you. And if we be strangers, then I'm standing here as a man, you as a lady; and there's some few thousand people looking at us. Besides that, there's a supernatural Being standing here, which is the Angel of God that I'm speaking of. And just as certain as I'm standing here, you're aware of that. You know there's something that you never felt anything like that in your life. Isn't that right? If that's right raise up your hand, so the people see that that is right. Because your faith is begin moving, pulling. Yes, ma'am, I see you going away from me now; you're going back; you stop at the side of a bed. I see you holding on to the side of a bed. You're crippled, or--or no, you have a arthritis or some kind of a condition. I see you then start across the street, and you move down real easy to cross the street. And you were wearing the same clothes; it's been recently. Say, you got something on your mind you're worried about. You're upset, I see something hanging near you. You are... You're upset about something aren't you? You're worried. Now, be honest with me; it is--it's something you're worrying about. Here it comes, yes, it's concerning child, childbirth. You're afraid of a miscarriage which being pregnant. Is that right? Don't worry, go and Jesus Christ... Let's say, "Praise be to God," to Jesus Christ. Let's give God praise like this, glorify God.
Now, He is here to make well, to heal, to do all things. The reason I kept holding on with the lady; I try not to hold on to those people too long. If I see one thing I just let it go. But the lady was stumped when I said she was worrying about something, and I noticed then, I seen what she was worried about, and I went ahead till her faith got confirmed. Sometimes you have to talk longer than others. But 'course that lightens, brings the crowds down. Maybe have to cut off short. But be reverent now. All right lady, come ahead now. Everybody, be reverent. You are blessed, my sister. Don't you fear; you only have faith. Don't let nobody put nothing else in your mind; you're going to be all right. You go on. When she passed by, the reason I know, I felt it go out to her again. You see? I know God had respected that woman's faith.
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All right, would you come near, lady, if you would. I believe that you and I are--are strangers. I don't remember you. If I've ever seen you, it's been somewhere in life that I do not remember. But you are... You come to be made well, aren't you, sister? And I perceive right away that you're a Christian woman. You're charitable sort of a person; you have a heart that you like to give and to do things good for others. Say, you're a business woman, aren't you? Aren't you in some sort of a business? That's right, you are. I believe you're in a clothing business, isn't that right? Is that true? See, yes, ma'am. And you, why, say, you've even sent me clothes, lady. You've given me clothes. Have you? You have. And you're suffering with kind of a headaches and everything. You have a funny odd feeling. You've been fasting for the last few days, haven't you? Uh-huh. You haven't had that feeling since you been fasting because it's been better. Is that right? Is that true? You've had an operation too, haven't you? That's right, uh-huh. And now, you've believed always, if I lay hands on you and ask God that that would leave you. When those feelings hit you, you have funny feelings, feel like it's pulling you and shoving you forward. Is that right? Come, here sister, this will confirm you. In the Name of Jesus Christ, the Son of God, bless this woman who I bless. You said, "Whatever you bind on earth, I'll bind in heaven: whatever you loose on earth I'll loose in heaven." Almighty God knowing that this evil spirit has left the woman through the fast, may it stay away from her now in the Name of Jesus Christ may she go and be made well. Amen. God bless you, sister. Go rejoicing, being happy, and being well. Let's say, "Praise the Lord," everybody.
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And bless the LORD, O my soul: and all that is within me,
bless His holy name. Bless the LORD, O my soul, and forget not all of his benefits: Who healeth all of thy diseases; who forgives all of thy iniquities; That's the benefits of serving the Lord. All right, bring the lady. Everybody be reverent. Have faith in God. Do not doubt. Only believe; have faith in God.
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I believe the Almighty's going to do something wonderfully. Oh, please, friends, please. If God is testifying things to be true. I know it seems too deep to fathom, and I'm not reading your mind, but just a group out there, just a wondering. Not that you don't believe; but you're just in admiration, you're wondering. Now, let the audience know this is true. Isn't that true? If it is raise your hands. Right out through this audience here; I feel it (That's right), just an admiration, and just feeling. Now, don't wonder; just accept. No one can figure God out. You can't do it, there's no need of trying. You'll never figure God out; you've got to believe Him by faith.
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How do you do, lady? Well, I don't know as I've ever seen you in my life; we are strangers. And, now look audience, God told Moses, "I'm going to send you down into Egypt to deliver the children of Israel." He said, "I'm a man of slow speech." He said, "But I'm going to give you a sign to do before the people. And if you do this before the people, then..." To turn his hand, and heal it with leprosy, and fix the stick to a serpent. Said, "then the people's going to believe that I sent you." He did that one time, and that settled it. Is that right. Now, here is a woman; as far as I know, I've never seen her in my life. She's standing here; I don't know her, never seen her in my life. She doesn't know me no more, I guess then for the papers, or being in a meeting and looking at me. But we being strangers, and if I testify to you that when I was born, a little boy back there in the mountains, that that Light come and hung over where I was. It followed me all the days of my life, not saying it was because of my righteousness, my... It was a foreordination of God. Ephesians 1 said, "These things was foreordained before the foundation of the world."
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Now, some of you wanting the Scripture for that, I feel it. All right, I will give it to you. All right, in Jude, the first 4 verses read: These men of old, foreordained, the men crept in unawares, foreordained to this condemnation; it's lasciviousness, using the grace of our Lord for lasciviousness. Is that right? Man foreordained of old to this condemnation, like Pharaoh in Egypt, Judas Iscariot borned the son of perdition. And if
you got the least spark upon your heart for God, you ought to thank God and serve Him with all your might (That's right.) for He's giving you an opportunity. Now, I stand here declaring the Creator of heavens and earth, Jehovah God. Now, I claim to be a representative of His in these last days to bring faith to His Church. And here stands a woman by me, and if I tell truth, then God vindicate my words truth. If I do not tell the truth, He will have nothing to do with me. Any man can say anything, but if God speaks of it and says it's truth, then you believe the truth, you believe God.
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Now, if I tell truth, then if God will help me, I'll be able to see our sister. Now, you know what I mean by see her? Not as I know to see her now, but when Elijah, when they came down, the king Jehoram and--and Ahab's son, and all come down before, and Jehoshaphat, come down before Elijah and said, "Should they go up to battle?" or so forth. You know what Elijah said? "If it wasn't that I respected the presence of Jehoshaphat, I wouldn't even look to you," look at you or see you. Is that right? The prophet said, "I'll... But being that I respect him, I'll look at you."
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Now, lady, I want you to see this way and know surely, and that feeling that you feel on you now, that's Almighty God. You believe that? I want you to be just as reverent as you can be in His Presence. Now, look here and let me talk to you just a little bit. Now, you're nervous; I see that, 'cause you're twisting your hands and going on, which, that's just anyone could see that. See you shaking and know that you're nervous. And it's a little more than ever now, because it's--it's the Presence. Now, be in prayer Brother Richey, see that coming from back in there, interfering with me here. Now, I just want to turn this way just a moment. See, sometimes, not as I'm trying to say you people don't believe, but you're human beings possessed with--with a spirit. And when it's coming this way, that waves coming this way and the vision won't materialize right. You see?
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And now, yes, you suffer with a heart trouble. Is that right? You have liver trouble; it's bothering your liver. That is right. You're extremely nervous. Isn't that right? And you have... Say, you've been prayed for before, haven't you? I see you in some sort of a big meeting being prayed for. It's a great big meeting too. I see a black-there's Brother Osborn. Is that right? If it is, raise your hand. That's right. Come, here a minute. Will you... You going to be... You going to believe now with all your heart?
Almighty God, Author of Life and Giver of every gift, send Thy blessings upon the woman and make her well. Jesus of Nazareth, heal the woman. I pray Thee, Father, in Jesus' Name that this horrible thing will leave her, especially this nervousness that she can get herself to quieten. May she leave this tabernacle tonight, going to her home rejoicing, happy, made well, singing the praises of God, and never be bothered no more, for I bless her in the Name of Thy Son, Jesus Christ. Amen.
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God bless you, sister. Do you believe with all your heart? You believe that you will do this with all your heart and strength, believing that God will provide, will make... Do you believe that you're healed? You do? Yes. Say, here's something. Just to confirm your faith a little farther. I see a surgeon standing near you in an operating room; you've had an operation, haven't you? Isn't that right? And wasn't that a kidney operation, in here; I seen they had this thing laying across you this a way. Now, is that truth? If it is, raise up this arm? I seen they had the thing laying over you like this and turned you over sideways when they give you the anesthetic. That's true, isn't it? All right. Now, do you believe with all your heart? All right, go off the platform rejoicing, claiming your healing, don't never say nothing else about it, just what you're healed. Let's say, "Praise the Lord." There's the cursedness of passing through prayer line after prayer line. When you once accept your healing, don't you never go through another prayer line. You let that settle it forever. See? Every time you come back, it just makes it that much harder, that much harder, that much harder (See?), and it breaks it.
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Now, Brother Baxter has pulled that screen across there, so it'll make it a whole lot better for me now I'm sure. All right, bring the lady, all right. How do you do, sister? Do you believe now with all your heart? You believe that the Lord Jesus Christ is here to bless you and to make your--you well? You do? All right, sir. You're anemia, aren't you? Isn't that right? Have nervous trouble also, smother a whole lot with a heart condition; it kinda makes you think that, but it isn't nothing but nerves. But you're going to get well; do you believe that? In the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ go off the platform rejoicing, saying, "Thank You, Lord, for my healing." Let's say, "Praise the Lord." Move in now. Have faith; don't doubt. How many's standing in this line now is going to believe with all your heart? All right, out in there now just keep believing. All right, bring the lady.
How do you do, sister? Do you believe with all your heart? Believe that God is here to make you well? Believe the Holy Spirit will confirm His work tonight and do it? Only thing you're wondering now, is what's going to be said about you, not reading your mind; but your heart trouble has left you and you can go off, and your back trouble also. So you can go off the platform, and rejoice, and say, "Thank You Lord, I'm healed." Let's say, "Praise the Lord." All right, come, lady. Do you believe me as God's prophet? Is that, with all your heart? Believe with all your heart. You're diabetic, aren't you? Go home and be well, in the Name of the Lord Jesus. Amen. Be reverent, everyone, keep reverent. Hold everywhere in the building if you possibly can. Now, don't move around. Be in prayer. See, friends, if you only knew how that throws me out here. How many believes you understand what I'm talking about. see? It's a...?... See, it's just... It's the Holy Spirit, and It's so timid, just as timid as It can be. All right. Everyone real reverent. All right.
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Come, lady. How do you do? You believe as God--me as God's servant? You got two or three things bothering you. One thing you're interested in is your eyes, which you got. You had a little stomach trouble also, which is caused by a nervous condition and stigmatism and bringing you down. You want to be healed? Say, "Jesus, I accept Your atonement right now." God bless you, go and be healed in the Name of the Lord Jesus. Come, lady. If you come in this way, if God will speak to me and tell me what's wrong with you, will you accept it? Heart trouble. Go off and be made well in the Name of the Lord Jesus. Let's say, "Praise the Lord." That's the way. If you keep believing, if you just have faith, keep believing.
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You setting there talking to the mute sister, keep them believing; there's one believing right there just real strong. I've watched it two or three times now. Watch that lady there just a moment, the green dress on. I seen It move over her twice now. Tell her to be sure to have faith; don't doubt; believe with all your heart. I believe the woman's going to receive her speech and hearing. Everyone reverent; I can't say just what's happening. I see what's the matter; she's been that way a long time. I think she was born in that condition. I see a vision coming over her, but still it looks dark around her head part. Everyone reverent. All right.
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Come, sir. 'Course, now It leaves coming to the man. How do you do, sir? You're healed of your back trouble, so you can go off the platform and thank God for being healed of your back trouble; you
don't have it any more. God bless you, brother. Let's say, "Praise the Lord." Everyone reverent, believe with all your heart. There's something struck when I said back trouble. There's a sympathic spirit struck then, somebody else... Just a moment. I know that somebody was healed then of the same thing. I felt it pull me sideways again. Wait till the man passes by. Here it goes, yes, it's a lady. No it's--it's a lady setting there with them cherries on her hat; she has back trouble, has been healed. Lady setting back there, didn't you have something wrong in your spine? A spinal trouble in there? Stand up on your feet, Jesus Christ makes you whole, lady. God bless you; you can go home now and be well. All right, lady, your heart trouble left you while you were standing here; you can go home now and be made well in the Name of the Lord Jesus.
Come, lady. Have faith, believe. The little lady standing there in dark, keep believing, It moved towards you just then for a few moments, have faith, believe, don't doubt. How do you do, sister? Do you believe with all your heart? Your stomach trouble will get all right. Go home and eat what you want to and say, "Thank God for healing me, my stomach." All right, say, "Praise the Lord." All right, come here, honey. You want to get over that asthma, don't you? Well, come here, put your arms around Brother Branham. Our heavenly Father, I ask Thee to be merciful to this child. Almighty God, may she take this message back to her Catholic people, telling them that Jesus Christ the great Healer has made her whole. I curse this asthma in the Name of Jesus Christ; may she be healed from now on. Amen. God bless you, honey. Go home and be well. Let's say, "Praise the Lord."
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All right, come, my brother. How do you do, brother? You believe with all your heart? You're suffering, something wrong in your heart too, isn't that right? You have a heart trouble. Not only that, but you have arthritis. Isn't that right? Will you obey me as God's prophet? Raise your hands up in the air. Stomp your feet up-anddown. Don't never say anything about more arthritis, go off the platform; you're healed with arthritis, heart trouble and so forth. God bless you. Say, "Praise the Lord." All right, lady, do you believe where you're setting? If I'm able by the Spirit of God to tell you what's wrong with you where you stand, will you accept your healing right now? You had a tumor, didn't you? Go off the platform and don't claim it no more; be healed in the Name of Jesus.
You believe with all your heart? What do you think up there? Be reverent. Be reverent, and God shall bring it to pass. Don't have no doubts, always have faith. God will make it--make you well.
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I'm watching this woman setting here in this chair, and this man too. Brother, I want to see you all come up from them chairs tonight and walk. I want you to believe. Somebody, sometimes people think, when people are setting in the chairs, they get to a place where they think they're helpless. You're not, and hopeless, no, sir. Jesus Christ loves you and wants to heal you. All right, be reverent now. All right, bring your patient. All right, sister. Oh, victim of a circumstances, trouble, seen much of it in your lifetime. Now, here you are suffering with a back trouble, right across your back you have pains all the time. You got a swollen spleen; you have heart trouble; you did have, but you don't no more; your faith has healed you. Go home and be well... That's the way. That's the way. A person have faith like that little women, they'd all get healed out there in the audience now. That's right. Have faith in God and do not doubt. All right, come, lady. Do you believe with all your heart? Wouldn't you like to eat a good meal again like you used to? You believe me as God's prophet? Go eat anything you want to. In the Name of Jesus Christ be made well. Let's say, "Praise the Lord." Let's give God praise like this. Oh, my, that's the way. Be reverent.
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Seen a little child healed; he's wearing a white shirt; he had a heart trouble. I couldn't tell just where it was at. It seems to be setting to the right. Now, everyone reverent, there's a little boy, a little light headed boy, about eight years old, had heart trouble, wearing a white shirt. All right, everybody reverent. If the such and such a child is in the audience, he's healed. I seen him come before me, had a white shirt on, and he--he's a little light headed boy. He's about, looked to be about this high, suffering with heart trouble. If such a child is in the audience, parents, fear no more, because the baby's going to be well.
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All right, sister, come forward. Do you believe with all your heart? Then your heart trouble's over. All right. Also, I see another thing. I see, yes, you had a stomach trouble also, didn't you? All right, sir, just go on eat what you want to now. Do you believe? That's all you have to do; you can go...?... God bless you. Let's say, "Praise the Lord." That might not mean much to you, but what that means to her. She had an acid stomach; she hasn't eat for
a long time. See, I seen her turn her head, and vomit, and everything like that, and rewash her face, and everything, fainty like. But she's going to be all right now. That don't mean much maybe to anyone who's not suffering that, but if it was you, you'd sure be very, very, thankful to receive it. [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]
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All right, lady, you set in a chair. Do you believe with all your heart? Pass by and just take a hold of my hand, you believe me as God's prophet? You'll pass the tumor then, and go in the Name of the Lord. Let's say, "Praise the Lord." Let's bless the Lord, oh, my soul. Looky here, some people wonder about these people in these wheelchairs. Just a moment, have faith. Don't fear. Now look, I watching to you people, but the thing of it is with you all, many time when people get in a wheelchair they think, "Oh, my, I--I'm hopeless; I--the doctor told me I can't do it." Then you--you believe that. As long as you believe that, it'll be that way. Now, I can see you; I've seen you night after night. I seen many things. I seen this lady setting here for the last two or three nights, seen a vision come over each night. And I know what's wrong with the woman, certainly I can tell her what's wrong with her, but I can't-I can't heal her.
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That lady setting right there has some kind of a spell; she's weak spells. When she raises up she just starts and goes forward. Isn't that right, lady? If you just use just a little bit of faith, have faith like your nurse has got there, and you can come out of that wheelchair, and go down through the building, and go on home and forget about it; you can be healed. I can see your vision, but I can't heal you. This gentleman setting here with your hand up, what do you think, dad? Do you believe me as God's prophet? You're a stranger to me; you're setting there with braces over your limb. You know what happened to you, you had a accident and broke your hip and it won't heal. Isn't that right? It is, raise your hand up and wave it like that. That's right. Have faith in God, and God will heal your hip; you can go home and be well. Amen. You believe with all your heart. Don't ask...
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This man setting here, I see you look at me, sir. Look this a way and believe me to be God's prophet. Do you believe me? All right. I know what's wrong with you; your suffering with multiple sclerosis. But God will make you well. Now, see, God... Isn't that right? Raise your hand, isn't that true? God can make you well, if you'll just believe it. Have faith; don't doubt; believe with all your heart. Oh, how wonderful.
Paralyism, but God can heal you and make you well. Is that right? Paralyzed, I seen what happened. You draw down your limbs...?... But God can make you well. See, there friends, it ain't the cripple; they get to a place where they think they can't... Now, the same spirit's moving amongst these people, they just lack having a little faith. If you'll do the same thing you'll walk from this building tonight. I can't heal no one, if I could, I'd ask them to accept their faith, to accept faith and believe. I challenge anybody in the building to look to here and believe that God sent me and believe the testimony that I say is the truth, and God will make you well. That's right. God will do it.
I see a lady setting right here now, looking this way; she's got a dark hat on, a dark dress. Stand up right there, lady. You right there, yes, no, yeah, being that you're up; you stand up, both of you just stand up there a minute. All right, lady, look this way and believe me. Do you believe me with all your heart? Now, don't all of you stand up, you'll interfere with the--interfere with that vision's coming before the lady. Let me see her first. This right here. Yes, sir, you're suffering with a nervous trouble. Isn't that right? Isn't that right? Raise up your hand if that's the truth. Do you receive Him now as your healing? In the Name of Christ, be healed. Amen. What of you, lady, standing up there with that white thing on your hat? You believe with all your heart? With all your heart? You're suffering with a heart trouble, aren't you, heart condition? Raise up your hand. Receive your healing in the Name of Jesus Christ. Amen.
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Why, friends, there's no end to it. It could keep going on and on and on. Do you believe with all your heart? Here this little fellow, this man, setting here looking to me, setting right behind the lady. That man's setting there suffering with a, I believe it's a ruptured condition, setting right back, isn't that right, sir? Stand up, raise up your hand, and receive your healing in the Name of the Lord. Sure. There sets another man, setting right there by you now with a vest on with a tie. He's looking this way. Great faith in that man, stand up, sir. You suffer with a cancer, but now you're healed in the Name of the Lord Jesus, go be well. Amen. Now, do you believe with all your heart? Here sets a man over here, thin hair, wearing a little checkered bow tie. Right there, sir, you had arthritis, didn't you? You was healed awhile ago while you were setting there. Stand up and receive it and be healed in the Name of the Lord Jesus. There you are; that's the way to be healed.
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work raise your hand? I see a lady, setting right through here; something's happening. The lady got on a blue dress; she's got some kind of a flowers pinned on her side here, looks kinda pink. The lady's suffering with a stomach trouble, way back up there in the balcony. Setting right there near the rail. Stand up, lady. You back there to this side here with a blue dress on a pink; that's you, yes, ma'am. Stand up. You had a stomach trouble, didn't you? Raise your hand up if that's true. All right, you're healed; go home and be well in the Name of the Lord Jesus. Any person in here can be healed right now for the glory of God. We could stand here right on half an hour. Do you believe it? What about you here lady; you can walk; you can do it if you'll just ask God and...?... You too, sir. There's no need of you setting there, you can be made whole, stand to your feet, in the Name of Jesus Christ every one of you that's sick. Let's be healed.
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Lay your hands over on one another, that's right, you're getting to be... Put your hands on one another; raise your hand up and raise your hands to God. Almighty God, Author of Life and Giver of every good gift, send Thy blessings upon the people, heal every one of them, Lord. Grant it. In Jesus Christ's Name I curse the sickness of this people in the audience. Lord, let these people here in the wheelchair rise up in the Name of Jesus Christ, and be made well. Oh, Almighty God, Author of Life, now may the Holy Ghost fall upon every person in here, enshroud them with Your Divine power...?... of faith, Lord, may they make this committal, rising in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ and glorifying God, walking out of this building, shouting, praising God, with perfect victory.
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Thank you. Good evening, friends. I didn't think I'd be speaking to you again so quick. Well, we're taught, all things work together for good to them that love the Lord. I know I love Him, and I trust that this is for good. I was quite disappointed when they told me I had to come back and have some yellow fever germs put in me. I was trying to get them out. But let alone...?... if there were any in there. But the nations has some peculiar rulings. So I guess we have to give Caesar what's Caesar's and God what's God's. Don't we. So they took me down and
poked a needle in my arm, and--and now, I guess they're going to try it again in the morning. So we'll try to go again in the morning, the Lord willing, to--to Africa. Talk about a surprised person was my wife awhile ago when I called her. She thought I was in Southern Rhodesia. And I teased her a little. I said "Well, I'm just calling from Africa." She said, "Now, the word come from New York." I said, "Well, its coming through New York." And she said, "Come on now." So--so it's--it's a...
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I certainly have enjoyed the last three days here, to stay with you people in New York, here, staying with--with our sister in a home down there. No wonder you have a wonderful church. That's right. I don't say that because she's setting here. Your pastor here, my, out to his home, such a lovely place. Lovely, what I mean by that, the characteristic of it. The... A--a home isn't the house you live in; it's the order of the house then. See? That's what makes a home. You know as they say, "A tent or a cottage, why should I care? They're building a palace for me over there." I seen people lived in palaces and didn't have much of a home.
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I remember one time I married a couple. I was just been ordained a short time in the Baptist church. So there was a boy said-worked with my brother on the--on that, I believe they call it NYA or CC camp. That's what it was, the CC camp. And way back in during the time of the depression, 'course many of you can't go back that far with me, because you're not even that old, maybe. But--but I... Lot of you here remember the depression. So I remember my... And he was working with the boy up there. I believe the boy was... I don't know whether he was a Syrian or what he was, but the kid was a fine fellow. And he--he loved some little girl. And he said, "You know what," he said, "I'm going to get married as soon as I..." Said, "I got the money enough to buy the license." And said, "I--I just haven't got the money enough to pay the preacher." And so my brother said, "Why, my brother marries people," said, "he never charged anybody for anything." Said, "Come on down." So... And he said, "I..." Said, "Well you fix up with him if you can." Said, "I'll get married Saturday."
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So they brought the fellow down, in a... I never felt so sorry for anyone in my life. The poor kid standing there... Now, I'm just as well off as anybody, but he had just as much as I had, but... See? I looked at him, and he had a jacket on; it'd been washed through the washer, not very good at that, and trousers about a dollar a pair. And his little old wife standing there, little blond, had hitchhiked all the
way from Indianapolis, hundred and twenty miles to meet him, get married. Poor kid didn't have any shoes on her feet, hardly. I nearly broke my heart. I thought, "My girl might be that way someday." I wanted to buy the little thing a pair of shoes. I was afraid it'd hurt her feelings. And she was real backward. She was standing there: beautiful little old girl. And I asked them if they loved each other. They said, "Sure." So I said, "Well now, remember, happiness does not consist of how much of the world's good you own, but how contented you are with the portion that's 'lotted to you." So that's what it be. I said, "Now, there'll be times that you all won't see things alike. But always remember you're still in love. When you see one set in the way and the other one don't..." I said, "Give in. If they're wrong, it'll show. After while it'll be all right." I said, "There's a little bowl in a human heart that is full of golden oil called love. If it is ever broke it can be healed up, but there'll be a scar there as long as you live." I said, "Don't never have..." I said, "Always give to each other and remember that what your vows are."
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I married them. They didn't have no place to go. They had an old '28 Chevrolet, and the headlights was wired on with baling wire. So he went out on the river at New Albany, where there used to be an old rolling mill, an old switch yard. During the time of the depression, it went under, and boxcars and tracks tore up. He got one of those cars, and got him a saw and sawed him a window in it, and he work--went to work for Mingles Box company up there, and he--they lived in this boxcar. And they had newspapers for paper on the wall with tacky button. You know? I'd don't know whether you know... How many knows what a tacky button is. Oh, I got you that time. Ha, ha. So somebody up there does...?... Well, it's a--it's a tack with a piece of cardboard; you just tack it on. You see? It make it hold better (You see?), like that. Tacky button they call it. We use them much there down in the south.
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So they--they had their house papered like that. And then about two months after that, a friend of mine married a real rich girl. And they... He liked me so well, he wanted me to have the wedding. So we had to rehearse it over many, many days before. Then when I married them, had to go way back in a booth of flowers and kneel on a pillow and so forth to marry them. And they built her a lovely home up on the Silver Heights, which is one of the most, well, the classiest place that we have in the city, up over facing the river, which is very beautiful up there. And just only very restricted to maybe twentyfive, thirty thousand dollar homes the cheapest thing to put up there. I guess theirs cost around a hundred thousand.
And so one day I was down... I was working for the public utilities on--on a line work and I had my tools on (You know?), a lineman; I was going down. I thought, "Wonder how they're getting along down there in the little cabin." So I... It was on Saturday; and I was dirty (You know?), and I was going on like I was watching the lines down through there. I slipped up close (You know?), listening in the house. After while, I went in close to the door. And there he was setting there, had him a table built out of boxes, had a couple of chairs in one room a boxcar. She was setting on his lap and had her arms around him. And he had his hat out there, and he was counting their money out to pay their bills and see if they could cut out enough to get her one of those calico dresses, or put some away for one. Just as much in love as they ever was.
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About two days before that I had visit up to the E. V. Knight home on a hill. And when I come up, one was setting in one corner and one the other one, arguing--jealous over some dance they'd been at all night. When I jumped up, they run and grabbed one another by the hand, come to the door and said, "Come in, Brother Branham." That puts in mind of some of this Gospel they talk about (You know?) from way, long time ago: How the Holy Ghost fell on the day of Pentecost. That's fine. But that's painted fire. You can't get warm by that; you have to have fire now to get warm by. See? That's right. What He did back there is wonderful, but what He does today, that's different. See? That's history; this is present tense. And that painted fire...
Reminds me of Paul Rader. How many of you ever heard of Paul Rader? Well, I guess you all have. He's probably preached here many years ago. He said, "One day he--him and his wife..." He was setting at a table, and oh, you know how families are. Something come up; she wanted to go somewhere, and he wouldn't let her go. So he said, "No, I just can't do it. I got something else to do." And so he hurt her feelings. He looked over and she was crying. So he just thought, "Well, cry." And he said he got his hat and started out. And she'd always meet him at the door and kiss him goodbye when he left. Said, "Brother Branham, when I come to the door," said, "she was standing there with her head down." Said, "She kissed me goodbye, all right." Said, "I went out the gate, and pulled the gate together, and looked back; she'd always stand at the gate and wave." And said, "She was standing..." or stand at the door and waved as he went out the gate. Said, "She was at the door; she waved." Said, "I went on down the street." And said, "I begin to think about it." Said, "My, my heart begin to get bigger and bigger (You know?), think about what'd happened. What if something were to happen to me
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today? She's my wife. I love her. I remember the vows." Said, "After a while he got--or his heart so big he couldn't stand it, and he turned around and back up that way he went up the street, opened the gate, ran in the door real quick and shoved the door open, looking around for her." And said, "She was standing behind the door, crying." Said, "He just grabbed her, never said a word, turned her around, kissed her, turned around and walked out the door." Said, "He walked on down to the gate and started out the gate." Said, "He turned around and she was standing at the gate." Said, "He waved goodbye. And said, "She waved goodbye again." I said, "What was the matter? What was wrong?" Said, "The last time it had a feeling in it." So--so--so that's the way about religion. I like a religion that's got a feeling in it. You see? So... I not mu--much of a speaker, friends. I thought we'd come down tonight and kinda talk about the Lord for a little bit together. But I'm not much of a speaker. But I pray that God will take the words that we will use and have a feeling in it (You see?) that...
Over in the Scriptures in Saint John the 11th chapter, I wish to read just a few verses. And usually in the healing services I'm always fasting and praying, but I been feasting and talking the last few days. We certainly had a wonderful time, and I seen this little village of New York. I invite you all to come down Jeffersonville someday, if you can find it after being in here. You'd wonder if you was really in a city when you pass by that: population about twenty-five thousand. So one good wide street goes through it. So you... But I tell you, you'll be welcome. And we would sure be glad to have you, anytime you can come by. The latch hangs on the outside of the door down at the Branham place, down there. And the only thing you have to do is just pull it and come on in.
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Now, in speaking I--I am a long ways from being a preacher. I--I don't like to tell people that I'm... One time when I was first ordained in the Baptist church, oooh, my, did I like to tell people I was a preacher, 'cause I used to think that a preacher was a sissy. I'd go and somebody told me when I was a kid, said, "Say, you look like a preacher." I'd say, "Take your coat off. You have to laugh when you say that." I didn't want to be no preacher. And so I remember when I first got converted though, and they give me my license in the Baptist church as local exhorter license and to do a little evangelistic work. I'd put my Bible under my arm and I'd go down the street, my, when they call me reverend, oh, I was a full fledged preacher. Well, I thought I was all right till I really hit some preachers one day, and then I--I seen...
Puts it in mind of when I was a kid. My dad, he's from Kentucky. My mother was born in Kentucky, and they went west and lived in Oklahoma. I seen somebody laugh when I said Kentucky. There's forgiveness for being born in Kentucky. I said to my little boy; I said, "You know, Kentucky's produced some great men." Said, "For who--instance, who, daddy?" Billy. And I "Well..." I said, "Abraham Lincoln." He said, "Yeah." And I said, "Daniel Boone." He said, "Yeah." I said, "Your dad." He said, "Oh, daddy." ...?... So when I was... I said, "Well..." I said, "I..."
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Remember one time my mother, they went west and she lived in Texas, Oklahoma. So my dad was fancy rider; he really could ride, and a very good shot with a revolver. And so he used to go to rodeos and things, and he would ride. And he used to try to teach me to teach me to shoot a revolver. He'd take those big clay marbles and roll one out like that, and had two revolvers; and he'd take one, shoot under the marble and knock it up in the air and burst it with the other one 'fore it hit the ground." I couldn't hit a lard can setting still, so I--I knowed I could never do that. But he could ride good. And so I always wanted to be like my dad. So we as kiddies on a farm (You know?) and we had an old plow horse. And so of a evening after he'd get though plowing, I'd go down along behind the barn. They had an old watering trough hewed out of a log. How many ever seen a watering trough hewed out of a log? Say, now we're coming home, getting right down towards home now. And so I'd get all my little brothers and set them along out there on the side of the bank, and I'd get the old horse, where dad wouldn't notice it. You see? And I'd go down there and pick me a big handful of cockleburs, and get the saddle, and throw the saddle on the old horse, and put these cockleburs up under there, and pull down the hinches (You know?), and climb up on him. Why, the poor old horse, so old (You know?), and stiff and tired, he couldn't even get his feet off the ground. He just bawl with them cockleburs under there. You know? I'd set there and take off my hat and say, "I'm a cowboy." Ride on this poor horse, and he's just bawl (You know?), and just jump like that.
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When I got to be about nineteen, I run away from home, going out west. I was going to be a cowboy. So I landed in Phoenix, Arizona, just in time of a rodeo. I went down to get me a pair of chaps, and when I buckled them on me, there was about eighteen
inches of leather laying out on the floor. I looked like one of these little bantam roosters (You know?) with them feathers back... I said "Um-um, too long legged out here for me." So I got me a pair of Levis and went out to the stalls, and they let me in with a pair of Levis on. I... So I was watching around. So after a while they said this Kansas outlaw was going to be rode by a certain famous rider. I seen when they pull--got that horse in that chute, I knew that that wasn't our old plow horse by a long ways. They got him up in the chute like this, and you have to catch-as-catch-can when he come through. They opened the bull chute there to let him out. And when he did, this famous rider jumped onto the horse, and as they jump--he jumped onto the horse, that horse made about one buck, put all four feet looked like in a wash pan, and he could've thrown the saddle over the corral fence. And when that guy fell, when that horse threw him, the blood was running from his nose and his ears. The pickups got the horse, and the ambulance got the rider. Well, this fellow come by, said, "I will give anybody a hundred dollars who will ride him a minute: one minute. Anybody." And there was a whole big bunch of cowpokes setting along on the fence. You know? I was setting up there with them. You know? Boy, I thought I was a cowboy. And I seen that. He looked, come right up to me, the caller did, and said, "Are you a rider?" I said, "No, sir." No, sir. I wasn't a rider then when I got around where there is a rider at. And that's the way it was by a preacher. I was a preacher as long as I was in the Baptist church down there in...
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But one day I went to Saint Louis. I heard a Pentecostal preacher preaching. That man would preach till he'd turn red in the face; he would buckle his knees together, and sink plumb to the floor, catch his breath; you'd hear him about two squares, come up preaching. Somebody said, "Are you a preacher?" I said, "No, sir." My old slow Baptist ways don't think of it that fast. That's all. So I don't... Never be careful about calling myself a preacher from then on. So I just... I... But what I do know about the Word, I like to talk to somebody else about It, especially a time like this when you're... My s--ministry is praying for the sick. And in order to do that, I must come into another world that the people know nothing about. There's just no need of trying to explain it; you--you can't do it. And I go to fasting about three days before my service, and it lifts me up into a sphere there, that I... Well, I just... That's just it. It goes into another dimension that sees things and so forth. Then when the--between the services some I just let down and go out. And I like to fish and hunt and--and like anyone else. So (You see?) it's--it's man here, but then man uses--or, God uses man to glorify Him.
And what a privilege it is tonight to come here, open up the Bible, and speak to you on a Gospel subject. And I pray that the Holy Spirit will just take the message and bring it out to the people. How many believers are here tonight, Christian believers? Wonderful. Now, I tell you what let's do. Let's just like take off your collar (You know?) and let's just be home folks tonight. Will you like to do that? Just old home folks, that's the way, that's the way I like to see it. Now, after all, that's about all we are isn't it? That's all. Now, in the 11th chapter let's open the Word now and get down to the sincere part. I want to read just a little bit of the Word, for God will bless His Word. He might not mine, but He'll bless His--His Word.
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Now, and I want to know when I'm speaking this way, preaching, if I happen to hit something that might not seem just like it should be or something, why, remember, this is not under anointing, under that prophetic gift. This is just me preaching. See? All right, or me standing up here and that Holy Spirit I trust will do it. All right in the 18th--19th verse, let's begin, or the 18th verse begin in the 11th chapter of Saint John. 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. And Mary, as soon as she heard that Jesus was coming, went and met him: but... (Or, I beg your pardon.) ... Martha, as soon as she heard... Jesus was coming, went and met him: but Mary set still at 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 saith 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... life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live: And whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die. Believest thou this? She said unto him, Yea, Lord: I believe that thou art the Christ, the Son of God, which should come into the world.
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Let's bow our heads just a moment. Our heavenly Father, we thank Thee from the depths of our heart, Thy--tonight for the privilege to be gathered together in this lovely
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church: a memorial of Christ and of lives that's been dedicated to his service. Today learning that many great renowned people, ones, not so renowned of the world, but in the kingdom, has worshipped here in this building. Oh, how I feel tonight standing here on the platform, where great men has stood; where great men stand yet, and women. How I thank Thee for having the privilege to be associated with them. Some glorious day in the regions beyond, I trust that we'll all meet there, and to think--set down with Abraham and Isaac and Jacob and Daniel. What a marvelous time it will be, and the great Saint Paul, Peter, James, John, Matthew, Mark, Luke. What a time. Then we come on down to Calvin, Knox, Sankey, Moody, Wesley, Finney, and even to our Brother Brown and them, that minister here, Sophia the wash-woman; others down through the age. Then the King Jesus, He'll be there. And we shall lay all the trophies that we have at His feet, say, "All worthy art Thou Lamb that was slain from the foundation of the world." All that we are is by His grace. And all that we shall ever be is by His grace. And we bow our hearts tonight in--in humility to thank Him for His goodness. And now, as we as Christian believers have gathered here, and I do not know why, Father, as yet, just why You would have me to stay over; but feeling that maybe tonight we could come together to be blessed.
This lovely family that I've just been staying with, asking them if there were any blessings that I should render to them, thinking of Elijah of old, none that they could think of, so, Father, may Your Spirit come tonight. I know that we all like blessings. We like to feel Your Spirit come near us. As Gehazi said, "The woman has no children; she's barren." And You gave her the blessing through Elijah. And now, Father, may You come tonight in the Word, the preaching of the Word and give us a blessing. Bless my heart, Lord, along with these others. Give me spiritual strength for this great journey that's just ahead. Give those all of we pilgrims, Lord... We profess that we're pilgrims and strangers. We're not of this world, because we've been called out and separated by the Holy Ghost. And now we walk in a new life. There's some in here tonight, maybe sick and needy. May, while we're preaching, may the Holy Spirit move right into the seat. Now, here's what you do. You just receive it. Grant it, Lord. Service is over, may we go home with joyful happy hearts to meet the tasks of tomorrow. For we ask it in Jesus' Name. Amen.
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Now, there's no one that can open the Word. We might be able to open the pages that the Word is written on, but it takes the Holy Spirit to reveal the Word. See? Now, we might take it from a theological standpoint, and be able to place our words, and our theology, and so forth, and--and maybe cause some effect to be upon the people by our own brilliances, but that's not what we're seeking right now. We want the Holy Spirit to come down in the church and move in the people, get around in here just now, and bless us with His everlasting blessings. And while we're gathered together and the doors shut tonight, just like it was at the day of Pentecost, wouldn't it be marvelous to hear a rushing mighty wind coming from above, filling all the house where they were sitting? Wouldn't that be marvelous? Now, He's here and I believe He wants to do it. I trust that He will.
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Now, you in here born again believers, you have the Holy Spirit. Now, the Holy Spirit thrives on one thing: that's the Word. That's what It lives on. It eats and lives... Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every Word that proceedeth out the mouth of God. [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] So it's the Word. Now, in our little Scripture lesson tonight, if we'd take a text, we'd take--say "Believest Thou This?" And we have these Scriptures under consideration just for a few moments.
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And now, let's think of the day of our Master. The reading of the text brings it to a spot in His life that where He had become very popular. He was born with a illegitimate accusation against Him, and He came in the way of a stable. Could you imagine it? And inveiled He was Emmanuel. God was in Him. God was in Christ, reconciling the world to Himself. He was a King of glory came down and tabernacled among men, making Himself subject to death, that He might taste death for all the human race; in Spirit He could not. So God created a blood cell in the womb of Mary that brought forth the Son Christ Jesus. And God dwelt in that body. Jehovah tabernacled in the body of the Son, which was the Son of God. And here He came through a mang--by a barn door. He lived a humble life, no place to lay His head. And He went out of the world through capital punishment, in shame and disgrace for us. And now,
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He was the Ensign that was to be lifted up. And I am so thankful tonight that He did that for me and for you. And now that after all these years we have His favor and fellowship with us by... Skeptics has arose up and many Bob Ingersolls and so forth has tried to condemn the Word, and tried to say, "Well, it was this a way, and that way, and it was days past." But we as Christian Holy Ghost filled people have the Holy Ghost as a Witness of the Word. See? The Holy Spirit is a Witness.
Now not only the Word, whatever they want to say about It, that's one thing or another. But we know we have the Scriptures right for we have the Holy Ghost as a Witness. That's the Witness. So God looking down through the--the optical eye, as it was, and looked down through the--the--the magnifying glass and seeing the end from the beginning, why, He knew these skeptics would rise and try to twist the Word in and out and like that. So He said, "I'll not leave you comfortless, but I'll pray the Father, and He'll send you another Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost. And he will abide with you until (1950...?) forever, (amen, that's right, forever, all right), and He would declare and testify of Jesus Christ, the same yesterday, today and forever." So we have a wonderful witness of that tonight don't we? That's right. So what kind of a people should we be then? Why, we should be free and happy, and my, no condemnation, living above sin and disgrace, not by our own...?... but by Him. See? Not what we are but what He is. God don't accept me for what I am. He accepts me for what Christ has done for me. It isn't my holiness, my righteousness; it's His. I have none to offer, but I just accepted His. Amen. So I know He's pleased with that, for He said, "This is My beloved Son in Who I'm well pleased." And He raised him up from the dead. And just as He raised Him from the dead, so shall we be raised, for we are his Bride, flesh of His flesh, bone of His bone, and we shall be with Him.
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Now and when He came in, what a name He had to suffer under. And along about this time, His ministry... Almighty God, vindicating His Son, proving that He was just what He claimed to be. While His ministry He become very popular at this time, because of His miracles and His--His knowledge of--of things and His prophetic gifts that He knew things before they happened. And many people thought He was just a holy roller, or some type of a something (You
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know?), nothing to. But those who loved Him and had a touch of Him knowed what He was. Now, what a Child He was.
Let's drop back just a few pages back and pick up His birth. You know, God, before He does any major thing on this earth, He always sends a forerunner of it. He always does. Now, the... God has angels and they're all at His command. Do you believe that? They're all at His command. Now, He sends angels minor. So He sends angels, major Angels. Now, when you see Gabriel, for instance, coming to the earth, or a visitation of His, it's something major fixing to happen. Now, Gabriel announced the first coming of Jesus. And we're taught in the Scripture that he will announce the second coming of Jesus. For he shall sound the trumpet and time shall be no more.
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And let's see back in the beginning when God was fixing to bring forth His Son, why, the first thing he appeared to was--to vindicate of His coming was Zacharias an old priest, fine character, him and his wife. And they'd been married for many years, growing old in age. They'd prayed earnestly for children. God seemed to not answer their prayer, but they're--they were serving the Lord, a devout life. Now, there's where many people make an error. They pray for things, and because God don't give it to them in a few minutes, they think they're not going to get it. See? If you ask for anything, don't waver. Believe you receive it; you shall have it. Live right; do right; and believe you're going to get it; and God's faithful Who has promised. Amen. There you are.
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Now, they were living, keeping all the statutes, laws, and so forth. And they went down to worship. And during the time... And Zacharias was a priest at the temple, and his job was to wave the incense while the prayers of the saints were going up out in the congregation. While they was at prayer, Zacharias was waving the incense, like this; and when he was waving, he looked standing to his side... Say, I believe the Bible said it was at his right side too. I never thought of that before. I believe it was at his right side. That's where the Angel of the Lord always comes: to the right. I never thought... Look that up and see if that's right. All right. I believe it is. He stood at his right side. And then when he saw the angel, he was frightened. And he told him that he was Gabriel, that stood in the Presence of God, and that he
came to tell him that his prayers had been answered; he was going home to live with his wife after the days of the ministration at the temple, and she was going to--to conceive and bring a son; and they was going to call his name John.
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Well, now I want you to notice something. Looky here. A minister of the Gospel, a clergyman, well learned, but he failed to believe the angel. He said, "How can these things be? I'm old and my wife's old. Well, how could these things be?" "Why," he said, "I'm Gabriel that's sent from God." He said, "And because you've doubted my word, you'll be dumb till the day the baby's born, for my words are going to take effect." When God speaks anything it's just got to be so. And then when he--he said that, why, of course he was smitten. Now, looky. Seems like that that priest, he could look back in the Bible here; he had plenty of examples of Sarah and Hannah, a few of those back there who after the, past the age of bearing received children. But just so routined in his work that he couldn't vary a bit from just what he was taught... And that's--that's about the condition the church is today. Isn't that right? Just your regular routine (You know?), and usually God comes around and interrupts that all the time (You know? Yes, sir.) with His program. Now. Then he failed to believe it and he was smitten dumb, and was going to be, and he come out and beckoned to the people. But he went home, and he was with his wife and she conceived and hid herself for several months.
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About six months later I can see a little virgin by the name of Mary. She lived in the meanest city there was in the world: Nazareth, worse than New York. So then here... I--I was thinking of the Bowery when I said that. Just a moment. I was down there today. All right. Oh, how my heart went out for those people. I--I wished I lived here. Now, I--I believe I'd just like to go down there and just... Them poor human beings in that condition, my heart bleeds for them. And I think anybody's got any heart would see a human being laying, soaked in like that of what a condition. Oh, my. Then give them legal license to sell the stuff. There you are. That's a shame, isn't it? But some glorious day, the kingdoms of this world would become the kingdoms of our Lord and of His Christ. You'll never see nothing like that then.
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Now, notice. And let's take a drama here for a moment and think it's Monday, the washday. That is at our home, when I have to pack the water yet even. Then I can see Mary going down to the
pump or the well to draw some water. In the oriental type they set it on their head, and packing it back up. You know? And she's thinking of--of she and of Joseph is to be married, and so forth going along, a holding the pitcher of water on her head. And all once a light shows before her. And it startled the little virgin. And she stopped and standing in this light stood the mighty Gabriel. See? Something's fixing to take place. God sends His Angels down. There she startled. He said, "Hail, Mary, blessed art thou among women." And he told her she was going to bring a Child, knowing no man. And he told her about Elisabeth, her cousin, how that she'd been barren, and how now that it was so many months with her as mother, all about the story. And said, "Now, Mary, you're going to bring a Child, knowing no man." And instead of Mary questioning and arguing like that preacher did... That's a childlike simplicity. She said, "Behold the handsmaid of the Lord." She never questioned; she just took God at His Word. God, give us some more Marys, that'll take God at His Word. If God said He'd heal you, believe it. That's all. Take Him at His Word. He said He'd give you the Holy Ghost, get down there; stay till It comes. Believe it. Amen. Brother, I'm beginning to feel a little religious right now. I guess that's all right. I--I'm at home, am I? All right. Oh, my. Notice, that... Just take Him at His Word.
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And she started praising God before she even had any sign that it was going to be done. She didn't know; she never waited till she felt life. She didn't wait till she--something was showing. She just believed it. There it is. Say, "Why, Brother Richie prayed for me last night, but I don't seem to be any better." You'll never be like that. Take God at His Word; start thanking Him for it. Amen. Praise Him until it comes. Oh, that's the way. God give us more Marys. Just accept it. Remember, the Word of God will defeat Satan anywhere. Jesus said with all of His fine qualities the Father had give Him, and He said, "It is written." When He met Satan, He defeated him right there on the Word of God, brought it down to a... Say, I'm too loud. Brought it down to a place that anybody, the weakest of Christian can defeat Satan on the Word of God. When you got the promise, hold on to it. God will bring it to pass. All right. She believed it. No matter what anybody else thought about it, she had the Word of the Lord. All right.
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And then she wanted to tell somebody. You know, usually when you get something from God, you want to tell somebody else about it. Here she going around testifying that she's going to have a Baby, not knowing any--any man, before there is any life or anything.
If Mary could do that by something that had never happened before, how much more ought you to do it, when you're sick, and take Him at His Word. Thousands are healed every year. You ought to take Him at His Word. Why, Mary had nothing for an example. The only thing she had was the Word. You've got the Word, plus millions of examples every day. Hallelujah. The word "hallelujah" means "so be it." Or I mean "Hallelujah" means "Praise our God." And He's worthy of all praises.
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Now, I see her, my, just happy and rejoicing, and she heard about Elisabeth, and she wanted to share the blessing. That's usually the way Christians do. Right up into Judaea she went to--to share the blessing with Mary, or with Elisabeth. And I see her getting up there in Judaea (You know?) to share the blessing. I can see Elisabeth setting, maybe doing her knitting. And when she seen Mary coming, my she threw aside the crocheting or knitting, ever what it was, and run out there and grabbed her in her arms, and begin to hug her and kiss her. Well, they had feelings. You know what's the matter with the people today? We're getting away from that: don't feel for one another. Why, it used to be when I was a kid, if the neighbor got sick, why, we went over there and cut wood for them and helped them fill the silo, cut their corn. And mama would go down and wash up the kids and get their breakfast for them when somebody was sick. But now you don't even know your neighbor's dead 'less you'd read it in the paper. There's no feeling. The Bible said because iniquity abound, the love of many shall wax cold. There it is.
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Why, when my daddy would need fifty dollars, he'd go over and borrow it from the farmer friend. He'd pay him back when he sold the crop. Why, you couldn't borrow five dollars now without a fifty dollar security. That's right. No feeling, no trust. God have mercy on a people, falling away. That's true. All right. Affection, love for one another. That's right. They go around... Here not long ago, you go downtown, you see somebody (You know?), and instead of saying, "Howdy do" or something there like that, they just pass a little silly grin (You know?), look over there like a opossum that'd been in a blackberry patch somewhere. Looking over like that (You know?), just a little old silly grin, "Hello." Maybe like that. Oh, you know what I like? I like an old fashion pump handle handshake.
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When I was down in Miami with Doctor Bosworth, there was a place down there we was having some duke's wife or some great big name for some... A duchess, I believe they called her. And she'd donated the ground, and she thought she was just about as big as
they had to come. You know. And so they taken me back after the anointing. I had been preaching or praying for the sick. It was back in a tent on the outside, trying to get around to myself. Brother Bosworth said, "Now, Brother Branham," said, "we don't want to burden you, but the duchess wants to see you." I said, "Is she sick?" Said, "No, she just wants to see you." I said, "Well, she no more than anybody else. How about them poor people out there can't get in?" Said, "Well, she's standing here at the door, would you just...?" I said, "Well, bring her in." And here she come walking in. I'm not making fun of anybody. But here she comes in with about enough clothes on to put in an aspirin box. That's right. Oh, my. And she had a pair of glasses in her hand on a stick like this, hold it out look. You know that woman couldn't see through glasses like that, out like that, just putting on the dog. What are you anyhow? Come out there with them glasses held before her like that. She said, "Are you Dr. Branham?" I said, "No, ma'am." I said, "I'm Brother Branham." She said, "Dr. Branham, I'm charmed." She had her hand. I said, "Get it down here so I'll see you when I know you again." That's what it is.
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What are you? Six foot of dirt (Amen.), no better than nobody else. That's right. 'Cause you got a little money, that don't do any good. When you die, there's no pockets in a shroud. Let me tell you, brother, I was standing by a museum not long ago, and there's--there's two boys looking at the analysis of a human body: A man weighs a hundred and fifty pounds is worth eighty-four cents. Now, who are you? Got about enough calcium in there that would, well, I don't know what. And there's about enough whitewash, would make enough whitewash to sprinkle a hen's nest, I guess, to free it from mites. And the mechanical makeup of you and all the ingredients, you're worth eighty-four cents. Put a five dollar hat on eighty-four cents, stick your nose up, it'd rain, you'd drown. Wrap a five hundred dollar fur coat around that eighty-four cents and go down the street thinking you're somebody. That's right. It's true. Brother, I believe in a old fashion, back woods, sky blue, sin killing religion. I believe when a man gets right from God...?... by God it straightens him up, makes a new creature in Christ Jesus. Amen.
Say, "That's pretty strong for a Baptist." Well, brother, let me tell you. We didn't get it down in there old fashion Kentucky Baptists the way you do today. We didn't walk up and shake one another's hands and put our name on a book. We beat on another on the back at the altar till we come through. That's the kind of Baptists we need.
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Hallelujah. Not long ago I was preaching in a little city, and a Nazarene brother had been healed, and he had his crutches running around over town. Told me, said, "Brother Branham," said, "I don't get it." I said, "What's the matter?" Said, "Why," he said, "when you come in here," said, "I thought sure you was a Nazarene." He said, "And then I seen you with all them Pentecost folks, and I said, 'Well, he's Pentecost.' And here I heard you say you was Baptist. I don't get it." I said, "That's easy." I said, "I'm a Pentecostal Nazarene Baptist." That's the way it... Amen. That's you're in Christ Jesus by the Holy Ghost. Now, what a time.
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What we need today, brother, is an old fashion shelling out, an old fashion revival, bringing us back like they had back in the early day. God lead His church like He did in the early day. I can think of back there a long time ago when God told Moses, He said, "Now, take these children out of the--this land, over into the other land." When they passed through the red sea, the separation... The taskmasters that come behind them, trying to impersonate them, drowned. And Moses... Look at it. After the taskmasters had drowned, Moses got in the Spirit. Miriam got in the Spirit. Miriam grabbed a tambourine and down the banks she went a beating this tambourine a dancing. Did you ever hear of such? And down the banks she went a beating a tambourine, dancing; and here come the daughters of Israel following her, dancing. And Moses got in the Spirit and begin to sing a song in the Spirit. Brother, if that's not an old fashion Holy Ghost meeting, I've never seen one in my life. Right.
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After they passed over, they promised--God promised to supply everything they had need of. And God promised to supply everything we have need of. When they wanted water, they went to the rock. When they wanted food, they went to the rock. When they wanted some meat, God blowed the quails in for them. He promised to supply. Then when he crossed over the sea, they didn't have any bread left, so that night God rained manna down out of the heaven. Went out and picked it up... He said, "Now, don't keep too much of it, just enough for today. You pick up some new tomorrow." See, if they kept it over it--it--it got wiggletails in it. That's what's the matter with a whole lot of the Pentecostal churches today, brother. You're trying to live on an experience you had a long time ago, and it's got wiggletails in it. That's right. Stale, dump it out. Let's have something now. What about now? Yeah. Brother, don't--don't get angry with me. See? I feel pretty good right now. I didn't know I was going to feel this
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Notice. Yes, on with this manna a minute. That manna was a type of the Holy Spirit. That's right. God told Aaron, now, said, "You go out and pick up several omer fulls of it. Take it into the holiest of holies, and there keep it there. And every generation that comes down after this generation, one after the other one, when they come into the priesthood, they had a right to go in there and taste a mouthful of the original manna that fell in the beginning. What a perfect type it is of the Holy Spirit. When we come out of the world, crossed through the red Blood of Jesus Christ, killing all the smoking habits, chewing habits, drinking habits, lying habits, stealing habits, laying behind us, we begin to sing and praise God. What are we going to do--live on, all the picture shows, dances, and big time club cocktail parties and everything, you don't believe in that? Hallelujah. I believe that when you come through the Blood of Christ, it sanctifies you or separates you from the things of the world. Jesus said, "If you love the world or things of the world, the love of God's not even in you." You can't mix oil and water. No, sir. You can't mix Christianity with the world. It separates you. The people today are looking for mixers. God said, "Separate Me Paul and Barnabas." The Holy Ghost separates us from the things of the world.
Notice. Then here's a very beautiful type of the Holy Spirit, our Manna that came from God out of heaven. And now, look. When we would sep... The church back in the beginning when the Holy Spirit first begin to fall, they'd...?... come out of their churches and everything, to serve God. And then when the--come a sound like mighty rushing wind come from heaven, filled all the house where they were setting, Manna coming down from God out of heaven begin to fill the church. And they run out into the streets a screaming and-and talking in other languages, and having such a wonderful time, till people said, "These men are drunk. Look at that." "Oh," you say, "Brother Branham, I know, but that was for that church back there." Is it? Oh, no. Peter told them every one to repent and be baptized, and they should 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." So the, not a mouthful--not a mouthful, but a real heart full of the original baptism of the Holy Ghost that fell on the day of Pentecost is real for the church tonight. For every believer that'll break behind the curtain yonder and enter into this priesthood has a right to eat of the original manna that fell on the day of Pentecost, a real old fashion Holy Ghost blessing. Hallelujah. All right.
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Notice, when they went to eating this manna, they said it tastes like honey. Now, did you ever taste any of it? I've been in some meetings till the saints would lick their lips it was so good: just lick their lips. It reminds me of David of old. David used to... He was a shepherd boy, and he used to carry a--a little sling that he hunted and he kept the bears and lions and things away from his sheep. He had a little scrip bag here on his side he used to carry little stuff in it. And he carried honey in that bag. When his sheep would get sick, why, they would--he would go out and put some of this honey on the limestone rock, and the sheep would come up, he'd go to licking on this honey (You know?); and when he did, he licked the limestone with it, and the limestone healed the sick sheep. Now, brother, let me tell you. 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. You're sure to get something just as certain of the world. Lick. Hallelujah. Taste and see the Lord is good. David said, "It tastes like honey in the rock." Amen. There's something about a rock, stone. You know back in the old days, when you get mad dog bit, they'd take you to the mad stone. If you stuck, you lived. If you didn't, you died. The worst mad dog I know of is the devil. And I tell you there's a Rock of Ages, Christ Jesus. Go hang onto the Rock of Ages. Take the promise and stick to it. Hold to it. If you stick, you live; if you turn loose, you die. And when you've got God's promise, stand right with it until the healing virtue of the saving power of Christ takes you, and heals you, and makes you well. Hold on to God's unchanging hand. Build your hopes on things eternal. There, how wonderful, how marvelous.
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Back to our story quickly. Let's get back, and I won't to keep you too long. And now, notice up there, when Martha went up to, or Mary went up to meet her cousin Elisabeth. And then when she went up there, she said, "Oh, Mary, I'm so glad to see you. My, how wonderful it is." And was rejoicing. Could you just imagine seeing them, how much love they had one for another? And then you, look what taken place then. Then as soon as she began to rejoice, she said, "You know," said, "I was told," Mary said, "that you was going to have a child." And said, "Oh, how happy I am." She said, "Yes, I'm going to have a child. "But said, "I'm just a little worried." Said, "It's six months with me." You know Jesus was, or John was six months older than Jesus. Said, "I'm just a little worried," because she'd had no life yet. You know the baby, as far as she knew, was dead. Why, two or three months in normal motherhood is life, but this is all subnormal. The little John must've
been dead in his mother's womb. And she'd felt no life as yet. And she was kinda worried. And Mary said, "But the Holy Ghost appeared to me too, and told me I was to bring forth a Son and I was to call His Name Jesus." And just as she said Jesus, little John received the Holy Ghost, begin to leap in his mother's womb for joy. Hallelujah. The first time that the Name of Jesus come through mortal lips, a dead baby got the Holy Ghost, and begin to leap. If this brought a dead baby to life, what ought it do to a church that claims to be born again. Hallelujah.
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Don't think I'm crazy. I know where I'm at. That's right. I may be a little beside myself, but I know my bearing. All right. Makes me feel good to think when that wonderful Name of Jesus was first spoken, fell into a human's lips, that's real Jesus of Nazareth... When it was spoken to, a dead baby received the Holy Ghost and come to life. And Elisabeth said, "Whence cometh the mother of my Lord. For as soon as thy salutation came into my ears, my baby leaped in my womb for joy." It made little old John leap for joy. And what it ought it to do to a born again church, claims already to have life. Wonderful. All right. What kind of a baby must this be? My.
After days Mary, or John was born. And as soon as he did, he went off to the theological cemetery or seminary, ever what you want to call it. It's all about the same. Why, a dead place... That's right. You know, I always thought of a seminary preacher like a incubator chicken. You know a incubator chicken, it'd just chirp, chirp, chirp, and he ain't got no mammy at all. That's just about the way with an incubator preacher too, comes out of these seminaries reading, writing and arithmetic, and know no more about God than a rabbit would know about snowshoes. That's right. That's true. Reading, write... I hope I'm scorching somebody. I believe I am, but all right. Brother, let me tell you something, if it don't make you sick, it don't do you no good. My mama used to tell me that about medicine. When I lived in the--out there we was so poor we'd have to boil meat skins, or put them in the--an old place--an old--of a pan, set them back there, and boil them (You know?), or get them hot, and render out the meat skins, get the grease to put on the--on the corn cakes. And every Saturday night, I know what was coming. Had a big old cedar tub, big old iron kettle, she'd pour the water in there. Every one of us kiddies had to take a bath in the cedar tub, and she could scrub harder with them old meal sack towels than I ever seen. And she'd scrub us (You know?), and then the next thing a dose the castor oil every Saturday night. You know? I got so sick of the stuff, I can't even talk about it now hardly. Every time I'd get into the room, I'd gag; and I'd hold my nose. And she'd pour it on. I said, "Mama, it
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makes me so sick I can't stand it." She said, "If it don't make you sick, it don't do you any good." So, brother, hold on. That's right. If it don't upset you a little bit, gets your Christian digestive organs working just right, it might help you a little bit. That's right. Amen.
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What the church needs today is a good old fashion Saint Paul's revival, and the Bible Holy Ghost back again with men and women who live what they profess to be. Anything I hate's a hypocrite. That's right. Go along today and see people the way they do, and acting, carrying on. I was out in California a few days ago, and I went down there to a place where they was going to have me; said, "Come down and speak." And I went down there. Now, all right, get your shock proof jackets on. I was going down there and the... He said--this minister said, "Now, my--my wife is a saint, Brother Branham." I said, "I'm sure glad to know that." Said, "She plays the piano." And I walked up there, and she had on enough of this here manicure on her face, ever what you call it. And her hair was all fringed out like that. And she had fingernails on the top of hers, like that, and a great big long earrings hanging down, look like a devil been riding on her neck and going to using them for a stirrups. I looked out like that, and her eye brows way up like this. And she turned around and she said, "Are you Brother Branham?" I said, "Brother, did you say that was a saint?" Said, "Yes, Brother Branham." I said, "She looks like a hain't to me instead of a saint." 'Course she could've. I said... Oh, what we need today is a cleaning up in the church. Hallelujah. Old fashion baptism of the Holy Ghost back in the church, instead of so much of this creed and carrying on we have. Amen.
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Walked down on the beach there and there laid them women professed to have the Holy Ghost, laying out there, stretched out before men in bathing suits. Hmm. Brother, this might make you vomit, but let me tell you something. I've got a girl coming on myself. I said, "What are you doing, lady." I said, "Isn't that--your father a minister?" Said, "Yes, sir." I said, "Well..." Said, "I'm getting a suntan." I said, "If my girl ever stretches herself out like that, she's going to get a sun tanning, but it is going to be Charlie Branham's son, give her a tan with a barrel slat and bring her home." That's right. I'd tan
her. She'd... Well, she'd remember it a long time too. Amen. Going down like that... Oh, it's just how they got. You let down the bars. An old Methodist preacher was preaching not long ago, he sang this song. He said:
We let down the bars; We let down the bars; We compromise with sin; We let down the bars; The sheep got out, But how did the goats get in?
You let down the bars, that's what was the matter. Amen.
Don't hear here very many amens tonight, but that's the truth. Amen. Right. Come back to the hewing line. Hallelujah. If you want God to return to you with blessings and--and things, get back in the harness again. Preach the Gospel; stand on it. It's either right or wrong. If it ain't right, forget about it. God's Word says it is right then stay with it. Amen. It'll wring you, and twist you, and search you, and scratch you, and--but it'll fix you up just right. Don't you worry. He's got some healing balm to pour in. All right.
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I can see then this little John, instead of going out to the seminary to--to begin to learn his--all of his... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] such stuff is that. What we need today is a revival. Right. Back to the Gospel, power, separation. It's true. Then I can see back there, little old John out there praying to the Lord, after six months. Well, 'course, after his birth come Jesus. We know the Christmas story, how Jesus came on earth. Then at the age of thirty, John the Baptist came out of the wilderness of Judaea, preaching, saying, "The kingdom of heaven is at hand. Repent." Yes, sir. And when he did he didn't have his collar turned around in the back and some tuxedo coat on. He had an old sheepskin wrapped around him, and a--some kind of a lamb skin belt around him like that. But he preached this--a sermon that stirred all the regions around about Jerusalem and Judaea. That's right. God give us some more Baptists like John. He stirred the regions. What was it, his eloquency? No, sir. Because he had such a great speech? No. Psychology? No. He preached Christ. And the preaching of Christ will stir the people. It's true. No matter if it is simplicity, it's just the greatest drawing card the world's ever knowed is the power of the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
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Not long ago I seen a picture in a paper advertising Sinclair gasoline, said that one gallon of Sinclair gasoline in a big enough motor could lift the Sphinx so high off the ground. I said, "Looky there, they're advertising that around the world." I said, "And one drop of the Blood of Jesus Christ will raise every sinner to a saint, every sick person to health again." That's right. And they'll make fun of you for teaching it. But I believe in the old fashion bloody Gospel of Jesus Christ. I believe there's nothing else saved in the world. None of our psychology, and all of our church joining, and shaking hands, and forms of baptism has nothing to do with it. Without the shedding of Blood there's no remission of sin. The Blood of Christ that cleanses us. The life is in the blood. It's not in the church; it's in the blood. Amen. All right.
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Notice. Then at the age of about thirty John come out preaching. Then one day... We get to our story here. I can see Lazarus come up and say, "Oh, there's a great prophet down yonder." He's his own... They're telling Jesus that it's, come down and see him. Jesus went with him down to Jordan. I can see him come walking down about the eleven o'clock in the day. And I can hear the little old John across the pond over there. The crowds got so big they had to set him on the other side, the priests on the other side, saying, "Rabbi, do you mean to tell me that there'll come a time when the daily sacrifice will be taken away?" He said, "There'll come a time when a man will die for the sins of the world." I can hear the--the priests say, "Oh, you're wrong, Rabbi." He said, "There'll come a... Said, "Behold, there comes the Lamb of God that takes away the sin of the world." He said he knew Him because there's a sign following Him. He seen Him coming with His blue robe on, walking down through there, and His hair blowing. John fainted, or--or Lazarus, I mean, and fell to his feet. Jesus walked straight out into the water, was baptized in obedience to the Father; walked back out to the bank, and the heavens was opened, and God said, "This is My beloved Son in Whom, I'm well pleased. Come hear Him."
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He started out in the ministry, and the powers and signs begin
to follow Him. Devils begin to scream. The preachers called Him a devil, and the devil called him the Son of God. Just about as bad today. Say, I'm scorching preachers with some means. I don't mean that to be you, my brother. I'm glad He... you... All right. But it is. You can go talk to a preacher about the signs and wonders, say, "Ah, that's the devil." And the devils turned back and say, "It's the power of God." There's the difference. Like Paul and Silas up there one night, and all them people were saying, "These are impostors. These men turn the world upside down; they're impostors." The preachers. And a little old fortune teller stood on the street and said, "They're the men of God that tell us the way of life." Yes, sir. Devils recognized it before people that profess to be Christians and believers. That's right. They recognize the power of God. They have some conscience of--of what a spirit means. And all we know is just a little reading, writing, and arithmetic, and a little self-made knowledge. I tell you what we need today is an old fashion revival, till men get down and pay the price and lose sight of the world and what's around him. He can move into a sphere with God and tarry there with the Holy Ghost until power comes. Amen. Pentecostal people, you had that not long ago. You did run well; what hindered you? Is that right? It's true. You let down the bars, and every church that ever let down the bars is put on the shelf. And that's right. And God started something different. All right.
Warm up to God. Come back to Him. Throw your heart out to Him. I was reading a sermon the other night about our Sister Brown here at the conference down there, and how she preached the Calvary road, a road of sacrifice. What a masterpiece of a sermon that was. What people need today is get back on that self sacrifice. Lay your all on the altar, and forget who you are, but the son of God or the daughter of God. Walk forward; claim every promise God's got for you. There'll be a revival that'll shake New York like it never shook before. Amen. Men come back... And men and women come back to God, come back to the place. I don't mean come back to church; I mean come back to God. Let every home start a revival. That's right. Turn out the beer cans; throw out the card party. Hallelujah. Excuse me. What we need today is an old fashion God sent revival. Clean up the
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home. Clean up the heart. Get things ready. Start a revival in your home and it'll begin at the church. Preacher don't bring it in his briefcase; God sends it from heaven to the individuals. That's true.
Then I can see back there in them days, when Jesus went forth and demons screaming, signs a following, it got just about the time where our text begins now, and I want you to notice Him. There He was, and He went away from the home of Lazarus. And as soon as He left the home, sorrows and troubles come in. And when He leaves your home, sorrows and troubles are coming in. They're headed your way when He leaves your home. In this case He wasn't driven away. He went away because His work called Him, and Satan seen the advantage of it, so he strikes Lazarus down. I believe Jesus knowed all the time that Lazarus was going to die. For I can prove it by the Scriptures. When He got at the grave of him when He was back over there, said "Our land--friend Lazarus sleepeth." But said, "For your sake I'm glad I wasn't there, but I go wake him." When at the grave He said, "Father I thank Thee, Thou-Thou hast already heard Me. But I said it just 'cause these was standing by." He said, "I can do no but what the father has showed Me." He's done showed Him the resurrection of Lazarus, and that's the reason He left.
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Now, I can see Him after the dark hour struck. The doctor come, said, "Boy's dying." We're taught by... I don't know whether this could be proven or not, but he--he had hemorrhages of the lungs, and they bled him a few times, and he died. When he died, they packed him out and embalmed his body, and laid him in the grave. First day passed, oh, how sad. Second day passed, oh, how sad. Third day passed, my. Fourth day, Lazarus down there, and the skin worms was crawling in and out of his body. Corruption had set in. The saddest hour that little home had ever seen. You know how it is, you had death in your home. And there their saddest hour, the Man they'd put confidence in, had come out of their church. Those who confessed Jesus had to leave the Sanhedrin. So there they was put out as fanatics, could not come back. They give up their church and everything for Jesus, expecting Him to be fine. They sent for Him to come pray for Lazarus. Instead of coming, praying for Lazarus, He went on and ignored the prayer. Well, if some of you here would ask your pastor to come pray for you,
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and he didn't come right away, well, you'd say, "The old hypocrite, I'll go over and join the other one. Ha." That's right. Now, He never told me to say that, but that's true. The reason that a pastor can't do nothing for you today, the man of God, you've got to have some faith in Him. You ain't got no faith, it don't do you a bit of good. Isn't that right? Now. Like the Shunammite woman, and so forth, you have to have faith to believe. Now, the man of God could not help if you didn't believe.
Now, here comes Mary and Martha and their dark hours had come. Jesus had failed them seemingly. All hopes was gone, that ever... Everything was in the black. And the first thing you know, the darkest hour they had, then Jesus come along. He usually comes just at that dark hour, doesn't He? How wonderful. I remember the darkest hour I ever seen. When I was laying yonder in Mayo Brother's Hospital, the doctors looked at me and said, "There's not a earthly chance for you to ever be well, Reverend Branham." Two years ago... Said, "You broke yourself and your whole nervous system's regurgitating; you can't keep nothing on your stomach; you never will." Said, "You're finished for life." And there was hot tears rolling down my cheeks, knowing that my life was ending like that. And I looked up; I said, "Father." And about that time Jesus come along. Hallelujah. Well, my, He comes right at the darkest of hours.
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It was the darkest of hours the woman with the blood issue had ever seen. She had spent all of her money, then Jesus come along. It was the darkest hours that Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego had ever seen, then Jesus come along. It was the darkest hour that Jairus had ever seen when he said his little daughter twelve years old had done died, then Jesus come along. It was the darkest hour that old blind Bartimaeus had ever seen down there, then Jesus come along. That's right. He's always there at the darkest of hours. The darkest of hours and somebody said, "The Master's come." I can see Martha. She'd been dilatory about a lot of things of the Gospel. But this time faith took up and here she went. I hear some of them say, "Now, there she goes. Where'd that holy roller preacher go that was preaching divine healing around here, called Jesus of Nazareth? When His buddy got sick (See?), the job was too big, so He skipped
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town. See where it's at? But she didn't care what they said. I hear her say, "Oh, look at her now. Wonder where the holy roller preacher's at now?" And here she goes down the street, pushing right past them old believers. That's what you got to do too: go right... Them old unbelievers, just got right on and a past them. Went right out into the country, and when she seen Jesus... Now, look like she could upbraided Him: look like she had a right to. What if she'd went up and said, "Now, looky here." At... This is the 1950 version of it, or '51. "Why didn't you come when I called you? I'll join the Methodists. I had more... I had... They-they--they treated me better over there than they do over here." That's the reason you can't get nothing done. If she'd took that attitude, the miracle would've never happened. It's your--it's your attitude towards the Divine gift of God which determines what's going to happen, always, always.
Watch them on a platform sometime in a healing service. Watch the attitude they come in. Here the other night I was... Remember, the lady come up there with just about enough...? Why, didn't have enough faith hardly to get to the platform. She'd been in prayer line after prayer line. I knowed the woman wasn't going to get well. Seen her coming up there, I knew it wasn't. She didn't have the right attitude when she come up to get well. She can't do it. I said, "The Lord Jesus bless you, sister; go; may He heal you." It's all I could say. See? But it's just not there. She'd... Why, she'd been here and there and everywhere. You see them like that. You can't do that. You got to take God at His Word.
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Here a few weeks ago a man come up to me and he said, "Brother Branham," said, "I went out and I tried Freeman; he couldn't do me any good. I went to Osborn; he couldn't do me any good. And I went to Ogilvie, and he couldn't do me any good. I went to Roberts." Said, "Now I've come to you." I said, "You're going away the same way." That's right. I said, "You're going to the wrong person. Go to God, not to some man." What can we do? Nothing. It's Him that's already done it. Just believe His Word and accept It. It'll be--it'll take place. But until then it won't do you a bit of good, no matter where you go. You're going away from here just as disappointed as you went away from the other places, 'cause you're heart isn't right with God. I don't say it was any immoral acts
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now, but if your heart isn't right with God, you can't believe." That's true. So he--he went away the same way.
Now. Look. When Jesus came along, Martha went out to him, and she said... Now look, instead up upbraiding Him and scolding Him, she went out in the right kind of an attitude. She came to Him, and she fell down at His feet, and said, "Lord, if Thou would've been here, my brother would not have died." Oh, now you're getting somewhere. Now. Look how she regarded that Gift of God. She said, "Lord..." That's what He claimed to be. Do you believe it? Said, "Lord, if Thou would have been here... No matter whether You come or whether You didn't, that's all in the past now. Whether You come or didn't, that doesn't matter. But if Thou would've been here, my brother would not have died."
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Now, I believe what Martha saw in there. She'd been reading in the Scriptures, and she seen where that Shunammite woman back there, when she, Elijah come out, blessed her, she brought forth a son. When he was about ten or eleven years old, he had a sunstroke out in the field. He must've, 'cause it was about eleven o'clock in the day, he cried, "My head, my head," died on his mother's lap. And the mother said, "Now, you saddle an ass and go forward for me, and don't you check 'less I tell you." said, "Go to the man of God, to mount Carmel." Her husband said, "It's neither Sabbath or new moon; he won't be there." She said, "All will be well." I like that. I like that. "It'll be all right; don't worry about that. I'll go." All right. And then... And she said, "Well now wait, the boy is dead." But look, she didn't know whether Elijah was going to raise the boy or not, but she knew this, that God in that age was operating through His prophet. God was in the prophet. And if she could get to the prophet, she might not get the resurrection of the child, but she would know why the child died. And if she could only get to the prophet, 'cause that was God's representative in heaven then.
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So she went forward; she went to Elijah, and when she come, she... And Elijah didn't know what was the matter. And look. When she knowed...
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Though God being in Elijah... I want you to listen closely now. Here's the close. He said, "Now, look." She fell down, Gehazi had jerked her up. My there's awful around his master. He said... She said, "Why did you deceive me, or don't deceive me?" And he recognized then once she explained that the baby was dead, he said, "Gehazi, you take my staff, and you go lay it on the baby." Now, I think that's where Paul must've got the doctrine of laying handkerchiefs on the people that took off his body. Elijah knew that God was in him, though he was a man; but God was in Elijah. Do you believe that? God was in His prophet.
Now, listen to this on Divine healing here just a minute. And now Elijah knew himself that what he touched was blessed. But if he could get the people to believe that... Paul, the people recognized the Holy Ghost in Paul, 'cause they seen the way--the operation of the Holy Ghost, God vindicating that he had It. He was God's prophet. And they seen that he was God's mighty one, the apostle, and they recognized that. And so he took the handkerchiefs off of his body and aprons, and sent to the people, and unclean spirits went out of them, and they were healed. See? He knew what he touched was blessed, and so did Elijah. So he said, "Take my staff." And told Gehazi, said, "Now, don't you look right or left or speak to nobody; go lay it on the child." But that woman, she didn't know whether the power laid in the staff or not, but she knowed God was in Elijah. That's where the God was at: in His prophet. She said, "As the Lord liveth and your soul liveth, I'll not leave you." I like that. "I'm going to [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] right with you. I'm going to find out about this." All right. He tried to make her go on. No, she said, "I'm going to stay right here." So Elijah girded his loins up and took, away he went. When he got to the place, Gehazi done got there and laid the staff on the child: no breath, no life. Come back, and oh, how mournful it was around the home. I can see the old prophet walk in. You know? She took him and laid him on the bed where the prophet had laid: very good place to put him. That's right. Put the dead baby there...
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The prophet walked in. It wasn't his prayer that done it. Now, watch. The prophet walked up and down in the floor: back and forth, waiting; and he went over, and he laid his body on the baby; then he got up, walked back and... Where--where was God at? In His
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prophet. Walked back and forth, back and forth. He went stretched hisself out upon the body of the baby again, put his nose against its nose, his eyes against its eyes, his lips against its lips, and laid there, and the baby sneezed seven times and come to where--said--come to life. Said, "Go get that Shunammite. Bring her here, here's the baby." And if Mary--Martha here, could read in the Bible and see that the Shunammite woman got the desire of her heart because she recognized that God at that age lived in His prophet, how much more was He in His Son? Amen. There He was. Amen. God was in His Son, reconciling the world to Himself. She knew that. She run up to Him; in the right attitude, she said, "Lord, if Thou wouldest been here, my brother would not have died. But even now, whatever You ask God, God will do it." Amen. Something has to happen now. She's at the right place, before the right Divine Person, with the right mental attitude, speaking the right words, believing the right things; them old cogs is working right together; something has to happen. When you take that kind of faith, something's got to happen. She said, "Lord, if Thou would've been here, my brother had not died. But even now, whatever You ask God, God will do it."
You might've been crippled a long time, sister, but even now He's setting at the right hand of God to make intercessions. The little girl may always have to wear those braces from that polio, sister. See? You might have to, "but even now, Lord Jesus." You might be setting here with a cancer, saying, "The doctor told me I had to die." "But even now, Lord, whatever..." You might've been to every doctor there was in the city; he told you there was no hope for you, but, "Even now, Lord, whatever You ask God, God will do it. And He's setting at the right hand of the Father to make intercessions upon His death, burial, and resurrection. Hallelujah. There He is. "Even now, Lord, whatever You ask God, God will do it." And there He sets in His majesty, setting by the side of the Father, at the right hand of Him up there to make intercessions upon anything that you'll ask Him and confess that He's done it, He'll confess it before the Father. What more do you want? Say, "Lord, I accept You as my Healer. I'll never say nothing else but what I'm healed from now on." Amen. That settles it. He can't do nothing for You till you first confess it. He's the High Priest of your confession. In that case not even to your faith. And even couldn't be faith until you confess it. You got to accept faith, believe it, and confess that it already is done. For faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.
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How many says that shirt's white? If you believe you're going to be healed tonight... The same as your faith says you're going to be healed as sure as your sight says that's white, it's over. I don't care what you look like, what you feel like, it's over. Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. What is that? That a piano? [Brother Branham plays a few notes on a piano-Ed.] Is that right? [Congregation replies, "Yes."--Ed.] Somebody said, "Seeing was believing." Did you see it? Did you taste it? Smell it? How'd you know it was playing? You heard it. Stand up here a minute, brother. There stands a man before me with a brown suit on and a red tie. How many believes it? How do you know it? You got five senses the human body. "Stay there." [Brother Branham speaks to the brother--Ed.] You've got five senses in the human body, haven't you? See, taste, feel, smell, and hear. Is that right? Now, I know he's standing there, because I see him. You said, "I'm from Missouri; you have show me." All right. Seeing is believing, it is; The man's standing there yet. I don't see him, and I can't see him; it's impossible to me to see him in this position. You want to argue with me he's not there? You try to. That's that same man standing there. How do I know? Because I see him? No, sir. I have another sense separate from seeing, which is feeling. And I know he's there. And my sense of--s--of sight cannot see him, but the sense of faith, which is a separate sense declares that he is there. I know it. Because I know my feeling is right. Now, I can't touch him with that sense at all. See? But I know he's there by another sense. Which is sight. Is that right? Thank you.
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Faith is a individual sense besides any there. It's the--the sixth sense. That's the outside man, that God put in human flesh here, give him five senses to contact his earthly home. And the inside man, the spirit has two senses, and that is unbelief and faith. And when your faith says that you're going to be healed as same as your sight says that--that man had on a red tie and a brown suit, it's over. For faith is substance of things hoped for, the evidence of thing you do not see, taste, feel, smell, or hear. Amen. There you are; you believe it. And you can't accept it now until you do believe it. And you've got to believe it before it'll act. You see what I mean, friends? People stand on the platform, say, "Well, why don't something
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happen? Why don't..." It can't happen until you first believe it, accept it, and confess that it's right.
Take a woman come to the altar here, or a man, let them be ever so vile, they could scream and cry, and walk up and down the altar, saying, "God, forgive me, forgive me, forgive me," day in and out, day in and out, and they just keep pacing. "Lord, I've repented. I've done everything I can do." They'll keep pacing until the hour, when in their hearts they believe it and then confess it. And when they confess it, He goes to work on it. And He cannot intercede for you until first you confess that it's already done by faith; for He is the High priest of your confession. Amen. Whew. I feel pretty good. It's getting late; I got to let you go home.
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But let me tell you, brother. When a man or a woman will step out virginally on the promise of God and say, "I believe it," walk out in the street, saying, "I believe it. I believe it. I believe it." Then it's going to happen. Telling that it is, till...?... Abraham, twenty-five years before the baby was ever born, he confessed that it was going to be so; bought up the pins and the birdeye and everything, got ready. That's right. Brother, I'm telling you, then after twenty-five years after he received the promise, the baby was born. But he believed God, and knowed that He was able to keep that which He had said He would do, and keep His Word. So faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things you do not see, taste, feel, smell, or hear. The old hypocrite set in the church, say, "Oh, I never seen nothing done." You are a... I better let you go. Let me tell you, brother; let me say what you need tonight. What you need tonight is an old fashion stirring in the soul, until...
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I went into a place not long ago, and they were having a healing service. In back of the room, the psychopathic cell, I went back there, and there was lunatics setting there in their--in their straight jackets and things. There set a beautiful young lady, setting there. I said, "Howdy do, you got your patient?" She said, "I'm the patient." I looked down at her; I said, "What's the matter?" Said, "I don't know, sir." She said, "When I was a little girl," said, "I
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took the road that's wrong." She said, "I was raised a Catholic." She said, "Then I... They picked me up for a prostitute, sent me to the Good Shepherd's home. I served a time." Said, "I come back from there," and said, "went right back into it again." Said, "Then they picked me up and sent me away to a woman's prison. I served two years there." Said, "I come right back a drunkard, a cigarette fiend, and come right..." Beautiful woman. "Come right back," and she said, "I did it again. They told me I ought to change my religion. I went over and joined a certain church, and I went down and s--and I prayed the way they prayed; and I've tried everything. And I still just as much a prostitute as I ever was." I said, "You've never touched God yet, sis." She said... I said, "Let's pray." She got down and she prayed and she prayed. And I tried to speak to her. She said. "Well, Brother Branham," she said, "I believe I'm going..." I said, "No, you're not." I said, "You're going out to do the same thing." I said, "Look, lady, it's the devil." I said, "You don't want to do that. A woman as pretty as you are, and--and made the way you are, would be an idol for any man's heart. Don't you like to be a little mother and have some children like other ladies?" She said, "I've always wanted it, Brother Branham." And said, "I can never have it like this." I said, "You don't want to do that." She said, "No." I said, "Something drives you to it." She said, "That's right." I said, "It's the devil." She said, "I always thought it was." I said, "But Jesus Christ the Son of God said, 'In My Name they shall cast out devils.' Believe this?" And she said, "Yes, sir." We went to prayer there for a little bit. After a while the power of the Holy Ghost come; I never said a word, just prayed. She raised up, and them big black eyes, with tears dropping down, she said, "Brother Branham, something's happened to me." I said, "It's over now, sis." Amen. Hallelujah. "It's over now." Why? She'd waded into the Blood of Jesus Christ and it cleansed her. The demon powers... She got married last year, and she's going to have a child now. What's the matter? The Blood of Jesus Christ cleansed her.
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No matter how much this, that, and the other, you've got to
have something strike you, brother, vital; that settles it forever. That's faith. Jesus is the High Priest of your confession. Whatever you confess that He's doing He'll do. You... A lot of people look at symptoms. You say, "Well, Brother Branham, my hand's no straighter." It'll never be as long as you look at it. We don't look to that; we look to God's promise. Talk about symptoms, look at Jonah, down in the belly of the whale. If anybody could've had symptoms, he had them: backsliden; hands tied behind him; out on the sea, a storm come up; pitched him out; whale swallowed him, went to the bottom of the sea. Any fish, when he fin--when he feeds, he goes and rests his fin--fins on the bottom of the sea. And there he was down there with a belly full of backsliden preacher, laying down there on the banks, the--down there under the sea, a storm on the sea. Backslid, what a condition he was. He looked this a way, it was whale's belly; he looked that way, it was whale's belly; everywhere he looked, it was whale's belly. You know what he said? He said, "I'm not looking at that whale's belly." He said, "They're lying vanities." He said, "Lord, once more I look to Your holy temple." Hallelujah. Didn't see whale's belly, he seen God's temple. For he knowed this. Why, when that temple was dedicated, Solomon prayed and said, "Lord..." When the Holy Ghost come in and that fire settled down behind the holy place, Solomon said, "If Thy people be in trouble anywhere and pray, then You hear from heaven." And Jonah believed that God heared Solomon's prayer. And he said, "I look to Your temple." And it made that old whale kinda feel funny, and God put an oxygen tank down there, kept him alive three days, and took him right on over to Nineveh.
And if God could do that and would hear Jonah's prayer in the belly of the whale, there's none of you that bad off tonight: no symptoms like that. Certainly not. You're... At least you're on--on the ground yet. And if--if God would hear Jonah's prayer, and Jonah praying like that; and God respected his prayer to an earthly temple, where an earthy man dedicated it, and a prayer of an earthly man had've went up over the temple; and Jonah could believe that, and make the whale throw him out; how much more ought you and I, setting here with a little sickness or something another, look to Thy holy temple where the Son of God sets at the right hand of the Father, making intercessions upon our confession? Whew.
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Brother, I wished I was twice my size. Maybe I could feel twice that good. I feel pretty good right now. That's right. Amen. Got my hand in the honey jar, licking as hard as I can. You may call me a holy roller; so go ahead, you're going to brand me that way anyhow. I might as well have a good time while I'm standing here. I got to go to Africa in a healing service now. I'm just having a good time. All right. I got to hurry, close. Where was we at in the message? All right. I preach from Genesis to Revelations anyhow; It's all the Book, so...
Then the first thing you know, I can see Martha fall down, and said, "Lord, if You had been here, my brother would not have died. But even now, whatsoever You ask God, God will do it. God will give it to You." Why, Jesus, I can see Him straightening His little Self up. The Bible said there's no beauty of Him we should desire, not a great big seven foot square shouldered man; a little frail looking Fellow. In them days, 'course Solomon (You know?) or--or Saul was a seven-footer and so forth. He was a big handsome looking man. But Jesus a little frail Fellow. He straighten Hisself up. Mary said... Martha said to Him, said, "Huh, if You'd been here, my brother would not have died. But even now, whatever You ask God, God will do." Jesus said, "Thy brother shall rise again." Uh-huh. Not much to look at, but, brother, what was wrapped up behind that robe. Yes, sir. Said, "Thy brother shall rise again." She said, "Yea, Lord. I know; he was a good boy. He'll raise in the last day at the general resurrection." Look at Him then. I see Him straighten Hisself up; them eyes turned sideways, said, "I am the Resurrection and Life."...?... He's still the Resurrection and Life. He was the Resurrection and Life for that little boy in Finland, for that lady down yonder that had got killed in that automobile accident. He's the Resurrection and Life for that boy was drowned. Sure. He's the Resurrection and Life. "I am the Resurrection and Life; he that believeth in Me, though he were dead, yet shall he live. Whomsoever liveth and believeth in Me, shall never die. Believeth thou this?" She said, "Yea, Lord, I believe every word of it. I believe that You are the Son of God like You said You were, that were to come into the world." Said, "Where you laid him?" Oh, my. Something has got to happen now. [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]
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Said, "Peace be still. He was more than a man then. The waves and the winds obeyed Him. He was the God man. He was Divine." That's right. And when He died up there at Calvary, screaming and crying for help, "My God, My God, why hast Thou forsaken Me?" He was a man in His death, but in His resurrection He proved He was the Divine Son of God (Hallelujah.): Jesus Christ, the same yesterday, today, and forever. Believest thou this? I believe He's the One that sent the Holy Ghost on the day of Pentecost. Believest thou this? I believe He's here right now and would heal every sick person in the building. Believest thou this? I believe He'd fill everybody with the Holy Ghost right now. Believest thou this? I believe in His blessing. He...?... Believest thou this? I believe He's here to pour out His Spirit and send down an old fashion Holy Ghost Pentecostal blessing on us now. Believest thou this? Hallelujah.
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I believe that He'd heal this woman with these braces right now. Believest thou this, sister? I believe He'd heal your baby with the polio there. You all believest thou this? How many sick people's in the building, raise your hand? I believe He'd heal you right now. Believest thou this? Believest thou this? Let us stand to our feet. Do you mean business? Do you mean the truth? Do you do it? All right, lady, get ready to get your braces off your child. All right. Every one of you believe it? Put your hands over on one another now. Are you ready to make a confession? Are you ready to believe God? [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] ...?... are you? You believe it now? The Holy Ghost is in the building. Believest thou this? He's ready to take you right now at your word. Are you ready to confess it? Are you ready to say, "I'll never no more say I'm sick. I'll testify of the healing right now. I'm willing right now to receive it, Lord. Come into my life; come into my heart right now. Take away this [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] make me a new creature." Believest thou this? I believe He's healing the people right now. Believest thou this?
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Almighty God, Author of life, Giver of every good gift, send Thy blessings upon this people. Heal. O God, stretch forth Your hands upon this people and may their hearts be quickened; may the Holy Ghost fall in this building just now like a rushing mighty wind. Pour
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over these people. Heal every one of them, Lord God, with Your great Divine power. May it sweep over this audience; in the Name of Jesus. Satan, come out; in the Name of Jesus Christ. We adjure the devil to leave every person in here. Almighty God, receive them into Your kingdom. Raise up your hands; praise God. Thank Him for your healing. Thank Him for your healing. Hallelujah. Praise God. Praise God. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Praise be to our Lord Jesus Christ. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Receive your healing right now; in the Name of Jesus. Testify. Tell your neighbor, "I'm healed. I'm healed. I believe. With all of my heart I believe that I'm healed." ...?... you go now?

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