The door inside the door

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1 And welcome. That makes me feel real good. But while you are on your feet, let's speak now to He who's made all this possible.
Our God, we come to Thee in simpleness of heart. We come with our heads bowed because that we know that Thou did breathe upon us and we come from the dust. And we are Your subjects of the kingdom. And we pray, Father, that this night that Thou will find a place in each of our hearts to make Thyself known to us and to the people who we associate with. We would want to thank You this time for this fine church and for its pastor and for all who are associated with it. And we want to thank You for these who have drove through the snowstorms, over the slick, icy grounds to get here to worship Thee with us.

2 Oh, blessed God, someday in a land beyond the river where we will never have another snowstorm or there'll never be another sick person to be prayed for, another funeral service to be held or even another Gospel message to be preached. We want to meet there, Lord as unbroken families.
Forgive us of our shortcomings. Let us know that our days are few here on earth; and what we have, may we spend them to Thy honor and Thy glory. Give us many more happy meetings like this. Bless each one of us as individuals. Bless us in our needs, Lord, for they are many. And when life is finished, may we meet at Thy house. Until then, may the barrel never be empty in our houses. May the cruse never run dry until we see our blessed Lord coming in the skies to take us away. Keep us healthy and happy, in Jesus' name. Amen.

3 There is so many things that I could say till I hardly know just how to start. And by the way, these handkerchiefs each night that's laying here... I'm so glad that you believe in praying over the handkerchiefs. Now, thank you, kind sir. Many people anoint those handkerchiefs, which is all right. Anything that our blessed Saviour will bless, I'm certainly for it. But if you'll bear record, the Word (Acts 19), Paul just took from his body handkerchiefs and aprons.
I believe that Paul was a fundamental preacher. Don't you believe so? You want me to tell you where I think he got that? I think he got that from ... in the Scriptures where the Shunammite woman; she had lost her baby which the prophet had blessed her, and she gave birth to this fine baby. And when the baby died, the Shunammite woman had one of the servants to saddle a little mule, and she rode to the prophet, for she knew that God was in that prophet. And that was God's representative. That was His agent on the earth.

4 And she thought, if she could get to the prophet... I do not believe that she thought she would get her baby back, but she would find out why God took it. And God don't always reveal to His prophets everything that He has in His divine plan.
So when the woman arrived, the prophet did not know what was the matter. So he said to his servant, Gehazi, "Here comes that Shunammite, and she's troubled, but God has hid it from me."

5 And while we are on the subject, if you would just think of this. He sent Gehazi forward and he said, "Go see if everything's all right." And he said, "Is all well with thee? Is all well with thy husband? Is all well with the baby?" Watch the Shunammite's answer. "All is well." And her baby laying a corpse.
But she had arrived at her destination to where she believed that God would make known unto her what had happened. "All is well." Wonder if we tonight could think that, after the scriptures being read of the Lord Jesus and His blessed will to heal us all or save us, forgive us of our sins. Is all well tonight?

6 And notice that the prophet said to his servant, "Take my staff and go lay it on the baby." Now, Elisha knew that the Holy Spirit was in him, and everything that he touched was blessed. But now to get the woman to believe that ... so he said, "Take my staff and go lay it on the baby."
I think that's where Paul got taking handkerchiefs from his own body, go laying on the sick and the afflicted. However, the woman didn't think very much about the staff. She said, "I'll not leave you." And she stayed right with him until she got what her heart's desire was.

7 That's the way we do with Christ: stay right with Him until we get what we ask for. Now, these handkerchiefs, we pray over them; and if your handkerchief is not up here and you desire one, just write to me. Now, I'm not wanting to get your address, dear friends, because I have an awful time getting letters answered. I don't have any programs to sponsor anything. It's just getting somebody to help me get the letters answered.
But I will pray over, maybe not a handkerchief; we sent out thousands of them all around the world and it's very expensive. So I can't afford to send a handkerchief, but I get cloth and cut it in little parcels and pray over it and send it.

8 Now, the form letter... We got a prayer chain around the world. But now the letter you get will be made up, mimeographed, by a secretary; but the handkerchief or the little parcel, I've prayed over, see. If I had faith in you as a servant of God and my baby was sick, I wouldn't want a secretary to pray over the handkerchief; I'd want you to pray over it. "Do unto others as you'd have others do to you," see. Pray over it.
It's yours free. No, nothing, no charge to it. Just send down and we will be glad to send it. Just Post Office box 325, Jeffersonville. If you can't think of that, just write my name. And Jeffersonville, Indiana, is a very small city about 27,000, and so just write it to Jeffersonville and anybody there knows me.

9 I want to say that this has been a glorious day for me. As I was sitting in the room this afternoon, praying, I was thinking about some meetings you get to... We love... We can't expect everything to just be wonderful. I wished I could take this group with me everywhere. Give me a prayer group like this and give me a two-weeks' meeting somewhere, let all the unbelievers pile around behind them that wants to, God will bless just the same.
When you got them standing like a brick wall, that's wonderful. I believe then that God can do anything then, when you feel the freedom of the Spirit.

10 And I certainly do thank God for this wonderful church and for its pastor, and for all the workers and this little singer; I can't think of his name. [Someone says, "Golden."] Golden. Brother Golden. He sang that special for me a while ago, and I heard it, Brother Golden. I was standing inside the door with some of my little lady friends about eight or ten years old; little boy standing around there for autographs. I can't even read my own writing, now how are they going to do it? That's what I'm wondering.
And then, Mrs. Branham was standing there, and I think they slipped over with her to... And even my little boy, Joseph, wanted to do some writing too, and it'd probably be as plain as his Dad's. He's two years old.

11 We want to express ourselves to you the best that we can that we appreciate being here. And I say this for myself, my family, Brother Lee Vayle here, Brother Woods and his wife, Brother Leo Mercer, Brother Gene Golden, all that's in our party, we certainly thank you.

12 A few moments ago, coming in, somebody said they took up a love offering for me. I didn't come for a love offering, friends; I come just to be your brother. But I sure appreciate that love offering. I'm a poor man. I could have been a millionaire if I took... I never took a offering in my life, never. I'm twenty-seven years in the ministry; never took an offering in my life.
I keep looking at my wife. Every time I get to that part, she (thinking about an offering), she always gives me that once over. I'm going to tell it, honey, anyhow.

13 I was one time really up against it; you know, when you get to that place where you just can't make ends meet. And I was working as game warden here in Indiana. So I said to my wife, "I'm going over tonight and take up an offering. I just can't owe this any longer, I'm..." She said, "I'm going over to watch you do it." We lived just across from the Tabernacle. Now, those people would do it. My, they'd sell their property, give it to me; but I was able to work. Wished I could do it now and wouldn't have to even take a penny.

14 But I went over and I said (we didn't even have an offering plate), and I said, "Folks I've met a little ... just a little place," I said, "I need a little money. I wonder if you people would feel bad at me if I took up a little offering; each one of you here drop in a little something." I said, "Brother Wisehart, will you get my hat?" And he reached to get my hat, started off. And I looked sitting down here in front, a little old lady... How many remembers them women used to wear them little aprons and turn the pocket on the inside, carry their pocketbook? A real prayer warrior, reached in and got one of these little pocketbooks that snaps on the top, begin to reach down there for those little nickels. Honest, I couldn't do it. "Oh," I said, "I was just teasing. I didn't mean that." So, I didn't go through with the ordeal.

15 You know, there used to be an old man right down from up in here, somewhere. Had long hair and beard; his name was John Ryan. I don't know whether you ever knew him or not. How many ever knew John Ryan from this country? All right. God rest his gallant soul.
He rode a bicycle down there to my house one day and gave it to me. And it'd been sitting out there a long time and I went out to the ten-cent store and got some red paint. Painted that old bicycle up and sold it for five dollars, and paid the debt anyhow and didn't have to take up the offering. So, I come almost that time doing it.

16 So I will assure you, friends, my expenses runs me about a hundred dollars a day. My office and my upkeep---just about a hundred a day. Now, that's... Know it sounds like a whole lot, but it isn't. What do you think Brother Roberts' runs a day? I think the last report I had was seven thousand a day. Billy Graham's runs sometimes a thousand dollars a minute in his broadcast. That's not his television; his broadcast worldwide.
So you see, that's very small comparing with that. So I thank you for your offering. And by the grace of God, every penny, that I will spend it to the kingdom of God the best that I know how. Someday in heaven may you receive your reward, if not here on earth. Now, we're going to read some of His blessed Word.

17 Any time that I can be a favor to you, I will do it. I used to say this: "The nights never get too dark, or the rain never falls too hard but what I would come to you." Well now, in contact directly and indirectly, about ten million people. That's a big thing to say. I might not be able to come to you, but if you'll just get me word of your need, I will certainly pray for you.
I lay at home, and my wife knows and those who ever come to visit me there, but all night long that telephone ... just not but a few minutes sleep, unless I get away from home. Accidents on the road, around the nation, everywhere. People calling, calling, calling, calling just constantly all the time. We've had as many as sixty-four long distance calls an hour (that's four phones answering now), averaging sixty-four calls an hour, day and night. Think of that, see. You can imagine how it is.

18 But we're always glad to get them. Always glad to do something to help someone. You know what a blessing is? Do something for somebody else. That's right. And if you have a neighbor or somebody that's done you injustice, remember this for me: don't never turn him down, see. Take him to God in prayer and see what a different attitude you'll have.
If you're sincere in your prayer, you stand shoulder to shoulder with him. Though he's done you wrong, injustice, but you just take that man to God and stand there in the Presence of Father one time. And say, "Father, my neighbor here has done me wrong. But I guess..." Watch, when you go to telling his wrong, it'll not only help him, but it'll help you, also. And you'll see what he's been through in the temptations and things. It'll change your attitude towards that brother. And it'll help him also. You always are doing good when you're praying one for the other.

19 Now, if you've got your Bibles open, for my final text in this meeting (hoping to come again to you as soon as I can) Revelations, the 3rd chapter and the 20th verse; I wish to read for a portion of Scripture, and to get a context from this text. The reason I want to read it, I'm standing here, I don't know what the Lord Jesus is going to do. And many of you is gathered out and the overflow room is full and standing around. But yet, if I read the Scripture, God will bless that much, I know.
I think the Scriptures ought to be read at all times. Here's the reading:
Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me.
And my subject tonight, if I should call it that, is The Door Inside The Door. This is an unusual text, but it's a portion of God's eternal Word. God's Word is so real. And that's enough Scripture right there to take all communism out of the world and convert the entire world. It is an invitation to salvation. It's also an invitation to healing; the guarantee of eternal life. Oh, it means so much if it be received in the light that it's wrote in.

20 You know, here some time ago there was a federal trial. I believe it was in the days of the late Abraham Lincoln, the president of the United States. And there was a soldier that had committed a crime, and he was going to be executed. He was sentenced to death. And finally someone persuaded the president to spare his life. And the president, in a hurry, said, "All right, I will spare it." So, he just signed a piece of paper, "Release So-and-so, Abraham Lincoln."---sent it.
And when the carrier of this, brought it to the jail and showed it to the prisoner and said, "Present this." "Why," he said, "that's no good; it's just a piece of paper. Said, "But it means between your death and life, because it's got the president's name on it that you're pardoned."

21 "Oh," he said, "it would be on official paper. It would be sealed with his seal and so forth---all the ritual that it would have to be," before he would receive it. And he couldn't persuade the man to receive it. And the next morning he was shot at sunrise. Well, after Abraham Lincoln's name being signed that he had pardoned the man, and now here he lays a corpse. Then what?
So it was tried in federal courts. And here was the federal courts decision: A pardon is not a pardon unless it be received as a pardon. That's the way God's promise is. It is not a promise unto any persons that will not receive it as a promise. But every word of God is a promise to those who believe that it is a promise. It's your mental attitude towards it, whether it's a pardon or whether it's a promise for your healing; for His words are eternal.

22 I wish I could think of the poet's ... or, the artist's name (that's on my mind now), several years ago who took upon himself to portray this passage of Scripture into a picture. And it took him just about a lifetime to paint this picture of Christ knocking at the heart ... the door of the heart.
And all famous pictures, before they can ever go into a Hall of Fame, they first have to pass through the critics. And I like that, because it is about like the church. Before the church can ever go into the great rapture, first it has to come through the critics. "All that live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecutions." There is no excuses. There is none that's deferred. All have to pass through that line of persecution and criticism. But then if we can pass through that, with such a life that the critics cannot point their finger to anything that's true, then the picture is ready then for the great Hall of Fame.

23 And this artist who painted the picture, when the critics was looking it over, they said, "Sir, your picture is wonderful. But there's just one thing about the picture that's wrong." He said, "You have Christ, it portrays all right and the door is all right, but you don't have any lock on the door. So, why would He be knocking on the door if there is no lock on the door?" And the artist said, "I painted it thus, because in this door the lock is on the inside. The one that's on the inside has to unlock the door, so He can come in."
And that's true. Christ can knock, but you are the only one that can open the door. You can say, "Come in, Christ; I welcome You." Still He can't get in till you unlock the door; then He can come in.

24 What does anyone knock on another person's door for, anyhow? It's to gain an entrance. You've got some business when someone [Brother Branham knocks on the pulpit.], they have something they want to talk over with you.
And those great knocks has come on great doors all down through the ages. What do you think would have took place in the days of Augustus Caesar if he would have had the opportunity or something to go to, a peasant's door, and knock on the door when he was the emperor of Rome? Would that not've been a great honor for any Roman subject for Caesar Augustus to knock at their door?

25 Or what would it've been when the great Napoleon, though feared by people... Standing at Waterloo not long ago in Belgium, I was reading his history when I looked upon the relics of the great battle. And he was so mean. And when the mothers went to put their little babies to bed at night, like mothers sometimes say, "The boogie man will get you if you don't be good." It was more fearful to say, "Napoleon will get you." He was so feared. He'd put people to death.
But how one of his subjects would have felt honored to have him knock at their door.

26 Or the great Adolf Hitler, that's just passed away. How would... What an honor it would have been for any of his soldiers, maybe a poor man lived out along the river and for Hitler, the Fuhrer of Germany, knock on his door and want to come in to talk to him a little while.
What a honor it would have been for that soldier to have Hitler knock at his door, while he was the Fuhrer of Germany. Oh, it would have been a great honor. Or I would say this: it would be a great honor to the best democrat in South Bend for our president, Dwight Eisenhower, to knock on his door to visit him. Though you differ with him in politics, he's one of the greatest men in the earth---our beloved president, Dwight Eisenhower. Certainly it would be an honor. What makes the honor is the importance of the one that's knocking.

27 Or just recently, the Queen of England visited this United States. What an honor it would have been to any of you people here tonight---here in South Bend or in the United States---if this queen (though you are not her subject), but if she would have come to your door and knocked on your door, how happy you would have been to go at the door and she'd say, "I am the Queen of England." The greatest queen on earth, the Queen of England. Though she has no jurisdiction over you, yet she is a great woman.
You would have said, "Your honor, Queen, come into my home. If there's anything in this home that you want, you can have it. If there's any trophy or anything that I can do to make you welcome, come on in you are welcome."

28 And when you welcome anybody like that, if you don't give them full premises while they are in your house, they're not exactly welcome. That's right. If you welcome anybody... If I come to visit you and you'd say, "Welcome in, Brother Branham. Make yourself at home." Why, I'd come in, take off my shoes and sit down; put my feet up in a chair somewhere. I got hungry, I'd go out to the ice box and get something to eat. Sure. I'm welcome.
Oh, we'd welcome somebody like that because of their importance, the queen. If you had something that you cherished, you'd gladly give it to her if she wanted it, because she's a great woman.

29 But I want to ask you something. Who's more important than Jesus? And who's more turned away than Jesus? He's the most important person that can knock at your door and He would never knock unless He's got something good for you. And He's turned away more than any person that there is on the earth. Jesus is turned from the door, a heart's door of men and women, when He knocks daily trying to get in.
"Lo, I stand and knock: if any man hear My voice and will open the door, I will come in and will sit down and sup with him, and he with Me." Oh, I don't know who could be any greater and who could do any more for you, or not one millionth, of what He could. There's nobody could do for you what Jesus does when He comes in. But He's turned away.

30 Now, you'll say to me, "Just a moment, Brother Branham. I did that a long time ago." That's good. I'm glad you did. For I say, it's the greatest thing you ever done, is when you let Jesus come into your heart. That's the greatest move that you could ever make. It's changed you from death to life. Let Jesus come in.
But now, after He's in, is He welcome to every door there is in your house? That's the next thing. Oh, sure, you'll accept His salvation. You do not want to go to hell. But will you let Him be your Lord? He wants to come in and be ruler. That's the reason He wants to come in. You don't know what to do. He does know what to do. Many people will accept Him as Saviour, but then to accept Him as Lord is different. What a difference between being Saviour and being Lord. As a Saviour, He would save you from your sin; but to be Lord, He's ruler. You let Him in, but you won't let Him rule.

31 For, in the human heart is just like the door there to the house. After you come in, "Come in, Sir; set down. But these other little doors, I don't want You fooling around in my house." I want to speak on a few of those doors, all kinds of little private doors in your private life. Jesus can be your Saviour, but, "Don't You never try to tell me what to do, Lord. I know what I want to do. And don't You never try to rule me." That's the attitude of many people who profess Christianity.
"I will listen to what the pastor says." That's good. But if it's contrary to what Jesus said, then it's wrong. "I will do what the church says." That's good, but if it's contrary to what the Bible says, then it's wrong. You must let Him be the supreme ruler. That is, He's over all. He's over your opinions. He's over everything that you have. He's over your emotions. He's over your ideas. He controls every fiber of your thinking. Everything that you are you should turn it over to Him, if He's going to be your Saviour and your Lord.

32 How many of us do it? I want to speak of a few things. There is a little door when you get into the human heart (You turn to the left), and that's the little door of Selfishness. Oh, we don't want to go to hell, sure not. But we just got a little idea that we're just a little bit better than somebody else. Now, if He can't get into that, well then, you're always going to have that idea.
"I will go to church for what I can get out of it. I will rank among better people. And if I'm ever in trouble, then of course if I can say, 'I'm a member of a certain-certain church,' I'm sure the people will look up to me and say, 'That man is a real member of a certain church.'" God can't use you like that. He's got to control that, too.

33 Then there's another little door. And that little door is called Pride. Oh, that's a hard one to get open. You know, it's just... Human beings are just prone to think that maybe they're just a little better than the Joneses, you know, especially here in America. You just paint your steps red, watch your neighbor paint his red. And you, sister, wear just a certain little thing on your hat when you go to church, your neighbor just can't stand it.
Oh, it's such a day of trying to impersonate---a matching. You buy you a Chevrolet and the Jones' has got a Ford. And your Chevrolet is just a little bit better maybe than their Ford. Watch them get a Chevrolet right away. Oh, it's a matching time.

34 I've had this remark and I don't mean it personally---I don't mean any harm by it---but sometimes when I get ready go to church, my wife will come over and say, "Billy, do you think that that tie matches that suit?" I say, "I don't know, honey." And I will have on a pair of red socks and black trousers and a blue tie and, oh, I don't know. She said, "That don't match." I said, "Honey, I'm not concerned whether my trousers match my coat, or whether my tie matches my suit. I'm concerned about one matching: I want my experience to match God's Bible." That's where we ought to match. God's requirement.

35 But it's a matching time. Pride. Dress a little better. Go to a little better church (what we call better), and dress a little better. And always... But we don't want Christ to come into that. "Now, Lord, You can save me, but don't go to fooling with my business. Now, I'll take care of myself." Now, I know that sounds very rude, but that's the truth. It certainly is. People don't want Christ fooling with their business.
"And if I want to be just a little bit dishonest on this deal, 'Now, Christ, You just stand right out here just a little bit.' But I just have to do this because I have need to do it. Oh, it won't hurt me any, I'm sure." If you'll just let Him come into that door, He will fix that all up for you. He will stand at the door when the enemy tries to tempt you to do wrong.

36 There's another door that I'd like to speak of for a moment. And that's the door of Faith. So many people will let Him in the door as Saviour, but you won't let Him rule you in your faith.
Now, you say, "Oh yes, Brother Branham. Oh, I believe Jesus Christ; but the days of miracles is passed. There is no such thing as divine healing. There is no Supernatural." What is it? You won't let Christ get into that door. You let somebody else talk you out of it. Why don't you just open that door and say, "Lord, take over my faith, tonight." Watch what will take place. Sure. He will take over. He will rule the thing.

37 If the doctor cannot do you any good in his medical professions (which we thank God for), if he's got to a place till his limited ability has come to its end, why don't you let Christ unlock that door of Faith and step in there and take His Word then? Watch what'll take place. Oh my, when he examines you again, he will say, "What happened to you?"

38 Here some time ago, a woman had cancer. And the cancer was just about to kill her. And we asked our blessed Lord to help her. And He did. The doctor had given her up. Few months later, she had a son, I believe was ... he done something about... I forget now what it was. Something about taking away some chemical stuff that took away insects out of the house and so forth. I don't know what that name is you call that now. Exterminator, or something like that?
He was in Little Rock, Arkansas. She was in Jonesboro. When she come in the prayer line, she had a handkerchief over her nose. I thought she was weeping, but come to find out, she had no nose, that the nose had been eaten off by a cancer. I said, "Have you been to the doctor, my sister?"
She said, "Mr. Branham, he's given me radium treatments and everything and it continually goes on."
I said, "Then, let Christ have your faith. And then you'll have new faith. You'll have..." [Gap in the audio.]

39 "Oh," he said, "I don't believe I do." And she told him who she was. And he said, "Oh, you are the woman that I've got you on the list over here that your nose was eaten off by a cancer ... had been eaten off."
She said, "That's right."
He said, "Well, I never had seen you in so long. I wondered where you went."
"Oh," she said, "I changed doctors."
Said, "Who did you go to?" Said, "I would like to compliment him on the great job that he did."
She said, "Sir, I went to Dr. Jesus."
"Oh," he said, "I'm sorry, I... Where does He practice at? I don't believe I know Him."
She said, "In glory."
Oh, could you imagine that, and supposingly to be a Christian nation. What happened to the woman? She let Christ come in---the new doctor. And He opened a little gate or a little door that she really didn't know existed in her heart. But let Christ come into it once. Watch what takes place. Wish I had time; there's more doors. But I want to hurry.

40 There's another door that I wish to speak of. That's your eyes. Do you know you can be blind and don't know it? The Lord has, in the Bible, said that He would anoint our eyes with eye salve. Did you ever hear of that?
You know, I'm a Southerner, and I was raised on possum and coon and so forth. And my granddaddy used to trap a lot, and he used to catch coons. And how I love to hunt them yet. And so, he would render out the grease. And when any of us children got cold in our eyes, and the little eyes be matted together, Mama would go get some of the coon grease and rub it on our eyes. And just in a little bit, it penetrated in and the light begin to break through, and we could see where we could not see before.
That's the way it is with God. He's got some holy oil of the Holy Spirit that He can rub on your eyes as eye salve, and you'll see things that you never saw before. New light will break through.

41 You say to me, "I've got good eyesight, Mr. Branham." Well, I'm thankful for that. But you might have ever such a good physical sight and be spiritually blind. Let God open your spiritual sight. After all, you don't see with your eyes. Did you know that? No, you look with your eyes; you see with your heart.
Jesus said, Saint John 3, "Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God." You mean you can't understand the kingdom of God until you're born again. You look right at a certain thing, say, "I just don't see it." You're looking with your eyes, but you mean you don't understand it.

42 And that's the kind of the eyes tonight that must be opened, and there's only one salve that will do it. Oh, you couldn't take a shot of penicillin for it. Neither could you ever bathe your eyes with coon grease and do it. No doctor has a remedy for it. But God has the Holy Spirit of His anointing oil that He pours on your oil ... eyes, and you say, "Now I see. I once was lost, and now I'm found; was blind, but now I see." That's the eyes we want open. Can watch at the platform, look at the Bible---Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today, and forever---and your eyes open and you can see Him.

43 After His resurrection, there was some men, one of them's name was Cleopas and his friend was on their journey back down the road going back to their old task again. And as they went down along the road, a stranger come out---a man that they had walked with for three and a half years. Walked, dodged every cobblestone down along that rough road if He ever walked it, went around every bend. Shook hands with Him. And was blind and didn't know Him, until He got them down to Emmaus; got on the inside of the room with them, and then He opened their eyes. And they recognized that it was the Lord. Oh, as soon as their eyes were opened---it taken the whole Sabbath day to journey---they were back over there just in a few minutes.
When your eyes come open, you go to work for God right quick. You don't worry no more; you just go to work. On the inside of the heart is the eyes: the eyes of understanding.

44 A minister said to me some time ago (I was in a house meeting), and he said to me, "Mr. Branham, I will bring up a little crippled girl, and if you'll heal that girl, I'll believe you."
I said, "I'm going to say the same thing to you that my Lord said to your pappy, 'Get behind me, Satan.'"
You know, that's exactly right. I said, "I've got a sinner friend sitting out yonder in a house that's got a cigar in his mouth that long, cursing every breath because his wife's in this meeting. You go save that man, and I will believe that you can save."
He said, "I can if he'd believe."
I said, "Have the girl make the same faith and I can, too."
Certainly. It's based upon your faith.

45 In the days of our Lord Jesus the people couldn't doubt Him being a healer, but they said, "He wasn't a Saviour." The devil just burst the table on them. Today they say, "He can save, but He can't heal." He's the same yesterday, today, and forever. The Saviour, the healer, the King of heaven, the Author of eternal life and the giver of every good gift comes from God through Jesus Christ.
Your eyes being open... Oh, if we could only see! Watch and see Him, what He does, in His great powers, especially in these days now that when we're living in this tremendous time. The shake of the people, where people don't know what to do. America needs missionaries worse than any nation I was ever in. That's right.

46 Now, I say this not to be different. And with this Bible laying open before me, it's the Word of the living God. But do you know what the word "heathen" means? A heathen means "an unbeliever." And it's better to---and easier to---convert a heathen that has no education than try to convert one that does have an education. That's right.
The heathen with no education will be simple in his thinking; but the heathen that has an education, he will figure every way around he can to make it a lie. The devil has used the educational system to send more souls to hell than anything I know of. That's exactly the truth.
Now, I don't mean for your children to grow up illiterate. But first place Christ at the door. But don't never place education ahead of Christ. Education will cease, Christ will never. Let Christ come into the heart, then the rest---education---will follow.

47 I'd rather my little boy, Joseph, over there, not even know his ABC's and know Jesus as his Saviour, than to have him to have all the education in the world and be the president of the United States and not know Christ. Absolutely. I'd rather have it. If he could be both, it would be fine, but if I had preference, let him know Christ. And if he has to be a beggar on the street, let him know Christ, would be my prayer to God.

48 The eyes open. We look at flashy things. Remember, everything that glitters is not gold. I've done a lot of prospecting. And fool's gold, which is iron pyrite, shines a lot brighter than real gold. But the value in it... Be sure that your eyes see the right things.
But the American people---we have just seen so much of God. God's been so good to us until we don't recognize it. It becomes... You say, "Let's go down to the meeting" to some neighbor. "Who's preaching?" "Well, so-and-so, Oral Roberts."
Oh, Oral Roberts is a great man of faith. Oh he has a, if you'll excuse the expression, a bulldog grip. He will stand there and throw that big hand down and holler three or four times, and if nothing else, he will scare the devil out of you. But he has a bulldog grip. He believes it and God honors it. Oral Roberts is my bosom friend, a mighty man of faith.
"Oh, I've heard Oral Roberts before." You say, "Well, Brother Branham is down there." "Oh, yes, I seen Brother Branham stand up there and it would be discernment and tell the people... I've seen that before." The trouble of it is you've seen so much of it, it's become so common to you, till it doesn't give the results that it ought to give.

49 In closing, I might make this statement. A man once was going to the sea. He wanted to smell the salt water. He wanted to hear the wild gulls flying over. He wanted to see the great spray of the waves as they leaped into the air with the salt briny spray. He wanted to take his shoes off, wade up and down the banks in the salt water. Oh, it was going to be a real thrill for him to get out there.
On his road there he met a man returning, which was an old "salt," as we'd call it, a sailor. And he said, "Where goest thou, my good man?"
He said, "Oh, sailor from the big sea." He said, "I'm going down to enjoy the blessings of the salt water and of the blue skies and the many things that the sea holds."
"Oh," he said, "I was raised on it. I don't see nothing thrilling about it."

50 You see, he had saw it so much and enjoyed it so much till it become common. That's what you Americans have done to Christ. He's been so good to you. You seen Him open the eyes of the blind. Some wouldn't walk across the street to see it again. You've seen Him heal the sick. You've seen Him perform miracles. You've done all this, and it's so common. It doesn't thrill.
It's been my great mystery in my life. How can the Scriptures be so plain and the people sit there and know that the Spirit of Christ is in the room, and can hold your peace? I can't understand it, unless they're eyes are not open. He's so good.

51 Way down in the South, we had an old darky down there, a colored brother---a minister, wonderful brother. And around his wife and all of them tried to persuade another man, his name was Gabriel. We just all called him Gabe. Gabe was just short for Gabriel. And he was a good old man but we never could get him lined out for Christ.
When I had had my meetings down there, he'd say, "No suh, I sure not go over where Parson Branham is; he'd call out all my sins before me. I ain't going over there."

52 And I like to hunt so well, so... And Gabe liked to hunt, too. And his pastor down there at the colored congregation, a Pentecostal church, he liked to hunt, too. So he took Gabe out hunting one day, and Gabe was a poor shot. He couldn't hit the side of a barn. He just couldn't hit nothing. But he liked to hunt.
So, that day while they were hunting, they had shot so much game until on the road home they had rabbits and birds all over them. They could just barely walk along with so much game. And the faithful, old colored pastor was walking in front with his gun in his arm, and Gabe loaded down with game wagging along behind him.

53 After while, they come around a familiar old path when the sun was setting, and Old Gabe touched the pastor on the shoulder. He said, "Parson?" And he looked around and said, "Yes, Gabe?" And he noticed Gabe snuffling and the tears was running down his cheeks. He said, "Gabe, what's the matter?" He said, "Parson, Sunday morning, you are going to find me at the mourner's bench." And said, "After I leave there, I'm going to take me a seat in the church. And parson, there I'll live and serve God as long as I live."
And the pastor said, "Gabe, you know, I'm happy to know about that." Said, "I'm so happy, but look, Gabe, I want to ask you something." He said, "Why the sudden change? I've preached; I've begged; I've persuaded; your wife has fasted and prayed." Said, "What made the sudden change?"
He said, "Parson, you know I'm a bad shot." Said, "I couldn't hit nothing." He said, "Just look at all this game He's given me. Why," he said, "you know He loves me or He wouldn't have give me all this game."

54 If you just notice, and let your eyes come open... He's all around you. He's willing; He's ready; He's wanting to give you good things, laying you with His blessings that you can praise Him and testify of His goodness.
But if God will just speak to your heart, and open that door that your eyes can see that He's here---and His goodness---He'll load you with it. My prayer is that you'll open your heart tonight, your understanding, open your heart of faith; open the door to the selfishness; open to the door of indifference; open the door of malice that's in your heart, and let Christ come in and be full Lord and Governor over your life.

55 Let us pray with our heads bowed. Eternal and blessed God, such a wonderful audience, we could just speak, seemingly, all night. But the hour is moving on. We thank Thee that Thou dost still knock at the man's heart's door. We thank Thee that Thou art still willing to come in and sup and discuss with us any problem that we have. If it is sin, You'll discuss it with us. If it's we got pride, You'll discuss that, give us a cure. If it's sickness, Thou art the Great Physician standing at the door knocking. If it's lack of understanding, You'll open our eyes. "If a man lacks wisdom, let him ask God." That's the Scripture, Father, and we believe it to be Thy truth.

56 I pray, God, that just now that You'll knock at many hearts. Those, every heart that has a need may Your Holy Spirit at the door now, knock and say, "Child of man, open up your door, and I'll come in and discuss this problem with you. If you want more grace, I'll give it to you. If you want more faith, I'll give it to you. If you want your eyes of understanding to be opened, I have the salve for them. I'm the Great Physician. I'm the One who took the Israelites food all through the forty years of journey. I preserved their clothing till they never went thread bare."
And there was only one prescription in the great satchel of Dr. Moses. O, God, how if the people could read that prescription tonight. If the doctors of America and all over the world could only see the prescription that Dr. Moses, over two million people, brought them through the wilderness. Hundreds of babies born every night.

57 Oh, people, and yet they come out of the wilderness, not a feeble one in their midst. What if our doctors could get that prescription? Father God, it's here in Your suitcase tonight. Your suitcase of promises and blessings. And this is the way it reads, Father, as I read it: "I'm the Lord that heals all thy diseases." That takes care of it. It's Your Word; it's Your promise. Open understanding, Lord, of the people tonight that they will understand. Open their heart and let You be their Lord, their Ruler. Not only their Saviour, but their Lord and Ruler, their God, that they might be controlled by Thy Holy Spirit. For we ask it in the name of the Lord Jesus, Thy Son.

58 With our heads bowed, just going to ask this question, and please, everyone, keep your head bowed. Sometimes a sinner friend is just a little conscious. God hates sin, but He loves a sinner. He gave His life.
Sinner friend, in the overflow rooms or in the main auditorium, you want Him to come in tonight? Has He knocked... You know He won't... If you knock at someone's door and they wouldn't let you in, you wouldn't go back no more. But not Him. Maybe He's knocked for years, but sometime He will make His final call. Would you like to let Him in tonight?

59 No one looking. Raise your hand, sinner friend. I will never ask you to do no more, just raise your hand to God. God bless you. Someone else, God bless you. God bless you, you, you, you, you. Sinner friend... God bless you. Over in the overflow room, just raise your hands. Anywhere over along those windows and wherever else in the building where the television cast is coming in now, just raise your hand. God sees it. "Yes, Lord, I need You. I now will receive You as my Saviour."
Say, "Brother Branham, does that mean anything when you raise your hands?" Well, it's making a decision. It's between death and life. It's not so complicated. It's just you believing it. We try to make it: You have to study catechism six years and you have to go six months on probation. That's man-made doctrine.

60 "He that heareth My words and believeth on Him that sent Me, has everlasting life and shall never come to the judgment, but has passed from death unto life"---when he believes. If you believe, just raise your hand. Say, "Yes, Lord, be merciful to me, I now believe." God bless you over there, lady. God bless you, lady. God bless you. That's good. "I now believe. Lord, help Thou my unbelief." God bless you back there, sir. God bless you.
Someone else? God bless you over here, sir, to my right back in the corner. I haven't looked to my right side yet, raise your hands if there's anyone back there would love to say, "Lord Jesus, open up... I do my heart now, I pull the latch down. I've been closed in with a lot of selfishness for a long time. Maybe tomorrow or some other day, but tonight, I'm pulling back the latch. I want You to come in." He'll do it just as soon as you raise your hand. And you can't raise your hand unless He calls you.

61 What if you was one of those kind that can never feel God anymore? You know, there's some people... God's not willing that any should perish; but there's some people that never can be saved. Not because God don't want it, but God by foreknowledge knew it.
How many in here tonight that's already Christians and has (God bless you, young man)--- that's already Christians and ... but you're not leading the right kind of a life as a Christian. You say, "Jesus, come in and take the door of selfishness, pride, whatever it is in the way, and open up my door tonight." Would you raise your hands? God bless you. That's right. God bless you. Oh my, many ... thirty, forty hands. God bless you, lady. Certainly the Lord sees you.
How many's been... God bless you over there, young fellow. God bless you, young man. "I've been different, Brother Branham; I've never lived a complete Christian life. I want God to take my doors right now and swing them open. Take all the pride and selfishness and world out of me. I know I've accepted Him as my Saviour, but I want to be a full-surrendered Christian. Pray for me, Brother Branham. I now raise my hand and say, 'God I surrender my life to You.'" God bless you, young lady. God bless you, sister. God bless the young girl here, the young man over here, the little girl and boy back there, the young man in the back, this brother down here. Yes, God bless you in the back, also. That's right. Down here, sir, the Lord be with you.

62 Now, I'm going to ask one more question while you have your heads bowed. How many in here would say, "Brother Branham, I've read in the Bible, I've been listening at you the last few nights. I hear how Jesus Christ made Himself known to the Jews by discerning the thought of a man named Nathanael. And Nathanael said, when He told him who he was ... told Peter what his name was, and the disciples and those... As soon as He made Himself known, the Jews understood Him and said, "That's the sign of Christ. Thou art the Christ, Thou art the Son of God, Rabbi."
And when He done this same miracle and told the Samaritan woman, when He made Himself known to the Samaritans, and the woman had five husbands, and He asked her for a drink. She told Him the well was deep and He had nothing to draw with. He said, "Go get your husband and come here."
She said, "Sir, I perceive that You are a prophet. We know when the Messiah cometh, that's the sign of the Messiah, He will do these things. But who are You?"
He said, "I am He that speaks to you."
He made Himself known to the Samaritans that way. Now, why didn't He make Himself known to the Gentile? He told them not to go to the Gentile. That's this day. He's the same yesterday, today, and forever.

63 You say, "Lord, I have watched it, but tonight maybe it's been too common for me. Maybe tonight, Lord, if You'll just open my eyes of understanding and anoint my eyes with spiritual sight... Let me, Lord, see Your presence tonight and know and understand that I'm living just before the world meets its end." The sputniks and bombs and... They say within a year they're going to send a rocket to the moon. That's nonsense. It's a modern Babylon. Can't you see we're at the end time?
Say, "Lord, open my eyes to understand." Would you raise your hands with your heads bowed? "Open up my eyes, Lord, let me understand." God bless you. That's good. That's good. God bless you. Fine. God bless you back there, sir. God bless our colored brother there. Yes, that's right. God bless you back there my brother. Sure. "Open my eyes, Lord."
Say, "Here's my heart, here's every key, here's everything, just open up, Lord. You be Lord, You govern my faith, You govern my emotions, You govern my eyes, You govern everything, Lord. Just take me, Lord; here I am. Let me be fully surrendered." God bless you over in the rooms, the overflows and so forth. The Lord bless you. Now let us pray.

64 Dear Heavenly Father, preaching all night, we love to do it. Speak to Your children where they're eating. And it's such a blessing to let the Holy Spirit come in and feed on the Word. Now that's not all, Lord. We're so thankful that You have cut off even that to unbelief.
But, Lord God, You make Your Word manifest. You prove that the Word is true by demonstrating it. "Go ye into all the world and demonstrate the power of the Holy Ghost to every nation." "Lo, I am with you always. The works that I do, shall you also. More than this shall you do, for I go to the Father. A little while and the world won't see Me no more, yet ye shall see Me for I will be with you, in you to the end of the world." No wonder Paul could say, "Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today, and forever."

65 Bless these people. I know that these who raised their hands are saved. I know those who had differences, it'll be cleared up; and those who could not understand, their eyes will be opened tonight. Their faith will be turned loose, and this will be one of the greatest climaxes we've ever seen in this revival. Grant it, Father.
Now to my ownself, I surrender my heart, my all to You---my emotions, my being. Speak, Lord, and let the people know that Thou art Christ and I be Your servant. For I ask it in Jesus' name. Amen.

66 Do you feel good? That's lovely, sister. Let's just sing one verse of that. You love to sing? Now look, you can have all your little songs you want, the little jubilees. Give me the old-fashioned kind. I'm just old-fashioned. I love it. Oh, my, don't you love that: Pass Me Not, O Gentle Saviour, hear my humble cry. Anybody know who wrote it? Sure, Fanny Crosby. She was blind.
You remember the story, when the English writers come and wanted her to write some of these modern songs of love songs, which would be nice today, but she refused to write anything else but religious songs.

67 And one of them said, as two of them were talking to her, "If there is a heaven and you go to it, you'll never see Christ. What if you were blind when you get there? Then how would you know Him if you were still blind?" And she said, "I'll know Him. I shall know Him, though I be blind, yet I will know Him." And she turned and started weaving her way through the house and the inspiration struck her of this song: "I Shall Know, Yes, I Shall Know Him and redeemed by His side I shall stand. I shall know Him, I shall know Him by the prints of the nails in His hands." Said, "I feel His hands and I will know Him." Certainly.

68 Any man or woman that's ever done anything for God, has swung their heart of faith open and stood gallantly for Christ. God grant it to you.
Pass me not, O gentle Saviour,
Hear my humble cry,
While on others... (Everyone join in now.)
Saviour, Saviour, hear my humble cry,
While on others Thou art calling,
Do not pass me by.
Now, He won't pass you. He never did pass anyone. He hears their cry. I wish I could bring all the sick upon the platform and go through the discernment, if the Lord will permit it. I don't know that He will.

69 How many is in the building tonight that's never been in one of my meetings before? Let's see your hands. Just look. See what I mean? That's the reason I have different ones to speak before (I guess you have explained the ministry before I got in, have you?) of how that someone comes to introduce before I come to the platform, the ministry. I do not claim to be a healer, friends. I can't heal. No other man can heal.
Brother Oral Roberts, a great men of God, but he doesn't heal you. He just lays hands on you and asks God. Brother Valdez, Brother Allan and just many great men, your own pastor here, and great men in the fields who pray for the sick; but none of them heal. Now, they're preachers. They can take a hold of the Word and preach it. I'm not a preacher. I have no education, so I can't preach. You know that, now.

70 But what the Lord has given me is a different type of a ministry. It's a ministry of seeing visions. How many knows that God promised to set that in the church? How many knows that gifts and callings are without repentance? How many knows the difference of a gift of prophecy is not a prophet? Certainly. A gift of prophecy is to be judged by two or three before it can be given. But a prophet is born---"Thus saith the Lord"---from childhood, see.

71 The Bible said, "First are apostles." Is that right? Well, apostles, we call them today, missionary. That's the first. The highest calling is a missionary. What does apostle mean? "One sent." What does a missionary mean? "One sent." Missionaries, prophets, teachers, pastors, evangelists. How many knows that's true? We have to have them all. Some's pastors, some's teachers, some's evangelists, some's missionaries and some prophets.
Now, we have those things in the church. What are they for? The apostle is the highest calling; a missionary is the highest calling. Prophet and so forth down. But they're not any different. They're all God's servants, set together to temper and bring the body of Christ together.

72 When Jesus was on earth, He didn't claim to be a healer. He claimed to be the Son of God and said, the Father was in Him. How many knows that? How many knows that He said in Saint John 5:19, He did nothing until the Father showed Him what to do? He saw what the Father was doing, then went and done it. He said that. He couldn't lie. He was God, see.
So, He never done one miracle until first He saw a vision what the Father told Him to do. People would come to Him; He would know their name. He would tell them what was wrong, what they'd been doing. How many knows that's right? How many knows that that's the way He made Himself known and Israel recognized Him by that? Said, "That's the sign of the Messiah." How many knows that the Bible says that? Saint John, the 1st chapter.
How many knows that that's the way He manifest Himself to the Samaritan nation? That's how this woman knowed ... when He told the people in Samaria---said, "Come see a man that told me the things I've done. Isn't this the Messiah?"

73 If He's the same yesterday, today, and forever, He does the same yesterday, today, and forever. How could you take the life out of an apple tree and put it in a peach tree; what kind of a life, what would the peach tree bear? Apples, see. Take the life of a sinner out and put the life of Christ in there, it'll bear the fruits of Christ. Is that right?
He said, "I am the vine, ye are the branches." The vine doesn't bear fruit; it purges the branches and the branches bear fruit if it's a good healthy branch. If a lot of vines is wrapped around it and isms and things wrapped around it, it's cut off all the circulation, it won't be nothing.

74 But if it's a good, healthy branch, it'll bring forth the fruits of the vine. Is that right? Well, the church is the branches. He's the vine. So it absolutely will have to bring forth His life. If He does that and does the same things tonight in the church that He did before His crucifixion and resurrection, how many will say, "I truly believe" (you newcomers), " I truly believe that He's raised from the dead if He will manifest Himself tonight through His church, just the same as He did when He was here on earth." Raise your hands will you to Him, through the audience. That's fine. That's very good. May the Lord grant it.

75 I want to pray for these, remind me somebody after the Holy Spirit has anointed. Now, I... (Did you give out prayer cards? What did you give out today? W.) They give out prayer card W and I've explained how... Here I say to the newcomers. How many in here wants to be prayed for tonight. Be honest. Something wrong, you want to be prayed for, raise up your hands. Everywhere in the building, wherever you are, anywhere. Four-fifths of the audience; well, who's going to be first. We can't get to too many. Visions, just one, weakened the Son of God. How many know that? A woman touched His garment; He was weakened, see.

76 My ministry is not lay my hands on you; that's a Jewish tradition. The Jew said, "My daughter is laying sick unto death, come lay Your hands on her, she'll get well." But the Gentile said, "I'm not worthy that You come under my roof; just speak the word and my servant will live." Jesus said, "I never found faith like that in Israel."
There's the way: to believe it. Just ask Him. Here's His Word. Now the next thing to prove: Is He alive? You believe He's alive? Sure, He's alive. And now the only thing that's different, He's here in Spirit form instead of physical form. How many knows that? And the Spirit form works through... He don't have any hands, but my and your hands. No eyes, but my and your eyes. No mouth, but my and your mouth, and they should be surrendered. God has made us one to be this way and one to be that way.

77 Mine ... my part is just surrender myself to a gift and just watch. And where I'm not a preacher to speak, the Lord uses my eyes to see things. That's been in the past, will be in the future.
And I take any person in here to this or anywhere you wish to go, out of the tens of thousands times tens of thousands, not one time has it ever failed. These things you see happen here are minor. That's the things that you do. I can't operate it. You operate that. If you had no faith, nothing would happen. But with your faith, you don't have to be up here on the platform.

78 This woman touched His garment and went out in the audience and sat down or wherever she was. Jesus said, "Somebody touched Me." Turned around and looked till He found where she was. There she was, the woman with the blood issue, and told her her faith had saved her. Didn't say, "I did it." "Your faith has saved you."
Now, did you notice that word "saved"; the Greek word "sozo", there I believe. Sozo, physical or spiritual either one. You're saved from your sickness; you're saved from your sin, both. The same word all the way through the Bible every time. Sozo, the Greek word.
Now, your faith has saved you. Does the Bible say, "He's a high priest"---the New Testament? Says, "He's a high priest that can be touched by the feeling of our infirmities." How many knows the New Testament says that? Do you believe then if He's alive and alive and your faith can touch Him, He'd speak back through and do the same thing He did there to declare Himself to still be the high priest, alive? Then pray. God will grant it.

79 Somewhere we have to call. I can't get my mind working right on what to call. (What did we call the first night? from one? Last night from 85 to 100.) Well, let's call tonight on prayer cards W. Take your prayer card. Look at it. It's got a letter W. What is it? It's a little card... [Gap in the audio.]
Now, if you'll just give me your undivided attention just for a few moments. Now, this is the time that where our Lord... The promise that He made, is either the truth or it isn't the truth. Now, which would be easier for you: to accept your healing by His promise or come here and see Him do something, you want to take my place up here, see.

80 But what it is, He just makes His Word the truth. He makes every word the truth. All is truth. Now, "I will be in you. The works that I do, shall you also." Now at the gate of Samaria, at the well, a woman and a man met together. Jesus and the woman of Samaria. He talked to her a few minutes till He found out where her trouble was. The Father showed Him, certainly. The Father told Him to go up to Samaria. He was on His road to Jericho; you know that.
And He went up to Samaria, way out of His way, sat on the well. The Father said, "Go up there." But He didn't know what to do. The woman come out. He caught the woman and begin to teach her ... talk to her. And the Father showed Him where her trouble was, He told her where her trouble was. And when He did it, she said, "This is the sign of the Messiah." How many knows that to be true? The same yesterday, today, and forever.

81 Now did you get that clear? I didn't say I was Messiah. Get that straight. I'm your brother, a sinner, saved by grace the way you are; unworthy of any blessing. But He has to use somebody. He has to choose someone. No hands are holy enough for that. Certainly not. But He has to use someone's. It's not our holiness, anyhow, we trust in. It's His merits. Not nothing I could do. It's what He has done and I believe.

82 Now, I want to tell you, the visions weaken me so much, I want to tell you good-bye and the Lord bless you real good, and pray for me as I go along. The Spirit of the Lord is coming nearer and nearer all the time. How many's got the picture of it now in here? How many's seen the picture? Chase it down, find it, if that's right or not.
That same light that you see on the picture is not two foot from where I'm standing right now. You say, "Brother Branham, if you could see it, could I see it?" Not necessarily. None of them saw the star but the three wise men. The group that was with Paul, they heard a rumbling noise, but they didn't see the light, and the light was so real to Paul till it put his eyes out for a season. God reveals as He will.

83 Now, I suppose, sister, the lady standing here, that you and I are strangers to each other. Are we? Would you just ans... After being preaching, it's another anointing, and I have to wait for that. That's the reason you're up here, just so that I can find somebody that will ... that I could get segregated from the rest of the people to talk to a few minutes.
Now, if we are strangers to each other and have never seen each other in life so far as I know; unless you've been sitting in a meeting and looked at me. But I don't know you, you know that.
If the Lord Jesus will come now, and say to you or reveal something in your life. Maybe what's wrong, where your trouble is. You know I don't know that, lady. How many knows the audience ... this woman... I raise my hands (I don't believe in swearing), but here's my hands before the Bible. I never seen the woman and she's never seen me outside of just being in the meeting and looking at me; I guess, in this meeting here, sitting here looking at me. I don't know her.

84 Now, if I said, "Lady, what's wrong with you?" And she'd say, "I have cancer or I have TB or I have something wrong with me." Put my hands on her, say, "The Lord says you're going to be well. Hallelujah, go on."
Well, that might be all right. She might have faith to believe that. "You're going to be well. A year from today you're going to be well." She could scratch her head and say, "I wonder." That's still not a miracle.
But if God will go back down in her life somewhere to something that she knows is the truth and I don't know, and then will reveal it; let her be the judge. Then she will know it has to be a supernatural power and not a man. Is that right? Would that be right, lady?

85 Now, He'd have to act the same as He did when He was here on earth in a physical body. He'd have to take my physical body and her physical body. My faith in His Word; her faith in His gift. If she will approach it reverently, she will receive.
Now, she knows it comes from a supernatural power. Now, if she believes like the Pharisees, "It's Beelzebub," then she will get his reward. If she believes it's Christ, then she will get Christ's reward. Now the rest is up to God. This is as far as I can go as a human being. God be with you and help you.

86 Just to contact your spirit, sister. Just to see what He would tell me. He might not tell me one thing. I want to ask you a question. Do you believe what I preached is the truth about Him? If He didn't reveal one thing to me, would you still believe if I prayed for you, you'd get well or you'd get what's... I don't know what you're here for. But would you believe it, anyhow? If I didn't no more than just pray for you, passed you through the line, you'd believe it, anyhow? God bless you. I believe you would.
But just that the people might know His resurrection, may He grant to let me know. How many, if the Lord will reveal... Let her be the judge with her hands up. You'll be honest about it, will you lady? Raise your hand so the people will see. Just put your hands like, not swearing, just so that they'd see that you understand what I mean. Yes, yes.
Let her be the judge whether it be right, if He does it. I don't say that He will. How many then will say, "That settles it for me? I believe it." If the Jew could believe it on one time, the Samaritan could believe it on one time, what ought the Gentile to do?

87 I'm thinking how pitiful it's going to be for the people that the Lord God has blessed to see and yet will never know it till it's done passed over them and gone. That's the way it's been in every age. It won't be no different in this age.
If the people can still hear my voice, the lady is moving from me. And I see her; she's in a terrible condition. She suffers with a nervous condition. And also, she has a heart trouble. Not only that, but she has trouble in her throat, and you have stomach trouble. Now let her be the judge.
Was those things that He said... The only way I will know what it was, is pick it up on my tape down there. That wasn't me. Couldn't have been me. Ask the lady if whatever He told her was right. Was that right? Just wave your handkerchief. [Sister says, "That's right. God knows it's right."] There you are.

88 Do you believe now? Now let's... We're in no hurry. Don't be pressing. Now, you without prayer cards that's not going to be called in the line, you look this way, and just keep believing. Say, "Lord, I believe that with all my heart." Just keep looking and believing.
That's it. Just don't be in a hurry. Just be quiet. I want to talk to you again, lady. Whatever He told you was right. I know this takes strength, but you're a nice person. You have a wonderful feeling to your spirit. You are a Christian. I mean a born again Christian.
You're not from here, though. You're from Michigan. You like Benton Harbor real well, do you? [Sister says, "Yes."] Your name's Leah. Your last name's Schroeder. You believe it's over for you, now? Go on your way, rejoice. God be merciful to our sister.

89 How do you do, lady? Do you truly believe? Believe with all your heart? If the Lord God shall find favor tonight to say to you something, I see you're ... something ... you can't stand well. Would you help her there just a moment, brother? Yes.
Now look here to me and believe with all your heart. The lady is suffering with a heart trouble. You also have a cough. It's a asthmatic cough. That's right. And you have bronchial trouble, says the doctor. That is true. The reason, it's not your feet; you're just weak. You've been in a bed for several days and got out of bed to come here to be prayed for. That's "thus saith the Lord." That's right, isn't it? God shall reward you for this. Let us pray.
Almighty God, the strength of our being, give to this woman her healing. She must have it or die. And I pray, God, that You'll move every shadow and give her supernatural strength now that she can be healed through Jesus' name. Amen. God bless you, sister. Don't doubt a bit.

90 Do you believe with all your hearts? Just have faith. That's all I ask you to do. Just look this way and believe. I can't heal. God's the healer. You are His subjects.
How do you do? I suppose we're strangers to each other, are we, lady? I don't know you. You belong to some different religion and many of them wear those little caps, different ones. But do you believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God, and that He died that He might redeem us? Do you believe me to be His servant? I say that with respects, just like Peter and John said, "Look on us"; not as Him, but sent by Him.
If God will reveal to me, say for instance, what you are or what's wrong with you, you will believe it? This is our first time ever meeting, I believe, in life. Is that right? You're a Mennonite, to begin with. See your colony. And you're suffering with a liver trouble. That's right.
And that's not all on your heart. You've got something else on your heart. That's for your husband. He isn't here. If God will tell me what's wrong with your husband, what He's doing right now, will you believe me? He's coughing. He's got the flu. That's "thus saith the Lord."
Mrs. Miller, do you believe me to be a servant of God? You do? Go back home, put that handkerchief on him, it'll all be over.

91 How do you do, sir? Guess we're strangers to each other. Philip went and found Nathanael; and when he found him, he said, "Come see who I've found, Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph." And Philip said ... or, Nathanael said, "Could any good thing come out of Nazareth?" He said, "Come, see."
And on the road over, he told him, perhaps about the conversion of Peter and the others, how He called their names; told them who they was. He does the same thing today. He's the same Christ. When he got up there, he was about notion to believe. But when Jesus saw him, He said, "Behold, an Israelite in whom there's no guile."

92 We know, both know, that we're mortal beings and got to face Christ someday. God be merciful to us.
If the Holy Spirit will reveal to me what your trouble is, will you believe Him? There's something that's in your back. It's your spine, spinal trouble. And you have arthritis. You're not from here. You're from Chicago. You got something else on your mind. You're praying about it. You've been praying about it quite a while. It's a woman. It's your sister. She's not in Chicago. She's in Cleveland. She's got heart trouble and a mental case. Do you believe? Go, find it the way you believed it, brother. In the name of the Lord Jesus.

93 How do you do? We are strangers to each other. I don't know you. God does know you. You're not here for yourself. You're here for somebody else. Seriously sick. Mighty city, Chicago. He's got tumor on the brain. Up for an operation. Send that handkerchief and don't doubt, and what you believe, that's the way it'll be. God give the blessings of what she's asking.

94 Have we had three yet? Reverently, reverently, please, just a minute. You see, it gets to a place to where the Holy Spirit... See, Christ, a person touched Him and He said He got weak. What do you think about me? The only reason I can stand a little longer because He said more than this shall you do. It's His grace.
Do you believe that Christ is here? How many believes it's His Spirit permitting this to be done? Then bless you. You can have what you ask for if you'll just believe it.

95 I'm a stranger to you, I suppose, lady. I don't know you. God does know you. If He will reveal what's your trouble, will you believe Him? If we're strangers to each other, would you just raise up your hands like this?
Now audience, we're both witnesses before God's Word. If the Holy Spirit will do this one more time, will you all believe, promise Him you'll believe?

96 Here's what it is. It's for a good thing. That is, you're trying to get to walk with Christ. You want a close walk with Him. You had your ups and downs, backslidings, ins and outs. That's what you want is a close walk with God. That's a worthy thing. Your faith has been shook about something, caused you to be upset. That's the truth. You think God will reveal to me what upset your faith? What you need is the baptism of the Holy Ghost.
Here's what it is. It's because that you're wanting a baby, and you've had miscarriages, and you can't pack your baby. That's "thus saith the Lord." Will you surrender all to Him now? Surrender your heart and all?
Dear God, upon a penitent woman who comes humbly, seeing that shadow hanging over her. I ask Thee, dear God, just on the basis of her faith, to give to her what she asks for just now. May every heart, every door be swung wide open and may she receive Him just now for everything she has need of. This I ask in Jesus' name. Amen. You be the judge. That's right. Raise your hands if that was right, whatever it was. Now do you believe?

97 What about you in the audience? Are you ready to believe? How about you over on this side of the line? Do you believe with all your heart? You without prayer cards, I want you to look this way. I want you to believe with all your heart. You pray.
The angel of the Lord said to me, "If you get the people to believe you, then be sincere when you pray, nothing shall stand before the prayer."
I'd like to get some in each line, if I could. If God will permit it. Have faith, people. This is our last night.

98 Yes, here's a lady sitting right in here, looking right across the shoulder at me. Got trouble in your chest. That's right, lady. You sitting right there, glasses on, your hair combed down. You had chest trouble, didn't you? Breath yourself deep. You heard what I said: You had chest trouble; you don't have it now. Your faith has made you well.
I don't know you, do I lady? I've never seen you. If that's right, stand up on your feet. Never seen you, had no contact at all. There she is. Go home now, you're well. Jesus Christ heals you and makes you well.

99 What about in this row in here in this section. Let's come a little further. Will you believe? Who said that "amen" then that I heard? You? with your red hat on? Do you believe me to be God's prophet ... or, His servant? That name stumbles people. I'm a stranger to you. I don't know you. But if you'll believe me, God will heal that arthritis for you.
What did you raise your hand for, sitting by her? You want to be healed of spinal trouble, don't you? And the reason you raised your hand, you both come together and you're both Canadians, aren't you? You're not Americans; you're Canadians. Go back to Canada and spread the good news. Christ makes you well. You just have faith. Believe with all your heart. You can receive it.

100 What do you think, lady? Did that strike you just well to believe on the Lord Jesus? You believe me to be His servant? You have a need of Christ to do something for you? You believe that He will reveal it to me, you'll accept it? Then your rectal trouble will leave you. That's what your trouble was. If that be right, stand up on your feet if we're strangers and don't know one another. Is that right? All right, then receive it.
Are you believing? Somebody in here, have faith. Don't doubt, believe. Trouble is in your head. The lady, blond, sitting there, gray headed. You believe in Christ? You believe He can tell me what caused that head trouble? It's some gas. That's right. If you believe it, that's right. Raise your hands if that's right. I don't know you, do I? Never seen you in my life as far as I know. That's the truth, isn't it?

101 How do I know you from any different... There's that light hanging over you right now. It broke into a vision. Here it goes, moves over to the next lady, second lady, next one sitting back there on the end. Yes.
You were wondering then, wasn't you? It's over you. I want to be honest with you. You be honest with me. There's a feeling that you right now like you've never had before: real sweet, humble feeling. If that's right, wave your hand. Then your high blood pressure left with it. You have faith. If thou canst believe, all things are possible. If thou canst believe. That's all He asks.

102 Think God will heal that ruptured baby, make it well? Well, believe it. Don't doubt, and have what you ask for.
You going to believe it, too, brother? That nervousness leaves you, also. God bless you.
I think that's across the building. Do you believe? You think Christ will heal that arthritis for you and make you well? Go believing. It shall be done.
If you'd believe Him, that diabetes would leave. Instantly be gone, you'd be well. Do you believe it? Then go believing it. God bless you, as you have believed.

103 When you raised up, you felt your back was different. ["Yes, I did."] You were healed sitting there.
You're awful young, but you've got a nervous heart. Do you believe that God will make it well? Go believing, now. Amen.
When I said back trouble to the woman a few minutes ago, struck you too, didn't it? You were healed right there in the line. Now, go on your road rejoicing. Don't doubt nothing, you'll be well. You believe with all your heart.
And you do, too? You believe the same thing and believe the smothering stuff will leave you and you be well? Go on your road, go right on your road rejoicing.

104 Let's say, "Thanks be to God." Are you believing? Do you believe with all your heart? Does He do all things well? Is He the same yesterday, today, and forever? Do you believe it solemnly with all your heart?
Then I'm going to ask you to do something. Put your hands over on one another just a minute. I will show you the glory of God. Don't doubt. Have faith. I know... I'm not beside myself, but I'm getting awful weak. I'm going to stop just a minute.
I trust that God has confirmed what I've told you to be the truth. Nothing in me. Believe Him. It doesn't matter whether you touch me; touch Him now, see. He will prove it.

105 Now, you lay your hands on each other. That's the Scripture. The Bible said, "These signs shall follow them that believe." If they lay their hands (their hands) on the sick, they shall recover.
Over in the overflow, lay your hands on each other if you're sick and needy. I'm going to pray for you. If you believe in my prayer, you have faith now. As you bow your head, I want to put in your mouth the words that will defeat the devil right now. You just pray them as I repeat them with your heads bowed.

106 Almighty God, Creator of heavens and earth, author of everlasting life, giver of every good gift, have mercy upon me. I am in need of Thy grace and of Thy healing power. Heal me, O Lord. And heal the person I have my hands on. Be merciful to them, Lord. I sympathize with them for they are suffering, too. I now believe that You are the risen Christ showing among us the great signs and wonders that You promised You would do. Be merciful to me, and I will serve You with all my heart as long as I live. And by Your grace, this night, I accept You; because You promised, I believe. I now am healed. I believe it. I accept it. I shall not listen to Satan anymore. I will praise God for my healing; for by Jesus' stripes, I now am healed.

107 Just keep closed in. Keep closed in. Reverent. You've prayed. You've said the right words. Just in your heart, feel His goodness coming down. Feel them keys turn that door in there and that faith that you once wanted is now coming loose. Something telling you, there's Something here by me. Something is making me well. My headache is gone. My stomach trouble is vanished. Oh, I feel different in my limbs, my arms; new life is coming in.
Keep that on your mind now, while I ask the devil, in Jesus' name to depart from you. That's the devil that would make you doubt it at anytime.
Lord God, Creator of heavens and earth, I come to Thee in the name of the Lord Jesus asking You to be merciful and pardon our unbelief.

The door inside the door

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1 Thank you very much, you may be seated. I certainly deem this a great privilege to be here on this Monday night and seeing this nice turn out of people hungering, thirsting for God.
I believe the Scripture said, "Blessed are they that do hunger and thirst after righteousness, for they shall be filled." And if God has given us that blessed promise, then the only thing that would keep us from being filled with everything that we thirst for, would be because we do not believe it. If we can just believe now that God will give us the very thing that we're here for, we will all go home tonight so happy and satisfied.
I'm so glad that He supplies our every need. He promised He would do that. Now, He never promised that He would supply our wants, but it was our needs that He would supply. I'm so glad of that, because there's many times that we want things that's not good for us.

2 I was just thinking of that the other day, when I was trying to shave with a straight razor. And my... I was very awkward with it; I had never undertaken it before. And my little boy, Joseph, was saying, "Daddy, let me do it, too." Five years old... And I thought now... And he cried because I wouldn't let him have the razor. But you see, I knew better than to do that.
And that's the way God is. Sometimes we think that we must have certain things, and we'd only hurt ourselves with it. So if we will just be submissive and humble, like little children before Him, God will supply what we have need of.
And if I being a father of flesh and of the earth, love my little boy enough not to let him have a straight razor, regardless of how much he cries for it, how much more does our heavenly Father know, though we cry for something that we think we have need of? But He promised us that all things would work together for good to them that love God. And, again it is written, "He will not withhold any good thing from them that walk upright before Him." Isn't that a promise?

3 So, I've always had a little slogan that I always give to people as: Do three things in life. First thing is do right; that's your duty to God. Think right; that's your duty to yourself; and you're bound to come out right. That's exactly right. You do right, and then think right. And as long as you are going right, you can't be going wrong.
When my boy, Billy, about fourteen years old... Before I sent him down to the Bible school, he was in a common school and did not have a very good background. And all the children, girls, boys smoking and carrying on... And one day I come into the house and sat down. And Billy was staying with his grandmother. And while the presence of the Lord was near, there was a vision: I seen my boy with a cigarette in his hand. That liked to killed me.

4 So, after while, his bicycle stopped out front, and he came in and said, "Hello, dad," and run, threw his arms around me.
I took him in my hands, and I said, "Billy, when did you start this?"
He said "What, daddy?"
I said, "Smoking."
He said, "I don't..."
I said, "Don't tell me. You do smoke, Billy."
He started crying. I couldn't keep from it. I went out to the bathroom; I sat down out there, and I cried like a baby. I thought, "His mother in glory and last thing she said to me, 'Take care of Billy.' And here I've tried to put the example before him and to see him do a thing like that," it almost killed me.

5 So I took him out on the walk. I said, "Son, you're coming away from there right now. I'm going to send you to Bible school, no matter how lonesome you get." And so I said, "I want you to stretch out your arms like this."
And he did. He said, "What's the matter?"
I said, "This is left and this is right. Now, you cannot be going both ways the same time. You're in a shape of a cross." And I said, "As long as you're going right, you may think you're going wrong; but you've got to come out right. You can't go east and west at the same time. You can't be doing right and wrong at the same time."
Sometimes people are going wrong, thinking they're doing right; but it'll wind up wrong. So always think right, do right, and you'll come out right; you just got too. That's exactly. Do right; that's your duty to God. Think right; know that you've got to come out right; and you will come out right.

6 Then I always had a little slogan I said to the people that I married. You see the young couple, and they come up before me, I always think of Christ and His bride, that great wedding supper that we're all anxious to attend. And to see them there, their young youth; and their bright eyes, as they're standing there to take this vow to bind them through life's journey.
Always say to them something like this: "Now, you want to be happy, and you cannot be happy without Christ. There's no home happy without Christ." I just want you to show me one. You have some make-belief, but you can't be happy without Christ. No, you're just ... you're painting a fire.
Like a person pretending to be a Christian... How can you get warm by a fire that's been painted? Painted fire won't warm. It takes real fire to warm.

7 We can read back and see what the Holy Ghost done on the day of Pentecost. That was on Pentecost two thousand years ago. If that same fire doesn't bring the same results today, what good does a historical God do us, if He isn't the same God today?
It's like feeding your canary bird vitamins to make good strong wings and feathers, and put him in a cage. What good does his wings do him, see. If you're not going to preach the full Gospel, and believe everything, and receive the Holy Ghost like it was then, what good does it do to have a Bible, if He isn't the same God? See, He's got to be the same, or it doesn't do no good to go to school and learn theology and things, if you want to place Him back as a historical God. He's the same tonight.

8 And I always tell my young couples like this: that happiness does not consist of how much of the world's goods you own, but how contented you make yourself with the portion that's allotted to you. That's right too.
I've seen couples that didn't have nothing. I married a couple here some years ago. I don't know how they ever asked me to marry them, but the boy was a friend of mine. His father worked the public service company with me, very sharp, intelligent-looking young man, and he married a millionaire's daughter. The door knobs was fourteen carat in their home. And I had to practice the ceremonies so long, going back in there, and throwing rice and stuff, and kneeling on a silk pillow. And oh, such a ceremony...

9 But when I married them, about three months later, my brother said to me, he had a couple that was going to get married, only the boy didn't have enough money to get married on. He had a girl, but he didn't have the money to pay the preacher. And he said, "Well, my brother never charged nobody for nothing."
You know, I'm fifty-one years old, been in ministry thirty-one years, and never took a offering in my life. Never took a off... Don't never intend to. So, I just don't do it. It's got to be done. But I just... Whatever anybody gives me anything, all right; if they don't, it's all right anyhow. He can rain food out of heaven, so I just let it go like that. I just believe Him. I've never missed any meals; I've postponed some, but I haven't missed any as yet. But it's always been nice to know Him.

10 So when this young couple come down, I looked at that boy standing there. During the time of that depression, he... Old washed-out pair of trousers, and an old shirt, one collar, piece of collar buttoned higher than the other... Hair cut, needed it bad. That little girl had hitched-hiked from Indianapolis down; her little feet was on the ground. I felt like buying that child a pair of shoes. Very pretty little girl...
I said, "Where you going to take her, son?"
He had an old boxcar down on the river, where there used to be an old Dial Ironworks, where they used to... They do the puddling there. Why, he was going to go down there and live in this boxcar.
And I said, "What are you going to do if this job runs out? You haven't got nothing; you don't even have nothing to eat?"
She said, "I will love him just the same." That's right; that's it.

11 Well, one day I went down, going to visit my friends that lived on Silver Hills. Herman, I knew him real well, Herman Holtz, a very good friend mine, he married E. B. Knight's daughter. And they had a nice home; he didn't have to work no more, just had it made, because they had plenty of money, run the big sand companies and things on the river and so forth.
And I went up there to see him just at the right time, I suppose. One was sitting in one corner and the other in the other, fussing. And they had been out to a dance the night before, some party, and there'd been some man had danced with her, and made her angry ... or, him angry. And so there it was; they was fussing.

12 And when I come up on the porch, you know what they done? Run grab one another's hands, and come up to the door, and said, "Hello, Brother Branham." Now, that's painted fire. That don't last. That's no good.
I said, "I'm glad to see you all." I said, "Are you happy?"
"Oh, yes dear, aren't we?"
I knew right then; I'd done heard them when I come around the house, see. I knew they were fussing. Well, they went on and you could see it wasn't right, the spirit didn't feel right.
One day, I thought I'd find out what become of this couple I'd married and lived in a boxcar. So I was working for the public service company; I was a lineman there for seventeen years. I went out on the river and kind of played the part of a hypocrite, put my spurs on and safety, and went walking down along the river like I was watching poles.

13 I slipped up, and I seen his old Chevrolet out there with the headlights wired on with bailing wire. And I went up towards the door. I heard them talking. And he'd got him a job off the PWA, or ever what it was, they worked on there. And he was working at some lumber company up there making about eight or ten dollars a week. That was pretty good money.
And so they had taken that old box car and had put newspapers up and tacky buttons. Who knows what a tacky button is? What part of Kentucky you from, son? Take cardboard, and put a tack in it, and just push it in the wall, see. And paper and newspapers...
He had brought down some old boxes, and they'd had a table made out of it. But, brother, if I ever found a heaven on earth, it was. She was sitting on his lap. He had his old hat out, mashed the top of it in, had poured his pay check out. And they had so much laying here for food, and so much for the insurance, and so much for here.
He said, "Honey, I want to get you that dress so bad. I believe it was about a dollar and a quarter, something like that."
She said, "But, honey, I appreciate that." One arm around him like that...
And he looked up at her. And I was standing there like a hypocrite watching, you know. And, so, they begin to count this money out, and they didn't have enough to go all the way around.
And he said, "Well, I worked till... I've been trying so hard. The little dress hangs in the window up there, it's a dollar and a quarter. Couldn't we just let the insurance go or something?"
She said, "No, honey, I appreciate it." Oh, he put his arms around her.
And I stood there and turned around this way and looked up on top of the hill, and I could see the home of the other, the steeples on top of the house. I thought, "Which is the rich man? Which one would you want to take, Billy, if you were going to take your choice?" Let me have a real true wife, one that loves me. Let me live down here in a boxcar. For I tell you, happiness and contentment money cannot buy. Money cannot buy love. That's the real things.

14 Well, here I go talking. The first thing the time will be gone. And let us bow our heads just a moment and speak to the Lord now.
Our precious, heavenly Father, we approach the shadows of Thy mercy in the name of the Lord Jesus, knowing this, that He has promised us that we could have an interview with You at any time and be sure that we would receive it, if we would come in His name. Therefore, Lord, we have no righteousness, no name. There's not anything that we possess in this life, or know of, here on earth that we could approach Thy throne, only through Jesus' name. And we come humbly, Lord, offering to Thee the adoration of our hearts for sending Him to the earth, that we might have this great avenue to enter into Thy presence by the shed blood at Calvary, and would have the assurance that You'll hear our prayer.

15 We thank Thee, most holy Father, for all that Thou hast been to us in this meeting so far. We have seen Your great mighty hand go down into the audience and convince sinners that they were wrong, see them come to the altar in penance and accept Thee as their only Saviour and Lord. We have seen those, Lord, who were sick and afflicted, leave the building well, rise up out of the wheelchairs and walk away. We are grateful to Thee, heavenly Father, for these things.
Then we have seen Thy Holy Spirit anoint this audience, till there would not be one secret in a heart but what You would make known, bringing to pass the very words that He promised that would take place. Oh, our Father, be merciful to us unworthy creatures. We cannot express to Thee, Lord, the way that we wish to. How we love Thee and appreciate Thee for these things.

16 Knowing that in this dark hour of the closing scenes of the world's history, when men are confused, and people are running from church to church and from place to place, changing letters and packing them from place to place, and yet we've found that abiding, resting place in God.
How we thank Thee for the Holy Spirit that gives us comfort in this hour. And we pray, Father, that He will abide with us forever, as the shadows are lengthening out and we know the sun is setting on civilization.
God, we would pray now for this great nation of ours, that's in the time of the changing of presidents. It might seem like a light thing, but, God, it might change the destination of this nation. O Lord, Thou Who could choose the prophets and anoint the kings, we pray that Your Holy Spirit will anoint the right man for us in this hour. Grant it, Lord. Where the great rallies are going on on both parties... Father, we realize that You're not interested in parties; it's men that You can trust. So I pray, Father, that somewhere along that they'll choose the right man for the hour.
We know that the hour has to come when the wrong man will be chosen, too. So we pray, Father, that You'll give us a little more time to bring in the lost. May, if there be any of those here tonight, seeing the shadows lengthening out, may they come sweetly to the Lord Jesus and be saved. Heal the sick and afflicted. Strengthen the church. For we ask it in His name. Amen.

17 Brother Borders, that read the Scripture just a few moments ago... Sometimes I read it myself, and I thought tonight that I'd have Brother Borders to read it for me, Revelations the 3rd chapter, the 14th verse and the continuing of that chapter.
For after they read the Scriptures then the song begin to sing when I gripped the hands of Brother Mercier standing behind there.
He said, "Why did you do that?"
I said, "Listen at the song."
He said, "I see what you mean. Only believe; just believe what's being wrote."
This message is a message to this church age, the Laodicean church age, which was a lukewarm church age. Now, I'm trusting God tonight to draw from the text that I shall choose being the 20th verse. From this text, I want to say this, that is says, "Behold I stand at the door and knock: if any man will hear My voice and open unto Me, I will come into Him and sup with Him and he with Me." I want to take the subject there of "The Door
Inside The Door."

18 Now, this is rather an unusual scene. And it's an unusual text. But you know, God is unusual. God does things in an unusual way, at an unusual time, in an unusual place, sometimes to unusual people. God is unusual; He does the unexpected many times.
And then we might say again to an audience here of several hundred people, "Isn't that kind of a small text to make: 'The Door in the Door,' choose about seven words out of one of the verses?"
Well, it isn't the quantity of anything that counts; it's the quality that counts.

19 Sometime ago, there was a little story I heard of a little boy that was searching up in the attic. And in an old trunk, he found a postage stamp, a little, bitty, fellow, yellow with age. And the little fellow had ice cream on his mind. So he had a stamp collector down the street that he rushed down to sell the postage stamp to, thought he'd get five cents, the purchase of an ice cream cone.
When the collector put it under the glass and looked at it, he said, "I will give you a dollar bill." Well, the transaction of business was closed right quickly, because he was glad to get this dollar. Way down the street he went with several cones of ice cream dreaming in his mind.
Later on, I understand that this collector sold this stamp for five hundred dollars. And then it went from that to hundreds and hundreds of dollars. And I forget now what that stamp is worth. The paper that it was wrote on was not even worth picking up. It wasn't the paper; it was what was on the paper that counted.

20 And it isn't the size of my text tonight; it's not the value of the paper that it's written on; it's what it is that's wrote on the paper. It's the Word of the living God, an offer of pardon. A pardon. It's a pardoning. The Word is pardoning to every man, or woman, or boy, or girl that will receive it.

21 Some years ago in the civil war, or the revolutionary, one, it was... I believe it was the time of Abraham Lincoln; it was, that there was a soldier that had done a violence. And he had run away in time of battle, shirked his line of duty. And they caught the man. And they tried him before the courts and found him guilty. And the sentence was to be shot by a firing squad.
And there was a man who had thought so much of this young fellow; he was a nervous, upset boy. And when the old muskets and cannons begin to fire, he just run, because he was scared to death. But he had shirked his duty, and he was going to be killed. In a certain day his execution was set.
And a friend of his went to the president of the United States, the gracious Abraham Lincoln. And good, old Abe, as he was entering into a hotel room, this friend run to him and he said, "Mr. Lincoln." And he said, "I know you to be a Christian man. You're the commander in chief of the army. And this certain man is guilty of what they've tried him for. But his conditions, he was scared. He's a good man. And I know you don't believe in taking a man's life. With your word on a piece of paper, his life will be spared. Even if he has to stay in federal prison, don't let him be killed. He was a good boy. I knowed him; raised up in the neighborhood with him."

22 Good, old Abe got him a piece of paper and wrote just a couple of words across there, "Pardon this man, Abraham Lincoln."
Oh, the boy rushed back to the prison cells and he showed his friend. He said, "You are freely pardoned."
He said, "Don't make fun of me, knowing I'm to die in the morning."
He said, "Here is the president of the United States, the commander in chief. He signed your pardon."
And the boy looked at it, said, "That's just a piece of paper. There's nothing to it. You're trying to make my death more miserable than it ever was intended for it to be. I will not receive it."
And he walked back behind the cell and refused to look at the paper anymore, because he said, "If Mr. Lincoln would've signed my pardon, it would've had all the letterhead and so forth and his seal upon it and so forth. So, therefore, I will not receive it, because it's only a mockery."
The next morning the man died before a firing squad. Now, what's going to happen? There's a commander in chief of the army says that this man is pardoned, and now he's shot by a firing squad. Now, what are we going to do? It was tried in the federal courts of our nation, and here was the verdict of the Supreme Court or the federal court. It said, "A pardon is not a pardon, unless it be received as a pardon."

23 Therefore, this Word tonight is a pardon to everyone that will receive it. But if you do not want to receive it, it is not a pardon. "Behold I stand at the door and knock: if any man will hear My voice and open unto Me, I will come into him." What an invitation!
There is a famous painting. I forget the Greek artist that painted it. Many of you might know the artist's name. But he'd spent a lifetime painting the picture of Christ at the door knocking.
All great pictures before they could be famous pictures, they had to pass the critics. And when the critics was criticizing or trying to find something to criticize the picture, one critic said to him, "Sir, your painting is a great painting. It shows that Christ has the light in His hand, as He comes in darkness to the sinner. He's coming at nighttime; there's nothing I could say about that. For that's when He comes to a man, is when he's in darkness. And the expression on His face as He knocks at the door with a expectation of hearing someone on the inside respond to His voice or His knock..." And said, "It's all beautifully drawn and illustrated here." But said, "There's one thing that I must say that you forgot." He said, "How would He be able to enter? You have no latch on the door."
And the painter said, "Is that your criticism?"
He said, "It is."
He said, "Sir, I painted the picture this way." He said, "You see, this is a different kind of a door. The latch is on the inside."

24 That's the way it is. Christ cannot by His own will open the door and come in. He can only knock, and then you open the door. The latch is up to you. He can knock, but you have to open. So that's the way it is.
And then when we think of a man knocking at a door... It's no unusual thing. The thing, the main part that counts, is not the man knocking at the door; it's the importance of the man at the door. Many people knock at doors every day. But the importance of the man... And a person knocking is... What's he doing anyhow? He's trying to... Maybe he has a message for you; or maybe he wants you to do something for him; or maybe you have something that he wants. There's some reason he's trying to gain entrance, trying to get your attention, trying for you to open up to get an audition with you, trying to talk with you just a little while. And there's been many knocks on many doors by many great men.

25 For instance, in the days of Rome, when Rome controlled the known world, what if the great emperor of Rome, Caesar, would've come down to a peasant's house, where a poor person lived, and would knock at the door? And the poor man would look around the corner and see that it was the great emperor of Rome knocking at his door. What do you think that poor peasant would think? What an honor it would be for this Roman emperor to come to a poor man's door and knock at his door.
That peasant would go to the door, throw open the door, and say, "Great Emperor of Rome, you honor my house. You give me a great honor, kind sir. Welcome into my little home. And if there is anything here that I have that you want, you are more than welcome to anything that I have. If there is anything that my lord desires of me, I will gladly give, even to my life, to him." Oh, it would be an honor to that home for the emperor of Rome to visit the home.

26 Or in the last wars, this late Adolf Hitler, the Fuhrer of Germany... In the days his great success and his dictatorship over Germany, what if this great Adolf Hitler went down to a soldier's home, a footman of his army and knocked at the door? And this little soldier raised up the curtain and saw that it was the great Fuhrer of Germany standing at the door. What an honor! How he could stick out his chest and tell the other soldiers, "Hitler came to my door. I was the honored guest. I was honored to have Hitler to come to my house."
He would be glad to say that. He'd throw open the door, stand at attention, and give the German salute, and say, "Sir, is there anything that the Fuhrer of Germany desires of his servant? I stand ready even to die for you. Is there anything in my house that you desire? You can have anything that I've got. What an honor it is to me. Today is my coronation day to know that the great ruler of Germany stands at my door, and me just a footman, just a soldier in the army. And you honor me, sir, to even stand on my ground." Why certainly it would've been a honor.

27 Or what, even tonight, if our most honorable and beloved president, Dwight Eisenhower... If he would come to your house, if he would come to the house of the best Democrat in this valley, though you would differ with him in politics, it would be an honor to you, for he's an important man. He's still the president of the United States of American. And he's a highly honored man. You might disagree with him in politics, but yet he's one of the greatest Americans today, is our president, Dwight Eisenhower.
Well, if he would come to your house in the morning and knock at the door, you would be an honored man. Every newspaper in Oregon would pack that article, that President Dwight Eisenhower come to your house. How everybody would think how humble he was to come to our house, we poor people, him the president of the United States... It would be a great honor for you to receive him.
You would say, "Mr. Eisenhower, enter into my home. You bless... Your presence blesses us. You give us an honor."
And tomorrow, the papers would say, and the radio, and the televisions would pack the article, "President Eisenhower comes to Klamath Falls and visits the ... a poor man." Why it would be a very humble thing for him to do. And it would be a great thing for you to receive him, and you would gladly give him his desires which would be a great thing.

28 Or just recently, when the queen of England, when she came over here to visit. If she would come to some of you women here, come to your home and say, knock on the door, and you'd go to the door.
And she'd say, "I am the queen of England."
Though you do not have anything to do with her---her domain isn't in America---but yet, she is the greatest earthly queen we have. She's an important woman. It would be an honor for you to entertain the queen of England. You'd say, "Come in, Queen." And, "You honor my house."
If she'd ask for any certain thing, little trinket or gadget you had on the wall, you would think it was an honor to give that to the queen of England. She is a great woman.

29 Sometime ago in Canada, my beloved brother and friend, Doctor Ern Baxter... When the late King George and the queen came down the street, we was told that he was suffering terrible with ulcers and cirrhosis in his back. That was before we had prayer for him at London. And he was suffering tremendously that day. But he sat up there in that seat of the carriage just as gallant with his lovely queen sitting by his side, with her blue evening dress on. As they passed by, and Mr. Baxter said when he looked up on them, said he just shook and cried.
And I said, "Why, Ernie?"
He said, "Our king and our queen was passing by." Said, "Sure, it made me weep for joy."
I thought, "If the king of England passing by would make a Canadian weep for joy, what will it be when the King of glory comes by?" What an effect it'll be upon the church of the living God when we see Jesus.

30 Sure, if she knocked at your door, you would think it was an honor to entertain the queen. And it would be a great thing for you to do that. But, oh, how many honors would you give for that? How honorable it would be...
But listen, there's Someone comes to the doors. Jesus Christ, the Son of God, knocks on more doors than all the kings and potentates that was in the world. Who's greater and more important than Him? And who's more turned down than He is?
Do you think if Caesar would've been turned down, what would he have done? Why he'd have had that man assassinated and his house burnt, and his wife and his children burned up. Hitler would've poured gasoline upon that soldier and have cremated him.
But Jesus continually comes back and knocks at the door. Turn Him away one night, come back another night. You turn Him again; He will come back again.

31 And if the queen would come to visit you, or our president, or some great person, no doubt they'd be wanting a favor of you. But Jesus don't want a favor of you. He's trying to bring to you eternal life. He's trying to save your souls from a devil's hell and an eternal destruction and separation from the presence of God. And yet we turn Him down.
And if it would a humility to the president of the United States to come to your home, yet the King of Glory, the Lord Jesus, comes down to the poorest man in the country, to the bootlegger, to the drunk in the street, to the immoral woman, to the disobedient child; to whosoever that He can come to and knock at his door, Jesus comes and knocks.
No matter how low you are, how little you are, how immoral you are, how indecent you are, how far out of society you've been ousted, yet the Son of the living God loves you and knocks at your door day after day and night. And you turn Him down. That's terrible. It doesn't even sound sane to do such a thing, to turn down the Son of God Who's coming, not to take something from you, but to save you from destruction, and then is turned down. What a pitiful sight. It doesn't seem mentally right to turn Him down. It isn't mentally right to turn Him down. It's a loss of mind to turn down the Son of God when He knocks at your heart's door. And yet, He's turned down and will return back.

32 Now, it may be that you would say to me, "Just a minute, preacher. I opened my heart a long time ago and let the Lord Jesus in."
Well, I'm sure happy you did that. And maybe that's just what you done, opened your heart and let him in. But is that all you done? God wants to do something else. Look here in the Scriptures. "I stand at the door and knock: if any man will open, I will come in and sup with him."
Oh, you say, "I accepted Him as my Saviour."
Well, maybe you did. But that's not enough. He wants to be your Lord. You were glad to let Him be your Saviour. No one wants to go to eternal destruction. No one wants to go to hell. But you want to escape hell, but you won't let Him be your Lord. He wants to come in to be Lord, and Lord is ruler, ownership. He wants to own you. For you're not your own; you're bought with a price. He wants to take control of you.

33 Oh, you gladly say, "Come in, Lord. Don't let me go to hell." But what if I'd come to your house. And I knocked at the door and I believe you don't, many of you don't know me. But just as being a minister, you'd probably welcome me in; I believe you would. You'd say, "Come in, Brother Branham."
Well, if you welcome me in, I'd feel like that that was just like home to me. If I come to your house, and you'd just welcome me and say, "Now, wait a minute. Come in. But stand here at this door. Don't you go any farther." You might as well not even welcome me in, because I wouldn't feel right.
If you come to my house, and you say, "Brother Branham, I was at your Oregon meeting at Klamath Falls. And I heard you just come back, so I thought I'd come."
I'd say, "Come in."
Say, "Thank you."
And I'd say, "Don't you go no farther than there though. You stay right there." If I ever welcome you into my house, you're welcome anywhere in my house.

34 You know, after you get inside of the door of the heart, you know, there's some more little doors in there, lots of little doors in the house. You have a little closet here, and a little room over here, and a little room over here. There's several doors. Many people are ready to welcome the Lord into their heart, because they don't want to go to hell. But they don't want Him to be Lord when He comes in.
Well, if I come into your house, you say, "Welcome in, Brother Branham," well you know what I'd do? I'd come in, go down to the refrigerator, and get me a piece of cheese, and some bologna, and slice me off a piece of onion, and cut me some bread and mustard on it, and some lettuce, and everything, go in and take off my shoes, and lay across the divan or across the bed, and eat this sandwich, and drink a soft drink if you had one. And, oh my, I'd just make myself at home, hang up my hat. If you said, "Welcome," I'd take you at your word.

35 But do we really welcome the Lord Jesus, take Him at His word? Can He take us at our word? Now, let's look around some of these little doors in the heart for the next few minutes.
The first little door that you turn to the right (we'd say), when you go in the heart; there's a door there called "pride." Oh, my. You know, you don't want to know Jesus standing in that door, 'cause He takes all of it out of you. He swings that door right open. Oh, if you could...
You say, "Now, wait a minute, Jesus. You can save me, but don't you go to messing around with my pride. Now, if I'm going to have to stand up there and act like some of those people do, I couldn't do that." Then He's not welcome. Let me say this: He won't stay very long either; just depend on that. I wouldn't stay if you told me that. You wouldn't stay if I told you that. So He won't stay if we tell Him that. Pride.
"Well now, I tell you, Brother Branham, if I'm going to have to get down there on that altar, cry out, make my girlfriend hate me, my boyfriend turn me down, my wife tell me I'm a holy-roller, my husband say I've lost my mind... Now, if You're going to do something like that, stay out Jesus." That's just exactly what they say, so much. "I will not do it."

36 Here not long ago, I was talking, here in Oregon, to a little lady that come to interview me. And she had a little book in her hand, and she was going to interview for the paper.
And I said, "Have you been to the meetings?"
She said, "I was there last evening."
I said, "What was your conception of the meeting?"
She said, "I never heard so many idiots in all my life."
I said, "I know now that you're not a Christian." And she told me what kind of a church she belonged to. And I said, "I'd like to show you, my sister, that in the Bible that your goddess, Mary, that you pray to, that woman had to come up to Pentecost and receive the baptism of the Holy Ghost and stagger under the impact of it, like a drunken person before God would ever let her come to heaven. And if God made the blessed virgin Mary do that, how are you going to get there anything short of it?" She gave birth, a virgin birth to the Lord Jesus. But yet, she could not go in, until she had been filled with the Holy Spirit.
I put my finger on the Scripture, and the woman not even the audacity to look at it. Talk about uncouth.

37 There, when she turned and looked at me, and she said, "I don't believe that.", I said, "Do you believe the Bible? The Bible said that Mary, Saint John, Saint ... all the other saints, Peter and all of them, had to go up there and remain until the Holy Spirit fell. And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost and begin stammering with their lips, and then begin to speak with other tongues, and acted in such a way until the audience on the outside said, 'These people are full of new wine. They are drunk.'"
See, we want to take Jesus to be our Saviour, but not our Lord. That was not the apostles acting that way; it was Christ in them acting. The Acts of the Holy Spirit in the apostles. The apostles were men like you are and I am. But the Holy Spirit made them act different, because He had become full ruler in their life. They had no more prestige and pride.
Look at Nicodemus came by night and said, "Lord, we know that Thou art a Teacher comes from God for no man could do the things that You do except God be with him."
Jesus said, "Except the man be born again, he cannot even see the kingdom of God."
Pride! What was holding the Pharisees out from making Him Lord? They believed He was the Christ, but it was their pride.
You say, "Well, I belong to a church that does..." I don't care; that's fine. Remain in that church, but let Jesus be Lord in your heart. Let Him have control. It's not you no more; it's Him. And then, let's leave that door. We could stay there a long time.

38 But let's go over to the next little door. "Oh, stay away from that." What is it? "My own private life." Oh, you don't want nobody messing with your private life, telling you that you can't drink any more, you can't smoke anymore, you can't go to your ladies' club and play cards anymore. No, you don't want to fool with that. But I tell you: If you ever let Jesus become Lord of your heart, you'll quit it. He will satisfy every longing.
You're ashamed of Him. You're ashamed that you bring reproach upon your people, upon your friends. I'd rather every person in the world forsake me, but never let me bring reproach upon Him. Let me live by the Word, the Word of God. My private life!
"Now, every afternoon we go so-and-so." And some people even Christians, oh, people that call themselves Christians, that profess to be sainted people, they're falling so far away. They don't want any more of the rulership of Christ.

39 I stay at a motel. And last night across from it was a little church. And, oh, I was sitting in my room, and I heard something crying. I couldn't get the window open, because the windows don't open. I run down the steps and looked around the house.
I said, "That sounds good to me." And a bunch of people standing out in the yard laughing at the people across the street in a little meeting, crying over a soul, praying through to God. I said, "It sounds like heaven to me."
Let Christ come in; be Lord, free. "He who the Son makes free is free indeed."

40 If you're bound up by your social standing, your social prestige... American people is contaminated by social prestige. Your churches is contaminated with gatherings of soup suppers, and bunco games, and lottery, and nonsense in the churches. Some of the preachers letting out early on Sunday morning so the members can go fishing or hunting. Fishing and hunting's all right, but it don't have to be done on Sunday. That's the Lord's day.
A lot of people let out their churches early in our country, because the saloons open at twelve o'clock. They can spend a little afternoon at peace. Any man that does that is wrong with God.

41 Excuse me, audience, if I make a rude interruption here. Would it be an evil thing for you ... or, an unusual thing, to see a pig in a barnyard, on the manure pile eating? Certainly not, that's his nature. But when you see a lamb on that same contaminated place, now that would really be something horrible, because it shows that that lamb has been perverted. He took the nature of a hog. And when I see a Christian that claims to be God's servant...
Sitting yesterday at the restaurant, nice little lady come up; she said, "Are you connected with the bunch over there that's having this meeting?"
I said, "I'm Brother Branham."
She said, "I want to say that them people that's been in here are the nicest people I ever seen."

42 At the same time, two clergymen sitting there with the collar pulled around the other way, and was drinking martinis and wine. And when they finished their dinner with a big pipe and my little four or five year-old boy said, "Daddy, is that God's servant?" A five-year old kid knowed different.
Nothing against those men; they may be sitting here now. What I mean to say, brother... You say you're saved; the Bible said, "By their fruits you shall know them." It's not wrong for me to see a sinner out here on the street, drunk. It's not wrong for me to see a sinner with a pipe in his mouth or a cigarette in his hand. It's not wrong; I don't think nothing about it. He's a pig; he don't know no different. When I hear a person profess to be a Christian...
I said to one, "Why do you do this?"
He said, "This is relaxing; this is my pleasure." How the devil has perverted that. God made a man to thirst. God made a man to want pleasure. But He made a man with a place in his heart to want, and to crave, and to relax and get pleasure. But that pleasure is in the Lord. How dare you, you've got no right.
You say, "I'm an American citizen."
Yeah, but if you're a lamb, a lamb forfeits his rights. A lamb don't have but one thing; that's wool. He lays right down, don't kick up a bit of stew about it, all them shear what they got on, off.

43 If you're a real Christian, a real lamb of God, you're willing to forfeit your American rights to be a Christian, because your nature's changed. God in a heart, fully Lord in control...
You say, "Why..." People are ashamed to say "amen." People are ashamed to praise the Lord.
I believe it was Finney, Charles G. Finney (I'm not sure it was Finney; I believe it was), that was going out behind his study ... or, his office to pray. And one day while kneeling out there under an old tree that had blown down, he was praying. And while he prayed, he thought somebody was coming up, and he stopped quickly, and cleared up his throat and said, "Hmmm, hmmm." And raised up and looked around. And there God convinced Him.
He said, "You're ashamed of Me. But you'd think it was a great thing if somebody seen you talking to your boss. You'd stand right by your boss and talk, think it was a privilege. Let all the office people see that you had the privilege of talking to your boss. And I'm your Lord and you're ashamed of Me."
He fell on his face and said, "Lord God, forgive me as a sinner."
He said he preached the same messages that he'd preached before, but the next time he preached them, they was inspired. It done something. The Holy Spirit took a hold of him. He become one of the greatest ministers since Saint Paul. Why? He let God come in and take control, took his own private life, his pride as a scholar, whatever he was.

44 If you're willing to do that, if you're willing to let God have the right-a-way in your heart. Let's go to another door before we leave the subject.
There's another door in the heart called "faith." This is a great door. Oh, you let Jesus come in to save you, but when it comes to giving you God-given faith, you turn Him away from that door.
"Don't tamper with this. My church preaches the days of miracles is past."
But if Christ ever comes into that door, here's the words He will say, "I'm the same yesterday, today, and forever."
He proves it to those who will open the door of faith. You'll not be contaminated with the locks on the door. Let Christ stand in the door. He will tell you that the Scriptures are true.

45 When Peter preached on the day of Pentecost, when the people were staggering under the impact of the Holy Spirit, and the religious world, sanctified men, great scholars, and authors, doctors of the law stood outside and laughed at a hundred and twenty people staggering and acting like they were drunk.
When they was asked about it, the apostle Peter, who was given the keys to the kingdom, they said, "What could we do to receive this?"
He said, "Repent every one of you..." Told those so-called believers to repent of their unbelief. "Repent, and be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ, for the remission of your sins; and you shall receive the Holy Ghost. For the promise is unto you and to your children (and to them in Klamath Falls, Oregon), even as many as the Lord, our God, shall call," the promise is to us. And when someone tries to shut that door and say, "That was for another age; the Holy Spirit isn't for this age," they deny the Word of the living God.

46 But when the Holy Spirit, Christ, comes in to be Lord, He will say, Hebrews 13:8, "Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today, and forever." He will say, Saint John 14:7 ... or, 8: "He that believeth on Me, the works that I do shall he do also." He will say, Mark 16 was the last commission He give to the church, "Go ye therefore in all the world, preach the Gospel to every creature. He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved. He that believeth not shall be damned. And these signs shall follow them that believe: In My name they shall cast out devils, speak with new tongues. If they take up serpents or drink deadly things it wouldn't harm them. They'll lay their hands on the sick and they shall recover."
If Christ can come into the heart, come into the door of faith, He will make you believe that all things are possible to them that believe.

47 Did you notice the Bible speaking of this church in this day? "Because thou sayest that I am rich..." The richest times the church has ever had. Most prosperous age the church has ever lived in is now: great buildings, fine places, educated, scholared ministers. We got better ministers than we ever had, got better churches than we ever had, and the world's sinking every day into sin. Got weaker pulpits that we ever had; that's why: People that don't want to surrender themselves to God, they don't want...
Oh, they'll say, "I'm saved. I let Jesus save me." But you won't let Him be Lord, so He won't stay with you long. And that's the reason you go back into the world again. That's exactly right.
Now, what takes place? In this hour that we're living in, when Jesus comes in... Notice what He said, "Because you say, 'I am rich and increased in goods, and I have need for nothing...'" We got the best pastors, the best-dressed audience, the finest churches, the church has ever knowed of. "Because you say that I am rich and increased in goods, and have need for nothing. Knowest thou not..." Now see, they're professors; they let Christ come to the heart to save them. "But knowest thou not that thou art wretched, miserable, naked, blind, and don't know it." [Gap in the audio.]

48 And she was blind. And you go try to tell her, "Lady, come into the house quickly. You are exposing yourself. You are naked."
She'd say, "Get away from me, you holy-roller. I know where I am." There's something mentally wrong with the woman. She is that way and don't know it. She actually doesn't know it. She's not putting on; she don't know it. She doesn't know it. The Bible said she doesn't. She's naked and don't know it. She's trying to cover up with fig leaves like Eve did in the garden. But to stand before God, she could not: Miserable, wretched, naked, blind, and don't know it.
If a man was poor, miserable, wretched, blind, and naked, and if he knew it, he'd try to help himself. But when a man is in that kind of a condition and doesn't know it, and won't listen to it, you can't tell him. He won't listen.

49 "Oh, I stand at the door and knock." [Brother Branham knocks on pulpit.] That's the age He would stand and knock. "If you'll just open and let Me come in and take control, I will clothe you with pure linen." Oh, the righteousness of the Holy Spirit, "I will clothe you. I will take all the shame away from you. I will put your name in the Lamb's book of life. I will give you eternal life."
Oh, you'll be hated by the world, certainly. "All that live godly in Christ Jesus," says the Bible, "shall suffer persecution. I will make you what you ought to be."

50 And remember, the Bible said they were blind---blind. Oh, there's so many blind people today. He said, "I counsel of thee to come and buy from Me salve, that I might put on your eyes so that you can see---some eyesalve." That eye salve is the Holy Spirit.
I was raised in Kentucky and we lived in a little, old log cabin, that had ... made out of logs and chinked up with mud. And a lot of that had dropped out, because it was old. And we had clapboard shingles on top of the house. And they were put on at the time in the light of the moon, and the shingles had drawed up like this. And the rain would blow in, the snow would blow in. And just had two rooms, no floor in it, just the earth...
And I remember Papa had made a bench for us little boys to sit behind the block table, that had been sawed out of a piece of a log with sticks under it to support. And the little, old step stove in there... Mama had an old trunk sitting up on two pieces of a log, had little dents in it, an old cabinet the same way. And a couple of beds, that's all we had.

51 And us little boys had to sleep up in the loft. And there was a... They had two poles cut down with some saplings nailed across it. And up there, there was an old straw tick. And on this straw tick was a feather tick.
Then Mom would come up there at night and put all the blankets she had on us and the coats. And then over the top of that she'd put a piece of canvas, because if it rained, we could get under this canvas. If it snowed, keep it out of our faces.
And these three little Branhams laying up there, the wind blowing through those shingles at night, maybe, we would get cold. We'd get cold in our eyes. And the next morning, Mama would call us; she'd say, "Billy, come down."
And I'd try to open my eyes; I couldn't do it. And I'd punch my brother, Edward; I called him Humpy. I said, "Can you go down?"
He said, "My eyes stick together too."
Then we'd punch Melvin, see if he'd go down. "No, my eyes is sticking together too."
We'd caught cold, Mama told us, through the night. And I said, "Mama, I can't come down."
She said, "What's the matter, Billy?"
I said, "You know, my eyes is full of matter."
She called it matter; I don't know what it was; it's cold. And she said, "Your eyes is full of matter?"
She said, "Well, just wait a minute, honey."

52 Now, my mother's a half-Indian. Her father was one of the greatest hunters that I ever knowed of. And he used to hunt, and he would trap these raccoons and sell them. And, you know, when he'd get those coons, they'd be fat. And so he'd render out the grease. And coon grease was the cure-all at our house. That's all we had for medicine way back there.
I wonder how many in here, ever sat by a grease candle, a little piece of yarn in a... Sure. How many ever burn a pine knot for... Well, that's the way we had to do it.
And if the neighbor's fire went out, we'd fire from our own fireplace and go over and help make... No matches or nothing. You had to start it with a piece of flint or something, pack fire one from the other. And I remember that they used to do that many, many times on a shovel and go way down the road to the neighbors. We had it hard in them days.

53 And then, I remember Mom would say, "Just a minute, Honey." And we'd get the croup. You know what she'd do? She'd take a spoon full of this 'coon grease and put some turpentine on it, and sprinkle a little sugar on it, and we'd to gulp that down. I don't know what that did for sore throat. But, anyhow, we got well. God's a merciful God.
Then when our eyes would all be stuck up, she'd say, "Just a minute, honey." And she'd set the old can of 'coon grease on the stove. And she'd get it good and warm. And up the steps she'd come, this little, old ladder. Come up there and massage our eyes with that 'coon grease until they come open.
Well, that'll be all right for the natural eye. But I'm telling you: There's a lot of cold weather passing through the church. That's right. And they've got spiritual closes of their eyes. And it'll take more than 'coon grease to ever open it. It'll take the power of the Holy Spirit to come into the eyes.

54 "Counsel of Me, come and buy eyesalve from Me as I knock at the door. Let Me come in and open up your eyes, put eyesalve on your eyes. It will open your eyes."
You don't know. Like Elijah, down at Dothan with his servant. When the army, the aliens, come up and surrounded the whole city of Dothan, and he said... The servant woke up, and he said, "My father, the whole Syrian army's upon us."
And the old prophet... You know, he could see. So he got up and looked around; he said, "Yeah, that's right. But there's more with us than there is with them."
And he said, "I don't see nobody but you."
And he put some eyesalve on him. He reached over and took a hold of his head and said, "Lord, open this boy's eyes that he can see." And when his spiritual sight come to him, all around that old prophet was angels of fire, and chariots of fire, and mountains on fire. See, he was blind and didn't know it.
There's many people today that's blind and don't know the goodness of the Lord, honest, sincere people that don't know the goodness. You don't understand how good God is, what a pleasure it is to serve Him, what a rest it is.

55 Someday I got to stop. Someday I will close my Bible for the last time. I've got to meet God and give an account for every one of you. And every person to... I guess I've preached direct or indirect to twenty or thirty million people around the world, seven times around. And I know I've got to answer for that. And I've got to be in the deepest of sincerity and know that I'm telling them the truth.
You don't realize the goodness of God. If a person, a sinner, could only open their eyes and see how good God is. If He could just rub a little salve on their eyes and they could look around and see how good He is.

56 Down in Shreveport, Louisiana, not long ago, I was down there preaching in a tent meeting. I'd followed Billy Graham out to the baseball stadium. And there was an old, colored brother down there and he was a great old preacher, good old soul. And he had an old man in his church by the name... His name was Gabriel, but we kind of called him Gabe, because of short.
But he'd never would line up with the church. He would go to church, and he had a good, godly, sainted woman. And they prayed for Gabe, and they done everything that they could to get Gabe to go to church and to do right. But he just wouldn't do it. But he liked to go hunting.

57 And one day him and the pastor was out hunting, one Saturday afternoon. And old Gabe was a poor shot; he couldn't hit nothing. But when he was coming in that afternoon, him and the pastor were just simply loaded with all the game they could pack, birds and rabbits and squirrels.
And they was coming along an old familiar pathway that they had traveled many times. And the Saturday afternoon sun was setting in the west. And the pastor, leading the way with his gun across his shoulders, and the game hanging over both of them, walking along there... And he noticed as he looked back, Gabe kept looking back over his shoulder towards the setting of the sun. The pastor wasn't very much alarmed about it. So he just walked on.

58 And after a while, a great big, dark hand laid upon his shoulder. And he turned around to look at Gabe. And the tears was just rolling off his big, dark cheeks. And he said, "Pastor, tomorrow morning I's gwine to take my seat with my loving wife at the front of the church. And I want you to baptize me into Christian baptism. And there I will remain until Jesus calls me home." He turned and looked towards the sun again.
He said, "Gabe, you know I appreciate that." Said, "I want to ask you something." He said, "What sermon did I preach that caused you to turn, or what hymn did the choir sing that caused you to turn and make this decision for Christ?"
He said, "Pastor, I appreciates every sermon you ever preached to me. I appreciates every prayer that the saints ever prayed for me, and the hymns that the choir sing. But," said, "you know, that wasn't what done it." Said, "I looked back at that sun, and I realized my sun's setting too." He said, "Then I looked hanging all over me at the game." He said, "You know, I can't hit nothing." And said, "Yet today, He's give me all this game enough to last me all next week." He said, "Surely, He loves me, or He wouldn't have been so good to me." He said, "I felt Him knock at my heart. And I turned while you were walking on, and I opened my heart and said, 'Come in, Lord Jesus, and take Your place in my heart.'" And said, "He did that. He's my Lord now from this time on."

59 Oh, if we would just look behind our shoulder and see how good God's been to us, just see His goodness to the sinner, to see that He's brought you safe thus far. Sitting in your right mind, look back, who's fed you? Who's clothed you? When those brakes were squeaking and the car almost rammed you, who protected you then? Who was that that hour of sickness when the doctor shook his head and said, "I don't know no more to do." But you're here tonight. Look back a little piece and see what happened.
To you Christian, just take a look around and see the sinful world, how it is, and to know that God before the foundation of the world chose you by election, and put your name on the Lamb's book of life, and knocked at your heart. [Brother Branham knocks.] And you opened up and let Him come in. How good He is.

60 "Lo, I stand at the door and knock. And if you'll open the door, I will come in to you and will sup with you." Sup with Him and Him with me. Sup means "to entertain, to have fellowship," sup one with the other. It's to have communion, fellowship one with another.
Can you open your heart, every door, and say, "Lord, come in. Just don't only be my Saviour, but be my Lord, my Ruler, my Controller. Take me what I am. Just as I am without one plea, but that Thy blood was shed for me. Just as I am, Lord, I will believe you."

61 Let us bow our heads just a moment for prayer. Just before praying. I wonder if there would be someone here that doesn't know the Lord Jesus as your Saviour, and you would just like to raise up your hand and say, "Truly, preacher, it's true that I don't know Him; I haven't never let Him be my Lord."
Maybe you've accepted Him as your Lord, but never able and willing to surrender your whole life to Him, surrender everything that you've got to Him. Open every door and just make Him welcome and say, "Lord Jesus, I'll let you in all my heart. You take my control tower, and You control me from henceforth."
Would you like to just raise up your hands and say, "Lord, remember me"? God bless you, little one. Would there be... God bless you, sir.
Would there be some more? Would just raise your hand, say, "God, take complete control." God bless you, young lady. God bless you, brother. That's very good.

62 Just everyone pray, now, "Lord, anoint my eyes tonight. Maybe I've been a foolish child. If death would come to my room tonight, and I'd send quickly for the doctor, and he'd come up there and say, 'It's a heart attack. Young man, young woman, elderly person, there's nothing I can do for you. There's a blood clot laying on the heart.'"
You feel the veins cooling off in your hands, coming up your sleeve and you're pressing a dying pillow, as you're moving away. Oh, how you want Him to take complete control then. But why not now? It'll be too late then.
Maybe, if you'd just raise your hands, it'd mean a whole lot tonight. God bless you, young woman. Would there another? God bless you back there. We're not asking you to join a church. You go to any church you want to. We're just asking you to let Jesus have complete control.
God is not going to question me that day what church I led people to. I'm not leading them to a church; I'm leading them to Jesus. Come, let Him come in. Will you do it?

63 It won't be long. Maybe laying on the side of road in an accident tomorrow, next day, a month from now, ten years from now, the blood pouring out of your veins, and you know just a few more struggles and you're finished, wallowing in your own blood.
Young man in your prime, just in the beauty of life, "Remember thy Creator in the days of thy youth." Why not raise your hand to accept Him now? Someday, you're going to get old, if you live. It isn't going to be but just a few hours. You only mature from fifteen to twenty years, so science says, then you start dying after that.
Young lady, beautiful, lovely, who made you that way? Why were you made that way? Not for the fodder of hell, sister, dear, but for the kingdom and praises of God. Won't you recognize it now? That lovely, little face you have, that beautiful, little person you are, it isn't going to be long till those hairs will be turning gray. Those shoulders will be coming together. The toils of life in the next few years will wear it down. You might grieve Him away from your heart the last time. Remember, when He knocks, let Him in. Would you raise your hand, say, "Remember me, pastor. Pray for me." Before we pray... God bless you, lady. That's very fine. God bless you, sister. God bless you. That's good. God bless you.
Someone else would say, "Remember me, brother. I want God to come to my heart."

64 It's the most essential thing can happen. Remember, life is just threescore and ten at the longest. But eternity is forever. For eternity, it has no beginning or no end. Forever is just a space of time. Eternity is on and on; eons and eons of time will still move on.
Will you... How many is Christians in here that's never opened up your complete heart to Christ to let Him be Ruler, Lord, and God? If you'd like for Him to do that, and want Him to do it in your life, what life you have left... You may be young. There may a many person sitting here that's seventy years old will outlive a many fifteen, sixteen year-old boy or girl. If you live till morning, you'll outlive hundreds of them.
Raise your hand and say, "God, be merciful to me. Lord, take complete control of my heart. Take all that I am. I give it to you just as I am." Would you raise your hand? God bless you, you Christian, you Christian, you, you. Yes, my, all around, everywhere... You'll feel different when you put up your hand. It shows that something... You stand for Christ here; He will stand for you there. If you're ashamed of Him here, He will be ashamed for you there. Won't you receive Him now? I wonder while we're singing this real softly,
Just as I am, without one plea,
But that Thy blood was shed for me...

65 Won't you... Wonder if you'd raised your hands, and you that did not, you would like make a... The Christian would like to come with the sinner tonight. The sinner is coming because that he realizes that God has spared his life and kept him out of hell this long. The Christian comes that knows and appreciates, that God has been so good to him to save his life---he or she.
I wonder, tonight, if it wouldn't be a good time for us to come up around the altar and have a prayer of consecration right here now in the church. To you church members, each one of you, let's come to the altar while we sing, will you?
Just as I am, without one plea,
But that Thy ... (Come, sinner friend,
backsliders, church member, Christian.) me,
And that Thou bidd'st me come to Thee,
O Lamb of God, I come! I come!
Just as I am, Thou wilt receive,
Wilt welcome, pardon, cleanse, relieve;
Because Thy promise I believe,
O Lamb of God, I come! I come!
Sinner, come; Christian, come. Show your appreciations. Make a stand for God. Just come right up. If you want Jesus to come into your heart, open up every door. Give Him right a away. Come.

66 Here some time ago... (Many of you has heard the story. While the people are gathering up) Danny Greenfield, he was a great evangelist, he crossed ... he come through Oregon here, around fifty years ago, crossed the United States. One night he had a dream that he died. I want you to listen to me. He thought he died in his dream, as he tells it in his book. And he said he went up to the gates of heaven.
And he said up there at the gate of heaven, the gatekeeper said, "Who approaches this holy place?"
And he said, "I am Danny Greenfield, the American evangelist. I approach the throne of God's grace. I desire to come in and take my heavenly home."
He said, "Just a moment, Mr. Greenfield. Let me see if your name is on the book."
And he come back out; he said, "I'm sorry, sir. Your name is not on the book."
He said, "Oh, surely, you're mistaken."
He said, "I have every name. And there's no name on this book."
He said, "What must I do? I was an evangelist."
He said, "There's only one thing that I know for you to do is stand at the judgment seat."

67 Well, that's all he had to do; there was no more decision to be made. He said he begin to move---he thought in his dream---out through space. And he begin to come into a light, he begin to slow up, slower and slower as the light got greater. Finally, it got so light that he could hardly see anything. And he stopped and said he heard a great voice. And when I read that, my heart quivered. That great evangelist...
And he said that he heard a voice said, "Who approaches My throne of justice?"
He said, "I, Father, Danny Greenfield, the American evangelist." He said, "I come to the gates of the city, and I was turned away. And I had to appeal my case before Your justice." He said, "I stand in the shadow of your justice, sir. Is there any mercy for me?"
He said, "Then I will try you by My law."

68 Friend, don't you never wait to get to the white throne judgment. You better get mercy now. And He said, "I will try you by My laws." He said, "Danny Greenfield, did you ever tell a lie in all your life?"
He said, "I thought I'd been honest and I told the truth. But," said, "in the presence of that great light, I seen I told things that wasn't just right." He said, "No, I lied."
He said, "Then, Danny Greenfield, did you ever steal?"
And he said, "If anything I'd thought I'd been was honest. But," said, "in the presence in that light, I seen a many a little deal that I pulled that wasn't just right."
Brother, you might not think so much about it tonight, sister. But in the presence of that light, you'll think of a lot of things then. It won't be like it is now.

69 And He said, "Danny Greenfield (after He'd quoted over the Commandments)..." He said, "Have you been perfect? My justice requires perfection."
He said, "No, Lord. I was not perfect." And said, "I was listening to hear that great blast, 'Depart from Me, you worker of iniquity, into everlasting destruction, which is prepared for the devil and his angels.'" And said, "Just then, when my bones seemed like they went out of their places," said, "I heard the sweetest voice I ever heard." Said, "I turned to look, and I saw the sweetest face I ever seen." Said, "There's no mother's voice or no mother's face could ever be so sweet as that face." And said, "He walked close to me, put His arms around me."
He said, "Father, it is true that Danny Greenfield wasn't perfect in earth. But when he was there, he did one thing: He stood for Me while he was there, and now, I will stand for him here. Let all of his guilt be placed upon Me."

70 I wonder tonight, brother, sister, if you could have anybody else, a pastor, or a friend, or a church, or anything could stand besides the blood of the Lord Jesus... Won't you make a stand for Him tonight so that He will stand for you at that day? If you want to, you're welcome to come and consecrate yourself to the Lord while we sing once more.
Just as.................
Stand for Him. Jesus said, "If you're ashamed of Me here, I will be ashamed of you there." Come on now, won't you make a stand? Consecrate yourselves, Christians. Re-dedicate your life. Stand right out in the aisle if you want to. If there's no room in the aisle, stand right up to your feet. Right where you are, stand to your feet.
.........promise I believe,
O Lamb of God, I come! I come!
[Brother Branham begins humming.]
and waiting not (Listen to this.)
To rid my soul of one (Just one, that's
what it takes to condemn you.)
To Thee, whose blood can cleanse each spot,
O Lamb of God, I come! I come!

71 Let us bow our heads now. Each one, in your own way, the way you pray at your church... The sinners that's standing, just as a sinner in the Bible could only smote himself on the chest and say, "Lord, be merciful to me, a sinner." He went home justified. Don't fear, sinner. You'll do the same tonight if you'll just make the sinner's prayer, "Be merciful to me, O God."
To you Christians, offer to Him the adoration of your heart, the praises. This city, since I've been here, I perceive that you need a revival. A revival is not bringing in new members, but revive what you have. Now, there's many ministers standing. There's sainted people that's standing to be thankful to God. There's sinners standing, backsliders, church members standing.
Now, as we bow our heads, remember, He's knocked at your heart. "No man can come to Me except My Father draws him." Do you know that? What if you was that person that God never spoke to? What if you were predestinated to eternal destructions like Pharaoh was, like Pilate was. God could never touch your heart.

72 Not long ago down in Tennessee, in a Baptist church, I was led to go a young lady to back of the church. She was a deacon's daughter.
And I asked her, I said, "The Lord is dealing with you. Isn't He, sister?"
She said, "If I wanted somebody to talk to me like that, I'd get somebody that had some sense."
I walked outside the building. A rosebush was standing there. When I come around, oh how rude that woman talked to me. Very attractive, young lady.
About two years later, I come through the place. And there she was going down the street. A lady had been a fine character; her underneath garments hanging down; she looked dirty, smoking a cigarette. And I thought that was the girl. And I crossed over the street and went down the other way, kind of behind her.
She knew that somebody was following her; she slowed up. When she got up close, she said, "Hello, preacher." Oh, my... And she says, "You remember me?"
I said, "Yes ma'am, I do."
She reached down in her pocketbook; she said, "Have a cigarette."
I said, "Shame on you."
She said, "Maybe you'd take a drink."
And I said, "This hasn't happened, has it?"
She said, "Will you step into my apartment here? I want to talk to you."
I said, "Could you not talk here at the door?"
And she said, "You remember that night that you made that altar call?"
And I said, "Yes, ma'am, I sure do."
Said, "I want to tell you something. That was my last chance." She said, "I grieved Him once too many." She said, "Mr. Branham." She said, "My heart has been so hard since that time." (Now listen at this statement. I asked her if I could quote it, and she said I could.) She said, "My heart has been so hard till I could see my mother's soul fry in hell like a pancake and laugh at it." That's for turning Him away.
Don't turn Him away, don't turn Him away.
Jesus is waiting, your cause to plead,
Although you've gone astray.
Oh, how you'll need Him to say, "Well done,"
On that eternal day!
Don't turn the dear Saviour away from your heart,
Don't turn Him away.

73 Let us bow our heads. Our heavenly Father, the precious, old Gospel, although it's been persecuted and drug through all kinds of dark places, but yet it outshines anything the world has ever offered: a cleansing for the soul, a balm in Gilead for the unclean. We are so glad that the blood of Jesus Christ in this day, that when we know that our nation is soon to be going into bits, according to Bible prophecy. It will not be long, Lord, when we see the guns and the atomic weapons that's hanging in every nation just waiting for one to cross the radar screen and then the whole world will go in... Scientists have already said it's less than three minutes before midnight. When men of the scientific world sees it many times before so-called Christians can recognize it...
That great man, the other day, said if he would place it onto the radio or television, our most noted science in this nation said that people would be frantic in the streets screaming for mercy. God...
And to think before that happens, You promised You would come for Your church. How close is Your coming, Father? We stand here tonight in the shadows of Thy mercy. I bring to You this audience, Lord. I have given to them the Gospel as true as I know it out of the Bible, that You stand in this Laodicean age, where people are justifying themselves by belonging to church or reciting some creed. And yet they will not welcome You as Lord into their heart. I did the best that I know how, Father, by the leading of the Holy Spirit.

74 Literally hundreds are standing to their feet. I pray, Lord God, that each Christian here will consecrate their life anew to You right now. Lord God, may the sinner make a complete surrender, open up every door, every avenue that they have to live through, and may Christ stand at the Head of the house, the Head of the door, the Head of their soul, their mind, and operate through them His will to do. Grant it, Lord. Bless each and every one here. Bless the sick and the afflicted. May those who are standing now that's even sick, grant that the great healing Spirit of God will move upon this building. Heal every sick person that's standing here. Grant it, Lord. Save every sinner, and fill every believer, and encourage every Christian to go forward. Grant it, Lord.
We offer to You the adoration of our heart. We praise Thee with all that's in us. We lift our hearts. We lift our hands. We lift our voice. We lift all that we are, Lord, into Thy presence. Receive us, O Lord. We consecrate ourselves now to Thee. Take this great, ransomed church of the living God. Sanctify it, Father. Fill it with the Holy Spirit.

75 May the Spirit of God sweep over this building now, drunken the people. O God, give them the joy of the Lord, that they'll be filled with the Holy Ghost like they were on the day of Pentecost: that from this hour on, there'll go forth the power of God to every church and to every person, that they may be filled with the goodness of God, that the power of God might operate through everybody, and every soul would be blessed.
May the people be on the streets tomorrow, testifying, glorifying God. Men and women at their work, giving the praises to God. The hour has come, Lord, that when we're looking for Your coming at any moment. Let us not stand with shamed faces. Let us be filled with Thy goodness and Thy Spirit. Grant it, Lord, as we offer You our ardent prayer.

76 In the name of Jesus Christ we give this audience to You. I give myself to You; I gave my life to You thirty one years ago, Lord. O God, help me to live for the kingdom of God. Help me, Lord, to lead souls to You, to enter into that blessed presence of that eternal hope that rests the other side. O God, we thank You for this. Our souls are scoured out; our spirits feel clean. We have made this consecration to Thee.
Holy Father, keep us in the center of Thy will, doing Thy commandments, walking after the orders of God, taking the commandments of God and living by them. Grant it, Lord. And may the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ ever remain upon us. Through the mercies of God, we beg in Jesus Christ's name. Amen.

77 How many of you Christians tonight likes the... The preaching of the Word is just like a... Well, it is like an anesthetic that puts you to sleep for the operation, that God can take the things of the world out of you. The anesthetic of the Holy Spirit as it breathes upon you, and you go to sleep, and the great Physician begins to operate with His knife and cuts away the things of the world. How many feel that since you stood to your feet and have consecrated your lives to God, that you feel like a different person? Raise up your hands like this. Thanks be to God. Let us sing Him the good, old hymn of the church, all of us together then.
I love Him, I love Him
Because He first loved me
And purchased my salvation
On Calvary.
All right, everybody together now, all together.
I love... (Let us raise our hands
as we sing it.) I love Him
Because He first loved me
And purchased my salvation
On Calvary's tree.
I ... (Just sing it with your heart now.
Message is over. Just worship in the Spirit.)
Because He first loved me
And purchased my salvation
On Calvary's tree.

78 Now, while we hum it, I want you to shake hands with somebody by you and say, "Greetings, Christian pilgrim, friend." Shake hands with one another; say, "God bless you." Methodists, Baptists, Presbyterian, Pentecostal, Nazarene, Pilgrim Holiness, whatever you are, shake hands.
I love Him, I love Him
Because He first loved me
And purchased my salvation
On Calvary's tree.
Now, let's raise your hands and sing it to God with our eyes closed, loud as we can now, to His praise. Sing it to Him now.
I love Him, I love Him
Because He first (Wave your hand to Him.)
loved me
And purchased my salvation
On Calvary's tree.