Abraham

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1 Good evening, friends. Very happy to be here tonight. I was just presented with some kind of a present. I believe it's a talking machine. Well, I'll use it a little later on. Can you hear me up on the platform all right, up and around the balcony? Ok? No. I guess, maybe, I'll have to get this thing around me. Now, is that better? Can you hear up there, now, around this side? All right, that's fine. All right, sir. So, we'll set this one back.
Well, we're happy to be here tonight, to greet you again in the name of the lovely Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of God. And I am happy tonight that His grace extends even to me. And by His grace, I one day came to Him and He saved me from a life of sin and give me the opportunity to preach the Gospel to His people everywhere, calling them to a life of salvation, out of a life of sin. Along with that He gave me the great privilege of praying for His dear beloved sick children. And I'm happy for that opportunity to be here tonight to do that for you.

2 And I'm very sorry... Billy... They come got me a few moments ago, and our manager isn't here yet. So, I may have to hire somebody, sure enough. And at this time, our Dr. Brother... Brother Toms here from South Africa will... Tomorrow night, if Brother Moore isn't here, will you give us the message before coming in? Will you? All right, that's fine.
And it makes the meeting a little hard on me to try to stand up here to speak to you, and then go ahead with the other service, too. I'm not used to it and it throws me out on the line, of praying for the sick, and so forth, 'cause it's a ... it's a duel anointing; it's something different.
And Brother Toms is a very forceful speaker. I've knowed him for a long time, since we were in Africa. And I understand that his wife's here. I don't know whether I ever met the sister or not. I hope to get to do that. And Sister Toms, Mrs. Branham is looking for you to come by, soon as the service is over, and you all come that way. And I want to see that little boy that was named after me---little William. And so, we'll probably, maybe be able to see you before going to Zurich. We just got one day to leave here and get to Zurich ... to New York, to go to Zurich.

3 Now, tomorrow... Didn't... You know, this is half the meeting is already gone; would you think of it? This has been one of the shortest long meetings I believe I've ever had, so far. Seems like I just started couple days ago. You're such a lovely people, come out at nighttime, sit out in the open air, listen. And the manager not here to preach to you, and put up with my slobbering and going on.
You know, I eat a lot of new grapes out of Canaan, and it causes you to slobber a lot, you know. So, I'm trying to take his place, and so forth, and then hold the prayer lines; and it certainly makes it kind of hard. So, you pray for us, and tonight I'll try just to speak a few moments, to get aligned up with the meeting, just the feel of the Spirit and work all ... see that... And then I'll ... we'll form a prayer line then, and start praying for the sick.

4 And I just wonder, while we're speaking this way, don't you think that one night we ought to just come in and ... usually when ... come in of a nighttime, and not the discernment, but just line up everybody that's got prayer cards and pray for them. And I think that would give everybody a good chance to get into the prayer line that wants ... have cards, a holding them. And we just have to take a few each time in these kind of lines. And then, to give everybody an opportunity to come and be in the prayer line. And soon, we're looking for something to happen, but when... I'll be able, then, to just go and pray for the people right out.
If you only knew, my dear beloved friend, what it is to go through what you do under a vision. I brought it on myself; it's not... Now, I don't operate it myself, but it come on. I just... The people rallied for it, and I kept going, and now I can't even hold a meeting without it, hardly. But if you only knew what you go through with. Just imagine going into another world, back down the line, thirty, forty years in somebody's life, looking at somebody... And you know your voice is coming in here at Macon, Georgia, yet you're away, somewhere else, in maybe some other nation.

5 You know, Daniel had one vision, and he was troubled at his head for many days; just think: one vision, see. And you don't realize what that is. And there's no way to explain it; you just have to believe it, that's all.
Someone asked me, said, "Why is it you get weak when you get off the platform?"
It isn't while I'm standing here that I feel weak; it isn't after I'm out from under it that I feel weak; it's between the two places. And that's just when you're coming out of it. 'Course, it's hard to explain that, but if you'll read the Bible, you'll see that it's true, it's absolutely true.

6 So now, tonight, coming over, I thought maybe if Brother Moore... Billy said he wasn't here. So, I just got a little text of Scripture here that I might read, if God willing. And talk to you just for a few moments to kind of get the crowd settled down, and on the thoughts of the Bible.
See, after all, whatever I say, is just a man. And now, whatever God says, that's God. Mine can fail 'cause I'm just a man; but what He says is the truth, and it won't fail. And now, like the vision, what is that? Yes, sir, that's the Word of the Lord, but it's secondarily. If it's contrary to this here, in the Word, then it's wrong, see. It has to be...
Now, here is the Word of God to the whole world---the foundation, the plan of salvation, everything, this is in the Word. But as an individual who's did something, or something they might not have done, and should have done...
Now, a vision or a word from God is absolutely the Word of God to them, but it must line up with this Bible. If it doesn't, it's not of God.

7 So, I'm so thankful, and of these... Ever since I can remember as a little boy, visions come to me---just a little baby boy.
The first thing I can remember was a vision, where I was born in the state of Kentucky, and told me I'd live in Indiana near a city called New Albany. I've lived within three miles of it all my life. And I wasn't but eighteen months old when the vision came. And the very time when I was born, that Angel that you see on the picture here was hanging over the little crib bed where I was born in.

8 And my people, of course, formerly, the beginning, are Catholic. They emigrated from Ireland to come here. And then, my father and mother didn't go to any church at all. And they was raised up in the mountains; my father, a logger. And when that light came in that morning at six o'clock on April the fifth ... or, April the sixth, 1909, and that light hung over that little crib bed there, a little trundle bed... I don't know whether you all know what a trundle bed is or not; a straw tick, a shuck pillow. How many ever seen a shuck pillow or a straw tick? Well, would you look! Now, I'm not the only country boy around here, am I? There's just plenty of us. Well, my, that's mighty fine. I feel like I could come without a towel, now. That's just fine.
Well, my mother, like, scared her to death. My mother was fifteen years old, my dad was eighteen---just kiddies.
And so, since then that's been; nothing ... nothing that I had, nothing that I merited. It's just a little gift that God give, sovereignly give. That's the only way they are given, is by the sovereign grace of God.

9 And now, let us turn to His Word and read just a few moments. Be reverent, and we know that God will add His blessings to His Word.
Now, over in the Old Testament... I love to go to the Old Testament, because it's a type of the New, a shadow of the things that's to come.
And now, if I speak just a little long, will you pinch me on the leg, or something, here, brother, and let me know that I've spoke too long; 'cause I want to try to pray for everybody I can before leaving Georgia. My first time in your state, and I sure fell in love with you; your first night here. You're just ... such a welcome feeling. I don't say that because you're here. If I'd say that just because I was in your presence, I'd be a hypocrite. And I don't have to say that. I say it because I mean it from my heart. You're very nice.

10 And now, in Genesis 22:7 we read a portion of Scripture, and then, read some of the 14th verse, also; 7th, 8th, and 14th, we'll make it.
And Isaac spake unto Abraham his father, and said, My father: and he said, Here am I, my son. And he said, Behold the fire and the wood: but where is the lamb for the burnt offering?
And Abraham said, My son, God will provide for himself a lamb for the burnt offering: so they both went on together.
Now in the 14th verse we read this:
And Abraham called the name of the place Jehovah-jireh: as it is said ... this day, In the mount of the LORD it shall be seen.
Now, shall we bow our heads just a moment while we speak to the Author of this Word.
Our Heavenly Father, we come to approach Thee in the all-sufficient name of the Lord Jesus. Knowing this first, that He's promised to hear us, and give us a hearing, when we ask in His name.
Now, Thou has said that wherever two or three are gathered in Your name (the name of the Lord Jesus), You would be in our midst. So, we know beyond a shadow of doubt that You're here tonight. And we pray, now, that You'll give us a few words, Lord. And encourage us tonight, Lord, from Thy Word.

11 And we pray, now, not knowing why that Brother Moore hasn't showed up in all these nights, and I pray, Father, that You'll help him and bless him, wherever he is.
And I ask Your blessings upon all that are unsaved, tonight. May something be said or done here, tonight, that will cause the unsaved to believe You and receive You; the backslider to come back; those outside of Christ to be baptized into the body of believers. And may every sick person here tonight, Lord, every one that's cancer ridden, TB, whatever it might be, may they be perfectly whole tonight. And may there not be a feeble person left among us. May every cripple person walk out without crutch or support. May those on cots rise up and walk.
And may the Lord Jesus just throw out His arms of power and grip every heart in such a way that they'll know that He's here, granting these blessings. And when we leave tonight, may we say like those who came from Emmaus, "Did not our hearts burn within us because of His presence." For we ask it in His name. Amen.

12 Now in the speaking ... of the reading, setting forth of the Scripture, tonight we're speaking on Abraham. And in the book of Genesis, God gave ... or, appeared to Abraham in five ... or, seven compound redemptive names. One of those names was Jehovah-jireh, the one that we have under consideration tonight. Then He was Jehovah-jireh---"the Lord will provide a sacrifice." Jehovah-rapha---"the Lord the healer," and the shield, the buckler, and so forth, on down, of the compound redemptive names.

13 The night, in the discussion at Houston, Texas, when this Angel's picture was taken... Many of you've heard the story, perhaps, of how it happened about. We were having a lovely meeting in Houston, and sponsored there by many of the churches. And a certain minister said, that wrote a piece in the paper, and said that I was a "religious impostor," and imposing myself as a servant of God, and I ought to be run out of town, and he'd like to be the one to do it. So, he challenged me to a debate on the Scripture. Said that I could not support divine healing by the Scriptures.
Well, Mr. Bosworth was managing that meeting. And here he come in the room, you know, real excited, said, "Looky here, Brother Branham. Looky here." Said, "Call his hand."
And I said, "Now, look, Brother Bosworth. All the fussing you could do with that man, he'd walk away with the same belief he had when he come in."
You don't get nothing by fussing. Jesus didn't come to fuss, He just done what the Father told Him. If they believed it, all right; if they didn't, all right, anyhow. So, after all, if God confirms the Word... Jesus said, "If you can't believe Me, why, believe the works I do, that the Father sent me."

14 And he said ... but Brother Bosworth said, "But, Brother Branham," he said, "I tell you," said, "I ... I ... I think you ought to take that up."
And I said, "Oh, no, Brother Bosworth. Just let it alone." I said, "Look. We're having about eight thousand people now, and there's about seven thousand of them want to be prayed for, and give one of the nights to fuss with that preacher, and the only thing you go away..." I said, "If he's born an unbeliever, God made him an unbeliever, and how is he going to be anything else but an unbeliever."
I said, "God predestinated a man ... men of old was foreordained to this condemnation." I said, "The Bible said so."
So, if they can't believe, just like pouring water from a duck's back, they can't believe. Ain't got nothing to believe with.
And I said, "Then, you never heard a man was ever born again of the Spirit of God say such a remark as that." I said, "Because he's got God in him; he believes all things. What God wrote, he just believes it. But," I said, "Now, the man don't believe, so just let him alone."

15 And he said... Next day he put in the paper, said, "It shows what they're made out of, because they're afraid to preach divine healing in the light of God's Word." That was too much for Brother Bosworth.
He said, "Brother Branham, if you won't do it, let me do it"---eighty years old.
And I thought... My, I looked at him, I thought of Caleb, you know, standing there: "Let me take this city," you see.
And I said, "Brother Bosworth, that man's just out of the cemetery ... or, seminary." (Excuse me; about the same way.) So I said, "Brother Bosworth," I said, "Brother Bosworth, you're eighty years old, nearly, and that man's just about thirty-five years old."
He said, "That doesn't have anything to do with the Word of God." He said, "Will you let me do it?"
And I said, "No, Brother Bosworth. No. Don't fuss with him. Just let him blow or toot his own horn, and go on."
And he said, "Well, Brother Branham," he said, "you know, to the public I feel like I'd just like to show him that he's wrong." He said, "If you'll let me do it, I promise you I want fuss one bit."
So, I said, "Well, all right. Go ahead."

16 And down the stairs he went to the reporter, you know, and so he told them. And then the next day, great headlines "Ecclesiastical Fur Will Fly." You can imagine how the paper prints it, you know. So, here they sat. And that goes to show... I seen something that night that will make me believe that someday all born-again Christians will be one.
I don't care if they fuss down there, like they do everywhere else---one's a trinitarian, one's a unitarian, the other's a oneness, and the twoness, and the fiveness, and all these ups and downs, and scruples, and their baptisms, and so forth, all these things.
But that night, when they come, twenty or thirty thousand packed in the auditorium. They didn't care whether they was oneness, or threeness, or drinking from one fountain, two fountains, or riding a one-hump camel, two- three- four- or five-hump camel; there was one thing on stake, and that was divine healing. They all believed it. And here they come by trains, planes, and everything, packed out the big Sam Houston Coliseum. And so, I wasn't going down, 'cause I just don't like to hear people fussing around the Word of God.

17 So, that night something kept telling me to "go down." So, couple of policeman come and got me and I went. I went way up in balcony thirty. And so then when they got started, why, they come out there, and so after... He wanted Mr. Bosworth to take the first part.
So, Mr. Bosworth said, "Well, I have written here, six hundred questions ... six hundred Scriptures that proves that Christ's present attitude towards the sick is just the same as it was the days that He was here on earth. And God has never changed in His attitude towards the sick. And if Mr. Best, here, can take one of these Scriptures and disprove it by the Bible, there'll be no debate. I'll just sit down."
So, Mr. Best stepped in, "I'll take care of that when I get up there."
He said, "I'll ask you one question. If you'll answer me 'yes' or 'no,' I'll sit down and hear the rest of it." He said, "Was the redemptive names of Jehovah applied to Jesus? Yes or no?" That settled it; that was all.

18 If it wasn't, then He wasn't a Saviour, He wasn't Jehovah-jireh. And if He was, He's Jehovah-rapha, the same yesterday, today, and forever. So, he couldn't answer it.
So, when he got up, he preached a pretty good Campbellite sermon. That's right. Just talking about the resurrection when this mortal puts on immortality, and divine healing would be in the millennium, when we're immortal. I don't get it. So, now he said it was a Baptist sermon. I was rocked in a Baptist cradle; I know what Baptists believe. But it was no ... was no Baptist doctrine connected with it.
And then, afterwards, he kept saying, "Bring on that divine healer. Let me see him heal somebody. Then let me see him... He could work them up in their psychology, and so forth, and let me see them in a year from today, and I'll tell you whether they're healed or not. Bring that divine healer forward."
Mr. Bosworth said, "Aren't you ashamed to say that?"
So, he knew I was up there. So, he said, "Now, if the debate is settled," he said, "all right." Said, "Now, if Brother Branham wishes to come down and dismiss the audience," said, "I know he's here, but he don't have to."

19 So, my brother was standing by me, and he said, "Now, you sit still."
I said, "Well, ain't I sitting still?"
And so, my wife was standing there, you know. And he said, "Now, you ain't going down there."
I said, "I never said a word about going."
And so, I was sitting way up. And so, he said, "Now, if he wants to come..."
And about that time I heard something go "Whewww," that circle of light come down. I don't care who says anything then; that settles it.
I raised up.
And Howard said, "Sit down."
My wife said, "Look at there, Howard." So, my brother sat down.

20 About five hundred ushers put their hands together and made a line; come up to the platform. I said, "I'd like to shake hands with Mr. Best."
I said, "Don't no one think hard of him."
I said, "We got boys over in Korea, fighting, that we can have freedom of religion." I said, "I don't believe what he believes." But, I said, "I differ with him in theology, but after all, this is America. He's got a right to believe what he wants." I said, "Don't none of you think hard of him, because his mother loves him the same as mine loves me."
I said, "Now, I was reminded, though, when he kept saying, 'Bring that healer forth,' the same spirit that said, 'Come off the cross and we'll believe you.'"
Christ saw visions, and one day they put a rag around His head and hit Him on the head, and said, "Now, if You're a prophet, tell us who hit You and we will believe You." I said, "That's the same spirit." But, I said, "I'm sorry that our brother's anointed with it. But," I said, "Now, as far as healing anybody," I said, "I ... I don't claim to heal anybody."

21 I said, "If preaching divine healing makes me a divine healer, then preaching salvation makes you a divine saviour." I said, "I only preach it by the Word, that's all."
And I said, "Now, as far as the visions, God speaks for His gifts." I said, "That's without questioned."
And about that time when he said that, the Angel of the Lord come above, where I was at and made a great big whirl, and here He come down through the building like that, coming down. People begin scream. I said, "He speaks now." I said, "If I tell the truth, God's obligated to speak for me. And if I don't tell the truth, God will have nothing to do with a lie. You know that."
And just then here He come. And they took the picture of it there, and he took it down to the Douglas Studios; shot the picture of it, took it down... A Catholic boy took the picture, and a Jew. And so, they went down to the studio to look it over. And they said, "I don't believe it'll show. I believe it's just ... we just imagine that, too, 'cause everybody's pointing to it, and so forth."

22 But when they took it down, and pulled it out of the acid... He was up there to take Mr. Bosworth's picture. And when Mr. Best was holding debate with him, he'd hold it like this, and put his finger under Brother Bosworth's nose, and say, "Take it like this." He said, "I want them to hang it up in my... I want to take that old man and skin him, and take his skin and tack it on my study door for a memorial to divine healing." Could you imagine a brother talking about one like that?
So, he said... And that night when he put his finger under his nose, and he'd draw his fist up, and had the studio set that big camera out ... oh, there was several cameras then, to take the picture. Well, then, you know what happened? God wasn't willing that His servant should be taken with a picture like that, and every one of them was blank. Not a one of them showed up.
But when they pulled this other one out, there was the picture of the Angel of the Lord on it. And they sent it to George J. Lacy, FBI fingerprinting document; he kept it in the place for several days, and then, it was copyrighted in Washington, DC as the only supernatural Being that's ever been scientifically proven. And that's right. In Washington, DC, now, copyrighted.

23 And then, they come and said, "We'll give the analysis of it."
Mr. Lacy said, "Whose name's Reverend Branham?"
I said, "Mine."
He said, "Stand up."
I stood up. Kind of a redheaded fellow, kind of hard, [unclear word] eyes. I hope he's not sitting present to hear this. So, he ... hair hanging down in his eyes. When he seen it, first, he was very hard about it.
He said, "Rev. Branham, come here." Said, "You'll die like all men do," see.
I said, "I'm sure of that, but I'm prepared for it."
He said, "But as long as there's a civilization here, your picture will never go out of existence." He said, "That's the only time a supernatural Being was ever photographed." He said, "The light struck the lens. It's the truth," like that.
And he submitted it to me, and I give it over to the Douglas Studios at Houston, Texas; they're the ones that own it. And he said some little thing there to me, something, said, "The testament unto the testator..." something. Said, "Well, as long as you're living that picture will never be in force, but, afterwards." Said, "Wait till you're gone; it'll be on ten-cent stores," and things like that.

24 So, what it is, is ... what it is to me, if I... If this is my last night on earth, if this is my last night to be on earth, my testimony's the truth. The church knows it, millions around the world; I've come in personal contact with, guess, more than ten million people, around the world. It's been seen by thousands times thousands of people, everywhere. I trust that God, that it will come visible, here, in Macon before I leave, before the audience. And they see the works and signs of it; that's the truth. And the scientific world can't say there's no supernatural being anymore, 'cause it's scientifically proven. They're without an excuse, now.
So, we're thankful to the Lord, tonight, to know that our great Jehovah God was with the father Abraham, and is still here tonight with His church, moving on, just the same as He was in the days gone by. To my opinion, the same pillar of fire that led the children of Israel, Jesus Christ, the Angel of the Covenant, the same yesterday, today, and forever, scientifically proven.

25 Now, Abraham ... to speak about him for about ten minutes, or so. Abraham was come down with his father, from in the Land of Chaldean, the Shinar Valley, and dwelt in the city of Ur. They came out of Babylon, the people did, after... Babylon was first called the Gates of Paradise, later called Confusion, because languages was broken up there.
Abraham, after coming down into this land of Chaldea, the city of Ur, Abraham was no more than anyone else. I want you to notice this tonight, Christians, and get this real good and deep, that God calls His people by sovereign election. God only calls by election.
"It isn't he that willeth or he that runneth; it's God that showeth mercy." And every man and woman here that ever had God to tug at their heart, ought to be ashamed if they never heeded to the call. And there's many people in the world today that's gone and passed the line of conscience, and will never, never come to God.

26 But God called Abraham, not because he was good, but because God chose Abraham.
Jesus said, "Ye have not chosen Me, but I have chosen you." Jesus said, "No man can come to the Father ... or, come to Me accept My Father draws him first."
Why are you out here tonight? Is it because you're intellect, or... Why ain't you at the ball game? It's because you love God more than you love ball games. That's the reason you're here. God called you and put a different desire in your heart.
Now, the election of God... God calls man by sovereign election. Do you notice it? I wish we had time to go into details. When you go to talking about the Word, the Holy Spirit just starts getting it just wonderful.

27 Abraham was election. Isaac was justification. Jacob was grace, but Joseph was perfection, see. As you get them moving, and Abraham being called... God saw Abraham and called him by sovereign grace and election. And told him, "Separate yourself from your people and among your kindred, and I will bless you."
You notice, today, that God always calls a separation. People today, when you're choosing your pastors, usually people today want mixers. I don't know how it is with you people down in here, but up in the north the people want mixers. All we want, "Oh, the fellow's a good sport. We want somebody that can ... or sit in a pulpit, and can... Oh, it wouldn't hurt if he did little things on the side, you know, just so he could mix with all crowds. People want mixers, but God wants separators. The Holy Ghost said, "Separate thee, Paul and Barnabas."
There's some people, in choosing their pastors today, get a six-footer with shoulders about so wide, black wavy hair, to present ... make himself ... dressed in a tuxedo suit, and everything, and an after-dinner suit, or something another, on the platform, because it's a psychological effect. God don't care an ounce for that.

28 Listen! Listen to the Scriptures. God told Samuel one time, said, "Go up and anoint one of Jesse's sons to be king."
Jesse thought the same thing that our modern thinker believes today. He sent his great big son out there, a six-footer, you know, with his black, shiny hair. Said, "My, he'll look like a real king," great big husky fellow, fine looking fellow. And said, "Look what he'll look with a robe on and a big gold crown sitting on the side of his head."
And Samuel got the oil, and the Lord said, "But, I've refused him." That's right. No matter how six foot he was and how striking he looked, God said, "I've refused him."
So, he brought the next biggest one down and showed him. God said, "I refused him, too." And he went on till he showed the sixth one. Then he said, "Have you got another one?"
Said, "Yeah. I got a little old scrawny, ruddy-looking fellow out yonder in the sheep pen, out yonder somewhere, taking care of the sheep, but I'm sure he'd never make a king."
"Well, go get him."
And as soon as David came forth, a little ruddy fellow, stooped shoulders, perhaps, with a little sheep coat around him, Samuel run and poured the oil on him; he said, "This is the king." That's God's choice. Amen. Man looks on the outside, but God looks on the heart.
Sometimes you get a great big church with a lot of crosses, and statues around it, and plush seats, and a ten-thousand-dollar organ in it; that don't attract God. Sometimes there's more salvation in a little mission down on the corner, than you can poke into the place. That's right. Man looks to the outside, but God looks at the heart. Always remember that.

29 Now, Abraham called out of the land of Chaldea; God met him down there. Probably a little old fellow; seventy-five years old when God called him. Probably a little bitty fellow, long whiskers, bald-headed, and stooped shoulders, but God found grace ... Abraham, rather, found grace in the sight of God, and God called him by election. Amen.
Through what? Someone that would follow him, would listen to Him. And he had a wife sixty-five years old. He told Abraham, said, "Now, separate yourself from among your people." That's the best thing to do: come out from among it, get away from it.
Someone said, "Well, I still go to the poolroom. I think maybe I could win some of the boys." Stay out of the poolroom. Stay off the devil's ground. That's right.
You'll never do it that way. Separate yourself and show your color. Be a Christian. Act like it. Live like it. Talk like it. People will believe it.
Notice. Jesus said, "If I be lifted up, I will draw all men to Me." Lift Him up in your life, in your living, what you do.

30 Then, God called Abraham, and he separated himself from his people to go into a strange land. Isn't it strange, when God calls a man, he calls him from among his associates, to dwell among strange people speaking strange languages? Kind of strange how God does that, isn't it? But He still does it; come out.
You don't talk like the old crowd no more. You come over into a crowd ... out there where you're whooping and hollering and carrying on for the devil; you're shouting and praising the Lord in this other crowd. You have to be amongst a strange people. Separate yourself from the crowd you once associated with.

31 How God in His mercy called him, and He said, "Abraham, I know you're an old man now, you're seventy-five years old, Sarah sixty-five, but I'm going to bless you, and give you a baby. And out of this baby the whole world is going to be blessed; all nations is going to be blessed by this baby."
Now, Abraham never wondered about it; he just simply took God at His Word. I like that: just take God at His Word. And he went right on testifying that the baby was going to be born. I can imagine seeing, getting everything ready, buying up all the diapers, and the pins, and everything, getting ready for the baby; nothing wrong.
"Sarah," he said, "how do you feel?" The first week.
"No different."
First month passed: "How do you feel, Sarah?"
"No different."
"Well, glory to God, we're going to have it anyhow."
First year passed: "How are you feeling, Sarah?"
"No different."
"Well, praise the Lord, we're going to have it anyhow."

32 He took God at His Word regardless of circumstance. He said, "God said so. And no matter how you feel, or what about it, we're going to have it anyhow. God said so." Amen.
If we be the children of Abraham, we've got to have that kind of faith, regardless of what symptoms says. God's Word... We look at the unseen, what God says about us.
So many people rely on symptoms. "Oh, if I could look..." "If my hand was just a little straighter." "If I felt just a little better with my stomach trouble." "If my head would quit hurting." That has nothing to do with it. Go right on, glorifying God, testifying about that, things that you don't even feel, or see, or taste, smell, or hear. Believe it anyhow!

33 Why, you tell about... There was a man by the name of Jonah, had the worst symptoms I ever seen. He was backslid, first. That's right. He done something God told him not to do. And he was on a stormy sea, caused a lot of trouble, had his hands and feet tied, throwed out; and a big whale swallowed him and went down to the bottom of the sea.
Now, you talk about some symptoms: backslid in his heart, and in the belly of a whale, seaweeds wrapped around his neck. And anybody knows, when a fish feeds, it eats his belly full, he goes right to the bottom and rests his swimmers on the bottom. Feed your goldfish, and see if they don't do it. Goes right down to the bottom, and it's, probably, forty fathoms deep there. And here this preacher was, backslid, and his hands tied behind him, in the belly of a whale, in the bottom of the sea, and a big storm up at the top.
You talk about symptoms! He looked this way, it was whale's belly; he looked back that way and it was whale's belly; everywhere he looked it was whale's belly. He had some symptoms, but you know what he said? "They are lying vanities. I don't believe a one of them." He said, "Once more will I look to Your holy temple," not to the whale's belly, but "to Your holy temple." You can't hide a saint from his prayer. That's right. There ain't nobody here that bad off, tonight. That's right.

34 But he said, "Once more will I look to Your holy temple, Lord." For he knew when Solomon dedicated that temple, he'd prayed, and he said, "Lord, if Thy people be in trouble anywhere and look towards this holy place and pray, then hear from heaven." And he believed the prayer of Solomon.
And if Jonah, under those conditions, could believe the prayer of Solomon, under a temple that was dedicated here on earth, how much more ought we to believe, tonight, by a resurrected Lord Jesus sitting at the right hand of God with His own blood; making intercession for our confession. Refuse to see any symptoms, and say, "They're lying vanities," and walk away from it. Amen. Don't pay no attention to circumstances. What God says is the truth. Not what you see; what you believe.
Jesus never said, "Did you see it?" He never did say, "Did you believe it?" ... or, (I beg your pardon) never said, "Did you feel it?" He said, "Did you believe it?" That's it.
So, you act on what you believe, not what you see. Not what ... just what you believe. And if you believe God will keep His Word, then go acting like it. Take Him at His Word and go ahead, then you're going to get somewhere. I know it's the truth.
I've trusted it, brother, in the hours of death and I know it's the truth. If it worked for me, it worked for Abraham, it worked for Jonah, it'll work for you. Just take Him at His Word and believe it.

35 And Abraham refused to see any symptoms of Sarah not having this baby. Oh, they told him he's a little off at the head.
Now, you'd imagine what a doctor would say today if an old man seventy-five or eighty years old going down say, "Well, here's my wife. She's seventy and I'm eighty, and we're going to have a baby." Well, they'd say, "The old man's a little cracked in the head."
Sure, they did then; they would now. But Abraham wasn't cracked in the head; he took God at His Word. That made the difference, and God honored him for it, too.

36 I can see him as he goes on, he said, "Lord, will You give me a ... how will you confirm this to me?" And He took him out there that day... Wish we had time to get into it; it's time to quit now. But, I wish we had time to get into all those things to bring this up to this little point; but we'll jump, to hit a few high places.
Look out there that day when He told him He would confirm it. And watch how it was to Abraham.
He killed that little heifer of three ... the sheep at three, and the goat at three, and he cut them apart. And he put a turtledove and a young pigeon there; set the birds off of them.
And the evening time ... or, when the sun went down, watch what happened first: a real deep sleep fell over Abraham. Showing, "Abraham, now, I made a covenant with Adam. 'Adam, if you'll do... I'll take you in partners with Me. If you'll do certain things, I'll do certain things.' And Adam broke his promise."
Man always breaks his promise. "But Abraham, this is not what 'if you'll do;' this is what 'I'm going to do.' This is My covenant with you." Amen. Unconditionally.
Oh, brother, if you ever see that, your eyes will come plumb open. That's right. It's not what you done; it's what God did for you in Christ. That's right. Nothing of yours; it's what He done.

37 And there, He said, "Abraham" ... put Abraham to sleep to show that he had nothing to do into it. "Now, Abraham, you haven't got one thing to do into it."
And then, before him went a horrible darkness: showing death; every man through the valley of shadow of death. Beyond that was a smoking furnace: every man deserves to go to hell. But beyond that went a little white light. And that little light went right between each one of those covenants, each one of those beasts, like that. Everyone that was cut, together. Each one was sacrificial beast, except the turtledove and the pigeon.
Now, if you'll notice, the turtledove and pigeon: The reason it wasn't cut apart, because a turtledove and pigeon represents divine healing. The covenant was broke from gra... law to grace, but the covenant of healing lasts always. From always do; there's no cutting it apart at all. That's right.

38 Now, He made the covenant. And notice, He went between those, proving, showing to Abraham what through his seed He would do, Christ Jesus, in the years to come. That He'd make a covenant through Christ to the Gentiles, for every man in the world. Everybody that would come, this covenant would be ... it's with you tonight, unconditionally.
If you become a Christian, every redemptive blessing of God belongs to you. It's your personal property. You got a right to claim it. If you let Satan push you over in the corner, well, that's up to you. But, brother, stand up there toe-to-toe with this Scripture, and say, "It is written." That's right. That's the way your Lord did it.

39 Any man, I don't care, you might be a weak Christian; you don't need people coming through with gifts of healing, you don't need these things. The only thing you do need is take God at His Word, and stand toe-to-toe with Satan, you'll defeat him on the ground.
Jesus brought it down to that picture, when Satan said, "If Thou be the Son of God, do this."
Jesus said, "It's written, man shall not live by bread alone."
He took him somewhere else, said, "If Thou be the Son of God, cast yourself down. Perform a miracle here before me." That spirit still lives you know. "Let me see you do it, and I'll believe it. You jump off this building here and show me you can do it, and I'll believe you're the Son of God."
He said, "Satan, it is written!" Right on the Word of God.
Took Him up on a mountain, showed Him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment. Said, "These belong to me." So, you see where the kingdom of the world belong to? He said, "These belong to me. I'll do with them what I want to. If You'll worship me, I'll give them all to you."
He said, "It is written, 'man shall not live by bread alone.' It is written, 'Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God.'" And He kept throwing the Scripture to him, and defeated Satan with the Father's Word.
And any man or woman, tonight, if you're here sick and needy, stand toe-to-toe with Satan, and say, "It's written, 'By His stripes I'm healed.'" Stay with it and watch what happens.
There'll be a difference around Macon here with the sick folks. Take God at His Word. He'll do it.

40 Now, in this covenant: When he made the covenant with Abraham there... Now notice, in the Old Testament... Now, when we make a covenant with one another here in America, how do we do it? We walk out and shake one another's hand. Say, "Let's shake on that." That's the way we make a covenant.
Down in Japan, when they make a covenant, they take a little salt and pitch it on one another, like that, to make the covenant.
But in the Orient, how they make a covenant: They kill a beast. And they stand between this beast, the pieces of the dead body, and they write out their covenant, whatever they made, sign their name to it. They tear it in half, give it to one man, the other man keeps the other half. And then, they take an oath over this dead beast's body. If either one of them breaks this covenant, let them be as the dead beast.

41 And that's what God was showing, that He was going to do in the days to come. That, when God came down here on earth in the form of the Lord Jesus Christ, walked among men, and He was taken to Calvary and torn apart. And God taken the body up to His right hand and sent down the Holy Ghost upon the church. And when we come together again, them pieces, just like the old covenant, it's got to dovetail one with the other. And if you ever go in the rapture, you're going to have to have the same Spirit in you that was on Jesus Christ. That's God's covenant with His church. Amen.
Don't you take a cold formal handshake. You take a heart-warming experience from God of being born again. Don't care where you belong. Yes, sir. 'Cause God... Remember, when these two met together, if these didn't dovetail, it was throwed out. It had to be the same thing. And the same Spirit was upon Christ, has to be on the church.
God taken the body of Christ and set it on His right hand, the power above, and He sent the Holy Ghost back. And it's going around, looking out the church. And when they come together, it'll have to be the same body, same signs, same wonders, same baptism, same signs and wonders, same Gospel. Amen. That's right.

42 Notice. When He made the covenant, and He confirmed it there later on, Abraham went on. Glory to God. And after that experience he really had the victory then. He got to be ninety and nine years old, almost a hundred. God appeared to him in the name of the "Almighty God."
The word comes from the word ... the Hebrew word: El Shaddai, which means "the breast, the bosom of a woman." El Shaddai, the Almighty, the strength-giver, the nourisher---like the mother to the baby. When the little baby is fretting and sick, the mother pulls it up to her bosom and it nurses her strength and her life into it. And another thing it does, it means He's a satisfier. While the little baby is nursing ... it's satisfied while it's a nursing. It ain't well yet, but it's satisfied as long as it's drawing from the mother. And God is El Shaddai, the bosom, not one breast, two breasts.
He was wounded for our transgressions, with His stripes we were healed. He is God of our strength for spiritual; He's God of our strength for our physical. And no matter which one you need of it, move up to the breast tonight and take a hold of it. God's Word is going to... Nursing from it, you'll come back to health, and strength. The strength of the Holy Ghost lays in God's promise. [Unclear word]. Take up there one time and take a hold.
Brother, I tell you, you see a little baby crawl up in his mammy's arms, he's just as satisfied. I don't care how his little tummy's a hurting, it's all right as long as he's nursing from mammy.

43 Now, I'm telling you, a believer that once takes a hold of God's eternal Word for a promise, if anything come or go, he's satisfied. He's laying right there, nursing away, pulling the strength right out of God. By His stripes we were healed, wounded for our transgressions, with His stripes we're healed; pulling down the blessings of God, satisfied as he's laying there.
Come by, and say, "You don't look any better."
Say, "Glory to God, He healed me." Amen. Stay right with it.
Say, "You ain't got the Holy Ghost."
"That's what you think." Amen.
If you was only pulling from where I am, you'd think you had it too. That's right. Amen.

44 "I'm El Shaddai, the Almighty. And He is still El Shaddai, the Almighty God, the pacifier to the saints. If the saint is sick, if he can hear the Word of God correctly, if he's a seed of Abraham, we are, being the seed of Abraham, when we are dead in Christ, we take on Abraham's seed and are heirs according to the promise. But first, you got to be dead in Christ, born of the Holy Ghost. The same Holy Ghost that led Abraham back there, leads you then. Then you believe like Abraham, what God said is truth and nothing else is going to work.
Don't care what anybody else says, what the bishop says, or what the pope says, or what anybody else says, if God's Word says it, that's truth to the believers and Abraham's children. The covenant's to you. When you're circumcised... Abraham was circumcised by flesh as a confirmation. You're circumcised, the heart, by the Holy Ghost as a confirmation.
Oh, my, I feel religious right now. I feel like I could almost shout, too. You know Baptists shout, also? Yes, they do. When they get right down to God, they really get into it.
Notice, brother, nursing from the breast of Almighty God, the nurser, the life-giver, our mother, our Father, the nurse-Father. My, my! What a picture we got here. Wish we could stay with it longer, but we have to hurry on.

45 Anyhow, after the little baby was born, little Isaac, as God promised, they was a hundred years old, when the baby was born. Think of it.
Got to hit another little point here, like to take ... if you'll forgive me for taking your time. It's just a little encouragement to you. You might not agree with this at first, but you look it all over. This will give you something to do tomorrow in your spare time. Look this over in the Bible.
Now, when Abraham... When Lot took his choice, and went down to the plains down there in Sodom and Gomorrah... We realize how he was a lukewarm believer, and what happened to Lot. But God never did bless Abraham until he fully separated himself from Lot. Lot kept hanging on; he was a hair in the soup. He just absolutely couldn't go on.

46 And that's what's the matter today: We got little old Lots hanging around, and the reason that we can't go on with God. Somebody, one of the church members, said, "Well, if he preaches that, I'll get out of here."
Put the hair out of the soup, and go on, that's the only thing to do. Preach the Gospel (Amen.), regardless if you have to preach it to four posts. I'd rather lay on my stomach and drink branch water and eat soda crackers, and preach the true Word of God, than eat fried chicken every day and ride in a Cadillac. Amen. I'd rather do it, and know that you're right in the sight of God. Amen. I don't say that for a joke. This is no place for a joke, and I don't believe in joking, but that's the truth. Amen.

47 Now, I want you to notice. Then when this Angel came down, God Himself... Did you notice, Abraham talked to God in a body, a physical body, had dust on His clothes, eat the meat of a calf, drinking the milk from the cow, eat some corn bread that Sarah baked in there? God Himself. What did He do? He knowed He was going to be made flesh sometime, so way back here, to prove to Abraham, He just jumped up a bunch of calcium and a bunch of atoms and throwed them together and lived in that body. Come right down and had a appetite. Amen.
Abraham called him the LORD. That's right. He was. And as soon as He told Abraham what was going to happen, He vanished.
Sarah laughed when she thought (She was nearly a hundred years old.) was going to have a baby. Hundred years old and going to have a baby! Could you imagine that?
Now, brethren, let's say... We all know that Sarah gave birth to the baby. We'll all admit that. Look what God did. Now, here's some encouraging for all us old folks. Now, I want you to notice this. What it is ... and to you young ones that's coming on, to get old one of these days, watch what God did there.
I was up on a lake here, about six years ago, when that revelation come to me. And I tell you, they thought they had the Salvation Army out there. Oh, my. I was the noisiest guy they ever heard in their life.

48 Now, I tell you what God did. If you'll notice real closely, the Bible is this... That's where preachers miss it. That's where these big schools miss it. The Bible is wrote between the lines. The Bible said... Jesus, the Scripture claims, "I have hid it from the eyes of the wise and prudent and will reveal it to babes such as will learn." See, it's between the lines.
I got a little girl tonight, I married a few years ago; she's the mother of my three children. And she can write me a letter, she'd say, "Dear Bill, I'm sitting here tonight thinking of you, and I'm praying with you." Now, that's what she says on the letter. But between the lines, I love her and she loves me, so I know what she's talking about, see. I read between the lines.
And if you want to really read the Bible with a spiritual understanding, get in love with the Writer. Amen. Then you can read between the lines, see where God pulls it out.

49 Notice. I can see Sarah there, little grandma, you know, great, great, great, great, great grandma, hundred years old nearly, little dust cap on, little shawl over her shoulders, walking on a cane. And you know what? Something happened. Now, you know it would be hard for that woman to give birth to a baby, anyone knows that. The first thing, Abraham had lived with her since she was about seventeen years old, and she was about forty-five years past menopause. Now, the impossible. But notice, Abraham, the longer it went, the stronger he got.
Now, today, if you get prayed for tonight and tomorrow you ain't perfectly well, you'd say, "Well, there ain't nothing in divine healing. I never got it." Then you're not a child of Abraham. That's right. 'Cause Abraham, the older he got, the greater miracle it was going to be.
So, he was strong giving praise to God, said Romans 4. The longer it went, the more blessing it would be; the more miracle it would be, longer it took. So, Abraham just kept getting stronger and stronger, giving glory to God. As his shoulders went down, down, he kept giving more praise to God.

50 Here's Sarah. Now, we know that God would have to make her womb fertile; we know that. Now, you're a mixed audience, you listen to a doctor, I'm your brother. Look. He'd have to make her womb fertile, because she was forty-five or fifty years past menopause. Think of it. When she was a young girl, and healthy and everything, then she didn't have babies. But here now, she's nearly fifty years past menopause, and now she's going to have a baby.
Now, He'd have to make her womb fertile. And besides that, if he was going to ... she was going to go... They didn't have Cesareans in those days, you know. So in order to give birth to that baby, to go in labor, she's going to have to have a new heart put in her, 'cause an old woman that old couldn't stand labor pain; you know that. All right. Then, she's going to have to go in labor, so she'd have to have another heart. And in order to do that... The milk veins was dried up, so they just had to have new milk veins put in.
Now, God don't patch up anything like that. What God did to Sarah: He turned her back to a young woman. Now, that kind of struck you a little bit, but just hold on. Now, don't jump up and run, see. Let's hold on just a minute.

51 He turned Abraham and Sarah, both, back to about twenty-five years old, like He's going to do everybody one of these days, that's His children. He showed in them what He was going to do to him and his seed, after him.
Notice. Sarah and Abraham immediately took a trip and went plumb to Gerar on camels. Follow it, take it on the map and see how far it is: about three hundred miles. Quite a trip for an old couple like that, don't you think? A hundred years old little grandma and her shawl, running along like this, and Abraham, with his beard hanging way down. My!

52 Went on down with a three-hundred mile trip. And above everything, there was a young king down there named Abimelech, and he was looking for a sweetheart. And all of those pretty girls around there, and he fell in love with this old grandma; wanted to marry her. Nonsense, brethren. Abraham said, "Sarah, you're fair." She was the prettiest woman there was. Amen.
And that man, with all them young women like that, wouldn't have wanted that old great-grandma with a little stick in her hand and a little shawl over her shoulder, little dust cap on, you know; he wouldn't wanted to take her for a wife. But God had turned her back into a beautiful young woman again, like He's going to do all the seed of Abraham some day. But what does old age or trouble mean, anyhow? Hallelujah! Doesn't mean a thing to the believer. Hallelujah! We'll laugh in the face of death one glorious day.

53 My wife looked at me the other day; I was combing what hair I had. She said, "Honey, you're almost bald-headed."
I said, "Yes, but I haven't lost a one of them."
She said, "You haven't?"
I said, "No."
She said, "Well, where are they at?"
I said, "Where was they before I got them? If you'll tell me where they was before I got them, they are there waiting for me in the resurrection." Hallelujah! Amen.
Every atom, everything that once made them are still there waiting. I've got the blessed old promise here, the Bible, and Calvary's cross, and the Holy Ghost confirming every word. Glory! Some glorious day when He shall come! Let fools sleep if it wants to, it don't make any difference to me. Amen. I know in whom I have believed, and am persuaded He's able to keep that I've committed to Him against the day. Amen.

54 Abraham [unclear words]. Abraham, couple mornings after, the Lord had met him there. I can hear him say, "Sarah, honey, why your gray hair's turning black again, and your little withered-out brown eyes are becoming just as black and shiny again."
Why, I hear to Abraham, "Your shoulders are straightening up; your beard is turning black again."
And the first thing you know, there they was back sweethearts again. Exactly. Wish I had time to go a little farther in it. But just before you get it, I want to show you grace again, brethren. So, this might kind of squeeze my Arminian brother's toes just a little, but I don't mean to do it, you see. But now look here, that you might know truth.
Now, Baptists, if you don't shout over this, I'm going to say, "You're backslid."

55 Notice, what he done. As soon as they got down there to Gerar, and Abimelech looked out and said, "Well, of all I've waited for, there she is." Little grandma now, see.
Why, it couldn't have been, brethren; that's silly to think such a thing, see. Well, she was a beautiful young woman. He took her over there and put earrings in her ears and fixed her all up.
That night... Now, he was a very good holiness brother. Now, he went to bed that night and said his prayers, and stretched his big feet out like that, and thought, Oh, tomorrow I'll marry this beautiful girl I've waited for her all my life, and there she is. Her brother sitting out there in the tent, but he said that was his sister and she said, 'That's my brother.' So, oh, they're fixing her all up and tomorrow's the wedding. My, my.

56 He dozed off to sleep and God appeared to him, said, "You're just as good as a dead man." Brother!
He said, "Well, what have I done? I'm just as ... just as innocent as anything."
He said, "You've got another man's wife."
"Why," he said, "well, Lord, you know the integrity of my heart." He said, "Didn't that man tell me that was his sister? Didn't she just say, 'That's my brother?'"
Said, "I know the integrity of your heart, that's the reason I kept you from sinning against Me. But if you don't restore her back, you're a dead man." Now look, a good boy, a good fellow, but it shows you the sovereign grace of God.
Said, "Her husband is My prophet. Now, I'll not hear your prayers, but you go back."

57 "'My prophet?'"
God told him not to leave Palestine and he left; he's backslid. Not only that, but he's sitting out there telling a lie, saying, "A man's...", cared no more for his wife than to do something like that. But He said, "That's My prophet. Take her back and restore her, and let him pray for you." That's Scripture, brother.
I know that's... Where're you at, Baptists? What's the matter with you? That's right. There he was, him backslid, running from God, sitting out there telling a lie. Now, that don't give you license to lie, or anything, remember that. We'll straighten that out in a few minutes. All right. God made him pay for it. But, there he was sitting out there in that condition.
And God said, "He's My prophet. Go take his wife back to him, and let him pray for you and I'll heal you." So, he went out and did so.

58 Abraham, when he become older, first thing you know, the little fellow was born. Little Isaac, age about twelve years old, here he goes out. God had met him again and said, "Abraham, I know through this child you're to be the father of the nations, but I tell what I want you to do: I want you to take him out yonder to a mountain that I will show you, and I want you to take him up there and offer him up for a sacrifice."
Well, how is he going to be the father of nations, now about a hundred and fifteen years old, and here's the only child that he had, and take the little fellow out there and kill him? But, you notice, Abraham took the boy and some servants; didn't tell his mother. So, they went four days' journey out into the wilderness.

59 Now, ordinary men can walk a good... Why, I patrolled for about seven years, walking thirty miles every day. And men in them days didn't ride in automobiles like we ride today, so they could probably easy go thirty miles, or, say, twenty-five miles. Well, say, four days' journey would be a hundred miles back. And then he lifted up his head and saw the mountains far off. And then when he got close to the mountains... (Watch; this is His sovereign grace here, watch him.), he said to the servants, he said, "Now, you stay here while the lad and I go yonder to worship. And the lad and I will return." Oh, my! Oh, my! "The lad and I..."
"How're you going to do it? You're taking him up there to kill him. But how are you going to do it?"
"It's not my business to figure it out," would say Abraham. "God gave the promise and I receive him as one from the dead. And God is able to raise him up from the dead." Amen. That's the children of Abraham. That's their hope they have in Him tonight.

60 So, they took the little fellow, put the wood on his back---very type of Christ (We're hitting just the high spots now.)--- and he walked up the hill. And when he got up top of the hill, way up the top mountain there, when he was going to offer the sacrifice, little Isaac, he said, "Father?" Said, "Here is the wood, and here is the altar, but where is the lamb, the sacrifice for the altar?"
And Abraham, with trembling voice, the old man looked around to him and said, "My son, God will provide for Himself a sacrifice."
He took his own son, bound his hands. Look, a double proof of our salvation tonight. God gave him a double ... we don't have... God proved it twice through Abraham and swore to it with His own hands (That's right.) that He keeps His covenant.
We don't have nothing to worry about, if God called us into His loving grace. Brother, I'm telling you, if you've ever been born again of the Spirit of God, you ought to be the happiest person in the world, 'cause you have eternal life, everlasting life; cannot perish. Amen. You're sowed with the incorruptible seed of God.

61 If a seed goes in the ground, a grain of wheat, it cannot produce anything else but a grain of wheat. So, if you go around, say, "Well, praise the Lord, I've been saved, I've got the Holy Ghost," and living any kind of a life, you better get back to the altar to God again. 'Cause the incorruptible seed of God cannot be one thing ... you cannot be a wheat and a cocklebur at the same time. You've got to either be a wheat or a cocklebur. You all got cockleburs down here? All right, greenbrier, then, ever what you want to call it, some other weed, you see.
You can't be a wheat and a weed at the same time. If you've got the spirit in you of the life of wheat, you'll produce wheat. If you've got the spirit in you of the life of a cocklebur, it'll be a cocklebur. And if the Holy Ghost is in you, you'll believe God, love God, and act like a Christian. That's right. If it isn't, you'll know them by the fruits they bare.
Oh, what we need today is a good old-time Holy Ghost revival. What we need today is an old-time shaking again of the power of God, a moving of the mulberry bushes to go forward to battle again. God is giving the moving, if people will just listen to it and believe it.

62 Now, up on the mountain there. He took his own son, tied his hands behind him, laid him upon the altar, reached down and pulled out the knife, pulled the little fellow's throat back, and raised his hand to stab his own son to death. And about that time, the Holy Ghost caught his hand and said, "Abraham, stay your hand!"
Don't be scared to walk right down to the last row of life with Him. God will be there on the scene. He's Jehovah-jireh, "the Lord will provide a sacrifice." He will make a provision.
And about that time, he heard something bleat, and there was a little ram hooked in the wilderness by his horns. Where did that ram come from? They was a hundred miles from civilization. And they was up on top of the mountain where there's no water. How did that ram get there? God is still Jehovah-jireh. No matter what the circumstances is He can provide the sacrifice at anytime. Amen. No matter what the circumstance is in, He's Jehovah-jireh.

63 Now, look, it wasn't a vision. He walked over and picked up the ram, laid it upon there, and stabbed it with a knife and blood run out of it. It wasn't a vision he saw; it was actually a ram. It was Christ, the Lamb of God, slain from the foundation of the world. Hallelujah! There He was, Christ. It wasn't a vision.
That lamb was spoke into existence in one minute, and went out of existence in another minute. The same way that God made Himself manifested in flesh before Abraham, and went out of existence in another minute.
He's the same God, that someday these atoms of ours will break and go out ... life will go out of this body, and He will speak it back into existence some day in the resurrection. He's Jehovah-jireh. How will He do it? I don't know. That's His business, but He said He would do it, and I believe Him. Jehovah-jireh, "the Lord will provide for Himself a sacrifice."

64 No matter what it is, the lamb was there. He provided a lamb when he needed a lamb. When you're sick and you need healing, He'll provide for you. If you need salvation, He provides for you. If you need a revival, He'll provide for you. If the meal barrel's empty, He'll provide for you. Amen.
If you're all downhearted and drooped over, God will provide for you. "For He was wounded for our transgressions, bruised for our iniquity, the chastisement of our peace was upon Him, with His stripes we were healed." Amen. The Lord provided sacrifice, the Lord provided Lamb.

65 Here not long ago I was taking a little story on old, blind Bartimaeus. It said that he was a blind man for years and years. During the time of his married life, while he was blind, he had a little girl born in the home. And the little girl, he'd never seen her in his life.
So, one night, he used to ... well, he used to sit up at the gate, at Jericho and different places. He had two little turtledoves that done little tumbles, like that, back and forth, to entertain the tourists that come by, so they could give him a coin, to make his living.
And the poor old fellow...) One night his wife got sick; he goes out and he prays. He said, "Jehovah, if You'll only let her live, I promise You tomorrow I'll offer these two turtledoves for You for a sacrifice." And his wife got well. He kept his word and went up and offered the turtledoves.

66 Not long after that his little girl got sick. And she was ready to die; the doctor had give her up. He went up and he said, "Jehovah, if You'll only heal my little girl, tomorrow ... I only have one thing to give You, that's my lamb." And today they got dogs that leads the blind around; them days they had lambs that led the blind around.
So, he said, "I've got a lamb here that leads me, where I'm blind. That's all I got. But if You'll just heal my little girl, I promise You I'll give you this lamb tomorrow."
He went back in, the fever left the little girl. The next morning he was on his road up to offer the lamb for a sacrifice.
When he passed by Caiaphas, the great high priest was standing there, said, "Blind Bartimaeus, where goest thou this morning?" It was a beautiful spring morning. Said, "Where you going, blind Bartimaeus?"
He said, "Oh, high priest," he said, "I'm going up to the altar to offer this lamb." He said, "My girl was sick and God healed her, and I promised that I'd offer ... give this lamb today."
"Oh," he said, "blind Bartimaeus." Said, "You can't offer that lamb, blind Bartimaeus." Said, "I'll give you some money and you go buy a lamb."
He said, "Oh high priest, all that's appreciated, but I never offered God a lamb, I offer Him this lamb." And this is the lamb. God have mercy, the lamb. And he said, "I offered Him this lamb, I promised Him this lamb."
And he said, "Blind Bartimaeus, you cannot offer that lamb; that lamb is your eyes."
He said, "That is right, oh, high priest, but if I keep my promise to God, God will provide a lamb for blind Bartimaeus' eyes."

67 He went on and kept his word to God. On one cold November day, sitting by the side of the gates of Jericho, shivering in his rags, with no turtledoves, alone. They heard a noise. Usually, Jesus around there's a lot of noise. They said, "What's the matter."
Said, "Jesus of Nazareth comes by."
He screamed, "Oh, Jesus, thou son of David, have mercy on me." God had provided a Lamb for blind Bartimaeus' eyes, because he kept His promise to blind Bartimaeus.
Let me say this tonight, my dear brother, sister: That same Lamb that was provided for blind Bartimaeus eyes is provided for yours tonight. "For He was wounded for your transgressions, bruised for your iniquity." You say, "Can this be applied at this time?" He's Jehovah-jireh. He will provide if you will believe. Shall we pray.

68 Our Heavenly Father, we thank Thee tonight for the provided Lamb. Praise the Lord for sinners slain. Give Him glory all ye people, for His blood can wash away each stain.
We're so thankful for that Lamb of God that was provided back there, come from the foundations of the world. All down through the ages they've drawed remuneration from His great, supreme sacrifices. Tonight, Lord, we pray that You'll let every blind man that's blind in sin and trespasses, walking around and stumbling in darkness not knowing where he goes, may he tonight look to God, to the Lamb of God, and receive his spiritual sight at this time.
Grant it, Heavenly Father. For we ask it in the name of the Lamb of God, Thy beloved Child, the Lord Jesus.

69 While we have our heads bowed, I wonder if there'd be a sinner here tonight, say, "Oh, God, pass me not, O gentle Saviour."
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70 Father ... the boy run to Him, said, "Lord, have mercy on my child." Said, "I brought him to the disciples and seem like they can't do nothing for him." Said, "He has a bad spirit that throws him the fire, and makes him pine away, and he froths at the mouth, and falls into the water. The devil trying to kill him." They call it epilepsy today, but then it was a devil. It's still a devil.
And he said, "And I took him to the disciples they couldn't..." Said, "Lord, can You help me?"
Jesus turned around and said, "I can if you believe. For all things are possible to them that believe."
The father said, "Lord, I believe. Help thou my unbelief."
Oh, is that our cry, tonight? "Lord, I believe. Lord, I believe, help thou my unbelief."

71 Now, in this vast audience here, I realize that there's many people, and many I don't know. Frankly, there's none that I know expect my own associates that's here with me, and this minister. I can't call his name, but he was with me the other day at the hotel. He's one of the chairmen, or something, on the committee. He's the only one that I know of. There's another minister with him, but I believe that I don't know who the man was.
Now, if Jesus, the Son of God, has raised from the dead, He will do the same thing in His resurrection, if He is the same, that He did when He was here on earth. Is that right?
When He was here on earth, He did not claim to be a healer. He said, "I do nothing of Myself. The Father shows Me what to do and then I go do it. I do what the Father shows me." Is that right? "I do nothing of myself. Verily, Verily I say unto you, The Son can do nothing of Himself, but what He sees the Father doing, that doth the Son likewise. The Father worketh, and I worketh hitherto."

72 Now, to make that plain to some of you, you new converts. Jesus said, "I can't heal the sick, I can't do a thing. First, the Father shows Me a vision, and then I go act it out in drama, and do just what He told Me to do."
Look at the grave of Lazarus. Look at all the places through the Bible. He did just as the Father showed Him. He passed by the sick, the afflicted, dead, died on every hand, and everything; but when the Father showed Him what to do, He went and done it.
Now he said, "The things that I do shall you do also. And a little while and the world---the unbeliever---won't see me no more. Yet you shall see Me; you'll see Me."
He promised that He'd be with us to the end of the age, the end of the world. The world hasn't come to the end, yet. "Jesus Christ," the Bible said in Hebrews 13:8, "is the same yesterday, today, and forever." Is that right?
Well, my contention is here in Georgia, as it has been three times around the world now, that Jesus raised from the dead, and is alive tonight among men. And He's here in the same principle, same power, same signs, same wonders, working in His church; continuing the work with His church that He paid for while He was here on earth, with His Supreme sacrifice. I believe that with all my heart. I believe it because the Bible said so, and because God comes and confirms it to be so.

73 What do you think Jesus would do if He was here tonight? He'd be doing the same thing He did then. He looked out... There's a fellow named Philip, got saved (this is for the newcomers). A fellow named Philip got saved. He went out and called his friend, Nathanael. He found him under a tree, praying. Now, listen close. So he said, "Come, see who I found, Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph."
Why, the man was a very good church member, real aristocratical sort of a fellow. He said, "Could there come any good thing out of Nazareth?"
It was a mean little old city; cutthroats and things lived there. He said, "Come and see." That's a very good answer. "Come and see."

74 Well, he came, and when he walked up, perhaps, maybe as many people as standing here, was standing around where our Lord was speaking. And when He was speaking to people, well, the first thing you know, why, up come Philip, walking along, with Nathanael with him. Nathanael looked over to see Him, Jesus standing in the prayer line. He might have been in a prayer line, anyhow; he was in the presence of Jesus. And He looked over and said, "Behold, an Israelite in whom there is no guile."
Now, if I'd say it in the words today, I'd say, "You're a Christian, an honest man." Quite astonishing.
He said, "Rabbi, when did you know me?"
Why, He said, "Before Philip called you, when you was under the tree I saw you."
He said, "Thou art the Son of God. You're the King of Israel."
He said, "Because I told you that, you believe? You'll see greater things than this." Because then, he just become a believer, you see. He could see greater things. And he did, and his name's immortal tonight.
What did the educators, and Pharisees, and religious of that day say about Him? They said, "He's a fortune-teller. He's Beelzebub, the prince of the devils. And He casts out devils by the prince of the devils."
Jesus said, "Now, if the devil cast out devils, then his kingdom's divided and can't stand." The devil cannot heal the sick.

75 Someone got me the other day on that; they called me up on the telephone, said, "I'll differ with you." Said, "Look, when Moses and Aaron when down," and said, "those magicians done everything that Moses did."
I said, "Whoop, wait a minute. The magicians could bring the curses but they couldn't take them away. Healing lays in God alone." Amen. That's right. They could bring it. When boils broke out, they broke out, too. That's right. They could bring the curse, but they couldn't take it away. 'Cause God, "I am the Lord thy God that forgiveth all of thine iniquities, who healeth all of thy diseases." Comes through God alone.

76 Now, I want you to remain seated. Now, in the line there, the prayer line, I suppose I'm strange to each and every one. Is that right? If you are, raise your hand. If you all are stranger to me, raise your hand. How many out in this audience that doesn't have a prayer card, and you want God to heal you tonight, raise your hand, regardless... Oh, it's just a solid mass, you see.
I will say this: If I have correctly represented Jesus Christ to you, and I claim that this is a divine gift sent from Him... Then, if Jesus, standing in a crowd, and a woman touched His garment, and He looked out in the crowd and found her... If blind Bartimaeus, and all that mass over there, could be in such agony... Jesus couldn't hear him, of course; the distance is from here to the other end of the place there, and thousands of people standing around. But his faith touched Him. He said, "Thy faith has made thee whole," see. "Thy faith..."
He looked upon the people, perceived their thoughts; the woman touched His garment, run out into the audience. He looked around. He said, "Somebody touched me. I got weak; virtue went out."
And He looked around over the audience to see who it was; directly He seen the little woman. He said, "Now, your faith ... your blood issue stops," see. Because she believed!

77 Now, Jesus is alive tonight, making Himself manifested in the spirit of men. He did even before the cross. That seems to be a hard thing for people to understand, somehow. Before the cross, Jesus was in Moses. Jesus was in David. Jesus was in Joseph. Look at his life, carried out, just exactly portrays the life ... the life of Christ, two thousand years even before He was born, see. And He's here after the cross; He died that He could come back and be among men. So, He's among men tonight, alive. How many believe it? God bless you.
Of course, you know I'm talking, waiting for something. I tell you just what it is: It's this person right here, the Angel of Lord. Exactly, the pillar of fire, of the Lord. I'm just as you: a man, a poor ... born a sinner, saved by grace, just like you.
And many of you old-timers here tonight, was back yonder preaching, the old Baptist, and Methodist, and Pentecostal, and Nazarene, was back yonder preaching when I was a little boy. I respect you, my brother. You've made the way, hewed out the stumps and things so when these things come along, they could run clear. I respect you and so does God. If there's any credit to be given at the day, I want to stand and see you get it. God bless you.

78 Now. Now, His presence is here. Now in the name of Jesus Christ, the Son of God, I take every spirit here under my control.
[Gap in the audio.] Now, listen. Be quiet. Don't move around; just sit still; pray.
Who needs prayer? Look this way, you without prayer cards. And you with prayer cards, when you come here, if He goes to speaking to you, don't say... Just wait, let Him get through talking, then you'll know what He's speaking of. See what He tells you to do. Sometime when you break up, then you break the vision, you see? And that stops me. 'Cause I hear you talking, and back here, maybe here's a little girl or little boy talking, and then it brings me out of the vision. Just let Him get through talking, and hear me ask you, and then the vision's over, see. Now, be reverent everywhere.

79 Now, is this the lady? Now, if you will, someone watch time. And Brother Woods, you watch real close tonight if you can; don't let me stay too long, but let me stay as long as possible.
Now everybody real reverent, and be in prayer.
Now, you can imagine my position standing here before this, I suppose, three thousand people, right on it, maybe more. And standing here, to this woman, a stranger. Would you like to walk up and take the place, before the audience? Neither would I, but I'm depending on Him, the Lord Jesus. He promised, said, "I will be with you."
And He has been to this time, and I believe He will. And will help me now, 'cause I believe Him and I trust Him. And I believe that He will do it. Jesus Christ, the Son of God, surely will help us tonight.
And let's just keep in prayer. And if He talks, believe on the Lord with all of our heart. And I trust that the Lord Jesus will bring these things to pass, each one.

80 All right, sister. Now, just a little talk with you... Now, the first thing I see, 'course you're wearing glasses, you see. Well, now, being that you're the first patient here, are we strange to each other? We don't know each other? Our first time meeting tonight? Just so the people will know that, would you raise your hand, so that they'll know that we... There's just no way at all, I ever know you; you're a perfect stranger to me.
But God has knowed you since you were born and before you were born. He's knowed me the same way. Now, if I was ... if you need healing of your body, I don't know. But if you do (see), if I could do it, I would. If I wouldn't, I'd be a brute (see), if I could do it, and wouldn't do it. But I can't do it, because it isn't in man to do it; it's God. [Unclear words.]
Now, if He will let me know, just like you and I talking, like the woman at the well of Samaria talked to the Lord Jesus. He talked to her just long enough to get a conversation to strike her spirit. And that's what I'm doing; the same thing. Just to know: If He will reveal to me what you're here for, will you accept it as His presence, and Him doing it, and will believe then? You'll accept it? If it's for finances, you believe He will get it? If it's for salvation, you believe He will get it, and if it's ... whatever you ask Him, you believe you'll get it? If God will reveal it to me what you're here for, then it shows He knows what you want. Will the rest of you all do the same: believe with all your heart? All right, just believe.

81 Now, as I look to you, as Peter and John said at the gate called Beautiful, to the crippled man, "Look on us," see. 'Course, he was trying to see ... perhaps the vision struck, as it does for all things, showed him that the man could walk. He just picked him up, because he knowed he could walk, after he had seen the vision that he could walk.
Now to you, your trouble ... you've got a hernia in your back. It's in your back, where your trouble is. Then, also, you've had an examination of some sort, and it's a growth on your spine. You have a growth on your spine. And then I see him looking at your wrist. You got a growth on your right wrist, got above a little knot. You can't see it here, but it's there anyhow. That is truth.
Then you're not from here. I see you come from the south, this way. And you're passing a street, walking; it's got a lot of great big palm trees, and you're by a seashore. You live in a city where the sea rolls in and out like this, and it's a ... it looks like I ought to know. It's [unclear word]. You're from Miami. That's where you're from. That's right, you are. Now go back home and be well. Jesus Christ can make you well, in the name of the Lord Jesus.

82 Have faith in God. Don't doubt; believe. You shall have what you ask for, if you can only believe.
Now, oh, if I could only ... my audience could only know what a feeling that there puts on you. I just feel like I'm shaking to pieces right now, see. It's because of that woman's healing.
Now, it just seems like it streams from out in there, just pouring every way. What is it? You're conscious now that Something's here besides man, see. And your spirit... See, it isn't me that does this. You're the one who does it, see. The woman... It wasn't Jesus healed the woman; the woman caught this, pulled it through Jesus. It's God's gift, but your faith is pulling God's gift, see. God can use His gift, or you can use it.

83 Now, see, this woman standing here. I suppose we're strangers to one another, lady? Well, God knows you, doesn't He? I don't. But if God will reveal to me, just for His glory, which you know that He receives all the glory, for man cannot do those things. Now, if He will reveal to me what you're here for, will you believe it, and accept ... that you believe that you'll get what you ask for?
It's some contact with somebody else. You are... You suffer with a trouble that upsets your stomach, but it's under your right side, which is a gallbladder. You have gallbladder trouble. And you have, I believe, it's a blood condition: diabetes, also. You have sugar diabetes.
And I see someone standing near you. You're ... it's a young man, kind of husky. It's your son; he's a preacher. And he's with somebody that's got ... wearing [unclear words] or something another, that's got a [unclear words]. No, it's Foursquare, a Foursquare preacher. And he's kind of a husky fellow, and he's redheaded. That's right. Go home, you have what you ask for. Your faith makes you well. Amen.

84 Come. Do you believe? God bless you, lady. We're strangers to each other. 'Course I can see your trouble; it's this place on your nose. Now you look to me just a moment. Maybe... Seeing that's your trouble, maybe God will tell me something else that you can see... Anyone can see that, you see. Like, if you go out here and say, "This man sitting here is crippled in a wheelchair." Anybody sees that. "This man here on the stretcher, this man here," sure, anybody sees that. But the thing that somebody looks well, and then the mysterious part ... what about them? That's the part.
Now, you look to me. You'll realize that Something's come over you now. That is the Spirit of the Lord. Now, that is a growth that you're afraid of being a cancer. And that was caused ... you got it hurt. You hurt your nose sometime ago, and it's been coming like that, growing up to this place. And somehow another, between you and I, there comes great roaring waves, like water roaring. And you're leaving ... you're going through some ... it's a sea. You're a missionary. And you're from, I believe, it's Bermuda Islands, or somewhere, in one of those places where ... off of a ... [The sister says, "Bahamas."] Yes. Where you're ... and you're trying to go back, aren't you? ["Yes."] God bless you.
Have faith in God. Believe.

85 Lady, are we strangers to each other? We are strangers to each other. I don't know you, but God knows you. Now, quickly, I begin to see like a little dark shadow moving, and it's a wearisome spirit, causing you to be nervous. You get real nervous, don't you? You have a nervous condition, especially... I see you in kind of a late of a afternoon, like that, you get your most nervous, and sometimes you sit down from your work. That's right.
Then you have something wrong in your back, kidney trouble, that's in your back. Then you got... You're wearing your glasses, and that's from weak eyes. And that was caused from some kind of a something that happened, like a ... I'd say smallpox, or something, settled in your eyes long ago. ["Yes."] That is true.
You believe you're in His presence? Do you believe that that's Him speaking through me? That wasn't my voice then; that was His. Now, this is mine. Do you believe then, if He [unclear words] lay hands on you? What'd He say would happen? "They shall recover." Is that right? Come here. This I do in obedience to the commandments of our Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ. Let this woman be healed. Amen. God bless you, sister. Go rejoicing now, and God be merciful and bless you.

86 How do you do, lady? Do you believe with all your heart? We're strangers to each other, I suppose? Oh...
You want to get healed of that throat trouble? You was healed then. Jesus Christ made you well, lady. Amen. Amen.
See, you don't need your prayer cards. You don't have to have them. You just have to have faith in God. Just look this way and believe that I've told you the truth. See, that's all I ask you to do.
The lady was sitting there praying. And she was praying, said, "Lord, let the man turn around and call me and I will accept it." If that's right lady, wave your hand, raise up your hand and wave. See, just quoting your prayer to you, see.
You're in this dimension, you're not in this world, you're somewhere else, see. Oh, isn't He wonderful? He's raised from the dead. Why don't you say, "Praise be to the living God, the great Jehovah." He's not left His people without a witness. He's come to us in this day, and we worship Him and praise Him with all of our heart. Amen.

87 Now, look this way just a moment, lady, that I might be able to say something to you, perhaps that would help you. I hope so. It'll have to come through God, you know that. I see you... You've been to a doctor, and a doctor was examining a left eye. And it was in some sort of a place like a... No, this is... Yes, now wait, there's another vision moving into my ... that's far back behind me. You was in a place where they operated or burnt something or another, burnt a growth off your eye. And then it's come back again, and this doctor tells you it has to be cut out now. That's the truth. Do you believe that Jesus will let you get well? Come here.
Almighty God, in the name of Him who sees between us, God be merciful to the woman. May she be well and live a long life. In Jesus' name I ask it. Amen. God bless you, lady. Go now, and be healed. Have faith. Don't doubt.

88 Do you believe, lady? Now, we're strangers to one another. But there's one thing that's sure: God knows us both, doesn't He? You're suffering with a hideous thing called cancer, and then the death spirit hanging near you. And one thing you need worse than that, it's salvation to the soul. That's right. Will you accept Jesus as your Saviour, now? You're a sinner. If you will repent now and give your life to Christ, Christ will heal you. Do you give Him your life?
Almighty God, her sins be forgiven her. And I pray, God, that You'll take every sin away, and heal her tonight and make her well. I condemn the devil that's bound this woman. Come out of her, in the name of Jesus Christ. Amen.
All right, little lady, you've cried hard. You know you've been condemned. On your road to here you were praying that God would do something for you. You was ready to repent. Is that right? And your sins are forgiven, now. Go on your road rejoicing, and serve the Lord Jesus. Amen.

89 Now, I didn't read the woman's mind. Now, this woman here, lay your hand over on my hand just a minute. I won't look her in the face. If God will reveal to me what's wrong with you standing here like this, never looking at you, will you believe that Jesus sent me? Will you do it, lady? You have diabetes. Jesus Christ makes you well. Is that right? Go on your road rejoicing.
You don't have to do that. Just let me have your hand a moment, lady. I see you trying to get out of a bed, lady. You're stiffened in your body; it's arthritis. Is that right? Go off the platform. Jesus heals you, makes you well.
Come, will you, lady. Come.
Just a moment. Where's the colored people? It's you, on the cot. Do you believe me as God's prophet? You have no prayer card, do you? Do you believe that God can tell me what's wrong with you? Will you accept me as His prophet and obey me? Then get up from the cot, and go home and eat your supper. Jesus Christ will make you well. Amen.

90 Lady, do you believe that God heals you of diabetes? Go on your road rejoicing, and be made well. Jesus Christ heals you. Amen. Let's say, "Praise be to the living God." Let us say, "Praise be to God."
All right, sister, do you believe me? Jesus make you well. Believe with all your heart. Jesus Christ heals you. Go on your road rejoicing, saying, "Thanks be to God."
Sir, what if I told you, you was healed standing in the line? Would you believe me? You are, my dear brother. Go on the road [unclear words] and enjoy it.
Come. Do you believe, lady? Go eat your supper. Jesus Christ heals you of stomach trouble now. You can go be made well.
Do you believe?

91 Come, lady. Do you believe with all your heart? Do you believe me to be God's servant? The kidney trouble leaves you then. Go on your road rejoicing, and your back made well. You can go on home made well, in Jesus' name.
Come. Do you believe?
Just a moment. Do you believe me, lady? Look at this foul, black streak coming across this way. Don't you see it? Here it is. It's them two women sitting right back there in that second row. Both of you are suffering with female trouble, lady's trouble. That's right. You have the same thing. All three of you stand up. Jesus Christ heals all three of you. There goes the streak away from you. Go on your road rejoicing, and be made well. Have faith in God.

92 The lady sitting right back there with back trouble, do you believe Jesus Christ makes you well? Do you believe it with all your heart? If you do, you can receive it. God bless you. Go home and be made well, if you can believe. Amen.
You want to get over that hay fever? Do you believe that God will make you well? You do? All right, He heals you. Lay your hand on that lady next to you there; she has heart trouble. Let's see if she'd get healed, too. Lord Jesus, I pray that You'll bless her also, and make her well. Amen.
You know the reason she was healed ... lady, with the baby? That heart trouble you've been having, this lady here had heart trouble, too. You was both healed at the same time. So, you can go home and be made well. God bless you.
And now, you had the same thing; it left at the same time it left from her; there's that same hook up right like that. You're healed. Go home rejoicing and be made well. Hallelujah.

93 Do you believe? Have faith in God.
Your arthritis is gone. Go home. Amen.
You want to get over that phlebitis, sitting back there? Do you believe that God makes you well? Your faith healed you just then, lady. Rise to your feet; Jesus Christ makes you well.
Come, lady. Your anemic condition is gone, also. So, you can go on your road rejoicing. Amen.
(Just a minute, just a minute; can't get my breath).
Do you believe? All right, your female trouble's gone from you. Have faith.

94 Is this one of the patients? Are you the patient, sir? Do you believe? Do you believe on me as God's prophet? I believe you're telling the truth. You've been hurt. You've been struck with a piece of steel or metal, and you've had a brain operation. I see something like trains, or railroad. You had an operation. You're a Catholic, also, by faith. You're a Catholic. And your name is Davis; your first name's Walter. You live at 909 Second Street. Go home, sir. Pray the Lord Jesus; He makes you well. Jesus Christ grant it to you.
Why don't you get up, with gallbladder trouble, laying on that cot, lady. Rise up, in the name of the Lord Jesus.

Abraham

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1 Good evening, friends. I am happy to be here again tonight. Just a little tired. I have just closed several great services before I left the USA. So, I'm going to take a little rest when I get home, if the Lord willing. But we are certainly thankful to be here in Switzerland among you fine people.
I believe of everywhere I've ever traveled, I have never seen nicer people than I've met in Switzerland. That is true. I mean that. I didn't have to say it, but I mean it from my heart. So, we trust that the Lord will bless you mightily, and I hope I'll be just as much blessing to you as you have been to me. And maybe sometime in the future, if God willing, I could come back again, maybe, and be with you longer. Just two more nights of the service, and then I have to go, I suppose.

2 That's usually the way it goes: Just when you get acquainted with people, then you've got to say goodbye. But I'm hoping someday, where we'll all speak one language, we'll never be old, no sickness, no death. We'll meet again. Then I want an appointment with each one of you, for a thousand years. We'll have plenty of time then. This is the day; we must work while it is day. Night cometh when no man works.
Now, there's many letters here, and we are thankful that you have that faith in God. And now, that someone might misunderstand, but these are not that we have anything we put on these letters; it's just obeying the Word of God. I have thousands of testimonies at home of people that's been healed this way: God honoring His Word.

3 Now, we're going to pray for them, and I pray that God will bless every one. Would you bow your heads with me, and pray with me? God will hear your prayer, too.

4 Our heavenly Father, I ask Thee that You be merciful to us. Let Thy Spirit come upon Your people, Father. We realize ... and as we are praying over these handkerchiefs, let Thy spirit come upon us. We realize that there's nothing in us as men; it's obeying Your Word. There was no virtue in the serpent on the pole, neither was there any virtue in the pole it hung on; but they who looked, they lived, for it was obedience to God's Word. O God, Creator of heavens and earth, may it be likewise with these. When these are brought to the sick, may every one of them be healed. If we Your servants have found grace in Your sight, let this be so, Father. In Jesus' name. Amen.

5 We have just been holding a little too late at night, I understand. Last evening someone was telling me, of our party, that many people had to catch a train at nine-thirty. I'm sorry that I held you late. I don't mean to do that, but I just run overtime. Forgive me, please.
In Genesis 22, beginning with the 7th verse, we read this Scripture:
And Isaac spake unto Abraham his father, and said, My father: and he said, Here I am, my son... He said, Behold the fire and the wood: but where is the lamb for the burnt offering?
... Abraham said, My son, God will provide ... a lamb for a burnt offering: so they went both of them together.
Now, the 24th verse.
And Abraham called the name of the place Jehovah-jireh: as it is said to this day, In the mount of the LORD you shall see it.

6 Shall we bow our heads again? Almighty God, Creator of heavens and earth, Giver of all good spiritual gifts, Author of Eternal Life, send Thy blessings upon Thy Word. Circumcise the lips that speak and the hearts that hear, and may the seed of God fall into the hearts tonight, and many believe on the Lord Jesus, and be healed of their sickness. For we ask it in Jesus' name. Amen.
(Now, you watch for me that I won't be too long. Watch the time for me.) I just said to the managers back there to watch the time for me.

7 We want to speak tonight again about Abraham. And I just love those old Bible characters, because all the Old Testament was a shadow of the New Testament. All things you see back there pointed to the cross, and all since then points back to the cross. So in the cross, all the plan of salvation and healing was finished there for believers.
Now, last night we left Abraham where he had made the ... seen the confirmation of the covenant. How we find that God had give him a promise, and Abraham believed it, though He never give it to him just then, but He gave him the promise. So, if you've got the promise, you've got it anyhow.

8 If I ask... [Brother Branham speaks to the interpreter.] ( Do you have acorn trees here? Acorn trees here?) ["Yes."] If you asked me for an acorn tree, and I gave you an acorn, you've already got an acorn tree in a seed form. And that's what we try to preach the Word from the Bible, for that is the promise of God in seed form.
Jesus said that the Word of God is a seed that a sower sowed. And any divine promise of God will be received into your heart, no unbelief mixed with it; it'll produce just what it promised, for it's God's promise. Just hold on to it like Abraham did, and He will make it real to you.

9 Now, to you people that are along here, sitting in these chairs and stretchers, God loves you. No matter what is wrong with you, God, if He's Almighty God, He can do all things, and if He cannot do all things, then He is not Almighty God. I would not stand here and speak to you, unless I knew what I was speaking of.
You notice, now every night there's someone raises from the stretcher or wheelchair, paralyzed, or something wrong with them. They go out well, the deaf hear, blind see, and signs of the living God. See, God is still alive. God never leaves the earth. Sometimes He takes His man, but never His Spirit. He took Elijah, and His spirit came upon Elisha. Several hundred years later, it came upon John the Baptist, and predicted to come again in the last days. God promised it.

10 Now, the devil, he takes his man, and the spirit remains here on someone else. Jesus said to the Pharisees, because they did not believe Him... He would not teach their doctrine. He said "You are of the devil, your father." Said, "Which one of your fathers has not persecuted the prophets?" See, the spirit remains here, and the person goes on. Then the resurrection is the judgment.
Now, Abraham was the first to go out in a strange country and sojourn just on the promise of God. But he separated himself from all of his associates of the world, and walked alone with God to be a friend.

11 Last night we found out how that God confirmed the covenant, and we find the beautiful picture there of what He did at showing Calvary, where He was going to offer His own Son. Then we find Him appearing to Abraham again, and telling He was the Breasted One, so that Abraham could be like a baby to Him, and just nurse from Him, strength, because Abraham was old. He was already a hundred years old, and Sarah was ninety. That was fifty years ... or, forty years past menopause. He married her when she was a little girl, and he was just a young man. And they had lived together as husband and wife all these years. Then when menopause ceased, then forty years passed, and they were still believing God's promise. That's wonderful.

12 That's the kind of faith that we all want. Do not argue about it. The Bible is not to be argued. The Bible is to be preached and lived. Jesus said, "If I do not the works of My Father, then believe Me not. But if I do the works of My Father, then believe the works." And today, if we don't live the Christian life, well then, people can say we're not Christians. But if Christ is in you, He lives His life in you.

13 As Paul said, "It's no more me, but Christ that liveth in me." And if Christ lives in a man, Christ lives His life like He did when He was here on earth, for He said so. He said, "A little while and the world won't see Me no more, but you shall see Me. For I will be with you to the end of the world. And the things that I do, so shall you do." And He's raised from the dead, and He's here now in the same power that He had when He was here on earth, doing the same thing, saving the same kind of people, healing the same kind of sick, showing the same kind of visions.

14 And over in the New Testament, when the church was first inaugurated, Peter said in his sermon to the church, that God said, "In the last days I will pour out my Spirit upon all flesh: and your sons and daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions." God has promised, the things that Jesus did would be done again in the last days. And we're living in that day.
Jesus did not claim to be a great healer. He gave all praise to God. And He said, "I can do nothing in Myself," when He was questioned why He didn't heal all the sick people.

15 When He went down to the pool of Bethesda, there laid thousands of people, lame, twisted, and halt, and blind. He walked among them, till He found a man laying on a pallet. He made him well and left the rest of them. That's Saint John 5. And in the 19th verse, He is being questioned. He said, "Verily, verily, I say unto you, the Son can do nothing in Himself, but what He sees the Father doing, that doeth the Son likewise."
Christ had perfect faith in God. For Jesus was just a body, and God was in Him. The Bible says that God was in Christ, reconciling the world to Himself.

16 Now, Abraham, after he received the promise, he journeyed on, after God confirmed the promise to him. So, we find him now in about the 18th chapter of Genesis, after Lot had separated himself... Lot went down into Sodom and Gomorrah, a very beautiful type of lukewarm believers today that love the world and the things of the world. The Bible said, "If you love the world or the things of the world, the love of God's not even in you."
So, Lot went down with the backsliders. But Abraham stayed out where God placed him, for he knew that God promised to him that he was going to heir the whole thing.

17 So, the lands were poor. The herd probably was very thin. One day while Abraham was sitting under the oak, he lifted up his eyes, and standing in front of him, stood three men. And one of them was Almighty God Himself. I wonder why that God appeared in that form with dust over Him. Abraham invited Him in, and he went and killed a calf, cooked the meat, got some butter and some milk, and Sarah went and got some cakes, and set them down before them. And Almighty God ate food like a man.
Do you imagine what God did there? He just reached out and got a handful of atoms, and some petroleum, [Brother Branham speaks to the interpreter.] ( petroleum, you know, oils and stuff) and got the cosmic light, what the human body's made up of, and put it together, and lived in it. It was a preview what He was going to be anyhow, for He was manifested in the flesh in Christ Jesus.

18 Oh, He's wonderful. Some glorious day these bodies of ours are going back where they come from. But if our spirit is right with God, at the resurrection every body will come back again.
The other day I was combing my hair, and my wife said, "Billy, you're losing most of your hair."
I said, "But, honey, I haven't lost a one of them."
She said, "Where are they at?"
I said, "Where were they before I got them? They're there now waiting for me in the resurrection." Amen. They was one time they wasn't. Then there was a time they were. Now, there is a time they are not. But according to the Bible, there'll be a time when they'll be again.

19 I met a doctor the other day. I said, "Doctor, is it true every time we eat, we build blood cells in our body, that makes us grow?"
He said, "That is true."
I said, "I ask you a question. I'm eating the same kind of food now that I ate when I was sixteen. When I was sixteen, I ate the food, I grew, got stronger, bigger. And now, I eat the same food, perhaps better and more of it, and I'm getting older and weaker all the time." I said, "Explain that." It's not scientific.
If this glass has got water in it, and you pour more in it, it just keeps filling up, filling up. But why is it, it gets to a certain spot, and you keep pouring water in it, and it keeps going down? Because God has said. That's why. God has a way. Just like that flower, it started up; it come to its maturity, then it starts wilting away, but it comes back again.

20 Now, when God told Abraham when He met him there in a body, he had to wash the dust off of His feet. The Bible said that was God. And He turned His back to the tent; He said, "Abraham, where is Sarah?"
Said, "She's in the tent."
He said, "And according to life, as it is with women, I will visit you."
And Sarah heard it. And when Sarah heard it, she laughed in her heart, not out loud. The Bible said that He had His back turned to the tent where Sarah was, and He looked at Abraham, said, "Why did Sarah laugh?"
See what I mean? God knows all things. He knows what you are. He knows what's wrong with you. That's always been a sign of God, to pre-see, foresee, foretell. Look at the woman at the well, when Jesus told her she had five husbands. Why, she said, "I know when Messiah cometh He will do these things." But she thought He was a prophet, but He told her He was the Son of God. And He's the same today. That was the Son of God back there with Abraham; He was in a body. Oh, I hope you see that.

21 Now notice. Then God told that, that would be the next month then. And the next month it was with Sarah as it is with women, after it had ceased forty years. I want you to notice another little thing here. I know, my brethren, you're going to criticize this, but I want you just to be quiet for a moment, and look this over after you get home. Watch what God done to Abraham there, when He give him the promise.
Now, we all know that something had to happen to Sarah. She was nearly a hundred years old. Now, when you read the Bible, if the only experience you got, come out of some school or some seminary, you lack something.

22 Listen, you've got to be borned again of the Spirit of God. If you're not, you'll never understand the Word of God. God has said so. God said, "I have hid this Bible from the wise and prudent, and will reveal it to babes such as will believe." If you want to get anything from God, just be a baby. Open up the Bible. Fall in love with Jesus.

23 Now, when my wife writes me a letter, well, I read it. And she starts off, "Dear Billy, I am sitting here tonight. I am thinking much about you." That's what she's saying on the paper, but I can tell what ... between the lines, what she's reading ... saying.
The Bible you must read between the lines, because God has hid it from those who just read the Word alone. I am quoting Scripture that He has hid it from the eyes of the wise and prudent, and will reveal it to babes such as will learn. All that's ever read that in the Bible, say, "Amen." Then it's the babies that'll humble themselves, not be puffed up, but be humble, and say, "Lord, I believe it."

24 A friend of mine, John Sproule, he came over to France for a little visit. I believe it was Alsace, Lorraine. And he walked into a garden, and there was a statue of Jesus...

Abraham

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1 Now remain standing just a moment, and we will bow our heads for prayer.
Our heavenly Father, that is our testimony tonight: We believe that He lives. And we thank Thee for this wonderful gathering tonight, knowing that the Lord Jesus has come to meet with us. And we pray that your blessings rest upon us this evening. Pour out those blessings.
And, Father, before us here lays these handkerchiefs; they are going to the needy, the sick, the afflicted. While Your blessed Holy Spirit is around this place, we pray that You will look down upon this [unclear word] place, and will anoint each of these handkerchiefs with Your blessed presence. Go with it to the sickroom. And may they be liberated because of the gathering together tonight. Grant it, Lord. Give us an outpouring of Thy blessings, a double portion tonight. Heal every sick and afflicted person, and when we leave this building tonight, may we say like those from Emmaus, "Did not our hearts burn within us, because He talked with us?" Grant it, Father. We'll give Thee all the praise and the glory, for we ask it in the name of Jesus, Thy beloved Son. Amen.
Be seated. Long may this house of God stand. It's been a pleasure being here this week. Understanding that tomorrow we're to go into the Music Academy. And we had a wonderful time this week in your fellowship. And God bless all the people, and Brother Hutchison here, and may this little church grow and prosper in the Lord is my prayer.

2 We had a wonderful time of fellowship this morning with the Christian Businessmen of your beloved city here. Had a fine time. I believe that was the New York chapter, wasn't it? The New York ... the greater New York Chapter. And so we certainly have enjoyed the wonderful welcome that you've given us, and the presence of the Holy Spirit has been wonderful.
Such a wonderful audience to speak to. I've held you late each night, because you're so nice to sit and listen and take in the things of the Lord; and so we're so happy for that and for you tonight.
Now, we're going to turn to His blessed Word, the Book of all books, the Bible, and in the book of Romans the 4th chapter beginning with the 17th verse. I wish to read a portion of this Scripture, and go right into the Scripture reading; and while the anointing is so good in the building, perhaps make also a (Thank you, sir.) make also a little... Tonight, the Lord may come and heal all the sick while we're speaking, and we hope so.

3 Remember, that we base divine healing upon the finished work of Christ at Calvary. Every redemptive blessing lays right there in the Redeemer, see. All paid for, and nothing you have to do but to believe it, accept it as your own personal property.
May I say this while you're turning to Romans 4: Every Christian, when you're born again, God gives you a checkbook for everything that you have need of, with Jesus' name wrote at the bottom of every check. It's yours. Don't be afraid to turn it in, 'cause the bank of heaven will honor it. It certainly was a blood-bought gift that God gives to you freely.

4 Now, New York is known for one thing ... many things, but one great thing: it's known for its fine apples you raise up here. Wonderful apples New York has. And I received an invitation for Elizabeth today, and I thought that was Elizabethtown when I looked at it, and Elizabethtown is where I taken one of my first big game hunts from Elizabeth over to Newland in the Adirondacks; and up in there they have beautiful fruit: apples.
Now, did you know, as you people understand, that that little apple tree, when it's just about three-eighths of an inch high, that every apple that'll ever be in that tree, that you'll ever pick off of it, the hundreds of bushels is right in it then? If it isn't, where does it come from? Every leaf, the hundreds of pounds of leaves that'll occupy that little tree is right in it then? Do you know that? Every blossom is right in the tree right then, every color is right in the tree? All that that little tree will bear through its stay here on earth is in it when it's just a little slip about like that. If it isn't, where does it come from?

5 We lose the value, a lot of times, of things by trying to look at it in the way of material, see. What is it? That little tree is set out. A little slip is set out, and you have to water it, and it has to drink, and it has to drink more than its portion; and it just drinks, and the more it drinks, it drinks till it pushes out limbs. Then it pushes out leaves. Then it pushes out buds. Then it pushes out apples. It just keeps drinking and pushing. And that's the way that we are.
We are planted in Christ Jesus, the inexhaustible Fountain of life, and we just drink and push, drink. Everything that we need when we're filled with the Holy Spirit, every healing, everything that we have need of in life's journey is given to us right then. It's all your personal property. Just drink, that's all. Look and live. That's right. Then you can easily see the resurrection, can't you?

6 My wife said here sometime ago (I was combing what few hairs I had left.), she said, "Billy, you're getting bald-headed."
I said, "But, honey, I haven't lost a one of them."
She said, "What?"
I said, "I haven't lost a one of them."
She said, "Well, tell me where they're at."
I said, "Well, I'll ask you one thing. And you answer me, and I'll answer you. Where were they before I got them? They come from somewhere, and wherever they was before I got them, they're there waiting for me to come to them."
What's your body made out of? Potash, calcium, a little petroleum, cosmic light, atoms. Well, God just gathered them together, and (Whew) blowed in them and that was it. That was all of it. There you were (see), and you just turned back to what you was before you was in form like you are now, so the resurrection's just calling them back. And let me give you a beautiful thing, some of you that's getting old like I am, see.

7 Did you know, when you just first married your wife, remember how she looked, how pretty? Remember how dad looked? One morning you got up and you looked at those beautiful eyes of mother and you said, "Mother, there's a little wrinkle coming around your eyes," see.
She said, "Yes, dad, I begin to notice a gray hair or two." What is it? Death set in, see. But when you walked down to the altar as young in your twenties, why she was your sweetheart and your bride. Remember how each looked? How straight Dad stood and now he's stooped over? See how mother was? Look at her now, see. But then when the picture was drawed, God said, "That's it right there; that's the way I want it. Said, "Come on, death, but you can't take them till I call for you to." So then death set in, and gradually you started dying. But in the resurrection all the deaf, dumb will not appear in the resurrection. It's what God did.

8 I asked a doctor that some time ago. I said, "Doctor, is it true that every time I eat I renew my life?"
He said, "That's correct. You make blood cells."
I said, "Every time I take in food then I renew my life."
He said, "That's right."
I said, "Why is it, when I was sixteen, every time I'd eat I'd get bigger and stronger, and after I passed about twenty-five, the more I eat I get older and weaker? Prove that to me scientifically. Pouring water into a glass out of a container and the glass is filling up, and then all at once, the more you pour in the farther down it goes."
He said, "Well, that couldn't be explained."
I said, "Yes, it can. It's an appointment God has made." That's right. You're going to have to die and meet the judgment. But you see, then in the resurrection all that death done to you will be taken away, and you'll be back young again, see. If you had black hair here on earth, you'll have black hair in the resurrection. If you had blond hair, you'll be a blonde-head in the resurrection.

9 See, God... A lot of people tries to make Him a Sears and Roebuck, Harmony House, but He isn't. God is a God of variety. He has big hills and little hills. He has plains, rivers, mountains, grassy spots. He has little trees, big trees, white flowers, blue flowers, red flowers. He has... He's a variety and His people are variety; and He makes it all to His pleasure. Look at the earth. You can see what God loves, and that's what it'll be in the resurrection. Oh, I'm so glad of that, aren't you? To think that someday we'll see Him as He is.
Someone said not long ago, said, "Brother Branham, will we know... Will I know my mother?"
"You'll not only know your mother, but you'll know every mother. You'll know everybody."
"Oh," he said, "now, that's ridiculous."
"Oh, no, no. On Mount Transfiguration, Peter, James and John had never seen Moses or Elijah, but when they was under that inspiration, they recognized them as soon as they appeared; and had never seen them." Is that right? But we'll know one another. Don't you worry about that, you'll know. Well, that wasn't what I was going to talk about, but I'm going to read some out of the Scripture.

10 But I just love Him, don't you? And love is... Just makes you feel so at liberty, and so free, that you know that there's not... All the fears and scares are gone, and it's all over, and we've received Christ, and He has received us. And we got the assurance of eternal life, and the resurrection and glory, and to live through the Millennium, and to go with Him into the new world.
And why, there's not a thing to be worried about, but we should be just so happy, just singing like the birds all day long. But instead, we walk along, you know, and fears and doubts. Wonder what God thinks of us (see) sometimes, and besides all that to make the Bible positive, He appears right here, even in this little church, nightly proving Himself alive, working among us like this. What a beautiful thing.
All right, now just before we go to the Word, let's have just a word of prayer.

11 Now, heavenly Father, this is Your Book, and we know that we can raise the pages back and forth. We can turn them from place to place, but there's only One who can open it. And John seen it one time in the revelator on the Isle of Patmos when he had the revelation of the Lord, and he wept because there was no man in heaven or in earth was worthy to take the Book, or to open it, or to loose the seals thereof. But there was a Lamb standing in the midst, One had been slain since the foundation of the earth, and He come and took it out of the right-hand of Him that sat upon the throne, and He opened and loosed the seals thereof, because He was worthy.
O worthy Lamb, will You loose it to us tonight, and open the seals thereof, and let us have an inside view, just look past the curtain of time. Grant it, Father. Move in our midst, forgiving us of our sins, and healing our sickness, and preparing us for the service of Thy dear beloved Son while we're here on earth. For we ask it in His name. Amen.

12 The 17th verse of the 4th chapter of Romans:
(As it is written, I have made thee a father of many nations,) before him whom he believed, even God, who quickeneth the dead, and calleth those things which were not as though they were.
Who against hope believed in hope, that he might become the father of many nations, according to that which was spoken, So shall thy seed be.
And being not weak in faith, he considered not his own body now dead, when he was about a hundred years old, neither ... the deadness of Sarah's womb:
He staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief; but was strong in faith, giving glory to God;
And being fully persuaded, that what he had promised, he was also able ... to perform.
And therefore it was imputed unto him for righteousness.
Now it was not written for his sake alone, that it was imputed to him;
But for us also, to whom it shall be imputed, if we believe on him that raised up Jesus our Lord from the dead;
Who was delivered for our offenses, and was raised again for our justification.
Now, the Lord add His blessings to that Word, and on the first verse of the 5th chapter, we read:
Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ:

13 Speaking tonight on this vital subject, and we'll try not to keep too long if we have to stop and continue tomorrow night on it so we can get the prayer, the line started. Last night we missed the prayer line, but the Lord gave us the victory anyhow here in His blessed presence. He never disappoints anyone. There's no disappointment in the Lord Jesus Christ. How thankful we should be for that.
Now, listen close. To go back to get the background... I like to go back and pick up the background, to get a foundation for what we're fixing to say. So we're speaking on Abraham. In order to get the foundation of Abraham, we'd have to go back to Genesis about the 12th chapter and begin where Abraham was first mentioned.

14 And Abraham was just an ordinary man just like you and I, and he wasn't any extra good man, reason that God called him, but God called Abraham by election.
Now, if you'll notice in the Old Testament, which you have a pastor here far more able to explain these things than I, but Abraham is justification ... or, Abraham is election, rather. Isaac is justification, and Jacob is grace, and Joseph is perfection. There's nothing against Joseph in the Scriptures. He was a perfect type of the Lord Jesus in every way.
So in Abraham is election. God calls men by election, foreknowledge. "No man can come to Me except my Father draws him first. All that comes I will give them eternal life and raise him up at the last day." That settles it. I'm so happy to know this one thing, friends: That Christianity has no negative nothing to it. It's everything absolutely positive. A man that becomes a child of God has a positive hold on Calvary, and Calvary has a positive hold on him with the assurance by Almighty God, by an oath to Himself that He will raise him up in the last days, take him to glory. There's not no "if" or "and" or nothing. It's something that's positive.

15 Now, you can be mentally worked up or emotionally worked up and just imagine you're saved, but when your spirit bears record with His Spirit, and your life compares with God's Bible, you've got a pretty good conception it's all as at peace. That's right, but if it don't compare with that, then you'd better come back again, see. If you don't love Him with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind, if sin doesn't just make you tremble at the thoughts of it, you'd better come back (see) and be sure. No matter...
You might've danced in the Spirit. You might've spoke with tongues. You might've put your name on every church book in this city. You might've been baptized three times forward, backward, sprinkled. That won't have one thing to do with it, not one thing. You've got to be born again, see. It's something that takes place, a regeneration, and you become a new creation. Old things are passed away, and all things become new. You have a new look on everything. The birds sing different. Your enemies that you once couldn't stand, you love them. You really love them, and everything's changed. Then you know you've passed from death unto life.

16 Now, not by keeping a code, not keeping creeds, not doing this: not by good works are we saved, but by His grace, His mercy. We're already bought. The price is paid for. Nothing you can do about it. You can no more save yourself than a leopard could cleanse its spots. All the washing and going through would just make them brighter. Yes, sir. You never chose God and never did seek God. God seeks you. It's against human nature.
Could you imagine telling a pig that he's wrong because he drinks slop? Certainly not. If he could talk, he'd tell you tend to your own business. All right. That's right. But now, but when that pig's nature is changed, he won't drink no more slop (see), if he gets a lamb's nature. But it's got to be something converts the pig before he'll ever have that kind of an attitude. There's got to be something on the inside of him change him. Not because you wash him up and put him in a better place to live; he's still a pig, see. You've got to change his nature, and then his desires change with his nature. Now ... or, his nature changes his desires---better place.

17 Now, Abraham was just an ordinary man that come down with his father. Perhaps his father might have been an idolater, 'cause they come from Babylon. And at first Babylon was called "The gate to heaven," and next was called "confusion," because of Nimrod. And this might hurt just a little bit, but is it all right? Hair is gone, so I guess I'll say it.
Did you notice Nimrod was the first man to begin organizations? That's right. And the first ones this side of Calvary was the Catholic church, still Babylon carrying on. Babylon appears in the first of the Bible, middle of the Bible, and the last of the Bible. And every cult and everything that we have today---if you'll watch the nature of it, and go back in history of "Hislop's Two Babylons" and many things back there---and watch each one of those seeds was planted in Genesis, 'cause Genesis is the beginning. It's the seed book of the Bible. And watch these cults today how they move and how they act, and go right back in Genesis and find out if it doesn't start right off that same way; and now we're in harvest time (see) of everything.

18 Now, Abraham came down to the land of Chaldea to the city of Ur to dwell there, and they probably lived a pretty fair life in those days. He probably picked berries for his breakfast, and go in the bush and kill an animal for his noon day, and then eat some more berries at night, and so forth; they faired pretty good.
But one day while Abraham was walking around at seventy-five years old... And he had married his half-sister, Sarah, when she was just a girl. And she was sixty-five years old. She was ten years younger than Abraham. And Abraham walking around. God called Abraham by grace, by election. He called Abraham and chose him among all the men in the world. God called Abraham, because He wanted to give to Abraham His covenant.

19 Now, you know what a covenant is? And now we want to speak on the covenant just for a few minutes. God made His covenant with Adam, and Adam broke His covenant. And when God makes a covenant with man, man always breaks the covenant with God. So God by foreknowledge knew that there had to be some preparation made to save man. God made this covenant with Abraham unconditional.
Now, that may be a little strong, but He made it unconditional. Before Abraham did anything to merit, God said, "I have already finished it. Nothing, Abraham, you have to do with it. I have done it. You're coming to Me in an old age, and I've already saved you. And not only have I saved you; I'll save your seed after you." Not if you'll do something, if you will, or if you won't. "I have." A finished work. God already done it.

20 Say, "Brother Branham, why are you hitting on those things at night?" Is the reason of this. If you can ever get the scare out of the church and let them realize who they are and what they are positionally, healing will be the simplest message could be preached, or anything else. But you're scared. You're afraid. You don't realize that you're sons and daughters of God; and now, not we will be. We are now sons and daughters of God, not way off in the future. And we won't some time in the future set in heavenly places; now we're seated in heavenly places, right now. And now we are the sons and daughters of God. It does not yet appear what we shall be in the end, but we know we will see Him, for we will have a body like His. We will see Him as He is.
But now we are the sons and daughters of God, and the covenant is made to Abraham and to his seed after him. Now, notice. Now, God didn't tell Abraham, "If you'll do this, or if you'll do that." He said, "I have." So the whole covenant is grace altogether and no works about it at all.

21 Now, you say, "That has an awful Calvinistic swing to it, Brother Branham."
That's right. It does, and Calvinism is all right as long as it stays true to the Bible; but when it gets off on the wrong limb, then it's no good. Arminianism, holiness, is correct as long as it stays in Bible holiness, not your holiness but His Holiness, see. It's not my holiness; I'm not depending on my holiness, I have none, but I'm wholly trusting in His holiness, see. It's He's the One who did it. Not my works, but His finished works that I rest assured that I was received into the Beloved and when the Beloved was received by God, God received me in Christ; that settles it, see. No negative, no ifs and ands. It's a finished work.

22 And now, when God called Abraham, him being seventy-five years old, and He said, "Separate yourself from your kindred." It's strange how we change that today. God calls for separation. We call for mixers. That's right.
The people when they're choosing their pastors, you that do so; oh, they want a little slick fellow, you know, that'll take a sociable drink, and not condemn smoking and a few of these things here. A good guy that'll mix with the crowd. But God wants separators. God calls for a total separation from the things of the world. "Come out from among them," the Bible says, "and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and I will receive you." See, not a mixer; a separator. The Holy Ghost spoke, "Separate me Paul and Barnabas to the work." A separation. God segregates His people, the right from the wrong.
Notice. Now, Abraham was to separate himself and to sojourn in a strange land that he knew not of. Isn't that a beautiful picture today? When God by election calls you to His Beloved, then immediately God speaks to you to separate yourself from the old crowd, the pool rooms, the stitch-and-sew parties where they tell jokes and carry on: a separation.

23 And then He asks you to go in among strange people that you used to think was strange. They spoke a strange language. God calls His people on those basis, and Abraham... The covenant was given to Abraham and only through ... to Abraham and his seed is the promise made. Remember that. Only to Abraham alone and his seed. Why, you say, "Us Gentiles was left." Oh, no. We being dead in Christ take on Abraham's seed and are heirs according to the promise, if we have the faith of Abraham.
Now, here it is. Watch. A separation first thing from the things of the world. God speaks, and you move, and then He calls to dwell among strange people. Go to church to them people that sing and praise the Lord. One time you bowed your head and walked away, if you're in the presence where your mother was doing it. But where God calls you, you stand right with mother and your face shining like the morning sun and give a praise.

24 Why, I seen a little woman many times that was so bashful they couldn't talk to an insurance agent that come to the door, with their head bowed, so timid. After once receiving God, could stand in the midst of a church and give a testimony that'd shake the shingles off the top of the house almost. She's been somewhere. Something's happened, see. Notice how God calls.
Then sometimes God does things in the most ridiculous way to the human eye. Did you ever think of that? How God takes the foolish things to confound the wise, how He takes the things that you'd say was silly, turn right back around and confound the mighty and wise.
Look, for instance, Moses, just for a moment. (Off our subject, but I can only speak as I feel it.)

25 Moses had been trained as a military man and had been brought up with all the knowledge of the Egyptians. Pharaoh's daughter's son who was a heir to the throne, and then in his knowing also, besides that, that he had a divine call. And when he tried to act upon his education and upon his ability, what happened? He slew a Egyptian, looked this a way and that way.
Now, a man of God don't have to look and see whether anybody is looking or not. A man of God looks this way and that way; not this way and that way, see. So, Moses right there give it away. He was to liberate the children of Israel, but he was out of God's program. And the church is God's instrument of the earth to liberate the sick and the afflicted, but they're out of the program by their homemade theologies, and not the Bible and the Holy Spirit.

26 Now, Moses after God had to give him forty years more of teaching... Eighty years old! Could you imagine how ridiculous to the carnal mind this would be? Here was Moses in the presence of the burning bush, was better equipped in five minutes in the presence of God, than eighty years of schooling had give him. Amen. I hope that don't hurt, but I hope it really sinks in, see.
In the presence of God five minutes gave him more knowledge of God and better equipped him, than eighty years of schooling. Brother, we don't need so much theology; we need kneeology today. That's true. Five minutes in the presence of the burning bush. Eighty years he'd shunned; forty years on the desert running. And five minutes in the presence of God at the burning bush he was ready to go. There you are.

27 And notice, here he comes, an old man eighty years old, whiskers plumb down to his belt line, with a stick in his hand, his wife sitting straddle a mule with a kid on each hip, the winds blowing. "Where you going, Moses?"
"I'm going down to Egypt to take over," a one-man invasion. Why, the carnal mind would've said, "Crazy." Egypt had the whole world whipped down at that time with tens of thousands of horsemen and chariots. Be like one man say, "I'm going to take over Russia." ---more, greater then. But here he goes. Could you imagine? Oh, here comes Moses, them little old thin wrinkled arms, an old crooked stick in his hand beating the ground, dragging this little mule, and his wife sitting on there with a child on each hip, just a singing the praises of God. Some said, "Moses, where you going?"
"Going down to Egypt to take over." Why? He wasn't scared. He didn't learn that by some theology. He didn't learn that by some book reading, but he had been in the presence of the burning bush. That was the difference, and the thing of it was, he did it. Not what he said, but he went and done it. He went down and took over, and destroyed Egypt, a one-man invasion, but he'd been in the presence of God.

28 Now, that looked ridiculous to the carnal mind. When they wanted water, it would've been ridiculous to go to a rock. What about the spring, but God said the rock, see. God takes the foolish things to confound the wise. So don't think you're too big, brother, and know too much. You might have to get a whole lot of that to know Christ, see. So, look at Moses.
And now, let's turn back to Abraham. God told Abraham, "Now, you're an old man seventy-five years old. You've lived with your wife since she was a girl, little child, little sixteen or eighteen-year-old girl, and now she's sixty-five (forty, fifty, sixty ... about twenty-five years past menopause), but I'm going to give you a child by her."

29 As I said last night, could you imagine when Abraham went down to the doctor to make arrangements for the birth of this child at seventy-five and his wife sixty-five? Why, today they'd want to place him in a mental institution, see. But he bought up all the clothes and whatever it taken for the baby. Why, I can hear them say, "The poor old fellow; he's getting old now, it's something slipped, see. You just watch that." The carnal mind thinks that, but what was the difference? Abraham had been in the presence of God. He had the revelation. He had the covenant, and he knowed that God would keep it.
In our reading here tonight; he, in the presence of God, spoke like God, and he called those things that were not as though they were, for he was fully persuaded that God was able to keep that which he had said.

30 And may I stop here just for a moment to... This lovely audience tonight. Someone said to me said, "Brother Branham, aren't you afraid that sometime you'll make a mistake when on that discernment?"
No, sir. Why? It's to fulfill the Word of God. Jesus said, "These things that I do, shall you also." And in the presence of God, God made the promise, and God's obligated to His promise. And no matter how ridiculous it looked for a sixty-five-year-old woman to bring forth a baby by a man seventy-five years old, and how the scientists and doctors would've thought that was impossible, but Abraham believed it. And not only did he believe it, but he made ready for it. I like that. He acted as though it was already over.
Anybody that ever got anything with God, took God at His Word, and acted as though it was absolutely finished, for when... Here it is: For when God speaks the Word, It's already finished. That's right. God's Word is forever confirmed in heaven. Oh, my, I like that. Already finished; as soon as it leaves the lips of God, it's a word, and it has to materialize.

31 When little Mary coming... The virgin, coming from the spring that day with the kettle over her head, or a pot of water. Maybe it was Monday, the washday, but when the great Angel, Gabriel, met her and said, "Hail, Mary." Means "stop." "Blessed art thou among women, because you found favor with God." And he told her that she was going to have a baby, knowing no man.
Now, if you... About a few months before that, he had met a preacher by the name of Zacharias, and he told him he was... His wife was getting old, (so probably in her late forties), and he told him that he was going to have a baby by his wife, and that preacher doubted it. Said, "How could these things be? My wife's old and so forth." After he had been praying for that all the time, but he questioned when he had many examples: of Hannah at the temple, and he also had of Sarah (here we're speaking of), but he failed to believe it.

32 But what did Mary say? She never questioned it. She said, "Behold the handmaid of the Lord. Be it unto me according to thy word." And what did she do? She never waited till she was positive. She never waited... You're a mixed audience, you'd listen to your doctor, and I'm your brother, but listen. She never waited till she felt life or anything else that she was positive. As long as God said so, that was enough for her to have it. She took God at His word, and begin testifying that she was going to have a baby before she had any evidence other than the Word of God. You see? She was Abraham's seed. Just as soon as God says so, and you read it in the Bible, take Him at His Word, and start thanking Him for it.
When the Holy Ghost fell on the people at Pentecost, they'd took God's Word. He never said, "You wait up there two days, three days, ten days." He said, "You wait until," and they were up there thanking Him and praising Him for His promise when the Holy Ghost came. Take Him at His Word. Thank Him for it. If you need healing, you need liberation from anything, receive it, believe it, take His Word, thank Him for it, and call those things which are not as though they were---if they're anything with God's Word.

33 Now, how's this woman sixty-five years old and a man seventy-five years old going to have this baby? but God said so. And they made arrangements for it. Now, Abraham failed to do like the human being. Now, if the covenant would've been on conditions right here his... First thing, his daddy give him a lot of trouble. Then his father died, and then instead of separating himself, he took a big bunch along with him. That's about the way we do. You know what I mean. All right. I won't have to speak that, 'cause I believe you caught that. All right.
Next thing what taken place? There was Lot. When God said, "Separate yourself from everybody," the walk with Christ is an individual walk. You walk, you stand alone with you and God alone. Not you and the pastor; you and God alone. Not you and the deacon. Sometimes you and your wife, you and your husband; but you and God alone. You stand alone on your convictions. Salvation is not a church affair; it's an individual affair.
Church is a gathering place where we come in one common grounds and worship God. But salvation isn't because you've joined the church, it's because you've believed on the Lord Jesus Christ and accepted Him as your personal Saviour; and then you have to do more than that, now. It isn't just a make-believe.

34 Some very good Baptist friend of mine... You know I'm a Baptist myself, but I'm a Baptist that got the Holy Ghost. Look. So look. He said to me, said, "Brother Branham, you're speaking of the Holy Ghost." He said, "Well, we receive the Holy Ghost when we believe."
I said, "Oh, no. That's not what Paul said. Paul in Acts 19 said, 'Have you received (talking to Baptist people, Apollos' converts (Yes, sir.), the converted lawyer) He said, 'Have you received the Holy Ghost since you believed?'" That's right.
Why, he said, "Brother Branham, Abraham believed God, and it was imputed unto him for righteousness. What more could a man do but believe God?"
I said, "That's all he can, but God give him the seal of circumcision as recognizing his faith."

35 And you say you've got faith, and God's never give you the Holy Ghost yet to seal it, and the Holy Ghost is the seal of God. Ephesians 4:30 says, "Grieve not the Holy Spirit of God whereby you're sealed until the day of your redemption." And if you say you believed and never received the Holy Ghost yet, then God hasn't recognized your faith. But God gave Abraham a sign of recognition of his faith by circumcision, and He gives you a sign of the recognition of your confessed faith in Him---professed faith---when He gives you the baptism of the Holy Ghost to seal it as a finished work. How long? Until the day of your redemption, not till the next revival, but till the day that you're redeemed from this earth. Amen.

36 A finished... A seal represents a finished work. The boxcar's loaded and the seal is on it: it's completed; it's finished. It's bound for its destination. Woe to anyone who'll break the seal. Amen.
Oh, I feel real religious tonight somehow. I really do. Notice, where's the Word? See, the Word brings life, and Abraham... Then what happened? Lot... There become a quarrel, and then after Lot was separated... We don't have time. I watch that clock there, but we don't have time to get... We just hit the high spots now for a moment.

37 Notice. Then when Abraham's herdsmen and Lot's herdsmen got to arguing with each other, Lot was already backslidden in his heart, and he went towards Sodom; and you know the end of him. But Abraham as soon as he had done what God told him to do to separate himself from his kindred and everything... Now, you say, "What about Sarah. Him and Sarah's one. You and your wife are one, see. But now, and Sarah was in the covenant with him, 'cause she was the wife.
But notice. When he separated himself from Lot and Lot's wife... I imagine Mrs. Lot wanted to belong to all the lotteries and everything going along through the country, you know. So she was a hindrance to him.
And the Bible said, "Let us lay aside every weight and the sin that so easily beset us, when we're in this journey. Let us run with patience the race that's set before us, looking to the Author and Finisher of our faith, the Lord Jesus Christ."

38 Notice, then when he got separated from Lot, what did God appear to him in again? After he separated himself and done what God told him to do, then God come to him. And when God tells you to do anything, you'd better go do it, or you might not see Him no more for awhile, see. Do what God tells you to do. That's your next move, is to obey God.
Then when he got himself separated from Lot, then God appeared to him and said, "Abraham, you made a nice choice. You told Lot to take his choice." And Lot went down towards Sodom, because, oh, the big time's down there. Oh, my. They had all kinds of games and races and big times at night, and a place to watch television if it would've been such a thing, and all the ... everything, you know, and just take it easy. That's the way people like to go with the waters of least resistance, like you're going to live here forever. You're not.

39 And notice. Then when he did, Abraham took the poor and barren land, but when God appeared to him, He said, "Abraham, stand up. Look to the east. Look to the west. Look north and south." Said, "Every bit of it I'll give to you." Said, "Now, Abraham, I want you to walk through it." Amen. Excuse me for being just a little undignified tonight, but "walk through it. It's your possession. It belongs to you."
Every person that comes to Christ, every promise in the Book belongs to them. Go through it. Find out whether healing belongs to you, whether salvation, or the baptism of the Holy Ghost, or whether Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever. When you possess anything and it belongs to you, walk through it. Amen. Brother, I love it. Investigate.

40 You know, it's like a great big arcade, and there's everything in it. You know, it is a big arcade of God's blessings, and by one Spirit we're all baptized into this arcade of God's blessings. I'll go along and look at this. That's mine. I turn around and look at this. That's mine. Look over here. That's mine. Look over here. That's mine. That's right. It's all mine. "Every promise in the Book is mine, every chapter, every verse, every line. I'm trusting in His love divine. Every promise in the Book is mine." It belongs to me. It's your property, if you'll do it. Anybody that does it. God promised it. [Someone speaks in tongues and another interprets.] Amen.

41 Every promise is ours, isn't it? Every gift belongs to us. Christ belongs to me. I belong to Christ. You belong to Christ, and Christ belongs to you. You're a part of Him. You hear what he said? Every promise, everything in the Book. Everything, all right. God making a promise. He gave it to Abraham. He gave it to his seed. Separate yourself. Walk alone with God and find out if that isn't true. God made the promise.
Now, and then when he did, He said, "All this is yours. Now, something seems just a little too high for you. If you're in your arcade, and something is up on a shelf, you never... You don't know just exactly... "Maybe I could..." Why, get you a ladder and climb up. Look at it; it's yours. And the best ladder I know of is prayer; that's right. Climb right on up. Just keep praying. God, did You make that promise? It's Your Bible. Is it for me? "Whosoever will, let him come." Amen. You find yourself right up there looking into it then. God made the promise. God's obligated to His promise. Amen. Do you believe that?

42 Now, one more look; quotation. [Someone speaks in tongues and someone interprets.] Amen. We thank the Lord. Blessed be... Amen. Now, if I understand the Word right (see), this would be God that was speaking, you see. So now maybe He would want me then to call the prayer line, I'll finish my sermon tomorrow night (see) if He do it. Now, let's bow our heads just a moment for prayer.
Now, heavenly Father, we wonder if I might not have been speaking right, or what was it, speaking of Yours, but seemingly that something You broke in. So, Lord, You promised the blessing according to that interpretation to the people, and we pray now that in the manifestation of Thy love and power, will You shed forth Your blessings upon the people? And if it's time for the prayer line then, make it known, Lord, in a mighty outpouring of Thy blessings.
And now, forgive us if we're wrong. We pray that grace will overshadow us, and that we'll be working in Your divine providence tonight, that Your power and blessings will be upon us and will keep us. In Jesus' name we pray. Amen.

43 Now, how many's sick and needy tonight? Let's see your hands now. How many's needy? All right. That's good. That's wonderful. All right. Now, I want to say something just before we call the prayer line. Look, if Jesus Christ has raised from the dead... How many believes that He has? All right.
How many has never been in one of our meetings before? Let's see your hands. Just a very few tonight. All right. You know the order of the meeting. Now, it's my contention that no man can heal. Not even a doctor claims to heal. Now, I've been interviewed. You read the "Reader's Digest" about a year or something ago, it was in October a year ago or something like that, on the healing of little Donny Martin, that Mayo Brothers had give up. And they brought him to the platform in California, and there the vision showed the little boy was healed (see), and they packed a big article of it, and I was at Mayo Brothers for an interview. All right.
They say, "We do not claim to be healers. We only claim to assist nature. There's one Healer. That's God."

44 Let me show you something just how simple it is. Watch. For instance, I'd cut my hand tonight. I'd use this illustration. I cut my hand. Now, there isn't a medicine in the world that can heal that cut, not a one. Now, that's true. Any medicine that'd heal a cut in my hand would heal a cut in my coat. It would heal a cut in this desk, see. It would heal a cut on the floor. Why, you say, "Brother Branham, medicine wasn't made to heal your coat, and your desk, and so forth. It was made to heal your body."
All right. Now, I cut my hand, and I fall down dead. They embalm my body to make me look natural for fifty years, and let the doctor come and give me a shot of penicillin. Put in sulfa drugs. Pour in Tincture Methiolate. Sew it up, and if my body, won't decay for fifty years, that cut will be just exactly like it was when it was cut. Is that right? Well now, if medicine is made to heal a human body, why don't it heal it?
Well, you say, "Brother Branham, life is gone out of it."
Oh, that's different, isn't it? You tell me what life is and I'll tell you who God is, see, see. Medicine only keeps clean while God builds tissue. He's a Creator. Now, healing is a creation, and there's no one...

45 And I want to ask some of you brethren here that believes that Satan can heal. If Satan can heal, he's a creator. He has to. And what have you got then? Satan can't create. He never created nothing. He can pervert, but not create, see. There's only One Creator, and that's God alone. And any healing can't come by man or nothing else. It has to come by the Creator alone.
What about if I was just cranking my T Model Ford, and I broke my arm? And I run in and say, "Hey, doctor, heal my arm right quick. It's broke. I've got to finish cranking that Ford."
Why, he'd say, "You need healing somewhere else."
Well, that's right. Now the doctor... What can he do? That would be the thing to do. Go to him. He'll set my arm, pull the bones back, put it under x-ray and see it. Put a splint on it. It isn't healed. It's no more healed than it was when I went in. He sets it and leaves it for God to heal. God's the only One can do it. "I am the Lord who forgives all your iniquities, who heals all your diseases." Healing is alone in God, alone can heal. He's the only Creator, and the only thing that can heal.

46 Now, the doctor can remove a tooth. Who stops the blood? A doctor can cut appendix. Who heals the hole where he cut? He can cut out a tumor, but who heals the cut? God's the healer. He removes the tumor, and God done the healing, see. God is the only Healer, never a hospital, never a doctor, never medicine. If a doctor tells you that he's the healer, you can imagine he's a quack. And when a preacher tells you he's a healer, he's a quack too. That's right, because there's only one healer. That's God, and that's right---God.
So there's need of thinking also how much oil if it runs out by the gallons, and you claim that's divine oil, it's an antichrist spirit dealing with you, 'cause what happened to the blood of Christ if that's got anything to do with it, see. It's absolutely not. It's fantastics, and the devil in the world today, like Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses such... That's not in the Bible. There's no such as that. If God wanted you to pour out oil, He'd have made you Texas oil well, or an olive tree, or something, but He made you a human being to preach the Gospel and to bring the message to the people of salvation of the finished work of Jesus Christ. Amen. That might be strong, but it's the truth. I'd rather be honest here and tell you the truth than have to answer for it at the day of judgment for you. That's right.

47 Now, healing belongs alone to God. It's the finished work of Christ at Calvary. Don't forget that, church, whatever you do. And every blessing that's in everything that you lost in the fall, Christ redeemed back to you at Calvary. It's been finished two thousand years ago. Every person that's ever healed, every person that's ever saved was saved when Jesus died at the cross and finished the work. He screamed to the Father, "It's finished": All of it, the complete plan of salvation. And now we have the earnest of our salvation.
Now, divine healing is not on the same basis as salvation. Divine healing was included in the atonement truly. The old atonement had divine healing, and the new one is much better than the old one. So if it's better, it's got to be better in every way, but divine healing... Salvation of the soul, you become a new creature---eternal life. You don't have eternal health by healing, but it's an attribute. It's the earnest of your resurrection. If there's no divine healing, then there is no resurrection, see. But now, what is it? It's your own personal faith in a finished work of Christ at Calvary.

48 Now, what does He do? The first initial way is just like we were going a few minutes ago. Hear the Word; and faith cometh by hearing and hearing of the Word. God wanting to be kind to you. He sends gifts in the church. Some of them is what we heard awhile ago: speaking with tongues and interpretations. God sends wisdom, knowledge, gifts of healing. Then He sets in the church apostles, prophets, teachers, evangelists, pastors. All those things are for the perfecting of the body of Christ, that we might have all the differences combed out of us and how the Holy Spirit...
You know, the Bible said, "Come and buy of Me the gold tried in the fire. In the old days when they used to try gold, they beat it. And they'd take gold and lay it down, and beat it, and beat it, and turn it over, and beat it, and beat it, and beat it, until all the dross was out of it; all the dirt was out of the gold. And the way the beater could tell: he could see his own reflection in it. Every time he'd beat and beat until he could see himself in the gold, he knowed the dirt was beat out.
And that's the way the Holy Spirit does to the church. It beats the stuff out of us, the indifference, the dross, and things that don't belong into us that Christ's image reflects back into His church ... or, He reflects Himself in His church, because the Bible said in Hebrews 13:8, "He's the same yesterday, today, and forever."

49 Now, we mustn't walk at this or go at this with a half-hearted attitude. We must go with a full surrendered attitude. We must come to the church and listen to the Bible, and if anything is brought out of this Bible, believe it. If it's not out of the Bible, then it's up to you. But the Bible is God's foundation plan. It's His plan of redemption. It's His plan of healing. It's the plan of everything that He has, is laid out right here; and the Bible said, "Woe unto him that will add to or take out." This is it. I believe the Word.
I've been into churches, and watched how people, a lot of times, in churches ... watch how the pastor acts. The church will act that way. Friends, I say this (not as sharp talking), but I say it as a servant of Christ to be honest with you. Many times they get one another's spirit instead of the Holy Spirit (see); and that's the reason when you act... It makes them act alike.
Notice, but that's the reason when I come to you, I know nothing but the Bible. I want you to have the Spirit that's in the Bible, which is the Spirit of Christ; and that's the reason I try to stay in the Word and get nothing but what's in the Word (see), and bring it to the people.

50 Now, Christ is alive tonight. If He isn't alive, then the Bible's wrong and you're lost; you're in the world without God, without hope; and when you die, you're finished.
But if Christ is alive tonight, and you believe in Him and He has accepted your faith as you have confessed in Him, then you ought to be the most happiest person in all the world, because your salvation is paid for. You're secured safely in the arms of Christ, sealed. You are dead. Your life is hid in God through Christ and sealed by the Holy Ghost. How can the devil ever touch you, see? For you are dead. Your life is hid in God through Christ and sealed by the Holy Ghost. That's the Scripture.
You are just as bound for heaven as Christ went to heaven Himself, and you're free from judgment. Christ took our judgment, and God could not judge you again. He would be unjust to send you to judgment. He'd be untruthful to send you to judgment, because He judged Christ in your stead; and He was bruised for our iniquities; and there when He judged Christ, He let us go free, because Christ took our judgment.

51 Jesus said in Saint John 5:24, "He that heareth My words, and believeth on him that sent Me, hath (present tense) eternal, everlasting life, and shall never come into the judgment, but's done passed from death unto life." That's the Scripture. Then God could not be just and judge you. We will never stand at the judgment bar. I've already stood one time, and I realize how guilty I was, and I asked forgiveness, and He accepted me; and my judgment's been paid on Calvary, and everyone of yours the same. We have nothing to fear. Everything is in Christ. Christ has...
To make it sure, He knew infidelity, and unbelief, and skeptics, and so forth, would rise in the last days. He was God. He could foresee. He knew the mind of God as God revealed it to Him. He said, "I do nothing till the Father shows Me." Everything Christ did, He did it by a vision. That's right. No miracles did Christ do on earth without first seeing a vision from God. He said so. Now, He just didn't go around at random and do this and do that and do this. You got the wrong conception of Him.

52 The Bible said... Jesus said Himself, "Verily, verily, I say unto you, the Son can do nothing in Himself," see. "I can do nothing in Myself, but what I see the Father doing, that doeth the Son likewise." Now, it's either right or wrong. To me it's right. It's God's Word, and that settles it.
Watch His life, everything along, everywhere. It was always the Father showed Him. He worked right straight to do what the Father told Him. He said, "Now, these things that I do, shall you also, for I go unto My Father. A little while the world won't see Me no more. Yet you shall see Me, for I will be with you, to the end of the world. I'll even be in you to the end of the world."

53 Christ has died, suffering in the flesh, put to death for our sins and sickness. He ascended up on high to the right hand of the Father, and the Spirit that was in Him returned back into the church, as He was the first Son of God and we are joint-heirs with Him in the kingdom, by being the adopted children by His adoption, and His plan of salvation that He introduced to us, and give to us by His grace. And tonight we are a part of God and can no more perish than God can perish. I give... "He that heareth my words, believeth on Him that sent Me has eternal life."
And any Bible reader or scholar that would want to question that, see if in the original that isn't said "Sozo" there. That's right. Sozo means "the life of God Himself is in you," and you can no more perish than God can, and "I will raise him up at the last day," said Jesus. Amen. 'Cause that life is in you.

54 Here some time ago I was sitting talking to an old Methodist preacher, an old, good friend of mine, and we were talking. And the Agricultural Hour come on. The little 4-H Club of Louisville, Kentucky, was talking about where they had invented a machine that could turn out grains of corn that looked so perfect that it makes just the same kind of cornmeal that the original corn would make. It would make the same kind of cornflakes, and to take a handful out of the sack that the machine made and a handful out of the sack that was growed in the field and mix them together, you could not tell them apart. You'd take them into there, and you'd cut them open. They had the same amount of moisture, the same amount of calcium, same... Every chemical was just in it exactly the same.
They said, "There's only one way you can tell them: bury them. The one that man made has not a germ of life in it and will lay there. The one that God made has life in it, and lives again."
I said, "You'd better hold my hand, preacher; I'll embarrass you here as sure as the world."

55 There's two men can go to church and both of them act like Christians and so this... They're deacons on the board together, pastors in the pulpit together, whatever you might say, but one of them has life, and the other has not. And those that's got eternal life will raise in the resurrection with the Lord Jesus Christ, because Christ has raised from the dead, and He's alive among us tonight; and He is not dead.
And our religion of Jesus Christ is not a vain philosophy but it's a living, present-tense fellowship with the Holy Ghost, and Christ right here in the church tonight, performing, and doing, and pressing in shape, and healing, and manifesting Himself to prove He's alive among His people. Hallelujah. How wonderful. Let us pray.

56 Heavenly Father, now the Word... Faith cometh by hearing and hearing of the Word. We pray tonight that You'll manifest Yourself and let this audience, Lord... Someday we've got to answer at the day of the judgment. If You will just come tonight and do the same things that You did, then it would have to be a demon-possessed person that would turn their bowels of compassion away from Calvary, and walk away, and say it was wrong.
It would be like the Pharisees that stood on the day when they seen Jesus performing the work and told Philip and Nathanael when they come up, where he was before he come, and told Peter a few minutes before that that his name was Simon. He was the son of Bar-jonas. And the Pharisees wanted to tell him he had Beelzebub. And we know that our Lord said, "I will forgive you for that, but when the Holy Ghost is come and does it, it'll never be forgiven if you speak a word against it."

57 And Father God, we pray tonight that You'll give the sheep Your bread tonight, the bread of life. These who are struggling here in Boston, this great big fabulous city, where sin heaping on every side, bootleg joints, mother's boys strewn out across the street here drunk, and how that these big churches with their big spires standing up there, Lord, and failing. O God, oh how it burns in my heart when I think of their cold, formal, indifference, and how they stand stiff and starchy and warn the people against coming to hear Your message and so forth.
O God, I pray that You'll burn into this city. Send an old-fashioned revival after the closing here, and sweep it from coast to coast, from shore to shore, that they'll know that You have raised from the dead.
Feed Your hungry sheep, Lord. Oh, how many of these people sitting here tonight, old men that's preached the Gospel for years, that's stood by looking for the time to come when God would restore these things. How that women have sat here, they've prayed and read their Bible and stained it, how they've been called out of names ---holy-rollers, and all kinds of fanatic names---and how they've been tossed about, but still with a heart looking to You.
O Christ, manifest Yourself tonight to them. Let them know that their faith is in not vain, but that You live and You see every move and action and know everything in their heart. Grant it, Lord.

58 And when the service is closed, may we bow our heads, and give praise to Thee, and worship Thee, and make ourselves ready as far as we can, to go, and to serve you, and to do everything that we know that's in our power that's to do right. Permit this to us tonight, Father, through Thy grace, and in the blood; and in the name of Jesus Christ we ask it. Amen.
I don't know why I just can't close, look like somehow, but now, my dear friends, now may the Lord Jesus bless. Now, we're going to call a prayer line to pray for the sick. I've clearly explained to you: I cannot heal, and I believe no one else can. The only thing that you can do is accept what I've told you.

59 Now, it said ... the Bible has said (That wasn't my subject tonight.), but Christ is alive. If you're the seed of Abraham, you're bound to recognize it. "My sheep know My voice." Certainly. Jesus said that and so when... If you're the seed of Abraham, you'll recognize the Spirit of Abraham, of Christ, which come through Abraham by the flesh. So then may the Lord grant to you tonight that your eyes of understanding will be opened. And if you're here tonight as a lukewarm church member, I'm not criticizing you, mister, my brother. I believe you to be a Christian if you've confessed Christ, but just in a lukewarm state.
You, my sister, I'm not criticizing you, but I'm trying to tell you: Stop that little, old, formal way you're living in. Come into Christ. Be anointed and go out and do something for Him. Don't leave your churches. Make a real, on-fire Christian in your church. That's what it is. God will take care of the rest of it for you.

60 If you'll just simply accept...
If you're a sinner and never have accepted Christ, won't you do it tonight? I'm saying this, because I'm trying to find favor with Him, that He will come down and perform what we're asking about, what we're going to ask Him to do: to appear here on this platform. Not as a (Oh, what would I call it?) as a stage show; never. That's not the attitude. That's not the spirit I'm speaking in.
I'm speaking to represent Jesus Christ to a dying world to let them get their faith centered in Him to know that our religion of Christ and the Bible is not some fictitious book, or some ... a book like the Koran, or some other book. It's a living Book with a living Christ. It's a living church. God grant that He will do it.

61 Now, I forgot to... Prayer cards. Did you give out prayer cards? Okay. How many? One hundred and what? What's the letter? "I." All right. Let's start with number 1 then. Who has prayer card number 1? Raise up your hand right quick now. We'll call the prayer line. 1, all right. "I" I believe, did someone...? All right, "I" then. "I" number 1. I think there's some more letters out, but we'll start with "I" then. "I" number 1. Who has it? Raise up your hand. The lady back there. Come here, lady. Number 2, would you raise your hand?
Look at your neighbor now while I call their number. They may be deaf, can't hear; or they may be crippled can't walk. And so, number 1, number 2, raise up your hand quickly if you will. Prayer card number 2, would you raise your hand quickly? You have it, lady? The colored lady there, is it number 2? Number 1. I-1? Now, there can't be two I-1's here. Billy, you'd better check the lady's card.

62 All right. Number 2 then. Who has number 2? Raise up your hand? Up in the balcony? That boy? All right, sonny, come right here. Number 3, would you raise your hand up high so I can see you? Number 3, the man here. All right. Right out there, sir. Number 4? Would you raise your hand quickly? You have it, lady? Number 5? All right. Number 5, here, lady. 6? 7? 8? Raise your hand. 8? Prayer card number 8, raise your hand, please. All right. 9? All right. 10? 11?
Just raise your hand real quick. We can get them up here quick, if you'll just be quick. Look at your card. Look at your neighbor's card. Look around and see somebody with a card in their hand. Look at it. Look at this little boy here. Has he got a card? I see he couldn't walk. Has he got a card? Has it ever been called yet? All right. Just watch his card. All right.
Number, I believe, that's 7 or 8; 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15. Let those get up and come. See if they can all get there, 'cause if they lose their number, why, that doesn't mean now for any other purpose but just to keep you lined up, my dear friend.

63 How many here doesn't have a prayer card and you believe Jesus Christ will make you well? Let's see your hands. And you believe Him. Anywhere, I don't care where you are. Just believe it. All right. Now, while they're watching the line there to line up. I believe I called 15. All right. Was 15 my last number? All right. Now, see if they've got there, and then we will... All right.
Look. If Jesus Christ has raised from the dead, the Bible said in Hebrews 13:8, let's quote it together: "Jesus Christ, the same yesterday, today, and forever."
Now, what was the sign that He was Jesus Christ in the New Testament, foretold by the Old Testament, and produced, or made manifest, in the New Testament? Would you like to know? All right. We'll just take a couple, just a little bit here.

64 When a Jew found Him, in the Jewish religion, a real true Orthodox Jew found Him, He recognized Him to be the Son of God, the King of Israel. What did Jesus do to make Him recognize that He was the Son of God? He told him that he was a believer, and an honest man, and told him that he saw him praying under a tree before he come. How many knows that's right? And what did the Jew say? "Thou art the Son of God. You're the King of Israel." Is that right? That's what he said.
Peter recognized it when he come and Peter said... Brought him before the Lord and Jesus said, "Your name is Simon, and your father's name is Jonas, but," said, "I'm going to name you again. I'm going to call you Petra," which means "a little stone." I wonder what the apostle thought.
"How did He know who I was, and what my name was, and what my daddy's name was?"
And when ... He knew that this Hebrew had come from around the mountain, and the day before, Jesus said, "I saw you under a tree." How could He see him thirty miles around behind the mountain? But He saw him, as He said, "I can do nothing except the Father shows Me first. What I see the Father do, that I do also." That was the sign of the Messiah. Is that right?

65 Is the little boy there the first patient? Oh, you are. Come here just a minute. Here's another illustration. Here's a man and a woman standing here, for the newcomers. Now, there was a sign of this, one time in the Bible. There was a woman who recognized Him to be the Christ, in the Bible. She was a Samaritan, and one day Jesus was going down to Jericho, but the Father told Him, "Go up to Samaria." Now, here's Jericho. Here's Jerusalem, and over there's Samaria. So going to Jericho He went the round-about way, way up here to Samaria, for He said He had need. He said He did nothing till the Father showed Him.

66 Now, watch. He sits down on the well, and He sends the disciples away. That's perhaps what His vision called for. Would you believe that? He did nothing till the Father showed Him. Well, when the woman... When all of them went away, a woman come out. We believe her to be a prostitute, a woman of ill-fame, about noontime. She come out to get a jug of water, and when she got the jug up, got her water ... perhaps starting to lift it up on her head, Jesus, a middle-aged Hebrew man, sitting over to one side, said, "Bring Me a drink."
Well, she looked around and said, "It's not customary for you Jews to ask Samaritans such. We don't have any dealings with each other."
He said, "But if you knew who you were talking to, you'd ask Me for a drink, and I'd give you water you don't come here to draw."
And she said, "Well, you've got nothing to draw with." She said, "Now, we know that our father, Jacob, dug this well, and he gave it to us, and his cattle drank from it. And you mean you're greater than our father, Jacob?" She said, "We worship in this mountain and you say at Jerusalem."

67 And the conversation went on at length, Him and her talking together. And finally when He caught her spirit, He said, "Go get your husband and come here."
She said, "I don't have any husband."
Said, "That's right. You've got five, and the one you've got now is not yours, so you said well." Is that what He said? Now, watch what she said.
She said, "Sir, I perceive that You are a prophet." Now, what is a prophet's spirit. What I talk about the big diamond last night with the many glistening lights off of it. God is a main, and these are just gifts out of God: prophets, teaching, evangelists, it's just lights from God. "I perceive that You are a prophet, 'cause You didn't know me. You wouldn't know what my trouble was, and that's my trouble. But we know that when the Messiah cometh..."
Do you believe Jesus was the Messiah, the One that's the same yesterday, today, and forever? But watch this Samaritan woman. See what the Hebrew recognized Him that.
She said, "When the Messiah cometh, He'll tell us all things. We know that He'll do these things when He comes, but who are You?
He said, "I am He that speaks to you."

68 And she dropped the pot and run into the city and said, "Come, see a man," she said, "that told me all things." Now, He didn't do that. He just told her one thing, but if the Father would've showed Him more, He'd have told her more; but she was all excited. It would excite you. And she wanted to tell the men, "Come here. Let me show you. Here ... here's the man told me the things that I done. Come. Isn't this the very Messiah?"
In other words, "Gentlemen of this city, don't you recognize that that's the sign of the Messiah, and He's sitting out there at the gate." There you are, see. "He's sitting out there. Come, see."
And they went out to find out. He never done anything like that to them, but His talk. He was right with the Scripture, and they knowed that that was the Messiah. So He didn't do any more miracles because He knowed that Philip was going down there to hold that revival after Pentecost, see. So He just let the miracle alone till Philip come down.

69 Now, notice. Now, if that was the sign ... if that was the works and the sign of the Messiah yesterday, and if He's raised from the dead, it's the sign of the Messiah tonight, if He is the same yesterday, today, and forever. Is that right? Now, how many would believe that? Would your raise you hand if you'd say I've actually... All over the church, no matter who you are, you'd believe? All right.
Now, some didn't raise your hand, but, of course, you wouldn't believe anyhow, see. So if an Angel rose from ... a man rose from the dead, Jesus said, and would come back, they still wouldn't believe it. Is that right? You're just fulfilling prophecy, because no matter if one did raise from the dead, and if He did raise from the dead, and this night in this church, that Scripture that Jesus said is fulfilled: "Though one raise from the dead, they would not believe it." And He's raised from the dead and proving Himself to be here and still you don't believe it.

70 Now, have faith and believe. Now, the lady, I suppose, to me is a stranger that I never seen in my life. We're strangers, are we, lady? Now, if that's right, raise up your hand. I never seen the lady in my life, knowingly. God knows that. I know nothing of her, and it's a hard matter. I'm going to ask the sister if she will chord, "Abide With Me" softly, if you will.
Now, let me say this. I felt warned to say it. What happens to unclean spirits when they go out of a person? They try to find a place to get into; and in the Bible times, did they go into unbelief? They sure did, and we've seen it happen thousands of times.
Now, this woman standing here, I don't know her. She might be here as a deceiver. If she is, watch what happens to her; and if she's here for sickness, I pray God will heal her. If she's here for finances, whatever it is, if she's a woman that owes a great debt, and they're going to foreclose on her, I pray God give her the money. If she's got domestics affair, I pray that God will help her. I don't know. God alone knows.
But if she's standing here, and if I could do something for the lady and wouldn't do it, then what kind of a person would I be as a minister? I wouldn't be worthy to be called a minister. You believe that, lady? But I couldn't do nothing for you, lady.

71 But now, I'm going to change this picture now. Just take yourself back in the Bible time and say... Now, like that scene I was just talking about, the Christ at the well. Now I'm not the Christ, and she's not the Samaritan, but it's a man and a woman again that never met before.
And now, if He's raised from the dead and will do the same things that He did when He was here on earth, He would know you. If it's for sickness, He would know what your sickness was. He could tell you that, but to heal you, He couldn't. He's already did it at Calvary. It would be your faith, and then it would be your personal faith in His resurrection, and His benefits for You at Calvary, and His resurrection for your justification. Do you believe that? You do.
And if God in heaven will send down His Spirit... And the only things I can do, lady, is just surrender myself to Him. And He has to do the talking, 'cause I don't know nothing about you. And if He will speak and tell me what you're here for (Now, you know what it is.), or something like He did in the Bible, would you believe it to be Him? You know... And the audience, would you believe it?
Now, here we are, not in a dark room. We're here before at least a thousand people. And it's been done before five hundred thousand people. See? But not some dark room, some witchcraft, and muttering, and guessing. It's God Almighty. He's permitting His blessings to come to us, see.

72 What is a soothsayer? What is a fortuneteller? It's a perverted spirit, that the devil has taken that person who could've been used for God and perverted it into the devil's work. What is sin? It's righteousness perverted, not nothing the devil created, something different. It's what God created, and the devil perverted it, see.
Now, I trust that He'll help you, lady. Now, you'd know it would be some kind of... It'd have to be a supernatural, wouldn't it? Then whatever it would be would determine what you'd get from it---your approach. When the woman that went to Elijah to ask about her baby... If she'd come up there critical, she'd have never got what she asked for.

73 The Roman soldier that put a rag around Jesus' head, and hit him, and said, "Tell us who hit you." He didn't get anything, not even an answer. But the woman that touched His garment, she got an answer, didn't she? It was her approach (see), and it's your approach and anybody else's approach; and it's my approach to Him. If I said I did this within myself, I'd be telling a lie, see. So I approach and tell God. It's Him permitting me to do this, and it's not for my sake. No, sir.
I keep my meetings little and like that to keep from even having big meetings and things. I don't have radio, television. I just let it go, see. 'Cause I don't want to be something in the picture of the world. I want to be God's servant to speak when He tells me to speak, see. And say what He says say, that when I come there that day, I want to hear Him say, "It was well done." That's what I want to hear. That's what I live for. If it wasn't for that, I wouldn't have my little babies and things sitting down yonder tonight and crying for me, see. I'd be down there with them. I'm here to try to help somebody, for the glory of God.

74 Now, you say, "Brother Branham, what are you doing?" I'm speaking to you like Christ spoke to the woman, and now if Christ will grant it, may He do it.
I can see the lady, as she's... As our Master said, He saw him under a tree. That was Nathanael, and I can see her standing weeping. She's suffering with kind of a real nervous condition and her head bothers her all the time. That is right, and it was some sort of a shock that did that, but I see you weeping. You're... Oh, it was ... your husband has just deceased and went home. That's right.
You're not from this country. You've come from another state here. You're from a state where there's a lot of hardwood trees. It's Pennsylvania. That's right. God bless you, my sister, and God bless you, my believing audience. Let us pray.
Our heavenly Father, Daniel said of old, "There is a God of heaven that can reveal the secrets of the heart." And truly it was no other than the Lord Jesus who stood in the fiery furnace with the Hebrew children, that was in the den ... a light standing there. And those lions was afraid of that pillar of fire, the Angel of the Lord. And You're a light today, bringing light to Your church to walk in.
And I pray, Father, that You'll bless this woman and give to her the desire of her heart. Grant it, Father. I bless her as Your servant and Thou has said, "Whatever you bind on earth, I will bind it in heaven," and God, I ask that the devil be bound and will torment this woman no more, and may she go in peace in Jesus Christ's name. Amen.
God bless you, lady. Whatever it was your desire is... 'Course I'd have to find the tape to know what it was. Go and believe you receive it, and you shall have it. Do you believe? All right. Be reverent.

75 Now, in the audience, are you believing, you out there that's praying? A little boy, A little laddie, I sure don't know you, and you look like a fine looking little fellow to me. Little hair slicked down, little brown eyes, reminds me of my Billy when he was little. This little lad here, a dear little child; you know Jesus of Nazareth took little fellows like that into his arms, and He blessed them and said, "Suffer little children to come to me. Forbid them not, for of such is the kingdom."
So therefore if Jesus... Do you love Jesus, do you, sonny? And if He was here tonight and had on this suit that He gave me, He would ... I believe He would bless you, if you'd ask Him to, and He would give you the desire of your heart, I believe.
But the first thing He would ask you, if you believed that He was the Messiah, that He had died for you and had rose again. Don't you believe that? Well now, Jesus went up into heaven---His body, corporal body. That's the body He lived in, and it's all scarred and bruised for our sins and for our sickness, and it sets on the throne of God; and the Spirit that was upon Him has come back to the earth, and it dwells among the people. And Jesus sent Brother Branham here to help you to believe on Him.

76 Now, if Jesus was here, He could tell you what was your trouble, couldn't He? Well, you know Brother Branham don't know you, but Jesus does know you, because you said you loved Him, and He loves you. Now, if He will tell me what you're here for, will you believe it's Him, and will love Him and believe Him with all your heart?
Now, with this little innocent child, surely you people would believe, wouldn't you? Now this, if God will do it, should be convincing to everyone. This child, little innocent boy standing here. I don't know what he's here for. He might be here for somebody else. I don't know. Maybe it's some kind of trouble he has got at home or some... I don't know. I don't know what he's here for, but God does know the child.

77 Now, I certainly would hate to stand here as a deceiver to that child. I certainly would; but I only stand here God permit me to help the little fellow to love the Lord Jesus and believe in Him. And surely you adults ought to believe. But you know, the Bible said in one place over there, that in the great Millennium, talking about the innocence, like a little child would lead the animals around. That's simple-like little faith. Now, the little boy is not one of those critics that would stand off. He just opens his little heart. That's the reason Jesus could come in.
The little boy is in a bad, serious condition. The little boy's trouble is in his ear. That's right, isn't it, sonny? It's your ear. It runs, running ear, and I see that they're making ready for an operation for you right away for that. That's right. Right away you're going to have it. They're going to operate on you, and Mommy, your mother, is sick too. Isn't she? And she has something wrong with her blood. Isn't it? It's a poisoning in her blood, like something similar to gangrene in her blood. The doctor's pretty well shook up about it. That's right. That's right, isn't it, son?

78 You're not from here. You're not from Brooklyn. You're from a place called Long Island. Isn't that right? And you live like a place called Bayshore. That's right. And your name, your first name is Joseph. Isn't it? Your last name is like ... starts with a "B." B-E-N-T. That's your first beginning of your word. Isn't it? Huh? B-E-T-T... I see. It fades from me just a moment. It passed from me. Somebody turned in the building, and I didn't get just what his last name was. B ... Cortt. That's right. That's right. Isn't it? That's right. Amen. You believe? Now, it's up to you, friends, whether you believe or not. Come here, sonny.
God in heaven, have mercy on the child. Excuse all the unbelief, Lord, and let Thy mercies rest upon the child, and grant that this child will receive exactly what he come for, as I bless him in Jesus Christ's name. Amen. God bless you, honey.

79 Now, you know that Brother Branham don't know you, but whatever was said on there. It's on the record there. That was truth, wasn't it? If it was, raise up your little hand like that. All right. Go on your road rejoicing now and be happy and make a real good man.
Are you believing? Or would you still sit in gross darkness and unbelief, seeing that the Messiah lives with you tonight, trying to help you, trying to bless you. How sad it is. How dense unbelief is.

80 Is this the man? How do you do, sir? I suppose we're strangers to each other. We're strangers. I don't know you. Never seen you in my life, but there's Someone present here who does know you. And if He knows you, then He could, if He would permit me to, to be able to help you somewhere, sir.
I don't know you. But, if He could tell me what you're standing here in front of me for, would you believe it and accept it as Christ trying to help you, permitting me to do this by a divine gift, which was ministered by an Angel of God? It would be... It wouldn't be contrary to the Scripture, would it? It would be with the Scripture.
You're very nervous, aren't you, sir? Nervous, and you got weak eyes that you want prayer for. Isn't that right? You got weak eyes. And by the way, you're a preacher too, and I hear you say something, like "Gracias." You speak Spanish or something. That's right. You're a pastor of a church. That's true. Isn't it?
Now, do you believe me? Here's another thing. A desire of your heart has been to meet me for a while. That's right. I'm not reading your mind, but that's your heart. That's right. Well, I'm glad to know you. God in heaven, grant to my brother who's standing in Your presence, our Creator, the Messiah, of God who we love. We pray that You'll give to our brother the desire of his heart and fulfill everything that he asked for in the name of Jesus Christ. Amen. God bless you, my dear brother. God bless you.

81 Have faith in God. Don't doubt. Believe. Now, just a moment. Be just as reverent as you can be. The lady. It's another picture again like the Bible picture. Do you believe that? There's a lady looking right up towards the heavens over there. She wears a little flower, a little thing on the side of her hat, kind of a greenish looking dress. That's you that shook your head just like that. You were praying and asking God for me to turn and tell you so you can be helped. Isn't that right? You've got trouble in your side. Isn't that right? Just raise your hand now if that's true. Now, you're helped. Your faith touched Him, not me. I don't know you.
I challenge you to believe it. Amen. In the name of the Lord Jesus just believe it and find out if it's right or not. Anywhere, up in the balcony, wherever you are; just have faith in God. Oh, what a feeling. Now, we don't go by the feeling, but His presence. Oh, how... It just looks like if you just ask anything, it'll be done. Just have faith and be reverent.

82 And now to you, lady. I suppose we're strangers to each other. We never met each other in life. I know nothing of you, and perhaps you know nothing of me, only just what you've read and being a minister. But you're here for some purpose; and if you're here for some purpose; I don't know what it is.
And, lady, I've got a mother at home tonight. I'd be home with my mother if I didn't think God sent me up here to New York, and I certainly wouldn't want to come here and tell you some false thing about myself, that I could do to help you. I wouldn't do that, because I'd be lying; but if God will permit me to, I might do something in His name that would help you to believe on the finished works of Christ, and receive it. Do you understand? I trust that you do, and that God will grant to you your desire.
If God will let me know what you want to ask God, like it was in prayer, if God will let me know, or maybe say what you've been praying about, your prayer. What's been in your heart... You think of something else if you think about telepathy, see. You just let God tell me what you've been praying about. Let it come through prayer, and you know whether you asked it or not. May He grant it, and that surely would take the superstition from the unbeliever.

83 You've been praying for God to help you of a severe nervous case you've been having. That's right. You've prayed for that both day and night. You're praying for a son also, and that son isn't here. He doesn't even live in this city, and that son is suffering with a heart condition. Not only that, but one of the other things you're praying for for him, He's not a Christian, and that's the thing that's on your heart.
However, I see another boy with you, and he's a kid about ten years old, and he's a preacher. And here, the one of your desires of your heart---you be the judge---you are wanting me to lay hands on that boy to bless that boy for his ministry. That's "thus saith the Lord." Do you believe? Now, you be the judge. Is that true?
Come here, sonny. The little boy's got his hair combed back, is it? I seen him, smooth-faced boy. Come here, sonny. Mother's prayer is to be answered tonight. God bless you, my little brother.

84 Our heavenly Father, I lay my hands upon this boy as Your little servant, and perhaps someday I'll have to leave if Jesus tarries, and I pray that You'll bless this child. It's the desire of his mother's heart. And I pray that You'll anoint him. May he never go into error, but may he be a minister all the days of his life, to preach the Gospel and to win souls to Thee.
Bless his dear mother and the other things whatever it was that You revealed tonight that she has need of. I pray that You'll grant them, and with my hand on the son and on the mother, I pray that, in Christ's name, that You'll give to them the desire of their heart, in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ I ask it. Amen.
God bless you, sonny, and receive what you called for, and God bless you; and God bless you, mother, and give to you the desire of your heart. Go happy, rejoicing. The promise is yours. Amen. God bless you, honey. If thou canst believe, all things are possible. Now, real reverent just a moment, as we're moving along in the meeting.

85 Now, how many knows the lady? Is anybody here knows the woman? Sure. All right. You know I don't know the lady. Ask her if I ever knowed her or anything. Knowed nothing of her, but whatever it was, the only way I know it's on this recorder down here. It's a vision. It's Christ permitting you all to know that He's raised from the dead. This is not some fiction. It's the truth.
Now, here is a lady standing here before me, like another place that the Lord to a woman, and where I believe... Was there a man in the line tonight? Say that man just was told him. What kind of a man was it? Was it a man in the line tonight? You, sir? Was you the man that was in the line prayed for? All right. Now, when the Lord spoke to you, why, He knew you just like He knowed that honest, sincere, religious man called Nathanael. And He knowed something about Nathanael, where Nathanael was, or what Nathanael done, and He knows the same thing about you. See? He can reveal it.

86 Now, here's a woman. He knows the woman. I don't know the lady. I've never met you in my life. There's not a way for me to know you. But now, if the Lord Jesus will speak again, will it take all the superstitions and doubt from you? Now, remember, He's permitting this. This is His grace to you and to me (see), by permitting a divine gift to operate. Not me. I don't have one thing to do with it, just my mouth is all, and my surrender ... my will surrendered to His. That's all it is. You are the one that's doing it, not me. God's permitting it, but you're doing it.
Now, if I don't know you, never seen you. Then if there's something you're standing here for, God can reveal it to me. Can't He? And if He will, would you believe it come---His permitting will ---to help you? Would the rest of the audience believe the same? Does anyone know the lady? Would you raise your hand anybody that knows her? Yes, there's people here that know her, all around. Then you be the judge whether I know her or any way of knowing her. She's just a lady standing here, but do you believe Christ knows her?

87 Now, Christ loves everybody, and He wants everybody to love Him, and this is His kindness to you, that You might love Him, and believe Him, and have faith in His finished works for you.
Now, be real reverent. I know it's getting late, but if you'll just stand for just one more, and don't move around, I'll appreciate it, see. You are a spirit. If you wouldn't, you'd be dead, and your spirit sometimes when unbelief becomes so dense, it hinders. You remember Jesus Christ. Well, you say, "Brother Branham, that's psychology." Is it? Then why did Christ take the man out of the multitude to heal him? Then why did Christ put all the unbelievers out of the house before He could raise Jairus' daughter? See, the eye is the gate to the soul, and when you're looking this way, and classing it something else, as I know you are---some---see. Then that's a hindrance. God be merciful to your unbelief, see.

88 Now, but, lady, as I say, you and I standing here, it's for your good. Christ would bypass the critics to get to you. That's right. You believe that. Now, I don't know you. Never seen you. Know nothing of you, but I know that there's a shadow at you. It's evil, and you're very nervous, upset, and you're worried in your mind, because I see you under an operation. I believe it's up in this way in the breast. It's removing of a growth, and it hasn't done very good; but, lady, Christ knows all about this. That's true, wasn't it? I just want to look at you again. I seen it, and I just want to see. You say, "Look at me?" Yes.
Elijah said to Jehoshaphat and the King, he said, "If it wasn't I respected the presence of Jehoshaphat, I wouldn't even look at you," see. And that means look to see what he could see for him.

89 Christ is the healer. The doctors has failed, but Christ is the healer, sister. You're a desiring little woman. Your heart desires. You want to do right and live right. It's in your heart. You've give birth recently to a baby, but this disease struck you after the baby was born. That's right. Just so that you'd know that I be His prophet: You belong to a church: the Baptist. He loves the Baptists too.
Now, do you believe that His words are true saying, "These signs shall follow them that believe: If they lay their hands on the sick, they shall recover."? Will you covenant that, with you and I tonight before God, that God will spare you? Will the audience pray with me for the lady? Would you come here, sister dear?

90 Our kind heavenly Father, as this dear, little mother stands here desperately in need, and she's made her way against the oppositions, but she's come tonight asking for a blessing; and, O Jesus, the Son of God, I pray, all that I know how, the prayer of faith for our sister. And may I speedily hear from her that the enemy has departed from her, and that she is on her way to recovery.
Thou demon, yes, you escaped the doctor's knife, but you can't escape God's power. As the servants of God, we adjure thee in the name of Jesus Christ to leave the woman and come out of her, that she may be well for the glory of God. This we ask in Jesus Christ's name. Amen.
I want you to write to me. Now, you're going to get sicker in a few days. Just real upset, you see. If it dies, your bloodstream's got to purify that, and it's just a dead growth laying there. You get real upset, but don't lose your faith. Stay right with it. Write to me in about two or three weeks. God bless you. Let us say, "Thanks be to God."

91 Now, look. Here's a lady here. That you might get that out of your mind, and so that you'd know it's not a telepathy. Lay your hand over on mine, lady. Just as a way of... All right. I don't know you, do I? I'm looking this way. I'm not reading your mind. If God will reveal to me what your trouble is, will you accept it, and believe that Christ will make you well? If it's true, you'll know. You have a female disorder that God wants ... that you want God to heal. It's got a drainage to it; it's the bathroom; and you know that's right, you know no one is in there but you and God alone, and it's a female disorder.
If that is right, take your hand off of mine and raise it up. See, you think it's telepathy. You don't even know what telepathy is, see. All right, sister. Your faith saved you. Now, go on your road and rejoice. Amen.

92 Do you believe out there in the audience? Just a minute. I want to ask you something. I challenge your faith. Jesus was touched one time by a woman, and a woman that touched Him, He turned, and she denied touching Him, but He knew her anyhow, and He told her about her what had happened. Now, the Bible says... I'm trying to make this---if God will permit it---just as Bible days.
Now, the Bible said that Jesus is the same today. Is that right? Well, if He is the same, He's the same in principal, power, everything that He was. Is that right? And can we...
Does the Bible say that He is our High Priest? Is that right? And the Bible says that He could be touched by the feeling of our infirmities. Is that right? Not then, now. Well, if He has already paid the price (Now, watch. Don't let the Bible contradict itself.) ... If He has already paid the price for redemption (remember) and the healing is complete (Now listen, scholars.)... If healing has been completed, and the Bible said He is sitting at the right hand of God the Father as an intercessor upon our confession, and He can be touched by the feeling of our infirmities, how would He help us? Now, solve that one out, will you?
If He's already finished the work, and He can be touched by the feeling of our infirmities, what takes place? It's His revelation returning it back like we see now, proving that He's raised from the dead. Look and live. Believe as we look over the audience everywhere. Take away your unbelief and be reverent. Just be reverent.

93 You without prayer cards again, put up your hands everywhere you are. I'm asking God for something. Everywhere... Well, it'd be ... I guess it'd be everywhere. All right. Just bow your heads, or just pray. Look this way. Pray, whatever you want to, it doesn't matter. I cannot... It takes Him and your faith. Your faith can touch Him. That's the only way I know. I don't know a soul out there. I just wait for Him as you pray.
Yes, I see the light, the pillar of fire, as I call it, that followed the children of Israel, is standing over a lady with her hand up, from the ill effects from an operation. Isn't that right, lady? Sitting right out there on the end of the row. Do you believe? You had an operation, didn't you? And you're suffering from an ill effects. If that's right, raise up your hand. That's right, lady. Do you believe me to be God's servant? You do?

94 What about the colored lady sitting next to you? Would you stand up a minute, lady, the colored lady sitting next to her? Do you believe me to be God's servant? Just to contact your spirit (You see); you don't have to be up here. So that you'd know, that the calling in the prayer line, whether you're here or there makes no difference. Would you like to get over that intestinal trouble and be made well? Do you believe that God would heal you of that intestinal trouble that you have? If that's right, raise up your hand. All right. Be seated and believe on the Lord.
The lady next to her, what do you think, lady? Could you touch His garment? There's a white lady sitting next to her. Do you believe with all your heart? God heals diabetes the same as He heals anything. Do you believe that? With all your heart? That's right, sit down and receive your healing.

95 What about you lady sitting next to her? Do you believe with all your heart? Raise up. That's right. Do you believe me to be God's prophet, servant of God. All right. You got sinus, head trouble, your head. That's right, isn't it? Sit down; receive your healing in Christ's name. I want to ask you something. Your husband sitting next to you there. How would I know he is your husband? But I see you together at your home. Stand up, sir. You want to be healed? You think Christ can heal heart trouble and make you well too? If you do, raise up your hands. That's what you had. Go home and be well in Christ's name. Do you believe? Do you believe that the risen Christ is here?
I'm going to ask you something right now. My mind is changed on something. I want to know how many here that's a sinner and wants God to save you? It's time for you to come to the altar. You backslider and cold, lukewarm church member, your place is at the altar before the judgment of God strikes you. I call you to the altar. Everyone of you that's cold and indifferent, and wasn't able to meet Christ, and you without the Holy Ghost, and if God will hear my prayers and point things out to me here, He's pointing to me and you tonight that you're in need of Him, and you know who you are. All over the building, if God will hear my prayer and open the eyes of the blind, make the deaf to hear and the dumb to speak, surely He will hear my prayer for your spiritual condition.

96 And now while we bow our heads for a moment of prayer. I'm going to ask every person in here that desires these things from God to move up here before me here, so I can pray for you, so I can single you out instead of sitting way back in the crowd. I'm asking you in Christ's name to do it, while our sister will play, if she will, "Almost Persuaded" while we bow our heads.
Our heavenly Father, why You want me to do this, I don't know, but something, there may be somebody here at the end of the road. I know You're never wrong. You're always right. And the Angel of the Lord seems to speak into my heart and say, "You stand here. I will give you strength, And You call this altar call. And don't commit it to the pastor tonight, but you call it."
And Lord Jesus, I'm doing just as You have bid me. And You know every one in here. You speak to their heart now, when they know that the risen Lord Jesus, the One they'll stand before at the judgment, is right here now, and bring ever sinner and every backslider to the altar.
And may the lukewarm church member, and those who have the cold confession, and they recognize that it's You here, and not a man, not Your servant; but it's the God of heaven who is here. The critic, and all, may they come and repent right now, and call for mercy, while we're praying, Father. Grant it in Christ's name.

97 With our heads bowed, we're going to sing one verse of "Almost Persuaded." Every Christian praying. The rest of you make your way here quickly, because it's not me doing this. This is the Holy Spirit, the work of Him.
Almost persuaded (I call. Do you need the... God bless you. That's right. Yield right now in the line...)
Almost persuaded, Christ to receive; (Just bow right where you are. Just come right down the aisle.)
Now some soul to... (... God dealing... Just make your way right down. We'll wait for you. Come right on. You know you're needy.)
Some more convenient day, On Thee I'll call.
Come, won't you? Christians, if you're in good standing with God, good fellowship, pray now. You never seen Him do this before. I was stopped by the Holy Spirit. Something said there's people in here that'll be lost if you don't call tonight. Maybe it's yourself... The anointing just dropped off of me all at once and the altar call come onto me. It's God. Come on to the altar.
No matter who you are, you're in the Presence of God. He's speaking to your heart. Now, He's the One doing the talking. He was just talking here with me awhile ago. He's there with you, talking now. That's Him.

98 Father God, may not one fail. This may be the last time they'll be able to make a decision. May they come, humbly, sweetly, to Christ tonight.
Every saint of God be desperate in prayer. God seeks the eternal destination of the soul, just now.
Come. Come. All things are ready. Come, whosoever will, let them come and drink from the water, the Fountain of Life, freely. Come, church member. Come, businessman. Come, backslider; come to the Lord. Come, sinner friend. Whosoever will, let him come.
God bless you, young man. Just what you was supposed to do. You're the one I pointed to in the balcony. I'm glad that God spoke to your heart so definite that you had to come. There's a blessing for you tonight, the rest...
Once more...
Almost pers... (Come on now. As a servant of the Lord, I ask to come.)
Almost persuaded, Christ to receive;
Seems now some soul to say, Go, Spirit, go Thy way,
Some more convenient day, On Thee I'll call.
A lot more of them are needing to come... right now. His resurrected power setting here, moving out in the audience and telling the people just like He did when He was here on earth. And now He's left me. He said, "You make the altar call. You so much...
I'm going now to call out there. You just give the invitation." I'm obedient to Him. I'm giving the invitation; it's Him speaking to you. He isn't right here with me now. He's out there with you, calling you.
Once more. All right, brother. Once more. Everyone pray now. All right.
Almost persuade... (All right. Come right... you are...)
Today;
Almost persuaded, turn not away:
Jesus invites you here, Angels are lingering near,
Prayers raise from hearts so dear, O wand'rer come.

99 While a calming, sacred quality in the church just now... I seldom ever seen that done. Right here at the closing of this meeting in the church, and the Holy Spirit dropped right from that healing line right out over here. Look swarmed around this altar here. God knows what He's doing. It's better... Obedience is better than sacrifice, and hearkening to the fats of lambs. God making His call, maybe there's someone in their final call. How do I know? Here's young ladies, young children, old gray headed, white, brown, colored, yellow, all different kinds of people bowed around this altar here with their hearts bleeding out to God. They're convinced that Christ is raised from the dead and the great white throne judgment is just before us, in your Presence now. Confess your sins and they'll go on before you and not bother you in the judgment.
I want ministers, if they will, especially in the church, no matter what denomination you're from, I want you to come stand around these people here. Let the ministers come right around them while we're going to pray. And I believe that God tonight's going to do something that you've never seen done. Wonderful. Just look at the clergy coming, would you, to be--pray with them.
God grant that every one of them be saved, filled with the Holy Ghost: God's blessings resting upon them. May they anointed.

100 Now, you be real reverent while the rest of them are coming. Don't be leaving. If you can, possibly helping just to wait a minute. I promised to pray for these people. I keep my promise. I know God... prayer line what would happen. He told me to make this.
Now while we bow our heads, every Christian, ministers and all, stand around now. Soul, did you come because God has bid you come? "He that cometh to Me I will in no wise cast out. I'll give him everlasting life and raise him up at the last day." That's God's promise. The same Holy Ghost that called you here, is right with you now. And when we pray, you ought to confess everything you've done that's wrong. And if you desire the Holy Spirit, raise your hand to Him and believe that God gives It.
I want you pastors passing by, laying hands on them. And may God pour out His Spirit here like a rushing mighty wind and fill every person setting here, and an old fashion revival break out among the people...
Almighty God, the Author of Life, the Giver of every good gift, send Thy blessings upon this people. God, I pray that You'll dismiss every sin, every unbelief, and let the Holy Ghost come into their hearts just now and reign supremely. And may every sin be remitted. I stand in the breach for the people. I ask...

Abraham

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1 Let us remain standing just a moment. I was sorry to be a little late tonight, but I was in the emergency room out there, and I was delayed a little. So before we sit down, I'd like to read a scripture here found in Genesis, to finish up the subject that I started last evening. In Genesis 22, we read this from the seventh verse:
And Isaac spake unto Abraham his father, and said, My father: and he said, Here am I, my son. And he said, Behold the fire and the wood: but where is the lamb for a burnt-offering?
And Abraham said, My son, God will provide himself a lamb for a burnt-offering: so they both ... went together.
And the fourteenth verse again:
And Abraham called the name of the place Jehovah-jireh: as it is said to this day, In the mouth of the Lord shall it be seen.
Let us bow our heads now, just a moment as we approach the author of this Word in prayer.

2 Most gracious Father, we are glad tonight that Abraham's God is our God, that we are His children by the promise through Jesus Christ. Then He's just the same tonight to His children as He was to father Abraham; for what He was to Abraham, the blessings do not promise only Abraham, but also his children after him. And when that great and mighty One came, that mighty child, the Lord Jesus, He was offered for sins, for our sins, that we might through His righteousness become the children of Abraham, which is the children of God by promise.
Now, Father, we pray that You'll give us tonight the faith that Abraham had. And as we speak of the Word, may the Holy Spirit confirm all that You have written. And may when we leave here tonight, after this prayer line is over, start to our different homes, may we say like those who came from Emmaus, "Did not our hearts burn within us, as He spake to us along the way?" Let Him do tonight the things that He did before His crucifixion, that this Emmaus tonight might know that He has raised from the dead. And quickly, we will go telling others, "Truly the Lord has risen from the dead, and has appeared to us here in Yakima." We ask it in Jesus Christ's name. Amen. You may be seated.

3 There are many are laying handkerchiefs up here. I do offer prayer for them each night. I remember in South Africa ... one of the books, I believe it was written by Chaplain Julian Stadsklev. He wrote the book, I believe, Prophet Visits Africa. And they had several big burlap sacks across the platform, laid full of mail. And the editor of the paper The Reporter said, "Brother Branham is very superstitious." Said, "He was praying over cloths." They just ... they never heard of it, you see? And, of course, that is part of the gospel. That's something that God has promised that He blessed. And we have a chain of prayer around the world for these cloths. Some people gets up at twelve o'clock, some three o'clock in the morning, and we all travel and pray according to eastern standard time. We send those out from the Tabernacle around the world. People get up, praying for the others---not for themselves, for others---and others are praying for them, like we do here at night. And I tell you, you ought to see the testimonies that come in of the great things the Lord has did.

4 Just speaking last night in the emergency room, there was a little German woman sent not long ago, and she got a prayer cloth, and on the ... it's a little piece of ribbon. I used to send a handkerchief. But when they got too many, I couldn't do that; so I just get hundreds of yards of ribbon, set down praying over it, send it to the sick and afflicted. And this little German woman, she got the instructions, and they interpreted to it her what it was in Germany, how that first call your pastor. And if your pastor can't come, some good Christian out of the neighborhood, or some member of your family. Confess all your wrongs, if you have any. Pray.
Take this little piece of cloth, and pin it on the underneath garment. Lay your hands upon it, and tell God that you'll serve Him the rest of your life, if He will let you get well. And then, when you do that, then each hour at the old sacrificial hours, at nine o'clock, twelve o'clock, and three in the afternoon eastern standard time, that's when I'm praying at the same time. And we go around the clock like that, and around the world. And you just... God can't ignore that. All over the world, at the same minute, it's prayers, hundred and hundreds of people, blasting forth at one time.
And this little German woman put that upon her, and she called her neighbors, and her pastor; she'd had arthritis for twenty something years in a wheelchair. It was kind of cute, and sensitive, but she said, when she put that on there, said, "Now, Mr. Devil, you cannot hold me no longer, so just get out. Here I come." And out of the wheelchair she went, and away she went walking.
Just that simple. It's just that simple, faith is. And what I've taken these nights for, to speak on faith, is because people try to make faith complicated. It... God doesn't make it complicated, it's us that makes it complicated. We're going way out there, trying to get something way out there, and here it is, right here by us, simple. If you've got faith enough to walk across that floor, you faith enough for anything God promised. If you've got faith enough to raise up your hand, why, you've got faith enough for anything else. It's simple faith. Just apply it with the hyssop, that I've told you in the messages. Just take the blood and by simple faith... Just like you eat, drink, walk, drive your car, speak, or anything else, it's just that simple. But when you go to thinking, "Oh, can I do it? Can I do it?" See? Then you're going plumb away from the main thing. You've got to come back here to simple, child-like faith, just to believe God. Say, "God promised it. It's my profession. Christ died for it. And it's mine." And just go right ahead, and believe it, and don't think nothing else about it, just, "It's all right. It's all over." And you'll get well.

5 Now, I know that is the truth, because I have tried it. But now, if you've got unconfessed sin in your heart, it sure won't work. You've got to confess your sin. Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ; accept Him as your healer, just like you would as your Saviour.
They say, "Is divine healing lasting, Brother Branham?" Just as long as faith is lasting. When you get to a place that you say that you're not saved no more, remember, you're lost your ground right there. When your confession goes down, then your faith goes down.
And now, the first thing that Hebrews says this, that "Jesus Christ is a High Priest, making intercessions upon our confession." And before God could do one thing for you, you have to first confess that He has done it. He's the High Priest of our... 'Course the King James says, "professing," and profess and confess is the same word, see. Profess that it is, or confess that He is, see. Profess ... I profess I'm a Christian, or confess I'm a Christian. Makes no difference.
And then, and the woman touching His garment, it said, "Thy faith has saved thee."

6 Now, these Greek scholars here would tell you that that word there in the Greek is sozo, which means just exactly like "saved physically" or "saved spiritually," the same in translation. Sozo---thy faith has "sozo," saved thee. Thy faith saves thee from hell. Thy faith saved thee from death. Thy faith saved thee from sickness. See? It's sozo, the same word. So the same faith that you have in God for your salvation, is the same faith you use for your healing. Just simple. Believe it; act upon it. Doesn't take any sensations; it doesn't take anything in the world but just common faith. You don't have to feel nothing. You don't have to... Only thing you have to do is believe something. Believe that Jesus died that you might be saved, and it's yours. Faith is so simple.

7 The other day there was some ... I was walking around, and there was some minister setting out under a tree. The Holy Spirit said to me, "Go talk to him." I went over there, and his wife come out, and a group of people that had been here, and they couldn't get a prayer card, and didn't know there was an emergency room; they had to go back. See the grace of God?
And then, well, while I was there, the Holy Spirit came down, and begin to reveal all kinds of things. And them people begin weeping and going on. I said, "You brought an Indian with you. Where's that at?" And so I said, "The Indian's a little girl, and she had a fever, and it's paralyzed her brain."
And that man began to weep. He was a missionary to the Indians. And he said... I said, "Get the girl, we will pray for her." And I said, "Her father hasn't got money to stay another night."
That's what hurts me. I wonder how it ever happened. I'm going to have to change doing what I'm doing, because I don't get in contact with enough of the people through these visions.

8 The people in America, we've been taught too long, "We must lay hands on one another." And really, that's exactly what my calling was to do. The Angel of the Lord told me I was born to pray for sick people. It was me that questioned. Then He said, "By these signs, it would cause them to believe."
I said, "They wouldn't believe me. I'm uneducated, and they wouldn't believe me."
He said, "By this they have to believe, because you'll know the very thoughts of their heart."
Many times I wished, sometimes, I'd had something else; for many times I stand before people that's put their hands on my back and call me brother, and I know that's wrong. I've stood even with people that stay ... and say, "Oh, Brother Branham, I've got the Holy Ghost," and things like that; and know living with another man's wife, or some other woman's husband. Stand and have to swallow that when you know different, it cuts and hurts. Don't never covet it, don't never want it. You don't know what goes with it, see.

9 A good friend of mine, we was just sitting at a table, a minister. And I'd wrote to him, and he was fine man. I met him, and I was just sitting at a table eating one day, down in Louisiana, something happened. I looked across the table, and I wished I would not have done it. It's hurt me ever since. If I just wouldn't have done it. That's the reason I try to keep it away as much as possible, to keep from seeing it. I don't want to have that feeling. I want to believe that they love me anyhow, see. And you don't want to have it, and you don't realize what you have to battle against, knowing. And then, what someone says, and what someone means in their heart, sometimes is two different things. And you hate to know that, because I love people, and I want to love them with a true love, not knowing what they even think. But that don't make any difference, I want to love anyhow. And then ... but the more simpler we can get, the better off we will be.

10 I was just speaking of "Indian." I remember my first dealing with Indians. I promised the Lord, to this missionary, when I prayed for the little girl and sent her home, and said, "Lord, if You will let that child recover, I will go to the reservation."
I remember in Phoenix, the first time was out at San Carlos, the Apaches, first Indians I prayed for. I always felt sorry for Indians. They didn't get a very good deal. We know that. So that night at San Carlos, back many years ago, we'd went over there and we said, "Indian only."
And so they were out on their reservation, and oh, when the sun went down that afternoon, it was beautiful to see the ... all sitting on blankets, and so forth, standing and sitting. And I was in the little Assembly of God mission, out on the porch, one speaker and one interpreter. And that woman (they don't have any sentences or paragraphs or punctuations, the talk's kind of rough), and so

11 she was interpreting.
Then I went ahead, and I said, "Now, you people, I feel sorry for you," I said, "but I'm just one American." I said, "I don't think it was right to push you off out here in these places and so forth." I said, "I think it's one of the biggest stains that ever went on the flag." And I said, "How would we like if Japan had won the war, and push us off in a place like that? It wouldn't set very good. So ... and you live out here with TB and everything, half starved and everything else, and send millions over the seas for relief. And there we are. See?"
So, "Charity begins at home," says the Bible. And to a real American... Remember, we are not Americans. They are. God gave them this country. We come in over the top of them, took it away from them by power, pushed them off out in the desert somewhere, in the poorest of land. So that's... Give them a little pension or something another, about enough to feed one child. And I always felt sorry for them. My grandmother drawed the pension.

12 So then out there that night... A Indian's a strange person. He's like a mule; he won't eat out of a strange stall. So he sat there and looked around for awhile, and you could see him, head down. He will stand and listen at you, but you won't know or think he's listening at you, but he's taking in every word you're saying.
So when the service ... when I got through speaking, I said, "Now, I come to introduce to you Someone who'll give you the right deal. That's Jesus Christ." I said, "He loves you. And I'm here to represent Him. The government and so forth can represent the nation, but me," I said, "I come here to represent Him. And He will give you the right kind of a deal."
And then when I got through saying that, I said, "Now, all that want to be prayed for..." No need ... you couldn't give out prayer cards, because there was no way of lining them up. You just have to hold a little place over here, and let one come through as he would. So I said, "Now, all of you that wants to be prayed for, stand up."
Well, I'd left down at Phoenix with the Spanish people, and oh, my, it was horrible, how they would come in the line. Thousands of them. And then I said, "Now, the thing..." I said... And I looked, and I thought everybody would jump up and run. But there was no body jumped up and run. Everybody sat still. I said, "Did you say what I said?"
She said, "Yes, sir."
I said, "Say it again." I said, "Everybody that wants to be prayed for, come up the steps on this side, and cross this a way, with faith believing in Jesus Christ, what I've told you." And so nobody got up; everybody just sat perfectly still. Nobody got up at all.
And after a while the missionary went back into the room and brought out an Indian woman. Well, I turned around and looked behind me, which I had not yet, and they had all these little babies, in this little carrier they have on their back, you know, hanging along the wall. There was a bunch of women in there. Here come one woman coming through, you know, with this little baby. She looked at me, and I said, "Could I have a hold of your hand?" And great big wide wrist, and she looked at me a little bit, and I looked at her. And I said, "Now, the woman is suffering with a tubercular. And she has glaucoma of the eye also."
And the interpreter said that, and she turned and looked at me, "How'd you know that?" Prayed for her...

13 The next one come through. Not because immoral living, but the way she had to live, she had a venereal disease, unclean. But not immoral living. And she looked at me, and all them Indians then looked at one another.
The next was a little girl, and the mother was with her. And so I said, "The little girl had a fever, and in the fever it made her go deaf. She can neither speak nor hear. She's a mute." And when the interpreter said that to the mother, the mother nodded her head, "yes." And her father was one of the chiefs. And I took the little girl up in my arms, and I prayed for the little thing. Her little hair just as course as a horse's mane, you know. So I prayed for her, and set her down like that. I said, "Look here, sweetheart." I said, "Do you hear me?" I turned her head like that and [Brother Branham claps his hands] done like that, looked around. Them little black eyes looked around at me. I said, "She can hear, and I'm sure she can talk."
She went, "Blee-blah-blah," something or another like that.
"Oh," I said, "she will talk better than that."
And the interpreter said, "Her talk heap good now." So she was ready to ... all right.

14 So then the next was a little cross-eyed boy. Then the Indians begin to watch. Next one come out had his head down, kind of backward, his little Apache fat cheeks hanging out, hair hanging down in his eyes. And I said, "Now, the little lad, is it the boy wants to be prayed for?"
And the interpreter said, "Mother? Yes."
And I said, "Now, the little boy is cross-eyed." And so I said that, and the mother took that hand, and grabbed him by the nap of the head and pulled it back, and his little eyes setting in like that. And I said, "Let me have the little lad." And I had a piece of chewing gum in my pocket, and I handed it to him, and he held it, and looked at me kind of wild look. I picked him up in my arms, and I thought ... I said, "Don't interpret this."
I said, "Heavenly Father, please give me grace that I might lead these real Americans to [unclear words]," I said, "to the Holy Spirit, something that would give them peace, and take them home to glory. Let this little one's eyes be opened. I charge Satan to turn him loose."

15 I looked in front of me, I saw a vision of the little boy looking right at me this way, and his eyes just as right. The Indians just was sitting, looking. And I said, "Now, before I turn the little lad (he had his head laying on my shoulder), if this baby's eyes isn't straight, then I'm a false prophet. Run me off the reservation. If it is, how many will receive the Lord Jesus?" All of them throwed up their hands. I said, "What do you think, mother?" to the woman, like that.
And she blatted out something back to the interpreter. Said, "She said, 'If God could heal deaf and dumb, He could make eyes straight.'" Good philosophy. So I turned the little lad around; his eyes was straight as mine. Oh, my, you talk about a prayer line---we had a stampede. They was just coming everywhere. And I asked the interpreter. Said, "They thought first you were false, but they know now that it's true."

16 Just one more thing. There was a brother, Jack Moore. How many ever knowed Brother Jack Moore? You ministers from Shreveport, Louisiana, he was one of the Christian Businessmen. You know him. And perhaps many of you out there knows Brother Jack Moore from Shreveport? Yeah, look at the hands. He was with me, he and Brother Brown. And there's an old Indian mother was really next in line to come out here, but there was a little Indian boy, about eighteen, a little chunky fellow, he just pushed right in around the rest of them. And I had a prayer line plumb down to San Carlos, just all lined up there. Everybody wanted to be prayed for. So I couldn't make the little boy get back, and the interpreter couldn't make him get back, so the old woman was really next. And Brother Jack just caught him by the arms (Brother Jack's a pretty stout little man), just picked him up and set him back.

17 Well, next coming was an old Indian woman, looked to be about seventy-five years old, with broom sticks cut off for crutches, and rags wrapped around a stick that went over the part went over her arms. And she was holding herself like this in the door. And I motioned to her. And she put one stick out like that, and moved her foot, then the other one. I just took my time, and waited for her. And she come up close to where I was, and I thought, "What's the old lady going to do?" And I seen her hair hanging down, old leather platted in it, you know, and turning gray. I thought, "Poor old thing, probably raised a bunch of children. How pitiful. Wished I could speak her language."
And she looked up to me like that, and them little bitty deep set eyes turning kind of pale looking, great big wrinkles in the cheeks, and tears cutting their way down through them wrinkles. Oh, my heart just went out to the old thing. And she looked at me like that, kind of smiled, reached over and got one crutch and put it in the other hand, and handed them over to me, and went walking off the platform just like anybody else. Now, I tell you, just no prayer; she didn't ask for any. Her faith made her well.
Now friends, here's God's Bible. That's truth. I have this very same Bible, this Bible they give to me in Houston, Texas, way back in 1947. And I had this same Bible then. The God that wrote the Bible knows that's true.

18 About three o'clock in the morning... I said, "I will pray for everyone that comes in the line." I stopped the discernment right then, so I could pray for them all. And so then, about three o'clock in the morning, I noticed them coming by wet, way up around in here. And I said, "Oh," to the interpreter, "why, are they so wet?"
Said, "They're not waiting to go down to the ford about ten miles," said, "they go out into the desert and get their loved ones and wade across the river with them." And they was bringing them in on everything.

19 So I looked, there was a great big husky warrior standing there, his lips real blue, and just shivering. And I looked, there was an old man him and another fellow had on a board. And they had a board laying like this with a cross timber on it, and one up like this, and they had the old man's legs laying over the two sticks across this way. And two across this way, they had his arms. And he was shaking with palsy like that, just as gray as he could be. And I said to him, I said, "Speak English?"
He said, "Little."
I said, "You afraid you'll take pneumonia like that?"
"Nope." Said, "Jesus Christ has take care of me. I brought my dad." Simple faith...
I said, "Oh," I said, "you believe God will heal your father?"
"Yep, wouldn't have brought him."
I said, "Pass him by." (Must have been his brother back there, looked a whole like him.) And passed by, went by, laid my hands on the old man, I said, "God of heaven, bless the old fellow. Give him the desire of his heart." Passed him on. Next one coming, lay hands on that one. First thing, I heard a lot of noise out there. Here the old man had the board on his own shoulders, going out waving to everybody like that. Just simple faith. That's all. They're not all tied up with this and that. They just believe, that's all.

20 Now, may God help us tonight to have Indian faith (that's right) to believe. God heals the little girl, it'll be a sign. That was... Before I went to San Carlos the first time, went over there because God healed a woman come in the prayer line, which was a alcoholic, and the next one come in was a tubercular. Them two Indians, and they brought back the certificate from a doctor, about a month later when I was in California, that this woman was dismissed from the doctor. Her TB was gone. And the alcoholic had never had another drink.
By the way, that woman, held up her hand here the other night, got saved. Are you still here, sister? The woman that held up her hand in the back, the young woman? All right. That's fine. All right. That's good. How you feeling now? How's your husband? all right? Going on okay now? Fine. God bless you. Happy home to you. Her husband was healed also, an alcoholic. And it's just been ... it's been glorious to know that you trust the Lord God. There's nothing like it. Now, if God will do that for that home, He will do the same for your home. He will take sickness out, take everything out. God's no respect of person. He only asks a simple faith to believe it. God bless you.

21 Now, we left Abraham last night. Are you enjoying Abraham? One time in the ... I preached a year at home in my tabernacle on Job. And I got him over as far as on the ash heap, and I kept him on the ash heap about six weeks. The people got real nice, you know, but they were tired. That was where I was making my killing point right there: Job on the ash heap. That's when the Lord did something for him. One fine sister, she didn't want to hurt my feelings, but she wrote me a letter, said, "Brother Branham, you ever going to get Job off that ash heap?"
[Unclear words] I'm going to get Abraham up there to the mount. But last night I was aiming to come to the climax of it, but the Holy Spirit stopped me. I'm so glad He did, because souls came to Christ. And obedience is better than sacrifice.

22 Now, a little background. And my son told me tonight, said, "Daddy, they're the finest bunch of people we've ever been around. But," said, "they sure show that they are long suffering." He said, "You let them out so late."
I said, "Well, Billy," I said, "I'm getting just as much out of that as they are, see." I got to be charged too.
It was just like one of the brothers said the other day in the breakfast there. I believe it was Brother Hobson said, "We ministers need to ... we're always up against, meeting ... going to the hospital meeting unbelief, and in the platform, unbelief, and everywhere else, unbelief. We got to get together, you know, kind of set under the oak once in a while."

23 I used to have an old minister, preached a little while at my church, his name was John Ryan. He's gone on upstairs tonight. And he'd preach a little while, and then he'd run over grab me by the hand, shake my hand.
One night I said, "Brother Ryan, what are you doing that for?"
Said, "I'm just charging the battery. You're sitting back there praying, I've preached out." So we have to charge the battery ever once in a while.

24 So we find that God called Abraham. Was he a special man? No, just an ordinary man. And was he a young fellow, ready for service? No. He was a seventy-five year old man before God ever called him. So you see, God's no respect of age, or ability, or prestige, or ... God just calls whoever He can call. And so, then we find that God told him to separate hisself from his kindred and his people, and... But he failed to do that, and God never blessed him until he obeyed exactly what He said do.
Now, could we not type that and make a message out it tonight, to the Pentecostal church? Until we completely surrender ourselves to God, in obedience to all of His Word... God don't give us the Holy Ghost to say, "Well, I got it. That's all there is to it." No, sir! He give you the Holy Spirit for action, for Word, for service. Until we obey, a hunger in our hearts... There's enough Pentecostal people sitting right in here tonight to start a Pentecostal revival through this country here that would---it would certainly do things around here, if we'd just get the fire burning good, you know, and get the high wind blowing from heaven, like a rushing mighty wind. Something would take place.

25 So then, we left Abraham last night when he had been turned back to a young man. I'm not going to ask you if you believe that or not, but I believe it myself. But that doesn't make it right. But something happened to Sarah and Abraham. We know that, don't we? Something happened, because he was sterile, and she was not fertile. And they were a hundred years old; he was, and she was. And how would a man fall in love with a hundred year old woman? I just can't... Now, someone said, "Oh, they lived longer in them days."
My brother, read the Scripture there. It said, "They were both well stricken in age." They were old. And we find out that not only that, but his strength was renewed, and she become back to a young, beautiful woman. And Abraham had come back to a young man, and they were enjoying life. And remember, as soon after they left, there at Gerar, Sarah became a mother, and bore Abraham a son. Aren't you so glad that we're going to turn back? I don't know what to say here. I'm so happy about that! I know ... I will promise to let you out a little early, but something's on my heart. I just got to say it.

26 Now, I want to make this clear before I say it. I believe that gifts and callings are without repentance. Now, the Bible says that, see. There's nothing you do; it's something God does, see. No man... You say, "I sought God, and sought God." No, you did not. God sought you, and sought you. It wasn't you seeking God, it's God seeking you, see. That was the beginning. Man trying to hide, God calling. And Jesus said, "No man can come to me, except my Father draws him first." See? "All the Father has given me will come to me."
Now notice. Since I was a little bitty boy of about two years old, I started seeing visions. First vision I ever seen was in a bush, and the Angel of the Lord was in there like a wind, and told me that I'd live near a city called New Albany. I was two years old, living in the mountains in Kentucky, and I've spent my life within three or four miles of New Albany, Indiana, two hundred, three hundred, miles away. And then, started from there, on down through life, and not one time has it ever been wrong. But this, I don't believe, was a vision.

27 I want to confess something. I was always a little afraid of dying, even since I've been a Christian. Not so much as I was afraid I would be lost, but I did not want to be a spirit. And I always thought, if we died we'd have a spiritual body; and I'd meet you people up there and I'd say, "Well, that's the people I preached to down at Yakima. Oh, my, wished I had a hand to shake them, but my hand's rotting in the grave. Theirs is too." And we have no senses at all, just like a little white cloud, a spiritual body, form of a body, spiritual. And I don't like anything that's spooky. I just can't stand that. I don't like that at all. I'm just ... can get away from that right quick. So I don't... I always dreaded that. I said, "I hope I live to see Jesus coming, because..." I knowed I'd return from there and have a glorified body, but I wanted to know as I know now, so I can meet my brother and shake his hand, and have a wonderful time. I said, "If I can just live till Jesus comes, I wouldn't be a spirit, I would just be changed." I wouldn't have that time to go through.

28 And I always feared death because of that. About four weeks ago... No, beg your pardon, about seven weeks ago, I'd come in off of a meeting, and I was laying in my bed; and I'd woke up that morning, and I raised up, kind of put my hands (which I sleep like that) behind my head, and laid against the foot board ... or, the headboard of the bed. And then I said, "Well..." I said, "Honey, you awake?" to my wife, and she was sleeping away. And I said... I laid there a few moments, and I said, "Well, Bill, you're fifty years old." Best I know. I was born in Kentucky where they don't have a birth record. And you know what my birth mark is, birth record in Kentucky? The year the old stump blowed away up over on the hill. And that's all they knowed.
They say, "When was that child born?"
"Tomato-picking time."
"What tomato-picking time? When was this one born?"
"Corn-cutting time."
"What corn cutting time?"
Now, that was the birth record up in the mountains of Kentucky. So I don't know how old I am, but anyhow, I'm every bit of that. So then when... That's what my mother told me, and I think she'd be pretty close to right. And so then, I said, "You're fifty years old, and you haven't done nothing for the Lord yet. You'd better hurry up, because there may not be too much time left." I said, "Oh, I hope I live to see Him coming. I'd hate to be a spirit." I said, "I don't want to get out there, so I can't meet people." And I said, "I love the Lord." And just then...

29 How the Spirit works, as I told you the other night. These on the platform are visions, but they're little minor visions. You're making them yourself. You're using God's gift that He sent to the earth, the Holy Spirit, and the Holy Spirit works through a channel. How many knows that? How many knows even when you're speaking in tongues it's the Holy Spirit making intercession? See? To you who's been be gifted and clean so He can speak through you. Well then He has set in the church, apostles, prophets, teachers, pastors, evangelists, and so forth, see? And He uses that channel. How I could stop here, and tell till in the morning the things that's happened.

30 Now, and so then something begin to talk to me, and said, "Just keep pressing on."
And I said, "Well, I've been pressing on."
It said, "The reward is at the end of the road. The reward is at the end of the road."
I said, "I believe that the..." I thought, "Wait, who am I talking to?" I looked around, I said, "Meda?" (My wife.) I said, "Meda, you awake?"
Said, "Huh?"
I said, "Okay." And just went on sleeping. And then I thought, "Father, was that You? Was that You speaking to me?" And you've heard the story, the possum, and the little fishes, and the things that's taken place down in the natural, in the life and things. That's just the way it starts talking. Just the same as you hear my voice.
And when the man come walking to me, on the first time that he visited me in a human form, he was not a vision. I know what a vision is. The man stood there and talked to me. He told me he was sent from God, that I was to pray for sick people, and it was to be... He wasn't a vision, he was a man. I don't know who he was, he just said he was sent from God. And he was standing as close as my hand is right there. And I looked at him, talked to him, talked, conversed to him. And this light was hanging over him, went down over him, picked him up by the feet and he went out of my sight. And everything he said has come exactly to pass. Just exactly, see. So I know it's true.

31 And the light, the scientific world has taken a picture of it. If I die tonight, my testimony is the truth. The church knows it around the world. The scientific world knows it by research that they took a picture of it, in a photograph, and put it on ... with George J. Lacy, the head of the FBI on fingerprint and documents and of photographs and things. And he kept it in there for about a week, and said, "I swear a statement that it is not psychology; the light struck the lens. The light was there." And said, "This mechanical eye of the camera won't take psychology." Said, "The light was there."
Paper after paper has taken it. We've had it several times in Germany, in Switzerland, and other places where they've taken it, scientifically in that country proven that it was a supernatural something, like a pillar of fire coming down, and does it. You see the reaction of it here in the church. Acts just like it did when it was on earth in the flesh of the Son of God. Now, it's on earth in the flesh of the adopted sons of God, bringing the church together for the Son of God to come get a bride. Amen. That's exactly right.

32 And now, laying there, I heard it say, "Keep pressing on. The reward is at the end." And I felt something happen to me. And I heard that song being sang. We sing it in our church:
I'd like to hear the sweet harbor bells chime;
It would brighten my faith, and would vanish
all tears;
Lord, let me look a-past the curtain of time.
You've heard it, many of you, that glorious old song. And I felt something, I thought I was dying. And I looked back, and there I was laying on the bed. And I turned this a way, and it was like a hill coming down, right in front of me, everwhere it's at. Remember, my Bible on my heart, I tell the truth. What good would it do me to say that if it wasn't true? What good would my preaching do? All my sacrifice and suffering, what good would it do, if I'm a liar? See? It wouldn't do a bit of good. I don't have to say this. But I'm saying it that it might help you, because it's the truth.

33 Wherever that place is, whether it's another dimension, I could not tell you; but I was somewhere that I could look back. And everybody's always accused me of being a woman hater. I don't hate women. No, sir, I do not. I like my sisters, but I don't like the way some of these modern American women dress and act, and smoke, and drink, and carry on. It's a disgrace to the nation. It's the greatest fifth columnist we ever had, is the way these modern women do. When they can't even raise their baby by the breast; they have to give it cow's milk or it'll die in eighteen months because of nicotine poison. Yes, sir. You talk about a fifth columnist, that's it. That's what breaks the back of every nation, is it's womanhood. Always has been.
I like real women, real mothers. God give us more real, old-time mothers. We wouldn't have as much juvenile delinquency if we had a mother stay home and take care of her kids, instead of out somewhere with a cocktail party, and these little baby-sitters trying to take care of it somewhere. That's right. That's what poisons the mind of the children. America's rotten with it to the core, getting worse all the time, and will continue to get worse. There's nothing... I'd give my voice against it, but it's going on, because the Scripture said so.
It'll die in its youth, this nation. Now remember, in Revelations 13, when it appears, it always is youthful. That's the little ... the Lamb come up.

34 Now, so I was kind of a little rough about women, and maybe this is kind of done to hold me down just a little. And I happened to look, coming to me, and there was looked like a million women. They were young, looked to be about twenty years old, and they every one was... Now, excuse me, sisters, for this remark, but they every one was very young, had long hair down to their waistline, wearing white dresses, and was barefooted, and they'd run up to me and throw their arms around me, and scream, "My precious brother!"
I hope that I have found grace in your sight, that you'll understand me. You listen to your doctor, I'm your brother. I don't care, when I was a sinner, I lived true that way, because an Angel that met me said, "Don't never smoke, drink, or defile your body in any way." That was immoral living. God in heaven knows I lived that.
But there isn't a man that's red-blooded and healthy, that a woman could throw her arms around him (I don't mean the man would be wrong or think wrong), but there'd be a human sensation. But in that place, it wasn't. It was truly a sister. And I looked, and I said... I can't explain what it was. There was no yesterday, no tomorrow; it was now. They didn't get tired, yet they could shake hands. They could talk, they had a body; and just like they was here, only young. And I said, "I don't understand this."

35 And that voice that was above me said, "This is like ... something like Jacob when he had gathered with his people." Just then I looked, and men was coming. Oh, by the groups---just like millions of them. And they were running, throwing their arms around me, and screaming, "My precious brother!"
And you know I was married before, and my wife died when... That's Billy's mother. And that's the reason Billy and I stick together. She died when he was eighteen months old, and his little sister was eight months old. She died with the mother, and I've been papa and mama both to Billy. And I seen Hope coming, working her way through the crowd. And I thought, "Surely she will call me her husband."
And when she got close to me she ... I could see her. Bless her heart. Black eyes (German girl, you know) and black hair, she threw her arms around me, and she said, "My darling brother!"
I thought, "I don't understand this."
And there was another woman that just a girl there, put her arms around me, and said, "My precious brother."
And she hugged this woman, said, "Think of it. He's finally arrived with us."
These men, they picked me up and set me on upon a little place like this, and they said ... I said, "Why is this?"
He said, "In earth you was a leader." And said...
I said, "I don't understand it."
And just then this voice spoke again, and said, "This is when you gather with your people."
I said, "When I die, you mean this is what I will be?"
"Yes."
I said, "Oh, why did I ever fear this? This is wonderful. Oh, my, just perfection. That won't reach it. Superb, that wouldn't reach it. There's not word in the English dialect would reach it. God knows that I'm telling this from my heart; it happened.

36 And I would turn every once in a while and look back, and there I was laying on the bed. It wasn't too far away.
Now, I've heard, since I've been telling it, there's a man named Dr. Price that had a similar experience as that, and was in a book. And if anybody's got that book, I'd sure like to read it, because I want to know something about it. So then, he was a man who prayed for the sick, years ago, before my day.
And then I looked again, and then it said, "This is when you've gathered with your people."
I said, "All these are Branhams?"
He said, "No. They're your converts."
I said, "Converts?"
Said, "You see that woman, that you were just admiring, that put her arms around you, and said, 'Darling brother?'"
I said, "Yes."
Said, "She was a-past ninety when you led her to Christ." Said, "No wonder she's screaming, 'My darling brother!'" Said, "She will never be old no more, she will never be sad, she will be that way forever."
I thought, "Oh, if I only could live it over again; I would cry, I would pray, I would persuade, I'd do everything. If I had to push in, I'd get everybody to come into that place. Oh, my, if people could only understand what it is!"

37 And I went on that way for a few moments, and just then (someone, when I told this about a few weeks ago, someone kind of made a little light of it) I looked, and... I had an old dog, he used to school me, help feed the family. I hunted all my life. This old dog would catch possums, coons, skunks, and everything for me. And I'd hunt; then I'd sell these hides, and I'd get school clothes, and help feed the family of ten children. And so, a policeman poisoned him, when we moved downtown. Oh, when I patted his grave, I said, "Fritz, if there's a heaven for dogs, you'll be there." And I remember my little horse, Prince, how I used to ride him on going hunting, running my traps and things. And he'd went on. And when I looked coming down across the hill, if here didn't come old Fritz. I could see him come down. He went up and licked me on the hand like that. Here come old Prince, nickered, and put his...

38 Someone said, "There's no animals in heaven." Now, that's just all you know about the Bible. Where is them horses that come down and took Elijah up? Where's that horse that the Son of God come in riding on a white charger, dipped in blood? When's the wolf and lamb going to feed together, and the ox and the lion eat straw together? Where's that going be at, see, if there isn't there? Sure they're there. God loses nothing. Certainly they'll be there.
And then, we happened... I noticed, and he licked me on the hand. And I said, "If I'm gone on, if this is paradise, where I'm waiting in glory, I want to see the Lord Jesus."
And that voice said, "But you can't see Him now. He's higher. Someday He will come back."
And then these ministers, and people all standing around, I begin to recognize them then, after I seen they were my converts of people I'd knowed in life. They were young. I didn't know them then. You see, they went back to young men and women. "Oh," I said, "there's Brother and Sister..." I was just so happy. I never was so happy in my life. And I said, "If I'd only knowed this beforehand." And I looked around, and I said, "Do you mean that He will come to me?"
Said, "He will come to you, and He will question you on the gospel that you preached, because you were born a leader." And then...
And I said, "Well, will Paul have to stand the same judgment by it?"
"Sure."
I said, "Then if Paul makes it, I will too, because I preached the same things he did, without compromising on one word."
And all them people screamed out, "We are resting assured on that." Said, "Then we will go back to earth and receive a glorified body, and live together, forever in this condition."

39 See, everything in the Bible is in a trinity. You know that. I said the other day, "You're a trinity: soul, body, and spirit." You live in a trinity: kitchen, and living room, and the bedroom. You might have eight or ten different rooms, but (bedrooms and spare this), but you only live in three rooms. God: Father, Son, Holy Ghost, in a trinity.
And we find out the coming of Christ is in a trinity. He came first to redeem His bride, comes next to receive His bride, comes next with His bride, as King and queen, to reign through the Millennium. You know that. Everything is in a trinity. And we're in a trinity, we have a mortal body, a gloried body ... I mean, a celestial body, and then a glorified body. Three stages brings us back to our perfection again like in Eden.

40 And then, I said, "Well, I'm assured of that."
And just then a voice said, "All that you ever loved, and all that ever loved you, God has given you."
And I felt something happening to me. I said, "Surely I don't have to go back." And I felt it a little closer, and I turned and I looked back towards my body, and I seen myself move on the bed. In a few minutes, I was back.
Brother, sister, that done something to me. I realize now, that if this earthly tabernacle be dissolved, we have one already waiting, a body waiting.
And that, I think now, to coincide with what Abraham and Sarah had received, that type of body, just a comment or two, then to the climax of my message. Then we will start the prayer line.

41 God had showed in Sarah and Abraham here, exactly what He was going to do to all of Abraham and Sarah's seed. All the seed of Abraham should be that way. And here on earth, He brought them back to a young man and a young woman. And I told that story just exactly as close as I know how it happened. And it ... I was ... I don't ... let's call it a vision, because if I would say that it was a little translation there... If it was a vision, I never had anything like it. Now, I'm not trying to impersonate the great Saint Paul, because I don't ... I seen too much of that in my life, carnal comparisons. But say it was a little translation, I went to the first heaven; and if it's that way in the first heaven, what did Paul see when he went to the third? My! No wonder he said, "Eyes not seen, or ears not heard."
If it's that glorious in this heaven here, when you go into the third heaven, what must that brother have seen?

42 Now, now immediately after that, after being come back, God renewed them. He made them a young man and a woman. He started anew. They were both fertile at that time. Then they bore the little boy, which was called Isaac. Abraham circumcised him the eighth day, and had a feast and when they weaned him, and so forth. And then, we find out that he grows to the age of about, let's see, about twelve years old---just a pretty little Jewish boy with black curly hair, and little black eyes. And how that father and mother must have cherished that little lad. And one night the Lord woke Abraham up, and He said, "Abraham."
Now, let me just stop there. He called, "Abraham." But I want to say this. This isn't Scripture, but it certainly will blend with the Scriptures. "Abraham, I want to show your seed from here after, that what a man will do when he really trusts Me. I know I promised you this boy twenty-five years ago, and you didn't stagger with unbelief at My promise, but you believed it. Now, I want to make the people down in Yakima, and different places where this gospel will be preached, to know that I keep My Word. I'm going to give you a double trial to show that the people who accept My Word, no matter what comes or goes, they must hold onto My Word. Now, I give you this son; now I want you to take that son up on top of a certain mountain that I will tell you. I'm going to make out of you, out of your seed here, a mighty nation out of this boy. And I'm going to make also all the nations of the earth, and you're going to be the father of many nations. And now, I want you to take the only hope that you have of ever Me keeping My promise for you to be a father of nations, I want you to take him up on top of a mountain and kill him. Destroy everything that gives an evidence that you're going to have it." Oh, I hope you get that.

43 Then 'course, poor old Abraham, he didn't want to wake up Sarah and tell her about it. So he got up early, took the little boy, and the two servants, and their little mule, and he chopped the wood and put it in a sack with something, and took off into the wilderness.
Now, any ordinary man ... when I was on patrol for seven years, I had to walk average thirty-two miles a day through the wilderness. And we got gasoline feet in these days. Them men had to walk everywhere they went. An ordinary man, I'd say, ought to walk twenty-five miles a day. [Break in tape.]

44 Look to things that you don't see with your eyes. You don't see with your eye anyhow---you see with your heart, and you look with your eye. So then, standing in that door of faith. Look what Jesus said here. Let me read here: "Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased in goods..." Look at our churches. We used to be down on the alley. We used to be on the corner with a tambourine. But now we've got some of the best buildings there is in the country, sometimes some of the best polished scholars in the pulpits. "Because thou sayest, that I am rich, and increased in goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest thou not that you are poor, wretched, naked, blind, and don't know it."
Now, if I seen a man on the street that was poor, and he didn't have any clothes on, and he was blind, and if I could go to him, and talk to him about it, and say, "Sir, do you realize that you're naked?"---"Oh, am I, sir?"
"Yes. Come in here, I will give you some clothes." But what if that man is naked, miserable, poor, and blind, and don't know it? That's a delinquent person. That's a mental deficiency. And the church has become a spiritual deficiency. They don't realize that God is shaking every gift before the church and they don't recognize it. Blind, and don't know it. Think of it. Naked. A naked person, a blind person, poor and miserable and wretched, and don't know it---that's pathetic. And Jesus said the church would be that way in this Laodicean age, and it's here.
"I'm So-and-so. I belong to this denomination. I'm as good as you are."
But, brother, He said, "Counsel me, and buy white raiment." White raiment, in the Bible, is called the righteousness of saints. "Buy of me white raiment. Buy of me gold tried in the fire," the fire of Calvary. "Buy of me gold," the holy oil of God poured out, buy that kind of gold. "Buy the righteousness of the saints, that thou may be hid."

45 And now look, and, "Buy from me some eyesalve for your eyes." Oh, my! "Buy some salve from me that'll open your eyes to what's going on around us." Oh, God, I wished I had someway that I could get the church to see it. "Buy salve!" Salve is "a hard oil." And oil is the Holy Spirit. "Let me oil your eyes that you can see that I'm the same yesterday, today, and forever, that you see that the promises that I made for the last days is here. Buy from me salve."
We were kids raised very poor. My grandpa was a hunter. A famous hunter, known throughout the country for hunting. And when the weather got bad, he used to trap. And when he trapped, he used to trap fur bearing animals. And he had dogs, and he caught coons, raccoon. I guess you have them here in Washington, raccoons. And he used to take those coons, and we would eat the meat, sell the hide. We wasted nothing.

46 And the grease was a cure-all at our house. You'd have a cup full of coon grease. If one of the kids got sick, dropped a couple of drops of turpentine on it, for a bad cold, and swallow it. I don't know how we lived, but we did it. But it was a cure-all. If somebody got a bruise, they'd put coon grease on it. A headache, they'd rub coon grease across your head.
And we had to sleep upstairs. There's a little two-roomed house, and mother and dad and five of us children, before the others come. We slept upstairs, the boys. Pop and mom... There's no floor in it at all, dirt floor. Had a stump cut off for a table. And then they... In the room there they had a bed built out of ... straw tick on it, with a shuck pillow. Daddy used to have a shaving brush made out of shucks. We were way up in the mountains.
My grandmother died at a hundred and ten years old and never seen a train in her life. Only seen one car, and I brought it up there, and it taken me all day long to travel four miles, putting rocks in a creek so I could get it up there. All the neighbors standing out, never seen such a thing in their life, when I brought this little '26 Chevrolet up through those mountains. I got stuck down there and I asked the man if he'd take his horse and pull. Said, "My mare, if you get it close to there, it'd tear that thing to pieces. She never seen anything like that."

47 So we were poor. And then we had... Cut out a couple of saplings, and had an upstairs when the family got kind of big, a loft, big cracks in the walls where the chink mud had fell out. Old clapboard shingles put on in the light of the moon; they'd turned up. Lay there at night time... And mom would put a feather tick over the top of us in the winter time, and then she'd put all the coats and things we had, then a piece of canvas, where if it rained, we'd just duck under that canvas like a rabbit, if it rained or snowed.
And you could lay there and count the stars anytime. And there'd come up a cold spell, and if we didn't get under that canvas, we'd get cold in our eyes. And Mom called it "matter." I don't what it is, but it'd stick our eyes together. And I'd have to get up of a morning, make the fire---come down these two saplings with sticks across them, and make the fire in an old chunk stove. And so then Mama would call me at morning, and she'd say, "Billy!" Bless her old heart.
I'd say, "Yes, Mama."
She'd say, "Come on down, it's four o'clock. Your daddy's got to leave."
And I'd try to get up, me and my brother, and our eyes would be full of matter, all stuck together. The cold done it. I'd say, "Mama, I can't see."
"Call Edward, your brother."
I'd say, "He can't see either, Mama. His eyes is stuck together."
Mama'd go out to little step stove in the kitchen, setting up on some chunks. And she would make the fire, and go over and get the coon grease can, set it on the stove and get it hot. She'd come up there and massage our eyes with that coon grease. It worked good. We was able to see after she oiled up our eyes with coon grease.

48 Brother, we've had a lot of spiritual drafts, a lot of coldness has struck the church. It'll take more than coon grease to open our eyes. It'll take God's Holy Spirit and His eye salve to open our eyes! We've had so much theology: "The days of miracles is passed. There is no such of a thing as divine healing; it's only mental telepathy. Don't hear nothing about it. Don't you have them in your town. They're this, that, and the other." It'll take more than coon grease to open our eyes that's had that of a draft to hit it.
But God's got grease that'll do it! Yes, sir, it'll do it. Then when you open your eyes, you'll be like Gehazi was with Elisha at Dothan. You remember that night the old prophet went down there, and slept? And the Syrian army come over and surrounded the whole city. And Gehazi woke up with his servant, looked out, and there was just all around the city was just nothing but soldiers, arms. And there laid the old bald-headed long-whiskered prophet laying there asleep. He shook him and said, "My father, my father, wake up quick! We're surrounded. We've been trapped!"
I can see the old prophet get up; his eyes was open. Got up and looked around, "Yeah, I see them, but there's more with us than there is with them." There's more with us than there is critics!
Looked around, Gehazi still had ... needed a massage in his eyes. Said, "I don't see nothing but Syrians."

49 The old prophet stretched forth his hands, laid his hand upon him (and these signs will follow them that believe you know), and his eyes come open. He said, "Lord, let this man's eyes come open that he can see." And God opened up his eyes, and around that old prophet, all around over the mountains, was chariots of fire, and angels of fire. His eyes was open.
If we could only open our eyes to see this afternoon, sitting around, standing around, moving up-and-down the aisles, angels of God, the Holy Spirit (Hallelujah!), moving around through the audience, you'd see there's more with us than there is with them. God, open our eyes, open our heart, open every door in our heart!
Said, "I stand and knock. If any man will hear my voice, and open, I will come in and sup with him."

50 Let's go back a little bit---some nineteen hundred years ago. We will close. Let's put ourselves in a little room, on the street Straight that led up towards Golgotha. And I hear something coming. Sounds like a knock on the door: "Bump, bump, bump," like someone's knocking at the door. We go to the door and open the door. It's nobody exactly at the door, but yet it is a knock. But it's an old rugged cross coming down the cobblestones, dragging out the bloody footprints of the bearer: "bump, bump, bump." Oh, it ought to go way down today, and you ought to feel it. On His shoulder it was rubbing, "bump, bump..." Look like anybody would open the door to that, a man dying, that knowed no sin, yet was made sin for us. Making a way through that bumping. O God! let that bump open every heart in here this afternoon. "Bump, bump," as it goes along...

51 Look at Him. They tell me He had not a place to lay His head. Said, "The foxes has dens. His creation, His birds, has nests, but He, the Creator of heavens and earth, had not a place to lay His head or a friend to stand by Him." Can't you feel that knocking at the door this afternoon? [Brother knocks on the pulpit.] He was doing that so that bump would knock your heart's door open this afternoon, to let Him in as God and as Saviour, as Healer, as King.
He had one robe. He was wrapped in swaddling cloths when He was born---that's the wrapping off the back of a ox's yoke. Didn't have no clothes to put on Him. And now He's dying with one garment to His name. Yet He made every garment, made the heavens and earth. It hasn't got a seam in it; they throwed it across His shoulders. I notice there's some little red spots on it. As I noticed that bumping fading out, am I going to let it go by without accepting it?
O God. May the meeting not close till you've accepted it, know that He's bumping at your heart. He died that He might come back here in the form of the Holy Ghost and do the things He's been doing for you. Open up your heart. Believe Him.

52 I notice as He goes on them little bitty red spots gets bigger and bigger till it comes in all one great spot. Satan was walking along there. He said, "It can't be Him! That can't be God. I questioned Him one day, and said, 'If You're the Son of God perform a miracle; let me see You do it.'" That devil still answers that question ... or, asks it. "If you've got healing power, let me see you heal this one."
Jesus said, "It's written."
"And then I got Him by the soldiers," Satan said. "I got my Roman soldiers half drunk. I put a rag around His head, covered up His eyes because, you know, He said He could perceive their thoughts; He wouldn't have to have His eyes open then. And I put a rag around His head, had my soldiers to, and I had them take a stick and crack Him on top of the head, and said, 'Tell us who hit you, if you're a prophet.' He was a fake. He couldn't tell us. And then, I had them drunken soldiers to spit in His face. And could that be God in that flesh, going there with gobs of spit hanging off His face, a mock crown on His head? And I questioned Him, and challenged Him to do something, and He never opened His mouth. That can't be God."

53 So when they hung Him on the cross, he said, "All right death, come on, take Him. He ain't God." I see that bee of death come up, buzzing around. Said, "No, that ain't God. God couldn't scream on the cross for mercy. God wouldn't do that."
The high priest said, "He saved others; but himself He can't save." The biggest compliment they ever paid Him. If He saved Hisself, He couldn't save others. But He gave Himself that I could be saved, and that you could be saved.

54 After awhile that bee reached down with his stinger and stung Him. Anybody knows that a bee, or any insect that has a stinger, when it once stings deep, it can never sting no more, because it pulls its stinger out. Death socked its stinger in the wrong flesh that time. He pulled the stinger out. Now death can make a buzzing noise, but he can't sting no more. One of them that opened the doors said, "Death, where is your sting? Grave, where is your victory? But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ." Death can buzz and act like it's going to sting, but it can't sting a heart where all doors are open, and the Son of God lives and reigns in the heart. Don't you want Him in yours this afternoon?
While the bumping of the cross is going on, that's Him standing, saying, "I stand at the door [in the Laodicean age], and knock: and if any man will hear my voice, and open, I will come in, and sup." Will you sup with Him? Will you make Him Lord? Will you let Him rule your life? Will you let Him guide you and direct you, if it's against your thoughts? You sacrifice your thoughts. Let the mind of Christ be in you. Will you do it? while we bow our heads just a moment for a word of prayer.

55 "I stand and knock." Look what He did for you: the bumping of the cross. "If any man hears My voice, and will open, I will come in. And let him set Me down, and give Me a chair, and make Me feel comfortable; not misery, not let him say, 'I don't want You in my private life. I've got enough faith, I don't need You any more for that.' Don't do that, but make Me welcome. Sit Me in a chair, a nice comfortable chair, and say, 'Yes, Lord. Here's a little praise in my heart. Here's my hand going up. Just a little sup. Here's a little soup that we could sup together, set and talk it over with You.'"
Would you like to do that? Raise up your hands, say, "Brother Branham, I now want for Him to sup with me. I want to sup with Him." God bless you, lady. Some... Would there be another? God bless you, lady. God bless you, sir. God bless you, young man. God bless you, sister. All right.
Someone else on the bottom floor, before we go to the balconies, raise up your hand, say, "Lord come in. I want You to sup with me. I want You to talk with me. I want to make You, Lord, in my heart. I feeled You knocking. I want You to sup with me." Raise up your hands, someone else that hasn't raised their hands on the bottom floor, would feel that urge just now. Can you feel the bumping of that cross? Why, it ought to make every muscle in you quiver to know that He did that for you. And you won't as much as raise your hand for Him? Not as much as raise the hand. God bless you, back there, sir.

56 Up in the balconies to my left, would you raise your hand? You, with your heads bowed, say, "Sup with me, Lord." God bless you over here, my colored brother. God bless you, young boy sitting there. Someone else up in the balcony? Say, "Will that do anything, Brother Branham?" If you really mean it, you pass from death to life. He will come right in. Have you felt the cross in your heart this afternoon, that bumps down the street, Him trying to knock at your door to get in to do something good for you? Raise your hand.
Balcony to my right, up in the audience there, would you raise your hand, say, "Brother Branham, pray for me. I now..." God bless you. God bless you. That's good. Someone... God bless you. Bless you. Bless the little one there. Bless this one. That's right. Someone else, just raise your hand. God bless you. Someone else? Say, if... God bless you, back here, sir. Somebody else? Yes, the little boy sitting here. Oh, sometimes them little hearts that hasn't been pulled through so many disappointments and things of the world, they're tender.

57 You know the Bible said in Isaiah 10, "a child shall lead them." Won't you raise your hand just before we stop now? God bless that young girl. God bless the little fellow over there. Someone else, raise your hand? Say, "I now want... I feel the bump." God bless you, young lady. God be with you. That's a gallant thing to do. God ever be with you. Don't fear. It's the greatest thing you ever done, honey. Someday when death comes, you'll remember that you did the right thing. You'll remember that before that time happens. Bless your little heart.
Someone else? Raise your hand. Say, "I feel the bump and the knocking on my door, Brother Branham. I'm going to open the door and look at Him. And when I see the blood there, know that it's Him, I'm going to say, 'Come in, Lord. Come on in, and sit down, get the best of my home. I will make You welcome.' I will go tell everybody that Jesus tended my little abode this afternoon, my poor little old heart. Not much, but He sure come to it, and knocked at the door, and I let Him in, the most important person that could knock on my door." Don't turn Him away.

58 With your heads bowed now, while we're making the altar call, reverently, quietly. I'm just going to let it bump for a few minutes. [Someone speaks in tongues and another interprets.]
Pass me not, O gentle Saviour, (Will you rise
from your seat and come in for prayer now?)
....my humble cry;
While on others Thou art calling,
Do not pass me by.
Saviour, (Will you come now and
stand around the altar?)
Hear my humble cry;
While on others Thou art calling,
Do not pass me by.

59 Why don't you rise now and come around the altar here. You that want to let that heart's door open, let Him be Lord in your life, come and stand here for a word of prayer just before we start the prayer line. Won't you do it? We'd be glad to have you here. The pastors will welcome you right in. You don't have to go anywhere else. They got churches right here, plenty of them that believes this same gospel. And they'll certainly take care of you. God bless you, lady. That's the correct way to do it.
While we sing again, will you come now? Let everyone that raised their hand walk up and stand around the altar for prayer. Will you?
Pass me not, (Rise up and come,
won't you? If you're coming from the
balconies, we'll wait.)
...my humble cry;
While on others Thou are calling,
O do not pass me by.
Saviour, Saviour,
Hear my humble cry;
While on others Thou art calling,
Do not pass me by.
Saviour, (God bless you, young man,
and young woman. God bless you.
God bless you, my brother and sister.)
my (Won't you rise out of your seat, and
come right on down? Let personal workers
come at this time too.)
While on others Thou art calling,
Do not pass me by.

60 I noticed one of our precious colored boys. I suppose his wife come walking up. You know what I think must've come on his mind? There was a colored man during the time of that scene heard that bumping. He watched Him stagger, Simon the Cyrene. He went over and put the cross on his own back, and said, "Lord, I will help You bear it on up the hill."
There's two of his children this afternoon; they heard that bumping. The hour of criticism on the church, they're ready to pick up the cross, and say, "Lord, I will help You bear it. No matter what anyone else says, I'm coming right on to help You bear it." He remembers that. He don't forget nothing.
Saviour, Saviour,
Hear (Won't you come? Someone else?)
humble cry;
While on others Thou art calling,
Do not pass me by.
Thou the stream of all my comfort,
More than life to me,
Whom have I on earth besides thee?
Whom in heaven but Thee?
Come now.
Saviour, (Come take your place now.)
O Saviour,
Hear my humble cry;
While on others Thou art calling,
Do not pass me by.

61 Let us bow our heads now. Continue on on the organ while that lovely, sweet music is playing. To you that stands here, little boy, elderly man and woman, a white man, and young woman, a colored man and his wife, a cripple even stands. O God. Where can we go to when death strikes us? No one but Him. You've come because that something ... you felt that bumping on your heart. Now, He's ready to take you in now.

62 Our heavenly Father, it is written, I'm quoting Your Word, quoting it the best that I know in Saint John 5:24. These are the words that You said according to the Scriptures: "He that heareth my words [which they just have knocking at the door], and believeth on him that sent me, has everlasting life, and shall never come into the condemnation; but passed from death unto life." You said it, Lord. I believe it. That's where my soul has stayed, right there. You promised it. Every promise is true. Said, "No man can come to me, except my Father draws him." Then the magnetic power of the living God is drawing this afternoon, and "He that will come to me I will in no wise cast out." Why? Because the Father has given it.
They heard, God drawed, and here they are. It would be impossible for them to be cast out. You said, "I will give him eternal life and raise him up at the last day." That's Your promise, Father.

63 They stand here before this audience of several hundred people. And they're making a confession that God spoke to them. You said, "He that will witness me before men, him will I witness before my Father and the holy angels." Then You put their name on the book of life, Lord. I thank You for this. The moment they raised to their feet, You accepted their recognition, as they have cast it into Thee this afternoon, Lord. They were sinners, and they're crying for mercy. You receive them. You said You would. That makes it so. They were saved the minute they raised up. They're standing here before the audience with bowed heads now, to take You as their Saviour, to witness before this audience that they are saved.
Father, don't let this be the stopping point, but may they receive the Holy Ghost. The hour is close at hand. They don't need to do anything else but go to work. Give them material, whatever's in their hand. Some might sing, some might preach, some might testify, we don't know; but what's ever in their hand.

64 Samson only had the jawbone of a mule, but he slayed a thousand Philistines. Shamgar had the ox goad, the Philistines was coming. He didn't have time to train to know how to fight. The Spirit of God come on him, he took the ox goad that was in his hand, and beat down hundreds of the Philistines. David had a sling shot. Goliath had challenged, but God was with the sling shot.
And here they stand this afternoon, Lord, as new creatures. May they receive the Holy Ghost. If they have no schooling, training, or whatever more, send them in the field of service, Lord, for Your glory, while they have accepted that knock at the door.

65 And while you're standing, and you that come up to the altar, even to the little boys and all, if you believe Jesus Christ is the Son of God, and believe that He died to save you, and you accept Him as your Saviour, raise up your hand before this audience that they might see that you do accept Jesus as your Saviour.
To you at the altar here, is what I'm talking about. That's it. Raise up your hands. That's the way. God bless you. God bless you.
Now, for a little farther blessing, to be instructed, the minister's standing here, ready to lead to a room, where we can meet you in a room for prayer. Just move right around to the right, while I make another call. Come right around this way, if you will. Come to the right, right this way. Let the personal workers follow these right now, right now to the room. This way, the minister and the personal workers. Come right this way to the room.

66 While on others Thou art call...
How many doesn't have the Holy Ghost, who want to go in to receive the Holy Ghost now? The door's open, go right in with them. That's what they're going in for. They've been saved. When God spoke to their heart they raised up, they were God's election. God called them. Jesus said, "No man can come, except my Father draws him. All the Father has given me will come to me." That's right. So they've gone to the room. Someone else would want to go in with them from the balcony, that doesn't have the Holy Spirit? We've got instructors and so forth that can instruct you and stay right there the rest of the day and night, if you want to, until you come through with the baptism of the Holy Spirit.
Brother, it's an essential thing. You must believe it. You must have it, or you'll perish. Go in, won't you, while we sing once more?
Trusting only in Thy merits,
Would I seek Thy face;
Heal my wounded, broken spirit,
Save me by Thy grace.
Just raise your hands, everybody now.
Saviour, Saviour,
Hear my humble cry;
While on others Thou art calling,
Do not pass me by.

67 Our heavenly Father, may there not be one among us that'll be left. I have given unto them, the best that I know how, Thy Word, quoting it just as it is written, knocking at the door, the doors of the compartments of the heart, saying that "Whosoever will, he may come and drink from the waters of the fountains of life freely. Without money, without price. Come, let us reason together: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be white as snow; red like crimson, they'll be white like wool."
And as You looked through the red blood of Your Son, we know that red through red looks white. And without that, it's still red. Out under the blood, why there's no remission of sin. And they've come, many of them, to accept it, Father. There are many in the building here, I know not their hearts; Thou does. That when I stand, if the day of judgment shall be today yet or tomorrow, then there'll be no man's blood upon me, because I have offered them Thee by Thy Word, and the Spirit says, "Come." The Bride said, "Come." "Whosoever will, come and drink from the waters of the fountains of life freely."

68 God, grant that there'll not be a lost soul here, but what shall be present on that day, saved and under the blood. Back in the room, where those workers are working, God, I pray that You'll fill each one of them with the Holy Spirit. Give them the desire of their hearts.
Grant it. May they find fellowship among the saints now, belong to some of these fine churches in the community. Bless those who are seeking the baptism of the Holy Spirit, may He come graciously upon each of them. Help us now, as we call the prayer line. Heal the sick and afflicted.
And when life is all over, Father, the last sermon is preached---that I will do someday, my life shall have to end here on earth, if Jesus tarries---and then my Bible's closed for the last time, the last hymn has been played, then may we meet Thee, Lord, in peace. Come, Lord, now, and show Yourself alive to us, as we wait on Thee for the sick. In the name of the Lord Jesus we ask it, for His glory. Amen.

69 Now, I believe Billy said he give a hundred prayer cards. I don't know what letter it would be. E? Well, there wouldn't be no more anyhow, cause we prayed for every ... [break in tape] ... medicine will heal you. If he does, he doesn't know what he's talking about. Healing is the multiplication of cells, or life. Medicine will not produce life. If He had them to let medicine make life, we'd pour it in a bottle, shake it, and a man come out, see. But we're not... We don't have it. If you go... Now, you say, "Brother Branham, what's your thought about doctors?"
I believe they are servants of God. I believe that there is some among them that's not. But there's some among preachers that's not servants of God, too. I find more believing doctors than I do believing preachers, in the supernatural.

70 I visited a hospital here not long ago, for a check up before going overseas; I talked to the whole medical staff, and every one on the staff believes in divine healing. Certainly. If you'll present it to them sensibly. One of the head doctors at this certain hospital said to me, said, "Why, Mr. Branham," said, "we push people back that's dead---no pulse at all." And said, "The first thing you know, we realize that room of surgery, Somebody's in there beside us." That's right.
Now look. What if I broke my arm, and I went to a doctor and said, "Heal it, Doc, right quick. I want to finish my job."
He'd said, "You need mental healing." That's right. He can set it, but God has to heal. God has to produce the calcium and stuff that goes in that bone, and knit that bone together; there's no medicine that'll do it.
Now, what if I had appendicitis and the doctor had to operate? He didn't heal me; he just took out the appendix. Whose going to heal the place they cut out? There's no medicine that'll heal it.

71 Somebody said to me, said, "Brother Branham..."
One time I made a remark like that. I made it like this; I said, "Any medicine that will heal my hand, if I cut my hand... Look, if I cut my hand, would fall down dead, you could put all the medicine in the world on my hand, and embalm my body and make me look natural for fifty years, that cut would be just like it was when I fell down dead." Sure. If medicine heals, why don't it heal? Now a medicine to heal the cut in my hand, it'd heal the cut in my coat, heal a cut here.
"Why," you said, "medicine wasn't made for your coat nor this."
Well, what about my body then. If I fall down dead, and you sew it up and embalm my body, why don't it heal, if it heals the body?"
"Why," you say, "life is gone out."
Oh, that's it. Life. What is life? Tell me what life is, and I will tell you who God is. For God is the abundant life. Exactly right. It's your attitude towards it, see. You can't do it. So you must remember that God is the only healer there is.

72 Someone said to me one time, said, "Brother Branham, what about penicillin for pneumonia, bad colds?"
I said, "Sure. Penicillin is like putting out rat poison in your house, when the rats has eaten holes in your house. It kills the rats, but it don't heal up the holes where it's eaten." Exactly right. Penicillin is a poison in a body that kills the germs. And then it doesn't restore the blood cell that it tore down. God has to do that. Certainly.
So God is the only healer there is. If it isn't, the Bible's wrong. God said in Psalms 103:3, "I'm the Lord that heals all your diseases." I hold my...

73 I was interviewed at Mayo's Clinic. They said to me, "We do not..." The old ... was Jimmy Mayo, in the old Mayo Brothers, they had a thing back there in the office, where you used to have there, they took me back and showed me. When this Donnie Martin... How many read it in Reader's Digest? When Mayo's had turned him down and everything, and come out there to California, and down out of Canada. The Lord healed him, made him well. And Mayos had turned him down, and so had John Hopkins. The boy was made normal. And I was interviewed on that. And they said, "We do not claim to be healers. We only claim to assist nature. God is the only healer." That's right.
So doctors is God's servants. I can't heal, doctor can't heal. Now, he works by taking off a growth, or pulling out a bad tooth. I don't deal with that growth. I deal with the life in that growth, the spirit, a cancer---it's a devil. The Bible said, "When the deaf and dumb spirit went out of the man, he could speak and hear."

74 "Spirit." If the man's deaf and can't hear, the doctor says the nerves is dead. Well, why ain't they dead all over his body? Just like this, what if there's a transparent band around my hand that cut off the circulation? Soon my hand would become dead, be useless. Well now, you can't see that. The doctor only works on two senses, two of his five senses: what he can see, what he can feel. Well now, if he can't see it or feel it, then when that band's released, then circulation starts back again.
Just as nature...

75 A lady had a spastic baby over there the other night in emergency room. And I prayed for the little fellow. I told her, I said, "Like a stalk of corn coming up. If nothing bothers it, it'll produce a stalk of corn, good and straight, and a good ear. If a vine wraps around it, a clod lays over it, sticks, it'll crook. Well, that's the way spastic or anything else is. There's something hindered it. But if you can move the hindrance, the thing will grow straight."
Now, a lot of people say, "Well, I don't see any difference now." That don't have anything to do with it, not a thing. Pull the clod off the corn, it don't straighten up right now, just give it a chance. Laying in the warm sun, rain, watch it come right out straight. So will you do the same thing. You just believe it. It's God. One ... all life but that life is botany life, which comes forth by the s-u-n, but eternal life come through the s-o-n (Is that right?), Son of God.

76 Tell you what you can do. Pour concrete up and down your sidewalk, put the grass down there. Where's the thickest of your grass next spring? Right along the edge of the sidewalk. Why? It's that life in there. You can't hide life. When that sun begins to warm that concrete, that little life will grow right on out, right on out, and stick it's head up and praise God. That's right. You can't hide it.
You take a plant, and put it in the bottom of a kettle, turn the kettle up-side-down, watch that plant turn right around and come right back up and praise God. That's right. You can't hide life. And when life's in the heart, God's in the heart, you can't hide it! Oh, He's real.

77 Now, look at that line of people, plumb out into the hall and outside. Well now, you know good and well I couldn't take discernment all along those people, see. How many knows that? Why, about after four or five, I'd be almost fainted then.
How many in here, now... Well, you haven't got any prayer cards, but you believe with all your heart that God will heal? [Break in tape.] ... get well. All right, now go see... [Break in tape.] You see, the first ministry when the Lord told me to lay hands on the ... they'd lay their hands on mine.

78 Come here. [Break in tape.] Yes, sir. Now, if they just said anything didn't have a germ, it wouldn't show. But it does show. You have stomach trouble. Do you believe the Lord will heal you of it? I want you to see this. I want you to look at my hand. Now, take your hand off. See? I put mine on it, it doesn't do like that. Now, the mysterious part, how to know what was wrong with you, see. That's the Holy Spirit. Now, do you believe if I pray for you, it'll go off? With all of your heart? Watch it.
Our heavenly Father, let it be known that Thou art God, and it is written in the Scriptures, "In my name they shall cast out devils." I challenge this devil that's harming my sister. In the name of Jesus Christ, come out of her. Now, you're watching yourself, lady. Now, before I open my eyes or anything, and brother there that was watching my hand too, it's turned back normal, hasn't it? Now, there's something happened, didn't it? You're healed. Just believe.

79 Now, this lady. I'm not looking to her for a vision. Put your hand on mine, lady. Yes, sir. Shadowed to death, cancer. Are you aware of that? Now, she must have healing or die. Now, I just can't explain it. You've just have to believe it; that's all there is to it. There's no way for me to do it. Now, lady, if I could do anything to help you, I'd be a hypocrite if I didn't do it. But I can't do no more than pray. If you and I will agree together, like Jesus promised in the Bible, and you'll believe this with all your heart...
How do you think that I know that you were suffering like that? By a gift. Is that right? Do you believe that gift comes from God? Now, if we will agree now, I can make it leave you and you can see it go. But if... If we will put our faith together. And then if it goes, I can't say it'll stay. Now see, I'm dealing with a growth, see now, a life in there. The lump will probably still be there. But after a few days that lump will swell, get bigger. Then just let it alone. Ain't got no life. It's like a little dog getting run over on the road. He will shrink for a while, but then he will swell and gets twice his size.

80 Lot of people say, "I lost my healing." No. That's the sign you got it, if you get sick. It's a piece of rotten meat laying there. The heart has to purify the blood stream, so it beats through there, and starts an infection, takes fever and everything. That shows that you've got your healing. A lot of people say, "Oh, I missed it, I missed it." See?
Now, will you believe? Now remember, when it's gone out it'll walk in dry places. Now, if you'll believe, put your hand... I want you to understand so... Come up here close, because you're in a serious condition, I want you to look at my hand, see. Now, it turns kind of red, and little white things running over it. Now, that's not the mysterious part. Now you take your other hand here and put it on there. Now, it doesn't do that on there, does it? Neither does it do it on this. But now put this hand on. See, that's what I'm [unclear word]. There it goes, see.
Now, if we will agree to show that God keeps His Word, here's a physical sign. Lay my hand down like this so that you'll see it isn't moving. All right. Now, you see just the way it's looking.

81 Now, I want everyone to keep your head bowed, because this is casting out an evil spirit. And when he's angered and has to be forced out... Usually I leave it to the patient. If they want to believe it, all right. I've done all I can do. This time, so that the audience, this person, the ministers, whatever more, would see it, and know that it's done, the woman looking there, well then, let God be the judge. Now, be reverent. And as you watch, you watch my hand.
Lord, the woman's watching my hand. She knows it's something mysterious, knows what was wrong with her. I pray Thee, Father, in Christ's name, that You'll not hold this against her. But we're wanting the people to know that You're knocking at doors, and she's watching this physical reaction here. And I pray Thee, Father, that You'll make it go from her body. Hear me, Father, in Christ's name.
Now, as yet he hasn't gone. Now, the lady's a witness she's watching. I still feel it, just paralyzing my arm almost. Now, be reverent, everyone. I haven't opened my eyes yet.
Satan, the medical science calls this cancer, which means the crab. But we know you as a devil, a killer, death. And death and life cannot exist together. I come in the name of Jesus Christ, bringing life. Come out of her, I charge thee; in the name of Jesus, leave her. Now let the lady be the judge. I've never moved my hand, but it's left. That right? Now, raise your head. Now with my hand laying on this table here, the lady's a witness, now look, lady, so that you'll see. It's not like that, is it? It's not like that, is it? Now take this hand. See? [Break in tape.]

82 In Jesus' name, may the little one be healed. If you'll just believe... [Break in tape.]
It looked like the whole audience is just becoming bloomed over now. Why didn't you do this at the first place? All that suffering with a blood disease stand up on your feet out there, anemics and so forth, diabetes, or what-more. Stand up to your feet and believe with all your heart, all around everywhere, upstairs, downstairs, wherever it is. How am I going to call them? See? Remain on your feet. Stand here just a minute.
Come, believing. Come here, right here. Look here, sister, diabetes. And you stand right here too. All the diabetics stand on your feet. You're going to see something happen now, if you'll just believe. Have faith. Believe with all your heart. All right. You believe with all your heart?
In the name of the Lord Jesus, may my brother be healed. Amen.

83 Of course, you're a cripple. That's an arthritis condition. Stand here. Everybody's got arthritis stand on your feet. Look here, see.
All right, come, sister, right here. Look this way on me. Do you believe me to be God's servant? I've knowed since you've been setting there enjoying those healings, that you had that asthma, but do you believe that God's going to let him get over it? Everybody's that's got asthma, stand on your feet. Stand up. If God can heal one here, He can heal them out there, can't He? Asthmatic condition.
All right, kidney trouble. All that's got kidney trouble stand on your feet. All right. Believe with all your heart.

84 Come here, sister, look at me. Stomach trouble. Stand right here, all that's got stomach trouble stand up. All right. Look here at me. Oh, the whole audience is plagued with your trouble: nervousness. Everybody's that's got nervousness, stand on your feet. Everybody's got nervousness, stand on your feet.
Look here, how could I go through that audience calling all them people? But the Holy Spirit's here. There's just so much that's coming at one time, I can't tell where it's at.
Oh, He's knocking. [Brother Branham knocks on the pulpit.] Do you believe it? This is the moment. This is the time. Everybody's sick, stand up on your feet. Everybody that wants to be healed, stand up to your feet, raise up your hands.

85 Come, sister, the nervousness is gone. Go, believe. Raise up your hands. Do you accept Christ as your healer? If you do, raise your hands to Him.
Oh God, Author of life, giver of all good gifts, send Thy blessings upon this people, who I blessed in Thy name.
Satan, you've lost the battle. You're exposed. This company knows that you're exposed. You're a devil. You're a liar. You are a bluff. And we are calling your bluff in the presence of the Holy Ghost, as a servant of God, with a gift of healing, ministered by an angel, that exposes you. Come out of them, Satan. In the name of Jesus Christ.
Raise your hands and give Him praise, and I will assure of your healing the entire group of you in name of Jesus Christ.