Be not afraid, it is I

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1 Let us bow our heads just a moment now for prayer. Our precious Lord, we are grateful that we can stand and sing this song, "Lord, I receive," because this is a promise that was given us. And we pray tonight, Lord, while the crowd is under the anticipation, and along with myself, of seeing You do great signs among us tonight. We pray, Lord, as the prayer line passes around this platform tonight that every person will be healed for Your glory. And, Father, we pray that the oncoming tomorrow, around the different parts of the city, that these precious brethren who is standing gallantly for the cause of Christ, that their churches will be packed out, and many souls saved, and great day tomorrow in every church throughout the city.
And then, tomorrow night, Father, we pray that You'll help us as we endeavor to pray for the sick again tomorrow night. Pray that tonight there'll be so many people healed till they'll be telling their neighbors, they'll be coming in tomorrow night for healing likewise. Bless the service and all that we do. We will bow and give Thee praise, for we ask it in the name of Thy Son, the Lord Jesus. Amen. You may be seated.

2 It is such a wonderful blessing to know the Lord Jesus as our Saviour and to know Him as our Healer, looking for Him to come as our King to set up a kingdom on earth that we shall rule and reign with Him for a thousand years, forever be with Him. And now being that tonight is rather pushing for the service of healing, or praying for the sick, we want to say ... I want to make this statement. The reason I haven't had any healing lines this week, there's been something that's been on my heart, and I told you the last time here there was a new ministry coming. And I spoke with some of the brethren today and was telling them about what's happened. Just remember that the first time I was here, you remember, the Lord had told me something was going to happen, change in the ministry. It happened. Said another one was going to happen and it happened.
Now, there's another one greater, far greater than all the rest of them put together, already confirmed and ready. I hope it happens tonight. I just might say that. I don't have the time to explain it to you, but the brethren who does know about it, it's wonderful. It'll be such a great thing for the people, and I am grateful to God that the hour is soon at hand, I believe, that when God is going to help His children. Especially it'll be for those who can't muster the faith to reach up and get ahold of God like they should. I believe the Lord is providing a way for us now to take care of them also. Some runs into the faith that they can just reach over and receive anything. That's great faith. Some of them has mustard-seed faith and has to wait so long to get through. I believe the Lord is making a way for those people now. And I don't know when it will be, but it will be. Just as certain as I'm standing here, it will be.

3 I guess the ministers has announced their services tomorrow at different places. And you're strangers here, some of you, from out of the city. Why, we'd certainly ... in any of these churches you can find a place to worship, the faith of your choice. And we'd be glad if you'd attend the services of some of these brethren here, the churches. Any churches that you want to go to, from other towns where you're from, someone can tell you where your church is located. They'll be glad to do it, anybody. And so the Lord bless you real richly, and have a good service tomorrow everywhere. I pray, when you come in tomorrow night for prayer service again for the sick, that there'll just be exceedingly abundantly of the things done.

4 Now, you that wants to turn to the Scripture readings, we're going to read tonight a portion of Scripture from St. Matthew, fourteenth chapter. And you who are keeping the markings down of the reading, let's begin about the twenty-second verse as we read, of the fourteenth chapter of St. Matthew's gospel:
And straightway Jesus constrained his disciples to get into a ship, and to go before him to the other side, while he sent the multitudes away.
And when he had sent the multitudes away, he went up into a mountain apart to pray: and when ... evening was come, he was there alone.
But the ship was now in the midst of the sea, tossed with the waves: and the winds were contrary.
And in the fourth watch of the night Jesus came unto them, walking on the sea.
And when the disciples saw him walking on the sea, they were troubled, saying, It is a spirit; and they cried out for fear.
But straightway Jesus spake unto them, saying, Be of a good cheer; it is I; be not afraid.
May I use that last three words or four: "Be Not Afraid, It Is I." I want to make that a text.

5 It must have been close to sundown when the big fisherman begin to move the boat back and forth to push it from the bank. I can see his great brawny muscles as he had the boat loaded with the rest of the apostles as he pushed away from the bank, shoved it free from the sands of the shore of Galilee, and it moved out into the water. The big rugged fellow climbed over some of their feet and took his place by the side of Andrew, his brother, picked up the oar, and they started away from the shore. And as they moved steadily out to sea, the people who loved them standing on the bank waving, and the sun going down, and it must have been about twenty minutes before they disappeared out of the sight of the last one waving. I can see each one drop his oar, wave, and then pick up his oar and start again with the little ship. Way back in the west it looked kind of red and low as the sun sank over the Judaean hills.

6 There must have been a long silence. Then I believe it was the young John that must have let up on his oar and said something like this: "I remember when I was just a little boy how that my mother used to take me on her lap and read me the story of God, and how that she used to read that story of God loving His people so well that He provided for them when they had no way to provide for themselves. And said that one day when God had called His people to take a journey from the land of bondage to the land of freedom, they ran out of bread out in the wilderness and there was no corn or flour for them to make bread."
And he might've said this: "I remember when she told me that every night that God rained bread down out of heaven, and of a morning His people would go out and get that bread. And I have said to my mother, 'Mother dear, where did God get that bread to feed so many people, two million people or more, out in that wilderness? How did He send it down through the skies when they were asleep and rained it upon the ground? Where did He get the flour, Mother, to make the bread?'
"Well, she used to say something like this, 'My dear son, God is the creator. He is able to make bread, or create whatever He wishes to. When some requirement that God requires, He is so great, John, till He just speaks and it's there, because He is the great creator.' "

7 And now he might say this, "My brethren, did you notice His face this afternoon when all those hungry people were standing there?"
And one of the disciples might've said, "Yes, I noticed way down along the creek there was a little boy playing truant from school, and had his lunch, and he had five little barley loaves and two fishes. And when He took those bread into His hands and broke that bread, handed it out, took those fishes that were fried and broke them fishes and handed them out, and when He reached back to get another piece of bread it had already growed on there, already cooked and ready. The fishes was already fried. And out of that little-bitty lunch of five biscuits and two pieces of fish, He fed five thousand people. Did it remind you of the story of God feeding His people? So there must be some great connection between this one that we're walking with and Jehovah God, because there is something about Him that He does the same thing God did. He takes care of His people.

8 They were in a wilderness."
"And I'm persuaded, brethren," might've been young John said in his youthful way of about ... he was about thirty years old, I suppose, maybe thirty-five. He was younger than the rest. He might've said this: "It was strange when I watched His eyes. There was something godly about Him. He never had one doubt but when He reached back for another biscuit it would be there, and He pulled one biscuit off of another. Now, brethren, tell me where He got it at. He must be some connection with that great Creator that could make bread, and could make it already baked, and could make the fish already fried and ready, bringing it from five biscuits and two fish enough to feed five thousand, and take up five baskets full of fragments left over. There must be something about Him that we yet have not understood, but I know that He's some connection with God, because no man could do that unless God would be with him.
Jesus had said, "If I do not the works of my Father, then believe me not. But if I do the works, then you believe the works."

9 And young John must have dropped his head, took back his oar.
And it must've been Simon then, the big fisherman, that said, "Yes, that was enough to convince anybody that God was in that man, because no one could have done it. That man could not have done it himself, but God was in Him." And then he said, "When I was convinced, I was rather a rugged little fisherman on the sea. Brethren, you know I had better training than to what I was doing first, because I had a godly old father. He was a Pharisee, but he was a great man.
"I can remember down on the seashore when he would pick me up in his lap and set me down, and would say, 'Simon, my son, you're just a lad, but maybe in your generation, if your father doesn't see it, there will come some day a deliverer which we know has to be the Messiah. And, Simon, many people will misunderstand Him. Our churches will misunderstand Him, and He will be a man that will be a strange sort of a man. But, Simon, my son, I never want you to forget this: you'll have to know the Messiah by the Scriptures that's wrote of Him. Don't never leave the Scriptures, my son. And Moses, our leader, has told us what the Messiah would be, for it is written in the Scriptures that the Lord our God shall raise up a prophet among us, and when this Messiah comes He'll be a God-prophet. He'll be different from other prophets. He'll be a God-prophet. But you'll know Him, Simon, because He will be that prophet, and He'll do the sign of a prophet.'
"And when I heard of this Galilean man, this Jesus of Nazareth, I thought it was just another quack, just another Passover night. But one day when He borrowed my boat, been talking to me, as soon as I come into His presence He called me by name. The first time I ever saw Him He told me who I was, and not only that but He knowed that godly old father of mine. He said, 'Simon, you are the son of Jonas.' And when He said that, I knowed that was the one my daddy had spoke about that the Scripture said would come, because He was a God-prophet. I knowed His signs was beyond a prophet, so He was a God-prophet, and I knowed that would be Him. That's the reason, brethren, that I fell on my face. When Andrew told me about it, I didn't believe him, my brother sitting here."

10 Young John brushed his hair back, a few tears with it, and then smiled, and said, "When I seen Him break that bread, I knowed He was God."
But Peter said, "When He told me who I was and who my father was, I knew who that was."

11 Well, then, it must have been Philip who shrugged his shoulders a little bit, and looked around and said, "But brethren, you should have seen the face of Brother Nathanael here. When I'd found Him, and I knew beyond a shadow of a doubt when He told Simon that day who he was and who his father was, I knew that was the Messiah. And when I heard Him say that, there was something burned within me that I knowed our generation had a visit, and I was going to be determined that every friend that I knowed, that I was going to get him to Him just as quick as I could. So I thought of Nathanael, my bosom friend. And when I went around the mountains about fifteen miles, running that day, and over the cobblestones and the sun was hot, and I heard much talk about it, pro and con, as I went along the seashore of Galilee to see my friend. I came up and knocked on the door, and his wife came to the door, and I said, 'Where is Nathanael?'
"Said, 'Why, Philip, he has just went out into the olive grove. I think he's gone out to see about the irrigation or something.'
"Quickly I run out into the grove and I found him on his knees, as usual. [That's a good way to find a man.]

12 I found him on his knees. And the message was burning in my heart till I could hardly wait to tell him, but yet I let him finish his prayer and when he got up, not knowing I was there... Usually I would go to him and said, 'How is the grove getting along, Nathanael? How is everything up at the market? Have you did any trading with the caravans that's coming through (as he usually did because he was rather a businessman)?' But I had something to tell him."
That's what we need today, brethren, a message that's so burning that nothing else takes its place. Quickly, he didn't say, "How do you do, Nathanael?" He said, "Come see who we've found!" There's something about when you find Jesus that it's your subject day and night. You can't talk about nothing else. "Come, see who we have found, Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph."

13 And Nathanael being a just man, and a level thinking man, he said, "Now, wait just a minute. Now, you know that there could be nothing good come from Nazareth, and if there was such a thing as the Messiah that was coming, He would come to the high priest first and make hisself known. He would come to our church." But you see, God does things peculiar, strange. He does it in order to pull the elected from everywhere.
"And then when ... I told him that if he was going to be critical, the best thing to do was just come see for himself." I think that's a very good message to anybody. Don't criticize. If you hear of somebody that's receiving the Holy Spirit, if you see a life changed and something definitely, and they say ... you've been told that there is no Holy Spirit, do not criticize it. Take your Bible, look it over, see if God promised it, and then go see for yourself. Don't stay home; go find out. Look it over yourself and compare it with the Scriptures, and if it's with the Scriptures it's right. If it isn't with the Scriptures, that's questionable. But as long as it's Scripture and a promise, it is true.

14 And he said, "Come see for yourself."
Then he looked back over his shoulder to find Nathanael sitting there weeping for joy. And he said, "Brethren, do you remember our conversation along the road? I told you that the Scripture said that the Messiah would be a prophet, a God-prophet, that Moses said the Lord your God shall raise up. And all of our people questioned Him, 'Are you that prophet?' And he left them kind of in a daze, not telling them exactly what He was."
And he told, said, "You remember the old fisherman by the name of Simon?"
"Yes," said Nathanael, "I remember him."
"You remember when we bought that fish from him that day? And you wanted him to sign a receipt and he didn't even have enough education to sign his own name. But that same illiterate man came before this one that we know to be the Messiah and as soon as he came, He told him who he was and what his father was."
And Nathanael said, "I'll come see for myself. He'll never tell me nothing. My mind's stronger than his. He'll never read my mind. He's no mind reader."
"And when we come up into the presence..." And then I can hear him say, "Just a moment," Philip say, "Nathanael, I'm getting filled up. You tell the rest of it."

15 And Nathanael said, "When I came up to look at Him I knew by His looks that He was different from other men." And brother, sister, when a man once gets a vision of Jesus Christ, he can never be the same after that. He's different from others. And he said, "When I looked at Him, and He looked back to me, and He looked me right in the face, and He said, 'Behold, an Israelite in whom there is no guile.' Well, I thought, wonder if Philip could have told Him that he was going after me. Wonder if that could have been the case. So I turned around and said to Him, 'Rabbi, when did you ever know me? We are strangers to each other and when did you know me?'
"He said, 'Before Philip called you, when you were under the tree, I saw you.' " Said, "That was enough. That settled it. 'Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God, the King of Israel.'
"Then that look that He gave me and said, 'Oh, you believe me to be such because I've told you where you was and told you these things; then thou shall see greater things.' And truly today I have seen greater things, when He taken the bread and broke it and created bread behind it and fish. He told me the truth. Therefore I am persuaded above any measure that that is the Son of God, that prophet that was to come into the world at the ending up of our dispensation."

16 And they sat quiet for a few minutes. Then Andrew, sitting across from Peter, pulled his oar in and said, "Let's rest for a few minutes, brethren. Let us all share this, because it's well dark, and we're floating along pretty lively, and we've got all night to cross this little Galilean Sea. So we all well remember the day that we'd walked with Him so long and His feet was so tired. Remember when we went down to the spring and got some water and poured on His feet and they were blistered from walking. Yet He said, 'I have need to go by Samaria.' Really, on his road to Jericho, a roundabout way. We wondered why would He go a roundabout way."

17 Remember, reminds me, rather, of a recording I was listening to a few days ago when I was laying in the bed, the day that I saw the Lord Jesus walk into the room (that I don't think I've told you about), to talk about this new ministry to me. When I was laying there in the bed, I was listening at a teacher teaching on a tape, and someone said to this teacher. "Why is it that you don't go and stay straight in the road with your text?"
And this teacher said, "All the people I teach to is not on the highway, so I have to go by the wayside to pick them up." That's pretty smart, Brother DuPlessis, Brother David, and it's true. Jesus will take His teacher to one side off of his text, and Jesus will go aside to win one soul, or to do one thing to help somebody.

18 Say, "You remember how His precious feet was hurting Him? And He made His way to Samaria. And it was noontime, and we'd been out bigger part of the night. He'd prayed for so many sick and He was weary, walking along the road. And He sat down so tired that He couldn't make His way hardly in the city. And He sent us away to get some food, and the Samaritans wouldn't let us have it. So on our way coming back we were astonished to see Him, our Master, talking with a woman marked with ill fame. But when we seen that, we were astonished and we... Did not we all slip up in the bush, and stand still to see what He would say?
"And He said, 'Woman, bring me a drink.'
"Do you remember what she said, brethren? She said, 'It's not customary for you Jews to ask Samaritans such. We have no dealings with each other.'
"But now listen, brethren," Andrew might have said, "Listen what He told her. He said, 'Woman, if you knew who you were talking to, you'd ask me for a drink, and I'd give you waters that you don't come here to draw.'
"And the woman, all excited, said, 'Well, where can you get this water? The well's deep and you have nothing to draw with.'
"And do you remember, brethren, what He said? 'The water that I give is life eternal bubbling up.' And the woman wanted that water. And He said to her, 'Go get your husband first and come here.' And do you remember, we thought He must be trapped or something when the woman looked Him boldly in the face and said, 'I have no husband.'
"We thought, 'How could that be our Lord, to make such a mistake as that when Messiah is perfect? How could it be this woman is denying that she has a husband?'
"But then did you notice the expression in His face? Calmly, quietly, said, 'Woman, thou has said true. You've had five husbands and the one you're now living with is not yours.' How it melted that woman! She thought she could lie out of it, but the expression on her face and the tears in her eyes... She said, 'Sir, I perceive that you are a prophet.' Now, brethren, listen to what He said. She said, 'You must be a prophet. We know that when the Messiah cometh, He'll tell us these things, but who are you?' And He said to her, 'I am he that speaks to you.'
JOHN4:25,26,29
"Brethren, when we know that our teaching is that this prophet would be a God-prophet, and when that Samaritan woman testified, against our priests, that she knew that when the Messiah come He'd be a ... give the Messiahic sign, He'd be a God-prophet. And even our priest called Him Beelzebub, a fortune-teller. But this ill-famed woman seemed to have a better understanding of the Scriptures than our priest did. She said, 'You must be a prophet. But we know when the Messiah cometh, he'll tell us all these things, but who are you?' He said, 'I'm he that speaks to you.' And on that, when she found out that she'd had a contact with the real Messiah, she run into the city and screamed to the men, 'Come, see a man who told me the things that I've done. Isn't this the Messiah? Isn't this the sign of the Messiah?' "
"And how many more things," Peter must have spoke up and said, "could we say about Him that has proved that He is the Messiah of God?"

19 About that time, Satan looked up over the rim, and he saw the little boat out on the sea without Jesus. He thought, "Here's my opportunity." So is it tonight with every individual, with every church, with every member of the church. When Satan can see you alone without Jesus, it's his opportunity to smite you. Said, "I'll rid the whole bunch now. I've got them right where I want them. Now I'll drown the whole bunch of them." So he began to breathe in and blow out from his nostrils great powerful winds that ... and his poison breath hit the sea. It had a nervous prostration. And sin from Satan will make anything have a nervous prostration!
That's the reason we got so many nervous breakdowns so the insane institutions filled up. We got people running through a thirty-mile zone at ninety miles an hour, squeezing all the tar ... the rubber off their tires turning the corners. They're in a nervous, neurotic state. They don't know what to do. All the world is nervous, upset, they don't know where they're standing. They're joining one church and then the other church. Every little thing, they're running here and there, to and fro. It's because that Satan has begin to push out his poison breath, has begun to blow his winds of strife, breaking churches apart, separating brotherhood, making people think that they're a little better than somebody else, they belong in a better bracket, they belong to a better church. There is only one church, and that's the church of Jesus Christ. And there's only one way to get into it--that's by birth. You are born into the church of God and there's no other way to be brought in. And it doesn't matter whether you're Methodist, Baptist, Presbyterian, Catholic, Orthodox Jew, whatever you are. God does not look at your denomination; He looks at the brand that's on you ... or, the blood.

20 Years ago I used to do quite a bit of riding. First riding I ever did was here at Phoenix. I thought I was a rider like my dad till a bronco piled me up a few times right out here in Salt River Valley. He throwed me into a bunch of cactus out there one day. I was in an awful shape for a week or two. Trying to chase a burro down. Right off of Sixteenth Street, thirty-three years ago.
And I remember over in Colorado, the Hereford Association grazes the Troublesome River Valley. And many times, when we'd take the cattle up there, have I sat with my leg wrapped around the horn of the saddle while the ranger was checking these cattle going through the gate, the drift-fence gate. And there was the Turkey Track, there was the Lazy K, the Diamond T (Mr. Grimes), and Tripod (which was Mr. Jeffries, who I was with), Mr. Zwalin, the "A," different ones going through--which every man could raise a ton of hay could put a cow on the pasture for the summer. But I noticed that ranger never even checked the brands. He looked in their ear for the blood tag, because nothing could go on that forest except it was a registered Hereford.
And that's the way it's going to be at the big gate someday. God don't care what brand you're wearing; He's going to look for the blood tag of His own Son, for it's the blood of Jesus Christ. He won't watch the brand; He'll watch the blood. Not "when I see the brand"; "when I see the blood, I'll pass over you."

21 Satan has blowed his breath of poison, saying, "Oh, these people don't believe like you." It ain't what you believe; it's who you believe. Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved--on the Lord.
And he seen the little boat out on the sea. And he'll watch your little boat too. When he can see you out on the sea of life without Jesus, that's his time to sink you. And he'll do it if you don't watch him. These disciples had went off without Him.
And now I say this with brotherly love. I wonder in the last four or five years, or more, if we haven't got so busy--so many things to do, and our building programs, and all of our societies and things that we're getting in the church--if we haven't kind of went off without Him, if we haven't stayed home at night to watch some television on Wednesday night instead of attending church. I wonder if we haven't been too busy trying to make enough ends to get a new car, or something like that, and forgot church. Wonder if our programs haven't called us away un... we say our church is getting cold and formal. I wonder if we'd check up on ourselves, if we're not just about as much to blame, or a little more, than the pastor is, the cause of our church being in that condition. Remember, you're sailing in one little boat, and there's nobody can get in there with you but you and Jesus. So keep it congregated. In unity there is power, with the rest of the believers having fellowship one with another while the blood of Jesus Christ, God's Son, cleanses from all uncleanliness.

22 And then the little boat began to pitch back and forth, and it looked like the time had come. I could think, the first thing, when the winds begin to blow, Simon being a great fisherman, he said, "Hoist the sail."
And Satan said, "I'll rip it off." And a lot of times we hoist up some things. Satan just rips it down for us.
And then he reached down and grabbed his oar and bent his back to it, and broke the oar. Then the great waves begin to fill up the ship. I wonder if getting away from God, maybe getting away from prayer meetings, if the world hasn't flipped some of its waves into our ship. I wonder if we haven't got to a place that where we would rather go to a party than go to a prayer meeting. I wonder if it's got to a place that we kneel down at the altar and stay there five minutes instead of five hours like you used to. I wonder if the old church hasn't lost a little of its zeal for God. All of us--Methodist, Baptist, Presbyterian, Pentecostals and all.

23 Brethren on a stormy sea and the devil saying ... every time the lightning would flash, a little demon would sit on a wave and laugh, and said, "I got him now."
Maybe it's sickness has overtaken you. A cancer is eating you up, tubercular is in your lungs, arthritis has crippled you, and you wonder what's the matter? Satan said, "Just a little while longer."
You spoke to the doctor, and said, "You're gone, your heart's in such a condition." That may be right, but let's check up a little bit.

24 They thought that maybe they'd made a mistake, that they were forsaken. But you know what happened? Jesus was mindful of them. After He sent them away He climbed the highest mountain He could find. And no matter how far out they were from the top of the mountain where He was at, He was watching them. I'm so glad tonight, though He's been gone from the earth in physical body two thousand years... He started climbing on Calvary, and He climbed to the ramparts of glory. He can see the universe around. His eye is on the sparrow, and I know He's watching Madison Square Garden in Phoenix, Arizona, tonight! Our ships may be filled up with sickness, distress, pains, and aches, sufferings and nervous and flusterations. We may be tore to pieces, but there's somebody that's watching over us.

25 He climbed so high till He went all the way into heaven, and the Bible said He is so high till He has to look down to see the heavens. Heaven is His throne and earth is His footstool. There when He climbed so high in the power and glory until He sits on the Father's throne, and looks down, and there's not even a sparrow can fall to the street without Him knowing it. He knows how sick you are. He knows your doubts and your flusterations. We're in a terrible storm, but don't be scared--there's somebody watching. Which one? The One that broke the bread, the One that knowed Peter and called him by his name, the One that told the woman of her sins. The one that touched the hem ... a woman touching the hem of His garment and He turned to her and told her her blood issue had stopped, the One who perceived the thoughts of the mind. He hasn't laid down in a grave so He can't see you, but He's climbed into glory and He can see even a sparrow that falls in the street.

26 Before He left He said, "A little while and the world won't see me no more [the unbeliever], yet ye shall see me [the believer] for I will be with you, in you, to the end of the world." Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today, and forever. Never let the poison winds of Satan ever harm you to throw you off of that. He watches over us. And when all hopes is gone... Maybe you visit the doctor this week. Maybe you've been in every clinic there is in Phoenix, and maybe to Mayo's or John Hopkins (I've seen it many times), and they'd say there's not an earthly chance.

27 Many of you, about three years ago in Reader's Digest, read the article of the miracle of Donny Morton, when I was in Arizona, or I mean in California, how the Lord--after Mayo's and John Hopkins and all of them had turned that little twisted-up baby down--the power of God unfolded that child and made him well. Mayo's called for an interview for it, wanted to know what happened. Sure. Reader's Digest wrote it up. What happened to little Donny, the little Canadian boy? All hopes was gone after Mayo's and Johns Hopkins said, "The child cannot be healed."
But the father said, "Donny, we're not whipped, for not long ago there was someone here in Canada praying for the operator, long distance operator. She was in a school. She was deaf and dumb, like these people sitting here. And there was two of them went to the meeting at Calgary, and the Lord healed both of them. One of them is a singer in church, and the other one is a long distance telephone operator.

28 He said, "Donny, if God knowed them, He knows you, Honey, and I'll get you somewhere."
He hitched his horse to the sled. Down through the snow they went, with the mother. When they got to the place where they was to put the little boy and his mother and them on the plane, they didn't have enough money for one to get on the plane. So he found a Greyhound Bus that Donny and his father could ride; and they come to Los Angeles and some kind of association helped them to get out to the meeting where we was at, the Assemblies of God out there at the campground, North ... or Southwestern Bible School.
There when the father started in the line with the little baby, said there was a young man that had to put him out of the line because he had no prayer card. That was Billy. Billy was doing that because it wasn't fair for the man to come in the line, because others had been waiting for days in the prayer line. But when the little fellow ... I seen him walking off the platform with that little twisted baby. I said, "Let him alone, Billy. Bring him on up here." And when the father, trembling, brought the little fellow--and his head sideways, his big eyes cast back in his head, shaking his hands, twisted down, his little legs drawed up behind him--I said, "Sir, if I could heal your baby I'd do it. But you're a Canadian, and you've come a long ways, and this little baby's name is Donny Morton."
The father began to shake, and he said, "That's true."
I said, "Do you believe?"
And he started screaming. He said, "With all my heart." He went straight from that meeting that night and bought Donny his first pair of shoes, and he wore them the next day.
Why? His eye is on the sparrow. He knows every move. He hasn't left. He isn't dead. He's raised again and He is the same yesterday, today, and forever. His great omnipotent power can never fail. He is still the Son of the living God. Oh, He's so great.

29 And when He looked down off of the mountain, He knowed they'd get in trouble, so He climbed high enough that He could watch them all the way through the journey. That's what He's done tonight. He knowed we'd be in trouble in this age, so He climbed plumb into heaven, that He could see us plumb through life's journey. "I'll be with you. Even to the end of the world, I'll be with you." Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today, and forever. What He was then, He is now. What He done then, He does now.

30 He was the one who said, "I can do nothing in myself." St. John 5:19, He said, "Verily, verily, I say unto you, the Son can do nothing in himself but what he sees the Father doing." In other words, He can't lie because He's God. So when He said, "I do nothing until the Father shows me [not tells me, but shows me]. What I see the Father doing, that doeth the Son. Then Jesus never performed one miracle until God showed Him by a vision what to do.
If that was the sign of Messiah then to the Jews, to the Samaritans... Never to the Gentiles. The Gentile age is ending now. We all know that. The handwriting's on the wall. We know that we're at the end time. The Gentile world is so in such a conglomeration of sin and confusion until... The Jews has returned yonder as a nation. The old six-point star of David is flying, the oldest flag in the year ... the oldest flag in the world. Twenty-five hundred years since it has flown. There they are with their own currency, Israel returning to its own. The revivals and everything that we've got indicates the soon appearing of the Messiah. We're at the end.

31 Now, if God gave the Jews that sign of Messiah before the mercy was taken from the Jews, gave it to the Samaritans at the end of their journey, He has to do the same thing to the Gentiles and give the same sign, or He done wrong when He gave them that sign. If God ever makes any kind of a decision, it's perfect forever. He's God, He cannot go back and say, "I was wrong. I'll do this for this generation and this for something else." He is the same yesterday, today, and forever. He has to do the same, and He promised He'd do the same.
And tonight in the hour, and our little boat rocking, "Nations are breaking, Israel awakening, The signs that the Bible foretold; Gentile days numbered, with horrors encumbered; Return, O dispersed, to your own.' The day of redemption is near, Men's hearts are failing for fear; Be filled with the Spirit, your lamps trimmed and clear, Look up! your redemption is near."

32 Oh, how we should take these warnings, seeing the end time come. We're seeing the little boat filling up fast, the Gentile age running out, Satan scattering, doing evil.
But in the midst of all of it, when they were in their most distress and thought all hopes was gone, they seen someone come walking on the water. But the sad part of the story is this, they were afraid of Him. They thought He was a spirit. In other words we'd say today, something spooky. They thought it was some kind of a spirit, maybe an evil spirit out there on the sea. And the only thing that could save them, the only hope they had, the only salvation was left for them, they was afraid of it because it looked spooky to them.
And if that isn't the same thing tonight with this nation, I don't know it. God sending His promise, proving it by His Spirit, and the people says it's a mental telepathy, it's a evil spirit, it's of the devil. The only thing that can help, and they're afraid of it. Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today, and forever. He is the same, He does the same, He acts the same. He is the same, in every manner and every principle, He's the same. He's here now. His Spirit is here.

33 If you could only, my friends, you sick people, could only realize that healing is a something that's past tense. It's something God has already done, and the only thing that you can do is to accept what He has done. Then it'll be different, if you can accept it, if you can believe it, if you can have faith and believe that God is.
How many--before we call prayer cards for the people to come up here--in this building that doesn't have a prayer card and you're sick? You? You there? All right. There's a man and a woman. I do not know you, do I? What about you, sir? I do not know you, do I? We're perfectly strangers. All right. If the Lord God of heaven is still the same God, if Jesus Christ is the same Son of God, if He's here tonight in the form of the Holy Ghost that He promised He would be, and will reveal to me your trouble, lady--not knowing you and no way for me to know you--if God will reveal to me your trouble like He revealed the woman at the well what her trouble was, would you believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God, and I've preached the gospel and told the truth? Will you believe it? Will the rest of you believe it? All right.
You suffer with your eye trouble. And you believe that God will make you well? And you down there suffer with a lung trouble. Do you believe that God will make you well? Stand up on your feet if you believe it. All right. Go home, both of you, you are healed. Jesus Christ makes you well.

34 Oh, if you can believe! Don't you see, healing can't come from any man's hands? It comes from Calvary. It's a finished work that God did for you at Calvary. Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today, and forever. Do you believe it? Are you aware that the presence and the goodness and the mercy of Almighty God is here now to help you? Would you believe? Could you believe with all your heart?
Here, I'm looking at a man. There's nothing wrong with him, but he's thinking about his friend. That you might know that Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever, he's thinking about his friend, and his friend has blackouts. He's a veteran. That is right. Can't get him to church, but he's a veteran and having blackouts. You're interested in him and praying for him. Is that so, sir? If it is, stand up on your feet. I do not know you. I've never seen you in my life, but that's the truth, isn't it? If it is, raise up your hand. Have faith and believe in God and the blackouts will stop and he'll be made well. Hallelujah! Glory!

35 Wait, do you have a prayer card, sir? You don't have a prayer card. All right. You won't ... you wouldn't be in the line then.
See what I mean? It's Jesus Christ revealing Himself. He said, "As it was in the days of Sodom." What was it? A human being, standing there with the Spirit of God in him, that said, "Abraham, where is your wife Sarah?"
Said, "In the tent behind you."
And she smiled to herself. He said, "Why did she laugh?" Jesus so much as said this, that same thing will take place just before the fire falls just to blast the whole world. "As it was in the days of Sodom, so shall it be in the coming of the Son of man." Oh, if you will just believe it!
How many has prayer cards? I sent Billy down to give out prayer cards. Where's he at? All right. What's the letter on the cards? Somebody that's got a card, what letter is it? A? Who has A number 1, raise up your hand, A number 1. All right, sir. Stand right down here. A number 2. All right, right here. Number 3, number 4, number 5, 6, 7. [Gap in the audio] ... and forever.
Wonderful, wonderful, Jesus is to me,
Counselor, Prince of Peace, Mighty God is He;
Saving me, keeping me from all sin and shame,
Wonderful is my Redeemer, praise His name!
How glorious, how wonderful He is!

36 All right, 30 to 40, let them come now, A 30 to 40. Now the ushers will keep you lined up with your numbers, and so forth, how to get in the line down there. Now, I've stopped just a teeny bit early. (Got them? That's okay. They got the ushers over there.) All right. 30 to 40. Now 40 to 50, 40 to 50, let them line up.

37 And now while they're lining, I want your attention just a moment. Our Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of the living God, He is most wonderful. And there was a woman in the Bible that she had no way of getting close to Him, so she said this, "If I will touch the border of his garment, I'll be made well." How many knows that's Scripture? "If I will just touch..." Now look at her faith. Look at Martha when she was back, and had sent, for Lazarus. And Jesus went on, never... He just ignored it. They sent again. That lovely girls, and their brother dying, Jesus' bosom friend, and they sent for Him again. And He ignored it and went on. Why? Remember St. John 5:19? "I do nothing unless the Father shows me. I do nothing."

38 There's something with this lady here sitting here. I'll tell you what it is now. See, you don't realize just what's wrong, see. I told you something wrong with your eyes, which is astigmatism, but your main thing you're wanting me to pray for--to call you, to tell you, which will help you--your heart. That's right. Now, if that's right, stand up. All right. Now, sit down. All right. See, you was going to be healed anyhow, see. You was going to be healed, but you was wanting me to know it was heart trouble, see, by you praying like that, "God, let him know it, let him know it," God spoke back, and said, "It's heart trouble. Tell her about her heart."
Oh, He's wonderful! He knows the secrets of the heart. Oh, isn't He wonderful? How glorious, how marvelous the Son of God! This little woman touched the border of His garment. That's exactly what she did right now. Now, you know she never touched me.

39 You're not going to get in the prayer line either, sitting there, the elderly man looking at me, right here? You haven't got no prayer card? Do you believe that God will heal you anyhow? You, sitting here? You, yeah. You're not going to be in the prayer line? All right. You'd like to have your eyes healed though, wouldn't you? Your eyes, that's right. Raise up your hand if that's right. You've got it. Amen. All right. It's over now, you don't have to get in the prayer line. Just go on back, it's over now. What did he touch? He touched His garment. What happened? The same thing happened when that woman touched His garment.
The Bible said that He is a high priest. You believe that? Right now He's a high priest that can be touched by what? The feeling of our infirmities. Is that right? Well, that's what's happening. You're touching the High Priest; not me. God has to have a channel to work through. He works through man. He's always used man. When Jesus came, that was God in flesh, God working through man. He was God in David, He was God in Elijah, He was God in Joseph.

40 David, a rejected king, went up over the hill weeping, up on the Mount of Olives. Five hundred years later the Son of David, as a rejected king, wept the same thing over the same city. It was the Spirit of God in Him. The Spirit of God in David, the Spirit of God in the Son of David--Christ weeping over the city as the rejected king [Gap in the audio.]
"Who touched me?" No one said a word, but Jesus looked around, watched the people. And when He found her He said ... told her about that blood issue she had, her faith had saved her.
Now, He's the same tonight. If He's the same tonight, He'll be the same tonight, work the same tonight, the same signs. "The works that I do shall you do also."

41 I was talking to a fellow not long ago. He said, "Oh, sure, Brother Branham, we preach the gospel all over the world--that's greater works."
I said, "Do the works then that He did, then do the greater. Show me the works that He did. 'The works that I do shall you do also.' "

42 The Spirit of God is present. How wonderful it would be if we could all believe now with one accord.
Now look, down this line there's... How many more has got prayer cards? Anybody else got any prayer cards? All prayer cards? Now remember, prayer cards will be give out at six o'clock again tomorrow night. Now this line here is for prayer for the sick. Now, if I could heal this man, or anyone else along there, I'd do it. I can't heal. I have no way of healing, but a sign shows the presence of God. Now, God first sent His Word. That's the best way to believe it, what your pastors tell you. That's right. If that would be you or I, and they didn't take our word for it, they could just go ahead and die. But not God. He's loving and kind. He sends other signs.
He puts in the church what? The first thing that God puts in the church is apostles. That's missionaries, same word--"one sent." Second is a prophet, and then teachers, evangelists, and pastors. God sets those in church by foreordination, God foreknowing all things. Then in each local church is gifts, nine different spiritual gifts. It's not only on one. It goes from one to the other, and back and forth. Paul said, "You all may prophesy." Now, them's not all prophets; that's a gift of prophecy. A gift of prophecy, it has to be judged by two or three judges before it can even be given to the church, or passed upon. But if God sends a prophet, it's born a prophet, always, with "thus saith the Lord," see.

43 Now, we're looking in the church today for God to rise up such people. We're looking for great signs, and great missionaries, and great apostles, or great ... great men. They're here. I talked to one just a few hours ago--Oral Roberts, great man of God. Up here at the hotel, us praying for each other, laying hands on each other and asking God's blessings that our work would move on. Tommy Osborn. Oh, just ... I couldn't stop to call them--great men all around through this city, pastors, and everything. They're all servants of God. Your pastor ain't close, there's a neighbor that's filled with the Holy Spirit--go with them and pray. Anywhere, so we get in, that's the main thing get in.

44 Now, I couldn't take this line here for discernment. You know that, because that just nearly kills you. Anyone knows that. How many know that visions weakens you? The Bible said so. What happened when that one woman touched His garment? He said, "I perceive that I have gotten weak." Is that right? "Virtue has left me. I got weak." One person. Well, you see what two persons would be, then three persons, then four persons. You're about gone, see. But the only way it is, Jesus said, "More than this shall you do, for I go ... or, greater [which means more in quantity, not quality] shall you do."

45 Now, I believe I made the announcements. I'm going to ask each one of you people, keep the little ones just as quiet as possible, everyone sit still for a few minutes, and I want you... Now remember, my prayers is no more for the healing of these people than your prayers is. Each one of you are partners with me, and we're partners together with Jesus, for these sick people. What if this was your son, Dad? What if this was your son, Mother? Your husband, wife? Your father, child? What if it was? You'd want somebody to be real sincere about it. The more would pray, the happier you'd be. Now, there's a many of them out there, sir, praying for you. And each one's going to join with me in prayer for you, and for each one of these people along here.
Now, if we'd stop for this discernment, we'd get about four or five and the rest of them would go back to their seats. But long ago when I first come here, you remember that day up here at Brother Garcia's, that I prayed for nearly three thousand people that afternoon? Do you remember that? Sure, many of you do. See, three thousand people. They had to pack me to the motel. Just stand there, laying hands on them, praying till ... and just saying, "God bless you," until my mouth, I could hardly open it no more. My lips was parched, like that, but hundreds was healed, see--just laying on of hands.

46 Now, the Bible said, "These signs shall follow them that believe. If they lay their hands on the sick, they shall recover." Do you believe? Do you believe all along the line? If God doesn't say one thing to you in any discernment, you're ready to believe it anyhow. Is that right? Just laying on of hands. All right. Now, you come... Just stand where you are, sir, that's all right. Now, that you might know, this fellow has been standing a long time, and... Brother Borders ... no, this brother, are you one of the ushers there, sir? Are you the next patient to come? Watch the people there. All right, just so there's somebody to help them. And if they're too crippled to come up, bring them right around here, and I'll lay hands on them and pray for them.

47 Now, how many in here will pledge your loyalty to be offering prayer for these sick people? Raise up your hand. Now, all of you see, look along here, everyone.
Now, heavenly Father, this is the moment, this is a crucial moment. The moment that that same Jesus who came walking to the ship that night on the sea, walk in tonight, Lord, in the midst of this people. Walk in by the power of the Spirit and so saturate our body, our souls, and our spirit with Your presence until we'll see the great works of God. May each person that passes through this prayer line, and hundreds of people sitting here tonight lifting their hands and pledging their loyalty to pray for the sick, and I, Your servant, Lord, praying, and You, the Holy Spirit, here performing and doing the same things, the impossible things to be done by man...
It is true that someone might have enough mental faith to rise up out of a wheelchair, or get up off of a cot or a stretcher, but when it comes to discerning a spirit perfectly, that takes You, God. That's only You. The greatest miracle that we've seen in the ages is that. But You've promised it. It was a sign that You was going to give to the Gentiles just before their closing day.

48 Lord, we don't know what day will be the closing of Phoenix, but we pray, Father, that tonight that the people will not miss this, but they'll...
Now that the hour has come for deliverance--after a full week of calling to the altar and doing all that we could to get people to repent, seven straight nights now--we pray that You'll be merciful and heal all the sick that's in divine presence. And, Father God, if there's anything here that You wish me to know, just speak to me, Lord, and I'll answer You. Answer the prayer of all the people, and may everyone coming through the prayer line pass by this pulpit knowing that the prayers of the people is for them, and Jesus the Son of God is here to prove Himself to be their Saviour and their all present King and God. Grant it, in Jesus' name. Amen.

49 Now, one word from Him will be more than thousands that I could say. Now, that you might know... Now, those people out there, wherever they were, had no prayer cards. You just keep praying. Keep praying. Now here's people with prayer cards. To show you the prayer card has nothing to do with it, show you that the Spirit of God is here, I'd just like to say a word to this man.

50 This man, as far as I know, I don't know him. I know nothing about him. He might've seen me, been in the meetings and looked at me, and so forth, and I might've see him somewhere. I couldn't say that, I don't know.
But to look at him in the face, to look at him that way, God knows (my hand) I've never saw him in my life, just to know him, unless I'd seen him and wouldn't know him. But now the man's standing here for some purpose, for some cause. I don't know, but it's seemingly that he's in a desperate condition.

51 But if the Holy Spirit will tell me just something, just something another, so that the other people down along this line can see that that Spirit that knows everybody in here has the anointing--and the Bible predicted it would be just that way in this day--surely it would make them have faith. Would it make you have faith if the Lord could tell me what your trouble was, like He did the woman? Would it help you? Would it help the rest of you people in the prayer line? Would it help you? All right. Would it help you out there to believe? I'm just going to take a moment and talk to him.

52 Now, sir, we're perfect strangers. Just like Philip that found Nathanael, you come tonight. You come here, just a man, walked in here and somebody give you a prayer card, and here you're standing on the platform. I don't know you, know nothing about you, but the Holy Spirit is here who does know you. Now, if God can reveal to me something that would show you that ... tell you the truth, you'd know whether it was the truth or not. You'll know that much. If it told you something that has been, you'll know whether that's true or not. Then if He knows what has been, surely He'll know what will be. If you know that's right, then whatever He says will be, it's got to be right, see. That's true.
Now, if I said, "Praise the Lord! Hallelujah! You're sick..." Sure, you're standing on the platform. You're here for something. You might not be sick, I don't know. But if I'd say, "Praise the Lord! Are you sick?" you'd say, "Yes sir."
"Hallelujah! The Lord says you're going to get well."
You'd say, "Praise the Lord," walk away. That could be truth. That could absolutely be the truth, but how much greater is it who can go back down in your life and tell you what you have been, then come here and tell you what you have been and what you will be. See, that's the infallible part. And you're the judge, and there's at least five or six hundred people here tonight, and you know that it would ... whether that's the truth or not.

53 Now will every person in here believe, you said? May the Lord grant it.
Father God, I can't have no contact with the man. It's up to You, Lord Jesus. There's so many of you out there praying, makes it hard for one on the platform. You have to kind of hold back, or there'd just be a burst over the plat ... out in the audience. Now he is. He's aware now that something is taking place. That's right, isn't it?

54 The man's actually shadowed to death. He doesn't look it, but he is. It's cancer. That cancer is a stomach cancer. It come from an ulcer that's been on for some time. It's growed worse until it's come into a cancer, without hope now. And you have just ... you've accepted Christ, but you had onetime been a Christian and backslid, then just come back to God recently. That's right. Yes, that is true.
And you've got a burdened heart for somebody. Do you believe God can reveal to me who that somebody is? Would it help you? Would it help you to believe? It's your mother. You believe God can tell me about her? Something wrong with her hip, and she's in a hospital. She's a great woman. She was healed in one of my meetings before, thus saith the Lord. Come, let us pray. Our heavenly Father, laying hands upon the man, with this audience of people, condemning the evil, may he go and be well in Jesus' name. Amen. God bless you.

55 Come, lady. If I don't say one... You know I know what's wrong with you, don't you? But if I don't say one word, it's all right, is it? Our heavenly Father, I pray that You'll heal the woman. May she go and get well, in Jesus' name, while we pray. Amen. Your heart trouble's left you. Now you can go home.

56 You know you must believe God or that cancer would kill you. Our heavenly Father, I pray that in Jesus' name that You'll help her and heal her, while we all pray for her and lay hands upon her, saying, "These signs shall follow them that believe. They shall lay hands on the sick, they shall recover." In Christ's name, amen. God bless you, sister. Go believing now with all your heart.

57 Precious Lord, I pray that You'll heal our sister, and may she leave here tonight and go home and be well, while this great host of people is praying in Jesus' name. Amen. Now, I didn't tell you what was wrong. You believe it anyhow? You believe it? Well, your heart trouble's gone, so you...

58 Our heavenly Father, I pray for this dear man. May Your Holy Spirit come upon him and make him well. I pray that You'll heal him in Jesus' name. Amen. Bless you, sir. Lord Jesus, I pray that You'll make our brother well. May Your Spirit be upon him and completely heal him for Your glory. Amen. Bless you, sir. Heavenly Father, I pray that You'll heal our sister, and may these people that are praying, along with Your servants, may they be healed in Jesus' name. Amen. God bless you, sister. Go believing.

59 Our heavenly Father, give this man a blood transfusion. May the power of God come upon him and take this horrible thing away from him. In Jesus' name, may he be healed. Amen. God bless you, my brother. Want to go eat your supper? All right, go ahead, your stomach trouble left you. It seems like if you don't say nothing the people don't seem to get it. Now, don't do that, see. God's just as great whether I tell them anything or not. You believe that? Just as great. He's the same God, He knows all things, does all thing. He's just God.

60 Now, like this woman here. Do you believe me, sister, as God's servant? You believe that I've told you the truth out of that Bible? You believe God can tell me something about you? You do? All right, you're suffering with a throat trouble. That's right. Not only that but you are a preacher to begin with, a lady preacher. And then you're praying for somebody, a close friend of yours that's got cancer. That's "thus saith the Lord." Go now, believe. Our heavenly Father, I pray that You'll make the woman well, in Jesus' name. Amen.

61 Come, sister dear. Now, the people are praying for you out there. Everybody, now. Lord, I pray that You'll heal her and make her well, in Jesus' name. Amen.
Come. Speak English? Speak English? Your back. That's right. Raise your hand if that's true. Raise up your hand. Go, now, back to your people. Jesus makes you well. Amen. Come believing. You going to believe for her too? All right. Come. Our heavenly Father, I pray that You'll make her well. Grant it, Lord. May Your Spirit and power come upon her and heal her, in Jesus' name. Amen. God bless you. Believe now, sister.

62 Our heavenly Father, I pray for this man. I lay myself against him as my brother. I pray that the Holy Spirit that's now present will anoint him with faith also that he will believe, while the church is praying in Jesus' name. Amen. Come, sister. You believe? Lord Jesus, I pray for our sister, along with this church of the living God, that You'll heal her and make her well. Amen. Bless you, sister.
Come, sister dear. Our heavenly Father, as I lay hands upon this our sister in Jesus' name, may she be made well. Amen. Bless you, sister. The little fellow, you believe that he'll get well? Heavenly Father, cursed be the devil that has afflicted this child. May he be well, in Jesus' name. Amen. Don't doubt it now, he'll be all right. God bless you.

63 Kind heavenly Father, I lay hands upon them in the name of Jesus. May Your Spirit come upon them, and be made well, in Jesus' name. Don't doubt. The Lord bless this our brother, and may he have the desire of his heart given him, in Jesus' name I pray. Amen. Now, everyone be reverent and be praying. Just be praying with me. When I'm praying for the people, you pray with me. Are you doing that? Everybody praying. Now, the Lord be blessed.

64 How many remembers when I used to take the people by the hand? You remember that? You believe it still works? I don't know the lady. Is that right? We're strangers. Put your hand on mine. There you are. Come here, Roy. No. Thank you. Come here, Billy. I know what's the cause of vibrations in you. Let's have your hand. I want you to look here. That's my boy. There's nothing wrong. See, my hand's just an ordinary ... like this hand. All right. That's all right. Now we'll put your hand on there. Now, what a difference. See it swell and them little white things running over it. It's vibrations. Now watch here. I'll put this other hand on it. It's not there now. No swelling or nothing; now change hands, there it is. Now, you're just as much human in this hand as you are in that hand, but see... All these people here in the audience remember that when the mission was given me fourteen years ago by an angel, he said, "You have the people to give you their right hand. That's pledging their faith that you're sent. My left hand to them, and my right hand to God."

65 Now lay your hand on here and watch something. Now, there it is. See it swell, puff up? Look up my sleeve here. Now just feels like I got ahold of something moving. Now here's what it is. I don't know at this time. Now you just look here. Kidney trouble. That's right, see. Now, that is by... Now, that's that gift. Now watch. Now just raise up and kind of pray to the High Priest for somebody, for something another. Yes, you are praying for somebody. He had ulcers. That's right, see. That's discernment. Believe now. In the name of the Lord Jesus, may they be healed. Our heavenly Father, I pray that in Jesus' name that she'll be healed. Amen.

66 Come, sister. Heavenly Father, I pray that You'll make her well in the name of Jesus. Amen. Come, brother. You ready to get rid of this, and the old cane? Lord, I pray that You'll help him. You must if he lives. I pray that the spirit of evil and sickness will leave him, in Jesus' name. Amen. God bless you, sir. Come. Our heavenly Father, I pray for the woman that You'll make her well. May Thy Holy Spirit be upon her and make her well, in Jesus' name. Amen. Bless you, sister.

67 Heavenly Father, I pray for our sister, as this great mighty church of the living God here is praying tonight. Hundreds of prayers are going to You right now for these people. You can't turn them down, Lord. I pray that You'll heal her in Jesus' name. Amen.
Are you believing? What was it? Somebody... Is this little girl here to be prayed for? Our heavenly Father, may Thy Spirit and Thy [unclear word] and Thy mercy be upon ... may she be healed in Jesus' name. We pray, Father, that You'll grant it... In the name of the Lord Jesus, let Thy Spirit and Thy mercy be upon her.

68 Father God, I pray for ... on the platform. I pray that You'll heal her and make her well in the name of Thy Son Jesus, while all the great ransomed church of God is praying. May the affliction leave our sister and may she be healed in Jesus' name. Amen. God bless you. This lady? O God, I pray for mercy that You'll be with her. Grant that she'll be healed, Lord, in the name of the Lord Jesus.

69 Look up here, sister. Do you believe? Do you speak Spanish? Do you believe that the withering away of them muscles and things will be all right now and you'll be well? You've been seeking God lately, haven't you, for a closer walk with Him? If you believe with all your heart, that curse will leave you. I curse that devil that's done this to this little girl, in the name of Jesus Christ. Lord, You said, "Say to this mountain, Be moved, and don't doubt but believe that what you said shall come to pass, and you can have what you said." I curse thee, enemy, that's took this little girl and done her this way. May she start from this very hour and be made well. You got it. Believe it, she'll get well. God bless you.
Are you believing? Real reverent, see. All right. Are you the next person? You believe me to be His servant? If I could heal you, I would. I cannot heal you, but God can heal you, for He's God. But if the Lord will reveal to me what your trouble is, then will you... You'll know then that... I don't know you. And if I don't know you, and the Lord will reveal it, that'll show His presence. Now, it's upon what faith that you have to believe for your healing.

70 Something happened in the audience. Just a moment. Lost it somewhere. Someone right in this section here somewhere. I seen... I follow a light. How many seen the picture of it? Pillar of fire. They got it here, see. It's left here and went out in the audience, right along in there somewhere, see. Now just a moment. Now don't doubt with the little girl, see. The little girl that you've got there. You understand English? All right. Believe, the curse will leave her.
If God will reveal to me what your trouble is, you'll believe me to be His prophet, or His servant? You do? That's fine. I think you're a lovely person. You have trouble with the liver for one thing, and that was caused from a fall that you had. And then you got trouble with your shoulder, with your back, and the little sinews in the lungs down here was tore loose from an automobile accident. That's right, isn't it? Just exactly. Mrs. Hoff, you can go home. Jesus Christ makes you well. God bless you. Don't worry. He knowed who Simon Peter was, see. He knows all things. Do you believe that?

71 Do you believe, sister? Our heavenly Father, I pray that You'll heal her and make her well, in Jesus' name. Amen. Meet the little boy? Our heavenly Father, I pray for the child that You'll heal it. Grant it, Father. Let Thy mercy come upon him and may the curse of the devil be taken away, in Jesus' name. Amen. All right.
Fred, I know you. Want to get rid of that asthma. All right. If you do, come here and let's pray. I didn't know you had that, but... Our heavenly Father, this man has been good to me, been my brother, following the meetings around. I pray that You'll help him now, and cursed be the devil that's done this to my brother. May it clear up from him tonight and never bother him no more, in Jesus' name. Amen. God bless you.

72 Our heavenly Father, for our sister I pray that You'll heal her. May the prayer of this church, this great ransomed church sitting here many in number tonight, may God heal her and make her well. Amen. Come. Brother here, is the one, or both of you? Our heavenly ... God be merciful to our brother and to our sister, and may the power of Almighty God come upon them and make them well. May this be the hour of their deliverance, in the name of Jesus Christ, amen. Awful simple, but so powerful. Amen. God bless you.
Come, sir. How long has the back bothered you? But you believe it's going to be over now, don't you? In the name of Jesus Christ, may it leave, Father. Amen. God bless you, sir. Go believing.

73 Our heavenly Father, I pray that You'll heal our brother and make him well. May he go from this night and be well, while this great church of God prays for him. Amen. Bless you, brother.
Both of you? Our heavenly Father, this young woman here stands afflicted by the enemy. May the power of Almighty God be upon her. May she be healed, in Jesus' name. Amen. Bless you, sister. Go believing. Don't doubt.

74 If you'll just not doubt, see. Now you can pass three, four, or five, just praying for them and the heavenly Father knows, and each one coming, will just catch it, there it is. It'll reveal it. You know that, don't you?
Here, you. You believe me to be His servant? I don't know you; God knows you. You believe that He can reveal to me something about you? Would it help you if I told you what was your trouble? Your trouble is in your throat. That's right. You believe God can tell me what kind of trouble it is? It's a cyst in your throat. Is that right? You believe God knows who you are? He does, Mrs. Brown. Now you can go home and be well. Just have faith, that's all, see. Just believe, see. Now, look here. See how different it makes?

75 Heavenly Father, I pray that You'll heal our sister and make her well, in Jesus' name. Amen. Our heavenly Father, heal our brother and make him well, in Jesus' name. Our heavenly Father, I lay hands on brother and ask for his healing, in Jesus' name. Grant it. How do you do, sister. Now you must have faith now, because that arthritis is getting bad, but if you'll believe with all your heart, God will make you well. You believe it? Our heavenly Father, I pray that You'll help her and make her well. In the name of Jesus Christ may she be healed. Amen. Bless you. Come believing.
O God, she needs a blood transfusion tonight. Take away this sugar. I pray that You'll help her tonight, and may she be healed in Jesus' name. Amen. God bless you, sister. Don't doubt.

76 Brother Williams, I know you. God be merciful, Brother Williams. Our heavenly Father, this precious man has been such a dear brother to me. I pray that You'll help him tonight, Lord. May Your Spirit be upon him and this fear that he's had, may it pass from his mind. May he go and be made well, as I ask the blessings upon him and curse the devil that would make him fear. In Jesus' name, amen. God bless you, Brother Williams.
Heavenly Father, I pray for our sister that You'll heal her and make her well. In Jesus' name I pray. Amen. Have faith in God.

77 All right, sir. Are you believing? with all your heart? Your sight. I've seen you somewhere. Where's Brother Sharrit? Is John Sharrit here? Here's the man I saw in the vision today when I was in your car. This is the man. He's a minister from Missouri, gone blind from sugar diabetes. That's right. I saw you today, sir, on the front of Brother Sharrit's car when we were riding in. A man, a minister, and they told me about it. That's right. Now, let us pray for our brother. Our heavenly Father, I pray that You'll make this man well. May the power of Almighty God curse this devil that's made him go blind. May he get well from this night. May his sight come to him that he can see. In Jesus Christ's name, amen. All right. My brother, you believe? The diabetes you've had, what's run that that way, once you had diabetes, was prayed for, healed. It come back on you, going into your sight. You believe with all your heart, it'll leave again. Go, see, and preach the gospel in the name of the Lord Jesus.

78 Do you believe with all your heart? Are you going to believe? Would there be a sinner here that doesn't know God, would like to come up and be prayed for now? A sinner who doesn't know God? How many in here is sick and hasn't got to the platform yet, and you believe that Jesus Christ, the Son of God, is here? Oh, sure, He's here. Do you want to be healed now? If you want...
Can you see now? He's walking by himself! When I seen him in the vision... Look at him going along there, a blind man walking on, seeing. Let's say "Praise the Lord." That's fine. His sight come to him, blessed be the name of the Lord. That's it. Amen. He's going along shaking hands with people. How wonderful!

79 Now, do you believe that I'm telling you the truth about Jesus?
Well, here's His own words: "These signs shall follow them that believe. If they lay their hands on the sick, they shall recover." Lay your hands on one another. All the way around the building everywhere, right now, while His presence is here, up in the audience, all around the balconies, and everywhere. Lay your hands on one another. If God can make a blind man see, if God knows the secrets of the heart, how much more does He know your condition being here. Lay your hands on one another. Don't pray for yourself. Pray for the next man you got your hands on.

80 Our heavenly Father, in the presence of Jesus Christ, the great mighty One, may the Holy Spirit come forth. O Satan, you're defeated. Jesus Christ rebuke thee. Come out of these people, thou enemy of the human race! May the God of heaven make everyone healed, in Jesus' name. Praise Him. Keep your hands in the... If you believe you're healed, stand on your feet. I don't care how crippled you are, stand up. Believe Him! Take Him at His word. Stand up everywhere. Believe that Jesus Christ has made you well. Everyone accepts your healing, stand up. Now raise your hands to Him. Say, "Thank You, Jesus! Thank You, Jesus! Praise the Lord God, the great Jehovah God, for His goodness."

Be not afraid, it is I

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1 I have been called an extremist, so I suppose I am by my travel too. I think the last time I was here at Lakeport, it was too cold. I will hit it right one time if I just keep trying. In the midst of all this, I am more than delighted to say I'm happy to be here at Lakeport again tonight.
Since I heard that I was coming, why, I've looked forward to this time. Small city, way back here in the mountain, but some of the nicest people I ever met in my life; just good, what I call right down-to-earth people. And to have fellowship like that, with such people, makes you feel real good.
Brother Folk was just telling me,

2 last evening when I come in, why, I was... First motel I came to, why, I thought, "This is the place I'm to stay." And so, I went in, and sure enough it was. And I signed a little card there that I'd be staying there.
And when I got up this morning, I thought, "Well, I better go down and see what this place is worth." When I heard what it was worth, I changed places right then.
And Brother Folk was telling me, said, "But we want you to be comfortable."
I said, "Brother, with a price like that, I'd rather camp out under a cedar tree out here."
Yes, sir. No matter, if the church ... if people are willing to pay it. It's not Christian to do such things as that. No, sir. I'd rather have a little place that's just clean and that's all that's necessary, than take something the church has to pay something like that. No, I don't like that ... as Christian Businessmen, rather.
I want to greet them, and say I'm certainly happy that... Thankful that the Lord has given me favor with them that they'd invite me back. This is kind of a little coincidence, I suppose. I'm supposed to be in Germany now. And under difficult, I couldn't get away to go overseas, so I had to take this month and next for the services. And I just come out here to visit you fine people here, to pray for the sick, and to minister, and see if I can get someone to accept our lovely Lord Jesus.

3 Just had a vision ... or something happened to me a few weeks ago. Maybe a little later in the service I can tell you about it. And I have never felt the same and I will never feel the same about it any more. I hope I'm not acting as a fanatic, but I'm sure that I saw heaven. And I never want to miss that. And I want to get every soul that I can to go there. I've always... There was a little fear of what would happen to me between the time I died and then Jesus coming.
I always thought I'd have a spirit body. I never liked anything spooky like that. I just can't stand that. So, it always scared me. But the other morning at my home, something happen. And my wife there, and my children, and all. And I went not very far, just a little ways away, and I seen literally millions that I've preached to; all young and healthy, and never to die. And they put their arms around me. And I looked back and seen myself laying on the bed. And I thought, "Is this...?" It was just perfect. It was just something... When I knowed that I had to come back, I was very sorry. I said, "Surely I don't have to leave now." And people that I knowed had been saved as much as being around ninety years old before they were saved, they were young and beautiful and calling me their brother.
If that's it, I'm ready to go any time. No worry, but, then I realized what the Bible meant when it said: "If this earthly tabernacle be dissolved, we have one already waiting."
If you believe me to be His servant, friends, that's the truth. Ever where it was... I do not know whether I was in this flesh or whether it was out of it. I don't mean to be impersonating the great Saint Paul. But wherever it is, may God grant that everyone of you will be there. It's nothing ... I'm never seen or had any vision or anything like that. It just changed my life.

4 A young beautiful woman standing there had just greeted me and called me her precious brother.
I said, "I don't understand this."
Said, "She was past ninety when you led her to Christ." Said, "She will never be old no more. She will never be ... never have to die. Never be sick." Said, "That's the reason she said, 'Precious brother.'"
Oh, if I could just only remain there forever. Just... It is no yesterday, no tomorrow. You're just there. And no sin, nothing can happen sinfully. There's nothing could be sin.
And, everything was perfect love. If I would try to say it was perfection, that wouldn't meet it; sublime, that wouldn't meet it. I just don't know ... have any words that I know in the English dialect to express what the place was. I never seen or heard or thought anything like It.

5 Now, it perhaps was a vision. I never had a vision like that; of the hundreds of thousands of visions that I've had, I never had anything like that. Because I was standing in a place here, and would look back and see my body laying there on the bed, by the side of my wife. It was along nine or ten ... eight or nine o'clock at morning. And I'd look back and see it; and I'd pass from something---and I'd thought I'd died---and just far enough away I could see it.
Looking at this platform, there's some of my friends that's here, one of the deacons of our church ... or trustees rather, Brother Sothmann and them. That picture that was taken was taken right here at this platform, the last time I was there. How many's ever seen it? You mean just a few? Just the people right from home. Oh, it's one of the outstanding ones. The same Angel of the Lord that's been taken all over Germany and everywhere was taken standing right here at this pulpit. And I happened to notice these flowers here. There was something like it sitting in front here. And the man taking the picture from this side, and there it was just as perfect, our Lord, as it could be.

6 And so we're so glad to be back in this little place again tonight.
Now, I am not wanting to keep you too long because I know it's hot out there. And I don't want to keep you long so it will wear you out, and yet I am thinking that maybe, the Lord willing, this is the time that there is a new ministry coming ahead for me. And perhaps ... I hope that it will start here. However, I'm going to try with all my heart to pray for the sick the way He told me to in this meeting.
Is anybody here that's never been in one of my meetings before? Let's see your hands. Never been... Oh, my! I'll have to change my text. There's so many here that's never been in my meetings before, never have been, well, then I'd better go back to the old ministry tonight, and then have the new ministry start tomorrow evening.

7 The little books in here kind of---the boys has got---explains it, if you could get one. And if you have... I think they sell them right reasonable. They're printed by The Voice Of Healing. And then we take them and bring them out to the people, buy them at forty cents less on the books ... forty percent less. And then we have the handling charges besides that. We pay for them being sold and carried and there's freight and expense. We always lose on a book.
Then we always say this: that, if anybody wants one that hasn't got the money, I've asked the boys, let them have it anyhow. Just give it to them. If you ever... If you get it and read it, it's not worth the fifty cents or what you paid for it---I forget just what it is then---you just send it back, get your money back. Or, keep it and tell them it wasn't good, so then we will give you the money back anyhow. It's just some way we don't have nothing to sell to make money. The boys sell the tapes and they're just as cheap as they can be.
Before I let them do it, I check with another evangelist. He was getting nine dollars a tape, I believe, he charged me for them. And then, these boys, I think it's two dollars or something like that, they sell them for, on the very best of tapes. They are guaranteed too. If it's no good, why, you don't have to pay for it, the messages. Five hundred and something different messages I've preached in different part of the country.
If I'm not mistaken, am I looking at Jack Palmer all the way down from the south? Brother Jack, what are you doing way up here? You wasn't in the last meeting, was you? My, my, that man's from way down in southern Georgia. I think we ought to say, "Praise the Lord." [Congregation says, "Praise the Lord."] Is it this hot down in Georgia? It isn't? Just a little more humidity in the air is all. Well, these California people don't mind it; they're used to it.

8 Now, how many in here is Christians, lets see your hands, that loves the Lord? Oh, look at there. I believe one hundred percent. So happy for that.
Now, if I will have a Scripture reading and talk a little tonight, then I will call a prayer line and we will pray for them in the way we used to. Then maybe tomorrow night, we will start on the other ministry.
Now, if the Lord is willing, I want to pray---if you'll just hold with me---I will pray for every person that comes here that wants to be prayed for, see. Every person. We won't leave one out. See? We will pray for every one.
What we try to do... Divine healing does not mean that some great power that someone has to heal someone, but it's the faith in the resurrection of Jesus Christ, if we can believe that He is not dead, but living.

9 And the theme of our campaigns is always Hebrews 13:8, "Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today, and forever." How many of you Christians believe that, that He's the same yesterday...? [Congregation says, "Amen."] Thank you. That means you're real Christians when you believe that.
Now, He is not dead, but He's living. I've been around the world, and in all kinds of places, and under all kinds of circumstances, all kinds of religions. I was entertained recently by seventeen different religions, and everyone of them denied Christianity. And yet, in the midst of five hundred thousand people that I was speaking to at Bombay, the Lord Jesus Christ in Christianity triumphed over everyone of them and put every witch doctor and holy man and everything else to shame. And, there's no way of telling how many came to the Lord Jesus. We had no cooperation amongst the churches---and just dropped in for three days---and there was no way of telling how many was saved.

10 Now, we will just bow our heads now, and approach God and the Word. Now, we're going to remember that everything that we do and teach must be based upon this Bible, recognized from Genesis to Revelation.
Our heavenly Father, we are happy tonight to be Christians. I just don't know what I could do if I wasn't a Christian. I am so glad that You saved me.
And the other day, whatever it was that happened to me... And I saw that great result when the one that was speaking to me said, "This is your converts from your ... the fruit of your ministry." How my heart leaped, and I thought, "O God, if I could live it over again, I would try to do twice as much. I would persuade and beg with all that's in me to get people to come to Thee."
Now, Father, here tonight is another opportunity. The purchase of Your blood sits here before me. And help me, Father God, as Your servant; I don't know what to do or how to do it. I'm just depending hour by hour on You leading me.
And they're sitting here, not just to be seen, in this hot weather tonight. They're come for some reason. They're hungering and thirsting. They love You. Many of them are sick and dying. Some are afflicted. May we not just play now. But may we get right down to deep sincerity in the Word, in the gospel. And pray with all that's in us, fast and wait upon Thee, and know that You will do the exceeding, abundantly above all that we could do or think.
If we will just only commit ourselves to Thee and purpose in our heart, like Daniel did in Babylon, that we'll not defile ourself with unbelief; but we will let the Holy Spirit take all unbelief from us, and believe on Him with all of our hearts.
We approach the Word just now. Speak to us, Father, through Thy Word. For I ask it in Jesus Christ's name. Amen.

11 I wish for you to turn tonight in the book of Saint Matthew, and let's get the fourteenth chapter, if you will, in the book of Saint Matthew; I want to begin to read with the twenty-second verse.
And straightway Jesus constrained his disciples to get into a ship, and to go before him unto the other side, while he sent the multitude away.
And when he had sent the multitude away, he went up into a mountain apart to pray: and when the evening was come, he was there alone.
But the ship was now in the midst of the sea, tossed with waves: for the wind was contrary.
And in the fourth watch of the night Jesus went unto them, walking on the sea.
And when the disciples saw him walking on the sea, they were troubled, saying, It is a spirit; and they cried out for fear.
But straightway Jesus spake unto them, saying, Be of a good cheer; it is I; be not afraid.
May the Lord add His blessings to the reading of His Word.
I want to take for a text, to draw a context from that twenty-seventh verse: Be Not Afraid, It Is I. And the words I wish to use is: It Is I.

12 It must have been along about this time of the evening. The sun is just going down, when the... Each one of them taken their place at the oar lock in their boat. And the little sea---as I was sitting this afternoon, thinking as I looked out across the lake---it must of been something like that. Galilee is about that size and maybe a little wider. And the big fisherman with his brawny, big muscles begin to twist at the boat, as he pushed the bow out into the lake. Climbing over the rest of the apostles and taking his feet up towards the front of the boat, sat down, perhaps, by the side of his brother, Andrew, and his good friends, and especially in Christian fellowship.

13 There's something about when you have been with a group of people where Jesus is; it's so hard to depart from that people. There's something that just welds us together as we sit in heavenly places in Christ Jesus. What a feeling it is for people to congregate together in that fellowship with the Lord Jesus. And that's what they had enjoyed that day. And thousands were standing on the bank, five thousand or more people, and they were waving good-bye. And as it is with fellowship, we just can't hardly leave one another.
And we ... used to think of the old song, we used to sing at the church years ago. And I was pastoring a little Baptist tabernacle at my city, Jeffersonville, Indiana. We used to sing this old song:
Blest be the tie that binds
Our hearts in Christian love;
The fellowship of kindred mind
Is like to that above.
When we asunder part,
It gives us inward pain;
But we shall still be joined in heart,
And hope to meet again.
Many of you has heard that old song. It's a famous old song of the church, been cherished down through the years.

14 And as they waved good-bye to the ones that was on the bank, and as the little ship on the still waters floated its way out into the sea, dark began to steal across from the other side towards Gadara. And they were ... the shade falling into the water. The little ship was almost out of sight from the disciples ... or the people on the bank, as the disciples went out into the lake.
I believe it must've been quite a little bit---maybe say, ten minutes---before anybody spoke any more words. As the little ship drifted along and each apostle with an oar just ... and rotating just in time.
And there we learn a lesson too. On this little ship sailing over life's solemn main that we are going on, if we will just pull together, the ship will move much better.
If the Baptist, and Presbyterian, and Pentecostal, and Assemblies of God, and Church of God, and all, will just pull together, the little ship will certainly move smoothly.

15 And as they moved the little ship towards the other shore, their destination, it must've been the young John---he was the youngest among the bunch---that brushed back the shaggy hair from his face, and waited just for a moment as he rested upon his oars. The brethren waited and wondered what he was going to say. Then he must've turned with something like this, and said, "Brethren, I am more than ever convinced tonight that we're not following some sort of a religious fanatic. I am more sure than I ever was in all my life that we are following the true Son of God. I was more convinced today than ever.
"As a little boy, I used to love to hear my mother read of the great Jehovah, who was God of power, who could do miracles and speak things into existence and create by His own Word. And my mother used to tell me, 'Sonny, all things was made by God, and He just spoke it into existence.'
"And then I used to love to hear that story: when our ancient people come out of Egypt forty years in the wilderness, how Jehovah led them. And when they got hungry, Jehovah just rained bread down out of heaven.
"And as a little boy, I used to think, how I'd like for Jehovah to rain some of that angel food down now. Because it said, 'It was wafers with honey.' And I would be glad to get it.

16 "And you know today, when I seen Him take those five fish ... or five loaves and two little fishes and feed five thousand people, I knowed that had to be Jehovah. I know no one else could do that. And brethren, I crawled up close to that rock, when I seen that little boy that followed us down there this morning, had been playing truant from the school, him and his little sister, and he had this lunch under his arm. And when I saw Peter there ask him about that lunch when everybody was hungry, and it was given over into the hands of our Lord. I thought of how it was just enough food in there to feed that one little boy his dinner. But, when it was in the hands of Jesus, it could feed five thousand, and take up several baskets full of pieces."
How God can multiply what we put in His hands. In our hands it's not much. In His hands He multiplies it by the thousands. If we can only let Him have what little we have: our time, our attention, our faith. May not be too much.
Like our sister sitting here, one holding crutch and another sitting in a wheel chair, and a precious man sitting looking at me there, with a crutch and a wheel chair. Might not be... Little faith you have may not be very much, but if you could only get once into the hands of Christ, what He could do with it. The wheel chairs would be pushed up against the wall, be going down the streets tomorrow praising God, thanking God. Many sitting here dying with heart trouble, cancer, whatever it might be. And a few days from now you might go back to your doctor, and he'd say, "Say, what's happened here?" What is it? What little you had, you gave it to the hands of Christ and He began to multiply it. The cancer began to leave, the heart began to go back to its right place and beat right again. Just let Him have it in His hand.

17 He said, "When I saw Him take those five biscuits and two fishes and break them, I climbed up on the rock and looked over to see how He did it. And I'd see that piece of fish in His hand. He'd break it off and lay it over here and when He reached back again, there would be another fish there. Not only a fish in the water, but a fish already raised and cooked, and ready to go. Ready to eat. And when I saw Him break that little loaf of bread in two, lay it out here. But when He reached back again, there was another loaf ready to be broken off again."
Oh, how He could grow bread. I want to ask if there'd be a scientist here, what kind of an atom did He turn loose at that time? ...to make the regular wheat, of course. It was the same one He turned loose when He turned the water into wine.
He's God! He does what He wants to. And He's willing to do all things and give us exceedingly, abundantly, more than we could even think if we will just let ourselves be turned loose in the faith in Him. That's where it lays, is having faith in Him, to believe that He can. For all things are possible to them that believe. No matter what it is. It's possible. And not only possible, probable and will happen, if you'll just believe it.

18 Now, and young John as he looked down there and said, "I seen then that He did something. He did something the same way that Jehovah done it. And I heard Him say, brethren, 'That if I do not the works of My Father, than believe Me not. But if I do the works of My Father and you cannot believe Me, then believe the works.'"
How perfect that is. How that applies to any age. As long as Jesus is alive tonight, He's just as much God tonight as He was then, just the same, see. He said, "If I do not do the works of My Father..."
Young John must have said, "I read in the Bible where Jehovah could make bread come out of the heavens, could create bread in the heavens, and send it to the earth. And brethren, that bread had to come from heaven, because I seen Him break it off and hand it out. And I'm persuaded with all that's left in my heart, that He is the Son of the living God." Yes!
How he must of said that as the tears rolled down his young cheeks. He never forgot it. He never forgot it when he was an old man. He'd have to be packed to the platform to preach just a short sermon instead of around four hours. But he still can sing and it's that love that he... All he could talk about was, "Little children, love one another." Just repeat it over. "Little children, love one another, for he that loveth is of God; for God is love."
Then it takes real love to create.

19 Love. You let your wife know that you love her, she loves you, it'll... When you're a young couple and you find favor with one another, it makes you join yourselves together for a life-time's journey. Love. And that's phileo love. That's human love. What will agapao love do, when you can really get into a place that you can show God that you love Him and you got confidence in Him? How you'll join yourself to Him. Not only for a life's journey, but for eternity.
How you're willing to take His Word just at what He says, and say, "That's right, Lord. I question it not." And move right on. That's what takes real love.

20 And young John, as he sat there with his hands resting upon the oars... Perhaps then, someone picked up the oars and they started again. It was getting dark now.
Then, after young John had got his say-so, it must've been the apostle Peter, the big, brawny fisherman sitting up towards the boat, at the stern where he just pushed the bow out and jumped in the stern of it, and sat down by the side of his brother Andrew. He must've stopped to have his...
You know, we just all got to have a little testimony once in a while, when we get together. I like it yet, don't you? A good testimony meeting!

21 And so, it must've been apostle Peter that could not hold himself any longer. And he said, "Well, brethren, I want to testify too. When Andrew here, my brother, had went up to visit this so-called Galilean Prophet, as was going around... I had heard my priest say at the temple, there was nothing to it because God had no more prophets, and I'd heard all kinds of rumors of healings and so forth, but I couldn't believe it.
"But one day when we were washing out our nets, this fellow came down to the banks to preach, and then I got me a chunk and went back up on the side of the bank and sat down. But when He began to speak, there was something about Him that was different from any priest or preacher I had ever heard."
And brother, when you once sit still enough and listen till you can hear that still, small voice of Christ, it's different from any message you ever heard in your life. It brings a peace, it brings a satisfaction. It does something to you that stirs your innermost being. You're never the same. Men cannot meet God and talk with God and ever remain the same again.

22 Now, he said, "But when... I had it all in my heart." Said, "After I knowed my godly, old father, which was a Pharisee (as you brethren all know that he was a Pharisee) and then, when he was getting old, I remember how he used to sit after a day's fishing on this lake. He would sit down around the bend yonder where we used to pull the nets in. One day he picked me up in his arms and he said to me, 'Simon, my little boy. Daddy is going to have to leave you one of these days, turn all of my boat and tackle and everything over to you.'"
As I look at my own little boy, Joseph, and think the same thing. Someday I've got to turn the Bible over to him, and all that I have.

23 And he said, "As my father would push the gray hairs from his brow, and his white beard, he said, 'Simon, sit down. I want to instruct you, my son. All through the years we've waited, our people has waited for that coming Messiah. And we have now drawed up many descriptions of how He will look when He comes: riding down out of heaven in a chariot, driven by angels or horses or something. We have many descriptions. But Simon, that's not going to be the coming Messiah. When the Messiah comes, He's going to come in a different way from what any of our rabbis are thinking. Now Simon, I want you to read the Scriptures, because the Scriptures always tells the truth. Now, here's one thing you can remember: when He comes, He's going to be rejected. He's going to be a rejected man, because every true message of God is always rejected. Always has been, always will be. It's going to be rejected by the people in the majority. They will reject it.
"And now here's where you're going to find: there may be many false Messiahs rise before your time, Simon. I've always thought that I would live to see Him. But I'm getting old and I, perhaps, won't see it. But, Simon, never let this depart from you. When the Messiah comes, He will be a prophet. He will be a God-Prophet. Because Simon, Moses, the one we are following his instructions now, said in his word, which he was a prophet, he said, 'The Lord your God shall raise up a Prophet liken unto me.' And now you remember when the Messiah cometh, He will be a prophet like Moses. But He will be more than a prophet. He will be the God-Prophet. It'll be God in a prophet manifesting Himself.
"'And when you see that great sign... Now, people raise up and say they're this, that, or the other; don't you believe it, Simon. But when you see God working the sign of a prophet, because that's going to be the Messiahic sign, will be the sign of a prophet, because Moses said, 'The Lord your God shall raise up a Prophet liken unto me, law-giver, priest, king, prophet. And it will come to pass that whosoever shall not hear this Prophet will be cut off from among the people.

24 Isaiah said He would be rejected. A man of sorrow, acquainted with grief. We would hide, as it was, our faces. Now, don't believe the modern trend of Him, Simon. But you watch for that sign of the Messiah. He will be a prophet.'
"And brethren, that day sitting on the chunk..." He said to the ... perhaps to the apostles, as we give the little drama. "I sat there and watched and listened to this man. He was a very forceful speaker. He didn't speak like one of the priests from the Bible, from the scrolls; He spoke with authority. And when He spoke, He seemed to have perfect confidence in what He said was right. Therefore, I began to kind of like Him.
"Then all of a sudden, He turned and looked at me sitting on that stump. And said, 'Your name is Simon. And you're the son of Jonas.' That proved to me that He was the one that God was going to send. He was that God-Prophet, for He not only knowed me, my name was Simon, but He knowed that godly old father of mine. He said, 'You are Simon, and you are the son of Jonas,' my dad. Therefore, I knew that my dad had instructed me by the Bible, and now the Bible was a living fact that here He was, calling me by name, that never even seen me in His life, never heard of me, knowed nothing about me. And here He calls me Simon. [I don't even have faith,] spoke of my old father that's been gone for fifty years. Said, 'You're the son of Jonas.' When He said that I fell at His feet, because I knowed that was the Messiah." Amen.
Messiah yesterday. What would the Messiah be today, if He's the same yesterday, today, and forever?

25 Well, it must've been about that time---Philip's time---to stand for a testimony in the boat. As it was almost dark then, about shady. And Philip sat up, and he said, "Brother Nathanael, you bear me record of this. I stood there and seen our Lord tell Simon here that his name was Simon, he was the son of Jonas. That helped me too. And I had a brother that belonged to a great denomination called the Sadducees. So, I went to see him. And it's about fifteen miles around the mountain.
"I went over one morning early; I got up, had my breakfast and taken off across the mountain as hard as I could, and went over. And along about late in the evening I come ... or the afternoon, I came to the place where I knowed that this man lived. And I knocked on the door, and his wife said, 'He has just taken a visit out in his grove. And he's out there among the trees somewhere. Philip, you'll find him out there.' So I went out amongst his trees; and when I got out, there I heard a noise. And I went looking under the fig tree, and there he was on his knees praying."

26 Then he might've said, "You remember that, Brother Nathanael?"
"Amen. I remember it."
"And I waited until he finished praying, and I said to him, 'Come see who we have found, Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph.'
"'Oh,' he said, 'now wait a minute. What's this you're saying? Now look, Nathanael, I know you've been a good man and you're plenty scripturally balanced. Don't you go off on the deep end now. Now what have you done? You tell me that this Galilean prophet they're talking about is the Messiah?'
"'Listen, Nathanael, I saw Him and heard Him do the sign of the Messiah. We know the Messiah is to be a God-Prophet. When I seen Him stand... Do you remember that old fisherman you bought the fish from down on the lake that day, by the name of Simon?'
"'Yes, I remember it.'
"'He was so illiterate he could not even sign a receipt for the fish.'
"'I remember that.'
"'As soon as he came up into the presence of this Jesus of Nazareth, He said, "Your name is Simon and you're the son of Jonas."'
He said, "Now, Philip ... or Nathanael, I wish you could search the Scripture. Is not that the sign of the Messiah?
"And he said, 'Oh, certainly the Messiah will be a prophet. We know that. We're trained in that. But where would we find such a man? Is there... Where's He from?'
"He comes from Nazareth.
"'Nazareth. Could there be any good thing come from Nazareth?'
I believe that he gave him one of the best answers that any man could give another. He said, "Come and see."

27 That's the best thing to do. Now, just don't stay home and say, "Well, the Joneses said so-and-so." Don't do that. Come, bring your Bible, and search the Scriptures, and see if it's right or not. Come, see for yourself. Don't come just for an hour. Come to stay till you're thoroughly convinced that it's right. That's the way. Check it by the Scripture. Knowing whether it is true or whether it is not. When you are convinced to the Scriptural teachings of the Bible. Whether it's right or not. Now, that's what he was referring to. "Come, see for yourself, whether it is truly the Messiah or not.
"'Well,' he said, 'I will come and see.'
"So, as we went along the road, I told him the different things that had happened, and so when he walked up into the presence of the Messiah, to Jesus, He... Perhaps maybe He was standing like you are. Maybe He was sitting down. Maybe He was, whatever position He was in.
"When this man walked up into His presence, being a religious man, a good man, He said, 'Behold an Israelite, in whom there is no guile.'

28 "Now this astonished him. He didn't know what to say then. He wondered how He ever knowed who he was. He said, 'Rabbi [which the word Rabbi means "a teacher, a Hebrew teacher"], Rabbi, when did You ever know me? Now, You tell me here that I am an Israelite.'"
Now, it wasn't because he was dressed like an Israelite, because all the eastern people... He could've been an Arab, or he could've been a Greek. They all dressed with the garments and the turban and just like they do in the East. He could of belonged to many different forms of people then in the eastern country. But it wasn't his dress. It wasn't his color; they're all dark brown.
"And so He said, 'You are a Israelite in whom there is no guile.'" A direct, positive witness of the Messiah, see. "Thou art an Israelite in whom there is no guile.
"He said, 'Rabbi [other words teacher, reverend, we would say today], how did You ever know me?'
"And He said, 'Before Philip called you, when you were under the tree, I saw you.'"
What eyes! Fifteen miles around the mountains the day before, when he was under the tree, "I saw you."
"And said, 'I fell before Him and said, "Rabbi, Thou art the Son of God. Thou art the King of Israel."'
He knew it. He knew it because that he saw the Messiahic sign on Him.

29 Then, it must've been after he got through, it was good old Andrew sitting beside of the apostle Peter who was going to testify next. It must've been him that said, "Well, brethren, let me speak for all. Did not we all be thoroughly convinced, when He was going down to Jericho from Jerusalem? And that's a straight line, right down the mountain to Jericho. But that morning He said, 'I have need to go by Samaria.' That's up on the mountain. Why would He have to go, going to Jericho, come by the way of Samaria? You remember how strange we all felt that day, but we was... Each one was afraid to say anything to Him, because we knowed that God was in Him and God was leading Him, and we just didn't want to say anything about it, because it was God that was leading."
He said, "We went with Him up around Samaria and remember how those old stones... And He got so tired going up there. And He sat down at the well and sent us in to get some food, down in the city. He sat down by the public well. There was nothing there to even draw Him a drink with. We wanted to cool Him off by giving Him a drink and washing His feet. But He said, 'Brethren, go on down and get some vittles and I will wait here,' a little panoramic like, where the well sits. It's a public well for the city.

30 "And while we were gone... They wouldn't sell us any food, so we come back out to the well. And you remember we heard something going on when we come back. And we stooped down in the sage brush there to listen, see what was being said. And there was a beautiful woman, that we thought would be a very godly looking woman. She was pretty, her hair, her face, and she was rather young. And she was talking with Him.
"And we heard Him say to her, 'Woman, bring Me a drink."
"And she said, 'Sir, it's not custom for you Jews to ask Samaritans such. I'm a woman of Samaria, therefore we have no dealings one with another. A great segregation. We have no dealings.'
"And listen what He said. 'If you knew who you were talking to, you'd ask Me for a drink. And I'd bring you water you do not come here to draw.'
"She said, 'The well is deep, You have nothing to draw with.'
"And as they went ahead with their conversation about worshipping in the mountain and so forth, then we heard our Lord say, 'Go get your husband and come here.'
"And she turned and said, 'I have no husband.'

31 "Then we thought, 'What's this? Has our Master made a mistake, when this woman said that she has no husband? As many times as we've seen Him perform that Messiahic sign---then here He stands up here with a new class of people, the Samaritans---and yet, here on the very first thing He fails.'
"She said, 'I have no husband.'
"And then He said, 'Truly. You have spoke the truth, because you have had five husbands, and the one you're living with now is not your husband.'" He makes no mistakes.
"Then she said to Him, 'Sir, I perceive that Thou art a prophet.'"
What that woman knowed! When just a few days before there when He had done the same thing, the church people called Him a devil, a spiritualist, a Beelzebub. Said, "He was reading the people's minds, mental telepathy or something on that order." Said, "He is Beelzebub doing this."
Jesus said, "You speak that against me, I will forgive you. But in otherwise, one day the Holy Spirit's going to come to witness for me; and when He comes and does the same thing, speak one word against it, it will never be forgiven in this world or the world to come." That's how serious it would be.

32 And she said, "Sir, I perceive that thou art a prophet."
Now listen to this woman. "We know, we Samaritans, we know that the Messiah is coming. And when the Messiah cometh, he will do these things. He will tell us these things. That will be the sign of the Messiah, when he comes. So, You must be His prophet." In other words, she said the same thing the rest of them said. "When the Messiah comes, Messiah will be a prophet, a God-Prophet. He will be more that a prophet, but He will show the Messiahic sign as a prophet."
They had no prophets for four hundred and something years, since Malachi, one of the minor prophets.
Said, "But when Messiah cometh, He will be a prophet like Moses. A great prophet that will foreknow things and tell things and tell us what we are and what we've done. He will be that kind of a man. I know when the Messiah cometh he will tell us these things. But who art thou?"
Jesus said, "I am he that speaks to you."

33 Now sometimes I've heard... An infidel said not long ago, "Not one place in the Scripture did Jesus ever say that He was the Christ." What about that? And others also.
He said, "I am he that speaks with you."
And upon this, she dropped her ... set down ... or dropped her water pail and run into the city and said, "Come, see a man that's told me what I've done. Isn't this the very Messiah?" And the Bible said that that city believed Him to be the Messiah because of the testimony of the woman.
Now, if that was the sign of the Messiah yesterday---and He's the same yesterday, today, and forever---that would be the sign of the Messiah today. Is that right? If He's the same. Now, let's just stop just for a moment.

34 Now there is three classes of people on the earth, if the Bible is right. And God forgive me for that sacrilegious word of "if". The Bible is right! And we all come from either Ham, Sham, or Japheth's children. That was the three sons of Noah, after the antediluvian flood, when the world was destroyed. We come from those three people. Now, that was the Jew, Gentile, and Samaritan.
Did you notice Peter was given---in Matthew, I believe the sixteenth chapter---the keys to the kingdom of heaven. And on the day of Pentecost he opened it to the Jew.
Philip went down and preached to these Samaritans and yet the Holy Ghost had fell upon none of them; yet he had the Holy Ghost. They sent and got John and Peter to come down, laid hands upon them and they received the Holy Ghost. Right, see. Even the men full of the Holy Ghost, yet Peter had the keys. And that was another nationality of people, the Samaritans.

35 And then, at the house of Cornelius, they... Cornelius had seen a vision and the angel told him to go down to Simon the tanner and inquire for one Simon. And he come up and told him the things of the Lord. And while Peter yet spake these words, the Holy Ghost fell on them. But you notice from then on, Paul, any of the rest of them, laid hands on them and so forth, they got the Holy Ghost.
But there was those three classes of people again: Ham, Sham, and Japheth's people; Jews, Gentiles, and Samaritans.
Now notice. When Jesus came, He performed that sign, as the Messiahic sign, before the Jews. Now, the Gentiles, we, the Anglo-Saxon, we were not looking for any Messiah. He only comes to those that's looking for Him. He will only heal tonight those that believe they are going to be healed. He will only save those who's got faith enough to be saved in. He will only fill with the Spirit those who are looking for the Holy Spirit. When He comes to the earth again, He will come for those who are waiting for Him to come and looking for Him to come and prepared for Him to come. He will come to His church.

36 Now, we Anglo-Saxon, Gentiles, we were not looking for Him to come. But there were two classes looking for Him to come. That was the Jews and the Samaritans. And you search the Scriptures through and you'll never find one place where Jesus ever performed that Messiahic sign to a Gentile---not one time---because the Gentiles wasn't looking for Him.
But He said, "In the last days when the Holy Ghost comes, it would do it." The Gentiles had not been taught upon the religion of Jehovah. They wasn't looking for such. They hadn't been taught Bible teaching. We were heathen that worshipped idols---Romans and Greeks and so forth that had gods and goddesses, and packing a club on our back, and so forth: heathens.
But the Jews and the Samaritans was looking for a Messiah. And when the Messiah came, He showed them the God-Prophet sign that He was the Messiah.
Now, He said, "In the coming of the last days..." Now listen close. He said, "As it was in the days of Sodom, so shall it be in the coming of the Son of man." Now, just before that He said, "As it was in the days of Noah." Now notice, Noah's time it rained. He said, "They were eating, drinking, marrying, and giving in marriage." That was the immoral, because in Sodom they had got beyond that, see. He said, "In the days of Noah, before the flood, they were eating, drinking, marrying, and giving in marriage."

37 But then, when He come to the days of Sodom, He didn't mention one thing about that, see. Oh, God is full of wisdom! Jesus thanked the Father because He had hid it from the eyes of the wise and prudent. You can't find it by digging through. God is a revelation. It was a revelation at the beginning. Who told Abel that he should offer a lamb instead of Cain with the fruit?
When Jesus asked His disciples, "Who does man say I, the Son of man, am?"
And one said, "Thou art the Moses." And one say, "The Elias, and the prophets."
He said, "But who do you say?"
Peter said, "Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God."
He said, "Blessed art thou, Simon, the son of Jonas. For flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but my Father which is in heaven has revealed it to you. And upon this rock I will build My church and the gates of hell cannot prevail against it." It's a spiritual revelation who Jesus Christ is. "Upon this Rock." God, revealing. Not by learning by a word, not by some creed, but by a spiritual revelation that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, that's revealed to you by the Holy Spirit.

38 The Bible said, "No man can call Jesus the Christ, only by the Holy Spirit." That's how essential it is in this day. But we see the world, pleasure-mad like it was in the days of Noah.
Look at Reno, Nevada, back here, marrying and giving in marriage. Look now---as the days of Noah and the days of Sodom ---look at the perversion. Letters, thousands of them coming from ... mostly from California here. For perversion is on, (Oh, my!) on the sweep, increasing about thirty percent each year, of perversion, because the people... It's just so common and so... Oh, it's horrible. It isn't even right to talk about it hardly from the platform, how degraded the nations are getting, and especially this America: our land, our home. Oh, it needs a real genuine, revival shaking, or it's going to get an atomic shaking. So it's past revival, so we will just look for the atomic. But the church will go before that time comes. And if that's that close to coming for an atomic shaking, till we're getting places to run, fall down and things like that, what about the coming of the Lord?, when that will take place before the world's destroyed; we know that.

39 Notice, Noah was in the ark before any water fell. Lot had to get out of Sodom before any fire fell. The church will get out of the world before an atomic bomb blows it up. It'll have to.
Notice, now let's watch what Sodom did, then we get right back.
You say, "Brother Branham, you got way off of your text."
Well, as David once said ... David DuPlessis said, "I cannot preach on the highway all the time because a lot of the people I preach to don't live on the highways. I have to go down the lane and pick up some, come back again." So, I get off my text, but I wanted to pick up some down on the lane now.
Now, notice, on this... In Sodom, as it was in the days of Sodom. Let's just stop for a few minutes here now on Philip's testimony. And let's go to Sodom just a moment.
Notice, Sodom... There's always three classes of people in the world: That's believers, make-believers, and unbelievers. That's the three classes that it always produces.
And now, in Sodom there was the Sodomites. You know what the sin of it was. It was terrible. Just like it is in the world today. All right.
Now, and then Abraham... Now Lot was down in Sodom a lukewarm Christian, a nominal Christian, because it said, "The sins of Sodom vexed his righteous soul," but he did little about it. Let them come into his church, dressed any way they want to, act the way they want to---smoke, drink, gamble, and do anything. As long as they were ... professed to be believers, it was all right. Just a lukewarm Christian, lukewarm church member.
Then, we notice that outside, up in the desert, separated, called out was Abraham, the elected church, elected by foreknowledge. God had called them out. The very word "church" means called out and separated.
Israel was the people of God till they was called out of Egypt and segregated from the Egyptians, and then they were the church of God. The word "church" means called out.

40 Here they were. Abraham sitting up there, things going hard for him. I'd imagine Mrs. Lot walked up and down her little ivory palace, down there in Gomorrah and say, "You know what, there's poor, old Sarah up there, hasn't even got a change of clothes hardly. There's Abraham, his cattle starving to death. Why don't they come down here and join in our societies?"
But, brother, they had a society in their heart. They had something that was making them waiting for the coming of the Lord. One day, when the weather was hotter than it is today, dry as it was, Abraham was sitting in the door of his tent, where they had an old oak tree. And, I thought of that, Brother Bud, if you're in here, when I come to your place today.
And sitting there by the tent... And the herdsmen was out and the water was all dried up and they could hardly find anything for their cattle. And the first thing you know, Abraham happened to notice. And here come three men with dust all over their clothes, just ordinary men. Abraham thought, you know, that there must be a little something different about those fellows. He called them in and set them down.
He said, "Sit down. Let me fetch a little water and wash your feet. And refresh yourself, and I will get a morsel of bread, and you eat the bread. Then go on wherever you're going." Because Abraham believed that there was something fixing to happen.

41 You know, there's something about sons of God are led by the Spirit of God. You know, that same little tickling feeling in Abraham's heart that there was something fixing to happen is the same thing sent this lady here tonight with this wheel chair, same one sent that man there, same one sent everyone of you here, that little feeling that there's something somewhere, see. You just come for that purpose, because, oh, somebody say, "Oh, that's a bunch of holy-rollers up there, or what more," see. They don't understand. But the Holy Spirit led you here. Sons and daughters of God are led by the Spirit of God.
Now, as these two ... three men come up, they sat down and Abraham run in an said, "Sarah, sifter out a little meal."
How many ever siftered meal? My, some of you woman. Sure, lots of these... One with the little gray hair. I've seen my mother take that old sifter around like that, had a wedge in it. Sometime the meal will be lumpy and she'd have to take this wedge and rub it around and around and around to get the ... out, and make us them little corn cakes for breakfast. And have that in sorghum molasses. Sure. And had this old...
And she sifted it out like that, you know, and he run out in the herd and got a little fat calf and killed it and had it dressed. And he cooked the meat on the hearth and he come out. And these three men were sitting there. He gave them food. Now watch now. We're right back to Nathanael, just a moment, and their testimony.

42 Now, when he come out and give them the meat, while these men sat there and eat, and Abraham probably talking to them, after a while he noticed one of them kept looking over towards Sodom. Two of them got up and went on towards Sodom.
And so, after they went down to Sodom... Remember what their message was when they got down there? Repentance! "Come out!" That was a modern Billy Graham and an Oral Roberts or whatever you want to call it. Two great, mighty ministers that went down there into Sodom and preached repentance. They didn't perform so many miracles; only blinded a few eyes. And preaching the gospel does blind the unbeliever.
So, they never done such a miracle. They did miracles, but not miracles like was back here, at the other place. Now, they preached and called them: "Repent or perish." That was the two that went down into Sodom.
But the one that stayed back here with Abraham... Let's watch Him for a few minutes; the church. The eighty-five hundred-and-something version of the Pentecost, sitting down there at the tent, the believer. Then this man had his back turned towards the tent. The women then wasn't like the women today mostly, you know, that has to be in all the man's business and everything, they kind of stayed back in the house so they...

43 Sarah was ... you never know. So this man, after He got through eating, he said, "Abraham." Watch, called him by name. "Abraham, where is your wife?" How did He know he was married? "Where is your wife, Sarah?" Listen to that. Her name actually wasn't Sarah. Sarai because ... Sarai, because she was a princess. He called her by her princess name.
"Abraham." That's your name. "Where is your wife?", for you're a married man. "And her name is Sarah."
"How did He know that?"
Watch the sign. Now remember, He said, "Just as it was at Sodom," when fire burnt the earth up, Sodom and Gomorrah, "so shall it be in the coming of the Son of Man."
Now watch that same sign, given to a Gentile world. See what we're getting at?
"Where is your wife, Sarah?"
Abraham said, "She's in the tent."
And the Bible said, "The tent was behind the Angel." How many ever read that and know that's true? Sure. The tent was behind Him.
"She's in the tent behind You."
Said, "Abraham, twenty-five years ago," in other words, "I promised you a son. I'm going to visit you according to the time of life of Sarah," the twenty-eight days. Said, "I'm going to visit you according to that time. And you're going to have this son."
And Sarah, being ninety years old and Abraham a hundred, she went ... to herself, laughed, grinned to herself, behind the Angel inside the tent.
And the Angel said, "Why did Sarah laugh?" Amen. Now, what kind of a telepathy was that?

44 "Abraham, you're a married man. You have a wife. Her name is Sarah. I never seen you before and never knowed nothing about you, in otherwise. You never seen Me before, but you know that there's something going on."
Now, "Where is your wife, Sarah?"
Abraham said, "She's in the tent behind You."
And she went...
He said, "Why did she laugh?"
In the tent behind Him. That was to the church elected. Sodom never seen it. Sodom cared nothing about it. But Abraham waited in a hot tent, hotter than this building this afternoon, waiting for something to happen, and he found it.

45 Jesus said, "As it was that day, so will it be at the coming of the Son of man."
The church elected will see that same sign again. What are they? See, the Gentiles waiting for a Messiah; God is sovereign. If God lets... At the age of all the intellectual teaching that Israel had, and Samaria had, and just at the end of their teaching, the end of their day, He showed them the sign of the Messiah to prove it that He's the same yesterday, today and forever. He will not let the Gentile church come in without doing the same thing for them. If it was, He'd give them something He wouldn't give us. He'd give one of His children a piece of pie and the other one a piece of pie, but refuse it to the other. He's not a Father like that. No. He will give it to them if they're willing to eat it. That's it. It's up to the church, then it's up to them.

46 Now, as Philip sat there and said, "Yes, that is right. We went and got Nathanael, and Nathanael said so, and Andrew. All of them have testified." Said, "Yes, as it was in the days of Sodom, how that we know those things that He spoke would take place."
Now, He said, "Yes, my heart burned within me. I fell upon my face, and when He told me where I was at and told me who my father was. And when we all stood there and seen that woman of Samaria, and He told her that she had five husbands and then tell her... She said she had no husband. And He said, 'You got five, and the one you're living with now is not yours.' And she cried out, 'Sir, I perceive that You are a prophet. We know when the Messiah cometh He will tell us all these things, but who are You?'"
Now [blank space on tape] pray all night, and have them little meetings, stand on the corner, beat tambourines and the police run you off one corner and you go around the corner of the alley and start again, see, trying to get the message over. But we got to a place now that our preachers are intellectual and, oh, they're doctors of divinity and great big men and things. That's too bad it ever happened, but it happened anyhow, see. And we're no longer in the alley anymore. We're right out here like the rest of the churches, the big buildings. And one's trying to outdo the other one, and get more in his Sunday school, and the other and everything like that.
You know what? I think all together, we've went off without the Lord, see. God is interested in us saving souls, not building buildings (which the buildings are all right). But He wants souls saved. Jesus never did commission His disciples to build a church. He never did commission them to make a hospital. All those things are all right, but He said, "Preach the gospel. These signs shall follow them that believe."

47 But we've got off on to the intellectual sign. Grandchildren. But God don't have grandchildren. You know God only has sons and daughters, not grandchildren. But we've got pentecostal grandchildren because papa and mama belong to the Pentecostal church. We come in; we come in with them. They brought us in and put us on the cradle roll, and we become members of the Pentecostal church. That's grandchildren. That ain't no good.
Every man that comes to God's got to be born of the Spirit of God. Then you're sons and daughters of God, with an experience. Something in there, that God lives, and you know He's real. That's the real son and daughter.
If you're a Methodist and a son of God, amen! You're a Methodist son of God, if you're Pentecostal and a son of God, all right; but don't be a grandson Methodist or a grandson Pentecostal. Be a son or daughter by the birth, the new birth, the supernatural, the Holy Ghost baptism in your heart; then you're sons and daughters.

48 Now, they find... Satan looked over, and he found them going off on a tantrum like that. He said, "This is my opportunity." So he raised his slimy head up over the hill, and began to blow across the lake, you know, "Whheww, Whheww." A wind come. Poison winds began to lift up the bottom of the sea and tossed the little boat.
And, you know, when that coldness comes in and we get to thinking about intellectual ministers. "Well, my pastor has a D.D. My pastor got a bachelor of art degree. Our pastor come from so-and-so seminary." That don't mean anything. Not a bit. I'd rather my child would be with a man that didn't even know his ABC's and found Christ in his heart, than to be with one that knowed all the intellectuals. That's right.

49 Moses knowed all the intellectuals, but God had to take him over to the bush and take it all out of him, and then put some faith in him from the fire that was on the bush. And that's what we need tonight is another visit to the bush, where we get an experience.
Today we're living in a day when infidels is trying to explain it all away. Jesus knowed that. He said, "I will not leave you comfortless. The Father will send the Holy Ghost in my name. And a little while and the world won't see me no more, yet you'll see me, for I [the Holy Spirit speaking in Him] I will be with you, even in you, to the end of the world."
Now, God knowed that in the end of the world people was going to rise up, great scholars and intellectuals, and explain all of the Bible away. And no man has a right behind the pulpit, no man has a right to call himself a Christian, until he's once got back there on the backside of the desert under those sacred sands, where he met God face to face. He had an experience.
You might take all the slick, intellectual doctors of divinity to explain all this away and explain all that away; but when it comes to stepping on that sacred sand where you met God face to face, there's not enough doctors of divinity or not enough devils out of hell could ever shake that experience from you. When you have met God somewhere face-to-face, and felt the power of the change of a new life come in you, there's no devil in hell could ever shake it away from you. You are a new creature, and you've got the experience in your heart.
You say, "But wait a minute, wait a minute, something happened," see. You've got something.
I remember when the general overseer come, and he said, "Billy, you must've had a nightmare."
I said, "If that's it, here's my fellowship card. I met somebody that talked to me. It was life to me." I said, "Here's..."
"Oh," he said, "don't feel that way about it."
I said, "Well that's just my feeling anyhow. I can't get all tied up here and serve God, I will just serve Him right out, just me and Him together."

50 Now, notice as we're closing. The winds began to blow---poison winds. There's been a whole lot of winds been blowing today, saying, "The days of miracles has past. There's no such a thing as divine healing. The Holy Spirit was for another age, two thousand years ago."
Peter said on the day of Pentecost, "It's for you and to your children, and them that's far off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call." That's how far it goes. That's just as many as it could go. But you see, they've got something they want to type the world into it. We will get into that later.
And, then, the winds began to blow. And all hopes for a revival was gone. Everything was just gone. The little ship ever become water-logged and the oars had broke. And here they was flipping, and flopping, and dancing out there on the waves like a bottle stopper on a mighty sea. And there they was, just hopeless to ever reach shore. And they would all give up hopes. But you know what? He hadn't left them. Certainly not.
He climbed up the highest hill that He could climb so He could look all the way across the sea. And He saw when they was in trouble. And here He come walking to them on the water.
Brethren, He did the same thing to us. He never only climbed up the highest hill, He started up a hill at Calvary. He went to Mount Calvary, He climbed from there the golden stairs, till He went plum into eternity and sat at the right hand of God. He can see the end from the beginning. His eye is on the sparrow, and I know He's watching me. He's watching you. He's watching this little meeting. "Wherever two or three are gathered in My name, I will be in their midst." He's trying to find a place to manifest Himself, to do something great, to do something to help you, to show you that He's here. He's not dead, He's alive again.

51 Every religion... When I stood there that afternoon before seventeen different religions, I said, "Gentlemen, everyone of your founders is dead and in the grave. Buddha, Mohammed, and all of the rest of them, Sikhs and Jains and all of them. Your founders are dead and been buried for hundreds of years, but our God is not dead."
They said, "Well, they crucified Him."
I said, "But He raised again." I said, "If He will prove Hisself alive, will you receive Him?"
"Yes. If you show us alive."
So, I don't know how many thousands received Him when they seen that He was alive.
The little article of Mr. Graham not long ago---as the paper come out behind said---they said that Mr. Graham took down and wouldn't pray for the sick back there, to this Mohammedan with his child and said, "Now what about Durban, South Africa," said, "when William Branham was over there, when ten thousand Mohammedans fell to the altar at one time. When they seen a man that was so afflicted, he was in every way... Told him who he was, and where he come from, and all about it, and healed him, and raised him up on his feet. Not even in his right mind; he come to his own normal sense. And the big tears dropped off on his black belly. And there he was healed. I seen ten thousand Mohammedans at one time, when all together thirty thousand unbelievers, fall at the cross."

52 Not build churches, but preach the gospel: that's the commission. That's it. Churches is fine, schools are fine. Oh, doctors are fine. Hospitals are... I'm not criticizing that. But that's not the message of the church. It's "Preach the gospel! These signs shall follow them that believe," said Mark 16. There we are.
Now, with this taken place, the waves began to ... back and forth. And the sad thing was, it's a whole lot like it is today. When they saw Him coming, walking on the water, they thought it was a spirit. They thought it was a spook of some sort, and they got scared. The only thing that could help them!
And my loving friends, if that ain't the situation of today, I don't know it. The only thing that can help the people, they're afraid of it. They say, "Well, that's a bunch of... That might be holy-rollers. That might be the Pentecostal tongues group. It might be, you know, it might be spiritualism. It might be the devil," see. They're scared of the only thing that can help them.
There He come walking. And they seen it was... Looked like Him but, oh, they cried out for fear. They thought it was a spirit of some sort.
He said, "Be not afraid, it's I, it's Me."
Now, if Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever, then He will do the same today, as He did then and will forever. Is that right?
Let us bow our heads while we think on this Scripture.

53 Our heavenly Father, as we are now coming to the close of this little, scrambled up message. Trusting that the Holy Spirit will take those words, and just severally give them out in every heart as they have need. May they sink way down deep.
And these people are sitting here under this hot roof, not just to be seen. But they've come because they are hungering and thirsting. Now, Father, I pray Thee that Thou will minister to them the blessings that they come for. May there not be one left that's sick or afflicted. May there not be any here that has any doubt. May the Holy Spirit, with the Word of God here, take every doubt out of their mind, because, Father, we have given it just exactly the way it's written. That was the Messiah. That was His sign. That was the One that He promised that would be.
Now, Father, we're looking for Him to do the same thing tonight, like He did coming... Those at Emmaus. He walked with them all day. He loved them and talked to them and give them the Scriptures.
There's many sit here tonight. Ninety percent of this audience raised their hand for the first time. They know there's been somebody that's helped them. When I asked them again they raised up their hand, they were Christian believers. They believed it.
Now, when Cleopas and his friend, walking from Emmaus, talking with Jesus, not knowing who He was... When He got in the inside that night and shut the door, He did something just like He did before His crucifixion. Then they knowed that no man could do that like Him. Then they knew that that was their same Jesus, because He did just the same after His resurrection as He did before His resurrection. And they realized that it was Him. He vanished quickly as soon as He done the miracles, out of sight. But they run quickly and told everybody, "Truly the Lord has risen." And they found others who had already been associated with the resurrection had seen Him after the resurrection.

54 I pray Thee, Father, that as these dear people cross over these hills, down to the different cities and their homes, may they talk tonight. And may I, on my road, up to my camp, may I be able to say with those who are with me, like them days, "Did not our hearts burn within us, as He talked to us along the way?"
Come tonight, Lord Jesus. We're nearing the end of time; this great state of California, a great portion of the population of the United States comes from here. Fashions are sent from here. O Lord, way up here and these people up on the lake, many of them down in Los Angeles and different places, let Thy Holy Spirit once more come, Father, that they might know that the sign that the Messiah is nearing. Just like the cornerstone, just like the capstone on the pyramid, it must coincide with ... the rest of the stones must coincide with it, or it can never be capped.
So is it with the coming of the Lord Jesus. The church has to be so fitted that Christ and His church shall be one when they come. So let His Spirit be so dominant ... predominant tonight in our hearts and in our meeting that everyone will recognize that it is You. And they won't be afraid. They'll know it's You because You're the same yesterday, today, and forever. This we ask in Jesus' name. Amen.

55 Now, we're going to call a little prayer line. I seen pretty near everyone here was Christians. And we will have the altar calls as we go along, because divine healing is not a major; divine healing is a minor. But eighty-six percent of the ministry of our Lord Jesus was divine healing. That was to prove to the people who He was.
Now, how many will admit that what I preached tonight is the Scripture? That's the way He made His self known? And how many knows that He promised that in this last day that He would do ... He'd come again, do the same thing, in the last days; that it said, "The works that I do, shall you also."
And how many believes in foreknowledge of God, that He foreknowledged, and elect...? Election is by foreknowledge. And then God in the ages, He had a Martin Luther, He had a John Wesley, He's had men through the age. In the last day He's got to raise something, a church, that His ministry will be... Martin Luther, justification was by faith. John Wesley had sanctification, the second work of grace. Pentecost has had the restoration of the gifts. Now the next thing is the coming of the Lord.
So, this gift message of speaking with tongues, interpretation of tongues, and different things that we've had, now it's moving right on in. Till now it's up in the hour of the church in the minority, because they're coming down from Wesley, Luther, and on down. Now they're right up to the cap of the stone. Now, believe with all your heart.
Now, how many knows that Jesus said this?, that "He that believeth on Me, the works that I do shall he, also." That's right. He said this, "A little while and the world [that's a world order] will see Me no more [that's the unbeliever] he will see Me no more. But ye shall see Me [that's the believer], for I [and "I" is a personal pronoun.] I will be with you, even in you, to the end of the world." How many knows He says that?

56 Now, that makes Him... Then if He's here. If Jesus is raised from the dead, and He's here in the form of the Holy Spirit, He's everything that He was, besides a corporal body. How many knows that? How many knows that His corporal body sits at the right hand of God the Father, in glory, making intercessions, as God cannot see our sins and He looks through the blood of Jesus. Red through red looks white, we know that. And through the red blood of Christ, our red sins, they turn white. "Though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be white as snow."
And He's sitting there tonight as a High Priest, making intercessions on our confession. You believe that? Hebrews said... How many knows that the Bible said that, "He is right now a high priest that can be touched by the feeling of our infirmity"?
Now, if He is the same high priest that He was, then how would you know you touched Him if He didn't act like He did when He was here on earth? If He isn't the same, you might say, "Well, Hallelujah, I touched Him." That might be so. But, if He's still the same High Priest, He's got to act the same. How did He act when He was touched here on earth.
A little woman... One time He's on His road to raise up a little dead girl, and Jesus said, "I do nothing till the Father shows me first." How many knows that? Saint John 5:19, He passed by the pool of Bethesda where multitudes, thousands of lame, halt, blind, and withered. He wound His way through that crowd until He found a man laying on a pallet; about like that little fellow laying there, on a pallet. And He said... He healed that man, because the Bible said that Jesus knew that he had been this way thirty-eight years.

57 Now he wasn't blind, neither was he crippled, he wasn't past walking. He said, "When I'm coming down, someone else steps in ahead of me," see. He could get... He could walk. He wasn't blind, wasn't crippled, and had no waterhead or nothing. He had a retarded disease, something like TB, or prostrate trouble or something. It was retarded. He had it thirty-eight years, it wasn't going to kill him. But Jesus had been showed by the Father to go there, and He did it.
That same way by Samaria, He had need go by Samaria; He didn't know what He was going to do. When He got up there, He sent them away and thought, "Father, what is it?" Wait there, the first thing you know, here come this woman. He went to talking to her till He caught her spirit and told her what her trouble was. Now that was Jesus yesterday.
Now the only thing I know, I was supposed to go to Germany and all over Europe and Asia, around the world, come plum around the world in Australia and New Zealand, come back. Something happened, I couldn't go. By the United States government, I couldn't leave. All right. Now, what did I do?
I said, "Brother Borders, go over and fix up some meetings."
First thing you know he said, "Well, I've got over here, and down here, and down here."
I said, "It's all right with me, I have no certain leading."
But, the Father led me here. Here I am. I don't know you, who you are. Now what you going to do? If He's the same yesterday, today, and forever, He will act the same yesterday, today, and forever, if He sent me over here. Is that right?
He only went to one there, but that one went to a whole city and caused the whole city to believe, see.

58 Now, this woman on His road up to raise Jairus daughter that was dead... Now, when He was on the road up there, a little woman, she couldn't get a prayer card and get in the line, as it was. She couldn't get to Him because too many was around Him.
"Hello, Rabbi, are You the Galilean prophet? Oh, You mean to tell me? Will You do a miracle while You're here with us? How long are You going to stay in here?" And so forth like that.
But this little woman had a blood issue for many years. And she said, "He is a man of God. If I can touch the border of His garment, I will be made well." Remember the story? And she crawled down through them and twisted around. She'd get a little close, maybe, somebody push her back. And after a while, she got close enough, she touched His garment.
Now, the Palestinian garment hangs loose with an underneath garment. He didn't feel it that way. So, prove it just a minute.
And she touched His garment. She run back out and sat down like you are or whatever, he might've stood up, I don't know. But, however it was. Jesus stopped and said, "Who touched me? Who touched me?"
Why, Peter rebuked Him. In other words, he said, "What are you talking about, 'Who touched me?' Why, you talk like someone didn't know what they were talking about. Well, everybody's touching you."
He said, "Yes, but this is a different kind of touch."
That's the kind of touch we want, see. That's the kind we want.
Said, "Somebody touched me because I got weak." How many knows that's true? Why it said virtue went out of Him. The virtue's strength. Said, "I got weak."
And He looked around over that audience until He found the little woman and told her, said---she had a blood issue---and said, "Thy faith has saved thee." Is that right?
She touched Him and it caused Him to turn and talk to her.
Now, if He's the same tonight, a high priest that can be touched by the feeling of our infirmities, if you'll just believe with all your heart and touch Him with your faith... Just get away all the unbelief and the organizations, and the denominations, and what so-and-so said about it. Just get away from all of it. And say, "No, I believe He's the Son of God. I'm sick, I need Him," and could just touch Him, then something will happen to you just as it happened there, if you'll believe it. Will you do it, if He will do it?

59 Now, lets... I think Billy said he give out about fifty or one hundred prayer cards. Who has prayer card number 1? Let's start from number 1, but if we go to be discernment, we will... Just hold your card if I don't get to you tonight. Lets get some up here so we will see what the Holy Spirit will do on account of the people that's here first. Prayer card number 1. Oh, I beg your pardon. He's give out from 50, 50 to 100? I thought he said, "1 to an 100."
All right, who has prayer card number 50 then, raise up your hand? Number 50. All right. 50, 51, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 60, 50 to 60, stand up. And 60 to 65. All right. Let them stand up and come over here, if you can stand. If you can't stand, then the ushers will pick you up and bring you over here, or just hold up your hand and we will see. Let a few stand, just whatever it is and get your place down there, and then we will... But now remember, every person holding a prayer card, if you just will continue to come. We can't get them all at once, but we will get to you just as quick as we possi... [blank space on tape].
See?

60 How many knows that Daniel the prophet saw a vision and he was troubled at his head for many days? Let's see how many Bible readers. Sure. Well, if one vision made Daniel weak, how do you think I get by with it, day in and out, and night in and out, and week in and out, and year in and out?
Because Jesus said, "The things that I do shall you also and more than this." Now the King James says, "Greater." But you get the original, Aramaic translation, and find out if it doesn't say, "More than this shall you do." In other words, God was in one man then. Now God's all over the world. He's in His church, everywhere.
Now we know that all the fullness of the Godhead bodily dwelt in Jesus Christ. How many believes that? He was the fullness of the Godhead bodily.

61 Now, all of the Spirit that was in Him would be like this lake out here, all that water (if that was all the water in the world). But now you and I have just a spoonful of water out of that lake. That's the Spirit that we have in us. But, the same chemicals that are in the spoonful as there is in the whole lake, see. Same kind. Same nature. But, it's not as much of it. Well, that's the same way as it is here, not as much of it. But the same Spirit. You believe that?
Now, they're seeing if they've got all of the people down there.
Now, tomorrow night... I want to say something here while he's getting them ready. How many remembers when I first come into the ministry, was on the West Coast, would put out my hand like that, and the people lay there hands upon it and you could see it with your own hand. People that had diseases, any kind of a germ. How many remembers that?
Now, you same people that put up your hand, how many remembers that I told them that the angel met me, said, "If you'll be sincere, get the people to believe you, it'll come to pass you'll know the very secret of their heart." How many knows I prophesied that? See? The same group has just put up their hand.
All right. Now, it come to pass. He did it just the way He said.

62 Now, there's something new taking place. It's right back in the people's lap again to pray for the sick.
The other day---this last fall it was---one of the most mighty things happened. I might get into it tomorrow night before I start that ministry of praying for the sick. Something that was outstanding, that I never seen anything like it in my life. But He's called back for me to pray for the sick. If you get the message... The discernment...
Now, visions are not just something that you lay hands on one another. How many know that gifts and callings are without repentance? Sure. It's not something you can get a hold of. When you're borned in this world, you're born with them gifts. How many knows that? Sure you are.
Moses, he couldn't help being Moses, could he? Jesus couldn't help being Jesus. John the Baptist, seven hundred and twelve years before he was born, Isaiah saw him, the prophet saying that He was the voice of one crying in the wilderness. God told Jeremiah, "Before you was ever formed in your mother's womb, I knowed you and sanctified you and ordained you a prophet to the nations." That's right, see.

63 It's something you're born with.
Now visions to me... The first thing I can remember... I wasn't two years old, I guess, when I saw my first vision. And there's been tens of thousands of them, and not one of them has ever been wrong, see. All over the world everywhere. That's only a vindication of I'm telling the truth. It's God's witness that it's the truth.
Jesus is coming. Now don't... Now we know that Jesus is coming in a day that when the world is gone to sleep and got lukewarm. How many knows that? How many knows that this is the Laodicean church age? Lukewarm, just people, just... Well, they go to church and say, "I belong to the church." That's about it. But that's the time He comes. Wake up! What are these things to do?
Now, I don't say that He will do it. Remember, I do not control visions; visions control me. Now, there's newcomers here that's never been in a meeting before.
Now, I want to ask you something, my people. Before anything takes place, whether it does or not, I do not know. But, if it does take place just as the Scripture says here, will you believe on Him, and believe Him for your healing? Raise up your hands and say like this, "I will believe it." God bless you.
Now, these people... How many out in this audience first, now, that doesn't have a prayer card, and you want God to heal you? Raise up your hand. Doesn't have a prayer card, you want God to heal you. All right. Just have faith. That's all you have to do. Have faith, believe. You look up here to this, say, "Lord, that man doesn't know me, but let me just have faith enough to touch Your garment. And then You have that man, let the Spirit... I know it couldn't be his spirit because he don't know me. But let Your Holy Spirit in there, if he's telling me the truth, turn around and say to me like He did the woman that touched His garment." See what takes place. Just try. Don't try it, just do it.

64 Now, many here... How many in the prayer line that I don't know nothing about you, raise up your hands? You people that know that I don't know you, raise up your hand. Everyone? All right. And out there that I don't know you...
Now, I've got some friends here. I see Brother and Sister Palmer sitting here from Georgia. And then, back in there somewhere is Brother Fred Sothmann and Brother Norman from Arizona. I know they're here. And they're here somewhere in the meeting. I don't see them, but they're in there.
And now, all these here... And this woman, we're strangers to one another are we, lady? We are strangers to one another? We are. Oh, you was here in the meeting when I was here before? But, for me to know you, I wouldn't know you. All right.
How many here never did see when I put my hand on the people and see the reaction on the hand? Let's see your hand. All right. We will just take a couple like that.

65 Come here a minute. Now, I do not know you. I've never seen you in my life. As far as I know, probably since I was here I've seen a million people since then. But now, if... I want you to take your hand out. If it's anything like an affliction, like some blood chemical disease, or crippled, or arthritis, or something, that is not a germ, see. It'll take a germ. Some other life.
How many knows that we come from a germ, one single cell? Certainly. We come from our fathers. The hemoglobin is from the male sex. The female is the egg. But that little germ... And your body is made up of germs, but it came originally from one germ from your father. Is that right? A different type of germ then makes around that. That's the way Christ was God. When God brought Hisself in a cell, in the womb of Mary, and was borned out to save us from sin; through that blood cell being broke saves the world, there.
Now, if it's just an affliction, that'll have to be seen some other way. But let's see if it's a germ disease. If it will ... see. There'd be a germ of death on her to kill her. And it would vibrate if I have the anointing of the Holy Spirit here with me.
Yes, sir, positive. You have stomach trouble. That's right, isn't it? Raise your hand if that's right. Here it is. She's got an ulcered stomach. You see well?
I want to show you something. I want you to look at my hand here. See how that hand looks swollen, them little white things bouncing on it there, running over it, see. Now take your other hand over here so that you'll see, turn this hand over. Now it isn't there. Just normal, white, not swollen. Just an ordinary man's hand, isn't it? All right, now put your other hand right over on it. Now look at it. See the difference in it? That swell, see them little, white things running over it. That's how I knew you... It's a vibration. It's a germ, see. Now, now see, it's just not where I'm holding my hand. You see wherever they are.

66 Now, who was it said they'd never seen that? Was it you, Brother Borders? You've seen it? Somebody had told me that they'd never seen it and wanted too. All right, come here, Brother Folk. How many knows this gentleman here, raise up your hand? I guess you all do, he's from this city here.
I want you to watch here Brother Folk. Here's how I know that. Now look here. You've never seen this ministry work? All right. Now, the other night... I can't wear a wrist watch on here. I had a two hundred dollar Longines give to me from the Lincoln's down here; fell apart on the pulpit. Then the other night I had a three hundred Vulcan-Cricket was given to me from over there. And up there in the meeting the other night... How many was there the other afternoon and I... Up here at Klamath Falls, and a three hundred dollar Vulcan-Cricket fell loose from my hand; hands come off of it, stem come out of it, fell off of it, just by taking a person's hand like that. Why? I can't tell you. I don't know. But you cannot hold a watch on that.
Now look. I want you to look at my hand, see, see. Take her hand. Just right hand. I mean, her left hand. Just the same. Now watch when I took this hand here. See it swell? See them little white things bouncing on it?
Now, see? Now, what was it take her right hand? That's the way He told me, "Their right hand to your left." That's her, with her right hand pledging her faith to me, right. And I take her by the left hand, with my other hand to God, see. Now, it won't work any other way. Now, you can see it. Look here, brother. Look here, see? I put my hand on her hand, see. Down where it is, see, it's just the same, see. Now, just take this hand over here; now watch what happens just as soon as I take her hand. There it is. See, that fires up. It's just like taking that much ... like current in your hand. Those little white things, see. Now, just keep real still. Now, it tells what it is, see.

67 Now, that's detecting it. Now, will it go? Now, sister, you believe now? You really believe it? All right. Now, I want everyone to be reverent. Now, I want you to bow your head. And I want these two men here to stand here where I'm at. Now, I want you to notice, brethren, see. So that you'll see it's not position where I hold my hand, see, that makes them white things run over it and makes it turn that, see.
Now, you see it clearly do you, sister? You can see it all right there where I'm talking about? See how it swells up and gets real little white things? And see, and to prove to you that something's going on, it knows what's wrong with you. And that's directly the truth, see. Now, you see something. Now, watch here. I put my hand on mine, see. See? There it comes, see. As soon as she touches me there it starts.
Now, I know you're both Christian. Now, remember when these things come out, I'm going to try to rebuke it, see. And if it comes out... Now the Bible said when they... When one fellow one time tried to cast out a devil, and you know what happened. So now, if it comes out it's going to be at large, it'll be doing any... It'll go to any one. And it's stomach trouble.
Now, I want you in the audience to keep your head bowed. And here's three witnesses standing here. Now, I don't want you. You come on up here, see. See, sometimes it strike the unbeliever, see. Then the kick-back comes from the meeting to me, see. But, I know you all; I'd come to you, see. All right.
Now, you watch. I'm studying my hand right here, see. See? Now you watch. And you watch too, lady, the hand. Now we're going to pray. Everybody be in prayer with me. Now they're going to watch. Now, I don't... Jesus said, "In My name shall they cast out devils." Well, now, if that stops right now and I never move my hand. This stops and turns like that hand, all right. If it doesn't, then I can't help it. Now, let's pray.

68 Heavenly Father, that Thy name might be glorified! We do not ask for miracles, but Lord, these ministries are growing on. Jesus is soon coming. I pray that You'll be merciful to our sister and will heal her. Here she is in age, and she can't eat. Lord, this is such a horrible thing. And the last time here, you healed a woman dying with the same thing, only worse. Now, Father, I pray that You will bless her and heal her in Jesus' name.
Now, I haven't opened my eyes yet, but brethren, tell me: it's still there just like it was. Is that right? It hasn't left. It hasn't left. Now, we will have to come with authority to cast it out. Now, we not asking Father---you all understand---I'm not asking Father for a miracle because it's a wicked, and adulterous generation to seek for miracles, but that you might know that He's still a healer.
Now, lets look again now. Let's be real ... you're in prayer each one of you. You're covered by the blood.
Now, heavenly Father, these men are looking on. This woman's looking on as a witness. I prayed for the woman. No doubt she's been prayed for many times. But, Father God, if there's anything in her life that's not right, then, Father, You take it away.
Now, if there's anything would keep her ... would keep this spirit... If You should make it go, if it should come back ...; because we know it will go and walk in dry places and come back again if it can. But if she surely sees all this truth and evidence, she will believe with all of her heart. I pray You to be merciful. While this people is looking... There are eyes of two man and a woman is looking directly at my hand while my eyes are closed.
Satan, thou unclean spirit that would take a poor old woman like this and evily mistreat her. Why, you're evil. You have no authority to hold her. She's a Christian. And I come in the name of Jesus Christ against you. I come witnessing a gift of divine healing to pray for the sick, which an Angel ministered to me fourteen years ago, and told me of other gifts coming. You're aware of this. I adjure thee by the living God, come out of the woman, leave her, go from her, let it bother her no more, in the name of Jesus Christ.

69 Now, brother, I've never moved my hand, but it's gone now, isn't it? Is it gone before I open my eyes? ["Yes."] All right, you may raise your head.
Fine. Now looky here, sister dear. Put this hand here. See how it looks? Now, see how it looks? Just the same as... You see, just exactly. Now, something happen, wasn't it? Your stomach trouble's gone. You're free. Go home and rejoice, be happy and thank the dear Lord for your healing. All right. God bless you, sister. All right.
You believe with all your heart?
Now, let's see about this sister here. Are we strangers to one another? We are. All right. Now everybody reverent. We will just take our time so that you'll have confidence when it comes time for you to be prayed for. Like these people in the Bible tonight; they had confidence. Jesus said, "If I do the works of God, then believe the works," see.

70 Now, let me have your hand just a minute. Now, you have a little bit a ladies' trouble, but that's not really what you're for, see. Just a moment. Now, this will have to come by vision. Yes, it's a diabetes, sugar diabetes. If that's right, raise up your hand, see. It wouldn't show here. She has a little female trouble but not enough for that because she wouldn't hardly notice that too much. But it's a diabetes. Now, see there, it would never show because that's a chemical part. Diabetes, you see is chemical. It's sugar in the blood.
Now, if the Lord Jesus can stand here and tell me what's wrong with you, just as He could tell the woman at the well (and so forth), is it the same Jesus? ["Oh, yes."] You believe it. Now, let us pray.
Our heavenly Father, we come in the name of the Lord Jesus and ask that this evil thing leave our sister. May she go and be free from this and be well, in Jesus Christ's name. Amen.
Now, the prayer of faith shall save the sick. God shall raise them up. Go now. God be with you. ["That'll heal my eyes, too?"] What say? ["Will that heal my eyes, too?"] " Oh, sure, that's what's causing it, you see? ["Yes."] God bless you, sister. All right.

71 Come, young lady. Are we strangers to one another? All right. Now, let's see your hand, this hand over here on this side. You're normal. Now, it has to take a vision for her, see. Another wise, my early ministry... How many knows my early ministry? I'd never know what was the matter with the woman, see, because there's no vibration.
Now, let's just see a minute. You believe me to be His prophet? You believe what I've taught tonight to be the truth, that I am His servant? Yes. Heart trouble. Now, you believe that God can heal that heart trouble? You do believe that, that He will make the heart well? You're just a young girl. Nervous. Now, if He will heal it, will you give Him praise for it? Let's bow our heads just a moment.
Our heavenly Father, we ask now that in the name of Jesus Christ that the power of God will come upon this young woman. And may she be healed as I lay my hands upon her. the people... [Gap in the audio] are aware, Lord... [Gap in the audio] that our...

72 [Blank space on tape.] first time. All right. Now, here's a man I've never seen. This is a man. Now, there was a man come to the Lord Jesus by the name of Simon Peter. You remember the story I preached about tonight? All right. Now, and Jesus taught... Looked over at him sitting there on that chunk. Did you hear me when I preached tonight?
He said, "Your name is Simon, the son of Jonas." [Blank space on tape.]
Now that Jesus still lives? ["Yes, He does."] Does the audience believe that? All right. If that Jesus lives and I'm a true witness of Him, then I yield myself by a gift.
Now, if you'd say, "Heal me."
Why, He'd say, "I've already done it." How many believes that He's already done it back there at Calvary when He died for you? He was wounded for you. Sure.
But now, to let you know that He's alive here to confirm His Word, He might tell you something like He did Peter or some of them. He would tell you something about it, if God will tell me what your trouble is. Now, let's just see if He will do it.

73 You just believe me as God's servant. All right. He says, "He knows He will." Sure, it's your nose. That's right. That's your nose. Now, if that's right raise your hand.
Now someone says, "Now, I caught that."
Don't think that now. Don't do that, that hinders me, see. I never guessed that. That wasn't guessing, see. No. Just a minute. He seems to be a very fine man. Stand still just a minute. Just stand still, sir. Yes, sir. It's his nose. He has some kind of little something comes in it. He's been operated on for it. That's right. Yes, sir. Operated on, and it seems like the stuff's coming back again. It's some kind of a like growths or abscesses like in the nose. That's right. Seems like it isn't doing good. That's right, isn't it? That's not a guess.
Let me tell you something. I see a woman appear; it's your wife. She's at home. ["Yes."] You believe that... She's praying, she's sick. You believe God can reveal to me what her trouble is? She's got heart trouble and arthritis. That's "thus saith the Lord." You believe God can tell me who you are? Mr. Boggs, you can go home and be well. Jesus Christ makes you well. You go believing. Believe.

74 Strangers to one another sister? ["I've been in your meetings."] You've been in... But I mean out in the audience. You've never met me personally. I've never met you. But if the Lord Jesus... Here's a woman. If the Lord Jesus can tell me something about you, like a man and woman, like Him and the woman at the well. That was a man there.
Now, like the woman at the well. If He can tell me something about you that you know and I don't know, what you're here for---might be for somebody else, might be financial trouble, might be domestic trouble, it might be you're sick---I don't know---but if He will tell me, will you believe Him with all your heart? Will every woman in here believe with all their heart? ["Amen."] All right. The Lord grant it.
That lady sitting right there with varicose veins, do you believe Jesus Christ will make you well? You was praying, wasn't you? All right. What did she touch? She touched the high priest, Jesus Christ.
I seen a woman standing here before me with something like almost blood running from veins. It wasn't this woman, she was a little heavier than this woman. And I looked and I thought, "Where's that?" And I looked and I seen that light. How many's seen that picture of that light? All right. He was standing over the woman there, whirling around and I seen her, that was her trouble, see? Yes, sir. If thou will believe.
Sitting there with your handkerchief in your hand. It's that hay fever. Do you believe that God will make you well too? All right. What did you touch? Now, that's not a disease. I see it burning---holding your nose, sneezing, going on, see. Just have faith, you'll get well too. Do you believe Him with all your heart?

75 You have a tumor in the back. Do you believe that God can will heal you. Is that right? You believe that God can take it off? All right. Our heavenly Father, I pray that You'll bless the woman and make her well as I bless her in Jesus' name. Amen. Go! May the Lord bless you.
Spirit's still in the building. Sitting there with the hemorrhoids. You think that God will make you well? You was crying, praying, "Lord, let him touch... Let him call me." If that's right, wave your hand back and forth like this, you sitting there, see. How would I know what you was praying about?
Don't you understand that Jesus Christ is raised from the dead? What did she touch? The same High Priest that that little woman touched that had the blood issue.
I don't know the woman. Never seen her in my life. But she's sitting twenty yards from me, and she touched Him. He turned around and said, "Look there." I seen His light over there and I seen what she was suffering with. And there it is. The woman will get well. She will be all right, if you'll just believe. Now, any of you, I challenge your faith in Christ's name anywhere to believe it. All right.
You and I are strangers to each other. I guess this is our first meeting time. Now, just reverent, just a moment.
If the Lord Jesus will reveal to me something about you that you know that I do not know, will it make you believe for what you...? Will it do the audience that way too? It's arthritis. You have arthritis. If that's right, raise your hand. That it might take the guess work from you, see, you've got something on your mind that's just bothering you real, real bad. Now if the Lord will reveal that to me, will you believe me with all your heart? It's your husband. He's not here. He's not even in this city. He's in another city called Ukiah or something like that. He's got a disease that's a killer. It's called Parkinson's disease. That's right. You got somebody with you tonight, too, that you want prayed for. It's a little grandson. He's got eye trouble. Your name is Mrs. Zigler. All right. Go and believe with all your heart and you can have what you ask for.

76 If thou canst believe. Are you believing now with all your heart?
Now look. That you might now... I will have this lady. Just put your hand on mine, lady. You. If the Lord will reveal to me what your trouble, you believe me? Then your heart trouble's finished. Go believing, be made well. Have faith in God. Believe with all your heart.
Watch this. You believe your arthritis is going to leave you? All right, go on your road and say, "Thank you, dear Jesus." Yes, ma'am. Just believe with all your heart.
What if I didn't say a thing to you, just laid hands on you, would you think you'd get well? In the name of Jesus Christ, go and be well. Amen. Have faith now.
You're nervous. Don't you believe that God can heal you and make you well? Just go believing. He has. He will make you well.
You believe that back got healed coming up the steps? Just keep on going, saying, "Thank You, Lord," and get well.
How many out there believes with all your heart? Are you sure that Jesus still lives? Now, are you positive? Do you know? Here's my Bible over my heart, Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever. Do you believe it? I read it out of the Bible here that He does it... He promised it. He did it yesterday, He does it today. Now as far as healing, your healing is already purchased in the blood. You believe that? He was wounded for our transgressions. With His stripes we were healed---past tense. But He's confirming His Word by being here to let you know that He's the same yesterday, today, and forever. Do you all believe that with all your heart?

77 Now, how many believers is here? Raise up your hand. Now, if God keeps one Word, He keeps all words. Is that right? Now, did He say this? "These signs shall follow them that believe. If they lay their hands on the sick, they shall recover." How many believes that? All right. Then you all are believers. Now, lay your hands over on one another. Just put your hands on one another. That's right. There you are. [A woman cries out.] That's the way it goes. That takes place. Don't you know He's here? Put your hands on one another.
"These signs shall follow them that believe. If they lay their hands on the sick, they shall recover." These signs shall follow who? The believer. The believer. Now you pray for the person you got your hands on. Don't pray for yourself. Pray for the person you got your hands on.

78 Our heavenly Father, we bring this audience to You in the name of Jesus Christ, on which the Holy Ghost is here now, giving witness, pouring out His presence, letting everyone know that He's present, that He is not dead, that He lives forevermore and He's able to succor those that come to Him to give them healing.
The audience is aware that there is a supernatural being in their midst tonight: the Holy Spirit that's revealing the secret of the heart, that the coming of the Lord Jesus is at hand. These believers have put their hands on one another. They believe.
Father God, You've witnessed that You're here. Hear me, Lord. I cast out every spirit of unbelief. Let it leave this building. Let it come away from the people---the only thing that can keep them from being healed.
Satan, you've lost the battle. You've been exposed. You're exposed here tonight. I adjure thee in the name of Jesus, the Son of God, come out of this audience, come out of the people, as they had their hands on one another. I give them their healing in the name of Jesus Christ the Son of God.
Keep your hands on one another. Keep believing, having faith. And as the power of God comes upon you, then stand to your feet and give God praise. All right.

Be not afraid, it is I

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1 So good to be here again tonight. Just had a wonderful time yesterday, and I've been living in the atmosphere of yesterday's meeting all day today. So I'm happy to be in the service of the Lord tonight. Now, with so many waiting, or standing, rather---that I should say, standing, rather---that we're sorry that we don't have the adequate room for seating. But we know that if you'll just be patient with us a little while, the Lord will certainly reward you. I hope He does, and I'm sure He will, because He always rewards those who are patiently... And, "They that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength, and they shall mount up with wings like an eagle."
Now the last few nights, or days, I've just been preaching, kind of, to you, and having the small calling lines, and so forth. I kind of believe I owe it to the sick people, tonight, to pray for the sick because there are so many of them here. And I told the boys to give out some prayer cards this afternoon. I guess they did, or did they? Did they? That's fine, all right. Thank you, Brother Gene. We will call them up just in a few moments.
I asked Brother Moore to speak for me tonight. Only thing I'd have to do is come in, pray for the sick. Did you do it? Anybody want a job, follow me, speaking for me? Oh, around on the way? Oh, my. Well, I am...

2 These handkerchiefs here that's sent up here to be prayed over, we reverently believe in praying for these cloths. Now, remember that this is a Bible doctrine, to pray over these cloths. Now many people anoint them with oil, and send them back to the patients. We send thousands of them a month around the world. And if you don't have one in here, if you just write our office, why, we'll sure send it to you free of charge. No charges for anything we do.
In the Bible (if you'll bear with me), I believe, Scripturally, Paul never prayed over them or anointed them. They taken from his body. I believe Paul was scriptural. Don't you think so? Would you like to know where I think he got that from? Elijah ... one time when a baby was dead, Elijah said to Gehazi, "Take my staff and go lay it on the child."
Now Elijah knew that the Holy Spirit upon him ... and everything he touched was blessed. And he said, "Take this staff and lay it on the baby." I think there's where Paul got the idea of laying ... taking handkerchiefs and aprons from his body, because I wouldn't think that St. Paul would do anything unscriptural. So he sent...
Now we realize that we're not St. Paul. But He's still Jesus, see. He's still God. So God, being no respect of persons, He sends your pastors and evangelists and things along, that you might have the same faith in the same God that St. Paul represented. And then, if we have the same ministry that St. Paul had, the same things take place in our ministry took place in St. Paul's meeting.

3 Now just before we ... or tonight, before we start praying for the sick, I want to lay hands on those handkerchiefs and pray for them. Many times ... I've got pictures, you notice in the books there, from South Africa where they had, I believe sixteen or eighteen grass sackfulls, one night's service. Just great, big... We call them ... I guess they're burlap sacks, stuffed full of handkerchiefs, and letters, and things.
And one of the reporters said, "Brother Branham's very superstitious. He was praying over cloths, handkerchiefs." They don't know the Scripture, that's all. They're lovely people. They just don't understand. That's the way a lot of it is today. They're all nice people, but many times just don't understand. So we just bear with that.

4 So then we are glad to minister in any way.
Now if you write up to Jeffersonville, just tell them... It'll be a cloth that I prayed over. I can't send a handkerchief; they're too expensive in sending thousands of them a month. I take ribbon, and cut them off, and pray over these ribbons. And then some sister over in Illinois makes me little cloths---about like that, not very expensive. Oh, I think ... I forget what they pay a hundred for them. And we get them by the great big boxes, and I take those and pray over them. And then there's a letter made up... We have a chain circle around the earth. The entire earth is encircled with this. We have more miracles done by them cloths than we have right in the meeting, because we reach more people.

5 I'd like to tell this. I know it's taking a lot of your time, but a few days... Oh, it's not a few days. Few---about two years ago, there was one sent to Germany. And on the cloth it says, "If your pastor is a believer, call him in. If you've done any sin, confess it, make everything right." God will not heal only under conditions, see. "So, call your pastor in, and if you've did any wrong, confess it." The Bible said, "Confess your faults one to another, pray one for the other that you might be healed, for the effectual fervent prayer of the righteous availeth much." And I say, "If you have no pastor that believes in healing, maybe you got a neighbor that believes in healing, some member of the church, someone that you can talk to, and confide in."
This little German woman called in some neighbor women, and she said, "If I've done anything wrong, I'm willing to make it right. I know nothing about it." She'd been an invalid in a wheelchair for twenty-some-odd years. So they prayed, and took the handkerchief out of the letter, laid it on the little German woman. And on the back of the page where they gave the translation of her testimony... She said, "Now, old man devil, you've been in me long enough. So get out." She just got up out of the wheelchair, and went walking on.
Now, it's just that simple. "Old man devil, you've held me long enough. Now get out of me." Just got right up and walked away. Now that's just how simple it is.

6 Brother Jack Moore and I, on one of our first missions going west... (Haven't thought of this for a long time.) We were praying for the Indians out in San Carlos. Yes ... was you thinking that? Well, maybe the Lord wants me to say something about it, then. We'd been down with the Spanish people. First time I'd ever prayed for Indians. And there was an alcoholic, and a tubercular come into the meeting at Phoenix, at the Byrd High School Auditorium. And when I seen them bring them Indians on the platform ... My heart always went out for Indians anyhow.
Well, I think they got a rough deal out of this American situation. So then, I asked the Lord, if He'd heal those two Indians, and make it definitely heal them, then I'd go back to the reservation. Before I got to California, there was somebody there let me know that they were both healed. So we had to go back up on the reservation. And I remember going in there, speaking to those Indians, those Apaches, great big, strong people.
They were sitting around everywhere. And I said, "Now, I know how you must feel." I said, "I think it's wrong to send billions of dollars overseas for them to build up airplanes, and make bombs, and come back and blow us out with it (that's right), when thousands of these Indians die every year from starvation, on the prairie." It's a stain on our flag to do a thing like that. After all, this land belongs to them. We just pushed them back. What would we think if the Japs come over here and pushed us back, or something like that? Same feeling. Remember, they're human.

7 I said, "All of that I cannot help. I'm just one American. I'm just one person that votes just like you do, and got the same rights that you have and all." But I said, "I'm not here to tell you about this nation. I'm here to tell you about somebody that will give you a square deal. That's Jesus Christ."
And I remember when we called the prayer line... A Indian's kind of a funny fellow, you know. So there was nobody come in the prayer line. Used to be, we'd have to take and fight them away with great gangs of ushers. But, called the prayer line, there was nobody come. I looked around at Brother Jack, and he looked at me. Finally the interpreter went back.
What was that woman's name that had that mission out there on that...? I believe she belongs to the Assemblies of God, yes. I forget her name now. But, however, I was on her church steps. What? Mitchell, Mrs. Mitchell. Many of you Assembly of God people might remember. And we stood out on the steps with loud speakers.
It just looked like old covered wagons days, to see them sitting around, with that sun going down, and all. The old Chief, and his little Indians all around him, just forted out in there, all around over that San Carlos river banks.

8 And then, after awhile, this interpreter... They got all time to do anything in, you know, so they just went back in, brought out an Indian woman. Well, as soon as she came out ... great big, wide wrists, couldn't speak a word of English, looked me in the face... I watched her a few minutes there. I said, "The woman has a venereal disease. It's not because that she's immoral, but the way she's had to live." And she looked at me real strangely, and that interpreter got that to her. She nodded her head, "That's right."
So the next come out was a little girl, and she kept her head down. I said, "Now, this little girl," I said, "she belongs to one of the great men in the tribe, and she had a fever. It made her go both deaf and dumb. She's been deaf and dumb for over two years. She hadn't spoke or heard anything." I said, "Now, all of you know this little girl, because she's right here on the reservations." I said, "Now, Jesus Christ loves the Indians. He'll heal the Indians." Laid hands... I said, "Don't interpret this." And so I prayed, "Lord, give me favor with these people."
And I prayed for the little girl, and I got down to her. And if you ever heard Apache language, oh, my! So, I said, "Do you hear me?" She turned around, looked at me, and that little ol' black hair, little dirty face. And she looked up at me. I said, "Hear me?"
She said [Apache language]
And I said, "She'll talk better."
And her mother turned around and said, "Hm. Her talk heap good now."
And I said, "Well..."

9 Next, they had a little ol' boy. Pushed him out of that little building, his little ol' hair as coarse as a mane on a horse, and head down. And I said, "Well..." I let the little boy look up at me. I said, "He's got crossed eyes, hasn't he?" And the mother was kind of rough. She just grabbed him by the top of the head, and pulled his hair back, eyes back, his little eyes setting in like that.
I said, "Wonder if I could get...?" He was scared of me. So, I had a piece of chewing gum. I made friends with him, let him smell it, you know. Kept his head down, began smelling it, them little crossed eyes looking around. I picked him up, and got him in my arms. I thought, "God, if You ever help me, let it be now. If I can just find favor with them, then they'll believe, see."
I had him on my shoulder, little head on my shoulder, and I said, "Lord, I pray that You'll straighten his eyes." I said, "Now, you raise your heads." I said, "Now, before I let the child leave my shoulders, if his eyes is not straight I'm a false prophet. If his eyes is straight, then you believe I've come with a message from Jesus Christ for you." I turned him around like this.
And you talk about a prayer line---there was a stampede! Dust flying, and everybody... Well, we couldn't get... No one could get in line. They was just fighting, and pushing, and hollering, jumping over one another, and so...

10 Really, the next was an old Indian woman coming from the back, and there was a little bitty stout ... about eighteen-year-old boy. He just climbed over all of it. He was pretty strong. He got next in line. And I said, "Son, you're not next. This old woman's next." I couldn't make him understand it. And Brother Jack's a pretty good little man himself, you know, carpenter. So he just got the little lad and pulled him out of the way.
Here come that old Indian woman. I'll never forget that as long as I live. Her crutches was made out of two broom sticks, with a piece of wood tacked over the top, and rags wrapped on it, to pad. And she couldn't... It must've been an arthritis condition, and she put these two sticks out. She looked to be at least eighty.
And she put these two sticks out, and she'd make a step, and then she'd set the other. I just stood real still. And she walked right up like this to me, and she was shaking, like that. And she looked up at me like that. Oh, my! I seen them old plaited hair, gray, you know, them old deep wrinkles in her cheeks, and the tears cutting a way through, like the river there going down, dropping off her face like that. And I thought, "Somebody's mother."
No doubt that old feeble hand there, wrinkled up, has stroked the tears back out of many crying baby's eyes; the hardships she's went through. She just stood and looked at me, and never opened her mouth and said a thing. All at once she just started smiling, reached down and got a hold of one crutch, one the other, handed them over to me, and went walking out of there as good as anybody else. No prayer nor nothing. She just believed.
Remember?

11 And long about, I guess it was nearly daylight... I'd been there all night, about four o'clock---four o'clock in the morning. That was before sundown that afternoon. We had been praying all that night till four o'clock the next morning. I noticed all the Indians coming in was wet, way up around in here. I said, "What's the matter with them?"
And she said, "Well, at first they thought you were false," but said, "now," said, "the ford's way down." But said, "They run out into the prairies, and got their loved ones. And they're wading across the river at midnight, packing their loved ones over to be prayed for."
They'll rise in the judgment with the generation of white people, and condemn them many times, some of these people that won't even darken the door to a meeting.

12 And so I remember one instance there... Excuse me for taking the time, but faith cometh by hearing. We overcome by the word of our testimony, and this was a very outstanding case. There was an old Indian that had a board like this, and it had four sticks across this board. Didn't have a stretcher to put the old fellow on, so they let him lay his arms up here (just as gray as he could be), and his knees across the other part of the board. And there was two great big fellows packing him, just as wet as they could be.
I said to one of the fellows, (he was next in line coming up), I said, "You speak English?"
"A little."
I said, "Aren't you afraid you'll take pneumonia?"
"Nope." Said, "Jesus Christ has take care of me. I brought my dad."
"Uhm." I said, "You believe Jesus Christ will heal your dad?"
"Yep. That's why I brought him."
Said, "All right."
Passed him by. I said, "Pass him by." I just laid hands upon the old fellow, that plaited hair laying there, and shaking like this, you know. I laid my hands upon him. I said, "God, be merciful to him. Heal him for Christ's sake." I said, "Take him up ... on," I said. "Let the next come." They come across like that. Few minutes I heard a great rally out there amongst them Indians. You just couldn't see from the end of the lights for Indians. Looked out there. The old man had the board on his own shoulder, going along waving at everybody.

13 We try to make it too complicated. We reach plumb over the top of it trying to find it, see. We try to make it some mysterious thing when it's just simple. The more simple you are, better off you'll be. Just don't jump at it, try to press yourself. Just receive it. It's just that easy. You jump over it, trying... That's what our theologians do---jump over the top of it, trying to find what's sitting right next to you, see. So simple. The Bible said even a fool shouldn't err. That's right. It's so simple, the gospel.

14 Oh, I tell you, when we cross the other side I just wonder what it'll be when we get over there. A airplane can stop, somebody aboard say, "Brother Branham, I was suffering with so-and-so..."
Over here at the train station down... I was way up in northern British Columbia, been back on a hunting trip after a meeting. And I had beard that long, and hadn't took a bath for four weeks. I smelt like the horse. And I was just... We had twenty-one head of horses back in there, and so we just had to stay with them horses all the time.
And I come out, and I was pulling up on the panniers, and old flop-down hat from them rains and snows, and whiskers about that long, turning gray, and just dirty as could be. And we stopped at a little place called East Pines, way back up in the northern British Columbia on the Alcan Highway.
I seen some Indians coming by, them white moccasins on, walking like that. I seen a little red-faced woman kept looking at me. I don't know whether she was Eskimo or Indian. She kept looking at me like this. And I just looked around. I don't see how she ever seen my face, the beard out all like that. I pulled up the panniers and I felt somebody tap me on the shoulder. I turned around, she said, "Pardon me, aren't you Brother Branham?"
I said, "Yes, Ma'am. "I said, "How did you ever know me?"
She said, "I see your picture."
I said, "Where?"
She said, "The dog sled passes through once a year, and it brought your book called, 'A Prophet Visits Africa.' "

15 Brother Rasmussen, did you ever hear of him? He lost the key to his car and I went in at Dawson Creek. Oh, it's a big city, about five hundred, six hundred people, and ... right at the beginning of the Alcan Road. And I seen a big key sign, and I said, "Maybe I can get the man to make a key."
There stood an old sour-dough. Oh, my! His face, his nose big as the end of my hand nearly---swollen, red---big parka on. And I asked this man, I said, "Could you make a key for a car?"
He said, "No, sir, I can't."
I said, "Thank you."
I stepped out. I felt somebody turn me around; looked like little bitty eyes set back behind all that fur. That man looked me in the face. He said, "Yeah, I believe I'm right."
I said, "What do you mean, sir?"
Said, "You're Brother Branham, aren't you?"
I said, "Yes, sir. How did you know me?"
He just started crying. The tears run off that beard; hugged me like that. He said, "I'm your brother." He said, "I got one of your books. I got seven or eight shacks on my trap line. Takes me two weeks to make it around with the dog sled." Said, "By candlelight many a night I've knelt down by an old grease candle out there in them places, and prayed for you." He said, "I got the baptism of the Holy Ghost." He said, "I'm your brother."
When we all get to heaven,
What a day of rejoicing that will be!
When we all see Jesus,
We'll sing and shout the victory.
(Won't we?)
Around the world everywhere, God has his children. Get on a steamship and start somewhere... I was over in Jamai... Oh, I'll just stop. We just stand and keep testifying. Wherever they are, whatever walks of life, somewhere, somebody's heard about the power of God to heal the sick.

16 I wish tonight ... I'm not going to preach, because I want to pray for the sick tonight. But just to get you accustomed now to the meeting for the next fifteen minutes or so, I want to call your attention to a scripture found in St. Matthew, the 14th chapter and the 27th verse. And I would, now, that you'd just be as reverent as possible, see. Listen, now, and catch on to the words.
How many's here has never been in one of the meetings before? Let's see your hands. Oh, my! We all couldn't get in the place at one time. So, nearly half the crowd has never been in the meeting before. We certainly welcome you here, my pilgrim brother and sister. We are fellow citizens with you in this great kingdom of God, enjoying his economy of the presence of God, and the baptism of the Holy Spirit.
As praying for the sick, I do not claim to be a healer. There's only one healer. That's God, and we're just sent as his servants. But I do claim that Jesus Christ is coming right away. I'm looking for Him. If He doesn't come tonight, I'll be looking for Him in the morning. If He doesn't come this week, I'll look for Him next week. If He doesn't come this year, I'll be looking for Him next year. I want to be ready when He comes.

17 And I believe that He promised, "As it was in the days of Sodom, so would it be in the coming of the Son of man." And we find out that in Sodom it was sinners, a bunch of sinners, Sodomites. Then there was a bunch of Christians, lukewarm believers, which represented the church living among them---Lot and his people. Holiness people---sins of the city vexed his righteous soul. Then there was an elected group which Abraham had, called out. And each one of them received a sign. And I believe that the sign that the angel of the Lord did, manifested in flesh there, was the sign of the manifestation of Christ in his church at the last days.
Now, Jesus said, St. John 14;12, "The works that I do shall you do also." And He also said, "A little while and the world [the world order] will see me no more, yet ye shall see me."---the church, the believers, the called out, the elected. "For I (I, not someone else, but I, personal pronoun), I'll be with you, even in you to the end of the world."
Hebrew 13:8 said, "Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever." Then if He is the same today as He was then, He's the same Saviour, the same healer, the same high priest, the same Lord. He's just as He was then. Only, instead of being in a corporal body named Jesus, God is living in his church---your body, my body---that He sanctified with his own blood, that He might cleanse us by the washing of the water by the Word, and present to God a church without spot or wrinkle. That He ... "The works that I do shall he do. These signs shall follow them that believe.", the supernatural.

18 All right. In Matthew 14:27:
... straightway Jesus said unto them, ... be not afraid ... Be of good cheer; it is I; be not afraid.
"Be not afraid. It is I." Now carry that in your mind now, reverently. And you especially that's sick, and you that's not saved, hasn't come into the fellowship of the Spirit yet, carry that in your mind. And I'll hurry just quick as I can, call the prayer line.

19 Watch this conversation. Let's break in, and now make a little drama out of it, so the young folks can catch it. The sun had just set, or was setting across the horizon in the west, when its last glimpse was on the Sea of Galilee. I can see the brawny muscles of the big fisherman as he was pushing the little boat by the stern, as the bow of it pushed out into the water ---the people standing on the banks waving and crying.
As he finally got the little boat off the gravel into the water, climbs up to the middle of the boat where his brother Andrew was sitting by the side of an oar, and took his place. They'd make a stroke or two, and then wave to the people on the bank; stroke or two, and wave to the people on the bank.

20 After awhile, as dusk began to set in, they were out of sight now. And it must have been young John (he was the youngest among them), it must have been he that waited a moment, stopped his oaring for just a few moments to catch a breath, as they had quite a distance yet to go across Galilee. And when he stopped to get his breath, he must have said something like this, as he wiped the perspiration from his face.
Said, "Brethren, we can rest assured that the man that we're following is not a fake. Today, when I stood over his shoulder and watched Him take those little fishes, and break them in two; and watched no sooner than He broke, there come another part of a cooked fish out. I seen Him take that bread and break that bread and hand to the brethren. Every time He broke a piece of bread off, no sooner than his hand left, there was another piece of bread there."
I want to ask you, what kind of an atom did He turn loose? Not wheat; bread already baked. It bypassed the oven, like He did his first miracle in Cana. That water would have eventually become wine; grow up through the vines into the grape, crushed out, become wine. But He bypassed all of that. He was the creator Himself. So in the great resurrection, He'll bypass papa, mama, give birth to this. He'll speak, and we'll come from the dust, like He did Lazarus.

21 And John must have said, "You know, today has been a day that's settled all doubts in my mind. No matter how much that the rabbis and the teachers of this day say that He isn't God, I know He is. For I remember my mother reading me out of the sacred Scriptures, in the scrolls of Exodus, how that when they were hungry like these people were today, God brought bread down out of heaven and laid it upon the ground. So when I seen...
"I said to mother, 'Mother, has God got a big oven up there to bake that bread?'
"She said, 'No, Honey. God is a creator.'
"And when I seen Him break that bread again today, I knowed that was that same Creator. Did not He look like Jehovah when He stood there looking upon the multitude, and breaking this bread, and passing it out? I was minded of the Bible stories that my mother used to read to me about Jehovah feeding his people bread out of the heavens. And today, Jehovah remains the same, because today, brethren, we have seen Jehovah break bread, and give it to his people again and multiply. He surely must be what He says He is, the Son of God."

22 And as the young John was stopped then a moment by Simon Peter, who always had to say something ... And he said, "Well, while we're resting a moment, I'd like to give my personal testimony---being that John has give his. I remember when Andrew, a brother sitting here, used to tell me, 'You should go down and hear a prophet preach, predicting that there is coming a Messiah.'
"And I said, 'What kind of clothes does he wear?'
"Said, 'He had a sheepskin around him, come out of the wilderness. He's the Elijah that was spoke of to come. I believe it.'
"Then one day he come back and told me about another man coming down, a young fellow about his age, and all about some kind of a mystic light over the top of Him or something, and said this prophet said he heard a voice, saying, 'This is my beloved son.' How do I know what to believe what that prophet said? I've never heard him, don't know nothing about him, so I just dismissed the whole thing as a bunch of nonsense. And I thought my brother had went off on the deep end.

23 "But one day He came down to the seaside. And I thought, 'Well, I believe I'll walk up there. It ain't very much out of my way. I'll walk up and see what this fellow's got to say.' And no sooner than I walked up there, I knowed there was something different about that man.
"And I said one thing before I went up there. I remember my old daddy. He was a great old Pharisee, as all you brethren know. And I remember when we used to fish out here in the sea. He was very religious. I remember before going out he'd say, 'Simon my little son, let us kneel and ask Jehovah who owns all the fish, that He'll fill our nets tonight with fishes, for I need it. We need bread at home. And we have need of some fishes. So let's pray, Simon.' How we used to kneel on the bank and pray.

24 "I watched him when his hair begin to slip away, turning gray. Finally one day he sat down on the side of the boat after a big catch, that God had answered prayer, and he said, 'Simon, my little boy, your daddy's getting old, and I must answer my summons pretty soon on high. I've always prayed, Simon, that I'd live to see the day when the Messiah appeared.
'"'Now, Simon, there's no doubt but what there'll be a lot of confusion in that day. There'll be all kinds of things falsely rise up, just before that coming Messiah. But I want you to be... I believe you'll see it, Simon. So I want you to be sure of one thing, Simon. Don't never accept it 'less it's got the sign of the Messiah. Be sure that that Messiahic sign is scriptural. And now here, Simon, here's how you're going to know Him.'
"I remember sitting on his knee and looking in his eyes as they quivered and filled with tears. 'Papa, what will he look like?'"
"'He'll just be an ordinary man, and perhaps not liked amongst our people. He'll be a man of sorrow, acquainted with grief. He'll be rejected and despised. But Simon, there'll be many men rejected and despised. But this man will be a prophet, for Moses said, 'The Lord your God shall raise up a prophet liken unto me. Moses was a perfect type of Christ---law giver, priest, deliverer, so forth, as the Bible reads of him. And Moses said that God told him that there'd raise up a prophet like him. And this will be more than a prophet; He'll be a God-prophet. And you'll remember him, oh, Moses, as all of our people have ... or, you'll remember him, Simon.'
'As all of our people does know, prophets are sent from God. And prophets have... He is a revelator of the divine Word. He's the divine interpreter of the divine Word. And if this prophet says something, and God backs it up, then that prophet's from God; because if he says something that's the Word of God, a promise of God, and God turns around by that prophet and backs it up, and says it's true, then you hear Him, because that's our commission, Simon. Don't be deceived, Simon. But now, Simon, when you see them things comes to pass, you watch this prophet.'

25 "And that day all that seemed to flash back to me, for my dad's been dead for years. But when I walked up there, began to look at that little fellow, 'no beauty we should desire; we hid as it was our face,' I thought, 'That's just exactly what Dad told me that Scripture said about Him'---no different from any other man, looked just like other men.'
"But when I walked up into his face, He looked straight at me and said, 'Your name is Simon, and your father's name is Jonas.' Not only did He know me, but He knowed that godly old father of mine that had passed on.
"I fell at his feet and said, 'You are the Messiah.'"
Said, "That settled it for me. For I know my daddy had taught me the scriptures, that that would be the sign of the Messiah."

26 Must have been Philip about that time said, "Yes, Simon, I was standing, seeing that. You know what I done? I took around the hill to find our brother Nathanael, sitting up here. Nathanael, remember it?"
"Oh, yes, Philip. Well do I remember it."
"I remember I went around the mountain, and I found Nathanael praying under a tree. And I said, 'Nathanael, come see who we have found, Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph.' And remember what you said, Nathanael?"
"Well do I remember. I said, 'Could there be any good thing come out of Nazareth [amongst them holy rollers, or whatever you might call it.]? If there be any Messiah coming, He'd come up here to Caiaphas, the high priest. He'd come make Himself known to our organization. So there couldn't be anything raised up down there in that. Any son of Joseph, or so forth, could ever be any Messiah.' And you remember...? I remember what you told me too, Philip."
"What was it?"
"Said, 'Come and see.'"
That's the best idea. Don't stay home and criticize. Come find out for yourself. Come examine it by the Word. See if it's right. That's good theology. Come see for yourself.
Said, "Yes, I remember."
And said, "You remember what we talked about, coming along, Nathanael?"
The boat was rocking along, the little waves now, going across the sea.
"Yeah, I remember."

27 They was all giving their personal testimony about Jesus, what they thought of Him.
And so, he said, "Yes, well do I remember. Yes, I remember. We was talking about you, Simon."
"Yeah."
He said, "You remember that old fisherman that couldn't even sign his own name on a receipt for your fish?"
"Yes."
Said, "He told him who he was and who his father was. Now you know, Nathanael, that you're a scholar. And you know the Bible says that the Messiah will be a God-prophet. We'll know Him by the sign of a prophet."
"Yes, I remember that. And I remember you told me He might tell me who I was when I come before Him. Oh, I remember that."
"Well, now, Nathanael, you want to testify from here out?"
"I certainly do, brethren." Oh, my! If you've ever met Jesus, you like to tell about it.

28 I can see him stand up in the little boat, and say, "Brethren, I walked up there. I wondered what that man... I'd heard Philip talk about Him, and I thought, 'Well, surely Philip wouldn't tell me anything wrong!' I got there, saw a little group of people, [Oh, perhaps maybe what's like here tonight, or something.]," said, "a little group of people standing along. [Maybe it was in a prayer line.]
"And when I got up before Him, He looked at me and He said, 'Behold an Israelite in whom there's no guile.'
"I thought, 'Now that's strange. I never saw Him before, and He never saw me before. So how does He know that I'm an Israelite? How does He know? I could be a Arab. I could be a Greek. Why, we all dress alike. So how did He know I was a Israelite and had no guile; I was a just, honest man?'
"So I said to Him, 'Rabbi (I didn't want to disregard, disrespect Him.),' so I said, 'Rabbi, how did you ever know me? You've never seen me, and You don't know me. This is the first time we met. So how did you know me?'"
He said, "Before Philip called you, when you were under the tree, I saw you."
"Yes," said Philip, "I remember what you done. You fell at his feet and said, 'Rabbi, Thou art the Son of God. Thou art the King of Israel.'"
"Say, you remember Rabbi Levinski over there, what he said? He said, 'Now, look, congregation, don't you believe that stuff. That's Beelzebub. That's the devil in that man doing that. He's a fortune-teller,' see. You remember what Jesus said to him? He said, 'I forgive you for that, but some day the Holy Ghost is coming, and He'll do the same thing. And if you speak a word against it, it'll never be forgiven you in this world, neither in the world to come.' Remember that?"
"Yes, yes. I remember that."

29 It must have been Andrew, sitting by the side of Peter then, said, "Can I testify, brethren?"
"Yes."
Said, "I want to speak for the whole group of us." Said, "When that day... When we were going down to Jericho, from Jerusalem going down to Jericho; went right down the mountain. But He had need to go by Samaria. We always wondered. Now I remember Him telling them priests that day that... 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."
"So we seen Him that day walk through multitudes of lame, blind, halt, twisted, withered; and found a man laying on a pallet. Said, 'Take up your bed and go into your house.' The man obeyed Him. The priest questioned him, and He said, 'I do nothing till the Father shows me.' And He knowed the man had been in that condition. Brother, that settled it that He was ... He knowed. God had showed Him what to do, showed where the man was. Knowed he'd been that way for thirty-eight years. He wasn't paralyzed, or he wasn't crippled. He could walk. Said, 'When I'm coming down, somebody steps ahead of me.' "
"Yes, I remember that."

30 "And somehow He was strangely led. And we all know that. We went up to Samaria. And isn't it strange, when we got just outside the city there at that well...? He sat down at this well, and sent us all away."
"Yes, brethren." Said, "Yes, we remember that, Andrew, very well."
And said, "When we went down into the city... And John, that's where you showed off, and wanted to burn the city up, you know, because they wouldn't give us something to eat. But we come back. And you know, when we come back up through the bushes there, we were so surprised when we saw our Master talking to a woman, a young girl, young woman perhaps his age. And you remember, she was just pulling up the waterpot when we come up. So we wanted to see what He would do.
"So He said, 'Woman, bring me a drink.'
"And quickly she looked at Him and said, 'It's not customary for you Jews to ask us Samaritans things like that. We have no dealing. We have segregation here. You shouldn't say such a thing as that to me.'
"And He said, 'But if you knew who you were talking to, you'd ask me for a drink. And I'd give you waters that you don't come here to draw.'
"'Why,' she said, 'the well's deep and you have nothing to draw with.'

31 "You remember, brethren, how we all slipped down under that bush and listened to see what He'd say?"
"Yeah, I remember---right behind the well there."
"And, Andrew, you remember I tried to push your head down, trying to peep over the wall. And so, we listened to see what He'd say to this woman."
"So she come closer to Him, and she said, 'Our fathers worshipped in this mountain; you say at Jerusalem.'
"Remember the conversation went on a little while? And after awhile, He looked her right in the face, and He said, 'Go get your husband and come here.'
"Remember what she said? 'I don't have any husband.'
"Oh, we thought, now, now something caught Him. Now He's got it. That woman said... Now we know if she'd say a lie and He'd be our God, our Lord, we know that that woman would probably die right in her tracks. [That's right---to dispute God's Word right to his face.] So we wondered what would happen.
"She said, 'I have no husband.'
"He said, 'You said the truth.' So we wondered what was going to happen. Then we hear Him raise up again, said, 'You've had five, and the one you're living with now is not your husband. So you said the truth.'
"You remember the looks of that woman's face? Her hair fell down, her big pretty eyes looked out there. She scratched her head. She said, 'Sir...'
"Now, John, keep still. I know what you said. 'She's going to say He's Beelzebub.'
JOHN4:19
"But she said, 'Sir, I perceive that you are a prophet.'"
She knowed more about God than the preachers does. She said ... in that state. Oh, yes. A over-trained theological seminary experience takes you away from Him sometimes, farther than walking the street.

32 "Now, there she said, 'I perceive that You are a prophet. We Samaritans know that there's coming a Messiah which is called Christ, the anointed One, the prophet that Moses spoke of. And we know when He comes He'll tell us these things, because that'll be the sign of the Messiah. He'll be a God-sent prophet. We know that He's coming.'
"Jesus said, 'I am he. [Oh, my!] I am he that speaks with you.'"
"And she looked again. She dropped that water pot and took off in the city as hard as she could.
"You remember, we went over. We said, 'Eat, Master, eat Master.'
"He said, 'I have bread to eat that you know not of.'
"And we went on down into the city. And here come the men coming out. And we remember that woman going down through the street. We could hear her plumb out to that well. All the men around the market place... She was saying, 'Come see a man. Come see a man who told me the things that I've done. Isn't this the very Messiah? Isn't this the sign of the Messiah? Yes, come see the man that told me what I've done. Isn't this the Messiah?'
"And, brethren, you remember when all them men come out there and they believed that woman's testimony and accepted Him as the Messiah."
"Oh, we all witnessed that. So we all know (they must have said), brethren, that we know that He is the Messiah.

33 And He promises, now, for us not to go to any Gentiles. That'll be for another age. But go, rather, to the lost sheep of Israel, see. Now, strange He's made Himself known to the Jews; He's made Himself known to the Samaritans, but not to the Gentiles. He'll perhaps do that later. They're not looking for a Messiah."

34 Now, must have been about that time that Satan looked over top the hill after it got dark. Satan's scared of light. Any devil's afraid of light. That's right. Any creeping evil thing's afraid of light. You take a wild animal in the jungles of Africa... When I'd be out there hunting, just flash on the light, they're gone. They're scared of light. Get an old nasty roach, throw a apple core down out somewhere, when it's dark, he'll come around nibbling. Just turn the light on him, watch him take for cover. Certainly. Spiders and everything else'll take off. They're afraid of light.
That's the reason people are afraid of these old time Holy Ghost meetings. Children of darkness work in darkness. Children of light walk in light. "Ye are the light of the world, a city that sets on a hill." Don't put a bushel over it now, see.

35 Satan looked over soon as it got dark, and said, "Well, I guess it's about time for me to start prowling all the night clubs, and honky-tonks, and everything." Said, "I wonder where them disciples and Jesus is."
So they looked. And as him and all of his demons looked, there they was, out on the sea without Him. Said, "Now's our chance, they've gone off without Him. Now we can get even with them." That's just what he looks for---you and I to go off without Jesus one time.
I say this with reverence and respects. I'm afraid that's what the Pentecostal people are doing. You're going off after big buildings and big organizations, and societies, and you've left Him. You're so busy in building programs. You forgot the little mission down on the street, and the old tambourine, the guitar. You're afraid of jail sentences and things again, see. There's something wrong. Went off without Him. Got on a tantrum, programs and so forth, and forgot about Him.
That's the reason our sisters bob off their hair, and wear these little ol' dirty clothes. And deacons put in the church...

36 I know a Holiness Church, a great Pentecostal church, one of the greatest in the United States. And I know a friend of mine at that... A man going to this church found a woman, a young girl in there, he loved better than he did his wife. And he had a sweet little girl. And he left his wife, married this girl of the church. And they made him a deacon after that. Brother ... yeah. He went off without Him. That's all I know, brethren. Yes. Because he paid heavy on the plate.
People are beginning to look too much about money, and dressing, and fine things. You better look up. Better get away from that stuff. 'Cause remember, that's the leading to Laodicea, which the church age will go out in. Make God sick at his stomach. He just spews you from his mouth, He said, just acting like Christians. He wants real born-again Christians with real genuine faith to believe every word God writes. Now, I don't want to get started on those things, because I keep you here too long.

37 Now, notice. Then Satan seen them out there without Him. Said, "Here's our chance to get even with them now." And that's what he's done to the church. I was called today by some of my sponsors on a meeting. They called me long distance this afternoon, a group of Pentecostal ministers (not Baptist, Presbyterian---Pentecostal ministers), and confessed that they had believed not in divine healing; and wanted me not in the city; and wouldn't sponsor a meeting where they prayed for the sick. Pentecostal ministers. Pitiful, isn't it?

38 I had another call, said ... from a group that said, "If you let another group sit on the platform with you, we'll have nothing to do with it." That's worse off than ever. What's the matter? Gone off without Him! The love of God in our heart constrains us to preach to every denomination in every place. When it gets to a spot that you can't have a tender love for every human being, something's happened to you.
God so loved you when you was a sinner---an alien away from God, an enemy of the commonwealth of God---He so loved you that He gave his life for you. Sure. If you get a spirit in you you're better than someone else, then you're worse than anybody else that I know of. I don't care if you're ever so correct in your theology. Your motives and objectives is wrong. I'd rather be wrong in my theology than be wrong in my heart. That's right. The Spirit of God dwells in your heart. In the garden of Eden, man took his ... he compromised.
Now in the garden of Eden there was a choice made by the man. The devil took his head; God took his heart. And he sends him off to a seminary, freezes him up with some good theology and dehydrates him in there. And he comes back out, his head all puffed up, too big to wear an ordinary hat. Then he comes out with bitterness in his heart against a fellow citizen of the kingdom. That ain't God. Right.

39 Satan seen them go off like that without God. And so he said, "Now let's get rid of them." And that's just the good way to get rid of them, too. Brother, when you get a place that you can't reach across the fence, come across the street and associate, and call a man a brother just because there might be some little hair's difference... How do you know you're not a little different in God's sight? some little something? And be a brother? Why, certainly.
Brother, the altar's your place. That's exactly right. Get right with God. I wouldn't want that evil spirit on me. That's right. I'm sorry to see that creeping into Pentecostal groups---all sides of them, too, all sides. Pot can't call kettle black, because it's just six of one, and half a dozen of the other. So they're on both sides.

40 But, oh, brethren! Don't let that evil thing come on you men. No, sir, brother. Stick together like molasses on a cold morning. Just really, really cling together. Be thick. That's right. For:
"Blest be the tie that binds
Our hearts in Christian love;
The fellowship of kindred minds
Is like to that above.
Before our Father's throne,
We pour our mutual prayers (that's right);
Our fears, our hopes, our aims are one,
Our comforts and our cares (that's right).
That's the way we should be. Yes, certainly---not greedy, selfish, indifferent, ungodly. The fruits of the Spirit is love, joy, longsuffering, meekness, gentleness, faith, patience. That's it. That's the fruit of the Spirit.
You know a tree... If a tree's got sycamore bark on it, and apples growing on it, what is it? It's a apple tree. The life in the tree produces apples. No matter what your theology is (right or wrong), if you're bearing the wrong kind of fruits, you're the wrong kind of tree, brother. Jesus said, "By their fruit you shall know them." Not by their tree, but by their fruit. That's right. True.

41 Now, he saw them without Jesus. Then he began to blow his poison breath at them, and a great storm swept down. And the little ship's just about to tip over, back and forth, up and down, back and forth. The little boat become waterlogged. The mast pole blowed down, the oars broke. (That's about the crippled condition we're getting into. That's right.) He begin to blow his breath, saying, "Whew, you belong to our organization, or you don't belong to anything. We're the ones that's right. The rest of them's wrong. Segregate yourself." Oh, my! "Yeah, days of miracles is past. Oh, that divine healing, there's nothing to it. Aw, there's no such a thing as this, that, or the other." Oh, my! See?
That's the poison breaths of Satan. "Don't have nothing to do with him. He don't believe like we do." There's only one faith, that's the faith of God. That's right. God's faith. Your human faith don't go very far. But God's faith in you makes you love everybody, makes me love everybody, that's right. That's what God's faith does, see. Makes you have the same feeling that Jesus did, because the Spirit of Christ is in you.

42 All hopes was gone. They were just about ready to sink. They was about holding one another, and say, "Why did we go off without Him? Why didn't we constrain Him to go with us?" But you know what? He does things like that sometimes just to see what we'll do. I think He did it then. Instead of leaving them altogether, you know what He done? He knowed that was going to happen. He knows this thing right now, that's going on now, was going to happen. But you know what He done? He climbed the highest hill there was in Palestine. Got up on top the hill so He could see all the way across the ocean to watch them. Oh!
When He died at Calvary He climbed the ramparts of Calvary till He kept on climbing, on that Easter morning, till He climbed beyond the moon, stars, sun; until He could see from eternity into eternity. His eye is on the sparrow, and I know He's watching this meeting tonight. He wants to see what we'll do.

43 All hopes was gone. They thought everything was past, they was going to drown. And when the very crucial moment, when He had watched them... And here He come, walking to them on the troubled sea. And now the sad mistake that they made, I want to say in closing, is the same sad mistake that the church is making today! They were afraid of Him. They thought He was a spook, a spirit, something spooky, fortune-telling and devils. That's what they thought. They begin to tremble. But listen to that comforting word, "Be not afraid. Be of a good cheer. It is I. It is I." The only thing that could help them, the only help there was to be helped, and they was afraid of it.
And today the only thing that'll break down the barriers, the only thing that could melt us together as brothers and Christians, the only thing that could bring us together again is the Spirit of God, or the love of God that's shed abroad in our hearts, a message of grace from God that we are not divided. All one body are we. God heals them just the same as they was ... whatever they are. We are not divided.

44 They see the Spirit of God that was promised by Christ Himself. In the last days, He said, "As it was in Sodom," when that angel set of... God's Spirit manifested in flesh, eating the flesh of a calf, eating the milk from the cow, drinking buttermilk, sweet milk (whatever it was), eating butter on cornbread, sitting there eating like a man. Had his back turned to the tent; a stranger, never been around there before.
Abraham had never saw Him. As far as Abraham knowed, he'd never saw Him. And He said, "Abraham, where is your wife, Sarah?" How did He know he was married? How did He know he had a wife? And how did He know her name was Sarah?
I'd imagine Abraham said, "My leading was right." Said, "She's in the tent behind you."
Said, "Abraham, I am going to fulfill my promise to you."
Notice, not an angel, not a man, but "I," going to fulfill "my." What a promise. "What I promised you." Oh, my! Can't you see it was God? Abraham said it was God. He called Him Elohim, Lord God, Creator. El, Ela, Elohim means the "all-sufficient and the self-existing One." Amen. He was the self-existing One, Elohim, manifested in a body of flesh, eating and drinking like a man---that knowed he was Abraham.
The same God was made manifest, and said, "Your name is Simon, and you are the son of Jonas." "I saw you when you were under the fig tree." El, Ela, Elohim. See it?

45 And in the last days He said, "As it was in the days of Sodom, so shall it be at the coming of the Son of Man." Don't be afraid of God. It's the only thing that can help you.
"Will it help us Methodists?
"Yes."
"Help us Baptists?"
"Yes."
"Help us Oneness?"
"Yes."
"Twoness?"
"Yes."
"Threeness?"
"Yes."
Fourness, Fiveness, I don't care what you are, it's help for all of you. Don't be afraid of it.
God's Bible message to every one of you, "Whosoever will, let him come and drink from the fountains of the water of life freely." "Don't be afraid, it is I", said Jesus. "And I will be with you [I, that pronoun again, personal pronoun], I'll be with you, even in you, to the end of the world." Amen. "Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today, and forever."
When He was yesterday in his day, He was a pillar of fire. He was manifested in flesh, said, "I come from God and go to God." A few days later after his resurrection, Saul, breathing out great threats, went down to Damascus. A light, a pillar of fire struck him down.
He said, "Who are You?"
He said, "I'm Jesus."
Peter was in prison, the pillar of fire come in the window. Peter thought, "I'm having a dream now."
He said, "Come on, follow Me."
The gates opened by itself, passed right by the guards. He didn't realize it was God till he was on the outside. Amen. I love Him, don't you?
Let's now ... my time's five minutes over, let's just sing this little song to Him, all you people, every one. "I love Him, I love Him because He first loved me."

46 Our heavenly Father, we thank Thee for thy Word, Thy Word is truth. "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God." And the Word was manifested before us in flesh. In the book of Hebrews it said, "The word of God [Christ, of course], is more powerful and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the sunder of the bone, the marrow, and even a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the mind." O God, be merciful to us. Grant it, Father.
Make Yourself known tonight in human flesh by performing the same things that You did back there, that they might know. And when we stand in the judgment bar there'll be no excuses. Father, take your eye salve of the Spirit tonight, and open the people's eyes that they might see that it is You, that it's your Spirit. You're not dead, You're alive forevermore. May many of the people, even like the woman touched his garment, may they be graciously healed, for we ask it in his name, amen.
I love Him, I love Him,
Because He first loved me;
And purchased my.......
.... Calvary's tree.
Now real sweetly. Do you love Him? Really love Him? Makes you love everybody, don't it? All right, now while we sing again softly and sweetly to Him, let's everyone shake hands with somebody quietly right by us.
I love Him, I love Him,
Because He first loved me;
And purchased my salvation
On Calvary's tree.

47 Now let's just worship with our heads bowed. Quietly, hum it now. (Hums) Just think how good He is to you. O God! Just think in your heart now. Lay your hand over on Calvary. O dying Lamb, thy precious blood shall never lose its power. Why do you love Him? Just think, why do you?
Because He first loved me;
And purchased my salvation
On Calvary's tree.

48 Father, we thank You now for this sweet fellowship. Oh, how we love it, Lord. Just bathe at the fountain, bathing ourself in the beauty of his righteousness and holiness and his power. Our sins are all gone. The blood of Jesus Christ, God's Son, cleanses us from that. We're fixing to come in to the throne now, Lord, to ask favors. You've got a group of sick children here, Father. They've come tonight because they believe in You. And I've come to bring the message to them.
O God, some of these people in here will die right away if You don't help them. Our beloved physicians of the earth here has give some of them up, no doubt. Some of them are crippled and blind, and something that the medics don't know what to do about. Father, You're the creator.

49 David, one time as we quoted, he was caring for his father's sheep. God, let me just take his place tonight, caring for Father's sheep. One day a lion, an enemy, come in, grabbed one of the sheep and run out, a lamb. And he didn't have nothing but this little slingshot. But he went after the lion. He trusted You. He slew the lion, brought the lamb back.
Father, there's many of them here tonight sick and afflicted, that medical science is stumped. They don't know what to do. They've come here tonight. They're your sheep. I'm taking this little slingshot of prayer, and I'm coming after them, Lord. Give us power of faith to kill that lion, that devil, that cancer, that devil that's crippled them, or whatever it is, that we might restore them back to the sheepfold for You, for our Father don't want to lose his sheep. Forgive our unbelief, Lord, and set our souls aflame with thy Spirit.
We realize that healing has already been purchased for us, for He was wounded for our transgressions; and with his stripes we were (a past tense) healed.

50 Now grant, Lord, that You'll come tonight in this meeting, and will do something that You did just like You did when You were here on earth, because You promised it would be done in this day.
And when we leave the meeting tonight, may we feel like Cleopas and them coming from Emmaus, when You did something there just like You did before your crucifixion. They knew that was the same Jesus. He'd rose, and was doing just like He did before his crucifixion. Light-heartedly they run and told everybody, "Truly the Lord is raised from the dead." And they said, "Did not our hearts burn within us when He talked to us?"
I pray, Father, that they won't be afraid tonight while You've been talking to them in their spirit, for may they realize that that still small voice that attracted the attention of the prophet... The mighty rushing wind struck over the cave. It didn't rouse the prophet much. The thunder and the lightning, the blood and oil and so forth, all poured down. But it didn't attract the prophet. But when that still small voice spoke, then the prophet veiled his face and come out. God spoke with him.
God, let us veil our face tonight and walk out, hear from You. May we not be afraid. May we veil ourselves with the Word of God, walk out upon his promise now---that still small voice of the promise by the Word---and see you perform these things that we're asking tonight. We commit it all to You now, in the name of Jesus Christ. Amen.

51 I want to pray for this just now. Lord Jesus, You promised it. And one day, it's written by a writer, that the children of Israel were on the road to the promised land, and the Red Sea got in their way, right in the line of duty. The Red Sea was keeping them from the promised land, and the writer said that God looked down through that pillar of fire with angry eyes and the Red Sea got scared and rolled back. And the children of Israel went on to the promised land.
Now, Father, the promise is that You would heal us, that You have healed us. And doubt is in the way, superstitions, all kinds of troubles. Now may God not only look through the pillar of fire tonight, but through the blood of his own Son. May them demons that holds the people that's sick, that sent these handkerchiefs in... When these handkerchiefs of tokens is laid upon the people, may that devil turn them loose, and they go over into that promised land of good health. Grant it, Lord. It's in the line of duty. We send these handkerchiefs in Jesus' name for that purpose. May they be restored to the promise that God gave them. And the promise above all things I wish ... would that you prosper in health, so they can serve God. Amen.

52 The ones that own them may get them after the service.
I don't know how we're going to line the prayer line up here. The line ... the walls are full. How many prayer cards did you all give out? Fifty. What was they? A's, B's, or C's? Let's see what we can do. Is there room for a line between you all and the wall there, brethren? Could a line...? You wouldn't mind it? That's all right. No, don't. Don't get out of your way. We'll make ... we want you to stand right here.
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53 difference whether I pray for you or not. that don't have much to do with it. It isn't my hands; it's his hands. That's the reason I have them times... Now remember, if there was anything in the world I could do to help you, I'd do it. But there's nothing I could do towards healing you, only telling you a message that Christ has already healed you. How many believes that's the truth? See. How many knows that every sin in the world was forgiven when Jesus Christ died at the cross? All right. Then what do you when you hear the Word? You accept it. That's right? And then if you believe it, you're saved.
Then how many knows when Jesus died at the cross that by his stripes we were healed? He healed every sick person. That's right. Then what can anyone do? If you're already brought out of the pawn shop... If a fellow's standing there with a ticket of redemption, the only thing you have to do is receive it, see. Let's just take it. You're free, you don't have it then. (What say? I called to 25. Got all of them in.) All right.

54 Now, now in this prayer line only thing I'm going to do is pray for the sick, see. Now how many knows that's been here in future meetings, that knows that the Holy Spirit that promised in the last days that the message would be like it was in the days of Sodom, and Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today and forever, and made a promise that He would do these things? How many Bible readers know this, He promised it? All right. Do you believe that we are at the end of the Gentile age? Like it was at the end of the Jewish age, and the Samaritan age?
Now, Jesus made Himself known as the Messiah to them by a Messiahic sign. Is that right? Anybody knows that? How many knows that He had the Messiah sign? Sure, sure He did. He said, "If I do not the works of my Father, believe me not."
The woman at the well said, "We know when Messiah cometh, He'll tell us this," see. And so, to know the secrets of their heart, to do just the same thing it's always done---

55 and then how many knows that He didn't perform that before Gentiles? Sure. How many knows He promised He would do it at the end-time? Sure He would. Sure. All right.
Why? When God is called on the scene---now listen, you Bible studiers. Listen to this. Put your faith in the Word of God, for when God is ever called on the scene to make a decision, He cannot make any other decision but what He has to stay with his first decision. How many know that? 'Cause He's infinite, every decision's perfect. He don't have to make no two decisions. If He made another decision then his first decision was wrong, if He changes it. Therefore when God does anything in the Bible, He has to do it again or He did wrong when He did it the first time.
So if He made Himself known as Messiah by the sign of Messiah, a prophet-Messiah, then, to the Jews, to the Samaritans, and promised it to the Gentiles, He's got to do the same thing.
Now, how many's seen it happen? Let's see your hands so I know. Oh, I guess everybody. How many never did see it happen? Let's see your hands. Never did see it? Raise up. Never did see God do a thing like that, stand at the platform, never was in one of these meetings before, never seen the sign of the Messiahic sign. Let's see your hands go up, never seen it. There's a few. Some newcomers in the back, all right.

56 What say? What say? Yes, just in a little bit. All right, you think they can line up the others? 26, prayer card C26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 30, 31? Say, is the Spanish-speaking people here tonight? These people speak Spanish? I don't know what might ... there's four, five, six cards missing, might be Spanish-speaking. All right, 30, 31, 31, all right, 32, that's right. 33 come right over here, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, there we're coming, 39, 39. Right this way, come this way. 39, 40, 41, -2, -3, -4, 41, -2, -3, -4. All right, back in the back. 44, 45, 46, 47, 48. I didn't see 48. 48, 49, 49, 49, I didn't see it, prayer card C49. All right. C50? Who has prayer card C50? Now we're getting them lined up. Now, now that's all the prayer cards.
Now. [This woman here needs help, Brother.] All right, when the time comes, when the time comes he'll help to lift... I'll tell you, when time comes for me to pray for her, I'll just walk down there and pray for her. Leave her sit right at... What's her number? [48] 48. All right, you remind me now, Brother Jack, the time when 48 comes, I'll go down, pray for the lady. All right.

57 Now, now the rest of you in here that doesn't have a prayer card ... which, all prayer cards are in the line. Now, now ... that wants Jesus to heal you, raise up your hands---doesn't have prayer cards.
Now I want to quote a scripture to you. There was a woman ... we're just going to say, one time a woman that didn't have a prayer card in the Bible. And she said, "I believe that man, and if I can only touch the hem of his garment, I'll be made whole." You know the story? All right. What happened? She pressed through the crowd till she touched the hem of his garment.
Now did anybody ever see a Palestinian robe? It's way loose and got an underneath garment. Keeps the dust off the limbs. And a Palestinian garment... If she touched the hem of my coat I wouldn't feel it. If she touched my trouser legs like that, or cuff of my trousers---how about a big garment hanging out like that? So Jesus turned around and said, "Who touched me?"
And Peter rebuked Him, said, "Lord, all of us touching You, why do you say a thing like that?"
He said, "But I perceive that I got weak." Virtue went out. Is that right?
And what did He do? He looked out over the audience until He found the little woman, and told her her blood issue was gone. Her faith had saved her. How many knows that? Now wouldn't you like to touch Him? Well, is it possible that you can touch Him? Is He a high priest now that could be touched by the feeling of our infirmities? Well, then, if He's the same high priest, how would He act now? Like He did then. Is that right? Now you touch Him, and see if He acts that way. That's the way to do it.
Oh, isn't that wonderful, when you bring God's Word to a showdown?

58 Now if He stood here with this suit on, and you walked up to Him saying, "O Master, Lord, O Master, I pray that You'll heal me.", you know what He'd say?
"My child, I've already done it. Don't you believe Me?"
You say, "Lord, let me see if you got scars in your hand." Anybody could have scars in their hand. "Let me see if You got scars in your side." I got them where a horse throwed me. Sure. Now I got another one over here, where I was shot with a gun. Gun went off when I was a kid. Another fellow's gun shot me across the side. But that don't mean that you'd be a Messiah. No.
But the life of Messiah would be the Spirit of Messiah in his church. Now no matter how much He'd put it on me, He's got to put it on you too, because we can't work separately. We got to work together.
Jesus went into a place claiming He was the Messiah, and many mighty works He could not do because of what? Unbelief. He's the same yesterday, today and forever. If you don't believe Him there's no way for Him to work. If you will believe Him, He'll come right in your flesh, the Messiah will. Amen. He's the same God that's in flesh. Do you believe it?

59 Now, in this prayer line, you all that's in this prayer line, how many's been in a prayer line that's been here at other meetings, and seen God---how He revealed the secrets and things? Raise up your hands, you that's in the prayer line. All right. Now, if I don't say one word to you, just pray, do you believe that God will do it? You believe it? Do you believe it without seeing? I know what you're feeling. I can just feel it, see. I can tell it.
All right. You out there without... Let's have the discernment line out here without prayer cards, the ones without prayer cards have the discernment. Let these pass through so that you'll see that the angel of the Lord is here.

60 Now if that pillar of fire that was in the burning bush in Moses' time... The pillar of fire was in the burning bush in the time of Moses when it was made flesh. How many believes that was Christ? He said, "Before Mos... before Abraham was I AM", see. All right.
Now, that pillar of fire that was in the wilderness when it was made flesh... We know it did that, didn't it? And now, is He a high priest tonight that can be touched by the feeling of our infirmities? All right. You just have faith and believe God, and God will grant that to you. Now every one of you, just bow your heads silently and start praying, each one of you. Don't be upset, hysterical, but just believe that Jesus Christ is here. You have a need of Him. Just believe.
Oh, how wonderful ... the sympathizing Jesus. Now, I've talked about Him, spoke his Word. Will He now fulfill his Word? All right. It's all ... got your prayer line? Just a minute. I want the discernment to be out there, if God'll just grant it once more. All right, raise your heads. Look on me, now, just like Peter and John, passing the gate called Beautiful. Believe me as his servant.
Hold your affliction in your mind, and say, "God, I'm suffering with so-and-so. Have mercy on me." All of you, don't think that you're past healing. You're not. Just as easy for Him to heal you as it is anybody else. Just have faith. I wish I could heal every one of you. I'd do it. I can't do no more that just what I see going on.

61 I'm watching the light. It was here just a second ago. It moved and went this way, and I don't see it now. It's away from the platform at this time.
Yeah, the little lady there with her hand up to her mouth suffering with that gall bladder trouble---if you believe with all your heart, Jesus Christ make you well. Had more faith than you thought you had. "If thou canst believe, all things are possible."

62 Brother, sitting right there, don't fear. You're going to be all right. And if you'll believe with all your heart... That man you're praying for that that horse fell on, he'll wake up if you'll believe it. Do you believe it? You believe it? All right. Have faith. Nothing's impossible.
I want to ask you something, what did he touch? He's forty feet from me. What did he do? He touched the high priest. His faith moved back, and I caught it. Amen. "If thou canst believe..."
Think God can heal you of them varicose veins? Wasn't that wonderful? Little sister sitting over there on the end of the row, you want God to give you a baby, don't you? Little lady with the green-looking dress on. Have faith in God, and you'll embrace your son that you've asked for.
Ask them people. I don't know that woman, I never saw her in my life. She's a stranger to me. Are we strangers, lady? ever who that was that was called? If we're strangers to one another, raise up your hand. Yeah, raise up your hand so that the people see. What did they touch? The high priest. Now do you believe? Now you touch. You do the same kind of touching, I challenge you in Christ's name to do it. Now we'll pray for the sick.

63 That strike you? You believe that I am his servant? With all your heart. I don't know you. You're a stranger to me, just so the people see whether the people hasn't got prayer cards, or prayer cards, it doesn't matter. Now you know there's some kind of anointing here, is that right? You know that it ... something takes more a than man to do something like that. It takes God, doesn't it? Yes, it certainly does.
Do you believe that God could tell me what you're standing here for? You know He could. That's fine. All right. If you'll believe it, I see you're shadowed. Yeah, something horrible. You're shadowed. And that's the reason I looked around, the anointing being on me... Now, I couldn't take each one of them people down that line. I'd drop off here on this platform, I'm so weak now. See how beads of sweat standing?
I couldn't do it, because if He felt weakness from one person touching Him, what about now when He has to work back through a sinner saved by grace, see. And that was the anointed God. Just his holy virgin-born body that God was working through made Him weak. What about me, a sinner saved by grace? Because He said, "More than this shall you do. The things that I do shall you also, and more than this." It says "greater" in the King James, but...
You say, "What're you talking to me for, Brother Branham?" I'm trying to contact your spirit just like He talked to the woman at the well. That's right. I can tell you now, you're suffering with an extreme nervousness. You got heart trouble also. That's right, isn't it? If that's right, raise up you hand so the people see it. Now you believe? with all your heart? Well, the same God knows this same thing's the matter with you, see? That just does it.

64 I keep feeling that... Every once in a while somebody says, "He's guessing that." I'm not guessing that. How could I guess that? Now don't think them things, because I catch it right here, see. And that hinders the rest of the meeting. Here's ... let's see if we was guessing it.
You're a fine person. Now, I couldn't have guessed that. I don't know you. I've never seen you. We're perfectly strangers. Is that right? That's right. All right, sir, that's true. Now I don't know what I've told you. The only way I know is get that tape. Let me get in contact with your spirit again.
See, you're a woman, I'm a man. That's the same way it was at the gate, at the well at Samaria. But, we being Christians, see, and the Spirit of God between us, we're brothers and sisters. Then there's a God of heaven here trying to work through me just like this ... this thing. It don't know what to say. It can't say nothing. Neither could I tell you. I have to speak through this to make a voice go through it. Well, He has to speak through me to tell me what's wrong. You see it, audience?

65 Now I'm just yielding myself. I just have a gift from God to yield myself. I don't know what He's going to say. If He can tell you what has been, surely you could believe if He'll tell you what will be. Now somebody'll say, "Well, let's see if He'll tell you what has been." God have mercy so the people can see and understand, is my prayer. I just want... I don't mean to dig up your life, but I just want to see if God will tell it so that the people see that something... I won't ask Him no more, if He'll in this meeting tonight, if He'll just let it happen.

66 Yes, I see it now. I see her shaking, walking to a window. She gets real nervous, late of a evening especially, right after work. And she's got heart trouble. Oh, my. There's something else. Yes, here's something has been. It's an operation of some sort, a cancer, in the breast. And you're afraid that part of it is still there. That's right. Yes, on your side. See, I was pointing to my left side, yes. And you've had some more trouble. You've just recently lost your husband. That's right. Is that what has been? You believe God can tell me who you are? the same that knowed who Simon Peter was and so forth? Mrs. Badd, now go believing. It'll all be over.

67 Now if I just lay hands... There's something anointing here, isn't there? If I lay hands on you, the Bible said, "These signs shall follow them that believe; ... if they lay hands on the sick they shall recover."
Our heavenly Father, I lay hands upon my sister, and ask while this anointing is here, for her healing. Amen. Go believing now with all your heart. If I lay hands upon you, do you believe that God will heal you and make you well? The whole church is praying for you. In the name of Jesus Christ may he be healed. Just have faith. Go believing with all your heart.
Now, you know I know what's wrong with you. But I don't have to say it, do I? Just as long as I tell you your heart... Well, go ahead. See, I done said it.
Now you know I know what's wrong with you. Is that right? If I tell you, would it help you? Which would be greatest? Me to lay hands on you or tell you what's wrong with you? Tell you what's wrong with you. All right. You're bothered with nervousness. Now take off the platform and be made well.
(Don't know whether to shake out of that now. You go ahead. Stop the prayer line, see if it don't. Here it is again.)

68 Do you believe your back trouble will be all right? Go believing with all your heart.
Now you know God could tell me what was wrong with you, and if He would, would it help you? All right. Get rid of that old asthma. Go on and believe with all your heart.
(Can't get out of it somehow. Just pray for me) Do you believe that God will heal you? Your heart'll be all right, and you'll get well? All right, go believe with all your heart.
Now, that's all right. Now just pray, and believe with all your heart. Now He knows what's wrong with the people. Now, are you believing? Now just have faith. Don't doubt. Now if each one of you will believe, and just accept your healing reverently where you're at, just accept your healing. Now be real reverent.

69 (It's again.) I don't know you. Don't know nothing about you. I guess we never seen one another in our lives. This is our first time meeting. If that's right raise up your hand. Just another place like our Lord met a woman at the well one time. He talked to her, He found out what her trouble was, and then He told her her trouble. And she said He was the Messiah.
If He could tell you the same thing through me, would you believe that He's still Messiah? You believe it with all your heart? I just wanted to ask you that for a reason. You've had an accident in your leg. Had to take the knee-cap off. That's right. And then, besides that you've got a hernia that bothers you, and you're extremely nervous. And the greatest thing you need is to give your life to Christ, and from a sinner become a Christian. Will you accept Him as your Saviour now? You do accept Him as your Saviour now? I pronounce you to be healed in the name of Jesus Christ. Go and sin no more.

70 Let us say praise be to God, everyone just worship Him a moment.
Father God, as she passes by may she be healed, in Jesus' name.
If it keeps on you'll have a crutch afterwhile, but do you believe that God'll take it away from you? Your arthritis will leave you and be gone, in the name of the Lord Jesus.
Yes, Ma'am, God bless you. Our heavenly Father, I lay hands upon this dear woman. In the name of Jesus Christ, heal her, Father.
Heavenly Father, as I bow my heart to You, I pray for my brother. As he passes by, may he come under the shadow of the cross and be healed in Jesus' name.
Now if I would tell you what was wrong with you, would it help you? Because you're trying to go blind. But that's not what's doing this. It's diabetes is what's a-doing it. And if you'll believe with all your heart, it'll leave you. Will you believe? Then in the name of Jesus Christ, go and be made well.
Father God, in the name of Jesus Christ may she be healed. Amen. Have faith.
Heavenly Father, I pray in Jesus' name that You'll heal her.

71 Now don't think just because I don't tell them that that's ... it's kind of hard for me to get away from it, see. But I know that it's all right. God's doing it just the same, see. Don't matter, see. I can't, if you do all the line... I just told Brother Jack to watch it if it kept on going on. I'd have to leave the line, because it's just spinning to me now. How many understands that Scripturally? Why, sure. See, you can't hardly...
All right, do you believe me to be his prophet? Or his servant, I mean to say. That stumbles some people. I'm not a prophet. I'm just his servant, see. You believe with all your heart? Do you believe that he'll get all right, huh? He's real nervous, isn't he? He's got heart trouble, high blood pressure, and he drinks. Go believe. That's your husband I'm talking about. He'll get all right. Have faith in God.

72 Our heavenly Father, I pray that You'll heal our sister, in Jesus' name. Go eat your supper. You feel, sitting there in the chair, your stomach trouble's left you.
O God, I pray, God, You'll heal this servant in Jesus' name. Amen.
Lord, I pray that You'll heal our sister in Jesus' name.
God, lay hands upon the little one in the name of Jesus Christ. May...
Father God, I pray that You'll heal her arthritis and make her well. Her nervousness, I pray that she'll be all right, in Jesus' name.
Father, I pray that You'll heal her in Jesus Christ's name. Go and be made well.
God, I pray that You'll heal our brother, and make him well as I lay hands on him, in Jesus' name. Amen. God bless you brother.
Our heavenly Father, I lay hands upon our sister. In the name of Jesus Christ may she go and be healed. Amen. Have faith. Now don't doubt.
Our Father, I pray that You'll heal our sister in the name of Jesus Christ.
Passing by, like, don't come by me, but under the cross in the name of the Lord Jesus.
Our Heavenly Father, I pray that You'll heal our sister in the name of Jesus Christ, amen. God bless you, sister. Do you believe that? Just have a good courage, see. You know I know what's wrong, but go believing it anyhow, see.

73 You want me to say it. If I will tell you what's on your heart, will you believe me to be his prophet? You will? One thing's wrong with you. You're bothered with nervousness. That's right. You got a nervous stomach that causes you trouble. That's what you want me to pray for, isn't that right? You've had it all your life. I tell you, you got a burden on your heart. Can God tell me what your burden is? The salvation of your father and mother. That's "thus saith the Lord."
I know you, sister. O Lord God, while the anointing of the Holy Spirit ... this woman's been so kind to me, I pray that You'll give her her desire tonight. Grant all these things that she's asked, Father, and especially for the family, I pray in Jesus' name. Amen. You know what I mean.

74 Our Father who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name. Grant the healing of our precious brother. Come believing. Don't doubt. God bless you brother. Have faith.
In the name of Jesus Christ I lay hands upon him while the anointing of the Holy Spirit is present. In Jesus' name may he be healed.
Father, as we feel the vibrations of this fine woman, I pray, Father, that You'll heal her in the name of Jesus' Christ. Amen. Come believing now. Don't doubt.
Sister, just look at the prayers that's going up for you. Look at this fine bunch of ministers here. This is the church of the living God. Our Father, we pray that You'll heal her as by faith we lay our hands upon her in confirmation of Jesus' own words that said, "These signs shall follow them that believe..." May she be healed in Jesus' name. Amen. The prayer of the faith shall save the sick, and God shall raise them up.

75 Heavenly Father, with the effectual fervent prayer of the righteous---and we're not righteous but we accept the righteousness of our Lord---I pray this prayer for her, and present it to You in her behalf in the name of Jesus Christ. Amen. God bless you, sister. Go believing now.
Most dangerous disease there is, heart trouble. But God's the healer of heart trouble, isn't that right? Do you believe? Come believing. Our Heavenly Father, I pray that You'll bless our brother and heal him. Grant it, Lord, as I lay hands upon him in Jesus Christ's name. Amen. Bless you.
Our Father who art in heaven, hallowed be Thy name. I pray, Father that You'll grant the healing of my brother in Jesus' name.
Father God, as I lay hands upon the little woman, I pray that in the name of Jesus Christ that You'll heal her, and make her every whit whole. Amen.
Don't doubt. Just come believing. Lord Jesus, tenderly and mercifully, Lord, she brings the little one tonight. I lay my hands upon them and pronounce the blessings of God. May it be healed in Jesus' name. Amen. God bless you, sister.
Our heavenly Father, this humble little woman moves up here carrying the Word of God over her heart. I pray, Lord, it'll go deep in there and she'll have faith to believe in Christ's name. Amen.
Our heavenly Father, we ask the mercies of God upon this our sister. May the power of God heal her, and make her well, in Jesus Christ's name.

76 I'm going to ask these people sitting here... They haven't got prayer cards but they're in these wheelchairs. Would you all bow your heads and pray with me just a moment, everyone, while I go and lay hands on them.
We used to sing a little song:
Pray, pray, the only way
To reach higher ground;
Pray, pray, the prayer of faith
Will bring God's blessings down.
That right? Are you all believing in God?
[Brother Branham prays.]

77 Oh, excuse me. I let the prayer line go. All right, is this the other lady? All right. Now, how many believe? This lady, I don't know you. I've never seen you as far as I know. We're strangers to one another. Now every person out here in the building let this [unclear word] be an example to you. Here we are, just walk right this way, sister.
I don't know this woman. I have never seen her. We're total strangers to one another so far as I know. But if the Holy Spirit will tell me something that's wrong with her, or what she's here for... It might be she's sick. Maybe she's here for somebody else. Maybe she's here for domestic trouble, financial trouble, church affairs, spiritual condition. I don't know. That's true. I don't know the lady. God does. But now that you people might always know that Jesus Christ in your presence, making infallible confirmation of his Word, let me talk to the woman just a moment while I have myself yielded to the Spirit.

78 Now you that I prayed for, and laid hands on these wheelchairs, if you haven't got enough faith to rise up and walk, don't let that bother you. You just have a little mustard seed. So you can hold right on to it, and just keep moving right on, see.
Now, Abraham was given a promise of God, and for twenty-five years he waited for that promise to be fulfilled. Is that right? He never staggered at the promise of God through unbelief, but strong, giving praise to God. Now we know that God still remains God.

79 Now, if this woman here had walked up in the presence of the Lord Jesus Christ tonight... Let's say she is sick, and she walked up in the presence of the Lord Jesus, and she is in the presence of the Lord Jesus. Not you, not me, but the Spirit that's here.
He's the vine, we're the branches. Is that right? How many know the vine doesn't bear fruit? The branches bears the fruit as it's energized by the vine. Is that right? Now watch close and listen. Now, if she stood here in the presence of the Lord Jesus...

80 Something happened to that boy there then. I tell you what I want you to do. I want you to take a string, and tie it around that wad of his, see, tonight. And tie a knot around it. And then on the last night [unclear words] tomorrow night. Tomorrow night you tie another knot, the next night another knot, and bring me that string and lay it up here on this pulpit ... drawed on that boy, and you see how much that head shrinks between now and then, that you might know.
Now the reason I've done that is to have your faith, see. You've got to have something in faith. If you don't doubt, it'll take place.
Now you watch, I want you to tie your string, make a little knot in it. Then pull the same string tomorrow night. After the service tie another little knot, how much it shrank. Then on the last night tie your knot I spoke of in church. Then come up on the platform (cut it off), and show me how much it shrank between now and then.

81 Now you see, friends... You say, "Why do you do it, Brother Branham?" I'm trying to bring myself back to a place just a little bit, see, so I can talk to you just a moment. I look out there and see, like you are all one big milky group now, see. But I'm trying to let you see that your brother, I, your brother, has not one thing in earth to do with this. It's God confirming his Word, his promise, that He said He would do.
Now don't be afraid of it. If I could hear his voice speak tonight, He'd say this, "Be of a good cheer. It is I. Be not afraid." For He's the same yesterday (that's what He did yesterday), is today, will be forever. Do you believe that? Now see, so that you'll know that it ain't prayer cards or something, somebody, or ... in the ministerial breakfast, and for three nights now, three services, we haven't had a prayer card. And have you done in other services without prayer cards? Just like He done tonight with prayer cards? Prayer cards only line them up so we won't fight over one another's place, see. Too many in one place.

82 Now, sister, excuse me, I keep forgetting about it. Not beside myself, but I hope you forgive me for that. I didn't mean you stand here and make a gazing stock from you. Now, just a... Did you have a prayer card, or they just put you up here? You had a prayer card. All right. 'Cause I thought if you was able to walk around like that wouldn't be right. But let me know, because you could be ... to them. But they gave you a prayer card. You was in line. All right.
Now if the Lord Jesus ... like here a woman and a man again. If He can tell me something that, like you're here for, would you believe it? You're here for me to pray for your eyes, got eye trouble. If that's right, raise up your hand.
"Well," you say, "sure. She's got on glasses."
All right. Let's just take that out of the way. Now you look at me and believe. Do you believe? Now you're... Just let the people know. Now right now you feel a sweet, warm Spirit. If that's right raise up your hand, because you are a Christian.
Now did you ever see the picture of that light, that pillar of light in the picture. We got it here. It's been taken all over the world? We got them right here at the building. Now how many ever seen it? All right, that light's hanging between me and the woman right now, I'm looking right at it.
Now, do you think He can heal your husband? He's here, too. If I can tell you what's wrong with your husband, will you believe me to be his servant? He's got skin cancer on the face. That's right, isn't it? All right. And you got some other loved one you're praying for that's a daughter, loved one. They're not here. Got trouble with the ear. They're not even in this country. It's in Georgia. Is that right? You're not from this city. You're from the city called J-a-... Jasper. That's right. Your name's Mrs. Kimmage. That's right. Go home and be made well.

83 How many believes? Jesus said, "These signs shall follow them that believe." Is that right? Lay your hands on one another. "If they lay hands..." Don't pray for yourself now. Pray for the person you got ... way back in the back there. Lay your hands on one another. Now pray the prayer of faith.
Our heavenly Father, I pray that You'll help us. Satan, you've lost the battle. You're exposed, Satan. Come out of them.

Be not afraid, it is I

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1 Good evening, friends. It's another privilege to be here tonight in the service of the Lord, to try to do what we can to help the people to know the Lord Jesus better. We've been having a great time this week. If there's some newcomers tonight, we are having just an old-fashioned revival. When I see people walk down the aisle here to accept Christ as their Saviour, go in to seek and to ask God for deeper walks with Him and to receive the Holy Spirit, that means that there is a revival in the making. So we're thankful, very, very, thankful for that. And I'm trusting that the Lord Jesus will bless us tonight exceedingly.
Now I want you to remember tomorrow morning's breakfast. I think it's been taken off just for ministers and their wives, but it's "whosoever will," and somewhere here on the grounds of the school where the breakfast will be. And then immediately after breakfast I want to speak, address the group that's there, on an evangelistic message. And I would certainly be glad if you could find time in your schedule---being it's Saturday---if you could just drop in for a few moments and have breakfast with us and listen to the message.

2 And then, Saturday night, tomorrow night, at regular time---seven thirty, I think, is the beginning of the regular service again, tomorrow night. And then Sunday afternoon at two o'clock we're anticipating another great rally of praying for the sick, on Sunday afternoon---the leaving, before we leave the city. Thank you for your invitation back, and I trust if it be the will of the Lord I get to come back with you again sometime. It's been a glorious time.
Now, I don't want to take too much time tonight. I say that each night. We leave about ten o'clock or ten-thirty, or somewhere like that, but you're such a nice audience to talk to. Now I want ... because that tonight we're going to pray for the sick. 'Course each night we have prayed for the sick, I think---each night. And now, that we might get a good clear understanding in everyone, and I'm ... I will ask if you'll be just as reverent, and give me your undivided attention. Because sitting here and out in the audience is people that are here ... and if they do not get help from God they're going to be leaving us right away.

3 Now, what if this was your mother laying on this stretcher? What if this was your father sitting in this wheelchair? What if that was your child laying there?
You see, you might not believe in divine healing, but you've never been sick enough yet. You've never had the doctor to shake his head and say, "Takes God next. I've done all I can do." You'll believe in divine healing then. So, you remember there's something written in the Scripture, if you would spurn Him in the days of your health like this, and when your calamity comes, He said, "I'll only laugh at you." So it's best to know Him now while you're healthy and mentally right, and can walk up to Him and accept Him, and believe his Word and express yourself to Him. It's best to know Him now, that when the hour of trouble comes... He's a very present help in the time of trouble.

4 Now, let it be known to everyone that I do not believe that there is such a thing as a man being a divine healer. Whether he's doctor, or whether he's a psychiatrist, whatever he is, there is no divine healer. There's only one healer and that's God.
Now we have doctors, and medical institutions, and scientists to research in medicine, which we are grateful. And as Christian people we should not let a day pass without praying for the help of those men who are trying in research to find something to help relieve the suffering. I think it's a real thing, a real Christian act, for men and women to pray for men to find something another to help us. Because what if it was you sick, see? You'd want anything that could help you. Well, then, when a person gets to a place that they have ... that the doctor can do no more for you, then I think we have a right to call on God, we who believe God.

5 Now it's undisputed in the Scriptures about Jesus Christ and the early apostles. They did, by faith, heal the sick. Jesus claimed that He never healed the sick. He said "It's my Father that dwelleth in me, He does the healing. And I only do as He shows me by a vision." Now any Bible student knows that's true. St. John 5:19. Jesus never performed one miracle in his life without first God the Father showing Him a vision to do it; or He told something wrong in the Bible, for 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."
Now, divine healing is not based upon some emotion. It's not based upon some laying on of hands, or some strange feeling or sensation. It's based upon a faith in a work that was done for you by Jesus Christ at Calvary. It's a finished product. And every person here tonight that's sick and afflicted, as far as God is concerned you are already healed, see. And every sinner here is already saved, for it was finished at Calvary. And now to the deans and teachers of the schools, if the old covenant, the old atonement, included healing, and this is a better atonement than the old one was, how much more has this got healing in it.

6 The Bible said in Isaiah that He was wounded for our transgressions and with his stripes we were healed. Now, someone tried to speak and say that was fulfilled in Matthew 12 when He said He took upon Him the infirmities of us, and He healed them that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by Isaiah the prophet, "He bore our infirmities." That was a year and six months before the atonement was ever made. Then if that be true, where many trying to argue against divine healing, then the atonement had more power before it came in force than it did after it's come in force.
So you ... and I can show anyone, or any Bible reader, where that Christ gave his church---whether it's called Methodist, Baptist, Presbyterian, Catholic, Pentecostal, whatever it is---He gave them power to heal the sick. Now I'm asking for any man, any student, any Bible student or historian, to produce to me one piece of scripture where Jesus taken that power back from the church and told them they didn't have it anymore. He never took the power from the church; the church is afraid to exercise or to practice what Christ told them to do.

7 Now to the critic, a few years ago you could make remarks; but now we have tens of thousands of documented statements by doctors, clinics, hospitals, everywhere across the world, of absolutely outstanding miracles of blind, deaf, dumb, raised from the dead when the doctor pronounced them dead, documented statements. So there's ... the unbeliever's mouth is hushed. You don't hear much more of it, do you? Nothing to be said.
Now, that doesn't belong just to the Pentecostal people. That doesn't belong just to a certain group, or a certain man, or a evangelist come by like myself or Mr. Roberts, or some other man. That's to every believer. Not only to the pastor, but to the laity, to any man or woman that's borned of the Spirit of God, that's got faith in healing---has a right to pray for the sick just with the same results that any other man would have.

8 It's not ... I am not one of the believers in the Nicolaitane taking all of the ... conquer the laity and put it all on the pastor. It's in the laity. The Holy Spirit just doesn't baptize the pastor; it baptizes the laity too. It's all in the laity, and pastor is just one of us. Means "the shepherd," pastor, which means "the feeder of the flock." The Holy Spirit gives overseer to watch it, control it.
Now remember, if Jesus of Nazareth stood here on this platform tonight, wearing this suit that He gave me, and any of you precious people here would come to Him and ask Him to heal you, He could not do it. Now, that seems strange, but He could not---because He's already did it. You are redeemed, see. He would say, "If you believe it, it's already healed."
Someone said, "I was healed, I was saved last week, Brother Branham." I beg your pardon. No.
"I was saved ten years ago." No, you were saved nineteen hundred years ago.

9 When Christ died He settled the sin question. And how can you ever preach salvation for the soul without preaching divine healing? because that sickness is an attribute of sin. Before we had sin we had no sickness, and sickness came because of sin. Maybe not something you done; something that you inherited.
Today in the private interviews, which, there's a place where you should see the Holy Spirit. There's men and women sitting here tonight that even ... the Holy Spirit goes plumb back today in to three generations; and brought down the people and told them their name, and what they did, and all about it, and why this thing was on this person; and took it off of him, and healed him standing right in the room. Tell them their grandmother, their grandfather, who they were, where they come from, what they did. The third generation they couldn't think, but the next generation brought it out, and the next generation. And then, to them, of course, they knew, see. He knows all things.

10 Now, that did not heal the person, but it raised them to a place that they had faith to be healed. That's the reason we do ... of acts. Why do we baptize? Water won't save you, but it's the obeying an act. Taking the communion won't save you, but it's following the commandments. You're only...
Beating on the altar won't heal you. Beating on the altar won't save you. You could beat on the altar until you just went out of breath and died there. You'd still be unsaved until you accept and believe that Jesus died in your stead. And you accept Him as your personal Saviour. Every minister in here could lay hands on every sick person in here and pray from now until day after tomorrow night. There'd never be one thing happen until you accept what Jesus did for you. So therefore it doesn't lay in ministers, in one another, but it lays in our own individual faith in a finished work that Christ did for us at Calvary.

11 Now, the first... Now, many people has called me a divine healer, and other men have that. Brethren, surely you know better than that. If you believe ... if your pastor preaches salvation, and you get saved because salvation is in the Bible, and when you get saved under his preaching does that make him a divine saviour? No more did it make any other man a divine healer who preaches healing, because we're only ... we are confessing what Jesus said.
And Jesus is a high priest of our confession, sitting at the right hand of God to make intercession upon our confession. I know the King James says profess, and confess is the same word, but, a confession. And He cannot do anything for you until first you believe it, accept it, and confess that it's right. Then He's the high priest to make intercession on what you confess that He has done for you. That's just as plain as I know the gospel. That's ... frankly that's all I ... that's the only gospel that there is, is that. Now, everybody that understands that...

12 And another thing I want to say, before I ask ... or say again. Now, first, faith cometh by what? Hearing, and hearing the Word of God. Now, at ... that ought to be sufficient. It would be for me, it would be for you. If they don't believe your word, let them alone. But that isn't so with our Lord Jesus. No, it isn't so.
He sends gifts in the church. There's no one can deny that gifts isn't in the church of the living God. I Corinthians 12 says there is nine spiritual gifts in every body, and there's also five spiritual offices in the church. First, there's apostles or missionaries. Both of them means ... the word means "one sent." Apostles, prophets, teachers, pastors, evangelists---they are all God's ordained gifts to the church. Pastors, evangelists, prophets, and missionaries or apostles, into the church. Those are sent there, and nine spiritual gifts put in every local body.

13 And why would some of you people... ? As great a church as the Presbyterian church, I have their folder, said, "Long has the Presbyterian church forgot the principles of the early church. We must get back into the Presbyterian church speakers with tongues, interpreters of tongues, gifts of healing. And the signs of the early church must again accompany the church, or we'll never go any farther." God bless the man who wrote that. We've got to go back to the original beginning. We just denominated it and made man-made dogmas until we got the poor people till they don't know what to believe. It's a pitiful sight.
Now, remember, that what Christ was yesterday, He is today. And anyone knows, that reads the Bible, that his sign that He proved to the people that He was the Messiah... How many knows what his Messiahic sign was, after this week's of teaching? Raise your hand. How many's here for your first time then? Oh, many. How He proved that He was the Messiah is because He was a prophet, for Moses said that He would be this prophet.

14 Now, I'm going to speak, and immediately as quick as I can, we're coming in then to pray for the sick. Now, remember, it's not just going to be my prayers; your prayers. And please, my friends, that's come here sick and afflicted very, very bad---sitting, some of you, in wheelchairs, some of you almost dying I suppose, some sitting out there in the audience, not a chance to live outside of God---just remember, what I say here I've got to meet you with that message at the day of the judgment and give an account for it.
What good would it do me to be here, away from my family and loved ones? What would I be doing here? I don't take money. It's not popularity. It's ... I don't ... I shun that. You know it. So what's it for? It's because that God told me, sent me; and showed me in the Scripture and confirmed it by an angel of the Lord that I was born to pray for sick people. And because that I love God and love his children, that's why I am here tonight. Exactly right.

15 Now at the judgment we'll all meet that. There's probably fifteen hundred people in here tonight, I guess that many. [A brother tells him how many.] Pardon, I'm a very poor counter. He says there's around nineteen hundred. I'd rather make it ... there's so many evangelistic count that tries to make it so much bigger than what a crowd is. I have preached before five hundred thousand at one time at Bombay, India. And in Durban, South Africa, it was discussed where there was 150-, 200,000. A hundred fifty-, two hundred thousand people is nothing in them lands. In Thailand and places like that where you ... really the people come out, and you see them by the tens of thousands and thousands.
That doesn't mean ... the crowds don't mean anything. It's the faith that's in the individual that counts. Jesus could never help the audience of one of the ... priests, or Caiphases, or some of those people. Neither could any of us in religious circles ever hold a meeting bigger than the Catholic church. You know that. But it isn't in... We put too much stresses on how many people and try to boost up something. Don't boost up anything. Just be truthful about it. Tell the truth. Then you're always right.

16 And when you're going to talk about healings, don't try to say, "I got something in my hand. Feel it?" Well, you might feel your hand, but healing's not in your hand; it's in Calvary. It's in your faith, where it was finished at Calvary. And let the people... That's ... and if you're a sinner, repent. Tell God that you're sorry, you're a sinner, and you're sick. Maybe sometimes He had to lay you on your back so to get you to look up. And then get right with God, and then everything'll be all right. You're more apt to get healed if you'll do that.
Now, I know it's hot, and I'm going to try to be just as brief as I can, so we can pray for the sick. Now all you people that understands that it is your faith in Jesus Christ that heals you, say "amen." Understood.

17 Now, there's gifts in the Bible; and those gifts, what do they do? They only declare the presence of the one that made the gift. Now if Jesus stood here tonight Himself on the platform, and you knew that He'd come down from heaven, and you knew it was Him, and He stood here, would it raise your faith? Sure, it would. Well, He is here.
You say, "How do I know He is?" Well, then, if He does the same thing here in us... Now, He don't have any hands. How many knows that? No, his hands ... your hand is his hands. He is the vine; we are the branches. And the vine doesn't bear the fruit; the branch does. But if the branch is energized with the life of the vine, it'll do the same things that He did. Then you know it's Him.

18 He said, "A little while and the world sees me no more ['course, the word there cosmos which means "the world order"], but ye shall see me [that's the believer] for I'll be with you [how long?] to the end of the consummation, the end of the world.] Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today, and forever. And now to the ... may be spectators, I don't ... hope there's none of them here tonight. But if there is, don't be just a spectator; put your faith with these believers. Won't you do that tonight, for the sake of these poor sick people?
And remember, when Jesus came to his own country, listen what the Scripture says. We hate to read it like this but it says so. "Many mighty works He could not do..." You couldn't hardly think of Christ not being able to do it, but He couldn't. He could not do it, because of their unbelief. What did He say to the boy with the epilepsy, or to his father? "I can, if ye believe, for all things are possible to them that believe."

19 What a joy it would be tonight to see man after man from these wheelchairs, person after person laying here dying on these cots, rise in the splendor of health and walk out! Wouldn't it be wonderful? Those out there---here sits a young lady, a beautiful young lady. I watched her last night, sitting here sitting bound in a wheelchair. Here sits a little lad laying here, with his stomach all wrapped down, his little hands, and perhaps maybe his mother a-fanning him. And how that mother's heart would jump for joy, how that little lady would feel, to know that something had struck her.
Now, it don't have to happen spontaneously. No, no. No, only thing has to happen is something happen in your heart, that you believe it. And when you believe it... Now, there is such a thing as a mustard seed faith. You've heard Jesus speak of it.

20 Now a mustard seed is the smallest of seeds, which it was spoke of Him. But why did He say that? You cannot hybreed mustard. It won't cross with nothing. It ... you can hybreed kale, get red, and so forth. But you can't hybreed mustard. It won't cross. No, sir. It's genuine mustard. And if you've got great big faith, a miracle'll happen. But if you've got just a little bit of faith, and it's genuine mustard seed, watch it bring you right on through every case, and bring you right out.
So now, don't notice what happens to you now, but I want you to try to have miracle faith, or faith to be healed. I'm going to have faith for you, and do all that I can to help you to have faith, putting your faith... Now I want us to bow our heads just a moment, and approach the Author before we approach his Word.

21 Gracious Father, the hour has arrived that when we must bring this Word to a showdown. We must bring God to a test, as it is written in the book of Malachi: saith the Lord, "Prove me," saith God. What a challenge! "Prove me." It is written that we should prove all things, and we read in the Bible that it is written that Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever; and that He promised the church that what He did they would do after Him. We are told by the prophets that there would be a day that would not be night nor day---could be called neither. A dismal day, but in the evening time it should be light.
Father, we know that civilization has traveled with the sun, from the east coming westward, the early settlers, and so forth. Now the east and west has met. The same sun that rises in the east sets in the west. We've had a day, Father, where we have done great things by your grace. We have led people to believe on You, since that morning sun shone down upon the Eastern people. And out of it came forth a Pentecostal-filled church, with signs and wonders with the Son of God living in them---on the Eastern people.
Now, them were the Jews and the Samaritans, and the Greeks, but in ... the Gentile people is the Western people. And You said it shall be light in the evening time. We've had enough light in this dismal day to make great organizations and rise up great theologians, cause people to be borned again of the Spirit of God. But You promised that that same Son would shine on the Western people, and it would come to pass in this day that our Lord would make Himself known. Jesus promised it, just as He was then.

22 And there would be a latter rain, and it would show forth and be like the former rain, and both former and latter rain would be together. We know we've had many bogus names and cults that's went out by it, under it, but still the Word of God remains true. Now, heavenly Father, we pray that your infallible words, which cannot fail... May You show Yourself alive tonight among us, by doing and performing the things that You did when you were on earth, because You promised it.
And You said when You were on earth You did nothing except the Father showed You first. And we pray that that will take place among us tonight and we will see the Lord God Jehovah, to which we're all worshippers of. May He come forth in his great power, and will shine forth his glory into every gloomy heart, bring forth faith, life.
We pray that every church that's represented here may go from here tonight with a fresh vision; and a revival spirit break out into this country and in the schools, that there will be prayer day and night, and hungering and thirsting. May the salt that seasons our life come tonight and make us all thirsty to be like Him. We commit the service unto Him now, the Author, who said Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever. May He come shining forth through his Word, and then after, the Word shine forth in the people. And we'll praise Him for it with humble hearts, bowed heads. In Jesus' name, his Son, we ask it. Amen.

23 And in the sacred readings of St. Matthew's gospel, the fourteenth chapter and the twenty-seventh verse, I've selected this for a little drama for tonight. And I will ask that you will listen closely and quietly so that everyone in the back and around might hear because it's ... difficulty and the building hot. But I want to make it in a drama, like this little fellow here and the little ones could understand real plain.
But straightway Jesus spake unto them, saying, Be of a good cheer; it is I; be not afraid.
I want to take for a text "Be Not Afraid, It Is I."

24 Now it must've been about the time the sun was going down. It'd been a terrible day, hot. The crowds had come from everywhere and had gathered. And all were tired and weary, and the sun was way sinking in the west when the service ended. I can see the big brawny back of the big fisherman as he begin to move the boat off of the little Galilean shore, on the banks of the gravel, as he pushed it into the water; and the people standing on the bank waving, bidding them all "Come back to see us again."
And as soon as the boat was pushed out... Called a ship in those days, which was a large boat that usually had a sail on it. And when the winds were blowing they could make their travel faster by sail than they could by oar. And in the boat there were ... an oarsman sat on each side and sometimes taking six or eight, or maybe more, oarsmen to oar, because it was really a fish boat.

25 And this day the wind was quiet, as it usually does at the setting of the sun, and the blue Galilee was beautiful and calm. And as the little waves begin to float ... as the big fisherman climbed down through the midst of the brethren and sat down by the side of Andrew, his brother; picked up his oar, and wiping the perspiration from his face, waved back to the audience again as the thousands stood on the bank waving, and weeping for joy of what they had seen during the day. Every once in awhile the oarsmen would stop and wave again, as the ones on the bank, waving, "Come back and see us again, because our eyes have seen great things today."
There's something about it, that when... People always want to look a-past the curtain where they come from and who they are and where they're going. And there's only one book, of all the writings that we have, that tell us that. That's this Bible. It tells us where we come from, who we are, and where we're going. And when they had seen the author of that Bible, and had knowed that it was truly the Jehovah who created the creation, they were so happy about it they were wanting them to come back again.

26 And as they rode on through the twilight, and finally so far out they couldn't see any farther... And they were waving farewell, and perhaps the last farewell, and they faded out of sight, as the little ship made its way with the little waves behind it, as the oarsmen pushed it into the depths of darkness of Galilee.
After rowing awhile, it must've been the young John---young men's usually full of enthusiasm, as a student---he stopped. Must've been he that stopped, and said, "Brethren, we are well out into the sea, now. I'm beginning to get a little bit tired, so let's stop just for a moment and rest." And each man stopping, pulling the great oar into the boat, begin to wipe the perspiration from their foreheads.

27 Young John sat for a moment, he said, "Brethren [He must've said something like this], we can certainly rest assured that no matter what our priests have said and what the majority of the people think, we are not following some fanatic. We are following the Son of God. I was a little in doubt until today, but when I seen those five thousand people, longing to hear Him speak a few words... And had come out in that hot sun, them mothers with those little babies and how patiently they sat; the ones that had the crippled and the lame and the blind, fanning them, trying to hear what He had to say. Then when they ... the question come for food. And we got this little boy (that had probably played truant from school) and had a little ... five biscuits and two little fishes, that He called, and had all of us sit down."
He might've said something like this: "I climbed up on a rock behind Him to just ... wonder what He'll do. Because I have somewhat, in my heart, believed it, but it's been so real till I could hardly comprehend it---to be a man that eat with us, and slept with us, and walked with us, and talked with us, and was just an ordinary man. And I noticed Him, when He took those biscuits in his hand, them little loaves. He broke them and handed them out to we brethren. And as soon as those hands reached back, there was another piece of bread growed on to that where He had broke off."

28 I would like to ask the scientist teacher of this school, or whatever school, what kind of an atom did He turn loose? Not wheat; but wheat growed, milled, shortened, baked, and ready to eat. What did He do? And when He broke those fishes---a fish sired, borned, raised, scaled, cleaned, and fried, and was there in a second when He reached for it---what did He do?
"And when they taken five biscuits, and fed five thousand people off of five biscuits and took up basketsful [I can hear young John say] that took all of the doubt away from me. Because I remember that my Jewish mother used to tell me... Oh, I can remember her pretty, big brown eyes looking at me, and saying, 'John, my son, I want to speak to you of something's real, that'll mean something to you someday. Of all that you ever do, John... My ambitions is for you to be something great, but above all things I want you to be a believer in Jehovah, as I and your father are, and are trying to raise you.'

29 "And I remember as a little boy, when my little eyes would look up to hers, and she'd say, 'John, when God Jehovah brought his people up out of Egypt, out into the wilderness where they had nothing to eat, Jehovah rained down bread out of heaven every night and fed all his children.'
And brethren in this testimony meeting, I would ask my mother, 'Mother, has God got a whole lot of angels that's professional bakers, and He's got a great big sky up there full of ovens, and every night He'd bake that bread, and bring it down by the angels, and lay it all out on the ground? Is that the way He done it, Mama?'
"She'd say, 'No, John, you're just a little boy, so you do not understand. Jehovah is a creator. He just spoke the Word and the bread came down.'

30 "Now, my brethren, this afternoon when I seen a man who eat with us at the table, who wears the same kind of clothes we wear, who cries when we cry, drinks at the same fountain we drink, has his ups and downs and flusterations as we do, but when I seen Him take that biscuit, break it five thousand times, I knowed He was associated with Jehovah. He was that same Jehovah that my mother told me that brought bread out of heaven, because here He was doing the same thing that Jehovah done. He was not...
"To me, from henceforth," said John, "He's more than a man. He's Jehovah, because He does the works of Jehovah. And do not we remember that He said, 'If I do not the works of my Father, then do not believe me. If you cannot believe my teaching, then believe the works that I do. And if I don't do the same works that Jehovah done, then believe me not.' And there He did the same work that Jehovah did, and only Jehovah could do it."
So to men today who teach that He was nothing but a good man, or merely some prophet, that social gospel won't stand up. He was God, the creator, represented in a body that's called Jesus Christ, the Son of God. John said, "That settled it for me."

31 Well, of course, you know Simon. He's always got to put his part in too. He was an ignorant man, the Bible said, unlearned. He did not have an education. Fourth chapter of Acts says---or third chapter of Acts, I believe---said that he and John both were both ignorant and unlearned. I've been told that he could not even sign his own name. But Jesus gave him the keys to the kingdom because he had the revelation of who He was.
He had something to say. He said, "Well..." I can see him put his arm around Andrew, his brother, and say, "Andrew, I remember when you used to come tell me about some wild-looking fellow coming out of the wilderness, by the name of John, that was baptizing the people with water, saying that a Messiah was coming. Well, now, of course, I could not believe such a thing as that. But one day Andrew persuaded me to come and listen to this man, and to see if He really was the Messiah."
And he said, "I have been taught by my father..."

32 (Now I'd just like to make a little statement here. Let's just dramatize him for a moment.) I can hear Peter say, "You know that I was a Pharisee. My father was one of the head men of that Pharisee church. And my father told me, one day when we got through seining, 'Simon, we have made our living day by day off of this lake.' [Now listen close.] We made our living. And father and I and mother, and Andrew and all, so that we would catch fishes every morning, we prayed that God would give us our daily bread, give us our fishing.
One day when Dad come in, and set me upon the bow of the boat, and said, 'Simon, my little boy, Daddy has always believed that someday the Messiah would come in my day. All of us Jewish people has looked for that. But perhaps I won't see Him. I'm getting too old. But, Simon, when He comes there'll be a lot of stuff go out before He comes that'll cause the whole country to be confused. There'll be false messiahs and everything come. But, Simon, I want you to be taught.' "

33 Oh, how it would do good if we American people would teach our children such things, instead of tap dancing and rock-and-roll and the stuff that we so do today, and just let them join the church---but tell them what to look for. "Now said, 'Simon, when He comes, our prophet Moses said that He will be a prophet. "The Lord your God shall raise up a prophet likened unto me." And we as Hebrews are knowed to believe that God's Word comes through the prophet and nothing else. Now, I want you to remember, Simon, when He comes He will be this prophet.'
"And when I walked up into his sight the first time..." [Listen close---Simon testifying. We got a testimony meeting now out on the Galilee.) And said, "When I walked up first in his sight, when this man looked at me in the face, He said, "Your name is Simon, and you're the son of Jonas.' Not only did He know my name, but He knowed that godly old father of mine. That settled it to me. I knowed He was the Messiah. That finished it for me."

34 Philip said, "Can I testify, brethren?" So he said, "I was standing and seen that (Now, Nathanael, don't feel bad.), but I run to tell Nathanael, because I knowed that Nathanael was a Bible student. So I run around the mountain to find Nathanael, and I said, 'Nathanael, come see who we have found---Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph.' "
And he might've said this: "Nathanael, you know where I found you?"
"Yes, I was under one of my fig trees, praying. Yes, and he said, 'Come see who we have found---Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph. That's the prophet that Moses told us would come.' "

35 "Oh, now," said Nathanael, "now, Philip, you've gone off on the deep end. Why, if the Messiah would come, He'd have to come to Caiaphas first, or He'd have to come to our church. If He was real Messiah, you know he'd have to come to us Pharisees. That's all there is to it. But just to say He would come out of Nazareth, a bunch of holy rollers [Excuse me. I oughtn't to have said that. Excuse me. I didn't mean that, see.], He wouldn't come to a bunch of people like that. If He ever done anything it would be amongst us smarter people, if He did it."
But you see, God does what He wants to---that's his business.
And he said, "No one would come like that."
And Philip gave him one of the best answers that any man could do. He said, "Come see for yourself."
Now that's a good idea. Don't stay home and criticize. Come find out for yourself, and search the Scriptures, for the Messiah will certainly be scriptural. Come find out for yourself.

36 And when on the road around, I can just hear them talking. And he said, "You remember what ... we went, got some fish that time, and the old fisherman could not sign his name to it, that fellow called Simon?"
"Yes, I remember."
"When he walked up into the presence of this Messiah, he told him his name was Simon. And do you remember his daddy?"
"Sure."
"What was his name?"
"Jonas."
"All right. He said, 'You are the son of Jonas.' Now, Nathanael, you are a scriptural student. What will the Messiah be when He comes?"
"He'll be a prophet."
"Well, does that fulfill it?"
"Oh, yes, if He could do it, but I don't believe He'd do it."
I can hear Philip say, "It wouldn't surprise me but what He tells who you are when you come up."

37 Walked up then, and they got into the presence of the Lord Jesus, and Jesus looked around and seen him. He said, "Behold an Israelite in whom there's no guile." Now you say because he was dressed... No, all Easterners dress the same. They have beards, turbans, dark-complected. Said, "Behold an Israelite in whom there's no guile."
He said, "Rabbi [rabbi means teacher], when did You ever see me? I'm a total stranger to you. When did You ever see me?"
He said, "Before Philip called you, when you were under the tree [fifteen miles around the mountain], I saw you."
He said, "Rabbi, thou art the Son of God. You are the King of Israel."
You remember what the Pharisees and the teachers said, standing there? Said, "This man's Beelzebub. He's a fortune-teller."
Jesus said, "I forgive you for that, but someday the Holy Spirit's coming to do the same thing. And you speak one word against it, it'll never be forgiven." That's today.

38 Now, what a testimony! Then it must've been Andrew (as I draw a little closer to my testimony). Andrew said, "Could I testify just a minute, brethren? You remember the day that...?" Now, it's getting darker and darker. The evening star had come out. And so said, "Could I have a little testimony?" (Is the lady just going out, she has to...? Is going out, she'll be back in a few moments? All right. I was going to say, if she... Don't let her leave without being prayed for. We want everybody prayed for.)

39 So now said, "Do you remember that day that Jesus, our Lord, said that He had to go down to Jericho?" Now from Jerusalem to Jericho, if you've ever been there, it's right down the mountain. But He had need go by Samaria. Why? The Jews had heard it, and the Samaritans hadn't heard it. Now the Gentiles wasn't looking for no Christ.
And let me say something right here to you, you sick people. He only comes to those who are looking for Him; when you talk of Him, like on the road from Emmaus. And He only comes to those who believe Him. He will never have nothing to do with an unbeliever. He only comes... And Gentiles, we worshipped idols in them days.

40 And there's only three races of people---that's Ham, Shem, and Japheth's people. That's where the whole human race sprang from; and that's Jews, Gentiles, and Samaritans. Look at Peter with the keys---opened it at Pentecost, opened it to the Samaritans, opened it at the Gentiles, and then she was free to the world, see.
Now, and so now we notice, said, "He sent us down into the city of Sychar there to get something to eat, some vittles. And you remember when we come up we was surprised. A woman with a mark of prostitution upon her was on her road to the well, and there was no one there. So we thought we'd just see what she said to our master, and see what He did when He met a woman. So we hid in the bushes. [Now listen close to the testimony.] And the first thing happened when He walked up ... she walked up to let down the kettle, the pot, for some water, started to raise up the pot like that, why, He said, 'Woman, bring me a drink.'

41 "And we thought, 'Well, did we leave our Lord without a drink of water?'
"And she said, 'Why, we have segregation here. You Jews shouldn't ask Samaritan women such things as that.'
"He said, 'But if you knew who you were talking to, you'd ask me for a drink. I'd give you water you don't come here to draw.'
"Said, 'Well you have nothing to draw with.'
"You remember, the conversation went on, and we were listening. And after awhile He looked her right straight in those big brown eyes of hers, and said, 'Go get your husband and come here.' And the woman flatly denied of having a husband.
"And we thought, 'Oh-oh, oh-oh, here's a slip-up. Now what's He going to do?' He tells the woman that she has a husband and go get her husband, and she says she does not have a husband. You remember, brethren, how we looked at one another?
"And then we noticed our Lord, in his still manner, as He looked her in the face, and said, 'Thou hast said right, because you've had five husbands; and the one you're living with now is not your husband, and you said well.' And that woman, did you remember, brethren, what she said?"

42 How much different her testimony was to the preachers of that day. The preacher said he was a fortune-teller, a devil, Beelzebub. Anybody knows that fortune-telling is of the devil. And that's the reason that Jesus said to speak that, to call the Holy Spirit working a fortune-teller or a devil, was blasphemy of the Holy Ghost and was unpardonable---calling the Spirit of God a devil.
So then he said... That woman looked Him in the face, and her in her condition, a sinner... (I hope I don't hurt anyone, but I've got to say something.) In being a prostitute, living with five husbands, six husbands, she knowed more about the Bible than half of the scholars in this nation knows.

43 What did she say? She looked straight at Him. She said, "Sir, I perceive that You are a prophet." Not Beelzebub, like the preachers said, but a prophet. Said, "We know, we Samaritans, we know that when the Messiah cometh, He'll tell us all these things. That's the sign of the Messiah, when He comes. We know Jesus, who ... I mean, Messiah, who's called the Christ, He'll tell us these things. That's the sign'll follow Him, because He's a prophet. You must be a prophet also. But the Messiah... We haven't had a prophet for hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of years, so ... but when He comes He will tell us these things. You must be one of his servants."
Jesus said and the only one that ever could say it, or ever will say it---He said, "I am He whom you're looking at. I am that Messiah."
She dropped that water pot. She had something more interesting then than the waterpot. Into the city she went, and here's what she said to the men of the city: "Come see a man that told me the things that I have done. Isn't that the very Messiah?"

44 What would they say today? Mental telepathy, psychology, mind-reader, fortune-teller. No wonder we got an atomic bomb with our name on it. You've got to spurn mercy, and there's nothing left but judgment after you've spurned mercy. That's right. You step over the borderline. You do it so simple. Many people think you have to do something great. Why, if they had only knowed who John was... You'd never know who's who until they're dead. He comes to the elected church and that's the only one that knows Him.
I challenge you to go back to the Bible and find any prophets that they didn't do the same thing. Jesus, they didn't know who He was until He was dead, buried, and rose again.

45 Let me ask you Catholic people something. What about your saints? What about Joan of Arc. You were so infallible. What did your priests do to that woman? She was a prophetess. She saw visions. She prayed for the sick and they were healed. And what did your church do? You burned her to the stake as a witch. Oh, of course, you seen your mistake a hundred and fifty years later, and you done repentance---dig up them priests' body and throw it in the river. That's a lot of repentance. It goes right over the head of the wise and prudent, until it's past; and then they're already in judgment.
Let me say to you, church, the true Holy Spirit is here in this nation tonight, in this world tonight. Don't you let it pass over your heads. Recognize it now. Healing's here for you, the Holy Spirit forgiveness of sins, all the benefits of Calvary is for you. Don't pass it by. Don't close yourself in on some denominational doctrine and forget to look at the Bible. See if this isn't the day that we're supposed to see these things. Don't notice a bunch of illiterate preachers, maybe like myself, that's trying to explain it, but look at what the Bible says and watch what it does.

46 If it's the Spirit of God it'll act like the Spirit of God. It'll do the things the Spirit of God did. If it doesn't, then it's not the Spirit of God. If I preached the baptism of the Holy Ghost, that Jesus was raised from the dead, and God doesn't confirm that with the same works that Jesus did, then I'm a liar. But if I preach that message and God turns around and does the same things, if I don't even have a grammar school education what difference does that make? It's God using something. He can use a stick if He wants to. He can use anything He wishes. He's God.
Now, let's let one more testify, will you? It must've been brother Matthew said, "I know it's getting a little late, brethren. But let's let me testify." Said, "Do you remember when we got down in Jericho that day, you remember that little brother Zacchaeus down there? He was a businessman, a tax collector. We always thought he was a little shyster [Excuse that expression. I didn't mean it that way.], just a little renegade. But you know our sister Rebekah, she was a believer on Him. She believed the Lord Jesus. And you remember how she asked all the women to pray down in Jericho, when we heard that Jesus was going down to hold a campaign.
"And when He got down there in Jericho... Little Zacchaeus told us later, you know. One morning he got up early. He knowed Jesus was coming, so he went down there. And he was a little bitty short fellow. So he stood up to the gate where He was to come in, the South gate. And he noticed he was too little. He couldn't see Him. He said, 'Whenever I see that fellow, I'm going to give that holy roller a piece of my mind.' "

47 Remember, He was called a heretic. He was called an insane person. We know that. "You're mad, and have a devil." Is that right? What does mad mean? Crazy. "We know that you're a Samaritan, you're crazy, got a devil on you. That's what's doing all these things. You're a devil and mad. You don't join our organizations, so we know you're a devil." Now that spirit still lives.
Now we notice that he said, "I'll just wait. Rabbi Levinski..." I hope there's not a Rabbi Levinski here. [blank spot]

48 "Sure, Jehovah just expects you to come on to church, and pay your tithe, and live a good life, and that's all. Don't... Look, that Messiah may be a million years from now, might not even come at all." There's a lot of Bible schools today teach that, the physical. I believe it's eighty-something percent of the so-called Christians don't believe in the physical return of Jesus. I heard it. I got some government statistics there of the different denominations and I forget... It's worse than that, that don't believe in the virgin birth. How can anything happen? How can we build a revival in this nation? When you take the virgin birth out of Christianity, you knock the foundation from under it.
If He was the blood of a man, then He's no more than I am, or you are. But He's the blood of God. God, Holy Spirit, overshadowed the virgin and created a blood cell, and that's the blood of God. The Bible said we are saved through the blood of God. Not a man; God. But they deny it.

49 So little Zacchaeus, little bitty short fellow, he said he got up that morning... Let's give him a little drama, for this little girl sitting here. Watch him (her little bright eyes, and little hair combed down), I can imagine seeing...
You know, Rebekah, his wife, she believed Jesus, so she was just praying all the time. "O Jesus, I pray Thee, that whenever He comes into the town here that my darling little husband... He's a good man, but he's just all tied up with them---all kind of Kiwanis meetings, and lodge parties, and all these things." Now I ain't saying nothing on Kiwanis now. That's all right, see. Just some people take... Because I believe that the Masons are all right, but the Mason Lodge will never take the place of the church, or the blood of Jesus Christ. All my people are Masons, and they're all right as a lodge, but it won't take the place of the church.
And the trouble of it is, you've got the church till it's no more than a Masonic lodge, or any other lodge. The church is a house of God where Christ lives and manifests Himself amongst the people. That's right.

50 Notice, so Zacchaeus, see... I see him go out there. He said, "Now here they're climbing all over the gates and everything else. I'd never see Him, so I'm going... Here, I know He always goes down Hallelujah street [He still does], and He turns on Glory avenue. And so I'm going down there to the corner and wait for Him."
So he goes down there, and he has his best garment on, you know. He was standing down there on the corner with his best garment, all groomed up, you know. "Wait till I see that there so-called prophet from Galilee. I'll tell him a piece of my mind when I see him. He don't know how many degrees I got. And my good friend, the Rabbi, has taught me a lot of things. I'll tell him something. And I'll tell him if He don't quit with his witchcraft around my wife, I'm going to do something to him. I'll give Him a piece of my mind. I'll not have my wife out there on those long night prayer meetings and things. No, sir. She's left the clubs, she quit playing cards. She's got ... oh, my, got all ... the Rabbi's wife and all them, all these other people, all tore up, I tell you, with that fanaticism. I'll tell him when I see him."

51 Standing there grooming his little self, he thought, "Wait a minute. That crowd will follow him. [That's right. They usually do.] That crowd will follow him. So if he comes up here, well, I'll be no better off than I was down there." So he says, "You know what I believe I'll do. There's a sycamore tree standing there, so I believe I'll just get up there. When I get up in that tree I'll tell him when he passes by!"
So he looks around, and say, there set the city garbage can sitting there. "Well, maybe if I could get that over here ... I can't shinny up the tree." (Shinny---I meant climb up the tree, see. Excuse my language. I'm just a Kentuckian.) So he goes over and gets his arms... Now he backs off. "My, I got on my best clothes. How can I...? I couldn't be caught with that garbage can." But there's something another about it. If you're trying to see Jesus, you'll manage someway to see Him. You'll do things you didn't think you did. You didn't think you'd ever do it, but you do it anyhow---if you want to see Jesus. You lay where some of these people are, and you'll just lose all of that old prestige.

52 So he slips over and holds his nose and gets the garbage pail. (You understand, honey?) Here he comes over, you know, packing...
And he happened to look up, and here's his competitor, saying, "Well, you know what? There is Zacchaeus. He's working for the city now, the garbage disposal."
Well, he was determined to see Jesus, so he didn't care. Maybe some of you all might feel the same way. Some doctor of divinity sitting back there saying, "I wouldn't want to be caught amongst this bunch of people," but you're exposed now, brother. You're ruined now. But if you're determined to see Jesus, you don't care anyhow. That's right. You don't care anyhow.
Here he comes with the garbage pail, walks over and sets it down by the tree, and shinnies up the tree and gets up there---sits up there picking splinters out of his hand, wiping the garbage off his new clothes. But he wants to see Jesus.

53 He said, "You know what? I remember Rebekah told me that that guy was a prophet. Now I believe there's a hoax in that somewhere. [They still believe the same thing: there's a hoax in it somewhere.] Those disciples, somehow they work it up among them, something another. They go get somebody that he knows, and he tells him them things. So I know ... you know what? I'll tell you what I'll do. I'm just going to hide from that fellow."
So he sat down where two limbs meet. And you know, that's a good place for you to sit awhile, where two ways meet---yours and God's. Make your decision from there. So he sat down on this limb, and he reached over and got some of the big sycamore (Sycamore ... actually it was an olive tree.) So he just pulled over the ... and covered himself all up everywhere. Said, "He'll never see me sitting up here, but I'm going to get a look at him when He comes by." He covers himself all over, and he leaves one big leaf there so he could raise it up and look out, like this. So he sits there.
And he says, "Now, I'll be able to know, because somehow or another, everywhere he's at there's a lot of noise." You know, that hasn't changed. Where Jesus is, there's usually a lot of noise. So he said, "I'll hear the noise coming a long time before he gets there."
So after awhile he heard the noise. And coming in front a great big, sturdy, fellow finally, Peter, saying, "Will you stand aside? We're very sorry. Our Master's tired. He preached all night long last night. He healed many of the sick. Would you stand aside, please? We're sorry. People with their children, well, would you just stand aside, please? Our master has got to have his breakfast yet this morning. Would you just stand aside?"
So Zacchaeus said, "That ain't him. That's that old ignorant fisherman up there I used to buy fish from. That ain't him." So about that time, he said, "He must be a great big, princely, guy with a crown on his head, walking sturdy, you know." You know, I hate to see anybody put on the dog. That's a stuffed shirt. That's not a man of God. So here ... but they noticed when He come along, a little humble fellow. Not with his collar turned around in the back, and turbans on top of his head; but he was just an ordinary man dressed like an ordinary man.

54 So as He comes walking by, Zacchaeus pulled his leaf down, said, "You know, there's just something about that man that I like." You can never get a glimpse of Him but you love Him, I don't care who it is. I know the first time I took a look, by faith I saw Him, what He was. Put my hands on his feet, seen Him dying there for me, and looking down to me. Oh, that was enough!
Zacchaeus pulled his leaf down, said, "Oh, is he coming closer? Now he can't see me. He won't know I'm here. Now he don't know, because if he'd see me up here... But he can't see me, because I'm all covered up. I'm in this tree, a little bitty fellow sitting up on this limb here, and I'll watch him." So we noticed Him. He come walking, just as his ordinary manner, walking quietly, walked down. I can see little old Zacchaeus looking under the tree leaf, like this, you know, looking as He come by. When He just got passed by, he raised his leaf up.
Jesus stopped, said, "Zacchaeus, come down. Going home with you for dinner." Not only knew he was up there, but knowed what his name was. That settled it.

55 "Well," he said, "remember when we was going out the gate, blind Bartimaeus ... when blind Bartimaeus said... He'd been sitting there, thinking about how that Messiah would be when He come, and so forth; and how that if the prophets lived, he'd go by and ask him for to receive his sight. And all at once he heard them coming by, a howling mob---there we were again. And he was sitting there shivering in the cold. You remember his testimony? And he said, 'Who goes by?'
Said, "Everybody said, 'Oh, shut-up.'"
"And he heard somebody holler, 'Hey! Hey, you! You, the Galilean prophet! You! We hear You raise the dead!' It was a priest. Said, 'We got a whole graveyard full of them up here. Come up and raise one for us---we'll believe you.' [That same old devil still lives, you know.] ' We heard you raised the dead. We got a graveyard full of righteous men dead up here. Come raise one of them---we'll believe you.'"

56 Never bothered Him a bit. He just kept walking on. The souls of the world was resting upon Him. He was going to Calvary, going up the hill.
Bartimaeus said, "Who passes?" and they shoved him down.
After awhile some nice, courteous lady come by and said, "Oh, poor fellow."
Said, "Who's passing, lady?"
"Oh," she said, "don't you know who it is?" Said, "It's Jesus of Nazareth."
"No, I don't know who Jesus of Nazareth..."
"The Galilean prophet?"
"No, I never heard there was such a person."
"You know who the Son of David is, coming to be?"
"Oh, the Messiah?"
"Yes."
"Oh, if I could only see Him."
"How do you know it is?"
"I'm one of his followers."

57 And I want to say something here. His followers always show courtesy to everybody. They're ready to help somebody, ready to do something for somebody else, his true followers.
And said, "Yes [And might've ... let's say it was Rebekah.]. My husband was just saved a while ago, and I'm so full of joy."
"Well, now, you mean that that is the Messiah that we're taught was to come? The prophet that Moses said? How far is He?"
Now if you was ever there, and looked where he was supposed to be sitting, he was a good two hundred and fifty yards away, with about four or five thousand people screaming "Hosanna to the prophet, Hosanna to the prophet; other one hollering, "Away with him!" and throwing overripe fruit at Him and things like that. All those kind of things, how could He have ever heard "Jesus, Thou Son of David, have mercy! Thou Son of David, have mercy!"

58 So let's think that Bartimaeus thought this: "If He is that Messiah, He's a prophet." I can just see him kneel down on his knees, shivering, and saying, "Oh, Jehovah, your Messiah, that I've longed to see all my life. And if that's Him passing by, let me touch Him, Lord. I can't get to Him, but can my faith reach Him? Oh, let me touch Him, Lord."
About that time, Jesus stopped, and said, "Bring him here." He couldn't have heard him---he was too far away from him, with all that hollering mob---but his faith stopped Him. And look where he was going---to Jerusalem with the sins of the world on Him. But look, the faith of one blind beggar (amen) stopped Him. And the faith of one person here tonight will bring Him from glory down here to do the same thing.

59 Oh, we could go on with the testimony, but I've got to hurry. Yes, I'm past time. Just let me wind up one more little statement. They were testifying. You know what? While them brothers was testifying, the devil happened to look over the banisters, over there somewhere over across the hill, and said, "Oh-oh. Oh-oh, I got 'em now. They went off without Him." And that's what the church has done today. We've had such big building programs, so much money, so much fashions, trying to pattern after the next people, till I'm afraid we've gone off without Him. Our lives prove it---gone off without Him.
Devil says, "Now I can get 'em." So he began to blow his poison breath. The sea began to go plumb to the bottom, with big waves leaping up. That's what he does today when he sees you go off without... A church just as a bunch of cold, formal, theology; an amen would cause somebody to stretch their head around, wondering what happened; no spirit, no more all-night prayer meetings, no more burden for the sick, no more burden for the dying, no more burden for the sinners. Then he begins to blow his poison breath, saying, "And the days of miracles is past."

60 He begins to whip the little boat from side to side. "Is it real? Could it be real? Maybe we've been wrong. Maybe our fathers, who said to receive the Holy Ghost, maybe it's wrong. Wesley could've been a little out of his head. Luther could've been wrong also."
Knox, Calvin, all those fellows, and John Wesley, preached divine healing, and believed in divine healing, and practiced divine healing. Every time we ever had a revival any time through the history it started with divine healing. That's right. See if Luther didn't heal. The rest of them, all the way down, practiced divine healing. Then they organized it, and then the winds begin to blow; because when you organize it you go off without Him, and you got your own theology then. If you'd make your doctrine and end it with a comma---"We believe this, plus as much as that God will reveal to me."---that's all right. But when you write up your doctrine, you end it with a period. "We believe this and that only." Then you've shut God plumb out of the thing. God just keeps moving on. He just moves.

61 The pillar of fire, as soon as Luther saw it he come out of the Catholic church. What did they do after Luther's death? They built an organization under it. The fire left. John Wesley saw it. He wanted sanctification. He went out after it. Left Luther, left the Anglicans, and went out after it. What did they do after Wesley and Asbury and them died? They made an organization. God pulled right straight out and went to the Pentecostals. Here they saw it and away they went with the baptism of the Holy Ghost. What did you all do? Organized it, and He's pulling right away from you, going right on.
He'll just go right on, because you go to fighting and fussing with one another. When you do that, you're finished. You are finished, brethren. God is love. "... this will all men know you're my disciples, when you have love one for another," with a hand out and a heart out. Some of the finest people in the world is in these churches, but the system of the thing, you see, is what gives it. Fine people in the Catholic church, but it's the system that keeps them from serving God.

62 Now, he saw them, and there they was, tossed about, all hopes gone. That's where you're laying, where you're laying---this poor mortal, laying here just about dead, that little baby. You out there with the heart trouble, with cancer, that's where you're at, just all hopes about gone. But you know what? In all of our sin, in all of our differences, let me give this encouraging word before we pray. He hadn't left them. He climbed the highest mountain there was, so He could watch them. All the way across, He was sitting up there watching.
When He died at Calvary, brother, He never left us. He climbed the hill of Calvary, on and above the moon and stars, on and above the Milky White Way, until He sat down at the right hand of God in heaven. And his eye is on the sparrow, and I know He's watching us tonight. He hadn't gone so far. He seen them in trouble. He saw the devil was about ready to get them. He sees the devil is about ready to get you-all. He sees that---just about ready. You're going to a premature grave. Some of you is going as a sinner, if you don't repent. Some of you will go premature because Satan's sickness has set in and gripped the life out of you. But remember, He's sitting on high, a-watching, waiting to confirm his Word. He watches over it to confirm it. Is that right?

63 What happened? When the oars had broke, the mast pole had fell, the little ship was water-logged... That's about like our churches are tonight---water-logged. Fussing about all kinds of baptisms and everything else, we're water-logged. Baptizing this way, sprinkling, forward, and fussing, arguing, carrying on---the oars are broken, the sails are gone and there's no more rushing wind. If it come it couldn't blow us anywhere. There you are, see, all gone.
But here He come walking on the water. Oh, my---walking on the water. And what did the disciples think when they saw Him come walking? They thought He was a spook. They said, "Oh, it's a ghost. Oh, we're scared. We're afraid if it gets right ... oh, it's spooky."
"Don't have nothing to do with it. It's mental telepathy. It's fortune-telling." Just as they did then so do they do now, same thing. Afraid of it. "Well, our church don't teach that. I'm afraid of it."
But the Bible teaches that. If He could speak tonight, you know what He'd say? "Be not afraid, it is I." And if it's Him, He'll do his same works. 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."

64 If I told you (listen, in closing), if I told you the spirit of an artist was in me, well, you'd expect me to go out here and paint a picture, like the artist, if that spirit's in me. Is that right? If I told you the spirit of a mechanic was in me, you'd expect me to understand almost the beat of that motor, what was wrong. If I told you the spirit of John Dillinger was in me, I'd have guns, and be dangerous to stand before me, if that spirit was in me. If I told you the Spirit of Jesus Christ was in me, then I'll do the works of Jesus Christ. So will his church, because that's his life.
Now what He was then, and what them people testified of, if He will do that same thing tonight, will you realize that your faith has called Him from glory to this building tonight? Will you accept it? Then what would you say? "Be not afraid," that's what He'd say. "It's I."

65 Some of you say, "What is it, Brother Branham?" Every night when this meeting starts, I feel you say, "You know, I believe he's reading their mind."
One says, "It's telepathy."
One says, "It's nonsense, brother.
You're only sealing your own doom. If He could speak Himself, if that isn't the same Word He... How many knows that Jesus Christ is the Word of God? In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God ... and the Word was made flesh and dwelt among us. Is that right? How many knows that Hebrews, the fourth chapter, the Bible says that the Word of God is sharper than a two-edged sword? That's preaching---slice her down, cutting both ... two-edged coming and going.
Some people thinks humility is something that ought to wear a skirt. No, no. You misunderstand that. Jesus, the humblest man that ever lived, He could plait ropes together and look on them with anger, and run them out of the temple. Yes, sir. Certainly.

66 You say, "He had compassion." He did. Why did He pass through thousands of people that were laying blind, halt, withered, and found a man laying on a pallet, maybe he had prostate trouble? He could walk. He said, "When I'm coming down, somebody beats me." He ... wasn't going to kill him---he had it thirty-eight years. And the Bible said He passed through great multitudes of lame, blind, halt, and withered. Is that right, brethren? A compassionate God, passing through that kind of people, and found a man laying on a pallet.
How many knows what a pallet is? I was raised on one, so... Then, you ... laying on this pallet. And there he was, laying there. And Jesus looked around until He found him, and the Bible said that He knew he had been in this condition. And He said, "Will thou be made whole?" Why not the twisted man? What about that woman there with the dying baby? What about these? What about them? "Wilt thou be made whole?
He said, "I have no one to put me in the water. When I'm coming, somebody steps down."
Jesus said, "You've had that for thirty-eight years."
"That's right."
"All right. Take up your bed and go unto your house." He never questioned. He just picked up the bed and went walking on. Is that right?

67 And the Pharisees and the Sanhedrin court (the church), questioned Him. "What about all the rest of these?"
He said, "Verily, verily, I say unto you, the Son does nothing in Himself; but what He sees the Father doing, that doeth the Son likewise." That's compassion. Compassion is follow the will of God. Not human sympathy, but compassion. Oh, it's two different words altogether---sympathy, and compassion, see. If it wasn't, Jesus sure made a rude mistake when He did that.
So you must realize that the compassionate Christ, again, He has healed every one of you. You're all free, if you can believe it. Now do you believe this is the Word of God? That that's exactly what Jesus done, what they were testifying about? Raise your hands.

68 Now if He was standing here---the one who wrote the Word---if He was standing here, and would tell you and prove to you that He was standing right here on the platform, would you be willing to accept Him, and say, "That settles it for me."
If He's standing here, and wrote the Word, and said, "Wherever two or three are gathered in my name, I'll be in their midst, and the works that I do shall they do also."... Is that right? St. John 14:7, 14:8---"The works that I do..."
Now here's a broad challenge before ... as the brother said, nineteen hundred people. Here lays a Bible on the desk. Here's two or three sheets of paper of some kind, and something, I don't know what even's on... They belong to some of the brethren here. Here's a Bible. There's nineteen hundred people. There's not a person here that I know. I can't see one living human being that I know in that audience. If you're all strangers to me, raise your hand.

69 I'd like to even, maybe if I had time, to have this minister who was on one of the private interviews this morning, let him stand, and tell you what the Holy Spirit done up there this morning---beyond the shadow of doubt what He did. Went back and brought out, and showed, and revealed, and... But if you believe that Jesus Christ dwells in his people...
Look. All that God was, He poured into Christ. Do you believe that? "In Him dwelt the fullness of the Godhead bodily." Do you believe that? Because He was God. He was the Son of God, but yet He was God. God changed his cast from a Spirit, and stretched his tent and begin... He become us. He become us that we, through his grace, might become Him. Amen. Brother, surely you get that, see.

70 God was made flesh, so we could... I Timothy 3:16: "Without controversy great is the mystery of godliness, for God was manifest in the flesh, and believed on in the world, and is gone ... received up into glory." God made manifest.
God was in Christ reconciling the world to Him. So all that God was, He poured into Jesus; and all that Jesus was, He poured into the church. That's the reason he commissioned us to baptize. Said, "Go ye therefore, teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost." Why? Not three different gods, but three offices of the same God---the Fatherhood, the Sonship, the Holy Ghost dispensation. Now Father, Son, and Holy Ghost---that's God. Not three or four or five different gods, but one God manifested in three manifestations of one God: Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, the trinity.
Now we notice that same God, then, that was in the pillar of fire was the same one that was in Jesus, because He said, "Before Abraham was I AM. I am the rock that was in the wilderness." And He said, "I come from God and I go to God. At that day you'll know that I am in the Father, the Father in me, and I in you, and you in me." There we are, all together, God in us. God in you, that same God.

71 The problem is with you Pentecostal people, you Baptists, you Methodists, you've failed to recognize your God-given privilege. Hear me. Thus saith the Lord. You believe it with all your heart. He promised it in the last day. Hasn't been for two thousand years, because the Bible said it wouldn't be. But Jesus said, as it was in the days of Sodom, when that angel come, turned his back to the tent, and asked for Sarah, and told what she said in the building... How many knows that?
Jesus said, "As it was in the days of Sodom, so shall it be at the coming of the Son of man." When? Just before Sodom burnt. That's just before this world's going to burn. The whole unbelieving world will be ... go into chaos, and burn with fervent heat. We know that. And just before that time... Remember, thus saith the Holy Spirit, "This is your last sign." Write it in your Bible. If something rises besides this, and greater than this, call me a false prophet.
That's quite a statement. I watch what I say. I'm in contact with better than ten million people around the world, so I have to say that, and I know I didn't say that myself.

72 Now, He's here. I can't heal you. I have nothing to heal you with, but the one that has healed you is here, trying to get you to believe it and accept it. Now I ask you, as my brother, my sister in the name of Jesus Christ, believe this gospel message.
And if you don't want to believe me because I don't belong to your denomination... I don't belong to any denomination. I am a Methodist. I'm a Pentecostal Methodist Nazarene Pilgrim Holiness, see. I'm your brother. I'm a Mennonite, Amish. I'm all that, see. I'm your brother. I'm the Assembly, the Church of God. Every one of you fine brethren that's helped, your people around the world has sponsored my meetings, and stayed behind me in foreign fields, and backed me up, brethren, I'm right here to represent I'm your brother. I'm for you one hundred percent.
I'm happy for you tonight in this great dark hour to know that you're men and women of God, sitting here to represent this great gospel that we're preaching. Don't be ashamed, brethren. You've got the truth. Stay with it. Don't divvy from it, right or left. Stay right with it.

73 How many out there that doesn't have prayer cards that's sick? Let's see you raise your hand, wherever you are. There was a woman in the Bible, as we said the other night, didn't have a prayer card; but she said, "I believe that story about that man. If I can touch his garment, I'll be made whole." How many knows that story? When she touched Him, she went out and sat down.
And Jesus said, "Who touched me?"
And Peter rebuked Him, saying, "Everybody's touching you."
He said, "But I got weak."
How many knows that that virtue means "strength"? Weak, He got weak. That's the reason you can't go. Soon (here it comes again) I'll be leaving the field. My ministry's going to change. I can't be an evangelist and a seer at the same time. It builds the people under a false hope (That's twice). Now (My, I wish that wouldn't do that), but look.

74 Now in this audience, for tonight, if God will show one sign like that, that He is here with us, will all of you believe it with all your heart?
Then if that woman touched his garment, and then He turned around and told her that she had a blood issue, and said... He never said, "I did it." He said, "Your faith did it." Is that right? Now it's going to be your faith that does it. Is that right? Your faith that does it. And have you noticed your clergymen, your ministers, tonight? Each night they sit up here behind me, to pray for me, instead of getting out there to be called in the line. There's a certain one already healed. I know it. They're sick too, they're needy, but they prefer their congregation first. That's shepherds. Now you believe.

75 Now, how many knows that He's that same high priest tonight that He was then. Where's He at? Sitting at the right hand of the Father. Is that right? A high priest that can be touched by what? The feeling of our infirmities. Is that true? Can be touched by the feeling of our infirmities. All right. If He can be touched, and He's the same high priest, how would He act tonight if you touched Him? The same way He did then. Is that right? Everybody believes that raise your hand. All around everywhere. All right.
Now I'm just going to wait a moment. I'm waiting for the audience to get quiet, reverent. The Holy Spirit is so timid. Oh, just one little thing, He'll go away. He'll just leave me, then I have to walk away. You believe.

76 Now you people I say that don't have a prayer card, raise up your hand. I think there's no prayer ... I don't think he give out any prayer cards, did he. We're going to give them out tomorrow or Sunday, one for Sunday afternoon service---or tomorrow, whenever the Lord will lead. Now you pray. You say, "high priest"? Not William Branham. William Branham's a man, sinner saved by grace, just like you are. "But, Lord, I believe the man told me the truth. It's the Bible. He tells me that this is the day that God promised it."
Now I want some of you people that's not crippled first, and then we'll get to the cripples afterwards. Now if I was over here, say, "This little girl, she's crippled." I'd say, "This little boy here with this brace on his leg [I might guess that]" say, "probably he had polio did that." Oh, sure, anybody can look at that. See, "This boy's crippled, this woman's crippled." Sure, anybody sees that. Certainly. That wouldn't be no miracle. But what about you out there that looks good and healthy? That's the one. That's the one. You pray now.

77 Our heavenly Father, here's a bunch of handkerchiefs laying here, and they represent the sick people. And they bring these because that in the Bible they took from the body of Paul handkerchiefs and aprons, and the Bible said that unclean spirits went out of them. Devils left them. They were healed. These people in another age believe the same. Because they had seen you moving in Paul, they knew that he was your servant. And Paul is gone long ago, Lord, to glory, but You're still the same Holy Spirit that was on him. You promised that You'd do the same thing, and You're doing it now.
One writer said that when Israel was cut off from the promised land, and the Red Sea was holding it back, that God looked down through that pillar of fire with angry eyes; and the Red Sea got scared and it moved back, and the children of Israel passed over it into the promised land. Now, Lord, look tonight through the blood of Jesus, and every one of these handkerchiefs, when they're laid on the people, may that devil get scared and move back; and may that sick person cross into that good promise of divine healing. As You said, "Above all things, I would you prosper in health." Grant it, Lord, through Jesus Christ's name, I pray. Amen.

78 Now as we're sitting, I want everyone reverently quiet. Be reverent, be quiet, just be in prayer. And in your heart say, "Lord Jesus, let me touch your garment. I know Brother Branham doesn't know me. He has no idea who I am, or where I am, or nothing about me. But if You'll just turn... And he tells me that we read where that people are born in the world for certain things, for certain ages. He said since a little bitty baby boy he's heard these things come. If You'll just let me touch your garment, maybe You speak through Brother Branham, let him tell me what I'm praying about, what I'm here for, and what something or other, I'll believe You." Just say that. Say, "I'm not doubting, Lord, but I'm in need." You just have faith and believe. Just ... we're waiting---humbly, sweetly, waiting. Nobody pressing, now, just relax yourself.
Now if everyone can see what I see, if you want to look... There's a man sitting right back there. He's got heart trouble for one thing. Another thing, he's got a blood clot on his chest. (I believe he'll miss it.) He's from Michigan. Mr. Hannah, stand up on your feet, sir. Receive your healing. Jesus Christ makes you well. While you're on your feet, sir, are you and I strangers to one another? Raise up your hand. Those things that was said, everything was said was true? Wave your hand like this to the audience. Wasn't you praying for God to touch you, the high priest? If that's right, wave your hand like this. You are healed.

79 Forty feet away from me---what did he touch? What did he touch? Does that make the Bible true, brethren? He's a high priest that can be touched by the feeling of our infirmities. Do you believe it? Now someone else somewhere pray. I can only say as I watch that light and feel your spirit drawing. It's not my selection; it's the Father's. I just speak. But if I do not the works of Jesus Christ, then I'm not his witness.
Now I don't have to do that. That's my ministry. These men don't have to do that. They won't. There's not---and I'll say this in the name of the Lord---there has not been, or will not be, till I'm gone. That's exactly what He told me when He ordained me.
A man sitting right back here, shadowed to death. Just had a cancer operation, but it was no good. Mr. Holtzinger, stand on your feet and believe. Am I a stranger to you, sir? Raise up your hand. Are those things right? Everything right? Wave your hand like this if that's right. Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, you'll be well. Believe with all your heart.

80 Cancer spirit somewhere---you just feel that the devil shadowing... It's not me. Now you quit thinking that. Not me; it's Him.
Here, look right down there. Can't you see that light, brother? Look, standing back there, see. It's right over that man sitting there with that red tie on. The man has leukemia. If that's right, stand on your feet, sir. If you was sitting there praying for that, stand on your feet, if those things are right. Are we strangers to one another? Wave your hand back and forth. The things that were told you right? Wave your hand again. Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and be healed.
Look. Look here. See this lady sitting right here? You're praying for that baby. The baby can't live outside of God. Do you believe me to be God's prophet, his servant? I tell you what's wrong with the baby, do you believe it will get well? if you're in contact enough to believe. The baby has a hole in its heart. If that's right, raise up your hand, sister. Do you believe now? Put your hand on it, just where you got it. God, I rebuke that devil. Let that baby live in the name of Jesus Christ.

81 Here. This woman was so sick, this lady laying here. Look around this way, sister. Right here. Seem to be the sickest one of the group. You were praying. Do you believe me to be his prophet, his servant?
I see a wheel chair somewhere. That man sitting right there. He's had a stroke. He's a preacher. He can't... Mr. Ferguson, you believe on the Lord Jesus. I do not heal people.
Excuse me, lady. I had to call it, I ... though you was so sick. Certainly. Your sister here, watching you, she loves you. You're shadowed to death. You know that. You can't live outside of God. Mayo's knows that, don't they. You've come from Mayo's. You've been to Mayo's up there, Mayo's Clinic. Cancer killing you. They brought you down here for this meeting, and it's true. Your sister's been with you.

82 I can't heal you, but let me ask you something. There was three lepers one time sat at a gate when Samaria was being besieged by the Syrians. They said, "Why do we sit here till we die? If we stay here we're sure to die. If we go into the city we're going to die anyhow, because they're eating one another's children in there." But said, "What if we go down to the camp of the enemy? If they kill us, we'll just die anyhow. But if we're saved alive, we live." God honored that, didn't He? And they were saved.
The same ... you're sitting in the same place. Mayo's turned you down, Mrs. Mason. Strange I knew you, who you are. Now, but I want to ask you... They turned you down. There's nothing they can do for you. If you lay there, you'll die. If you go to Mayo's, you'll die. You're not asked to go to the enemy's house; you're looking to be ... come to the house of the Father tonight and be healed. Do you believe with all your heart? Then rise up and take that stretcher and walk out of here and go home. You're healed.

83 What about you, lady over there on that stretcher, looking this way. Do you believe me to be his prophet? Yes. Do you believe with all your [unclear words] will leave you? Do you believe? Do you believe me to be God's prophet? Then rise up out of there in the name of Jesus Christ. Stand on your feet! There she goes---a crippled woman on her feet!
Do you believe? Everyone believe with all your heart. (Come here, brothers. Come here and lay your hands on these people.) I want to ask you, is that the works of Jesus Christ? Raise your hands and say "Amen." Here comes God's servants now to lay hands while I pray.
Every one of you, in a wheel chair, no matter where you are, this is your hour. This is the time for your healing. I'm going to pray. Let the audience stand, and if you'll believe, I don't care who you are... Every one of you men of God go down there and lay hands on these people. I'm going to pray for them while you lay your hands upon them. Look at the wheel chairs! Lay your hands on each other. Almighty God, who raised up Jesus Christ from the dead and has triumphed over every enemy, over the devil. I challenge every devil... Come out of these people in the Name of Jesus Christ. Leave them, Satan. They are healed...

Be not afraid, it is I

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1 Let us just remain standing for a moment and bow our heads and hearts before God. And while we have our heads and hearts bowed, I wonder if there would be requests tonight that you would want God to remember you in a certain manner, and for a certain thing. If there is, just raise up your hand to Him. He understands. He knows every move. He's infinite. Now just keep that in your mind while we pray.

2 Heavenly Father, we deem this one of the greatest privileges of our life is to come before the purchase of your blood, the church that's been borned again of the Spirit of God. And tonight, while we are assembled together in the name of the Lord Jesus... It was told us by Him that wherever two or more was gathered in his name He would be in the midst of us. Now, it has to be so. He promised it.
And then, we're taught that as the day begins to approach to the end that we should not forsake the assembling ourselves together, as some who have not faith; but we are to assemble ourselves together. And we are taught, also, that we sit in heavenly places in Christ Jesus, being baptized into his body by one Spirit. Then we are with Him, raised with Him in his resurrection, and in his presence, knowing that He ever lives to make intercessions. We thank Thee for this.

3 And now tonight, Lord, there was hands that went up. You know what was beneath that hand in the heart. They're holding that request upon their heart now. God, hear and answer prayer for them. We thank Thee because we have the promise, and the promise ... and faith is the assurance with that promise it shall be granted to them. Save every lost soul, Lord, bring back every backslider, heal every sick person, Lord. Get glory to thyself.
Laying before us here now is handkerchiefs, cloths, Bibles. Now we're taught in the Bible that they took from the body of St. Paul handkerchiefs and aprons. Unclean spirits went out of the people, diseases. They were healed. Now we know that we're not St. Paul, but you're still the same God, the same Jesus.

4 And also, we were told one time where Israel was on its road to the promised land---the great church of God called out of Egypt. And on its road right in the path of duty the Red Sea cut them off from the land. God looked down through that pillar of fire with angry eyes. Something was standing in his children's way, to keep them from the promise. The sea got scared. It rolled back its waves, and its water, and Israel crossed over on dry land.
Now, You're the same God that was with Moses, the same pillar of fire, the same God. Now, when You look upon these tokens, Lord, when they're laid upon the sick people... God, not through the pillar of fire but through the blood of Jesus, look down and know that by his stripes they were healed.
You said in your Word, "Above all things I would that you would prosper in health." And may the power of Satan that's cut them off from that good health, may he get scared and move away. And may they cross over into that land of health and strength, and live happy here serving God. Grant it, Lord. Come tonight in great power. Move upon us as we humble our hearts before Thee. In the name of Jesus Christ we ask it. Amen. Be seated.

5 The Lord ever bless you.
I have just officially heard this afternoon about the ministerial breakfast in the morning, and I'm happy for this opportunity to get to meet with the brethren and have some fellowship. You know, there's something about eating that brings fellowship. I don't why it is, but it just does it. It brings fellowship.
And the Bible tells us that when Jesus was just about to depart from this life to enter into the eternal realms of the blest, He wanted to eat with his disciples and He selected a room by his prophecy. Said, "Go into the city now, and you'll find a man with a jug of water and follow him. And wherever he goes, say to the master of the house that you want to rent the room." And so, He gathered with them to have ... to eat the bread, and drink the wine, and to have fellowship before his departing. And we feel that way with our brethren.
When we come into a city (just near time now for us to depart), we like to have some fellowship with each other, to talk and to express our feelings and gratitude for each other, and pray for each other. For truly, we're in the battle, and we need each other more than we ever did in all times. We need Christians. We need each other now more than ever.

6 Now, we are confident that God answers prayer, and gives to us his blessings. And now tomorrow night, if the Lord willing, I would like to speak on a message of salvation, to the church, to the people. Bring in those who are without Christ, and those backsliders, and let's talk to them about God tomorrow night, and how to get back to Christ.
Many are holding prayer cards, and we're going to pray for every sick person that wants to be prayed for before we leave the city, if we have to stay here a month to do it, see. We're ... that's what we are here for. So we are going to pray for everybody that wants to be prayed for. And God will provide the way, and we'll take it just as we ... go just as we feel led to go. And so, that's always best.

7 We made our messages real baby, juvenile form. Never went into it the deep theological approach, because this is our first time here. We don't want you to miss the message. We want to make it so that the little children will understand it, little drama. But yet, it's absolutely Scripture, and it's the truth. Just...
But now, when we would talk to clergymen, we would talk to them in a higher bracket---approach it in another way. Or saints who's seen the ministry and been around it, and knows how, we get into a higher bracket. But here we tried to keep it just simple, so that no one will miss it. And I felt the Holy Spirit tell me that, to do that while I was here in this ... Santa Maria.

8 And I trust that after going, that there'll be out of here ... that there'll be such a revival among the churches. I just pray that God will so richly bless you, and just make you a light to all the world right here at Santa Maria.
And all these fine people and ... of all denominations, see... We're all human. We all eat the same kind of food. We all love our wives and our children. We're human beings that Christ died for. Sometimes sectarianism has cut us off a little bit, but we're... Surely in the presence of God can look over them little walls there and see our brethren on the other side, and stretch our tent a little farther and take him in also, you see, 'cause that's the way we want to do it---for every human being.

9 Christ died to save every lost person, no matter what creed has done for them. That's always tried to be my approach to the people---is to be a public servant of Christ to whosoever will, just to whoever it may be. I'm here to serve. He's never drawed a line for anybody for me to pray for. He never said, "Now these are Methodists; don't pray for them. These are Catholic; don't pray for them." He just said, "Pray for the sick children." So, that's all. So there ... and I just want to... That's the way I do it.
That's the reason I don't take sides with nobody. I just believe the Word, and just stay right with the Word. And any level thinker will know that that Word is right. It's just got to be right, see. And I don't put any interpretation to it. I try to just read it the way it reads, then say the same thing.
That's confessing. "Confess" means the same thing, like, "He's the high priest of our..." Well, King James puts it "profession." But "profess" and "confess" is the same thing, see. So then to confess, that means to say the same thing He did. "By his stripes I am healed."---I'm confessing, see. I am confessing the same thing that He said, see. I'm making a confession. That's what it is in court. You have to say the same thing. Now I am ... to my great high priest, for He sits at the right hand of the Majesty to make intercessions upon my confession.

10 So you see, before God can do anything for you, you first have to believe it, and confess it. He cannot work, cannot do one thing. I tell you, no wonder people are scared of divine healing. I say this reverently and brotherly, but there's been so many hoax that's called divine healing, you see, that's scared the people off.
Just remember, where is the scarecrows? Under the best apple tree. That's right. It's always a meal ticket. If you want to find out where the best apples are in the orchard, just find where all the clubs, and sticks, and scarecrows, and everything's around. They're trying to keep them away from that tree. And that's exactly what the devil does.

11 I remember one time years ago, I got a lesson on that. How many knows what a groundhog is? What part of Kentucky you-all from? I was ... there was an old sinkhole, and I'd planted some... Now it's really ... the name of him is woodchuck, but we call him a groundhog. He's a really an American, 'cause he's all over the nation. And he's fine little animal---a little vegetarian. And he's a mean little fellow, too.
So one day I was planting some butter beans, and so... I had these butter beans planted. I could not get them planted. That little old groundhog would come right down the row, eat them all up, and go back in his hole; and sit back there, I guess, and pick his teeth, and look at me. So, I thought, "I'm just going to scare the daylights out of that guy."

12 So, honest, I'm... My wife, sitting here, could tell you I'm quite an artist, you know. So I drawed me a picture of a big hideous-looking face. And anything that I'd draw any way would be very hideously, so I (Thank you, brother.), I drawed the picture of this great big face and put me some butter beans down in the sack, and tied it, drove a stob down in the ground, set it up there. And so, I put it right in the row where my butter beans was planted.
Out of the hole came the little old groundhog. I got back there and looked through my binoculars to watch him. He came out of there and looked all around to see if I was anywhere. And he didn't see me, so he started down eating butter beans. He got right up against that sack. It was a quiet day. The wind wasn't blowing.

13 So he stopped---the little fellow---and raised up, and looked at that sack. Raised up on his little hind feet and turned sideways, and looked at it, and this way. And he knowed there was something ... had a big ugly-looking face on it. And he walked up real close, you know, and he jumped at it four or five times to see if it would jump. It never moved.
So he smacked it with his little paw, and it rattled them butter beans. He jumped back four or five steps, and looked at it again. Sized it up again, smacked it again---that hideous-looking face. It rattled again. Then he started shaking it with his paw. It was just a rattle. So he went right on around behind there, and went to eating butter beans. It didn't bother him at all, see.
When you see something that's bogus, don't pay no attention to it. Go right around behind it, and keep eating. That's all. Don't let nothing scare you away. God is a healer. He's always been; He always will be.

14 And now, don't watch for miracles. Don't tell God the way you want it; you just accept it the way He gives it to you. You just take a hold of his promise and hold it. Now, that's been my purpose. That's been what I've been trying to lay before this church here and Santa Maria---is to accept Him just by believing his Word in action, see, the presence and manifestation of Christ. And then, accept not only healing, but every promise He give---for the Holy Spirit, for anything. Accept it upon the basis that his presence is here to vindicate his promise.

15 Now, you know, that's really the Gentile way of receiving Christ. You know, there was a Jew one time in the Bible, he said, "My daughter is seriously sick. She's ready to die. Come lay your hands upon her and she'll get well," see, now ... little Jairus. So I always had sympathy for him. He was kind of a secret believer. And when... Some people, you know, don't believe in divine healing. But let somebody get near death, and the doctor turn them down, and then they believe right quick in divine healing, you see. You just haven't been sick enough yet, that's all.
But when he got to the place his only child was laying dying, then he went to find Jesus. Now watch him. He was a Jew. "Come lay your hands on my daughter, and she'll be well." Now, that was a Jew.

16 Watch the Gentile, the Roman. "I'm not worthy that you'd come under my roof," see. "Just speak the word and my servant will live." That's the difference, you see.
Now we are supposed to believe God, and Jesus turned... Remember his great statement? "I have not seen such faith in Israel," see. "Just speak the word. My servant will live."

17 I was speaking last night on the woman, little queen of Sheba, as we know her today. Jesus called her the queen of the south, and she lived in the utmost parts of the known world of that day. And I kind of upbraided this generation for not receiving it---and how it's gone across the land, and so forth, and they still don't receive it. And I said how that the people won't walk across the street now.
Today I was checking around, and I find out there's people here from way away. That shows that some of them comes from a long ways. I'm looking now at a couple, Mr. and Mrs. Tom Simpson. They're from Saskatchewan, Canada, to be in the meeting. Brother Tom, would you just stand up here? From Saskatchewan, Canada, he and his family.

18 Just behind him is Brother Fred Sothmann, his wife and family. They also ... right now they're in Jeffersonville, these people, but he is from Rosetown, Saskatchewan. Would you stand up, Brother Sothmann? He's from Rosetown. And that's from a long ways away.
Sister Ungren, Sister Downy (her daughter) and... She has two daughters here, and a granddaughter, all the way from Memphis, Tennessee. I haven't seen... I seen the daughter today on the street. Would you stand up, wherever you are, Sister Downy, Sister Ungren, from Memphis, Tennessee? Where are you? There. So glad to have you all in the meeting.

19 There is also my friends in the meeting, Brother and Sister Welch Evans all the way from Tifton, Georgia---about three thousand miles across the country---and their family. Would you stand up, Brother Evans, and Sister Evans, your family here? There ... happy to have them in with us, all the way from Tifton, Georgia. Brother Willie---I forget his name---I believe he's all the way from Tifton, too. I seen him the other day here. He's here from Tifton, Georgia. And so very happy to have them here.
Brother and Sister Wood from Jeffersonville, Indiana, they are here also. Where is Brother Wood, or Sister Wood tonight? Brother Wood and Sister Wood from Jeffersonville. That was the people that the Lord did such a great thing. They had a crippled boy with infantile paralysis, with a drawed-up leg. Brother Wood was a Jehovah Witness. And so ... his father was a reader in the Jehovah Witness movement.

20 And he heard about it, and they came down to Louisville, Kentucky. And a girl was in the meeting that night ... was turning to stone all the way up to her waistline. The doctors said, "It's all finished with your hands, and everything." And the next night she was running up and down steps, like that, to the glory of God. They thought that ought to work on their polioed son and they...
I went overseas immediately after... Well, they went down to Houston, Texas, where the picture was taken of the angel of the Lord. Authentically it was examined by George J. Lacy.

21 When a Catholic man standing there discussing---and a Baptist minister---saying there was no such a thing as divine healing, and so forth, trying to start a debate, or trying to ... with Mr. Bosworth...
And I said, "I don't claim to be a god. I don't claim to be a healer. I claim to be the servant of Christ. I only say if this ministry is in question, let God testify for Himself."
And here it come whirling down through the meeting before thousands times thousands of people, and the critics took the picture of it. It was sent to Washington, D.C., the same night (the negative) and was copyrighted and sent back. We have it with us tonight, copyrighted by the Douglas Studios at Houston, Texas.
Mr. Iris, a Roman Catholic, had a heart attack that night 'cause he'd criticized, and said that... A woman had a goiter on her throat. Said that I hypnotized the goiter off of her throat, and such as that. And Mr. Kipperman, an Orthodox Jew, also had said some ill things, and become a staunch Christian because of the miracle. And it's went around the world now. Mr. Wood was there.

22 Immediately after that I went overseas. Come back. He brought his crippled son to up in Ohio---Cleveland, Ohio. And one night in the meeting... Said, "The Holy Spirit shows me a little boy [at a certain place] that's got a crippled leg. And thus saith the Lord, he's healed." And the young man was immediately made whole, and now he's with us tonight, married and got two children. David, are you near? David Wood, are you in the...? Here he is, right here with... Can't even tell which leg was hurt.
Then, his father, being a well-known contractor through the country, sold everything he had, rented out what houses he had built, and moved in next door to me. And he's lived there ever since. Since then, his wife being a Methodist---or Church of God it was, and all of her people were Methodist---every one of her people, as far as I know, has received the Holy Ghost and become filled with the Spirit of God since then.

23 Mr. Wood's brother came down a critic, and was... The Holy Spirit revealed by vision to all those people, and telling them things like that, convinced them---his brothers, his sisters... And his father, a reader, came down to really work me over. And the Holy Ghost spoke and told what would take place the next day. Word by word come to pass. He was filled with the Holy Ghost, and got the victory. Mr... Oh, it could go on and on. Many here that I'm ... I hope I don't miss no one, but there's many here. I'm sure that I have already...
Had on my mind I was going to introduce tonight...

24 I'm going to do something. I'm going to catch a big bawling out when I get home. My queen, would you stand up, honey? Oh, I know her face is red, but... She never likes to do it. My wife, Mrs. Branham, and my little daughter, Sarah. Where you at, Sarah? Stand up. I think she's in the meeting. My little son, Joseph, where is he? Stand up, Joseph. That's my son, Joseph. I've got one more that's not here tonight---Rebekah.
And yes, Brother Jim McGuire, our tape boy, who married into the family of the Sothmanns, is the tape boy standing here at the side.

25 Brother Welch Evans, that comes on my mind ... that Brother Evans... The first time I met Brother Evans (I hope I'm not taking up too much time), but Brother Welch Evans ... did I have him stand up awhile ago (I believe I did), he and his family?
We were at Philadelphia in a meeting, and some ... the tape boy, one of them---Mr. Mercier, who he is. Brother Mercier and Brother Goad is not with us no more. They have gone into secular work, and they're not with the campaigns any more.
And Brother Mercier had said, "There's a man from the South, named Evans, wants to meet you." And I said... "Would you have breakfast with him in the morning?" And he was taking care of those things then, the appointments and so forth, like my son does now---Billy Paul.
And I said, "Yes. It would be all right."
He said, "He wanted to meet you."

26 Wife was with me at this meeting, and little Joseph. That's been about three years ago. And all of you know the story, or perhaps have read about Joseph. I was taking the life of Joseph... And the doctor had told us we could have no more children after Rebekah was born because she was a Caesarean, and the wife could not have another child.
And I went into a little closet at Minneapolis, and was weeping there before the Lord. And a vision come down and said, "You will have a son, and you shall call his name Joseph." And so, I began to announce it to all the people. And so, then waited four years.
Everybody said, "What about that prophecy about Joseph?"
I said, "He'll be along. Don't worry."
And then we knew wife was going to be mother again. And so when it was born, it was a girl, Sarah, and everybody got to laughing at me. Said, "I ... you meant Josephine, didn't you?"
I said, "No, I meant Joseph."
The doctors said, "Mr. Branham," said, "we had better do a little operation here, because your wife cannot, no wise, stand another child."
I said, "Doctor, don't you dare to touch her. We're going to have a son, and his name's Joseph." He just scratched his head, and done like that, and walked away.

27 And four more years passed. And one day we found out that she was to be mother again. Some of them said, "Is this Joseph?"
I said, "I don't know." But I said, "I don't know. But Joseph is coming, 'cause God never told me nothing but what was true."
And so, I went out to the hospital, and kissed her as she went up into the room---the delivery room.
A few minutes, the nurse came down. She said, "Who is Rev. Branham?"
And I said, "Me."
And she said, "You have a fine seven-pound boy."
I said, "Joseph, honey, you've been a long time getting here. Daddy's kind of glad to see you."
She said, "You called him Joseph."
I said, "That's his name."

28 And so, we were at ... up at Philadelphia. And that morning I raised up, and I was looking in the room. I said, "Honey, the man that we are to meet this morning has violated the law." I said, "He's been fishing, and he caught a sack full of fish too many. And I seen him hide them two or three times from the game warden." And you know I used to be a game warden for several years.
And I said, "I seen him hiding them fish from the game warden." I said, "My, that was a wonderful place he was fishing in, and so many fish!"
So just then little Joseph raised up and come over to me---about four years old---and he said, "Daddy, Da-da [which he meant David] is going to have an accident on a motorcycle."
I said, "What do you mean?"

29 He'd already told me a vision. He said, "I was riding on my little tricycle out to watch for my little sister, Sarah, come up the street." And he said, "Daddy, has God got a hand?"
And I said, "Yes."
Said, "I seen a hand just like yours, like that with a cuff." And said, "It was holding right up over me, to keep me from off the street while I was waiting for my sister." Why, we never noticed it, you know, just... living the way we do, and hear them talk about visions, so I thought maybe the little fellow, you know how...

30 So that morning he said, "David is going to have a wreck on a motorcycle. He's going to skin his leg on the right side."
And I said, "Joseph, you've just gotten up, son. Come here." I said, "Did you dream that?"
He said, "No, Daddy. I just saw David have it."
Four or five days from that David... A boy come from Louisville with a motorcycle, wanted David to ride it. Rode it down the lane, and it throwed him, and skinned his right leg, just exactly.
We went over to see Mr. Evans, and his lovely wife. I said, "Brother Evans..." After I met him, and talked to him, I said, "You live in ... down somewhere there's some awful good fishing." And I said, "I'm a fisherman."
He said, "Yes, I do."
I said, "A few weeks ago you were fishing, and had a sack full of fish illegal." And I said, "You had to hide them about three times from the game warden."
He looked over at me, and said, "That's the truth." And he looked at me, kind of sweated a little, and I said, "There's just one request. Will you take me to that place to go fishing?"
He said, "I will."

31 We went down to ... fishing. And it was in Florida, down in the little bayous, and so forth. And we walked back in the 'gator swamps back there, where... He had a brother that just a few months before there had been bitten by a ground rattler. Now you think your diamondback's bad. Just look at one of those little fellows, worse than a sidewinder. And they lay right on top of the water and hit you. In Florida, they just ... snakes ... just in rolls.
And so, we had pistols, and sticks, and we'd go back through these ... where they'd run a dredge line through a seventeen-thousand-acre ranch, putting his Brahman cattle in there. And they were gone wild. And were back in there with those great big bass. My, what beautiful things they were! We had poplar poles, we was catching them. And so we'd move the lilies like that, and look around for 'gators, and snakes, and so forth, and then move up in water.

32 And we got up on where the dredge line, or drag line had throwed out the dirt. And I'd caught some finest bass I ever seen. And I had a great big one on. His mouth was about that big, and this little bumble bee wouldn't stay in his mouth. He'd have to hold it, and he'd spit it out, or throw it out. And this bug popping on top of the water, he'd grab at it again. I had him on three times, couldn't even hold him.
Mr. Evans had his trouser legs rolled up, and he come up there and he said, "Brother Branham, I seen you catch that big one."
I said, "Oh, my! He's a dandy." And, Brother Evans, I won't tell them that you turned my fish loose that afternoon accidentally. So... I had a big bunch tied, of the finest bass, and he started to pick them up and let the string run through, and the whole bunch of them got away. So we had eleven dandies. They had the pictures taken that night.

33 So we was... I had this fish, and I tried it again, and another one hit it. I suppose that fish weighed twelve-fourteen pounds, so---a big large-mouth bass. And this one, he was striking through the water, and I was trying to hold him like that. I said, "No, that's not him." So I'd wore him out (weighed about seven or eight pounds), and I'd got him up towards the bank, where the tules and so forth was standing up. And he said, "Wait a minute, Brother Branham. I'll get him for you."
I said, "Never mind. I can bring him in."
But he just jumped in the water, with his trouser legs up like that. And he'd no more than jumped till he jumped back. A ground rattler struck him and ... right on the side of the foot and leg. Well, I never seen such suffering for a few moments. It just almost paralyzes, and makes your bones freeze in you.

34 And there I was back there, and Mr. Evans would weigh close to two hundred. And to have to pack that man through that swamp on my back... It was the only thing that could be done---get him out to the car, nearly two miles, I guess, away. Why, he was just holding his teeth together. And I looked and I seen about a inch wide where---hardly that much---where both fangs had hit right in his feet.
And his brother was walking on a hoop under his feet, where not over two hundred yards from there had been struck by a ground rattler. Now his brother is not a Christian and would ... laid in the hospital for I don't know how many days, or weeks. And still after months had a hoop, walking on it, for a long time.

35 And this rattler had struck Brother Evans. And just as I ... I thought, "O God, what can we do?" and this scripture came in my mind: "They shall tread on the heads of scorpions and serpents, and nothing shall harm them." And I laid my hand upon it. I said, "Heavenly Father, we're in a state of emergency. And Thou art a very present help in time of trouble. And You have said that nothing shall harm these believers, and this brother is a believer. And I'm calling for your mercy."
Well, he stopped his suffering, or going on. I thought it was with respect to my prayer. And when I got through, he said, "Not a pain nowhere," got up, went on fishing. We fished for the rest of the day.

36 And that night, about eleven o'clock we were showing these fish and his brother come up, and he was telling him about it. And his sinner brother said, "Welch, it's all right to be religious, but it's not all right to be crazy." He said, "Get to the hospital as quick as you can, and get some medical treatment or you'll be like me."
Mr. Evans said to him, said, "Look, brother. That happened this morning about ten o'clock, and God has kept me without a pain, and it's about ten o'clock tonight. If God can keep me that far, He can keep me the rest of the way." So ... is that true, Mr. Evans? "And they could say nothing against it. The man was standing in the midst of the people."

37 Oh, he's still God, friends, see. That man travels, he and his family, every time that I'm at the Tabernacle. And sometimes that's week after week---fifteen hundred miles every Sunday. Come up on ... start on Friday and get there on Saturday, get back Monday or Tuesday. And he has an automobile work. And they travel that far to hear the gospel.
Oh, so many things could be said. And here it is time to start praying for the sick, but I'm just taking this time (I hope I didn't interrupt nothing) and ... just to recognize some of the people that's come so far to hear. Now, I wish we would all after this, just one more time bow our heads.

38 Now, heavenly Father, the witnesses of the gospel is near. Thou art always near to help, and to bless those who are needy. And I pray Thee, Father, that Thou will bless and will help all those who are needy. And these testimonies are give in the light of the gospel, that people who are sick and needy might receive help and blessings from the gospel.
Help this young lady, now, who is suffering back here in the meeting at this time. We pray that your mercies and grace will be upon the lady. Grant it, Father. And let thy strength be hers, and divide unto her of thy blessings.
And we pray, heavenly Father, that You'll bless us now as we approach the Word of the living God, that God's great mercy and blessings will be upon us all. These are bearing record that You are God, and that You are no respect of persons, that You are with those who desire to help, and desire to be healed. So, grant these blessings to us, and as we read of thy Word we pray that You'll anoint your Word for the benefit of those who are listening in. In Jesus' name we ask it. Amen.

39 Now, in the Bible in Matthew, the 14th chapter beginning with the 22nd verse, I wish to read. And my text tonight is a testimony.
And straightway Jesus constrained his disciples to get into a ship, and to go before him to the other side, while he sent the multitudes away.
And when he had sent the multitudes away, he went up into a mountain apart to pray: and when ... evening was come, he was there alone.
But the ship was now in the midst of the sea, tossed with waves: for the winds were contrary.
And in the fourth watch of the night Jesus went to them, walking on the sea.
... when the disciples saw him walking on the sea, they were troubled, saying, It is a spirit; and they cried out for fear.
But straightway Jesus spake unto them, saying, Be of a good cheer, it is I; be not afraid.
May the Lord add his blessings to it.

40 Is the lady sick, real sick? All right. What say? Now every one, what you've been taught, sit quiet. Bow your heads, and pray.
Now don't fear. Just be real reverent now. The lady has fainted, and she's sick. And they're going to get her to the air. We have prayed for her. And they're going to get her to the air now, so she can get some air. And now, let us continue on with... Faith knows no fear. So just be real reverent. She'll be all right, if you just don't doubt now. Believe.

41 Now, as we're speaking on this subject, "Be not Afraid. It is I." Now it must have been about the time the sun went down in the evening when the great, strong, brawny-backed fishermen began to move the boat off of the sand. And as they began to move the boat from the sands, turning the bow around again and climbing aboard, sitting down by the side of his brother Andrew, for they were brothers and fishermen... And picking up his oar...

42 Now the boats of today are not like the boats of yesterday. The boats---what they call ships---were different from our ships today. We have gasoline, and oil, diesel and jet-propelled... But them days they only went by hand power, or by a sail in the wind, is the way they went to their destiny with their ships. Many times there were great storms on the sea, and they could not just take one man in a boat. It taken strong arms to hold those boats.
You people here know what it means. You can't take a boat right up over top of a wave like that. You'll drown yourself. You've got to angle that wave, know how to hit it with your boat, to make it go through the storm. And a good boatman understands how to do that. And these men must be good boatmen, or they would not survive.

43 And so they had a seat. And they would take one man with two hands on a huge oar on this side; right across from him would be another man with the same kind of an oar. And sometimes six or eight locks of oars would be in there that would pull these boats with teamwork. How they would ... same time, same stroke... And it was a powerful push that boat had, with those great wide-bladed oars that they used in those days.
And as each one took their position, dipped their oars down into the water, and began to pull two or three times, and then wave to the people on the bank, "Bye-bye." And they were saying, like always when we have a great meeting, "Come back and see us."
There's something or other about mankind, and Christians, when they are assembled together in one accord and in fellowship. They have things in common. You can tell that ... how they ... it's hard for them to part one from another.

44 Now this may be a little on the sideline, but many of you people have seen people that you just love to be in their presence. Then, you've seen people that they were nice people but you could hardly stand to be in their presence. See, you are a creator of an atmosphere around you. And you make that yourself by your own disposition, and the spirit that's on the inside of you.
And it's just like my old Southern mammy used to tell me that's just gone on to heaven a few months ago. She used to say, "Billy, birds of a feather flock together." That's right. So therefore, crows, scavengers, and doves could have no fellowship one with another. Their diet's different, see. They can't eat the same thing.

45 And that's the way it is among Christian ranks. We gather like this, assemble together, because we have things in common. We just love to come to the meetings. You love to see your pastor walk up on the step, and you love ... because you know he is going to pray and honor your home. His presence means so much to you. You want to get the children in, gather around, so the pastor's blessings can be upon the children. And when you visit one with another you want to read the Bible, and offer prayer together, because you have things in common.
Oh, the church should be the most glorious thing, that fellowship! How that ... we used to sing in the Tabernacle years ago, when I was pastoring the Missionary Baptist Tabernacle, at Jeffersonville, we used to sing the old song, "Blest be the tie that binds our hearts in Christian love; the fellowship of kindred minds is like to that above. And when we asunder part, it gives us inward pain; but we shall still be joined in heart, and hope to meet again." Oh, that meant ... come from our hearts. We loved one another.

46 And they had been associating with Christians, men of like minds that day, and they'd had fellowship. And when they were parting, going across the sea, they were waving, "Come back, see us again. Come tell us of this lovely gospel of eternal life. Bring your Master along with you," waving. Then somebody'd holler to someone, saying, "Come back," maybe a relative.
And they'd pull a few more strokes, and wave, and the little party on the bank got smaller, smaller. And after awhile it dimmed all the way out. The sun must have been down then. And they was going to catch a breath you know, because ... perspiring from that heavy pulling. They had to cross the sea that night, the little Sea of Galilee, and they was wore out from the toil of the day. They must have stopped.

47 Must have been young John. He was the youngest---he probably wore out quicker than the old sturdy boatmen. So, he must have said, "Brethren, let's stop just for a minute and catch a breath." And I can see him as he wipes the perspiration from his shaggy head. "Whew!" He said, "You know, while we're resting a few moments..." As the little ship drifted along, John must've raised up his head and said, "Brethren, I would like to have a little testimony here."
You know, there's always something in a person's heart that they'd like to say, if they're confident in what they're saying. There's something about it. You have to testify and say something.

48 John might've said something like this: "We can rest assured that the man in which we are following is not what the world calls Him---a false prophet. He is not a Beelzebub, as our priests say He is, a fortune-teller. He's nothing short of Jehovah.
"When I was a little boy we lived down [Now we're breaking in on a testimony meeting.] ... we lived down near Jordan. And I can remember in the month of April, when the little flowers come up in the spring, I used to pick these little flowers and run in with a handful, and give them to my pretty little Jewish mother. And she would rock me to sleep in the afternoon for my nap out on the porch, and tell me Bible stories. And I remember so many.

49 "She'd tell me about Joshua, when he brought the children of Israel just a little below the fiord there, out of the wilderness, and crossed right in the month of April when the Jordan was swelling. And way up in the headwaters God held the water, and they walked right across on dry land. And all of the stories...
"And one used to interest me so much was that one she used to tell me about our people coming up out of Egypt, of coming to our homeland that God had given us; and about how God cared for them as they left Egypt, and started on to the promised land; how God promised to provide everything they had need of, and how that every night God would send down manna---bread---out of heaven and lay all over the ground. And the next morning only thing our people had to do was go out and pick up this bread, and eat it, and live through the day.

50 "And it used to amaze me as a little boy," he might've said. "I'd turn over, and say to Mother, "Mother, how did God get that bread? Has He got all the heavens is full of big ovens, and He's got a night crew up there working, and He bakes this bread and sends the angels down and places it all over the ground for his children?
"She said, 'No, John, my little boy. You don't understand. You're too young yet. God doesn't have to have ovens. God is a creator. He just creates the bread right out of the air, and it drops upon the earth. There is how He feeds his people.'
"And brethren, today when I saw Him take those five biscuits and two fish, and fed five thousand people, I knowed He had to have some connection with that Jehovah, because He had created bread. I knowed that that had to be the same Creator who created all that bread in the wilderness. And that little boy that had played hooky from school, and give us his lunch..."

51 Now that little boy... I want to say something to these little boys. You see, that little boy had a little lunch. It wasn't nothing but just five little biscuits, and two little fishes. Now as long as the little boy had it in his hand, it didn't mean nothing---just enough to feed himself. But when he gave that little bit he had over to Jesus, look what it done! Now, we may have just a little bit. It isn't very much to us, but if we'll just let Jesus have it, what He will do with that! He fed five thousand people.

52 I can hear young John say, "You know what I did? I climbed up behind the rock, and I saw Him when He took that biscuit and broke it off, and laid it over into the tray. And I watched every move right over his shoulder. And when He reached his hand back, when He started back, there was only a half a biscuit. But the time he went to put his hand on it, there was a whole biscuit. And He tore it off, and laid it down again."
I want to ask you, brethren, what kind of an atom did He let loose there? Not wheat to be grown, and made in eventually bread; but it was already bread baked. Not a fish that had to be killed and then fried; but already fried and ready. What did He do?
Goes to show If we're willing to turn loose what little we have to Him... Just take what faith you had to come over here with tonight, and lay it in his hand and claim your healing, and go out with it. Watch what takes place.

53 And said, "When I watched that, I was thoroughly convinced that that was Jehovah. And when I looked at Him as He stood there, not a bit excited no matter what was going on, just as calm as He could be, breaking that... He even looked like Jehovah to me as He stood there breaking that bread, and passing it out to those hungry people." He said, "How, to me it's settled forever that that is Jehovah. And He is not merely a man, He's not merely a prophet, He's the son of God. He's the tabernacle in which Jehovah is dwelling in, because He created this bread."

54 Well, it might've been Simon, you know, who knew something about those things, too, that raised up and said, "Well, that's very good, John. But what bothered me first when Andrew come told me there was a prophet down there... Well, I could hardly believe that. But I remember my daddy told me that when the Messiah come that He would be a prophet. And when I went down there that day with Andrew, and I looked at Him in the face, and He looked to me and said, 'Your name is Simon. You are the son of Jonas,' that settled it forever for me. I knew that was Him, because we've had four hundred years without this prophet and here He comes on the scene. And I know it was season, the time was right, and that was bound to be Him."
Now remember, Jesus didn't do it four or five times; He did it once, and that settled it. They were ready. They knew that that was He.

55 Might've been Philip at that time raised up and said, "Simon, I was standing there. Though the miracle wasn't performed on me, it was performed on you. Yet, I believed, and was so convinced till I ran around the hill and got my friend here, Nathanael. And when I brought him back, I told him about what taken place, and what had happened to you, and how that we knew that this was the mark of the Christ. This is what the Scripture said He was supposed to do.
"And when you come up in his presence, He looked at you and said, 'Behold an Israelite in whom there's no guile.' And you said to Him, 'Rabbi, how did you ever know me?' And He said, 'Before Philip called you, when you were under the tree, I saw you.' "

56 And Nathanael might have jumped up at that time and said, "And that settled it for me. I fell at his feet. There stood my priest, and give me a dirty look. But it didn't make any difference how much look he went, I'd done looked into the Bible and seen that that was Messiah. So I fell at his feet and said, 'Thou art the Son of God. You are the king of Israel.' "
Oh, my! Wouldn't you like to have been in the testimony meeting, sitting out there rocking in that little ship? About that time, maybe Nathanael started praising the Lord, and ... said, "Sit down. You're rocking the ship. Sit down."

57 You know, there's something about when you go to tell about the goodness of God, you get all upset---excited, you know, emotional. Someone says, "I don't believe in emotional religion." Well, you better bury what you've got, then. That's right. So, if your religion hasn't got a little emotion in it, you better bury the thing. That's right.
And they must've got ... the old ship must have been rocking around pretty good when they all got to testifying. And it must have been Andrew then, just couldn't hold it any longer. Said, "Brethren, just a minute. We all remember down at Sychar that day, that ... how He sent us into the city to buy some food and wanted to be left alone, over in that country of Samaria. He told us He had need to go by there. The Father was sending Him that way. And so we all wondered about why did He stay alone. And go into the city, and You knowed how they treated us.

58 "On the road back, do you remember when we was coming up in the bushes back there, we heard Him talking. And there was a woman marked ill-famed, and she was talking to Him. Very unusual for an honorable man to talk to a woman of that type. And we slipped up behind the bushes to find out what He would say to her. And I can just hear Him... What we all said, 'Watch Him tell her off. He'll sure tell her where she's at. He'll tell her because she's such a woman she is. I imagine He'll really scold her good.'

59 "And remember how we was all getting ready to hear Him scold her, when He said to her, 'Bring me a drink.' We thought that was strange, that our Master would associate with a person like that of low degree---our Master. Remember how we all looked astonished at one another? So we just snugged down behind the bushes to see what He would say.
"And as the conversation went on talking... And after a while they talked about religion, and so He said to her, 'Go get your husband and come here,' and she said, 'I have no husband.'
"And you remember what we all thought? That's one time we saw our Master caught in a trap. He had been wrong. 'I have no husband.' And you remember how breathless we was, brethren, all of us? Our Master has told her that she had a husband, and here she flatly denies it. 'I don't have any husband.' And we looked at each other in astonishment, how we wasn't able to sit quiet just for a moment. [That's the matter with the church today. It can't sit quiet a minute, see.]
"So, then we see our Master as He stood modestly with his head down, and looked up to her, and said, 'Woman, thou hast said the truth. Thou art truthful. You've told me the truth.' And then we wondered. Here now, He's fishing around some other way about it. He said ... first said, 'You have a husband,' and she said, 'I do not have a husband.' And now He admits that she's told the truth. Then you remember how we felt, brethren?"
All of them said, "Yes, we remember. Sit still. Don't rock the boat. We're way out here now." And so they all got all excited. "Yes, I remember that"---all of them talking.
And said, "Do you remember, then, the next words? 'Thou has said the truth, for thou has had five husbands. And the one that you're now living with is not yours.'
Then we watched the respond to the woman. And her countenance dropped, her eyes sparkled, something within her caught fire, and said, 'Sir, I perceive that you are a prophet.' We wondered how that ill-famed Samaritan cast-out woman would have the knowledge to know that this man was a prophet.

60 "And as He went on talking, she said, 'We know that Messiah when he comes, he's going to tell us these things. But who are you?'
"And He said, 'I'm he that speaks with you.' And we find that she...
"We couldn't hold our peace no more. We were so happy to see that our Master was true, and his prophecies was right, till we rang out with joy, and run up before Him. And she left the water pot and ran into the city. And you remember, all the men of the city came out there."

61 Now actually that woman was not allowed to do that. No. She ... if you know the Eastern trend, and the customs, no one would listen to her. She was an ill-famed woman. No one would pay any attention to her. She couldn't even go out there. That's the reason she was out there at eleven o'clock. She couldn't go out with the decent women. Here they're all together, but there she couldn't do it. And so, there...
But when she had met Jesus, and had got a drink out of that well, somebody's going to listen to her, whether it's lawful or not. That's the same way it is now. The person that ever gets a drink from that well, somebody's going to listen, that's all. Whether the church tells you to sit down or not, something is going to happen.

62 I think my brethren in all of our different denominations... I certainly agree with Hudson Taylor, the great missionary to India when a young Chinese boy got saved. And he come up, and he said, "Mr. Taylor, I have to take four years of psychology, and so forth, and so many years in college."
Mr. Taylor said, "Don't let a candle shine when it's half-burned. Give its light while it's just lit." That's right. The trouble of it is today, when a boy gets a call of God in his heart, filled with the Holy Ghost, and he goes off to some of these cemeteries, or seminaries, or what... Anyhow, he goes off there, and that refrigerator ... and they take out of him everything that God put in him. That's right.

63 I believe the hour has come ... I disagree with these big schools of theology building today. We're talking about the coming of the Lord right at hand, and building big schools and everything. Why, our own actions speak louder than our words. How could we be putting so much in buildings, and so forth, and great schools, and so forth, and saying the Lord's a-coming?
I say this: As soon as God lights the candle, take off. If you don't know no more, just tell them how it got lit. That's all. Let them get lit, and they'll tell somebody else, and we'll have a candle-lighting time. That's what we need anyhow, instead of so much theology. Candle-lighting! Just tell how it got lit. Just ... that's all you have to tell. Don't try to preach it---just say how it got lit. "I got filled with something that's burning me up." That's all.
Just tell about the lighting-time, how it got lit, and it'll give the light as it burns down. Let that one light another one; then he tell how it lit, and he tell how it lit. There'll be a light around here after awhile if we just tell that much.

64 Now. How that this woman... She could not hold her peace. She ran into the city. And her testimony was so stirring until they could not ignore her, so they went out. And the Bible said that the people of Sychar believed Jesus (Now, He never did that again to them), because of the woman's testimony that told her what she had done.
"You remember that, brethren? We all was amazed," said Andrew. "We all was amazed at how that those Samaritans up there... That portion of ground that Jacob had give to his son Joseph, and he had a well there, and that portion of ground had been given... And here this woman of Samaria, an unclean thing to us, and yet, she recognized it in a minute, even in her ill-fame.
"No doubt but in her little house of prostitution [that I aim to preach on in the morning, the Lord willing], that little place, she had some scrolls of God there, where that she had been reading about God, and knowed that He was to appear in that form. And how we were all shocked!"

65 And oh, I imagine the boat got to rocking again, somebody shouting and praising God! And, it might have been Peter said, "Brethren, there's forty fathoms deep here. Keep quiet."
Matthew said, "Well, you think you're going to get by without me telling something?" see, and said, "Let me tell you something. You remember that morning that we all went ahead of Him to fix the meeting down in Jericho?"
"Oh, yes," said Luke. "I remember that well."
"And we found a little businessman down there by the name of Zacchaeus, a little bitty short fellow. You remember how impudent he was, how arrogant---little hooked-nose Jew, and mean as he could be. And we told him about the Mes... 'Oh, get out!'

66 "You remember his wife, Rebekah, that was a true believer? how Jesus of Nazareth had done a great thing for her? And she said, 'I'm praying for Zacchaeus.' And we thought if we went up to the restaurant that he owned and eat, he wouldn't charge us for it. And when he found out we was disciples he made us pay double, and he said, 'Get out of here with such stuff as that! I'm a friend of Rabbi Kabinski, Lubinski, or [I hope there's not one in here like that. So anyhow, If I did, pardon me, see]...' "
"And said the next morning... Rebekah prayed all night long that... Jesus was going to visit the city, and so she thought that she wanted him to come in contact with Jesus. She had told him about Him being a prophet, and He was the prophet that Moses spoke of. But ah, he was arrogant. His hopes was on money and he didn't care nothing about no Jesus of Nazareth. But you know, when Rebekah told us she'd prayed all night long... You know, prayer changes things."

67 That's right, friends. You know prayer changes the mind of God. God sent a prophet up to a man one day and said, "Set your house in order. You're going to die."
He turned his face to the wall and prayed earnestly, and said, "Lord, I beseech you to consider me. I've walked before you with a perfect heart. I need fifteen years."
And looked like God would have spoke right back to the king---he was the biggest man in the country. But he speaks to his prophet. He told Isaiah, "Go back and tell him, I heard him and I'm going to spare his life."
Could you imagine the embarrassment of that prophet, going up once to the military men, "Oh, great prophet, what about our king?"
"Thus saith the Lord, he's going to die."
Go up to the poor people standing at the gate. "What about our prophet ... prophet, what about our king?"
"Thus saith the Lord, he's going to die."
Oh, how they was weeping. Coming right, going out, "Thus saith the Lord, he is going to die." And then, in a few minutes, here he comes back saying, "Thus saith the Lord, he's going to live. Thus saith the Lord..." What happened? Prayer changed things. Prayer changes things.

68 Notice. Then this testimony: Little old Zacchaeus that morning... When Rebekah had prayed all night, next morning he gets up real early, and he begins to groom himself, and comb out his beard, and put on his best robe, you know, and get ready to go down in the city. And Rebekah turns over, you know, and looks kind of out of one eye and said, "Uh-huh. I see. Thank You, Lord. It's going to be all right. Where goest thou this morning, my beloved husband?"
"Oh, just out for a breath of air." And he goes down to the gate, and he finds out he can't get there. There's too many there---he's too short in stature. He goes back down and gets a city garbage pail, and pushes it up against the tree, climbs up in top of the tree. Said, "I know he comes down Glory Street here, and turns down Hallelujah Avenue. [He always does that.] So I'll meet him right here on the corner. That's a good place to meet him."

69 "So you remember, brethren, how Zacchaeus told us about it?"
"Yes, we remember it."
"And he climbed up in this tree and he said, 'Now, I'm so little that when he passes by here, goes by here, he'll never ... I'll never see him, and he'll never see me. But if I get up in this tree, I'm above the whole crowd. I can look right down and see him, and I'll just about give him a piece of my mind when he passes under here.'
"And then the first thing you know, why, he happened to think. 'You know what? Rebekah said that that man was a prophet. And if he was a prophet, he might look up in this tree and see me, and I'd be embarrassed. So I'll fix him. He won't see me.' So he begin to pull the leaves in around him, and he camouflaged himself real good. He sat down in a fork of a tree there, to scrape the splinters off of him, and the garbage from the pail, you know, and so forth."

70 But you'll do ridiculous things when you want to see Jesus. There's nothing going to stand in your way. They can call them "holy rollers" or whatever they want to. If you got your mind made up to see Jesus, you'll go to see Him anyhow.
So there he was sitting up on ... where two limbs... Now, that's a good place that everybody comes to---where your way and God's way meets. And he sat on this limb, pulls brush all around him. He said, "He'll never see me." So He made himself a door---a big leaf here---so he could pull this leaf up, and look, and he could see Him coming, then drop it back. Looked all around. There was no way for Him to see him. After awhile he heard a noise.

71 You know something strange? When Jesus is around, there's a lot of noise. So he seen Him coming. He raised up this leaf, and he watched Him. But there was something about Him that looked different. He wasn't like other men. We see the big fisherman going along saying, "Step aside, brethren. I'm sorry, I can't ... we can't let you around Him. He's tired. He's been preaching most of the night. Sorry, folks. We can't..."
"And as He come by... You remember what Zacchaeus said? He had his head down. He come right and stood under the tree. And when He stopped under the tree He looked up, and He said, 'Zacchaeus, come down. I'm going home with you for dinner.'
"Oh, you remember what Zacchaeus said? That settled it. 'How did He know who I was? And how did He know I was in the tree?'"
Zacchaeus, here tonight, He knows right where you are, and what leaves you're hiding behind. Exactly right.

72 One of them might have said just a... Now, let's let Mark testify once, and then we'll close. Mark might have said, "Listen. You remember Bartimaeus, what he said? He'd been sitting there all morning, everything ... all hopes was gone. And he heard a noise coming out of the city. And he happened to remember, when he was sitting there studying, and thought, 'You know what? If I would have lived in the time of the prophets, right down this street come Elijah and Elisha, arm-in-arm, going down to cross the Jordan. If I would have lived in those days, I'd have run out there before those prophets and fell down and said, "Oh, great men of God, pray for me that I'll receive my sight." But alas, the priest tells me that the days of miracles is passed.

73 'And just think, a hundred yards from where I'm sitting, the great warrior, Joshua, was walking around one afternoon. And all at once he seen a man standing over against him with a drawed sword. Joshua pulled his sword, and run to meet him, and he said, "Are you for us, or are you for our enemy?"
'And he raised up the sword, and the zigzag lightning flew from it, and said, "I'm the Captain of the host of the Lord." And Joshua, the great warrior, threw off his helmet, laid down his sword, and fell at his feet. Just think, that was only about 150 to 200 yards from where I'm sitting.' "
Little did he know that that same chief Captain was on the road out through there then. Little does people know that same chief Captain is right in this building tonight. If it isn't so, the Bible is a misleading book. He said, "Wherever two or three are gathered I'll be in their name ... be in their midst where they are gathered in my name.

74 "He heard a noise. [Now, Mark is giving you a testimony of what he might have told him.] And all at once there came by such a noise, and somebody said, 'Who passes by?' Some of them said one thing and another, and the first thing you know, we heard a priest cry out, and said, 'Say, we understand that you raise the dead. We got a whole graveyard full of them up here. Come up here and raise one of these.' "
You know, that old devil isn't dead yet. No, sir. "If thou be..." Same one put a rag around his face, and hit Him on the head with a stick, and said, "If you're a prophet, tell us who hit you. We'll believe you." See? That same old devil that said "If thou be the Son of God, we got somebody down ... perform this miracle. Let us see you do it." God don't clown for nobody.
Jesus said, "I come to do the will of him, and I do nothing till he tells me first." (St. John 5:19)

75 "So poor old blind Bartimaeus was pushed back. We heard all... One for him---one saying, 'Hosanna to the prophet that comes in the name of the Lord!' And another saying, 'Away with such a hypocrite!' Such a mixed crowd." There's always a mixed multitude where He's at. And we find out poor old blind Bartimaeus, if you ever was at Jericho and mark where he sat, to where Jesus was---two hundred yards almost. There ... that crowd, throwing overripe fruit at Him, and so forth, making fun of Him.
But his precious face was set towards Calvary. He was going up to be a sacrifice for the world, the whole burden of sin laid upon Him. God had placed upon Him the iniquity of us all. He was walking on, not paying any attention to what they said. But He'd perform what the Father had told Him to do, and that settled it.
And He was going on out of Jericho, walking out of the city. And the first thing you know, blind Bartimaeus said, "Who is it? Who is it? What's all the noise about?"
And somebody pushed him back. "Oh, shut up! You're an insignificant person," push him back, his old rags. He got up out of the dust.

76 There must have been a lovely Christian woman who was a believer on the Lord Jesus. They would never stand to see a blind man pushed around. They are always kind, Jesus' servants are. So this young woman might have got down and said, 'Sir, could I help you?'
And 'Yes, ma'am. I want you to tell me, what's all the noise about?'
'Oh, art thou a stranger here?'
'No, I was raised here.'
'Well, that's Jesus of Nazareth, the prophet of Galilee.'
'I do not understand.'
'Does thou know the Scriptures?'
'Yes.'
'You know that Jesus of Nazareth, a prophet that Moses said would be raised up, He's passing by. That's Him.'

77 Then all of a sudden Bartimaeus, it dawned on him. 'He's too far away for me to let Him hear me physically, on account of so many people. But if He is God, if that's the Son of David, I can still touch Him.' He might've fell on his knees, and said, 'O God, hear me! Thou Son of David have mercy upon me.' [He would have never heard it literally with his ears, but the faith of that one blind beggar stopped Jesus. I'd like to preach one day, or some time before I leave "And Jesus Stood Still."] And He stood still. And He didn't know ... What was it? His faith stopped Him, and then He brought him."
Oh, what a testimony meeting! They got to looking around, it was getting late. Said, "Brethren, we better pull on to the bank." So they started to pull again.

78 You know what? The devil seen them out there without Him, and he looked up over top of the hill and he said, "There they have gone off without him, and now is my opportunity."
Now I say this with love, brethren, see. I wonder if that isn't the situation tonight. Since the revival has been on, the great prosperity of the church, we've built new buildings, we've been in big programs, we've done everything big that could be done; and trying to compare with the Lutheran, Methodist and Catholic, getting more members in all the time. I wonder if our big program ... if we haven't went off without Him in our excitement.
They were so excited they didn't constrain Him. They went off without Him, and that's the devil's opportunity to start on a man. So he come down with all of his force. He said, "I've got them now without him, so I'll sink them out there on that sea." And he began to blow his breath out of the skies.

79 And he's begin to blow it again. "The days of miracles is passed. It's all emotion. It's all fanaticism. It's all this, that, or the other."
And the little boats are rocking hard, you know, without a sail. The boat become waterlogged, the oars broke, the mast pole of the tent broke in two, and the winds had whipped it, and tossed it around. Looked like all hopes was gone that they'd ever be saved. But you know what? When He sent them away, you know what He did? He climbed the highest mountain there was out there. The higher you go, the further you can see. So He climbed up on the mountain so He could watch them.

80 And when He died at Calvary, and He commissioned his disciples to go into all the world, and "these signs shall follow them that believe," He climbed from Calvary to past the sun, moon, and stars---plumb on up past the Milky White Way. He went till He passed heaven. The Bible said He sits even above heaven, looks down upon heaven. He got there so He could see all over the universe. And his eye is on the sparrow, and I know He's watching tonight.
No matter how much tossed about we seem to be, how many oars is broke, how much all hope is gone, He's still watching. "I'll never leave thee or forsake thee."

81 Oh, in that time of crisis, the revival was over, and the boat was waterlogged, and looked like everything was gone, all hopes was gone. And here He come walking to them on the sea. Walking upon the sea. Strange---walking on the sea. And the strange part about it: the only thing that could help them, they was afraid of it. It looked spooky, looked like a spirit. And they cried out for fear.
That's the same thing today. The only thing that can save us is the Bible, and God's promise, and the Holy Spirit with us. It looks spooky to people, and they cry out for fear. But here come that sweet, calm little voice: "Be not afraid. It is I."

82 And I believe, tonight, if He could walk in upon this meeting tonight, performing his miracles, and you wonder what takes place---"What does that? What kind of a trick is it? Is it some telepathy? What is it?---He'd scream back to you, "Be not afraid. Be of a good cheer. It's I," fulfilling the promise that He said He would do.
But the very thing that could help them, and the only thing could help them, they was afraid of it.
And today, it's the same thing. They're afraid to take a hold of the Holy Spirit. They're afraid to believe God's message. They're afraid to believe the Holy Spirit when they see it working among them. They'll say, "Now, wait a minute. I don't know whether it could be for me or not." It's for whosoever will. Healing's for everybody.
Salvation is for whosoever will come---anybody. "Be not afraid. It is I." It's Christ. He is not dead; He's alive for evermore, and has the keys of death and hell. And there's nothing can harm. Do you believe that? God remains God. If He ever was God, He's still God. Do you believe that? Amen.

83 I've kept you late every night. I'm not going to do it now. How many in here that does not have a prayer card, that doesn't know me or I don't know you, and you're willing to say that "I believe that message is the truth, and Jesus Christ is in the midst of us."? Raise up your hands, wherever you are. Now, may the God of heaven come walking in on the troubled sea. When you're wondering, "How am I'm going to get a prayer card? How am I going to get prayed for...?"
It isn't... You might ... I might pray for you and lay hands on you, the brethren might pray. We're men. That's not the person to touch, though. We're men in sympathy for you; but the one to touch is Him. That's the one---touch Him. And if somebody else can touch Him, surely you can, for He's touchable.

84 The Bible said that He's the same yesterday, today, and forever. The Bible said He's the high priest right now, that can be touched by the feeling of our infirmities. Well, if He is the same high priest, He'd act the same way that He did when somebody touched Him in that day with faith. How many that day with the woman with the blood issue ... how many was touching Him, putting their arms around Him saying, "Rabbi, we're glad to see you, sir," so forth like that? And He stopped and He said, "Somebody touched me."
And Peter rebuked Him, as if to say, "Master, do you know that's a discredit to your standards, you asking who touched you---when everybody's got their hands on you, touching you?"

85 He said, "Yes, but this is a different kind of touch, see. I got weak. Strength went out of me." And He looked all around over the audience, and He found the little woman. Oh! And what did He say to her about her blood issue? "Thy faith has saved thee." If that was Jesus yesterday, that's Jesus today.
And brother, sister, let me ask you something. Now, you will not see Jesus in a corporal body until He comes for his church. But everything that He was ... all that God was He poured into Jesus. And all Jesus was He poured into the church. He's the same. He's in the church, the believers. Now, if a man come here, as I said the other night, with nail scars and thorn marks on his head, that could be a deceiver. But when you see the very life of Christ produced... John 14:12, He said, "He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; more than this shall he do; for I go to my Father."

86 But it seems to be that some people think that men who pack these gifts of ministers should be some great priest, some great scholar. I've got my first one to ever read in history that God ever used like that. Tell me where's he at, and when it happened. God always takes the nothing, so that He can show his glory in nothing.
Look what He chose: fishermen, illiterate, ignorant, that He might manifest Himself. You might say to me about Paul. Paul said he had to forget everything he ever knowed to know Christ, died daily that He might know Christ. And he said, "I never [told the Corinthians] ... I never come to you with great educational words, and smart, like educated men, because your faith would be built in such. But I come to you in the power of the Spirit, that your faith would be in Christ, in the Spirit."
God takes men of anybody He desires to take---nothing, that He might manifest Himself. That's what makes Him God. It ain't the man then; it's God working in the something that's nothing---proving that it's God. If the man was something, you could look at the man. But if the man is nothing, then it has to be God. And in this case, there's no man could do it. It has to be God ... is to fulfill his promise. Now we know that.

87 And friend, stop just a minute. Shake your memory. Shake the part ... blow the dust off of the promises of God, and see if we're not promised this in the last days. Now, He is appearing among his people, and He's here tonight. And no matter how much He would anoint me, He's got to anoint you the same way. It's your faith---not mine. It's your faith that does the things, not mine at all. I'm just an instrument, and you're just an instrument, that if some people...
Now, if this strikes someone with a prayer card that's going to be prayed for, I don't mean it that way. But I want to ask you something. Many of you out there ... I don't see a person but those that I introduced, and I don't ... I didn't see them even.

88 I missed one---Brother and Sister Dauch, sitting over here, all the way from up in Ohio come down here. Wish I had time to give their testimony---how a man ninety years old would brave them things, and he'd follow us wherever we'd go (that's right), because he believes; and how that their testimony would alarm you.
But outside of Brother and Sister Dauch sitting there, and I believe Brother and Sister Simpson... Now Sothmanns and them's back in there somewhere, but I don't know. I don't know no one, Brother Roberson, and I don't even know what the chairman's name is. That's the truth. I couldn't tell you his name right now if I had to. I don't know. I've heard it, but I don't know.

89 And all through the day... Today I took my little son Joseph. We went to the seashore, and I backed up the car in a little cove. And I said, "Joseph, play out there. I must go up here in the cove, and while..." I said, "God, you take care of my son there, that he don't get in those waves." I went up to talk to Him.
I'm not an isolationist. But you can't be a servant of God, and a servant of the public. You can't ... out, and parties and carrying on like that, and still expect to remain... You've got to keep yourself to God, so that you can help the public. And that's what I'm here for, is to help you. I didn't come here for popularity. Why, you knowed I shun such stuff. And I know I'm nothing.

90 I didn't come here for money. Why, certainly not. I didn't come here because I had no other places to go. I come here because I felt led to come here. I got six hundred or more invitations from overseas and things, the Christian Businessmen from everywhere---chapters to be organized worldwide, way's paid, everything. I don't have to have money. Everywhere I go, they just pay. The Businessmen want to send me somewhere, they sometimes spend thirty, forty thousand dollars a year sending me places, and I don't have to have a penny.
If I want to ... God sends me where there's just five or six people, I can go, stay till He tells me to leave, see. I'm not under obligation, only to God. Then I must find out, "Father, what am I doing here? What do you want me here?"
Jesus went up to Sychar. He was on his road to Jericho. Why? Father just sent Him up there. Now, what's to happen next? Here come a woman out, so He just talked to the woman. He found out what it was, and the whole city believed on Him.

91 Now, He's here tonight. And you believe it. Don't you doubt. You believe in your heart that Jesus Christ is the Son of God, and He was raised up from the dead and ascended on high, after being persecuted and crucified by Pontius Pilate---and buried dead in the grave three days, and rose and ascended on high, and sits at the right hand of the Majesty to God.
Tonight He's the living high priest, ever living to make intercessions upon our confession; and a high priest that can be touched by the feeling of our infirmities---the same yesterday, today, and forever, with every promise and things that He did to be reproduced again in the church. After the Roman cankerworms and palmerworms eat it down. He promised He would restore, saith the Lord, in the last days. He would restore it right back again, that bride tree.

92 He was the tree, the tree of life from the garden of Eden---which, the woman was the tree of death, the perversion. That's what makes them act the way they do today. The whole thing's been a perversion acting that way. So hard to come up against it, but you must stand. Somebody's got to say it. Certainly. Be a lot more popular if you didn't say it; but who's going to say it? Somebody's got to say something about it, 'cause God who... Then it's going to be... They're responsible then at the day of the judgment. But if they didn't... If they heard it and ignored it, that's up to them. Now, if you hear it, walk in it!

93 Now. May the Holy Ghost, of whom I represent here tonight amongst the body of Christ, may He take every fear and doubt away from you. May He come down here tonight, just as He did that night upon the sea and say, "Fear not. It's me, the same yesterday, today, and forever."
How appropriate that sign was. I didn't know it was there till last night. They printed it up there. He is the same yesterday, today, and forever. Now you believe it with all your heart.

94 I want to ask you something. If He'll do it at least... One time ought to be enough, but two times---one or two times in this building tonight... And we're not out... It's not like some black magic under some Ouija board somewhere. We are right here under the lights of this tabernacle. We're right here under the ... everything laying open here in the presence of God and the face of this company, with God's Bible here declaring it will happen. There's where my faith stands---right there, that He said it. He promised it, and I know He'll do it.

95 That angel, when He met me that night up there (and that light circling through there), and He told me those things and said, "Don't be afraid. It'll come to pass this, and then it'll come to pass that..." Many of you remembers when it was prophesied. Here it is. I'm telling you the truth. Christ is here, and you're already healed, every one of you. Everybody's saved, but you've got to accept it for it to do anything for you. You've got to believe it, and take it in your own... "It's for me." The price is paid. You just have to believe it.
Now, if He would do it, how many in here would say, "By God's grace and help, I'll accept it tonight, both for my Saviour and my healer."? Raise up your hands, and say, "God, I mean it from the bottom of my heart. I'll do it." God bless you. Looks like 100% around everywhere. "I do it. Now, I've got difficults. You know I've got that, and I'm fighting hard against it." But God will reward that. Just don't you worry about that. Always has been.

96 I remember here not long ago a guy come, hired by the army, come over to hypnotize me. You remember the meeting. He sat out there, and I kept feeling an odd spirit somewhere. I tried to ignore it, because so many things has been done---evil. I just never said nothing, went on for a little bit. He just kept on doing it. He'd go in the army camps, and make boys bark like a dog, and run around on the...
The Holy Spirit just took me. I couldn't say no more. Said, "You child of the devil! Why have you come to interrupt the meeting of the Lord? God will deal with you." And he's been paralyzed ever since, so... He sent letter after letter, and said this, that, and the other; and I said, "I have nothing to do with it, sir. I never did it. Repent. It's the only thing I can tell you. That's up between you and God."

97 Now I take every spirit in here under the control of the Holy Spirit which is anointing me now, in the name of Jesus Christ. Let the glory of God shine through, and prove, no matter what I say. I can lie, I'm a man; but God can't lie, who promised it.
Just be in prayer. Just say, "Lord Jesus, the man doesn't know me. But we are told that you're going to send us... I've been here night after night, and I've searched the Scriptures. It's exactly the truth. And it's the last sign that we're going to receive from God till the fire falls, just like it was in Sodom that Jesus promised, and said we're ... that's our last thing, last sign." And that's the truth. You just mark my word in your book somewhere, and find out if that's the truth.
Look in '46, what it said about Billy Graham returning, and the rest of them and so forth, the revival, and what would happen. Denominational seeds have been sowed, and that's what the crop would be. And that's exactly what it is.

98 Sit real quiet. Each one of you is a spirit. When you move... Of course, if you're not a spirit, then you're dead. The spirit that motivates your life, pulsation from the spirit, is exactly what Jesus was speaking of about of the woman; when He seen the Pharisees, and perceived what was in their heart, and could tell them. They was thinking He was Beelzebub. Both classes is always near, always gathered together.
Here sits a woman over here to my right, praying. She's praying because she's got a tumor on her back. You have a prayer card? You don't. You don't need one. Are we strangers to one another? We are strangers. Raise up your hands so the people can see. Is that your trouble? All right. You believe God, the thing will go away. Amen. I don't know her, I've never seen her. God knows that.

99 Here's a little woman sitting right out here, kind of a greenish-looking dress on, her head down, praying. She's got kidney trouble. If you believe with all your heart, sister, God will heal you of the kidney trouble. You accept it? Have you got a prayer card? You have ... have you? You don't need one. Your kidney trouble left you. I challenge any unbeliever to tell me what that woman touched. She never touched me, but she touched that high priest that can be touched by the feeling of our infirmities. If you believe with all your heart... Amen.

100 Now it's beginning to move everywhere. That blackness has begin to move back. It was pretty deep around here for a minute, but it's moving back. Here sits a woman in front of me, suffering with allergies. I don't know you, lady, but you've got allergies, haven't you? You believe that God knows who you are? If I'd speak your name like Jesus told Simon Peter, would you believe me to be his servant? You would? Mrs. Holt, believe with all your heart, and go home and be well.

101 Do you believe? Watch. Look ... can't you see that light? Look here, it's right over a man looking right towards me, sitting right back here. He's praying for a wife. That's you, sir. Do you have a prayer card? You don't. Stand up on your feet.
If something isn't done for his wife right away, she'll die. She suffers with cancer. That's right. You're not from here. You're from away from here. You're from a city called Fresno. That's right. You believe God could tell me who you are? Would it help you to believe? Would it help you? Mr. Matthew, believe with all your heart, go back home.

102 I challenge any unbeliever to tell me how that's done, outside of the power of Almighty God. Do you believe it? Well, don't be afraid. That's Christ, just exactly what He said. Now do you believe it? Now, I commend you to Christ who is present here. If you will believe it with all your heart and accept it on those grounds, you can be healed. You are healed right now. How many believes it with all your heart, without any further ... for salvation, for your healing, your physical being, and will believe God the rest of your life? and you'll accept Him right now? His presence ... it's Him, the only thing that can help you. Believe it and stand on your feet.
Say, "I stand up right now in the name of Jesus Christ, to accept it." Every person that believes, stand to your feet.

103 Lay your hands over on one another now. Lay your hands on each other. The Bible said, "...these signs shall follow them that believe." Being that you have become a believer... If you are a believer now, the Bible said, "...these signs shall follow them that believe. If they lay their hands on the sick they shall recover." Just exactly like repenting, and being baptized. It's obeying a commandment of God. Now pray for one another, just the way you pray in your church. Pray for one another, while I pray for you from this platform.

104 Heavenly Father, I have did all of this at your command. I have did it just the way You said do it. And I pray Thee, heavenly Father, that in the name of Jesus Christ, that You will honor the prayers of these people, their faith, their efforts.
Satan, you have lost the battle. You are a defeated being. Come out of this people. In the name of Jesus Christ, leave them, and go out of them.
And be healed every one.