Faith

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1 Thank you, brother. Shall we pray while you remain standing just a moment.
Our heavenly Father, we thank Thee tonight that the Lord Jesus has made it possible for us to assemble together again. And realizing that this may be our last time this side of eternity, and we thank Thee that Thou has given us this opportunity. We pray that Your blessings will shower us tonight and lay the blessings upon us just like the showers falling from heaven. Grant it, Lord.
Forgive us of our shortcomings, all of the things that we've did that's wrong, even our wrong thoughts. We pray that You will forgive us, and our motives, if they're not just according to Thy Word and Thy will, forgive us, Lord, and let us act only in Thy will.

2 Grant a great service tonight, Father. We pray that there will not be a feeble person among us when this service is closed tonight. May everyone look to Calvary and receive their redemptive blessings that Jesus purchased there for us in the cross. We pray that You'll grant this.
Bless all the ministers. Give them a great encouragement, Lord, the shepherds that's over the flocks, and we pray that You'll grant these things through Jesus' name. Amen. May be seated.

3 The Lord be merciful to each of you tonight as we assemble to serve the Lord Jesus. I was told that the Christian Businessmen's breakfast is tomorrow morning. I wonder if Mr. Arganbright has arrived yet. If he's in the building, anyone know if Mr. Arganbright is here? I was looking for him or Mr. Moore for in the morning, the reason I asked that.
Now, I'm so sorry we have such a little short stay. This time was just merely to become acquainted with each other and expecting someday to visit the Carolinas in a tent service. The Lord has given me a vision of having a tent, and always my services last anywhere from about ... oh, perhaps from three nights up to five, ten nights at the most. I like to stay for four, five, six weeks, where we could just really have a... Thank you. And in that way we could set up a year ahead so you get all the ministers not having revivals. And I like a real good feeling among ministers. I just love that, because being a shepherd myself, I know what it means.

4 And then, maybe some brother come to town that we've set a revival, and you've already got the evangelist coming and things, you know kind of... You'd like to have it so you could go, but you're just under obligation to your word. So I hope in my coming meetings that someone will come ahead and set the meeting all up many, many months ahead, so all the brethren can be together, and we can have great fellowship one with another. And have not only the night service, but have an afternoon Bible class of teaching. I just love that.
And then we'll try then to also have our service on Sunday afternoon, so that each person can go back to their churches for that evening. And then, so the converts can have a place to go, and the pastors at the platform to represent the different churches, denominations.

5 We're just looking forward for a great time in the Lord, and with your prayers I'm sure that we will do the best we can for the glory of God. Prayer changes things. Prayer changes death to life. Prayer changes sickness to health, changes sinners to saints. It's prayer. You may laugh too much. You may shout too much. You may eat too much. But you'll never pray too much. The Bible said, "I would that men pray everywhere, lifting up holy hands." So you'll never be able to pray too much.
Now, I was noticing here Brother Osborn's book, the Evangelist T. L. Osborn. He is another bosom friend of mine, along with Brother Roberts and many of the other outstanding ministers of the day. I've had privilege of meeting many of them.

6 Brother Jack Coe. I know you all heard of him. He just had a little trouble down in Florida. Brother Jack Coe is a wonderful person. He certainly is. And I remember Brother Coe first time he come to my meeting. Talk about a little skeptic, he was, and little old skinny fellow, but he sure out-growed that now. And so he come to the meeting, and oh, he was just going to tear it apart. So, he tells it in one of his stories.
I was reading some of his literature, where he went outside. He said, "Now, that thing of telling people what's wrong with them and things, I don't believe that." So a lady was passing by, you know, said, "Tell me what's wrong with her."
I said, "What's you so skeptic about?" And I told him what the lady had there as the Lord showed me.
He said, "Well, that's the truth."

7 So, the next night coming down through a place. I believe it was down in San Antonio, Texas. And we were going out the side of the auditorium, and here stood this little old boy standing out there again, head back. And he said, "I want to speak to you a minute."
I said, "Look, sir. What's you so skeptic... What you following me around like that for?" I said, "Now, it's going to come to pass that you're going to have a ministry similar to this, so what you fighting about?" And that's just what happened.

8 I remember O. L. Jaggers. The hardest person I ever had to shake away from me was O. L. Jaggers. I didn't want to shake him away from me, but he was so skeptic. Oh, my. He was beating it down, and all the time I knew he believed it in his heart, but he just wanted to see what I was... So he, Brother O. L. Jaggers, he's a bosom friend, a very fine man. And Tommy Osborn, he was there.
You reading the life story. How many's read the book of my life story? We have just a few of them. I don't sell books. I'm not a book salesman. These books are not mine. Someone wrote them, and I buy them at forty cents less than what I sell them here at, and then I have to haul them and everything. If it's money, I'll lose on them. And I'll give the ushers and so forth orders: If some poor brother, sister comes by and wants one and hasn't got the money to pay for it, give it to him anyhow (See?), and so something will take place. It's always come out some way. It still will. The thing is to get the message to the people.

9 Show you the good it does. Today I was ... last night, rather, I was handed a letter. The woman may be here tonight. At this last meeting down here; and 'course, I don't know what goes on when that visions are... It's another world, friends.
And only way I know (See?), I've got a boy sitting here with a tape recorder, and if anybody... You have to watch now what it tells you. The vision doesn't heal you, but when you hear it move out, and tell you what the future is, and say, "Thus saith the Lord," then you mark that right down. Find out if that isn't just right. It'll never fail. And so then, that's how we keep these recordings, and we know just exactly what everything was said. And you check them, and double check them, and there never has been one time but what everything happened just that way. It always will, because it's God, see.

10 And I remember Mr. Osborn came in; I believe it was up in Oregon---Portland, Oregon. It was about sixty-five hundred people inside and pretty near that many outside. I was the only one on the field in that day, and there was... Oh, there was a lot of tinsel on the meetings, you know. You know what I mean. So I remember...
I believe he and his wife (how the story goes), he was sitting up, and there was a maniac ran from the platform and run up on there, and about three hundred ministers shrunk back. And the man weighed about two-seventy. I never seen such a giant, great big brawny arms, and he run to the platform. And I was speaking on faith. And in them days I weighed a hundred and twenty-eight pounds. And I was looking out over the audience, and this man run to the platform.
I seen him coming down the aisle, just a snorting real loud and swinging his arms, and... Well, I thought that maybe it's somebody hurrying to do something. I never thought nothing about it, and all the ministers begin to run backwards. In a few minutes this fellow ran to the platform, and he put his hands on his hips, and he said, "You snake-in-the-grass..."
I looked around and I thought, Well, poor fellow (See?), there's something wrong with him. And you could tell there was something wrong. He was out of a insane institution. Little did I know that the police was after him. He'd just broke a preacher's jawbone and collar that day. He had a name for hurting preachers, and he was just out of a insane institution, and so they warranted after him. And he'd hit a preacher standing on the street holding a street meeting, and broke his collar bone and his jaw, and got away.

11 And just as I run out two little police that I'd met in the dressing room and had led them both to Christ: one of their mothers was healed the night before in the meeting, and both those fine little officers bowed their head there on their knees and surrendered their lives to Christ---finest little fellows. I heard from one of them not long ago. Both of them still holding on to God. They got acquainted with my friend, Captain Al Ferrar, there at the FBI, the... Was one of my other converts, too, that come in. Led him to Christ down in a shooting gallery, in the place.
So then, this little fellows run out on the platform to grab him, and I seen that this wasn't a flesh and blood affair, so I said, "This isn't flesh and blood, brother." And the nicest little fellows just stepped back. He started walking up to me real slow with his hands out like this, and you could hear a pin drop anywhere it was so quiet.
He said, "You low-down hypocrite." Said, "You snake-in-the-grass. Up here and posing yourself as a man of God." He said, "Tonight I'll break every bone in that measly little frame of yours." Said, "I'll knock you way out into the middle of the audience like that."

12 He was plenty able to take care of his boast; I had to look up to see the man, he was so big. And he come with his teeth set together like that, and his fist clenched. He started walking up towards me. Well, you better know what you're talking about. That's right. You're not fooling with flesh and blood now. The Lord sent me. The thing of it is: It's not me; it has to be Him. If He sent, then He'll take care of what He sent.
So, I said, "What's the matter?"
He said, "Don't talk to me." He drew back his fist. Said, "I'll break every bone in your body."

13 And when I looked at the man, I heard myself talking. I don't know whether... It may sound crazy, but it was the Holy Spirit speaking. The Bible said, "Take no thought what you shall say. It'll be added then." And it said, "Because that you have defied the Spirit of God, tonight you will fall over my feet."
He said, "I'll show you whose feet I'll fall over."
And he drew his great big arm back and started to hit me like that, and I said, "Satan, come out of the man (just about like that) in the name of the Lord Jesus."
And he had his arm back like that to strike, and he started going, "Ooo-Ooo," and his eyes rolled back. He started going around and around like that, and fell down, till he just laid across my feet, and I couldn't move any way. So there, both had made a challenge---the Spirit of God and the spirit was in him. Both of them made a challenge, so then something had to happen. The audience was waiting, and the fellow...
And the policeman said, "Is that man dead?"
I said, "No, sir."
Said, "Is he healed?"
I said, "No, sir. He worships that spirit. He won't give it up (See?), but would you move him off of my feet?" So when they got over there, I just turned around to the audience. I said, "As I was saying, faith is the substance of things hoped for," and a man sitting in a wheelchair just raised up, and a lady on the stretcher and there was no... Everything in there was healed right there, and they just packed them away. And the next morning was great big truck going down the street, people singing "Only Believe," walking behind this big truck full of stretchers and wheelchairs and everything.
What was it? The chief of that tribe of demons had made the challenge and lost it, you see. And that's when the Spirit of God struck the building, and everything was healed.

14 Tommy Osborn was sitting up in the balcony to see that; he went home and nailed himself in a room for three days and prayed. About two months after that, I was sitting at the porch one day, and a little fellow come up... If you ever knowed Brother Osborn. And he's a fine little fellow. So nervous he couldn't stand still, going around his car, him and his wife. He said, "Brother Branham," said, "I seen that." He said, "Oh," (from a pastor of a little church), he said, "but I believe that God is moving."
I said, "Yes, sir. He is."
Said, "Do you think I have a gift of healing?"
I said, "I'd forget it, Brother Osborn." I said, "There'd be so much fanaticism tacked to that after a while till everything that goes out has to have the gift of healing." I said, "Look. You're a minister, aren't you?"
"Oh, yes. God called me to be a minister."
I said, "That's all right. Every minister that's called is called to pray for the sick too, every minister." And I said, "What I'd do is sit up there under that old oak tree and learn all the tactics of divine healing by the Word."
And he said, "What old oak tree?"
I said, "That one that's bald-headed up there on the porch, old Dr. F. F. Bosworth. I believe he knows more about Scriptural basis of divine healing than any man I know of in my life.

15 He went with Brother Bosworth for about two years, and when I was making my first trip to Africa (I suppose it's been about four years ago), he was... I was in that big arena there in New York where they wrestle at, and the place was packed out, and they had movie cameras setting their headlights and everything down. I was kind of behind the stage, and they started sing "Only Believe," and I looked standing over behind the stage, and there stood little Osborn standing over there. He seen me. He started crying. I run over and put my arms around him. I said, "Well, bless your little heart." He just cried like a baby.
He said, "Brother Branham, I flew up here to tell you good-bye. I know you're leaving in the morning."
I said, "Well ... so glad." I said, "Brother Osborn, I've heard of your great work for the Lord," I said, "out in the islands," and what all he's done. I said, "I guess you're just wore out."
He said, "Me wore out?" He said, "I ain't done nothing to be wore out about." He said, "I don't have any discernment and have to go through all that punishment." He said, "You know what? I just stand there, and take the Word, and tie Satan in such a knot till he just can't get out of it, then pray for the people and stand back and rejoice while they're all testifying by the hundreds."
I said, "Well, that's wonderful. I wish I could do that."

16 He said, "Brother Branham," he said, "I'm glad I sat under that old oak tree."
I said, "Do you know, it's still sitting out there." I said, "He's going to Africa with me." Brother Bosworth was right there at the time.
Oh, such a lovely brother, Brother Tommy Osborn, and I'm sure you're reading his little book. It's the first time I ever had the privilege to say a word about his book. I just happened to see it laying here. You'll certainly enjoy it, everything. Because he's a scholar, diplomat, Christian brother. Oh, he's just a fine fellow.

17 And now, the Lord be merciful to us as we study His Word together. I was thinking tonight instead of... How many was here last night? Let's see your hands. Oh, that's fine. All right. You could help somebody else if you hear someone criticizing in the meeting of the tactics of how the meeting operates through the Holy Spirit.
And I thought tonight, I would talk on faith for a little while, just build up on Christian faith. I find out that one of the greatest hindrance that the church has got today, is that they're scared to death. What are you scared about? That's what I'm wondering. If you'll just only realize that who you are... You don't know who you are. You don't know who that is sitting next to you.
Oh, you say, "Yeah, that's my neighbor. I know. I know him all right." But he's a son of God (See? That's right.), adopted by Jesus Christ into the family. That's a daughter of God sitting next to you. And who are you? If you're a Christian believer, you're a son or daughter of God. What you scared about? No need of being scared. As long as the devil can keep you scared (That's all he wants to do.), he's got you right then.
When Jesus rose, said, "Fear not, I am He that was dead and is alive forevermore and have the keys of death and hell." That's right.

18 Now, I want to read a text here tonight out of the Bible, if the Lord willing. And we'll talk just a little while on it and then start the prayer line, praying for the sick.
And I believe there's a ministerial breakfast... No, it's a Christian Businessmen's breakfast in the morning, and I think they know where it's at, perhaps have already announced it.
In the book of Genesis we wish to read some of God's Word in the 22nd chapter of Genesis, and beginning with the 7th and 8th verse and then the 14th verse inclusive. We read this:
And Isaac spake unto his father, Abraham, and said, My father: and he said, Here I am, my son. And he said, Behold ... the wood: but where is the lamb for the burnt-offering?
And Abraham said, My son, God will provide himself a lamb for the burnt offering: so they both went together.
[Fourteenth verse.] And Abraham called the name of the place Jehovah-jireh: as it is said to this day, In the mount of the Lord it shall be seen.
Now may He add His blessings to His Word, the reading of His Word.

19 The reason I like to read His Word is because I know that you're going to get something by coming here if you only receive that Word. For my word will fail, and every other man's word will fail, but God's Word cannot fail. And faith cometh by hearing, and hearing the Word of God.
Now, we'll have to go back a little while tonight to get the context of this text: Jehovah-jireh. God appeared to mankind in seven compound redemptive names, and in those redemptive names He represented Himself to the human race, for everything that we have need of while we're in this journey and in our fallen state from glory.
He appeared in these redemptive names as Jehovah-jireh, "the Lord will provide Himself a sacrifice"; Jehovah-rapha, "the Lord that healeth thee"; "Jehovah, thy banner"; and Jehovah... Seven different compound redemptive names that He appeared in.

20 Now, speaking maybe tonight on this redemptive name, tomorrow night we may take Jehovah-jireh. And now they're inseparable. What He appeared as God to the human race in the beginning, He has to continue on under those names and under that provision. If He didn't, He certainly told something was wrong when He appeared to the human race and said that's what He was. And look what you'd make God then: just a man. You'd make Him a liar. And if the redemptive names did not apply to Jesus, then He isn't the Saviour. And if all these redemptive names was in Jesus, well, then He's the same yesterday, today, and forever. And so there's no way out of it. And you can't ... they're inseparable.
If Jehovah appeared as Jehovah that will provide the sacrifice, then He appeared Jehovah that will heal, Jehovah that is our banner, Jehovah that is our shield, Jehovah that is our strength. And Jehovah is our praise, and all these different names that He appeared in, He has to remain that, because He introduced Himself to the human race by those names. You see it?

21 Now, this old man and his young son standing upon the mount, ready to be offered: a very beautiful type of Christ and God. Isaac was a type of Christ.
Now, to get something about his life, let's go back at the beginning and find out: what pictured this up here on the hill. We'll get the context to get to our text, and we go back and find out that God called Abraham by... In Genesis the 12th chapter, by sovereign grace He called Abraham, not because Abraham was any better than anyone else, but because God by foreknowledge and election called Abraham; and that's the way He called you. The Bible said so.
Notice. Not because Abraham was good. He come from his father Terah which means "delay." And they come down from Babylon, perhaps idolaters, from Nimrod who first built Babylon and caused it to be a confederation, and all the people had to flock into it.

22 Babylon appears in the beginning. It appears in the middle of the Bible, and it appears in the last of the Bible. And everything that we've got here today began in Genesis. Genesis is the seed book, or the crop book, where God planted first, and Satan planted tares. And it all comes down as vines growing up, and today we're at the harvest time of the whole thing. But every cult that we got on earth today, with time and historians, like Hislop's "Two Babylons," Josephus, and many of the early writers... We could go back there and prove every cult with every action that it's got, began in Genesis, and the church of the living God began in Genesis.
So the vines are growing right up, but by their fruits you know what they are, by what they produce. Maybe, Lord willing, I'll speak on it one night before we leave: the true and false vine.

23 Notice then, Abraham called by election, and God giving him the covenant of grace unconditionally. You know, when God makes a covenant with man, man breaks his covenant. You make a promise to God, nine times out of ten you'll not do it. When God made a covenant with man in the garden of Eden: "This you do and if you do this..." There's an "if" in it. Man turned right back around it and broke his covenant with God. God was determined to save man. So instead of saying "if," He was no "if" to Abraham: "I have." You see the assurance? "You'll come to me in an old age. I've already settled it. Not 'If you'll do anything.' I've already done it." Then it's got to be sure.
Not, "Abraham, if you backslide ... or, Abraham, if you'll keep My Word, Abraham, if you'll do this or you'll do that." God said, "I have already done it."

24 Oh, you say, "I'd like to be Abraham. Oh, Brother Branham, if I had that assurance, then I would certainly rest perfectly quiet." Why, you've got the same assurance and the same covenant. The covenant was not only to Abraham only, but to his seed after him. Amen. If you begin to see that, then divine healing becomes easy. Any other promise that God has given becomes easy when you see that it's not you, it's God. God has give the promise, so then you don't get restless.
As I said here down ... I believe it was Spindale or somewhere, maybe Columbia, or one of the meetings along here in Carolina. It was just before I got here. But I woke up one night with the best sermon on my heart, and I didn't have no one to preach to, so I just woke my wife up and preached to her, and she went to sleep.

25 And I was preaching to her on the Christian's rest. When you've come to Christ, everything's settled. "Come unto Me all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest." It's settled. It's all over. Christ has done paid the price. Everything you have to do is just rest. Let down. Quit jumping around, getting all disturbed, place to place and denominations, packing your letter from the Methodist to the Baptist. Put it in heaven once and leave it there, see. Don't be disturbed. Let God...
Just come to Him and rest. If He's Jehovah-jireh, rest on it. If He's Jehovah-rapha, rest on it. If He's the Lord that saves us by grace, rest on it. If He's the Lord who heals us by grace, rest on it. If He's the God that's coming from heaven with ten thousands of His saints, rest on it. If the dead in Christ shall rise first, rest on it. Everything, rest. Oh, my. I feel pretty religious right now. Oh, resting, not jumping about from pillar to post and carried about with every wind of doctrine, but resting on what God said.

26 Every promise in the book is yours. Every "amen" and "yea" is yours. What you got to be worried about? Even old age, it shouldn't have a thing to do with it. Sickness has nothing to do with it. God promised, and God has to keep His promise. See what we're trying to do is get the scare away from you.
"Oh," you say, "I'm afraid the neighbors..." Well, then, you ought to come to Christ. You wouldn't go at your neighbor then, see. All right, but I'm talking about those that are in Christ: Don't care what anybody else says; it's what He said. A Christian doesn't look to the things of the world. They don't look at what they see. They look at what they don't see, but what they believe. The Christian looks at the unseen. So, we don't see what we believe. If it is, it is no more of faith. But faith is what you do not see and believe, because you believe the One that gave the promise is true to His promise.

27 So Abraham, a man seventy-five years old, married to his half-sister, Sarah, and they came down from the land ... from Chaldea, the city of Ur, and dwelt in the Shinar valley. Perhaps lived a good, long lives of people then. They'd go out in the morning and get some berries out of the bushes and eat them, and then along noontime go out and kill an animal with their bow or spear and have their proteins and so forth, and a few berries, and go to bed at night: lived a good normal life.
But this man, not because he was different, but because God... Oh, I just love to push it down, see. Because God saw grace in the heart of Abraham and saved him by election, and give him the promise. "You haven't chose me," said Jesus. "I chose you."
People said, "I just toiled and wrestled seeking God." Oh, no. It was God seeking you. You just wouldn't turn loose. No man seeks God. No man has sought God at any time, but man is a coward. He runs from God, but God seeks man.
Started in the garden of Eden: Adam running, hiding behind the bushes, God out running up-and-down the garden saying, "Adam, Adam, where art thou?" Father seeking his lost child, not the lost child seeking the Father: same today. How we could dwell on that a while if time would permit.

28 But notice, God called Abraham and gave him this promise---this covenant: not "if you will," but "I have," and not only to Abraham only but to his seed after him. And you say, "Well, I wish I was a Jew, maybe I would be of the seed of Abraham."
Paul said, "That which is of the seed natural is not a Jew." But look, are we Jews, the seed of Abraham? Yes. Is Abraham's seed still being called? Yes.
The Bible said, "We which are dead in Christ take on Abraham's seed, and are heirs according to the promise." So, every man that has died to himself and been born anew in the kingdom of God by the Holy Spirit becomes a new creature in Christ Jesus and take on Abraham's seed and got the same Spirit that led Abraham, leads his seed. Amen.
Excuse me for slobbering. I've been eating some of these grapes over here in Canaan, and it makes me slobber a whole lot sometimes.

29 Watch. Abraham chosen of God. "By grace are you saved, and that not by works, lest any man should boast." Is that right? That's the Scripture, just as clear as the old black-backed Bible teaches it. Yes, sir. By grace are you saved.
God calls you. "No man can come to Me except the Father draws him first, and all the Father has given Me will come to Me. (Amen.) He that eats My flesh and drinks My blood (worthily that is) hath everlasting life, and I will raise him up at the last day." Amen. "Those who He has called, He has justified: and those who He had justified, He hath (past tense) already glorified." And tonight we're sitting in heavenly places in Christ Jesus. What you scared about? God promised these things in the last days, and we're seeing them. Wake up. The time of visitation is at hand from the Lord, the refreshening that He promised: that both former and latter rain both would be poured out in the last day.

30 Remember the prophet said, "It'll be a day that won't be neither night or day ... night or daylight." It'll be a misty day. It's been that way for two thousand years, but the same Holy Spirit that brought light to the early eastern people... Geographically, civilization travels westward. We're at the west coast. East and west has joined together, but the prophet said, "In the evening, it shall be light."
We've had enough light to know that Jesus was the Son of God, to come in and join churches, and start organizations and things. But the old-time, Pentecostal power that was poured out on the day of Pentecost, our teachers has told us, "That's all of it. That settled it. That was all."
Is God righteous or unrighteous? Is God true or untrue? The prophet said, "It'll be light in the evening time." All the mist will fall away, and the same Son that shined on the eastern people will shine on the western people in an old-time, Holy Ghost revival, just exactly what the prophet said. And this is that.

31 Peter said on the day of Pentecost, "This is that." And brethren, I don't say this for a joke: But if this ain't that, I'm going to keep this till that comes. Amen. It'll be light.
Abraham's seed journeying on to the west, but now, the same Son that raised in the east on the Jews is setting in the West on the Gentile with the same signs and wonders, the same Holy Ghost. Every word of God is true. Maybe if you just ask God, He will put it together for you, see.
It's just like a big jigsaw puzzle. Don't mean to compare the Bible with that by no means. It's the Holy Word of God. But you take a jigsaw puzzle, and if you don't watch, you get your scenery all mixed up: Cow picking grass in the top of a tree; so it ain't right. So you got to get it right, and God is the same. And you get the Bible together, and you find out it's one great, big beautiful picture of redemption, God dealing with His people.

32 Now, could you imagine Sarah and Abraham... Abraham going in and saying, "Sarah, honey, you know what happened? I was just talking to God. He showed me something."
"Yes?"
"We're going to have a baby."
"What?"
"Yes." Abraham seventy-five, Sarah sixty-five, going to have a baby... Married her when she was about seventeen and here they are all... He was about twenty-seven, lived with her all these years. She was perfectly barren, and now at the age of sixty-five, about twenty years past menopause, God said, "You're going to have a baby." Could you imagine it? Could you imagine?
He said, "Buy up all the Birdseye and the pins and get ready. We're going to have it."
The impossible... But the Bible said that, "Abraham staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief, but was strong, giving praise to God, and called those things which were not, as though they were."

33 Are you Abraham's seed tonight? Amen. Be honest. If God promised divine healing through Christ Jesus, and He was Jehovah-jireh, what are we staggering about? You're Abraham's seed; you don't stagger. You believe it.
Now, if you're not borned again, then I don't know about that. You might be tossed about with anything. But if your heart's really fixed on Christ and been born again, you believe every word He said to be the truth. No matter how much theology somebody tries to scatter it away and push it to one side, put it in another day, if God's promise is true to there, He's true here. He promised it to be the same yesterday, today, and forever, and He is. And why is He doing it for some and not for others? Because some's believing and others are not. It's the only thing can be. Now, we're going to know that God is true.

34 Now, watch this. Abraham had Sarah to get all the things ready to have their baby. He didn't know when it was going to come. God don't tell you just when your healing's going to come, but He promised to give it to you, see. He said now... Abraham said, "Now, when are we going to get this baby?"
"Now, that's none of your business. You go on. I told you. That's all you have to do is know that I promised it, and I'm good as My Word."
"Well," Abraham said, "Hallelujah, I believe," and away he goes, going around telling everybody he was going to have a baby, him and Sarah---him seventy-five and her sixty-five. Could you imagine it?
Walk up to a doctor today. Old man take his sixty-five-year-old wife in and say, "Well, doc, I want to make arrangements for the hospital." Well, you know, they'd think he was crazy, and any man that'll take God at His Word is considered crazy to the world. It's foolishness to the world. But notice, Sarah believed it too, with Abraham.

35 And they said, "Separate yourself." Oh, there's the time. That's what's so contrary to the world today. You know, the people want good mixers.
When you call for your new pastor at the conference, you vote for some little jellybean (excuse that expression), but some little fellow that's a mixer. "Oh, he's kind of... He goes out. He takes swimming kids ... all the kids out swimming, and oh, he has sociable parties; and we have some dinners in the basement, and he always lets out early---don't speak over twenty minutes, so we can see the new Molly-Dolly on the television," and so forth like that. That's the kind you want. That's right.
You want mixers, but God calls for separators. The Holy Ghost called for Paul and Barnabas to be separated. Oh, yes. You want some fellow that looks like a Hollywood movie star with locks like a girl and act the same way. You know, a lot of people look for those kind of people: collar turned around, a frock-tail coat on, a carnation, and, aw, you know what I mean.

36 I went to hear a preacher here not long ago, and he changed suits twice while he was preaching. God... Oh, my. Look, friend, I'm just old-fashioned enough not to believe in this Hollywood revivalism going around today. I like the old-fashioned, backwoods, sky-blue, sin-killing religion that don't whitewash, but washes white, makes a man clean. That's right. We need back to the good old Saint Paul's revival and the Bible Holy Ghost again; not a supper room but an upper room. That's right. Back to the Bible.

37 You know, man chooses after the eye. God chooses the heart. One time there was a man going to be anointed for king to take Saul's place. The prophet went up with a big gourd full of oil to anoint one of Jesse's children. Jesse being a man, he said, "Sure. I got the boy to do it. He's seven foot tall." "Bring him out." How nice he'd looked with that crown sitting on his head, his priestly robes and things around him. "Oh, he'll make a real king for Israel."
Brought him out, and the prophet said, "All right. I will anoint him." Here he runs.
God said, "I've refused him."
He said, "Well, I got one just a little bit shorter than he is. Perhaps he'll be the one. Oh, he's straight shouldered and how he is." Said, "He's the one." Said, "I'll bring him out."
Prophet said, "I'll anoint him."
God said, "I've refused him." He went on till he got six of them out. God said, "I refused every one of them."
He said, "Have you got another one?"
Said, "Yes, a little old skinny, scrawny thing back yonder out herding the sheep."
Said, "Go get him and..."
Said, "My, surely God wouldn't make something like that."
But He said, "I've chose him. Pour the oil on him." Amen. God looks at the heart. Amen.

38 Notice. Sarah got ready. They got everything ready and took a journey, separated themselves, called out. They were the church of the living God at that time. Church means "called out, the ones that's called out." And they sojourned as pilgrims and strangers, professing that they were pilgrims and strangers and was seeking a city whose Builder and Maker was God, not knowing where they were going, but by faith they went.
Oh, isn't that beautiful? Oh, I just love His Word. These old nuggets, I like to... I'm a prospector: Like to dig down and get the nuggets, and polish them up, and hang them out there. Every one you find will point to Calvary. Yes.

39 And here they go, this old man and his wife, his nephew, starting out across the country to be pilgrims and strangers. And as they went along, God met him. He said, "Now, Abraham, I'm going to make your seed like the dust of the earth."
The first month passed. "Sarah, dear, is it all right?"
"Nope. No different."
"Oh, it isn't?"
"No." Second month passed.
"Sarah, what about it, dear?"
"No different, Abraham."
"Hallelujah, we're going to have it anyhow." Six months passed. "Sarah, you feel any different?"
"No different at all."
"Glory. We're going to have it anyhow." Why? God said so. That settles it. A year passed. "Sarah, how are you feeling now?"
"No different."
"Hallelujah! We're going to have it anyhow." The Bible said, instead of them getting weaker like we do, he got stronger, because it was more of a miracle when she was sixty-six than it would be when she was sixty-five. And she never had the baby till she was a hundred. Glory. He kept everything laying aside, because he knowed it was coming, rejoicing, looking for the day that God would fulfill His promise, and got stronger all the time.

40 Oh, if we're prayed for, and the next day we don't feel just exactly right, "Well, I'm Abraham's seed, but I just missed it, I guess." Oh, you poor excuse. Abraham's seed believes God, takes God at His promise, and calls those things which are not as though they were. Amen.
Notice. They went on. God appeared to him, and He told him a what He was going to do, and after while, Abraham begin to get older. He got around about ninety, and he said, "Now, what about this, Lord? Am I going to have the baby right away?"
"Now, Abraham, what you questioning Me about? Now, I told you you was going to have a baby. That settles it."
"All right, Lord. Would You just let me look over the curtain once? I like to know how You're going to do it. You know, Lord, I'm not doubting Your Word, but I'd like to look over the curtain." Brother, how we all like to look over the curtain. You ever hear that song, "I Want To Look Past The Curtain Of Time"? Everybody wants to look over the curtain. You know God's so good to us.
He said, "Then, come here, Abraham. I'll just let you peep over the curtain. I'll show you how I'm going to do it," see.

41 So, He took him out there one afternoon. He said, "Now, I want you to go get me a she goat three years old. I want you to get me a heifer of three years old, and I want you to get me a ram of three years old, a turtledove, and a young pigeon.
And Abraham went out and got them. Wish we had time to go in what they represented. But you notice, he cut the goat in two. He cut the heifer in two, and he cut the ram in two; but the turtledove and the young pigeon he never divided: 16th chapter of Genesis. He never divided those. Why? The turtledove and the pigeon represented divine healing. The dispensations of grace was changed (that's true) ... between law and grace and so forth, but healing always remained the same under every covenant, under every condition. Right.

42 So, He said, "Cut them." And he cut them in two, and he laid one against the other. And now, He said, "Abraham, I want to show you, My child (just ninety), I want to show you just how I'm going to do this now."
Now, Abraham said, "I want to see, Lord." Now, the first thing the Bible says that God caused a deep sleep to come upon Abraham, a deep sleep.
"Abraham, I'm going to show you, that you ain't got nothing to do with this. I'm going to do it Myself." The job's going to be right when He does it. Yes, brother, that's where I rest, right there. God said so.
I'm not saved tonight because I feel like it. I'm not saved by feelings. I'm saved because I believed it and met the conditions the Bible required. The devil can beat you around the stump. Tomorrow morning you may get up with a headache and feel like you's a million miles away, but God's grace holds tight. Yes, sir. Yes, sir, not what you feel but what you believe.
Jesus never did say, "Did you feel it?" He said, "Did you believe it?" And that's right. The difference, quite a difference: not by feelings but by faith.

43 And Abraham, God took him and put him to sleep. Now, showing... "Abraham, I'm going to take you out of the picture. There's nothing you can do about it. I'm going to do it Myself. I'm going to show you how I'm going to do it, Abraham."
So, He put Abraham asleep, and when Abraham fell asleep. He'd kept the birds off until the sun went down, off the carcasses of the dead animals. And then when Abraham went to sleep, the first thing appeared before him was a horrible blackness: Death that comes to every man: separation, can't see where you're going. Death is due to every unregenerated man. Death is the first to the human race, because of transgression of God's Word. And then after that he saw a smoking, burning furnace. Every sinner deserves to go to hell. Every human being should go to hell. Right. First death, after death, hell: that's what He promised.
But notice, next he saw a little light come up---a little light. Oh, my. This little light went up and went in between these pieces of flesh, moving back and forth between them. Abraham, being a prophet, knew what that meant. God was showing him what He was going to do at Calvary. He was letting him look over the curtain and see Calvary yonder. Through the seed of Abraham, through Isaac would come out Christ and what the sacrifice to be paid.

44 Now, let's write it in a oriental language so we can understand it. Today, if Brother Jeffries and I would make a covenant with one another, well, I'd take a hold of his hand. I'd say, "Shake on it, Brother Jeffries." That's a covenant in America. We make a covenant with one another; we shake one another's hands, right hand of fellowship. "Come on into the church, brother." That's a right hand. That's a covenant.
In China ... or, Japan, rather, down there when you make a covenant, you make a covenant between one another, and then you get a little cruise of salt, and you stand and throw salt on one another. That's a covenant in Japan.

45 But in the Orient in them days when you made a covenant, here's what you did: You take an agreement, and you wrote it up, whatever your agreement was. All right. And then you walked over and killed an animal, and you cut that animal in two. And you stood between these two pieces of dead flesh, and you swore to each other that if you broke this covenant, let your body be as this dead animal. And you've taken this covenant and tore it apart. One man took one piece, and one took another piece, and when this covenant was confirmed, when it come together, both pieces had to come exactly the same, letter by letter. And your vow was that if you didn't do it, let you become as this dead animal that died to confirm this covenant. You see it?
Then what did God do? At Calvary He took Christ Jesus, His Son, and put Him on the cross, and He tore Him in two. He rent the soul from the body. And He took the body up into heaven and sent back the Holy Ghost to the church: that on that day, the same Spirit that was upon Christ Jesus has to be in His church to dovetail one with the other on that day. And God swore by Himself that He'd raise that church up, a glorious church. How can it fail? That's God's everlasting eternal Covenant He swore by Himself. He'll keep His promise. Amen. Oh, I hope you see it.

46 How can you fail? I can fail. No more it isn't whether I fail; it's whether He failed. And He didn't fail, and God confirmed it by raising Him up from the dead. And today the same Holy Ghost that was upon Christ Jesus is in the church writing the same covenant that He did back yonder, and doing the same thing that He did back there. And the church believes on Him, and the unbeliever disbelieves Him, and calls Him Beelzebub, and devils, and so forth, like they did back there. There's the difference between the covenant people and the people that hasn't the covenant.
Christ died, and He come a man. He took our sins upon Himself, and went there, and was nailed to the cross, and His soul was rent from Him and cast into hell, and God raised Him up on the third day for our justification and sent the Holy Ghost back to us, and the glorified body of His Son sitting on His throne in heaven. Watch what a type it is there.

47 In Egypt when the poor Jews were all beat... Joseph being a type of Christ born to be a seer. He saw visions. He was hated of his brothers, loved of his father. He couldn't help because he saw visions. He was a spiritual boy; God made him that way. And the father loved him. But his brothers hated him---a type of the church today. The carnal thinking Christian hates the spiritual things, hates the phenomenal, hates the spiritual of borned again, hates the great move of God, hate it without a cause. That's right. Don't unchristianize them, but they hate... Always the natural hates the supernatural. Amen.
Now, watch, and he was sold for thirty pieces of silver ... almost thirty pieces like Christ was, and was throwed into a ditch supposing to be dead, taken up and set at the right hand of the greatest city and the commercial city in the world. And when he went forth, every man bowed the knee to Joseph. And no man could come to Pharaoh except by Joseph; and no man can come to God except by Christ, and every knee shall bow and every tongue confess to Him. And when he was in his prison there, the butcher and the butler... One was lost and one was saved, just exactly like on the cross: one lost, and one saved.

48 And then he left his body for a memorial. He said, "Don't bury me." I'm supposed to put my hands on that old lead casket he laid in (supposing to been) in a museum in England here not long ago. And his bones laid there. He said, "Don't take my bones out until you go out of here." For he believed that God would visit the people like He said. He was Abraham's seed, so he took God at His promise.
And every man, Jew, with his back beaten from the cat-o-nine-tails and the switches and the rods of Egypt, would pass by and look at that body of Joseph and say, "Someday we're going home." That's right.
And today we can look at our Joseph, a empty tomb when we bury our loved ones and say, "Someday we're going home." And when we get there... We were born for this earth. We'll never be angels. God never made us angels. He made us men and women. We'll always be that. We'll have a celestial body there.

49 It doesn't appear yet what kind of a body we'll have when we're there, but we won't be able to eat and drink and sleep like I do here, but it'll be a body, but not the resurrected glorified body. And the souls under the altar were crying, "Lord, how long?"
And every time they were under the altar and looked up there, there was an actual glorified, resurrected Lord Jesus sitting there representing that some day He will move off of His throne there, coming to the earth, and everyone that's dead in Christ will come with Him and receive a body like His own glorious body. We'll see Him as He is. Oh, Bible ties together, one big, beautiful picture.

50 Said, "Abraham, that's what I'm going to do. That's how I'm going to do it." And he walked out. Now, look. He said, "Now, Abraham, number the stars of heaven if you can. They're without number."
Here some time ago I stood at Mt. Wilson out there where you could see through this big observatory, big glass, see a hundred and twenty million years of light space. Why, how many nines would that take to break it down in miles? A hundred and twenty million years of light space, and beyond that was still moons and stars, and on and on, the great solar system. And I stood there amazed. I said, "Think of it. My heavenly Father just, 'Whew.' Blowed them off His hand like that, put them into a place, and they obey Him."
He was big enough to do that and came little enough to save me. He became me that I could become Him. Christ became a sinner, that through His poverty we might receive His riches as to be sons and daughters of God. Amen. Wouldn't that make a Methodist shout, almost, to think of that? Sure it would. Think of it. It's not a fictitious story. It's not Santa Claus. It's God's eternal Holy Bible, and it's just as true as we're sitting here.

51 Notice. He said... Now, watch, in Genesis 13, He said, "Your seed is like the dust." After He give him the promise, and was going to confirm the promise, He said, "Your seed is like the stars." From the dust to the stars. Oh, do you see it? The resurrection, from the dust to the stars (Amen.), from a mossy, slimy, glittery dust till the shining star. And what's ahead of the stars, the greatest: the Morning Star, which was Christ, the first fruits of those who slept. Hallelujah!
Look at what a little forty years has done for me. Getting old man, stooped shouldered, wrinkled face, bald-headed, but, oh, my! The morning star hasn't lost one glitter since the day that God placed it in the sky, and the Bible said we'll outshine the stars someday, forever and forever.
What you scared about? God promised and swore to it by the death of Christ He would do it. And He called you by sovereign grace and elected you before the foundation of the world. Amen.

52 Why was Christ called the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world? God, in the beginning, when He saw what Satan had done: had perverted what He had made good. Satan can't create, you know. Satan is...
Everything that Satan's got, he perverted something that belonged to God. That's right. He perverted, and when He saw what he had done, God first begin to think. Oh, my. That's when He saw you. That's when He saw me. Amen.
Now, the Bible said, "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God." Now, as long... What is a word? A word is a thought expressed. So then as long as it was a thought, it wasn't materialized. It couldn't be yet. But when God once expressed it, it was as good as finished right then. Oh, my. That would make Pentecost shout.
Think of it. God, before the foundation of the world, saw you. You wasn't there, but you was in His mind. He saw it. Therefore, foreknowledge ... He could foretell. That's the reason He likened His prophets to eagles. They go way up to see the sunlight before it ever gets there, see. Oh, my, isn't He wonderful? Don't you love Him? All by grace! Not because you deserve it; because He said so. He called you. You never called Him. He called you. Oh, how could you turn it down?

53 Think of it. There'll be a time when one of these days your... When this old world is struck by the atomic power, she's laying out yonder, turning around in space; and the howling, hot sands of the blast when she's throwed into the sun this time... First time it was throwed away from the sun which caused the water---the heat through the cold. And this time it'll be throwed into the sun and all bursted up and blowed over, and the wind will howl, and your tombstone may shine up through the sand, but you'll be somewhere.
But think, by the sovereign grace of God He's give you the opportunity to come to Him. Think of it. No wonder... When oceans has wept theirself into deserts, He'll still the loving God. When the moon and stars will fail to shine, He'll still be God.
He said, "The heavens and the earth, the solar system, the millions of years and light space will pass away, but My Word shall never pass away. When there's no more sea, no more desert, no more mountains, no more world, My Word will ever endure the same." The same Eternal, the One that made the promise... Who made the promise? He did. Not only promised it, but He swore by Himself, because there was no other higher to swear by. He swore by Himself that He'd keep it. Oh, my.

54 Am I anchored away? Amen. Oh, hide my soul in the bosom of Abraham. Glory. Going to call me a holy-roller, anyhow, so you might as well get started right now.
When I think of it. As the poet said on that morning, one of these days when He returns, my, I can see Adam wake up and shake his head, shake Eve and say, "Honey, wake up. It's here."
Eve reached over and got a hold of Seth, and said, "Seth, come on." Seth got a hold of Noah. Noah got a hold of Abraham. Abraham got a hold of Isaac. Isaac... Jacob. Why, they just keep shaking one another as they come right on down.
He's coming. God promised it. Every word is true: every word, every line, every chapter, every verse. "All heavens and earth will pass away, but My Word shall never pass away." God said that. That makes it right. That makes it right when He said so.

55 I can see Abraham standing there looking up towards the heavens, looking down towards the earth. "Lord, You said it. I believe it." Here he starts on, grabs that old cane, and goes back in the tent, and says "Sarah, we're going to have him anyhow." Amen.
Just a little talk with Jesus makes it right. Let me look a past the curtain of time. He'll confirm it. That's right. He's doing it. He does it each time. He'll do it here tonight. He's right here now.
Abraham, then, become ninety and nine years old---twenty-five years after the promise was given him---still strong. Amen. Why, Sarah's womb was dead. Abraham was dead. His seed was dead within him, but not God's Word. No matter how dead you are, as long as that Word's in there, there's life. Can you take it tonight? Can you receive the Word?
"I'm the Lord that heals all thy diseases. Look to Me all the ends of the earth and be healed. (Amen.) He was wounded for our transgressions, and with His stripes we were healed." See, God promised it. Jesus said, "The things that I do, shall you do also. I'll make Myself known to every generation to the end of the world. I'll be with you, even in you. The same things that I do, you'll do also." More than this because the revival is all the way around the world right now, the fire burning on every hill. Hallelujah. It's a universal affair now. It's not only in Charlotte, it's the world over. God sending forth angels to gather the elect from the four winds of the earth. Abraham's seed's got to come. Amen. Oh, don't you feel real good when the Holy Ghost is here?

56 Abraham just bathed himself in the beauty of God. I can hear Him say, "Come here, Abraham." Genesis 17 now. And God appeared to him in the name of El Shaddai, the Almighty. El Shaddai, the word, the Hebrew word which really means "breast (I'm your brother now.), like the woman's breast that nurses the baby." In other words, "Abraham, you know how I'm going to do this? You know, you're old. You're a hundred years old, and Sarah's ninety; but I am the breasted One, the breasted God. Now, Abraham, I know you're old, but I'm the breasted One. Now, only thing you do is just lean right up against My Word and nurse from Me all your strength like a little baby."
You take a little baby when it's sick and fretting. It'll lay against its mother, and it'll nurse life from the mother. And not only when it's nursing, it quits fretting. You get it? He quits fretting, and he's satisfied. He just lays against his mother and starts nursing. That's all. As long as mama's got her arms around baby, and he's a nursing from mama, he's pretty well satisfied. And all the time he's nursing, he's putting vitamins into him that's building him up.
And a man, no matter how sick you are, how old you are, how stooped you are in sin, lean against the breasted God and go to nursing; and spiritual vitamins will have you shouting, and praising God, and running down the aisles after a while, satisfied as you can be. That's right. He's got all the calories you need.

57 Notice. Not only was He a breast, but breasted, not one breast but two breasts, the breasted One, the all-sufficient One, Almighty One, all powerful One. He had two breasts: One was for the healing of your soul, and the other was for the healing of your body. "He was wounded for our transgressions; with his stripes we were healed." Amen. Oh, I'm so glad tonight to know that I know Him in the power of His resurrection by His grace when He calls from the dead. Oh, my.
... way with my text ... or, getting to it, rather. We'll start there tomorrow night. Let's just leave it go. It's time for healing service. I didn't realize. I didn't think it was nine o'clock yet; it's time to close. Do you love Him?
Oh, as the poet said:
Oh, I want to see Him, look upon His face,
There to sing forever of His saving grace;
On the streets of glory, let me lift my voice;
Cares all past, home at last, ever to rejoice.

58 How beautiful, how wonderful to rest upon His promise. Just trust Him. He gave the promise, "The things that I do, shall you also. A little while and the world won't see Me no more, yet you'll see Me; for I will be with you, in you (all where you're gathered together) unto the end of the world." What a beautiful promise.
Here some time ago, there was a slave buyer come through the south when they had slavery. They were buying slaves like they do cars today. And many of the slaves had come away from their homes. They were beaten and everything. They didn't want to work. They knowed they'd never go back home. The Boers brought them from Africa and sold them here for slaves, and they were disheartened. Maybe mother and dad over there, and the children here, and separated here and there, never see one another again. They didn't work very good. They had to make them work with whips. But they'd come by and a man would kind of, in a commercial way, would come along and buy up a big bunch of slaves at a cheap price, take them over and sell them on another plantation, make some money on them---brokers.

59 So, one day there was a broker come up to a certain plantation and... I don't know why I'm telling this. But anyhow when he come up to this plantation, he noticed all the slaves and them having to whip them. But one young man, oh, he was gallant, chin out and his shoulders back, just snappy. He'd go do anything they wanted him to do. So, the broker said to the plantation owner, "I'd like to buy that slave."
Said, "He's not for sale."
Said, "Why?" Said, "What makes him that way, so gallant?" Said, "I noticed him, 'Yes, suh.' Right at the job any time, head up, gallant man." Said, "I'll give you a double price what I give for an ordinary slave."
Said, "You couldn't buy him for five prices." Said, "He's not for sale."
He said, "Well, why?" Said, "Is he the boss over the rest of them?"
He said, "No, sir."
Said, "Do you feed him any different?"
Said, "No, sir. They all eat out here in the galley together." Said, "They all eat the same, and they're all ... they're just the same. He's just a slave."
He said, "What makes him so much different from the rest of them?"
He said, "Well, I didn't know that myself, till one day I found out that his father is the king of the tribe, and though he's away from home, he keeps himself up to keep the morale of the rest of them built up." Said, "He knows that he's a king's son."

60 Oh, brother. I don't care what some of this little overnight preaching does. Brother, stick your chin up; we're sons and daughters of God. We may be alienated here, but our Father is a King. Believe God. Don't matter what comes or goes, conduct yourself like sons and daughters of God. You women, wash the paint off your face, let your hair grow out again. You men, throw that cigar out of your mouth, and go out here, and act like sons and daughters of God. Quit all this here wishy-washy, dabbling around about the place and conduct yourself like sons and daughters of the King. Shall we pray.

61 Our heavenly Father, so glad tonight to know that we're children of the heavenly King. It does not yet appear what we shall be in the end, but we know we'll have a body like His glorious body for we shall see Him as He is, free from sickness, free from sin, free from worry, free from toils, sit down at His feet, home again, mama and papa, everybody around.
Dear God, I pray tonight that You'll save the lost. Maybe some good Methodist, Baptist, Presbyterian's backslid, Pentecostal, Pilgrim Holiness, someone here who's got away from God. O Father, we pray tonight You'll bring them back home. That poor lost son and daughter of God here, that's never yet accepted You, You've knocked at their door. You're not willing that any should perish, but that all might come to repentance; and You have called and called, and they won't answer. May tonight, may they give that one, "Yes, Lord, now I come. I believe. Upon the Word of the Lord, I accept Christ as my Saviour."

62 While we have our heads bowed and everybody in prayer, I wonder, down here on the bottom floor, if there'd be someone would raise your hand and by this say, "Brother Branham, I just want God to see my hand, that I know I'm wrong, and I want to be right with God." We have no way of making an altar call to bring you up around to pray, but I'd just like if, while everybody's praying, every eye closed, if...
Christians, especially, pray at this moment. Will you just raise your hands, sinner friend, say, "God be merciful to me?" Would you do it, anyone? God bless you, sir. God bless you, lady. God bless you, sir. God bless you. That's good. You might've done a lot of great things in your life, but that's the greatest thing you've done.

63 Up in the balcony, on the side rows here, in the box seats, is there anyone that would raise your hand? God bless you up there, sir. I see you. Someone else? Just to Christ now, you're not putting your hand up to me. It's to Christ. God knows your heart. He's speaking to you, and if He's speaking, then raise your hand, say, "Yes, Lord. I've been wrong. I was chose to be Abraham's seed. You called me, called me now. I never have accepted You yet, but now I'm going to do it right now. I'm going to raise up my hand, say, 'God, be merciful to me a sinner.' And from this night, henceforth, I'm going to try my best, God, with Your help to live a different life from tonight on." Would one more put up their hand anywhere that has not put up their hand yet?
See, you say, "Brother Branham, what does that mean, if they put up their hand?"
Jesus said these words solemnly. Let me repeat it to you: first, "No man can come to Me except My Father draws him, and all that My Father has given Me will come to Me."

64 What if you were predestinated or predestined by foreknowledge to never receive Christ? You know that's so. The Bible said that men of old was foreordained to this condemnation to turn the grace of God into lasciviousness (Jude the 4th verse).
Yes, what if that was you that God never did speak to your heart? What if that was you, sinner, and when you go out of this church tonight walking down the street yonder, and drop over dead? What if they call the doctor, and he comes and says, "Well, there's nothing to do, mother, or dad, or whoever it is. They're gone."
God bless you, sir. I'm not frightening you. I'm only stating facts. I don't know that you're... You're going to do that sometime. So, He may never... "My Spirit will not always strive with man." So, why not just now lift your hand? Say, "Will He save me if I do that?" He promised to.

65 Listen at me quote Scripture now. Saint John 5:24. Think of a handful and two dozen of eggs. Read it when you get home. "He that heareth My words, and believeth on Him that sent Me hath (right now, present tense) eternal life, and shall never come into judgment, but has passed from death to life."
What does it mean to raise your hand with a true heart behind it? It means you've passed from death to life. "He that heareth My words and..." Friend, as clear as I knowed how to type it tonight, I've brought it to you. I don't know; it might not have been just polished up; but you know it's truth anyhow. It's from the Word.
And you heard it, and you believe it, and believe on Christ, and raise your hand, say, "I believe that story." God's obligated to take you. God bless you. That's right. Someone else, just before closing, would you do it?

66 See, I'm trying to find all the grace with God that... I see your hand, sir. You were weeping there with your hand up. God bless you. You pass from death to life when you put your hand up, sonny boy. You'll pass right out of death to life. That's what God said. His words can't fail. All the stars will fail. All the earth will fail, but His Word won't; and none other said it but Jehovah, in flesh, Emmanuel. "He that heareth My words, believeth on Him that sent He hath (right now) everlasting life, shall never perish or even come to the judgment, but's already passed from death to life."
Just feel constrained to say once more before closing. Just feel that there's one more here somehow. I hope you don't class me a fanatic, but who is that that's holding back just now that's pressing my heart so, that would just raise your hand, say, "It's me, Brother Branham, I want to receive Christ just now as my Sav..." God bless you, lady. That's fine. The Lord be gracious to you.

67 Now, heavenly Father, knowing that Thy Word is true, feeling the Angel of the Lord, the Holy Spirit here now tugging at my heart, knowing that in a few moments, God must be glorified or the black flags of hell would raise. Now, the angels have triumphed, souls has come to the Christ.
Father, Thou knowest our hearts. All these that raised their hands, I now---as acting as a priest between the living and dead---I now commend them unto Thee, Lord, and commit them to Thee, and ask that in Thy Holy name, the Lord Jesus, that You'll confirm Your promise to each one; and now give them the baptism of the Holy Spirit in their hearts. For Thou has said, "He that heareth My Word, believeth on Him that sent Me, hath (right now) everlasting life." Thank you, Father, for them.
May they be baptized with the Holy Ghost into the church now ---the church of the Firstborn---become members of some good group somewhere, full Gospel preaching somewhere. Grant it, Father. We'll see them at the day of the judgment if not before. Now, let Thy mercy and grace rest upon us all, through Jesus, Thy holy child, we ask it. Amen.

68 I just love that song "Only Believe." How many knows who wrote it? My buddy, Paul Rader, Baptist preacher. I didn't say he was Baptist. He is kind of like I am, I guess, kind of a little Calvinist. Did you ever hear of his last words when he was dying in California? He and Luke stayed together, like my boy and I stay together---his brother. Luke just died recently.
Paul got out there, and he got him all tied up with a big bunch of formal religions, and things, and he was a Gospel preacher. He was dying, laying in the hospital, and he said, "Where's Luke?"
First, Moody Bible sent down the little quartet there to sing for him, and they had his curtains all down at the windows and things. He said, "Who's dying, me or you?" Said, "Raise up them curtains and sing me some snappy Gospel songs." He had a kind of a sense of humor. They began to sing "Down at the Cross Where My Saviour Died." He said, "That sounds better." Said, "Where's Luke?" Luke couldn't stand to see his brother die, he was over in the other room. Said, "Tell him to come here." Come over, took a hold of Luke's hand, looked up at him, said, "Luke, think of it: In five minutes from now, I will be standing in the Presence of Jesus Christ, clothed in His righteousness," squeezed his brother's hands and went to meet God.
Lives of great men all remind us
We can make our lives sublime,
Partings leave behind us
Footprints on the sands of time.
Footprints, that perhaps another,
Sailing o'er life's solemn main,
For forlorn and shipwrecked brother,
Seeing shall take heart again.

69 That's right. Oh, I'm so happy tonight, souls came to Christ. Now, we'll have a little prayer line, or did the boys... Did you give out prayer cards? Is prayer cards give out? Yeah. All right. Oh, yes, give a hundred out last night. What was that? What letters was that? L's. All right. I believe we called. What did we call... From 1 last night, didn't we? We called from number 1.
Let's go somewhere else and call some from out of there tonight. Let's call from 50. Who has prayer card number 50? Raise up your hand. Prayer card 50? Is it that man? Stand right up over here, sir. Let's call 51. Who has prayer... 51. All right. Who has 52? Prayer card 52? Have you, young lady? Prayer card 53? Would you raise your hand? 53? 54? All right. 54, you, sir? 55? 56? 57? 58? 59? 60?
Billy, get some ushers, and come over here, so you can keep the line straightened out, will you? Gene or... Are you're on the recording? Brother Wood, would you come, and give us some help, or some of you? All right.

70 Now, while they're lining up, let me get ... let me talk to you just a moment. Now, you that have to go for the next fifteen or twenty minutes, I wish you'd do it now, so you won't disturb. See, each one of you is a soul, and when you be get in contact with the Spirit...
Let me ask you something. To give you a letter that was given me. I opened it up... And the woman may be here right now. If she is, I want her to raise her hand. Is there a place called Big Mountain, or Kings Mountain, or some kind of a place like that? What is it? Kings Mountain. That's where she's from. I just got the letter. She was down ... come to the meeting down at Spindale. She wrote me a letter.
She said, "Reverend Branham, I read your book," and said... What is it? "I read your book," and said, "I was so amazed that I said, 'I'm going to write to Brother Branham and have him to pray over a prayer cloth, if I knowed where he was at.'" Said, "I'll just send it to Jeffersonville and have him to send it." Because she was crippled and had cancer in the bowels, and she said, "I just got through reading it."

71 Her husband, I believe, had been a minister or something and said... And I believe she'd been a teacher, or Sunday School teacher, or something; and she was lying back a resting and thinking, "Now, I'll just send to Brother Branham and have him to send me anointed cloth to lay on me." Said, "I believe the man is telling the truth."
And said, "The phone rang, and I picked up the phone" and said, "A friend of mine called me and said, 'Do you want to go to church tonight?'"
She said, "No, dear. I can't go. I'm too tired and weary," and said, "I'm all crippled up and everything."
Said, "Well, I just thought that up at Spindale they're having a meeting," said, "Brother Branham is speaking up there."
She said, "What?" Said her heart began... Said, "I just read his book." Said, "Come, get me." And they brought her in, and she said that I was in the service and said, that she just sat down on the front somewhere, and said, all at once... Now, I don't know this; that's her testimony. I haven't run those tapes. You might know it, Gene, if you got the tapes. I forget what the woman's name is. I've got the letter. I can bring it tomorrow night if she isn't here now.

72 And said that she was sitting there. And said she begin to see the way the Holy Spirit was moving just exactly like the Bible said and like my book had said it did. And so she said, "Lord, that is truth. That's just the way I read it in the Bible, and that's the way I read it in the book, and here it is right before me." She said, "God, I believe."
And said she'd no more got that out of her mouth, and said I turned and looked at her, I believe, told her who she was or something, and told her what had happened to her, and how long she'd been crippled, and all about it, and said, "Now, lady, thus saith the Lord, get up, leave your crutches there, and go on home. You're healed."
And she said, "Brother Branham, I haven't even got even a symptom of cancer or anything." Said, "I'm perfectly normal and well."
Is the lady in the meeting? Would you raise your hand if she's here? She sent me a handkerchief today for some friend of hers way away that's got some disease or something that wants to be prayed for.

73 All right. How many have we got down there? 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10. Where's... 50 was it? 50 to 60? All right. Have 61, 62, 63, 64, 65... Maybe we can get to some more. I hate to stop right while I'm getting them a praying and the anointing strikes. I just get out of it. It doesn't matter how many or anything stands. It's just the idea of how many I can get to. You can watch, brother preacher, and if I get a past these, then I will let you know and then you give it. All right.
I want to look at the audience here. Each one of you look to me. We're all strangers to one another, are we, you that's in the prayer line? If you are, raise your hands. Is everybody in here strangers to me? I'm a stranger. All right.
How many in here doesn't have a prayer card and wants the Lord Jesus to heal you tonight? Raise your hands to Him anywhere you are. All right. Have faith now. Just believe. That's all you have to do. Have faith. Now, look this way.

74 Now, in the Bible ... for the sake of those who was here for your first time. In the Bible Jesus Christ never claimed to be a healer. How many knows that say, "Amen." He said, "It's not Me that doeth the works. It's My Father that dwelleth in Me." Is that right?
He passed through crippled, afflicted, blind people, wouldn't heal them, went over and healed a man laying on a pallet, because the Father had showed Him that. He said so. He knew the man was there, and then in Saint John the 19th chapter ... or, the 19th verse of the 5th chapter, He said, "Verily, verily, I say unto you, the Son can't do nothing in Himself till He sees the Father do it first." How many's read that? Let's see your hands.
Now, that's enough Scripture to prove it, see. Jesus Christ, the Son of God, couldn't lie. If He does, He wasn't the Son of God. So, He said, "I do nothing in Myself until the Father shows Me by a vision first what to do. Verily, verily (That's absolutely, absolutely,) I say unto you: I can do nothing in myself, but what I see the Father doing." Is that true? Then He never performed one miracle until the Father showed Him. It's by vision.

75 A woman touched His garment one time, got healed. He said, "I never done that." She touched His garment and run out in the crowd, and sat down, stood up whatever she was. He said, "Who touched Me?"
She said, "I didn't."
Nobody... Everybody said, "No, not me."
He said, "Somebody touched Me, now, because virtue went out."
Peter said, "The whole crowd's a touching You. Why say, 'Who touched Me?'"
He said, "But I got weak." And He looked around till He found the woman, and He said... She had a blood issue. He said, "Thy faith ... thy faith hath healed thee." Is that right? No. "Thy faith hath saved thee." Well, the same word saved is "healed" every time in the Bible. The Greek word is Sozo. Is that right? Sozo. Physically or spiritually, the same word: "Thy faith has saved thee," see.

76 Touched some blind man's eyes as they followed Him. "Lord, have mercy on us." He didn't have no vision. He just went on, went in the house, and they come to Him. "Lord, have mercy."
He touched their eyes and said, "Now, according to your faith, be it unto you." No vision (See?), just as the Father showed Him. All right.
Now, if Jesus will arise here tonight... I claim that He's the same. He said, "These things that I do, shall you also." Is that right? Greater... The word really isn't to our translation, not greater but more. You couldn't do greater in quality. He healed the sick, raised the dead, stopped nature, done everything, see. So, you couldn't do nothing but in quantity. "More than this shall you do, for I go to My Father. A little while, and the world won't see Me no more. Yet you shall see Me, for I will be with you, in you, to the end of the world."
Now, if He's raised from the dead, He's got to act the same way---the same God, the same person, the same power, the same visions, everything---just exactly like He did it the first time. If He didn't, why, then His Words are wrong. That's a statement.

77 Where would you find it in the world today? But Christ is obligated to His Word. He's got to keep His Word. He kept it with Abraham. He's got to keep it with Abraham's seed. He's got to do it. He has to present it, then it's whatever you think about it determines what you get. But He's obligated to at least one time present it to you, so that you'll be without an excuse at that day.

78 Oh, I feel in my heart. Wait till some time God sends me to Palestine. The Jews look for that. They read the New Testament---them that come up out of Iran. They begin to read it. They said, "You mean Messiah's been here."
"Yes, He's dead and raised again."
He said, "Let us see Him do the sign of the prophet and we will believe it."
I like to see them---call them out like this here, thousands. Say, "Now, you accept the Messiah, then," and on the same grounds where the Holy Ghost poured out the first time, God will pour it out again on the Jews. Then the Gentiles are finished. You know that. They'll trod the walls of Jerusalem down until the Gentiles be finished. When the Jews get the Holy Ghost, and receives the Gospel, and starts, they'll missionary the world. They'll take it where the Gentiles didn't even think of going. That's right. They're just waiting. It's your day of grace. Come in while you can.
I was within a hundred to two miles of it just recently, was going right on my ticket up there, and I walked out on the ramp and the Holy Spirit said, "Not yet. Turn this other way, and go up towards India." And I did, see. He wouldn't let me go, because it's just not seasonable. But someday God will let me do it. I believe it. I want to see it with all my heart.

79 Now, I'm going to ask you all to be reverent, just as reverent as you can. You say, "Brother Branham, what you talking about? You're stalling." I am. Exactly. I'm waiting for that Angel of the Lord to come. That's exactly right. I don't know none of you, and how could I do anything. I can't. It's Him. I can't do it, even when He comes, unless your faith operates it. It's not me. I can't see visions unless... It's your faith that does it. Sure. God's will, by a divine gift... Only thing I do is just keep yielding myself, and as I get myself completely yielded to the Holy Spirit, then He starts talking. It's not me. He's using my voice, but it's not me. It's Him, see. That's just the Scripture exactly.
All right. Is this the man? All right. I just... Yet I'm waiting for Him to come. Now, I want you all to just keep your seats. Be real reverent. Now, at this time through Jesus Christ's name, I take this group of people under my control for the glory of God and every spirit in here to be subject to the Holy Spirit.

80 Now, the man who stands before me is a perfect stranger to me. Is that right, sir? We are strangers to each other? Never seen me before in life. Well, then that's... You just come... You heard of me but never saw me. Then you just come in here, and somebody give you a prayer card either last night or tonight and here you are. You just happen to be... You was the first one called on the platform. That's right. It was given to you tonight, and you was called on the platform tonight. Well, that's mighty fine to get a prayer card the first night and be called to the platform. Must be it's God's will for it then. I don't know. I've knowed people following for months and months and never get a prayer card to be called. So, it just sovereignly works that way.

81 Now, kind sir, you and I probably was born years apart, and miles apart, and our first time meeting, but yet if the Holy Spirit of God could tell to me like He did through Christ at the woman at the well, or when He knowed where the fish was that had the coin in its mouth, or different things like that.
How He said to Nathanael, when Nathanael was found by Philip and brought him to Jesus first of His ministry... Nathanael got saved, and he went and found ... or, Philip got saved, rather, and went and found Nathanael, oh, fifteen miles or more around the mountain. And he brought him back. He said, "Come, see who we found, Jesus of Nazareth, the Son of Joseph."
He said, "Could there be any good thing come out of Nazareth?"
He said, "Come and see."
So, when he come, he walked up in the line (like you're standing now) by the side of the Lord Jesus, and He said to him, "Behold, an Israelite in whom there's no guile." Now, this fellow was a real Orthodox Jew. He belonged to the Sanhedrin. He belonged to the church. He was everything staunched in religion. So, how could this man, Jesus, know that he was a Christian (or, a believer, we'd call it), then, when he could've been a critic or anything else, but how did He know it?
And he said to Him, "Rabbi (or teacher), whence knowest Thou Me?"
And Jesus said, "Before Philip called you, when you were under the tree (fifteen miles away), I saw you when you were under the tree."

82 The Jews turned around and said, "That's the devil. That's Beelzebub. He's the chief of the fortunetellers."
Jesus said, "I'll forgive you for that, but when the Holy Ghost is come and does the same thing and you say that, it'll never be forgiven in this world or the world to come," because He predicted the Holy Ghost would do the same thing He did. And He is the Holy Ghost, Christ in spiritual form. But what did this believer say?
He said, "Thou art the Son of God, the King of Israel."
Now, if He's raised from the dead, He's obligated to His Word if He is the same yesterday, today, and forever. Is that right? And that's why I'm carrying this conversation with you. The man standing here with his eyes closed, but I'm carrying the conversation. Why? Contacting his spirit; exactly like Jesus did the woman at the well, at other places and so forth. That's right.

83 Now, if the Lord Jesus will let me know what your trouble is, will you believe that it's Him standing here and not your brother? You believe it's Jesus that's telling that? Would that be your attitude towards Him? If it would, would you raise your hand? All right, sir. All right. It would be. Now, may the Lord grant it. Will the rest of you believe with all your heart, everywhere? Now, get all the doubt away from you. More doubt you get combed out, greater God can work with you.
Remember, it is not me: Christ in a form of the Holy Spirit that's here now. I believe that He will let me know this man's trouble, the same as He let Christ know the woman's trouble that was standing at the well. Now, the man can be judge of that. If he knows what was in his life, surely He'd know what was in the future. So, He would know how to do.

84 Now, I... Now, believe that Christ the Son of God, that we are becoming yielded to His Spirit, and the man is aware that something is going on. It started right then with him, because standing between me and him stands that light, the Holy Spirit, the pillar of fire that led the children of Israel. He's conscious of it. If that's right, sir, raise up your hand. That's right.
The man's suffering with an extreme nervousness. He's all shook up and bothered about something. That's right, and he's suffering with a heart condition. That is true. He's got a rupture, and that is true. That's true. If that's right, raise up your hand, sir. You believe? Now, look here at me just a minute, sir. You know whether that was true or not. That's true, isn't it? [The man says, "That's true."] Exactly. You believe me to be His servant, just a man, your brother, yielded to the Holy Ghost.

85 Let me tell you something else. I see something happen. The man I see him fall, or fall backwards. He's just had a heart attack, and that heart attack come when it was hot weather. It's been about one, two, three, four or five, six or seven, through the winter, eight, nine. It was about last August, about... It was hot weather. You had a heart attack about nine months ago, something like that, and you're scared to death now that it's going to come back again, because you got a nervous heart. And brother, don't you believe that. That'll bring it on you. Refuse to believe that lie of the devil. When a man has a heart attack, he's stronger than he was at the first place. You believe with all your heart? Then go rejoicing, and praising God, and be over your trouble. Now, go and be happy and rejoice. Let's say, "Thanks be to God."

86 Nobody will never know the life that takes out of a person. Now, I can't tell you. Right now they's something about a man. I see him laying out somewhere and them doing something to him. It's the only thing I can remember right now. It's another world.
Now, I want you to be real reverent. Watch this way. Believe. Don't believe me. Believe Him. Believe Him. Ask Him. Say, "Lord, if that's true..." You people out there that won't be called in the prayer line, say, "Lord, I'm not asking, 'If it's truth.' I believe it's truth, and if You'll just speak to me, it'll make me a great believer." Just do that one time.
Now, the lady here. We're strangers to each other, lady. I never saw you in my life, but God knows you; I don't. There's a man up here beside of the woman. I don't know. Just a moment. Now, lady, I don't know you. I've never seen you, but one of these days you and I are going to stand in the Presence of Jesus Christ when He's in His glorified body and give an account. I want you to believe, and you'll know whether these things are true or not. You be the judge, see. You be the judge.

87 Never seeing you and never knowing you, the first thing I know: that you're not from around here. You've come from somewhere else. That's right. You come from the south coming this a way (That's right.), down about Mississippi---down in the Southlands. And you're bothered with a disturbance. It's a mental disturbance. It's an oppression, and you're the wife of a minister, and your husband has got the same thing; and what's caused you to be this way is because of your husband. That's right, and you're having family trouble. Up right ready for a divorce, and your husband is kind of possessed. He's let Satan come in and take him over. That's right. Do you believe now? Is that true? Well, go on your road back rejoicing and be happy, and may the evil spirit go out and never bother again, through Jesus Christ's name. Amen.
Have faith. Don't doubt. Unbelief is sin, unpardonable sin. Just believe. That's all He wants you to do. All right.

88 I can see Him coming down, and the disciples standing there. They had power, but they didn't have faith to use it. How true that is with this group of people tonight. Jesus, ten days before, give them power to heal the sick and raise the dead, and here they was on the epileptic case and had failed. They couldn't do it. This father run and said, "Lord, I brought my son to Your disciples, and they couldn't do nothing for him." Said, "Can you help him?"
He said, "I can if you believe, but it's up to you to believe."
So, when the devil was gone from the boy, the disciples said, "Why couldn't we do it?"
Said, "Because of your unbelief." Not the lack of power. This church has power enough tonight right in here this group of people to do anything, but you haven't got faith enough to do it. You just won't do it.

89 You have faith enough to walk, sir. You have power enough if you had faith. You have power enough too, lady, in the cot, if you'd believe, but that's up to you, see. The finished work... I couldn't do nothing. If Christ was standing right here with this suit on, He couldn't do nothing for you. He's already done it. It's already finished at Calvary, see. He'd asked you, "Don't you believe that I did it then?"
"Yes, Lord."
Say then, "According to your faith, believe it. Act on it." That's all He can do. He can't... If you're redeemed... If something's in a pawn shop, and you've redeemed it, and got a receipt for it, how can you redeem it again? It's already paid for.

90 Now, this young lady standing here, I suppose we being strange to each other, God in heaven knows our hearts. But I don't know you, and as far as I know I've never seen you in my life, but God knows us both. He knows all about us.
Now, like the woman at the well, the very picture tonight again: here a woman and a man. Now, Jesus went in and sat down against the well. And the woman come out to get some water. He begin to talk to her. He said, "Bring Me a drink."
She said, "It's not customary for you Jews to ask Samaritans such."
Said, "Well, but if you knew who you were talking to, you'd ask Me for a drink and I'd give you water you don't come here to draw."
She said, "The well's deep, and You haven't got nothing to draw with." And the conversation went on and on and on.
After a while He found where her trouble was. He said, "Go get your husband."
She said, "I don't have any."
Said, "That's right. You got five."
She said, "Sir, I perceive that You are a prophet." She said, "We know that when Messiah cometh, He will tell us these things, all things, but who are You?"
He said, "I'm He."
That was the sign of the Messiah. Now, here we are after nineteen hundred and something years, again tonight here stands man and woman. Now, He said, "I do nothing till the Father shows Me. The things that I do, shall you also." Here's the man and woman, the Bible laying here, God's promise, the Holy Ghost here.
Now, what's He going to do about it. He's got to keep His Word, lady. He has, and if I'm an honest man in my heart, I will tell you that everything you have need of... For you are a Christian. Your spirit feels welcome, and I know you're a Christian. Everything that you have need of was purchased at Calvary. The only thing that I can do is just to, maybe, be as a prophet, or... I don't like to say that name, that... As being able to see visions..., see. That staggers people too much, the reason I say that, see. They don't understand. Thank you. You believe that, then you can receive. God bless you.

91 The first thing that I see to the woman. She's got sinus trouble. It's a bothering her. It's exactly right. Headaches like in across through here---sinus. It bothers her. And I see you kneeling, praying. It's in a room. I hear you, what you're saying. You're asking a worthy thing. You're asking God to give you a child, a baby. You're barren and asking God to give you a baby. That's right. God bless you. I have never seen Him fail on one yet. A woman in Chicago, fifty something years old, come and asked for a baby. She got a fine boy. May God grant it to you.
Seems to me like I see like swamps or something. I don't know whether it's this country, lot of cedar. Look like swamp willow, and it's kind of passing. It looks like Arkansas to me. Was you ever in Arkansas? It seems to me like it was Arkansas. It is Arkansas. It's Jonesboro, Arkansas, the blessed old Bible Hour Tabernacle ... where you're from. You're down there, and you're trying to contact...
They's somebody else in here that's trying to make a contact. It's an aged woman that's standing. And they're from a rolling country, maybe Missouri, and that's your mother. Here It goes... There she sits right there, and she's got hardening of the arteries. That's right exactly the truth. Amen. Go believing, and may the God of heaven give you the desire of your heart, my sister, through Jesus Christ's name. Amen. Amen.

92 Blessed be the name of the Lord. "All things are possible to him that believeth." Do you believe?
Little lady, sitting on the end of the seat there, you're bothered with a nervous condition, isn't it? Got real worry spells comes on you. Don't fear. It's gone from you. Have faith in God. If thou canst believe. You know the Bible said, "All things are possible." Isn't that true? All things are possible.
What about you sitting there with prostate trouble, sitting right up here, the man looking down across the balcony right up here, the elderly man? Prostate trouble, getting up at nights, do you believe, sir? Raise up your hand standing right up here. That's it. You believe, sir? White shirt on sitting... All right. It's finished. You're healed. Have you got a prayer card? You don't have a prayer... You don't need one. You're healed, sir. It won't bother you anymore. Your faith made you whole. Amen. He's a High Priest that can be touched by the feeling of our infirmities. If you'll believe, no matter where you're at, have faith.

93 All right. We're strange to one another, lady. I don't know you, never seen you in my life, but God does know you, doesn't He? And if God will speak... If I can yield myself to His Spirit.
Something happened. I don't know what it... Would you believe me then, as His servant?
You have a different type of nervousness. The lady sitting there with the little paper in her hand. You got a nervous condition too, but yours is a weary type of nervousness. You're mentally upset all the time, and just seems like that you get gloomy and weary feeling, isn't it? That's right, and many times you get real weak before your day's work is done. You have to sit down, your strength is depleted. Isn't that right? Sometimes you get so weary you walk over to the window. I see you pull back the window and walk back and forth. The sun shining down on the side. Makes you have a real gloomy, weary feeling. Isn't that right? If that's right, raise up your hand. That's right, see. I'm not reading your mind, but sister, it's over. Your faith has touched Him now. Now, you go. Be real happy.

94 This lady, Satan lied to you. I seen a dark shadow come to you said you's going to loose your mind (You see?), go crazy. He said that to you. That's right. Right. Suggested suicide and everything else, but it didn't do a bit of good. God's healed you. That's right. You're going home now to be well. Have faith in God. Don't doubt. Believe.
I'm sorry. Just as it moves I have to go with it, you see. It's their faith that's doing it, you see. It's a... I didn't mean to leave you. But that's just ... I just... And just as He moves I just have to talk quickly, you know, because it's just coming like one great draw from the audience, and just as soon as I feel it single out, then I have to watch it (You see?), see where it goes to find out just... There it goes again.

95 It's the lady with glasses on. Here she stands right here before me. There she is. Amen. Viruses, isn't it, sister? Right there. That's right. Got a virus. Isn't that right? They don't even know what to call it. That's just an excuse the doctor give you, that's all. But it don't do no good now. It's over. You can go ahead and be well. Your faith made you well. Lot of faith sitting in the corner there. What's the matter people? Start believing.
I don't know those people. I've never seen them. I don't know you, but I challenge you in Christ's name to believe the Bible is true and Jesus raised from the dead. Forget about those church creeds and things, and serve the Lord. Believe on Him. He's raised from the dead. You've served Him in a measure. That's right.
But, my dear friend, when the enemy comes in like a flood, God raises a standard against it. You read in these magazines and things how Satan is on a rampage. Yes, sir. God's raising a standard against it. Don't worry. He's always in the... He's always on the right side. He's always above the enemy all the time.

96 Do you believe that, lady, sitting right there? Yes. Had more faith than you thought you had, see. Faith is a subconscious thing, lady. Faith is not a mental act, see. It's something that you subconsciously do it. People try to look to their intellects for faith, when faith doesn't lay in here. Reasons lay here. Faith lays in the soul. Now, the trouble with your foot and leg... You believe that Jesus Christ make you well? You do? You accept it? Believe it? Had a little arthritis too, but Jesus Christ make you well. You believe it? All right. Then you can have it. Amen. Amen. She just kind of had to come to herself, for the Angel of the Lord was standing over her, see. Jesus said, "If thou canst believe, all things are possible."

97 You're bothered, aren't you, lady? You're worried about something. It's your side. You're having numb spells like in it. That's right, isn't it? And you're afraid it's gall bladder trouble causing it. Yes'm, yes'm, but listen. What it is really, you've got a growth on the spine. Isn't that right? That's what's cutting the nerve off. It isn't the gall bladder. He was mistaken on that. It's that growth in your spine's pinching the nerve. That's what's causing your numbness. You have a gall bladder trouble, but that isn't causing the numbness. That's true, isn't it? Now, go and be well. Jesus Christ [unclear words] in the name of Jesus.
Everyone reverent. Be reverent as you can be now. Have faith. I know you're praying, mother. I'm trying my best. I can't do it. It takes you to do it. If you'll believe for Him... All right. Wish I could. If I could, I'd heal everybody, but healing doesn't lay in me. It lays in Calvary, see.

98 You believe God will heal you of that rupture, mother, sitting there with the little checked dress on? You were praying, saying, "Lord Jesus, let this be my night." Isn't that right, little mother sitting right there? That's right. Uh-huh. That's right. Amen. Have faith in God. Believe Him. I wished you'd lay your hands on that lady next to you, because she's got phlebitis that's bothering her bad, and she... Oh, Lord, I pray that the... Lord Jesus that You will heal her and make her well. Grant it, Lord. Amen.
Mother, being that you did that... The lady with her hands on the lady, turn your hand right back around and catch the lady sitting right behind you. She's got trouble in her side. She wants to be healed too. You [unclear words]. Amen. Father, I pray that You'll heal her and make her well also, Lord. Grant it for Your glory, through Jesus Christ's name. Amen.

99 [Gap in the audio.]... Here kind of a little [unclear words]. You believe that Jesus would cure you of that lung trouble? Believe that He would make you well? You do? Do you accept it now that He heals you? But... All right. Then you can have it.
And you with your hand laying upon your head, sir. Do you believe with all your heart? Uh-huh. You got... You're... You put your hand on the lady? That's good. You got a cough and a back trouble that's bothering you, but you believe that Jesus Christ would make you well? If you can, you can receive what you asked for. All right.

100 [Gap in the audio.] ... she didn't mean to do it. She thought I was talking to her, but you got a [Gap in the audio.] ... this man. Bow your heads, everybody, see. I don't know how bad it is. Just keep your heads bowed and don't nobody look up till you hear my voice, please. It's hearing. Now, everyone just be real reverent. He's also has kidney trouble and arthritis.
Dear, heavenly Father, we don't need to see miracles, but that the world might know that You still perform miracles, we ask sovereignly, Lord, and feeling this deafness vibrate against me, knowing that he's come to challenge. But, Lord, You'll meet his challenge, for You sent Jesus Christ, and He robbed Satan of every power he had at Calvary. And Satan has did this, that the man could walk before a vehicle somewhere and be killed and fill a premature grave. But, God, You are here to take it off of him.
Then, Satan, in Jesus Christ's name, come out of the man. Every head bowed [unclear words]. [ Brother Branham claps his hands.] Hear me? All right now. You had arthritis too. You had a kidney trouble too. Now, raise your head. Feel all right now? How long has that deaf spirit been on you? Years, years. What? Can you hear me all right? [Man says, "Oh yes."] Hear me now? I'm just barely whispering. Watch. They can't even hear me on the mike. Watch here you can't hear me. Hear me now? Hear me now? Hear me now?

101 How do you do? Say, I don't know, there's a light around you. Something must've happened in the line. Oh. You were... You've been healed. You had cancer and was healed; and you're standing here for somebody else. That's a relative of yours. It's a nephew, and he's got cancer or something on the face. That's right. Then that handkerchief you got in your pocket for him, take it on to him. Put it on him in the name of the Lord Jesus.
Let us say, "Praise the Lord." Do you believe? Do you believe that Jesus Christ, the Son of God, the seed of Abraham you are? If you'll believe right now, I don't care where you are or what condition you're in, Christ has healed you. Do you believe it? Then, let us pray.
Heavenly Father, only the devil would try to gloom these people into unbelief, but I challenge him on the basis of the shed blood of the Lord Jesus Christ. Satan, you are defeated. Christ defeated you at Calvary. You are exposed here tonight by the Holy Ghost, and you're in the form of demon: cancer, deafness, dumbness, cripples, and all other diseases. You did this to the people, and Jesus Christ died to set them free. Come out of them. You can't hold them any longer. I challenge you in the name of Jesus Christ.

Faith

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1 Good evening, friends. Happy to be back in the house of the Lord again tonight in the service of the great King. Been a wonderful day: had fellowship with many of our brethren this morning, having breakfast with them and just had a wonderful time, enjoying this day greatly.
And now, tonight to get right straight as quick as we possibly can... We're just a little late. And beginning at eight o'clock is what throws me off. I think that's pretty late at home. And last... Usually I speak just a little long, because I try to get just as much in as I can, knowing we just got five nights ... and two nights after this; and it's not long enough. If we had about two weeks...

2 See, the first thing, you have to get used to each other. As I used to say, get all the spooks away where we won't be afraid of each other and know that we're not here to harm one another. We're here to help one another. And so, then, usually a person when they're healed, too, oh, right away they're just feeling marvelous.
And now, if you don't know the approach of how to hold that healing, it'll come right back, and you'd be worse than you was the first time, see. Now, sickness is the devil. We know that. You can't pin that on God. God don't make people sick. God makes people well.
And so you... The Bible said, "When the unclean spirit's gone out of a man, he walks in dry places and returns again with seven other devils worse than he was." Now, if the good man of the house isn't there to keep him off and know the very attack that he's going to make, then it's worse.

3 Just like a growth, it's a life. It's got a life in it. That life is growing like a cancer. It developed from one little cell. You developed from one cell. You come from a blood cell through your father. And that was a blood cell. And it went into the womb, and there it begin to multiply cells, and it brought forth a child. It growed into the size person you are now. Tear it down and go right down to one cell, then what's after that one cell? Is a life. That life is a spirit. Your spirit come from God.
But where did that cancer, which is developing cells, where did it come from? It come from one cell. But what's behind that cell? Is another life. And what life is that? A life of death. God can't be... Life can't be associated with death. They don't agree.

4 Jesus never preached a funeral. Death and life can't stay together at the same time, see. So, they come from the devil. Then when that... We're not dealing with that growth. We're dealing with the life in that growth, that's making it grow. And when that life goes out, it shrinks. When anything dies, it actually shrinks. How many in here ever killed a wild animal, a deer or anything? Let's see your hand. All right. You weigh it soon as you kill it.
And just let it lay there, and tell the boys how much it weighs, and in the morning weigh it again. See how far off you are. Shrinks. An undertaker, be here telling the same thing about a human body when you die. It begins to break down. They tell you it's a artificial eye or teeth, they take them out, because they'll push out.

5 But then, it's like a little animal run over in the street, a little dog or something. But leave him lay there for about seventy-two hours and watch what takes place. He's way bigger than he was the first time, see. It shrinks, then it goes to swelling. Well, as soon as that growth begins to swell and the patient'll say, "Oh, I'm so sick. Oh, I'm so sick. I lost my healing." That's a sign you got your healing. You just got it vice-versa.
And I suppose in the afternoon service, they're teaching those things anyhow. So, in the big campaigns we try to get that in. And in my tent, I'm going to try do it myself in the afternoon service, give the instructions of how to approach, how to maintain your healing. Just as much to know how to maintain it as it is to receive it.

6 And then, if you don't... Just like salvation: you accept Christ, and the first thing you know, immediately the devil take... How many in here is borned again? Let's see your hands. Praise the Lord for that. How many was tempted and went through temptation immediately after you was borned again? Let's see your hands. Everyone of you. Sure. If you didn't, you wasn't born again. See, you've got to have... Every son that cometh to God first's got to be chastised, child trained, no exception, every son, every person that comes without exception.
Well, then, what happens? This growth begins to break up. If it's a growth on the inside of you, the impurities, it'll give you a fever. Sure it will, because a heart's got to beat that through and purifies the blood stream. And certainly, you got to get worse right away. But you won't get worse for about seventy-two hours, 'cause that's when corruption sets in.

7 And it's just like if you was a cancer and going to take you off the earth, you wouldn't deal with the way of healing just to take your body away; just take the life out of it and it'll automatically go away. So that's the main thing, is we're dealing with the spirit. "In My name, they shall cast out demons," the devil.
Now, a lot of times, we have a person like that's deaf, that can't hear. Well, the doctors say, if there's any operation he can do, if a bone's been pulled out of place like in sometimes losing the teeth will pulling the jaw in, cut the bone ... cut the nerve, rather, he can't hear. The doctor sometimes in a operation, could correct that.

8 But what if there's nothing there that he can't tell what done it? Just like a... My hand is turning black and blue. They can't understand why. It's got a transparent band around it here, shutting off the circulation. After while that hand will die. If the doctor ... the only thing he can work on is what he can see or feel. That's all he can do.
But what if it's a spirit in there? He can't see it, feel it, no way to contact it, only in the supernatural. Well, they say, "That's the same thing about hearing." They say, "He's just deaf." But what makes him deaf, doctor? The nerves died in his ear. But what made them die, doctor? They didn't die all over him. So just why did it die in the ear?

9 Now, the Bible said it's a deaf spirit. The Bible said it's a deaf spirit. And when the deaf and dumb (see), the deaf and dumb spirit came out of the man, he could speak and hear, see. It's a spirit. What happened? That transparent band that our physicians and working on the anatomy, what they have been trained to work on, they can't find it. They know the nerve went dead, but what made it go dead? That's the next thing.
Now, the Bible said it's a devil. All right, when you've get that thing released, first thing you're going to get feeling in there. And why, your hand will be all right. If nature isn't interrupted, every cell will produce just exactly of its kind. Yes, it all has to be of the devil---all sickness.

10 Remember, before we had any sickness, we had no sin. And sickness is an attribute of sin. When sin came in, sickness followed it. And so sickness is to shorten your days. And it's of the devil.
And some people, those people... If you ever hear of people say, "It's such a blessing; God makes people sick so He can bless them," that's thinner than a broth made out of a shadow of a chicken that's starved to death. Don't you never believe such a thing as that. That's not Scripture.
If it is, Jesus Christ defeated His own purpose when He come to the earth and healed them that was sick and afflicted. He came to the earth to defeat exactly what He come to do, then. So, see, that won't hold water. No, sir. No, sir, Jesus came to rid sickness, and to rid sin, and to rid every [unclear word].

11 And you can't deal with sin in any manner unless you're dealing with sickness. That's right. Now, He just didn't die for one stripe, made Him ... for sickness and the other one for salvation. It was all through giving of salvation. "He was wounded for our transgressions; with His stripes we were healed."
Just like if a big serpent had his foot in me and was tearing my side out, there's no need of cutting his foot off and arguing whether I'm cutting his foot off or not. Just knock him in the head; it kills the whole thing. So that's the way it is about sickness and sin. If you knock sin in the head, you kill the whole thing. That's all, 'cause it's just an attribute of it.

12 And so that's the way it is, and we must understand how to approach it. And now, you pastors here, just remember, last night especially, after I left the platform, you'll find out, that after I'm gone a long time, you'll find out women and men will be testifying to you that they're healed, and they don't know it. That's right. It left. I could ... why, I was so weak for a long time after the service was over. And I know that many things happened, that the people hasn't found it out yet. But it's true.
Now, quickly to the Word. And I know I'm holding you too long, 'cause my wife told me so. And said you was... Sorry. Pastor Boze wanted to know if I'd ask everybody if they could hear all right. Can you hear all right? Can you hear up in this side? Over here, they... Can you hear over here? All right, back in the back of the main auditorium, can you hear all right? If you step it up just a little bit back there, ever who's doing the engineering.

13 And now, quickly, let's pray and ask the Lord to bless us in His Word. And then we'll go right straight to the healing service.
Heavenly Father, we stand in Thy august presence here now tonight to bow our heads to express to Thee the very adoration of our hearts. We love Thee with unchangeable love. Twenty-five years ago, You placed that divine love in my heart for the Lord Jesus, and it grows sweeter every day. I'm so happy that we grow in the Lord, till we become in the full stature, the measure, the stature of Christ.
And today, see through a dark glass, but when we see Him face to face, then we'll know as we are known. And here we have troubles and trials, but the attributes of our salvation being so dear to us... But someday when life is over, it does not yet appear just what kind of a body we'll have, but we know we'll have a body like His own glorious body, for we shall see Him as He is.
And then, we'll have no more prayer for the sick, no more sermons to the sinner. It'll all be over. And Father, while it's called the day, let us walk, for the night cometh when no man can work. We ask it in Christ's name, that He'll take over this service tonight, and deal with hearts, and be in the Word, and encourage people, Father, to believe. For in Thy beloved Son's name, we ask it. Amen.

14 This blessed Word of God which I do love to read. I want to read a portion out of Romans, the 4th chapter, the 18th verse.
And against hope believed in hope, that he might become the father of many nations (Listen at this.) ... and the promise should be fulfilled.
And being not weak in faith, he considered not his own body now dead, when he was about a hundred years old, neither ... the deadness of Sarah's womb:
He staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief; but was strong in faith, giving glory to God;
May the Lord add His blessings now to His Word. Been hearing good reports today of the things that's happened in our little meeting here in this little congregation as small as it is gathered. Yet, the Holy Spirit has met with us and blessed us.

15 Now, we're speaking tonight upon Faith. And I thought it would be nice, maybe, if we would use this great character of Abraham for an example of faith, because it was through Abraham the promise was given.
And we'll kind of review the life of Abraham just a little, because he was an outstanding character. And he was a man who believed God. And now, he had no great background to believe God, because it's commonly believed that he was from a family of idolaters. He came down from Babylon, (his family), dwelt in the land of Chaldea, the city of Ur, the valley of the Shinar, and was just an ordinary man. He was no Angel. He was just a man like you and I.
And God looking over the earth to see for a man that He could put confidence in, that would believe Him regardless of circumstances, He found Abraham, and called Abraham by election.

16 Now, I want you to notice (This might take just a short time; I've got my watch before me so I won't go too long.), God, the infinite, eternal, immortal God knowed everything from the beginning, He knowed the end. There was a cycle like a panoramic, going around. And it's a perfect circle. That's eternity. There's no end to a perfect circle.
If you start on top of the platform tonight, you could bore right through to the ground, all the way through the ground, right into the earth and through the earth and out into space, You'd still have a perfect circle.
And that's the way eternity is: just endless. And then, when Satan upset this program, there was a little ... a block started back here and it just dropped down. And it comes along for a certain space, and it's called time. Then it goes back again. Now, it doesn't cease to be eternity. Some people say that we will be in eternity. We are now in eternity. Eternity just dropped down into a time limit, but it moves on.

17 Christ standing back at the beginning ... at the end, when it started, He foresaw everything that would be. And He just come down to redeem the sinner, and to bless us; and went up and standing at the other end of the road, making a blessed, old highway across the way, that scarlet streak of the blood. And some glorious day, we'll take a hold where she's tied to eterni... or time to time, and will give it a pull, and the church will be lifted out, and eternity will roll on just the same. He knowed all things. He had to be, to be infinite, the immortal.
And back there, when He saw that it would take something great, He had the program in His own mind, when He seen that Satan had...

18 Now, Satan cannot create. Satan can only pervert what God has created. And sin... Listen, sin is only righteousness perverted. Did you ever think of that? Anything that's sin...
For you to be married and live with a wife, that's exactly what God said. But to be immoral is pervert. It's the same act, but it's to pervert what God has made right, see. And all sin is righteousness perverted, and Satan perverts what God has made. And He made you to be a son or a daughter to Him, and Satan perverted you (See), changed your way of thinking, changed your mind, changed your appetite, changed your desire.

19 And what a good mess he's made out of the nations today. I think of how the nations has become so polluted. I'm speaking of ours in the U.S. All we've got down there is people with their heads sticking in the televisions, and radio, and this old silly music of rock-and-rolls, and all kinds of stuff like that. It's of the devil. It's of the devil.
And men and women will stay home from a prayer meeting to go and listen to that woman, Lucy, "Our Sister Lucy," or "Our..." Oh, some kind of silly thing. And what is it? I've got the crime records on it myself right from the files of the FBI which I have in my own possession, that all married, ninety percent of that, they're married four or five times, and caught on the street in filth and orneriness. And you stick your head to look at that, it shows what's in the heart.

20 A real, borned-again child of God loves the Word and stays with the Word and with the Bible. God help you Canadians. Don't never let that American pollution get in here. And that's right. Where did it come from? Where do you get it from? America. Where does America get it? From Hollywood. Where did Hollywood get it? From hell. That's exactly where it's at.
Why, it's stripped our women. It's made immoral everywhere. The whole world's become a conglomeration of immorality. I heard the other day that some mayor down in Florida was going to pass a law, that women had to dress orderly from the neck to the knees to come on the street. I'll move to Florida if it is. Yes, sir.

21 I'm so tired, you look this way and that way; everything is immoral. I had a little crucifix hanging up in front of my car. Some fellow was riding with me the other day. He said, "Hey, Brother Branham, I thought you was a Protestant."
I said, "I am."
He said, "That's Catholic."
I said, "When did the Catholics have the option on the cross?" That's the emblem of Christian faith. Little saints, dead people like Saint Cecilia and all them, them dead people that Catholics pray to, that's a sign of Catholicism---not the cross. Christ raised from the dead. Yes.
I said, "I see so much evil on the street. When I see that evil, I look at the cross and think, 'Oh, God, how I love You for saving me from such corruption.'" That's right. Let Him always be before our face.

22 Now, Abraham was called by election. Abraham is election; Isaac is justification; Jacob is grace; and Joseph is perfection. Now, in the beginning when God called Abraham, He called him not because he was a good man, but because God foreknew Abraham. God knew what Abraham would do. He knowed Abraham. He said, "I'll know that Abraham will raise his children to fear the Lord." God knowed him. God knows you.
That's the reason we... As Congressman Upshaw used to say, "We can't make ourself something that we hain't." That's right. No matter how much you try to impersonate, you can't do it. It's the sovereign grace of God that calls you.

23 And Abraham was called by the grace and by election. And when he was called ... when he received his call, he was given the covenant of God, not because he was a good man; but it was given unconditionally to him.
Now, this is going to hurt legalist believers just a little bit now. I don't mean to pinch, but we want to know the truth, see.
There's nothing that a man can do to save himself. You are already saved by grace. That's right. You can't stop eating meat; you can't stop doing this; you can't stop. There's nothing you can do. Christ saves you and that alone. And that's right.
You can't even come to Him unless He chooses you first. He said, "You never chose Me, but I chose you. And no man can come to Me, except the Father draws him first. And all that comes, I will give him everlasting life and raise him up at the last day." Amen. That settles it. Oh, my, that would make the Methodists get happy. Think of it.

24 It's not what we are, but what Christ is for us. Christ become you and I, that you and I might become Him. He took our sins, that we might take His righteousness. So, it's nothing in my arms I bring; simply to Thy cross I cling. Nothing I could do, nothing you could do. It's the grace of God.
Then God tried man one time and made a covenant with man upon a condition: If you'll not touch this tree, then you'll live forever. And man broke his covenant. Man just can't keep his promise to God. His adversary's too great. And God knowing that, He was determined to save man, so He made the covenant unconditionally. Oh, brother, the trouble of it is with the full Gospel people tonight, you're scared... How can anything happen to you? How can...?
"Those who He foreknew, He predestinated. Those who He has predestinated (or foreknew), He called. Those who He called, He has justified; and those who He has justified, He hath already glorified." So quit being scared. God's the One's that's driving the ship, not you and I. We're just to stay on it. Amen. God made a promise; God keeps His promise. No matter how ridiculous it seems, God keeps it.

25 And He met Abraham and He gave him the covenant. Now, not, "Abraham, if you will do certain things, I'll do certain things." He said, "I have already (past tense. It's already settled.) I've already made the covenant with Abraham. I'm going to save you, and I'm going to bring you home with your father at a ripe old age, nothing you can do about it. I've already done it."
You say, "Brother Branham, if I only had God to say that to me." Wait a minute. God said, "Abraham, and his seed after him." That's a good word. Hallelujah. Means "Praise our God." That's true. We are the seed... How are we come the seed of Abraham? When we joined the church? No, sir. When we're baptized? No, sir. How do you become the seed of Abraham? "We, being dead in Christ, take on Abraham's seed and are heirs according to the promise."
And the same faith that Abraham had, comes to us by the baptism of the Holy Spirit. That's the reason you can believe in divine healing and call those things which are not as though they were, 'cause God said so. That settles it.

26 Abraham was seventy-five years old when the Lord called him, and Sarah, his wife, was sixty-five. And He said, "Abraham, I'm going to make you a father of nations, and I'm going to bless you. And I'm going to give you a baby." To a man seventy-five and a woman sixty-five...
Now, could you imagine a man seventy-five years old taking his little wife by the hand, (her sixty-five), toddling down the street, and going to the doctor, say, "Doctor, we want to make ready now. We're going to have a baby."
The doctor'd say, "Hmmm, hmmm, hmmm. Well, hmmm, hmmm. Yes, sir. Uh-huh. Well, what's your address? Where do you live?" He'd have the psychopathic group up there after you right away. Sure. They'd say he's just a little bit off.

27 Now, here it is. Every person that takes God at His Word, to the world is considered a little bit off. That's right. You're just peculiar. The Lord said you was. And if you're not, you're not His. That's right. That's kind of rough, isn't it? But that's the Word. That's what you got to stay with. No other foundation, but this is already laid.
So Abraham... Could you imagine Sister Sarah going downtown and getting the pins and the Birdseye, and getting everything ready to have the baby---sixty-five-year-old woman? And Abraham saying, "Well, we're going to have a baby all right. God said so."

28 Well, I imagine that lots of his friends around him said, "Poor old fellow! You know what? there's something wrong with him. Look at that old couple toddling down the street, saying they're going to have a baby, and we know that they've lived together since she was about eighteen and him about twenty-eight. And they got married when she was just a girl. They lived together all this time, and yet here they are saying they're going to have a baby. You know, I believe their age has got the best of them. They're kind of flipsy. This must be a real hot summer. The weather's gotten them down or something."
But it didn't make any difference what anybody said. Abraham had God's promise. That makes the difference. It's who made the promise. Is that right? And He made it to Abraham, the chosen. It's the promise and who it's made to.
Now, the promise of God is just as real tonight to the seed of Abraham, as it was to Abraham. He's the same God. You know, I feel pretty religious right now. I really do. Think of it. That would make a Baptist shout. Why? Because God has promised and by grace are we called, and when we receive Christ as personal Saviour...

29 A man said to me the other day; he said, "Now, wait a minute, Brother Branham, you're getting away from your Baptist doctrine when you go to say, 'receiving the Holy Ghost.'" Said, "We received it when we believed."
I said, then, "Why did Paul say, 'Have you received it since you believed?'?"---Acts 19.
Oh, he said, "I want to ask you something." Said, "You were preaching on Abraham, and 'Abraham believed God, and it was imputed unto him for righteousness.'" Said, "The only thing he can do is believe. What else can a person do but believe? And God imputed it to him for righteousness because he believed."
I said, "That's true, but He gave him the seal of circumcision as a confirmation of his belief." I said, "If you haven't received the Holy Ghost yet, God's never recognized your faith. And the Holy Ghost is the seal of God."
Ephesians 4:30 says, "Grieve not the Holy Spirit of God, whereby you're sealed until the next revival?" Oh, no! "Until your eternal destination." How long? Forever. God settled it once for all. And now you're the seed of Abraham...

30 If you're not deceived in your experience---that same spirit was with Abraham is in the seed of Abraham and you believe God. That made it hard on preachers that don't believe in divine healing. But that's what the Bible said.
And when you become a son of God... I take the nature of my father, because I am his son. And Abraham believed God and received the circumcision as a seal of the promise that was to come. And now, we have received the promise itself: the baptism of the Holy Spirit. And the Holy Spirit dwelling in the man makes him a son of God, and he believes like God believes.
What did I say? He believes like God believes. And where did... How'd God make the world? Hebrews 1. He made it out of things He had nothing to make it with. He just said, "Let there be." And He believed His Word. And the very ground that you're sitting over tonight is nothing else but the Word of God made manifest. If it isn't, where did He get the material to make it with? Where did it come from? God spoke His Word and believed His Word.

31 And Abraham took God's Word at the impossible till it was made possible. Mary, the virgin, took God at His Word, and the impossibles was made possible. The whole course of life was changed, and she brought forth a Baby knowing no man, because she took God at His Word.
And if anybody will take God at His Word, His Word shall be made manifest. And if that seed falls on the right kind of a ground, it will produce exactly what it said to do.
Put me on record for this and on these tapes that's going on: The right mental attitude towards any divine promise of God will bring it to pass, if you'll look at it right and realize who made it.

32 Now, if you've never had the Holy Spirit, no man can even call Jesus the Christ only by the Holy Spirit. Oh, you say ... you might say, "The preacher said so. I read it in the Bible." That's all true, but you don't know it yourself until you've experienced it. The Bible said that you can't know that Jesus is the Christ only by the Holy Spirit. That's right.
So, you see, that's the seed of Abraham. And the same promise that was made to Abraham has been made to you. And Abraham took God at His Word. What God said, Abraham called every other thing wrong and against hope. There wasn't even a hope, yet believed in hope, and called those things which were not as though they were, because God said so.
Now, if you're dying with a cancer, if you're blind, if you're crippled, or whatever you have, God promised to heal. And accept His Word and call those things... You say, "I ain't any better." Quit looking at that. The seed of Abraham don't look at the condition. They look at Who said the Word. God said so.

33 People take symptoms, always looking ... "Oh, I was prayed for. My hand was crippled; I'm no better." And you'll never be no better as long as you look at your hand.
Here some time ago, I stood by a dying child. Been about eight years ago; boy about twelve years old. An old father sent for me to come, and I said, "Well, sir, I'm in these meetings."
He said, "Brother Branham, my baby's a dying." And he said, "I'm an old man, my only son." He said, "If you'll come and pray for him, Brother Branham..."
I said, "Well, I'm just here. I've been ... eat a big dinner," and I said, "and under no anointing."
Said, "Just come pray the prayer. I believe in you, Brother Branham."
I went down at the hospital, and the doctor said, "Who's this?" And he wouldn't let me in. So, I kept talking to him; finally he let me go. I said, "The boy's dying. He's unconscious, been unconscious two days, sir. I said, "Look..." Now, the man was a Catholic.
I said, "If I was a priest and he was a Catholic boy, would you let me in to give him the last rites?"
He said, "Well, that's different."
I said, "No, it's not. Not a bit different. We believe, and this old man believes that if I pray for his boy, he'd get well."
Said, "Go on."

34 So, he sent me back there, and we got down there beside the bed; the boy's unconscious. I laid hands upon him and said, "Heavenly Father, this man has believed You, and I come just as a witness that I believe with him to lay my hands upon the boy in commemoration of Your Word, saying, 'If they lay hands on the sick, they shall recover.' I believe You, Lord. He believes You. Now, we commit it to You."
And the old fellow raised up crying. He run across and grabbed his wife. He kissed her, said, "Oh, honey, isn't it wonderful?"
She said, "Oh, dear, it's so wonderful."
The little nurse standing there scratching her head. She said, "How can you all act like that and this boy dying?"
Well, the old men wiped the tears from his eyes and he said, "Madam, the boy's not dying."
Oh, she said, "Sir, he is dying." And it's some kind of a ... something. He had black diphtheria and this one... That's the reason they didn't want me to go in, because afraid I'd pack diphtheria to my boy, my own child. And I said, "If I had that kind of faith, I ain't got no business in here anyhow."
So, I said, "Just let me in, I'll take responsibility for that."

35 So, the old man was just rejoicing, and the lady said, "Look, that heart, it's slow; some kind of a cardiogram something, if it ever goes down, it never comes back again."
I will never forget what the old man said. He put his arm around that little nurse. He said, "Look, sister dear," said, "I'm not disputing your word." He said, "See, the only thing that you have to look at is that machine." Said, "That's all you're taught to look at, is that machine." And the medical and scientific research that they have ... it's wonderful. We all appreciate that and thank God for it." But said, "The only thing you're looking at is that machine." Said, "That's all you got to look at." But said, "I'm looking at a divine promise." Said, "God promised to do it." And that boy is married and got a wife and child now.
Sure, laid like that for another day. And all at once that thing begin to come up again. "And it never been known," he said, "in all the world's history for it to do it." It depends on what you're looking at, see.

36 If you look at your hand... Don't look at that; look at God's promise. God said so. And if God said so, that settles it. It's always right with the seed of Abraham. They believe it to be the truth.
Now... And people still look at symptoms. They'll be prayed for many times. Symptoms is a great thing, and you should ignore. The Bible said...
Here, if anybody had symptoms, it was Jonah. How many remembers the story of Jonah? Now, that man had a right to have symptoms. Now look, he was backslid, 'cause the Lord told him to do something, and he wouldn't do it. He took the easy road. And he was backslid, out on a stormy sea. And they'd tied his hands and feet, and throwed him out of the ship, and a big fish swallowed him---the whale.

37 And anyone knows that when a fish feeds then he goes down to the bottom, and rests his swimmers on the bottom. I don't know how many fathoms deep it was out there, but Jonah was backslid, hands and feet tied, in the belly of a whale, on a stormy sea, at the bottom of the sea with seaweeds wrapped around his neck, and in the vomit of the whale. If he looked this way, it was whale's belly. That way was whale's belly. Everywhere he looked, was whale's belly. You talk about symptoms, he had them. You're not in that bad a shape.
But you know what Jonah said? Jonah said, "They are lying vanities. I won't even look at them." But he said, "Once more, Lord, will I look to Your holy temple."
When Solomon dedicated that temple, he said, "Lord, if Thy people be in trouble anywhere, and look to this holy place, and pray, then hear from heaven." And Jonah believed that God heard Solomon's prayer, and God put oxygen somewhere and kept that man alive for three days and nights, and took him a fish ride right straight over to Nineveh, and put him over there to prophesy.

38 And if Jonah under those circumstances could believe God and refuse to look at anything that was contrary to God's program, you're not in that bad a shape. How much more ought you to look tonight, not to a temple made with man's hands, not to a earthly temple, but to a heavenly temple where Christ the Son of God with His bloody garment stands before God the Father tonight to make intercession upon any confession that you make in His redemptive blessings and claim them.
How much more ought you to say, "I won't look at nothing but God's eternal promise." I tell you; the God of heaven that kept Jonah alive three days and nights can carry you through the deepest of trials. Amen. There you are. Depends on what you're looking at.

39 "Once more will I look to Thy temple," and Abraham believed God. He didn't care what the outlook was. Why, sure, it was impossible. Sixty-five years old. She was about twenty-five years past menopause, so it was impossible. But Abraham wasn't looking at the impossible; he was looking at what God said. And he was making ready for it.
Oh, I feel good. Look. He was looking at what God said. He didn't care what anybody else said. He looked what God said. And he refused anything else. Oh, my. Can you do it? Do you believe it? That faith rooted and growing in you? Look, how much greater a covenant have we tonight? How much more has the thousands of years of witnesses that's proved God over and over and over and over, and then Him come right down in the midst of us here and prove that He's here.
See Him heal, and bring up in wheelchairs, make the blind to see, the deaf to hear. And then we poor, little weaklings calling ourselves Christians, and will faint, and fall away at some little something. Why, it's as spineless as jellyfish. Certainly. What do you want? God's Word. If God said so, that settles it.

40 Now, I can see Abraham say, "Well, Sarah, praise God, we're going to have it."
She said, "Yes, Abraham, honey, I believe you." Here they went. That's a good couple.
Well, after the first month passed, I can hear Abraham say, "Honey, how do you feel?"
"No different."
"Bless God, we're going to have it anyhow." Sure.
Another month pass, "What about it, Sarah?"
"No different, honey."
"Glory to God, we're going to have it anyhow." Right. Why? God said so.

41 First year passed, "Any different, Sarah?"
"No different."
Year older, "Hallelujah, we're going to have it, anyhow. God said so." And when he was a hundred years old, he was still praising God stronger every day. Why? He had the promise of God anchored in his heart. Why, it was a greater miracle twenty-five years later, than it was the day He promised it. He got stronger all the time. He never weakened. He got stronger. And if it don't happen right now, if something takes place, and you're perfectly normal, and ten years taken off your life, say, "Well, I don't know whether divine healing is right or not." What an excuse of Abraham's seed you are, see.
You take God at His Word, and regardless of what the circumstances is, you still call God's Word the truth. Amen.

42 That's old-fashioned, sassafras, backwoods, sky-blue, sin-killing religion, brother; but it'll help you. It won't whitewash you; it'll wash you white. It'll take all the roots of bitterness out, and put not a wishbone, but a backbone in you, and make you call those things which God said to be the truth, in regardless for what your criticizing neighbor or pastor might say. You say, "It's the truth. God said so. If God said it, that's right. I believe it. It's to me. The faith anchors in my heart, and I believe it, and I call those things that are not as though they were, because God said so."
Then, you'll see a revival sweep Saskatchewan, till the people will be coming from England, from all over Europe, Asia, and everywhere else to come to the Saskatchewan revival. If these people right in here tonight would just take their hearts and sit on that one thing, "God said so," what a revival. Don't just make it up in your mind; in your heart, say so. That's when you know it's going to happen. There isn't nothing can ever shake it. It's right there. It's going to happen anyhow.

43 Abraham was... Now, another thing he was called. When a man has got this kind of a promise give to him, he's asked to separate himself from unbelievers. That's what makes so many people fail with healing. Come down, and the Lord perform a miracle on them, and they get off amongst unbeliever say, "Now, you're just worked up, dear. Now, you know there's nothing to that. Now, that's just mental emotion. That's the devil."
And the first thing you know, there's the devil coming right back. And you say, "Well, I ... may ... maybe I ... I ... well..." There you are right back in the same condition, only worse. Separate yourself. The Bible calls for separation.

44 You know, when you go to choose your pastor, usually the people choosing their pastor, they want to choose a good mixer. "Oh, we want a fellow that's sociable, that can do this and do that." God don't call for that kind of man. God calls for separators. Separate, come out from among them; separate yourself.
You take a lot of times people choosing their pastor. I don't know whether you do it here or not. Down in America they got a lot of Hollywood evangelism, little sissified boys that's ashamed to say what truth is. And a lot of pastors are afraid to tell people where they're standing, on account of their meal ticket.
Brother, what we need today is to take off your coat, roll up your sleeves and preach the Gospel in the power of the Holy Spirit. I don't mean a bunch of fanaticism; I mean an old-fashioned Holy Ghost, God-sent revival. That's what the world needs; not so much of this Hollywood carry-on. Call God's Word right and the devil's wrong. Make it right and wrong.

45 Sometimes, we see those things in our churches; but Abraham, he walked on. He separated himself from all of his associates. And God told him, "Now, you'll sojourn in a strange land." And every man that comes to Christ has to sojourn amongst strangers, it used to be. You used to not like to go to church and associate with the people who loved the Lord. But whenever you take God at His Word and receive His promise, then you change your association.
The boys down at the pool room ain't got any more on you no more. You won't play cards; you don't drink; you don't act like you used to. You've separated; you've crossed the line, come over the Euphrates and become a Hebrew, a called-out.

46 Then, and he was asked to sojourn in a strange land among strange peoples speaking strange languages, but he did it because he believed God and wanted to inherit the promise that God had give him. Oh, how my heart... I just preach too long. I just feel like I could almost preach right now, sure enough.
And to think of the little time that we have. We'll hit the high places for a few moments. Now, we'll notice Abraham as he came out and become a sojourner in a strange land among strange people. And first thing you know, he had someone with him who was lukewarm: Lot. Lot was his nephew and was lukewarm.

47 You know the red-hot Christian and the lukewarm Christian can't dwell together. That's what's the matter today. That's what makes the church the way it is. We're just getting into that Laodicean church age that's just lukewarm, and God said it makes Him sick at His stomach. He'd spew you from His mouth: just enough religion to go out to church and sit there like a wilted flower. That's right.
Brother, we ought to have an old-fashioned red-hot prayer meeting, and a testimony meeting, and men and women out praying, and house to house work, and on the street; and doing something for God. We've lost our zeal. We've lost our love. We've lost the things that God gave us. We let it slip out of our hands.
And a bunch of so-called... You've went after a lot of noise instead of the real old-fashioned Gospel. If there's a Negro laying here... (I don't mean to make remarks about them.) But an old Negro man one time... And this is not a joke. I don't mean to joke, 'cause this is no place to tell jokes at the platform. This is the place to preach the Gospel, but to get this point that you might see.

48 An old Negro man one morning, just kept saying, "Oh, hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah." He didn't preach at all; he just kept hollering, "Hallelujah."
When he got home, his wife said, "Parson," said, "I want to ask you something." Said, "What made you holler so much this morning?"
He said, "Honey, what I didn't have in lightning, I had to make up in thunder."
And I think we've had a lot of thunder instead of so much real, pure, holy, unadulterated Gospel teaching. If it'd been so, then the church would've been solid on the rock Christ Jesus, and she'd be moving on. Amen. That's right. It might scorch a little, but I'd rather be scorched now than burnt forever. So, just really know that it's the Gospel truth.

49 Now, when Abraham, then this little fellow along with him, lukewarm, there come up a fuss. That's the way it usually does. You take a lukewarm member, and the first thing you know, they'll pop their chewing gum awhile, and look over and say, "Now look, Sally wore that kind of a hat to church tonight, you know that's not right." Here they start. That's it.
And if you thought Sally was wrong with that kind of a hat on, why didn't you go pray for her, and she didn't straighten up, then take her out to one side and put your arm around her, say, "Sister dear, I want to ask you something." Talk to her like that. That'd show more Christianity, than it would be to raise a little cult ... or, a little friction in the church. Any Christian would do that.

50 Look, then what did Abraham do? They started fussing, so Abraham said, "Now, Lot, before we have any quarrels between us, you separate yourself from me and I from you. Now, you look any way you want to. You take your choice." That's the way a Christian does, give them the benefit of the doubt. "Take your choice. You go east; I'll go west. You go north; I'll go south. And I'll give you the benefit of the doubt."
Well, right quick that backslider, he wanted to look for the easiest road. So, he looked over and he seen Sodom: a lot of waters; the Jordan swept through there. It was a paradise, almost like Eden.
So, he said, "I'll take this way," and leave his poor old uncle with all those cattle and things out there on the barren lands. But Abraham... When Lot separated himself, and God saw that great move that Abraham had done, that great thing, that he had submitted himself, and give his brother the benefit of the doubt. And took the poorer part, and let Abraham go on with his big fine ... or, I mean, Lot with his great refine ... fines and things like that as he went down and perhaps become the mayor of the city and sat in the gate to be the judge. And his wife become the leader of all the societies and everything down there, the way she lived.

51 But you know what God said to Abraham? He said, "Abraham, rise up." Amen. I know you think I'm crazy. Maybe I am, but just leave me alone. I feel better this way. So He said, "Raise up, Abraham. Look around." Said, "Look to the east, look west, north and south." Said, "Walk throughout the land, 'cause it's all yours (Amen.); look it over."
That's what's the matter with Christians. That's what's the matter with people. You don't know what you own.
You know, if somebody give me the Bible... This blessed Bible here is your possession. Everything that God promised in here is yours. It belongs to you. But maybe you say, "Well, the Lord saved me. Praise the Lord. I'm glad for that. I don't know about divine... I don't know about these things."

52 My, could you buy a house without looking through it? If I own anything, I want to look around. You know the Holy Ghost is like a great big arcade. You know what a arcade is. And you're baptized into it. And if I own the arcade, I'd like to go around those shelves and see what I own, look around, look at this. If something seems to be a little high, I get me a ladder, climb up to it, look around, see what belongs to me.
And that's the way you ought to do as a Christian. Look through the Bible, see what the promise is. Every one of them is to the believer. Amen. Remember, when we used to sing the songs before we backslid, "Every promise in the Book is mine, every chapter, every verse, every line. I'm trusting in His love divine. Every promise in the Book is mine." That's right. Yes, it's yours.

53 If you're sick, God said He'd heal you. If you're worried, God said He'd give you peace. If you're a sinner, God said He'd save you. If you've been saved, He said He'd give you the Holy Ghost. Peter said so in the Gospel on the day of Pentecost, said, "Repent, every one of you and be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of your sins, and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost, 'cause the promise is unto you, and to your children, and to them that's far off (all over to Prince Albert), and as many as the Lord our God shall call."
How can you take the blessed Holy Spirit out of this age then? If God's still calling, He's still giving the Holy Ghost. Amen. That's the truth. All right, the promise is to them that believe.

54 One fellow said to me not long ago, said, "Oh, preacher, I don't believe in divine healing."
I said, "Well, you're a unbeliever. It's not for you anyhow. It's just for believers." That's right. It isn't for unbelievers. It's for them that believe. That's what salvation... The Holy Ghost is for them that believe, not for them that believe not, but to him that believeth. That's right. It's only for believers.
And everything God promised in the Book, we ought to take His Word and say it's the truth. Anything contrary say it's a lie: "Let every man's word be a lie and Mine be truth." That's what God said. And Abraham's children believe that, that's become God's children through Christ, receiving the same Spirit was on Christ comes on the church.
"Can you drink the cup I drink?" He said to the woman that wanted her sons, one one place, and the other.
"Yes."
"Can you be baptized with the baptism that I've been baptized with?"
"Yes."
And He said, "You shall." That's right. "A double portion shall come upon you." That's true.

55 Like the garment of Elijah that fell upon Elisha: the double portion. The Holy Ghost come upon the church, and "These things that I do, more than this shall you do, for I go to My Father." It's God's promise; you're just afraid to claim it.
Just like a little girl that wants something from her daddy---or a little boy---they say, "Daddy, will you give..." If you're a right daddy, you make them a promise, you'll keep your word. How much more will God keep His Word to His children? You might make a promise and then break it. But God can't break it, because He can do it. And He won't promise until He's got the strength to do it.
And Abraham said, "He counted him that He was able to keep His promise." And that's the reason he believed Him. What do you count Him at tonight? To keep His promise?

56 Then we find out after that, Abraham said, "Lord, I'm almost a hundred years old now; I still believe You. Now, how am I going to know that I'm going to receive this promise?"
And look what he said. He said, "Abraham, come out here. I want to confirm this promise to you." Oh, I love that. God always confirms His Word. He confirms His promise. Said, "Come out here, Abraham, alone to yourself. I want to confirm My promise to you---My covenant." And now, listen real close.
And He said, "Go get Me a heifer of three years old, and get Me a she goat three years old, and get Me a ram of three years old, and a turtle dove and a pigeon." And Abraham went, and got them, and slew them all. And he cut the heifer, and the she-goat, and the ram. He cut them apart in the middle, but he didn't separate the dove and the pigeon. Why? They were both offerings for sickness. Always the dove was an offering like...
Jesus said, "Go show yourself to the priest and offer the offering Moses required." And it was offered two turtledoves for the cleansing of leprosy. And some of them was over running water, and how one was killed, the other one ... the blood upon the other one, and so forth for a cleansing, for healing.

57 And now look, the reason he cut these in two, because the covenant of salvation had been clave between the Old Testament and the New Testament, upon the different sacrifice: upon the one sacrifice upon animals, and the other one upon the Son of God. But the dove, the healing has always been based upon the faith of the people. That's the reason they could not be separated.
Now, watch. This ought to almost make the Pentecostals shout (Notice) even as far off as they are. Watch what happened. He cut them in two, and he said, "Now, Abraham, watch the birds off of them," that they didn't come down to eat the carcasses of the beef, until the sun was going down. And when the sun was going down (Now, listen close.), God caused a deep sleep to fall on Abraham. In otherwise, "Abraham, there's nothing you can do about it. The covenant is still unconditional, and I'm going to do it; so I'm just going to put you out of the picture. You go to sleep."
And when Abraham went to sleep, showing that it was nothing he could do... He couldn't stop eating meat, or keeping days, or doing this, or doing that, or trying to merit himself something, or being sprinkled this way and baptized backwards and up-and-down, trying to merit something. It's the grace of God that does it every time. It isn't you; it's God.

58 "So, Abraham, you're not even in the picture. I'm the One to do this." I'm so glad that He does. I just like to just believe Him and follow Him. After all, He's got the right to say "yes" or "no." I'm so glad that He saved me, aren't you? And He never done it because I was any good, or you was any good, or we merited anything; He done it because He loved us. That's right. We never loved Him; He loved us. We couldn't change our nature, no more than you could tell a pig that he was wrong eating in a manure pile. Why, certainly not.
I wouldn't think nothing to see a pig eating in manure. That's his nature. But I hate to see the day that I'd see a lamb eating in the same diet. And what gets me is... I don't condemn a sinner for what he does. The sinner's all right. If he wants to drink, and rouse, and fuss, and carry on, stew, that's his business, go on. That's your business.
But you that call yourselves Christians and then do the same thing the sinner does, that shows your nature hasn't been changed. You're still a pig. That's right. That's right. I don't mean to hurt you. I want you to be cured. You know, you have to rub the scab off sometime to get the thing to heal up right.
So, that's what the Gospel does. It gives us an old-fashioned rubbing down. Then, it pours some burning alcohol or something in the back of it to kind of make it burn a little bit.

59 Now, notice what he did. Then He said, "Abraham, I'm taking you out of the picture. You have no more to do with this at all." And Abraham went to sleep. And when he did, the first thing he saw before him was a real black darkness: death that faces every person. "It was once appointed unto man to die and after this the judgment." A horrid darkness, horror, shaky. You know what a horror is? A darkness come before Abraham.
But after that, he looked and he saw a smoking furnace. Every sinner deserves to go to hell. God's confirming His covenant now. Watch. And then after the smoking furnace, he saw a little white light: salvation. And this little white light went up to these beasts and went right in between each one of these beasts, making the confirmation of the covenant with Abraham---this little white light.
What was he speaking of? In a symbol if you're spiritual minded, you'll pick it up right quick. It was Christ he was speaking of. Every one of those animals, every one of those birds, them beasts, everything spoke of Christ at Calvary. Now, let me get it to you a little bit so you can understand it.

60 In Canada, what if you and I in Canada or anywhere in America was going to make a covenant one another. I'd say, "Sir, will you do a certain-certain thing?"
"Yes, Brother Branham."
"Well, I will do a certain thing. Let's shake hands." You reach over and get his hand, shake hands. That's the covenant, confirming it. "Yes, sir. It's settled, is it, boy?"
"It's settled." That's the way we do it, isn't it?
Now, in Japan when they make a covenant, it's a strange thing; but they get a little cruse of salt, and they get out there and talk the covenant over. And one gets some salt and throws it on the other one, and then throws salt back on him. Now, that's confirming a covenant.

61 But in the Orient, back in... The Bible becomes a new book to you if you're ever in Palestine and in the Orient, the eastern country. It's a eastern book. It's just a new book when you see it in the light of the eastern people.
And in this day how a covenant was made, what they did, they taken a beast and killed it. They killed the beast, and they wrote the covenant out on paper or a lambskin, wrote it out on here, and they took that, tore it apart up over this dead beast's body. One man took one piece, one man took the other one, and took an oath to God, that if they broke this covenant between them, let their body be like this dead beast. What a binding covenant. And that's how that God confirmed the oath to Abraham.

62 Now, look, when Christ was on earth, the Son of God, which Isaac, the promised one, or the child... How'd he know he was going to have it? He was speaking to him what He was going to do by the killing of these sacrificial beasts, speaking of Christ.
And what did God do at Calvary to confirm the covenant? He took His own Son to Calvary; and on Calvary's cross He tore Him apart. He said, "Father, into Thy hand, I commend My Spirit." And God rent the Spirit from the body, and He took the body up to glory (You believe that?), sitting at the right hand of His majesty, and sent the Holy Spirit that was in Him, down to the church to confirm and to do the same things that He did when He was here on earth, to write the covenant on this and to that...

63 And brother, the only way in the world that the covenant will ever be keeped ... or, be kept, is when you and I receive the baptism of the Holy Ghost, that God tore Christ apart and sent the Holy Ghost down for you and I. The only way we'll be able to go up in the rapture is when that body comes to receive its spirit again ---the raptured people that's in the covenant. And the covenant is the circumcision by the baptism of the Holy Ghost, that's Abraham's seed. Amen. Whew! I feel like shouting myself. My.
God made the promise, and He tore Christ apart at Calvary. On Pentecost, He sent the baptism of the Holy Ghost, and the Spirit that was in Christ is in you and you're a new creature. "And the works," Christ said, "that I do shall you do also; even to the end of the world I'll be with you." Hallelujah!
Oh, my. Friends, when I think of it to see how perfect it is that the Scripture lays on it. You may think I'm excited, but I'm not excited. If you felt like I did, you'd do the same and act the same.

64 Look, friends, God made the promise. God sent it back, and here each night is confirming that promise, that it's the truth. God keeps His covenant. God confirms His covenant.
When you see Christ going through the audience and doing the things that He did when He was here on earth, knowing like Abraham, knowing like Christ did when He was here on earth, the different things. The woman at the well, and all these things taking place the way they did: It's God writing on the second piece of paper, pulling out His church for His name's sake, with the same Spirit was on this body up here. And this body is a raptured body that'll go to meet this one. God took an oath by Himself, for there was no other He could take it by and swore that He would keep it. [Gap in the audio.]

65 Hallelujah! My, my, don't be scared of "Hallelujah"; it means, "Praise our God." He's worthy of every praise that could be given Him. Amen.
A woman the other day told me, said, "Mr. Branham, you brag too much on Jesus."
I said, "I don't brag enough."
She said, "You make Him more than a man."
I said, "He was more than a man."
Oh, she said, "You're mistaken. He was a prophet." She was a Christian Science. And she said, "He was a prophet, but he wasn't ... no, he wasn't divine."
I said, "He was either divine or the biggest deceiver the world ever knowed." She said ... I said, "If He wasn't Emmanuel's blood... If God, the Father, didn't overshadow that virgin and create a blood cell in her (That's right.), that brought forth the Son, Christ Jesus... Nobody, no man had nothing to do with that. God Himself did it."

66 And the blood's why we're redeemed. That's what's the matter with the church tonight. It's in anemic condition. It needs a blood transfusion from Calvary and the old-fashioned baptism of the Holy Spirit back into the church again, hellfire and brimstone preached till it's scorching the coattails of the believers. Amen. That's true.
What we need today is an old time Saint Paul's revival and the Bible Holy Ghost back again. Correctly. What we need is some preachers that'll get out and preach the truth of the thing.

67 Now, if we notice this, how that God keeps His promise. This lady said to me, she said, "Mr. Branham, if I'll prove to you he wasn't nothing but a man..."
I said, "He was more than a man." I said, "He was God." I said, "God was in Christ, reconciling the world to Himself."
Said, "Oh, no. He was Joseph's son."
I said, "He was God's Son." I said, "He was divine."
She said, "I'll prove to you by your Bible that He wasn't divine."
I said, "I want to see you do it."
She said, "All right. In St. John, the 11th chapter, the Bible said, that when Jesus went down to the grave of Lazarus, He wept."
I said, "What's that got to do with it?"
She said, "Well, it shows he wasn't divine or he couldn't weep."
I said, "Woman, that won't work." I said, "Let me show you something. He was a God-man. He was both man and God. God was in Him." I said, "When He went down to the grave, that's right, He wept. That was a man, but when He pulled that little self together, and said, 'Lazarus, come forth,' and a man had been dead four days stood on his feet and lived again, that was more than a man. That was God speaking out of there. Sure."

68 I said, "It's true when He come down off the mountain that night, He was so hungry. He was looking around for something to eat. Looked on the tree and couldn't find nothing to eat. He was a man when He was hungry; but when He took five biscuits and two or three little pieces of fish and fed five thousand, that was more than a man. That was God." Amen.
When He was out there on that ship that night, tossed about like a little old bottle stopper, laying so tired and weak, virtue going out of Him, in the back of that ship, where ten thousand devils swore they'd drown Him... He was laying out there and the winds and the waves tossing around, and He woke up ... they woke Him, and He put His feet upon the brail of the boat, and looked out, and said, "Peace, be still." And there was a sudden calmness. The winds and the waves obeyed Him. That was more than a man speaking. That was God speaking through those born lips.
He cried for mercy at Calvary, that's true. He cried, "My God, why hast Thou forsaken Me?" He died like a man, but on Easter morning when the seals was broke, and then the Roman seal was tore apart, and He rose from the dead, He proved that He was God. That's right.
No wonder the poet said:
Living, He loved me;
Dying, He saved me,
Buried, He carried my sins far away;
Rising, He justified freely forever:
Someday He's coming---oh, glorious day.
Amen. No wonder blind Fanny Crosby could scream out:
Pass me not, O gentle Saviour,
Hear my humble cry;
While on others, Thou art calling,
Do not pass me by.
Thou, the stream of all my comfort,
More than life to me,
Whom have I on earth beside Thee?
Or Whom in heaven but Thee?"

69 I'm so glad tonight that there is a covenant God has made with His people: the tearing of His Son apart, and setting Him on His right hand, and sending back the Holy Ghost to witness Him unto the end of the world. Amen.
Are you Abraham's seed? Do you believe? "A little while, and the world sees Me no more, yet you'll see Me; for I will be with you, even in you to the end of the world." The second piece of paper, God's covenant with His church. And the same Spirit that worked miracles, and done signs, and people drawed from Him and everything, is working right through the body of the church the same thing tonight. He's the same. God's covenant was Christ. Christ is the seed of Abraham through Isaac. Amen. There you are. My.
When Abraham was ninety and nine years old (17th chapter of Genesis). He was an old man, now, nearly a hundred: ninety and nine. And Sarah was ninety years old. And here he was all drooped over, walking around. And the Lord said, "Come here, Abraham, I want to speak to you. You've believed Me for all these years." He said, "I am the Almighty God." Amen.

70 "Almighty" there in the Hebrew is El Shaddai, which means "the breast like a woman." The breast is not Shaddai, means "single." Shaddai is a plural: breasted. "Abraham, I am the breasted God." In other words, "You're old and your strength is gone. You're as good as dead, and Sarah's womb is as good as dead, but I am the breasted God. The only thing you have to do, Abraham, lay on My arm and just nurse your strength back again." Glory! The same yesterday, today, and forever, New and Old Testaments, the breasted God, not breast God, but breasted God. "He was wounded for our transgressions; with His stripes we were healed": The breasted God. Amen. If He was that to father Abraham, He's that to Abraham's seed.

71 If you need salvation, nurse your strength back. The baby when it's, oh, sick, and it's fretting and crying, the mother picks the little fellow up. She holds him to her bosom. She coos to him. And the baby is nursing the mother's strength into its body and saving its own life. Not only is it saving its own life, but while it's being saved, it's satisfied. It quits crying. It quits running from pillar to post. It just lays there, and nurses away, and nurses its strength out of its mother.
And so is it with every believer in God. If we have need of salvation or healing, we rest our eternal soul, our body upon God's eternal promise, and just take a hold of God's Word, and perfectly satisfied, and call those things which are not as though they were, and nurse away on God's promise. "God, You promised it, I believe it and hold to it." Oh, God.

72 Heavenly Father, I pray tonight that in Christ's name that You'll speak to this people, Lord, and let them know that You're still the Almighty, the breasted God, the One Who made the promise, "Who was wounded for our transgressions, bruised for our iniquity, the chastisement of our peace was upon Him, and with His stripes, we were healed."
Why, His very shadow upon the earth, like the moon to the sun. And the moon gives light while the sun is gone away. And so is the church to reflect the light of the Son of God, while He's gone away. And someday, the moon will go down, and the sun will rise, and they both will blend together then; the moonlight and the sunlight becomes one.
When the Son of righteousness rises with healing in His wings, these old sick bodies will be made immortal. This soul that's tempted and tossed about will then be stable forever in the presence of God.

73 Oh, Father, while we're living and watching and waiting, may we with that eternal, blessed Holy Spirit, that dwells within our hearts, and knowing that He's here to visibly show Himself present to do all kinds of wonders and signs among the people. As He did on the days that He walked in a corporal body here, He made the promise. And today we see Him do the very same things.
O God, may these people tonight never forget that second piece of paper: that Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever. God took His life at Calvary and raised up His body on the third day and He sits there at the gate of the throne of God to make intercessions, while the Holy Spirit was upon Him, is here on the world to continue; and God tore Him apart and put the Spirit upon the church to continue till He comes again.

74 Father God, may these people, these lovely people here of Canada, realize tonight, Lord, that You're trying to get to them the honest Gospel truth. Grant it, Lord. How much more could You do? What more, Father? There's nothing You could do. You've said it in Your Word. You've sent anointed men to preach it, and now You're here confirming it, and proving it to be just as it was: the Spirit of the Lord Jesus Christ, the covenant that He made with Abraham and his seed.
Now, Father, we realize that many people are not Abraham's seed. You know, we realize, Father, that You said, "It was to the seed, not seeds." And Jesus said, "A little while and the world will see Me no more (the seeds); yet ye shall (the seed)..." For they'll recognize, they'll recognize the Spirit of Christ when He moves and shows that He is alive. And they'll rejoice, and believe, and call the things which are not as though they were, because they take God at His Word.
Grant it tonight, Father, that the blessed Holy Spirit will move in our midst and do the things that Jesus did when He was here on earth, that at the day of judgment when I shall stand to give an answer, or give an answer, an account for the message tonight... Each one of us will have to answer. Then, Lord, may He come and confirm it where we'll be without an excuse. In Jesus' name, I pray. Amen.

75 Friends, don't think me to be rash, or arrogant. No. But oh, my, what a blessed promise and what a truth. Do you realize what sin is? The Bible said, "Go, and disbelieve no more, or worse than this will happen to you." How many know that? It's true. Jesus said so.
Remember, the covenant---remember the piece of paper, the covenant that God tore in two---was Christ. Christ was both God and man. Do you know that? He was with the Holy Spirit. He said, that, "You'd be baptized with the same Holy Spirit not many days hence." And God cut Him in two to make a covenant with us, swore by Himself that He'd do it. And He told Abraham He would do it and the covenant would be to His seed ... Him and His seed afterwards, and tore the thing in two---Christ at Calvary---tore Him in two, raised up His body on the third day, sits at the right hand as a memorial that God has swore Himself. My, how can your heart ever beat away from it?

76 God swore, "When I see the blood, I'll pass over you." God swore by Himself for there's no other He could swear by, "I'll keep the covenant. I'll confirm it with any persons that will believe it and accept it." And He said, "I'll do more than that. A little while, I'll send back the Holy Spirit." Which is the tore part from Christ, and He'll be with you, in you to the end of the world. And the same things He did when He was in this body, He'll do among His people until He comes again.

77 Now, the Holy Spirit is here, and each night... We're not a great big number of people. We don't care to be a big number of people. I never want to be big. I want to be honest. I never want to be great; I want to be sincere. I want to love the Lord. I want to serve the Lord. I want to help the people.
Now, only way I can do it is tell you what the Word said. Then, it's up to God to come and confirm that Word. Now, I want to ask you something. When Jesus Christ, God's Son, was here on earth, what kind of a works did He do? Just see what He did. He said, "I do nothing, till the Father shows Me first by vision." Is that right? Saint John 5:19. No, He said, "I don't do it Myself. I do nothing. I can do nothing till the Father shows Me first."

78 People come to Him and a lot of times... He even asked a boy one time that had epilepsy... He asked the father, He said, "How long has he had it?" Turned right around and tell another things that... He told the woman where she had five husbands, and told Nathanael where he was when he prayed, over under the tree. And told Peter what his name was. Said, "Your name is Cephas, but it'll be called Peter, which is by interpretation 'a little stone,'" and so forth. He knew their name. He knowed where a fish was, had a coin in its mouth. And He said, "I do nothing till the Father shows Me first."
Now, that Jesus that died---God's covenant---and raised again, that same Spirit was on Him is in the church, and promised by God that it would be to the end of the world. It's up to you to receive it.

79 Now, I hope that the people never get in your mind that there's any man on earth with any sort of a gift can help you any more than to point you to the finished work of God at Calvary. I trust that you don't have them in Canada. It's too bad, we have plenty of them in the United States. But we don't have them, I hope, in Canada. For any man that claims to be a healer and says God lets him heal the people, he's taking the virtue from the cross.
A man wrote a subject here not long ago about blood pouring from a woman's hands, and oil, and stuff like that, and said, "It's divine."
I said, "Brother, did you know that's antichrist? Did you know that's against Christ?" If that's divine, what happened to the blood of the Lord Jesus, see? I said, "Don't go after those little fantastics. Stay with the Bible."

80 Here's the Bible. God put His Word down here and will confirm it. You don't have to go off after such stuff as that. Stay with Christ. And any gift that points you anywhere away from Calvary... I don't say God couldn't do it, but I'd just rather stay with the Word. I'd rather just know that God pointed it. There's where it was finished. There's where it was finished for me. There's where Jesus said it was finished, and there's where I believe it, see.
Now, the only thing you have to do (Your healing, your salvation was purchased at Calvary.), you have to reach and receive it. That's the only thing. And then, when you receive the promise, call anything contrary to that promise as though it was not, and God will bring it to pass. As a servant of the Lord, I give this promise through the Word of the living God. And I know it's the truth. Watch Him what He's doing here in your midst. See the things that He's taking place.

81 Now, we're going to call a prayer line and pray. Now, coming to the platform as the people come... If you'll... We're a little bit earlier than ... [Gap in the audio.] walk you to the platform. I know there's four or five different kinds of cards out here now, 'cause they had three or four days already of giving out cards. And where is ... [Gap in the audio.]
... give some to speak with tongues. It's been very much misused, but it's a gift of God just the same. And He's give some interpretations; that's been misused, but it's true just the same. God has real. Where you see a bogus, remember, there's a real one that's made off of. Before... When you see a bogus dollar, remember, that's impersonating a real dollar. When you see a false gift of something pretending, remember, it's made off of a real one. That's right.

82 When you see an old witch out here on the street, a fortuneteller, hold out your hands, and, "You are so-and-so." Remember, that witch is impersonating a real true prophet of God. That's right. When you see anything false, it's impersonating; Satan has perverted something and making a false conception of some real thing God has.
When you see an old hypocrite walking down the street and you know they're a hypocrite, remember, they are patterning off of a real genuine Christian somewhere.

83 You go to India and you find they want to clown for you, lay on spikes, or walk through fire, and everything like that, clowning. That's a hypocrite. Remember, back in that kingdoms back in there in the interior, there's a man who really suffers for his sins trying to atone for it. That's right. Where there's a false, there's a true.
Now, Jesus is true. Anything contrary to Him or contrary to His Word is false, in my way of thinking. Now, Christ made the promise. God swore that He'd do it. God swore that He would do it. How many understood me, say, "Amen." And God tore His life in two at Calvary, promising, and has promised the Holy Ghost to come back and do the very same things that Christ did. And the Jews laughed and made fun of Christ, because He could discern their spirit and tell them what was their troubles and so forth; and they said He was Beelzebub.
And Jesus said, "You say that against Me, it'll be forgiven you; but when the Holy Ghost comes and does the same thing, one word against it, you're doomed forever in this world or the world to come."

84 God promised to do it. And no matter how much people teach against it, God will do it anyhow; because He promised He would do it. Jesus come, not to show His authority, not say, "Here I heal the sick to show My authority." He healed the sick to fulfill the Word of God, the promise of God. And God's not healing the sick and showing signs and wonders here and things to show His authority. He's doing it, because He promised to do it.
Oh, God bless your hearts. I wished I could, some way I could make you believe it. If there was, I'd... If taking a quarter, and putting it on the floor here, and pushing it with my nose all the way around this city, right out on the street, pushing it with my nose, would make you believe, I'd start off right now doing it.
I don't want to see you, friends... There's people here, if I come back a year from now, they won't be here; you'd be gone. This crowd of people, and old, and afflicted, and so forth, you'd be gone, many of you. And I'll have to stand with you at the day of judgment and answer for what I speak of. So I've got to be real sure.

85 Now, are they all lined up, Brother Cox? Some handkerchiefs? Oh, they want me to keep them here? Let's bow our heads just a moment.
Heavenly... [Gap in the audio.] One time when Israel was cornered into a corner, the Red Sea had them blocked off. One writer said that God looked down through that pillar of fire, 'cause God's path led through it, and the sea got scared and moved back and made a way for Israel to pass over to the promised land. Old mothers, and dads, and little children, and wives, and so forth are laying tonight sick and afflicted, waiting for these handkerchiefs, here where Your presence is.
When these handkerchiefs is put upon the sick, may God look back through the blood of Jesus and remember His promise. And may the sickness depart from their body, and may they cross to the land of good health and strength. Through Christ's name, I pray.
And dear God, now I stand here before You. People are lined up, people are sitting in the audience. I've spoke the best that I know how, telling the people of Your goodness and Your promise. Now, Lord God, will You speak and tell the people and let them know that I have told the truth; confirm Your Word, Lord, with signs following. I ask in Jesus' name. Amen.

86 All right. How do you do? Now, to ever who it is, step this mic up a little farther. Now, tomorrow night, the Lord willing, I want to take just a few moments to explain the best that I can. It's supernatural; you can't explain it, but how this works. It's not me. You just disbelieve and it'll never work.
If Christ was standing right here Himself, and you didn't believe Him, it would never work. When He come to His own country, the Bible said, "He c-o-u-l-d n-o-t, could not do many mighty works because of their unbelief." Any gift of God is operated by you, by the patient, or the people. It's not me. I don't know a one of you, know nothing about you.

87 But for instance, here stands a lady. I guess we're strange to each other, are we, lady? I do not know you. And God does know you. Well, now for instance, what if Christ would appear here, which He can't in a corporal body, 'cause every eye shall see Him and every knee shall bow, and every tongue confess when He comes. But He promised, the second, His Spirit would be in the church, and He would raise up people to do the same things that He did, to manifest to the people that He's living and not dead.
Now, if He was standing here tonight, and if you're sick, other needs you have, I don't know. I can't tell you, 'cause I don't know you. But there's only one thing He could do: refer you back to the Word. And His Word give a promise that He would be with us and would do the same things that He did. And when He was here on earth, He didn't claim to heal the people, but He knew their heart as the Father would reveal to Him. Is that right?
Now, how many knows that's the truth? Well then, if Jesus of Nazareth ... What is it? Humble yourself and submit yourself. Now, she has to submit herself.

88 That woman might be a critic standing there. I don't know. She might be an infidel. I couldn't tell you. If she is, you just watch what happens to her in a few moments.
How many remembers what that guy did, come and tried to hypnotize me? Sitting there, trying to hypnotize me, make me bark like a dog, he did in these army camps. They hired him to come in. And the Holy Spirit turned around and said, "You child of the devil." Said, "They'll pack you out of here." He's been paralyzed for years now. They packed him from the meeting. Sure. Just watch what happens.
Let's... Just submit yourself to God; take off all your doubts now, and lay them away, and never pick them up again. Say, "Lord, I'm just going to watch. I'm going to pray. I'm going to believe tonight with all of my heart." And just ask God to do it, and see if He will. Sure, He will. He's obligated, friends.

89 Now, lady, you just look at me just a moment while we talk. Now, I'm going to give a little illustration, a Bible illustration, for the newcomers in here.
One day our Lord Jesus went up to Samaria, and He sent the disciples away. And a woman come out to talk to Him. And He said, "Bring Me a drink," to the woman. He'd never seen her. She'd never seen Him.
Why, she said, "It's not customary for you Jews to ask me a Samaritan such as that. We have no dealings."
He said, "But if you knew who you were talking to, you'd ask Me for a drink."
Why, she said, "The well is deep, and You have nothing to draw with, and how could You do it," and so forth.
And the conversation went on. After while, He found just exactly where her trouble was. He said, "Go, get your husband."
She said, "I have none."
"That's right; you got five."
She said, "Sir, I perceive that You're a prophet. And we know that when the Messiah cometh (which is Christ), when He comes, He will tell us these things, all things. But Who are You?"
He said, "I'm He."

90 Now, if that was Jesus yesterday, and if He's the same yesterday, today, and forever, He'd have to be the same Jesus today. Is that right? Do you believe that, audience? And if He will do it, and this woman and I both here standing before God, and the Bible laying between us here, that we've never seen one another and know nothing about each other... And here we are standing here. And if Christ will perform that tonight, and you go away disbelieving, I'd hate to stand in your place. Now, that's all I would know.
But now, may the good Holy Spirit of God come as we yield ourself to Him in Christ's name, and prove that He is living and here, and God has by His oath has kept His promise. And the Holy Spirit is here fulfilling the Word of the Lord Jesus Christ, just before His second coming and the ending of the world. I pray in Christ's name. Amen.

91 Now, just to talk with you a minute, just as our Lord, because you're the first patient here. And I don't want to call you a patient. I don't know. I can't say that. But I just said that, just subconsciously said it. But you're the first person I'm to talk to. He don't have to tell me. He might not. But I hope that He does. But if He will tell me something in your life back, then tell you what's going to happen, you would believe it, wouldn't you? You promise that you'll believe? You do, you promise.
Now, may the Lord grant it. The audience is under oath that they'll believe. We're under promise and oath that we'll believe. Now, it's up to Him.
See where I stand? Looky here, here's at least a thousand more people. And I've made that challenge before five hundred thousand in heathens. Now, why? Because I believe. I believe that He'll keep His Word.

92 But now, if you're sick, I couldn't heal you. You know that. It'd just have to be your faith in Him. But it would raise your faith if He would come down and confirm and say that He'd do just like He did do, you'd know that that second piece of paper, as I've taught in the covenant, was God's works to a man.
Now, if the audience can still hear my voice, I see the lady walking up-and-down a floor in a house. She's extremely nervous. She's got a inward trouble that bothers her too. That's right. And I see you a lot younger than what you look tonight. And you're something another, you're looking in a glass. You got your mouth open. It's a swelling in the roof of your mouth. That's been many years ago, and it still happens today. Your roof of your mouth swells up. That's true.

93 Another thing, you're always pulling at your neck. You have pains in your neck all the time. That's true. ["Yes, that's true."] Now there's Something here that knows you. Here's another thing: you've tried hard to believe. This is not your first time you've been prayed for. You've come time after time places to be prayed for. I seen you passing by. Now, is that the truth? ["That's the truth."] Now do you believe?
Now do you feel it? As in my heart, now, right now, I don't know what it said to you. I don't know. The only way I know tomorrow, it's setting on tapes. And that's how I know. I know it said something. But I know what it said is the truth. If you'll believe now with all your heart that it's not your brother... You're aware that there's Something here that knows you, that you know. It's things, perhaps, it said to you that's been many years ago. Is that right?
And who was way down in your life years ago that knows everything you've done, see? Who is that? God. Right. Does that fulfill what I was talking about a few minutes ago? That Christ said... The woman said, "Why, He told me everything I ever done."

94 Jesus said, "These things that I do, shall you also." Then is God's sworn covenant true? Is His sworn covenant true? Then what we got to be worried about? Jesus is here. His Spirit is here. We're in a... What happened just now? I went into another world. It's an unseen world. We become so conscious of looking at one another like this. But there's this unseen world in which there's evil. And here's Christ.
In this world, in this building here are evil spirits and war. And Christians anointed, and the angels of God encamped about them trying to energize them with faith.
And here I am standing here just yielding myself, and the Holy Spirit's moving now. And this is what you call heavenly places in Christ Jesus. But remember, Satan always sits with the sons of God. You know that he always does that. Someone with a skeptic idea ... when they do that, he's trying to interfere. But Christians always overcome.

95 Now, lady, my sister, ever what your trouble is, will you tonight accept Jesus as your healer of your trouble? Would you come up and just pray for you?
Our kind, heavenly Father, with my hand to You and the other on my sister, I pray that You'll bless her, and heal her, and make her well, and give her the desire of her heart; and may her testimony cause an old-fashioned revival to start in her church and neighborhood, wherever she's from.
Lord, Thou hast done everything now that can be done. And I ask that You will now with this anointing on our sister, that she'll call the things which has been as though they were not, and go on and live, and be well, in Christ's name. Amen. God bless you, lady. I believe with all my heart, it's over. God bless you.

96 All right if you'd come. Is this the patient? Come. Now, please, don't no one leave. Just sit still a few minutes. I just feel something's fixing to take place. God will honor His Word. And when you move... See, every spirit. I'm kind of in contact of it. I'm watching to see what He'll do. Just have faith in God.
Those of you out there without a prayer card, that is not going to be called upon, you believe. Just believe it. That's all I ask for. Just believe.

97 Now, the lady here. I suppose we're strangers to each other, are we, lady? I don't know you, never seen you. You have seen me before, probably up here at the platform or somewhere. Is that how the... The last time I was here. But I mean to know anything about you, I don't know. I've never... Is that way, what I mean. Just so the audience will know that you're not someone that I know, see. I don't know what He'll say. I don't know what you're there for. I have no idea what you're there for. But He does.
And I'm only trying to get the people to believe on the Lord Jesus, not believe me, believe on Him. You have a ladies' trouble, a female disorder, that's bad. Could be awful bad if something isn't done for it. It's extraordinary case and it causes you much trouble. That is right. Do you believe? That is true, isn't it? You're just trying to get over a little hump there, aren't you? There's something that just... You can't feel right down in your soul, just like you can accept it just now.

98 I'm not reading your mind, but you couldn't hide your life if you had to. You're just open to the Holy Spirit now. And it's all in the mercies of God. Maybe God will tell you who you are. You'll believe Him, would you? Aren't you Mrs. Brinks? That's right. Don't you live at a address called 553 22nd Street East? That's right, isn't it? Now, do you believe? You're over the hook now. Go and accept it.
Father God, bless the woman in Christ's name, I pray. Blessed be the name of the Lord.

99 Do you believe, lady? I don't know you; I've never seen you. But do you believe that Christ is here to make you well or give you the desire of your heart? I have no idea what you're standing there for. But do you remember my sermon, the second piece of paper, the covenant God tore loose and took His Son up to heaven, and sent the Holy Spirit down to do the same works of the Lord Jesus?
And if He was standing here, that's the same thing He done. The people out in the audience are being healed just the same as they are here. You believe that? Sure.

100 What do you think about it, sir, sitting on the end. You got piles, don't you? Do you believe that Jesus Christ make you well? You sitting there with the blue suit and checkered tie. You believe Jesus Christ make you well, heal you? You believe that God can heal you? If you can, all right. You remember, you just have faith.
What about you out there on the other end [unclear words]. You believe God will make you well, sir? If you do, be well. Do you believe that God will heal you of that head trouble? If you do, raise up your ... raise your hand and say, "Praise the Lord." Amen. Go and be made well. See how easy it is, how easy if you can just believe it?

101 Now, you believe? But you didn't come to be prayed for. You come to stand for somebody else. That's a man. It's your uncle. He's crippled, isn't he? That right? Do you believe now? Then go lay your hands on him. May God grant everything that you ask for. I'd like to ask the blessing.
Kind Father, I pray that You'll give the maid the very thing that she's asked for. I pray in Jesus' name. Amen. God bless you, lady. All right. That you bring the sick. Are you believing?
How do you do, lady? You believe with all your heart? Do you believe me to be His servant? Now, see, the Angel when He met me, said, "If you get the people to believe you, then be sincere when you pray..." See what I mean? I try to follow His instructions just as close as I can.

102 Now, the whole thing's begin to [unclear word.] It's you doing it. It's not me. But you know something's happening that... Isn't it? If you're aware that there's something struck you here to believe, a real believer... 'Cause just as soon as the light (I seen it settling), the tears started in her eyes.
Now, you're suffering with a real nervous condition. You've been nervous, upset. And your heart, you've had some excitement. You're here for somebody else. That's a very dear person, isn't it? It's your daddy. If I tell you what's the matter with him, will you believe me to be God's prophet? You'll accept his healing through Christ as his daughter standing there? It's a heart attack. That's right. Is that right? I see him almost dying. He's very weak.
Now, you go, as I send you. Kneel down and pray for him. I'll pray for him here. God will heal him. Do you believe it? Will the audience believe it?
Father God, with the faith in their heart that comes moving up, believing that You're here to make the sick well, and her reaching and getting a prayer card and was called into this line, not even for herself but for someone else. God, I pray, as she's standing for someone else... What a Christian act to know that Christ stood for us all. When we were guilty and unworthy, Christ took our place. I pray that You'll grant her her request. In Jesus' name. Amen. God bless you, sister.

103 Have faith in God, don't doubt. How about it, little lady? Nifty little boy there. Something happened when you picked that child up. You want him prayed for, don't you? Right. You need prayer yourself. Your trouble's in your side, your right side. Isn't that right? You believe me? You're sitting straight from me, no spirit between you and I but the Holy Spirit.
Your little boy has got a rupture. Is that right? I've never seen you in my life, as I know of. We're strangers to one another. I want to tell you something: You named that baby after my boy. His name is Billy Paul, isn't it? You believe me to be God's prophet? Then receive what you've asked for in Christ's name.
Oh, living God, move heavenly Father. Let the people be awakened quickly to know that this is the day in faith, the Spirit of the living God, Who loved me and saved me. In Jesus' name.

104 Now, be reverent now. You never know ... you'll never know the sacrifice. I hope you wouldn't think I was a hypocrite. But it seems right now after those visions, it's just... I'm just shaking with the perspiration on top of my hands. It's just weakness. And looks to me like I can't see very far back in the audience; it looks kind of milky. What is it? It's two worlds. You're laying between them. The people is moving, drawing.
Would you bring someone else? Brother Cox... How do you do, lady? You believe me to be His servant? I don't know you. Christ knows you. You believe what I've preached tonight is the truth? You do? That Jesus, the Son of God, is here in the form of Spirit to do the same things? Do you believe that's Him? If you believe that, that heart trouble, it won't bother, but will leave you. You believe it?

105 Your eyes are going bad too all the time, aren't they? That's right. And you're extremely nervous. Isn't that true? Now, that you might know that I was God's prophet, there's somebody here with you tonight that wants to be prayed for. That's right. And that's your husband. That is right.
If I tell you what's wrong with your husband, will you believe me to be His servant, and believe that Christ is standing here, that me, a man, could know not these things? I see your husband can't sleep at night or something. It's something bothering him. He's up-and-down all the time. And that's caused by a nervous condition, and it's right under his eye. I seen a moving in his eye. It's right in... Isn't that right? Raise your hand if that's true. Then, do you believe God? Then come here. Come here.
Jesus, Thy Word said, "Come unto Me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden, I will give you rest." If He were here tonight in a corporal body, we could all fall at His feet. But the woman believes that that's covenant with God. She's brought herself to the platform, and she's respecting You, Lord, as she's praying and weeping here, holding my hand. And as Your servant, her brother, I ask for these blessings, that she may be made whole in Christ's name. Amen. God bless you, my dear sister. And may His blessings be with you.

106 Young fellow, I want to ask you something. What if I didn't say a word to you, just prayed for you. You believe you'd be well? You do? Come here. You was healed when you passed the corner.
Father, I thank Thee for Thy goodness tonight. And I pray now that You'll bless him and ever keep him in the perfect condition in Christ's name. Amen. God bless you, brother. Just on your road and rejoice and being happy.
Do you believe? Would you accept me as His servant? Not as Him, but as His servant, representing Him to you? And then, if He had sent me to represent Him, then my prayer would help you, wouldn't it? If an ambassador went from Canada to Russia, and if the Canadian government had sent him, all the government behind him. Is that right? If we come representing His ministry (it's powerful), and the death of the Lord Jesus, then all heaven is behind the Word. Is that right?

107 Now, if God [unclear words], basically that it's your faith that does the healing. Now, your condition, I know. Your healing has been completed. What about your faith? Would you believe it? All right, from being a nervous type of person, you've caused yourself to have an ulcer in your stomach---a stomach condition. That's right. Isn't that right? You can't eat. But now, go eat you a good, fat hamburger. Enjoy your meal. Let the faith of the Lord Jesus make you whole.
Heart trouble kills a lot of people. But Jesus Christ is the Saviour. Do you believe that, my brother? You do? You now will accept Him in every way, and believe that God will remove every doubt and fear from you, and Christ will let you live, and will you live for Him with all your heart? Come here.
Dear heavenly Father, as I hold myself to this man, knowing and seeing the shadow following him, and as Elijah put himself upon the body of the dead baby, I pray God that You will heal this our brother. And grant his blessings through Jesus Christ's name. Amen. God bless you, my brother. Go on your road, rejoice, and forget all about that you was sick or anything that happened or what more.

108 Oh, nervousness is a bad thing. Christ is the healer. You believe that, don't you, lady? Do you believe He will make you well? With all your heart? Let's bow our heads. I want to show you something, lady. Everyone out there suffering with nervous condition, raise their hands. I want to show what's in this crowd there, see. That full, just can't call them, there's so many of them there. Now, believe with all your heart.
Heavenly Father, in the name of the beloved Son, the Lord Jesus, I challenge every unclean spirit, every devil and ask that it leaves in Christ Jesus' name. May every nervous person in this building be made completely whole at this time. In Christ's name I ask it. Amen. God bless you. Go rejoicing, going happy.
Let us say, "Praise the Lord," everybody. And we rejoice in the exceeding abundance of our Lord Jesus Christ. All right, come up, please.

109 All right, everybody ready? Oh, yes. All right. Heavenly Father, I pray for the little lad and ask that You will heal his eye, make him well, bless his loved one here and may this all be to God's honor and glory through Jesus Christ's name. Amen. Don't doubt, believe, you be well, everything normal and well.
Let's say, "Praise the Lord."
A man that's sitting, looking at me, in a chair. There seems to be a light around the man. Oh, I see. You have accepted Christ as your healer. Isn't that right? I don't know you. That's your wife sitting behind you. Got a back trouble. She wants to be healed also. Don't fear. Have faith, believe God. You shall have what you ask for.
Little lady with her head ... sitting there, and a white hat on, praying, green coat. Have faith in God. God can heal that slipped vertebrae. You believe that?

110 Little lady, sitting there is also praying back there, with a red dress on. Got hemorrhoid troubles, you got arthritis. Isn't that right? You believe Jesus Christ makes you well? All right. Go home and be well in Christ's name. You believe the arthritis left you? Believe you can go home and be well? Accept it? Then go and rejoice. How many wants to be healed? He's here.

111 I speak in the name of Jesus. The Holy Ghost has moved in here, and I can't even hardly see the audience no more. If you'll believe God... If God has manifested Himself here in any manner and you believe God spoke it, I challenge you in Christ's name to accept Him now as your healer. Do you believe it? All right. Put your hands over on one another while we pray the prayer of faith.
Our heavenly Father, we come in Jesus' name. And, Satan, you're defeated, not only are you defeated, but you're exposed. You thought you could hold this group of people, but you can't. They've done got away from you. They've come out looking to every promise of God. They believe in His divine providence and you've lost the battle. Come out of them in the name of Jesus Christ. I adjure every sickness, every disease to leave the people in Jesus' Christ's name. Now, raise your hands to Him. Praise Him. Thank Him.
Believe Him with all your heart. Now, brother...

Faith

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1 That song again, "Only believe, all things are possible, only believe." And we do not have here the adequate seating room to have our little church, and it only seats about couple of hundred people, I guess, or a little more. And we're sorry that the people has to stand, but I'll hurry right away and my few remarks that I have to make. And I'll pray that God will give you all what you come here to see tonight and get your hearts filled with His goodness and His mercy, for I truly know that that would be His divine will for it to be so.

2 The first I want to say that it'll be long missed around here, the going of our Sister Casey, though being old; I think way in her eighties. And as day after day through the snow and rain as she made her way to the church of the living God. The other night it was a great privilege to stand by her bedside as she was going. And I said, "Do you know me?" And she... I don't know whether she did or not. But when I said, "Do you know Jesus?" She nodded her head yes that she knew Him. Then I was glad to call her children, her grandchildren, and I believe even great grandchildren, to the bedside and say, "That's the way to go." After all, we must go. "It's allotted unto man once to die, and after that the judgment."

3 And then our Sister Hall... Brother William Hall, pastor of the Milltown Baptist Church, which was a convert to the Lord in one of the meetings recently, a few years ago, and was healed of a serious cancer when the doctors said (the best that could be gotten in his part of the country), and then the doctor in New Albany said, "He's dying." And he come up here and his wife called me, and she said, "Brother Billy, will you come pray for Will? He's dying with cancer." And we went down to see him, and the cancer was of the liver and had done swollen his liver out and he'd turned yellow, and was almost unconscious.
And I asked him if he minded if I would call my doctor friend here in this city to talk to him. That was Dr. Sam Adair; many of you know him. And Dr. Sam said, "Billy, there's only one thing to do, that's send him to Louisville to some famous cancer specialist." And they sent him over there for an examination. And of course, the doctor over there wouldn't tell him, so he called Dr. Adair, and Dr. Adair called me and he said, "Billy, your preacher friend will be dead in four days." Said, "He's got four more days to live," said, "because the cancer has eaten his liver up."
I said, "Doctor, isn't there nothing you can do for him?"
He said, "Billy, we couldn't take his liver out, and him live." And he said, "If he's a minister, he ought to be prepared to go."
I said, "That I believe he is."
So, it was a hard thing for me to go tell his precious wife that Brother Will Hall would be dead in four days. The Wright family here, is sitting here, which they're witnesses to it, and many more. And where I went down and told Mrs. Hall, "Will, will be dead in four days. The doctor says his liver's eaten out with cancer."

4 So, I come home, and the next morning... A lot of people come to the house, you know, and I have to get out just a little while. I just come off of such a trip---down in Kentucky where I was hunting. And I was going squirrel hunting that morning. Got in early and looked out, there was nobody on the runway at the house, so I went and got my old hat and twenty-two rifle and started out, and I seen an apple hanging there. It was the horriblest looking apple I ever seen.
And I thought, "What did Meda put that kind of a apple on the wall for?" Knotty, and worm eaten. And I noticed that it wasn't hanging on the wall; it was in the air. And I knelt down with my old hat and gun in my hand, and I seen another apple, and another apple, until five apples stood there. Then a great big apple with red streaks in it, came down and made five big chomps and just cut the apples to pieces and swallowed them up. And I thought, "What is this?"
And then the Angel of the Lord, whose picture you see there, stood in the room and said, "Go tell Brother Hall, 'Thus saith the Lord,' he's not going to die. He's been sick five months now, but within five days he will be well." Quickly I called Dr. Adair, and I said, "He's going to live."
He said, "Billy, how can he live and his liver eat out of him?"
I said, "I don't know, but the Lord just said he's going to live and that's all I know." And he's living today.
His wife, I guess nearly seventy-five or eighty years old, slipped out to be with the Lord a few days ago while I was down in Kentucky. God rest her soul, and Sister Casey also. They both have been in this church and fellowshipped with us. Every man, no matter how young, or how old, or how healthy, there's one day that we're all going to meet God. We can prepare for that.

5 Now, tonight, just a few remarks from God's eternal and blessed Word. And I would like to read just a portion of it here found in the book of Saint Mark, in the 11th chapter of Saint Mark. I want to talk on faith, just for a few moments, because many of you is standing, your limbs will be cramping. I want to begin at the 20th verse. I want to read it from the original Greek Lexicon.
And in the morning, as they passed by, they saw the fig tree dried up from the roots.
And Peter calling to remembrance said unto him, Master, behold, the fig tree which thou did curse is withered away.
... Jesus answering said unto them, Have faith in God.
For verily I say unto you, That whosoever shall say unto this mountain, Be ... removed, and ... cast into the sea; and shall not doubt in his heart, but ... believe that those things which he saith is coming to pass; he shall have whatsoever he saith.

6 What a blessed promise. Faith in God. It's a staggering thing to many people. And yet we ought to be ashamed of ourselves to confess that we don't have faith in God. First, there is cowards who die ten thousand deaths while they're here on earth, and a hero never dies. His memories linger on for his great heroic deeds. And usually people who have faith are people who have experience. Experience brings faith.
I think that's the reason that the Bible teaches us... Jesus said in Saint John the 3rd chapter, "Except a man be born again he cannot understand the kingdom of God." Now, that's quoting from the original. In the King James it said: "He cannot see." But the word doesn't mean "see," like you look with your eyes; it means to understand. You can't see the Kingdom anyhow. You must understand it. And Jesus said, "Except a man be born again first, he cannot understand the kingdom of God." So, it behooves us to have an experience before faith can ever accomplish very much. Therefore, people ought to be saved before... First they come to God and have an experience of salvation before they approach God for their healing. It must... It'll work wonders if you can only believe it.

7 Now, notice, many times in the Scriptures... We'll take the famous old scene of Israel when they were in trouble and there was a war broke out between Israel and the Philistines. And Israel had gathered themselves over on the side of a hill. And the battle was set in order, but no man was able to go to battle because over on the other side of the hill the enemy had a great challenger. And as it was then, so is it now, that when God's people starts to go to do something the enemy always has a challenger---challenge you for it.
And this great, almost prehistoric giant stood there with fourteen-inch fingers on him and a spear in his hand the size of a weaver's needle. He challenged any man of Israel to come and fight with him. That's the way the enemy does when he thinks he has the upper hand. He'll never do it when he sees conquering faith. But he'll only do it when he knows he's got you cowed down. That's when the church can't move, is when he's got the weaver's needle over you.

8 But while in the armies of the Israelites, Saul, the great warrior... If there was any man in the whole army that was more apt to be able to go and fight with this giant, was Saul. First, he was a well trained warrior. He knowed all the maneuvers, how to dodge the spears, and how to knock them off with his shield. And above that, he was head and shoulders above any man in his army. He was more physically for a match, and he was a trainer of men.
But as it was with Saul in those days, we find the same thing existing today among people who go to church. Some of them who are the best trained scholars has the least faith in God sometimes. Has the Ph.D.'s and D.D.'s and try to explain it, or try to get away from the very fact of faith in God's Word; they try to explain it away some other way. And it's truth: All of our scholarship, all of our training, never puts us in position to meet the enemy. It takes faith in God to do that, and that alone.

9 But if we notice, while this giant was making his great boast, and this great theologian, as it would be, stand there, well trained to know how to fight, but he had never had any experience with God. And such a pity today, to see men and women who've lived in church, been brought up in the cradle roll, and knows the Bible well, but yet has never witnessed an experience with God. What we need is to get back to the real heartfelt experience, to know who you've got faith in. Not some writings, but the true and the living God who lives now.

10 And there, in the midst of that, way back over behind the fields, God had a little ruddy boy by the name of David. He tended his father's sheep. And while he was tending his sheep, he got some experience. And it was his father who sent him up to the armies to take his brothers some fig cakes, and raisin cakes. And while he was up there, he saw this great giant come out and make this big wide boast.
Now, little David was no match at all. First, he was just a young fellow; and the next thing, he was a ruddy fellow, which means he was a little runt, as we would call it. And he was no match at all. He'd never had a sword in his hand. Perhaps had never picked up a shield in his life. He knowed nothing about military training. But there's one thing he did know: he knowed his God. That's the main thing. He knew who he had believed.

11 And so when the giant made his challenge, David knew another thing: what was right and wrong. Sometimes we who go to church doesn't seem to hardly have the spiritual intelligence to know the difference. If we do, we don't act any different. But he knew what was right and what was wrong. He knew it was wrong for that Philistine to defy the armies of the living God. So, he said these words, "Do you mean to tell me, that you'll let that uncircumcised Philistine stand there and defy the armies of the living God?" What a rebuke to a trained army.
What a rebuke it is today for some little washwoman, maybe that doesn't know her ABC's, but can stand in the face of a well-trained clergyman who's saying, "The days of miracles are past," and defy his words by saying, "I was once crippled or sick, and now I'm healed." She might not know all the ins and outs of theology, but she knows God. After all, that's what's required.

12 And there, this little ruddy David, just a youth with his little sheep coat wrapped around him, walked up into the face of those fellows and made them ashamed of theirselves. He said, "You stand there, the trained army of the living God, and let that Philistine defy the armies of God." Said, "I will go fight him myself."
Oh, I love that courageous spirit in David. And Saul tried to educate him and put him on a ecclesiastical jacket, but it didn't fit him. He said, "Take this thing off of me. I don't know how to say 'amen' the way you do. And neither do I know your theology. Let me go with that what I've had experience by."

13 Oh, a fellow said to me sometime ago, he said, "Brother Branham, your preaching is in vain, for there's no such a thing as divine healing."
I said, "This is one thing, brother, you just haven't been where we've walked, that's all. For you're just too late to tell us now. We've already found it and witnessed it around the world, the great revival of the outpouring of the Holy Spirit to bring forth signs and wonders to fulfill the Word of God in these last days."

14 And this little fellow took these old degrees off of him, walked out there and he said, "Looky here, here's why I'm going out. I know who I have believed." Saul knowed nothing about that, though he went to church every Sabbath. And he might have done all the religious things that the rest of them done. But he had never had an experience.
And what happened? David said, "When I was tending my father's sheep out there, when I walked down through the green pastures and by the still waters, I learned of a God who made the heavens and earth. And I was responsible for my papa's few sheep, and a bear run in and grabbed one and I slew him. And a lion run in and grabbed a kid and took off, and I knocked him down with my sling shot. And when he raised up, I grabbed him by the beard and slew him." He said, "The God that delivered the bear and the lion, how much more will he deliver that uncircumcised Philistine into my hands." Certainly, he knew what he was talking about. He had faith in God. He had had an experience to see what God would do, therefore he knowed that experience would carry him on to victory.

15 Oh, years later, when he become the King of Israel... No doubt that he'd become king, for such a warrior as that. When he become king he had an idea: "Let me build the house of the Lord." And when the prophet Nathan that night took him out and was talking to him, the Lord appeared to Nathan. He said, "Go tell my servant David, I know he was just a little ruddy thing, I know he's wearing a sheep coat, but I took him away from that sheepcote and made him a ruler over my people and give him a name like the great men in this earth." How God seen that sincerity of faith to believe Him upon an experience, that He was the living God.

16 How little it was for Abraham after he had endured, as seeing Him who was invisible, how after he met God and had an experience of talking face to face with God, that he could call those things which were not as though they were. For he had an experience: He had talked to God face to face. That's what we need, is a personal experience with the living God.

17 How that Moses, after having forty years of religious training by his mother. How having forty years of military might in his hands, of how to whip a nation, how to conquer. And it taken God forty years to take it out of him. But once out there in the wilderness alone, one day he come face to face with God in a burning bush, and he was better equipped in five minutes after he had talked with God, than eighty years of schooling had done anything to him.
He was a coward dying a thousand deaths. And after meeting God he wished he had a thousand lives to die for Christ. He was ready to go; there was nothing could stop him. Though he had no army. Though his education was no good to him. He couldn't fight, he had no swords. He didn't have any warriors, any chariots to back him up as far as the world knew. But he'd come face to face with God with an experience who had the armored angels of all the eternities to stand behind him. And as Moses went his way down with his wife straddle of a little old mule, and long whiskers hanging down, I believe that ten thousand times ten thousands of angels rolled along down those dusty roads with him. He had an experience.

18 It was down at Dothan one time, when a young fellow, a prophet's servant, and he went down with him to Dothan. And while the prophet slept, the great Syrian army come and compassed ... encamped about the great walls of Dothan. And when he woke up the next morning, he had never had an experience, he said as he seen the great army looking for Elijah, he said, "Oh, my Father, the whole armies have gathered and surrounded here. They're looking for you."
It didn't shake that old prophet one bit. It might have been cancer, it might have been tuberculosis, it might have been a stroke, but it didn't shake that prophet. He looked at him and he said, "Son, there is more with us than there is with them."
He said, "I can only see you and I."
He said, "Open his eyes, God, that he can see. Give him an experience." And then his eyes opened, he looked and the whole mountains was full of chariots and fire and horses of fire, around that old sainted prophet. He had an experience; there was no more doubt in his mind then.

19 It was Samson with the jawbone of a mule, that killed a thousand Philistines, because he had an experience that he was born again. He had an experience that he was a Nazarite and the God of heaven was with him.

20 It was Philip who had seen Jesus in former experiences, who went and found Nathanael around behind the mountain. And he said, "Come, see who we have found, Jesus of Nazareth, the Son of Joseph."
And the man being very orthodox, he said, "Now could there be any good thing come from Nazareth?"
He said, "Come and see." Why? He had been with Jesus. He knew that there was something about the Man that was more than a match for anything the devil could stand up.
Oh, listen closely. And as they go around the mountain, Philip is beginning to talk, and Nathanael's speaking with him, and he said to him, "Now, when you get there... I have seen Him when Peter come up, and He didn't even, never seen Peter in all his life, but when he got there He said, 'Your name is Simon, and you are the son of Jonas.' Knew his name and knew who his daddy was." Oh, he couldn't believe that. But Philip had once been with Him, so he knowed to persuade him how it could ... how He did it. So when he walked up into the presence of Jesus of Nazareth, he'd come then to believe.

21 Then when He looked at him, He said to him, He said, "Behold, an Israelite in whom there is no guile."
And he said to Him, "When did you know me, Rabbi?"
And He said, "Before Philip called you, when you were under the tree, I saw you."
Now, it astonished him, how could He do it? But Philip knew that to persuade Nathanael that it could be done because he'd had an experience of being with Jesus. You know, there's something about being with Jesus gives you an experience. Being around where He's at, watching His work, and then that gives you faith. When you have an experience it gives faith. Faith goes by your experience.
Now, notice in this. Now, as he come up... Well, we can see them as they begin speaking to each other as they moved up. And He begin to tell him what was taking place, and who he was, and where he come from, and all about it. And then as quick as he got the experience... Oh, blessed be the name of the Lord. When he got the experience that a miracle of God had been performed on him, then he could fall at His feet and say, "Rabbi, thou art the Son of the living God. Thou art the King of Israel." But first he had to see it done. He could have faith in God, after God had manifested Himself. That's the way God does.

22 The woman that Brother Neville was reading about tonight, in the Bible, she was sitting at the well ... or, getting her water out of the well. She was a Samaritan. She had been taught that there was coming a Messiah who would do great signs and wonders. She knowed a little about it. And when they dipped the bucket into the well to get the water, Jesus said, "Bring me a drink."
And she said, "Why, you have nothing to draw with. And why would you ask me for a drink? Seeing that you're a Samaritan first, we have no dealings with each other," and so forth.
The conversation went on. By and by here's what taken place: He found where her trouble was. Remember, she first come out there to criticize Him as a Jew. But He said, "Go get your husband and come here."
She said, "I don't have any husband."
Said, "That's right. You've got five. And the one that you have now is not your husband." And quickly, as soon as that happened, she was puzzled in her mind. Remember, she'd went to a cold formal church. She knowed not what to do. She said, "Well, now, sir, I perceive that you are a prophet. We know when the Messiah cometh, that he will tell us these things."
He said, "I am he that speaks to you." Oh, what an experience. "I am he that speaks with you."
And what did she say? She ran into the city with an experience that she had witnessed that Jesus was the Son of the living God. Why? She had seen a power working in Him that had performed a miracle that told her who she was, and where her sin was, and where her trouble was. Therefore, she could run and say, "Truly, that is the Son of God. Come, see the man that told me the things that I have done. Isn't this the very Messiah?"

23 Now, notice again, in a few moments. They had a woman that had a blood issue. She'd cried and tried everything to do to get well; she couldn't do it. She pressed through the crowd and she touched the border of His garment, for she believed. Now, watch. "Faith cometh by hearing, hearing of the Word of God." She pressed through because faith comes by hearing. She touched His garment. And she said, "That satisfies me. I've touched him." And she goes back into the crowd, believing in her heart that something would take place.
Oh, if people today could only get that. Believing. And when it taken place, Jesus turned and said, "Who has touched me?"
And Peter said, "All of them are touching you. Why do you say, 'Who touched me?'"
He said, "But I got weak. I'm so weak. Virtue, (strength) has gone from me. I am weak." And he said, "Well, how did you know that?"
And He looked around over the crowd. She thought she was hid; she was back out there hid in the crowd. And when Jesus turned and looked at her, He told her what her trouble was and that she had been healed. And then it was that she could fall down at His feet and confess all things. After she had had an experience of His great magnificent power to reveal to her that she had touched the garment, not only of Him, but of Him that liveth forever, Almighty God. Certainly it was.

24 Now, it was the people on the day of Pentecost, that was cowardly, and they were in an upper room, the doors were all closed; they were afraid of the Jews. But when God came in the form of the Holy Ghost and baptized everyone of that group with the baptism of the Holy Ghost and fire, it was then they could go into the street. And that man who cursed in the presence of Jesus a few days before, could say, "Ye men of Judea, and you that dwell in Jerusalem, let this be known unto you, and hearken to my words: these are not drunken, as you suppose, seeing it's the third hour of the day. But this is that which was spoken of by the prophet Joel." Certainly, after he had had an experience. Before he had the experience he had faith to believe it, but after the experience come, experience brought the results. Certainly it did.

25 Now, those people that Jesus has spoke to there about the tree. Now, notice just a moment now as we close. After He was coming out of the temple one day, He run down to a tree to find out if He could find something to eat on this tree. There was nothing there, because the time of figs wasn't yet. And He could find nothing. So, He said to the tree, "No man eateth from thee from henceforth; no one eateth."
And the next day... They never seen any difference in the tree right then, it didn't show any results, any physical results. Now, here's where I want you to get it. It showed no results. But what did He say, "No man eateth from thee."
And in twenty-four hours, about noon the next day, they passed by the same tree. And in there they noticed that the tree had begun to wither. And Peter said, "Behold, the tree which thou did curse, it's already withering from the roots."

26 Now, watch what Jesus said now as we close, "Have faith in God." What? He showed them His power first. He showed it on a fig tree what He could do, because when He asked the Father anything He believed that He received what He asked for. Then He told them, "You have faith in God. For I say to you, if you'd say to this mountain, Be moved and be lifted up, and thrown into the sea; and don't doubt in your heart, but believe that those things that you say is coming to pass; you shall have what you say." Do you get it? Here it is in the original Greek Lexicon, you see. "Believe that what you say shall come to pass; you can have what you say." Have faith in God. Believe that what you ask for you receive it, believe it's already taken place, and you can have what you say.
Now, about the mountain being moved. Maybe one little grain of sand begin to move, but anyhow, in the eyes of God it was already taken place. If you'll believe tonight that... No matter what's wrong with you, if you'll believe when you ask God that you get what you say, you can have what you say. Have faith in God. But first, God has got to prove Himself to you, that He is still the same Lord God. He's still the same powerful Jehovah. Now, Jesus said, "The things that I do, shall you also."

27 Now, to you here tonight in the tabernacle, while we're starting to have the prayer line. How many of you would say this? "If I could see Jesus Christ perform the same miracles, and do the same thing that He did when He was here on earth, I in my heart would accept God and believe that whatever is wrong with me would take place as soon as I ask God." Would you believe it? Would you raise your hand, say, "God, I will believe with all... No matter what it is."

28 Now, there's no one can heal. Healing is a finished product of God. If any man tells you that he can heal you, if he's a doctor and can tell you he can heal you, he's wrong. Where there's only one healer, that's God. A doctor can give medicine, he can put medicine in a sore to kill the germs in it, so it'll get well. What does happen? The medicine doesn't heal. The medicine only keeps the bad germs out, kills the bad germs that kill the good germs, that kill you.
So science works on different poisons that they put into your system to poison certain germs that won't poison you. That's what science does. That's what medicine is, is something that'll kill a certain germ and it won't kill you. These antibiotics kill both to a great big extent. So, therefore, that's the reason they're hard to take. Like penicillin, sometimes it kills a person.
Now, a doctor can move an obstruction. He can put a bone together. But he can't heal. God's the one who does the healing. God produces the calcium. God produces the multiplication of the cells to build your body back, where they've moved appendix or something like that. God is the only healer.

29 Now, Jesus promised that He would heal us. "If you'll ask anything in my name, I will do it. When you pray, believe that you receive what you ask for; you shall have it." It's yours, believe that it comes to pass now.
Now, when He displayed His great powers on earth... Now, He didn't heal people until the Father showed Him first what to do (Saint John 5:19). He said, "If thou canst believe, all things are possible." And then in Saint John 5:19 He said, "I do nothing till I see the Father do it first. Whatever the Father shows me, that does the Son likewise." How many knows the Bible says that? Did you ever read that in the Bible? Certainly.

30 Now, when He did that, on his journey here on earth, He did it in one city, they believed Him, they were healed, thousands. Goes to another city, does it, they believe. Goes to His own city, His own home, and when He started to do it, they said, "Who is this man? Where did he get this wisdom? How does he know how to perform these things? We know him." And the Bible said that many mighty works he could not do because of their unbelief. Many mighty works He could not do.
Now, I pray if there's a sinner here tonight, that when you see, if He will do it... This is my home town. And this is the hardest place I have ever battled in my life. I've been with the Hottentots in Africa, I've been in India with the hoodoo-isms and everything else, and challenged by their witch doctors and so forth, and I've never had to struggle to get the Spirit of God to work like I have in my own home town. It's exactly right. Not because people don't love me, because the Bible is true. "Verily, verily, I say unto you, that a prophet within his own country," is on his own county, "is not without honor, except it's in that place." It has to be that way. Now, let us bow our heads just a moment, while we pray.

31 O blessed Lord, who made the heavens and earth, created them with Thy own blessed hand, I pray Thee, Lord, to be kind and merciful to us tonight, pardoning our sins and our transgressions. I pray Thee to be kind to those who are sick and needy. Grant it, Lord.
And if there be sin in our midst, O eternal God, forgive it. For just in the next few moments Your Word is either found right or it's found wrong. It's either found to be true, or it is an error. God is still God, or the Scriptures is wrong. Lord, preaching this, believing it, holding it to the showdown, Lord, to where that there must be something take place. There must be either... God must prove Himself real or the people has a right to say, "I first have to see it."
But Lord, the people borned in sin, shaped in iniquity, as we all are, come to the world speaking lies. Then we know, Lord, that the merciful God will surely have mercy upon us, and will help us, Dear God. We pray tonight for each individual here, that Your Spirit will rest upon them, forgiving our sins and our wicked ways. And may we acknowledge the Lord Jesus as our blessed Saviour just now. And may His Spirit be kind.

32 Now, Father, it is written in the Word, by the lips of our own blessed Lord and Saviour, Your Son, that has been said this way, "The things that I do, shall you also. He that believeth on me shall do the works that I do. A little while and the world won't see me no more; yet ye shall see me, for I will be with you, and in you, to the end of the age." You made a promise that the unbelieving children of Adam would never be able to see You no more after You left the earth, but that the believer would see You in power and demonstration in every generation. We believe that, Lord.
And we believe that we're living in the last days of the Gentile dispensation, that it's soon to close, and You've raised up these mighty works that the Gentiles might not have an excuse. You've had Your picture taken with us as the great Pillar of Fire that led the children of Israel. And what a phenomenon it is. And to see You. If it would just be the picture alone, we could say, "Well, it might've been such and such, even though the scientific world said it was true." But when we see the Spirit come down and manifest and do the same things that He did, then we're bound to recognize it to be the risen Lord.

33 Help us tonight, Lord. We're eternity-bound people; we got our heads towards the dust where You taken us from, and we're on our road back swiftly. This little time of preparation is for our souls. Be kind now, Lord. And as Your servant stands, O God, I have faith to believe that God cannot lie, that He'll keep His promise. He must do it in order to be God.
Lord, as my age is creeping along, and I don't know how much longer I've got to stay here, I pray, God, that You'll give me great experiences, even greater than what has been done, if it be possible, that the people might know and experience that the living Word of God is part of God. And may every person be without an excuse tonight when we leave here, if they should turn their back upon Thee. Grant it. Save souls and heal the sick, for we ask it in the name of Thy Child, the Lord Jesus, our blessed Saviour. Amen.

34 Thank you for your attention. I know I kept you just a little long. I just love that good old Word. I was borned in it. I want to die with it. The place I want to go is right here behind the platform. Like to go home to meet God. If I had twenty lives to live, or a hundred lives, I'd want every one of them for the Lord Jesus. Even if there wasn't a heaven to go to afterwards, I'd still want to serve the Lord Jesus, for the peace and satisfaction that I have of knowing that He lives. And because He lives, I can live also.

35 Now, if I stood here tonight to tell this little group of people that I had powers to heal someone, you would know quickly, or people who knows the Bible, to know that I'd be deceiving. I have no powers to heal. Neither is there any man in the world got powers to heal. It's only through Christ and your faith in the finished work. Every sinner can be saved just now, by what? Because Jesus comes down and saves you now? No, because He saved you when He died for you at Calvary. It was finished. The whole plan of salvation, and for your healing. It's your personal faith in the living God.

36 Now, I have stood with the Koran in one hand and the Bible in the other one, before hundreds of thousands of Mohammedan, and said, "One's got to be right and the other one wrong." No matter what a man says, if he can't back up what he's talking about, he lies.
And if Jesus Christ promised that His church would do the same thing that He did, and won't back it up, there's something wrong; He wasn't the Son of God. But if He will back it up, then the world's without an excuse. That's right. He's obligated to keep His Word. And you're obligated to Him. You don't belong to yourself, He died to redeem you. And it's you that He's looking for, to come back to the One that's redeemed you.

37 If I could tonight, I'd heal every person in here. I have no power to do that. The only way that a minister could do it: preaching the Word. "Faith cometh by hearing of the Word." And the Word also says that there will be in the last days ... or, through the age, the church age, there would be first apostles, which is missionaries; secondarily, prophets; after that, teachers. And then different gifts would be in the church to manifest and show His presence.

38 Now, my contention is this, if there be strangers here. I don't get to my own church long enough to know who comes here. This is a little tabernacle, you visitors, where I was brought up, in my first and only little tabernacle. It's in this city here that I've lived among the people. If you're strangers with us, ask somebody along the city, go to the police force, to the mayor of the city, and anyone, and find out if any Christian here ever seen one of those visions ever fail. It can't fail. It is God, see. It is God.
And right yonder on the river, many, many, many years ago, when we was baptizing from my first little revival, there where this Angel of the Lord here, come down and hung over where we was at and He said to me, "This message will go around the world, and will start a revival that will sweep around the world and it'll be just before the coming of Christ the second time."

39 And when Brother Davis, Dr. Roy Davis (many of you know him), who ordained me into the church, into the Baptist church, when he said I had a nightmare. How would I, with a seventh-grade education, go and preach to kings and potentates and monarchs around the world? I can't tell you. But God said so and I believed it. And He's let me live to see it, that it's been done; and a great revival now. Revival fires are burning on every hill around the world, waiting for the coming of the blessed Lord.
Great forerunners of these things. There's a great runner in the world today, evangelism, such as Billy Graham. Like John the Baptist, who goes forth plowing into the things, and is laying the ax at the root of the tree, doing no miracles, neither did John. But he preached the Word.

40 But immediately after, He come along, the Lord Jesus, not such a great preacher, but performing signs and wonders. Said, "If I do not the works of my Father, then believe me not. But if I do the works, if you don't believe me, believe the works." Then He said, "I do nothing in myself, but what I see the Father doing also." And what did He do? He told the woman of her sins. He told Philip where he was before Nathanael ... Nathanael where he was before Philip found him, under a tree praying. He told Peter what his name was. He told the woman with the blood issue when she touched His garment, all these things.
And He said, "These works that I do, shall you also; more shall you do; for I go to my Father." One woman touched His garment and He got so weak. There was no one else touched, as far as we know. That's all we have. The Bible's all we have to go by. But now we can see it done time after time, by sinners saved by grace. Why? Because His Word said, "More than this shall you do."

41 Now, He died. Yes, He rose again, and He's alive tonight. He said, "I am the vine, ye are the branches." The vine doesn't bear fruit; it purges the branches and the branches bears fruit. He has no hands but mine and yours. He has no eyes but mine and yours, because He's returned into Spirit. The Pillar of Fire that led the children of Israel, It was the Angel of the covenant, Jesus Christ. The Bible said so. Any Bible reader knows that.
And He said, "I come from God, I go to God." And He returned back to God. You say, "He went back to that pillar of fire?" Absolutely. "Does the Bible say so?" Yes, sir. Paul, a little after His resurrection, met Him on the road down to Damascus as that same bright light that put Paul's eyes out. And no one seen it but Paul. It was a reality to some and not to the others. I know by an experience, that same Lord Jesus is not two feet from where I'm standing right now. That's right. The visions come and you see it. And it was so bright till it put his eyes out. He said, "Lord, Lord."
He said, "Why are you persecuting me, Paul?"
He said, "Who are You, Lord?"
He said, "I'm Jesus." The light.

42 Here He is in the last days doing the same thing, the same fruits. A spirit will bear record of itself each time. If He will do that tonight in this little church when you're standing here with aching feet and limbs, I pray, He'd only have to do it once. Once would be sufficient. We are people who are groped in darkness. We want to think different, but we're not. We see those things.
Jesus said in the Bible ... the Bible speaks of Him, said this, "They have eyes but can't see, ears but can't hear." Though He had done so many miracles, yet they could not believe Him. Do you see what I mean? Wake up now quickly. If the Lord Jesus will perform these things, then He's Christ, the same yesterday, today and forever. May He grant it now. If He will, I'll be thankful to Him, while we pray.

43 Lord God, Creator of heavens and earth, now the rest of it's in Thy hands, Lord. This is the little broken up message by difficult. People with their spirits all bothered with standing, aching feet, and sick people crying, and it is very difficult. But I pray, Lord, that You'll somehow, somehow or some way, get the little message to them, that men who have faith, who believed that You promised: all things are possible.
Then those who touched the garment of our Lord. We're taught in the New Testament that He's still the High Priest that can be touched by the feeling of our infirmities. He can still talk; He's still alive. And we are His vine ... or, His branches that's connected in the vine. Then come, Holy Spirit; speak and give us light. Give us healing. Give us forgiveness of our sins and make us Thy people. For this we ask in Jesus' name, and for His glory. Amen.

44 I don't know how we'll stand the sick people. We can't stand too many at a time. Let's see, prayer cards... Now, there's two more boys that's coming to give out cards, Gene and Leo. They've never arrived and they didn't give out too many cards. I think Billy had ... how many? He only had fifty. You don't have to have it. Course, it's just some mixed up, and we can get a few up here ... to here.
Now, what was it? From 1 to 50? They was from 1 to 50. How would they do it, they come right down and shuffle the cards out between you, and mix up...

45 [Gap in the audio.] Just to talk to you, just merely to contact... If you'll stand up this way because I believe the voice don't come in too good on this little microphone here. If you'll... If the Holy Spirit will reveal what you're here for, like the woman at the well, who come to the Lord Jesus, and Jesus said, "These things that I do shall you also." And if He will reveal what you want of Him, whatever you want, what your trouble is, would you believe it was Him? You would. They'd know it would have to come from a supernatural power.
Now, if the lady... If I'd say, "Lady, you want some money because you got a debt to pay off; you're going to get it." Huh. She'd have a right to doubt that. If I'd say, "You're sick and you're going to get well," she'd have a right to doubt that; she wouldn't know. But what if the Holy Spirit goes back down yonder and shows something that she's been doing? Something that... She'll know whether that was right or not. She'll be the judge of that, see. Let her be the judge, see.
Now, "What did you say you're doing, Brother Branham?" After preaching like that, and in my home church here, I'm waiting for that anointing to come down, that blessed Holy Spirit to do the anointing. And I trust that He will for the glory of God.

46 Now, let the lady... She's here, she's got her head bowed, her eyes are closed, she's in prayer. Now, I want you to pray for whatever you're wanting, and the Lord reveal it, and you be the judge. The woman, if the audience can still hear my voice, she is suffering from a tremendous nervous condition. And I see a doctor doing something; he's putting a thing around her arm. And he says she's got high blood pressure. That's right. Isn't that right, lady? [The lady says, "That's right."]
Now, something... Did you hear that voice? That wasn't me. I had nothing to do with that. Now, more I'd talk to her, more would happen. Just watch, now we'll talk to her again. I don't know what He said was wrong with her; what it was, it'll be on the tapes back there, you see. But whatever it was, it's right. Now, let's just look to her again.
Yes, I see her now in a nervous condition, and something wrong with her blood, and she's not from this city; she is from Louisville. And she has been recently in a hospital, and it was for pneumonia. And her doctor tells her she's got a back set of it and must go back again to the hospital. That's "Thus saith the Lord." That's right, isn't it? But you don't have to go back, lady; your faith has made you well. You're healed now in the name of the Lord Jesus. Amen. Now, then, go and be well. The Lord bless you.
Did I have one thing to do with that? Not a thing.

47 Now, here stands a lady that I've never seen in my life. I suppose we're strangers to each other, are we? You saw me, but I probably never saw you. Just probably in some meetings or somewhere. Now, if the Lord Jesus will let me know what you're here for, you'd know then, me not knowing you, that there's some way I have of knowing. You'd have to know it come through supernatural. Then, what would you think it would be? The same thing the Bible said, that Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today and forever? Would you believe that, audience?
Here's my hand, as far as I know I never seen this woman in my life, see. And she seen me, but I don't know what you're here about. I don't know nothing about it, I just don't know. But God does. Now, if the Lord will reveal it, amen. That's all He could do if He stood here. If it's for healing or anything else, He just wants you to believe it, that's all. This is to manifest that His Word is true.
Something happened in the audience then. Just have faith. Now, it seems that there... If you could see between me and the woman. You're suffering with a weakness. You have real weak spells. That's right. Just tremendous weakness, nervous, weak. But that's not your reason you're here. You're here for somebody else, and that's a man. It's your husband. He couldn't come because he's got a severe heart trouble and nervousness. And you're not from this city; you're from a place called Columbia, Columbia, Kentucky. Your name is Lotti Goodman. Your husband's name, Elmer. Go home and find it as you have believed, and may God grant it to you, in the name of the Lord Jesus. Just believe, have faith. Don't doubt now, just believe.

48 I suppose we're strangers to each other, sir. Now, here is two men, just like Philip went and found Nathanael and brought him to the Lord. I don't know you and you don't know me, but God knows us both. You're aware that something's going on right now, see. Standing before a man wouldn't make you feel like that, that humble, sweet feeling. If you could just see a light that's moving, settling between me and the man.
Now, he leaves from me, and he's not here for himself; he's here for somebody else. That's a relative, a nephew. And he's in the armed forces, in the navy, but he's not far from here. He's near a place where there's a lot of military stuff, it's a hospital, and it's Fort Knox. And he's blind, caused from a gunshot, and the doctor says there's no hope for him. That's "Thus saith the Lord." Do you believe? Then may it be according to your faith, my brother, and receive in the name of our Lord Jesus. Amen. Do you believe? God bless you, my dear brother.

49 The next person. How do you do? [Gap in the audio.]
How lovely our blessed Saviour is. How omnipresent. How that the same Jesus that stood at Galilee... Just a moment. Was that man there at the platform just now? Which one of the man was it? That men there. All right, you may be seated.
It's the lady right here on the end with the red hat on. Yes, you're praying for a friend that's an alcoholic. That's right. All right, if you can believe, you can receive. Amen.

50 All right, will you believe? I don't know you; I've never seen you in my life. We're strangers to each other. But if the Lord God of heaven will manifest Himself in His power, and reveal that He is the same yesterday, today, and forever, will you believe Him? Let's see; is this three people, or how... There's been more than that through, hasn't there? Three is a confirmation, of course, but whatever it is.
You are here for someone else, that is your main desire. And that's for a man, and that man is your son, and he has heart trouble. And he's had some kind of a something happen to him; it's a stroke, and it's partially paralyzed him. And you also are sick. You have colitis; it's a bowel condition. That's "Thus saith the Lord." And another thing, I see a messenger going from place to place... No. It was someone come here to the tabernacle some time ago and requested a prayer for you and the Lord healed you. That's "Thus saith the Lord." If that's right, raise your hands. Do you believe you get what you ask for? [Sister says, "I do."] Then may it be unto you, my sister, as the Lord Jesus has provided. Amen.

51 How do you do? Is everybody believing? Do you believe with all your heart? Now, have faith. What is it? I just got to talk here, just a second if you will, because it... I got more to get to and I just want to rest just a moment. You don't realize what that does to you. It's worse than pra... Sure, how many remembers the great prophet Daniel saw one vision and was troubled at his head for many days. You remember? Sure, see. It's only His grace.
Now, you out there, that's not in the prayer line, just start looking this way. You say, "Brother Branham, would that do any good?" Sure. Just ask the Lord Jesus, say, "Blessed Father, let me touch Your garment. And the only way I know that You touched me, or heard me, that be if You'll speak through that man's lips and tell me what I'm asking for, like up there on the platform. I believe You." You without a prayer card now, pray and believe it that way. Don't doubt; just have faith.

52 Now, is this the patient, Brother Neville? This is. I didn't mean to let you stand there. But you can imagine what takes place. Are we strangers to each other? We are. Now, let this be settled. This woman is a stranger to me. I don't know her, I've never seen her in my life. And this is our first time meeting. That's right. First time we've ever laid eyes on each other. And she's just a woman that would come up here to the platform. Someone give her a prayer card, and she just come up here at the platform; that's all I know about her.
But the Lord Jesus can reveal it, and if He can reveal it, then He is the same yesterday, today and forever. That's exactly what He promised to do. And if that promise is fulfilled, He'll fulfill every promise that He made. And He promised to heal you if you'd believe it. Do you see what I mean now? It can't fail. It's got to be so. Oh, blessed be His name, He just can't fail.
If the Lord Jesus will let me know what has been in your life, He surely will know what will be in your life. You be the judge of that. How many would say, "I will believe with all my heart if that woman will hold her hands, both of you, will say you've never met before, and the Lord Jesus will reveal it. I will believe." With all your heart, will you do it? God don't want us to be slothful; He wants us to have faith. Here we are before the pulpit, the Bible laying here, both of us, here we stand.

53 The lady is suffering with an extreme nervous condition. That's your trouble. But what you think it is, is something in your stomach that's giving you gas on your stomach. That's nerves that's doing that. That's right. And you have something wrong with your neck, and in your shoulders, because you go to church and you are a Christian, and you're a pianist in your church. And when you're playing the piano, that suffering hurts you when you're playing the piano. That's "Thus saith the Spirit." That's true. And you're not from this city. But you're from a city at the river, and it's not Louisville; it's Cincinnati. Cincinnati, Ohio. That's "Thus saith the Lord."
Can you see that line? Faith struck just then, cause there's... That young fellow sitting right yonder, kind of wavy hair; he's something connected with you. That's true, young man. Your faith touched Something. You're suffering with a hernia. That's right. And you're also from Cincinnati; that's true. You believe?

54 A little lady shrugged her shoulders, sitting right here with a pink hat on, a shawl around her. She's got trouble with her eyes. That's right. And she's from Cincinnati. That's right. And let me te... You believe me to be God's prophet? You do? You're praying for a husband that's beginning to drink. He used to go to church and be a Christian, but he's backslid and drinking now. That's "Thus saith the Lord." That's right. Well raise up your hand if that's right so... All right.

55 That little lady sitting next to you there, is suffering with a nervous condition. She also comes from up there. But the thing that you need worse than ever: you go to church, but you haven't yet become a real Christian. That's right. Will you accept Him now as your personal Saviour, being that He's there? If you do wave your hand to Him, that "I accept Him." God bless you. Your sins are forgiven. You go in peace and your nervousness is gone. Amen. Go home and be happy, in the name of the Lord.

56 Do you believe? "All things are possible to them that believe." Now, I feel a vibration back there ... not a vibration, but a spirit that says I'm reading their mind. I'm not doing it. You be careful, that'll come to you. Here this man here, put your hand on mine, sir, that I won't even be looking at you. If the Lord Jesus will reveal to me what's your trouble, will you accept your healing, or whatever you need? Will you do it? This man here. You will? [The man says, "Yes."] Heart trouble. Now, you go and be healed. The Lord Jesus make you well. If you believe it with all your heart, you may go and be well.

57 Now, this lady here. The woman has a spirit of death on her, for she's got cancer. You believe the Lord will heal you, sister?
O Dear God, who made the heavens and earth, this poor little woman has been caught into the clutches of the devil; a dark shadow hangs near her. But we challenge this demon in the name of the Lord Jesus, come out from the woman, and may she go and be well through Jesus Christ's name. Amen.
The Lord bless you, sister. Go and don't doubt for nothing.
"If thou canst believe." Are you believing? Just have faith. Bible said, "If thou canst believe, all things are possible." But it's only way it can be done.

58 We are strangers to each other, sir, but the Lord knows both of us. If He will reveal to me what you're here for, will you receive it? You have a stomach trouble. And another thing, you're a sinner; you haven't accepted the Lord as your Saviour. Will you accept Him as your Saviour? You raise your hands to Him, accept Him as your Saviour and I declare you in the name of Christ, healed of your stomach trouble. Go and sin no more. Amen.

59 Be merciful, the living God. You believe God heals you of that heart trouble? Then go out there and be made whole, in the name of the Lord Jesus.
Does the little lady sitting here with a black coat on, glasses, you have a prayer card, lady? You don't? You got something wrong with your ears, you want me to pray for, and you got bowel trouble also. Is that right? All right, it's over now. Go believe.

60 "If thou canst believe."
You want prayer for somebody, don't you? [The man says, "Yes, sir."] A sister in an institution.
O eternal God, send Thy message to the person and may they be healed. Grant it, O Lord, for we ask it in Jesus' name. Amen.
Find it as you have believed, my brother. Don't doubt.
"If thou canst believe." Are you believing? Oh, what a glorious time it could be for all, if you would...

61 There seems to be a light around the woman that's kind of heavyset, looking at me. Right back here. It's a lady inside. It moves from her because this lady has just been healed. But the next lady has something, kind of a blood pressure, low blood pressure. You believe the Lord would make you whole, lady? "If thou canst believe, all things are possible." Do you believe it, lady that's looking around there, believing with...? You believe it with all your heart? Yes. You accept it? All right, you can go and be made well in the name of the Lord Jesus.

62 The man sitting right here praying. You want me to tell you what you're saying? "Lord, heal me of that sinus." All right, He does it, in the name of the Lord Jesus. "If thou canst believe."
Do you believe God'll take the heart trouble away from you, and go be well?
O Lord, send Thy mercies and power and bless this poor man, Lord, and make him well through Jesus Christ's name I ask it. Amen.
Believe it now... Don't doubt, all things are possible.

63 Arthritis is not a bad thing for God to heal. You believe that He will do it?
O Lord, I pray that in the name of Jesus that You'll send Your Spirit upon this dear woman and make her completely whole. And may she go to her home rejoicing and be made well. Not doubting one bit, but believing that it's taken place right now, and she shall have what she has believed. We ask it in Jesus' name. Amen.
Do you believe with all your heart? You can have what you ask for then.

64 Way back yonder in the corner, there is the Angel of the Lord standing back there, a light.. If you can believe, you there about three rows this side of the back. The best I can see from here it's about the second person in, that's praying back there that's got intestinal trouble. Do you believe that God will heal you? All right, you can have what you ask for. Lay your hands on that man next to you there, for he is praying with a tonsil condition. If you will believe with all your heart, you can have what you ask for. Amen.

65 Are you believing? The Lord Jesus, right at this time, can make everyone of you perfectly whole if you can believe it. Do you believe it? Then lay your hands on each other just a minute, and I'll show you the glory of the Lord.
Now, either Brother Woods or Billy, one, is touching me in the back, which I know it's just about time. They won't let me stand much longer, because my strength is gone.

66 I said just a little while ago, if God would come and would manifest Himself, if He would prove by an experience that He is the Lord God, that He is the same yesterday, today, and forever, then you would not have any reason to doubt. Neither could, in my message tonight, any of those who's once seen God's presence. How could Philip doubt? How could Nathanael doubt? How could the woman with the blood issue? She couldn't doubt, she'd touched Him. And He had revealed to her what she touched for.

67 Don't look at the size of the church or what it looks like. Don't look at the little congregation, because we're all common people, but think of the blessed Lord who's presence is here, who shows Himself alive. You believe Him right now and you can have anything that you ask for and believe.
Now, He can heal right here just the same. His presence... You're already healed. There's only one thing keeping you from receiving it, that's unbelief. Get rid of that right now. Don't disbelieve it any longer; discard it and accept the Lord Jesus as your healer. Watch what takes place. You go out of this building rejoicing, because you're right now in the presence of the Lord Jesus. Not because you're in this tabernacle, but because that He has come and visited us. Not because I'm the preacher, or my Brother Neville, or any of these other Christians; not our presence, but it's His presence. It's infallible, it's the Bible, it's the truth. Blessed be His name.

68 In spite of Him saying in our own country, among our own people, grace has overrode it tonight because of the nearness of time. The end is at hand. He promised that when these things begin to take place that the end time was at hand. You believe it now while I pray. The Bible said, "The effectual fervent prayer availeth much." So let us pray, as you pray for each other, as you lay your hands on each other.

69 Lord, Thou has been a hiding place in every generation. Thou has been our refuge. Long have we waited upon Thee. Long has this Protestant church longed to see the day when it could stand to its feet. From the little group that's been pushed off to one side because they wouldn't tolerate with the unbelief of the unbelievers who's yoked themselves together. And they made their challenge that that little fire that begin to fall a few years ago will finally go out. But oh, we're so glad for our great captain David, who stands in our midst tonight, and challenges the enemy.
O Lord God, we would pray this prayer of faith for each and every person here. Let them know at this very moment that Your great presence is here to sweep over this entire audience and heal every person. O Great Holy Spirit, every heart may be thrilled at this moment as He baptizes them into the great presence of the Holy Ghost. O Satan, you are defeated; come out of this place and get from the people. In the name of Jesus Christ may every person be healed. O eternal and blessed God, grant these things through Jesus Christ's name.

70 Every person that believes that you are healed, stand to your feet and give God the praise. Thank you, and the Lord God bless you. Brother Neville.

Faith

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1 Thank you. You may be seated. So glad to be here tonight in the service of our blessed Lord. Someone has taken my picture coming in out there, and I was looking in the camera and I didn't know it, and I can hardly see you.
We're so sorry that we do not have adequate room for the people to be seated, but we know that our Lord will meet our needs. And tomorrow, all you visiting people that are here in the city, that's from out of town and is going to stay with us for tomorrow's services, find your place in one of these fine churches here. These ministers here... I think this is the ministerial role, the best that I know. And these are ministers that has churches throughout the country here. They'd be very happy to have you as their guest tomorrow at their church.
All the ministers that's around and close here, would you stand up to your feet so the audience can ... they have never ... if you will. That's right. Just so they can see where you are from. And all the cooperating ministers, would you stand to your feet, that the people might know who you people are here that's brought us here to this city. The Lord bless you. And now, if you're here, you go to their meeting. They'd be very happy to have you.

2 And now tomorrow morning I think I'm to go out to have a prayer at a dedication of a church. Tomorrow afternoon, if the Lord is willing, two-thirty, I want to speak on the subject, evangelistic subject, "When The Eagle Stirs Her Nest." And then, tomorrow night, the Lord willing, I want to speak on "The Heart In The Middle Of The Heart." That will be the closing services.

3 Then next week, we begin just your neighboring city over here in Ohio. And it's a Sunday through Sunday, with plenty of room there, I think, for the people. Then we go on to the New England states, back to Dallas, Texas; then to Durban, South Africa, and up into Switzerland, Germany, Holy Land, and aim to be back next fall again.
We are happy to be the servant of this great Lord Jesus that we so love. And so happy to know that we have this fellowship with you, His people. It gives us a great privilege to be here to minister in His name.

4 Now, just before we read a portion of His precious Word ... so we'll go straight into the service. I give out, I believe, or Dr. Vayle my associate has said, tonight we would have what was called "the faith line." The Lord has been blessing us in the week, if there's any newcomers here. And we are having tonight "the faith line". Those who are holding the prayer cards will be brought through the line. Tomorrow, if the Lord willing, the prayer cards will be give out at the afternoon service and at the evening service also.

5 Now, let us bow our heads just a moment for prayer. Gracious God, we are happy tonight for the privilege that we have of knowing that we are Your children by grace through Jesus Christ, our Lord. We are so glad that the blessed old Gospel has never lost its power, that Jesus remains the same yesterday, today, and forever. And we would ask this special blessing on these people, tonight. O God, we ask that You pour out Your Spirit upon them. Give us the exceedingly abundantly. Grant, O God, that there will not be one person that's in Divine Presence shall ever darken that smutty walls of the lost in hell. If there be a sinner man, or woman, boy, or girl tonight, may they think on these things and become Thy servant this night.
We pray, God, that You'll not let one person leave this building unless they are healed by Thy power, and have seen the vision and accepted it. And I pray, Father, also, for those who cannot be seated and be in comfort: they're standing, and their limbs are aching. We would ask that You would especially bless them. Make it easy for them now just for a few moments as the message goes forth. Speak through our lips and listen through our ears, Lord, and may Thy great name be honored. For we ask it in Jesus' name. Amen.

6 This week I have come to you not able to speak but just a little bit, because I hardly have had a night off since Christmas. Constantly speaking. And we started off at Chicago where the Lord gave us such a wonderful service. And it was in a blizzard, and every city that we have visited since then has been in a blizzard. And I told Dr. Vayle, which is just one of my new associates, I was going to call him "Blizzard Vayle" from now on, because every meeting we've had they've had a blizzard.

7 In the Chicago meeting, we're still getting great testimonies. Just one that I would like to mention just now. Billy was giving out prayer cards one night and there had been a little woman, little typical Swedish woman (and she was very poorly dressed), and she said, "Honey, would you give me a prayer card?"
And he said, "Mother, I have just give the last card out, I'm leaving." Said, "However, tomorrow night you meet me here. I'll give you a prayer card."
She said, "Bless your heart, honey, that will be all right." So she goes in, must have climbed up into the second or third balcony. While the Holy Spirit was on ... in the building that night, anointing, it went up into the top of the balcony. Said, "The little lady sitting up there [which was the same lady], she is praying for her husband, who is a dispatcher on the railroad, that's deaf in one ear. He's just received his hearing." She looked at her watch. And when she got home that night, her husband was standing in the door with his arms out, screaming. He had got his hearing just at that moment when it was saw by vision.

8 A colored lady sitting in a distance. The Holy Spirit moved to her and told her that she was from adjoining city, and that she was suffering with diabetes, and pronounced her healed. And said, "Also, your sister, a heavy-set woman, is in Arkansas in an insane institution, ten years an inmate. Maniac, butting her head against the wall." And the lady witnessed that was true. And it said, "But, Thus saith the Lord, she just now come to herself." And at that very same hour the woman came to herself. The next morning she was dismissed with a medical discharge that she was perfectly normal. Called her sister and greeted her on the phone. And the following night the woman, with her testimony, way she was described, was standing at the platform giving praise to almighty God. He still lives.

9 A man, for his friend (standing on the platform) up in Wyoming, who was paralyzed in his back for a number of years. Told him his friend would be healed within the next twelve hours. And at the end of the twelve hours the man raised from his wheelchair and walked, and come to the ... got on a train and come to the meeting, and testified to the glory of God.

10 Oh, aren't we happy tonight to know that Christianity is not a bluff. It's something that is real. God is so real. I want to read just one verse out of His Bible. And that is found in Saint Mark the eleventh chapter and the twenty-second verse. Just speak to you a few moments, and may God give us the context.
And Jesus answering saith unto them, Have faith in God.
It's been said in the Scriptures that "faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen." And then, if we were going to have a faith line tonight, I thought it would be appropriate to speak just a little on faith.

11 Now, many people thinks that ... doesn't know just how to take ahold of faith. Jesus had been speaking to His disciples, and He said to them, "Have faith in God." But before He had done this, He had performed a miracle to show them that God still operated, that He still lives. He had said to a tree the day before, "No man eateth from thee from henceforth for a season." And the next day Peter noticed the tree had begun to wither from the roots. He was showing there just what it meant. And Jesus, making not a raised voice, but just with real faith, said, "No man eateth from thee." And the tree began to wither, the life went out of the tree.

12 Now, before He would teach His disciples what He did, He must show them first who He was. And that's the way He still does. As I have said before, when an occasion arises that needs to be God called on the scene, and the way God acts on that occasion, if the same occasion would ever rise again, God has to act in the same way that He did first---or if He did not, He did wrong when He acted the first time.

13 Oh, it seems to be such a hard thing for people to comprehend what faith is. Now, many people think that faith is just something like a rug, or touch a totem pole, or a certain mental emotion. That isn't faith. Many times that's excitement, sometimes it's hope. I've heard many people say, "Oh, I've got all faith." But, then, them standing in a prayer line. If they had that type of faith, they would not need ... have ... be in the prayer line. See. It's just an emotional faith.

14 Now watch. "Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen." Now, if I was starving to death and you came to my rescue, and I said, "If I had one loaf of bread, it would spare my life"; and you'd say, "Brother Branham, I'll fix that for you," and would give me twenty-five cents. Well, twenty-five cents is the purchase power of the loaf of bread. Now yet I do not have the loaf of bread, though I have the purchasing power of the loaf of bread.
Now, you people here that's real sick, I want you to listen closely. Now, that twenty-five cents is your faith. Your faith is the purchasing power of your healing. Now, if I had twenty-five cents, I could not eat the twenty-five cents. The twenty-five cents is not the bread, but it is the power that will purchase the bread.
Now, when you receive faith, faith is the purchasing power of your healing. Now, like this. If you give me the twenty-five cents, and maybe the grocery store was five miles away, but I can rejoice just as much with the twenty-five cents in my hand as I could with the loaf of bread in my hand, because I have in my possession the purchasing power of the bread.
Now, listen, friend. When you receive faith, if you really believe it, you're just as good as healed right then, though you might not be able to move. Now, it's not something that you imagine, it's not something that you work up to, it's something that you possess! You have it! I could show you my twenty-five cents. That is the purchasing power of the bread. And when you've got the faith, you prove it by the way you act. Now, I might have to go a long ways before I get the bread, but I can rejoice all the way. And getting more hungrier and weaker all the time, but yet rejoicing all the time because I've got the purchase power of the bread.

15 Here is a young man sitting here in a wheelchair. God only knows the man, as far I know; his friends know him, his people know him. Here is another man sitting in a wheelchair. A lady laying in a cot. A man sitting here with crutches, holding, supporting himself. If those people could only receive faith, then that faith... If they couldn't even move one bit better than they could when they come in here, they could be ... not ten thousand doctors tell them that they wasn't going to be well. See? It's something you have, you posses it.

16 And now, usually, experience accompanies faith. And that's the reason that, usually, it takes a person that's acquainted with Christ---as the forgiveness of their sins, to know that He has forgiven you. You have an experience when you are born again, that Christ forgave you and you know it. Therefore, with that experience, it's easy, then, for you to believe God for anything that He promised.

17 Now, notice, it's not always the trained man. Here, let's take some examples for instance. Israel had been called out in battle against the Philistines. And the Philistines, just as it would be today, they had the great challenger named Goliath. Oh, he was a mighty man. His fingers were fourteen inches long and his spear was the size of a weavers needle, probably from here to the wall. And he made a proposition with Israel.
That's the way the enemy will do it. If he can see he's got the upper hand, he'll always proposition with you. But when he's in the corner, he's a coward: for the devil is defeated, he's nothing but a bluff. If this Bible is the truth---which it is---Christ stripped him of every legal authority he had at Calvary. He paid the full price for sin and all of its attributes.

18 But now, this Philistine come out. He said, "Let's not have a great bloodshed. Let's not have any trouble. Let's just you choose you a man and we'll choose us a man---and that's me---and let us come out here and fight. If I whip your man, then you all serve us; if he whips me, then we will serve you." Sure. Who would tackle that great big giant?
If there was any man in the whole Israelite army that would been physically able, would have been Saul. Saul was the king. And the Bible said that he was head and shoulders above any man in his army. Not only that, but he was a well-trained man. He knew all the military maneuvers. He had been schooled since a boy, of knowing how to handle a spear or a sword. But he was afraid, because the giant had him bluffed.
But you know God's always got somebody that's not scared. Way back on the backside of the desert, herding his pappy's sheep, was a little old ruddy, stoop-shouldered boy that knowed something about God. He wasn't a trained fighter, but when he heard that giant make that expression, he said, "Do you mean to tell me that you'll stand here and let that uncircumcised Philistine defy the armies of the living God? If you all are scared, let me go fight him." The most unequipped man there was in the group.

19 And many times ... when the devil has our people bound under superstition that divine healing is some kind of a totem pole, or something that was back in an age gone by. Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever! And the pitiful part, some of the best trained scholars we have is afraid to tackle the job---from the Lord Bishops and great scholarly men---because the only thing they know is the Word, they've never had a real experience with God. And David knowed what he was talking about. He wasn't so well-trained, but he knew who he had trusted.
That's what's the matter today, is men who are scholarly, great denominations behind them, but they're afraid to take that stand. Sometimes God has to get down and get some little ignorant, illiterate bunch of preachers, that hardly know their ABCs, to stand for what they know to be the truth---for they've had experience! No matter how well you're trained, if you're not experienced...
You wouldn't want a doctor to operate on you that never had an experience, you was his first patient. Certainly not. We need Christians who's got experience, who knows how to trust God.

20 And David, when he went up, they had brought him before Saul. And Saul said, "Why, you couldn't fight that man. Why, you're nothing but a little, ruddy kid." And said, "You're just a youth, and he's a warrior from his youth."
He said, "But Saul, there's just one thing you don't know. I've had an experience. Back on the backside of the desert one day, I was brought to a showdown. A lion run in and got one of my sheep. I knocked him down with a slingshot, and he rose up against me, and I killed him. And a bear got a kid, and I killed him. And the God that delivered me out of the paws of the lion and the bear will deliver me out of the spear of that uncircumcised Philistine." He knew what he was talking about. He didn't have much training, but he knew the God of heaven. He didn't need any training. You don't need it, if you know God. And he conquered the Philistine because God was with him. What? He had an experience. Therefore he had faith, because he knowed what God had done God could do again, and the crisis was on, and God would act.

21 Oh, don't you see it? God's obligated to act every time! He's got to in order to be God---if you just won't doubt Him. He must act in order to stay God. See, we get smarter, the generations makes us smarter. We've learned the intelligence of our fathers. But God was infinite to begin with; He don't get any smarter. What He did the first time, he has to do every time because He was perfect to begin with. And His actions, and His motives, and His power, and all that He was was perfect to start with. Don't need any schooling.

22 Now, notice again. It was Moses that had been down in Egypt, and had all the scholarship, and was taught in all the wisdom of the Egyptians (which seemingly was far above our wisdom today). And he was taught in all of it till he could teach their teachers. If there ever was a man that was qualified by education, it was Moses. He was a military man. He knowed all the ways to fight, and all the answers; but he went at it wrong and he failed God. But one day back on the backside of the desert...
The only thing he knowed about God was what his mama had taught him. That's the letter, that's his education. But one day on the backside of the desert, he was herding his father-in-law's sheep, and he met God in a burning bush, a supernatural. And in five minutes in the presence of that supernatural Being, he was better equipped than all the wisdom that Egypt could have give him. Five minutes before he was a running coward, but after that experience of being in the presence and knowing that the God of the Hebrews lived, he acted different from then on.

23 Let's look at him. Here he is, an old man, eighty years old, whiskers hanging down to his waistline. And the next morning we find him on the road down to Egypt, where he was wanted for murder, going down to Egypt to take over. Could you imagine this sight? Just look what faith does. And it looks like it's the most radical thing. And God sometimes does things that seem silly to the human mind. But "by faith Moses esteemed the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures of Egypt."
Look at this scene: An old man, eighty years old, his wife sitting straddle of a mule, with a young'un on each hip; old Moses hitting a stick on the ground, going along praising God. "Where you going, Moses?"
"Going down to Egypt to take over. Going down to take over." A one-man invasion. And the beauty part, he did it! Why? He had faith in the God that he had experience with---God, who made the difference. He didn't need his military training. He didn't need his scholarship. He needed an experience! And the burning bush had what Moses lacked!
That's the same thing tonight with the church. The Holy Ghost has got what the church lacks!---that's a burning, everlasting faith from [unclear words]. Certainly. It was wonderful to see how God could do those things. He turned it over and he made a different thing, because that God did it.
[Someone speaks in tongues and then someone gives the interpretation.]
"Going down to take over." And he did it, because he had an experience that God still lived.

24 Abraham, coming down from Chaldea, the land of Ur. And after he had met God and had an experience, he was able to call those things which were not as though they were, because he had talked to God. It takes an experience. Certainly it does, to be delivered. Oh, how needful it is!

25 In the days of our Lord, before He left the earth, in Acts 1:8, He said, "Tarry ye in the city of Jerusalem until you are endued with power from on high." I misquoted the Scripture, that's Luke 24:49. Acts 1:8 says, "You shall receive power after the Holy Ghost has come upon you." And let's notice. There was a bunch of little cowardly people, 120 in a upper room, and they had the doors locked because they were afraid of the threats of the Jews. And then, "All of a sudden, there came a sound from heaven like as a rushing mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting." Oh, they were afraid a few minutes before that, but here they were all out into the street magnifying and glorifying God. They'd had an experience that had set them afire, that could burn the whole world in that day. They had an experience. That's what we need. Experience accompanies faith.

26 Of course, when Philip had met the Lord Jesus---and had seen Him tell Peter, or his name was Simon, and told him who he was, and told him what his name was, and told him what his father's name was---it was after Philip had seen that done, that he could encourage Nathanael, that he found on his knees praying.
It was after Nathanael had come in the presence of Jesus... And when he did, Jesus said, "Behold an Israelite in whom there is no guile!"
He said, "Rabbi, when did you know me?"
He said, "Before Philip called you I saw you, when you were under the tree."
It was after that experience that he could fall at His feet, and say, "Thou art the Son of God; thou art the King of Israel." It was after he'd seen the moving and working of the Holy Ghost in that man, and he knowed that was the sign of the Messiah.

27 It was after a little woman, who probably in her heart knowed she had done wrong, and knowed she was of ill-fame (living with six husbands), that she went out one day to a well at Samaria. And on the road up, no doubt that she was thinking about ... concentrating. That's why we miss God so much. We're thinking about other things instead of Him. Think on Him.
As she was going up thinking about it, "Oh, I'm so sorry that I have ruined my life, but some glorious day the great Messiah will come. And when He comes, He will straighten us out." And while she went up there, she seen just an ordinary man sitting over against the wall. And the man was a Jew. And He said to her, "Woman, bring Me a drink."
She said, "It's not customary for you Jews to ask Samaritans such. We have no dealings."
He said, "If you knew who you were talking to..."

28 Oh, if this church tonight, if you only knew that the real Christ, the Holy Spirit, is on earth today just the same as it was in any day gone by, that He's still the same. If you could only let it get into you.

29 "If you knew who it was that's talked to you, you would ask Me for a drink."
And the conversation went on, the little woman just as innocent of knowing who He was. After a while, when our Lord contacted her spirit, He said to her, "Go get your husband and come here."
She said, "I don't have any husband."
He said, "That's right. You have five and the one you're now living with is not your husband."
Look what happened. Quickly she turned, and she said, "Sir, I perceive that you are a prophet. We know when the Messiah cometh He will tell us these things. But who are You?"
He said, "I am He that speaks with you."
It was after that experience that she could run through the streets saying, "Come see a man who told me everything that I've done. Isn't this the very Messiah?" After she had had the experience.

30 There was a little woman who believed in her heart that that was the Messiah. And she slipped through a crowd one day, with a blood issue, and she touched His garment. For she said within her heart, "If I could just touch His garment, I'll be made well---just touch His garment."
Notice. And she touched His garment and she went away. And our Lord said, "Who touched Me?"
And they all rebuked Him and said, or Peter did, and said, "The whole crowd's touching You."
Jesus looked around until He found where she was standing, and He said to her what she had, the blood issue, it was gone from her---for her faith had made her whole. It was after that, she had that experience, that she knowed that the touch of His garment would make her whole. You know the Bible said many touched His garments from then on. They went into the places, trying to find how they could do it, touch His garment.

31 It was after Jesus had cursed the tree, and the disciples seen His power, when He turned and said to them, "Not if I say it, but verily I say unto you, if you say to this mountain, Be ye raised up and thrown into the sea; and don't doubt in your heart, but believe that what you have said shall come to pass; you can have what you've said." See it, what it is? Believe in your heart that that's coming to pass, what you've said, and you can have what you say.

32 The astonishing thing today is the behavior, the spiritual behavior, of the Christian church. How can we have faith, how can we trust God, when one wants to be above the other, when one wants to be a ruler over the other, when one wants to be a little greater than the other, have a little bigger campaign than the other? Jesus said, "How can you have faith when you seek honor one from another?" How can you have faith when you're trying your best to pull with your strength to be the state presbyter, or the bishop, or some kind of an overseer?
Oh, the conduct of the church is terrible! And trying to keep people away from the real thing of God. How can we have faith? It's after we have an experience with God, then we become conducted as Christians, as brethren, as men and women who know God.

33 Sometime ago, way in the Southland, they used to buy slaves. And they would sell these people for---they'd have just like a used car lot. It was in the days of the slavery. And they would take those slaves and sell them; and brokers would come by, and they would buy so many slaves, and take them over here and make a little money out of them and so forth. And that's the way they made their living, by selling slaves. And there was a broker came by a certain plantation one day. And he said to this man, he had a great bunch of slaves, so he said, "I would like to look your slaves over."
Said, "Very well, you may do it."
And he watched all the slaves to see... He said, "I'll take this one, and that one, and this one, at a certain price."

34 And the slaves, of course, they were away from their homeland. They would never go back again. They had been brought over by the Boers and had been sold to the Southern people for slaves. They was away from papa and mama, they were away from sweetheart, they were away from wife, they were away from their babies: they would never go home again. They had to remain a slave until they fell into the dust of the earth, gone. They were sad. They had to whip them to make them work. They didn't have no courage---just sluggish, we would call it---and they'd have to make them work.
But they noticed one certain young man, they didn't have to whip him. He had his shoulders back, his head up. He was right at the moment. They didn't have to scold him; he was a real worker. So the buyer of the slaves, he said, "I'd like to buy that slave."
He said, "He's not for sale."
He said, "Well, I notice he's so much different from the rest of them. His character and his conduct seems to be so much different." Said, "What makes the difference in him? Is he a boss over the rest of them?"
He said, "No. He's just a slave."
"Well," said, "maybe you feed him a little better then you do the rest of them."
He said, "No. He eats out in the galley with the rest of the slaves."
"Well," said, "then tell me, what makes him so much different than the rest of the slaves?"
He said, "I was..." Said, "I wondered myself for a long time, but finally I found out." He said, "You know what makes him different? I found out that overseas his father is the king of the tribe. And though He's an alien, away from his people, yet he knows he's a king's son, and he conducts himself like a king's son."

35 Oh, brother, if we're living in the end time where atheism and formalism and all kinds of things is in the world, and we're in a world's slavery and darkness, the Christian church should conduct itself like real genuine born-again sons and daughters of God. We should have that characteristic about us, for our Father is the King of glory, and we are His subjects, though we're in a sinful world. He is the King of glory.

36 Let us bow our heads just a moment. Blessed Lord, oh, we see the shadows falling, the hour is swiftly approaching. Yonder in Russia tonight is a bunch of missiles hanging. Only just one drink of vodka, and we would go into powder. And it's in the hands of sinful men. And You said in the Bible, "As it was in the days of Noah, and Lot, so will it be in the coming of the Son of Man. They were eating, marrying, building, drinking, giving in marriage, building houses, marrying wives;" and a very day like this. And we see the shadows hanging yonder. It could happen before morning. Just one touch of a trigger, and we would be no more. And it wouldn't, not in any way, take the Scriptures out of order.
And then if that is so close, yet, we know that before the rain could ever fall, Noah went in the Ark. And before fire ever fell in Sodom, Lot went out. And if the end time is so close to destruction, how close is the coming of the Son of God for His church? How should we conduct ourselves, Lord? As slothful, educated, scholarly? Or should we be men and women of faith, with the attributes of our Father?

37 O eternal God, You said in Your Scriptures that when the Son of Man shall reveal Himself from heaven in the last day. I truly believe that You are now revealing Yourself from heaven to the church in mercy and peace. And the next time You reveal Yourself will be in judgment upon those who's rejected. God, may we tonight take our stand, our position in Christ: there like men and women of God, sons and daughters of the Creator, who just spoke and the world came into existence. God, we call ourselves Christians and can't even believe for little healings, what You have promised to give us. God, forgive us of our stupidity. May we rise tonight like real men and women, sons and daughters of God, and go forth from here conducting ourselves in like manner.

38 While we have our heads bowed just a moment, I just wonder if there's one in here tonight would raise up your hands to God and say this: "God, I haven't been conducting my life like a son or daughter of God. Oh, I've been so curious and so slothful about things, and I want You to forgive me for it. I'm going to put up my hand to You tonight, and say 'God, if You'll forgive me, then from tonight on I'll ... by Your grace, I'm going to conduct myself like a real believer.'"
God bless you. God bless you. That's right. All over the building. Is there a sinner in here (now, with your heads bowed, every one) would raise your hand to God, say "God, be merciful to me. I don't want to die in this shape"? God bless you, sir. God bless you. Yes, that's right, you, you, and you, you. God bless you, sir. That's right. Back there, you, you, you. Oh my, everywhere, sinners. Oh, that's right. We haven't room to bring you up around the altar, but God will hear you right where you are.

39 What's happened? Jesus said, "No man can come to Me, except My Father draws him first." Then God the Father is here drawing sinners to Him, knocking at the door. "All that comes to Me I will give them everlasting life, and will raise him up at the last day."

40 Some other, raise your hand, and say, "God, be merciful to me just now. I now will believe on the Lord Jesus, and from this night on I'll conduct myself as a real son or daughter of God." Someone that hasn't raised their hands yet, out in the vestibule. I see you way out in there. Yes, sir. Oh, God bless you, my brethren. Back in this way, all around. That's right. God be merciful to you. That's right, over there, sir; God sees you.
Maybe some lukewarm church member now, that's never really, you know... You've tried to accept your healing maybe: and today you say, "Yes, I got it"; tomorrow, "I lost it." You don't lose nothing. You can no more lose than Christ can lose. If you really believe it, it stays there. Nothing can take it from your heart. You say, "I haven't conducted myself, Brother Branham. I've listened to little old jokes. I've stayed home on Wednesday night and watched television instead of going to church. I've been wrong, but I am believing right now; and from tonight on I'm going to conduct myself as a real believer." Would you raise your hand, say, "Be merciful to me, God"? Don't be ashamed. If you're ashamed of God now, God will be ashamed of you. God bless you. That's right. All over the building. Wonderful.

41 Now, let us bow our heads for prayer. Each one now, in your own way. Heavenly Father, trusting only in Thy merits. O God, I pray for every sinner that raised his or her hand. And may, this very moment, they realize that it was the Spirit of God who caused them to raise their hand. They could not raise their hand if some kind of a Spirit didn't make them raise their hand. As we have said before, gravitation holds our hands down. Then we defy the law of gravitation by raising our hand, because there is a Spirit within us telling us that we're wrong; and we raise our hands towards our Creator, and ask for mercy. [Gap in the audio.]

42 I just got one more day to be with you people here, but I want to say this: I'm sorry that I've been hoarse. But this is one of the finest group of Christian faith that I have ever met in this United States. God bless you, my brethren, who has taught these people thus. God be merciful to you and grant that you'll grow in the grace of God.
You don't know how thankful you should be. Just as soon as the Holy Spirit begin to move in the supernatural form, each one of you believed it. You mark my words: Weeks after I'm gone from here you'll find out that people that was in chairs will be walking; people that were sick will come to their pastor, say, "That just left me."
I haven't been able... I've told my coworkers, "Each night, I've never been able to catch the people, so many. It was just one great blast of faith." I've never seen such in America. It puts me in the mind of being across the sea, somewhere. Oh, you don't know what a heritage you have. Protect this. Protect it. Don't never let any fanaticism or anything creep into this. God grant it. Keep yourself virgin, unspotted from the things of the world. Stay right before God. Love Him with all your heart.

43 Now, tonight we have given out that we're going to have what we call "the faith line." And that is to pray for those who have their prayer cards, by passing them through the line, laying hands on them without the vision. Now, we realize that tomorrow now we're going right back to the other line.

44 Now, it's very strange, my ministry in America doesn't have the taste to it, to the people, as it does in other lands. The American people (now, I am not talking about this group), but the American people are intellectuals. See, that's the reason...
I heard this famous preacher, Billy Graham (which I believe to be a man of God), and I heard him say at his Louisville breakfast over there one morning, he said, "This is the standard. When Paul went in, they had a conversion, he went back a year later and had thirty off of that one." Said, "I can go in and maybe [I might not get the numbers just right, but say] have twenty thousand conversions; and go back in two months and not find twenty." See. Oh, how I wanted to say something, but I was just a little fellow sitting back there.

45 Here's what it is. See, it's an intellectual conception of Christ. The intellectuals is all right, but, brother, you'll never know Christ until the Spirit of God has come down beyond the intellectuals. And it's an experience of being born again. That's the reason the people can't believe in the supernatural, and call it devils---is because it's only an intellectual conception. "My sheep know My voice. A stranger they will not follow." That is true.
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46 Not trying to say that Billy Graham's conversions is not right. I honor the brother and pray for him daily. God is using him. But did you notice spirits? God takes His man, but never His spirit. Do you know the devil takes his man, but never his spirit? The spirit that was upon Elisha, come on Elijah; and up from Elisha, come on John the Baptist. The Holy Spirit that was on Christ, come down through the church. Just exactly. The spirit was on those Pharisees in that day, intellectuals: knowed all the training like Saul, but when they seen Jesus telling the people where they had been, what they had done, and who they were, they said he was a fortuneteller, a Beelzebub. How many knows that to be true? Certainly. They believed it, their intellectual faith. Jesus said, "You are of your father the devil."
Now, but the real elected Jew, they said, when a miracle was performed ... like Nathanael, he said, "Thou art the Son of God; Thou art the King of Israel." The little woman at the well (to represent the Samaritan nation), she said what? "Thou art the Messiah. Come and see this man. This is Messiah." But the world said, "Away with such a man." The world proved what they thought and what's in their heart.
They'd do the same thing tonight if they could. When they preferred a murderer instead of Jesus, it showed what the world was made out of. And the group that preferred the murderer instead of the Lord Jesus was a religious group---the very finest church, the Jewish Orthodox. The high priest and all of them said, "Give us the murderer, and away with that guy." That expressed the heart of the world. But all men can't come to Christ. All will not believe, but there will be...

47 Jesus said, "These things that I do shall you also. Greater than this shall you do; because I go to My Father. A little while, and the world won't see Me no more; yet ye shall see Me: for I will be with you, even in you, to the end of the world." How many knows that's true? How many knows that Saint John 5:19, that Jesus, passing through the pool of Bethesda where all the people were laying lame, halt, blind, thousands of them, went to a man laying on a pallet and healed him. For He knew that he had been that way, and walked away and left that group laying there. How did He say ... what did He say when they questioned Him of it? What did He say? "Verily, verily, I say unto you, The Son can do nothing in Himself, but what He sees the Father doing." That right? It was by a vision.

48 Now, I want to say something to you, you that's been here all week. Now, watch. Go back through your history, you historians, and look through the Scriptures and seek them out; and find out if Jesus, performing those miracles (by knowing their thoughts, telling them where they was, and so forth), when He said Himself that He was God---He couldn't lie---said, "I don't do nothing, till the Father shows Me first what to do." And when He declared that sign before the true Jews, the real true Jews said, "That was the sign of the Son of God, the King of Israel." Is that right [unclear word]? When He did it to the Samaritans, they declared, "It was the sign of the Messiah." Is that right?
But remember, He said, "Don't you go to any Gentile." And not one time did He ever do it before a Gentile. Why? This is the end of the Gentile age. That was the end of the Jews. This is the end of the Gentiles. Nowhere through history since. But now is the hour. And America, you're receiving your call. Mark it in your Word, in your Book, and find out. There's nothing left for America but judgment. They've sinned away the day of Grace. Exactly right. You believe me to be His servant, mark that down. [Gap in the audio.]

49 ... His servant, I yield myself to You with all that I've got. And I ask that this entire audience, Lord, I believe I speak for them, we all yield ourselves. Work through us now, Lord, to Thy good pleasure. For we ask it in Jesus' name. And these people who are standing, Lord, they'll feel their real reward is good. Amen.

50 I want the audience to be just quiet as you can. Just be seated, be reverent. With just these few prayer cards, I can run them through after a bit. About fifty prayer cards. We could even pick them up tomorrow night, if necessary. I've been getting to more than I thought, or maybe some of them couldn't get in.

51 Now, if the Lord Jesus was standing here with this suit on that I have on (He gave it to me), and if He was standing here, Christ the Son of the living God (which He is in Glory, we know), but if He was standing here, and you were sick, could He heal you? Be careful. No, sir. For He's already done it. How many knows that? "He was wounded for our transgressions."
And you people was just saved, I'd say, "When did you get saved?"; you'd say, "Five minutes ago." Oh, no, my dear brother, sister. You were saved nineteen hundred years ago. You just accepted your salvation. See, that's your faith. You believe it. That's the way it is now.

52 Now, I would like to say something to those people here that's got prayer cards. We'll get to you maybe tomorrow, or a little later. I just want people who does not have prayer cards. If the Lord Jesus will come and work through us, and will perform the same thing that He did when He walked in Galilee, how many people in here will hold your hand and say, "If He will do that, I'll..." Now, look, you don't ... you won't be on the platform, but anywhere in the audience. And you be the judge!

53 Every person in here is a total stranger to me besides this minister and my coworker right here. I think these are the ministers. Honestly, I may have met them somewhere, but I don't know one sitting there. Here's Reverend Hall back here, I do know him. But how many in here knows that I don't know nothing about you, raise your hands, all over the building, anywhere. All right. Now, if you're sick or if you have need of anything from the Lord Jesus, and if you'll look to Him and pray...
Now, let's see what the Scripture says in the book of Hebrews. It says, "Jesus, now, is a High priest that can be touched with the feeling of our infirmities." How many knows the Bible says that? "He is now." Does God keep all His words? He does.
Then if you touched Him, and He is the same yesterday, today, and forever, how would you know you touched Him? He would have to act in the same way He did yesterday, to be the same today. Is that right? What did He do? He looked through the audience until he found that woman that had had the blood issue. And she'd denied it because she was scared, but Jesus knew her and told her that her blood issue had stopped and she was well, her faith had made her whole. That's true.

54 Now, if He still lives today, He is the same God that stood there when they brought a man to Him, and He knowed he was a righteous man, and told Him where he was before he'd come to the meeting. That's the same God today. Don't you believe that? And if He'll do the same thing, how many of you...?
You in the chairs... Now, if I said to this man sitting here, "You're crippled," anybody can see that. Sure. But what about this man standing here? He looks stout and healthy. What's wrong with him? It would be no miracle for me to say, "That man's crippled," or, "that man's crippled." They're both here in wheelchairs. Or say maybe, "This woman's crippled"---paralyzed, or whatever it is. You can see her laying there. Sure. That would be no miracle. But what about the woman sitting next to her here that looks good and healthy? There's the miracle.
Now, this... If I said, "You're going to be well, everyone of you." Well, you'd just have to take my word for that. But now, what if He goes back and tells you the things that's in your life, like He did the woman at the well, where her trouble was? Then you'll know whether that's right or not. Is that right? Oh, I know He's real and true.

55 I've stood with the Koran in one hand (that's the Mohammedan Bible, which exceeds us three times) and the Bible in the other hand, before 500,000 people, and say, "One of them's right and the other one's wrong. Let the God that is God speak." But don't you think they won't challenge it. But I've never seen a time, witch doctors and everything, but what our God overthrowed it and was triumphant [unclear words].

56 Just recently in Bombay, India, if you got... We're just about a half hour early. I just want to say this because I want to [unclear words] with these people. In Bombay, India, I just had got in, they took me down to the Jain's Temple. And, oh, they won't even kill a flea or a fly---they believe in reincarnation. And how could you preach to them a blood sacrifice? They made fun of Christianity. I'd've been a traitor to Christ if I hadn't of spoke my piece. I said, "How could you accept a blood sacrifice, when you won't accept killing a flea or a gnat?" Snakes and monkeys everywhere, they won't kill nothing. I said, "But the antidote is the blood, for life is in the blood." Oh, they wouldn't believe that.

57 That night when we were standing there, well you ... there's no way to estimate the number of people. Just as far as you could see was one great big black circle of people. Thousands times thousands piled on each other. Just ricked like cordwood. There was no way to give out prayer cards, we just had to stop.
And a few moments, the militia had to bring two or three by, some lepers. The Holy Spirit began to speak to them and tell them. Just then somebody, you could feel it coming from those mystic men: "Well, that could be a telepathy."
The next come by was a blind man. I couldn't do nothing, of course, till you see it done. Certainly. And this blind man... It said, "Your name is..."---I just had to spell it. That was right. And said, "You're a beggar, and your wife is a little thin woman. You have two children, they're both boys." Right. Exactly. And the mystic Hindus were sitting, watching. I thought, "O God, will You do anything?" I kept talking to the man for a few moments. After a while I saw a vision above him. He had been blind for twenty years: he worshipped the sun. Now, he thought if he watched the sun until he went blind, he'd go to heaven. He couldn't see sin no more, so he'd go to heaven. So he was a sun worshiper. And I said, "You did this through ignorance." And I said, "What about it?"
He said, "The God that will give me my sight, let Him be God."

58 I said, "Now, you Mohammedans, and you Jains, and Sikhs, and Buddhists, that I was interviewed with this afternoon, here is a man standing here that's totally blind. You said that Christianity was a bunch of people who was creating hydrogen bombs to blow one another up with." I said, "A lot of that's true, but that's not Christianity." I said, "That's so-called Christianity. Real Christianity is the only true and living God that there is. Now," I said, "this man said he will serve the God that give him back his sight. He worshipped the creation instead of the Creator."
I said, "What would you Mohammedans do to him? You'd proselyte---make him a Mohammedan. You Buddhists would make him a Buddhist. Sikhs would make him a..." I said, "It's nothing but psychology." Right. I said, "In America we do the same thing. All the Baptists wants to convert all the Methodists to being Baptist. The Pentecostal wants to make them all Pentecost." What is it? A change of thinking---psychology.

59 "But," I said, "surely the God who made him can heal him! Now, if any of you Buddhists can come forth, or Mohammedans, and heal the man standing here, I'll serve your God." Would I have said that? Not at all, lest first I saw a vision. Not at all. "But," I said, "you can't do it, and neither can I. But the God of heaven has showed me a vision that the man is going to receive his sight." I said, "If it doesn't happen, I'm a false prophet. You have a right to kick me out of India. If He does do it, you're obligated to the resurrected Christ, to believe Him."
Now, it was a mighty quiet bunch. But when we prayed for the man (this is on record), I took him in my arms and prayed for him and asked God to give him his sight while he was hugged against my bosom. When I turned him loose, God Almighty my Judge, before tens of thousands times thousands, that blind man's eyes was opened; and he grabbed the mayor of the city and hugged him. That place went into a scream everywhere, and tens of thousands of Mohammedans came to the Lord Jesus at one time.
What was the matter? When I went over there, the Methodist bishop wrote me, said, "You're coming under the wrong denomination, we can't have nothing to do with it." What happened? They've went right back out into Mohammedism, a lot of them, because the Christians conducting themselves like a bunch of puppets or kids. They wouldn't stay there to receive those people to take them and teach them the ways of the Lord. They'll be guilty of that in the day of the judgment. They're guilty---but God's grace is just the same.

60 Did you know the Holy Ghost goes ahead of the people? Always, down through the ages. You Catholic people, who call Saint Patrick your saint. He was about as much Catholic as I am; but you took him. You didn't believe him first; but after he was dead, then you wanted to make him a saint.
How about Saint Francis of Assisi? The world didn't know he was a saint. He was a walking preacher, with a Bible under his arm, that said to the birds, "You keep still, little sisters, while I preach the Gospel." You didn't believe him then; but after he was dead, then you made him a saint!
Here, to you school children: How many remember Joan of Arc? She was a spiritual woman. She saw visions, and she was a spiritual woman. What did you do to her, the Catholic church? Burned her at the stake as a witch! a Beelzebub! The world's always done that. But after she was dead about a hundred years, you found out she was a saint; so you dug up those priests' bodies and throwed them in the river to do repentance. God is sovereign, He sends them anyhow. Then, after it's over, you say, "Well, I didn't realize that."

61 God, just be merciful tonight. Let's believe with all of our hearts, everybody. Now, I'm asking you to be reverent and pray. Now, we're just exactly on time now. I don't know, if I call someone... I'd have no idea, it'd have to go by... How many's seen the picture of it, let's see your hands here, the Angel of the Lord. Yes, sir. All through Germany and everywhere, photographed, the only supernatural Being.
Now, how many sick people's in here wants prayer? Raise your hands now, everybody that wants prayer. Now, be real reverent. Look. If God will come and perform the same things that He did before He was crucified, will you ... said you would believe Him.
Now, let's pray just a moment. Now, Lord, help just now. The rest is Yours, Father. We commit all things into Thy hands in Jesus' name. Amen.

62 Now, look this way. Now, what am I meaning by that? Peter and John said, "Look on us." When they raised up the brass serpent, they looked and lived. Now, don't look to me, just look this way. But look to Him who's a High Priest. See what He would tell us, see what He would say. Each one pray. And if God will do that, now if I... Wherever that light leads, where the Holy Ghost...
How many know that Jesus is a light? Let's see how many knows that. Sure. He was on earth, He said, "I come from God, I go to God." He was the pillar of fire that led the children through the wilderness. Do you believe that? And when He returned back to God, Paul met Him on the road to Damascus. A light put his eyes out. Peter was in prison, He come in as a light, led him out. He's still the same. That's His picture.

63 Now, be reverent. Let just take it by sections, just so it won't get all mixed up. So many pulling right now. You people---a lot of you people that's been in before have faith to believe. Let's take this section in here. Just somebody this way, just go to praying, just believe.
Now, you see where I'm standing? I'm either here as a false witness of Christ, or I'm a true witness of Christ. And if Christ don't back up what I've said that He said in His Word, then we're both wrong. If He isn't Christ, then He won't stay with His Word ---but He is Christ. And I could fail, but He can't. He can't fail. My words is a man, but I'm quoting His Word: "The things that I do shall you also."

64 Just... I've been turned around. See, I was going to have a... I stay in the room from about three o'clock on, praying and fasting and waiting on the Lord, when I come into these meetings. I'm believing this tonight because you're such a believing group. That's all. Remember, I don't want your prayer cards, anyone with prayer cards. Just be reverent.

65 Just imagine Him walking in among the people. The Pharisees, in their hearts, said, "He's Beelzebub." They didn't say it out loud, but He knowed what they were saying. Just have faith now, believe, be just reverent. Mothers with your little children, whatever more, just be reverent. I can't heal you, but if He will prove that He's here, He's already done it. That's His Word.

66 Now, if the audience can hear me, look here, look right here. This light here, over this little lady right here. Have you a prayer card, lady? Little lady right here? You don't have a prayer card? Do we know each other? We don't. I've never seen you in my life. God knows you; He knows me. If He will reveal to me what you're here for, you'll know whether it's the truth or not. And if I don't know you and never seen you, and you never knowed me or never seen me, then it would have to come through supernatural power wouldn't it?
What am I doing now? I'm talking to you to find out what the Holy Spirit wants to tell you. You were just sitting there praying, "Lord, let it be me." That's right. If God will tell me what your trouble, will you believe me to be His prophet---His servant? You're suffering with a nervous condition. If that's right, stand up on your feet. Is this our first time meeting? You've never seen me before; just raise your hand so the people can see. This is our first time. Do you believe that what you ... it knowed what your trouble was? Do you believe that to be the same God that knowed what the woman's trouble was at the well? You do. Does the audience believe the same thing? [Congregation says, "Amen."] Thank you.

67 Just that you might know, this young woman's got something else on her heart. Isn't that right, young lady? If it is, wave your hand so the people would see it. If God will reveal to me what's on your heart, will it make you stronger to believe? It's about some of your people, your in-laws. That's your husband's uncle, he has cancer. And your husband also has someone else that he has been praying over, you too; and that's his cousin, and they have epilepsy. That's "Thus saith the Lord." Do you believe, young lady? Whatever you've asked, go and have it just the way you believed. Do you believe audience? Now, after you have seen, do you believe?

68 What do you think, sir, sitting there next to her? You. Are you a stranger to me? Do you have a prayer card? You don't. Do you believe me to be His servant? If the God of heaven will reveal to me what your trouble is, you'll know whether it's the truth or not, won't you? Will you believe and accept it with all your heart? If you'd believe that, that diabetes would leave you. That's what you have. All right. Go home and be well in the name of Jesus Christ. Do you really believe?

69 What about back in this section? Do you all believe? All right, just be reverent. Here it is. Can't...? Of course you can't see it, unless God would choose to show you. See that light hanging right there. It's right over this lady with that coat on, sitting right there, with that little striped thing in her pocket. The red coat on. You. That's you. Stand to your feet just a minute.
Have you a prayer card? You don't. Do you know me? I don't know you. If that's true, let's just hold our hands up so the people would see. If the Lord our God, Jesus Christ, has raised from the dead... And you're just a woman that walked in here and sat down. We've never met in life. If Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever, and wants to make known to these people that He is still the Messiah resurrected, He would do it in the same way He did to the Samaritan race: the woman at the well. Would He do it? I don't know your troubles, you know, if I don't know you. But if Jesus will reveal to me what your troubles is, will you believe it? Just like the woman said, "Come see a man who told me the things that I have done." You're suffering, and your trouble is in your throat, also in your heart, and in your back. That's right. But now hear me. Jesus Christ makes you well. Do you believe with all your heart?
Just be reverent. Everyone, just believe with all your heart. Have faith, don't doubt.

70 I don't believe we've been in this section yet. Let's see. Some in here, pray. Here, here's a lady sitting right here, down here. She has a roaring in her head. That's the lady sitting right there. Stand up on your feet a minute. Have you a prayer card? You don't. Am I a stranger to you? You're bothered with a roaring, upsetting your head. Now, to heal you, I couldn't: Christ has done it. But to hide your life, you couldn't. Let me say this to you. There's somebody in this building right now that's connected with you that's praying. That's your mother. And that woman is dying with a cancer. If I tell you where that cancer is, will it help your faith? It's cancer of the stomach. That's exactly right. Now, go home, and both of you be well. Do you believe? Have faith.
Just believe, don't doubt. Have faith now. Just believe everything, don't doubt a thing. "If thou canst believe."

71 Here, right here in front of me. Lady, just fell and hurt your back. Do you believe Jesus Christ makes you well? If you will then you may have what you've asked for if you can believe it.
Lady sitting right here suffering with a nervous condition. The little lady with the blue hat on. If you believe with all your heart. That's right. If thou canst believe.
What about the lady sitting right here on the end of the row? Right back behind this gentleman, tending the baby. You have more faith than you thought you had. Do you believe that hernia will be healed? You do? Wave your hand to God if you think it will be healed. Have a prayer card? You don't. You don't need any. Do you believe? I believe we've been over...

72 Here, about preachers. My brethren, you're not immune from the blessings of God because you're shepherds. How many of you men know that I don't know you? Raise your hands, you preachers. All right. Encourage your faith to believe. Just be praying, if you've got anything wrong with you you want God to heal.
Sir, you sitting right here on the end. Dropped your head then because you know something happened to you. I don't know you. If we're strangers, raise up your hand. You have heart trouble. That's right. You believe God will heal you? You're not from this country, you're from Pennsylvania. Your name is Mister, Reverend... Do you pronounce that [unclear word]? Go home, in [unclear words]. Go ahead preaching the Gospel. Do you believe? All of you believe?

73 Now, is Jesus Christ alive? If He is, raise your hands. Sure He is alive. Now, if you will do what I will ask you to do, don't doubt. Just believe it, each one now. Lay your hands over on one another, everybody in the building. Just put your hands on each other. I'm going to quote to you the last message Jesus said. Jesus said, "These signs shall follow them that believe. If they lay their hands on the sick, they shall recover." Now, how many of you will put your hands on the person, and raise your hands up and say, "God, I am a believer"? Everyone. Now believe. This is your hour, this is your time.

74 You people in the wheelchair... Now, you lady, laying here on the cot, you have palsy, and arthritis. I cannot heal you, but if you'll believe---you can't hide your life---God will make you well. You can rise up and go home and be well.
Now, put your hands over on each person again, each one, right across from your hand. Now, let's conduct ourselves like real believers. The Holy Ghost is here, friends. You that's sitting out around the aisle, if you have need of anything, here you are [unclear words]. Don't you see Jesus is alive? He is here, that's Him [unclear words]. Pray in your own way.
Lord God of heaven, Creator of earth who made all things, help now. I rebuke the devil, the cries of these people. And Satan, [unclear words]. Jesus Christ, God's Son is here and [unclear words] you are defeated. I rebuke the devil, sickness, and afflictions from these people. Come out of them, Satan. In the name of the Jesus Christ leave out of them [unclear words]. Everyone of you that believe with all your heart stand on your feet. Give God praise and glory, and I say that you can be healed right now. Raise your hands and give Him praise...

Faith

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1 ... your resurrection lays inside of you in your Spirit. Now, we know when Jesus died on the cross His soul descended into hell, and He preached to the souls that were in prison, that repented not in the long-suffering days of Noah. His body went into the grave. But before He died, He committed His spirit into the hands of God, into the hands ... "Into thy hands I committed my Spirit." So, you see, the spirit went to God, His soul went to hell, and His body went to the grave.
Now, that spirit that was in Him was the Spirit of God. And that Spirit, in sundry times and divers manners, anointed the prophets to bring the message to the people; in the last days through Christ; now in these days here through the gospel.

2 Now, when we receive Christ into our hearts, there's all that we have need of---there's eternal life.
Now, Christ could not come back until three days was fulfilled because His Spirit was behind a screen---like a bar, like this---that He could not cross over that bar because it was the spoken word of God that He was to lay in the grave for three days and three nights. Now, He could not come back until that three days and nights was up. Then, when three days and nights was up, His spirit was loosed. It went directly to His soul, and His soul came back and picked up the body and fulfilled what He said: "I have power to lay my life down, I have power to take it up again. I have power."

3 Now, each one of you have power the same way because you are sons and daughters of God. And the very Spirit that's in you this morning, the Holy Spirit that's in you this morning, that same Holy Spirit will raise you up. So, you have power to raise yourself back up.
When you die, your soul will go under the altar of God, not right in the presence of God. Now, your spirit will go to God, but you cannot come back. Remember, the Bible says their souls are under the altar crying, "Lord, how long, how long?" They could not return until the Scripture's fulfilled, like Christ could not return till the Scripture's fulfilled. Then after all has been done, all the suffering's over, and the brethren have suffered the same things, or we suffered like they suffered, and so forth, then on that day... You'll know exactly where you're buried. Your spirit will be turned loose from God and will come to the soul.

4 Now, the soul is that part of me who knows and understands, your intelligence. You remember the vision I had not long ago---or the little translation---went into that place and saw those people? Now, your spirit will come back to that body. And that kind of a body, the soul ... which is a body that does not have to eat and so forth. This earthly tabernacle be dissolved, we have one already waiting---a celestial body; and with that spirit and that soul and celestial body, you'll raise up again this natural body for that great millennium. You have the power in you now to do that.
Now, but that power that you have in you now could make a new world. God doesn't have little weak spots, and big heavy parts that's powerful. The least little touch of God is omnipotent, see, the least little touch of God.
So, you know (I'm trying to get you in a faith now),

5 you know that something has happened to you as a Christian. Do you know it? You used to ride around here in the muck, with all of the muck and sin and drinking and gambling and things of the world. Well, as soon as you believed that Christ forgive your sins, you raised up above that stuff. Now you're riding up here, see, above all of it. Why? Because that you believe that you are a Christian. Then when you accepted Christ and the Holy Spirit came to you, then you have faith in the Holy Spirit that gives you power to ride above that kind of a life of sin. Well, now, the only thing you have to do to ride higher on to healing is just have more faith. Just keep pushing out, see, and there you are.
Now, if you're sick and you're not a Christian, become a Christian right now so that that healing power will come in you by becoming a Christian. And that'll give you faith to ride above sin. It'll give you faith; and everything that you have need of in this journey is right in you now. And the only thing you have to do is have faith in God. That pushes that good things out of you which is in you by the Holy Spirit. You understand clearly now?

6 Billy told me last night ... called me and said come in this morning especially for one person that come, thinking we're having services this week of those seven seals, and they brought a sick child, I believe. And if you're in here now, sir, remember, you cannot ... your faith will have to go for that child, if it's a little infant child.
But now let me take another scripture, if it's all right. Just remember, now, in the gospels we read---over in the sixteenth chapter, I believe, of the Acts---where that Paul and Silas was in prison one night; and they'd been beaten because they'd cast the devil's spirit out of a fortune-telling girl. And her masters had got angry about it and beaten them, put them in the inner prison. And then when they did that, well, Paul and Silas was praying, and God sent an earthquake and shook the jail down.

7 The Philippian jailer, being a centurion which deludes ... his prisoners, why, it could be his own life would have to pay for the prisoners. He pulled his sword and was going to commit suicide, when Paul run forth and said, "Do yourself no harm; we are all here." And this centurion had some impression they had about Paul and them. They might have sung hymns, they might have testified or done something. But whatever it was, they knowed that they were holy men. They knowed there was something different about those men, because quickly he adds, "What must I do to be saved? What must I do to be saved?"
Now, Paul said, "Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou and thy house shall be saved."

8 Well, now, if believing on the Lord Jesus Christ... That don't mean that his salvation would save the house. But if he's got enough faith in God for his own salvation, he has the same faith for his house, and his house would have to come in, see. The same thing.
Same as Job did, as I said the other night down in Georgia at a meeting. I said, "Job, now he said, 'Now, I don't know if my children have sinned; but what if they have sinned?' " And Job had one thing to do to be righteous---that was offer a burnt offering. He said he would offer the burnt offering. If his children had sinned, then they would be forgiven of their sin. And it was a good thing that father done.
That was a good thinking father. We need more of those kind of fathers today. And Job offered the burnt offering. That's before his tragedy set in. But when his children was all killed and his sheep all destroyed and all that he had taken, he's sitting on an ash heap back of his house, scraping himself with a piece of crock.

9 Did you notice? After the days of his tragedy, when God begin to restore to him again, where he had ten thousand cattle or so forth, He restored double---double his sheep and double everything. But you notice ... and God also gave Job his seven children. Did you ever think where they were at? That burnt offering stood for them. They were saved in glory, waiting for him to come. He's with them today. "Thou and thy house shall be saved," see.
Now, Job had one thing to do to be righteous, was to offer the burnt offering. You have one thing to do to be righteous, that's have faith in God. For by faith are you saved, by faith are you healed, by faith you get everything that you ask, see. It's by faith that you believe it. Now, believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and thou and thy house shall be saved.

10 Now, sir, if you got the baby here to be prayed for, you believe, yourself. I'm here to put my faith with yours. And we'll believe together that God will heal that baby. See, we got in us the power to do that. You've got in you the power to do it. Every Christian's got the power to do it. But now if we can just get...
That power's controlled by a law as I've often said. It's like gravitation controls water, because it's a law. Gravitation controls water. The sun is controlled by the earth, the turn of the earth. You can't just make the sun do one thing or another: Say, "I believe I want to sleep a little longer. Hold off an hour." It won't do it, see, because there's a law. If you'll work according to that law, well, then, everything will be all right. If you'll go to bed in time, you can wake up in time.
And if you...

11 Like we got the lakes up here and your Lake Ontario, your Lake Huron, and all those Great Lakes up here. We got tens of thousands times thousands of acres of ground out in Nevada and California and Arizona and New Mexico that's burning up for that water. A land that would raise anything---you could feed the whole world out there if you only had this water up here down there. (It wouldn't bother that because it's spring fed. As soon as it goes out it just comes up to its level again, because gravitation holds it there.) Well, now, if you can work according to the law of gravitation, you can take all these Great Lakes and water that whole country out there and feed the whole world. Nobody'd be hungry. But you can't sit here and say, "Yeah, I see it. Sure." You got to go do it.

12 Well, that's the same way it is by the law of God. The law of God is faith. And we got faith here this morning to heal any sickness, to do anything. But it's controlled by a law, and that law is faith. God's law is faith. Jesus said, "Whatsoever things you desire when you pray, if you can believe you receive it, you can have it." There you are. So, it's the faith that controls it.
And faith is given to us just as we have need of. Now, we have to... God allots some of us some faith, some another faith. It isn't some great supernatural power that you have, because when you become a Christian you already have the power; but you lack faith in operating that power.

13 So, now, this morning when you come to be prayed for, remember the Bible has said this: (This is true.) James 5:14: "If there be any among you sick, let them call the elders of the church; let them anoint them with oil and pray over them. The prayer of faith shall save the sick, and God shall raise him up." He promised, if you'll believe it. Therefore, see, healing is allotted to the individual. It was in the days of Jesus of Nazareth. He could not heal people against their own faith. He said, "I can, if you believe. If you believe that I'm able to do this, I can do it---if you can believe it."
So, some people throws the power of healing into some other evangelist. It's not there; the power of healing's in you. It's in you. They just put the cart before the horse. The evangelist doesn't have power to heal. It's the Holy Spirit that has power to heal, and you have the Holy Spirit. That's the little tree that you are. And all the things that you have need of is in you. So therefore you just start drinking from God's promise, saying, "It's the truth. God can heal me. By His stripes I am healed." There you are. What you do, you start pushing out here, see.
And then others can see what you have.

14 Now, what is... ? "Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen." Now, when I sat out there, that little tree out there, I don't see the apples; but they're in there. That little tree knows they're in there. So, he just starts drinking, pushing and pushing, because he knows, "It's in me. I'll get it out after while. Give me a little time. Just give me a little time. [He just keeps drinking.] I know the apples are in me. I'll bring them up after a while." And first thing you know, here they come. Here comes the apples, because he believed that they're in him.
And if you believe that the power of the Holy Spirit is in you to heal you (There you are!), just keep pushing, see. You have faith. You can't see the results right away. You don't see it.

15 Now, see, James justified Abraham by his works; Paul justified Abraham by his faith. What do we say then between the two? Abraham was speaking on what ... I mean, Paul was speaking on what God saw in Abraham; and James was speaking on what people saw in Abraham, see. Now, see, therefore, God knowed that before the baby come that Abraham had faith; and Abraham proved it to God by acting like that the baby was going to come, when he was sterile. He had no children---his wife's womb was dead and he was sterile---but yet he knowed in there somewhere was the baby. You see, he kept drinking the promise, leaning on God's great El Shaddai, the breast; leaning there drinking, knowing that God would give it to him, knowed that it was a promise and He had to do it. And we're the children of Abraham, so let's lean on to His promise and hold there, knowing that God will do it---He said so. Do you believe it now?
Then, let the sick line up over here on one of the sides or the other, that wants to be prayed for, and we'll get the elder here and anoint them with oil. I'll pray over them and we'll believe that God'll make every one of them well. "If thou canst believe." (Teddy, where are you at?) Come around on this right hand side. That's good. (I want you to play "Only Believe.") While they're coming, let's just bow our heads, the rest of the audience, and let's be in prayer for these people who are coming.

16 Our heavenly Father, we bring to You this morning in the name of Jesus Christ these poor, sick, suffering humanity that's in this terrible, disastrous condition. I believe. I know that your words are true. They are so true. They cannot fail because they are God's eternal and everlasting words. They are all-powerful, like God is, because they are part of Him. "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God ... and the Word became flesh and dwelt among us." Now we believe that, Lord, with all of our hearts, with all our souls, with all that's inside of us. We believe it.
And I've tried, in a simple child-like way, to present it to the people that they might understand and know that the power of God lays within them, if they can only have their faith and follow God's orders. That's how they were saved. They come and repented of their sins and was baptized in the name of Jesus Christ according to this Bible, of Acts 2; and then Peter said that "Ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost." Then, here it comes, just exactly---because it's God's Word made manifest. Well, now, the same thing, Father, we know is true when we anoint the sick with oil and pray over them. "The prayer of faith shall save the sick and God shall raise them up."
God, may each one leave this altar, around this place this morning, so happy and rejoicing in knowing that God has healed them; go and be made well, for we commit them to Thee, now, in the name of Jesus Christ. May each one be healed and catch the vision what it means; like Abraham, call those things which are not as though they were. No matter what the results is, that has nothing to do with faith. Results is nothing. Faith has already took ahold. "Faith is the substance of things hoped for, and the evidence of things not seen." God, make it sink deep in their hearts, for they're needy. I go as your humble servant to stand here along with the other servants, and pray God will put in our hearts these sick people. We ask it in Jesus' name. Amen.

17 Somebody said Brother Estle Beeler was in the building, and I believe there's another minister here that led in prayer this morning. We would like to ask all the ministers here, wherever they are, if you'd come up here and stand around this altar with me, if you want to, these brethren. Brother Beeler, thank you, come right up and step around here and stand around the altar so we can have prayer with these people, lay hands on them.
Now, as they play this song and the ministers are taking their place here so each one can lay hands upon the people,

18 let's see coming down across the mountain yonder: I see a man coming, wasn't any different from any other man. He was just an ordinary man, kind of small in body, rather frail. As we see Him look, His eyes down upon a scene taking place down in the valley---it was the apostles. They had a boy down there had epilepsy, and no doubt but what they were saying, "Heal him, Lord, heal him." But you see, just saying, "Heal him, Lord, heal him," won't do it. That just won't do it. There's got to be something behind that "Heal him, Lord, heal him." And if I can get you to believe that, and believe that with all your heart, you're going to be healed---if I get you to really see the vision.
Now, look at those disciples standing there, maybe shaking him, maybe pushing him, "Believe it, brother, believe it! Hallelujah, believe it! Heal him, Lord, heal him." But the devil stayed right there, because he couldn't find enough faith there to make him believe. But here comes One down across the hill, and soon that devil recognized that that was a little different from other men. Now that's the kind of a man we want to be [unclear words]. Just not come for a show, but come in love, as our God, to know that we've been commissioned to go [unclear words]. This is our commission.

19 Then He walked up to the father. I think this is where this song was written from, composed of the words. He said, "Lord, have mercy upon my son because he's seriously vexed with a devil." Said, "It throws him in the fire, and at times, away," and so forth. He said, "I brought him to your disciples but they couldn't heal him. But I'd like..."
He said, "I can, if you will believe. Now, I have the power within me," He said, "to do it---if you can believe that."
Would God let that cancer-ridden people that's sitting here this morning, bedridden with cancer and leukemia and sickness and afflictions, would God heal them and pass you by? Not likely. No. See, now, He doesn't fail. "I can, if you will believe." What did He say?
... ... ... ... ... ...
All things are possible, Only believe.
Now just only believe, Only believe.
All things are possible, Only believe.
(Everybody be in prayer.)
Lord, have mercy I pray, and heal these people through Jesus Christ [break in tape]. So many along the line---watching them and seeing their reaction of how they were ... see how they react on a action. See, there's such a thing as an action---they raised and come forth. And another thing is how they react on that action that they have made. After they have come to the place to believe that when they're prayed for they'd be healed, then watch the reaction of their action.

20 Now the pastor's got a good message for us, I'm sure, this morning. One thing I'd like to comment on just a moment was a Catholic girl standing there along the altar. A few days ago she was at my house, her and her husband. And I just knowed her husband for some time. And there was something about while we were sitting on a private interview... (That's where we have the visions. That's where we... I used to have it here in the church, but just taken up the morning and so forth.) And, so, it was in... I never said nothing because she being a girl, and another thing, always reared in the Catholic church and so forth; but she went to speak for her mother and during that time I saw a vision of her mother. Told her what her mother's trouble was, and described it, and how her mother looked. Of course, she was the judge of that, whether it was right or not. I had never seen the mother in my life. She knows that.
And the girl this morning came to the altar here and stood to make a confession and accept Christ as her Saviour. She did that at the altar this morning. Brother Neville, not knowing, anointed her with oil (how God works), anointed her with oil for the sick. But watch the moving of the Holy Spirit. Now, being she was anointed---really not sick, but anointed---see how it makes everything work right? She stood as a Christian now, after she had become what we believe to be a Christian. Now she said, "Would you pray for my mother? She's sick." That's the same one. So the anointing oil was applied.
Then I realized how appropriate that, see, someone being just saved... Christ stood for all of us. He stands for all. As soon as this girl becomes a Christian, then she wants to stand for someone, too, showing that the Spirit of Christ comes within us when we are really saved. Now, that's really fine. I certainly appreciate that. That's fine Christian Spirit, I believe. Now, let's just remember...

21 Now, to this young lady (she's here somewhere) and to another Catholic lady that came by, I'd like to say these words just before I turn the service to our pastor, see. It's this. Now, the Catholic church was one time like this church. If you'll go back and read the Bible, which ... we believe and do know that the Catholic church was the first church. That is true. But it got away from its teaching. This was the teaching of the Catholic church. But you see, they got six hundred and something another books the popes and so forth has written that's just as holy to them as this Bible. So, you see, what this is, you haven't changed. What you've done, you've just been converted, see.
Now, if you take...

22 Of course, I guess, maybe some of you... Them two this morning was women. There might be some Catholic men sitting in here. If you'll go back to the history of the church, if you might ask your priest, "The action of these apostles in the Bible here, was that the way ... was that early Catholic?"
They'll say, "Yes." And that's true. They were.
Now, they ... look what kind of religion they had. They met in little simple places. They never said "Hail Mary"s or "Our Father"s. That's a tradition of the church. What did they say? They prayed, "God..." They screamed, they cried.

23 Look here in Acts 2, when the holy apostles---Peter and James and John and all of them---were together, the Bible said they spoke in tongues, and they screamed, and even acted so filled with the Spirit until they acted like they were drunk; and even till the outside world asked, "Are not all these drunks?"
And even Peter the apostle, the holy saint Peter, when he stood up and he said, "Men and brethren, these men are not drunk, but they're filled with the Spirit, as the Bible says they was."
Now, that was the early Catholic church, according to the teaching. Now, you see, after about two hundred years the dignified began to get into the church. Then what did they do? They made their first organization at the Nicene Council, A.D. 606. They made their... When the Nicene Council was held at Nicaea Rome, it began to get all the great dignitaries in, and they just formed a church, and made a church. After that they broke four or five times. Then they went from that to the bishop, from the bishop to a pope, and from that came the Greek Orthodox and different ones, till they just broke up to where we see it today. It's just in all kinds of break-ups.

24 But what we're trying to do, my Catholic friends... See, we are Catholic, too---we are the early, beginning Catholic. And the church that they call us now, mostly we're referred to as Pentecostal because we believe in the Pentecostal blessing. That's where the Catholic church was organized. And in our organizations of Pentecost today, if any of this world would stand five hundred years longer, this Pentecostal organization would be more formal than the Roman Catholic church is today. It's just getting farther away, same way. And when they organize, they make a lodge out of it. And then they just become lodges, and members, and unconverted souls.
To my precious dear brothers and sisters, to all of you, as a servant of God, I never said before in this church, I never said ... but as a prophet of the Lord I say to you, "This is the light. Walk ye in it."