It is I, be not afraid

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1 Shall we bow our heads just a moment.
Our kind Heavenly Father, we are grateful to Thee tonight for the Lord Jesus Christ, our loving Saviour who came down and redeemed us and made all these wonderful things that we're enjoying now possible through His vicarious suffering and death at Calvary. We thank Thee for this time of fellowship together, as Your people gather together to fellowship one with another, while the blood of Thy Son, Jesus, cleanses us from all unrighteousness.
We are elated tonight to know that the time is drawing near that when we shall see Him face to face, who we have longed all of our days, to see. And we pray that You'll keep us humble in our hearts that we can see Him. Now, may He come tonight in great power and love, and manifest Himself to the people here. Grant these blessings as we ask in the name of Jesus, Thy Child. Amen.

2 Good evening, friends. It's a privilege to be here tonight, enjoy this fellowship with you, my dear friends. I was almost taken from my feet just now to see my good friend Brother Bosworth sitting on the platform. And I kind of was a little indignant, I guess, and walked right by and noticed Brother Egbert there also, these singers, and I was sure happy to be here tonight, to see those brethren. And Brother Bosworth is fixing to go to Japan right away.
And before we go any farther: We are not people of form; we just do as the Spirit leads. And it's early yet, and maybe people yet gathering. The storms, of course, is probably hindered some of our people tonight. But I would like to introduce to this audience---as we'd have just a word or two for us, if you would---one of my close bosom friends, a second father to me on this earth. My father died when I was young. And Brother Bosworth has been like another father to me. He has been lovely; he's been a help to me, and many, a many meeting have we stood side by side. And I've seen this patriarch of the faith stand at the post of duty.

3 I seen him the night of the debate when this Angel of the Lord came down and had His picture taken, that you see here tonight, they got of the meeting. It was Brother Bosworth who stood there that night, and this young fellow just out of the seminary, pointing his finger in that old saint's face, and having him take his picture like this. And he shaking his fist in that old saintly man's face, and saying, "Now take my picture. And now take my picture," like that, 'cause he wanted six pictures taken, he could publish it in his paper, in such positions as that. And Almighty God would not permit one of them to be developed. Every one of them was perfect negative. That's right.
And then he run up and took the picture when I was standing there and the Angel of the Lord come. And the Angel of the Lord showed up in its place. So you see what the Lord will do.

4 Now I'm going to... Brother Bosworth and I returned from Africa together. We had a marvelous meeting down there where the Lord did bless in great things. And Brother Bosworth was in this city, many, many, years ago; Paul Rader, Billy Sunday. He reminds me of an old pine tree that's standing on the hill alone. Only two... [Gap in the audio.]
Here, we just love good singing. And we're very grateful for these men who are with us, and for Sister Shakarian, the other singers, the musicians, and so forth, to bring us the Gospel in the way of singing and in music. May the Lord richly bless them. I've always said, "When I get to Heaven, I sure want to get around where there's singing. That's where the place that I want to be."

5 Now, I just have a very few moments left to speak just a moment or two. This afternoon ... I think I maybe preached too long this afternoon, and I guess I almost have to apologize. When I got outside, Brother Moore said to me, said, "Brother Branham, that maniac that you had, had his right mind when you told me ... after he got healed he was going down the street acting like a maniac again, running hard and screaming, 'Glory to God,' and everything."
I said, "Well, he was just clothed in his right mind then to worship, you see." That's right. Jesus give him his right mind to worship then. He was crazy then to the people again, because that he had received his right mind.

6 You know, it was said of the disciples, I believe brother said it, he said, "These men turned the world up-side-down." They didn't turn the world up-side-down; they just turned it back right again. It seems up-side-down to everybody else. It had been up-side-down so long till they just turned it back right again. And that's what the Gospel does.
In Saint Matthew, the 14th chapter and the 27th verse, I wish to read just a portion. And watching the clock... We go right into the prayer line in a few moments. Just for a few remarks, in other words, just to feel out my audience, where we're at. Come now each evening expecting God to bless, and tomorrow afternoon at two-thirty.
But straightway Jesus spake unto them, saying, Be of a good cheer; it is I; be not afraid.

7 Now may the Lord add His blessings to them words. We are speaking again of Jesus. That's all we know to speak about, is Him. And we find Him this time, He was about the Father's business, doing what the Father bid Him to do. And we are finding Him on a ship crossing again, another storm on. We find Him this afternoon quietening the seas and giving a maniac his right mind.
And now we find Him tonight where He had been speaking, practically all day. And in this speech, or sermon, many people had followed Him out of Jerusalem. Perhaps a crowd like this (or a little more) had followed Him out of Jerusalem, out into a wilderness. And it come time for food and there was no food. And Jesus said to Peter, "You give them something to eat; you feed them."
Do you notice, the very things that Jesus did, He expects His church to do the same things that He did. For He said, "The things that I do shall you also." Now He said, "You give them bread."

8 They said, oh, it'd take more pennies, perhaps, than they could gather together to feed such a multitude.
And He said, "Have you any bread among you?"
And they said, "We have a little boy here that has a few loaves and fishes, about five loaves and two fishes," or something like that.
And He said, "Well, bring them here."
Now, if you'll notice, in order to do something, Jesus taken something to do something with. Now, in order to bring faith in this building tonight for healing, Jesus has to take something to do something with. The first thing He has to get is get somebody here that's got faith to be healed, and that'll strike into the audience.

9 I noticed last evening, when the man that was blind was brought up on the platform and received his sight, that struck fire right away, see. The deaf woman that come, while I was yet holding her hand and asking the evil to leave her, she begin quivering all over; she said, "I can hear you, I can hear you." Quickly, it struck fire. And by the time I was leaving, the whole building seemed to be illuminated with God's presence.
Jesus taken what faith the blind man had, or what faith the woman had that was deaf, and started with that, building faith. See what I mean? He takes something to do something with.
Now, in order for Him to get something, someone had to surrender something. That was the little boy; he had to surrender his lunch. Now, to the little lad, the lunch in the little boy's hand wasn't very much; he could only partially feed himself, perhaps. But once placed in the hands of Jesus, it fed five thousand.

10 Now, maybe your faith is not very much, but if you, what little faith you've got, if you'll put it in His hands, it might cause a revival to break out in all Chicago here, see. You've got to have something to do something with. And what you've got in your hand, in your hand, it's not much; but in God's hand, it's wonderful what He can do with such little.
One time an old sheep herder, by the name of Moses, he was herding sheep one day, packing in his hand an old dry stick, and God spoke to him by the burning bush, and Moses turned away to see. And God got an audience with him and told him He was going to send him down in Egypt to take over Egypt, bring his people out.
Now, what a strange thing, for God to take a man at eighty years old, backslidden, running from God, and at eighty years old, to send down into Egypt to overcome a big nation like that. It would be like sending one man into Russia now to take over. Egypt was the best fortified nation in the world. Their great units of chariots, and spearmen, and horsemen, and bowmen, and slingmen, had the whole world shaking at its feet. And yet God goes to this old man with long white beard and hair, and said, "Go down, Moses, and take over."
How ridiculous that would sound to reason. You cannot reason God. You can't reason out God. God's not to be reasoned; He's to be obeyed. What God says do, don't reason with Him, just do it. Reasons would be nonsense in that state. Moses said, "What can I do about going?" Give him a sign.
And he said, "What is that in your hand?"

11 Now Moses had less than the boy. The boy had some food; Moses had a dry stick in his hand. In Moses' hand it was nothing else but a stick that he had picked up, perhaps, on the desert. But once, when that hand of faith taken a hold of that stick, it become God's judgment rod to the world. That dry stick became the judgment rod. Remember, Moses stretched that rod. He stretched the rod over the sea, he stretched it in the air. It was God's judgment rod.
Those Egyptians could've ever get that rod from Moses, they'd have had the Israelites whipped. And that's what takes today: As the rod was in Moses' hand, so is the name of Jesus Christ in the church's hand. If the church will hold that name of Jesus, esteem it and honor it, and quit using it in slang and so forth, and use it in power and reverence, it'll conquer every enemy that God's got on earth. "In My name they shall cast out devils, in My name they shall lay hands on the sick," all these things in His name.

12 It sounds ridiculous to the world, but could you imagine how ridiculous that scene sounds, before we leave it. There was Moses, an old man eighty years old, going down into Egypt (Could you imagine?), with this old stick in his hand, his wife with two children, one on each hip, sitting astraddle of a mule. Here he goes, his head back, smiling, just rejoicing. Somebody said, "Moses, where you going?"
"I'm going down to Egypt to take over."
A one-man invasion, going to Egypt. Could you imagine such a thing as that? The world would've looked and said, "Ridiculous." But the great thing about it, he did it! Why? God said so. No matter how ridiculous it seems and how little, that stick in Moses' hand of faith, with the Word of God behind it, was more than all the armies Pharaoh could produce. Amen.

13 So was that little fishes that morning. He gave them to Jesus. And He taken this bread and broke the bread and begin to pass it out, and they'd break a piece of fish and pass it out.
Want to ask you something, audience: What kind of an atom did He let loose then? Not only fish. We know that He was a Creator. Christ is the Creator. He was in the world, and the world was made by Him, and the world knew Him not. He didn't only break the wheat, but He broke the wheat already cooked and baked. He never only broke the fish, the flesh, but He broke the flesh already cooked and made ready. What atom did He turn loose then, scientist? What accumulated this fish? Every time He'd break off a piece there'd be some more laying there, already cooked and baked. What did He do with the bread when He broke it off and it was already brown, right behind it, out of the oven? Just hand it right out, like that.
That's our God! He's the same Lord Jesus tonight that He was then. But the fish in the little boys hand wasn't much, but in Jesus' hand it fed the five thousand.
Then I noticed, He sent His disciples. He said, "Now I must go away, so you go ahead and make a ship ready and go over, 'cause we're going to cross the sea."

14 And they went out and got the ship ready. But they couldn't wait on Jesus. They went on anyhow. He said, "I'll go send the multitude away and I will join you." But they went off without Him. They had confidence in their boat. They were probably all fishermen and boatmen, so they knew their boats all right. So they went away without Jesus, trusting their boats.
And that's what the church has done today. We've went away with our church, believing it's all right because we got great organizations, great buildings, and we've left Jesus behind. We left Christ out of the church. Some of us has went off with our pastor and left Jesus. Some of them has went off with the denomination and left Jesus. Some of them went off with the pipe organ and left Jesus. Some of them went off with the building and left Jesus. But leaving Jesus behind, trouble is certain to come.

15 They had confidence in their boat. Not long ago when we established this nation, we were a wonderful people. When this nation was established on Plymouth Rock, men got on their faces and they prayed and thanked God for a nation of freedom of religion, that they could worship God. We were young, we were in our infancy.
Then after that, they declared a Thanksgiving Day, where God blessed their grounds, they come in and offered thanks. We were young then; the nation was young. We were a great people when we were young, crawling, while we were in the cradle. But I'm afraid, after we got big we've went off without Jesus. We've opened up the barrooms; we couldn't walk the straight narrow path. We make fun of the preacher, spit on his feet if we could. The Holy Spirit falls in our meetings, we know too much about it now. We know we got better churches, we got better buildings, we got better educated ministers, we got better speakers.
When we were young, God could deal with us. But when we get old, we know more about it than He does. And I'm afraid that our nation is moving on in its own self, leaving God out. We're sure to have trouble.

16 The Pentecostal people, when you were young, out here in these missions around; when Dr. Bosworth here, Brother Bosworth, and many of the others were little boys, preachers out here. You had little missions; you were made fun of, called holy-rollers. You were young; you had nothing. God was with you. You wasn't ashamed of the Gospel. You'd kneel in the street and pray with anybody wanted to be prayed for. You come to the altar, call the people up around the altar and stayed there until they were filled with the Holy Ghost. Tears running down their cheeks. You went out; you lived godly.
But I'm afraid we've left Jesus behind. We've got bigger churches now. We got better things. We got big fine robed choirs, we got pipe organs, we got big fine buildings, and we've went off without Jesus. Don't you believe that?
When you were young, you believed in divine healing, you believed in the working of miracles, you believed in all the supernatural gifts. But after we got big, we learned more about it. We went off without Jesus, just like they did. And trouble come in. I don't see how God would have mercy on us. But He has.

17 When Jesus come and looked at the shore, and His boat was gone, He never just turned around and left them. But He climbed up the mountain, looking to see where they were. And He looked away out in the sea, and there they was, trying to go in their own strength, trying to go in their own power, trying to go upon their own, leaving Him out. And they were in trouble.
That's where He looked and seen the church of America not long ago, when we were all tossed about with everything. And the churches being formal and denying the power and everything. Just as He did then, so has He done now: He sent us a revival. He give the Pentecostal church a revival. He gave the world a revival, a bringing back again, a blessing.
He climbed up the mountain, looked out. And I'm so thankful tonight that the Lord Jesus Christ climbed the ramparts of glory, far and above all the archangels, all principalities, and sitting at the right hand of the Majesty of God tonight, watching this thing as she's tossing about. He seen while this America was established on freedom of religion. He seen the churches get formal and get away, but He didn't forget us.

18 Right in the middle of the great night when all hopes was gone, that them little disciples would ever be saved, they realized that they had gone off without Jesus. What did they do? All in there, no doubt, in distress, they prayed, wanting the Lord to come to them. They raised up and looked around, and here He come walking on the water. And the tragedy of it... Here it is Chicago; here it is world. The tragedy of it: They didn't recognize Him. They were afraid of Him. They thought He was a spirit or spook or something. They were scared of Him.
And now you cried. The sensible thing, the reasonable thing, when you get sick is go to the doctor. That's right. When your doctor fails, then you say, "I've got to go somewhere else." When you come to the meeting and you see Jesus Christ performing these signs, you get scared of it. You say, "It's spiritualism, it's the devil, it's something like that."

19 The only help those disciples had, they was afraid of it. And tonight, the only salvation we got for both nation, church, and individual and its healing, is Jesus Christ. And people are afraid of Him when He comes into the church. They're afraid. They go away; they sit in the church with curious looks on their face. "I don't know what to think about that. I'm just a scared of it. I don't know; that might be psychology. That might be mental telepathy. That might be the devil. He might be a soothsayer. He might be an astrologer. He might be a witch. He might be a fortune-teller." Don't be scared! It's the Lord Jesus Christ, who saves the sick and the afflicted.
It's the only hope of salvation in this day when our nations and worlds are in a turmoil. When our nations are breaking everywhere, when our churches are formal and indifferent, when the powers of God has failed to be preached in the pulpit, Jesus comes walking down on this trouble water. Don't be afraid of Him; accept Him, for He's the same yesterday, today, and forever, saying, "The things that I did shall you also." Don't be afraid.

20 Peter finally ventured enough faith to say, "Lord, You told us not long ago, the things that You did, we'd do also. Now, if that be You Lord, bid me come to You on the water."
He said, "Come on. The things that I do, you can do also." And Peter went walking.
Notice, Jesus in His last words here on earth, some of them, He said, "A little while, and the world seeth Me no more; yet you shall see Me: for I will be with you, even in you, to the end of the world." Another statement He said, "The things that I do shall you do also; even greater, for I go to My Father."
And Jesus Christ can send that same ministry by men, ministered by Angels; and the world, America in whole, has looked upon it and criticized it. That's right. What's left then, but sink in the sea hopeless. That's all. Don't be afraid, friends.

21 Tonight... Here Sunday night we didn't have standing room; they were packed around, because the Lord Jesus came down and done things. Some of my friends standing outside ... the people went out, said, "Why, he's just a soothsayer. He's just a astrologist. He's just this; it's a devil." Spiritually ignorant, and don't know the power of the resurrection of God. Don't realize.
You've only heard one side of the Gospel, my friend. You don't realize that that's the very same things that Jesus did Himself and said that we'd do the same things. It's not nothing out of the catalogue; it's out of God's Bible. And Jesus done those same things, witnessing Himself, He said, "I can do nothing except My Father shows Me. And what I see the Father shows Me..."

22 He said to the woman at the well ... after talking to her, He revealed what her trouble was. When Philip come and found Nathanael, and Nathanael come to be a critic. And when he stood up before the Master, Jesus looked at him and said, "Why, you're a good man, honest man. Behold an Israelite, in whom there is no guile."
He said, "When did You know me?"
He said, "Why, before Philip called you. You was under a tree." He said, "I saw you."
Now what if he'd said, "Say, I believe You really are Beelzebub"? Then see where he'd been cast? What if he'd said, "I believe that's just mental telepathy"? See what would have happened? But what did this fine man do?
He said, "Thou art the Son of God, the King of Israel."
Jesus said, "You believe because I knew that you was under that tree?" Said, "You'll see greater things than this."

23 If you want to believe tonight, "Be of a good cheer; it is I," He said. "Be not afraid." Nothing's going to happen but good, if you'll just believe Him. If you're in trouble, sit still in the boat, and when you see Jesus, say, "Yes, Lord Jesus, I believe it's You and I now accept You as my healer or my Saviour," and everything will be all right. Shall we pray?
Father, we thank Thee in the name of Jesus, Thy Son, for all of His goodness and mercy. And now may He come tonight and confirm what has been said: that He is the same yesterday, today, and forever. May His loving arms stretch out.

24 And we pray as those who had been persecuted one time for healing the sick. And they gathered together (in the book of the Acts, the 4th chapter) and prayed and said, "Lord, why did the heathens rage, and the people imagine a vain thing?" Said, "Stretch forth the hand of Thy holy Child Jesus to heal." Said, "Give Thy servants all boldness to speak this Word." And the building was shaken where they were assembled together.
Lord Jesus, consider tonight, I pray Thee, Lord, in our meeting here that the hand of Thy holy Child Jesus may be stretched out in confirmation of the Word, to bring to pass the things that He said. And grant that this night that the Angel of the Lord will encamp about this place, and will come to every heart and make ready the infilling of the Holy Spirit and divine faith, that all sick and afflicted might be healed tonight, and sinners be saved for Your glory.

25 Now, Lord, I submit myself unto Thee as Thy servant, and pray that You will use Thy servant tonight in the manner that You would have me to be used. I submit this audience to You, and ask that You'll get glory out of this audience tonight, that You will heal Your sick children and forgive Your enemies' sins. In Jesus Christ's name, Thy Son, we ask it for God's glory. Amen.
All right, the Lord bless you all. Now, I am here contending that Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever. And I'm sure that you believe that with me, do you? I believe that what He was yesterday, He is today. He was God yesterday, He's God today. He was a healer yesterday, He's a healer today. He was a Saviour yesterday, He's a Saviour today. He performed miracles by vision and did nothing except the Father showed Him. Is that right? He said, "A little while, and the world seeth me no more; yet you will, for I will be with you, even in you, to the end of the world." I believe that.
And if Jesus is in us, then we submit ourselves and get our human side out, Jesus Christ uses our bodies for His glory. Do you believe that? May He grant it, is my prayer.

26 All right, will someone, if they will, go to the organ now. And then we're going to call for the prayer line. We do not call for too many at a time. It gets weak and tired. Thank you, brother. I get ... just a moment, while the organ's playing, I want to... I got two or three letters today (I do in every meeting, pretty near every night) criticizing me for getting weak. I can't help that. I wished I could, but I can't. But just let me ask you something, just a moment. If you're here, I want... That don't make me feel bad at you. I love you. You just want to understand. You have a right to ask that.
Jesus was Jehovah God enveiled in flesh. And a woman's faith out in the audience touched Him---just one woman. And the reason He knew it: Virtue had went out of Him. What is virtue? It's strength, it weakened Him. Just one woman's faith touching Him, it weakened Him.

27 How about the prophet Daniel, who saw one vision and was troubled at his head for many days? Do you understand now? See, you can't help it. We're just human. I'm just a sinner saved by grace. And the Lord Jesus Christ comes down and gives His Holy Spirit. You should feel this once, and then you'll understand. When you break, come out of your own being, knowing not where you are, into another dimension and see things that was and things that will be. And check them and see if they're right.
God said that thing would take place in the last days and people would laugh at it. We got it, see. That's right. So here we are; we're in the last days. That's one of the great signs of the last day. Certainly, it makes me weak, I can't help it. Wish I could stand longer. I do good to stand after two or three people passes, then I'm just about finished. Sometimes I go out and they have to lead me; that's right. Brother Moore standing here, Brother Bosworth who's ministered with me days after days, all over the world practically. And there has been many times that Brother Moore has got in the car and rode me around, him and Brother Brown, singing songs. And me laying in the back seat crying, trying to get to myself. That's right. Crying.

28 I've went home (My wife is sitting present somewhere in this building), when I go at night time, and hold my pillow like that, and cry all night long almost, because of it. Yes, sir. [Two messages in tongues are given in the audience.]
Now, the Lord be blessed. Now if you notice, Christian friends, (see) that those things make you weak. You can't help it. It's another ... it's another world; it's another dimension. Just imagine yourself going forty years back somewhere, seeing something that taken place years before you was born, see. Then come down. Here stands the patient, you wonder, "Well, now..." You know you said something, but you don't know what you said.

29 And then after while, you see something that will be years yet to come, and say what's going to take place with this person at a certain time. And then after while, after two or three of them, you're really wondering whether you're here or there, see. And you don't understand it. So, please, just... If you don't... You may... I don't understand it myself. So, let's just believe it anyhow. I don't understand how God had mercy on me and saved me, but He did it. So I'm thankful for it.
All right now we'll call up about fifteen of the prayer ... of the people with prayer cards. Let's call for the first fifteen. Who has prayer card 1? Hold up your hand. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, on up. Prayer card number 1, number 2, number 3, on up to about 15. All right. From 1 to 15, wasn't it? 1 to 15. Prayer card 1 to 15 first [unclear words]. What say? What letter did you give out? S, S-1 to 15, I didn't think about being other prayer card. S-1 to 15: Them was give out just a while ago. We've been using, the last three nights, the same group we give out the first night. But now we give out some new ones tonight and it's in S. S-1 to 15, please. Yes, S-1 to 15.

30 [Gap in the audio.] ... all of our hearts. Who wrote this song? Does anyone know? [A man says, "Paul Rader."] Paul Rader is right, perhaps wrote right here. Was it Fort Wayne (Do you know, Brother Bosworth?) that Paul Rader wrote that song? Right here. Right here in Chicago? Right here's where that song was born then, in Chicago. It's been my theme song, it has been sang in many different languages in different parts of the world. It's called me to the platform for the past ten years, I guess. Only believe, all things are possible, if you can only believe. Now have faith, have faith in God and believe with all your heart while we sing slowly now, all together.
Only believe, only believe,
All things are possible, only believe;
Only believe, only believe,
All things are possible, only believe.
I wonder if the audience would do this for me. Let's just close our eyes now, and raise up our hands and say, "Now I believe."
Now I believe, now I believe,
All things are possible, now I believe;
Now I believe, now I believe,
All things are possible, now I believe.

31 I seen my brother sitting there weeping when he heard that song. Many times it's called us, hasn't it, Brother Bosworth? Many times. As time is going on, Brother Bosworth, the clock ticking on to eternity. I wonder if Paul Rader tonight, yonder in glory... How many ever heard his last words when he was dying? He always had a sense of humor. They was singing for him, so I'm told, that he said, "Raise them curtains and sing me some good snappy Gospel song." Said, "Who is dying, me or you?"
So they raised the curtains and begin to sing the Gospel songs, he said, "That sounds better." He called his brother Luke in; he said, "Luke, we've been a long ways together, but think of it, in five minutes from now I'll be standing in the presence of Jesus Christ, clothed in His righteousness." Went to meet God.

32 Someday we'll go over and see him, Brother Bosworth. God bless you, brother. Do you want to stand, pray for the sick with me? Come back here, stand over here, would you? Just like for him to stand here. He's got good faith. He believes me, and I love that. You feel that wall around you. It's wonderful. Pray with me, Brother Bosworth. And all the audience pray with me, and all you brethren here, pray with me, everywhere, that we can ... we can be in one accord. Now may the Holy Spirit come.
Now, to the visitors that's with us, I ask you all to remain in your seat just for the next few moments for the service. God of Heaven knows that this is not done for a stage show; it's for His glory. I do not claim to be able to perform every miracle that comes to me. I can perform no miracle; God does it all; I'm a man.

33 Last night in bringing the sight to the blind man, usually I'd have prayed for him, but I felt that it would catch the audience. And I asked God to do it, and He did it. And I have never seen a person pass yet, of any time in the ministry, or I don't believe my brethren has ever seen, any person but what was helped right here at the platform when they passed by. Every time of the thousands that's passed. I've see it happen.
I've seen blind standing on the platform (not on this platform) and could read that Bible. Come back two days later and couldn't see their hand before them. They got among unbelievers. When the unclean spirit has gone out of a man, he walks in dry places, returns back with seven other devils worse than he was. If the good man of the house isn't standing there to protect that man, then he will come in and by power overcome him. But the good man of your house is faith to say, "God has said so."
Now, be reverent and pray with all your heart and be in one accord. I'm waiting for His presence to anoint me. Only thing this is, friend, is a divine gift. Comes just as natural as it would be for you if you sang, like one of these wonderful singers here, for them to sing. They're just ... it's just their voice; they were gifted that. But they have to get into the pitch of it before they can do it. The Holy Spirit has to anoint. I have to submit myself in a way that the anointing takes me over, and then the visions come.

34 How many knows that Jesus Christ, when He was here on earth, said He could do nothing of Himself, just what Father showed Him? Is that right? He did nothing at all unless He seen a vision first. Is that right? That's His own words. Saint John 5:19. Did He say, "You shall do the same thing."? Then it's Jesus the same yesterday, today and forever. May He come tonight and bless us is my prayer.
Now, in the name of Jesus Christ, the Son of God, I take this congregation in the control of the Holy Spirit. Amen.

35 Bring the lady. How do you do, sister? Now, to the audience, to this lady, I suppose we are strangers, we have never met on earth before. But God knows both of us, does He not? Do you know anyone in that audience? do you know people in that audience? All right. You're a witness then, of this, what is going on. Now, I never seen the woman, first time I've ever met her in life; she's just standing there, a woman, is all I know about her, she's standing there. God knows that's the truth.
Well, now, God knows what she's here for; I don't. I couldn't tell you. She may have cancer, she may have tumor; I don't know what she's got. I don't even know, she may be a sinner, she may be a Christian; I don't know. She may be an alcoholic, she may be a dope addict; I don't know. She may be a critic; I don't know. But God does know. Then God can, if He will, reveal to me just what her trouble is.
Now, how did Jesus do that when He met a woman like that? He begin to talk to her, said, "Bring Me a drink."
And she said, "Why, it's not customary for You Jews to ask we Samaritans such. You have no dealing."
He said, "But if you knew who you were talking to, you'd ask Me for a drink."

36 She said, "Well, the well is deep and You have nothing to draw with."
On went the conversation till Jesus found just what her trouble was. What do you think happened there?
Now remember, His words was this, "Verily, verily," that's absolutely, absolutely, "I say unto you, I can do nothing till the Father shows Me."
Why did He send those disciples away and then go up the mountain (tonight in the text)? Father had showed Him He was going to walk on the water, out where He was at. Certainly. The Father had showed Him this woman. Well, He went the wrong way: He went up way around Samaria instead of going down to Jericho, right down the hill, right down the road. He went around to Samaria, 'cause the Father had told Him there's going to be a woman come out there. Then He had to find out what was wrong with the woman, so Him being anointed as He was, He talked to her till He caught her spirit. And when He caught her spirit, He seen where her trouble was. He said, "Go, get your husband."
She said, "I have none."
Said, "You've said well, for you got five."

37 She said, "I perceive that You are a prophet. We know that Messiah's coming will do that; we know the Messiah will do that when He comes: He'll tell us all things."
He said, "I am He that speaketh."
Now, if He's the same yesterday, today and forever, what would He do if this woman come here? He would talk to her a minute (Don't you think so?) and see what the Father would say. Now, I shall do the same thing. Ask her... If the Messiah, Christ, the Holy Spirit will come and anoint me, He will let me know what's wrong with her, what she's here for. May He grant it for His glory, and then that you might believe on Him, the resurrected Son of God, is my prayer.
Now, just to talk to you a moment, sister. Always before... You're conscious that the anointing of the Holy Spirit is here. Now, this woman, I've never seen her, but I turn my head from her, and I got away so that ... to keep from looking at her. Then I come back this way, I know that she knows that there's something going on. I guess they had that picture here awhile ago, of the Angel of the Lord? That's exactly what you're feeling now.

38 Now, to your friends out there that know you, know who you are, and perhaps know why you're up here, I don't know, but ... knows what's wrong with you. Well, if you really feel a strange---not a strange---a glorious, quiet, humble, feeling around you, anointing ... if that's right, raise up your hand so people can see it. That's right.
Last night the Angel of the Lord was seen by several people standing here at the platform. Others didn't. Not all of them seen the star, the Morning Star, that led the wise men to Christ. But those who were looking, to those who it was given to... And the lady is conscious, so will every person that comes here be conscious of it: They'll be conscious that something is going on.
Brother Bosworth, a few moments ago, when that came from the right hand side here and touched me, standing here, that brother believes me so much till it struck him back over there. He was there crying.

39 Now, and carrying this conversation with you to find out from God what would be your trouble, what you're here for, I just talk to you a few moments just to catch the channel of your human spirit. I'm a man, you're a woman, this is our first time meeting in life. But God knows both of us, doesn't He?
You are a nervous person, but you're not standing here for that. You're standing here and you got that handkerchief in your hand, and that's to go to a sick friend. That's right. That sick friend has a cancer. And that friend... That cancer is located on the breast. I see a doctor's done something: He's took one breast off; he has removed one breast. And you've brought the handkerchief, that I'd pray over it; and you're to send it to your friend. They live in Illinois here. Are those things right? If it is, would you... Now give me your handkerchief.

40 Now, Father God, may the power of the Lord Jesus Christ that's standing here now, and while this anointing is moving, I lay my hands upon her friend and ask that the power of Jesus Christ go with this handkerchief; and may the enemy, the devil, move from the woman and may she live. In Jesus Christ's name I send this token. Amen. God bless you, sister. Tell her to write me and give the testimony from here.
All right, be reverent. Have faith. Do you believe?
Lady, I seen you climb up to the prayer line and go sit down again, with that baby. You don't have a prayer card, do you? You don't have a ... the lady sitting there with that baby crying. I see the little baby crying. You don't have the prayer card? All right. That's all right.

41 The father behind there, do you believe that the baby will get well? Do you believe too, mother, that the baby will get well if I'll ask God? Now, I want you both to lay your hands on the baby. The trouble is in the head, and you all come a long ways from here, haven't you? You come from the state of Kentucky, didn't you? Come, isn't that right? All right.
The Lord Jesus of Nazareth, may that demon leave that child, come out of it, in the name of Jesus Christ. When no other hand like that mother's could lay there now except God. And I ask that the baby gets well, in the name of Jesus Christ. Amen. God bless you, now. May you go and the baby live and be normal again. God bless you. Don't doubt, sister. I don't know you, never seen you, but God knows all about you. Isn't that right? Don't fear now. He who knows all things. The evil has gone from the baby. Just keep believing and the baby ... you'll notice such a difference in it the next twenty-four hours, it'll be a different child. You just believe that now and go on. Amen.

42 All right, everyone reverent. Have ... just have faith. Just a minute. Oh, bow your head. This is a deaf spirit moving against me now. It's on this man standing here; I thought it was in the audience. Bow your head now, till we can get hearing to him, and then we will talk to him. Everyone be reverent and bow your head.
Lord, Creator of heavens and earth, Author of everlasting life, Giver of every good gift, send Thy blessing upon this our brother who stands here waiting tonight to be delivered from evil. O Almighty One, make Thy servant tonight to be obedient to Thy Word. And I pray that You'll heal him. Take the evil from him.

43 And, Satan, in the name of Jesus Christ, I adjure thee to leave the man. Come out of him.
Now, just keep your heads bowed a minute. Can you hear me, brother? Can you hear me?
You may raise your head. Can you hear me? Say, "Yes," real loud. Hear me now? Now, you also besides that, something that you cannot see: You've got a tumor. And that tumor is located in the jaw. Is that right? You believe me to be His prophet? And not only that, but you come from Zion City, Illinois, didn't you? Go home now, you're well. Jesus Christ makes you well. Amen. Just a little skeptic at first; he didn't understand.
Do you believe with all your heart? The only thing: He just didn't understand at first, that he might know God knows all things, you see. All right.
All right, bring the patient. Be reverent now. Don't doubt; just believe with all your heart.

44 How do you do? I suppose that you and I are strangers to each other? We are, to each other, we do not know one another. This is our first time meeting in life. A very typical picture of Jesus and the Samaritan woman. There was two different races. One was a Jew and the other one was a Samaritan. Now, this is white and colored together. In them days it was a little different, like a little friction has been in the days past, with the white and colored. But Jesus let them know that God was the Father of all nations. Is that right? He doesn't care whether they're yellow people, or white people, or black people, or brown people. All the wall of partitions broke down; Jesus Christ died for every human being in the world. You believe that? I do with all of my heart.

45 And we've just returned from Africa down there where we ministered; seen thirty thousand of your people converted in one altar call. And they really are humble and love the Lord. Our hearts burn to get back to them again.
Us being strangers, knowing not one another... But you're not from this city. You have come from a city that's a country that's rolling; it's a great wheat country. It's Oklahoma. You come from Oklahoma. And you're here on a visit. You're here to see a loved one; that loved one is a sister. And you're here to be prayed for for diabetes. And the diabetes has went through your body and in your right foot; it has eat a hole through it. Is that right? Now, I will send you back to Oklahoma to be well.

46 Almighty God, in the name of Thy Son Jesus Christ, I condemn this blood-eating demon. And may Calvary's cross and the blood transfusion, and may this diabetes sugar turn back normal to good rich blood; through Jesus Christ's name, and through His blood. Amen. Go doubting nothing, rejoicing. All right.
Praise be to God. The woman just now coming to; she didn't realize what had happened till just now. What it is: She was healed. When she was standing under the anointing of that Spirit, she didn't understand what it was. She just now come to herself to know what it was.
What did you think about that, out there, sir? the little man sitting out there with asthma? You believe? I seen you reach over there to something. You believe with all your heart that God's going to heal you of that asthmatic? You also have a hay fever, don't you? I see you holding your nose all the time. Isn't that right? If that's right, raise up your hand there. All right, stand up on your feet. Accept you healing now?

47 Almighty God, in the name of Jesus Christ, let the man be made well for Your glory. Amen. Praise the Lord.
I want to ask you something, sir: When that woman come down the step rejoicing like that, it made you feel real good, didn't it? It made you feel like that you was going to be healed yourself. That's when God answered your prayer. God bless you, now.
Have faith in God. Don't doubt. Believe all things are possible.

48 All right, the lady. You're near the kingdom, lady, sitting there looking at me. That light stands right over you, which is the pillar of fire that led the children of Israel. Do you believe me to be God's prophet? You have heart trouble, don't you? The lady next to you has heart trouble. Lay your hands on one another.
Lord, in the name of Jesus Christ, while You're over them women, may the heart trouble leave them and they go and be made well, through Jesus Christ's name. Amen. The blessings of God upon you. Just have faith.
You have spinal trouble, don't you, sir, sitting there? Yes. You don't have... You have a prayer card? You don't have a prayer card, do you? You don't have your prayer card, I say. No prayer card. Then stand up on your feet just a minute. Raise your... A man in a green shirt, the one it's over just now, sonny, just a moment. I want to see what happens to him, just a minute.

49 All right, do you believe Jesus Christ to be the Son of God? You believe me to be His prophet? his servant? You believe that? Your spinal trouble has left you, sir. Move yourself up and down like this. I told you: It's gone; you're free now. Go home; you're well. Your faith has healed you. Amen. Amen. God bless you.
Just believe with all your heart.
This the patient? Excuse me: This is three or four nights in a meeting; I'm getting worn a whole lot now. I get so weak.
You're suffering with something wrong in your chest; that's a tumor. You also are nervous, female trouble. You're from out of town. You're from Cleveland, Tennessee. Is that right? Now, go home believing the Lord Jesus Christ and be made well. I condemn the devil that torments my sister, and ask him to leave her, in Jesus Christ's name. Amen. Now, go rejoicing, sister, and be made whole.
Just have faith out there. I'm sorry, to some that's wrote your letters, I'm getting weak; I can't help that. It's something that I have no control of. I'll explain it perhaps later.

50 That lady that just... Is that the lady that was healed just now, that's just sitting right down over there? Are you the lady that was healed? Oh, I see. Right there? Yes. Oh, lay your hand over on that next lady to you there. She has high blood pressure; she's wanting to get rid of that high blood pressure. Isn't that right, lady? All right, lay your hand over on her, sister, you were just healed.
Father, in Jesus Christ's name, may that blood pressure drop just now for Your glory. Amen. Do you accept it, sister? with all your heart? I see. God bless you, sister.

51 Sitting right behind you is another colored lady, sitting back there---colored person. You got a stomach trouble, haven't you, lady, sitting out there with the little hood? And you've had a stroke. You're healed. You've lost a lot of weight. I see you the way you was: a heavy person. You've lost several pounds of weight, haven't you? You're stroke is all gone. Raise your hands up. Raise your... Bounce your feet up and down. Lady, you're healed. Give God praise. You're well now. God's peace be with you.
Hallelujah! You may think that I'm crazy, but I'm in God's provided way. So is this meeting in God's provided way. Have faith in God. Believe with all your heart and you shall be healed, each one of you.

52 All right, bring the patient. Do you believe that heart trouble left you while you was sitting right there in the chair? It did. Now, just go and rejoice. That's the way to have faith and be made well.
Come, lady. Do you believe that stomach trouble left you while you were sitting there? Go eat your supper then. In the name of Jesus Christ, be made whole. Have faith.
Do you believe the same thing happened to you? All right, then, just go and be made well, through Jesus Christ's name. Have faith now; believe with all your heart.
Sir, do you believe you're healed, sitting there in the chair? You do? Come here; let me lay hands on you. That's what you wanted me to do.
In the name of Jesus Christ, be made well. Amen. God bless you, brother.

53 Let's say, "Praise the Lord." Oh, my! Something went over that building then, just then, like a light. You'll find out after I'm gone from here. Tomorrow night there'll be people testifying of healing that don't realize it right now. Something is happening.
All right. That female trouble's gone from you. Just go rejoicing and being happy, in Jesus' name.
Have faith. Now, you're having faith rightly.
Heart trouble is nothing; God can heal all things, can't He? It's gone from you, brother. Go rejoicing and may...
Let's say, "Praise be to God."

54 You believe that Jesus Christ healed you now as you come by? In the name of the Lord Jesus, may she be made completely whole. Amen. Go thanking God and rejoicing.
Oh, my! (Where'd that water go?) What is it to our Heavenly Father to heal arthritis? Why, He can do it easy, can't He? Do you believe me to be His servant? Will you obey me as His servant? Raise up your hand. Raise up your feet like this, stomp them. All your arthritis is gone now. Go on the platform rejoicing. I anoint that handkerchief, 'cause you want it for a friend. In Jesus Christ's name, may it be so. Amen. Now, go rejoicing and happy.
Praise be to God!

55 Brother, God can heal that diabetes as easy as He'll heal a toothache, can't He? Do you believe He does it? You shall have what you ask for then. Don't doubt, in Jesus Christ's name.
The worst disease in the world is heart trouble, but God can heal it; don't you believe it? Then you shall have it, in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ.
Come, sister. Do you believe? Do you believe me to be His servant? with all your heart? I see between you and I is a table. You're moving back from it. You got stomach trouble. Go, eat your supper now. You're healed. Jesus Christ makes you well.

56 Any person's in here want to be healed? Raise up your hand. Lay your hands over on one another. If God can make demons leave from here, from deaf, blind, and so forth, He can make it out there. Here go... Brother Bosworth, come here. Let's pray the prayer of faith.
Almighty God, in the name of Thy Son, the Lord Jesus Christ, move tonight. And I cast out every evil spirit from this auditorium just now, to heal all the sick and the afflicted through Jesus Christ.

It is I, be not afraid

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1 ...and see our crowd growing, even this second night. We are very happy for this, and trusting that there was a great time here last evening, how the Lord blessed.
And I haven't talked to Brother Sullivan today to find out just how the altar service finally come out. [Brother Sullivan says, "Wonderful."] Good, I'm so happy to hear that. You know, when we get souls saved, then God is pleased. That's the first thing.
Usually, when we're going to have a few nights like this, why, we always try to have the altar services and things first, because it's written, "Seek ye first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, then other things will be added." And I'm happy for that. And we all want to find all the favor with God that we can find, because we need all the grace that He can bestow upon us. I'm speaking for myself.

2 I'm not mistaken, I'm looking at Brother and Sister Kidd sitting down here. So glad to see you.
I was reading a little testimony of you the other day and you know, you all were preaching the gospel five years before I was born, and I'm an old man. So, I certainly do respect this little old couple here from here in Ohio, Brother and Sister Kidd. And nearly all of you know them.
She sends down every once in a while and gets a big bunch of prayer cloths that I've prayed over to send to her people that she knows that's sick, and gets the testimonies back. Just a little old mother and dad in the gospel. So happy to see them.

3 I got a letter last night from my friend, Rosella Griffith here from Joliet, Illinois; she was one of America's noted alcoholics. The Alcoholics Anonymous could do nothing for her, and the doctors in Chicago could do nothing for her. And one night, she was brought to the meeting, and the Holy Spirit revealed all these things to her and healed her. And now, she's a jail worker in Chicago in the slums, for the kingdom of God.
Her little friend, I believe one brought the other; I don't know which it is. And if I'm not mistaken, that's ... you're sitting there tonight. Also a dope addict, I believe it was.

4 And say, Brother Sullivan, if you know them, you must get their testimonies before the people. There might be others here that's drank and dope fiends, and so forth, can see what God can do. It is no secret. That your husband, sister? So happy to see you, my brother.
And so, Christ has certainly made a difference in that life. Certainly has. It's from the rat holes of the earth to the highest pinnacle that a person can be led, to the baptism of the Holy Ghost. It is no secret what God can do.
And you must, by all means, Brother Sullivan, get their testimony. I'm sure all of you would like to hear it, wouldn't you? How from dope to what she is now, a saint of God, her and her husband.
Not only that, I was telling Rosella was a worker in the slums of Chicago. They are evangelists on the field, preaching the gospel. I tell you, that makes my heart jump for joy.

5 Wait till I get to shake your hands on the other side. That's when we're going to have a wonderful time. We won't have to go home, because we are home then. And the sun will never go down in that city. No, sir, it'll always be light. We're struggling for that time.
And as I said last night, since I've been saved, I've always felt like that I was in a nightmare somewhere. There's just something beyond... If I could just wake up to it. We will, one of these days, wake up to the reality of God, and standing in His presence, and saved by His grace, conformed to His image. Oh, what a time that will be.

6 I'm happy to be here tonight again, to be in fellowship with these ministers, the different ones of you, my brethren, and with Brother Sullivan. And he's a Kentuckian, but he got forgiveness for it, and come on and become a minister. Now, it happens to be that I'm a Kentuckian too. So I will just show you there's a lot of them here. How many's from Kentucky, raise up your hand? Is there a Hoosier in the bunch?
My mother runs a boarding house---or, she did---and one day, I went down there, and every one she had of twenty-three men were Kentuckians. I went up to my church, and I said, "All from Kentucky, stand up," and the whole congregation stood up.

7 Well, Kentucky has something that they have offered to the Lord. Been many saints come from Kentucky. In the early days, the pioneer days when we came in the wagons with horses, and over across the hills and they produced some great preachers and great saints of God. It'll be well represented in glory when we get there.
And I trust that we, as the oncoming generation, the off-springs from them, that we're not ashamed of our forefathers or the gospel that they preached. And let's stand for the faith that was once delivered to the saints, leaving those things are behind, let's press towards the mark of the high calling in Christ. That's my heart's desire, is to meet that high calling.

8 Now, last night I just spoke to you a little. And tonight, it's a healing service. We don't claim now---if there happens to be someone by who would not understand that---we do not heal anyone. We only pray for the sick. I've seen tens of thousands of people healed, but I never did heal one. I've had some direct answers to prayer for praying for the sick, but I've never healed anyone. And I don't believe that lays in the power of man. It's a finished work that Christ did at Calvary.
Healing doesn't lay within man, not even to doctors, hospitals, medicine. There's no doctor, hospital, or medicine can heal. God's the healer. Medicines will aid. A doctor can set a bone, diagnose a case, give medicine to kill germs; but God does the healing. He could set my arm, but he couldn't heal my arm. He could pull the tooth, but not heal the place it come out of. He might operate and take an appendix out, but he cannot heal the place he cut, see. It takes God to do that.

9 And we're not against doctors, hospitals, or medicine; we are for them, and pray for them that God will give more knowledge to His servants. But when a doctor has come to the end of the road, and his medicine will not help the patient any longer, and he pronounces the patient has to die, I believe that patient has the right to come to a great Physician, and ask for mercy.
And that's the type I pray for. God's children, my friends, and the doctor's patient, is what I come to pray for. And I don't only pray for it myself... I don't even credit the healings to my prayer. I credit to the prayers of all the people that's in the audience that's praying at the same time for the people I'm praying for. It's together we stand.
It was after Pentecost, when they had assembled in one place and all with one accord begin to pray, that the Holy Spirit shook the building where they were assembled together, see. Together we stand. We're Kentuckians. Together we stand; divided we fall.

10 So many times getting into meetings, coming to meetings, letters come to me, "What's your doctrine, Brother Branham? You was a Baptist; do you still believe in eternal security? Are you Jesus only? Have you... Do you baptize at all? Do you sprinkle?"
I will say this: I have one doctrine, the great fundamental evangelical doctrine of the Bible. I've never left a meeting to my knowing with any confusion. I've always tried to leave the meeting with sweetness of the Holy Spirit. Never tried to make ... proselyte, I never try to take someone's disciples. The thing I try to do is add the sinner to any church that he wants to go to. As long as he's borned again of the Spirit of God, he's my brother and she's my sister.
And the doctrines... I have my own ideas, but I keep them to myself.

11 And then when I come here, or anywhere else, if I take sides one way or the other, it would be ... I would be throwing all the influence that the Lord has given me to one certain denomination. Therefore, I don't take sides with any of them. I stay on sides with all of them, and try to pull them together, and say, "We are brethren. We are brethren." And that's the reason that I don't take sides or take issues.
All of us, we fundamental people, we absolutely believe in the great evangelical doctrines. We believe that there is a Saviour who saves; there is a Christ who baptizes with the Holy Spirit. We do believe in divine healing; we believe in the second coming. There's the things that I preach on, is that. Let... The rest of it, that's up to the pastors, the shepherds to lead the flock the way that he sees to do it. I'm an evangelist.

12 Now, we are fixing to open the Word ... or, read the Word. Only One is able to open the Word, and that's "He that was slain from the foundation of the world, who came to Him that set upon a throne, and taken the book out of His right-hand, and was worthy to open the book and to loose the seals thereof."
So let us bow our heads for a moment of prayer, while we speak to Him. How many would like to be remembered tonight, that God will give you faith to be healed tonight, raise your hand, say, "Remember, Brother Branham. God, I'm raising my hand." That's good.

13 Lord, Thou art God since the beginning. And You never had a beginning, for You are the eternal One. You never did begin, or You never will end. When the sin has heaped itself in the earth until the stars refuse to shine, and that the seas has wept themselves into deserts, You'll still be God.
And we approach Thee tonight in that all sufficient name of the Lord Jesus, Thy loving Son, who came and took our place willingly, and become a propitiation for our sins. And tonight, we feel that we are washed by the water of the Word and are cleansed, and candidates for the Holy Spirit and His divine works.
And we come tonight with open hearts to receive Him, knowing that we are living in the closing days of the world's history, knowing that at any minute Jesus could come. And we see the earth in the turmoil: nations against nations. And now, there's a division amongst churches; there's a division amongst peoples and individuals. But the house of God should be united as one. "Onward Christian Soldiers," said the poet. "We are not divided; all one body we."

14 So we pray tonight, heavenly Father, that these who have gathered here for the purpose of being healed by Your power... And we contend for that, that You have risen from the dead and is alive tonight among us. We are so glad that we're not worshipping a tradition of some pagan god that's made out of wood, that can't speak or hear. But we are worshipping a resurrected Jesus, who is the Son of Jehovah, who was made sin in our stead. And He was wounded for our transgressions, and with His stripes we were healed. And we pray tonight that He will manifest Hisself, that He is not dead, but alive among us, and will heal the sick and the afflicted, and save the lost, and bring courage to the weak. Get glory unto Thyself, Lord, for we commit the service to Thee now.
In the name of the Lord Jesus, take the written Word and sink it into our hearts, and mix it with the oil of the Spirit, that it might bring forth great results. May every person that held their hands up and those who could not hold their hands, may this be the night of perfect deliverance. May there not be a feeble person in our midst when we leave. For we ask it in Jesus' name, and for His sake. Amen.

15 I would desire your prayers as I speak just briefly for the prayer line. We want it to be just as long as possible. And tomorrow night, we will continue on praying for the sick each night, and maybe in different ways.
Now, I'd like to see if there's any people here has never been in one of my services, where I prayed for the sick before; would you just raise your hand, that's never been in one of the services? There's a good many here that's never been in the meeting.
Now (Thank you.), I do not claim to be a healer. Very much contrary to that, I believe that healing is ... all healing is divine healing. I believe there's no other healing but divine healing. For if that isn't so, then God told something wrong when He said, "I'm the Lord who heals all your diseases," see. He heals all. That doesn't shut off the doctor's work, or so forth; that brings it in. He just makes it ready for God's healing: washes it out, or sets the bone, and gets ready for the healing. But God has to create cells. And there's only one Creator, and that's God. I do not believe that there'd be power in any minister's hands to heal a person. But it's a commission of the Lord that we should lay hands on the sick.

16 And I believe that healing is a finished work that's been completed for two thousand years. When Jesus died at Calvary, He saved you from sin and healed your sickness. And every blessing, redemptive blessing is yours by faith in that finished work, see. It's yours if you can believe it.
As one said some time ago, "I don't believe in divine healing. I don't care what you say."
I said, "Certainly not. It wasn't given to unbelievers; it was given to believers. He that believeth..." There is a question mark. If you're a believer, divine healing is for you. If you're not a believer, it's not for you.
And each person in here that's sick does not have to come to this platform. They do not have to do one thing but confess their sins to God. Sin is unbelief; we all know that. Because you smoke, drink, gamble, commit adultery; that's not sin; that's the attributes of your unbelief, see. It's because you don't believe Jesus is the reason you do those things, if you do. But if you believe Him, you don't do those things, is because you are a believer. So there's only one initial sin, and that's unbelief. And if you believe God, then you can just accept it anywhere you may be. God is everywhere.

17 I've chosen tonight for just a little short text... And I trust that you'll catch what the Holy Spirit is trying to say in this. It's found in Saint John the 6th chapter and the 20th verse.
But he said unto them, It is I; be not afraid.
It must have been that great strong fisherman called Peter, who a few hours before had pushed the boat off of the bank into the Sea of Galilee. And then, walking up from the bow of the boat which was headed into the shore, taking his seat by the side of his brother, Andrew, and picking up an oar. For in those days, they were a man on one side and one on the other. Maybe six or eight men oared the little boat, what they called "ships." And as they pushed out and pulled the boat around into the position to cross the sea... And they was waving good-bye to those Christian friends, believers on the bank. And we're taught here that it was almost dark. And they had been bidden to go over to the other side.

18 And as soon as the last one quit waving, and they turned back to their homes, it must have been young John, as he was the youth of the group, with his hand on his face said something like this, "I don't see how He did it, for I looked and seen there was only five of those little biscuits and two little small fishes. But how did He break that and feed five thousand, five thousand men besides the women and children? And I watched His hands, for I was standing near each time I come with the basket, and seen Him take up a little biscuit and break off a chunk of it and put it in the basket, and reach back and break out another piece."
He was young. He said, "I just can't understand how there was more bread baked. Oh, if He would've had an oven and had baked it, and had the wheat and so forth, I might have understood it, but He didn't. He bypassed the procession and the regular natural run of raising the wheat, and grinding it, and milling it, and sifting it, and shortenings, and salt, and seasonings, and put it in the oven and break it. He just broke it and handed it."

19 Then one in the back, maybe it was Bartholomew, said something like this, "You know, that proves that He is the Son of Jehovah. For we are taught in our holy Scriptures that our forefathers lived forty years on created bread that come from God out of heaven."
And as the little boat moved on, the conversation continued how that He must be somewhere in contact with God. Of course, God was in Him working His will. The Scripture says that God was in Christ reconciling Himself to the world.
And then Peter said, sitting by the side of his brother, Andrew, looked over to him and said, "Andrew, when you first come and told me of such a man that you had found, I doubted your word. But when I walked up in His presence, and He said, 'Your name is Simon, your father's name is Jonas,' that settled it with me."
"For we are taught in our holy Scriptures that Moses, the one that we believe, wrote unto us and said, 'The Lord your God shall raise up a prophet liken unto me.' And I knew that the Messiah must be a God-prophet. And when I knew that He did not know me, and that was the first time He ever saw me, and yet called me by my name and told me about my daddy, I knew that was Him."

20 And then, one sitting about, towards the stern of the boat, by the name of Nathanael, put his shoulders against Philip, as they were pulling together, and said, "Philip, I could testify something like Simon. For when I was out under that tree praying when you found me, and you told me the story that this man had told Simon his name, I almost laughed at you. I could not believe it. And then when you said that He come from such a low place as Nazareth, then I knowed you must be out of your mind. So I said, 'Could any good thing come out of Nazareth?' I shall never forget what you said, 'Come and see.'"
That's a good thing. That's a good answer to anybody. Don't criticize it; come find out for yourself, and then examine it by the Scriptures. The Scriptures are always right. Jesus said, "They are they that testify of me."

21 And he said, "As we went along the road, I shall never forget our conversation. And I was still in doubt, Philip, though I knew you were a just and an honest man, and you were truthful, and I believed that you'd just been carried away with some kind of a fanaticism. But when I walked into His presence and heard Him speak, He spoke different from any man I ever heard, for He spoke like He had an authority, and He knowed what He was talking about."
And He said, "As I walked up, when He turned those eyes and looked at me, and said, 'Behold, an Israelite in whom there is no guile,' it almost floored me.
"And I said, 'Rabbi, when did You know me?'
"He said, 'Before Philip called you, when you were under the tree, I saw you.'"
Said, "That settled it for me once for ever. I knew that was the Messiah. That was the God-prophet that Moses said would rise. I don't care what others think; that settled it for me. I believed it because the Holy Scriptures taught it. And, Philip, that's why I fell on my face and said, 'Rabbi, Thou art the Son of God. Thou art the King of Israel.' Because I knowed the Scriptures said that that would be the sign that would show that He was the One that Moses spoke of."

22 Then Andrew must have stopped oaring just a moment. And he said, "Brethren, did not our hearts burn within us when we seen Him, no more than a man weary in His way. And He sat down on the well and He was so tired, He couldn't go down into Samaria with us that day when we went to get some victuals for Him. And how we talked on the road about how we loved Him. And before they would even give us the food, here come a woman down the street screaming, 'Come, see a man who's told me the things I've done. Isn't this the very Messiah? Isn't that Him? For He said to me when I was out there to get a bucket of water... I just went to the well like I always do, and I heard someone ask me for a drink and I looked over and seen a middle-aged Jew. And He said to me, "Woman, bring me a drink."'
"'And I said to him, "It's not customary for you Jews to ask Samaritan's such."'
"'And He said, "If you knew who you were talking to, you'd ask me for a drink. I'd give you water that you don't come here to draw."'
"'And we got to talking about the different denominations and the places to worship. And He told me that God was a Spirit, and they that worship Him, must worship in Spirit and in truth.'

23 "Then, I shall never forget, she might have said this, 'When He turned those piercing eyes against me, and He said, "Woman, go get your husband and come here."'
"'And I said to Him, "I don't have any husband." And you men know how I have lived.'
"'And He said, "No, you have no husband, because you've had five husbands, and the one that you're now living with is not yours."'
"And of course, she'd say something like this, 'I was surprised. We don't have such in our churches today. And I turned quickly to look at Him. And I said, "Sir, I perceive that You are a prophet. We know the Messiah will be a prophet, for when He comes, He will tell us such things."'
"'And this is the words that He said, "I am He that speaks to you."'
"'Now, gentlemen of the city, you Scribes and scholars, take it upon yourself. Did not Moses say that the Lord God, in these last days, would raise up a prophet liken unto him? Isn't this He? Isn't this the sign of the very Messiah? This is Him!'"

24 Oh, how they must have turned loose the oars for a few moments and rejoiced to know that that had been a great day. They had fellowshipped with Him that day. Oh, it's always a great day when you fellowship with Jesus. There's always something left on your heart that you can never be the same. You'll never forget them hours of fellowship.
Must have been almost completely dark when there was a sack of money jingled at the very stern of the boat. And the ill-tempered looking fellow raised up and said, "Just a minute, gentlemen." Of course, we know who that fellow is, always somebody to break up the fellowship: Judas.
And he said, "I'm well acquainted with many fine rabbis. I know many fine priests in our land. And there's none of them... No seminary can ever point out that He ever darkened their doors. And we have no record. And you too was standing present when you heard the rabbi say that this fellow is Beelzebub. Of course, we know. We have to take His claim. He claimed that His Father was God. But there's no evidence of that, because usually, children that are born out of wed usually have phenomenal things that happen to them. And we could be deceived, gentlemen, because this man could be a fortuneteller, or He could be some evil spirit that's doing these things. And we could be deceived."

25 About that time, the wind begin to blow. The waves begin to come up high on the boat. Satan's servant had the floor. And there's always trouble when he gets that floor. The waves come in angrily; harder and harder the winds blew. No doubt, Satan himself gleaming with his lizard eyes, saying, "I'll spear them, stiffen them, drown them. I've got them away from Him now." And the winds got so contrary until the boat was all water-logged, and half full of water, and the oars was breaking. And the great white caps, as they rose up, just swept the little boat from one way to another. All hopes was gone.
And when all hopes was gone, after they was pressed from one wave to another...

26 And perhaps, there's people sitting here tonight in that same condition. Maybe you've longed to find God, and you've been swept from one church to another, from one denomination to another, taking your letter from church to church, from Methodist, to Baptist, to Presbyterian, to Lutheran, to Pentecostal, to Nazarenes, just wave after wave.
Or maybe you have been swept from one doctor's office to the other. The angry waves of sickness has swept you to a doctor, and he'd look you over and say, "There's nothing I can do." And another wave will send you to a clinic, only to hear the physician say, "Your case is advanced. There's nothing can be done for you."

27 But when all hopes is gone, they happened to notice. They seen someone coming, walking on the water. That's the way He does it. Right at the last moment, the darkest hour, Jesus comes along. And He come walking on the water.
Now, the tragedy of this scene is that the people without hope was sent hope, and was afraid of it when it got there. Just about like today, the only hope they had was the mercy of Christ. Their boat was sinking, their oars was gone, and they was at the mercy of the devil on the sea, and a storm twisting them.
And the only hope they could have was coming to them, and they were afraid of it. They were afraid that it was a ghost, some sort, as we'd say it in the street language, "a spook," come walking on the water. And they cried out with fear.

28 But there come a voice from there, that all sufficient voice that takes to still it, said, "Fear not, It is I. Be of a good courage."
That's the same One that comes to us tonight. That voice when we're at the end of our wits, when we're at the end of our journey from church to church, bringing our letter from church to the Methodist, to the Baptist, to the Presbyterian, to the Pentecostal, to so-so.
Listen. All them churches are fine. But that's still not the answer. When you went from doctor's office to doctor's office, to clinic; that's all right. But that still isn't your answer. They've turned you down.
The answer is in the building tonight: the Holy Spirit of God. Don't be afraid of it. It doesn't make fanatics; it takes fanatics and makes saints out of them. Don't be afraid of it; it's the only hope that you have.

29 You might've heard them crying out and say, "That's fanaticism out there at the Chatauqua. Don't go near it." Don't you believe it. You search the Scriptures, for they are they that testify of Christ. Compare word with Word, and spirit with Spirit, for the Holy Spirit can only bring forth the works of the Holy Spirit. Jesus said, "If I do not the works of my Father, believe me not. But if I do the works of my Father, then believe the works. If you can't believe me, believe the works," He said.
They thought He was gone. The devil thought He was gone, because He said He had to go rest a little while. He was tired, and He had to go rest and pray.

30 I can imagine some of them said, "We oughtn't to have left without Him." And that's a good policy. You'll always get in trouble if you start somewhere without Him, because the devil's on your track.
So He came. Why? He had not went to pray or to rest.
The preachers and many people try to tell us today... Not all preachers, not all people; but many try to tell us, too many, that He doesn't care no more. He's gone to rest, and the world's just left up to the church to do what they will.
But He hadn't did that; He'd climbed the highest mountain in Palestine, and had been watching them all the time. He isn't dead; He's alive. He's climbed so high... Higher you go, more you can see. And He's went all the way to the Father's throne and sat down on the right-hand. He watches.

31 When the little ship, he said, was out in the midst of the sea, and the waves were contrary, He was sitting up there watching it. He isn't sitting on a mountain tonight, but He's sitting in glory; His eye's on the sparrow, and I know He watches us. He knows how contrary the waves is to you. He knows what the doctor said, and He cares for you. He loves you, and He will come at the last hour. But don't be afraid of Him when He comes. Accept Him.
When they finally got the scare off of them, and He got into the boat, there was a sudden peace. And oh, what a sudden peace it is to a troubled heart that's went from place to place to try to find something. And when they stopped for a few minutes, and let the Holy Spirit come into their heart, what a sudden peace it brings.
All the turmoil of this church and that church rising, and this congregation, that... It's all settled, and you know your Redeemer liveth because He lives in you.

32 When the man's went to the doctor's office or the woman with a little baby, and the doctor's done everything that lays within his power, don't be afraid of the Holy Spirit and His promise, for He's watching you.
He said in the Scriptures here: He will not leave us nor forsake us. "Lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the world." The Scripture says that Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever. The same Jesus that climbed up on the mountain to watch that ship full of people, has climbed the ramparts of glory to watch this congregation tonight, and your action towards His Spirit and His Word. Before He left, He said, "A little while and the world won't see me no more. Yet, ye shall see me (the believer), for I will be with you, even in you to the end of the age."
Christ, the same yesterday, today, and forever. The same Christ who cares, the same Christ who watches over you, the same Christ who performs the same miracles bringing the same results, did not He say in Saint John 14:12, "He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also." Christ, the same yesterday, today, and forever.

33 He is not dead, but He's alive. And if He is in our midst tonight, He will bring the same results that He did when He was here on earth, that we might leave this building tonight saying the same thing that they said (them who came from Emmaus on that first resurrection). " He did something just like He did it before He was crucified." They knowed that it was Jesus.
Tonight, if He is alive, and He's not dead but He's among us, He will do the same things He did before His crucifixion, for He's the same yesterday, today, and forever. Be not afraid. Don't be afraid of some evil thing. It's according to the Scriptures. Be not afraid; it's not spooky. Be not afraid; it's not fortunetellers. Be not afraid; it's not fanaticism. "It's I," says the Holy Spirit. It's God's Spirit giving witness that Jesus is alive and in His church. Do you believe this? Then let us pray as we trust Him.

34 O Lord, who brought again Jesus from the dead, and has presented Him to every generation down through the ages... And tonight, we're in the shadows of His coming the second time in glory. And as a shadow begins to come close, all the positive that's making the shadow, the object, it becomes more plainer all the time. We cannot look back to the ministry of our great friend, Martin Luther, and brother; and we cannot look back to our Brother John Wesley, or Moody, or Sankey, or Finney, or Calvin, or Knox. They reflected Your gospel in their day. And that same gospel is reflected tonight in a more powerful way, because the Lord is soon coming. The object is becoming to blend into the shadow as they become one, the ministry and Christ.
Father God, may this congregation not be afraid, but may they believe that You are risen from the dead, and that You are here to help each individual. How Your servant, Lord, by a commission of an Angel and a divine gift can only reflect as You will reflect. But may it be done tonight, Lord, that the people might know and not be afraid, those that are in distress, "Be not afraid; It is I."

35 That same Jesus who ministered, promised that in these days that the very signs that He did would be done again, to give the sign to the Gentiles as it was did then to the Samaritans and the Jews; for they were the only ones looking for the Messiah. And You manifested Yourself in that manner.
Now, You're infinite God. You're no respect of person. Whatever You do, You do perfect every time. And You did it perfect. That's how You picked Your people in the last day, for them that was looking for You, Jew and Samaritan. And now, Lord, choose Your people tonight in the Gentiles. Let Your Holy Spirit move and perform and work the works of Christ. For we ask it in Jesus' name. Amen.

36 Jesus said, "Be not afraid; It's I." And tonight, the "I" is the Holy Spirit. That's the Holy Spirit of God that's come down in ... to live into the church. God first lived in a pillar of fire, then He was made flesh by a virgin birth and dwelt in Christ. Then at the going away of Christ, He sanctified a church that was born sexually, that He might sanctify this people and live in them, His presence, the Holy Spirit, to carry on the work.
And tonight, the Holy Spirit is here finishing up, binding up, finishing the work, sealing up the book, for the last name will go in it someday, and He will never add an extra. If you're not ... or, your name's not on the Lamb's book of life tonight, my dear degraded friend, please ask God to put your name there now while we pray for the sick.

37 Now, I believe... How many prayer cards, Gene, did ... or Billy? Are you there? Did you give them out? 1 To 100. All right. They give out a hundred prayer cards. Now, you hold your card. If you're not called tonight, you'll be called. You'll come right up here to the platform. Tonight, I want to ... I want to do one thing. Tomorrow night, I want to change and do another, and the next night another. All of you has read my book on the different things that the Holy Spirit...
There's one prophet, not gifts of prophecy, gifts of prophets. But there is gifts of healing. It's in the plural, the other is singular.

38 Now, we cannot bring all at once, so... I promised that I'd let you out as early as I could, so let's just start from number 1, and run them through. Who has prayer card number 1, would you raise your hand, somebody? What's the letter? A? A number 1. Someone here that's got a prayer card, A number 1, if you can stand on your feet? You have it, sir? All right, would you come right over here.
We're not going to be able to stand too many out... Is that all the room you got, just right in there? Right through the back. All right.
While this man is making his way out, who has prayer card number 2, would you hold your hand up? Number 2. They're just anywhere... The lady way over here. All right, lady, would you take your place right here? [Gap in the audio.]

39 And we are strangers to one another I suppose. We don't know each other. God does know us.
Now, this man, standing here by me is a total stranger to me so far as I know; God knows. I have never seen him in my life. If I did, I don't know it. And he just witnessed that we were strangers to one another. How many in the prayer line now, or each one of you knows that I don't know you, raise up your hand, all along the prayer line? All right. How many out there in the audience knows that I don't know you, that you're sick, raise up your hand. All right, see. Just so you'll see that it's the Lord Jesus.
Now, if He will do... If this man's sick, is needy, whatever he is, I don't know. I don't know what he's here for. But if the Holy Spirit will reveal to this man after this message, then all of you will believe that He's the same Messiah.

40 Now, He will never work through me until he works through him, see. It's his faith. It takes your faith out there. I wish I could speak to each one of you. I can't. It's your faith that touches Him.
And then He just takes me, and I don't know what I'm saying. I know what I'm saying; I don't mean that. I mean that I don't have an understanding of what I'm going to say. I just say what He says. And there it is; you have it, see. It's a yielding to the Holy Spirit. If yielding to the Holy Spirit will manifest Jesus here as Messiah, won't He manifest Him as Healer and all that He is?

41 Now, Lord, it's Your service, and these are Your people, and I am Your servant. Now, let the people see, these who are so sick and needy, that they might know that You are the Son of God. And You are not dead, but You are alive tonight to manifest the same signs and wonders that You promised. The books will soon be closed; the doors will be shut; and judgment will be on hand. We see it hanging in the hangers today, Lord. We know that it's near. So may there... In the audience tonight, Father, maybe one person who is not saved; may the presence of the Lord Jesus bring that person to conviction that they will receive the Holy Spirit this night. We ask this for God's glory.
And now, Lord, let the Holy Spirit give to us these things that we ask, that the people might know that You're God, and you live forever. In Jesus' name, Amen.

42 Now, watch this way real close, and be in prayer. But now whatever is said, you do just what it says. I don't care what condition you are in, how crippled you are, how ... what... If it speaks to you... Now watch, it might reveal something. Now watch that; it's just revealing. But then if you hear it say, "Thus saith the Lord," you jump, do ever what it tells you to do. You can go right just as quick as you can. How many's been healed that way in our meeting? Let's see your hands go up so that they can witness. See, many. Watch it.
See, one thing is the person's faith, and it's revealing what's the trouble. Then I can pray for that person. But when it calls in the audience with "Thus saith the Lord," you watch it and do just exactly what it says. If it says, "Bow your head," bow your head. It's whatever it says do, you do it now, because it be the Holy Spirit.

43 Now, you can realize, you Christians, where I'm standing. Here's God's Word that teaches this thing to be the truth. It's the truth: Christ the same yesterday, today, and forever.
Now, if He will prove that He is here, and that He can prove it by this one person, it ought to make everyone of you realize that you're in the presence of Jesus Christ, and accept your healing. Is that true? Raise your hand if it's true. It's the truth, see. It's truth.

44 Now, the man and I are strangers, but God knowing us both. I have no idea, sir, what you're here for, but God does know. But, if somehow, that I can yield myself to His Holy Spirit, and He will reveal to you like He did to Simon Peter, or to Nathanael, or to the woman at the well, or to the woman with the blood, any way (see) just like He did then... See, He said He wasn't a healer. He said, "The Son can do nothing in Himself, but what He sees the Father doing. I do nothing in myself," He said. "But I do just as the Father shows me, what I see (not hear), see." It's a vision.
And if He will tell me what your trouble is, or something about you that you know that I don't know... If it's anything, I don't know it. But if He will reveal it, will you accept Him and believe for it? May the Lord grant it to you, brother. For we're both men; we both got to meet God. We got to stand in His presence someday.

45 The man's trouble, what he's looking for, need to pray for him, is an extreme nervousness. That's right. And he also has some sort of a cough; it's an asthmatic cough. It bothers him much at night. That's right, isn't it? If that's right, raise up your hand.
Do you believe that? The man's a witness. Do you believe that that was Christ that did that? Christ permitted that Spirit to make that... You say, "You might've just been a guessing at that." No, I wasn't. Let us turn to the man again.
I don't remember what it was, but I believe it was nervousness. Now, that is right. He's been nervous all of his life. But he's developed a cough. Yes, it's a asthmatic cough. He raises up and coughs hard. And then there's something about his arm, or... No, it's low blood pressure. He's suffering with low blood pressure. That's exactly the truth. That's "Thus saith the Lord." I tell you something else: This is not your home. You're not from here. You're not from this state even. You're from Kentucky. Do you believe God can tell me who you are, the same as He knowed Simon Peter? Then, Mr. Martin, you can return home and be made well.
Do you believe with all your heart? Then just raise up your hands and worship Him, and say, "Lord, I believe. With all my heart, I believe, Lord."

46 Help the people tonight, Lord to understand. And may each person be healed. May the great Holy Spirit begin to bathe every sick person just now into His goodness and His mercy. Through Jesus' name, I ask this. Amen.
Now, be alert, be in prayer. As the Holy Spirit reveals, you make it yourself. What He's doing here, He's doing out there also. How many of you is sick out there, you say, and haven't a prayer card, raise up your hands? Pray then just a minute.
Here's a lady sitting right here in front of me. She's black headed, got glasses on, wearing a yellow dress. She's suffering with headaches. That's right. If that's right, stand up ... raise your hand up, lady. Stand up on your feet. You were praying that God would call you. You're healed now of your headaches. Go home and be well. Jesus Christ...

47 Now, tell me what she touched. She touched the High Priest. She's twenty yards from me, but she's in the reach of the High Priest. He's raised from the dead, and He's here. Now, you out there without your cards, do the same.
Do you believe, sister? Do you believe that God could reveal to me... If this could be another... Just like the woman at the well, He could tell what your trouble is, the same as He could tell what her trouble was. Frankly, you're not here for yourself; you're here for somebody else. That person's really sick. They're in the hospital. It's a woman, a younger woman. It's your daughter-in-law. She's got something wrong with her bones, something spreads through her bones. That's right. Then I see a young fellow, little one. That's a grandson. Like a Bright's disease or something... You're praying for him. That's "Thus saith the Lord." Go believing, and you shall have what you've asked for.
Have faith in God.

48 All right. This the lady? Do you believe, my sister, with all your heart? If God will reveal to me what your trouble is, then you'll accept it? Does anybody here know the lady? Well, sure. All right, you know her trouble then. You believe now. I couldn't heal, because I'm not a healer. But it's a gift. See, I cannot... [Blank space on tape.]
God has already did it. He's already healed. If Jesus was standing here tonight, and you'd say, "Lord, I want You to heal me," He'd say, "I've already done it. When I died at Calvary, I paid the price for your healing. I set you free from your sickness when I died at Calvary." He would have to say that, because that's what He done. He did that once for all.
But He could make Himself known that He was the Messiah, and that's what He's trying to do now to let the people know that this, what we believe to be the Holy Ghost is the Holy Ghost. The Spirit of Christ in us a-doing...
If the spirit of a gangster was in us, we'd do the work of a gangster. If the spirit of a singer was in us, we'd sing. If the Spirit of Christ is in us, we will do the works of Christ.

49 Your trouble is nervousness and a throat trouble. That's "Thus saith the Lord." That's true. You got something else on your heart, and you're wanting me to pray for somebody. Do you want me to take that handkerchief and send it? If God will tell me who it is and what it is...? It's your daughter; she's paralyzed, and she's just had a baby. She might know me to be your ... or, the prophet of the Lord; take that handkerchief and put on her. Don't doubt, you can have what you ask for. God bless you. God be with you now.
Let's just praise Him, raise our hands up, and say, "Thank You, Lord Jesus." Praise You, Lord. You're good to us, Lord. You're here, and You want us to worship You. And we can't hold it any longer, Lord. You're just so good to make known to us that You're alive in this great hour when all hopes is gone. Yet, You are our hope. We're not afraid of You, Lord; we worship You; we love You. Come into our little bark tonight and give us faith, give us healing, give us Your Spirit, and satisfy us with that everlasting portion. Grant it, Lord. We worship You in Jesus' name. Amen.

50 Just let Him come into your little bark that's been floated around by doubts and cares. Don't be afraid. Don't be afraid to accept it; just accept it.
Excuse me. You believe, do you, with all your heart? You believe that God can show me what your trouble is? One thing you want prayed for is your eyes. Of course, you got glasses on also. But it's eyes is what's troubling you. But here's something that don't show. You got back trouble. You believe God... If God will tell me what caused that, will it increase your faith? You fell. That's right. Now go; you're healed. Jesus Christ makes you well. Just believe with all your heart. Have faith in God.

51 How do you do, sir. I don't know you; perhaps you don't know me. That's right. But God knows us both. You think God could reveal to me what you're here for, sir? If He could tell ... see Philip coming and saying ... or, Nathanael, say, "Behold an Israelite in whom there is no guile."
And he said, "Thou art... Rabbi, how did You know me?"
Said, "Before Philip called you, when you were under the tree, I saw you."

52 That same Lord Jesus, His Spirit... Now, His body, is at the right-hand of God, sitting up there as a High Priest. But He sent back His Holy Spirit to represent Him. And you see, as Jesus becomes drawing near... Like the shadow of my hand. See how dim it is? But, watch how bright it comes when it comes real close. See, it isn't the day of Martin Luther, John Wesley, or down through the age; but this is in the age of the coming.
Just before a destruction hit Sodom and Gomorrah, which this nation is a type of, a man came down, which was actually God in flesh. And there was three angels. Two of them went on down in Sodom to preach to the elect ... or, to the ... just to an ordinary Christian, like a modern Billy Graham or so forth, not performing miracles, but just preaching. But there's One stayed back with Abraham and his group, which was the elected. Watch what that Angel done.

53 Listen. Watch. Just before the fire fell, He looked at Abraham and He said, "Where is Sarah, thy wife?" A stranger! How'd He know he was married? How'd He know his wife's name was Sarah? He was a stranger.
And Abraham said, "She's in the tent behind You." And the Bible said that Sarah was in the tent behind the Angel.
And He said, "Abraham, I'm going to visit you according to the time of life." And Sarah, inside the tent, within herself, laughed.
And the Angel, with His back turned, said, "Why did Sarah laugh?"
Sarah run out and said, "I didn't laugh."
Said, "Yes you did."
See that witness? A witness to the church that the end was at hand. Jesus said, "As it was in the days of Sodom and Gomorrah, so shall it be in the coming of the Son of man." That same thing would return. You're looking at it tonight, not me, Him. You're watching it. You can't see it, but you see it working among the people. It's working with you the same as it's working with me. I couldn't say nothing unless He would say it. And He can't do nothing with you till you believe it. So there you are. The Lord bless.

54 You have trouble with your eye. That's what you want prayed for. You have a rectal trouble also: piles. That is true. If that's right, raise up your hand? You're not from here; you're from Springfield, Ohio. You're a minister, preacher of the gospel. Reverend Hillford, return home. Believe and you have your request, if you believe. God bless you now, brother.
Do you believe the Lord Jesus is real?
Do you believe God will heal you of that stomach trouble? Well, go eat, and just get well [unclear words].

55 How do you do? I don't know you; God does. Your baby? It's a mighty pretty little baby. But without the help of God, it must die; got heart trouble. That's right. There's a greater thing than that needed in your family; that's you need to be a Christian. You're not a Christian; you're a sinner. That's good faith for a sinner to bring your baby, because it's the love of a mother that would call it out. Will you accept Jesus as your Saviour? He become your Saviour? Now, you confess your sins and promise, if He will let your baby live, you'll raise that baby in a Christian home for the glory of God?
O Lord God, Elohim, the great Jehovah God, heal this child. Heal the parents; forgive their sins. May this baby live to the honor and glory of God. Perhaps this was done to bring this family to You, Lord. Now that they've come, I pray for mercy for the baby in the name of Jesus Christ. Amen. God bless you, sister. Take up your place. Did you see I regarded you "sister," the Holy Spirit did? See, you're a sister now. Go on your road, and God be with you.
Some minister see her, baptize her into Christian faith now.

56 If thou canst believe! Do you believe the heart trouble would leave you and you'd get well? Just keep moving, and saying, "Praise be to God."
You got a nervous heart yourself. Do you believe that God will make you well? Just go on praising God, thanking God and believe.
My, another one, do you believe He will make you well too? All right.
Just a moment. Something happened in the audience. The lady sitting right down here towards the post, gray headed with a blue dress on. Got sinusitis trouble. You believe the Lord will heal you, sister? Do you believe it? The lady behind her with the green dress on, maybe she will accept the blessing. You have high blood pressure. Right here, sister, sitting right here, looking right at me. You, looking around. Yes. Stand up and believe it. All right. There you are. Now, go home and be well.
Do you believe God?

57 Have faith. Having trouble with your stomach. Let me show you something; let me have your hand. Now, you're human, just as I am. See how my hand looks? Now, put my hand on yours; now watch it swell. See how red it turns and swells up? Take your hand off; now look how it goes. Now, take this other hand. Put that hand on it. There's no difference. Doesn't look that way, does it. Now, put this hand on; watch it start swelling. Look at them little white things running over it. See, that's your stomach trouble; you got ulcers.
Now, do you believe? Will it encourage you if I'd ask God and you look at my hand to see if it happens? Come here. Now, you watch my hand. Now you see it. (Now, where's Billy. Come here, Billy.) Take your other hand. I know what's wrong with you, but I want your other hand. Put this hand on. Nothing. He's as human as you are. Put this hand on it: nothing. Put this hand on: nothing. Lay this hand on. Huh, something there. See, that's the first gift that was given (see) to make known to the people.

58 Now, come here. Watch the hand. Let's bow our heads. Lord Jesus, as the woman's looking at my hand, we do not ask for miracles, but we know that You're God, and she's watching my hand. Let it come to pass, Lord, that while I am praying, that You'll manifest the healing to the woman as You take it away from her. Satan, in the name of Jesus Christ, leave the woman. Come out of her.
Now, before I open my eyes; I've never moved my hand, but the hand quit vibrating. It stopped, didn't it. Now, you be the judge then. Now, tell us, is it gone? Now watch. Put this hand on now. There it is. Now, put this hand on. Just exactly the same. Your stomach trouble's over. You're healed. Go home and be well.

59 Now, you were trying to look in on that. I don't know nothing about it; the Spirit leaves me now for a minute, for that part of discernment. You've read my book, have you? All right. You know how He said the first gift would be: make known to the people by taking their hand, then it would come to pass that they'd know the very secret of their hearts, and they'd believe that, because they'd have to, because it'd tell them.
Now, give me your hand. Now, I'm not going to ask for discernment. I'm just going to put your hands. Now, look here. Now, lay your hand on. I don't know even what's wrong, but God does. Now, looky here. Look at my hand; see it swelling? See the little white things jumping over it there? Now, watch it; I'm going to take my hand off. Now, put your other hand on; not there any more. See, not there now. Now, put that hand on. Because He told me your right hand, that's your pledge of faith that I told you the truth. It's my left hand, next to my heart to God, see. That's why it come out. See it? Now, you want me to tell what your trouble is? I don't know, but just a moment. Just relax and don't think, see. If you... If I think myself, then it's wrong. I just don't think; I just wait. Female trouble, ladies' trouble; if that's right, raise up that hand. See, that's discernment in another way, see. Healing is in gifts.

60 How many ever seen that happen, that we had in other meetings? I'm sure.
Now, you be the judge. Come here, so it'll encourage you. Now, you watch. I will lay my hand right there. So you see it's not positionally the way I hold my hand, see. It's just the same, isn't it. Now, take your hand off (see) gone. Now, look at. Now, take the other hand and lay it just exactly the way that was. Not a thing. That's His promise. There it comes, watch it. See it? Now, that arm feels just like it's numb, see. What is it? There's a disease. And right now is the anointing of the Holy Spirit. That's the reason I never try to use my own thoughts. Let Him speak it. He knows what it is. It's a gift. I brought myself right back in again. Shows it again, shows it physically. It takes an effect.

61 That's the reason that ministers... You ministering brother are to lay your hands on the sick. You're anointed, and you're supposed to lay your hands on the sick. That confirms the Bible to make it right. See, you're supposed to lay hands on the sick.
Let's see if they ... look here. Can you see my hands in the audience? Now watch here. Take the lady's other hand. Now, watch. Put this one on there. Watch it there. Now, look. See, there it is. Swells up, turns red, little vibrations, just feels like it was "phhhhht" [Brother Branham illustrates.] Just like that.
Then when I... That don't mean anything. I just relax myself, don't think about it, then something will speak right this what it is. It never fails. It's the truth.

62 How many ever read my book, my life's story? Now, didn't He say that? And many of you remember, that was the only thing I had for a long... But He told me way back, years before. When He told me that night, said... Then it would come to pass if you be sincere, you'll tell the people the very secrets of their heart. Said, "As Moses was given two gifts---one to turn a stick into a serpent, and the other to heal his hand of leprosy---you've been given two gifts." And there it is.
Now, let me have your hand, just so... We had her here. I want you to watch. I don't say I can make it go. I don't know. But if we will believe, if we will believe with all our heart, it will go. Now, you watch. Don't you close your eyes, you just watch my hand.

63 Lord Jesus, not for a show, but that the people might know that they not be afraid, and know that your words are perfect, that Your commission. "These signs shall follow them that believe: If they lay their hands on the sick." Many's wondered, "How could it be by laying hands on the sick would have anything to do with it." But it's the commission. An anointed servant of God might not be able to discern the spirit every time, or the sickness, but he's still anointed to do it just the same when Your name is called. That makes disease depart.
The woman's watching my hand, Father. And I pray that You'll make it manifest into her eyes, and she's knowing that my hand is holding as still as I can. Now, let the name of Jesus Christ be magnified. May the power of the devil that's holding my sister... It's written in the Scriptures, "In my name they shall cast out devils." By the commission of the Holy Spirit, ministered to me by an Angel, Satan, leave the woman in the name of Jesus Christ.

64 Now, it's gone. I've never looked at it, but it's gone. Is that right? Is that right, sir? Look. You look at that. Something happened. You know it did. Now, go on your road, and rejoice, and be happy. You're healed.
And if you'll believe the arthritis you had has left you also while you were standing there, go on your road and rejoice.
And your back trouble you had: Do you believe it's healed? Just go on your road and rejoice, and say, "Thank You, Lord Jesus."
Go eat. Nervousness, the stomach trouble's left you. So go and rejoice and say, "Thank You."
Your back's healed, and God makes you well. Go rejoicing, say "Thank You, dear God."
You had back trouble also, nervous, and upset, and a little lady's female trouble. Go on your road and rejoice. You're healed. Jesus Christ makes you well.

65 Do you believe? The little lady sitting right there with lung trouble, do you believe that God will heal you, lady, looking right at me?
The man right behind you has got leg trouble. Do you believe God will heal you, your legs, sir?
Raise up your hand, little lady, if you want to accept your healing.
All right. The man right behind him sitting with high blood pressure. Do you believe that God will heal you, sir? Raise up your hand. Amen.
How many in here believes that God will heal them? Do you believe that the Holy Ghost is here? Are you afraid of it? If you're not afraid of it, stand up on your feet and receive it. In the name of Jesus Christ, raise up your hands and praise Him. Don't be ashamed of Him.

66 Lord God, Creator of the heavens and earth, send Thy Holy Spirit at this minute. I charge the devil and all the powers of sickness to depart from this congregation. Leave them in the name of Jesus Christ. Come out, Satan.
Every sick person. There's a lady on her feet off the stretcher. Everything that I see in wheelchairs, or anywhere else is up on their feet glorifying God. Raise up and praise God and be made well.
Doctor Sullivan...

It is I, be not afraid

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1 Gracious heavenly Father, we thank You, Lord, for Jesus, Thy Son, who came to the earth and was made sin, taking our place, and dying at the cross, that we through his righteousness might be justified by our faith in his work. We thank you for this, that we have this privilege in the hours when there's no hope in nothing else. All hopes of national security are ... all hopes of home life is broken, the nation honeycombed, nations against nations, kingdoms against kingdoms, nature itself crying out the end is at hand---earthquakes in divers places, tidal waves, sea roaring. We're so glad that there is a rock that's higher than I, a refuge in a time of storm. We thank Thee for this. We would ask, Father, that He would continue to be with us as we journey on.
Make it a special occasion tonight, Father.

2 We've given out many prayer cards this afternoon that these people are to be prayed for that's sick. May there not be a feeble person in our midst when the service is over. May every sinner---when our Brother David makes the altar call, as usual at night---we pray, Father, that sinners, every man or woman that's in here that isn't a Christian, may they accept Thee as their personal Saviour. May backsliders come home to God, realizing that the hour is at hand. We ask this in Jesus' name. Amen. You may be seated. Thank you.
This has been an unusual day for me. I've had the grand privilege today to visit The Abundant Life and The Faith Digest Foundations, Oh, how fortunate you people here are to have such in your city! How that God has took boys that used to stand on the corner here at Sand Springs with the accordion, the two together, and have a street meeting; and today has the world in their hands, almost, with this great gospel. How I thank God from the depths of my heart that He ever sent those men. May the Lord continue to bless Brother Oral Roberts and Brother Tommy Osborn. Now, it always thrills my heart to see the Lord helping His people doing something that's a benefit.

3 I find some handkerchiefs laying here and letters. Now, we believe in that, praying over those cloths. Now, I've been reading some that said, "Would you anoint this handkerchief, Brother Branham?" Well, anointing a handkerchief is perfectly all right, and we believe that anything that God will bless, we're right for it; but if you notice in the Scriptures, they wasn't anointed. They taken from the body of Paul handkerchiefs and aprons.
I believe Paul was a fundamentalist, don't you? So, I think where he got that was in the story of the Shunammite's baby being raised, or little boy raised from the dead. Remember he told Gehazi take this staff and go lay it on the baby? He knowed that everything that he touched was blessed. But the Shunammite woman's faith wasn't in the staff. It was in the prophet, for she stayed with him until he went and laid his own body across the baby and it come to life.

4 Now we have a great ministry of this. Not a great ministry like the brethren here have, of course. I was noticing ... when I come home I looked at Billy. I said, "You know, my office is going to look pretty little from now on." I got two typewriters sitting in the end of a trailer. You can say they're mine. But I said, "It's going to look pretty small from this on." But how ... in there we pray over handkerchiefs, little pieces of cloth, and send them out all over the world everywhere, and the Lord blesses our feeble efforts to help the people.
And now, if you do not get one in the meeting and you'd want one, well, I'd be glad to send it to you. Just write me, and I have... I'm ... do good to get enough to pay for what we have working---a couple there at the desk---so we may be a little late answering it; but we'll do everything we can to get it right to you, without cost. So you send if you wish it.

5 Now, Brother DuPlessis is the speaker, and he usually speaks each night. And when I come in, it'd be good just to start the prayer line. Now, today we have decided ... I told my son to come over and give out a group of prayer cards, that we might pray for the sick tonight by bringing them through the prayer line and praying for them. Each night we have depended on the Holy Spirit to move out, now, and to call the people, and let you know His presence is here.
Now, I do not believe that there's any person on earth that can heal you---that is even to a doctor. Healing belongs to God alone. "I'm the Lord who heals all thy diseases." Now, we thank God for our doctors and our hospitals, and we by no means try to condemn them. But there's no medicine that will heal your body. Just remember that. There's not a medicine ever invented or never will be, that'll heal. You give it to one, it'll help him; give it to the other, and it'll kill him. So there's no healing.

6 For instance, if I cut my hand, there's not a medicine in the world to heal my hand, now---a common knife cut. If it'd heal a knife cut in my hand, it would heal a knife cut in my coat, it would heal a knife cut on this desk. Then you might say, "Brother Branham, medicine wasn't made to heal your coat. It was made to heal your body." All right, if I would cut my hand and would fall dead, and they'd take me out to the undertaker's establishment and embalm my body with a fluid that would make me look natural for fifty years, every day the best doctors in the world could come, they'd sew that up, give me a shot of penicillin, put salves and so forth on it, in fifty years from now the cut would look just like it was when I cut it.
"Why," you say, "certainly. The life's gone out of you." Then which is the healer---the medicine or life? Life is the healer, see. Medicine cannot build tissue.

7 If I was cranking my car and I broke my arm, first thing I would do is say, "Doctor [go in and say], set my arm." What if I went in and say, "Heal my arm, Doctor, I want to finish cranking my car."
He'd say, "Why, you need mental healing, boy," and he would be right, because he could not heal my arm.
"Why," I'd say, "aren't you a healer?"
He'd say "Certainly not." He'd say, "I'll set your arm, put it in place, but God has to heal it." That's right. God is the only healer there is.
I've been interviewed at Mayo Brothers and many great clinics, and I've never had one yet to tell me they were healers. They ... and the old Mayo where they taken me and showed me that big sign that he had said, "We do not profess to be healers. We only profess to assist nature. There's one healer: that is God." That's true.
I made that statement one time, and someone after the service caught me and said, "What about penicillin, Brother Branham? Kills the cold germs."
"Well," I said, "Penicillin is just like you had a house full of rats eating holes everywhere, and you put out some rat poison and poisoned the rats. That don't patch the hole; that just kills the rats. That's right. That's what penicillin or any other drug does. It just ... sometimes antibiotics and so forth kills the germ, but God has to heal it. That's right. It's ... all healing belongs to God. So you just be kind to God, believe God, God will take care of the rest. That's right.

8 So we pray for the sick, we do not heal the sick. I've seen tens of thousands of cases healed---definitely healed, four with records of raising from the dead---in my own little ministry, but I have never healed anyone yet. It's their faith in a finished work that Christ did at Calvary. "He was wounded for our transgressions, with his stripes we were healed." And now it's your faith in that finished work that does the work. That's the way it is.
You confess it, and He's the high priest of our confession. He cannot do anything to you until first you profess that you accept it. You confess what He said: "By His stripes I was healed." Then He's a high priest to make intercession upon our confession. And if that ain't the gospel, I don't know it and I've been wrong. But I've seen Him do it too much.

9 A certain ... a minister said to me some time ago, said, "I don't care if a shadow of a man with cancer'd raise up perfectly normal, I don't care what you'd say, I don't believe it."
I said, "Certainly not. It wasn't for unbelievers. It was just for believers. That's all it was meant for." Unbelievers will never see it, see. It wasn't meant for unbelievers. It was meant for believers. "He that believeth, all things are possible."
So we have ... America is full of Jewish believers. The Jewish people had a custom of laying on of hands. That never was to the Gentile church. No, sir, it was for Jews alone. If you notice, there was a priest said to Jairus, said ... Jairus said to Jesus, "Come lay your hands on my daughter and she'll live." She was very sick. "Lay your hands on her."
But to ... the Roman, a Gentile, he said, "I'm not worthy that you come under my roof. Just speak the word, and my servant will live." See the difference?

10 In Africa, we brought a prayer line up, and about three or four people had passed over the prayer line (at Durban, South Africa, which Brother DuPlessis is from), and they estimated thirty thousand converts in a few moments after that. Thirty thousand people received Jesus Christ as personal Saviour; and thousands, Brother Bosworth estimated (old Daddy Bosworth, oh, nearly all of you knowed him), I forget how many thousand he estimated, of cripples and lames and blind and halt left their canes and crutches and cots lay right on the ground, and walked away because they believed it. They'd seen something real and they believed it. But somehow, and here at home, we want hands laid on the people. That's according to your faith be it unto you. So we're always glad to pray for the sick. But the real way for us to receive it is to know that faith cometh by hearing, hearing of the Word.

11 Now if you're keeping record of the little talks, just for about fifteen minutes I'd like to have just a little drama tonight to kind of feel around in the meeting; and I want to read from St. Matthew's gospel, the fourteenth chapter and the twenty-seventh verse.
And straightway Jesus spake unto them, saying, Be of good cheer; it is I; be not afraid.
How I like that scripture!

12 It must have been about sundown, to the best that I can imagine, when the big brawny-backed fisherman pushed the little boat out into the lake, climbed aboard himself, and up through the seats and found his place by the side of his brother Andrew, and sat down. As each one took the oar and began to pull, the little boat, on a smooth lake, sailed quickly out into the lake. After the last one had waved good-bye from the shore, waving good-bye to them as they were crossing over the lake, and they'd got out far enough to where they could not see or wave anymore, it must have been the young John who stopped a minute, and took his hand to wipe the perspiration from his brow, said, "Brethren, when I was just a little boy, I can remember how mother used to take me up in her arms and read the Holy Scriptures to me, how she used to read and tell me that when our people come to this fair land---coming up out of Egypt where they had been in bondage for four hundred years---that the great Jehovah God rained bread out of heaven and fed our people for forty years in the wilderness.
"And I can remember of how I used to say, 'Mama, did angels bake that bread and send it down to our people?'
"She'd say to me, 'Little Johnny, I don't believe that angels baked that bread. I believe that God, the great creator of heavens and earth, just spoke the Word and created that bread that fed our people.'

13 And now, brethren, what opinion did you have this afternoon when you seen him take those five little biscuits and two fishes, and feed five thousand? Surely we're not following a faker as people says that we are. That man has some connection with Jehovah God, because He could create bread right in his own hands. I do not believe," he might have said, "that that man is a false prophet. I believe that we're following the Son of Jehovah God."
"Well," said Simon, the big fisherman, "truly just right over yonder, where Dad and I used to fish years ago, he said to me one day, 'I'm getting old, Simon. I've tried to serve God all my life, and have lived just as honest as I knowed how. And I have raised you, my boy, to believe this same God. But it seems like maybe that I won't see the promised One. But you're a young lad yet, you may see him. And now, Son, before I go away I want to instill this in your heart.'"

14 Peter might have said that his father was talking, saying, "Son, don't never get away from the Scriptures for anything that happens. Stay with the Word. Now Moses, the prophet, told us that the Lord our God would raise up a prophet among us someday among our people, and this man would be the Messiah. He's to be a man, just a common man, raised up among us. But how you'll know him, Son, he'll be a prophet, and you'll remember that that is the oncoming Messiah. Long has been the day since this land had a prophet."
"And then when Andrew came that day and told me some of those stories about this Jesus of Nazareth, I doubted it, brethren. In my heart I really doubted it, and I said, 'Andrew, you're daydreaming. Get next to yourself.' And I treated him pretty rough. But one day he persuaded me to go, and when I come up beside the man, I noticed there was nothing unusual about Him. But He turned and looked at me, and said, 'Your name is Simon, and your father was Jonas.' Not only did He know me, but He knowed that godly old father of mine. That settled it with me, brethren. I believed right then, before I ever seen Him break any bread and bless it. I believed that that was the Messiah, for my father had read it to me out of the Scriptures, and I know the Scriptures don't lie. So I was satisfied that that was the Messiah."

15 It must have been about that time that Philip might have said, "But, brethren, you should have seen Nathanael's face, Brother Nathanael, sitting there in the head of the boat. You should have seen his face that day when... We'd been discoursing one with the other, and when I brought him up in the presence of Jesus... And I told him about things was happening, but he said, 'Aw, that's just something that you're imagining.' But when he come in the presence of Jesus, He said to him that ... what he was, that he was a honest man. A good man, and it astonished Brother Nathanael. But when He told him where he was before he came to the meeting, Nathanael was convinced that that was the Son of God."

16 Then big Andrew, putting his arm around Simon, might have said something like this, "But how did we all feel when He sent us into the city to buy some bread, and when we come back we heard Him talking to someone, and we slipped up close to listen to what it was. And there was a woman marked with ill-fame standing talking to Him at the gate of Samaria, at the well. And we heard Him ask her to go get her husband, and we looked around to each other. And she said, 'I have no husband.' We thought right then there was a slip somewhere. 'I have no husband.'
"But He looked her straight in the face and said, 'You have said well, for you have had five husbands, and the one that you're now living with is not your husband.'

17 "Brethren, did you notice the look on that woman's face? Quickly she turned and said, 'Sir, you must be a prophet. We know the Messiah will come, and he'll tell us these things.'
"And then He gave that all-sufficient, satisfying consolation to that woman, and said, 'I'm he that speaks to you.'
"Did you notice her looks when she turned with that peaceful look in her face---running into the city, screaming from both sides, 'Come see a man who told me the things that I've done! Isn't this the Messiah that we're looking for? Is not this the prophet that Moses said would rise up in the last days, would be one among us? He's out there at the well now, a man who told me the things that I have done.' And did you notice, brethren, when those Samaritans come from the city, they never asked Him to repeat that one time. They were satisfied that that was the person, and they knowed it."

18 The little boat, as it dashed on across the lake, it must have been about that time that Satan must have raised up and said, "Oh, I've caught them alone without him. Now's my time to settle the score with them. For they've been casting out my demons, and so forth, so I'll settle the score." That's when Satan can settle the score, when he finds that you've gone off without Jesus. That's when Satan will get the church. When you get so interested in something else besides prayer meetings, when you get so interested that you're supposed to have a natural growth instead of a spiritual growth, then remember, Satan's on his road. He's caught you without Him.

19 O God, is my prayer, wake up the church again to old-fashioned, all-night prayer meetings, wake the people up to a spiritual atmosphere. Oh, it takes that to bring children into the kingdom. It takes the atmosphere right. This night, while we're sitting here, if this right atmosphere would take place, this entire group would be refilled with the Holy Ghost, every sick person would be made well. It's the atmosphere that does it. You can take a hen egg and put it in a incubator, and keep the atmosphere right, it'll hatch out a chicken, not an incubator, see. Because that it's the atmosphere that counts. Put a chicken egg under a dog; it'll hatch a chicken. It's the atmosphere. And that's what it takes in the church today. Not so much starchy creeds and theology, but the Spirit of the living God pouring out upon His people to bring a spiritual atmosphere. Not one saying, "I believe it's this," and another, "I believe it's that." It's hard for the Holy Spirit to work.

20 Do you know, when the Holy Spirit first came, it was on the day of Pentecost, when they were all in one place and one accord; and then there came from heaven a sound like a rushing mighty wind. They had to get the atmosphere right. That's what we need today, brethren. We're way behind. The church ought to be a million miles up the road. When we take like what happened over there in Africa the other day, when our precious brother, Billy Graham... When that Hindu come out there and made a challenge like that against the Word of the living God, it shows we need another atmosphere. Instead of theology, we need the power of the Holy Spirit among us, men who's willing to stand on what God said to be the truth. It's atmosphere that we need. I ... maybe in this great day of prosperity, that we've been so interested in prosperity till we've left off the main thing. Maybe we've gone off on some kind of a tantrum without Him. We mustn't do that. It's atmosphere. It's a place that we want Christ.

21 Now, He didn't go very far from them. He ... but when He knowed they would need him... I believe that He knows tonight that we need Him. We know today that we need Him. I need Him, you need Him, we all need Him. I need more of Him, you need more of Him. That's one thing that I can't get satisfied with ---enough of God. Oh, as much as we can let ourselves go, then God can come in; but we've got to get ourselves out of the way, our own ideas. Let the Holy Spirit come in and show us things to come. He said He would do it, and bring things to our remembrance.

22 Now, Jesus knowing that them disciples were going to get in trouble, He climbed the highest hill He could climb---way up on top of the mountain---so he could see all across the lake, for He knew somewhere in there that they'd get in trouble, as soon as they got out of His sight, or out of His presence. He knew that Satan would be after them and He climbed the highest mountain so He could look all across the ocean and see them until they got to the end of the journey,
Not only did He do that for them, but has climbed the highest mountain could be climbed. He climbed Mount Calvary, and from there on up, in above the moon and stars, all up into heaven, so He could see from eternity to eternity; for He knowed His church would be in need, and He ... His eye is on the sparrow. And I know He's watching this meeting tonight, trying to find somebody that's got faith, that'll believe Him; and not doubt and push around, and make all kinds of [unclear] things, but will believe God's simplicity in His Word, that what He said to be true.

23 He climbed to the ramparts of glory, went on in above the moon and stars in His resurrection. The prophet said when He got so high up there, that maybe Him and the Old Testament saints on the road up, why, I can see the angels looking over the gates. And they screamed out in there, the New and Old Testament saints, said, "Lift up ye everlasting gates, and be ye lifted up, and let the King of glory come in."
And the angels beyond the gates said, "Who is this King of glory that's coming in?
"The Lord of hosts, mighty in battle." And they pressed the button. The big gates flew open, and Jesus and the Old Testament saints marched down that street, conquerors. Oh, my, up to the throne of God, and said, "Here they are, Father."
"Stand on my right hand until I make all the enemies your footstool." And today, He sits over in power and glory, watching over it.
Just like the old eagle.

24 I was riding on top of the cliffs one day, searching out cattle, and I noticed a storm coming. And an old mother eagle had taken her little ones down into the valley, and they were down there just having a Pentecostal jubilee, turning over one another. First time they'd ever been out of the old sticky nest, and they were down there playing around like little children. And that old mother eagle flew all the way back up to a big high rock, and she folded those big wings---some of them fourteen feet across---and she watched down through there at them little babies. A coyote better not come towards one. She was watching over it. She was standing up there, and them big sharp eyes could see miles and miles. The sharpest eye there is, is an eagle watching down. Why, he can... If a hawk tried to follow him, he'd disintegrate in the air. So the eagle is a special built bird, and it's got to have a special built eye that he can see where he's at. God is Jehovah-eagle and He sits on the throne of glory, watching His children---just free, having a good time.

25 And after awhile there was a storm started up, and that old mother eagle come off of that rock, flew down through there and let out a scream. All of those little eagles grabbed ahold of her wings with their feet, got their little bill and hooked it in a good tight feather. She raised with them big wings, bucking that storm, went right straight to the hole in the rock. I tied up my horse and run around and around the tree, shouting as loud as I could. I said, "Oh, His eye is on the sparrow, and I know He watches me." Someday He'll spread forth His big wings and come down. I want to catch ahold of that old rugged cross and hold to that until the Holy Spirit pulls me out of this chaos that we're in today. If you're sick tonight, take ahold of God's promise of the cross on the resurrection. Hold there until He takes you out.

26 There he was, all hopes was gone. Maybe you are tonight. Maybe the doctor says you can't live no longer. Maybe you think you've crossed the separating line, you can't be saved. That's wrong. As long as you got enough God about you to come here to this church tonight, there's hopes for you to be saved, as long as the Spirit of God's dealing with you. And as long as you got enough faith to come here to be prayed for, to come under the atmosphere of the living God, under His protection and His wings, if you'll just use that faith and hold on to the promise of God, you'll get well. God promised it. It's what God says.

27 There ... and I guess the storm flashing, and the lightning across the skies, and the big waves when the devil was blowing his poison out of his mouth like that, and bringing the waves all the way from the bottom of the lake, ten thousand devils setting clean around... "We'll get them in a few minutes! Just a little while, we'll get them!" So has he blowed his poison breath to upset many a church, many a great congregation, many people, a fine American---trying to blow his poison into them, and say, "The days of miracles is past. There's no such a thing as the baptism of the Holy Ghost." That's all he knows! That's all they know! I tell you, Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever! He's the same.
When the great waves was going, pretty near all hopes that they'd ever be saved, they happened to look and they seen Him come walking on the water.

28 But the sad part of it was, friends, they were afraid. They thought it was spooks. And that's the same thing that's happened to the church today. They're scared of the only hope that can save them, the only hope that can help them. They're afraid. I believe if Jesus could come to this meeting tonight and appear in a physical form, in a body, He would say the same thing that He said there: "Be not afraid, it is I. Be of a good cheer."
I believe that He's here now. I believe that His Holy Spirit is here, because it does the same things that He done. It produces the same kind of fruit that He produced. Don't be suspicious anymore, you only hinder the other believers. Get in one accord. Say, "God, we thank You for sending the Holy Ghost to us, and we believe it. And it's You, and we accept You. We don't think it's spiritualism, or some spook. We believe it's You, Lord, because the Scripture said so, and You promised it, and we're here to receive it."

29 And when we pray for you tonight, when not only I pray for you but these group of ministers here, these here all around the place, we're not just one praying; we're all praying. If I was sick out there, coming into this line, I'd want you to pray for me, every one of you. And I'd certainly, if I had my baby out there, if I had my wife coming in that prayer line, I'd want every one of you to be dead sincere about it. If you were standing here to pray for my father or my mother, or my sister or brother, or loved one, I'd want you to be sincere, brother. And I want to be sincere, too.
And I'm not telling you anything but what's Scripture.

30 Christ has already healed every one of you. You've been healed for nineteen hundred years, since He was wounded for our transgressions, with His stripes we were healed. And if He was standing here tonight in a corporal body... That body is sitting at the right hand of God Almighty. When it comes back, time shall be no more. There'll be a rapture, and the church will go up to meet Him, and be with Him. We'll meet the Lord in the air when He comes back. His coming will be as the lightning shineth from the east even unto the west, so shall His coming be, and every eye shall see Him, every knee shall bow, and every tongue shall confess Him. But His Holy Spirit is here.
Since the days of Luther they lived under justification. The days of Wesley they come a little higher. The church become in the minority under sanctification. Then come the Pentecostal move, which was the baptism of the Holy Ghost, or the restoration of the gifts. Now we're going just in above that to the capstone. The church has got to be like ... the Spirit in the church, and the Spirit that's in Him, has to be the same.

31 When God confirmed the covenant with Abraham, did you notice what he did? Killed those animals and put the doves, and so forth, in there, and they made a covenant? What is a covenant? In America we say, "Let's make a covenant."
"All right."
We'll have a little lunch, we'll shake hands and say we'll agree. That's a covenant. Over in Japan, when they make a covenant they throw salt on one another. That's a covenant.
In the Orient, in the time of Abraham, when they made a covenant they killed a beast like Abraham did---divide the ram, and so forth, and the she-goat, or whatever he divided there, three animals and laid them apart. And then they wrote out their covenant on a piece of paper, stood in between these two, and made a vow one to another if they broke this covenant, let their bodies be like that dead animal. And they tore the covenant apart, like this. One took one piece of paper, one the other. To confirm this covenant both pieces had to come and dovetail the same. You couldn't copy it if you had to. There'd be no way of doing it. You had to be the same thing.

32 That's what God did at Calvary. God was showing Abraham that through his son Isaac would come Jesus. And God took Jesus to Calvary, and there He tore Him apart. And He raised the body up and set it on His right hand, and sent the same Spirit that was on Him down on the church. And at the resurrection, the Spirit that was in Christ will have to be in the church, or it's not the covenant. I hope you see it, brother, sister. The Spirit that was in Him has to be in you---that's His covenant, the same Spirit. "He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also."

33 He's here tonight."
Let us bow our heads. Would there be in our midst tonight a man, woman, or boy, or girl that doesn't know Him in the pardoning of their sins? If they'd like to be remembered in this prayer that "God be merciful to me, and make me a vessel that You could work through," before you've seen the Holy Spirit do one thing---would you just raise up your hand and say, "Pray for me, Brother Branham, I want to accept Christ." God bless you, sir, that's a real... Up in the balcony around to my right? God bless you. That's fine. Several in the balconies to the front. All right. Balconies to the left, raise your hand now if you're not a Christian. I'm just going to ask you. God bless you, God bless you, boys. Down here under the left on the balcony, God bless you, see your hand. Of course God sees you, surely. He knows all about you. All right.

34 Heavenly Father, they raised their hands. I believe they're sincere, Lord. We realize that there's not much time left. Jesus is coming. And we see the last sign that He gave the church. It's where He declared himself to be the Messiah. Here He is today, with His same Spirit in His church among His people, healing the sick, foretelling things that will come to pass, telling things that has been, making known the secret of the heart. Jesus perceived their thoughts. And now, Father, we see that that same thing has come again into the church. Surely Your coming is near. Help these people who raised their hands, that they might receive You tonight as their own personal Saviour, and be saved from sin and be filled with the Holy Spirit, that they might live the life of real devout Christians. Grant it, Father. We ask it in Jesus' name. Amen.

35 Thank you for that twenty minutes. And now, you that raised your hands, when the altar call is made tonight by Brother DuPlessis, I want you to come up here. If you meant that when you raised your hand, and you really meant that from your heart, do you know that God took you at your word right then? Do you know you broke every scientific rule could be broken when you raised your hand? You say, "Brother Branham, did that do anything?" Yes, sir. Jesus said, "He that heareth my words and believeth on him that sent me, has eternal life, and shall never come into condemnation, but has passed from death unto life." Jesus said that, St. John 5:24.
Now, when you raised your hand, say, "What did that do to it? Why, according to scientific rules, gravitation holds your hands down. You cannot raise your hands, but there was a spirit in you, a life, that had power over you, a spirit by you that witnessed that you're wrong. And you wanted to be right. You raised your hand toward your Maker. Science says according to ... if there wasn't a spirit in you, your hand would have to hang down. But there was a spirit in you that made a decision and raised your hand. God saw that. If you really meant that, your name was put on the Lamb's book of life. That's exactly the truth, brethren, if you really believe. Now, as many as believed was added to the church.
Now after we pray for this prayer line, I want you to come up here, stand up here. And let us ... let ... publicly testify. If you will bear witness of Him, or testify of Him before men, "I will testify of you before my Father. But if you're ashamed of me before men, I'll be ashamed of you before my Father and the holy angels." That's what Jesus said. So you come tonight immediately after this.

36 Now, how many in here that's gone away from God, that doesn't know God, and gone back on your promise to God? Now, I believe that as far as grace is concerned, you're still under grace, but you would like to come back to God. And you say, "If the Holy Spirit will come into the meeting tonight, and do just as you have said that He did back there, that they recognized Him, I want to come back to God and ask Him to fill my life anew, and send me out for a witness of Him while it's day." You won't have no other time after this life is over to ever witness for Christ. You must do it now. Would you raise your hand, say, "Pray for me." If I don't see your hand... God bless you, sir. If I don't see your hand, God surely does. All right. God bless you. I pray that God will grant it to each one of you.

37 What was that prayer card? F? Prayer card F. How many did they give? Fifty. My son said... I believe that him and Gene gave out fifty cards this afternoon of F. Prayer card F 1 to 50. Now we're going to try to pray for all that group tonight. Now, we don't want ... you don't want to rush like an arena. You just want to be real reverent. Sit still until your number is called.
Who has F? F like in father. F number 1, would you raise up your hand? Come right over here, sister. Stand right back in here, come right around the curtain there. F number 2, would you raise up your hand? [Gap in the audio].
They believe it. It's not always we get the perfect faith on the platform. We don't do that each time. All right, 26. What's that? Who has 26? Prayer card 26, was that right? 23? 24, who has prayer card 24 then? Which was it, David? Well, 22. Who has prayer card 23 then, 23? Now if you got 23, lady, come around here. 24. Who has 23? You, lady? 23? All right, 24, 25. So we don't, see, we don't get them all crowded up together, and it doesn't get the people excited. You want to come to this reverently, quietly, knowing what you're doing. You're coming as to a living stone, Christ Jesus. 23, 24, 25? 25, 26? 26, down there. 27, 27. All right. I believe maybe they could go around this other way just as well maybe. 27, 28. Who has prayer card 28? 28? All right. You're all right. Come around there then. 28, 28. All right, 28. Can the woman walk? She can walk? All right, that's okay. If she could not, we'll bring someone to help bring her up. 28, 29. Prayer card 29. All right, young lady. 30, 30, 31. Who has 31?

38 I have witnessed to you something that's the greatest that could be witnessed: that Christ lives. Think of that. What does it mean to your soul? Do you know, there's many different religions, hundreds of them in the world, that would deny that? Buddhist, Mohammedans, and so forth. I suppose Brother Roberts, and maybe Brother Tommy Osborn too, is present, which are missionaries from the foreign fields. They can tell you right now that they'll stand right up and tell you that their religion's got as much psychology as ours has got, and it ... you better know what you're talking about when you talk to them. They are not afraid. And, now, but our religion is the only religion there is---Christian religion---that can prove that their founder is living, after two thousand years, see. Because His life lives in His church. That's what He promised.

39 Now, then when I stand here with this, making this assertion that I do, do you realize what that means? There's at least a thousand people here tonight. I'd say easy a thousand people. And I've had that where there would be forty, yeah, a hundred and fifty, two hundred thousand people at one time, all mixed up and every way. He hasn't failed yet, and He won't fail, because He's God and He can't fail. So you have to be sure that you know what you're speaking about. Now, how you people out there that does not have prayer cards and wants to be prayed for... Now this line here is not a line... [Gap in the audio]
I just couldn't do that. It would kill me. How many knows that when Daniel saw one vision he was troubled at his head for many days? Raise your hands. All right.

40 How many knows that a woman touched the border of Jesus' garment? And she touched Him, and He turned around and said, "Who touched me?" And everybody denied it. He looked out in the audience until He found the woman, and He said, "Thy faith has saved thee," told her of her blood issue had stopped because her faith, she touched Him.
Now, He did not feel that physical touch, because there was a lot of people touching Him. Peter rebuked Him, said, "Well, everybody's touching you. Why do you say such a thing as that? Everybody is touching you. Don't say that," and he rebuked Him.
But He said, "I perceive that I have [what?] virtue has gone from me." How many knows that virtue is strength? Sure. He got weak. Now, if one woman touching the Son of God made Him get weak, how could I stand it, a sinner saved by grace? Because He said, "These things that I do, shall you do also, and more than this shall you do." I know the King James says greater but the real translation of it, if you look it up, is "more than this shall you do," see, because the church would be universal and stand more. Now, but you couldn't do no greater. He healed the sick and raised the dead, stopped nature, and done everything that could be done.
You couldn't do any more in quality, but more in quantity, because His Spirit would come and be with the church. Right tonight, while this is going on here, in Africa it could be going on, in Australia it can be going on, everywhere.

41 But when God was here on earth in a human form, Jesus Christ was God made flesh and dwelling among us. Now, all the fullness of the Godhead bodily was in Him. He was God made manifest. No man has seen the Father at any time, but the only begotten of the Father has expressed Him. God was expressing Himself, what He was, through His Son, Jesus.
God overshadowed the virgin Mary, created a blood cell in the womb. And anyone knows that life comes from the male sex. Is that right? A hen can lay an egg, but if she hasn't been with the male bird, it will not hatch. No, sir, because it hasn't got the life in it. Life comes from the male. And then in this case, God was the male, and there was no sexual affair with it at all. God the creator created the blood cell. He wasn't either Jew nor Gentile. He was God. That's right, the blood of Jehovah God. Created Himself a blood to sanctify His people. And then, in that dwelt the fullness of the Godhead bodily. He had the Spirit without measure. We have it by measure.

42 Now, if I went to the ocean and took, like this little gift that He gives me, if I went to the ocean and took a spoonful out of the ocean, that's about in comparison. This little gift here is just like a spoonful of water out of the ocean, and his was the whole ocean. But, did you know, if you examine that little spot that you got in you, and that little spot I got in me, the same chemicals is in that spoonful that's in the whole ocean. Sure. It's the same thing, not as much of it. We have the Spirit by measure. God poured it out to us by measure. But He poured it out on Him without measure. So, the works that He did ... His church, He separated and divided Himself among His people, that His work could continue through His church. If that's not love...
No wonder people go crazy... This famous song of "O Love of God, how rich and pure." They tell me that that verse, last verse---or first verse, rather, I believe, or last one---was found penned on a wall of an insane institution. No one could ever figure with a pen, or no way, to try to express the love of God. "God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, whosoever believeth in Him should not perish but have eternal life." What a invitation that Jehovah God gave to His people!

43 Friends, we should be ashamed not serving Him. Now, you understand it? This, I said, is a spoonful.
Now, He is here, present, now, in this meeting. Christ is here. Do you believe that? Now, since you might know, has anybody in the meeting here that's never been in one of my meetings before, raise up your hand, that's never been. Oh, my. Half the crowd---over half. [More than that each time?] Now, I just can't take the time. This ... here, all you out there that believes in God that hasn't got a prayer card, let the discernment be out there. Do you believe you have faith enough to touch His garment? Do you believe it? Do you believe you have faith? If you believe it, all right, you can have it.
Now, if Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever, do you believe that? Emphatically believe that? Well, is He a high priest that's sitting at the right hand of God now, and can make intercessions on our confession, and He's a high priest that could be touched by the feeling of our infirmities? Do you believe that? You newcomers believe that? Well, then, how would that high priest act if you touched Him tonight? If He's the same yesterday, today, and forever, He'd act the same as He did then. And that woman touched His garment, He seen who she was, and called her, and told her about what she had. Is that right? And pronounced that her faith had healed her.

44 Now, do you believe the same thing? You pray, you pray. Here's a challenge. Let the discernment be out there.
These are just people standing in the prayer line. Now, if you people standing here in the prayer line can look out there, you won't... You realize that I just ... I can only pray and lay hands on you. Jesus said these signs shall follow them that believe, "If they lay hands on the sick, they shall recover." Not only my hands, but every hand in here, by faith is going to be laid on you for your healing. We're not here to show. We have ... we're not a show-people. We are Christians, We're here to manifest and to give to you God's gospel.
God made the promise, sent the gift. Ministers in here, what is the gifts in the church? God has set in the church first apostles (is that right?) or missionaries, it's the same thing. Both of them means sent, one sent. Apostles, prophets, teachers, evangelists, and pastors, God set them by His own grace and His foreknowledge in the church.

45 Now, in each local church there's nine gifts, such as speaking with tongues, and interpretations of tongues, and all these others, which you're taught for that. Now, that just manifests. Be on one tonight, and another one another night.
But, now, if Christ lives among us, let Him prove to us tonight that He is. Now, you have faith and you believe, and may it be at least two or three, to confirm that I've told the truth. Anywhere in this audience, you go to praying, and saying, "God, let the man speak to me, and I'll know it isn't him."
There's not a person that I can see... All in this prayer line strangers to me, raise up your hand. Every one of you is strangers. All out through the audience here that's strangers, raise up your hands, all that's strangers.

46 Now you pray, and see if the high priest still lives to make intercessions, see if you can still touch Him. You do that. That'll take all suspicion from you. Just pray.
We got the pictures of it here. It's been took the world over---in Germany, in America, and Canada, and everywhere. Scientific, it hangs in the religious hall of art up there, scientifically proved. George J. Lacy, the head of the FBI for fingerprinting documents, said (signed the document hisself), " The light struck the lens." He said, "I used to disbelieve it too, but the camera won't take psychology." It's not psychology.
Here, this lady sitting here with her head down praying, sitting right in front of me. You want to get over them hemorrhoids, don't you? Now, and you got little wens on your head, haven't you? All right, it's finished now. Go home and be well.
Do you believe? This woman sitting right out here at the end, with her hand up to her mouth like this, you want to get over that diabetes and be made well? You believe that Jesus Christ will heal you? All right, then go home and be healed. Jesus Christ will make you well.

47 This man sitting here with high blood pressure, you believe that God will make you well, sir, sitting back there? You believe it? All right, stand up on your feet, this man right here with the red tie on. I don't know you. You're a stranger to me, but go home and be well. Christ makes you well.
Now do you believe, you people here for your first time? Here, which is the first lady? This young lady? Come here just a minute. Stand right there just a minute. Are you and I strangers to one another? God knows us both, and we're strangers. Now, here's a woman---here's my hand that I never seen her in my life, as I know of. So that you'll see that the infallible proof that Christ, the Holy Spirit, is here, see... Now if the Holy Spirit will reveal to me... If I'd say, "Lady, you're sick," well, that's all true. You probably are sick. But if He would say to me ... I'd say ... come lay my hands on you, and I'd say, "God will heal you," I'd lay my hands on you, you got a right to believe that. That's true. That's right. I'd say, "The Holy Spirit is here." That's right. I believe that. But now if He would tell you something that you've done, or something like I talked about Him doing tonight in the Scripture, then you know it would have to be some power, because I don't know you. I never seen you. Would that be right, audience?

48 To you people that's never been in the meeting before, raise your hand if that would be right, you think that would be right.
Now, here's my hand--the lady don't know me, I don't know her. We're just standing here. This is just a picture of St. John 4, when you go home. Jesus and a... met a woman at the well, a Samaritan woman, and told her what was wrong with her. Anybody remember that? We had it in the message tonight. Here it is again, right here tonight, right here, the thing. The Holy Spirit... The woman, I don't know, she might not be a Christian. She might be sick, she might be in financial trouble. I do not know her. I never seen her in my life. But if something speaks to her, then you'll know it's some power. Now it's up to you to believe what it is. It's up to you.
Remember, if you doubt it, then keep it to yourself, because one word against it will never be forgiven, said Jesus, in this world nor the world to come.
I don't know that He'd say it, but if the Lord will, well, you'll know whether that's the truth or not. You'll know. Now, you are a Christian. I'm not saying that because you're standing there saying something with your lips, praying. I'm not saying it that way because it ... you could be saying that and still be just putting it on. But you are a Christian. That's right. Because I know that your spirit feels welcome, and you're aware that something's going on right now--a real sweet, humble feeling. Between you and I stands that light, moving. Now, you want me to pray for you for a growth, and that growth is under your right arm. It's a knot, like. That's right. Do you believe God can tell me who you are? Mrs. Lindsay, you can go home and be made well. Jesus Christ...

49 Do you believe now with all your heart? Now, let's just all be praying, be in a mood of prayer. Come, sister. Now, you're aware that I know what was wrong [unclear words]. You believe God will make you well? God in heaven have mercy and heal the woman. You want me to say what's wrong with you? You want me to do it? It's a ladies' trouble, female trouble. That's right, isn't it? Now just go on your road believing.
Now come. O Lord, I pray that You'll help our dear brother and make him well as I lay hands on him.

50 Come, my brother. Father God, make our brother well, I pray, in Jesus' name. You believe that God will make you well now when we pray? Our Heavenly Father, I pray that You will heal him and make him well, in Jesus' name.
[Gap in the audio] ... telling him what's wrong. The vision doesn't heal you. It's your faith in God that heals you. See, He's still here. He didn't just hit that one and leave.
Here, come here, sir. You believe if God can tell me what your trouble is, that you believe it would be God, would you, sir? Of course, now, what you want me to pray for is that growth on your face. That's what you're wanting for. Now wait just a minute and see if the Holy Spirit would say something else, see. Now just ... of course you see the growth on his face. Just as soon as he stood here I seen that was what he wanted, see, the growth on his face. All right, sir. Yes, sir, that's what you're wanting prayed for, is the growth on your face.

51 You seem to be a nice man. Yes, a minister. That's right. You're not from here, either. You're from another country. It's a wooded country all around. You're from Arkansas, and you... you're praying for somebody in Arkansas. That person has a cancer. You was once healed with a cancer, and the cancer was on your neck, prayed for, and it dropped off. That's right. That's at Jonesboro. That's right. That's "thus saith the Lord." That's true. You believe God can tell me who you are? Reverend Mr. Shepherd, that'll leave your face if you'll believe it. Go and have faith in God and believe with all your heart. God bless you. Have faith for it, that's all, ask God.

52 Just everybody be in prayer now, everybody praying for these sick people. What if it was your mother, and so forth, coming forth? I pray that you'll restore the sight to our brother, and let him be made well in Jesus' name. [unclear words] of God lay hands upon the woman. May she be healed in Jesus' name. [Gap in the audio]
The blinded eyes come open [unclear words]. Let's give God praise, everybody! Bring the little boy on. If you can only believe, all things are possible. You believe if I'd ask... you are, in Jesus' Name... God bless you, friend. Believe now.
Come, mother. God is a great God. Father, in Jesus' Name...
Come believing. How do you do, sister. You believe he will get well if I'll ask? Kind heavenly Father, I pray in Jesus' Name, if you can restore the sight to blind... I pray in Jesus' Name. Amen. Don't doubt... [Gap in the audio]

53 You believe, all of you, with all your heart?
Was she prayed for? That can be... You believe God can tell me something else about you? You believe? Would that make you believe more? Because that's a serious thing, you got to have just a little boost of faith. Do you believe that He can tell me? That growth is what you want prayed for, of course. You have a weakness, and you're all nervous about something. It's about ... yes, you've got a loved one you want prayed for. That was your husband. He was here in the meeting, and he had to leave to go home. That's right. You believe God can tell me who you are? Mrs. Austin. And you can go home and be well. Believe with all your heart. Don't doubt; have faith, believe. Everybody believe now with all your heart.
[Gap in the audio] pray that she'll receive her healing too as she passes through this line. May the curse leave her in Jesus' Name. Amen. All right. Now, believe.
That's right, brother. Go, believing... believing.

54 Come, sister. Just believe with all your heart. Now, our kind Heavenly Father, I pray that you'll bless our sister and make her well in Jesus' name. As you pass through the line, just like you're under the cross, believe that you're passing under the prayers of these people. Father, in Christ's name, may our sister be healed, or you'll die with that cancer. Do you believe that God will make you well? Now, it's a frightful thing, but the darkness has left you. Now it's gone from you now. If you'll believe, the cancer will never kill you. Go on your road. Come, sister. We plead for mercy for her. Amen.
I believe the woman... [Gap in the audio]
Are you... Is this... Excuse me, sir. I thought they was all over. I was coming down to the lady.

55 Sometimes those visions make me weak, and it's just pulling from the audience and everything so much. Do you believe? That's very fine. That's very fine. That's ... your diabetes has bothered you quite a bit. You believe that Christ will heal you of that diabetes? You have a habit you've got to give up too--smoking cigarettes. That's right. And another thing, you need Jesus as your Saviour. It's dark around you. You're not a Christian. Will you accept Him now as your personal Saviour? You accept Him as your Saviour? All right, Mr. Perry--that's your name, Mr. Perry --you're saved now. Christ forgives your sins, heals your sickness. Go on your road and be healed in the name of Jesus Christ.

56 You believe with all your heart? Everybody believe? Now I wonder if them people that raised their hands a few minutes ago, do you believe that God hears prayer? Would you come here and stand right here just a minute? Would you want to make your way right down here, while in the presence of the Holy Spirit, that you'd like to come right down while we sing a song? All you that have need of Christ, would you come right here just a minute, that you want to accept Him as your personal Saviour? Come here in His presence. You'll never be any closer.
I tell you, friends, I hope you don't count me a fanatic. I'm telling you the truth, the Spirit of God is in the meeting now. You know it beyond any shadow of doubt. Now, while we sing a song (what are we going to sing?) " I Love Him," while we sing "I Love Him," from the balconies we'll wait for you. Come down here and stand here just for a little personal prayer if you will, right down here. Come, let the people know that you really believe Him, and you want to accept Him right in His presence now. Come right down and stand here in this pit with me, just a few moments. Will you do it now, while we sing "I Love Him." All right.
I love Him, I love Him
(Will you come right on now,
you that raised your hands.)
Because He first loved me
(Come right out of the balconies.)
And purchased my salvation
On Calvary's tree.

57 Friends, I want to ask you, do you ever think you'll be any closer than you are right now, until you see His visible form? He's here. I'm your brother. I'm just a man as you are, but just being able to submit myself to the Spirit and relax, He does those things. Now I'm real weak as you can see, the perspiration running from my hands [Gap in the audio].
... salvation on Calvary. Won't you come now?
I love Him, I love Him
Because He first loved me
And purchased my salvation
On Calvary's tree.
The Lord who knows the secrets of your heart, to make the blind to see, the deaf to hear, the dumb to speak, His loving presence is here. Won't you come out now, if you are backslidden or away from God, cold in your heart, want a new experience with God, won't you come forward? Or even if you haven't received His Holy Spirit, why don't you move up right now? Come up here.
[Gap in the audio] now I don't know the Scripture. Don't apply the miracles of Revelation 11 in the Gentile age. That's to the Jews, and one of these days God's going to let me go to Jerusalem. That's going to be it. Just remember, if you believe me to be God's servant, when the Jews receive Christ as Messiah, the Gentiles are finished. It's your hour, you better come. Won't once more, so I'll be sure that I won't have to answer on that day, once more.
I love Him (Minister brothers, come out
and come here, will you?)
I love Him, I love Him
Because He first loved me (That's right.)
And purchased my salvation
On Calvary's tree.
[Brother Branham hums "I Love Him"] Oh, the presence of His being! Come right on down. That's it, sister. Come right on, brother dear.
On Calvary's tree.

58 Heavenly Father, we now bring to Thee in the name of Thy Son, the Lord Jesus, these penitent ones who stands facing the audience. They are sorry for their sins. They are the trophies of this meeting, the trophies of Thy grace and Thy presence. It is written in the Scripture that "No man can come to me except my Father draws him first." And then it is also written, "All the Father has given me, will come to me."
What a privileged people this is tonight, to know that God Almighty has drawed them to His Son Jesus. They are love gifts that God is giving to His Son, Christ Jesus. "No man can pluck them from my hand," said Jesus. They are there, safely secured. They come upon the conviction of their spirit, Lord, the Holy Spirit bringing them into Your presence. They are convinced that they're wrong and they want eternal life.

59 You said as many as believe, they receive this eternal life, and you said that you'd raise them up at the last day.
And to think, that as the warm sun has begun to bathe the earth, the little hidden lives of those flowers laying in the dirt, that... No scientist could ever find that germ of life, but it laid in the dust, and just the right atmosphere of that sun brought forth the little flower. They're coming everywhere. That's when the sun, the s-u-n that raises botany life, brought forth the flowers.
Someday the Son of God will come, and these people tonight who are standing here to receive eternal life---before this audience, before Your servants, these ministers---they're now standing here to accept eternal life. And someday they maybe go to the dust. There may be a casket that they lay in, a mud be poured over their bodies, a tombstone erected; but they cannot hide eternal life. When Jesus comes, they will come forth, because You promised it. We give them to you, Lord, and they're trophies. May they live a long life here on earth, full of joy and peace. May they find a good home, a good church home, and there remain faithful at the post of duty until death shall set them free from this earthly course. Grant it, Father. They're Yours, in Christ's name.

60 You that's standing around the altar, you that come up to repent, do you now believe and accept Jesus as your personal Saviour, believing that you ... that all you can do is to be sorry for your sins? He that asks, receives. If you believe it, would you raise your hands, that you now will forsake your sins and accept Jesus as your Saviour. Raise up your hands, all along the altar. Wonderful! The Lord God bless you.
Now, minister brethren, I want you to come up around them where they are. Lay hands upon them, and we'll pray for them that they receive the baptism of the Holy Ghost right where they're standing. Come right up around them, each one of you, come up around, every one. You ministers here, gather up around and lay hands upon them, that they will receive the baptism of the Holy Ghost. Now the rest of the audience, bow your head in prayer while they are praying also. Brother DuPlessis, come here and lead this prayer, if you will, while we pray.

It is I, be not afraid

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1 Thank you, Brother Borders. You may be seated. I deem this a great privilege tonight to be in the house of God to minister to his sick children. And we are sorry that we do not have the right sitting room for you. As we come up the street there was three or four cars going away. And then we come this way, and there was a line of people going way from the church, that they didn't have room to come in. And maybe by next Sunday, if we'll try hard, maybe we could get the auditorium for the closing night down here, and we could get everybody in.
When you have a congested crowd, it makes it to a place where it makes the people nervous. And when you get the audience nervous, the Holy Spirit cannot work. You've got to come to God just reverently, quietly, believing, without any interruption. And then the Holy Spirit's ... much easier for it to deal with us.

2 We certainly had a marvelous time this week here in the church. Been speaking on---the services---the subjects of Abraham, building up faith for tonight, for healing service. We've turned this part of the service over for praying for the sick.
Now, I would like for everyone to get a real good hold on God's Word first, because healing is God's... It's in the atonement. If the old atonement produced healing, this is a much better atonement, of course it would have healing in it. And the Bible said, "He was wounded for our transgressions ... and with his stripes we were healed."
Now, healing does not lay in a human being. Now, healing is a redemptive blessing of God that has already been purchased for you at Calvary. Salvation is not at all something that takes place tonight. Your salvation was purchased for you nineteen hundred years ago when Christ died for you at Calvary. There's where your salvation was purchased.

3 Now, you have to accept it for your own personal affair. You say, "I'm the sinner and Christ died for me, and I'm the one He died for. So therefore, tonight I come on the basis of the shed blood, and I accept my salvation, knowing there's nothing that I can do within myself. And I'm wholly and fully trusting Him tonight, and believing that He does save me according to his promise." Then you're saved, no matter if you have a sensation or not a sensation. You're saved by faith in the finished work at Calvary.
Now, that's the same way you're healed. When you... Now, you say, "Well, then, I wouldn't even have to come to church to be saved." That is true. Anywhere that you meet God's requirements, there's where you're saved. Anywhere that you meet God's requirements, that's where you're healed.

4 Now, God cannot change his opinion on things. We are constantly saying that, that we are basing our faith solemnly upon the Word of the Lord, for when God says anything He cannot take it back. He's God, He's infinite. Every decision is perfect.
And now, if He made his decision here and it's perfect, now, He cannot make a more perfect decision at another age. He's got to make the same decision because... If He did, He would lack what He had in this one. And if He made the wrong decision there... Well, then if He made a different decision, rather, here than He did here, then He made a wrong one here. And if He done wrong, then He couldn't be God, see. So you must remember when the Lord says anything, that's exactly what it will be.

5 And now you yourself... Now, many times I've seen people grasp at faith, and try to reach for it. Many times people just go over the top of it. Faith is so simple. It's just... In the Bible did you notice what they applied the blood with? Was hyssop. Well, hyssop is just common weeds. Down in Egypt, and also up in Palestine you find it growing around in the cracks of the adobes, and so forth, right on the ground---just a little green, three-cornered shape ... diamond-shaped leaf with a little flower on it. You could just pick it up anywhere. It was hyssop. That's what they applied the blood on the lintel of the door. Hyssop. And the reason they made it weeds, because it represents faith.
How do you apply the blood? By faith. Not some super something, but just common faith like you have. That's the way you apply the blood. Like you say, "I'm going out to get in my car and go home." How do you know you are? You're not sure of that. You're almost sure of it, but you believe you are. Then you just go ahead, acting, and you go on.
That's the same way healing is. Just believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, accept Him as your healer upon the basis of his shed blood, that He was wounded for your transgressions, with his stripes you were healed. Not will be healed but were---past tense. You've have already been healed by his stripes. I think that's a most marvelous thing. By his stripes we were, in past tense, healed.

6 Now, Mr. Roberts, Mr. Tommy Osborn, Mr. A. A. Allen, oh, so many of the brethren on the field that has a ministry of laying on hands on the sick and praying for them... And there's where I get the fallback: "You don't pray for enough." Now those Christian brethren, I believe that they have a ministry from God. And now, they pray for hundreds and hundreds a night. Now that's perhaps... Now, I do believe with all my heart that they're doing what God told them to do. That's their ministry.
But if you'll just bear with me a moment, I believe there is a higher way to reach Christ than laying on hands, because... If you notice, the patient can say this, "Brother So-an-so laid hands on me. I felt the power of God coming through his hands." See, that puts a man in it again.

7 But that was a Jewish tradition. If you notice, the little priest said, "Come lay your hands on my daughter [Jairus] and she will be well." Now, he was Jew.
But the Roman, the Gentile, said, "I'm not worthy that You'd come under my roof. Just speak the word and my servant will live." You see where that Roman's faith... ? It placed Jesus...
He went ahead to say, "I'm a man under authority." He was a centurion, which means he was under a century, a hundred men, in the Roman army. He said, "When I say to this one, 'Go,' he goes; to this one, 'Come,' he comes." He knowed that everything was under his jurisdiction he had control of, and it had to obey. What did he say, then, when he confessed Christ, to that? "Say to my..." He said this, "You have power over anything, over any sickness. Just speak the Word."
What did Jesus say about that? He turned around, and He certainly did honor that Roman. He said, "I have not seen faith like that in Israel."
See, "Don't come lay your hands on; just speak the word." Now that's where we're trying to get the people, to believe that He... It's not some human being; it's your Lord, Jesus Christ. It's what He did for you.

8 Now the great thing that seems to happen today to the people, that they try to think that we serve some sort of a historical God; or that He was a great healer one day; or He was a great one in one day, but today it's a memory, a historical affair. That's wrong. The Bible said He's the same yesterday, today, and forever. And He lives. If He's still alive, and if He still lives, He has to be the same in nature, the same in power, the same in attitude. He's the same Jesus (Hebrews 13:8), the same yesterday, today, and forever.
If there was any way that I could, then... I'm not a doctor. I know nothing about medicine or operations. I honor and believe in medicine and operations. I believe they're God-sent blessings to us. But sometimes we get to a place to where it's beyond what our medical science can handle. Then when it comes to that, I think, instead of giving up and dying, we have a right to come to the Great Physician.

9 If your local doctor couldn't help you, you'd have a right to go to a specialist. And if the specialist can't help you, then let's go to the specialist of specialists, Jesus. That's why I'm here: not to take the doctor's patient, but to pray for the doctor's patient, God's child and my friend. That's why I'm here.
Now, medicine does not heal. We all know that. There's no medicine that claims to heal. Doctors don't claim that. Medicine is an aid to nature; God is the healer. There's never been anyone healed by medicine. You can't do it. Healing is a building of tissue, and there's nothing that'll build tissue but life---develop tissue.
Now we can do things greatly by setting a bone. Well, now, that don't heal the bone. It just places it back, so God heals it. Something has to produce the calcium, and so forth, to heal that bone. Now the doctor... It's your ... what you should do is go to the doctor, and have him set it. But if God doesn't heal it, it'll never be healed. If you got a bad tooth, the doctor can pull it. But he cannot heal the socket, and the tissue that he tore out. He might remove appendix, or a growth in your side, or something, but he cannot heal the place where it come out of. He can remove, but cannot heal.
Medicine doesn't heal. No medicine heals. It just simply keeps clean, while God heals. And we must keep that in mind.

10 And now tonight as we approach Him for healing, now, I'd like to ask this one thing: how many people in here would raise your hand to this, that you believe that the Scripture states, in Hebrews 13:8, that Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever? Thank you.
Then if you believe that, if the Scripture says that, then you must remember what the Scripture says is the truth. Now, Jesus said when He was here on earth that He did not do any of the works Himself. We're all aware of that. He said, "It's not me that doeth the works; It's my Father that dwelleth in me, He doeth the works." That is true, isn't it?

11 And in John 5:19 He was questioned about passing through a pool where there was thousands of people, lame, blind, halt, and withered. And He found a man laying on a pallet. And He knew he'd been in that condition for thirty-eight years. And He made him whole, and walked away and left that multitude of people laying there. And He was questioned.
I suppose if He was in a physical body walking among us tonight, and would do the same thing, He'd be questioned again by our authorities. And He said these words---now, mark it in your heart:
Verily, verily, I say unto you, The Son can do nothing in himself, but what he sees the Father doing: that ... doeth the Son likewise.
Now how many knows that's scriptural truth? Then Jesus never performed any miracles until God showed Him by a vision what to do first. If it's not so, then He told something that wasn't so, and that makes the Scriptures wrong. Then where are we at? He never done it just at random. No prophet never did it at random. They only did as God told them and showed them what to do.

12 Now, when Jesus was on earth He declared Himself to be the Messiah, and John declared there was a Messiahic sign following Him. And the Old Testament claimed there'd be a Messiahic sign, and He proved that Messiahic sign to the people, that He was the Messiah. How they knowed it, was by ... He was a God-prophet. Moses, the one that they had followed, said, "The Lord your God shall raise up a Prophet likened unto me." We know that. We're aware of that.
And amongst the Jews and the Samaritans He showed this sign. But, of course, He never amongst the Gentiles, because we were heathens in those days, our people---the Gentiles, Romans. We wasn't looking for no Messiah, and Messiah only appears to those who's looking for Him. That's the way ... those who wait for Him, He will appear the second time. So it would behoove us tonight to be waiting for Him and watching for Him, that we do not miss it when He comes.

13 Now, Jesus before going away (I'm quoting these scriptures before I strike my message), Jesus before leaving the earth, He said, "A little while, and the world will see me no more." Now, the world there is the word cosmos, which means "the world order," see. "The world will see me no more, yet, ye shall see me [that's the church] for I will be with you, even in you, unto the end of the world." Now, we all know the scripture says that. Now, then that makes Jesus the same yesterday, today, and forever.
Now watch. "The works that I do shall you do also; and more..." I know the King James says "greater," but if you get the Emphatic Diaglott... No one could do any greater. He raised the dead, stopped nature... More, because then God was in one man, Christ Jesus. The fullness of the Godhead bodily dwelt in Him, the Scripture says. First Timothy 3:16: "Without controversy great is the mystery of godliness, for God was manifested in the flesh." He was called Emmanuel. He was only in one man, but He... This one man being the Son of God, gave his life to sanctify his church, that He might return in the form of the Holy Ghost and be in his church universally. "The works that I do shall you do also [same kind]; more than this shall you do, for I go to my Father,"---so that He could return back in the form of the Holy Ghost and be in his church universal.

14 It's to my confession tonight that Jesus Christ is alive, and not dead. He lives in his church. Although many of our creeds has forced Him on the outside, as the Bible... We see in the Laodicean church age, the last church age, which is the Pentecostal age that we're in now, Jesus was standing, put out of his church, knocking on the door trying to get back in. "As many as I love I rebuke and chasten ... If any man will open, I'll come in and sup with him."
Now upon this, upon this confession that... If we can see tonight in this building that Jesus is still alive, and can prove beyond a shadow of doubt that Jesus Christ, God's Son in the form of the Holy Spirit, is right in this building, then if He's the same yesterday, today, and forever, He'll act the same as He did yesterday---today, and forever. His compassions and love will be the same.

15 And it was based upon the basis of "If ye can believe, I can. I do as the Father shows me." Like the woman touched his garment. Virtue went out. He looked around over the audience till He found the woman that touched Him. He said ... told her her blood issue had stopped because that her faith had saved her.
Notice that word saved? Run that through the Bible and see if it ain't the same Greek word each time, sozo. Means "saved physically" or "saved spiritually," either one. It's translated the same thing both times in the Greek. Sozo---"Thy faith has saved thee." Saved thee from what? Sin. Saved thee from what? The blood issue. "Thy faith has saved thee." And it's all based upon faith.

16 Now we find that when Jesus was here, and He showed that Himself He was Messiah, there was many of them that did not believe it, and they wanted to class Him as a fortune-teller, a Beelzebub, a devil that was doing the work of God. Any of you remember that in the Bible? All right. Jesus said, "I forgive you for that. But when the Holy Ghost is come to do the same thing, to speak against it will never be forgiven in this world, neither in the world that is to come."
And He promised the Gentile age, at the close of the Gentile age, it would be the same kind of a Messiahic sign as the Jewish age was closing, as the Samaritan age was closing. The three classes of people---Ham, Shem, and Japheth's people.
And at the end of the Gentile age, if that's the way He proved Himself to be Messiah to the close of the Jews and the close of the Samaritans, then He's got to act the same way to the Gentiles. If we go through just on theology, then He misrepresented Himself---by proving Himself Messiah to them the way He did it, and let us not have that same sign.

17 But if you'll bear closely now, listen (to you in these chairs and stretchers, if you'll watch closely now)... Now He can only prove Himself to be alive. But as far as your healing, it's a finished product. If He was standing here tonight with this suit on that He gave me, He could not heal you. If you come and begged Him, and pleaded Him to, He cannot do what He's already done. He's left it up to you on the basis of your faith. He cannot save you against your own way, your own will. You're a free moral agent. You can turn it down, or you can accept it.
You understand clearly now? He cannot heal you against your will. He cannot save you against your will. But He can make Himself known in his promises. Then you accept it upon those basis. How many understands it now? Now let us bow our heads, then, as we pray.

18 Most gracious and holy Father---who brought again from the dead our blessed Lord, and has presented Him to us as a high priest, ever living to make intercessions upon our confession of what He has done for us, sitting tonight at the throne of God at the right hand of the Majesty, a high priest that can be touched by the feeling of our infirmities---we are approaching thy holiness tonight, Lord, and thy throne of grace through his all-sufficient name that He gave to us. "Ask the Father anything in my name, I'll do it."
Now, heavenly Father, there are many who have been waiting this week, sitting in the building under anticipation, waiting for this night to come. They say that hundreds has been turned from the building. Father God, I pray that You will make Yourself so clear to these people, that there will not be one feeble person in our midst.

19 O great Holy Spirit, seeing the hour that we're living, the shadows are falling, the end is at hand; and, God, I pray that You'll let Him circumcise every heart, take away every unbelief and every shadow of doubt. And we pray that He'll manifest Himself so vividly among us tonight that there'll not be one person, young or old, but what will see that He is here. And may they embrace Him as their Saviour, and as their healer.
May the unsaved be saved, and may the sick be healed. And those who are sitting in the regions of the shadows of death, may great light spring upon them. May they rise and go home and be well, that the glory of God might be known on the West Coast; that it might be said to their children, and their loved ones, and them around about, that Jesus still lives.

20 Now, Father, we are taught in the Bible that one day, a day after the resurrection, or the same day, that there was one of his disciples whose name was Cleopas, and he and his friend was walking to a city called Emmaus, disgusted and was going back. There's many tonight in that condition that thinks that the church has failed. And it has. But Thou has not failed.
And on the road there come one stepping out from the side of the road, and began to speak to them and explain the Scriptures to them, when He asked their sadness and their defeat. He made as if He'd pass on by, but they constrained Him to come in. When He got them inside and closed the door, then He did something just like He did before his crucifixion, and immediately they knew it was Him. He vanished out of their sight by some back door somewhere.
Lighthearted and lightfooted they ran quickly back to Jerusalem, telling the people that truly Jesus was still alive. And they spoke among themselves and said, "Did not our hearts burn within us as He talked to us along the way?"

21 Father, I pray that You'll let Him step out from these aisles tonight into every heart, talk to us in the next few minutes and then show Himself. May He stand on this platform among us tonight and show Himself that He's the same Jesus. Then may the sick rush home quickly, saying, "Did not our hearts burn within us as the Word went forth? It was strange, but something was talking to me all the time." Grant it, Father, and we'll praise Thee for it as long as we live, and always remember it, because we're sincerely asking it in the name of Jesus Christ. Amen.
Now for just a few minutes I would just like to call your attention to St. Matthew 14:27
But straightway Jesus spake unto them, saying, Be of good courage; it is I; be not afraid.

22 It must have been about the time the sun was going down. It had been a terrible day. There was thousands of people had gathered around, but the big fisherman with his big brawny back and muscles was shoving the little boat off of the sandy banks of the lake. They were going over, commanded by their Lord, across over to the other side, while He sent the people away.
And as Simon---perhaps the largest one among them---pushed the little boat off the shore, climbed in up among the rest of the apostles, and sat down about the middle of the ship, and took his oar in his hand...
And as they'd perhaps pulled two or three times, and then waved to the congregation they were leaving on the bank---and them crying, some of them, "Come back and see us again. We would love to be going with you," because they had won their hearts, and they loved these men. They had seen the hand of God moving with them and they knowed that they were servants of God.

23 The sun was getting red as it passed over the Galilean mountains, and the streets had settled, and the sky had begun to turn dark when I guess the oars let up just a little bit. And I believe it must have been the young John. He was the youngest among them---probably a man in his thirties. And when they stopped to rest just a little bit because the craft was made of heavy wood, and great huge oars, and it was heavy, and one man on a big oar and it was hard... Probably in the still of the evening, the winds had settled and there wasn't a riffle on the lake, and they'd pulled pretty hard.
John must have pulled the oar in and said, "Brethren..." Let's break in on their conversation. He might have said something like this: "We can rest assured that we're not following some sort of a deceiver. You know, I remember when I was a little boy [he might have said], I remember my mother taking the scrolls of the Bible, and she used to sit and tell me the stories of our people when they come to this land that God gave them, and what a great time they had coming---how they come up out of Egypt and Jehovah fed them in the wilderness for forty years. And I used to say, 'Mama, how did they ever get anything to eat in the wilderness?'

24 "And I remember my pretty little Jewish mother used to say, 'John, my darling, God rained their bread down out of heaven every night.'
"And I would say to her like this, 'Mommy, where did God get such big ovens to make the bread?'
"'Well, you see, darling, God is a creator. He doesn't have to have ovens. He just speaks and He creates---his Word is creative.'
"And brethren, today when I stood on that rock behind Him, and seen Him taking those five little biscuits and two fish, and broke that bread and fed five thousand, I knowed He was something to do with that Jehovah who could create. You see, brethren, if He is who we believe He is, and we know He is---the Son of God---then his works will be like God, for He said, 'If I do not the works of my Father, then believe me not.'

25 "So that settled it forever for me. For I know that the Bible said that that's the way that Jehovah created bread. And brethren, He didn't cook it, He didn't bake it. He didn't go at the sea to catch fish, nor neither did He cook the fish. He just broke off a piece of cooked fish, and when He reached back, there was another piece of fish already cooked. [I want to ask this audience something. What kind of an atom did He turn loose there?] He never growed wheat and made bread. He just took the biscuit, or the little loaf, and He tore it in two, and handed it over to Simon. And when He looked back to get Andrew a piece, another one was growed on.
"I've watched Him do that five thousand or more times. To me, He's Jehovah. He's a creator. I just wish that my mother could've lived to have seen that, or been here today to watch that. How I would liked to have went and got her, and put my arms around her, and said, 'Mother, that is that Jehovah that you talked about, for He's the creator. His children was hungry---just like they were hungry in the wilderness, and He provided bread out of the heavens, and fed two and a half million people.'
"And here today, standing on earth living in the form of his own Son, the Lord Jesus our Saviour, I seen Him with the power of his Father break the bread, and hand it out---the same creative power. Therefore, I know that He is truly the Son of God. I believe it."

26 Simon, sitting right across from him on the other side of the ship, pushing back the perspiration off his brow, he said, "Brethren, I'd like to give my testimony." You know, there's something about it when Christians get together and they start testifying---there's just no end to it. They just keep on. One's got to have something to say, because He's so good to us till we just want to express it some way. And we never find a place to stop, He's so good.
Simon, the great brawny fisherman, I can imagine him giving his testimony. He said, "Oh, my brother Andrew, sitting right here ahead of me, I remember him telling me that he'd met some sort of a prophet. And he come and got me to go to the meeting one day. And I remembered what my father told me. And you brethren know that my father was a Pharisee, and I stayed with our denomination because I was a Pharisee too. He was a Pharisee."

27 And he said, "You know what happened? I remember hearing my father, before he left the earth... When he was getting old and his hair was gray, one day he sat me down on the side of the ship, and he said, 'Simon, my little son, Daddy has always believed that I'd live to see the day to see the Messiah. But I don't know whether I will now or not. I may be summoned any time to answer. But, Simon, my father passed this information to me, and I'm passing it on to you.
"'Now in the day of the true Messiah, there'll be a lot of things raise up, Simon, that's false. [And we know the Bible said it happened. Always does.] But Simon, don't you be deceived, son, if it comes in your day. Now, Simon, you'll have to stay straight with the Scriptures to know Him. Don't take what someone else says about it. Stay with the Scriptures, Simon.'

28 "'Now the Bible says our prophet, Moses, told us that the Lord our God should raise up a prophet likened unto him. Now, Simon, this Messiah will be a prophet, and the sign that He'll give that He is a prophet, that He is the Messiah, it'll be a prophet sign. And, Simon, you know that we always believe our prophets, because when our prophets speak and what he says comes to pass, then God told us to hear that prophet. "I am with him."'
"'But if he speaks, and it doesn't come to pass, then don't fear that prophet. But if it does come to pass... Now, it's been four hundred years, Simon, since our last prophet. We know that next prophet to arise is going to be Messiah, and you watch for Him---He'll do the sign of the prophet.'

29 "And when I went down one day on the lake, after seining all night and was discouraged, Andrew told me [my brother, sitting ahead of me here] that he was going to be on a certain place. When we was bringing our boats in, I seen all the women and men gathering from the little huts along the lakeside. I wondered what it was all about. And Andrew said, 'Simon, you must come with me today, for the Messiah is going to speak today down here.'
"Well," he said, "now, I did not believe that that could be any Messiah, but I remembered what Daddy told me. And when I walked up into his presence, when I heard Him speaking, before I got there, there was something different about Him. He seemed to be a man who knowed what He was talking about. He wasn't talking like a scribe. He was talking like a man who knowed what He was speaking of.
"And He turned his head to see me coming. And as soon as He seen me, He looked me in the face and said, 'Your name is Simon. You are the son of Jonas.'
"Brethren, that settled it forever for me. Not only did He know me, He knowed that godly old father of mine that told me to look for this sign. Therefore I knowed that was the Messiah, because it was the sign that father said the Bible said would be following and making Him the Messiah. Therefore I knowed He was Messiah."

30 It must have been then Philip, sitting back towards the stern of the boat, turned around, put his arm around Nathanael and said, "Nathanael, shall I testify or shall you?"
Oh, Nathanael, being always a polite gentleman, he said, "Go ahead and testify about it, Philip."
"Well," he said, "when I seen that happen to Simon, I was positive that that was the Messiah, because He was showing the sign of the Messiah.
"So, therefore, I knowed that my good old friend here, Philip [or, Nathanael], was a great Bible scholar, and he'd read up on the Bible. He knowed what the Messiah would be.
"So I took around the mountain fifteen miles till I come to Philip's house [or, Nathanael's house rather], and I knocked on the door. His wife told me that he was back in the orchard. I went back there, and I found him on his knees praying: 'O God of Israel [That's when something happens---when you go to praying], send unto us deliverance.'

31 "And I stood back, and in my heart I thanked God that I had the message for him, that God had used me to come around the mountain to my friend. And when he got up and dusted his clothes, I said, 'Nathanael!'
"And he said, 'Philip, I'm glad to see you.'
"Quickly I told him, 'Come see who we have found.'"
There's something about it, whenever you come in contact with the real Messiah, Jesus Christ, God's Son, you can't keep it still. You've got to tell somebody. It just thrills your heart. You can never be the same.
"Come see who we have found! Jesus of Nazareth, He's the Messiah. The son of Joseph.
And you know, Nathanael, being such a scholar, and he was such a true Pharisee, until ... he said, "Now, wait a minute. Now, wait a minute. Now, Philip, surely you haven't went off on some tantrum, or some deep end. Now you know, if the Messiah had come, He would come down to our organization. He would make Himself known to us. He would go to Caiaphas, the high priest. He would never be born in Nazareth. He'd never deal with that bunch of holy rollers, or so forth, down there. You know if He was coming, He'd come to our church, because we are the Pharisees."

32 But you know, that attitude has never left the people. And God has never changed either. He does what He wants to do. He does what He said He would do. He comes... He don't have to come to any organization. He just comes to the people. So we find out... He said, "Well, now, you come and see."
He said, "Now look here, Philip. I believe you are a good scholar, and I don't see how you'd ever fall for such a thing as that."
"And I said to him, 'I want to ask you something. Do you not know the holy Scriptures?'
"'Yes, I've studied them since a child.'
"All right. Tell me then, tell me then if you know the Scriptures, what is Messiah going to be like when He comes?"
"'Why, He'll be born of a virgin.'
"And what kind of a life will He lead? What kind of a sign will He give us? You know, we're Jews---we seek signs. God told us to watch the prophet, and see what he said. If it come to pass, he was God's prophet. What kind of a sign will Messiah be?"
"'Well, according to the Scriptures, He'll be a prophet.'

33 "Now I want to ask you something. Do you remember that old fisherman that you bought that fish from that day and he couldn't sign you a receipt?
"'Yes. Oh, his name was Simon. Yeah. I used to know his old father up here at the synagogue.'
"Well, as soon as he walked up into the presence of this Jesus of Nazareth, He looked him straight in the face and told him what his name was, and told him whose son he was. Why, it wouldn't surprise me, Nathanael, when you walk up in front of Him, if He don't tell you who you are.
"'Oh,' he said, 'now could there be any good thing like that come out of Nazareth?'"
Well, I think he give him a good answer, an answer that ought to satisfy everybody. He said, "Come see." Don't sit at home and criticize it; come find out. Come see for yourself. You ought to be that much concerned. Come see, examine it by the Scriptures, see what it'll be.

34 And as they went along the mountain talking, soon they came up into the place where Jesus was, praying for the sick. Maybe he was in the prayer line, or maybe he just stood in the audience. But as soon as he come up, Jesus looked over and called him.
You know, there's something about that scripture, "My sheep know my voice." He caught his eye, and He said, "Behold an Israelite, in whom there is no guile."
I said that one time, and a man said, "Sure. He was dressed like an Israelite." No, they all dressed alike: Arabs, Jews, the Greeks, they all dressed alike---the Eastern garb.
Said, "Behold an Israelite, in whom there is no guile." That took the wind out of his sails.
Watch what Nathanael said. "Rabbi [which means teacher, master], Rabbi, this is the first time You ever saw me. This is the first time I ever laid eyes on You. How did You ever know me?"
Jesus said, "Before Philip called you, when you was under the tree, I saw you."
That did it. Said, "Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God. Thou art the King of Israel."
If that was Jesus yesterday, and He's the same today, that's Jesus today. Do you believe it? Sure.

35 Now, we could just go on and on through the Scriptures, but I'm trying to hold my time so you won't be wore out, and many... I want to hit one more scripture, if possible, before we come to the prayer line. Let's just take one more thing.
After Philip got through testifying, Andrew... They maybe started the boat up, and he said, "Just a minute, brethren. Let me testify."
You know there's something like that. You always want to testify when you really come in contact with Jesus. He said, "Let me testify for all of us, so that we'll all know." Said, "You remember that time that He told us that morning, or the day before, 'Tomorrow we're going down to Jericho'? And now from Jerusalem to Jericho is right down the mountain. You go right over and right down the mountain to Jericho. But He had need to go by Samaria. And we often wondered, why did He want to go all the way up to Samaria before going down to Jericho? And He said He had need of going. Why? The Father was sending Him.
"And you remember, we got there about noon, and He was so tired and we were upset about Him. And He sat down by the side of the little public well about ... little panoramic there with the... He sat down there to get... We thought he'd take a drink, and there was nothing there to drink out of, so He sent us in the city to buy vittles, food.

36 "You remember? When we got finished and started back out, when we was coming up we happened to hear something at the well, and we slipped up behind the bushes. And we looked over to see what it was. And there was a woman of ill fame coming up to the well, and we listened in.
"Now I'm going to quote, brethren, and you all remember this," I can hear Andrew say. "Do you remember, the woman let the windle down to get some water? And when she brought the water up we heard ... looked over, and seen what He was going to say about this woman, ill-famed. She was out of the churches. She was an outsider. [By the way, she was a Samaritan. Great segregation. The Samaritans and Jews didn't deal with each other.] And we seen this woman, a lovely-looking woman, but we knew she was ill-famed the way she was dressed. And they brought the water up and we heard Him say, 'Give me a drink, woman. Brink me a drink.'

37 "And you remember how astonished we was that our Lord would have any kind of a dealings with a woman like that? And so, the woman said, 'Sir, it's not customary for you to ask me, a Samaritan woman, for any favor, because you are a Jew.'
"And do you remember what He said? 'If you only knew who you were talking to, you'd ask Me for a drink, and I'd give you waters that you don't have to come here to draw.'
"And she said, 'The well is deep, and you have nothing to draw with.' And you remember, brethren, how the conversation went on about the Jew and the Samaritan."
Now I believe ... I'll say this, I believe that Jesus was trying to contact her spirit, talking to her. The Father had sent Him up there. Let me clear that in your mind. Keep everything I've said in your mind now. I want to clear this. The Father... He said, "I do nothing till the Father shows me."
And the Father must have sent Him up there, and said, "Go up till you find this well [He'd never been there before], sit down there, and wait. I'm sending you there, and the rest of it'll take care when you get there."

38 Well, He seen this woman, and that must've been the one. So He began to talk to her to find her spirit.
Now remember, Jesus could perceive the thoughts and the intents of the heart. And does not our Bible tell us (Hebrews, the fourth chapter) that the Word of God is sharper than a two-edged sword, piercing to the ... asunder ... and marrow of the bone, and a discerner of the thoughts and the intents of the heart and mind? The Word of God.
Jesus was that Word. In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God and the Word was God ... And the Word was made flesh and dwelt among us. There was the Word of God piercing into that woman's soul, finding where her trouble was. How many in my class tonight knows what her trouble was? Raise up your hand. Sure. She had five husbands. So He said, "Go, get your husband, and come here."
"Why," she said, "I have no husband."
And Andrew said, "Brethren, you remember what we thought? Oh, oh! Oh, oh! He's made a mistake this time. He's sure wrong there on this Samaritan. It might work on Jews, but I don't know about Samaritans. He sure made a mistake now, because she says herself she doesn't have any husband."

39 Now, if you'll just remember, the same thing happened to a Jew, too, one time. When the angel of God went down in human flesh in Sodom and Gomorrah, there was one of the queens of the Jewish women, Sarah. A modern Billy Graham and Oral Roberts goes down into the city of Sodom and preached the gospel, but there was one of them stayed back, talking to the elect church. He never went down to the church in Sodom; he come to the called out, the elected church, Abraham. We've just been through it.
And while he was talking to Abraham... Now, He was a stranger, and He said, "Abraham..." Now remember, He never called him Abram. Just a few days before that his name had been changed from Abram to Abraham. Said, "Abraham, where is Sarah [Not Sarai. Sarah, her princess name---just been given her a few days before]? Where is Sarah, thy wife?"

40 How did he know he was married? And how did He know he had a wife? How did He know her name was Sarah?
And Abraham said, "She's in the tent behind you."
He said, "I'm going to visit you. I'm going to bring it to pass. You've waited twenty-five years for this baby. I'm going to visit you according to the time of life by her."
And Sarah, in the tent behind him, laughed within herself, and thought in her heart, "Me, an old woman nearly a hundred years old, can have pleasure with my lord again, my husband? Me, an old woman, a hundred, and him around a hundred years old? Could I ever have pleasure again with him? It just can't be so."
And the angel, the man that was a human being, eating flesh, drinking milk and eating cornbread---and Abraham said it was God---He said, "Why did Sarah laugh in the tent, saying within herself, 'How could this be?' " She doubted.

41 Now remember, Jesus said, "As it was in the days of Sodom, so shall it be at the coming of the Son of man," that that same spirit that was represented in human flesh that Abraham called Elohim... Anybody know what Elohim means? Sure, the Almighty, the self-existing one.
Abraham, the patriarch, called Him Elohim. He represented Himself in a body of flesh, eating and drinking just like any other human being. And He done that sign to the elected church before He destroyed Sodom. Oh, don't miss it, brethren. That hour has arrived. Elohim, Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today, and forever. While his body's sitting at the right hand to make intercession for his church, that same Spirit dwelling in his people---God manifested in the form of the Holy Ghost in his people---doing the same thing [Do you see it?] to the Gentiles.

42 We've had two thousand years since we've had it, but He said it would be in the evening time. The prophet said, "It shall be light in the evening time. There'll be a day that won't be called night nor day."
Now the s-u-n rises in the east and sets in the west. And the S-o-n ... like the s-u-n of God, this is the S-o-n of God. He came first to the East. We've had a dismal day. We've had enough to join church, and make an organization, and bring some people in, put your names on books, and get forgiveness of your sins. But the prophet said, "In the evening time it shall be light."
We're right here at the West Coast. We're less than half-a-mile from the water. If we go across we're back East again. That's the reason sin's abounding. The waves have swept it up, and she's just contaminated. But He said, "It shall be light in the evening time."

43 Now He was dealing with the Samaritan woman, and the brethren in the boat said, "You know what? We all thought that He'd been caught in a trap. We wondered what He'll do now?"
She denied it. She said, "I have no husband."
But listen what He said. I can hear Andrew say, "But, brethren, you remember what He said? He said, 'Thou has said true. You've got five husbands, and the one you're now living with is not your husband. You said well.'
"Now we thought this Samaritan woman, being an evil character, that she'd say (like the well-trained preachers did), say, 'Well, you must be Beelzebub.'" She knowed more about God than a lot of ministers does today. She said, "Sir, I perceive that thou art a prophet." Now listen to her words. Read it, St. John 4: "I perceive that thou art a prophet. We [we Samaritans], we know the Messiah is coming, and the Messiah will tell us these things. That's going to be the sign of the Messiah. But who are you?"
He said, "I'm he that speaks to you."
And she run into the city, and said, "Come see a man who's told me the things I've done. Isn't this the very Messiah? Isn't that the sign that the Messiah was supposed to show?
And the Bible says the men of Samaria believed on him because what the woman told them that He done. Was that Jesus yesterday? That'd be Jesus today, if He's the same Messiah. (Much more we could go to. We haven't time.)

44 About that time they put the oars back in the water, pulled a few times. You know, all the time they were testifying they were pretty quiet. But about the time they quit testifying, about like the time when the church quits testifying, giving God praise and glory, Satan must have looked up over the hill, said, "Oh, I got them just where I want them. They've went off without Him."
I'm afraid that's what the church has done today. You're got so interested in whether you belong to the Foursquare or the Assemblies, or the Oneness or the Twoness, or whatever it is. You're so interested that you're not going to build a building a little bigger than the other one, or you're not going to do something a little bigger, have a bigger Cadillac or something better than the rest of them... I think on our big programs and our societies, we've went off without Him.
Satan saw it and he began to blow with his poison breath, kicking up the waters. Said, "I'll drown them."

45 Oh, yes. He's blowing with his poison breath right into the Pentecostal church. I know many Pentecostal people that's done give up the thoughts of divine healing. Sure, they don't believe it. I went to a Pentecostal church not long ago to have some seats. We had an armory, and thousands were standing outside. And I went down and asked this Pentecostal brother, he had about five hundred seats. I said, "Could I rent them from you, brother?"
He said, "Holding that healing service?"
I said, "Yes, sir."
He said, "I wouldn't let a person sit on my seats that believed in divine healing." There you are. That's Pentecost. Don't you laugh at the Baptists.
His poison breath... You've went off too much on denominational ends, went off on big things trying to fashion after Hollywood, trying to do things like they do here on the West Coast, or any other coast, trying to fashion after the world. He saw you without it---hatched out of a bunch of schools somewhere, a bunch of incubator preachers. That's right.

46 I always felt sorry for an incubator chicken. It just "chirp, chirp" and didn't have any mammy. That's the way we turn out preachers today---by degrees of psychology. Our great, famous Pentecostal movement, now before a missionary can go overseas---the great movement of Pentecost---they have to go before a psychiatrist to see if their intellect is right. You're backslid when you get that. Right. Who is our intellect? It's the Holy Ghost, Jesus. But we have that---we take them before doctors, psychiatrists, men of the world, to find out if their intellectual is powerful enough to be a missionary. Huh! Oh, my!
The poison wind is sure blowing. It's got the church to a place you can't tell Pentecostal people no more from anyone else. They all look just about alike. Go around ... our women wearing batty old clothes, and a lot of our brethren go out there and you see them standing on the street telling jokes that drunken sailors wouldn't tell. You see them down there, two or three different wives, living in the church, and making them deacons and everything else. Go out and act just like the world. You don't hear the old-fashioned prayer meetings no more, and the calling out on God. It's all forgotten. It's gone past, you see. I'm afraid we went off without Him. Don't you think so?

47 We had a war, and a lot of money flowed in and money began to flow from everywhere. And I think we went off after big buildings and big denominations and big things; and we left Him alone. That's right.
Then it come to a place that all hopes was gone. She was just about to sink. (Wish I could linger on this a little while, but I promised not. Beating around in them waves, they were just about gone. But you know---I got this comfort to tell you---He hadn't left too far. You know what He done? He knowed that was coming to pass. He knowed they was going to get in that condition, and He knowed you was going to get in that condition. Sure.
What did He do? So that He could watch them, He climbed the highest mountain there was in the country. Higher up you go, farther you can see. And He climbed up the top of the mountain, and He'd been up there on top of the mountain watching them out there rowing.

48 Wish I could sing: "His eye is on the sparrow, and I know He watches me." Don't you know that? He sees your toils and troubles. He sees how sick you are. He can be touched by the feeling of your infirmities. Not only did He climb a mountain, but He climbed Calvary and He climbed on above the moon and stars, until He sits on the throne of God where He can see universes. He's watching. He's waiting.
Just in the midnight hour, when all hopes was gone, the little boat was pitched about like a bottle-stopper out there, when ten thousand devils of the sea swore they'd drown them disciples that night because they'd gone off without Him. That's what Satan says today, "I've got that Pentecostal bunch. I'm rocking them. They're fussing at one another. There's no agreement with them. They're just like the world. I'm rocking them back and forth as hard as I can. I'll soon shake them down to a cold, formal bunch." But right in that great hour, here He come walking to them on the sea.

49 Brother, sister, listen, in closing. The same thing is happening now that happened then. The only thing that could help them, and get them back to safety, they was afraid of it. It looked spooky to them. They thought it was a spirit. And today when Christ comes walking to us with his Messiahic power, with his Messiahic sign, just as He said, we say, "It's a telepathy, or perhaps maybe a fortune-teller. Maybe it's this that or the other." They don't know that the Scriptures made the promise.
He is the same yesterday, today, and forever. And if He could speak tonight, He'd say to your hearts, to comfort you here that's sick, "Do not fear. It is I. Be not afraid." Here's his Word that gives the promise. Here's what He said. He promised. I believe that He's here now. Do you believe the same with me?

50 What ... (oh, people, listen to me just a minute) what if He'd come walking in among us tonight, and would prove Himself that He's the Messiah? Would you be afraid to say, "Lord Jesus, I accept You as my healer. I'm not afraid. The doctor said my hour's gone. It's midnight. I got cancer, I got heart trouble, I'm dying." Or "I'm crippled, they say I'll never walk. But I'm not afraid of You."
You'd hear Him say, "Be not afraid. It's I. I promised I'd do this. As it was in the days..."

51 [Gap in the audio] ... could say in a lifetime. Thou art our God, and we love You. And You're, for everlasting to everlasting, God. I pray Thee, Father, that Thou will help us tonight. Now if You'll just walk in among us tonight, Father (after this little cut-up message), to let the people see by the Bible what You were, and what your promises are.
You represented yourself, and proved yourself; and that was the sign that You proved to them that You was the Messiah to both Samaritan and Jews. But You never did that before the Gentiles---not one time. But You promised You'd do it in the last days. Just ... not like it was in Noah, but as in Sodom before the fire. That's when You did it. That's when You did the sign to Abraham, the called-out church.

52 I pray, now, Father, that... I believe with all my heart that the people, your church, is called out of every organization, every denomination---Methodist, Baptist, Catholic, Presbyterian, whatevermore. They are the church because they have been born into the mystical body of Christ. Many of them are represented here tonight, Father. I pray that You'll grant the blessings that we're asking.
I'm not sufficient, Lord. There's no more I can say. I can only quote your Word, just quote it to the people the way it's written, and tell them. Now it's up to You to testify whether I've told the truth or not. I pray that You will do it, that every person in here might embrace You and say, "Come into my little ship, Lord."

53 And as soon as He entered the ship, the Bible said, "and immediately they were at the shore." O God, it won't take but just a little bit to get them well, to be healed, or to be saved, when they will invite You, and You get inside of them, in their little bark, while they're sailing life's solemn main.
Many are here no doubt tonight, Lord, but what the waves of sickness, cancer, TB, heart trouble is buffeting them. They're about to go down---all hopes is gone. But may they not be afraid tonight, Lord, for we can hear that comforting voice through thy Word saying, "It is I. Be of a good cheer. Be not afraid." We'll be listening for You, now, Father. This is your Word. You promised it.

54 We are your servants. I cannot do this with the anointing You might give me. You'll have to anoint them, too, to believe it, Father, for when You went to your own country, many mighty works You could not do because of their unbelief. That's when You said, "A prophet's not without honor except in his own community [his own county, or country]" And I pray, Lord, that You'll honor your Word, tonight, and make it live anew before these people.
Father, look at them. They're sick, they're needy. They're lying in this hot room, hundreds of them turned away; and they're standing till their limbs are cramping and hurting. God, let Satan move out of this place now. Let true faith of God come moving in. May they understand, for we ask it Jesus' name, as we commit ourselves and this audience to You. Amen. Just listen to that song, "Only Believe."

55 I can see the apostles. Ten days before, they'd been given power to cast out devils, heal the sick. And here they are, with an epileptic boy, defeated. They were probably screaming and stomping and pouring oil on him, and hollering, "Come out, you devil!" That devil just laid right there. So, coming down the hill come the Son of man, the Son of God. When Satan knew that, he knowed he wasn't meeting those apostles.
The father said, "Lord, have mercy on my son. He's seriously vexed with a devil. Ofttimes he falls in the fire, and into the water to destroy him. I brought him to your disciples. They couldn't heal him."
Well, why couldn't they heal him? Not because they didn't have power; because they didn't believe. Tonight, if you go out of here sick, it's not because God hasn't got the power and has given it to you; because you don't believe it. That's all. Same thing. Jesus said, "I can if you believe." Is that right? You've got to believe.

56 (Billy, what's the prayer card? B, 1 to 100) There's prayer cards B, 1 to 100. Now how many was here when the boys give out the cards? Let's see you. Now, you know what they did. They bring the cards down, mix them up so you can have a card---anybody that wants it. You might get number 1, the other one get number 8, and another one get number 16, another one get 32. You don't know where it's going to be. Therefore, the boy don't know, don't know nothing about the prayer cards. And then when he come down, you say, "Where's your father going to call from tonight?" He doesn't know. I don't know. But we call from wherever the Holy Spirit puts upon me.
I used to call little children up and say, "Come up, Junior, and count. Where you stop, then we'll start from there." Mother'd tell Junior where to stop at. So it wouldn't ... you know it just don't work. So this way it's sovereign.

57 Where did we start from the other night, brethren? We started at 1, didn't we? We went up to 1 to 15. We just want to get ... one person ought to do it. Or you don't even have to come up at all, if you just have faith. There's more healed out there than there is up here, anyhow.
Let's start from somewhere else tonight. (1, 2, 3, 4, 5.) Let's say, let's start from ... whereabouts, 1 to 100? Just to get started so we can get... Let's start from somewhere else besides 1. You give out 1 to 100 and B. That's prayer card B, prayer card B. Let's start from 35. That'd be 35, 40, 45, 50. That'd be fifteen there.
Prayer card B35, who has it? (Are you sure? Pardon?) Oh, over here. I'm sorry. Come right here, lady. I wonder if you little fellows would move right back in this way? Children, if you would, right here. Right back this way around the altar, sweethearts, if you would. You're mighty fine little children, sitting there so quiet while I was preaching. B (What was that number?) 35. All right. Who has 36? Prayer card 36, B36. All right, lady. 37. Who has 37? All right, lady. 38, 38. Who has 38? 38, 39. Who has prayer card B 39? All right. 40? All right. 41, 42. 42, I didn't see it. Now, may be somebody deaf and won't hear.

58 Look around on your neighbor's card. Maybe somebody can't get up. Now that don't mean they'll be healed. It takes your faith in God. I've told you that---your faith in God. Forty ... let's see, what did I start at again? 36...? I started at 42? No, I started at 35. 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42. 42? Now it's here somewhere, or should be. 42, B 42.
Look around at your neighbor. He may be deaf, now, and can't get up, see, he don't hear me. 42, B 42. Maybe they stepped out. 43, B 43. Over here. 44, 45. Raise your hands and then I can see you easy. 45? Way back in the back, all right. 45, 46, over here, 47, all right, sir. 48, right here. 49, that's good. All right, 50 way back in the corner. All right.
Now so we won't... Now we may be able to get to way more than this. Now I want everybody in here that does not have a prayer card, and you're sick, to raise up your hand---does not have a prayer card. All right.

59 All right, now look. Now while they're gathering them together, give me your attention now. Now don't let anyone get nervous, and please don't leave the building. Please. Just sit still, real still. Now in fifteen minutes we'll be out, if you'll just keep still, real quiet. You see, when the Holy Spirit...
How many seen the picture of it now? We've got it all over the country. It's all over the world. It's hanging in Washington, DC, a pillar of fire that George J. Lacy, the head of the FBI fingerprinting document, taken the photograph and examined it for double exposure and everything. He said, "The light struck the lens," and signed an affidavit to it. Said, "It's not psychology, because the mechanical eye of this camera will not take psychology."

60 Now, say that is the same pillar of fire. How many knows that the pillar of fire that followed the children of Israel in the wilderness was Christ? Sure, it was. The angel... Well, when He was here He said, "Before Abraham was, I AM." Is that right? Well, then when He was here on earth in a body of flesh, you see what He was?
Listen, real quiet now, or you'll miss it. You see what He did when He was here? He declared Himself to be Messiah. Is that right? We just went through it. Now He said, "A little while and the world won't see me no more, yet you'll see me. I'll be with you. I come from God; I go to God." How many knows the Scripture says that? Well, then, what did He come from? That pillar of fire, down here and dwelt in flesh, and returned back to that pillar of fire. Do you believe that's what He done?

61 Why, Paul, or Saul, rather, going down to Damascus, was on his road, and a great light flashed before him and knocked him down and put his eyes out. Is that right? And He said, "Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me?"
He said, "Who are you, Lord?"
He said, "I am Jesus." Is that right?
When Peter was in prison, what was it come into the cells and through the bars, and opened the doors and took him out? A light, pillar of fire. Then if that same pillar of fire that we got...

62 The scientific world knows it's the truth. Mr. Lacy said... He ought to know; he's a government man, head of the FBI---the fingerprinting, documents of the fingerprints and so forth. He said, "There has never been a picture before ever scientifically proven that there's a supernatural being." Now, that's right. That's right on his document. We got it right here. One of them hangs in religious Hall of Art at Washington, D.C., the only supernatural being was ever photographed.
Brother Arganbright was with me (Right here. How many knows Brother Arganbright? A good honest man), standing right there (Where was that, brother? In Germany?) in Lucerne when they wanted to know if that German camera would take it. I said, "Maybe it will."

63 So when I felt Him coming... There was a priest, like, standing across there. The Holy Spirit began to tell him he was a leader of communists, and told him he had stomach trouble, and so forth. They begin snapping the picture, and they got the picture of it---coming down, when it anointed, and when it went back and left---German cameras. Oh, they've got it everywhere. So the scientific world, if I die tonight, the scientific world knows that is true, come from God.
The church around the world knows it comes from God, because it has the same signs that it did when it was dwelling in our Lord Jesus. And we are sons and daughters of God by adoption through Him. And his Spirit that was in Him is in us. "The works that I do shall you do also." Everybody understand real clearly?

64 Now, let me see again. You without prayer cards that has sickness and diseases and you want God to heal you---I don't care where you are---raise up your hand. Well, that's just about everywhere. Now, be real reverent. Don't make a bit of noise. Keep real reverent. Just keep real sweet in your soul. And you do this: You say (let me give you a little scripture now), you say, "Lord, I'm like the woman that pressed through the crowd. When she seen, and recognized [she'd had a blood issue], she seen You, and she said within herself, "If I can touch that man's garment, I'll be made well."
You remember the story? And probably she didn't have a prayer card. But she wanted to get through the crowd, and she pressed through. So she touched his garment. That was a loose-hanging garment, now, the Palestinian robe. He'd have never felt it physically because ... it was proven. She touched Him like that, and she went back, sat down. And He turned around and said, "Who touched me?"

65 And the great St. Peter said... He rebuked Him. In other words he might have said, "What do you mean by saying something like that? That's an unmental question. Why would You say something like that? Well, everybody's got their arms around you and shaking your hands, and saying, 'Rabbi, we're glad to see you.' Well, why would you ask a thing like that?" See, that's what people's doing today.
He said, "But this was a different touch. I perceive that I have gotten weak." Now, if one touch like that would make the Son of God weak, what would it do to me, a sinner saved by grace? Because the translation I give you awhile ago, "These things that I do shall you also, and more than this." He is my strength. But it makes you weak. Daniel saw one vision, was troubled at his head for many days. Now, He turned around. He looked till He found her. Then He told her what her trouble was and she was healed.

66 Now, to these ministers, I suppose, sitting here on the platform, my brethren, and in the audience, how many ministers here tonight has read the scripture that Jesus Christ is right now our high priest that can be touched by the feeling of our infirmities? How many know that? All right. Well, then, if Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever, He's the same high priest, then He'd have to act the same as He did yesterday---if He's the same high priest. Is that right? Because God can't change, see.
Well, now, if you'll just be ... don't get nervous. Don't nobody get up. Just sit still. And you won't be nervous, and we'll just look, quietly. Say, "Brother Branham, can I come touch you?" That would be no more good than touching that bench there. It wouldn't do you a bit more good than touching that, to touch me. I ... ain't nothing about me. I'm just a no-good sinner, saved by the grace of God. Touch your husband, touch your wife, touch your brother, touch somebody else, it'd be just the same. You're touching man.

67 Now, it don't make any difference whether I put my hands on you or not, but just one time touch Him. Just touch Him, and let his resurrected life that's among us now... See what He'll do. See if He isn't still the same high priest.
Brethren, if He'll do that, it looks like it ought to take every kink out of your mind. Doesn't it? It seems like it's so perfect, there's the Word that says it. See? Now the only thing that keeps you from receiving it is gross denseness; and "Oh, I wish we could go on home, I'm so tired. Oh, I feel so bad, I wish he'd quit." See? You'll never get nothing.
You've got to be on the alert, watching, reverently watching, believing. "Lord, this is my hour. I'm coming, Lord. Let me touch You. That man don't know me."

68 How many out there is a stranger to me? Raise up your hand. Knows that I don't know you. How many in the prayer line, that I'm a stranger to you, I don't know you? Raise up your hands. Every one. All out over the audience. There isn't one person in here right now that I'm looking at, or anywhere that I can see, that I know. Not a person. Back here the only one I know is my own son standing there, Brother Arganbright here, the minister here, I've shook hands with this brother here, my field secretary, and one of the managers sitting right here. That's the only people in this building that I know. And if they have anything wrong with them, I won't speak with them. I'll let it go---like we got in the room last night, back there. I'll let that go till then.

69 But now, now we've talked about it, we've preached about it, declared it by the Word. How many says, "The Word says so"? Let's see you... How many says that we believe that Jesus meant just what He said? that that angel would be back on earth to the elected church? Now, "My sheep hear my voice"; an unbeliever will walk away and shake his head "No, sir." But He wasn't sent to him; He was sent to the believer, like Abraham. Never went down in Sodom, he went to the elect church, the called out church, the separated church, and He showed them that sign. As He was then, Jesus said the same thing would take place.
Now, how many believes that that's true, that it's time, it's the hour? Now if He will come, and will do something to these people along here just the same as He did then (out in the audience, here, and around this ... wherever it may be), if He'll do the same thing, how many will promise that "With all the faith that I got I'll accept it"? Raise up your hand, every one that wants to... I'm trying to find the spot.
Now let's softly sing just a moment, "Only Believe," if you, sister, will give us the key on it:
Only believe, (everyone be reverent
now, be in prayer) Only believe,
All things are possible, only believe;
Only believe, only believe.
All things are possible, only believe.
Now in the name of Jesus Christ, the Son of God, I take every soul in here under my control for the glory of God. Don't move around. Be real reverent. All right, start your prayer line.

70 Would you just walk a little closer? Now (to the audience), now I've been preaching so I want to talk to this woman. Now let me Scripturally base it, now, for you. Let's take where I was talking. Let's see, it'd be St. John 4. Here's a man and a woman. I believe you held up your hands that we were strangers to one another. [Sister replies, "Yes."] We are strangers. So the audience way back in the back would know that we're strangers, we just both hold our hands up that we don't know each other.

71 Now, this is just like St. John 4. Our Lord come to a well, and met a woman. He'd never saw her; she'd never saw Him. But He described what that woman's condition was, where her trouble was. And quickly she said, "You must be a prophet. We know the Messiah is coming, and when the Messiah cometh He'll tell us these things." How many knows that's true?
And now, sister, I just got through saying, I believe, that He was on his road to Jericho, but had to go by Samaria. And the Father sent Him up there. Well, now, we don't know one another. I've never seen you, and you've never seen me, and this is our first time meeting. Then I believe God sent me down here. Brother Arganbright there called me, and asked me if I'd come to Long Beach, and also come to Brother Arnie Vick's. I told him I would. Well, they put both weeks down here for some reason. Then I believe that was God doing that.

72 Then I'm here. Then you're here. Father sent me here, but I don't know you. So if the Messiah would happen to... Me being a man, a human being, your brother Branham, I don't know nothing about you. God knows that, and his Word here. But if the Messiah will come and anoint me, then He'd do the same thing that He did down there. He'd know what your trouble was, and could tell you.
Now what if He was standing here Himself in person---not me, but Him? You'd say, "O Lord Jesus, heal me."
Now He couldn't do that. He'd say, "Child of mine, I've already done it when I died for you." But then He'd say, "That you might know that I am He, I will do as I did when I was here on earth because I cannot change, see. Now if the Father will show me what your trouble is, then would you believe me to be Messiah?"
You'd say, "Yea, Lord." And He'd perhaps do the same thing He done because He'd have to---He's the same.

73 But see now, He Himself, the body, Jesus Christ, is sitting at the right hand of God in heaven. But He sent back the Holy Spirit, the Spirit that was upon Him. Now He had it without measure. The fullness of the Godhead bodily was in Him. I just got a little spoonful. That's what we have---got it by measure. But if I took a spoonful of water out of the ocean, and brought it up here and tested the chemicals in it, the same chemicals that's in the entire ocean is in that spoonful---just not as much of it.
See, as I'm talking I'm watching something. You're aware that something's going on. Now if the audience can see that, standing between me and that woman stands that light that you're looking at on the picture. There He is. Now it makes me feel good, I know He's here. I was a little worried at first, but He's here now. You're aware that something's going on. I want you to witness to the audience if it's so or not. Just a moment ago a real sweet comfortable-like feeling come, just a nice comfortable feeling. That's right, isn't it?

74 Now, if the Lord Jesus will let me know something about you, that... I know nothing. But if He could tell me something that you have been, or something like that... If He could tell you what you have been, He'd know what you will be. If He could tell you that, you'd be the judge whether it's correct or not.
You are troubled with something with your hip, I believe, something wrong with your hip. That's what you want me to pray for. If that's right, raise up your hand so the people can see. All right. Do you believe now with all your heart? Now, just a moment, see. So that you won't ... you'll thoroughly understand it wasn't a guess. But that's as much as Jesus done to the woman at the well. That's right. Is that right? That's right. But now just to let you know that He keeps his word...
That proves it. You say, "It could've been a guess, Brother Branham." How could I guess that, when right now I don't know what I told her. It'd have to come off the tape. Now be reverent.

75 Just look again, just merely for a vision, that's all. I'm watching you. Yeah, I see you going back, back, back. Yes, it's in your hip. All right. You got hip trouble, and you got somebody else on your mind that you're praying for. That's a son. Something wrong with him, in a cast. That's right. And then, there's something else. That boy is shadowed. That means that he needs salvation. He's not a Christian. That's true. Do you believe God can tell me who you are? Would it help you? Mrs. Morris, go believe.
Now do you believe on the Lord Jesus Christ? Now just raise up your hands, and say, "Thank You, Lord Jesus."
Our heavenly Father, Thou hast not left us alone. Thou has blessed us, and give us of thy goodness. I pray that You'll help us to believe now, and each one be healed. Through Jesus Christ our Lord, we ask it. Amen.

76 Now please be seated. Please, please. Don't move. Stay still. See, each one of you is a spirit. How many knows that? Sure. Look here. What is this? My finger. What's this? My hand. What's this? My ear. But who's me? It's me inside. This is what belongs to me. That's what I'm talking about. You, your spirit. And by being anointed now with his Holy Spirit, I'm in contact with you. Pray. Pray---don't doubt. What could happen right now if the church would just get alive!
Is this the next person? How do you do, lady? We are strange to each other, too, I suppose. I do not know you, but God does know you. And if He knows you, then the only way I'd be able to know you would be by something He'd tell me.
Jesus said, "I do just as the Father shows me," see. And that's the only way I could do---just as Father would show me. But if He'll show me what your trouble is, will you believe Him?

77 The colored lady sitting there, right out here, with high blood pressure, do you believe Jesus Christ makes you well now? You touched something, didn't you? All right. You're healed. Now Jesus Christ heals you. Now tell me what she touched. Tell me what she touched. She touched the high priest.
I don't know that lady. Never seen... But I turned here, and I knowed this was a white woman; and I looked, there was a colored lady standing here. I looked around. She had on a funny-looking thing on top of her head. I thought, where's that? I felt it going just like a heart beat, going che, che, che, che..." I looked, and there it was. I seen it break loose like that. I seen them put something around her arm, and pump it up. And they said high blood pressure. It's over now, sister. Jesus Christ heals you. Is He a high priest that can be touched by the feeling of our infirmities? Now be real reverent.

78 Now we want... God is worshipped. We like to worship Him, but the Holy Spirit's so timid. Let's be real quiet. Now you little fellows be real nice, down here now in front---real nice. Now real quiet.
Everybody start praying now, saying, "Father, I am needy," while I talk to this woman here, because it's easy to come in contact with her. I don't say He'd tell her anything, but if He doesn't tell her ... if He doesn't say one thing to you, if I just pass you by and lay hands on you, you know there's got to be some kind of anointing here. Is that right? I wouldn't know these things. Well then, if you believe it to be the Holy Spirit, you get your reward. If you call it something else, that'd be between you and God, see. I wouldn't know. I can only declare the Bible says it. Here it is to prove it.

79 Now our sister standing before me, she's suffering with a nervous condition and something wrong in her throat. That is right. If that's right, raise up your hand.
Do you believe? Just watching now. I believe it would be better if I just take my time with a few of them like that. Just watch. I think it'll hold the audience better than just start running a big crowd here. Now just be real reverent. I feel led to do this.
There's something else on her mind. She hasn't delivered herself yet. There's something else. Yes, I see what it is. It's a trouble in your side. It's a growth, isn't it? Do you believe God can tell me what side it's in? It's in your left side. If that's right, raise up your hand. Do you believe now?
There's something else on your heart. That's a man. That man's your husband. He's sitting out there. Do you believe God can tell me what's his trouble? Will you believe for him? You put that handkerchief on him. He's got trouble with his eyes, and with his ears. If that's right, raise up your hand. Go put the handkerchief on him, and be well in the name of Jesus Christ. Have faith now. Have faith.

80 Now the whole thing's becoming like a light all over the building. So now be real reverent. And if I don't get to see you after this for a while, well, we'll see you tomorrow night. Now be real reverent everyone now, and try to work with me. You realize... If anybody wants to come and take my place, you can come right on, see. But just be real reverent. Now, believe. I'm here...
I'm not a preacher. I haven't the education to be a preacher. God gave me maybe something else, see, so I could help you. Your pastor can preach to you and help you, but He gave me this to help you because I love you. And He loves you, and He'd want me to express his love to you.

81 How do you do? Now, here's a beautiful picture again---a colored sister, and white man. Now that's the same as it was at Samaria---a Jew and Samaritan. But Jesus quickly let her know... Said because that we was raised in a different part of the country, and turned our skins different color...
God's God of all races. He's like a flower bee. He has white flowers, and red flowers, and blue flowers. And that's his bouquet. See, He makes us this way. But our hearts... We all come from one person, Adam and Eve. That's right. The country we lived in, it changed our colors. It has nothing to do with our spirits and hearts. That's true. God's just as real to you as He is to anybody else. Do you believe that? Do you believe me to be his servant? Do you believe the things that I've said? I know you do.

82 I just come from Africa recently ... last few years. Going back again, too. Oh, to see that faith, that simple faith. If God will reveal to me what's your trouble, will you believe me to be his prophet, or his servant? You'll believe it. May He grant it. Rectal trouble. It's a rectal. Now all you colored people believe, now. This is your sister. Wait. Something more than that, too.
You said it was an intestinal trouble, the intestines. And they're shrinking, shriveling up, collapsing---the intestines. That is right. Do you believe with all your heart? Do you believe me to be his servant? If I tell you what your name is, would you believe me better? Would the audience believe better? Would you believe? Mrs. Jefferson, go home, Jesus Christ makes you well. God bless you. Have faith in God.

83 How do you do? We're strangers to each other. Tell me when I get three by, then I'll... We're strangers to each other. I do not know you. You do not know me. Ma'am? You've been in my meetings, but I wouldn't know you. You just sat out in the audience. All right.
Something happened but I missed it. It was in that corner. Maybe it was that lady, the lady that just sat down. Was you the lady that was just prayed for or something? Yes. I watched that light. It left the platform ... but I thought it was a man.
It is a man, sitting right there, with throat trouble. Yeah. Yes, sir. The man sitting by you is real happy, because he just got healed, the glory of God upon him. That man had throat trouble. Your throat trouble has left you, sir. You're sitting there praying, for you brought the power of God upon you. Go now, your sin's forgiven, your throat's healed.
Go and be made well, in the name of the Lord Jesus.

84 I challenge you, have faith in God. That lady sitting behind there, looking right at me as hard as she can, don't you see that light standing over her? She's suffering with a bladder trouble. Do you believe with... Raise up, sister. Stand up and accept your healing. All right. Go, and Jesus Christ makes you well. I never seen the woman in my life. Are we strangers to one another? Raise up your hand, lady, if that's right. All right. Go home, and be well. When you sit back down, there's a lady sitting right next to you there, bothered with throat trouble also. Stand up, lady, and accept your healing. We're strangers to one another? Go home and be well. Jesus Christ makes you well.
Can't you see that He lives? Christ lives. He's the same yesterday, today, and forever. Just have faith in God, children. Have faith in God. Don't doubt. Just believe with all your heart. "If thou canst believe, all things are possible."

85 You got a nervous condition, cough. That's what makes you cough. It's your nerves. You're afraid there's something wrong in your throat, but it isn't. When you get nervous, that's when you cough more. That's not your main thing, though. You're praying for somebody else. He had an accident, didn't he? Son, in the hospital. He's semiconscious. You're scared whether he would die or something. He has been saved, but you're a little afraid. He wasn't prayed up just right. Isn't that right? If that's right, raise your hand. It's all right. It's okay, go on. He'll come out of it. You believe with all your heart, and don't doubt. Have faith.
Do you believe me to be his prophet ... or his servant? That staggers people when I say that. I don't claim to be a prophet. I'm just his ... I'm his servant, your brother.

86 Just a moment. Just a moment. Something happened. Somewhere in the audience. Be reverent now. That's it. Be real reverent, and pray now.
Just reach up and say, "Lord Jesus..." I don't care what you have, say, "That man don't know me. I haven't got no prayer card, I'm not going to be in that prayer line. He don't know me. But, Lord, if You'll just ... me touch your garment, then You turn him around to me." See? Just see if that isn't right.
Now be real reverent. We are strangers to each other, we do not know each other. If that's right, just so ... we raise our hands, the people see. All right. We are strangers to each other, but God knows us both. Do you believe me to be his servant? The reason I say that, He told me... You've probably read my book. Have you ever read my book? He said, "If you get the people to believe you..." Believe what? Not believe me to be Him, but believe that He sent me, see. He has to get somebody somewhere, see.

87 So He's got other men on the field, great men. I'm one of the small... But my little part, I like to do for Him to show Him my expression about my love for Him. To be reverent, I love Him with all my heart. And I cannot love Him without loving you all, see? For He'd rather I'd love you all than love Him. I'd rather you'd love my children instead of loving me. And me, being a parent, thinks that---what about Him?
Now you say, "Brother Branham, what are you doing?" I'm waiting to see what He'll tell me. If He doesn't tell me nothing, and I just come lay hands on you, would you believe anyhow? You'll believe anyhow. Would the audience believe that way anyhow? There it comes, though.

88 You've had an operation. It's pretty serious. It isn't doing well. You're scared. You're afraid it's cancer. Now, do you believe He can tell me what the operation was? I see the operation. It was a gall bladder, I believe. That's right. You're scared. If I don't say nothing---what it is, or whether it is---if God'll just let you have faith, that's all you need, isn't it? Is that right?
If He'll tell me who you are, or where you're from, or something like that, or something else in your life, will you believe? Would it make you believe real... You know that I don't know you. You're not from here. You're from a place called Downey. You're Mrs. Kelly. Now go back, you're healed. Jesus Christ makes you well. Do you believe? Have faith in God. Don't doubt.

89 That woman... Is that the woman that was just healed, or prayed for? That light was right there just a moment ago, right where she was at. Somebody praying. Young man, do you have a prayer card? Do you believe me to be his prophet, his servant? Do you believe God will heal your friend? If I tell you what's wrong, will you believe it? Cancer. Have faith and believe. Now he'll get well. Amen.
The lady sitting right back here looking at me, got trouble with your foot. It was caused from an operation. Wearing glasses, brown hair. Do you believe with all your heart? Raise up your hand. All right, you can go home and be well. Jesus Christ heals you.
Do you believe, sir? In the name of Jesus Christ, go and be healed. Amen. Have faith now. Don't doubt.
Lady's got something wrong with your eye. If I tell you what it is, will you believe? It's cancer. Will you accept your healing? Then in the name of Jesus Christ, go and be healed. Everybody pray now. Have faith.

90 My, here's another cancer. Do you believe that God will make you well, sister? Come let me lay hands on you while the anointing... Go now and may the God of heaven heal you, and make you well.
That kidney trouble left you while you were sitting there. Go and be made well. Believe on the Lord Jesus with all your heart. Don't doubt. Just believe with all your heart. All right.
Come, lady. Do you believe me to be his servant? God can heal heart trouble. Don't you believe that? Do you believe yours was healed? Then go on your road and say, "Thank you, Lord Jesus," that you be made well.
You had a ladies' trouble, and also a heart trouble. Do you believe it's gone? All right, go on your road and say, "Thank you, Lord," and be made well.
A man of your age should have a little prostate, nervous trouble, but one of your great things is a killer. That's heart trouble. Do you believe that He'll heal you? If that's right, raise your hand. Go and be well. Jesus Christ make you well.

91 Come believing now. How do you do, lady? You're awful thin, but you got a shadow over you. You're shadowed to death. It's a cancer, a killer. Do you believe God will make you well? Go, and I rebuke that devil from my sister. In the name of Jesus Christ, come out of her.
I'm a stranger to you, lady. Do you believe God can tell me what your trouble is? Would you believe? Wait a minute. Sitting right there with stomach trouble, sir, do you believe God makes you well? Do you believe with all your heart? Black-headed man, young fellow with a white shirt on, praying there. That's it. Go home and eat now. It's a nervous stomach---had you blocked off. Do you believe on Him with all your heart? Do you accept your healing? Stand up, if you do. Just raise right up. All right. Go home. Jesus Christ makes you well.
If God can tell me what's your trouble... Do you believe me to be his prophet, his servant? Your diabetes will leave you, if you'll believe. Go home and be well. Jesus Christ will heal you.

92 A lady, have several things wrong with you. That's right. As a lady your age, you actually have that. But the thing that you want me to pray for is a heart trouble. That's right. You have a nervous weak heart. When you lay down it gets worse than ever. So now, if you'll believe with all your heart, you can go home and be well. Jesus Christ make you well.
How about believing, sitting there in that lawn chair? I can't heal you. Got a prayer card? God can make you well, if you'll believe. You can't sit there and live, like the lepers that sat at the gate. They said, "Why sit we here till we die?" You got in contact with something. You're in contact with Him now. You touched his garment, if I could just get you to see it. You're dying with cancer, but if you'll believe with all your heart, Jesus Christ will make you well.
The lepers said, "Why do we sit here till we die? If we sit here we'll die." If you sit there, you'll die. Rise up in the name of Jesus Christ. Go home and be made well.

93 All that wants to believe on Him, do you believe with all your heart? Stand up on your feet, every one of you, and accept your healing. Raise up your hands. Hallelujah! Here's another woman out of a wheelchair standing up. They're standing up everywhere around over the building. Down here they're getting up. Stand up out of your wheelchairs. Get up. This is ... the Son of God is in your midst, Christ the healer. Stand up. Raise up your hands, and give Him praise. Lord Jesus, I cast out the devil of doubt in this building.
Come out of here, Satan, I challenge you in the name of Jesus Christ.

It is I, be not afraid

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1 Good evening, friends. I'm certainly not worthy of such a great compliment as was just give by Brother Bigby. I hope I could live up to something like that. And I'm happy tonight to be back here. We've just ... passing through the country, and we was up with Brother Parker Thomas in his convention. And when I knew that we would be in this district... I had always had such a love and respect for Brother Bigby, and for this people. I deemed it a great privilege to get to come tonight, and for tonight and tomorrow night, and to know... Then, also, I'm just hearing that Brother Ned Iverson, a bosom friend, a great minister of the gospel, is going to continue on. And I thought I would come tonight.

2 I preached so much up there, last time in that convention, I just about preached my lungs out. And Brother Ned's going to do the preaching down here. And so, I thought I would just come and talk to you about Jesus, just what I knew about Him, and pray for the sick people. So ... as I remember, when the church here was ... I believe had just been built, or Brother Bigby had just taken it over, or some way... And I'll never forget those glorious days that we were here.
I was talking, coming down the street. I believe it's been about six years and three months, or something like that, since I was here ... these fine people all through the south and east. It's such a privilege to fellowship.

3 Now, tonight, we have our pastor with us, from the Tabernacle, that takes my place while I'm gone. I suppose maybe he's been introduced---Brother Neville. We also have other pastors here of sister churches: Brother Bryant (I guess all of them), Brother Collins, Brother Wilbur Collins, a Methodist minister who just received the Holy Ghost recently, and in the faith. And Brother Neville also was a Methodist minister. Brother Jackson was a Methodist minister. And so it looks like the Methodists down our way is just coming right along.
You know, I like to think of this like that last well that Jacob dug. There's room for us all, you know ... have to run us away. And thinking the other night, that Pentecost is not really an organization; it's a fellowship. It's an experience. And we all can fellowship around and have a great time.

4 And so, to be here tonight, and to try to fill the pulpit for a gracious teacher like Brother Bigby, that's a big order. And I would not try to do it all. And then knowing that after I leave tomorrow night, that Brother Ned Iverson... I'm sure you all know Brother Ned, and Brother Vayle, and those great teachers there; and Brother Ned's father---the outstanding man, one of them, on the field today. And a little fellow like me, that hardly knows my ... I just know my ABC's. That's about all. You know what that is? To Always Believe Christ, ABC. So that's about all, I suppose, I'd have to know; that others around here know ... know how to fill it in around there, you know, just make it in. So that's very fine.

5 Wish I could stay this week and listen to Brother Ned, and have a lot of fellowship with you people and fine pastor. But I've got to go home Wednesday morning. I get there Thursday night some time---nine, ten o'clock. Four or five o'clock Thursday morning I have to take for the Cow Palace at the West Coast, and be in Los Angeles to begin out there just a few days prior, or, after I leave here.
And then go up the West Coast, all the way to Washington, Oregon, and up into Canada---perhaps Anchorage, Alaska, to close the services; and come back and go overseas to Tanganyika, Uganda, Kenya, and South Africa, and down through there. I certainly need your prayers.

6 I guess you wonder why I'm all scarred up across the face. Maybe many of you knew, just about four weeks ago a big Weatherby Magnum rifle blowed up in my face, and about six tons of pressure struck me right in the face. Should have just cleaned shoulders and head and all off. But you know, He knew I had to come up here yet, so He just left me so I could. So, He didn't take me that time.
And so, I always like to shoot targets, and fish. And I'm kind of glad the Lord let me do that, because I like to be outside in nature. Someone had just give me a rifle. It was a converted over rifle, so the head space wasn't bored out in it. And I put the shell in it, raised up to shoot the target, and that's... All I seen was red fire about as high as that ceiling. And the gun barrel went fifty yards out in front of me, and the stock and bolt went twenty-five or thirty yards behind me, and cut down the bushes and trees and things around me. And I don't know... It's only God let me live.

7 And it's a wonder it didn't put my eyes out. It shot several pieces right into the skull around there, and went through the lips here, and knocked that tooth out there. Knocked the top of it off. And fifteen pieces went just below the sight. Made a half moon to keep it from cutting the sight out.
They'd taken me over to the doctor. He said, "The only thing that I know, that the good Lord must have been sitting there, and wasn't ready for his servant to go yet." Looked like Satan was sure trying hard. But you know, I'm so glad that He is our safety, a place where we can come. I feel safe.

8 I was preaching the other night on "The name of the Lord is a tower, where the righteous run into it and are safe." Aren't you glad to be in there tonight? Safe in his own Word. All the devil's darts are passed away, by our shield of faith to know that we are standing in that safety zone, anchored in Christ, safe as we can be in there. Not even death, itself, can harm us. We're already dead. Our lives are hid in God through Christ, sealed in there by the Holy Ghost. Isn't that wonderful?

9 I was speaking, up at the meeting the other night. I said... I don't ... things that I say is not very much, but once in awhile the Holy Spirit gives me something to say, and I just cherish it so much. I just love it. And He gave me something, a thought the other night, down home at the Tabernacle before coming up. And it just seemed to be the profound something that just took a hold of me.
I was thinking about evidence, and I was thinking of when Joshua went down, or... Well, first when Israel ... God's people were all in bondage. They were slaves, and they had to take what was given to them. They threw out molded bread; they saw they had to eat it. If they had a lovely daughter, and the Egyptians wanted to take that girl out and ravish her, they couldn't do nothing about it. Had a son, a fine fellow, they wanted to kill him, there was nothing they could do. They were slaves. What a life that must have been for the people of God to have to live in such a condition.

10 But one day coming down out of the wilderness came a prophet with a pillar of fire upon him. He told them that there was a land that was flowing with milk and honey, and they could have their own home, raise their children, and live in peace. God loved them, and was going to take them to that land. None of them had ever been over there, you know. They just had to take his word for it. So they followed him out.
They came to a place called Kadesh-barnea, which we understand to be the great judgment seat. And it's supposed to be an oasis out there in the desert, where these big wells, and little springs which---we could go into types, and say that it's the throne of God, and the little judgment seats, the churches---outlets---where judgment begins in the house of God.

11 But however...
Among the group there was a great warrior among them. His name was Joshua, which means Jehovah-saviour, and Joshua went ahead of the group. Went over ... crossed Jordan, went over into the promised land, and brought back the evidence that the land was there, and the fruit was beautiful. Two men packed a bunch of grapes. They could taste of the fruit before they even got there, knowing that it was a evidence that the land was good. God had not lied to them. The prophet had not lied to them. The land was there, and they was right on the border of it.
They crossed over into the land. They were given different parts, their tribes. And then they raised their families, raised their crops. They lived in peace. They were a nation. They were a people. But finally, old age caught up with them, and they died. The little grounds became specked with graveyards on the hillside. With tear-stained eyes they walked up over the grave of the saintedest of them, as they buried their loved ones.
JOHN5:24

12 Then one day, there came another great warrior. He was the warrior of all of them, Jehovah manifested in flesh, Jesus Christ, his Son. He came down, and he told them that there was a land far beyond this land. There was a land where men didn't die no more. And He said, "There is life after death." And he taught it for three and a half years.
And then one day He came to Kadesh-barnea, where He stood the judgment for us all; the judgment seat of God, where God poured out upon Him the iniquity, and the penalty for our iniquity, the wrath of God upon Him. And He bore in his body our sins, and He crossed the river that we call Jordan, death.
But on Easter morning, like Joshua, He come back with the evidence. Man lived again after death. They thought it was a spirit. He said, "Feel me. A spirit doesn't have flesh and bones like I have." Said, "You have something to eat?" And they gave Him fish and bread, and He eat it. Then He said, "I'm going to give you the earnest of this land. But wait up there at Jerusalem until you get the down payment."

13 So they went up there and waited, and the earnest was sent back of that land. And today we can enjoy that. We are now ... reckon ourselves dead and buried with Him in baptism. We are raised with Him. Spiritually speaking, we are now tonight sitting in heavenly places in Christ Jesus, raised up with Him.
We are now in the body of Christ. I Corinthians 12, "...by one Spirit we're all baptized into one body." By what? That's the earnest of our inheritance. We already got the down payment on it, that we know we've passed from death unto life. We look back and see where we once were, and where we are now. There's sin in the world down there, and we've raised above it sitting with Him, our King, in heavenly places in Christ Jesus. What an evidence!
And not even death itself... When a great warrior, Paul, come to face it, he screamed, "Oh, death, where is your sting? or grave, where is your victory? But thanks be to God who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ." I better stop that. I'll be preaching.

14 I was at a convention not long ago and I heard a colored lady give a testimony. Sounds rather rude. You excuse me, please, for the rudeness of it. But it seems to fit right now. She raised up to give a testimony. She says (and if there's any colored people near, I don't mean to make this expression rudely), she says, "Well, I wants to thank the Lord." She said, "I ... for being here." She said, "I know that I's not what I ought to be." And she said, "Then I know again, I'm not what I want to be." But she said, "One thing I do know: I'm not what I used to be." I think that's right.
That's one thing we can tell with this evidence. We're not what we used to be. There it is down there, below us. And we have risen in Christ, sitting in heavenly places in Christ Jesus with the evidence of eternal life, by receiving the Holy Spirit, as He promised at the day of Pentecost we would receive it.

15 And I'm here tonight to share that with you. And Brother Iverson, as I said, will be preaching. And I think they have services tomorrow here. And I'd say come out and hear this great servant of Christ. Precious boy. Brother Iverson is struggling. And we've sat together, and... I know God's got something in view for Brother Iverson. He's just probing, trying to find his way around.
Like I was illustrating the other night, the woman trying to touch his garment. Every time she tried to touch it, why, somebody'd get in her way. But she was persistent. She stayed there till she did get the touch. And that's the way. Just keep pushing till you get the touch. That's the only way to do it. Be persistent about it.

16 And now, I've come to pray for the sick people, while Brother Iverson come to preach to the saints, and so forth.
And now, I would like to say this just before we read a text, and... I won't keep you too long, because up there I kept the people till nearly midnight every night. And I just got through preaching at home, just a short sermon---six hours. And I don't feel quite that good tonight, though.
So now, I think, though, while we are... We want to come to fellowship, now, for about thirty minutes around the Word, just a little around the word of drama. And I think that one of the greatest things that any Christian could think of, would be to know that they are now in the presence of Jesus Christ. We talk about Him, we worship Him, we think of Him, and we read about Him. And now to have the direct evidence that the One who wrote the Word is here with us... We see Him moving, his presence, just like watching something move through the audience, and with the people, and in the people, and over the people, and through the people---God with us, in us, through us, over us. I think it's a wonderful consolation. Don't you think so?

17 And now, you bear with me just a few moments, while I read some Scripture. If you'd like to turn to it, I'd like to turn to Matthew, the 14th chapter, and read a portion---about the 22nd until about 27th verse. And maybe from this God will let us draw a little context.
And straightway Jesus constrained his disciples to get into a ship, and to go before him unto the other side, while he sent the multitudes away.
And when he had sent the multitudes away, he went up into a mountain apart to pray: and when the evening was come, he was there alone.
But the ship was now in the midst of the sea, tossed with the waves: for the wind was contrary.
And in the fourth watch of the night Jesus went unto them, walking on the sea.
And when the disciples saw him walking on the sea, they were troubled, saying, It is a spirit; and they cried out for fear.
But straightway Jesus spake unto them, saying, Be of good cheer; it is I; be not afraid.
I'd like to use that for a text. "It is I; Be Not Afraid." Let us bow our heads just a moment. While we have our heads bowed and I trust that our hearts are bowed, too, in his presence, if there would be a request amongst the people for a certain something from Christ, and you'd want me to remember you, would you just raise up your hand, and God will know what's below your hand. Thank you.

18 Most gracious God, who brought up the Lord Jesus from the dead, and has kept Him among us now for these two thousand years, and some day will present that glorious body coming to the earth the second time to take away his church we are so happy that that great breath of hope rests within our souls tonight.
We are happy, Lord, because we are not alone tonight in this fellowship of this great joy. There are many thousands around the world who are sharing this privilege, as we claim that we are not of this world, but we are pilgrims and strangers. We are merely sojourning here. We care not for the world. Our only objective is to get the world to see the One who died for them.
And to the sick children of this earth, they have a privilege of coming to this great fountain, and in there know that their sickness is paid for. Jesus of Nazareth, He was wounded for our transgressions, with his stripes we were healed.

19 And we so thankful for this, to know that we have this grand outlet tonight to get rid of all of our worries, all of our troubles, our sicknesses, diseases, and even the very fear of death itself. And death shall flee from us when we confess Him, and believe Him.
We are taught with his own words in St. John 5:24, "He that heareth my words, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come to the judgment; but is already passed from death to life."
God, how we thank You for that. That's the words of the eternal God. And we so cherish them in our heart, knowing that both heavens and earth will pass away, but that Word will never fail. All through the midst of troubles, trials, the atomic bombs, down through the shadows of death, it lives right on, because it's the Word of God.

20 Hands was up tonight, Father. We seen almost a hundred percent over this building. Even inside and out, balconies and everywhere, there was hands up. They're needy, Father. I need You, we all need You. Won't You come, Lord? Visit each one of us tonight. Give to us the desire of our heart. We desire to see You and love You. We know You are most lovable, full of grace and mercy.
And be merciful to us poor, needy people tonight, for we love You, and call your name upon us. We are Christians. Thank You, Father.
We'll look forward to You visiting now. I know You have in the singing, and in the prayer, and so forth. And I pray, Father, You'll continue with us through the night.
Tomorrow be with my precious Brother Ned. I pray that You'll anoint him, Lord, and with tomorrow night's service, and on continuing services. God bless our most gracious Brother Bigby here, this lovely church, and his sheep that he's shepherded. God, be with this great man and guide him and direct Him, Lord. May he feed the lambs and sheep of God. We ask it in Jesus' name. Amen.

21 Now, it must have been about the time the sun went down. It had been a terrible day. A lot of pressure had been on. And those are bad days, when pressure is on. And wherever Jesus went, it was constantly a press of the crowds. And this had been an exceptional day. And about time the sun started down, I can just see those great big muscles in that brawny back of that fisherman, as he's pushing the boat off the bank. And he was a strong man. He knowed the lakes. He'd fished on them since a little boy.
His father was a fisherman before him. That was his occupation. He knew the kinds of water, how to fish, and where. And as they turned the little boat around... And Simon walks up, perhaps, to the middle of the boat, sits down by the side of his brother, Andrew, and picks up the oar.

22 Now the ships of those days were not like they are now. Then they were propelled by manpower; sometimes had sails on them. When the wind was right, they could sail. When the winds wasn't blowing, they could row.
And the way the fishing ships were, they had maybe six or eight sets of oarlocks. And the oars were so great, they would take two men---one on one side, one on the other---because when the waves and things (storms on the sea and the lakes), they'd have to pull hard to keep the little boat in direction, or it would capsize. Head into the waves just right.
You people know, who live along these lakes here, how you have to set the stern of the boat to angle the waves, so it won't go up and down. It would pitch it right down, and fill it full of water. You've got to angle it all. And taken strong arms and experienced men to pull the boat.

23 Most all who lived around Galilee were fishermen. That was a great fishing country, and they spent much time on the lakes. And they'd had a great day, great things. And, of course, when... There's something about fellowship when you meet a servant of Christ, shake their hand. And if they've ever been in contact with Jesus, there's just something about Him you just can't never forget them. There's something that pulls, that you just hate to see them go. I've often wondered how that Christians could ever fuss at one another, or differ because of little differences and things, when they really know that that's a brother or sister who loves the Lord.
We used to sing a little song at our Tabernacle years ago, and many... I guess you have yet. I just come up ... drove up outside, and heard that beautiful singing. And that song we used to sing, it's an old timer:
Blest be the tie that binds
Our hearts in Christian love;
The fellowship of kindred mind
Is like to that above.
When we asunder part,
It gives us inward pain;
But we shall still be joined in heart,
And hope to meet again.

24 If the church could just feel that way! If each Christian could feel the other fellow's sorrows, and burdens and so forth, wouldn't it be a wonderful thing? Jesus wants us to be that way. He said ... his prayer was that we would be one. I believe He couldn't ask God for anything, unless God'll grant it to Him.
Like Martha said, "Even now, whatever you ask God, God will give it to you." I believe that one ... I believe all Christians, even now, feel that way about one another. That's right. Of course, we know the great harvest field... There was weeds, and tares, and the parable of the net cast. And there was all different kinds. It all has to come together. But I believe God knows his precious children that's scattered along through there in this dark world.

25 As the ship moved out, those beloved people standing on the bank, waving, "Good-bye, come back and see us again. We were so happy to get to meet you. And now we know that we are fellow citizens of the great kingdom of God. We are members of his family. Won't you come back to see us again?", as the ship moved out into the sea.
And you know, they'd probably make a couple of big strokes, and then raise up, and wave; and stroke the boat again, and the little ship on a calm sea moving as those great fishermen pulling the oars.
And it must've been a dramatic sight to watch the little ship, as it got smaller and smaller, and the group on the bank grew dimmer and dimmer, till finally they faded out as the sun begin to set. Pulling a boat is a hard job. I'm just going to think, now, that I'm sitting in the back seat, relating something that happened out there.

26 And now, I see them as they stopped to rest just a little bit, pulling their oars in, and wiping the perspiration from their face. It must have been ... I'm going to say young John, after they sat catching their breath for a few moments, because they had quite a distance yet to go---most of the night to pull. And then, catching his breath, looked around, and said, "Brethren..."
This testimony meeting they are going to have now. And he said, "Let us have a testimony meeting while we are waiting. And He'll catch up with us after awhile, and let's have a testimony meeting."
And I'd like to do that tonight, while we're talking about Him. Surely, He'll catch up with us after awhile, along here somewhere. And let's just talk about Him a little while. Let's hear the testimonies they were having.

27 I can hear John say, "I would like to testify first," because John was a young fellow. And he said, "You know, we can never be skeptic anymore. We just simply can't do it, because what we seen today... We know that no matter how many Pharisees, or how many scribes say that this is wrong, we know it's right. We are not following a false prophet. We are following the Lord's Christ."
And he said, "I might have said something like this: Years ago, as a little boy, I was raised down close to Jericho. And I can remember the days when I'd play out there on the hillside in spring. I can still see that pretty little Jewish mother of mine. When Dad would be gone out in the fields to work, she used to rock me to sleep in the afternoon. And she'd sit out on the porch, and rock me to sleep, and tell me Bible stories.

28 "And she would point down to the ford, just below Jericho, and say, 'John, don't forget. Remember, there's where the great, mighty, Joshua crossed the sea ... or the ... in the month of April ... or the Jordan. And great Jehovah held the waters back, while we come into the promised land.'
"'And right down on that road going there, the great prophet Elijah and Elisha walked arm-in-arm. They crossed Jordan.'
"'John, don't forget when God visited his people in that wilderness there. He kept them for forty years, and every day a miracle happened. John, we are told now that the days of miracles is past, but the great Jehovah made bread and rained it down on the earth to feed about two and a half million of our people. For forty years they seen that miracle.'"

29 And John might have said something like this, as we listen to him. "Brethren, I've watched Him along as I have been following Him. But today, I seen something. I used to ask Mama, 'Mama, where ... does God have a night force up there that ... and big ovens up in the heaven that bakes all this bread ... the angels, and then pours it out on the ground for his children?'
"'Why,' she said, 'no, John. You know our God can create that bread.'
"Now, I've always believed that story. And today, when I seen Him take those five loaves and feed five thousand, that settled it."
I can hear him turn, and say, "Matthew, did you see the looks on his face? Why, he looked like he wasn't surprised at all, that little boy."
Matthew said, "Yeah, I seen him. Really, he'd played truant from school [Well, we called it hooky.], and had run off. And I asked him... I looked around. I seen no one there that had anything to eat, but he had his lunch under his arm. And I asked him if I could have it. And he said, 'Well, I brought it for my dinner. But if it's to go to that Man that I've heard talk, He can have it.'"

30 I'd just loved to've heard Him, wouldn't you? just to see how different He was. And you notice, as long as the lunch was in the little boy's hand, it was just five loaves and two fishes. But when it got into Jesus' hand, it fed five thousand. So the little things that we have, if we'll just let Him have it... The little things that we've got, if we'll just let Him have it, it will do great things.
John was so elated. He said, "He looked like Jehovah, as he stood there taking those biscuits, and breaking them. And I climbed around behind the rock. I wanted to see where it come from. And He held the biscuit up in his hand. [And, I'm saying "biscuit" because we Southerners know what a biscuit is, you know]. And so, He took this biscuit and broke it, and I watched that broke place, and He handed out. And when He started back, before I could notice, the biscuit had done growed out again." Said, "In those hands ... must have been anointed with them same hands that made that bread up there in the heavens. And I'm ... say I'm giving my testimony to you brethren, out on this lake tonight. It's a settled thing with me. That's more than a man. That's Him who the prophets told us about."

31 And then I can see Simon. As always, you know, he wants to get his testimony in, too. And I don't blame him when you got something to testify about. You just got to let off the pressure. That's all. So Simon must have said, "Now, brethren, it's my time." And he said, "Andrew, my brother sitting here to my left ... when he went down to hear John preach... Oh, you know, folks. We've heard all kinds of things, and I never paid much attention to it.
"But one night he didn't come home, and I wondered where he stayed at. And the next morning, here he came in, starey-eyed, and saying to me, 'Come see who we found---the Messiah.'"
He stayed with him long enough to be convinced. That's where many of us fail. We just don't stay long enough to be convinced---not concerned enough. Be concerned. This is between life and death to us, between being well, or being sick. And we ought to stay, and see till we are convinced. And then nothing's going to stop us then, when you're convinced. Faith has to have some object to work on, to come from.

32 And now, "When he come told me... And I remember the day that I met him, and I said, 'Well, I'll go with you to the meeting.'"
"'It's going to be down there on the shore this morning,' he said.
"And I seen a lot of the poor fishermen, the women turning their wash tubs upside down, and going down there to listen to Him. And this fellow was attracting quite a crowd of people. And I thought I would go down. And I got me a piece of driftwood, and thought I'd just sit down and listen. I got way back.
"And all the time, when He was speaking, it looked like He was looking right at me. And I kept getting more interested all the time. I kept coming closer towards where He was at. And I said, 'Well, He speaks Scripturally. He seems to know what He's talking about.'
"Then all of a sudden, He looked right in my face. And He said, 'Your name is Simon, and you are the son of Jonas.'"
He said, "Then I was convinced," said, "because Andrew, here will bear me record. My old father, a real Pharisee... And he was a strict religious man. And when we fished on the sea here (and we still have his boat) and he was getting old, and I seen his hair graying, and his face wrinkling, I knew Dad was going to leave us pretty soon.

33 "So one day, he sat down after we had caught a great bunch of fish, and we could pay off our bills then. And that morning, how we had prayed, and asked God to help us 'cause we needed those fish so bad. And we got the fish. And Dad come in, and sat down and said, 'Come here, Simon, my son.'
"He put his arms around me, and said, 'Simon, I'm getting old. And I've thought all my days that I would live to see the Messiah. But I'm getting old, and perhaps I won't be able to see Him. But He may come in your time, Simon.
"'And I know that before his coming there will be all kinds of things taking place. There will be false prophets, there will be everything going on---all kinds of isms---because it will be Satan trying to upset, and perhaps deceive Israel.
"'But son, there is only one way we can be sure, and that is stay with God's Word. That's the only way to be sure.' [That would be a good testimony anywhere. That's right. Stay with the Word.]

34 "Then he said, 'Son, over in the scroll in Deuteronomy, Moses, the one that give us the law, he said, "There will come the Messiah, one in the last days ... or God will raise up among you (to make the scripture right) of our brethren, and he will be a prophet. Lord, your God, shall raise up a prophet.'
"'Now, you know we are commanded by God to obey the prophets, because the Word of God comes to the prophets. They're the one who has the Word, and the interpretation of the Word.'
"'Therefore, now our Lord told us if there was one among us that was spiritual, or a prophet, and if he prophesied, and what he said did not come to pass, then don't listen to him. But if it did come to pass, then listen. Now. And the Messiah is going to be a prophet.'
"And, as you brethren know, that my dad has been gone for a long time. But when He looked out there, and told me who I was, and not only that but He knowed that godly old daddy of mine, I knew that was Him."

35 A very good, striking, testimony. And before Simon could get through with his testimony, Philip had his hands laying on his shoulder, trying to stop him a little. You know everybody just tries to get in, and get a little ahead of the others, you know. You're just so full of it, you just want to say something. When you hear somebody else talk, you just want to put in something there. That's just the nature among us. And so, you know, Philip, it come his time to testify. And he said, "Oh, how I remember that! I was standing there. And you know, it thrilled me so much, till... Nathanael, you don't mind if I tell it?"
"No. That's all right."

36 "You know, I knowed Nathanael was a real Orthodox believer. He kept all the laws, and he was a good man. He'd served his time as an elder, and he had done all different things, and he was a good man. He studied in the Scriptures day and night. I know he was well taught, and he was a good friend of mine.
"So I took around the hill just as hard as I could, to find Nathanael. Well, you know, brethren, it takes me about a day from where He was preaching there, around the hill, and I found... First I knocked on the door, and Brother Nathanael... The wife come to the door, and said, 'He just went out through his grove.' And I went out there, and I heard somebody praying.

37 "And Nathanael was on his knees praying for God to send the deliverer, like He sent Moses. And when he got finished, I knowed that he was in that kind of a mood, looking for Him. So I said, 'Come see who we found. We've ... your prayers has been answered. The thing you've been looking for is already here. We found it. It's glorious. You should come and see.'
"And Nathanael said, 'What's that you're saying?'"
And he said, "We have found Him, that Moses and the law said was coming---Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph.
"And now, Nathanael, you know, was staunch Orthodox. He said, 'Now, just a minute, Philip. I know you to be a good scholar of the Bible. You must have went off on the deep end somewhere. Could there be any good thing come out of Nazareth?'

38 "You know, I never wasted my words, because there's no need in arguing with anybody. So I just told him, 'Come see.' And on the road around, he said, 'Why are you so convinced?'
"And I said to Nathanael, as I put my arm around him, 'Now, Brother Nathanael, you know how many times we've sat in the boat, and we have discussed the scrolls day and night; how we've kept up late hours, and we've studied the scriptures [Oh, that's wonderful!], how we have studied the scriptures together. And here's what convinced me. Do you know that...?' Peter, will you forgive me if I say it?"
"Sure. Go ahead."
"You know that illiterate fisherman that was always in trouble, and he bought some fish down there?"
"Oh, yes. Jonas's son, Simon?"
"Yes, that's him. And you know, you bought some fish from him one day, and wanted a receipt, and he couldn't even sign his name to it, didn't know that much."
"Yes, I remember him. Yeah. He's got a brother they call Andrew."

39 "Yes, that's him. Yes. Well, Andrew believed this prophet to be the Messiah, and he come got Peter (or Simon) and brought him around to Jesus. And when Jesus looked him in the face He said, 'Your name is Simon, and you are the son of Jonas.' Didn't know nothing about him.
"Now, Nathanael, let me bring this to your memory. Did not the law say, 'If a prophet prophesies...'? And four hundred years since we've had a prophet, and here He is, right before us. You know ... why, it wouldn't surprise me, Philip, if He didn't tell you who you were ... or, Nathanael, when you got there."
"Well, I'll not go critical," said Nathanael. "I'll just go up, and listen for myself, and draw my own conclusion. And if He's scriptural, I know what the Bible says about them. And if it sounds scriptural, why, I've got to see it done first. If I can see it done, then I'll believe it."
All right. That's pretty good. You know, they all don't live in Missouri. You've heard the old saying, "I'm from Missouri. Show me." So, he said, "Come along."
"And that day when we got there, there was a prayer line. And there was people standing in the prayer line, and Jesus was praying for the sick. And when I walked up with Nathanael, we noticed a bunch of rabbis standing out there, and great renowned clergymen.

40 "And when we passed by, we heard their conversation, and one of them said, 'Well, you know we've got to answer our congregation. And if they all get to running after that, what are we going to do? Well, we see what he done a while ago. How did he know those things? So, we're going to have to hold a council now, and find out what we'll have to answer to our congregation next Sunday, when they ask about this. And you know, we can't believe on him.'
"So they said, 'We'll just say that he is Beelzebub, the prince of the devil. He's a fortune-teller. That's the best way we can do it.'
"See, instead of sitting down, and looking through the Scriptures, they just draw up their own opinion what they think. While they were doing that Jesus turned around and perceived their thoughts, and He said... Do you remember? The Bible said they didn't speak it out loud. They thought it in their heart, and Jesus caught it. And when... He told them that He would forgive them for it, but there would come another day some time that when the Holy Ghost would come...

41 "Now, we don't yet understand that, brethren in this ship tonight, you know, what about that Holy Ghost He's talking about coming. But He said when it comes and would do the same thing, that to speak a word against it would never be forgiven. Then, brethren, there must be something ahead that He's fixing to do to make that so tight. It must be something great.
"Now. And while Brother Nathanael was standing there, Jesus turned and looked at him, and said, 'Behold an Israelite in whom is no guile.' And you remember, Nathanael, it just took you off your feet.
"And you turned, and you looked over sideways, and there stood your bishop (or your rabbi), standing over there in that council. And he looked down, and saw you. 'Hmmph!' Cleared his throat because you played a big part in the church.

42 "But then, it was to choose between what the rabbi had said, or what God had said. So you turned and addressed Jesus as, 'Rabbi, teacher, how did you know me? I've never seen you, and you've never seen me. So how would you know that I was a staunch orthodox believer?'
"And you remember, Nathanael, what He said?"
Nathanael said, "Can I say it?"
"Yeah."
"He said, 'Before Philip called you, when you were under the tree I saw you.' "
Nathanael said, "I don't want to stop your testimony, but that settled it for me. Let me tell the brethren what I said. I don't care if all of the celebrity was standing around, I run right up to Him, and said, 'Rabbi, Thou art the Son of God. Thou art the King of Israel.'" Because it was scriptural, he knew it. "Thou art the King of Israel."

43 Poor, old, patient Andrew, he'd waited so long for his testimony, and Nathanael... And then everybody knowed the moon was coming up. And so, the testimony meeting... You know, when a good testimony meeting gets started, why, they just ... you just don't know when time runs out. You just keep on going. Oh, they were so interested, each one listening to the other one's testimony.
And then Andrew said, "Brethren, let us all think of this, being that we're talking about his ministry, if it is with the Word of God or not. We all know that. Let me call your attention. Do you remember that day He said, 'I'm going to take you all to Jericho'? We're all aware of that. And Andrew must have stood up, rocked the boat a little bit maybe, quietened in a minute.

44 And he said, "All of you remember when we went down ... was going to Jericho. And the next morning, it was strange after we got up and put our coats on again, and He said, 'I have need go by Samaria.' We thought that was strange, how He'd go up around Samaria, instead of going right to Jericho. And we walked...
"And do you remember? We left without breakfast, and we got hungry. And about eleven o'clock in the day, we come to this city called Sychar, and we sat down there by the well. And He sent us all away, and we went down into the city.
"Remember, what a time? when they said, 'Are you one of them holy roll... , or, you one of them?" [So I oughtn't to have said that, maybe, you see.]
But, "'Are you one of them with that Galilean group out there? Are you one of them?' And so, they wouldn't even give us nothing to eat. Oh, my! It was bad. And we slipped back out.

45 "And we noticed a strange thing. There was a young, pretty woman coming up towards the well, with a pot for her water sitting on her shoulder, her head. And as she walked up, we seen her set the pot down, and put the hooks in it, getting ready to let down the windle. And we noticed that our Lord was sitting with his head bowed. We noticed his eyes when it raised up, and we noticed that she was marked a prostitute, ill-famed. She wouldn't have been out at the pump at that time of day. The virgins go out early. So then, we knew that she was a woman of ill fame.
And we just thought, you know ... each one of us said, 'Let's see Him run her away from that well.' You remember how carnal we were? We just see Him run her away from that well. So we hid in the bushes. You all remember it?"
"Yeah. Amen. We remember."

46 "And we was going to watch our Master run this woman of ill fame out of his presence. So she started to let down the water kettle, down to get the water, and our Lord said to her, 'Woman, bring me a drink.' My! Remember how we looked at one another? That would be strange, how that ... a woman of that type could be asked to do a favor for the Lord."
But you know, God works in mysterious ways. He loves the worst of us. If He hadn't, I wouldn't be here tonight. And I'm sure we all feel that way. Yes.
"And when ... she was surprised. She looked around, and she said, 'Sir, you are a Jew, and I'm a woman of Samaria. And we don't have any dealings with one another. Why would you get fresh with me, ask me a question like that?"

47 "And He said, 'Woman, if you knew who you were talking to, you'd ask me for a drink.' And we wondered, what was He trying to do, and why was He trying to use a woman like this to do something with? Said, 'If you knew who you were speaking to, you'd ask me for a drink. I would give you waters that you wouldn't have to come here to draw.' [Oh, my! Aren't you glad that you got that same invitation?] And we all wondered, as we was standing hiding in the bushes. Matthew, you remember, you wrote that down."
"Oh, yes. I've got it. Don't worry." [I'm reading it tonight.]
So he said, "You wrote that down?"
"Yes."
"We was all hid back there in the bush."
"Uh-huh."
"And they got into conversation about where people ought to worship."
And you know, they're still in that conversation. One said, "You have to worship in the Methodist church."
The other one said, "The Baptist church."
The other one said, "The Catholic church."
And the other one said, "The Pentecostal church."

48 "But, you know what He said? 'The true worshippers worship Him in spirit and truth, and the Father seeketh such.' And we wondered then, what He was trying to do, but now we understand. He was trying to contact her spirit. We realized then why He had need to go up.
"You know, one time He told us ... when He raised Lazarus up there, He said the Father had sent him away. And he told that man that day, when he was... All of us was trying to touch his garment, and He went through that great multitude there at the pool of Bethesda. And He turned around and told them, 'Verily, verily I say unto you, the Son can do nothing in himself but what he sees the Father doing.' So we understand now. But then...
"And then we noticed that that woman was sitting on the well, holding the pot on her hand yet, to get the water in. And He said to her, 'Woman, go get your husband and come here.'
"And you know what she said that time, Bartholomew? How did He know she had a husband?

49 "And the woman with surprise ... and her pretty hair fell down around her face, and her big bright eyes shined, and she said, 'Sir, I have no husband.' And we all thought, 'Oh, my! Something's wrong now.'
"And to our surprise, He said, 'You've told the truth.' Then we were surprised, wasn't we, brethren? We didn't know. He said, 'Because you've had five, and the one you're living with now is not your husband.'
"Now, we wondered what kind of reaction was coming from this. And she looked straight into his face, and said, 'Sir, I perceive that you are a prophet.'"
And about that time Nathanael said, "Yes, I thought how much different it was from our rabbi. She seemed to know more about God than the rabbi did, because he said He was a devil. Seems like the woman, we knew then, had been reading the Scriptures. We wondered what next she was going to say.

50 "She said, 'Sir, I perceive that you are a prophet,' and we looked at one another. A woman of that kind of a caliber? She's surely been studying the scrolls, and yet she's not a Jew. Watch what she says now.
"'We know that Messiah is called Christ. He's coming, and He's going to be a prophet, because Moses said so. When he comes, he's going to tell us these things. But who are you? You must be a prophet.'
"Jesus said, 'I am he that speaks to you.'
"And you remember? Upon that she dropped that pot, and took out into the city just as hard as she could go, screaming 'Come see a man who's told me the things I've done.'"
Now, you people who believe, to read the Scriptures, doesn't the Scriptures say that that is the sign of the Messiah? Now let me stop the testimony, and come down here just a minute, here to Columbia. Did you notice? He never did that before any of the Gentiles. Just Jews and Samaritans. That's right. And there's only three races of people on the earth, if you believe your Bible. That's Ham, Shem, and Japheth's people. That's where we all originated---Jew, Samaritan, and Gentile.

51 And the Jews was looking for a Messiah. He showed them what the Messiah was---Nathanael, Peter, and them---to prove that He was that prophet that Moses spoke of. And the Samaritans was looking for a Messiah, and He showed them right there who He was.
But the Gentiles, we were worshipping idols then. We wasn't looking for no Messiah. I'd like to ask this question tonight, while we're... Then we'll turn our screen on again. But while we are here, the Gentiles...
Now, that was ending up for the Jews. And now the Gentile age is ending up. And if we are looking for a coming Messiah, and we believe that in the form of the Holy Spirit, He's here; and the Bible said He's the same yesterday, today, and forever (Hebrews 13:8); and if that was the identification mark in them days; and that Messiah said in St. John 14:12, "He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also"; and He said, "As it was in the days of Lot, so shall it be in the coming of the Son of man"... Did you notice it?

52 Don't get them threes out of your mind, like justification, sanctification, baptism ... the Holy Ghost; Father, Son and Holy Ghost. All those perfection numbers: first coming to redeem his bride, second coming to catch his bride away, third time coming with his bride---all's in threes, all through the Bible.
Now. Watch it close. There's three classes of people. That's believers, make-believers, and unbelievers. And at the end, when... There's three churches that these three peoples belong to. Abraham represented the church elect. Lot represented the church formal in the world. But them Sodomites represented the world.

53 And coming to Abraham was three angels. Two of them went down, and preached the gospel and tried to call Lot and his people out, trying to find even ten people that were righteous. But one stayed back. And the one that stayed back and talked to Abraham, and the elected church...
I believe the church is elected. It's ... by God's foreknowledge it's predestinated to, because He predestinated by foreknowledge, you see. That church is going to be there. Now, whether I am or not, I don't know. I have to work out my salvation. But I know the church is going to be there. That's right. I just hope I'm part of it. And I believe, as long as I'm part of it, I'll be there with it. That's where my hope rests, right there.

54 And now, there Lot had the gospel preached to him, and the sins of the city vexed his righteous soul daily. And when he seen these modern Billy Grahams, and so forth coming, there was something struck him. He knew that that was a little more than an ordinary man. They didn't perform much miracles---just smote some people blind one night. And preaching the gospel smites the unbeliever blind. That's right.

55 But this angel that stayed with the church elected, Abraham and his group, sat with his back turned to the tent. And Sarah... She was a little different from some of our modern sisters today. You know... Don't it make you feel kind of bad when, you know, men start talking, and women come out and butt right in, and kind of rude?
You know, when God made a woman, He gave her the feminish spirit to be dainty and sweet, like the real Christian sisters are. But these women with overalls on, and a cigarette in their mouth; and stomp right out and cuss, and sing, "God bless America," you see... And that, it just don't seem ... it seems rude. It just don't ... there's something that's wrong. But little Sarah was a little Pentecostal sister that stayed back to take care of her business. She was back in there cooking some dinner, see.

56 And so, the angel sitting there was watching Abraham. Now, remember. His name was Abram just a day before that, just before it. And Sarah wasn't Sarah---Sarra, S-a-r-r-a, and it changed to S-a-r-a-h, and A-b-r-a-h-a-m. Abraham, father of nations; and Sarah, princess. So this was a strange man. He had dust on his clothes. He was just dressed like an ordinary man. And he stood there, and He said, "Abraham..."
Now, he just come up and sat down. Abraham went out and invited him in. He was just an ordinary man, started to pass by. He said, "Come in, sit down. I'll fetch a little water, and wash your feet. And I'll give you a morsel of bread. Then you go on your way." Abraham, I believe, kind of thought there was something strange there.
Oh, there's just something about it. You can just feel it, when He comes around. You can just tell when you're talking to Him.

57 Said, "Sit down." And he got the fly bush and (How many of you Southerners still know what a fly bush is? The race is fading out. Well, we never had a screen door till just recently.), and had the old fly bush out there, you know, and watching him eat. And he killed a calf, and fed this man some bread that Sarah'd baked, and some veal chops. And had some milk, and he sat there and eat, and shooed the flies away while they was eating.
So He kept looking over towards Sodom, and He said, "Abraham, where is your wife, Sarah?" Whew! They call it telepathy today. I mean, the modern name they want to call it. That's what... They said Jesus was Beelzebub, a fortune-teller. What kind of a telepathy would that be?
"Abraham ... [called him by his national name, or international] Abraham, where is your wife, Sarah [princess]?" Watch it, how it's spelled. And now remember, the Scripture said she was in the tent behind the man. And He said, "Abraham..." 'Course, Abraham was a hundred years old right then, and Sarah was ninety. So they were both well stricken in age. Sarah a little grandma-like, you know, and they'd been promised this baby, and she was waiting on it; and Abraham with beard hanging way down, stooped, you know, on his stick.
He said, "Abraham, where is your wife, Sarah?"
And Abraham said, "She's in the tent behind You."
He said, "Abraham I, [I like that. "I" is a personal pronoun.] I ... I'm going to visit you, according to the time of life," that He'd promised. Now you see who that was.

58 And Sarah, in the tent... You know, we call it today "laughing up your sleeve," you know. She said, "Me, an old woman ninety years old, and my lord [which was her husband] out there is old, well stricken." Why, as husband and wife, they probably hadn't been as husband and wife for ten, twenty years. And to think, "Me, an old woman, and my husband an old man, and we're going to have pleasure together like young people?" And she laughed to herself.
And the angel said ... or, the man said, "Why did Sarah laugh in the tent, saying these things can't be?" She tried to deny it. But He said, "Yes, you did."
Now, let me just drop a little note right here. I hope you people catch it, you people that believe in God's grace. Right then God would have slew that woman of her unbelief. He wouldn't have fooled with her another minute. That was God, Himself. Now you read, and see if it...
You say, "It was a man." Say, "Could God eat meat, and God do this?"
Exactly right. Abraham talked to Him. See if it isn't Elohim.

59 God made Himself known in a body of flesh, and performed this sign. And the reason that God didn't take the life of Sarah... He couldn't do it, for she was a part of Abraham, and Abraham had the promise. Do you get it? Oh, my! Then He can't take us. We're part of Christ. See, He'd had to take Abraham, too, because that's part of Abraham. And we're the bride of Christ, the church is. And then, what is in Christ, we are a part of Him. And that ... He couldn't do it. And He said, "Yes, you did."
Now Jesus said, "As it was in the days of Sodom, so shall it be at the coming of the Son of man." What was it? God, Jehovah, manifested in human flesh. And now, the Holy Spirit, God, in the last days just before the destruction, or burning the earth with fire like He was going to burn the earth at Sodom, we got modern evangelists that's sweeping the earth in church natural. And the Holy Spirit has come into human flesh---the church. That's the sign to the Gentiles.

60 Let's go back on Galilee just a minute. Oh, what a time they were having! I believe they were all hollering "Amen," too. And then, we could go to, oh, Bartimaeus---that how Jesus, going up there towards Calvary, coming out of Jericho... And Bartimaeus, that ragged old beggar sitting there, and, why, He could have never heard him naturally.
Why, there was thousands of people following Him, hollering, "Hey, you that can raise the dead. We got a graveyard full of them up here. Let's see you come do it."---throwing overripe fruit at Him, and everything. His face set towards Calvary, He's going.
But that old beggar perhaps knowing... Might ... some young Christian girl might have come by, and the poor old fellow... They was tramping him down, and he said, "Madam, tell me who passes by? What's all the commotion?" (It's strange where Jesus is, there's a lot of commotion, noise---one for, and one against.)

61 So they ... find out this young lady said, "Why, sir, I am a follower of this young prophet. You are a believer in the scriptures, aren't you?"
"Oh, sure."
"Well, don't you know...? Did you ever read the Bible before you lost your sight?"
"Many times."
"Do you know the Son of David?"
"Yes. He's to come."
"There, He's just passed by."
Then Bartimaeus must have said, "If that's Him, my voice... I'm weak and old. The only thing I can do is say, 'Jehovah, have mercy. Oh, Jesus, thou Son of David, have mercy on me.' "
And the faith of that beggar stopped Him. Just like the woman with the blood issue stopped Him with the touch of her faith. The faith of that beggar stopped Him, and He stood still. I'd like to preach on that tomorrow night, "And Jesus Stood Still," if the Lord will.
Now. Notice, and He stood and called him, and said, "What would you that I would do?"

62 I can remember Zacchaeus up in the tree. And he got up there to hide, you know. He said, "Oh, I'm a businessman here in the city. I'd never be mixed up with that bunch of holy rollers. Hear them coming up, so I'll get up in this tree. And when He passes by I'll draw my opinion of Him."
Here He comes walking right under the tree, you know. He stopped, said, "Zacchaeus, come down," sitting up there with leaves pulled all around him, so nobody'd see him. But He knows just where you are. You might pull Methodist leaves, and Baptist leaves, and all kinds of leaves around you, but He knows right where you are.

63 While they were out there... We'll hurry up the testimony, and then pray for the sick. Let's watch just a minute, go back---a little further back. Let's go back now. They said, "Oh, praise God!" They were all shouting, and having a great time.
And a little breeze blew up. What was it? Satan must have looked up from over that desert-dry hill, and he thought this: "There they are and they've gone off without him. Now's my chance."
That's what he wants---to get the church. You know, lately we've been so busy anyhow. There's been a revival across the land. It's kind of died down now. Fires are going out. But we've been so busy, making new organizations and new sensations. I wonder if we don't run off sometimes without Him. You know, He is the Word. The Word. Stay with the Word. God can do anything He wants to. But to me, He's the Word. As long as it's in the Word here, then I believe it, see.

64 So we've been running here, and there, and running after everything. But I... Maybe we might have left Him somewhere. So as soon as the devil sees the church without Christ...
You know, it's too bad. I always preached on that, but too many of us fell in love with television programs, instead of Wednesday night prayer meeting. Then we just kind of ... going off without Him. We got a hold of a lot of money, and we got to thinking about dressing, and our sisters all cut their hair off.
We got kind of fashion, looking after other churches, and maybe we go off without Him. So the devil says, "Now's my time to get them." That's when he takes that dead shot. So ... going off without Him.

65 So he raised up across the hill, and begin to blast his breath out. "I'll sink them." And the poor fellows started pulling. They tried to hoist the sail. And the winds cut the sail down. And they tried to pull with their oars, and they broke. They tried to join one church, and then another. First thing you know, their own little bark was waterlogged.
... what's the matter today. Oh, I tell you He is great. And I think a lot of little barks is becoming kind of waterlogged, but you know, they find out that they pulled with all their heart in sincerity; so, no matter how much sincerity you pull, you've got to have Him. So they pulled, and they pulled, and all hopes was gone---just about ready to die.
And that's about where it's at now. She's going right out formal again, the little church that once professed holiness, living for God, going right straight back in the world again, making her inroads right out. And if they won't have them in this one, and act like this, they'll go to another one, and act like that. Just little inroads. Devil will see that you got a way out. That's right.

66 Now we find out all this was taking place, and all hopes was gone. But you know what? Here's the good part about the story. He hadn't left them. He sent them away on a revival, waving and shaking hands with the people, and have a jubilee. But you know what He done? He climbed the highest hill there was around there, so He could watch them. That's what He's done.
He climbed Calvary. They cut Him off of there. They buried Him, and then He started climbing. And He climbed till He passed the sun, moon, and stars, Jupiter, Venus, Neptune, and Mars---just kept going. He climbed till He passed this old house of clay, and then went running up the Milky White Way; climbed so high till He passed heaven.
The Bible said He looks down upon us, you know. He's higher than the heavens. His name is above everything that's called in heaven. He got way up there, so He could look back and see the whole universe. As the old song used to go, "His eye is on the sparrow, and I know He watches me."

67 And right in the hour when all hopes that the church was waterlogged and was going out on the wrong end, here He come walking right among them. And they were scared of Him. The only hope they had of saving themselves from that waterlogged ship in that storm... They was scared of the only hope they had. They were afraid of it. If they'd just knowed the Scripture... They were afraid of it, and they said, "It's spooky; it's a spirit," and they cried out for fear. ("Don't have nothing to do with it, it's telepathy, it's a fortune-teller.")
Jesus spoke, said, "Don't be afraid. It's I." He's the same yesterday, today, and forever. You believe that, don't you?

68 I hate to stop this testimony, but I'd like for us... I trust now, as we pray, that He'll give us a personal testimony. Don't be afraid. It's Him, the same one. He's the high priest, sitting at the right hand of his majesty in glory, that can be touched by the feeling of our infirmities. And if He's the same high priest that He was then, He can be touched by the feeling of your infirmities, and He will act in the same way He acted then, because He's the same high priest. Let us bow our heads.

69 Great heavenly Father, who has those great men that give the testimony to us tonight, the writer, Matthew, and all the dear beloved saints that were authorized to write this Bible [blank spot] say that it's right.
But God, I believe that those disciples were authorized to write the Word, for at the end of the book it said, "Whosoever shall add anything to it or take anything from it..." I believe it. My hopes is built on nothing else but that, Lord, and the hopes of this little group of people here tonight. We appreciate their testimony being kept by You, that we can read it. And we read there that You are the same.
Now, Father, I pray that You will walk in tonight, among the people. And the God that was in that mortal flesh that talked to Abraham, the God that was in the mortal flesh of his Son, Christ Jesus---may that same God make Himself known tonight in a church that He has sanctified with his own blood; and has washed it, and cleaned the house out of unbelief, and moved in to abide unto the end of the world as He promised. Through Jesus Christ, our Lord, I ask it. Amen.

70 Now, I come not to heal the sick; I come to pray for God's sick children. God heals the sick, and the sick is already healed. Anyone knows that.
I didn't come to save the lost; I come to tell the lost that they're already saved, if they'll just accept it. I've come to tell those who have been saved, and wants this evidence, that they have got the assurance and tasted the heavenly gifts from across the Jordan yonder, as Hebrews 6 said they would---"been made partakers of the Holy Ghost and tasted the heavenly gifts."

71 If you'd like to taste of it, I recommend you to the Book of Acts, where Peter said at the day of Pentecost, "Repent every one of you and be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of your sins ... you shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost." If you've never been baptized yet, and you have repented, there's going to be a baptismal service here tomorrow. Come down. Believe it. When you step into the waters, believe that God's going to give you the Holy Ghost. He'll do it. It's what He promised. He can't lie; He has to keep his word, and He'll do it. You come believing it.

72 And now, if you're sick tonight, I say to you, that One that I'm talking about, when He died at Calvary, right there the stripes across his back, in the sight of God, purchased your healing. You're already healed.
Now, they have orders of laying on hands. I think maybe... Recently we had our Pentecostal brethren, a group of them, to go off... I better not say that. I'm no judge of no one, because you know... I think of laying on hands, and giving gifts... See, gifts and callings are without repentance. See, they're ordained before the foundation of the world to be in them things, you see.

73 We might recognize them, and lay our hands on them, as Paul did Timothy there, to sanction it. And knowing that the gift was in him, they seen it work. And they just give him the right hand of fellowship, like, to bring him into the service of God. And that's the only thing we do, by laying our hands on the sick, when they are sick, because, Jesus said, "These signs shall follow them that believe."
Not that the people here... The people that believed would lay their hands on the sick, as a sanction that they believed it. Now. But I believe that Jesus Christ is here. I believe He's here in every strength, and everything that He ever was on the earth. Only thing different is the corporal body that sits on the throne of God. And that's there as a peace offering for you. It's there of your assurance that everything that He died for, you have it, if you'll accept it and believe it. Believe it.

74 Now I believe my son said that he gave out some prayer cards. Usually the first few nights up there, we had no prayer cards, and usually do not. But he said the people were asking for prayer cards, and he gave out prayer cards. Has the people in here got prayer cards? Let's see. He mixes them up together, and gives anybody a prayer card that wants them.
Anyone that's been in the meetings before, know that there's many more gets healed out in the audience then there is on the platform. You don't have to have a prayer card. It's just getting someone up here to pray for them. That's all. Now I will come pray; you believe.

75 Now, where is Billy? What prayer cards did he give out? I don't know. What was it? Has anybody got prayer card 1? Let's see if there's one like that here. Prayer card number 1? Has anybody got it, hold up your hand. Prayer card number 1. Well, maybe it never... Maybe he started somewhere else then. Prayer card number 1? Nobody's got prayer card 1? 2? Who has prayer card 2? Well, then he started there. All right, sir.
Prayer card 1, 2, 3, stand up. Now look around at somebody's card. Maybe somebody's deaf, and can't hear, see. They got prayer card 1, 2, and 3. Now I only see one person standing up. 1, 2, 3. I see this one. What's yours? 3. Here's 2. Where is number 1? Well, if they don't come in... All right. Come. Yes, sir. Yeah. That's all right. All right, sir. Number 1, 2, 3.

76 Now you come up this way, if you will. You all with the prayer cards come right here, 1, 2, 3. 4, 5, 6 stand up. 4, 5, 6, all right, take your place right over here. 7, 8, 9, 9. All right. 7, 8, 9. I don't think we're going to have too much room there, to stand too many. 7, 8, 9, 10, 11? Way back in the back. 11, 12, 13, 13? Prayer card number 13.
I don't want to miss anyone, because we want to pray for everybody that's got a prayer card, see. They come and get a prayer card. But don't take your prayer card, and go off, and don't come back, see. Somebody ought to have it.
Prayer card 13. We'll wait just a moment. Maybe it's a mother with a baby, or something---they had to step out, or something. May be back in a minute.

77 We'll start right here, and start at this many, and pray for them, until we... How many you missing? All of them there up to 13? What say? Number 13 missing? Well, we'll hold right there now, till they come in. All right, sir. Let Brother Bigby, if you will... Now, receive their prayer cards down there, Brother Bigby. All right.
Now, come up this a-way, sir. Just stand right there just a moment. Now, I believe the man's a stranger to me. We are ... don't know each other. But ... as far as I know, he's a stranger to me. And we do not know each other, but the Lord knows both of us, doesn't He?

78 And how many out there that doesn't have prayer cards, and yet you believe Jesus will make you well, you want Him to heal you? Raise up your hand. It's just solid. Now, you don't have to have a prayer card. I'll say this: you do like the woman did that had the blood issue. You know, she didn't have ... we'd call it, say, a prayer card. But she just pressed her way until she got to touch his garment. You remember that? And it stopped Him.
Now, He didn't feel it physically, because the Palestinian garment is loose. And everybody with their... Why, Peter even rebuked Him, said, "Lord, why would you say a thing like that? Why, everybody's touching you."
He said, "But I perceive that I have gotten weak." The King James says virtue has gone, which, virtue is strength. And, "I've gotten weak," and He looked around over the audience until He found the woman that touched his garment. And He told her that her faith had saved her. Her blood issue had stopped. Is that right?

79 Now, listen just a moment, now. It will do real good for you. Now, does the Scripture say that Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, and forever? I presume this is a minister. Now does the Scripture say, in the book of Hebrews, that He is a high priest now? He ever lives to make intercession, see, and He can be touched by the feeling of our infirmities?
Well, then if He's the same high priest, and if you can touch Him... You say, "Brother Branham, I'll walk up and touch Brother Bigby." Well, that would be nice to show your fellowship, or your love to Brother Bigby.
"Brother Branham, I'll come touch you." Well, that would be nice, but there is no virtue in us. We're men. Any of these ministers here, we're men. So it wouldn't do no good to come here.

80 But why don't you just remember that you are risen with Him, and you're sitting with Him---the council of God, Christ. You're sitting with Christ now. All authority is right with you. So, why don't you by faith just touch his garment?
"Lord, I have a need. I'm sick. Father God, let me touch You tonight. I believe You. And Brother Branham has been telling us a little drama. But it was the truth---the drama was---and he throwed in a few scriptures there that shows that You're the same, and You have to be the same. So he said that You are here in Spirit form to work today, as You promised before the coming again, that You'd be so..."

81 You know, there's a difference between the appearing of Christ and the coming of Christ. That's two different words altogether. He's appearing now in his church. We see Him, we know it's Him. It's the Holy Spirit, see. We know it is.
Now. We believe that the Holy Spirit is God. All of us know that. Like Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, we don't believe there's three gods. We believe there's three offices of the same God. The Father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit is three offices that the same God has worked in. That's the reason Jesus said baptize, using the name title Father, Son, and Holy Ghost---which, they are not saying three gods, but they are meaning one God in three offices, the same God. Three gods would be heathen, see, but it's the one God, and three offices.

82 The Fatherhood ... not even an animal could touch the mountain, he must be stoned, or cut through with a spear. That great pillar of fire... Then that pillar of fire was made flesh and dwelt among us. What is it? God, condescend... We felt God, touched God, God was manifested in flesh among us.
Jesus said, "It's not me that doeth the works. It's my Father. He dwells in me." Then He said, "I come from God, and I go to God." Then He died, crucified; rose the third day, and after his ascension...
Paul was on his road down to Damascus, one day, to arrest some Christians. And that same pillar of fire fell before him, even put out his eyes. The rest of them didn't see it, but it was so real to him it made him blind. And he said, "Lord, who are you?"
And He said, "I'm Jesus."

83 And if that same God, the Holy Spirit, working among us... Then He manifests Himself in our flesh, like He did then. So I believe it, God. Now, I'm speaking to you as a believer. Now, you speak back the way you did through your church. Why, that's Him. When You speak in an unknown tongues, and they interpret it, and tell the truth, that's God, God in you, see.
See, all that God was He poured into Christ. All Christ was He poured into the church. So it's God above us, God with us, God in us. Now, you just believe, and look this way, and say, "Lord Jesus, I believe," and God will send his Spirit down. And see if He don't do the same way He did back there. Now, just be reverent. Don't be just... I want you to praise God, but when you're approaching these things, come real reverent.

84 Now, here is a man, and here is my Bible. I have never in my life seen this man as I know of. He might have been in a meeting somewhere, and perhaps he's never seen me. If it has been, it's been somewhere where he's been in a meeting, or somewhere, maybe seen me or... Have you ever looked at me before? Never seen me in your life. This is our first time meeting.
Now, if the man ... he might be sick. He might be standing there for somebody else. He may have domestic trouble, he may have financial troubles, he might be a deceiver. And if he is, watch what happens. Just watch. I don't know. But if the Holy Spirit can come here, and tell two strangers ... telling something that has been, or something about him, or what he's here for, then he'll know whether it's the truth or not. He'll verify that. And then, if He can tell him what has been, surely he'd believe He'd tell him what would be. Certainly, see. That's why we have confidence in the Bible. It's truth.

85 And I wonder how many of you pilgrims tonight, sojourners here in the city, and around about, would believe, and know that it would be impossible for me---a man---to do that? Why, sure, it would. If you're mentally right, you'd believe it. It's totally impossible. So there would have to be some kind of a power to do that. You know it would. Well, now, it depends on what power you think it is where your reward will come from.
Now the Pharisees said when they seen it, "It's Beelzebub"; but the believers said, "It's the Son of God." Now, we know the Scripture has promised it in this last day, hasn't it? He promised it, we know.

86 Listen to these ministers here saying, "Amen." That's your shepherds. They know what they're talking about. They know it. And I am their brother, fellow citizen of the kingdom, working for the kingdom of God. They're clergymen, speakers, great forceful preachers. I am not. This is my ministry. This is when I'm doing my preaching, just by a gift. And I love the people real well, and the Lord let me preach to them this way.
Now, if the Holy Spirit will say these things, and do that, will it convince you, every one, that Jesus Christ lives today, and He's here again? It would do you, wouldn't it, sir? It certainly did Nathanael. He was a believer, because no matter what any of the rest of them said, it sure worked on him. And he knowed...

87 It didn't make any difference whether the people down in Sychar believed that woman or not. She had experience. She knowed it. He told her what her trouble was.
He knows your trouble. It's your throat. That's true. This might help you. You want that throat, because you are a preacher. It'll be all right. Go ahead. It'll be all right. Certainly. God loves his people.
How do you do, sister? Now you believe with all your heart? Amen. Here's a picture again, that I was talking about. There's a man and a woman meet for the first time, I suppose. We're strangers to one another. So, if the people back in the back might not be able to see you nod your head, would you just raise up your hand, when I said we're strangers to one another? I don't know you, and you don't know me.

88 Now here is a picture about like the well in Samaria, where our Lord was sitting, and a man and a woman meet for their first time in life. I don't know her, and she doesn't know me. She's just a woman, come down a while ago. And she might have held up her hand, and a boy handed her a prayer card over here. And it happened to be that she's standing here in the line. That's all there is to it.
Now the next has to be God. But if He's the same God, and He's in you, and He's in me, and our lives are consecrated to Him, and He has given a gift that I just submit myself to Him; and then He shows me a vision, and then I'll say just while the vision is going on what's taking place, you'll know whether it's the truth or not. I think the other one just passed was a man; this is a woman. Then you'll know.

89 The first thing, the lady is suffering with a bad case of nerves. She's real nervous. She's got kind of complications, many things that's bothering her. Now, that is true, isn't it? If that is true, raise up your hand, so the people see.
I catch that same spirit always saying, "You guessed it." I'm not guessing at that, friends. That's not a guess. Now remember, I'm catching your thoughts. I used to call them out. Many of you know it. Then it hurts feelings. How many's been in the meetings, and seen woman with men pull a man right out of the meeting, and this one here, and prove they was living in adultery? You've seen all of that, and everything taking place, see. But you have to watch. I've got a little more wisdom since then, see, because Jesus said let the wheat and stuff grow together.

90 This is a good woman. She has a good feeling to her spirit. While she's got that, let's see if I was guessing it. I forgot. He said ... oh, yes. I see it now. Nervous, upset, bothered. Yeah. You're bothered about something real bad. You're scared of a cancer. That's right. And that cancer is on ... not in the middle. It's on your left breast. That's right. You're scared of it, isn't that right?
You're worried about somebody else, too. Do you want me to tell you? Is it all right? It's your daughter. You want me to tell you what's wrong with her? She has a blood condition. She's been for a long time, a blood issue. That's right. Do you believe now? You believe when you go back you're going to find her all right? Go believing. [Unclear words.] Amen. It's a testimony. Now you don't guess those things, friends. Just don't doubt now. Don't doubt.

91 Before I start the prayer line, you know, praying for the people, I think that's about two or three to witness or confirmation. I think that's right, isn't it?
A nice lady standing here. We're strangers to one another, I suppose. You was in a prayer line when I was here before. Well, of course, I wouldn't know that. You know, so many thousands... I have no idea who you are, or what you're here for, or nothing like that. That is right. I wouldn't know. But He knows.
If He will reveal it to me, will you accept your healing then? Well, if you will believe it with all your heart... You're nervous, too, and complications, and upset, but you'll never have to have that operation for that tumor in your side. It will leave you, if you'll believe it. Will you believe it? Go on your road, and say, "Thank the Lord Jesus." Believe it with all your heart. Just believe with all your heart, and you won't have to have it, if you'll just believe it. See, that's your faith now. Let us have faith. Don't doubt.

92 How do you do, lady? We're strangers to each other? Just a moment. That's a different woman. Now, just be reverent, and pray. Just remember, you got... You can only have two thoughts in your mind. I'm thankful you're 99% right. You believe it's God, and it is God. Just a moment. Just thank our Lord, the one that we're going to love, and meet, and go up to meet Him...
You know, he come out in the evening time to walk in the fields, and the beautiful Rebekah had never saw him. She just heard of him. She jumped off the camel, and run to meet him. He's already, maybe, left glory on his road down. We're on our road to meet Him now, passing right up to Canaan land.
Something happened in the audience, another woman up here, not this one... Yes, I see her now, sitting back there praying. Don't fear. You're going to be all right. Your legs are troubling you because you were in an automobile accident. You have on a green dress, and it was a different color green from this one. So there you are. Don't worry. You'll get all right.

93 I don't know the lady. We're strangers. The Spirit, that light hanging by the lady, it seemed to cross over to the next lady sitting by her. No, it's not that lady. She's praying for a child. It's a little girl that's got a stomach trouble, that's up for an operation. That's her hand up. Lay it on the child, there.
Heavenly Father, may the power of Almighty God now, that knows the secret of the heart... Lord, they know I could not heal, because You've already did that. But your presence makes them believe, Lord. And if that woman had enough faith that touched your garment to pull You back into there, surely that baby will be all right. I pronounce it this way in the name of Jesus Christ. Amen. Just have faith.

94 That man sitting across by, even where they are there, that's got that back trouble sitting there: Sir, if you'll believe it with all your heart (kind of weeping, and watching), if you'll believe, your back trouble will leave, and you'll be all right. God bless you. It's all over now. Go home and be well.
What do you think? Isn't He wonderful? He sure is. We are strangers to each other. There it is again. It's ... oh, you are standing for somebody that's got leg trouble. It's your sister. That's what it is. Yeah. That's right. I seen legs, and people that... Yeah, you wanted her to come to church, bring her. She couldn't even get her shoes and things on. You believe? Go back, and find her the way that she...
Do you believe the infallible Holy Spirit, God, our Father? He is glorious, wonderful, our Lord. But we must believe Him with all of our heart. That's the only way that we can get our blessings from Him, is to accept Him, to believe Him.

95 How do you do? I suppose we are strangers to each other. God knows both of us. Do you believe that that feeling that you have now... ? Now, there could not be a feeling like that come from me, see. I can't explain it. It's like another dimension. But right around you, now, is a light, the one that you all have here in the picture. That's what makes you feel that way. Standing by a man wouldn't do that, see. Now it's moving between me and you. Yes.
You are here, and you are seriously sick. You have a kidney trouble that's bothering you. And the trouble of it is, that your kidneys have failed to function, to throw the poison off, and it's backing up and bothering you. That's right. You believe? You're not from here; you're from Charleston. You believe with all your heart? Isn't He wonderful? Listen, Pearl, go on your way. Do you believe?

96 He heals asthma, too. You believe that, don't you, sister? Amen. Go believing with all your heart, and you can have what you ask for. Diabetes is nothing for God to heal. He's a real healer, isn't He? Just believe. Arthritis cripples a many one. But if you'll believe, it won't cripple you, if you'll just believe. Just have faith.
Are you believing? You didn't get to hear what was said to the other woman, but arthritis... He can heal you, too. Do you believe that? All right. Just go on, saying "Thank the Lord Jesus."
Now, brother, do you believe? Go eat your supper, then. Eat something. That old ulcer'll leave. Do you believe? Back trouble. Do you believe it will leave you? Then go on your road, and just start rejoicing, saying, "Thanks be to God," if you can believe with all your heart. But you must believe.

97 Just a moment. Something somewhere... A younger man than this must have been in the audience. Here, wait. Yeah, you that jumped just then. Impediment of speech. God can give healing to the impediment of speech, if you'll believe it, if you'll just have faith.
You over there with your hand up, the lady over there on the end with cancer on your left breast, raise your hand. You believe that God can make it well and heal it? Go on your road, and be happy, and rejoice and say, "Thank you."

98 Let us continue our testimony. Isn't He wonderful? Does He lie? Certainly not. "Be not afraid. It is I." Why not invite Him into the little boat, tonight? Are you sick? Raise up your hands, children. Raise your hand you believe this. Now, just drop your hands over on somebody near you. You said you was a believer.
Now, the one who is our God, and our King that's here with us tonight, has give us the assurance that if they lay their hands on the sick they shall recover. You believe that? Are you scared? Are you afraid? Or do you love Him? Do you believe it's Him? Then invite Him in, say, "Come into me, Lord Jesus. Come into my heart tonight. I want you to take me safely through this journey. And I'm going to be well."

99 Now you pray for the person you got your hands laid on. Don't pray for yourself now. You just pray, for that man's praying for you. You just pray. I'll finish up the cards tomorrow night. Lay your hands... Or you might not have to have any tomorrow night. Just lay your hands over on one another, and you'll go home, be well.

100 Our heavenly Father, we are bringing to this audience Jesus Christ, the same yesterday, today, and forever. Satan has blowed his breath. He's tried to tell people many times, people ... has took them off on wrong roads. But tonight, we're sure that this is your presence, and You're telling them, "Fear not. It is I. Be not afraid."
I'm putting my hands on these handkerchiefs laying here. It's the sick and the afflicted. O God, may the power of God rebuke every devil that's bound these people, and in the midst of the people.
And Satan, you unbeliever, you can't hold these people. You can't make them disbelieve anymore. They are aware that the Son of God has been risen from the dead for two thousand years, and that his presence is here now, in the form of the Holy Ghost. You can't keep them sick any longer. You can't keep them like this. Come out of them, in the name of the Lord Jesus. Come out of every one of them that they can be made well.

101 They've got their hands on each other. They are believers. Jesus, You said, "These signs shall follow them that believe. If they lay their hands on the sick they shall recover." It's your promise, Lord. Come out, Satan, and let these people go free.
All that believe, and accept your healing from Christ, just throw down your prayer card, and stand on your feet, and say, "I'm not afraid, Lord. It's You, and I accept You." If you'll do that with faith you shall receive your healing, if you can believe it. You just believe it. Do you believe it? Then stand up on your feet and accept your healing, in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ.

It is I, be not afraid

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1 Let us just remain standing tonight for a moment, and let's bow our heads to prayer before our Lord. I wonder tonight, while we got our heads bowed now, if we got any requests that yet has not been answered, and you want the Lord to answer them tonight, raise up your hand. Let us pray.

2 Our holy Father, we are approaching Thee tonight in the name of your Son, the Lord Jesus Christ, coming by his invitation to the great eternal throne of God's mercy. And we pray, Father, that You will grant unto us the requests that we are asking for.
Now, Father, each one is making their request known in their way to You, and I'll make mine known to You. God, that You will answer each of their requests, that is mine. And I lay my prayer with theirs upon the offering where our sacrifice is laying there. And in the name of Jesus Christ, answer tonight, Lord. Give us all the satisfaction of faith that we receive what we ask for.
Save the lost. Give joy to those that are pilgriming waiting for the coming of the Lord. Heal the sick and the afflicted. Get glory and honor to thy name. Now with our prayer, and with the reading of the Word, and ourselves, we commit to You. We are in your hands. Use us as You see fit.
Father, we know that there is many people that will not read the Bible, but You have made your church written epistles, the Word of God made manifest. And people can watch lives, and see what the Word of God is, because the life of a Christian expresses the Word. Then what type of Christian should we be, Lord? Help us to be Bible Christians, that the works and life of Jesus Christ may be known through us. In his name, we ask it. Amen. You may be seated.

3 What a grand privilege, of having these three nights with you people. I want to thank first Brother Eddie for inviting me over here, and for getting these other fine brethren here to come and help out. The musicians, and sister that played the piano, and the brother and sister that done the singing (You thought I didn't hear it, but I did. I was just sitting right there in the car after I drove up, and I heard the singing), for the Indian friends who sang for us, and the young fellow that sang this special. And I want to get a tape of that. For my own use, I want that. And I've got tapes of people around the world singing, and I want to get my Indian friends on the tape that's the singing.
We thank you each one, and for the gentleman who let us have this auditorium. And we're very grateful. And I trust that this will ... three nights was just the way of introduction, like, just to get acquainted with you. And I hope to come back some day, if the Lord willing and you want me to come back, so we can stay a long time.

4 I had the privilege this afternoon of riding down to your reservation, down the river (I guess they called it a little inlet, peninsula, down to where the reservation was), with a brother, Christian brother, in his boat. We fished and come back.
I got to see some of the brethren out on the lake, or on the sea, in their boats fishing. And I thought when I was out there, "Wish I had time tonight to preach a sermon, 'Lord, we've toiled all night and taken nothing. But nevertheless, at your word we'll let down the net.' " Cast it over on the other side of the boat.
But, talking with this brother, who is an Indian himself... And he believes that it would be fine, maybe, when I return back just to come down on the reservation, and live down there awhile, from place to place among the people, and speak with them, and pray with them there. You...

5 Honestly, it does the meeting injustice of having to do it the way we do here---just run in, and you look at it, and wonder, and gone, see. And I sat down, and explained today to this Indian brother (and I've already forgot his name. What was his name?), Brother Robert Johnson. He may be able to speak to you, and tell you more about it. We sat up in the cab.
And while I was explaining it to him, I said, "Brother Robert... ," a certain thing we was to ask for. And he was telling me how the Lord had answered prayer, and gave him his little boy, and so forth; how his wife had fell into the Spirit of God, and speaking with tongues, and speaking in his language, she and he of a different tribe; and how that God had blessed them, and all. And then I said, "Now we'll ask the Lord something." And when ... I said, "Then in this, Brother Robert, then you'll know to tell the people." And when we asked the Lord, here He come right down and revealed it.
And just then, the boat just shook all over. And I said, "Did you think we hit a log?" He looked at me. I said, "No, that was Him letting us know," see. And we looked all through the back. There was no logs or nothing laying there to hit. It was right out in the sea. So, see, when they had prayed, the place was shaken where they were assembled together, see. And he will always remember it, and so will I---the presence of the Lord---while the rest of them was stretched out on the deck taking a nap. So we had some fellowship together. And I hope to get to come back again.

6 You hardly know me, and you have a right to be a little suspicious. Only I'm thankful you're not. Maybe the others will. But I thought maybe ... I've looked forward to such a way that I would see the Lord do something so outstanding that would cause the rest of them down in there to see what had happened. And so, I'm trusting. And I was told that something'd taken place during the meeting, and I told Brother Robert what to tell the parent of the person, and how to continue on if Satan should try to return. So now...

7 And I want to thank the white people for your fine cooperation, coming in here with your Indian brethren and those, and standing together, and helping sponsor it---put your shoulders behind the wheel, as we call it, and push with all your might. And God has honored you, too, because there is many of the Spirit... Many times the Spirit of God went out right through the meeting there, and caught those, and healed them. And I want to thank you. So nice of you. God ever bless you.

8 And now, or tomorrow night, we're in Victoria. I guess they have announced it, where it's at, where the meeting will be at, if some of you have friends in there, and want to call them up that's sick. We'd be glad to come down. Now, what I would like to do when I return would be just take a long time, see, and not try to stay so long at night, but just maybe then have a morning service for instruction, and telling what the enemy will do. And let those who the enemy has been cast from, then he returns...
We find out when the unclean spirit's gone out of a man, he walks in dry places, then returns back again with seven other devils. And many people think that sometimes because they got sick, that's a sign, well... Let's take for instance, just a moment of instruction, 'cause it's hot here, and I know it's bad. But now, for instance like, let me just see what we... All right, let's take for instance, tumor.

9 Now, what is tumor? What is cancer? It's a multiplication of cells, come from a little backslidden cell. Now, you were made from one little cell, too. Now through holy wedlock, your mother and father had to do with you coming on earth. First is the seed. Or really, the egg comes from the female, and the germ comes from the male. Now, the hen can lay an egg, or a bird can lay an egg, and not even be with the male bird. But it'll never hatch. It's not fertile. See, it has to be with the mate to be fertile. Now, and so...

10 That's the reason that in the case of Christ some people said He was a Jew. We want to believe He was an Indian. Others want to believe that He was an Anglo-Saxon. Some says He was Gentile. He was neither one. He was God. He was neither Jew nor Gentile, see. The blood cell comes from the male sex. And in this case, the Holy Spirit overshadowed the virgin, and created that blood cell, which... God is not Jew nor Gentile, and He was the blood of God, his Father, see.

11 Therefore, all of us are born by sexual desire, and blood in us, or sinful blood, through a perverted way of bringing children to the earth. God just spoke; Adam come forth. And so the woman was not in the original creation. She's a by-product of a man, taken from his side, a rib. And Adam in spirit was both male and female, both feminish and masculine in the spirit. And God separated the masculine from the feminish, and put the feminish in the woman, and the masculine in the man. And see, both body and spirit, they are one.
That's the reason when Sarah laughed at the angel, said she couldn't be like that, God would have slew that woman right there. But He couldn't hurt her, because she's part of Abraham. He'd hurt Abraham if He took Sarah.
That's the reason our sins today ... would be every one condemned, but God can't take us because if He does, He hurts Christ. We're part of Him. We're the bride, don't you see? So there it is. So, grace holds us in our mistakes until we can see better. So thankful for that.

12 Now that blood cell that comes... Now, we know where we come from. Now, if I could take a man here, and take him cell by cell, and tear him down, it would come back ... of the millions of cells, back to one little cell in the womb of his mother. And that cell began to multiply. And every seed brings forth of its kind: dog after dog, bird after bird, man after man, and so forth. And it brought forth the man. He began growing, growing, building cells, till he come to a certain place. Then he stops, and he's full grown.

13 Now we know where your body come from. But in you, say, there is a cancer, or a tumor, or a cataract, or a cyst. Where did it come from? Where come that thing? See, the first thing, the devil cannot create. That's the reason the devil cannot heal. There's only one creator. That's God.
But the cell that backslides, bruised... Like on a woman's breast sometimes comes a rose cancer. It's because of the baby, or some bruise on her breast. And that little bruise ... the cell breaks and another life gets in that house of the cell. When the cell's been bruised, the life of cancer comes into that and begins to multiply cells.
Now, see, here's a cancer or the tumor, a little bigger, bigger, multiplying cells. What's it doing? Sucking your blood stream, killing you, poison you. Finally it'll get you. The doctor sometimes can operate, if he catches it in a early stage, and take ... cut the whole thing around it. But if one little piece is left, it'll grow right on just the same.

14 Now, we're not dealing in divine healing with that growth, we're dealing with the life in that growth. Now, for instance, if you was a cancer on earth, I don't deal with just your body. I would deal with the spirit. If I can get that spirit out of that body, it'll automatically go back to the dust. Well, if you can get the life out of the cancer, it'll take ... nature will take care of itself.
Now, watch. When the cancer dies, or the tumor, now what happens? Immediately, like cataract over the eye, it shrinks. Anything that dies, shrinks. We know that. Ask your undertaker. Watch him take an artificial eye out, false teeth. It'll shrink.

15 Now, like you brethren here hunt. You kill the deer tonight. You bring him home, put him on a scale, go tell the rest of them, "That deer weighed three hundred pounds on the dot." Be careful in the morning. He'll be many pounds lighter. It shrinks. But, just let him lay there a few days, then put him back on the scales. He'll be bigger than he was the first time. Why? The cells are swelling. They're rottening. That's right, begin to rotten up.
Well, that's the same thing that tumor does. The people, first they get a relief, they say, "Whew, my! I feel better. My! All right! I can see. Praise God! I can see." In about seventy-two hours, what happens? That begins to ... corruption begins to set in. The human body, the nose falls in, see. It begins to rot. Well, that tumor does the same thing inside of you. And when it does, it begins to swell. Then you say, "Oh! I lost my healing. I lost my healing." Your unbelief brings that thing right straight back again, see.

16 As faith killed it, unbelief resurrects it again. When the unclean spirit's gone out, he walks in dry places seeking rest. Then he returns again with seven other spirits, see. Now if the good man of the house isn't there to ward him off (that faith) when he returns... "I don't care how much I feel, what about it; I know I'm healed," that shuts him out.
Now, you may get real sick, because why? It's like an infection in your body. The growth dies, and then it rots. And the heart, every time it beats, it goes through and purifies the blood. We know that. The blood picks up this infection 'cause you have fever, and sickness, and you get worse off than you was. And people think they've lost their healing, when actually that's a sign they got it.

17 Now, there's just so much that goes with that. I don't have time to explain it, see. But just remember, when you... The reason I don't take time to explain it now is because if you really believe it, there's nothing going to stand in your way. You're going to have it anyhow. And then, again ... on the Holy Spirit announcing something to be done, watch. It'll tell what was. Now wait a minute, and it'll tell what will be, see. Don't run too quick. Wait. Then if it does, it speaks itself. That was me speaking by a gift. This other is "thus saith the Lord," what He speaks. Believe with all your heart.

18 Now, character... Always you ... all you people of the church of God, live good, live right. People's watching the way you're living. And if there's anything that's a hindrance to Christianity today, is the way that professed Christians live: dishonest, dishonorable and living any way. Don't do that. We are Christians.
Somebody's watching your life. Correctly. Be honest. Let everybody know. Let your dealings be fair and square, and don't take nothing doesn't belong to you. Don't say nothing but what's the truth. And you can always tell the truth every time, and God'll honor the truth. And always do what's right. Treat everybody right. If they don't treat you right, you treat them right anyhow, see. Jesus treated us right when we didn't treat Him right. And his Spirit in us...

19 A little story fits just right. Down in the South they used to sell slaves. You Canadian people read of it, the slavery in the South. Why, they used to go around, buy them like used cars on a lot, have a bill of sale, selling human beings.
I never believed that any man was to be a slave. God made man, and man made slaves. Nobody's to be a slave under the other. We are brothers. We come from one great family tree, Adam and Eve in the garden of Eden. Now, spiritually we're born of God. That changes our character.
But just ... these slaves they were brought over from Africa by the Boers, and brought to the islands outside of Florida; and was brought in, smuggled in, and sold for slaves. And, oh, it's pitiful how they were treated. And they were sad. They'd never go back home.
They'd take a great big, strong man---maybe had a wife with some little children---and he'd take away from that wife, and sell him and breed him like cattle to a big woman, to bring bigger slaves so they could pull a bigger load, and so forth. Oh, just like animals! And it wasn't right. Wasn't right. No time was right. Never was, and never will be right.
And so then, in doing that, the people, sad... And they'd whip them, make them work, 'cause they didn't want to work. They was away from home. They'd never see their loved ones again, maybe, their children, their father or mother. And so...

20 They'd go around, brokers would go around, and buy these slaves, and resell them, like you do cars or something.
One time they come up on a plantation, a broker, and he said, "How many slaves you got here?"
Said, "Around a hundred and fifty."
Said, "I'd like to look them over."
And he noticed how they'd have to whip some, and make them go. But there was one young man there, they didn't have to whip him. Brother, his shoulders was back, and his chin up, right on the dot. Oh, my! What a different slave!
And the broker said, "I want to buy that slave."
But the owner said, "He's not for sale."
"Why?" Said, "Is he a boss over the rest of the slaves?"
Said, "No. He isn't no boss. He's just a slave."
"Well," said, "maybe you feed him better than you do the rest."
He said, "No. He eats out in the galley with the rest of the slaves."
Said, "Well, what makes him so much different from the rest of them?"
And the owner said, "You know, I once wondered that myself, until I found out one day that over in the homeland his father is the king of the tribe, the chief, the king of the tribe." And said, "Though he's an alien away from home, he still knows he's the son of a king, and he conducts himself like one."

21 What a lesson for you and I! We may be amongst sinners, and aliens of the world here, unbelievers, but we're sons and daughters of God, of the King, God. Then let's conduct our character, be like sons and daughters of God, act like sons and daughters of God. And not have to be drove around, and made ... try to push to believe the Word. Believe the Word. God's sons believe his Word. God's daughters believe his Word. And therefore we must make our character to be sons and daughters of God---and Holy Spirit mold us into believers.

22 Thank you, so much. God bless you. And I hope that the Holy Spirit has done something for you that you'll never forget Him, and you'll always love Him. And if I don't get back to see you again, God be with you. I'll meet you over on the other side.
I'm going to speak to my Indian friends now. Way down along them never-ending game trails in glory, I'll meet you around there. I'll be ... go walking down the game trail. I'll meet all that I love. They'll be there. You know, that's the Indian's prayer at death. So, I'll meet you on the game trail above.
To you white people, He that keeps the moon shining bright so we know how to get along in darkness, may He guide your path also. We'll meet in that glorious land.

23 Our heavenly Father, now we commit ourselves to You. Open to us the Word. Grant it, Father. We're sitting in this hot place tonight, people fanning. They don't come here to see how one another's dressed. They come here because they love You. Many of them has saved their money, put their pennies together, to come to the meeting. How we thank You, our Father. God, bless them. Oh, if I've found grace in your sight, Lord, answer my prayer for every soul that's at this meeting. Grant it, God. And those who've attended, and their loved ones, grant their request, Father. I pray, as your servant, with all my heart, in Jesus' name. Amen.

24 I wish to read tonight and just a little... I thought, coming up, I was going to speak about another subject. And I thought... Well, sitting out there in the car waiting, and I thought... Here it is already now about twelve minutes to nine. Really, we should be out in thirty-five minutes, see, according to schedule. You're so nice to talk to, I just can't find no place to quit. I just keep on talking. So, you pray.
I'm going to speak on something else, just for a few minutes. Then I think I'm going to call a prayer line, and pray for every person that's here that wants to be prayed for, pray for every one. So that ... you're attending, and maybe believing, and wanting to be prayed for, I'll pray for you, see. And I want you to believe. Now we're just going to try to build just a little faith to make a little bit more of a punch to the meeting, and you listen real close.

25 And now, I'm going to read from St. Matthew's gospel, the 12th chapter, 26th and 27th verse---a little text, familiar, right along the message. I don't want to get my Indian brethren and sisters on four or five different things. In this little time, it's better that I stay right on that same line. They just catch that well enough, they'll know it. And they believe it, if I can know what they're thinking about. I say that because I know they believe it. I know they do.
Now. [St. Matthew 14: 26-27]
And when the disciples saw him walking on the sea, they were troubled, saying, It is a spirit; and they cried out for fear.
But straightway Jesus spake unto them, saying, Be of a good cheer; it is I; be not afraid.
Now, my subject tonight is, "A Testimony Upon the Sea," like we were doing today, Brother Robert, if you're here. Testimony upon the sea, and my text tonight is "It Is I; Be Not Afraid." So now, may the Lord add his blessings to the Word.

26 I want to make it in a little drama like a testimony. How many likes testimonies? Oh, my! Brother Eddie told me, said, "You know, Brother Branham, after the meetings are over out there," said, "my Indian brethren," said, "they'll get together and start testifying. And a meeting will break right out among them, and they'll all go over..." And said, "Then they quieten down after awhile. Then somebody else get up and testify, and out breaks the meeting again." And said, "They just stay there. As long as the Spirit's there, they stay."
That's real good---good sound philosophy. Not philosophy, but good sense---staying with the Spirit. You know, wherever the Spirit of God moved, that pillar of fire, wherever it moved, then the children of Israel went with it. And when it moved out of the Catholic church, back hundreds of years ago, Luther saw it, and he went with it. But then he built an organization under it. God moved right out from under the organization.
And then Wesley saw it, in England, and he built a church called the Wesleyan church. After his death---him, and Whitfield, and Asbury and those---they built the organization, and God moved right out of it. And a group of people called the Pentecostals, they saw it, and away they went. But what they did, they done the same thing: built an organization right from under it. And God just moves right out from under the organization, keeps going on. Follow the fire. Now, I pray that God's rich blessings on you.

27 It must have been about this time of the evening. The sun was going down. It had been a great day, and the big fisherman, those great big shoulders, was pushing that boat off the bank. And when he got the stern off, why, he climbed aboard, and sat down by the side of his brother, Andrew.
Now, in those days they didn't have a boat like we were in today, with a engine in it that went along. They had oars, and they called it a ship. Sometimes they had a sail up. And if the winds were blowing, they could sail, and tack, as you fishermen know.
But then, it's always a mystery to me how that you, by that sail, you can control the wind---go right smack in the face of the wind and the wind, taking you forward right in the face of it. It's just the way you set your sails. That's the way about faith, too. If you just know how to pull your sails of faith around, it'll do something for you---right in the face of difficulty, drive you right on through it, if you just know. Now, you sailors out here know what I'm speaking of. Notice.

28 Then he took his oars... They had big long oars and they oared their boat. And they would sit down, and oar a few times, then wave back on the bank to the people on the bank. They'd just had a great meeting that afternoon. Oh, there was a marvelous meeting. Great things had been done, and the people were so happy, till they were standing on the bank hollering, "Good-bye. Come back and see us again."
Don't you ... when you got a good meeting like that, brother, don't you hate to leave it? Just like I hate to think this being our last night here for awhile. Just hate to leave. Wish we had about two or three weeks to stay here. And when they were leaving, they felt the same way about those brethren, and they were waving, "Good-bye. Bring Him back. Come back and stay with us again. We want to see you over here."

29 And they were crossing the sea. Oh, it was real quiet, and smooth, and the oars dipping into the water, which is music to a boatman's ears, to hear those oars dip into the water. And they'd wave good-bye, and pull a few more times and wave good-bye. And as the little boat went on, the sun got lower all the time. After a while the people on the bank become smaller and smaller, and the little boat becomes smaller to them. After a while they couldn't see them wave no more, nor could not hear them call "good-bye" to them any more.
And they said, "We must speed up." And so, they'd pull pretty hard until the sun went down, all the way down. Then it got cool out on the Galilean lake. And it must have been the young John... He was a young fellow. He must have got tired quick, because he wasn't an old rough salt, like them other fellows was, that knowed them boats, and how to fish, and everything. They were all fishermen, so they knowed how to pull them oars---Simon, and Andrew, and all of them.

30 But John was young. I hear him say, "Whew! My! Brethren, let's rest awhile. I'm getting tired." So they let up on the oars, and young John stood there with his head down a little while, and his dark hair hanging down his eyes. And he brushed it back.
He said, "I'd like to have a testimony meeting. That's a good thing, while we're resting. I'd like to have a testimony meeting. And I would like to be the first one to testify."
You know, when you've got something to say, you just can't hold it still. You got to say it. Just bursting out of you, you got to say it.
"I'd like to have a testimony meeting," said young John. "And I'd like to start this testimony meeting. Brethren [as he stood up in the boat, you know], brethren, I would like to say this. That no matter from this day on, how many people tell us we're wrong, they can never be able to tell me no more. I've heard them call our Master a fortune-teller, a devil, Beelzebub, all kinds of names. But I know that they're wrong. For today, when I seen Him do what He did today, it settled it forever for me."

31 Now, he said, "You know, when our people first come over here from Egypt, come up through Palestine, and come over into this country, I used to live on the hill just above Jericho. And as a little boy, little Jewish boy, I used to run on the hills, and play. And in the afternoon after my mother give me my lunch, why, she would call me in and sit me down on the porch. And in the springtime, I'd pick a little handful of flowers, and give her. And my pretty little Jewish mother used to sit there, and stroke my head, and pull my hair back, and tell me Bible stories until I went to sleep."
Oh, I remember those Bible stories! It's too bad today that we tell our children so much about Davy Crockett, or something like that, instead of about Christ. We tell all kinds of other stories but the Bible stories.

32 And so, then the first thing you know, he said, "My mother told me a story every day. She'd tell me, 'John, right down the river here a little piece, in the month of April, Joshua, that great warrior, spoke to God, and God walled up the river, and Israel come across---when the Jordan was in a flood---on dry land. And when he'd come across, he met the chief captain of the host of the Lord, at the gate of Jericho.' And how that in the wilderness ... how God brought our people out.
" 'Now, John don't you never forget. God, by a prophet, Moses, under a big pillar of fire, led our people out to this promised land. And you know, John, my little boy...'" And said, "I would look up in the face of my mother, and she said, 'John, you know, God told our people, "You don't have to bring anything to eat. I'm going to feed you while you're in the wilderness." And He brought bread down every night, and laid it all nice out on the ground. And the next morning, all our people had to do was go out and pick up that bread, and eat it.' "
And he'd say, "You know what I said to my mother? 'Mother, God did what? Who was that brought that bread down?'
" 'God. He brought the bread down, and laid it out so our people could eat, and brought it down every night for them.'
"And I remember, brethren," he'd say to the rest of them, "I remember I used to say to my mother, 'Mother, has God got a great big line of ovens up there, and a whole lot of angels working at nighttime? And He puts all the bread in the ovens, and He bakes it, and then runs down and spreads it out on the ground?'
"She said, 'No, John. You're just a little boy. You don't understand. See, God is a creator, and God don't have to have ovens. He just speaks, and He created the bread.'"

33 Then he said, "Brethren, today, when I saw Him take those two little fish and five biscuits, little bread, and break that bread and feed five thousand, I knowed that was the same Jehovah that fed our people. Here He is feeding them yet today. There's no question in my mind, but what...
"Look how He looked, on his face. He wasn't excited a bit. He knew exactly what to do. You remember, He told us He did what the Father showed Him. And there He stood, when hundreds ... and five thousand men and women and children, hungry, gone all day with no food, through the dust, just to hear a word or two from his precious lips.
"Tired, He sat upon the rock, and a little boy played hooky from school [you know, truant], and went fishing. And he heard Jesus, and he came by. He's the one had the lunch."

34 Now, listen, little boys, little Indians, and white people, and whatever you are: you see, that little boy had just five little biscuits, and two pieces of fish. It wasn't very much to him, as long as it was in his hand. But when he gave what little he had to Jesus, it fed five thousand. See, we don't have very much; but what little we have, if we'll just give it to Him, He'll multiply it, see, and make it do great things.
What little faith you've got, lay it on Him, and say, "Here's all I've got, Lord, but I'm going to believe with that." Watch what He'll do with it. Just watch what happens. Stay right with it. Watch Him bring you around through every curve, and bring you right straight to the promise where He made it. Yes, He knows the way. Now.

35 "And when I seen Him feed those five thousand, standing there just as calm, broke that bread... And I climbed around, and got on the rock, looked over his shoulder to see how he was doing it. He got a hold of that bread, and He broke it, handed it out to somebody. And when He went to reach back, there it was again."
I want to ask you something, brother, scientists, or whoever, what kind of an atom did He let loose?
Every time ... not only wheat and milk, that goes in the bread, but it was already growed, baked, and ready to serve. Every time He reached his hand for it, there it was. Tore that loaf off, hand it out, reached back, it was a new loaf again. Kept tearing, handing it like that.
Every time He picked up these fish, little fish [little minnows, we would call them, little herring maybe, about that long], and He had it cooked. So he just broke the part off of it, hand it out, and reached back, and there was another herring, already cooked. Amen! Oh, my! Now that's the truth. The Bible said so. There it was. He growed that herring, fattened him up, and boiled him and baked him, and had him ready. No more than He reached his hand back, and break it off again; and reached back, and that little herring just kept growing, just breaking him off like that.
Every time He got a biscuit, He'd just say, "Here, biscuit, grow back again. Here you are, here you are."

36 "And I stood there," said young John, "and my heart jumped within me because I know in that little frame was Jehovah. God was in there, because that's the same God my mother used to tell me about, who could create bread in the heavens. And here He is on earth doing the same thing." Amen. Oh!
And he got to shouting. Andrew said, "Wait a minute, John. You're rocking the boat. You'll dump us all over out here. Don't get so excited." He was just jumping around, hollering, "Glory to God." And he said, "Sit down, John. You're in a boat. You'll tip us over."

37 And Simon, sitting there sweating under the collar, "Hurry up, John. I got to say something." Oh, my! You know, that's the way we do in a testimony meeting. "Oh, I wish he wouldn't say so much. I wish he'd keep still. If I could just say something..." Oh, it's just bubbling over, you know. The Bible said it would be springs of water, bubbling up. Amen. Just can't hold it still.
Jesus told the woman at the well, the water that He give would be wells bubbling up. Whew! My! And I tell you, after seeing that meeting that day, they were all bubbling out there on that sea.

38 And little John finally had to sit down, 'cause big Simon raised up.
He said, "You know, Andrew, my brother here (now, sit still) ... when Andrew come told me about he had found the Messiah, I couldn't believe the stuff like that, because I was a Bible reader. I know what the Bible said. So one day after we had washed our nets and come in, I was taken in the presence of Jesus. And I remember one day when my old daddy ... You all know him, oh, the Pharisee, a real staunch believer. We was out of food. We didn't have nothing to eat. And we were fishermen---we lived by the seaside. And our father had taught us to fish in the sea for our living. He was bringing up us boys to be honest, and do what was right. And I can see my old daddy with them gray hair hanging down.
"And when we went that day... And mama had done gone on to glory, and just Andrew and I and Daddy. And we owed some bills. And that morning before we left, oh, I can just see my old daddy kneel down by the side of that boat, and say, 'Great Jehovah, You said, "Owe no man nothing," and I'm in debt. I haven't been able to catch any fish. None of the others along the shore here is catching any fish. They're just not running. But, God, You are the creator. I need fish so bad. Won't you help me today to catch fish?' And that day we caught a marvelous load of fish.

39 "And when we come in, and we had washed our nets, I remember Daddy sitting down and putting his arm around me, and saying, 'Simon, my little boy, Daddy's getting old. I'm going to have to go join our people pretty soon. All my life, boys ... come here, Andrew, and sit on my knee. All my life I've believed that I would see the Messiah. I believed I would see the Christ, that all of our people has waited for, for these thousands of years. And no doubt but now I won't see Him, because my days are about over. But you boys may see Him.
"'Now, I don't want you to be all mixed up and all indoctrinated with the modern trend of the world, but I want you boys to remember that when the Messiah cometh, when He comes, remember the Scripture says He'll be a prophet like Moses.'
"And I remember my old daddy, remember when we put him away [Andrew nodding his head, 'That's right']. And when Andrew and I walked up in the front of Jesus, He looked at me and He said, 'Your name is Simon, and you are the son of Jonas.' Oh," he said, "that settled it forever, right then. I knowed that was that prophet, because not only did He know me, but He knowed that godly old father of mine who'd instructed me to always believe God's Word; and that Messiah would be a prophet. He knowed him also. That settled it with me."

40 And of course, that time Philip was looking around to Nathanael, just laughing, you know. Said, "Is it all right, Nathanael?"
He said, "Go ahead, Brother Philip."
"Well, you know when I seen that done, I run around the hill to get Nathanael over there. And what about it, Nathanael?"
He said, "Let me tell it! Let me tell it!"
"Why, don't rock the boat. Sit still."
He raised up, got up and begin to talk, you know. He said, "Well, I'd always ... Philip and I had studied the Scriptures, and we knowed that the modern church didn't have the trend of it, long ways, because they were looking for some class to come out of heaven. And they didn't believe that God was coming, but we believed that God was going to be man."

41 It ought to be striking. When God changed his cast, when God became one of us in order to save us, He had... In the Old Testament, before you could redeem, you had to be a kinsman redeemer. The story of Ruth brings it beautifully, see. Had to be a kinsman. And God had to become kinfolks to us, become one of us. Think of Jehovah God in a manger crying like a baby. Think of Him, playing as a boy. Think of Him, building a house out of the very timber that He created. Amen.

42 They believed He would be, and He would be that great prophet. And Nathanael said, "When I walked up into the face of the Lord Jesus, kind of a little skeptical of what Philip told me... And Philip told me, said, 'Why, He might even tell you who you are when you get there. Wouldn't surprise me.' "
But said, "When I walked up into his face, He said, 'Behold an Israelite in whom there is no guile.' And I said to Him, 'Rabbi, when did You ever know me?' He said, 'Before Philip called you when you were under the tree I saw you.' That settled it.
"And you know what I done, brethren? You were there. I run right up and fell down at his feet, and said, 'Rabbi, Thou art the Son of God. Thou art the King of Israel.' And there stood my pastor over there with ... blowed up like a toad frog, sitting over there looking at me. But it didn't make any difference then, because I had seen the real thing. I run right up anyhow, and believed it, because I knowed the Bible said that's exactly what He would do."

43 Oh, couldn't we start a testimony meeting tonight? What God said He would do in the last days, we are seeing it being done. Amen. Don't make any difference what anybody else says. If they want to be Presbyterian, Anglican, or whatever they want to be, that's all right. That's up to them. But we've seen something. We've seen the Scripture, in the last days, what He was going to do, and we watch Him pour out his Spirit upon the place. Hallelujah! And see signs and wonders be accomplished, see the very presence of the living Christ manifesting Himself. And now, down through the Scripture, where He showed his last sign to a generation that ended it. And here we're seeing the last sign of the generation, as He said in the evening time it would happen.

44 Now. Oh, they must have had a real testimony. Andrew said, "Brethren, can I say just a word? I would like to say something. Do you remember the time that we went up to Sychar, and we was sent off into the city to buy some food? And when we come back...
"Our Master wouldn't go into the city with us, but He sat and rested. And when we come back, we heard somebody talking. And we slipped around behind the bush, and looked up over the bush, and there was a woman of ill fame, a bad woman, a prostitute, talking with our Master. Remember how astonished we were? We thought, 'A woman like that, talking to our Master? Watch Him bawl her out. Watch Him run her out of his presence. [That's what they still think. He don't do that.]'
"But we come to find out that He asked her for a favor. He said, 'Bring me a drink.' Well, we know that no rabbi, or no one of our Pharisees would never ask a woman like that to do anything for him. But here was our Master, the God of creation, sitting here in a body of flesh and asking a woman of ill fame to bring Him a drink, do Him a service." Amen!

45 That's what makes Him God to me, because He humbled Himself. God is humility. Don't never forget that. Humility is God. Never boastful; it's always humility.
"And we listened at Him. We thought, 'Surely in a minute He'll grab a stick, and run her back down to the city, where she belongs.' But He said, 'Bring me a drink,' and they got to talking religion. She said, 'We worship in this mountain. You say at Jerusalem,' and so forth. And He talked to her for a while. And after awhile, He said to her, 'Go get your husband, and come here.' And she turned, and said, 'I don't have any husband.' You remember?"

46 Matthew said, "Yes, I remember. [He's the one that wrote it, you know.] Oh, yes. I remember it. My heart failed. I thought, 'My, my! Uh-huh. There's our master one time wrong,' see, because He told her she had a husband, go get her husband; and she said, 'I have no husband.' And then He turns around and said, 'You've told the truth.' Then we all were puzzled. Here He says, 'Go get your husband,' she said, 'I have no husband,' He said, 'That's right.' "
Look. "Go get your husband."
"I have no husband."
"You're right."
Now. "Oh, we were all astonished, and our hearts beat, and we raised up over the bushes behind Him to see what He was going to say next. Oh, He was wrong. She said, 'I have no husband,' and yet we believed Him to be the Messiah. How could that great Messiahic sign be wrong? And we knowed He was Messiah, because He did the sign of Messiah. Therefore we... [Messiah is God, the anointed. And the anointed is the Word. And the Word was manifested, see.] We knowed that He was Messiah. And here He was. Every time it hit but this time. But now He had missed, for He said to the young woman, 'Go get your husband'; she said, 'I have none.' He said, 'Thou hast said the truth. You said well, for you've had five, and the one you're now living with is not yours.' Oh!
"And we noticed what that woman said. She turned with startled eyes, and she said, 'Sir, I perceive that You are a prophet. [Now, that, really, in the King James is mistranslated. It's all right. It's okay like that. But if you'll take your margin reading on that, and run it back in the original Greek (and many of the scholars here read it), it said, "Thou art that prophet," see. That's the margin reading. "Thou art that prophet. I perceive that Thou art that prophet."] Now, we know that when Messiah cometh, is called the Christ [that prophet, Messiah, and Christ all the same person], when He comes He'll tell us all these things.'
And Jesus said, "I am He that speaks with you."
"And that woman run into the city, and began to tell all the men, 'Come see a man that told me the things that I've done [now watch], told me the things that I have done. Isn't that the very Messiah?' And you know, we all went into the city to find out what happened. And all the men in that city believed the woman's testimony. Oh, it was a great time!"

47 About that time Matthew said, "Wait a minute. I got something I want to say. Let me testify right quick. [It was kind of getting a little late, you know.] Let me testify." Said, "You remember that time that our sister, Rebekah...? She lived in Jericho. And our Lord went down to have dinner down in Jericho, and we went into the city.
"And you remember Rebekah testifying? Oh, you remember she'd request at every meeting, 'Pray that my husband will get saved. Pray my husband will get saved. His name is Zacchaeus, the little fellow.' He was a businessman. Let's believe he run a restaurant, and he had a lot of stiff composition ... competition rather, and he was real upset because that Jesus was going to eat at another place---like his place wasn't well enough.

48 And Rebekah constantly prayed.
"She said, 'Zacchaeus, you may have a lot of competitors, and you may be in good standing with Rabbi Levinski, the priest, the rabbi that comes and eats with you at the Kiwanis Club [or whatever]. You may be in good standing with him. But let me tell you something. This man is a prophet. And He...'
" 'Why, you know what our rabbi told me? That we haven't had a prophet since four hundred years ago, since Malachi was our last prophet. And tell me that that guy---born down there by the seaside, one of them little huts, somewhere down there---would ever be a prophet? Aw, Rebekah...' [Blank spot.]
"We knew if he ever once sat down and talked to Jesus, he'd be convinced. [And that's the same thing today. If you'll just sit down and talk to Him a few minutes, you'll know.] So you remember what Rebekah told us? Now I'm going to repeat Rebekah's testimony," said Matthew.

49 "'Now, you know, all night long little old Zacchaeus was restless.' [You know, when you get to praying for a fellow, he kind of gets in bad shape. If you want somebody saved, or something done, just start praying for them. That's the reason we... Prayer is the greatest thing was ever put in the hands of a man. Prayer even changes God. God pronounced death on a man one time. He turned his face to the wall and prayed, and God spared him fifteen years longer. Right. It's true.]
"So we find out that little old Rebekah prayed all the time. And that night she couldn't sleep. She looked out of the corner of her eye. She said ... Zacchaeus was restless. She said, 'Lord, I know you're dealing with him. I know you're dealing with him.' Now, Jesus the prophet is coming into the town for this meeting down here, and I want him to see Him so bad. Lord, You make a way now. Just make him miserable. Just make him so he can't sleep.'
"And there he was. He couldn't sleep. So all right, that's fine. So the next morning...
"She had dozed off to sleep, laying praying all night."

50 (And if you want your husband saved now, you do the same thing Rebekah did. Just start praying for him. And you know, out there on that sea when he's out there fishing, or down there in the business, he'll get so under conviction he can't even sleep. Yes, sir. That's right. He just gets... And if you want your wife saved, you do the same thing, and she'll come away from every card party, and everything else she belongs to. She'll sure do it. Yes, sir. Oh, there's just great power in prayer.)
"And she said she prayed, and then about morning she went to sleep. All at once she woke up. Little bit before day, Zacchaeus was already up. Groomed himself in his very best clothes, and she said, 'Thank you, Lord. I know. I know You're dealing with him.' And so she turned over. She said, 'Oh, dear. What bringest thou up so early?'
"'Oh,' he said, 'nothing. I just thought I'd walk out, and get a bit of fresh air. [You know how you can find all kinds of excuses, you see.] I believe I'll just walk out, and get a bunch of fresh air. You know, it's kind of stuffy in the room.'

51 "'Well,' she thought, 'we've been married for twenty-five years, and never did he do it before. So there must be something wrong now. So we know that, and Jesus is supposed to be here most any time. So I'll just act like I'm not concerned. But he don't believe that Jesus is a prophet. So, if He could ever be convinced that He was a prophet then He'd know the Word of the Lord; 'cause he's a Jew, and he knows the Word comes to the prophets. So he knows that he'd have the Word of the Lord.'
"So she watched him, and he groomed himself in his best, and combed out his beard, and fixed his hair back, and put on his nicest turban. And he goes walking down the sidewalk, looking back to see if Rebekah is looking. And she's over at another window, peeping behind the lattice like this, seeing what he's doing.
"She got down on her knees, and said, 'Thank You, Lord, thank You. He's going right straight down to see it. I know You're going to answer my prayer.'"
That's the way you got to believe: God's going to do it for you.

52 "So then, he goes walking out, you know, and goes down the street, and he looks around. Now, if he was going to do it, he would go up this way under the trees. But instead of that, he went right down towards the South Gate where Jesus come in at, see.
"He gets down there. He thought, 'I'll get down there early,' he said in himself, testifying later. 'I'll get down there early, and I'll see this here false prophet---so-called prophet of Galilee. When He comes by, I'll give Him a piece of my mind.' [You don't realize. See, when they get real irritable, just remember God's still dealing, see. He knows how to do it.]

53 "So you know what? When he got down there, the street was already full of people, had been there all night waiting for Him. You know, He had friends, too. And he got down there and he was so little... He might've been big in his own congregation, but he was just another man in that one."
You know, I like this old-time religion. It'll make a tuxedo suit and a pair of overalls put their arms around one another, and say, "Brother." It'll make a calico dress and a silk one put their arms around one another, and say, "Sister." It's no respect of person. You're just another man. No matter what you own, or who you are, you're just another man. There's no big shots among us. We're all God's children. That's right. Oh, my!

54 "And here he gets down there, and he thought, 'When they see me, Zacchaeus, the great merchant of this city walking down, they'll all step aside, and say, 'Your Honor, sir.' But they found out he was just another man. And he got there, he was so little among them, he couldn't see Jesus. He said, 'You know what? Now, this... He comes in ... this is Glory Avenue. Now He's bound to cross Hallelujah, crossing up there, up the street called Hallelujah Avenue. [He always goes them streets---Glory, and Hallelujah, and Amen, and Praise God. He always travels them roads. Just stand along there. You'll get it after awhile.]

55 "And he runs up the street real quick, as hard as he could, and got up to Hallelujah Avenue. And he said, 'Now I'll stand right here, right out on the corner.' He happened to think, you know, 'There's such a press, and it's picking up momentum all the time. And time He gets up here, they'll just walk right over the top of me. So, you know what I believe I'll do? I believe I'll climb up in this sycamore tree here, and then I'll get a good view of Him.'
"So he jumped. He's too short, couldn't get a hold of the limb. So looked over there, and the city garbage collector hadn't got the garbage yet. So he reaches over, and gets a hold of the garbage pail, and here he comes. [Oh, you know, if you're determined to see Jesus, He'll make you do things that you didn't think you would do.] Oh, my! Here he is, the businessman of the city, packing the garbage can.
"And about the time he got out there, his competitor saw him. [Wonder if somebody sitting here tonight is exposed like that. Just, oh, exposed! What if it could be, sitting there! "Oh, my! I didn't want nobody to see me in here." But you know, He knows right where you are.]
"And so, then he set the little can down, and the competitor said, 'Oh, I see he's changed his position---from a merchant, now, he's a city garbage collector.'
"And so, he didn't pay any attention, his little face red. But he was determined to see Jesus, you see. He wanted to get a look at Him. He didn't believe He was a prophet. And if He wasn't a prophet, he was going right down there and really tell Him about it, that's all. Going to say, 'Well, you're an imposter. You oughtn't to be in this city.'
"So, he gets up on top of the garbage can, and shinnies up it. [Oh, oh. You don't use that word here, "shinny," do you? That's a Southern ... that means climb up the tree, you know; get your knees a hold of it. We call it shinny down there, up the tree.] Got up the tree, and he got up there, and he found where two limbs hit like this. And he sat down right on both of them."
That's where we all come: where two ways meet, yours and God's. There's where you make your decision.
"He sat up there; looky, all groomed up, scraping the garbage off of him, picking the splinters out of his hands. What a mess! But he wanted to see Jesus."

56 It'll make you get in a mess. That's what's the matter with people today. They don't like the new birth. They try to make it something else. They want to shake hands, say, "I believe in God Almighty, the Father. I believe in the holy Roman Catholic Church, the communion of saints, and I take Him to be my Saviour. I'm borned again." Huh-uh, No, no, no.
Listen, brother. The new birth's more than that. Listen. I want to tell you something. Any birth is a mess. I don't care if it's in a pig pen, or if it's in a hospital room. Any birth is a mess. And let me tell you, the new birth is nothing less. It's a mess. You'll squawl, and bawl, and wash all the paint off your face with tears. But ... you'll have to die, but it brings new life. That's the main thing. It'll bring new life, and you'll be a different creature. It'll make a mess out of you, but you'll have to do that to be borned again. You have to be messy, see, but it'll bring new life.

57 "And here he was sitting up there, scraping the garbage off of him. And, you know, he said, 'Now, Rebecca told me... [And she was home, jumping up-and-down, saying, "God, I know You're answering prayer. Hallelujah! He's going to get it today. That's all there is to it, because he didn't return back. He'd have walked out on the sidewalk and come back in if he wanted a little fresh air. But he went just as hard as he could, and I seen him going out towards Hallelujah Avenue as hard as he could go. I know, Lord. Thank You already---answered prayer."]'

58 "So then, what happened? Then here sits little Zacchaeus up there, and he said, 'You know, Rebekah said He was a prophet. Now, somebody might see me up here, and point me out to Him before I get a good chance to tell Him what I think about Him.' So he reached around, and got the limbs, and pulled them all around him, and camouflaged himself, sat back in a ... you know, like a crow sitting back in a tree. Got all back there, and camouflaged himself.
"He had one great big sycamore leaf here. He made that a window. He could raise it up, and look, then come back down, see. And directly he heard a noise. [You know, there's something strange. About everywhere Jesus goes, there's a lot of noise.] He said, 'Well, He must be coming. Lot of noise.'

59 "And after awhile, here He turns the corner. And when He turns the corner, looks. Crowds all around Him, four or five men keeping the people away from Him, and He walks around the corner. He said, 'That little bitty fellow?' [You know, the Bible said, "There's no beauty we should desire him." He didn't look like some big king, or priest, or something. He was humble, little fellow.] Walking along there with his head down, head down He walked right down till He got right under the tree. And here's old Zacchaeus sitting up there, you know, holding up this leaf, you know, looking like this.
"And about the time He got underneath the tree with his head down, He looked up there, and said, 'Zacchaeus, come down. I'm going home with you for dinner.' "
Right! Was He a prophet? Amen! Sure He was. Not only did He know he was in the tree, but He knowed his name was Zacchaeus. Amen. Glory!

60 Must have been Nathanael said, "Just a minute. You remember that time when that old Pharisee went and asked Him down to have dinner with Him?"
"Yeah."
"They didn't invite us, and we couldn't come without an invitation. But He went, and they let Him sit in there with unwashed feet. Remember that little old woman took her little Roman denarius, and went down there and bought that alabaster box, and slipped around in there. And she was standing there by his feet. And there sat Jesus with dirty feet. Oh, it sounds sacrilegious to say it. But they did."

61 You know, when you go into their homes there, the first thing they do, they take a foot-wash flunky... Now, that's the lowest paid man of the bunch, is a foot-wash flunky. He goes out there, and when a guest comes in, he sets up his feet. And he takes his sandals off and washes his feet, because...
They walked on a road, and the animals walked on this road, you understand, where the animals was, and had got into dust. And when they walked, they had a robe on, and it picked up that dust, and it settled on their limbs, and things. And, oh, the stink from the animals! And so, it wasn't nice to go into a home.
So they had a foot-wash flunky. He was the lowest paid man of the bunch. And he'd get out there, and wash their feet, and then make them welcome, you see, put them on a clean pair of sandals. And Jesus became a foot-wash flunky, the lowest job in the earth. And somebody failed to wash his feet.

62 And then, the next thing they do... The Palestinian sun, them direct rays was real hot, so it'd scorch their neck, and face. And they'd give them some ointment, and they put it on there, and washed their face with it like that. And it cooled ... had a cooling, like menthol. And it come out of a rose bud they found way high in the mountains. The queen of Sheba brought a bunch of it up to Israel, when she come up in Solomon's day. And then they'd wipe it off.
And then, the next thing, they'd kiss their guest welcome. Come here, brother. Here's the way they did it. They'd take their hands like this, and when they come in, they was welcome. They'd take one another like this, and then they changed hands like this, right here, and on this side. And they still do it. Kiss them on the neck, make them welcome, see, kiss welcome.

63 Well, here sat Jesus. Here's this old ... big old rabbi, standing up there, you know, with all of his wine, and all of his fine food out there. And the poor people, they couldn't come. They'd smell that aroma of baked lamb, you know, and oh, my! how they wanted to come. But they couldn't come. Mouths watering.
Oh, them rabbis. They made money, and they could put on a big feed. And Jesus had come in, and all the rest of them was welcomed. And He'd left his busy schedule to come, and they didn't even make Him welcome---let Him sit there dirty.
And you know what old Rabbi Levinski said over there? He said... And this woman, she looked over there, and she come and she seen Him sitting over there. She said, "Oh, who is that? Do you know who that is?"
And someone said, "That's supposed to be that prophet. He isn't a prophet. Rabbi's going to prove today that He's not a prophet. That's what He had Him down here for."

64 You can remember, when one of them kind of guys invites Jesus, he's got a trump up his sleeve somewhere. He's got a card there somewhere. He had no business, he had no dealings with Jesus. It was a drawing card or something. So he had all the rest of the priests to come in. He was going to show that He wasn't a prophet.
And so, Jesus come anyhow. No matter how much that you're trying to do something about it, or trying to show Him up, if you invite Him, He'll come. He always keeps his appointments. He never fails. So there He was.

65 There He sat in there that night ... that day. And this little woman said, "If that's who that is, that's that man. I believe He's a prophet, and He was the one forgive Mary Magdalene, that woman just as bad as me, forgive her sins."
Down the city she went, and up a little old alley, and up a little creaky steps in a little old shack. Reached down there and she pulled out what little money she had collected on her ill way of living. She pulled this out, this money bag. And she said, "I can't do it. He's a prophet. And He'd know how I got this money. But it's all I can do. It's all I got. And I must see Him. I'm a sinner. I must ask Him to forgive me."

66 And up the street she went, and bought an alabaster box of ointment. She slipped into the meeting. I don't know how she ever got there. And she looked, and there sat Jesus. And when she got to Him, her heart began to beat when she looked at Him.
And she fell down at his feet, and she looked up. And she was so sinful till the tears begin to run down her face, bathe upon his feet, you know. And she was trying to wipe them. She was so afraid she was doing something wrong. She was trying to wipe them, and then go ... kissed his feet, and look up, and the tears running down. She was reaching ... got her hair, and was wiping them off like that.
And she broke the alabaster box, and put it upon them, crying because she knowed she was a sinner. And you know, she thought... If Jesus would have moved a foot, she would have run out of there. But you see, no matter what it is, you try to do a service for Him, He'll let you do it. He likes for you to do a service for Him. And I can just see Him standing there looking at her.
And she's washing his feet, and she'd cry, "I know I'm a sinner. I ain't worthy to do this. But, Lord, I can't stand to see you sitting there, and your feet all dirty, and smelling like this. It's not right," washing his feet like that, hysterically.

67 And old Pharisee, the old self-styled, turned around and blowed up, said, "Hmph, Hmph. Oh, if He was a prophet... He would know what kind of a woman was washing his feet, if He was a prophet. That proves He's not a prophet."
Jesus just sat still till finally she got her service done. That's the way He does you or me. Go ahead and do your service. Then when He got done, He just stood and looked at her. And she raised back. What's He going to say? He never said to her...
He turned, and looked over to the Pharisees, and He said, "Simon, I've got something to say to you. You invited me down here, and I come. But when I come, you never give me no water for my feet. You never anointed my parching head here, with ointment. You never give me a kiss." (When you give the Palestinian kiss on the neck, "You're welcome. Come on in. You're a brother. You can go to the ice box, and get something to eat, and take off your shoes, and lay down across the chesterfield, and do what you want to." You're home, when they kiss you welcome.) But said, "You never kissed me welcome.
"But this woman [He turned to her]" said, "this woman, ever since I've been in here, ever since she come, she's continually kissed my feet, and washed them with the tears of her eyes. [What beautiful water, tears of repentance, doing Him a service.] Oh, she's continually washed my feet with her tears. She's kissed my feet---not my neck; my feet---since I've been in here."

68 And she wonders what He's going to say. Her mouth is all greasy from the ointment, her big brown eyes are standing open, her hair is hanging down, her face now is strained, and she wonders...
Then He turns and looks at her. Now see if He's a prophet or not. "And I say unto her that her sins, which were many, are all forgiven her. [That's what I want to hear Him say.] Her sins, which were many, are all forgiven her." Amen. Was He a prophet?

69 One said, "You remember [another one raised up up there]," said, "Do you remember also, that when He went through the gate that day, going out of Jericho? There was a blind man sitting there, and he said ... he had been talking. His name was Bartimaeus. You remember his testimony?"
"Yes."
"He said that a crowd began to make a lot of noise, and he said, 'What's all the noise about?' and people running over him.
You know, still when Jesus comes, a lot of noise. And there was ... he said he heard the chief, the general counselor, the head of the ministerial association come down there to stop that revival. "They can't have no such revival as that down here." And so they was making Him leave the city.
And went around, and said, "Hey, we understand that you raised up a man from the dead called Lazarus. We've got a whole graveyard full of them up here. Come up and raise them up. We'll believe you." See, but God don't clown for nobody.

70 There was some time another bunch believed He wasn't a prophet. They put a rag over his face in the Roman yard, and took a stick, with a rag over his face, and hit Him on the head, and said, "If you are a prophet, tell us who hit you. We'll believe you. Tell us who hit you." But He never opened his mouth and said a word. Of course He knowed who done it, but He don't clown for the devil. He just does things to glorify the Father. That's the same thing... Yeah, "If you are a prophet..." They all doubted it. That's right. They all doubted it.
Zacchaeus said he doubted, but then he was a believer. He become a member of the Full Gospel church brethren, and was real loyal to it down there, because he believed that He was a prophet.

71 Then we find out that old blind Bartimaeus standing out there, and some young lady come by. And he was all ... he'd been throwed over to one side, and she picked him up. She said, "Sir, what is the matter?"
He said, "Young lady, please tell me who passes by?"
"Oh, Thou dost not know? Thou art a Jew, and don't know the day and hour we're living?"
"No, my fair lady. I don't know who it would be."
"I'm his disciple."
"Who is He?"
"He's Jesus of Nazareth."
"I never heard of Him."
"Why, He's the prophet of Galilee, that the Scriptures spoke of."
"Oh, the Messiah? The Son of David?"
"Yes."
"Where's He at?"

72 Now, if you're ever in Jericho, mark where blind Bartimaeus was sitting, and mark where Jesus was where He heard him. It was impossible for Him to hear him against one saying, "Hail to the prophet! Glory to God in the highest," so forth; and the other said, "Get Him out of the city. He's a false prophet. Raise the dead. Show us something here"---a mixed multitude. He couldn't hear it. His natural voice, couldn't have heard it.
But old blind Bartimaeus got on his knees, and said, "O Jehovah God!"
And when he did, Jesus stood still. I wish I could preach on that. "Then Jesus stood still." He stood still, and said, "Bring him here."
His faith, the faith of that blind beggar stopped the Son of God, on the road to Jerusalem with the sin of all the world laying upon him, going to Calvary to be crucified. And the faith of one beggar on his knees, crying out, his faith, He felt his faith. Sure, He was God's prophet.

73 Oh, what a testimony meeting! Wish we had time to go on, but we haven't. We got to stop the testimony meeting, and close. Oh, it's about maybe ... getting a little later, and it's done got dark. Oh, the old boat was just rocking from one side to the other, hollering, "Glory! Hallelujah!" Oh, they were satisfied. They knowed that He was Messiah.
About that time, back over behind the hills there in Galilee, the devil raised up. He said, "Uh-huh! I got them just exactly where I want them. They've gone off without Him. Now I'll get them."

74 And I wonder, brethren, if our churches hasn't done the same thing. In the excitement of the revival, we're trying to find who can have the biggest church, and the best dressed organization ... the best dressed congregation, rather, and the biggest organization, more members. I wonder if we ain't kind of slipped off in all this without Him, see, leaving Him back, laying ... just because we got a better crowd, and a bigger church.
And that's where my fear comes for my Pentecostal church that I'm zealous of; that it'll miss that real kernel, that real kingdom of God. Remember, brother, sister, Pentecost is not an organization. Pentecost is an experience---Methodist, Baptist, Anglican, whoever will. Pentecost. You can't organize Pentecost, 'cause that's the Holy Spirit, see. And you cannot... It's an experience that comes to all people.

75 And then they seen Him. They'd gone off without Him, so he said, "Here's my chance to sink them." So he began to blow his poison breath. Whe-e-e-w! The big sea began... Said, "I'll sink them out there in the middle of the sea now. I've got them out there where they can't help themselves." Whe-e-e-w! Wave after wave!
What's he saying today with his wave after wave? "Days of miracles are past." Whe-e-e-w! "No such a thing as divine healing. You Pentecostal people oughtn't to get started in there. You ought to join the great ecumenical churches. You ought to go on into the World Council of Churches." Whe-e-e-w! waves of doubt floating through the church.

76 And first thing their little bark become waterlogged. The sail pole broke. The oars broke. The little... You know what it means to have a boat waterlogged. She's about ready to go to the bottom, and there it was. All hopes is gone. The little ... just had to let it drive.
The waves, and the devil sitting on every wave, saying, "Hah! We'll get him on the next one. We'll sink them on the next one. They are disciples of Christ. We'll sink them because they've gone off. They got scared of Him. They've gone away. And so now we'll get 'em, we'll get 'em."
And there they was, going back and forth, and the devil saying, "I'll sink them next."

77 But you know what? When they left, He didn't leave them. He climbed the highest hill there was in the land, so He could watch them, watch them where they was going. And you know, when He died back there on Calvary, He never left us. He rose again, and He ascended up, up, between Mars, Jupiter, Venus, beyond the moon, stars, the Milky White Way, went into heaven, and went way above heaven. The Bible said He's ascended ... even heaven is his footstool. Why? Farther up you get, the farther you can see. And his eye is on the sparrow, and I know He's watching right now.
When trouble come, He seen them in trouble, and the first thing you know, here He come walking to them on the sea, walking. And the sad part of this story is like this; right here is the most saddest part. They were ready to sink. And if our churches doesn't get back to a revival again, get back to the Holy Ghost, get back, and don't ... keep moving in that line like the denominational churches are going, we're going to sink. That's right. We're going right back, because every church that ever organized God laid them on the shelf.
And I want any historian to tell me where it ever raised again. Never in history did it ever do it, and I have studied the Nicene Council, Pre-Nicene Council, Nicene Fathers, Hislop's "Two Babylons," Pemberman's "Early Ages." Oh, there's never a place where the church ever organized, but what God laid it on the shelf and never used it again, and took something else and went on with it. That's right. "God is able of these stones..." There is where our trouble is laying right tonight. Tonight it's laying there.

78 And here come Jesus walking on the sea, and they thought He was a spook. They were scared of Him. They said, "Oh!" They cried out, "Oh, it looks spooky. I'm scared it's a spirit." The only thing that could save them, they was afraid of it.
Now hold real quiet. The same thing's happening. Wherever you go, and they see the Holy Spirit discerning---exactly what He said, proving that He is the Messiah working in his people---the people say, "It's a telepathy. Well, that guy's a fortune-teller," see. The same thing they called that, see.
The only thing that can save them, they are afraid of it. That's right. But what did Jesus say? He said, "Fear not. Be of a good cheer. It is I." Amen. "Don't be scared. It is I. Be not afraid." May He say that to our hearts tonight, friends.

79 When we come down through this prayer line, let's remember, fear not. Now, if you got a little superstitious, little suspicion in your heart... Excuse me for mixing my words. This is eleven straight meetings for me, and about fifteen hundred discernments, in the last two months. I'm about gone. I got three more nights and I got to rest a little, or I just can't stay here. Everything ... I sit and talk to people. Looks like still it's a vision, see. That's the reason I'm tired. You don't realize what I'm going through. But I must work. The sun will soon be down, and there won't be light no more. It'll be dark then.

80 They say communism will go take the world over. Don't you believe that. Communism ain't going to do nothing. Show me one place in the Bible where communism will ever take over. The Bible says Romanism will take over, not communism. Look at Daniel's vision, see. Not communism. It's a puppet in God's hands to destroy Romanism.
But Romanism, you fear that; not communism. It's nothing---don't amount to a thing. Only, you hear about Russia, all communism. I've been there. Seen some of the finest people I ever seen in my life. There's only one percent of all Russia that's communist. What Russia needs... They seen the weakness of the Catholic church, and the way they done (It done nothing. They took all the money out of the land), and they turned communist. That's exactly. Should have held up that standard.
Russia needs a revival. When that little boy was raised from the dead, up there in Finland, I stood there with hundreds of them communist soldiers, with that communistic salute, and tears running down their cheeks. When that went all across the land, they said, "We'll receive a God that can raise the dead." Yes, sir. Sure. They need a revival.

81 What we need is one... God only needs one man that He can get complete in his control. That's all He needs. Brother, Christ is here tonight. Don't be scared of it. It's Christ. When you come through this line, just remember this---that it's Christ. I'm going to stand the congregation up, and pray for them. I'm going to have my minister brothers here that believes in divine healing, to come down.
Many times people ... a minister will come into the city, and maybe got a lot more of faith and ... or do all the talking, and all the praying for the sick, and even to baptize the people. Then what happens? Then when the evangelist is gone, the poor pastor looks like he's sat on the back row, and was nothing. After all, that's your shepherd. That's the man who brought you this far. Trust him on.

82 And I want you all to know, you don't have to wait till some special gifts come through. If you have any need of spiritual things, consult your pastor. He was the one who led you safely this far. He'll take you on. That's right. God's servant.
And I want you to know that... The other night I stood in a line where about thirty or forty pastors ... and I jumped up the other end of the line, and picked up the people like that. And a great, biggest percent of them was healed before they ever got to where I was standing---them Holy Ghost-filled pastors, laying their hands on them. That was Methodist, Baptist, and Pentecostals, and all together. They were believing. They had the Holy Ghost, and they were believing it (that's right), and they were getting the job done. That's true.

83 Then don't be scared of this discernment. God promised it. And these few little nights, do you believe it? Have faith in God. Let us pray now, as we bow our heads. Now, we're fixing to close. In the next twenty to thirty minutes we'll be saying good-bye to one another.
If I come back next year, there's some of us won't be here. You know that. I may not even be here myself. You may not be here. This'll be our last meeting on this earth. Then we got to meet one another again. That'll be at the judgment ... or judgment seat of Christ. You'll either be standing there justified, or unjustified. It'll be too late then. You can't do nothing about it. And you know, and believe, that God through his Bible here has proved over and over that his presence is here.

84 Are you not a Christian? I'm not going to ask you to come up to any altar; I'm just going to ask you a question. I want you to answer me from your heart. If you're not a Christian, and you want me to pray for you to be a Christian, would you just raise up your hand while everyone keeps their head bowed? Say, "Pray for me, Brother Branham. I am not..." God bless you, lady. God bless you. Another one? Say... God bless you, lady. God bless you, brother. God bless you, over here. God bless you, sir. God bless you, young man. God bless you.
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"I am not a Christian. I want to be a Christian. I raise up my hand." God bless you, back there, sir. Now remember, I wouldn't have asked this question if it wasn't already the Holy Spirit struck me. That's the reason I started off of the message. Did you notice the different tone when I got washing that woman's feet ... or washing Jesus' feet, the woman? That light flew right down over me, standing right here before me now. That's the reason I'm just doing as He tells me. "Tell them to raise up their hands."
God bless you. God bless you, brother. God bless you, yes. I see your hand. Someone else? God bless you. "Be merciful to me, God. I want to be saved." God bless you, lady. "I want to be saved, and do Jesus a service. The world's pouring dirt upon Him again, the filth of the world. They call Him 'holy roller.' They call Him... , a bunch of crazy people. I want to take my stand. And with my life, that I'll live holy in the presence of this world, I want to wash the dirt from his feet. The criticism that they give his holy church, I want to wash the dirt from his feet with my tears of repentance." God bless you, son. God bless you. God bless you, lady. That's good.
Oh, I see a lot of the white people with their hands up. God bless you. God bless you. Bless you. That's wonderful. Just believe. All things are possible to them that believe. Just have faith. All right.

85 Heavenly Father, You saw those hands. I'm ... as your servant I'm claiming them. I'm claiming these precious people. Some of them I'll never see again. But God, they broke all scientific rules right then. They raised up their hands. Now, according to science, our hands has to hang down. Gravitation holds them to the earth. But it shows that they've got a spirit in them that can make decisions, and they raised their hands towards their creator, showing that a spirit inside of them... And there's one outside speaking to them, and they're answering back to that Spirit, which is the Holy Spirit.
And Jesus, I want to quote your words. Heavens and earth will pass away, but they won't. You said in the writing of the blessed Bible in St. John 5:24, "He that heareth my words..." And I just quoted your Bible tonight, "He that heareth my words and believeth on him that sent me has everlasting life, and shall not come to the judgment, but has passed from death unto life." You promised it, Lord. They've raised up their hands. They believe You. They believe on Him that sent You. They're accepting the Word, and I claim them. And Satan cannot be around them no more. I claim them, for the gospel.
And Jesus gives them to his Father for love gifts. "And no man can pluck them out of my Father's hand." They're yours, Lord. I believe them, that they'll make their way to a Christian church somewhere, a good full gospel church, and be baptized with Christian baptism, and receive the Holy Ghost. And when the fog of death begins to float into their face one of these mornings when their heart stops, the old ship of Zion shall come pick up its passenger, and land them safely over yonder. Grant it, Lord. I believe it, trusting in Jesus' name. Amen.

86 I believe Him. Do you believe Him? Now, each one that raised your hand... Now, I believe in making altar calls. Certainly I do. But the real ... that isn't apostolic. The Bible said, "As many as believed was baptized," see. Prayer meetings has been ... sure. We started making altar calls, coming up and praying, in the days of the Methodist early church in England, when they organized Sunday school, and so forth. But that's fine. I believe in Christians coming around the altar praying, sinners and what more. But right now, see, there's not any room---instruments and everything here.
But I believe that you meant that. And if you didn't mean it, it wouldn't help you anyhow, see. But if you did mean it, you have passed from death unto life. That's exactly what He said. That's right, if you meant it. There's thirty, forty hands.

87 Now, see these pastors here? They're your brethren. Make your way to their church and be baptized. Ask them about how to receive the Holy Ghost. They'll instruct you, how to do it. Now when we pray for you, I want to be sure that the Spirit of God is upon us. All right.
I want to ask you, do you believe? See that picture over there, that pillar of fire that's on the picture? You've seen it. Now, I've seen that since I was a little boy. It's all down through the records. The first time that was ever taken, the Canadian newspaper packed it thirty-one years ago, across the whole provinces of Canada, all the provinces, the Dominion of Canada. Said, "A mystic light appears over a minister while baptizing in the river." That was in 1930, at the foot of Spring Street at Jeffersonville, Indiana, when around ten thousand people was standing there. And I was baptizing my seventeenth person.
I said, "Heavenly Father..." I was a young Baptist preacher, and I said, "Heavenly Father, I can only baptize him with water unto the fellowship of this church. But I pray that You'll baptize him with the Holy Spirit." I said that. Something said, "Look up." I heard it a third time said, "Look up."
And I turned, and looked, and a great roar shook around over the crowd, and here come that light milling itself down, and stood right over me where I was standing. And a voice came from it, said, "As John the Baptist was sent to forerun the first coming of Christ, your message will forerun the second coming." Look at it today. A revival broke after that, and around the world it's went---a Pentecostal, Holy Ghost revival. Now Lutherans, Baptists, Presbyterian, Catholics and all receiving the Holy Ghost, everywhere; and the church making ready to go in. The message is coming to the end, see. There...

88 Now we all know now that the angel of the covenant ... that pillar of fire was the angel of the covenant, which was Christ. Do you believe that? Your brethren will believe that, the ministers, sure. See, Moses forsook Egypt, esteeming the reproach of Christ greater treasures than that of Egypt, see. It was ... now that was Christ in that pillar of fire, when He settled down on the mountain.
Now, when He come here on earth, He said, "I came from God, and I go to God." Is that right? And after his death, burial, and resurrection, after his ascension, Saul, which was later called Paul, was on his road down to Damascus to arrest the people that were in this way. And right in the middle of the day, that big pillar of fire appeared before him, and knocked him down, and put his eyes out. And a voice said... Now, nobody saw the pillar of fire but him.
Do you believe the Magi followed a star? No observatory saw it, or anything, looking at the heavens all together. They never saw it, because they wasn't looking for it, see. He just appears to those who He will.
Now Saul was struck down. They didn't see no pillar of fire, but it was so real to Saul till it put his eyes out. And a voice come from it, said, "Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me?"
He said, "Who are you? Who is this pillar of fire?"
He said, "I am Jesus. I come from God. I go to God."
Now, all that God was, He poured into Christ. He was the fullness of the Godhead bodily. And all that Christ was, He poured into his church. "That day you'll know that I'm in the Father, the Father in me; I in you, and you in me," see. It's God. It was God above us, God with us, God in us. See what I mean? There it is, the same God.

89 Now, if that light doesn't do the same works that it did when it was in the Son of God, then it isn't the same one. It isn't. But if it does do the same works... Just like I said, if you could take all the life out of a apple tree, every bit of the life, and transfer the life of a pear tree in an apple tree, it would bring forth pears, see, because of the life in it. That's what it bears. The fruit is in the life, of course.
And that's the same thing here. If you put the life of Christ, and take the life of a sinner out, he has to die first. And then when the life of Christ comes into him, then he'll produce the life of Christ because that's what's living in him, see. "He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also," because his life is in him.

90 Now, your brethren, your pastors, they may not be able to prophesy and foretell things, 'cause prophets are born prophets. There's a gift of prophecy in the church, but prophets are born prophets. Always. The voice of prophecy in the meetings, the gift of prophecy, has to be judged.
But notice. Now, but there is more than ... there's apostles, prophets, pastors, teachers, evangelists, see. Them are all offices. And these brothers... I'm not a teacher, or preacher, see, because I can't hold their office. They can't hold mine. But God has set in the church... These men are God's men, too, just as much right to pray for anybody. And I'm only here...
See, we're all like---so my Indian brethren will get it---we're all fishing. We are. And there's just so many fish in this lake that's got to be caught, and that's all of it. The kingdom of God is like a man took a net, and went ... throwed into the lake; pulled it out, he had frogs, lizards, bugs, snakes, and fish. But they was fish to begin with, and they was frogs to begin with. Just a little while, and the frogs will hop back in the water, and snakes will run back, the water spiders will back off, and the crawfish will run under something. But the fish is the Master's.

91 Now, these brethren are seining on different parts of God's great lake. Now, I come up here in this little city to weave my net with yours, so we can reach way out---away from one corner, or one community---reach way out, and pull. It's all our nets put together. Don't you see? We are brothers. We might disagree. If I come ask Brother Byskal here about some theology, we might disagree. And I've never met a finer man in my life, see. We might disagree. But...
My children back there... I got three children at home. I go to get ice cream, I have to get three different kinds. One wants vanilla, one wants strawberry, and one wants chocolate. When I come with the ice cream, it looks like a rainbow. But look. It's all ice cream. The flavor doesn't count. There we are, brethren. That's right. We're all eating ice cream.

92 By one Spirit we're all baptized in the same body. And the way we can sit here tonight, a rainbow is a covenant. God's a God of variety. Don't you believe that? God don't have everything like Sears Roebuck Harmony House. No, sir. God's a God of variety. He makes big mountains. He makes little mountains. He makes deserts. He makes seas. He makes little men, big men. He makes white flowers, black flowers, blue flowers, pink flowers. He's a God of variety. And that's the way He wants it.
But now, what if the white flower gets in with the red flower, and say, "Huh! I ain't going to be in this bouquet of God. No, sir, 'cause you're not a red flower." No, they just blend together for the Master. Amen. That's the way we do it. Blend together for the Master. That's right.

93 Now. The Holy Ghost is here, and Jesus said, "If I do not the works of my Father, then don't believe me." Is that right? They couldn't believe Him, being a man, being God. They just couldn't see it, that that could be anything. Said, "You make yourself equal to God (being the Son of God)." Now we know Jesus was Son. He said, "The Son can do nothing in Himself, but what He sees the Father doeth."
Thomas said, "Show us the Father, and it sufficeth us."
He said, "I've been so long with you, and you don't know me? He that seen me hath seen the Father. It's not me that doeth the works. It's my Father that dwelleth in me." God is a Spirit; Jesus was the man. He was a tabernacle that God dwelt in, see.
Now, He had the Spirit without measure, like all that water out there in the sea. That was what was in Him. But in us, it's just a spoonful out of it. We got it by measure. But remember, the same chemicals that's in the whole sea is in the spoon; not as much of it, but the same kind, see. That's right. That's the reason He said, "He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also."
Now, when he showed his Messiahic sign, that was for some. He was a teacher. Here they are. Here's different things, what all He done. Here it is represented in his church. He's here to help you, and we're here preaching the Word, doing everything we can to help you.

94 Now if I've told the truth, God's obligated to his truth. Is that right? Now, before we come up here ... and you know your pastors, you know they're teachers. You know they're powerful men of God in the Word. And now, that God might speak whether I've told the truth or not, how many in here now is sick? Raise up your hands. Before we pray, just raise up your hand, say, "I'm sick. I want you to pray for me." All right. Now there's all kinds of hands. 'Course I wouldn't know which was which. Now, let's just pray in our hearts.
Now, the Bible said that Jesus Christ is a high priest that can be touched by the feeling of our infirmities. If that's right say, "Amen." Right now He's a high priest. And if you touched Him... In Hebrews 13:8, said, "He's the same yesterday, today, and forever," He would act the same, see. He's in the form of Holy Spirit. Then if you touch his garment, like that woman did, with the feeling of your infirmities, then He'll speak right back through, 'cause here's a portion of his church as the teachers, and outlets, and channels, see, and just see if it isn't God. Let the people in here know that He's God. He is God, and He remains the same yesterday, today, and forever.

95 Now let us pray quietly, each one, for our infirmities. Let's everybody in your own way pray. Just believe. Say, "God be merciful. Let me touch your garment, Father. I confess my sins. I'm wrong. And Lord God, if You will just let..."
And you people back there just accepted Him, saying, "Lord, the man surely knew there were sinners in here, or he wouldn't have made a call like that. And I raised my hand. I've never seen anything like this done. I heard him tell about that testimony meeting. If I can see it done, I'll start a testimony meeting, too, that I saw it done, because they said You were the same." Now you pray and say, "Father, let me touch your garment." In Jesus' name, Amen.

96 Now look this way. Believe. Let's just go by sections so I can just concentrate on the section. Now you believe with all your heart. Now let the Holy Spirit ... solemnly now, everybody just as reverent, and quiet as you can be. And just don't ... look at me, but don't...
As Peter and John passed through the gate they said, "Look on us." That meant pay attention to what they were saying. Said, "Silver and gold have I none. Such as I have, I'll give you."
Now, if I could heal any of you, I'd come do it. You know that. I believe you believe that if I could do it... But I can't. Nobody else can. Not even God can. He's already done it. The only thing, He lets you know that He's here to confirm what He said was right. How many understands that? That his presence confirms that...

97 Looky here. Why, how much greater would it be to see a person out there that you never seen in your life, and reveal their life, or something to them like that, than it would be even just to lay hands on the sick, and see them recover. It's a miracle that we haven't had in the church for two thousand years. But it was promised in the evening time, and here we are. Not to the formal church, but to the elected church, Abraham's seed, only. Now believe.
If anybody don't believe it's God, come up here and take my place. Have faith.

98 There's a little, pretty little girl sitting right here looking at me. A little Indian girl. There's something wrong with you, sister. And down in your little childish heart, you struck a hold of something. I want to ask you something, sister. You felt a real sweet feeling around you, just as soon as I spoke, didn't you? That light come right down over you. You're suffering with an eczema that won't leave. That's right. Isn't it? If that's right, raise up your hand. It's going to leave you, now. Your faith does that. Honey, did you have a prayer card? You had one. You won't have to use it now. I looked down. I thought I seen something in her hand. Just be reverent.
Here, a white woman, sitting way back there looking at me. She's suffering with something wrong in her throat, and in her chest. God, don't let her miss it. Heavenly Father, help us, please. Miss Alexandra, you believe with all your heart. Do you believe? Raise up your hand. All right.
Listen. Listen to this. When I first spoke, you thought it was you, but you wasn't sure. That's right. Then you got real kind of upset, scared. That light went away from her, and then come back, see. Then when it did, I seen her holding something in her hand coming from the post, and it said, "Alexandra." All right. Go ahead. Your faith saves you. Amen. Do you believe Him? That's all you have to do, is ask Him, and receive.

99 What about somebody in here? Here. Here's a man that's kind of coming between the middle age, and aged. He's looking right at me. He's wondering in his heart, really, if I'm talking to him. It's you. You are suffering with some kind of something in your face, like a nerve that's dying. And it started at a hospital, or something, or some kind of a something you had done. And you can't sleep, it bothers you so bad. If that's right, raise up your hand. Now believe, and it won't bother you no more.
Your wife sitting there, the lady right next to you with the polka dot dress on, it thrilled her like she just didn't know what to do. That's right. Now, I don't know you, lady, do I? You believe me to be God's prophet? Will you receive me as his prophet? If I'll tell you, and you a stranger to me, from here ---being that you are a believer because ... happened to him---if you believe me with all your heart, and I can reveal to you what your trouble is, you'll know whether it's the truth or not. Now you're seriously sick. It's a heart trouble. If that's right, raise up your hand. Now you believe with all that's in you, and it'll leave you. "Fear not. It is I. Be of a good courage."

100 Here's an Indian lady, sitting right back there looking at me. She put her hand up around her head, rubbing her face. She's bothered with trouble in her arm. O God, may she not miss it now. Indian sister, I'm speaking to you. Mrs. Jacobson, believe me with all your heart. That's got it! There you are. Amen.
Do you believe? Now do you believe that's the Holy Spirit? Raise up your hand. Then look. Then that anointing is on me now, and believe me as I say I speak the truth, and God confirms it's the truth. Then, that same Holy Spirit, only in another office, is on these men, all of us. Now we're going to stand up here, all of us, anointed with the Holy Spirit, and let every person in the building pass by, and we'll pray and lay hands on you.
And the Bible said, "These signs shall follow them that believe." Follow them---that's me, and you together; you and them together, see. You believe. We'll lay hands on you, and pray for you as you pass by. Go out of this building, just rejoicing and happy; and don't never turn it loose, and you'll get well.

101 Now, if you believe me to be a true servant of Christ... I've spoke to you to the Word of God. God has come down, and confirmed the Word of God; and I speak back to you showing you that it is God; and God's Word promises this to every one of you. What more can He do? Nothing. He can't heal you, 'cause He's already done it.
The only thing you have to do is pass right by here. And as soon as you go into the water and was baptized, you say, "I'm a Christian, because I've repented, and been baptized." When you come by here and hands are laid upon you, you say, "I'm healed, because God said the prayer of faith shall save the sick." Go on right here. Just walk right out from under here like you were walking out from under Calvary, shouting and praising God. It's over. Do you believe it? Amen.
I love Him, don't you? Amen.
There is a fountain filled with blood,
Drawn from Emmanuel's veins,
Where sinners plunged beneath the flood,
Lose all their guilty stains.
The dying thief rejoiced to see
That fountain in his day;
There may I, though vile as he,
Wash all my sins away.
Ever since by faith I saw that stream
Thy flowing wounds supply,
Redeeming love has been my theme,
And shall be till I die.
Then in a nobler, sweeter song,
I'll sing his power to save,
When this poor lisping, stammering tongue
Lies silent in the grave.
Hallelujah! I believe Him. There's room at the fountain for every one of us. Oh, when we plunge in that healing stream, by faith pouring down from God out of heaven, pouring upon the people showing them his presence... He's here now. He loves you. He loves every one of you.

102 How many of you has got prayer cards now? Raise up your hand. Those who have prayer cards in this row, this section, let them stand against the wall on that side. All with prayer cards, stand over on that side. And all with prayer cards in this section, stand over in the middle aisle. And as soon as they get to the end, you pull right in here behind them. Then as soon as all the prayer cards are out, then let this section stand on that side. And this section hasn't prayer cards, file right in with one another. Brother Borders will take a hold of the microphone and instruct.
And now come here my brethren. (Thank you, Brother Eddie.) Where can we get to it best down there? I wonder. All right. It is. There might be some of them that's crippled. I tell you what we're going to do. We're going to come down there. Let's go right down. That's what we can do right now. All right. Just come right down, right down here, each one of you brethren. Just stand there. [Gap in the audio.]

103 Till we meet! till we meet!
Till we meet at Jesus' feet;
Till we meet! till we meet!
God be with you till we meet again!
Isn't He wonderful? How many believe that you are going to be well and sound? Amen. How wonderful, wonderful. God bless you. Let's close our eyes now, as we part. I hope to see you again. Until I see you I'll be praying for you. You be praying for me. Will you do it? I'll never forget Port Alberni. Only thing I wish, that I just had more time to stay. I love you with undying Christian love. Ever any time I can do a favor for you, the nights won't get too long, and the rain won't fall too hard. Call on me. I'll pray for you at any time. Anything I can do to be a favor to you, until we meet again.
Till we meet! till we meet!
God be with you, till we meet again!
Just hum it. Oh, how wonderful. How sweet it is that brethren dwell together in unity, just like the precious anointing oil that was on Aaron's beard that run down to the hems of his skirt. I hate to leave you. God bless you. Let's sing it again, will you?
Till we meet! till we meet!
Till we meet at Jesus' feet;
Till we meet! until we meet!
God be with you, till we meet again!