Jehovah-Jireh

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1 Good evening, friends. Very happy to be here tonight in the service of the Lord. And happy to see all you people out.
We was just a little late getting in, tonight. So I was praying and they were knocking on the door, but I couldn't hear them. I was kind of lost away in prayer. That's a good way to be, isn't it? Talking to our lovely master.
Now, this is the third night of the services, and we trust that everyone has been blessed by the Holy Spirit since the meetings has been going on. Phoenix ought to be in good condition for a city-sweeping revival in every church. Brother Roberts has just left, God's servant, and he always has a good revival, and the Lord has been with us, so far, in this revival, so, my, every church ought to be helped now. And I believe they're having a revival or two, around the city now.

2 The First Assemblies of God, I believe it is, is having a revival, and morning meetings also, by some evangelist. And I don't remember just what the brother's name is now, but I heard about it. Brother Hagar? [Someone says, "Hagan."] Hagan? Brother Hagan is holding a revival at the (Is that the First Assembly?) First Assemblies of God. And I've met their pastor, a fine man. And he had this meeting already stationed, the reason (or staged, rather), because he said the reason they couldn't come in to this meeting. It never hurts when it's a tourist town, like this. My, there's plenty of people going to church. And he has a morning service too, over there, about nine or ten o'clock.
And you strangers in the city, drop in. Hear the brother. I've never met him, but he's my brother anyhow, whether I've met him or not. And then, I think these other revivals, that I don't know nothing of, we'd be glad to announce them from the platform, if they'd turn them in.

3 And we're trying our best to get our part of seeing the bride make herself ready for the coming of the Lord. That's our alternative. And the Lord be praised for it.
And now, everybody feeling real good, tonight, just all prayed up, and ready? Oh, that's just fine.
And now, there's some handkerchiefs here, that I want to pray over, before we start. The handkerchiefs... Yes, sir, brother. These handkerchiefs represent sick people.

4 I remember one time in Africa, I believe it was, we had, I believe it was around twenty-one sackfuls was to be prayed for, thousands of handkerchiefs. Someone said, "Brother Branham is a very fine fellow, but," said, "he's very superstitious. He prays over handkerchiefs." But it was... It's not superstition; it's trying to do something that our brothers before us did, and help the people.
We're taught in the Bible, that they'd taken, off the body of Saint Paul, handkerchiefs or aprons. I believe Paul had Scripture for everything he did, don't you think so? Because he certainly wouldn't be unscriptural with it.
And I believe he got that from where Elijah said to his servant, Gehazi, I believe it was. When the Shunammite woman's baby had died, he said, "Take this staff, and go lay it on the child." Elijah knew that everything that he touched was blessed, if he could just get the woman to believe the same thing. But her faith wasn't in the staff; it was in the prophet, so... But I think that's where Paul got it.

5 Now, we know we're not Paul, neither Elijah, but we know that we still serve the same God. And they were men just as you are, "Men subject to like passions," the Scripture says, "as we are. And they prayed earnestly..." and God respected them.
God sends someone that people can have confidence, as a point of contact, to contact Him. We're thankful for a Father like that, aren't we, children, all of us? Loving and kind, trying to do everything that lays within His power to get us to believe, and accept Him on His term of love.
Now, these handkerchiefs here, perhaps out in the desert, there, somewhere, and across the country, is sick children, mothers, and fathers, really sick. They put these in here, with all sincerity. I see a little bib, here, says, "Baby." What if that was my baby? What if it was yours? Somebody's baby, and they're looking for this to come back. Let's pray.

6 Heavenly Father, we come to Thee in the simplicity of faith, believing that what we ask, we receive, because we ask it in Jesus' name, who promised us if we'd ask the Father anything in His name, that He'd do. And we believe Him. And I pray, heavenly Father, that Your blessings will rest upon these handkerchiefs, and little bibs, and pieces of goods here. You seen them when they brought them. And I pray, Father, that You'll bless each and every one. And may these handkerchiefs and little articles here be sanctified. May the Holy Spirit watch over them, till they get to their destination.
This little baby, when this is placed upon it, whatever the trouble may be, may Satan move back. We're taught in the Bible, that when Israel, on their journey to the promised land, came up to the Red Sea. They were walking in God's provided way, moving, led by the Angel of the Light, and when they got to the Red Sea, it was in their way, keeping them out of the promised land. One said that God looked down, through the pillar of fire with angered eyes; something trying to prevent His perfect will to be done. And the sea got scared, moved back, and opened up its waves, and Israel walked across on dry land.
Father, when these handkerchiefs and so forth, reaches the sick, may God look back again, through the blood of His Son, the Lord Jesus, with angered eyes, upon the enemy, and may he get scared and move away, because of this token. And may they go to the promise of good health and strength. With all the sincerity of our heart, we send it for this purpose. In Jesus' name we pray. Amen.

7 We're so happy to know that the Lord Jesus has never left us; neither will He ever forsake us. He's the same blessed Lord Jesus from eternity to eternity. Never failed, and He's just as real today as He was in the days at Galilee.
Where I am staying here in your lovely city, with a very lovely people there, and they were... Yesterday morning there was something happened. There was a vision came to me in the room. Visions just don't just come at the platform. This is just a little part of it. And in the room a vision came, and I went to the table where the sisters was sitting present now was. I said, "I saw a vision of a little girl, just about so high, blonde headed, and she's destined to die today in a wreck in a black automobile." I said, "He had told me to pray for the child, that this would be bypassed." And I have. I said, "It's thus saith the Lord, you'll hear of it in the next two or three days."

8 And the same hour, the lovely little girl of that home, was out in an automobile, where, just barely escaped death, was brought back safely. How our heavenly Father, just marvelously... Then we were sitting just awhile ago, talking about it. Those things happen all the time, different things.
It's a sure sign, that our Lord has risen from the dead; He lives among us, and He loves us all. He loves all the Methodist, here; He loves all the Baptists, all the Presbyterians, and all the Pentecostal, and Nazarenes, all. He loves everybody.

9 Little denominational barriers keep our fellowship apart, but God loves us just the same. We're His children. His grace overrides the whole thing, and He loves us all. Whether we are white, brown, yellow, black, it doesn't make a bit of difference to Him. We all come from one person, Adam.
Each one of us, whether we're white, brown, black, or yellow, we could transfuse blood to each other, and save each other's life by a blood transfusion. But I'm so thankful that One come, who was made different from all of us, and through the transfusion of His blood, we live forever: the Lord Jesus, who was neither Jew nor Gentile, He was God. God's own blood was in Him. He was a created blood.
Wasn't through any man. The Holy Spirit overshadowed Mary, and she conceived, and brought forth Jesus Christ, the Son of God, which was... The blood coming from the male, was God's own blood, that we're neither Jewish blood or Gentile blood; it was the blood from Immanuel's veins. So we're so thankful for that. Breaking down all the middle walls of partition, and bringing us into one lovely fellowship together.

10 I see some of my Indian friends are sitting back in tonight. So thankful they are here. And God helping me, I think, Saturday, I have services on the reservation. Be one of the high spots of my life, to get back to the Apache, I think it's the Apache Indian reservation, for a service.
I never forget the last night there, talking to the Indians. I guess, maybe they don't even understand English (maybe some of them in here), but when I tried to speak to them, and tell them that Jesus loved them... Remember friend, that's the real American. That's right. How... They have feelings; they're not made out of sawdust; they're human beings, love the Lord, and the Lord loves them.

11 So I remember speaking to them. I called for a prayer line, no one raised up. Usually, you can't keep them out of the prayer line. This way, no one wanted in the prayer line. And I heard some of the Spanish friends... (Say, by the way, where's our little Spanish choir, and those little ladies who sing for us? Wish we could get them together again.) And I heard them say, I don't know whether, "Gloria a Dios." Is that it? It's something like that. "Gloria a Dios," or...
And I thought, Oh, oh, we'll have a prayer line, 'cause they're around. So they had great faith. And then in the process, a few moments, the Lord ... after we got... The missionary brought some out of a little place there. I was standing on a balcony, preaching. And they brought someone out. It was a lady. And the lady, I believe, had a social disease, not because she was immoral, but just the way she had to live. And she was so startled to hear me say that. How did I know that? That kind of struck her.

12 The next was a little girl (the best I remember) was deaf from a fever. And the Lord Jesus healed her, and she also couldn't talk. And she was mumbling off something. And I said to the interpreter, "She'll talk better."
He said, "Hmm, her talk heap good now." 'Course I didn't know what...
So there was ... there was a little cross-eyed boy then healed. Then I really had a prayer line, like a stampede, everybody getting in the prayer line.

13 I remember the next one that came, Brother Moore, here, I believe, helped you along the road. A poor, old woman come up to me. She had broomsticks with a piece across, and with rags wrapped on it for a crutch. And when she came, her hair hanging down, she looked up at me, and her poor, old wrinkled face, ditched in with cares of time, the tears running from her dimmed eyes, making their way, down through those trenches in her face. I thought, Somebody's mother.
She looked at me. My, such a flow of faith, love, and respect. She never asked me to pray for her; she just looked at me, got a hold of one crutch and the other one, handed them up to me, straightened up, and went, walked on away, just like that. The simplicity of faith...

14 We, the white people, we try to figure it all out, see how it's going to be done. They don't try to figure it out; they just believe. So easy... Wonderful. You know, I think we ought to forget a lot we've learned (Don't you think so?), so we can just serve the Lord.
Now, tonight, I want to read just a little Scripture and speak to you.
By the way, they said, I had a wonderful altar call last night. I'm so happy for that.

15 This is something new. I never made my own altar call before, till this time. And I am very thankful that the Lord is giving me souls. That's the main thing. That's the reason our meeting is going on as well as it is, is because that children are being born in the kingdom. God wants us to...
He'd rather see one child born in the kingdom, than all the people that's laying here to be made well tonight. It'd be worth more. He loves to heal His children, but He wants to give them more than that. He wants to heal their souls, so that in the resurrection, He can just give you a immortal body, where you'll never be sick no more, crippled any more, or blind, whatever it is. That's the way He wants to do for you.

16 Now, in the Scriptures, in Genesis 22. Turn quickly now, if you want to read with me, just a little text, as it was, to speak. A clock is just ahead of me, so I can watch, and we want to start our prayer line just at nine, if the Lord willing. So we will read, now, from Genesis 22, the 7th verse, and then the 14th verse ... 7th and 8th verse then the 14th.
And Isaac spake unto Abraham his father, and said, My father: and he said, Here am I, my son. And he said, Behold the fire and the wood: but where is the lamb for the burnt offering?
And Abraham said, My son, God will provide for himself a lamb for the burnt offering: so they went both of them together.
The 14th verse, now.
And Abraham called the name of the place Jehovah-jireh: as it is said to this day, In the mount of the LORD it shall be seen.

17 Shall we just bow our heads a moment now, while we speak to the Author. Our heavenly Father, receive these words that's been read from Thy holy Scripture tonight, knowing that they are immortal; they're eternal; they will never die. The Lord Jesus said, while here in His earthly pilgrimage, He said, "Heavens and earth will pass away, but My words shall never pass away."
So we know, that as long as there's a ages rolls on, beyond the time that is to come, these verses that was read tonight, will be gone on, and on, and on, and on. They're endless, because God chose them and placed them in His Bible. Will You take them tonight, upon this basis? You said that Your Word would not return to You void, it would accomplish that which it was purposed for. And Thou knowing the purpose of our hearts, then, Father, may it find a resting place in every heart tonight.
And may those, who are out of the way, not knowing Thee, as a personal Savior, never received the Holy Spirit, pardoning of sin, being born again, justified by faith, pray, Father, that it'll sink deep into their hearts, and they will come lovely, humbly, to the cross and be justified in Thy sight.
And may those who are here, Your children, who's already accepted You, laying here on cots, stretchers, bound in wheelchairs, hopeless, helpless, as far as the world is concerned... Some sitting out there with heart troubled, may die at any minute, packed out in a moment of time, without hope, God, may Thy Word place in their heart.
The promise is in there, "Whatsoever things you desire, when you pray, believe you receive it, you shall have it." And may Him, and His wonderful, resurrecting power come here tonight. Speak, Lord. Get glory out of the service. For we ask it in the name of Thy beloved child, the Lord Jesus. Amen.

18 May God in heaven, bless His words tonight and His people together as we approach on the Word, talking about Jehovah-Jireh.
Now, God has seven compound, redemptive names. Jehovah-Jireh is the first: Jehovah-jireh, the Lord will provide Himself a sacrifice. Jehovah-rapha the Lord that healeth thee, and on down; Jehovah-nissi, the buckler, the shield the peace. Seven compound redemptive names that was revealed by Jehovah, and all those compound, redemptive names gathered up in one lovely, big name, Jesus Christ. And in there rests all the fulfilling of the compound, redemptive names of Jehovah.

19 Now, God speaking in sundry times and divers manners, to the fathers by the prophets, in this last day has spoke to us through His Son, the Lord Jesus. Our belief...
If there be any strangers in our gates, tonight we want to welcome you. But here is the basic thought ... or, the basic motive of us being here in Phoenix, tonight, is this: that we believe that the Scripture teaches, according to the Scripture, Christ rose the third day, according to the Scripture. He is not dead. He is alive forevermore.
And we believe that the Scripture teaches that Hebrews 13:8, that He is the same in principle, same in power, same in compassion, same in works, yesterday, today, and forever. And everything that He was then, He is now, and will always be.

20 We believe that He taught before He left, of His going away, that the unbelievers would see Him no more after His death. But He promised that the believers would see Him, for He'd be with them, even in them to the end of the world. So the world has never met its final doom yet, and Jesus is still with us today. Isn't that a wonderful, glorious, marvelous hope that we have, knowing this, that Christ rose from the dead? Now, if we can only find what He was yesterday, we'll know what He is today, and will be forever.
Here, to the strangers I say this: When He was here on earth, He didn't claim to be a great person; He was just a humble man, no beauty we should desire Him. He didn't look in His statue like a king, but He was King of kings.
And the works that He did, He claimed that He did none of them by Himself. He said, "I am never alone, the Father's always with Me. It's not Me that doeth the works; it's the Father that dwelleth in Me; He doeth the works." He said, "The Father worketh; I worketh hitherto. I can do nothing, but what I see the Father doing. And whatever the Father does, He shows Me, then I go do it." Saint John 5:19, you'll find that. "The Son... Verily, verily, I say unto you, 'The Son can do nothing of Himself, but what He sees the Father do, and that doeth the Son likewise.'"

21 And we find out, that in His journey, He had... Power was given to Him, because He was the anointed God. And they had power, that the people out in the audience of Him could pull from Him, virtue.
A woman touched His garment, went out in the audience. She was satisfied; she'd touched Him. So He turned around, looked all around; everybody else touched Him, but she touched Him with a different touch. He said... Looked all around, finally said, "Who touched Me?" Said, "I perceive that I'm getting weak, or virtue has gone out from Me." And He looked around till He found the woman, and said, "Thy faith has healed thee." I believe He's the same today.

22 And then when they brought someone to Him, He talked to him...
And He saw a woman at the well; He begin to speak with her awhile. He didn't know what her trouble was. The Father just told Him to go up, instead of going straight to Jericho, go up around Samaria. It's way up on the hill; it's different. So He went up around Samaria, sat down, and sent His disciples away, according to what the Father had showed Him.
And He sat there and waited till this woman came out. Then when the woman came out, He said, "Bring Me a drink," just to catch her attention. And then, when He begin to talk to her, why, He found where her trouble was; He said, "Go get your husband."
She said, "I have none."
Said, "You got five."
And she said, "I perceive that You're a prophet. Now, I know when Messiah cometh, He will do this."
He said, "I am He that speaks to you."
She ran into the city, saying, "Come, see a man who told me all I ever done."

23 And I believe that Philip come up and stood in the meeting; no way at all for Jesus to know anything about him; he was just standing there. Brought Nathanael up, a stranger; went over, another day's journey somewhere and picked him up, found him praying under a tree. When he come, he stood in the audience of the people. Jesus looking around, like that, seeing the people, He looked out till He found Nathanael (first time He'd ever seen him in His pilgrimage) and He said, "Behold, an Israelite, in whom there is no guile." In other words; an honest man; truthful.
He was astonished, the little Israelite, and he said, "Whence knowest Thou me, Rabbi?"
He said, "Before Philip called you, when you were under the tree, I saw you." My, that sure shook him, didn't it?
He said, "Thou art the Son of God. Thou art the King of Israel."

24 Jesus said, "The things that I do, shall you do also; even more than this shall you do, for I go unto My Father." I know the word is "greater" there, but if you'll look at it, it's "more." No one could do greater. He stopped nature, raised the dead, healed the sick, and so forth. "But the very same things that I do, shall you do also; even more than this, for I go to My Father."
He could only be in one place when He was in the body. Now, He can be in the body of believers, completely the world around. And I believe that He is the same yesterday, today, and forever. May He grant those blessings to us tonight.

25 Going back, now, to our text, of Jehovah-Jireh; The Lord will provide for Himself a sacrifice."
Abraham. I just love to speak of Abraham, because it was Abraham to whom the covenant was made. The promise was made to Abraham, and not only to Abraham, but to his seed after him. Not his seeds, because he had many sons, but only to one seed, which came through Isaac. Through Isaac came Christ. We, being dead in Christ, take on Abraham's seed, and are heirs according to the promise.
And I believe, sensibly, that I can prove by the Bible, that the seed of Abraham are those who have been born again of the Spirit of Jesus Christ, 'cause Christ lives in the believer. That's right. You have Abraham's seed when you have the Holy Ghost. That's right. It was through that promise.
And now, that promise wasn't made ... or, give to you by your own goodness; it was God's election and calling that brought you to it; nothing you ever done to merit it. You never sought after God; God sought after you and give it to you on the basis of sovereign grace; nothing in the world that you could do, nothing you could do about it.

26 What if a pig wanted to be a lamb? It wouldn't do him any good. He's just a pig; his nature's a pig. Well, that's just the same thing it is, by you want... "Well, I believe I'll become a Christian." You couldn't do it if you had to. God has to do it. You might clean up your life. You might do one thing, pay good tithings into the churches. You might even build a synagogue. You might do all these things, but you can't cleanse yourself from sin. It's like a leopard trying to lick his spots off of him; he only makes them brighter. So... The only way a leopard can be changed, is for somebody to pick him up and dye his hide, and then he's changed.
And the only way that God can do anything with you, or you can be changed from a sinner to a Christian, is to be plunged beneath the fountain filled with blood, drawn from Emmanuel's veins, where sinners plunged beneath the flood, and come out something besides a sinner (Amen.), lose all their guilty stain. That's it.

27 Now, Abraham, God called him by election. He wasn't any better than anybody else. He came down, out from Babylon, out of the... Perhaps, maybe, his father and them might have been an idol worshiper, for all I know. It was in Babylon, and Babylon was the beginning of idolatry. It was established by Ham's children, which was Nimrod, and finally ... first was called "the gates of paradise," later called Babylon, "confusion." There's where idolatry was set up, and perhaps Abraham's father might have been an idolater.
But he came down into the land of Shinar, in the city of Ur, and there they had sojourned in there, and God, by sovereign grace, called Abraham. Not Abraham calling God; God called Abraham and give him the covenant. Now, to my Arminian brethren, this may shock just a little bit, but He give it to him unconditionally (That's right.), not "If you'll do this, if you'll do that..." There's no "ifs" attached to it. "I have done it." Amen.
In the garden of Eden God made a covenant with Adam; Adam broke it. Every time God makes a covenant ... or, man makes a covenant with God, he breaks it. But this time God's determined that He wasn't going to let His children be lost. He made the covenant wholly unconditional, told Abraham, "I saved you, and now you're coming to Me in an old age, not only you, but your seed after you have I saved." My, that...

28 One of the greatest curses on the Full Gospel Church, is not positionally knowing what they are in Christ Jesus. I've always said, "I meet two classes of people. And one of them is the full gospel, and the other one is the fundamental." Fundamental knows where he's standing positionally, only he's never been born again, just the fundamental teaching alone, so he doesn't have any faith. And the full gospel has been born again but don't know where he stands. So it's just, if I could ever get Full Gospel Pentecostal faith and fundamental believers, or either fundamental believer ... fundamental doctrine in the Pentecostal faith, we'd have it made.
It's like a man that can write a check, but he hasn't got any money in the bank. The other one can write ... can't write it, and when they can write a check, hasn't got no money in the bank. The man that can't write a check has money, but he don't know how to write the check. That's the way it is. What's he going to do? One's got money in the bank, but he can't write a check. The other one can write a check, and ain't got no money in the bank. Then what can he do? You got to get those two together.

29 And if we could ever get the scare out of the people, that's something ... oh, I don't know; you're wanting a little "touch me," or hocus-pocus. God's Word is your basis. God said so. Just laid it out there perfect. That's where we believe it, see. It's not nothing... "Oh, if I can do this or that." It's not what you've done; it's what God has done for you. Yes, sir.
People say, "Oh, if I can just keep holding on." It ain't you holding on; it's whether He held on or not. It ain't what I am; it's what He is. It's what He represented me as. God don't see me as I am. If I'm in Christ, He sees Christ. He don't see me no more, for I'm dead. My life is hid in Him, sealed by the Holy Spirit, covered by the blood. You get it?

30 Then God takes the faith that Abraham had, and placed it in every believer by the Holy Spirit. You get it? Now... Then you begin to believe all things, hope all things; that's when the Gospel goes to work in the heart.
It's not nothing, no great... I think people makes it too complicated by giving it some great big lectures, big long words, and... What does the common class of people know about them big words? What would I know about it? Nothing. No, sir. I just like to see it just really in its simplicity. Yet it's the most powerful thing that the world's ever knowed of, is the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Just accept it upon the basis of the shed blood of the Lord Jesus; come and believe Him. That's the whole thing right there.
That's what gives visions. He told me He would do it, and He does it. That's all. Just believe it. He told you He'd heal you; just believe it. That's all. He said He'd save you; just believe it and watch what happens, see. That's all.

31 Now Abraham, God called him, give him the covenant unconditionally, told him He'd come to him in an old age, He'd save him and his seed after him, and told him he was going to have a child. Abraham, then, was about seventy-five years old. Sarah ten years younger than Abraham, made her sixty-five years old. That'd be forty, fifty, sixty ... be twenty-five years past menopause. They married when they were young, and all this time they'd lived together as husband and wife. And now God says she's going to have a child by him. But the Bible said, "Abraham staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief, but was strong, giving praise to God." He knowed God was going to do it.

32 Could you imagine what would happen in Phoenix today, if an old man, the age of Abraham and Sarah, would go down to the doctor and say, "Now, doctor, we want to make room at the hospital, 'cause we're going to have a child."
Well, the doctor would say, "Ahem, excuse me, sir," and would call the psychopathic ward to come pick him up (see), ' cause they'd say, "Something's wrong." Every man that truly steps out and trusts God is misunderstood. That's right.

33 Hannah, at the temple, she was praying, and you know what? Even the priest thought she was drunk. She didn't go up to Shiloh, up there, to see what kind of hats the women wore, or who had moved, and all about the neighborhood talk. She went up there for one purpose: that was for God to take away her reproach. And she prayed. She didn't care what the people thought. And they misunderstood her.
And he said, "Will you always be drunk?"
She said, "I'm not drunk, my lord, but I'm praying, 'God, take away my reproach.'"
Watch the prophet. Said, "The Lord give to thee thy..." She raised up and blessed the Lord, and went home, and had the child. That was all. That's how simple it is: taking God at His Word. Oh, isn't He wonderful?

34 Abraham went about... I can imagine they made preparations, got everything ready for the baby. And day after day, Abraham would say, "Sarah?"
"Well, Abraham, there's no difference, just..."
"Well, praise God, we're going to have it anyhow." See? Why? He based his faith upon the Word of the Lord. No matter how long it takes, God said it, so that settles it. Oh, if you could only do that.
You in these chairs, on these cots, and on your crutches, and sitting here, heart trouble, and cancer. If you could only base your faith, "God said so." That settles it. That's all there is to it. "I am the Lord that healeth thee." That settles it.
If doctors.. I happen... The doctors are all right. They do what they can do, but there's things that they can't do. So, if it's past the doctor, then He's the Lord. The doctor might help you, just aid nature, but God has to heal you. Doctor can't heal you, don't claim to. He can set your arm, but God has to heal it. He can pull your tooth, but God has to heal it, see. Sure. Take your appendix out, but God has to heal it. He can't build tissue. God does that. Notice...

35 So Abraham knew that he was going to have the baby by Sarah, because God said so. That's a very good basis for faith: God said so. Years passed, months passed, God just kept on blessing Abraham, and he went on. And Abraham kept testifying he was going to have a child by Sarah. And as days went on. I can...
But here's one thing God told Abraham to do that he didn't do. I don't know whether you ever noticed this or not. God told Abraham to separate himself from all of his kindred and walk alone with Him. And Abraham failed to do that. He took his dad along with him, his nephew, had a little party along.
And if you'll notice, God never did give the promise to Abraham until absolutely, he annihilated himself from all of them. Is that right? The old man was all right, but he's always a thorn in the flesh. And then Lot, look what he did: always trouble between the herdsmen and so forth. When Abraham got to be a hundred years old and Sarah ninety... Think of it; about twenty-five years or better, they'd waited on the promise, that they was going to have the child. Abraham still believing, "Going to have it anyhow." And instead of getting weaker in faith...

36 Now, we, if it don't happen right now, oh tomorrow, we'd say, "You know, I ... I... Last night I thought I was healed, but today, I don't know; I feel as bad as I ever did." See? How can God do anything for you like that? You call yourself a seed of Abraham then? The seed of Abraham don't take that "no" for an answer. The seed of Abraham believes it anyhow, regardless of how you feel. That's right. It's not by feeling; it's by faith.
Jesus never did say, "Did you feel it?" He said, "Did you believe it?" That's the thing. "Did you believe it?" That's the main thing, if you believe. "All things are possible, not to him that feeleth, but him that believeth." Put the word where it belongs. Oh, I begin to feel religious, right now. Think of it. If we can take God at His Word, believe it, that settles it. God promised it; that's all that's necessary.

37 Now, I want you to notice this now. Then when Abraham got to be nearly a hundred ... or, around a hundred years old, God appeared to him in the 17th chapter of Genesis, and He appeared to him in another name. Abraham said, "God, I believe You, but how are these things going to be?" Now, I'm old, and Sarah, the strength has dried up." He's an old man, and it's like, she's an old woman. She's ninety and he's a hundred. Now, how is he going to have the baby?
And God appeared to him in the name of the Almighty God. The regular Hebrew word for it is El Shaddai, which means, El, "God." Shaddai comes from the word ... or, Shaddai, rather, which means "breast." Now, not... He come, otherwise, as the mother, the woman, as "the breasted One, the all-sufficient One." "I am the One that... I'm the all-sufficient One; I am the strong One." That's all I have to know.
"How you going to do it, Father?
"I am the strong One."
"All right, Father."
"I am the El-Shaddai; I am the Bosom. I'm the breasted God, breasted God." Like the baby when it's sick or underfed, undernourished, the mother takes the little fellow in her arms, and she puts it to her bosom, and it nurses her strength. And the strength of the mother goes into the baby, and the baby gains health. The Almighty, He's still the Almighty, the El Shaddai.
And when the person... Now, watch. It wasn't the "breast" God, but the "breasted" God. Both, why? Two resources: "He was wounded for our transgressions, with His stripes we're healed." Whatever you have need of, both for physical and spiritual, He is the breasted, strong One. Amen. Brother... "I am able to keep that which I've said."

38 Abraham, knowing that God was able to keep His promise, for He was the strong One, none like Him in the heavens, nowhere... He's able to keep His promise. Sometimes I make a promise and can't keep it. But when God makes a promise, He's able to keep it--The Strong One. "Now, Abraham, I know you're old; you're in the second childhood, as it was. You're just a little old baby. All your vital organs are drying up. Your flesh is all flabby, and Sarah the same way, but just lean over on My bosom."
And not only does the baby draw its life from the mother's breast, but it also is satisfied while it's a drawing. Amen. The little fellow quits crying. The mother wipes away its tears from its eyes. And the little fellow lays over on the mother, and just nurses itself back to strength.

39 Oh, sick people, you sitting here tonight, cots and stretchers, and wheelchairs, come up to El Shaddai, take a hold of the Word, there go to drawing, go to smiling. "I'm the Lord that healeth thee. All heavens and earth will pass away, but My Word shall never pass away." See it? Start drawing from there, and watch what happens. Feel if your strength doesn't begin to come back. The first thing you know, you'll be satisfied. "Yeah, I believe He's going to do it." He'll do it. Just lay right with it. Stay with it. God will do it, for He's El Shaddai, the strong One, the all-sufficient One, the satisfier. Amen.
Any seed of Abraham ever hears the Word of God, that satisfies him. That's right. If God said so, don't argue about it. Just believe it. That's all. I love that, don't you? God, the satisfier; how that we draw from Him and are satisfied, while we are drawing.

40 For salvation, we grow in grace of the Lord Jesus Christ; we accept Him as a personal Saviour; God pulls us up to His bosom. "My little child, I'll see that you get strong. Don't worry about that. Just stay right here, and believe on Me, and just read My Word, and drink from Me. I'll give you all the strength that you need." Isn't that wonderful?
Say, "Father, I'm sick. Are You the El Shaddai?"
"Come up to Me, and I'll nurse you right back to strength again." Satisfied about it, no matter how long it takes, still satisfied, "God's going to do it anyhow." That's what he said. So Abraham...

41 It didn't make any difference how long, whether it was five minutes, or whether it's fifty years. Now, after he got older, Abraham got stronger all the time. He said, "Lord, You could've give the baby twenty-five years ago, but now, I'm a hundred. How much more a greater miracle is it, that You do it now, than You would just a few years ago." God, just letting him get old to prove, show him, what He was going to do. Oh, I just love that, how He did it.
And if you notice what He did... I believe the last time I was here, I taught on that, what He did to Sarah and Abraham, how He turned them back and made a young man and young woman out of them again. Do you believe that tonight? Sure, He did. God don't just patch up anything. He does a real job about of it. Yes, sir.

42 Sarah could not have had the baby like that, so instead of just making her womb fertile, and strengthen the milk veins, and so forth, like that, giving her heart a little stimulation, so she could have the child, He just breathed upon her, and all the wrinkles left; the gray hair turned black again, and her youth renewed, and her eyes brightened up, and she was the prettiest woman in all the country. Amen. That's what He did.
And Abraham, stooped over on his cane, his big long beard, straightened up; the humps went out of his shoulders; the beard turned black again; his eyes begin to shine; he became a man, about twenty-five years old. Took his wife, and got on a camel, and took off for a three hundred mile journey. Oh, my. What about it? That's the Word of the Lord. That's right. And He said to Abraham, He'd show what He would do to all of his seed. Wait till we get our glorified bodies. I tell you, it's going to be marvelous, isn't it? No sickness, no old age; what a beautiful thing.

43 See, God, when you was born, He started painting a picture. You started getting older, and when you get up about twenty-five years old, the picture's completed. He said, "All right, death, come on now." First thing you know, you wake up of a morning, and notice, you say, "Mother, you got wrinkles on your..."
"Yes, dad, and there's a gray hair coming too." What is it? Death set in. Just keeps crowding you down. After a while, it'll finally take you. But in the resurrection, every thing that death done will be taken away. The picture will... Then you'll come back in the resurrection, to perfection. Amen. And an atom, that creates a blood cell, will make a perfect one (Amen.) without sin, can't be destroyed, never get old. Oh, what a...
"How do you get it," you say? "What ... what are ... what are you selling, preacher?" I'm selling insurance. Don't you want a policy? Here's the only one way you can come, on the basis of the shed blood of Christ. If God knocks at your heart door, God's calling you. And the very minute... Here it is. The very minute you believe it, and receive it, you have immortal life. God said so.

44 Look. Romans 8:20 said, "Those who He has predestinated into the covenant... (You couldn't come without yourself. 'No man can come to Me except My Father draws him.') Those who were predestinated, He has called: those who He has called, He has justified: and those who He justified, He hath glorified." Then in God's presence you're already glorified, waiting. Isn't that marvelous?
And now, while we're waiting for our redeemed bodies, we are sitting together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus, the Holy Spirit moving upon the believer, great powerful baptisms going forward, the world on the outside, laughing, God working with them, healing the sick, showing visions, all kinds of signs and wonders, the evening sun going down. The Christian's looking up. There he gets his 'drawing nigh.' The atomic bomb's hanging in, over there, the world all shaking and don't know what to do, and the Christians shouting the praises of God: "Come, Lord Jesus." My, Isn't that marvelous?

45 How can a fellow have the blues and believe something like that? Can't do it. The blue days are all over. Amen. All the weariness and sadness is passed away now. Can't do it. God said so; it's got to be. Just as sure as there's a God of heaven, we got to do it. God's done said so. He promised us, called us, elected us, knew us before the foundation of the world, and predestinated a church to be there without spot or blemish.
You're in the church you've got the predestination. You got eternal life. How do you get in the church? "By one spirit, we're all baptized into one body, seed of Abraham, heirs according to the promise, dead ... dead in Christ, and heirs according to the promise." In Abraham's promise we're his seed, God working with us, proving, confirming the Word with signs and wonders following.
The world's saying, "It's not so; it's fanaticism." They've said it all down through the age, they're still saying it, always will until Jesus comes. He said, "The world won't see Me no more." That don't only mean the gambler and bootlegger; that means a lot of times preachers. That's right.

46 Notice. But God told Abraham now, after the little fellow was born... Before... I just got to bring this again. Maybe it won't hurt to look at it again. It just keeps coming in my mind. How did God do that, when after Lot, fixing to separate there from Sodom, and the Angel come and talked to Abraham. He had things kind of poor. He took the poorest of ground. He gave his brother the best of it. And then, when the Angel come, and spoke to Abraham, and told him, "About this time, according to the time of life, I'll visit you..." And Sarah, back in the tent, laughed.
The Angel said, "What'd you laugh for?"
Said, "I never laughed."
Said, "Oh, yes, you did." He's still the same God. That's right. So he said... God had made the promise. No matter what Sarah done or what about it, God made promise. So He's obligated to His promise.

47 I just imagine, a few days after that, after Sodom and Gomorrah, and the destruction, then Sarah begin to turn back to a young woman and Abraham a young man, and they went down... Now, I know you can't read that just in them kind of words, in the Bible, but if you notice, they took a journey to Gerar. Now, let's just imagine this, and just see how... You know the best way to read the Bible, is not just like a newspaper, and say, "Well, tomorrow it'll be cloudy, and rainy, and so forth." The thing to do it, is become in love with the Author.
Someone said not long ago, said, "Brother Branham, if you'd just get some ... a little bit of your grammar fixed up, and a few of these things there..." Said, "You ought to take some night schooling and so forth."
I said, "What I need is some night prayer meetings."
He said, "Well, you... I tell you, you'd learn more about the Bible."
I said, "I may not know so much about His Word, but I know the Author, real well, so that's the best thing. As long as you know the Author." Know Him in the free pardoning of sin, by the renewal of His... Him bringing His immortal life, and placing it in our mortal bodies, giving us the blessed assurance that someday we will see Him as He is, for we will have a body like His. Isn't that marvelous? Think of it.

48 Then, notice again. Here's Sarah, now. Let's just take it the way you'd read it in the Bible. Now, you know, she's a little bitty, great great-grandmother, as it was, ninety years old, little dust cap, and a little white shawl over her shoulder, a little cane in her hand, walking around. Abraham, real old, a hundred years old... Oh, say, "Brother Branham, they didn't get..." The Bible said they were well stricken in age, well stricken, old.
And as soon as God told them what He was going to do, they took a journey plumb to Gerar. And now, the king, Abimelech, down there, was hunting a sweetheart. And when he found this old grandmother, real, real old, a little dust cap, he said, "There's the one I've waited for." Now, doesn't that sound awful? Why, it would be. Watch... It ain't what you read, right here; that's it, of course, but read between the lines.

49 When I get a letter from Mrs. Branham, she said, "Dear Billy, I'm sitting here tonight. I ... I'm thinking much of you, and I... We had a nice day today." See, that's what she's saying, but in between the lines, I know what she's meaning, see. Why? I'm in love with her. That's the reason I know what she's talking about. I just love her so, I can just tell the way she talks, what she means. A lot of times, she means a whole lot more than what she writes. Amen.
Well, that's the way it is with God. Just get in love with Jesus. Then He just takes the Word. And where the man just reading it as a point of something another to argue about and fuss about... You just read it, and God just comes down and makes love to you [unclear word], see. Shows you things that you don't even really see it in there, just look like it just pulls itself out.

50 He said, "I've hid it from the eyes of the wise and prudent, and revealed it to babes, such as will learn." Babies... Just make yourself humble. Get off all your great, big education. It's too bad we ever got into it, isn't it? That's right.

51 Here, a few days ago ... a few weeks ago, it is, I was standing by a great church, great, master church. And they were telling me, they said, "Look at this fellow over here. He's a latter-day saint," ... or, no, "latter-day rain. And oh, looky there. He's got all the people all pulled up, and everything like that." And it was a full gospel church.
And I said, "You know what happened?" I said...
"Oh," he said, "Look, he's a latter day rain."
I said, "So was you in the beginning. Luther was a latter-day rain to the Catholic. Wesley was a latter-day rain to the Lutheran. Pentecost was a latter-day rain to the Methodists. Just all kind of latter-day rains. Isn't that right? You know what's the matter? Your church gets all cold and formal, God moves out of it and lets you sit there, starts somewhere else. That's right.

52 Now, I'm not a latter-day rain; I'm just your brother. I don't care whether you're first rain, second rain, middle rain, all rain, or no rain, it don't make any difference to me. I love you just the same, and we are brothers.
He said, "Well," said...
All this big church said, "Our best members went over there."
I said, "They did?" I said, "What'd they go for?" I said, "That man came over and pull them away?"
"No."
I said, "Well, what'd they go for? You said they's your best members." I said, "'Cause they were hungry. If you'd quit teaching so much theology and calling each one, 'Doctor, PhD, DDD,' and get God back in the church, get some little old boy with a pair of overalls on, and long hair, go to preaching the Gospel, it'd be different."
Now, that's right. I don't care if he don't know his ABC's, or split peas from coffee. Let me tell you, brother, as long as he knows Jesus Christ, he may talk through his nose, and holler "hit" and "hain't," but as long as he's got God with him, something will happen in your church, I'll tell you that. I'd rather have that, than all the PhD's and everything else; that's psychology. I want to know God in the power of His resurrection. That's right. Now...
He said, "I guess you're about right."
I said, "You're not far from the kingdom now." Amen.

53 So that's true, friends. We just think all about all the best class: "Our minister must be a student; he must be this, that, or the other." To me, he must... The Bible requirement: he must be filled with the Holy Ghost. That's the main thing. Now, go look yourself out among you, so many men (even for your deacons) with the Holy Ghost.

54 Notice Abraham then and Sarah, as they started down to Gerar. And this little king fell in love with Sarah. And Abraham... Think of it now. Oh, my. If this won't kind of hit a holiness pretty hard. Abraham, backslid to begin with... God told him, "Don't you leave the land." The drought come on; he left it anyhow. God told you to do something, you didn't do it, you're backslid. So Abraham was backslid. Any Jew that left Palestine was backslid; that's their land of promise.
So he got down there, and he also told a lie. He said, "That's not my wife; that's my sister." Scared of his own hide. Went over there and sat down, and let... That king took her over there, 'cause he knowed that he'd have to kill him in order to get his wife, 'cause he'd done fell in love with that great-grandmother. So he got over that, and you know that couldn't be. Well, my, she's a beautiful young woman.

55 So they took her over there, and dressed her all up, put earrings on her, and everything, getting her ready for the wedding the next day. And Abimelech stretched himself out on the bed that night, after praying awhile, thanking the Lord for his nice bride he was going to have the next day. And the Lord appeared to him, said, "You're just as good as a dead man."
He said, "Why?"
Said, "You got a man's wife."
He said, "Well, Lord, didn't... You know the integrity of my heart. Didn't he tell me that was his sister? And she said, 'That's my brother.'"
"That's the reason I kept you from sinning against Me." Said, "But, look, her husband is My prophet." Hallelujah! What was he? Now, because you did a little something wrong, you're not lost. Repent; come back to God.

56 There Abraham sat out there, backslid, and telling a little white lie. But the little white ones are big black ones. Look... Said, "Oh, yes. That's my sister," and so forth, and backslid, sitting out there, scared of his own skin.
And God said, "But no matter who he was, that's My prophet. I have give him the promise. I called him by election." He may be backslid now; that didn't give him a chance to lie. But God said, "I'll deal with him for that." But anyhow, "He's mine. And you take him his wife back, or everything you got is going to die."
My, he rose from there, and grabbed that woman, away he went. Yes, sir. He's going to make things right, some restitution. That's what we need tonight, a bunch of that kind of revival to break out across the country.

57 Oh, after the little Isaac was born, become the loving heart (the daddy, now, about a hundred and fifteen years old, Sarah about a hundred and five) God said, "Now, Abraham, I want to tell the people down in the age to come, just exactly how I'm going to do this. I told you I'd make you a father of many nations; all the world would be blessed through your seed. Now, you're a hundred and fifteen years old, or about somewhere there; Sarah's a hundred and five, and you waited all that time. Now, I want you to take the only hope that you have that I'll keep My Word, take him up there, and kill him."
My, Abraham wouldn't tell the mother, 'cause he knowed her old, it would worry her. But his faithful old heart, he saddled up a couple of mules, put some wood on it, took his son the next morning, rose up, and went three days journey. Then he looked up, saw the mount way off where God showed him in the vision, where to go to. He said, "That's the mountain." Far off; done had gone three days.

58 And then, when he got over there (I love this.), he said, "Now, you wait here, while the lad and I go yonder to worship. The lad and I will return." Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. How is he going to return, when he was going yonder with a knife sticking in his bosom, to lance the life out of his own boy on the altar. But God, through Abraham, knew that He'd give him to him as a shadow of death, He was able to raise him from the dead. Abraham the... "I and the son will return."
"How are you?"
"Not my business to figure out how we're going to do it, but God will make a way. God will do it somehow."
How are you, if you're dying with heart trouble, how are you going to get well, when the doctor says that you can't live another week? "I don't know, but God will provide. God will make a way somewhere."

59 As he throwed the wood on little Isaac's shoulder, and climbed up the hill--a type of Christ... (Wish we had time to go into it, but we're pressed right now.) So up the hill went Isaac. He said, "Father," he said, "here is the wood, and here is the fire and the altar, but where is the lamb for the burnt offering?"
He said, "My son, God will provide for Himself a lamb." Oh, my, you see it? Something had to happen. "God will provide. I told the boys you and I'd be back. God told me to come up here and kill you, but God will provide. Somehow I don't know how I'm going to come out, but I'm just walking on. God will provide."
I love that, don't you? His faith didn't fail. He didn't stagger, reached over and got his son, tied his hands and feet; his only beloved son. God in Abraham; you see it? God in Abraham could... God could take His own Word through Abraham could trust Himself. And if you've got the Holy Spirit, surely God could trust His own Word, as your healer, as your Saviour.

60 So he tied the little fellow's arms, and threw him up on the altar, and reached back, stroked his hair out of his face (Think of it: only son.), pulled the knife out of the sheath, laid his little head back, like that. There's jugular veins that come across his throat. His trembling hand... The crucial moment come: His only son. Perhaps reached down and kissed him, not knowing just what would take place, but he was trusting God. That's Abraham's seed does the same thing. When the last moments come, they still take God at His promise.
Reached down, got the knife, pulled it back, just started to stab his little boy into the throat, and about that time, the Angel grabbed his hand, and said, "Abraham, stay thy hand." Amen. "God will provide Himself a sacrifice."

61 And about that time, a ram bleated, hooked with his horns in the wilderness. Where'd that ram come from? Look. Abraham was three days' journey from civilization. An ordinary man can walk about thirty miles a day. I can. And an ordinary man can walk thirty miles a day. Then he lifted up his head and saw the mountain far off.
Watch the impossibilities now: perhaps between ninety and a hundred miles away from civilization, and then again, the ram was up on top of the mountain, where there's no spring, nothing for him to drink, nothing for him to eat. And the ram appeared on the scene in the crucial moment. For He's Jehovah-jireh, He can take care of the circumstances and the emergency. Isn't He?

62 And he took the ram and slew it in his son's place. Who was that ram? Jesus Christ, the Lamb of God, slain from the foundation of the world. It wasn't a vision; the lamb wasn't a vision; it was a real lamb. He picked it up and killed it, the blood run out of it. Hallelujah! You see it? It was a real ram. God spoke it into existence in one minute, it was took out for a sacrifice the next minute. God can do all things. He can meet the crucial moments. He can provide when there's no other way to do it. He's Jehovah-jireh, "the Lord will provide Himself."

63 How you going to get well, when the doctor says you can't. He's Jehovah-jireh, "the Lord will provide the healing."
"I'm a prostitute. I'm a harlot. I'm all these bad things. How can God save me?"
"God will provide Himself a sacrifice." And He did at Calvary, when every type was met in the antetype, when Jesus Christ died for the sins of the people and the healing of their bodies, when He died at Calvary. Oh, if we could see that, friends, it would really make different people out of us.

64 Here not long ago, I was watching... Was talking to some ladies today, about it. Makes your attitude different, when you really see it. Now, just a moment, I'm closing, winding up the service just now, ready for the healing. Look this way. I just feel the Holy Spirit just moving all through the building now.

65 Here sometime ago, I was up in Ohio, in Akron, or somewhere up there, in Ohio, having a meeting. And we were eating at a little Dunkard restaurant. Nice little ladies, all cleaned up, and they were ladies, every whit of them. And they was waiting on us. It was a pleasure to go there and eat in that nice place.
Well, Sunday came; they went to church, closed up their place. Just across the way... I was out in the country, a ways of the crossroads. Crowds was so great, couldn't stay right around the city. So I went across... The boys had went in. I had to preach that afternoon. I'd been kind of praying all morning. And all of them had gone to the meeting, Brother Baxter, and all. And I thought, I'm so hungry; I'm going to get a sandwich.

66 I went up, walked down the road a little piece, and went into an ordinary little restaurant, little road place. And when I walked in, behind the door, the door shut behind me real hard. And I looked, and there stood a policeman with his arm around a woman, playing a slot machine. And gambling's illegal in Ohio. And I thought, The law, the very law... And the man was my age, perhaps married and had a family at home. I thought, Oh, my, corruption, filth.
I looked back at a table back there, and some young boys, and a lady, about ... little, young lady, about eighteen, twenty years old, they ought to've been in Sunday school somewhere. Those boys drinking, back there, and, oh, the way they was abusing that girl. And her standing there, and letting them do it.
And I happen to look over to my right, and there was an elderly woman sitting there with little clothes on--she oughtn't to have had on--real old, about sixty-five, maybe better. And she had a purple make-up on her mouth, and on her toe nails. And her arms (poor old thing) was flabby. And her hair was boyish, bobbed and little kinky curls up on it. She was trying to light a cigarette--drunk and two drunken men with her.

67 And I thought, Oh, God, how can You look at such as that? I thought, My little Sarah and Rebekah going to have to be raised up in a world like that? God, why don't You destroy the thing, take it all off. I--I--I don't see how You can stand it, to look at such a thing as that.
I was standing there criticizing her. The two drunks with her got up and went out, to be gone just for awhile. And just then, I felt something moving on me. I went back, and sat down at a little booth to the side; nobody paid any attention to me yet. It was kind of dark in the corner. And there, God gave me a vision, and changed my mind, of things.

68 I looked there, and I saw a world. And around the world was, just like a red streak, just a spray. Something said, "This is the blood of the Lord Jesus, who died to save sinners. That's the reason that God can't destroy; He can't see her. He can't. Every mortal being has a right, and has a right to accept their salvation, until they die and go beyond that blood. They don't have to stand in judgment; they're already judged: "The day you eat thereof, that day you die," but as long as you're here, you've got a right to the tree of life, if you'll accept it.
Then I looked, and above there, stood the Lord Jesus, in a vision. And I seen His thorns on His head, and the blood running down His face, and big mockery spit over His precious beard. And He was jerking His head, like that, every once in a while, jumping like that. I thought, What is that, my Lord?
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69 And He said, "That's your sin." And I seen that the blood of Jesus, to my own sins, was acting like a bumper. If it have went beyond that stream of blood there, that was around the earth, when He died to settle the sin question ... if it had went beyond that, then God would've killed me. But in order... Just like the bumper to the car, to keep your car from being hurt, the bumper catches the lick. And the blood of Jesus catches your sins. "Father, forgive them, they don't know what they're doing. Father, forgive them."

70 And I looked there; there my name laying there on an old book, wrote all kinds of things: "condemned." I crawled up to His feet, and I said, "Lord Jesus, will You forgive me then? I didn't mean..." I said, "You mean my sins hurt You, like that?"
Said, "Yes."
He took His hand and dipped it in His side, took His finger and wrote across the book, "Pardoned," put it back behind Him, like that, put His arms together, and looked at me. He said, "I forgave you, didn't I?"
I said, "Yes, Lord. I love You for it."
He said, "But why are you condemning her then? You're willing to condemn someone else, but look, you was condemned once yourself, and freely He pardoned you."
That changed my motive. Soon as I got out of the vision, I walked over there to her. I said, "Madam, could I talk to you a minute?"
She said, "Oh, I have company."
I said, "I don't mean it that way, lady. I'm a minister of the Gospel. I want to talk to you."
She took her cigarette down; she said, "Yes, sir."
And I said, "Why are you living like this?" I said, "You don't really, enjoy this. Are you a mother?"
She said, "Yes, sir."
And she give me her story, and it was a heartbroken story, a picture of life's other side: disappointments and things. She said, "Sir, I was raised in a Christian home."
I told her what the Lord Jesus rebuked me for condemning her and wanted her blowed up for something like that. I said, "Lady, I want to ask you, will you forgive me for having such thoughts about you?"
She said, "Certainly, son. Will you pray for me, that I'll be saved?"
I said, "Will you kneel down here?"
She said, "I will." We turned that place into a prayer meeting. That's right. The woman got saved, see. God will provide, won't He? God will provide. He has already provided a way of escape for everyone.

71 Shall we pray, while we bow our heads, just a moment. Our heavenly Father, we come to Thee with all of our hearts to confess our wrongs, and knowing, us being the seed of Abraham, and yet, Lord, how Thou hast dealt with us wondrously, forgiving us our sins and trespasses. And tonight in this audience, after we've seen the simplicity of the preaching of the Gospel, how that Christ died for our sins in our stead, and to reconcile us back to God the Father, that we might, through His reconciliation, be brought back to a full sonship with God... How we thank Thee.

72 Father, many are wayward, and they don't mean to be that way, Lord. Maybe some in here tonight, maybe drunkards, maybe people that's done stepped over the line, and went into immoral acts, and done everything that's wrong like that. But God, You still love them.
Now, will You save them tonight, Lord? Will You bring that poor, wandering, backslider ... no matter if he's sitting out, lied and condemned and feels maybe that he's crossed the separating line. No, he hasn't. You're Spirit's still calling. As long as it calls, You're wanting Your wandering child to come home. Won't You grant tonight, Father, that the Holy Spirit bring conviction in the audience and bring many wandering children to Thee. For we ask it in His name. With our heads bowed.

73 [Gap in the audio] "... tonight, but it's You talking to me. This feeling in my heart, I know it's You, I'm raising my hand to You, Father, and ask You to be merciful to me, a sinner." Will you do it, someone else? God bless you. That's right. Someone... God bless you, lady. God bless you, sir. Up in the balcony to my left, "God, be merciful to me. I now accept Jesus as my Saviour. I'm coming, Father. Upon the basis of the shed blood of Your Son, the Lord Jesus, I come. I can't do nothing. I'm helpless, Lord, but I want You to know that I--I--I realize it's You talking to my heart now. And here I am, I'm raising my hand to You. You're speaking, and I'm raising my hand."
To the balcony, to the right, would you raise your hand? God bless you, little lady. Someone else raise your hand? Say, "Remember me, God..." God bless you. Someone else? Say, "I'm raising my hand to God, our Father, that He will be merciful and pardon me."
Is there a wayward backslider tonight, would raise your hand anywhere in the audience, anywhere? Say, "I'm coming, Lord. Take me back. I'm like Abraham; I have wandered away. I feel You tugging at my heart now. Here I am, Lord. I hold my hand to You, that I recognize Your voice. Once away, but I'm coming home now." One of those in here, tonight? Just, all you do is let God see that you're honest and sincere. Don't grieve His Spirit if He's speaking to you. Say, "Here, Lord, here's my hand; I know it's You speaking to me. I raise my hand, ask You to be merciful to me."
God bless you, lady. God bless you. God bless you. That's good. God bless you. That's wonderful. Recognize Him. Let's be real men and women, be honest with yourself.

74 Somebody in here, without the Holy Spirit, say, "I want to be remembered, Brother Branham. The Holy Spirit's speaking to me now. I want the baptism of the Holy Spirit, to be brought into the body of the Lord Jesus. I'm raising my hand to God that He will give me the Holy Ghost." God bless this great number of people with their hands up, wanting the Holy Ghost. One night I want to just bring them all around the altar.
Just keep praying, raising your hands, so... That's wonderful. I'm just watching the Holy Spirit. You know, friends, something is happening. Your attitude towards Christ has brought the anointing of the Holy Ghost upon me, and visions are breaking over the audience. I don't know as I ever seen it just this way.

75 You may raise your head now. God, be merciful to you. I just feel that you're going... How many's sick in here tonight? How many feels better since you raised your hand to God? Let's see you raise your hand again, say, "I feel better." Just look at the ones raised their hands everywhere, maybe thirty or forty. That's wonderful. God bless you, each one. I just feel real strange about this just now.
How many people in here that's sick, wants to be prayed for? Raise your hand. I don't care; you don't have... That's without prayer cards or anything (see), just raise your hand, everywhere. Look, the Angel of the Lord is already over the audience. I want you to give me your attention and be reverent, real reverent. And I want you to look this way and believe.

76 If our Lord Jesus was standing here, surely He'd know how, and when, how to do things. Isn't that right? Now, don't move around if you can help it. Just be real reverent, just a moment.
I don't believe we'll have to call a prayer line. I believe He's going to heal everybody in here; I really do. I just have the strangest feeling. I just feel the Holy Spirit just pulling all over the audience. Now, I'm not a fanatic; you know that. I'm telling you truth.

77 Somebody start believing. How many has been in my meetings before and knows how it happens? Let's see your hands. How many of you believe it's the Spirit of the Lord? Move your hand, and wave it. God bless you. Oh, my.
Let's look this way just a moment. Up in here, somebody in those balconies, somewhere, start believing. Anybody up in there that wants to be prayed for and don't have a prayer card, wants to be prayed for, raise up your hand. Just pray, now. Look this way just a moment. God bless you.

78 Now, looks like the audience could see this. I wish that you could. That Light that you see in the picture, here it hangs right here, just a few feet from me, right in this direction. It's moving up towards the balcony, right in here, moving up. Yes, it's standing over a man; the man's sitting right up here with a white shirt on; hanging just above him.
I believe he's a Spanish man. He's got a little boy sitting by him. Did you raise your hand, sir, to be prayed for? Do you have a prayer card? You don't. Do you believe me to be God's prophet? God has honored you, sir. Your wife sitting there... That's your little boy, and you want that little boy prayed for. If God will tell me what's wrong with your little boy, will you accept the healing? The little boy has stomach trouble. If that's right, wave your hand. Your little boy's going to be well; the blessings of God is upon him.
Have faith now, everyone. The God of Abraham is present. He's your God. Have faith; believe. Somewhere in the audience, believe.

79 I see it hanging over a man, standing right back here. The man has something wrong with him; he's praying right now. And in his mind, he's wondering if it's him is calling. The man has rupture. That's right. You're a stranger here. You've just come here recently, perhaps today. You came from California here. That's right, isn't it? God bless you. May you go back well. Have faith.
Kind of a heavyset lady looking to me, praying. It's not for yourself; it goes to a lady sitting next to her. Your mind went far away. You're praying for somebody else, too. I don't know you, but you're praying for a friend of yours that's crippled, or something. And that woman is... That person lives in Missouri. That's right, isn't it? That's right. I see a lot of wavy hard wood and things, waving around. It's Missouri. God bless you.

80 There's a man setting right in behind you there, that walks on a crutch, or a cane, or something. He's turned around, looking at someone. You're suffering with diabetes also. Is that right, sir? You believe Christ heals you? Stand up; lay your crutches, leave it laying on the floor. When you go out, you don't need it no more; you're healed. Have faith in God.

81 Lady, you in the stretcher, I can't heal you. But you believe me to be God's servant? I don't know you, never seen you. You are suffering with a... You've been sick before and you had a cancer, and you passed that cancer. A tumor's got you now. But you had faith. Someone else brought you. That's right. You thought, if you could ever get to my meeting again, you'd be healed. Will you obey me as His servant? Take up your bed, in the name of Jesus Christ and go home. Rise up, take your clothes and go home.
What about you? Having faith? Don't be excited; believe. Have faith in God, any of you. I don't care who you are; make you relax. Someone else raise your hand or something. Here, if you believe, look this way and say to God, "I really believe it to be the truth." 'Course, I can only say as I see.

82 God bless you, lady. Now, you can take your belongings, go ahead home, rejoicing, saying, "Thank You, Lord." If you believe with all your heart, you can go.
What about you, lady, sitting there in a wheelchair, looking at her? Do you believe with all your heart? Lady's hard of hearing, but the Angel of God is standing over her. Look on me. You've believe me? Now you hear me. You've had an accident. You broke your bone in the side, a leg or hip in there. You've been laid up a long time.
Then you had a stroke and paralyzed you. You believe me to be God's prophet? Do you believe me? Will you accept me as God's prophet? Stand up on your feet then. Jesus Christ make you well. Give her a hand there, mister. Stand her up on her feet, tell her to walk on. Rise up. Jesus Christ maketh thee whole. God bless you. Now, you go ahead home.
The rest of you believe? How many believes with all your heart? Stand up on your feet. Jesus Christ, the Son of God, will make you [unclear words].

Jehovah-Jireh

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1 Thank you. I, the humble servant of the Lord Jesus Christ, greet you. God's peace be with you all. Last evening I did not get a chance to finish my text. I got to a place in the Scripture where I was trying to comfort the old folks. There was so ... let them know that when we are old God hasn't forsaken us. He still loves us. He never forgets us.
He said, "A mother may forget her little baby, but I will never forget you. You're engraved on the palms of My hands."

2 So, when we get old, we have nothing to worry. Some day, we'll be back here on earth, young men and young women, and never to get old no more. Isn't that wonderful? I am so happy for that. And then while we're here now, He loves us. And He will never leave us; neither will He ever forsake us. He said He would be with us to the end of the world. I'm so happy for that.

3 Now, we have two more nights after tonight. I wish we had longer. Just when we get to know each other, then we have to say, "Goodbye." It seems to be that all around the world. I meet lovely friends, and I have to say goodbye, but I'm looking for the day where we'll meet and never say goodbye. When Jesus comes, then all troubles will be over. And that's the day we're all looking for. And now, to be rest assured of that, He has give us His Word. And He has raised from the dead, and He expresses His love towards us all. Isn't that wonderful? Doesn't it make you happy that you're a Christian?
I'd rather be a Christian than anything. And you know, when I go into all nations, to the white man, to the black man, to the brown man, and to the yellow man, and to the red man, they're all the same. When they are Christians, they love each other.

4 Recently, when a little boy was raised from the dead in Finland... Many of you has read of it. The night when they were taking me back to the Messuhalli, why, they were Russian soldiers standing along the side, and Finnish soldiers were taking me in. And when I would pass by, they would stand attention, with a salute, and tears running down their cheeks. And when they come around the building, they would put their arms around the Finnish soldiers, and hug each other, and pat on the shoulder.
Christ is the answer for every problem. And it's the answer to make all men brothers. God has made of one blood all men.
If I was... If you or I were sick, and we needed blood, the black man could give us blood. The yellow man, or any other man; but we could not take animal blood. It would kill us. God has made of one blood, all men. So we are brothers the world over.

5 Now, I wish to continue my text. And it was found in Genesis 22:14. And the text was: "Jehovah-Jireh." Now, God has seven compound redemptive names. Now, in these compound redemptive names, it was God expressing His present attitude for all His creatures, what He would be for them in all generations. You cannot separate His compound names.

6 Now, in Washington, DC, my name is recorded. It makes me ... they ... what nationality I am, who my father and mother was, how much I weighed when I was born, my description, my prints of my thumb. You see, it's the expression to the nation who I am; and William Branham is recorded up there in Washington. That's the expression of me to the nation. Now, that is my name.
So, when God came down from heaven to be king over the earth, He expressed Himself to His subjects in seven compound redemptive names. Jehovah-jireh was His first name. It means "God will provided for Himself, a sacrifice." The next compound redemptive name is Jehovah-rapha, means "I am the Lord that healeth thee." And on He goes.
As Jehovah our banner, our peace, our shield, our righteousness, that's what He is to us. So, we can't separate those names. If He's still Jehovah-jireh, He has to be Jehovah-rapha, also. If He's our provided sacrifice, He has to be our healer also. So, the names are inseparable.

7 When we accept Him as Saviour, we must also accept Him as healer, as our peace, as our shield, as our banner, all these redemptive names; God's present attitude is to His people now the same.
Now, I think myself that God has done just about all that there is to be done. Now, first He put the Old Testament for types. He sent the law, then He sent prophets to back up the law. The law was for the whole nation. The prophet was to show the supernatural. The law was the letter---letter of the law. But the prophet was a supernatural sign. And what He did for Israel, He does for the church.

8 Today, the Bible is the letter. It's the expression of God towards His people. It's the blueprint: where the church is to be built, the plan of salvation, how to live, how to treat the neighbors, and His promises. Then after that, He sends the Holy Spirit to confirm this Word. In order to do that, He sets in the church first, apostles, prophets, teachers, and evangelists; all these are for the perfecting of the church. That's church offices, not office here on earth, but coming from heaven. Then in the church, He sends gifts of healing, gifts of prophesy.

9 Now there's a difference between a gift of prophecy, and a prophet. One is a gift of prophecy, and the other one is a prophet. A gift of prophecy must be judged by two or three spiritual men. It can come upon one person tonight, be on another person tomorrow night, and on another one the next night. What it is is a gift in every local body of church.
But a prophet is different. They're born a prophet. And they come up prophets. All that they say must be true every time, or it cannot be recognized as a prophet in the office. Now, God has done wonderful things for us. He is not willing that any should perish. He wants us all to come home to Him.
We don't have much of this world's goods, but we are looking for a city whose builder and maker is God. And He so loves us, that's why He does those things for us. He wants you to just believe Him.

10 Now, God has to keep His Word. His very law would express that of Him. If you take hydrogen [Brother Branham explains to the interpreter: "one part of hy... it's still water, see"] and two parts of oxygen, now if that goes together, the law of chemistry and science will make water every time. It has to. If it made it in the beginning, it has to make it now.
And the same thing by God. If God made a law, spoke His Word, He has got to keep it. In the Old Testament, in the New Testament, forever He has to keep His Word. If He was Jehovah-jireh there, He was Jehovah-jireh in Genesis, He was with the prophets, He was with the law, He was in Jesus, He was in the early church, He has to be now. And when people would believe Him in Genesis, in the law, in Christ, in the church, His law compels Him to do the same thing that He did in the beginning. If it isn't, He did wrong in the first place. See, He has to do the same to be God. As I have said to you, what good does it do us to have a God of history if He isn't the same God today? See, it would do us no good.
It's just like in our country, our first president was George Washington. Well, that's history. It does no good today. We have to have another president. He was all right in his day. But, just Washington alone, he's gone. He won't do today. See what I mean?

11 Now, if God was just God for Moses, and He is gone today, what good would it do us? But, He's the God of Moses, He was the God of Elijah, He was the God of David, He was the God of Christ, He was the God of the early church, He's the God of today; with the same law, compelled to His redemptive name, He must do the same thing, or He isn't God.
I wish we could all see that and accept it. It would change things. You do not see in Bible terms with your eyes. You see with your heart.
Jesus said to Nicodemus, "Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except a man be borned again, he cannot see the kingdom of God." It doesn't mean "look at"; it means "understand." And when we can understand God's attitude towards us, then God is compelled then, to give the blessings that He promised through His redemptive name.

12 Now, when we left Abraham last night, where God had turned him and Sarah back to a young woman. It's proven, because that she was a young woman we found out that Abimelech, the king, fell in love with her. And God rebuked him. Why? Out of that stream of blood was coming the Lord Jesus. So, the Jewish blood must be kept clean, until Jesus comes. And so He protected Sarah.
After a bit, after a few months, a woman near a hundred years old gave birth to a baby. Don't you see the beautiful type? With the world, it was impossible; but with God, all things are possible. It was a type of Jesus, for He was the Father's only begotten Son, and Mary had a child, knowing no man. Impossible without God.

13 Now, when Abraham's boy, Isaac, was born, of course, he called him Isaac, which was "the promised one." God had promised Abraham, had changed his name from Abram to Abraham. He was going to make him a father of nations. In that line, he's the father of Germany. He's the father of America, and of Sweden, everywhere. The father of the nations.
So, he was going to take this boy, and was going to, through him, bless all nations. You see, what he was, he was a type of Christ. Born the impossible way, the only son of the father, and every way he typed Christ.

14 Now, Abraham, when the boy was about sixteen years old, God was going to show to Germany and the rest of the world how perfect He keeps His Word. He gave Abraham a double trial.
Now, He said, "Abraham, you're about a hundred and sixteen now. And here's your little boy, Isaac that I promised you. Now, I want you to take this boy, and take him up in the mountain, and there kill him."
Now, how is he going to be the father of nations, when he is going to destroy the only thing that he has to be a father? How is he going to do it? But, notice, Abraham never questioned God.
I can imagine that poor old dad, taking his boy, holding him up, look at him, stroke his hair back, pat him on the cheek, put his bearded face again his soft cheek, hug him in his arms. He said, in his heart, "I can't tell his mother. She wouldn't understand maybe." So, he got some servants, saddled up some mules, and took a three-days' journey back in the wilderness.

15 Now, an ordinary man can walk about forty kilometers a day, I guess. I suppose that would be about right. That's compared... I can walk thirty miles a day myself, that be it. Now, an ordinary man could walk that many miles in a day. How far back would he be in the wilderness?
Sarah thought he was going back to worship. So, after he had traveled three days, then he lifted up his eyes, and way farther in the wilderness, he saw the mountain. I don't know how much farther it was, but he went on to the mountain. Did you imagine how that father felt, knowing he was going to take the life of his own son? And when he stopped the mules...

16 Now, German people, listen, just a moment. Look at Abraham---what he said to the servant. He said, "You wait here while the lad and I go yonder. The lad and I shall return." Praise God. How is he going to return? He's going to kill him. How can the lad return?

17 Oh, listen! In his heart, he knew that God was able to raise him up from the dead, for he had received him as one from the dead. My dear brother, can't you understand now? When God shows supernatural with His Word, He expects you to believe it. He had promised Abraham, and then He by supernatural had proved it to Abraham.
God said in these last days, that He would pour out His Spirit, and He would show the same signs that He did in the beginning. There would be a former and latter rain together. We are seeing it. We should believe with all of our heart. Here's His Word; it proves it. His Spirit comes nightly, shows the supernatural, knowing that it's got to be Spirit. Now, He can't heal you, He wouldn't let me heal you, for that's His finished work. He has already did that at Calvary. So, He wants you to believe that he has did that for you. Do you understand? Say, "Amen."

18 It is only the love of our Father that loves us so much that He sends His Word, He sends His ministers to preach the Word. Then He sends gifts into the church with His arms spread out, trying to get you to believe it. He wants to heal you tonight, a thousand times more than you want to be healed, but you're afraid. You go by how you feel, because you've regarded that; you've lived by your feelings. Your whole life has been wrapped in that.
But you must get away from that, and act on God's Word, not what you feel, not what you see, what God said, and act on that. Make a confession of that. Confess means "to say the same thing." And He's at the right hand of the Father, with His own blood to make intercession on your confession. Now, He cannot do anything for you until, first, you accept it and confess it, and then He can act on it. For He's the High Priest of what you confess that He is to you. Do you get what I mean?

19 Seeing the supernatural He was showing to Abraham, He is also showing to you. When Abraham started to offer up little Isaac, he didn't worry one bit. He knew that God was able. And He had promised through Isaac He would bless the world.
He got the wood together, and laid it on Isaac's back. Did you notice? There goes the father up the hill, Isaac behind him, his son, packing the wood that he was going to lay on to be crucified. What a beautiful type of the Father, leading His Son, Jesus, with the same cross that He was to be nailed on, up to Golgotha. A beautiful picture!

20 And when they got up on the mountain, he built the altar and made the fire. And little Isaac, he looked to his father. He said, "Father?"
He said, "Here am I, my son."
He said, "Here is the altar, and here is the fire, and here is the wood; but where is the sacrifice?"
Then the crucial moment come. With no wave in his voice, he said, "My son, God will provide a sacrifice." Amen. So, He was called Jehovah-jireh, "the Lord will provide Himself a sacrifice." All the types was fulfilled in Jesus Christ. He is God's provided sacrifice.
Now look. Abraham pulled the big knife out, after tying his son's hands, and throwing his head back, and was fixing to cut his son's throat. And when he drew up his hand, something screamed. The Holy Spirit caught his hand. Said, "Abraham, hold your hand. I see that you love Me."

21 And what happened then? Abraham turned around, and there was a ram. It was a male sheep. It was hooked in the wilderness by its horns. And when it begin bleating... Where did that ram come from? Now, I want to ask you something. Where did it come from? Abraham was a hundred and fifty kilometers back from all of civilization, from all sheep, and all that there was of animal.

22 And listen. He was on top of the mountain where there is no water. How did that ram get there? Where did it come from? A hundred and fifty kilometers away from civilization, up on top of a mountain, where there's no water, and there was a ram. Oh, God will provide Himself a sacrifice.

23 It wasn't a vision. He never saw a vision of the ram. For Abraham picked the ram up and laid it on an altar, and killed it, and blood run out of it. It wasn't a vision. What was it? It was Christ, the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world. It wasn't a vision. Listen.
God spoke the ram into existence in one minute and took it out in the next minute. Why? He will provide a sacrifice. He will provide a way for your healing. He will provide a way for your blind eyes. He will provide a way for that cancer to leave you, that stomach trouble to leave you.

24 And my, brother, He has provided already, in Jesus Christ, the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world, has been provided for your sickness tonight. He has wrote it out in a book. He has sent the Holy Spirit. He has put gifts in the church. Now, it isn't God's fault; it will be our own unbelief. Isn't that true? If we don't receive it, it isn't God's fault. Do you believe that with all your heart? That Jesus Christ has been provided as the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world, for your salvation and healing. Do you believe that? Raise your hand.

25 Thank you. You are very lovely. I like you German people. I like the way you take things. You're not flighty [Brother Branham explains to the interpreter: "That's just jump at anything."] But if it can be proven, you are looking for a solid foundation. That's what you're looking for now. That's what you're looking for to reunite yourself.
I am praying daily that one day Germany will all be together again: no Iron Curtain, mothers and fathers can be together, sons and mothers can be together, the families reunited, all under the leadership of Almighty God. God grant it.
As His poor unworthy servant, I am here tonight, to try to do my part to let you know, God will do this. I know I am a very poor servant. I wish I had some other way that I could present Him to you. But this is the only way He could trust me with, I suppose. I am so unworthy, I am unworthy of His blessings. But what He has did for me, it makes me love Him so. And I love my brothers, that I have come for that purpose.

26 So, don't feel suspicious. It grieves the Holy Spirit. And that's the reason things are not happening the way they should, see. You've had... Now, several days you've had time to read the Bible, and you see Him working, confirming the Word. Now, I don't want to see these wheelchairs and things sitting here. It grieves my heart. But, I can't do nothing about it. I'm only a servant. I can just bring His Word and do what He tells me to do. And I'm sure, it's not His will for this to be. It would be His will for all of you to be well.
The Bible said, "I would above all things that you prosper in health." He wants you to have health. And I know if you'll believe Him, He will give you health.

27 Shall we pray.
Our Heavenly Father, we bring to You this night, this lovely audience of people. As I look at them, see gray hairs on their head, wrinkled face, many; and see the young women beautiful, and the young men beautiful, just in the bloom of life. Look, laying here with people with sickness, some are crippled, some of them are afflicted, and some of them has cancer, and some of them with heart trouble. O God, be merciful.
Now, Father, we do not wish You to perform miracles that we might believe. For Thou has said that a weak and adulterous generation seeks those things. I realize that a crippled man may live an ordinary lifetime. But, Father, a man with heart trouble can't live long without Your help.

28 But, Father, we pray that You'll just pour out Your Spirit and heal the heart trouble, the cancer, TB, and all the crippled, the lame, the blind. O dear God, come, won't You? Stretch out Your arms over the tent tonight. Drive away all unbelief. And let Your lovely Son, Jesus, come into every heart. We ask it for Your glory in Jesus name.
And now, Father, I am Your humble unworthy servant. Oh, You took me from the sheepcote, a little old boy, no education, and give me the privilege to come talk to Your people. And with Your gift that You gave to Your unprofitable servant, I am ashamed, Father, if I haven't done no more than what I have. But, dear Father, forgive me, and help me to show Thy love to the people and make me a better servant, in my feeble efforts. Bless them tonight, Father. And stretch forth the hand of Your holy Child Jesus, and heal the sick. For we ask it in His name, Thy only beloved Son, Jesus Christ. Amen.

29 The handkerchiefs are to be prayed for. I wish to pray for them now. You wouldn't mind if I'd ask you to bow your head with me, and pray too? I want you to pray with me. This is somebody that's sick. What if it was your mother? And the doctor had said she couldn't live. You know how you love her. It's somebody's mother, somebody's little child. So, let's be sincere, and ask God earnestly to bless this feeble effort that we have.

30 Will you bow your head?
Dear Heavenly Father, we love You so much tonight. And we're so thankful that You have made it so simple for us, not where we have to pay for anything, not where we have to do any merits. But just simple child-like faith to do Your commandments.
Now, Father, I pray over these handkerchiefs, and wherever they go, may they be blessed. And when they're laid upon the sick people, may they get well. O hear our prayer, Father. Look at Your children with their bowed heads. Will You hear their prayer? And send these handkerchiefs to the sick and needy. Watch over them, Father. We're so thankful they have confidence in You, or even that You hear our prayer. So, we send them in the name of Jesus, Thy Son. Amen.

31 All right, you call the prayer line here.
Not... That doesn't mean they're going to be healed. If I could heal anyone, I'd come down here and go to each one and heal everyone. I would if I could, but I can't. And there's no other man can. And if Jesus was here, He could not. Only if you'd believe.

32 Look. That sounds strange, that Jesus could not heal unless you'd believe. When He went to His own country, the Bible said, "Many mighty works He could not do because of their unbelief." Now, if He was standing here tonight, on this platform, just like that you're looking at us, and you'd come up to Him and say, "Jesus, will You heal me?"
He'd say, "Child, can't you believe that I have already done it on Golgotha? I paid for your sickness. If you believe, go and receive."
For here's what He said: "As thou has believed, so be it unto you." He said, "Now, for Myself, I can do nothing. I do what the Father shows me. The Father shows me a vision, then I do what He tells me. He's the same yesterday, today, and forever."

33 Now, you just act. It's your faith. The ministry is not to come and pray for you. God didn't send me to pray for you. He sent me to speak to you of Jesus. And when you see God confirming and telling that I've told the truth, by His Word and by His signs, then you can say, "The man has told the truth."
Now, Lord Jesus... He tells me that You love me. And I have seen You answer the prayer. I've seen You do things that isn't done no more since the disciples. So, I believe You, and I accept You." That settles it. Just go out believing and you get well. Isn't that simple? It's God's love.

34 Now, we will call a few people up here at the platform to pray for them. You know why I do that? Is to get the anointing spirit started among the people. It begins to build their faith. And as their faith comes up, He speaks to me, just like He did to the Lord Jesus. The woman that touched His garment, and she went out in the crowd. Jesus said, "Someone has touched Me." And everybody said, "Not me."
And then He looked out, He seen the woman. He said, "Thy faith has saved thee."
Now, it was her faith, not Jesus. She drew the power from God through Jesus. Now, watch and see if He doesn't do the same thing, see. As soon as the Holy Spirit gets anointing the people, the prayer line as good as stopped. Then He goes...

Jehovah-Jireh

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1 Sure you all enjoyed that like I did; it was immensely enjoyed. He is the mighty Conqueror. I'm sure my wife appreciated that tonight, because that's her favorite song, and solo.
The mighty Conqueror, since He rent the veil in two.
Now, Brother Ekberg was just telling me we have a visitor all the way from Stockholm tonight. So, I don't know the brother right off, but we're very happy that he's here, along with the rest of you visitors, with our little meeting.
Now, brother from Stockholm, these people here are used to a lot of sunshine. And just a little cool weather is kind of hard on them. Of course, we Eskimos, up there, this would be our summertime. So, we'd just be having a good time in this.

2 Up in the north lands, when we have services up there sometimes, the people drive thirty-five and forty miles over icy roads, and blankets around them and everything; looked like they just enjoy that cold weather. But when your blood gets a little thin, you know, it's kind of hard, I guess. So, then coming down here with thick blood, then the hot weather nearly kills you. But, you got a beautiful country here, and we're very happy to be visiting with you.
Now, tomorrow night, I believe ... when I just drove up outside, that I heard them announcing Brother Weirmo and Brother Ekberg was going to have a group of specials tomorrow night. Hope I can get here a little early myself, to get to hear those marvelous songs. I'm just so happy to get them. And I love them so well, because God is in music. God, I think wonderfully...

3 You know, I've got a radio at home, that I just wouldn't take anything for it. And when I can get a little time off and get out in the yard, and the Lord turns it on, why, I tell you it's wonderful. And you know, when I go out a fishing, out in the wilderness, I find my radio out there. God turns it on. You know what it is? Birds singing.
I live on mockingbird hill, where all the mockingbirds are up there. And all night long you hear them. They'll fly up in the air, and fly back down, and just sing and sing. Many of them call them nightingales. I studied them a whole lot. And I often wonder why it is that they sing so much. And the nightingale sits with his eyes upwards. There'll be a real stormy night, and when the clouds come back, as long as he can see one star shining, he'll start singing, just as loud as he can. Because he knows the sun's shining somewhere; it's daylight.

4 And I've often thought, teaching many times, preaching, in nature, how I love nature, 'cause that was my first Bible. Now, that's the way we are. As long as you can see somebody getting saved, and coming to Christ, you know Christ is still in the business somewhere. Somebody being healed, or some sign that our Lord Jesus is still ... the doors of mercies is still open. So, we ought to raise our heads back and sing to the glory of God, when we can see that one visible sign. You like to look at God in nature? I just love to watch Him in nature.
Now, before we start tonight ... or, read the Scripture, there's some letters and handkerchiefs here with names on them. And we're very happy to pray over these handkerchiefs, and to let the needy come get them. And if you happen to fail to miss yours, why, see some of them, and then you can write me. (All right. Thank you, brother.) You can write me, and I will be glad to send you one from home; or, a little piece of cloth, what it is, is what we really have.

5 And you know, in the Bible ... in the Bible we have, in a case where Saint Paul took the handkerchiefs off of his body. Handkerchiefs, and aprons, and so forth, and take them the sick and the afflicted. Now, as I said the other night, many people anoint them. You know where I think Paul... He was a fundamentalist, you know, so you know where I think Paul got that from the Bible? How many would like to hear where I think Paul got it? All right, I'll tell you where.
When the Shunammite woman ... there was a prophet used to come by her house all the time by the name of Elijah. And she would entertain this prophet and his servant, Gehazi. Gehazi was with him to keep the people away from him, and so forth, and to help him. And so, she said to her husband, "Let's build a little house ... a little room on the side of the house." And she put a candle there, and a bed, and, oh, little buckets of water, and what more that the little room needed.

6 And he said, "Go ask her what I could do for her, speak to the king or something another."
And she said, "No." She didn't care for that.
So, he said, "Well, what's wrong?"
And she said, "Well," the...
Gehazi said, "She don't have any children."
So, Elijah got a vision from the Lord, and told her just about the time it was going to happen. And so, the baby was born, and when he got about twelve years old, why, he was out in the field one day with his daddy. I believe he must've got sunstroke or something. He said, "My head, my head," about eleven o'clock, out in the harvest field.
So, his father had him packed to the house, set on the lap of his mother. And while he was on her lap... She was a faithful woman, a Shunammite. And the baby died, the little boy.

7 And I want you to watch that woman. She took him right straight up in the bed where that prophet had been laying, and laid him on the bed. Now, read between the lines just a little, and you'll get what Paul was thinking about. Laid him on the prophet's bed. What an appropriate place to lay him, on ... the dead baby on the prophet's bed. And she said to the servant, "Saddle me a mule, and go forward, and don't you stop 'less I bid you, and go to the prophet."
They said, "Why, he won't be up there."
Said, "This'll be all right."

8 And now, notice this: When she got close to him (the prophet), the prophet didn't know what was going to happen. God hadn't revealed it to him. They don't know all things; it's just as God will reveal, see. It doesn't...
Like the woman touched Jesus' garment, He didn't know who it was. God has to do those things.
So, he said, "Here comes that Shunammite." And said, "she's worried, she's troubled, and God's kept it from me. I don't know what's wrong with her."
And so, when she got close, he said, "Is all well with thee, is all well with thy husband, is all well with the baby?" Now, you women listen to this, just a minute.
She said, "All is well."
Think of it.
(Thank you, sweetheart, you're a mighty, fine, little girl. God bless you, honey.)
"All is well."

9 Why? She wanted to get to God's representative, which was the prophet, and God was in Christ, we know ... or, in Christ, and He was ... before Christ come, He was representing Himself in the prophets. And now today, He's representing Himself in the church. Isn't that right? Representing Himself in the church.
And so, he said, "All is well."
(Thank you.)
She was before the prophet. "All is well."

10 Now, watch. And then she begin to reveal to him what had happened. The baby is dead. Her husband is broken-hearted, and she is; but all is well. Could you think that tonight? Knowing that Jesus Christ will pass through these lines tonight, and heal a portion of people that's been here; and perhaps these people here, on these ambulance stretchers here, will probably be up on their feet walking around after a while, going out of here rejoicing. What do you think about it tonight? Is all well?
I see a little boy sitting there. Bless his little heart; I hope this is his night. And over here, too, this little laddy. I don't know. They're both in little wheelchairs. Here's a lady sitting here in a wheelchair. And I just hope that this is the night for every one of you. But is all well? Everything's okay now, see.
All is well. She's before God's representative. And then, when he told her what was the matter... Now, look what Elijah done. He told Gehazi, "Take this staff." The staff is what he had been handling. Said, "Take this staff and go lay it on the baby."

11 Now, Elijah knew that everything that he touched was blessed. Now, the woman, if he could get her to believe the same thing, all right. But the woman didn't believe that. She knew God was in His servant; she didn't know about no staff, but she knew about him.
She said, "I'm not going to leave you." And so...
But I think that's where Paul got, taking handkerchiefs off his body. The people seen and knew that God was with Paul, and whatever he touched was blessed. And so, I think that's where Paul got laying handkerchiefs on the sick, 'cause Elijah sent a staff that he had handled and laid it on a dead child. So, I think that's where Paul got it.
However, it was a token to the people that they believe that he has represented Himself here on earth, in the form of the Lord Jesus. And Lord Jesus has returned to heaven, and come again in the form of the Holy Spirit, and He's here, working in His church. And that's why we're going to pray over these just now, while we bow our heads.

12 Our Heavenly Father, first we want to express to You our gratitude, because that we can call You our Father, and know assured that Thou art. Just to know the many false religions in the world tonight, worshipping idols, worshipping the fleas, and flies, sacred cows, Buddha, Mohammed. Oh, at the thousands of idols, but yet there's one true and living God. All their founders and philosophers died, was placed into the grave, and that settled it.
But our blessed Heavenly Father sent His Son that said, "I have power to lay My life down, and take it up again," and He proved it. And here He is after two thousand years, still moving among the people as He did here on earth, as He moves in His church.

13 A church, two thousand years ago, when they seen their pastor, the Saint Paul, that You were speaking through him and revealing and ministering. They taken from his body handkerchiefs and aprons, and You honored it, and unclean spirits went out of the people and they were healed.
Now, Father, Your beloved servant, the great apostle and saint, has come home to You many hundreds of years ago, but Thou remaineth forever. And tonight these people who has confidence in Thee, and is wanting Your humble servant to pray a prayer for them, by the means of these handkerchiefs: I lay my hands over them, in commemoration of Your Word, and ask that every one be healed.

14 God, You know what they all mean. You watched them when they was writing these notes. You even knowed when the material was cut out, what it was going to be used for. And here it is night, laying here. May it find it's destination, and when it's laid upon the sick, may every power of sickness and affliction move from the bodies of the dear people who are suffering. Almighty God, liberate them and they go free. Grant it, Father.
Now, bless us in the reading of the Word tonight, and speaking. Heal all the sick and afflicted, and save the lost, and call back the ones who were wayward, and gone away from Thee. For we ask it in Jesus' name, Thy beloved Son. Amen.
[Someone speaks to Brother Branham.]
The brother pastor here says you can get the handkerchiefs immediately after the altar call tonight. He will have them for you. Thank you very much, and may the Lord grant that each and every one of these, where they're represented, when they find their resting place to who they're determined to go, may God grant that every one be healed.

15 Now, I wish to read again tonight for just a few moments. Say, I finally did dismiss just five minutes late last night. I'm getting better. My folks told me that I was just a little bit shorter on it last night, and the people got in a little earlier.
Now, for tomorrow morning, I speak at seven o'clock, or seven-fifteen, at the Christian Businessmen at Glendale. I think that's kind of a closed meeting to businessmen and their wives, I don't know. And then, Saturday morning, at the Full Gospel Businessmen's at Los Angeles, at the Clifton's Cafeteria. The program will be on the air. The Christian Businessmen: very fine brethren who has sponsored my meetings, many, many places. I find them to be very fine group of men.

16 And if there's any businessmen in here tonight that's Christians, I'm sure if they got a chapter in your neighborhood or somewhere, I trust that God will send you to them and join up with this fine bunch of Spirit-filled brethren, for they're fine men.
And this other group also, down here... I think the one in Los Angeles is full Gospel. This down here is mainly Methodist, Baptist, and so forth, only. Some full Gospel people were there ... or, Pentecostal, which is the full Gospel, too. And we sure find a bunch of fine men, everywhere we go. Anywhere you find Christians, no matter what nation they're in, they're a real, real, genuine people.

17 I stood some time ago, just to show you, brethren... You know, I think today... I hear the news coming that Mr. Molitov, or ever what his name is, up in Russia, oh, they couldn't get any settlement, fussing about Germany, and whether they're going to unite it or not. You know, the thing of it is, they're leaving off the main person in these meetings, the Lord Jesus. He died that all men might be brothers.
Why, I went up there in Finland ... (Maybe the Swedish brother here tonight remembers the incidence.) when here in America, saw a vision of a boy being raised from the dead; many of you know of it. And the little boy was found laying just exactly where the vision said that he'd be just the same looking child... Many of you knew about it, and maybe read or even heard me tell it a year or two before it ever happened. Told just how it...
Is there anybody here that had that written in their Bible? Yeah, look at the hands, sure. Told them how it would happen and all about it, 'cause every time, it's word by word the way He says it. And when that little lad was raised up from the dead, when the state's man there signed a notary seal to it, and so forth; his own name that he was witness to it when it happened.

18 That night when they taken me down to the place where I was to speak, for over six city blocks, you couldn't even get in the car. And little Finnish soldiers, little boys hadn't even shaved yet, just little smooth-faced boys, not over sixteen years old, and them big boots and long coats ... they killed all the soldiers off. The only army they had was just kiddies coming on.
And they taken me down there that night, and there stood Russian soldiers on the street with that Russian salute, tears running down their cheeks. And they would take a hold of those Finns, when they'd get around the place, and put their arms around them and hug them and kiss them. Brother, anything that'll make a Finn kiss a Russian, or a Russian a Finn, will settle wars forever.

19 It takes the blood of the Lord Jesus. And those communists, anti-religious, they were standing there, and some of the brethren would ask them, "What do you think about that?"
Said, "We'll accept a God like that that's got power, sure. We're ready to confess to such as that, but not all this joining churches and laying up all the wealth of the nation, laying up in a church somewhere, and live no different from the rest of the people."
I don't blame them much, myself. That's right. Yes, sir. If He's God, He's God. If He isn't, why, He isn't; either right or wrong, all things.
Now, over in the Scriptures we read tonight from Genesis 22, to continue our story. How do you like to read about Abraham? Isn't it marvelous? I just love to read about him. And now, in the 22nd chapter, and the 7th and 8th verse, and then for a text out of the 14th verse. Seven and eight of twenty-two, Genesis 22 we read this:
And Isaac spake unto Abraham his father, and said, My father: and he said, Here am I, my son. And he said, Behold the fire and the wood: but where is the lamb for the burnt offering?
And Abraham said, My son, God will provide himself a lamb for the burnt offering: so they went both of them together.
Now the 14th verse:
And Abraham called the name of that place Jehovah-jireh: as it is said to this day, In the mount of the LORD it shall be seen.
The Lord add His blessings to the reading of His Word.

20 Jehovah-jireh: "The Lord will provide for Himself a sacrifice." Now, Jehovah, in the Old Testament appears to the human race in seven compound relative names, that He was going to be to the people. He appeared first as Jehovah-jireh, the Lord will provide a sacrifice.
Second, He appeared as Jehovah-rapha, the Lord that healeth thee; Jehovah-manasseh, Jehovah, our banner; Jehovah... Seven compound redemptive names that God appears to the human race as, of the all-sufficient provider for everything that we have need of, from the beginning to the end.
Now, last night we were speaking on Abraham, and we left him where God appeared to him in the name of Almighty God. And in the Hebrew word was used the El Shaddai, which means "the breast," or "the breasted One, the all-sufficient One, the strong One, the life-giver." And we gave the illustration last night as the breasted One.

21 Now, the compound word, the word "breasted," like... How could we ever take Jehovah-jireh out of the Bible, or Jehovah-rapha, the healer, and accept Jehovah-jireh, the Lord's provided sacrifice? And in all these compound names, they were every one met in Jesus Christ. He was Jehovah-jireh, the provided sacrifice; He was Jehovah-rapha, the healer; He was Jehovah, the banner; Jehovah, the buckler; Jehovah, the peace; Jehovah, the shepherd. All those compound redemptive names was applied to the Lord Jesus. You couldn't apply one and take the other one away.
And if they was not applied, He was not Jesus, the Son of God. There you are. They're inseparable; you can't separate God's compound names. And if one of them was applied to Jesus, all of them was applied to Jesus. So, if He's God's provided sacrifice for sin, He's God's provided atonement for healing. He's "the same yesterday, today, and forever."
When He was here on earth, He said, "As Moses lifted up the brass serpent in the wilderness, so must the son of man be lifted up," for the same reasons.

22 Moses lifted up the brass serpent for a compound reason. Why? Because the people were backslidden, chiding against God, and against Moses. And Moses lifted up the brass serpent for their forgiveness of sin, and the healing of their bodies. And just as the brass serpent represented Christ, He was lifted up for the forgiveness of our sins, and the healing of our body.
He appeared to Abraham as Jehovah-jireh, Jehovah-rapha. He appeared to him here as El Shaddai. Oh, we could take each one of those and stay here six months and never get out of it, just taking it from Genesis to Revelations, right back and forth. I love the Word. The Word of God: It's established. We may hear a lot of false fandangos and a lot of things that isn't true, and made up, but that Word is everlasting; it's God's eternal promise.

23 And remember, you can mark me down on the paper of time, and put it in the history when I'm passed on, that when I appear at the judgment bar: I say this, that every divine promise of God in the Bible is true. And if you'll take the right mental attitude towards any divine promise of God, it'll bring it to pass. Remember, don't forget it. If you, personally, you, can take the right mental attitude towards any of those divine promises, it'll bring it to pass.
Now, if you don't... A fellow met me here not long ago and said, "Oh, Brother Branham, I don't care what you'd say, I don't believe in divine healing."
I said, "It's not for you."
He said, "Why?"
I said, "You're an unbeliever. It's only to those who believe; that's the only one who can receive it, is believers, not to unbelievers. It's just to those who believe."

24 And so, that's the way God deals: only with believers. And Abraham was God's called-out, elected servant, and prophet. And God met him, and kept encouraging him as he waited for the fulfilling of the promise.
Say, "I wish He'd do that to me."
That's why you're here tonight. That's the reason these people are laying here on these stretchers tonight, these parents has brought these little children. Something in them; they heard of others being made well. Here they come. What is it? It's the same thing. God encouraging you on: Believe.

25 So, He appears to Abraham in the name of the El Shaddai, the breasted God. One, physical healing; the other, spiritual healing. Whatever you have need of, just take it from God. Two resources, two places... And notice, like a mother with her little baby (as I said), when it's gentle, and it's sick, and the poor, little fellow's all upset and lost a lot of weight, but the mother takes the baby to her bosom, and she rocks it. And as it's getting well, it's nursing from the mother, bringing her strength into the baby. And that's the way it is tonight, madam, and sir, you all along here, all of you sick.
When you accept God's promise being your personal property (here it is), then you'll lean on His bosom, and you're nursing every day, strength. Where the cancer once eat you up, where the TB has withered you away, where the affliction has caught you, Satan has been into your house and crippled you and left you that way, from a fever or something. But each day you're leaning on His everlasting arms, with your head upon His bosom, nursing from the Word. Hallelujah! Nursing from the Word. And notice, not only that, but the baby who is fretting and upset, while it's nursing, way before it's well, it's satisfied, while it's a nursing.

26 And every believer, "Every man that cometh to God must believe that He is, and a rewarder of those who diligently seek him." And every believer coming to God when He accepts God's provided way, His sacrifice, as he leans upon the bosom of God to trust for his healing, salvation, whatever it may be, he's satisfied. He don't jump about from pillar to post, not tossed about by every wind of doctrine, but he's satisfied. "God gave the promise, I've accepted it, that settles it, so I'm satisfied just right here."
Oh, what a... I've had experience with that, friends. When Mayo's clinic told me, in the great break, he said, "You can..." Sitting in that council of doctor. They said, "Reverend, you can never be well." Said, "You've got a 'gurgitation'; your nerves carrying one way, your blood flying the other." Said, "You can't never, never be well," said, "because it lays within another realm, and we can't get into that realm."
My heart started failing me. I said, "You mean I'm washed up?"
He said, "That's just exactly."
That old doctor standing there with his arms crossed, twitching his mustache, about twenty doctors sitting around, he said, "That's right."
I said, "Well, God hasn't told me that yet."
I walked out of the place, my wife crying. Then I went over to the hotel to lay down, and I said, "God, what can I do?" And there He appeared.
Said, "Don't believe that; I'm with you."
Hallelujah! My, I come out there with a big smile on my face; I said, "Praise the Lord! I'm healed!"
Wife said, "You mean you're healed?"
I said, "Sure, He gave a promise, and I've accepted it."
She said... I said, "I'm so hungry."
She said, "Well, I'll go get you a barley water."

27 I said, "Open me up a can of beans, and fry me a hunk of ham, give me some onions, and a piece of corn bread. I'm really going to eat."
Yes, the promise. When you can get it out of your head and get it down here, something takes place. Jehovah-ji... "How you going to do it?"
I don't know. He's already provided the sacrifice; I just have to walk into it, that's all. Didn't seem to be any different for a while, but it sure worked a little later on. I never did weigh over a hundred and twenty-five, twenty-eight pounds, and I weigh a hundred and seventy now. So, I feel fine. Why? Because He's still El Shaddai. Just as confident He's going to do it, because He said so. Sure.

28 On went Abraham, ninety years old now. And he said, "God's appeared to me, said He was El Shaddai. I'm an old man, my wife is eighty years old, old grandmother-to-be ... or, was ... looked like. And there she was a real old woman, him an old man, the gray whiskers hanging down, but said, "Praise God! We're going to have that baby. God's done said so. Just keep all the Birdseye and everything ready, 'cause we're going to have that baby."
Oh, my! The people said, "That man is kind of a little bit off of the head. No wonder, he stayed out in the wilderness too long." But he knowed where he was. That's right. No matter what the outside world said, he knowed where he was standing, for he had confidence. "He staggered not at the promise through unbelief, but was strong, giving praise to God, for he knew that He was able to keep that which He had promised."
And if Abraham could do that, and we've got nearly three thousand years of witnesses since then, with the resurrection of the Lord Jesus, and His presence here with us now, and is supposed to be Abraham's seed, let us rise in the name of righteousness, in the name of Christ, and believe God, if we're Abraham's seed.
If the devil's tossing you about from poolroom to barroom and everywhere else, kick him aside, take over. God promised it. I don't mean to yell. This thing may have a loud voice, but I get to feeling pretty religious sometime, when I go to talking about that, because that's right down the home stretch, you know.

29 So, thinking there, ninety years old. "Well," he said, "if You're El Shaddai, You're the bosom, I'm leaning right on it. God, I may be an old man, I might've been born sterile, Sarah was also. And she's many years, probably forty years now, a past menopause, but glory to God, we're going to have the baby anyhow. You promised it, so we're going right on believing it. Age means nothing."
What does age mean to God? My! On they went. Another ten years elapsed. Now Abraham's a hundred. My! And Sarah was ninety. The Bible said they were both well stricken in age. Little grandmother with her little cap on, little shawl, going around the house. Abraham, his shoulders all stooped over, great, white beard, on his staff as he walked around, still praising God. And the Bible said instead of getting weaker, he got stronger all the time. Be more glory: He'd see a greater thing. Then we call ourself Abraham's seed, and not enough faith to dot an eye if it was ink.

30 Notice, that's... I didn't mean it that way. Excuse me. I had my mind... Holy Spirit trying to lead me one way, and me trying to jump another, I suppose. But look, I didn't mean it like that. I meant if faith's pretty weak, and we go to thinking about our father Abraham, and him without the Holy Spirit. We got the baptism of the Holy Spirit. He was under the sacrifice of a lamb, which could never take away sin; it just covered sin. But we're under a sacrifice that put away sin, demolished sin, divorced sin. And then with the faith that we got, but yet they were not made perfect without us. They're looking to us to move on.

31 Now, here they are, around a hundred years old. And one day, Abraham, after Lot had chose to go down to have the big time in the city... Perhaps maybe he become down in Sodom there, the well-watered plains... You know, the easy road is not always the best road. The best road is find the will of God, and then travel it. Amen. That's right. Find the will of God, no matter how hard it is, just raise up your hand, and say, "I'll take the way with the Lord's despised few, started in with Jesus, now, Lord, I'm going through."
And Mrs. Lot went down there, and maybe become the president of many ladies' clubs, and so forth, down there. And Lot became the mayor of the city, or whatever it was, backslidden, away from God, down there amongst those perverted people.

32 One day, Abraham's sitting out in the barren land where there's not much to eat, the cattle was poor, no water to drink hardly, but he was doing what God told him to do. One day while sitting out there under the oak, he happened to look out and he saw three men coming. And he looked at them and quickly (He didn't have to wait for a month.), quickly, being a Spirit-filled man, he recognized one of them to be Almighty God and two angels. That's what the Scripture says they was: Almighty God.
And He come up, and Abraham run and fell down before Him, and worshipped Him, and called Him Lord, capital L-o-r-d, Lord. And he said, "Will you just come by a few minutes with me?"
A man was tired looking. Jehovah-God Himself, all tired, dust all over His clothes, and probably Gabriel and Michael walking by Him in form of human flesh.

33 Said, "Drop in just a moment, for You've come this way. You've had favor ... I've found favor. You've come by. Let me get a little water and wash Your feet and rest Yourself. Take a little piece of bread, and refresh Yourself, then You can go on."
"Well," said, "just go do as you've said."
They sat down under the tree, and Abraham run to the tent, said, "Sarah, measure out three measures of meal, right quick, and knead it, and sifter it out, and put it on the hearth and make some cakes."

34 He run out into the herd and felt around till he got the fattest calf he could find, had it killed and dressed, and come back, and brought out to eat corn cakes, veal chops, buttermilk, or milk of some sort, and butter. And Almighty God eat corn bread, veal, eat butter on His corn cakes, and drinking the milk. God did it.
Some time ago I was speaking on that, and a preacher wrote me a letter. He said, "Brother Branham, get next to yourself." He said, "You mean to say that was God?"
I said, "It was God; it was God."
"Well, how did He get here? Well, did He just get...?"
He told Abraham, "Is anything too hard for the Lord?"

35 Well, sure. What was it? It was a body He was representing Himself in. Well, God owns everything. He just reached over and got a handful of atoms, and a little petroleum, some cosmic light, and "Whew," blowed it together, and stepped right out in it. That's all! He's a Creator!
Fixed the other angels up, and they walked up there in human flesh. And while they were in human flesh, they were hungry. Hallelujah! I know I'm exci... may look like I'm excited. Let me tell you something. To know that our Father... What's a human body made out of? A little bit of oil, and petroleum, some light, a few atoms, and a little phosphate, and calcium, and so forth, all coming out of the elements. Why, He just spoke it into existence, stepped right out into it, and represented Himself, and talked with human voice.

36 That same God... The other day, my wife, sitting back there... I was combing what few hairs I have left. She said, "Billy, you're pretty near bald-headed."
I said, "But, thank God, I haven't lost a one of them."
She said, "Where are they at?"
I said, "Where was they before I got them? They were somewhere. They was, and they are not, and one day they will be again."
Hallelujah! Wherever they was at the first place, they are now, waiting for me to come to them some of these days. This old, wrinkled-up body is going to change one of these days. I'll go back to be a young man again.
So, He showed Abraham what He was going to do. God sat down with His back to the tent. Said, "Where's Sarah?"
Said, "She's in the tent."
He said, "About according to time of life" (that is, it's with ladies), he said, "I'm going to visit you about that time."
And Sarah, in the tent, went, "Heh-heh!" Laughed.
He said, "Why did Sarah laugh?" With His back ... the Bible said He had His back to the tent. That was quite a mental telepathy, wasn't it? "Why did Sarah laugh?"
Sarah said, "Oh, I never."
"Oh," said, "yes, you did."

37 God, in human flesh, recognized what was going on behind Him. The same One that knowed where Philip found Nathanael. The same One that's here amongst us tonight, that knows everything about you. He's still God. God had a need to talk to Abraham like a man, so He made Himself a body and stepped into it. And that same God of ours has every bit of calcium that was ever in your withered-up body. Hallelujah! Only thing He has to do is at the time of the coming of His Son, the Lord Jesus, is just speak, and every man that ever lived and believed in Him will come back to life again. He's Jehovah God, the Creator. Quit belittling Him; make Him big. That's what He is; He's big, powerful.

38 Look what He did to Sarah and Abraham there. Now, you're going to have to put on your jacket for a minute, especially the ministers. What did He do to Sarah and Abraham? After He went on down to destroy Sodom and Gomorrah, and the angels come down there, seen that perverted generation of people---just like we're getting today.
Look at the papers and things, how they're packing how perverted people is on the move because men can't be satisfied with one wife, and he's living with everything, every woman that he can run around with, and women the same way. And it's become just like the sin of Sodom. On the increase, till the government's full of them, the nation's full of them, this West Coast is contaminated with it. I get thousands of letters from up and down this coast of men and women and things, done stepped across the line, perverted, giving them a mind of that type. Notice, what a pitiful thing it is. Not a remedy or a medicine in the world can cure it, only God.

39 There they was, and... Well, you know what God did to Sarah and Abraham there, when He stepped into that human body, God did, Him and them two angels? He just turned Sarah and Abraham back to a young man and a woman again---made them a young man and woman. Sure, He did. Turned them back to a young man and a woman again.
And notice. When He did this... I can just imagine seeing Sarah, the little grandma, you know, with a little shawl on, saying, "Dad, you know the hair is beginning to get a little black around the side, and you know, I believe some of it's growing again."
Say, "Mother, you know what? I happened to notice, Sarah, that the wrinkles are going out from under your eyes."

40 She turned back to a woman probably thirty years old, and him twenty-five or thirty, or along their age, to a young man and woman. Now, listen, brethren, you'll have to admit that God did something to both Sarah and Abraham. Abraham was a hundred years old, and had lived with this woman since, probably seventeen years of age, and no children. He had to do something.
Watch. Now, young ladies, you all forgive me for this plain talk, but I'm speaking Scripture now. And watch this, we'll read between the lines. In order to have the baby, the first thing He had to do was bring... He had to make the womb of the woman fertile. Is that right? He had to do it. In order for her to go into labor, He had to give her a strong and a new heart. A woman ninety years old couldn't do that; you know that.
And another thing, at that age, the milk veins was dried up. They didn't have bottles them days, they fed the babies on, so they had to create milk veins and things for the mother to feed the child.

41 God don't patch up nothing. He just made a brand new Sarah to show what He's going to do to all you old women some of these times that'll believe on the Lord Jesus. Yes, sir. He made them a young man and woman again. I'll prove it to you.
They taken a journey. Mark on the map where they went down to Gerar: around three hundred miles. That's quite a journey for an old man and woman of that age. And the thing of it was, when they got down to Gerar, there was a young king down there, named Amilech ... Abimelech, it was. And he was hunting for a sweetheart. And all those beautiful girls around the country, and he fell in love with this old grandma, hundred years old; little shawl.
He said, "That's the one I've waited for."
Nonsense. You know better than that. But the Bible said he took her for his wife, a hundred-year-old woman. Refusing all the young ladies, and said, "That's the prettiest girl I ever seen." He went and got her. Abraham called it his sister.

42 What did God do? He had turned Sarah back to a beautiful, young woman again. O God, when I think of it, what God can do! What a hope it gives you!
Look, God paints a picture. God is a God of variety. That's the reason we can believe Him tonight being the God of the resurrection. Watch nature. The seed goes in the ground ... if you put a yellow grain of corn in the ground, it'll come up a yellow. If you put a white grain in, it'll come up a white grain. We're not all going to be blondes, or brunettes, in the kingdom of God, there'll be a variety. God's a God of variety.

43 Look. He makes great, big mountains; He makes little, bitty mountains; He makes plains; He makes prairies; He makes deserts; He makes oceans; He makes white flowers, blue flowers, red flowers, pink flowers; He makes palm trees, oak trees, and all kinds of trees, grass, shrubs, and so forth. He's a God of variety. He makes blondes, brunettes, redheads; that's the way He wants them. And this is just the negative side.
You remember, brother... Let's go back a few days. When I think of this, and think of my own, dear wife, sitting there, standing between me and the public, thirty-five years old, and almost total white-headed. I could put my arm around her and say, "Dear, but let me tell you, one of these glorious days, Jesus is coming."

44 You remember, Dad, when you walked down at the altar there, with mother there? The children's all raised and everything now. Remember how beautiful she was in that wedding dress she had on, those shiny eyes, those rosy cheeks? That was back before Max Factor come in to view, maybe. But, didn't have to have any put-on. And the beautiful set of hair she had.
Look at her now, gray, wrinkled, her little cheeks is drawed in. You take her little, old hand, look at that wedding ring across it, and look how wrinkled it is. Mother, you look over at dad, and remember how straight he walked down there that day. He was so proud of you. You looked over and seen the shiny hair he had combed back; it's all gone now; what little he has got has turned gray. You look at his great, muscle that he used to stand there, when he washed at the old wash bench, and see his muscles move up and down, and now it's flabby, gone back. That's right. You remember that?

45 But remember, God paints a flower; He paints a picture. He starts you up from a little child. He lets you grow up. I asked a scientist the other day, I said, "Prove it to me, brother." He was a doctor, too. I said, "I want to ask you something, doctor." He was talking about the colored people in Africa, and I told them how they had to live.
Said, "They wasn't human."
I said, "They're just as much human as you are or I am." That's right. They got a soul. That's right. And they're fine Christian people when they're converted.
And I said, "I want to tell you something, doctor." I said, "Is it the truth, that every time I eat, I renew my life, put in new blood cells, comes from the food I eat?"
He said, "That's correct."

46 I said, "I want to ask you something. When I was sixteen years old, every time I'd eat a good meal, I got bigger and stronger all the time. And now, I'm even eating better food now than I did when I was sixteen years old, and every time I eat, I'm getting older and weaker. Explain that to me. If I put new life in at sixteen, it still made me grow and get bigger and bigger. How am I going to pour water in a glass and it filling right straight up till it gets right up to a certain place and then stop, and I pour water in and it starts going down? What happened? Tell me." I said, "For God has said! That's the reason. 'Dust thou art, and dust thou shalt return.'"

47 God lets you come up to the age to your very best ... might have been... Satan might've afflicted you. You might not have reached that maturity. That's all right. In God's mind, He knows what you're supposed to be. So, He got you to that certain picture, when He got you just at the time when you was about twenty-three to twenty-five years old, you're at your best. Then He said, "All right, death, here he is, but you can't take him till I call."
And you notice, you start finding out after you get over twenty-five years old, you're just not the person you used to be. What is it? You're failing. Yet you're eating, you're going back all the time. After a while gray hairs sets in, your muscles go away, but the picture is in God's mind. And every vitamin, and every bit of calcium, and every bit of everything that was in me, when I was my best, and when you was your best, in the resurrection, it don't go nowhere. It come from somewhere, and it is now. It wasn't, then it is, then it is not. It goes back to where it was, 'cause God already drawed in His mind a picture what He's going to make you forever.
And some glorious day, Jesus shall come and all... Look! What can death do to you? Death will keep putting you in the corner, and on the sick bed, and down there, but only ... the last thing that it can do is pull you in the presence of God. And then in the resurrection, everything that death... Oh, hallelujah! Everything that death ever did do to you will be wiped away.

48 When God made you up here to your right place, where you're strong and healthy, and at your best, death set in. But what death done and all of its curse will be taken away, and you'll be back perfect again. Hallelujah! That's our Heavenly Father.
Oh, my! When we think of it, of how marvelous: Just said, "Here, come here." Stepped right into the flesh and walked down. Here was Sarah, a beautiful, young woman, and Abimelech was going to marry her. And so, that night God appeared to him and said, "Man, you're just as good as a dead man."
"Why," he said, "Lord, well, why?"
He said, "You got a man's wife."
"Why," he said, "You know the integrity of my heart. I didn't know it. She said that was her brother, and he said, 'That's my sister.'"
He said, "Yes, that's the reason I kept you from sinning against Me." But listen...
Show God's sovereignty: there was Abraham, God gave a promise to.

49 Now, you Arminian brethren, just kind of hold your coat just a little, I don't mean to rub this in. But now, Abimelech was a good, holiness man. Wasn't nothing he had done. He was a good man. And he was laying there, and there was God's selected prophet sitting out there... Well, a man that would say that about his wife, I don't know, see.
Look what a condition he was in: backslidden. Sure he was. God told him to stay in Palestine, and he left Palestine; he was backslid. He was sitting out there telling just a small, little, white lie. But notice what God did. God said to Abimelech, "I..." or, Abimelech said, "I know the integrity of your heart, that's the reason I kept you from sinning against Me. But her husband is My prophet. I won't hear your prayer, but you go out there, and let him pray for you, 'cause I've called him; he's my prophet. And he's sitting out there even in that condition. You go let him pray for you, and I'll hear him. If you don't, you're a dead man." Amen.
Kind of quiet around here, but that's the Bible. All right.
"You're just as good as a dead man."
Abimelech got up from his dream and he went and called all of his men and they begin to shiver. He went out there and he said, "Abraham, here's your wife." And he restored the wife.

50 Abraham was a young man yet. Sarah, immediately, after that, more than a year or two, had the baby that had been promised all the time. Notice...
Now, you said, "That's what He done to Sarah, but what about Abraham?"
Even after Isaac died ... or, I mean, after Sarah died, when Isaac was way up a young man, old enough to be married, around forty years later... "Oh," you said, "they lived longer in them days, Brother Branham."
Now, wait a minute. The Bible said they were both well stricken in age. That's right. And Abraham married another woman after the death of Sarah, forty something years later, and had seven boys [Gap in the audio.] [ Unclear words] our God.
He showed in Abraham and Sarah what He's going to do to you, and your wife, some of these days. Turn you back, young again. If that ain't a blessed hope, I don't know what is, brother. When He appeared there, got Himself a handful of material that makes human beings and just spoke it into existence, said, "Come here," with another handful, and put two angels in the side, and walked down and talked to Abraham and turned him back too, to a young man and proved what He was going to do. Hallelujah! We're the seed of Abraham, on our road to the promise.
When little Isaac was born... Oh, my, do I have to quit here? Give me just another five minutes, will you, to finish this so I can change something tomorrow night, see. Little Isaac, when he was about sixteen years old, God met Abraham ... quickly, and I will try to get to my text, then we'll close, and start praying for the sick.

51 At about sixteen years old, He met him. And He said, "Abraham, I know you've been good; you've obeyed Me. I tell you what I want you to do: I want you to take little Isaac up and kill him."
I'm thinking about a quarter after, I better stop right here, let's pray.
Our Heavenly Father, oh, it's so good to feast on the living bread of God. Time won't permit me, Father, to get up to the text just now, but maybe You'll let me finish it tomorrow night. The people here they're working, I feel sorry for them, out there in the fields moving around, in the plants, and offices, and so forth. They've come, Father, some of them are sick, and they're laying here suffering. And I pray, Lord, that You'll just bless Thy Word now, and may they go home with this on their mind, knowing that if they're born-again, they're dead in Christ, and has taken on Abraham's seed and are heirs according to the promise.

52 Let every aged man and woman tonight, as they toddle out of this building ... or, this tent, as You come out of Your tent, from an old man to be turned to a young, an old woman to be turned to a young, beautiful woman again. God, let know that someday we're going out of this tent, this dwelling place, the tabernacle of our humiliation, and we're going to be changed, step over on another land where it's purity.
When our feet first touches that blessed land, when the old ship of Zion blows for landing, we rush out; it's going to be all over then. Sickness, and cripples, and afflictions and everything will be gone, old age, death, sorrow, all these natural things that was caused by the curse will be gone forever more. We'll be changed, turned right back. Why, You know where every bit of the calcium is, and everything that goes in the human body. You know where it was before You built the body, and You've got it in Your keeping, can speak it right back.
That's the way You did to Abraham, just spoke one into existence. The great Jehovah, standing there in human flesh, eating the meat from a calf, eating bread that He had growed in the field, Himself created. Eating butter and drinking milk, hungered in His human body, clothed in a human body, prefigure of the Lord Jesus. How we thank Thee.
The day You appeared to Samson and his wife, Jehovah God stepped right in the flame of fire, and went up in the sacrifice. How you appeared to Moses and turned Your back, walked around, let him be able to see You, and said, "It's the back of a man."

53 Foreshowing, and yet we're told that You're Spirit. But You have control of all life, all creation. And I'm so happy tonight, Lord, that You can even put a ... create a new heart in an old, run-down, sinful man or woman. What a great Father You are! Can take a sick man laying on a cot, or a bed, or a stretcher somewhere dying, and make him well. The cancer-ridden, the cripples that's drawed up can straighten out their limbs. Just the only thing You ask is to believe. Help us to believe tonight. For we ask it in the name of Thy dear Child, the Lord Jesus.
While we have our heads bowed, just want to ask this solemn question just now. That's why the Holy Spirit told me... I was going to go ahead with that subject, said, "Stop right now." Obedience is better than sacrifice.

54 Someone in here, that's outside of Christ... Now, I know we have a custom that we call people up, around the altar, and let them pray, and so forth. That's good, but it's not Bible. The believers were added, "As many as believed was baptized."
Is there someone here while all Christians are praying, people with their heads bowed. Is there a person here that's away from God tonight, and knows that if Jesus would come, that your soul would be dead, and He could not bring a dead soul back into a live body, and you'll be lost and gone, nothing to bring you back again? Just as sure as the car won't run without gasoline, neither can you run ... or, be resurrected without the Spirit of life. You're outside of God, would you raise your hand to God? And just by raising your hand, say to Him, "God, remember me. I now want to accept Your provided way and come to You."

55 Would someone raise their hand, anywhere in the building? God bless you, my brother. God bless you, my sister. That's good. "I, right now, want to come. I've never seen it this way before, Brother Branham. I never realized what He did to Sarah and Abraham there."
God bless you, little fellow. God bless you. Someone else say ... raise you hand to Christ, He sees you. God bless you, my brother, sitting over here. Raise your hands to Christ, and say now, "This is my hand to You, Lord. Some day I'm going to step out of this old tabernacle that I'm living in here, and I know if my soul is ... and if it's sinning, it's going to be away from me. There's no way for me to be resurrected."

56 While you have your heads bowed, let me tell you just a little something recently happened. Sinner, think of this. No matter how much you go to church, if you're not born again, you're lost. No matter how good you are, and what a fine neighbor, you're lost without being born again.
I was sitting on a bench ... or, a little stool, eating some ice cream with an old Methodist minister friend of mine. The Agriculture Hour come on from Louisville, Kentucky.
And the little 4-H club, they said, had perfected a machine that would produce a grain of corn that was so perfect that you couldn't tell it from the natural grain of corn that was growed in the field. A sack full of each, pick up one handful out of one sack growed in the field, and the other handful that they had made, mix them together, they'd both make the same amount of cornflakes. Open them up in the laboratory, they had the same kind of skin, the same amount of moisture, calcium, and what all goes in the grain of corn; every one just exactly alike. You couldn't tell one from the other, no way to separate them no more: which was growed in the field, and which one they ... was growed in the field, or which one was made by the machine, mechanically.

57 "But there's only one way," he said, "you can tell them that's (listen) bury them." The one that man made just exactly like the one that God made. Every physical thing looked just exactly alike, but it didn't have a germ of life in it. And the one that man made would rot, and that was all of it; but the one that God made, when it rotted, had a germ of life, and lived again.
You may go to church, act like a Christian, pretend to be a Christian, but, brother, if that germ of immortal life of the Holy Ghost isn't resting in your soul, you'll never raise at the resurrection, the first resurrection. Won't you think that over seriously? As your brother, I speak to you, and encourage you, in the name of the Lord Jesus to as much as raise your hand tonight to Him, and say, "God, give me that germ of life," while we pray.

58 Father, grant it tonight, that whosoever shall do this may receive life. One more time while... Look, will you raise your hand, once more, someone in the building. God bless you, I see you back there, brother. Another one down here. God bless you, young man. Someone else, "I want that life in me, Brother Branham."
God bless this man down here. Yes, I see you. God sees you, too. All right, we'll pray.
Heavenly Father, You see them who put up their hands. I pray tonight, that You'll give them immortal life just now, because they have believed. "No man can come to Me except the Father draws him, and all that comes I will give him everlasting life and raise them up at the last day."
That's Your promise. You'll keep Your promise Father. Something struck their heart. It was You, great Jehovah, who was in flesh that day and talked to Abraham, turned him back to a young man. You're here, speaking life.
You said, "No man can come to Me" said Jesus, "except my Father draws him."

59 They couldn't have raised their hand, young or old, unless You draw them. And when You said, "All that comes, I will give everlasting life."
I'm quoting Your Word to You, Jesus. Now, give them that everlasting life, as they have accepted.
Bless the waiting audience. Someday in the kingdom of God may we have a great time of rejoicing, thinking of this night because of Your presence and Your Word, for we ask it in Jesus' name, God's beloved Son. Amen.
The Lord bless you. Oh, my, don't the Word make you feel scoured out, better?
Now, we're real late tonight. I'm sorry to... No, I'm not, no, sir. That was the Word of God, see. I'm not sorry. Just be a little more lenient, and stay just a little bit, we'll start praying for the sick.

60 Now, if you can thoroughly understand, it doesn't mean that you have to be up here to be healed. I only call a few people to get up here so the Holy Spirit can go to work. And as it goes to work, then God begins to move. And as God begins to move, the Holy Spirit moving on the people... Remember: As God begins to move with His church, then it brings the Angel of the Lord out into the audience. People with ... there's many more healed in the audience than there is healed here. So, we just give out prayer cards so that we can get someone up here to start with. That don't mean they get healed, just means they come up here and are prayed for. You're prayed for out there.

61 It isn't whether I touch you or you touch me, it's whether you touch Him or not, see. I'm just a man, see. And what could I do standing here? Looky here, this microphone, you hear my voice through it, but it's a complete, deaf, mute, unless there's something speaking in it. Is that right? So would I be, a complete mute, nothing to say, unless something speaks through. You just yield yourself, and the Holy Spirit goes to work and confirms that Jesus raised from the dead.
And He said, "The things that I do..." I don't... Listen, for the newcomers, Jesus said, "I don't do nothing unless the Father shows Me first a vision, what to do." Saint John 5:19. "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."

62 Always, it's that way through the Scripture. And He said, "The things that I do shall you also, for I'll be with you to the end of the world."
"A little while, and the unbelievers won't know me, they'll never see me no more." They'll go to church, yeah, be very ritualistic, very pious, belong to fine churches. They did then, the same group that killed Him. "But they'll never see Me no more, yet ye shall see me..." Never. That's all down through the ages, every one of them kind of people will never see me no more. They don't want to see Him; they can't see Him.
Said, "You got eyes and you can't see. Ears and you can't hear."
But said, "Ye shall see me..." Ye's, there was ye's then, there was ye's in Wesley's age, there's ye's in this age, and will be ye's until Jesus comes. Said, "Ye shall see Me. For I will be with you to the end of the world."
Is that right?

63 It's never come to its end yet, and Jesus is still here, and people still can see Him. I pray tonight, that He'll do something just a little different from the ordinary religious service that you've been in, that you might return home like Cleopas and his friend from the resurrection.
The day, first day of the resurrection, the Lord Jesus was resurrected and among the people, among the flowers, and so forth, on that first Easter, April morning, when He had raised from the dead. And He journeyed and talked to two men all day long, and they still didn't recognize Him. There's no doubt at all but what He's talked to you and He's kept you from having that accident, and He saved the baby's life, and He brought these things in, and helped you pay off the house. All these things He did. But maybe you never recognized it to be Him.

64 And then, when He got in there, He did something that only Jesus could do Himself. And their eyes were opened, and they recognized them, and He vanished out of their sight, right quick. And they run all the way back to Jerusalem, saying, "Truly the Lord is risen indeed."
I pray that He will do something tonight, like He did when He was here on earth, and then you'll run all the way home telling your neighbors, "Jesus has risen from the dead indeed, and appearing down there the other night, in that little group of people sitting in that little, cold, tent."
I pray that God will grant that, in Jesus' name.

65 (What prayer card did you give out today? We've had A, F, and H.) All right, we start a new group tonight. We give out a hundred cards and call a couple of nights from them, then we give out another hundred, and today he give out H's.
And now, we've been... Prayer card H, turn it over and look at it, the people who has it. And it's one to a hundred. And let's start tonight ... we've been the first, and last, and middle. Let's just start tonight from, I'd say sixty. See if we got that? Who has H-60? Raise up your hand? Prayer card H-60? That's good, sir. Come up here. All right, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69, 70, 71, 2, 3, 4, 5 ... just line them up. There's fifteen of them. Let's try that first and see what we get.
Look in your neighbor's card. H-60. H-60. Now, let's settle ourselves down real quite for a few moments. Let's sing with this music, this lovely music.
Only believe, only believe,
All things are possible, only believe;
Only believe, only believe,
All things are possible, only believe.
Now, there's some prayer cards missing. They're looking for them. H-60 to 70, I believe I called. H-60, no, 75, H ... H-60 to 75. Somebody can't hear, or somebody can't get up, so now, look at your neighbor's cards or something. They're checking them now. All right.

66 Let's sing like this... Now, they claim that there's a woman here with a ... that's blind, that has got a dog with her, leading her. Look at her card, see if she's been called. Anywhere from H-60 to 75. See...
Let's sing like this: Now, I believe. Lord, I believe Your Word and it's all settled. Now I believe. Let's raise our hands when we sing it like this:
Now I believe, now, I believe,
All things are possible, now, I believe.
(Really mean it now.)
Now I ... (Not I will tomorrow,
right now, I believe. Right now.)
Now I believe...........
Now do you believe, Jesus is risen from the dead, and is alive indeed.
All things are possible, now I believe.

67 Now, I can see Jesus coming down off the hill one day. And the disciples was down there carrying on, but a man had an epileptic child, and he brought him, he seen Jesus and he come running to Him. He said, "Lord, my son is grievously vexed with a devil." Said, "Can You help him?"
He said, "It isn't a question of that," in so many words, "but can you believe?"
He said, "Lord, I believe; help Thou my unbelief."
The boy got worse, right quick. Right quick, he got worse. But after he come over that spell, Jesus said, "Give him some food and strengthen him up, he'll be all right."
Now, it's the same Jesus tonight, isn't it? Now I believe, all things are possible, now I believe. Okay.

68 Five or six missing, so ... all right. Let's start the prayer line, 'cause we got to hurry. Don't make any difference, if one person... My ministry from the Lord is not to pray for each individual. Look, how many ever read what the Angel of the Lord said to me that night, many years ago, when this even wasn't happening? Told me this thing here would happen like this. Anybody back there in the first of my ministry? Sure, look at the hands of the old timers. Has it happened just like He said? Sure, it did. He said, "You just do this, and the people will believe you."
Now, those who will believe, just have faith, believe with all your heart. God will surely bring it to pass. Amen.

69 All right. Now, here's a man standing here by me, that I never seen him, I guess, in my life. God knows him; I don't. But now, what... Somebody might've went and got him out here, and brought him over to this meeting. Say they did; say it was this brother here did. He might've done it; I don't know. But say he did, and this fellow's name now would be Philip, and this fellow's name would be Nathanael. And he come up in the line where Jesus was standing. What did Jesus do? See, He just begin to tell him who he was, what about him. And the unbelievers said, "That man has got a devil, He's Beelzebub. That's spiritualism, that's the devil. (See?) Beelzebub, the chief of the devils."
But Nathanael said, "Thou art the Son of God, the King of Israel."

70 Now, and the woman that was in the audience, the blind man at the gate, all along, everywhere, (you see?), Jesus just ... the woman come from the well, and Jesus talked to her a few minutes, and told her where her trouble was. Said, "Go get your husband."
She said, "I don't have any."
Said, "That's right, you got five."
Now, she said, "You must be a prophet." Now, listen close so you'll be sure to get this. She said, "We know that when Messiah cometh..."
Do you believe Jesus is the Messiah, Jesus Christ, the Messiah waited ... Jewish Messiah of God?
She said, "We know when Messiah cometh, He will do these things. But who are You? You must be a prophet."
He said, "I am He."
So, she goes and tells the people in the city, "Come see a Man who revealed my past life to me."

71 Now, He can do... The woman come up there; that was her trouble. This man come here; there's some trouble with him supposingly, I don't know. But God does know. Now, if God will reveal it, will that still be the sign of Messiah, not William Branham, but Messiah? Is that right? Messiah that's raised and living in us, doing the same thing here, that He did there. Isn't that Scripture? Just as perfect as it can be.
Oh, it's a little against the school of thought today, but it was a little against the school of thought in that day. Men makes schools of thought of anything, but that don't change God's Word. He brings it right on just the way it's supposed to be, see.

72 So, many of them missed it in that day, don't you miss it in your day. Not me, now; Him. It's the day of His visitation, not me. I'm just a poor substitute of anything, but it's Him moving, working. He just give me a way, a gift, to yield myself to Him and do these things for your benefit, not for mine, for yours. So, it's for you.
Now, the man a stranger, standing here. But if God will let me know this man, what's wrong with him, or what's something about him, he knows I know nothing about, will every one of you believe with all your heart then? What about you all around here on these stretchers, and cots, and things, you going to believe?

73 Now, if I was a healer, you know what I'd do? I'd jump down and heal that little boy, and heal this person here, and heal this person here, and that little boy over there, and this lady here. I'd heal them. Get this lady here, in this wheelchair. I'd say, "Everybody's got cancer, come here; let me heal you."
But when a man tells you he can heal you, he's deceiving you to begin with. That's right. Jesus has already did that, and no man can do it again. It's your own, personal faith. Just like a man say he could forgive your sins.
"Well," he'd say, "why, the Bible said He gave them power."

74 Yes, but that was before Jesus' crucifixion. That's right. The atonement wasn't made. Remember that, brother. Yes, sir. He also said, "Whoever sins you remit, to them they're remitted. Whosoever sins you retain, to them they're retained."
But how did they do it? Peter said ... the one that had the keys to it, on the day of Pentecost said, "Repent, everyone 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."
Is that right? Sure, it's not nothing man can do. It's what God has done.
You a believer of that, are you sir? Being preaching the way I did, it's kind of hard for me to get into the anointing of the Angel of the Lord to come, so that's the reason I wait just a moment. You bear with me, and be real reverent, just for a few moments. And Billy watch me, and you, too, and...

75 See, this is a subconscious condition, see; it has to be. I know nothing about it. How could I know about this man? We don't know each other. We're strangers one to another. Isn't that right, sir? Raise up your hand if that's right. We don't know. God knows. But now, if I can talk to you just a moment, like our Lord did to the woman at the well...
She come up to get a bucket of water. He said, "Bring Me a drink." He got a conversation. Did you ever read that, in Saint John, the 4th chapter? Beautiful verse, isn't it? Wouldn't you like to have been standing there then, right where He was sitting on the well?

76 Brother, it may seem very strange, but you're standing in just about the same place. That's right. You realize it now, don't you? See, when our faith begin to move to Him, you see quickly what happened? Now, right now, there's a different feeling to you that what it has been since you stood there. Is that right? If that's right, raise your hand.
Now, if the audience can hear me good and everything, the man standing to me now, between he and I, looks like a real, light something going on. And the man... Why, he isn't here for healing. He's already been healed. You was healed the other night. You had a ... you're here for someone else. That's right. And that's for your child, isn't it? your daughter? That's right. And she isn't here. I see a wife appear on the scene, too, nervousness or something. That's right. But she is here. Then you ... she is here. And you...
Your daughter though, is in a state that ... a different state. It's kind of a level country, lot of wheat grows. It's not ... it's Kansas; she's from Kansas, that's where she's from. And she's suffering with nervous trouble, too. Mr. Brown---that's your name ---you just return on, your daughter's going to get well, and so is your wife. They're healed, God bless you. Let's say, "Praise Him!"

77 Let us say, "Praise the Lord!" Do you believe? Have faith.
Now, the man that's putting this around my neck's got a desire for somebody. Amen. Oh, it's wonderful when He comes on the scene. Have faith in God.
You believe, lady? Only God can heal you, or give you your desire.
Have trouble with your head, don't you, brother? Uh-huh. The young man, sitting there. Caused from an injury, wasn't it, brother? Uh-huh. You had some sorrow, too, haven't you? It's a dark shadow. I believe it's your wife; you lost her. That's right. Isn't that right? Raise your hand. Why, your head trouble's over, sir. God's honored your faith; going to be well now.

78 See what I mean? You don't need a prayer card; you need faith. Just have faith. God will give you the deep desire of your heart, if you'll only have faith to believe. Isn't He wonderful?
Now, there He is still moving in the audience. While I can still see the audience, let me watch... He said, "I can, if you can believe."
He's really lovely, isn't He?
I see a lady praying. She's got her handkerchief up to her mouth. She's sitting right straight behind this first row here. She's got a skin disease that she's praying about. You believe the Lord will heal you, sister? You believe that He'll make you well? The little lady sitting right behind the lady with the red coat on here, that's got your handkerchief up to your mouth, right here. Raise your hand up. It'll leave you. I see you even long, later now; it's gone from you. Your faith has healed you, sister. Amen.

79 Do you believe Him? "All things are possible to them that believe. If thou canst believe," He said, "all things are possible."
You're praying for that child, aren't you, sister, sitting there? Keep having faith now. Oh, my, dear brother and sister, if I could only, could only, while I know you're listening at me, if I could only express what this feeling is right here now. Oh, just how it looks to me like everybody just ought to be just believing right now. He, our Lord Jesus, is here. That's what caused you to come here tonight.

80 Now, it's making me weak. Of course you can see it, and even this cold night, and the perspiration running from my hands, see. You're... It's His presence. Visions... Jesus said, "I perceive virtue has gone." Not from the God that was in Him, but from His physical body, the Son of God, Who He was. That's the same thing here. It just makes you real weak; it's visions. If you have faith and can believe with all your heart, why, you can receive what you ask for.
Now, sister, maybe I can talk to you just a little. Do you believe me to be His servant, the servant of the Lord Jesus? You know that there's nothing in your brother could do anything for you, to help you, to heal you, if you're sick. But you believe me that I am His servant; that I'm only trying to come here, because He spoke to me and told me to come. And He'd be with me and do these things, just like you see there in the audience.
Now, you know that I don't know you, and I know nothing of you. But God knows all about you, doesn't He? Well, if He can tell me here what you're here for, then will you believe Him with all your heart? And will accept whatever you're [unclear word] finances, or whether it's a spiritual troubles, or whatever it is, you will accept it? Now, may He grant it is my sincere prayer. But, oh...

81 A dark shadow hanging near the lady. There it comes over her, the power of the enemy. And it's a tumor, the woman has, and she also has a stomach trouble. That's right. Tumor is in the head, tumor of the head. That's true. If it is, raise your hand. Now, do you believe His presence is right here? Come here just a moment, that I might, while this anointing is on me, just lay my hands on you, sister, and ask the One who is speaking through me, to you, that He will spare your life. Will you live for Him, and do everything you can to serve Him?
Dear Heavenly father, Thou hearest this. And the darkness hanging over the woman, I curse this enemy, as Your servant, I curse it in the name of the Lord Jesus. And Your beloved servants, the doctors, have tried to do all they can for her, but, Lord, I pray that Your healing hand will be with her and touch her, and make her well, in Jesus Christ's name. Amen.
Now, go rejoicing, go, and happy, and believe Him. Doest thou believe, now, with all your heart?

82 What do you think, that's sitting there with a kidney trouble, sitting there? You believe that God will make you well, sitting there? You believe that He heals you now? You raised up your hand like you did. You do? You believe that He makes you well? All right, then you can have your healing. Amen. You raised your hand just in time. Amen. Now, go home, just forget you ever had it. Thanks be to the Lord Jesus who gives us all things freely.
Are you the patient? The Angel of the Lord is hanging over that little Spanish woman sitting there, but I... Come this way just a minute. I can't say... It won't break to a vision; there's so many people praying. Just come here just a moment.
Now, just to talk to you, lady, just for a few moments. I don't know you, never seen you. We're strangers to one another. Jesus knows you, knows all about you, and I don't know you. That's right. But God does. But if God will tell me what you're here for, will you believe with all your heart?
Well, there's one thing that you're bothered with, is a heart trouble; and another thing you're bothered with, is a nervous condition; and you're also bothered with anemia condition. That's right. And it all comes from a nerve condition that caused it. Causes... Mainly, after you've eaten, your heart is worse, because it's gas from your stomach, and you're just nervous because it's a time of life for you to be that way, see. That's right. And there's nothing going to bother you. You're in the presence of the Lord Jesus, not your brother. You believe that? Will you accept it?
You're not from this city; you come from another city. You drove here, about a hundred miles away. And it's a place called Ontario, something like that, California. Isn't that right? Now, do you believe me? Now, go home, forget all about it; you're healed, see. Jesus makes you well.
Have faith in God, don't doubt, believe and thou shalt receive, if thou canst believe.

83 How do you do, lady. I see you're packing a handkerchief in your hand. Do you believe with all your heart? Do you believe? Do you believe God to be Jehovah God as with Abraham? Do you believe Jesus to be His Son? You believe me to be His servant? You believe that you're living in the latter days when Jesus is proving His resurrection? You might...
You've been troubled with a lot of it, but just remember, those things only declare that there really is a genuine Holy Spirit. Now, you believe that with all your heart? You're here for someone else, aren't you? Yes, sir.

84 I see some sorrow. I think it was a loved one or a parent just passed away recently. Both of your parents are dead, both father and mother. That's right. But you got sorrow. It's another man, and that man is crippled, or he walks with crutches. It's a brother. And that brother is not here; he's in a country where it's cold, lot of hard wood. He's from Indiana; that's where he's from. Send him the handkerchief.
And here's another thing you're bothered about. You're worried about his condition, his spiritual condition, 'cause I noticed you've been talking to him about his baptism, he should be baptized. Now, you go, he'll be baptized; just tell him to believe with all his heart. Blessed be the Lord, the Jehovah-jireh, the Lord will provide.
Is this the lady coming? Have faith. Does thou believe, with all your heart?
What are you thinking, sir? Do you believe Him with all your heart? laying on the stretcher? Believe.

85 There's a spirit coming from the woman calling in the audience, and I can't tell where it's at. See, demons sympathize with one another, and they call, "Help." If they can only reinforce it enough to get this woman to disbelieve, she'll walk off with her same condition. There's something wrong with her, but she's... They can get her to disbelieve. But if the Angel of the Lord can get a hold of her enough to get the vision started, then she'll go away believing, and receive. But he's calling.
Yes, right there. Got bronchial trouble for one thing, got bronchial trouble, haven't you? Yes, sir. Sitting there with the little, checked, black sweater on. Uh-huh, yeah, that's you. You're both bothered with bronchial trouble. That's right. He's going to lose the battle. It lightens up. You have a rectal trouble, too; hemorrhoids, that you're bothered with. That's right, isn't it? Amen. Just believe, don't doubt, just believe, have faith. He said, "If thou canst believe."

86 Do you believe, with all your heart? It's weakening me, but a vision keeps moving around you. You're not from this city. You're from a place called... Looks to me like that little sign out there says, "Moore Park, Moore Park, California." That's right. And they call you ... you're ... like Ethel, and Stevens. I see you getting your mail from a post box, 234 is your number. That's right. Now, run on back home, be well, in Jesus Christ's name. Have faith, don't doubt.
Now, go out there to the end of the platform and say, "I ain't got no more arthritis, I'm well, I'm going home, be well." Go do that. Jesus make you well then. God bless you.
Would you come, sister? That could be an abscess; I wouldn't say for sure. I don't know. You have a drainage from it, a female condition, ladies' condition. Do you believe Jesus' going to make you well? All right then, the abscess will dry up and you'll be a well woman, if you'll believe. Just go having faith, believe Him with all your heart.

87 You're nervous and upset. I see you trying to move to a chair... No, you're trying to get up from a chair. Oh, it's arthritis, got arthritis, too. Go thanking Him, saying, "Thank You, Lord, I ain't going to claim... That old arthritis is gone. I'm going to believe with all my heart." Have faith; believe.
Lady, an operation waiting for you, for a tumor. But do you believe Jesus will make you well? If you do, let me lay hands on you while... In Jesus Christ's name, may my sister be healed. Thanks be to God.
Come, lady. You were standing in the prayer line a while ago. A real strange feeling hit you when I said to someone back in here, "You have kidney trouble." See, you were healed at the same time. Now, that's right, isn't it? All right. Just go believing with all your heart.
Let's say, "Praise the Lord!"

88 Does thou believe? Sir, you're going to lay in that cot, and you'll die laying there. If you'll believe, you could get up. That chest... Get up in the name of Jesus Christ, rise up, take your ambulance chair, go home. Christ makes you well. Hallelujah!
Let's say, "Praise the Lord!
Do you believe? Then every one of you stand to your feet and accept Jesus as your healer.
Heavenly Father, in the name of Jesus Christ, may every person here be healed, Lord God, and make them every one well. I commend them to Thee, in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, I pray that You'll [unclear words].

Jehovah-Jireh

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1 Well, Brother Grant, how are you? First time I've seen him in a long time, Brother Groat. I'm sure glad... You didn't drive all the way from your home over here, did you? Tonight? Say! I knowed you loved the Lord, but I didn't know quite that much. Brother Groat remembers me when I was at my very worst time, just in the break, when I had stayed in the prayer line for eight days and nights. And it was about eight months, I didn't know whether I was on earth or out of the world or what. But he stayed right with me faithfully. And sister is not with you, I guess; by yourself. Your dad with you?
Excuse me for talking to him from the pulpit here, but seeing he's over here, I don't know whether I'll get to see him or not. And I had an old friend...

2 So we're very happy that you're all here. And we trust that God will bless us, exceedingly abundantly, tonight. And you've been so nice. In the place where I'm staying, the people are nice. When I go down to the restaurant, the people are nice. You just got a nice bunch of people here. And it would be a very fine place, sometime, to bring that big tent and set it up here for a long, long time. Wouldn't that be fine? If He'll just permit it [audience amens], that'd be... Thank you.

3 And I was noticing the map, when I was thinking of that today, and it's just kind of a hub where there's many big cities all around. Be a very good place. And that take us about a month or two, you know, for a real good long revival. That's where you get results from. [Audience amens again.] Thank you.
That makes me feel real good to think that you can put up with this old-fashioned sassafras preaching. My education, after listening to the scholars and then welcome me like that, I sure do appreciate it. That's very nice of you. And I trust that the Lord will lead me this way. I'd hate to try to think of going in an old tent and flopping around, after coming out of a place like this, but maybe, we'd, in that way, we'd just have kind of a little more room, in a large meeting where it would be, maybe, advertised for months and months ahead. And that would just bring in Minnesota, and Iowa, and North Dakota, and Kansas, and all around, the whole ring, [unclear words] like that, see. That would be a wonderful time, wouldn't it?
Have you ever read my vision, yet, in the magazine? How many has read it in here? Many of you, that's right. Brother Boze, I think, carried it, and The Herald Of His Coming carried it. I think the Voice Of Healing will have it this next month. And it's a great thing, I'm sure, that our Lord Jesus is fixing to do.

4 And I just can't hardly wait to get in that tent, and it's going to be something wonderful. And I just know He's going to do it, just before His coming. And I feel that we all are part in this. I never have felt like but what we're all together. Like the appearing of that light. I believe the boys has the books back there. We're not book salesmen, I buy them books myself and bring them along for the people. And just what we can barely sell them for. And the pictures, I have to have them made. They're copyrighted, you know, at Washington, so I have to get those. And just sell them, just for what I get them for, so, just to send them out like that. But the thing of it is, is the message, the encouragement, it'll give to people, you see.
And God didn't have His picture taken there with me just to say that it was me. He just had His picture taken there to show it was us. Amen. All of us together.

5 And that pillar of fire that led the children in the days of Israel... How many remembers reading that, I believe it's in Exodus the 13th chapter, how He led the children of Israel by a pillar of fire. Is that right? We all know that.
And then, that was God in the Fatherhood of God, when He led the children of Israel. And then when He represented Himself in a body of flesh, His own Son, that He overshadowed, He was... Then Jesus said, "I came from God, and I go to God."
Now, God in Christ reconciling the world to Himself. Then when He left and God raised His body up and set it on the right hand of His Majesty in Glory, and the Holy Spirit came back, and we find out that the Holy Spirit is in the same form that it was when it was in the wilderness. Did you know that? A pillar of fire again. How many knows that? All right. Might seem a little strange. Let me tell you.

6 When Paul was on his road down to Damascus, there Jesus Christ met him. How many believes that to be the truth? And when it met him, what was it? It was a great light. Is that right? And Paul looking at it, till it almost put him ... well, it did blind him. The light was so... But to them who were standing around, they looked; so the big light was standing there, and it blinded Paul. And he said, "Saul, it's hard for you to kick against the pricks."
And he said, "Who are You, Lord?"
And He said He was Jesus. So Jesus then, according, after the resurrection, the only time, and the first time to appear to anyone after the ascension and Him going up, He was in the form of a great light. Is that right? Well, then haven't we got faith to believe that this same light is the same Jesus here with us today, in the world? Certainly it is. It's with all. It's all the body of Christ.
And He just happened to appear in them times. And as a vindication that when I was a little boy, that same light come in the window. You've read the story back there. And so, that's true. You can go to Kentucky and hear the rumor of it, yet, down there, around places.

7 So then, people thought, "Well, that's just psychology, mass psychology. So then, you know It kept appearing before hundreds of people and thousands. And then they take pictures. And the newspaper men would get on the camera, got the picture, two or three times, and they put that in the book. So then, after a while, the association, the American Photographer Association got the picture real close. Then they took it to Washington, DC first. They took it before George J. Lacy: that's the head of the FBI in fingerprinting document. And he put it under ultra-ray lights and so forth. The examination is there. He said, "No, the light struck the lens."
And he said to me, he said, "You know the mechanical eye of this camera won't take psychology." That's right. And it struck the lens.

8 And about six months ago, down in Germany, after a little girl, totally blind, had been healed on the platform, and the mother run out of her shoes getting to the platform, and the girl saw her mother for the first time. The next morning, when they went down and had a great roller-type camera, (Those Germans really have some real glass.), and they taken the pictures of, perhaps, maybe, this many people, of the state church and many of the interdenominationals and the Pentecostals and all, at this great breakfast. At eleven o'clock that morning... Luncheon, it was. And while we were taken up, they kept asking me questions, the Germans did, and Swiss, and all of them, sitting there, and French. And I said, "Well, I cannot tell." I said, "I don't know when it will happen. But it's true." I said, "You'll just have to take my word for it. That's all."
They said, "Well, how do you feel when He comes?"
I said, "Well, I can't explain, because it's another dimension." And so, as I'd put it to them like that. I said, "Just another, another world."

9 And he said, "Well, we notice you that in speaking to people you don't... You can't say their names, so you just spell out their name."
I said, "I can't pronounce those German words, where they come from, the city and so forth." So, they couldn't understand that.
They thought, "Well, it can't be a telepathy there, because it was... Telepathy don't work that way." So they...
I said, "Well, now, don't misjudge it." I said, "They said of Jesus He was Beelzebub, chief of the fortune-tellers, that could do that, you know." So, I said, "I expect people to get the wrong slant to it, but," I said, "if they only knowed the day we were living in, then would know and believe." So, just then, it happened to be by God's sovereign grace, I said, "Here He is now." And just then, everybody looking around, nobody saw it; but the big camera turned on and shot a picture. And there was a man sitting over there with a turned around Roman collar.

10 I said, "Now the man sitting here to my left," it was from the dinner where I was sitting on this side. I said, "The man at the left," I said, "this man sitting here, he isn't eating. Why?" I said, "Because he has an ulcerated stomach and he can't eat. He hasn't eat for some time." I said, "He's just become a Christian, the last two or three years." I said, "He is not a German." And I said, "He's not a Frenchman." I said, "He's an Italian." And I said, "He's been the leader of twenty-two thousand communists." And the man just fainted over on the table. That was the truth.
And I said, "Then he become a Christian. Now he's working a little orphanage way up in the mountains where he's hiding from a group of people of the religions, the Catholic people of his country." And that was every word the truth.

11 And all the time this German was sitting there snapping these pictures to see if he could get it. They taken them right away to the place and developed them. Here it come, they could see the Angel of the Lord coming down when it made what it said. Then when it went and went away. And everything right into it. And that swept Germany all the way through. Jesus Christ is everywhere, isn't He? He hasn't got no certain place. He's omnipotent, omnipresent, omniscient. So, we just know that He's everywhere, can be with everybody at all times. And He just covers the whole space, doesn't He, everywhere? He is our Lord.

12 Well, last night we had kind of a little strange one. I never did get to really my text where I was started at. But, maybe, we'll try to finish it tonight. I just love the Bible. Oh, my! I like the Old Testament, because with no education I have to become a typologist to type the Old with the New.
Now, many people are smart, and had a chance to get schooling, which I appreciate; wish I could have. And they know how to lay those big names and go into it, but I don't. So the only thing that I can do to make sure that I'm going to teach the truth, I can watch it by type.
And see,

13 now, the Old Testament was a type or a shadow of the New. Now, if I had never seen myself, and never seen a human being, and I seen my shadow, and I seen that I had arms and legs, I'd have some conception of what I looked like if I seen the shadow of myself. Then if I see what the shadow was in the Old Testament, I'll have a pretty good idea what the positive is, when you look at it. And then, when you bring it.
So, I think the Old Testament is just a wonderful book. I remember in my tabernacle, when I was pastoring my tabernacle, Baptist church, at home, we had... I'd take for instance, a year to go through the book of Exodus. Oh, my! If it isn't full of golden nuggets, I never... All Exodus, or Genesis. I stayed over two years one time on the book of Job, just Job alone. I never ... the whole thing, I got over there, just... You couldn't get out of it. Oh, it just put it all the way through the Bible, you know. And I had Job on the ash heap, I think, for about six weeks. And so there was a lady kind enough to write in, she said, "Rev. Branham," she said, "I sure do appreciate your teaching, but when are you ever going to get Job off the ash heap?"

14 That was a crucial moment for me. I had everything wound up to catch those souls just at that time, you know. When Job, when really he got the revelation from God, and the Spirit of God came on him. He was a prophet, you know. And when it finally soaked through, whatever He was trying to get to him, then he got in the Spirit.
We got him off the ash heap, all right, and plumb over in the resurrection. And I believe he was in it.

15 And now, you know, this is ... we dig into the Old Testament. A prospector always goes down, and digs down to get the jewels, and he polishes it up. And every nugget, you find out of the Old Testament, just polish it off a little bit, and it'll point right straight to Calvary. Everything was taken care of at Calvary.
And I just kind of like to prospect, don't you? Just dig them out of here, you know, all the types and the shadows.
And now, I wish to read in Genesis 22 just for a starting place, and try to let you out a little earlier tonight, if I possibly can. I've been holding you late. Sorry, but, I just... You're such a nice audience, and I don't have to say that. I could just let that by-pass and went on. But you are a very nice audience. And I just wondered if they were going to have a night... Did you want a night for the sick people to be prayed for? How many wanted to have a night of prayer for the sick? Let's see. Well, we can have it any time you want it. How about tomorrow night? Would that be all right? All right.
Go, get out and get all the sick folks and bring them in tomorrow night then. We'll have prayer for the sick. And let's see. Maybe we better give out some prayer cards, because there's so many we won't have ... whose going to be first in line. I'll have Billy to come down, or Gene, or one of them here. By the way, Mr. Goad, here, Gene Goad, and Leo Mercier, he was sitting right back there a few moments ago, they're recording boys that goes with me in the meeting. They take these messages and the prayer line, and so forth on tapes. And if you'd want the tape you could just see them.

16 Now, better be here about six-thirty tomorrow night and get you a prayer card, because of you who has got sick now. Bring them in. The prayer card, don't take the prayer card, come here and get your prayer cards, 'cause they're inexchangeable. You have to come here to get the card, then you'll be called in the line by your card. And now, let's expect a great time in be in prayer. Now this will call for fasting and so forth for tomorrow. And maybe our Lord will break through and give us a great healing service, tomorrow night. We trust that He will.

17 And now, in the 22nd chapter of Genesis and the 7th and the 8th verse, and then the 14th verse, we wish to read just a portion of the Scripture for a text tonight. And then go back where we left off last night to dig up some of the context of this book of Genesis. Which, my, we could stay in it here for two years, and still go right back over it again and get more than we did the first time. That's how God's Word is written. All right, the reading now.
And Isaac spake unto Abraham his father, and said, My father: and he said, Here am I, my son. And he said, Behold the fire and the wood: but where is the lamb for the burnt-offering?
And Abraham said, My son, God will provide himself a lamb for the burnt-offering: so they both went together.
Now the 14th verse:
And Abraham called the name of the place Jehovah-jireh: as it is said to this day, In the mount of the LORD it shall be seen.
And for a text, I want to take: Jehovah-jireh.

18 Now the Lord has seven compound redemptive names. We know that. And Jehovah-jireh is the one. The Lord will provide for Himself a sacrifice. Then He is still Jehovah-jireh. That's how Mr. Bosworth won the debate that night with the Baptist minister at Houston, Texas, when the Angel of the Lord's picture was taken, on that very one thing.
Said, "Is He still Jehovah-jireh?"
He said, "Yes."
He said, "Then, them compound names is inseparable. He has to be the same because He... As I said the other night, His attitude at the first, if He was Jehovah-jireh, then, and not Jehovah-jireh now, He was wrong being Jehovah-jireh in the first place. And if He's Jehovah-jireh, "the Lord's provided sacrifice," and all those compound names was met in Christ, and then if He were Jehovah-jireh, "the Lord's provided sacrifice," He's Jehovah-rapha, "the Lord that healeth thee." He has to be, or if He isn't the healer, He isn't the Saviour. 'Cause you just can't take part of Him. It's got to be all, because them compound redemptive names is inseparable. He's the same. If He was Jehovah-jireh back there, and Jehovah-rapha, the healer back there, and isn't Jehovah-rapha today, then He was wrong when He introduced Himself as Jehovah-rapha, if He isn't still Jehovah-rapha today. Jehovah-rapha, "the Lord that healeth thee."

19 If He isn't the same today, then He was wrong, in His meeting with them back there, as a healer. If He met with them as a healer, in otherwise, and don't meet today as a healer, He was wrong with them people back there to begin with, see. So He can't be, 'cause He's infallible. He's God. So He has to be the same.
And the Bible said, "He's the same." And He is the same. And we found last night in the blessed old Bible, which is the truth, that God, when He makes a promise, He will stay ... if you'll stay with that promise, it'll produce just exactly what it said it will, because God's Word has to produce what it says, or it isn't His Word. So, just... Isn't that wonderful that we have this blessed assurance? Do you have that tonight? Say, "Amen." Good. The blessed assurance.

20 When I think of the word, it reminds me of a good friend of mine. And I hope if there's an insurance agent here, that he won't think hard of me. But one time my father had taken out insurance on us children when we were little bitty tots, and it was supposed to be some kind that would pay off in ten years. Well, the poor old fellow, worked seventy-five cents a day, till his shirt would burn to his back, to pay that policy up. And when he got through, the agent had read it wrong to him; it was only worth two dollars and seventy-five cents, when it was supposed to be worth five hundred dollars. Well, that soured me on insurance. So I just never would have it.
So then, when the agent come to my house, he said, (a good friend of mine, I went to school with the boy), he said, "Billy, what about insurance now?" Said, "I tell you, there's no need of you feeling that way about that." He said, "There's not a bit of need of it." He said, "Now look. You got your family here."
I said, "They're all right."
He said, "Now you need insurance."
I said, "I have it."
"Oh," he said, "you have insurance?"
I said, "Yes, sure, I have insurance." So, he turned around and looked at me, and my wife looked at me.
He said, "Well, Billy, what kind of insurance you got?"
I said:
"Blessed assurance, Jesus is mine!
Oh, what a foretaste of glory divine!
Heir of salvation, purchased of God,
borned of His Spirit, washed in His blood."
He said, "Now, Billy, that's all right. But that won't put you over here in the graveyard."
I said, "I know, but it'll get me out. I'm not worried about getting in there." I said, "I don't want... I'll get in there all right, but the thing, I want out. That's the main thing."

21 So that's what we have to look forward to and this is the assurance. Jesus died in our stead, was made sin for us, and He raised up before day... God raised Him up for our justification, that we are just in His sight when we accept Him and believe on His name. Amen. That's the insurance. My, how wonderful it is to have it. And have the policy signed by the Holy Spirit, as a witness that it's all, all right.
The Bible said, "Grieve not the Holy Spirit," Ephesians 4:30. "Grieve not the Holy Spirit of God, whereby you are sealed until the day of your redemption." Think of it. How long? Until the day of your redemption. All done packed up, the seal on the car, she's bound for her eternal destination. Oh, I hope each one has that policy tonight with that seal of God as approval upon it, and moving on towards your destination, knowing this that He who promised is faithful and will come some day and we'll see Him face to face. Then, now we see through a glass darkly, but when we see Him, face to face, then, we will be known as we're known.

22 Now, we find out, last night we left Abraham on the 17th chapter of Genesis when God appeared to him in the name of El Shaddai. Shaddai, some of them pronounce it. I don't know just exactly the term of it. But I always pronounce it Shaddai. And the word, I looked it up, and searched it, and I come to find out, that it means, "the breast." And God appeared to Abraham in the name of "the breasted One." Isn't that a marvelous name to appear to a man, a hundred years old now? It's gone, his strength the blood steam has dried up, his body is practically dead. And Sarah, his wife, her womb was dead. And all this, and then God appears in that name, as the nourisher, or the life-giver, the strength-giver.
"Abraham, I am your strength." Oh, sick folks, can you believe that tonight? Then that'll make a man rise from a cot under the strength of the Holy Spirit, walk right out. It'll make him when he's crippled, the arms come straight, or legs straight, and walk right away. When you feel and know by assurance, by the revelation of God, that God is your strength.

23 I've seen them, when they hadn't stood for ten years or more, little bitty limbs not that big, eat up with cancer---well people tonight, because they rose in the strength of the Lord---God's strength.
Did you ever see a maniac? They got about five times the normal strength. In the insane institutions, they are terrible, how they fight and they're twice to three or four times their strength. If the devil can give you double strength, what could the Holy Ghost do, when you're completely surrendered to Him? You don't walk...
You say, "Oh, it's impossible. I can't do it. I can't raise up, I..." When you feel that way, then you're still... You haven't received the promise yet. But let it once get sunk down in your heart, and you take a hold of Jehovah as your strength-giver, watch what takes place. You won't stay there very long. You'll come right out of it.
He said, "Abraham, I am Thy exceeding great reward." Oh, my! God testing Abraham. Do you believe God tests you? He has tested me a many time, and He'll test every son that comes to Him, no matter who it is. Not any exceptions! Everyone that comes must first be tested, child-trained, brought up. You know, that's what makes a good child, sometime, when you give him a little testing, you know. Papa used to give it to me with a hickory switch, about this long, you know, with all the ten commandments wrote on it. When I... All of them, you know, that was the golden rule at home. And he sure knew how to use it right, too.

24 Well, it's an honor, tonight, when I pass by his grave, and look where the ... my dear, old dad. "You was the one who kept me in the right road," see. Sure. Testing, trying. No chastising for the moment is pleasant, but afterwards, it yields the fruit of righteousness, if you'll just stand the testing. Yes, sir. God gives testing.
And Abraham was tested. After God had give him the promise and he had left his home, his father, and his loved ones, and become a pilgrim and sojourner for years, and promised him a child, and Abraham constantly believed God. He said, "Yes, sir, it'll be so. God said so." Wouldn't we just like to have that now?
You look in the Bible: Every person that ever amounted to very much were people who took God at His Word. Look at little Mary. Compare her with Zacharias. Zacharias at the temple, when the angel told him that he was going home, after the days his ministration there at the temple, burning incense, that he would be with his wife---her past the age of bearing. And she would have a child. That was a natural thing there. A little phenomenal because her past the age, but he had plenty examples. Sarah here, and Hannah at the temple. But that priest doubted God. And when he did, he was stricken dumb.

25 But Mary, when the angel met her, she didn't doubt God. She said, "Behold the handmaid of the Lord. Be it unto me according to Thy Word." And never was there anything like that done before. But she didn't question. She didn't reason. She just took God at His Word, and went along rejoicing, telling people she was going to have a baby, knowing no man, when that had never been done before.
Oh, wouldn't it be fine, if all these Marys in here tonight would take that kind of an attitude? Wouldn't it be wonderful if all the people could take that attitude? Don't question. If God said so, that settles it. That's all. That settles it. If God said so, that makes it right. Now, He's the final voice on all authority. He has all the authority of everything; God has the supreme authority.

26 Then Abraham believed Him. And when he did, Abraham hadn't questioned. But God said, "I'm going to tell you how it's done, Abraham. I am the bosomed One. I am your mother," in other words. "You're just a baby to Me. You're a hundred years old. You're just a baby. And the natural stream of life has passed from you. But I am your life-giver." Get it? "I am your mother. Now, don't fret; just nurse from Me, and you'll have your strength like a young man." We're going to get to that in a minute and see if he did. All right.
"You just stay right with Me, Abraham, and nurse right from Me, because I am the breasted God. I have all... I can give you eternal life, after you are gone from this world. And I can heal your body and make you a different person while you are here on earth. I can prolong your days. I can give you good health. I can do that because I am the breasted One."
Look at Jesus when He said, "As Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness..." What for? A compound reason. The people were chiding against Moses and God. And they were sick and needed healing. So, for the forgiveness of their sins, and the healing of their bodies.

27 God appeared to Abraham as El Shaddai for the forgiveness of sins and healing of the body. El Shaddai, "the breasted One." Jesus was wounded for our transgressions, with His stripes we are healed. We can take from either resource. Amen. Oh, my! When Christians begin to get that, Satan begins to get ready to leave. He's finished when people can say, "I don't care. No certain healer has to come by. No certain this has to happen. Only thing I want to know is to hear that God said so, that settles it with me then. I'll take it and go from right there." Then you got it. Amen. That's what we need.
Pure, unadulterated Gospel teaching the church is dying for it, that's right. You believe that? The world is. That's right.

28 Notice. Then Abraham, he was happy about that, of course. He went on. And then we find out that there come a strife between Lot's herdsmen and so forth. And I want to show you just a little thing here, on the coming of the Lord, just while we're in tonight. And I'll try not to be late, to get quickly to my point. But, watch here. Just, Abraham was an heir to the world. And Lot was a type of the lukewarm believer. He was a believer. He had left his homeland to sojourn with God. But always, never fully surrendered. And that's what's the trouble in the full Gospel church tonight, along with the rest of them. It's people who has left the world, and keep out of the world. They don't want to go to gambling and drinking and carrying on. They are a believer, but have never made a complete surrender.
Oh, if you only knew what that inside hidden life. Where you're in there with Christ and all the walls has dropped around you. In the Old Testament, that hidden life was beautifully typed, in the journey of the children of Israel.
Notice. Manna fell every night. And the people would go out and pick it up every day. Now, in the old courts, there was a court on the outside; the brazen laver was out there. Then there was a Holy Place, where seven-pronged candlesticks burned. And then there was the Holiest of holies.

29 Now, when the manna fell they picked it up and put it in a golden pot, and set it on the inside of the Holiest of holies. Now, on the outside, the people eat the same kind of manna they were eating in here. But that manna only lasted for a little while. But it was the same kind of manna.
So many people today think because they have received the Holy Ghost that settles it. Oh, you're just beginning. You haven't started yet, hardly, see. There's so many people... The people picked up this little manna, which was a type of the Holy Spirit, Christ, come down, give His life for the world. And they took this and made it into cakes and eat it. But many times they found out, by nine or ten o'clock they were getting hungry. The sun had done melted it away.
And that's the way many people think today. In a great big revival they get all pepped up, you know. And as soon as the revival is over, down they go again. Have to come back, maybe, and repent again, and come back to church and take their vows over. And some of them wants to be rebaptized again, or something like that. Some religious service to be done to them to try to boost them along. Those people are never happy.
Now, but the man who was on the inside where this golden manna of ... pot of manna was, it never run out. It never got old. It never diminished. The man who lived there had the victory all the time. Amen.

30 Now, watch the different light. The people out in the courts, they walked by the sunlight, and the moonlight, starlight: the light that the solar system gives. Well, in there sometimes they had dark days, cloudy days, rainy days---all kinds of days out there. The man who lived by the holiest place, by the altar, under what we would call, say, "That's justification." We'll just call it this for the talk's sake, just now. Say, in the courts it was justification. At the altar represented sanctification. Why sure, they had light. They didn't have to depend on the sun, and the moon, and the stars. They had seven candlesticks that give them light. But many a time, they smoked up, went out. And that's the way people do.

31 But when they went into the Holiest of holies, and those veils dropped behind Aaron, once a year, they didn't live in no moonlight, starlight, or seven golden candle sticks. Under the interlocked wings of the Cherubim, the Shekinah Glory was in there and they lived in that light, which never did diminish or go out. They lived by the pot of manna. They could eat any time they wanted to. It never got old. What a life to live! That's the kind of life Abraham was living: a complete surrendered, sold out, consecrated, dedicated, life to the Lord. Amen.
And as we call it, sanctification. They thought when they shouted they really had it, the Methodists and Nazarenes. Said, "Boy, that's it, as soon as you shout." But they found out they didn't have it. The Pentecostals, boy, when they spoke with tongues, they really had it. But they find out they didn't. It doesn't lie upon shouting or speaking with tongues. Those things are all right. But to have Him is different. That's attributes of Him. That's right. It means a sold-out consecrated daily, hourly, live in the Shekinah Glory with Him all the time. That's right. Not as I'm saying things against shouting, or speaking with tongues. That's fine. That's the attributes of the Holy Ghost and so forth. We need all those things, but yet, that's not it. That's not it. It's that hidden consecrated life. Remember, those people out in the courts was eating the same kind of manna, there was in here behind the golden omer, back in behind the Holiest of holies.

32 And there was Lot walking right along with Abraham who was a believer, too. But he didn't have that constant abiding Presence of God. So, when the herdsmen got to arguing, Abraham said, "We're brethren, let's not have any argument." And said, "You take the east, I'll take the west. Or if you take the west, I'll take the east. Which way you go, I'll go vice versa." That's the way to make a decision.
"God, You do the leading." Amen. I hope that sinks way down deep. Look. "You do the leading, God."
And Lot, of course, as worldly minded as he was, he looked down towards the well-watered plains of Sodom and Gomorrah, and away he went. And let's say he become the chief man of the city, sat in the gate where the judge always sat. He become the judge, or the mayor of the city. His wife belonged, perhaps, to every sewing circle there was down there. And she really got into the class. Certainly. But look what a crowd they mixed up with. God told Abraham to separate himself. That's what God wants Christians to do today is separate yourself from all the things of the world.

33 The Bible said, "If you love the world or the things of the world, it's a good sign that the love of God is not even in you." Amen. As we were saying last night, if you love every other woman and your wife too, it's a good sign you don't love her. That's one thing sure. Why didn't you women say, "Amen." I wanted you to say it so bad. I was going to give the brethren a chance. All right.
Right. If you really love her, you're sold out, that's all. And if you love God, you're sold out also---when you love Him.
Now, notice. Then there come a time where there had to be a separation, or we call it a junction time. You know what? We're now facing that seventh junction. We're at that separating time now, where God is separating the church. You believe it? [Congregation says, "Amen."]

34 We have time for a few hours to go into the adoption to show how God pulled His people out. And his son was adopted into the family; after he was already a son, born in the family, He become adopted in the family, also. He was adopted, taken out and put a white robe on, and he was adopted into the same family he was borned into, if he proved to be a fine man until he was of age and correctly about his father's business.
God done the same thing to His Son: took Him apart and put Him up on the mountain and there overshadowed Him. And His garments glistened like the sun, in its strength like that. And a voice spoke from heaven said, "This is My beloved Son, hear ye Him." God placing His own Son. That's right. God still places His children in His church. And the time of adoption is at hand. Separating.
Now, look in the antediluvian world, when God raised up, spread from His hands, and made the world and created the heavens and earth and made man. Done all things in His great plan of miraculous, and the life of God was in man. Man believed in the supernatural, but sin separated him. Then after a while, they become builders and builders, and the first thing you know, they become ... had great buildings and cities. And when cities and buildings and people congregate together, then violence sets in; all the time. Look at today.

35 Talk about a sign of the coming of the Lord, look at the building going on today. Never been known in the world. That's a sign of the coming of the Lord. Look how in the days before the flood how they begin to work with metal and so forth: another sign of the coming of the Lord. Sure. All these are mileposts. But, look, just as the people got formal and indifferent and separated themselves from God, there become on the earth and there appeared prophets, there appeared angels, there appeared the supernatural, just before the junction. It was the same thing took place in Israel. They had done got plumb away from God, and everything. And there, what happened? An angel appeared, a prophet appeared, the supernatural was done, just at delivering time.

36 Look here at Abraham, again. There at the time of separation there appeared angels, there appeared prophets, just before the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, which was a type of the destruction coming on now. Look how they got away through judges and so forth, after that. And look at the time of the coming of the Son of God, there appeared an angel to Zacharias, there appeared one to Mary, there came a prophet on earth, John. There came Jesus working miracles. He begin a small miracle and begin working up and working up till after while, when they hung Him on the cross, the heavens turned black and the sun refused to give its light, the moon and stars wouldn't shine.
And on Easter morning, I'm telling you, the world shook with such a nervous prostration till it shook the dead bodies out of the grave, and the sun turned into convulsions, and wouldn't give its light. Amen.
What was it? That supreme miracle. God said, to Joel 2:28, He said, "In the last days, it will come to pass I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh; and your sons and daughters shall prophesy. Upon my handmaids and maidservants, I will pour out of my spirit. And I will show signs in the heaven above, on earth beneath, and wonders and so forth on the earth."
And today, look what's happened. We're promised we'll have prophets again. We're promised we'll have healing again. We are promised we'll see sights in the skies, flying saucers. And on the earth distress between the nations, and the earth getting nervous, begin to belching forth big tidal waves that's killing thousands.

37 What is it? What's all this sign of healing? What's all this sign of persecution against it? We're at the junction time. Amen. It's the coming of the Son of God is at hand. Right now. And these are the things that you're seeing taking place. Now it's showing, a sign post. Jesus said these things would happen. And we're looking at them today. Oh, brother, one of these days, things are going to change.
I'll see Adam say, "Eve, honey," shake her and say, "wake up, sweetheart. It's here."
I see Eve go over and shake up Seth, and say, "Seth!" Seth will go and shake a little bit on Noah, and say, "Noah, raise up," and so forth. And on down through Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, on down to the last saint that's in the grave, when Jesus comes again. And the earth will break forth and every redeemed will be caught up in the air to meet Him. We're at the end time, junction time.
Look at this junction between the separation of right and wrong with Abraham. What a time! Abraham, seemed like that he had got the raw deal. It seems like tonight, because that you've separated yourself from the things of the world, that you got the raw deal. "Don't be weary in well doing. For in due season you shall reap."

38 "He that endureth to the end," Jesus said, "the same shall be saved." Just keep looking on. Keep moving, slowly. God knows what He's doing. We're the only one gets in a hurry, not Him. He let the Hebrew children walk right in the fiery furnace, before He even turned a page over to write a new article. Sure. God's in no hurry. He knows what He's going to do. We don't. But we believe it by faith, 'cause He said He would do it. Amen.
Now watch Him. God moving to Abraham, sitting out there in the old dry country, the cattle all getting poor. Sarah, the most beautiful woman in all the land---had been. There she was sitting up there getting old now, a hundred years old, right about it. Abraham old, sitting out under the tree. Just before the junction time, what taken place? Angels appeared on the earth. Amen. They were in the form of men. And God Himself appeared on earth with His angels. Oh, I hope this don't go too far over you. Catch it.

39 Someone said the other day, said, "Preacher, do you believe that fellow that walked up there that day, with dust all over His clothes and talked to Abraham, was God?" He said it was. Amen.
"Why," you say, "God in flesh?" Yes, sir. Oh, what's that to God to make flesh? Maybe it was Him and Gabriel. And maybe Michael, for all I know. Wormwood, or some of the rest of the angels.
I can hear Him say, "Now, we're going down on earth just a while. Come on." They was all supernatural then. I can see Him grab up just what we're made out of, a little petroleum, some cosmic light, and some atoms, and so forth. And He just blowed them together. Stepped over and said, "Here you are, Gabriel, get in here. Here you are, Michael, get in here." And He got Himself a handful and walked down in the earth. Hallelujah!

40 Oh, you're going to say I'm a holy-roller anyhow, so you might as well get used to it. Oh! When I think of that, it makes a holy-roller out of me, if that's what you want to call it. My Heavenly Father, what's that to Him? My! Sure! What are you made out of anyhow? Just a little oil, a little light, and some atoms put together.
I asked a doctor the other day, we was talking about it. And I said, "Doctor, I want to ask you a question." Oh, he was a great scientist, you know. I said, "I want to ask you a question. Is it true that every time I eat, I renew my life by the blood that's taken in by the food?"
Said, "That's exactly right, Reverend."
I said, "I want to ask you a question then. Why was it? when I was sixteen years old, I eat the same kind of food I eat right now, and every time I eat then, I got bigger and stronger. And I eat now, I get older and weaker. Tell me how it is."
Now, I said, "That's all together against science. I'm pouring water into a glass, and it starts filling up, and after while I pour it in, and it starts going down. What's happening?"
"Oh," he said, "we can't explain that."
I said, "No, but God's Bible said so." Hallelujah! That's right.

41 What is it? I was one time nothing, nowhere. But there'll never be a time, but what we'll be something, or somewhere. Our body was made out of the earth, of petroleum and stuff. And our Heavenly Father... These old atoms are breaking. And one of these days, they'll go away and there'll be none of it left. But there was...
I was combing my hair by the dresser, what I got left. And my wife said to me, she said, "Billy, you're getting bald-headed, honey."
I thought a minute, and I said, "But, praise God, I haven't lost a one of them."
She said, "Then, tell me where they're at!"
I said, "I'll answer you when you answer me. Tell me where they was before I got them." Wherever they was then, they are now, waiting for me. Hallelujah! Sure they are! They wasn't, then they was, then they are not, and they will be again, because God said so. I'm not excited. I know where I'm at. Yes, sir. I'm just happy about it. I know what I'm talking about. So do you. Sure. There's not one bit of it lost.
"I'll raise it up at the last day," God said. Amen. It'll be there, don't worry.

42 Look at Him. God stepping down. Was it a hard thing for Him to do? Just to step into a little bunch of flesh? "Well," you say, "was it flesh?" Sure, He got hungry in that body, while He was here, about an hour. He just stayed on, here, about an hour, Him and them angels. The angels stayed all night till the next morning, because they had a job to do. But God just come down to walk around on earth a little while, in a body of flesh, with old clothes on, dust all over it. God Himself. And went out and ate a cow ... calf; drank her milk; ate some corn bread, some hoe cake. He did! He ate the butter, and the milk, and the calf, and the hoe cake. He got hungry while He was in this cosmic body down here. Hallelujah!
What's a resurrection to a Father God like that? What's the matter with the people? They're scared today. Don't be scared. Our Heavenly Father watches over everything. He knows just exactly where it's at. Amen.

43 A man of God who could go, "Wheww" and jump right in that body, come down and talk to you. What is it for Him to raise us up again? Amen. Only thing He done, He was just drawing a picture of it, that's all, just getting a picture drawed up here what you will be. Amen. See, this is a frail, its got to go back. No matter how good you treat it, its got to go back. You know people are very fond about this body. Oh, my!
I was standing, not long ago, to a great big museum. There was two young men standing there looking at the human body. A man weighing a hundred and fifty pounds, worth eighty-four cents in chemicals. Eighty-four cents! Could you imagine that? You'll put a hundred dollar suit on eighty-four cents. Ten dollar Stetson hat on the top of him. And some of the sisters will put a two hundred dollar mink coat around eighty-four cents and walk down the street. If it would rain, it would drown you. Taking care of that eighty-four cents. That's right. That's all your body is worth. But you got a soul that's worth ten million worlds. What about that? Amen. What about that soul? You'll certainly take care of the eight-four cents, but what about the soul that's worth ten thousand worlds? What about that?

44 Brother, it behooves you to consecrate your life to Jesus Christ, walk after Him, love Him, make ready for His coming. For only at the... Wish we had time to go into the chemical things to prove to you, if your body is not born again ... it can't resurrect if your soul is not born, rather; it can't go in the resurrection, it's impossible. It's like running a car without gas in it, you wouldn't do it. No matter how good your car is, that don't have a thing to do with it. It has got to have gasoline to run it. All right.

45 Notice. And Abraham sitting out there in his tent, he looked up, standing out there in the bushes, stood three men. And you know Abraham was a prophet. He looked over there, and he said, "Oh!" He run out and fell down, he said, "My Lord, You've passed by this way, now, come get Your feet washed, and sit down just a while, and I'll get you something to eat." He slipped into the tent and he said, "Sarah, quickly knead some bread, put it on the hearth and cook it right quick." Went out and got a little fat calf, and killed it, and said, "Now, dress this right quick now, and make some steaks. And let's get ready."

46 And so when he got out there, and he sat out there by the tree, and he watched them as two angels and God Almighty Himself, sitting eating calf flesh, drinking milk, with corn cakes and butter smeared over it. Oh, my! God and two angels. That's what "Thus saith the Scripture!" That's right. There they sat. Stepped down here on earth to talk to mankind, just before a junction.
Then people don't believe that He can come down and heal the sick, today. Oh, my! What's the matter with people? Something is wrong. But the junction is here! Hallelujah! He's doing it anyhow.
No matter how much Zacharias disbelieved God, He said, "My words will be fulfilled in their season. You'll be dumb till the time."
And some people will be left out until the time, they see the church go home in the rapture; and that'll be too late then.
Notice. While they was sitting there, and Abraham watching them. He turned around to Abraham, God did, and He said, "Abraham, now according to the time of life, about this time next year, I'm going to visit you."

47 And Sarah was in there, she heard that. And she said, " [Brother Branham snickers]." It was to His back, He had His back turned to her. He looked at Abraham, He said, "Why did Sarah laugh?" He had discernment of Spirit, didn't He? "Why did Sarah laugh?"
And Sarah said, "I never laughed."
Said, "Ah, yes, you did. Yes, you did. You laughed." Cause she was about half scared to death when she seen who it was.

48 So, they went on to Sodom. And Sodom was wiped out. And then I want you to notice a beautiful thing here, that gives us a little on our talk just now, and a lot of encouragement for us all. If we got a few more minutes before we get to the point, the place.
Look here. Did you notice that Abraham kind of got out of the will of God after that? And he went down to Gerar, which was down in Philistine country, because there was a famine in the land. And when he got down there... I want to show you what God did. Now, you might not agree with this. I preached on this about six years ago, one time, at a place; a fellow wrote a book on it.

49 Now you're going to have to read between the lines. Now you know, the Bible is written ... the message is not altogether right on the letter, but it's between the lines. Did you know that? You know, any love letter is written the same way. My wife write me a letter, when I'm overseas. And she'd say, "Dear Billy, I'm sitting here tonight. I'm thinking of you." And she goes ahead tell me about different things. Now, she puts that on the page, but I can read right between the lines. I know what she's thinking, because I love her, she loves me. And I know...
And the Bible said, "I've hid these things from the eyes of the wise and prudent, and will reveal them to babes such as will learn." So, there's no need of trying to get a scholarship to know God. You have to get in love to know God. That's right. Your scholarship does ... it's all right, it's fine, it helps you a lot. And I'm not trying to say anything against scholarship to support my ignorance. But, I'm trying to say this, friend, that no matter how much scholar you are, you've got to know Him to have life, see. Now, it's written between the lines, a lot of times.

50 When we get our big tent up out here somewhere, we'll take plenty of time and go through them in between the lines. Watch the resurrection thing how it moves in there. Just beautifully! Just get in love with Him and He will reveal it to you. And then, I noticed that...
You know what God did to Abraham and Sarah there? I tell you what He done. He turned them back to a young man and woman again. "Oh," you say, "Brother Branham, that's ridiculous!" But He did! He turned them back to a young man and woman. He made...

51 I can just imagine Abraham walking around, he said, "Sarah, dear, you know what? You know, your hair is turning blacker all the time."
I can hear her say, "Abraham, you know, you're not as stooped in the shoulder as you was. You're coming up." In a few days, they were back to about twenty-five years old a piece. That's right. That's what they did, see. You have to admit this, now scholars. I know that didn't go so good, but listen.
I want to ask you something. Let me show you something. God had to perform a miracle. Did He? Sarah was past the age of bearing. In other words, her womb was dead. And she was about forty-five or fifty years past the menopause. You know what that means, don't you? And she had lived with her husband since she was sixteen or seventeen years old, perhaps. Just a kid, a girl, married. It was his half-sister. And he had lived with her since she was a young lady, and no children.

52 And now, look. This is a mixed audience, but you'd listen to your doctor, so I'm your brother. And I want you to remember me as that, if we was in the doctor's office. Now, look. In order to have this baby (They didn't have bottles and health and hygiene nipples in them days.), so they absolutely had to create new milk veins for the baby. It had to nurse. And then a woman of a hundred years old, He'd have to give her another heart, because she couldn't go in labor like that. You know that! So, God don't patch up things. He made her brand new again to give a promise to you and to me who's getting old and weary.
Watch what he did. They taken a journey from there, from the place where they were at there at the fields of Sodom and the slime pits. Measure it on your map and see how far it is to Gerar; about three hundred miles. It's a long ways down there. Quite a journey for an old man a hundred years old, and a little ninety-year-old grandma, going down, isn't it?

53 And you know the strange thing it was, when they got down there, Abimelech, the king down there, with all those beautiful Philistine girls, he was hunting a sweetheart, and he fell in love with Sarah, grandma. A little dust... That's what the Bible said he did. He fell in love with Sarah. Thought she was the most beautiful thing he ever saw, a-hundred-year-old woman. Grandma, a little dust cap, you know. And he fell in love with her. And he said, "That's who I've waited for." Ridiculous!
She was a beautiful woman. God had turned her back like He's going to you and I some day, (Hallelujah!) at His coming. Don't worry about gray hair and getting old. Hallelujah!
"If this earthly tabernacle be dissolved, we have one waiting." He proved by Abraham, the father of the promise, what He'd do for all of his children. And we're Abraham's seed. That's right.
You say, "Oh, Brother Branham, they just lived longer then." They did. The Bible said a few verses before that, "They were well stricken in age." They were old. Grandma. Did He turn them back? Sure He did.
Look after years they ... when Isaac was about twenty years old, Sarah died, or maybe a little older. Sarah died and Abraham married another woman and had, I believe, nine boys besides the girls. Glory!

54 Oh, I know you think I'm crazy. Maybe I am, but let me alone. I feel good this way. I got a hope this way, where I didn't have no hope the other way. Amen. Don't worry, grandmother, that won't hurt.
You remember, the day that dad took you down---grandpa---and married you? Beautiful little thing! You remember it, dad? How pretty she looked? You remember how strong he looked? One day you noticed the gray coming in his hair, and his wrinkles in his face, and them beautiful eyes of yours, looked like a dove when he married you? They're fading away, but don't worry. Don't worry. God let you grow like a rose until it's complete and the bud's just right, then when the petals goes to dropping, remember, that's a picture in His mind. That's what you'll be in the resurrection.
What happened? When you got to a certain age, about twenty-five years old, you begin to failing; begin to getting gray, begin to fail, and you wasn't the man you used to be, dad. That's right. After while you found yourself old now, and shaking, and wrinkled. What is it? Death set in. Death set in.

55 But when Jesus came, He came to destroy the works of death. In the resurrection death will be forgotten on what you was, and wherefore, you're growing eating this food and its building you up to a beautiful young lady or man. That's what you'll be in the resurrection. God's only painting the negative picture. And we live in the negative. But when it's developed to the positive... Amen. What you scared about? Amen.
We're the seed of Abraham. We got the promise. And God promised it. And the time of the promise is drawing nigh. Amen.
I feel like traveling on.
Amen. You get it? Oh, my! What was it? God giving this food for as a little boy and little girl? Them little rosy cheeks, coming up, and that beautiful black or blond hair, whatever.
You say, "In the resurrection, will I still be a brunette?" Yes, sir. Oh, yeah.
"Well, if I was a blond, will I be a blond?" Yes, sir. Yes, sir. Resurrection don't mean "recreation." It means "bringing up that what fell down." Amen. When you were...
Mother, when you were twenty-five years old, you was a beautiful young lady. You're falling all the time, crumbling. You're going down. But the resurrection means, "Bringing you right back what you was at your best." Hallelujah!
It was God bringing you up to that time, and then He said, "All right, Satan, there you are." You can take that body, but you can't destroy that life. Hallelujah!

56 I just feel like turning loose, preaching a little while. Honest, I do. I feel good. You can't destroy it. Then death set in, gray hair started, all the sign posts. After a while down you go. But, look to drop this on the floor, it's not to raise this up in its place. If a yellow grain of wheat goes in the ground, it'll bring forth a yellow grain of wheat. If a red grain of corn goes in the ground, it'll bring forth a red ear of corn. Is that right? God's a God of variety. We'll not all be the same. No, sir. He ain't a Sears and Roebuck uniform. No, indeedy. He's a God of variety. He makes great big mountains, and little bitty mountains. He makes deserts and plains. He makes little streams, big streams, white flowers, green flowers, blue flowers; pink flowers. He's a God of variety. He has black heads, red heads, white heads. He has big men, little men. He's a God of variety. Glory!

57 And not only that, but He's a God of resurrection, He's a God of life. Amen. "I'll raise it up in the last day," said Jesus, in Saint John 6. "All that comes to Me, I will give him everlasting life. He that eats My flesh and drinks My blood hath," right, in present tense, "everlasting life, and I'll raise him up again at the last days." Oh, my, my! Get that kind of faith in you. Watch what happens to sickness and troubles and things. They just vanish away. Don't even pay any attention to them anymore. You're moving on. Now, that's not some mythical story, that's God's Word.
Sarah, a beautiful young lady again. Sure, she become fertile in this body. And she brought forth little Isaac, a beautiful little child. She loved him. She was a young mother then. She could take care of him. And mother, you'll be that way again some day, too, back young again. Dad, you'll be the same thing in the resurrection, if your heart is right with God.
Remember, "He that loses his life, shall find it. But he that keepeth his life shall lose it." Is that right? If you want to give your life... If you want to keep your life and go ahead, say, "I'll do this and I'll do that. I'll just have my own way. I don't care what the Bible says." All right. You're going to lose it. But if you'll lose your life for Christ's sake, you'll find it, just exactly. It'll be there again. So, let's just lose it.

58 We used to sing a song:
Let me lose myself and find it,
Lord, in Thee.
Amen. Notice. The days passed by. What a lovely Abraham, a young fellow now. And Sarah, with her lovely little boy raising him up, little Isaac. God had promised all through those old years what would take place. Now He changes them and brings them right back to have them start over new again, showing what He's going to do to all the seed of Abraham at the resurrection. The time come. Now, what was the junction then a sign of? The destroying of Sodom and Gomorrah? A sign of the junction time. And what's these things happening for? Angels appearing, prophets appearing, and signs and wonders appearing. We're at the junction time to be changed again, right at the time. Oh, my! That just makes me feel good.

59 Notice. Now God gave Abraham a test again. All of life is full of testings. And Abraham said... One night when he was speaking with God, God said, "Now, Abraham..." Now, in closing, listen. He said, "Now, Abraham, I want you to take your only son, you're only begotten son, and I want you to take him to a certain mountain, that I will show you, and I want you to kill him there for a sacrifice."
Did it stagger Abraham? No, sir. God said so. Well, He said... The Bible said in Romans 4 that he had received him as one from the dead. He knew that God was able to raise him up from the dead, from the figure from where he got him. There you are. That's it.
So, I imagine Abraham said, "I can't tell Sarah this. My, those beautiful eyes and those rosy cheeks, how to see them stained again with tears, I couldn't do it. So, I'll just take the child." And he took a mule, and put some wood, chopped it, and put it on the mule for the sacrifice of the burnt ... for the burnt offering. And he took little Isaac by the hand. And he took two servants. And he walked three days.

60 Now, I used to be a patrolmen. I could walk anytime, six days a week. I used to have to walk around thirty miles every day, through the jungles. Well, I know a man of them days, which didn't have the travel like we have today of automobiles they walked where they went, they could easily walk, say, twenty-five miles a day. All right. Say, he went twenty-five miles each day and three days, would be seventy-five miles. Then he lifted up his eyes and saw a way off in a distance, the mountain where God had told him.
Now, at least a hundred miles, nearly, away. You can see a mountain maybe, fifty or seventy-five miles away. But say, we said, at least it was a hundred miles. Then when he drew near the mountain... I just love this. Listen at it.
He said, "Now," to the servants, he said, "you stay here." Took the wood off the mule, laid it upon his son's back. Beautiful type of Christ here, at Calvary. Laid it upon Isaac's back, which through Isaac... That's Isaac's obedient to death was the same as Christ obedient... And through Isaac was the seed of Abraham, through Isaac come Christ. And through Christ comes you and I, by the Holy Spirit who woos us to God, gives us the same promise, the same hope, the same life, the same Spirit; everything that they had, same children. We being dead in Christ, we take Abraham's seed and are heirs according to the promise. And look now, in this type here.

61 Little Isaac with the wood laying on his back, and he said (Now, I love these words of Abraham.), he said to the servants, "You abide here." Maybe not in that tone of voice, that word. "You wait here, while the lad and I go yonder to worship. And the lad and I will return." Amen.
How is he going to return? If he's going up to kill him, how is he going to return? There you are. That's the trust in God. Oh, he didn't know how it would be. That's the reason he could call it Jehovah-jireh, the Lord will provide.
So he said, he started up the hill. Isaac packing the wood, just the same as Christ packing the cross going up the hill, the sacrifice place. And when he got way up the winding mountain to the top, way up in the rugged rocky country, up in there where he was at. Then he laid up some rocks and made an altar. And he laid the wood down here. And he set the fire.

62 Then he said, little Isaac said to him, he said, "Father?"
He said, "Here am I, my son."
He said, "Here is the wood, and here is the altar, but where is the lamb for the burnt sacrifice?"
Abraham, looked down at him, he said, "My son, God will provide for Himself a lamb for the sacrifice." Look at that: sitting there, knowing what was in that father's heart. It was that crucial moment, ready for a decision.
Are you at that spot tonight, sinner friend? That crucial moment where there must be a decision made in a few minutes?
He said, "God will provide for Himself a sacrifice." And they got everything ready. Then, Abraham took his only son, and took his hands and bound them, and laid then behind. Laid him up on the altar, pulled the knife out of the sheath, and maybe, he was choking back the tears. But he had to make the decision. Would he obey God? Yes, or no.
What are you going to do about it?
Pulled the knife back, reached over he stroked the curly hair of his boy, laid it back, raised his little head back, and raised the knife to plunge it into his own son's throat. Not sparing his own son because God asked him to do it. And when he did, the Holy Spirit caught his hand.
Said, "Abraham, stay your hand. Stay your hand, Abraham. I know now that you love Me." And just about that time, a little ram bleated behind him (That's a male sheep), caught in the wilderness by its horns.

63 I want to ask you something. Where did that ram come from? Now, he was a hundred miles from civilization. He was up on top of a mountain where there's no food, nor neither water. Where did that ram come from? Do you know who it was? It was Christ, the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world. God created the ram because there was a need for one. It wasn't a vision. No, he never saw a vision. He laid the ram up, and cut it, and blood run out of its throat and it was a sacrifice. It wasn't a vision. It was actually a ram. It was a lamb that died there.
What happened? God seen need for a ram, and he spoke the ram into existence in one minute. And five minutes later, it went out of existence. Why? Abraham said, "We will call the name of the place, Jehovah-jireh, 'the Lord will provide Himself a sacrifice'."

64 No matter what your need is now, God has already provided a ram for your sacrifice. God has already provided a way for your eternal life. God has provided a ram for your resurrection. God has provided a ram to take those gray hairs and wrinkled face and return them back to a new man and woman again. God has provided a way to straighten that crooked hand. God has provided a way to take death of cancer away from you, put life in there. God's sacrifice has already been provided.
Shall we pray?

65 Heavenly Father, oh, when I think of that word, Jehovah-jireh, the Lord will provide Himself a sacrifice. In other words, You are the All-sufficient One, yet. You can meet every condition.
When Abraham needed strength, You spoke to him. And said, "I am the breasted One. Just nurse here. And I'll show you, I'm going to turn you back to a young man again, Abraham. You're old, but I'm God."
O Father, and when the need came for a sacrifice, You had one provided. You just spoke it into existence, just at the time to save the life of Isaac.
And Father, how much more have You provided a sacrifice tonight, for these Your children who has come through the snow out here tonight, to listen to the Gospel. You've got a sacrifice provided, just now for them. God's Lamb slain from the foundation of the world, that their life might be spared, that their fears might be over, that their dreads of death, and the old cold grave out there, and the snow sweeping across it tonight; knowing that maybe, this time next year, they'd be in the same place. But, God has provided a sacrifice for resurrection. God has provided Someone for the old. God has provided Someone for the sinful and unclean. He's ready. He's offered, and the blood flows freely.
You provided a sacrifice for their healing. You provided a sacrifice to take away all their worries, and troubles, and their frets, and fears. Thou art still Jehovah-jireh. And we love Thee supremely with all of our hearts.

66 And we now pray, Heavenly Father, that You'll anoint this group of people tonight. Bless them, I pray. Answer the prayer of Your unprofitable servant. Tomorrow night starts the great healing service, we believe. They'll see Your great power open the eyes of the blind, make the lame to walk down through here whole again. And tonight, how to start the meeting is surrendering all and come to Him.

67 God, I pray now that You'll speak definitely to every heart. Anoint every one with a sweet humble spirit. And the sinner man, woman, boy, or girl, who doesn't know Thee, may they come, lay themselves prostrate at the altar, just now. And say, "Dear God, I now, by faith, receive Jesus Christ, Thy sacrifice for my sins. He died in my stead."

68 And while we have our heads bowed, Christians praying. I wonder if there's a sinner here tonight. No matter how old or young, that you have heard the Word, and you believe with all your heart that that's the truth. It's God's Word. And you want to be remembered just now, to God you'd raise your hand to Him, saying, "God, remember me. I now want to accept Your provided sacrifice. All of that in shadow, it was fulfilled at Calvary, when Jesus my sacrifice died in my place. He went to torment for me, down into hell. And You give me justification by rising Him up again on the third day. And now, I raise up, all I have, Lord, my heart and my hand to You, to accept that what You raised up at Calvary, or on Easter morning for me. I raise my hand to Him now." Will you do it?

69 Is there one here tonight that would raise your hand, saying, "Dear God, here's my hand. I raise up my hand because I believe You raised up Jesus for me. And I accept Your sacrifice by placing my hand up towards Yours." And saying, "Yes, Dear God, I now believe. And here's my hand. Take me just now, the way I am."
"Just as I am without one plea, but that Thy blood was shed for me."
Will you raise your hand? Is there a backslider here, say, "Oh, God, I've got far away from You. I've slid back. But tonight, I feel like I want to renew myself with You. I want to come back. I'm going to raise my hand up. And Lord, You take me, just as I am."

70 Will you do it? I don't know your heart. God does. But could you turn Him away after seeing such glorious promises? That was just types and shadows. Dad, have you wandered a long time? Mother, look at you. Kiddies are all here. Maybe some of them has gone on. Sister, or brother, probably old mother has done gone on, you stood right by her old checkered, calico dress. She prayed for you. Will you just now say, "I want to serve God, raise up my hands. I want to meet mother. I want to meet dad. I want to meet my children. I'm not right with God, Brother Branham. I want to be right now."
Is there one? While we wait just a moment, I don't want to miss anything because it might be...
.......calling now to Thee
Wash me, cleanse me in Thy blood
That flows from Calvary. (With our
heads bowed. Let's sing again.)
I am coming, Lord, coming...
Praying now, Christian. Sinner friend, backslider, will you raise your hand? "I'm coming now."
Wash me, cleanse in Thy blood
That flows from Calvary.
[Tongues and interpretation are given from the audience. This portion is not clear enough to be written out.]
Now, with your heads bowed. If I understand the Scriptures right, that's God speaking through gifts of unknown languages and interpretation, which the persons that done it, knowed that they'd be guilty before God if it was anything else but Him. And it give the message according to the Scriptures.
For the message you've heard tonight, Jesus is coming soon. This is the day of mercy. And if you spurn mercy, there's nothing left but judgment.
Will you think it over just now, while we sing one more time: I am coming, Lord, coming now to Thee.
All right, sir.

Jehovah-Jireh

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1 Thank you very much. You may be seated. I'm sorry that I have such a graspy throat today. But this is four months straight in service, and it just seems like I just go from one to another. I wonder if you can hear me? Can you hear me all right? Can you hear me up in the balcony? Fine.
I guess my zeal is eating up my wisdom. And I preach a lot, then all the hours I pray; and then another thing, I get hot real easy when I'm speaking.
As I was saying last night about my hair coming out, that's not a natural thing. That was an accident; a barber did it. He was going to put some stuff on my hair to take the dandruff out. It did: carbolic acid. So, medicine's all right, but you want to know who's giving it to you. One dose killed my father. And one treatment fixed me all up, so just know who's giving it.
That's the same way I think about salvation. I want to know where it comes from. I want to know if somebody's talking about it that's had an experience of what they're talking about. That's what makes it so real, when Jesus becomes so real to us.

2 Now, I'm standing probably a little too close to this, a little more conscious of my hoarseness than I guess I should be. But as far as I know I don't have no cold. It's just preach, preach four months straight, all the way from the frozen regions of the north to the jungles of the south. And just change one day at one place and a couple days somewhere else, and that does it. Constantly speaking outside in all kinds of weather.
So, we're happy to be here. Happy to be in Carolina. This has been indeed to me a great thrilling time, to visit the Carolinas. And as I said the other night, I believe like the wine at the wedding supper: the Lord left the best to the last. I don't mean that any disregards to other states; they've all been very nice. And rest the whole world, that I visited, has been very nice. But I've certainly... The Carolina people has found a warm place in my heart that'll be there until I meet you in the rapture.
This little pastor here, Brother Jeffery, what a wonderful little character. He and Brother, I believe, Parton and Brother Bigsby, the three pastors that I've met in the association in these revivals. How wonderful they've been to me. How I appreciate them all. So glad that Carolina has ministers like that.

3 Just got a chance a few minutes ago to shake hands with some of the clergymen behind me. Just a good old warm pump-handle handshake. I like it like that, don't you? We forgot that.
I hope my wife forgives me. She's sitting back there. I'd call her up here, but she'd faint, she's so bashful. She's like me.
I was very bashful once, but I had to get out of it for the Lord. But she is very bashful. And I called her on the platform one time... She seen me go into visions many times at the house. She'd just step out of the room.
But the first time she was ever on the platform was a few months ago. Mr. Moore kind of tricked her into it and got her to the platform when the anointing had already come on. She said, "I don't desire to be around that no more."

4 And so... But, if there's any credit to be given to the Branham family, let it go to her. She's the one who deserves it. She stands between me and the public. Thirty-seven years old, almost completely white headed, and a real mother, a sweetheart, a wife.
I trust that all of you boys, when you get married, you get a wife like God gave me. And I am so happy for her and my children, Billy Paul, little Rebekah, Sarah, and little baby Joseph. We greet you all. And we thank you for your kindness.
A few moments ago I think they taken up a love offering for me. They didn't have to do that, wasn't asked to, just a courtesy. I could've been a multimillionaire (You know that.), If I'd just taken what was given me. One offering, one bank draft was over a million five hundred thousand dollars. I refused to look at it when the agents brought it to me. So, I don't want people's money. I want their confidence. I can win them to Christ.

5 I'd rather have... You got some lovely homes here. I've been driving around your city, some fine places. But you know, I'd rather ... and I appreciate that. Oh, you don't know how glad I am to see God prosper someone. I love it. But the Lord just give me a home. It's a parsonage. It belongs to the church that I use to pastor. I just live there.
But I tell you: I'd rather have favor with God than anything I know. And I can't have favor with God and not favor with you all. You are the one who works with me in Christ. If you didn't believe me this afternoon, there'd be nobody here. What good would my message do to the people if there's nobody here to receive it? What good would it do if it fell on hearts that were stony and didn't believe it? See, you're just as much into it as I am, or the rest. All together we're coworkers in Christ Jesus.

6 As I was speaking about my wife a few moments ago... Thought first I'd let it pass by but it's just too good. She'll tell me about that on the road home this afternoon.
You know, I just ... I like old-fashioned things. That's the reason I like the old-fashioned Gospel. I believe that when you handshake, it's just not reach out. I like one of them real good old-timers, see, like we use to have. Love seems to be failing in our generation.
I was downtown sometime ago with my wife, and a lady said, "How do, Sister Branham?"
I seen my wife turn. I looked around at her. I said, "Honey, that lady spoke to you."
She said, "I spoke to her."
I said, "I didn't hear it."
She said, "I smiled."
"Oh," I said, "Honey, that's not a... One of those silly possum grins is not an hello." I said, "I like to hear somebody holler, 'hello.' I like for you to really speak and use the old-fashioned way."

7 I remember Brother Bosworth, Doctor F. F. Bosworth. If he ever comes this way, greet him. He's a lovely brother. And He's retired. He's not retired; he just quit. He thought his ministry was over. That's been about seven or eight years ago. And now he's one of my managers.
So, we was down in... We was having a campaign down in Florida. And there was some kind of a duchess or something was letting us have the grounds. So, in the afternoon when I had started in, he said, "Brother Branham, the duchess is back here."

8 Now, friends, I didn't know then what a duchess is. I don't know anymore today. I don't know what one is. But it was some kind of a woman back there, and she was dressed... Oh, my! Whew! She had enough jewels on her arms to send a dozen missionaries around the world twice. That's not necessary.
And she had a pair of specks on a stick, holding it out that far from her. Now, you know nobody could see through glasses that far away from you. And she was looking out like that. And she said, "Are you Doctor Branham?"
I said, "No ma'am; I'm not." Said, "Brethren call me, Brother Bill."
And she had her hand like this; she said, "I am charmed to meet you."
I just shoved out her hand, pulled it down. I said, "Well, sister, get it down here, so I will know you."

9 You know, I just wonder how people put-on when, after all, they're just six foot of ground.
I was standing by Biggett Museum here sometime ago. I love art, music. And in this museum there was two young fellows looking at an analysis of a human body of a man that weighed 150 pounds. You know how much you're worth if you weigh 150 pounds? You're worth eighty-four cents. You got enough whitewash about you to sprinkle a hen's nest, just a little bit of calcium and so forth, just worth eighty-four cents.
Think of it, sister: putting a thousand dollar mink coat on, nose turned up, if it'd rain, you'd drown. And thinking you're somebody when you're only worth eighty-four cents.
That body's... That boy standing there said "Well..." One looked over and said, "John, we're not very much after all, are we?"
I thought this was my chance. I tapped him on the back. I said, "That's truly, boys, but you got a soul that's worth ten thousand worlds." That's right. "Take care of that soul; let the eighty-four cents go. Watch that soul, for it'll live forever." And that's true friends.

10 Now, with this in mind... And I'm ashamed to even try to read that same text again. I've been two times on it, never did get to it. You're such a wonderful audience, I believe I could stay on that same text six months.
I remember one time in my church at home, I preached nearly a year on Job. And I had him on the ash heap back there for about four months. Some nice lady, very diplomatic, (She was too nice to just come up and tell me.), but she wrote me a nice little letter. She said, "Reverend Branham, I'm sure enjoying every one of them messages, but when are you going to get Job off the ash heap?"
Well, I was waiting for a climax. Got several souls to the altar when Job went off the ash heap. I just love the Old Testament. It's in nuggets. And everyone of them point to Christ Jesus at Calvary.

11 Now, friends, if there's been any blessing or anything that our time has been... We don't know unless we're led to places. And I know it's been a blessing to us. Not only have you been blessed, but we've been blessed by coming. And now, I trust to God that the meetings will mean lots to you, and that you people who have been saved will join some good Spirit-filled church. And all these pastors, I pray that their ministry will be blessed exceedingly, abundantly. All you people prosper in health.
God bless you all till I see you again. Pray for me. And if I have to go before I see you again, I want you to do me a favor. If I go and my body can be buried, when they let me down in the ground, they're going to sing, "Only Believe." So, if you hear on the radio, or news, or somewhere, that I'm gone, stop just a few minutes and hum, "Only Believe." I believe I'll come out from among the dead someday.

12 Most all Branhams, when they get old... Some of them live long lives. My grandmother was a hundred and ten. My grandfather died at ninety-seven. My grandmother on my mother's side, she died young with scarlet fever. But she was the one that was a half-breed Cherokee Indian. And my grandfather died about four years ago, on mother's side, being somewhere in his nineties. My father went at fifty-two. I don't know when that will come.
But usually when they get old, the Branhams... It's just the nature, like Isaac went blind, Jacob went blind, both of them prophets and so forth, just seem to run in their family stream.

13 The Branhams, when they get old, they go to shake---the palsy. I expect if I live, someday I've got to preach my last sermon, pray for the last sick person. I hope I'm an old man when He finished with me, and Jesus tarries. I've come all the way through every briar patch, every hard place. I come down to the river, and I just feel His dashers coming---the foam coming in from out there and I know my time is come.
Standing with the gray hairs hanging around my shoulders and shaking with a stick in my hand, I want to take off my helmet, lay it down, stick the old sword here back in the sheath of eternity, scream out, "Father, send out the lifeboat. I'm coming over this morning."
He'll be there. I don't worry about that. That's been settled for twenty-five years. It's more settled today in my heart than it ever was. "I know who have I believed. I'm persuaded He's able to keep that which I've committed to Him against the day." I hope to see you over there.

14 And until then, I've got a trip to Africa and many places coming. When the winds are blowing hard, the hot breezes across the country, and I'm standing and challenge of witch doctors and so forth, will you promise to be praying for me? Will you do it? I'll pray for you. Now, let us speak to Him.
Our heavenly Father, we thank Thee today for Jesus Thy Son. Closing this revival... Not closing it, Lord; may it just be beginning. May the influence of Your visit with us never leave these people until Jesus comes. Then start an old-fashioned revival throughout the city and the state, every church; all the Full Gospel, Methodist, Baptist, Presbyterians, Nazarenes, whatever they are, Father. Send a great revival to this city.

15 Bless these handkerchiefs that are here before us. O eternal God, let Your Spirit come upon each of them and bless them, that they'll be healed as they go to their destination. When they're laid upon the sick folks that they're intended for, may diseases leave their body.
Bless this lovely audience, Lord. Bless Brother Jeffery. God be with these other pastors. Be with all these members of their churches everywhere and all the pastors of the city and throughout the regions. Grant these things to us, Father.
Give us just a little voice to speak, a great healing service. May many find their way to Christ and many be healed. For we ask it in Jesus' name, Thy Son. Amen.

16 The same text: Genesis 22. Satan says, "You can't finish it." I can't, but God can. [Gap in the audio.]
We brought Abraham from the time that he was called of God and was brought to a place where he'd received the promise in figurative form. Last night we left him as El Shaddai, God speaking to him. Then we got over to where God promised through Sarah and Abraham and showed a sign what He was going to do for all His children.
How many was here last night? Let's see your hands. Do you believe it? Say, "Amen.
Then, our hope is built on nothing less
Than Jesus' blood and righteousness;
All around my soul gives way
And is all my hope and stay.
On Christ, the solid Rock, we stand;
All other ground is sinking sand.
Science fails; everything else fails; God's Word can't fail.

17 I was with a great doctor here not long ago, doctor of science. He give a degree to a boy, a young fellow, a friend of mine. And after he embraced him, as receiving his degree in science, (He was from Washington.), and he embraced him and pinned this thing on him. And he said, "Son, after all these years of study in science," he said... In Washington or somewhere, some hall of science, I forget how many books was written on the latest science.
He said, "It would take you at least two years, if you read day and night, to read them all through. And by the time you got them all read through, then you'd have to discard everything that you learned. It's advanced so fast, till them things that's scientifically proven now would be scientifically proven to be wrong then."

18 I stood and waited. That night that same man at Shreveport, Louisiana, sat in my meeting. I'd seen him. I said, "I'm glad to have the doctor here with us tonight."
And I heard his remark what he said, that when this young student (who's here now with us, a leader of this music here tonight on the platform), but if he would take two years, how science will absolutely prove that the things that they once proved to be right, they proved again to be wrong. While I went to school they told me the sun set perfectly still and the world went around it. That's scientifically proved to be a lie now. The sun runs also. That's right, see.
So, I suppose Joshua wasn't so ignorant after all when he prayed for God to stop the sun. See, it always comes back to the Book.
Here sometime ago science said, "Oh, my. Isn't that awful? that that Bible says that God said, 'As a man thinketh in his heart.' There's no mental faculties in his heart to think by."
But you know what? Last year they found out God was right. The soul lives in the heart and not in the mind. That's right. So God was right. "As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he." Not as his intellectuals introduced to him, but as his soul tells him. It can't fail then.

19 Now, so I said to that scientist. I said, "Sir, them books will fail and always will fail. But I can tell you a Book that you'll never have to take back anything it ever said. It'll always be proven to be true. That's God's Word."
"Heavens and earth will pass away," said Jesus. "But My Word shall never fail." I love that.
Abraham trusted in God's Word. And we're children of Abraham today, because we trust in God's Word. We believe, regardless of what people says, and what theologians say, educators say, science says. If it's contrary to the Word, every man's word is a lie and God's is true. It's the way I believe it. And no matter how strange it may seem. I believe it to be true anyhow.

20 Now, I want you to notice. Abraham... Now, we're going to finish up the text just for a few minutes before we start the prayer line.
Could you imagine this little boy, Isaac, being born? Abraham and Sarah... Now, about a hundred and fifteen years old was Sarah and about a hundred and twenty five years old was Abraham. Here's the promised child, that pretty little boy about sixteen years old, little hair hanging down over his shoulder, a handsome little lad. How he loved his father and mother and just as obedient...
You know, children, that's what you ought to be to your father and mother. I think it's awful when you hear young people say, "My old man" and "My old woman."

21 I don't believe you people in Carolina, you little children would say that. Way up in the northlands where I come from, they say it, see. And it's too bad they ever say it.
Listen. That's not the old man and old woman. Someday when the floors is creaking and cracking and a casket is going out and you look and see a gray-headed person laying there, it won't be the old man then. That's your daddy. That's your mother. You honor them now. That's the first commandment with promise. "Honor your father and mother, which may lengthen the days on the earth that the Lord giveth thee."
So, little Isaac being so subject ... in subjection to his father and mother because he was a type of Christ as He was in subject to the Father perfectly. And how he minded his father and mother.

22 And one day God said, "Now, Abraham, you know way down years to come there's going to be a people, all kinds of scientific things, and they're going to try to disprove My Word. But I want to double My Word. After I swore I'd keep it. I'll let you live to see the day. When you was a hundred years old and I turned you back to a young man of about twenty-five, thirty-five years old again, you and Sarah, and you brought forth this child. You see My hand?
"Now, I'm going to give an example for the people in Charlotte today and for everywhere else just how I will keep My Word. Now, I tell you what I want you to do, Abraham. I want you to take your little boy and go to a certain mountain, where I'm going to show you. And I want you to take him up there, and lay him on an altar, and offer him up for a sacrifice. I want you to kill him, Abraham, because in him I'm going to bless all the world."

23 Doesn't that sound strange? How was that boy... How was Abraham now, after waiting a hundred years to receive this child and the child being born. That was their last. Sarah never had no more. That was all of it. And how could this be now, after he's waited all this time, and the young man here now is about sixteen. "Now, take him up and destroy the only hope that you have of My promise being fulfilled." Wish I had just a little more voice. I'd just like to show you something here.
Sometimes God takes away everything. Let the doctor tell you you're going to die. That's right. Prove it. Scientifically show you you're going to die. Just to show His mercy to you. Doctor says that cancer, "We got nothing for it."
You know I heard on the radio the other day. That there has never been one successful cancer operation. That's right. We haven't got nothing for it. We haven't the medical science. God has in His science.

24 Moses brought the children of Israel all the way through the land of Egypt. And when they come out of Egypt---just think, two million people---and when they left Egypt, there wasn't a feeble person among them. How did he for forty years fight cancer, tuberculosis? How many babies was born overnight? How many houses did Dr. Moses have to visit? How many broken arms and out there in that desert running around? How much pneumonia? How much malaria drinking out of ponds and whatever they could get to? How much bacteria did they pick up, and those germs and things in the water?
Say, doctor, wouldn't you like to look into Moses' medicine kit and find out how he kept them people all well? And not even their clothes got threadbare. Wouldn't you... How many would like to look in Dr. Moses' medicine kit? Would you like to see it? I know where it's at in the Bible. Would you like to hear it? Raise up your hand if you would. Just a minute. I'll show you just exactly where it's at. We'll see there where Doctor Moses said...

25 Doctor Moses had one prescription, he kept them all well there. "I'm the Lord that healeth all thy diseases." That's the only prescription he used. And it worked on every case.
Say, that's a good thing for a doctor to pack in his briefcase, isn't it? "I'm the Lord who healeth all thy diseases." That's what Moses used. And it kept people alive for forty years, and not a feeble one among them. Isn't that wonderful? Because he used God's Word. You can't go wrong as long as you're using the Word. Stay with the Word.

26 Now, God said to Abraham, "Take the little boy out there and, I'll show you a mountain. And you go up on this mountain and kill him."
Now, what if Abraham said, "Now wait, was that vision true? Let me study now. Was that vision true? Now, God said for me to take my boy and kill him. Now, how am I ever going to be the father of nations, and that's my seed and that's a promised seed. Now, how am I ever going to be the father of nations when God is destroying the only hope I have here? Is that the only hope that I have? No, I still got His Word. He promised me back there that He'd do it. And through Isaac all the world would be blessed."
So said, "I..." Listen to Abraham now. "I received him as one from the dead. I'm persuaded that God's able to raise him up from the dead." Oh, my. Even with a hoarse throat, I feel religious. Sure. Abraham said, "If I received him as one from the dead..." What?

27 The seed in his own body was dead, a hundred years old. The deadness of Sarah's womb---they were both sterile to begin with. And then if God performed a miracle and put this germ of life in there, he received him from the dead, as one being dead, then God's able to raise him up from the dead: Perfect type of the Lord Jesus Christ. Hallelujah! Oh, my. If that wouldn't make Presbyterians shout. Think of that. Certainly.
Abraham staggered not at the promises of God through unbelief, but was strong, giving praise to his Name.

28 I can imagine. It was on Sunday afternoon when He spoke to him maybe. On Monday morning: How's he going to do? Poor little Isaac; he looks at him. Oh, he loves him. "But I can't look at that. I got to think of obeying of God." So he couldn't tell Sarah. Because, you know, the ladies are the weaker vessel. So you sometime you have to watch. "So I can't tell Sarah because she wouldn't understand."
Sarah never was too strong anyhow, in the faith. Because she lacked, she disbelieved the promise. But Abraham held her, because the man and woman are one. The woman could not be saved in the Old Testament only by the man, because it was circumcision. And she had to be joined to her husband in order to receive it. But in the last days, God's poured out His Spirit, and the women are circumcised in the heart just like the men.

29 Now... But she believed her husband and called him "lord." So he said, "Now, I can't ... I can't tell Sarah." So maybe say, "Sarah, Isaac and I are going to take a little trip. We'll be back." "How are we coming back? God's able. If He said so, He'll bring us back." That's good.
So, he saddles up a mule the next morning. Cuts some wood and laid it on the mule's back. He's going out in the desert.
And now, look. He walked three days. And at the end of the three days, he lifted up his eyes and saw the mountain, where God showed him in the vision, a way off.

30 Now, watch. An ordinary man ought to walk twenty-five miles a day. When I was patrolling for five years, I walked thirty-five miles a day through the wilderness, ten hours, year in and year out. And today why a man's got gasoline feet, nearly, and could do that. What could a man in them days whose only transportation he had nearly was either by a little slow mule that he could outwalk himself nearly.
So, the only way he had was travel by foot. Well now, Abraham: Let's say he walked twenty five miles a day. And he was seventy-five miles back down. And he lifted up his eyes, and perhaps maybe another twenty-five or thirty miles away, he saw the mountain. He said, "Yep. That's the one God showed me in the vision."

31 Now, he said to the servants, the boys, was with him (Listen to this now), he said, "You all tarry here while the boy and I go yonder to worship. The boy and I will return."
Oh, my. What? With the knife in his belt, and in his heart to do the will of God, was going to kill his own son. "You wait here. The boy and I are going yonder to worship. The boy and I will return." How? He knowed God would keep His Word some way.
On they go up to the top of the mountain. Now, watch. When he got to the mountain, he took all this wood and laid it on Isaac's back.
Wonder why he done all those things? Because he was a figure of Christ. Isaac packed the wood up the hill that he himself was the sacrifice to lay on. Christ packed the cross up the hill where He, the sacrifice, was to be laid on.
Abraham shadowed God, the Father giving His only begotten Son for our sins. Abraham was giving his only son for obedience to God.

32 Notice now. As they go up the hill, Abraham packing the fire. And when they got up there, he said, "Father."
He said, "Here I am."
He said, "Here is the wood. And here is the fire. Here is the altar. But where is the lamb for the sacrifice?"
Oh, could you imagine that Father's heart pumping hard? His only child... "Where is the sacrifice?"
Abraham choking back the tears, (Think of your ownself choking back the tears.), with a stern look towards heaven, he said, "My son, God will provide for Himself a lamb for the sacrifice."

33 I'm not emotional much, but that just gets me. "God will provide for Himself a sacrifice, or a lamb for the sacrifice." He said, "Turn around Isaac. Turn your back to me, son."
He did it. Isaac thought, "What's this? It's leather cords taking my hands. Surely father understands what he's doing." Around his feet went some cords, tied them together. He looked over.
Abraham looked at him, brushed back the hair out of his eyes, kissed him on the cheek, "God be with you, my son." Laid him upon the altar, looked back, choking back the tears, little Isaac, obedient to death, not asking a question.
Abraham pulled a big knife from the sheath from ... the knife from the sheath, brushed back the hair away from his little neck, looked up to God and started to take the life of his own son. Just as he raised his hand, the Holy Ghost caught his hand. Said, "Abraham. Stay your hand. For I know now that you love Me, not even to spare your own son."

34 And about that time---Oh, God!---a sacrifice bleated, a little ram ---not a female, not a ewe---a ram was caught in the wilderness by his horns. What was it? Jehovah-jireh had provided a lamb.
Where did that lamb come from? Where did that lamb come from, friends? You know what it was? Why, he was a hundred miles from civilization. Where did it come from? Besides that, he was way up on top of the mountain where there's no water. Where did it come from? It wasn't a vision now.
He took the ram, loosed Isaac, his son, laid the ram up and cut its throat and blood run out of it. It was a real lamb---not a myth, neither a vision. It was a real lamb. What was it? The God that I spoke to you the other night, had brought Himself down in flesh, had brought a ram there. Jehovah-jireh had provided a ram for the sacrifice.

35 I say to you this afternoon, my Christian friend, that Jehovah-jireh still exists. And that lamb, which was a type of the Lord Jesus Christ that came down from glory and made Himself a little lower than angels to suffer death for all, has provided for everything that you have need of this afternoon. And has provided for your salvation. He's provided for your healing.
And besides that, He said, "I will not leave you. I will pray the Father, and He will send you another Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost. He will abide with you forever. And the things that I do shall you also. Even more than this for I go to My Father."
Jehovah-jireh has provided a Sacrifice this afternoon for your sin. Jehovah-jireh has provided the same Lamb this afternoon for your sickness. Can you believe it? And will you believe it?

36 When Jesus was here on earth, He said, "A little while and the world won't see Me no more; because I come from God (Spirit), and now, I'm in the world a little while and now I go back to God. Then I will come again and be with you," in the form of the Holy Ghost, "in you to the end of the world. And he that believeth on Me, the works that I do shall he do also."
Now, He's here. God has provided a way for you. God's provided a sacrifice. He's Jehovah-jireh who provided for Abraham, carried him through.
And you are the seed of Abraham. As long as you are in Christ Jesus, you are the seed of Abraham and you're heirs of the same promise by the same God, only in a more positive way than Abraham was.

37 You've got about twenty-eight hundred years of experiences to look back through others and see what He's done. And if the Old Testament provided that, how much better did the new covenant, a better thing. That we without them would not be made perfect ... or them without us, rather, would not be made perfect. God has provided. I trust that you will believe it with all your heart, as we pray.
Now, Father, we thank Thee for being Jehovah-jireh, the Lord's provided sacrifice. And I ask You today, Lord Jesus, that You'll give grace abundantly to all the people that are here. And let them know that You provided a resurrection in form there for Isaac, who had come to the end of his road. But You provided a way for him.
And You provided a way of the resurrection of the Lord Jesus, and provided a Holy Ghost, knowing that the time would come when people would try to explain away all the supernatural of Your Word. But You provided the Holy Ghost to carry on Your work, doing the same thing that You did when You were here in a corporal body.
I pray today that You'll bless exceedingly, and heal the sick, and save the lost. Grant it, Lord, for we ask it through Christ's name.

38 And with our heads bowed, I wonder just if there would by chance be some sinner friend here today, that never has accepted this provided Sacrifice, just like to raise up your hand to God.
God bless you my brother. "I now accept Christ." God bless you. "I now want..." God bless you. "I want to now in Christ's name admit to God that I'm a sinner, and I want His mercy upon me at this time. And I'm not raising my hand to you, Brother Branham. But I'm raising my hands to God and saying, 'I believe that story's the truth, because it comes from the Bible. And I believe that all the Bible says is right. And I want God to be merciful to me, a sinner, just now.'"
God bless you. God bless you. I see your hand, lady. God bless you, young man; I see your hand. Up in the balcony, anyone up there would say ... raise your hands to Jehovah? God bless you, young lady. I see you over there.

39 Someone else? Just now, just now, Lord God. What makes man press their way? What makes them go right into their life, preaching the Gospel. What makes a Christian stand and walk into the face of death without even batting an eye? It's Jehovah-jireh. He's provided a way, a way of escape. You want it? God bless you, sir.
You might've done many a good thing. I have no doubt at all. That's the greatest thing you ever done in your life, when you raised your hand to your Creator and said, "Now, I believe."
Someone else? I was looking at a dad just now, raising his hand. I think about my own dad. He's done crossed over. As his locks fell across my arm when a doctor give him a dose of medicine that killed him with an overdose of strychnine... And it killed him. And he looked up at me, his little Irish eyes... Wish I could see him walk down through these aisles today.
But there's somebody else's dad's here. Will you accept it, brother? Believe on the Lord? All right.

40 Someone that's backslid then, would raise your hand and say, "God, I want to come back. I feel condemned today. I want to come back to Christ. Will you take me back?" Would you raise your hand?
One? God bless you, sir. Someone else? Jesus Christ, the Son of God, is here.
Someone without the baptism of the Holy Spirit, and you desire to be baptized into the body of believers by the Holy Ghost? There's only one baptism. That's Holy Spirit baptism. Water is only a type. Would you raise your hand? God bless you. Wonderful. Dozens of hands up.

41 Now, heavenly Father, I give them to Thee. Thou has said in Thy divine Word, "He that heareth My Word and believeth on Him that sent Me, has everlasting life."
See as those people raise their hands and watch their expression change. Sure. You can't make an act in God's order without something happening. How, thank Thee, Father, that they have eternal life now. They'll never perish or never come into judgment. You said it. I believe You.
And those who've wandered away, draw just now; speak to their heart. Oh, the way of a transgressor is hard. Never but trouble in their way, weary, scared. God, just now may You take all their fears away. Put Your arms around them, say, "Come on back to the sheepfold, My child. That's Me that's speaking to you. It's My voice, the still small voice."
God knows who are wanting the baptism of the Holy Spirit. I pray that the glory of God will strike this building this afternoon and every one here will receive the baptism of the Holy Ghost. Grant it, Father.

42 May the little church grow and prosper. I commit them to Thee now, believing Thy Word and holding Thy Word, Lord. Some of these people I may never see again till I meet at Your face. Then I will see them. And they'll never forget this day. They can't raise their hand and accept You, without having eternal life. You said so, Lord.
If that hand beneath it had a foundation of a true honest heart, something happened. You're the One who said the Word: "They should never perish, never come into judgment, but had past from death unto life, because they believe." Now, their Yours, Father. We commit them to You in Jesus' name. Amen.

43 I hate to leave you. God bless you, Carolina, everywhere. I'll just say goodbye now, because if the Lord Jesus does come in His anointing power, I don't know when they take me. The only way I know, Brother Wood, or some of them comes up here, goes patting me on the side. I know to quit praying right then, see.
I don't know. When I'm up there, I feel like I'm a giant. When I'm down here, I'm all right. But just come out of there one time.
How many ever knowed that poets and prophets always considered a little crazy or something, neurotics? Sure. How many ever heard of Stephen Foster? You ought to. Wrote America's best folk songs. "Old Black Joe," "Old Folks at Home," "Suwannee River," "Old Kentucky Home." Do you know every time he'd ever get inspiration and write them old songs, then he'd get on a drunk? You know, finally after he wrote a famous song, he called a servant, took a razor and committed suicide?

44 How many ever heard of William Cowper? Let's see your hand. How many ever heard this song, "There is a fountain filled with blood drawn from Emmanuel's veins, when sinners plunge beneath the flood lose all their guilty stains"? William Cowper wrote that.
I stood by his grave not long ago---two or three years ago---in London, England. I had to shed a tear. He was considered a little crazy. You know after he wrote that song... Did you ever read the history of it? He got in a cab and tried to find the Seine River to commit suicide. He come out of inspiration, see. He didn't know where he was at.

45 Look at Jonah, the prophet. After God keeping him alive three days in the belly of the whale, come out and give his prophecy in such a way that a city the size of St. Louis, Missouri, repented, put sackcloth on their animals. And then went up on the hill and after the inspiration left him, a little worm come out and cut a gourd tree down, and he prayed God to take his life, see, just neurotic like.
Look at Elijah who called for no rain to come, and it didn't come for three years and six months. Then called rain out of the heavens, and then called fire out of the heavens the same day. And when the Holy Spirit left him, and the vision was completed, the Lord fed him some cakes, put him to sleep, woke him up about an hour or two and fed again, and he was so unconscious till he wandered out in the wilderness for forty days and nights. And when God found him... How many knows where He found him? Pulled back in a little cave. Is that right? Didn't know where he was at, wandering around, see.
What does it speak of? There's a land beyond the river. That's right. No need trying to explain it, you can't. If prophets and so forth couldn't explain it, how could we? It's just true. That's all.

46 Now, how many's here for your first time? Let's see your hands. Just look at the hands. God bless you. So glad to have you. I can't do justice, friend, in just a little time like this to explain to you. I just want to ask you something. And I'm sure you second-comers will bear with me a minute.
My contentions is this: That Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever, and the Bible says so. Do the newcomers believe that? Say, "Amen."
The Bible... Jesus when He was here on earth, He claimed that He was going back to turn to the Father again, in form a Spirit, but would come in the form of the Holy Ghost and would abide with us forever. And the very same works that He did then, He would do through His church until He come again. How many knows that's true say, "Amen," see. He promised it.
He said, "A little while, and the world (Now, what is the world? The worldly minded, see. The worldly minded people, church members and so forth) will see Me no more."
Did the church members actually see Him in that day? No, sir. No, sir. They never seen Him in the light of who He was. They seen His corporeal body, because they had a sense of sight, those who could see. Those who couldn't see, He gave them their sight, so they could see. He said to them, "It'd be better if you was born blind, then you wouldn't known sin."

47 But look. They saw Him in the light that He was a human being. But they didn't see Him in the light of the Son of God, because they said He was a devil and was a mind reader, Beelzebub, the chief of the fortunetellers. But there was some people then who believed Him. Is that right? They were called the common people.
Now, what did Jesus do? What was any different from Him than any other man? Now, if we can find out what He was then, He is the same today. If He is the same, if He's raised from the dead... And, all that believes that He did raise from the dead and is alive today say, "Amen." That means, "So be it."

48 Now, I'm just getting your sanction. Now, notice. Then, if this book went down on the floor, and I put this book in its place, that's not resurrection. That's replacement. But if this book went down, if it resurrected, it come back up, it's the same book.
Then, Jesus in the resurrection---to show that it ain't some other somebody else or something else---He's got to be the same. Now, He wasn't no great theologian. He wasn't no scholar. He never went to any seminary. He never had any degree. Not a record of anywhere where He ever even went to any schools or anything like that. But the best of the learned come to Him for wisdom.
His disciples were ignorant and unlearned, the Bible said. All but one: was Paul. And Paul said, "I had to forget all that I ever knowed in order to know Jesus Christ." Sometimes we have to do that, too: forget what you know so you can learn Christ.

49 But now, what did He do? What was the stand? Why did a little fellow like Him, no beauty you should desire Him, probably stoop shouldered. He was only thirty, the people said He looked fifty. Why, said, "You're not a man not much over fifty years old and You say you seen Abraham."
He was only thirty. His work must've put a tremendous strain on Him, probably gray beard a little and gray in His hair. "And you say you seen Abraham?"
He said, "Well, before Abraham was, I am." [Gap in the audio.]

50 They knew who that was talking through them lips. That was God speaking through His lips.
As I said here not long ago ... the woman who told me that I put too much emphasis on Jesus being divine. He was divine. And He's still divine. You people that would want to believe Him just to be a prophet, shame on you. If He's just a prophet, we're lost. That's right. If He was anything less than Almighty God, we're lost. That's right.
She said, "Mr. Branham, if I can prove to you that Jesus Christ, that He was only a mortal and He wasn't divine, by the Bible, will you believe it?"
I said, "If the Bible said so. Yes, because that's His Word."
She said, "I'll prove it." She said, "When He went down to the grave of Lazarus, Saint John 11," said, "the Bible said He wept. And if He was divine, He couldn't weep."
I said, "Lady, that just shows how thin your ideas are." I said, "He was a man, but He was a God-man. God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself."

51 That's what fooled the Jews. They looked at the man; said, "Now, look here. Listen to the kind of language He uses; His grammar, how bad it was." He talked like common people, because they was the ones who heard Him. "And look how He dresses. Why, that old robe, it's been washed so many times, it's threadbare," Wove throughout without a seam. Martha and Mary made it for Him.
"Look at that fellow, you mean to tell me than he knows more about it than our scholarly rabbis and priests and high priest, and stuff, that studied all their life. Who is He? Look He was born down with a black name behind him to begin with, as an illegitimate child. Who are you to teach us wisdom?", they said. "What school did you come from? Where did you get these things?" Oh, my, that blasphemy.
I said, "Yes, lady. He did cry when He went to the grave of Lazarus. He's a man among men. But when He stood there, straightened up them little shoulders, said, 'Lazarus, come forth,' and a man that had been dead four days stood on his feet and lived again, that was more than a man. That was God.

52 He was a man when He come down off the mountain that night hungry, looking around for something to eat; He was a man when He couldn't find nothing to eat on that fig tree. That was a man hungry. But when He taken five biscuits and two little fishes and fed five thousand, that was more than a man there. Sure was.
He was a man that night out in that little boat, out there on that wavy sea, storm up. Ten thousand devils of the sea swore they'd drown Him. And that little old boat pitching like a bottle stopper out there. He was a man laying there so tired and weary till even the waves didn't wake Him up. But when He got up, put His foot on the brail of the boat, and looked up, and said, "Peace be still," and the winds and the waves obeyed Him, that was more than a man. That was God.
Truly, He cried for mercy at the cross. He cried like a man when He was dying. But when He rose on Easter morning, He proved He was God. Amen. He's a resurrected One. He was a God-man. God was in Christ.

53 He said, "For My..." That's the reason people couldn't understand Him. Sometime it was Christ speaking, or it was the Son speaking. Other times it was the Father speaking. He was a dual Person. He was one man, the Son. God was in Him, which was tabernacling in Him. But what did He do? Did He go around saying, "I'm the healer." Very contrary, He said, "I'm not the healer." He said, "It isn't Me that doeth the works; it's My Father that dwelleth in Me."
And in Saint John the 19th chapter when He was questioned by passing a whole bunch of crippled, lame, withered, halt, blind people, healed one man laying on a pallet, the Father showed Him to go there and heal; walked away and left the rest of them laying there. They questioned Him. A man packing his bed on the Sabbath... Listen what He said. Saint John 5:19: "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." Is that what He said? "I do nothing till the Father shows Me a vision first what to do."

54 Step back in His life a little bit at the beginning of His ministry in just a couple places for the newcomers, and then we'll close. Look when Philip got converted, went over and found Nathanael, said, "Come, see who we found, Jesus of Nazareth, Son of Joseph."
Nathanael had been praying under a tree. He said, "Now, could there be any good thing come out of Nazareth?"
Said, "Come, see." That's the best way to find out. Come and see.
He come up and stood in the prayer line, perhaps, where Jesus was, or in the audience where... Jesus as soon as He seen him... He'd never seen him in His life, standing there. He said, "Behold, an Israelite in whom there's no guile."
Why, now listen close. He said, "Say, Rabbi (Reverend, Teacher), when did You know me? How do You know me? You never seen me in Your life and how do You know me?"
He said, "Before Philip called you, fifteen miles around the mountain yonder, when you was under the tree I saw you."

55 There stood the priests and the rabbis, the doctors, D.D., double-L.D. They said, "Do you know who He is? He's a mind reader. He's Beelzebub, the chief of the devils. Well, all the power, of all the mind readers, He's the chief of them all."
Jesus turned and said, "You'll be forgiven for that. You speak that against the Son of man, it shall be forgiven. But one day the Holy Ghost is coming (Hallelujah!) after My blood's shed yonder. To you blood-thirsty atheists," said, "you're of your father the devil." Said, "When that blood is shed and the Holy Ghost comes and does the same work that I do, if you speak one word against it, it will never be forgiven you in this world or the world to come." How many knows that's Scripture?
Be careful. Just one word is all you have to get out of line. So, you see where I stand here today? Who am I to stand here with these kind of things? See?

56 Now, what did this man that the miracle was performed on... You said, "A miracle? He wasn't healed." Well, it don't have to be a healing for a miracle, there's all kinds of miracles. Sure. It was a miracle that He knowed who was under the tree. It was a miracle He knowed who he was. It was a miracle He knowed their names.
So, he said, "Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God."
He said, "Because I said that, you believe it? You'll see greater than this."
That was his sign. That's the sign of the Jew, that He was the Son of God, because He could do this.

57 A woman touched His garment, run off out in the audience... This is to the newcomer. She run off out in the audience, because she said in her heart, "If I can touch Him, I can be made well." Then when she did that, she felt satisfied she was going to be healed.
Jesus said, "Who touched Me?"
Why, they said, "Touch you?"
The woman and all of them said, "No, not me." Everybody denied, the Bible said.
Well, said, "Somebody touched Me, because I got weak," see.
That's what causes weakness here. It's your faith, see.
And He said, "I got weak. Virtue went from Me, or strength went from Me." Virtue is "strength." Said, "Strength went from Me; I got weak."
So, He kept looking around until He found the little woman. He set His eye on her. She had a blood issue. He said, "Your faith..." "Your faith, not no vision I saw, but your faith did it." Is that right? "Thy faith..."
He didn't even know who she was or nothing about her. There was no vision. Just her faith touched Him. Said, "Thy faith has made you whole." If Jesus did that that day, He's got to do it today, if He's raised from the dead.

58 The Bible said He's a High Priest that can be touched by the feeling of our infirmities. Now, He's here in Spirit form. You can touch Him with your sickness.
Now in closing... And may the Lord help you to believe in it. If Jesus Christ will return... Now, He can't come here in a corporeal body. When His body comes from glory, every eye shall see Him, every knee shall bow, every tongue confess. Is that right?
Now, all these isms going around... My poor little children, you be careful as you're waiting around, because there's everything in the world. Remember when all... In the last days, the Bible said, that the devil would go about like a roaring lion, lying wonders, deceiving. Is that right? And when all hell opens up, remember all heaven will open up, too, see.

59 And the Bible said that Jambres and Jambres would raise up in the last days and almost deceive the very elect. Be careful, brother, keep it right on the Word of God. Don't leave there. A whole lot of things today going on that's not coming from that Word. You leave it alone. Stay with the Bible. Because the Bible said it would deceive the very elect if possible. But when your name's wrote on the Lamb's book of life from the foundation of the world, you'll know His voice. A stranger you'll not follow.
I don't care if oil's pouring out of hands, feet, and everything else. You'll know that don't come from the Bible, and you'll stay with God. Now, just watch. All kinds of wonders.

60 Now, remember, if Jesus has raised from the dead, He's alive. And He works through His church. And He set some in the church, what? First, missionaries or apostles (both the same, "one sent"), second, prophets; teachers, evangelists, pastors. Is that what the Bible says? He set five church offices---missionaries, prophets, teachers, evangelists, pastors---for the perfecting of the church.
Then there's nine spiritual gifts that operate through the body. Now, one of them is the gift of knowledge, gift of wisdom, gift of tongues, gift of interpretation, and all those things---gift of prophecy.
Now, there's a vast difference between the gift of prophecy and a prophet. A gift of prophecy goes from one to another. And before the church can even receive it, it's got to be judged before three spiritual judges. And if it don't come to pass, then, it's wrong. You got the wrong spirit among you.
Like speaking in tongues and interpretations. There's where you Pentecostal people's let down. I'm not your judge, but that's the Word. That's right. You went haywire on that. You got to watch them things, that they absolutely be done decently and in order; and when the message goes, hear it.

61 Come down at the tabernacle one time, watch how we operate it there. Them things has to be every word true. If it doesn't, that person goes to the altar and get that evil spirit off of them. God don't lie. God tells the truth, see. Then you have the church in order.
That's what we're going to teach when we get the tent. So we can get the big church and see if God can get us set together. All them gifts goes in the church, but the people just get them and just go anyway with them. Like Paul said, "People say you're crazy." That's what's hurt the Pentecostal church. Certainly.
You've had the gifts, but your pastor has failed to... Excuse me, brethren. I didn't mean that. Well, yes, I did, too. I'll not take it... I don't mean to hurt your feelings, I mean, see.
But look. It's failed to set that church in the right order. That's right. That's what the church needs today. Let that church get in order and watch all the hell turn loose then. Yes, sir. It'll come together.

62 You know this, Solomon's first temple of God was cut out all over the world, and when it come together, every stone went right to its place, see. The chief cornerstone, the rejected One, was become the chief of the corner.
Now, all these spiritual gifts... Now, a gift of prophecy... A prophet is born a prophet. A gift of prophecy is on one and then the other, one and then the other. It's just in the church. And all nine spiritual gifts should be operating in every local body. Yeah, and there ought to be judges there and so forth and the church in order and working right.

63 But now a prophet ... now look. Jeremiah ... well, just so many. We take Moses, he was borned a prophet. Elijah, John the Baptist went right into the wilderness, see---a prophet...
There's Zechariah. God told Zechariah, said, "Before you was even formed in your mother's womb, I knew you, and sanctified you, and ordained you a prophet to the nation. Is that right? All the way up they had, "Thus saith the Lord." No judges standing before them. They had the Word of God. That's right.
God in sundry times and divers manners spoke to the Fathers through the prophets. But through ... this last day through His Son, Jesus Christ, the resurrected One.
Now, if He's standing here with these prophetic gifts and all kinds of gifts operating in the church, you ought to believe Him. Will you do it?

64 Now, heavenly Father, may You grant these blessings this afternoon to the people as we wait for the furthering of Your Spirit to bless us. We ask in Christ's name. Amen.
Let's just all now, being as I got off on a teaching there, let's just sing together "Only Believe." Will you just once, to kind of come back now. I wonder, while we're singing this... If Jesus will appear here this afternoon, the resurrected Jesus, will appear here this afternoon in His body of people and do the same things that He did back there when He was here on earth, will you believe it?
Now look. Cleopas and them, after the resurrection, they thought He was dead. He was walking with people that loved Him. And many of you people love the Lord. But you fail to recognize that He's with you all the time.
That's what's the matter with your healing today. You fail to recognize that He's right by you. Oh, I wish that I could get that to you. My, wish I could let it soak down on that side about five ribs deep, see. If you could only recognize...

65 Look at Cleopas and them. They was walking along saying, "Well, I guess it's all over. He's dead. We seen Him killed. We seen the spear go through His heart and died the day before yesterday. And well, we might as well go back home. That's all. Yeah, got a story down there: Women said they saw Him. But 'course, we heard the report: The Jews come and stole Him away, took Him out. I wonder what's happened."
A stranger walked out and said, "Good morning, brethren."
"Good morning, sir."
Said, "What are you so sad about?"
Said, "Are you a stranger and don't know that Jesus of Nazareth, who we expected to be the King of Israel, is dead? This is the third day..." and so forth, and...
"Why," He said, "Foolish of heart, and slow to understand." Watch. The first thing He went was right straight to the Scripture. That's where Jesus always took us.
When you see a man dodging that Scripture, you dodge him right quick, see. You stay right on that Scripture.

66 He went right straight to the Scriptures and begin with the prophets and begin to explain in the Old Testament, how that God was supposed to do: raise up Christ, and how He'd die and raise the third day and so forth. And they didn't know it was Him. They walked all day with Him.
So, when they got to the place where they was going to go in, He acted like He was going to go on by. You know, that's the way He acts a lot of times. You think He's going to pass you right by. He ain't. Don't worry. He's not going to pass you by.
So, He just acted like He was going to go by. "Oh," they said, "You must come and abide with us. The day's far spent. You must..." They constrained Him to come in.
He said, "All right." When He's invited, He'll come. So, they go in, close the door. The little waitress come up and said, "What will you gentlemen have?"
They ordered the bread and stuff. And so, she went back and brought it out, set it down. They returned thanks. And then Jesus done something the way He used to do it. And Cleopas looked at his friend, and his friend looked back to him. "Why," he said, "That's the same way ... that's the same way Jesus done it when..." He looked back and He was gone.
You see. They didn't run back real quick to argue their religion. They ran back to say, "The Lord's risen indeed."

67 Now, we're not here to argue somebody's theology, whether they're Methodist, or Baptist, or Presbyterian; or baptize this way, that way, sprinkle. Don't pay no attention to that.
I'm here to say that Christ has risen from the dead. That's the main thing. And I hope it's not in vain. I'm trying to help the sick people by it, to let them know that He died to heal them, the same as He died to save them. May He come and do it is my prayer.
Only believe. All things are possible, if you can only believe. "Whatever you ask the Father in My name, I will do it." I've asked the Father in the name of Jesus for His Son to come. And you yield yourself to Him. I'll yield myself to Him. He'll speak to us this afternoon. The Lord bless you. All right.

68 Where's the prayer cards? Did you give out what... From what to what? They were given? E's? Let's find A, B, C, D, E. That's right. E's. My. Let's see, we've been calling 1's and 50's and... Let's call something strange from it today then. Let's call from 75 today.
Who has prayer card E-75? It's a little bitty thing like this, a little white card, got a number and a letter. E-75? Would you raise your hand? Maybe I got the wrong... Was it E's? Oh, I'm sorry, sister. Come up here. Right here at the bottom of the steps.
E-75, 76, 77, 78, 79. 79? All right. 80, 81, 82, 83, 84, 85, 86, 87, 88, 89, 90, 91, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99, 100.

69 Now, be real reverent. I will not be responsible for critics or what happens. I hope to see you again next year or whenever we can get the tent.
I want to thank the Christian Businessmen for their fine cooperation, for the pastors, their fine cooperation, for the custodians here, and whatever, and for the ushers. They've done a fine job, for the sister, organist here, and the pianist. For every one of you for your tape recordings, for your help, for your support, for everything. God richly bless you is my prayer. And I pray that He will pay you a hundredfold.
Remember. If I can be of a favor to you, write to me. The night don't get too dark, and the rain don't fall too hard; I'll be praying for you. All right.
While they're trying to line up the prayer line here for those who has the prayer cards, let's start the prayer line to save time. Will you brethren go ahead and... All right bring up some of the people there.

70 How many here doesn't have a prayer card and wants Jesus to heal you? Let's see your hand. Pardon me. God bless you.
My beloved friends, my most gallant people, do you realize what you done awhile ago when you put in that offering? You know what you did? You're helping me feed my children. If there's any left over that I don't... My expenses run me at home about a hundred dollars a day, my office and everything. Sending out anointed cloths, everything's free.
And I'll assure you of this, brother, sister: There'll not be one cent of it that'll go for the wrong thing. Best of my knowledge, it'll go the mission fields there and help me preach the Gospel to the unsaved and the heathen of the land. Then the steward over that... It's out of your hands; it's in my hand now. Might have been a hundred dollars; it might have been three hundred dollars. I don't know what it was, if it was a thousand dollars. I don't know what it was. But ever what it is, it's up to me now. I'll answer for it from here out. And I want to be a good steward to the Lord. I will use it to the best of my knowledge to His glory. Thank you and God bless you.

71 And now, I wonder: Do you know right off hand "Abide With Me" without the music? Do you? That song, "Abide With Me." Just kind of a little loud if you will, so the crowd can come... That's right, sister, if you'll come.
I love that song. Let's get quietened down. It's a church. "Abide With Me."
O God. "If ye abide in Me, My words abide in you, ask what you will and it shall be done. Abide with me."
Now, heavenly Father, be Thou with us, Lord. We realize that opposition stands close. Satan is raging. Unbelief is trying to settle in upon the people. Yet the Angels are at their position. They're standing ready. Either the black flags will wave, or the white flags of heaven will wave in victory.
God, we ask in Jesus' name for the victory. Help us now. Forgive us of our sins. May we all meet at Thy home someday in peace. Until then help us as we go along encouraging others to believe. For we ask it in Christ's name, Son of God. Amen.

72 Now, if the engineer will watch my voice. (Just slowly if you will.)
Now, the lady here. First, all these people, I don't know them, you know that. I'm a stranger. I'm a stranger to you, I suppose. I don't know you. I've never seen you, but yet God knows you.
But if the Lord Jesus will reveal to me something that you have need of... Just like this, to the newcomers... Just happened to come to my mind. Here's a typical picture now. I'm talking to the newcomers here firstly. Here's a picture today, a Bible time again.

73 The Lord Jesus when He went about, He was a prophet of Galilee, and He claimed He did nothing Himself, but just as the Father would show Him. So, one day He went up to Samaria. He had need to go up on His road to Jericho, went up over the mountain. Wonder why? Said the Father sent Him up there, of course.
He sat down on a well, and a woman come out to get some water. And He said... He sent His disciples away before that to get some food. And He said to the woman, "Bring Me a drink." Why would He do that? "Bring Me a drink." Maybe He's not thirsty.
She said, "It's not customary for you Jews to ask Samaritans such as that." Said, "We have no dealings with each other."
"That's right." Said, "But if you knew who you were talking to, you'd ask Me for a drink. And I'd bring you water you don't come here to draw."
She said, "The well's deep, and You don't have nothing to draw with."
He said, "But the water I give, is life, bubbling up."
Why, she said, "Our fathers worshipped in this mountain and you say at Jerusalem."
He said, "Salvation is of the Jew, woman. We know that. We worship... We know what we worship. Salvation to the Jew. But the hour is coming when the Father ... won't worship in this mountain, neither at Jerusalem, but in the Spirit and truth. And Father seeketh such." Is that Scriptural? And then what was He doing? Carrying this conversation with the woman, He was contacting her spirit.

74 The Father said, "Go up there." That's all He knowed to do.
Father told me to come down here. That's all I knowed to do. Here's a woman. I don't know nothing about her. But what am I doing? Contacting her spirit; same thing He did.
Now, Jesus said to the woman, "Go, get your husband." He found her trouble. Was that right. Said, "Go, get your husband."
She said, "I don't have any husband."
He said, "That's right. You got five."
What did that Jew say when He told him of where he was? He said, "This is the sign of a Messiah. You're the Christ, the King of Israel."
Watch this Samaritan now. What you going to say? Why, she said, "Sir, I perceive that You're a prophet." She said, "I know that when Messiah... We know (the Samaritans) ... we know that when the Messiah cometh, He will tell us these things. But who are You?"
He said, "I am He that speaks to you."

75 What was that the sign of? Newcomer? Messiah. Is that right? It was the sign of the Messiah to the Jew. It was the sign of the Messiah to the Samaritan. The same thing to the Gentile, when Peter went up. Jesus was sent only to the lost sheep of Israel.
Now, if the Messiah is not in the grave, but alive today in His church, it's still the sign of the Messiah. Is that right? In the house of Cornelius, when Peter went in and showed him about the vision he saw it on the housetop, seen Cornelius and them. He seen them. That was the sign of the Messiah, the resurrection.
While Peter spoke these words, the Holy Ghost fell on everyone of them that heard. Ain't it too bad today that our hearts are so stony? We can't tender ourselves up. You know why? I seen something just like... If the Lord does... It happened one time in India, thousands.
One time in Durban, South Africa, I seen twenty thousand raw heathens come to Christ at one time. I saw twenty-five thousand people get healed at one time. They hauled seven, (the papers packed) seven loads, truck loads, of crutches, wheelchairs and things away from the grounds from one prayer.

76 But, oh, we got so much doctrine. "Doctor Jones says it's mental telepathy, like the Jews did." The other one says it's a devil. "Don't have nothing to do with it. Poor people, we're the..."
We need missionaries in America worse than all the world put together. It's a lot harder to deal with a educated heathen, than an uneducated one. Heathen means "unbeliever."
Now, the lady... Sister, of course, me not knowing you, never seen you in my life, there'd have to be some way I'd... If God will tell me what you're here for, or something just like He did through Jesus to the woman, will you accept Him?
Will the audience accept Him with all your hearts? You believe you'll accept Him? Watch here. The woman under oath, as it would be (We don't believe in swearing.), put her hand up. We don't know one another, is that right, lady? Never met in our life. We don't know each other. Just... You've been in my meetings? But I don't know you? That's what I meant, you see. We don't know one another. This is our first time meeting? All right then if something is revealed, it'll have to come through God.

77 Now, you could claim it telepathy, you can claim it the devil. Well, that would determine what you'd get out of it.
You know the woman touched His garment, she got virtue. But the man who put a rag around His head, that Roman soldier, the soldiers, and criticized Him, and hit Him on the head with a stick and said, "Tell me who hit you; we'll believe you now," they didn't feel no virtue. They didn't get nothing. Condemnation... Went to hell for it, if they didn't repent. So, that just determines. That's wrong.
Now, if God will tell me what you're here for, you'll believe me to be His servant, the servant of the Lord Jesus Christ? But it's His Spirit who's here doing the same thing He done in the Bible. Remember the whole audience claimed they would too. Now, you be the judge, see whether it's right or not. Let you judge it.

78 Now, the first thing the woman... I see her all upset about something. First... Yes, she's nervous. I see that she's extremely nervous. Of course, that's the time of life that she's going through at the time. That's her age. Another thing, she has a growth, a growth on her back (That's right), one on your foot, too. That's right. If that's right, raise up your hand. You believe?
Now, can I take the growth off? No, Jesus did that at Calvary. You believe it? Got some more trouble you're into, too, aren't you? It's a relative of yours. Yes. It's a domestic trouble like. It's about a marriage or divorcing and so forth. It's your nephew. Is that right? Now, do you believe me? All right. Go, receive what you've asked for. The Lord Jesus make you...

79 Thanks be to God. Now, He's here. I don't know how you judge it. That's up to you. Christ... I've preached His Word. Christ is here to confirm His Word, to fulfill His Word. Now, it's up to you what your heart is. I shall continue with the prayer line.
How do you do, lady? I don't know you, lady. You know that. God only knows you, as far as I'm concerned. You may have lots of people know you, but I don't. But if God will tell me what your trouble is, will you believe that it's Christ and not your brother standing here doing this? You will?
You're suffering with some kind of a something that stiffens you: arthritis. That's right. You got arthritis. If that's right, raise your hand. And you got a growth, too. And that growth is in your throat. That's right, isn't it? Now, you believe? Then just walk off the platform like a young lady. Arthritis is gone from you. Go on, go eat your supper and do whatever you wish to.
Let's say, "Thanks be to God."

80 How do you do, sir? We're strangers to each other, I suppose, sir. You're conscious that something's going on, aren't you? Yes, sir. The audience can see the expression of the people as they walk close.
How many seen that picture of the Angel of the Lord? Let's see your hand. That's what's right here by this brother now. That's right.
You realize something is going on? It stands between us at this time, sir. We'll stand before it someday for judgment.
I couldn't heal you if you're sick. You know Jesus did that. What He did, it's already paid for. We just have to believe it, accept it, have faith in it. Believe that God intended it for us. Which He did.
But you're suffering with a... I see it looks like a blood or something. It's kind of... It's diabetes, sugar diabetes. That's right. Isn't it, sir? You believe me to be His servant? You do that, audience?
Look on me just a minute, sir. You have a fine, a very fine spirit about you. I appreciate that. I've never seen you. I say this: You're not from this town. You're from about a hundred miles away from here. A place called King, or something like that. That's right. And your initial is W. C. like Ceracy. That's right. That's right. That's right. You believe me now as God's prophet? Then go, be well. Jesus Christ makes you well.

81 You believe? Don't doubt. Have faith. If thou canst believe, all things are possible.
You believe, lady? I believe you're telling the truth. All right. May the Lord bless you and help you.
Now, the first thing, you're suffering with a trouble with your head, some kind of injured nerve. You also got a bladder trouble, haven't you, bothering you? That's what your doctor told you anyhow. That's right. You believe you're healed? Then go and believe it with all your heart. And may the Lord bless you. God bless you, my sister. Amen. Praise the Lord.
Oh, if this didn't weaken me so... Just have faith. Audience, are you conscious what's going on? Do you realize that somewhere in the supernatural realm here stands the resurrected Christ? He's out there, too. Do you believe it? Look this way and tell Him you do. Anywhere in the building, just look and say, "God, I believe it."

82 What you praying about, little lady, sitting on the end. You believe me to be His prophet? You want to get over a nervous spell, don't you? If that's right stand on your feet. The little lady right down on the ... this little elderly lady standing there. That's right. You were sitting there praying, because you have a nervous condition, don't you? It's a mental disturbance. You're always upset. Isn't that right? If that's right, wave your hand like that.
Now, right now you don't feel it, do you? It's gone from you. You're healed. Your faith has healed you. Now, you can go home a well woman, glorifying God.

83 Look, sister. Don't weep; believe. Do you believe me to be His prophet ... or, His servant? I couldn't heal you, you know, if I had to, could I? But if God will reveal to me your trouble, will you accept it? Your trouble is that you're real weak. That's right. You've lost a lot of weight. I see you a bigger woman than what you really are now. Why? You just come from a hospital. You had an experience in the hospital, and you're so weak you can't hold yourself up. That's right, isn't it? "Thus saith the Lord." If that's right, stand on your feet.
Now, your weaknesses leave you. You can go home and be a well woman. Your faith made you well. Amen.
Have faith in God. If thou canst believe.

84 Are you the patient ... or, the person? You believe? You believe what I preached about Jesus Christ being the Son of God? Is that right, lady? You are a believer. How do I know? You could be a critic, but your spirit is welcome. You're a believer. I'm just your brother. I never seen you in my life.
But now, if you're needing healing, I couldn't do it; you know that. If you're needing forgiveness for something, unless you've sinned against me... I could forgive you if you sinned against me, but God has to forgive you. But your life, you couldn't hide now, because you're already in contact. Amen. It's wonderful.
You're a nervous person, too, really all upset, weary. Then you got a rupture, too. That's right, isn't it? You believe me to be His prophet? You got more trouble than that, sister. It's a son you're praying about. The son is mentally retarded, your boy. You're praying about him. You're not from here either. A place called Greenville. That's right, isn't it? Take that handkerchief that you wiped your tears with; lay it on the child. We'll be praying for him.

85 Yes, sister, you with the black gloves on, your hands like this. Raise up; look this way at me. If I don't quote to you your prayer, that you were praying, that I heard in another dimension, another world, tell you what you're praying about, will you believe that Jesus heard you? And this is His anointing? Who hears prayer? Christ.
You were praying for a bladder condition. And you were praying for a colon condition, and asking God to have me to speak to you. Is that right? If it is, I want you to stand up to your feet just a minute so the people will know. Turn around to the audience.
Do you believe? Don't fear, sister. You're going to be well. Why do I say that? It turns white, a light around you. First it was a dark shadow. Then that light come down as you accepted it. That same angel that was over there, it went away. Now, go believing. Don't doubt, because he'll try to come back. And the last estate will be seven times worse. But you believe what you're told. If He knows what your past was, surely He knows what your future will be.
And look. Another thing, that deep walk with God you're seeking. That's right. It's true. You're going to receive that now. Amen. Not reading your mind, just telling you what your desire is and what your prayer is.

86 How do you do, lady. What do you think about all this? Do you believe it's the Son of God, not your brother? You know that. My how could I do those things? I have no...
Sister, have faith. I can't heal you; but believe. You raised up awhile ago; got the wrong person. It was a little lady sitting here in front. But you wanted... You was nervous; that kept causing it. But your trouble comes from your back. That's right, isn't it, honey? The little girl there. Raise your hand up if that's right, see. You stepped up, just a little ahead. That's all right. I seen what was wrong with you. Lay your hand over on the lady next to you, because she's got arthritis. She wants to be prayed for. Isn't that right, lady?
The elderly lady, raise up your hand. You believe me to be His servant now? Have faith and believe. I see you're having something around your arm. Oh, it's a blood pressure thing. And he says your blood's low. That's right, isn't it?
Let me tell something else, it might encourage you. Low blood pressure is worse than high. We realize that, especially at your weight. But I want to ask you something else. Let me tell you so you'll know that Jesus Christ is here. You got somebody else you're praying for. That's your daddy. He isn't here. But he's got a bad hip. That's right, isn't it? Now, go and take that handkerchief you wiped your tears from, and receive what you ask for.

87 Come, lady. You know God can heal diabetes. Do you believe that? All right, go tell Him, thank Him. Saying, "Thank the Lord." Believe Him now.
Come, lady. Do you believe me, sister? You're mighty young to have that kind of a condition. It's a female condition, a lady's trouble. That is right, isn't it? You believe He heals you? You're feeling something now you've never had before. Isn't that right? Now, go believing. It'll come to pass. If thou canst believe.
Sister, you got one of the worst diseases there is: heart trouble. But God can heal heart trouble, can't He? You believe it? You believe it? All right, then go and receive it, and be made well, with all your heart.
How do you do, lady? Now listen, arthritis is bad. The doctors have nothing for it, but Jesus has. Do you accept it? Go, walking across the platform; receive your healing in the name of the Lord Jesus.

88 Come, lady. Do you believe with all your heart? You believe Jesus Christ is here to make you well? All right. The female trouble has left you.
I want to tell you something. That had a drainage to it too, didn't it? All right. Go, rejoicing, happy. Thanking the Lord. God bless you.
Seen you slip there. Satan tried to upset you. But you know what did it? It was just a little something strange. Because the woman just passed by here was healed with heart trouble, the same thing you had and was healed. That's because he tried to throw you off there to hurt you. But he failed. You're healed. That's right.
You're lady's condition. The main thing: you're nervous. In a lady's condition, and a female trouble causes that. You believe you're healed? Then go and receive Him in the name of the Lord Jesus.

89 Have faith. Lady, what's a kidney trouble or back trouble to God? You believe He will make you well? Then go and receive it in Jesus name.
Do you believe? Huh? Wait a minute. Do you believe? What about it out there? Has He raised from the dead?
Do you believe your wayward daughter will come home and be saved, lady? You're praying for your daughter, aren't you? Yes. Lay your hand on that baby next to you; she's got bronchial trouble in her bronchial tubes. Isn't that right, lady?
Have faith in God. What about you right behind her? You got spine trouble, haven't you, lady? Stand up on your feet there, a little white [unclear words]. Put your hand on the lady next to you. She's got arthritis, and she wants to be healed. Stand up on your feet. Believe. There you are. It's all over now. You're healed.
How about the rest of you? Do you believe Him? Do you believe He's here? Has He raised from the dead? Do you want the Holy Ghost? This is it. You can receive it. Stand on your feet and give Him the praise and you shall receive everything...

Jehovah-Jireh

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1 Thank you very much. Thank you. I have certainly enjoyed ministering with Brother Huckstra, the blessings of God ... or, Huckstra ... Hutchinson. And I am very happy to be here in Brooklyn and have this fellowship, too. And it's a great hour of my life when I come to do this. I've wanted to be with Brother Hutchinson for many years and just never had the time to do it. And this has certainly been a wonderful meeting to me.
And I have not been able to minister like I should minister. I had some difficult that Brother Hutchinson understands. And that is a physical difficult that, if I had been just maybe a little more rested and everything, I could have been in a little better condition for the service.

2 But, you've been patient with me and been kind, and I thank each and every one of you with all my heart. And I told... I heard them tonight when I was ... this afternoon when I was behind the stage there, they said ... or, the curtains; I heard them say, they were going to take an offering for me, a love offering. And I got Brother Hutchinson back there and told him not to do it, see.
And he said, "Well, we wouldn't let you come any other way." So, I didn't come for love offering, friends. Anyone knows that and knows me. I have never... The reason I don't have any great outlets such as broadcast, and television, and things, and papers, I just use other one's papers who'll let me use them: Brother Boze especially, for The Herald Of Faith.
And I had one once, The Voice Of Healing. But I'm an uneducated person. And, oh, I just want to spend my time, not in trying to edit a paper, but trying to serve the Lord Jesus in another capacity.

3 And then, if I had a big radio program and a great big television program, it would cost thousands of dollars each day to carry on that. Well, then how could I come to Brother Hutchinson and his church down there? You couldn't do it. And anyhow, all of his people need ... you need every penny you can get a hold of. And they've got fine television and radio programs and things, which I appreciate; but I try to keep my meetings small so that I could visit churches and have friends among you people and have this fellowship.
And anyhow, I think they taken a love offering for me. I do appreciate it. I never took an offering in my life. I never... When I was a Baptist minister, I worked all the time as a state game warden of Indiana and supported my family. And I never got one penny, and never accepted an offering till I come out in here and got off of work. I had to do it. I love to work. And so, I work with my hands for my living.

4 I remember one night, I was... You know how poor people get, when you can't make ends meet. You've had them times, I'm sure. And I wondered how I was going to make ends meet. And I said to my wife, I said, "Honey, I'm going to take up an offering tonight at the church." Now, not because they wouldn't give it. My church was just about the congregation about like this right here tonight in my church.
They loved me, but I just ... I was working, and I had enough just to go by, and I didn't need it. So, she said, "Well, I'm going over to watch you do it." Well, we didn't even have a collection plate in the church---not a one nor nothing. We had a little box on the back where they put their tithes in.

5 So, I said, "Friends, I hate to say this tonight," but I said, "I kind of got in a little tight place. I wonder if it'd be not out of line, I'd like to take an offering, a little offering for myself to meet a little debt that I owe, and if you all be so kind." I said, "Will some of the deacons get a hat that's hanging on the rack?" So, one of the deacons went over to get a hat.
There was a very dear bunch of people there. And an old sister used to pray for me so much. She'd sit down there and just have her head down, praying all the time I was preaching. And I seen her reach down beneath her little apron (an old-fashioned mother) and pulled out a little pocketbook, had one with snaps on the top of it. And it was during the time of the depression. It was very hard.
And so, she began to reach down in there for those little nickels. Honest, I couldn't do it. I just ... I just couldn't do it. And I said, "Oh, I was just teasing you. I didn't mean that." And the old deacon had my hat and he looked at me. And I said, "Oh, hang my hat up, Uncle Jim. I was just teasing you."

6 And there was an old brother used to come see me that had long beard. His name was John Ryan. Now, I know Brother Leo remembers him, and Gene; and Brother Hutchinson. Anybody ever know John Ryan? He's in glory tonight. And he, a very dear friend. I seen a brother here, keeps coming to the meeting, he reminds me so with his long beard. And Brother Ryan, he rode an old bicycle. Yeah, here the brother sits right here. And so the...
He'd rode a bicycle down there and he gave it to me. And it wasn't very good shape. So, I went and got me a can of paint at the ten-cent store and painted it up, and sold it for five dollars and got... I didn't have to take offering after all. So, it come out all right.

7 Now, friends, to this, it's a portion of your living and I know that, and I know what it means. And I'll assure you the best of my knowledge it'll go for the Kingdom of God's sake, see. That's right. And I trust that God will repay you for your faithfulness in many, many different ways. And may the barrel at your house never be empty or the cruse run dry, is my prayer. God bless you.
And now, tonight (closing night), we don't have too much time, I know. And I say that about every night, and then keep you a long time, and you've beared with me. But, we got to leave about three o'clock in the morning, and I got to drive to Indiana tomorrow. And we pray that the roads won't be slick.
So then,

8 our next meeting is Parkersburg, West Virginia, beginning Friday, Saturday, and Sunday of the coming week. And that's at the, I believe, Faith Temple or something. The pastor is Clare, like your pastor, Ruple ... Ruple. And I'm sorry. And then following that, we're Cleveland, Tennessee, Church of God, at the Pentecostal people.
And then after that is over, right over here in Lima, Ohio, with the Baptist people at Lima, Ohio.
[A brother says, "It's 1005 Broadway. Parkersburg, West Virginia. The pastor's name is Reverend Clare Ruble."]
And it's a revival center. I think they have a theater building that seats about fifteen hundred. And we're going to be at that place there.
Now, at Park ... at over here in Lima, Ohio, that begins on the twenty-third of January, running through to the twenty-ninth, I believe it is, of January. And that's the First Baptist Church and the Baptists around the country sponsoring that meeting. It'll be at the Memorial Hall in Lima, Ohio.

9 And if you're down in that way, have some of your friends, we'd be very happy to minister to them if we could down there. God bless you and give to you the best of the land, is my prayer.
And now, I hope some day, by God's help if it be in His will, to return again to be with you for a good long meeting up here again in New York. And I've met many of the fine pastors, and they lifted their hand out and give invitations. You don't know how that's appreciated. It makes me feel like going on, whether you're tired or not, just keep on going.

10 But, there's one sure thing that one day, we're going to meet again. That's right. That'll be on the ... if not here, it'll be at the other side. And the battle all done, I hope to reach across the table and shake your hands, and God wipe the tears from our eyes and say, "Enter into the joys of the Lord." That's what we're all striving so hard for now. While it's dark, throwing out the lifeline from side to side, trying to bring weary pilgrims in.
Now, tonight just for the way of teaching for a few moments now. I want to... If I've missed anyone, I don't mean to, and thanking you all for everything. And you're very nice. And there's one thing I ask you to do: Pray for me. You be sure to do that.

11 And I will probably be going overseas pretty soon. And I just wonder if I could ask the New York people to do this for me, Boston, here ... or, Brooklyn, if you'd do this for me. When I'm overseas and you hear that I've gone over, if the Lord permits it... And if you've never been over there, you don't realize what you have to go up against: Challenges of witch doctors and everything standing there.
And when the winds are blowing hot and trials are heavy, can I be depending on you praying for me, will you do that? Thank you very much. Thank you.

12 Now, over in the Book of Genesis, the 22nd chapter, just to continue what we were speaking of last evening. But just thought maybe we could take just maybe twenty, thirty minutes and I want to call a good long prayer line, and do everything we can to get as many sick people prayed for tonight as we possibly can.
And now in the 22nd chapter of Genesis and beginning with the 7th verse, I wish to read a portion; and then maybe the 14th verse for a way of a text.
And Isaac spake unto Abraham his father, and said, My father: and he said, Here I am, my son. And he said, Behold the ... wood: but where is the lamb for the burnt offering?
And Abraham said, My son, God will provide himself a lamb for the burnt offering and they both went together.
And then in the 14th verse.
And Abraham called the name of the place Jehovah-jireh: as it is said to this day, In the mount of the Lord it shall be seen.

13 Now may we ask God to bless His Word. Our Heavenly Father, it's tonight that we're so thankful to You for this meeting that we've had together and to have this time of fellowship around Thy Word, with Thy children, here in this great city of Brooklyn.
And I pray, Heavenly Father, that You'll richly bless them all. Bless our dear Brother Hutchinson as he's ministering faithfully to try to carry on the work. And all the other dear pastors and shepherds throughout the country. Bless them and all the sheep of Your fold in every church and every denomination.

14 And we thank Thee because we have the privilege of meeting together on one common ground and sharing this wonderful fellowship in Your Word. And we pray tonight, Father, that You will give us a double portion if possible of Thy Spirit and wisdom tonight and may it be the exceedingly abundantly.
And now, we pray that the Holy Spirit will take the Word and feed each soul just as we have need. And we'll praise Thee for it, for we ask it in Jesus' name, Thy Son. Amen.
Using the word of Jehovah-jireh tonight as a way of a text. And Jehovah-jireh is one of God's seven compound redemptive names. Now, Jehovah appears in the Old Testament in seven compound redemptive names. And those names are Jehovah's attitude towards His people. Each one express what Jehovah is to His people.

15 And all those names were completely brought together in one body, Christ Jesus. Now, He appears in the name of Jehovah-jireh, "the Lord will provide Himself a sacrifice." He appears in the name of Jehovah-rapha, "the Lord that healeth thee of thy diseases." And Jehovah the banner, and Jehovah the shield and so forth. Whatever He is to His people, He appears in these seven compound redemptive names.
Now, last evening we were going back and speaking on Abraham. And this brings it up to a climax tonight on Abraham. And now, we find last evening, we found that God gave Abraham a promise when he was an old man of seventy-five and his wife was sixty-five, that they were going to have a child. And He made the covenant with Abraham, an unconditional covenant.

16 And we found out by going back into the Word, that when God makes a covenant between Him and a man and with a man, the man always breaks his covenant. And God keeps His. So, God made this covenant by Himself. God put it to Abraham, gave it to Abraham. Not if Abraham would do anything, but God said, "I have done it." See, it's already a finished thing. It's completely, wholly, with grace.
And it's not on no conditions at all. It's God's covenant with Abraham. And not only Abraham but his seed after him. Now, the seed of Abraham, physical seed, material seed, of course, was the Jewish people. And the covenant was to stay in the promised land and God would bless them.

17 But, we find over in the New Testament that the Gentile church was grafted in. And it was ... they're the wild olive tree, of Ezekiel, and they were grafted in. And Paul tells us that that which outwardly is not the Jew; but that which is inwardly is Abraham's seed. We, being dead in Christ, we take on Abraham's seed and are heirs according to the promise.
Now, the reason that we're called Abraham's seed, because that Abraham's seed physically was speaking on to Isaac, and Isaac on to Christ, and Christ came and gave His life a ransom for us. And sent the Holy Spirit back which gives us the faith that Abraham had before he was circumcised. He believed God and it was imputed unto him for righteousness; and God gave him the sign of circumcision as a confirmation of his recognition of his faith.

18 And today, when we believe God with all of our heart and accept His Son, the Lord Jesus, and God recognizes that faith that's true in Him; then He sends back down the Holy Spirit of promise and seals us until the day of our redemption. My! That takes all the scare out of all of it. There's no negative thoughts at all in Christianity. Everything is a past tense. It's already finished.
Healing is not what a man can do, it's what God has done, see. It's a finished work. Salvation is not what a man can do, what the church can do. It's a finished work, and your faith in that finished work that Christ completed everything that was brought in the fall; Christ redeemed it back in His atoning death, vicarious suffering at Calvary's cross. And He was put in the grave and God raised Him up the third day for our justification.

19 And now we see Him sitting at the right hand of God, making intercession upon our profession, or, the same word is translated, "confession." And no matter how much you pray, how much you cry, how much you agonize, how much you do, it'll never be accepted. God can do nothing for you until first by faith you accept it, and believe it, and confess it, see.
That's the only way God can act now is when you act first, because He's a high priest making intercessions on your confession of your faith in His finished work. I don't believe there's anyone can find fault with that, see. That's the basis of divine healing.

20 Now, brethren, there may be someone here who doesn't believe in divine healing, that doesn't teach it. Well, now, I certainly don't agree with you on your views, but, I feel sorry for you for the great blessings that you could have by believing the full Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ. If you could only just accept it upon the basis of the Word.
Some time ago, a man told me, a young Baptist minister had just graduated. And Charles Fuller and several other men and Stuart Hamblin, I believe it was, they all had their pictures taken in the studio there. And I was having the service in this city. And they asked me down. They wanted to take some pictures. And they tried to get my manager away, because they knowed that I didn't have any education. And my manager was a smart man.

21 So, as soon as they got him away (promising to have me there), then the man said to me, he said, "Mr. Branham, as a man, I admire you. But, your theology on divine healing," he said, "I do not believe it."
I said, "Well, that wasn't given to unbelievers. It was only give to believers."
And he said, "Well," he said, "do you preach divine healing on the basis of the atonement?"
I said, "Every redemptive blessing was included in the atonement." See, it has to be.
He said, "Then, yeah, you mean over there in Isaiah where it said He..."
I said, "Exactly, that's right."
"Well," he said, "I believe you're honest enough. If I would prove to you by the Scripture," said, "surely, that you would accept it if the Scriptures would claim that that was done away with."
I said, "If the Scriptures claimed it, yes, sir."
And he said, "Well, if I'll prove it."
I said, "All right, sir."

22 He said, "In Matthew 8, they brought to Jesus the sick and the afflicted, and He healed them that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet Isaiah. He bore our infirmities and took our diseases." He said, "You see, it was fulfilled right there, Brother Branham."
"Well," I said, "brother, I was expecting something better than that." I said, "I believe my little boy could have give me a better one than that." I said, "If that be so, that was a year and six months before the atonement was ever made, before Jesus was crucified." Then, I said, "Then the atonement had more power before it was enforced than it is when it's enforced." I said, "That won't work."
And so, then he started off on some of those great big words, that I couldn't understand. And I said, "I've been with the Pentecostal people a long time, but I don't have the gift of interpretation." I said, "I understand it just the way it's written here in the Bible. You talk King James to me and then we'll understand."

23 So, I said... He kept on saying different things. I said, "Well, now, brother, I want to ask you something." I said, "Will you believe that, (leaving aside---or---the atonement), do you believe it was in the Word? Like Mark 11:24, 'Whatsoever things you desire, when you pray believe.'"
Oh, he said, "It's in the Word." That's when he hung himself, see. He said, "It was in the Word."
I said, "But, not in the atonement."
"That's right."
I said, "Oh, brother. You mean that God put it in the New Testament here that "whatsoever" included anything?"
"Yes, that's right. And other Scriptures in the New Testament."

24 I said, "Then, I want to ask you something. There was a king one time who had a great kingdom. And he made all of his rules and his laws and everything. And there was a slave one day who committed a crime and he was brought before the king. And he was a man of honor. He kept his word. And he was found guilty. And he looked in his books, and in the book, the penalty of this crime was death. So, the man was a just man and he had to do nothing but take the life of the criminal. And he said, 'I'm sorry, I have to take your life.' Said, 'Because I'm a man of honor, I keep my word, and here is my book of law, and my law says that you must die for this penalty.'"
He said, "I follow you."
I said, "All right. Now, what's the man got to do? He's got to take his life because his law says so."
He said, "That's exactly right."

25 I said, "Well, then the first thing, the man, he begin to trembling and shaking. And the king said to him, 'Now before I take your life, what could I do for you before I take your life?'
"And he said, 'I'd like to have a glass of water.' So, they gave him a glass of water and the poor fellow was shaking so, he couldn't hold it because he knew he was going to be beheaded in a few moments for his crime. So, he was shaking and he...
"The king said, 'Now, wait a minute. Straighten yourself up. I'm not going to take your life until you drink the water.' The slave threw the water on the ground."
I said, "Now, what's he going to do? He's a man of honor. His law says, 'He must die.' And his word he can't keep now. What about it?"
Oh, he said, "That was a slip-up on the king."

26 I said, "Then God made a slip-up when He put it in His Word and not in the atonement? Oh, no brother, that won't work," see. So, it's in the atonement, divine healing was included in the atonement and it's for "whosoever will." That's right. But, it's based on this: that it's your faith in the finished works of Jesus Christ. Death and burial and resurrection and your ... finishing of the works, it's your faith based on that.
Now, we find then that God foreseeing this bringing forth the Lamb, the real Lamb. That was the old animal lamb was a type and his blood could never take away sin. It just covered sin. And that's the reason there was a place called Paradise, or, the gathering to the fathers, where the Old Testament saints went when they died.

27 But, when Jesus died, sin wasn't covered. It was divorced and done away with. And then He emptied Paradise and led captivity captive, and gave gifts unto men. The Old Testament saints went with Him, after His resurrection, appeared into the city and appeared before many people that was in the city (Matthew 27), after Jesus' resurrection; the old saints of the Old Testament come out of the graves and went into glory with the Lord Jesus according to Matthew 27. That's right.
And now, when we go, we go into the presence of the Father, waiting the second coming of the Lord. Now, then there's no guess work on it. It's all a finished work. God has already done it. It's all over with.

28 Now, we find Abraham last night, believing God and calling those things which were not as though they were because God said so. And as long as you have the promise of God that says it, regardless of what circumstances look like, believe it anyhow, for God said so. And if you are the children of Abraham---not the children of the church now, the children of the denomination, but the children of Abraham---you believe God's promises every one of them regardless of what someone else would say about it. You believe His promises are true.

29 And we find him then that God told him to separate himself from all of his kindred and to walk among a strange people, speaking a strange language. And we went through it, how God called separation. When you become a Christian, you've got to separate yourself from your sinful associates. That's exactly right. "Come out from among them, my people and be ye separate," saith the Lord. It's a different walk. It's an individual walk. It's a walk between you and God alone. And just you and He. Just two can travel the road. That's you and He.
And then, the next thing we find out as God ... as Abraham began to get older, the promise looked farther off. Sarah got older. But, Abraham, maybe after ten years was passed or fifteen years was passed; Abraham would go to Sarah and say, "How do you feel, now, honey?"
"No different at all, Abraham."
He'd say, "Praise God, we're going to have it, anyhow." God said so. That settles it. That was what Abraham believed.

30 And then we find out that one day, he questioned God. "Seeing, Lord, that I go childless and I have no children. And there's one in my household, that's this Eliezer." And he's from Damascus. "And seeing that I go childless. And he will take all my inheritance."
He said, "But, he will not be your heir. The one from your own bowels will be your heir."
He said, "Lord, how will this be?"
Then, God confirmed His covenant and His oath to Abraham. Now, I want you to watch something here. Watch how He did it. Oh, them old nuggets, how beautiful they are. And He said, "Go get Me a heifer of three years old. And go get Me a she-goat of three years old and a ram." Watch the two females. "And the ram. And a turtledove and a pigeon." Turtledoves and pigeon.

31 And he went and killed the animals, and cut them in two, laid piece to piece. But, the turtledoves, he did not separate, or the pigeon. If we just had time to go into that. The turtledove represents divine healing. The atonement changed. The time changed. The law from grace. But, God has always through all times, not by laws or actions, but always through grace has had a way for healing for His people.
The brass serpent, the pool at Bethesda. All the way. He's always had a healing atonement for His people. But, these animals that were cut apart and laid piece by piece... Then, Abraham watched the fowls of the air as they started to come down to get on them. And Abraham drove them away until the going down of the sun.

32 Then, as the sun went down (Notice what happened now), God caused a deep sleep to fall on Abraham. In otherwise, "Abraham, I'm just taking you out of the picture. There's nothing you can do about it. This is what I'm going to do. I'm determined to save men that wants to be saved." And He took Abraham and put him to sleep. And when Abraham went to sleep the first thing he saw was a great darkness and a horror. That's death.
Every man that's born on earth meets death. Then, after that, he seen a smoking furnace. And every man is deserving of hell, for you're born in sin, shaped in iniquity, come to the world speaking lies. There's nothing good about us to begin with.

33 So, death comes first. Then, hell was the next, the smoking furnace. Then, he saw a burning lamp, a light. Now, watch. And this lamp went between each one of those pieces, making a covenant, that God, some day, through the promised seed, would raise up the Lord Jesus Christ to confirm the covenant with all the peoples of the earth, which Abraham was a father of nations.
Notice, he changed his name after that from Abram to Abraham. Now, notice the covenant. Now, in America when we make a covenant... You people here who belong in the business realms, you'll call your friend out and have a sandwich and drink a cup of coffee. And then you talk the thing over and make an agreement. And you reach out and get a hold of your neighbor's hand and shake his hand. Say, "It's agreeable." That's a covenant. You shook one another's hands on it. Shake on it.
You've done that a many time. I have too. Shake on it. That's it. It's a sealed contract, then, when you shook your hand.

34 Now, in Japan when they make a covenant, well, they got a different way. They talk it all over, and then they get a little cruse of salt. And they stand and pitch salt on one another. That's making a covenant in Japan.
But, in the Orient, back in the time of the Lord Jesus and up to His time, and the time of Abraham when they made a covenant; they took a piece of paper and wrote whatever they made their covenant about. And then when they did, they killed an animal. And when they killed this animal, they separated it. And they stood in between these two pieces of this dead animal, and they wrote out their covenant. Just whatever it was, they tore it two.

35 One man took one piece and one another. And when this covenant was confirmed, both of these pieces had to come together and dovetail just exactly the same. Both of them had to come together and they took an oath that if this covenant was broke, let their being, their bodies, be broke just like this dead animal was that they were standing between.
What a beautiful picture of Calvary, when God took Jesus up to Calvary. And there tore Him apart, and He raised up His body and put it on the right hand of His throne in glory and sent back the Spirit that He tore out of it, the Holy Ghost, upon the church. And when we come together and this covenanted people will have to have the same Spirit that was in Jesus Christ will have to be in the individual, or he won't dovetail with the rest of the body of Christ. Amen.
That may sound fanatical, but that's the truth. Just the Spirit that come from the blood sacrifice. Amen. I'm not "amening" myself, but amen means "so be it."

36 And the contract that God made over the life of His own Son to tear Him apart, His Spirit from His body, and raised His body up and sent the Spirit back to the church. And we've got to be born again of that Spirit or we're not in God's covenant. So, therefore, criticize it, call it holy-roller or whatever you want to. It's the baptism of the Holy Ghost that puts us into the covenant of God, sealed by the Spirit of promise. Amen.
Ephesians 4:30 says, "Grieve not the Holy Spirit of God whereby you are sealed till the day of your redemption." Oh, what a beautiful picture. Abraham was strong then. Then he called those things which were not as though they were.

37 In the 17th chapter (just hitting the highlight of the place for a few moments), we find that God appeared to Abraham in the name of El Shaddai, "The Almighty God, the strong One."
Now, El Shaddai, a Hebrew word which really means, "the bosom, or the breast," like the woman, the mother. El Shaddai, El the Shaddai, "the bosom." Now, He said, "Abraham, you're a hundred years old and Sarah's ninety; but I am the bosom," the breasted God. The breasted God, not a breast, but breasted God. "He was wounded for our transgressions, with His stripes we were healed," see.
And He said, "Abraham, though you're old and your strength is gone and Sarah's womb is dead, and the milk veins are no more; but I am the breasted God. Just lean over on My bosom and nurse from My promises and I will give you your strength." He's still El Shaddai, the breasted God.

38 Though the doctor says that cancer is going to kill you, He's the breasted God. Amen. Lean on His bosom. He's got two, the New and Old Testament. Just lean on every promise that He made and nurse your strength back again out of God's eternal promises. He's just the same today as He was when He made the promise to Abraham. The breasted God. Amen.
In other words, like a fretting baby. A little baby can be weak, and run down, and crying. And the mother picks it up, puts the little fellow to her bosom. And not only is the little baby nursing the mother's strength... And when you're nursing on God's promise, you're nursing His strength. His Word is His strength.

39 "I believe Jesus saves and His blood washes whiter than snow." "I can, I will, I do believe that Jesus heals me now." You're nursing from His strength. And not only does the baby nurse back it's strength from the mother, the strength-giver, as God is to His Word, the strength-giver; but also the baby is pacified while it's a nursing.

40 And a real child of Abraham, born again of the Spirit of God is satisfied that God is going to keep His Word while He's waiting on His strength. Amen. He doesn't fret. He just lays there and nurses his little way right back to strength again. And we are God's children that lean upon His promise and nurse our strength from God.
If you're weak, and you can't give up this, and give up that, just take God's promise and lean and nurse. If you're sick, just take His promise and nurse from it, and be satisfied that God said so. That's what Abraham did. He said, "Now, Abraham, you're a hundred years old, but I'm just going to let you nurse your way right back to health again, right back." Now, what a beautiful promise.
At a hundred years old... Think of it. Then, one day, while Abraham was sitting in his tent... Here it is; I want you to get it. Looked like that everything was against him. There was Lot down there in the big churches down in Sodom and having him a big time; and Mrs. Lot belonged to all the card parties and things down there, perhaps, or whatever went on---all the things of sin.

41 And here was Sarah, ninety years old, and Abraham a hundred, sitting out in a tent, but they were in the will of God. I'd rather sit in a tent any time and be in the will of God. No matter where it's at as long as you're in the will of God.
While Abraham's sitting there nursing, (amen) nursing on God's eternal promise, he looked: Coming, walking down across the path, coming down from the spring somewhere, here come three men, walking, had dust on their clothes. And Abraham looked. And he was spiritual. It didn't take ten meetings for him to learn something. He knew right then that that was supernatural beings clothed in human flesh.
And they walked up, and he said, "Where do you go?" And, "Stop by a little while and I want to ... I want to ... You'll be a blessing to me. Sit down under the tree here just a little while and let me fetch just a little water and I'll wash your feet, bring you a morsel of bread and you can be on your road." Entertaining strangers.

42 Abraham in his heart knew they were not ordinary men. Notice, and he run in real quick and said, "Sarah, go get your sifter and sifter a little meal right quick. And get down here and bake some corn pone right quick on the hearth." And he ran out into the herd and got a calf and killed the calf, and had a boy to dress it, and went and milked the cow, and churned, he got some milk. And he brought that calf, corn pone, milk, and bread, and butter, and set it down before these men to eat; and one of them was Almighty God. Amen.

43 Stay in the will of God. You'll see God. Just stay in His will. No matter how others think about it. Stay right in the will of God.
Some preacher told me not long ago, said, "Do you believe that was God?"
I said, "The Bible said it was. And if the Bible said it was, it was."
Said, "How could He ever become flesh like that?"
"Why," I said, "You just don't know the power of God." That's all. What is it to God? Well, you know what I believe He done? And those two men with Him were Angels. Well, God just reached over and got a little petroleum out of the earth and a little cosmic light and some calcium and, "Whewww!" Said, "Step in there, Gabriel. Whewww! Step in there, Michael." Reached and got a handful, then stepped in it Himself and while He was in flesh, He was hungry.
Now, to you people that won't eat meat, what about that? And He eat the calf, drank the milk from the cow. That's what the Bible said. And He eat cornbread and had butter on it. That's a pretty good dish. And He eat it. And the Bible said, "It was God and two angels." Sure.

44 I'm so glad that He's that way. What's the trouble of the resurrection, then? A God that could blow a handful of atoms together to hold some petroleum together in a instant's time, and step down in into it, and go right back out the same way. Why do I worry about dying then? Long as He knows me and long as I know Him in the power of His resurrection, means it'll come out some day from among the dead. Amen. See it?
What is human flesh? What's it made out of? Where was it? As I told you last night, my wife said to me, "You're almost bald-headed, Billy." I told her I hadn't lost a one of them.
She said, "Well, where are they at?"

45 I said, "Tell me where they was before I got them? They are there waiting for me." And some day, this body that now is, won't be, yet it will be again. What is it? God put it together. Amen. Death is reigning in the mortal beings now, but some day death will be put down forever and God will speak and we'll jump from the dust in the resurrection. That's the Christian hope. Amen.
God standing by Abraham. God, Almighty Jehovah, who just blowed a few atoms together and said, "Now, I'll step down and talk to Abraham like a man." And the angels went on to Sodom. And Lot in his backslidden condition, recognized them. And yet, God walked out with Abraham and blessed him and went up and disappeared from him. He was and then was not. Do you get it?
We might drop this in just as a little extra here. Not in no big hurry, are you? Look, just a little extra. I want to give you some comfort. Notice, here some time ago, I was preaching on over at Benton Harbor, Michigan. Then a radio minister got it and wrote it in a book. So, it's a very consoling word.

46 I think you... You know the Bible is a love letter. You just don't read it like this and say, "Oh, so-and-so, and so-and-so, and so-and-so." You don't get it. The Bible said... I don't care how much education you got and how many PhD's and LLD's you got. You'll never know the Bible till the Holy Ghost will reveal it Himself.
Jesus thanked God. Said, "I thank Thee, O Father, that Thou hast hid these things from the eyes of the wise and prudent and will reveal them to babes such as will learn." You don't have to be smart. You have to humble yourself. God's words are secret love letters to His church.
Now, my wife, how I love her. And she'll write me a letter when I'm overseas and she will say, "Dear Billy, I'm ... tonight with the babies. I have just put them to sleep. I'm..." Going to talking like that. Now, that's what she wrote on the paper, see. But, I love her so much that I can read right between the lines what really she means, see.

47 Now, that's the way it is with God. Not because you know so much. But, because you love Him, and He loves you, sit down and read His love letter. And He'll just speak to you right between the letters. The real context is in the text. And the context is revealed by the Holy Ghost. Oh, that would make a Methodist shout. Think of it, brother! How that is. That's right. See, it's a love letter, a love affair between you and your Maker. And He will reveal it to you as you have need of.
Now, we could go back and I could pick up things in the Bible with the kind fellowship of the Holy Spirit that you'd look at it. But, right here I want to drop a little something to you. I hope it's a comfort to you that the Holy Spirit showed me one time.

48 Notice, Abraham was talking to God and these two Angels, and God had His back turned to the tent. He said, "Now, Abraham," in other wise like this. "You've been faithful, and so now, I'm going to keep My promise to you. And according to the time of life..." It's a mixed audience, but you know what I mean: the twenty-eight days for Sarah. Said, "I'm going to visit you, and you're going to have this baby."
And Sarah laughed. And God with His back turned, talk about mental telepathy, He said, "Why did Sarah laugh?" With His back turned to the tent. The Bible said so. "Why did Sarah laugh?"
And Sarah said, "Oh, I didn't laugh."
Said, "Oh, yes, you did. You did laugh." 'Cause she was scared. He said, "I'm going to visit you and I'm going to confirm My covenant. I'm going to bring forth My promise." Amen.

49 I want you to watch something just a minute. Immediately, God did something to Abraham and Sarah there what He's going to do to every child of Sarah and Abraham. Every child of Abraham, by faith in Christ, He will do this some day. Now look, I believe I was speaking one night this week.
I asked a doctor one time, I said, "When I eat food, is it true that I renew my life?"
He said, "Yes, sure. You put blood cells in by the food."

50 I said, "All right, when I was sixteen years old, every time I'd eat, I'd bigger, stronger. And I eat the same kind of food, more of it, and better, and I'm getting older and weaker." I said, "If I'm renewing my life, why would I have to die as long as I could eat, then?" See?
And he said, "Well..." I said, "Here doctor, here's a jar setting here, a glass, and I've got a large container of water. I'm pouring water into this glass, and it begins to fill up. That's what I'm putting life in. I'm growing, getting bigger all the time stronger. And all at once it gets to a certain place, not full, but then instead of getting full ... I'm pouring more water in faster and it's going down all the time. And there's no place where it's going out. So, we just wonder what's the matter. Scientifically prove it to me." You can't.

51 I said, "Here it is. It's an appointment that God made." When you got to a certain age after you left about twenty-two to twenty-five years old, death set in on you. The picture was painted. And the wrinkles come under your eyes, and the hairs turn gray, and your shoulders stoop, and you're still eating, and putting life in, all the time just the same.
But, you're dying all the time because God has said you would. But, what was God doing in the first place? He was painting a picture. And He was making it just what it would be. Now, Christianity is based upon resurrection. Now, not replacement.
Now, if this falls and I had to take this and put in its place, that's not resurrection; that's replacement. But, resurrection is to bring up the same one that fell down. The same Jesus that went into the grave come out of the grave with the scars on His hands.

52 If you're black-headed in this life, you'll be black-headed in the life to come. Only old age will be done away with. Now, watch what He done here to Sarah and Abraham. Now look, now I know you're going to doubt this, some of you. But, listen anyhow. I want you to explain it to me then. Now, God had to do something to that woman, and that man too. He was a hundred years old, brethren. And she was ninety, an old grandma, little bitty shawl over her shoulders and little sticks: grandma.
Now, in order to have this baby... And you young people excuse this. I'm your brother. You listen to your doctor. Now look, but I want to make a point that people can realize that this is not fiction. This Bible, it's the truth. The devil has just got you so in such a hurry here, till you don't take time to look at it right.

53 Notice, here, God had to do something. That woman was almost fifty years past menopause. And Abraham had lived with her since a girl, and still she had no children. She was absolutely childless and he was sterile. And there was nothing could be done. God had to perform some kind of a miracle.
Now, in order to have the child, He had to make her fertile. In order to do that... They didn't have these bottles you feed the babies in. He had to... Them milk veins was dried up. So, He'd have to create milk veins for her, in order to do that for the baby to nurse. And then... And a woman ninety years old could not have the baby in labor. You understand that. Then He'd have to strengthen her heart. God don't patch up people like that.

54 You know what He done? He turned Abraham and Sarah back to a young man and woman. I'll prove it to you. Watch the Bible. Now, in between the lines, watch. Immediately after that, I can just see Abraham get up the next morning and say, "Darling, well those brown eyes are flashing again."
She say, "Dad, you know that hump's coming out of your shoulders. You know your hair is getting a little darker."
Two or three days later, "Sarah, honey, you're getting pretty again." I want you to notice how unreasonable it would be to believe it any other way. Now, watch and see. Look between the lines now.

55 That old couple left that place and took a journey down to Gerar. Mark it on your map: about three hundred miles. That's a long journey for grandma and for grandpa---three hundred miles. And notice, when they got down there, there was a young king by the name of Abimelech and he was hunting a sweetheart. And of all those beautiful Philistine girls, he seen grandma coming and he fell in love with her and said, "That's just the one I'm waiting for."
He took Sarah, and Abraham, "Say, you're my sister." Is that right? I can show you some grace here if you wanted to see it. All right. Look, he took Sarah for his wife: old grandma. "That's the beautifulest thing I ever seen." Grandma. Nonsense. He never, he took a beautiful Hebrew woman. Sarah had been turned back to her twenties. And there she was in all of her beauty again.

56 There was Abraham, a strong man, a young man. And notice, then, after he took her... And Abraham said, "Now, wait, you tell them this little lie for me, will you? You say, 'It's my sister.'" See? "And then, that'll be your kindness to me because they'll kill me if you don't."
So, she said, "It's my brother."
And Abimelech said, "Well, come right over here." And he took her in, and tell all of his maids, "Now, you go in and dress her all up and put the best clothes on her." Oh, my! She was a beauty. A hundred years old. See?

57 Now, you say, "Age was different then." Wait a minute, brother. The Bible said, "They were both well-stricken in age." That's right. The Bible said so. I caught your thought on that. All right.
Notice, well-stricken in age. And what did he do? Abimelech goes in and takes his bath, says his prayer. Now, he was a good holiness man. Sure was. And he goes and lays down after saying his prayer and sticks his feet out on the bed, and said, "Oh, tomorrow, I marry that beautiful queen of the Hebrew girl that come down here today." A hundred years old.
All right. And while he was laying there thinking all on it, the Lord appeared to him and said, "You're just as good as a dead man."
Well, he said, "Lord, why?"
He said, "You got a man's wife."
"Why," he said, "You know the integrity of my heart. She said, 'It's my brother.' And he said, 'It's my sister.'"
God said, "Yes, I know the integrity of your heart and that's why I kept you from sinning against Me."

58 Watch, Abraham backslid, telling a lie. There ain't no little white ones. They're all big dark ones. Abraham backslid and any man would do his wife that way, sitting out there telling a lie, backslid. Abimelech a holiness man.
But, He said, "Take that man back his wife, for he is My prophet. And I'll not hear your prayer. But, you ask him to pray for you. If you don't, you're a dead man. Your whole kingdom is gone, everything you got is going to die." Oh, hallelujah! There you are. God's [Gap in the audio.] unconditional promise to His people. Amen. That's right.

59 Look here, talk about turning back to a young man... Sarah brought forth the baby, Isaac. And when Isaac lived to be forty-five years old, I believe, before he married Rebekah. And Abraham, after the death of Sarah, married another woman and had seven sons besides the daughters. Thanks be to God for the baptism of the Holy Ghost, who comes by revelation to reveal the things of the Lord and to bring comfort to His people's heart. Amen.
Watch, when little Isaac, oh, when little Isaac was about eight years old, a great trial come. We're closing now. We haven't got time to go into something else. But, watch, when little... Now, remember, mother; remember dad. Don't care about age. Some glorious day, you're going back to a young couple again. If you're Abraham's seed, you've got God's promise with His hand over His heart and a oath to Himself. He took a oath to Himself that He would do that.

60 So, what you scared about? Nothing to be scared. Let them shoot their atomic bombs over here. That's all right. Don't matter anything. Why, the dust won't be settled till we'll be in glory. Well, there won't be ... there's nothing to worry about. Quit being scared. Just take God at His Word and start walking on. Believe Him, with child-like faith.
Notice, when little Isaac become about twelve years old... I can imagine the little curly-headed Jewish boy. And think of the mother and father waited all this time. And God appeared to Abraham, now to make sure, to double promise you of His Word whether He will keep it or not.
He said, "Abraham, this is the boy, you know, that's going to be the blessing to all the world. And now, I want you to take this boy and take him out yonder to a place I'm going to show you and kill him for Me." Did Abraham stagger at God's promise? No, sir.

61 Now, he didn't want to tell Sarah, 'cause maybe the women don't understand every time just right. So, I can imagine the next morning he got up and chopped him a armful of wood and put it up on a mule. And he took, said, "Now, the son and I are going out for a little trip. We'll be back few days."
All right, Sarah standing there a waving goodbye to her little boy as he went out on the mule. And they walked. He had some servants. Now, the Bible said, "He went three days' journey in the mountains." Three days, an ordinary man ... I can walk thirty miles a day easy. I've done it many times on patrol, year in and out. A man in them days that didn't have gasoline feet like we have today, could probably walk better.
But, let's say he walked fifty ... twenty-five miles each day. That would make him seventy-five miles back from camp. And then, he raised up his head and looked afar off (I don't know how many more miles; back into no-man's land) and he saw the mountain. And God told him, "That's the mountain."

62 And he went to the mountain and told the boys, (I love this), he told the boys, the servants... He took the wood and put it on Isaac's back: Perfect type of Christ. And Abraham took the fire and so forth and told the servants... Listen to this Talk about faith. He said, "You wait here. The lad and I is going yonder to worship. The lad and I shall return."
How is he going to return? He's going there to kill him. But, he said, "He received him as one from the dead, knowing that God could raise him from the dead." There you are. No, he didn't stagger about it. He believed God.

63 Here goes little Isaac up the hill, packing away on the wood. Just a beautiful picture about eight hundred years later of Christ going up Golgotha, packing His wood, cross that He was to die on. And he goes up to the top of the hill and father Abraham rolled up some rocks, put the wood out, laid the fire down.
And little Isaac said, "Father?"
And he said, "Here I am, son."
He said, "Here is the altar, here is the fire, here is the wood." The little fellow didn't understand. He said, "But, where is the lamb for the sacrifice?"
And Abraham---I can imagine as he looked upon his darling little boy---he said, "God will provide a lamb for the burnt offering." So, when he got everything ready, takes his own little son, pulls his robe off and lays it down. Takes a rope which was around his waist, perhaps, tied his hands and tied his feet, laid him upon the altar, pulled back his hair. No doubt holding the tears back if it was choking down his throat. Looked back like that, pulled his little hair back, reached down and pulled out the knife. Looked up, pulled his hair back and started to take his own son's life.

64 And as he raised his knife, the Holy Ghost caught his hand and said, "Abraham, stay your hand. I see now that you love Me. I see that you wouldn't even withhold your only begotten son. You wouldn't withhold him for Me." Now, what happened? About that time, a little ram bleated, had his horns hooked in the vines. A ram, a little sheep, bleated.
And Abraham went and got the ram and killed it instead of his son. That ram was Christ. I want to ask you something. Where did that ram come from? Now look, he's a hundred miles from civilization. He's up on top of a mountain where there's no water, a hundred miles from civilization in that country where there's lions, and tigers, and wolves, and hyenas.

65 And this ram, a hundred miles from civilization, up on top of the mountain where there's no water, and was standing there hooked by his horns. And what happened? God will provide Himself a sacrifice. God spoke the lamb into existence and five minutes later he went out of existence. God will provide a sacrifice. Anything that God has need of, He can provide it.
Notice, you say it was a vision. No, it wasn't a vision; it was a lamb. He killed it and the blood ran out of it. It wasn't a vision. It was actually a lamb that Jehovah-jireh provided when He had a need of it.
And Jehovah-jireh can provide tonight the evidence of the resurrection of His Son, Christ Jesus, that you could seal your soul into Heaven or into hell with it. That's right. He's Jehovah-jireh, "the Lord will provide Himself a sacrifice."
If you're hungering, if you're thirsting, God has a way to satisfy that thirst. David said, "When the deep calls to the deep, there's a deep to respond to it." Jesus, when He was here on earth, He said, "If I do not the works of My Father, then don't believe Me. But, if I do the works of My Father, then believe the works. Though you don't believe Me, believe the works."

66 What was the works that He did of the Father? He said, "I do nothing till the Father shows Me first." Saint John 5:19. "I can do nothing in Myself till I see the Father doing it. And what the Father doeth that doeth the Son likewise."
Now, the Bible teaches us by Christ's own words, "The things that I do shall you do, also. More than this shall you do, for I go to My Father. A little while and the world will see Me no more, yet ye shall see Me, for I will be with you, in you, to the end of the world." The Bible says in 13th chapter of Hebrews that Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever.
Then, if God provided a lamb for them there to meet the condition, He's provided the same lamb tonight, Jesus Christ, to meet this crisis here in the church tonight. He's still Jehovah-jireh. We're living in a critical time when this nation, which has been a strong place, and a wonderful place... To my opinion it's the greatest nation under Heaven. But, it's falling. And every nation will have to fall.

67 I've stood where the pharaohs stood, and you'd have to dig twenty feet to find their kingdoms that once was. I've stood where Alexander the Great, where the pharaohs of Egypt, as I said, I've stood where the Herods of Italy and so forth. But, all is sunk and gone. And every nation will go the same way. Everything mortal has to give away to immortality. For, we seek a city to come who's builder and maker is God. And our hearts are hungering for it as Father Abraham was. We are his children.
And we are seeking the city that's not built by hands, but made of God. And all these earthly things will have to decay. When I was a little boy, I used to go out to a great big oak tree. It was a beautiful tree. I thought, "When I'm an old man, I'll sit under this tree." I went out there not long ago and there's nothing but a snag.

68 I used to see my father, a little short man and he could easily... He was a logger. He could throw a nine hundred pound log on the wagon just as easy---a little short fellow. He had a way of doing it. Strong as he could be. We used to have an old broken looking-glass hanging on the side of a tree and a little bench built here where we'd wash on the outside of our little log cabin when we're getting ready to eat dinner. And I'd watch my daddy as he'd roll his arms up and the muscles just wadded in his arm. I thought, "He'll be a hundred and fifty years old." He died at fifty-two. Here we have no continuing city. But, we're seeking one to come.

69 A few days ago, I was playing marbles with my little buddy. Here I am a middle-aged man. A few days longer, the turning of the sun, if God permits, I will be a way old man of around a hundred, shoulders drooping down, and turning back to dust. Here we have no continuing city. Everything mortal must give away to immortality. We are here as God's witnesses.
In this generation, I'll have to rise in the resurrection and give an account for this generation. I'll have to give an account to God for you. I've preached to you. I've told you about it. And, my friends, there's only one hope left in the whole world. I've visited nation after nation, every one of them is quivering and shaking the same as you are. Sometimes worse.

70 We're at the end of the road. A President Eisenhower in every city, and in every country, and in every village, and every town, in this America would never stop this onslaught going on, of cigarette smoking, women and drunkards and so forth. It couldn't be done. You're going to have your own way. You're bulldozing yourself right into hell. That's right and you know it. And you're without excuse.
But, before a just God can pour out His judgment upon a people, He has to make a way of escape for everyone who desires to receive it. This is your day of visitation. You might not want to believe it because an uneducated minister said it. But, don't pay no attention to the messenger. Pay attention to the message you're hearing. Now, let us pray.

71 Our Heavenly Father, we thank Thee tonight for the Lord Jesus, God's provided sacrifice. We thank Thee for everything that He promised we know is true. We know that He is the same yesterday, today, and forever. We know that the hour is at hand.
You said, "When you see nations rising against nations, kingdoms against kingdoms." Great sights in the air, fearful sights in the skies, flying saucers, all kinds of things in the air; men's hearts failing. More heart trouble than anything else today, perplexed of time. The sea roaring, great tidal waves breaking the banks of the seas that's never been known in history, killing thousands. Earthquakes in divers places.
You said, "This was the marking of the end time." You said, "Look up for your redemption's drawing near." We are not due to know the hour or the season. We do not know that. But, we have a sign before us that to make ready. It won't be long. We see the Jews in Palestine going back to the homeland. We see that six-point star of David hanging yonder, the oldest flag in the world is flying over there with that ensign to prove what the prophet said. We see her blossoming as a rose.
O God, how You hardened Hitler's heart and Mussolini and Russia, and driving them out from everywhere and they're returning to the homelands, making them do it. God, I see the handwriting on the wall. Here I am in my own beloved nation tonight, after visiting most of the world.

72 And standing here in this great city of Brooklyn where that there's been a revival going on, down here on the corners. And, O God, how You have blessed us to bring Yourself down and unfold Yourself, and prove to this people that You're alive tonight and giving them a way. God, may not one leave this building without being under the blood of the Lord Jesus tonight. May they come, Father. They are Yours and I give them to Thee.
Dear God, here's handkerchiefs laying here, going to the sick and afflicted. Father God, I pray that You'll bless each one of them that receives it. May the evil leave them, the sickness and disease. May You rise on the scene tonight. May You ride the mighty wind, use the zigzag lightning. May You come down in power and manifest Yourself this night. Grant it, Father, for we ask it Jesus' name. Amen.

73 Now, if the organist, the lady, can you play "Abide With Me," sister? Or some... If just... I want to put one thing before you. And listen to this closely. [Brother speaks with tongues. A sister interprets. Another brother speaks with tongues. Another sister interprets.]
Although, He had done many miracles before them... I'm continuing with the Scripture. You heard what that was said. Though they could not believe because of the hardness of their heart. Isaiah said, "They have eyes and cannot see and ears and cannot hear." That's the Scripture.
Brother, do you realize, and sister, where you're sitting tonight? I hope that you do. We're in the presence of Jehovah God. And now, here is one thing sure, I want to make this positive to you in the closing of this service until we have another service at some other date.

74 Friends, if... Our religion of Christianity is the only religion that there is that can prove that their founder is alive. Now, you can't just take and passing tracks and so forth. They can pass them on Buddha, Mohammed, the Sikhs and so forth, anything. They can pass any kind of thing. And they can work up psychology and so forth.
But, Jesus said that we would do the same works that He did. That's what the Mohammed asked the question to the Christian, Dr. Reedhead, as I told you about the other night. Said, "We Mohammedans can shout just as much as you can." Thinking that Mohammed will raise some day. "And we can do anything that you can do because Mohammed only promised life after death. But, Jesus promised that if He raised, the very works that He did that you would do also." Said, "We're waiting for you to do that and we'll believe," see.

75 They're not ignorant by a long ways, see. But, the church has failed to carry out the commission. That's all. Humble yourself and stand before God. And God is obligated to His Word. Now look, don't be scared. Now, there's good people that get scared.
I want to ask you something. One night, there was a storm on the sea and the disciples was about to perish. And they looked and they seen Jesus coming. The only thing that could help them, 'cause the sails were broke and the oars was gone and the sea was ... the little old boat was waterlogged and they were going to the bottom of the sea. And when they saw the only help that could help them, they were scared of it, thought It was spooky.
How typical that is of the church, tonight. When Jesus stood on the shore and talked to them after His resurrection, they didn't know Him. They didn't know nothing of it. I want to ask you something. When two of His disciples, after His resurrection, after He was dead, and buried, and rose again, before He ascended to the Father... Now, the only way...

76 Did He ever appear after He ascended to the Father? Yes, sir. Who to? Saint Paul. What did He look like? A pillar of light. A light blinded Paul. Here it is: The same exactly Jesus, photographed and on paper, He's appeared again. Why? The prophet said, "It'll be light in the evening. But, it'll be a day that won't be neither night or day."
We've come from the Orient when the Holy Spirit fell at the beginning. We've come through a day of churchanity. That's right. Civilization has come from the east going westward. We're at the west coast where the East and West meets again.
Notice, and all through this we've had enough light to believe on Christ, accept Him as personal Saviour. But, "In the evening," the prophet said, "it shall be light." Now, on the western people, is poured out the same evidence of the Holy Spirit that was poured out on the eastern people. God making up His body. You see? It's light.

77 Now, when Cleopas and his friend went down to Emmaus, they walked along that day and a man stepped out and talked to them. Now, the same man that stepped out and talked to Abraham. And He was an ordinary man. So, they were talking to Him and they didn't know Him. Only He begin to talk to them the Scriptures. And they said, "That's interesting how that man talks."
And when He went to the inn, He made as if He would go on by. Sometimes, He acts like He's going to pass you. You say, "He won't speak to me, tonight." But, He will, just be patient, see.
And so, He acted like He was going on by. And they constrained Him, said, "Come in and abide with us." Now, that's what you want to do. "Come in, Lord, and abide with me tonight. Help me. I'm in need of help." Don't get nervous about it. Just be quiet and say, "Come in, Lord, and help me."

78 And then, when He does that, and He comes in. Now, He took ... these disciples, brought Him in and they shut the door. The waiter probably come along and asked them what they wanted. They ordered bread. And when they come back, Jesus sitting there before them, the resurrected Jesus, He done something right there that they recognized that He did before His crucifixion. How many knows that to be in the Bible? Raise your hand.
He did something and they knew that no one else did it like Him. And He did it, and they recognized because He did it when He was here, before His crucifixion; here after His crucifixion and resurrection, He did something that was just exactly like He done it there. And they recognized it was Him. Now, Jesus said, "I will be with you to the end of the world." Is that right?

79 Now, I want to ask this audience. I've preached on another thing. I'm going to make an altar for you in a minute. But, I want to ask something. If Jesus Christ will come on the scene... He can't come in a corporal body. Paul seen Him in a light and that's what He is yet today. He come from Light. He was a pillar of fire. Do you believe that? That followed the children of Israel?
Now, Bible readers, He said that that was the Angel of the covenant and it was none other but Jesus. Moses forsook Egypt, thinking the reproach of Christ being greater treasures than Egypt. It was Christ in the Light. He said, "I come from God and I go back to God." Jesus said, "It's not Me that doeth the works, it's the Father dwelling in Me." God in Christ reconciling the world to Himself.

80 Now, God is in us reconciling the world to Himself. His attitudes.
Now, I want to ask you. His corporal body sits in glory. His Holy Spirit is here to perform and do the same things that He did when He was here on earth, or it's wrong. What did He do? Did He claim to be a healer? Never. Said, "It's not Me; it's My Father dwells in Me." He said, "I can do nothing in Myself," (Saint John 5:19), when He was criticized passing a bunch of crippled people and things, and didn't heal. And healed another man that was laying there on a pallet, 'cause the Father had told Him that was the one to be healed. He just told him, walked away and left the rest of them.
He'd get criticized in Brooklyn if He done the same thing tonight. Sure, see. But, He just says, "I can do nothing in Myself until the Father shows Me first what to do. And what I see the Father doing, then I go do it." How many knows that's the truth, the Bible, Saint John 5?

81 And when (just one question), when He was here in Saint John 1 ... just one thing, and then we'll pick up some more along as we go, if the Lord permits. There was a man one time got saved by the name of Philip. He goes over, and gets his friend, Nathanael, about thirty miles behind the mountain. Next day, he come back with Nathanael coming into the meeting. Jesus was standing, perhaps, praying for the sick as He usually did.
And up in the prayer line, or out in the audience, wherever it was, come this man walking, a real stanch Jew. And when Philip found him, he was under a tree praying and he said, "Come, see who we've found: Jesus of Nazareth, the Son of Joseph."
And you know what he said? He raised up, being very orthodox. He said, "Now, could there be any good thing come out of Nazareth?

82 And Philip give him the answer. Said, "Come and see." That's all. You come be convinced for yourself. So, he walked around there and he talked to him about what God had promised. And said, "You remember what the Scripture said the Messiah would be?" And when he walked up in there, Nathanael was just about ready to believe.
And when Jesus looked around, He seen him. He said, "Behold, an Israelite in whom there's no guile."
If I'd say it, "An honest man, and so it's a believer."
And this Israelite, this Jew said, "Rabbi," (or preacher, or teacher), he said, "when did You ever know me? Now, this is our first time meeting."
Jesus said, "Well, before Philip called you when you were under the tree, I saw you."
"You saw me, plumb around behind the mountains yonder?" He said, "Rabbi, You are the Son of God. You're the King of Israel." That was the sign of the Messiah. Is that right?

83 A woman one time couldn't get to Him, so she touched His garment and went out and sat down in the audience or wherever she was. Jesus turned, said, "Who touched Me?"
They said, "Everybody's touched You." Peter rebuked Him.
He said, "Who touched Me?"
The woman and all, all denied it, "Not me." But, Jesus looked around and said, "Somebody touched Me 'cause I got weak. Virtue went out from Me."
He found the woman. Said, "Thy faith has saved thee." The blood issue's stopped. "Your faith..." She touched Him, pulling the gift of God to herself for her own needs.
Now, you can do that tonight. You can touch Him. The Bible says, "He's a high priest that can be touched by the feeling of our infirmities." Is that right? Now, if He's already... How many believes that everything that Christ could do towards healing you has already been purchased in the atonement? Do you believe it? Well, then, how should we touch Him then? How could we touch Him? It'll have to be a demonstration of His living, resurrected Being now. 'Cause the work is already finished.

84 You look and see if you can touch Him tonight by believing Him. Ask Him. And the Lord grant it to you. Now, if the Lord Jesus appears here among us tonight in His blessings, and performs the same thing that He did when He was here on earth, how many will pledge yourself to God? Then from this night, "I give up all my iniquity. I give up all my sins, and I'll serve Him knowing that He truly has raised from the dead." Will you raise your hands? Everywhere over the building that would say, "I will do it."
Now, Father, You see their hands. The hour is growing late. We must close. And now, Lord God, I have spoke at length, but now it's Your time to speak. Thou has said in Thy Holy Word, "God confirms His gifts."

85 Now, dear God, I pray that You'll let the Light from the big diamond of glory shine down tonight and manifest Yourself and permit us to have this meeting. And You work with us now and heal all the sick, and afflicted, and save all the lost, and bring back all those who are wandering away in darkness, and make this a great night in the closing service. Now, we're looking to You to speak from henceforth, Lord. In Jesus' name, I pray. Amen.
Now, if you will just be real reverent for just a few moments. They won't let me stay too long for it's anointing. Now, you say, "Brother Branham, do you take the place of Jesus?" Never. No, sir. We're certainly no vicar of Christ. No, sir.

86 What you do: It's a gift, you just yield yourself. I have a way of doing it. That's my own secret between me and God. And I just ... I was born to do it. When I was a little boy, that Angel of the Lord that you see that they got in Washington, DC now, copyrighted. That Angel stood right over the bed where I was born in a little cabin down in the mountains of Kentucky.
And now that same Angel is not five feet from where I'm standing right now. Now, that's right. So, it's just yielding yourself to Him, and your own faith then touches and brings out whatever God wants to say. Do you understand it? It is not me. I'm not a healer. It's God, and your individual faith in God. Shut up in your compassion and say you don't believe it, and nothing will happen. Open up your heart and say, "God, I'm ready to believe," and then watch what happens, see.

87 It's up to you. It's your faith in God. I'm just an instrument, a servant. Just like this microphone is a dumb mute unless there's a voice to make it sound. That's right. And so would I be. I know nothing of none of you, nothing about it. I know just what God has to say.
Now, prayer cards. B, one to... All right. He's bringing out prayer cards, B's one to a hundred. And we'll have to come around and get to the stage this way [Gap in the audio.]
... touch that man sitting next to you, he's a brother. Wouldn't be a bit of good. But, you want to touch Him. That's the way. Touch Christ. Now, I must say this because it's absolutely... I've been told this by authorities---law. Now, if there would happen to be a critic near, I wouldn't stay any longer, see. Because let it be known unto you, I'll not be responsible for what happens, see. Because if things take place and the Holy Spirit comes and begins to heal the people, them diseases go from one to another.
Now you know that beyond a shadow of doubt; it's wrote upon records and had court cases and everything else of it. It goes from one to another. But, I will be responsible if you're a believer. Because we could get God in His goodness to make it leave you.

88 Here some time ago when that minister... You was over here that place just across the river from Windsor, Ontario. Was there anybody here was in the Windsor meeting that night when that man come to the platform? See, I don't think there is as I see.
A man come to the platform and he had a prayer card and he give it to the ushers. He come up ... he come up on the platform, looked at him. I said, "Sir, there's nothing wrong with you physically."
"Oh, yes, there is," he said. "Yes, there is." Said, "Look on my prayer card."
I said, "I don't know what's on your prayer card. Don't know what you put on that. But, there's nothing wrong with you."
"Oh, I got TB, and I got cancer," and all he had...
I said, "I couldn't tell you that, sir." I said, "You haven't got it now. You might have had it down there."

89 So, he turned around and said, "That's it." And just at that time, the Lord showed a vision.
I said, "Why would the devil put in your heart to do something like that?" I said, "You're a certain kind of a preacher." And I said, "Last night, you sat with your wife and a man that's in this building tonight, with a red tie on and a blue suit, and he's sitting right there in the audience. And you sat by a little room with a green thing hanging over a table, and you said it was mental telepathy. And you'd write on the prayer card and the usher would pick up the prayer card and transfer it to me mental telepathy. Not thinking of the hundreds out there that's called without prayer cards. And the things that's predicted that'll happen weeks and months and years later and never fails."
I said, "There..."
And that man raised up, he said, "Rev. Branham, that's the truth. I was with him last night and that's the truth."
And he fell and grabbed my pants leg, and he said, "I'm sorry."
I said, "What you put on your prayer card, you have."
And he said, "Oh, pray for me that I..." And he was a preacher.

90 And I said, "I have nothing to do with that. You cursed yourself. So, you have what you put on the prayer card." And screaming, he run from the building. There it was. I don't know what ever happened, see.
You're not playing church, friends. You're in the presence of God. I know you've heard lots of things and so forth. I am not responsible for... Just what I'm talking about. You be reverent and you believe.
Now, please, if you have to leave, for the next ten or fifteen minutes, go. But, if you can stay for at least fifteen minutes longer, or twenty... They won't let me stay too long. And I'll see just how many I can pray for. And then, we'll close the service. Now, be real reverent. I believe they're going to turn the microphones up. Now, they do that. And if the engineer down here will watch my voice because ... I don't know what I'm saying, you see. It has to be inspiration.

91 Now, as far as I know, there's not a person in here that I know, outside of seeing my own boy stand there and I ... this minister sitting here. I can't think of his name, an Italian minister. And this little lady sitting here; it's Brother Hutchinson's daughter. And my daughter-in-law, Brother Boze. That's all I know in the church as I can see and know.
How many here are strangers to me? Raise your hand. Everybody that you know I don't know you. Prayer line, we strangers, too? There we are. Now, I have preached to you that Jesus has raised from the dead. Now, did He? Did He? Now is the time for Him to prove that He raised from the dead. Now, our Christian religion is not a sham. It's not off in some dark room with demon spirits muttering and carrying on. Them's devils.
But, this is God out here under these lights, and everything is right out before you. That's right.

92 Now, I have spoke of Him. Now, if I've told the truth, it's His time to speak that I've told the truth, to confirm His Word. Now, this scene tonight happens to break just again in a Bible scene. As I was hoping that there'd be a woman come first, 'cause the statement I wanted to make.
In Saint John the 4th chapter... Everything that we do must be Scriptural. And in Saint John the 4th chapter, Jesus was going down to Jericho, but He had need to go by the way of Samaria. How many readers know that? And He said, "He did nothing till the Father showed Him." So, the Father must have told Him to go up there.

93 So, He goes up and sits down on a well and sends the disciples away about noon. Is that right? Now, and then, about noontime, a woman of ill fame came out to get some water. And she was the Samaritan and she was a prostitute, and she begin to draw up the water ... or, she was, as we believe it. And just as she started to pick up the waterpot to put it on her head, Jesus said to her, "Woman, bring Me a drink."
And she said, "Why, it's not customary for you Jews to ask Samaritans such." They had a law of segregation, see. The different races.
Jesus said, "But, if you knew who you were talking to you'd ask Me for a drink. And I'd give you water you don't come to draw here."
And she said, "Well, the well's deep and You have nothing to draw with, and where would You get any water?"

94 He said, "The water I give is the wells of water springing up, waters of joy and life in your heart," and so forth. They kept on talking about the mountain and Jerusalem. What was Jesus doing? Now, you have to take my word for this. The Father had sent Him up there, but God being in Him, He was picking up the woman's spirit.
And when He found where her trouble was... She had a trouble; she was a prostitute. And when Jesus found her trouble, He said, "Go get your husband."
She said, "I don't have any husband."
He said, "That's right. You've had five, and the one you have now is not your husband. In that thou saidst well." How many knows that Scripture or not?

95 Now, the woman, no doubt beautiful, startled eyes, looked at the Master and she said, "Sir..." Now, listen close, don't miss these words. "Sir, I perceive that You are a prophet." Now, listen, "We..."
Now, the Jews knowed it by that when He told Philip where he was at, told Peter what his name was. He knowed it and they believed it. Now, what's the Samaritan going to say?
Said, "Sir, we know that when the Messiah cometh, He'll do these things. He'll tell us all these things." Is that right? That was the sign of the Messiah. Is that right? Well, if He's raised from the dead, isn't it still the same sign if He is the same yesterday, today and forever? Is that Scripture?
Said, "When Messiah cometh, He'll tell us these... But who are You?"

96 He said, "I am He that speaks to you."
And she set her waterpot down and ran into the city and said, "Come, see a Man who told me the things I've done. Isn't this the Messiah? The Scripture had said so. That's what He would do. Isn't this the very Messiah?"
Now, I claim that that Messiah come in flesh in a body called Jesus, crucified, God raised Him up the third day, set His body on the right hand of God and He come back in the form of the Holy [Gap in the audio.]
It's a healthy-looking woman standing there, but she begins to go from me. And I see her as she is in her home. She is suffering with a real extreme nervous condition. I see her sometimes to herself a weeping. And there's some strange thing about her, for I see her praying. She has her hands up, and she seems to be desiring something great from God. And maybe the Lord will let me hear her prayer. And, yes, she is seeking for the baptism of the Holy Ghost. That is right.
And she also prayed (I see in her prayer), she's praying for a friend of hers. And that woman has cancer. That's "Thus saith the Lord." Those things are true, aren't they, lady? Would you come here just a moment?

97 Our kind Heavenly Father, this lady standing here realizing with her heart weeping from her, that she knows that her brother, I Your servant, has no power to do these things. But, she realizes it's in Your great plan, and it's Your Spirit that's permitting these things before the people tonight. And I pray Thee, Lord, to give to her the desire of her heart, and may she go from here and have everything she asks for. I bless her in Jesus' name. Amen.
God bless you. God bless you, lady. Now, the Lord be merciful, friend. That ought to settle it forever. Now, be real reverent. Just look and live. Don't look to me, look to Him. And now, if you have trouble with your body, and you haven't got a prayer card and you're not going to be on the line, I ask you to just do like the woman did.
[Blank spot.] Here is a stranger to me. I don't know you. But, God does know you. And you're here for some purpose that I don't know. You must be, if you're not a critic (and we'll know that in a few minutes). But, I don't think you are because your spirit seems to be welcome. I am now... I am a man, God's servant. But, it's not me that speaks those things. It's Christ Himself.

98 See, He can... We are the branches to the vine. In Saint John 15, He said, "I am the vine, you are the branches." Now, the only hands that He has tonight on earth (His body is sitting at the throne of God), and the only hands that He has is ours. The lips He has is ours. It's not you that speaketh, but your Father that dwelleth in you. He doeth the speaking. You understand? It's not my eyes that sees, it's His eyes that sees through mine and gives the vision.
Now, that's just a gift. That ... nothing, don't mean you're any more than anybody else. It's just a man. And I'll have to answer for my calling. And you'll have to answer for yours. And I want to be reverent. And you know, lady, without any shadow of doubt, in the last minute or two, since you've been standing there, something's going on. You're aware of that.
Now, if you ever seen that Angel picture, that's just what is there now between you and I, is a light. And it's Christ, the same One that appeared to Paul. If you'd see it with your physical eyes, it would do the same thing, perhaps, as there. But, now as the Spirit anoints, I can see it because it's another world. It's another dimension.

99 You're wanting me to pray for you for a growth that's on your back. That's right, isn't it? Now, do you believe? Thank you. You're not from this city. You're from a place called Long Island. And the place is called New Hyde Park. You're address is: 915 First Street. That's right. Tyle is your name. Now, if you believe with all your heart, you may go home and be healed. Do you believe it? ["Thank the Lord. Yes."]
Now look, Jesus said, "These signs shall follow them that believe. If they lay their hands on the sick, they shall recover." You believe that, my sister?
Our kind, Heavenly Father, in obedience to Thy Word, I lay hands on the woman and ask for her healing in Jesus Christ's name. Amen.

100 The colored lady sitting there, you got trouble with your neck. That's right, isn't it? Raise up your hand. You wanted to be healed. You are now. Your faith touched Him. You're healed. Amen.
Just believe. Have faith. What happened? She never touched me. You seen that. She touched Something. Who was it? The Bible said that He's a high priest that can be touched by the feeling of our infirmity. You believe that? Then, look and touch Him.
I was just His mouthpiece. I couldn't tell you what He said to her. The only way I know: See these tape machines going? If anybody ever questions it, here it is. We got it. Any prediction, anything that's said, them boys goes right with me. We got every tape from every place that ever says. Even at home or when this predicts things will be at certain times. We got everything and never one time did it ever fail. And it'll never. Can't it's God. I fail, but not Him.

101 Now, the lady's here before me, perhaps we're strangers, lady. I do not know you. And you're, probably, Indian or from India or somewhere or you're a ... you're [A lady says, "British."] British. All right. Now, here's a very picture again, isn't it, of two different nationalities and a man and a woman. You are a Christian, though. You're a Christian.
And you're here for me to pray for you for a real extreme nervous case, that causes you to have dizzy spells. That is true. Of course, you were healed when that ... when that struck you then, see. I see something else. It's seems to be a water, like blue ocean floating back and forth. And I see a woman that's elderly. It's your mother. And your mother is suffering with a stomach trouble. ["Amen."] That's right.
And she's in the British West Indies now. That's true, isn't it? ["Amen."] You believe for her? Now, you send her that handkerchief you have in your hand, where you were healed, and God grant that she be healed, too, my sister.
Our Heavenly Father, Thou art the Christ [Gap in the audio.]

102 ... white hat on, gold-looking band around sitting on the end. You're wanting God to heal you tonight with that high blood pressure and make you well, aren't you? The little lady with the gray... That's right. You're wanting your healing from high blood pressure. You were praying that God would give it to you. God grant it to you, sister.

103 [Gap in the audio.] ... thing bothers you and it's called tumors in the head, but God can make you well, if you'll believe it. Will you believe it? The tumor in the head, but God can heal you. That's a serious thing, and a serious operation which I would be doubtful of. And I'm not saying that to discourage you, but I want you to have faith in our Lord Jesus who's here now, who knows you, and you know you're standing in His Presence. The presence of your brother wouldn't let you feel like that. I'm just a man. But, you know He's close.
Can you accept Him now for your healing? Would you come and let me ask Him to bless you as you come? Hand me your hand. Kind Heavenly... [Gap in the audio.]

104 Doesn't look like the woman, but she's somewhere in here. Now, if you'll just keep praying, ever who you are. Somebody has touched Him, and He in His glory has made it known over here. Someone has touched Him. If I could... Yes, it's another colored lady. She's sitting right here. She's suffering from the ill effects of an operation. That's right. You touched Him, lady. The Lord bless you.
I seen it was a different size woman, different age, and it couldn't be the same one. One's wearing glasses and a different age, and different size. But, she was the one. You were praying for that, wasn't you, lady? If that's right, raise up your hand like that. All right.
[Gap in the audio.]

105 The little lady, it's a white lady wearing a red suit, black hat on, with varicose veins; and she's praying for God to touch her too, sitting down there. That's right, isn't it, lady? See, you touched Him. Amen.
[Gap in the audio.] ... that God would give her the opportunity to touch Him tonight, that I would turn around and say that that you would accept your healing. If that's right, raise up your hand. How would I know what you were saying in your prayer, see?
Now, surely with my back turned to the lady, you couldn't think nothing else but the Lord Jesus, could you? Because she never had nothing, see. It's her faith in God. Just ask Him one time.
[Gap in the audio.] ... isn't it? I don't know you, never seen you. You're aware of that, aren't you? I never seen you. Know nothing of you. But, if the Lord Jesus will tell me what you're here for, will you accept that He wants to give it to you? And that'll be Him telling that I told the truth and wanting to give you what you're asking for. You are a Christian woman. [A lady says, "Yes."] That's right. And you're here because of a tremendous nervousness for one thing, which goes along with your age at this time. That is right. ["Yes."] You have a nervousness.

106 And though your eyes be as crystals now sparkling, yet, you have weak eyes. That's right, isn't it? Now, do you believe me to be God's prophet ... or, His servant? Do you believe that? ["Yes."] Let me tell you this that's not along in your line. You have trouble at your home. It's a domestic trouble. That's right. ["Yes."] It's because of your husband. He's an alcoholic. ["Yes."] That's right. Isn't that right?
Now, do you believe me to be His servant? ["Yes."] Come here and let us pray to Him.
Kind Heavenly... [Gap in the audio.]
... and to be well. You have sugar diabetes. Raise your hand if that's right. It's vision. Not mind reading. You remember the Jews called that mind reading, or said it was a fortuneteller when Jesus did that? How many knows the Jews said that? What did Jesus say? "I'll forgive you for that, but when the Holy Ghost is come," which is tonight, "and does the same thing, if you speak one word against it, it'll never be forgiven you in this world or the world to come."
Did Jesus say that? Go on your road and rejoice, sister, and be healed. Father God, I bless ... [Gap in the audio.]

107 The same thing, plus heart trouble, but God is your healer. Do you believe that with all your heart? Would you accept it if I would pray for you, do you believe that God would let you get well?
Our kind Heavenly Father, I bless this young man in the name of Thy beloved Son, the Lord Jesus, and ask for his healing. Amen. Now, go on your road believing, son. Don't doubt a bit, but believe with all your heart.
Would you come, sir? If the Holy Spirit will reveal and will tell you what your trouble is, would you obey Him, sir? Had a lot of trouble in life, haven't you? I see you have lots of trouble. Especially way back in your younger days, in the soldier days. But, you got a stomach trouble. That's right. Now, go eat your supper, sir. The God of Heaven bless you, my brother. Amen.

108 Let's believe the Lord. Would you come, lady? Would you want to get over that female trouble? When you were sitting down there awhile ago and I was speaking, something happened. You had a real strange feeling. Is that right? Is that truth? [A lady says, "Amen."] Now, that's when you were healed with that dripping condition of your female trouble which was a ... it was an abscess on an ovary. Go on your road now and believe with all your heart and get well.
And now Heavenly Father, in the name of the Lord Jesus, grant to the woman the de... [Gap in the audio.]
Dark-skinned lady sitting right here. She's suffering with a bladder trouble. That's right. I never seen you in my life. But, Christ let me catch your prayer. Do you believe me to be His prophet ... His servant, rather? You do?
[Gap in the audio.] ... make you well? That's right. Your last name is Jackson, isn't it? [Gap in the audio.] ... your address, isn't it? Fulton Street. So you can... That's right. Now, may God grant you your request, sister, is my prayer [unclear words].
Then go on your road rejoicing and say, "Thank You, Lord Jesus." And you can have the desire that you're praying for, also.

109 [Gap in the audio.] Here it is. Just a moment. It's a child. There it is. It's that little colored boy. There's the epilepsy. That's right. Now, be reverent. That's the mother with her hands on the boy. You was praying for him, lady. And listen, look at me just a minute. You have a throat trouble, don't you? That's right.
Our Heavenly Father, Satan thought he was going to get by with that, but You're here to rebuke him, and I ask for mercy. And I pray that in Jesus' name that this evil will leave both of them. Come out in Christ's name and go into outer darkness, and may they both live and be well, in Jesus Christ's name. Now believe, have faith.
[Gap in the audio.] With your head down and your hands a praying. He heard you. Isn't it wonderful? You're scared that's cancer, aren't you? That's your rectal trouble, isn't that right? You're scared it's cancer. Well, you touched Him. Believe Him, now, and be made well through Jesus Christ's name. Amen. Accept it.
"If thou canst believe," He said, "all things are possible."

110 Lady sitting right behind him there with varicose veins. Do you think God would heal you, too, sister? You do? You have chest trouble, don't you, lady right there next to her? You believe that Jesus Christ would make you well? If thou canst believe, you can receive.
What do you think about it in whole? Are you ready to believe? Do you now believe? They must be fixing to take me, 'cause there's no one else here. I want to ask you something. How many is convinced that Jesus is the Son of God and He's raised from the dead?

111 Is there a sinner here that would like to stand to their feet right now and say, "I now want to accept Him as my personal Saviour?"
While you're in His presence, will you stand up to your feet? Thank you. God bless you. God bless you. Someone else? Just keep standing. Is there a backslider, someone away from God? God bless you, sir. Someone else? God bless you, sir. Accepting Christ, as Saviour. Will you stand? Backslider, God bless you. God bless you. God bless you. Someone away from God, lukewarm and wants to come to Christ, stand. God bless you. God bless you. God bless you. God bless you. That's right. Just remain standing just a moment if you will.
Come now, you're in His presence. Everything that you see is coming right unfolding the Bible to you. How many knows that to be true? Bible readers and so forth? I am not here as a deceiver. I am here as your brother. Now, you're without excuse. Now is the time. Christ is calling you.

112 How many here without the baptism of the Holy Ghost that would like to have the baptism of the Holy Ghost, would you stand and say, "I now want to receive Christ as the baptism of the Holy Spirit. I now believe." God bless you. That is wonderful. That's wonderful. Just keep standing. Sinners, keep standing. Wonderful.
Now, how many is sick and wants to be healed? Would you stand just now? Saying, "I want to be healed." You're presenting yourself. Now, your attitude is what does it. God bless you. Just remain standing just a moment.
Pastor, come here a minute. Just a minute. I want you to stand here just a minute. Friends, Christ is present. And there's only one thing keeping you from not getting what you want in Christ tonight. That's unbelief. That's a shadow of darkness that would kind of overshadow you, making you ... him trying to make you think that you couldn't do it.
Honestly, this building seems to be over this audience now, just one big glow. It's the Holy Spirit. He's ready to give you what you ask for. Now, let us just raise our hands up to God.

113 Heavenly Father, in the name of Jesus Christ, I now condemn every works of the devil, everything that Satan has did that has harmed these people. I, now as Your servant, take these curses from them, in Jesus Christ's name. Take all the sin out of their life, all their indifference, all the sickness in their body. And, Satan, you are exposed and defeated by Jesus Christ, the resurrected Lord. Come out of the people.

Jehovah-Jireh

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1 It's indeed a privilege to be here tonight. I'm only sorry that it's the closing night of our little meeting. And it's been one of the high spots of my life, and I don't say this just because I'm standing here, because it wouldn't be right. I could just say the Lord bless you, and go on. But I mean this, that this has been one of the nicest little meetings I ever had in my life, in all my ministry of many times (five or six times) overseas and a bigger portion of the world, by the grace of God, I have been privileged to minister to. And this is one of the nicest little meetings I ever met. I tell you, friend, you'll travel the world over, but you'll not find Southerners everywhere. That's right. That's right. Very nice and always kind.
And I want to extend to them, to this minister, Brother Littlefield, and Brother Hall, and the other ministering brothers, whoever they are, my very hearty thanks and a "God bless" to them. And to the rest of the ministers here, you brethren, who are cooperating in the meeting, I certainly give my blessings to you. May your ministries increase, and may this be a great thing. To the missionary brother, that's going to the islands after this, God be with you, brother and go with you, is my prayer.

2 And now, to all of you people who has made this possible, we thank you, each one; with all my heart, I thank you. Then I want to extend a handshake and a "thank you" to a very fine man, the principal of this school, a real gentleman, if I ever met one, and I thank God for such men. I'm thankful to the board, this school board, who has give us the privilege of being here and ministering in this school. I pray that every pupil that comes to this school will be saved and filled with God's Spirit, along with the board. And may a great home be in heaven for every one of them at the end of a long journey through life.
I want to thank the mayor of the city for his kindness, for the cooperation of the police force. I have seen them around the place. I got to shake hands with one of the young men, a very gentleman, indeed. And I thank each one.
And for all your kindness, and the hotel that furnished me a room, the Cherokee Hotel. The motels across the country, they have donated as many rooms as they could---free---to the people. This is a lovely place to live. It certainly is. If the weather is bad, I could put up with any kind of weather to associate with such people. That's right. I don't say that just to be saying. I mean that from my heart. A country is what its people is. They make the country to live in. And I thank each and every one of you from my heart.

3 I was told by my son, in coming in, and the pastor, that they had taken up a love offering for me. Now, that wasn't necessary. Frankly, I asked the pastor when we come down, not to do it; and if he did, to turn it over to his own work or some fund here in the city. I didn't... It just kills me to have to take money. I've stayed free from it. I never took a offering in my life, myself.
I remember in the Baptist church where I pastored for twelve years without one penny. And one time I got to a place... I'm a poor man. If I'd have took the money had been offered to me, without taking an offering, just offered to me, I'd be a multimillionaire. But I refused it. I had rather have friends than money. I love my friends. And I'm thanking God for them.

4 Now, I am trusting the Lord will bless you. Now, the minister would not stand ... Brother Littlefield would not stand still for that. He said, "Brother Branham, you're under expense. And we appreciate that, but it must go to you." Then I accepted it in the name of the Lord. What it was, I don't know, yet. I could tell you soon as I find out. And we'll let the pastor know when he counts the offering. And I will assure you, by the best of my knowledge, every cent will be spent for the right things, because I know it come a portion of your living.
Now, I have three children, and a wife, and a office to run, where I send thousands of letters a month around the world. And my expenses runs me close to a hundred dollars a day, whether I'm in the services or not. And now, I've said I'd try... I don't have no radio, television programs, and things to cost a lot of money. I've kept it real little, so I could visit little churches; where the brethren who has the bigger ministry, they couldn't do it. They couldn't afford it.

5 After this next meeting, I am going to... I go to now to... I go up to northern Indiana to West Bend ... or South Bend, Indiana, and from there I go to Sturgis, Michigan, in a tabernacle for two nights' meeting that seats about thirty people. That's correct. Thirty people. My next meeting after that is with the Baptist people in Lima, Ohio, in an auditorium seating many thousands. After that, I go to Madison Square Gardens, Phoenix. And then from there, I go to the ministerial association in California in the big Oakland Auditorium. I don't know how many thousand that seats. But you see, if you don't have no big outlets, no big program, you don't have to have very much. And if God wants you to go to a big place, He supplies the money. So that's just the way I like to live, is just by faith.

6 And I thank you, and God's rich blessings to you all. It's so good to... I oughtn't to preach tonight, because it's getting late, but you're such a wonderful audience, and any minister... It wouldn't take very much of a preacher or I couldn't do the preaching, but of an audience like you who are praying and support the Word with your prayers, it's easy for anybody to preach in a place like this. I really believe that Billy Paul could preach right here. Where you at, son? Ha-ha-ha. And he's so bashful, he keeps his head down when he's talking to me, almost. But I believe he could do it. It's very easy, because it's the Holy Spirit.
Brother Hall, I certainly appreciate you and all your kindness and I pray that God will bless you. This Brother Hall, the evangelist here, I believe, and he's a wonderful brother. I love him more as I meet him. And Brother Littlefield and to the rest of the ministers, God be with you.

7 Now, let's bow our heads and talk to the Author of this Book. There's one thing that I say, "I may not know the Book too well, but I'm glad I know the Author." Our heavenly Father, to Thee we give praise and glory for all that You have both done and let us see done. We thank Thee for all we have heard, for faith cometh by hearing. How my heart was warmed when I seen that basement and them people down there, each one---mothers holding their babies, and old people---and sitting around in this rainy night, just waiting for a minister to lay hands on them. God, that moves my heart. And I know it does Yours, because mine is stony and Yours is a heart of love and God.
Laying here on the pulpit tonight lays a handkerchief or two that's going out to the sick and the afflicted. I don't know where they go, Father; Thou does. And I pray that You'll bless this. And we're taught in the Bible that one day when Israel was on its road by faith, journeying to the promised land, because it was God's promise that He would take them to that land. And they didn't know how they were going to get there; they just took off. And as the enemy does, he trapped them. And there they stood: the mountains on one side, the sea---Dead Sea---in front of them, Pharaoh's army behind them. Nature itself quivered for them. A slaughter indeed, but they were walking in God's provided way.
All of a sudden, one writer said that God looked down through that pillar of fire. Why? His path went through that Red Sea. And the sea got scared, and it just rolled back its banks, and Israel crossed over on dry land. You're still Jehovah God.

8 And when these handkerchiefs reach the sick people, I pray that God will not look as through the pillar of fire, but through the blood of His Son. And may the enemy---the sickness, the disease, the affliction---get scared of this token, because it's sent in Christ's name. And may he move away and may the sick people cross to the good land of good health. The promise of God, that above all things, prosper in health...
God, I pray that You'll grant it. And now, unfold Thy Word to us, Lord, and give great faith in this pressing, trying hour. In Jesus' name I pray. Amen.

9 Now, to the pastors, I want you to know... Making this statement, I've just said, "I have nothing to sell, no radio programs, nothing." Not to get your address, because it's hard for me to get enough help to answer my letters. But if you desire a prayer cloth... Usually they have them piled.
In Mexico just recently, I had one of the meetings down there. How many heard of the Mexican meeting, where the little baby was raised after dying that afternoon at two o'clock and was raised about nine o'clock that night? Why, the Mexican papers and everything flooded it everywhere, and that night, there was people... There was piles that high of old coats and hats. How they ever knowed them, I don't know. Laid them there for me to pray over. And God gave a blind man his sight, and it just... Was there three nights, and there was twenty thousand came to Christ at one time. I said, "No evangelical, no Catholic, just those who has never come, let them come." And they estimated twenty thousand in one altar call. Now, the Lord Jesus loves the people.

10 And now, if you want a prayer cloth that I have prayed over, just write me at Jeffersonville, Post Office box 325, or just William Branham. Now, there'll be a form letter come with it. Now, that's right. That was a mimeographed letter by a secretary. But the prayer cloth, I've prayed over it.
If I believed in some minister brother and his ministry, and my baby was sick, and I had faith in the man, I'd want him to pray over the prayer cloth. That's right. I'd want him. That's right. And I do unto others as you'd have others do to you. So I pray over it, the prayer cloths. And they'll be sent to you---no charges. No charges for nothing, just send and you can have one freely.

11 Now, in the blessed old Bible which I know to be God's eternal Textbook, I wish to read just a portion of Scripture. And I'm going to try to stop just exactly at a quarter till nine, if I possibly can, so we can start the prayer line, run just as long as we can and then... before dismissing.
And I will say this before we start preaching: God bless you all. And if He will do that, that's all you need. I want to ask you one more thing, excuse me. I'm fixing to go overseas, I guess, right away. Mr. duPlessis and them called today to get the overseas meeting ready. If I go, and you hear I'm overseas, will you pray for me? Thank you. I will remember a good bunch of southern saints of God praying for me. And I need it there, for every witch doctor and everything else stands to challenge you, but our God has always come out triumphant and rode over the enemy every time.

12 Now, in the book of Genesis the 22nd chapter, 7th and 8th and 14th verses I wish to read, and then go right to talking on the Scriptures, and then we will turn right back and have the prayer line. This is for your faith. Now, faith cometh by hearing the Word of God. That's right. Now, that's why, how we build faith. Now, faith is not based upon shifting sands of men's theology, but it rests upon the eternal Rock of God's Word. God said so and that settles it. And Isaac... Let's see. I believe I put the wrong place. Yes.
And Isaac spake unto ... his father, and said, My father: and he said, Here I am, my son. And he said, Behold the fire and ... behold where is the ... burnt-offering?
And Abraham said, My son, God will provide for himself ... a burnt-offering: so they went ... together.
And Abraham called the name of the place Jehovah-jireh: as it is said to this day, In the mount of the LORD it shall be seen.

13 Now, may the Lord add his blessing. And my text is Jehovah-jireh. Now, God appears in seven compound redemptive names. Ministers know that. His first redemptive name is Jehovah-jireh, "the Lord will provide a sacrifice." His second redemptive name is Jehovah-rapha, "the Lord that healeth thee." And He has... Lord, the shield, the buckler, Lord... In seven different compound redemptive names God appeared to the human race. And all of those redemptive names was brought into Christ Jesus through that one eternal name that all the heavens and earth is named after that one name.
Now, for our context, we're speaking on Isaac, the promised one, and Abraham, the father of nations. Through Isaac came the blessed seed that was pronounced from the garden of Eden ... or, prophesied. And out through him came the Lord Jesus Christ. Now, I know that many of you has been waiting here now for (I was told) ever since real early this afternoon, holding your seat. And at that, I would be unright to not bring God's Word in some measure to you.
Now, in the beginning when God met Abraham... Now, who was Abraham? Now, I want to... I've chosen this little talk so that it'll take the fear away. There's only one thing tonight to keep every person here from being saved, filled with the Holy Spirit, and delivered from every affliction and every disease. Only one thing; that's you're afraid. That's the only thing. For every seed will produce just exactly what it's promised to, if it's set in the right ground.

14 You people here in Tennessee are known for your apples, fine apple orchards and peach orchards, and around Georgia, and the different places, your fine fruit down here in the south. I want to ask you something: Did you know when you set that little peach tree out just about one-half-inch tall, when it was that tall, that every bushel of peaches that you'll ever take off of it, your children will take off of it, and your grand-children will take off of it, do you know every bushel of peaches is in it right then when it's just a little bitty thing about like that? If it isn't, where does it come from? Where's them peaches come from? Who puts them on the tree? How did they ever get there?
You just set the little slip out, and then you water it, and it drinks from the earth. And it's got to drink more than its portion. It drinks and drinks, till it just can't drink no more, and it pushes out limbs. Then it drinks some more, it pushes out leaves. Then it drinks some more, and it pushes out blossoms. Then it drinks some more and it pushes out peaches. Then it drinks some more it pushes out more peaches. It keeps drinking and pushing out. You see what I mean?

15 And now, that's the way that Christianity is. When a man, or a woman, or a child, is borned of the Spirit of God, then everything you have need of in this world and the world to come, is given to you when you receive the Holy Spirit. And you're planted in Christ. And to my estimation of Christ, He is the inexhaustible fountain of life. And you just are planted in Him, and drink, and drink, and push out, and drink, and push out, and drink, and push out. For everything you have need of, is in Him. The only thing you have to do, is get thirsty and go to drinking. And it'll produce just exactly what the seed is. If it's a promise, God promised to do it. God's obligated to it, and He will do it.

16 Pushing, shoving... Something comes in, as we spoke in the tabernacle this morning: that main spring in the middle of the watch that makes every movement click to perfect time. And when the Holy Spirit comes in, there's something that moves. You can't understand what it is. It's a supernatural Being inside you, moving, controlling your emotions, making you scream when actually you feel like running. But you'll shout when you don't know what you're doing. You'll praise God just automatically. There's something happens. It's that main spring, the spring of God's grace in the middle of your heart, controlling you, making you shun from evil, accept life, get away from doubt, have faith. That main spring will make you cast down reasonings, accept God's Word. It's a-moving, ticking, going around and around, and making your whole emotion come right in control with God. What a marvelous thing!
The Holy Spirit brooding over you, as He did a bleak earth one time, and fruits come up out of the bleak earth. When the Holy Spirit drove together the calcium, and potash, and moisture, and whatever texture it taken to make flowers, and fruits, and beasts, and animals, and mankind, the Holy Spirit brooding in connection with God, and these things came to pass. What more will it do over a borned-again man now, for his health or whatever he has need of, of God's eternal promise. Sure, it makes you emotionally.

17 When I was a game warden in Indiana for seven years, I used to come to a certain spring when I would go hunting. And I looked at that old spring, and I said, "Spring, you're the happiest spring I ever seen. You're just a bubbling all the time." Oh, it was good water. It kept fresh all the time, because it bubbled from way down in the ground. And it kept all the stagnant part bubbled away. That's a good thing. Just keep bubbling. So I sat down one day to talk to this spring, and I said, "Mr. Spring, why are you so happy?"
And if he could've spoke back to me, he'd said, "Brother Branham, I am always happy."
"Well," I'd say, "what makes you bubble? Maybe it's because the deer drinks from you once in a while."
He'd say, "No."
I'd say, "Maybe it's because the bear drinks from you."
"No."
"Well, maybe what makes you bubble is because you know that each year I come by here and drink from you myself."
"No."
I said, "Well, what makes you bubble?"
He'd say, "Brother Branham, it isn't me bubbling. It's something behind me pushing me and making me bubble."

18 So that's the way a man is. When he takes God into his heart, there's something that pushes him, pushes out. It makes you believe. Why are you here tonight? For curiosity? I do not believe that a right-minded person would come out on a night like this for curiosity. Are you coming to show your clothes? No, sir. I don't believe that a person would do that, come out on a night like this and sit eight hours in a tabernacle like this, congested and jammed together in one of the overflow crowds all over the place. You wouldn't do it for curiosity or to show clothes. It's because that something in you is leading you to do it. That's it.
If I had never read the Bible, I'd still believe tonight that there is divine healing for you people. David said, "When the deep calleth to the deep, at the noise of Thy waterspout..." In other words, when the deep is calling... Now, listen, when the deep is calling, there's got to be a deep to respond to that deep. Here, before there was a fin on a fish's back, there had to be a water first for him to swim in, or he'd've never had the fin. Before there was a tree to grow in the earth, there had to be a earth first, or there'd be no tree to grow in it.

19 Here some time ago, I read in a newspaper, where a little boy eat the erasers off the pencils at school. His mother didn't know what to think of it. So, she found him, one day, sitting on the porch eating a pedal off of a bicycle. It was rubber. She taken him down to the clinic to have him examined. And the doctor, after a thoroughly good examination, he said, "The little boy is lacking sulfur." He lacked sulfur in his body. Now, therefore they had to give him shots for it.
But now look, if there's something in here calling for sulfur, first there has to be a sulfur out there to call, before there can be something in here to call for sulfur. In other words, this is a ... the whole glorified... I hope I haven't got you tangled.
Look. Before there can be a creation, there had to be a Creator to create that creation. And as long as you're here tonight to be healed by God, by divine healing, there has to be a fountain open somewhere or you'd never have that desire. There's got to be something. If there's something calling for healing from God, there's got to be a God to answer to it. That's right.
The Indians, when we met them here, they fell and worshipped the sun. In Africa they worship idols. What is it? There's something. They're human beings, and there's a call for God. Now, the main thing is let the Indian know who God is, let the Hottentot know who God is, and to let you know what healing is. That's the main thing. Get in the right channel and then you can do it. And God has give it freely to every one of you. It's yours by divine promise.

20 Now, God called Abraham, not because he was Abraham; God called Abraham by election. Abraham was no good man, no better than anybody else. He probably come out of the group of idolaters down from the tower of Babel where they worship roots of the ground, and they had a woman up there, and she had all kinds of curious arts she practiced, if you've ever read the history. And there's where the first organized church ever begin was in Babylon, by Nimrod: organized all the cities and they paid tribute and so forth to that one place.
Now, Abraham's father brought him down from Babylon, and they dwelt in the city of Ur in the land of Chaldea. And Abraham was just an ordinary man like you and I, just an ordinary man, but God... Oh, I want you to get it! God, by foreknowledge called and elected Abraham. He knew his heart. He knew him before the foundation of the world. And Abraham only fit into God's program. And Abraham's wife was named Sarai which was his half sister.

21 Now, when Abraham was walking in the fields one day (or wherever he was), God called Abraham. He was seventy-five years old, and Sarai was ten years younger, making her sixty-five years old.
Now, anyone knows that the woman at sixty-five was past the menopause at least fifteen years. He married her when she was just a little lassie. And now, they'd lived together as husband and wife, and Abraham being seventy-five years old, and God called him and give him His covenant unconditionally.

22 Man always breaks his covenant with God. When God made a covenant with Adam in the garden of Eden, he broke it. Every time, man breaks his covenant. Give him the law, he broke it. But God was determined to save man, so He made the covenant with Abraham unconditionally. Not, "If you will;" He said, "I have." I like that. Not, "If you'll do this, if you'll do that..." I know that has a little Calvinistic swing to it, and I am a Calvinist as long as Calvin stays in the Bible. But when he goes off on eternal security and them black sides over there, I'm an Armenian from then on. I'm with any church as long as you stay in the Bible. When you get outside, that lets me out. But they both got a picture, but they both got Scripture, and they both went out on limbs and hung themselves (That's right.)--- the holiness and the Calvinists.

23 But God called Abraham, not because he was a good man; He never had any "ifs" into it at all. He said, "I've saved you, and I've saved your seed beside you. I've given you this land, and you'll come to me in old age." Brother, that settles it. God said so. Abraham didn't have to do a thing but abide right in the covenant. That's all, just stay right there. And if God saved you, the only thing you have to do is just abide in His grace. That's all. Stay right there. Don't have to worry about whether the river's going to raise, or whether the wagon's going to rock, just stay in the grace. Stay in Christ.
Now, He gave it to him unconditionally. And I want you to notice He said, "Through you, I'm going to make you a father of nations," and he had no children, and perhaps he was sterile and his wife was also sterile. Now notice, year after year they had lived together as a young couple and no children, and here he is seventy-five and her sixty-five; and He said, "Abraham, you're going to have a baby by Sarai."
I can see Abraham go down and say, "Sarai, go buy a big bunch of Birdseye and get the pins ready, we're going to have a baby." Why, could you imagine a man seventy-five years old going down here in the city and saying, "Hey, doc, I want to make arrangements now. My wife's only sixty-five and I'm seventy-five, we're going to have a baby."
Why, the doctor'd say, "The old fellow has slipped in his mind."

24 But Abraham, the Bible said, believed God and counted those things which were not, as though they were. He didn't take consideration his own body dead nor the deadness of Sarai's womb. He just never staggered with unbelief, but was strong giving praise to God, for he was persuaded that He who made the promise was able to keep the promise. Amen.
And now, you say, "Oh, Brother Branham, if I can only be like Abraham." Just a minute. All right. "If I could only have the covenant like Abraham had it, unconditionally, oh, that would take all the scare out of me." Just a moment. God never only gave the promise to Abraham unconditionally, but He gave it to Abraham's seed in like manner: unconditional. "I have saved you and your seed after you."
Well, you say, "I am a Gentile, Brother Branham."
Wait a minute! "We being dead in Christ take on Abraham's seed, then are heirs according to the promise."
You say, "Brother Branham, I sure did a whole lot to get saved." No, you never. "I sought God." No, you never. God sought you.
"No man can come to Me, except My Father draws him first. And all that comes to Me, I will give him everlasting life." That makes the devil get real "fidgety" as we call it here in the south. God's promise, give to His people.

25 I've always said, "You don't know who you are." That man sitting by you is a son of God. That woman sitting by you is His daughter. And we are sons and daughters of God, sitting together in heavenly places right now in Christ Jesus, Him working with us, confirming the Word with signs following. Not, we will be in the millennium; we won't need healing in the millennium. Now is when we need healing. Now is when God is Jehovah-jireh to provide anything that we've got need of, for we're Abraham's seed under the covenant, through the death, and burial, and resurrection of Jesus Christ. Amen. That'll make a Baptist shout. That's right.
Think of that. My, I really feel religious when I think of that: saved by the grace of God, not by my own will, but by His will; not by my own desire, but He changed my desire. My mind was once away from God, was changed and brought to God. I could no more make myself do that, than a leopard could lick his spots off. No, sir. It taken God to do it. It taken God to bring you here tonight. It taken God to save you. And God is doing everything He can to show you His goodness to you. Oh, I hope you see it.

26 Now, I can hear him go down and get ready, say, "Come on, Sarai, we're going to have a baby." You know what? The first month he said, "How you feeling, Sarai?"
"No different."
"Oh," he said, "Hallelujah, going to have it anyhow." Second month, "How you feel, Sarai?"
"No different."
"Praise God! We're going to have it anyhow." First year passed, "What about it, Sarai?"
"No different."
"Glory! Going to have it anyhow." Ten years passed. "How you feel, Sarai?"
"No different."
"Praise God! We will have it anyhow."
"Why?"
"God said so. That settles it."

27 The Bible said that he got stronger all the time. Now, we say we're Abraham's seed. "Lord, will You heal me tonight? I accept You as my healer." Well, you know in the morning, "I don't feel any different. Maybe I never got healed." You're a poor example of Abraham's seed. Right. Abraham called those things which were as though they were not, for he took God at His Word. And a true seed of Abraham will do the very same thing, for it was the same Holy Spirit. Right.
No matter what it looks like, if it's contrary to God's Word, call it a lie. You look at symptoms. "Well, my hand's no better. I took Him for my healer, but my hand's no better." It'll never get no better as long as you look at that. Don't look at that; look at this! Here's what you look at. You look at that, you got your heart out of this. Call this as though it was, and take this as though it were. God said so! Amen! When God says it, that settles it for eternity. God said so. Stay with it.

28 Now, calling those things which were not as though they were, and he believed God. He said God is able to keep His promise, so he stayed with it. And God said, "Now, Abraham, being that you become My servant, I want you to separate yourself from your people, from your kindred, from all that unbelief." You know, sometimes when we're prayed for, it's a good thing to do. Living in an environment of unbelief will certainly do you a lot of harm. God calls for separators.
You know what? The Christian church got so when they choose their pastor, it has to be a little fellow with a big bow tie on, and real curly hair, and smell like a polecat nearly, with perfume, and because you think he looks nice and can stand in the pulpit and say, "A-a-men," so pretty, you call that your pastor. The trouble of it is, the Christian church today, we've got too much imitation Hollywood evangelism! That's exactly right! I like the old-fashioned, backwoods, sky-blue, sin-killing religion that cleans up, sanctifies, purifies, and makes holy! That's right. That's what we need. They used to laugh at the old-fashioned, hellfire and brimstone preacher. God, send us some more and take a lot of this Hollywood evangelism out of us. Now, that's not skim milk, but it'll do you good.

29 My mama, when I was a little boy, we was raised poor, she used to boil meat skins in a little bread pan and get some grease to put on the corn bread, make us some corn bread. We had it three times a day, little corn pones, some black-eyed peas, about all we lived on, sorghum molasses. And you southerners know what that is.
So, I remember every Saturday night we'd take a bath in the big old cedar tub. The first one got a good bath. The next one just a little water added. And then, every one a big dose of castor oil. Eating food like that, you just had to. I got so sick of that stuff. I'd start, and I'd hold my nose, and I'd say, "Mama, it makes me so sick."
She said, "If it don't make you sick, it don't do you any good."
And that's the way preaching the Gospel: If it doesn't sicken you up right good, it doesn't do you any good. Right. The Gospel, we need old-fashioned, backwoods religion again: Peter Cartright and old St. Paul's revival, and the Bible Holy Ghost preached back into the church again (Right.), a cleaning from the pulpit to the janitor in the basement. You know that's the truth.

30 So notice, Abraham took God at His Word and called those things that was contrary to God's Word as though they were not. Somebody say, "Now look, Abraham, here you are a hundred years old and Sarai's ninety. You know her womb is dead. You know your strength is gone."
He said, "Don't talk to me. God said I was going to have it, and that settles it." Amen. I like that. That puts the devil back in hell where he belongs. That puts God out here in front marching on. Seed of Abraham, being dead in Christ...
(My time is up already. That thing... Something's wrong. Maybe it's me.)

31 But you know, the seed of Abraham believes God. There's something in them. A man says he don't believe in the supernatural, he don't believe in the Holy Spirit, don't believe in divine healing, how can he believe except there is something in there to believe with? When he's borned again, he will believe it, because he is a son of God: the Creator who created all things and made the world by His own Word. The very dirt that you're sitting over tonight is nothing in the world but God's Word made manifest.
God said, "Let there be." And it was. He believed His own Word. Every material thing come from the supernatural. God spoke the world into existence. If He didn't, where did He get the material to make it with? He made it, because it's His Word. He spoke it and said, "Let there be." And it was. And when God says anything, if you'll accept it and hold onto it...
Chronologists tell us the world is millions of years old. Doesn't make any difference how old it was; He could've spoke it in two minutes or two million years. That fits in His program; but He made it. Oh, I love that. I just like to push that in Satan's neck to let him see that it's God's Word. God said so. That settles it!

32 Abraham said... God said, "Separate yourself, Abraham." As I said, God calls for separators; we call for mixers.
A certain church that I was at not long ago, they was voting in their pastor. And they said, "Now, we can't have him, because he is an old crank. We want somebody who'll go swimming with us, the girls and boys together, who'll take a little sociable drink, let us have dances in the basement." Huh! You just... I don't know what to tell you. You're sure in a bad shape.
You see, sometime your choice is not God's choice. One time God was going to choose a king to take Saul's place from backsliding. And so He told the prophet, "Go up to Jesse's sons. I chose one."
So Jesse said, "Oh, that's wonderful." He goes out, brings his great big tall son, seven-foot tall, a little man standing there with a cruse of oil in his hand. He said, "Now, this man will look beautiful with that crown on his head. Look how them long robes will look. Don't he look like a king when he walks, anyhow?"
"That's him. Bring him up here." So the prophet said, "We'll just pour the oil on him."
But when he went, God said, "I've refused him."
He brought the next one, great big strong fellow. God said, "I've refused him."
"Well, they're the biggest boys I got. Well, they're the only ones who'd look right with the crown on their head. They're the only ones who are straight enough to walk like a king."
God said, "I've refused them."
Well, he brought six of them. Might've said, "Haven't you got another one?"
"Oh, yes. I've got a little old naughty fellow back over here herding some sheep, but I'm sure he wouldn't look good as a king."
Said, "Go bring him up here and let me see him."
And as soon as little old David with a little sheepskin coat on, a little slingshot in his hand, walking along, tottling up like that, stooped shoulders, perhaps a little scrawny looking boy, the Holy Ghost said, "That's My man!" He knowed what was on the inside of him. Man looks on the outside; God looks on the heart.

33 So, no matter what the outside world said, Abraham called those things that were not as though they were, because God said so, and he separated himself. He never was blessed. God never visited him until he separated himself, even from Lot. Lot come up, started arguing, fussing over the pasture of the ground. Abraham said, "Look east or west, north or south; you take one way, and I'll take the other." (That's a Christian spirit.) " I'll take the worst side if it has to be. Go ahead. We're brethren. Let's not argue. You want to belong to the Assemblies, I'll belong to the other one. So, we will just let it go. We'll be brothers." I just feel extremely good tonight, somehow. All right. Watch!
Then, Lot took the easy way and Abraham took the rough way. "I will take the way with the Lord's despised few." That's what the poet said. That's what we want to say.

34 Now, listen closely, if you will, just for a moment. Notice, then as they went along, after he separated himself from Lot, God appeared to Abraham. And if you want him to appear to you, separate yourself from your unbelieving associates. Get out of that bunch of stitch-and-sew parties, that their telling dirty jokes in, so forth. Get away from that thing. Associate with people who believe like you, who love you, who love the Lord. That's right. Separate yourself.
Then when he got himself separated, God said, "Abraham, look to the east, to the west, to the north, to the south. All this is yours. I give it to you." Said, "Walk through the land. See what you like about it."
That's good. I like that. When I separated myself from all different kinds of "isms" and that other, "Days of miracles is past," the Holy Ghost said, "You know what? Every promise in the Book is yours. Just look through it and see what you got." Amen.

35 You know, it's like a great big arcade. You know, we're baptized in this big arcade. If it all belonged to me, I'd go around pull this drawer out and see what I got in it. Belongs to me, mine. I get on a... Look at this, look in this corridor, back in here, test these things on this bench. I like to look around and see what I got. [Gap in the audio.] ... at it once in a while. And if something looks a little high, I'll just get me a ladder and get up there, examine the thing, see what it is, look in every crack and corner; it belongs to me.
And that's the way you are when you become a Christian. Every promise in the Book is yours! Page through it; see the good things God has got for you! Don't stay in the little cold tater and wait; get a whole big gastronomical jubilee. God's got it here for you. Amen. Hold onto it. God said so. That settles it!

36 Abraham looked through the land. It all belonged to him. Then he got to be a hundred years old. My, looked like all hope was gone, not to Abraham, though. I can't hear some of them say, "Uh-huh. Look at the old fellow." Abraham wouldn't listen to that. He believed God anyhow.
And God called him out, and He said, "Abraham, I am El Shaddai. I'm the Almighty." Now, the word El Shaddai comes from the word "bosomed," means like "the woman, the breast." "I am El Shaddai," the breasted God, God with two breasts, like the woman. What does the woman do with the breasts? The baby that's sick nurses the breast. And when he does, the little fellow may be weakly; he may be sick; but he leans on his mother's breast and nurses her life through the breast, nurses life to himself and strength to himself through the mother's breast.

37 And notice, that's the way God was to Abraham: said, "Abraham, you're an old man. You're a hundred years old, but I am the breasted One. Just take a hold. Lay right there. Stay with it. I'm your Creator. I'm the breasted God." Not breast, but breasted: salvation and healing both. Amen.
"He was wounded for our transgressions. With His stripes, we're healed." And He's still El Shaddai, the breasted God who forgives all of your iniquity, who heals all of your diseases. And that's breasted is New and Old Testament. Take them either one. Hold on to God's eternal promise and nurse from the Word of God your physical or spiritual health.
The breasted God... And not only that, but the word means "the satisfier." The little baby, while he's a nursing, he's not only getting strong; but he's satisfied while he's nursing. He quits fretting. He quits stewing, fussing. He just lays against the mother's bosom, and he just rolls his eyes around, and says, "I am getting bigger and better all the time." No more crying...

38 And that's the way you are when you once get a hold of the promise of God. You start nursing from that promise your strength. "Everyday, I'm getting better and better. Praise the Lord." But you that's not Abraham's seed, why, you're going to look at your symptoms. "Oh, look here, I'm no better."
You know, a man that had a good case of symptoms was Jonah. If there ever was a man that had a right to have symptoms, it was Jonah. You know, he was backslid, and he had his hands tied behind him, his feet tied on a stormy sea, and throwed out, and a whale swallowed him and went to the bottom of the sea. Now, any fish that feeds goes back and rests its swimmers on the bottom of the ocean ... or, on... Feed your goldfish and watch them go right down and rest their [unclear words].

39 Now, he swallowed this preacher on a stormy sea, when the boat was about to sink, and he went right down, this big fish, and laid down the bottom of the sea, many fathoms deep, laying there resting his swimmers. And Jonah was backslid, hands and feet tied, and in the belly of a whale, vomit all over him, sea weeds wrapped around his neck in the bottom of the ocean. Brother, there is nobody here that bad off.
But what did Jonah say? Everywhere he looked, it was symptoms. He looked this way, was whale's belly. Whale's belly this way. Whale's belly that way. Everywhere he looked was whale's belly. You know what he said? "They are lying vanities. I refuse to look at them!" He said, "Once more will I look to Your holy temple, Lord."
For he knowed when Solomon dedicated that temple, he said, "Lord, if Thy people be in trouble anywhere, and pray, and look towards this temple, then hear from heaven." And he believed Solomon's prayer. And if Jonah under those conditions, with that kind of symptoms, could look to a earthly temple, where a earthly man who later backslid, and could believe and be delivered from under those symptoms and refused to see them, how much more ought you, who are filled with the Holy Ghost? Don't look toward your earthly temple, but a heaven where Jesus sits at the right hand of God with His own bloody garment making intercession on your confession. And thousands are being healed everywhere. I refuse to see anything contrary to God's Word. "God said so; that settles it. I'm Abraham's seed and heir to all things." Oh, my.
Get that down, not in the intellect, but get it down in your heart one time and watch what the devil does. You'll see his red light going over the hill. That's right. He can't stand that.

40 Now, I want you to notice; He said, "I'm El Shaddai." How
beautiful.
He said, "Lord, how're You going to do this?"
(I can't get to my text, the end of it, because next time I come down, I will finish this up. It's too late.)
Said, "Lord, tell me how You're going to do this."
Said, "Come out here, Abraham. I'll show you what I'm going to do. I'll just show you right here what I'm going to do." He said, "Get Me a heifer of three years old, and get Me a sheep of three years old, and so forth. And bring them out here and slay them." And Abraham went and got the heifer, and the ram, and the goat, and cut them apart. And he got a pigeon and a turtledove. Wish we had time to go into that. Any Bible reader knows the turtledove represented healing. God cut in his dispensations, split them, but not in healing, never.

41 Notice, He always had a way of healing. Even when they had judges, and they had all kinds of dispensations, but God continually on to heal. But he cut the beast, the three beasts, but he didn't separate the turtledove or the pigeon. And he put them down. He kept the birds off of them. Now, watch how God told him what He's going to do.
Now, when the sun went down, He said, "Now, Abraham..." A deep sleep come on Abraham. Now, what is it? "Abraham, you haven't got nothing to do with this. This is My doing. I'm going to do this, because you wouldn't keep it. So I'm going to do it anyhow. Abraham, going to put you out of the picture. You go to sleep."
And Abraham went to sleep. Then the first thing he saw was a horror of darkness. What does that mean? That means death. It's due to every sinner. Every person has to face death. A horrible darkness come before him. "Though I walk through the valley of the shadows of death." The next thing he seen was a smoking furnace. What's that? Hell. Every sinner will go there, every unrepented soul will go there---hell. And then a little white light. And watch. It went between each one of those pieces, back and forth. Said, "Abraham, that's what I'm going to do. That's how I'm going to do it." What was He doing? He was making His covenant with Abraham.

42 Now, in America, when we make a covenant, what do we do? We go down, have a little bite to eat at the table, and you get up, and say, "Will you do it, boy?"
"Yeah."
"Shake." There you are. That's a covenant: Shake hands on it. That's the way we Americans make covenants.
What do they do in Japan when they make a covenant? They go down and talk it over with each other, then get a little cruse of salt, and they pitch salt on one another. That's a covenant in Japan. So what was a covenant in the orient in Abraham's time? They went and killed a beast, and they took this beast and cut it apart, and they got in between the beast and wrote their covenant, what they would do. And then they took this piece of paper and tore it apart. One man took one piece and one the other. They raised their hands to heaven and swore that if they broke this covenant, let their body be as this dead beast. That's how God swore to Abraham He'd keep this covenant.

43 Now notice, when they come together, these two pieces had to dovetail to make that covenant affirmed. It had to be the same piece of paper. It had to... Whatever it was, skin it was on, it was torn and it had to come just exactly the same together.
Now, what did God speak there? Oh, you can't doubt no more if you see this. It'll take all doubt away from you. It was God showing forth through Abraham's seed what He was going to do to the world. A little later on, He turned Abraham and Sarai back to a young man and woman, showed what He's going to do to all of us.
Dad, you may be old, and mother, you may be old, but I will give you the promise out of God's Word, in the resurrection you'll be young again. And I will give you the promise of God's Word, you'll never be an Angel. You're going to be a human. God made you a human, not to destroy you, but to raise you up. Sin made the destruction, but life makes you eternal. You'll never be an angel. If God had wanted you to be an angel, He'd have made you an angel. He wanted you a man and woman, so He made you one

44 You remember when you walked mother down at the altar and how pretty she looked, how dad looked with his slick hair combed back? One morning you woke up, and mother's pretty eyes had a wrinkle under them. Dad, you had some gray hairs coming. What was the matter? After about twenty-five years old death set in, gradually taking you down. That's what death done. Someday it's going to take you. But it can't hold you. And in the resurrection everything that death ever done will be taken away, and you'll come forth a new man, young, beautiful, and a young beautiful woman. That's "Thus saith the Lord" out of God's Word.
That's Abraham's seed is going to gather on the face of the earth; not angels or spirits flying through the air, but men and women, eating, drinking as they did here, without sin, without death, without old age or anything. You don't realize what a beautiful promise God's done.

45 So He took His son, made Him a form of sinful flesh and took Him up to Calvary. (Listen close now.) Took Him to Calvary and there God wrote His covenant with the human race. Oh, brother, see it. He took the Lord Jesus, the Emancipator of this proclamation, and He took Him to Calvary, and He ripped Him apart. He took the body up to heaven, set it on the throne and sent the other part down, which was the Holy Ghost. And that same Holy Ghost is here on the earth, making up the body of Christ. And at the resurrection, it'll have to be the same genuine Holy Ghost that fell on the day of Pentecost, that was in Christ Jesus will have to be in the church to come into that covenant, and then you're Abraham's seed and are heirs of all things! Amen. God swore that He would do it. He made His promise He would do it. He gave a covenant He would do it. He raised Christ from the dead to prove He would do it. He sent the Holy Ghost down to continue the same work that Jesus did when He was on earth to prove to you that we have nothing to be scared about.
No matter anything contrary to that, it's a lie. God's Word is eternal truth. Hold on to it. Lay on to it. Stay with it. It's life. Believe it with all your heart.

46 Listen, sinner friend, have you ever accepted that? I just wish I had about two hours on this. It's too short. But look, did you ever accept it? If you haven't, now is the time to do it. If you cannot, you can by no means come into God's kingdom with a different torn experience, some church you've joined, some lodge you belong to. It's good to belong to a lodge, good to belong to church. I have nothing against that. Maybe upon the merits of your education may... That's good. That's fine. Maybe upon the merits of your mother. That's fine. But you yourself have to be in this covenant with God to ever dovetail with that same experience. You'll have to be in God's covenant.

47 In closing, sometime ago---forty, fifty years ago---there was a great evangelist crossed the middle eastern country, a famous man. His name was Daniel Curry. You might've read of him. One night, he had a dream, and he dreamed that he died, and he went to heaven. And when he got up to the gate, the gatekeeper come out and said, "Who approaches this gate?"
And he said, "I, Daniel Curry, approaches this gate. I'm an evangelist, and I am approaching this gate. I have won many souls to the Lord Jesus, and I'm approaching this gate for I have my eternal reward in heaven."
And the gatekeeper said, "Just a moment, Mr. Curry." He goes and he looks all through the book. He comes back; he said, "Mr. Curry, I am sorry to inform you, but your name is not here. I cannot let you in."
"Oh," he said, "you must be mistaken, sir. Look again."
He did. He said, "I am sorry, but you cannot come in," he said, "because your name is not here." He said, "The only one thing you can do now, if you wish to, you might appeal your case, if you wish to, to the great white throne judgment."
"Oh," he said, "if my name is not there, I have no choice. I must appeal my case to the white throne judgment."

48 So he said he begin to move out into space. He went on and on. Said it started getting lighter and lighter and lighter. After while, it got so light, till it was coming from no certain place, but just a great light, million times lighter than the sun. And said he got just slower and slower. After while, it stopped. And he heard a great voice blast from somewhere in the eternities, said, "Daniel Curry," He said, "did you ever tell a lie when you was on earth?"
And he said, "I was just getting ready to say, 'No, my Lord,' but said in the presence of that light, I seen there was many things that I'd misrepresented."
Said, "Daniel Curry, did you ever steal while you were on earth?"
He said, "I was getting ready to say, 'No, Lord, I've been an honest man, an evangelist,' but," he said, "in the presence of that light I thought of many shady deals I'd pulled."

49 Brother, you might not think much about it now, but in the presence of that light... Go look... A whole lot of things that... You think, "But I belong to church, preacher. That's good enough." But in the presence of that light, you're going to need more than that. You will.
He said, "Daniel Curry, was you perfect when you was on earth?" And said, "I said, 'No, Lord. I wasn't perfect.'" And said. "There was a silence. I was getting ready to hear the great blast." He said, "My bones were pulling loose, as it were. Now, I'm going to hear that great blast, 'Depart from My presence, for only perfection can come in here. Depart into everlasting fire which is prepared for the devil and his angels.'" Said, "As I listened to hear that," he said, "I heard the sweetest voice that I ever heard. No mother could speak like that voice." And said, "I turned to look." Said, "I saw a face sweeter than any mother's face. I never seen anything," he said, "that could compare with that face. And He walked close to me, put His arms around me, and said, 'Father, no, Daniel Curry wasn't perfect on earth, but in earth, he stood for Me. Now in heaven, I will stand for him.'"

50 I wonder, who will stand for you. Let's pray while we think of it. Think it over. Who will stand for you? Heavenly Father, in this solemn moment, I grant to this little audience that's waited and listened, and stood in the rain, been sitting in the seat for long drawed out hours, may every one just now think this over, "Who will stand for me? Who am I standing for?" And Father, as this solemn moment sweeps over our beings, knowing that we all have to stand there... "It's appointed unto man once to die and then the judgment." Oh, how I want Him to stand in my place. And I might have to stand there before morning, and we don't know who here may have to stand before morning, but there's one thing we know, we will all stand by and by. And let this Spirit of the Holy Ghost touch every heart in this moment of deep sincerity as we bow in Thy presence.
And now with your heads bowed and your hearts bowed in prayer, we have not a room for an altar call around here, to bring you up, but you don't necessarily need that. The only thing you have to recognize, that you're a sinner and you need Christ. And if you recognize that tonight, friend, and you want Him to stand for you, will you make a stand for Him tonight? For He said in His Word, "He that heareth My Word and believeth on Him that sent Me hath everlasting life."

51 I wonder while we are praying, every Christian, will the sinners in here put up your hand to God, not to me...? While every eye is closed, let the Holy Spirit alone with myself watch this. Would you put up your hands and say, "God, by my hand raised, I mean I'll stand for You tonight. I'm making my stand right now." How many hands shall I see up at this time? God bless you. Bless you.
Up in the balcony, someone up there saying, "Brother Branham, I---I'm not a Christian. I go to church, but I realize I'm not a Christian. I really, when it comes time to stand for Christ, I haven't got the grace, the audacity to do it. I just turn around. When they tell jokes I don't try to straighten them out, those vulgar things they say at the office and the neighbors say them when we are at our little parties and so forth. I---I---I'm not a---I'm not a Christian, Brother Branham. And God knows that, and I'm going to raise my hand tonight, and say, 'God, be merciful to me. I will be a Christian. And I will make my stand tonight, and I want You to stand for me when the hour of my death, when I cross the river.'"

52 Will you raise your hand, someone else? Just put it up now. God bless you. Someone else? "I now will accept Christ, and I know He will accept me, if I will only make this gallant stand at this time, and by God's grace, I will keep my promise to Him." Someone else? As you raise you hand, "I now will do it."...
All right. Let us pray now for those who raised their hand. Father God, I commit them unto Thee, and I pray that You will, this hour... I know You have. Your Word can't fail. You said, "No one can come except My Father draws them, and all that comes, I will give them everlasting life." You promised that You would raise them up at the last day. When this body is destroyed and turned back to the elements of the earth, You'll gather it together someday in a young man or woman. And there the immortal Spirit shall be breathed into their nostrils, and they will live with mother and dad, and with the saints on high, and we will live together forever. Grant it, Lord. I pray in Jesus' name. Amen.
The Lord bless you as you made your stand. God seen you. He knows your heart.

53 Just a little late. I'm always just a little late. But now, I have at length, yet nervously, spoke and never got to my text. I just take too much time, I suppose. And it's awfully hard for me to pray for the sick after doing that, because preaching is one anointing, but to see visions is another anointing. Preaching brings joy. Visions takes the strength out. That's you doing it. But how many is in here that's never been in one of my meetings before? Let's see your hand. My, would you look?
All right, now we're going to call the prayer line together. But just before, I want just a moment to the people. Now, I do not claim that I am a healer. I don't believe there is anyone in the world that's a healer, whether he's a minister, evangelist, or a doctor, or a chiropractor, whatever he may be; he is not a healer. God is the only healer. Mayo brothers say that they are not healers. They assist nature, set bones, sew up wounds, take out bad parts, but God's the healer. God is the only healer.

54 Jesus Christ never claimed to be a healer. He said, "It's not Me that doeth the works. It's My Father that dwelleth in Me. He doeth the works."
Do you believe that? All right. Now, I want to ask you something then. Now, what is healing? Healing (listen close) is your personal faith in a finished work at Calvary of the Lord Jesus Christ; what God did by Him at Calvary purchased your salvation and your healing. The men and women that raised their hand a few minutes ago to be saved, they wasn't just saved then. They were saved nineteen hundred years ago at Calvary. They just accepted it then as a gift from God.

55 I used to be a blind man. I could not see for astigmatism shook my head. I walked like this with big glasses; had to be led around. But now, I can read newspaper print five feet from me. What is it? Just the grace of God. I accepted Jesus as my healer. I was turned down by doctors for three minutes of life to live many years ago. Said I would be dead---told my father---in three minutes. The Lord Jesus appeared to me. I accepted Him as my healer, being a sinner boy, not knowing; and today, after many years, I'm in perfect health so far as I know at forty-seven years old. Now, it's because of His grace. He died for that and I accepted it. It's my personal property. It's your personal property.
Now, do you believe the Bible says that Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever? Hebrews 13:8. Does the Bible say that He is a High Priest that can be touched by the feeling of our infirmities? If Jesus is the same yesterday, today, and forever, I want to ask you something. And yesterday, did He say He'd heal the people? No. He said, "I only do as My Father shows Me." Saint John 5:19. This is for the newcomers. "Verily, Verily, I say unto you, the Son can do nothing in Himself."

56 When He passed by thousands of crippled, lame, blind, withered at the pool of Bethesda, multitudes. And I am taught according to the Greek dictionary that it takes at least two thousand to make a multitude. So multitudes laying there of lame, halt, blind, and withered waiting for the troubled water... Jesus walking right through them people, never touched a one, and went to a man laying on a little pallet, that perhaps had, oh, prostate trouble or tubercular (It was retarded.) and said, "Wilt thou be made whole?" Left the rest of them, healed that one and went away.
When they questioned Him, He said, "I do nothing in myself." How many knows the Bible says that? He said, "What I see the Father doing, that doeth the Son likewise." Did He say it?

57 Philip came to Him one time and got saved, and He went and found Nathanael under a tree. I've quoted this for two nights. I don't know why I come back to it. We could just keep going through the Scriptures, so many places. You Bible readers know that. But when he walked in the presence of Jesus... This seems to be a key note right here. When he walked in the presence of Jesus, Jesus said, "Behold, an Israelite in whom there's no guile."
He said, "Rabbi, when did You know me?"
He said, "Before Philip called you when you were under the tree." That's thirty miles around the mountain. How did He see him thirty miles around the mountain?
What did this man say? "Thou art the Son of God." That was a Jewish attitude. I mean the real believer Jew. "Thou art the King of Israel."
He said, "Because I told you this, you believe?" Said, "You'll see greater than this."

58 Many times He told the people who they were when they come to Him. He knowed where a fish was, had a coin in his mouth. He knowed where two mules was hitched, where two ways met. Many things as the Father would show Him... A woman touched His garment, and went out, and sat down, or stood up, or wherever she was. Jesus said, "Who touched Me?"
Peter said, "All of them's touching You."
He said, "But I felt My strength go out of Me---virtue." And He looked around, and He found the woman, and He told her she had a blood issue. And He said, "Thy faith has saved thee. I never done it. I never seen no vision. But your faith has saved you." Is that right? "Your faith!" And she fell down at His feet and confessed all.

59 Now, she touched Him. Do you believe you could touch Him tonight? If Jesus is the same yesterday, today, and forever, He's got to have some way to touch Him. And the Bible said that He's a High Priest---Hebrews. He's the High Priest of our confession. He can be touched by the feeling of our infirmities, not "He was"; "He is!" You can touch Him the same way.
Now, if He has risen from the dead, He's the same in principal, the same in power, the same in attitude; He's just the same Jesus or this Bible is wrong, and I'm a false witness, and these ministers are false witnesses, and your testimony is false.

60 There is hundreds of religions. And Brother Cook sitting here... Thank you for your book, Brother Cook. I was looking at it awhile ago. It was sent to my room. Thirty Seven Years In India. He could tell you something about false religions by the hundreds, denying Christ. But there's only one of them and that's the religion of Jesus Christ can prove that He is living, not by psychology, not by emotion. We clap our hands and shout, and so does the Mohammedans, so does the Buddhists.
The Mohammedans work themselves in such a frantic, till they can take splinters and run through their fingers, don't even feel it. Take a lance at the feast of the prophets, run through their nose, and up through their heads like this, and draw it back... Take a spear...
Standing right there in Lausanne, Switzerland, and took a spear ... or, a sword and run it through him like this, and had a doctor there to examine it, and poured water on this end and it run out the other end and pulled it back through his heart without bleeding a drop; frantic, worked up. That's right. But they can't heal. They can't take away sin. They can't prove the resurrection. They can prove psychology, but not resurrection.

61 So there's all kinds of isms. But there's one genuine Christian religion, and Jesus Christ is the Author of that faith, and He died, and rose again, and He said, "The things, the works that I do shall you do also; more than this shall you do (I know the King James said, 'greater,' but you look and see if that isn't "more.")--- more than this (because He'd be in the church everywhere)... More than this shall you do, for I go unto My Father. A little while and the world will see Me no more. Yet ye shall see Me. I will be with you, even in you, to the end of the world. Go ye into all the world and demonstrate the power of the Holy Ghost to every creature. These signs shall follow them that believe." How far? All the world. How many? Every creature. Two thirds of the world don't even know the name of Jesus tonight. The Gospel's still in force, and will be till Christ comes. Then the Spirit, the contract, will be lifted with the body, and the redeemed by the blood will come together in husband and wife, as King and queen, will sit on a throne of David and rule the earth.

62 Now, if that's right, and if Jesus will come to this platform and in these people, and will produce the same kind of life and do the same things that He did here on earth, will you accept Him for your needs? Will you raise your hand to him? Say, "I will accept Him for my need." All right. The Lord bless you.
Now, "Brother Branham, are you afraid to make that kind of a statement?" No, sir. He promised it, and it's His promise. No matter anything contrary to it, I say it's a lie. God said so. That settles it. It's a gift. And He, by yielding yourself to the Spirit of God...
God is the same. Jesus is the same. He works the same. He lives the same. He acts the same. He acts in you as He would if He was here on earth. And what did He say? "Ye are the vine." Is that right? I just wanted to see if I could catch you on it. Ye are the what? Branches. "I am the vine."

63 Now, the vine doesn't bear fruit, does it? Who was He talking to? The church. "I'm the vine. You are the branches." The branch is energized by the life of the vine; therefore Jesus has no lips tonight on earth but mine and yours. He has no eyes but mine and yours. He has no hands but mine and yours. He energizes us, and we bring forth His life, as He brings it through us. Whether it's preaching the Gospel by lip, whether it's seeing vision by eye, whether it's whatever it is, laying hands on the sick, whatever it is, it's Christ working through the branches of His church, every office literally electrified by His presence.
Isn't it wonderful? Here we are. Now, I've either told the truth or a lie. If I've told a lie... God will never have nothing to do with a lie. You know that. If I've told the truth, God is obligated to vindicate it is the truth.

64 Let us pray. Now, heavenly Father, I pray that You'll help me and help this audience. No matter how much I would believe; they have got to believe too, because it's their faith that operates Your presence, that gets from You whatever they desire. You went to Your own country, full, without measure, the fullness of the Godhead bodily, and men and women didn't believe You. They said, "Why, he's uneducated. Where did he get this schooling? What did he come from? Why, where did this wisdom come from? Isn't his father with us, the carpenter, and his mother, and his brothers, and sisters, aren't they all here?" And the Bible said, "Many mighty works He could not do because of their unbelief." And You're the same yesterday, today, and forever. God take all unbelief from us, and let us submit ourselves to the Holy Ghost, and to have a great climax to this meeting, that every sick and afflicted person may be healed. God, grant it in Christ's name. Amen

65 Now, we'll call the prayer line, God willing. We will have to hurry. Don't get nervous though, because that just upsets everybody. Be quiet. What we been calling from in the prayer line? You got the cards. All right. What is it? All right. Well, let's just start anyhow. Start number 1. Who has prayer card number 1? Let's line people up right quick. Say, did you give out 1? All right ones. All right. All right, want E's. All right. E? Was that it?
Is your card E, sister, E-1? F-1. All right. F-2, raise your hand quickly now, right quick. F-2, would you ... 2? 3? 3? 4? [Blank place on tape.]

66 One of them is a fundamental and the other one is a Pentecostal. The fundamental positionally know what they are in Christ, but they haven't got no faith. The Pentecostal received the Holy Ghost and got plenty of faith, but don't know who they are. If I could ever get them together... Like a man's got money in the bank, but he don't know how to write a check. The other one can write a check and ain't got no money in the bank. So, if you could ever get them together, fundamental faith and Pentecostal people, or Pentecostal faith and fundamental people, the millennium would set in. The church would rise to its feet. God would get glory, see.
Now, the gift of prophecy has to be judged by judges before it could be announced to the church. It might be on this one tonight, that one tomorrow night, that one the next night, that one... It's a gift in the church. But a prophet is born from the mother's wombs a prophet. The Bible said that John the Baptist, being a prophet, seven hundred and twelve years before he was born Isaiah saw him and said, "He's the voice of one crying in the wilderness." Is that right? Moses was born a prophet, had no choice of it.

67 I believe it was Zechariah, the Bible said God told him, "Before you was even formed in your mother's womb, I knew you and sanctified you, and ordained you a prophet to the nations." See? "God in sundry times in divers manners spoke to the fathers through the prophets, but through in this last day through His Son, Christ Jesus." So, it's a gift that comes to the church that we prophesy, speak with tongues, interpret tongues, lay hands on the sick.
Wished I had time to tell you the miracles that I've seen done: People, little lay members go lay hands on the sick, and they be healed, where the Spirit strikes them and warns them to go do it. They obey.

68 Now, let us be real reverent. Sonny, if you will, could you play, "Only Believe," just a moment? There's something about the song. I've heard it sang now in pretty near every language under heaven, where thousands of heathens that war at one another get together and sing, "Only Believe." "Only Believe," it was wrote by my friend, Paul Rader, who's gone on to heaven. In his gallant death in California, when the little Moody Bible Institute sent a quartet down there to sing, and they were singing, "Nearer My God to Thee." How many ever knew Paul Rader, heard of him? Sure. He had a sense of humor.
By the way, his friend too, F. F. Bosworth may follow me in this meeting, or Tommy Osborn. If they do come in here, receive them in Christ. They are real, real brothers. The pastor has been saying, asking maybe he could get a hold of them to come continue on.

69 Now, listen. When Paul was dying, he said, "Who is dying? You or I? Raise them shades and sing me some snappy Gospel songs." So when they went to singing, Paul said, "Where's Luke?" Luke and Paul stuck together about like Billy Paul, my boy, and I. They were together. They were brothers. They called Luke. Luke was in the next room. He didn't want to see his brother die. So he said, "Where you at, Luke?" Luke come over, and he took hold of Paul's hand. Paul said, "Luke, we've come a long ways together, brother. But think of it: In five minutes from now I'll be standing in the presence of Jesus Christ, clothed in His righteousness," and squeezed Luke's hand and went to meet God.
Let me go like that. That's right. Let me go like that when my weary days are over.
Paul wrote the song when I was having a big meeting in Ft. Wayne, where he wrote the song in that room. I couldn't keep from crying when I heard it come in. I could just see Paul. I will see him again someday.

70 All right. Only believe, all things are possible. Let's watch coming from heaven now; down through the corridors comes the Lord Jesus. I've spoke for Him. I've closed the Book. It's His time to speak. If He vindicates what I say is the truth, you disbelieve it, you're a sinner. Remember, "Go ye and," what no more? What is sin? Unbelief. Go ye and disbelieve no more or worse things will come upon you. So don't disbelieve. Only believe.
For the sake of time, let's hurry and get the people coming. The lady standing here is a stranger to me as far as I know. We're strangers to each other. I do not know her, but I'm glad it's a woman to be first tonight. I'd like to give a little Bible picture. How many... [Blank place on tape.] institution tonight. We're not playing church, friends. It's church. God's mercy. We're at the end of the road. This is the signs of the last day. Now, may the God of heaven help us tonight so that you'll be without an excuse at the day of judgment. And God knows that this is only done, if He will. I have no way of saying He will, but if He will react His life again tonight right here, so you'll be without an excuse, and you who love Him will rejoice and be happy because your religion is right and your Christ has raised from the dead. The Lord bless.

71 Now, lady, I... Ever who's at the microphone, if you probably step it up, the engineer, just a little, because if the anointing which is now striking me, if it... I don't know how loud I talk, because it's another world. Now, if I said, "Woman, you're sick." That might be right. That'd be guessing. "And you're going to be healed." You'd just have to guess at that. That's something that I tell you will be, which you have no way of knowing. But what if He tells me something that's already happened? Then you know whether that's truth or not.
Now, when the Lord Jesus came to a person... Do you believe, lady, that He has raised from the dead? And you believe that He is just the same in every attitude and everything that He always has been? And if He tonight... You're standing there with something that you've come here for. And you know, I don't know. But if He will reveal to me what you've come for, just the same as He told that woman where her trouble was. If He will tell me where your trouble is, you'll know whether it's the truth or not. And if He will do that, will you accept and believe then, knowing that your brother has no way of knowing those things? You'll know it'll have to be supernatural. So it'll be your attitude, what you judge it to be.

72 You're aware that something is going on, because between me and the lady is a light moving back and forth. It's because I keep talking, the reason it doesn't settle on her. But I've never seen the woman. I don't know her.
Something happened. I don't know just what it was. I don't think it was the Angel, because it was a light. But if somebody snapped a camera, don't do it. See, this Angel is a light. I'm trying to watch it. And it jerked me from the vision then, you see. Don't do that. I know you didn't mean to, but (see), you can take pictures before this, but not now, see. It's gone from the woman, see. I was talking with her and it... She was moving from me, and then a light flashed, and I thought the Angel went to the audience. And then I looked back, and it was a bulb. So, please now. Be real reverent.

73 Let us talk again. What am I doing? I'm trying to do the same thing that Jesus did when He talked to the woman. He said, "Woman, bring Me a drink." Wonder why He said that? Why did He send His disciples away? Father sent Him up there. And He sent His disciples away. Why did He contact the woman's spirit? He said, "Woman, bring Me a drink."
She said, "It's not customary for you Jews to ask Samaritans such. We have no dealings." There was a segregation, just like the colored and white today.
But what did He say? "If You knew who you were talking to, you'd ask Me for a drink."
"Why," she said, "the well's deep, and You have nothing to draw with. And our father Jacob dug it and drunk from it and you say in this mountain in Jerusalem..." The conversation went on. What was He doing?
There was a man filled with the Spirit of God. There was a woman with a need of God. He was contacting her spirit to know her need, and that's exactly what I'm doing now.

74 Now, if you'll believe, it'll... You, yourself are the one controls it, not me. I'm just trying to get you to center your thought on Christ. And if God will do this, all of you will believe, will you do it, with all your heart? May He grant it.
I can see the woman coming from somewhere else. She's not from this city. She's from out-of-town. And she's talking about something. And that's about her... It's a growth, and that growth is in the breast. That's the truth. And you're afraid it's a cancer. You prayed that God would let you get in this line today. And by the way, your husband has something to do... He's a preacher. That's right. And your name is something like B-r-e-n-n-e-n, Brennen or something like that. That's right. Now, do you believe? Do you accept Him with all your heart? Now, come here.
Our heavenly Father, in the name of Thy Son the Lord Jesus, knowing that this woman is shadowed for death, I pray that You'll grant tonight that this old evil thing that's bothering her... Oh thou, devil, you are defeated. You're exposed. Come out of the woman. I adjure, thee, by the living God that you depart from her. Amen.
God bless you, sister. Go, and don't doubt. It's free from you, now. Don't doubt.

75 How do you do. Well, you and I are strangers too, I suppose, to each other. I don't know you. But someone here who knows you, and He's the Lord Jesus. I am His servant. I perceive that you are a Christian. You're a Christian, because your spirit seems to be... The Holy Spirit here seems to be welcoming as my brother. You're a Christian. And you come to me for something, for help. And if I could do it, I would. But I'm just your brother, a gift of God to you, and I just yield myself, and the Holy Spirit might be able to help you, if you'll believe me.
I see you're really extremely nervous. You're upset about something. I tell you; it's a spiritual condition. You want a lift from God. That's right, brother. And there's something else, that you might know. You got trouble with your feet, and that's athletic feet. That's right. And you're a preacher. That's right. That's "thus saith the Spirit." Now, do you believe? Come here.
Dear God and Father, I bless this man in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, and ask that you will make him well. In Jesus Christ's name. Amen. God bless you, brother.

76 Little lady, sitting there with your hand up like this in the second row, right back there, you're praying for a spiritual uplift too. Isn't that right? It's a spiritual condition. You're aware that something is going on there, aren't you? Looks like, audience, you could see that. Can't you see that light come, an emerald color hanging right over that lady? There it is. She's praying that God will help her and give her spiritual help, for she's seeking such from God. That's true. Just believe. Raise up your hand, lady, to God, way up high. Will you take that same hand and lay it on the lady next to you who has arthritis and wants to be healed?
It's over, sister. That you might know, the lady sitting next to her, do you believe, lady? You're praying for a little boy. Yes. Raise up just a minute. There's a boy sitting here looking this way praying too, and his spirit is coming in. The lady with the little white hat on, yes. I want to see you. Stand up. Look this way just a moment. Do you believe me to be His prophet? If God will reveal to me what you are praying for, will you accept it? Well, his stomach trouble will end then. Do you believe with all your heart that Jesus will make it well and will do the things that you've asked for? If you believe it with all your heart, raise up your hand. With all your heart, you believe it. Now, bow your heads.
Our heavenly Father, I pray that in Christ's name, that You will give to her the deep desire of her heart as we condemn the devil in Jesus Christ's name. Amen. The Lord bless you. Now, have faith

77 You, lady, do you believe with all your heart? I'm a stranger to you. It's just from everywhere. Now, be real reverent and everyone in prayer just a moment. You're all human. You all got spirits, and everyone's just pressing now, see. And visions are just coming from every way. It's hard to hold them.
I want to talk to you, lady, just a moment. Look at me. Look on me. I mean that like the Scripture. Peter and John passed through the gate called Beautiful, said, "Look on us." That don't mean to look to them for ... just to give attention... You got trouble with your legs. That's right. Now, being that I've got your spirit under the control of the Holy Spirit, there's something else on your heart. That didn't satisfy you. I see some kind of, like a ... it's a water, great big waves a rolling. It's a ... it's the sea. You are interested something... It's somebody that's over seas, and that is a son. And that son is in Italy, and that son has a stomach trouble and is supposed to be operated on right away, and the boy is a sinner, and you want prayer for his soul, "Thus saith the Lord." You believe?
Dear heavenly Father, in the name of Thy beloved Child, the Lord Jesus, I lay hands upon the woman and ask that she receive that what she asked for, in Christ's name. Amen. Go, don't doubt Him, lady. It's light around you now where it was dark. You can receive what you've asked for. Do you believe? Have faith in God. Don't doubt. Amen.

78 He said, "I can if ye believe." All right, young fellow. Do you believe God? Do you believe Jesus Christ is God's Son, He raised Him from the dead? Do you believe the work that you now see going on, you believe it comes from God? You believe me to be His servant? You believe the Word that I preached is the truth? Then I can help you, if you believe that. For He promised it.
You're suffering with a nervous condition. You've had it since a little boy, since you was a kiddie in school. You got real scared one time somewhere coming from... It was a dog or something that crossed your path. That's been many years ago. That's right. Reading your books in school, you held them close to you because you are near sighted. You read too close to you. You should push it away. It's been pushed back by your teacher. That's years ago. Also, you've got someone here in the building that you are interested in. It is your mother. You believe that God will tell me what is wrong with her? Would you accept it? She's got asthma trouble. It's right. Do you believe me to be His prophet, now? You're praying for your wife also, aren't you, son? You believe God will tell me what's wrong with her? She's got something wrong with her fingers. They get yellow and swell up on the ends, and the fingernails drop off. That's right, isn't it? Now, do you believe? Then go and receive as you have believed; so be it unto you in Christ's name.

79 How do you do? Do you believe with all your heart? I don't know you, lady. You're aware of that, but God knows you. He knows all about you. You're standing for someone else. That's your daughter. She has a horrible female trouble. I see her going into a hospital and coming back out, but I hear a doctor say she has to be operated again. That's right. You don't believe that. You accept Christ now for the healer? Come, as you stand for her.
O Christ of God, I condemn the devil and ask that this woman receive her blessing she's asked for in Christ's name. Amen.
Have faith in God.

80 How do you do, sir. I don't know you, but there's somebody does know you. That's God.
Up in the balcony in the middle row, sitting back there, sir, with that stomach trouble, you believe God will heal you, make you well? The man with the white shirt on, kind of a blue looking tie, gray headed, sitting there with a stomach trouble, praying, got acidity of the stomach, ulcerated, raise your hand up, sir. There you are. You're healed. Jesus Christ makes you well. Amen.
Do you believe? Have faith in God.
Been working hard, haven't you. Got a poisoning from it, a cement poisoning, Mr. G. H. Whitner. Return home; it's going to leave you, sir. Your faith has made you whole. Amen. God bless you, brother.
You believe, lady? You touched Him, little lady with the red dress on. You were praying, wasn't you, sister? Yes. Now, there He is. He's standing by you. You're suffering with a lady's trouble, a female trouble. That's right. Say, by the way, you're a minister, a woman preacher. You're not from this city. You're from Alabama. By the way, you've got a sister you're praying for. She's not here, but she's there, and she's got epilepsy. I see her fall with the spirit. That's the truth. Have faith, lady, and believe God, and you can have what you ask for. Amen.

81 You believe? If thou canst believe, all things are possible.
You're from out-of-town too, but do you believe? You're scared, aren't you. You are to be mother, and the reason you're scared, you got a rupture; and you are afraid of this baby whether it'll be right or not. Wondering if you won't doubt, Mrs. Hoffman ---Huffler, then you can be healed. You believe it? How does He know your name and know who you are? Do you believe it with all your heart? All right, Mrs. Huffler, you can go home and bring forth the baby in peace.
God Almighty, I bless the woman in Jesus Christ's name. Amen.
Do you believe God will heal that blood condition, take that diabetes away from you and make you well? Do you believe it with all your heart? Then go on your road, believe with all your heart, and be made well.

82 You're young to have arthritis and things, but God can heal you. You believe that with all your heart? Then, go and believe with all your heart, be made well. Come here; I want to lay my hands on you as you pass by.
Jesus of Nazareth, heal the woman, I pray. Amen. Have faith in God.
Your disease kills hundreds, but God can heal you of heart trouble and make you well. You believe that? There's many out there suffering with the same thing.
There on the front row... No, it's not you; you're standing for a friend. They live in Georgia. Got heart trouble. If you believe with all your heart, you can be healed too.
The man with the red shirt on looking at me, you are praying, aren't you, sir. You want to be healed, don't you? You are a preacher of the Gospel, and you suffer with a nervous trouble; and you were just praying to God, "God, let him speak to me." If that is right, raise up you hand, Reverend. You have received your healing; go in peace.
Likewise you, sister, don't doubt nothing, but believe with all your heart.
You need some blood. You're anemic; your blood, passing before me, is thin. But do you believe that you and I can go to Calvary and get a blood transfusion by the Lord Jesus?
Heavenly Father, I pray, Thee, that Thou will heal the woman...

Jehovah-Jireh

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1 Our kind Heavenly Father, we want to thank You from the very depths of our heart, for all that Thou has done for us. We're unworthy of the blessings that Thou has bestowed upon us, but we are grateful for them. And now, we pray that You'll smile Your blessings continually upon us, and especially tonight, as we have just remembered that tonight is the night we're to pray for the great host of people. Give us great faith. May great wonders be done for the glory of God. We asked it in Jesus' name, Amen. Be seated.
I had just remembered that tonight was the night we were to pray for all the people, and he'd forgot to tell me that he was coming down and give prayer cards for all those people who just wanted to pass through the line. And I'd forgot about it till just here at the platform, that we was to do that. And it hadn't come into my memory, rather, since coming from the place. So, I thought I'd change my text then and talk on something else. That I was going to talk on something, but I'll change it now.

2 And we want to thank all you ministers for this morning, attending the breakfast. We just had a real jubilee this morning. The Lord blessed in a marvelous way in a wonderful fellowship that we had with God's children this morning.
And now tonight I believe the recording boys... This will be the last night for the books and the pictures. They'll be at the concession stand, wherever it is. We don't sell on Sunday. I've never did it and I... The books and those things are not nothing that we make anything from. I buy them myself from Mr. Lindsay. And then, I get somebody to sell them for me, and the meeting has to support the books. Now, if I was printing them myself and selling them, or could get them printed real cheap and sell them... But it's not ... that isn't the idea. It's not to make anything out of them, no. It's getting the message to the people. And so, you'd be invited: If you're planning on getting one of the books or pictures, get it tonight.
Then, tomorrow afternoon there is to be the service here in the place, the Lord willing. And then tomorrow night closes out this campaign. I know that there's other campaigns coming to the city, as Phoenix seems to have plenty of them. And that's good. I'm glad you do.

3 I was just speaking to a minister just few moments ago, a well known minister here in the city. He said, "Brother Branham, the Phoenix people love you."
And I said, "That certainly is mutual."
I wished I had time, when I come into the city, to go to each one of your homes and have dinner. I know you got good cooks. And I would sure like to do it. But it's seemingly, that in these meetings I've just got to constantly stay on my feet until I just get so wore out I can't go.
Brother Moore, I was trying to get him to preach for me. Said, "I tell you, if you preach and you fall over on the platform, then we get a doctor, and he says, 'Really, you're in bad shape,'" said, "I'd try it next time."
I said, "Now, Brother Moore..." But we're happy to be assembled with you tonight.

4 And now, even in our day that we're living in... And this morning I was speaking at the breakfast on the subject of Joel, where he saw the worms, different insects, eat down the tree---God's heritage. And we tried to name what those worms was, and how that each one of those worms is the same worm, just dies and comes back a different insect. And it's been the devil all the way along. He broke up brotherhood and the things that they had in the first church, and the false unity of the church while we try to unify people with organizations. Organization unifies themselves.

5 But Christ died for the whole body, see. It's not just unity amongst one organization; it's the unity amongst the entire body of Christ. And those old worms has just... Every time that ... this little tree that's been cut down, and it's laying there just as a stump; and every time some life starts up, the first thing you know, we build a little organization around it, and the worms get in it and eat it down. I said, "One of these days, God's going to bring down some insect powder, and He's going to spray these worms; they'll quit eating from that time on."
When a man can be so isolated from those things by the love of God and the Holy Ghost, it'll never touch him. We have people who's found that place. I've known men that, wouldn't make any difference what organization you belonged to or what you believed, you're a brother anyhow. They wouldn't draw any lines. If it can work on one or two, it can work on the rest of us. That's right. We can all be the same.

6 You know, I was thinking over in Job the 14th chapter, it said, "There's hope in a tree if it dies. And even the stalk grows old, the roots in the ground, through the scent of rain---water---it will bring forth boughs again.
Now, that Gospel stump that's in the ground, the Pentecostal blessing, only thing it needs is some Pentecostal water. And Pentecostal water is the Word, for we are washed by the water by the Word. And just some good old-fashioned Holy Ghost gospel teaching will certainly put that thing right back in it's place and bring it out again. That's right.

7 Now, I told Brother Moore this afternoon, if I preach longer tonight than twenty or thirty minutes, for him to stick me in the back. And so, I just...
When I come to talk, I'm a long ways from being a preacher or theologian. But what I know about Jesus, I love to tell others. And I just put everything that there is in me in it, because it's my Lord's Word.
And if I was doing a job for you out here busting concrete, I'd do the best job I could do. And how much more, doing for the Lord. I want to do my best when I walk to this platform, do everything that lays within me to win souls to Christ, because I know---and you know---we haven't got too much longer to do this.

8 Now, being that we're going to have the type of meeting that we will tonight, I'd like to encourage faith. People passing through the line like that, they must have faith. So I want to read just a verse out of ... the 14th verse of the 22nd chapter of Genesis:
And Abraham called the name of the place Jehovah-jireh: as it is said, to this day, In the mount of the Lord it shall be seen.

9 God, in the Old Testament, had seven compound redemptive names. And when this picture was taken, that you see out there of the pillar of fire, as I regard it that way... And the night that it was taken is when Brother Bosworth asked a Baptist preacher in a debate, in Houston, Texas, this question: He said, "If you will answer me this one question, yes or no, I will walk off the platform." He said, "Was the redemptive names of Jehovah applied to Jesus? Yes or no." That settled it.
If the redemptive names of Jehovah was not applied to Jesus, He was not Jehovah-jireh ... or, Jehovah-rapha. The Lord's ... or Jehovah-jireh, "the Lord's provided sacrifice." And if He was Jehovah-jireh, He's Jehovah-rapha, also, "the Lord that heals all our diseases"; they're inseparable. Just like... You can't separate them.
You can't separate God from His nature and His motives. And if He is Jehovah-jireh tonight, "the Lord will provide a sacrifice," if He wasn't that, then He wasn't the Lord's sacrifice and He wasn't the Savior. And if He is Jehovah-jireh, He's also Jehovah-rapha, "the Lord that heals all thy diseases." That settles it. So, there's no way of answering it; just say it's yes or no. To deny it, is to deny Christ being the Saviour. To accept it, is to accept Him as your healer. So, there's no way out of it. And I'm so glad of that.

10 Now, we're going to speak tonight on this one compound redemptive name: Jehovah-jireh.
And now to get a background of our story... Everything... You must not take just one little Scripture to prove anything. It must lay out in the whole view of the Bible. That's the way we want to do it. The subject must run completely from Genesis to Revelation; it must tie right in with the rest of the Bible in the right place.
And Abraham... We'll have to go back before we get this sacrifice... We'll have to go back and find out who Abraham was. And I truly believe that the Spirit of God that was in Abraham was a part of Christ. I believe that the part of the Holy Spirit that we have today is a part of Christ.

11 Being that I said what I did this morning, I would like to explain this: what is these great gifts and things? Christ was in Joseph. Do you believe that? Look how he was sold for thirty pieces of silver (almost thirty), and was hated of his brothers, loved of his father: just exactly like Christ. And how that they hated him because he was spiritual---could see visions and interpret dreams---spiritual, just like Christ. He was thrown in a ditch, supposingly be dead, just like Christ. He was raised up from the ditch and set at the right-hand of Pharaoh. And when Joseph went forth, they blowed trumpets and said, "Bow the knee to Joseph." He could find Pharaoh's princes at his own pleasure; and no man could come to Pharaoh, only through Joseph: perfect picture of Christ.
When David was dethroned out of Jerusalem, and was drove up on the Mount of Olives by his own people, his own children, as David went up the mountain, he looked back over Jerusalem, weeping. Eight hundred years later the Son of David, rejected in Jerusalem, sat on the Mount of Olives and said, "Jerusalem, Jerusalem, how oft would I have gathered you as a hen does her brood?" It was the Spirit of God in those men.

12 Now, God is like a great big diamond. And that diamond has been chipped or cut in such a way... A true-cut diamond reflects many rays of light. And when we see in the church so many different gifts of the Spirit, it is only the reflection off of the real Diamond. And one may seem a little peculiar to the other one, but it's the way the diamond reflects the light. So, God does that also in the way that He reflects a gift of the Bible. One has the gift of knowledge, the other one has the gift of tongues, and another one has the gift of something else. It's God reflecting these lights. And they are lights that's gathered in one person; that's Almighty God.
Now, Abraham was a part of God. Jesus said, when He was here on earth, "Is not it written in your laws that 'ye are gods'? And if they call those 'gods' to who the Word of God come to," how about Him being God? They were gods by measure. He was the fullness of God. God was in Him, reconciling the world to Himself.

13 Now, Abraham... Let's take just a little look at his life. Who was he? Where did he come from? Was he a special-born child? a seventh son of the seventh son? No, sir. He was just an ordinary man. He come from his father, down from Babylon, and perhaps was raised around idolatry. But God by election chose Abraham, not because that he was a good man, but because God elected Abraham.
And that's the only way that you'll ever come to God. It's God's election. God does the choosing. You have nothing to do with it. There's no man has sought God at any time. You can't seek God; it's God seeking you. It's something in you, creating that desire. And that's the reason there's divine healing if the Bible didn't even say so. It's that creative something in the children of God, that's hunting for that fountain that's open. But the strange thing, when you come to the fountain, like the disciples that night who was praying for help, and the very help that come to them, they was afraid of it.

14 Now, notice what God did. Now, Abraham, in the Bible represents election; Isaac, justification; Jacob, grace; Joseph, perfection. Then it run out. Perfection... Joseph was a perfect man; there's nothing against him in the Bible.
But on this election, God chose Abraham, not because he was an educated man, not because he was a smart man, but because that God saw something in Abraham before the foundation of the world. And that's the reason you are a Christian tonight, is because that God saw something in you before the foundation of the world and put your name on the Lamb's book of life before the world ever was formed. How you going to lose? How can you do it? The Bible said...
The biggest fault that I can find with any of the churches, and especially the real church that's born again, they don't know who they are. You don't realize what the privilege that God has given you; you're looking for something way off in some kind of a millennium. But that's one the devil has pulled over you. "Now we are the sons of God." Not we will be, we are now. And every redemptive blessing that the Lord Jesus died for, is our personal property right now---everything that He died for. Not, we will be: we are now.

15 Now, let's watch Abraham and see what a promise God gave Abraham. God gave Abraham the promise and made the covenant with him unconditionally. Not, "If you'll do this, if you'll do that..." He had nothing to do with it. God said, "I've already saved you and you're going to come to me in old age." That settles it.
When man makes covenant with God, man breaks his covenant. When man and God had covenant together in the garden of Eden, man broke his covenant. Then He made a covenant with him through the law; man didn't even keep it. But God was determined to save man, so He gave the covenant to Abraham and his seed---Abraham and his seed---unconditionally. Not because you do this, and because you do that, or because you have this or have that, but God made the covenant unconditionally. That's what the Bible said.

16 Now, you say, "Well, I wished I was a Jew." Well, that which is outwardly is not a Jew, but that which is inwardly, says the Bible. "And we, being dead in Christ..." The Bible said that we take on Abraham's seed, and we are heirs with Him, according to the promise.
Every man that has been filled with the Holy Ghost has the seed of Abraham in him, because he has the faith of Abraham in him. And Abraham believed God before circumcision or anything else, and it was imputed unto him for righteousness. You see it? That takes the scare out of you. It's not, "Oh, if I can just keep hanging on. Oh..." That isn't the idea. I never did try to hang on. He done the hanging on, and by grace He saved me. It ain't what I do; it's what He done. What I do doesn't matter anything. It's what He's done for me. Now, if I love Him, I will do everything that's in my power to do the right thing for Him.

17 Now, if a man says, "Well, I just... I will just ... (Presbyterian idea), I just walk up and shake hands and say, 'I got it. That's all right. I got eternal security.'" Brother, you're off the track.
My wife, I love her. I made a covenant with her to be her husband. And if I was away from home, and some woman would come to me and say, "I love you," and I wanted ... felt like that I would make love to the woman, and Meda would forgive me for it when I went home, I still wouldn't do it. Though I know she'd forgive me, I wouldn't hurt her like that.
And a man that loves God, you don't quit drinking, smoking, just because you think you're go ... keep you from going to hell. If you love the Lord, you'd do it because you don't want to hurt Him.
I've seen fashions, cults, and teach their people to wear ... their ladies to wear long dresses, long sleeves, and long hair. That's all right. They should, but that isn't what takes you to heaven. You could have your hair long, your dresses long, and have a temper enough to fight a buzz saw, and hate your neighbor and everything else. But the reason that you do keep yourself the way it should be, is because you love the Lord and want to keep His commandments---if you're Abraham's daughter, or Abraham's sons. That's what does it.

18 Now, Abraham believed God, when God met him, and talked to him, and said, "Now, Abraham, I've called you; I'm making My covenant with you; and I'm going to give you a son."
Now, Abraham was seventy-five years old, and Sarah was sixty-five years old. And he married her when she was just a little girl, 'cause she was his half-sister. Now, they'd lived together since they were little ones, been husband and wife all through the healthy days of Sarah. She's sixty-five years old, about twenty-five years or better passed the menopause. And it was impossible for her to have that baby; but yet, God asked Abraham to believe the impossible. And He asks you, the seed of Abraham, to believe the impossible, because His Word is a creative thing.

19 Abraham just held onto God's Word; he believed God. That's all he had to do. Now, he didn't look to how impossible it was, he just accepted, and took God at His Word, and went to rejoicing over it. God loved that.
Now, Abraham didn't say, "Now, wait a minute, Lord. When I begin to see something happen, when I begin to see and know by all signs of nature that we're going to have this baby, then I'm going to tell the people about it. But You couldn't expect me to go down and tell the doctor (and get everything ready), we're going to have a baby.' He'd laugh at me. I'm seventy-five years old and she's sixty-five."

20 What do you think would happen today if an old man and woman, sixty-five and seventy-five, would walk into the doctor's office, say, "Doctor, we want to make arrangements for the baby."
The doctor would say, "Say, is this your wife?"
"Yes."
"I'd like to examine her. Why, it's impossible. Did nature come just according to the time?"
"Yes."
"Well, it's impossible for her to have it."
Then you'd say, "Well, doc, I suppose you're right." and go on back; it wouldn't happen.
But Abraham didn't look at what the doctor said. Abraham looked at what God said. And Abraham's seed does the same thing. They don't look at what science says; they look at what God says. Oh, I'm so glad that He still has seed in the earth. They look at what God says. They take God's Word for it.

21 Now, could you imagine Sarah going down to the finest shop that she could find, an old woman, sixty-five years old with a little grandma's shawl over her head, going down to the shop buying Birdseye and pins and everything, getting ready. You'd imagine what the people would say? "That old lady's gone off at the deep end." But you know why? She had God's Word for it.
Could you imagine Abraham going around testifying to everybody, "Glory to God, we're going to have a baby now."
I can imagine seeing a fellow say, "Poor old man," see.
See, every time that anyone takes God at His Word is considered a fanatic. And God asks you to believe for the impossible, because He's able to do that which is impossible. "Abraham staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief, but was strong, giving praise unto God." God wants you to do the miraculous. He wants you to believe the miraculous. And by accepting it by faith, you prove what you believe He is. You see it? God wants you to take His Word for it. He speaks it, and if God has said it, all heavens and earth will pass away, but that Word can't pass.

22 Now, another thing God does... He told Abraham and Sarah to separate themselves from their company. God calls for separation. How much different it is in us choosing anything? We choose mixers. Oh yes; "I tell you that's the socialest little fellow you ever seen. Now, he's not a fanatic. He won't preach anything against television, and all this kind of stuff like that, about women wearing bobbed hair and all these things like that. You never hear it spoke in our church." Just because he hasn't got the real audacity, he hasn't got the baptism of the Holy Ghost to back it up. That's all.
What we need is God-fearing preachers who tells the truth. That's right. Now, that's what makes the separation.
If I was choosing a pastor, and I was on the board, and had to select a pastor, and he was one of those wishy-washy, kind of sissified guys like that, I sure wouldn't vote him into my church. Anything, I'd vote him out, and get a man that did believe God's Word, and took God's Word, and preached it, and stood on it. I want a son of Abraham up there, a son of God.

23 Now notice, Abraham had to separate himself. And as long as his kinfolks hanged around with him, and he didn't do what God told him to do, the blessing never was made manifest. And as long as you keep holding on to a little petty something, a little something here, a little something there, God can never fully bless you as long as you try to take God for a totem pole. "You know Brother Roberts is in town. Hallelujah. I had him anoint me and pray for me. Glory to God. If it don't work, a Paul Cain comes through, Hallelujah, I'll give him a round. Then when Brother Branham comes, I'll let him give me a round too, and see how I come out." You'll just be the same old guy with the same old disease, when every one of them men comes through. There's nothing good in any of us. But when you forget about preachers and personalities, and look to the Lord Jesus Christ, then you're going to get somewhere. Take God at His Word, see.
It's God's Word what's creating. God's Word is a seed. And a seed sewn and taken care of---if it's germitized and a good seed---it'll bear the kind of fruit it is. So, if you need healing, ask Him, "Here's a promise," and every promise is yours.

24 Now, we find out then, a little later on as he began to move on, then there come a separation time, that he had to separate himself from his kindred. His father died. As long as the old man was along, He never did bless him. But after all was separated, God appeared to him.
Lot had took his choice, went down into Sodom. As long as Lot hung along, his argument... And as long as you stick around with unbelievers, you'll find the same trouble.
But when Abraham was ninety and nine years old---ninety-nine. That made Sarah eighty-eight. Could you imagine Abraham? Could you imagine when Abraham went and told Sarah, his wife, saying, "Sweetheart, you know we've always longed to have children?"
"Oh, yes, Abraham."
"Well, bless God, we're going to have a baby."
Watch Sarah say, "Abraham, I---I---I don't understand."
"Neither do I."
"Well, how do you know we're going to have a baby?"
"God said so. That settles it. God said so; He's going to do it."

25 Well, after the first few days, why---maybe the first month---why, he comes to Sarah, and he said, "Sarah, how are you feeling, honey?"
"Not a bit of difference. Abraham, are you sure?"
He said, "Glory to God, we're going to have it anyhow." Sure.
"How do you know, Abraham?"
"God said so." The second month passed. "Sarah, how you feel? Anything happening?"
"Not a bit of difference."
"Glory to God, we're going to have it anyhow."
"How do you know?"
"God said so." The first year passed. "Sarah, you still got all those diapers and things ready?"
"Yes."
"Have you felt any different?"
"Not a bit."
"But hallelujah, were going to have it anyhow. God said so." Keep my thoughts in them, they'll be all right, see.
All right, when twenty-five years passed---twenty-five years passed---"Sarah, how do you feel?"
"No different."
"Glory to God, we're going to have it anyhow!"
There you are. He didn't look at circumstances; He looked at what God said. He was looking at the Word.

26 Here some time ago, went in to pray for a boy that had diphtheria in his throat and he's choking to death. Dear old daddy come over with the mother... Anointed that boy... First, they wouldn't let me go in. And the doctor there, the head doctor, was ... I learned, was Catholic. And I said, "Well, you'd let the priest go in."
He said, "That's different; you're a married man and got children."
I said, "I mean just as much to that boy as the priest would mean to a Catholic boy." I said, "The father here has sent for me to come pray for the boy."
He said, "But you got children, Reverend."
I said, "I know that, but I've got a Saviour, too."
He said, "Do you know that you could pass the disease to your child?"
I said, "Doctor, I appreciate your ethics and all that you do, but there's one thing you don't understand." I said, "My God can shield me from that. He's done it a many times through leprosy and everything else. I take His Word for it."

27 And when we went in, he dressed me up like a Ku Klux Klan. And when we went in there, and knelt down to pray for the boy---just an ordinary little prayer... Got up. The Mother's on one side and the Dad was on the next side. The boy had been unconscious for two days. And his heart had went so low, till the cardiogram showed... I forget what it was. I don't understand the machinery of it, but the nurse said it would never rise again; it couldn't; never had been known to rise---his heart beat.

28 And then when I got through praying, just a little prayer, got up, the old father reached across to the mother and he said, "Mother, isn't this wonderful?" Said, "Oh, praise God for healing our boy."
The boy was still unconscious. I looked at him, and honest, my heart admired him. And the mother said, "Yes, Dad, that's just wonderful. How we thank the Lord!"
And the old brother put his hands up in that air and said, "Oh, God, how I thank you for healing my boy." Boy laying there dying.
And the little nurse standing there, she walked over to him and she said, "Sir, I don't understand." Said, "How can you take that so lightly, when your boy is dying?"
"Oh," he said, "he's not dying." Said, "He's living and going to be well."
"Oh," she said, "I can appreciate your faith," and she said, "but there's one thing you must understand, sir; this machine is scientific, and if that hand went way down here, it can never come back again. It never has and it never will."
The old patriarch put his arm around the little lady and he said, "Look, little lady... See, you're looking to that machine, for that's what you've been trained to look at. That's all you know about." But said, "I'm looking to a divine promise of God that He will raise him up."
The boy is married now and got a family!

29 What? It depends on what you look at. If God made the promise, God's obligated to keep that promise, no matter what the circumstances is.

30 Then God told Abraham... He appeared to him in the name of El Shaddai, "the bosom," and He said, "Abraham, I am the Almighty God. Walk before me and be perfect."
And He said, "I am the El Shaddai, the breasted God." The El Shaddai means "breasts like the woman." No, not breast, but breasted. "I am the breasted God. I am the strength-giver."
Like a little baby, when it's sick and fretting, crying, kicking, squalling, and the mother picks it up, and she leans it on her bosom, and it begins to nurse the mother's strength... And as the little fellow starts nursing, the first little taste of strength, he quits crying. And mama just pats him a little, and he's satisfied while he's a nursing. He doesn't fret any more, and he's bringing in his strength all the time.

31 Well, that's what God is to the believer. He is the breasted God. He was wounded for our transgressions; with His stripes we were healed. And the believer lays right a hold of the breast of God, the Word of God, the New and Old Testament; and he lays right a hold of that divine promise, and nurses, and blesses God, and pulls on the believer---on a belief from God---till he nurses back his strength again. And he's satisfied all the time he's nursing. Oh, my, I like that.
He don't notice how... "Did I grow a inch awhile ago?" He don't pay any attention to whether he growed an inch or not; he's just nursing.
That's where a believer is. If it's explained to them by the Bible that He heals the sick, the believer just takes His Word for it and that settles it; that's all.
He don't say, "Am I any better? Can I move my finger a little more? Can I twist my foot?" That don't have one thing to do with it, not one thing. It's what's happened in here! It ain't what's happened out here; it's what's happened here in the heart.

32 Man believes God from the heart. And as long as that divine promise can find an anchoring place in the human heart, there isn't all devils in hell can ever tear it away from him. It's there. He believes it. He'd die by it, for he believes it. And holding that promise, after all he keeps holding it and believing, the finger begins to wiggle. Then the hand begins to move. See, he's nursing the strength of God into his own body.

33 And then God told Abraham, He said, "Now that you're separated from Lot..." He took the bad choice. All the fields was watered down in Sodom. Big cities were built full of sin. And isn't it strange that that lukewarm believer, Lot, would go down to the best place he could find, the most beautiful place he could find, take the road of ease? And isn't it a strange thing that sometimes people who say that they believe God, they want to take the road of luxury? They want to take the road where there's no trials. They want to take the easiest way out. They want to take the way that's not persecuted. They want to take the road of ease. It's just a lukewarm believer.
But Abraham, the man of God, gave Lot his choice and taken what was left. Oh, I just love that. A real believer will give you your choice; he's willing to take what's left. There's no selfishness in a real believer, not at all.

34 Now, notice again. After Lot had separated and taken his place, God appeared to Abraham. He said, "Abraham, rise up. Look all around. Look to the east; look to the west, to the north, and to the south." He said, "Every bit of it belongs to you; it's all yours; I've give it to you. It's yours..." Well, Abraham was going to fall heir to all of it. So He said, "Get up and walk around through the land and see what you own." I think God calls the children of Abraham to do that.
If this little group of people gathered here tonight would only get up, if the people in Phoenix alone, would only search out through the Word what you have, you possess all things. All things was given to us by Jesus Christ, if we're believers.

35 You know, if I bought a home and it was mine, I'd go through the thing, see what I had. I'm just kind of a prospector; I like to dig around, find out what I got. I'm an heir of salvation. I'm an heir of divine healing. I'm an heir of heaven. I'm an heir to the earth. I'm an heir, and joint-heir with Christ in all things. Then I like to look through this book of prospects and see what all I'm an heir to.
You know, it's just like a great big arcade---a great big place. If they told me I owned that arcade, I'd like to go around and see what I have. I'd like to pull out this drawer and look in it and see what I got in there. I'd like to go over here and open this place up and see what I got in there. I'd like to go somewhere else and look. And if some place looks just a little bit high, I'd just get me a stepladder; walk right up, and pull it down, and look at it, see what belongs to me. It's all mine.
Well, that's the way it is in the Bible. If anything looks too far away, too big, too high, just get down on your knees; that's your step-ladder. "Lord, let me understand it." Just keep moving right up till you touch it. Look it over; it belongs to you. It's all yours. It's for every believer.

36 Sometime ago I was talking to a man named John Sproule. He's a good friend of mine. He used to go through the country many years ago, with the old Glory Barn. I don't know if he was ever out here or not. He went through the eastern country. And a lot of you eastern people will remember John Sproule. And he was one of Brother Bosworth's converts. He was healed with a bad throat where He'd got gas with him ... mustard gas sucked into his nose or throat and burn it. And he didn't have no voice at all, and Brother Bosworth prayed for him; he got healed. Called his wife up and she fainted. And he went out anointing the sick and praying for them.
Took a little vacation and went over to France and went out to Alsace Lorraine, France. He was going through a great garden, and he found a statue of the Lord Jesus. And he was standing there with his wife, he said, in amazement, saying, "Look at that. What did the sculptor mean? Why, the thing doesn't have nothing but just a shape. You can't see no suffering of Christ there."
And a guide come up to him and said, "Mr. Sproule, I suppose you're criticizing that."
He said, "I am."
He said, "Now, come here just a moment." And he took him up, and there was a altar built there beneath the statue. And so, he said, "Kneel down." And he knelt down. Said, "Now, look up."
"Oh," he said he felt like his heart would just break. There was every suffering of Christ. There was every agony that He went through. Looked like the sculptor had reproduced that in His features of His face.

37 And so, he turned and looked again to the guide. He said, "Mr. Sproule," said, "You see, the sculptor had in mind one thing." Said that, "When he made this statue, he didn't make it for people to stand off and look at it this way. He made it so the people'd bow down and look up to it this way."
And that's the same way it is with every promise in the Bible. It isn't for you to try to mix it with your worldly wisdom, to try to figure out, "How could God do this? How could God do that?" The Bible wasn't written for that. The Bible's promises were written for you to bow down and look up to. Then they'll look different to you, when you look up to them like that.

38 God kept His promise with Abraham. He gave him the child. And the little boy when he was born, growed to about twelve, fourteen years old. And you know how that must have been a lovely thing in that family.
Now, a mother of about a hundred and ten---fifteen; a father was about a hundred and twenty-five or thirty... If we have time... I might have preached on it once before, how God turned them back to a young man and a woman (And I've had it in magazines and so forth.), and made them over again, which He will do every born-again child of Abraham, some day, in the resurrection...

39 And then one day God wanted to make it real plain to the people in Phoenix. So, how He was going to do it, He was going to give this Abraham a double test. So, He said, "Abraham, take thy son, thine only son, and take him to a certain mountain, where I'm going to show you, and there sacrifice him."
Now, what if Abraham would have took the second thought? "How am I going to be the father of nations, when here I am this old, and You're asking me to kill and destroy the only evidence that I have that You'll keep Your Word and make me a father of nations?"
How God loves to test His people. Every child that comes to God must be tested, child trained; no exceptions---everyone.
And maybe tonight, that you're sick, just to have a little child training, just a little testing. Don't be discouraged. God's on the throne. He knows all things. If we're truly borned of the Spirit of God, everything's working together for our good. He's going to make everything right. He promised He would. He swore He would. And He's got to keep that Word. He's kept it now for the thousands of years to every believer. Would you be any exception? No, sir. You're no exception. Now, watch Him now.

40 Watch how this beautiful act takes place. Now, Abraham did not want to tell Sarah about this; because that only little curly-headed boy of about twelve years old, how hard it would be to take that little fellow out and tell Sarah. The mother just didn't understand. "How am I going to tell her ... to take this little boy out and go to kill him? Why, she wouldn't understand it."
And there's many times we have to go ahead and do things and preach things that we really don't want to do it, but we just don't understand it. But God's working everything just right, see. It's all for the good.
Sometimes you can't tell your congregation; you can't tell the public; you can't tell your own church why. But you've got to do it anyhow.

41 Now notice, one morning he gets up, chops the wood, and puts it on a little mule, calls a couple of servants, and got the little boy up, said, "We're going out to worship." And they went three days' journey.
Now, I can walk anytime, twenty-five to thirty miles a day. And I drive a lot in a car. I patrolled for seven years, averaging twenty-six to twenty-eight miles a day through wilderness. And those people then could walk better than we can now, because we're used to riding and so forth.
But now, if he walked three days at twenty-five miles a day, he was seventy-five miles back from civilization. And then he lifted up his eyes and saw the mount way off, where God had showed him in a vision. And so, when he got to the hill (I just love this part), he said to the servants, "You stay here. The boy and I are going yonder to worship, and he and I will return." Did you get it? "The boy and I will return."

42 "How are you going to do it, Abraham? Explain to me. If you've got the knife in the sheath here, and a vision from God telling you to go kill that boy, how are you two going to return back?" But God believed Abraham ... or, Abraham believed God. He didn't take no second thought. The only thing he knowed: God gave the promise. And if Abraham had received Isaac "as one from the dead," he knew that God could raise him up from the dead again. And if you, being dead in sin and trespasses, without any nature to serve God at all, and God by election called you and gave you His Spirit without you making any choice... "No man can come to me except My Father draws him first." And if God did that to you, without you being able to make a choice, how much more will He heal you and keep you, when you've got a choice by a sworn effort of His. What a marvelous thing, how that God promised! Abraham didn't take the second thought. He said, "Well, God's been good. He kept His promise. I don't know how He's going to do it, but He will do it."
I can't tell you how God does it, how that He could heal a man that's dying with cancer, and the doctors has give him up, and he's eat to pieces, but if it would be necessary, I believe tonight, I could produce five hundred cases of it. Sure.

43 Today, as I was going into the restaurant to eat the breakfast, a little man standing behind me... And he said, "Do you remember me?" I didn't; but somebody had told me that that man was brought to the meeting with TB so bad, till he couldn't even whisper. And I believe he's one of the sponsoring pastors tonight. Oh, he's a minister of the gospel, preached with a voice like a roaring lion. How can God do that? I can't explain it, but God said He'd do it. That settles it. You take His Word. You don't try to figure it out. You can't figure it out.
I've seen so many times that people say, "We've got to figure it out. I got to understand it." Then it isn't a faith any more. Faith is not what you understand; faith is what you accept, and can't explain it. It's an act of faith.

44 Now, when he took the boy, the fire, the wood, and went up the hill, little Isaac got curious. If you see, it's a perfect picture of God leading His Son up Mount Calvary---certainly is: the Father and the Son, the only begotten---just a perfect picture. And when they get up to the top of the mountain, little Isaac said, "Father," said, "here is the altar. Here's the wood. Here's the fire, but where is the lamb for the burnt offering?" He couldn't understand.
Look at Abraham, and not a quiver in his voice, he said, "My son, God will provide for Himself a lamb for the sacrifice." Didn't know yet what was going to take place. He was stepping right up like the Hebrew children, right up to the fiery furnace: "Our God is able to deliver us, but nevertheless, we won't bow to your image."

45 So, when he got there, he took little Isaac, put his hands behind him, tied him, tied his feet, laid him up on the altar, pulled back his little hair away from his face. Could you imagine the feeling of a father? Pulled the knife out of the sheath. Little Isaac never squealed; he never made a offer; he was trusting his father.
Oh, how those real dark hours can come, yet a real believer will trust his Father. He'll trust Him. Like Job said, "Though He slay me, yet I trust Him."
And when he drew the knife to slice the throat of his own son, raised it up with his hand, no doubt a little tear come down on the beard across his face. But as he raised up to slice the throat of his own son, about that time something caught his hand. And the Holy Spirit spoke from the heaven and said, "Abraham, stay your hand." And about that time a little ram bleated behind him. A ram, a male sheep, had got his horns hooked in the weeds, in the vine. And Abraham loosed his son right quick, went over and picked up this lamb ... ram, and laid him upon the altar and killed the ram in the place of his son.

46 I want to ask you something seriously now. Where did that ram come from? Think of it: practically seventy-five to a hundred miles away from civilization, wolves and lions and everything else in the country. And besides that, he was up on top of a mountain where there's no water, and the ram could not have existed there. And why didn't Abraham see the ram when he was picking up the stones all around him to make the altar? It wasn't there. It was impossible for it to be there. It would've been... If the ram would have stayed that far away, it'd been killed. It wouldn't have been up on top the mountain, because (you know yourself), sheep don't stay up there. Sheep stay in the meadows, the brush.
But here was this ram up there. Where did he come from? God created it. And that's the reason Abraham called the place Jehovah-jireh, "the Lord will provide the sacrifice." Now, he didn't see a vision. A vision doesn't produce blood. The ram had a corporal body. And it had literal, corporal blood. And he killed the ram and offered the ram instead of his son. Why was it? Abraham was taking God at His Word plumb to the end. And God is able to do the same thing here tonight to the seed of Abraham, who will take Him at His Word.

47 No matter how sick you are, what's your condition, if you'll just step right up and take God at His Word, God will provide. You say, "I have no blood. I'm anemic." God can provide blood for you. You say, "My tissues are eat up with leukemia." How about the little boy was on the platform the other night? I was just told tonight, the little boy was taken back to his doctor, and he was pronounced absolutely negative---the same doctor that examined before. What happened? He's Jehovah-jireh, "the Lord will provide." And men and women will provide the faith; God will provide the substance. "For faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen."
Oh, seed of Abraham, don't you believe that He will provide for you tonight? And besides that, my brother, sister, He has already provided the Lamb. And it's already made. The only thing you have to have is faith in His Word. Let us pray.

48 Our dear blessed Father, as our hearts beat beneath our shirts tonight, the skin of our bodies, we just can't express what we think about You. How we're living in this great marvelous day.
We think, in our lesson tonight, that we didn't have a chance to get to, how that You told Abraham, "Look at the sands of the sea. Can you number them? No. Neither will your seed be numbered." Then he said, "Look up to the stars. Can they be numbered? No. Neither will your seed be numbered."
I'm thanking God. What was it? From the dust to the stars, the seeds of Abraham, in the same promise, the same covenant. Someday You'll speak the Word, and every seed of Abraham that's in the dust of the earth shall shine like the stars forever. We thank Thee because Thou hast, by grace, given us this unconditional covenant; it has called this by Thy own dear Son, the Lord Jesus, and give us eternal life, that believe on Him.
And now, Father, tonight, I pray that these words, though scattered through a tired weary throat, that You will let them go because of the motive that I had behind, to speak Your Word. It was to create faith among the people. And we're going to call these children of Abraham up to this platform to pray for them. So, blessed God, will You meet them here, as they fulfill everything that is promised? Give them the faith, for it is written in the Bible by the Lord Jesus' own words, "If they lay their hands on the sick, they shall recover." That's the promise. Let the children believe it, Lord. Oh, we know they will, if they are the children of Abraham. They'll take God at His Word and call those things which are not as though they were.
May it be said, Lord, that tonight will be the great night when the great sick line will be lined up here, that everyone of them may be healed and accept the Lord Jesus as their healer. For we ask it in His name. Amen.

49 I'm very sorry to be so hoarse and kept you as long as I did, but you were very nice to sit and wait. Thank you very kindly. And I say to you: I love you also, and everyone of you. And I pray now that each one of these people here, visitors... There are just fine churches in this city. The pastors here... I don't think there's room for them on the platform, but they're around here. You get with some of these pastors now and find you a good church to go to in the morning. Go to Sunday School tomorrow, and stay for church. They'd be glad to have you, some of these good full gospel pastors here, they'll welcome you to their church.
Then I think it falls lot tomorrow afternoon for another service and then close out tomorrow night. I don't know when I can ever be back to Phoenix again. That I can't say. But I pray that... I've longed before I come here... I've been here so many times I feel ashamed of myself. And I... Before I come, I gave it very much consideration and prayer. And I thought, "Well, God, I know how those fierce times are that I've [unclear words]." And I said, "But will You just do something special for me when I'm there this time? Let something happen, Lord, that'll do Phoenix a whole lot of good. Grant it.": is what my prayer is. I don't know what it will be. I'm not asking God what it will be, but I'm just asking Him to do it---something that will leave, partings leave behind us, footprints on the sands of time.

50 Now, I believe I told Billy ... told you all last night, that anybody that wanted to receive a card---not under the anointing, discernment, but just to come through the line to be prayed for---to be here tonight and get your card. And I ... [Brother Branham asks about the prayer cards.] ( You give them out? What? Fifty? And what? F? All right.) He gave out prayer cards "F" to those people; F, 1 to 50. And now... I'm sorry... 50 to 100, 50 to 100, F 50 to 100.
Now, we're going to try to pray for every one of you. And now, let's see... Let's stand up. Who has F number 1? Would you raise your hand, if we could get them? Look at your prayer card: F number 1.
Oh, I'm sorry. Oh, I tried to take one. All right. F-50. Who has F-50? Raise up your hand. Prayer card F-50. All right, lady, would you come here? 51. All right, lady. 52, 53, 54, 55, 56. I wish you'd understand right out that way tonight, if it's all right with you. Say, we're going to have to have someone to... Brother Jack and them here? All right. 51, -2, -3, -4, -5, -6, 57, 58, 59, 60. Where're they at? Raise up your hand. F-60, 60...
Brother Sothmann, if you will, Billy wants you over here at this end of the line. 60, 61. Raise up your hands real quick, 61, 62, 63. I believe the little Mexican girl there raised up her hand. All right. 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69, 70, 71, -2, 72, F-72. I never seen the hand, I don't believe. F-72. Would you raise up your hand, who has, F-72? Oh, well, all right, lady. 73, 73, would you raise...? 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, 79, 80, 81, 80, 81. Did I see the 81? We don't want to miss anyone. 81, 82, 82, 83, 84, 84. Prayer card 84. Some of you help me a little bit. 85, 86, 87, 87, 88. Does she got it? Sister Juanita, she has 87, 87. All right. 88. Prayer card F-88. All right. 89, 90, 90. All right. 91, 92, 93. Prayer card F-93. Do I see it? F-93, 94, 95, F-95, 96, 96, F-96. Have I missed it? F-96. All right. 97, 98, 98, F-98, F-98, 99, 100. All right.

51 Now, this is the type of line that we used to have when we first come to Phoenix. How many's here tonight was at my first meeting when I was in Phoenix? Well, my, my, just look. You remember, when we come to the prayer line, the people would lay their hands over on mine, and I'd stand there just for a minute and I'd hold their hand just a minute, and the Holy Spirit would reveal what was wrong? You remember that?
Remember, I said it would come to pass ... the Lord told me the night that He met me, that He would ... it would come to pass, if I'd be sincere, that He would take it till I'd know the very secrets of their hearts. I didn't then. But how I said it would come to pass that way if I'd be sincere. How many remember me saying that in my first meeting? See? Has He done it? That's right, see.

52 Now, He met me some time ago, several months ago, and there's fixing to be a change in my ministry. It's a change for the better.
There'll be a woman come on the platform one of these days. She will be wearing a brown coat suit, packing a baby. That'll be it; a little woman with a baby in her arms with a little... I may say it wrong. It's a little skirt in a little... Is that what you call coat suit. Two piece suit, two piece suit. I don't know much about ladies clothes. I can't... I never even bought my wife a pair of stockings in my life. She can buy them herself, but I made a mistake on that, one time, and you know in my life's story: I was supposed to get one kind and I got another. So I just let them do it from then on. So they...
I was going to buy my little girls one of those a little jumper jackets, or ever what the ladies wear, you know, the... Oh, I don't know. Like the little lady's got, there that's got the ... sitting there with the rose on her. What do you call them things? Blouse, that's what it is. I was going to buy my little girl a blouse, and I had my daughter-in-law go do it. I couldn't do that.

53 So, have faith now. The Bible said, "If there be one among you which is spiritual or a prophet, I, the Lord, will make Myself known unto him, speak to him in dreams, reveal Myself in visions. And if what he says comes to pass, then hear him, for I'm with him. If it comes not to pass, then don't hear him, for I haven't spoken to him."
Now, I'm telling you from my heart: Those visions that you see here at the platform, that's not me doing that; it's you doing that. You're the one's a doing that. It's your faith anchored; I just submit myself. And as I submit myself to God, then your faith does that very same thing, pulls it like that.
Is there anybody here in the prayer line or outside that never see it operated? Let's see your hands---never did see it operate. Just about two or three. Now, I don't know... If the Lord, maybe... I'll try to, maybe, one or two, if the Lord will permit. They get anointing; then I want to pray for this handkerchief. Then, maybe, Brother Moore can watch the door, if you will just a minute, and then let the people come through.

54 Now, if each one of you coming, if you believe with all your heart and with all your soul, now what does it take? The Bible said, "These signs shall follow them that believe." Is that right? "If they lay their hands on the sick, they shall recover." How many knows that that was the last words that Jesus Christ said on this earth? St. Mark l6: the last words that ever fell from the lips of Jesus Christ said, "If they lay their hands on the sick, they shall recover."
My ministry's never been too effective in America, but oh, how it goes overseas. Brother Moore was telling me this afternoon, he said, "Brother Branham, as hard as you preached this week, if that would be anywhere outside the United States, they'd be a hundred or two hundred thousand souls won to Christ. That's right. Now, you see what an indocumated condition we're in here. Oh, my! It's becoming to a mass Corinthianism. That's right. Just everything, "This is thus and we did...; we won't have anything to do with this; and this-that." Step out and take the Word. Believe God.

55 Poor little America! Feel sorry for them. But the hour is at hand. God can't judge a just people; they've passed from judgment. But it has to get in this fix, so He can send His judgment. You just remember: We are in for it. Just keep that on your books and see how long it's going to be.
Now, if the mighty works would have been done in Africa that's been done in Arizona, they'd have repented long ago. If the mighty works that's been done in Arizona, had been done in Germany, they'd have had no war; they'd repented long ago.
In Germany I made my altar call five nights and got ten thousand each night, and put fifty thousand souls won to Christ in five nights, and never touched a person. They'd just pile up, and heap up, and everything, of crutches, wheelchairs, just pile them in corners and everything.

56 Brother Julius Stadsklev is somewhere in the building, tonight; I seen him awhile ago sitting here---Chaplain Stadsklev. He was with me in South Africa in Durban, where many thousands of people to a big race track (And we were only there about three or four days, something like that.), and they were still coming to the meeting a week after I was gone. And the altar call was made ... or, the line to call... We couldn't give out prayer cards. We just let the missionaries go out and take two out of this tribe, and two out of this tribe, and two out of that tribe. There's about fifteen tribes there. And they lined up a little prayer line. And the first one coming to the platform was a Mohammedan woman. And that woman when I said, "Why did you come to me as a Christian if you're a Mohammedan?"
The interpreter said... Well, she believed that I could help her.
I said, "Why didn't you go to your priest?" Well, she believed I could help her. I said, "Have you ever read the Bible?"
"Yes."
"And if Jesus will return and do the same things that He did when He was here, and let me know who you are, what's happened, and so forth, and what you're here for, will you believe it and accept Jesus?"
She raised her hand; she would. And the Holy Spirit come down, said, "You went with your husband---he's a low heavy-set man with a black mustache. You went to a (She was a Indian) went to the doctor the other day, and he examined you in the female glands and said you had a cyst that should be operated on."
She said, "That's right," and she accepted the Lord Jesus.
That shook the Mohammedans till ten thousand came to Christ at one time.

57 I met a missionary who was saying, "The precious jewel, the precious jewel"; he'd been there thirty years preaching and had won one Mohammedan. Brother, the Mohammedans ... them Hindus came from the old Medes and Persians; they alter not! That's right.
But the real genuine Lord Jesus in action at one time... And when I made the altar call that afternoon (which I believe, and, Brother Julius, I believe you'd believe the same: way over what we said), but thirty thousand came to Christ at one time---one altar call.
And F. F. Bosworth... And if anybody ever met a saint in this modern day, it's F. F. Bosworth. Yes sir, I'd stand with that if I was dying this minute.
And that old man stood there looking over that ground weeping, and was estimated twenty-five thousand miraculous healings taken place, and never touched a person; just stood there and prayed for them. Seven truck loads of all kinds of sticks and stretchers and things was picked up off the ground, where they walked right away from them. Twenty-five thousand! Think of it! And here you can preach till you pack your life out, and one say, "Well, pretty good message. Oh, I don't care to go back anymore."
Ain't that America for you? Oh, your day has come. I'm not talking to the church. Your day's at hand, too; that's the rapture. Praise be to God.

58 Brother Stadsklev, wasn't that a wonderful meeting? Would you just stand up a minute? Here's the author of the book, "A Prophet Visits Africa": Chaplain Julius Stadsklev, a captain in the United States Army, now. He was trained, I believe, at Wheaton, or somewhere there, in the same college and so forth that Billy Graham come from. Went right along with me, writing that book, and taking those pictures. He was standing there that night when I saw that bus coming in, the first night when I landed there in Africa. And there was that bus moving in there and saw that boy, one leg six inches shorter than the other. Chaplain Stadsklev was standing right there taking that note when it happened.
When I looked around, I seen a little green car fly sideways and hit into a tree, and broke the back of a young girl. I couldn't find her. Now, she was laying way down under here. And when I arrived... "Remember, better be careful what you tell her." But I saw a vision of her rejoicing and running. I said, "Stand up on your feet, young lady. Jesus Christ makes you well."
Her mother said, "Oh, no, no! She can't stand. The doctor says, if she moves she'd die." Her back was snapping together. And the girl sprang to her feet, rejoicing. And the mother fell on the cot the girl come out of. That's right. Brother Stadsklev has the pictures of it in the book, see. That settled it. Thousands times thousands swarmed to Christ.

59 But we try to study it out. I'm not talking about the church in America. Looky here tonight. How many in here is saved? Let's see your hands; every Christian in here, see. Sinners are not interested, hardly. They don't want to come. Don't care nothing about it. Just about sinned away the day of grace.
I seen in '33 how cars would look before the coming of the Lord. They're pretty near in that shape. You remember, I prophesied this: (You mark it in your books; I've told you many times---every time here.) " There'll come a time... America is a woman's nation. And a woman will rise up, soon in America, and become a great person, like a president or somewhere, before the coming of the Lord"---I believe, see. Just remember that, that I've said that. And cars will become more like an egg shape, just before the total annihilation ... or, the destruction comes to this nation. Let us pray.

60 Now, heavenly Father, here we are. We're on the threshold of a new event. Here's many standing here, sick and afflicted, to come through the line. Behold your servant, Lord. Here's handkerchiefs laying here, packages, letters; they're going to the needy. I bless these handkerchiefs in Christ's name. And may everyone be healed. Grant it, Lord. I pray that this blessing will be received by everyone, and as American, as a servant of God in this nation, and this, His people, I bless this people in Christ's name.
Oh God, I pray that You'll bless every minister. And oh, may we get a new vision of lost souls and scream as loud as we can, for the end is at hand. Grant it Lord, I pray, in Christ's name, Amen
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I'm going to try something just now. And I want you brothers to watch, because when I get under ... if the anointing would come, I'd like to pray for all these people as I promised, but I'd like to pray for them, so you could get them moving first, so that the whole group could be prayed for. But I'd like to first feel the touch of...
I can't help it, friends. You may think I'm a fanatic, but I know that in myself, that I haven't got nothing here. I'm just a man. And I want to feel that Something and know that anointing is here before I lay hands on these people, though I can't stop with them as they do... You can't do it. So I'd just like to feel the anointing for the first three, or four, or five people or something, then you brothers just watch. Would that be satisfactory with all the crowd?

61 And how many out there is going to join with me and pray with me now? Up in the balcony? See, all you people, look up there. There's at least a thousand people here tonight. I judge, that many, anyhow. I'm a poor judge, but say, there's a thousand people here. There'll be a thousand prayers going for you at once, of the children of God. Look here, what kind of people... Everyone of you that's born again, raise your hand. See what... God's got to hear it. Now, He said, "Where two or three are gathered in My name, I will be in their midst." He's here. Now, a little vindication of that, may the Lord God of heaven grant it for the glory of God.
Brother Moore, you stand there, and after three or four passes through, you see I just get a touch of weakness, then you start the line coming.

62 Now, lady, you're standing here for something... I don't know. He does. You know I don't know nothing about you, and don't know what you're here for. But what do you... Say, "What do you try to do, Brother Branham?" I'm yielding myself.
Did the Bible say in one place, "Behold the lilies of the field..."? That's in the Bible. What does a lily do? He toils all day and night just to yield himself to the bees, and the passer-by, to give out. He was made a lily. God makes honey, so He makes the lily to give out the honey.
He gives gifts in His church. We just yield ourself, we yield. Now, if God will permit me to know what you want to ask God for, (just a moment), would you believe with all your heart?
Now, you know that I don't know what you're praying about now. I couldn't tell you. But if you'll ask God something, and He will tell me what you want, will you believe it? Would the audience believe then? Now, this is for you, children. Now, each one believe it. While you're out there, believe yourself.
Now, it's just a time for the lady. The lady wants to be prayed for for a heart condition. It's a dropsy. You believe that He will make you well of it and heal you, give you what...? Aren't you a minister's wife? I thought so. I believe I know your husband. All right. Come here just a moment.
Our blessed heavenly Father, we bless this woman in Christ's name, that she will receive her healing, for the glory of God. Amen. Now, God bless you, lady.

63 Now, to you, lady, do you believe with all your heart? The Bible said, "If thou canst believe, all things are possible." Your trouble's in your throat. And that's called an ulcer of the throat. And it's got ... it's caused something in the gland, and it's affecting your ears. That's right, isn't it? Now, you believe? Come here.
Oh, blessed Jesus, I pray that You'll heal her in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, Amen. God bless you.

64 How do you do, sir. Do you believe with all your heart? God can take the cataract away. I can't see it, but you've got a cataract. And you're believing God for it. You believe me to be God's prophet? You're not from here. No, sir. Your wife's with you. And she's already accepted her healing. And you're from Ohio. Right? Your name's Weber. That's right. Now, hurry back and get well in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ. Amen.
How do you do. You believe? Young man, I don't know you; I've never seen you, but there's a dark shadow over you. The doctor has condemned you to die; that is, he said you had a tumor in your head. He gives you six months to live. Won't you surrender now, all your habits and everything with it? Will you do it? surrender to Christ? quit smoking and everything else? and give your life to Christ, and...? Will you do it?
I condemn this devil on the basis of the shed blood of Jesus Christ, that it will leave this boy; and may the report be back from the leukemia child. May this young man live and be well in the name of Jesus Christ. Amen. God bless you, young fellow. All right.

65 God bless this man and heal him in the name of Jesus Christ. God bless our brother and heal him in Jesus Christ's name. Heavenly Father, bless our sister to heal her in Christ's name. Bless this little boy, Lord, and heal him in Jesus Christ's name. God bless this man and heal him in Jesus Christ's name. God bless this young man and heal him in Jesus Christ's name. God bless this lady and heal her in Jesus Christ's name. God bless this little lady and heal her in Jesus Christ's name. God bless this lady to heal her in Jesus Christ's name. God bless this girl and heal her in Jesus Christ's name. God bless this man and heal him in Jesus Christ's name. God bless our brother and heal him in Jesus Christ's name.
Just a moment. Are you praying, audience? Be in prayer now. Here's visions over the audience, even. Oh, my, it's so hard to run this kind of line. Pray for me. You pray for me, too. Keep praying, now. Just keep praying.

66 Oh Lord, bless this person in Jesus' name. Lord, bless our sister in Jesus' name. Lord, bless our sister in Jesus' name. Lord, bless this woman in Jesus' name. Lord, bless this dear woman in Jesus' name. Lord, bless this dear woman in Jesus' name. God bless this Indian sister in the name of Jesus, I pray. God bless this young lady in the name of Jesus, I pray. God bless this lady in the name of Jesus, I pray. God bless our sister in Jesus Christ's name. God bless our brother in Jesus Christ's name. God bless our sister in Jesus Christ. God bless this our brother in Jesus' name. God bless this little boy in Jesus Christ's name. God bless this lady in Jesus Christ's name. The Lord bless our brother in Jesus Christ's name. God bless this lady in Jesus Christ's name. God bless our sister in Jesus Christ's name. God bless our brother in Jesus Christ's name. God bless our sister in Jesus' name. God bless this brother in Jesus Christ's name.

67 Now, while we're waiting a minute, how many in the audience that's been prayed for, believe, you accept your healing, and you wanted hands laid on you. I want to see if you believe now. Lay your hand... Raise your hands up, you that's come through the prayer line, believes you've been healed. Thank the Lord. That's good. I may be altogether wrong, it may be in America we're supposed to do it this way. I don't know. All right. Have faith, now. Keep praying. All of the audience, keep praying; everybody praying. I'm just closing my eyes and laying hands on the sick.
God bless our dear brother in Jesus name. God bless our dear sister in Jesus' name. God bless my brother in the name of Jesus. God bless our sister in the name of Jesus. God bless the brother in the name of Jesus Christ. God bless our sister in the name of Jesus Christ. God bless this child in Jesus' name. God bless sister Waldrop in Jesus' name.

68 Just a moment while we're standing here. This woman here died in the prayer line when I was here the first time, Mrs. Hattie Waldrop. Her husband is a plumber and a bosom friend. And the woman had cancer, and she wanted to come anyhow, whether she lived or died. And in the prayer line, somebody told me that someone was dying. And the Lord healed that woman. That's been about ten years ago, Sister Waldrop. And I was ... [Sister Waldrop speaks with Brother Branham.] Ten years last Monday. She knows the very day and time, and she...
One night, I believe, I was up in Canada, way up in Saskatchewan, Brother Sothmann, and they called me to pray for her little grandson, I believe it was. [Brother Branham speaks with Sister Waldrop.] Sister's grandson; what was wrong with him? Brain hemorrhage and polio ... in the St. Joseph's hospital; and prayed for him by the phone, and the Lord healed that little boy perfectly normal and well. He was in the house, and we eat with our sister over there one night. Wasn't that right, Sister Waldrop? God bless your heart. God bless you, sister.

69 Let's say, "Praise the Lord." Amen. My, my. How wonderful! How great Thou art! How great Thou art! Oh, I wish I could sing that. How great Thou art! Isn't He wonderful. Now, everybody bow your head and pray. All right.
Dear God, I pray for this lovely little child that You will heal her and make her well in Christ's name, Amen. God bless this, our sister. And by laying on of hands, Thou hast said in Thy Word, "These signs shall follow them that believe. If they lay hands on the sick, they shall recover." This I do, in Jesus' name.
Likewise, to our sister, I lay my hands in Jesus' name. Like manner, to our sister, in Jesus' name, may she be healed. Like manner, to our brother, in Jesus' name, may he be healed. In like manner to our sister, in Jesus Christ's name, may she be healed. In Jesus Christ's name, may our sister be healed. In Jesus Christ's name, may our brother be healed. In the name of Jesus Christ, may the baby be healed. Bless our sister and heal her in Jesus' name. Bless our dear sister and heal her, with hands laid upon her in Jesus' name, amen.
Now, think, friends: If God speaks anything, He tells the truth: These signs shall follow them that believe. Be in prayer now, as you bow your head. Heavenly Father, in Jesus Christ's name may our brother be healed. Father God, in the name of Jesus Christ, may our sister be healed. Amen.

70 That's so much easier than the other way for me. If that's the way you desire it, that's sure my way too. But now look, what have we done? We've laid hands on the sick and prayed for them. Is that right? How many believes, now, that went through the prayer line, that you're healed? Let's see your hand, everyone that went through the prayer line. Praise the Lord. You know, that may be the right way. All right.
Is there any persons in here now that's sick that hasn't been in the prayer line? Let's see your hand. All right. Looks like there'd be about a hundred or more. All right. Now, just keep your hands up. I'm going to raise my hands up. What are we doing? We're trying to touch Somebody. Who is it? The One who stands omnipresent, who knows us. If you're reaching your hands, I'm reaching my hands. And we're all reaching our hands. Oh, God, be merciful.

71 One day, when Moses' hands was lifted up, the battle went favorable. And Oh God, today we are lifting our hands, believing that our faith is lifted up to Jesus Christ, who was lifted up for us. And we believe Your healing power. Oh God, let it rain from the skies like a shower, upon every individual here, and heal them. Grant it, Lord. May God's healing power, power in this building just now.
Everyone that believes that you're healed, clap your hands together. Hallelujah! Then it's over. Then we're healed. Then Christ is here. Then God is here. Then the angels are here. Then God gets glory out of our life. Praise be to the Lord God.
All right, Brother Moore. While we bow our heads just a moment, I'll ask Brother Moore to come and take this service today.
You want to be prayed for, son? I pray that you'll bless this man and heal him in Jesus Christ's name, amen. God bless you. Now, let's bow our heads just a moment. Brother Moore...

Jehovah-Jireh

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1 ... return to Oakland, California, again for meetings. And I was just talking to a brother out there who has worked for the Jews, and he was telling me that here about three years ago when I just got in home and his wife was very ill and she was having a baby; and the doctor said that the baby would be deformed because that she had measles or something. And we prayed and the Lord delivered the baby perfectly normal and well; it's a lovely child.

2 And today as I got into my mail from last night, I have never seen hardly so many nice things the Lord has did, and such nice people. I was reading of a Baptist minister who was here in the service and is perhaps here now, has turned loose of everything he's got for the glory of God.
And other ministers, and so forth, how their compliments on the messages. I'm so thankful to you, my brethren, both Presbyterian, Baptist, and Covenant, and I believe there was another one, Missionary Alliance.
And that Missionary Alliance man gave a word to me that ... a little testimony I shall never forget. Said it was in Florida not long ago---three, or four years ago... Is this the man sitting here? Well, bless your heart, brother. He was real sick and was about ready to give up, and he come into the prayer line, and I believe that the Lord told him through me that he had cancers. And in three days he passed the cancers, and it's all over and gone, and he's been years in carrying on charges for the Lord. And the man sitting right here before me; I didn't know it.

3 You know, when you... I get off of planes, and off of trains, and people saying, "Brother Branham, don't you remember me, you prayed for me with so-and-so?" I just wonder what it'll be when I get off the old ship one of these mornings on the other side.
I suppose maybe I've prayed for well over a million people or more, and the Lord has did some great things.
I want each one of you tonight to have faith and believe. This has been a wonderful stay. And I was talking to the business man that's here, Brother Borden, and I was telling him today, he and his friend... And, by the way, he was telling me that his little boy ... or, little boy of the other friend was on the platform last night, and something another about it. I just forget now what it was. My mind's so tired I can't hardly think.

4 And now, we're going to go to the snow country tomorrow, the Lord willing---up where they're having the blizzards. And from there into Canada, across Canada and maybe around the world then. Maybe the Lord willing, soon I can get back. But I want to ask you minister brothers one thing: Do this, please. While this great spirit of unity, with one heart and one accord, is with us, don't let it die. If you can stay, have to stay on your knees day and night, keep that spirit among you brethren and sisters.
Of all my travel from east to the west now, and back and forth as we call it, Brother Arganbright ... into the ... jogging, place to place; this is the only place that I see that really right now could come a sweeping revival, is right here.
The Spirit is here. If you judge me to be God's servant, the Spirit of God is here. That's right, it's here.

5 And I'm trusting to God that there'll be revivals in every church throughout the land, through here. And it's the only hope that we have right now, of the salvation of this great church, that we have come out to rub shoulders with, and to take arms with, and to march on to the forefront. And I pray that it will never cease till Jesus comes.
Now, I believe that Brother Erickson is coming in pretty soon for a citywide revival. I was told that by Dr. Canada, I believe. And Brother Erickson is a friend of mine. I've met him two or three times, a very fine man. And I just trust that all of you will cooperate a hundred percent, and God will just... If it's in this place, I hope that they'll just have to put the police on the street to keep order for the people coming. And you have a great revival.

6 I got a letter today from my old friend, Dr. Morris, here. It's in the city. He usually sits right along here but he's missing tonight, and he wanted to see me. And I'm sorry, brother, I just got to it today. Bless your dear heart, my dear, beloved brother. If some of his people's here, you tell him I wished I could have got it a little sooner to see him, but I will make appointment with him now; God willing, the next time through here, I will come see him. And he's a very gallant man.
Somebody's pointing a finger to him somewhere. Yes, Doctor, God bless your heart. He was the man who sponsored me first here in this city. And the Lord bless you, and I'm so glad to see you, and up and going. And, still preaching, are you? Amen! Wonderful, oh yeah.

7 You know, I see those men of that age... I'm forty-seven and I told the wife, I said, "Honey, I think I just better kind of get out of the way." I said, "I'm getting old, and I don't know, the younger men are coming on, kids and so forth." I said, "Maybe I'll just have a little school somewhere and teach other ministers the best I can and the kiddies to send them out, so forth, when they want to come."
And this, Dr. Morris, here; and Dr. Canada: I went over to his place, and there he was seventy-six, and been mashed all up in an automobile accident. Preaching twice a day on the radio, and pastoring a church of fifteen hundred seating capacity.
I said, "I'm not tired, I just thought I was!"
God bless your gallant souls, brethren.

8 When I cross over the border, one of these days when we all meet on the other side, it'll be a suppertime. And how I think tonight, sitting ... standing here on this platform to speak the Word, and to think that there's men sitting there---not only them men but others with them---who was preaching the Gospel before I was born. And here I am tonight to stand here. Brethren, I want to say this as a salute to you: You paved the way for what I'm bringing. That's exactly right. God bless those men is my sincere prayer.
Yeah, they stood on the corner and played a guitar; and throwed rotten eggs at them and things like that. Where I come along and get into an auditorium and just running over the highways that they paved, that's right. God knows every little move, and it's everything down. I'm sure there'll be a great reward for you someday.

9 Now, tonight I want to take this just a moment's time for express for my wife, my son, my daughter-in-law, and myself: that we have appreciated the kindness and the welcome that we've had in this city. And we want to thank each and every minister whose been with us, cooperating and helping us; for every person that's visited us; for your support financially to keep the meeting going; for the love offering that you gave me the other night. The Lord bless you.
I believe the Bible said, "Insomuch as you have done unto the least of these my little ones, (and that would be me; He said, the Lord Jesus said) you have done it unto me."
And I pray that God will give you the desire of your hearts, every one of you. I thank you from the depths of my soul.

10 And then again for your spiritual support, which has been what's made the meeting. You've come in with different ideas of different denominations and everything. But you forgot them, just walked right in here, and put your shoulders to the Word and went right with us.
God bless you. Oh, that means something. It makes me feel like I ... that everything that I've ever tried to put forth, this would pay for it right here. And the great testimonies that's been wrote in, we're just filing them away right now. Of not only just what someone said, but doctors reports of what's happened. And it's been wonderful. And there's many of those who's never even touched this platform, that's never even been called out there in the audience. The Lord has healed them just sitting in the presence of the Lord while He's here to heal. Isn't that the real way to do it? In the presence of the Lord was there to heal the sick. So wonderful! The hundreds that's come to Christ, backsliders that's come back. We just thank you.
And I want to mention in that too, Brother Arganbright. I thought he was gone, but I guess he come back. So, we're thankful that he is here with us, and I know that's his expression, too.

11 Now just before we open the Book ... which I don't claim to be a theologian. I'm not, because I only have a seventh grade education.
Here some time ago in Fort Wayne, Indiana, I was speaking and there was a man come behind the curtain, after they'd taken me back there and I was resting up a little bit before I ... just so, so tired. The anointing is what makes me so tired. Then when it lea... When I'm here it's all right, but it's when it's going off of you that's when it gets you.
And then when I was back there and this fellow came to me, he said, "Say, preacher, my," he said, "your grammar is poor."
I said, "I know it." I said, "I only have a seventh grade education."
And he said, "Oh, my," said, "that's no excuse; you're a man."
I said, "Well, we was so poor I couldn't go to school when I was a boy. There was nine of us boys and one girl in the family, and Dad wasn't very strong, so I had to work."
He said, "Oh, but now," said, "you're a man."
I said, "Well, since the Lord called me I'm so busy praying for His children till..."
Said, "Well, look," said, "some of your grammar, and the crowds that you got out there." He said, "Your grammar is so poor you should be ashamed of yourself."
I said, "I am."
And he said, "Now for instance," said, "you said 'all you people crossing by this pollpit.'"
I said, "Wasn't that right?" I didn't know no different. And I said, "Wasn't that all right?"
He said, "No!" He said, "You should've said 'pulpit', and your congregation would have enjoyed you better."
I said, "Brother, I don't want to hurt your feelings, but", I said, "that congregation don't care whether I say 'pollpit' or 'pulpit', just so I live the life, preach the Word and produce Christ, that's the main thing." That's right. That's right.
I might not know the Book too well, but I know the Author real well, and that's the thing. That's good. So, I believe He will let us know just of the book as we have need. Now let us bow our heads and speak to the Author, just before we read His Book.

12 O precious Lord, tonight, as I think about the snow drifts yonder ahead of us, and the meetings and overseas and down into the jungles and, oh, it kind of seems a little hard to leave this good, warm fellowship where the home fires are burning, and everybody loves you and the Spirit a moving; to go out there to be challenged by witch doctors and devils and ... but, "Go into all the world and preach the Gospel." That was the commission, Lord, and that we must do.
And I pray that you'll bless the folks here at home and may they remember, Lord, us in prayer as we go to stand on the battlefront for the Lord Jesus.

13 Now, we thank You for these things that You have done for us this week. Especially, Lord, for Thy omnipresence. Knowing that You are here, and for Your Word, and the confirming of Thy Word. The confirmation that You are risen from the dead and a living Christ.
We pray that You'll bless the words that we are to speak tonight. And meet with us, Lord, and give us one of the greatest nights that we've had yet. People are waiting with great anticipation. And, Lord, while this great anticipation is on, may men and women look from this earthbound condition that we're sitting, to a heavenly Father, that's ready to pour out His blessings and power upon us.
Grant it, Father. We ask it in Christ's name as we fellowship around His Word. Amen.

14 I wish to take ... to read just tonight a little out of the Old Testament: of Genesis the 22nd chapter and the 7th and 8th verse, and perhaps the 14th. I love His Word; and if you love His Word, you've got to love Him. And if you love Him, you love His Word.
And Isaac spake unto Abraham his father, and said, My father: and he said, Here am I, my son. And he said, Behold the fire and the wood: but where is the lamb for the burnt offering?
And Abraham said, My son, God will provide himself a lamb for the burnt offering: so they went both of them together.
The 14th verse:
And Abraham called the name of the place Jehovah-jireh: as it is said to this day, In the mount of the Lord it shall be seen.
Now may the Lord add His blessings to His Word.
I want to ask you one more favor. When I'm overseas, and the challenge of the witch doctors, the winds are hot, can you remember, will you pray for me? Do that. Pray for me.

15 I think of that sometimes, when you're right in those great moments, then see the God of heaven step right in and change that scene. Oh, it's so wonderful. I think, the folks at home are praying, now.
See, we mustn't get in our minds that God just works with one individual; He works with us as a body. We're all one. One's just as important as the other one; we got to be together to make the body of Christ.

16 Now I want to use my subject for just a little while (if I'll maybe take my watch off that I won't get too long). And I want to speak on the subject of Jehovah-jireh. It's a very deep subject.
Now, Jehovah-jireh means "the Lord's provided sacrifice". Now God appeared in the Old Testament in seven compound redemptive names. Jehovah-jireh, "the Lord will provide a sacrifice"; Jehovah-rapha, "the Lord that healeth all thy diseases"; Jehovah-manasseh, "Jehovah the armor, the buckler, the shield," and so forth---seven compound redemptive names. Those redemptive names are inseparable. You can't separate them, because they each one apply to an attitude of Jehovah.

17 And the night when the picture was taken, that you see here now, of the Angel of the Lord... Mr. Best, the Baptist minister, holding the debate with Brother Bosworth... Brother Bosworth said, "If you'll just answer one question, Brother Best, 'yes' or 'no,' we will settle it and I will walk off the platform; the congregation be the judge." And the moderator let him ask, and he said, "Was the redemptive names of Jehovah applied to Jesus, yes or no?" That settled it. Sure.
And if He wasn't Jehovah-jireh, He wasn't the Lord's provided sacrifice. If He was Jehovah-jireh, He had to be Jehovah-rapha, "the same yesterday, today and forever." That settled it. So, you can't separate those names.
And they are applied each one to Jesus. And that's Jehovah's attitude always to His people: the provided sacrifice, the healer, and the buckler, and the shield, and whatmore. Jehovah was then, Jehovah is today.

18 Now, we're going to speak on this marvelous character, which we... I've spoke on it for ... maybe take a subject of three or four weeks and stay right with it, and never leave that subject on Abraham.
And I've took subjects out of the Bible in meetings. One time I took Job in the Bible, and I got over there to where he was on the ash heap. And I stayed right there; I'd been on Job for almost a year. And then I got him to the ash heap, and there's about three weeks I just kept on. And a lady, nice, she wrote and said, "Brother Branham, when you ever going to get Job off the ash heap?" She was nice about it, but you know, I was making a point right there, and when finally the Holy Spirit broke through, people just streamed to the altar.
Oh, God takes little scriptures, and how He can just drive them home, if we will just wait on Him a little bit. He works in His Word.

19 Now, we're going to speak of Abraham. And I love to speak of Abraham, and the reason that I have chosen this for a text tonight, is the closing, where there's lots of anticipation.
Now Abraham was just an ordinary man. He wasn't any different from any of us---just the same. People today, when they see God put a gift in the church, some people tries to stand that person up as some great big outstanding something. Well, that's wrong. You got your mind on the person then, instead of on the Christ. We're all just the same. The Bible said that Elijah was a man subject to like passions as we are. He just had the same ups and downs that we have.

20 Now, my people, formerly, are Catholic; you all know that. And they're great on, "holy man, holy man." But to me it's not holy man, it's Holy God. That's right. It's God is the object; we're men, all the same.
Notice, but Abraham was just an ordinary man, came down from Babylon. And he dwelt there in the land of Shinar. And perhaps his diet was: go in of a morning and pick some berries from the bushes, and go back out and kill an animal and have his noonday meal, and some more berries for supper, and so forth. And he had married his half-sister; her name was Sarai.
And while Abraham, being just an ordinary man, God chose Abraham by election---not because he was different from any other man, but it was because that God's election has to stand sure.
Now, may we take our time and not be in no hurry, and we want to comb this just a moment.

21 Now, if God called Abraham by election, and give His covenant to Abraham unconditionally. Not, "if you will do this", or "you will do that"; it's "I have done"---not nothing that you had ... Abraham had to do; it's what God has done.
Now, God made a covenant with Adam. Adam broke the covenant. Every time man makes covenant with God, he breaks it.
So, God made the covenant with Abraham unconditionally. God was determined to save man.

22 Now, and now you say, "Well, does God still call, make His covenant unconditionally?" Absolutely. The Bible said that Christ said "No man can come to Me except My Father draws him first." No man don't seek God at any time. It's God seeking man.
That's his nature. He's a fallen being. And Adam well expressed the nature of man in the garden of Eden when he realized he was wrong. Instead of going through the garden screaming, "Oh, Father, where are you?", it was God going through the garden screaming, "Adam, where art thou?" And instead of Adam coming out and confessing his wrong, he was hiding in the bushes. That's the very nature of man to begin with.

23 A man is a failure, he's totally lost at his birth. There is no good in man. If there's anything good about a man, it's what the part of God that's in him. For a man in himself is totally no good. And there's any goodness about him at all, it's God that's did it for him.
So, we cannot say that we did this to deserve this. We prayed all night to get this. It isn't whether you do this or that, it's God. It's not him that willeth or him that runneth, it's God that showeth mercy. Lays in the hands of God.

24 And Abraham received the covenant---not on condition, "If you will..."; but, "I have already done it."
Now, you say, "Brother Branham, if I was Abraham, I would feel very good then." Listen, that covenant was not only made with Abraham; it was made with Abraham and his seed, after him. So, we are the seed of Abraham. If we be dead in Christ, we take on Abraham's seed and are heir according to the promise.
And the way you become Abraham's seed is when you have the faith that Abraham had, in the coming of Christ, and you accept it, and you are filled with the Holy Spirit, then you are Abraham's seed. And are joint heirs by Christ with him in the kingdom.
Oh, brother! If the people could only realize that!

25 If the church tonight would stop thinking it's something that you have to do! It's something God has already done. You're just putting the cart before the horse, and it won't run right. Just forget about what you have to do, and realize what God has already done. Then you'll get the cart running right.
But now as long as you're trying to push it along ... turn it around. Don't say, "If I do this, and if I do that", (look.) say, "It's already done; Christ did it for me. Praise be to God," and accept it.
It's already a finished work. God called you. "By grace are you saved through faith," see---not works, but through faith, by grace of God.

26 "God so loved the world, He gave His only begotten Son." Now look, not that God had to do it, but because that God did do it. And when God's love was projected, sovereign grace had to produce the object that His grace projected ... or, His love projected.
And when you will love God and believe God, grace will project the object that you ask God. Do you see it? See, you're Abraham's seed, then you love God. And when you love God, so love Him that you believe His Word and accept His Word, then sovereign grace will come down and project what you ask God, because He can't keep from it. That's the basis that it's on.
It's love, and love will project grace, and grace will project the object that you're asking for. You can't get it by emotions. You can't get it by scholarship. You never get it by education. You never get it by sensation. You get it by love! You believe Him and take His Word for it. And when you take His Word, that makes Him love you. And you get what you ask for.

27 Now, notice, Abraham was just an ordinary man. And God by election called him, and said, "Abraham." And notice, (and this is a lot of encouragement for we older people) Abraham was seventy-five years old before God ever called him. And his wife, Sarah, was sixty-five years old. And they'd been married since they were young. Perhaps, let's say Sarah being sixteen and Abraham twenty-six, and ... when they were married. They had lived as husband and wife all this time, and she was barren. She had no children. And perhaps Abraham might have been sterile.

28 But I want you to notice, God told Abraham that something was going to happen that was absolutely impossible for it to happen. He said, "Abraham, you're going to have a child by Sarah." And through this child, how the blessings was going to come.
Now, mentally speaking, that was impossible. It could not have happened, because Abraham was seventy-five, and Sarah sixty-five---about fifteen or twenty years past menopause. She was gone. Her ... the womb within her was dead. She was sixty-five years old. Menopause hits from thirty-eight to about forty. And she's out of it before she's fifty, or by fifty. And here she is sixty-five.

29 God said to Abraham, "You're going to have a baby by Sarah." And Abraham did not stagger at the promise of God through unbelief, but accepted what God said was going to happen. Regardless of how ridiculous it seemed, Abraham didn't look at all the things around him, or he didn't look at the deadness of the womb of Sarah; neither considered he his own body, then dead. But he believed God, and called those things which was not, as though they were. Amen.
Oh, my brother, there's the Gospel. Watch it now, how it moves up, begins to come into existence, come into emotion.

30 Now, what do you think would happen today if an old man of seventy-five years old, and his little feeble sixty-five year old wife, went down to the doctor and say, "Doctor, wife's bought a great big bunch of Birdseye and a lot of pins. And we want to make arrangements with you because we're going to have a baby."
Why, they would have... Doctor would say, "The old fellow is just a little bit off at his head."
And people who really take God at His Word are considered that way. Right. Considered a little crazy. It's always been. And it always will be as long as we have the world here who doesn't know any different.

31 So now, Sarah went by... I can see Abraham and Sarah doing their shopping, getting ready, when it was absolutely impossible. But against hope, he believed in hope, because God said so. That settled it.
I can see him going down the street, smiling, say, "I tell you, fellows, this is going to be wonderful."
And some of them say, "Poor old Abraham, he sure has slipped. I know, the old fellow's reading the Bible too much, that's what's the matter. There's just something has happened to him. Oh, that old fellow there... At sixty-five years old (his wife), and him seventy-five and say they're going to have a baby, and shopping for baby clothes. And he's lived with her for all these years, and she's barren, and now the poor old fellow is just slipped a little bit."

32 But what made Abraham that way? He had the promise of God, and he believed what God said was the truth. That settles it. Right.
Now, if we be Abraham's seed, we take God's Word just at the same face value that Abraham did. Amen. I'm not "amening" myself, but amen means "so be it".
Now, God told Abraham what was going to happen. He didn't say when it was going to happen. He just said it was going to happen.

33 What about the man here in the wheelchair? What about the lady in the stretcher? Other ... some of you. You say, "Oh, doctor says I ... I can't get well." Well, maybe the doctor's telling you everything he knows. But what did God say about it? That's what makes the difference.
Some of you sitting there, eat up with cancer. Maybe this crippled man may live an ordinary, long life. He may live a lifetime like that. But you, eat up with cancer, or maybe with a heart trouble, with a blood clot right near to take you now. Unless something happens, you're going to die right away.
The doctor said there's no hopes for you. That's what the doctor says, that's his knowledge tells him that. But you see, we don't look to the knowledge of man. God said, "I'm the Lord who heals all your diseases." "If thou canst believe, all things are possible." Now it depends on how much faith you can appropriate, how much you believe that.

34 Now, notice, Abraham, when he was given this covenant, he was asked to do something, that was to separate himself from the unbelievers. And every one of Abraham's seed that comes to God, they're asked to do the same thing. We're not to yoke ourselves up with unbelievers. Separate yourself.
You know, the world today is wanting mixers. You know, I heard them voting one time at a church. And there was a good old pastor standing there that I knowed. He was a real man of God. And he was to be voted, to see if they'd take him to the church. And you know that bunch of deacons and deaconesses, they said, "We don't want him. We want a man that's sociable and is a little mixer, that won't always be harping about drinking and smoking and these things there." They wanted somebody who would take a little sociable drink, go with them on their parties, and tell them little dirty jokes, little smutty things.

35 Listen, the world wants mixers, but God wants separators. That's right. Separate yourself from all the things of the world. God wants somebody to separate themselves. And the children of Abraham, God's children, they separate themselves from the things of the world. The Bible said, "Come out from among them and be not partakers of their unclean thing. And I will receive you unto Myself, and you'll be sons and daughters to Me, and I will be God to you." Separator.

36 Now, Abraham had to separate himself from his kindred, from his people. And another thing he was asked to do: he was asked to sojourn in a strange land, with a strange people, speaking a strange language.
Well, it's just the same today. Just doesn't change. Men are to separate yourselves and to walk with a different people. You young man that come to Christ, when you used to go down to the poolroom, you stay away from that territory, and go with those boys who goes to church and to prayer meeting.

37 You women that used to have your pink tea parties and tell little jokes, and call it your stitch-and-sew and sew-and-stitch, and stitch-and-sew and talk about Miss So-and-So. You get away from that kind of a party and go to an old-fashioned prayer meeting.
And in your church where you used to boil up some old tough rooster and sell him for fifty cents a plate so you could pay the pastor off, you quit that! The church that gets right with God, God's got a program how to take care of the preacher, if you'll just take care of that. That's right. You don't have to have soup suppers and all these other things. God just takes care of it if you just follow His program. We are to separate ourselves from all these things.

38 Notice. Now, and when Abraham started out and he got going into a strange land; and finally by and by he didn't separate himself, and Lot begin... Trouble raised up. And God never did bless Abraham until he separated himself from Lot.
And that's the reason today... Church, may I say this with the heart of a minister of Christ: That's what's the matter with our church today, in our churches. We've got to absolutely separate ourselves from the things of the world; and as long as we're still hanging on to little old things of the world, God will never pour out His blessings and bless us the way He wants to, because He can't do it. That's right.

39 Our gifts of healing: we know they're miniature. Our gifts of tongues: why it's never hit its right place. The gift of prophecy: so frail and faultery. What's the matter? There has never been a real foundation laid yet that the church can be laid on.
What we need is an example. We need men and women who separate themselves from the things of the world, accept God's Word and build on that sound Gospel of the Bible. That's what the world needs today. Then you'll see great gifts poured out, you'll see great things happening, when the church gets united and all the "isms" out of them and start moving on.

40 Now, as we notice, (going just a little further), we find that when Abraham had separated himself from Lot... And I want you to notice the Christian act in Abraham. He said, "Lot, you take the choice." Lot, being backslidden in his heart, he took the well-watered plains of Sodom and Gomorrah. But Abraham had to take the poor. He had to take the barren ground. But he was satisfied; no matter what his estate was, he was satisfied that God was with him.
I'd rather have the presence of God with me and be called a "holy roller" than be an archbishop in some other church that couldn't believe the powers of God. That's right. If I had to worship in a mission or a brush harbor, I'd like to be where the Spirit of God is. That's exactly right.

41 And when he separated himself, then God told Abraham, "Stand up. Look to the east, to the west, to the north, to the south." Said, "Every bit of it belongs to you." That was good enough. "It's all yours; walk through it." I like that, "Walk through it."
That's what's the matter with the church today. When a man is born again of the Spirit of God, every divine blessing in this Bible belongs to you.

42 Well, when I buy a house... Why, it's just like if this place belonged to me and it was a big arcade. I come in here, I want to find out what I got. I go around, pull out this drawer, look in it, see what I got here; go over here, see what I got over here. If anything seems it's a little too high, I get me a step ladder and go up to it. Find out what it's all about.
And when I got saved, brother, I took this old treasure Book of God and looked through it to see what I possessed. And I find out that every blessing that's in that Bible belongs to me and it belongs to every believer! Yes sir!
If some of them seems to be a little out of my reach, I pray till I get to it. That's right. Every promise in the Book is yours.
This great arcade of God's economy belongs to every believer, and by one Spirit we're all baptized into this big arcade. And everything in there belongs to us. And we're heir of all things, and every promise of God. Amen.

43 When Abraham got old... Now he got to be about... I can imagine hearing Abraham after about the first month, here he comes in laughing, said, "Sarah, how you feel, honey?" "No different." Said, "Well, hallelujah! We're going to have it anyhow." That's right.
Those out on the street said, "What about it, Abraham? It's been twenty-eight days since then; how's things down at your house?" Doesn't make any difference how they are down there; it's all right up there. Depends on what you're looking at. What about these...

44 [Gap in the audio.] ... when they come out, they'll knock me in the head. Well, they'll never feed me. But if that old mother was well instructed, she'd say, "Wait a minute, sonny, looky here. You have a birthright. Don't make any difference what you look at ... what you look like, rather, but when the priest comes and finds out, when the owner finds out that you're born, no matter what condition you're in, the priest will never see you, but a lamb without a blemish will have to die in your stead."
Oh, brother, stop looking at yourself and look at your sacrifice. If you can find any fault in that, all right. But if you find no fault in that, then you're perfect. Amen.
Because it's not you that God's accepted; He accepted Christ, and Christ accepted you. And you are dead and your life is hid in God through Christ. Sealed by the Holy Ghost and all the devils in hell can't turn you out of there (Amen.), for you are God's property. God never looks at you; he looks at Christ.

45 Now. Notice, then another six months passed. "Sarah, how you feeling, honey?" "No different." "Glory to God, we're going to have it anyhow." "How do you know?" "God said so." That settles it.
Ten years passed. Now she's seventy-five, he's eighty-five. "What about it, Abraham?" "How do you feel, Sarah?" "No different." "Glory, we're going to have it anyhow. Praise God, oh hallelujah!" he said. The Bible said, "Instead of getting weak, he got stronger all the time."

46 Now, aren't we poor examples of Abraham's children? If we don't get healed in one minute, "There ain't nothing to it, nothing to it." Oh, and then you call yourself Abraham's child? Abraham got stronger all the time, because the longer it waited, the more miracle it was going to be.
He said, "It's got to happen, God said so." And when Abraham was ninety and nine years old, right at a hundred years old, he still was believing that God was going to do it. And Sarah was ninety.

47 Notice, God said, "Come out here, Abraham. I want to speak to you just a little bit." And He got him out there, He said, "Abraham, I am the Almighty God. Walk before me and be perfect." At ninety-nine years old.
And the word "Almighty" there comes from the Hebrew word El Shaddai which means "the bosom". "I am the breasted God. I am the nurse ... I am the nurser." The breasted---not breast---breasted, like the woman. "For He was wounded for our transgressions, with His stripes we were healed." The breasted God. Not just one, but two. Wounded for our transgressions, with His stripes we were healed.

48 Other words, "Abraham, you're ninety-nine years old, but in my sight, you're just a little baby." That's right. "Only thing I want you to do is lean right here on my bosom and just start nursing and stay right there. I'll bring you to your strength."
And a little baby, when its mammy ... it's got sick. And it's fretting, and it's weak. The little baby holds right on to the mother and nurses the mother's strength through the breast until the baby is well.
And that's what Abraham was doing, was holding on to God's breast of promise and nursing from God the eternal strength that taken to make him back a young man again. Amen.

49 Not only is the baby nursing strength, but it's satisfied while it's nursing. He's not jumping from pillar to post. He's staying right put on the Word of God. "God, You promised it, and I'm satisfied You're going to do it. I know You can keep Your Word. I stay right with it."
And tonight He's the same breasted God that He was then. He's the same yesterday, today and forever. If you have need of salvation, lay onto God's promise and nurse from Him.

50 You say, "I have the most ups and downs, Brother Branham." Love Him with all your heart and just keep pulling His promise to you. I tell you, He's got more vitamins in that Word than all the drugstores in the world has. That's right. Believe it! Just see if he don't give you a little hypo once in awhile in a good old-fashioned Holy Ghost meeting: just spiriting you right up.
And if you're sick, hold on to His Word, God promised it. He promised it, He's got to do it. He's El Shaddai, the bosomed, the all-sufficient One, the strength giver. He's just the same yesterday, today and forever.

51 And then he wanted to know how it was going to be done. And if God didn't do something for him there... (I hope the church can see it.) He took Abraham and said, "Take a heifer of three years old, and take a sheep at three years old, and a she-goat at three years old, and a turtle dove and a pigeon." And Abraham cut them in two, all but the birds, and he laid them down, and he watched the birds off of them until the sun went down.
Now watch how God told Abraham and foreshadowed Christ.

52 Now when the sun went down, the first thing fell on Abraham was a deep sleep. "Now, Abraham, I want you to know, it's I Am the one that's doing it; you have nothing to do into it. You're out of the picture."
And Abraham went to sleep. And when he did, the first thing he saw was a smoking furnace, where every ... or, great darkness, which every man has to do, is die. After that, a smoking furnace, hell, where every sinner deserves to go. But then beyond that went a little white light. And it went between these sacrifices. Cut these pieces together, it went back and forth making a covenant.

53 Now that may seem strange to just the mind that has never studied the Oriental customs. We have so many customs, so many things... The Bible was written an eastern book, for an eastern people. We are a western people trying to put western interpretation to an eastern book.

54 Now look, when we go in, for instance, like you and I go to make a covenant. We say, "Will you do this?" "Yes." Shake hands. That's west. Let's go down into Japan; how do they make a covenant? They make a promise, then they get a little cruse of salt and throw salt on each other. That's a covenant in Japan.

55 What was it in the time of Abraham? They went and killed a beast, cut it open. They wrote out what they were going to---their agreement---what they were going to do. And they taken this agreement, and they tore it in two; one taken one and one the other part. And they took a oath over this dead beast, "Let their bodies be as this dead beast was if they broke this covenant."
What was God showing? What was He doing to Abraham? God was showing what He was going to do by Christ Jesus: Was making the covenant, and God taking His own Son to Calvary, and there He tore Him apart. And He took one part and set it on His right hand above, which was His body, and sent His Spirit back to the earth.

56 And now, when this covenant is confirmed and they both come together, those pieces of paper has to dovetail one to the other, or the covenant is not confirmed yet.
And now the Holy Spirit... Are you ready? Have you got your shock proof vest on? Look, when the Holy Spirit that was in Jesus Christ was tore out of Him at Calvary---when God made the covenant with mankind---He took His flesh (His body), and sat on His right hand of the Majesty; and sent back the Holy Spirit to live in the church to prove Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today and forever.

57 When the Holy Spirit fell on the day of Pentecost, it produced a church. And, brother, I don't care what denomination you got tacked to you, except that Spirit that was tore out of Christ is put into the man, he will be left in the day of the rapture.
He tore him apart and sent the Holy Ghost down, which lives in us: the Spirit of Christ, working in us, doing the same works that Christ did, living the same life, doing the same things. And the outside world stands and makes fun of it. Others say there's nothing to it. Some try to mock it. Others receive it! Brother, that's the only way that God ever makes you a seed of Abraham. When the Spirit of Christ comes into you, then you become the seed of Abraham. That's right. And the Gentile is included in the covenant.

58 Notice, quickly, now. We're coming down to the end. After awhile, to show how God did: One day when Abraham was sitting out there under the tent, Sarah his wife, a beautiful woman, although old, real old and stricken in age. Abraham was sitting out under his oak. And one day, he seen three men coming, with dust on their clothes. But there was something down in Abraham that recognized who that was. It was God and two angels. That's right.
They walked up to him and Abraham said, "My Lord, come sit down under the tree. Let me fetch a little water and wash your feet, and let me bring a morsel of bread, and refresh yourself and then be on your journey. For this cause you came by to see me."

59 And he run in, said, "Sarah, knead just a little meal, or sift it out, put some bread on the hearth and make some cake." He run out to the herd and got a fat calf, killed it, let a servant dress it, and he come out there... And I'd imagine like we used to in Kentucky, have an old fly bush, to keep the flies away. (And, how many knows what a fly bush is? My, my. All right.) And keep the flies away. And Abraham standing there after he had washed their feet.
And they stood and eat the meat of the calf, drank the milk from the cow, and the butter, and eat corn bread. And one of them was Almighty God.

60 I said that to a person not long ago, they said, "Billy, do you mean to tell me that you believe that that was God?"
I said, "The Bible said it was!"
He said, "How could you imagine God coming down with dirt on His clothes and so forth, and stand there and eat that meat?"
I said, "You just don't know God." God is a Creator.
Yes, sir. He had his back turned to the tent, like that. And when He told Abraham what He was going to do, why, Sarah laughed. He said, "Why did Sarah laugh?"

61 Now, you unbeliever, is that mental telepathy? What touched back there in the tent? Sarah said, "I didn't laugh."
He said, "Oh, yes, you did laugh, too." Certainly He did. Walked right out and disappeared. You know what it was? Here's my opinion of it. God came down, and He was going down to see the sins of Sodom and Gomorrah.
The only thing He done was get Him a little handful of calcium, potash, petroleum, cosmic light. Said, "Whew! Come here, Gabriel, step in this." That's right. Walked over and got Him another handful and put Michael on the other side. And just got a handful and stepped in it Himself, and was hungry because He had a body to hunger in. And then turned right around and vanished it right back. They come down to bring His message. I'm so glad that my God is that kind of a God.
What does it make any difference what happens to this old body, someday He'll speak and it'll come from the dust of the earth. Sure. Showing what He could do. He's God. And when He just spoke it, and there was a body, absolutely. Someday He'll call and I'll rise from the dust of the earth.

62 Watch Him what He told Abraham. Said, "Look down and count the sands of the sea."
He said, "I can't."
"Look up and count the stars."
He said, "I can't."
From dust to stars, the resurrection! The seed of Abraham, from the dust of the earth to the stars in glory. Hallelujah! Christ be the morning star---the brightest, the fairest of ten thousand. There He is: the lily of the valley, the bright and morning star.

63 How He told Abraham what would happen. How He took Sarah, there, turned around and made a young woman out of her. He made a young man out of Abraham, standing there.
Now look, you might disagree with this. But I want to ask you something, brother, before you criticize it.
Now, we know that Sarah was ninety years old and Abraham was a hundred. They'd lived together all these years and she was barren. Now, we know if God was going to give birth to a child, through Sarah, He would have to make her fertile again. Is that right? All right.

64 They didn't smoke cigarettes in them days like women do now, and can't raise their babies on the breast; they have to put them on bottles. They didn't have bottles in those days. So, in order to make her again so she could nurse her baby, He had to create milk veins and fix her over so the baby could nurse. Right?
Now, I want to ask you... I'm your brother; you listen to a doctor. This is flat before a mixed audience, but I want you to understand me as your brother. How could that woman go in labor with a heart that old? Couldn't do it, so He had to put a new heart in her. You know what He done? He never did that, He made a new woman out of her, to show what He was going to do. I can see it and prove it, by the Bible. The Bible's written you have to read between the lines, now.

65 Notice. Look at Abraham. Now, I can see him old with his staff in his hand, whiskers hanging way down, a hundred years old. One morning, woke up and Sarah said, "Dad, the hump's going out of your back." Sure, he took God at His promise. "Your hair is turning back black again."
Why, he said, "Sarah, your eyes are beginning to look lovely, like the dove again."
And you know what God did, He turned them both back to a young man and a woman.

66 Now, you say, "Now, Brother Branham you're ma..." No, He did too. Watch to see what He did.
Now, they took a journey from where they was (Mark it on your map.), down to the Philistine land, to Gerar, which is about three hundred miles. Quite a trip for an old grandma, hundred years old. And the strange thing: When she got there, Abimelech, the king was hunting him a sweetheart.
And all those pretty Philistine girls around there. When he saw this old, hundred year old grandma come, he said, "That's the one I've waited for." Little grandma with a shawl over her shoulder, little dust cap (and all them pretty girls there), and here she comes down. And Abimelech said, "That's the one I've waited for. I want her."

67 Abraham said, "Now you tell her ... you tell him that I'm your brother." What would he have to do that for an old grandma? Hundred years old.
See, God had turned her back to a young woman. That's what He's going to do to every one of the seed of Abraham one of these days. He's only showing what He was going to do.
There God turned her back to a young woman, and made her well, and a beautiful young woman---when they said she was the most beautiful woman in the land. That's what He's going to do for every woman and man that's here, that's a seed of Abraham, that's been borned again. Some day this old body will be changed. Certainly. You'll go back again. God was showing what He was going to do.

68 Sarah become a mother. She brought forth this little boy, Isaac. When he was about twelve years old ... (Now, we will close in a moment; we just had to hit the high spots.) Now, he's about twelve years old, pretty little, curly-headed Jewish boy, about like that. I imagine he was a darling---looked about like his mama. And I can see his brown eyes and his little dark face and his little curls hanging around his head.

69 And now remember, Sarah then was about a hundred and, oh, maybe a hundred and twenty, fifteen, twenty years old. And Abraham was about a hundred and, well, maybe thirty, thirty-five years old. Think of it. And there they was they had this young child. Now, notice what happened.
One day, God said, "Abraham, there's going to be some meetings down in about nineteen hundred and fifty-six and fifty-seven. I want to prove to the people what I'm going to do. Now, I told you I was going to make you a father of nations. When you was an old man, I'd give you this child. Now, I want you to take this thy only..."
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70 ... but an ordinary man, even today when we got gasoline feet (only walk twenty, twenty-five miles a day). Now, he went three-days' journey from civilization. That would be about seventy-five miles back into the desert. And then he saw the mountain far off. Now, watch him when he comes to it.
Gets right up close to the mountain, and he stops the little mule. And I can hear him as he begins to take the wood off of the mule. Fix his little fire in his hand. Lays the wood up on Isaac's back. And he said to the servant, he said, "You stay here, while the lad and I go yonder to worship. The lad and I will return." Oh my!
How is he going to do it? It's not his question to ask. It's what it is, is to believe God made the promise. He said, "I received him as one from the dead, God's able to raise him up from the dead." There you are. Oh, I love that: "The lad and I will return." Genesis 22.

71 And we watch. He laid the wood on Isaac's back: perfect type of God in Christ, as Christ packed His own altar up the hill. Here goes little Isaac up, and he begins to get curious, and he said, "Papa?"
He said, "Yes, my son? Here I am."
He said, "we got the wood, and we got the fire, but where is the lamb that you're going to offer?"
Could you imagine, that father, with his only son, as he walked up the hill with him, without a quiver in his voice he said, "My son, God will provide for Himself a lamb for the sacrifice."
There you are. See, he was still believing. He knowed who God was and He was able to keep His Word.
Do you believe that tonight? Can God keep His Word? If He doesn't, He's not God. If He does, then it's worth everything to turn loose and take God at His Word.

72 Now, as he went on up the hill. Little Isaac wondering where is that lamb coming from. Papa ain't got no lamb, there's no lambs up here. He got up there and built the altar, laid the wood, clave it and laid it across. Got the fires a burning. Went back and got his own son. He loved God better than he loved his own son.
Brother if you ever amount to anything, you've got to love God better than your wife, your husband, your children, your pastor, everything that there is; you've got to love God first. God gets first place. We give Him about tenth place. But He deserves the best we got and the first we got. And all we got!

73 But he tied his hands behind him, laid him up on the rock. Pulled out the big knife and raked the locks back from his face. Could you imagine? He looked up towards heaven, raised up his hand as he pulled the head back of little Isaac, and was about to plunge this great knife into his little jugular veins in his throat to take his own son.
And just as he started to come down with the knife, there was a voice from heaven spoke. And the Holy Ghost grabbed his hand, and said, "Abraham, stay your hand." Amen. God's right on the moment.

74 The Hebrew children stepped right into the fiery furnace. But there was one there like the Son of man. God's in no hurry. You're the one gets in a hurry, not God. God's right on time. Oh, brother, He's right on time. Let the rockets fly, the atomic bombs, the hydrogens. God's right on time. The church is going home one of these days right on time. Yes, sir.

75 As he started to plunge that knife, God caught his hand, said, "Abraham, stay your hand. For I see now that you love Me." Making a double test. And about that time a ram behind him was hooked into the wilderness by his horns.
Think of it. I want to ask you something, brothers. Where did that ram come from?
Now, look. He's at least seventy-five to a hundred miles from civilization, in a country where hyenas and wolves and lions. Seventy-five miles from civilization, and besides that, he's way up on top of a mountain, where there's no water or nothing for the ram to be up there. Where did that ram come from?

76 You know what it was? The same God that made Him a body to step in to talk to Abraham, spoke that ram into existence. For He is Jehovah-jireh, "the Lord will provide for Himself a lamb for the sacrifice." It wasn't a vision. No, sir. He laid the ram on the altar, cut its throat, and the blood run out of it. Jehovah-jireh spoke a living lamb into existence and he died the next minute. For He's Jehovah-jireh, He can do whatever He desires to do. And He will do all things that He promised to do. He has to do it to be Jehovah-jireh. He's our provided sacrifice.

77 God has provided us a sacrifice. And He's just as real tonight. He can speak you into good health. He can speak you in from a sinner to a Christian. He can do anything that you believe that He will do for you, that He's made it, because the sacrifice has already been made. Jesus Christ met that place and Jehovah-jireh has provided a Lamb for your healing and for your salvation and for your home in glory. For your security till He comes, a Lamb has already been provided.
He's tonight, Jehovah-jireh, the same yesterday, today and forever. His Son was here on earth and lived. He was killed at Calvary, God took His body up to the right hand of His Majesty, sent the Holy Ghost down to do the same things that Christ did here on earth.

78 And today, when skepticism, modernism, and everything else is searched the world over and over, God still stands just the same as He always was. He's Jehovah-jireh. He said, "The things that I do shall you do all things ... the same things that I do shall you do also. Lo, I am with you always to the end of the world."
Jesus Christ, the same yesterday, today and forever. God's provided Lamb; God's provided sacrifice. "For He was wounded for your transgressions, bruised for your iniquities, the chastisement of our peace was upon Him, and with His stripes we were healed." He's God's provided sacrifice. Jehovah-jireh has provided the sacrifice if you're ready to reach and receive it. Let us pray.

79 With our hands to God, would there be some in here, say, "Oh God, in Christ's name receive me tonight." God bless you. That's right, that's the way to put your hand. "Receive me, I now receive Your provided Lamb. I've been through these meetings, I believe that You've raised from the dead. I believe that You're here, You're God's provided way." Jesus said, "I am the way."
The balconies to my left, up there, would you raise your hands? say, "By this, God, I want to receive you." God bless you.
The balconies beneath the left there, would you raise your hand, along through there? "I now put up my hands." God bless you back there, that's right.
Balconies to the right, raise your hands if you desire Christ tonight, saying, "I want Him to be my sacrifice."
"Oh, I've tried to give Jones', the poor people over there, some of my hand-me-down clothes. I've bought the widow some coal one time. I give to the charity societies, and I'm a member of the Kiwanis and I do good things." That hasn't got one thing to do with salvation. That's not one thing to do with it.

80 "Oh, yes, but Mr. Branham, I belong to the church." That still don't have one thing to do with it. "I've been baptized." That still don't. You might have been face forward, backward, any way you want to be, sprinkled, poured. In any church---Methodist, Baptist, Catholic, whatever it might be---you're still lost. Until God's covenant, the agreement, when He tore the life out of Christ and sent it back to be in you. If you haven't got that life in you, you're lost. That's right.

81 God's Lamb was provided. Oh, won't you receive it tonight, Christians? Won't you receive it, professors? You who are cold and lukewarm and don't know what it means to be saved and born again, won't you receive Him as you raise your hand? Someone else now, before we close. All right. God bless you now. Let's pray.

82 Our heavenly Father, we now bring to Thee these people. The revival is closing, or my part of it. God, never let this revival close. May it continue on, and may men and women stick their heads back into the Bible and go to praying. May pastors be filled and re-lit again by the power of the Holy Spirit.
May teachers rise, Lord. Not teaching perverse things, but back to the old Bible. Back to the old plan of salvation: Jesus Christ, God's provided Lamb. May they come back to that simple faith, once again. Grant it, Lord, before the coming of the Just One

83 We pray that You'll receive those tonight who raised their hands, and may they receive Jehovah-jireh's provided sacrifice for their sins tonight; and each of them be taken into the kingdom peacefully, and given eternal life; and then baptized by the Holy Ghost into the church of the living God, and positionally placed into the body as the position to work with the members of the body of Christ.
Hear the prayer of Your servant, Lord, as I commit them to Thee in Jesus Christ's name, Amen.

84 The Lord bless you, my dear people. Oh, He is so wonderful. Don't you think He's wonderful?
God's provided sacrifice! What is it now? Let me go through it real closely, quietly, before we pray for the sick.
What was it now? Let's go back. The promise was made to Abraham and Abraham's seed, alone. No promise was made to anyone else, but to Abraham and his seed. What was he to be? The father of nations. Nations: Jew, Gentile, Samaritan, whatever. The father of nations.

85 How do we become the seed? Is to accept the provided way. How did He show He did it? He made a covenant and tore the pieces apart and made the covenant with Abraham.
At Calvary He made the covenant not with the Jews, but with the whole world. He raised up His Son, tore Him apart, took His body up to sit up there on the right hand of the Majesty. Sent back down the Holy Spirit to produce the same life of Christ here in the church.
Jesus said, before He left, "A little while and the world won't see Me no more, yet you'll see Me, for I will be with you, in you to the end of the world. The things that I do, shall you also."

86 This man standing here: I don't know the brother's name, the Alliance brother. Mentioned in there of being in the presence of Dr. Reedhead, Morris Reedhead. Dr. Reedhead is one of the best scholars, I believe, that this nation or any other nation has got.
When Dr. Reedhead came to my house, (Just a moment.) when he came to my house, he came there with Don Wells---one of the biggest Baptist churches in the south. They said, "Brother Branham, we want to ask you something. Now, you've been with the Pentecostal people for about seven or eight years."
I said, "Yes sir."
He said, "Is there anything to that Holy Ghost they're talking about?"
I said, "Absolutely."
He said, "Well, we seen them tear up the furniture and this..."
I said, "Just lay that aside." I said, "They're children."
And he said, "Look, Brother Branham," Dr. Reedhead said, "when I was seven years old..."
You probably heard his story, how he was called of God. And he said, "I worked and I thought oh, if I ever be able to be ordained as a minister, won't it be wonderful?" Said, "I will find Christ right there."

87 When he was ordained, said, "It wasn't there." He said, "If I ever get my B.A.", the Bachelor of Arts, said, "I'll find Him there." Said, "I got my B.A. and He wasn't there." Said, "I thought when I got my D.D. and my other degree," said, "Brother Branham, I could almost plaster your wall with degrees." And he said, "Where's Christ in all of it?"
He said, "Has the teachers been wrong?"
I said, "I don't want to say that. I don't want to say that they're wrong. They're right in what they teach, but they're not right ... they go far, but they don't go far enough." I said, "Christ doesn't lay in a Bachelor of Art. Neither does He lay in a credential. Neither does He lay in a church or a denomination." That's right.

88 He said, "Now, Brother Branham," said, "a Indian boy that was converted..." or not converted (I beg your pardon.), come over from India here, and studied---electronics (I believe it was). Said, "On his road back, he was standing, talking, and I said to him, 'Young fellow,' (He was a Mohammedan.), said, 'when you go back overseas, why don't you just forsake that old dead prophet Mohammed, and accept the resurrected Lord Jesus?'"
And said, "As a Christian, I asked him that. And he said to me, 'Kind sir, what could Christ do for me, any more than Mohammed could do?' Said, 'You've got a book called the Bible, Christ wrote it, you believe, and you believe it.' Said, 'We got a book called the Koran, Mohammed wrote it, and we believe it. Both of them promised life after death, I believe mine and you believe yours.' Said, 'Now what good would it do me to change from Mohammed to Christ?'"

89 Well he said, "Looky here, your Mohammed is dead and in the grave. Our Jesus is raised and gone to heaven."
The Mohammedan looked around, and he wasn't no boy from overnight. He said, "Did He raise from the grave?" Said, "I'd like for you to prove it to me."
He said, "Oh, we know He raised from the dead."
He said, "How do you know He raised from the dead?"
Said, "Well, we got an empty tomb."
Said, "We got hundreds of them in India."
And they have. Claim resurrections, virgin births and everything else. Even a little girl of nine years old giving birth to a child, so forth. Virgin born, so forth, sure, they got all that. You just get ready to see anything when you go to India.

90 See a little boy run up between ... a man run up there and cut his head off and arms off, throw them down, pick them up, the blood running out of them stick it in a sack. And the kid jump and run out of the sack and run away. Run through fire, produce all kinds of mystic things and everything else. Christ is not in that. Certainly not. Christ don't lay in miracles in things like that. The devil can do almost anything but heal, he can't heal. The Bible said he can't heal.
But he can perform like Jambres and Jannes, the two-headed god of Egypt. Can almost deceive the very elect, the Bible said.

91 So, he said, "Well now," he said, "now wait a minute, sir." He said, "We can prove that He's raised from the dead."
Said, "Prove it to me." Said, "You've had two thousand years to do it. And not even one third of the world's ever heard about it." Said, "You let Mohammed raise from the dead and the whole world will know it in twenty-four hours. That's right. Now let's look at the thing sensible. That's right."
"Oh," he said, "we know He's raised from the dead."
Said, "How do you know He's raised from the dead?"
Said, "Well, we got the joy and the power in our heart."
He said, "Now, wait just a moment." He said, "Mr. Reedhead, Mohammed religion can produce just as much psychology as Christianity can."
And that's exactly right.

92 I've seen them at the feast of the prophets when they would take a lance and run it through their chin here up through their nose and pull it back down, not bleed a drop. I seen them take a sword right there in Switzerland (I never seen it; I knowed he was down there doing it.), run a sword right through his heart like this and put it out in the back. A doctor poured water on this side and it run out that side. Certainly.
Take fingernails, sit there and go, "Allah, Allah, Allah, Allah, Allah, Allah," till they work themselves into a frantic, take splinters, run it up under their fingers and just sit there and laugh, don't even feel it. Walk through fire with their bare feet like that. Lay on spikes, oh, do everything that can be done. See, all them kind of things.

93 They say, "We can produce just as much psychology as Christianity can."
But said, "Mr. Reedhead, I want to ask you something." He said, "When Mohammed was here, he only promised life after death. Your Jesus promised that after He died and raised again that you teachers would do the same thing that He done." Said, "Now, let me see you produce it, and we will believe He raised from the dead. Until then, He's just as dead as Mohammed is." What about that?
"Well," he said, "now, wait just a minute; what are you referring to, what are you referring to?"
He said, "Your Bible. That Jesus said that the things that He did, that you teachers would do also. We're waiting to see that." Said, "Now, you pass out billions of tracts and you do all these things there, but we want to see the evidence of the resurrection." Said, "We believe Mohammed's in the grave, and that's where he says he was; and some day he's coming back and ride all the earth down." He said, "Your Jesus is just as dead as he is."
"Oh no," he said.
He said, "Well, I want you to produce it then and show me that He's raised."
Said, "Where are you referring to, in the Scriptures? Mark 16?"
He said, "That's one of them, yes sir. That's one."
He said, "Now look, you've been around ... you've looked around where there's some holy-rollers or something, see." Said, "Now, that healing and stuff like that," said, "now we better scholars know that Mark 16 from the 9th verse on is not inspired."
He said, "It isn't?" He said, "What kind of a Bible are you reading? All the Koran's inspired."

94 What a rebuke. He said, "How about Mark 11:24? What about that; is that inspired?" He begin to quote the other Scriptures.
Brother Reedhead said, "I shook my foot on the ground and changed the subject!"
What's the matter with Christianity? This is the truth or it isn't the truth! I've held the Bible in one hand and the Koran in the other hand before tens of thousands of Mohammedans, and challenged them to it.

95 Right in Bombay, India a few months ago, standing there, where there you couldn't even see the end of the people. The people come by, the Lord would reveal who they was. I couldn't even call their names; I had to spell it. Every one was perfect. The rajahs and all of them sat around, they begin to think (Course, I could catch it.) that they were ... I was mind reading, or telepathy.
After awhile come a man through was blind. The Holy Spirit told him who he was; he was a beggar. Told him what his name was. I explained that's the very things that Christ did. He looked at it for a little while. I looked back again, I saw a vision of him looking around, walking around, he's a little gray around the temple. I thought, "This is the time." And I said, "Here is a man, and I know what you're thinking. You're thinking this is telepathy." I said, "Here is a man that's a sun worshipper."

96 I'd been in their Jain temple that day where different religions just making fun of Christianity. Said, "You people call yourself religious and creating atomic bombs to blow one another up with it. Then call yourself religious." They got something there, that's right. But all that creates atomic bombs are not Christians, though.

97 So then he said... That fellow standing there. I looked and I seen the vision that God was going to make him well. And I said, "The man is a worshipper of the sun." And I said, "And his eyes has gone out; he's been blind twenty years now."
And there was a little doctor that was ... come over with me to go to some Methodist college up here, to take some kind of ... some degree of something. And so he was standing there, he looked at the man. Just as white as my shirt is there, over his eyes. Totally blind, looked at the sun, worshipped the sun, and went blind.

98 I said, "He realizes he's wrong. And he said that he'd worship ... and denounce this god that he's worshipping and worship the God that give him back his sight. And if your gods is so great, why don't you come here now and give that man back his sight?"
I said, "You Mohammedans, the greatest, most religious of all the world." Mohammedans is the greatest, and then comes the Buddhists, and I think Christianity is third or fourth.
I said, "I challenge any Mohammedan priest to come here and give him back his sight, and he will become a Mohammedan. Or any Buddhist to give him his sight." I said, "Now, come forth and do it." It was a quiet bunch. It sure was. Not a breath anywhere. Listen at them.
I said, "Why don't you come do it? You told me today how great your gods was. Surely, if the man was ignorant and worshipped the creation instead of the Creator, surely He will have mercy on him if he wants to come back to the Creator."

99 He was standing there, rattling off something, "I will worship the God that will restore my sight. I want to see my children once again; I want to see my wife again," and so forth, as the interpreter was telling me. And there he stood, in that position.
I said, "No, why don't you come? Is because you're afraid to come. You can't give him his sight, and neither can I give him his sight. But," I said, "the God of heaven has raised up His Son Christ Jesus; who showed me right now in a vision that the man's going to see his sight ... have his sight, and if he doesn't, I'm a false prophet."

100 Oh, brother, when you see it, you know where you're standing. I wouldn't have done that for nothing in the world, if it hadn't of been a vision. Certainly not, I'd have been scared to do it. There'd been others that went through, but I seen the vision on that man. Brought him up there with his hands out like this. He laid his head across my shoulder, prayed for him, and said, "Oh, God of heaven, before these heathens here, let it be known that You're still Jesus Christ, and these signs and wonders are taking place are of You, and restore the sight to the man."
And the man let out a scream and jumped way up in the air, run over. And the mayor of Bombay was there (Got his picture here in my pocket), and he run over there and begin to kiss him---all over the platform---and it was like a... Why, they even tore the pockets off of my coat, pulling my shoes off. The militia couldn't get me out of the crowd. And that man's testified all over India; even to the president of India, he's testified before. And God willing, this coming summer, they've got a place set up there at New Delhi, where I can seat a million in a amphitheater and have a meeting. They want Jesus Christ.

101 When I said to you ... said to them, "If God will do this, how many will receive Him?" And as far as I could see, oceans of hands. And they every one at one time received the Lord Jesus.
What's the matter? We've taught theology, we've taught denomination, we've taught intellectual, we've taught everything else but what Christ told us to do: Preach the Gospel; demonstrate the power of the Holy Ghost. That power that was in Christ is in him.
The reason what we've done... Here's what we've done: We've organized organizations. Christ never did make an organization. I ain't got nothing against it; that's all right. We've had schools, educate the people. He never did say educate the people, though that's all right. And we've taught all these other things. He never did say do that. But He said, "Preach the Gospel!" And the Gospel is the power of the resurrection of Christ. "These signs shall follow them that believe." That's what it is. Lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the world." Jesus Christ has raised from the dead and He's here tonight, just as real as He was when He walked on the banks of Galilee.
God doesn't prove it, then I'm a false prophet. Now, let's pray.

102 Heavenly Father, in Christ's name, receive this church now. And as I commit this entire group of believers into Your hand, work Thy will, Lord. And do Thy command, that Thou has commanded us to do. May we follow it with reverence and with all of our heart. Hear my prayer, as I ask it in Jesus name. Amen.

103 All right, we have about twenty-two minutes now. Now, I have spoke at length. Now, I'm going to ask you one more favor: If you'll just sit real still, keep your position, just for a few minutes. Don't be excited now. God made the promise. God is obligated to His Word. Do you believe it?
Now, how many knows that I have said back and forth that there's no man, myself or no other man on earth, is a healer? God alone can heal. How many knows that? No hospitals heal, no doctors heal; they don't claim to. They move obstructions and set bones, but God does the healing. "I'm the Lord that healeth thee. Heal all thy diseases." God is a healer.

104 Now don't be excited, don't rush to come here, don't try to touch, push; just look, and live. God made the promise: You're the children of Abraham. Now, if God made the promise, then here's what it is. He promised that "Whatsoever things you desire when you pray, believe you receive it; you shall have it."
"The things that I do shall you also." After the resurrection, He ... if He was supposed to do, that Spirit that was sent back that was in Christ to come on the church, was to do the same works that Jesus did when He was here on earth, to make the covenant of people exactly the same with the body. This is the physical body of Christ, now. And when it is resurrected, it goes to meet its mate, Christ Jesus; as husband and wife, or as king and queen. It's the same material that was in that body, is in this body of believers. The same Spirit that was in Christ is in us, doing the same works, if Christ keeps His Word.

105 Now, to save time, if He will come here tonight and do the same things that He did when He was here on earth, how many of you will say, "Beyond one shadow of doubt, I will accept it tonight; God being my judge. I will accept Christ for what I have need of." Will you do it? Raise your hands. Thank you.
How many's been in the meetings before? Let's see your hands and know. How many's never been in the meetings, let's see your hands. Just a... See, there's where I miss my manager, you see, to have those instructions before I come. All right.

106 Jesus didn't claim to be a healer. He said, "I do nothing till the Father shows me first." You know that? Then, the woman touched His garment, went out and sat down. He found her in the audience and told her. Philip come, and the different ones (We know the stories.) through the Bible.
Now He's either alive or He isn't alive. Now, don't forget that, children. Don't forget that. Christ is alive. Now, just lay away all the superstitions and all the little "isms", and let's look to Jesus tonight and live.

107 All right. Billy, what prayer card, honey? M? One to a hundred?
See, the way we do: The boys come down here and they take these cards, right out before you, and mix them all up together. You just ... you want one, they just give you a card, see. Now, that's the reason... We had a guy one time was selling prayer cards in the meeting. And the man could put the people on the platform. So, we stopped that, I got rid of it. Put my brother, and then when my brother got married; I got my son. Now, he's married, I don't know what I will do now, but. Anyhow, I want somebody be honest and wouldn't sell prayer cards.

108 Now, to make it sure that he couldn't do it, first thing, he mixes the cards all up before you, and you see you just get your card. All right. Another thing, he don't know where I'm going to call from. I don't know myself; I'm just standing here. I used to say, take this, like this little boy, have him count. "How many, you count, honey." He'd raise up, "One, two, three, four, five..." or something like that, and you stop there. Well, I start from there.
Then come to find out Mommy's putting her little boys up there and little girls to count where Mommy's card started, see. We still got human beings. So, make it sovereign, I will just leave it, "God, wherever You reveal to me."

109 Now, being as this is the last night, let's take the last part of them then. We've been getting about fifteen or twenty---something another like that. So, let's start from ... what was that, "M"? M-85. All right, where's the 85, would you hold up your hand? M-85? The lady over here? Come here. 86 ... 86, all right, lady, come right ahead, now. 87, right over here to the right. 88 ... 88, would you raise your hand quickly as you can, now? 88, 89, all right, that's good, 90. 91 ... 91 ... 91 (sorry, sir). 92, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99, 100, all right.

110 Thank you, sir; thank you, sir. I think we all need to say a kind word for this P.A. operator here, a real gentleman, if I ever met one. He sent word by son, now, said tell me not to think about time, that he'd donate his time and give it free.
[Brother Branham and audience gives man a round of applause.]
The Lord bless my brother.
I trust that someday when life is all over, in the world that is to come, I can walk up to that brother and call this night to his memory, for trying to help these poor people that's in need. The Lord bless, is my sincere prayer. God be merciful.

111 Now, as soon as this... Now, here I asked them to bring these people in these chairs and things up here close tonight. Because you can get... Look, you think you're helpless. Have you got any prayer card? You haven't? If you don't get here early, or something another... Is that what it is? It don't ... you don't have to have it. You don't. Just look this way and live.

112 How many of you... Not look to me; now, look to Christ, see. He's the High Priest that can be touched by the feeling of our infirmities. How many over the building doesn't have prayer cards and you want Christ to heal you tonight? Let's see your hands. You ain't got prayer cards. Just look out there at the hundreds and hundreds of them that hasn't got prayer card; they'll be healed just the same.
Now, I want you to do this. A young man, no matter what's wrong with you... I can sit and look at you a few minutes, the Lord Jesus would tell me, certainly. That doesn't heal you. It's your faith that heals you. That's just to bring remembrance that Christ is alive and He's here.
But, and you in the chair there, sir, with ... in the wheelchair, and the crutches; the lady with them in her hands. And the lady on the cot, and whatever you are. That doesn't have one thing no more than anything else. You just believe and then say, "God, I now accept it." And watch what takes place. See, watch what takes place. God will honor that faith.

113 All right. I think they're still lining up the prayer line down there. So now, let's look just a minute while ... till they get someone out here. Now, be real reverent and I want to ask you something. If Christ is the same yesterday, today and forever, He's the same in principle, the same in power, same in attitude. Is that right? Now what did He do yesterday? How did He ... what was the seal of His Messiahship? Tell me the first thing He done that sealed His Messiahship, that we can think of, in the Bible.

114 The first thing I would think of would be found in Saint John the first chapter, when Philip got converted and went over and found Nathanael under a tree praying, about thirty miles away, and brought him back. And when he come up in the presence of Jesus... (Now, here's the first time His seal was recognized.) He come up in the presence of Jesus and Jesus looked at him and said, "Behold, an Israelite in whom there's no guile." And this man ... astonished him; he thought, "How did you know me?"
Said, "Rabbi, when did you know me?"
He said, "Before Philip called you, when you were under the tree I saw you." Is that right?
Now, what does this man say, to recognize His Messiahship? He said, "Rabbi, You are the Son of God; You are the King of Israel." Is that right? That's when a Jew sealed His Messiahship for the Jewish people.

115 Now, what's the next generation, the next class? Is the Samaritan. Jesus on His road, Saint John 4. He's going down to Jericho, went by the way of Samaria. Sent His disciples away and out come a woman. He looked at the woman, He said, "Bring me a drink." This is Samaritans now. Watch this; see His seal of Messiahship here.
Said, "Bring me a drink."
She said, "Sir, it's not customary for you Jews to ask Samaritans such things; we have no such customs. We have no dealings with one another."
He said, "But if you knew who you were talking to, you'd ask Me for a drink."
And she said, "Why, the well's deep, and you have nothing to draw with."

116 He went ahead told her what kind of water He'd give, then. The conversation kept on going. After awhile He...
Listen now, close. This is Samaritans. He said, "Go get your husband and come here."
She said, "I don't have any husband." Now, nothing seems to be any Messiahship sealed yet, see.
"Go get your husband and come here."
She said, "I don't have any."
He said, "That's right, you've got five. And the one you have now is not your husband. Thou saidest right."
Now listen what she said. She said, "Sir, I perceive that You are a prophet. Now we know that when the Messiah cometh, He will tell us things like that." But she didn't know who He was.
He said, "I am He that speaks to you."
And she run into the city and told the men, said, "Come see a man who told me the things that I've done. Isn't this the very Messiah?"

117 Was that the seal of Messiahship then? Is that the seal of Messiahship to the Jews? To the Samaritans? What do you Gentiles think about it? Would it be the seal of Messiahship to the Gentiles? Would it be?
Now, are you soaking all this in? Then if He is the Messiah---He's raised from the dead; He's here tonight---then, you don't have to ask me for anything. You just ask Him for something. Then when you ask Him, then He's obligated to answer you. Is that right? "Ask what you will and it'll be given to you." "If ye abide in Me, My words in you, ask what you will, it'll be given to you." Do you believe that now?

118 Now, while they're still... I think they're still on the prayer line; I don't... You're not the pianist, are you lady? Come here, lady. Was you one of them with the prayer card? Stand right here just a minute.
Now, real reverent, real quiet. What a beautiful picture, that the Lord has given us. Are you Spanish or ... Spanish, Mexican? All right.
Now, here is a woman that's a Spanish woman, and I'm of the Anglo-Saxon. Now, this is just exactly the way it was in the time of the Bible. Now it's marvelous, right now the Angel of the Lord, the pillar of fire that was with the children of Israel, that brought them through the wilderness, that was made flesh and dwelt among us, returned back to the Father and met Paul on the road to Damascus in another pillar of fire that even put Paul's eyes out, almost: That same Spirit is right here at this platform, right now.
Now, that's either the truth or it isn't the truth. And now, if He will prove that He's here in the same power that He was at the well of Samaria, to disbelieve it would mean to be lost.

119 What does the Bible say, go ye and what no more? Sin no more. Is that right? What is sin? Unbelief is correctly, sir. That's a correct answer. He that believeth not is condemned already, see. If you don't believe, you're just condemned, you're a sinner. The only way you can be saved is because you're a believer. That's right.

120 Now, if the Holy Spirit, which was taken out of Christ Jesus, where His body, corporal body, is sitting at the right hand of God, making intercessions on our confession. Do you believe that? He cannot do one thing for us until we confess it, and then He works as making intercessions on our confession. Is that right? Hebrews 3:1. That's right.
Now, but His Spirit's here. And He set in the church, gifts. And now, if the Lord Jesus will come to this woman and reveal to her something about her (I know her not.), and will reveal and act in the same way that He did when He was at the well of Samaria, it ought to settle it.

121 Let me ask the lady something. We do not know each other; is that right? We're perfectly strange to each other, this is the first time we've ever met. I have no way of knowing you; is that right? If that's right, just raise up your hand so all the Spanish people and all can see. Perfectly, totally strangers. God in heaven knows that I don't know the woman, never seen her in my life. But God knows her. And if He can ... if I can just yield myself to His Gift, and He can speak to this woman and tell her something about her life...

122 Now if I just walk up here say, "I'm a servant of the Lord. Come here, you're sick, aren't you?" "Yes." "You're going to be healed, hallelujah, go." She'd have a right to disbelieve that.
But now, she don't know what the future holds. Neither do I. And I don't know what her past has been, but God knows both past and future. Is that right? Well, if He can reveal her past, surely He'd know her future then; is that right? Then you're sure that you're right. You're positive sure.
Now, you out there without prayer cards, you just look this way and believe it with all your heart, and receive it. May God grant it is my prayer.

123 Now lady, just to talk to you a moment, after preaching at length, and to just see if the Holy Spirit will reveal. If He does, I will be happy, and all of us will be happy. And the church has promised, the people, that they would believe with all their heart if God would do this for us tonight.
Now, I've spoke a long time. Now, my words is just the words of a man, except what I used of God. Now, I have said out of the Bible and proved it through Abraham that He is alive tonight. His covenant is with us. He is with us. He's the same yesterday, today and forever. Jehovah-jireh, the Lord's provided sacrifice.

124 Now, if God said that Jesus is the same yesterday and forever ---the Bible does, which is God's Word---and then, if He's got to produce Himself the same way, He's Jehovah-jireh: He will provide whatever we have need to do it. Is that right? If it takes a prophet, He will provide a prophet. If it takes a seer, He will provide a seer. He will provide it because He's Jehovah-jireh. And if He will produce it, then it's up to the audience to make their decision. Is that right? It's up to you.

125 What would you think about it? If the Lord would tell me what you're here for... You might be a infidel, you might be a critic, you might be ... I don't know who you are, but He knows you. But if He will tell you what ... at least what you're standing there for, what you're wanting of Him, or something on that manner, that you know I know not, you'll accept it, believe it? You will? Well, may He grant it, is my prayer.
Now, if you'll notice, the lady's not looking at me; she's looking down at the platform. Not touching, reading her mind; I'm just quietening myself---quietening, just letting the Holy Spirit take over. Just yield, yield. That's the way I have of doing that, it's a gift.

126 Now, if the people can still hear my voice, I see the lady's leaving me. There stands that light, standing near the woman. And she is in a condition of a rupture. And it's in the navel. She's ruptured in the navel, condition in that part of her body. You believe, now?
Now, just a moment. Being as this is the last night, I want you to let me stand as long as possible. Let's just talk to the woman a little longer.
Now, you know that was true, ever what it was; it was some condition. But it was the truth. I have no way of knowing that. Is that right? No, no way of knowing. Well now, if you will believe me to be His servant, may He do something else, so you will believe.

127 Yes, there is something else that you want to know about. There's something else that you're desiring in your heart. Just as much as the sons of Kish come to the prophets to know where their mules were, you're longing for something else. And that is concerning... I see appearing by the lady, (if the people can still hear me), it's a little girl. And the little girl has a, like a rash. That is right. And I see a little boy up here. And the little boy has got hurt. And he hurt his back; it makes his ribs stick out, his bones, like. That's "thus saith the Lord." That's true, isn't it?
Now, you know, that in your heart, lady, something's happened, hasn't it? It has. You've received what you've asked for. Your faith has made you to receive that what you've asked for. Go and get it, in the name of the Lord Jesus. God bless you.
Do you love Him? To know Him is life. Now, just believe. Have faith, don't doubt, just believe.

128 Now, we are strangers to each other, aren't we? God knows us both. I don't know you, but God does know you. But if He will reveal to me what you want of Him, would you accept Him?
You have an extreme nerve condition. It's more like a worry, a mental nerve; you're upset all the time, and you got something wrong; you're trying to move sideways out of a chair. I see you getting up, kind of a sidewa... it's in your hip. Something wrong in the hip; it's arthritis in the hip. That's right. And then there's something else: I notice you holding yourself like this. It's in your chest. That's true. Lump. Correct. You're scared, but don't worry; it's going to leave you now. Go on believing. Your faith... God be merciful.

129 How do you do, lady? Suppose we're strange to each other too, but the Lord knows you, doesn't He? Your trouble's in your lung. Right. I see you've had something like x-rays, like for TB or something. Correct. You use your lungs a lot, because you're a preacher---a woman preacher. That's right. Viola, will you believe that God would make you well? From Vallejo, California, aren't you? Now return, and get well in Jesus Christ's name. "If thou canst believe, all things are possible."

130 Now, lady, I guess we're strangers to each other. But Christ knows us both. If God will reveal to me what you are wanting, will you receive Christ as your deliverer?
Now, she's extremely upset about something. It's her nerves; she's all unnerved about something. And again, you've got trouble with your foot. That's right. And it's what's caused your nervous, is because you had an operation once. And that operation was a cancer on the breast, and ever since then it's made you nervous. It's correct. Do you believe now it's all gone from you? You feel all right now. You'll stay that way because your faith has healed you. Go on your road rejoicing and be happy and made well through Christ's name. Amen.

131 This lady's deaf and dumb. No, she's not. This woman can't speak English. That's exactly right. The Spirit... (You come to interpret for her.) Amen. Have faith. You are ... you are here for a great cause, young lady. (Catch my words to her.) You are desiring something great. That is, in my sermon tonight, as I was preaching on Abraham, you have come here, got a hold of a card some way and got here. You want me to pray that God will give you a baby. That's "thus saith the Lord."

Jehovah-Jireh

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1 Shall we bow our heads just a moment for prayer. Our heavenly Father, we thank Thee for this privilege that we have of gathering together in this tabernacle tonight. We thank Thee for the tabernacle, for what it stands for. We thank Thee for its founders, its ministers through the years. We pray tonight, heavenly Father, that You'll give us a visitation from Thy beloved Son, the Lord Jesus, that'll make the meeting, that'll go down in history, not only in the earthly books, but in the books of heaven. May souls come to Christ. May sick people be healed. Get glory out of the service, Father. For we ask it in the name of Thy beloved Child, the Lord Jesus. Amen. May be seated.

2 It's awfully warm in the tabernacle tonight, but we're happy to be here in the service of the Lord. I understand that my sister, sister-in-law, mother-in-law, and a host from Jeffersonville is here. Just as I come up, my son told me. We're sure glad to have you in the Cadle Tabernacle tonight. My mother-in-law is mother of my first wife. It was she that walked in the door with me there when E. Howard Cadle walked down and shook our hands and taken us through the tabernacle about twenty years ago or better. So, we're very privileged tonight to be serving the Lord in this day.
And now, last evening I come to you telling you about Dr. F. F. Bosworth, who held several weeks of campaign here many years ago. Reverend Bosworth was preaching before I was born. And last night, he was laying with death rattles in his throat, and his frantic wife... With a blood clot pushing through his heart... And last night, his wife calling everywhere and finally they called in over at the place where I stayed, and we got here and had prayer, and tonight, he's up, and I was talking to him on the phone just a while ago. I told him that when I announced his sickness to the church last night, and for prayer, I told him the people wept. Brother Bosworth is certainly a gallant soldier of God. I love him just like... I guess the love with Brother Bosworth and I, is something like Jonathan and David, I guess. It was just... We're really, really brothers in Christ. I told him I hope to see the day that when we could be at the Cadle Tabernacle together. He's getting old, near a hundred, but the Lord is with him, and he's a very fine man.

3 And now, tonight it's just a little late. Brother Joseph was telling me they had a little extra something they had to do, and it was a little late before they called me, and we'll go right straight into the service now. And be in prayer, very much in prayer for the service.
I want to say, this morning I was privileged of listening to one of your teachers here in this convention, in the convention group of about, I guess, close to three hundred people. Over three hundred people gathered together this morning in the upper room of the hotel, where they were having breakfast; and I had the grand privilege of being there, and saying a few words, and hearing a wonderful message on the sovereignty of the local church, which certainly is my views of it.

4 Now tonight, to approach the Scripture, and the people in the tabernacle... We're just getting started here; this is just our third night. And too bad that we only have two more nights left, but a meeting should continue at least ten days to two weeks to find the real value of the meeting.
But now, we're going to open the Word, and the only way we can do it is pull it down with the leaves, but there's only One that can open the Word of God: that's Christ. And He's risen from the dead, as we see night by night, His visible proof of His resurrection. And tonight, we pray that He will help us as we read from His Word. My words is the words of a man; they just fail, like other men. But this Word is God's Word, which cannot fail. It never fails. So, the reading of His Word will be a blessing to us.
Over in Genesis, I take for a Scripture lesson tonight, in the 20th chapter of Genesis ... or, the 22nd chapter, rather, and the 7th and 8th verse, and then the 14th verse. And I'm kind of tonight, going to leave the teaching of divine healing just for a little bit, to go into teaching of faith for a little while. And the Scripture reads like this:
And Isaac spake unto Abraham his father, and said, My father: and he said, Here am I, my son. And he said, Behold, the fire and the wood: but where is the lamb for the burnt offering?
And Abraham said, My son, God will provide himself a lamb for the burnt offering: so they two went both ... together.
Now, the 14th verse:
And Abraham called the name of the place Jehovah-jireh: as it is said to this day, In the mount of the Lord it shall be seen.
And may the Lord add His blessings to His Word.

5 This marvelous text tonight, and we will go back into the book of Genesis to get a little of the context. It is based upon the life of Abraham, which all men know, that Abraham was the one that God gave him the covenant. And the promise was made to Abraham and to his seed.
Now, one thing that I find in teaching ... or, in the church, that most people in this day, seems to be afraid to take a hold of what God has said. If God has said it, it's the truth. It can be nothing else but truth. It's the... This Word was spoke of God before the foundation of the world was ever laid. And the only way it's written in a book, because that He revealed His Word and plan to his prophets and apostles, and they wrote it in the Word.

6 Now Abraham, the promise was given to him. And it's a glorious promise. Here, this old man and son going up the mountain, to offer up the son: a very beautiful picture of Christ. The whole Bible pictures Christ. And as they went up the hill, we find out that God appeared to Abraham there, in the name of Jehovah-jireh.
Now, God has seven compound, redemptive names, and those redemptive names are inseparable. You can't separate on from the other. Jehovah-jireh, the Lord's provided sacrifice; Jehovah-rapha, the Lord the healer; Jehovah-manasses, the buckler, the shield; and so forth---seven compound, redemptive names.
And as Brother Bosworth said that night in the discussion, when the Angel of the Lord had His picture taken with us; he asked Dr. Best, "If the compound redemptive names applied to Jesus? Yes or no?" That settled the whole argument. If He wasn't Jehovah-jireh, then He wasn't Jehovah-rapha. And if He's Jehovah-jireh (the Lord's provided sacrifice), He's Jehovah-rapha (the Lord that heals all thy diseases), and He has to be the same yesterday, today, and forever; so that settles it. You can't separate God and put Him in parts. God is one. And we can't make parts out of God.

7 Now, the context... We'll have to go back now in the Old... Do you love the Old Testament? I just love it, because it's the nuggets of the Old Testament. We dig them up and polish them, and look at them. Each one speaks of Calvary. All of the Old Testament was a shadow of the things to come. And I just love to go prospecting, and get out the nuggets out of the Old Testament and type them with the New. And even in the simplicity of it, the children understand what it means.
And now, God, when He called Abraham, He called him by election, by sovereign grace. And the covenant that He gave to Abraham is completely and wholly unconditional. He never made any conditions about it at all. God made this covenant by Himself with Abraham: not, "Abraham, if you'll do so-and-so..." He said, "I have." Not, "If you got anything to do into it..." God is determined to save man.

8 Now, in the garden of Eden, when God made a covenant with that man, it was, "If thou will not touch this tree..." Man turns right around and breaks his covenant with God. Man always breaks his covenant with God. So, to make it assurance that it can't fail, God made the covenant with Himself, to Abraham, and swore by Himself that He'd confirm it and fulfill it.
And now, if you can only realize that you are Abraham's seed! The Bible said, "We being dead in Christ take on Abraham's seed, and are heirs according to the promise." And if you can see how sovereignly it was given to Abraham without anything he had to do, and know that it was give to you the same way...

9 You hear so many people say, "I sought God, Brother Branham, day and night." I beg your pardon: No man ever sought God. That's straight, but it's the truth. God seeks man, not man seeking God. The very nature of him in the garden of Eden, as soon as he had sinned, it should've been Adam running up-and-down through the garden, crying "Father, Father, where art Thou?"
But it was God going through the garden, crying "Adam, Adam, where art thou?" And Adam was hiding. And that's his nature today. Man's nature is not come out and confess his sins; it's to hide behind something. And they're still doing it. Jesus said "No man can come to Me, except My father calls him first." So, it wasn't you seeking God; it was God seeking you.
And what a privilege it is tonight, to know that we are living under the shadows of the atomic bomb, and of a international destruction of God's eternal wrath and judgment to be poured out upon a disobedient world, and to know that we have the grand privilege to know, that we, who are called, that we never done anything about it ourselves; it was God through sovereign grace done it for us, nothing that we did to it ourselves. God, by grace, called us.

10 Notice, Abraham was no different from no one else. He was just an ordinary man. He came down with his father from after the scattering of Babylon, came down in the valleys of Shinar dwelt in the city of Ur, in the land of Chaldea, just an ordinary man; and an old man. When God called him, he was seventy-five years old.
Now, some of you elderly people say, "Well, seeking divine healing or the blessings of God," you say, "I'm just a little bit too old, Brother Branham." You're never too old to God. As long as you got a surrendered heart, and a will to do the will of God, God always will receive you---no matter how old you are, or how young you are.
Now, how that makes us love Him with undying love, of how good He is to us, and how disobedient we are to Him. Yet, in all of our unloveliness, He loved us first and gave His only begotten Son, that if we'd only believe on Him, He'd give us eternal life. What a beautiful picture!

11 Now notice, Abraham just an ordinary man, but God, by election, sovereign grace, called Abraham, when there's many young men in the land that day. There was probably some more capable of doing the job (as the world would think) than Abraham was, but God knows the heart. That's it.
Sometimes, we wonder how God takes the foolish things to confound the wise, but God knows the heart of man. Men usually...
You people, when you are selecting your pastors, you usually slip the guy in: great big seven footer with curly hair and so forth, a Hollywood type. Sometimes God don't even choose that type. You want somebody that'll be a mixer, that'll go to the card party with you, and sit in in the games, and---a mixer. Man wants mixers, but God wants separators. That's what's the trouble today: you can't mix the world with Christ. It just won't work. That's what the matter with the so-called Christian church today: You're trying to carry water on both shoulders. God wants separators.

12 One time, when Israel chose a king, their first one, they made a terrible mistake. A great big seven foot, head and shoulders: Saul! And he become a backslider and done disgrace to Israel. God then made Him a choice. And He said to Samuel, "Get some oil in the cruse and go up to Jesse's house, for I'll show you who I've chose." And when he goes up to Jesse's house, Jesse was very happy.
So, he had seven sons, and he called the biggest one---great big fine handsome looking fellow---said, "Won't he look nice with the kings robes on him, crown sitting on top of his head, look like a very image of a king?"
But when Samuel took the cruse and went forth to anoint him king, the Lord said, "Don't do it. I've condemned it. I haven't chose him." And he brought another, the next biggest one; God said, "I haven't chose him either." So he brought the sixth one, and God refused him.
Samuel said, "Haven't you got another one?" Listen. "Haven't you got another one?"
He said, "Oh yes, but he's just a little old, scrawny, ruddy, knotty fellow, lives back out there on the back of the deserts, herding the sheep. He'd never make a king."
Said, "Well, go get him."

13 And when little old David come in, sheepskin coat on, little crook in his hand, shepherd's staff, the Holy Ghost said, " Go anoint him, for that's My choice," see. God does the choosing, because God looks on the heart.
Sometimes we think that the great churches, with the great spires, and the million dollar organ sitting in it, that's where God is. Not all the time; that isn't true. God chooses a humble heart. I don't care if he is so poor he has to wear overalls, or if he's a beggar in the street; if he's humble and willing to believe God, God will take him. That's just all there is to it. Amen.

14 Abraham, just an ordinary man, God called him one day and said, "Abraham, I'm going to take you and make you a father of nations, and you're going to have a baby by Sarah." Now, Sarah was his wife; she was sixty-five years old, ten years younger than Abraham, about fifteen years past the menopause---yes, better than that. But He said, "Abraham, no matter..." Probably married her when she was just a girl, because it was his half-sister. Said, "Now... But I am going to give you a child by Sarah." Him seventy-five, her sixty-five.

15 And the Bible said that Abraham staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief, but was strong, giving praise to God. You get it? Oh, doesn't it make something just go over you to know that that's our God too, to know that this is His Word, and His promise to you, every promise? And He said that he was going to have the child, so Abraham wasn't afraid to testify. He goes out on the street and begin to say, "Now, we're going to have a baby, Sarah and I." I suppose they bought up the Birdseye and the pins and things, and made things ready.
People say, "Abraham, you're just a little bit slipped in the head, old fellow." What do you think a doctor would say to him today, if a man took his wife down to the doctor's office and her sixty-five, him seventy-five, and saying, "Doc, we want to engage you. We're going to have a baby up at our house." They'd want to put him in a mental institution.
Here it is: Every man---not no exceptions---every man or woman that takes God at His word is considered by the world just a little foolish. Because the wisdom of the world is foolishness to God, but it pleased God through the foolishness of preaching to save them that was lost. How we love Him!

16 Notice, Abraham going around, seventy-five years old, white beard hanging down, gray hairs over his shoulders, saying, "Glory to God, we're going to have a baby." After the first month, I can see him rush in to Sarah and say, "Sarah, how you feel, honey?"
"No different, Abraham."
"Glory to God, we're going to have it anyhow."
Why? God said so; that's enough.
I can see the critics on the street say, "Abraham, where's that baby?"
"It's coming anyhow."
"Aren't you just a little mistaken? Are you sure? Can you scientifically prove it?"
"I don't have to scientifically prove it; God said so." That's scientific enough for any believer. Amen. That was kind of sharp, but that's the truth. God's Word settles it forever. God said so; that's all right. God will do it.

17 Notice, after awhile, God called for a complete separation. God does some foolish things to the world. How it seems that how foolish God works: take an old man (to the world I'm speaking), an old man seventy-five years old and a woman sixty-five years old and going to give them a baby. And remember, the baby wasn't born till he was a hundred and she was ninety. But Abraham, instead of getting weak, he got stronger all the time, praising God. For it was known that it had to happen, because God said so.
But you say you're Abraham's seed, and if God doesn't perform a miracle and do something to you, "Oh, I lost my healing. Well, I guess I better go back again tomorrow night." Abraham's seed! Abraham's seed holds on to God's promise. Abraham's seed is the Holy Spirit, given through Christ, to the Gentile and Jew alike.

18 Notice, as the days passed on, Abraham got stronger. "Well, if it don't happen this month, next month, praise God you'll be sixty-five years old and two months, sixty-five years old and three months." The first year passed. "How about it, Sarah?"
"No different."
"But, praise God, we're going to have it anyhow. Going to have it anyhow, God said so."
Now, God said "Abraham, separate yourself from your kindred and your associates, and come out into a land that I'll show you, and you'll sojourn there as a stranger and pilgrim." That's the hard thing. Separate yourself. That's what's the matter with the people today. God could not bless Abraham, as long as he was associated with a group of people that didn't believe the same promise he believed. Amen. I hope the Holy Spirit digs that under the fifth rib on the left side.
That's what's the matter today. The people who call themselves Christians associate themselves with worldly things, but God wants you to separate yourself from those things. Come out from among it; get away from those old stagnated things you used to fool with. You're knowed by your works, what you do.

19 Now, I don't condemn sinners for the way they live; that's all they know. I feel sorry for them. I don't blame a sinner for going out and getting drunk. That's all the pleasure he has. Give him another one. I don't blame him from gambling, going to places, and honky-tonks; that's all the pleasure he's got. I don't blame a pig for eating out of a manure pile; that's all he knows. But you people, who call yourselves Christians and do it, you're the guy that I'm firing at. You know better.
You wouldn't want to see a lamb go to dinner with a pig, would you? Be something strange, but it wouldn't be strange for the pig to be eating there. So, where your nature is, there's where you eat. What's your diet? If you're Abraham's seed, you believe God and like heavenly things. You see it? Separate yourself; come out and be a pilgrim and a stranger.

20 God calls every man to separation, not one exception. Every man that comes to Christ must separate himself from the things of the world. To have faith in God, you can't walk around where people are, and be in people, and associate with people that's in the wrong thing, and expect to have faith. You can't get around where Thomases is at and all of his children, and where they say, "Oh, the days of miracles is past, and there is no such a thing as that." The first thing you know, that spirit will get on you. Come out from among them the Bible says. Separate yourself; be separated. "Touch not their unclean things and I will receive you, saith the Lord."
The trouble of it is we've got too much Hollywood preaching and not enough old time rough preaching. I like the old time kind that really tears the hide off of you and brings it down to a place where it belongs. Too much petting around! We need the old-fashioned Gospel (Amen) preached in its power of the resurrection of the Lord Jesus. That's what the world needs today. Total annihilation.

21 Watch, now as they went out, the tests come. Every time that a man really steps out to serve God, he goes through testings. God gives you a little training, child training. It's not very pleasant, the Bible said, for a while, but it yieldeth forth peaceful fruits.
My daddy used to take me out behind the house with a strap of leather, about like that, got some good old-fashioned child training. It's too bad that our children don't get it today. The trouble of it is, you cigarette smoking, cocktail drinking, picture show running mothers, run around on barflies and things, and letting a baby-sitter take care of your kids, instead of being home taking care of them like God gave them to you, that's what's caused all this stuff they get in. That's exactly right.
No wonder you can't have faith. How can you associate with the things of the world and try to associate it with Christ? God calls for separation; then trials and testings come. The Bible said if we can't stand the trials and testings, then we become legitimate children ... illegitimate. "Bastard children," the Bible calls it, and not the children of God if we can't stand the trails and testings.

22 A famine come and Abraham run. Then after God appeared to him, coming back... He come into the promised land again. There he was a sojourner, built an altar to the Lord and worshipped the Lord. Then he had one little old parasite hanging on him yet; that was his nephew Lot, a lukewarm believer. That's what's the mat... That's the kind that makes God sick at His stomach. He said He would spew them from His mouth. A wishy-washy borderline, got enough religion to make him sick: that was Lot. And when the herders got to fussing, then Abraham said "Now, we are brethren; let's separate ourselves; we don't want any trouble among us."
And Lot went down to the well-watered Jordan plains, and down in there because he pitched his tent towards Sodom, and become a great man---backslid down there. On his road down...

23 When you begin to seek the flowery bed of ease, you're on your road out. I like that old poem:
Must I be carried home to heaven
on a flowery bed of ease,
While others fought to win the prize,
And sailed through bloody seas?
No, I must fight, if I must reign,
Increase my courage, Lord.
That ought to be the prayer of the Christian tonight. Taking the way of the world, the easiest, where people pat you on the back... Friendship of the world is enmity to God.
So, Lot went down towards Sodom, and then after Abraham was completely separated from all the parasites and the hang-ons, God appeared to him again. I like that. God came to him and said, "Abraham, come out here just a moment; I want to show you something." He said, "Lift up your eyes; look to the north just as far as you can see, to the south, and the east, and west," said, "I've give it all to you. (Amen.) So, walk through the land, you're the possessor of it; it's all yours."

24 No wonder David cried (last nights Scripture reading), " Forget not all his benefits." Why, you know, after you come into this kingdom of God, there's a lot of benefits goes with it. When God calls you, knocks at your heart, separates you from the things of the world, and gives you a little child training to see if you're going to hold out or not, gives you a little scolding, shakes you around, get a little chastisement... All of you get it, if you're really children of God---get a little training.
Then God baptizes you into the fellowship of the kingdom and it's all yours. Amen.
"Abraham, the trials are over now; get out and walk around; it all belongs to you." What a beautiful picture of the overcomer. Amen. The overcomer is heir of all things. You know, people... I don't see what's the matter with you as Christians, that you don't walk around a little while, see what you own. You know, would you go if...

25 If I fell heir to a house, I sure wouldn't want to move into it till I got and looked everything over. I want to see what's mine. I want to see what I own. And when I fell heir to the kingdom of God, through the righteousness of Jesus Christ, baptized into this great arcade of God's eternal blessings, I like to walk around and see what's mine (Amen.), look on the shelves, see what this is. Here it is: Every promise in the Book belongs to every believer. Don't you stand still for somebody to push you off in a corner, and give you a little cold tater, and tell you to wait. Don't you listen to that stuff. God's promise is right now. Push you off in a millennium somewhere... The Bible said, "Now we are the sons of God." What we will be, we are now---present tense.
If anything that looks a little high, and a blessing that looks like it, why, I'll get me a stepladder, and move up, and look at it anyhow. I like to look around. It's all yours, and every promise in the Bible is yours.
When a Christian gets saved, God gives him a checkbook, with the bottom of it, with Jesus' name signed in blood. Every redemptive blessing belongs to the believer; fill it out and send it in to headquarters; watch what happens. He's obligated to take care of His word. I challenge any sick person or sinner tonight to sign your name or your wants above a check in Jesus' name and send it into heaven once. Don't doubt. The cashier is right there, because the deposit was put there at Calvary, through the blood of the Lord Jesus.

26 Yes, Abraham could look around. This stream's his; that fountain's his; this mountain's his. Abraham could look around and see what he had. Why don't you tonight? If you're sick, why don't you thumb through the arcade here, and see if He wasn't wounded for our transgressions, with His stripes we were healed. If you're all down (as we call it, the street expression) in the dumps, "He was wounded for our transgressions, bruised for our iniquity; the chastisement of our peace was upon Him; and with His stripes we were healed." All these blessings belongs to you. They're yours, your personal property. Christ died that it might be so.
But you look at symptoms. Oh, if you didn't get healed, you say, "Well, there's my arm; I accepted it last night, no difference this morning. Well, you know I had a stomach trouble, last night, I noticed this morning I still got it." You can never get no better like that. Symptoms...

27 You know, a man, one time, had the greatest case of symptoms I ever knowed of was Jonah. He was on his road down to Nineveh, backslid. He went to Tarshish, and he got out there and got in trouble. When you backslide, look out; trouble's in the way. And the sea got angry; this preacher trying to go the wrong way, take the easy road... How many of you preachers tonight, trying to take the easy road, trying to place divine healing somewhere else and the praises of God, angels ministering, Holy Ghost, Spirit and all, trying to put it in some place back. You better come on back, brother, you'll to Nineveh. Be some troubled waters one of these days...
And they took Jonah and tied his hands behind him, his feet, and throwed him out into the sea. God had a great big fish, and he swallowed him. And a fish, when it eats, anyone knows... Feed your goldfish. After it prowls through the water hunting it's prey, it goes to the bottom of the water, rests its swimmers (fins) on the bottom. I don't know how many fathoms deep the sea must be out from Nineveh there. But Jonah in the belly of the whale, hands tied behind him, backslid, on a stormy sea, in the whale's belly in the vomit: talk about symptoms, he had them. If he looked this way, it was whale's belly. He looked that way, it was whale's belly. Everywhere he looked it was whale's belly. Now, you're not in that bad a shape. But what did Jonah say? He said, "They are lying vanities. I won't believe one of them." He said, "Lord, once more, will I look to Your holy temple." He didn't see the whale's belly; he was looking for the temple.
Don't look at your symptoms; look at the promise. How bad you're sick, look who great a Person give the promise. God said so.

28 And if Jonah... The reason he could base his faith there, because when Solomon dedicated the temple, he prayed this prayer: "Lord, if Thy people be in trouble at any time, and look to this holy place, and pray, then You hear from heaven." And Jonah---in the belly of the whale, backslid, stormy sea, hands and feet tied, laying in vomit, sea weeds around his neck---could look to a temple, where a man that backslid later, by the name of Solomon, that prayed a prayer for the children's deliverance. How much more ought you to look, sitting in the house of God, in heavenly places in Christ Jesus where people are being healed all the time, and look away from your symptoms, not to the temple made with hands, but to heaven itself, where Christ sits at the right hand of God with His own blood making intercessions on your confession? How much more ought you to say, "They're lying vanities. I won't believe it." Look to heaven. Depends on what you're looking at. If you're still looking at your hand, you ain't going never get no better. If you're looking to God's promise, you're bound to get better.
Jesus is the High Priest of our confession, sitting at the right hand of God, making intercessions upon our confession. And any redemptive blessing He died for, He's there to make it right as a High Priest. Amen. That ought to make the Methodists shout. Sure. It's old time religion, been tried through all kinds of furnaces, and quenched ... tried by all kinds of water, but it's still burning. Yes.

29 Abraham owned it all. And he was an heir of all of it; and you're an heir of all of it, being Abraham's seed. God calls you by sovereign grace, the same way He called Abraham. Tonight you professed to have the baptism of the Holy Spirit, which you have to die to yourself to be born of the Spirit as a believer. You, being dead in Christ, you take on Abraham's seed and are heirs to every promise. Amen. Don't get scared; "Amen" won't hurt you. Amen means "so be it," and I'm not "amening" myself, but I believe it. That's right.
Every promise is true to the believer that'll take God at His Word and call those things like Abraham. The Bible said that Abraham called those things which was not, as though they were. And he staggered not at God through unbelief. He never considered his own body, said Romans 4. His own body now dead, hundred years old, neither the deadness of Sarah's womb, and he called those things which were not, as though they were, being fully persuaded that He that made the promise was able to keep it.
What about you tonight, who call yourself Abraham's seed and are heirs of the same promise? If you have the faith that Abraham had, and if you are Abraham's seed, you've got the same faith or you couldn't be Abraham's seed. Amen. That's pretty strong. Kind of goes hard on some of our pet theology.

30 But my mama ... I guess she's here tonight. But we was raised awful poor and Mama used to tell me... We'd, you know, had to cook meat skins in a bread pan and make the grease, you know, to go on the corn pones. And every Saturday night, we had a big old cedar tub. About eight Branhams, and all them little fellows line up, a bath every Saturday night in this old tub---same water; just warm it up a little with the teakettle. Every one get a bath, and a big dose of castor oil in the winter time. I got so sick of that stuff that I can't stand it yet. And I'd hold my nose; I'd start to mama, gagging. I'd say, "Mama, I just can't stand it; it makes me sick."
She said, "Stand still. If it don't make you sick, it don't do you any good."
That's the same thing I say about this tonight: If it don't make you sick, it might not do you no good. It might stir you up and get your spiritual gastronomics working right to receive the Word and the promise of Almighty God. He gave it. And that's the way you have to come to Him.

31 Abraham believed God, said, "Lord, how will I know that these things will be?"
Said, "Come out, Abraham; I want to show you." Said, "First..." He said, "Look to the dust." He said, "Your seed will be like the dust in the earth. Can you number it?"
"No."
And He said, "Look up to heaven, another place." Said, "Your seed will be like the stars of heaven without numbers." See, from the dust to the stars: speaking of the resurrection. You see it? Spiritual minds ought to pick that up quickly: "From the dust to the stars." And the chief of all is the Morning Star, the brightest, fairest of ten thousand, the Lily of the Valley, the Morning Star, the Redeemer, the Kinsman Redeemer. How lovely He is!
Said, "Come, Abraham, I will show you how I will do this." Said... He went and took a heifer, a she goat, a ram, turtle dove, and a pigeon. And he cut the heifer, the she goat, and the ram apart. But he never separated the dove and the pigeon. He throwed them together."
We'll have to get in on that sometime. Let me show you a little something here. I'm kind of a typologist. I love the types and shadows. Look. He had five different species: J-E-S-U-S is what it was speaking of, the sacrifice to come. Three of them was chopped to pieces, J-E-S; and the other (U-S.) was not separated: Jehovah's, elected One's, salvation, saving U-S, us, inseparable; and the entire church of the living God, regardless of denominational barriers, is not separated. They're one in heart. I don't care what they are. They wasn't separated. J-E-S-U-S. Jehovah's elected, salvation, saves U-S. You get it? His elected One, foreshowing through Isaac, coming of the great One, Christ.

32 Then notice... Now, here, you Arminian teachers, my brethren, I don't mean to rub this in now. I want you just to watch this real close, to show you that it's not by works; it's by grace, by election, by foreknowledge. It's God that does the saving. You have nothing to do with it. "Not him that willeth or him that runneth, but it's God that showeth mercy."
Notice, "Abraham, come up here on the side of the hill. Now, you've watched the birds off of..." (while he piled them together), said, "You've watched the birds off of them, and the sun is going down now." And the Bible said, "A deep sleep fell on Abraham."
"Now, you haven't got nothing to do with it, Abraham. I'm just going to shut you out, show you it's not what you can do or what you want. It's Me doing it. I'm doing the saving." Saved him when he started, told him He'd come to him in an old age. He'd save his seed after him. God did it by sovereign grace.
So what you scared about? That's what's the matter with the church. You're afraid. Don't be afraid: If God be for you, who can be against you? Stop being afraid. Take His Word. Let the Holy Spirit in you come to life. It's so feeble. Let it wake up to the realization of the very hour that you're living and the time that you're living. Watch Him.

33 Abraham, He put him to sleep to show Abraham, "You're out of the picture." And then, as soon as He did that (Abraham asleep), there come a great darkness, which means death. Every mortal must come to that place: death. Then after death, there was a smoking furnace, hell, where every sinner deserves to go. What's He picturing in here? Calvary, Jesus. And then, He showed... Beyond that went a little light. God is light. And that little light went between each one of those pieces of sacrifice, making His covenant. It was an oriental custom.
Now, today, when you and I make a covenant, we go down to one another, and I say, "Brother, will you do so-and-so?"
"Yes, Brother Branham, I will do it."
Well, shake hands. That's the way we make a covenant.
Back in Japan, how they make a covenant there, they go talk it over with each other, and then they have a little kettle full of salt. And they stand and throw salt on one another. That's a covenant, making a salt covenant.

34 In the days of Abraham, and in the Orient, the way they made a covenant, they taken a beast, and they killed it, and split it in two, just like you see Abraham doing for God's covenant. And they split the covenant in two. Then they write out their agreement, and then they take that, and tear it apart, give it to one and to the other. And they take a oath over this dead body: If they break this covenant, let them be as this dead beast was. What an oath. And the only way this covenant can be manifested, is for both men to bring both pieces of paper, and they have to dovetail together, just exactly like that, and that confirms the oath.
Now, what was God doing? He was showing Abraham how He was going to be the father of nations; through Isaac would come Christ. And at Calvary, Jehovah God, the Father, taken His own Son to Calvary, and laid upon Him the sins and sickness of the world, and there tore Him apart, and took the body up into glory, and sent the Holy Ghost back down for the church. And when the resurrection comes, the same Spirit that was in Jesus Christ, doing the same things that Jesus did when He was here on earth, has to be with the church, the covenant church; for, when they come together the same signs, and same wonders that Jesus did will have to compare with the body of Christ to make the bride. Amen.

35 There is God's covenant. The life that was in Jesus was tore out of Him and was sent back to the church. And the life that was in Christ, being in you... Then Jesus, His words---which He raised from the dead---is living among us tonight, doing the same works that He did when He was here on earth. Amen.
I'm so glad to know that. Jesus said, "If ye abide in Me, My words in you, you can ask what you will, and I will give it to you." That's right. "He that believeth in Me, though he were dead, yet shall he live. And whosoever liveth, and believeth in me shall never die," He said. That was His eternal promise to His church. "The works that I do, shall you also. Greater works than this will you do, for I go unto My Father." What a promise. Wonderful.

36 God took Abraham out when he was ninety-nine. Abraham was getting old. The stream of life was dead in him. Any man, woman knows what I'm speaking. Sarah, an old woman, and Abraham, an old man, and he had trusted and waited for this promise to be fulfilled. Then what happened? God took him out and appeared to him in another name, in the name of God Almighty: the 17th chapter of Genesis.
And He appeared to him in the name of God Almighty. In the Hebrew it's El Shaddai, which means properly, "the breast of a woman." Said, "Abraham, I am appearing to you now as the breasted One. I am the mother. You're old; your strength is all gone, but I am the breasted God." In other words, your strength is gone, but I am the One who can nurse you back to strength again.
God Almighty, if He was that to Abraham, He's got to be it to Abraham's seed. For the same promise is that no matter how sick you are, how far you're gone, lay a hold of God's eternal promises and nurse your life back again. How far you are in sin, how black you are, you may be a prostitute from the street, but that same promise is to you, if you'll dare to take a hold of God.

37 Now, remember, He never said, "I'm a breast." Breasted: two breasts, the New and Old Testament, "Wounded for our transgressions, with His stripes we were healed."... If a baby is sick and fretting, and its health's about gone, the mother picks it up, puts it to her breast, and begins to pat it, and sing to it; and the baby is nursing its strength from the mother. And it's satisfied all the time it's nursing. It isn't looking for symptoms; it's satisfied as long as it's in mother's arms, nursing from mother's breast.
And every seed of Abraham, no matter what you're trouble is ---if it's for salvation, take a hold; if it's for healing, take a hold; and lay there against the breast of God, and nurse until your strength, and you're satisfied, while God is pouring forth His life into you by His divine promise through His nursing breast to His believing children. Oh, how we should love Him.
We'll have to continue tomorrow night. It's getting too late to finish this. Tomorrow night, we'll pick it up.

38 What does He mean to you tonight, friends? What does all this come to? What does it mean after all these years? Jesus said, "The things that I do, shall you also. Yet, a little while and the world won't see Me no more, yet, you'll see Me, for I will be with you (promised to be in us) to the end of the world." And would do the same thing that He does. Here's His Word made manifest. You've received Him. Proof. Here He is night, visible, moving, working, performing signs, wonders, miracles, right here on the platform, and you stand and looking at it, and the Bible right behind it. Don't you love Him? What a wonderful relief it is to a poor, weary, sinner, and a weary person, who's troubled about the things of this world, to realize that God is near.

39 Here, some time ago, I was in the mountains watching a mother eagle taking her young ones down to the pasture. I was herding cattle, so I just took my binoculars, and was watching this old mother eagle, and she flew down, taking her little ones, and she laid them out on the grass down there. And the little fellows begin jumping, and pulling grass, and having a Pentecostal revival. They'd come out of the old, pukey ... (Excuse me.), the old stinking nest of the eagle, and maybe that's where you come from, some barroom or some honky-tonk, the stink of the world. Once get on this carpet of salvation; see how lightly you can walk, and how good it really feels.
Those little eagles was just as carefree as they could be. That's the way a real believer is. Nothing can harm him. He knows that God's anchored him in heaven; that's all there is to it. Jesus loved him, called him, give him the Holy Spirit. He's free.

40 I woke up the other night with such a sermon on my heart, I couldn't hardly stand it. And I only had one to preach to, that was my wife. I preached to her, till she went to sleep, about the Christian resting. "Come unto Me, all you that labor, and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest." Don't toil and worry no more.
I wondered: Those little eagles, what made them so free? And that old mother, just as soon as she let them off, she went right straight back up to the highest rock she could find. There she sat down. I turned my binoculars on her, and she stood there flopping those big wings and looking around, head up. I wondered what she was doing. Then I got to studying about the eagle. She was watching for a coyote or anything that would try to bother those little babies. She could scent a storm, no matter where it was coming, any trouble anywhere; she was high. She's got a eye that can pierce through for miles. She's watching those little ones.
I said, "No wonder they're carefree." I said, "So is it with every man that's been took out of the world and put upon this carpet of easy going, loving..." No matter how the trials are; you're still at rest with Christ, walking around carefree; and our great Mother, the breasted One, has climbed the ramparts of glory, sitting at the right hand of God.
As Howard Cadle used to sing, "His eyes is on the sparrow, and I know He watches me." That's right. No matter what can come, God knows all about it. He's in glory tonight, watching His church. You can be carefree.

41 After a while, a storm came up, them northerners which comes quick. A little lightning whipped across the sky. And that old mother eagle let out a big scream, and she rushed to that place, throwed out her wings, and let a scream, and every little eaglet on the ground rushed to her real quick. Set his little feet right into her wing, put his bill a hold of a feather like that; and that old mother eagle just lifted them up like that, and that wind coming down the canyon about sixty miles an hour. She pierced that wind, and went right into the cleft of the rock.
I laid down my binoculars, and tied my horse right good, and shouted all over the hills. I said, "Oh, God, be carefree." What do we care? What do we care what the world says, what they call us. If you want to say, "fanatic," let them say so. I believe God's Word. And there's something within me, not myself, but something within me, tells me that's the truth. I seen Him in every trial. Then I know, someday when the storm comes, He'll come down and spread forth His wings and let out a scream. All the little eaglets will get a hold of the Rock of Ages, and we'll fly away some of these days into yonder's courts---safety.

42 An old colored man, one time, down in the south, was at a meeting one night, where they was playing the organ, singing old hymns. If you're ever a southerner, you know what I'm speaking of, how they used to meet out on the old plantation, sing and have great big parties, of singing, the slaves. So, the first thing you know, the... One morning there's an old fellow come up there; he got saved. He was telling all the rest of the slaves; he said, "I'm free now. I've been saved."
So, the boss heard him, said, "Mose, what was that you said?"
He said, "Boss, I said I was free."
He said, "You are free, are you?" Said, "Come over to my office, a little while; I want to see you, after you get the rest of them to work."
He went in and sat down the office, waited till the boss come in. Walked around behind... The slave owner walked around behind the desk, said, "Mose, what's this I hear you say that you're free?"
He said, "Boss, I'm free." Said, "I was a sinner, and last night, Christ set me free from the law of sin and death." He said, "I'm a Christian this morning, boss."
Said, "Mose, do you mean that?"
He said, "Yes."
Said, "What's your desire, Mose?"
Said, "I'd like to tell all my brethren."
He said, "If Christ has made you free, Mose, then I'll go down and sign the proclamation, and I'll set you free to preach the Gospel." He signed it that morning, and set the old darky free. Years, faithful servant.

43 When he come time to die, many of his white brethren come to look upon him. So when they did, he was in a coma. After while, he raised up, looked around, said, "Am I still here?"
They said, "Yes, Mose."
Said, "Well, I was in heaven."
Said, "Mose, how did it look?"
Said, "I tell you, brethren," said, "I just come in the door." And said, "An Angel come up to me." And said, "I looked across, and I seen Him." And said, "The Angel come up and said, 'Mose, come over here and get your crown and your robe.'"
Said, "Don't talk to me about crown and robe, I don't want one." He said, "Just let me stand and look at Him for a thousand years." I think that's the feeling of all of us tonight. Let me see Jesus.
Sister Cadle should be alive tonight, to stand here now and sing for us, "When I reach that land ... on the strand ... on the far off strand, I want to see Jesus, don't You? I believe that's the hunger of every Christian heart: "I want to see Jesus." Let us bow our heads just a moment. The organist, if she will, just a little note...

44 I wonder, tonight, with your heads bowed, realizing that you're an eternity-bound person, knowing that this may be the last night that you'll every be privileged to sit in the seat that you're in. You know, there's many people in the long history of this church, that's heard powerful sermons from Brother Cadle, and Brother Lincoln, many of those other great warriors, and Dr. Ford, Dr. Bosworth, Gypsy Smith. If they could only come back and sit in that same seat that you're sitting in tonight, where they did sit, perhaps, what a difference it would be.
Do you really want to see Him? You love Him, and you know you do, and you've never accepted Him as your personal Saviour, and you believe that God hears my prayer, and want me to pray for you, and you know you're wayward and away from God, would you just raise up your hand? While no one looking but myself, if you will, and by that you'd say, "Brother Branham, pray for me. I want to know Jesus as my Saviour." Will you raise your hands? God bless you. God bless you. Over to my right. Anybody back in here? The Lord bless you. All right. A backslider would raise your hands, and say, "Pray for me, Brother Branham." God bless you. I certainly will, sister. Now, that's fine. Somebody without the Holy Spirit, would say, "Pray for me, Brother Branham, I want to be Abraham's seed." God bless you. Many hands up.

45 Now, heavenly Father, Thou knowest the conditions of these people. And I pray, just now, that You will be merciful and grant to them... Their surrendered will, just now, may it bring grace to them from Thee. And all these sinners that's raised their hands, be saved, the backsliders brought back to Christ. And all those seeking the Holy Spirit, may they receive Him this hour. Grant it, Father. Through Christ, we ask it.
And while we have our heads bowed, I want to ask the church something. Now, friends, you who raised your hands, immediately after the healing service, I want you to come up here, stand around the altar, and pray with some of the pastors, as they come pray for you; and find yourself a good church home and go to it, somewhere. There's plenty of good churches around your neighborhood. Find it somewhere, who preach the Gospel of the Lord Jesus and divine healing.

46 Now, I want to ask you something. Would you love to see Him? How many here, with your heads bowed, and your hands up, say, "I'd like to see Jesus. I'd just like to see Him." God bless you. All your hands are up, practically a hundred percent. Is it possible we can see Him? He said you could.
I see a man ... or, a young boy sitting here, talking to the mutes on his fingers. Oh, I pray that somehow God will heal them, everyone, tonight.

47 A few nights ago, standing in a church where a colored girl had an accident and severed the nerves of her hearing and speech, paralyzed her side. She was coming up to me, couldn't even whine. I saw the fields of Africa beyond her. I said, "Heavenly Father, this poor, Ethiopian girl here, a inch apart is her nerves, or something, where it had been severed apart by the accident..." I wouldn't say an inch, anyhow, it was severed. She'd never... The doctor clamped it off. Never could speak or hear, or have any feeling in that right side.
And while praying for her and laying hands on her, the grace of God was given to her, and she screamed, "Oh, mother, looky here what I ... what's happened to me."
I pray that these mutes tonight, sitting here, will receive their healing. As the boy's talking to you, my dear friend, you're shut off in a world to yourself. But there's Somebody in that world with you; that's Jesus. He knows your heart.

48 Now, heavenly Father, all the words that I could say would mean nothing to compare with one word You'd say. And I pray tonight that You'll grant now, that these people might see that this message not in vain, and this meeting not in vain; but truly You've raised from the dead. You promised us, Lord, that You would appear to us in every age, and would manifest Yourself, and do the same thing that You did when You were here on earth. And we pray, God, that You'll grant that to the people tonight. Through Jesus' name, we ask it, as we submit ourselves humbly before Thee. Amen.
Pardon me. Someday this will all be over. You've only got one time, friend, to serve God, and that's now.

49 Now, here's my contention: How many in here believes that Jesus Christ raised from the dead? To be a Christian, you have to believe that. But remember, two-thirds of the world tonight don't even know nothing about it. They never heard the name of Jesus. And I want to ask you something: Do you know the many religions of the world is far beyond Christianity? You know Mohammed almost doubles Christianity, Buddhism, and many of those isms and idols? But I've been right to them, where I've been challenged, and I've never seen a time but what our Lord Jesus come to the rescue and manifested Himself. Read the articles in the books there; not time to talk of that.
But here's what I say: Now, Jesus can't come here in a corporal body. For, when He comes in a corporal body, then the second coming of Christ will be: every eye shall see Him, every knee bow, every tongue confess. But His Holy Spirit, which is called the Comforter in the Bible, was to come and do the same works that He did; because it's Christ in Spirit. Christ said, "I came from God. I go to God. A little while and the world (that's the people) will see Me no more (the worldly order). Yet, you shall see Me (that's the church), for I will be with you to the end of the world, even be in you." And He said, "The works that I do, shall you also." Now, that's for the benefit of the newcomers.

50 Now, newcomer, listen closely before the prayer service. I want you to give me your undivided attention just a moment. I know it's hot, and I've spoke at length; but I'm trying to get faith to the people. So that this... I'm just not up here to be seen or heard. I'm up here to represent something: eternal life that Jesus Christ could give to everyone of you, and healing for your body. It's yours. The Bible promised it. I'm not responsible for nothing but to preach the Word as He's put it here.
Now, to me, this is either right or it's wrong. And if it's wrong, I want nothing to do with it. If God's promises is not true, then He's not God. If He isn't raised from the dead, and just the same tonight as He was, then He isn't God: He's a history God, and not a resurrected God; He'd be just a dead as Mohammed, or Buddha, Confucius, or any of the others.

51 But notice, God promised that He would manifest Himself in the church. Now, let's see what He did when He was on earth. Now, this is for the newcomers. When He was on earth, let's see what He did then. We see what He does now. Did He claim to be a healer when He was here on earth? No, sir. He was a preacher. The Lord anointed Him to preach the Gospel. He said so. Is that right? And then, did He say He was a healer? He said He wasn't a healer. He said, "It's not Me that doeth the works; it's My Father that dwelleth in Me. He doeth the works." And He said in Saint John 5:19 (Listen, Jesus' own words; He could not lie and be God.), He said, "Verily, verily I say unto you: the Son can do nothing in Himself, but what He sees the Father doing, that doeth the Son likewise."
Do you believe that's the truth? He left a whole bunch of people that was sick and afflicted. He was questioned. Man packing his bed on the Sabbath. He healed one man with some little sickness or something; and left lame, halt, blind, withered. But He said, "The Father showed Him where to go to that." He done everything as the Father...

52 Look at the resurrection of Lazarus. He walked away from the home, went away. And they sent for Him, He didn't go. Sent for Him again, He didn't go. After while, when He seen the appropriate days that God told Him in the vision, what would take place, He said, "Our friend Lazarus sleepeth."
They said, "He's doing well."
Said, "He's dead. And for Your sake, I'm glad I wasn't there." Because they'd be asking Him to pray for him. But said, "I go wake him." And when He got to the grave, listen to what He said: "Father, I thank Thee, Thou hearest Me always, but for these who stood by, I said it. 'Lazarus, come forth.'" And a man being dead four days, stood on his feet, and lived again. Jesus, by a vision, saw it.

53 Now, when He was here on earth... Let's take two class... three classes of people: Jews, Gentiles, and Samaritans. When He was preaching, praying for the sick, there was a Jew by the name of Philip got saved. And Philip went to find his friend, Nathanael, way around, several miles behind the mountain. And he found him; he was under a tree praying. He said, "Come, see who we've found, Jesus of Nazareth, the Son of Joseph."
And he raised up, the staunch Hebrew, and said, "Now, could there be any good thing come out of Nazareth?"
He said, "Come, see." That's the best way. "Come, see, see for yourself."
So probably, Philip on the road around, said, "Now, don't criticize; just walk up and be honest and open-hearted."
So, when he come to where Jesus was praying for the sick, he come up in the line where Jesus was. Jesus looked at him, and said, "Behold (look at, esteem, look up to), behold an Israelite, in whom there is no guile."
Why, he said, "Wait a minute. Rabbi, when did You know me? You don't know whether I was a critic, unbeliever, or what. When did You know me?"
"Why," He said, "before Philip called you, when you was under the tree, I saw you." How did He see him forty miles away? Said, "Before Philip called you, when you were under tree, I saw you."
He said, "Rabbi, Thou art the Son of God. You're the King of Israel." That's what the Jews said that was a sign that He was the Messiah.

54 Now, those great, stiff, churches, orthodox, just as holy and precise as they could be, they were standing there. What did they say about Him? They said, "He's a fortune-teller. He's Beelzebub, the chief of the devils."
What did Jesus say? He said, "Now, you can say that to me, and I'll forgive you. But when the Holy Ghost comes, the Comforter, and does the same thing in My name, if you speak one word against that, it'll never be forgiven you in this world or the world to come." And He predicted that when the Holy Spirit come, would do the same thing that He did.

55 The woman at the well, He talked to her. She was a Samaritan. He knowed where the fish was, had the coin in it's mouth. He perceived the thoughts of the people.
A woman come in the crowd one time, and touched His garment, and run off and sat down, or stood up, or wherever she was. She said, "If I can only touch that holy Man, I will get healed." She had a blood issue for many years. Doctors could do her no good. And her faith was that she could touch the Man. And she touched His garment; He couldn't feel it. Now, you couldn't feel it, if it was on my coat or yours. Them Palestinian garments as heavy as they was, and underneath garment besides... So she went out, and she was satisfied that she had touched Him.
Now look, He stopped. He turned around, said, "Who touched Me?" Now, He didn't know, or He wouldn't ask the question. Said, "Who touched Me?"
Why, everybody denied it. She denied it. He said, "Yes, but..."
Peter said, "Well, Lord, the whole bunch is touching You. Everybody's touching You." That's what's the matter with the church today: You're touching with the wrong touch.
Said, "Everybody's touching You. And why sayest Thou, 'Who touched Me?'"
He said, "But I perceive that I've gotten weak." Virtue's gone from Him. And He kept looking around until He found the little woman. And He looked right at her, and said, "Thy faith has saved thee." Her blood issue stopped. Then her faith touched Him, and she was healed.

56 He knew the thoughts, and where Philip had been, and Nathanael, the fish that had the coin in his mouth, but He didn't know all things. Just as the Father would show Him, as a prophet.
Now, can you touch Him tonight? If He's alive tonight, why can't you touch Him? The Bible said you can. The Bible said, "He's a high priest that could be touched by the feeling of our infirmities." He has His representatives here on earth.
Now, He isn't here, but He is the vine. We are the branches. The vine don't bear fruit; the branches bears fruit. And He purges the vine to make it bear fruit. Well, we yield ourselves to the Holy Spirit. You yield to Him for your sickness. I'll yield to Him for His Spirit, and watch if He don't do the same thing. He's alive, He's not dead, not some historical God; He's a living God.

57 Now look, the woman come out, sat down on the well. She was a bad woman, prostitute. Jesus said, "Bring Me a drink."
"Why," she said, "it's not customary for you Jews to ask we Samaritans such. We have no dealings." Like a white man and a colored woman... Said, "We have no dealings."
He said, "But if you knew who you were talking to, you'd ask Me for a drink." Now, what was He doing? Contacting her spirit. Now, this is Jesus when He was here on earth in a corporal body, promising to do the same things through His spiritual body. He said, "If you knew who you were talking to, you'd ask Me for a drink. And I'd bring you water ... or, give you water you don't come here to draw."
She said, "The well's deep and You have nothing to draw with."
He said, "The water that I give is a well of water, springing up."
She said, "Well, we worship in this mountain. You stay at Jerusalem."
And Jesus... The conversation went on till Jesus caught her spirit. The Father sent Him up there, because He was on His road to Jericho. Jerusalem's here; Jericho's here, and He went way up here to Samaria. The Bible said, "He had need." Why? The Father told Him to go up there. He sat down.
That's why I'm here tonight. Father told me to come here to Indianapolis. That's all I know. I don't know you, nor know your needs. But He does.

58 Now, and the woman kept talking to Him. After while, He said to her... He found her trouble. He said, "Go, get your husband."
She said, "I don't have any husband."
Said, "You said well; you got five."
Well, she looked at Him. Listen now, she looked at Him, and said, "Sir, I perceive that You're a prophet." Now, listen to this, you church members, preachers. She said, "We know that when the Messiah cometh..." Do you believe Jesus is the Messiah? The Jewish Messiah. Said, "When Messiah cometh, He'll tell us these things ... all things. But who are You?"
He said, "I am He that speaks to you."
Now, that was a sign to the Jews, to the Samaritans, and Gentiles, alike, that Jesus was the Messiah. Now, if He is the same yesterday, today, and forever, He's got to do the same thing. He purchased your healing by His death at Calvary. He manifested Himself in signs and wonders among you to get you to look to Calvary and believe His finished works for you. May God grant it to you tonight, is my prayer.

59 Boys, what prayer card? S's? All right. Prayer card S's was give out today, and who has prayer card S number 1? Would you raise up your hand? S-1? Four hands up, it can't be all of you. S-1? Look at your prayer card; it's a little bitty thing. It's got a picture on the back of it, and ... on the front of it; on the back of it, it's got a S and a number 1. Who has that card? Would you raise your hand? Is yours S number 1, lady? Come right over here.
S number 2, would you raise up your hand? Who has S-2? Billy, you sure that was right? S's? S-2, who has it? Would your raise your hand? Look at some... Might be somebody's deaf. Here's people sitting in stretchers and everything. Look around. It might be some of them that can't get up. Is this man here... Sir, you got a prayer card? Uh-huh. You don't need one to be healed, but I just... S-2? All right.
Number 3? Number 4? That's right, raise your hand quickly. Number 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10. Let those stand up and come first, if we can see them: S-1 to S-10. The boys just give out the cards over the building. Just anybody that wants them can get them. And we just come in and call up a few of them and start praying. But remember, this is just to get someone on the platform for the Holy Spirit to go to moving. All right.

60 Now, how many's in the building... I want you to do this. If there's a critic here... Now hear me; this is law: If there's a critic here, I wouldn't stay any longer. Because I'm not responsible for what happens to critics. There's many of them in the insane institution, and some of them paralyzed, and everything else. So, I'm not responsible for critics. You just understood what that man come and was going to hypnotize me, sitting out in the meeting. They'd hired him. He come there to hypnotize me, a bunch of guys, and he was sitting there. I kept feeling a funny spirit, looked out and seen where he was at. And the Holy Spirit said, "You child of the devil, because you've done that, they'll pack you out of here." And he's been paralyzed two years now. So, we're not playing church now, friends. You don't believe that; you watch a little bit and you'll know. Jesus Christ is alive (See), not dead, but alive.

61 All right, how many did I call? Ten? Let's try five more. What I started ... stopped... 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15 in S's: S-10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15; see how many that gets us.
And now, how many's here that doesn't have a prayer card, and you really believe that Jesus Christ is alive tonight, and He's the same yesterday, today, and forever, and you want to be healed? You without prayer cards, raise up your hands, so I can get a general idea of where you're at. All right.
Now, will you do this? If you'll... Listen, friends, I could come down there, lay hands on you; we could go down, do everything we could. That's all right. I have nothing against that. But if you'll look to the finished works of Calvary... Moses, when he raised up... Was the brass serpent a type of Christ? You Bible scholars know that. The brass serpent couldn't pray for nobody. They just looked and lived. Is that right? Now, if the type, a brass serpent, would produce divine healing in a shadow, a type of Christ, what will the antetype do, the blood of Jesus at the altar tonight?
Look and live, my brother, live.
Look to Jesus now and live.
It's recorded in His Word. Hallelujah.
It's only that we look and live.

62 I'm not here tonight to be a deceiver. I'd be home with my wife and baby. I'd rather do that and meet God in peace, than to try to be here as a deceiver. I'm here trying to tell you the benefits that Jesus died for you. Have faith in it, and if you're children of Abraham, you have got faith in the finished works.
Now, are they all lined up, Paul? Now, if this line runs out... Now, remember it makes me real weak, if the Holy Spirit will do it. If He doesn't, what we'll do then, we'll call up a line of people in a few minutes and pray for these right through. If the Holy Spirit doesn't come and anoint, and if He doesn't, we will bring the people right through and pray for them, two or three hundred of them, just laying hands on them and praying for them, if the Holy Spirit doesn't come. If it comes, it stops me. Then, a few, my son, Billy Paul, these recording boys sitting here in the audience, in the pit here, Brother Wood, Brother Boze. Many of them stand and watch.

63 It's a subconscious. You say, "Subconscious?" Absolutely. Find out about the prophets and so forth if it wasn't subconscious. Certainly, it was. Certainly. It's in another world.
But I want to ask you something, believer and unbeliever. If Jesus Christ, on this platform tonight, will represent Himself in poor humble flesh... What'd we do? Submit yourself. It's a gift. Does God promise? What did He say is set in the church first? This is church gifts: first, apostles. Is that right? That right, ministers? What is apostles? Why do you want to be called a missionary? It's apostle, the same word, "one sent." Is that right? Apostle is "missionary."

64 First in the church is missionaries, after that prophets (That right?), teachers, evangelists, and pastors. Is that right? All for the perfecting... And then there's nine spiritual gifts that just go from person to person in a local church, which is gifts of tongues, and interpretations, and all, and gifts of prophecy. Quite a difference now, between a gift of prophecy and a prophet. A gift of prophecy is just in the church, the gift itself. A prophet is born a prophet. Moses was a prophet when he was born. Jesus was the Son of God from the foundation of the world. Jeremiah: God told him, said, "Before you was even formed in your mother's womb, I sanctified you and made you a prophet over the nations."
John the Baptist was a prophet and the voice of one crying in the wilderness, seven hundred and twelve years before he was born. That's God's foreknowledge. He didn't have to ask for anything, he was born that way. Gifts and callings are what? Without repentance. That's what God has done.

65 Now, if He will represent Himself, how many in here will say, if He will do it, "By God, I will raise my hands. I will never have another doubt in my life, so help me. Lord Jesus, if You'll come and confirm what that preacher said tonight to be the truth, and what Your Bible says it is, I'll promise You, I'll never doubt no more." Will you raise your hand to that? Say, "I will never doubt no more in my life." God bless you.
Why was it some of you kept your hands down? "Though one would raise from the dead, yet would you not believe?" That's what Jesus said (Luke 16).
Yes, no matter what would take place, there's people in the world that were born not to believe. The Bible said, "They were ordained of old to this condemnation." (Jude.) " Men of old ordained to this condemnation not to believe." No matter what you'd do, they wouldn't believe it anyhow. Pharaoh was raised up for this same purpose. Aren't you happy tonight that God's tendered your heart to look to Calvary and believe?

66 Now, I wish you'd all now just be seated. Be real quiet for the next few minutes. And Christians, remember where I'm standing tonight. There's six, seven thousand people in this tabernacle here tonight, maybe more than that. I think it seats ten or eleven thousand. It's well over two-thirds full. And I want you to remember that in here there's critics; there's everything. There's demon possessed people. There's critics. There's saints of God. There's lukewarm, halfway believers, half-hearted, everything. And Satan's on the alert. And do you realize, he's only waiting for one flaw? And where do I stand? To represent a living Jesus Christ.
Now, I've spoke the words, so therefore, the Angel that spoke to me, told me to do this; therefore, I will not fear. I never have feared before tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands, and He's always come to the rescue, and I believe He will tonight. Then, when your death rattles hit your throat, if you're still an unbeliever, your blood's not on my hands. That's up to you. If God will do it.

67 Now, heavenly Father, I have made this stern statement, and I'm looking to Thee, and I pray that You'll grant this blessing tonight, once more, Lord. Forgive us of our sins and unbelief. Forgive us of our iniquity, and let Your Holy Spirit move once more in this audience tonight, to prove that You are alive tonight and not dead, and Your coming is at hand.
The reason You're showing forth these signs; You said, "It will be light in the evening." And we're in the evening time. And the same light that shined on the eastern country, in the early days, You said, "There'll be a day where it wouldn't be neither light nor dark, a dismal day." And it's been that way, Father. People's had enough faith to believe that Jesus died and rose again, but faith for signs and wonders, they didn't have it since Pentecost, when the sun went down. But You said, "It'll be light in the evening."
We're at the west coast now; the sun's setting. And the same sun that shined in the beginning yonder, at the early days, two thousand years ago, is shining again tonight in all of its splendor and power. Critics still stand as they did then, church members, unbelievers, selfish, skeptics. Saints are still marching on.
God be merciful; and those who You've ordained to life, may they receive it tonight. And help Thou me, Lord and send that One who spoke to me that night, in Your name, that He might manifest You before the audience. In Jesus Christ's name, I ask it, as I yield myself. Amen.

68 Be real reverent, and be in prayer. All right, bring the patient. Oh, excuse me.
Now, I'm sure these acoustics... The engineer over there, if you will, sir, if my voice gets low, pick it up. If the Holy Spirit would anoint. I don't know what I'm... I know what I'm saying, but I'm somewhere else.
How many seen the picture? Let's see your hands. Here it is, see. To my opinion, what was it led the children of Israel? Pillar of fire. Is that right? Was that Jesus? Well, the Bib... He was the Angel of the covenant. Is that right? So He was Jesus, the pillar of fire. He came here on earth to be a man---soul and body---to die for your sins and sickness. He said, "I come from God; I return to God."

69 After His ascension, was there anybody seen Him after His ascension? Be careful. One man, Paul. That's right, my brother. What was He in? What did He look like? A light. Is that right? Then Jesus Christ is the same that led the children of Israel, here on earth today, the same yesterday, today, and forever, doing the same signs and wonders that He did in the days gone by---the same. That's not there for me; I'm just one of you all. It's there to prove, that's scientifically prove, the only supernatural being was ever photographed in all the world. Write Washington and find out. That was proved by George J. Lacy, the head of the FBI in fingerprint and document.
And that same Angel, that fire---at the judgment, when I meet you thousands of people here, you'll know it's the truth---it isn't two feet from where I'm standing right now. You say, "Why can't I see it?" Why didn't those see it, that looked with Paul? They couldn't see it. It wasn't given to them. But He's here, and it's Him that doeth the works, not me. I just yield myself and He does the talking. It isn't me; it's Him.

70 Now, that's as far as I can explain it. I'll talk to the woman. If He will, praise God. If He doesn't, praise God anyhow, see. I don't say. But I suppose, the lady here by me, is a stranger. Are we strangers to one another? We're strangers.
Now, the lady, I do not know. So now, to you believers, just hold your mind on this: Saint John 4, when Jesus went up to the well. Now, if He's the same yesterday, today, and forever, He sat down on the well, and a woman come to Him. Same thing here tonight; a man and a woman talking.
Now, I claim that Jesus raised from the dead, and is living in His branches, His church, and gives each one gifts to yield themselves: some to preach, some to sing, some to do others. Mine was prophetic. First vision I ever saw, I was just about eighteen months old.
But now, the woman here, I just talked to her, just like He did (She's the first one.), just to catch her spirit.
Now, if He could ... if He will do the same thing, lady, between you and I, that He did to the woman at the well, would you be willing to accept Him, as to give you what you've come to ask for? You know I don't nothing about what you... I've never seen you. And you just come up out of the audience. I don't know you. Now, if He does, you'll... If He tells you what has been in your life, and tells you what will be in your life, you know whether the first part's right or not. Then you can have confidence to believe that the rest of it is right. Is that... Sure, that's right. But if I just told you what would be without telling you something about that, then you'd have a right to doubt it. You could say, "Well, he just said that." But you know whether your past life, what it's been. Now, I don't say that He will. But He may.

71 And you're conscious now that something is going on. If that is true, raise up your hand so the audience can see it. Between me and the woman (now to the scientific searchers, another dimension), that same light that was shown a few minutes ago on the picture, is standing between me and the woman. That's what makes her expressions the way they are. That's what makes her feel the way she feels: real quiet, humble, sweet, feeling. That's Him, Christ.
How wonderful that the Son of God would come to honor us. Now, the woman seems to be going away from me. And I see her at her home all bothered about something. She's extremely nervous. She's upset about something. And she has something like neuritis. She has a spinal trouble also. That is true. "Thus saith Almighty God." But she's got something deeper than that down in her heart. And to yet, God hasn't showed me. But that is true. There's something down deep in your heart that you're so desiring. If God will let me know that, will all shadows pass away? I see a big building coming in sight. It's an institution. It's a insane institution. And there's a girl in there, which is your daughter. [Yes, that's right.] Her name's Shirley or something like that. That's right. And you're here standing in her place to be prayed for. [Yes.] That's "Thus saith the Lord." Do you believe? [I believe. I believe.] Let us pray:
Our heavenly Father, in Thy kind, loving goodness, we believe beyond a shadow of doubt that this audience now believes that Jesus lives, and the Bible that has so plainly declared Him, is truth. And He's here tonight, and I lay my hands upon this woman, and whatever her desires is, Lord, I pray sincerely that You'll give it to her. From the depths of my heart, I ask it in Christ's name. Amen.
God bless you my sister. May He give to you the deep desire... [It's the first time I ever saw you, and I thank you so much, 'cause I know God is with you.] Thank you, sister. That's the way you receive, see. I... You know something's a doing it, but it's your attitude towards what's a doing it. [Thank you.]

72 It's your attitude; it's the way you approach God. The man who ... the woman who touched His garment, she approached Him with reverence. She got her healing, but the soldier (Listen.) who put a rag around His face, and took a stick and hit Him on the head with it, and said, "Now, you who is a prophet, and prophesies, tell us who hit you; we'll believe you."
God doesn't do things that way. They didn't feel any virtue. It's your approach.
Martha approached Jesus, said, "Lord, if You'd have been here, my brother had not died. But even now, whatever You ask God, God will give it to You." She approached it right.
If you come criticizing, doubting, you'll never receive nothing. But you remember me as your brother, that I'm not saying this is me. If I did, I'd be a liar. It's not me. It's God. And He's only here to love you and prove to you that your religion of Christianity is right.
And some of you feeble people, that's been walking just by merely halfway like, receive Him with all your heart tonight, know that He knows everything about you. Now, believe. That should settle it. That should settle it forever.

73 But here stands a woman with two little babies. We couldn't pass her by. I trust that God won't. She's a young woman, younger than I. I suppose this is our first time to ever meet. Is that right, lady? I have no way of knowing what you are ... what you're here for. You may have just any kind of trouble. I don't know. God knows that. I don't. And if I could give you... If you're sick, and I could heal you and wouldn't do it, I'd be a brute. Or if one of those children are sick, and I could heal them and wouldn't do it, I'd be a no good person. But I never want to be popular. I'm not. And I don't want to be popular. I want to be honest, see. And I'm honest with you, that Christ has risen from the dead, and showing forth these signs that you see, trying to get you to believe Him, and accept what He did for you at Calvary. Whatever you're after, He's here.

74 You are a Christian. That's right. You're a believer, yourself. Now, because your spirit comes to me. Now, if God will let me know what you want, when you know I don't know it... But if He will let me know, will you accept it? You will? Now, you feel very strange. You know that. You can nod your head if that's right. But it's not... It's nothing to hurt you. It's something to help you.
But you're in trouble. And you're in deep trouble. You got two sick children. That's true. The children's what you want prayed for. Isn't that right? There's something wrong with their breathing. That's right, isn't it? I see you all hysterically, just recently, all frantically. Oh, it was one of them almost dying. Isn't that right? I'm not reading your mind. Little fellow almost died. It's in their throat, and their diaphragms don't open up right. It's a nervous condition that's doing this. And one thing...
Here's another thing. Now remember, your life you couldn't hide now. You're having trouble at home, a domestic trouble. That's right. It's your husband. And you're praying for him, because he's unsaved. Sir, I would be saved, and give my heart to Christ Jesus, so these children could be well. Straighten up your home, and make it right. That tension will always be at the children. Do you believe that if I pray for the children, you can accept the healing of the children? You will do it? And I pray that your husband, this night, will become God's servant, so that your troubles will be ended.

75 Heavenly Father, as these two darling, little children standing here, and this young mother holding them, I lay hands upon them in the name of Jesus, God's Son, and rebuke this enemy that's smothering these children, and ask that he depart from them. And may the Holy Spirit of God heal these children and let them live. God, make that home a bundle of love and power for You. And may this testimony of these children's healing, cause many to come to Christ. For we ask it in Jesus' name. Amen.
Now, sister, 'course, you have no way of knowing it now, but as you walk... Let them walk fast, and watch this one here, and watch his breathing. See if it hasn't left him, when you get down there. It's gone from him now. Go, and rejoice, and be happy, and praise God. God bless you.

76 Come, lady. Do you believe with all your heart? You do? You just answer me, because I'm contacting your spirit. [Blank spot on the tape.]
Your throat's all raw, the sister with the yellow dress on. Got a nervous condition, haven't you? That's right. You were healed just then. You've had that for some time. What makes your throat that way, sis, is because of your nerves. Stop thinking about it. It's going to leave you now. Your faith has touched Him. You're healed.
You believe? Have faith in God.
I see you've been to a doctor. And I see you as you leave the office shake your head, because he was talking to you about some sort of an operation or something. That is right. And that operation was to be in your neck. That's right. Well, what if I quote the words to you? Would you believe me to be His prophet? He said, "If he taken the growth out, it would paralyze your face." Is that what the doctor told you? How do I know what the doctor said there in the office? You come to me, believing if I'd pray for you, that God would heal you without it. Is that right? Then, come here.
Our heavenly Father, Thou who is omnipotent, know the secrets of the heart, and I lay my hands upon this woman, and may she receive that which she's asked for. In Jesus Christ's name, I ask it. Amen.
God bless you, sister. Go believing now. Write your testimony, and give it into your church to the glory of God.

77 Have faith now. Don't doubt. Just believe. This is the first time since I've been here that faith has really begin to operate out amongst the people. You keep that up, you're going to see something happening. You just remember that. You're getting kind of so use, till you're watching now seeing what's taking place. You've begin to believe. It's an eighty percent difference, tonight, than what it has been any night. It'll go to moving among you, if you'll only have faith. That's all He asks you, have faith in God.

78 How do you do, lady? Not knowing you, and we being strangers to each other, but God knows us both, doesn't He? What if Jesus was standing here tonight with this suit on, and you come seeking healing? He would tell you, He'd already healed you when He died for you. Don't you believe that? But He could tell you something that would encourage you. He might tell you to have more faith, or tell you something just like He did in the Bible time.
You believe that He's a living tonight, in the type, form of the Holy Spirit? You do? Well, here's what you're asking Him. You've got trouble with your knees, haven't you? And another thing, you got gland trouble, which is to be seen: overweight. That's true, isn't it? Now, more I talk to you, the more He'd say. But we've got others to be prayed for.
But I tell you this again: You're not from this country. You're from a country... I see you going down a street, where there's a... It's a big city you're from. And you're going by where on the right hand side, there's a park and a pool. And facing this way is a bunch of mountains, and there's a sea coast along the side. And there's a island out there, Victoria. Why, you're from Vancouver, British Columbia. That's exactly. And you are the wife of a minister. And your husband's a singing man. And He's got eye trouble. And you're in a visit, going somewhere else after this. That's "thus saith the Lord." That's true. Is that true? May you receive what you have asked for, in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ. Amen.
Have faith in God. Don't doubt, believe. Do you believe?

79 Don't weep, sister, with the black dress on, looking this way, that had been praying just now. You have arthritis. Sitting right back there... Isn't that right? That you might know, let me show you ... not show you, but I see the Angel of the Lord standing right there in that row. You were right where that woman's standing; the Angel touched her. You've got arthritis, haven't you, lady? And you were... Let me show you. You were looking this way, and you were praying sincerely, knowing that you wasn't called in the prayer line, but you wanted me to speak to you, that you'd accept your healing for arthritis. That's true. If that's right, raise up you hand. All right.
Now, this lady who's so interested in you, sitting next to you... Look to me, sister, believe me to be God's prophet or, servant. You believe it? All right, you have trouble with a disk. That is right, isn't it? That is the absolute right. All right, sir. You believe that God will heal you? Then you two ladies lay your hands on each other. God bless you. It's gone from both of you; turns light around you.

80 Arthritis too, sinus, lady there, do you believe that God will heal you of that? Do you believe He will make you well of the arthritis also, sitting next to her? You believe that with all of your heart? How do I know what's wrong with you. You're stranger to me, but Christ is here. He's the One who does it. You believe Him for your healing? In Christ's name, receive it. Go home. You just... You're healed. That's all God requires, is just to have faith. He said, "If thou canst believe."
What do you think, young man, sitting there with your head down, green shirt on, with stomach trouble, sitting back here, praying to be healed? He answered your prayer just then, son. You've got a peptic ulcer in your stomach, that's causing your food to sour. You belch it up in your mouth. That's right. Isn't that right? All right, go eat your hamburger now that you wanted to eat. Jesus Christ made you well. Your faith healed you.
Just have faith in God. Don't doubt. Believe with all your heart, and receive what you ask for. Jesus promised that you could have it.

81 Oh, isn't He wonderful? Do you believe God healed that rupture? Do you? All right. Jesus Christ does it for you then if you can believe. God bless you.
You don't have a prayer card, do you, sir? You didn't have no prayer card? You don't need any prayer card. I see a car wreck. You were hurt in it. Seen them take you out. You're well now. Your faith healed you. Go on your road rejoicing.
You believe that heart will bother you no more? All right, go on your road, and rejoice, and say, "Thank you, Lord."
Trouble in you back, but God can make it well, can't He? Your back trouble's gone from you. Just believe with all your heart. Go and Jesus Christ makes you well. Don't make any difference how bad it is. Jesus healed it. Now, go believing and receive your healing.
Let's say, "Thanks be to God."
Cancer. You believe that God will make you well? "If thou canst believe, all things are possible."

82 You, lady, laying there in the stretcher. There's the Angel of God over you. Yes, you. You were praying, wasn't you? I can't heal you, but you can't hide your life. You're in a dying condition. That's true. You know that. Well, look, there was four lepers, one time, sat at the gate of Samaria. In the city, they were eating one another's children. The Assyrian army had them backed up. They said, "Why do we sit here? If we sit here, we'll die. If we go into the city, we'll die. We've only got one choice: that's go down to the camp of the enemy. If they save us, we live." And God rewarded their faith when they went down to the enemy's camp. You don't have to go to the enemy's camp. You're expectant before God, a loving Father tonight, who's here to heal you. You're crippled up with arthritis. You got heart trouble. But if you believe on Jesus Christ, and believe me to be His prophet... Do you do that? Then I'd rise up, take the chair in the name of Jesus Christ and go home and be made well. There she is, my sister.
Let us rise to our feet, give God praise. Let's raise our hands.
Our heavenly Father, in the name of Jesus Christ, heal all that's afflicted.

Jehovah-Jireh

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1 Tomorrow afternoon, the Lord willing, I am going to speak on an evangelistic subject. And I'm going to preach on the greatest gift that God has for man. And now, that'll be to... [Break in tape.] Remember, we can only, as the good Samaritan, bring them to the inn. And the Lord told the innkeeper, said, "Take care of him," give him so many pence and said, "If you like... If he wants anything, give it to him. When I return, I will make it good with you." And I'm sure God will do that when He makes it good with His pastors at the coming of the Lord Jesus.

2 Now, we are... It's been a very rainy day, and, as you see, it's certainly harmed the crowds of our gathering tonight. But you know, there's one blessed thought that we have and know to be a truth: Jesus comes whether it's raining or not. He just comes right on. And there's nothing can stop Him. He went into the belly of a whale one time for some fellows ... or, Jonah. And He went down in a fiery furnace, through the fire blazes, and took all of the BTU out of the blaze for some fellows. He went into the lion's den for a prophet one time, and stood there like a big light. The Angel of the Lord in that great light stood there, and, of course, the animal's afraid of light, so he couldn't go to the prophet. And I believe that same Angel of God, that great pillar of fire, the light, is with us tonight. Amen.
And now, I want to talk just a little bit on the Word. And last night, we had a prayer line of many people coming through; trusting the Lord did great things. We've had hoping, trusting, that there's been testimonies of that tonight. And we believe tonight that God will do greater than He did last night. I do. And I ask if any of them that didn't feel that they were healed to come back today and get a prayer card, and we'll call again from somewhere in the prayer cards that was give out, after a while. And tomorrow night, we will finish up tomorrow night, the Lord willing.

3 Now, as I am dreading in one way of seeing the closing of this meeting. It seems like just about the time you get ready to say, "Well, I'm sure ... get to know one another," and all the (What will we call it?) spooks away from each other, that we're just wondering what it's all about, then we have to say, "Goodbye."
Last evening, my boy said to me; he said, "Daddy, I've got something to show you." And he brought me a prayer card; it's in my other Bible, the New Testament, which I've been preaching from. Tonight, I have a text here out of the Old Testament. And it was a prayer card that was given to him, he said, "I heard your father say that all the old prayer cards would be taken up." And when they come in the line here, you know how old his prayer card was? Ten years exactly. And that blessed little brother had the prayer card that was wrote on August 7, 1947. It was exactly ten years ago this week, I was here. I never knew it. Ten years ago this week... And the little brother had been ... was still suffering with the same thing that he had on his prayer card; he told the boy there. He looked over on it, and he come to the prayer line, and I got the chance to pray for him last night.
I sure...

4 Brother, if you're present, I sure trust the Lord Jesus has made you completely whole. If you held on to a prayer card for ten years to come in the prayer line, I think I'll just put that in the "Herald of Faith," and let people see how long that he waited in the prayer line. I thought the old possum laying there for twenty-four hours, as our little story, was a long time, but this man waited for ten years to the day, ten years.
Is that brother in the building tonight? If he is, I wish you'd just raise up your hand, brother, or stand up or something, that we could see you. I never seen such patience. I thought Job had patience. He sure has got Job beat, and he was a... Billy said he was a little fellow with a mustache, I believe it was, that had been in the line. Maybe tomorrow, I'll think and bring his ... the prayer card so I can call his name. He might not even be able to speak English, for all I know. And so I'll bring it, and I want to keep it for a souvenir.

5 Now, over in the book of Genesis, the 22nd chapter, the 14th verse, I wish to take just for the way of a text. And before we read the text, let's speak to the Author.
Heavenly Father, we are grateful to Thee from the very depths of our hearts for this grand and glorious privilege to be in this exhibition room tonight, sitting with great anticipations, waiting for the appearing of our blessed Lord. For someday He surely will come, and with Him, ten thousands of His saints. "And we, which are alive and remain, shall not prevent them which are asleep; for the trump of God shall sound, and the dead in Christ shall rise first; and then we shall be caught up together with them, to meet the Lord in the air."
Oh, what a consolation of waiting for that grand time, and if we should fall asleep before that great event, we are the promised people to come forth first. O God, we just see that that we meet each other before we meet Him. For God, knowing how to do things, knew that we would be longing to see mother, and dad, and the children before we meet the Lord. And He wants everything settled, that when we meet Him we can just worship Him and crown Him the King of kings and the Lord of lords. We long for that hour.

6 And as we've gathered here tonight, to fellowship around the Word, may the blessed Holy Spirit take the Word right straight to the heart of each one. Speak through the lips of clay; anoint, Lord, not premeditating or knowing what I should say, but just depending on You. This I have for twenty-five years; Thou has never failed me yet. And Thou shall never fail. And I pray that You'll get glory out of the service, and when the healing services shall start, may there be such great faith here tonight, that there will not be even one feeble person left in our midst tonight. We believe that You will do it. We're asking for it, in the name of the Lord Jesus that You'll bless Your people. Amen.

7 Now, the 14th verse:
And Abraham called the name of the place Jehovah-jireh: as it is said to this day, In the mount of the Lord it shall be seen.
I wish to speak tonight on the subject of Jehovah-jireh.
Now, Jehovah-jireh is one of the seven compound redemptive names of God. And He's Jehovah-jireh, "the Lord will provide Himself a sacrifice." He's Jehovah-rapha, "the Lord that healeth all thy diseases." He's Jehovah-manasseh, and Jehovah our buckler, our shield, our peace: seven, compound redemptive names. And those compound redemptive names are inseparable. They are part of God. God is represented in those seven redemptive names. The whole plan of redemption lays in those names.

8 Now, the night that this picture was taken, when I was at Houston, Texas, at the coliseum, the big Sam Houston Coliseum... I think it seats around thirty thousand people, when they seat the stampede floors. And we'd been in a music hall, where they were having about eight thousand in the meetings. And a minister put a piece in the paper and said that I was a religious devil, and should be run out of the city, and he wished he had the privilege of doing it. And then, Mr. Bosworth brought the paper to me, and a reporter was waiting downstairs for my answer. I said... And he challenged me to a debate.
Well, I tell you, friends, I don't believe the Bible is to be debated. I believe a Bible is the book that we should live instead of fuss about. And I never was in for debating. But the next day he wrote another large piece in the paper, on the front page, it said, "It proves what kind of people they are; they're afraid to approach their heresy in the light of the Bible."

9 Mr. Bosworth come back up and brought it to me again, and said, "What about this?"
Well, I said, "Mr. Bosworth, we haven't got time." I said, "There's at least eight or ten thousand people to be prayed for, and why would we use that night, for we just got a few more nights to be here. Why would we take that night just to fuss with one unbeliever, and he'd have the same attitude, no matter what was said, when he left, as he did when he come in? I've never seen a fuss yet ever bring any good." So I said, "Why don't you just leave him alone?"
He said, "But, Brother Branham, we're duty bound, as religious gentlemen, to answer his question."
And I said, "Well..."
He said, "He has challenged us to a debate."
And I said, "Well, Brother Bosworth, I wouldn't do it." I said, "It'd just cause a fuss."
And I never will forget the looks on that godly man's face; he said, "Then, Brother Branham, let me do it."
I thought of Caleb, when he said, "Joshua put this sword in my hand when I was forty years old, and today, I'm eighty, and I'm just as good a man today as I was then." And he proved that he was.

10 Well, this young, Baptist minister was only about thirty-five, thirty-eight years old, just fresh out of the seminary. And was a smart man, very smart.
And I said, "Brother Bosworth, it would only cause a fuss."
He said, "If I promise you, Brother Branham, that I won't fuss, will you let me do it?"
I said, "All right, if no fussing."
and the next day, great big headlines in the Houston Herald, I believe it is ... or, the Houston Chronicle, and it said, "Ecclesiastical Hair Will Fly." You know how the papers can play it up.

11 And so that makes me know now that we are living on a flower bed of ease, for there was people who would disagree with me on other subjects, as far as the east from the west, but that day, special planes, special trains, big engines roared, cars swept across them prairies, and people from miles, and miles around come to the rescue right quickly. They believed in divine healing, and they come.
So I said, "I'll not even go down to the place, because I don't want to... They will fuss, and I don't want to go down, because I don't like to hear people fuss."
And as it got later in the evening, well, I thought I'd better go down. So I put my coat on, pulled it up, and two policemen taken me in, up to the thirtieth row; and I sat down up there with my wife, my babies, and my brother.
And they had the ministers on the platform, and so, Mr. Best, Dr. Best, of the Baptist Temple, he had hired the American Photographer Association to come and take six glossies of him. Said, "Now, I'm going to take that old man Bosworth, and I'm going to skin him with the Bible, and I'm going to take his hide and tack it up on my study door for a memorial to divine healing."

12 Now, a man that would make that remark, there's something wrong down here below the fifth rib on the left side. So, a Christian wouldn't make that remark. However, when the meeting started, and they was going to give thirty minutes a piece. So, Mr. Bosworth got up with his little book in his hand. He asked from the moderator, he said, "Now, I'll ask Mr. Best..." Said, "I've six hundred Scriptures here that shows that Christ's same attitude towards the sick today is just as it was when He was here on the earth in a human body." Said, "Now, Brother Branham is out of the picture; we're talking about Bible doctrine on divine healing."
Well, I wondered what he was going... Said, "I'll give this book to Mr. Best, and wait till he's satisfied to pick out one of those six hundred Scriptures, and if he can take one of those six hundred Scriptures, and prove by the Bible ... disprove that my statements that Christ is the same today, His attitude towards the sick." Said, "Then I'll walk off the platform, and won't say one more word about it, and give the debate to him, and apologize to this audience."

13 He wouldn't take the book. Then he asked the moderator if he could ask Mr. Best one question. They give him leave.
He said, "Mr. Best, if you'll answer this question, yes or no, just say either yes or no. If you'll make one of those statements, I'll turn it over to you, and walk off the platform." Mr. Best nodded his head he would do it.
Mr. Bosworth said, "Was the redemptive names of Jehovah applied to Jesus, yes or no?" That settled it. He couldn't answer it.
If He isn't Jehovah-rapha, the healer, he isn't Jehovah-jireh, the Lord's provided sacrifice. And if He is Jehovah-jireh, He's also Jehovah-rapha, the same yesterday, today, and forever. There was nothing to be done.

14 Mr. Best knowed better than to handle that. But if that old fellow at nearly eighty didn't stand there and tie that Scriptures together, till I never heard anything like it in my life. That man didn't have a place... He couldn't even preach a good Baptist sermon. He preached a good Campbellite sermon, but not a Baptist. Now, I was rocked in a Baptist cradle; I know what Baptist doctrine is.
So, he preached that he didn't even believe that Lazarus was healed. He believed that if Lazarus had been healed, he would've never died no more. But divine healing comes over in another age. Well, we've got a glorified body then, and we don't need healing.
And when he sat down, Mr. Bosworth asked him the question, and the moderators had done... He hadn't answered one question of Mr. Bosworth ... or, answered ... or, approached that question. So, he just preached on, something on a good Campbellite sermon.

15 So then, when that taken place, he jumped up and he said, hit his fist on the platform, he said, "Let me see that divine healer come forth and perform."
And Mr. Bosworth, said, "Well now, Mr. Branham doesn't claim to be a divine healer, sir."
"Let me see him perform." And he said, "Then let me check one of those people a year from today. He can't do that hypnotizing and get by with it with me."
So, then they had to stop it. And so, Mr. Bosworth said, "Now, I know that Brother Branham's in the meeting. If he wants to, he can come and dismiss the audience."
And so, my brother said, "Now, you sit still."
"Why," I said, "ain't I sitting still?" And I just sat there a little bit, and all of a sudden I felt the Holy Spirit real near.
And I got up, started raising up, and Howard, my brother, said, "Sit down." Two policemen were standing there, and he said, "Sit down."
And I said, "I can't, Howard; the Holy Spirit is leading me."

16 And about five hundred ushers put their arms together, and formed a line for me to come to the platform, and when I got to the platform, I said, "Now, don't no one feel hard at Mr. Best." I said, "I differ with him in doctrine." But I said, "Don't feel hard at him." That's what our boys... The Korean war was going on then. I said, "That's what they're over there fighting for: for freedom." But I said, "I certainly different with him in doctrine, but I certainly don't want anyone to condemn him, 'cause he's our brother. He just doesn't understand the way we do." I said, "Now, as far as healing, I can't heal." I said, "But if the Angel ... the visit of the Angel of the Lord is in question, then that can be proven."
So, just before I come down, he said to Mr. Kipperman and them, to take the pictures of him. So he goes around in front of Mr. Bosworth, and stuck his finger up in his face, and drawed his fist back; he said, "Take it like this." And he did, then he shut up his fist and put in Mr. Bosworth's face, said, "Take it like this." And Mr. Kipperman with this big camera was taking it.

17 And now, they don't let pictures be taken while I'm under the anointing because that Angel is a light too, and it interferes with me. They can take them any time before that; it's all right. So then... So they begin taking those pictures, and then when I went down, I said, "Now, if I have ... if I have misrepresented anything..." You can't prove that by the Bible, neither he's whipped in divine healing as far as that---by the Bible. You seen he couldn't even answer one question. I said, "But the Angel of the Lord, that's true; and if I'm true, God will speak for me." And about that time, it sounded like a wind shook the building. And when it did, coming down, visible, here come this pillar of fire moving down.
And Kipperman, just by way, shot the picture again, and Mr. Ayers, a Roman Catholic, had put a piece in the paper, and said I hypnotized a woman, and a goiter went off of her throat, the day before. And he had just ridiculed me. He was one with the studio. And then on the... It was a... After they took the picture, I said, "Now, God has spoke. It's time for me to leave." I said, "When He speaks, the audience should keep quiet."

18 And on the road home that night, Mr. Kipperman said ... or, Ayers said to Mr. Kipperman, said, "Do you think it'll show?"
Said, "I doubt it."
So, they went in, and they put the pictures in the acid, and Mr. Kipperman went up the stairs, which lived over the studio to go to bed. And Mr. Ayers said, "We'd better run these glossies through, 'cause Best will want them tomorrow." So, he sat there, and smoked his cigarette real nervously, and he went in to pull out of the acid, and all six pictures of Mr. Best shaking his fist under Mr. Bosworth's nose, everyone of them was blank. God would not permit that man to shake his fist under the nose of that Godly saint. They was everyone blank. And when he pulled out the seventh one, there was the Angel of the Lord on the picture. He had a heart attack that night.

19 They sent it away; it was tested by George J. Lacy, the head of the FBI in finger printing document, of one of my critics. The next day when he... About four days afterwards we went to the Shell Building where he had been brought from California to test the picture. He said, "Who's name's Mr. Branham?"
I said, "Mine."
Said, "Stand up." Said, "Come here." Said, "I've been your critic." Said, "I've heard people say that about that light and so forth." "But," said, "I said it was psychology." But he reached out his hand, he said, "Mr. Branham, the mechanical eye of that camera won't take psychology." The light struck the lens. And he said, "As far as I know, that's the first time that a supernatural Being was ever scientifically photographed in all the history of the world." He said, "Someday that'll be on ten cents stores." "But," said, "not while you're living," for the testament is not in force until the testator is dead. We know that.
So, that sealed the testimony, and we're grateful to that, because God is still the same; He never fails. He's still the same Jehovah God. I'm sorry to have took that much time on that little picture there, but I'll try to hurry with my text.

20 We're speaking tonight of Jehovah-jireh, the Lord will provide a sacrifice. And keep this in mind, that as long as He is a Saviour, He is also a healer. And He's also a giver of peace. He's also our shield. He's also our buckler. Every redemptive name belongs to Jesus, and He's the same yesterday, today, and forever.
Now, we start out for a little basic for a few moments on this text. We have to begin Abraham. Who was Abraham? He appears first to us in the 12th chapter of Genesis. Abraham was just an ordinary man who came down from Babylon; perhaps his father might have been an idol worshiper. But he married his half-sister, Sarai, when she was yet a young woman, and Abraham was ten years older than Sarai. And they came down into the valley the Shinar and in the city of Ur, the land of the Chaldeans. And they were dwelling in a city of Ur.

21 And God, by His sovereign grace and election---not because that Abraham was better than anyone else, but because God by election, foreordination---called Abraham.
Oh, I just want to take my time. Every night I get nervous, because I'm afraid you people has to go to work and I'm holding you too long. But let's just settle down for a little bit and listen at the Word.
Abraham was just an ordinary man that God chose. He had nothing to do with it. And neither have you got anything to do with it, or neither have I got anything to do with it. It's God's business to make the choice. "Not him that willeth, or him that runneth, but God that showeth mercy." Altogether by election...

22 Now, and God made His covenant with Abraham, absolutely unconditional. There was no ifs and ands about it. The covenant was absolutely had no strings attached to it at all, and Abraham had nothing to do into it. God made a covenant with man one time which was Abel. And Abel broke his promise to God ... or, his covenant. And man always does break his promise to God. So, God was determined to save the ones of Adam's fallen race. And so, He made the covenant with Abraham unconditionally, not, "If you will do something," but "I have done it."
And you say, "Oh, if God would make that covenant with me..." He did not only make it with Abraham, but his seed after him. You say, "Well, if I was a Jew." It doesn't take a Jew ... outwardly is not a Jew; it's a Jew inwardly. For if we be dead in Christ, we take Abraham's seed and are heirs according to the promise. So the Jew is not the outward Jew, but the inward Jew by the Holy Spirit, by believing the promise that God gave Abraham. Oh, it's beautiful. It's perfect.

23 If I ever come to Edmonton again, I would like to come for about a month, and have the first two or three weeks just Bible teaching on these things, to get that scare from the people. They come real nervously, "Oh, I..." That's not it. You come quietly, reverently, soberly, without one shadow of doubt: It's anchored; nothing can ever take it away.
So, God told Abraham when he was seventy-five years old and Sarah was sixty-five. They had lived together as husband and wife since they were merely children. But God said that they'd had no children ... or, the Bible said they'd had no children, and Sarah was barren. Now, think: forty, fifty, sixty... She was about twenty-five years past menopause. And her husband had lived with her since she was a little girl, with no children, and here he is seventy-five years old, and her sixty-five years old, and God said He was going to give them a baby.

24 Could you imagine what would take place today if an old man of seventy-five years old, with his feeble little wife of sixty-five, go down and say, "Doctor, I want to make arrangements with you. We're going to have a baby."
Why, the doctor would say, "There's something wrong with the old man." Certainly. But you see, the doctor would look at the natural side, and Abraham was looking at what God promised. That's the difference. The believer never looks to the natural side. He looks to what God said, and that settles it. No matter what it looks like, he believes it anyhow.
Why, I can see Abraham going out, buying up the Birdseye, and the pins, and everything. Getting ready. "We're going to have the baby, honey."
And the folks said, "You know, the old man's kind of slipped in his head."
But everyone that tries to serve God is considered a little foolish, because they've got the mind of God they're going by. They're not paying any attention to what the world would say. We look at the unseen, by the human eye. Faith is not what you see; "Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen." Now, if you get that way down in your heart, then we're coming close to home base.

25 When God makes a promise, He's duty bound to take care of that promise. Abraham believed that, and he called those things which were not, as though they were. Romans 4 says that, that He called the things which was not, as though they were. So, he looked at the unseen. That's what every believer... They'll come and say, "Oh, I was prayed for; my hands crippled. It isn't any better. I don't know whether there's anything to it or not."
Well, you just might as well not have come in the first place. Doesn't make any difference what that looks like. If you look at that hand, it'll always be that way. But you want to look to what God said, and don't pay any attention to the hand. God said so, and that settles it.

26 What if Abraham said, "Now, just a moment. I'd better go down and consult the doctor, and see if that would be all possible. After all, I'm sterile, and she's barren. So then... And we're way past the age; she's past menopause about twenty-five years, and why, I'm seventy-five years old. Maybe I'd better consult the doctor."
Well, you know what the doctor would've said. But Abraham never thought of such a thing. He thought of what God said, and called those things that were not, as though they were. Amen. Don't think I'm "amening" myself, but amen means "so be it." And I believe it. Calls those things which were not, as though they were.
Well, the first month passed; he said, "Sarah, how're you feeling?"
"Not a bit of difference, honey."
"Well, glory to God, we're going to have it anyhow. God said so." Second month passed. "How about it, sweetheart?"
"No different, Abraham."
"Well, bless God, we're going to have it anyhow."
The first year passed. No difference. "Going to have the baby anyhow." Why? God said so.
Twenty-five years passed. "What about it, Sarah?"
"No difference, darling."
"But glory to God, we're going to have it anyhow."

27 The longer you wait, the greater miracle it's going to be. And we can't wait fifteen minutes after we're prayed for. And then we're Abraham's children. Oh yeah, we're sons and daughters of Abraham. We've just got our name on a church book; that's all. Sons and daughters of Abraham take God at His Word. No matter what comes or goes, or who says anything else; it's God's Word first in all times.
But then, we find out that there was some things that went with it. God told Abraham, as soon as He made him this promise, He said, "Separate yourself from your kindred."
Now, the trouble with us, when we feel or hear a promise of God, we go down and consult what this minister's got to say, and what that's got to say, and get amongst unbelievers, and mix it all up together. No wonder we... God calls for separation. Separate yourself from the things of the world. And oh, blessed be the name of the Lord. Men and women who take God at His promise has to stand alone. God said so.

28 Now today, when you choose your pastors... Of course that's the way we did it in the Baptist church, I don't... Others have... The conference sends them. But usually, when they choose their pastor, they'd want a man, a little, pretty little fellow, with some real wavy hair, and could say, "Ah-men," like a calf, and turn around with a real nice suit on, and just be so dignified, and preach fifteen minutes, and then run out and go bathing with them. And have a little game in the bottom of the basement, and little entertainments to soup suppers, and so forth to pay the pastor. And put up with that, a mixer? The world wants mixers, but God wants separators. That's right. God wants us to separate ourselves from the things of the world. And if we are Abraham's seed, we will separate ourselves from the things of the world.
Now, Abraham started off; he had trouble as long as his daddy was with him. The old fellow died. Then he took his nephew, and as long as Lot was along, there was trouble. God said, "Separate yourself," and walk alone with Him.
That's the way God wants you to do: Separate yourself from all unbelief and walk alone with God. God deals not with organizations, not with denominations; He deals with individuals in that organization or denomination. Walk alone.

29 And now notice, and when Lot being what we would call today, a borderline believer, one of these here lukewarm. When Abraham being a real representative of Christianity, he said, "You take your choice of which side of the land you want." A Christian will always give you the benefit of the doubt.
And, of course, he pitched his tent towards the big times in Sodom and Gomorrah, and backslid and was... All he had was burnt up later, just like every lukewarm believer will be. All your goods will be tried by fire, and your works, and it'll be burned.
But then, after Lot separated himself from Abraham, Abraham was dwelling in the land, and God appeared to Abraham and told him that the whole land belonged to him. "All of it's yours. Look east, west, north, and south; it's every bit yours. All belongs to you. Walk through it. See what it looks like."

30 Oh, that's what's the trouble with the Christian today. You are heir of all things. Well, brother, if I bought a house or somebody give me a house, I'd' go through every room in it. I'd go down the basement; I'd go out in the garage. I want to know what I own. That's the way it was when I got saved. These are God's promises, so I just went right through them, claimed everyone of them. They're mine.
You know, it's just like getting into a great, big arcade. Did you ever go into a big arcade? You look around; it all belongs to you. By one Spirit, we all baptized into this big arcade. Every promise is yours. Something looks a little high, get you a stepladder and get up to it. Look it over; it all belongs to you. Every promise is yours. Every promise is to the believer: heir of all things, all belongs to you.

31 Now, Abraham was then getting older, and he said, "Lord, how will I know this?"
Now, I want to show you a little something here. I want you to listen quietly. God told Abraham, said, "Go get a heifer of three years old, and the sheep, and so forth, and two turtle-doves. And cut them in the middle, but don't divide the birds." The birds was put in whole.
Now, if you are spiritual and understand, the bird is always the sacrifice for healing. God changed from law to grace, but healing has always been on the basis of faith. Notice, but He claved these pieces apart, in two. And then, Abraham watched the sun, as it went down, and kept the birds off. And when it got dark... Listen close. When it begin to get dark, a deep sleep fell on Abraham. God was going to show... Now, this, to you Arminian brother, may pinch just a little bit, but I want you not to squeal, but just sit still a minute; listen.

32 Notice, "Abraham, I'm going to show you how I'm going to do it." And here's the 16th chapter ... the 15th chapter, I believe it is, of Genesis. It's a beautiful picture.
Now, Abraham was put to sleep by God. "Now, you don't have one thing, Abraham, that you can do to save yourself. But I'm going to show you how I'm going to do it."
Now, He put him to sleep so he would be out of the picture altogether. And we're not saved by works; it's by grace, through faith, we are saved; not one thing you can do. Not one little corner could you turn to merit anything towards your salvation; it's a free gift of God by grace. That's right.
If you give me a thousand dollars, and I say, "Well, I'll straighten up your tie, sir, for that."
A little thing like that, yet you never give me the thousand dollars, for I did something to merit that. It's absolutely a free gift of God, that He knocks at your heart and says, "Do you wish to have it?" That's all.

33 Notice, Abraham went to sleep, and when he did... Watch the routine of this. The first thing he saw was a horrible darkness. That represents death to everyone of Adam's race. And after the darkness, went a smoking furnace. Every sinner deserves to go to hell. Death, hell! And then the next he saw, was a little, white light. Blessed be the name of the Lord for that little, white light. And the little light went up through these sacrifices, and it went right in between each one of these claved sacrifices, writing or making a covenant, showing that through this sacrifice, that He would save Adam's race.
Notice, God was making His covenant unconditionally to Abraham.

34 Now look, there's many ways that we make a covenant. Now like in America, if I'd say, "We'll make a covenant or promise to one another." We'd go over and have us a little sandwich and made some kind of a deal. I take a hold of the man's hand, and say, "Shake, brother." That's a covenant in the United States. That's an agreement. We shook hands on it.
In Japan, a covenant, when they make a covenant, they stand and get a little box of salt and throw salt on each other. That's a covenant in Japan.
But in the Orient, back in Abraham's time, you know what they done to make a covenant? They took an animal, and slew the animal, cut it apart, and stood between these pieces of the flesh, and they wrote on a piece of paper, "I agree to do this, and such-and-such a thing." Then they tore the paper apart. One man kept one part; the other kept the other part. And they took a oath over that dead animal's body, that if they broke this covenant, let their bodies be like this dead animal. And when they come together, they had to have the right piece of paper, 'cause it had to dovetail perfectly with the other piece of paper.

35 Now, how God was showing Abraham. If we had time to go into it. But here's what it was. God was showing that through the seed of Abraham, would bring Christ, His own Son, through Isaac to Christ. And that on Calvary, God took His own Son, and tore Him apart. He lifted up the body and set it on His right-hand, and sent the other part, the Holy Spirit, down on the church. And when the rapture comes, it'll have to be the same Spirit that was on Christ, will have to dovetail with that promise, or it will be rejected. No wonder He said, "Except a man be born again, he will in no wise enter the kingdom." It has to be the same Holy Ghost that fell on the day of Pentecost, has to baptize every believer or it won't be the same spirit, and contract, that was tore at Calvary.
Think of that. Oh, that ought to make the Pentecost shout anyhow. Think of it, the unconditional covenant. God said, "It has to be." And He tore apart, soul and body of His own Son. He took the body and sent the Spirit to the church. And that Spirit can come into the church today, and perform the same miracles showing, and people will laugh at it and walk away from it. How do you ever expect to make the rapture or go in to see God? There we are. Maybe you never seen that before, but that's truth.

36 Now, you see why it's necessary, you've got to be born of the Spirit? The Spirit of Christ has to be in you, because it has to be the same Spirit. Take your body to be joined with that body. The same Spirit was tore off of Christ, tore out of Christ ... or, Jesus. And if that Spirit is in you, it'll make you do the things that Christ did. It'll make you live the life that Christ lived. And Christ was about the Father's business all the time, not gadding about at shows and entertainments. He was about the Father's business.
Now, you see why it was hard to have a healing service? You've got to get a foundation first. You've got to get the people based on "Thus saith the Lord." There's the unconditional covenant God told Abraham.

37 Then when Abraham was ninety and nine, God appeared to him again (in the 17th chapter of Genesis), and He appeared to him in the name as the El Shaddai. El Shaddai is the Hebrew word which means "the breasted One, or the breasted God."
Now notice, Abraham was almost a hundred, and God appeared to him in the name of the breasted One, like the mother with her baby, and the mother not what... Just a "breast" God, but "breasted" God.
Now, what was it? He died for a compound cause, for both soul and body. He was wounded for our transgressions; with His stripes we were healed. He's the breasted life giver.

38 The little baby, when it's sick, needy, the mother takes it to her bosom; she feeds it. And it's the strength of the mother's body goes into the baby. And the little baby is satisfied while he's recovering. And the children of Abraham lays onto the bosom of God, any divine promise, and is satisfied while they're recovering, because they're nursing from the promise of Almighty God. There you are.
If you're weak, spiritually, lean over on His bosom, little sick child. Abraham said, "Well now, I'm a hundred years old."
God said, "You're just a little boy baby. I am thy strength giver. And now, just come up here on My bosom. And you're as good as dead, and the womb of Sarah is as good as dead." 'Course, the husband and wife is one. Now, said, "Now, you just lay here on My promise that you've been nursing on, and I'll nurse you back to health."
I feel religious. Think of it. Both New and Old Testament, Alpha Omega, the breasted strength giver. "Just lean here; you're old Abraham. You're an old man, a hundred years old, but I'm the breasted God, the strength giver. Just nurse; just keep nursing; I'll bring you right back to a young man again."

39 When he was just at a hundred years old, one day he was sitting in his tent door, and he happened to look, coming up, and there come three angels. And they walked up; they looked like men; they had dust on their clothes. And as They drew close to Abraham, Abraham run and met them. He said, "Come in, my Lord, and let me wash Your feet." And when he... They sat down under the oak, said, "Refresh yourself, I will bring a morsel of meal; then you shall go ahead on your journey, for this cause you come to your servant."
Abraham knew that there was something a little more than a man there. So, he sat them down. He run in real quick, and he said, "Sarah, get some fine meal, and knead it." And he run out in the herd and got the fattest little calf he could find. He killed it, give it to his servant to dress. Said, "Sarah, make some bread right quick now and get ready." And he went out.
You know down in the south we have what we call a fly bush. You northerners don't know what that is: just a thing you shoo the flies away, you know. So, I can see Abraham out there a shooing the flies away and washing their feet. Sarah called him, and they brought out the meat of the calf, the butter from the cow's milk, and the milk, and some corn bread; and he had veal chops, and corn bread and butter. And oh, that's a real good southern dish. And they eat it. And you know who it was? It was two angels and Almighty God. Right. They eat bread, and drink milk, and eat flesh. The Bible said they did. How about that?

40 Some minister said to me sometime ago; I was preaching on that. He said, "Do you mean to tell me, Mr. Branham, that that was God?"
I said, "The Bible said it was."
He said, "How did He become a man?"
I said, "Well, it was very easy for God, the Creator, who made all things, just to grab a little handful of cosmic light, and calcium, and potash, and 'Wheww! Come here, Gabriel, and step into that. Wheww! Come here, Michael, and step into this.'" Stepped into it Himself, and come here on earth, and eat, and drink, and vanished out of the sight of Abraham. Hallelujah, I'm glad that that's my God tonight. Sure it is. He holds everything in His hands. Ame

41 Walked down, He said, "I'm going down to talk to Abraham, He might not understand Me. If I go as a man, he will know it." That was nothing but the pre-figure of the Lord Jesus Christ, Melchisedec and so forth. It was a theophany to begin with, and then it become flesh. And they eat like men, hungry. And while He was sitting with His back turned to the tent, He said, "Abraham, you've been asking Sarah how she feels all the time; twenty-five years has passed now. And now, about according to the time of life, that used to be with her (You know what I'm ... every twenty-eight days), I'm going to visit you. And you're going to have this baby."
And Sarah, in the tent, said... [Brother Branham snickers.]
He said, "What made Sarah laugh?" Talk about mental telepathy, that surely must have been. "What made Sarah laugh?"
And Sarah said, "Oh, I never laughed."
Said, "Oh, yes, you did." He said, "And I'm going to visit you."

42 Now, don't be in a hurry, but I want to show you something here to you folks. What did God do to Sarah and Abraham right then? After the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah and so forth, if you notice, God took...
Now, you have to read the Bible as on the line, and in between the line, because it's hid from the eyes of the wise and prudent. Now, the way you'll find that is be in love with God, and God will reveal it to you. Oh, my, the Bible's a new book after you're converted.
Now notice, when I'm overseas, I love my wife, oh, so much. And when she writes me a letter, she'll sit down and say, "Dear Billy, I miss you so much tonight. I've just put the children to bed. I kissed little Joseph once for you." Now, that's what she's saying on the letter, but right in between there I see a stain, a little tear drop. I'm reading between the line. For she's trying to act like a soldier, but I know what's between the line, because I love her.
And when you love God, you don't pick it up and read it like a newspaper; there's just something there that just grips you and holds you.

43 Watch what God did. God showed Sarah and Abraham what He's going to do to each one of you men and women tonight, that's saved. You know what He done? He turned Sarah and Abraham back to a young man and a young woman. He did it.
Now notice, we know that Sarah now, nearly a hundred ... ninety years old; there had to be a miracle done. Now listen, first thing, if her womb was unfertile, He had to make it fertile. Is that right? All right. Another thing, if she nearly a hundred years old... And you listen to your doctor; I'm your brother. And I got a mixed audience, but she could never go to labor with a heart like that of nearly a hundred years old. So He had to give her a new heart. Them days, women didn't smoke cigarettes, so they had to raise their babies on bottles, so they had to raise them by the breast, the way God intended for them to be. So in order to do that, the milk veins had dried up in her breasts, so He had to make milk veins and so forth so the baby could nurse. God don't patch things up like that; He just made her a new woman. I can prove it by God's Word.

44 Now watch. You say, "Can you do it, Brother Branham?" Just watch.
Notice. Just a few days after that, Sarah and Abraham took a three-hundred-mile journey. Certainly, that's quite a distance for a real old man and woman a hundred years old, dawdling along the road. And when they got down into the land of the Philistines, there was a righteous man down there in the city, and his name, Abelech. No. Can't call his name just now: Abimelech. Abimelech was a king, a young king, and he was hunting himself a sweetheart. And all those pretty girls there was along there, when he seen grandma coming---Sarah a hundred years old, a little shawl over her shoulder, a little dust cap, toddling along the road---"Oh," he said, "there she is. That's the one I've waited on for a long time." He fell in love with Sarah. The Bible said he did. An old grandma a hundred years old now, and a young king looking for a sweetheart, falls in love with this beautiful Hebrew woman.
"Oh," you say, "Brother Branham, they lived longer there."
Wait just a minute, the Bible said they were both well stricken in age. Oh, I feel like a holy-roller now. Think of it: My God making the covenant with Abraham and Sarah, and their seed. Certainly. He's not a weakling, some kind of a prehistoric something pushed off in a corner. He's Jehovah God, the I AM---not the I was---the I AM.
I'm not yelling at you; I don't mean to deafen you, but... I'm not excited; I just feel good.

45 Notice. It'll make you feel good to know that when this earthly tabernacle be dissolved---old and wrinkled, and broke down---we've got a young one waiting. Amen. I can see Abraham, that hump in his back, long whiskers hanging down, you know, and long hair. One morning he woke up, and he said... Sarah said, "Say, Abraham, your shoulders are straightening up. Your hair is getting black again."
"Why, he said, "Sarah, them beautiful eyes that faded out many years ago, are turning brown again." Amen. Jehovah-jireh was on the job.

46 And this king, looking for a sweetheart, couldn't... All those beautiful women, but when he found that little old grandma, a hundred years old, he said, "That's her. That's the one I've waited for."
Now, that would be ridiculous. Sure it would. What's in it? Read between the lines. God had turned them back to a young man and a young woman, so she could have this baby.
After a while when the little Isaac was born, sweet little boy, then I want you to notice. Not only that, but even after Sarah had died, he married Keturah, and after that he had seven sons, besides the daughters.

47 [Blank spot on the tape.] ... day the skies will break and the old will be young there forever. Oh, for His coming. Who is that One? The One that met Abraham out there and give him the promise.
Now, my, this could go a long time. I'm just getting warmed up, so I feel like I could preach now.
Think of it. Oh, it's enough to excite you. It's not only an excitement; it's the positive truth by God's eternal Word. That's correct. What He did for Abraham and Sarah there, He does for every one of their children by a sworn promise under those dead sacrifices that He'd do it. Oh, we have nothing to worry about. We're on our road to the promised land. When your foot touches that land, you spring back to youth again, and a young people. Oh, what a beautiful promise! We rest upon that. How wonderful!

48 Then when the little boy's about fifteen years old... We'll hurry. When the little boy's about fifteen years old, little curly hair, and little baby-brown eyes, how that mama loved that little fellow. But you know, God said, "There's going to be some people over about Edmonton, Alberta, sometime that's going to be in a healing service, and I want to show them people that I keep My promise. And I've got their father, Abraham, here, and I'm going to prove it by him that I keep My promise. Now, I give him the name of Abraham, and told him he was the father of nations. And now I've give him a little boy, and he's about a hundred and fifteen, twenty years old now."
And I say unto you, that God told Abraham to take that little boy up and destroy him, kill him. Why, he was killing every hope of ever being a father of nations---his only son. And he was over a hundred years old, and had waited a hundred years to get the son. "Take him up and kill him."
Well now, Abraham didn't want to tell Sarah, because, you know, the women just don't understand sometimes like that. So he... Especially the mama. So he said, "In the morning, we're going up to worship." So he saddled up some mules, and took some servants, and put some wood on the mules, and he went three-days' journey.

49 Now, an ordinary man of these days, when you got gasoline feet, you can walk twenty-five miles a day. I've walked a many a time thirty and thirty-five miles a day on patrol. But twenty-five miles, he went three-days' journey; that would be seventy-five miles back from civilization. And then he looked afar off and saw the mount where God told him to go to. And he went to the mountain. What did he do? When he got close to the mountain, he stopped the horses ... the little mules. He took the wood off of the mules, and laid it on Isaac's back: a beautiful picture of Christ. Just what He had promised him back there. See Christ acting out Himself in the prophets, and in the Old Testament? See Him acting Himself what He was then, He is now? Showing them what He would be when He come, showing us now what He was when He was here? Everything heaping up in the cross? The way of the cross leads home. Can you see it?
Look how David cried over the city. Look how Joseph was sold almost for thirty pieces of silver, and rejected by his brethren, loved by his father, and everything: just perfectly the portrayal of Christ. Showing what Christ would be to the cross, after the cross. Now, He shows what Christ was. Everything pointed that way to the cross, and everything this way points back to the cross. The cross opened the veil. Redemption only through the cross.
And notice, he laid the wood upon little Isaac's back, and Isaac packed the wood up the hill---the very wood that he was to die on. God put His wood upon His Son's back and packed Him up the hill, packed the cross up the hill, that He was to die on it.

50 But I love this. Read it when you go home, the 22nd chapter of Genesis. The servants... He said, "You stay here, while the boy and I go yonder to worship. And the boy and I shall return."
Oh, my. Bless your heart. Oh, look at the faith he had. He had been put to the test. He had been tried. He knowed what he was talking about. He's going up to cut the throat of his son. But he said, "The boy and I shall return." Amen. With the knife in his belt that would cut his own son's throat, but Abraham said, "I received him in the figure as one from the dead. I was persuaded that God could raise him up from the dead."
God said so; go do it. God said, "By His stripes we're healed." Believe it. God said, "Whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved." Believe it. "He that heareth My words and believeth on Him that sent Me, hath everlasting life, and shall never come to the judgment---passed from death unto life." Believe it. Certainly. God said so. If you're Abraham's seed, you will believe it.

51 And he said, "The boy and I shall return." How're they going to return, when he's going to kill him? And little Isaac went up the hill bearing his cross, as it was foreshadow of Christ. Got up there. Imagine how that old father with that lovely, beautiful, little boy. Think, mother what it ... or, dad, what it would be to your boy.
And he took the wood off of Isaac's shoulders. He fixed him a big rock, and he laid the wood on there, got the fire, and fixed the sacrifice block all right, and put the fire on it. And little Isaac kind of got suspicious, and he said, "Father..."
He said, "Here I am, my son."
He said, "Here is the altar, and here is the fire; here is the wood, but where is the sacrifice?"
Oh, my. I believe Abraham was a mute at that time, but God spoke through him. He said, "My son, God will provide a sacrifice for Himself." Amen. "God will provide for Himself a sacrifice." That's the reason He's called Jehovah-jireh, the Lord will provide. He's the God that meets the need of the minute.

52 So he caught his own little son, pulled his hands behind him, Isaac not making a move or asking any questions: obedient to death, just as Christ was; tied his hands behind him, tied his feet, laid him upon the rock, brushed back his little curls out of his face, reached down and got that real sharp knife, looked up towards the heavens, pulled his throat back, raised his knife to take his life; and about that time the Holy Spirit caught his hand, said, "Abraham, stay you hand. I know that you love Me, for thou would not prevent Me from having your only son." And about that time, a ram bleated, hooked in the wilderness by his horns. Now, not a ewe, but a ram: speaking of Christ.
And I want to ask you something: Where did that ram come from? He's about seventy-five or a hundred miles from civilization. Wild beasts, lions, wolves, wild dogs, the desert's full of them. How could he have ever got there? And another thing, he was way on top of a mountain where there's no water. How did he get there? Jehovah-jireh. God spoke him into existence, just the same as he spoke that body into existence, just the same as He'll speak someday and by the grace of God I'll come forward. How, I don't know, but He's Jehovah-jireh. He promised that He'll do it. He spoke and that lamb bleated. He walked over, and took the lamb, and killed it in Isaac's place.
Now, brother, it wasn't a vision; there was blood run out of the ram. He was a living sheep. He laid it on the altar, cut its throat, and blood run from it. Not a vision, it was a ram. What was it? He was Jehovah-jireh. He will keep His Word.

53 And He's Jehovah-jireh tonight. He'll keep His Word. What He's promised, that He will do. For He has to keep His Word; He's the same yesterday, today, and forever, without beginning of days or ending of life. Jehovah-jireh. Without any hesitation, I take the position tonight, as a minister of the Gospel, to say that He's right here tonight, to perform everything that He promised He'd do. If He can only get you to believe Him.
Let us pray. Would you like to have Him as your Saviour? Would you like for your name to be on His book tonight? If it isn't, will you raise your hand to Him just for the next moment? God bless you, sir. God bless you, lady. God bless you, sir. You, lady. You, you, you. That's wonderful. You here, sir. Back over there, brother. You, you. Oh, my, hands... Twenty or twenty-five on the main floor already.

54 The balconies to my right, quickly, while the Spirit's a moving, would you raise your hand say, "I'd like for You to put my name on the book, that someday when I'm not even dust no more, when You speak I'll hear You. I'll come into existence. My old days will drop away, and I'll be young forever. You promised it. Something's knocking at my heart that You give me the invitation. Not if I'll quit drinking, if I'll quit smoking, if I'll quit gambling; if I will just accept it right now."
God bless you, lady. God bless you, sir. God bless you, back there, brother. God bless you over here, sister. Up in this way now, anybody? God bless you. What's the matter with them balconies up there? You mean the Holy Spirit just comes on the main floor. I wouldn't sit in the balcony then. What about in the back? Anybody back there, say, "I want Him for my Saviour"? The balcony to my left. What's the matter with them balconies? I never get a hand out of those balconies, and seldom the Spirit ever goes to the balcony to call someone. What's the matter with us? Get on the main floor, if I had to sit on the platform. I'd get out of it then.

55 Listen, Christ is here. Jehovah's here. His promise is here. His promise is good. Don't be afraid of it. Say, "I believe it. I accept it. He's knocking at my heart. I believe it."
Anyone else that hasn't raised their hand, would raise their hand for prayed just before we pray. God bless you. The whole group here, just a massive... All right. This may be the last time He knocks at your door. He's Jehovah-jireh tonight. In the morning, He may be your solemn judge.

56 Over in Colorado where I done a lot of ranching, there's a story told about a rancher there. A young baby was laying in the back of a buckboard one time, and there was a gun fight down the street, and someone shot off a gun, and the horses run away. A young fellow straddled his saddle horse, and took out after the buckboard, and just before it went over a bank, he caught it, and saved the life of the baby. About twenty years or twenty-five years later, there was a man tried in a court on a criminal case. And the judge, after the jury had pronounced their verdict... The judge was to speak the verdict after the jury had decided, and he said, "Stand up, young man." And the young man stood up. He said, "I sentence you to hang by your neck until your mortal life is gone. God be merciful to your soul."
And that young man said, "You can't do that, judge." And he broke loose in the court, started running, he said, "Judge, judge." He fell at his feet. Said, "Don't you know me?"
Judge said, "I don't believe I do."
He said, "You remember when you was a little boy ... or, young man, you saved a little baby's life?"
He said, "Yes."
He said, "You're the same young man that did that, aren't you?"
And the judge said, "I am."
He said, "I'm that baby." He said, "You saved me that day. Save me, judge."
The judge said, "Son, I was your savior then, but I'm your judge now. The verdict is passed."
And to neglect Christ as your Saviour tonight, may be your Judge in the eternities beyond, in the morning. Once more, will you raise your hands? God bless you, that's good. That's fine.

57 Now, Heavenly Father, Thou seest every hand, and oh, I'm sure that You know their hearts. Every mortal must come to the end of the way someday. And as they're solemnly in this building tonight, raising their hands toward heaven, something made them do that. Something spoke to their heart strangely, and warmed their inward beings, and they raised their hands and saying, "Yes, Jehovah-jireh. I accept Your provided Sacrifice tonight, the Lord Jesus Christ. I'm a sinner. I'm in need. And He died in my stead to take my place, and through His blood we have the waters of separation that separates the sin from the sinner. And we come humbly now to accept that propitiation for our sins." And I stand, as Your servant, between these people and the Master, and ask that through prayer, that You'll make a breach line, and wind Yourself into their heart, that they'll stop sinning from this hour, and fall so in love with Christ, until they'll look at those thing which are not, and say as if they were. Grant it, Father.
Give them long, happy lives here on earth, and in glory may they walk new and young, be change in a moment, in a twinkling of an eye. These vile bodies will be changed, and we'll have a body like His own glorious body, for we shall see Him as He is. Take them, just now, tenderly into Thy care, Almighty God. For I ask this blessing in their behalf, in the name of Thy Son, the Lord Jesus. Amen.

58 Don't you just feel scoured out? Think of it. Let's sing a verse of that, "Softly and Tenderly," now, come on.
Softly and tenderly Jesus is calling,
Calling for you and for me;
See on the portals He's watching
and waiting,
Waiting for you and for me.
Come home, come home,
Ye who are weary, come home;
Earnestly, tenderly, Jesus is calling,
Calling, O sinner, come home!

59 Now, we're going to put Jehovah-jireh to the test tonight. God said in His Book, His glorious Book, "Prove Me, saith the Lord." Test Him on any word. Any here that's never been in the meeting before? Let's see your hands if you haven't. You're... About all have been here, I suppose, so you know... Maybe one or two.
The Lord Jesus, the same yesterday, today, and forever, He claimed that He did nothing in Himself, but what He saw the Father doing. We all know that. We're aware of that. Said, "I can do nothing in Myself. What the Father shows Me, that I do."
He looked upon His audience; He perceived their thoughts. That's true. A woman touched His garment, went out in the audience, and He looked around till He found her. And He said, "Someone touched Me." They denied it. He told the woman that her blood issue had ceased. Her faith had made her well.
He told the woman at the well, her sins. He told Philip where he was before ... or, Nathanael before Philip called him. He told him he was under a tree. That's was all the fruits of His Messiahship.

60 Now, what is He? Listen at Him. "He that believeth on Me, the works that I do, shall he do also. More than this shall he do, for I go unto My Father." If He hadn't have made that promise, we could have done nothing. He wouldn't have represented Himself.
But look, we see it every now and then, that He did it. But He said, in one time doing it, He got weak, and He was the virtuous Son of God. I'm a sinner saved by grace. How could I stand more than He did? Because He said so.
Now, it says there, "greater," but no one could do greater. You look at the original and find out if it isn't "more" instead of "greater." He raised the dead, stopped nature, controlled elements, and done everything. There's nothing you could do any greater, but rightly, it was more, because He could be all over the world at one time in His church. "More than this shall you do. He that believeth on Me, the works that I do."
Now, listen what He said, and solemnly remember. "A little while, and the world will see Me no more." Did He say that? "Yet..." Now, He just meant... What did He mean? the earth? No, He said, "The world..." The cosmos, the order of the world." "The world will see Me no more, yet ye shall see Me (the church), for I will be with you to the end of the world." Is that right?

61 Now, what is the world represented there? Any minister knows it represents the order, the world order. The regular routine: go to church, and go to work Monday, and go back next Sunday; that's the world order. "They shall not see Me no more."
You say, "See me?"
Yes, sir.
"Why, we got eyes. You mean to tell us we're blind, Mr. Branham?"
Yes, sir. That's right.
"Well, I had my eyesight tested. It's twenty-twenty."
But you're still blind.

62 A man walked to me one time, that belongs to a church. He said, "I don't believe in you."
I said, "I don't want you to believe in me. I want you to believe in Christ."
Said, "I give you to understand: I'm a minister."
I said, "Then act like it."
And he said, "I wouldn't care what would take place; I wouldn't believe it."
I said, "It wasn't for unbelievers. It was for believers."
And he said, "Well then, I'm a devil. Smite me blind. Paul smote a man blind."
I said, "You're already blind. The devil's done made you blind."
He said, "I got good eyesight."
I said, "But you're blind. Jesus said, 'You got eyes and you can't see.'"

63 Look at Elijah down at Dothan that morning. When Gehazi went out and run back, and said, "Oh, father, master, the whole Syrian army has... We're encamped about with thousands of Syrians; they're all armed."
And old Elijah, just as cool as he could be, he said, "There's more with us than there is with them." See?
He said, "Why, I don't see nobody but just you and I."
And Elisha knew what was near. He said, "God, open this young man's eyes." And God opened his eyes, and he looked, and around that old prophet was chariots of fire and horses of fire. The mountains was on fire. He understood. But you see, he was blind to that.

64 Now, Elijah, the Bible said, walked right out and smote that whole army blind. And how many knows the Bible said that? The whole army was smitten blind. But they didn't lose their sight. He walked out, and... They were blind to him. He walked out and said, "Are you all looking for Elijah?"
"Sure, that's who we're looking for."
Said, "Come on; I'll show you where he's at."
They were blind to him. The Bible said, "They were blind." And he led them right into ambush with all of the Jewish army and they just encamped them; that's all. And they were blind thinking that he was leading them to Elijah, and they absolutely know him, but they didn't know him then. And men are blind. The world will never see Jesus no more, no matter what He does. And if you die... The word death means "separated." "And the soul that sinneth, it shall die." It shall be separated from the presence of God forever.

65 Now listen, what is sin? Now, this is going to shock you. Smoking cigarettes is not a sin. Stealing is not a sin. Committing adultery is not a sin. "What is sin then, Brother Branham?" Unbelief. Well, what is smoking cigarettes, and committing adultery, and lying and stealing? It's the attributes of unbelief. "He that believeth not is condemned already." See, you do those thing because you're an unbeliever. If you were a believer, you wouldn't do that, see.
"And the soul that disbelieves, it shall die." Jesus said, "A little while, and the world seeth Me no more; yet ye shall see Me. For I will be with you till the end of the world. The works that I do shall you also." That's His promise. I believe it.

66 What prayer cards? G or D? G. The prayer cards are "G," like "good, God." G. Was it one to a hundred? Let's start from number 1. G, number 1, raise your hand. [Blank place on tape.] ... would there be a minister here tonight, who don't believe in divine healing? How can you preach the Gospel? I'd like to know how you could do it? Looky here. For instance, what if a big serpent had his... You can say, "Oh, I believe Jesus saves, but not heal."
And now, if a big serpent had his ... or, big beast had his paw in me, hurting my side, scratching my side. Now, I don't have to necessary cut the paw off. If I just knock him in the head, it kills the whole body, kills all of his paws, and everything else, if you kill his head. Well, what is the head of sickness? What is the head of worry? What is the head of all, is sin. And when you kill sin, you kill the whole thing. You can't preach the Gospel, in no means, without accepting divine healing. Certainly. You Lutherans know that. You're coming out of the rank. Well, I'm glad of that for you. Yes, sir. Let the Baptist go on and get cold if they want to. God will move right on off and leave them. That's right.
And you Anglicans, I see you're taking a turn at it too. That's very good. Just keep on. Just keep moving on. We're praying for you. Someday, Jesus is going to have a church without spot or wrinkle, and going blast this thing, brother. He's able of these stone to rise children to Abraham, and you Pentecostals letting it slip through your hands. God is able to rise up Lutherans and others. So you better get to work.

67 If Jesus Christ is raised from the dead, then He's already healed; He's already saved. He's took away your worry. He's Jehovah-jireh, Jehovah-manasseh. He's Jehovah-rapha. He's every name tonight that He was then, He is now. And the blood of Christ has covered and redeemed you from everything that Adam did to you.
Now, you don't have it in the fullness, but you have it as the earnest of your salvation. If there's no divine healing, there's no resurrection. That's right. If there's no joy here in the Lord, there's no joy there in the Lord. We just got the earnest; that's the down payment of the com... What will it be when we see Him and get the full value of His redemption?

68 Now, as His servant, just a man, here's people in this line. As far as I know, everyone of them are total strangers. Are you, ladies, and men, whoever you are? Are you strangers? Raise you hand if you are. And as far as I know, everyone in the audience that I can see, are strangers. Then what would make this Bible real again? Is for Christ to come and do the same thing here tonight, that He did when He was on Galilee. Is that right? If He will do it, then He's Christ; He's Jehovah-jireh.
Now, there's... We realize that there's people that was born to never see it. We know that. God wasn't willing for them to do it, but the Bible said that they were foreordained to this condemnation. How many knows the Bible says that? Just the same as you was foreordained to eternal life.
So you can't... You can't make a fish out of a turtle. You just can't do it. He's just not made up that way. You can't make a guy that's set his heart against it, and won't believe it, you can't make him believe it. No matter what would take place, he wouldn't believe it. So that Jesus said so, "The world will see Me no more; yet you'll see Me." The church will always see Him. "For I will be with you in every age, to the end of the world." He's here tonight, Jehovah-jireh, His sacrifice.

69 Now, the lady, come up here. Now, of all that long message, and the time, if it just fell by the wayside, the birds of the air will gather it. Some will fall in pretty good ground. They may believe for a few days. After while, by and by, the hot weather and the scorching... The people said, "Did you go over there to that meeting?"
"Well, there wasn't nothing to that." Scorch away...
Others will come up, and they'll think a little more, and they'll fall away. But some will fall in good ground. All we're responsible for is sowing, see. God has to direct the seed. He knows who's His from the beginning, see.

70 Now, here's a lady standing by me. As far as I know, I've never laid my eyes on the woman before in my life. She's a complete total stranger. Is that right, lady? If that is, raise your hand. Very saintly, godly, clean, nice looking woman standing here, we've never met before. If this ain't a perfect picture again of the woman at the well and our Lord Jesus. Not as I'm taking His place, or she taking her ... or, the woman's place, but it's just, again, a man and a woman. We've never met.
Jesus said to the woman, begin to speak to her, said, "Bring Me a drink."
She said, "It's not customary for You to ask a Samaritan such, you Jews."
The conversation went on till He contacted her spirit. He found out where her trouble was. She had five husbands. He said, "Go get your husband."
She said, "I don't have any."
Said, "That's right; you've got five."
"Why," she said, "sir, I perceive You're a prophet. Now, we know the Messiah will do that when He comes, but who are You?"
He said, "I'm He."
That was the sign of the Messiah. She went into the city, said, "The Messiah is here. Isn't that the sign of the Messiah?"
Tomorrow night, I've got a message on that, the Lord willing, on that, "What Is The Sign Of The Messiah?" All right.

71 Now, sister, I am not Messiah; you know that. I'm just His servant, the smallest in all His kingdom. I don't say that to be humble. I say it for the truth. For as many things as God has did, why, I should have faith to move mountains. But I'm confessing my faults, see. That I'm sorry. Might not be the age; it might not be permitted to me. But the things that I've seen God do would make volumes of books. Then stand, sometimes, have my ups and downs like everybody else. But the Bible said that Elijah was a man subject to like passions as we are, and he prayed earnestly that it wouldn't rain.
Well now, if I have correctly illustrated from the Bible here, and showed by the Bible, that when Jesus was here on earth, and the people stood like you do now, when He knowed what their trouble was, they declared that that was the sign of the Messiah. Have you ever heard me preach on that before? Is this your first time to be here? No, you've heard the message. All right.

72 Now, if we knowing not each other, just... What am I doing now? I've been preaching at length. I'm waiting for that anointing, see. And when it comes, He'll tell me. I'll just humble myself. He'll speak through my lips. And if you're here for some cause, I don't know why. But if He will tell me why, or speak to you why, you know that He knows what your cause is then. Is that right? It'd have to be a supernatural being, because I don't know you. Then it depends on what you think it is, will be what will become of what results you'll get from it.
The Roman that put a rag over His face, and hit Him on the head, and said, "If You're a prophet, tell us who hit you, and we will believe You." He never said a word. He never approached right. But the woman touched His garment, she got what she asked for, because she believed.

73 Now, if God will say to me, use my lips... It couldn't be my voice, because I don't know. I wouldn't know what to say. If I'd say, it'd be wrong. But if God will come now, the Jehovah-jireh, and provide the means to fulfill what Jesus promised He would do, will you still believe He's Jehovah-jireh? Let the woman be the judge.
You're ... you've been sick, very sick. And I believe I hear Him say, it was about the bowel. That's right. Uh-huh. And you're very nervous, and then I see some kind of an examination. Or you're looking at something with you're clothes down to the... It's a lump on your side. That's right. Jehovah-jireh is present.
Can't you see that, friends? Watch the expression on the woman's face change, as soon as that light settled over her. Now, let's not... We're in no hurry tonight. Tomorrow is Sunday. You don't go to Sunday school till about nine o'clock.

74 Now, more I would talk with the woman, the more will be told of her, see. The more I would talk. Now, right now, I don't know what He said was wrong with her. I could find it on the tape there. If anybody ever questions, it comes right back to the tape. Watch what it says, now. That's the vision; that's doesn't heal. But when you hear it say, "Thus saith the Lord, it'll certain-certain thing happen." That's Him speaking. Now, this is William Branham now. That was Him a few minutes ago.
Now look, if we'd turn to the woman, and just talk to her a minute. I don't know what He told her, but the best of my memory, that there was something that she had wrong... Something was wrong with her. Somehow, I know it was very dark around her. Ever what it was. That was right, wasn't it lady? Very sick. Yeah, very sick.

75 All right. Now, that's what the lady's here for. Is that right, lady? What was told you. Is it every bit right? Raise your hand. I never seen you. No way at... Just right now is the only time we ever met. That's all, see. Woman with her hand up to God, me with my hand up. Now, something's here that knows that. Now, what is it? It's a gift.
Now, I'm a perfect mute until Something speaks through me. This here microphone is a mute until there's life behind it, speaking through it. It's not the microphone; it's my voice through it. And that's the way it is with myself. I don't know that woman; never seen her. But when I can humble myself to a gift that He give me, then He speaks Himself. That's Him speaking, using my voice. But I'm looking at a vision, just speaking what I see.

76 Now, let's just... Would you like to ask her again, just this once, just once more? Would you like to ask her again, just see what the Lord would say? Would you desire it, sister? Of course, you believe, I guess, now, all right. But let's just ask the Lord and see what He would say.
Now, you don't have to look at me, or just anything. Just what you wish to... Now, if the Lord will just let me see again for His glory.
And, God, be merciful. That God alone knows that this is from my heart to magnify Jesus Christ---no selfish motive, nothing about it---just to magnify Jesus Christ. Yes, I see it. An examination again. It's about the bowels. And I see that he said that you must be operated on. That's right. And somehow I see you when you're ... looked younger than you do now, and you're standing in a line or something, being prayed for. I see myself standing there. It was when I was here before, and I prayed for you for some sort of a nervous condition; and it was a menopause, and you were healed. And I see a younger woman, and (let's see) she was ... she was healed too. And she was a tubercular, and she was healed. That's "Thus saith the Lord." Amen. It's all over, sister. Go home, rejoicing and God give you life.

77 [The lady speaks to Bro. Branham.] Was that a testimony? Excuse me, I'm not beside myself, but let me get the story, a little... [The lady speaks again.] Your daughter has been healed of TB. Oh, I prayed for her and she was healed of TB. Is that right? Not in this meeting. Ten years ago, she said, I prayed for her daughter with TB, and she never had a symptom since. It's been healed ever since. I think we should say, "Thanks be to God. Thanks be to God. The great Jehovah-jireh."
Now, here's another lady, lovely looking person, meek, gentle looking woman. We're strangers to each other. If God will reveal to me now... The woman is already anointed. Just as soon as she walked around here. You see that first woman... There's quite a little time, because the service was changing. But the woman is suffering with a nerve condition. That's right, isn't it, lady? Now, it went out on me. Here it is again. It's something wrong about a bowels too. She's got a bowel trouble, and she was operated on for that bowel trouble, and the surgeon made a mistake. He cut the wrong thing, and he cut a nerve that went to the bladder, and you're having trouble with that. That's "Thus saith the Lord." You believe?
O God, our heavenly Father, I pray Thee to touch our sister, and make her well, or give her what she has need of. We pray in Christ's name. Amen. God bless you, sister.

78 All right, just be reverent. Don't move around now. Sit real quiet. I feel tonight, that the Lord's going to do something special tonight. I just feel that way.
What do you think about it, young man, sitting there, kind of bushy hair? You believe with all your heart? You're having a nerve trouble, aren't you? That's right. The young man with the blue shirt, and kind of a yellow tie, you're having trouble with your nerves. If that's right, raise your hand. You don't have it no more now. Your faith has saved you.
What did he touch? What did he touch? He never touched me. But he touched the High Priest that can be touched by the feeling of his infirmities, and He spoke back through me. There it is. If thou canst believe, all things are possible. Have faith.

79 We're strangers to each other, lady. I suppose we do not know each other at all, but God does know us both. Is that true? How many is this, two or three people? I want three witnesses and... Second? Third person. All right, if the Lord will reveal what you're here for, will you accept it? Will the audience accept it all with their heart? Now, here we are, both hands up before God; we never met in life. I know no more about that woman than no one. But now, just think: Right in this room you know is something a doing this. Is that right? And it's just exactly what the Bible said would take place.
Now, what's your opinion of it? It's God. He don't have to do this to prove He's God. But He said He would do it. That's what makes it: He said He would do it.

80 The lady is having trouble for some time, and it's... She took something like the yellow jaundice. And that come from the liver, and it settled to the liver, and you're having a great trouble. I see you eat, and then go and vomit it up, just keep eating and vomiting. You're extremely nervous. That's right. Do you believe me to be God's servant? You're not from this city. You're from a place (if I can read that name right), it's Winfield, Alberta. Mrs. Hoggs. Go home, you'll get well. Jesus Christ makes you well. God bless you.
Just have faith; don't doubt. We're strangers to each other, lady. I do not know you. Never seen you in my life, as far as I know. Be real careful, see. If you'll just sit still ten more minutes. See, when you move... That anointing here... Listen, if I could explain to you, surely, would do it. See, that's what causes disbelief. The Angel of the Lord... How many knows when I was here before, He said, "If you can get the people to believe you, and then be sincere when you pray..."?
Remember how I used to pray and hold the people's hands? You remember that? And He told me that it would come to pass that I would know the very secret of their heart. Said it was the evidence of the Messiah, the promise to Him, and that He did the same thing. How many knows that I couldn't do it then? But He said that it would come to pass? How many's in the other meeting heard me say that? Well, see what it's done?
Now, if I say, "Be reverent." And you just keep moving, going, walking, see. What does that? Each one of you is a spirit. And when you move, it interrupts something, see. And that's how you get it. Just be reverent, and believe with all your heart, see.

81 Now, if you'll just be reverent. We take ... say this woman here, then after this, do as you please. But so I'll be innocent before God, and God be innocent before the people... If that's the truth that we know not each other, and God would reveal to me that's about five people you are ... the fifth, sixth, or something... Well, whatever it is, if God has revealed that, then God is leave from His obligation to the people, because He's proved Hisself to be alive. I can say that. It depends on what you believe about it. That's up to them. But as far as proving it, God has made Himself clear.
How many will believe that with all their heart? All right.

82 The lady suffers with an extremely nervous condition. And then she's wanting prayer for her eyes too, because her eyes are getting dimmer and dimmer. They're going out. It's a hardening of the nerve in the eye. The optical nerve is dying, which is shutting off the sight. But you're all upset about something, and you're weary, and you're... I see you shake your head or something, and in pra... You even wonder sometime if you're actually saved. You have trouble with that. That's true. You've doubted your experience of being saved, but I will tell you now you are. But this was caused by a call, some kind of a shock you've had, some news or something that shocked you all at once and caused this. I think it was the death of your husband last fall. God bless your heart, lady. Let's move the sadness. Everything will be all right.
Merciful God, as I stand before this dear woman, and knowing there is a sad spirit around her, I ask for Thy divine mercy, and guidance. Laying my hands upon her, I charge that sad spirit to leave the woman. Christ lives. Christ cannot no more take a word back that He said than nothing, because He's God, and He knows everything before He says it. And I condemn the spirit that would harm this woman. In Jesus Christ's name. Amen.

83 I just want to ask you, wasn't it something about ... you was worried about backsliding or something like that? Something on that order? Well, look let me tell ... about your experience. Now look, sister, this may hurt a little bit in the audience. Now, if you don't believe this... I'm talking to the woman, see. God don't run His business like that. Now, you know you were once saved. You know that. Well, if God saved you here, knowing He was going to lose you down there, He defeats His own purpose. He can't lose you. He might have to take you off the earth because of your sin, like the man in the Bible, who was living with his own mother, and they turned him over to the devil for the destruction of the flesh that the soul might be saved. But He can't lose you. You're His. Before the world began, He ordained you to eternal life. And it's the devil trying to cheat you out of it. Call him a liar. Jesus Christ, Jehovah-jireh, has provided a place for you. Go get it. Live happy. Bless you.

84 God bless you, sir. How do you do? We are strangers to each other. I don't know you, but if Jehovah-jireh, who has provided the sacrifice and provided His Spirit here... You're in need. I see that you're in need. Well, if you're in need, He's Jehovah-jireh, the Lord will provide. Now, He's provided a way for you. You believe it? Jesus is that way. All right. He's provided a gift to reveal to you Jesus Christ to you. If He will do that, will you accept His provision for you? You're suffering with a goiter, a choking spirit in your throat. That's right. It's inward. It's caused from a nervous condition, what's known as a nervous goiter, a choking spirit. You choke all the time. Correct. You can't see it, but it's inside. That's the reason if a goiter's hanging outside, and I'd have said it, then you would have knowed by looking at it. But you can't see it.
Being that the audience might think there was one trace of that, believe on the Lord Jesus, and believe me to be His prophet. Will you do that? You believe that Christ sent me to do this for you? And I just act in His stead here. I am the branch to His being the Vine.

85 There's someone else in your family that's got a goiter. That's a man, and he's in the hospital, and he's your uncle. You're praying for him. That's "thus saith the Lord." You've got a lady friend you're praying for. That's right. She's got trouble with her eyes. That's "thus saith the Lord." Now, do you believe me to be His prophet? Then Jehovah-jireh has provided something here for you. You accept it?
Jesus, Son of God, may she receive that what she's asked for; I pray in Christ's name. Amen. God bless you, lady.

86 Do you believe, my sister, believe on the Lord Jesus Christ to be the Son of God? Believe me to be His servant sent to vindicate His Word to prove in the last days that this Gentile generation would see the glory? The light that shone at Jerusalem is shining on the western world. Do you believe that that's what's shining here tonight, Christ the same yesterday, today, and forever? You believe it?
Then if you be as the woman at the well, and His Spirit is here, you and I are just brothers and sisters, because you are a Christian. If God will reveal to me what you want ... what you got, what's your sickness, or whatever it is, and will reveal it, you'll know whether it's the truth or not.
It's not sickness. You're standing here for someone else. It's a domestic affair. It's your husband. He's unsaved, and you're just about ready to have a broken-up home. That's "Thus saith the Spirit." He claims to be saved. He says he is, but his fruits prove that he isn't. And you've come here tonight, thought you'd come to the platform and ask me to pray for him. That's right. You believe? You love him. You don't want your home broke. Well, let's pray that God will keep it together.
Heavenly Father, as a poor, little woman bows here, at the foot of the cross, asks for mercy. God, grant to her mercy; I pray in Christ's name. Amen.

87 Just a moment. Reverence just a moment. Something happened. As soon as the woman come here, a spirit flashed, and it run to the audience. Now, be reverent; be in prayer, Christians.
Woman suffering with a stomach trouble. It's caused from a nervous condition, but...
Yes, it's that man, sitting right back there on the end of the seat. Let me see if I can get his attention while that anointing is on him. Here's a black streak between him and her. That's that devil screaming for mercy, you see. He's calling to other spirits like I call for people to pray, see. Be in prayer, see. This demon's calling for mercy; it's both the same thing.
The man has a trouble in his chest. Sitting on the end of this row back there. Right here. And he's got a stomach trouble. You're from Peace River. That's right. The man here is kind of bald in front. Sir, lady, the black streak is gone; the devil's defeated. You're both healed. Go home and be well, in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ. Both of you. You're all right.

88 It's a lady's trouble: female disorder. You believe Jesus would make you well?
Father God, bless this young lady, and may she receive her healing tonight; I pray this blessing in Jesus Christ's name. Amen. God bless you, sister. Go believing now.
You believe God will heal your kidney trouble and your back, and make you well? You believe that He will? You accept it with all your heart? Then, Jesus, I pray that You give unto her according to her faith, and make her well. Amen. God bless you, sister. Have faith.
If you'll believe with all your heart, that heart will quit that, and you'll be made well. You believe it?
Somebody right in there, but I didn't get just who it was with heart trouble, sitting right here in the balcony, right in this direction here.
What do you think about it, brother? Would you accept your healing? Believe that the Lord Jesus will make you well? If you'll believe it, you can have it also. God bless you. Don't weep, unless you're just rejoicing. Go on your road now, and be made well for the glory of God.

89 Kind of thought at first you wasn't going to get in here, didn't you? But He healed you of that stomach trouble while you were sitting down there. Now, you go on your road down there, and let us rejoice and say, "Thanks be to God."
You're a healthy looking woman to be anemia, but you're anemic. Do you believe Christ will make you well?
Jesus, I pray that You'll help her. Grant that she will be made well for the glory of God. In Jesus' name. Amen. God bless you, sister. Have faith.
For the baby? How do you do, little girl? You know, honey, when Jesus was here on earth, He seen little, sweet looking, little girls like you. [Blank place on tape.] Now, don't worry, sister; it'll go from her. Amen. Just have faith.
You're ready for an operation for that tumor, but God will take it out of you, if you'll believe it. Will you believe it? You accept it?
Father God, I pray that You heal the woman and make her completely well, in the name of Jesus Christ, Thy Son. Amen. God bless you, sister. Have faith.

90 There's a lady sitting right here, looking this way. No, I can't heal you, lady, but you're blind; and you're praying. If you'll just accept this message that I give you, in Christ's name, you'll receive your sight. If you'll believe it, the lady sitting right back here. She's wearing a brown hat, kind of gray-haired. There's a light right over her, but it holds above her. She thinks she can't be made well. Get that out, sister; you can be made well. And when I stop speaking to you, I want you to look up towards the lights. See if you don't see the light. Do you see the light? Can you see that light above you, the blind woman? If you can, raise up your hand. That's right, lady, touch her there by the arm, right there. All right. There you are, I knew you could, see. It'll come to you, if you'll just believe it. Amen.
What do you think about that, sir? Look so interested in that lady. You got a little checkered jacket on. You believe that? That light moved from the lady to you. You believe me to be God's prophet? If God will tell me what you're wanting God to do for you, will you believe that He does it? Well, gall stones and stomach troubles... If you'll believe with all your heart, Jesus Christ, God's Son, will heal you and make you well. You believe He will? Then raise up your hands and accept it. God bless you. Go, and God's peace go with you.

91 Here's a lady sitting right down here, little blue hat on. She's praying for somebody. I see her in her home praying before an open Bible. She's praying for a domestic trouble. That is her son, for his home. He's an alcoholic, and you're asking God to save him. That's right, lady. If that's right, raise up your hand. Have faith. Your faith has touched Him. Now, believe for the one you're praying for, and you can have what you're asking for.
All right. This the lady? Oh, the woman's deaf. She's got a deaf spirit on her. That woman's deaf. All right. I don't know what God will do about this; I have no idea. But if you all will pray with me... Now, this lady here is deaf, and there seems to be a black sorrow around her somewhere. She's bereaved; she can't hear me, but she's bereaved about something. And that is, someone has just deceased in the family: father. [The woman says "Grandfather."] Father ... the grandfather of the child, father of the mother. That's right. That was last night, see. That doesn't heal the girl.
Now, she can't hear. Faith cometh by hearing, and she can't hear. So how would faith come to her? Now, I don't know that God will do it, but we'll ask Him to do it. And if He doesn't do it, that won't hurt our faith one bit. We'll believe that God will do it in His time, but I don't know exactly what the cause is. I want every person in here to keep their heads bowed and their eyes closed till... [Blank spot on the tape.]
... I pray that You will heal her. And if it be pleasing to You, Lord, and we find grace in Your sight, let the spirit go from her immediately, so she can hear that the people might know that the Bible being fulfilled, said, "When the deaf and dumb spirit left the man, he could speak and hear." We realize that she, perhaps, would not speak plain, nor hear perfect, because she's never heard. She wouldn't know how to act or how to say a word. But we pray, God, that You'll loose those nerves that's dead in her vocal, and in her ears, over the ear drum, that that deaf and dumb spirit that holds her, might be cast out. In the name of Jesus Christ.
[Brother Branham snaps his fingers.] I love Jesus. Amen. Amen. [Girl tries to repeat Brother Branham.] You can raise your head. The deaf and dumb spirit has left the girl. Watch. [Brother Branham snaps his fingers again.] Praise God. [Girl tries to repeat again.] Praise the Lord. Let's say, "Bless the Lord." God bless you, sister. Teach her now this. Hear here, hear me? [Brother Branham snaps his fingers.] That's it. Let's say, "Bless the Lord," everybody. Thank the Lord.
Now, the mother teach the child; it's like a baby. It'll have to be all taught over again.

92 How many believes now, with all your heart? Do you believe that Jehovah-jireh is present? Wasn't it last night that He made a woman, about thirty years old, or thirty-five, something like that, that was total deaf and dumb from a little girl, or birth, both speak and hear? Is that right? He is God, isn't He, Jehovah-jireh.

Jehovah-Jireh

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1 ...to give thanks to Thy great name for the privilege of being here tonight. We thank Thee for all Thou has done for us. Truly we are unworthy creatures to receive of Thy manifold blessings, but we pray that You will forgive us of our shortcomings, and help us to be Thy dear children. We ask that the Holy Spirit will visit us tonight, and speak to us and through us in a marvelous way, for we ask it in Jesus' name. Amen. You may be seated.
I was just talking to my wife in Indiana a few moments ago, and when I told her how much snow there was, and my little boy come to the phone, little Joseph, and Joseph said... He's just two years old; he said, "Daddy, come home; I will go up and pray for the sick." I thought it was cute.

2 The little boy, many of you know the story of little Joseph. The Lord showed him to me six years before he was ... come to the earth. And He promised me a boy, because I like Joseph so well. I could sympathize with him, because he was born, saw visions, could interpret dreams, and he was hated by his brethren without a cause. I always felt sorry for Joseph, and I was weeping one day over at Minneapolis, back in a little closet, and the Lord said, "You shall have a son; you'll call his name Joseph."
Well, I couldn't hardly know about that, because my wife cannot have children normally; she has to have them Cesarean. And the doctor said she will never have no other child but that one she had had. Four years past ... two years, (a pardon) and we knew she was to be mother again, and someone said, "Is this Joseph?"
I said, "I don't know."
And then, when it was born, it was a girl. They said, "You meant Josephine."
I said, "No, I meant Joseph."
And the doctor said, "Mr. Branham," said, "they'll have to have an operation on your wife; she can have no more children."
I said, "Oh, no." I said, "I've got a boy coming."
He said, "It can't be, Mr. Branham."
I said, "It will be (see), for the Lord has said so."
Well, he said, "All right." So he let her go. And then, four years later, she was to be mother again.
So someone said, "Is this Joseph?"
I said, "I don't know, but Joseph is coming."
So when the nurse came down out of the maternity room, she said, "Reverend Branham?" I said... I was out there with the waiting fathers.
I said, "Yes, ma'am."
Said, "You got a fine, seven pound boy."
I said, "Joseph, you've been a long time coming, but daddy's glad to see you." Well, he's sure a fine boy. I pray the Lord let me raise him.

3 And now tonight, as we go straight into the service, try not to keep you too long tonight... I pray that the Lord will give us a message that will do our hearts good. And I'm trying now... I'm going to try, if the Lord willing, to veil the church around some faith, that later, when if it be possible...
My wife said, "How is the service?"
I said, "Lovely people, but the smallest crowds I've ever had." But it's the weather. Now, when the meeting goes to building up, then, I imagine, if we can get this little group taught into how to receive Christ, then it'll be a great help to those who are coming in then.
And we're...

4 One of the great things that I find in the church is: they're afraid. And I want to try, with the Scriptures, to show, you have no right to be afraid.
So I wish you to turn tonight, for a Scripture reading, over in the book of Genesis, 22nd chapter, begin at the 7th verse:
And Isaac spake to Abraham his father, and said, My father: and he said, Here I am, my son. And he said, Behold the fire and the wood: but where is the lamb for the burnt offering?
And Abraham said, My son, God will provide himself a lamb for the burnt offering: so they went both of them together.
And in the 14th verse:
And Abraham called the name of that place Jehovah-jireh: as it is said to this day, In the mount of the Lord it shall be seen.

5 I'd like for a subject, Jehovah-jireh, and may He add His blessings to the Word.
Now, we want to take our time, so that you'll be sure to get it. God appeared to the people in seven redemptive names. That's His attributes to His people: seven compound redemptive names. Jehovah-jireh was one. Jehovah-rapha (Maybe get on that tomorrow night.) is two, and then Jehovah-manasseh, the shield, and on down: the seven compound redemptive names. And you cannot separate those names.

6 Now, back in the building here, somewhere, you'll find a picture of the Angel of the Lord. And the night that picture was taken, Dr. F. F. Bosworth, who was buried this afternoon, near a hundred years old, was... We was at Houston, Texas, and some minister, Dr. Best, of a great tabernacle, Baptist tabernacle in Houston, wrote a piece in the paper, and said, "Mr. Branham is nothing but a religious reprobate, and he should be run out of the city, and I should have the pleasure of doing it."
Well, it was a big front piece in the paper, paid piece in the paper. No one said nothing, and then he challenged me the next day to a discussion, or debate upon the Word. Well, I don't believe in debates myself; I don't think we should do them.

7 When I was first ordained in the Baptist church, I thought I was the defender of the faith, and I found out that every time you argue with someone, they go away with the same idea they had when they come. If they're not predestinated to eternal life, they'll never receive it. That's God's way of doing it. "No man can come to Me, except My Father draws him."
And remember, the Bible said that men of old (see), that these people, turning the grace of God into lasciviousness, was foreordained of old to do this thing. So there's no way... If the Bible says they will do it, we just have to remember, they'll do it.

8 And I wouldn't listen to it. And the next day there was another piece come out in the Houston Chronicle, saying, "That shows what they're made out of; they're afraid to attack the Word ... or, to tackle the Word."
Well, that was just too much for Dr. Bosworth. He come up into my room there at the Rice Hotel; he said, "Brother Branham, the public will think that we're just some kind of a scattered bunch of people that don't know what we're talking about."
I said, "Brother Bosworth, you'll never gain nothing by arguing." I said, "There's at least... There's around thirty thousand." and I said, "There's seven or eight thousand sitting there to be prayed for. Why should we waste our time on one infidel, unbeliever, and leave thousands go unprayed for?" I said, "Jesus said, 'Let them alone; if the blind leads the blind, won't they all fall in the ditch?'" I said, "Let him alone."
But he said, "Brother Branham." Bless his heart; he's at rest with God tonight. He said, "Let me do it."
Why, Dr. Best was only about thirty-five years old, just out of the school, polished scholar; Dr. Bosworth was near eighty then.

9 And I thought of Caleb, when he took the sword and said, "Joshua put this sword in my hand when I was forty; today I'm eighty, and I'm just as good a man today as I was then." He proved that he was, too.
So I said, "Brother Bosworth, if you promise me..." There was a lot of reporters waiting downstairs---had been for a couple of days---to see what answer we would give. I said, "If you promise me you won't argue..."
Said, "I promise." Well, he run down to tell the reporters. Well, you know how a newspaper could play it up, great big headlines, "The Ecclesiastical Fur Will Fly." So we had to go over to the coliseum to get the people. And that proved to me that one day when persecution sets in, the church of the living God will be one.
Special trains, planes roared all day long, bringing in people. What was it? When it crossed the nation, people come all the way from Canada, flying down there. What was it? They didn't care whether they were Assemblies of God, or Foursquare. What was it? A cause that they had stood for was in question, and they were coming to defend the cause. There they come till they packed that Sam Houston Coliseum out.

10 Well, I told them, I wouldn't go down, because I don't like arguing. The Scripture to me wasn't to be argued; it's to be lived. So however, that night when they packed in, I said, "I'm not going down." So as it got later in the evening, well, I just couldn't keep away, so I said to my wife, "Let's go down." So she and I, and the little girl, and my brother... Two police helped us in, and I went up in balcony thirty, way up. And then while I was sitting up there, with my overcoat all pulled up so wouldn't be recognized, because we were having a wonderful meeting.
Mr. Bosworth got up... Now, the moderators and so forth, and he said... Well... Cy Ramsar (Many of you know Cy Ramsar, Paul Rader's singer.), he was singing that night, and he made a little statement; he said, "I was reading in the paper where they said that Mr. Branham ought to be put out of this city, as a religious heresy." He said, "If you people would spend more time putting bootleggers out of your city, instead of godly people that come in here to hold a revival, this city would be better off," and the whole crowd went into a roar. So I knew Mr. Best was lost, right then.

11 So then, when the discussion started, Mr. Bosworth wanted... They'd have Mr. Bosworth speak first, then Mr. Best, and then they'd have a rebuttal at the end," the moderator said. Then we... I listened, and Brother Bosworth said, "I will ask one question, and if Mr. Best..." Now, he had thirty minutes to express himself, said, "I will ask one question to Mr. Best." And he said, "First..." Here's what he said, "I've got six hundred Scriptures out of the New Testament wrote out here, if Mr. Best will take any one of these six hundred Scriptures, and prove by the Scripture that it's wrong, that Christ's present attitude towards the sick is just the same today as it was then; if he will disprove it by the Scriptures, I will just sit down."
And Mr. Best wouldn't take it; he said, "I will take care of that when I get up there."
Well, he said then to the moderators again, "Can I have another word with Mr. Best?"
They said, "You may."
He said, "Mr. Best, I will ask you one question, and you answer me, "yes" or "no," just say the word, "yes" or "no," either one of them, and I will sit down and you can have the rest of it." That's getting it pretty close, you know. Oh, some people think this is a bunch of fanaticism, but it's the solid truth of God's gospel. Certainly.

12 So he said, "I want to ask you one question." He promised he would answer "yes" or "no." He said, "Was the redemptive names of Jehovah applied to Jesus, yes or no?" That's it. If he said "no," He wasn't Jehovah-jireh, then He wasn't the Saviour. If He is Jehovah-jireh, He's Jehovah-rapha, the healer, the same yesterday, today, and forever.
Mr. Best wouldn't answer him. He knowed better. Well, that old gallant soul, that was buried today, took the Scriptures, and tied that young student in such a fix, there was nothing left for him to preach on.
When he got up, he preached a real good Campbellite sermon. I know what the Baptist believe; I'm a Baptist myself, so I know what they teach. And he preached a Campbellite sermon; he doubted the divine healing of Christ raising Lazarus from the dead. He said, "Divine healing belongs over in another age or back there." And when he got finished, he said, "There's nothing but a bunch of holy-rollers would believe in such a thing."

13 And so Mr. Bosworth said, "Mr. Best, I would like to ask you something, just a moment." He said, "How many people standing ... or, in this audience tonight, that's from these big Baptist churches ... (and better than thirty Baptist ministers sitting there). How many people in this audience, from the Baptist churches here in Houston, that could stand on your feet, and witness that God has healed you, since Brother Branham's been in this city? Stand to your feet." And three hundred and something stood up. Said, "What about that?"
He said, "Bring forth that holy-roller, divine healer, and let me see him perform a miracle."
And he said, "He's here every night, but he don't perform miracles. He just prays for the sick; that's all, Mr. Best."
He said, "Let me see him hypnotize somebody, then let me see them a year from now." Just real rude. Then he said, "I would like to see it done."

14 So just about that time, Mr. Bosworth said, "I know that Brother Branham's in the audience. And then, if He wants to come and dismiss the audience, all right, but I promised him I wouldn't call him to the platform, if he wants to." Well, no one knew where I was at.
My brother said to me, "Sit still, Bill."
I said, "Well, ain't I sitting still?" So just sitting there. And about that time, the Angel of the Lord come near. I stood up.
Howard said, "Sit down, Billy."
And my wife said, "Look. No, Howard." Howard looked up.
Five hundred, or better, ushers put their hands together; I went to the platform. I walked over and shook hands with Dr. Best, I said... And I went to the audience, I said, "Don't you people feel hard to Brother Best," I said, "because that..." Course, he'd lost the debate, didn't even have one foot to stand on, not one scripture to stand on. So he'd lost the debate; he was very angry.
He walked around there, and said, "Oh," and he smacked a preacher in the mouth, and they had to walk over there and make him get away from that minister. So he said...

15 I said, "Don't feel hard at Brother Best, because he had a mother that loved him." I said, "And that's why our boys are in Korea, then, fighting..." I said, "But I disagree with him on the Scriptures, but as a man, all right." You see. I said, "Don't think hard of him." I said, "If it comes to healing the sick," I said, "I was minded of what Satan said to Jesus, 'If Thou be a Son of God, perform a miracle here before me, and let me see you do it.'" Make a believer out of him... But Jesus didn't do it; that spirit still lives. Certainly. "Let me see you do something."
The soldiers had put a rag over His face and hit Him on the head, said, "You know the secrets of the woman's heart and all these things, you seer, tell us who hit you, and we will believe you." He never said a word, see. He didn't open His mouth. It isn't a clown; it's to manifest God.

16 And I said, "But as far as the visions, that's a gift; that's not in question." I said, "If I speak the truth, God's obligated to vindicate the truth." And no more than I'd said that, here come that pillar of fire, whirling from the air, before thirty thousand people, come down like that.
And the photographer... They was supposed not to take pictures while the meeting's going on. That great big camera shot the picture, just to see if they could get it. And it has been seen in many places, but they wondered ... a newspaper reporter got it on a picture once, but it wasn't authentic, because the newspaper reporter.
And then when they shot that one, Mr. Best walked up, stuck his fist up under Mr. Bosworth's nose and said, "Take my picture like this, (just before this), then take it like this." He said, "I'm going to skin that old man, and tack his hide on my study door, for a memorial to divine healing." But you know, when they went in...

17 I said, "Now, God has spoken. There's no need for me to speak anymore." And I went out. The police helped me to the car. And when I got to the car, went up, about a hour later, they took that...
And the man that took it was a critic; he had wrote in the paper the other day, said, "Mr. Branham hypnotized a goiter off of a woman's throat. I seen him rub his hands like that with hypnotism, and the goiter left." Very much of a critic, and he went home that night, and he said, "You know what? I don't know what to think." He said, "If the man was a Catholic, I'd believe it was right." Said, "All gifts go to the Catholic church." And he said, "But if he was a Catholic, I would think it was right."

18 Then he went on in the Douglas Studios; you can... Right here is their address and things on the picture. When they went to develop the picture, they taken out the six glosses that they was supposed to have for Mr. Best shaking his fist under that godly, saintly, old man, and everyone of them was blank. God wouldn't permit that camera to take the picture with his fist under that saintly man's nose, like that, acting like that. And when they pulled the seventh one out, there was the Angel of the Lord on the picture. Mr. Irish keeled over in a heart attack. They sent for me.
At eleven o'clock that night, it was on its road to Washington, DC. A week later after it was copyrighted, and brought back, George J. Lacy, the head of the FBI, fingerprint and document of the United States, the best there is in the world, he had it for several days in the Shell Laboratory in Houston, Texas.
That day when we all went over there to receive what he would say about it, Mr. Best said, "Whose name's Branham?"
I said, "Mine."
Said, "Stand up." And I stood up, he said, "Come here." I walked up to him. He said, "Mr. Branham," he said, "I've been your critic too, and I've said that that was psychology those people seen." He said, "But the mechanical eye of that camera won't take psychology." Said, "The light struck the lens." And he said, "As far as I know, of all of any age," he said, "the old hypocrite," (which he meant the unbeliever), said, "there couldn't be any scientific proof that there was a supernatural Being," but said, "this picture condemns him. Here is the supernatural Being that was there." The light struck the lens, and he presented the film.
There it is back there now, from the Douglas Studios with his own name signed, and it's in the book also. The only...

19 And a few weeks ago ... or, a few months ago in Germany, they wanted to see if they could get it. And when it was coming down, that big German camera took it coming down, when it was anointed, when it was saying, and when it went away again. The German camera took it.
They took it in Switzerland. That night, I had better than thirty thousand come to Christ at one time.

20 Now, I want to say something, after not hearing the tapes, but the man telling me. I mean this with reverence: last night on the platform, where many people out here in the audience, well educated, smart, intelligent people, and if that woman's here tonight, I don't mean to express anything wrong, sister; but a poor, perhaps unlearned, colored woman, in the simplicity of faith, watched that light as it was moving. She come to the platform last night, and before she could get here, God straightened her arms out with arthritis and so forth, right here, and left those who were sitting wondering, just sit and wonder. You see what I mean? God is real.
And if I die this night, this is my last night on earth, the millions of people around the world know it's so; the scientific world knows it's so. It is the truth that we're living in the last days, and the great Jehovah God, who led the children of Israel, who appeared in a pillar of fire to Saint Paul on his road down to Damascus, Peter in the prison, is here tonight, both scientifically and materially, proving Himself in the resurrection. Amen.

21 Jehovah-jireh, the Lord will provide for Himself a sacrifice. Oh, we will go back to get the back of this picture now, for about twenty minutes. Abraham and Isaac, the promised child...
Now first, back in Genesis 12, we find out that Abraham was just an ordinary man. So many times when people see gifts operating, or something, they want to make it like it's something real holy person. It's not a holy person; it's the Holy Spirit.
As I was saying last evening, as Peter said, "Holy mountain..." It wasn't a holy mountain; it was a Holy God on the mountain. And it's none of us has any right to claim holiness in ourselves; it's God's holiness that we rest in. I have none, neither do you. God wouldn't accept it anyhow, if we had it. He only accepts Christ; and we being dead in Christ, He accepts us through Christ.

22 And God called Abraham, when he was come down from Babylon, perhaps, maybe out of a family of idolatry. And the Bible says that gifts and callings are without repentance. God by foreknowledge set in the church, apostles, prophets, evangelists, teachers, pastors. By foreknowledge God set them in. He knew every one of them before the world began.
He knew, as Roman 8 tells us, that He could... He hated Esau and loved Jacob before either boy was born. For His foreknowledge allows Him to predestinate all things to work together to His glory. That's the great Jehovah. "It isn't him that willeth or he that runneth; it's God that showeth mercy." That's what the Scripture says. So it isn't how much you try; it's how much God has done for you. And if you've got enough of God to come out here tonight, a desire to come hear the message, you ought to be the happiest person in the city, because God is moving in your life. He's trying to lead you to the fountain. He loves you.

23 I want you to notice Abraham coming down out of Babylon with his father, and dwelt in the land of Shinar, and perhaps, had his living there. And his wife was Sarah, his half sister.
Now, he was seventy-five years old, and Sarah was sixty-five years old, before God ever spoke to him and made the covenant with him. Sixty-five year old woman, seventy-five year old man, and God said, "Walk before Me, and be perfect." God made the covenant with Abraham, unconditionally; wasn't any conditions: "If you'll do this, I will do..." He made a covenant with a man once like that, Adam, and he broke it.
Man breaks his promise; God can't break His promise. So God determined to save man; He made the covenant to Abraham unconditionally, told him, "I have done this, and it's going to be this way, and it's... This is going to be, and you're coming to Me at an old age."

24 Oh, you say, "I'd feel good, Brother Branham, if God made a covenant like that with me." Well, He did! The covenant was not only made with Abraham, but his seed after him: Abraham and his seed. You say, "But I'm a Gentile."
The Bible said, "When we are dead in Christ, we take on Abraham's seed and are heirs according to the promise."
Now, if you're a church member, it don't mean you are Abraham's seed. But if you're born again by the Holy Spirit, you are Abraham's seed, and the faith that Abraham has, dwells in you. And Abraham called everything contrary to God's promise, as though it wasn't. No matter how encouraging ... or, discouraging, rather, that it seemed, Abraham still refused to see anything but what God said was truth. And then we call ourselves Abraham's seed, and doubt everything God says, nearly, can't trust from one night to the other. You see what a poor subject we are, to be the church of the living God?

25 All right. Now, when God did one thing after He chose Abraham... He called for separation. And that's one thing God does when He calls any man or woman: separate yourself from the world. "Get out from among your kindred," He said to Abraham, and "I will bless you." And if you'll notice, He never did bless Abraham till he separated himself from all of his kindred, Lot and all.
Now notice, as they went on... Now, could you imagine Abraham going home and telling Sarah. He'd lived with her since she was a young girl, and now, let's see, she's sixty-five; that's twenty-five years past menopause. She'd been sterile all her life. And here God says that He's going to give a baby to them, and in this baby the whole world will be blessed.

26 And now, could you imagine today, if God changes not, could you imagine today a seventy-five year old man, a sixty-five year old woman, going down to the doctor to make arrangements to have a baby? Why, they'd say, "Better keep your eye on that old man; there's something wrong with him."
But he took God at His Word. There's where it's at. He didn't care what the doctor said; he knowed what God said. Now, nothing wrong with the doctor, but the doctor just didn't know what God had said.
Could you imagine going, say, "Now, Sarah, you go downtown and get all the Birdseye and the pins, and get everything ready now, because we're going to have a baby." And the doctor might examine her, and she was ... absolutely would have been sterile. Why certainly, a sixty-five year old woman had to be; what else could have been?

27 And now notice, He never give her the baby for twenty-five years later. But all the time, they... Abraham staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief, but was strong, giving praise to God. That's what I like: giving glory to God. I can see after the first twenty-eight days, He said, "Sarah, honey, how do you feel?"
"No different."
"Glory to God, we're going to have it anyhow." Another month passed, "Sarah, honey, how do you feel?"
"No different."
"Glory, it's going to be a greater miracle; going to have it anyhow."
You can ask God to heal you; "I don't feel better in the morning." Oh, and a son of Abraham! Call those things which were not as though they were! God said so.

28 "How do you know you're going to have this baby?"
"God said so; that settles it." Oh, wouldn't that be wonderful to have Abraham's children all around? What a wonderful thing it would be. Years passed, ten years. "Sarah, feel any different?"
"Not a bit, Abraham."
"Well, glory, we're going to have it anyhow; God said so. That settles it. Just keep the pins laying up; it's coming. Don't you worry. It'll be right there on time. It's just going to be a greater miracle now, after this."
Then we can't wait from one day to the next, hardly, from one night to the other one to be prayed for. And yet, God said that we are Abraham's seed and are heirs, according to the promise. Then the Spirit that was on Abraham, surely is not in the church, or something's wrong. Abraham's seed: the covenant was made with him, and with his seed after him, forever. What a promise. Oh, how I love that blessed Word of God.

29 Abraham had to separate himself from his kindred. Many times it causes you to separate from unbelievers. "Oh," say, "I got saved last night, but you know, Martha, the one I run around with, she says she believes that's a bunch of holy-rollers." Watch out, sister; you're on dangerous ground. You'd better separate yourself from that old, unbelieving, bridge club you're attending. That old, social, card game that you're attending, you'd better separate yourself, and come out from amongst the unbelievers. Certainly.

30 God wants separators; the world wants mixers, some young Hollywood sheik, that combs his hair back, and perfumes his nose, and walks around with a little, "Ahhh-men" sign, that goes a swimming, and plays cards, and buncos, and things like that, permits all that, and won't tell the church the truth, tell the women they can dress like they want to, "That's all right, that's old-fashioned." He just hasn't become the seed of Abraham yet.
I'd rather have someone preaching in my church, that didn't even know his ABC's or knowed split peas from coffee. If he knowed Christ in the power of His resurrection, I'd rather have him than all the students and scholars that these incubators could hatch out in their theological machines. I don't mean to be rude by misstating facts. We want men and women who know God, separating themselves from unbelief.

31 Many times and... Every time that a man ever done anything that's worth anything, he walked alone with God. But we think we have to have some great something around us to secure us. The believer has: that company of angels, the Holy Spirit is encompanied around. The angels are encamped; they don't move; they stay right with them, those who fear the Lord. They watch for every move.
One time a prophet was down at Dothan---Elisha---and the Syrians had come in, compassed the whole walls around. And when Gehazi got up and looked out, he said, "Oh, look at the Syrians."
And Elisha, the old prophet, rubbed his eyes and looked around, said, "Why, there is more with us, than there is with them." Gehazi looked around and said, "I don't see nothing." Maybe many of you didn't last night, but that old colored lady did.
Said, "Lord, open this boy's eyes." And when God opened his eyes, all around that old prophet was angels of fire, and the mountains was on fire, and chariots of fire. Sure, he walked out there and smote them blind, not physically blind, spiritually blind. They couldn't understand it. He said, "You looking for Elisha?" Said, "Come on, I will show you where he's at." Led them right into ambush. Oh, yes.

32 The whole world tonight is blind to the things of God. Just the elected few of God is able to see the things that's coming to pass, because they're looking for it.
Called out, then he went into a strange land, among strange people to sojourn. And when you really become born again, separated from the things of the world, you're asked to dwell in strange places (You never dwelt in them before.): heavenly places in Christ Jesus, where the Holy Spirit comes down and manifests Himself, and there's where God declares who He is. We're sitting together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus. What a place to be.

33 And now notice, he was with the people that spoke a different language, but he was in the covenant of God. And then after many years passed, after he was almost a hundred years old, he asked the Lord, "How will this be done?"
And the Lord said, "Come out here, Abraham, and I will show you how I'm going to do that." So Abraham went out.
Now, I want you to listen close. We're just hitting the high spots to try to get to the text. Oh, the Word is so good. You just get wrapped in it and don't know when to stop.
And He said, "Come, and I will show you how I'm going to do it." And He took Abraham out, and He said, "Get me a heifer of three years old, and a she goat of three years old, and get me a ram of three years old, a pigeon, and a turtledove." And he cut the beast in two, laid them in half, laid them out on the ground, but he didn't cut the turtledove and pigeon. So Abraham went back after keeping all the fowls off of it until evening come, and the sun started to go down; then watch what happened to Abraham.

34 Oh, Arminian brothers, I don't mean to pinch your toes, but just listen just a little bit. I don't mean to push this in now, but I want you to listen just for a minute.
When he did this, a deep sleep come on Abraham to show that he had nothing at all to do with it; the covenant was going to be completely God's grace, unconditionally. It wasn't nothing that they could do; God was going to do it unconditionally. Abraham went to sleep. "Abraham, you are out of the picture." And then when he went to sleep, means that he will die. Death is due to everyone of us. Then after that, he saw a great smoking furnace, and as that furnace begin to smoke, it represented hell. Every sinner is doomed to hell.
And what is a sinner? A man that drinks? A man that commits adultery? What is a sinner? An unbeliever. No matter how religious you are and how holy you are, that has nothing to do with it. Your holiness would nothing like come up to the Pharisees and Sadducees. And Jesus said, "You are of your father, the devil. And the works of your father, you'll do. He that believeth not, is condemned already." And every unbeliever must go to hell.

35 Then beyond that, he saw a little white light. Now, watch what this little white light done: It passed between those cut pieces of the animal: God making His covenant with Abraham, foreshowing what He would do.
Now, it's been my privilege to preach the gospel practically around the world, several times.
Now, in America, if you and I make a covenant with each other, we might go down and have a little bite to eat, and then shake one another's hand. "I will agree to do that, brother; I will come to your church on a certain-certain date." And we shake one another's hand; that's a covenant.
Now, in Japan, when they make a covenant, they get a little box of salt. And when they make their covenant with each other, they throw salt on each other. That's a covenant in Japan.

36 But in Orient, how they make a covenant, they take an animal, and they slay this animal. And they stand between the dead pieces of the body ... the pieces of the dead body, rather, and as they stand between these pieces, they write the covenant: "I agree to do such, and such, and such." And then they tear it apart. One man takes one piece, one another, and they hold their hands and swear: if this covenant is broken, let their bodies be like the dead beast. But when that covenant is recognized, confirmed, both of those pieces has to dovetail one with the other. You couldn't write it to save your life, to make it dovetail with it and every little piece of that paper has to cut right in just perfect.
What was God showing here? Here's what He was showing: that He through the death of Jesus Christ, His Son, through that ram, and that sacrifice laying there, He made a covenant with the people. And when He took the life of His own Son at Calvary, He tore Him apart, and He took the body up into Heaven, and set it on His right hand. He sent the Spirit out of Him, the Holy Spirit, back to the earth. And the same Holy Spirit that was in Jesus Christ, will have to be operating in His church to make them coincide together at the rapture, or it won't go up at that time. The Spirit that was in Jesus, will have to be in His church, or the two pieces won't dovetail together, the life of the church and the life of Christ cannot dovetail together. The body's sitting there to make reconciliations, to make intercessions upon our confession, and the Spirit's in the church.

37 Where is the church? Where is the church today, that Jesus Christ is living, and performing, and doing the same things that He did when He was here on earth? But the church is here; it isn't any certain denomination, but it's made up of all the denominations, that's Abraham's seed, and been borned again by the Holy Spirit. That is true.
Said, "That's how I will do it, Abraham. You'll have nothing to do into it; neither will your seed have anything to do into it, but I'm going to do it." Amen. Oh, I hope you see that.

38 Notice, then when Abraham was a hundred years old ... ninety and nine, in the 17th chapter of the book of Genesis, ninety and nine, and that would make Sarah ninety years old. Still giving praise to God, giving glory to Him, because they believed His Word. They knew it was the truth. And God appeared to Abraham again, and this time when He appeared to him, He appeared to him in the name of the Almighty God. And the Almighty God in Hebrew is "El Shaddai."
Now, the word El means "God." Shad means "breast," breast like the woman. "Shaddai" is the plural: breasted. Therefore, He appeared to Abraham as the breasted God, the strong One. "I am thy consolation; I am thy strength. You're an old man, Abraham; your days are gone, as far as strength is concerned, but I am El Shaddai." Not just one but two: He was wounded for our transgressions, with His stripes we were healed. "I'm El Shaddai; just lean onto My bosom, and nurse your strength back again."

39 And He's still Almighty God, that any believing child of Abraham can... If he is sinful, He's Jehovah-jireh, for one breast. If he's sick, He's Jehovah-rapha, on the other side.
And just like a little sick baby that's fretting and weak, it's mother picks it up; she puts it to her breast, and the little baby begins to draw the mother's strength through the breast. And we, who have lost our health, sick, run-down, what do we do? We come up to Jehovah by faith. We lean on His breast, His promise, and there draw our strength through His promise.
The sons of Abraham's not scared to do that. In the face of anything, they'll still believe it and hold onto it---sons of Abraham ---El Shaddai.

40 Not only is the baby ... not only is the baby drawing its strength, but it's satisfied while it's drawing. When the baby's nursing, he shuts up. He's nursing, so he's satisfied as long as he's drawing his strength. And if the believer ever gets ahold of God by His promise---though his hand's still crippled, his cancer still shows---he's satisfied. He's drawing his strength out of God's promise. Amen.
You're going to call me a holy-roller anyhow, so just might as well get started now.
Oh, it's enough to shake you, if there's anything in you to shake. Yes. When the Holy Spirit gives God's promise, and the believer catches ahold of it, all devils in torment can't take him away from there. He stands there; he will call everything, death itself, he'll defy it in the face, when God give him the promise. Amen.
El Shaddai. "I'm your bosom, Abraham. That's how I'm going to do it."
Oh, how we would love to have the time to catch some more great highlights, but we're coming to the end, so we can close. We don't want to keep you too long.

41 Notice, as the time went on, Abraham... God appeared to Abraham, and told him what He was going to do. Sarah conceived and brought forth a child, and when she brought the child, the little Isaac, when he got to be about twelve years old, God said now, in His mind, way down in the closing of the Gentile dispensation, up in a place called Waterloo, perhaps, "I want to make My promise sure, while I've got a man here who can trust me, Abraham." Said, "Abraham, I told you, you'd be the father of many nations, and your seed would be like the stars and the dust. Now, I want you to take your only son, the son of the promise, and I want you to take him up on a certain mountain, where I will show you, and there I want you to kill him for a sacrifice." How that must have made him feel---his only son.
Now, Abraham's about a hundred and fifteen years old. Sure. Sarah, then's about a hundred and five years old. And here's little Isaac, the little curly-headed boy about so high, little Jewish lad; what a comfort he was to his parents in that old age. How do you think Abraham felt, if he'd had to go tell Sarah? "Sarah, we're going to take our little boy tomorrow, and I'm going up on the mountain, going to cut his throat." Just so that the people will have a assurance... It must have made him feel very bad, so he didn't tell Sarah. So he got some servants, and saddled a mule, and got some wood.

42 Notice. Abraham went three days' journey from civilization, three days' journey into the wilderness. Any ordinary man today, when we've got gasoline feet, can walk fifteen or twenty miles, perhaps he could, say, twenty-five miles a day. There he was seventy-five miles in the wilderness. And after that, he lifted up his head, and afar off, he saw the mountain that God had showed him in the vision. That probably was, maybe, another fifty miles or more. And he got to the journey, now, he's a hundred miles or more from civilization. I just love this Genesis 22.
He stopped the mules. He got all the wood off, tied it on Isaac's back, representing God giving His Son the cross on His back. And he tied it on Isaac's back, put the knife down in the holster, picked up the fire, and he said to the servants (Listen closely now.), " Ye wait here with the mules; my son and I will go yonder and worship, and we (son and I) will return." Do you get it? How is he coming back? How can he come back, if he's taking him up there to kill him? "You wait here with the mules; son and I will go yonder and worship, and we shall return."

43 Oh, my, I feel beside myself nearly, I guess. He knew that he had received Isaac as one from the dead, and he knew that God was able to raise him up from the dead, because He had made the promise. "Isaac and I will return." The little fellow, too young to know what it was all about... Up the hill they went; they got up there on top of this big mountain. Then they rolled up some rocks. Abraham took the wood off of Isaac's back, a type of Christ packing His cross up the mountain, years to come, to die for the sins of the world, the only begotten of the Father.
And there on top of the mountain, he laid the wood in order, took the fire and made the fire, and little Isaac got kind of suspicious. And he said, "My father."
He said, "Yes, my son, I am here."
Said, "Here is the altar; here is the wood; here is the fire, but where is the lamb for the burnt offering?"
Now, what's he going to answer him? How's he going to say it? God gets us in some awful predicaments at times, just to show His love and grace to us. He said, "My son, God will provide Himself a lamb for the sacrifice." Oh, I wish that could soak deep. "God will provide a lamb for the burnt offering."

44 So he took little Isaac and turned him around, bound his hands and his feet, laid him upon the rocks, and moved his hair back from his face, pulled the knife out, held his little head back, kind of in this manner, took the knife in his hand, raised up towards heaven, and looked to the God who give him the promise, raised up his hand to stab his own son to death. And about that time the Holy Spirit caught his hand, said, "Abraham, Abraham, hold your peace. Wait a minute, Abraham. I see that you love Me and you trust Me." And about that time, a lamb bleated, hooked by his horns, a ram, male sheep, hooked by his horns in the wilderness: Christ in the form of a sheep.
I want to ask you something. Where did that ram come from? He's a hundred miles from civilization, amongst lions, and leopards, and beasts that would ... and wolves, and wild dogs---hundred miles back; not only that, but he's plumb up on top of the mountain where there's no water. Where did that ram come from? It wasn't a vision, because he took the ram and killed it, and the blood poured out of it. It was a real ram. Where did it come from? Jehovah-jireh had provided that ram. God spoke it into existence in one minute, and it went out of existence in another minute. For God is able to do anything that He desires to do.
And tonight, He's still Jehovah-jireh, "the Lord will provide a sacrifice."
Someone said the other day, "Brother Branham, do you mean to tell me you believe the world will be destroyed? How could you destroy the whole world?"
I said, "The same Word of God that spoke it into existence, is able to speak it out of existence, because He said it would do it." He's Jehovah-jireh, the Lord's provided sacrifice.

45 He's the provided sacrifice tonight for your sins. He's the provided sacrifice tonight for your sickness.
Say, "Brother Branham, the doctor said I had cancer, and there was no way for me to be healed."
Do you realize He said He's Jehovah-jireh, "I'm the Lord that heals all thy diseases"?
You say, "Brother Branham, I've been so sinful; I believe I've crossed the separating line." No, you haven't, or you wouldn't be here tonight.
"How can He make atonement for me; I broke my marriage vows; I've done this, that, or the other." He's Jehovah-jireh, the Lord's provided sacrifice.

46 If you're beyond hope, if you've broke every commandment, if you've done everything there is in the Bible that you ought not to do besides blaspheme the Holy Ghost, God has a sacrifice provided for you. He's Jehovah-jireh. He alters all circumstances.
There's nothing that can stand in His presence. If you're Abraham's seed, believe it. And if you're Abraham's seed, you do believe it. And if Abraham could do that without a written Word, how much more ought we to do it with the written Word, and the confirmation of the Spirit in our midst: Jehovah-jireh.
Oh, blessed be His name. God's provided sacrifice for sinners, God's provided healing power for the sick.

47 Now tonight, in the midst of all this chaos that we got in the world, God promised---Christ promised---that these things would take place in this day, that He would raise from the dead on the third day, and in the last days perilous times would come, when men could hardly sit and listen at a fifteen-minute message. Perilous times would come. Men would be lovers of their own selves. "Well, I'm Dr. So-and-so; let some of them holy-rollers tell me who I..." "Lovers of your own selves, proud, blasphemers, disobedient, unthankful, unholy, without natural affections, trucebreakers, incontinent, and despisers of those that are good. Heady, high-minded, lovers of pleasure more than God; having a form of godliness---going to church, everything---but denying the power thereof, from such turn away."
How could the church ever get that way with the Bible laying before it? He's Jehovah-jireh. He's the One who spoke it; that's the way it'll be. It is spoken; it is written, and that's the way it'll be.

48 Jesus said, "These things that I do..." When the woman touched His garment, and He turned; He looked for her; He seen who she was. He told her her trouble.
A man come up, and He told him who his name was, what he was. That's how He made Himself known to the people, who He was.
The Jew said, "Thou art the Son of God, because You done this."
The Samaritan said, "We know Messiah cometh, will tell us this, but who are You?"
He said, "I'm He."
She come, said, "See a man who told me the things that I've done. Isn't that the Messiah?"
He said, "A little while and the world won't see Me no more. Yet ye shall see Me, for I will be with you, even in you to the end of world. The works that I do, shall you be doing also at the end time. These signs shall follow them that believe."
"How can it be done, Brother Branham?" He's Jehovah-jireh. He will do it.
And if they have called the Master of the house, Beelzebub, how much more of those of the household will he call that?

49 When He told them the truth, they all departed---even the seventy. He looked to His little twelve people that stood and still believed Him after that message. He said, "Do you want to go too."
He said, "Lord, where would we go?"
Because He said, "I knew you before the foundation of the world, ordained you to eternal life. My sheep hear My voice."
I say tonight: that same Lord Jesus, that walked on the Sea of Galilee, has risen from the dead and is in this building tonight. The Jehovah-jireh on mount ... where Isaac was offered up, the same Jehovah God that stayed the hand of Abraham, is in this building tonight. "Wherever two or three are gathered in My name, I will be in their midst. Whatever they agree upon, as touching one thing and ask, they shall receive it."

50 [Blank spot in tape.] ... not be broken. I will ask you then; we're almost late for a prayer line. I wonder before a prayer line, if we'd bow our heads just a moment.
Have you ever met that Jehovah-jireh? Have you ever met the conditions that He said, that He promised eternal life to as many as would believe on Him? He would change that temper you got into a sweet humble person. He'd make you stop lying and tell the truth.
Oh, you say, "Brother Branham, I'm a church member." That's all right. "I've been baptized." That's all right. But if that life of Christ isn't in you, you're dead. That life that you have, that's give to you by the world, God condemned it at the beginning. You can't polish it up. You can't reform it. It's got to die, so that Christ can be born in you. Do not be deceived, people; if Christ doesn't live in you by the new birth, that changes your whole nature, attitude, and everything, you're lost. Satan don't care how good you are. If goodness would've saved a man, Jesus wouldn't've had to die.

51 Remember, Cain was just as good as Abel was, just as religious. Both of them built an altar, offered a sacrifice, knelt down and prayed. Both had a church. Both had a membership. Both prayed. Both was sincere. But God vindicated Abel by supernatural.
Moab was just as good a man, offered seven altars, and seven bullocks, and seven rams, just the same as Israel did, but Israel had the sign of the pillar of fire; he wasn't a denomination; he was just a tent dweller. But he hated his brother because God was with him.
"You'll be hated of all nations for My namesake," said Jesus.

52 If you haven't been borned again, and you want Christ in your heart, and want Jehovah-jireh to provide, this minute, your salvation for you, would you raise your hand? God bless you. God bless you. God bless you. Somebody else? Raise your hand. God bless you, lady. Someone else? Raise your hand, say, "Right now, Lord, I now accept that sacrifice for me. I've been in church a long time, but I've never been right in my heart." God bless you, young man. God bless you. God bless you, back there, young lady. "I've been in church..." Everybody, heads bowed; every eye closed. "I've been in church a long time, Brother Branham, but I know in my heart, my own life proves that I'm not what I ought to be." And you know, we might be ashes before morning. Why do you take a chance on something like that: your soul's eternal destination? Raise your hand to God. Be honest. Would you do it? The message is to you. The Holy Spirit's here. If you're not borned again, if you don't know God, and Him real, with the baptism of the Holy Spirit in your soul, then that's the only life that'll ever raise you up.

53 If a seed's planted into the ground, no matter how good the seed looks, how perfect it is, if it isn't germitized, it'll rot and lay there. If it's germitized, it'll rise again. No matter how good you are, how much deacon, preacher, pastor, teacher, Sunday school person, whoever you are, how loud you shouted, how you've danced, whatever you've done, how many missionaries you sent to the field, when you die, you're dead, if the Holy Spirit isn't there to raise you up, if your spirit hasn't been changed into that Person of Christ Jesus.
If you haven't got it, would you raise your hand? One more time now, and we're going to pray. God bless you, lady, over here. That's sincerity. I don't know your heart; God does. All right, let us keep our heads bowed just a moment.

54 Dear Lord, there's many hands that's went up here tonight. They realize they're wrong. Let them at this time, if they are sincere, which I believe they are, let them now, O God, speak to Jehovah-jireh, who has provided a way of escape for them, that they might escape all these wicked things that's coming on the earth, go up in the rapture before this great tribulation strikes the earth.
Grant it, Lord, and may they be saved this hour, as they're believing on Christ. May tonight, as they lay on their pillow, may before they go to bed, they take that Book, that Book of the books, read from it, see that God has made the promise. Do it, Lord; save those who are savable. Thou knowest them all, and I pray this prayer for them. In Jesus' name. Amen.

55 I'm just a little late. Did you give out prayer cards? I don't believe I will call the prayer cards. I believe I will just stand right here. I know one thing; you might have misunderstood the message tonight. You might think I was rude talking to you, but the Holy Spirit wants you to have it. That's right. I'm just your brother, but I... And you know I'm not educated, not enough to be a minister or a preacher, but I do know who I have believed. And I know that He's here. And I'm fully persuaded that He's able to keep every word that He promised in this Book.
How many of you in here, who do not have prayer cards, and want to be prayed for, raise up your hands, you without prayer cards, no prayer cards. All right.
Be reverent. If the Holy Spirit... Now, someone said, and has said many times, "Brother Branham, that... Somebody takes their prayer card and writes on it, and their thinking about what's on their prayer card, and he reads it: mental telepathy." That's the devil. That's exactly right.

56 Tonight, you with the prayer card, I don't want. It's you without a prayer card that I want to talk to. I feel that in my heart right now. I want you all to be real reverent. I don't say God will do it, but if He does do it, it'll be wonderful.
Here's the trouble of it church. Listen to me. I love you. You know I do that. But the thing of it is, you've been indoctrinated with so many different ideas, till you don't know what to do. Now, that's true. One miracle like that could take place among the Hottentots, down in Japan, over in some of those countries there, and thousands would pour to Christ at one time. But we, when the Lord does something, you say, "Uh huh. Oh, I guess that could be all right." It's your attitude.

57 Now, I'm not scolding you. But my brother, we got to live together through eternity. And I want you to know the truth; it's a message sent from Christ to His church. Just this week (maybe tomorrow night starting, I don't know), I'm getting it on the Scripture here to prove to you that our time is gone. The church... You building... You pastors building million dollar churches, and Christ ready to come at any time, and missionaries on the field, dying for a little money to continue on; it shows you've lost the vision.
Moses with all of his teaching, it took God forty years to get it out of him. He was better equipped in five minutes in the presence of that Angel in the burning bush, than he was of forty or eighty years of teaching he had had. Five minutes in the presence of Christ, he took off his shoes, and respected it.

58 When Martha... When Mary, Martha and Mary's brother had died, Lazarus, when little Martha went out, she'd sent for Jesus to come, and He didn't do it. They found all kinds of faults in Him, seemingly. When she run out to meet Him, she had a right to say, "Looky here, we left our church to follow You, and now, my brother has... You've prayed for the sick and they've been healed. And I sent for You to come pray for my brother, and You let him lay there and die. And he's been in the grave four days, rottening now." She had a right to, did she? Sure she did, humanly speaking. But what?
She knew that God was in that man. She'd read the story of the Shunammite woman, how she knowed God was in Elisha, the prophet. So if God was in the prophet, surely He was in His Son. So she went out, and she said... When she met Him, she said, "Lord..." That's what He was. She respected that gift of God; she said, "Lord, if Thou would have been here, my brother would not have died. But even now, whatever You ask God, God will give it to you." There you are; there you are.
Said, "Where have you buried him?" There you are.
What if she'd've went out there and said, "Well, if You'd just only done this... I'm in doubt now whether You're really true or not." He'd have never come from the grave. But it's her respect. Look at the thousands that died during that time, see. But He raised three; three's a confirmation.

59 Now, He promised in His Word, the things that He did back there... He said, "I do only as the Father shows Me." And the only way that He made Himself known to the people, was by seeing a vision, telling them who they was, or what was wrong with them, or something like that. He vindicated Himself before both Jew and Samaritan, and they recognized Him by that. How many knows that's the truth in the Scriptures? All your hands... You mean to tell me no more Bible readers than that in here? But that's true.
When Philip found Nathanael, Nathanael come back, and He told him, said... When you're in the presence... He told Peter what He was, and who His Father was. Nathanael couldn't believe it, walked right in the presence of Jesus, and Jesus said he's an Israelite in whom there's no guile.
He said, "When did You know me, Rabbi?"
Said, "Before Philip called you, when you were under the tree, I saw you."

60 When He went to the Samaritans, the woman come out to get water; He said, "Bring Me a drink." He talked to her a little while, and caught her spirit. He said, "Go get your husband and come here."
She said, "I don't have any husband."
He said, "You got five." There was her trouble.
She said, "I perceive that You're a prophet. We know when the Messiah cometh, He will tell us these things."
He said, "I'm He."
She run into the city, and said, "Come see the man that told me the things that I've done. Isn't this the Messiah?" That's the way He showed Himself at the ending of the Jewish dispensation, back there. Now, the end of the Gentile... He never did that before the Gentiles back there (Search the Scriptures.), not one time. But He's doing it now, as He promised He'd do it at the end of Gentile, before He turns to the Jew. Might tell you something.

61 I was at Cairo, Egypt, going up to Palestine; the Jew will believe it. The Jews seek signs, and they'll believe it. And we had a bunch of them; I was going to bring thousands of them out. When Louie Pethrus sent that Bible back there, when those Jews came up from Iran, and they was looking at those Bibles, they said, "If this be the Messiah..." They never heard anything about the Messiah. Said, "If this Jesus be the Messiah, then let us see Him do the sign of the prophet, and we will believe it." Sure they will. I tell you.
Jesus said, "When you see the fig tree putting forth its buds yonder..." When them Jews come in, the six point star of David flying, the first time for twenty-five hundred years, the oldest flag in the world; they become a nation on the sixth day ... on the seventh day of May, 1946 ... on the sixth day, rather, and on the seventh day, the same time the Angel of the Lord appeared down there and sent out this message. Exactly right. It would swirl you to know what takes place.

62 Then I was right at Cairo, and the Holy Spirit said, "Not at this hour. Return back." And I went back to Rome. That's right. Just not the hour. When the Jew receives the gospel, the Gentile's finished. You know that. The doors is closed. Let him that's filthy, be filthy still; him that's holy, be holy still. It's done. Gentile people, American people... Not trying to say that it's me; God knows that from my heart, it's not.
Now, if this was some great, great place and some great archbishop speaking, you'd say, "Oh, that bishop knows what he's talking about." God never did deal with such. Search the Scriptures and find out if He ever did. Tell me one time He ever did. Tell me one time He ever dealt with an entire organization. God deals with an individual. Certainly He does. But just because it goes... See, the people has to get in this kind of a state, so God can show Himself, and then when the judgment comes, He says, "There it was."
Did you know, they didn't know who Elijah was when He was here on earth? He was a man. The Bible said he was like passion as we are.
They didn't know John the Baptist. Even the disciples said, "Why does the Scribes say Elias must come?"
Jesus said, "He's already come and you didn't know it."

63 Now, you good Catholic people, don't want to hurt your feelings. Saint Patrick, what was he, a Catholic? No sir. He protested the Catholic church. But after he was dead, they recognized him a saint and canonized him as a saint.
Look at Saint Francis of Assisi. Who was he? A walking preacher with a Bible under his arm, doing miracles, walking down ... the birds got to chattering, he said, "Sisters, hold your peace while I preach the gospel," and they shut up. He protested the Catholic church, but after he was dead, they realized he was a saint.
Here, to some of you school children here, how about Joan of Arc? She was a saint. She saw visions; she done miracles; the Catholic church burnt her to a stake. That's right. They didn't know she was a... What did they say she was? A witch, a Beelzebub, a evil spirit. And after she was dead about a hundred years, they found out they was wrong, so they dug up them priests' body and throwed them in the river to do penitence. Now, they say she's a saint.

64 God always does that. He can't do any other sign, cause He's no respect of persons. It's gone over them before they know it. Christ is here. He's proved it scientifically and every way. The fruit of the Spirit will bear the record of the Spirit. Believe. If Christ is here, and standing here tonight, and you're a sick person, if you'd say, "Christ, heal me.", He couldn't do it. He's already done it. But He could tell you something that would do something, like they was ... them coming from Emmaus when He broke that bread and done that miracle that He did there, and they knowed no other man could do it, they recognized that it was Him. He was raised from the dead.
Now, if He will do the same thing tonight, how many will recognize that He's raised from the dead, and will accept Him as your pardon ... as your healer? God bless you. May He grant it.

65 Again, you all don't have a prayer card, raise your hands, and you're sick, want to be prayed for. I have no way of knowing it.
Here's a lady, sitting right here on a front seat. I don't say He will, lady; you raised your hand, you didn't have a prayer card? You don't have a prayer card. Do you know me? You don't know me, know nothing about me, but God knows you. If He will reveal to me what you're sitting there for, will you believe me to be His prophet ... or, His servant? You will? I seen you raise your hand; you were sick or needed something, from God, and you raised your hand, that you didn't have a prayer card. You believe me to be the servant of Christ? Now, I don't say He will, there's nothing around her at this time. It'll have to take Christ.
I have no idea what's wrong with you; you know that. If that's right, raise your hand, so people will get the superstitions out of them, see. I never seen the woman in my life, but if God will reveal it, let God do it. As He looked upon them, He perceived what they were doing. God in heaven, who's my judge, it turns blue around the woman. She's got a desperate thing. I raise my hand and it turned blue around the woman. It's not for herself. It's for a child, a girl, and the girl has got polio. That's "thus saith the Lord." That's right. All right. If you'll believe, then you can receive what you ask for. Amen.

66 How many believes? Have faith in God. What about over here? Some of you people, do you believe with all your heart, over here?
This lady sitting right down here with her head bowed, praying. Got a blue looking coat on---right down in here. There's that light standing over the woman. If the Lord Jesus will tell me what you're here for, will you believe with all your heart?
You're suffering with low blood pressure. That's correct. Do you believe with all your heart that God will heal you?
Sitting next to you there, you got stomach trouble, and back trouble. Do you believe that God will make you well, sir? All right. Raise up your hands and accept it. Right here. All right. Stand up on your feet; move your hands back and forth; move your back, back and forth. Now, you're healed. Your back's well now; you can go home and be well.

67 I challenge you, in the name of Jesus Christ, to believe with all your heart. "If thou canst believe, all things are possible." That's what the Bible said. "If thou canst believe, all things are possible."
The lady pulling the beads around her neck back there, real nervous. You got a prayer card? No. All right. You believe God? You think your husband will get well? He's got heart trouble, hasn't he? Raise up to your feet, if you haven't got a prayer card, and that's what you was praying for, stand on your feet. All right. Believe with all your heart, and you'll be healed. You love the Lord? Believe Him. It's not me now; it's Him.

68 What do you think about it? Praying for that child, aren't you, that little girl sitting there? Do you believe that God will reveal what's wrong with that child, will you believe me to be God's servant? The trouble: it's in its throat. That's right, young lady. I don't know you, do I? Never seen you in my life. Let me tell you something else: the child has been operated on; it's had four operations in the throat. That's "thus saith the Lord." That is true. Raise your hand to that. If you'll believe, she will never have to have another one. That's right. All right. You can have what you've asked for.
You ought to see the little thing, laughing just as hard as it can, the Holy Spirit, that light, settled over the child, and I know God healed it. Amen. Don't you see what a little child can do up beside some of callous church member? Amen. Oh, amazing grace, how sweet the sound.

69 Here's a little lady, sitting right on the end here, with a little hand down, praying. I see that light standing over the lady. Do you believe with all your heart, little lady sitting here, a young girl? If God will reveal to me what your trouble is, will you believe me to be His servant? Your trouble is in your lungs. That's right. What if God would tell me who are, would it make you believe more? They call you Patty, don't they? You name's Ramley, isn't that right? Stand up on your feet. Rumley, it is. All right. Raise on your feet. There you are. You're healed, lady. The Lord Jesus makes you well.
How many believes with all your heart? Then raise up to your feet and give God praise and be healed, every one of you that believes, in Jesus Christ's name. God can do no more about it; this is it. The Holy Spirit, that light's hanging over the building there. Just believe Him. Raise your hands and praise Him, say, "Lord, I now believe with all my heart," and you can have what you ask for.
God of heaven, how much more can You do, Lord; give this people a driving out of unbelief and let them be healed this hour. In Jesus' name, I pray.
Now, give Him praise. Raise your hands and thank Him for it, and go home and be well, every one of you. In Christ's name.