Looking at the unseen

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1 It seems good to be back in the house of the Lord tonight, after such a wonderful night as last night was. And we had a glorious time these last two or three nights here in the building, and we're thanking our heavenly Father for it. Souls has been born into the kingdom of God. And such good reports from the healing services. And we just got word awhile ago that the girl that was from somewhere up above here, in some city, that had the leukemia, she was pronounced well today by her doctor, that the baby is well. And she was to be a missionary (You remember the case.), and Satan was trying to rob her of such; and she is pronounced sound and well by her doctor.
And the blind minister that was here to receive his sight, and others... And there's just great things the Lord is doing.

2 Now, last evening I took a group into the prayer room in here just to see if the new ministry that has been promised would come into existence in the tabernacle here before we hit the tent. Well now, as far as I know, there was nothing---no more than just soon as I went in there, the Spirit of the Lord came in, and it just started discerning the spirits, and telling the people of their troubles, and so forth.

3 But I wonder... I asked those people if there were any possible way for them to stay. I would just like to ask them if there has been a change in them, if they feel that they have been healed or any visible change in any way. I ask them, tonight, if I'd call for them, if they could get in the building, I'd like for them to hold up their hand. Now, if they're here and didn't have to go home---they were all out-of-town people---and if they didn't have to go home, and has got inside the building, and you feel that there has been a great change, would you hold up your hand, the ones of any here that was in the building last night and was prayed for back here. As I don't see any hands, I don't know whether the people could even stay.
One, one, back here. All right. One there. Well, that's very fine. You feel that there has been a change. Is that right, sir? You'd that held your hand? [The man begins to testify.] Well, that's good. [The man continues.] That's very fine and we're thankful. There was nothing visible that we could see, you see, because...

4 And there was a lady in the room who was bothered with a mental condition. And the Holy Spirit begin to speak to her and telling her the things that had taken place in her life, where she thought that something had happened to her, which had not. And I guess if our brother is one that's present that knows that. And then it begin to tell her of a person that had long beard and a long hair, had prayed for her. She'd done got away from her. She said, "No." And then to show the accurateness and the perfectness of the Holy Spirit, it went back again, and picked up the person, and told them who it was, and where it was that it happened. Then she said, "I remember, now. That had been a long years ago." How that the perfection of the Holy Spirit... Oh, He's so real.

5 Now, we are crowded and just this little meeting here, just before I leave again. And I was happy tonight, to meet just as I come in, an old friend, Brother Rogers, from down at Milltown, Indiana, and friends that I haven't seen for years... Brother Creech, again, he was here last evening.
And today in the interviews, the Holy Spirit was wonderful today. And it seemed like that, maybe, it's just going to continue on for awhile, until that tent comes in, up under the same ministry that I've had, because in the interviews today, there were four great, outstanding visions took place in the interviews. So it seemingly, maybe, I will continue on until maybe the tent starts, or wherever it is He is chosen to begin to declare His name in a new way. But when it does, it'll be just as perfect as the others. It'll be just... And I'm trusting to God that it will be greater than the others; not because of our ministry, but because of the sick and needy people. There's such a need in the land today.

6 Now, we will get right straight to the Word, so that those standing won't have to stand too long. Now, first, before we read His Word, let's speak to Him in Person as we bow our heads.
Dear God, we come into Thy holy Presence now with humbled hearts and bowed heads. And we are asking Thee to forgive us of anything that we might have done, or thought, or said through this day, that has been contrary to Thy will. We would ask that You would graciously pardon every one of us.
And we have gathered tonight for no other purpose but to worship Thee, and to express our feelings and the adoration of our heart to Thee. And we are sure, Lord, that this little congregation that's jammed into these little walls tonight, has not come here to be seen. They have not come here for no other purpose but to express their love to Thee. They would not stand on the outside, around the windows, and around the walls, and their limbs aching, just to be seen. They are here because they believe that You are, and a rewarder of those who will diligently seek after Thee.

7 We would ask pardoning for all the sin of the people, and a healing power to be brought upon the sick and the needy. And we ask Thee to bless Thy Word, Lord, as we read it. We are insufficient to interpret this Word, so may the Holy Spirit come and get right into the Word and plant it deep into the hearts of the people. And may, through this, there be a great harvest of souls and a great healing service. Grant it, Lord, for we humbly ask this in Jesus' name. Amen.

8 For a Scripture reading tonight, I wish to read out of the book of II Kings, beginning at the 8th verse. And my text tonight is "Looking At The Unseen." The first night I was preaching on the subject of "Raising Him Up Out Of History." And the second night (last night) was preaching on the subject, "It Wasn't So From The Beginning."
And tonight, my text is "Looking At The Unseen." Now, II Kings the 6th chapter, beginning at the 8th verse.
Then the king of Syria warred against Israel, and took counsel with his servants, saying, In such and such a place shall we be camped.
And the man of God sent unto the king of Israel, saying, Beware that thou pass not such a place; for thither the Syrians are come down.
And the king of Israel sent unto the place which the man of God told him and warned him of, and saved himself there, not once nor twice.
Therefore the heart of the king of Syria was sore troubled for this thing; and he called his servants, and said unto them, Will ye not shew me which of us is for the king of Israel?
And one of his servants said, None, my lord, O king: but Elijah, the prophet that is in Israel, he telleth the king of Israel the words that thou speakest in thy bedchamber.
And he said, Go and spy where he is, that I may send and fetch him. And it was told him, saying, Behold, he is in Dothan.
Therefore sent he thither horses, and chariots, and a great host: and they came by night, and compassed the city about.
And when the servant of the man of God was risen early, and ... passed the city both the horses and chariots. And his servant said unto him, Alas, my master! how shall we do?
And he answered, Fear not: for there be with us ... more than with ... they be with them.
And Elijah prayed, and said, Lord, I pray thee, open his eyes, that he may see. And the Lord opened the eyes of the young man; and he saw: and, behold, the mountain was full of horses and chariots of fire ... about Elijah.

9 Now, may the Lord add his blessing to the reading of His Word.
It is a strange thing, that man who was made in the image and the likeness of God and was called of Him to walk by faith, believing that God is, would choose to walk by sight instead of by faith. After his makeup, his being, and all that dwells in him was fashioned in the likeness of God. And God is that great Jehovah who calls those things which were not as though they were. And man made to live with God in this manner, yet has he chosen to walk by his sight. He wants to be his own boss. He wants no one to tell him what to do. That's just the nature of man.
It proved to be thus in the garden of Eden when he had lost his fellowship with God by choosing to go his own way, and not have any one rule over him.

10 But a man is made like a sheep. And a sheep cannot find its way back, I'm told; when it's lost, it's totally lost.
And that's the way with man. When he is lost, he is absolutely helpless. He must have a shepherd to guide him. And man, when he chooses (As the days go on, we find men continually getting worse.), choosing rather to walk by sight, than 'stead of by faith, by the unseen. And when we does that, he robs the inner man, which is the soul. And that's the eternal part of man.

11 Now, "Man shall not live by bread alone," said the Lord, "but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God." And a man's physical being, to be taken care of, is not all the reason God put him on the earth. Because what He does with this physical being amounts to very little. It's his soul what counts. It's the inward man that did not come from the earth---it come from heaven---and that's the eternal part of the human being.
But yet, strange that he tries to figure his own way out. And we find it so in the Scriptures, that when a man chooses to walk in his own way and do the way he wants to, God just lets him alone.
Man must not think for himself, but he must let the mind that was in Christ be in him. We are not to think for ourself. We are to call anything contrary to what He said, as though it is not, no matter what our eyes claim to be. We do not live by what we see; we live by what we believe.

12 A few days ago I was listening to a program on the radio, coming to Sunday school, and it was a round table discussion with teen-agers in Louisville. What was one of the most important things? Was the girl to find the boy with the curly hair? or the boy, the girl with the pretty blue or brown eyes? Did that make the difference? It seems like that that would be the great thing to a teen-ager. But that isn't the greatest thing. The greatest thing is: Find your God, your Maker.
Don't mix marry. Marry a boy that believes just exactly like you do; for after all, God is the main important thing that we are in the earth to do, is to serve Him. And if you do marry or anything contrary to that, you'll pay for it in the days that lays ahead of you. You must always remember: by faith and not by sight. The just shall live by faith. And we look at the unseen.

13 And we might go on for several hours, speaking of the modern day, of how men and women today just completely look, and they go down the street, and they're going to choose a church that they must go to and bring up their children in. And they'll search around through the city, not trying to find the most spiritual church, but the biggest church that they can find, the one that's got the greatest crowds, and the best dressed, and the celebrity of the city goes to this such church, where it's called the better class, as far as men know.
And then, in that church they'll try to find a minister that's what they call, "not narrow minded," that'll just about let them live any way they wish to and belong to that church.

14 But the spiritual man on the inside, if you'll give him the right of way, he might lead you to a little mission somewhere, where there is not many people, but there is the Spirit of the Living God. For the outside man feeds on psychology and intellectual; but the inside man feeds on the Word of God.
And now, if we should turn in our Bibles to many of the characters of the Scripture, it would take us hours to go through it. But let's just think on the book of Hebrews, the 11th chapter, for a few minutes.

15 And we read here that Abraham, he was just a man, and he lived in the city of Ur in the land of the Chaldeans---and just an ordinary man of everyday walk. But one day he come in contact with God, and Abraham was changed from that day on. No matter how well he attended his church, the church of his father, but when he once met God, he was a changed man.
And I believe that that has not ceased to exist yet today. A man may be a loyal church member. He may be walking upright before his neighbor and his family, but when he meets God, he's a changed man.

16 Sometime ago, I remember of talking to an intellectual person that said, "How will you ever know there is anything different than what just any religion could produce?"
I said, "I read in the Bible of a living God. I read of His goodness. I read of His patience and His power. And I believed that, just as much as anybody could believe it. But one day I met that One I read about. Then there was a sudden change, and I've never been the same since, and hope I never will be.
Something takes place. When sight fails to produce it, faith is there to catch the place and produce it.

17 And we see that Abraham, he was not a young man when this happened. He was an old man, seventy-five years old. And his wife, Sarah, which was his half-sister, and they had been married many, many years, since she was a girl of about seventeen, it's believed. And God told Abraham, "I have chosen you and Sarah, that you are going to have a child." And Sarah had been barren all her life. But Abraham never looked at what his eyes would see---an old wrinkled woman, many years past the time of life to have children---but he looked at the unseen, and he saw Isaac. By faith he saw Isaac. And he, after looking to the unseen, he called those things which were not as though they were. He got a glimpse of the unseen. By faith he saw it. And the Bible says that he endured as seeing the invisible God with him all along the road.

18 When a man once catches that vision of the invisible God and know that He's always present, there's something that stabilizes that man's thinking; it stabilizes his actions; and in the time of distress and trouble, it'll still make him look upward and above the things that are happening around him, because he's looking at the unseen, yet by promise.
Now, how Abraham, not only did he see the unseen... And the reason he believed it, was because God said it. And if we being dead in Christ, we are Abraham's seed, and if the Spirit that was in Christ dwells in us, it does the same thing. It takes every divine promise of God that's in His Bible and calls it present tense, and rests itself upon there.

19 Where if you look with your eyes, and you see now that our nation is shaking and trembling, war clouds are flying everywhere. Every nation under distressed and perplexed of time, every sign that Jesus said would happen, is happening. There would be signs in the heavens above and in the earth below, and great things would be taking place, like the flying saucers and mystic things taking place. But He commanded His church to lift up their heads in that day and to look up, for the unseen Christ will be appearing pretty soon. So if we only walk by sight, we would be children of darkness, sure enough now. But I'm so glad to know that there is a light that shines in every believer's heart unto that eternal day when Jesus shall come.

20 Now, it is a lesson to us to look to what Abraham did. And then not only did he believe it, but he made ready for it. He made preparations for this child that he saw by faith, twenty-five years before the child ever came. Because he had considered that He who told him, was able to keep the promise that He had told him. He didn't consider any of his nature, being a hundred years old, his physical being; or did he not consider at all, the deadness of the womb of his wife, Sarah.
And the writer of the divine commentary tells us that he
staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief, but was strong, giving glory to God. What a person!

21 And today there is no need ... there's no need of even trying to approach it with an intellectual faith. You'll never be able to do it. You'll go from church to church, and from prayer line to prayer line, and never get it. You've got to come to the place where it is eternally settled, once for all; He either is God or He is not God. Feeling sorry for the people...
As I was speaking last evening, "And Jesus said, 'I am the vine, and ye are the branches.'" And the vine bore the first branch, and the first branch was Pentecost. And the Pentecostal blessing is recorded in the book of Acts. And if the first branch was Pentecost, the second branch will have to also be Pentecost, and it'll have to bear the same type of a church and behavior the first branch bared.

22 Did not Jesus speak of that in St. John 14, when He said that the branch that did not bear fruit would be cut off, it would wither? That's where our denominations today are being ... will be pruned off of the vine. Only the fruit-bearing, the kind that bears the fruit and the works of the Holy Ghost shall be able to continue in the vine, for the life that is in the vine puts forth in the branch.
And the life that was in Jesus was in the first church. And they did not walk by sight; they walked by faith, believing what God said was the truth. Oh, what a difference it is when men who will walk by faith, and call anything that's by sight that's contrary to the Word, as though it was not. We need that type of faith in the church.

23 Moses, when he had become forty years old, a young man, and as far as sight was concerned, Moses had the world in his hand. He was the next Pharaoh of Egypt, and he had all the lands in the world right in his hand, to be king over the entire earth (knowing) of that day. And yet, he looked through the window that Pharaoh looked out of, and he saw those Hebrews. To Pharaoh, who looked upon them, they were nothing but a bunch of mud-daubers, down there in the mud making brick. To the celebrity as passed by (they were the same---the well dressed people), that was a bunch of slaves, nothing but mud-wallowers.
But when Moses looked out the same window, he saw them different, because he looked at the unseen and know that God promised that He would deliver them out of that place and take them to the land of promise. For he looked at the unseen. He saw the years that were coming ahead. He saw Egypt destroyed. Yet she was in her blossoming time. He saw Egypt as she is today. And he saw Israel all comfortably seated around Abraham in glory, and by faith he chose to take the worst the religion could give him and compare it with the best that the world could give him. And he chose to suffer the reproach of Christ and considered it a greater treasure than all Egypt could afford to give him, because he endured as seeing Him who is invisible.

24 God had spoke to Moses, and Moses knowed who God was. So he did not look upon the brightness. And here I might say to the church tonight: Moses had in one hand the best the world could give him. There could've been no better. It was the highest office. It was the best the world had. And religion offered him the worst that could be given: a bunch of slaves in a mud pit. And now, if a man was looking, which side would he take?
Let me say this with sincerity and without any malice. But, let me say this, that you'll understand it: Today don't look at the big church. Don't look at the great denomination. Don't look at the well dressed. But look at Christ, who was rich and became poor, that through His poverty you might be made rich. And when you're seeking a church, don't go where all the celebrity goes or the big Ph.D's or DD's, but look down upon the people who are looked down upon.

25 And Moses, when he had them in both hands, the best the world could give to what he could look at, and yet when he looked at the unseen, the worst the church could give him, he chose to walk by faith. And he chose to walk by the unseen, God, counting it a greater treasure than all his sight could afford to show him.
Here was a kingdom. Here was a kingship. Here was a throne. Here was a crown. Here was everything in his hand. But yet, by faith, when he caught a glimpse of Christ out there in the mud pits, he went to his people.

26 Now, here's another little lesson on Moses. Now, Moses didn't just sit back and say, "I sympathize with those people. Those are good people. You know, I would not speak one word against them."
Now, that's the way a lot of religionists does today. When they hear a strict message about the real God, they'll say, "Oh, I have nothing against those people who believe in divine healing. I have nothing against those people who believe in miracles." But that's not enough. Moses just didn't sympathize with them and stay on the throne; he went out and become one of them.

27 I remember, a few years ago, when I had a great offer with the Baptist people. And then the Presbyterian people... A lady of this city was paying my way through a short school in the Presbyterian denomination. And they wanted to take me in as a minister. But when I looked out and seen that the group that believed in the supernatural was laughed at, and called "holy-rollers"---been easy to have continued as a Baptist preacher, for I was one—but, instead of looking at them and saying, "Oh, I have nothing against them; I believe that, too," I chose to be one of them, went out, and now I am one of the so-called "holy-rollers," because I see in there they got the sign of the living God, living with them. And by faith, I believe that that's the bunch will go in the rapture. And I would rather have it, than all the Ph.D's and DD's that the church world could afford. Don't sympathize with them; become one of them. That's when, by faith, you walk by faith by the unseen.
I see a church going in the rapture. I see Jesus coming for His Bride. I see a little neglected bunch of people who are laughed at and made fun of, go in the rapture one day. I'd rather be with them, than all the groups that I know of in all the world. For by faith we see by the unseen. Sure.

28 Moses chose to become... He saw by faith what they were. And if God had promised in four hundred years, he would deliver them, yet He tarried for another twenty years, yet Moses believed Him.
And the reason I am on the field today in this move, is because that by faith, one night yonder at Green's Mill, Indiana, about ten years ago, an Angel of the Lord who had spoke to me from a child, spoke to me about these things, and I went out and connected myself.
Lot of times I won't believe in the things that they are doing, but yet, I believe there lays a church of the Living God. And I would rather walk alone with the few people that really believe God and take Him at His Word, than to be with millions who denied Him. Certainly. Their works would do it.

29 Moses endured as seeing Him who is invisible, and at the end of his life's journey... Oh, I just love to say this. Someone once said to me; he said, "Mr. Branham, do you think God was just, when He let Moses, for forty years with those people, and then would refuse him to go into the promised land?" But the glorious part of the story of Moses: he was in the promised land eight hundred years later with Jesus and Elijah, and was seen on Mount Carmel.
Not only that, but at the end of the road, when he was standing on the mountain, waving goodbye to his people, and he looked across Jordan, and he was a hundred and twenty years old when his last breath began to fail him, he climbed up on that smitten Rock from the wilderness, and it was present. And he had angel pallbearers, who took him somewhere and buried him that the world knew nothing about it; because he had endured seeing the invisible. And in the hour of his death, the invisible was there.

30 I wonder if he would have become Pharaoh if it would have been that way? Very doubtful. But he was sure when he took the right choice. And you can be sure by taking the right choice.
Joshua, forty years later, after he had entered into the promised land, and being the great military general, when this first battle, his enemies had walled into a place, where there was no way for him to get to them; but by faith he looked at the unseen, because God gave Moses a promise while they were yet in Egypt, "I have given you all Palestine." And by faith he saw the walls of Jericho laying flat on the ground, and he marched around and around in full armor, with not a doubt in his heart, but believing that God would do it. And when the trumpet sounded and the people shouted, the walls fell, and they took the city. Why? He seen the invisible One.

31 Remember, before he did this, he was walking one afternoon, and he seen a man who was standing against the wall with His sword drawed. And Joshua drawed his sword and went to meet Him. And he said, "Are you for us or are you for the enemy?"
And the man spoke back and said, "I am the captain of the host of the Lord." Joshua knowed the battle belonged to him then.
And when you people here tonight, that's sinful in your heart... I don't mean that you live in adultery. I don't mean that you get drunk. I mean, sin is unbelief, and with unbelief in your heart, if you'll just open up your heart, and close your eyes, and look at the Chief Captain, who's omnipresent tonight, the world will lay flat at your feet and will shake every fetter of sin away from you. The doubting days will be over. Oh, blessed be the name of the Lord.

32 I am told that a snake can catch the eye of a bird and charm that bird with its enchantments, and the stare of its eyes, until such a way, if that bird will give the snake its attention for just a few minutes, that bird will flutter and completely become paralyzed. And the snake will take the bird.
And I can believe that, because I know of another serpent, the devil, that if he could ever catch the eye with his enchantments, with your modern rock-n-roll, and all your fandangles of the world, if he can ever catch you, young lady or young man, just long enough to get his charm in you, you'll flutter, but you can't get loose. He'll hold you till he swallows you up in sin.

33 The only way, I am told, that that little bird ever has a chance, is to get his eyes off of the serpent, and he cannot look at anything else, because he stands staring. But if he will take his eyes from the serpent, and look upward, and flutter his wings, he will fly plumb out of the reach of the snake.
And if you have ever got the charm of the world, and the things of the world, and unbelief, charming around your heart, that tells you, "Oh, live modern!", shake your head tonight and look up to the unseen One, the Lord Jesus, and flutter your wings of prayer, until you fly plumb out of his reach and out of his clutches. If He should speak to you and say that divine healing is wrong, shake your from him quickly. If he should tell you that spiritual discernment is telepathy, shake your head from him immediately, and look up to the unseen.

34 Like Elijah told Gehazi, his servant, at Dothan... Why, to look around there was a Syrian army. There was everything to smash them down, because this man of God was able to tell the king of Israel what the king of Syria was thinking about in his bedchamber.
Let me say this tonight, my audience: That God still lives, and He's just the same tonight as He was then. He can still know your thoughts and what you're thinking about right now.
Then you should watch the fruits of the Spirit to see if it's the God of history that's raised again. Certainly.

35 And when the great crises come, which always does, then when Gehazi, being just a lukewarm church member, when he had not seen what Elijah had seen... Because Elijah was used to walking by faith, and he was looking at the unseen all the time, and he knew that God had said in the Psalms, "The angels of God are encamped about those who fear Him." That was enough for Elijah, but Gehazi had just halfway believed it. He was just a church member.
So Elisha said to the Lord; he said, "Lord God, give a sign here; just open this man's eyes and let him see what's around him." And when God opened his eyes, he saw horses of fire, drawn by chariots of fire. And they were all around that old prophet. They were there all the time, but he just didn't see them.
And tonight, I'd say the same thing: that the God who stood yonder, in the 1st chapter of the books of Acts, and as He was taken up, and the skies become under His feet, that same Jesus said, "Lo, I am with you always. I will never leave you or forsake you. And the works that I do, shall you always. I will be with you, even in you, to the end of the world."

36 I am told by aviators, who fly these here real fast jet planes, and they say that the plane, getting up to a certain speed, that it vibrates and it shakes. And it seems like that the bolts is going fly out of it, that the wings are going to come off, until they pass the sound barrier. But after they once pass that sound barrier, they say the plane just sails out, just in ease, when it passes the sound barrier. That's the obstacle that's in the way of the plane, when it passes its own sound. And then it runs at ease.
Oh, if the church of this day could ever pray till they pass the sin barrier and the unbelief barrier, they could shout the victory of a living God when they once pass that barrier, by looking to the unseen, and letting the world vibrate and do what it wants to do.

37 But there is a living God, and when we lose our disbelief and our unbelief in Him, and pass that place, that the world is saying, "The days of miracle is passed," it makes you shake. "Oh, there's no such a thing as the baptism of the Holy Ghost." It makes you wonder. But if you'll just look at the unseen, to the God who promised it, "For the promise is unto you, and to your children, and to them that is far off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call." If you look to the blessed Word that says Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever, turn your heads towards that, and press on until you pass that vibration, past the unbelief barriers, and the sin barriers, and all the barriers that seems to hinder you, then you'll fly free in the faith of God, knowing that all things are possible. Then there is no limit they say, hardly, to the speed the plane will go. If there's no limit to the speed the plane will go, there's no limits to the blessings that God will pour down upon a believer that will believe.

38 The Scripture claims Him to be the same yesterday, today, and forever. Jesus said, when He was here on earth, "I do nothing except My Father shows Me first."
When the woman at the well come to Him, and she was a Samaritan... First there was a man came to him, and his name was Peter. And He said to this man, "Your name is Simon, and your father's name is Jonas." How did He know that? How did this lowly Nazarene carpenter know that man's name was Simon and his father's name was Jonas? Because He was endued with a power that could look at the unseen. He never looked at any letters written; He looked at the unseen, the God of heaven.

39 Quickly they went and got another man around the mountain, who had come many miles. And when he had told him along the road what Jesus had did, no doubt but what Nathanael was very skeptic of it. But when once in the sight of Jesus, Jesus said to him, "Behold an Israelite in whom there is no guile." How did this man do it? There was nobody with Him to say, "This guy is an Israelite." How did He do it? He didn't read it off of any book, but He looked at the unseen, to the God who knows the end from the beginning.
And he said, "Rabbi, when did You know me?"
He said, "Nathanael," He said, "before Philip called you, when you were under the tree, I saw you." What was he doing? Looking at the unseen.

40 When the woman at the well, a Samaritan, came out, and He said, "Bring Me a drink."
And she said, "The well's deep and You have nothing to draw with."
He said, "But if you knew who you were talking to, you'd ask Me for a drink." And she wanted to know who she was talking to, and she knew He was a Jew.
And she said, "It's not customary for you Jews to ask we women of Samaria such a thing as that." And so the conversation went on till Jesus caught her spirit.
And He said, "Go get your husband and come here."
She said, "I don't have any husband."
And He said, "That's right. You've got five husbands, and the one you're living with now is not your husband."
And she said, "We know that when the Messiah cometh, He'll tell us these things, but who are You?"
He said, "I am He that speaks with you."
And she run into the city and said, "Come, see a man who told me the things I've done. Isn't this the Messiah?"

41 And when Jesus, in leaving the world, after a ministry of that around the world, around the known world of that day, He said, "The works that I do shall you do also." Listen to His going away: "Lo, a little while and the world (the visible, intellectual, cultured, scientific), the world will see Me no more." That's exactly a prophecy. It can't help but be the truth. Jesus Christ said it. "The intellectual believer, the world won't see Me no more, yet ye shall see Me, for I will be with you, even in you to the end of the age. And the works that I have done, shall you do also. And more then this shall you do, for I go to My Father."

42 This great God and Father that we're speaking of, is not something that was; He's something that is. And if His people who are called by His name will get past that barrier of what the world's got to say, what the church has got to say, what science has got to say, and look at what God has to say; that minute you'll pass that vibration of unbelief and go free, out of this building tonight, just as happy as you can be, serving God, feeling free, sins all gone, healed from your sickness. Why, it'll be wonderful. God would not be a God of justice, who would reward one person of their faith and disreward another. He can't do it.

43 If God took the leukemia out of that girl when she was laying yonder (and one of the best hospitals, John Hopkins, that could be gotten), and her limbs falling from her, and one hour after the prayer was made here, that child was pronounced sound and well by the same doctor...
God can't be just. Let Congressman Upshaw, who'd been in a wheelchair for sixty-six years, broken in his back, walked like Mr. Roosevelt, and would heal that man and bring him out of that chair by a vision, and if another man sat in the same way and met the same faith, God would be unjust to heal one and let the other one alone. He is just! It's us, friends. If we can move past that sound barrier, if we can get to a place where it don't make any difference who says it, as long as God said it's the truth, sail on.

44 I've always thought of that little poem in my school book, when I was a little boy up here on the road. Many of you men and women of my age remembers it: Sail on. Sail on and on.
When Christopher Columbus was given ships by the queen of Spain and was... Because in his heart, he saw a vision that the world was round, and he had hardly a way he could prove it... He had nothing to do it with, but he was a man of vision. He believed it. And when the ship was given to him with a bunch of prisoners, cowards, that was his church members, a bunch of pull-backs, a bunch that was discouraged and tried to discourage him: "Just a little while longer and we will drop off the world. A serpent will rise from the bottom of the sea and wrap these little ships and pull it to the bottom." "And I say, 'Brave Rover, say; What will you say?'"
He said, "Sail on. Sail on, sail on and on."
God give us men in the church like that. I don't care what the scientific world says. I don't care what the denominational world says. I take God at His Word and sail on. Sail on until you pass the barrier.

45 We used to, in the old church here, used to sing this little song like this:
I've crossed the separating line.
I've left the world behind.
If there ever was a time that the church needs to step across that line which separates you between faith and unbelief by sight, and looking at the unseen by faith, it's now. That's when you leave everything behind you, every care, every worry, everything that says that you can't be a Christian. "I've smoked too long. I've drank too long. Brother Branham, I've lived in adultery."
I don't care what you say and what you've done. "Though your sins be as scarlet..." You once pass that line of barrier of the devil trying to torment you, saying, "You can't do it; you can't do it."
Say, "I can do it, for Jesus said, 'Whosoever will, let him come and drink from the waters of the fountain of life freely.'" Leave it behind.

46 When you people that are sick, and has plowed through prayer line after prayer line, and you've been prayed for; you've been to the doctor's; you've done everything, and still death stays at your door. When you get to a place to where you say, "I don't care what the doctor says; I don't care what the scientific world says; Jesus Christ made a promise to me." Pass that barrier of vibrations to your soul that you're free and there's not one thing to shake you; you'll sail into your healing just as certain as I'm standing at this pulpit. You'll never turn to look that way no more. You'll be looking this way. You're so free from them things, say, "Days of miracles is past. There is no such a thing as divine healing. You can't get well. You're case is too bad." Sail on up above it.
Climb the walls yonder until all is free. Every rope and every fetter's been cut loose. Every vibration's left in the back and you're free and free indeed.

47 Jesus Christ, God's Son, set in the church for you people, for such things as this: first He set apostles. Then after that He sent prophets, then teachers, pastors, and evangelists, to confirm this Word, to prove that He is some great teacher. I don't mean he has to have a Ph.D. He might know less about the Bible than a child that's still in his adolescence. Jesus knowed more about the Scriptures at twelve years old, then all the Pharisees did or the old learned sages. So you see, it doesn't take an intellectual mind; it takes a surrendered heart to the will of God.
If Jesus Christ, God's Son, promised this Bible, that He'd save to the uttermost... If He promised "The things that I do, shall you do also; I will be with you to the end of the world..." And if that same Jesus could come tonight, and take us into His control, and we could set ourselves from not thinking, "How's it going to be done?" but looking at the unseen, to the God who promised it...
"The same thing that I did to the woman at the well, I can do with you. The same sign that I showed to the world, to both Jew and Samaritan, I will show it again in the days of the Gentiles."
If He did it to them and proved Himself to be Messiah like that and would to any other ... and let us go in on intellectual, it wouldn't be fair. He wouldn't be a just God. He's got to show the same sign. And if He should come tonight, and vibrate through this building, and show Himself that He is alive, by performing the same signs, it ought to make every sinner's heart melt within him. It ought to make every sick person rise to their feet and give Him glory, and pass every line of vibration, and move on into those channels to where God can heal you and make you well. Think of those things while we pray.

48 Merciful and eternal God, who was God before there was an atom in the air and will be God when there's not another atom; You, who formed the world, and measured it in Your hands, and poured it out into space, and said, "Let there be light, and there was light." Your words cannot fail. And it cannot fail tonight, for You have made a promise: "These signs shall follow them that believe." That Word is true.
Lord God, we know that healing has been something that was purchased at Calvary, just as salvation was. And we're to look and live, and believe, and pass the barriers to prove to You that we're sincere. God Almighty, grant tonight that people may believe and be saved from their sins and their sickness. And I would ask that You would do this for the glory of God.

49 And while we have our heads bowed, I just wonder tonight, how many inside and outside, would like to make this confession to God: "Lord, I have been a church member for a long time (or, maybe I haven't), but really there's so much of the world vibrates to me. I have a temper. I have, oh, something that just won't let me get to the place where I can believe like I ought to believe. Will you take that from me tonight, Lord, and let me pass the sin barrier of unbelief?" Will you raise your hands to Him? God bless you. That's good. Oh, many hands all around.

50 Lord, You see their hands, and may the Holy Ghost, which has now told them to raise their hands, may He come and set them free from the vibrations of the world, till they could get beyond the paralyze charm of the serpent, that the snake bite of sin, the enchantments of this modern world will not lure them any longer. May they raise their eyes to Christ just now and receive Him as their Saviour, and we will praise Thee. In Jesus' name we pray.
And now before we call for the sick and the afflicted, is there some in here tonight who are sick, afflicted in any way, that would say, "Oh, God, let me pass the barrier line, too. Give me faith to just move on past all the thoughts of the devil, that say, 'You ain't going to make it. You can't get it.'" Would you raise your hands and say, "God, be merciful to me." God bless you. He sees all your hands. They're all over the building.

51 Now, Father, grant that something will take place tonight, that'll cause these people to see that this is the truth, the Word of God, and that You will keep Your promise to them just the same as You did to Abraham, or to Moses, or to any. How when You told Peter, "Walk to Me on the water," and he never got down to see what kind of a bridge was under the water; he never even looked at that. He looked at Jesus. But when he got his eyes on the waves, he would sink.
God, we pray tonight that those who step out tonight will pass that barrier of the waves and will walk right on to Jesus by His bidding of coming. Hear us, Lord. And now, give Thy servant wisdom to know what to do at this hour which will bring blessing, salvation, of healing, both physical and spiritual, in the name of the Lord Jesus. Amen.

52 Now, to you who raised your hands, I'm going to ask you something. I'm going to change the service just a little tonight. Last night we taken them into the room. Tonight, we're going to try to line them up and bring up a bunch to the platform. Then, immediately after this service is over, when the pastor takes the service, I'm going to ask you who raised your hand, some twenty or thirty people, I want you to come and kneel at this altar. If you really meant it when you raised your hand, see, God will do it. If you really meant it, and will just speak and say, "Lord, take every vibration of disbelief away from me," He will do it.
See, you can't run free. You can't do it in the scientific world with a plane. You can't do it in the spiritual world with the spirit. As long as your human thoughts and intellectual thoughts, I speak of, is still holding you, "Why, this church don't believe that. This church..." Don't think that. Jesus was the One who said it. And the church that tells you that it's wrong is a false prophecy. I don't say that to be mean, but I say that to be honest, because I will have to stand with you at the judgment. Those teachers who teach those things are wrong.

53 Now, just show you what Jesus said, then we will see the great thing, if it could be done. I guess there's two hundred people here to be prayed for. I want to ask you something. Upon this message now, of "Looking At The Unseen," if the unseen One will declare Himself, visible, then it ought to make your soul pass every barrier, if the unseen One will make Himself visible here to you, because He promised He would do it.
Now remember, we are the Gentiles. Now, when He was on earth, there was no one looking for Him but the Jews and the Samaritans. We, the Anglo-Saxon, Gentiles, were yet heathens. We were worshipping idols---our fathers. But the Jews were looking for Him. And the Samaritans was looking for Him. And He come and proved that He was the One that they were looking for, and they disbelieved Him. But there was some of the elected ones knew Him and recognized Him, both Jew and Samaritan. Now, it'll be the same with the Gentile.

54 Now, the way He made Hisself known to the Jew and Gentile, that He was... Now, they said, "What are you going to kill Him for?"
He said, "Because that He is a man, making Himself God." He was both God and man. God was the inside man, Jesus was the outside man.
Jesus said, "I do nothing in Myself, but what I see My Father doing." Anyone knows that. "What the Father shows Me, that's what I do."

55 Now, watch how He declared Hisself to the Jewish people: by telling Peter who he was, by telling Nathanael who he was, and what he done before he come. That's the way... And they said... Nathanael said when he heard that, he said, "You are the Christ, the King of Israel."
But the unbelieving Jew said, the church world said, "He's a spiritualist. He's a devil. He's a Beelzebub."
Jesus said, "You say that against Me, it'll be forgiven you," because they were Jews. "But otherwise, in the last days when the Holy Ghost comes upon the Gentiles, one word against it will never be forgiven in this world nor the world to come," when the Holy Ghost is come to do the same thing that He did, for the Holy Ghost would bear witness of Him.

56 So we put ourself in a serious condition. Now, do you believe that that God is still the living God? Do you believe that we are living in the last days of the Gentile dispensation, and the churches are looking for Him to come? And do you believe He's getting them ready for His coming? The shadows of His coming is cast upon the earth: trouble, distress, perplexed of times. And the shadow of His coming is placed over His church. And these things that we do in His name are just a shadow of what He will do when He comes.
When we see a child laying there dying with leukemia, straighten back to life in five minutes, that's a shadow of when He comes. The dust that's in the earth shall rise into beauty of youth again. This is just a shadow, but it's to make you know that He's coming.

57 Let's break loose and lay aside every fetter now. And if He will come tonight and will do the same things that He done to the woman at Samaria and to the Jew, will you Gentiles believe Him and let your souls loose? Will you do it? Raise you hands to Him, say, "I will."
Now, we misunderstand when we say, "healing," when we say, "salvation." There's no man can save you. I don't care what he does, he can't save you. He can't baptize you enough in water. He can't do nothing to save you. Christ saves you. But He's made the way for you to be saved. He can preach the Word. He can baptize with water, but Christ baptizes with the Holy Ghost. That's what John said. "I baptize with water, but He that cometh after me, baptizes with the Holy Ghost and fire.

58 Jesus can show His signs of Him being here, preaching His Word by a minister and come down and vindicate that Word by Him being here, but it's your faith that you're healed by, see.
Now, let's be just as reverent as we can be. And please, now please... I don't say that He will do it, but we're going to call a little prayer line up here. And there's a group in here, I think, if I'm not mistaken, they told me they'd give out one hundred cards. That means there's a hundred people sitting here to be prayed for. We will get them every one. If you just don't get discouraged and run away, we will get every one of you, see. We can't get them all at one time. Neither can we stand them all at one time, but we can stand some of them at a time, maybe four, five, or six, whatever can get on the platform around here or up-and-down the side, where we can stand them, because we haven't got the room. But if God will do for them as He did to prove Himself that He is here, then we ought to look to the unseen, then, and believe.

59 All you sick people that raised your hands, if Jesus will come and do the same thing that He did when He was here on earth, through human bodies...
I was astonished the other day, when I seen one of the greatest teachers, I thought, in the world... He is a great man; don't misunderstand me. Billy Graham, who the Lord is using, a great man... But it was a piece in the paper that some of the... Someone somewhere had wrote in to him and wanted to know what about the Trinity: was there actual three gods, or was there just one God? And Billy Graham answered him and said, "It's not been revealed yet." We have this paper.
Oh, brother, don't you never believe there's three gods. There's only one God. There's three offices of that one God: the Fatherhood, the Sonship, and the Holy Ghost; God condescending from heaven. He stayed on a mountain in a pillar of fire. He came down, and was made flesh, and dwelt among us in the Sonship, from the Fatherhood, and now dwells in His church as the Holy Ghost, same God, not three gods, the same God (See), the same God.

60 Now look. When He was here on earth (Listen closely now), when He was here on earth, He said this: "A little while, the world won't see Me, yet you shall. I come from God, and I return to God." How many knows the Scripture says that?
Well, what He was when He was here on earth, then He must have returned back to do the same. And "a little while, and I will be with you, even in you. And the works that I do, shall you do also," see. That makes Him the same, that same branch just keep going on out the vine, see. See, one branch here; another church age here; another one here. It's branches off of the vine.

61 Now, notice Him in the branch there. When He was here on earth, He said He come from God, which was the pillar of fire, and He said He returned back to God. After His death, burial, and resurrection, Paul was on His road down to Damascus and something struck him down. You remember that? Acts, the 8th chapter, I believe? And when he looked up, that pillar of fire that was in the wilderness, Jesus Christ, had turned back to a pillar of light that put his eyes out. Is that right? Then He had returned to God. And Paul said... He said, "Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou Me?"
He said, "Who are You, Lord?"
He said, "I'm Jesus." He was the pillar of fire.
I say this to the Tabernacle, not sacrilegious, but do you know, that same One, that same Spirit is with us now? We got His picture hanging here, by scientific world. And the signs that He did back there shows that He's still living in His church, not another kind of a sign, but the same sign. "A little while and the world sees Me no more (the intellectual), but ye (who've passed the sound barrier, to believe the Word), you'll see Me." I hope that you are in the "ye's," tonight. Let us pray.

62 Lord, now the rest of the service, it will have to be You, after such words as this, to confirm that You have told the truth. I pray that You will grant these blessings, through Jesus Christ's name. Amen.
Now, how many... You with the prayer cards in here, we can't raise you all up at once, but if you'll just not be discouraged, tonight, tomorrow night, Sunday, and Sunday night, so forth, we'll get you.

63 But now, let's begin tonight and start bringing just a few up. And those who's got cards, that can't walk---and I'll call you one by one, and place you here---if you can't walk when I call your number, then you raise up your hand, and then some of the ushers here will come and pack you. All right.
Prayer card number 1, who has it? Raise up your hand if you have prayer card number l. Raise up your hand. Surely... Somebody maybe can't... Well, maybe I was wrong. Where's Billy? Maybe it was... What? [Someone speaks with Brother Branham.] Yes. All right. If you can walk, sir, come right over here.
Prayer card number 2, if you can raise your hands, raise your hand. All right. Number 3. Right here. Would you come right here if you can. Now, if you can't, just keep waving your hand and some of them will come pack you. Number 3.

64 Number 4. What is that letter? [Someone says, "J."] J. All right. Number 4, would you raise your hand? The lady in the back, already to her feet. Number 5?
Now, when Billy comes down to give out the prayer cards, or Leo, or Gene, Brother Woods, or whoever gives them out, they come up here before you, and mix those cards up together, and just give you whatever prayer card you want, see. That's up to you. Just get your card. You might... One sitting by you might have number 1. The next might have number 15... And back over here have number 2. They're just mixed up. All right.

65 Prayer card number 3, who has it? Over here? All right. Number 4? Number 5? Number 5? Number 6? Way back in the back. All right. If you will, back there, just let that young lady through. Number 7, would you raise your hand? Yours are number 7, sister? All right. Number 8, would you raise your hand, if you can? The lady right here, number 8. All right, sister, take your place. Number 9? This lady here. All right, sister. Number 10? All right. Number 10.
Let's rest it at that, because we're getting congested there, a little bit. If they'd move back just a little bit, please. Well, we will get 10. And I guess... You have 10, do you sister? If you'd move right along, those gentlemen, right there, they'll let you in the line. Now, all right... How many?
Number 9 is missing. Oh, they're a... If she can't walk, just let her sit there and bring her when her number's called. Be all right, just when your number, if you can't stand very long, sister, just wait till your number's call, and you can come. That's all right. All right, just be seated. That's all right. Now, if she can't walk, well, when her number's called, some of them will pack her here or whatevermore. That's all right. All right. Number... What was the other numbers we was missing? That's all. All right. Now, we got... Is that the end of the line right there? Well, all right.

66 Now, I want to know that you all in this line, that's standing in the line here now, I want to ask you this question: Do you solemnly believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God? And you believe that He has risen from the dead, and He is not dead now but He's a living? Do you believe that He can perform and do the same that He did when He was here on earth? And you believe that He has sent His Spirit into His church to continue His work on?
How many of you is strangers to me, raise up your hand, I don't know you? All right. I don't know you. All right. Was that every hand, all the hands was up that they didn't know me? All right. I am a stranger to those people. I have never seen them. How many in the building is strangers to me, that I don't know you? Nobody, you don't have to be up here, just anywhere. Well, I see over half the congregation is strangers. All right.

67 If I be then a stranger to you, I want to ask you out there in the audience. If Jesus was a living today... And see if this is the Scripture... One time there was a woman who had a great thing wrong with her, an issue of blood. She'd had it for about twelve years, I believe, or longer. And she spent all of her money to the doctors.
Here's two girls sitting here in wheelchairs. You believe, girls, that Jesus has raised from the dead? You looking to Him tonight for help? Have you got a prayer card? All right. Just hasn't been called yet. That's all right. Just be patient, see. All right. Don't doubt. Just believe now, and if your card's not called tonight, just come back in tomorrow night (See) just keep... No matter, just keep coming, see. It'll get here. And you don't have to even have your card, just believe. Watch what takes place.

68 And to you out there in the audience who doesn't have a prayer card, how many people in here doesn't have a prayer card, raise your hands? Look it there. Now, you without a prayer card, if these people here, I'm going to base them on a Scripture. Everything we must do, must be Scriptural from Genesis to Revelations. It must be God. As I spoke last night... It must be so from the beginning, see. Now, if you don't have a... These here that's got a prayer card, I'm going to ask them Scriptures like it meant in the Bible, both men and women.

69 And to you out there that doesn't have a prayer card, that you won't be in the prayer line tonight... Now, you can have prayer cards again tomorrow, but now, and he will finish out as many... And we will get them through here some way and pray for them, if you just be patient. Don't be in no hurry. See, then you get to vibrating yourselves, see. Just stand still, say, "God, I'm here. You know me." And then... You say this...
There is a Scripture in the Bible where this woman had an issue of blood, and she passed through a bunch of people who was trying to get her to keep still. And she wanted to get to the Master, the Lord Jesus. And she finally got to where He was, for she said in her heart, "If I can touch that man's garment, I will be made well." How many ever heard that story? Now, Jesus, going along with the crowd, and after a while the woman touched Him. In her heart she thought... What did she do then? That was her anticipations. When she touched that, she passed the sound barrier. That was it. She was free, for in her heart she said, "I've done exactly what I thought if I'd do, I'd get healed."

70 And do you believe if Jesus will make Hisself known tonight, you'll get the same thing? All right. Now, just believe, keep that in your heart. And then she walked out over in the audience somewhere, perhaps, and sat down. Jesus stopped and said, "Who has touched Me?"
And they said, "Nobody touched You." Everybody said, "We never." "We never." Everybody denied it. "Nobody touched You."
And Peter said, "Lord..." He rebuked Him and said, "What would You say a thing like that for?" something on this manner. "'Who touched you?' when everybody's touching You, running against You, 'Hello, Rabbi, glad to meet You, Rabbi.'; 'Hello Jesus, Galilean prophet, we're so glad to meet You'; 'How do You do.' Everybody's touching You."
He said, "That may be true, but somebody touched Me different. (That's the touch you want.) Somebody touched Me in a way that they passed the sound barrier. I felt virtue; weakness come upon Me. Strength went out of Me." And He looked around. And in Him dwelt the Spirit of God. You believe that? And He looked around over the audience until He found the person that had touched Him. And He told her her conditions and said that her faith had saved her. No vision? No, He just knew that her faith had saved her, because the pull of all the faith in there, it was so much greater in her.

71 Now, if Jesus is the same today, won't He do the same? Now, how will you know it's Him? See now, you have to submit yourself. Now, here's where I have to look to the unseen.
Are you the first one? Where's... Hold the line... You, Brother Neville? Oh, then it's all right.
You're the first man? All right. Now, you can just walk a few steps closer, if you will, sir. Here is a man that I have... I believe you said we don't know each other, so this is our first time meeting. How do I know that man? I don't. God knows, as far as I know, I've never seen him in my life. There's a perfect stranger.
Now, I have said that Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever. Now, that's basing a lot of faith. If that's not so, then I'm found a hypocrite and the Bible a lie. Now, what do I have to do now? Look to some intellectual thing? How can I? I've got to look to the unseen. But why am I doing it? He promised it. There you are. Now, you do the same. And you do the same, all of you. Do the same. It can't fail.

72 I could fail. You could fail. But God can't fail. Now, here's two men, met the first time in their life. Now so it... I take my time... Now, this is a Scriptural scene: there was a man who went and got a man and brought him to the church where Jesus was at, and his name was Nathanael. Jesus had never saw him, so when he come up to Jesus, Jesus said, "Behold, an Israelite in whom there's no guile." If I'd say that so that you would know what I was saying, I'd say, "There's a honest man, a Christian believer." They'd say...
Why he said, "Rabbi, why You never seen me in Your life. How do You know me? How did you know?"

73 Now, not the way He was dressed, because all the Easterners dressed the same. He could been a Greek; he could been an Egyptian; he could been many things. But Jesus said, "He's an Israelite. And he's honest, and is no guile in him."
He said, "How did You know it?"
He said, "Before Philip called you, when you were under the tree, I saw you." That was Jesus yesterday. If He's the same today, and dwelling in us, when He promised He would, and will make known to this man... He might be here for financial troubles. He might be a man dying. He might be a man of sin. He might be a man of righteousness. I don't know. I can't tell you. But God does know it. Then if He will make Hisself known here, that Jesus lives and will tell the man... Then let him be the judge whether it's right or not. And then, would that make all of you believe Him, that He is visible here? That's His being. Now, He can't show Hisself in a corporal body; it's His Spirit.

74 Now, He permitted His picture to be taken there. You see that, which the scientific world has in Washington, DC. Same Angel of God, same pillar of fire, who dwelt in Jesus, done the same thing to Philip ... or, Nathanael; the same Jesus promised to come and dwell in us and do the same works. Everybody understand well now? All right.
Now, Lord, let it be known that Thou art God, and that we are Your servants. Then You love us, and You're wanting these people to believe You, and to pass up all the barriers of sin in the world, that they might be saved and healed, for Your glory. Amen.

75 Now, just to say like Peter did at the gate called Beautiful, to the man that was lame from his mother's womb, he said, "Look on us." That was just to believe, to get his attention, to catch his attention, like our Lord did the woman at the well. He caught her and called a conversation. Said, "Bring Me a drink of water." He went on talking.
Now, if I don't know you, you're just a man that's out there in the audience. And if I don't know you, and the Lord will explain to me something that you have done in your life, or what you're desiring for---finances, health, or whatever it is---and will make it truly and clearly, then you'll believe that He's here to give you what you're asking for? You'll do that? All right. Reverence now.

76 Now, just be in prayer till the Holy Spirit begins to settle on us.
Yes, I see this man. And I see a little person that's standing near, he's in question of, or he's wanting to be prayed for. It's somebody else you want to be prayed for. That's a girl, a little girl. And you're not from this country. You're from near a big lake, somewhere. You're from a city that's near a great city, that's got a big... It's Buffalo, New York. You're near Buffalo, New York. You have high blood pressure. That's what's wrong with you, but you're praying for this child. You believe me to be His servant? You're Mr. Holden. That's your name. Return back and receive what you've asked for. Put that handkerchief on it; it'll be over. Don't doubt. Amen.

77 Do you believe Jesus Christ lives? What is it? The unseen becomes visible. What is that? The same Jesus, the same fruits, the same signs, the same thing that He did.
Now, here's a woman next. I speak to her like He did the woman at the well. Are we strangers to each other? We are. So the people will know on the outside, just raise your hand up so... This is our first meeting. We're strange to each other?
Now, I don't know what the man had, a few minutes ago, but whatever it was, I didn't have nothing to do with his healing; God did that. His faith did that. I had nothing to do with it. It's just a gift, for in this building now, is just the same kind of angels that Gehazi seen when Elijah opened his eyes. In this building is the Lord Jesus. So don't look at what you see. Look at what you don't see, because it's a promise of God, that God said He'd do this, and He's doing it.

78 Now He talked to the woman just a minute till He found what her trouble was. And that's the way I would like to do to you, because He remains the same. If I'm a stranger and don't know you, then He will... It'll have to be some way, some supernatural some way, to contact you. Would you believe that was your Lord, was permitting me to do that?
Now, if you want to know, there was something happened in the building just then: a healing. It's a lady sitting here, right out here in the audience, kind of a heavy-set lady. She's got her hands up and her eyes closed, a praying. She's got a bowel trouble and a back trouble, and she's praying for God to heal her. She's sitting right here, wearing glasses, a dark suit on, right at the end of this row. You that's got your hands up, that's what was wrong with you. If that's right, raise your hands like that. I don't know you, do I? No, sir, we're strangers. Go home now; you touched the border of His garment. You touched Him, because I'm twenty feet from you, but you touched Him, the High Priest, that could be touched by the feeling of our infirmities.

79 Now, the rest of you... There's a lady without card, without anything, just sitting there waiting. You do the same. You are the wife of the man that was just here, because I see you both in the same house. And you're suffering with a nervous condition. Also I see you've been to a doctor, and you've had an examination. And the examination was at the bottom parts. And he says by look... It says it's growths, and that's in the stomach and in the female organs, and wants you to be operated on. But you've had faith, and believe if you'd come here, and I'd pray for you, you'd be healed. If that's right, raise up your hands, the people will see. Now, He who knows her here and knows the condition, can He do it? Come here.
Lord Jesus, grant, O God, that her faith and joy will be filled tonight, that she will be set completely free and bring joy and salvation to those who she contacts. I send her, and cast away this evil from her, in the name of Jesus Christ. Amen. You feel different now. Just keep feeling like that and rejoicing. It'll leave you for good, forever.

80 How do you do. Just be real reverent, just a moment. As far as I know, our first time meeting, but God knows us both. He knows about you, and He knows about me. And if He will reveal to me what you're here for, or something that you've done that you should not have done, or something you ought to have done that you did not do, but you know that I have no idea what you're here for. If that's right, raise up your hand. But it would have to come through some supernatural discernment. I'm so glad that He's the same yesterday, today, and forever.
You're not asking prayer for yourself, though you need it. You're asking for your son. And your son is not here. He is in a large city, a big city. And it's in the East. I've been there. My last campaign was there, Philadelphia. That's right. He's a preacher. And they're going to operate on him, and they're examining him for a rupture. That's "thus saith the Lord." You believe that God will do what you're asking Him to?
O eternal God, confirm the woman's faith with sign and wonder. Grant the deliverance of this what she asked for, through Jesus Christ's name I ask it. Amen. May God give to you that what you asked for.

81 Now, be reverent. A little lady with her handkerchief up to her nose, praying for a trouble with her head, you believe the Lord Jesus'll make you well? The lady sitting right here by the man with glasses on, you believe that God will heal you, little lady with the blue looking dress on? Raise your hand if that's what was... Go and be healed; your faith makes you well.
Do you believe Jesus Christ, God's Son, could reveal to me what you're here for? You have many things wrong with you, and very nervous, complications, female trouble, ladies' trouble, almost a breakdown, terrible conditions. You're not from this city, yet you're from Indiana, Lafayette. Mrs. Ellison, return. You're sickness has left you. Go home and show what God has done for you. Amen.

82 Do you believe that God can tell me what you're here for? If He will, will you believe Him with all your heart? You're not here for yourself; you're here for that baby. If God will tell me what's wrong with that baby, will you believe me? It's a blood tumor. That's right, isn't it? You believe if I will ask God to cast that out of the baby, the baby will live? Bow your heads. Now, the baby's too little to have faith, see.
O Lord, God, they brought to You infants and You blessed them. And that same Jesus stands present now. I condemn this devil that's trying to take the life of this infant child. Leave it, Satan; in the name of Jesus Christ, come out of the baby.
Now, take it. Don't disbelieve. The thing will leave the baby. Have faith.

83 Dad, sitting there with your head bowed, with that gallbladder trouble, I don't know you, but He knows you. You suffer with gallbladder attacks, and you have a great pressure in your chest. If that's right, wave your hand. Do you believe me to be His prophet? Then go home from this meeting and never suffer with it again. Be well in the name of the Lord Jesus.
You believe me to be His servant? If God will tell me your trouble, will you believe with all your heart?
Now, there's something happening in the building. Just keep on believing, but there's something coming in strong, so strong... There's a colored woman standing by the side of this lady. Just keeps fading... I see a colored woman... She's sitting right back here. She's got arthritis and complications. She's sitting right next to Mrs. Bell, there; she's got a black hat on. I don't know her. But, sister, if you'll believe God, the way you was promising Him then you would believe Him, it'll be over.

84 Now, that you might know that this be the Spirit of God, the next row behind the woman, a man sitting there with trouble with his neck, if you'll believe, sir, God will make you well, if you'll believe it. Do you believe it? Raise up your hand. I'm a stranger to you but He's not. See, wherever you are, just have faith in God.
Can you pass that barrier of unbelief now? Can you let the Holy Ghost come right in now and take over? If you can, it can happen. That diabetes will leave you if you believe it. Go on your road and rejoice. What do you think about it? He's the Lily of the valley, the morning star.

85 If you'll believe for that anemic condition, it'll leave you. You believe it? Go on your road, rejoice then. Do you believe? Let's believe with all of our heart.
If you believe, go eat your supper. That ulcer that was in your stomach, has left you. Go eat. Believe.
If you believe, you won't have to die. That cancer left you. You believe it? Go and rejoice.
How many believes with all your heart? Stand up on your feet just now. Raise to your feet, right quick. Raise up your hands right to God. Now, with one accord, pass every barrier. Believe that God is here, and the sickness and diseases shall leave. Every person, pray in your own way.

86 O Lord God, Creator of heavens and earth, I now bring this to You, this audience of people. I condemn the devil. I claim that Jesus Christ, God's Son, is present. In the name of the Lord Jesus, let every unclean spirit of doubt, superstition, unbelief, and sin, depart out of this building. Come out, Satan. I adjure thee, by Jesus, the Son of God.
Each one of you, lay your hands over on one another now and pray for each other, everywhere in the building, and God shall make you well. Believe it with all your heart. Lay your hands over on one another. Start praying for each other. That's it. That's the way. All that believe that you're healed, raise up your hands and praise God. All right, Brother Neville.

Looking at the unseen

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1 Let us remain standing just a moment for prayer, as we bow our heads.
Almighty God, the Creator of heavens and earth, and the Author of everlasting life, and the giver of every good and perfect gift, to Thee, O Lord, who raised up Jesus Thy Son on the third day for our consolation that we might be reconciled to Thee, being justified by faith believing the story; we pray that You will raise us tonight, Lord, Your children, to a higher heights and a deeper depths of Thy eternal presence. May we recognize Thee, Lord. And may new faith come tonight, something that will just set our souls to burning with old-fashioned Pentecostal fire.

2 Remember those, Lord, tonight who are weak, and feeble knees and feeble hands. We pray that they will be strengthened tonight by the presence of Thy Spirit. Bring those wandering ones back to the fold. And all of those, Lord, who has never yet accepted Thee as their personal Saviour, may this be the night that they'll settle it once for all. And then, Lord, remember those who are sick and afflicted, that's so needy. May they have a resurrection tonight to new health, new hopes, new faith. Grant it, Lord. Speak to us through Thy Word as we further wait. In the name of Jesus, Thy Son, we ask it. Amen. You may be seated.

3 It's so good to come back to the house of the Lord each night. I do not know any place I would rather be tonight, unless it would be in heaven with all the redeemed, than to be standing with the people who are already redeemed and waiting for their Lord to come to receive them. So being that we are not there already, we are with those who are ready to go. So glad to be called one of them.

4 I wish to read just a verse tonight out of II Corinthians the fourth chapter, the eighteenth verse:
While we look not at the things which are seen.
And my subject tonight is "Looking At The Unseen." We are told that we have an outward man and a inward man. And the outward man looks by his eyes. And the inward man walks by faith. So we have to be led by one of these two persons: Outside, outward man, is self; inward man is God. You see, we do not see with our eyes, though many times we have thought that we see with our eyes. We only look with our eyes; we see with our heart.
Jesus told Nicodemus once, "Except a man be born of the Spirit, he cannot see the kingdom of God." In otherwise He meant this: You cannot understand the kingdom of God until you are born again. So you have to make an effort first to accept it. And then after you have accepted it, then you are able to understand it.

5 I used to say as a little boy, sounds almost sacrilegious to say it here at the platform... We used to play banner maker, going swimming out at the old swimming hole. And how many little boys that's raised in the country is not acquainted with the old swimming hole. When we get a few minutes time from the work, or after pitching hay all day, we would rush out to the swimming hole and go swimming.
And we used to have a big bank at this swimming hole where I would go in. And we had to have a banner maker. He had to lead the way. And he really had a job on his hands. So, when all the boys would get close to the water... Sometimes it would be a little late in the fall, and there were springs up at the head of this creek, and the water got real cold sometimes. And we would take out running just as hard as we could. And the last one getting in the water had to be the banner maker. Well, I never was banner maker because I was usually the first one in. And the rest of them had to take the trouble of taking off a shirt, or undoing some suspenders; but usually I just had a pair of overalls on with a fodder twine across for a suspender and a nail for a button. I don't know whether you ever had that or not. And the only thing I had to do is just pull that nail and the overalls stood in the air and I was in the water.
And then they kind of looked forward to me to give them a signal, whether the water was cold or whether it was warm. Now, if I held up one finger, that meant the water was cold, "Come in careful, boys." But if I held up two fingers, the water was warm. I was a witness; I'd already tested it. And now if there's any here tonight that perchance they're are not born again, just come on in---the water's fine. I've already witnessed it.

6 Some time ago the critics used to say that God certainly made a mistake when He said, "As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he." But later they find out now that God was right. They said a man had no mental faculties in his heart, and that perhaps if God said "his heart," He meant "his head." But God doesn't make any mistakes. When He said his heart, He meant his heart. Just like He does all of His other statements, they are perfect and they need no translations. They are just the way God said them. Not for another age or another time, but for whosoever will at all times; for God's Word is perfect, everlasting, eternal, as He is eternal.
So, about four years ago up in Chicago, I was reading a great headline in a paper where that the medical science had found a little compartment in the heart of a human being that did not even have a cell in it. It was not found in the animal life; it was only found in the human body, the human heart. And they said it must've been the dwelling place of the soul. So then man does think with his heart. You look with your eyes, but you understand with your heart.

7 When God made man, He made him thus; for He made this little certain compartment in the man for His own throne, His control tower. God wants to lead man, but man wants to lead himself. Therefore there is a war constantly. The man wants to go after what he sees with his eye. That's where he's deceived. That's where Satan deceived Eve, by what she could see---the fruit was pleasant to the eye. But it was death to the soul! So is it tonight. God wants to lead men, so He made Himself a little control tower in the midst of his heart, so that men would be led by the Spirit of God. Getting off on his own leading is what separated him from His fellowship---looking what he could see with his eye.
And that's where he stands yet tonight, all those who are led by such things. But the Scripture says that sons and daughters of God are led by the Spirit of God. Your emotions is your control. And you can notice: a man or a woman that tries to walk after the things of the world, they never can please God. But a man or a woman that will not look at the things of the world, but just go according to the leading of the Spirit, they're usually in the will of God. That is a great fight tonight. Satan took the eye, a man's head, to control him by his head. God took his heart!

8 Man's always trying to achieve something by his head. He's supposed to achieve it by his heart. That's the control tower where God controls him, and directs his thoughts, directs his walks, directs his emotions. Sometimes I get so happy I just have to let it loose. And if I'd look around and see somebody, then, see, I got my eyes on people then. But God help me to keep my eyes closed. I want to just be led by the Spirit of God, that the flesh will have nothing to do into it. Usually ministers, when they get into the pulpit, they begin to think, "If I speak on a certain certain thing, here is a certain member of my church that's a good pay in this church, they'll leave the church." And then you go to looking at the flesh again. Then God can't lead that minister. You've got to say what the Spirit says to say. Then we are led by the Spirit of God. And we find that this man is controlled by a control tower, and that tower makes him what he is. It moves him. It's his emotions. He lives by it.

9 Now, He likened us unto sheep. A sheep is totally lost without a leader. Now, if you've ever raised sheep, you know how true that is. And if you ever went to a slaughter house... I think that's one of the most pitiful cases of animal life, to see the slaughter of sheep. The little fellow is just depending on something to lead them. And do you know what they take to lead the sheep into the slaughter? A goat. He leads the sheep right over into the slaughter pen, and he goes up the aisle with them. Then when it comes to the place to get killed, the goat jumps out and the sheep goes right on to his slaughter.
And that's about true with human life today. The devil will lead you right into the slaughter pen if he can. He will lead you into confusion. He will let you see something that looks pretty and looks like it might be so pleasant to the eye, when the Holy Spirit is condemning it and saying not to believe it. So we should follow the leading of the Holy Spirit always. And you cannot follow the leading of the Spirit until the Spirit is in your heart to lead you.

10 I just heard Brother Duffield make a statement about some saying this and some saying that. I was standing just in Mrs. McPherson's room there, where she usually waited. I like to go in there and pray because I know it's a little chamber perhaps where she waited and others has waited, as Paul Rader and great people who's preached in this temple before, where they've waited on the Spirit to know what to say when they come out here. And sometimes your message is changed completely from what you were going to speak on.
But God knows what He's doing as long as He's leading. You see, you must always go by the Spirit, and the Spirit will always agree with the Word. Now, if the spirit leads you contrary to the Word, then it's not the Spirit of God. Now, if the Holy Spirit is leading you, it'll say, "Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today, and forever." If it's a religious spirit, or some other type of spirit that isn't the Spirit of God, it'll say, "It was for a day gone by, not now." How could you make that act right? Because it said, "He is the same." Oh, I'm so glad to have the Holy Spirit!
See, God seeing that beforehand, Jesus said, "I will not leave you comfortless, but I will pray the Father, and he will send you another Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, and he will abide with you forever. And when he comes he will testify of me and will show you things to come, even the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive." Oh, how happy we are to see that Spirit of truth bearing record with His Word, that it is the Spirit of truth. Then, sons and daughters, follow it. It'll stay right in the lids of the Bible and confirm every promise that God made.

11 Sheep is lost, and so are we lost, without a leader. We must be led. Animal life is led. I am sure most all of you seen, I believe it was in Look magazine here some time ago, they were having an article on wild geese, how that every fall of the year God has those geese to have a big get-together, a revival. And they come from every little swamp, coming together. How I've watched those fellows. I first found God by watching nature, and see that something led them.
Little ducks that's borned on the ponds up in Canada, never been off the pond, is borned in the spring of the year, just feathered out and become a duck on the pond. And he's satisfied. He gets plenty to eat. But just let this mountain snowcap. And the first cold breeze comes across that mountain, that little leader will get right out in the middle of the water, stick that little honker up in the air and honk four or five times, and every duck on the pond will come right to him. He will raise right off of that pond and go just as straight to Louisiana as he can go, to the rice fields---with no compass. Why is it? They call it instinct; I call it God. That's God's provided way for him. And it seems like, when they're all in unity, they all fly together and go straight. But let them get disunified one time.

12 Look magazine was telling about an old gander that raised up in the north some time ago and he got all off the beam. And many of the geese flew back and left him. But he kept calling to them. And he was so far off until he flew all the way to England. Many of them perished in their going. And that's the way... I do not mean this rashal now, but I'm sure that many of our church leaders has got the church off like that.
And now they say that every year those geese, when fall of the year comes, they swarm, get together. They're ready for the revival, but they don't know which way to go. They've been led so far off the track till they can't find their way back again.

13 I think that's about the way it's got today, till the church has become a social gathering instead of the leading of the Holy Ghost and the baptism back again! The people are so far away. They ... talking about revival in our days. Billy Graham mentions it so many times. And I'd like to see a revival in our days. But there's been leaders who's taken the people this way, and that way, and this way, and that way, until they don't know which way to go. Oh, I pray that God will send such a Spirit of conviction in the Holy Ghost till they'll come back to His leadership, and instead of our modern leaders of the day, all over the world.

14 We do not go by sight. Someone says, "Look at such and such a church and such and such a denomination." That has nothing to do with it, not one thing to do with it; although I respect those things, and they're great, and I appreciate them. And the thing that I pray for, that they will let down those bars in such a way that they will not take man's leading no more, and come back to the Holy Spirit---that instinct that's in a man that makes him know that God saved him from sin, and sanctifies his soul with the power of the risen Christ, and heals his sickness. The full gospel, not just enough to be deceitful. Satan told Eve enough to be deceitful. He told her the truth, but not all the truth.

15 Now, if God can come on the control tower... And when the... "My sheep know my voice." Well now, if all these strange voices in the world of this social gospel, that "Just belong to church and that's all is necessary," why hasn't it done something? It's done nothing but confuse the people. What we need tonight is a unified church filled with the Holy Ghost and power from on high, led by the Spirit of the living God on the control tower, that won't say, "Because I'm a Baptist and he's a Methodist, I will have nothing to do with him." A real true Spirit of God will recognize his brother or sister, I don't care what kind of a brand he's wearing. Oh, we need the leadership again of the Holy Spirit, walking after the unseen, the way that God leads us. The things that we see are temporal. The things that we do not see are eternal.

16 Some time ago I was in Canada, having a meeting. And I walked down the street and there was a man selling televisions. And they was having a program on from over in the States, and there was a cowboy there a-strumming on a guitar. And this man said to me, "I'd like to sell you this set, fellow."
I said, "I'm just a tourist."
"Oh," he said, "I see." And he said, "You just passing through?"
I said, "No, I'm here in a service."
"Oh," he said, "you wouldn't happen to be around here with this Branham outfit?"
I said, "Yes, sir, I am."
And he said, "What do you think about that fellow?"
Well, there was nothing I could say at that time. I said, "Oh, I think the services are fine." I said, "Was you there last night?"
He said, "Yes, I was."
And I said, "What do you think about that man getting up off of that cot, that soldier, that It called his name and told him who he was, and how he'd been in affliction for years."
"Oh," he said, "I don't think nothing about it because I'd have to see it proved. That hypnotism doesn't go with me."

17 And you know, my old southern mammy had an expression, "Give the cow enough rope, it hangs itself." And I said, "Why, do you...?"
He said, "Anything that cannot be scientifically proven, then I think there's nothing to it."
But I said, "I don't like to be different, but I have to be now. The things that can be scientifically proven is not real. It's only the things that's not scientifically proven is real."
"Oh," he said, "that's ridiculous."
And I said, "All right, I want to ask you something. Could you tell me what love is? Could you scientifically show me what love is? Go down to the drugstore and buy me a quarter's worth of love; I need some more." See? You can't see it. It's the unseen. Show me what life is. I need just a little more life. Could you go buy me a quarter's worth? Show me what life is, what love is, what personality is, what the Holy Spirit is, what God is. It's the unseen things that's real, lasting! These things are temporal and perishable. Yet we put so much emphasis and so much concern about the natural thing, and so little about the spiritual thing.

18 And I said, "For instance, coming through this room right now is television pictures." And I said, "You have to show me the picture."
"Oh," he said, "of course. It hits the crystal and the tubes and so forth, and it shows the picture here."
"But," I said, "that man's in the United States." And I said, "You're picking him up over here coming through the air that you can't see."
He said, "But we can prove it, because here's the picture showing that it's over there. And there's a sending station to prove that it's here."
I said, "Yes, and we can prove it too. [Blank spot in tape.] For in glory we've got a risen Saviour who sends it forth, and the Holy Ghost reveals it and makes it positive. Therefore we got a sending station and a receiving station." That's correct. God in heaven who knows all things can so put a gift in His church that He can magnify it and reflect Himself through it, and say things which is absolutely impossible to (by scientists) to prove. See, we don't walk by things we do not ... we do see; we walk by things we do not see.

19 Let's take a few men that did walk such, that looked at the unseen. Noah, for instance. Before there was one drop of water that fell from the heavens, Noah seen the rain coming. There was never had been any rains from the heavens. The skies were always clear; there were no clouds, never had been a cloud upon the earth. Why? Because it was God's program to water vegetation through the springs and things. But Noah, because that God said, "It's going to rain," he saw the rain coming, a hundred and twenty years before one drop fell, and made preparations to get away from it.
I'm so glad that by faith we can see afar the coming of the Lord Jesus, and making preparations to get out of this old world that's going to be burned some time with unquenchable fire.
Oh, Noah, when God spoke and said, "Noah,"...
"Where are you, Lord?"
"That makes no difference where I am. I AM THAT I AM. It's going to rain."
And ever since he heard that word, there was something beating in his bosom like a pulsation: "It's going to rain, it's going to rain." And he could see the clouds coming and he made preparations for it.

20 If these people here in these wheelchairs and on these cots, and you that's sick to die, if you could just hear the Word of God tonight. Don't try to figure it out; don't think how long you've been sitting, how long you've been sick. Think about what God said. And there comes a pulsation of the Holy Spirit in your heart saying, "It's the truth."
"How do you know it's the truth?" said the devil.
"I know it's the truth. It's God's Word, it's the truth." Something begins to pulsate in your bosom that it is the truth. Then make ready, you're coming out of there, just as certain as I stand in this pulpit tonight. Don't look at what you see---how bad I'm crippled, how sick I am, what the doctor said. Don't look at that; look at the unseen, what God said. Before you feel any difference, before the pain leaves, before the hand moves, before the eye can see one sight, yet make ready, for it's going to come, as long as that pulsation begins to rise in your bosom, in your heart where God sits on the control tower. Now I get religious about this time.

21 And I think that the Holy Spirit can lead man, and tell him things and make him act different, and make him believe things and receive things that the world never could believe could happen. I'm a witness; I was a blind man once myself, practically had to be led. So I know now what I'm talking about, that it's the Holy Spirit.
Oh, can't you feel that pulsation of the Spirit begin to rise in your heart, saying, "Jesus Christ is in our midst." "Wherever two or three are gathered in my name, I will be in their midst!" Pulsations. Something moving, like a heartbeat. It's pumping energy to your spirit. It's pumping energy to your mind. Then let the things that your eyes see black out, that you see not the things of the world. You're believing what God said.

22 Noah waited, believed, moved with fear and built an ark. though criticized! Why, they told... "The old fellow must have been crazy." But yet, no clouds had ever come. Before there was a cloud, before there was a drop of water in the skies, Noah, with the unseen of the natural eye, with his spiritual eye, tuned to the Word of God, seen the rain falling.
Oh, if we tonight, in this Angelus Temple, could so tune our heart---not our literal mind (let it go; cast down reasonings), but with our hearts---could tune it to the Word of God, to see a revival break forth, to see the altars full, to see the church packed, to see the revival spreading through Los Angeles, a fire that cannot be put out---our hearts begin to pulsate under the power of the Holy Ghost ---there would be such prayer meetings over Los Angeles tonight, it'd have to happen. Certainly it would when the church is in tune.
What if the people here tonight that's sick would begin to think, "God is God. If He isn't, why serve Him? If He's still God, He's still a healer. If He's Almighty God, He can do all things. And if He made a promise, He can't break it. He has to keep it." Then that pulsation begins to rise in your heart. Something is going to take place. There could be nothing stop it. It's a fire, like a building on fire on a windy day. It just keeps blowing as the Holy Spirit fans that fire. And it keeps burning till it becomes a reality to you. Noah.

23 Abraham. He heard the Word of God speak to him one day, that there was a city whose builder and maker was God. He could not see the city. But he put his little pack on his back and took off to find that city. I believe he's enjoying it tonight. Sure. When God told Abraham what He did, that there was a city whose builder and maker was God, he packed up everything he had and started looking for that city. Twenty-five years later, after the promised son had been promised for twenty-five years, he received a son that through him opened the gate to that city for Abraham and all his children. Why? He couldn't see it. He wandered about, in deserts, and in the mountains, and in the valleys, and in all kinds of conditions, confessing that he was a pilgrim and a stranger, and he was looking for a city whose builder and maker was God.

24 Every born-again child tonight comes through Abraham's blessing, for it's the promise that was given to Abraham. And every child of God that receives the Holy Spirit, his pulsation is the same. "I'm looking for a city." It isn't Los Angeles. It isn't New York. It isn't Louisville. It's heaven! And we confess that we are peculiar people, strangers, because we are looking for something that we do not see; but something on the control tower says, "It's there." Every redemptive blessing between here and there, God promised to give it to us. And we're walking, we're pilgrims. I don't care what so-and-so says, I know something in me tells me it's real. I just start walking, looking, praising, confessing. Sure, because it's got to fall. The Kings of kings is the One who pronounced it.

25 Moses, when he was in Egypt, there he had a choice to make. One day while he was the great general in the army, he looked out of the same window that Pharaoh did. Pharaoh seen the Israelites as nothing but a bunch of mud daubers, just slaves. They were no good. All the Egyptians looked upon them the same, but Moses. Couldn't see no beauty in them, because they were ragged, they were poor, they were beaten. They were a rejected people by the world.
And Moses standing with his foot on the throne, and yet by faith, looking at the unseen. Moses refused to be the son of Pharaoh because he knowed he was the son of Abraham. Whew! Now, I know you know I'm a fanatic. I'm fanatically about one thing: that's Jesus Christ and His promises. Moses had rather be a son of Abraham than to be the son of Pharaoh! Why? He couldn't see it in the natural. If he was the son of Abraham, the mud pitch was for him, the slave's whip. What was it? But he had recompense to the reward, for he endured as seeing Him who is invisible, who made the promise. There you are.

26 What choice are you making tonight, here in Hollywood, and Los Angeles, the fashion place of the world, where the fine spires and the steeples and everything else? What choice are you making? Let me tell you, brother, sister, find that Holy Spirit that takes control in the heart and those pulsations begin to come that God is God, and the things of the world will perish. Then you walk after the things you don't see. You'll become crazy to the people of the world. They'll say, "Well, that woman's lost her mind. That man's gone off at the deep end. Why, he says that he's healed of cancer. Why, he's healed of his blindness. He's healed of this, that, or the other. Or he says that he's received the Holy Spirit, that's changed him. Why, he don't even associate in the poolroom no more. We don't find him at the card table. This woman don't play the cards no more. She quit wearing vulgar clothes. She become a new person, there's something wrong with her." Sure. Something happened to her.
The old carnal mind died and the mind of Christ took the place in the woman's heart. And now she's walking, looking for a city where she will be popular, where she will ride on the chariots with the sons and daughters of God, where she will be a guest of the Lord Jesus forever. She's looking for a city whose builder and maker is God. She cares not about the pollution of the world. See, she's been enthroned by something else. God has come into her heart and it just blackened out the fashions of the world. That's first, when He takes control.

27 Then I want you to notice what Moses did when he got that vision of the unseen. Here he was standing, there was the throne, all of the world laid at his hand, every pretty thing that could happen. The Pharaoh of Egypt. And he had all the money, the women, the beautiful girls, and all the social, and all the popularity, and the gaiety of the world laid at his hand. But what did he look down in the mud pit? It could promise him nothing but poverty, a fall from the society that he was in, a turning his back upon the glaring things of the world. He had to go to the mud pits to become one of them.

28 I remember some time ago when a certain denominational church that I was ordained in said, "Billy, you go out with that bunch and you'll become a holy-roller." But I looked out upon them, I seen a promise in them that they wasn't ashamed of the religion that they represented. I seen they were God's children. Called everything in the world, but I seen they were heirs of the promise; and I took my place with them to become one of them. Now, it ain't to sympathize with them, and say, "Oh, I think they're nice people." That don't do no good, you've got to become one of them! Moses didn't say, "Now, I sympathize with my people. I think they're nice and everything, but I'm up here and they're down there." No, Moses went to become one of them, because he endured as seeing Him who was invisible. He didn't walk by sight; he walked by faith, the unseen. Something happened to him.

29 And notice, when it was weighed in the balance to a man... None of you had that kind of an opportunity tonight. But if you did, what choice would you make? There was the best the world could give, and here was the worst that religion could give. But yet the worst religion could give outweighed the best the world could give. So is it tonight to any man or woman that'll forsake the things of the natural eye and the carnal mind and receive Christ into their heart. It'll outweigh anything the world can give. For what can outweigh eternal life? There's nothing that can do it. I'm so happy that I seen the balance. Certainly.

30 Look at Joshua. Look at Joshua! Before one rock ever come out of the building of the walls of Jericho, Joshua walked around the walls shouting the victory. For by faith he saw the victory. He knowed the walls was coming down, and he armed his men, and walked around and around and around Jericho for seven days, in full armour. What doing? Because he was looking at the unseen. It was a promise God made.
How much can you walk around the wheel chair? How much can you walk around the cancer? How much can you walk around sin, shouting the victory, that God give the promise? When you can see Him who is invisible, when that pulsation comes into your heart and begins to pulsate, "I'm the Lord who heals all thy diseases," when you can see that, everything else weakens away.

31 Joshua looked at the unseen and he walked around the walls, believing it would happen. It all depends on what you're looking at. When they told Daniel, "The lions den's ready for you," Daniel, looking at the unseen, knowed that there was an Angel of fire who stood between him and the lions (that same Pillar of Fire that led the children of Israel later). For remember, an animal's afraid of fire. When that Pillar of Fire stood between Daniel and the lions, the lions went off and meowed like kittens and laid down. By faith, the unseen. Daniel wasn't afraid of the lion.

32 When the Hebrew children had to make a statement that they'd denounce their religion, they'd denounce their supernatural God and believe in a formal God, by faith they saw that fourth man in the furnace. Sure they did. They said, "Our God is able to deliver us from this fiery furnace." What did they do? They seen the unseen. They seen that fiery furnace before them and they seen the fourth man standing in it, fanning the breezes away from them, therefore they wasn't afraid of the fiery furnace.

33 Any man or woman, if you're afraid what you're mother will say, what dad will say, what the pastor will say, what so-and-so will say, you're still scared and walking after the things you see with your eye. But when you fade that back---what the poolroom gang will say, what the movie gang will say, what the women you associate with will say in the school they'll call you old-fashioned if you quit the rock-and-roll, what... You go to looking at that, you're in the flesh. But when God comes on the control tower, then you look at Him, and you're not afraid of the king's commands, certainly not.

34 I'm told that a snake can catch the eye of a bird and he can get the direct hold on that bird, he can make that bird come right off of his roost, flutter right around and around and around, and come right straight to the snake's mouth. I'm told that the eye of a snake is so powerful that when it catches the eye of a bird, it charms him, lures him, right into the snake. And they say that little bird will flutter and flutter and flutter, coming down, and if it don't quickly start raising its head and shaking from that snake and start looking upward, it'll never free itself. That's the only way it can free itself.
And that's the way it is tonight with some of the little birds of this country. They've been lured by the things of the world, by a social gospel, by saying, "Joining church is all that's necessary, and the days of miracles is past," until it's charmed them. The only thing you can do is flutter your wings and look upward quickly and see Jesus, not the things of the world. Don't look the things the world's a luring you to, big places and societies and so forth, but look up and see Jesus. Flutter quickly and get out of it! Shake off the old dust off of you, and ask for the old way, for in it is life.

35 I was told out here at Barstow Field (I believe is what they call it, where they have these big jet planes), that a jet plane in it's travel, it goes to a certain speed, and then it hits what's called the sound barrier. And they say that that plane struggles and shakes, and struggles and shakes, while it's trying to get through that sound barrier, till it seems like the wings will tear off of it and the bolts will rip out of it while it's going through that sound barrier. But when once it gets beyond the sound barrier, then its speed's unlimited. It can just fly free.
And the church and you sitting here tonight, oh, you're struggling and struggling, and God's a-pulling to you and showing you things. If you can ever get a-past that sin barrier of unbelief, then unlimited revival will break out to the United States and everywhere, if you can go beyond that sound barrier, that sin barrier of unbelief. "Oh, is it true? Does it mean me? Could I be healed? Could I be saved? Could I be filled with the Holy Spirit?" Get beyond that. Just keep struggling, struggling, struggling, until you break through and the Holy Ghost comes upon you. I'm telling you, you're beyond it then, and there's fifty miles of elbow room.

36 The Bible said, "We do not see all things, but we do see Jesus." That's who I want to see. I want to see Him. How do I see Him? In the fulfilling of His promises. He promised that whosoever will may come and drink from the waters of life freely. If you're thirsty, come. He that heareth say come, all that's willing to come---anybody, whosoever. I'd rather He'd say "whosoever" than to said "William Branham." There might be more William Branhams. But when He said "whosoever," I know He meant me, and that gives me a chance. Whosoever may come and drink of the waters of life. God coming in.
You're dying, the doctors has give you up, maybe the world has give you up, maybe the church has give you up, but Jesus has never give you up. "Whosoever will deny himself and take up his cross and follow me..." Deny what you're thinking, deny your mental conception, just believe what God's Word says is truth and march on with it! Keep moving. Get sicker, just keep moving, just keep going. After awhile you'll break through the barriers; then you'll be free, then you can see Him, then He will reveal Hisself to you, then that Son of God who made the promise will be real to you. Do you believe it? Let us bow our heads just a moment now for prayer.

37 Blessed Lord, oh, how we love to talk of You, Lord, knowing that this group that we speak to tonight, someday yonder beyond the blue we will meet them again. And we will enjoy the blessings of God when we strike that city whose builder and maker is God. There'll not be any ambulances in that city. There'll not be any graveyards just outside the city. There'll never be a funeral preached in that city. There'll never be a sin in that city, for sin cannot enter that place. There'll be no sickness in that city; they'll need no physicians or medicine in that city. But we will live in His likeness, made in His image, conformed to His glory, and be with Him forever. O God, how can men and women turn such down? We pray, Lord, that they'll look tonight and turn away from their natural thinking, and let the Holy Spirit come into their hearts and give them a new look, that they might look at the things that's unseen.
We see tonight the end time. I see a bomb yonder. I see the heavens on fire and the earth burning with the heat. I see people running into the streets here, screaming and crying, but it's too late. Just as Noah preached and believed, it'll be too late then, Lord. O God, I'm so glad that we can see beyond that: Jesus coming upon His white throne with ten thousands times ten thousands of His saints, saying, "Enter into the blessings of the Lord that's been prepared for you since the foundation of the world." So glad, Lord, that we can point people that way. May they forsake their sins tonight and follow after Thee.

38 While we have our heads bowed and every heart praying, how many in this audience tonight would say, "Lord Jesus, I believe that I'm looking too much to the things of the world. Maybe You're not enthroned on my heart like You should be. I want You, Lord." Would you raise up your hand to Him silently? God bless you. That's good. Be real honest. You say, "Brother Branham, can I rest assured that you're telling the truth?" Well, if you can't believe me, believe the Word.
The Lord is here and He's calling. Jesus is tenderly calling to you now, while you got a chance, like Eve did, like Adam did, to make a choice. Now, you're a free moral agent; you can make your choice. Where will you spend eternity? Except a man be born again, he's lost. Are you born again? If you're not, raise up your hand and say, "Pray for me. Brother Branham, right now I desire your prayers." That's right. All over the floor here, the bottom floors, the balconies. That's good. Raise up your hand, be honest. Just be at least honest, friends.

39 Before the week's over ... or this next week, I'm going to preach much on these things, of the dullness, how that the world has blowed its poison breath into the face of the people. That's got them deceived. They think that they're Christians, many, when they're not. Jesus spoke of the disappointments there. Don't take any chance, friend. You haven't got another chance; this is all of it. Maybe just the lifting of your hand towards God tonight might mean the difference. Will you do it before we pray? Any others that hasn't raised? God bless you, way back in the back, we see you, through the balcony up there. Don't think you're too far away; you're not. He knows right where you are.
We're looking at things unseen. You say, "Well, what would I do now if I become a born again Christian? What would my boss say?" Think of what your Lord will say if you don't. Who's the greatest? Your boss? You may bury him next week. He may be gone by this time, but your Jesus will be forever. And to think that if you be in hell, tormented with demon's ("woo..."), and evil spirits around you, haunting you, forever separated from God, without hope---what about then? And you may be there before the sun rises in the morning. You better be ready, friend. Don't make this a joke. Don't make it a television act. Remember, it's the gospel, the eternal Word of God, that cannot perish.

40 Just coming up the street tonight I seen a young man picked up off the street and mashed to pieces. His car had got out of control some way and hit another car, and the blood running out of him. The ambulance picking him up, and the boy laying there, and his mouth open, the blood running out of his eyes and ears. Laid a blanket across him, pulled it over his face and shoved him in the ambulance. I stood there, I thought, "O God, did that boy ever attend my meeting? Did I persuade long enough? Did he know Jesus? It's all over now."
And I'm giving that opportunity now, friend. Don't think of these earthly things, don't think of tomorrow; tomorrow will take thought for itself. Let's think about today and now, while Jesus is close. We might not see all things, but we see Jesus, who was made in the image of man to take away sin of man, to bring men back to reconciliation to God our Father. Is that all that wants to raise their hand for prayer just before I pray? God bless you here, sir. And you here in the wheelchair, God bless you, sir. With that kind of an attitude, surely God will answer prayer for you tonight. I mean that, sir.

41 Lord, this is coming close to the close of the service, many hands has been raised up. Here sits a poor man sitting here bound in a wheelchair; he raised his hands. That attitude surely You'll hear. And O Lord, there's others out through the building here, maybe with heart trouble, maybe diseased up in some way that they just can't see how they can ever get through, but we pray God that You'll remember "He that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out." And maybe the breaking forth of their sins and scattering them will take away their sickness, for we realize that sickness is the attributes of sin, for sin brought sickness.
And Father, we pray that You'll bless this people who raised their hands, many of them tonight in the audience. And we pray that You'll save them and may from this night henceforth may they walk by faith, calling those things which were not as though they were, like Abraham of old. And if we be sons and daughters of Abraham, we have his Spirit, and we believe the promises of God. Grant it, Father. Through Jesus Christ's name I pray for them, presenting them to Thee. Amen.

42 Just remain in your seats just a moment. I've taken time; last night and tonight I went beyond my boundaries. When I come I was only supposed to pray for the sick Friday ... or Saturday it was, and Sunday. Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday ... or Monday and Tuesday was to be preaching service and Wednesday was prayer service. Thursday, Friday and Saturday again was to be preaching service, and then healing service on Sunday, I think that's the way it went. But seeing the need, the need to represent something, I've had practically every night praying for the sick.

43 Look, how many is here for their first time was ever in one of my meetings, raise your hands. Pretty near half the audience. They have never been in the meetings. How many is here that's sick and needs prayer for their bodies? I want you to raise your hands. Just look, everywhere, everywhere. Oh, dear precious brother, sister, please listen to what I've just said. Don't look at your disease, you can never get well. Don't look to your affliction. Look to Jesus, He's the One. You say, "Brother Branham, if I could rest assured that He was here. If I knew that He was here, I'd be willing to accept Him in every power." Would you do that? Raise your hands. If you were positive that He was here, you could accept Him, just raise your hands. All that say that, "I'm positive He's here." Well, what would He do if He was here?

44 Now, if you that's sick... Now, I'm going to wait ... call for the altar call just in a minute. But that you might be sure, the Bible said and I've just quoted out of, I believe it's the book of Hebrews, second chapter, the ninth verse. "We see Jesus. Sirs, we would see Jesus," said those who came, those Greeks that time. What would you see if Jesus was here? He's here in the form of the Holy Ghost and He's working in His church. When Jesus was here on earth in a body of flesh, that body of flesh has been lifted up and sits at the right hand of God Almighty as a High Priest standing there making intercessions upon our confession. Do you believe that? That's what the Hebrews 3 says. That's what it is. But He sent back His Holy Spirit to anoint His church and set in this church gifts to represent Him to the peoples. Do you believe that? And His ministry is to be carried on.

45 Then I confess tonight that the last sign to every generation has been the revelation of Jesus Christ the Messiah, making Hisself known to the people by the same signs that He did when He was here on earth. This is for newcomers. How did Jesus make Himself known? I John the ... Saint John the first chapter, Peter was brought to Him. And He knew him. And He called his name, and never seen him; he was a fisherman. And He told him his name was Simon and his father's name was Jonas. Peter believed it, that He was the Messiah, because Peter knew that when Messiah was coming, He was to be the God-prophet. How many believes that, say "Amen."
Moses said, "The Lord your God shall raise up a prophet like unto me." They knowed He was to be a God-prophet. And when Philip got converted upon seeing Jesus do this to Simon Peter, and he went and found Nathanael under a tree praying and brought him back to Jesus. And Jesus knowed who he was, and told him where he was and what he had been doing before he came to the meeting. And what did Nathanael say? "Rabbi, you are the Son of God; you are the King of Israel." Is that what he said? See, He came to His own, the Jews was looking for Him. All right. That sealed the Jews.
Lot of them said, "He's Beelzebub, a fortuneteller." Where're they at tonight? That's up to them. Jesus said it was unpardonable, calling the Spirit of God an unclean spirit---not discernment enough, not throne in the heart enough of God to know the difference between a good spirit and a wrong spirit.

46 Now, then the first thing come... Then the Samaritans was looking for Him. He could not pass them by; they were looking for a Messiah to come. How many believes that they were looking for the Messiah, say "Amen." But we Gentiles wasn't, was we? No, we wasn't looking for no Messiah; we were heathens at that time, carried away with idols. But the Samaritans was looking. So they come, they wanted to see... He must show them the Messiahic sign.

47 He showed Abraham the Messiahic sign when He was in human flesh, standing talking to him. And told Sarah ... told Abraham, said, "Why did Sarah laugh?" when the Bible said He has His back turned to the tent where she was at. Is that right? That was just a few hours before the fire fell and consumed Sodom.
See the fire coming now? See it hanging yonder? All these acids and things outside the earth and them trying to probe into the moon and things. Set that thing afire one of these days, and what... There'll be no escape. Sure, there won't be any. Everything... The heavens will be on fire. And out around, the volcanic acids and things is hanging around the rims of this earth, and so forth. Why, scientists says it's one minute to midnight. And here we set just waiting, saying, "Well, wonder what You're going to do, Lord?" And it's right on us, friend! Now, we're not on a radio tonight, and that's the reason I'm trying to make this just as urgent to you as I can.

48 Notice, then He went by Samaria and He found a woman. And so, He said to her, "Go get me a ... bring me a drink."
And she said, "It's not customary; we have segregation."
And so He talked to her a few moments, then He said, "Go get your husband and come here."
She said, "I have no husband."
Said, "That's right, you have five; and the one that you're now living with is not your husband."
Now, watch what she said, to you newcomers. She never said He was Beelzebub, a fortuneteller, like the priest and the preacher said. But she said, "Sir, I perceive that you are a prophet. We know, when the Messiah cometh, he will tell us these things." See, they were taught to know what the Messiahic sign was. And she said, "We know Messiah, when he comes, he will tell us, but who are you?"
He said, "I am he that speaks to you."
And she ran into the city and said, "Come, see a man who told me the things that I've done. Isn't this the Messiah?"

49 Now, if that same Jesus lives tonight, His Spirit is here, promised that the things that He did we'd do also, promised that in the evening time the lights would be here. All the promises of the Scripture... And seeing science say, "It's midnight, it's striking," and the Bible pointing every signpost to the coming of the Lord, and the church getting cold and formal, "having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof," all the signs that the Bible said---then here comes the Messiahic sign dropping right down among us again. We don't see all things, but we can see Jesus.
I pray that each one of you here in this building tonight will think of that and see ... if God reveals anything to you, believe it, take heed to it, and say, "O Lord God, I believe it with all that's in me! And I believe if You'll ... just speak to me." If God will speak in this audience tonight and show Himself to be the Messiah, will you accept it then? My boy hasn't give out prayer cards, or Gene or Leo or any of them, for two or three nights, but you pray now.

50 Lord, let this little broke-up message tonight, that I've fumbled around over here ... trying to find the lead to something that would break a revival. It seems like, Lord, I just can't find that spot. It seems like the people still can't get into it somehow. The Word goes forth, I'm sure the Spirit is here. Lord, what is the hour that we're living? Is it the hour of numbness? Is it the hour that the church has been lulled asleep by the things of the world, and by all kinds of things that they should not have listened to? Is that hour here, Lord?
O Father God, how do I know the sun will rise in the morning? I do not know, but I pray Thee, Lord, that this one more time tonight that You'll break forth upon this audience. Speak Yourself, Lord. My voice is insufficient, but what I have here, I surrender to You; because I realize You cannot come here in a corporal body, for when You come then the dead in Christ shall rise. Then time shall be no more. But You've sent the Holy Spirit to move in and out of our bodies and to perform and to show Your signs and wonders that the people might be saved, by Your promise.
You do not do it because You have to. You do it because it's Your Word being fulfilled. You promised it, Lord. And I pray that it'll be so once more tonight, and then I shall turn this audience to You. Then if we never meet again, Lord, that's between them and Thee. Receive all that we have did; and bless these who have raised their hands, and others, that they may be saved. For we ask it in Jesus' name. Amen.

51 I want your undivided attention. Now, here's a thing that's got to be proven one way or the other. It's either right, or it's either wrong. Now, as far as I know there's not a person in this audience that I know. I don't even see one person tonight that I know in the audience. How many is strangers to me, raise up your hands, anywhere; just know that I don't know you, that we're strangers, raise your hand.

52 Now, you sick people, you pray, and you believe God with all that's in you, and God will surely do something for you. "If thou canst believe, all things are possible."
I don't say that He will. Preaching like this, it kind of moves you a bit and... God is sovereign, He's almighty, He's just, He's without beginning or end. Now, you say, "What are you doing Brother Branham?" I'm waiting for some of you people out there to touch the High Priest. I'm just as helpless as helpless can be. When Jesus was here on earth, there was a woman that touched His garment and He turned around and said, "Who touched me?" And he looked over an audience perhaps this size, and He found the woman, told her her blood issue had stopped because that she had believed. And the Bible said that He's the High Priest right now that can be touched by the feeling of our infirmities.
I cannot heal you. If Jesus was standing right here, He could not heal you. You're already healed. When Jesus died at the cross, He said, "It's finished." What? "He was wounded for our transgressions; with his stripes you were healed." The work is completely done. It's your faith in the finished work. The Word should be sufficient. If I didn't believe your word, you'd say, "Let him go." I might say the same thing about you, but not God. Not God. He's long-suffering, sends gifts and so forth.

53 Right back in this corner, I see a man. I do not know him; I've never seen him in my life as far as I know of, but he's suffering with a sinus condition. Got something wrong with his thumb. Mr. Cop, stand up. Jesus Christ makes you well if you believe it, sir. I never seen the man in my life; he's a total stranger to me. I do not know the man, but Jesus Christ does know him. Isn't He wonderful?

54 Here's a lady sitting here looking right at me praying, saying, "God, be merciful to me." She's sitting there suffering with arthritis. That's right. You were praying, "O Jesus, let him call me." If that's right... I don't know you, have never seen you in my life. You believe God knows who you are? Mrs. Hoist, you may go home now and be well. Do you believe? All right, sir.
The lady sitting next to you is all happy about it because she wants to be healed also of her varicose veins. That's right, lady? If it is, raise up your hand. All right. Believe with all your heart, then you can have what you ask for.

55 Them people, I don't know them. Raise your hands if I don't know you people. That's right. See, what is it? They're touching the High Priest. They're touching... I seen a third hand up there just a minute ago, I believe it was the woman sitting next to her. Do you have your hand up for something, sister? Do you believe that God knows what's wrong with you? Has got a brain injury, that lady sitting there. That's right. I don't know you. If that's right, shake your hand like this. But it was caused by an automobile accident. If that's right, raise ... shake your hands like this. All right, it's over now. You can go home and be well.

56 What happened?
Here sits a man, sitting right down here praying. He's got shingles. I don't know you, do I, sir? We're strangers, is that right? Raise up your hand. Will God tell me who you are, will you believe me then? All right, Mr. Hughes, you can go home and be well. All right, sir, that's right.
Have faith in God! Don't doubt! We don't see all things, but we see Jesus.

57 Which is that old fellow here that held up his hand awhile ago he wanted to be saved? Right here in the wheelchair. You believe God knows you, brother? I don't know you. Got a prayer card? You don't? All right. You believe God can tell me what's your trouble? If He would, would you believe He wants to heal you? You're shadowed for death; it's cancer in the lung. Would you believe that God will make you well? You do? Then if I was in your place, you know what I'd do? There was some lepers sat at a gate one time, and they said, "Why sit we here till we die? Let's get up and do something about it. If we sit here, we will die. If we go in the city, they're dying in there, so we haven't got no choice. If we go down to the camp, they might spare us." You're going to die in that condition sitting in that wheelchair. Jesus Christ is your only hope now. That's right. So why don't you rise up from there and take your chair and go home and be well in the name of Jesus Christ.

58 Do you believe, every one of you? Then stand to your feet, I don't care what's wrong with you, stand up on your feet and believe God. All that wants to receive Christ at this time, raise up on your feet, anywhere you want to. Raise up your hands now in praise to God. Raise up your hands. Believe Him! Here comes the man up out of the wheelchair. Let's say, "Praise the Lord," everybody. Stand up! regardless of your faith.

59 O Lord God, we look at the unseen; we believe now that You're Jesus Christ the Son of God. We condemn every spirit of devil and doubt. May they walk by the unseen tonight. Grant it, Lord. Through Jesus Christ the Son of God, we ask it.

60 Praise Him with all your heart, get up out of your chairs, everywhere. Be well and healed in the name of Jesus Christ. God bless you, brother, step out of there and go on home. Make you well.
While you're standing on your feet and praising God, how many wants ... you that raised your hands awhile ago, believes that God will hear my prayer for the salvation of your soul? Come walking down here now as we sing, "I will praise Him, I will praise Him." Come on, walk right down the aisles here now, right down to receive Jesus. Keep your hands up, keep looking at the unseen, that little pulsation in your heart. Come moving right on down. Is He pulsating to you? "I'm the Lord that raised up Christ from the grave. I'm the One that sent the Holy Ghost. I'm the One that give the promise. Brother Branham has nothing to do in this. He's surrendered his life to Me; I'm using his Spirit; I'm talking through his lips. That's Me, I'm the Lord." Come down. Everyone now while we sing, come right on down.
I will praise Him, I will praise Him,
Praise the Lamb for sinners slain;
(Come right on. Come on, all.)
Give Him glory all ye people,

61 Thank the Lord, there goes that man walking from his wheelchair, saved a few minutes ago, given eternal life; healed of the power of God, walking away. Praise His name.
I will praise Him,
(Come right on now.
Feel that pulsation in your heart?)
Praise the Lamb for sinners slain;
Give Him glory all ye people,
For His blood has washed away each stain.

62 Think of it: That poor man awhile ago standing there raised his hand as a sinner. A black shadow flashed over him, he was dying; and he received Christ, then his heart begin to pulsate. What happened? He begin to believe when the Holy Spirit come in, for he'd just received Him, in his heart. There he is standing there now on his road of life, got everlasting life and going to be healed physically, brought from darkness unto light, from death to life.
Oh, how can you turn such a Saviour down, when all evidence is He's right here? Come, sinner friend, come backslider, don't be ashamed. You'll be ashamed more up there. Come now, won't you? Come on, while they're waiting now. We're giving space and time for you to come. Come every soul now, come praising Him.

63 How many in here is not right with God, back there, raise up your hand. Be that honest. You know you're not right with God. He knows your heart. Thank you, lady, for being that honest. Thank you, sir, for being that honest. Thank you. Thank you. God bless you. God bless you there. Up in the balconies, not right with God, raise up your hands. Be that honest, say, "I know I'm not right. I ain't got nerve enough to come, but I know I'm not right." Raise your hands. The Lord bless you. That's good. Over in here. The Lord knows you. That's good. Come right on down.
How many in here that wants the Holy Ghost now, that hasn't got the Holy Ghost? You come down. Come down, this is the time to receive the Holy Ghost. "Except a man be born again, he cannot even understand the kingdom of God." Think of it. Come right on down now, while we sing one more time.
I will praise Him,
(Come on, give Him praise. Hold on to it.)
will praise Him,
Praise the Lamb for sinners slain;
Give Him glory all ye people,
For His blood has washed away each stain.
I will praise
(God, as long as I got breath and in my right mind)
I will praise Him,
Praise the Lamb for sinners slain;
Give Him glory all ye people,
For His blood can wash away each stain.

64 Can you feel that real sacred feeling coming over the church now? How many can witness that? What is it? It's the Holy Spirit around these penitent sinners. See? It's salvation. They're moving into new life now. Oh, we ought to bow our heads real reverently and sing quietly while the rest of them are coming.
I will praise Him, I will praise Him,
Praise the Lamb for sinners slain;
Give Him glory all ye people,
For His blood can wash away each stain.
I love Him, (Reverently now.) ... love Him,
Because He first ... (Sing it, Christian.)
And purchased my salvation
On Calvary's tree.
(Oh, how we ought to sing it.)
I... (Shut off the world now, get your
senses gone. Let the Spirit come in.)
I... (That moving of the Spirit.)
Because He first loved me
And purchased my salvation
On Calvary's tree.
[Brother Branham begins humming.] Oh, the sweetness of the Spirit. I just love to bathe in this. Blessed be His name. Praise God, praise God.
Purchased my salvation
On Calvary's tree.

65 You're coming to the cross where Jesus paid it all. You're coming where you're invited. You're not expected to turn away, but you're invited to the cross. Remember Jesus said, "No man can come to me, except my Father draws him first." God drawed you up here. "And all that comes to me, I will give them eternal life and will raise him up at the last day." God's eternal Spirit here giving eternal life.
I love Him,
(Oh, worship Him, friends! The
message is over. Let's worship Him now.)
Because He first loved me
And purchased my salvation
On Calvary's...

66 Just think of it, friends. Now, while sinners are being borned again around the altar, let's us Christians worship in the Spirit again while we raise our hands quietly and sing to Him in the reverence of our heart now. Come on.
I love Him, I love Him,
Because He first loved me
And purchased my salvation
On Calvary's tree.

67 Now, real quietly let the Christians reach around, shake hands with someone behind you, in front of you, and at the side while we sing it again now. Make friendship. All you Baptists and Methodists, everybody, shake hands with a Pentecostal. And Pentecostal, shake hands with them. We're all one.
I love Him, (That's it.) I ...
(If there's any grudges among you, settle it right now.)
Because He first loved me
And purchased my salvation
On Calvary's tree.