The Mighty Conqueror

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1 Baptismal service... I believe they have the pool filled up and communion and foot washing. How many people in here ever was at a foot washing? Let's see your hands. Oh, my! Look at the Baptists that's in here this morning. You know they say, "The Foot-Wash Baptists." And the thing though: When I used to go to the Foot-Wash Baptists, they only wash one feet just one foot, and now here we wash both feet. So, a double blessing, you see. That's two blessings in one. If it's a blessing to wash one foot, you ought to try both one time. The Foot-Wash Baptists.
[A brother speaks to Brother Branham.] Well, it depends on what kind of service we have this morning. That's right. We don't know just what it will be tonight, because we... Of how the service is this morning.

2 I'm kind of tired. We just come from Mexico where I had one of the most marvelous meetings we've ever had, and I know many of you are interested to hear of it, so I... We was down there for three nights. Had three nights of service, and our blessed Redeemer certainly did do the exceeding abundantly down there. The last night we had twenty thousand people that had never come to Christ in any manner, received Jesus as personal Saviour at one time. Twenty thousand at one time.
A resurrection of a little baby that died in its mother's arms while standing on the ground, and the doctor had said day before it was going to die, and she had brought it to the meeting to be prayed for, and the people were standing like they are around here.
Now, you think it's pretty bad here, for we Americans have to stand an hour, but they would come in sometimes at six o'clock at morning and stand till eleven that night; and it was so jammed together till they estimated how much ground we had for them to stand on, and they were standing six people every three square feet. Six people just standing jammed together leaning against each other.

3 I said it reminded me of sheep. You know when the heat of the day is on, the sheep all get together, and they stand against another, and they make shade for each other, and they support each other. So, that's the way the sheep of God should do: kind of stand together those places and support one another with our faith.
Now, every person in your own way of praying... whichever way you pray at your church, you pray this morning, and we're going to read some of God's Word and because of those who are standing... As we come up, they was just turning the people away and away and said they'd been turning them away for quite a long time. So, now we're going to be real quick and speak on the Word so you can have a ground for faith, and then after that then we're going to pray for the sick the way the Lord will.

4 I've been wanting to have our first opening service to take the people the way the vision had just showed. Well, I don't know whether I'm going to be able to do that or not. The rooms are jammed full in there. To get them away from the public. [Gap in the audio.] Trust that you'll try to hold on just for a little while and pray.
Now, the first thing, I believe that all doctrine must come from God's eternal blessed Word, for faith cannot rest upon the shifting sands of theology of man. It must be based upon the unmovable Rock of God's Word. Therefore, a person can rest assure that if God has said it, God will perform what He said.

5 In the message this morning, we were talking on how that God before... Perhaps, ten thousand years before there was ever a world, Jesus Christ was slain before the foundation of the world. God spoke it, and that settled it. As long as God speaks it, that makes it right. And in God's mind: When He speaks a word, it's already confirmed in heaven. That's how perfect it is up there. So how much ought we mortals who have been redeemed by His grace trust His Word. If His Word said so, that settles it.

6 Now, first the Word, the Bible, said, "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God." Now, before it could be a word, it had to be a thought, because a word is a thought expressed; and God, when He seen that the enemy of this world was going to do what he did, God thought how He would send a great plan of redemption, and when He thought it, then He spoke it, and it was as good as done right then. And thousands of years later came the Lord Jesus Christ and died for sins and rose again some nineteen hundred years ago this morning for our justification sitting at His right hand now, as a High Priest making intercession upon our confession.
See it's already finished, and any word that comes out of God's Bible, you can rest your soul upon it. That's the reason down in Mexico... The most of the people down there are Catholic; and being interviewed by a Catholic man, he said, "Brother Branham, do you believe that our saints can perform miracles?"
I said, "If they're living, not dead."
And he said, "Well," he said, "Well, you..."
I said, "I..."
He said, "What church are you with?"
I said, "The church of the Lord Jesus."
And he said, "What denomination is it?"

7 And I said, "It isn't a denomination. It's the body of Christ. By one Spirit we all come together to believe, and in there, no matter what the man thinks, it's his personal faith in Christ."
He said, "Of course, that Bible was the ancient history of the Catholic church."
I said, "Well, I'm going to give you the benefit of the doubt. I have... I read many histories, and I don't see where the Catholic church ever come into existence for three hundred years and something after the death of the last apostle, but however, I'll give you the benefit of the doubt and say it was. Then you can call me a Catholic of the old type, because I believe the Bible." That's right. All right. And I believe that every word can never be changed if God has once spoke it, and it is forever the truth, see. See? You and I keep learning more wisdom. You know more now than you did a few years ago.

8 A little girl sitting here. Now, she's just a child. Her parents has to lead her. After awhile she will grow up and probably in her day she progresses; she might be smarter than her mother is now (see?) because she keeps progressing, but God is infinite. He can't change. He has to... He was perfect to begin with, He'll be the same at the end. He can't change. So whatever His attitude was towards anything in the Bible, it has to be the same now, or He did wrong the way He acted then, see. So, He's got to... Never change.
So, before we open up His Word, let us speak to the One who wrote it, the Lord Jesus, while we bow our heads.

9 Our Heavenly Father, today is one of the greatest days on the history of the Christian calendar. It's the day of the resurrection. We pray, Heavenly Father, that He who is alive today, and alive forevermore, will visit with us in these next few moments of speaking and praying for those poor people who are sick and needy today.
I humbly ask that You forgive us all of our sins and trespasses. We do wrong. We realize that, because we're living in a wrong world with wrong motives, wrong spirits, wrong emotions. But, Father, Thou knowest all these things, so we are so thankful that we have Jesus who sits at the right hand of the Majesty to make intercessions upon our confession that we are wrong, and He promised to forgive us, and we believe it and trust Him.
Get glory out of the service today. Circumcise every heart to hear the Word and the lips who speak it for we ask it in Christ's name. Amen.

10 In the book of the Ephesians I wish to read these words. I just love to read God's Word:
Wherefore... [The book 1st chapter beginning with the 2nd ... 15th verse]
Wherefore I also, after I heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus, and love unto all the saints.
Cease not to give thanks for you, making mention of you in my prayers;
That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him:
The eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that ye may know what is the hope of the calling, and what is the riches of the glory of the inheritance of the saints,
And what is the exceeding greatness of his power to us-ward who believe, according to the working of his mighty power,
Which he has wrought in Christ, when he raised him from the dead, and set him at his own right hand in the heavenly places,
Far above all principalities, and powers, and might, ... dominion, and every name ... not only in this world, but also in that which is to come:
And hath put all things under his feet, and gave him to be the head over all things to the church,
Which is his body, the fullness of him that filleth all in all.
And then over in the Gospels of Saint Mark ... or, Luke rather, beginning about the 25th verse:
Then he said unto them, O fools, and slow of heart to believe all things the prophets have spoken:
Ought not Christ to have suffered these things, and to enter into his glory?
And beginning at Moses and all the prophets, he expounded unto them ... all the Scriptures and the things concerning himself.
And they drew nigh unto the village, where they went: and he made as though he would have gone further.
But they constrained him, saying, Abide with us: for it is towards evening, and the day is far spent. And he went in and tarried with them.
And it came to pass, as he sat at meat with them, he took bread, and blessed it, and brake it, and gave it to them.
And their eyes were opened, and they knew him; and he vanished out of their sight.
May the Lord add His blessings to His Word.

11 Enough Scripture has been read till it would take us weeks and months to even halfway go to the context of this text, but my subject this morning ... or, text is: The Mighty Conqueror. And now, we begin where we left off of the resurrection where it proved what He was.
There's many men who can make statement. There's been many philosophers in the world: Buddha, Mohammed, Confucius, many other great philosophers. They've all made statements that they were great people, but death settled the question forever with them, but never has there been a man outside of Christ who said, "I have power to lay my life down and to take it up again," and to prove it.

12 That's the one beautiful thought of Christianity that even today, that as we speak of the Gospel, we do not have to take a hearsay, or a historical thing about it, because it can be proven right here this morning that Jesus Christ lives and reigns and is raised from the dead and is alive forevermore. After two thousand years, He's just as present as He was when He was walking in Galilee with His disciples: doing the same thing, performing the same miracles, showing the same mercy, preaching the same Gospel. He is not dead but alive forevermore.
What happy hearts that ought to make Christians be today to know that it's not some curious philosophy that we're understanding, but it is the power of the resurrection of the Lord Jesus.

13 And as the great Saint Paul said in his days, being the only educated one among the disciples, he said, "I didn't come to you with the excellency of word or with the speech of man that your faith would be trusting in such things, but," said, "I come to you with the power and demonstrations of the Holy Ghost, that your faith would rest in God." Something to that order.
How we love that, and to know that the same thing that Paul preached in the days after the resurrection of Christ, is just the same today and can be proven right here now, infallible proof that Jesus is alive today.

14 What a marvelous day it must have been for Cleopas and his friend. It was a beautiful Easter morning, the first Easter morning. Brokenhearted as they went along the road. The Bible said they were ignorant and unlearned men, His apostles was. They may not have knowed much about botany. They might not have knowed much about mathematics or algebra or anything of that sort, of our modern education. They might not have knowed much about that, but they knowed Him, and that's the main thing. To know Him is life. Remember that, Christian friend and sinner friend: to know Christ is life. Many people go and they learn a catechism. They think that's life. Many people go and learn the Bible. They think that's life. Many people know the doctrine of their church. They think that's life. All those things are good, but to know Him, personally as your personal, individual Saviour; that is life and that alone, to know Him.

15 It's good to know your catechism. It's good to know your books. It's good to know your doctrine of your church, but all of that is a sideline, but to know Him is to know life, and to have life is to know Him.
"For he that heareth My words and believeth on Him that sent Me hath everlasting life and shall never come into condemnation, but has passed from death unto life."
Jesus made those statements, and those are words that after there's no more moon and stars, those still ... them Words will still be in effect and just as powerful as they was the day that He spoke them. His words cannot fail.

16 Now, if you will listen closely. On this Easter morning as they went along, they were brokenhearted. The man that they had trusted in, the One that they'd thought was going to be the Saviour of Israel. The One that they had trusted to be the coming King had been miserably mistreated, dead, crucified, buried, and a seal put upon His grave with a daresn't of a Roman garrison to ever touch it or the penalty of all Rome resting in it. And if any man would break that seal, they'd be put to death immediately.
Mary, His beloved mother, though she stood and seen Him stripped down naked before the people, beaten to a pulp, bones in His hands parted by the cruel Roman nails, all these things and disgraced and heard Him screaming for mercy as He died thinking surely that no man of that caliber could ever die such a death.

17 But God works all things together for the good. He had to bring Him that. As I said this morning, how would you have confidence in your loved ones ever raising from the dead if we only had Enoch who was translated, Elijah who went home to heaven in a chariot. If we only had them, we'd be miserable. But this man died.
He died until the sun knowed He was dead. He died until the moon and stars knowed He was dead. He died until everything in earth and heaven knew He was dead, that He might die the death of every mortal that ever lived. Because He died, is because we live. He died. He was mistreated. He came into the world by the way of a barn. No place to lay His head when He come on earth.

18 And He was so rejected by the people, He didn't have a place to die. The earth refused Him, and heavens couldn't have Him because He was coming a sinner ... not with His own sin, but with our sins upon Him. He was bearing the sins of the world upon Him so He was rejected in heaven, and the earth didn't want Him, and they had to lift Him up between heavens and earth and let Him die outside of heaven and outside of the earth. What a Saviour!
How could you turn down such a person as that for modern theology, or for the persons of people, when you know that you've got to stand in His presence in that day of judgment and give an account for your life? God won't hold you responsible for being a sinner. He'll hold you responsible for rejecting the way out. You can't help being a sinner. You were born... Your nature's a sinner, but you can help it. Jesus made the way for you.

19 And there He was, after seeing all of that, "And surely how could a person," thought Mary, "that not knowing a man... I was packing water one day from the well, and the Holy Ghost spoke to me in a big light, and said, 'That Holy Thing which will be borned of thee shall be called the Son of God,' and how could God ever permit to see His own Child hanging there, suffering, bleeding, twisting, dying? How could it be?"
They were looking at any time for Him to turn from the cross, pull His hands loose in triumph over the enemy. But they didn't realize if He did that, then we'd be left sinners this morning. He had to do it.

20 They paid Him the greatest compliment, them Pharisees did that crucified Him. They paid Him the greatest compliment He was ever paid when they said, "He saved others but Himself He cannot save." They didn't realize that if He saved Himself, He couldn't save others. He had to give Himself in order to save others, and it was complimentary to Him, them not knowing it.
They were guilty of putting Him to death, but on Easter morning when God proved above a shadow of doubt that something more than a philosopher died, something more than a prophet died. Man today in modern theology tried to make Him preaching a social Gospel as just a philosopher or a good man or a fine scholar, a teacher. He was more than that. He was God Himself made flesh among us. He was divine. His blood did not come from any mortal man, but it come from the creative power of Jehovah God, His Father, and He was divine, and He proved it when He broke the seals of death and rose on the third day.

21 Here was many of the disciples all disheartened. Many things had come up in life, just like we get ourselves. Along this journey, they were on their road home, going over to Emmaus. Cleopas and his companion walking along the road and how little did they know on this beautiful first Easter morning that Jesus Christ was alive and among the people. They thought He was dead, and as they did then, so is it now.
Many people who really love Jesus fail to understand that He is right with us, living, resurrected here among us. They teach it as a historical affair of something (and it is a history). The Bible is not only a history but it is a Prophet also. He is not only dead, but He raised again. He died truly, but He rose again from the dead.

22 And there's many fine Christian people this morning who belong to fine churches, who doesn't realize that Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever and is alive among us today with the same powers, the same principles, the same acts that He did when He was here on earth. Little does people know that.
And as they journeyed along on their way down to Emmaus about a Sabbath day's journey, about a couple of miles (I guess), on their road down, walking along the side of the road, they were speaking of His death.
I want you to notice. Just when they were speaking, "Oh, why could it ever happen? How could it ever happen to us? We've left our church now to follow this man who we thought surely would be the... Why we seen Him raise Lazarus from the grave after he'd been dead four days, and how could a man that could raise a dead man from the grave ever die?"
But God works in His own way. He would ... just like a seed goes into the ground and dies and brings forth again. "Except a corn of wheat falls into the ground, it abides alone," says the Bible.

23 So, they was wondering. But while they were thinking on Him, He appeared to them; and that's the way He usually comes to us. When you usually find your greatest blessing, you housewives: when the children's all gone to school and you're out by yourself washing the dishes or something; when you're running the sweeper on the floor or something.
When you men, when you're sitting eating your lunch, maybe by yourself, and reading the Bible on the side. Somewhere where you're on your road going home in your car and you're meditating on Him. If we would let the thoughts of our heart and the meditations of our mind be upon Him, He would appear often to us.
But the trouble we're thinking about where we're going to make the next dollar, and what we're going to do here, and how this is going to be. Jesus said, "All these things will be taken care of, but seek ye first the kingdom of God."

24 But as they went along on the road that morning, I can just see them. Oh, my! The greatest blow that ever happened to them. Here they was on the road. They had left their church. Excommunicated for following Him. They thought surely He would do something triumph there at the grave. Then they were taken from their church. They couldn't return to church anymore, and they'd be branded and mocked at, laughed at, made fun of. That's the way a man does when he really sells out for Christ. He has to cut every shoreline to walk alone with Christ, Him alone.
And men and women of this world who's ever amounted to anything, are men and women who has predominately taken Christ for their Saviour, and stood alone in their decisions. It'll be the same way with every man here this morning, or every woman, boy or girl. If you ever wished to amount to anything, go forward with God. Don't trust your church. Don't trust your preacher, your rabbi, your priest; but stand alone in Christ Jesus. It's the only way you can do it. Don't...

25 If you're here to be prayed for this morning, to be healed, don't say, "Oh, if I can get to the ... up there to be prayed for. Brother Branham can pray for me. Somebody else do this, that." Put your trust alone in Him, and then know He raised from the dead, and has made the infallible promise, and it can never fail---God's Word. You see it?
Notice. And as they went along thinking, He appeared to them and walked with them, and they didn't recognize Him. Why, there's been many times God has walked right with you, and you didn't recognize Him. Who kept you from that wreck the other day? Who did this? Who was it out there at the hospital when the doctor said, "Well, there ain't hardly anything more I can do." And you got well. Who did that? Where did it come from? You didn't recognize it, but it was His grace. It was He that did this thing for you.

26 A little lady may be present now, I don't know. She lives just across the street there. She should be present if she can get in. Unless she's give some outsider her place. A Mrs. Reese. I remember the time that when I went down there at the corner, when Mr. Andrews lived next door to me, across the street.
And that man laughed at me, on the corner, when I went that night when she was laying there right across the street here, on the corner. That's where she lived when she was in sickness, and she'd been taken from up here on Silvercrest to die with TB, and her lungs were all congested up. When Miss Grace Weber, right second door here, first door above the church, was healed with TB, right in the same time.
I believe I see the sister sitting here that was healed with cancer, wasn't nothing but a skeleton when the doctor turned her down. A Miss---sitting here with a pink flower on you---Weaver, is that right? Yes. Several years ago cancer had went all through her, eating her up. Healed with cancer because the Lord showed a vision down at her house and said, "Thus saith the Lord, you'll not die."

27 I baptized her here in this pool of water when I had to hold her, her little arms wasn't over that big around. Here she is alive yet today, and that's been years ago. How many more could I say in here: the deaf, dumb, blind, cancer-eaten and so forth that God has healed because God made the promise.
That night while praying for the lady over on the corner, the Holy Ghost came down. She had her little children around her, and her husband was sitting there, and the Holy Spirit said, "Thus saith the Lord, she's going to be made well."
The next morning Mr. Andrews, that perfect infidel, met me at the corner and shamed me, said, "Preacher, aren't you ashamed of yourself?" I had on an old pair of ragged overalls coming from the store to get some buns for breakfast, and he was going over. And he said, "Shame on you, would deceive that family like that. That poor little mother laying there with those children dying, and you telling her under a falsehood that she was going to be alive."
Said, "Sir, I never told her that. God said that, and His words are true."
Said, "Shame on you. There's no such a thing as God. Only your mental work-up and emotion." Oh, my!

28 A few days after that when his wife was stricken at the hospital here---You know the story, most of you---and he had to come to me to go pray for her, very renowned Christian woman. I said, "Sister..." Laying... My wife was just ... (Here somewhere if she got in the building this morning). And we went to see her, and there was she was swollen, didn't even know nothing. The doctors in Louisville said that a great blood clot would run to her heart, and she'd be dead just at any minute.
And he come with his hat pulled down, crying. He said, "Preacher, I've been an unbeliever, but if God can help my wife..." He said, "That woman that you said that about is up doing her housework."
I said... "Sure." She lives yet today and that's been eight or ten years ago, and she's still living. And the woman said as you come across this commons a crying, he said, "Will you go pray for her?"

29 I said, "Yes, sir, but I want you to pray here first." And let Him see. And we went out to the hospital, and there she was laying there dying, all swelled up. Her lips turned inside out like that, and wife loved her, and we knelt down. She was a member of the Christian church in Virginia. And we went and knelt and prayed for her, and when we was praying, a vision come over her. I seen myself sitting leaned back on that porch right there, eating a big apple pie like this in my hand; for, she was a famous cook. I raised up, and I said, "Honey, 'Thus saith the Lord,' she's going to live."
And when she did ... and two hours from then they had to call the specialist from Louisville. All the water had passed from her and everything else, and the specialist said, "Somebody's been here besides the doctor." What was it? Christ lives.
Two weeks after that I passed a man on the same corner. (I'm looking at the tree right now.) He stopped there. I said, "Mr. Andrews, we met here before."
He said, "Yes, we have, preacher." He was a scientist---a botanist.
And I said, "What do you think about it now?"
He looked over at that big tree that I'm looking at. He said, "Preacher, build me a tree." Oh, it can't be done, but because God ... because Christ raised from the dead. That's it. He is with us.

30 Mrs. Reeves, if she's present, she was telling me here recently, her and her daughter was over the river, and this poor old woman begging on the corner. She had a dime to get back home. So, she passed by and the Holy Ghost said to her, "Go back and give that poor old woman that dime."
"Why," she said, "it's all I got to cross the river."
He said, "I am the Lord." Amen.
She went back and said, "Sister, forgive me." Put her arms around her and said, "The Lord told me to come back and give you this dime."
Her daughter said, "Mother, how are we going to get home?"
She said, "That's up to God. We can walk the bridge maybe."
And when he turned around and walked about a half a city block from there, just before they come to the station to where they was to get on at, her daughter said, "Looky here, mother. Here lays the dime on the street."

31 What was it? Christ. He is with you many times, and you don't know it. That's Him. Just follow the way He leads you. Where He leads me, I will follow. I'll go with Him all the way. Though through valleys dark and shadowy, He'll be with me every day. That's right.
And as He moved down, Cleopas and them... Watch. When Christ begin to speak, He never went off on some kind of a tantrum. He never went off on some kind of theology. He opened up the Scriptures. That's the way He does it yet today. And he begin... He said, "O foolish of heart." Said, "What are you so sad about?"

32 They said, "Are you just a stranger, sir?" All men looked alike, He didn't dress like a rabbi or a priest. He dressed like an ordinary man. So when He... He walked among them. They'd been with Him for three years and a half, and they still didn't recognize Him.
He said, "Well," He said, "why are you so slow of heart?"
Said, "Well, are You a stranger?" Said, "Don't you know that Jesus of Nazareth who we expected to be the king has been killed, and buried, and this is the third day." He said, "And now we even had some women come to us this morning, and said they'd seen a vision of some angels and we just considered it not and," said, "all these things a going around Jerusalem like it is."

33 He said, "Why are you so slothful of heart? Why are you so foolish? Didn't you believe the prophets?" Oh, my! "Can't you believe the Word?" Said, "Don't you know that all the prophets said that Christ must suffer first and then enter into His glory?" And He began with Moses, (that's Genesis), and explained to them as they walked along the road, all the precepts of the Old Testament what was to take place.
Wouldn't you like to've been in company there that morning? But you are, this morning. He's just as alive today as He was then. He said, "I am He who was dead and is alive forevermore, and because I live, ye shall live also."

34 Not only is He here alive, but you're alive with Him. This great hope that you have that's in your heart makes you alive till even death itself has nothing that can shadow that beautiful hope that rests yonder in Christ Jesus to every believer. "Though he were dead, yet shall he live, and whosoever liveth and believeth in Me shall never die," He said.
Oh, when He went to the grave of Lazarus these words was spoken in Saint John 11.
Now, as He walked along, and after awhile He made out like He was going to go on past the little place. You know sometimes He does that. Have you ever thought of that, mother, you in the wheelchair? Looked like He was just going to pass you by? You ever think of it, brother, sister, you people out there that's turned down today by cancer? The doctors turned you down. Nothing they can do.

35 You that say, "Well, if that woman sitting there was just a shadow, and the best of doctors ... and the cancer was in the uterus, first." Wasn't it, sister? Went into the spine, and even the holes was eat through her intestinal tract and things.
"How could she live?" That's what her doctor said to me, "How can she live?"
I said, "Because He lives." That's why. It isn't for me to question. It's for me to believe it. That's right.
Said, "'Thus saith the Lord,' Sister, I've never been in your place, but there's a little chicken house back here. In three days you'll visit it." She did. That's right. And she's here yet this morning because He lives. He made out like He was going to let her die.
When I come to her house, she said, "Preacher, I'm not worthy that a minister would come into my house." Said, "I'm a sinner."

36 I said, "That's what Jesus died for: for you sinners." His reputation is made where sinners are. That's right. His reputation's not hurt by sinners. It's made by sinners. It's self-righteousness where He's hurt. That's right. If you won't humble yourself to Him.
Notice. And He made like He would pass by. Dad, you with a heart trouble; mother, you with a cancer that's going to die. You know you got to die. Maybe... You say, "Well, I've been a Christian all my life, Brother Branham. Why would it happen? I've asked Him," but maybe He just made like He was going to go by.
That's what He done to Cleopas and them. He said... Made out like... He knowed all the time He was going in. He knowed all the time He was going with them. So He said... They act like He was going on by, and they constrained Him. "Come in. We love You." That's the way. "Come in and abide with us."

37 Can you do that today? Can the Methodists do that? The Baptists? The Presbyterians? The Nazarenes? The Pilgrim Holiness? The Catholics? The Lutherans? Can you do that? Regardless of what church says. "Come in, and abide with Me." Just after the resurrection morning. "Come and abide with us." He's never asked unless you'll receive Him.
He said, "Ask and you shall receive. Knock it will be opened. Seek and you shall find, for everyone that seeketh findeth. To him that knocketh it shall be opened. (That's right.) Ask and you shall receive." No "Maybe you will." You will receive.
And they asked Him, "Come in with us." He turned, come back, walked into the little hut. It might have been a little adobe on the side of the road, as many of the Syrian countries there have those little adobes made up with mud and so forth, sticks, poor. Why would the King of glory ever stoop to come into a place like that? but there's never a place too little. There's never a church too small. There's never a person too rejected by the world. There's never a woman too fallen. There's never a man too drunk but He'll come when He's asked. Certainly. Ask Him and find out.

38 May I say this, leaving it for last? There's never a person who is too sick. Never a person who is too far gone. Ask, and you shall receive. "Let Me come in. Make my abode with you. I'd like to talk to you a few minutes." And they invited Him. He came in, and when once inside and the doors of the world shut out, alone with Jesus... There you are.
If He can only get you to yourself once. If He can only get you away from the crowd, the pleasure-seeking crowd. If He can only get you away from the doubters that says, "The days of miracles is past." If He can ever get you away from the people that says, "There's no more feeling of religion. The heart-felt religion of our fathers, bled on the battlefields for it. There's nothing to it." If He can ever got you alone one time and all your ideas shut outside.
If He can ever get a group of people together like that, there'd be a repeat of Pentecost. If He could ever get a church like that, there be a revival that would sweep the nation. Get alone with Him.

39 While He was alone, the doors shut, the world outside, He picked up some bread, and He broke it; and just the way He done it, they knew it had to be Him. Their eyes were opened. They'd talked to Him all day. They had fellowshipped. They'd heard Him preach along the road through the journey of the heat of the day, but when once alone, He made Himself known to them and their eyes come open.
Oh, if He could only get this group of people at this hour. If He could only get you to a place alone where you wouldn't notice... Say, "I'm sitting by a Methodist this morning and I'm a Baptist." See you mustn't do that. You must shut the world out. Shut the other people out. You must walk alone with Christ. If He ever gets you alone, then your eyes come open. Say, "Why, that was Him all the time." Then He'll do something here this morning the way He used to do it, and when He does it today, for He has to do the same thing today that He did then: Act on the same principles, or He isn't the same yesterday, today, and forever, and He did wrong when He acted there. If Christ in the...

40 Here it is! Get it! Christ at the first resurrection and made Himself known to these apostles by something that He did when He was here on earth to prove to them that He was risen from the dead and it was He. He's under the same obligations to move this morning in this tabernacle, to do things here in this church, this morning, that He did when He was here on earth, in the same manner; He's obligated the same way to act when the same crisis arise.
Now, for another few moments, if you'll stand it, I want to say... Come to my other scripture. Quickly. He is arisen from the dead. The highest of heaven became the lowest to earth. He passed through a city, Jericho, the lowest city in the world and the littlest man in the city had to look down to see Him. That's right. How low did He come? Did you ever think of it?
He become me, that I, through grace, might become Him. He become sin knowing no sin that I, by sin, might be righteous in the sight of God. That's what He did for you. That's what He did for you, sinner friend, this morning. How could you turn Him down?

41 Now, notice. Now, that was ... His earthly work was finished. At the resurrection He proved everything He said. Now, He's got another work to do that the world knows little about. That's right.
His next work in His ascension. We want to speak on that for a moment. After He's risen from the dead, after He's already here on earth, and proving Himself alive by infallible proofs, that He is doing the same thing that He did when He was here in flesh. And here He is walking, breaking bread, and eating, with them. Oh, the same Jesus! He's proved it. Now the ascension comes. Now the time comes. Did you ever know the Bible said that He ascended up on high far above every ... through every heaven. This earth belonged to the devil. Through the fall this earth was given to the devil. Every kingdom of this world is governed by the devil. We hate to think that, but the Bible says it is.

42 That's the reason we have wars and shooting and fighting and trouble is because the kingdoms of this world is the kingdoms of the devil. The Bible said so. And in the great Millennium which is to come, the Bible said, "Rejoice all ye heavens and ye holy prophets of the earth for the kingdoms of this earth have become the kingdoms of our Lord and He shall rule and reign forever."
Now, they will become. We'll have no more war then when He comes, no more sickness, no more trouble. Now, notice. When He had died, they saw a little spoke of this ascension. It's one of the greatest days: when He ascended up; because all over the earth since the day in the garden of Eden that sin was committed, all heavens was shut off from mankind. Satan is the prince of the power of the air. That's right. "Why art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer?" No man could see into glory. No man could understand because the power is just above it. Heaven means "atmosphere above," and then all these powers was shut off from mankind because of sin.

43 But when He had died, and had rose again, and come up, He... The Bible said, "No one has ascended up, but He that came down first." When He was in heaven, He was the Logos that went out of God in the beginning, and He came down on earth, and was not to be made an angel. He came down on earth and took the form of a bondsman, not an angel. Not come down in the great Jehovah glory, but He came down as a man to redeem man, to die for man, to die as a man. He never died as God. He died as a man. The sin of man was upon the Son of man, and He had to become a man in order to pay the penalty.
What did He do? The Bible said He was made a little lower than the angels in order for death that He might take away and abolish sin and take away sickness from the world. Now, when He came down from the highest, Logos from God, He came down through angels and came down and was made a man, and He said, "I am not even a man. I am a worm, and no man.
For He was despised and rejected.

44 There was no beauty we should desire Him. He was marred above every man. He was probably a little skinny, spindly-looking fellow. Didn't look like a King.
Many times that people judge people by the way they dress or by their stature. Man is not judged by how big he is and how strong is his muscles. Man's judged by character, and character alone. I've seen men that weighed two hundred pounds and didn't have an ounce of man about them. Man is judged by character: what he is in his heart. And Christ was not judged by physical strength, but He was judged by character.
Never a man ever lived like Him, or never a man could ever die like Him. Never a man could ascend up on high like Him, because He was God. "I am no man." He made of Himself no reputation. Did you ever think? The man that made an artificial eye made a reputation. The man that made false teeth made a reputation. The man that made a wooden arm made a reputation for Himself, but the man who made the original eye, the man who made the original arm, made of Himself no reputation, but become a servant, a bondsman unto men who were sinners that He might win them back.

45 How could a man in his right mind know the Gospel truth of that and reject a man, reject that offer God has give to save the man from a life of sin? How can he do it? I just can't understand it: How that you could reject such a One when He's not here to make anything that you have to do for Him, but just offer you a way of escape from the things that you are going to, and became that for you.
When He did... When He was dying yonder at Calvary, everything had rejected Him. They had spit on Him. His face was full of mockery spit. They had a rag around His eyes and hit Him on the head and said, "If You're a prophet, tell us who hit You." A little woman run into the midst of them and said, "What has He done, but heal your sick and raise your dead and done good?"
They smacked her in the mouth and said, "Would you listen to that woman instead of your priest? Away with such a person."

46 And His own dear mother walking in His bloody footprints. God let me walk the same way, as He went yonder to Calvary. Down in her heart was wondering when she seen her darling child die yonder. "A man thirty-three years old and looked like fifty," the Bible said, of His strain where He probably turning gray and the grim look on His face to where He was suffering, not so much physically, but as it was agony.
The Bible said that His blood and water separated from each other, and any doctor or anything can tell you that knows the chemistry of blood that only sorrow will do that. He never died from a Roman spear. Neither did He die from a nail drove in His hand or His feet, but He died of a broken heart being rejected. "He came to His own, His own received Him not."
You say, "Brother Branham, I wish I could have stood there that day at Calvary." Brother, you're standing in a better place today. You're standing in the presence of a resurrected Lord Jesus who has proved Himself triumphant.

47 Look at Him as He stands there. Then after He arose from the dead, then we notice here that as He went on then, after He talked with His disciples, the Bible said, "He ascended up on high." What did He do? He took the... He was here come down, the Logos from heaven, when He went back He took with Him... The High Priest, being a High Priest anointed with the torch light of His own blood. When He went down there with these powers here that accused ... wouldn't let God and man fellowship. It'd been broke in the garden of Eden. Sin done the thing. Satan had a... The domain of this earth was Satan's. It belonged to the devil, but when He come the anointed High Priest...
As the high priest Aaron went into the holy of holies behind the veil anointed with the precious anointing oil, walking a certain way, playing, "Holy, holy to the Lord," as he walked in as a type of Christ with the blood of the lamb before him, and if He went any other way, He would died.

48 Christ with His own blood, as a High Priest anointed with the power of God, raised from the dead, and tore down the dominion of Satan. As He broke the domain He went through heavens, beyond heavens; and He come to the lowest on earth, and received up in heaven. And God set Him on a pinnacle until He has to look down to see heaven. Amen. No wonder He is the mighty Conqueror as He stands yonder today in the domain forever and ever.
Isaiah said, "Unto us a son is born, unto us a child is given: and his name shall be called Counsellor, Prince of Peace, mighty God, everlasting Father, and of his domain there shall be no end forever and ever. He will reign on the throne of David seated in the heavens of heavens far above." Every angel, archangel, every principality and power He tore down and swallowed at His crucifixion and resurrection everything Satan had.
He broke through the veil of sin. He tore it apart with the High Priest blood of His own body. He come to the next... What was it? It was a veil of sickness that held over the people. He tore it apart. "For He was wounded for our transgressions, with His stripes we were healed."

49 He went through the great veil yonder of sickness, the great veil of sin. He went through the great veil of worry. He went through the great veil of fear. He tore every one of them down and ascended so high and received the name above every name that's named in the heavens above or in earth below or in the world to come.
God taken that lovely One who stooped down so low that even He didn't have a place to be born or a place to die. God exalted Him on high and give Him a crown and a glory yonder and a name above every name. There He sits today, the mighty Conqueror, since He rent every veil in two. The veil of sin was rent in two. The veil of sickness was rent in two, and every veil that kept man away from God was rent in two. "I am the way, the truth and the light." He broke every power. He scattered every devil. He made a search light from glory [unclear words].

50 And the old prophet when he laid down there on the bed of stone that night, and the pillow of stone, he saw the angels ascending and descending. Notice in the first place it was descending and ascending, but this time it was God, and man, ascending and descending on the ladder of Jacob (as we would call it), when He broke every power, fought every domain and sits at the right hand of the Majesty on high, far above everything.
The channel of the Holy Ghost in this dark world is laying open for whosoever will may come and be baptized into this great channel of His mercy and receive the redemptive blessings that He died for.
Men and women, how could you turn such a One down, when He's sitting there clothed in His Majesty? How He sits in His glory this morning. What do you do?

51 He came here to the world homeless to make a way for homeless men and women, for men and women who has no hope, for men and women who have no place to go, for a homeless wanderer who are pleasure crazy walking down the streets today, and horse races, gamblings and so forth trying to find a comfort. He made a place for them every man, and it's just as free as the water runs. Whosoever will let him come.
You can't walk outside of this veil. You've got to come in here to find out. You've got to get here where there's nothing between you and God, where the angels of God can descend and ascend, back and forth, bringing the messages of God back and forth to the individual.
"There's nothing between my soul and the Saviour," the poet said. There He sits, the mighty Conqueror. He rent every veil in two. He rent the veil that you could be saved. He rent the veil that if you've committed adultery, if you have cursed, if you've done anything wrong, He rent that veil for you. That stick that Satan holds over you, He rent it if you'll only receive Him.

52 If you're sick today and the doctor says, "You can't get well," He rent that veil in two, and everything is broken before God. He rent every veil. He tears down every domain, and He sits there today, the mighty Conqueror since He rent the veil in two.
Look, just a minute, my friend. Not only was He then that appeared to Cleopas on his road to Emmaus, him and his friend, but one day when a little martyr, the first martyr of the Bible, the New Testament, was dying---little Stephen---because he stood there, stern. Brother, Stephen had been brought into that channel where he knowed God. "He was filled with the Holy Ghost," the Bible said, and when they accused him and the Sanhedrin Court stood there and accused him.

53 And he stood like a angel-face: stern, knowed where he was. And he said, "You men of Israel," begin to speak to them, "which one of your fathers hasn't persecuted the prophets?" Then he said, "You stiff-necked, uncircumcised of heart and ears, you always resist the Holy Ghost: like your fathers did, so do you."
And to revenge that blood of that righteous martyr who was standing there telling them what was right and wrong, and they to avenge that blood, they dragged him like a bunch of wolves dragging a lamb, and when they throwed him on the ground, and took great big clods of rocks and begin to beat him on the head with it like that. Little Stephen being full of the Holy Ghost, the Bible said he looked steadfast towards heaven, raised his hand, and said, "I see heavens opened, and I see Jesus standing at the right hand of God."

54 When a high priest... When any man has finished his work, he steps down. When I quit preaching, I'll sit down, but not until I quit preaching. When you're working, when you sat down, you're work is finished. Jesus sit down at the right hand of glory, but when He seen this first martyr dying for the cause of Christ, the resurrected Lord Jesus brushed back the skies, and He must have raised from His throne to give a special welcome to little Stephen, to bring him home.
There He is. Raised from the dead. His domain reaches from eternity to eternity. He is far above every angel, every principality, everything there is in heaven. Why His heaven ... His throne is far above the heavens of heavens, God raised Him up.
Saint Paul, when he was still Saul of Tarsus, on his road with a letter in his pocket to persecute all those people who were shouting and making all that noise, down on his way to Damascus. He was riding upon his horse that day with a threat in his own throat. "I'll lock every one of them holy-rollers up. I'll put a stop to all this divine healing and this nonsense going on here."
But on his road down there and riding on his steed, he fell from the horse to the ground and over he went, and he raised up, and there was a big bright light standing before him (and he was blind in his eyes) saying, "Saul, Saul, why persecutest Thou Me?"
"Who are You, Lord?"
He said, said, "I'm Jesus who you persecute." He saw Him in His everlasting endless domain.

55 When the aged, old seer, John, the beloved, standing out yonder on the isle of Patmos for preaching the Word of God, for preaching divine healing, for healing the sick, and for doing the things that Christ had told him to do. And they took him out on the isle of Patmos, a little island out in the Aegean Sea, about fifteen miles in circumference around it full of rocks like in Alcatraz now. Snakes and things laid on the island. He was exiled out there because of preaching the Gospel.
And when the aged, beloved, old seer in his ninetieth year was sitting out there on a rock one beautiful resurrection morning, he saw Him. He saw Him! He said, "I heard the voice of a trumpet, and when I turned to look behind me, I saw one like the Son of man. Look the way he looked. He didn't have any... His eyes, they were not full of tears." He says, "His eyes shined like the sun in the middle of the day." The middle of the Syrian sun could not outshine His eyes.

56 He looked as He gazed down. No more tears in His eyes. He's glorified this morning. His feet looked like pillars of brass. No more spikes will ever be drove into them. Never a bloody lock, but it was as white as the snow. He is glorified. He lives forever more. He is a mighty Conqueror. His dominion is from everlasting to everlasting. His delegates are those who love Him and are willing to die for Him. He's raised from the dead this morning and living among us. Do you believe this? Shall we pray.
[Gap in the audio.] ... if you will go to the piano.
Down from His glory, the ever living story,
My God and Saviour came, and Jesus was
His name.
Born in a manger, to His own a stranger,
A man of sorrow, tears and agony.
O how I love Him! How I adore Him!
My life, my sunshine, my all in all!
The great Creator became my Saviour,
And all God's fullness dwelleth in Him.
Our Heavenly Father, when holy times shall fade and fall, when man's kingdoms shall diminish and be no more. When all...
If all the sea was ink
And every stalk on earth a quill,
And all the men a scribe by trade,
To write the love of God above
Would drain the ocean dry;
Nor could the scroll contain the whole,
Though stretched from sky to sky.

57 Today we're a happy bunch of believers, Father. We are Your servants. We're so happy to know. Yet poor, yet here in a little humble church, You just come in here the same as You did with Cleopas and them on their road to Emmaus. The place cannot be too humble, too little for You to come, and yet You fill all space and time.
And I wonder today, Heavenly Father, after them hearing You have raised from the dead, and knowing that in a few moments a challenge will be made. I pray, Heavenly Father, that if there be men and women in here today, boys or girls, who has never received You as personal Saviour, that this they will do now. Saying, "Lord, I now forsake all my earthly pride. I turn aside everything and give to Thee myself. I have nothing to give but myself, but if You can use me, O God, here I am. And use me. And from this day henceforth may the Holy Spirit lead me, and guide me, and make me a Christian." O God, may that be the prayer of many people here today.

58 While we have our heads bowed and our eyes closed, I wonder if there's someone inside or out, would raise their hand to Christ and say, "By this uplifted hand, I now believe the Lord Jesus Christ, and I accept Him as my personal Saviour and today, from this day henceforth I'll serve Him with all my heart because He's risen from the dead and I believe." Would you raise your hand? Anywhere on the inside. God bless you. God bless you, you, sister, you, you, you. That's wonderful. God bless you. Making your decision.
The Holy Spirit is there. He is the One who does the work of God. Someone way back in the hall? On the outside? Raise your hand high. God bless you. See you way back. The Lord be with you, my brother. God bless you, my sister. Someone else? God bless you, my sister. Way back in the hall, I see you out towards the outside. God sees you if even if I don't. He sees you.
Jesus that lovely One, that fairest of ten thousands. He that come down from heaven made sin, died, rose again, ascended up and sitting at the Majesty of God now glorified.

59 The angels of God in their positions in the building today speaking to the hearts of the people. Will you this day, after twenty-five or thirty has raised their hand, will you be another one to raise your hand say to God, "God, this day I want to be holy Thine as I raise my hand to Thee in confession of my sins and my wrongs. I want to live for You who died for me." God bless you, my brother. Would someone else?
Think of it while you're praying.
The blood of disciples who died for the truth,
This Holy Ghost Gospel is dripping with blood.
The first one to die for this Holy Ghost plan,
Was John the Baptist, he died like a man;
Then came the Lord Jesus, they crucified Him,
He preached that the Spirit would save men
from sin.
It's dripping with blood, it's dripping with
blood. (Do you want to take the place now?)
This Holy Ghost Gospel is dripping with blood,
The blood of di...................

60 Someone else raise your hand? "I want to take my place this morning positionally." Not asking you to join church. We don't have any members here. I want you to come to Christ.
.............is dripping with blood.
Now Heavenly Father, Thou did see the hands of the people. I pray this prayer of faith for them, that from this day henceforth, that they will live a new life, and may He who is present now, who has watched over them, fed them; done the things that He has done for them and brought them to church this morning. Now, they've received Him, going back like Cleopas and them. They returned back just in a few moments after taking them a Sabbath day to journey over. They returned back light-hearted, not to argue their religion, but to know that He lives.
May they return to their home today light-hearted, to know that He lives for we ask it in His name. Amen.

61 Now, after the message and you people have received Christ as your Saviour---the great resurrection morning... Now, the time is at hand that I must either be a false witness, or a true witness of Christ. If I have told the truth as I believe this Bible to be the truth, and no other book has anything contrary to this is not the truth. I only believe that this Bible contains the truth of God, and if this Bible said that He has risen from the dead, that He is the same yesterday, today, and forever, then He's got to be the same in resurrection, got to be the same in power. He has got to be the same in principle. He's got to be the same in every way except the corporal body. This body, the corporal body, of His is sitting at the right hand of God Almighty in glory. Do you believe that? He is sitting at the right hand of God Almighty in glory, making intercession.

62 Did you ever think of it? That when the children of Israel was in Egypt, they knew they were going home some day. Why? Because that they seen Joseph's body laying there, the bones of Joseph, and they knowed that was a sign that they were going to go home some day.
And then when we go out of this earth, when we die and are going into another type of body... That's not the kind of body. We wasn't made for heaven, we were made for earth. We're earthly people, and do you remember the Bible, souls under the altar crying, "How long?" They were crying to get back to a body again. Shake one another's hands, and eat, and fellowship. That's what we were made. That's what we were made for.

63 And then they have a sign there that they're going back. What is it? The corporal body of the Lord Jesus Christ sitting on the throne of God, and when we pass by that we'll... If we go today and He don't come for a hundred years and I'll meet you there, I will say, "Someday we're going back. See there? That body will rise from the throne again. He'll come back to the earth, and when He does, every spirit that's borned again will come back to a corporal body, young men and women, and live forever in the presence of God.
What a... How could we reject such things? I'm thankful that you have accepted Christ.

64 Now, Jesus, when He was here on earth before He went away (in Saint John's 14:7), He said, "A little while," ... or, He said here, He said, "The things that I do, the works that I... He that believeth on Me, the works that I do shall he also. Even more than this shall he do for I go to my Father." Now, what was the works that Jesus did? He never claimed to be a healer. He said, "It's not Me. It's My Father that dwelleth in Me. He doeth the works."
Saint John 5:19, He said, "The Son can do nothing in himself, but what he sees the Father doing."
When Philip went and got Nathanael and brought him to Him, He said, "Behold an Israelite in whom there is no guile."
He said, "How did You know me, Rabbi?"
He said, "Before Philip called you, when you were under the tree, I knowed you."

65 A woman at the well that day, He talked to her till He found where her trouble was.
He had trouble one day getting some coins to pay for some debts ... or, tribute money, and He told Peter, "Go down and catch a fish and look in its mouth, and you'll find a coin." Perhaps, Peter if he had caught the fish otherwise, he'd never have opened the fish's mouth, but Jesus knew the coin was in its mouth. The Father had showed Him.
Many other things. He stood in the audience of people. He turned and said, "Your faith has healed you. You have..." Certainly.
Now, if that Jesus has raised from the dead, and this a beautiful resurrection morning, if He will appear here at the platform, then you... Can you appreciate what I'm saying? If Jesus the Son of God out of all these two thousand years of churchanity and everything else, all the scruples, and one church saying, "This is it, and this is it, and that's it."

66 Let's look it right in the face. If He's Jesus, He's alive. If He isn't, He's not; and if He is alive, He's the same and if He isn't the same, then it's not the same Jesus. But if it's the same Jesus, His promise is, "I'll be with you even in you to the end of the world, and the things that I do shall you also, to the end of the world."
Now, how is He here this morning? In the form of the Holy Spirit. No one has come down but He and no one has went up but He that come down. "A little while and the world sees me no more," He said, "Yet you'll see me for I'll be with you. I'll be in you to the end of the world." And He's here this morning.

67 Now, how many people, inside or out, wants to be prayed for? raise your hand. Well, it's couple hundred or more. Now, we can't bring all them people up here at once. We have to bring them one by one. It's the only way we can do it, and I believe that Brother... Billy Paul, I believe. has give the prayer cards out. [Unclear words] hundred? All right.
Now, we have to have cards so the people can be numbered to come up and take their turn. If you don't, it causes a turmoil.
I don't know, but what... A man called me last night, by long distance, which was thirty or forty calls yesterday afternoon alone. But look. Want to ask you something. The main thing that you want to know...
Now, there's nothing in me that can heal anybody. There's nothing in no other man. There's nothing in a doctor can heal you. He'll tell you the same thing. He don't heal you. No. You broke your arm. Say, "Doc, heal my arm right quick, I want to finish cranking my car." How silly, see. What say, "Here I broke my leg, doc. I've got to take a long hike this afternoon. Heal it for me right quick."
Well, he'd say you're crazy. He can set your leg, but it takes God to heal you, see. That's right, see. He does it in His own way, see. So, he is not a healer. He can't heal.

68 What if you would cut your arm, say, "Hey, doc, I want you to sew this up right quick for me. Heal it right quick, because I don't want that scar on my hand." See? "Sure, I got to work this afternoon." He couldn't do it. Certainly not. He might clean it with some medicine. He might clean the germs out of it, but God alone can make life and build tissue, see. He's the only One can do it. We know that. You don't have to be a scholar to know that. You just have to look at God's Word.
And Satan has no power to heal. I give anybody anything they wish that I could do if you'll show me one scripture says Satan can heal. "I'm the Lord who heals all thy diseases," said, Jesus. Now, now Satan can't heal. It takes God. And it's upon the basis of your faith that God heals.

69 Now, I want to ask you something. A man called me, as I said, yesterday, and he said, "Brother Branham, I want to come to the Chicago meeting over at the..." begins day after tomorrow. He said, "I want to come to... I want to make contact."
I said, "What contact do you mean, sir?"
Said, "I want my brother healed." Said, "He's got a bad leg and," said, "we live in the country," and said, "we've been two or three meetings and we never could contact you."
I said, "Now, what do you mean by 'contact,' brother?"
He said, "Well, I mean this, that I want you to do something for my brother."
I said, "Well, now, sir, you're trying to contact the wrong person, see." I said, "Contacting me would be to see the manager and see what," but I said, "that isn't healing your brother." I said, "Do you mean a contact for his healing?"
He said, "Yes."
I said, "Now, here's how you do that. You go to the meeting. You sit down out in the audience, and then I'm just His servant. I just yield myself to it, to the Holy Spirit. Then you make contact with the Holy Spirit, and He speaks to me and tells me what to tell you, see. That's your contact, not me---Him. And as long as you're trying to contact me, you're just off all the time (see?) but as long as you try to contact Him, you contact Him, and He just uses me for a mouthpiece to tell you, see. That's it."

70 Brother Head, I see you sitting back there by my friend, Mr. Lee. Mr. Head was a dying man with cancer. He belonged to a Roman Catholic church in Louisville, dying with a cancer in the rectum, I believe it was, or something, and he came to me over here one day when I lived across the street and asked if there was mercy for him to be healed. Prayed a prayer of faith there, and the Lord showed a vision. Mr. Head, I guess that's been at least ten years ago, hasn't it? [The brother says, "About nine."] About nine years ago, and here he is a living today. Healing is real, isn't it, Mr. Head? He don't care who you heal. He will heal Methodists, Baptists, Catholic, whatever you are. Don't make any difference. He heals, see. Now, you just believe.
I just happened to see him. Wonder if Margie Morgan's in the building this morning. If she would, raise your hand. Margie, did you get in? Are you here, sis? Well, way back in the back. Yep. Another woman, a nurse out here at the hospital, on the dead list in Louisville, with cancer. She's healed right there. Just nothing but a bunch of bones. There she is. Poor girl can't even get a place to sit down, and she's way back standing in the hall back there this morning.

71 How I remember how that the doctor said, "Oh, my. There's nothing can help her." How her dear husband, a bosom friend of mine, come down out here, and I was ragged coming tearing through them thickets on patrol. Said, "Can anything help my wife?"
I said, "It's not for me to think, sir. What about you?"
He said, "I believe."
I said, "Bring her over," right here where she was prayed for that night, the Lord came down and told her what was going to happen, and that's been years ago. Here she is today, a strong, healthy woman. And go to the cancer research in Louisville and find out if she wasn't ... if she didn't die about ten or twelve years ago. There's a dead woman raised then back there, see. Certainly.
Oh, Jesus lives. Jesus reigns. Jesus is all.
Now, would you start from 1 to 100? From 1 to 100? All right. Who has prayer card number 1? Would you stand right up here on the side? We kind of left... You got prayer cards. We will have to line you all up, but we'll line up over here on this side.

72 [Gap in the audio.]... I don't know. I've never seen her. She's somebody's mother perhaps. I don't know her. Now, this is just the same as it was when Jesus sat by that wall that day and sent the disciples away. Now, Jesus talked to her, and when He spoke to her, He said, "Bring Me a drink."
And she said, "The well's deep and You have nothing to draw with, and we don't have any customs one with another, Jews and Samaritans.
He said, "But you know who was talking to, you'd ask Me for a drink." And so the conversation went on, and she talked about worship and so forth. Then after He talked to her a while, He found where her trouble was. Is that right? How many knows that? He found what was wrong with that woman, and her wrong was immoral living. Is that right? He said, "Go get your husband."
Says, "I don't have any."
He said, "That's right. You got five."

73 Now, watch what she said. Now, listen what she said. She said, "Sir," (closely) " sir, "I perceive that Thou art a prophet." She said... Now listen. "But we know that when the Messiah cometh..." Who was the Messiah? The Son of God. She said, "We know when the Messiah cometh, He'll tell us these things, but who are You?"
Jesus said, "I am He that speaks to you."
And then she run in the city and said, "Come see a man who told me what I did. Isn't this the very Christ." See? When Christ comes, He'll do these things. Now, listen. For this last quotation. If that what that woman said, "We know that when the Messiah cometh, He'll do these things." Now, if that was the sign of Messiah then, and He was the Messiah, and He's raised from the dead, isn't it the same thing today, if He is the same?

74 Now, here's a woman. I don't know her. God knows that. Now, I don't know one thing. I've never seen the woman in my life as far as I know. She's a stranger, but God knows her. Now, the woman's here for something. I don't know. She might have a loved one she's standing for. She might have financial trouble. She might have a sickness. She might be a sinner and come here to be saved. I don't know.
But if Jesus Christ the resurrected Son of God will come down here and tell this woman something that she knows that I know nothing about, will you audience believe that that same Jesus that raised on that day is here and He is breaking the bread to you like He did to them at Emmaus?

75 Now, now, sister, I want to look at you just a minute. I want you to talk to me. Now, may the Lord do it. Now, I wish you would be real reverent now during the time of this especially in the time. Now, don't say... This is my home town. It's been two times since I've been in the ministry that it's worked here at the tabernacle. Why? Jesus said that a prophet in his own country among his own people is not without ... only place he is without honor. Is that right?
When He went to His own country, they said, "Who is this guy anyhow? What school did He come out of?" See?
And Jesus could not do many mighty works because of their unbelief.

76 Said, "Isn't that the carpenter's son? Isn't His mother here with us? Isn't Joseph the carpenter? Isn't His brothers and sisters here with us? Well, where did He get this? What church does He belong to?" He didn't belong to any of them. Said, "Well, when did He get this wisdom?"
And Jesus made that statement, and it'll be the same thing today, and He said, "A prophet from then will be without honor except among his own... Not you people here, but it's the environment of Jeffersonville, where I was raised up. Everyone knows all my good and bad points and everything, and most of them's bad. I'm sorry. But Jesus knows ... don't know it. God doesn't. Jesus taken it all away so God don't know nothing about it. He put them in the Sea of Forgetfulness when I confessed them twenty-three years ago, and He don't know no more about it now, does He? So, it's God's blessings.

77 Now, I want to talk to my sister. Now, lady, this audience is a great thing. Here's two or three hundred people, or whatever it is here this morning, and you and I being strange to each other, not knowing one another. Never seen one another as far as I know, but... You have seen me? [The sister speaks to Brother Branham.] Yes. Where was the other meeting at? ["Down in Kentucky."] Down in Kentucky. Well, I mean, I don't know who you are. ["You don't know me personally (unclear words)."] Can you hear the lady all of you? I know nothing about her affairs. She was in one of my meetings in Kentucky. There we are then perfect strangers to one another.
Now, if the Lord Jesus... If I can get myself yielded to the Holy Spirit, and He can tell me something about this woman, or what she's here for. Whatever it is like the woman at the well or so forth. All of His promises you believe.

78 Now, lady, you in the wheelchair. Do you believe that? Will you, Sister Edith? Will you ever who the little lady is can't get up over here? Will you believe, sister, with all your heart? See? Now, will all of you here that's got sicknesses of all kinds, will you believe? Now, then if you do that, then you touch Him, see. You could touch me all day, it wouldn't make a bit of difference, see. You come touch me and I wouldn't know it, but you just touch Him once, and watch me turn around, and tell you about it, see. Just touch Him one time with faith. I'm not the one that's raising the dead. He is the One raising the dead (see?) and I'm just His servant.

79 Now, be real reverent. Look this a way and in a few minutes ought to prove it beyond any shadow of a doubt. Now, sister, us being strange, I say to each other... You see I'm having a battle getting myself yielded to the Spirit. That's exactly right, because it's home here in the tabernacle. It just doesn't work the way it should work and... But God knows all things. He can do all things. If God will reveal to me what you're here for, will you accept whatever it is? If you're here for sickness, you accept your healing. If you're here for finances, whatever it is, it'll be a supernatural act, won't it?
Now, now in the name of Jesus Christ, the Son of God, I take every spirit in here under my control. The woman is moving from me. Yes, she's not from here. She comes from somewhere else. A humble home, and she's suffering, and she's shadowed. She's shadowed by death. And it's a cancer. That's right, but only God alone can make you well, you know that. It's on the bosom, or on the breast. Cancer on the breast. I see him examine. That's right, lady.

80 When you on your road here, was praying that you would be able to come up here where I was. Before you left, you prayed to that extent, that you'd be able to come to this platform. [The lady says, "Yes."] That is right. I'm not reading your mind. That is true. When you turned around and the sun shined into that window on you, you know that... When God was speaking to you. Let you kind of have a faith that you knowed you'd get this prayer card. And here you are, here on the platform this morning. That is right. I'm not reading your mind, but that's true. Now, if that's true, raise up your hand. Now, do you believe? Do you believe in the audience? Now, have faith, sister.

81 Come here, sister. Now, look. There's something here that you're in the presence of now, but you know it's not a man. It's not your brother. There's something here that knows you. Isn't that right? [The lady says, "That's right."] Knows all about you. Now, it's your attitude towards That. Do you believe that was Jesus Christ who permitted me to do that? ["Yes, I do."] You do. You believe then that God will heal you? Bow your head.
Our kind Heavenly Father, Thou art the God of Abraham, Isaac and of Jacob, and this poor woman here under this dark shadow of death, knowing that she must go soon if You don't touch her. Here she is this morning walking around here in this building with the resurrected Lord Jesus abroad in the world, walking around among the flowers, the people today, alive forever more and speaking through His servants, trying through the Word, then through prophecy to reveal the secret of the woman's heart that she might know that He loves her.
And Father, as His servant I put my hands upon her, and condemn this evil, that it leave her in the name of Jesus Christ. Amen.

82 Now, go believing, and if you can believe with all your heart... It's gone from you now, see. Now, if you can believe... Because it's all light around you. See where it was dark? ["Yes."] Now, if you can believe with all your heart, it'll never come to you again. Go give Him praise and you'll sit like them people back there who had cancer and is alive now. You'll be alive with them. Amen.
Do you believe? Everyone, just be prayerful, believing. Don't doubt, but have faith. God knows all things, can do all things. Now, our sister here, of course, to me, is a stranger. Is that right, lady? We're strangers. [The lady says, "I've at the tabernacle twice."] You've been to our tabernacle twice, while I was preaching here. Course I wouldn't know you, you know. I don't know... You're just strange to me. ["That's right."] Now, do you believe that Jesus Christ, the Son of God is here to help you? Do you believe the message I preached of Him out of the Bible? And you believe that if He was here now and He had on this suit that He gave me, that He'd say...

83 Have faith in God. Now, be real reverent. Stand quiet. Be reverent. If He had on this suit that He gave me, and You'd come and say you were sick. I don't know that you are, but say if you were sick and you'd say, "Lord Jesus, will You heal me?"
You know what He'd say to you? He'd say, "Child of Mine, I've did that when I've died for you and rose for your justification." Do you believe that? He can't do it no more. He's already done it once. You see? Now, if He saved you when He died, now He rose for your justification. Same thing for your sickness.
Now, but He might be able to tell you something about yourself, like He did the woman. That's the only thing left that He can do, see. He never left us without a witness. He put the Witness here, the Holy Spirit, to continue witness for Him. Is that right?

84 Now, you're not from here. You're from another place. That's right. Hilly country. That's right. Lot of hardwood and things, perhaps Kentucky. Right? And you come here for a purpose, and I see you in your home. You're very nervous, upset. Yes. Get nervous, can't hold yourself together. That's a horrible thing. I see you walking back and forth. Doing something... Look like going from the kitchen to the other room all the time. Going back and forth. You get real nervous. That especially in the afternoon, when you get real weak. That is right.
You know Something here that knows you. Don't you? It's infallible. That's right. That's true, isn't it? ["Right."] See? Now, what's standing here will let me know what you're doing in your home? There is Somebody here. There's more than a man. That's Jesus. That's right. And I see you've got something inwardly. It's growth inside of you. That's right, and you've got one that's external. That's right, and it's under your arm. It's a knot and it's under your right arm. That is right. Isn't that right?

85 You believe? You believe He raised from the dead? Come here.
Dear God, upon this our beloved sister, we condemn the diseases of her body, and let her go home to be a well person. This we do in Jesus Christ's name. Amen. God bless you, sister. Now, go rejoicing. Be happy. Believe with all your heart, and God will do for you the exceedingly.
Little lady looking at me, little pink coat on, wearing glasses, dark hair. She has a wonderful contact with the Spirit at this time. She's suffering with sinus trouble that's bothering her. That's right, lady, you with the pink coat on there. That's right. Have faith. Believe. See what I mean? You don't need to be here. You need to be there. Have faith.

86 How do you do, lady. Do you believe with all your heart, with all your soul, and all your mind? You're extremely nervous too. Yes, ma'am. You got a trouble that'd actually be with a lady at your age, which makes you nervous; but you also have a growth, seemingly, and that growth is in the stomach. Then you have a little trouble with your side. It's your liver, and you have on the other side a kidney trouble. That's what that the doctor said so, so that's right. That's what he told you, wasn't it? Now, do you believe you're going to be well? Something struck you, didn't it? That was His healing power. Just believe it.
Our Heavenly Father, in the name of Thy beloved Son, the Lord Jesus, I pray You heal the woman and make her well. Amen. God bless you, lady. Don't doubt. Have faith and believe.

87 Everyone should believe Him. That's right, Sister Woods. I ain't going to say, because you know I know, see. Have faith, but you have no more tumor. That's right.
Sister, weeping there. Praying about your eyes, wasn't you? Sitting right here with the brown suit on. Yep. You're believing now, aren't you? You was praying to God. "O God, let me be in too." Is that right? If that's right, raise up your hand. May I say to you this? Do you believe that our God can reveal to me the secret of your heart? You believe it? You're wanting something from God, too, besides your eyes healing. You want the baptism of the Holy Ghost, that's right. If that's right, raise up your hand. All right. You can receive it now. The Lord Jesus, give you the baptism of the Holy Ghost.
No, I'm not reading her mind. No, no. No, no, no. That's not right... Don't say that. That's the Holy Ghost. She was just kind of getting herself in the Spirit of God. You have faith and believe.

88 How do you do, lady. We're strangers to each other. God doesn't keep secrets. He can reveal secrets, and we being strangers one to another, don't know each other. Never seen one another, I guess, in life, but God knows us both. He has fed us both, and here you are standing here a woman, me a man. And here... You're a Christian believer and you ... because your spirit feels welcome. You actually believe. And, 'course, you're wearing glasses. I see that. Anyone would know there is something wrong with your eyes you wouldn't have glasses on. Maybe He will show me something else that's wrong. I don't know that He will. I have to ask Him, but if He will, will you accept it? Will the audience accept Him?
Yes, ma'am. You also have a growth, and you're up for an operation. I see the doctor says you must be operated on. He was looking at your tongue. The growth is on your tongue. That's right. That's right, in your body. That is true. Now, do you believe He is here? You believe that He can take the life out of that, and it will go away? Come here.
O God, Author of life, giver of eternal life, give Thy blessings to this woman who I bless in Thy name, for I ask it in Christ's name. Amen. God bless you, lady. Go believing now, having faith.

89 I see a vision here before me. It's a lady, and she's got a girl with her. The woman's got a diabetes, and the little girl has hurt her arm. She fell off of a bed or something and hurt her arm. That person is present. Amen. There you are. Raise up your arm, honey. There it is. It's all over now. Your faith touched Him. Amen. How could I be reading your mind looking this way and them's in the back? You're all right now. It don't hurt now, does it, honey? It's all gone now. Go be well.
Let's say, "Praise the Lord." If thou canst believe, if thou can believe, all things are possible.
Now, the Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of God, who raised up the dead, He does whatever He wishes to. He is the Almighty One. Now, I can't get to the people on the platform. They're in the audience. Now, your faith is moving right.

90 Sister Woods, I thought it was to you, but it's that man sitting by you there. You believe with all your heart? From Michigan to be healed, from Sturgis, Michigan; that's right. I never seen you in my life, but that's right. All right. Go home and be well now. Your faith make you well.
O how wonderful! Why can't you believe Him? You in the tabernacle, you've watched these things for years come and go. Won't you have faith?
That's your husband praying for you, lady. That's right. He's trying to contact God. You are too. You got a prayer card to come in this line here. If you'd believe what I tell you... You're praying, wasn't you, sir? If you believe, you won't have to. Your nerves have give away on you. Can't sleep at night, in a terrible shape. You're not from here, either. You've come from the north coming south. You come from a big city where there is a river runs through the city. That's right.

91 Oh, you've been a long time this way, haven't you, lady? And you've been healed once too. A cancer or something. That's right. Some kind of a condition that was with you, and God made you well. Now, you have... You called preachers and things to pray for you, and things like that to make yourself rest at night. You come from Ft. Wayne. That's right.
You believe with all your heart that Jesus Christ make you well? You believe that His power will now heal you? You've got to take a hold quickly, sister. If you will with all your heart, Jesus Christ will make you well.
Brother Woods, lay your hand over on that lady sitting there. O God, raised up Jesus from the dead. The devil has bound this poor woman, troubles; on top of troubles, the poor husband. O Father, I pray that in Jesus' name if their faith could contact You, God, I pray that You will dismiss that condition from her body just now, and may from this very hour, may she be healed and made well.

92 O God, in Jesus Christ's name I rebuke that devil and give the woman faith to believe in the Son of God, and to leave this tabernacle this morning with both hands in the air, rejoicing and praising God, through Jesus Christ the Son of God. Amen. God bless you, sir. [Unclear words]. Call right, right and wrong, wrong. That's right. Amen. Have faith in God.
"If thou canst believe," said Jesus.
There's a dark spirit hangs in the corner to my left. The person sitting back there is suffering with epilepsy---over in a corner. Raise up, sir. Got black hair. Do you believe Jesus Christ make you well? All right. Then go. May Christ make you well. Your faith will do it if you'll believe. Have faith in God. [Unclear words]. Watch... If you'll believe. Have faith in God. Can you believe? All the rest of you look this way and believe. If you can believe with all your heart, you can receive what you asked for.

93 Here sits a man, sitting right here on the outside row, way back towards the back. He's suffering with headaches. He isn't from this country. He come from Montana. He's a light-headed man. He's wearing glasses. Got his hand up now. That's right, sir, migraine headaches. That's a beautiful country you come from. I've hunted in that country. May you return home and the headaches in the Sea of Forgetfulness---migraine headaches leave you, my brother. Go and be made well through Jesus' name.
What's the matter with you Jeffersonville people? Can't you have faith? I'm your brother. Have faith in God. Believe.
Do you believe, lady? I'm a stranger to you. You believe, sir? You're not from here, either. You're from Ohio. She's from Ohio, too. Right. You're from Hamilton. That's right. Mr. Allen, you can go home and be well. You'll have your hearing. Amen.

94 You say, why do I know his name? Didn't the Lord Jesus tell Peter his name was ... his name was Cephas, he should be called Peter, a little stone? Certainly, He knows your name. He knows where you're from, all about you. Hallelujah!
That bronchitis go away from you. The Lord Jesus make you well and bless you, heal. Do you believe He is here now to make you everyone well?
Someone's praying for a child. It's a little girl has got a rupture on the navel. That's right, sister. Amen. What more do you want? Jesus, the Son of God, is here. He is raised from the dead.

95 You, sir, sitting back there got prostate trouble, real nervous. You believe that God will make you well, heal you? All right, sir. Your faith healed you. You can go home now and be well. You don't have a prayer card, do you? No prayer card. All right. You don't have to have. You don't need any prayer card. You need faith. Do you believe Him? He's raised from the dead. He's here. This is Easter, the resurrection.
How many wants to be healed? Will you do what I tell you? If God lets me know the things that's in your life, and the things you have done, who you are, where you come from, all about you, if that isn't the resurrection of Jesus Christ, what is? Certainly it is.

96 Diabetes, arthritis. Do you believe Jesus Christ make you well? If thou canst believe, you can receive. Have faith in God. Now, the Holy Spirit tells me, the Angel of God, who's appearing at this platform, the One who made His first appearance on the river down here among you people, the One who's telling you, He's here now, and He's proved that He's a risen from the dead.
Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever. Your healing is in God's hand. He's already did it, and how many of you believe that Jesus is now going to make you well, that your faith is sufficient now to say, "I believe Lord. Brother Branham, if you'll pray for me, I'll be healed right now if you'll pray for me." Will you do it? Raise your hands, then I'll show you the glory of God. Amen.

97 Believe me, people. I'm your brother. I've been raised up here among you. Not one time has it failed and it never will fail. I'm telling you now: The Holy Ghost is moving through this building like a misting fire, moving around over the audience. It's here to heal you. It's here to give you faith if you will accept it. Now, put your hands over on each other.
O God, our kind Heavenly Father, I pray that in Jesus Christ's name that Your Spirit will move over this audience just now, and heal every person in Divine Presence. May the Holy Ghost take away all this blackness of Jeffersonville, that hangs over this audience, and may He sweep His Glory across this building and heal every person here in Jesus Christ's name.

98 Now, with your heads bowed, with your heads bowed, say this to God, "God," say it out loud, "God, [The audience repeats after Brother Branham as he prays.] I now believe. Nothing more You can do, Lord. You've proved by Your Word. You've proved by Your signs. You proved by Your Bible. You've proved by Your servant, You are here, and now I believe. Now I accept my healing. I believe right now that I have faith and God has made me well, and from this hour I'm going from this tabernacle rejoicing, praising You for my healing. In Jesus' name."
Now, with your heads bowed, your eyes closed, now think this, "O God, now You are coming into me. I feel Your presence. I know You are moving into my soul right now. You are here, Lord Jesus. I'm like Cleopas: I've walked with You a long time. I didn't realize it was this way, Lord, but here You have done something right here in the building, and proved to me that You are the same Jesus. You've raised from the dead and I believe You. I believe You, Lord, that You are right here now with me. And I'm being healed right now. I feel stronger. I'm getting better. I'm getting better. My strength is coming to me. The cancer, the diseases are leaving me, and I'm coming to Christ right now."
With your heads bowed, people rejoicing. Keep praying, while pastor keeps leading in prayer.

The Mighty Conqueror

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1 Thank you, Brother Sothmann. Let us remain standing just a moment while we pray.
Blessed Father, we pray that You'll get glory out of our being here tonight. May we leave with a heart full of love and adoration to Thee, we ask in Jesus' name. Amen.
You be seated.

2 Each evening I find some handkerchiefs here to be prayed over, which I do in the closing prayer; I remember them and pray for them. Now, we've had many things that our Lord has done for us in praying for the sick by the handkerchiefs. And we're only happy to do it. And if I happen to miss you, just write me a letter to Jeffersonville, Indiana, and request a prayer cloth, and it'll be sent to you free. And we keep them many times... Many people keep them right in their Bible on that Scripture of the 19th chapter of Acts, just in the case that something happens, they use them.
And it is surprising at the testimonies that we get of what's happened with those handkerchiefs. It's just little tokens, but yet it's Scriptural.
I remember in South Africa, someone said, "Brother Branham is superstitious." I believe they had eight or nine big grass sacks (We call them burlap sacks.) full of handkerchiefs for one night. And they was all sitting on the platform, just sacks full of these handkerchiefs to pray over them. And the man, of course, did not know the Scriptures, said that I was superstitious by praying over these handkerchiefs. But it isn't a superstition. It's the Scripture.

3 Last ... this morning, rather, we had one of the nicest times of fellowship with the ministers here of this city, and the visiting ministers that came to the breakfast. One of the nicest little fellowships I believe I ever sat in with. Oh, everybody with one accord and they were different denominations, the Baptists and different ones that shook my hands as they left the door. And that's what I call sitting together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus.
And if the Holy Spirit could meet with us in a hotel room this morning in that manner with that many Christians, what should it do tonight with this great host of Christians here? It could just do anything. And I'm expecting Him to do great things.

4 Now, I have taken much time this week in trying to break something down, and that is, a feeling that usually I have... This is a wonderful place, this exhibition grounds. We do most graciously appreciate them. But in the midst of that, a place like this is usually used for amusements: races, and rodeos, and that... You may call me really superstitious after this; but that type of spirit hangs around those places. That's exactly right. You'll never have a better meeting anywhere than you will in a church, a real Spirit-filled church.
And it's so hard to get that away, to preach against it and to lay it back. Now, nothing with the people. We're grateful for these places, and we certainly appreciate them.

5 And this fine man that's doing the operating of this instrument here, I believe, operated it for me the last time I was here around ten years ago. I got to meet him out there, a wonderful person. Everybody's been very nice and we appreciate it.
But yet, in these grounds here you have gambling, you have just everything; and that's the way you find it. If you go into a place of amusement, you find that type of spirit there. You go into a place of gambling, you find that type of spirit. And when we go into a place of worship, we want to worship and have a spirit of worship. And that's what I want you to do, with prayer, to help me to press away from all the indifference, because it'll show a greater affect among the sick people.
And I've tried hard to wait, and for that to move on until we get to bringing those sick people across this platform in great massive numbers.

6 Now, Billy said tonight that he give out some more prayer cards this afternoon, but said the reason he couldn't give out prayer cards all the time, they're to be given out at six o'clock. Said, "There maybe was four of five people here." Just a little group and some of them's already holding prayer cards. So that's the reason we give out as many as we can at this time.
Now, tomorrow night, the Lord willing, we're going to take those prayer cards and bring them across this platform praying for them. Now that, seemingly, is the approach that the people want. Why you want to be Jews, I don't know. But that's the Jewish custom. Gentiles never acted like that in the Bible. The Jew said, "Come, lay Your hand on my daughter and she will get well." Laying on of hands...
The Gentile said, "I'm not even worthy that You come under my roof. Just speak the word and my servant will live."
And Jesus turned around and said, "I never seen faith like that in you Israelites that want hands laid on you," see.
And that's... My ministry has never been too forceful amongst English speaking people: Americans, and Canadians, and so forth. I don't know why. They just seem like it doesn't take with them. But when I go into the other fields..

7 .
In Africa where we seen just five people cross the platform with them discernments to the Mohammedans, there were ten thousand Mohammedans come to Christ at one time, thirty thousand all together of people who deny Jesus Christ as being Saviour, just from that one little miracle taking place. And then, I asked a massive prayer over nearly two hundred thousand people, just a massive prayer, and Dr. F. F. Bosworth...
How many remembers Mr. Bosworth? You Canadians, why, he's been through your country here. He's coming to the end of the road, now. He's going towards ninety. He can't go out no more. I'm going to see him after this meeting. And he's getting old. And he's such a lovely old man. I hope that I can come to the end of my road like F. F. Bosworth: not one mark against him anywhere, lovely, godly, saintly man.

8 And he stood there. And I know there's what they call the evangelistic count. But far be it from Mr. Bosworth to ever overestimating anything. And he estimated of twenty-five thousand healings at one little prayer after a person was healed at the platform. They taken seven big truck loads (That's big cattle trucks loads.) of crutches, wheelchairs, stretchers, clubs, and things that the people had walked on, seven big loads of them off of the grounds after that one prayer: seven loads of them.
But we English speaking people, oh, we've went through all the school, and we've had too much school. And then, it's pitiful: one fellow will say this is right and that's wrong and this is right and that's wrong. The poor people don't know where they're standing. It's just hard.

9 And then, another thing, we've seen so many... You know there is believers, and unbelievers, and make-believers. And we see a lot of make-believers, and there they see a total failure; and therefore, it's quenches their faith. And then when they see God do something, they just think "Well, it just so happened that way." But it happens that way every time to a believer, see. God cannot be a respect of persons.
My heart was so happy about one hour ago, watching from my room where I was praying, getting ready for the meeting tonight. My little girl come running. They don't call me when I'm in the room praying or making ready for a service. And she so enthused, she knocked at the door. She said, "Daddy, there goes that little boy down the street with a yo-yo in his hand was on the platform last night blind."

10 And I looked out the window and as far as I could make out, it was the father with a white dress coat on, nice looking man. And he had a... The little boy going down the street playing with a yo-yo coming to church. I wonder if that was the little boy; if it is, would the father raise up his hand somewhere? Was going down, I don't know what street it is. It's somewhere out this way. Yeah, here they are up here in the balcony tonight; going down the street playing with a yo-yo. So happy.
I know you are too, aren't you, brother. Yes, sir. Does his sight seem to be getting better? Can you notice much difference in it? Sir? He believes his sight is getting better. That's wonderful, isn't it?
And he was stabbed out with a bowie knife or some kind of a little jackknife, I believe they call it. What has to happen? There has to be a creation there.

11 Tomorrow night, God willing, for that service is coming up, I'm going to preach on Abraham and faith, tomorrow night, the Lord willing.
Now, tonight, so we can get right into the service... And now, everybody that's holding prayer cards, be sure to be in tomorrow night, for that's what we're giving tonight for, after the preaching service, is to pray, lay hands on every person that's holding a prayer card tomorrow night, if we possibly can get to them all.
And then, I hope that you're built up in the most holy faith, so that when you come here to be prayed for, you'll not be coming to be touched by some certain man or something. That has nothing to do with it. It's your faith in Christ. You don't have to even come here. Just stay right where you are and you can be healed.

12 Now, that's the way... And I've ... most of my work has been overseas. And it just seems like that if those Hottentots and people there can grasp that, why can't we smart, educated people do it? When we ought to know more about the Bible than those people do. And it's because we've heard it just in one line. That's what the Pharisees turned Jesus down by; they just heard it in their own way. But they hadn't heard the truth of it.
Jesus Christ has purchased every salvation and every healing when He died at Calvary. And don't never let any man ever tell you that there's anything about him that can heal you, for he's absolutely wrong, either mentally or Scripturally. He is Scripturally wrong. And he might be nervous and upset. He might've seen... I don't say if he said he seen a angel, and the angel told him that he had power to heal the people. The angel told him something that the Bible denies, see. For "By His stripes, you were healed." Christ healed you, and there's nothing, no one else can do about it. It's your individual faith in His vicarious suffering for you at Calvary. That's as plain as I know the Gospel.

13 No man can forgive your sins. I don't care whether he's a priest, cardinal, bishop, pope, whatever he is; no man can forgive sins. The sins that you have committed, they are already forgiven. You just have to accept your pardon that Christ paid for you at Calvary. How many believes that's the Gospel? That's just it, brother. So there's no power in my hands. There's no power in any other man's hands to heal anybody. The power is in your faith in Jesus Christ. There's the power.
Now, let us approach the Scriptures and speak just for a short time. I'll watch and then if we get through in time, we'll call a few people here at the platform somewhere out of those prayer cards out there, and pray a little, and try tonight if we could get that faith to a place to where everybody can be healed, everybody at one time. I've seen it so many times, I know it can happen here, and that's what I've longed to see. May God grant it is my prayer.
See a little polio boy sitting here in front tonight, perhaps his mommy with him, two little boys with braces on. You know, if there was one power in me that would heal that little boy sitting there, just a little bigger than my little Joseph, I'd walk right down there now. That's right. But I couldn't do it. I can't do it.

14 But if the little fellow... If there's something in the family that the family's done that's caused this... Maybe it was for the glory of God. Maybe it's something that they've done. Maybe it's a sin of someone else, their grandparents. He said, He'd visit the iniquity of the children to the third and fourth generation. I don't know. But whatever that is, God can reveal that to me. That's true. But to heal them, I couldn't do it.
Here sits one of as good a friends as I ever had in my life, Brother Dawson, a minister, a Gospel minister, a man that I truly love. Each night I've stood here just watch over him every few minutes. I keep turning, looking at Brother Dawson see if it's there. I want to see it so bad. I don't know why God put him in a wheelchair. I don't question that. Surely, it's for the good. Brother Dawson was an honest man. It may be for the glory of God. I hope it's to open the eyes of Edmonton. I do. I don't know. I'm praying that God will somehow show us and tell us and help us.

15 And if you'll just all forsake your thoughts for a little bit and just get in one accord... Oh, if you'll just let every heart beat the same towards Christ tonight, you'll see the exceedingly abundantly. Now, remember that. Feast on the Word, believe with all your heart. Enter into it, get into the service, get into the worship. And don't be ashamed. Just in your heart... I don't mean you have to scream. If you feel like screaming, that's up to you.
But if you'll just... That doesn't profit too much. But if you'll just get into the worship of it. "Oh, Jesus, how lovely You really are. I never knew You so sweet." That's when you get into it. That's when God comes down and pours His blessings right over everywhere. That's when something happens.

16 In the Scriptures tonight for the reading, I wish to take a text out of Revelations the 6th chapter. I want to read a portion of the 6th chapter.
And I saw when the Lamb had opened one of the seals ... I heard as it was a noise of thunder, and one of the four beasts saying, Come and see.
And I saw, and behold a white horse: and he that sat on him had a bow; and a crown was given unto him: and he went forth conquering, and to conquer.
And my subject tonight I: The Mighty Conqueror.

17 Sometime ago I was standing where the great Constantine stood when he was going over into Rome to liberate the church. The church had been under cruel persecutions for many years. And while Constantine on his road over there, one night he was wakened out of his sleep by a dream. And in this dream, something spoke to him and told him to paint a white cross on the shields of his men and by this they would conquer.
And he arose at midnight, and got all of his men up, and painted white crosses on their shields. And by that [Gap in the audio.] to become conquerors. And if you are ever going to be a conqueror, you're going to have to come by the cross.

18 We are told that the church was progressing all the time under persecution. I crossed the river and went into Rome. And I went down to the San Angelo's catacomb. And while going through the catacombs and seeing the tombs were the bodies had been buried of the people that had died under persecution... And at the corners was little short graves. That was the babies.
And then I went over into the coliseum. There I stood there where the [Gap in the audio.] used to make the decision on whether the man was to die or not after they made them fight till death. And when they had decided that the man should die, the gladiators would hang their thumbs out over the walls and would push their thumbs down. That meant that the man must die. One had fought the other one until (Christian fighting Christian) until they would ... one would be down and they'd ask whether his life should be spared or not; they'd thumbs down, and they would kill the Christian.

19 As I stood there, my heart was moved. And I raised my hands up to God; I said, "God, be merciful. The gladiator said, 'Thumbs down,' but, I'm saying, 'Hands up, raise them up, oh, God in triumph at that last day, for You promised You would do it.'" That precious faith of the early church that was "Pure gold," said the Bible, "tried in fire."
And how they would open the pits of that great arena, sitting like that, only in the bleachers as we call it. And the great massive place down here and they would burn them to the stake. They would open the doors and traps of hungry lions and tigers. And they would rush forth on a praying bunch of Christians and just drag them from bone to bone.
And the faith of those people that stood firm... And in the midst of all that, the church growed mightily all the time.

20 And after Constantine come over and liberated them from under the Roman persecution and united the church and state together... There's where we got Catholic to begin with. And when they did, the church lost more grounds in ten years than it had gained all through the persecution.
If there's anything that makes Christians lazy, it's when they're on a flowerbed of ease. We don't have it persecution enough. We don't have it hard enough. Always the chain is the strongest at its weakest link.
And a man under pressure is what he is when he's under pressure. His real true characteristics will show when he's under pressure. Get him all riled, stirred up, then you'll see the real man come out. If he's got temper, it'll show itself. If he's meek and gentle, it'll show itself. Put him under pressure once. And God puts all His children under tests to see whether there's any flaws in them.

21 Here not long ago during the depression, it was easy to find people at a prayer meeting. But now that they can work in the defense plants, and the union gives them so much money that they hardly know what to do with, you have to almost persuade them to a meeting. They got all... The people doesn't want preaching any more. You get somebody to come up here and act the clown, and this auditorium would pack out the first night. Or somebody come up here and jingle a few things, and run up-and-down the platform, and scream a few times, turn a handspring or two... The people wants entertainment and not the Gospel.
Brother, when it comes to the place that I have to substitute something else for the Gospel, I'll close the Bible and go home. Right. When the precious blood of Jesus Christ preached in its power don't attract the people, they're dead.

22 But we got too many televisions, and too many radio programs, and entertainments. A Christian wants to be entertained by the Holy Spirit. And too much world has leaked into the church. And they have substituted entertainment instead of Gospel preaching. The old-fashioned Gospel that saved your father and mother, it's just as good tonight as it was in that day and always will be. It's still the same thrill to the Christian heart as it was to Saint Paul who sealed his testimony with his blood.
The Gospel shall never lose its power to the believer. Oh, at ease... I was in Switzerland not long ago, a few months ago. And, oh, how indifferent they were, very much indifferent. The church rose up a persecution, and the night that Billy Graham closed on Saturday night, I began the next morning on Sunday. And when I got the Sunday paper, it was a disgrace the way they made fun of that God-saved man.

23 They said, "He come out and wouldn't stay in an ordinary hotel. He had to have the best." Said, "He put one of them waves in his hair with one of these things, you know, like the women do." And he said, that "he looked like he was going to a bandbox instead of the pulpit, not a wrinkle in his clothes." And said, "He swung his hands when he was preaching like a fantastic American soap salesman." And they said, also that, "You could smell him ten feet away for perfumes."
And I knowed the reason they did it, because the Swiss people does not accept the blood of the Lord Jesus. They've got the Zwingli doctrine. And Zwingli said that, "Jesus was not the Son of God; He was the Son of Joseph, called the Son of God." That takes the whole foundation from under Christianity. He was either God or the greatest deceiver the world's ever had.

24 And Billy Graham didn't pull any punches. He preached the supreme Deity of Jesus Christ. And I knowed if he did that, woe unto me when I got up. But what is it? They haven't had any trouble. They're living at ease. But just as I crossed the line into Germany, what a difference. They had had war and trouble. Those poor Christians that cried and begged and fasted, they were ready for the Gospel. They'd had some trouble.
God may have to give us a little trouble after while, kind of bring us around to ourselves with a few atomic bombs or something. He's got a way of doing it. He certainly has, and He's no respect of nations. He didn't respect Israel, His son, when he got out of line with His Word. He sent judgment.

25 I walked into Switzerland not long ago ... or, to Sweden. I'd come out of Finland. It was like daylight from dark. Finland was war torn, and those Christians were just prayed up, spiritual. I went into Norway, the same thing. Right after the war, big bunches of little ladies downtown, their husbands all killed off, just ladies, young women walking together, widows...
But when I got into Sweden, oh, so much different. No wars for a hundred and thirty years. It takes persecution. I think of the old Irish song my mother used to sing,
Must I be carried home to heaven on
a flowery bed of ease,
While others fought to win the prize
and sailed through bloody seas?
No, I must fight if I must reign.
Increase my courage, Lord.
That's what we need: Conquerors.

26 A few months ago, I stood in Brussels, Belgium. And at the airport, I was given a little book. I seen it there in the rack. And I looked at that little book, and it was a short history of Napoleon. And how Napoleon hated the French, and how he went over there. Oh, and become in their army, and finally become the great conqueror.
And at the age of thirty-three, he had conquered the entire known world as a young man. Right out from Brussels at Waterloo, they got all the old relics reproduced again to show where he come to his end. He was at the beginning of prohibitionist. He died a wall-eyed, batty-eyed, alcoholic insane. It goes to show, though he had conquered the world, he had been a failure.

27 And how many times and too oft have we forgot the great Arnold Von Winkelried of Switzerland. Many years ago when some of the Germans went up into Switzerland, a little people that loved peace... And they had their little homes and things in the mountains and valleys in Switzerland. One day, a great invading army come into Switzerland, all well trained.
And the little Swiss army with rocks, sticks, and little old sickles, and whatever they could pick up on the farm to fight with, they gathered in the valley to meet the oncoming army. And when this little handful of Swiss, backed up against the mountain, watch coming out from the other side as their foes come on, it looked like a brick wall: Every man in perfect step, great armors and shields, great long spears, every man so polished, and trained till it looked like just a brick wall.
What was this little handful of men up beside of a such an army? And they knew they were defeated, and they knew that their houses would be burnt, their wives would be ravished, their children would be taken prisoners, all their little economy was gone.

28 And finally, a man that should never be forgotten (and he won't as long as there's a Switzerland), by the name of Arnold Von Winkelried, he stepped out in front of the little army. He said, "Men of Switzerland, this day I give my life for Switzerland. And this day, I shall conquer." He said, "Over yonder's hill is a little white home, a sweet loving wife, three little children; and I told them good-bye; and I'd be back again after while." But said, "I will never see them again on this earth, for this day I must give my life for Switzerland."
They said, "Arnold Von Winkelried, what will you do?"
And he turned towards the oncoming army; he looked it all over; he found where the darkest in the midst of the spears was. He had a stick in his hand; he threw it down. He said, "Follow me, and fight with all you've got, with what you have to fight with." And he threw away his stick, threw his hands in the air, and screamed, "Make way for liberty. Make way for liberty."

29 And as he rushed towards that great bunch of spears, a hundred shining spears reached out to pick him up; and as he plunged into them, he grabbed his arms out, a whole arm full of them, and throwed them into his chest and screamed, "Make way for liberty." And with such a display of heroism, it routed the army. And those men behind followed with their sticks and clubs, and they beat that army out of their land; and they've never had a war since.
What was it? Because one man had the zeal and the heroism about him to be a conqueror. That's been many hundred years ago, up in the Swiss Alps. Just speak his name today, and you'll see the tears running down their cheeks. They so appreciate that great mighty Arnold Von Winkelried.

30 That display of heroism has seldom been compared with and never exceeded. But oh, that was such a little thing, till one day when Adam's race had been backed into a corner. God had sent prophets; they'd killed them. Righteous men and they had stoned them... And the devil's oncoming army had Adam's race backed into a corner without hope, without God, without mercy, without anything.
Sickness, diseases, ignorance, they were just hopeless. There wasn't nothing could help them. But there was One stepped out in heaven and said, "I must go to earth, Father, and give My life for Adam's fallen race." He came to the earth, and He lived here thirty-three years. He looked the earth over, and He found out where man's greatest fear was. And it was death that was the center of it. And He run to Calvary, pressing the swords right into His own bosom, the swords of death. And He sent the Holy Spirit back on the day of Pentecost, and by this we are to conquer the world and follow Him as a hero of His blessings.

31 What a difference between Napoleon. What Napoleon failed to do at thirty-three, Christ at thirty-three had conquered. He's the mighty Conqueror. When he was thirty-three years old, Napoleon, he had conquered the world with guns, and bullets, and cannons, and swords. And what a disgrace when ten thousand prostitutes followed his army. All sin and so forth, hatred, malice, there was nothing left for him but to perish.
But Jesus, at the age of thirty-three, had conquered devils. They knew Him. They said, "We know who You are, the holy One of God. Why do You come to torment us before the time?" Knowing that they had a future punishment... He conquered sickness; at the touch of His hand, fevers departed. When He was thirty-three, He'd conquered everything.

32 A woman come to me not long ago; she said, "Mr. Branham, I do like to hear you speak," but she said, "there's one thing that you do that's wrong."
Well, I said, "My sister, I'll be very glad to straighten up anything that's wrong. That's what I'm here for." Now, she belonged to a church that does not believe in the supreme Deity of Jesus Christ. They think He's a prophet, just a man. I don't say this to hurt feelings, anyone knows it. And I don't take up for anybody's religion or condemn anybody's religion. But she was a Christian Science. And they believed in healing and so forth, but they didn't believe that Jesus was a virgin-born Son of God. They didn't accept His blood, Mary Baker and them did not believe in that.
And if you do that, it takes all the cream. That's the very lifeline of Christianity. Wished I had time to stop and go into it.

33 But she said, "Mr. Branham, you said you was a fundamentalist."
I said, "As far as I know, I believe every word the Bible says."
She said, "If I'll prove to you by your Bible that He was nothing but a man..." And said, "You make Him God."
I said, "He was God." He was a God-man.
And she said, "I can prove to you that He wasn't divine, by your Bible."
I said, "My lady, I would like to see you do it. If the Bible said He wasn't nothing but a man, then I will accept it that way."
And she said, "All right." And she referred me to Saint John 11, the 11th chapter of Saint John: "When Jesus," she said, "was going down to the grave of Lazarus," said, "the Bible said that He wept." And she said, "Mr. Branham, how could He be divine and weep?" Said, "He could not be divine and then weep."

34 I said, "Lady, you fail to see who He was. He was a man on the outside, but on the inside He was Jehovah God." I said, "He was a man when He was weeping, but when He stood by the grave of a man had been dead four days, and the skin worms was crawling through his body, and He straightened His little figure up... (The Bible said, 'There was no beauty of Him we should desire.') But when He straightened up His little body and said, 'Lazarus, come forth,' and a man had been dead four days stood on his feet and lived again; that was more than a man." That was that mighty Conqueror. That's who it was speaking out of Him.
I said, "I will go you a little better than that. He was a man when He come down off the mountain, hungry, looking around on a fig tree for something to eat. He was a man while He was hungry. But when He taken five little biscuits and two fish and fed five thousand, that was more than a man. That was God speaking through human lips."

35 It's true. He was a man that night, laying in the back of that little boat, out on that stormy sea. The little boat was tossed about like a bottle stopper. And ten thousand devils of the sea had swore they'd drown Him that night. He was tired. He was a man, tired. He was laying in the back of the boat.
But when once aroused, walked forward, put His foot on the brail of the boat, and looked up towards heaven, and said, "Peace, be still." And the winds and the waves obeyed Him. That was more than a man speaking there. That was the great mighty Conqueror. He spoke to the wind, and it went to the cave like a puppy dog in the sight of a lion. He spoke to the waves, and they folded their hands in perfect rest upon the sea bosom. He was more than a man. He was a mighty Conqueror.

36 He could conquer nature; He conquered death; He conquered the waves; He conquered the air. There He is. There's never been One like Him. Oh, I know you think I'm excited. Maybe I am, but let me alone. You may think I'm crazy, but I'm a lot happier this way than I was the other way, so I'd rather be this way. Oh, my, when I think of who He is.
Sure, He cried for mercy at the cross like a man. But on Easter morning, the Roman seal, the stone could not hold Him. He broke the seal, and rolled away the stone, and come out the mighty Conqueror. Amen. He's thrilled the heart of every poet, prophet, or every man that ever amounted to a hill of beans in this world has believed Him that way.

37 Old blind Fanny Crosby, if we could call her to the scene tonight, what do you think about Him? She was a poet. She said:
Living, He loved me; dying, He saved me;
Buried, He carried my sins far away;
Rising He justified, freely forever:
Someday, He's coming, oh, glorious day.
That was Eddie Perronet, instead of Fanny Crosby.
Fanny Crosby said:
Pass me not, O gentle Saviour,
Hear my humble cry:
While on others Thou art calling,
Do not pass me by.
Thou, the Stream of all my comfort,
More than life to me,
Whom have I on earth beside Thee?
Or whom in heaven but Thee?"
Another one said,
Living, He loved me; dying, He saved me;
Buried, He carried my sins far away;
Rising, He justified, freely forever:
Someday, He's coming, oh, glorious day.

38 The mighty Conqueror, He died as a witness to the earth, to a witness to the prophets. At thirty-three years old, He conquered the cross. He conquered the shame. He conquered every devil.
And when He was dying, Jehovah God turned His face on Him, and He died alone forsaken by God and man. In the midst of all that, He was more than a conqueror. Amen. Oh, I feel pretty religious right now. He was more than a conqueror.
In the face of every difficult, death itself and forsaken of God, He walked to the front like a conqueror, died in such a way till even the people who stood by had to witness that He was. The earth shook and took a nervous prostration. A chill run over its back for shame. And its own Creator had to drop His blood on the earth to redeem it.
The moon and stars refused to shine. The Roman centurion said, "Truly, that was the Son of God."
Pilate said, "I wash my hands from Him."
Judas Iscariot said, "I betrayed innocent blood." What was it? Everything had to recognize Him. He'd been prophesied since the garden of Eden, the woman's seed. All the prophets, everything gave...
Notice, it spoke forward to that time when the greatest Conqueror, when He would come and conquer everything that Adam lost in the fall. He would redeem it back to man. Oh, there was no king, monarch, potentate or nothing could take that place. The mighty Conqueror, Christ Jesus.

39 When He died, the Bible said that He descended into hell and preached to the souls that were in prison, that repented not in the long-suffering of the days of Noah. I can see Him after He had bowed His head and the earth had shook, I can see Him going, descending down into the regions of the lost. Knocks on the door. The doors open.
In there the tens of thousands and millions of young ladies that used to walk the street all fixed up and thought they were something, young men who failed to listen to the message, stiff-necked church members who turned their back. He said, "I am the One that Enoch said would come." God's Word said so, and God has to keep His Word.

40 "I am He that Enoch said would come. And you failed to hear My prophet." And they screamed, "Oh, mercy." But there's no mercy. The door was closed on down a past the demons that had already recognized it, into the very doors of hell. The doors opened. There stood Satan. Said, "Oh, You finally arrived, did You? I thought I had You when I had Abel killed. I thought I had that seed that was promised."
Satan's always looked for that seed. He knowed that seed would be the conqueror. "You're here in hell." But Jesus had went there because one preacher had prophesied under the Spirit and said, "I will not leave His soul in hell." He believed God's Word. "Neither will I suffer My holy One to see corruption." He knew within three days, He'd come out of the grave. (Seventy-two hours the human body corrupts.) He knowed not one cell would corrupt, 'cause God's Word said so. See how He trusted the Word?
And we call ourselves believers in Him and afraid to even rest our sickness with Him (Oh, my.), afraid to talk to our boss about Him, afraid to testify on the street, ashamed of it. What'll we do in the day of judgment?

41 Look at Him. The devil said, "Now, I've got You."
I can see Him walk over to the devil, put His hands to his face, say, "Satan, you've been in authority a long time. But I am the virgin-born Son of God. My blood's still wet on the cross. I've come down to take over." I can see Him reach on his side, and jerk off those keys of death and hell, and hang them on His own side. Satan would be pushed right back and slammed the door in his face. He took over; He conquered hell. He's going out.
Wait, there's somebody else that believed Him. Way over yonder in paradise, there's a group of believers that couldn't enter into the presence of the Father, because they went under the burnt offering: sheep, goats, sprinkling of heifer's ashes. They could not go into the presence of the Father, because animal blood would not atone for sin. It had to wait. It was just a substitute. That was a place called paradise.

42 It's getting towards break of day. I can see Him as He comes up to that door. [Brother Branham knocks on pulpit.] Sarah said, "Abraham, go open the door, see who that is." Abraham walks out, opens the door. Said, "Come here, honey, look here. Look who's standing here. That's the same One that come and eat with us that day under the oak."
About that time, I can see Daniel say, "What did you say?" Oh, he said, "There He is. That's that stone that I saw hewed out of the mountains."
Ezekiel said, "What did you say, Daniel? Oh, there He is. That's that wheel in the middle of the wheel, turning way up in the middle of the air. There He is."
Job jumped up and said, "What did you say?" He said, "That's the One that I saw. I said, 'I know my Redeemer liveth. And at the last days, He will stand upon the earth. Though the skin worms destroys this body; yet in my flesh, I will see God.' There He is. That's Him. I recognize Him."

43 The prophets and saints looked on and recognized Him. Sure, they were waiting for Him. Oh, He said, "Children, get ready. We're going out of here." Blessed be the name of the Lord. I'm so glad that my book is on ... up in heaven my name is on His register. I'm so glad that my sins are under the blood, been signed, "pardoned," by His own precious blood. I'm so glad that I know Him. I'm sure that every Christian can say, "Amen" to that. I'm so glad that one of these mornings, He'll come for us.
And I can hear Abraham say, "What did You say, Lord?"
He said, "It's almost daylight on earth. And you remember, on the third day, I'm to rise." Well, that's right.
I hear Abraham say, "Listen, Lord, can we make a little whistle-stop? Sarah and I have been wanting to look around the old land for a long time. Can we make just a little whistle stop?"
Said, "Yeah, I'm going to talk to My disciples for forty days. You can have plenty of time."

44 On Easter morning, when the sun was about ready to shine, the morning star come from the skies and rolled back the tombstones and the Bible said that many of those of saints that slept in the dust of the earth, rose and come into the city, and appeared to many.
I can see Caiaphas walking around, say, "Well, what do you think about that?" Talking to his next priest. "What do you think about that? Oh, all that rumor up there. The day getting black. What was it? Was that some magic trick or something another? What do you think about it?"
I can hear Sarah say, "Abraham, who is that?"
And Caiaphas looked around, said, "I ought to know that young man and woman somehow."
"Sarah, we're being noticed."

45 And they had a body like His own glorious body. They vanished out of sight. They walked around for about forty days. Then one day when He was standing yonder and begin to commission His disciples, "Go into all the world; preach the Gospel to every creature. These signs shall follow them that believe."
While He was talking, there comes daylight under His feet. All gravitation had let loose. Oh, you talk about a Conqueror. He conquered everything. And He begins to go up, taking with Him the Old Testament saints, on beyond the moon, beyond the stars, beyond all the spheres that we could think of. After a while, they come in the sight of the great beautiful city, Oh, in its splendor.

46 And the Old Testament saints, being led by the Lord Jesus, the mighty Conqueror ... the Old Testament saints, when they got close to that great celestial city, they said, "Lift up ye everlasting gates, and be ye lifted up, and let the King of glory come in."
And the angels behind the gate said, "Who is this King of glory?"
And the Old Testament saints said, "The Lord of hosts, mighty in battle, the great Conqueror." They pressed the button and the pearly gates swung open wide. Down through the city of Jerusalem come Jesus in the forefront with all the Old Testament saints; He led captivity captive.
He ascended on high and give gifts to men. Walked up in the presence of God, the Father, and He said, "Here they are, Father. I have overcome, and I've brought them here."
He said, "Climb up on this throne and sit down at My right hand, till I make every enemy Your footstool."

47 He's the mighty Conqueror. He rent the veil in two. There's never been a Conqueror like Him. He conquered death, hell, grave, fear, everything else, and it all lays in His blessed providence tonight. It's for you and I.
What we need today is something gallant. Men are looking for gallantry. Men are looking for somebody who can stand out in the front, somebody who'll be who they are. God, grant the day to soon come that when men will be what they claim to be. That men if... If you're a sinner, say you're sinner. Be honest about it and quit hiding behind the church, the coat of the church. "I belong to so-and-so." Shame on you. If you wasn't a Christian, confess you're not a Christian.

48 Men wants to just see some gallant display of love, that great power that God has for you that conquers.
I used to be hunt in the North Woods years ago. And, oh, how I love to hunt. My conversion never took it out of me. I just love to hunt. And I used to go up in the North Woods to hunt up there with a fellow named Burt Call, one of the best walkers I ever walked, good track man, fine hunter.
But he was the cruel-heartedest man that I ever met. Oh, he was wicked in his heart. And he used to shoot little fawns just to make me feel bad. Now, the law requires if you want a fawn, get it. But not a dozen.
I was game warden for years. I love wild animals. And I'm a conservationist. And Burt would just shoot them just to be mean. And he'd say, "Oh, you chicken-hearted preacher." He said, "Billy, you'd make a ... you're a good woodsman, but you're too chicken-hearted."
I said, "Burt, I want to be ... I want to be right in what I do." If it's hunting, or dealing, or whatever it is, I want to be a Christian.
"Oh," he said, "you're just too chicken-hearted."

49 One year I went up there, and he had invented some kind of a little old whistle. And he could put that in his mouth and go just exactly like a little baby deer crying, like a little fawn. And he'd cry like that. And I said, "Burt, you're not going to use that, are you?"
He said, "Oh, go on, get next to yourself, Billy." Said, "Well, sure I'm going to use it."
I thought, "Surely he won't do it."

50 We hunted about a half a day, hadn't seen a track. We come to a little opening. Now, deers don't come in the opening in daytime when hunting season's in, because they're afraid.
And Burt stooped down; there was a little snow there about knee deep, maybe in the drift. And so he stooped down. I wondered what he was going to do. And he went down in his pocket, and he got this little whistle. I thought, "Oh, surely, he's not. Surely, he's not going to do that." And he blowed this whistle, and it sounded just like a little baby fawn.
Well, just about forty or fifty yards from there, a great big beautiful doe (That's the mother deer.) stood up. Oh, her great graceful look, she had big veins in her face here, and her big pretty brown eyes, those great big ears. She begin looking around. She heard a baby's cry. She wouldn't have done that, now, if she hadn't of been a mother.

51 But see, the mother instinct in her made her call ... answer that baby's call, rather. And I thought, Oh, and he looked at me kindly sheepish, grinning. I turned my head. I thought, "Oh, I can't see him do it." And I looked and the deer was watching. What happened? She's listening for that baby. She was a mother, see. By nature she was a mother. Fear had no hold then. Love cast away fear.
Oh, if we could be the Christian that that deer was a mother. She made some steps. I thought, Oh, my. Burt lowered his rifle and stooped his head. I just stood still by a bush; I thought, "Oh, my, he can't do that." She walked right out in that open. She couldn't help it. Do you hear me? She couldn't help it. She was a mother. That baby was in trouble. It was her nature. She wasn't a hypocrite. She wasn't putting it on. It was her nature. She was a mother by nature.

52 And we've got to be a Christian by the same way, not a put-on, not a make-belief, but something within you. She walked out there in the open. And I heard the bolt click in that thirty-ought-six. I seen that steady arm move down that scope hair cross her heart. I thought, "Oh, my, how can you do it, Burt? Why are you so evil?" And I turned my head, and I watched that arm before I did, He was holding that sight level. I knew just in a moment he'd blow her heart plumb out of her. That real true mother looking for that baby. He'd blow her heart plumb out the other side of her shoulders.
And I thought, "Oh, I couldn't do that, Burt." I said, "Oh, God help." And I was listening to hear the hammer fall at anytime. The gun go off to spoil that beautiful display of real genuine love. And it was strange. I waited a moment; the gun never fired. I waited a little longer; still the gun never fired. And I turned to look, and the rifle was going like this. He couldn't hold it steady. He threw the rifle on the ground and great big tears running down his cheeks.

53 He grabbed me by the hand and said, "Billy, pray for me. I've had enough of it." He said, "I can't stand it any longer." What was it? The real, genuine display of real mother love and a hero conquered that bitter-hearted sinner.
Brother, this world's looking for a real hero that'll stand out and out for Christ. It'll conquer more sinners than all of our flowerly sermons or denominations ever could do it. Don't you want to be as much Christian as that doe was a mother? If you're not that tonight, while we bow our heads for a moment, think of the mighty Conqueror, who's made the way for you, broke down every shackle, done everything that He could, conquered sin, death, hell, and the grave; and begging to you tonight to come and receive Him.
While we have our heads down and the organist will give us just a little tune, I want to ask you a question.

54 If you're here without Christ tonight, if you haven't got a real genuine experience, I want to ask you. There's too many church members today. There's too many people trying to pretend to be Christians. If you're not really deeply in love in your heart, with Christ, there's no Christ there. Could you take a stand for Christ like that mother doe did for her baby? Is that kind of a love in your heart that you'd walked right in the face of death, or you can hardly testify?
Do you really want Christ in your heart like that? As God's prophet, I say to you tonight: Christ is in this building to receive you, and He's knocking at your heart's door. Won't you just receive Him just now?

55 Now, while we're all in prayer, every Christian, is there... How many is in here tonight, that would raise up your hands to God, not to me, and by that, say, "God, make me in my heart... I accept Christ, the Conqueror. I'm a sinner. I'm a pretender of Christianity. I'm just a church member. I need Christ. I can't conquer myself. I tried to quit smoking; I couldn't do it. I tried to quit lying; I couldn't do it. I tried to quit playing the part of hypocrite; I couldn't do it. But I go to church. My mother went to church. She taught me I should go; but as yet, I've never come to that place."
Certainly, you can't. He's the Conqueror, the mighty Conqueror. Will you accept His pardoning tonight? If you will, in the face of this audience, the face of almighty God, and Christ, the holy angels, will you raise your hand to Him, saying, "God be merciful to me. I need You just now. Fill my heart with that kind of a love that I will never..."
God bless you, my brother. God bless you, sister. Bless you, my brother. Bless you, sister. You, sister. You over there, brother.

56 On the main floor now, you brother, over here. Someone else, raise your hand and say, "God, be merciful to me just now." God bless you, young fellow sitting here. Someone else? God bless you, lady sitting here. Be honest. God bless you, lady. That's good.
The balcony to my right. Would you raise your hand, saying, "God, be merciful to me. Give unto me that experience that I really need. Give me that love. I've tried to quit going to picture shows." I've heard people say, "worldly pleasures..." Well, the Bible said, "If you love the world or the things of the world, the love of God's not even in you."
"Oh, but, Brother Branham, I go to church. I love the Lord, but I..." Well, wait a minute. God bless you, brother. God bless you there, brother. "I love the Lord, but I..." Oh, no. The Bible said that you do not love the Lord if you love the things of the world. Will you raise your hand and say, "God, take the world out of me then. I'll be honest. I confess that I'm a lover of the world. I stay home from prayer meetings. I love to hear Arthur Godfrey. I love to hear Elvis Presley. I love to see, Who loves Suzy, or all that kind of stuff. I've got accustomed." You're accustomed to the world.

57 "I don't want to get adjusted to this world. I want to go out of this world someday in peace with God. And I must have that kind of love to carry me through. I can't create it in myself, but One has conquered sin. He's conquered the worldly desires. And He's the mighty Conqueror tonight. And I accept Him as my propitiation for my sins. And I now hold my hands to God, saying, 'God, make me what I ought to be.'"
God bless you here, lady. And God bless you up there, and God bless you, sir. Up in the balconies here to the right again, you mean there's no one up there that doesn't want Christ? You mean you're living that perfect life with Christ? God be your Judge. If He knocks at your heart and you turn it away, you're a worse sinner than you was when you come in.

58 The balconies to the rear, would you raise your hand? Be honest. Be honest with God. The balconies to my left, would you raise your hand? God bless you, sir. That's a real manly act. God bless you over here, young fellow. God be with you. Someone else? "Remember me." God bless you, sir, right here. The Lord be with you. God bless you, little fellow, back there. God bless you, lady, sitting there. God bless you, sir, sitting here. God bless you back there, my brother. That's good. Be honest.
What will it do? God bless you back there, sir. God saw your hand. God bless you, young man. What do you do when you put up your hands? It shows that there's a supernatural Being on the inside of you has made a choice, and you've raised your hand. That defies every law of gravitation. Your hand should hang down. But when Something inside of you, a spirit that's got to live forever somewhere...
God bless you, sir. And that spirit has made a decision. God bless you, young lady. God bless you, young man. Yes. I just like to recognize them when they put their hands up. God's looking, of course He does. If I miss it, He sees it. Put up their hands and say, "Remember me in prayer, brother. I want to accept Christ. I want to be a real Christian."

59 I always said, "If I ever was a Christian, I'd really be one." Now is the time to fulfill that will. You want to be a real Christian, borned again? Just raise your hands and say, "God be merciful to me." What does it do? The decision in your heart... Your spirit has made a decision. And your body, your physical being, which gravitation holds down your hand; your spirit raises it up to your Creator. "I now accept Christ as my Saviour."
You couldn't do that if you had to, unless God knocked. "No man can come to Me except My Father draws him first. Then all that comes, I will in no wise cast out. I will give them everlasting life, raise him up at the last day." Would there be another before we pray? I just want to offer prayer tonight for you right where you are.
Now, I wonder, you that's asked for prayer, you that believe, would you stand to your feet just a moment and let us pray? Just stand right up all over the building, every one raised their hands and wants to be remembered in this prayer. God bless you. That's right. God bless you. Balconies and all, stand to your feet. That's right. Stand to your feet, everywhere, everybody that raised your hand, just stand up. You're a witness now.

60 Isn't that wonderful? What's happened? That's the greatest miracle that was ever performed when God comes to the heart and speaks. Now, I'm sure of this that there's others here should be standing. Now, while you remain standing, you that are... God said, "My Spirit will not always strive with man." Oh, as an evangelist, around the world, twenty-five years on the field, how many heart-broken stories could I tell you of people who's failed to do it. And meet me later on, them dead sometimes before you can even get to them. Screaming and crying for mercy, go out to meet God without hope, without anything. Because they fail. "My Spirit will not always strive."
Come to your feet there, sinner. You backslider, you that's impersonating a Christian, you that hasn't got that real something in your heart. No matter how good you are... Your pastor ... your name might be real bright at your church, but what is it in glory? You might have a good standing here on earth, but what is it in heaven? If it's not real, and God hasn't witnessed it by genuine love that would drive you beyond what that mother deer did, then you better stand and accept Christ. Don't be deceived; don't be deceived by joining a church. There's no church in the earth has power to save you. It's your own personal faith in Christ.

61 And if your life doesn't compare with that faith that you profess to have, then He hasn't accepted you. Will you stand now just before prayer? I'm offering to you Christ. If I shall never see you again on this earth, remember, in your dying hour this message will echo back and forth on your death bed. You remember if that... You may be laying out here on the road bleeding to death, but you'll scream, "Oh, if I could only hear that preacher once more. If I could only get to that altar. If I could only raise to my feet."
It's too late then. God said, "And your calamities will only laugh at you." You better come now while you got a chance. Just stand to your feet. If He's done so much for you come from heaven, the great Conqueror, and done what He did, how can you sit there and not raise up and accept Him as your Saviour? How can you do it?

62 The reason I'm continue talking, people's continually standing. Certainly. Stand to your feet. Be what you are. You know in your heart, you say, "Why, here my neighbor sits by me. My pastor sitting back there." But remember, your Saviour is here, too. If He's speaking to your heart, get to your feet right quick now while we have prayer. Young or old, don't make any difference. Death's no respect of persons. It comes to all. Is this it? Is this the crop of the night? If it is, you who standing on your feet, bow your head just a moment.
As a messenger from Christ, as His ambassador, I say this, that you could not have stood by yourself. God spoke to your heart. "And he that will confess Me before men, him will I confess before My Father and the holy angels." And as you stand with bowed heads, you're already saved. When you raised to your feet, God put your name on the book of life. If you really meant that from your heart, there's not enough demons in hell to ever separate you from the love of God that's in Christ.

63 I'm going to quote to you Jesus Christ's own words. "He that heareth My words (That's what I've been preaching.) and believeth on Him that sent Me has passed from death unto life, and shall never come to the judgment, but has eternal life." That's what you have. That's God's Word. As a preacher, that's all I can tell you. That's all God says.
Now, while you're standing there, I'm going to offer prayer. You pray too. In your heart, say, "Thank You, Lord, for saving me. Oh, Lord, I will be a true servant as long as I live." Those in the balconies, those on the main floors, let us pray.

64 Blessed Jesus, as the results of the gathering tonight, these many souls has come to the kingdom. You spoke to their hearts. They were honest. They seen that they were lost. They seen they could not no more save theirself than a leopard could lick the spots off of him. They were totally helpless. But somehow, that great, glorious mighty Conqueror came down and said, "Child of Mine, why are you so weary? I have overcome the world. I have the keys of death and hell. I will raise you up at the last day if you'll only believe on Me."
And they stood to their feet in a call, and the decision has been made in their heart, that from this hour they've turned their affections to You, Lord. And I give them to You as gifts of the ministry, and of the gifts of this message and the gifts of the Holy Spirit that has wooed them to Thee tonight. Thou hast promised in Thy Word, that You'd in no wise cast them out: but that You would give them eternal life and raise them up at the last day.
Now, Father, they are Yours. Keep them by Thy Holy Spirit until that day when it's all finished. And then, together, shall we live through all eternal ages. We thank Thee for them in Jesus Christ's name. Amen. [Gap in the audio.]

65 Now, as you repented sinners sit down, let somebody next to you shake hands with them, all around, everywhere, while we sing, "Blest Be the Tie That binds."
Blest be the tie that binds
Our hearts in Christian...
If there's a minister here, see some of them people out of your neighborhood, go to him now. Shake his hand, invite him over to your church. If he hasn't been baptized, take him down and baptize him. Baptize them; that's what you want to do. That's right, that's right, walk over and shake hands.
I seen a man here walk over and shake hands with Brother Dawson, an old pastor, a man just got saved, walked over and shook that minister's hand.
Blest be the tie that binds
Our hearts in Christian love;
The fellowship of kindred minds
Is like to that above.

66 Isn't this wonderful? I tell you, Christians, I love this old-fashioned scouring-out Gospel. You'll never see the day that anything will ever take its place. Oh, I just love Him. Let's sing this... How many likes old-fashioned songs? Do you like them? That's good. Organist, you do a wonderful job, brother. I appreciate you so much. I wonder if you know this song, "Peace, peace, wonderful peace coming down from the Father above." How many knows that? All right. Let's all sing it together now as get... All right.
Peace! peace! (Let's just raise up our
hands to worship God) ...ful peace,
Coming down from the Father above;
Sweep over my spirit forever, I pray,
In the fathomless billow of love.
Let's sing it quietly like this.
Peace! (Just worship now.) wonderful
peace,
Coming down from the Father above;
Sweep over my spirit forever, I pray,
In the fathomless billow of love.
[Brother Branham hums.]
Just bathe in His beauty. The message is over. Let's worship.
............the Father......
[Brother Branham hums.]

67 Just open up that callous heart now. Let Him come down, just settle over you like dew drops. After my wife had gone home, I used to wonder why did He take her? Why did He leave me and Billy? Of an evening after work, I used to go out to the graveyard. I'd sit down out there by the side of the grave against a little old tree. I looked down at the grave, and I thought, "Why did you go, dear?" I'd get real melancholy.
Used to be an old dove come sit in the bush. She started cooing sweetly. And I used to hum that song to that dove. And just something would sweep over me. I'd sit there and sing...
Peace! Peace! Wonderful peace,
Coming down from the Father above;
Sweep over our spirit forever, I pray.
In the fathomless billow of love.
Don't you want Him to meet you there that day?
When I come to the river at the ending of days.
And it seems like my friends have all gone.
There's one thought that cheers me and makes
my heart glad,
I won't have to cross Jordan alone.
That's one thing I know.

68 I remember when she was going, I said, "Are you going, Hope?"
And she said, "Yes, Billy. Honey," she said, "you've talked about it, but you don't know what it is." She said, "Oh, it's wonderful." I seen those big dark eyes look up. She said, "Preach, Billy, this message."
I said, "I will, dear." I said, "Are you really going?"
She said, "Oh, it's so wonderful." She said, "Don't let my children be drug about from pillar to post. Marry some good Christian girl that'll take care of them."
I said, "Hope, by God's grace on that morning, you stand right over there by the side of the eastern gate and when you see Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, and them coming in, go to screaming, 'Bill,' just as loud as you can. I'll have the children together. I'll meet you there."
She said, "I'll be waiting for you."

69 Well, that's been eighteen years ago. I'm still on the battlefront tonight, not a bit weary. I'm waiting. Some glorious day, I'll go. I'll preach my last sermon; I'll make my last altar call; I'll pray for the last sick person. Then I shall go to Him who loved Me when I was unlovable, who give to me something that the world could not give, who gave me a satisfaction that somehow no wooing of the world has ever been able to allure me from this blessed place. I'm so happy tonight that I'm on my way with you, you Christians. Someday we'll meet there by God's grace.
Father, be with us now. We've preached Your Word. Sinners has repented. And we've worship Thee. We love You. Now, there's sickness among us, Lord. Let this audience see that You're Christ. Let them see that You haven't forsaken. You're the same yesterday, today, and forever. Heal them, Father, tonight, for You was wounded for our transgressions; with Your stripes, we were healed. May we be able to accept it.

70 Come tonight and do something just like You did before You was crucified, before You conquered death itself, and then rose up again. When You got those from Emmaus ... or, going to Emmaus and went into the little restaurant, shut the door behind You, got over in the little corner to Yourself, You done something that no one else could ever do it, and they knew You had raised from the dead. Quickly, You vanished out of their sight. Said, "Wondered why the meeting ended so quick." But they run quickly back. Not to argue their religious views, but they knew that they had met Jesus.
May that be the same thing when we leave here tonight, we ask in Christ's name. Amen. [Gap in the audio.]

71 Your female trouble has left you. And besides that, that girl that you're praying for, your daughter with the heart trouble, if you believe, she'll get well too. And you've got adopted son that's a wayward boy, and you're praying for him to be saved, isn't that right? Then, you shall have that also. God bless you.
See the grace of God? You just act gallant once to God one time and watch what God does for you. He wants you to take His Word. Don't doubt Him; just believe Him with all your heart.

72 Number eleven hasn't come up yet. Look around. That might be somebody who can't hear. Number eleven... We'll start praying for the sick. If eleven comes in, just tell them to come on to the platform. They might be just stepped out somewhere and coming back. All right.
All right, you, sir? All right. All right, that's fine. Now, we got how many in the line? Now, we will see how it begins to move and then. Everybody be... We only need three for a witness. Is that right?
How many believes we need three for a witness? You'll be one witness. And I believe there's several things that you were asking for. If this audience, somebody out here believes God, look to Him and live, for a witness.
Here it is, the lady at the wheelchair. No, it's a man just behind her. Look like it... The man is suffering with a chest trouble. You believe, sir, that God will make you well? You do?
What did you think about it, sister, sitting next to him? You believe that God would heal you of the back trouble too and make you well? You accept it and believe it? If you do, yes. All right, raise your hands if you do. Both of you sitting there. There you are. Is three what a witness we need? Jesus Christ lives, doesn't He? You couldn't hide your life now if you had to. The Holy Spirit is here, the living Christ.

73 You sinners, awhile ago that accepted... You were sinners; you're children beloved now. You were awhile ago, you might could've doubted. Now, you're saved. Here's your living Christ right here, a Spirit in our midst here, that's doing these things that you see done. Doesn't it thrill your heart? Doesn't it do something for you?
Now, to the rest of you, you just look and live; believe with all your heart and all that is within you, and God shall grant unto you the wonderful things that you want.

74 How do you do? Now, the lady, as far as I know... All in the prayer line, are we strangers to each other, raise your hands, of the ones in the prayer line if we don't know each other. I don't know you. Raise your hands to Him. All in the audience that's strangers, raise your hands. Now, you just look this way and believe now for the next few minutes.
"If I am the truth..." The Bible says, "If there be one spiritual or a prophet among you, and if he declares something, and it doesn't come to pass, don't you listen to him, because he's false. But if does come to pass, know that I've spoke through him." Is that right? I say that Jesus Christ is alive right here now. His Spirit is right here in this building, and He's doing these things that's being done. He's doing the same things that He did when He looked over His audience, perceived their thoughts, knowed what was in their hearts. It was the same Christ. Amen.

75 We being strangers to each other, never meeting each other before, if the Holy Spirit will perform something here now before this audience the same that He did when He was... Let's see, a man and a woman would be like it was in Saint John 4, to the Samaritan woman and the Lord when they were talking. [Gap in the audio.]
Nothing to be excited. The anointing comes to you and then goes away. Now, don't be scared. Nothing here to hurt you. If anything, it's something that'll help you. If God will let me know where your trouble is, you'll accept Christ as your pardon? Is that right?
The first thing, you don't realize how close you are to death's door. Because you have heart trouble. That's right. And you have trouble with your stomach. That's right. And you have trouble with your liver, so your doctor says. That's right. Are those things true? Yes, that's right. It's your heart, because it's the nerves that's doing everything, see. There's your trouble.
You're not from the city here. You're from out of town. Mrs. Devored, if you'll believe with all your heart, you can go home and be well. You believe that now with all your heart? If you do, if you'll just raise your hand and say, "I now accept Christ as my personal healer." You'll do it?
Father, I pray for the woman that You'll encourage and increase her faith and give her deliverance in Jesus' name. Amen. God bless you now. Go, believing.

76 How do you do? Suppose we're strangers to each other also. We have never met before in life but this is our first meeting time. Man and woman again, but I perceive that you do have faith. That's right. What a different vibration there was to the person that just left. I mean by that, a wave. It's a contact of spirit life. World knows nothing of it.
If God will declare to me what your trouble is, will you accept Christ as being present, your healer? Your conscious, lady, as a believer soon as you walked up there, you was contacted right then. If that's right, raise your hand. You felt that something just swept over you, a real sweet feeling. See how I had to coax with the other patient. Not so there, it's right there. Yes. That's the difference in faith.

77 You have heart trouble, and you're extremely nervous and your nervousness is what's making your heart trouble. It's a nervous heart. You have all kinds of funny thoughts go through your mind. That's right. That's nervous. You get real nervous in the late of the evening, especially before sundown, get kind of funny feeling, lonesome, melancholy feelings. I see you drop something. Must be a dish or something. You was coming from a place where you was doing something, something you was working with.
You're not from this country. You come from the south coming this way. You're across the border. You're American. You're from Montana. Bernice Porter, that's who you are. Go home, you're well. Jesus Christ makes you well.

78 Suppose that we are strangers to each other, too. I've never met you in this life. But Jesus Christ, God's Son is present. I'm tired and weak. But when you're weak, then you're strong. Don't move, please don't. See, spirit contacts and when you move, that interrupts. Now, just sit real still a few minutes. Surely, if you listen at the message, you can listen to Christ a minute.
I see a great long distance begin to form. And it's going eastward. You're not here for yourself. You are here for a younger person, and that's your daughter. And she's in a hospital with a nervous condition, and that's a way away in a big pine country, Ontario. And she's unsaved, and you're worrying about her soul. And she's a nervous break and in the hospital, and that's what it is. God's dealing with her heart. "Thus saith the Lord."
Now, the handkerchief that you got in your hand... Now, I just want you to wipe the tears off your eyes and send it to her in Jesus' name for her healing.

79 You believe, my sister? You believe that Jesus Christ be the Son of God, and that's His presence here after all the preaching and... Well, it's a just a open ... wide open confession that He's here. I've never seen you in my life. God knows all about you.
You're extremely nervous, and you're suffering with a growth, and that growth is an goiter inside the throat, a nervous goiter is what has done it. You're not from this country. You're from a different country. You're from a place called Westminster, British Columbia. You're Mrs. Shoemaker, and your first name is Margaret. That's "thus saith the Lord." Return home and be healed in the name of the Lord Jesus.
Do you believe that Jesus Christ is present? How many Bible readers knows that that's just exactly the way He did it when He was here on earth? Be reverent just a moment.

80 Now, we don't need... Now, here's the real service. Here's where you should believe. That's what takes the life from you.
Now, you say, "Brother Branham, you mean to tell me..." Look at the back of my hands. Feels like that just every muscle in me is give away. Oh, you say, "Brother Branham..." If you're a Bible reader, you'll understand. [Gap in the audio.] Do you understand? Do you believe God will heal you of your heart trouble, make you well, and go home, and feel that God will make you healed? Do you believe it? Let me lay hands on you.
Look, sir, there's Something here that knows you; not me---Him. Jesus said, "If these signs shall follow them that believe; if they lay their hands on the sick they shall recover." Did He say that? You believe it? Then in Christ's name, be made well. Amen. Go, believe Him now.

81 A shadow of death, cancer. Did Jesus say, "These signs shall follow them that believe?" You believe that He will take that out of you and make you well? Give me your hand just a moment. With this great church of God, I pray in Jesus' name, God, for You to spare the life of this sainted woman. Let her live. This prayer I offer in Jesus' name in her behalf. Amen. God bless you, sister, go, believing now.
One day coming up Golgotha, there was an old rugged cross dragging out the bloody footprints of the Bearer. His little frail body was so weak, He couldn't go no farther; and He fell under the load of the cross. And there was a fellow by the name of Simon the Cyrene, who came up and picked the cross up, put it on his shoulder. And on that shoulder of that cross on Simon was the blood of the Lord Jesus. That was your ancient father. And here's one of His daughters here tonight with diabetes, sugar in that blood. You believe that He will take it away? God be merciful. I'm sure You understand, Lord. I ask this with all my heart in Jesus' name for her healing. Amen. God bless you, lady.

82 Kidney trouble's a bad thing. But do you believe Jesus will make you well? Blessed God, heal this my sister of this trouble. May she go tonight and be made well through Christ's name for the glory of God. Amen.
When you got up down there, of course we know your eyes are bad. That's been all your life. But you've got heart trouble, too. And it's not so much you're willing to put up with your eyes, but it's your heart is what your worried about. If that's right, raise up your hand. All right.
Lord Jesus, bless him. Doctors could make him glasses to wear, but they can't make him a heart. God, You do this for him, will You, Lord? Dwell therein in great power. I ask in Jesus' name. Amen. God bless you, my good man. Go, and may God be with you and help you.

83 Arthritis would cripple you and make you a cripple all your life. You was trying to make a decision sitting there a while ago. Finally, you thought you should come through the line, because you wanted me to lay hands on you. Come up here just a minute.
Lord God, heal our brother, and take this power of enemy away from him, I pray in Christ's name. And may this Bible, this Word that he holds in his hand, may it be a blessing to his heart to strengthen him, to know that the prayer of faith has been prayed over him. The Bible said, "It shall save the sick." Amen. Bless you, my dear brother.

84 Come. Insulin is a great thing. It'll help, but let's you and I go to Calvary tonight for a blood transfusion for this diabetes so you really get well. Will you do it with me? Dear God, bless this man, and take from him this prostate trouble, this nervous condition; take this diabetes from him. And now, by faith, we bring him in the presence of Calvary and ask for his healing in Jesus' name. Amen. God bless you, my brother.
Do you believe God will cure that back for you and make you well? You believe He will do it? Just walk off the platform, saying, "Blessed be the name of the Lord God." And He will make it. Father, in Jesus Christ's name, I pray that You'll heal our sister and make her completely whole for Your glory, we ask it in Jesus' name. Amen.
You had the same thing, so just keep walking on off the platform and praising God. Amen.

85 What about the audience? Are you ready to believe? Now, somewhere out in the audience there, look this way. Just believe. Some of you that's sick, raise your hands. Say, just in your heart, "Jesus, I love You," just raise your hand. Something another find favor with Him somewhere.
Here it is: a little woman wiping her mouth there: heart trouble and bladder trouble. You believe God will heal you, sister, and make you well, Little Rose? You believe it with all your heart? You believe God will make you well? Raise your hand to Him like this, "Thank You, Lord Jesus." Now, go home and be well. Amen.
What about it? What do you think sitting here, sir? Sinus trouble, do you believe God will make you well sitting back there? You believe it with all your heart? You can have it, too. All right, sir. Amen.
What about the lady there just behind... Got trouble with the ears. You believe God will heal you with the ear trouble? All right. Go home, be made well in Christ's name. Amen.

86 What about the next lady sitting right there that's got growths in her nose? The lady with the green hat on. Yes. You believe God will make you well, lady? If you believe it with all your heart, you can have it. Amen.
What about the lady next to her, suffering with a nervous trouble? You believe God will make you well, lady? If you do, raise your hand. Amen.
What does this audience think about Him? Do you believe that He's present? You believe the mighty Conqueror has did it for you?

87 Blessed Lord, hear the prayer of Your servants. Lay your hands over on each other. I will do all that is within me, my friends, to pray the prayer of faith for each of you. Pray now.
God, I thank Thee that Thou has made a way and has showed Your power here tonight. I'm very tired, Lord; You know my condition. I pray just now that in Jesus' name, that You'll sweep over this building. Oh, God, may the people... What more can You do, Lord? You've brought sinners to the altar. You've revealed the secrets of the heart. You've proclaimed healing over them. You've done great things.
O God, I pray that You'll bless these handkerchiefs. Somewhere across the country an old blind daddy's a waiting, a little baby laying on the bed, sick, waiting.

88 Oh, we're taught, one day that the Red Sea had Israel cornered off from the promised land. And one writer said that God looked down through that pillar of fire with angry eyes. And when the Red Sea saw Him looking through that pillar of fire, he got scared and the sea walled up. He was scared of those angered eyes of God, because they was shutting off His covenant people from their promise. And they passed over dry shod and went to the promised land.
O God, we know in the Bible that we're taught that Saint Paul took from his body handkerchiefs or aprons, and they was laid on the sick and the afflicted. Evil spirits went out of them; sickness was healed. Lord, we know we're not Saint Paul. But we know You're still the same Jesus.
And God, we pray that as these handkerchiefs lays upon the bodies of the sick, may Christ look through His own shed blood and at the faith that these people has, and may the devil get scared and leave the people, and may they pass to the good land of health and strength, as God has promised them. Bless these who are present here, these who are sick, afflicted, these with their hands on each other.

89 I ask in their behalf as standing between the living and dead, that I challenge the devil. You are nothing but a bluff, Satan. You bluffed the people, but Jesus Christ had the keys to the kingdom of heaven and give them to the church. He took the keys of death and hell away from you. He's the mighty Conqueror, and you're stripped of every thing that you ever possessed. And you're nothing but a bluff; and we're calling your hand in the faith as the vicarious Son of God who died and rose again the third day and is present right now, doing the same miracles that He did when He was here on earth. Satan, I charge thee through Jesus Christ and His blood to come out of this audience and leave every person in Jesus Christ's name.

The Mighty Conqueror

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1 Our gracious heavenly Father, we thank Thee indeed tonight for this another time, that we can gather together to worship Thee. And we would pray, Lord, that Your Spirit would bless each and every hungry heart in here. Fill them with Thy goodness and with Thy mercy in such a way, that when the meeting shall be closed, and we will depart to our homes, may we say like those from Emmaus, "Did not our hearts burn within us, as He talked to us along the way."
Save those, Lord, who are unsaved. Heal those who are sick. And bring glory to Thy name, and Christ to the earth, for we wait patiently for that great day, when such things as sickness, and death, and sorrow, and sin, will be made an end to, when our great King shall come from glory. We wait patiently for His coming.
We'd ask that the Holy Spirit, tonight, would give us an exceeding abundance of His grace. For we ask it in His name and for His glory. Amen. You may be seated.

2 This has been another day of great blessings to me. I'm just a little tired, because we have had many, many interviews today, because it was the closing time for the interviews. And I'm just a little tired. The Lord in the room gave visions today and so forth, which makes it kind of hard on me, then coming back to the meetings. If it just one meeting, it would be different, but you're from one to another to another to another, just on.
Tomorrow morning the Christian Businessmen's breakfast at the Edgewater Beach Hotel. I'm sure it's been announced. And it is my privilege, if it's the will of the Lord, to speak in the morning to this group of men and their wives and whosoever shall come to the breakfast. If the Lord willing, I want to speak in the morning on "The Treasures Of Life."

3 And then tomorrow night our good friend, God's humble servant, Brother Tommy Osborn will be here. And they'll be showing his film, which I am very anxiously waiting to see it myself. It's on his work over in Africa. And then, perhaps after his film is shown, and you'll see how God answers prayer for this great warrior, perhaps he will be ministering to the sick then tomorrow night immediately after his showing of his film.
And then Sunday morning, if you're visitors here, go to some good church. And then Sunday afternoon Brother Osborn will speak again and minister to the sick on Sunday afternoon. Sunday night it's my privilege then to close the services of this campaign. If the Lord willing, and He doesn't change my opinion, I want to speak Sunday night on "The Door In The Door." So that'll be the subject for Sunday night, if the Lord willing.

4 Now, tonight I wish to read from the book of the Revelation of the Lord Jesus, and the 6th chapter and the first two verses.
And I saw when the Lamb had opened ... the seal, and I heard, as it were a noise of thunder, and one of the four beasts saying, Come and see.
And I saw, and behold a white horse: and he that sat on him had a bow; and a crown was given unto him: and he went forth conquering, and to conquer.
I would like to take my subject just for a few moments tonight, if you will pray with me, on the subject of "The Mighty Conqueror."

5 It has been our privilege in the last few services to speak on the oncoming judgments, and also on the rapture of the church just before the tribulation period. And I solemnly believe with all my heart that the rapture will take place before the tribulation.
Now, there may be many teachers that disagree with that idea ... or, with that teaching. But I have no education, and I just study the Bible from types, and the types are shadows. And if we can see what the shadow of anything is, then we will have a general conception of what the positive looks like.
And we notice that before the flood, not one drop of water had ever fallen, until Noah and all that would be saved from the flood, was inside the ark and the doors closed. And we see that before one lump of fire could fall from the heavens on Sodom and Gomorrah, that Lot had to leave the city and be altogether out of the way of the judgment.

6 For the righteous Judge could not judge the just with the unjust, because the believer has already been judged when Christ was judged in his place. Therefore, it would be unjust for the holy God to judge them again, after He's already accepted our judgment in Christ.
And now, the subject tonight as "The Mighty Conqueror..." Man has set out since the ages began to conquer. Man likes to be a conqueror. And it is a great thing to be a conqueror. A conqueror is one who has overcome his enemy. That's the reason, I believe the Scripture says that we are more than a conqueror, for He has conquered for us.
And men in these great times when they are moving forward, when they conquer, then they usually have a great celebration afterwards. We are told that when the late Adolph Hitler had conquered France, that he took his seat at the Arch of Triumph. When hours passed by when German soldiers marched in the breast with the goose step to their great Fuhrer, and planes roared till it darkened the skies to give a salute to Adolph Hitler, because they had conquered France again.

7 But you see, it didn't last, because if a man is a conqueror, his objectives must be right and his motives must be right. And if you don't play the game fair, you're bound to lose, no matter how much conqueror you are. You have to follow the rules of the game to be a winner. And if you cheat, you're put out of the game, no matter how good a player you are.
So, Hitler never followed the rules. He wanted all the power to himself, and all the glory to himself. Therefore, his objectives was wrong. And any man that has those motives or objectives will end up just like Hitler did.

8 We are told that when the great Constantine, when he was on his road to Rome, that he had a dream one night just before he crossed over to go in to fight. And he was a little weary about how the battle would come out. But in this dream, he dreamed that he saw a white cross, and a voice said, "By this you will conquer." So, he gets his soldiers up in the middle of the night and paints on their shield a white cross. And he did conquer.
Then we think of another man. About two years ago I was standing near Waterloo in Belgium, looking over the ruins of where Napoleon was defeated. And as I stood there, someone handed me a little book. And I was reading the history of this great man, and how he first hated France, and then he became a warrior, and he conquered the world at the age of thirty-three.
And how that he... The objectives he had though... And we're told that when he was thirty-three years old, he had conquered the entire world, and sat down and wept, because there was no other place to conquer. A great fellow, but in his conquering his objectives was wrong. He wanted power to himself, and he wanted everybody to fear him. And when he was thirty-three, the whole world trembled at the thought of Napoleon.

9 We are said ... told, rather, that in this little book of his history that when mothers would go to put their little babies to bed, or they would be out of discipline, as mothers usually say, "If you don't be good, the old boogie man will get you." But instead of saying, "The old boogie man will get you," they'd say, "Napoleon will get you."
And the children feared Napoleon more than they did the boogie man, because he was such a murderer and such a bad man. And at the age of thirty-three he died, and he was first a prohibitionist and died an alcoholic, sot, drunk, because his objectives was wrong.
You can't conquer by wrong. Only right will conquer. You'll never conquer by cheating. You'll never conquer by proselyting in your church. You'll never conquer by building up one denomination above another. You'll only conquer as you let down the bars, and let the Holy Spirit come into the entire body of Christ. We will never conquer as long as we're selfish. God hates sin. And He will not let it triumph over wrong.

10 As Napoleon died at thirty-three, as a conqueror of the world, and sin had conquered him. But oh, there was another man who died at the age of thirty-three, who conquered the world, and conquered hell, and conquered death, conquered every enemy to the human race. That was our blessed Lord Jesus, the Mighty Conqueror.
He did not come to conquer for Himself. His objectives was to do the will of God who sent Him. He did not fight for Himself; He gave Himself. At the cross He said, "I could speak to My Father and straightway He would send Me legions of angels." But He come to conquer for Adam's fallen race. And the enemies, every enemy... I want you to hear that: every enemy of Adam's fallen race was conquered and put under His feet.

11 When He was here, I can see a picture of demons as they possessed a young man. And all of the military force and might, all that the law could do was to bind him in chains. And he was so strong with this demon power on him, he could break the chains asunder. There was no way to conquer him.
And the evil spirits had drove him from among mankind, that he had made his home out in the tombs. And whosoever passed by this way, he conquered them. But, oh, one day there come a little man down the road. The Bible said there was no beauty that we should desire Him, maybe a little stoop shouldered man with hair hanging down around His neck
And this demon thought, "Here is the time that I will overcome that little fellow." And they possessed the man. And out into the road they went to meet Him. And when they run to Him to conquer Him, when He raised His eyes, they changed their tune. Instead of trying to conquer Him, they said, "Thou holy One of God, why do You come to torment us before the time comes?" They knew they had met their match. The great Mighty Conqueror of heaven was standing present.

12 He wasn't physically big enough to break chains. He was not physically able to hold a man, who the demons had possessed. But in Him was the power of Almighty God who demons has to bow to. And He conquered this enemy, that Adam's race hereafter, who are bound by such a spirit, has the privilege of taking the name of this great Mighty Conqueror and casting him out.
Then I can see Him one day when He went into a sick room of His disciples, and in this room was Peter's mother-in-law, laying sick with a fever. And, of course, the doctors, maybe, could not help her. But He doesn't say a word. He just walks up and touches her hand, and sickness was conquered. He conquered sickness for Adam's race.

13 And one day when His close bosom friend had died, and he was four days journey away; by the time He got there, the skin worms was crawling through his body. And the hands that He had shook, and the shoulders that He had patted, corruption had conquered it. And death had conquered His friend.
And I can see Him standing there with His little eyes full of tears, as He looked like an ordinary man; and He spoke, "Lazarus, come forth." And corruption give back its victim, and death delivered the soul of the man, for the Mighty Conqueror was speaking to the dead and the corrupted, showing what He could do for all Adam's children. I'm so glad that He's my friend, for sometime, if Jesus tarries, that's the way we will all lay. But He's the Mighty Conqueror.

14 One night when He was passing across the sea, the great elements of the earth become disobedient. And when He was resting in the back of the little boat, and the winds came down from the skies, and begin to upset the sea, and the big waves were churning almost to the bottom, and the little boat was full of water, and it was just about the end of the road, and they woke Him up.
And He rubbed His eyes and said, "Oh, ye of little faith. Where is your faith?" In other words, "If you seen Me deliver the maniac, if you seen the fever depart, and the dead raised up, where is your faith?" And He put His foot on the brail of the boat, and He looked up towards those winds and said, "Peace." And to the churning waves He said, "Be still."
And they hushed like a baby in the arms of its mother. The winds and the waves obeyed Him. Insomuch as these apostles, bosom friends of His, said, "What manner of man is this that even the winds and the waves obey Him?"

15 At the other side of the sea was a little woman who lived near the seashore. She'd heard of His fame. She'd spent all the money that she had trying to get rid of a blood issue. And she had give it to the doctors. They had tried faithfully and hard, but there wasn't nothing they could do. The blood continually came.
And she came down to the seashore. And she crawled through the crowd some way, until she touched the border of His garment. What happened? The Mighty Conqueror was standing close, and what the disease that had defied the doctors medicine, obeyed the will of the Mighty Conqueror, and her blood issue stopped. That's Him.

16 Death had struck a home where a little girl was of twelve years old. And as He was going, the message came and said, "Don't trouble the Master, for your daughter is already dead. It's all over now."
That's the way we get sometime. We think there's no hope. But He's still the Mighty Conqueror. When all hope is gone, He's still the same.
And they thought it was over. They had embalmed her little body and laid her out on a couch. And the runner said, "Don't trouble Him, for all hopes is gone now." And as her daddy looked towards Jesus to start to sniffle to cry, oh, those precious eyes turned to Jairus and said, "Don't fear. Only believe, and thou shalt see the glory of the Lord."

17 Walked into this death chamber where nothing but the end of time could reveal the end. But the beginning and the end was standing there. And He took her by the hand and said, "Maid, rise up." And death was conquered, and she rose to her feet and lived.
The greatest enemy that man ever had was death to all men. And He went to Calvary one day, and there on the cross He, for one time for all, conquered the greatest enemy that man's ever had. He conquered death for us all. Then when He died, that did not end it. He still had to be the Mighty Conqueror.
So, the Bible said that He went and preached to the souls that were in prison, that rejected the message of Enoch, and of Noah, that we spoke about last night, and of all the others, of those in Sodom, and those who had rejected the prophets. He witnessed to them that He was the answer to every prophet's message, the Mighty Conqueror. But they had passed between death and life, the separating line and there was no hopes for them.

18 He went into the regions of the devils, demons; He scattered them. And right to the very pits of dark hell He went, still in existence. Though His body was quiet on the cross, He was still the great and Mighty Conqueror. And after nineteen hundred years has passed, He's still the Mighty Conqueror. And He will forever be the mighty conqueror.
Then when He got to the very doors of hell, if we could use a little drama here, the devil step out and say, "So I finally got You. So You've finally arrived. I tried to destroy that seed all along. I destroyed Abel. I thought I had You. When I destroyed the prophets, I thought I had You. I was sure when I got John that I got You. But now, here You are, and You're in my kingdom, and You're under my domain, and You're in my power, for You died as a sinner."
I can hear Him say, "Satan, I am the virgin born Son of God. My blood's still wet on the cross. I have met every just requirement for Adam's fallen race, and I've come down here to conquer and to take over." Amen. Reached to the devil and grabbed the keys of death and hell, and hung them on His own side, and kicked him into the pits where he belongs. Still the Mighty Conqueror.

19 He started back to the earth triumphant over death and hell, to win the victory over the grave. But as He went up along the great paths, He heard some hymns being sung, and He knew He was coming near the gates of paradise, where those who heeded the message of Noah, those who heeded the message of the prophets were waiting, because they could not go up.
There was a mist of sin over the earth. And the blood of bulls and calves and sheep could not atone for the human. Therefore they were kept in a place called paradise. There was a mist hanging over of sin. They could not ascend up, only He that come down.
And He walks to the door, and He knocks lightly at the door. Father Abraham opens up the door, and he stood spellbound. And he said, "Sarah, come here just a moment. Isn't that the same one that you baked the cakes for? Isn't that the one that sat under the oak tree that day?"
Sarah said, "That's the one that had His back turned to the tent, and He perceived my thought when I laughed at what He said."

20 He said, "Children, I've come to take you now. I've conquered that horrible thing called sin."
And just then right over behind his shoulder---Abraham's shoulder---and Sarah standing looking, I can see another head moving up. And it was perhaps an elderly like man, and he looked over the shoulder of Abraham. And he too stood spellbound. It was the prophet Daniel. He said, "That's that Stone that I saw cut out of the mountain without hands that would destroy the kingdoms of the world."
Someone come running. Who was it? It was that prophet Ezekiel. He looked over the shoulder of the prophet, and he said as he stood spellbound, "There is the wheel in the middle of the wheel that I saw turning way up in the middle of the air." Each one had seen Him in the form that they preached of Him in.
Oh, what will it be when we see Him as the Rose of Sharon, as the Lily of the valley, as the fairest of ten thousands to my soul? What will He be? Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the root and the offspring of David, the bright and the morning Star.

21 And as they went out, He conquered the grave. And then there was a great mist hanging over the earth yet, so He had to conquer that mist of sin, that mist of stench of the sins of the people. And with His own blood, His vesture dipped in blood, He conquered the atmospheres above. Blessed be His holy name.
He cut the fogs of hell from place to place, until He cut a hole through the sky that Adam's lost children could pray through to the victory. He conquered the atmospheres. He conquered sin. He conquered death. He conquered hell. And He rose triumphantly.
On beyond the moon and stars He went with the Old Testament saints. Oh, what a victorious march that must have been, with the real conqueror. After while they come in sight of that glorious city. Abraham says to Sarah, "Come here, honey." And she gets Isaac and comes along. Isaac gets Jacob. Jacob gets Joseph.
And he said, "That's that city that daddy saw, whose builder and maker is God. I walked about on the earth looking for a city to come, whose builder and maker was God, and now I'm coming near the gates." Although the great men that they were, they could not conquer it. It taken One to come down to do the conquering. Though Abraham conquered difficulties, Isaac, and Jacob, and Joseph, but there was only One who could conquer sin. That was Him, the Lord Jesus.

22 And as they seen the light from the inside the city, and the great pearly gates a shining, Jesus in the forefront, marching on. And the angels begin to ascend to the top of the buildings. And they looked coming, and the Old Testament saints cried out, "Open up, ye everlasting gates, and be ye open. And let the King of glory come in, the Mighty Conqueror."
And the angels screamed back and said, "Who is this King of glory?"
And the Old Testament saints cried out, "The Lord of hosts, mighty in battle." And the gates come open. And He placed at the gate, the old rugged cross, that every man or woman ever comes into that gate will have to bow before that cross and recognize Him as the Mighty Conqueror.
And as the angels, ten thousand times ten thousands of thousands screamed and shouted and praised the Lord, as this great mighty Warrior, He led captivity captive, and give gifts unto man. Not at the Arch of Triumph like Adolph Hitler, but in the realms of glory.

23 The angels sang and praised the morning Star as it moved down the street as the Mighty Conqueror who had conquered the sins of the world and had brought forth the righteous triumphantly. On down through the city they went, till they come to the throne. There upon the throne sat the mighty Jehovah.
And as Jesus came to the throne, He fell to His knees, and He said, "Father, I have finished that work that You gave Me to do. I've paid the debt for sin. I have the keys of both death and hell. And Your enemy is defeated. And these are those who waited patiently for this hour."
And I can see the Father, as He said, "Climb up here on My throne, My Son, and sit here until I make every enemy Your footstool." There He sits, the Mighty Conqueror.
Trusting in His Word, believing everything He says, trusting Him as my all, as my breath, as my life, as all that I have, tonight I fully surrender myself to Him both soul, body, and spirit. Looking for His second coming in glory. When I'm sad, I trust Him. When I am glad, I trust Him. When I'm sick, I trust Him. And when I'm lost, I trust Him. Whatever befalls me, I trust Him.

24 Here sometime ago up in the Adirondack mountains... A little thing comes to my mind. I've never told it in the public. My mother is a part Indian. And I love the woods, you know that. Until... My conversion never took it from me. Oh, how I love the woods and the mountains. That's my recreation.
And I was telling my wife the other day, I said, "Honey, God has helped me in everything in that I did. A fisherman, I'm a poor one, but I catch some national records in the most mysterious place that a fisherman wouldn't even go." It's the Lord. I made shots, six and seven hundred yards, altogether out of reason for any rifle, and hit as many as thirty-three straight times in a row when I'm a poor shot. It's the Lord.

25 I thought I was just a little too good a woodsman. I couldn't be lost. I'd just got married. And Billy was a little boy then; his mother had been dead about five years. And I had my wife, which is now Meda. And they were in a little lean-to. I was waiting for the ranger to come up.
And I said, "I believe I will go out and get some venison." I said, "You wait, and if the ranger comes up, we're going to hunt bear on up on Hurricane Mountain." I said, "You wait here; they'll open the cabin when they come." And we were in a little lean-to. That night had been very cold. We had to hug the little boy between us to keep him from freezing.

26 And then, I went out to get some venison. And I went down along the mountain. I thought I knew those Adirondacks, every tree. But when you get to a place where you think you know something, then you don't nothing that you ought to know. The Scripture says that.
And I went up over a few hills and down. And I noticed a big bobcat, and I was trailing him, because he was catching grouse. I thought if I could get a shot at him, I could get him. But I couldn't catch him. Then I thought I scented a bear. I hit a little ditch and went down this way into ... towards the Giants, it's called.
And while I was down there, I looked across, and I seen something moving in the bushes that looked black. Why anyone knows that a hunter, you don't shoot at objects; you know what you're shooting at. So, it could've been a man. So, I waited till he come out in the open, and it was an old buck deer. And when I'd shot the deer, I said, "Now, I told the wife I'd be back at two o'clock."

27 I started back up, and the fog begin to come down, snow and fog was coming. I started right up the little drain. I thought, "I will go up here. I know where I turned off at the right." And I walked, and I walked, and I walked, and I never did find that place. I stopped after while, and I was right back in front of my deer. I started again and come back to the deer again. Going one straight way, come back to the deer.
Now, the Indians call that, "The death walk." You're walking around, no compass, and the winds was so high then. And anyone knows that in the mountains when that fog comes down, you can hardly see your hand before you. And the only thing to do is to go in somewhere, hole up, get something to eat if you can find it, and stay there until it's over.
But I couldn't do that. I had a wife and baby in that woods. And they'd die in that storm. So I couldn't do it. And I had to try again. And after I'd gone as far as I thought I should go, I thought, "Well, I'm lost." I thought, "Wait a minute, Bill Branham. You're not lost. You just think you are. Why, sit down a minute."

28 And as I started to sit down, the snow blowing and the winds twisting, the trees laying over, I thought, "Oh, my." My wife was never out of the city in her life, 'less it was just ride out to the country and back. What would she do and know me lost in the mountains? She'd go wild. And she'd die before morning, her and my baby. Well, I said, "Oh, you're too good a woodsman to be lost. Now, you know your instinct tells you that you should go right this way, because the wind was in your face when you come up the hill, and it's got to be at your back going down the hill."
So I started like that, and something begin to speak. "I am a very present help in the time of trouble."
I said, "Now, I am getting beside myself. I think I can hear a voice speaking to me." I shook my head; I said, "Come on, boy. Just come on; you're going straight towards the way ... towards your camp. You know you are."
And I held my gun, I said, "Old gun, you've been with me now many a time. You'll help me through." Throw it on my shoulder. I was going exactly towards Canada, not knowing it.
And that voice kept speaking. "I'm the Lord. I'm a very present help in a time of trouble."
And it got deeper and deeper, until finally I stopped and set my gun against the tree. I laid my old hunting cap on the ground, and knelt down, and I said, "Lord, I'm not a woodsman. I'm a lost, miserable, wretched boy. I'm not worthy to live, but please have mercy on my wife and baby." I thought I could conquer any storm. I could conquer any woods. But I found out that I wasn't no conqueror.

29 And as I prayed, I felt real good about it. I raised up, and I said, "Now, my instinct tells me to continue straight ahead. I shall go straight ahead." And as I started to walk on, wiping the tears out of my eyes (You might not want to believe this.), but I felt the Mighty Conqueror put His hand on my shoulder.
And I stopped, startled. I thought, "I'm by myself in this woods. Who stepped from behind a tree to put their hand on my shoulder?" And I turned and looked, and there was nobody there. But as I looked backward to my right and backward, the winds cleared away, and I seen the tower on the mountain, the Hurricane tower where the ranger and I put the telephone up to that.
I was going to my death, not knowing it. But He's a very present help in a time of trouble. I turned myself to the direction, quickly before the clouds come by again. Just a little hole, and I spotted the tower. What was it? It was His mighty hands, who conquered the winds and the waves, moved back the fog to save a poor lost wretch. He still lives. He's the Mighty Conqueror.

30 I set my face towards that tower. It was all foggy again, but I had to keep a straight direction. And I walked, and I walked. It got dark. Right up that mountain, over the slides and what more, I knowed I couldn't change my direction. It got dark. Deers jumping up in front of me, and animals; I didn't pay no attention to them. I was going along and saying, "I am trusting in the Lord. I am standing on His Word."
And as I thought it had got too dark. I said, "Oh, if I could only feel that telephone wire." I knowed it crossed the mountain somewhere. I helped put it up. I thought, "If I could only feel that wire. If I could only... It's my only hope. I can't see no more. If I could only touch that wire."
And I'd just about give up hope, and after while my hand hit something, and I felt it. It was the wire. I wouldn't turn loose the wire. I took off my hat and throwed down my rifle. I wept like a baby. I knowed at the end of that telephone wire, my wife and baby waited for me. I wouldn't turn loose of that wire all the way down the mountain. I held on to it just as reverently as I could. And I was brought safely to my loved ones.

31 Brother, one day when I was lost worse than that, I heard a voice say, "I'm still the Mighty Conqueror." And He cleared away my sins, and I laid my hand on the power of Almighty God that shook me from the top of my head to the bottom of my feet. I've had my hand on that ever since. At the end of this road my Saviour waits, my loved ones wait. And someday I hope to see them.
I will hold to the road. I will hold to the wire of His glory, that leads from the cross to glory, and trust Him till I die, for He has conquered all my enemies. He's conquered my sickness. He conquered my sins. He conquered my selfishness. He conquered my ways. And today I am more than a conqueror in Christ Jesus who conquered for me.

32 If you don't know Him, now is the time to know Him, while we bow our heads just a moment for prayer. While we're waiting, and the music is getting ready, I wonder, while you're thinking of it, have you ever put your hand in His? Have you ever felt what a difference it is?
You might've shook hands with the preacher. That's all right. But have you ever touched the Conqueror's hand? Do you know Him as your Saviour, as your conqueror? He conquered your judgment. You don't have to die, nor neither do you have to go to judgment. You just put your hand on His and follow on.
If there would be a man or woman in here, boy or girl that has never did this, would you raise your hand and say by this, "Brother Branham, pray for me. I want to touch His hand."? God bless you, sir. God bless you, sir. God bless you, madam. Someone else? God bless you, lady. Some one... God bless you over there.
"I want to touch the Mighty Conqueror's hand right now." God bless you back there. Bless you here, sir. Bless you here, lady, and bless you. Bless you, brother. Bless you, my sister, you brother, you sister, you sister.

33 "I want to touch that nail scarred hand." Oh, it's a different... It's different from touching any other hand. He's the Mighty Conqueror. You can't conquer in yourself. You've got to depend on Him. Would there be another would like to touch His hand, just raise it up to Him, saying, "Lord, be merciful to me."?
Up in the balcony? God bless you up there, young lady. God bless you. God bless you. God bless you, young man. God bless you. Over to the right, God bless you, lady. God bless you, sir. Someone else raise your hand and say, "Lord, be merciful to me. I've been coming to..."
God bless you, young fellow. God bless you. "I've been coming to these meetings, Brother Branham. I've been seeing God reveal Himself, and I want Him to touch me. I want to feel His touch back, and that little shake on my heart that tells me I'm forgiven, and I can go home with Him. When that great tremendous hour comes, when His church is taken up, I want to have my hand on the wire."
God bless you over there at the wall, young lady. God bless you back there, lady, way back. God bless you, sir, back there. Some other right... God bless you here, lady. Just as we wait a few moments longer. Some thirty hands or more, I suppose, has been up, sinners calling to God for mercy.

34 Now, with your heads bowed and every Christian praying, softly let's hum this song now. If you feel led to put up your hand, do it.
....... without one plea,
But that Thy blood was shed for me,
Because Thy promise I believe,
O Lamb of God (God bless you) come!
(God bless you, sir) I come!
%#Just as I am, and waiting not
To rid my soul of one dark blot,
To Thee (the Mighty Conqueror),
whose blood can cleanse each spot,
O Lamb of God, I come! (God bless you,
young lady) I come!

35 Just another? [Brother Branham begins humming.] God bless you, sister, back there. He sees you. If you believe me to be His servant, when you raised your hands with a sincere heart, the recording angel sticks your name right on the book. "He that will come to me, I will in no wise cast out. Though your sins be like scarlet, they shall be white like snow."
Just one touch of His hand, He conquers sin. He conquers your temper. He conquers your disposition. He conquers your life. He conquers your habits. He's the Mighty Conqueror. Won't you surrender to Him tonight?
And at that day when we go in... God bless you, lady. And that day when we go in... God bless you back there, sister. We will go through, not the Arch of Triumph, but we will go under the old rugged cross, praising Him when we hear the angels singing. He will be after us one of these days.
Though the skin worms destroys this body, yet in my flesh I will see the Mighty Conqueror, for He promised me, and He cannot fail. He's the God of heaven. And He's present here now.

36 Just another before we close and pray? [Brother Branham begins humming.] God bless you over here, sir. God be merciful to you, lady. God bless you. God bless you sitting here, lady. That's right. God bless you, lady, right here, and you. That's good. [Brother Branham begins humming.]
O merciful Father, this glorious moment, if this little audience here tonight could only see what's happening. By faith I believe that the angels are waving the white flags in heaven. Mothers whose soul is under the throne is rejoicing with them; their lost child has come home. They've watched down through the lattice. They seen that hand go up.
The devil is defeated. His dark kingdom, his domain has no more power. We stand with Him, the great Mighty Conqueror. The morning Star is over us. The old rugged cross goes before us, cleansing our ways.

37 O holy God, I present these converted people back to You. And You will give them to the Son. You said, "No man can come to Me, except My Father draws him." And now, the Father has drawed them, and they've raised their hands. And, Lord Jesus, they belong to You. They're gifts from the Father, love gifts of Your grace.
Receive them into Thy kingdom, I pray, God. Give to them the baptism of the Holy Spirit. And place them out here on the battlefield under the banner of the old rugged cross, with Jesus, the Mighty Conqueror, leading and giving directions. We shall triumph at last.
Bless them, Lord. And bless those who should have raised their hands. Give them another chance, Lord, and even now in their heart, may they say, "Yes," Lord. We don't know. Thou knowest. But I pray that You'll save them anyhow. And get glory to Thyself, for we know that the time is at hand when the rewards will be given out, and the judgment of the world will come.

38 Now, Almighty God, to these newborn babies, I pray that You'll reveal Yourself tonight to them in an external way, that You'll manifest Your presence here to let them know that it's different from joining a church. It's different from quoting some creeds. It's being born in the kingdom of the King, and being a friend to the great Conqueror who has conquered their life and their sins, their temper, and their sin and disillusions. Grant it, Father. We give them to Thee now in the name of the Lord Jesus. Amen.
Oh, don't you feel real good? Something about the good old Gospel that just scours you out. I love Him, don't you? So real... You know, I believe this is going to be a wonderful night for the healing also. Now, He is the Mighty Conqueror. And just look tonight at the hands that went up.

39 Now, in the morning, just as quick as you can, get to some good church, and be baptized, and receive the Holy Spirit. That's the promise. Peter said on the day of Pentecost, "Repent, every one of you." That's what you did. "Be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost. For the promise is unto you, and to your children, and to them far off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call."
And He called you, and you're a candidate for the Holy Spirit now. And it puts you in the service of the Lord. Oh, we welcome you into the kingdom of God. We're so happy to have you as our brother and sister. God's grace rest upon you, my dear friend.

40 Now, we shall pray for the sick. And may the Lord grant His blessings to us as we pray. And now, don't forget tomorrow night now. They've made the announcements. And then tomorrow morning...
Prayer cards... You told me what you give out, but I forgot it. [Gap in the audio.]
And here we stand for the first time meeting. That's just the same picture as when Nathanael found Philip ... or, Philip found Nathanael and brought him to the Lord Jesus, and begin to tell him along the road what Jesus did. Now, I can imagine Nathanael saying, "Now, wait a minute. I don't believe that. I don't believe the man would know anything about me."
And when he walked up, Jesus looked right at him and said, "There's an Israelite in whom there's no guile."
He said, "Rabbi, when did You know this. How'd You ever know me. You've never seen me before."
He said, "Why, before Philip called you," thirty miles around the mountain, "I saw you under that tree praying."
He said, "Thou art the Son of God. You're the King of Israel."

41 Now, how many out there in the audience that hasn't got prayer cards, and you want the Lord Jesus to heal you, would you just raise up your hand? All right. That's fine. Now, the Bible said that He can be touched by the feeling of our infirmities. You touch Him and see what He says. See if He don't speak just the same as He did to the woman at the well.
Well, now, sir, just to speak with you a moment. If you were sick and I said, "Sir, are you sick?" You'd say, "Yes, sir." I'd say, "What's your trouble?" You'd say, "I have a tumor," or "I have TB," or whatever would be wrong. I'd say, "Well, you're going to get well, sir. Just go be of a good courage."
Well, perhaps you would. But that wouldn't be a miracle. That would just be a man telling you something. That wouldn't declare the supernatural. That would just be an act of faith. Is that right?

42 But now, what if the Holy Spirit... If we both men and going to stand in His presence, the Mighty Conqueror, and if the Holy Spirit will come and reveal to me... Like Jesus said, "I do nothing in Myself. And I do nothing till the Father shows Me." Then according to His own Word, which the Scriptures cannot be broken... He said Himself, "I do nothing till the Father shows Me first." How many knows the Bible said that? Saint John 5:19.
Now, His words are true, therefore He did not do one thing until God showed Him first. Then He saw a vision, like the woman at the well, and all the rest of it. He saw a vision. Now, if He will do the same thing tonight, that will show that...
And He will let me know something about you [Gap in the audio.] ... your trouble, how sick you are, what your trouble is, or what you're here for, or something that you've done, or anything that you know that I know nothing about, that would His grace, His mercy. It would be to vindicate that He's here. Would you believe it that way? You would. Will the audience believe it the same way?

43 Now, you see, both of us here. And I will look down that line of people. There's not a person that I know. Not even in the audience tonight, only Rosella sitting right here. I know her, the little girl that was healed of being an alcoholic, just the same way these people are here each night. How about it, Rosella? That's right. Told her she was an alcoholic and what sin she was in.
And I wonder if that little lady here that was a dancer... What was her name? She was a Catholic girl, I believe, then or something. And it called her. She was here the other night, so I was told, that her and her husband, I believe, and little boy. What was her name, sister? Eileen.
Eileen, are you here tonight? If you are, would you raise your hand? She was Fred Astair's dancing partner, and was mixed up in dope and everything else, and the Holy Spirit called her right out, right here at Hammond. She was gloriously converted. And now, she's on the field working for the Lord.

44 Rosella, out into the jails and everything, working for the Lord. When she come, she was a miserable, wall-eyed, wretched, drunkened-looking thing, full of dope and out of the swing holes down here in the city, with her coat opened up like this, and a bottles of whiskey poured down in it.
And the highest doctors of this city said, "There's not even a hope for her." But, oh, that Mighty Conqueror come riding by one day. Here she is tonight, a lovely, beautiful, young lady, a trophy of God's eternal grace.
What happened? Sure, medicine, Alcoholics Anonymous, nothing could cure it. But the Mighty Conqueror, who conquered every temptation, every habit, everything that the devil put on man, He conquered it, and Rosella is a testimony to it, not only her, but thousands of others like her. Just look and believe.

45 Now, if He would do that, sir, you'd know it'd have to come from a supernatural resource. So would the audience. But it'll be up to them. If you think it's of the devil, then you get a devil's reward. If you think it's God, then you get God's reward. Not me; I'm just a man like you are, the least among them. But if He will reveal it, then you be the judge. You can tell whether that's right or not. And if He knows what has been, surely, He knows what will be.
As I just look at the man, I'm not reading his mind. God in heaven, who is my solemn Judge, with my Bible over my heart, knows that I'm not reading the man's mind, not at all. I'm watching for something, for the grace of God. Peter and John said, "Look on us." That means "Give heed. Watch."

46 Jesus caught the woman as He said, "Bring me a drink." He went to looking at that lovely young woman, and begin to tell her where her sin was, after He'd talked to her awhile. That's the very same thing.
I try to preach. That's one spirit, one anointing. This is another one altogether. And to come from one to another quickly... Someday God will give me a real manager to preach again for me. Then I will have long services.

47 You're not here for your own health. You're a healthy man. But you're here for somebody else. And that's another man, one which is a relative of yours. And they're not here. They're not even in this state. They're not even in the United States. I see the country, and the city looks like it's kind of hilly. And it's across the seas. And it's Norway. I've been there. That's your brother-in-law. He has heart trouble, high blood pressure.
And I see a woman appear now. And she's a relative, a niece. And she's ... she's deaf. That's "Thus saith the Holy Spirit." That is true. Well, if He knows whatever it was, He would know the future. He was the one who said this would be done. The same one said, "As thou has believed, so be it unto you." Do you believe? Then, let us pray.
Merciful God, before these newborn babies, as they see Your great Spirit moving in the body of the church, grant, eternal God, that this man will be given the desire of his heart, as I pray for him. In the name of Jesus, Thy Son. Amen. God bless you, sir.

48 Come, lady. We are strangers to each other also, I suppose. If we are, would you just raise your hand with me? It's just to say to the audience that we don't know each other. If the blessed Lord Jesus should reveal to me what you're asking Him for, would you believe it, and accept it, and believe that He would give to you the desire of your heart?
You're also standing for someone else. That handkerchief is for it. That someone is a woman who is younger than you. It's your daughter. And she's extremely nervous, and she has something in her throat. It's a goiter in her throat. And she's in deep trouble. She's not saved. She's a sinner. Her husband is a Catholic.

49 And you've got a grandson. And that little boy looks to be about four years old, and he's demon oppressed. Those words are truth. Now, take the handkerchief and go, and don't doubt. God will reward you of your faith. Amen. The Lord bless thee, my sister.
Just only believe. Now, here is a lady I've never seen in my life. Are we strangers to each other? If you'd just raise your hand so the people would see...
What about it, little boy? You were praying, wasn't you? You want healing for your daddy. He's got a bad back, hasn't he? All right. It'll leave him. Just don't fear.
You believe? Just have faith. What did the little fellow touch? He never touched me. He touched Christ. And He's the high priest that can be felt ... or, touched by the feeling of our infirmities. The entire audience ought to be fully convinced. You've made up your mind whether you believe Him or whether you do not. You've made up your mind whether it's God or whether it isn't.

50 Let's talk to the woman here just a moment. She's up here. Yes. This woman stands here for a condition of bladder. And she's got someone else on her heart. And, oh, what a condition that person's in. That's your brother. He's in an insane place, and he's blind and going deaf. Do you accept the great conqueror just now, for his behalf? Then the Lord grant to you, my sister, the desire of your heart. I want to touch that handkerchief.
O God of heaven, deliver I pray. In Jesus' name. Amen.
Just believe. Don't doubt. Jesus said, "If thou canst believe, all things are possible to them that believe."

51 Lady, supposingly this is the first time we've ever met in life. Is that right? Would you just ... so that they'd see that it's... Don't be scared. Quit worrying. It'll be all right. Now, you're afraid something's going to come up, see. And you know what I'm talking about, lady. I won't mention it here. You're scared, but don't be afraid. It'll be all right. And that which is at stake, don't worry; it'll come out all right.
If the Lord God of heaven will reveal to me what you're praying for, will you be willing to accept it? I see that you suffer with a lady's trouble. It's a female disorder. And I see you covered up in a white sheet. Oh, it's an operation. You've just had an operation for that same trouble. And it just don't heal up. And that's what you're here for. That is true.
And then again, I see with a thing around your arm. You got low blood pressure. And you're extremely nervous. And you come from another city to this city to be prayed for. Before you come, you prayed that you would be brought into the prayer line, in a room near a bed. That's "Thus saith the Lord." And as I see you leave the city, it's Rockford, Illinois. Go back, believe, and you'll get well. God be merciful.

52 We are strangers to each other, I suppose. You've seen me at meetings. But we've never met before. Then the Lord God, if He will reveal to me what you're here for, sir, would you believe with all your heart? Now, audience, if you're ever going to believe, you believe now.
Look. Moses was given two signs to perform. And as soon as he did it once, Israel followed. They were other prophets, and they were other leaders and so forth that helped bring Israel out. And after all, it wasn't Moses; it was God, that pillar of fire that followed the children of Israel. Moses was a man. God was God, and still God.
And now, these visions, it's not visions. It's them people's faith. Visions is what happens, as the recording boys here and all's been around home know these things... This meeting coming up in Africa. That's a vision. That's when God uses His gift and shows. This, the people are doing it. You're doing this yourself. It's your own faith touching Him.

53 Reason I have to ask someone here close first, is because just look what's sitting before me, see. And there each one of you, hundred, thousands of you are making that feeling. And it's hard when they're coming, and you get weak. One vision'll hurt more than preaching two hours.
So this man here says that we are strangers to each other, and we might've been born miles apart and years apart. But the Lord knows all about him, and He knows all about me. And if the Lord will reveal to this man, to this man, what he's here for, or something about him he knows I don't know... If I don't know him and never seen him, I don't know nothing about him. But if the Lord will do that, how many will say, "Amen. I will then believe."?

54 Now, the brother and I are both standing here, that we've never seen each other or met before, and knowing nothing of each other. May the Lord grant it, sir. I just want to talk to you a minute, just to see what He would say.
I see the man as he's trying to move from a chair; he's getting up slow. It's arthritis. And then there's something wrong in his lungs. And it was caused from some sort of a stuff. It's dust, rock dust settled on the lung. Now, you see that? How many believes now? Now, more you would talk to the man, more would be done. Would you like us to talk to him a minute again, just so you see the infallible part of it?

55 Now, now, honestly until Leo here or some of them plays me back the tape, I don't know what He said, see. It wasn't me. I just go off. I see something happening, and I just say what it is, and you catch my voice. It isn't me. It's Him. He's just speaking in my voice, see. That's what it is.
Looks like you could see that. It's that woman sitting there praying, right there. She's got a growth on her ear, and praying that God will heal her. You believe that the Lord God will take the growth off your ear and make you well? If you do raise up your hand and just accept it. All right. You can have what you ask for then. What did she touch?

56 Let's talk with you again, sir. See what He would say. Yes, I can see now, it looks like a boiling something, fog. No, it's dust. Something about dust. It's settled in the lungs, the doctor has said. It's settled in the lungs.
And you're not from this city. You're from a country that's got hardwood. And it's near a river. And I see the river's a large river. It's the Ohio River. And I've been near the place. And you're near Evansville, Indiana. Though it's not in Evansville. It's a little city across the river, called Lola, Kentucky. That's where you're from. Mr. William H. Beeler, now if you want to believe the Lord and go home and be well, you can do it. Do you believe it? Go home then and be well. The Lord bless you, my brother.

57 Do you believe? You believe He would heal that diabetes and would make you well? You believe it.
That lady sitting right there, elderly lady, looking at me right through here, she's got both heart trouble and diabetes, sitting on the end of the seat right back there, looking at me. That is right, lady. Now, you can both go home and be well. Amen.
Say, by the way, lady, lay your hand on that colored lady next to you. She's suffering with stomach trouble. That's right. And the colored lady sitting next again is suffering with stomach trouble, both of them. All right. You don't have it now. The Lord makes you well.
You're afraid that arthritis will cripple you, but it won't do it if you'll believe. Will you believe? Then go and be made well. The Lord bless you. If thou canst believe. Do you believe? Every one of you? One heart, and one accord...

58 You're praying for that boy. It's a mental condition, and unsaved. Do you believe that the Lord will heal him and make him well? You do, sir? All right. He will do it. Amen. Have faith.
All right. Come, lady. One thing, you have a lady's trouble, which is just actually your age. But what you want me to pray for is heart trouble. And God will heal you if you'll believe it. Will you believe it? All right. Go, and believe.
Let me ask you something being that you don't get it just quite, you see. The Bible said, "These signs shall follow them that believe." Did you ever read that? You've desired a closer walk with God too. That's right. You've tried that since a girl. But you think that I'm a believer? Will you believe with me? Then the Bible said, "They lay hands on the sick, they shall recover."
Now, Lord, Thou art God. And I pray that You'll grant this blessing to her in Jesus' name. Amen. Go, believing.
Oh, what a beautiful time, what a glorious moment! Now, be reverent.

59 The lady sitting there, she wants healing for her eyes, sitting on the end of the seat back there, praying. That's right. The one next to you has an infected female gland, the little lady with the little bobbed hair across this a way. Doctors has said it's an infection in the female glands. If you'll believe with all your heart... Do you? If you do, raise up your hand. All right. You can have what you ask for now.
What do you think about your stomach trouble? You think it left you just then when that feeling went over you? Then go, eat. Amen. Have faith.
And when I said, "Stomach trouble," a strange thing happened. You were healed with the same thing, so you can go eat now. Make yourself...

60 Does thou believe with all your heart? Do you believe? Believe that the Lord Jesus is here to make you well, to heal you? What more could He do? Now, you do just as I say. Now, bow your head. Now, as I say this prayer, you pray it from your heart.
O God, Creator of heavens and earth (say it out loud now) Author of everlasting life, Giver of every good gift, I'm following these instructions, because I have been taught tonight that Your Son has conquered all my troubles. I accept Him as my conqueror. And I commit all myself to Him, believing that my sickness, diseases, or whatever is wrong with me will leave me. For I ask it in Jesus' name.
Now, just be real reverent. Now, you set in now. That's your prayer. Now, keep this on your mind. What is that near you? That's that Angel of the Lord.
Yes, little lady, that female trouble has left you there. All right.
Yes, sir, that prostate has left you too, sir. All right. Keep praying. Keep praying. "Lord, I just know that You're near me now. I know that You're healing me."

61 You sitting here blind with your hand up to your forehead, have faith in God. He's near you there. Don't doubt. What could happen at this moment? What could happen? If you'll just believe... Now, you just keep shut in with God. I've been to Chicago many times. Have you ever...
You never have seen anything walk to this platform but what was touched by the hand of God. No meeting at any place have you ever seen. He has never failed me. And He won't never fail me. He will either heal or tell me why He can't heal you.
Now, I'm going to pray for you and ask for you while you're anointed now, and the Angel of the Lord right by your side. Don't sit in darkness no more. The light has come. The great conqueror is here. And as I pray, believe God hears my prayer, and you shall have what you're asking for.

62 Lord, Thou who was before the world, Thou has seen every move. And I don't know one thing more You can do, Lord. You've fulfilled Your Word to the letter, gone beyond the boundaries of our imagination. You've went so far until You stricken blind millions of people who grope in darkness tonight, because they have rejected to walk in light.
But You've opened the eyes of thousands of blind too. And, O Lord, tonight may this lovely little group of people here, may they not walk in darkness any longer. May this be that great night for every one here. And as they're trying now, pressing, and pushing, let them just relax and know that You're standing by them.

63 O blessful God, I preached till I'm hoarse. I have looked and brought the people before Your presence till I'm so weak and tired I can hardly stand here. Now, Lord, if I've found grace in Your sight, do this for me, Lord. Please, God, take away all the doubts from these people's hearts, that they might know that You're standing there by their side and ready to heal them.
And may the devil of doubt flee from them, and may the Holy Ghost rush in like a mighty rushing wind, and fill every person that's standing present with divine faith. And may their little candles be dipped into the oil of the Holy Ghost, and they be healed right now. Grant it, Lord.
I commit them to You. And I rebuke the devil. In the name of Jesus, the great and Mighty Conqueror, who has conquered every sickness and every enemy of the human race, and stands tonight infallible, proving Himself the resurrected One.
Satan, you are defeated. Take your flight. In the name of Jesus Christ, come out of this audience and away from this people, that God may rule and reign in this building. Through Jesus Christ's name. Amen.
Oh, rise and shine and give God glory. His presence is in the building. His power is here to transform every sickness into health and give you the desire of your heart. Children, raise your hands and praise the mighty God who is in your midst, and blessing you tonight. Blessed be the name of the Lord.

The Mighty Conqueror

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1 Remain standing just a moment while we pray. Our gracious God, we are thankful tonight for the time and the privilege of coming together again to serve Thee. We do not know what this night will mean to us, but we are trusting in Thy grace to supply to us all that we have need of. We would ask You to be merciful to those who are so in need of salvation tonight. May they come to that fountain that's filled with blood, drawn from Emmanuel's veins. May the sick and afflicted come also to the healing waters, leaving their crutches and their stretchers and their sicknesses and their diseases at the pool tonight. Trouble the water, Lord, and give grace unto Thy people to believe Thy Word and Thy presence.
And when we leave tonight may we say like those that came from Emmaus, "Did not our hearts burn within us as He spoke to us along the road?" For we ask it in Jesus' name, Thy Son. Amen.
You may be seated.

2 The boys now have the tapes, and this will be the last night that they will be able to sell them. Anything to be sold has to be finished tonight, because we don't sell on Sunday. I have always made that a policy, that we would not sell on Sunday. All the tapes... They have some five hundred messages from sometimes when we wasn't hoarse and great healing lines.
Mr. Mercier has them back there at the stand wherever it is. I said back there. [A man speaks to Brother Branham.] At the front. And you may obtain them. They sell them real cheap.
I ordered a tape here some time ago from an evangelist and it cost around nine dollars. The boys sell theirs, I think it's for three. And they just barely make enough that they can stay out in the service with me.
This Mr. Mercier and Mr. Goad, one of them was Catholic and the other one I don't know... I don't believe you belonged to any church, Gene. And they formed themselves a little FBI to come down and find out whether those visions happened at home or not. You only see one ... you see the little side of it, here. It's home when the real visions take place. This is what you're doing here with your own faith. At home is what God does, or out somewhere when we are to ourselves, or out fishing or somewhere when we have a little time of recreation.

3 We had books, but I never wrote one, but Mr. Lindsay writes them ... or, he wrote it, rather, and Mr. Stadsklev wrote the others. But we are completely out of both. We will get some more soon.
Now tomorrow is the Sabbath, and there is fine ministers here that believe in this type of ministry. They are sponsoring, cooperating in this meeting. And they would be very happy to have you in their churches. And I say that I would that you would attend some of these good churches, tomorrow if you are here visiting. I am sure you will have a warm welcome, and perhaps, they have already took care of you.
And then tomorrow afternoon there is to be another service here at two-thirty. And then tomorrow night, the closing service at seven-thirty. We would be glad to see you again at those times, trusting and believing that tomorrow night, as always, the greatest night for healing. For it is always that great anticipation of waiting, it's either get in now, or not.

4 That usually sets up ... sometimes usually twenty times more gets healed on the last night, because they just built up and watched and waited, then they put their ... exercise their faith. Now if your church is having church tomorrow night, you're sick, just ask your pastor; I am sure he would excuse you to come if you don't get into the line or get prayed for tonight.
If there is any credit to be given to the Branham family, it's my wife. She is the one who stands between me and the public. I went down and got her today. I thought I was bashful; she is worse than I am.
I was talking to her, what I said to you last evening: after being born in 1909, I would be about twenty-five. But I believe I have to make that twenty-seven, because I've been preaching twenty-seven years and the rest of them didn't count anyhow; just those who I preached through, served the Lord.
I said to my wife, "Honey, would you walk up on the platform?"
She said, "I would faint." But I am going to ask her just to stand up just for a moment, and let you know the sweetest woman in the world, my wife, Mrs. Branham. [The congregation applauds.] Thank you. She is sure bashful. I will hear about this later on.

5 Brother Vale said, "I want to call you on the platform, Sister Branham." She said she was even scared to come to the meeting, afraid he would do it, so she waited to come with me.
Now tonight we want to read some out of the Scriptures, of the book of Revelations the 6th chapter. Just for a text, I want to read the first two verses.
And I saw and behold a Lamb opened one of the seals, and I heard ... a voice like a thunder, and one of the four beasts said, Come and see.
And I saw, and behold a white horse: and he that sat thereon was given unto him a bow; and a crown: ... and he went forth conquering, and to conquer.
I wish to take the subject for just a few moments on: The Mighty Conqueror.

6 About three years ago, Billy and I stepped off at Lisbon, Portugal, and we went up to the old slave galley. And some of the writing was in English that we could understand. So we seen there where some great hero, I could not call his name at this time, who took it. And then after the Turks had had it for several years, then along come the Spanish, and another hero come in. He took it and all was glory. The heroes and the conquerors, and the heroes and the conquerors... It has been down through the age. And the word conqueror means "one that has overcome." It's a great word, and it's a notable word.
And sometime ago, I was standing where Constantine, on his road to Rome and he was troubled about this battle that was coming up. And some of his soldiers, of course, was Christians, and the Christians was all bound down under the Roman Empire. And that night while he was asleep, the Lord must to have appeared unto him. And he dreamed that he saw a white cross. And a voice spoke to him and said, "By this you shall conquer."

7 When I first read that, it just thrilled my soul. "By this ye shall conquer." And he roused up all of his soldiers at twelve o'clock at night, and had them to paint white crosses on their shields, for it was by the cross that they were going to conquer. And they did.
And then about three years ago, it was my privilege to be in Belgium. I had stopped there for a little while at Brussels, just not far from Waterloo.
And there I picked up a little book, and I was reading of Napoleon, of what a great warrior he was. And really he wasn't a Frenchman. He despised French to begin with, but he come over to get even with them, and then become a great soldier and a conqueror.
And just a few miles from where I was standing was part of the old relics. And I read of his life, that how he longed and desired to do something great. And he went by the signs of the moon and the stars. And when he was a young man, he was a prohibitionist.

8 And at the age of thirty-three he had conquered the world. And because there was no more for him to conquer, he sat down and wept. No one else to whip. He had done whipped the world. And he had conquered the people until you could even call his name and the people would faint.
He was so feared until when the mothers would go to put their babies to bed at night, instead of saying, "If you don't be good, the old boogie man is going to get you," they would say, "If you don't be good, Napoleon is going to get you." They'd duck their little heads under the cover right quick. He wanted everybody to be afraid of him. But such as that, and fear, will never conquer the right thing.

9 I'm thinking of a great hero that's too often forgot about in our readers. Many of you men and women about my age will be able to remember him. It happened in Switzerland many years ago.
Switzerland was some Germans that went up there in the mountains. They didn't want any war. They just went up to be a peace-loving people. And they are still a peace-loving people.
And one day when the aliens come in, and were going to take their land from them, the Swiss left their homes and come down into the valleys to meet their oncoming army.
And oh, it must have been one pitiful sight that day to see a handful of little Swiss backed up against the mountain with clubs, and sticks, and rocks, and old scythe blades to fight with.
And coming to meet them come an army so great that it was so perfectly trained till it looked like bricks in a wall. Every man fully covered by armor, great long trained spears in the front of them, every man perfectly in step.

10 And here the little Swiss stood not knowing what to do. And finally there was a young fellow stepped out by the name of Arnold von Winkelried. And he said, "Men of Switzerland, this day I am going to give my life for my nation." He said, "This morning over across the mountain, I kissed my wife good-bye and my three little children for the last time. I will never see them again." And he said, "I want you all to look after them, but this day I must give my life for Switzerland."
They said, "Arnold von Winkelried, what will you do?"
He said, "You just follow me and fight with all you've got."
And he looked around until he found the very deepest spot of the spears. And he raised his arms towards heaven, and screamed to the top of his voice, "Make way for liberty." And he started running. And he screamed again, "Make way for liberty."
And as he rushed towards the army with his hands up, and his open bosom to the spears, more than a hundred spears reached for him. And he grabbed them with his arms and throwed them into his bosom. And there died with those spears in his bosom.
Such a gallant display of heroism routed the aliens. And they went to pieces. And the Swiss run in with their clubs and sticks, and beat the army out of the nation, and they've never had a war since.
It was a real victory. A real conquer. It seldom ever compared and never exceeded such a display of heroism.

11 And today, when men love to talk about heroes, and how they like to worship heroes. And we appreciate that, but, oh, brother, there never was a hero like the Lord Jesus.
One day when Adam's race stood in the corner, backed up by the powers of the devil, all great units of spiritualism, and all kinds of isms had Adam's race in the corner. Sicknesses, diseases, and every enemy of the human race had Adam's race backed into the corner.
But there was one who spoke in Heaven and said, "I'm going down to the earth to give my life for Adam's race." And he came to the earth, and he found where the deepest of the spears was: Death. There he rushed and grabbed the spear of death into his precious heart at Calvary. He conquered death.

12 And when he went back up into Glory, he sent down the baptism of the Holy Spirit to his subjects, and said, "Take this and fight with all your strength."
Oh, brethren, what man tries to pick up something else, let's take what Christ sent us and fight with everything that's in us. We don't have to be trained men. We don't have to be trained people. We have to be willing people. God wants willing workers.
Napoleon at the age of thirty-three had sat down and cried, and was a alcoholic, defeated, and look where his kingdom went. But Jesus at the age of thirty-three had conquered death, hell, and the grave. Oh, He was the mighty conqueror. When he was here on earth, sickness faced Adam's race.
And one day immediately after His ministry had started, He came into the house of Simon Peter. And his mother-in-law laid sick with a fever. He just merely touched her hand, and the mighty conqueror had conquered that fever and it left her.

13 One day a group of devils met him in a man by the name of Legion. And they had been used to overcoming everybody, till no one could even pass their way. They would go out, and so posses this poor man, until he would beat and break chains in two. And the law could not do nothing with him. And when those devils come on him, he could even break chains, because that the devil give him that kind of a power.
I wonder tonight, you in the cots and in the wheelchair, if a man so anointed by the devil has three or four times his own human power, what could a man do anointed with the Holy Ghost? He could throw bedcloths, wheelchairs, and get going for the glory of God if the anointing of the Spirit of the living God comes on him.
And this Legion that would possess that man... Do you say then, "Brother Branham, is there legions that come to the righteous?" The Bible said that, "The angels of God are encamped about those who love Him."

14 One day down at Dothan, an old prophet was down there by the name of Elisha. And Gehazi, his servant, woke up one morning and the whole Syrian army was around him. And he said, "My father, we are encamped around, the whole Syrian army." And that old prophet wakened up just as cool as he could be looking around over the great tens of thousands of soldiers. And he said, "Why, there is more with us than there is with them." And the young fellow could not understand that.
He said, "God open this boy's eyes that he can see." And when God opened his eyes, the mountains was on fire ... or, the chariots of fire around that old prophet.
And the Spirit of the Lord God is in this building tonight to set free and give liberty. For the mighty conqueror has paid the price, and men are at liberty to be healed and to be set free. Oh, how precious His Word is to us. Devils was conquered. Sickness was conquered.
One night on a storming ocean when all hopes was gone, and the little boat was about to sink, and the disciples saw Jesus coming walking on the water. And they got scared, because they thought He was a spirit. Isn't that just like people today? He was the only thing that could help them. It was their only hope. And yet they were afraid of Him.

15 And today---oh, listen to me---the only hope there is today is the thing that people are afraid of. That's an old time Saint Paul's revival, and the Bible Holy Ghost back again. Don't think it will make you misbehave yourself. That's the devil's business to keep you afraid of Christ. But it's the only salvation left for any nation, is the Lord Jesus and the power of His resurrection. But people are afraid of it.
But did you notice, no matter how much they were praying, how well they were organized to pull their boat, how well they could set their sail, for they were sailors and fishermen, but when the mighty conqueror stepped into the boat, the winds and the waves ceased immediately.

16 Something changes when He comes in. You are never the same again when He comes in. You never felt anything that will take its place. No pleasures of the world or nothing can ever take the place of the mighty conqueror.
I believe Alcoholics Anonymous is all right. But it will never take the place of Jesus Christ. I believe doctors and hospitals are fine. Medicine is all right. But it will never take the place of Jesus Christ. I believe churches and denominations are all right, but it will never take the place of the baptism of the Holy Ghost. It just can't do it. There's nothing in it to do it with, for men has united in their own power. It takes the blessed Holy Spirit to do it.

17 When He was on earth, He was a great conqueror. And then He conquered something else. That was the cross. And the cross was death. It was a symbol of public execution. And there He goes. Let's take a look at Him just a moment. And oh, you, my friend, tonight. You who are standing till your feet's hurting. You who have been sitting in here for hours. Let's take a look.
There He goes up Golgotha. There's a noise in the street. I can hear some of them say, "There goes that religious fanatic. There goes the one who broke up our churches." Listen at them. And I can see Him as He's going up the hill. And His little old pale face all swollen, gobs of mockery spit hanging from His beard. A crown of thorns has been placed on His head, and blood, and hot tears of sorrow drips off His cheek.
Isn't that some way to conquer?

18 Men and women are not willing to suffer to conquer. But it's only suffering that you can conquer by.
There He goes. Every time the cross hits the old cobblestone, His little shoulders were hurting. And I notice His robe has little red spots all over it. And further up the hill He goes, those little spots get bigger, bigger. After awhile they all come to one great big bloody splotch. And His robe's beating against His legs. And the bee of death has begin to hum around him. The sting of death He must taste. And when that bee begin to hum around Him, He knew that death laid just ahead of Him. But He must conquer. That was the purpose He was born for was to conquer. Not with an atomic bomb, but with a sacrificed life to Jehovah God.
On up the hill He goes, and the bee gets humming louder and louder. And finally it sinks its stinger in the most precious flesh that ever lived on earth. He was God. Listen, friends. When a bee or an insect that's got a stinger ... if that bee ever stings right deep, it pulls it's stinger out, and it can't sting any more.

19 And that's why God was made flesh. Jesus Christ was more than a prophet. He was God manifested in the flesh, and the sting of death rested in His flesh, and He pulled the sting out of death at Calvary. Death has no stinger no more for a believer. For the mighty conqueror conquered death at Calvary.
One, thirty-some-odd years later, coming to his death, on the mark He said, "Oh, Death, where is your sting?" Where is your stinger at? He took the stinger out of death. He conquered the stinger at Calvary. Blessed be His holy Name. He took the sting of death for you and I. In His death that in our death it cannot sting us any more.
Oh, he can buzz and cut up a big fuss, but he's got no stinger. His stinger: I can point to Calvary and say, "There's where your stinger was conquered in the flesh of the Lord Jesus." Oh, I love Him! There He conquered death. He wasn't finished.
They pulled His little body with a stinger in it, and laid it in Joseph's grave. But the Bible said that His soul descended into hell. He still had to conquer. And He went and preached to the souls that were in prison, that repented not in the days of Noah.

20 Let's you and I follow Him for a few minutes. Now you get a view of what He was. We see Him at Calvary conquer death. Here goes His soul down into the regions of the lost, to men and women. He opens the door of that black prison, and there was beautiful young ladies who'd danced themselves into the place. There were preachers in there that turned down the message of God. There were church members, atheists, Gentile, and Jew, all in that prison, that refused to hear a righteous man's message.
And I can see Him as He knocks at the door, and He said, "I am He, that Enoch spoke of, and said that I would come. I am the virgin born Son of God. I've just died on the earth, and I have to witness to you that I'm the fulfilling of that Word."

21 No mercy could be granted and the doors were shut. His soul descends on to the very bottomless pit of hell. And there comes a rap on the door. And the devil opens the door. And he said, "Oh, there You are. I thought I had got You when I had Abel slain. I was sure I got you when I got the prophets. And when I got John's head cut off, I was almost positive. But finally You've arrived."
I can hear Him say, "Satan, you've made your last bluff. I'm the conqueror. My blood is still hot on Calvary's cross. You're not going to bluff it any more. I've come down to say, 'I've paid the price for their sins and their sicknesses. For the prophet said I would be wounded for their transgressions, and with My stripes they'd be healed. I've come to tell you that you've lost the battle. The debt has been paid.'" Take the keys of death and hell off of his side and kick him back into the furnace where he belongs.

22 There's some one else waiting. There's a place called Paradise where some more people were. And they were people who died under good faith. They loved God, but they couldn't go to the presence of God because it was under the sacrifice of an animal. And animal blood could not atone for human blood.
Do you see, that when life is formed, it's a spirit in the blood cells. And when the worshipper offered the blood of the lamb, and that cell was broke, it was just only acting in the place of the real. Then when the worshipper put his hands upon the little lamb, and its throat was cut, and his hands was bathed red, as the little lamb kicked, dying, finally straightened out and was gone; the worshipper went right back out with the same desires to commit adultery, lie, steal, that he ever had. Why? The blood cell, when it was broke... The life in the blood cell was an animal's life. It could not come back to human life.
But when the Son of God, when that blood cell was broke, the Holy Spirit that was in Him comes back upon the worshipper and there is no more conscience of sin. He is perfectly cleansed and set free.
And He said, "Satan, I've overcome."

23 On up He goes to Paradise. Let's watch Him a moment. He has got to conquer Paradise. Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, they're wandering around in Paradise. And after awhile a strange rap comes on the door. Abraham opens up the door, and he stands amazed.
He said, "Sarah, come here just a moment. Do you know who that is standing there?"
Why, she said, "Abraham, my lord, that's that same man that come up to the tent that day, that had His back turned to me, and I laughed in my heart, and He turned around and told me that I laughed."
Oh, my! Just about that time the curiosity of Daniel couldn't stand it any longer. He ran forward. He looked over Sarah's shoulder. He said, "There is that stone that I saw cut out of a mountain without hands."

24 Ezekiel couldn't stand it any longer. He said, "What's going on, brethren?" And he looked over Daniel's shoulder. He said, "Brethren, there's that wheel in the middle of the wheel that I saw turning way up in the middle of the air."
He said, "I've conquered." That's God. "The next conquer, and I've got to conquer it, is the grave. Come go with me children."
I can hear Abraham say, "Can we make a little whistle stop?"
"Yes, I'm going to just talk with My disciples for forty days."
On Easter morning He conquered the Roman seal. He conquered Joseph's grave. He broke forth the seal, and destroyed corruption, and rose triumphantly.

25 Here He goes up in the air with His disciples, with the Old Testament saints. Goes on beyond the moon, beyond the stars, beyond the spheres, and the spheres. And after awhile they come in sight of the city. What do you think took place?
Let's look in the Bible and see what took place. I'm going to quote David's prophecy. The Old Testament saints, when they seen the city in sight, and Jesus at the head of the army marching on, the Old Testament saints screamed out, "Lift up ye everlasting gates, and be ye lifted up, and let the King of Glory come in." And all the angels begin to gather on the top of the buildings.
You know, they said, when Nero had conquered a city, that the people fainted and screamed and called him a god. When Adolf Hitler went into France, he stood at the Arch of Triumph, and for hours the whole sky was dark with airplanes, and goose-stepping soldiers.
And when Stalin come into Germany after Russia had won, how the tens of thousands of Russian soldiers crossing their legs and giving the victory salute, as Stalin stood for hours. Oh, it must have been a great thing.

26 I talked not long ago to a soldier. He said, "Billy, after I had been fighting so long, and when our ship sailed into the New York harbor," said, "I'd been overseas for four years. All I'd seen had been hell and death." He said, "Some of the soldiers was crippled. Some with no legs, some with no arms. They rolled us all up on the deck."
He said, "When I seen the Statue of Liberty standing there, and I knowed I was going under her arm... Just behind there was everything that was dear to me: my mama, my father, my wife, my children." He said, "Soldiers fell on the deck weeping."
And if it will make a man, out of four years of battle act like that to come back home, what will it be when we go under the old rugged cross, when the last battle is fought and we've conquered. Oh, what a time it will be.

27 And as they hollered back to them, "Who is this King of glory?" And the Old Testament saints screamed, "The Lord of hosts, mighty in battle." You know the Scriptures. The great angel, Gabriel, must have pressed the button. Those great big doors folded back, right under the arch of the old rugged cross. When Jesus and the soldiers of the Old Testament, right down through the streets of Jerusalem they went with Angels, singing and screaming. What a welcome home. Right down to the great white throne. And He said, "Father, these are those that believed on You. I've conquered both death, hell, and the grave."
And I can hear the Father say ... said, "Sit on My throne, here, Son, until I made the last enemy Thy footstool." And Jesus climbed up at the right hand of the God of heaven, and His throne on high. There He stands tonight. A few hours ago...
Lo, behold the Man of sorrow,
Lo, and behold Him in plain view,
But here He stands, the Mighty
Conqueror;
Since He rent the veil in two.

28 He pulled back the curtain so that we could look past the curtain of time. He pulled back every bluff the devil had, fully paid the price. And tonight He's the conqueror. And the Bible said that, "We are more than conquerors through Him who loved us."
So, every Christian in here tonight has the thing under control. We've conquered sin, we've conquered death, we've conquered hell, we've conquered the grave, we've conquered sickness, because Jesus is our mighty conqueror.
This Word is a pardon. This Word was written for a pardon. To know that He is a mighty conqueror, is a pardon to each one of you, if you receive it as a pardon.
Some time ago, there was a man going to be shot. He had committed a crime---a military---and he was sentenced to die. And some good friend went to Abraham Lincoln which was President of the United States at the time. And he begged for mercy for his friend.
And Mr. Lincoln, being rather in a hurry, he grabbed up a piece of paper and a quill. And he wrote, "I, Abraham Lincoln, pardon this man." And the man thanked him and rushed back to the prison.

29 He said, "Oh, I don't believe that. That don't look just right. It should come in some great classical thing. It should come with great gold seals on it. I don't believe it's a pardon." And he could not persuade him to believe it. He could not believe it.
And the next morning he died under a firing squad. And then here's a dead man and the President's name signed on a paper the day before, that he was pardoned. That was tried in Federal Court. And here was the decision: a pardon is not a pardon, unless it be received as a pardon.
And the Holy Spirit---it may not come in classical places, it may not come through great denominations, it may not come through well trained and polished preachers---but it's a pardon. It's salvation that's freedom from sin. It's a ticket to Heaven. It's healing for the sick to those who will receive it as a pardon.

30 Now if you've never did that, I want you to think of it for the next few moments while we bow our heads reverently in the presence of God.
Have you, my bewildered friends... Have you never tasted the Lord's goodness to you? Do you not know that it is nothing you can do in yourself? If salvation come by works, then Jesus died in vain.
You may belong to the finest church there is in Ohio, and still be just as far away from God as that drunk laying across the floor in a bar room---just a religious sinner. And what is the word "sin?" Unbelief. "He that believeth not is condemned already."

31 You might stand right in the face of the Holy Spirit, and say, "It's a bunch of holy-rollers. Oh, if it was anything of God, it would come through the Catholic, or the Presbyterian, or the Methodist, or the Baptist, or some great denomination."
All right. It's a pardon and healing for you if you want to believe it. It's sent by God, the Father. And Satan has been stripped of every power that he ever had. It all belongs to you tonight. Won't you receive it?
Now we have not room here for an altar call, but I would like to know in your hearts, with every head bowed, and every eye, closed. While Christians are praying, you who know that you're not right with God, would you raise your hand to God? By doing so saying, "God, be merciful to me. I now want You to pardon me. And I accept You as the conqueror of my own life, my sins and my disobedience."

32 God bless you, young lady. Bless you, young fellow. God bless you back there, sir. Any more on the bottom floor? Way back, yes, many of you back there, eight or ten hands. Over here to the left. Yes, God bless you here, sir. You over here. Way back in the back again. Yes. To the balcony ... the first balcony to my left.
How many in there would say, "Brother Branham, I know I'm wrong. Why, I still love the world just as much as I ever did. I still love the things of the world." Then the Bible said my friend, "The love of God is not even in you."
"But, Brother Branham, I belong to a church." That doesn't matter. Satan did too. The greatest church that there was.
Judas belonged to a real organization, a real church. He was the treasurer in the church of the Lord Jesus Christ. But his heart wasn't right with God. Why didn't he confess his sin? Because Satan had him overcome.

33 Are you in that fix tonight, my decrepit, friend? Would you just raise up your hand and say, "God be merciful to me." Balcony to my left. God bless you. Way up high on the top balcony. God bless you. All along there. That's right. Just raise up your hands see what a difference. It's God speaking to you. Don't turn His Spirit away. God bless you. That's right. Some thirty or forty up there.
The balconies to the back. Both lower and upper balconies. Would you just raise your hands, while everybody is praying. Say, "God be merciful." God bless you. That's right. Way up high. That's right. God sees your hand. Way back there in the shadows even.
All right, balconies to the right here. Both upper and lower. Would you raise your hands and say, "God be merciful." God bless you, right up here. That's right. God bless you over here---all up and down the row there. "I know I'm not right, Brother Branham, and God knows my heart. I'm not right, so I'm asking God to be merciful to me."

34 Standing in the vestibules and out in the aisles back in the back, would you raise your hands, and say... God bless you that's good. That's right. Way outside. God will see you even on the outside the building. He will see you. It's not necessary that I do, but He will.
"I now accept my pardon." You say, "Brother Branham, what good does it do me to hold up my hand?" Oh, my friend. This religion of the Lord Jesus has been taken too slightly. If you really meant that from your heart, you've passed right now from death to life.
Let me quote to you the Scriptures. Jesus said, "He that heareth My words, and believeth on Him that sent Me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into the judgment; but has passed from death unto life." That's what it means.

35 Would there be some more would just raise your hands? God bless you, sir. God bless you. That's good. Yes, someone that hasn't yet. God bless you up there at the balcony again. That's good. "Be merciful to me, God. I now accept Christ. He's the conqueror. I can't do it. I got habits and things I can't overcome, but I'm expecting Him to do it for me now." He will do it. Just give Him a chance. Will you raise your hand? God bless you way back ... that's right. One...
[Gap in the audio.] How many in here that's really, you have received Christ as your personal Saviour, but you have never yet been able to overcome the flesh. Would you raise your hand, say, "God, be merciful to me." That's right. God bless you. Oh, yes! Groups of hands everywhere. God will see every one. If He knows the sparrow that falls in the sea, how much more does He know you're raising your hand.
How many that has not received the Holy Spirit, as yet, and would like to receive it tonight? Would you raise your hands and say, "God be merciful to me." Yes. Hundreds everywhere. Now let us pray.

36 Merciful God, I now bring to You in the presence of the angels of God and this company, literally thousands of hands that's needy tonight, many of them accepting Christ for their first time. Many of those who have joined church, but never have been able to overcome or crucify the flesh, and needing the baptism of the Spirit. Many are here.
I pray, God, that You will supply every thing they have need of. I am just your servant, and I commit them to Thee now, Lord. You know them everyone. Forgive them of their sins. Fill them with Thy Spirit.
And now may their precious eyes be opened to behold the man of sorrow. Behold Him in plain view. Now He is the mighty conqueror. He has conquered the ages. He has conquered death and still alive, and will be forever. May they see Him in the power of His resurrection standing there glorious in His Majesty as He did in Galilee. May He perform and do the things that He did many years ago.

37 Oh, Lord God, Creator of heavens and earth, author of eternal life, and giver of every good gift, send to us, tonight as this dying age and this dying nation, just as a few more breath left, give to these children tonight the bread of life that they might see that You still live, and are still the mighty conqueror. Grant it Lord.
And now they are firstfruits of the message, and You give them to Your Son as love gifts. No man can pluck them from Your hand. May they find a good church, be baptized in Christian baptism, and then may they live faithfully to You, until they face You yonder at the great Coming of Christ. Grant it, Father, they are Yours now. In the name of Your Son, the Lord Jesus. Amen.
I love Him ... (Raise it up.)
I love Him, I love Him
Because He first loved me
And purchased my salvation
On Calvary's tree.
Oh, don't that just do something to you? Let's do it again and raise our hands. Everyone now. Everybody.
I love Him, I love Him
Because He first loved me
And purchased my salvation
On Calvary's tree.
With our heads bowed now, altogether on the model prayer:
Our Father who art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name.
Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done on earth, as it is in heaven.
Give us this day our daily bread.
And forgive us of our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us.
And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil: For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever. Amen.

38 [Gap in the audio] ... I AM, that Pillar of Fire that was in the burning bush. And if He comes from that and returned to that, come from God manifested in flesh to conquer death in the flesh, then He returned back to God, He'd be back a Pillar of Fire. How many knows that? Has it been proven by the Bible?
When Paul was on his road to Damascus, what was it put his eyes out? A Light that shined like the sun at its strength How many knows that? And Paul didn't know Who it was; he said, "Who are You?"
What'd He say? "I'm Jesus." That right? Then He is the same yesterday, today, and forever. "How do you know, Brother Branham, you could be so sure of that?" If that would be the Spirit, which we know it is, (It is to me.)... If that is a Spirit, it'll produce the life of Christ. If it doesn't, then it isn't the life of Christ. Makes Jesus the same yesterday, today, and... How many knows that Jesus said, "I do nothing till the Father shows Me first"?

39 Come, lady. Now, you out there in the audience who doesn't have a prayer card, will you pray just now and believe? How many out there knows that the Bible said (the New Testament), that Jesus Christ is a High Priest that can be touched by the feeling of our infirmities? All right. If He did that, and He's the same yesterday, today, and forever. When He did that (See?), a woman touched His garment, and He turned around and said, "Who (question)-- Who touched Me?" And no one said anything. But Jesus found her and told her trouble, and said her faith had saved her. Is that right? He's the same today: a High Priest. He has to act the same if He is the same. Then you pray. All you out there set still and be reverent.
Now, here's a little woman about the age of my mother, I suppose. And as far as I know, I've never seen this little lady in my life. Are we strangers to each other, lady? We are. We are strangers.
Now, this is a picture again of Saint John 4: man and a woman meeting for the first time. Now, if this Bible is the Word of God that says, "Jesus is the same yesterday, today, and forever," He said, "The things that I do shall you also." And He declared Hisself to the Jews by telling Philip where Nathanael was--or Nathanael, where he was under a tree when Philip called him. He declared it to Peter by knowing who he was, and what his name was, and what his father's name was. He declared it to the woman at the well by telling her (She was a Samaritan.)-- by telling her that she had five husbands. And she went into the city and said, "Isn't this the--the Messiah, the Christ?" But He never did it to a Gentile, never once. Why? The Gentile's cup of iniquity wasn't filled up yet. Now it's the Gentile's time.
If He made Hisself known to both Jew and Samaritan in that manner, He'll have to do the same to the Gentile or He isn't the same. Now remember, then that's in the Presence of Christ. Be reverent, pray. God bless you now.
Now, you in the prayer line here, each one of you that's a stranger to me, raise up your hand that I don't know you--in the prayer line. All right. And out through there just be in prayer. Be believing.

40 Heavenly Father, the rest of the service, now, will have to be carried by Your divine power. Your servant can say nothing within himself, but I'm depending on Your Spirit, Lord, as these people has received it tonight. These young babies here, just born in the kingdom, dozens of them, let them know that Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God and You're not dead. You conquered death. You're the Mighty Conqueror that still stands in our midst: the same yesterday, today, and forever. No kingdom, no Caesar, no Hitler, no Napoleon, none of them can stand. They conquered by the way of--of sin, and they died and perished. But You've conquered by righteousness, and You've conquered death to live forever. Because You live, we live also. Give us this assurance tonight, Lord, that You are a--the Great and Mighty Conqueror, by being alive after these two thousand years. You still be the same to perform the same, to do the same as You ever did.
I commit myself to Thee and take every spirit in here under my control; in the Name of Jesus Christ. Amen.

41 If the Lord our God, my sister, will reveal to me what you're here for, or something that you know that I do not know, would that make you believe with all your heart, that you would receive what you ask for? Now, you could be anybody. I... If He tells you something that you know that I don't know nothing about... 'Course I don't know you, so I wouldn't know nothing. If I'd say, "You're sick," that would be a guess: could be. And then if I laid my hand upon you and say, "You'll get well," you'd have to take my word. But if He tells you what you have been, or what is wrong with you're--then you'll know whether that's the truth or not. That would be Him. And if He knows what has been, how much more does He know what will be? See? Then it's beyond any shadow of doubt. God forbid that I'd stand here on this platform, as professing to be Christ's servant, say anything else but just something that would help you. And only thing I could help you, it has to come through Him.
Now, if the audience still hears my voice after speaking to the woman, she seems to be going from me. And she's deeply interested in something. She's suffering. She's upset from a nervous condition. Then also, she's having trouble in her chest, like tightening spells in her chest. But I see her on her knees, and she's near an old chair, and here's what she's saying, [Gap in the audio--Ed.] " Lord, will Thou give to me the Holy Ghost?" She's seeking the baptism of the Holy Ghost. THUS SAITH THE LORD. That is true. Raise your hands to that being truth. Who knows what you are and what you're desiring but God alone? You believe you shall receive that what you've ask for? Let's pray.
Dear God, as I see her little feeble hands go up in the air, I pray that You'll be merciful to her and will give her those things which she is desiring. In the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ, I ask it. Amen. God bless you, sister. Receive now (You will.) what you've ask for.

42 I suppose us being strangers to each other, you and I. Our first time meeting, but the Lord God knows us both. We, you and I, are going to stand someday at the judgment seat of Christ, giving an answer for our life. You're aware of that, aren't you? You are a Christian, because your spirit seems to be welcome. And you're suffering with a nervous condition. That's right. And I see you trying to leave a room or step, and you're going down easy. It's arthritis. You have an arthritis. And there keeps someone appearing to me; it's an elderly person: real nervous. It's your mother. And she's extremely nervous, and she's got heart trouble. And it seems I can see a river or something. Oh, she's near a city called Covington, of Kentucky, somewhere in there where she's been. The Lord God grant to you the desire of your heart. Now, go on your road and rejoice, and you'll receive just exactly what you've ask for.
Do you believe the Lord God? Do you believe that He is able to give to you the things that you're asking for? You're standing for someone else. That someone else is dying. And it's someone. I see a--two small children. It's little girls. Oh, it's your sister, your sister that you're standing for, used to play with, you hold the hands and skip together. That's right. Then I see a... Say, she's in a hospital here, and shadowed with death: double death. She's shadowed with physical death by an operation of a cancer she's just had, and she's not saved. She needs Christ as her Saviour. Do you believe God will grant it to you, the things that you ask for? Let us pray. O eternal and merciful Jehovah, grant unto this woman the things that she asked for. Grant it, Lord. May Thy blessings rest upon her greatly; in the Name of Jesus. Amen. God bless you, lady.

43 Are you believing? Have faith in God. The kid... No, it's just opening back. It's a man setting right there on the front row, praying, suffering with high blood pressure. The man with a gray suit on, kind of a little tie, you were praying, sir, that God would have me to speak to you. If that's right, stand up on your feet. All right. Your high blood pressure has left you. You're healed now; go on your road and be well. I--I do not know the man; I've never seen him. If we're strangers, stand back up on your feet again, sir, if we're strangers. I don't know you (That's right.); wave your hand like this. You touched something. What did you touch? The High Priest. Go on now; you're well. Your faith has saved you.
If thou canst believe, all things are possible. Just have faith.
We are strangers to each other, I perceive. This is our first meeting time. The Lord God does know us both. Now, every one just be real reverent. Oh, isn't it lovely? Isn't it... Oh, I can't express it. To be in the Presence of the Lord Jesus, to think, the Alpha and Omega is present, the Morning Star, the Mighty Conqueror. If thou canst believe.
You are suffering with a lady's trouble; that's a female disorder. And it's caused you to be very nervous. That lady's order is a tumor. It's on a female gland. You don't come from this city. You're at a city near a large river. That's Cincinnati. There's somebody else there that you're so interested in, that you've been praying for. That's a child. It's a little baby that's got something wrong with a food passage. It's been operated on. And that baby belongs to a relative of yours: a cousin. The parent of the child is praying too, but they don't pray like you; they're holding beads in their hands, they're Catholic. Miss Judy Braun, you--you return back (That's your name.)-- return back to Cincinnati and receive what you've asked for; in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ. Have faith in God.

44 We be strangers to each other, I suppose. If thou canst believe now, all things are possible. Be reverent. A lady setting right here, praying, with a stomach trouble, you believe the Lord God will make you well, lady. That's your husband right behind you. He's praying for a crippled man. Will you believe with all of your heart that you'll receive what you've asked for? If you'll believe it with her, sir, then you can have what you ask for. The lady right behind you also is a praying for... Oh, she's got diabetes that she wants to be healed of. You believe the Lord, make you well? The little checked dress on, raise your hand up high so the people can see. All right, you can go home tonight. Believe with all your heart, you receive what you've ask for. What did you touch? You're way away from me, thirty, forty feet, but you've touched the High Priest that can be touched by the feeling of our infirmities. If thou canst believe, all things are possible. I challenge you to believe.

45 I suppose that we're strangers to each other. I just have to follow that Light the way It goes. I'm sorry, keep you standing there, but I just have to follow It. See? It's someone out there praying. Oh, what could happen if they'd just--just one time believe.
Now, the lady laying here is paralyzed. She comes before me. If you'd just faith enough, lady, you could rise from that stretcher and go home. See? So have faith now. Just keeps turning dark, turning dark, turning dark. Don't do that. Keep... Let it turn Light.
If the Lord God will tell me what you're here for, would you believe it? You'll know whether it's the truth or not. Then you know something supernatural would have to tell me. Would you believe like the Pharisee did that it was Beelzebub? Then you'd get his reward. If you believed that it was Christ, you get Christ's reward. But that would, 'course, be up to you. You're not from this city. You're from Hamilton. That's right. You have a lady's trouble. That's a ulcerated womb. That's right. If God will tell me who you are, will that make you just rejoice? Patty Bratt. That's right. Return on your road now and rejoice and be happy. Don't doubt; just believe with all your heart. Are you believing?

46 If the Lord God will reveal what your trouble, do you believe it? You are nervous. And you have trouble with your eyes; they're going out, going blind. And that you might know I be a servant of the Lord God, you have a growth on your body that's hid from me. It's a growth on your left shoulder. That's right, raise up your hand. Now, go and believe. You shall receive. Amen.
Put your hand on mine, lady. If God will reveal to me what your trouble, would you believe me to be His servant? It's your back. Go on your road now; your back trouble's left. Amen.
If thou canst believe. Do you believe, lady? If God will reveal your trouble, will you believe me to be His servant? Your heart. Go on your road rejoicing; be made well.
If God will reveal to me what your trouble is, you believe, sister? You're coughing, asthmatic condition. Go on your road and be well.
You believe, lady? If God will reveal what your trouble is, will you believe Him with all your heart? Then the cancer will never kill you, and you'll be well. You believe it? Go on your road and rejoice.
Heart trouble left you while you was setting in the chair. Just keep going and rejoicing, being happy.
Arthritis will leave if you if you'll just keep rejoicing, believing Him with all you heart.

47 Are you believing? Just a moment. Have faith now. Something happened right here in the audience. If thou canst believe. Something happened. I got... at me. Please don't think this was impersonation, but just a weakness has covered me real swiftly and something happened. I'm positive. The little lady setting there looking at me... Yes, ma'am. You got a rupture. You got piles. That's exactly right. You're working at believing. Stand up just a minute. Am I a stranger to you? I don't know you? If that's right, raise up your hand. But you were praying. What's that looking right at you, a little girl? Yours? Look at me. You believe me to be His servant. You want prayer for that child too. If God will reveal to me what is wrong with the child, would you believe me to be His servant? The little child actually suffers from a nervous condition. I'll tell you how she acts: I see you trying to force her to eat. She don't want to eat, and you keep giving her all kinds of tonic and things to make her eat. Is that right, raise up your hand? Put your hand over on her. Have faith in God. And that's the greatest tonic she ever took. She'll eat from now on. In the Name of the Lord Jesus.
Lady, isn't it strange, when I said about that child eating, you had a real funny feeling went over you when I said about the child, because you had stomach trouble. That's right. Raise up your hand if that's right? Yours is gone too, so you can both go home and be well.
Do you believe?... you believe? Now, what about it over there? What about you laying this cot, stretcher? How many of you along here that wants to believe with all of your heart? Is--is He still the Mighty Conqueror? Is He alive tonight, the same yesterday, today, and forever? Now, you're every one more than conquerors in Him. Do you believe it? Then lay your hands over on each other and pray one for the other, and you'll raise up from your cots... Some of you preachers go over there... That's it. O Lord God, Creator of heavens and earth, in the Name of Lord Jesus, we rebuke every... power. Come out, Satan, you are conquered; the Mighty Conqueror has conquered you. You are... and...

The Mighty Conqueror

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1 Thank you. Such a privilege to be here tonight again under this great tent to minister again in the name of our Lord.
Now, just before we read His Word, let us speak to Him in a word of prayer. Shall we bow our heads.
Eternal God, who brought again the Lord Jesus from the dead, we pray that You will forgive us of our many trespasses against You, and that Your Spirit will come to us tonight in the great outpouring. And may the sinners weep their way through tonight, and the sick be healed, and great signs of the living God be done under this tent tonight, God. Grant it.
This is Thy Word, as we are fixing to read it, and no one can interpret it but the Holy Spirit. And we pray that He will give us the context of the Word. Grant it, Lord. Through Jesus' name we pray. Amen.

2 I just love the Word of God. I like to read it. There's something about it that's so thrilling just to know that we're reading something that is eternal. And God's Word is just as eternal as He is. Any man ... no man's any better than his word. If I couldn't take your word, then we have no dealings; and if you couldn't take my word, you couldn't trust me. And if we can take God's Word, we can trust what He said to be truth. And if we can't take it, then it's time for us to go and pray until God reveals it to us, that He is Word. "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God."

3 Now, we're going to read tonight from the book of Revelations, and the 6th chapter and the 2nd verse:
And I saw, and behold a white horse: and he that sat thereon was given a bow; and a crown was given unto him: and he went forth conquering, and to conquer.
I would like, if it should be mentioned this way, to take this under consideration as to be called "The Mighty Conqueror."

4 Sometime ago I had the privilege of standing in Lisbon, Portuguese, and I went up to the old galley where they use to have slaves and prisoners of war. And there was a man's... A picture had been engraved on some metal, and it was the man, some great warrior. He was a hero, because he had taken this great city. And then just beyond him was a... He was a Turk. And just beyond that was another man who gave his life at this wall, another hero, conqueror, who ... he gave his life as a hero: as he smashed the walls and taken it away from the Turks, and the Spanish taken it over.
And the world has been full of heroes, and conquerors, and so forth. And I'm thinking tonight of Constantine. As the great mighty warrior was on his road to Rome, being just a little troubled about going over... One night, when he was in his sleep, he dreamed a dream that he saw a white cross come before him. And a voice spoke to him and said, "By this, ye shall conquer." And he woke all of his men up in the middle of the night, and had them to paint a white cross on their shield. And by that, they was to conquer.

5 And truly, if there's any conquering to be done, it'll have to come through the cross. That's the only way there is to conquer, is through the cross.
And we know that Constantine was a great man, but then we're thinking again of about three years ago. I was on my way from Germany, where the Lord had give us a great meeting, and we stopped over at Brussels. And we wasn't too far out there to Waterloo. And they was telling us about some statues and so forth they had as relics of the great battle at Waterloo, many, many hundreds of years ago, where the great Napoleon was defeated.
And Napoleon, we all know as being a great man, but... He started out on a good path when he was a young man, and at the age of thirty-three he had conquered the world. After he'd whipped everybody in the world in all the nations, he sat down and wept, because there was no one else to whip. And he died at a early age, a alcoholic. When he started off, he was a prohibitionist; but when he died, he was an alcoholic. And he was so feared by the world!

6 I was reading a little book there in the airport that said that the women, at night, when they went to put the little babies in the bed, as many mother says, "If you don't go to sleep, the old boogerman's going to come get you," well, they'd frighten their babies more by saying that Napoleon was going to get them---because he was such a murderer. The little fellows would brighten their little eyes and slip under the cover real quick, because they thought that mighty Napoleon would get them. But he was defeated, because he never played the rules of the game right.
And just remember this, that's a good lesson for the church of the living God. If we don't play the game according to the rules, we'll be disqualified at the end. You have to keep the rules of the game to win.
And if the rules of the game in this place is "a man must be born again to enter into the fellowship of Christ and His church," and we might be the greatest denomination on earth; but if we haven't played the rules of the game, we will be disqualified at the end. We've got to come straight with God's rules. It isn't our rules; it's His rules that we've got to abide by. We're running the race according to His rules, and we have to abide by them.

7 So you see, Napoleon, after though being a great warrior and a great conqueror, he conquered people under fear; and that's not the rule of the game. The rule of the game is "conquer by love."
There is no other force in all the world as great as love. And I'm almost sure that we, as people, have put too much emphasis upon other rules that (I don't mean to be rude) but sometimes that we've made ourselves; and put so much stress on those rules, only to find ourselves disqualified.

8 What if Martin Luther would've played the rules of the game right? There'd have never been a Methodist church. What if Methodists had have played the rules of the game right? There'd never been a Pentecostal church.
But if we fail to play the rules of the game right, God will disqualify us and raise up out of these stones children to Abraham. God wants the game played right, and we must do it. So it doesn't make any difference how much we feel like that we're progressing on, until we get back to the rule of the game.

9 I was speaking with some Indians this afternoon, Hopi Indians, who came all the way from over in Arizona to be in the meeting. And some of the young men was down here last night at the altar, giving their hearts to Christ. And a missionary had come along with them, and I said ... he said, "Brother Branham, I would love for you to ask God if He would just increase my work for the Indians."
I said, "I feel for them too, sir." But I said, "If God has given you a talent, stay with that talent. And no matter what you try to do, if that talent isn't operated---no matter how great it is---if it isn't operated according to the rules, you'll be disqualified in the race."

10 And the strongest force that I know of is love. "Though I speak with tongues of men and angels, and have not love, I am nothing, or become as a sounding brass and a tinkling cymbal. Though I have power to move mountains, and have not love, I am nothing."
So, if we're going to play this game, as we would call it, if we're going to win, we've got to get back to the winning principle. All these great signs and wonders that we have seen, to God we give praise. But if those things isn't built upon godly Christian love and respect for God and His people, it'll fail. It's just got to fail (see?) because it has no foundation. And in this great thing, I...

11 Standing sometime ago, I was in Westminster Abbey at London, England, and I seen the form of the poet that wrote "The Psalm of Life," Longfellow, and I thought of his poem:
Tell me not, in mournful numbers,
Life is just an empty dream!
(Just eat, drink, and be merry.)
And the soul is dead that slumbers,
And things are not what they seem.
Life is real! And life is earnest!
And the grave is not its goal;
Dust thou art, to dust returnest,
Was not spoken of soul.
Lives of great men all remind us,
And we can make our lives sublime,
With partings leave behind us
Footprints on the sands of time.
Footprints, that perhaps another,
Sailing over life's solemn main,
For forlorn and shipwreck brother,
Seeing, shall take heart again.
Let us be up, then, and doing,
With a heart for any strife;
Be not like dumb, driven cattle!
Be a hero..............

12 That's what each individual of the church ought to purpose in their heart, to do their very best for the kingdom of God. And how do you serve God? When you're serving one another. When you're taking the little end of the horn, as it was to say. And men who has ever amounted to very much in the world, has been men who's come down, and become not great men. They made themselves small in order to accomplish a purpose.
I'm thinking, tonight, as I look over this audience of men, of you men and women that's around my age, of a hero that we used to read about in our readers, all too quickly forgotten: and that was of Arnold Von Winkelried of Switzerland. Why, up in the Swiss mountains, you can just mention his name today, and the expression on the people's faces will change, and tears will run down their cheeks.

13 We all are familiar with the story of how that the Finnish people, or not the Finnish, pardon me, but the Swiss people, they were just a bunch of Germans that went up in the mountains to live in peace and not to have war. And they're still not a warring people.
But one day, when their little economy had been attacked by an army, and all the Finnish men had gathered into the valley in below the mountain... They had gone there to defend their homes, and their children, and all that they held dear in life. They went to defend it. And when they found themselves a small group out in the field, and looked: coming onto them a great marching army like a brick wall, every man trained with spear, and shield and helmets and great armors on, just so trained and perfect till not one man out of step, looked like, for an endless stretch. And here they were standing, and was standing for right: as a group, all beat up against the wall, with old sickle blades and rocks and sticks in their hands to fight with. What could that little army do against such an onslaught as they had, as their foe come every man trained right to the spot? Why, they were helpless. They had not one thing they could do.

14 But finally, a young man stepped out, of about the age of thirty-three; and he said, "Gentlemen of Switzerland, this day I will give my life for Switzerland."
They said, "Arnold Von Winkelried, what can you do against such a great host coming on?"
He said, "Just beyond the mountain, I kissed good-bye my wife and three children. And there's a little white home, and they're standing in the door to watch me come home. But," said, "I'll never see them again this ... in this earth, for today I give my life for Switzerland and its rights."
They said, "What will you do, Mr. Arnold Von Winkelried?"
He said, "You just follow me; and ever what you've got to fight with, fight with all that's in you."
And they said, "What will you do?"
And he threw down what he had in his hand. He seen that great army coming on, and he looked it all over, until he found the very thickest of the spears. And as the story goes, he raised his hands and took right towards the midst of the spears, screaming, "Make way for liberty!" And he screamed again, "Make way for liberty!" And he run right into those ... where a hundred spears to catch him; and he threw out his arms and got a whole armload of them and plunged them into his chest. Such a display of heroism, it routed the army. And those little Swiss men with sticks and stones and sickle blades routed that army out of their territory, and they haven't had a war since.

15 That kind of heroism has seldom been compared with, and never exceeded. And Switzerland, today, remembers it. Arnold Von Winkelried. Hundreds and hundreds of years of no war. That was a great heroic deed.
But oh, brother, sister, that was such a little thing, till one day when Adam's race was backed up against a wall. They'd had prophets, they'd had laws; and they had killed the prophets, and destroyed their laws. And Adam's race was backed up, helpless and hopeless against the oncoming enemy, the devil and all of his hosts. Well trained spirit beings, the mortal was no match for them at all. And what could they do? They were helpless.
But there was One who stepped out in glory from the bosoms of the Father, and He said, "I'll go down this day and give My life for Adam's fallen race."

16 And when He was here on earth, He found the darkest spot of the spears that conquered men, that was death. And He grabbed an armful of them at Calvary and plunged Himself to death, and left the commission with His church (the little ragged group, uneducated, illiterate fishermen). He never left it just sticks and stones to fight with; but on the day of Pentecost He put the greatest weapon in the church's hands that it ever had! And He said, "Follow me! And fight with all that's in you."
He led the way. He was the mighty conqueror. He didn't conquer for Himself and for His own glory, but He conquered for the good of Adam's fallen race. There's never been a conqueror like that.

17 Napoleon was defeated as a drunken maniac at the age of thirty-three; but at the age of thirty-three, Christ, playing the game right, had conquered death, hell, sickness, and the grave. Never was a conqueror like Him or never could be.
Ladies and gentlemen, and my brothers and sisters, it's time tonight for the church to pick up that which Christ left us. "This will all men know you're My disciples, when you have love one for the other." And take that sword and self-sacrifice and get back to the old Gospel line again, going out to conquer our enemies. Conquer them by love, by the same thing: that "God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth Him shall not perish, but have eternal life."

18 When He was on earth, Adam's race had many fears. And it's true they still have them, but they shouldn't have them. As Arnold Von Winkelried ended war once for all, and Christ won once for all at Calvary.
When He was here on earth, He walked up to a sick man (that sickness had bound the human race), and He said, "Thou spirit of the devil, I charge thee, come out of the man." He conquered the devil. When a man lay in the grave dead, He conquered death for the man; or the sickness, when the maniac come out to destroy Him. And the maniac realized that He was the Son of God. He said to Him, "Oh, if You'll cast us out, suffer us to go in that bunch of hogs." For he knew the authority that Jesus Christ had. He conquered the devil everywhere He met him. And He not only conquered him Himself, but left the commission to the church that "Anything that you ask in My name, that I will do!"

19 Fight with what's in your hands. If it's singing, sing the Gospel. If you can't do nothing but whistle, whistle just as loud as you can for the glory of God. If you can't do no more than pat your hands, pat them. Conquer with whatever you got in your hand. Clap them in such a way that all the neighbors will love you. Whistle in such a way that all denominations will know that you belong to Christ. Conquer them. Play the game fair. Play it right.
We are living in a day that when this social gospel is becoming predominate, when the churches are uniting themselves together and making a social religion, and binding themselves together. It's a terrible day. They're trying to take all the deity and all the glory away from Christ, and trying to make Him just a prophet. If Christ was just a prophet, we're every one lost. He was more than a prophet. And today when...

20 A woman told me some time ago, she said, "Mr. Branham, there's one thing that I do not like about your speaking."
I said, "What is it, sister?"
And she said, "You try to magnify Christ too much, you brag on Him too much. You try to make Him more than what He is."
I said, "If I had ten thousand languages, I would ... could exhaust them, and could never explain what He really is! He is worthy of every praise."
She said, "Mr. Branham, I heard you say from the platform that you was a fundamentalist."
I said, "According to the Word, yes."
She said, "If I'll explain to you and prove to you by the Word that He was just a man ... and you try to make Him Deity."
I said, "He was Deity." I said, "God was in Christ, reconciling the world to Himself." I said, "If He's just a prophet, we're all lost."
She said, "If I'll prove to you by the Bible that He was just a man, will you accept it?"
I said, "Yes, ma'am, if the Bible said that."
She said, "When He went down to the grave of Lazarus, in Saint John the 11th chapter, the Bible said He wept; and if He'd been Deity, He could not weep. So that made Him nothing but just an ordinary good man."

21 I said, "Sister, your argument's no good." I said, "You fail to see. You saw the man, but you failed to see the God in the man." I said, "It is truth. When He went down to the grave of Lazarus, He was weeping like a man. But when He pulled those little shoulders back together, and looked at the face of a dead man that had been dead and his soul was four days journey, and He said, 'Lazarus, come forth,' that dead man stood on his feet again. That was more than a man speaking there. He is a mighty conqueror. That was God speaking through His Son.
And He was a man, when He come off the mountain that night hungry, had nothing to eat, and looked around on a fig tree to find something to eat. He was a man when He was hungry; but when He took five biscuits and two little fishes and fed five thousand, that was more than a man! That was God speaking through His Son, Christ Jesus---Deity in man."

22 Truly He was a man, when He was on the back of that little boat that night when ten thousand devils of the sea swore they'd drown Him. It was flopping around out there like a bottle stopper on a mighty sea. And the devil, gleeing, said, "Now we've got Him!" But when He woke, put His foot upon the brail of the boat, looked up and said, "Peace, be still," and the waves and the winds obeyed Him, He was more than a man when He did that.
He was a man, when He called for mercy at the cross. He died like a man; but on Easter morning, when the seal of the Roman government was broke and the tomb was empty, He rose again. He might have died like a man, but He raised again like God! He was a God-man.
No wonder the poet said:
Living, He loved me; dying, He saved me;
Buried, He carried my sins far away;
Rising, He justified freely forever:
Someday He's coming---oh, glorious day!
No wonder blind Fanny Crosby could scream:
Pass me not, O gentle Saviour,
Hear my humble cry;
While on others Thou art calling,
Do not pass me by.
Thou the Stream of all my comfort,
More than life to me,
Whom have I on earth beside Thee?
Or whom in heaven but Thee?

23 He was more than a man; He was God's mighty conqueror. Oh, how we should love Him! How we should praise Him! How we should love one another as He loved us and gave Himself for us, that we might be more than conquerors through Him Who conquered sickness, death, hell.
We see Him here on earth as a conqueror. We see Him stand there by the side of the grave and conquer death in that man. His soul was four days journey. I don't know where he was; neither do you. But wherever he was, He conquered it, brought it back. Corruption knew it's Master! Amen! And the soul of this man had been dead come back and lived again in a mortal body, and sat at a table and eat. Never was a man could do that before. He was God's mighty conqueror.

24 The sickness... He never preached a funeral. Death couldn't stay in His presence. How could death and life dwell together? They can't do it. That's the reason today, brother, when the church is born again of the Spirit of God, death and life can't hold together. Something takes place. Christ comes in and conquers our passions, He conquers our desires, He conquers all that's ungodly about us. And because He lives, we live also. He conquers everything that's ungodly. He has already did it; it's laying at our hands just to receive.
We see Him in His earthly ministry as a conqueror. Certainly we do. But now, let's watch Him after He died. He still went on conquering. He never ended at the grave. The Bible said His soul descended into hell, and He preached to the spirits that were in prison, that repented not in the long-suffering of the days of Noah.

25 I can see Him as the heavens and earth turning black, the rocks belching out of the mountains, the whole heavens, the moon, the stars, refused to shine. He conquered it. And when He went down, descended down, and knocked at the door where those lost souls was, and when the doors came open, and those people who laughed and made fun of Enoch, who made fun of Noah... I can hear Him say, "I am that One that Enoch said would come with ten thousands of His saints! Why didn't you believe Enoch? Why didn't you believe Noah?"
Everything had to know that He'd conquered. When He shut the door on them (the days of mercy was passed), on down into the lowest pits of hell He went. And He knocked at the sooty doors of the devil's hell.
And the devil comes to the door, as we could look to see, and there he said, "Well, here You are after all! I sure thought I had You when I killed the prophets. I was sure I had You when I had John's head cut off in prison. But now, after all, You've got here."

26 I can hear Him as He says (straighten Himself up), said, "Satan, I'm the virgin-born Son of the living God. My blood's still wet on the cross. I've paid the price, I've conquered, and I've come down to take over---strip you of everything that you claim you had." Reached over to his side and jerked those keys of death and hell off of him, kick him back into the place where he belonged: He conquered hell! When He rose, He had the keys of death and hell hanging on His side!
What's the church scared about then? Amen. He conquered Satan; He conquered sickness; He conquered death; He conquered hell! He's on His road out. Remember, there's some more faithful that went on too. They were in a place called Paradise. They could not go into the presence of God, because they had worshipped under the shed blood of lambs and goats and so forth. It never divorced sin; it only covered sin.
And that's it today, friend. You can't cover your sins and get in; it's got to be got rid of! And there's only one thing will do it. That isn't your church, that isn't your baptism by the water, that's the blood of Jesus Christ. That covers sins and divorces it. The only means of conquer that there is, is through the blood of the Lord Jesus.

27 And let's say it's about four o'clock on Sunday morning. Sarah and Abraham are walking around through the paradise. And all of at once, there comes a rap at the door. And Job goes to the door, and he opens back the door to see who's knocking, coming in this morning at this time of day. And he looks, raises his hand. He said, "That's my Redeemer, that I saw back there when the lightning was flashing! I know He liveth, and at the last days He will stand on the earth. That's Him."
Abraham said, "What did you say, Job?" He looks over his shoulder, said, "Come here, Sarah, look here. Look Who's at the door this morning!"
"Why," Sarah said, "that's the One that had His back turned to me, and I laughed in the tent and He knowed it. That's it. That's Him."

28 Here comes Daniel running up, and looks over Sarah's shoulder. He said, "That's the Rock that I saw hewed out of the mountain without hands!"
Just then Ezekiel come running up, he said, "That's the Wheel in the middle of the wheel, that I saw turning way up in the middle of the air!"
There's the mighty conqueror. Oh, my! As we hear them then, said, "Come on, children. You were faithful over a few things. Come on, we're going out this morning. You've been in here long enough. We're going higher!" O God, let that be the desire of the church. Let's go higher! Pull up our stakes out of Egypt.

29 Abraham said, "Father, can we just make a little whistle-stop as we go through? I'd like to look the old place over."
"Sure. I'm going to be talking with My disciples for forty days. Look around awhile."
You know, the Scripture says that many of the saints rose after His resurrection, went into the city, and appeared to many. Abraham and Sarah walking through the city, "Wasn't that wonderful?" Said, "Sarah, look at the old place. [Oh, my, I feel real religious right now. I really do.] Look it over. There's the city of David; there's all those beautiful spots. There's the altars that I built. Blessed be the name of the Lord!"

30 After forty days, He was standing giving His last commission: "Go into all the world, and preach the gospel [Not 'build churches,' not 'make organizations,' but 'preach the gospel.' We did otherwise.]. These signs shall follow them that believe: In My name they shall cast out devils..." and so forth, as He goes on.
As He was speaking, gravitation become conquered. There becomes light under His feet, as hundreds of brethren watching. And He begins to move up, on up, ascending up, Him and the Old Testament saints going into glory. They went on beyond the stars, beyond the moons, beyond the stars of stars. And they come in sight of the great city. Oh, what that must have been---Jesus out in front as that great conqueror, marching on.
And all of a sudden the Old Testament saints come in the sight of the big beautiful city, and they screamed with one great blast that shook the heavens: "Lift up, ye everlasting gates, and be ye lifted up; and let the King of glory come in!"

31 You know, they said, when Hitler conquered France, that he stood by the Arch of Triumph while German soldiers by the endless miles marched through, and the planes blacked the skies. They were all there to celebrate Hitler's great coming into France. How they brought Stalin into Germany; but oh, brother, when the church brought Jesus in that day: "Lift up, ye everlasting gates, and be ye lifted up; and let the King of glory come in."
And the angel said, "Who is this King of glory?"
And the Old Testament saints cried back, "The Lord of host, mighty in battle, the great conqueror! He led captive captive and gave gifts unto men." The Bible said He did.

32 And you talk about a welcome home? As the angels over them great pearly gates as they swung open; and Jesus right down through the streets of glory with the Old Testament saints behind him, singing "All hail the power of Jesus' name"; and He come up in the front of the Father's throne and said, "Father, here they are! They were faithful over a few things."
He said, "Get up here, Son, and sit on the right hand, until I make all Thy foes Thy footstool." There He stands tonight.
Lo, behold the mighty Conqueror;
Lo, and behold Him in plain view;
For He is the mighty Conqueror,
Since He rent the veil in two.

33 There has never been nothing conquer like our Lord Jesus Christ. What this world needs tonight is some reality. What this world needs tonight is something that means something. What the world's looking to see in you Christians is something that's genuine. They're so tired of seeing church played. They're so tired of being fed up. "I'm Presbyterian"; "I'm Methodist"; "I'm Catholic"; "I'm Pentecostal"; "I'm Nazarene"---that isn't what the world's hungering for. They're hungering for the true bread of life!
Jesus said, "You are the salt of the earth: but if the earth has lost its savor ... or the salt has lost its savor, it's not good for nothing but to be made roads out of."
Salt is a savor, if it contacts. You just be salty---the world will get thirsty. God give us men and women who are real, men and women who stand gallantly. Your weakest link in your chain is the strongest place. That tells the chain, no matter how strong other things are, that weak in one point. There's where you want to keep covered.

34 Here sometime ago, as all of you know ... and I'm a hunter. Not to kill the game, I just go to live where ... out to see God, get out in the nature. Sometimes I get so sick and tired of smelling gasoline and cigarettes, till it'd make you vomit. I like to go way up into His cathedral up on top of the mountain somewhere, there be alone. Not hear the hums of airplane motors and so forth, but to hear the everlasting whisper of God's voice through the winds as it comes through the pines. That's God to me. Oh, there's something real about it!

35 I used to hunt up in the north woods with a friend of mine, Burt Caul. I met him a few days ago and shook his hand and had dinner with him, while I was in New England, in those country up there in a healing revival. And one day...
I would go up there to hunt each fall, and one day going up, I was talking to Burt. And he was one of the best hunters I ever seen. I ... you never had to worry about him, he would know where he was at. You didn't have to hunt him up; he knowed where he was at in the woods. He was a good hunter, but the meanest man I ever knowed. He was just cruel as he could be. He loved to shoot little fawns just to make me feel bad.

36 Now, that's all right to shoot a fawn, you Texas boys here, you hunters. If the law says you can have a fawn, that's all right. No matter the age of the deer. Abraham killed a calf, and God eat it. That's right. So there's no harm in killing them. That's exactly right. But just to be a murderer, that's different.
Did that stump you? He did do it. He eat the calf, drank the milk of the cow, and eat some corn cakes. It's exactly right. Eat the butter, that the milk was churned from. He certainly did. And God did it, and vanished right before Abraham.
You say, "That was an angel." Abraham said it was God, Elohim. That's right. It was God. Oh, I'm so glad that He holds it in His hand! How great Thou art.

37 Someone said to me, "You believe, Brother Branham, that was God?"
I said, "Sure it was God."
"That ... our great Creator?"
He just... We're all made out of sixteen elements. He just reached down and got some petroleum, cosmic light, and atoms, and, "Whheww," blowed a little body, stepped into it, and put His angels in there, and walked to Abraham. Certainly. Eat the meat, and was hungry, and vanished out of his sight. That same God knows where I'll be buried. He knows where you'll be.

38 Not long ago, I was combing these two or three hairs I got left. My wife sitting back there, she said, "Billy, you're just about baldheaded."
I said, "But I haven't lost a one of them."
She said, "Where are they at? Tell me."
I said, "Where was they before I got them? They're there waiting for me; someday I'll go to them!" They was. Every hair of your head's numbered, and not one of them can be lost. These hands that used to be a little boy, these shoulders that's stooping under preaching the Gospel, someday'll spring back again to the picture made in His image, stand in His likeness, washed in His blood---redeemed by His grace I shall stand! Yes, indeed. And no fear to death. There He come.

39 And one day I went to Burt, and he'd made him a little old whistle. And he'd make that little whistle go like a little baby fawn crying. I said, "Burt, you're not going to use that?"
He said, "Oh, Billy, get next to yourself. You're just a chicken-hearted preacher. That's the way with all of you." Said, "You're a good hunter, but you're too chicken-hearted."
I said, "Burt, I'm a hunter, but not a killer. I don't like to see you do that." I said, "Don't use that, Burt."
He said, "Aw, go on."
We started hunting that morning, about six inches of snow---good tracking weather, as any hunter knows. And we'd hunted... I was a little late in the season before I got there. I'd been in the meetings quite a bit. And we'd hunted all morning and found nothing, because them white-tail deer up there, they really know how to hide. And they got away, under the daytime especially.

40 And it was along about noon, why, Burt sat down at a little opening about the size, half the size, of this tent. And he was sitting there, I thought he was going to get his coffee jug out. Or, wasn't coffee we drink, it was hot chocolate. And I thought he was going to get his jug of chocolate, and we'd have some sandwiches, and then we'd separate and hunt back, because we hadn't even seen one track all morning. The deers were scared. They stayed under brush piles in daytime, and in the thickets, so you couldn't find them.

41 And I noticed him as he sat down there, when he was getting into his pocket; and I was standing up. And he pulled out this little whistle.
I thought, "Surely, Burt, you won't do that." And he looked up at me with them lizard-looking eyes, and he laughed, and he started to blow it. I said, "Don't do that, Burt."
But when he blew it, just across, about twenty yards from me, a great big mother doe stood up. Now, a doe is the female deer. Why, she was so close I could see her big brown eyes, and those veins in her face, beautiful-looking animal, her ears standing up. What was it? It was a baby crying.
And I looked down to Burt, and he looked up at me again. I thought, "Burt, you won't do that. Surely you won't."

42 And he blew it real easy again. And usually ... that's very unusual for a deer to stand up like that at that time of day. And she walked right out in the opening. Oh, they never do that. And she walked out so you ... she could be seen.
And I heard that rifle, as he pulled back the lever on that 30.06, 180 grain mushroom bullet in there. And he was a dead shot. And as he leveled down that rifle, I thought, "O God, surely he won't do it. That loyal mother." She wasn't playing church; there was something real in her. She's a mother. A baby was in trouble. She wasn't just acting that way. She had something in her that was real, genuine. She was a mother. She wasn't just acting that way. There's something making her do that. It was because she was a mother.

43 And she walked a few feet farther. I thought, "Oh, Burt, could you blow her heart out of her like that?" I knew if that rifle fired, he'd blow that loyal heart plumb through both sides of her. Why, he'd turn her flip flops, at that close to her. I thought, "That precious mother, hunting for her baby."
And the deer looked around and saw the hunter! She quivered, but, no, she didn't run away. She was a mother. She stood there. The baby was in trouble. Oh, how real it was.
I turned my head; I just couldn't look at it no more. I thought, "God, I can't see him do that, kill that poor precious mother, and her there with that ... with something in her that was driving her, a mother." And I listened for the gun to fire, I turned my back, I thought, "God, don't let him do it." I waited a minute. I didn't hear the gun. I looked around, and the gun was going like this. He couldn't do it.
He looked around, the big tears running down his cheeks. He threw the gun on the ground and grabbed me by the trouser leg. He said, "Billy, I've had enough of it. Lead me to that Jesus that you're talking about. Let me know that Christ that brings love."

44 What was it? He saw something real. He saw something that wasn't put on. He saw something that wasn't hypocritical. He saw something that was genuine. And there on that snow bank, I led that cruel-hunted ... -hearted hunter to the Lord Jesus Christ, and become a sweet humble Christian. Why? All the preaching didn't do it. It was, he saw something real.
O church of the living God, the world's looking for something real tonight. Would you love to have enough Christ in your heart that you could stand in the face of death? Even you sick people, that's sick, could you just take Him at His Word, live or die, stand here on His Word? You that's had these differences and all these little troubles and denominational barriers, wouldn't you love to have something to display, that when you walk down the street men and women say, "If there ever was a godly woman or man, there it goes." Something real, a life that tells.

45 Let's bow our heads just a moment while we think of this. What is it? Love conquered that hunter. God's love conquers. Would you love, tonight, in this building ... which I know you do. All in here would love to have Christ so real in their heart, just ... Christ would be just as real to you as the love was of that mother for her baby, would you just raise your hands quietly while we are waiting? No matter how long you've been a Christian, I just want to ask you. God bless you. God bless you. That's fine. Hundreds of hands, all around.
"Lord, make in me... Let me rise, Lord [as a woman or as a man], let me rise a saint. Let me rise from my seat to be something real. God, let me display Your love so in my heart, that cruel-hearted sinners might follow: watch me for an example, and follow me to Calvary."

46 Is there some more, while we're waiting just a moment? Put your hands up. I know ... that didn't put their hands up awhile ago. God bless you, sister. God bless you, young lady. God bless you, honey. That's good. Way back in there, the Lord bless you. Way outside now, put up your hands, say, "God..."
Look, friend. You say, "What difference does that make, Brother Branham?" Oh, friend, let's not be cold and stiff any longer. Let's realize where we're standing. Let's raise up our hand, say, "God, be merciful to me, a sinner." God bless you, way over here in this aisle. I didn't see you awhile ago. The Lord bless you, back over here. Be real honest.

47 You say, "Oh, Brother Branham, I've spoke in tongues; I've shouted." That's good. I have nothing against that. That's the works of God. But look, friend, if you haven't got love to go with that, no one'll believe you. No one'll believe you. That's wonderful, I believe in that. But you have love even without that, they'll believe you quicker. That's right. You get the real love of God, these things will take place for themselves---but first get God. Get God. Get the real thing. Get the tree, it'll bear it's own fruit.
Will someone else now will raise your hand, that didn't awhile ago, say, "God, be merciful to me." Don't you think He's standing there looking at you? God bless you, young lady, that's good. Little lady here, maybe... God bless you, the lady sitting here. It may be the last opportunity you ever have. Bless that little girl back there, a little boy it is, bless his little heart.
Say, "What does that child know about it?"
Jesus said, "Suffer little children to come to Me, forbid them not: for such is the kingdom."

48 God bless you, sister, with your hands up there. God bless you, young man. That's fine. I pray that God will make a little preacher out of you, honey. Another little boy. Real quietly, now. Think of it. What if this is your last night? You won't have any chance after this. When you leave this life, it's all over. You might have wasted many years along, but what about it now? Let's start tonight. God bless you, lady. Just waiting a little bit might meant so much to you. You've past from death to life. You raise your hand to God, and mean it, and see if God doesn't create something in here in you. Certainly He will.
God bless you, sister, young lady there, just a teen-ager. Right in this ridiculous rock-and-roll, boogie-woogie age, see a young girl raise her hands to serve Christ, God bless you, young lady. You couldn't do that by yourself. Christ is here. "No man can come to Me, except My Father draws Him first. And all that comes to Me, I will give them eternal life, raise them up at the last day."
Another hand? God bless that young woman, her little friend sitting there by her.

49 You say, "Does that mean anything?" It depends on what you meant when you raised your hand. I know we have little creeds, and little things that we do (this, that, or the other), but Jesus said this: "He [personal pronoun], he that heareth My words, and believeth on Him that sent Me, hath [present tense] eternal life [That's zoe, 'God's own life.'], and shall never come to the judgment; but hath [past tense] passed from death unto life." That's what He said.
Whether you want to run to the altar, whether you want to kneel at your seat, whether you want to raise your hand---where you want to make your surrender, it matters not. It's the condition you meant when you went to the altar, knelt at your seat, or raised your hand. It's all what you meant, what you thought about God.

50 Would there be just a few more, before we pray? All that's in need for God for anything, raise your hand just now. "God, be merciful to me; I have a need of You." God bless you. God be merciful. Think of it now; this may be our last hour.
God willing, tomorrow night, or next night, I want to preach on "The Handwriting On The Wall," the sputnik in the sky, drawing God close at the end of the age.
.............was shed for me,
And that Thou bidd'st me come to Thee,
What if this is the last hour to separate you between mercy and judgment?
........I come.........
Would you just raise up your hand, "God, be merciful to me." God bless you, back there, young fellow, weeping with your hand down. No doubt a many an old mother's prayer's went up for you, son. God heard you. He saw you. He's standing there by you. He's the One told you to raise your hand.

51 Someone else, just before we offer prayer? Sincere... God bless you, young man. I've noticed, right along a row: a young lady raised her hand, now three young people sitting in a row. There's one more left in that row that hasn't raised their hand to accept Christ just now. "Make in me, O God, something real."
Maybe you do belong to church. O friend, that just... It's nice to belong to church, but, oh my, if you're not borned again you're lost. See? Think of it. Jesus conquered; He will give you something in your hand to fight the battle with. Once more now, before we pray. Be sure you've made the right decision. If you've raised your hand, you know you have. If you haven't... God bless the little lady here. Bless you, honey. All right.
Way back in the back, yes, a little teen-age girl. God be wonderful to you, sister dear. Let's bow our heads real reverently now. Every one in prayer.
I'm going to ask Brother Cerullo, if he will come here and lead this prayer for me. I'm getting hoarse. With your heads bowed, every one. Pray now, and God be with you.