The Queen of the South

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1 God bless you, brother. [Brother says, "We welcome you to Chattanooga with us next year."] Thank you. The Lord willing I will be there. Thank you. May be seated.
It's indeed a privilege to be here tonight, and have this wonderful feeling, and the response of the people. So nice of these brethren to invite me back and you, also, to the next year's convention. And I pray that the heavenly Father will see us through this another year, give us many thousands of souls for our labor. And we'll all meet together again next year in Chattanooga, healthy, happy, praising God.

2 It's been a grand week for me. I've had many private interviews with the people, which seldom take place in a regular campaign, but in this convention it was allotted to do it. And to see the Holy Spirit move into the room and do the works that He has done.
Just a few moments ago, I just left the room of the emergency. And in there, I was so stricken, as going through and talking to the blind, and deaf, and crippled. A man on crutches when I was leaving, walking up-and-down the floor without his crutches.

3 A little boy sitting in a wheelchair from Canada that had muscular something. I forget just what it was called. And he said, "Looky, I can put my hand up." And weeping, his father and them.
And to see a deaf man that was sitting over there, could not hear, hearing. And different ones... And a little paralyzed girl from birth sitting up, raised up in her mother's arms and all of them were just rejoicing.
It just goes to show the mercy of our dear Lord Jesus. I have the Christian businessmen with us also, tonight. My good friend, Brother Demos Shakarian and many others. We're to speak in the morning at the Washington Hotel in the morning. I guess it's been announced.

4 Thank you for your prayers and your cooperation. And I pray now that the continuing of this service, that God's blessings will continue.
And remember, pray for me. I'm the one who needs prayer. Now, before we open His blessed Word, let us just bow our heads a moment.

5 Our blessed Lord, we are grateful to Thee, for Thou has been so kind to us to permit us to gather here in this great number. In spite of the storm, still the people come. We're thankful for them. And they never come out on a night like this to be seen. But they come for what good they could get from Thee.
And as we minister to them in song, and in the Word, and in prayer, may Your Holy Spirit work among us tonight and give us the exceeding abundantly. Bless Thy Word. Thy Word is truth. And may the Holy Spirit take these next few moments of the Word and place it into the heart of those who are so desperately in need. For we ask it in Jesus' name. Amen.

6 It is late, and I have several hundred people, I suppose, to pray for tonight after the service. But I think the first things are first: salvation. And the reading of the Word tonight, the Lord willing, I have chosen Saint Matthew's gospel, the 12th chapter and the 42nd verse. And I will try not to speak but just a few moments, so listen carefully.
The queen of the south shall rise up in the judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it: for she came from the uttermost parts of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and, behold, a greater than Solomon is here.

7 Our blessed Lord had just met some of His critics. And when they heard His claims, it brings out a mixed multitude. It always has and it always will. Where the Gospel is proclaimed and the supernatural is done, especially, brings a mixed multitude: some believers and some unbelievers.
And in this case, many of the scholars of those days, very cultured men in the Scripture---that is, in their own theology: the Pharisees and Sadducees; not men of bad reputation, but men of good reputation, men that must live lives above reproach to hold their office in the house of God.
They were men who had to be born out of a certain lineage of people, before they could become a priest. And their fathers had to be priests before them.

8 But yet, it is possible for a good, cultured man, very scholarly in his Bible teaching, yet to be an unbeliever. For I do not expect tonight that we have many men in America tonight that could compete with the scholarship of those priests of that day, for they were learned men.
And they had to be found blameless when it come to morals. They knew their Scriptures, just like they know catechism today. But yet, in all this it's possible that men could be ever so sincere, and be ever such a Bible scholar, and yet be wrong in their teachings. For it proves that they could be.

9 And these Pharisees had heard of the great, marvelous works of our blessed Lord. But He seemingly had a new doctrine for them. And the most blessed thing we could think of now, that it was correctly the Scriptural doctrine of the Bible. And God was working with Him, confirming the words that He was preaching. That's what makes the difference, is God confirming what's being said. Men can make statements, but if God doesn't confirm that word, then it isn't so. God always will confirm His Word.
But where the supernatural is done, then it attracts attention of a mixed multitude of people. If we only had time, we could go down into Egypt and see when Moses and Aaron ... while they were in Egypt, the supernatural was done. A mixed multitude followed them in the wilderness, which finally perished in the gainsaying of Korah.
But God has always confirmed His word. And the living God lives in His word and makes His word real in every generation.

10 They had been accusing Him of being a demon---or, Beelzebub, as the Bible states it. And Beelzebub was the prince of the devils. And the reason that they called Him that, is because He was endued with a certain power, that He could look down through His audience and know men by name. He could also tell them the thoughts that were in their hearts.
And a well-trained, elected Jew came to Him by the invitation of one of Jesus' disciples, by the name of Philip. And he found his friend, Nathanael, praying and brought him to Jesus. And when Jesus saw this man, He said, "Behold, an Israelite in whom is no guile."
And he said, "When did You know me, Rabbi?" It astonished him.
And He said, "Before Philip called you, when you were under the tree, I saw thee."
And then, this man who was a staunch Hebrew, knowing the Scriptures in its right light, said, "Thou art the Son of God. Thou art the King of Israel!" because a supernatural act had been done, and he recognized that to be the Messiah.

11 But the Pharisees said, and the scholars and the intellectuals of that day said, "This man is Beelzebub. He does these things through the works of the devil ... or, the power of the devil."
And Jesus said, "If Satan can cast out Satan, then his kingdom is divided."
And as for myself, that satisfies me to know that Satan has no power to heal at all. For healing is creation. And Satan is not a creator. He can only pervert what God has already created. God is the only Creator.
Therefore, there is no healing but divine healing. Medicine does not build ... or, make creation. Medicine kills germs. But operation removes causes. But God does the healing. "I'm the Lord who heals all of thy diseases."

12 Now, we find so much today said about divine healing. We find that the medical doctor will say to the surgeon, "Do not go over there to that butcher. You don't need no operation."
You go over to the surgeon, he will say to the medic ... about the medical doctor, "You don't need sugar pills. You need an operation."
Both will say about the chiropractor, "He doesn't do nothing but pop your bones."
The chiropractor will say the same about the osteopathic, "He only gives you a rub down."
And all of them says, "The preacher is out of line for praying for the sick."

13 And if we look at it in the right light, when you see such attitudes as that taken, it goes to show there's a selfish motive behind it somewhere.
We know that the surgeon does good. We know that the medical doctor does good, the chiropractic, and the osteopathic. And if we have the right feeling for our fellow man, and our motives was right, and money wasn't connected with it, we would put our arms and efforts together to make life more pleasant for the pilgrim as he passes through this way. It's the motives behind it that governs what the man is. Jesus had been rebuking them for this.

14 Now, in all ages God has had His workmen working. Back in the Bible times when a miracle happened, they just thanked the Lord for this miracle. But we're living in a different day. When anybody says something about divine healing, they want to go down and get a doctor, and let him examine it, test it over to see if it's true. That is the very fundamental basis of unbelief. "Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen." We are healed because we believe that we are healed.

15 What if Moses when he saw the Angel in the bush, burning, what if Moses would have said, "I'll watch that, then I'll pull some of the leaves off and take them to the laboratory to find out what kind of a chemical has been sprayed on those leaves, that they do not burn." God would've never talked to him. But Moses took off his shoes, come up reverently, and talked to the burning bush, and it talked back to him.
That's the way we do God today. We don't try to scientifically this and scientifically that; we just take God at His Word and call the things which were not as though they were.
We don't need any laboratory test. God's Word is sufficient for the test. It's been proven through the years to be right every time. That's all we need.
But in those days people were used to miracles. They never questioned it. But today, it's a constant question, which makes it hard on the believer ... or, the weak believer.

16 Then we notice again, that through every age, God has somebody some place that He can lay His hands on and work through that person. He's never been without a witness since the world began. In every age, He's had witnesses.
And back in the time that we're now facing---in the great, golden age of Israel---God had gifted a man by the name of Solomon. He's known all through the world where the Bible is read as a man of wisdom. He prayed God to give him wisdom to lead the people.
And when a gift is given to the church and the church refuses to hear that gift, then the gift becomes of non-effect. But when the gift is given to the church and the church receives it, then it's a golden age for that church.
Israel was living in its golden age under Solomon. All Israel glorified God because of this marvelous gift. It was perfectly operating. And they could see the results, that it wasn't something that was just a put-on. It was a real gift from God.

17 And then the news... When the pass-bys, coming through the country, would hear of this great gift of God, they would go tell others. That's the way the good news gets scattered: one tells the other.
And then, way down in the utmost parts of the known world, there was a little queen, perhaps a little heathen queen, called the Queen of Sheba. And in her great domain, people would come by and say, that had passed through Israel, and say, "You should see that great gift that God has given to Israel."

18 You know, faith cometh by hearing, talking about it. We don't do enough talking about the good things of God. Tonight, the church of the living God is took up too much on talking about television programs, and some kind of a ball game, or something on that order. You should be testifying to the power of the resurrection of Jesus Christ, and let your whole life be wrapped in that.

19 So as the people came and went, the little queen kept hearing so much about it, until so much hearing caused a hunger to see it. If you keep living the right life and telling the people about how good Jesus has been to you, they'll begin to long to know something about it, something that'll take the place of all this nonsense and worldly pleasures.
As I said last evening: how dare men or women; you have no right to do those things. You are bought. You are not your own. But you're bought with a price of the precious blood of Jesus Christ, and you're not your own to throw your life away and to live the way you do. You have no legal rights to take that life that Christ has bought and sell it out to the devil. You have no rights of doing it.

20 And as I said, that thirsting, that thirst feeling in you, God made you with that thirst. That's part of God's makeup for you. He made you and give you a thirst: a thirst for Him. But you try to satisfy it with the worldly amusements: dancing, drinking, smoking, gambling, lust, trying to satisfy that blessed holy thirst with the things of the world. You have no right to do it, and you're cheating and robbing God by doing so.

21 This little queen begin to thirst. And she knowed that she was hearing something, that if it was only true, she would be willing to do anything if it was only true. So, she decides in her mind that she's just not going to take somebody's word. I like that.
You know when Philip found Nathanael ... or, Nathanael found ... or, Philip found Nathanael under the tree, Nathanael said, "Could there be any good thing come out of Nazareth?"
And I think Philip give him the best answer that anyone could. He said, "Come and see." That's the way to be satisfied: come and see.

22 And the little queen, as she knew she was mortal, and she must go to the dark eternity. If there was some ray of light from the unknown world to her, that would reflect anything towards her eternal destination, she was determined to see it for herself. I would to God that every American citizen would get that desire tonight.
Now, so she made preparations for going. And now, remember what was facing her. The first place, she was a woman. And she had about three months of desert travel, not in an air-conditioned Cadillac, but on the back of a camel.
Sometimes people want Jesus just to come and poke Himself down their throat. He doesn't come like that. You've got to be willing.

23 So when that real faith had set in her heart to see if that was the truth or not, she didn't care what the price was; she was determined to see whether it was the truth or not. I like that.
If this rumor of this meeting in Indianapolis had only a setup a creation of people to come and see whether this bunch of people has the real Holy Spirit or not, to see whether there is such a thing as the baptism of the Holy Spirit... And they would've done it, if they hadn't've choked their life out with some church creed or some worldly amusement. And they're satisfying that thirst with those things, when Christ ought to have the place. That's right.

24 Now notice, crossing that desert on a back of a camel, taking her about ninety days. Measure it on your map how far it is. Not only that but there were dangerous perils in the desert. Ishmael's children was in there, the robbers. And that poor, little woman out there by herself---and a queen---what would her little handful of eunuchs be up beside of the great swarm of Ishmaelites, robbers?
And not only did she say this, "I'll go see for myself." but she said, "I'll take an offering with me. If the thing is right, I'm going to support it with all I got." I like that.
She ladened her camels with frankincense, with gold, with silver. And what a perfect setup for the robber. But she had faith that she'd see it. And if you're determined to see whether Christ has raised from the dead or not, regardless of the price, God will make a way for you to see it. That's right.

25 And she took her offerings, and she placed them on her camels, and she sat there (that little woman), going across the desert, day and night, day and night, determined to see if this great gift of God really operated. She thought, "I've never heard such in my day. But I'll go and see if it's right." She finally arrived at the gates. She didn't come just to stay for one night of the revival. She was going to stay until she was convinced.
Oh, God, I pray that people will get that attitude: stay till it's over; be sure that you know. Don't walk up to the altar, say, "Lord, if You want me to have the Holy Ghost, give it to me. Well, You didn't do it. I'll go back. There's nothing to it." That's the reason you don't receive it.
When you're prayed for, "I don't look any different. I guess there's nothing to healing." Stay till you're convinced.

26 She unloaded the camels. She put her soldiers away. And when she walked over to the palace seat, and she stood at the door, and she seen this great gift of God begin to move upon Solomon, when she seen that discerning of spirit, till there wasn't no one come before him that could match his wisdom... He had a discerning spirit. And she stayed for many days and she watched.
And after she was convinced, she went and unladened her camels, give the great offerings for support. And not only that, she said, "All that I have heard has been right and more than I have heard."
Oh, if the church of the living God could only come to the place that they would stay at the foot of the cross, humbling themselves until they were convinced that Jesus Christ lives and reigns.

27 It is a great hour that we're living, a great day that we're living. And God has sent His Son as a propitiation for our sins. He died in our stead. He was the innocent One that became guilty, that we guilty might be innocent. The story is this (Think of it as you measure your own corruptible life in His Presence.): Jesus became you that you through His grace might become Him.
You who were going to hell, He took your place, that you might sit in heaven with Him at His place. You who were a son of the devil by nature, He took the nature ... or, the sin of your nature that you might become a son of God and sit in the heavenlies with Him. That's the story. And He did not leave us without witness.

28 He said, "A little while, the world will see Me no more, yet ye shall see Me for I (and 'I' is a personal pronoun), I will be with you, even in you to the end of the world. And the things that I do shall you do also. More than this shall you do, for I go to My Father. He that believeth on Me, the works that I do shall he also."
Now, "I will not leave you comfortless. I will pray the Father. He will send you the Holy Spirit of truth." And the Holy Spirit when He come was to bear witness of Jesus. Now, if that isn't true, then God promised something that He wasn't able to do.

29 But in this great atheotic, infidelic, skeptical age that we're living, I'm so happy that I can challenge the world to the fact that, in the midst of all kinds of heathen gods, and everything else, and idols, and worldly living, there is a real, resurrected, living Jesus Christ, who's just as real tonight as He was when He walked on Galilee. He hasn't failed. He will not fail. And this great Jesus is in our midst now. And He will declare Himself to be alive. He is declaring Himself to be alive. He's omnipresent, omnipotent, infinite God who cannot fail.

30 And I ask of you tonight, my sinner friend, as you're in your pilgrimage here on this earth with your eternal destination before you, you are set before you tonight the right and wrong thing. If you desire to quench that thirst that God has given you to love Him and pulling worldly things into it to try to quench that holy thirst, the God of heaven has raised up His Son and sent forth the Holy Spirit, as a gift to the church in this age, that that Holy Spirit will take and quench every thirst you have and give you blessed peace.
I offer Him to you tonight as your Saviour and the only Mediator between God and man. And while we bow our heads just a moment, I want you to think on those things. Be sincere; be quiet before God just for the next moment or two. Think it over.

31 Has Christ become such a satisfaction to you, that all your desires are all met of Him? Has He become the very fountain of your life? Or are you trying to push Him away and satisfy your longing with the lust of this world? Or in another trick of the enemy, are you trying to satisfy this longing by joining the church and neglecting that great spiritual birth, which is the only remedy that you can be saved by? For the very Author of life said, "Except a man be born again of the Spirit of God, he will in nowise enter in."
If there's such a person, while you're examining yourself, say, "Brother Branham, I have just had a little taste of Christ. But really I've never drank from the free fountain. I still have malice and strife. I do belong to church, but I've never been satisfied, and I want Christ to be my satisfying Portion. I'll admit, I still love to hear them tell jokes, and Arthur Godfrey, and all these other worldly actors."

32 I just read in a newspaper where a commentator has taken two years. Each of those actors have three and four psychiatrists to keep them up. Why don't you come to Christ and receive Him as your sin bearer, as your all-sufficient One? For may I explain to you this, He is the inexhaustible fountain of life. He's God's gift to you.
While we're praying all over the church and thinking it over, would you like to raise your hands to Christ tonight? Say, "God, be merciful to me, and strike my heart tonight with Your Holy Spirit, and give me the satisfying portion that I so desire." Will you do it just before we pray for the sick? God bless you, brother; you, my sister; you, my brother. Just be in prayer, the whole church now.

33 God bless you, young boy. God bless you, my brother here. Someone else? And my sister, my brother back there, and over there, and down here, God bless you all. "Christ, I raise my hand to Thee. Be my everlasting portion." God bless you back here in the middle aisle; brother; and you sister just behind him.
"Thou the stream of all my comfort." God bless you, sister, over here; you, brother, by her side; you over here in the aisle. Aged people with your hands up there, God bless you. What did Crosby say? God bless you, my brother.
Thou, the stream of all my comfort,
More than life to me.
Whom have I? (May I change that
just a moment for this altar?)
What have I on earth beside Thee
to satisfy me?
Nothing but the blood of Jesus. God bless you, sister. God bless you, brother. That's right. God sees you. Remember, when you put up your hand, as I said last evening, you break every law of gravitation. God bless you, sister.

34 You defy the laws of gravitation when you raise your hand. Why? You got a spirit in you. And that spirit has made a decision, that it wants to serve Christ and live. Your spirit doesn't want to die. So by the... To defy the laws of gravitation, which would hold your hands down, there's a supernatural something in you that makes you raise your hands towards your Creator. God sees that. If you'll mean that, He puts your name on the book of life, "and you have eternal, everlasting life and shall never come into condemnation, but has passed from death to life." Saint John 5:24, God's Word.
Is there another just before we pray? "Brother Branham, remember me." God bless you back there, brother. And I see your hands way back in the back. Sure, God does. God bless you here, sister; you, sister; you, sonny boy; you, sister. God bless you there, brother; you, sister; you. Oh, that's wonderful. Forty, fifty hands up already in this little group tonight.

35 "I now want to make my pledge of loyalty to Christ. I now do promise, as I raise up my hands, be Thou my everlasting Portion."
And the gift of God's eternal life, which is the greatest gift in the world, will speak back into your heart. "Yes, child of Mine, I now receive you."
God bless you, sister, here in the reserves. God bless you over there, sister, certainly He sees you. God bless you, my brother. God bless you, brother. God bless you over here. "Thou, my everlasting Portion..." Will you raise your hand again just before prayer? God bless you, sister. You back there, yeah. Some others who hasn't as yet raised your hand and wants to accept Christ, would you do it just now? God bless you, little boy. All right.

36 Just a moment longer. I know our time's getting away. How many in here that maybe has never been in a meeting before, say, "Brother Branham, I have come tonight on this one basis. I've come like the Queen of Sheba. I've come, I've heard about this Christ being raised from the dead doing the same thing here in the Cadle Tabernacle that He did before His crucifixion."? "And if Christ will do that tonight, as I've come like the Queen of Sheba to watch, I too will surrender my heart. Oh, I've been a church member, Brother Branham, but I've never been born again. I still love the things of the world." Oh, you say, "Do you... Is there something make you quit loving it?"
Jesus said ... or, the Bible says, "He that loves the world or the things of the world, the love of God is not even in him."

37 You can't love the filth and modern, world frolic, and still love Christ. It's totally impossible. Bitter and sweet water can't come from the same fountain. Would you raise your hand, say, "If God will prove that to me tonight, I'll be His beloved servant, so help me, as long as I live."? All the church members that feels that way, or sinners, raise your hand. God bless you. Dozens of them. All right, let us pray.

38 Oh, Thou Portion, Thou wonderful Christ, come, O Christ and receive these (by the fruits of this message tonight) has brought God to their heart. For Thou hast said, "No man can come to Me except My Father draws him first." And these are love gifts that God has given to His Son. And You said, "No man can pluck them from My hand, for no man is as great as My Father who gave them to Me."
And I present them to Thee, most holy God. And I pray sincerely with all that is within me, if Thou will keep their heart in perfect peace, and will satisfy every longing that's in their soul, and make Christ so real to them, Father, that they'll never wish to stray again. They are Yours, Father. I give them to Thee in the name of Thy Son, the Lord Jesus. Amen.
I wonder if the organist could give us a little chord. How many love good old hymns? Do you just love them? Oh, there's something about them that's so real.
I love Him, I love Him,
Because He first loved me.
And purchased my salvation
On cold, dark Calvary."
Every believer in here tonight and all that loves God, let's raise our hands as we sing this. Come on now, everyone.
I love Him, I love Him.
Because He first loved me,
And purchased my salvation
On Calvary's tree.

39 Doesn't that just do something to you? Doesn't that just give you a satisfying portion? How many feels that way about it? Say, "It just does something to me." What is it? The blood of Jesus Christ cleanses us from all sin. We cannot trust in our own merits; we only trust in His merits, which God has received Him and we being in Christ... The body of Christ is already judged. We can never come into judgment, because we've accepted Christ as our Propitiation. Therefore, we cannot be judged. God couldn't be just and bring us to judgment. We've passed from death unto life. He was judged in our stead. It would thrill the heart of the blackest heart sinner in the world, if that message could only sink down.
Now, we're going to pray for the sick. I don't know just how well we're going to get along, but that all lays in the hands of God. But I wish you would just give me your undivided attention for awhile. I'll pray for as many as I can. Then we will just start praying a little faster for them.

40 And I wonder tonight, as we stand here as the closing of this meeting, I want to thank Buford Cadle, and the staff of the Cadle Tabernacle from the depths of my heart for the privilege they have given us to come to this great city, and to be in their tabernacle, and be their guest here. May God fill this tabernacle with penitent souls is my sincere prayer.
The beloved pastor here ... (I can't think of his name at this time.) I've heard him several times on the radio, and a wonderful Bible teacher and a blessed brother. And all knows Russell Ford who sang with Mrs. Cadle, the late Mrs. Cadle, a lovely voice. God bless him also. And all that's concerned in this tabernacle, we thank God for them. May the Lord bless them. [A brother says, "It's Reverend Reynolds."] Reverend Reynolds, I believe it's Dr. Reverend Reynolds. We are ... [Gap in the audio.]

41 If it's in the atonement, it's a finished work. Salvation was finished when Christ died. And every redemptive blessing was finished when Christ died at Calvary. And the only way that we do, is to accept it as our personal gift from God through Christ.
First, it comes by hearing the Word. Next, it comes by teachers, apostles, prophets, and different gifts in the church.
Now, Jesus does not have to do these things. Let it be well known. (I'm forty-eight years old. I don't know how much time I got allotted here on earth.) But let it be known this, that God doesn't have to do these things just to prove that He's God, but He does them because He promised He would do them. Jesus said that He did it that it might be fulfilled which the prophet spoke.

42 God does this tonight because Jesus said, "The same things that I do, shall you do. I will be with you, even in you to the end of the world." He must keep that Word. And then, after His resurrection, we seen Cleopas and his friend going down to Emmaus. And they walked with the man all day long, not knowing that that was Jesus.
And many dear people here tonight walk daily. Maybe you've never been a Christian before. But that was Christ who kept you from having that accident. That was Christ who spared that baby's life. You just didn't recognize it.

43 But when He got them on the inside and closed the doors in the little inn, He did something just like He did when He was here before His crucifixion. And their eyes were opened, and they recognized that to be the risen Christ. They went back to Jerusalem light-footed, lighthearted, not to argue their religion, but to say, "The Lord is risen indeed."

44 That's what we're here for: to manifest by the will of God, through the gift of God, the resurrected Jesus. And if He shall come tonight at the platform, and through the audience, and do the things just like He did it on earth here, before His crucifixion... The Bible said, Hebrews 13:8, "Jesus Christ, the same yesterday, today, and forever..."
Now, Jesus yesterday, did He claim to be a healer? No, sir. He said, "It's not Me that doeth the works; it's My Father that dwelleth in Me. He doeth the works." Now, listen to Saint John 5:19. He'd passed a bunch of cripples. He had not healed any of them. He went over to a man laying on a little pallet. And He said, "Wilt thou be made whole?" For Jesus knew that he was in that condition. When the man was caught, he was questioned after he was healed.

45 Jesus said, "Verily, verily, I say unto you, the Son can do nothing in Himself, but what He sees the Father doing, that doeth the Son likewise." He has risen from the dead and will do the same tonight.
Now, my boy's give out... What prayer cards have you...? Q's, 1 to a 100?

The Queen of the South

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1 Let us remain standing just a moment now for prayer as we bow our heads.
Eternal and blessed God, we are thankful for this privilege of being here in this place tonight, this Hippodrome, an arena. And we are so happy to see that people in a daring snowstorm still have the courage to come out to hear the Word of God. And that the faith of our fathers is living still, in spite of dungeon, sword, or death. And I'm thankful, Lord, to be associated tonight along this group of the purchase of Thy blood.
We'd ask that You would visit us tonight in a very special way. Bless this little group. And we pray that when the service is ended, as we go to our different homes, may we be able to say like those who came from Emmaus, "Did not our hearts burn within us as he talked to us along the road." For we ask it in Jesus' name, Thy Son. Amen.
You may be seated.

2 As I was coming down tonight, we were late because you can just drive real slow, the snowstorms are so terrific. And I was thinking that people who come to a service on a night like this, certainly did not come out to be seen. They come out because they love the Lord Jesus. And Jesus said in His Word, "If I be lifted up, I will draw all men unto me." And there's something about the Gospel that's been the world's greatest drawing card. No matter if it's even preached in its simplicity, yet it has something about it that nothing else has ever touched the heart of men to draw them like the Gospel of the Lord Jesus.
And I am grateful to God for you group that's out tonight. Many people living at a distance would say, "Now, wait a minute; they're going to be there ten nights. I want to go, but not on a night like this." Well, that's all right. But you have dared the storm. Now, we pray that God will bless you and will meet everything that you have need of. I'm here to be your brother and servant of Christ.

3 And now, I don't want to keep you very long. Tomorrow is Sunday and if any of you visitors are here from other parts of the country, I'm sure that you'll be welcome to some of these fine churches around here in the morning. I know that there is many. I have looked over the little ads of churches, and there's many fine churches here that represents the church that you've come from. And if you have no church, then find one somewhere in the morning and go. There's some ministers, I guess, that sits here on the platform, and they'd be glad to have you at their churches. I'm sure they would. Give you a visitors card, if they do so in their church, so that you can take to your own church and you won't be counted missing in your Sunday school.
Then tomorrow afternoon, the Lord willing, it falls my lot to speak, tomorrow afternoon. That is, not on a healing service, but an evangelistic message. And if you and your pastor and your congregation can see to come, we'd be happy to have you.
Sunday, we do not ask people to leave their post of duty unless the church has fully cooperated and you have no services at your church. We're here as a visitor. We don't want to pull anyone from their post of duty. We're trying to help that church to grow. And we want every member at his own church. And then, if you have sickness and you want to be prayed for tomorrow night, get permission from your pastor. Tell him what you want to do; if it's the only night that you can get here, we'd be glad to have you. But first, is your duty at your church.
And tomorrow afternoon, everybody'll have ... guess has no services tomorrow afternoon, so if you can, come out. I want to preach on, tomorrow afternoon, if the Lord willing, "A Perverted Life." And be about a hour of your time, I suppose. And they've announced what time the services would start. I suppose at two-thirty. Every creed, denomination, color, race, everybody's welcome.

4 Now, thinking tonight in this little group, so I wouldn't keep you too long, being late to start with, and we appreciate the custodians who let us have the lights, and stays and waits with us. I met two of the gentlemen the first day in here and I said, "What time should we close?"
He said, "That's up to you." Now that's really nice; I appreciate that. We all appreciate that from them men. And I told them that usually we were out by nine-thirty each night when we have a long campaign like this.

5 And now I want to speak to you a little from the Word. How many loves the Word? Oh, there's something about it that's real. I think the Word should be read in every service, because my word will fail, your word will fail; but God's Word can never fail because it's the Word of God.
And I think tonight, just for a little text that I've used before in other places, I would like to call your attention to Matthew the 12th chapter, 42nd verse. And I got a little thought from this when I seen where Brother Paul Boyd had wrote a little article in a paper. He's a Mennonite brother. And I'd preached on this at another place, and perhaps that's where Brother Boyd had picked it up. And I want to read for a moment, and I will probably approach it from a different stand point.

6 And now, from tomorrow on, every afternoon there will be services, instruction services, as our lovely brother, Dr. Vayle, will be explaining to us the Word of faith from the Bible, each afternoon, beginning tomorrow, through the rest of the service.

7 I don't know whether Brother Vayle has announced it yet, of the going home of Brother Bosworth. How many ever knowed Brother F. F. Bosworth? He's happier tonight than he's ever been. He's in glory. The gallant soldier, one of the most outstanding Bible teachers on divine healing I ever met in my life. I've read of many great men, and I've read their history. I've heard them that had little mark here, and a little black mark here, and a little mark against them over here; but never one voice did I ever hear, or anything, against F. F. Bosworth. He was a man that lived what the Bible teaches. He was the most honest and upright and unguiled person that I know of.
A few years ago, about three years ago, taking a tour, way down in South Africa with me, around eighty years old. Been on the battlefield since a little boy. He was preaching the Gospel before I was born. And down in them battlefields, among the natives, preaching the Gospel. When I met him a few weeks ago, when I went to see him just before his leaving here, when I walked into the building, this come on my heart, "My father, my father, the chariots of Israel and the horsemen thereof." As those old trembling hands reached for me, he said, "Brother Branham, this is the happiest time of my life." Said, "I'm expecting any minute for Him to walk in the door and I will go home with Him."

8 Before he left, he saw a vision of heaven. And about two hours before his passing over, he went into a coma, raising up in his bed, shaking hands with someone, and greeting people that he had met and preached the Gospel to, had been gone for years. I think this of him: "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."
I'm sure that he got to shake hands with Paul Rader, which was an associate to him. How many ever heard of Paul Rader? He wrote my theme song, "Only Believe." How little did he know, that boy sitting at his feet would take this song around the world. It's called me in---I don't know how many languages, hundreds of languages, around the world---as a theme song.

9 Paul, when he died, in California, they had pulled the curtains down and had the little Bible ... the little quartet, Moody Bible Institute, down there singing songs. And they were singing, "Nearer My God, to Thee." And of all that knowed Paul, know he had a sense of humor. And he looked up and he said, "Who's dying, you or I?" He said, "Pull back those shades and sing me some real snappy Gospel songs." And they begin to sing "Down at the cross where my Saviour died." He said, "That sounds better."
And then he said, "Where's Luke?" Luke was his brother. Luke and Paul stuck together and worked together like my son and I. They were brothers and buddies. He said, "Where's Luke?" Luke was in the next room; he couldn't stand to see his brother die. So he said, "Tell Luke to come here." And Luke came in; he took Luke by the hand; he said, "Luke, we've been a long ways together and through a many hard battle. But think of it, Luke, in five minutes from now, I will be standing in the presence of Jesus Christ, clothed in His righteousness."

10 Let me go like that. Let my end be like that. I've held them when they screamed and fought devils off of them and so forth. I've seen men go in all kinds of conditions. Let me go as a Christian. Let me come to the last beat of my heart knowing this, when I go into that big dark chamber yonder that's called death, I don't want to go in like a coward. I want when I know it's my end, I want to wrap myself in the robes of His righteousness, entering into death knowing this, that I know Him in the power of His resurrection, that when He calls, I will come out from among the dead, some of these days.

11 May God rest the soul of F. F. Bosworth in peace. I'm supposed to preach his funeral Monday. If I preach his funeral, I have to miss both Sunday and Monday services here. Brother Vayle is trying to get ahold of Sister Bosworth, to ask if Brother Roberts or somebody could do it, because there'll be many ministers there that could do it. And he's to be buried Monday at two o'clock. In respects of this great warrior, before we read the Word of God, let's stand to our feet and offer prayer to God for this gallant life.

12 O Blessed God, as Christians, we bow our heads to the dust from where we was taken and someday we shall return, if Jesus tarries. There is one who has walked among us and preached to us, Thy humble and holy servant, Brother F. F. Bosworth. Tonight his body lays in a casket, but his soul is with Thee, O God. And across the border as he was coming down to the river the other morning, and the waves was a flying high in the air at the old Jordan, we know that there was many friends to meet him, by preaching the Gospel, that by that cause, he had brought them to a saving knowledge of Thy dear Son, and they were there to meet him. We trust that You'll bless his gallant soul. And let us remember by his life and his examples and his teaching and how firm he stood on Thy eternal Word until he lived to be a ripe old age, way many years over the allotted time.
We pray for Sister Bosworth, for his daughters and his sons. We feel that our loss will be heaven's gain. And let us now press hard in the battle, for a great officer of this army has been taken. In Thy wise providence Thou has granted this. And we pray that'll it make us, now seeing that we're one less, that we may buckle on the full armor of God, and fight until Jesus comes. For we ask it in His name. Amen.
You may be seated.

13 The God of heaven rest the soul of Daddy Bosworth in peace. I, too, shall come to that end someday, and you too. Let me go like that in peace. While I'm here, let me do all that I can for the kingdom of God.

14 In the 12th chapter of Saint Matthew's Gospel, and the 42nd verse, I read for a Scripture lesson.
And the queen of the south shall rise up in the judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it: for she came from the uttermost parts of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and, behold, a greater than Solomon is here.

15 Jesus had just been in a discussion. He was having a great campaign. And as such a campaign as Jesus would have, it brought out mixed multitudes. When the supernatural is done ... has been done, rather, it causes mixed multitudes. It brings this class of people: believers, unbelievers, and make believers. And it always has did that.
And in this great discussion, He'd been presenting the Gospel in the power of the Holy Spirit, and many of the people had believed on Him. But as usual there are those who would not believe. And the sad part of it is, my brethren, is to think of it in this light, that those people that cannot believe were ordained to that condemnation. That's the Scripture. If you are a believer tonight, you should bow your head in reverence and humbleness to thank God that He chose you in Christ before the foundation of the world. Because, "No man can come to me," said Jesus, "except my Father draws him." And God by foreknowledge, not willing that any should perish, but by foreknowledge, knew who would, so He could predestinate from the beginning, all things. Jesus come to save those who the Father saw before the foundation of the world, that would be saved.

16 And therefore, these religious people, Pharisees, very religious, teachers. Oh, if God willing, we want to get down in that this week, in the Word. And notice, they were very highly educated, scholarly, holy, and yet unbelievers, religious men, teachers, priests. Their fathers, and their father's father's father were priests before them. They had to be Levites to be a priest. They had to be renowned, they had to be without blemish and without fault, holy men. But yet were considered, and were unbelievers. And Jesus said, "You are of your father, the devil." The highest religious men in the world at that present time, Jesus said their father was the devil.

17 These men, all disturbed about the supernatural. They said, "It must be some sort of a setup." But when they seen that a mechanical setup wouldn't produce the evidence, therefore they never spoke it out loud; they said it in their hearts: "He has the spirit of Beelzebub." Could you imagine, a man so blind to the Scriptures, that would see the power of the Almighty God performing signs that only God could do, that were foretold in the Bible that would be done by the Messiah, and then call that Spirit an unclean spirit. They didn't speak it loud. They didn't have to speak it loud. Jesus knows the thoughts of your heart.
Notice it in the meetings. Watch in the meetings when evil arises, watch the Spirit pick it up, like last night, before it ever got started. It's the Holy Spirit.

18 And as this taken place, they reasoned in their hearts (25th verse), and said, "This man is Beelzebub," which is a great spirit of the devil, fortuneteller or something.
And Jesus said, "If they've called the master of the house Beelzebub, how much more will they call those of his household?" Because they've got eyes but can't see; they're scholars, learned, polished. But that isn't it. God doesn't come by knowledge. If that would have been so, in the garden of Eden when they ate from the tree of knowledge, they'd know more about God than they ever did. By knowledge brings death. We only know God by faith. Has nothing to do with your education or any of your social status. It's only by faith are you saved, and that through the grace of God. Only by faith and by the grace of God can you believe God.

19 Now, notice. He said that He perceiving their thoughts... In their heart they said, "This man is a faker. He is a Beelzebub." What a spirit to be on a person! Just as soon as it struck them, Jesus knew it. And He said, "You can call the Son of man that kind of a name and I will forgive you: but when the Holy Ghost is come, and you speak that against Him, it will never be forgiven you, in this world, or in the world to come." Weigh that in the balance for a few moments, and think what that means. It shall never be forgiven to man to blaspheme against the Holy Ghost because they said, "This is an unclean spirit." Now, many of you have wondered what is the unpardonable sin. There it is.
My mother, used to be (because that she didn't know any better) she said, "It's a woman that would, before childbirth, would have an abortion case, taking the life of an innocent baby who didn't have a chance to be brought forth in the world." My father differed with her; he said, "It's a man that would take his own life. If a man takes his own life, he's insane."
So look, the Scripture is the background. Jesus said, "If you speak a word against the Holy Spirit, it shall never be forgiven you." All sin shall be forgiven except that sin. And that's unbelief. Oh, what a horrible thing that unbelief is. And the most unbelievers are religious people. The most unbelievers, I quote again, is religious people. It's been in every age. And this age is no exception. It's religious people who are unbelievers.

20 And most time when people are religious, they think God owes them something. I have seen people who's been lived in church, a straight life, come to the platform and fail to be healed, when a prostitute off the street would come humbly and bow in the presence of God and reckon herself to be a prostitute and ask forgiveness and be healed of sarcomas cancer. Where a Christian walk across with merely a little headache, and fail to get it. God doesn't judge you or heal you by your church affiliation; it's according to your faith you are healed.

21 Then He went on and begin to upbraid them and scorn them for their unbelief. And He brought up this here notable statement, "The queen of the south shall rise in the judgment."
Now, God in all ages has always declared Himself through the supernatural. You ask any Bible reader, any theologian that's honest, and they will tell you that when the supernatural is displayed, it's in the presence of God. God always brings supernatural because He is supernatural. And in every age when He displays Himself, it's in the supernatural. He does it because He loves people, and He loves to separate His believers from the unbelievers.

22 Notice, in the age that Jesus was speaking on, was in the age of Solomon. Now, when God sends something to the earth... Oh, I would that every church member listen close. That when God sends something to the church, in every age, if the people receive it, it becomes a great thing. And the church is empowered and great things take place. But if the church rejects it, that church goes out into darkness. Now, you historians, skip back through the ages just a little bit and see if that's right or wrong. You Bible readers, go back to the Old Testament and bring it down through each age. God changes not.

23 And he was referring to Solomon. Solomon, God gave Solomon, just a man that had his ups-and-downs and his differences just like you and I do. But God gave this man a gift, because He was going to make him ... present him to the church. Now, if the church had turned him down, Israel would've never have had that golden age. And anyone knows that Israel prospered more under the reign of Solomon than any other king they ever had. The temple was built. The world bowed at the feet of Solomon. And he wasn't a war man. He was a man who was empowered with the gift of the Holy Spirit. And all of his kingdom recognized it. He had a gift of discernment, to discern things. And when this great gift was manifested, all the people with one accord give thanks unto God and was looking for it to come.
Would it not be a great thing tonight, if all of the church of the living God, would recognize the presence of the Lord Jesus Christ, the all sufficient gift to the church, and the working of the Holy Spirit?

24 I was reading an article today in the "Cornet" about old-time religion coming back, and how it begin to bring and talk about the Pentecostal church. Now, we Baptists and all the rest of us, has to recognize that the Pentecostal church is the fastest growing Protestant church in all the world. In all their differences, and all of their misunderstanding, yet they come from a little tin can alley, until they possess the best churches in the land. That's right. And all their faults. If all of the Oneness, and the Trinitarians, and all of the little isms, would get out of that great church, she'd rise as a mighty conqueror. But they're so split and divided. Satan's got them shooting at one another, instead of all their guns turned on him. And they shoot at the Methodist, they shoot at the Baptist, they shoot at one another. And the selfishness... The motives are not right; the objectives is not right. But in spite of all that, the blessed Holy Spirit dwells among them. That's right.
And then the strange to be, that they can't recognize, the Holy Spirit's work, and all come together and unite their efforts for the kingdom of God. The Baptist is just as hungry for the Holy Spirit as you Pentecostals are. But you're so broke up and have brought so much disgrace, because the Baptist and Methodist and so forth, are scared to take ahold of it. And it's by your actions that's brought this thing. Every mortal being has some hunger in him for God.

25 Now, everybody was with Solomon, one accord. And look how the news of that swept out. All across the lands, around the world, every heathen nation knew that Israel had a gift in their midst. He wasn't a prophet; he just had a gift. And they recognized it. And the church recognized it. The nation recognized it. And all the other nations, by that, knew that it was real.
Wouldn't that be nice tonight if the great church of Jesus Christ, where there's millions times millions of heathens going to hell every year, because we don't recognize the gift among us...

26 Notice this just a little bit. And as the news swept up, way down in the land of Sheba... If you'll mark it on the map, it was a long ways across the Sahara to the utmost parts of the known world in that day. There was a little heathen queen, and everybody come by must have told her, "You should go up into Israel. Oh, they've got a man up there who has a gift of God. And they say it is most outstanding." The travelers come by. "Oh," one would say, "I seen the difference, and this great man through his spirit of discernment, of their God, settled the thing."
Faith cometh by what? Hearing, hearing the Word, the Word of the living God. And how they must have longed to get up there to see it. Finally the little queen decided that she would go and find out for herself all she had heard.

27 Now, if you've got any speck of spirit about you, you're interested in knowing about God. 'Course those that are dead in sin and trespasses, they might be preachers, but that doesn't mean anything. Those Pharisees were priests too, teachers. Dead.
My mother, an old southern woman, used to have an expression, "You can't get blood out of a turnip." It has no blood. So how can you teach supernatural things to people who have no conception of supernatural? That's our nation, as a people. Oh, we're so suspicious.

28 Now, notice what taken place. And as the little queen heard, it roused her curiosity, and she said, "I will go and see for myself. I'd like to visit that campaign. I would like to go back and sit down for awhile and just watch and listen with an open heart." I wish everyone in Waterloo felt that way. She said, "I will go, I will not go critical. I will just go and see if the things that they tell me is true."
Now, look what that little woman had to confront. The first place, she was a woman. And she had a long journey and the desert was full of robbers. Not only that, but she took something with her. She said, "If it is true, then I'm going to support it." So she ladened her camels with gold and frankincense and spices, perhaps the best she had in her kingdom. But to us, we take God at second place, third place, even last place. But she was putting God first place, and now a heathen, pagan. And she ladened the camels.

29 Now, look. She had at least three months' journey before her, three months. Not in an air-conditioned train, neither in a great Cadillac, but she had to ride on the back of a camel. Some people won't come across the street. Some has nothing to do with it at all; you couldn't go pick them up in a Cadillac and drive them a city block. Oh, they want nothing to do with it, no, sir. "My church has nothing to do with that kind of stuff; get it away." Not even got the intelligence, and not enough spirit to even come and see for themselves. And if they would sit down a minute, they'd criticize everything was done. But God will move just the same, because He's got to do that in order to rise and condemn that person in the resurrection. Search the Scriptures and see if that ain't God's plan always.

30 Oh, if it come with flowers, if it come in high pomp, and great glory... Were it, not no disregards, but some great well-known evangelist, or some great famous doctor of divinity. Oh, they'd like to be represented, where the mayor of the city would come out.
The same thing was thought when Jesus was born in Bethlehem. They never sang hosannas when the King was born, but the angels sung it, not the kings and potentates, but the shepherds on the hillsides. He wasn't born in a fine decorated hospital room with pink dressings hanging down. He was born in a stinking manger. How could they ever go to hear a man like that, no matter what he done. You see what pride and selfishness does? It shuts you up from the kingdom of God. I wonder sometime, as we think: What will happen to this generation?

31 Then as the queen, she laden her camels, she took all these things. And on the desert, what would she confront? A little woman with a little bunch of men marching along with her. Why, the sons of Ishmael was out there, the robbers of the desert. And she was laden with gold. She had to think about that. But if in her heart she was hungering to find out whether that gift was real or not, God made a way for her.
And God will make a way for every man or woman who's hungering and thirsting for righteousness sake. God makes a way. Don't be scared that something's going to happen; it won't happen. Go anyhow. Be determined to press in to see the kingdom of God.

32 And she went on till she come to the gates of the palace. And now notice: She never come just to hear one night's meeting. She unladened the camels and set up her tents and was going to stay till she was convinced. We will sit about five minutes and draw our conception, and [Brother Branham claps his hands once.] gone. The devil will sit on your shoulder and say, "Ah, that's not right."
You say, "That's right Mr. Devil, you're my... I love you, sure; let's get out of here." Then what are you going to do when you stand by that queen in the judgment?

33 Notice. Then when she unloaded her camels and she took her mistresses and the little servant girls and she gathered in the courtrooms where the revival was being held, and she watched with an open heart. Not just Miss little woman down in the alley, not the little wash-woman on the corner, but a queen. Then we think we're somebody, too good to go to a meeting. Oh, our social standing! I want mine to be in heaven.
So when she unloaded and sat down... That's a good way to do; unload and sit down. Unload your suspicions, all your superstition, all your unbelief, and sit down. And watch for the kingdom of God.

34 And as she sit and Solomon came out, then she watched until the time that the Holy Spirit begin to move on Solomon. And she saw that great discernment. I can just see her punch the little maid sitting by her, saying, "Look at that. Did ever you see such in our church? It must come from their God." And after while another case come up and Solomon, with the spirit of discernment, discerned it perfectly. And when she was convinced, she went to Solomon and she said, "All that I have heard is true, and more than I have ever heard is true."

35 What about us? What did Jesus say? "She will rise in the judgment and will condemn this religious generation." If she did it in his day, and if they were that way in that day, the world's groped two thousand years in sin since then, what will it be in this day? When Hebrews 11 said, "Seeing that we're compassed about, with such a great cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight and the sin that does so easily beset us." Hebrews the 12th chapter. Speaking of the 11th, where the great witnesses was done, the supernatural was performed. And Paul saying, "Seeing that we're compassed with that type of witnesses, let's lay aside every sin." What is sin? Unbelief. "Let us lay aside every sin, every weight, everything that's contrary, and run with patience the race that's set before us."

36 In that last generation, and this may be it, and I believe that it is. And if Jesus said, in His generation, with all of His power, and nothing less than Jehovah God made flesh... For in Him dwelt the fullness of the godhead bodily, and God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself. And yet Him living before the Holy Spirit came, said, "There is forgiveness for you," to reject Him, the gift of God sent to do the miracles that He did, discerning their thoughts; He said, "That will be forgiven: but when the Holy Spirit is come, just one word against it will never be forgiven, in this world, or in the world to come."
Oh, America, America, how you say, "I'm rich and have the best churches in the world, and the greatest missionaries, and the best fed and the best dressed." How little you know that you're naked, miserable, blind, poor, and wretched, and don't know it. Remember your day is now, tomorrow may be too late. It's the Word of the Lord. Think of it, while we pray.

37 O blessed Lord, it is written and You have said that the Scriptures cannot be broken, that if the righteous be scarcely saved, where will the sinner and the ungodly appear? And knowing now, with sputniks in the skies, and a heathen nation, that God has raised up to bring judgment to us, that we could be doomed before morning. And with all the sign posts pointing at the end time, and Your blessed Spirit coming into our midst and doing the very thing that You said that would take place. And America gropes in her sin of rock-and-roll and all these other things, unconcerned, eating, drinking, marrying, giving in marriage, building, doing sin, "Lovers of pleasure more than lovers of God; having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof."
We're not alarmed, Lord, You said it would be this way. We're just happy to know that we're living in this day to see it. Judge us now, Lord, and give us mercy while the mercy is still flowing free. And forgive us of our unbelief. And grant unto us pardoning grace. In the name of Thy Son.

38 With our heads bowed and the music softly playing, I wonder tonight, that in this little audience that's went through the snow... You say, "Brother Branham, you're a very rude minister." It's better to tell you the truth, brother, than to pat you on the shoulder knowing you're wrong. Would you say this? "God I want to be right. I want to be a real believer. Help Thou my unbelief." Would you raise your hand to Him? Every head bowed, just raise your hand. God bless you. My, just dozens of hands in this little crowd. That's honest confession.
You know what you done when you raised your hand? You say, "Brother Branham, what did that do to them?" Well, it meant the difference between death and life. Do you know you defied the laws of gravitation when you did that? Gravitation holds your hand down. And there's no way for your hand to be lifted up. But there's a spirit in you that made a decision, that recognized that you were wrong and you need Christ. And you defied those laws of gravitation and raised your hand towards heaven where your Saviour looks at you. He put your name on His book, if you really meant it.

39 Now, Father God, grant pardoning to each one, forgive their sins. O God, hear my prayer; all their unbeliefs, may it be under the blood. And may they be dressed just now in the righteousness of Christ. And we would pray that You would come to us and manifest Yourself to these new babies that they might know that their faith is not in vain. The Jesus that walked the Sea of Galilee, who discerned the spirit of the Jew who came by the name of Nathanael, told him who he was and where he had come from, who said to the old fisherman, Peter, who he was and who his daddy was, who told the woman at the well her wrong, who perceived their thoughts, and promised that "The things that I do shall you also." And He said, "I do nothing till my Father shows me first, then that I do." Seeing this last day, Lord, that He promised these things, the written Scriptures which cannot be broken.
Grant that peace will rest in their heart. And all the mountains that's before them, may they crumble this very night with that faith that they have just raised their hands to receive. If they are sick, may that mountain crumble. If they have had a mountain of unbelief, may it crumble. May every obstacle crumble that stands between them and good health and serving the living God. For we ask it in Jesus Christ's name, as I present them to Thee, Father; they are the trophies of this message and they are love gifts that God has given to His Son. And no man can pluck them out of His hand. They have eternal life and shall never come to the judgment. We thank Thee, in Christ's name. Amen.

40 Do you feel real good? Don't you just love to enjoy the presence of the Holy Spirit? It just does something to you. Now, it is prayer time now. Now, each of you people that raised your hand, just accept Him in what He promised. Now, watch. If He has raised from the dead, He's here. He promised "Wherever two or more would gather in my name, I will be in their midst." He said, "The works that I do shall you also. A little while and the unbelievers will never see me again." They'll go on, Beelzebub and so forth, "It's nothing to it." "But ye shall see me, for I will be with you, even in you, to the end of the world." Here He is at the end of the Gentile age doing the same thing that He did.

41 Now, if He stood here tonight, wearing my clothes, that He gave me, if He was standing here and you were sick, could He heal you? Be careful. No, sir. He has already done it. Could He forgive you of your sins? No, sir. He has already done it. It's your faith in His finished work at Calvary, that's what does it. Now, faith cometh by hearing, hearing of the Word.

42 Now, as God spoke to us tonight through His Word... And Solomon, being a gift of God that manifested the supernatural, the little queen pressed through more than snowstorms to get to hear what the Lord had done in Israel, being a heathen, pagan. How much more can we accept it tonight as His children, pressed through a snowstorm to come and see Him. I'm just as anxiously waiting as you are, just as anxiously. It's a great thrill to my heart each night when I see Him come on the scene, the omnipotent, the omnipresent, the great majestic God of heaven, move down.

43 And if this shall be my last sermon, my word has been truth because it's been God's Word. I've been in contact directly, indirect, with over ten million people, I suppose. And around the world it's been put through the test, witch doctors and everything else. Not one has ever rose against it but what God took down. It's true. For there's no worry! If God promised it, God has to keep His Word.
The scientific world knows it. They got a picture back there that was taken of it. At Germany and Switzerland, in America, two or three times, hanging in Washington, D.C., with a word under it like this, "The only supernatural being that was ever scientifically photographed." The picture of it's back there. The copyright's in Washington, one hanging in the religious hall, of religious art.

44 Now, He's here. Everything manifests itself, every spirit manifests. If I told you the spirit of John Dillinger was in me, that outlaw, I'd be dangerous to stand on the platform before you, because I'd have guns and I'd be a robber if his spirit's in me. If I had the spirit of an artist, I could paint the picture for you like the artist. If I say, "The Spirit of Christ is in me," then I must do the works of Christ. Jesus said, "The Father has sent me, and if I do not the works of God, then believe me not. But if I do the works and you can't believe me, believe the works, that you might be saved." How plain. Your objective right, your motive right, sincerely, dumped out of self, and yield yourself to the Holy Spirit and watch what He will do for you.

45 Now, I believe last night... We can't get all up here at once. It just can't work like that. How many knows that visions would weaken you? If you don't understand these things, just come this week and listen. Let me ask you something. Daniel the prophet had one vision and was troubled at his head for many days. How many knows that? Sure. Any Bible reader knows it, one vision.
And people who are spiritually inclined are considered neurotics, always. Look at poets, prophets, and what more. Look at Stephen Foster, who gave America's best folk songs. What was he? A neurotic. Every time he'd hit inspiration, when he'd drop down, he didn't know where he was at; he'd get on a drunk. Finally called a servant and took a razor and committed suicide. Look at William Cowper, who wrote that famous song, "There is a fountain filled with blood, drawn from Immanuel's veins, when sinners plunged beneath the flood, lose all their guilty stains." When I was over to pray for the late King George, standing there in the graveyard by the side of his grave, William Cowper, I wept because I know what the man... After he come out from under that inspiration, you know the story, he tried to commit suicide by drowning in the river. The inspiration left him.
Look at Jonah the prophet, laid in the belly of a whale for three days and nights and was delivered out. And brought his message in such a way, and when the Spirit left him, he sat on a hill and prayed for God to kill him.
Look at Elijah, after seeing the vision how to call fire out of heaven and rain out of heaven at the same day, when the Spirit left him, he wandered in the wilderness forty days and nights, and God found him plumb back in a cave.

46 Oh, what's the trouble? The people in America needs missionarying more than any place I ever seen. That's right. And I've traveled the world over. They are so taught in dry doctrine and church theology till they know nothing about the Spirit. That's right. They don't understand it. Oh, that God would open eyes!
When Jesus walked with the disciples all day long, they didn't know who He was. And maybe He's walked with you and kept you out of many things, you haven't recognized it. But when He got them in the room that night, He done something the way He used to do it before His crucifixion. And they recognized it was Him because no other man on earth did it like that. Is that true? They recognized it because He did it the same way He did before He was crucified. Now, I pray that He will come tonight and do the same thing that He did before He was crucified, that you might know that He has risen from the dead.

47 Where did we call from last night? Is it E's or D's? 1 to 15 in E? You got a hundred out? We started with number 1 last night, E-1 to 15, they told me. Let's take E-50 to 65 then, tonight. E-50 to 65, line up over here to the right. All right. Looks like a short 15 to me, though. Don't be scared. If you've got sin in your life, you confess it before you come, if you don't want it called out. How many's been in other meetings and seen that taken place? Oh, sure, yes, sir. He's Christ.
[Gap in the audio] Your card's called, from... Where was it? Fif... is that? 50? 50 to 65. All right. 60 to 65, those who's got those prayer cards, come. All right. Now, while they're...

48 Look at this. I want to ask you all a question, and before God Almighty, I want you to answer the truth. Am I a stranger to you people in the prayer line? If I am, raise your hand, everyone of you, that I'm a stranger to. There's no way in the world for me... I've never seen you or talked to you or anything, is that right, if we're strangers. Is that right? I know nothing of you.
How many out there are strangers to me, raise your hand, know that I don't know nothing about you? All right, there's your hands to God and here's mine too. I know nothing about you. Almighty God knows that. Now, the only way that that could be done, the only thing and the only possible way that it could be done... With our hands, as Christians, in the air, we've never met before, no way I've never talked with you or nothing else. I know nothing about you. You're just a person that come here and given a prayer card and you're here. And you all don't even have a prayer card.

49 Why, this don't... This is a minor thing; ask the people who's my associates. I am forty-eight years old. That gift has been working since I was born. Gifts are not just given to you. "Gifts and callings are without repentance." It's the foreknowledge of God. God has placed in the church.
Moses couldn't help to be Moses. He was born Moses. Jesus was born the Son of God. John the Baptist, seven hundred and twelve years before he was born, Isaiah the prophet saw him and said, "He's the voice of one crying in the wilderness." Oh, the omnipotence of God. Jeremiah; God said to Jeremiah, "Before you was even conceived in your mother's womb, I knew you and sanctified you and ordained you a prophet to the nations." Then who are we? You're nothing. Neither am I. But it's the grace of God. Why can't we believe it?

50 Here's a woman standing here, a middle aged woman, hair gray. I've never seen the woman in my life, and God knows that. She's here for some... I don't know. I can't tell you. She might be a critic. If she is, watch what happens, watch what takes place. How many's been in the meetings and seen critics come to the platform? They're laying in the insane institution paralyzed and everything else. We're not playing church. It's church. Them days of that old cut-and-dried theologies and so forth is passed away. Christ is here, giving His last message to the Gentiles as He promised. And it's going by the heads of the people and they do not recognize it. That's the sad part.

51 If this woman and I, under the oath of God, that we've never met in our life, and the Holy Spirit will reveal to that woman what she's standing there for, what ought that to prove? That Jesus Christ who did the same thing to witness Himself and make Himself known to both Gentile ... both Samaritan and also to the Jew. And when He did it before the Jew, the real Jew recognized it to be the sign of the Messiah. How many knows that? Saint John 1.
And when He done it to the Samaritan, what did the woman say when He told her what was wrong with her? She said, "Sir, I perceive that you're a prophet. We know when the Messiah cometh, he will tell us these things."
He said, "I am he that speaks." She run into the city, and listen at her message: "Come, see a man that told me the things that I've done: isn't this the Messiah?"

52 Now, He never went to the Gentiles. Listen, He never healed anybody in Samaria, how many knows that? He didn't. Why? He knowed that Philip was coming down to preach that big revival. And He never went to the Gentiles, because the Gentiles has more or less been a wild tree anyhow, in the sight of God. So He's left that to the last day, at the closing of this dispensation. And here He is. He forbid His disciples to go to the Gentiles while He was on earth. But now He's appearing to the Gentiles.
Just don't be discouraged. Stick around just a little bit for the week and listen at the Word. See what the Word says, then compare it. If it's not Bible, it's not truth. If it is the Bible, it is the truth.

53 Now, if this woman and I, who never have seen each other in our lives... If the Holy Spirit will reveal what the woman's there for, you know it'll have to be supernatural then. If you believe it's a devil, you will receive a devil's reward. If you believe it's God, you'll receive God's reward. It's the way you approach a gift.
The woman... The soldier... The woman that touched the hem of Jesus' garment, she received healing. The soldier that put a rag around His head and said, "Let's try out this gift and see if it's right," and he got a stick and hit Jesus on the head, said, "If you're a prophet, tell us who hit you and we will believe you." God don't clown for nobody. He never opened His mouth and said a word. He just let him alone. And he's in torment tonight, no doubt, and will never be delivered. The woman's in glory tonight enjoying the blessings of God forever. Just depends on what attitude you take. You don't realize the day we're living.

54 God, be merciful to us now. The rest is yours, there's nothing that I could do, nothing no one else could do. But I pray, God, that you will do that which you promised. And now we commit ourselves unto Thee for this service, that this people in the resurrection time might stand without any excuses. For the newspapers are full of it, the radio has blasted it; and the entire country around about will be without an excuse. So let it be known, Lord, to these who've pressed the snowstorm tonight, that the truth has been read out of Your Bible and You meet with us here. And Thou knowest, Lord, the lovely Saviour, I know not these people. And it's nothing of myself; it's Your grace that permits this. I pray for each one and myself, in the name of Jesus Christ. Amen.

55 Now, just be real reverent. Don't move for just a few minutes. Sit still. Don't get nervous; just relax. Just relax and submit yourself to the Holy Spirit, watch what He will do.
All right lady, you may stand right there. This is a picture like was in the Bible, a man and a woman again. As I said last night: It was a woman, the first one. I have no idea who's coming up here. The boys takes these cards and mixes them up and gives them out to you. Now, anybody that wants them can have them. And here you come, that's all.
Those out there don't have any cards. But what do I have these for? So that I can single you out. See, Jesus, when he went to heal a man one time, He took him away from the crowd. When He went to raise Jairus' daughter, He put all the people out of the house. See, each person is a spirit, and if the spirit is unbelief, it hinders. He went to His own city, and many mighty miracles He could not do because of their unbelief, see. But where there was faith, God moved. Where there was no faith, God moved out.

56 And now if the Holy Spirit will reveal to me what you're standing there for, whatever it is, I know not, will you believe Him with all your heart? Will the audience witness they'll do the same if the woman and I, under oath to God that we've never met before?
Now, do you want to take my place? See what it is. It's not nothing back in a dark room. It's right out here where you're standing looking. God don't dwell in darkness; God dwells in light.
Never fear, sister, He was the one who sent me. It's up to Him to do it. I will only tell the truth and preach the Gospel, then it's up to Him to judge and do the rest. Just a job that I have to do.

57 Now, what am I doing? I'm doing the same thing the Lord did. He went up to the Samaritan. The Father told Him to go up there, but didn't tell Him what to do. The Bible said that He had need go by there. He was on His road to Jericho, down the mountain. But He went around Samaria. When He got there He sat down. Sent the disciples away to see what the Father would have Him do, because He said, "I do nothing till He shows me." A woman come out. He talked with the woman awhile, enough to get a conversation to catch her spirit. He found where her trouble was and told her her trouble. And as soon as He told her her trouble, she recognized that that was the Messiah. She said, "We know the Messiah will do that. But you must be a prophet.
JOHN4:26
He said, "I'm the Messiah."
And she said, "That's the sign was to follow him."

58 Now, would you believe the same? You will. May He grant it, is my prayer.
Now, if ever who is the engineer on this here, I never... It's in another world. I don't know whether my voice gets loud enough to hear it or not, you just watch it ever who's doing it, and step it up or whatever it needs, you see.
Now, if the audience can hear me yet, the woman seems to be moving away from me. Between she and I stands a light, the light that you see on the picture. Now, I see it breaking through and it's in a room, something like a hospital room. And now she's suffering; she had an operation. And the operation was for a hideous black spirit, called cancer. And the cancer... She had a breast removed. And from that breast removing, now she has a swollen arm as a results of it. That's "thus saith the Lord."
That was the truth. You're the judge. How would I know anything about you? Something's here that's telling me something about you, whatever it was. That's right, isn't it? Do you believe it's Christ wanting to help you? You do. How many believes the same? Then let us pray for the woman. Would you come here just a moment, sister.
Merciful God, of this poor dear woman standing here; I'm thinking of my own little mother tonight, maybe on her knees praying for me. And this may be somebody's mother. I pray that You'll help her, Lord, as I lay hands upon her. Thou hast said this, "If they lay hands on the sick, they shall recover." And I pray that this woman, whatever her trouble may be, that it may cease and God will receive glory. For we ask it in Jesus' name. Amen.
Now, go believing. The dark shadow left from around you. All right.

59 Now, do you love the Lord? Now, don't you think we ought to say, "Thank You, Jesus"? Thank You, Jesus. That's right, He wants to be worshipped. Now, be real, real reverent.
Lady, I suppose that we have never met before? All of our life? Now, here, listen. There's a spirit... Oh, if you'll just stay long enough in the meetings till you get this little superstition away from you, see. I know you think you're believing. And you are partially, but just watch. Here, watch quickly.
There's something wrong with this woman that's wrong with that woman sitting right there, the same thing. You have trouble with your legs, that you want me to pray for. You have the same. That's right. All right. Not only that, but there's something wrong with your chest too. If that's right, lady, just stand up to your feet, this young woman sitting here on the front. All right. Do you believe?
You were sitting there wondering. And when this woman walked up here, a real strange feeling come to you. If that's right... That's right, see. What was it? It was that same spirit, demon, that's tormenting this woman was tormenting that, and is tormenting that man sitting right back there looking at me too, leg trouble. All right. If you'll believe with all your heart. See, what He's doing? That's a kindred spirit. He knows that the Spirit of God is present and he's scared. That's exactly right. All right.

60 God bless you, lady. The darkness that hung over you is gone. Your faith, you touched Something, didn't you? I don't know you. Have I ever seen you? Are we total strangers? You're just a woman that sat there? Is that right, sir, her husband sitting there? Total strangers, never seen each other, probably never heard of one another. I know I never heard of you. As far as I know I don't know who you are. So there we are, perfect strangers. And your wife was healed sitting there. What was it? It's the Spirit of the living God. Can't you see it, church? Certainly.
Now, I say to you: You believe like she did. Say to the Lord Jesus, "Lord, I believe," and find out what happens.

61 Now, let's see. Your trouble was the same as that trouble. Now, if I... Do you believe God? You believe that's it's over? It's your faith that does it; nothing I can do. Here, I see somebody else appear, and that's a younger woman than you are. It's your daughter. And she's doing something by the pulpit; she's a preacher. And she's real nervous, and she's going through the menopause, and you were standing there praying for her then. That's right. If that's right, raise up your hand. You believe? Then have faith in God and you can be healed. The Lord bless you, sister. You go and receive and believe just what you ask and it'll all be all right for you. Amen.

62 I don't believe we ever met, totally strangers. No way at all for me to know you. All right. Now, don't move; just sit still just a minute. They won't let me stay too long. Be in no hurry.
Yes, mother, sitting right there on the end, with that little thing around your head ... right ... the second row back there. You've got a chest trouble and a throat trouble. Yes, sir. You were sitting there praying to be healed. Stand up on your feet just a minute. Receive your healing now. You touched Him. Believe it with all your heart, it'll be over. Amen.

63 Do I know you? No. No, ma'am. If I don't know you, raise up your hand, so... Never seen you in my life. All right, just believe. That's all He asks, to believe. If I don't know you, the Lord will reveal to me what you're standing here for, will you believe Him? If the audience don't believe now, they never will. They've already made up their mind whether they're going to or not. But you're here for a condition in the stomach. You got a bad stomach trouble and that's... I see you waking up through the night rubbing yourself, like that. That's ex... Got out of the bed many times to hold yourself like this. Just recently did it and walked on the floor. Lady, that is true. No one in the world knowed that but you and God, because there was nobody else awake.
Not only that, but I see you also suffering with a headache. You got a trouble in your head that caused you to have severe headaches. And then another thing, that you might know that I be God's servant just here under His permission, you've got a knot under your arm that you want me to pray for. If that's right, wave your hand back and forth like this. Do you believe it's over? Then it is. Amen. Go and receive as you have believed. God be merciful. If you can believe!

64 Lady with a blue coat on, sitting right there, light over you. You from Wisconsin sitting there, Madison, Wisconsin. Uh-huh. I never seen you in my life. If that's right, raise up your hand, if we're perfectly strangers. But there's that light. Can't you see that, people? Right over that woman. Something wrong with your foot, you want prayed for, and sinus trouble. That's right. Well, you've touched something. You're forty feet or more from me. We never met before, but the Holy Spirit's here. All right, believe now, and go home; it'll all be over. Amen.

65 We're strangers too. Is that right? Just so you hold your hand that people can see. No way for me to know anything about you; we're strangers. The Holy Spirit is here who knows us both though. Is that right? If God will reveal to me something in your life that'll tell you what has been, you'll know whether that's true or not. Your trouble, what you want me to pray for, is your back. That's right, a back trouble.
Now, you pray and ask Jesus for something else, and see if He can hear prayer and answer prayer. All right, yes, there's somebody else you're praying for. That's a child. That's right. And the child has had polio, got something wrong with its arm, correct. I see they're taking it to church though. It's a church ... the parents belongs to a church. That's right. You want me to tell you what church they belong to? They're Methodists. That's right. Now, go believe with all your heart and you'll receive just what you've asked for. God grant it.
Are we dead in sin and trespasses? Has our unbelief so closed us up?

66 Young man, are we strangers to each other? I never seen you in my life. But when a man came to meet the Lord Jesus one time, He told him what his trouble was and where he was and something or other about him. And as soon as that was done, what did this Nathanael say? "Thou art the Christ, thou art the King of Israel." Now, if I don't know you and I have no ability of my own [I'm just a man like you are], then there's got to be something because... Do you believe God promised this? You believe it?
You're not here for yourself; you're standing here for somebody else. And that person is a person that's played with you, younger. It's your brother. That's right. And that person isn't here. That person's from another country. That's right. Got stomach trouble, high blood pressure. And that person's in a place where it's... It's not like this country here. It's a place where there's a lot of pines, great big high pines and mountains. And he's in a city that sits on a hill. And the hill is near a lakeside. I've been in that city. It's Washington---Bellingham, Washington---near the Puget Sound, "Thus saith the Lord." You believe? Then go and receive as you have believed, so will it be to you. Have faith, don't doubt. "If thou canst believe, all things are possible."

67 Pray. You pray and the heart trouble will leave you. You believe it will? Then go accept it, go be made well. In Christ's name, may God grant it to you, is my prayer.
Now, when I said heart trouble to her, a strange feeling come to you---when I said heart trouble---because the same thing was on her was on you, and it's both gone. You believe me to be His servant? All right, then it's gone. You go believing. You can have just exactly what you ask for, if you'll believe.

68 There's times in your life, recently, when you make a step, it hurts you. That arthritis is bad. Do you believe that God will make you well? You do? Then go on your road and rejoice and thank God for it, it'll leave you and won't come again. Are you believing?
Now, you out in the audience, you start believing. Start having faith, believing God. Somebody... I have no way of knowing you; I can only say what He tells me. I don't operate this; it operates me. I just yield myself. It's your faith that does it.

69 Here, here's a woman sitting right here by this man sitting right here on the front seat, head down praying. Do you believe, sister? You're a Christian, a believer. If God will reveal to me what you're praying about... Am I a stranger to you? Here that, where the light's a hanging, the little lady sitting there. You believe with all your heart? It's your throat, and also your nose. That's right, isn't it? All right, you're healed. You can go home.

70 How many wants to be healed now? Raise your hands, just say, "I want to be healed." Are you convinced? Do you believe that Jesus Christ, God's Son, is here? Do you believe it's Him doing it? If you do, raise your hand to Him like this, yes.
How I've often wondered, the biggest mystery that I've ever seen... In Durban, South Africa, when something like that taken place, thirty thousand raw heathens came to Christ at one time. I made one prayer. And Brother Bosworth, who's body is laying in state tonight, stood there, a honest man, where they took twenty-five thousand records of healings in one prayer. The next day they had seven truck loads of crutches, stretchers, clubs, and things that the people walked on, that they picked up on the fairground, where a hundred and fifty thousand people were sitting: seven truck loads, big cattle trucks. Just because they seen the presence of God, and they believed it with all their heart and got right up and went away healed.
But we're so full of superstitions. Dr. Jones said, "It's hypnotism." Dr. Sobody, says, "Well, it can't be trusted." And you've been so indoctrinated by all kinds of theologies until it's hard for the Holy Spirit to move in. Let's throw that thing away tonight. Let's believe God, and stand up on your feet just a minute. I want to ask you a sincere question, "What more could the Holy Spirit do?" Christ come and died. Christ paid the price. Christ returned back into His branches to prove His work of His resurrection. He's here with His promise through the Bible, with His Spirit saying that's He's here. Only thing is left is for you to believe it and accept it and act on it. Is that right? Then let us pray.

71 Lord God, Creator of heavens and earth, Author of everlasting life, and giver of every good and perfect gift, send Thy Spirit of power upon this audience and seep down through here till You find a honest heart, full of faith, then heal that person. Eternal God, may the Spirit come into their body and quicken them to a new faith that they've never knowed before. Knowing that Jesus Christ, God's Son, is here, and the Spirit that will judge them at the judgment seat of Christ, is standing here now in our presence. May all the sickness and diseases and afflictions and doubt be escaped and go from this building, in the name of Jesus Christ. Amen.
You that believe and accept your healing, raise your hands to God and say, "I believe. Lord, I believe." God bless you. All that loves Him, say a great big "Amen." All right. Dr. Lee Vayle.

The Queen of the South

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1 Let us remain standing, just a moment, while we bow our heads and talk to the Lord, just a minute.
Lord God, we are happy tonight, because that Thou has been so good to us in the previous nights of this revival and this gathering. And how the weatherman has predicted, almost each day, there would be storms and rain, but You've not let it rain one time. And we're thankful to Thee for these things, because we believe, Lord, that You have met with us, and has blessed us; and we're just pouring out the very adoration of our hearts to Thee. And we will ask you tonight, Lord, to give us another great night tonight. May the Holy Spirit just move among the people and give us the exceedingly and abundantly above all that we could do or think. And we pray, Father, that You will continue to be with this meeting as it goes on through the other nights, coming.

2 Bless every minister, Thy servants, that's been here. May something being done by the Holy Spirit, that would inspire them to just buckle up the armor a little tighter, and take the sword in the hand, and move forward.
Heal all the sick and the afflicted that's in our midst. Save the lost. Get glory to Thyself, for we ask it in the name of Jesus. Amen.
May be seated.

3 I want to thank you so much for your kindness and your attention this past five nights. How I have appreciated it with all my heart. I only wish I could stay on the rest of the meeting, but I'm going to Greenville, South Carolina, now, to the Interdenominational Ministerial Association---their convention. And then on up to the Baptist people in North Carolina, and then from there to the Full Gospel Businessmen Convention in Philadelphia. So, awfully tired, and come to you tired. Looks like that's about the only way I can go, is tired.
Someone said to me, "Billy, ain't you going to never rest?"
I said, "Just when I cross Jordan yonder. I will rest on the other side." Getting old now, you know, so I just can't go too fast, but I like to go as fast as I can.
And now, we appreciate all. We want to thank Brother Gordon Lindsay, Brother David duPlessis, and Brother Cerullo, and many of the other brethren, and it's all that's participated in this meeting. I don't know all the men.

4 I had the privilege, this morning, of having breakfast with a group of them. While sitting at breakfast, the great Holy Spirit come down with visions, just moving in from place to place. I was so glad He done it, because many people, sometime, will think that it just happens in the meeting. Oh, no. That's the little minor side, that's the... No wonder people has doubts and so forth. You just see the very rugged edge of it, see. The great part's when I'm alone with God. That's where... See, this is when you're using God's gift. That's when God uses His own gift.
Now, when God wanted to use Jesus, His gift to the world, He took Jesus and showed Him all about what Lazarus was going to do, how many days to stay away, and then to come back and raise him from the dead. Remember, Jesus witnessed the same at the grave: said, after so many days when they'd sent for Him, "Lazarus is dead, and I'm glad I wasn't there," because they'd been asking Him to pray for him. He knew he was going to die. And then, He never said a thing about being weak after He called that man from the dead. But one little woman touched His garment, and He said, "Virtue has gone from Me." See, that was the woman using God's gift. And that was God using His own gift---and the woman using God's gift, see. It's God. And then, you can use it with your faith, or God can use it, and He just shows you the overall picture. But this way, it's you doing it. It's your own faith doing it.

5 Now, my ministry's changing. That's why I'm tired and going as fast as I can. Just remember, I say this before you tonight: there's something coming that's great and wonderful. You just remember. I will be back at Dallas again, someday, the Lord willing. And I want to come back for a regular healing campaign, come back into this area here, and meet with all you people again; have a great union revival of everybody coming in together.
You know, I believe Jacob dug a well and the Philistines run him away from it and he called it "malice." And he dug another well, and the Philistines run him away from it, and he called it "strife." He dug another well, and he named it, said, "There's room for us all." So that's the kind I like to drink from, you know, where the one hump camel, or the two hump camels, or the three hump camels, or all of them can drink, you know. We can all come. That's for the Methodists, Baptists, Pentecostals, and church of God, altogether, see. We all drink from this fountain. And so that's the way I love it.

6 And now, I believe the brethren said that they took an offering for me or something. I didn't come for that. God knows that, but thank you for it anyhow. God bless you. I will assure you that not one penny will be spent for anything else, as far as I know, but the kingdom of God. That's right.
I never took an offering in my life. My wife always gets after me when I say this. I remember one night, I was pastoring the Baptist Tabernacle at Jeffersonville. I was game warden in Indiana, so I always worked for my living and I said... We got one of them hard places, you know, where you can't make ends meet. I wonder if anybody, ever here ever hit that block? We're all about in the same boat, aren't we?
So, I said, "Honey, I'm going to take up an offering. (We didn't even have an offering plate in our church.) And so she said, "I'm going over to watch you do it." (We just lived across the street---little two rooms. That one little room's where the "Voice of Healing" was founded.) And so, I went across the street and I said, "Folks..." (Now, not because they wouldn't do it---they'd do anything for me---, but I just didn't want them to do it. And I was able to work, so go ahead and do it.) And I said, "Folks, I kind of hit a little snag." I said, "I owe a little bill, and I can't make it. I'm just going to pass my hat around tonight for a little collection. You got a nickel or dime, drop in, it'd help me a little." Well, I said, "Go get my hat." And old Brother Wisehart (He's in glory tonight.), went over to get my hat.

7 A little old woman, sat down in front of me, Mrs. Webber. And I seen her get down there with one of those old-fashioned aprons... How many remember women that wore those old aprons around---had the pocket on the inside, you know? Sure. How many Kentuckians are in here, anyhow?
So, got down under there and begin to take out one of these little pocketbooks with snaps on the top, you know. Begin to reach down getting the... Oh, my, I couldn't stand that. I couldn't have took that if I had to. I said, "Oh, I was just teasing you all to see what you was going to do." Brother Wisehart, with a hat in his hand, I said, "Oh, Brother Jim, hang my hat up." I said, "I was just teasing you." My wife looked at me.

8 There used to be an old man (He's in glory tonight.) named John Ryan, not the blind John, that was healed at Fort Wayne. This man was from Benton Harbor, had long hair and beard. And he used to ride an old bicycle. And he come down to my house. And it backslid. Now, I wouldn't say it backslid; it just wore out. So, he gave it to me. And I had it sitting out in the shed. And I went down and got to the ten cent store, and got me a can of paint, and painted it all up. Put a sign on it and sold it for five dollars, and didn't have to take the offering after all. So, that's closest I ever come taking an offering.
But, I'm ... I... What is give to me, God knows, that the best of my knowledge... I got a family of children. My expense is about a hundred dollars a day at the Tabernacle, and well ... not the Tabernacle, but my office: send out thousands of handkerchiefs a week, all over the world, everywhere. I've got people working there. And it stays alive out here.

9 And now, I appreciate it. God bless you. And I know that was a portion of your living, maybe from something that you'd give to your children. I just hate to take it. But way I... The laborer, the ox has to not be muzzled, you know. That's the only way I have of taking it, or I wouldn't do it. So, thank you kindly, very much. God be with you.
Now, ever up around... If I can be any help to you, why, call me; I will be glad to help you. The night will never get too dark or the rainfall too hard, what I will pray or do anything I can to help you.
So, we're going to read some of His Word tonight, speak for a little while, and then---just a short time---and have the prayer service for the sick. The boys told me out there, that they're leaving, too, tonight, the tape boys. And we got the records back there if you care for them.

10 Over in the book of Saint Matthew, the 12th chapter and the 42nd verse, I read this:
And the queen of the south shall rise up in the judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it: for she came from the utmost parts of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon: and, behold, a greater than Solomon is here.
I want to take that subject. And now, we have just read a portion of the everlasting Word of the eternal God. And how we love to read it, because we can anchor our soul upon any phase of God's Word, and it's truth. Now, if all the Bible isn't the truth, then none of it is the truth.

11 And it's strange that people, speaking on divine healing, that they will not accept it. And they'll accept... How could you preach salvation for the soul without including divine healing? for sickness is an attribute of sin. Before we had any sickness, we had no sin. Sickness came as the result of sin.
Now, if a big animal had his paw in my side---call it sickness---and was scratching my side and tearing me to pieces, it isn't necessary just to cut the animal's paw off. Just knock him in the head. That kills paw and all.
So then, when you kill sin, you kill every attribute of it, see. So, sickness is the result ... or, an attribute of sin---maybe not your sin, but something you've inherited. And so, when you preach salvation for the soul, it has to be for the body too. Now, it's the earnest of our resurrection. If there is no divine healing, there is no resurrection, for it's just like the earnest; the same as the joy of the Lord and the Holy Spirit, is the earnest of our salvation.

12 Now, sometime ago, reading in the Scriptures... People want to say that this part's all right, and that part wasn't inspired, and this is all right, and that was for another day. Where could a man base his faith? It's either every bit the truth, or none of it is the truth, see. And now, you can take me on record as it's on tape: I make this statement tonight (and remember this), that if you will take the right mental attitude towards any divine promise that God has made, it'll come to pass. If you can take the right mental attitude towards any of God's divine promises, He will bring it to pass.

13 Sometime ago, there was a little woman had had a boy, and he'd had a call of God. And she thought, "Well," she wasn't very religious herself, but she was raised in church, so she said, "Perhaps, maybe I will just send this boy away to a seminary, some good noted school, for his education, if he's going to be a minister." So that's a very good thing to do. When you hear me talking about, "God sent us to build ... not to build churches, but to preach the Gospel..." Now, I mean when you put all the emphasis on church and on denomination. We have to have those things; you have to have a building to go into, and so forth; but whenever you just think that that's all of it, that's wrong. God is ... what's in the building, what counts, not what the building is, see. It's the builder of the house.

14 Now, then this little woman, after she sent her son away, and getting his education, the lady took real sick with the pneumonia at one time. And she sent a telegram to her son to stand by, that she might have to call him home at any time for her passing away. And he was called, and he had his clothes packed.
And a telegram came back the next day that his mother was all right. So, when he got home, he said, "Mother, there's just one thing that I want to ask you."
And said, "What is it, son?"
Said, "When you sent me the telegram that you were on the very brink of death, and then the next day I get a telegram that you were all right. Mother, what did the doctor give you to make you recover so quick?"
"Oh," she said, "Son, he never give me anything."
"Well," said, "how come you recovered so quick?"
She said, "Son, you know that little mission down around the corner there?"
"Yes."
Said, "They was having a prayer meeting down there one night. And them people didn't know me, but they said that they felt led to come up here. And there was two women come and said, "Sister, we hear you're sick."
"Yes."
Said, "We were felt led of the Lord to come and ask you if you'd have our pastor to come up here and pray for you."

15 Why, she said, "Certainly, I'd be glad to." And said, "The pastor come up, and read some out of the Bible, and anointed me with oil, prayed over me." And said, "The next morning the Lord had healed me, and I was well."
"Oh," he said, "Mother," he said, "Surely, you don't believe that?"
She said, "Well, son, it surely happened."
"Why," said, "Look," said, "where did he read from?"
"Why," said, "He read from Mark 16. And he said... He read like this: These signs shall follow them that believe. And he read it out of the Bible, honey."
"Oh," he said, "Mother," said, "you can't..." Said, "Them people are holy-rollers." Said, "You can't pay no attention to what they say."
"Why," she said, "Holy-roller or no holy-roller, they answered the prayer ... God did."
"Why," he said, "Mother," he said, "there's no such a thing as divine healing." Said, "We learned that in school." Said, "There's no such a thing as divine healing."
She said, "Honey, he read it out of the Bible."
"Why," said, "Mother, you see those people are not educated." Said, "You see, at the school, we learned that Mark the 16th chapter, from the 9th verse on, is not inspired."
She said, "Hallelujah!"
"Why," he said, "Mother, you're acting like them. The very audacity..." Said, "Why, you're acting like them." Said, "What's the matter with you?"
She said, "I was just a thinking."
Said, "What was you thinking?"
Said, "If God could heal me with the uninspired Word, what could He do with that was really inspired?" So, that's right. "What would that inspired part do, if the uninspired will do it?" Oh, it's all inspired.

16 The people today... You will hear it though. The medical doctor will say, "Well, don't you pay any attention to that saw bone---that surgeon."
Surgeon will say, "You need an operation, not sugar pills."
And the both of them would say, "The chiropractor, don't have nothing to do with him." And the chiropractors, they have nothing to do with the osteopath. And they'll all say, "Have nothing to do with the preacher."
You know what I think? I think it's selfish motives, because we all know that medicine does good; surgery does good, chiropractic and osteopathic; and so does the preacher. Look, if they had the right motive, we would all go arm in arm to do everything we can in our powers and our ability, to make the journey of our pilgrim friends a little more happier as we go along through life. Anything different from that is selfishness, and money motive, or something behind it. Yes, sir.

17 Today, you could speak of a miracle. They want to take and examine it and scientifically prove it. Well, you can't scientifically prove God. Your knowledge in science takes you away from God. You don't know God by knowledge. You don't know God by science. You know God by faith, and that's the only way you can find God; is by faith, you know God.
There was two trees in the garden of Eden: One of them was knowledge and the other one was faith. And when man left the tree of faith---life---and took a bite off the tree of knowledge, he separated his fellowship from God. Every time he takes a bite, he takes himself farther away. You can never find God on that tree. It's this tree you find Him on, over here, the tree of life which is by faith. "By faith are you saved, and that by grace."

18 Now, in this day, what if Moses would've lived in this age and would've seen that tree burning? Why, many of them... He'd said, "Wait a minute. I will see till that fire goes off of it, and I will go over and pick some of the leaves off, and take it down to the laboratory, and examine it and see what chemicals are on those leaves that they don't burn." If he thought that, it'd never've talked to him. What did he do? He just sat down and begin to talk to it. He didn't question it. He just begin to speak to it. And when that real feeling begins to move over you, that you're a sinner, and you're wrong, just go to talking to it; find out what takes place. They won't have to take you and analyze your body to see what happened. Your spirit will let you know what happened when God comes in.

19 God, in all ages, has had gifts that He's brought to the people. He's always made Hisself known in all ages by His gifts. And Jesus, here, had just been called Beelzebub. And He had told them that He would forgive them for doing that, but when the Holy Spirit came, and if they spoke against that, it would never be forgiven, see.
Because many people have said, "What is the blasphemy of the Holy Spirit?" My old southern mama used to tell me, it was for a woman to have an abortion case, take life that she couldn't restore. That was the best that she knowed. But that isn't it.
The blasphemy of the Holy Ghost is to call the working of the Spirit an unclean thing ... or, an evil thing. Jesus said, "Because they said, 'He has an evil spirit, calling the Holy Spirit in it's work an evil thing'; that's unforgivable." There's nothing in the world, anytime or any place, could ever forgive you for that, for speaking one word against the operation of the Holy Spirit.

20 And remember, I want to show you how clear it is. Now, those Pharisees didn't say right out, "Say, you're Beelzebub." But they thought it in their mind, and Jesus perceived their thoughts. Read right back in Saint Matthew 12 and see if that isn't right. They thought in their minds that He was Beelzebub. And Jesus perceived their thoughts, and they thought He was a fortuneteller. And then He said, "I'm going to forgive you." See, your thoughts in heaven is louder than your voices on earth. Remember that. What you think... "If there be any praise, if there be any virtue, think on these things," said the Scripture.

21 And then, we noticed here, that He had referred to an age gone by. And He was upbraiding these cities where His mighty works had been done, of that discernment and healing. And He said, "Capernaum, you're exalted into heaven, but you'll be brought down to hell, for if the mighty works had been done in Sodom and Gomorrah, it would've been standing till this day."
And then He referred the previous Scripture, just behind this verse, to Jonah: how that Jonah went to the city of Nineveh and preached to those people that was so illiterate till they didn't know which was right and left hand. And they repented at the preaching of Jonah. And He was upbraiding them for that.

22 Now, many people get the wrong conception of Jonah. We try saying, "He's a Jonah." I like to stop just a minute for him. Jonah, he was no bad person. He was a real man of God. There's nothing happens providential to a real true servant of God; it all works together for good to them that love God. And Jonah was commissioned to go to Nineveh, but that ship going to Tarshish wasn't the release to the least resistance. It was God's provided way. And men who are honest and sincere in their hearts (And you be sincere no matter what happens!), it's God moving you.
Now, notice, the whale swallowed the prophet. And I've always felt sorry for Jonah. Now, we know he was backslidden, or we think he was, had his hands tied behind him, and he was down in the belly of the whale in the bottom of the sea, and a big storm on the sea.

23 Now, there's many people who get prayed for, and they'll go through a prayer line with a crippled hand, crippled foot, a sick stomach. And they'll, next morning, get up and say, "I'm just sick as I was." Oh, what you need is some good Bible teaching, see. You don't look at the symptom; you look at the Word, the promise. It's never what this... If you look at that, you'll never get well.
Notice Jonah. If there's any man that ought to have had a good case of symptoms, it was Jonah. He was backslid, hands tied behind him in the belly of a whale, in the bottom of a stormy sea. If he looked this a-way, it was whale's belly. That way was whale's belly. Everywhere he looked, it was whale's belly. Well now, there's no one here in that condition. That's right. And Jonah, what did he say? He refused to look at it. He said, "They are lying vanities. And once more will I look toward Your holy temple, O God"; for he knowed when Solomon dedicated that temple he prayed this prayer: "Lord, if Thy people be in trouble anywhere and look at this holy place, where the pillar of fire was behind the altar, if they'll look towards this holy place and pray, then hear from heaven."

24 And if Jonah, under those conditions, could look towards a temple that was built by a man that later backslid, and have faith in his prayer and get the results that he did, under the condition, how much more can we, tonight, look away from our conditions to the temple of God where Jesus sits at the right hand of His Majesty with His own blood, to make intercessions upon our confession. Then, don't look at your hand. Don't feel your sickness. Look at who made the promise, at the right-hand of the Majesty on high to make intercession upon your confession. Then make it and stand true to it.

25 I like to carry Jonah a little further. God, by that faith, must have put an oxygen tent down in the belly of that whale. He kept him alive for three days and nights. But look what God's a-doing. No matter what takes place, God will make it praise Him anyhow.
Now, we know that the people of Nineveh ... I am told that they were heathens, and they were living in sin and adultery. And then, they come to find out that the god of the sea was the whale. And all the fishermen along the side of the sea was out there fishing, and here come a whale spinning through the water, opened up his mouth, and the prophet walked out. Sure, they would hear it. God has a way of doing things. And it wasn't providential that he took the wrong ship; it was God's eternal promise and God's eternal way of doing things. A bringing a message: he shook shivers up-and-down their backs when he seen the sea god open up it's mouth, the prophet walk out with a Bible in his hand. Sure, they'd believe it. God always has signs and wonders: works in the supernatural to make people to believe Him. Certainly.

26 And he walked out of the belly of the whale and begin to go through the streets preaching. And Jesus said that those people repented. Those ignorant, unlearned, didn't know gee from haw ... or, right hand from left hand, I mean to say. (Excuse me for saying that. I didn't mean to say that. All right. How many farmers in here knows what "gee" and "haw" is? Well, you know what I mean, then. All right.) He didn't know the right from the left hand. And they repented.
And we're are supposed to be an educated, smart, intelligent bunch of people that's living in a day when a greater than Jonah is here. And what about this? To that poor, ignorant people, "I want you to notice," Jesus said.
They said, "Show us a sign."
He said, "There'll be no sign given to a wicked and adulterous generation, but the sign of Jonah."
Now watch. What was the sign of Jonah? "As Jonah was in the belly of the whale three days and three nights, so the Son of man must be in the heart of the earth three days and nights." So what would be the sign to a wicked and adulterous generation? The sign of the resurrection (Amen), the sign of the resurrection. Sure it is. There we are. And we're living in a wicked and adulterous generation.

27 As my good friend, Jack Moore, once said, "If God let's this America get by without punishing it, He will be obligated as a just God to raise up Sodom and Gomorrah and apologize for burning them up." That's right. Sure, we are living in an awful age: a teen-age rulership, rock-and-rock, booglie-wooglie, all that ungodly carrying on of filth and gaum and untrue living. Divorce is on the run, and perversion, and homosexuals, and oh, it's awful, just like it was in Sodom, the same thing we're having.
Then the holy God's obligated. He hates sin, but He loves the sinner. And He promised that He would give this wicked, adulterous generation the sign of His resurrection. And if He's raised from the dead, He will do the same signs that He did before He died, if He's raised again.
So then, He said, "And also, the queen of the south shall rise in the day of judgment with this generation and shall condemn it: for she came from the utmost parts of the known world in that day, to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and, behold, I say unto you that a greater than Solomon is here." Then He was trying to tell them...

28 Now, in the days of Solomon... Anyone knows that when God sends His gift to the world, and the world receives it (the church receives it), then it is a golden jubilee for that people in that age. But if they turn it down, it's chaos for that age.
Look, the Jews received Solomon, and it was the golden age. Anyone knows that. It was almost a millennium for Israel. And they turned Christ down, and the temple was burned, and they were scattered to the four winds of the world.
When God sends a gift, and His church rallies around it, then that church and people is blessed. If they turn it down, they are turned down with it.
Now, notice. In the days of Solomon, God had set him up and give him a great gift of discernment. Oh, what a powerful discernment he had. And all Israel rallied around that discernment. And they all believed it with one accord.

29 Oh, I'd like to ask, to my good friends here, tonight, Brother Tommy Hicks and many of these men here, who has international ministries: What would happen if all of the people that's called by the name of the Lord, if every one of them would rally around the great gift of God today, the Holy Spirit, what would take place? What would take place if every born again Christian in Texas, rallied around the gift of God? Texas would be the most popular place in all the world. What a millennium it would be if we'd all rally around the gifts of God. But they don't.
And now, they all did in Solomon's days, and his great fame was knowed throughout all the world. There was no wars; they were afraid of them.
If America would've rallied around Jesus Christ, you would never have to worry about Russia coming in or nothing else coming in. They wouldn't have to expend all of our money and times making hydrogen bombs and trying to fly over to the moon with another tower of Babel. God's got the program right here for us and got His power. But we turn it down. We try to make one ourselves, see. It'll never work.

30 Now, notice. But all rallied around this great gift, and the fame of it spread to all the known world. And way down in Sheba, the queen, little queen, she heard of it. Why, every passer-by would come through and say, "Oh, you should be up in Israel. They've got a great God up there who still lives. Why, they've got a man up there that's anointed with His Spirit, with only wisdom that could come from God."
Now, you see, she was a pagan. Then she begin to think. You know faith cometh by hearing. But the trouble with us: When God sends a gift, they say, "That don't belong to my denomination. Have nothing to do with it. No." See, that's the reason we're going into chaos, see. And everyone with one accord believed it. They built the big temple and everything in Solomon's age.
And this little woman... Every person that come through Israel, would come down there and say, "Oh, it's marvelous. You should see. Why, there never was a man on earth could have wisdom like that. It has to come from the gods. Oh, it could not come by man." Well, you know, "Faith cometh by hearing, hearing of the Word." And if you're really sincere, God will make a way for you to see whether it's the truth or not.

31 Well, I can see the little queen then. She begin to think, "Now wait. I'm a pagan. Well now, if I go up there, I'm going to have to go to the state presbyter, or the bishop, or the general overseer, or somebody, and see if they'll permit me to go. After all, you know, we haven't got nothing here but just an old dead set of creeds; they tell us about a God that once lived. But they tell me there's a real God somewhere that's answering. I want to go find out." "Blessed are they that do hunger and thirst after righteousness; they shall be filled."
Well, of course, she went over to see the great bishops of her church. And her, being the queen, and I can hear them say, "Now, just a moment. We got Dagon; we got these other gods here. They're just..."
But she says, "You see, you've been telling me all about Dagon and about what he was, but I've never seen him make a move, yet."

32 I don't mean to hurt too bad, but I want it to settle down to the place where it will get you thinking. What good is a God of Moses if He isn't the same God today? What good is a historical God do, if He isn't the same power today?
What good would it do to take a man that's freezing to death, and you met him on the street, and he was freezing, and you took him up to a big painted fire and say, "Oh, sir, two thousand years ago, that was a warm fire." Well, he can't get warm by a painted fire. And neither can he get warm by ... or, sainted by a historical Holy Spirit. He's got to be the same Holy Spirit with the same power and warmth that He was at any time.

33 What good does it do to feed your canary birds vitamins, and then keep him in a cage? Make good bones and good feathers and won't let him fly? Well, that's the same way, of sending your preachers away to seminaries, and making them polished scholars, and telling you, "The days of miracles is past." What good does it do to serve a historical God or learn anything if He won't act the same today that He was then? He's no good; it's just history. (The Mohammedans is just as well off as we are---and any of the rest of them.)
But I thank God, that we've got a God that lives, and He's just the same, and He has the same power. He lives just the same as He ever lived. He does the same things that He ever did do, for He is God. He's not a historical God, but He's a God in a time of trouble, a very present help, all times, omnipresent, ever ready.
Now so, I guess her and the bishop had it out. And I can hear the bishop say, "Now, looky here, you may be queen, but if you go, we will excommunicate you just as soon as you go." But you know, if God's dealing with a heart, you just might as well excommunicate to start with, because they'll go anyhow. "For as the hart thirsts for the water brook, so my soul thirsts after Thee, O God."

34 Farmer... I don't mean this for a joke, no place for a joke, but I want to make a point. A farmer set a hen one time. They didn't have enough eggs to set her. How many knows what a setting of eggs is? Fifteen. All right. So, he only had fourteen; he went over and got a goose egg ... or, a duck egg, put it under the old hen. When she hatched all these fellows out, they all looked all right but this duck. He was a funny looking fellow. And she'd get out in the barnyard, you know, catching grasshoppers and carrying on, "Cluck, cluck, cluck." But that duck couldn't understand that language at all. He was a funny looking fellow: a big long bill, and... I don't know, there's just something wrong with him. And he didn't look like the chickens, and they all picked on him. Said, "Well, you're not our brother. (You're a holy roller, or you're ... something, you know.) Get away. You're not... You have nothing to do with us. We don't want..."
And you know... And the old hen, she got out behind the barn one day, and she was catching grasshoppers, and scratching in the manure pile, and so forth, and after ... feeding her chickens, of course. They fed on that.

35 So then, the little duck got back there and there happened to be a stream come down behind the place. Brother, he was tired of that dust anyhow, the old dry place. And he got a smell of water. He stuck that little honker up in the air, and away he went. The old hen said, "Cluck, cluck, cluck." and he said, "Quack, quack, quack." He was headed for the water, just as hard... You couldn't hold him. Why? His nature was a duck. When he smelled water, his nature called it.
And if you're born in this world, predestinated to be a son of God, there ain't enough religions in the world to hold you away from the real genuine Holy Ghost when it begins to fall. You'll go just as hard. The church might excommunicate you, run you out, blackball you, anything else... You'll go to the "fountain filled with blood, drawn from Immanuel's veins, where sinners plunged beneath the flood, lose all their guilty stains." That's right.

36 So as this old priest and them begin to say, "Now, looky here, noble queen, you are an honorable woman, the best member of our church (the best payer we got here); we just don't want to lose you. So you stay away from them fanatics up there. If there's any god to make a move, he'd move in our organization, here, see. He'd be right here in ours. Don't you worry. We got just as big a god as they got."
But, you know, something begin to dig in her heart. "But they tell me, that that God loves His people so well, till He manifested Himself through His people." That's still the same God that we have. "I am the vine, ye are the branches," see.
Notice, and then she said, "Well..." She just couldn't rest. And another fellow come by: "Oh, queen, glad to see you. Say, I just passed through Israel. You ought to see that Spirit of discernment. It's far beyond any man that ever walked on the earth; it comes from their God." Well, her heart hungered and wanted to go.

37 Now, the little queen had a lot to confront, to go. She had a lot of things... First thing, she was a woman. And then she had all these things to confront. The first place was, she had to give up her church if she went. Well, God was calling, so she started making ready. And now remember, she said, "You know what? I've served these old dead creeds so long, if that really is a God that's alive and proving Hisself alive, I'm going to support it." So she packed up a few camels full of gold and silver.
I'm not pulling for offerings now, but, see, if it's worth anything, it's worth everything. And she said, "If it is the truth, I'm going to support it. If it isn't the truth, then I'm going to bring my money back with me." That's a good idea. That's right. If He's God, be for Him. If He's not, then keep away from it. I want to know where the real God is. I want to know where the One that answers, the One that keeps His Word. I want to deal and have my association with men that'll keep their word to me. I want my neighbors to be the same way. And I want God. He will keep His Word.

38 Then, she said... She packed up some camels and got it ready. And got gold, and frankincense, and myrrh, and great costly things. She said, "I will take my treasures up there, and if it is the truth, if that really is a gift of God working, then I'm going to support it. If it isn't, I can bring my money back, but I'm going to find out for myself." Now that's a good idea. Go find out for yourself; don't take what somebody else says; go see for yourself.
Like Philip told Nathanael, said, "Could any good thing come out of Nazareth?"
He said, "Come and see." That's the best way. Come, find out. If you don't believe the Holy Spirit's real, that quickens your mortal bodies, that gives you joy and happiness and kills sin in your life, come, find out once. Take Him at His Word. You don't believe He's a Healer, step out and take His Word one time. Any promise He's made, He stands right behind it.

39 Now notice, then another thing she had to do: Being a woman, she had to confront, now, the desert. Now, do you know how far it is from Palestine down across the Sahara desert to Sheba? Well, it takes just exactly three months on the back of a camel. Now, she didn't have like we'd have: an air conditioned Cadillac to come across that desert in. She had to come on the back of a camel to see a man that had a gift. And not just take two hours of her time, but would take her three months. And some of the people today won't walk across the street to see something greater than was then. No wonder Jesus said, "She will stand in the day of judgment and condemn this generation."
Look what she had to do. Now, she had three months on the back of a camel in a desert. Now, remember, the desert was full of Ishmael's children, which were robbers---and all that gold on this little bunch of camels, with a few widows with her ... or, women, and some eunuchs to guard her (just a little bitty bunch of men). What would that great tribe of Ishmael do? Run right in and cut them down and take... She had all that to confront. But you know if you're really wanting to find out truth, God will take you to the Fountain, don't you never worry about that. There's nothing will stand in your way. There's no organization, there's no papa, no mama, no neighbor, no brother, no sister, no friend, no nothing, can separate you from God if you really hunger to find God.

40 She takes out on the camels to go through that hot sun. Oh, what a time it was on this camel, now, for three months (ninety days), to come to find out whether it was the truth or not. And we, today, as ministers sometimes will condemn a thing and say it's of the devil before we even go search the Scriptures about it.
Now what will... After we've had two thousand years of teaching since then, what will we do when she stands in the day of judgment? What will that woman say in the day of judgment when Dallas rises in the resurrection? What will she say in the day of judgment when the whole United States rises in the day of judgment, with this great, mighty revival that's swept the country and people's branded it fanaticism, the devil, polished up soothsayer, some kind of a evil spirit, fortuneteller, mind reader? What will they do in the day of judgment?

41 And she finally arrived. God made a way for her to arrive. He will make a way for you to arrive.
There's people... I just met two boys out here. Their mother was healed in Arkansas, not long ago. And there they've been, out here, sleeping in cars and bushes; not because they wanted healing, but they just love to come. They hear that God's visiting us, and they love to watch His works.
A gangster put his arm around me out there, a man that was a gangster (killing and murdering), and has been saved. And for the past months, the man hitch hiking on the roads, all through Maine and everywhere, following around, sleeping in bushes, in the car, anywhere he could, because he loves God, and there's something in it, he says, "Just stirs my soul, Brother Branham. I must come." God bless him. What will the mayor of the city, and the great men of this town, and the religionists of this town will do, when they stand with that man in the day of the judgment? What will happen to the preachers of this city? Many of them who turn it down say it's fanaticism, warning their people not to get around it? See, there you are. But God sends His gifts just the same. He has to do it. He's sovereign; He must do it. He has in all ages. When they turn it down, that's up to them.

42 Now, remember, she traveled through the desert and finally she arrived at the place. Now, she didn't come just to stay about five minutes, and the first time the preacher said something didn't agree with her doctrine, she'd grab her hat and run out of the building.
That's the way we do it today. Well, come up like a big toad frog, and sit in the meeting, "I'll find out. I'll just see what he says. If he says one word I don't like, remember, Molly, I'm getting out of here."
And the preacher gets up and say, "Jesus Christ, the same yesterday, today, and forever."
"That's enough for me," out he goes, and then expect to stand and sing, "Nearer My God to Thee." There you are.

43 She came and pitched her camp right in the door. (I like that.) She come to stay till she was satisfied she'd found out the truth. She come to stay till the revival was over. She wasn't just running around; she come to mean business. We can't sit five minutes. But she come to stay for months. She come to stay until she was convinced whether it was of God or wasn't of God.
And then I can see her the next morning as she walks into the main auditorium. Solomon, the pastor, comes out, takes the seat. And the first thing, they begin to bring cases up that no man in the world... And she begin to watch that spirit of discernment begin to move in Solomon. She watched. Her heart begin to jump. See, God was on the inside. She begin to look, "That's just exactly it." And the first thing you know, the next case come up. There was Solomon stood ... just a man, but a discernment that could only come from God. She watched that discernment. She said, "That would have to be a god, it couldn't be a man doing that."

44 And after a while, when she was fully convinced, she stood in the congregation, and she said, "Go get them camels and pour out all the gold and silver that I brought. And I want to say this, that everything I heard was the truth, and more than I heard is the truth." Because Solomon discerned her, too.
And Jesus said, "She will stand in the resurrection, at the last days, and condemn this generation, for she came from the utmost parts of the world to hear a gift of God, and see it operate..." in her age. And He said, "Behold, a greater than Solomon is here."
And we've had two thousand years since then, and here, this Jesus that was talking, died, buried, raised again, and two thousand years here in the church as the vine, moving through His branches, doing exactly the same thing that He did back there, and people won't come across the street to hear it. What will take place in the resurrection? And brother, that may come before morning. We don't know when.
Remember, that sign of discernment is the last message to the Gentile church. Look, so that you'll know. Jesus said, "As it was in the days of Sodom and Gomorrah, so will it be in the coming of the Son of man. As it was in the days of Noah... Now watch. Noah, was a flood, and then he went into the ark. But Sodom was burnt up.

45 Now, watch the Angel who came to the church. (Lot was backslid. There's two other angels went to them.) But the main church was Abraham and his house. And the Angel come up as a man. And He sat down to Abraham, with His back turned to the tent. The Bible said He had His back to the tent. And Sarah was in the tent. And He said, "Abraham, seeing that you're going to be heir of the world, would I keep from you what I'm going to do?" He said, "Just about this time next month, according to the life," (the twenty-eight days), he said, "I'm going to visit you and fulfill the promise you've been waiting for now, for twenty-five years." And when He said that, Sarah (to His back) inside the tent laughed with herself. And the Angel, looking at Abraham in the face, said, "Why did Sarah laugh?"
What was that message? Sarah said, "No, no, I didn't laugh."
He said, "Oh, yes, you did." What kind of a telepathy was that? Remember, that was the Angel, and that Angel was God. Abraham called Him "Elohim," which is Almighty God. Almighty God manifested Hisself in flesh, His Son, Jesus Christ... And Almighty God, the same pillar of fire that led the children of Israel, manifested in flesh in Jesus Christ: "I come from God and go to God." After His death, burial, and resurrection, returned back, and was in a pillar of fire that blinded Saint Paul on the road to Damascus, came into Peter and got him out of prison; and that same Angel is here tonight, with His picture taken many times among us, producing the same thing that He did at the tent of Abraham.

46 That was before (not the water) the fire. And this is the last message before the fire. Sodom will burn. And God will be innocent, because He sent His Angel, His Spirit, the Holy Spirit, and people has turned it down flatly, because of intellectual conceptions of the Gospel instead of a born again experience. How can you see God unless God's in you? How can you get blood out of a turnip? There's no blood in it. Same way you can't get a believer unless God's in there to make him a believer. It has to be, not an intellectual, but an experience in the heart.
You know the old disbeliever said, many years ago, that God made a mistake. Said, "There was nothing in the heart, no mental faculties to believe with; He meant in your head." If He'd meant "head," He'd've said, "head." He said, "heart."
Now, two years ago I was in Chicago, and big headline: Science has found out that in human heart, (not the animal), in the human heart, there's a little teeny cell ... or, little teeny compartment, rather, that doesn't even have a cell in it. And they said, "It's the occupant of the soul." After all then, a man does believe from his heart. You think with your mind, but you believe from your heart, see.

47 The mind will reason. You say, "Now, now wait. I'm in this condition. Maybe the lady there with that little child. My child's passed." Oh, no, sir! Maybe the young fellow in the wheelchair, the man with the crutches, (see) " I---I---I'm too bad." Cast them reasonings down. Let that message that I tell you, soak down into your heart; then there's not enough devils in the world could make you look at anything else but His promise. You'll do like the prophet said, "These things are lying vanities. I will look to Your holy temple, Lord. You made the promise, and there I stand."
Abraham called those things which were not as though they were, after he had met God. That's the first thing: you have to have an experience. If you don't have an experience, you won't have faith. Every man, every Christian that calls the name of Jesus, has no right at all in the pulpit until he's had a backside of the desert experience.

48 Doctors might be able to come and explain it out to you, doctors of divinity: These that ... out and that way ... and twist the Scriptures around. But if a man's ever come to that backside of the desert, like Moses in his forty years of training; but five minutes in the presence of that burning bush, he knowed more about God than they could've trained him in a million years. They might explain all this away, and that away, but if you've ever met God, you've had an experience. You know you and God alone stood on those grounds, and Satan can't put his dirty, nasty feet on it. That's right. You know, as Job said, "I know my Redeemer liveth, and at the last days He will stand." Satan can't put his feet on those grounds where you and God stood alone. They're holy and separated from anything else. You were there. You was the person it happened to, and you know it's real.

49 That's the reason in these meetings, when I see His Scripture produced, that He would do these things, and watch Him move up, see Him take the picture for the scientific world, the unbeliever, so they're without excuse; and then see Him come out to the church and manifest Himself, move through poor mortal beings: a man hold himself out and say, "Lord God, here I am." A little woman sitting out in the audience: "O Lord, here I am." And watch that Holy Spirit come back and bear the fruit of the vine that it's coming from.
[Gap in the audio.] What will it do in the day of judgment? What will happen to this adulterous generation, seeing that sign of the living God, who's been living after two thousand years? The queen of the south shall rise and condemn it, because she stood at the gift of Solomon and said, "Truly, it's of God. Truly."
But people's afraid to stand today. Don't be afraid to make your stand for God. If you don't stand for Him, you'll stand alone.

50 Danny Greenfield... Not long ago a famous preacher went through Central America, here. And he said he dreamed one night, he died. And said, when he died, he thought he went up to heaven. He knocked at the door, and a door keeper come, he said, "Who approaches this holy place."
He said, "I'm Danny Greenfield, from America, the evangelist."
Said, "Just a moment, Mr. Greenfield. I will look on the book and see if I see your name." Went in and looked on the book; He said, "Sorry. No Dan Greenfield here."
He said, "Sir, I was an evangelist in America, and I held great meetings, and hundreds of people received the Lord Jesus." Said, "Surely, you overlooked my name."
He said, "There's no Dan Greenfield here, sir. You're not registered."
Said, "What can I do?"
Said, "The only thing," the Angel said, "the only thing I know you can do: you might appeal your case to the great white throne."
He said, "Well, if that's my only hope, I will have to do it."
And said, seemed like he started off, moving. And he moved through space for a long time, real swiftly. Said he begin to come into a light. And as he got deeper and deeper into the light, it seemed like it wasn't coming from any certain place, but just a great light. Said he got slower and slower till he got right in, seemed like the midst of it, and he stopped. He said, "Such a feeling." Said he trembled all over. And said "Directly, a voice came from there that would've shook the world to pieces. Said, 'Who is it, approaches My throne of judgment?'"
He said, "I, Danny Greenfield, the American evangelist."
He said, "Mr. Greenfield, you have come to My justice?"
"Yes," he said, "Lord, I have come to Your justice."
He said, "I will judge you by My holy laws." He said, "Danny Greenfield, did you ever tell a lie?"
He said "I was just ready to say, 'No, I never...'" said, "but I thought I had told some things that wasn't altogether the truth." Said, "He said, 'Yes, Lord, I've told lies.'"
He said, "Danny Greenfield, did you ever steal."
He said, "Surely I could answer that. I thought I'd been honest." But said, "In the presence of that great light, I remembered a lot of shady deals I pulled."

51 And brother, sister, you may think you're all right under this light, but wait till you get into that light. Better be sure.
He said, "I knowed that the next great blast would come: I'd hear that great voice say, 'Separate from Me forever, you worker of iniquity.'" Said, "Just as I was listening for that voice," said, "I heard the sweetest voice I ever heard in my life." Said, "There was no mother's voice could ever be like that." And said, "I turned to look, and I saw the sweetest face that I ever looked at." Said, "No mother's face could be that sweet." And said, "He come close, put His arm around me. He said, 'Father, truly, Danny Greenfield wasn't perfect in his life. But here's one thing Danny Greenfield did do: When he was on earth, he stood for Me, and I will stand for him here.'"
Who would stand for you, tonight, friends, if you were going tonight? Let's bow our heads and think of it, just for a moment.
The queen stood when she seen the gift of God working. She stood and she said, "It's all true." And tonight, while God's greatest gift, the Holy Ghost, is moving in this audience, I wonder if you'd make a stand tonight to your feet and say, "God, be merciful to me. It's all true that I need You. And no one can stand for me in that day, but You. And I'm going to stand for You now, so that You'll stand for me in that day." While we're thinking, waiting a moment, if you feel your need of Christ, will you just raise up your hand? God bless you, lady. God bless you, young lady. God bless you, sir. God bless you, lady. God bless you, you, you, you back there. Way down in here to my left, the Lord bless you. To my right, over here now, anywhere, inside or out? "God, I feel my need of You. I want to raise my hand." God bless you, young fellow. "I want to raise my hand..." God bless you, lady, sitting here. God bless you, young lady... Oh, them teen-age girls, God bless their souls. Young fellow back there, that lady, God bless you. Outside, men or women outside of Christ who... Won't you just say, "Lord God, right now..."

52 I may never see you again, friends. I may be back here again, someday. I may never live to come back... God bless you, lady, sitting here. I may never live to come back. And if I would, and this group of people, of this size, tonight... If I'd come back a year from now, there's many of you wouldn't be here. You'd be gone. The next time I see you, in my life... Many of you here, the next time you see my face, will be at the judgment bar where the queen of Sheba will be standing there. She made her stand.
Are you good enough in yourself, you think, to stand there? Are you really trusting His mercy? And you want to stand... You want Him to stand for you. You don't want to try to stand in your own righteousness, you want His grace and mercy. Someone who hasn't raised their hand, would you just raise your hand and say, "God be merciful to me? I now need You, Lord. Here's my hand." God bless you, young lady. God bless you, young lady. My, the teen-age girls, everywhere... God bless you, another one back here. That's right. God bless you, lady, here.

53 These little girls, just a trap... America's god is a woman. You know that. It's on her money. America, her god is a woman. Hollywood and all the immorals and things has proved it. God bless this little baby girl, not over about ten years old, with her little hand up.
Not nothing against my sisters. They're the cream of the crop. Ladies, you're God's daughter. Certainly you are, but oh, how this fashion world takes the lady and strips her clothes and... Oh, what a pitiful thing. And you... Lot of times, young men, with your eyes lusting and looking... Turn your head, brother. If you look you'll be guilty of adultery. And sister, if you present yourself like that, no matter how clean you try to live, God will make you answer for committing adultery with a sinner that looked at you. Do you need His help? If you do, just raise your hand, just before praying now. God bless you. That's good, all right. God bless this young lady over here, too. Let us pray now.

54 Heavenly Father, we're taught that in the book of science, it claims that a man can't raise his hand, scientifically, because gravitation holds his arms down. But when a man raises his hand, it shows it's something besides science; it's a spirit that can make him defy gravitation. And what made him raise his hand? Because the Angel of God was there and said, "Son, daughter, you're wrong." And they made a decision, and they raised their hand upward, from whence the Creator shall come, and recognized that, by raising their hand to their Creator, "I'm wrong, O Lord ... [Gap in the audio.] ... me." God, You'll never let one of them go wrong. I pray with all my heart. These are Your Words, Jesus. I quote them over again, so Satan will know that it's Your Word. You said, "He that heareth My words and believeth on Him that sent Me, hath (present tense) eternal life, and shall never come to the judgment, but hath (past tense) passed from death unto life." How we thank You for that, Lord.

55 Those hearts... I believe, Lord, they come... Those hands come from true, honest hearts. And again it's written, "No man can come to Me, except My Father draws him first." So You're here. They are the gems of this message, tonight, Lord. I pray that You'll keep them, now. And You will present them to Your Son, as love gifts. "No man can pluck them from His hand." Raise them up in the last day and when the queen of the South stands, may they stand in the justice of Jesus Christ at that day, because they've come: maybe not from the utmost parts of the earth, but maybe against creeds and denominations that would've kept them away; against the wicked devil that would send these young girls out in the road houses, smoking cigarettes, and wearing shorts, and carrying on. He would've kept them there. And these young men, from drinking and carousing. But tonight, they stepped right out, raised their hand up: "Lord God, be merciful to me." Then, I know they're Yours, Lord. I expect to see them in a better world, where there's no more sickness or sorrow or death. They're Yours, Father, and we present them to You. May they find a real good church home, be baptized, and there, be filled with the Holy Ghost, and live true until death shall set them free and they come in Your presence. In Jesus' name, I pray. Amen.

56 Now, immediately after the service is over, you that raised your hands, I want you to come up around here, after the healing service, and praise God for giving you that grace. Thirty, forty, fifty hands went up around the building; I want you to come and pray around here, after this is over.
Now friends, all that I have said in the nights, all that I have said would be ... just fall by the wayside, if God doesn't make Hisself known that He's still the same God. Now, I want you to know this, and I say this with all respects and godly fear: There isn't a man in this world that could do anything for you except, first, your faith be in a finished work that Christ did at Calvary, see.
There is... Paul Cain here, somewhere, sitting here, a great ministry. Tommy Hicks, many other, Brother Culpepper, many of these, here, Brother Lindsay, went around the world, many of them, preaching, great revivals. Ask them if they ever healed anybody. Certainly not. They've preached the Word. God did the work. No matter how much the Gospel is preached, how present God was, if you draw back and don't believe it, they could never help you. They might anoint you with oil, put hands on you, or do anything in the world, it would never help you until you ... your faith moves from here down into here, you say, "Yes, God, I believe it."

57 Look. What is faith? (I got a minute, have I?) " Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen." Now, seeing isn't believing. It isn't. Many times... Come here, Paul. Here's a man standing by me, got on a gray coat, dark hair. How many believes that? Sure, you see it. I don't see him now, but he's still there. You want to argue with me, "He's not"? How do I know he's there? Because I feel him; I've got another sense. I feel him, see. Now, I cannot feel him now, but I see him. Now, what is... (Thank you, Brother Paul.) What is faith? "The substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things you do not see, taste, feel, smell, or hear. You believe it. And if every person in here believes that Jesus Christ is present and is going to heal you, just the same as your sight (if you can see) says, "That shirt's white." It's settled, see. If the sense of faith says, "It's right." just the same as the sense of sight says, "It's right," it's over; you don't need praying for or nothing, see. It's all over.

58 Now, what is it? Here's faith. Let me show you. I'm starving to death, and I'm standing here hungry. And you pass by and say, "Hello, Brother Branham."
I say, "How do you do."
"What's the matter, Brother Branham?"
"I'm starving to death."
"What'll save your life."
"A loaf of bread."
"All right. Here's twenty-five cents, Brother Branham, for a loaf of bread (the purchase price.)" Walk away.
Well, I take that twenty-five cents (It's not just make believe); I'm holding twenty-five cents. See? All right. I can start rejoicing and be just as happy with that twenty-five cents as I can with the loaf of bread. Why? Because I've got the purchase power of a loaf of bread. Now, I may not have it, and I may have to walk five miles to get it. I may have to go over bridges, and down over briar patches, and across the creek, and over the foot log, and up over the hill, but all along, I can be shouting and I can be just as happy with the quarter as I can, before I get the loaf of bread as I have after I've got it, because I've got the purchase power of it. I've got the thing that buys it. It's settled; I've got twenty-five cents. That's what it takes to buy bread.
No matter whether my hand comes straight, my ears come open, as long as something in my heart says, "It's finished," Hallelujah, I can shout the praises of God, "I got it." Yes, sir. 'Cause why? I've got the purchase power. I believe it.

59 Now, what is this Bible? The truth or isn't it the truth? If it isn't the truth, away with it. If it is the truth, believe it. Jesus made a promise, "A little while, and the world won't see me no more." That world: Kosmos, the Greek word which means "the world order." Many times the church, the so-called church, "the world, they won't see Me anymore. They can't see Me. Yet, ye shall see Me (that's the church) for I (personal pronoun), I will be with you, even in you to the end of the world. The works that I do, shall you also. More than this shall you do."
Now, the King James says "greater," but if you look the right translation, how could it be greater? Raised the dead, stopped nature, done everything: more, because why? It'll be all universal. God was in one place in His Son, Christ. Now, He's in the church, universal. Why, there's ten thousand times more being done now, than there was done in the days of Christ, because here, we're going through something here; another man's going through persecution; and another one is raising the dead; and another's opening the blinded eye, all over the world, right now. His great church, universal... Hallelujah. Oh, you're going to call me a 'holy-roller' anyhow, so I might as well holler "Hallelujah," because it means, "Praise our God" and He's worthy of all praises. He's here now. After being dead...

60 Now, if you went to a pumpkin vine, you'd expect to find pumpkins. If you went to a watermelon vine, you'd expect to find watermelons. You went to a grape vine, you'd go to grapes. And if you've come to the church, you don't expect theology and arguing and fussing. You expect to see the life of Christ, the vine, moving in the branches, bringing forth the same Spirit that lived in the Lord Jesus, for He lives. He's alive today. If He is, He will do the same works. Jesus said, "If I do not the works of My Father that sent Me, then believe Me not."
And you people here, that's just received Christ awhile ago, if God doesn't come into this church tonight and do the same thing He did when He was here in the Lord Jesus, like He's always done, then believe it not. But if He does, then rejoice. Heathens has gods, but they're dead. We have God that's alive (not a painted fire), a living Jesus. And if He comes and performs... Remember, He said, "The Son can do nothing in Himself but what He sees the Father doing." Saint John 5:19. Did you ever read it? How many ever read that? "The Son can do nothing."
Now, no scriptures can be broken. Jesus said so. So Jesus never did one miracle until He saw the Father do it. "Verily, verily, I say unto you (that's absolutely, absolutely, I say to you), the Son can do nothing in Himself but what He sees (not hears, not revealed, but what He sees) the Father doing, that doeth the Son likewise. For the Father worketh and I worketh hitherto." See it?

61 Then, when a woman one time, where He saw no vision for her, she touched His garment, went out and sat in the audience. He said, "Who touched Me?"
They said, "The whole multitude." And Peter rebuked Him.
He said, "But I got weak." And He looked around till He found the woman. Told her a blood issue had been stopped because her faith had saved it. That right?
Now, I want to ask you minister's something. Does the Scripture say that Jesus Christ tonight is a High Priest that can be touched by the feeling of our infirmities? Does He say it? Well then, if He's a High Priest that can be touched by the feeling of our infirmities, how would you know you touched Him if He didn't act the same as He did then? If He is the same yesterday, today, and forever, He will have to act the same as He did yesterday, today, and forever. If He did that sign to prove at the closing of the Jewish age... But remember, not one time did He do it to the Gentile, only to the Jew and the woman at the well, Samaria. The Jews recognized it (the true Jew): " That's the Messiah." "You're the Son of God, the King of Israel."
But there were those who stood by, said, "He's Beelzebub, the prince of the devils," see. Still the same today.
But He said, "Don't go to the Gentiles." Why? We were heathens in those days. But now, they were looking for the Messiah. Now, we've been looking two thousand years for Him, have we? Well then, when our age is closing, if God (as I said last night), if He acts one time upon anything, He's got to act the same every time or He acted wrong the first time, see. He can't take anything back.

62 We get smarter. He's infinite to begin with. He don't get any smarter. He can't because He's perfect, always. So His first decision is every decision the same. So at the close of this age, He couldn't be manifested Himself to us, as our creeds and our denominations. He's got to manifest Hisself the same as He did them. He didn't recognize their creeds. He come and showed signs by perceiving their thought, doing what the Father told Him to do. And they called Him a devil, a fortuneteller. He's got to do the same.
He did the same to the Samaritan. What'd that woman say? She said, "Why, come see a man that told me the things I've done. Isn't this the very Messiah?" I said last night: She knowed more about God than half the preachers. And that's right.
Now, if He manifests Himself the same tonight, how many will believe Him? It's your meeting. God bless you.

63 Prayer cards... Where's Billy? 1-100, what in? R? Prayer card "R," 1-100. Can't all line at once, but as soon as I come down the line as far as I can, I want some of them to take over after I leave. I will try to get the whole group if I can. Who has prayer card R number 1, raise up your hand? Would you raise your hand? R number 2, raise up your hand. R number 2, right there. 3, R number 3. Number 4, over here. All right, sir. Number 5. Come here, sir. Number 5, who has R number 5? Would you raise your hand? Look at somebody near you. These people here, maybe in these chairs, can't get their hands up. R number 5, raise your hand, will you? Have I missed it? Shake your hand way up if you can. Now, look at your neighbor's card. Somebody, may be somebody deaf, can't hear. R number 5? All right, losing their place. All right. R number 5. Number 6, right there. Number 7. Number 7, do I see it? 7, 8. Now if number 5 is out, comes in, let us know. Number 8, number 9, raise your hand quick. All right. 10, 11, 12, 12, did I see it? 13, 14, 15, 15, 16, 17, 18, 18, 19, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25. That's good. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 30. How much room you got out there? All right.

64 Now, just remember, as your number's follow, when that line goes to going a little bit lower now, start 30, 1, 2, 3. We don't care how many stands; we just don't want you to have to stand too long, because in discernment... Now, let's stop right there and just let everyone stand for a ... I mean, everyone be seated just for a moment or two. Just be real reverent now, real reverent.
How many in the building here, that doesn't have a prayer card and you want God to heal you, and you believe you have faith enough to touch His garment, and He will turn around, the High Priest? Raise your hand, say, "I want prayer, Brother Branham. God, heal me." Raise your hands way up high, now, see. All the way around... All right. Then... You haven't a prayer card, now, and you want God to heal you. All right, now, you just watch this way. Be real reverent. Believe with all your heart. See if God doesn't do it.

65 All right. How many they got lined up down there now? Dr. Vayle, how many is lined up? How you coming on? All there but number what? Number 5, has number 5 come in, yet? Was it R or P, which was it? R, R number 5. You sure you looked, everybody ... think somebody deaf now, because sometime ago, I get a letter said, "Brother Branham, I was deaf and nobody... I didn't now you called my number." See, and then I don't like that. "I couldn't raise up, Brother Branham, and nobody looked at my card." I wouldn't want that to happen, see. Certainly not. Now, that don't mean they're going to be healed. It just means they're called by their number.

66 Now, all right. We will start the prayer line anyhow. Now, if Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever... Now please, friends, I want you to be just as reverent as you can be. Quiet, reverent... Now, while especially, the anointing is going on. Then, if someone is made well, or something happens, of course you rejoice. I believe in shouting, and praising the Lord, and all that goes with the Gospel. I believe in a full Pentecostal square meal. I believe in all of it. But you see, we have to approach God quietly, sanely, reverently. Then when we get what we ask for, then turn and thank Him for it. Everyone understands that, don't you?
Now, be real reverent. And I want you to don't move around, see. Each one of you are a spirit. How many knows that? Sure you are. And if you move (See), after you have the grip of [Gap in the audio.] and you move, then it interferes. And don't take a flash picture during this time.

67 Now, all right, you can start your prayer line now. Is this... All right. Now, there's a woman here to begin. Now, let's just not be ... don't be nervous now. Sit quiet. Don't think what time it is and nothing. It has nothing to do with it. Let's watch. If Christ is risen from the dead, why, brother, sister, we got everything to be happy about. If he hasn't risen from the dead, then "let us go and eat, drink, and be merry, for tomorrow we die."
Now, if He is the Son of God, and He keeps His Word by appearing here on the platform in the form of Spirit, in this picture here of the Angel of the Lord, that was in Moses ... with Moses in the burning bush, made manifested in Jesus Christ, the works that it did then... Then He said, "A little while... I come from God; I go to God..." returned back in the form of the Holy Spirit in a pillar of fire again.

68 Now you say, "Brother Branham, was that that what struck Paul down? It was a light. Nobody else saw it but Paul. And it said, "Saul, Saul, why persecute thou Me?"
He said, "Who are you, Lord?"
He said, "I'm Jesus." Is that right? He said, "I come from God and go to God." When He was on earth He said, "I was the I AM that was in the bush." So then, you see, "the works that I do, shall you also."
Now, if that Angel that's got its picture on that paper, if it doesn't produce the same life that Jesus did when He was here on earth, then this is the wrong vine. It's the wrong thing. If it produced great things of something else, then that's what it is. But it'll have to produce the same kind of a life. Look. "As My Father sent Me, so send I you." How many knows the Scripture says that? Well, look. The Father that sent Him, went in Him. The Jesus that sends His men, goes in His men. "If I do not the works of My Father, believe Me not." Now, if we do not the works of Christ, then believe the message not. But I've read it out of the Bible, and if He doesn't do the same thing, then all right, He isn't the same. If He does, we will all be happy.

69 Now I'm just trying to get you quiet, see. That's why I've taken this time for: quieten you. One case will prove it.
Now, the lady... I don't know her. We're strangers to each other, I suppose. All right. Just so that the people might know, we don't... I'm not asking you to swear, because the Bible says don't do it, but the people might know... I have never seen you in my life, and we're total strangers to one another, just raise up our hands so the people can see. I've never seen or heard of her in my life, know nothing, not one thing about...
There isn't a person here, out in there, that I know. I thought I heard Brother Young Brown awhile ago. Some of them said he was in the meeting, but I don't know where he's at. Brother Young, if you're here, God bless your heart. But I don't know... Some of them said he was at the meeting yesterday and today. I haven't seen him, but that'd be the only person that I can see in this building.

70 How many of you out there know that I don't know nothing about you? Raise your hand. Sure. Now see? This here... What's these people up here for? Just to get the anointing started. Then it moves out into the audience to whoever you are out there, sick. Just look up to the High Priest and say, "Lord God, let me tonight... Let me just touch You. And then You speak right back through your branches and prove... That's the way You did it when You were here yesterday. That's the way You'd do it today. You're forever the same." See if He does it.
Just be sincere. Now here is a picture, a Bible picture, Saint John 4. Here's a man and a woman, meeting for their first time in life. And in Saint John 4, Jesus met a woman at the well, a Samaritan. I'm a lot older than the woman. We're different ages, probably born in different countries, and the first time we've ever met in life. Now, if I walked up and said, "Sister, hallelujah, you're going to get well. You're sick."
She might be an infidel. She might be here as a deceiver. You've seen and heard of them come in the line too, haven't you? Yes, sir. Remember that one that night was going to hypnotize me? Come in there... And said, "The devil sent you in here. And because you did that, you'll have to be packed out." He's still paralyzed, see. So, you see them on the platform drop, and so forth. Just let the Holy Spirit... We're not playing church. This is God.

71 You say, "What are you stalling for, Brother Branham?" For that Angel of the Lord. That's right. If He doesn't come, I will have to pass the woman through. I will have to do just as I would if it wasn't this gift. Now, you don't have to have the gift to do it. That's not one thing to do with her healing. And it's only to let each one of you know, if He does it, that there's a supernatural Being here that's proving the thing that Jesus promised that would take place. Then if He keeps that promise, He keeps every promise.
Now, I want to talk to her just a moment to see that if He would say something to us. Now, not knowing you, never seeing you in my life, if the Lord Jesus would tell me something... If I said, "Well, you're sick." That could be a guess. Lay my hands on you and say, "Go on. Get well. Praise the Lord." That could be all right. He could do it. And it could be God that did it, speaking through me. But then, you could wonder about that. But if He goes back now, somewhere down in life, maybe many years or whatever it is, as He did when that old fisherman come: told him who he was, told him his name, told him what his father's name was. What about that?

72 When He told Nathanael, "I saw you when you were under the tree."
He said, "You're the Son of God, the King of Israel," see. Now, if He would tell me one thing about you that you know I don't know, it'd have to come through supernatural, certainly. Then you'd say, "If He knows what was, He surely will know what will be." Now, the Holy Spirit's here. That Angel that you see on the picture, is not two feet from where I'm standing right now. That's "thus saith the Lord." Remember, I will meet you with the queen of Sheba, in the presence of Jesus Christ at that day.

73 I take every spirit in here under my control for His glory. Now do as you're told and be reverent. The woman is a Christian. And I'm not saying that because she's crying. Hypocrites cry and infidels and everything else, and make believe. But the woman is a Christian. And the woman's suffering with a condition of her back. And that's what she wants me to pray for. That's right. If that's right, raise up your hands, straight up in the air. There it is. You believe now?
Now, you say... Now, you're not saying it tonight; but you might think that I was guessing that. Find out. She's a good person. She's not looking at me; she has her eyes closed. I don't have to look at her. God's just as great over here as He is over here, see. May He grant it.
Yes, I see the woman. She's suffering with a trouble in her back. That's right. And then she has trouble in her breast also. That's right. That's right, isn't it? And you might know me to be God's prophet ... or, His servant, rather: you got somebody on your heart you're praying for. That's a aged couple. It's your father and your mother. They're ill. And another thing, if you believe me to be God's prophet ... or, His servant, you've got a dear friend that's a neighbor of yours that you're praying for. And besides that, you're praying for all of them to receive the baptism of the Holy Ghost. I hear you ask it at a bedside, before you come. That's right. If that's right, wave your hand like this, back and forth. You have received what you've ask for. Go on your road rejoicing, because you shall have what you ask for. Find your father and mother well.

74 If thou canst believe... Now be real reverent. Don't doubt. Do you believe that the same Jesus that knowed the woman's heart at the well, is the same Jesus here tonight, in a form of the vine, and we're His branches? How many believes that now? Then it should be settled. Now, be just reverent. We got a few standing here in the line. I just trust that He will do something else for us. That's enough; that proves it.
Which is it, six? I'm not beside myself, but you can imagine, visions, and being weak as I am, you don't know where you're at sometimes. Oh, you say, "That's strange." Did you know Elisha didn't know where he was at for forty days and nights, and God found him pulled back in a cave? after a vision come to him. Daniel was troubled at his head for many days from one vision.

75 We're strangers to each other. It's our first time meeting? You just... Somebody give you a prayer card. And when them prayer cards was given out, they were brought up here before the people and all mixed up together, and just give them to wherever they will. You don't know where you get, because sometimes we start from one place and another. Doesn't matter. Just a prayer card with my name on it and a number on it. That's all. But God knows you. Now, if He will reveal to me what you're here for, will you believe me to be His servant? And you believe then, that it would be a Spirit, you'd have to know that there's some kind of a Spirit in here that would know that, because it couldn't come through a human being. That would be a more of a miracle than to see that little crippled baby get up and walk. Did you know that? Psychic emotion could bring that baby up and walking. Right. Psychic emotion can bring that boy from the wheelchair. Psychic emotion can't foretell and tell what will be and what has been. Can't do it. That takes Spirit of God.

76 The lady is here. She wants me to pray for her for something's wrong in her mouth. That's pyorrhea of your gums. That's "thus saith the Lord." Just a moment. I seen something else appear. It's a child. Oh, you got a child that's got bad feet. That's right. "Thus saith the Lord." And you're not from here. You come from the northwest. You're from the panhandle. You've come from a city called Lubbock, Texas. Return. You have what you asked for. Jesus Christ makes you well.
Have faith in God. Now, don't doubt. Don't doubt, just believe with all your heart, with all that's in you. Just have faith. Have faith in God.
We are strangers to each other. Is this our first time meeting? Now, be real reverent. Something keeps taking place back in here. Now, don't doubt. Just believe with all your heart.

77 A lady sitting there with a little checked looking dress on, pink, or green, or ever what it is, looking right across this way, praying, with arthritis. You believe the Lord heals you then, sister? You believe it with all your heart? If you believe it, you may receive it and God will make you well.
It's moving in the audience; it goes across to a lady with her head bowed, right back here, sitting with her head bowed, the second woman in. She's suffering with a liver trouble. What did you touch, sister? I don't know you, do I? If that's right, wave your hand. I never seen you in my life. You believe me to be God's prophet ... or, (excuse me for saying that) His servant? All right. I never seen you. Your condition, where a dark streak hung over you, it's passed away. Your faith has healed you.

78 I want to ask you something. If that isn't the Spirit of Jesus Christ, acting the same as it did yesterday, what is it? That you might know me to be His servant, the lady sitting next to you, there, being that the Spirit's on you, she's suffering with heart trouble that she wants to be healed. If that's right, lady, stand up on your feet. You believe me to be God's servant? I don't know you, do I? That's right. Lay your hand on the lady sitting next to you, that just raised up. She's got back trouble she wants to be healed of. Stand up, lady, Jesus Christ makes you well.
If you believe me to be God's servant, the lady sitting next to her is a lady that's got trouble in her side. She's got side trouble. Is that right, lady? It is right. Stand up and raise your hand. Your faith has healed you.
Does that take all the superstition away from it? It's God. I don't know those people, but your faith has healed you. Go home, you're well. What did they touch? They never touched me; they're fifteen yards from me. It's the High Priest, Jesus Christ, the same yesterday, today, and forever, the resurrected One. Don't doubt. Believe.

79 I'm sorry. It was in the audience. I just have to work as the Spirit moves. It's such a weakening affair. Are we strangers? I don't know you, and you don't know me? If God will tell me what you're here for, do you believe me to be His servant? You know something's going on. That feeling... Between you and I stands that light. You're moving from me, you're moving way away. I can tell you right now: You're not from around here, because you're from a wooded country, where there's much heavy timber and woods. And you're suffering with a female trouble. And you've got a desire in your heart to have a baby, and you can't have the baby. And you've come from Denver, Colorado, "Thus saith the Lord." That's right. Go home and receive your child. God will give it to you if you believe.
Now, be real reverent. Have faith. Don't doubt. Believe with all your heart. With that foot trouble sitting there, you believe that God will make you well? You accept it, believe it, that He will do it? All right. It's over then. God bless you. I don't know you, young man, do I? Never seen you in my life. That's right. But you was sitting there praying, wasn't you? See, I never seen him in my life, but you're healed, young man. Your faith has made you well.

80 This elderly lady sitting here with the glasses on, had a foot trouble, too. She's been suffering, and when I said that to that person, then she had faith, too. You believe that God healed you also? That's right. I don't know you, do I? But when I said "foot" to that man there, it made you jump, didn't it? The Holy Spirit struck you and healed you right there. You are healed. Your faith makes you whole. Amen. Have faith in God. Don't doubt.

81 Sitting back there with a handkerchief up to your face, crying, with that stomach trouble... Forget it. God healed you. I challenge your faith in Jesus Christ's name, to believe that that's Him anointing me, a doing it. Now, you know why? You know why that woman was healed? That devil thought he'd catch that. This man right here's suffering with stomach trouble. That's right. You have something wrong with your stomach. That's right. And see, that spirit was moving from there, calling to that demon out there for help. There's a black streak running from the man there. I saw the vision between them. I tell you something else, sir. You believe me to be His prophet? All right. That sore in your mouth will go away, too. You believe that He will do that? All right, sir. You're not from this country, either. You're from Oklahoma. Your name is Mr. Meadows. Return back. You're healed. Jesus Christ makes you well.

82 Come believing. You believe God healed that arthritis while you was sitting there? Go on off the platform, rejoicing, saying, "Thank the Lord."
I want to show you... You have a nervous heart. And there's so many pulling out there. Let me show you; come here, just a minute. Here's the reason I can't call it now. The Holy Spirit's trying to... I will show you something that's ... (not me, but the Lord will, if you'll just believe me). Looky here. Watch here. Here's the reason I can't call it. Everybody out there suffering with nervousness of any type, stand up to your feet. See, now, how can you call that? Stand on your feet just a minute. Have faith.
Come here. Stand right here. Look to me. Do you believe me to be His prophet? If God will reveal to me what's your trouble, will you believe it? You got asthma, coughing. All with asthma, stand on your feet. Everywhere that's bothered with asthma, coughing, stand on your feet.

83 Heart trouble... Stand right here. All with heart trouble, stand on your feet, believe.
You got a mental nervousness. That is deep thinking, crossing bridges before you get to them, taking other things that don't happen the way you always think it does. It's a mental nervousness. This whole group's somehow or another, bound with that. Move over to one side, just a minute. Have faith in God and believe with all your heart.
If God can heal right here, He can heal out there. How many believers is in here? Raise your hands. Does God keep His Word? Look, Jesus said, "These signs shall follow them that believe. If they lay their hands on the sick, they shall recover." Did He say it? Why, who said it? The same Jesus that's here now, speaking, (not a dead God) a risen God. One is here, greater than Solomon. It's the resurrected Jesus. He's in your presence now, and you're in His presence. Lay your hands on one another. Every sick person in here, lay your hand on the person and pray like you do in your own church. There's only one thing to keep you, every one, from being healed, all at this one time: that's unbelief. And I'm going to ask these ministers to stand on their feet and pray with me that we will cast out unbelief.

84 If you can get the devil of unbelief out, this is going to be the greatest night you ever seen. All you in the wheelchairs, everywhere, get ready to walk out.
Almighty God, in the name of Jesus, come to our rescue. Thou the morning star, the Alpha, Omega, the beginning and the end...
Oh, Satan, you are exposed. You've lost the battle. Come out of this audience, in the name of Jesus Christ, move out of here.

The Queen of the South

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1 Thank you, Brother Joseph. Thank you, brother. May be seated. It's a privilege to be here tonight, but we just don't get to stay long enough when we come; we're just in and out. And I've heard Brother Joseph introduce me so many times at the platform, and I pull his coat and everything else to keep him from saying those things, but he just says them anyhow. I would rather give a person a little rosebud now than a whole wreath after they're gone.

2 And to this convention I want to say ... not just because he's sitting here; that would be a hypocrite. But Joseph Boze has been one of finest friends I've ever had. That's exactly right. He's a wonderful brother; I've found him just, honest, just as honest as he can be, and a real man who loves God. I'm not saying that because he passes the nice complements that he does, but I'm saying it from an experience, that I know what I speak of. And he's leaving Chicago pretty soon, and they're losing one of the best men that's ever come to Chicago when Joseph Boze leaves there.

3 And I certainly have appreciated all of our fellowship in Chicago and the great meetings we've had together. God only knows what it has meant. And someday in a world beyond here where time will cease and eternity will blend in with it, we will talk it all over, Joseph, about the great things that's been done. Got a lovely family, lovely children, lovely church, lovely members, and very fine preaching. Everyone use to say, "If Brother Branham's not in Jeffersonville, either call Chicago, Mattsson-Boze, or Shreveport, Louisiana, Jack Moore; I was at one of the two places, going back and forth. Because they were both my good friends, and just as soon as I'd have one night way down the line somewhere, that one would grab me; before I could get to another, another one would grab me. So I'd tell them ... I'd say, "Brother, I got a lot of other fine brothers I just got to visit a little bit, you know, and talk with them."

4 I certainly want to say, that I appreciate the privilege that's been mine to speak at this convention. This group represents what I stand for: a fellowship with all men. Regardless of creed, color, or race, or whatmore, we fellowship together, having no denominational barriers, just a group of men who fellowship. If you're Methodist, Baptist, Presbyterian, it's in Full Gospel nature. But if you're a Methodist and want to fellowship with them, see if they'll turn you down. Baptist, Presbyterian, or whatever you are, don't make any difference to them. They got hand out, a good handshake; I like that. And that's what I think the Lord loves too, is for all of His children to fellowship.
And I want to apologize to Greenville and to the convention, for having to come to you so tired. And when I'm tired you're not at your best. I've been going since Christmas, constantly. I will leave here in the morning, going right straight up to Green Pines, I believe ... Southern Pines, Southern Pines, North Carolina, I think that is, Southern (That ought to be South Carolina, oughtn't it?) ... Southern Pines, North Carolina. And be up there for four days, and then on to Philadelphia to the Full Gospel Businessmen's International Convention. And that's to be in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, beginning ... I will speak (supposing to speak) at the breakfast on the morning of the twenty-eighth. And then, I think, the first the convention starts. And then I'm to meet my good friend Oral Roberts, and Tommy Hicks, and many more of the brethren at this convention of minister brothers.

5 Billy told me just now that they've taken a love offering. Is that right? A love offering for me. I appreciate that. I didn't come for that; I never asked for that. I never took a offering in all my life. I've never took a offering. I've been a minister twenty-seven years, and I never took one offering in my life, or never had one penny of salary in my life. I just live by the alms of the people.
I worked seventeen years as game warden and for a electrician, as a public service company, and pastored the Baptist Tabernacle at Jeffersonville, taking what tithe that was giving in, never even seen it, passed right through the church, and built the church and so forth. And paid tithes and offerings to the church, seventeen years without one penny. And I wished I had a job that I could go to with a pick and shovel, or a hammer, or something another, is about all I got gumption enough to do, dig a ditch or something, work, some electrical work, and wouldn't have to take up an offering anytime. If I could do it, I'd gladly do it. I'm not as young as I was then.

6 I had a birthday the other day, and let's see; I think I was... My wife's sitting here, so I have to be careful; I think I was twenty-five. I was just a little over twenty-five; I was born in 1909, so that makes me a little over twenty-five, doesn't it, just a little over twenty five? So I will hear from this.
I remember one night... She always gets after me for saying this. We had a close time, when I almost had to take a offering once; we couldn't make ends meet. Did you ever hit that place? And so I said, "Honey, I'm going to take up an offering tonight."
She said, "I'm going over and watch you do it." So she sat down.
And I said, "Folks, I'm going to take an offering; I'm just in a little tight place. If you all got ten, fifteen cents you could throw in and help me get over this snag, I appreciate it." I said, "Uncle Jim Wiseheart (one of the deacons)," I said, "would you get my hat?" We didn't even have an offering plate. He went over to get my hat. Little old woman, used to sit right down to my right, prayed for me all the time. She's in heaven tonight. She had one of them little old aprons on that you had the pocket on the inside. How many ever seen one of them, you Southern women? Sure.
Grandma used to have one; she carried her pipe and her tobacco on the inside there, little old cane and a long clay pipe. Did you ever see one? Sure, Grandma had one. The men folks would come, she'd stick it under here and hold her finger on it, and then, to keep it from burning her apron till the... Didn't make any difference about the hand, you know.

7 But, this little old woman reached down there, and got one of those little pocketbooks that snaps over the top, begin to reach down there for those nickels; I couldn't do that. "Oh," I said, "I was just teasing you." That thing would've haunted me the rest of my life, if I took that woman's nickels. I said, "I was just teasing you, see what you would say." And Uncle Jim standing there with my hat in his hand, he said, "What do you mean, Billy?"
I said, "Hang my hat up, Uncle Jim. I was just teasing you."

8 An old man used to come to my house, rode a bicycle. He come from Benton Harbor, had long beard and hair. Old Brother Ryan, many of you might've knowed him. And he rode an old bicycle down there, and it backslid. And he give it... It never backslid; it just wore out. It wasn't backslidden; it just wore out. So he left it there and give it to me. And I went down to the ten cent store, and got a can of paint, and painted it up, and sold it. Got the money at the end, and never had to take a offering after all. So, as close as I ever come to taking an offering.
Now, what's given to me, I place it, every penny that I can, and everything that I know, the best of my knowledge, to the kingdom of God. I got three children to feed and a wife. We have a lot of expense. My expenses at home's about a hundred dollars a day in my office. You say, "That's a whole lot, Brother Branham." That's about the smallest of any evangelist on the field.

9 What do you think Oral Roberts has to have a day? Last I heard of him, was seven thousand, I think it's around ten now, ten thousand every day. What do you think Billy Graham has every day? I heard a estimation one time was twenty-five thousand a minute, on television I think it was, and his radio, takes a lot of money.
But I've kept my meetings small; I've never tried to get big, or some great big program, where I have to beg people for money. When it gets like that, I will fold the Bible and go back to my Tabernacle, see. I never have to do that; may God help me to never do it. I've never had big programs, so I can go to a church that holds ten and hold a revival. Or if the Lord wants me to preach to a hundred thousand, He sends somebody along to pay for it, so I go on and preach to a hundred thousand. So that's the way we live. So just don't have to have money. Just very small.

10 And so now, the Lord bless each of you; I'm happy to have been here in Greenville. And one of your pastors met me on the step just a few moments ago and invited me to his tabernacle: Brother Bigsby, I believe it is. Come from his delegation from down in the here somewhere, Charlotte, I believe it was. And they're all united... [Someone says, "Columbia."] Columbia, all united down there for a big revival...
Just got word from Madison Square Garden in New York, that the Spanish people will fill it every night, ten nights straight. There's about a hundred and seventy-five thousand Pentecostal Spanish right in New York City, see. Without a white person to be there, the Spanish will fill Madison Square Garden, and pay for it for ten straight nights, just to come to the meeting. Everywhere around is calling, and here I am tired and wore out. Brethren, pray for me.

11 I got to leave this world one of these days, but I want to leave it with a true heart, with doing the very best I can for the kingdom of God, and go in the harness; that's the way I want to go. May God help, and put little Joseph, my little boy here, in my place to continue on the ministry if Jesus tarries.
Now, tonight we're facing the closing of this convention. I think next year's to be at Evansville, down in Indiana. I got a first cousin down there. Mr. Bivard has a big Assembly of God church which covers pretty near a city block. And I hope to be there next year at the convention. God bless you, brethren; keep up the good courage. And you've had a good convention, and God has blessed you. And so may His blessings continue on each one of you, and may your ministries grow and be greater and greater all the time, is my sincere prayer. God bless each other church that's around Greenville here and whatevermore, give you the best in the kingdom, is my sincere desire and prayer.

12 Brother Mercier and Brother Goad is here somewhere, and this is the closing night; they have their tapes of the meetings, and the sermons, and the messages on both record and tape; the books and pictures are at the table in the back. You care for them, we do... That's not a money making scheme that we have; I buy those books from Brother Gordon Lindsay at forty cents less, buying them by the thousands. Time I pay for them and send them around... If I would sell them just exactly the way I bought them, I'd lose money. And anybody that's here that's poor and wants one of the books and hasn't got the money to pay for it, take it anyhow; it's my compliments. Picture, anything else... The picture's copyrighted and so I have to pay for that. Just as we get it printed, we put it right back there and sell it. Make money out of nothing. We want to make converts to Jesus Christ; that's our goal of it, is converts. The Lord bless you.
I was looking a few moments ago... My wife was looking for a friend here, Mrs. Downing from down in Tennessee somewhere, and they're supposed to be in the meeting, and I don't know whether Meda's found her yet or not. And if she's here, well, she's looking for you, Mrs. Downing, wherever you are.

13 Let us bow our heads now just for a moment of prayer before we bring the Word. How many wants to be included in prayer, would you just raise your hands to Christ and say, "Be merciful God; I'm here now, and I'm in need, and You help me tonight. You know what my need is." God bless you, everywhere.
Heavenly Father, We thank Thee for all that we have seen, heard, and felt, during this convention. And we ask that Your blessings rest upon this group of men, who has purposed in their heart not to defile themselves with the things of the world, but to preach the unadulterated Gospel of the Lord Jesus. Bless them in their efforts. Bless the people who let them have the hall here, and the convention, and all the churches, the laity, and the people who's put in the offerings to make these things possible. Thank You for all of them, Father.

14 And now, we would ask that You would give us tonight one of the greatest blessings that we've ever had since we've been in Your service. Speak to us through Thy written Word; make it manifest by the Holy Spirit. Open the pages, Lord, and interpret the Word to us, as we humbly hunger and thirst for righteousness.
Save those, Lord, who has been ordained to eternal life; may the Holy Spirit speak especially to their hearts tonight, and this will be the time that they'll hear that knock at the door and open. Heal the sick and afflicted; and may this be a great night. And may there not be one feeble person in our midst when the service is over. We will go away tonight happy and rejoicing, trusting we will be saying like those who came from Emmaus, "Did not our hearts burn within us, as He talked to us along the way." For we ask it in His name and for His glory. Amen.

15 Running like this, just as hard as we can, and sometimes I have to read a text over that I've read before sometime, and not chance to study much, and to get a little context, usually not the very same way, that I spoke of it. I could take one text, or any other minister, that the Holy Ghost anointed, and preach a hundred years and make it different each time, as the Holy Spirit leads.
But tonight... Pastor Mattsson was up to my camp today, and he said... I said, "Brother Mattsson, do you think that the people would desire me to pray for the sick again tonight?"
He said, "Definitely, Brother Branham."
I said, "Billy, you boys better go down and give out some prayer cards then," and I said, "because I don't know whether they continued the prayer line last night to get them all through or not. However, give out some prayer cards again. Those who have them, if they want to get another one, give it to them; we will pray again tonight."

16 Now, I want you to remember that the very thing that we're trying to contend for: that is, Jesus Christ is not dead but is alive, and He's just the same today as He was when He walked Galilee, only He's not in a corporal body but in His church body, working through each member as He has ordained them to do. Do you believe that? So therefore, it would not be laying on hands.
And I want to say tonight... How many of my friends here are from out of town, out of this city here? let's see your hands. Well, that's wonderful, ninety percent of the congregation; that's really fine, good.

17 Now, there's a change in my ministry coming. And how many... Would there be one here that remembers when I first started on the field? Let's see your hand. Oh, my, there's several. You remember how it was given to me by the Angel of the Lord, that I would take my left hand and lay it onto the person was standing sick, and not use my own voice, and it would speak out and tell them what was wrong with them? You remember that? And you remember, I told you that the Holy Spirit told me that night when I talked to Him, what it would be. And said, "Then if you'll be sincere, it'll come to a place that you'll know the very secret of their heart." How many of you that was in my first meetings heard me tell that before that ever come to pass? raise up your hands high. That's good. Now, has it come to pass?
Then He said, "If you'll continue to be sincere and humble, it'll grow greater and greater." And now, this ministry is going to step higher now, into another realm, where it'll be far beyond what it is now. I don't know just what it is, but I'm warned of the Holy Spirit to quickly now close my meetings off (My last one will be in Philadelphia), and go into the hills and wait on the Lord to see which way to conduct this ministry. When I come out again, it'll be in a new ministry. This ministry will never cease; this ministry will continue on. The first will continue on; it's still just the same.

18 God gives gifts; He never takes gifts. Your gift remains, but if you'll be honest with what you got, God will take other talents and just keep pouring them on, if you just keep climbing on. He's always done it. Like in the Luther Age, to the Wesley Age, to the Pentecost Age, and on, and on, and on, and on, and on; there's no limit to it. God keeps on. So pray for me, for I'm badly needing your prayers.

19 Now, I wish to read tonight from Saint Matthew the 12th Chapter, the 42nd verse, for a little context, if the Lord will give it. Speak quickly and have the prayer line, for just one word from God would mean more than any preacher could stand here on the platform and preach for years. And I want to say: These handkerchiefs, I pray over them. But I want first, after the message is over, till I'm sure that the Angel of the Lord is near before---in anointing---before I pray for your handkerchiefs. I want to be sure of that. If it was my mother that was sick, or my baby that was sick, I want the very best that God had to be done for it. And you want to do unto others as you'd have others do unto you. And if you haven't got a handkerchief here, just write me at Jeffersonville, I will send it to you, free of charge, no charge to anything. This is the reading of the Scripture if you've turned to it:
And the queen of the south shall rise ... in the judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it: for she came from the utmost parts of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and, behold, a greater than Solomon is here.
Now, may the Lord add His blessings to the reading of His Word.

20 Jesus had just been upbraiding the cities that He had been in, and had performed His mighty miracles, and the people had not repented. Do you believe that history repeats itself? Certainly, it does. History proves that. And what do you think that He would be thinking tonight, as He now looks down upon Greenville, as He looks upon New York, Chicago, and many of the great cities throughout the world where His mighty works has been shown and the people are continually wading on in sin and unbelief? And He was upbraiding them and telling them what their destruction would be.
And some of you real shrewd historians now, look back in the history and look at the present day in Palestine, and every city that He cursed is sunk. And every one He blessed is still standing, just as He said in this Scripture, this same chapter, and the previous chapter that I've just read from. He said, "Thou Capernaum, thou art exalted into heaven, but you shall be brought down to hell: for if the mighty works had been done in Sodom, that has been done in you, it would remain until this day."

21 If the mighty works had been done... And you see, the works of God had been manifested, but the people had turned it down, and had called Him Beelzebub. For we read last night the works that He did and how He did them. And in just a few verses behind where I read just awhile ago, we find out that the Pharisees had called Him Beelzebub. Now, they never said it right out loud; the devil's too smart for that. They never said it out loud, but they thought it in their hearts, and Jesus perceived their thoughts. Is that what the Scripture says? They never said, "This guy's Beelzebub." But in their hearts they said it, and Jesus caught it. That's the reason they tagged Him as a fortuneteller or an evil spirit. He perceived their thoughts.

22 Now, we know that there is such thing as mind reading, they call it, or fortune-telling. What is fortune-telling? Fortune-telling is of the devil. And it's nothing but a perverted gift. Just like all unrighteousness is righteousness perverted. Did you ever hear of a fortuneteller preaching the Gospel, getting souls saved? Did you ever hear of a fortuneteller holding healing services and doing great mighty works for God, bringing souls to repentance? "By their fruit you shall know them."
Jesus was preaching of His Father's kingdom and calling converts to Himself and to the Father. And they said, because He could perceive their thoughts, with the real gift of God, made Him a perverted gift, and He said, "To call the Spirit of God an unclean work would be unforgivable when the Holy Ghost come to do it."
So He was very plain in what He said. So be careful, friends, what you say about anything that God does, because it's a dangerous thing to fall into the hands of the living God. If you do not understand it, just keep still; don't say nothing. Say, "Lord, make me humble so I will understand." Come with that kind of an attitude; don't just go away with the crowd and pass your own opinion. Search it through the Scriptures; watch the working of it, the nature of it, and see if it is of God or not. If it is of God, stay with it. If it isn't of God, get away from it. If it isn't Scriptural, then it isn't of God.

23 So He had referred to them. And we know that any age, and all through every age, God has always had His witness on the earth; He's never been without a witness. And He never will be without a witness. And when God sends a gift to the earth, and the people reject it, that generation goes into a chaos of blackness, and darkness, and rejecting of God. For God judges that generation by the way they judge His gifts.
Now, Jesus was God's greatest gift. And He was trying to tell them that they had rejected His message. They rejected... Sodom rejected the message of the angels. And in Noah's age, that age rejected Noah's message. And then He begin to refer back to some that did accept it, and He gave illustrations in it. And He said, "Then any generation that received God's gift ... or, God's message, that generation always prospered and become a great generation." It's the attitude that you take towards any divine gift of God that brings forth the results that you'll get from it.

24 What if Martha, when she went out to see Jesus at the death of her brother, Lazarus... Now, seemingly she had a right to upbraid Him and say, "Why didn't You come when we called You? My brother was sick, and he was in need of You. And we've left the church; we've turned our back on our old friends, because we believed in You. And we followed You, and we've been excommunicated from the societies, because we had confidence. And right when we needed You most, You turned us down." That would've been no more than seemingly just.
But every person that comes to God has got to be tried first. And your faith has got to be tried. So if she would've come with that sort of an attitude, the miracle would never been performed. But no doubt, she read about the Shunammite woman, how she approached Elijah. So she approached Jesus the same way. If God was in His prophet, surely He was in His Son.
And she said, "Lord (His right title), if Thou would have been here, my brother would not have died." That certainly made favor before God. She recognized Him no matter what He had done. Whether He come or whether He did not come, that didn't have anything to do with it. She said, "Lord (give Him His title), if Thou would've been here, my brother would not have died. But even now, whatever You ask God, God will give it to You." There you are.

25 You might have pulled through every doctor's office there is in Greenville. You might have went through every clinic, and every doctor said that that cancer will kill you. But if you'll take the right attitude towards God's gift, the Holy Ghost here tonight, and say, "Even now, Lord, the doctor's give me up; everything's gone; but even now, Lord, sitting at the right hand of God, whatever You ask the Father, He will give it to You." Something's going to take place.
Look at Jesus, what He did. He said, "Thy brother shall rise again."
She said, "Yea, Lord, he was a good boy; he will rise in the last day."
He said, "But I am the resurrection and life: he that believeth in Me, though he were dead, yet shall he live: And whosoever liveth and believeth in Me shall never die. Believest thou this?"
She said, "Yea, Lord: I believe that You are the Son of God that was to come into the world. Whether You come to my call, yes or no; that has nothing to do with it; I believe that You are the Son of God that was to come into the world." That settled it; it was her approach. It's your approach. It's your approach to Christ what tells the difference.

26 And Jesus said---referred to the days of Jonah---and He said, "The men of Nineveh shall rise in the generation, because they repented at the preaching of this prophet Jonah."
Now, many times we call Jonah, and like to refer to him as some backslidden prophet that didn't know his ABC's hardly, in coming to know Christ, and cast him off to one side. Well, let me tell you something; you're mistaken, Jonah was a true genuine servant of God, following every move of the Holy Spirit. Why, when he started down to Nineveh, God sent him to Nineveh. But he took, seemingly, the road of least resistance; he went to Tarshish. That was not providential; that was God's way of doing something.

27 If a good man that serves the Lord... And the Scriptures cannot be broken: "The footsteps of the righteous is ordered of the Lord," and nothing can turn it. And "All things work together for good to them that love Him." That ship was set there by God just the same as the fish was prepared for him. Jonah out in the ocean, he was honest and just that he'd not went where God told him to, but it was all in God's working. Watch how He did it.
He tied his hands behind him and throwed him out into the ocean. A fish prowls through the water till it finds its bait, its prey, eats and goes down to the bottom, and rests its swimmers on the bottom of the water. You fishermen know that. You women know that from your goldfish. And this whale, coming through the water, got a great big mouthful and swallowed this minister into his belly, went down into the bottom of the sea, and rested his swimmers.

28 I've often thought: You take people ... maybe they got a tumor, or they're deaf in one ear, or crippled, or something, they think their case is impossible. And they keep looking; they'd be prayed for one night... Oral Roberts will come through; they'll be prayed for, say, "Well, my hand never got any better." Brother Allen will come by, "My hand's no better." You're looking at the wrong place. Like as the old southern expression, when we used to coon hunt, "Barking up the wrong tree."

29 Notice, Jonah never looked at those things. People look at their symptoms, but you should never look at symptoms; you should look at the promise.
Now, Jonah was in the belly of the whale, the vomit up knee deep, seaweeds all around his neck; if ever which way he looked, he see the whale's belly. And he was in the bottom of the sea, on a stormy sea in the belly of a whale, hands and feet bound behind him, and everywhere he looked was the whale's belly. There's not a person in here tonight in that kind of a condition, or half like that.
And you know what Jonah said about it? He said, "They are lying vanities I won't even look at it. But once more will I look towards Your holy temple, O Lord." And when he did, he believed.

30 When Solomon dedicated that temple and said, "Lord (in his prayer), if Thy people be in trouble anywhere, and will look towards this holy place, and pray, then hear from heaven." And that preacher believed that God would answer Solomon's prayer.
And if Jonah, under those conditions, could look towards a temple that was erected by man, and a prayer that was made by a man that later backslid, how much more ought we under these present conditions look away from our symptoms to the throne of God where Jesus sits at the right hand of God on a throne, by a temple that was made by God with His own blood to make good anything that we confess: to pray for us, make intercessions upon our confession, at the right hand of the Father.

31 Watch this whale. God did something to the whale; He carried Jonah for three days and nights, on over to Nineveh. Now, I'm told that the Ninevite people were heathens, and they worshipped the god of the sea and different gods. And the god of the sea was a whale, because he was the strongest creature in the sea. And all the men fished for a living, mostly.
And when the fishermen was out there with their nets, and here comes a whale making a beeline for shore, and opens up his mouth, licks out his tongue and the prophet walked out of the god's mouth, no wonder they repented. A preacher walked right out of the whale's belly, right out of the mouth, to preaching the Gospel. If their god delivered the prophet, surely, they would hear it. God works in mysterious ways, His wonders to perform. It wasn't providential; God had that all made out. He knowed just what was going to happen. And then people see their god run to the bank and spit the prophet on the bank, sure they would hear him. Because he come straight from god, their god, that they thought was, the whale, god of the sea.

32 And how God moves, and how that great city that they didn't know "gee" for "haw," or right hand from the left hand. And they repented at the preaching of Jonah. And Jesus said, "A greater than Jonah is here." An ignorant and unlearned people repented at the preaching of Jonah, and He said, "A greater than Jonah is here." But He said, "As Jonah was in the belly of the whale three days and nights, so shall the Son of Man be in the heart of the earth three days and nights." Remember, they just asked Him, after all the signs that He'd done, He prophesied. Here's another good thought there.
Notice what He did. He said, "A wicked" ... or, "evil and an adulterous generation shall seek after signs. And there'll only be one sign given them, and that will be the sign as Jonah was in the belly of the whale." Therefore the wicked and adulterous generation is this generation that we're living in now, the adulterous generation. History has repeated itself. And it said it would be given the sign of the resurrection.
And brother and sister, we are living today to see the direct witness of the resurrected Jesus Christ performing the same things that He did when He was here on earth. He prophesied.

33 Then He referred them to Solomon's age. Solomon was given a great gift. And the good thing about Solomon's age: all the people rallied around that gift. And it was the Millennium for the Jewish age; it was called the golden age of Israel. Why, the news of it spread everywhere. And all the people was with one accord. Everybody believed that gift that was in Solomon. Why, he had a gift of discernment; there never was such a gift of discernment as Solomon had, until that day. And all Israel rallied around it. It was the greatest age they had ever knowed of.
And friends, would not it be nice tonight, if all the church of the living God would rally around the gift of the Holy Spirit like they ought to do it? We could just ditch all the atomic missiles and everything else. It'd be the greatest defense that the world's ever had, if everybody, all churches, would just rally around the great Holy Spirit, be sincere, not notice your denominations, but just be sincere and rally around the Holy Spirit, what God would do. All the nations, everywhere, would recognize that this ... something's happened over here, if they'd rally around the gift of God that's been sent to them in this last day.

34 Now, notice, and the news went out to other nations. There was no war in the time of Solomon; everybody was scared. And the best defense that we have is America closing up the barroom, clothing their women, getting back to the church, and back to the Bible; it'll break all this here hoodlum, juvenile delinquency, and all that stuff up, and bring God back to the nation in an old fashion revival, if they'd just do it. But you're trying to figure something else. Man is always trying to work out his own way. God's going to have His way, regardless of what man does.
But all Israel rallied. And the news went far and near. Finally it went way down into Sheba, the Queen of the South, to the utmost parts of the known world of that day. And no wonder that little queen... Everybody passing through would say, "Say, you ought to be up in Israel; their God has given them a gift up there in a man called Solomon; and there's nothing ever like it. That man has the power of discernment that doesn't lay in men; it has to come from their God."
You know, "Faith cometh by hearing, hearing of the Word of God." And her little hungry heart begin to call out for God.

35 Now, if we would only testify of the goodness of God, if we would only tell what He's doing, and not be ashamed of it... "If I be lifted up from the earth," said Jesus, "I will draw all men unto Me." Then if we'd only tell of the goodness of God that He's doing for us in these meetings... And it creates a thirst.
And the little queen, finally decided, after so many people telling her that this great gift was up in Israel, she decided she'd go find out for herself. That's a good thing to do.
Well now remember, she had a lot to confront her if she went. The first place: she was a woman. And a woman alone has a hard struggle. And the next thing: she was a pagan; she was a heathen. She'd have to get permission from her church to go.

36 So, I can imagine seeing the little queen after her little heart begin to beat, "Oh, is there something real?" So she goes over to her bishop, and she calls him out, and she said, "Bishop, have you ever heard over in Israel that they have a God over there that's give a man a great gift? And all the world is rallying in to see it?"
Now, I can hear him say, "Now, listen here; they got a revival going on up there, but we're not cooperating in it. Our denomination don't stand for that."
"Well," she said, "Listen, Bishop, I will go call for the archbishop or the State Presbyter, or somebody." So she got them all together; she was queen. And they said, "Now, wait a minute Queen; surely, you haven't gone off on the deep end. You're too smart a woman to think things like that."
"How long has it been, since we have had a great revival in our country?" she would say to them.
They said, "Oh, but now wait a minute; all that fanaticism of all those gifts and things, that's just people that don't know any better. You see, we are an educated people down here; we are smart, and we're intelligent; and we don't believe in a bunch of fanaticism like they have up there. And it's only fanaticism, so you must keep away from it."

37 But I can hear her say, "I'm forty years old, and I heard my mammy talk; I heard my father talk; and you keep talking about a god, but all I've seen is a bunch of dead creeds. If there is a God that still lives, I want to know where He's at." God bless that woman. "If there is a religion that produces a living God that's present tense and not some historical something, I want to find out."
"Blessed are they that hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be filled."
Now, I can hear her say, "Listen, Pastor, all you keep talking about a god, but you put Him off in some other great age back behind. But they tell me that their God is alive, and He produces Himself through His servant by a mighty gift. And something down in me is hungering to find out for myself. I'm going anyhow."

38 "Where the carcass is, the eagles will be gathered." I'm talking about eagles now, not buzzards. I'm talking about eagles that like eagle food out of the Word of God; not out of some creed book or almanac, but out of the Word of God, that teaches that Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever, and He never fails. He just remains the same living God.
Oh, her heart was hungry, and she wanted to know about something that had some life in it, something that was real. She'd heard all kinds of history and all kinds of theology, but she heard that there was a living God, and she wanted to find it.
Oh, I can see the bishop swell up like a frog and say, "Now, looky here, Queen, you may be queen, but we're the spiritual men. And do you know I have the power to take your name off the book?"
She said, "Just rub it off then, for I'm on my way." Oh, I like that. "Whether you're cooperating or not, I'm going to find out for myself. If you say it's fanaticism, I'm smart enough to know it. I will search their Scriptures before I get there and find out whether it's right or not."

39 There you are. If the people of the United States would just be that sincere to find out whether God promised He'd pour out the Holy Ghost in the last days upon His people, upon His church, and that signs and wonders and miracles, and He'd call a people from the Gentiles for His name. But they take some old dead creed instead (That's right), some historical something. Then history... If He isn't the same God today, then He isn't God; He died. But thank God, He is still the same God.
So she was going to find out. Now, she had a lot to confront her, to get ready to go. And when she did, she made up her mind; she said, "Now, I'm excommunicated anyhow, from this. So then if I go... I've been supporting this so far; I'm going to take some gold along with me; and if that's the truth, I'm going to support it. If it isn't the truth, I'm going to let it alone."
If people only thought that level today, instead of putting all their money on some kind of a dead ritual or creed (that's building million dollar churches instead of supporting missionaries and getting the Gospel to the people, a living God, a resurrected Christ), you'd be a better thinking people, friends. Don't stick your money on something that's nothing but a bunch of fanaticism; don't support something that's dead and smelling. Support Christ, the living God. Put your, not only your money, but your time, your prayers, your efforts, your talents; everything you got, give it to Him.
She said, "I'll laden these camels with myrrh and frankincense; I'll laden these camels with gold and silver. And if it is the truth, that that living God has a living witness, then I'll support it. But if it isn't, I'll bring my gold back." It's a good thing to do; that's good thinking.

40 Now, remember another thing: She had to cross a desert. And it would take her exactly three months to cross it---three months across a burning desert. But she went, because there was something in her, moving her, constraining her. No wonder Jesus said, "No man can come to Me except My Father draws him first." And she had three months to take ... ninety days, across a burning desert, not in a air conditioned coach, but on the back of a camel. And people in the United States won't walk across the street to find out whether it's right or not. If anything, the man that's supposed to be spiritual will pump some embalming fluid into their members in their morgue, and tell them not to go.
I know you think I'm rough, but I'm not rough enough. That's right. The hour is close, friends. Let's make it either right or wrong. If it's right, let's die by it. If it's wrong, get away from it. I want to find where the real thing is. If this ain't that, I want to hold this till that comes then. If God isn't God, who is God then? Show me something better.

41 I've stood with the Bible in one hand, and the Koran in the other hand, and challenged fifty thousand or more Mohammedans: one's got to be wrong. "If Mohammed is God, let Mohammed come forth and produce by his prophets what he promised. If Christ be God, then let Him produce what He promised." Somebody's wrong; somebody's right.
Oh, they sit quiet. I say tonight, there is only one true religion; that's Christian religion. And Jesus Christ is the Author of Christian religion. And He is not dead like Mohammed in the grave, but He's raised again, and is right here tonight in the same power of His resurrection that He has always been in, doing, performing, acting, moving, everything. His every principle is just exactly like it was when He was here on earth. If that wasn't so, I'd lay that Book down and go find one that had truth in it. That's right. But this... You don't have to look any further; the Bible is the truth of God.

42 Yes, she had to cross on a camel, three months across a desert. Now, remember, she was carrying tens of thousands of dollars worth of gold and silver. And remember, Ishmael's children was in the deserts in those days, robbers. How easy it would've been for a great group of them Arabs to dash down on that little caravan of people, a few camels and a few soldiers, eunuchs, four or five women sitting with her, up on top of this old camel, moving through a sun that would take the hide off of you.
But there was something in her heart, calling her. There was a living God in action somewhere, and she wanted to find where it was at. David said, "When the deep calleth to the deep, at the noise of thy waterspouts..." If there's any part of God in a man, and the supernatural God begins to move, something moves with him; it'll take him to it, just can't help it. David said, "As the hart longs for the waterbrook, so my soul thirsts after Thee, O God." The hart's got to find the waterbrook or perish. And if a man's got God in his heart, and he knows that there's an open fountain somewhere, he has to find it or perish. He will deny any creeds, forms, and anything else, to find a drink of a true living God. That's what starts real things a moving.

43 A man set a hen one time; he didn't have enough eggs for a setting, so he put a duck egg under the hen. This is not a joke; it's to make a point; this is no place for jokes. And when that little old duck hatched out, that's was the funniest thing them chickens ever looked at. That's about like a real believer and a nest full of these chickens we have around here. All of them picked on him, "Why, he must be a holy-roller; that big long bill, what's that for? Why does he waddle when he walks?" and so forth. He was a funny looking creature.
No time, no time through any age has any man or woman rose up in Methodist, Baptist, Presbyterian, or anything else, that really loved God and on fire for God, but what he was called the ugly duckling amongst a bunch of chickens. And another thing, that little duck out in the barnyard couldn't stand to scratch on them manure piles like them chickens did. Ducks got duck food, you know. Chicken has chicken food. You could teach all the old dead theology you want to, but, brother, there's something on the inside of you is a beating for the true living God; there's nothing will satisfy you till that's filled up.

44 The old hen she ... even the clucking of the hen fooled the little duck. He'd go, "Quack, quack." She'd go "Cluck, cluck." Why, he didn't know that language. A believer don't know the language, "Come, in my dear friends; this is one of the greatest churches. We stand ten thousand members, and if you'll just put your name on this book, you have a ticket to heaven." Huh, a duck knows better. That's right. A duck knows he's got to be born again, knows there's got to be something real.
This little old duck couldn't understand that. And they'd have a little soup supper, you know, and say, "All you people come down; there's going to be a great spiritual meeting tonight." They go down there and boil up some old rooster and sell him for fifty cents a plate to pay the preacher. A real duck don't get that. Certainly, he don't. That's still scratching on the manure pile, like the chickens do, but the duck can't eat that like that.

45 And the first thing you know, the old hen wandered off one day, catching grasshoppers out behind the barn. Oh, that field was hot. And he got out there, and they begin to make it hot on the duck by taking him out in the field. They make it hot on you, "Now, you keep away from them holy-roller meetings or I will take your name right off of this book. If you cooperate with that, our church has nothing to do with it." That ain't going to stop a duck.
The first thing you know, this little fellow got out on the hillside, and right down below the hill was a running stream of water. And he heard something down there going, "Quack, quack"; said, "That sounds pretty good." And he raised his little honker up in the air, and he smelt water. Brother, it was born in him to love water. The old hen said, "Cluck, cluck, cluck, cluck, come back here." He stuck his little bill up, said, "Honk, honk, honk." Right straight to the water he went just as hard as he could go. Why? He was a duck by nature. And a man is a Christian by nature. Being born of the Spirit of God, he hungers for the supernatural and the power of the living God.

46 And this duck jumped down there, got into the water, and ducked his little honker down in there, got a big mouthful of water and he gurgled it up like that, shoveled his feathers around a few times, and joined with the rest of the ducks. That's the way it is with every believer. Brother, when he gets a mouthful and a heartful of the baptism of the Holy Ghost, there's something that makes him join himself among those of like fellowship. He's got real fellowship; he understands their language.
That's the way it was with this little queen; she didn't care what all them chickens was hollering about. She was a duck; she was on her road to find out whether there was a true God or not. She didn't care about whether Ishmael's children... If God's doing the leading, God will see that you get there. "Now," she said, "I'm not going in and jump into a bunch of fanaticism; I'm going to read their books and find out whether it's right or not."

47 So she arrived at the gates, after ninety days of hard traveling. People, if it turns a little cold, little hot, they wouldn't come out and sit in this building like this, and fan like you all are; certainly not; they're not interested. But you who are interested are. It don't get too hot, or it don't get too cold, don't get too far away; you come anyhow. Why? There's something inside of you calling. What is it? When the deep calling to the deep, when the Spirit of God's in you, and something begins to noise around, "There's a great power of God moving," you take to it as hard as you can, sit down, watch the Scriptures. Judge it and see whether it's right or not. That's what she did.

48 She arrived at the gate. Now, she didn't come just to stay one day and then... Like some people do, "Well, I will go over and find out what it is, really I oughtn't to do it, but I will go." Sat down. "If that preacher says one thing that's against my teaching, I will get right up and walk out." That shows two different things: poor raising and devil possession. That's right. She wasn't that way. She come to stay till it was over. She wanted to stay till she was fully convinced; she didn't jump at the first conclusion; she sat down and studied it through. She pitched her camp out in the courts.
Now, the next morning, the meeting was going to start. And this little queen got herself ready, went way back at the door, because the church was all full. Pastor Solomon come out; he took his seat. And he begin to notice the people coming to him. And the first one come, such a power of discernment on that man. That little queen would scratch her head and said, "Wait a minute, I've never seen a man in my life could do that; that must come from somewhere."

49 The next case come up, and she noticed every case was perfectly, exactly, right every time. So finally it come her time to come. You just wait long enough, it'll be your time. So it come right up in the line where Solomon was, and the Bible said that he made known to her all her secrets. And when she seen it, what did she do? When she was convinced, she went out and got all the money off the camels, and out of the courts, and so forth, and piled them down to support it; and she said, "All that I have heard was the truth and more than I heard is the truth."
What did Jesus say about her? "She will rise in the day of the judgment with this generation and shall condemn it, for she came from the utmost parts of the world to hear the wisdom of Solomon, the gift of wisdom that God had given him; and behold a greater than Solomon is here." And if that woman would condemn that generation, when Jesus coming on the scene for the first time, what will it be to this generation, that's had two thousand years of example and teaching, and then here in the last days see that same Jesus that's raised from the dead and in the power of His resurrection, manifest Himself to this church in this day? What will she do with these people who stand back on their theology? Stand back, say, "Oh, my church don't teach that; we're not cooperating; I believe it's fanaticism." You owe it to yourself to sit down and search the Scriptures, and to test the Spirit, whether it be of God or not; you do it.

50 And, friends, I say unto you, that a greater than Solomon is here tonight. The Holy Spirit is here. When Jesus was here, which was far beyond Him, when He was here in His first form as a body of flesh, they called Him a devil. The Spirit that was working in Him, the Spirit of God discerning the thoughts, a million times more than there was in Solomon... And I want you to notice, watch the things that Jesus done and compare it with one single meeting. There's more done in that respect in one night's meeting, than there is in the entire life of the Lord Jesus. Why? Because "A little while and the world seeth Me no more; yet ye shall see Me, for I will be with you, in you to the end of the world. And the works that I do shall you also, and more than this shall you do, for I go to My Father." I know King James says "greater." There could be no greater; the right translation is "more." Because God's universal, now in His whole church, the world around. He was only in one man then, His Son.
And here He is tonight in the power of His resurrection, moving in a little bunch of people like this, performing, and working, and doing the very same things that He did when He was here on earth. And if the Queen of Sheba, when she stands in the judgment and condemns that generation, what will she do to this generation? Think of it while we pray; let us bow our heads.

51 Dear God, You are the same God that led the children of Israel through the wilderness. You're the God that sent Noah into the ark. You're the One was with the Hebrew children in the fiery furnace, Daniel in the lion's den, with Jesus on that resurrection morning, with Saint Paul, and the apostles; You're the same yesterday, today, and forever. You're the One who raised on Easter morning, and appeared to the disciples, and went into a little room with them, and performed something, and done a work just like You did before Your crucifixion, and they recognized that it was You.
O Eternal God, I pray that You'll send Your blessings, by sending Jesus, the Holy Spirit, upon us tonight. And as we yield our body, and soul, and mind, all to Thee our blessed Saviour, anoint us with Thy Spirit. Go out in among these people, Lord, and let them understand that the Morning Star is shining over us. The Alpha and Omega is here, He that was, and which is, and shall come, the root and offspring of David, the Counselor, Prince of Peace, the Mighty God, the Everlasting Father. He remains the same. Grant that His Holy Spirit will move in our flesh and will give to us of His divine promised blessings, as we wait further.
Then, Lord God, my voice could not speak to anyone to much avail. But Your voice can, Lord, and let every person, even to the children that's present tonight, understand that the Holy Ghost interprets the meaning of the words to them, that they would know that we're living in the last hours. These signs were supposed to be did just before the coming of the Lord Jesus, and the rejecting of the Gentile people, taking a people out for His name. God grant that people may see this tonight. I pray this blessing in Jesus' name. Amen.

52 I believe last night we called, in the prayer cards, from number 1, did we not last night? What? "M," let's start from... Let's start from 50 then tonight. Who has a prayer card (Look at it.) and it's got a M on it, like Matthew where I was preaching from? M, Mary, M-50, raise up your hand, M-50. Way back, a lady way back towards the back. All right, come over here, lady, to my right. M-51, raise up your hand. All right, over here. M 52, right here, over here. 53, M-53, would you raise your hand? Is this the lady right here? M-53? Go right over here, lady. M-54, the man? 55, M-55, would you raise your hand? All right, your place over here; 56, M-56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 60 to 65. I don't see but about three standing, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, in M, let them stand; 66, 67, 68, 69, 70, in M.
Now, if I get... You notice, usually Brother Vayle usually watches me, and Billy Paul, my boy, Mr. Goad sitting here, and Mr. Mercier; they watch me. I don't know when the anointing strikes, I don't know how tired I am, but they've been with me so long, they know when I've got enough; they run in and pat me on the side. That's to let me know that I've gone far enough.

53 My wife is sitting present, and that's... One time I almost went into a break, because I went too long. Now, if ministers are breaking down just by preaching... Brother, sister, did you realize one vision will do more harm to you, tear you down more than two hours of hard preaching? How many knows that that's true?
Why, Jesus, one woman touched His garment, till He found out what was wrong with her; He said, "Virtue has gone from Me." Is that right? Daniel saw one vision, said, "I was troubled at my head for many days." Is that true? Sure. Elijah, come up on Mount Carmel and saw a vision, called fire out of heaven and rain out of heaven the same day, and then after the power of God left him, he wandered in the wildness for forty days and nights, and God found him pulled back in a cave. Did you ever know that? Jonah, after the inspiration left him from preaching his message, he climbed up on a mountain and asked God to take his life. Did you know that?

54 You don't understand; it's just not... There's no need of trying to explain it; it's in another world; it's something that God knows what was, what is, and what will be. Don't you believe that?
Now, if the Lord Jesus will come on the scene tonight, and will perform and will do just as He did when He walked Galilee, how many of you say, "It'll make me love Him more."?
Now, how many in here does not have a prayer card, but you want Jesus to heal you? raise up your hand. All right, it's just everywhere. Now, just believe. Remember, while one's being healed here, there's dozens healed out there. You remember this. You pastors, after I'm gone a long time, you'll hear women coming, men coming, "Stomach trouble left; cancers got well." You just can't call them all; there's just so many. But God blesses; just keep believing. God will grant it. God's out there; this is just merely that you might know that He is, and a rewarder of those...

55 Now, how many know that Jesus Christ, when He was here on earth, that a woman touched His garment, and He turned around and said, "Who touched Me?" And all of them denied it, till he found the women, what her trouble was, and told her, and said her faith had healed her. How many knows that? Well, if He's the same yesterday, today, and forever, and the Bible said He's a High Priest, right now, that can be touched by the feeling of our infirmities... Is that right? Well then, if He's the same High Priest, He'd have to act the same, wouldn't He? All right, you believe it now with all your heart. Going to pray for these here. Now, let's bow our heads.
Lord God, I bring to You these handkerchiefs. People are waiting for them, Lord. We're taught in the Bible that they taken from the body of Saint Paul, handkerchiefs or aprons, unclean spirits went out of the people, and they were healed. We know we're not Saint Paul, but we know that You're still Jesus; and it wasn't Saint Paul to begin with; it was You, Lord. But they seen that Your servant had been blessed by You, and he was Your representative. They had faith. Lord, these people are just as loyal; they believe when they see these things happen. I pray God, that You'll bless these handkerchiefs for their intended purpose.

56 And one writer said, "That when Israel was cut off by the Red Sea from the promised land, that God looked down through that pillar of fire with angry eyes, and the Red Sea got scared and moved back; Israel went on its road to the promised land. God grant tonight that not only You will look through the pillar of fire, but through the blood of Jesus, and look at the enemy that's got these people cut off from health. And may the devil get scared when these handkerchiefs are laid upon them, as a token of this meeting tonight. And may he move away, and the people go on to that promise of good health. Grant it, Father, I send them for that purpose. In Jesus' name. Amen.
[Request is made: "Will the organist please come to the organ at present, please come to the organ."] You may get your handkerchief immediately after service.

57 Now, here we are. Now, as soon... If they take me from the meeting, let some of you minister brothers, now... See, you have just the same right that any other man does; God answers your prayer just the same as He'd answer mine. He will answer anybody's prayer, that will believe what they're praying for, see. Now, usually I don't pray for the people; it's a divine gift to make people recognize that Christ is not dead but is living. Well, if He's living, surely He'd keep His Word.
Now, you out there that has not a prayer card, you just keep praying. Look this way and say, "Lord, I'm going to believe You with all that's within me; I am going believe. Let me touch Your garment." If you're real sick, tell God; say, "The doctor says I'm going to die, but Lord, Your promise says I can live; so I am looking to You. Confirm it to me tonight. Brother Branham don't know me, but, just let him turn around, and You confirm it to me through him, and let him act in the same way that You acted when the woman touched Your garment." See if He will do it. If He don't, I am a false prophet of His Word. If He does, I've told the truth, and He is alive. If He's dead, we can be a Mohammedan, Buddhist, don't make any difference, it's psychology anyhow. But if He's a living, He's a living God.
Now, just be real reverent and pray, don't doubt, but believe.

58 Prayer line...? Missing? All the people got lined up? All right. Now, as soon as this prayer line ends, I want the minister to come right up here, some of you brethren, continue on the prayer line, just as you go on, let everybody be prayed for.
Now, I suppose that everybody in here realizes that you're all strangers to me. The only person, really, that I could say I know is two men that I know of, one right here and one here; that's Brother Goad and the Brother here. I ought to know this man, but somehow I can't call it. I don't know you, no, I don't. Look like I'd seen you somewhere.
How many out there's strangers to me, and I know nothing about, raise up your hand. I do see Brother and Sister Wood sitting there, sitting back there. They're neighbors to me, sitting right there in the middle aisle. He was a Jehovah Witness. I wish we had time to tell what happened, Brother Banks; we haven't.

59 How many heard the story of the resurrection of the little fish not long ago, on the waters, raise your hands, read it in a book? Brother Wood, sitting right here, was present to see it take place, seen it told the day before. That right, Brother Wood? See, that's right. Seen many a thing...
You just see the little side of it, just what's right here. That would almost get you to wonder. You ought to follow along awhile. Look what the queen said about that gift there; she said, "Blessed are the men that minister with you, that see this great thing daily." See, they go along and see what takes place.

60 But what takes place in the meeting, a amateur thing here. The great visions take place out of the meetings. You're doing this with your own faith; you're using God's gift here now. But when God uses His own gift, it's a lot different. The woman touched Him, and He felt virtue go from Him, but God gave His Son a vision, send Him away, because Jesus said, "I don't do nothing till the Father shows Me first." Is that right? Saint John 5:19. Everything He did, the Father showed Him by vision what to do. Except the people that touched Him, like that, then their faith pulled it. Or the Pharisee's who criticized Him, He could perceive their thoughts.
That wonderful One, friends, is here tonight. How many has ever seen the picture of it? raise your hands. It's right here in the building; they got it. Gene, have you got those pictures? Do you bring them up here at the platform to show them? Oh, they never brought them up. Wished I had one here, but I haven't now; however, they're back there. That same Angel is not five feet from where I'm standing right now. And if I never see you again till the day of judgment, find out whether that's true or not when we answer at that day. Don't pay no attention to the messenger; listen to the message.

61 All right, which is the lady? This here? You? Come just a little closer; that's all. I suppose we're strangers to each other, lady. I do not know you, never seen you in my life. That's right, would you just raise up your hand so the people can see?
Now, here's a picture of Saint John 4. Now, everyone be real reverent. Whether He will or not, I don't know. If He does, I've read it to you from the Book. How many was here last night? raise your hand. Oh, the whole audience I guess. How He told just went word by word what He done, what He seen. Now, I'm going to review that again.
Here's a man and a woman just like Saint John 4, when a man and a woman met for their first time in life. Perhaps the woman was a lot younger than Jesus was, as it is here again tonight. A man and a woman meets.

62 Now, in Saint John 4 Jesus was sitting at a well, something like this here. And a woman come out to get water; He said, "Bring Me a drink."
She said, "It's not customary for you Jews to ask Samaritans such."
He said, "But, if you knew who you were talking to, you'd ask Me for a drink." How many know that story? What was Jesus doing? Contacting her spirit. And when He found what her spirit, what was her trouble, then he told her what her trouble was. And then He said, "Go, get your husband."
She said, "I have no husband."
Said, "You've had five, and the one you're living with now is not your husband."
What did she say? She said, "Sir, I perceive that You're a prophet. We know when the Messiah cometh, He will do these things, but who are You?"
He said, "I'm He that speaks to you."
Now, that was the sign of the Messiah. Is that right? And she run into the city, and watch what she told her people: "Come see a man who told me the things I've done. Isn't this the very Messiah?"

63 When He did that to a Jew, what did that Jew say? "Rabbi, You are the Son of God; You're the King of Israel." But the big starchy church stood around and said, "That man's a fortuneteller, the devil." They're in hell tonight. Nathanael's name's immortal; he is immortal with it; so is the woman at the well.
Now, if Jesus remains the same yesterday, today, and forever; I don't know the woman, don't know her nationality, don't know nothing about her, but He can tell me. And if He can tell me what's wrong with the woman, or something another like He did the woman at the well, let her be the judge. Now, if I said, "Lady, you're sick." Lay my hands on you. Hallelujah, you're going to get well." She could believe that; that'd be all right; that'd be all right.

64 And if that's a gift God's give you brethren, stay with it. That's where God wants you. You'll never make a eye if you're a ear; you remember that. You'll only mess up the body until you get your right place and abide there in your calling. If you're a deacon, stay a deacon; you're pastor, stay a pastor. Don't try to be something that you're not; be just what you are. If you're just a finger or fingernail, be a good one. God will give you a place in glory.
Now, if the Holy Spirit will reveal to me what you're here for, what's your trouble, or something another that you know I know nothing about, then you know that'll have to come from the Holy Spirit, or some spirit, wouldn't it? It'd have to be. How many will witness that? It'd have to be from some spirit.

65 Now, if it comes, and after me preaching the Gospel, as a minister of the Gospel, right coming from the Bible... Year after year... I'm forty-nine years old. I saw visions since I was just a baby boy, not over two years old. Not one time has one ever failed out of the millions. Won't fail now, because it's God; can't fail.
Now, you know a fortuneteller guesses, telepathy. They say, "You take a number, and let me concentrate, and see what number..." That's nonsense. It ain't even ten percent right. That's right. God's perfect. This is not back in some room under a Ouija board; it's right out here in plain view of two thousand people, or more, certainly.

66 Our first time meeting. God knows you, and He knows me. And if He will, by His mercy, let the blessed Holy Spirit, who we will stand in His presence someday to give an account of our life... If He will let me know what's wrong with you, or something like He did the woman at the well, something that you know I know nothing about, you will receive, and believe that He's true, and it is Christ, will you believe it? May He grant it.
Now, if the audience can still hear my voice, the lady's plenty aware that something's going on. Between me and the woman stands that light like a pillar of fire, and it bypasses the woman. It stands out to her side; she's not here for herself; she's here for somebody else. That's right. And it's something about an accident; it's a automobile accident. It's a girl; it's your niece. She was in a automobile accident, is in a hospital now, and there's something wrong with her really bad with her head, and you've been sent here to stand in her place to ask for prayer: "Thus saith the Lord."

67 Now, you be the judge. Was that all right? If it is, wave your hand like this. Now, whatever you ask, the light, or what... The light that was with you, who said that, has blessed the person that you're standing for; go back and don't worry. You have what you ask for.
Be real reverent. Does Jesus live? Do you believe that was the Holy Spirit? All right, then, you shall see greater things than this.
I suppose this is our first time meeting? We are strangers to each other; I do not know you; I've never seen you. If that's right, just so that the people would understand and know that I do not know you. If the Lord Jesus will reveal to me what you're troubled about, or something you know that I know nothing about, would you believe then that He's interested in your trouble? All right. Now, you can take your hand down just a moment. Now, just be... Whatever it is, I don't know. But if He...

68 If it's sickness and I could heal you... You're a woman about the age of my mother, I suppose. And if I could do anything for you and wouldn't do it, I wouldn't be fit to stand behind this pulpit. No, sir. I love my mother, and... And you're maybe somebody's mother. And here I stand tonight to do everything I can to help you. And only thing I can do is to say what the Bible says: Jesus is raised from the dead to make good any promise that He died for.
Now, if He will reveal to you just like He did in the Bible, then you will believe me to be His servant, and I have told the truth according to His Word, and He's confirmed it by making it real to you. Now, be real reverent. It's not yourself that you're wanting prayer for; it's somebody else. And that's a little child. And I see it, and it's in a terrible condition. You're the grandmother of the child. The child looks to be about seven or eight years old. And it's both deaf, and dumb, and mentally afflicted. And that child is from, not here; it isn't around here. You're not. This isn't the place; it's a level country, more... It's Georgia; that's where the child is from. That's "thus saith the Lord." You be the judge. You believe now? Go, receive it the way that you have believed it; may it be unto you, in the name of the Lord Jesus.

69 All right, be reverent. I guess this is our first time of meeting. The Lord God knows, will judge us both... [Says, "You don't know me, but I've been in your meetings before."] I don't know you, but you've been out in my meetings just like out there. ["And in Chattanooga."] Yeah, well, I wouldn't know you, I've no way of knowing you at all. No. All right.
Then if the Lord will let me know what you're here for, what's wrong with you, or something that you know that I don't know, then you will accept it as being from Christ. You believe me to be His servant?
You're not here for yourself; there keeps being a man come before me; and it's your brother. If God will reveal to me what's wrong with your brother, will you believe me to be His prophet? Your brother has lung trouble, and he's got something wrong with his lips. That's right. He isn't here either; he's in a... It's Georgia too. That's right.
Not only that, but you got a younger man, a young man, looks like, coming before me, that's got something wrong with his blood. And he's not in this country, but a country something like it; he's from Tennessee. And it's your son-in-law, and he has diabetes. "Thus saith the Lord." Believe now; go and receive what you asked for, in the name of the Lord Jesus.

70 Do you believe? We are strangers to each other; I do not know you, but God does know you. Can He reveal to me what you're here for, would you believe it? Now, be real reverent. Lady, you're shadowed to death; only God can have mercy on you. You are aware of what your trouble is; it's a tumor. And the tumor is cancerous, and it's in the head. You got one in your mouth, and you got one in your stomach. But God is a healer. Do you believe that? Then believe Him now, and it'll all leave you. You believe God will hear my prayer? Then I curse the thing in the name of Jesus Christ, come out of the woman and leave her. Now, go rejoicing and thank God, get well.
If thou canst believe, all things are possible.
If thou canst... Be real reverent now. I'm watching a young woman here; the light of God keeps hanging over the woman, but no vision breaks. You believe me to be His servant, Christ's servant? I've never seen you in my life, but God knows you. If the Lord God shall reveal to me what you're standing here for, will you believe me to be His servant? Will the audience do the same? Now, all of you... I'm so weak until all of you just look like it's like one person sitting there. You can hardly differentiate which is vision, which isn't.

71 Your trouble is back trouble. And it's rectal trouble. Your wife's here too, isn't she? She wants prayer too. She had a prayer card, but it wasn't called. You believe God can tell me what's her trouble? She's got trouble with her eyes, with her head; she's got hay fever. That's right, isn't it? You're not from here; a place called, something like, Camden, North Carolina. Mr. Duvall (that's what's your name is), return home; God has answered your prayer for both you and wife. Go and may God be with you.
Miss Borden, you're from Chattanooga; I don't know you, but you've got trouble with your feet. And you got low blood pressure. That's right. Don't you fear; you're already healed; Jesus Christ has made you well.
Your heart trouble has ceased, lady, go home, rejoice, saying "Thank You, Lord Jesus." Believe with all your heart. Be reverent.

72 Is this the patient? How do you do, sonny? You're a mighty fine little boy. You like Sunday school? You love Jesus? Now, when Jesus was on earth, He took little boys like you that were sick, and He would tell them what was wrong with them, and would bless them. And then if He laid His hands upon them and blessed the little children, why, they got all right, didn't they? But Jesus died, He rose again, went up into heaven. Then He sent back His Holy Spirit, and His Holy Spirit is here now, and He has to use somebody's hands; He has to use somebody's mouth; He has to use somebody's eyes. Do you believe He'd let me see what was wrong with you? Would you believe Jesus then, it's Jesus standing here? Not me, Him, you believe that?
I keep seeing two little boys. Here's the little lad sitting right back here; it's asthmatic condition with both of them. That's right. Stand the little lad up back there. That's right, dad. God bless you, your faith has... Satan thought he'd get by with that then. That dark streak between the two children has left; you're healed; go on your road home rejoicing, both of you. God bless you, brother. That's the way to do it. Have faith in God.

73 Oh, isn't He Jesus? What did they touch? What's the people touching? Not me; they're touching the Lord Jesus.
You believe that diabetes will leave you and you'd get well? Go on your road, say, "Thank You, Lord." Believe with all your heart.
Come, sir. I do not know you. Just a moment. This man's got stomach trouble. That man sitting right back out there, praying, right in there, has got stomach trouble too. You were praying, and you're both healed. Jesus Christ makes you both well, go on home and eat what you want to; God has made you well.
And you had stomach trouble also, so you was healed the same time; just keep on going and praising God.
Oh, the Lord Jesus lives and reigns. Do you believe? Have faith now, don't doubt.
The lady sitting there, at the end of the seat, suffering with varicose veins, you believe the Lord God will make you well? You believe it; you can have it.
Sitting second in there, with the ... got kind of a heart trouble, and a tumor. You believe God heals you? All right, you can have your healing. Go on your road rejoice and say, "Thank You, Lord."

74 What if I told you you were healed, didn't say nothing about it, would you take my word for it? Go on, shout the praises of God.
Come, lady, what if I didn't say nothing to you, just said you were healed, would you take my word for it? Then the diabetes has left you, so you can go on and rejoice.
When you raised up from that seat, something felt funny to you, didn't it? Your back trouble left at that time, so you can go on your road, and rejoice, and say, "Thank You, God."
You have a nervous condition which creates a heart condition. You're healed; go on your road, and rejoice, and say, "Thank You, Lord God."
Your main thing is nervousness, which has caused you to have a peptic ulcer in your stomach; you can't eat right. There's a group of them out here suffering with the same thing, that nervous condition. Let me show you.

75 All that's suffering with nervous condition, stand on your feet. Now, how would I call that in there? There you are. Just remain standing a minute. Stand right here, sister. Come believing. Same thing as that man, nervous stomach, just the same thing. Stand right here. Just keep raising up, having faith; don't doubt, believing God. If you believe with all your heart, all right, come right along, bring right along.
All right, sir. All right, lady, you standing right here, you won't have to have the operation if you really believe it with all your life; tumor will leave. Everybody with tumors out there of any type stand up on your feet, stand right back over in this side here.

76 Do you believe with all your heart? Everybody's got anything wrong with them, stand up on your feet just a minute. Now, do you believe God? Do you believe that what I've said is the truth? Is Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today, and forever? How many in here is believers? Then raise your hands like this. Now, while you got your hands raised, lay them over on somebody next to you that's got their hands raised. Now, lay your hands over now; I want you to do just what I tell you. Right back... The rest of you in the prayer line, lay your hands right on each other. Now, I want you to pray this prayer after me. While I say it, you pray it.
Lord God, [Audience repeats prayer.] Creator of heavens and earth, Author of everlasting life, Giver of every good gift, I truly believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God; He has raised from the dead; He has sent forth His Holy Spirit to continue His ministry in the church, until He returns in a physical body. I now believe that He is present, and I am a believer, and He promised this: "These signs shall follow them that believe: If they lay their hands on the sick, they shall recover."
Lord, I'm praying, for the person that I have my hands on. As I pray for them, and they pray for me, let Your Holy Spirit drive every doubt from my mind, that I may receive You as my healer. I will serve You all the days of my life; I will testify to Your glory. Lord, upon Your Word, and Your promise, I now believe that I am healed.
Now, O God, we command the devil to depart from this place, in the name of Jesus Christ. There it is. You have it now. You are healed, every one of you. I pronounce you well in the name of the Lord Jesus.

The Queen of the South

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1 You may be seated. Seems like I just got here and now he's saying, "...the last night." Well, this has been the most unusual meeting that I have had in a long time.
You're Brother Babbs, aren't you? I recognized you today out there where we were eating. And when we got finished, I was looking over there; I said, "Isn't that my friends from Eldorado?" I think that's right, Eldorado. And Brother Jack said, "Sure is." And we got talking there and then, first thing you know, you were gone. I didn't get to shake your hand. God bless you. [Brother Babbs says, "Brother Branham, you needed the food and the rest, not to be bothered by us. We came down to be ministered to."] Thank you, brother. Thank you. Brother Babbs from Eldorado. Some Baptists, [Brother Babbs continues, "Remember this, Brother Branham. Remember the little front room of mine?"] Yes. Yes, sir, I do. [Brother Babbs says, "It's dedicated to God. And any time in the far regions of the earth where you feel strength and virtue..."] [ Break in tape.] Isn't that wonderful?

2 I believe you have two lovely daughters. And I remember one of them started on, one day, to the platform and she'd been married a long time and didn't have any children. And when she started up to the platform, the Holy Spirit turned me and said, "You're seeking a child and, 'thus saith the Lord,' you'll have it." I was there just a few hours before it was born. And, there it was, she had it. Somebody told me she has three now. Wonderful, that ... He always gives good measure, you know. That's very fine. Well, that's very fine. I'm so happy for that. I believe that that's the Bible.
A woman that has the respects enough to raise a child in these days when they do everything else and try to get rid of them, God will respect that.

3 I got a lady up in Canada that was ... I believe she's fifty-three or fifty-four years old. She'd been married since she was about eighteen. They had no children and one night, it was while Brother Jack was with me, and the lady come up (they're German people, I forget their name just now) and she said ... come on the platform, the Holy Spirit said, "You're seeking for a baby."
"Yes." Past the age, she was about forty something, forty-eight, forty-seven, forty-eight then. Said, "That's right."
Said, "Well, you shall embrace a son, 'Thus saith the Lord.'"
Now, always watch that, see: 'Thus saith the Lord.' One's a vision (that's what I'm seeing) then what I see what He does, that's... One thing, I'm saying what I'm looking at; the next thing I'm saying what He's going to do, you see. This is what I'm saying. That's what He's saying, see.

4 About two or three years passed and nothing happened. She thought, "Well, there's something wrong." And she got to doubting. She said, "Well, Brother Branham just didn't see the vision right." Oh, yes. So she said, after three or four years passed, she said, "I know I can't have it now." She was done way up around fifty years old or better, and so she...
And I come through from up, way up in northern ... the Yukon, was on a hunting trip, come by and had one night's meeting in little villages, coming by. When I come to this city where she lives, why I ... Calgary, and she came to ... her husband came to the meeting. She didn't come. I said, "Where's Sister?" And I didn't have any topcoat and he gave ... wanted to give me his and I wouldn't take it. And he was standing back there.

5 I said, "Where's Sister?"
Said, "Brother Branham, she's broke down with TB."
And I said, "Oh, my."
And I stood and looked at him and just kind of ... You have to feel the people's feeling. You can never help anybody unless you get right into it with them. You've got to enter into their suffering. If you don't do it, you're just out. You've got to have a love and something that makes you just be right with them.
And, that hurt me so bad, to hear that she had tubercular.
I looked, I said, "Here's what's caused it: she doubted about that baby."

6 He said, "Brother Branham, that's exactly the truth."
I said, "Now, she's off in some sort of an ism about drinking juices and things like that and don't eat any meats and don't..."
He said, "That's exactly right."
I says, "That's what broke her down in TB. Her body's undernourished." I said, "You go tell her that I said, 'Thus saith the Lord, don't doubt that.' I don't care if she's ninety years old. She'll still have the baby," see.

7 And, so he went back and told her, and she throwed away her juices and started eating normally and came back and believed it. And then ... I was with Brother Fred Sothmann. He's here somewhere. We was ... Fred, what was those people's name? [Brother Sothmann replies, "Doble."] Doble. And we were ... where was that place where ... way up there at the end of the world? Prince Albert, up at Prince Albert.
And, this woman, she was that old and was going to have this baby, and the doctors was wondering what was going to take place. Didn't think she could have it.
So, show their faithfulness and their thoughts, they put her on a train in an ambulance affair, and brought her up to that meeting to see what the Lord would say. The Lord spoke, and said, "Tell her, 'Return back. She has a boy coming.'"

8 Well, she'd no more than got home till she got that fine big boy. And there she was. And she was way in her fifties. But, He's never failed. When He says anything, it will be just that way. Got to be.
I was thinking, is Brother Welch Evans here? Brother Fred, did he come? He never come.
I was thinking here not long ago, just show how easy, how loving the Lord is and how He loves to heal. We were fishing down in Florida; had had a meeting down in Georgia, went on down to Florida to fish about two days.
And this Mr. Evans is a staunch Christian, a lovely brother. And his brother is not a Christian, so he run a bait shop.
And we went out in some kind of a jungle there where you had to rake snakes out of the way and 'gators to get into where we could fish.
And his brother had been bitten by a ground rattler. I don't know... I don't think you have them in Louisiana. They're little bitty rascals, and they're real bad when they bite you; they kill you. And so, they're worse than the cottonmouth.

9 And so, this boy had been bitten by one out there. He was quite a fisherman and they sent him to the hospital and ... about three months, I believe, wasn't it, Brother Fred, he'd laid in the hospital? He was then---a great big brace under his leg---walking around. They thought he'd lose his leg if he didn't lose his life. He was very bad.
Well, the Lord had blessed me, and I had caught, oh, the bass, great big ones, and I was so happy about it. And I had a big one on the line that I couldn't even hold him. And he'd jump, and you had to hold him up on a pole, and he'd shake the bait out of his mouth. And I'd throw that little popper back and he got it the third time. Well, everybody had throwed their pole down and run up there, and I said, "I just can't hold him."

10 So, I let him rest a little bit and tried it again. And another one, that would have weighed twelve, fourteen pounds, and this one looked about ten or eleven pounds, and I was holding him on. I said, "That's not him." But when I got him played out, and was bringing him up to the shore, Brother Evans there, with his trouser legs rolled up, and he isn't afraid of anything.
And so, he said, "Wait a minute, Brother Branham," lot of pads and things, said, "I'll take him off for you."
And I said, "Oh, that's all right." Said, "I'll just drag him in. If he gets off, we don't care."
So, he said, "I'll get him."

11 He just stepped in and about that time a little old ground rattler was laying there on one of those pads, caught him right in the foot. I never heard a man scream so in my life. And, when he jumped out of the water and grabbed his leg and fell over on the bank like that ... oh, it just paralyzes you, just in a moment.
I grabbed his foot, looked, and just about a inch apart was two holes and blood oozing out of them. I grabbed my gun and looked for the rattler, and I see him going down through the weeds like that. I couldn't even shoot him and he was gone. I thought, "Oh, my." And nobody there was with me at that time that could help me. Little Billy Paul was there.
And, I'd had to pack him on my back for about two miles through them jungles and ... just water, and up almost sometimes pretty near over knee deep, and he weighs about, almost two hundred. So, I knowed I'd ... be hard to pull him through that.

12 So, I thought, "What can we do?"
And, he was just gritting his teeth, catching his breath, going "Shush, shush." And the tears running down his cheek and he said, "Brother Branham, my leg is paralyzed." It goes right straight to the bone, you know. Said, "My leg is paralyzed." Just holding his teeth like that, said, "Feels like it's froze all the way down through."
I thought, "Oh, mercy, what can I do?"
And, just then I heard that scripture, "They shall tread on the heads of serpents and scorpions. Nothing in no wise shall bother them." So, I just took off my hat and I said, "Now, try to be just as easy as you can, Brother Welsh, so I can hold my hands over this bite." And the heavenly Father knows it's true.

13 And, then when I put my hand up on his foot there, and I said, "Father, You are a very present help in a time of trouble and You never fail us, and our brother is bitten by this serpent, and it's written in your Word that 'They shall tread on the heads of serpents and scorpions and nothing shall harm them.' And it says, 'If they take up a serpent it shall not harm them.' He was trying to help me and this evil serpent grabbed him. Now, You're Lord Jesus on this bank here a-fishing. If You wasn't, I'd never go fishing. And I know You're here. And I ask You to be merciful to us and take away this serpent poison from his leg." And, I stopped praying and I didn't hear him suffering anymore.
And when I got through praying he was sitting there laughing. He said, "Brother Branham, I haven't got a pain." Said, "It's all gone."

14 And he got up and walked around.
About eleven o'clock that evening ... I'd caught eleven bass that weighed average of nearly twelve pounds a-piece. And I got them in and they was coming around taking pictures of them at a tourist court there. And his brother came up.
So, we got to testifying about it, and his brother, a sinner, said ... had been in the hospital, you see. It's good to be a Christian, see. "They that believe shall tread on the heads of scorpions and serpents." Didn't say nothing about the unbeliever, see. But, this man was a believer.
And his brother said ... and he showed him the places there where ... He said, "Now look, Brother, it's good to be religious, but not good to be crazy. He said, "You'd better get to the hospital just as quick as you can." Said, "Get some serum in you because if you don't," he said, "you may be crippled the rest of your life and you may die at any time."

15 He said, "That happened this morning about ten o'clock. And this is after eleven tonight. If the serum God give me this morning that stopped the pain held this long, it'll keep me on."
So, it's still holding. That's been months and months and months ago. No evil effect. Just to show that He is still the Lord God. So wonderful. I know this...
I'm taking time, and we don't want to stay too long, and I'm just going to speak for a few moments. But, I just got one more request I'd like to ask. One thing, before I ask this very special request ... it'll, perhaps this next year I'll be much overseas, the Lord willing. For I feel that if there is a this year and I live to see it---this coming year---I'll be making up my itinerary right away now. Christmas week's when we pray over all the requests and see where the Lord will lead us. And I'll probably be before witch doctors and everything as usual when we go overseas. Can I ask you to pray for me?

16 I want to say that this has been one of the most outstanding meetings that I have ever been in.
The strangest thing happened. I love the people at Shreveport. I'm your associate pastor, you know. But I had not been here for about five years, and just going just as hard as I could go day and night. And about two months ago I started ... Shreveport come upon my heart and I just couldn't even rest day and night. And even brought to...
One day I was sitting there thinking so hard about it, I started weeping.
Mede said, "What's the matter?"
I said, "I'm just so hungry to see Shreveport."
She said, "Well, what's the matter?"
I said, "Mede, maybe something's wrong down there. Think we should call?"

17 And "Oh," she said, "if they're ... I think if there was, they would call you, Bill." Said, "You know how the Lord's always showed you when Sister Moore was dying and you was on your road there and how you got out and prayed and different things, and how ... things that He's done." Said, "Has He showed you anything?"
I said, "No."
Well, said, "If there was anything happened, they'd call you." Said, "If you go calling like that, it might upset them and think that something's going to happen." So said, "why don't you just leave it alone?"
"Well," I said, "I just can't keep from praying somehow ... I just get so lonesome."
And, I met Brother Jack and he said, "Well, getting lonesome to see you." The first thing you know, Sister Moore had been on her face for a long time praying, and God had showed her this coming meeting.

18 Then I'd already made arrangements with some Baptist people for the time. And when Brother Moore said it was this time, I went down and asked them and ... it's the pastor ... or the church that I used to pastor at Milltown, Indiana, the Milltown Baptist Church. They sure never want to give that annually thing up on Thanksgiving, but, I said, "Brethren, the Lord is leading me to Shreveport. Why, I don't know. But, I must go to Shreveport."
They said, "Well, if that's the case, go ahead, and the Lord be with you."
I'm sure glad that I got to come. Been a outstanding thing to me how the Lord has blessed nightly and has done great things.

19 There's one thing that I have to find out about before I leave or I won't feel too satisfied. Billy, Loyce, and them's constantly saying to me, "You don't come at the right time." Well, I don't know why. So, tonight Billy says, "The reason is," said, "Sister Anna Jean had made a song, wrote a song about ... 'I Love You, Jesus,' or something." I wonder if I could hear a little chorus of that before I preach. Would you like that ... enjoy it with me? What is that song? "Thank You, Jesus," that's it, that's it, "Thank You, Jesus." I'd like to hear it. Would you like to hear it with me? Only just a few minutes. [Break in tape.]
I'm going to write and tell Brother Outlaw he'd better practice on that, "Up, up, up." Keep that going, Sister Anna Jean. That's fine. She's a spokesman and auditor and I don't know what all, and now she's a poet, song writer. That's beautiful.

20 And Brother Moore was just telling me how he come. He'd brought me a mighty long ways from Thailand. That's very fine.
You know, it takes the heart to cry out after something to make it real, see, that's it, when the heart's crying out.
Well, I just thank you for all your cooperation, for everything that you've done. God bless you. And, pray for me now.
And we're going to pray for the sick just in a few moments. And I got some handkerchiefs here to pray over. And a colored lady told me that she had a handkerchief in here for a loved one and is sitting next to a lady... You know anyone ... come look up in there, you can't tell whether those people are colored or white from here. That's right.
But the Holy Spirit had them people out here walking out here before me, and that's the reason I knowed they were colored people. Someone said, "Now, how could you see them up in there?"

21 And I said, "I didn't see them. I see them out here." See, that's right. Out here is where it was at.
And they were sitting there with faith believing, and God performed the work, that's all. That's all it takes: just have faith and believe.
And now, if anytime I can pray over a handkerchief or anything for you, just write me at Jeffersonville and I'll be glad to send it right back to you free of charge, cost nothing.
And soon we got the books coming off and Brother Jack told me...
I don't like to announce my own meetings somewhere like this. But now, if you got some loved ones that's around near Jeffersonville next week, beginning next Sunday at the Tabernacle next Sunday morning ... I take the first chapter of Revelations to give the setting, "The Unveiling of Revelations."

22 Now, the revelation in the Greek word means like taking the cloth off of a statue, the unveiling it, see. And that's the unveiling of Jesus Christ in the seven church ages. And I'm writing a little commentary on it. I can't write it, of course, but I just have to speak it under the inspiration as I receive it and then, of course, they'll magnetic tape it; and then from there, it'll go to shorthand, shorthand to print.
And now, we'll have the tapes and we'll also have it in book form pretty soon, the Lord willing. And maybe next time I come down we'll have them.
So, if you're around there, any of your loved ones, tell them to drop in. Now, we're trying to get enough room to take care of the people, because ... they just announced right there but we've already heard, I forget, for how many states around, you see, that people are coming in; already got reservations, staying the week like that.

23 Monday night will be on the Ephesus church and then Smyrna and Sardis and on down, Thyatira, on down to Sunday morning, a week, I'll be speaking on the Laodicean church.
And in between there, how that there's an open door set between the Philadelphian and the Laodicean church age. And that's the door we want to speak of on that service. Now, the Lord bless, and you be praying for me.
Now, before we approach the great Word, the Word of God, the infallible Word... My faith is built solemnly upon this Word. When this Word says it, then I just believe it. I don't try to add anything to it or take anything away from it.
And this morning I might have to apologize to these, some of these fine people here, about some of those rude remarks about mules being illegitimate. But, I didn't mean to be rude or sacrilegious, but I was just trying to make a point. You understand, don't you?

24 Anything...
A mule---oh, my, that's what man did, see. He can't come back. He can't go no farther. He don't know who his papa, mama... He's just without hope, that's all. That's all. He can never reproduce himself again. So he just ... but, you know, if anything, he doesn't have no ... he'll wait all of his lifetime to get to kick you just before he dies and kill you if he can. He sure will do it. He'll just wait all of his lifetime, laying back, just waiting, "I'll get you around behind me someday."
And that's just the way a lot of people in churches like that. That's right. "Oh, I'll pat you on the back until I get a chance to cut your throat," see.
But, you know, I like a horse (don't you?) oh, especially a pedigreed horse---one that knows his ancestors, who they are, where they come from. From papa, mama, grandpapa, great-grandpapa, great-great-grandpapa on way back, he knows his line of blood. You can put some confidence in him.

25 That's the way it is with a Christian, it's a ... I like a pedigree Christian, a Holy Ghost born Christian; not out of some creed, but he knows what blood stream he's from. He's genuine, pedigreed, Pentecostal throughout, borned of the Holy Ghost. All the way back to Pentecost, his experience. I like that, a pedigreed Christian. He knows where he come from. He knows who his papa is, who his mama is, who his Saviour is, and who his God is. Amen. A real pedigreed Christian. I like that.
And so, that's the difference ... a mule, he doesn't know. He just sticks his ears out and cannot learn nothing, knows nothing and ... He's a critter all right.
Now, do you love the Word of the Lord? Oh, my, it's wonderful.

26 Now, I'm going to speak tonight on divine healing, the Lord willing, a little along that line.
But, let's turn now to Matthew the twelfth chapter for a little text. And then from this draw a context, the Lord willing. Matthew the twelfth chapter. And now, let's start reading at the thirty-eighth verse of Matthew, the twelfth chapter, to you who are taking down the text, as many times people in meetings do. They take the text down and keep it kind of in their mind. Then when they get the tapes, they rehearse it and so forth.
Then certain of the scribes and of the Pharisees answered, saying, Master, we would see a sign from thee.
But he answered and said unto them, An evil and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign; and there shall be no sign given to it, but the sign of the prophet Jonas:
For as Jonas was three days and three nights in the whale's belly; so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.
The men of Nineveh shall rise in judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it: because they repented at the preaching of Jonas; and, behold, a greater than Jonas is here.
The queen of the south shall rise ... in the judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it: for she came from the uttermost parts of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and, behold, a greater than Solomon is here.
Let's bow our heads, now, while we speak to the author.

27 Gracious Lord, these words were copied by the scribe Matthew. It's your own Word. And we know thy Word is life. It is condemnation to the unbeliever and life to him that believeth.
We pray, Lord, if there be any unbelievers, that they will become believers, tonight. If there is any sick, may they be healed. If there's any weary, may they be made happy. With no joy, joy all run out of their wells, may the love of God plaster up that well again and a rain of God pour into it. Grant it, Lord.
Forgive us of our trespasses as we have forgive those who has trespassed against us. And we would ask, Lord, that You would receive us as your servants, and we pray that You'll give us a great climax to this few days of conference and meetings here. How we thank You for what's already been done!

28 And now, we ask that there will not be one feeble person left in our midst, spiritually feeble or physically feeble. May the power that raised Jesus Christ from the grave come into every heart tonight. Give deliverance from sin and unbelief. Give deliverance from sickness and affliction.
And may we lay every little ought to aside, look straight to Calvary now and receive God's blessings. I believe that this meeting was ordained of You. And I believe that things will come from this meeting that we do not understand as yet; but in the days that is to come, that we will see that this meeting was brought by the manifold wisdom of God.
Missionaries will be leaving from here. Be with them, Lord. Calls has been given to people. Great signs and wonders of the risen Lord has been done. Spirits that were on men in the days gone by, that You have used, has manifested themselves among us, especially the Holy Ghost.

29 Father, we pray that You will bless Brother Moore, Sister Moore, and all that's connected with this tabernacle. Guide and direct them. Every minister, missionary, or what, in this building tonight, or has been in here, may they have received something that'll inspire them to move on swiftly, for the hour is approaching.
Then the time will come where there will be no more work that we can do. Soon it will be cut off from us, as we see the fruit a-dwindling, the vine being purged. I pray, Father, that You will grant these blessings. Through Jesus Christ, our Lord, we ask it in his name. Amen.
I want to use five words for a text, "The Queen of the South." Someone might say, "Well, isn't that kind of a small text for your closing service?" Yes, it's kind of a small text, that is true. But, it's out of the Bible. That's what makes it good. See, it isn't the size of it; it's the quality of it. Not the quantity; it's quality.

30 As I've often said... A little friend, one time searching in an attic, got in an old trunk and found a little postage stamp that ... and he thought he'd get a nickel out of it for ice cream. And he'd taken it to the stamp collector and he gave him a dollar. That satisfied the little boy. And so, the stamp collector sold it for hundreds of dollars, and now, I think, it goes into hundreds times hundreds of dollars---a little old yellow stamp. Now, as far as the paper, it wasn't worth nothing. But, it's what was on the paper that means.

31 Now, "The Queen of the South" is just five words. And it isn't the paper it's written on; it's the value of the word that's written on the paper.
The whole Bible was give to me by Brother Kidson many years ago. And the Bible probably cost about twenty-five dollars, a Scofield Bible. But, it's ... this here will expel either life or death to us. And in that is a pardon for every man that will hear it. And it's a condemnation to those who does not hear it.
One time the great Abraham Lincoln was called to a ... act. A man was sentenced to death, to die under a firing squad for a military desertment or something he had ... what they call "run over the hill" or done some military offense. And he was sentenced to die. And the man was just nervous and afraid, and he was sentenced though, by some cruel generals or something, that he was to die.

32 A good friend of his rushed to Mr. Lincoln. And as he was going from his carriage into his room, he told him, "This man is a good man. He's even a Christian man; and, Mr. Lincoln, you are a Christian. And he's going to die, he's going to die tomorrow morning before a firing squad. Sir, you being a Christian and know this man's condition ... he didn't mean to violate any laws; he was afraid when he got in battle. You're the only one can save him."
Mr. Lincoln just jerked up a piece of paper and wrote on there, "Pardoned. Abraham Lincoln." Sent it back.
And so, when he come to the prison cells where his friend was waiting, he said, "Oh, thanks be to God, you are pardoned. Mr. Lincoln pardons you."

33 So he looks around, he looks at the paper, he said, "Why would you make fun of me now when I'm fixing to die under a firing squad?" Said, "That isn't Abraham Lincoln." Said, "That isn't his signature. If I had a pardon from Abraham Lincoln," said, "why it would be written and sealed and everything." He said, "No, that ain't on the right kind of paper." Said, "I won't receive that."
The next morning the man died as it was sentenced to die. Now, here this man holds a pardon by Abraham Lincoln not to shoot him, and then he was shot. It was tried in federal courts and here was their decision: A pardon is not a pardon unless it be received as a pardon.
That's the Word of God. It's healing to those who can receive it as healing but not healing to those who cannot receive it as healing. It's a pardon of sin to those who believe that they are forgiven of sin, but it's no good to those who won't receive it that way.

34 The promise of the Holy Ghost is an assurance to you that you'll get it if you receive it that way. It depends on your attitude towards the Word.
The Word is the ... not the paper, it's just a book, but it's Christ made manifest on paper. That's what it is. "God in the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God, and the Word was made flesh and dwelt among us," see. And His words are spirit and life. We must receive His Word just like it was He Himself.
When I see his promise, to me, that's Christ. I embrace it. He can't lie. To me that's exactly the truth, see. I might not know how to take ahold of it, but it's the truth. And I hold right with it because it's Christ to me.

35 In our text tonight we find Jesus upbraiding and rebuking a bunch of people who had refused to believe that He was the Messiah. Though He had done many messianic signs among the people, and they had called Him, just the previous two verses behind this, Beelzebub. And He said, "If you call me an evil name, I'll forgive you. You see me do..."
Let me kind of interpret it this way so you'll get what I mean. "You call me, when I show you the works of God, you call me Beelzebub." Now, Beelzebub is like a fortune teller or devil. "You call me Beelzebub. I'll forgive you for that, see. But, some day the Holy Ghost is coming to do the same thing. And you speak against that, it'll never be forgiven in this world, or neither in the world that is to come."
There's the seriousness of what we're going through with today. Oh, and He upbraided them because they had not received Him after He had done the works of God and showed that He was the Messiah. Now, if He spoke those words, they are absolutely the truth.

36 Then in this day that we live in, where the Holy Spirit has come, and doing the same works over again... You see where we stand tonight? It's a horrible thing to think that people today will still call the work of God the devil. And Jesus was upbraiding them.
Now, if we'll go back a little bit in the Bible, we'll find out that God in all ages, at all times, has had gifts in his church. There never has been a time but what God... When He comes into his church, supernatural things take place.
I know I'm speaking to historians. Brother Moore's one as good as I ever knowed of, hisself. And any time that the church ever had a revival, always the sign of supernatural is in the meeting. God heals the sick, speaks with tongues, and does other miracles and signs, every time they've ever had a revival. And even previous to the coming of Christ, every time that God sent a superna... or a move among the people, the signs of supernatural was among them.

37 So, you see, we're evangelical, we believe, we absolutely believe that God lives in his church and in his people. We believe that. And He shows the sign of the joy and power of the King in the camp. So, through the ages they'd had all kinds of signs. And He referred to some of them here.
One of them He said, "As it was in Jonas' time..." Called him Jonah. Now, many people condemns poor old Jonah. And Jonah was a prophet. But, I always felt sorry for him, because so many in this day condemn Jonah and say he was out of the will of the Lord. So, I'm going to take up for Jonah and say he wasn't out of the will of the Lord. You watch and see. Now, we're going to take his life for a few moments and examine it.

38 Jonah was on his way to Nineveh, of course. And the Bible says that the footsteps of the righteous is ordered of the Lord. Then Jonah could not have done anything, being a prophet, without God leading him. I've done things myself and so have you. You thought it was silly to really, what you thought was right, but, come to find out, it was just exactly right. See, God always does that because He leads the righteous. You just go the way the Spirit leads.
And, Jonah got in trouble out on the sea, and we know how the story goes that he was tied hands and foot and throwed out of the ship and a fish come along and picked him up, as we call the whale. And he went down in the bottom of the sea after eating Jonas, or swallowing him up. And he got down in the bottom of the sea. And so they...

39 That's a story that always baffles science, because science says that the whale's swallow isn't big enough to take a man in. But, if you notice, the Bible said that God prepared this one. This was a special kind of a fish. God---He's Jehovah-jireh. He can provide anything He wants to do because He's God.
Abraham called Him "Jehovah-jireh" because He spoke that sacrifice into existence. He's still Jehovah-jireh. He can provide what He wishes and He prepared this fish.
A little girl, happy, one time coming from church with her Bible, she was going on. An infidel met her and said, "What you so happy about?"
Said, "I just got saved. Jesus is in my heart."
Said, "Nonsense." Said, "What you holding there, a Bible?"
Said, "Yes."
Said, "I guess you believe that story about the whale and Jonah?"
Said, "Oh, yes, I believe it, every word. What God says is the truth."
He said, "Well, how you going to prove it, otherwise than faith?"
She said, "When I get to heaven, I'll ask Jonas." (That's right.)
He said, "Then what if Jonas isn't there?"
Said, "Then you ask him."
That's a good idea, huh? "You ask him." All right.

40 God always has the answer if you'll just open your mouth when He opens it.
God made a special fish for Jonah and he swallowed him. I believe it, every word of it. And he went down into the sea.
And a fish, when it feeds... Feed your little goldfish, you'll notice him, he goes right down to the bottom, rests his little swimmers on the bottom of the fish bowl. Did you ever feed him? Get his little belly full, he goes right down, rests at the bottom of the fish bowl. A fish does that. After he goes out and feeds, he comes right back over the nest and rests.
Well, this whale that swallowed this prophet went down to the bottom of the sea to rest. And, you know, with Jonah wallowing around in that vomit, down there in the bottom of the sea...
And I always thought... People say, "Well, my arm is no better." And "My foot's no better." "I don't feel any better." You'll never feel any better looking at that. You're looking at your symptoms. Long as you look at your symptoms you're not going to see nothing else but your symptoms. It depends on what you're looking at.

41 Now, look at Jonah. Now, he was in a critical shape. There's nobody here in this tabernacle that bad off, tonight. He was in the belly of the whale. If he looked this way, it was a whale's belly; everywhere he looked, it was a whale's belly. And, he said, "They are lying vanities. Once more will I look to your holy temple." For he knowed that when Solomon dedicated that temple...
Why, he prayed and said, "Lord, if thy people be in trouble anywhere and look towards this holy temple and pray, then you hear from heaven." And, he believed the prayer of Solomon would be answered.
So, God made that sick fish turn right around and take Jonah to the landing. Now, if Jonah, under those circumstances, could look to a temple that was built by man, Solomon, that later backslid (a earthly temple, and a prayer of an ordinary man) and God could do a miracle like that for him, how much more can He do for you and I when we refuse to look at our conditions? And once more will I look to the holy temple, where Jesus sits at the right hand of the majesty on high, making intercession upon our confession. Amen.
How can we look at a symptom? I look at Jesus. Not what this looks like, but what that says. Look at Calvary. Look what a price was paid for it.
Person come, said, "I'm too low down, Brother Branham. God never saved me." Don't look how bad you are; look how good He is. Don't never look at yourself; look at Him. The priests never did see the one that the sacrifice was made for.

42 As Brother Bosworth used to say about his little mule, said, "A mule would be borned and his ears was dropped down and his tail sticking up and his knees bowed and his eyes crossed." Said, "Well, if he could talk, he'd say, 'Well, when they came out, they'll knock me in the head because ... they won't feed me. I ain't worth feeding.'" But, if his mammy was well instructed, she'd say, "Son, you don't have to worry. You were borned under a birthright. There'll have to be a lamb without a blemish die for you so that you can live." And, that's exactly right.
The priest never saw the mule. He didn't examine the mule; he examined the lamb. Not the blemish on the mule, the blem... if there's any blemish on the lamb.
So, if you can't find any blemish on Him, what you worrying about then? It's not you; it's Him. God don't look at you, He looks at Him. You see it? See it, Sister? You see it, Brother, sitting here? You see it? It's not you He's looking at; He's looking at Christ. That's the sacrifice. He looks at the sacrifice.

43 So, Jonah (to continue with him)... We notice that the people of Nineveh was very wicked. I'm told they were idolaters and they worshipped animals. And the god of the sea was the whale and their occupation was fishing.
So, when all the men went to work that morning, a city the size of St. Louis, about, went out into the sea with their boats, here come the sea god rolling into the bank, licked out his tongue for a gang plank, here come the prophet, walking right out of his mouth. No wonder they repented, see. Yes. Sure.
They repented because their god had put forth a prophet by a supernatural sign. Amen. No wonder He said they'd condemn this generation---the people in Jonas' time.

44 I want to drop this a little bit, too, while we're going along, if it'd be good to you. Watch. He said, "And the people of Nineveh shall rise in this generation and condemn it because they repented at the preaching of Jonah, and a greater than Jonah is here." Now watch, when they'd asked Him, He said, "There will be..."
Said, "Give us a sign," after so many things He'd done. See that devil? Just like he said, "Perform a miracle here and turn these stones into bread." Or, put a rag around his face and hit Him on the head and said, "Tell us who hit you, we'll believe it. You're a prophet, tell us who hit You." That same devil will do the same...
"Heal this one here. Let me see you heal him." See that? That's that same devil living in religious people. "Let me see you perform a miracle. I know Old Man So-and-so, sells pencils down here on the corner, has been crippled. Let me see you divine healers heal him." Just remember, that's the devil, see.

45 We don't clown for them. God never, Jonas ... no one else does. They just ... let them alone! They be blind leading the blind. So just ... don't say nothing to them, just keep moving on. We got more that believes it than to fool with unbelievers.
But watch, Jesus said, "A evil and an adulterous generation will seek after a sign. And they will receive no sign but the sign of Jonah, for Jonas was in the belly of the whale three days and three nights; so the Son of man must be in the heart of the earth three days and three nights."

46 Notice. Now get it. What kind of a generation? A wicked, evil, adulterous gen... He was speaking of this generation or any generation that would say, "Perform me a sign. Show..." That's what they was telling Him. Now, these guys today that don't believe in divine healing and don't believe in miracles, that's asking, "Let me see you heal this one. Let me see you heal that one." The Bible said, "They would get a sign." What kind of a sign would it be? The sign of the resurrection. Hallelujah! We have it. Amen! It's here now!
Jesus Christ has raised from the dead and is alive after two thousand years showing Himself among us. A wicked and adulterous, evil generation---adulterous generation---that's this generation. Like Sodom, we've come back to it again. He said, "That generation will seek after a sign and they will have a sign. The sign will be the resurrection." You get it?
And now they call it, to make ... standing farther away from God they say, "It's the devil. It's mind reading. It's telepathy or something," not knowing that it's the resurrection of Jesus Christ among his people. Glory! Oh, as it was in the days of Jonas, see, many.

47 Now, we come to Solomon. In the days of Solomon, any Bible reader knows that that was the golden age of Israel. That was their best days they ever had. That was their amateur millennium.
Everything prospered under Solomon. Why? When God gives a gift to a people or a nation ... or a people, and those people will recognize that gift, it's a golden age for them. If they turn it down, it's chaos for them. That's the reason He kept saying, "A greater than Solomon is here." And they were turning it down.
Well, let's take Solomon for a few moments. Solomon was given a gift of discernment and all Israel rallied around it. Everybody believed it. Why, he had a gift of discernment and he could discern for the people. And everybody was one heart and one accord around the great gift of God. Praise God, great Jehovah! They sang the songs, they built the temple, they done great things because they were happy. Jehovah had put a gift of discernment in one man, Solomon. And they was all happy about it.

48 Oh, if America tonight would rally around the gift of God, it'd be a golden age, it'd be a millennium for us here. What if we'd rally around the gift of God (that's the Holy Ghost, of course) all America would rally around the gift that God sent to us, the Holy Ghost, it'd be a time that they'd break down every wall of partition between Methodist, Baptist, Presbyterian, Lutheran, Pentecostal. And we'd have a golden age, and the power of God would sweep this nation from sea to shining sea. Every nation under heaven would fear us.
That's the best protection we have: God's protection. We don't have to build atomic bombs, race Russia in missile race. Just come back to God. Accept the gift that He give us. But, they won't do it. Why, you can't get many of the Pentecostal brethren to do it, let alone Methodist, Baptist, Presbyterian, Catholic, Lutheran, so forth. Can't get many to believe it. They don't rally around it. What's left then? Chaos! God sends it, it's up to you to receive it.

49 Now, when that gift was received, all the people in one accord... Why, everybody passed through there, they'd tell them, "Oh, before you leave you must go up... You've heard of our God; our God is Jehovah, great Jehovah, who made the heavens and earth. Oh, before you leave our nation, you must stay long enough to see one of the meetings. Oh, you'd be surprised to see how the great power of God comes upon a man. And watch how he discerns the cases between right and wrong for the people. Why, you should see it. It's wonderful."
Well, people would come by and see it, and oh, my, their hearts was all lit up and gone. Nobody'd talk and say, "Nah, I don't believe that, uh-uh. That ain't of God." Everybody was one heart around it.

50 If the people that's called by the name of Jesus Christ, if the people that's called the Christian church, just them people alone, would assemble themselves together and pray and accept the gift that God has sent us, there wouldn't be one foul word about the thing. Why, there'd be such a wonderful outpouring of the Holy Ghost. The nations would hear it---headlines, television news. It'd go around the world, if we could just get it, but they won't do it.
Then, what's left? An atomic bomb waits for us (that's all), for the unbeliever.
Jesus waiting for us (thank the Lord) is the way out. "As many as received Him, to them gave He the power to become sons of God"---them that believed on his name.

51 Now, Solomon ... we find out then that people was talking everywhere. Then the news ... they didn't have televisions then and newspapers; it was from lip to ear.
And every time people would go into another nation, they'd bring in the news, "Oh, God, the great Jehovah God of the Jews. Why, them people are one accord and they built a big temple. You never seen such splendor. You never seen such unity. You never seen such power. And God has visited a man there and they've made him their king." (We can't even make one like that a pastor.) Said, "We make him a king and, oh, what a great power that God's using ... that fellow Solomon up there. God is doing a great thing."

52 Now, the news kept spreading till one day it got way down into Sheba. Now, that's a long ways down there. And caravans would come through, you know, and they would ... as they come in, every traveler coming through, of course they would come in to see the heads of the nations. [Break in tape.] "... the man, but you should see the great Spirit upon him. I never seen such discernment. Oh, it's infallible. Every time exactly the truth. You should see it. I never seen anything like it."
She begin to hunger, begin to thirst. Oh, I love that: thirsty. Oh, when you're thirsting, it's something about it. You can't talk to a man about water until he gets thirsty. But, when he gets thirsty, he's going to drink from somewhere; he's thirsting.

53 Here some time ago I was reading in Psalms 63. David said, "Because thy loving kindness is better to me than life, I will praise thy name." I thought, "What did David mean? Life. That's the greatest thing there is." So, there must be different interpretations of life.
Now, some people thinks life is drinking and carousing and going around. But that kind of life has heartaches to it. It finally ... there's no ... that ain't the kind of life that David was talking about. Now, sometimes that kind of a life will make you take a pistol and blow your brains out, jump off of a bridge and commit suicide. People think because ... "Boy, if I could just make a million dollars, that would really be life." No, that's death.

54 Here some time ago I was with Brother Sothmann in a great church, the arena, up in Canada at a certain big city. And it was going pretty good till the Americans come up. And they come up there, some kind of a lodge.
And that night when I got on the elevator, coming home from the meeting, there was enough whiskey bottles on there to make a case or two of whiskey. And I said to the little boy was taking me up, I said, "What's that?"
He said, "They're from across the line up here." Said, "Some kind of a society is having a ... some lodge is having their jubilee here." Said, "It's been horrible." Said, "Are you Brother Branham?"
I said, "I am." I said, "It makes me kind of ashamed to be an American."
He said, "Well, they have it here too."
So, I went on up and got off the elevator. And when I got off the elevator, I heard something up the other end of the room ... long hall in this big hotel. I looked up there, and here was two women coming down through there just about twenty-five, thirty years old, just with their underneath clothes on. And men pulling after them like that.
They had a bottle of whiskey in their hand, and both of them with wedding bands on. Their husband, baby sitting, perhaps, at home. Oh, they was just having a little clean fun. No wonder we're doomed. Maybe belonged to a Sunday school somewhere, or a Sunday school teacher.

55 Then they come down, and these guys so drunk, crawling on their knees trying to grab them and pull what little clothes they had on off. And they come down there and they got away from them.
I stepped back into the little hall in a shadow and one of them took this whiskey and took a big drink like that and give it to the other one, and she pulled up her little underneath skirt and said, "Whoopee, this is life."
I stood there a little bit. I walked out, I said, "I beg your pardon; that's death."
She said, "Have a drink."
I caught them by the hand. And I said, "Looky here at the wedding rings. Aren't you ashamed of yourself? Even if you would be no more than an American citizen, it's a disgrace to our country and our flag and what our forefathers established this nation to be. I'm an American, too. I'm a gospel preacher." And they started jumping and pulling and jumping and snorting and kicking at me and everything else and got away and down the hall they went.

56 That isn't life, that's death.
What makes a... What would a beautiful young woman want to do a thing like that? What would a man, maybe with his wife home baby sitting, too, and him up there pulling after her, another man's wife. Why do they drink? What causes people to sin? Is because they're thirsty. That's right.
When God made a human heart, He made a little place in there for Himself. He made you so you'd thirst. Not thirst for that, but thirst for Him. How dare a man or a woman, citizen of any country, to try to quench that holy thirst with the things of the world. That's the reason they do it because ... you don't need another drink, you don't need a cigarette, you smokers, you don't need another drink, you people who drink, you don't need another party, you need God is what you need, to thirst for righteousness.
God made that place and made you to thirst. That's part of you. He made that little place in your heart to throne Himself and to satisfy your thirsting.

57 It won't do you any good. It'll make you a dope addict or something else and you'll never be satisfied, and it will not be satisfied till you find the thing that it was made for. You're hybreeding something again, trying to give something there that God made for Himself, and that's what makes a person thirst.
This little queen, how much difference... She was thirsting because her little humble heart was looking for God. Now, after awhile it got to be so many coming till she thought, "Well, I'm going up to find out for myself." Now, there's a good idea.
She could teach American women how to live. See, Americans will sit at home and "Oh, well, Dr. So-and-so said it wasn't right." They'll sit home.

58 This woman didn't care what Dr. So-and-so said. She was thirsting to find out for herself and she was determined to go.
She had a lot to confront her. Remember, she was a pagan. She'd have to go ask her pagan priest if she could go. Let's take a trip with her. I hear her go down and say, "Holy Reverend Father, is it possible that you could excuse me as a queen? I hear they have a great revival going on up here in the next nation. That God ... their God has come down and has anointed the people till they're all in one accord. He's put his Spirit upon a man. He's showing great discernments. Oh, Holy Father, would you excuse me from the church so I can go?"

59 "Now, my daughter, you must remember who you are. You have great prestige. Your mother went to this church. Your father went to this church. You grandfather and grandmother and their grandfather and grandmother went to this church. I know there's no such thing as that. Don't you be carried away with some of that fanaticism."
You know, people die but spirits don't. So, they still live on, have the same attitude. So, "Don't you hang around that bunch. They must be holy rollers up there. Don't you listen to them. Now, if there's anything going on like that, it'd happen in our church, see. It would be down here with us," they'd say, "that's the way it would be," see.

60 So then, the first thing, you know, she said, "But look, Sir..." Let's listen what she said, "But look, Sir, all I've heard of, my great-grandmother and mother and so forth, is all just a bunch of creeds and things that you're reciting here, looking at some kind of an idol, and we never seen one move yet. I've never seen nothing but a bunch of people that lives like the world coming here and reciting creeds and going back. And I've seen no supernatural sign of any life in any idol or in the church. And they tell me that they got the article, that God lives with them. I'm going anyhow." Amen. I like that.
You let God go to dealing with the heart, there ain't enough priests in the world to keep them away from it, enough fanatics either to keep them away from it. They're coming anyhow, when God goes to dealing with the human heart.
I can see her turn, go out of the church. Now remember, she was a woman to begin with, a little lady that had to go. Now, remember, she said this too, she said, "Now, I'm going up there to see about it. The first thing I'd better do would buy a lot of Jewish scrolls and see what kind of a God Jehovah is." It's a good idea. "Search the scriptures, for in them, they are they that testify of me." All right.

61 Then she searched the scrolls and found out all that was on the scrolls, how Jehovah was, what his nature was, what He did. That's a good thing for every Bible reader. When you come to a meeting and can't understand it, see if it's with the Scripture. If it ain't scriptural, throw the thing away. If it fits the Scripture, receive it. That's right. Do what Jesus said do.
Then she bought the scrolls and she read them over. She said, "Well, I know the scrolls speak that He's that kind of ... the prophets all say that He's that kind of a God, and He is a God of that type. So, I'm going up there and I'm going to take a lot of money with me. If it is the truth, I'll support it. If it isn't the truth, then I'm not going to support it. I'll bring my money back."
That would be a good lesson for a lot of Americans. If the American people would support that which is right, that which proves to be God... But, they support everything else but that nearly. I guess it just has to be that way.

62 Now remember, she saddled up her camels and took a few maids with her and the eunuchs from the temple, and she started off on her journey. Now remember, she didn't have to go just across the street; she had hundreds of miles through the Sahara Desert, not in an air-conditioned Cadillac but on the back of a camel. No wonder Jesus said, "She'll rise on the day of judgment and condemn this generation."
Some people won't walk across the street to see one of the meetings, and she come from the utmost parts of the world to hear the wisdom of Solomon, and "Behold a greater than Solomon is here." Solomon's God is with us (sure) doing the same thing He did in Solomon's days. No wonder Jesus said she'd rise in the judgment and condemn this generation.
And another thing, she had lots of money, myrrh, and frankincense. Oh, there's no way to enumerate the price, tens of thousands of dollars worth of it. Now, she had to cross the desert. Ishmael's children was out there on the desert and they were robbers.

63 But you know, there's something about it, when your heart goes to hungering for God, you know no fear. You just keep on going anyhow, you don't think about it. What Mama going to say, what Papa going to say, what so-and-so's going to say, what my boss is going to say, you just keep moving on. When you begin to hunger and thirst for God, something begins to come. You go on after it anyhow.
She started across the desert, perhaps had to travel by night because the daytime would be so hot; them direct rays of that sun down there on that Sahara Desert would burn the hide off of you nearly. And you know how long it takes to cross ... what time for them to cross that desert? Ninety days, three months.
But, there was something dragging her, pulling her.

64 Oh, God. "Blessed are they that do hunger and thirst for they shall be filled." Hungering and thirsting. Oh, till you get thirsty, you can't talk about it to you. But, when you go to thirsting, you're ready then. She wasn't thinking about Ishmael's children, God would protect that. If this God was God, He'd protect her. And she was on her road.
Day in and ... daytime she'd lay around with her little maids along there and read these scrolls and say, "Is... That great sky. Did Jehovah make that? Did He do this? I'm going to find out. They say they got a sign there and I'm going to see if it's right."

65 Finally, she arrived at the palace gates. When she finally got to the palace gates, she never come just to say, "I'm going in and sit down. And if that guy says one thing against our theology at our church, I'll get right up and stomp out of the building." No. That's the American attitude, you see, not hers.
She come to sit there until she was fully convinced, typing it with the scriptures. She braced her tents and everything, got ready for the meeting. And I can imagine, the next morning she cleaned up in her best, her and her maids, and they went to the door, and all the choir sang the great psalms and the trumpets sounded and sacrifice was offered.
All the preliminaries got out of the way and out on the platform come Solomon.

66 She said, "Oh, there he is. That must be the guy that God's got anointed. Now, if this God ... now let me see, let me see, I've rehearsed all these prophets now. I see if it's right."
First thing you know, they brought the first case up. And she found that Solomon's spirit of discernment was perfect. Day after day she watched it. Not a flaw in it nowhere. Her little heart begin to beat. After awhile it began to beat heavy.
Finally, her prayer card was called and she come up. And when she got up there she stood before Solomon, she had a secret in her heart. And "Solomon," the Bible said, "told her all things, there was nothing kept back." God revealed everything to Solomon that she wanted to know. Is that right? That's the spirit of discernment. Sure,

67 revealed it all to her.
And when her prayer card was called and she got up there and Solomon revealed the whole thing to her by the Spirit of God, she turned to the audience and she said, "All that I have heard is the truth. And more than I've heard is the truth. It's greater than I thought." Why? She was standing in the presence of Jehovah. Hallelujah! Wish I could get that the way I see it. Oh, my.
Do you realize when the Holy Spirit comes down and the power of God strikes the place, Jehovah is present? That same Jehovah.

68 How can we sit still? What must we do? You see, we think, "Oh, if I was back there then..." You'd have felt the same way you do now.
It's greater now than it is then because there it was on one man. Here it's on all people that will receive Him. It was for one man, Solomon. Now it's for whosoever will, let him come. Amen! A greater than Solomon is here, showing the sign of his resurrection. He was made flesh and died to take away your sins, rose again on the third day, come back in the form of the Holy Ghost, and the works that He did He's doing right among the people---the same yesterday, today, and forever. Hallelujah! I say, Hallelujah means "praise our God."
Oh, yes, He's here. No wonder Jesus said, "She'll rise in the day of the judgment and condemn this generation:" Besides that, look what she said to Shreveport and a lot of these places, the Pentecostal churches. Not only that, but "Blessed is the ones that's with you, that stand and minister with you. Blessed are they. For they see these things happening day after day. Blessed are they. Blessed are the men that's with you, that stand by you, that see this gift-operating day after day."

69 Jesus said, "She'll rise in the judgment and condemn that generation."
That's right, and condemn this generation. For, how much more will she condemn this one than to that one, because look at the much more light that we've got since that day; death, burial, resurrection, the Holy Ghost Hisself right with us. See what I mean? It's too common. That's what the Holy Spirit is to the Pentecostal people, it's too common.
An old man, one time, lived in the interior, was on his road down to the sea shore. And he'd write books, and he'd often wrote of the sea, how beautiful it was. One day on his road down he went down to the sea shore and he met an old salt coming from the sea. And he said, "Where goest thou, my good man?"
He said, "Oh, I'm going to the sea. I've never seen it in my life." And he said "I want to see it's big, briny white waves as they dash. I want to smell the salt air. I want to hear the cry of the seagulls."
The old salt stood there and looked, chewed on his pipe stem a little bit. Said, "I was born on it. I've been on it for fifty years. I don't see nothing so thrilling about it." And went on.
That's it. He was so used to it, it wasn't thrilling to him any more.

70 That's what's the matter with the church today. You seen so much of it, it doesn't thrill you any more. The Holy Spirit's so good to visit you time after time after time after time, and we forget it.
In Louisville, Kentucky, a few weeks ago there was a mother packing a little baby along. And she walking along there, and she was shaking little toys, you know, saying, "See, Darling? See, Darling?" Then she'd get something else, "See, Darling? See, Darling?" The little baby just kept staring.
And after awhile it kind of disturbed the people in the store. Finally, she picked up a little bell a-jingle. She said, "Look, darling. Look. Look. Look. Look. Mommy's darling, look." And the little baby just stared out. And she fell across the counter

71 and the people come to help her.
They said, "What's the matter?"
She said, "Oh, my little boy here, not long ago," said, "just started to staring right out in space." And said, "I took him to the doctor awhile ago and he said he was better, but he isn't." Said, "Nothing will attract him." Said, "Things that ought to attract a little boy his age, it doesn't attract him; and he just sits and stares in space."
How true that is with the church today. God shook every kind of a gift He can before the church, and they still sit and stare, looking for something else. Hallelujah! That's right! God's going to get tired shaking gifts before you after a while; sit paralyzed.
See an Oral Roberts and so forth healing the sick, and great signs and wonders of the resurrected Messiah. And the people sit, say, "Well, I don't know."

72 It don't attract them any more, something has happened to their minds. It just seems like they're just mentally upset or spiritually upset.
And their character, you can tell them about holiness and how to live. They don't pay no bit more attention to that than if you didn't even say it. It doesn't ... they don't realize that a son and daughter of God should act like a son and daughter of God. They should realize their position, not fuss and fight and stew and carry on, hold grudges.

73 Here some time ago in the South here they used to sell the colored for slaves. And they'd sell them on the lots just like you would cars, used cars and get a bill of sale with them. Never was right.
Then one day there was a broker came by and wanted to buy some slaves on a plantation. And they'd buy the big men and breed them to big women and make heavier slaves to pull their carts and plows and things and do their work. And one day a broker came by and he said, "How many slaves you got?"
Said, "I got a hundred or two." Said, "Take a look at them."
He noticed all of them. They was away from their homeland, and they'd had to whip them and everything to make them obey because they were sad. They knowed they'd never be back home no more. They'd have to die here in a strange land, and they never would be back home no more.

74 But, they noticed one young man, they didn't have to whip him. Boy, he had his chest out, his chin up, he was always on the go. That broker said, "I'd like to buy that slave."
He said, "But he's not for sale."
Said, "Why isn't he for sale?" Said, "Is he the boss over the rest of them?"
Said, "No, he's a slave."
Said, "Do you feed him different than you feed the rest of them?"
Said, "They all eat in the galley together."
Said, "What makes him so much different than the rest of the slaves?"
And the owner said, "I wondered that for a long time, but one day I found out. Over in the homeland where he came from in Africa, his father is a king over the tribe. And though he's an alien and away from his homeland, he still conducts himself as a king's son."

75 Hmmm!
Why aren't we to conduct ourselves ... as cowards? We are sons and daughters of God. We're aliens. We're pilgrims and strangers here, but we walk back upon God's Word. It's his ... we are sons and daughters of the King. We don't lie, steal, drink, smoke, carry on like that. Women shouldn't cut their hair and act like street women, dress in them kind of clothes. We're sons and daughters of God. King's sons and King's daughters. This is not our land. We'll die in this land some day but we're on our road home. Let's conduct ourselves as sons and daughters of God. That's right. "And the queen of the south shall rise in the day of judgment and condemn this generation because she came from the utmost parts of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and, behold, a greater than Solomon is here."

76 Let's bow our heads just a moment.
I'm the child of a King!
I'm the child of a King!
With Jesus, my Saviour,
I'm the child of a King!
My Father is rich with houses and lands,
He holdeth the wealth of the world in his hands!
Of rubies and diamonds, of silver and gold,
His coffers are full, He has riches untold.
I'm the child of a King!
A child of the King!
With Jesus, my Saviour,
I'm the child of the King!

77 If you're not a child of the King and would like to be tonight, to come join the ranks in the mystical body of Christ and receive Him as personal Saviour, be filled with the Spirit, would you raise your hands and say, "Pray for me, Brother Branham." I haven't got time to make the altar call here and just want to know if you'd like me to pray for you. God bless you, Sir. God bless you all around through the building. God bless you. Many hands, a dozen or two went up. Once more now while the Holy Spirit sinks it deep into their heart.
I'm the child of the King!
A child of the King!
With Jesus, my Saviour,
I'm a child of the King!

78 Father God, it was You that said, "The queen of the south shall rise up." And in this last quotation that would condemn the generation, and Jonas', the evil and sign-seeking generation. We got them today, Father. They just won't believe it the way You wrote it. They say, "Let me see you do something. Show me a miracle. Show me this." They don't realize that spirit within them has been down through the ages in people.
They said to our Lord, "Show us a sign. We seek a sign."
He said, "All this wicked generation will receive a sign, the resurrection sign."
We're so glad tonight. And that sign that He was talking about then on Jonas ... the very thing that they said He was a Beelzebub because He could discern the thoughts of their heart. The very same chapter said He perceived the thoughts in their heart. And they said he was a devil. And He told them that how the queen of the south come all the way from Sheba to hear the wisdom of Solomon, and a greater than Solomon was there.

79 And now today that same resurrected Lord Jesus is in our midst in the form of the Holy Ghost, with us here, moving in us, doing the same things. And the evil generation, adulterous generation, marrying, giving in marriage, divorce courts, perversions, sex perversions, all kinds of evil. "Show us a sign." You're doing it---the resurrection---but they won't believe it, Father.
Now, these in here... And as I said about the colored slave, how that he didn't have to be whipped. No. No matter how tough it was for him, he still knew he was a king's son. He kept the morals of the rest of them up, on his own behavior.
Father, let us as Christians, the ones who are strong in Christ, act like children of God, talk like children of God, positive on God's Word, knowing what the Holy Ghost has done for us.

80 Many hands went up that they wanted to receive Him as personal Saviour and become His child. God, I pray that in this prayer line somewhere, or somewhere in the meeting, that You'll show that sign of the resurrection that You promised through Jonas. May that hour ... or that moment, may the power of God seal them in their heart with the Holy Spirit and make them sons and daughters of God, that their character would be changed, their desires and their objectives and motives and everything in their life would be changed. Grant it, Lord. We're waiting further on You.
The service is yours, it's in your name. And we're waiting to see what You will do. Save these, Lord. Don't let them leave this building tonight without salvation. Grant it, Lord.

81 May they all be filled with the Holy Ghost. And may this be the climax of their life right now, that they'll go from this building tonight---and many others that did not raise their hands---rejoicing, saying, "Did not our hearts burn within us?" And, we know that Jesus is raised from the dead because we seen Him healing the sick and doing exactly what He said He would do in the last days. We humbly receive Him. Grant it, Father. In Jesus' name we pray. Amen.
With Jesus, our Saviour,
Oh, we are a child of the King!
Can you raise your hands and sing it with me once?
I'm a child of the King!
A child of the King!
With Jesus, my Saviour,
I'm a child of the King!
Aren't you happy?
The great Physician now is here,
The sympathizing Jesus;
He speaks the drooping heart to cheer,
Oh, hear the voice of Jesus.
Sweetest name in seraph's song,
Sweetest name on mortal tongue.
Sweetest carol ever sung,
Jesus, blessed Jesus.
Isn't He wonderful? Now, reverently, everyone. And now, the music, if you will constantly with that, Sister Anna Jean.

82 I believe Paul told me... I believe he give 50 cards, wasn't it, Bill? Prayer cards B, taking up the old ones and giving the new ones so we wouldn't get confused. Now, 50 prayer cards.
Now, tonight we won't start ... we're just going to pray for the sick. We believe that in this prayer line ... I want to pray for all of them, I want everybody to be prayed for. And so, now, we're going to call those people up here. Prayer card ...
As I call your number will you stand so that if somebody we have to help around ... well, we can get them to the line. Prayer card number 1, who has it? (Are you sure you were right?) Prayer card number 1? (What's the letter?) B number 1. You have it, Lady? Come right down here. (Get a chair and sit down there, Billy.)

83 Number 2? Who has prayer card 2? Would you raise your hand? A lady here. Number 3? (Help me, somebody. Brother Palmer, watch for their hand.) Raise up your hand if you can when I call your number. Number 3. This man here? Number 4, number 5. Just come right up, just take your place. Number 6, number 7, number 8, 9, 10.
Usually if we're going to have a line of discernment, I always try to just go over and begin at 20 or 30 or somewhere like that. But, this way it doesn't make any difference because we're going to pray right down the line ... because we'll try to pray for all of them. 10, 11. (Help me now.) Prayer card 11? 11? (Got it?) 12. (Watch now.) 12, 13, 13, 14, 15, 15. All right. 16, 17. Somebody must have got it and went home. (What say? Around this way. All right. We'll start right here then. Move it right ...? Oh, yeah.) 17. (All right, right here.)
Who has 17? No one? Remember, I called it. 18, 19, 20, 21. (Just stand right here till he's ready for you. Come right in here.) 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30. I didn't see 30. Prayer card 30? 30? (See it? Everybody speaks English here I suppose. French?)

84 Does anybody know if anybody speaks French or something? 30. 30. Where you ha...Oh, I didn't notice, pardon me. 31, 32. 31, 31, 32. That's it. 33. That's the way. 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40. That's it. Line right up here. See. Come this way, everybody, now coming through there, see. All right. 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46. (Didn't see it. Did you?) 46, yeah, 46, 47, 47, 48. All right. 49, 50, 50. Did I see it? 50, 51. Is that... ? That's all of them, wasn't it? All right.
Now, while they're lining up as they're calling their names and lining them up, someone will help them down there, to get the people lined up. This is a long prayer line. We're just going to take out time and pray for each one. Now be real reverent, everyone while they're getting the prayer lines lined up.

85 Now, I'd like to say this to you. Now, how many knows that there's no man that can heal you? How many knows that healing is ... divine healing is a finished work of God at Calvary? See. And, it's based upon, "Whosoever will may come and accept their healing." By faith you believe it. Is that right? By faith you believe it.
Now, some people has gifts. Like a real good preacher, he can take that Word of God and just lay it out there like that, some good theologian and can ... that's the gift of healing. They can make you see it to the Word. Now, I can't do that because I'm just not that much of a preacher.

86 So then I can't do it that way---God seeing my ignorance of that. So then, He gave me another way to let you see it. He gave me a gift to manifest the resurrection of his Son, Jesus. Through that you might believe. That's a good way, isn't it? To believe on the Son of God. Isn't that right? And, when you do that, then you'll be healed. Now, if He can prove that He's here... How many understands that now, let's see?
I'm just looking for something to happen in this prayer line tonight, I don't know why. I just feel real good. I feel that it's something'll take place.
Yes, the people that's cripple or anything, you sit them right along here like the chairs and so forth; I'll come down and pray for them. Sure.

87 I want to lay these up here, I like to feel the anointing of the Spirit first before I pray for these cloths and things.
Now, I want you to be real reverent. And just... Now, when I mean reverent ... see when the Holy Spirit's a-speaking...
Now, all these people in this prayer line is strangers to me. I don't see a person along there I know. Is Brother Babbs in there? Yes, Brother Babbs is back there, I know him. I guess... You see anybody in there that I know? A lady is nodding her head there that I knowed her. Do I know you there, Lady? Oh, I prayed for you. I mean ... well I know this, I don't know nothing what's wrong with you. I have no idea of knowing what's wrong with you, sure. But, God does know, doesn't He? So, that's what we're thinking of.

88 Now, in the audience... I guess all the prayer cards is standing here in the line. You in the audience that hasn't got a prayer card and yet you believe that God will heal and make you well... How many believes that? Now, may God grant it. Now, let's not be in no hurry, everybody reverent.
Now, for this prayer line, it'll probably take about twenty minutes to get the prayer line through. And then, when we do ... I want to ... not just passing through laying hands on them, I want to pray for them. I believe that's the way, if God'll let me do it.
But I want you to know now, without any discernment, the Holy Spirit's here anyhow.

89 Here now long ago there was a man in a certain meeting, just didn't believe my teaching on the Bible. And he goes to a meeting, a certain fellow did, and not knowing that I'd know about it, because he's no more than sinned and I seen it in a vision in my hotel room...
I don't see how some people can do that and come up and say these things when you know you know better. So, he said, "Now, Brother Branham is a prophet of the Lord." He said, "But, don't listen to his teaching because he's wrong."
The same Holy Spirit that preached the service tonight, the same Holy Spirit preaches all these things is the same Holy Spirit that discerns the thoughts of the heart. Certainly.

90 What is the mark of a prophet? He's a divine interpreter of the divine Word. That's exactly. "The Word of the Lord came to the prophet." That's who it came to not the theologian, the prophet. Do you know what prophet means: Take the dictionary and look and see what it means, "an interpreter of the divine Word." And then come and say such as that. See how ... people just got so churchy till they don't know God no more. That's it. That's what makes us so muley. It's just... You want to get back to that stage of real genuine Holy Ghost faith.
Yeah, I see one man I know---this Baptist brother sitting over here, Brother Daulton. I want to say something. I'm expecting, Brother Daulton... You see why I'm lining him up there about. How many heard the story of the squirrels and things? You all did down here I guess and so forth.

91 A new ministry is taking ahold in my life. That's what I got these here for tonight to try it. I seen it happen about three or four times. The first time it ever happened on a mortal being.
The second time it happened was to this Baptist brother sitting over here. He's standing there at the church, his children---teen-age, reckless as they could be. And he had been ... we'd been praying for his children. All at once that same Jehovah-jireh turned around; I said, "I give you your children in the name of Jesus Christ."
I think everyone of them saved now, everyone of them. All of them saved, everyone of them. The brother sitting right there from Willow Shade ... or Somerset, isn't it, Kent ... Somerset, Kentucky. Somebody in here ... some of you Baptists want to see a Baptist preacher with the Holy Ghost? Stand up just minute, Brother Daulton. There's a Kentucky Baptist preacher with the Holy Ghost. Isn't it wonderful? It sure is. All right.

92 Now, let's be real reverent. Brother Brown, are you ... or some of you help from this side of the platform. Now, you without prayer cards be real reverent, just be real quiet now, everybody.
Now, if the Lord does something and you want to praise Him, all right; but see, just keep your position. Keep waiting, keep under expectation. You out there now that doesn't have a prayer card, maybe the Holy Spirit would say, "Turn around..."
How many never was in one of these meetings before? Let's see your hands. Never was in a... Well, my, my, I guess it's... Do you still understand the meeting, my ministry? Haven't ever been in one but yet you understand it? Raise your hand. Well, that's okay then. You haven't ... you understand.

93 See, it isn't me. But Jesus, the Son of God, is the high priest of our profession---confession--- (the same thing) sitting at the right hand of the majesty of God, sitting there making intercessions upon our confession. Is that right?
First, we have to confess He's done it, then He starts making intercession. And He's the high priest that can be touched by what? The feeling of our infirmities. Then if we can touch Him with our infirmities and He's the same high priest yesterday, today, and forever, wouldn't He act the same way? Is that right? Then how did He do when a woman touched Him. He turned around, told her about her blood issue, and told her her faith had saved her. Is that right?

94 How many out there thinks you got ... that's sick, that thinks you got faith enough to touch Him. Let's see your hands. Everywhere, that you're sick. God bless you.
I believe ... let's ... All right let's just have one, so we can get started ... that anointing. If it's just one person, you all won't say nothing, you just go ahead. Is that right? I want to find the anointing first so that people will realize ... this woman here.
I suppose we're strangers to one another, are we, Lady? We do not know each other. All right, here's a lady that's a stranger to me. We were born miles apart, years apart, and this is our first time we've ever met in life, as far as I know. She says she's a stranger, and God knows I don't know her. There's something the woman's here for, maybe domestic trouble, maybe financial trouble, it may be sickness, it may be for somebody else; I don't know.

95 But this is a sign like Saint John 4 to make it scriptural to you: a woman and a man meeting for their first time on earth. Jesus talked to the woman just a few minutes to find out ... to catch her spirit. How many knows that? He got talking to her about segregation; she said, "It's not right for you to ask me ... the Samaritan ... but have any dealings with each other."
But when He found her trouble, He said, "Go get your husband and come here."
And He told her... And she said, "Sir, I perceive that You are a prophet. Now, we know that when the Messiah cometh, who is called the Christ, we know He's coming. When He comes, that'll be his sign." How many knows that? The Bible teaches that. Well, if that was the Messiah's sign yesterday, and He's the same yesterday, today, and forever, wouldn't it be the same sign today? Here we are two together, never met before.

96 Now, if He will tell her what has been (now, she will know whether it's true or not) what's wrong with her, or what she's here for, something (I don't know, ever what it is) then she will know whether it's true or not. Then surely she would know it. Everybody would have to know it would be from some spiritual power. Is that right? Because there's no way for me to know the woman, I've never seen her, she don't know me. And here we stand. And you out there, I don't know you, but God knows you. And He promised to do this.
He's not doing this because He just wants to show you His goodness, He's doing it to fulfill His Word. Jesus healed the sick, not because He had to, but because He wanted to fulfill the Word. That's exactly. That's why He did it, that it might be fulfilled which is spoken of the prophet. And this, that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by Jesus that He'd do it in these last days.

97 Oh, we ought to tear the building down, look like, with joy. See? But we're still shaking the little bells and staring, you see.
Oh, glory. Just when that comes up, you feel it. It's just something, I don't know. You say, "You don't feel that." You just think I don't. I sure do.
All right, Sister, just a word with you, just to talk to you a minute. One of these days we're going to meet God. We're going to have to give an account of all the things that we've ever done in life. If the Lord God will reveal to me something that you're here for, or something another in your life, well, you'll know whether it's right or not, won't you? And then if He does, will you believe then...? You know I couldn't to do it because I don't know you. If He will do it, then you believe it's His power, His Spirit that's a-doing it? You sure would. That's fine.

98 I'm doing this just merely to catch her spirit. That's exactly. We're here, two human beings, and this is the first time meeting, and you're a spirit, and I'm a spirit. The Holy Spirit is here trying to find the trouble.
Yes, sir. I see what the woman's wrong with her. She's got a cancer. And the cancer is on your hand you got covered up, to keep me from seeing it; but He knows it. That's right. All right, sir. You got high blood pressure, complications. Is that right? Raise up your hand if that's right. Now, do you believe? Then I condemn all your ailments in the name of Jesus Christ, for the glory of God. Amen. Go home and be well now. Jesus Christ make you well.

99 I'm a stranger to this woman. We was born probably miles apart, and years apart. She's a lot younger than I, and this is our first time meet... Oh, wait I wasn't to have that discernment, I was just going to go on, but... Well, I started; I might as well go ahead on the... All right.
Now, Lady, if I will be able, through the Holy Spirit, to tell you something about yourself, something that you know that I do not know, then would you accept me as His servant and believe that that Spirit is the Christ, the Son of God? You would believe that?
It's really not you. It's someone else; it's an elderly woman; it's your mother. She has a tumor. And I see you looking in a show case window in some place; I've seen it before. It looks ... it's Arkansas, Fort Smith. Your mother has been in my meetings somewhere; she was healed before. That's right.

100 Your husband has something wrong with his eyes, doesn't he, sitting out here? He's going to be all right now. You're Mrs. Metcalf; now, you just return back, believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and be made well.
Some of you out there without a prayer card now, you believe with all your heart. Do you believe?
Elderly lady, you don't have a prayer card; of course you don't. I can't heal you, Mother; it's your daughter. Do you believe that God will reveal to me what's wrong with you, you'll accept it? It's heart trouble. That's right. If that's right, raise up your hand. Be healed in the name of Jesus; go home, and receive it. Have faith in God. Don't doubt, believe all things.

101 That man sitting right there with a fistula. Do you believe Jesus Christ will make you well, if you can accept it? All right, Sir, raise up your hand, white shirt on. Kind of surprised you to have that much faith, didn't it?
The lady sitting back there, little hat. Having headaches, aren't you, Sister? Migraine. Have faith in God, God will heal you.
Now, you see, you don't have to be up here. You have to have faith in God. Isn't that right? Have faith in God; that's all. Do you believe with all your heart? Don't doubt, believe, have faith---have faith in God.

102 I don't know this man; he's a stranger to me. Is that right, sir? If God will reveal to me your troubles, will you believe on me as His servant, believe on Christ as being the Son of God? You will? You have asthma, asthmatic condition. Here's another thing's wrong: the big thing is wrong with you, you're not a Christian. You need Christ to be your Saviour because you're shadowed in blackness. You accept Jesus as your Savior? Will you accept Him as your personal Saviour now? And He will heal you, and make you well. Will you receive Him? Raise up your hand to Him, say, "Lord, I believe you."

103 If you'll do it right now and with all your heart, He will heal you of your asthma. The decision is yours. Come over here and sit down and think it over just a minute. Believe... Do you accept Him? Then I pronounce you healed in the name of Jesus Christ. Go be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ, calling on the name of the Lord. Do you believe?
Do you believe He will heal you of that nervousness? All right, go ahead, be healed.
Do you believe He will heal you of that diabetes? Go and be healed, be made well.
Do you believe your arthritis will be gone and God will make you well? Go, and be healed in the name of the Lord.
Believe God will heal that cancer? Go, be healed in the name of the Lord.
Do you believe He will heal that cancer and make you well? Go, believe in the name of the Lord and be made well.

104 If thou canst believe... Do you believe with all your heart everybody? Everybody believe? What if I don't say a thing to you, and just lay my hands on you; will you get well? In the name of Jesus Christ, go and be healed. Amen. Believe.
Do you believe with all your heart? You're already healed when that man back there got healed with that rectal trouble, fistula like. Go, believe, Mr. Allen, be made well in the name of Jesus Christ.
Come, you got stomach trouble, or you did have. Go eat. Jesus Christ has... Do you believe now? Everybody have faith, believe with all your heart.
In the name of the Lord Jesus, go, be made well. You said you knew me out there, and that's the reason I didn't say anything. You may go, go having faith.
Father God, in the name of Jesus Christ, may our brother be healed. Amen.
"These signs shall follow them that..."

105 God will heal your kidney trouble, honey, you'll get well. Go believing with all your heart.
Look here, sweetheart. Your heart's going to be all right now, and you're going to be well. Did that help you? All right, go and be made well in Jesus' name.
I bless this cloth in the name of Jesus Christ. Amen. Have faith.
Do you believe, Sister? I pray for my sister in the name of Jesus Christ that she will be made well for God's glory. Amen.
Come. You need blood, anemia. Do you believe that God will give you the...? In the name of Jesus Christ may you receive it. Amen. Have faith in God.
Do you believe, Sir? In the name of Jesus Christ, may God of heaven make you well. Amen. Have faith now, don't doubt.

106 Brother Babbs, come here. You've been my brother for many a day. Lord God, Creator of heavens and earth, send Thy blessings upon this my loyal friend and make him well. Through Jesus Christ's name I bless him. You who could put the fruit in his daughters womb and give her lovely children, You can also put healing in his body; in the name of Jesus, grant it. Amen. Go back and be well, my brother. God bless you.
Sister Moore, of course, I know you too. Oh, eternal and righteous God, Creator of heavens and earth, give Thy blessings unto this my sister. She's becoming into Your work. Soon Lord, I believe that her and Brother Jack will be out in Your work completely. I now ask that the weakness and things leave her body, and she be made well in the name of Jesus Christ. Amen. God bless you, Sister Moore. Go believing, now. I truly believe that.
If thou canst believe, all things are possible. Do you believe that?
You're nervous, aren't you? Do you think his ear will get all right, you'll be all right? All right go believing.

107 O God, in the name of the Lord Jesus I pray that You'll bless our sister. Heal her I pray in Jesus' name, with this great mighty church sitting here under the anointing of the Holy Ghost, seeing the signs that Solomon did. And a greater than Solomon is here: the Lord Jesus Himself in the form of the Holy Ghost. May these people never doubt, I pray in Christ's name. Amen. Believe now.
The baby. In the name of Jesus Christ, God's Son, I lay hands upon the little one and rebuke this devil. In Jesus' name may it come out and be well. Amen. Have faith now, believe.
God, in the name of Jesus Christ, I rebuke the devil that's done this to my sister. May she be healed in Jesus' name. Amen.
Come, Sister. Father God, with Your anointing here upon us, and as the ransomed church of God, we pray this prayer of faith for our sister. Command this devil to leave her in the name of Jesus Christ. Amen.
Eternal God, Jehovah, come in the power of Your resurrection and heal this, our sister, in the name of Jesus Christ. Amen.

108 O eternal God, take the nervousness in this poor little woman, and let her go and be well in Jesus' name. Amen. Reason I said that: it left you right there. See? You go believing now, and it'll be all right.
Blessed Father, with hands laid upon this woman with the Holy Ghost anointing here, I pray that You'll heal her in Jesus' name. Amen. Believe now with all your heart.
Great Jehovah God, I pray for my sister, along with this mighty church. In the name of Jesus Christ, may she be healed. Amen.
Lord, with my hands laid upon his, I ask this petition and this prayer for him. In the name of Jesus Christ, may he be healed. Amen.
Eternal God, author of everlasting life, giver of every good gift, send Thy blessings upon our sister in the name of Jesus Christ. Amen.

109 Father, in the name of Jesus Christ, I pray that You'll heal this woman and make her completely whole through the resurrection of Christ. Amen.
Heavenly Father, in the name of Jesus Christ heal this little girl and make her completely whole for Your glory. Amen.
Eternal and righteous God, we're waiting to see Your great hand. Move, O God, and heal our sister in Jesus' name.
Eternal God, author of life, bless my brother who I bless in Jesus' name for his healing. Amen.
Jehovah-jireh, the healer, come and be merciful to this little woman, seriously sick. May she be healed in Jesus' name. Amen. Don't worry now.

110 Jehovah God, in the name of Jesus Christ, heal this, my sister, who I pray for. The prayer of faith shall save the sick. The Bible said, "These signs shall follow them that believe. If they lay their hands on the sick, they shall recover." You promised it, God, I'm believing it, and I know that we are anointed now with the Holy Ghost. Amen.
Eternal God, bless my Sister Schrader, and I pray God that You'll give her strength like she has never had before. May she go from here tonight in the power and Spirit of the Holy Ghost, and serve You all the days of her life. Get glory out of her, Lord, but she has to have strength. Strengthen her, Lord; and this nervousness that's doing this evil to her, I condemn it in the name of Jesus Christ.
Sister Schrader, in the name of the Lord, there's nothing wrong with you but your nerves. I say that in Jesus' name. You haven't got one speck of TB or nothing. It's your nerves that's getting you down. Rebuke the thing and walk away and be well. God, in the name of Jesus Christ I pray that You'll heal her in Jesus name. Amen.

111 Eternal God, I lay hands upon this my brother. In the name of Jesus Christ I ask for his healing. Amen. Bless you, Brother.
Lord God, the God of host, I pray that You'll help this poor little weak woman and give her strength and heal her in Jesus' name. Amen. Go happy, Sister.
In the name of Jesus Christ I lay hands upon this man, and heal him in the name of Jesus Christ. Amen.
God, in the name of the Lord Jesus I pray that You'll heal our sister and make her well to the glory of God. Amen.

112 Heavenly Father, I lay hands upon my sister, and heal her in the name of Jesus Christ. May she go and be well. Amen.
Dear God, I lay my hands upon this little boy and ask for his healing. In the name of Jesus Christ may he go and be well.
God of heaven, I lay my hands upon my sister and ask it in the name of Jesus Christ that her faith won't fail; she will be healed in Jesus' name. Amen.
God, this little mother with her head bowed, I pray that You'll heal her. I offer this prayer of faith, all my heart, for her. In Jesus' name may she go and be healed.
Oh, eternal and blessed God, I lay my hands upon her in the name of Jesus Christ and ask for her healing. Amen.

113 Eternal and blessed God, I lay my hands upon my sister and ask for her healing in Jesus Christ's name. Amen.
Eternal and blessed Father who brought again Jesus from the dead, I lay hands upon my brother and ask for his healing in the name of Jesus Christ. Amen.
A lady couldn't come up? One of the cards? Where's she at, the one who couldn't come up ... with a red coat? It's this lady sitting right here? All right, I will come and lay hands on you if you believe. These here too. Do you have a card? Right here? You don't have one? Kidney trouble left you anyhow, so just believe with all your heart.

114 Huh! Strange, kidney trouble, too. See that devil try to get between them two women there just then? One warned the other one. Just as soon as I mentioned you, it went right to that woman there, come back and forth, and I seen that dark streak leading over, and I seen what her trouble was. Come right back, and you got the same thing. Frankly, you haven't got but a half a kidney. You're left one's gone, your right one is only half. That is true. Do you want to go back south from here, and go well? You do? You will? All right, Mrs. Dobbs, you can go back home, and be healed then if you believe with all your heart.
In the name of the Lord Jesus Christ I lay hands upon my brother, asking for his healing through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Eternal and righteous God, upon the head of my sister I lay my hands and ask in Jesus' name for her healing.
Merciful and Almighty God...