Sir, we would see Jesus

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1 God bless you. And if I've left out anyone, I didn't mean to. And from bottom of our heart, I say this for Dr. Guggenbuhl and for Mr. Arganbright, Mr. Bosworth and Billy Paul: We wish you good health. God bless you all. Pray for us. We must go home right away, start another meeting, right away.
Now tonight, Mr. Bosworth has just preached to you and I'm sure you enjoyed Mr. Bosworth's message. Now, I'm not going to preach tonight; I kept you so long this afternoon, and you were so gallant, because you stayed through the storm. Satan didn't want us to have that meeting, but we got along. God gave us the victory.
Around about thirty-five hundred that stood up to renew with Christ, and I was just told that two thousand signed a card of salvation. We praise the Lord! Can you see why Satan was angry? Didn't do him no good; God ruling. Amen.

2 Now, I'm just want to give you a little testimony, but... It's a little testimony of the work of the Lord, a little inside part of my own life. I feel that we love one another well enough that you know that I'm not here for personal things; I'm here for Jesus. So, just to give a little testimony...
Before we do that, we want to read just a verse or two out of God's Word. I want the translator to read Saint John 12, the last three verses. And may the Lord add His blessings to the Word.
And there were certain Greeks among them that came up to worship at the feast:
The same came therefore to Philip, who was of Bethsaida of Galilee, and desired him, saying, Sir, we would see Jesus.
Philip cometh and telleth Andrew: and again Andrew and Philip tell Jesus.
The Lord add His blessings to it.
Now, we'll not speak on this subject, but just to read some of His Word. I just love His Word. And, now, everyone praying; I want to see every one of you healed tonight. If I could do it, I'd do it. If your doctor could do it, he would do it. But, it takes Christ, and it takes your faith in Christ, and then God will do it.

3 Now, these Greeks that came to Philip, their heart's desire was to see Jesus. How many has that same desire tonight? Everyone. We all want to see Him. That's the call of the human heart: "Sirs, we would see Jesus." Now, that's what we want to do tonight.
Let's just think a minute. Now, let's just get away from all the fantastic ideas, and if He's so real as Christians claim He is, why can't we see Him? We say He's not dead, that He's living. He said He'd be with us, and every generation would see Him until the end of the world. Now, Jesus promised that. He said, "A little while the unbelievers won't see Me no more. But you'll see Me, for I'll be with you to the end of the world." Then every generation has been promised to see Him. So, let's take a look for Him tonight; I want to see Him.

4 I remember one time I was getting up my little old cabin, cold, I was trying to make a fire, and all of it wouldn't burn. And I turned on the radio, and a sister was singing, "I want to see Jesus." I just sat down on the floor, just started weeping. I raised up both hands; I said, "Yes, Lord, I want to see You." And you want to see Him.
And if He is so real, why can't we see Him? If you were looking for Him tonight, what type of person would you look for? Would you look for a man in long robes, dressed different from other men? Not Jesus. He dressed just like other men. If He was here in a body of flesh tonight, He'd wear a suit of clothes like we have. And we couldn't look for a well-dressed man, and I don't imagine He would look like He was from a bandbox.

5 We wouldn't go after the great big cathedrals to find Him, for when He was here, they wouldn't receive Him; and they wouldn't again tonight.
Would you go to a man that had a great, boastful voice? No. Would you look for a man that had a great, swelling education, that had so much education till he continually spoke in tongues; the common people couldn't understand him? Not Jesus. He talked like by common people.
So, where would you find Him? You'd have to find Him among the common people. He'd be a common man. Then what would He be doing? Bragging on His education? Bragging on His affiliation of churches? No. Would He be bragging He was a healer? No. He'd be saying, "Not me; it's the Father that dwelleth in me, He doeth the works. If thou canst believe, all things are possible."
He would look out over the audience---the people suffering---He'd say, when they had faith, "Daughter," or "Child, thy faith has saved thee from such-and-such disease." Then if the Father would tell Him something, He'd speak it out to the audience. That's the kind of Jesus we'd look for.

6 Now, His body with nail scars in it, has not come back yet; It's sitting at the right hand of God. See, He's sitting on the Father's throne, now; but when He comes back, He's going to sit on His own throne, the throne of David, that He inherited. That's when He comes in physical form. But He's here now in spiritual form, working through your body and my body; that's Him now. So we see Him by the works He does. They couldn't believe that He was God, so He said, "If you can't believe Me, believe the works that I do. For the works that I do, testify that the Father sent Me," see. They couldn't believe a man being God. But said, "Just look at the works." He said, "If I do not the work of My Father..."
What did He mean by that? He said, "If I do not the work of My Father, believe Me not. But if I do the work of My Father, then believe Me. The Father's testifying of Me."
What was the work of the Father? Watch how accurate everything He said? Look exactly what he said and what he prophesied: perfect. They knowed it was God. Now God's in us ---the hope of glory. Oh, I just love to talk of Him!

7 Now, just a little inside life, just a little testimony, then we're going to start praying for the sick. Now, you just put all the faith you got right on Jesus and watch what happens. I'm just looking for something tonight; I'm looking for a great climax in this meeting. Are you looking that way? Are you believing? This is a crucial moment, and I can feel it in the Spirit, just like something is fixing to happen. I believe it is. I'm looking that way.

8 One day, I was going down to Florida; I was riding on a train. I saw a vision. I saw a little boy with a ... very poorly dressed, and he had a little bobbed-off hair, and he'd been killed. His little foot had run through his stocking, it was all mashed up, and he was laying kind of sideways on a side of a road. Much green grass, great big rocks, and a lot of trees, evergreen trees.
And I went on down to Florida. I seen Brother Bosworth. And I stood in a crowd about like this, and I told them there was a vision. And when they come, I write them down. I got one written right here; it's yet to come to pass. It's written in hundreds of Bibles where they write them. So, I said to the people, "Write this down, for it's 'Thus saith the Lord.' This will happen just like this: A little boy killed is going to be healed." I described it; thousands wrote it all across the nation as I went. For two years, people wrote it down. Tens of thousands had it. It was published right in the paper, Voice of Healing, so far, even in this country, everywhere.

9 Then, a few days after I seen the vision, I was coming out to the large tent. Brother Bosworth was there that night, and there was a man met me. And he said, "Brother Branham, I'm sure your vision is my little boy. He's laying right back out here, dead. Been dead since this morning. He drowned in an irrigation ditch." Said, "Come, see him. And I won't even let the undertaker take him."
Why, I said, "All right."
I taken some with me, but when I seen the little boy, it wasn't him. The little boy I seen was about eight or nine years old; this little boy was about five. The little boy I seen was very poorly dressed, but this little boy, very well dressed. The little boy I seen had brown hair, and this little boy had slick, black hair. There was no rocks, no grass, no trees; it wasn't the vision. So, I just offered prayer, for his comfort.

10 Later on, about two years later, I was way up in Kuopio, Finland. Many of the brethren taken me up on a tower and was showing me around. Many times in these meetings I don't eat much, sometimes fast for several days. I'd been fasting then three or four days. I do that because the Bible said, "These come out only by fasting and prayer."
I said to one of my managers, Mr. Lindsey, the editor of The Voice Of Healing, "Something's fixing to happen."
He said, "Why?"
I said, "I don't know."
I went down the tower, and there I met an Englishman; he was drinking. He said, "What are they doing up there?"
I said, "They're singing hymns."
He said, "I don't believe in no such."
I said, "You ought to be ashamed."
And a few minutes later, we led him to Jesus.

11 We got in the car and started down the hill. And as I looked up over the mountains, I seen people running, way down, many miles. And I seen a car turn over. I said, "There must be an accident."
So, about twenty minutes later, we came to the accident. Some of my brethren, Mr. Moore, Mr. Lindsey, and many of them, they got out of the car and they looked at what had happened. Two little boys, one about nine, and one about five, had started to cross the road and an American-made Ford had come around the bend real fast. If any of you has ever been to Finland [Brother Branham repeats for the interpreter: "If any of you has ever visited Finland"], there's very few cars. They are very poor people, but very fine people, real Christians, devout.
And I noticed one little boy, when they started to separate, the parts turned sideways to the right side of the road. And the fender hit one little boy under the chin and threw him across the road, slammed him up against a tree, and there he dropped.
The other little boy went under the car and the car rolled him up and kicked his little body way up in the air and he fell over in a grass patch. So, they'd taken the first little boy; he was breathing. They'd took him to the hospital. And so the other little boy they had laying there, and they had a coat over him. About three hundred people standing, and the chief man of the city was there. They'd sent to get the father and mother who was working way away on a farm to come to the scene.

12 My brethren got out and looked at the little boy and they come back and told me. Said, "Go look at him, Brother Branham."
I said, "Oh, no. I don't want to see him."
My own little Billy then was about that age. So, I said, "I don't want to see him." I hadn't been home for a long time; I didn't want to look at him. And after awhile, while we had to wait for the mother to come, then they were going to take him to make him ready to be buried.
And Brother Lindsey said, "Come out and look at him, Brother Branham."
So, I finally got out. And when they took the coat off of him... Oh, my, what scene! His little eyes rolled back, his little tongue out, his little foot was mashed through his sock, his shoes had been knocked off of him, his little arms all crooked up. Oh! Blood running out of his ears, out of his mouth. Oh, he was terrible looking!
And I started weeping, and I started to walk away.

13 Now, I don't know how much you believe this, I can only tell what's truth. But I felt someone put their hand on my shoulder; I thought is was Brother Lindsey. And I turned to look at him. There was nobody around me, and the hand was still on my shoulder.
I turned again. I thought, What is that? Felt like someone's hand. So, I started to walk; it felt like this---pull back. Why, I thought, what is this?
See how stupid a man can be? We don't understand spiritual things.
And I looked down at the little boy. I said to my interpreter, "Have them to raise that again." So, they raised the coat; I looked at that face. I thought, I've seen that boy somewhere.
Then I turned and through the interpreter, I said, "Has this little boy been in the prayer line?" No one knew him.
I said, "Seems like I've seen him."
I started to walk away. That hand again. I stopped again; I looked again. Happened to look up like this and there was the green field, there was the rocks lapped together, there was the trees. I said, "Let me look at him again."
There he was: His little short haircut, little brown eyes turned back, put his foot through the sock; perfect to the picture. Oh, you don't know how you feel then! All devils out of hell couldn't stop it. Can't stop it then, God has spoken. Oh, what a feeling! You know what's going to happen.

14 I turned around to Brother Lindsey and Brother Moore. I said, "Open up your Bibles."
Said, "What's the matter, Brother Branham?"
I said, "Turn to the flyleaf."
Said, "What about it?"
I said, "Read."
They begin to read out the description of the little boy.
I said, "Look at there. Look at these trees." I said, "That's the boy that I saw two years ago."
I said, "Thus saith the Lord, if this little boy isn't on his feet, alive, in five minutes, then I'm a false prophet." Oh, my!
I said, "Stand still."
And I told the audience. They didn't believe it; I could see them touching one another. And so ... the interpreter was telling me what they were saying. Said, "Now we know he's a fanatic."
But that didn't stop it. I turned around just the way the Lord told me. I said, "Heavenly Father, You who cannot lie, in the homeland two years ago, You showed me this boy, and You showed me he was to come to life." I said, "Oh, God, now hear the prayer of your servant. And, death, you can't hold him any longer; give him back his life. For 'Thus saith the Lord,' he shall live again." And the boy screamed, jumped on his feet, not even a bit sick or nothing. Just as perfect as he could be.

15 That went plumb down through Russia; [Brother Branham explains: "went all through Russia."] We was just a few miles from the border then. And that night when I was going in, there was Russian soldiers standing with a salute. Four soldiers had to ... fourteen soldiers had to take me about six blocks to get to the ... down through the city to get to the Messuhalli where we had the meeting. They were standing, saluting, tears running down their cheeks. My interpreter said they were saying this: "We will receive a God like that. We'll believe things like that."
What's the matter with Christianity? There's a weakness at the pulpit. Preachers aren't praying, won't take God at His Word. Amen. True.

16 Now, I'll never forget something happening. When I went in that night, they'd ... give orders to nobody be on the street, no more than speak to you [Brother Branham explains: just to speak to me."] I don't like them to do that, but you'd have a stampede. And eating in a room all the time, [word unclear]. And I remember I was going in and these little soldiers with knives, and I was walking between them.
We went into a little room, and as soon as we got in there, a door slammed, and a poor little Finnish girl stood looking at me. She thought she'd done wrong; she started quivering. I knew that child wanted to see me. She was crippled. She had a big strap around her, and a big strap over her shoulder. One leg was shorter than the other. On her right leg, she didn't have any use of her leg, but had big braces on a built-up shoe.

17 I'll illustrate what it looked like. Around here was a big band. In the back was a leather strap, come over her shoulder and this brace, over her big shoe, and back this way and hit on this band around here. She had two crutches, and the only way she could walk, by the strap that come across this way and hooked to the toe of her shoe. Only way she could make a move: Take her shoulder, lift up that poor leg, put it out like that. Then she'd set her crutches out, lift up that leg, and that's the way she walked.

18 And I noticed as she was standing there, her little, ragged-looking hair, her little skirts was all ragged. I learned later that she was a little Finnish war orphan. She had no father and mother; they were killed in the war. And she was just carried about and charity had made her this big thing. And she looked at me, she ducked her little head down, and she looked up again. And that Finnish soldier... The interpreter had went in the door, I couldn't speak a word of Finnish, and they were pushing me on. "Uh, uh, uh!"
I said, "No, sir."
Two of them up against the wall, these other two behind me.
I turned around to them, I said, "Shhh." I said to this side, "Shhh." And they stopped and looked. I looked at the little girl. I said, "Sweetheart, do you want to come to me?" She couldn't understand it, so I motioned to her. And she smiled, and here she come, moving that little leg. I just stood still, and I looked at her. And she got right up close to me, she put her little crutches down, and I wondered what she was going to do. And the little ragged clothes... It just burnt my heart.
And you know what she did? She took her little hand and took a hold of my coat, and kissed my pocket. I tell you, my heart would break. Then she pulled her little skirts out; that's the Finnish way for little girls. And she said, "Kiitos." (Means "thank you.")
And I looked again, and thought, Oh, God, if I was the biggest hypocrite in the world, You would reward that child for that faith.
And I started to move this way, and I looked, and there went a vision, the little girl was walking normal. I couldn't tell her. I said, "Sweetheart, Jesus has healed you." She didn't know what I was talking about. I thought, Well, sooner or later, she'll find it out.

19 So, I went on in. And that night when the boys came to me, great piles of crutches laying, how the Lord had healed them. And they said, "Time for you to go."
I said, "Let's call just a few more cards." So, you know what happened? The next one that I called was that little girl. So, they set her up on the platform, I thought, Oh, here it is! So here she come.
I said to the interpreter, "Now just say what I say."
I said, "Sweetheart, out there in the hall, Jesus healed you. Now you go over there and sit down, and let the man take this thing off of you. Put your hands on your hips, and move your hands right down as they take the brace." I said, "You feel your legs the same size. Then come back and show me."
So, we started to call someone else. In a few moments, here she come, braces and crutches in her hand, running as hard as she could run, physically normal and well. Jesus Christ had made her well!

20 I got just to tell you about the other boy for just a moment or two. Listen. The second day passed. The little boy had never gained consciousness, and that little mother was frantic. When they'd start to take me in the hotel at night, the managers would have to pick me up by the arms, pull me over the top of them. The little mother, about 25, and she was just frantic.
So, she said she wanted me to go pray for her boy. So, the next day I had them to bring her up, she and her husband. And I said to them, "What do you want?"
She said, "Go heal my little boy, kind sir."
And I said, "I can't."
"But," she said, "you healed the other little boy."
I said, "No. Over in the homeland, God showed me a vision."
She said, "Then see vision for my little boy."
That's a mother. I said, "That's mighty sweet, but I can't make visions come. Jesus gives them."
I said, "Are you a Christian?"
"No."
"Is the father Christian?"
"No."
I said, "Why don't you become Christians? I'll tell you why. Because if the little boy dies, he's just a little boy, he'll go to heaven. But if you die, and not a Christian, you'll never see him again. Now, why don't you become a Christian, and in doing so, you might find favor with God. If you want to find favor with me or someone else, you do something for them, be kind to them. Like the people did the prophets and so forth, and the apostles, approach Him reverently."

21 So, they seen they couldn't lose, so they got down on their knees and had a real conversion. The father kissed his wife, started home.
But the little mother said, "Now, go heal my boy."
I said, "Sister, it's against the campaign rules for me to make a private call. In years of travel we find it this way: If you go to one and not another, it'll cause hard feelings."
I said, "If the Lord leads me, that's different, but I can't go just like that."
I said, "I think there's over ten thousand of them all wanting to come."
I said, "You just go home. Jesus can give me a vision here in this room the same as He could over there."
She listened. She said, "Go see vision."
I said, "No." I said, "You go and if He gives me a vision... He might not do it, He may never do it, but if He does, I'll call you up."
"All right."
She went home. About ten minutes later, the phone rang. The interpreter picked it up.
Said, "Brother Branham seen vision?"
"No.
Hung it back up. About ten minutes again, rang again.
"Brother Branham see vision?"
"No."
Hang it up. Just kept on, on and on.

22 That night when I come in, I had this same Bible over my heart. One of my brothers was with me, by the name of Howard. So, he said to me, "Billy, you remember some bad candy we got in Canada?" Said, "You think that was flat, taste this." Two little pieces of chocolate.
I said, "Thank you."
I usually stay by myself in a hotel, because of the visions. So, Mrs. Isaacson and them went to their rooms, each one went to their room. So, I went in... It was way up near the midnight sun; up onto midnight you can read the newspaper on the street. It doesn't get dark that time of year. So, I went over to the window.
Now, listen close before I close.

23 I looked over out the window; here come hundreds of those little Finns down through the park, praising God. I stood there, and I said, "Dear God, some glorious day Jesus will come, and He'll make all things well."
"Oh," I said, "I love You, Lord! You are wonderful, Lord, and I love You with all my heart! Won't You be merciful?"
And I heard something. It went [Brother Branham knocks on pulpit.] And I looked, sitting on a table, and there was a vase. It had two flowers in it. One of them down this way, towards the south, it was about halfway down. The one towards the north was hanging all the way down.
And I said, "Where did that come from?"
And I looked around, and here stood by my side, that great one, angel, big man, white robe on, dark hair, [word unclear] face, had his arms folded, and he was looking at me. He said, "What did your brother give you?"
I said, "Two pieces of candy, sir."
He said, "Eat them."
And I picked up a piece, put it in my mouth, and I started eating, swallowed it. Tasted good.
Just then, this flower that was leaning towards the north made a noise. It went pheww [Brother Branham blows into microphone], raised up.
I looked at it. I thought, What was that?
Geographically, that's just the way both boys fell: One to the south, one to the north. The one to the north was the one had been raised from the dead.
He said, "Eat the other piece."
I put it in my mouth, and I started chewing it. Oh, it was bitter! I started to take it out, and I heard something. I looked at this other flower; it was going pheww pheww pheww [Brother Branham blows into microphone.] going down.
He said, "Eat that."
I put it back in my mouth, held my breath, chewed real fast, and swallowed. And when I swallowed, the other one went pheww [Brother Branham blows into microphone] raised up, stood right by the other one.
And I said, "What meaneth this?"
Said, "Go call that mother." Hallelujah!
And say, "Thus saith the Lord, God has heard her prayer and the baby's going to be all right."

24 I rushed quickly to the phone; I let out a big scream. And as I let out a scream, everybody begin screaming and running. But when I got down there, I said, "Go call the lady."
And when they went and called her, they called her at the hospital. Said the baby was dying. So, they got the mother to the phone. And when they told her, you know what happened? She was screaming to the top of her voice.
She said, "Brother Branham, the baby has come to and we're taking him home now." Said, "The doctor can't find nothing wrong with him." Praise be to God!
Did I have anything to do with that? No. The mother's prayers saved the child. I only done what I seen to do. What is it? Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today, and forever.
Shall we pray.

25 Dear Heavenly Father, come now, will You? Oh, as my heart looks back, and I think of those golden days up there among those lovely, faithful, people. Great signs and wonders You gave in different parts of the world.
I'm wondering, some glorious day we'll all meet again. Oh, what a time that will be! We're so thankful that Jesus came.
Now, many are here tonight. Lord, I wish I could heal them. There's doctors wish they could do something for them. God, help them doctors, as they are ministering with all their hearts. We pray that You'll give them wisdom. Sick people want to live.
But, Father, many of them are out of the reach of the doctors. You're the only One that can help now. Oh, won't You do it, Lord? Come tonight. I have told them that You healed them when You died at Calvary. And when You were here, You just claimed to do what the Father told You.

26 God, once more, while we're leaving this lovely nation, give them once more, a loving blessing of Your presence that's with them. God bless this little nation. Just put Your hands upon them. You've shielded it from wars, and You've helped them. Oh, God, may they be grateful to You for these things.
Now, in time of war we hear that this was like a hospital. Oh, Great Physician, come into the hospital that the people might see You. Now, dear Heavenly Father, may it be tonight like it was with those that came from Emmaus. You walked with them all day. They didn't recognize You; they didn't know it was You. And many here has walked with You and they don't realize it. But, Father, the way they realized it then was the way that You done something. You done it different, just different from other men. Now, won't You do it again tonight, Lord? Just do a little different tonight that they may know, like those at Emmaus, that it was You. I believe they'll receive You and go home rejoicing, like those did. For we ask it in Jesus' name. Amen.

27 Dear Christian friends, here we are, the last night of my part of the service. Let's come to Him now. Let's believe Him with all of our hearts. Let's not have one bit of doubt in our heart. I believe that you know He's here. I want to see you well so bad. I've done all I know how to do. I believe Jesus has done as much as He can do. I don't know nothing else He could do. Now, let's believe Him.

28 They give out prayer cards. Let's call prayer card D one to fifty. Now, who has prayer card D number one? Raise up your hand. Now there's three hands up, there can only be one. All right, come here.
All right, D 2 raise up your hand, D 2. [Brother Branham speaks to the interpreter: "Tell them to be real quiet, real quiet."] That's the reason we give prayer cards. Keep reverent; be real reverent.
All right, now you all look this way to me, look this way, everyone. Now, listen, when your number's called, don't raise up; just raise up your hand. Now who has D number 1, now D number 2, raise up your hand. D number 2? All right, D number 3. Maybe somebody deaf. Some of the ushers look at these cards along here. D number 3. Look at each other's cards. D 3, would you raise your hand?
All right, D 4, D 4, raise up... All right. Come right over here. D 5, over here. D 6, D 7, 8, 8, 9, 9, 10, D 10, 10, 11, 11, 11, D 12, all right ... [Gap in the audio].

29 ... know God can heal you, anywhere in the building right (blank spot on tape)
I'm going to pray over these handkerchiefs. Want to join with me, Brother Bosworth?
Our Heavenly Father, we thank Thee for the order of laying handkerchiefs on each other, because that come from your Word. Thy Word has said so; we believe Your Word. Oh, God, as I kneel here with this old patriarch servant of Yours, hear our prayer, our love to these people that you placed in our hearts. These friends have laid these handkerchiefs here, in faith, believing. And we send the handkerchiefs to them, in Jesus' name, that You'll heal each one. Amen.

30 All right, now, everyone, real reverent. They're trying to check with the doctor, or something, about the lady that was sick. If he thinks she's fixing to die, let's talk to Jesus about that first; see what He says. Amen.
The prayer line... Somebody go down there. Go down, brother, if you will. Now, take her card.

31 Now, I want you to look this way, and I want you to believe with all your heart. I want you to really believe. Now, if there was anything that I could do to help you, for you to be well, I'd do everything I could to do it. I can't do it. The only thing that I can do... Be like your doctor: If you had something wrong, and he had a medicine for that, he'd make you out that medicine and give it to you. That's all he can do; next is up to God. If you had something to be operated, he'd operate, commit the rest to God. He couldn't heal the patient; he could only take out the thing was hurting. But he couldn't heal, commit the rest to God.

32 Now, God has give men a gift to preach. They preach, telling you Jesus died to save you. If you believe it, you'll be saved. The man can't save you; you have to accept what Jesus done. They will preach to you and tell you Jesus died for your sickness; then if you can believe... Then He sets gifts in the church by His Spirit.
Now, He sent me with a gift to see visions. And He works through His church just as He shows me visions. What does it do? Builds your faith up so that you can believe and be healed.
Now, friends, I'm not here as a deceiver; you know that. Surely, you do. What business I got here if it isn't from my heart? I'm here to help you, so I'm doing all that I know how to get you to believe Jesus.

33 Now, here's a lady standing here. I've never seen her in my life, a perfect stranger. Now, Jesus, what if He was standing here, just standing where I am, and she was looking at Him. Now, it may be that she's got domestic trouble; I don't know what she's got.
Let's say she is sick. If Jesus was standing here, and she'd say, "Jesus, will You heal me?" What would Jesus have to say to her?
He'd say, "Child, I've already done it. Don't you believe my Word? I healed you when I died at Calvary."
That's all He could do. Or, He might be able to talk to her; and if the Father would show Him something to tell her, He would do that; that would build up her faith. Now, look when He talked to the woman at the well. He begin to speak to her, and she was a stranger, and He told her what was wrong with her. "Ah," she said, "I perceive that You're a prophet." She didn't think of that being God, sitting there in a human, dressed like a man.
"And," she said, "I know when Messiah the Christ comes, that will be the sign that will follow Him, but who are You?"
He said, "I am He."
Now, all through the Bible that's what Jesus did. And if He's raised from the dead, He'll do it again. Is that right? Say "Amen" if it is.
Now, let this lady be the judge.

34 Now, I'm going to ask her if we know each other. I have no way of knowing anything about you. Perfect strangers. Is that right? Now, how would I know about this woman; God knows I don't know her. But I know there's something near here now; that angel that you seen on the picture tonight.
How many of you never seen the angel of the Lord, raise up your hand. Never did see it, raise your hand. There it is.
That was taken in America. See the pillar of fire? The best scientists in the world has examined that. It hangs in a hall of religious art with a scientific research. It's the only supernatural being was ever photographed in all the world. Thanks be to God! Now, that's what is here. Now, you seen that pillar of fire, didn't you?
Listen. I don't know when I'll ever see you again, but that same pillar of fire isn't two feet from where I'm standing right now. Amen.

35 Now, it's not me; it's Him. Now He knows this woman, He knows all about her. So, if I be His eyes---He uses my eyes and my voice to try to encourage His child---we thank God for it. That ought to make every one of you thankful. Wouldn't it make you thankful? Say, Amen.
Now, if God will do that for this woman, will everyone of you believe Him with all your heart? Now look, friends, you'll have to admit there's a supernatural being, so your approach to it will determine what you'll get from it. So, have faith. I want to talk to the woman.

36 Now, we being strangers, sister, never seen each other before. I know nothing of you, but you realize that God knows you and He knows me. Now, you're here for something. I don't know, but He does. But if He will reveal to me what you're here for, will you accept Him as Jesus Christ the Son of God that can give you what your desire is? You believe it. Amen.
The first thing I see: The lady, between she and I, is that light. She's beginning to fade out. I see her as she goes back; she's merely a girl, and she's real nervous, has been nervous all of her life. I see it following her, even in school days, she was nervous. She's also near-sighted. She is in school; she holds her book close, then she takes it back. She's been near-sighted. And I see her as a young woman; she's failing in health. Gets into her lungs. She has been to doctor, and the doctor has said that it's very bad. The right lung is gone, and the other one is almost gone. And you're standing in a dying condition, thus saith the Lord.

37 Now, lady, you heard me speaking. That wasn't me; that was that angel. Was it right? If it was, raise your hand. Do you believe now?
Now, what's the next thing I can do? Lay my hands on the woman, and ask for her life to be spared. Now, what would that do to her? Back to the Bible: Jesus said, "Insomuch as you have done to the least of these, My little ones, you've done it unto Me."
He said, "These signs shall follow them that believe: They'll lay their hands on the sick, they shall recover." And if the woman knows that something is close. She sees it by scientific research, by proof. She feels it on her own body. Watch me. I'm going to ask her.
Lady, isn't that a strange feeling to you now, real sweet, loving feeling? That's this light. It's hanging right over you. Trying to find where the faith is laying. Scientifically it's proved, by feelings it's proved, by revelation it's proved. Jesus said, "In the mouth of two or three witnesses, let every word be established." The Bible said it would be, the picture says it's so, her feelings says it's so, and the revelation of the Lord says it's so. There's four positive witnesses. It has to be so.

38 Now, could I heal her? No. Only her faith in God can do it. Will you pray with me while I lay hands on her, while the lady's in a dying condition? And she's just a child, she's young, but she's got her life before her. She wants to live. She wants to live like you want to live. Mother, what if that was your girl? Dad, what if that was your child? Brother, what if that was your sister, or your wife? You'd want everybody to be sincere, and that's what we want to be. She's somebody's child.
Dear Heavenly Father, realizing that this is a crucial time for my sister. Oh, will you show mercy, God? With my hands laid upon her, the only thing can save her life is a creative act of You. Oh, God, You can grow those lungs back! Grant it, it will be so. I condemn this devil called tuberculosis. Oh, you demon, you've hid from God ... or, from the doctor, but you can't hide from God. Get out of the woman, in Jesus' name. Amen.
Now, at the time, right now, you feel fine. That's right. Now, it's gone from you. Now, keep believing. Go back to your doctor, watch what he tells you. Just eat all you can eat. Be weighed again; weigh yourself tomorrow. Another week, weigh yourself again, then write me a letter. Amen. God bless you.

39 Now, everybody, real reverent. Have faith. Oh, what could happen! It ought to be settled right now. Praise God! Everybody ought to have faith, could be now. But let's pray for a few more. [Unclear words.] Everybody's in the line.
Now, lady, we are strangers to each other. Jesus knows you. Do you believe that Jesus the Son of God, if He was standing here ---He is. That's what you're feeling right now. I want the audience ... watch the expressions on the patients' faces when that strikes them. The lady knows something's around her; she's aware of that.
I see you've got trouble. It's in your side and in your back. Isn't that right? It's left side. That's right. It's a tumor in the left side and in the back. That right? Do you believe Jesus will heal you?
Dear God, be merciful to our sister and may this horrible demon [Gap in the audio.]

40 ... that produces constantly in her throat, then it come a big goiter. And then you had that goiter taken out by a surgeon. And since they have taken it out, now you're getting a bad effect. You're almost going blind. Your eyes are going bad, and you're getting weak spells, and nervousness, and many things taking place. That is true. You believe Jesus can heal you?
Dear Heavenly Father, I pray in Jesus' name, have mercy upon this woman. You have some reason to send her up here tonight. Oh, God, be merciful to her, and spare her, and heal her, in Jesus' name. Amen.
God bless you, my sister.

41 Now, I'm not beside myself; it just makes me weak. Such a feeling in that audience. Every spirit is subject right now. You who feel strange towards this, I feeled you, I know you're here. What a feeling! Oh, Jesus, the Son of God, He's near! There's many of you believing tonight. Don't be discouraged. I believe with all my heart great healings are going to take place.

42 Now, to the lady. Now, we could just bring a whole line of them; just keep doing the same thing. But let's talk to the lady, just this one, one more. And let's just see what the Holy Spirit will tell her.
Now, the lady is a stranger. Now, lady, so the people won't think it's psychology, take your mind off of what you're here for. Think of something else, something that has nothing to do with it. Now, I want you to believe Jesus. And if Jesus will tell me what your trouble is, will you accept it, and believe with all your heart?
Now, you're aware that I don't know you, never seen you in my life. But as certain as I'm a minister, a pastor, I want to ask you something. About one minute ago, when I was speaking to you, something settled over you. Is that right? That's a feeling. Raise your hand if that's right. Amen. That's the angel of the Lord.
Now, believe. You are suffering with nervousness; then you've got... I see them examine your heart. You've got a heart trouble. Then, you've got something wrong in the liver; something in the liver, they examined. You're under a doctor's care, with medicine, doctors. And I see your doctor as he's shaking his head. He told you that you were ... he's taking something about a fever, about a fever, a fever. And he doesn't know what that fever, how it come; he can't understand what that fever is about. That's right. Amen. Jesus does.
Come, mother.
Oh, God, be merciful to my sister, and I pray that You'd heal her, Lord. Send Thy Holy Spirit, now soothe every nerve and make her well, in Jesus' name. Amen.
Now, God bless you. You're welcome.

43 Praise the Lord! If thou canst believe! Why can't you believe? Why can't you believe? Why, God is here to heal you! Do you believe that? Sure, He is. Have faith in Him.
What about it, mother? Do you want to believe now?
What about it, sister, right behind, you going to believe? If you could, you could eat again. God would make you well.
What do you think, little sister sitting there looking at me, with heart trouble. Sitting there with the little black band around your hat. You've got heart trouble, haven't you? You were praying and you were asking God to make you well, wasn't you? That's right. You can have it. God will make you well.
Sister, do you believe me to be God's servant? The reason I say that, that He told me, "If you get the people to believe you..." Not believe me as Him, but believe that He sent me. Would you do something for me? Will you lay your hand on that lady next to you over there? Right ... no, the next one, the other side. That lady is sitting there very sick. She's got liver trouble, in the liver. And you want to be healed, don't you, lady? That's right. Wave your hand if you do. Amen. Now, I'm going to ask prayer for you.
Jesus, Son of God, heal them. Their faith pulls this way, but it's still dark around them, Father. Oh, move the darkness and make them well, in Jesus' name. Satan, leave them, in Jesus' name! Amen.
Now, look. Now, the Lord bless you. The same darkness that was around you has gone from you. Faith. If thou canst believe, all things are possible.

44 The lady sitting right here looking at me, she's saying, "Lord, have him call me." You've got heart trouble, too. You have heart trouble. Do you believe? With heart trouble that believes with all your heart? You do? Then you can be healed also. Amen.
Now, you've got blood disease, sitting right there. You believe Jesus will make you well? Sitting right down there, yes? You believe? Yes. All right, your faith heals you. Amen.
Just have faith!
Right here, see that Light hanging yonder? It's about four rows up. Got arthritis, haven't you? Right out there at the end. Do you believe Jesus make you well? If you believe, you can receive. All right. Do you believe it? Amen. Then you can have it.
Here's another sitting right here with arthritis. Do you believe? You can have it. Amen.
Do you believe right down there with that head trouble, sitting way back there with trouble with your head? Do you believe? Then you can have it. Amen.
Oh, He's here, right here! Do you believe?

45 Here sits a lady, the second one in, about four rows back, that's got nervous trouble. You believe Jesus will make you well? Amen. You can have it.
About the lady right back there, has trouble with the legs, her legs. Do you believe? Stand up on your feet. Jesus make you well. Amen.
Have faith! Have faith. Don't doubt.
Sitting right here, got epilepsy. Do you believe that God will heal you and make you well? If you do, you can have it. Amen. Hallelujah!
Sitting right yonder with that lady's trouble sitting back a little bit, with the lady's ... yeah, back there with the lady's trouble, sitting just behind here, right here: the lady's trying to stand up. That's right, lady. Amen. You can have your healing. Hallelujah! Believe Him!

46 Look over in this way. Here goes it through here, here it's right here. It's a man standing back here with prostate trouble. Do you believe that Jesus will make you well? You can have what you ask for. Amen. Hallelujah!
Can't you believe Him? Oh, my! See? Now, it's just going everywhere. Let's see if we can get a few more in the prayer line.
Do you believe with all your heart? A while ago, you were sitting right back there, this afternoon. While I was preaching, you were looking at me. You are a believer. You have a lady's trouble. You were healed this afternoon, while you were sitting back there; something come over you. Is that right?
Just look out there. Here it goes all over the audience. I'm going to ask you something. Every lady that's got lady's trouble like that, stand up on your feet right there, now, stand up on your feet, every lady. There it is; you remain standing. Jesus that could heal here can heal there.
Oh, God, in Jesus' name! Satan, you're condemned! Leave these women, in Jesus Christ's name. Amen.
Go home and be well, every one of you.
Come.

47 Do you believe with all your heart? Here, everyone that's in the audience, here's something new. Everyone that's suffering with kidney trouble in your back, stand up. Got kidney trouble? Looky there. Here's what the lady's got. Them demons was calling for help. I can't single you out. Look at you. It's just all over you. Let's pray.
Oh, God, in Jesus' name, condemn the devil. Satan, come out of them, in Jesus' name. Amen.
God bless you. Go and be well. Amen. Let us say, "Praise the Lord!" Believe with all your heart.
Does everybody believe? Do you believe? Hallelujah! Jesus never fails.
You believe, lady, sitting here with rheumatism? Do you believe Jesus will make you well? You believe that He'll heal you? He can, if you believe. There's only one thing to do; that would be accept Him. And you can stand to your feet and be made well.
Oh, my! Why can't you ... oh, people! The whole building, to my way of seeing it, is lit up with the power of God. It's just over your head. I believe you can be healed. Look, I condemn every doubt, in Jesus Christ's name! This is your hour! Every one of you, all along here, stand up and give glory!
Looky here, coming up out of the chairs, everybody. Oh, God! Praise be to the Lord! Oh, we thank You, Father! Satan, we condemn thee, you're lost. In Jesus' name, leave this audience!

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1 Thank you, Brother Borders. You may be seated. I deem this a great privilege to be here in the meeting tonight down at Port Alberni, among friends who are pilgrims and strangers to the world, sojourning now, waiting for the coming of the Lord, to be taken to a better city, a better land where there is no death and no sorrow. And we are waiting for that time of the coming of the Lord.

2 Not long ago I had the privilege of being with your pastor, Brother Byskal. And we had a little trip together afterwards, a little hunting trip up in Northern British Columbia, and he told me he was missionarying to the Indian people over here on the Island. And, oh, I've always wanted to help somebody who's trying to help the Indian people. I've had a few experiences down in the States with speaking to the Indians---the Navajo, and Apaches, and many of them down there---and find such a wonderful faith; and Brother Eddie, not underwritten by anyone. And I said, "Maybe some time I'd have the opportunity to come by and help you, Brother Eddie."
He said, "I'd be so happy for that, Brother Branham."
So we are here tonight on his invitation. And my son ... he came over a few moments ago, and he gives out prayer cards to pray for the sick. Usually we don't do that around the first night when it's going to be a big meeting, until we get everybody settled down till they understand.
But tonight, being we've just got three nights, I said, "You better give out some prayer cards, and we will pray for the sick the first night so that we can get started right along."
And he come, and he met me, and said, "Daddy, there's just one bad thing about the meeting." Said, "Just to be three nights---it ought to be three weeks." He said, "These are such lovely people."

3 Now, we never judge people by how much they own, or how bigger homes they live in, how they dress. We judge them by what's in their heart. That's where God lives, in the heart. And when you find simplicity, humility, loveliness and ... that's what we love. We just love that. I was borned again in a little group of people like this one time, and I've always thought they were the humblest, nicest people. And they're the ones I've lived with on earth, and I believe I'll live with them in glory through the ceaseless ages to come.

4 And I remember my first experience with ministering to Indians, and I suppose these are Indian folks sitting out here in the front. I just imagine so. And I'm very happy to be with you. My! Real Americans! That's correct, real Americans, the ones that God gave America to---the Indians. So, I'm so thankful.
Down deep in my veins flows just a little bit of the blood. My mother's grandmother come from the reservation. And I've always deemed that one of the greatest privileges, to say that down in me is part really American. For there's a little background somewhere of Indian blood that I'm very happy for, very thankful. And I've always wanted to minister to them, because...
My mother was a real lady. She just went home to glory, an aged, old woman, with a real experience of being safe in the arms of Christ. I held her hands while God come and took her just recently. And I know what she was, and what a sweetheart she was to me, and a mother, and I love her. And I'm so glad tonight to be ministering to the people.

5 I was in Arizona some ... first beginning of my ministry, and there was... One night coming through the prayer line where I was ministering with the Spanish-speaking people... And there was two Indians, the first two that I ever ministered to. And one of them was an alcoholic, and the other one was a tubercular on a stretcher case.
And when I seen them come into the line I stopped a few moments, and I said, "Just a moment." And I said, "Heavenly Father, this is my first time now to pray for what I call full-blooded Americans." I said, "If You ever want me to minister to them and go to the tribe, if You'll heal them, I promise You I'll go." And I prayed for them. And before I got to the next meeting in California, the alcoholic had lost all taste for alcohol, and had became a borned-again Christian; and the tubercular, in a week's time, was pronounced by the doctor out on the reservation that she was sound and well. So I went back to the Apache tribe. I'll never forget it.

6 I hope I don't take too much time now. I'm always used to talking too long. Everybody always tells me I talk too long. (That's for white people, not for Indians.) Yes, sir. We ... I preached a short sermon the other day down at my tabernacle at home. Just six hours, that's all I preached. But, we Indians are never in a hurry, you know. So we got plenty of time to listen.

7 And so, that night they'd taken me up to the reservation, and, oh, my! I never seen so many ... it was a beautiful sight. They come in their wagons, and everywhere been announced all across the reservation. And they sat down out on the ground. I was standing on a little porch there at the little church, about like this. There were many Indians on the inside, and... But, oh, my! Half of the tribe, or more, were sitting out there. Oh, I made a guess---four or five thousand, something like that, had gathered on the outside.
And so, I was speaking from the church steps, a little Assembly of God church. And the missionary had been pastoring there for some time. And so, I had one interpreter. They could not understand English. And so, I had one interpreter, which was a lady.

8 Well, I tried in the simple way that I could, to lay out the Bible to them. And I remember they just sat and watched, you know. I say this through love. An Indian, when once convinced, he never moves. But he's something like feeding a horse. He don't eat in the wrong stall, see. He waits till he's sure what he's talking about. So, they were waiting. And so he was watching to see what I was going to say.
And I kept telling him, I said, "Now, I'm just one vote, one person here in the country." I said, "I do believe that there was some kind of a deal that should not have been done to the Indian." I said, "I believe that. If some other nation had come in, that would be a sore feeling with us." But I said, "That's what man does." I said, "I'm going to tell you there's somebody who loves you. That's Jesus Christ, and He'll be right there with you to the end of the road."

9 They sat... Now they was kind of odd. I asked for a prayer line. Well, in those days when we first started, why, we did not give out prayer cards. That's the only way to keep order. And so, I didn't have prayer cards, and I said, "Does anybody out there want to be prayed for?" The interpreter said the same thing. Nobody moved. Well, I thought, "My! I guess I won't have a prayer line."
So, in a few moments, the Indian missionary went back with the white missionary and picked up some people from the inside. The first one come out was a great big, strong, woman. As soon as she... I looked her in the face. Many of you, I guess maybe Brother Eddie's told you about the ministry. She had a social disease---not because that she was immoral; but because the way she had to live. And when I told her that, she looked at me very strange. How did I know that? After, it explained it in the Scripture.

10 The next was a little cross-eyed boy. I'll never forget it. And the mother... I said, "Do you believe for the boy?" And the lady thought I asked what was wrong with the boy, so she just caught him by the hair, and pulled him back. His little eyes were crossed. So I picked up the little fellow, and give him a stick of chewing gum (See, he couldn't understand English.), something or other, to kind of get him quiet, see which way the Holy Spirit was moving. And I got him quietened, and laid him upon my shoulder.
And I said, "Heavenly Father, if I can find grace in your sight, let it be now," see. I said, "I pray you'll straighten the little boy's eyes, so that the people will see that. They don't understand this, and they must understand that You love them." And I no more than said that, I looked out, and there was a vision. The little boy could see.
I said, "Now, before I bring him from my shoulders, if this little boy's eyes isn't straight, normally," I said, "then I'm a false prophet. But if they are straight, you'll believe God."
And the interpreter said, "Yes."
I never looked---just turned around like that. There he was. His eyes were straight as they could be.

11 So then, the next come up was a little girl, and she belonged to one of the ... I guess, one of the head men in the tribe, and she was deaf and dumb. And so, I got them to get her to look up to me just a little bit. I said, "Yes, she's both deaf and dumb. And what caused it was a fever she had about four years ago, and left her deaf and dumb."
The interpreter asked ... said that. The lady nodded---the lady that had her, the Indian sister. That was right.
And I said, "Now, I cannot give her her hearing. I'm only a servant. I cannot. But if I will pray for her, do you believe God will heal her?" She believed it. So I took the little girl up in my arms, and I prayed for her, and I set her down. And I told the interpreter, I said, "Now, you just say in Indian---their language, the Apache language---what I say in English."
"All right."
And I said, "Do you love the Lord Jesus?"
And she said... She looked at her real strange. She could hear. And I said, "Tell her to say what I said." And when I said that, she turned around and looked at me. She could hear, see. And when she got back like this, I went [Brother Branham snaps his fingers]. She turned and looked to see where it was at. I said, "Now, tell her to say, 'I love Jesus.' " And she mumbled off something. I'd really never heard the language.
I said, "You know, she'll talk better after a while."
And the lady that was doing the interpreting, she turned back and said, "Her talk plenty good now. [She was speaking in her own language.] She talk plenty good now."

12 Now. And you talk about a prayer line! Two hundred ushers couldn't hold them. That's all. There was a prayer line, I never seen---just like a stampede. And everybody wanted to get in the prayer line, and we couldn't stop it.
And there was ... next coming out was an elderly lady. Now, they're very poor, but they're God's people. And she was very old, and she was supposed to've been the next in line coming this way, only a young fellow (little brave just about so high, sturdy-built, real strong), he just broke through, and run over everybody else, and he was going to be next. Well, we couldn't make him understand.
So Brother Moore, a man who was with me just took ... had to take him by his arm, and tried to tell him that it wasn't right for him to do that. This lady was next. Finally they got him to understand. And the poor old lady, they brought her out of the room, 'cause these had started first; let them come first.

13 Well, here she come, and I noticed her. Now, it's pitiful the way... She had two broomsticks, cut off, and a hole bored up through a little piece of 2x4 to make the cross part of the crutch, with rags wrapped around it. And when she come out, she could only set those crutches like this, then ... arthritis, see. She couldn't move her legs like that. Then she set these crutches out, and she'd...
I just stood still, let her come. And she got right up to me, and she looked up. Poor old thing was shaking with palsy---great big deep creases in her cheeks. When she looked up, her graying hair (leather wrapped in it, as it hung down her back), the tears was making their way down through them wrinkles. I thought, "Somebody's mother." I stood there.
And when she looked at me like that, I never said a word to her. She just kind of smiled. She reached over and got one of those crutches, and put it with the other crutch; handed them up to me, and went walking off there just as good as anybody, see. I said ... I asked her how did she come to have that faith?
She said, "If Him make cross-eyes straight, Him make legs straight." That was good enough for her.

14 Just simple faith. That's all it takes. When you try to figure it out... You can't figure out God. You got to believe God. You don't ... it don't take an education. That gets us away from God. The more we know in education, the further we go from God. That's the biggest hindrance the gospel's had, is educating. Then they get to think they know more than God. But if you make yourself simple, and just believe Him, that's all it takes.

15 One more little thing before closing my testimony. I prayed all night long. It was coming along about three or four o'clock in the morning. I couldn't stand no more. I had to stop the discernment after five or six. I was just laying hands on them. And I began to notice coming across...
Now, the river runs right down through the reservation. And that's the Salt River, coming down through the reservation, and it gets pretty deep along in places. And I noticed the Indians coming in was wet, way up around their waist. So I said, "What's the matter?" to the interpreter.
And she said, "They thought you were false to begin with." Said, "But they know it's truth now, and they are packing their loved ones. The ford's about fifteen miles down here. But they're walking right on across this way with their loved ones, packing them in through the night," just to be there one night.

16 Next in line coming in, coming up over the platform, was an old man. They'd made a stretcher to pack him on. They had took a board about this wide, and they'd put a stick across it this way, and a stick this way. And then they'd took the old man and laid him up on there. And one leg hung over one end of the stick, and then his arms like that. There was two great big, fine-looking, young men packing him, just standing there, and their lips blue, shivering. It's cold on the desert. It gets real cold early in the morning like that. They were shivering, waiting. I seen them come up in the line.
I kept praying for the people, just laying hands on them, praying as they come by. So this fellow stood up there. He was shivering, holding like that the old man. I said, "You're wet." Looked at me, and I said. "Do you speak English?"
And he said, "Little."
I said, "Aren't you afraid you'll take pneumonia?"
"Nope." Said, "Jesus Christ is take care of me. I brought my dad."
I said, "Who's that on the other end?"
"My brother."

17 I said, "Bring him by." He couldn't speak English. The fellow had palsy, shaking like this, which seemed to be a great disease among them---that, and glaucoma. So I said, "Sir, do you believe on the Lord Jesus Christ?" And his son said that to him, you know, and he nodded his head he did. I said, "All right. If you believe now, just simple faith, God will make you well."
And I laid my hands upon him. I said, "Heavenly Father, there's a daddy. No doubt but what he struggled many days to make food for them boys." I said, "Now they believe, and they've packed him across that river there, and from way out in the reservation. Probably been hours getting him here." I said, "Sure. I believe that You'll make him well. In the name of the Lord Jesus, I ask it. I lay my prayer upon your altar, and believe." And I said, "All right. Now you take him home, and don't doubt."
"Thank you," started off.
I said, "Next one." Brought the next one up. After awhile I heard somebody (I was on this porch) making a noise, and all the Indians screaming and shouting. I looked down there. The old man had the board on his own shoulders, going out waving at everybody. Now you can see why I like to minister to Indians. They believe.

18 Now, I want... I'm here to say this, my brother, sister, and to the white people, too, see, to all of you. We are here in a country, and a climate, and so forth, changing our colors of skin. God by one blood made all men. We all come from Adam, whether we are white, brown, black, yellow, red. Whatever we are, we are all off of one tree, Adam---God's first man. And therefore, we are as pilgrims.
Everywhere ... I've been around the world several times, and I never seen yet where we ever found people who loved God but what they were wonderful people. I've been down where they didn't even know which was right and left hand. They never even knowed to wear clothes. They were stripped naked---knowed nothing, didn't even know they were naked. Men, women, boys, girls, they never knowed nothing about it. But stand there, and let them receive Christ, and receive the Holy Ghost standing there, they do the same things you do, see. Without being told, they do it anyhow, see. That goes to show that the Holy Spirit is universal, see. It's ... everywhere it's the same, all around the world.

19 So when that great time comes, when our Jesus does arrive, there'll be two in a bed where it's night time, "I'll take one and leave one"; two in the field, where it's daylight on the other side of the world, "I'll take one, and leave one." See, it'll be everywhere. A resurrection, a great rapture of the church will come, and we'll all go home together. And the old will turn back young, and oh! it will be a wonderful time.

20 Now Christian friends, and to Brother Eddie, and the staff of minister brothers here, and to you out there, we are not here to represent any certain denominational church. We are here in behalf of the love of Jesus Christ, the Son of God. We are here not to make members of any certain church, but of the church. And there's only one church after all, and that's the church of our Lord Jesus Christ. And we do not join it. By one Spirit we are all baptized into one body, which is the church of Christ. And that's how we become Christians. And we love Him, and I know the rest of them does.
Now, we do have organizations, denominations. Them's all right. That's fine, but ... as long as you don't draw a line, and say, "We are it; and you're not," see. We are all it, if we're baptized into the body. And I've said, "I've been with the Branham family, now, for over fifty years, and they never did ask me to join the family." You know why? I was borned in it. I was a Branham by birth. And that's the way we become a Christian. It's by birth. No matter what church we belong to, we are Christians by birth. And then by birth, brings his life into us, and produces his life through us, you see.

21 If you could take the sap, the life out of an apple tree, and put it in a grapevine, that grapevine would bear apples, see, because the life that bears apples ... the germ is in the life, and it would bear apples on a grapevine. Depends on what kind of a life was on the inside of it, see. That's right.
Now, if you could take a peach tree, and a pear tree, and take the life out of the peach tree (just take out all the life), and put it over into the pear tree, every bit of the life (no more pear-tree life in it, but peach-tree life), it would bear peach leaves. It'd have peach leaves, and bear peaches, because it's got peach-tree life in it.
And no matter how bad the sinner is, how wicked, how bad they are, how much of an unbeliever, if you can just take all that old unbelieving life out of him, see, put the life of Christ in Him, He'll be a different person. That's right. He sure will. He'll sure be a different person.

22 And I believe the Bible to be God's Word, see. I believe that it's perfect. And it ... and there can be nothing taken from it, or nothing added to it.
Now, background, I'm Irish by descent, so, therefore, my people were Catholic. But in our church ... my own home they never married in the church, so they belonged to nothing. And there's where I got my calling. You've probably got the books, and read them, of my life story. And then I was called to this ministry.
Now when I first become a Christian, to believe on Christ... From a little boy it started with me, when I was first ... when I was born. When I was born, that light that you see in the picture here, was hanging over the cradle where I was born---way up in the mountains, with not even a wooden floor, just dirt.
And we didn't even have a... They didn't even have a table. Papa cut a piece of a stump off, and put legs on it for a table and I had a little bed made out of corn shucks. I don't know whether you know what ... the husks off of the corn, the shuck. And they made the pillow and bed out of that. And that's where I was born, at five o'clock one morning. And didn't even have glass in the window---just a little door you push out. And then that light come in. Goes to show that God don't have to have a palace to come to---just a humble home, anybody that will believe.

23 And now, I believe the Word of God is so perfect that we cannot misinterpret it. We must just teach it the way it is, and live it the way it's taught. Now, I believe now... Now, like the priest told me, he said, "God will judge the world by the church." Well, if it's by the church, which one is the church? The Catholic: one side there's a Roman Catholic says, "We are"; the Greek Catholic says, "We are." And oh, my, the different Catholic phases, which one of them's right? see.
Then you say, "Well..." Then the Lutheran says, "We're the church"; the Baptist says, "We're the church"; the Methodist says, "We're the church"; the Pentecostal says, "We're the church." The ... well, there's 960 different denominations, so which one is the church? It'd be very confusing, see. But God will judge the people by his Word, 'cause that's the Word.

24 Now over in the book of Revelations, it said, "Whosoever shall take out anything out of the book, or add anything to it, the same will be ... his part will be taken from the book of life." Now, I believe it's so perfect that the reason we got death today, sorrow, sickness, these graveyards out here, every man that ever died, every little suffering baby, every sickness, was because when Eve failed to believe that God's Word was sufficient. She mistrusted God's Word, and that brought death.
God gave his church... God cannot change. So God gave his church the best thing, and when God ever makes a decision He can never say, "I was wrong," see. Do you understand it? Look, God (Maybe I talk too loud. I hope I don't.), God can never change his decision. When I say anything, or you say anything, we're finite. That means just human. And we say... Next year we learn more than we knowed the year before. See, I get smarter. You do. Each one of us does. But not God. He's infinite. That means He's perfect to begin with. Every decision is perfect. He can never change his.

25 Look. So you'll not misunderstand it, in the garden of Eden, when man first sinned and disassociated, cut himself off, from God, fellowship with God... Now, he tried to make himself a religion. He sewed some leaves together to cover himself up. But his man-made religion wouldn't work. And God made a decision of the offering of blood. He killed some animals, took the skins and covered them up.
Now, that was God's decision in the garden of Eden to save man, and to fellowship with man through the shed blood of an innocent being. And He's never changed it. We'll never be able to come to a place till we all must be Lutheran, we all must be Catholic, we all must be this, or that. But one place God meets man, and that's on the basis of the shed blood, the blood of Jesus Christ, his Son. It was so at the beginning.
In Israel, man met only ... God only met man under the shed blood in the days of Job, only the shed blood. All down through the history it's been shed blood, because that was God's first recognition to man, how to save him---by the blood.

26 See, when God once acts, He's called to the scene to act (now don't forget this), when God is one time called on the scene to act, the way He acts the first time, every time that that case is called again, or any case similar to it, He's got to act the same way He did the first time, or He acted wrong when He acted first. Now, do you understand real clear? My Indian friends understand that real clear?
Look. In other words, if a man sinned and God said, "I'll save him under the shed blood," that's ... the next man come, He's got to save him, too; the next man, the next man, every man. And then, if a man's sick, and God healed the first man on the basis of his faith in God... That's the way God healed the first man. And now, every man that comes afterwards, with faith believing, God's got to do the same thing. If He didn't, He acted wrong on the first man. Now, you know what I mean? He was wrong when He acted first, see. So He's got to act the same each time.

27 Now, you say, "Well now, maybe this didn't mean that." Don't you never believe that. Every word that God spoke He means eternally, see. The Word is God, see, so, it cannot fail.
Now you say, "Well, it doesn't make any difference." Yes, it does, friends.
Now look. When Lot was called out of Sodom... You people remember the story? Sure. Now the angel said to Lot and his wife, his family, "Don't look back." And now, think of that mother, Lot's wife. Her children were burning up down there in the judgments of God. Her grandchildren were burning up in the judgments of God. And she merely turned her head to look back, and she stands there yet today as a pillar of salt. We know that, see. It does make a difference. When God says anything, He means just what He says. Now, how many in this building, both Indian and white, that believe that God means just exactly what He says, He cannot change, He means what He says? All right.

28 Now, before we approach his Word, now I want ... I'll speak to you just a little bit on the Word. Now, we'll never leave the Word. You say, "I believe the Word." God can do many things that He hasn't written in his Bible. But as long as I ... if I just see Him do what He's written, that's enough for me. Just let Him..., just right like that. I believe that then we know we're right.
Now, to my ministering brethren here, the clergymen, so... They're your ... that's your pastors. Now, in the Old Testament God had a way of finding, or ... and the people had a way of finding out whether a message was right or not. Now, when a prophet prophesied, or a dreamer dreamed a dream, they took him down to the temple where Aaron's breastplate was that had all them breast stones (twelve). And when this prophet prophesied against that stone, or the dreamer told his dream... That's called the Urim Thummim. And if them lights didn't flash over that Urim Thummim, then no matter how real it'd sound, it was wrong. The Urim Thummim had to speak whether it was right or wrong. You know that, brethren? That's right. Well now, that was for the Levitical priesthood. Now, what God did there... Now, He never changes, remember. He can't change. He has to stay.

29 Now, Jesus, when He come, He said, "You've heard them of old times, 'Thou shalt not kill.' But I say that whosoever is angry with his brother without a cause has killed already." Is that right? Now see, He never changed it; He just magnified it, made it greater, see.
He said, "You've heard them of old time, 'Thou shalt not commit adultery.'" He had to be in the act to be guilty. He said, "But I say to you that whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her has committed adultery with her already in his heart," see. He brought it from the real act to a lust for the act, see, made it greater.
Now, when the Urim Thummim from the breastplate of Aaron was changed, it was brought to the Word. "Heavens and earth will pass away but my word shall not pass away," see. Then it must be according to the Word.

30 Now let us bow our heads just a moment for prayer, and we're going to approach Him. Now just in the eve of this three nights' meeting with you lovely people, I wonder among you, tonight, is there a request that you'd like to be remembered before God, saying like this, "God, you know my heart. I have something I have need of. I'm going to raise up my hand. And, God, before this meeting ends, these three-night meetings, give me healing for my body, or, for my sister, for my brother, for my mother, father, or for salvation," or whatever you have need of.
If you've got such a need, would you just raise up your hand to God? Just let it be known as you raise your hand, say, "God, remember me." All right. Now let us pray.

31 Our heavenly Father, we are approaching thy throne of grace. We would not come by the throne of judgment, the throne of justice. We could not stand there, for justly we should not have the right to come while we were sinners. But we've come by the throne of grace, which You told us we had rights to come.
Now, heavenly Father, You know what's behind these hands that raised up. Down beneath there was a heart, and in that heart was a request. God, grant that before these three nights shall pass, that every one of them shall be answered. Grant it, Lord. Save the lost, heal the sick, Lord.
Now we know that You were wounded for our transgressions. With your stripes we were healed. Now, we realize, heavenly Father, that when You died for our sins, then every sin in the world was forgiven. But it will never help us, until we accept Him as our Saviour from that sin. But the sin question has been settled, when Jesus Christ, the Son of God died to take away the sin of the world.
And we are taught that by his stripes we were healed. Now we know that healing has already been settled in the face of God, because his own Son was striped for our healing. With his stripes we were healed. And we know that we can accept healing when we believe it, just like we accept salvation.

32 Now, Father, will You come into our midst, and let us know that You are raised from the dead? that You are living today, and You still remain the same loving Jesus. And that the time ... looking upon the earth at these sights that's coming, you said that was the time to lift up the head, for our redemption's drawing nigh.
The prophet told us there would be a day that could not be called night or day. It would be a dismal day, lot of fog. But in the evening time, it shall be light. And the same sun that rises in the east is the same one that sets in the west---the same s-u-n that crosses the sky. And the same S-o-n of God that come in the east poured out the Holy Spirit in this last days in the evening time, over here on the West Coast---has pulled back the fog, and poured out the Holy Ghost to give evening light, just as He comes. Thank Thee for it, Father.
Now, I'm up here among the sojourners of these precious people that's dwelling here, looking for the coming of the Lord. Now we pray that You will magnify yourself before us, in such a way that we will know that You are here.
And when we leave tonight to go to our different homes, may we say like those who came from Emmaus that day after the resurrection... You walked with them all day, and they didn't know You. And when You got them in the evening time, and had taken them on the inside and closed the doors, then You did something the way You did it before You were crucified, and they knowed no one could do it like You. And that was You.
So they rushed over, and said, "Truly, the Lord has risen. Did not our hearts burn within us as He talked to us along the way?" Grant it, Lord, tonight. As we go to our homes, may we see the risen Lord Jesus right here in this building, healing the sick, and showing mercy to all. We ask in Jesus' name. Amen.

33 Now over in the blessed old Bible, and just for a text... And now, I want you to listen real close now, and I'll just take my time, and try to explain this the best that I can. Now, if you will catch this real close...
Now, all my Indian friends know English. Is that right? They all can speak English? Good. Everybody in here speaks English? Norwegians, and whatmore? You see, I want you... Really, I was going to say if they didn't, I'd have somebody to come and interpret 'cause I don't want you to miss this.
Now. You're such a nice audience, I could just stand and talk for hours, and I love you because I know you love our Lord.

34 Now I want to read two places out of the Scripture. And one of them is found in St. John 12:20, the 12th chapter and the 20th verse; the other one is our theme of our campaign, Hebrews 13:8.
Now, this is just a little formal message that we usually introduce the service, and then we'll pray for the sick. And then tomorrow, maybe, you'll understand better. Remember, come to the church early.
And now, there will be a boy here---my son, or Brother Eddie, or Brother Roy, or some of them. Somebody will be here with prayer cards. And they bring these prayer cards up before you, mix them all up together, and go down and give everybody a prayer card, so that the boy that mixes them up, he will have nothing to do with what prayer card is given.
Then, when I come to the meeting we never know just where the prayer line will start. We might start at fifty, we might start at twenty, we might start at ten, we might start at one, we might start at a hundred and come back---just any way. Anyone has ever attended the meetings---you brethren, I guess, have---know that that is true. So, therefore, then you don't have to have a prayer card, if you just got faith. There's usually about ten in the audience healed where one's healed on the platform, if you just have faith and believe.

35 Now, St. John, the 12th chapter, 20th verse:
And there were certain Greeks among them that came up to worship at the feast:
The same came therefore to Philip, which was of Bethsaida... , and desired him, saying, Sir, we would see Jesus.
Now in Hebrews 13:8 it said:
Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today, and for ever.
Now I'm going to make a text out of that and say this, "Sir, We Would See Jesus." Now how many would like to see Him? Let's see your hands, just how many now? Thank you for your interest of seeing our Lord.

36 Now as I have told you, I believe the Bible is God's Word, and it must be just exactly what God says, and He has to keep every promise, or it isn't God's Word. If He don't keep his promise, then it's not God's Word. God couldn't be God, make a promise and then not keep it, see. No, no. That would be man. That would be a man-made book. But God's Book is God's Word.

37 Now, these Greeks had heard of Jesus, but they had never seen Jesus. And they came to one of Jesus' disciples, which name was Philip of Bethsaida, in Galilee, and said, "Sir, we would see Jesus." Now he was Jesus' servant, so he took him before Jesus, and showed him Jesus.
Now, the Bible said here, Paul writing in Hebrews 13:8, that Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever. You all believe that? All right.
Now if those Greeks wanted to see Jesus, and you want to see Jesus; and one of God's servants took and showed them Jesus; and if He is the same yesterday, today, and forever, why couldn't God's servant show Him to you today, if He is the same?
"Well," you say, "but He died."
Yes, but He raised again, see. He's not dead. He is a-living. He isn't dead. He is alive. Now, his corporal body (that's the flesh) was taken up before God, sits on the throne of God. And the Holy Spirit came back down (which was the Spirit of Christ) and lives in the church. You believe that, don't you? Now, if we would ask this question, "Sir, we would see Jesus," and now if Jesus...

38 Being a missionary, I travel everywhere around the world. And I was just in Bombay, India, here not long ago where I was entertained in the temple of the Jains, the Jain religion. And there were seventeen different religions represented in that temple that afternoon to speak to me. And every one of them was against Christianity.
Now think of it. They worship idols, animals, and some of them believe in reincarnation. That is, you die one thing, you come back another. It was the awfullest mess you ever seen. But when our Lord Jesus come on the scene, that did it. I took this same text before 500,000 that night (That's a half-a-million people sitting in a great big stadium, amphitheater-like.), and took that same text, where Mohammedans and Buddhists, Sikhs, Jains---oh, my! every different kind you could think---and the Rajahs sitting on silk pillows. The Mayor of Durban was there, Mahatma Gandhi's boy was there, and, oh, so many.

39 And there, when the Holy Spirit began to reveal to the people... And then, came a man... And they thought it was a telepathy. Then came a blind man to the platform with his prayer card, the fourth person. And I saw a vision that he was going to be made well, and I challenged every religion on the ground to come give him his sight.
I said, "If that's just telepathy, you come give him his sight." I said, "Then why don't you come? The Mohammedan's priest, why don't you come?" I said, "You think...? I wouldn't ... nothing, I wouldn't say that for anything. I'd be afraid to say it. But I just saw a vision that he's got his sight. Now if he doesn't, then I'm a false prophet. If he does, how many will accept Christ as Saviour?" Just oceans of hands.
I said, "Come here, sir." And it told him he had been blind so many years, and he was a beggar, and so forth; and all about how many children he had, and so... That was all right, but they still believed it was a telepathy, like a mind reading, see.
And so, I said, "Now, mind reading ... I know nothing about psychology." I said, "And anybody that knows psychology would never call that psychology." So then ... I said, "Now, if that's so, you professors of psychology come here, and give him his sight." It was a mighty quiet group.

40 I said, "You Mohammedans are the predominating religion of the world." That's right. There are more Mohammedans than any. And I said, "Why don't your priests come up here then, and give him his sight?" I said, "What about you Buddhists?" Buddha lived about 2300 years ago, a Chinese philos... or Japanese philosopher. I said, "Now why don't you come, and give him his sight?" I said, "I was in the temple this afternoon of the Jains. There is [like the pope] the highest man of them. You come give him his sight. I'll join your religion." Nobody said nothing.
I said, "What's the matter with you?" I said, "Now, if this is telepathy, then you come. You're masters at it. I'm not. Come give him his sight," see. I said, "If Mohammed ... somebody's got to be right, and somebody's got to be wrong. We can't all be right." That is true.

41 I said, "Let the God that's the God of creation create him a sight. Then we'll know whether it's right or not." I said, "I wouldn't say that if I hadn't already saw he was going to receive his sight. But," I said, "he is. If he doesn't, then you turn me out of India. I'm a false prophet. If he does, you receive Him."
I motioned to him to come there. No more than I prayed, he screamed. He could see good as I could. Sure. And then, they had... I couldn't even get out of the building, and things like that. They had ... even a militia of soldiers there. Oh, I guess fifteen, sixteen hundred soldiers before I could ever get to the car two hours later. And...
But what is it, friends? God, if He ever was God, He's still God. And if He isn't the same God, then there is something wrong. He couldn't have been God to begin with, see. So He's got to ever remain the same.

42 Now, if we'd say, "Sir, we would see Jesus"... Now, if I'd say to the Lutherans here tonight, "What do you think about it?"
"Oh, sure. I believe He's the same." Baptist, Presbyterian, Pentecostal, Catholic, whatever more, it'd all be, "Yes, He is in our church, and we've got Him. This is ours. He's our God. He's with us."
Well, now, I believe that, too. I'm going to believe that with you. But now, just a minute. There's only one way to make that thing right. There's only one way to correctly know, is to find out what He was yesterday, see. Ever what He was yesterday, He's got to be the same today. Is that right? See, it isn't whether...

43 Now, we wouldn't go down to town to find a man, look around... We say Jesus Christ is with us. We wouldn't go downtown to find a man had on a robe, and nail scars across his head, or thorn prints, and nail scars in his hand. Any hypocrite could do that, see. It takes the life in him to do it, see. His life. The life of the man...
Jesus said here in St. John, "He that believeth on me [St. John 14:12] ... He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also." 'Cause his life... If we were sinner tree and had a Christ tree put in us, then that life would bear fruits---just exactly like the peach tree to the pear tree, or so forth; the apple tree, to whatever it was. Is that right? See, you'd have to see what He was yesterday.
Now, Paul speaking here was speaking of yesterday, means the Old Testament. What He was yesterday He is today, and will be forever. That's the Old Testament, the New Testament, and forevermore. The same yesterday, today, and forever, see.

44 Now. What was He yesterday? Now, if He was a great rich man yesterday, He'd be a great rich man today. But when He come yesterday, we find out that He didn't even have a place to lay his head. Right. "The birds of the air have nests, the foxes has dens; but I don't even have a place to lay my head."
He had ... when He come to the world, He borrowed a womb to be born in. They had no cradle to lay Him in, so they laid Him in a box of straw. When He died, He was nailed to a Roman tree under capital punishment. He had one robe to put on. It had been made for Him, wove throughout without a seam. He had to borrow a grave to be buried in. So there's none of us that bad off.
He come to show what God was. Anything that is high and haughty isn't God. God is low and humble. That's what made Him God, see, something that comes low---not them that goes high. So God doesn't dwell in hierarchies, and things. He dwells in humility. The way up is down. Humble yourself and you will be exalted; exalt yourself and you will be humbled. That's right, see. God knows how to do it. So you have to remember, humble yourself before God. Don't try to think your own thoughts; think his thoughts, see.

45 And the whole Christian armor, now, is unseen. The Christian looks at what he doesn't see natural. Now look. That's the only way you can be a Christian. You've got to believe God, who you can't see. See, now look. Watch here. The whole Christian armor is love, joy, faith, longsuffering, patience, meekness, gentleness---Holy Spirit, see. All those things are unseen. They're unseen. But the things that's unseen is the ones that has the reality---the unseen things.

46 Now. We'll take Jesus. We all know his birth, how He was predicted from the garden of Eden. The seed of the woman should bruise the serpent's head, and he'd bruise the heel and so forth.
Now, but when He came, He was born in a manger, and He raised up in a humble home. And then went to live with some people---Martha, Mary, and Lazarus. At the age of thirty years old, John the Baptizer baptized Him in the river of Jordan. And God came down in the form of the Holy Spirit ... in the Holy Spirit in the form of a dove, and went in Him, and dwelt in Him.

47 Now, remember. God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself. Is that right? All right. "Not me," said Jesus, "doeth the works: but my Father that dwelleth in me, he doeth the works." Now, if you're putting Scriptures down, St. John 5:19, 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." Now remember, not what He hears the Father saying, but what He sees the Father doing.
Therefore, Jesus never did nothing until God showed Him by a vision what to do first. If He didn't, the Scripture's wrong. St. John 5:19 said, "Verily, I say unto you [that means absolutely], I say unto you, The Son can do nothing in himself, but what he sees the Father doing: that doeth the Son likewise; for the Father worketh, and I worketh hitherto." In other words, He just acted out in drama what God, the Father, showed Him to do, because God was in Christ.
Now, Matthew 3, it said, "This is my beloved Son," when He was coming down, a voice speaking from that, God, that was coming down like a dove. John bare record seeing it. And a voice come from it, saying, "This is my beloved Son in whom ... in whom I am pleased to dwell." And if I was going to make it so you'd understand it better ... that the early translators in King James... If you get the original Greek, it reads like this: "This is my beloved Son in whom I'm pleased to dwell in." But you see, it is the same thing. "In whom I'm pleased to dwell," see. "I am pleased to dwell in my Son." Then He became Emmanuel, God with us.

48 Now. St. John, I read from it: St. John 12:20. Now, let's go back to St. John, and start, and just stay in St. John tonight, showing what the Scriptures are in St. John about Him. Now we'll see if we can find out what He was tonight. Tomorrow night we will go a little deeper in it, and the next night, just keep going.
Notice now. St. John, we read the 12th chapter. Let's go back and read the 1st chapter now. Said now, "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God." Now can you get it? "In the beginning was the Word."
Now, what is a word? A word is a thought expressed. You have to think it before you say it, see. And in the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. And if the Word ever was God, it's still God. See it? "And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us." St. John, the 1st chapter, "The Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us." The Word of God was made flesh among us in Christ Jesus. You believe that? He was the Word of God made flesh. Now.

49 And Jesus said in St. John, the 1st chapter; also in the 10th chapter, and the 37th verse, He said, "If I do not the works of my Father, then don't believe me." In other words, what the Father had expressed that He was, if He didn't do that, then don't believe Him. That's only sensible, see.
And in St. John 5:39, said, "Search the scriptures; for in them you think you have eternal life: and they are they that testify of me." In other words, He was the living Word. He was God's Word made manifest. Oh, how I like to get into that! God's Word made manifest---in other words, made known. God's Word made known. In other words, He was the one that God lived in to make his word known.
Christ expressed what the Word taught. Amen! There you are. Christ was the expression of the Word that was wrote. Christ expressed it. No wonder He said to those Pharisees, religious leaders of his day, He said, "You hypocrites!" Said, "If the sun sets clear, you say it's going to be pretty tomorrow. If it's red and lowering, you say it'll be foul weather." Said, "You can discern the face of the skies; but the sign of the time you cannot discern. For if you had known me, you would've known my day."
They had religion. Oh, my! plenty of it. But they failed to see Him as the Messiah, because...

50 Now you know He didn't come the wrong way. He come exactly the way the Word predicted it; but not according to what they was thinking. They had it some other way. But He come exactly the way the Bible predicted He would come. Only, they had the Bible misinterpreted.
I wonder if it could be so again. No doubt but what... There's too many different interpretations to it. So you can see, there's got to be something wrong somewhere. Some of them says, "There's no such a thing as divine healing." Others says, "The days of miracles is past. The Holy Ghost only fell on the twelve apostles." And others say one thing... There's got to be something right and something wrong somewhere. That's right.

51 And remember, before you can have... If you've got a bogus dollar... That's a counterfeit dollar. Before that counterfeit dollar can be made, there has to be a real dollar it's made off of. If it didn't, it's the original one. There's got to be a real religion that that's made off of. Exactly right.
Every one of them started on Pentecost, but they just went different ways, and got away from the Word. And that's the reason... Today, how can we expect God to ever perform, and bring the church back to a Pentecostal experience, when we deny the very fact that He does it?

52 As I've often said, "What good would it do to feed the canary bird good vitamin C, to make big strong wings and good feathers, and then keep him in a cage?" Wouldn't do no good, would it? Certainly not. If you're going to feed him vitamins, and make his wings strong, turn him loose, let him fly. That's what we got to do. We need some canary birds flying. That's right. Turn loose. And them things that we believe about God, use that faith. Certainly. We believe it. Don't pin Him back, and say, "No, the days of miracles is past." No, it isn't. It's past for them that believe it's past. But to them who know better, it's different.
Fellow said to me not long ago, said, "I don't care what you'd say, how many people you'd produce," said, "I still don't believe in divine healing. No, sir!"
I said, "Certainly not. It wasn't for unbelievers; it was only for believers." That's right. It's just for those who believe. That's all.

53 Now. We find Jesus now has come to express the Word. Now, that's what He was yesterday. That's what He is today. That's what He will be forever---God's Word made known. Is that a better word? God's Word, expressed, showed that it's truth. And everything that God said He would do, He did it. Everything that was wrote in the Bible of Him doing, He done it, just exactly, because He was the Word expressed.
Well, if He's the same yesterday, today, and forever, and all these promises hanging to this generation, why wouldn't He be the same today to express everything that God's Word promised? See? It has to be exactly the same, 'cause that's what He was then; that's what He is now; that's what He will be forever---God's Word expressed. Amen! Even in the great millennium, He'll still be God's Word expressed. Oh, how that ought to kindle our faith, see, to know that it's there. And if He is the Holy Spirit to light upon that Word...

54 Now, the Word is a seed. Now, most of you brethren here I suppose, farm. And you put a seed in the ground, and the next morning you go out and dig it up, and say, "My corn ain't growing yet"; put it back, cover it up; the next morning, "See if it's growing," again---it never will grow like that. No, no. Every time you dig it up, you delay it. Isn't that right?
What do you do? You know the earth was made to grow the corn (Is that right?), or the seed. And you plant the seed, commit it to the earth, and forget about it. God does the rest of it. Well, that's the way you do with the Word of God. You just plant it. Don't dig it up. Just keep on believing it. Commit it to God. He makes it grow. That's right, see.
Any promise that God makes, you just plant it in your heart and say, "It's mine. God gave it to me," see. Now, you may not see any results right now. You never see a corn crop as soon as you plant your corn, but potentially it's there. As long as you leave it alone, and keep watering it, it will grow. Don't worry about that. It'll take if it's a germitized seed. And every word of God is germitized by God, Himself. God is in the Word, so it will grow. You know it will.
There you are. We have to take his Word, accept it, believe it, commit it, and it grows. That's right. Don't keep digging it up, now. You will ruin it. You'll ruin your crop every time you do that. So just commit it to God, and believe it.

55 Now, for instance ... like say for instance, I was up here on top of the mountain somewhere marooned, and I had nothing to eat. And before I could get anything to eat... A loaf of bread would save my life, and the purchase price of a loaf of bread is, say, twenty-five cents. Well, I'd say...
Somebody come in, say, "What's the matter, Brother Branham?"
"I'm starving to death. I'm going to die."
"Why?"
"I haven't got no bread."
Well, you say, "Why don't you get some bread?"
"I haven't got no money."
"Well, a loaf of bread's worth twenty-five cents."
"Yes, sir. But I haven't got twenty-five cents," see.
Well, you'd would say, "Here, Brother Branham, take this twenty-five cents, and get you a loaf of bread."
Oh, my! I'd just dance a little jig all around. Why? I can be just as happy with a quarter in my hand to buy the loaf of bread, as I would be with a loaf of bread, because I've got the purchasing power for the loaf of bread.
Just like, there's a store. All I have to do is lay it down, and I get the loaf of bread. So I can be just as happy with the quarter in my hand as I could with the loaf of bread, because it's the buying power of the loaf of bread.

56 So what is the evidence of your healing when you believe it? No matter what takes place... You say, "I don't feel better." That don't have nothing to do with it. You've got the purchase power if you believe it. So, just start dancing a little jig, saying, "Praise God. I'm going to be well, because I've got the purchasing power of that loaf of bread." There you are, see.
Now, there's no one can heal you, because you're already healed. How many knows that the Bible teaches that? You're already healed. By his stripes you were healed, see. Now, no man can heal you. You can't ... if Jesus stood here Himself, He couldn't heal you. He's already done it, see. That's exactly right. You'd have to believe it.

57 Now when He was made manifest, and ... see what He was yesterday, let's carry it just a little further. Now, we know that the prophets of the Old Testament... God always had his people to believe his prophets. We know that, don't we? Because the Bible said that the Word of God (the Word, now, which was God), came to the prophets. Is that right? The Word of the Lord came to the prophets. The Word of the Lord came to Jeremiah. The Word of the Lord came to Moses. The Word of the Lord came different ways to the prophets---was the one who had the Word of God.
And they, by having it, they manifested it, see. They manifested it, because it come to them. They had it; they spoke it, told exactly what would happen; and it happened. That's the way they knowed they were prophets. Now you get it?
See, the Word came to the prophets. A portion, not all of it. Just part of it would come to the prophet. And he would express exactly what the Word was, and it happened just the way he said it.
And God said, "If there be one among you who is spiritual, or a prophet, I, the Lord, will make myself known to him in visions, speak to him through dreams. And if this prophet prophesies, and what he says comes to pass, then hear that prophet, for I am with him." That's the Word in him. You get it? "But if he prophesies, and it don't come to pass, then don't fear that prophet, for I ain't with him."
But you see, if it does come to pass, then that proves that it was God's Word in the prophet. He said it, and it happened. Now, they always was to believe their prophets.

58 Now in Deuteronomy, the 18th chapter, Moses, who gave the law to Israel, he told them about the end time, and he said, "The Lord your God shall raise up among you of your brethren a prophet like me. It shall come to pass that whosoever will not hear that prophet will be cut off from the people." Now that ... then we know that he was speaking of the Messiah, 'cause all down through, they even asked John, "Art thou that prophet? Art thou that prophet?" They kept saying, "Art thou that prophet?" see, 'cause they knowed that prophet was coming.
Now the last prophet of the Old Testament was Malachi, four hundred-and-something years before the coming of Christ. Then all at once, Christ comes on the scene, and He was baptized in Jordan by John. The Father comes down in the form of the Holy Spirit, goes in Him. In the wilderness He goes, to be tempted of the devil forty days; then comes back out with his ministry. Let's watch what He was. Now we see what He was. What He was in the prophets, we found out.
Now we're going to find out what He is ... what He was yesterday; then, as Paul said, today; then we find out what He will be forever, see.

59 Now here He comes out. The first thing we find Him doing... There was a man named Simon, and he had a brother named Andrew. And Andrew had been attending John's meeting, and John said, "There's the Lamb of God, that takes away the sin of the world." And Andrew went with Him. And he was thoroughly convinced that that was the Messiah. So he come told his fisherman-brother, Simon (that we know by the name of Peter), told him, said, "I found the Messiah. Come see Him." I can imagine...
Let's just break in, and see what Simon must have thought. He said, "Now, wait a minute here. Now, I am a Bible reader. My old daddy, before he died, he told me, 'Son, there's going to be everything before the Messiah comes, 'cause there's always a bunch of false raises up to counteract the right.'" (We know that, always do.) Now, he said, "Now, there will be all kinds of people wanting to be Messiahs." (That's Jesus, the Saviour.) Said, 'There will be many of them, but' said, 'don't you be deceived. Stay with the Word, for that Messiah will be that king-prophet.
"'You will know Him because He will do the sign of the prophet, see. For Moses ... our scripture told us that the Messiah that was going to be raised up among us would be a prophet like him.' "
The Word of God would be with Him. He would be manifesting the Word of God. Amen.

60 You get it? The Word of the Lord would be with Him, because He'd be a prophet, and He'd be manifesting the Word of the Lord.
That's the reason Jesus said, "Search the scriptures. In them you think you got eternal life, and they testify of me. And if I don't do them works, then don't believe me. But if you can't believe me, being a man, believe the works that I do, that you might be saved." Perfect!

61 Now, they were looking for this prophet to raise up. And when ... 'course Andrew come running in, tell him... Oh, he might have thought "Andrew, you've gone off on the deep end."
So one day he walked down to find Jesus at the shore. And when he walked up in the presence of Jesus... Now, remember, Simon (his name was Simon then)... But when he walked into the presence of Jesus for the first time (Jesus had never seen him. Now watch Him now.), as soon as he walked into his presence, Jesus looked around at him, and said, "Your name is Simon, and you are the son of Jonas."
Oh, my! That got him. Oh! He not only knowed who he was, but He knowed that godly old father of his. So there was a prophet. No one could deny it. There He was, doing just exactly. He knew him, and knew his daddy. He said, "Your name is Simon. You are the son of Jonas. And I am going to call you... From henceforth, I'm going to call you Peter (which means "little stone, confession")," because Peter confessed Him.

62 Now there was one standing there by the name of Philip, the one we just read about taking this man to Jesus. He seen that, and he thought, "Say, that seals it, because the Bible said that that Messiah would be a prophet. And here He is. We see!"
So, he had a friend that he had studied the Bible with, the old scrolls, and his name was Nathanael. So from where Jesus was preaching, if you're ever there, it's fifteen miles around the mountain here, to where Nathanael lived. So Philip took off, and run around here that day. And the next morning he picked up Nathanael in the garden praying, and he said, "Come see who we've found---Jesus of Nazareth, the Son of Joseph."
Well, they had studied the Scriptures together since boys, went to the same church. He said, "Now, wait a minute here. Just a minute. Could there be any good thing come out of Nazareth?"
He said, "Come see."
"Could something like that come...?"
Now, that's a good answer to anybody. Don't stay home and criticize it. Come find out. That goes good yet today.

63 "Come see for yourself." Here they go around the bend, coming around. He said, "Now look. Do you remember that old man named Simon, that couldn't write his name, when you ... he bought some fish from you, and you couldn't give ... he couldn't give a receipt?"
"Oh, yeah. The son of Jonas."
"Yes. Yesterday he came up before the Messiah---that we know Him, Messiah. He'd never seen him in all of his life. And He said, 'Behold, your name is Simon, and you're the son of Jonas.'
"Now look. We both know the Scriptures. And doesn't our Bible tell us that the Messiah would be a prophet? And here He is, doing this!"

64 Aw, Philip couldn't believe that ... or, Nathanael. So he come up in the presence of Jesus. And when he walked up in the presence of Jesus, Jesus looked right at him, and said, "Behold an Israelite in whom there's no guile." In other words, a righteous man.
And it astonished him. He said, "Rabbi [which means teacher], Rabbi, when did you ever know me? You've never seen me. Why, I'm from another part of the country. I just come in here. You never seen me. How do you know I'm a righteous man?"
He said, "Before Philip called you, when you were under the tree, I saw you." What eyes!
You know what that Bible scholar said? He said, "Rabbi, you are the Son of God. You are the King of Israel." Why? He saw He was exactly the manifestation of God's Word. Four hundred years without a prophet, and here He stood. Exactly what the Bible said He would do. "Rabbi [teacher], you are the Son of God. You are the King of Israel."
Jesus said, "Because I told you this you believe? Then come on, follow me. You'll see greater than this."
All right. Oh, that was Jesus yesterday.

65 Now there is only three races of people in the whole world, if we believe the Bible. Oh, I know they claim there's many, but look. We all sprung from... After the antediluvian destruction, when the world was destroyed with water (we believe that as Christians), Noah had three sons---Ham, Shem, and Japheth. And we all come from them three boys. Had to.
And now, if you notice, Peter was given the keys to the kingdom, and that was Jew, Gentile, and Samaritan. Now, Peter had the keys to the kingdom. On the day of Pentecost, he opened the gospel to the Jews. Acts 7, he opened it to the Samaritans. Philip went down preaching to the Samaritans, only... They had believed, only been baptized in the name of Jesus Christ, and he went down and laid hands upon them, and they received the Holy Ghost. Then in Acts 10:49, he opened the gospel to the Gentiles at the house of Cornelius, see. There's both Ham, Shem, and Japheth's people. Get it? The three races?

66 Now, there were two races of them looking for a Messiah. That was the Jew and the Samaritan. But we Anglo-Saxons, Gentiles, we worshipped idols---club on our back, and we worshipped idols. We wasn't looking for no Messiah. And He never did that before any ... Messiah---that sign there---before any Gentile. Never. It's not written in the Word. But look. That was his sign that proved that He was the Messiah.
Look at these staunch Jews---Peter, and who else could we say? Many of them: the one with the blood issue that touched his garment; Zacchaeus up in the tree; blind Bartimaeus whose faith stopped Him, and He turned around. All those staunch Jews. He showed that He was the Messiah by being the prophet that manifested Himself.

67 Now, now, we find out we take them two ... we're just going to take... Now we're going to leave... We'll come back tomorrow night, and pick up some more Jews. But now tonight, we're going on to a Gentile, or to a Samaritan. There's another race looking for a Messiah. Now when He's on earth, He's got to manifest Himself to who's looking for Him. Got to. Notice.
Now, here He made Himself known to the Jews by what? Speaking the secrets of their hearts, telling them what they'd done, and so forth. We know that. Now did that prove He was the Word? How many believes that?
Now, you who are putting down Scriptures, put this down. Hebrews, the 4th chapter, and about the 12th verse, it says, "The Word of God is sharper than a two-edged sword, piercing even to the ... sunder of the bone and the marrow ... and is a discerner of the thoughts in the heart." Is that right, brethren? The Word of God discerns the thought that's in their heart. He looked upon them, and perceived their thoughts. Is that right? What was it? It was the Word. The Word of God is sharper than a two-edged sword, and a discerner of the thoughts of the heart. That's the reason they knowed that He was the manifestation of God's Word. That was Jesus yesterday.

68 Now, He was on his road down to Jericho. Jerusalem sits on the hill; Jericho sits in a valley. He was going to Jericho, but He had need to go by Samaria. Now, that's the city of Sychar. He stopped. He sent his disciples in to get something to eat. Must've been about noontime.
While they were gone, there was a pretty woman come out there. She was of ill-fame. We know what you mean there, the red-light type. But she might've been a lovely girl. No doubt but what she was a lovely girl, but maybe she had something to cause that. Maybe her mother turned her on the street when she was a kid.
You know, we talk so much in America about juvenile delinquency. It ain't juvenile delinquency; it's parent delinquency. Sometimes a girl goes wrong because her mother don't make her do right. That's exactly right, till... Lot of times it's parents' fault; not children, a juvenile delinquency.

69 So here we find this young girl. She come out. She's a young woman, probably in her early twenties. She came out... Now, I've been in the Orient. I know the customs. It never changes. Now the reason she didn't go early with the virgins to the well to get water, she wasn't permitted to. They don't associate together. And so, she had to go out later. So here she come out along about noon.
And you ought to see the way they pack water. They got a great big... It isn't a bucket; it's a clay pot. It holds about three gallons, I guess, and it's got handles on it. And then, they got a well with a windle. And they take these hooks and dip in these big jars, and let it down, and get it full of water, and windle it up.
And I've seen young girls ... no, well, just young girls sit and put one of those big pots of water on top of their head, one on each shoulder; and a whole bunch of them going along talking, shaking their heads, talking to one another, and never spill a drop. How they do it, I don't know. They still do it---talk, just as ladies can, you know. So they go along there just really carrying a conversation, and never spill a bit of water. And they still do it.

70 Now she come out to get her pot of water, and she started to let it down. Now, that well---it still stands there---it's just ... it's the one that Jacob give Joseph, his son. And so, it was a little panoramic about like this platform up here. And this... And there is a wall around, and there's a public well there where the people drink. So she started to let down the bucket, or the pot, and she heard somebody say, "Woman, bring me a drink." And she turned and looked.

71 Now, He wasn't but about thirty-three years old, but He looked over fifty. Do you know the Bible said that? In St. John 6, when He said, "I am the bread of life that come from God out of heaven. Your fathers eat manna in the wilderness and are dead." He said, "But I'm the bread of life that come from God out of heaven. If a man eat this bread he will never die." Oh, they went ahead discussing a little while. And so, then He said ... He told them...
They said, "You say you've seen Abraham, when you're not over fifty years old?" He was only thirty, but his work must have made him look fifty. "You're not a man over fifty years old, and say that you saw Abraham?" Said, "Now we know you got a devil, and you are mad." Crazy, see.
He said, "Before Abraham was, I am." That settled it.

72 And here He was now, about ... a young Jew sitting over there just watching. And so, He said, "Bring me a drink."
And she said, "It's not customary." They had segregation then like we used to have in the South, you know, between the colored and white. Said, "it's not customary for you, being a Jew, to ask me, a Samaritan woman, for anything." Said, "We have no dealings with one another."
He said, "Woman, if you knew who you were talking to, you'd ask me for a drink, and I'd give you water you don't come here to draw."
She said, "The well is deep," see, still the carnal thinking. "The well's deep." And said, "You have nothing to draw with."
He said, "The water that I give is everlasting life, springing up."
They've got the kind of... What was He doing? He was contacting her spirit, see, contacting... When He caught what her trouble was... How many knows what her trouble was? She had five husbands. She was living with her sixth. He said, "Woman, go get your husband, and come here."
She said, "I don't have any husband."
Said, "You told the truth." Said, "You've got five ... had five, and the one you're living with now is not yours. In that you said the truth."

73 Now look. When He did that before them Jews, them Jews said---them big, high priests, and educators of them days---said "Humph!" They had to answer their church. It was being done, so they had to tell their congregation something. They couldn't bypass it, 'cause they had to meet the issue.
So he said, "Humph." Said, "This man is Beelzebub, the prince of the devils---a fortune-teller," in other words. Said, "He's a fortune-teller," and anybody knows a fortune-teller is of the devil. So said, "He's Beelzebub, the fortune-teller." All right.
And when he did that, He turned around and looked at them Jews. He said, "I forgive you. I, the Son of man, will forgive you for saying this, blaspheming the Word of God. But," said, "some day [in other words] the Holy Ghost is coming to do the same works. And one word against it will never be forgiven a man in this world, neither in the world that is to come.
So you see where it puts us. One word against it will never be forgiven. That's blaspheming the Holy Spirit. When they saw Him standing there with the... He was the Word, and the Word was expressing itself just like the Bible said, and they said, "He's a fortune-teller." You know what happened to them. Every one of them was lost. Exactly.

74 Now. Here He stands with this woman, and He said, "Go get your husband."
She said, "I have none."
He said, "You said well. You've had five, and the one you're living with now is not yours."
She what? Look at this little prostitute. She turned, and she said, "Sir, I perceive that You're a prophet."
What a difference! That woman knowed more about God than half of the preachers in the United States (that's right)--- in her condition.
Look. She said, "Sir, I perceive that you are a prophet. We [the Samaritans], we know that Messiah is coming, which is called Christ. And when he comes, that will be his sign." Oh, my! That's what He was yesterday, see? "We know that Messiah, which is called Christ, when he comes he'll tell us these things. Who art thou?"
He said, "I am he that speaks to you."

75 And what did she do? She left that waterpot. She run into the city, and she said, "Come see a man that's told me the things I've done. Isn't this the very Messiah?"
And the people in the city believed on Him because the woman said that He told her what she had done. Is that right? Well, that was Jesus yesterday.
Now, it wasn't his dress. They all dressed alike. Wasn't the way He wore his beard, or combed his hair. They all wore it the same. But it was the manifestation of God's Word in Him, discerning the thoughts of the heart. How many believes that?
Well, that's Jesus yesterday. That'd be Jesus today, wouldn't it? The same Jesus; same Jesus that was with Moses. Moses forsook Egypt, esteeming the reproach of Christ greater riches than that of Egypt. That was Jesus yesterday. Paul said, "He is the same today, and will be forever." Why is it? Jesus is the Word, the manifestation of the Word, the Word made flesh.

76 Now, in closing I might say this. We could stand here all night, but we'd never get to the end of it, 'cause it's just the whole Bible, just hugged right around there, see. Now, remember. That was the end of the Jewish dispensation, and the Samaritans. That ended them.
Now, being three ... that was Ham and Shem's people. Now what about Japheth's people, this people, the Gentile? Now, we wasn't looking for no Messiah. And they had four thousand years to believe He was coming. And when He come, they didn't believe Him. And He done the Messiahic sign to prove that He was Messiah, and those Jews that were ordained to life believed it.

77 Look at that little prostitute. Well, she'd stayed out of their churches, probably formal, cold and stiff. It didn't do her no good. But she was predestinated to eternal life. And as soon as that thing was done, quickly she recognized it. What was it? That life ... that seed broke forth to life. Yes. "All the Father has given me will come, and no man can come except my Father draws him first." Amen. There you are.
And as soon as that light flashed, what'd she say? Said, "Sir, I perceive that you are a prophet. We know Messiah is coming to do this thing. And when he comes..."
He said, "I am He that speaks with you."
Now, it wasn't right for her to go into the city, but try to stop her. No matter what she was, try to stop her once. It's like putting a house out and it on fire on a windy day. Oh, she had a testimony! She knowed the Word, and she said, "There's the Messiah there. He told me the things I've done. Search the scriptures. Isn't that the very Messiah?"
And the men said, "That's it," and they believed on Him. He didn't do it no more. He just done it to that one woman, showed her that. And all the men of the city believed on Jesus because the woman said so. Oh, my!

78 Now He didn't do any miracles there. He walked away, because He knowed Philip was coming right down to do right behind Him, you see. So, He just left that alone, walked away. They knowed that was Messiah. That was enough. The miracles would take place as long as you recognize the Messiah.
Now, look. Now we've had two thousand years of theology, like the Jews had four thousand years. God from the Gentiles will take a people for his name. Do you believe that? All right.
Now, do you believe we're at the evening time? Now look what Jesus said over here. I am going to quote from you ... from Luke 17:28. Jesus said, "As it was in the days of Sodom (now, I'm closing), in the days of Sodom, so shall it be at the coming of the Son of man." How many ever read that? "As it was in the days of Sodom, so shall it be when the Son of man comes." Now, it can't fail. He said it, see. Now notice.
Now He went ahead and told about Noah, how they were eating, drinking, marrying, giving in marriage, the immorals of it. And then said, likewise, as it was in the days of Sodom will it be at his coming.

79 Notice. At the days of Sodom... Now wait.
There was a man who had been called by election---Abraham. He was just an ordinary man. God called him when he was sixty-five years old ... he was seventy-five, and his wife was sixty-five. Told him they was going to have a baby. And he believed that word for twenty-five years. And he was a hundred, and his wife was ninety, and the baby come. Wish I had time to go through that little study with you for about a week. Oh, my! I believe that Indian faith would go plumb out of the top of the Tabernacle there, see, to lay that out.
I just come through Grass Valley down there. Oh, my! And in Grass Valley, where the tapes and things had been played, prior to coming... And I took that... I didn't pray for anybody, just leave it alone. And took that, and laid that Abraham's seed, and Abraham's faith and Abraham's seed...

80 Not only God promised Abraham, but his seed after him. And we are Abraham's seed, and we are in Christ. We are the royal seed of the promise. And what did Abraham do? Called those things which were not as though they were, because God said so. My! Now you see, when God told him... Said, "Abraham, you are going to have a baby by your wife."
Now, remember, at sixty-five she's about fifteen, twenty years past menopause, change of life, see. Now, he had lived with her since she was eighteen years old, and there was no baby. She was sterile ... she was barren; he was sterile. No baby. And yet, God said, "You're going to have it," and Abraham staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief; but was strong, giving praise to God. Right.
What about his children? That was the natural seed. How about the royal seed through Christ, with the same faith that he received to get him by? Amen! Oh, my! That'd pack you up there beyond the moon, and stars; and run you up the Milky White Way. Yes, sir! Past Jupiter, Venus, and Mars, and go on. On that faith, you see---Abraham's faith. Notice.

81 I can see Abraham saying ... come home out of the field, say, "Honey, get ready. We are going to have a baby." Could you imagine an old man, seventy-five years old, and his wife sixty-five, going down to the doctor, and say, "Doc, I tell you what. Make ready. We're going to have a baby. We want to get a hospital room ready."
The doctor will say, "Oh, oh. Yes, sir. Uh-huh," and call the police right quick, to pick him up. He's off of his head, you see.
Anybody that takes the Word of God, believes the Word of God's considered a little crazy, you know. They are, because they've lost the mind of the world. They got the mind of God, see.
"Get things ready." Well, then, the first twenty-eight days passed, and our little Sarah got the booties ready, you know, and got all the little booties ready, and got the Birdseye, and the pins, and everything. Got ready. So, going to have the baby, sure as the world. And then twenty-eight days passed.
Said, "How you feeling, sweetheart?"
"No different."
"Glory to God! We'll have the baby anyhow."
... say, "Ahhh! I told you you wouldn't have it."
God said, "Separate yourself from them unbelievers. Come over here in another land. Walk with Me." Oh, my! "Get away from them old unbelievers. They'll hurt you. Come out from among them."
That's right. Get away from them. They don't want to believe.

82 First year passed. Abraham walked up, and said, "Sarah, honey, how do you feel?"
"No different, sweetheart."
Glory to God! The baby is a year more a miracle. Hallelujah! We're going to have it anyhow. Keep the booties ready."
About ten, fifteen years, maybe twenty years passed. She said, "Abraham, honey, these booties are getting kind of old."
"Knit you some new ones. Hallelujah! Going to have it anyhow."
"But, Abraham, I don't feel any different."
"It's nothing what you feel. God said so. That settles it. Going to have it anyhow. God said so." Oh, brother!
Now, he's a hundred years old. Oh, my! And Sarah's ninety, little grandma, you know. "How do you feel, honey?"
"No different, dear."
"Hallelujah! We're going to have it anyhow."
Look what God did for him. He changed him, made him a young man again. Her, too. Sure, He did. Absolutely. If that's not right... When they went down to Gerar, why did the king fall in love with that little grandma? Looking for him a sweetheart, and said ... the prettiest thing he ever saw. Said, "You are fair to look upon." Little grandma nothing---she'd turned back to a young woman, showing exactly what God's going to do to every one of Abraham's seed. Hallelujah! Every man and woman, no matter what your age is, and how old you are, God will turn you sometime back to a young man and a young woman again, for the glory of God, for ... if you're the seed of Abraham. Oh, my! How I love that!

83 Now, notice. He said, "As it was in the days of Sodom..." Now we see Abraham come up to Sodom. God had dealt with him through the years, with all kinds of signs and wonders. But, now wait. Just as He did Abraham's seed.
We've been at Pentecost now for fifty years. We've seen speaking in tongues, interpretation of tongues. We've seen divine healing, signs, and everything. But now wait a minute. Sodom's fixing to be burned. Not Noah's flood, now. This is Sodom, He said.
And look at the immoral increase in the world, in the last few years---forty years, or something. Look how it's increasing by the day, by the hour. Passing over Hollywood the other day, I had ... sometime, I had a plane [unclear words], where homosexuals in Los Angeles has increased ... California had increased thirty percent over last year, perversion, just exactly like Sodom. The whole world's turned that way, this West Coast, where the east and west has met here, see. That's right.
So now we see we are at the last days, like Abraham. His royal seed has come up at the last days, like Abraham himself come up at the last days.

84 Now remember, there's always three classes of people, and here I'm going to name them. That's believers, make-believers, and unbelievers. They are in every crowd. So, you have them. So, there they was. Here was Abraham, the called-out and elected church; Lot, the cold formal church down in Sodom, with the Sodomites.
And one day, when the hour was just about ready for the burning of the earth at that time, Abraham was sitting under his oak. Now, listen real close. Don't miss this. Now, Jesus said it will repeat at the end time, just before He comes.

85 Now, there come up three angels, and one of them was God. So He sat down with Abraham, and two of them went down in Sodom, and preached the gospel to them. Is that right?---a modern Billy Graham to the church normal that's in Sodom; great men, like that Oral Roberts, going down there performing. They didn't do much of a miracle, not too many. They did something, smiting them blind. Preaching the gospel smites... There they was in that denominational realm. Went down there preaching the gospel, Billy Graham that great, mighty evangelist to the Baptist, and Presbyterian. Oh, he lays the line down to them. But you see, he preached to them calling them out.
But there was one stayed behind with Abraham, and He gave Abraham a sign. Now listen real close. Just a day before that, his name had been Abram, and her name was S-a-r-a-i, Sarai. And He changed his name from Abram to Abraham, father of nations; h-a-m, A-b-r-a-h-a-m---seven letters. A-b-r-a-h-a-m, Abraham. Now. He changed Sarah's name from S-a-r-a-i to S-a-r-a-h, princess. Now.
The angels that went down in there went down and preached the gospel, and told them to get out of that mess down there. "Come out from among them." And isn't that what Billy Graham, and them great ... Jack Schuller, and them guys today, calling out a Babylon worldwide? But the angel that stayed with the church that never was in Sodom, watch what He did for a sign.

86 Now Sarah wasn't like the modern women of today. She sat in the tent. So this angel said to Abraham, He said, "Abraham [not Abram], Abraham. [How did He know his name was Abraham now?] Where is your wife S-a-r-a-h, Sarah?" How did He know he was married? How did He know his name was Abraham, when it was Abram? How did He know Sarah, his wife, was ... Sarai was Sarah?
"Abraham, where is your wife, Sarah?"
Abraham looked at Him, said, "Why, she is in the tent behind you."
He said, "Abraham, I am going to visit you according to the time of life. [I, that personal pronoun again, the very One that give him the name, see.] I am going to visit you according to the time of life."
And Sarah, inside the tent behind the man, said, "Me, an old woman? Why," said, "I haven't had pleasure with my lord [her husband there, for, maybe it had been twenty years]... Said, "Me an old woman, and my lord also old? We have pleasure again like young people?" And she, what we call, laughed up her sleeve, kind of to herself.
And the angel said, "Why did Sarah laugh?" Whew! Scared her to death. What was it?

87 Now, what was that? And that man that talked to Abraham, Abraham called Him God, capital L-o-r-d. And any Bible scholar knows that's the self-existing One, Elohim, see, the self-existing God.
Some man said to me, said, "You wouldn't believe that was God?"
I said, "The Bible said it was God." I said, "Why, what's that to God?" I said, "We're made out of sixteen elements. That's calcium, potash, and petroleum, and cosmic light...
"God just reached, and got a handful of those elements over there, and said, "Whoosh! Step in there, Gabriel. We're going down to Sodom." Reached over, and got another handful, "Whoosh! Step in there, Michael," and, "Whoosh!" stepped in Himself. Why, He did. He eat. He eat a calf that Abraham killed (is that right?), drunk the milk, and eat some cornbread, and eat some butter. That's right. God! Well, I'm glad. It's nothing for God. You just forget who He is. I'm so glad.

88 I've got just about four or five hairs left, you know. And the other day I was combing them four or five hairs, and my wife said to me, she said, "Billy, you're getting bald-headed."
I said, "But I haven't lost a one of them."
She said, "What?"
I said, "I haven't lost a one of them."
She said, "I pray you, tell me where they are at."
I said, "All right, sweetheart, I will. You tell me where they was before I got them. They're there waiting for me to come to them." Yes. That's right.
He said, "Every hair of your head's numbered. Nothing will be lost. I'll raise it up again in the last day." He that give it to me now, can't He give it back again by a promise? If He can make me what I am without a choice, how much more can He make me back by a choice, by taking Him? Amen! Oh, I feel religious now (yes, sir), to know that there's coming a resurrection, and we'll be restored again like He showed Abraham in there. Notice. Now Jesus said that was God manifested in a human flesh.

89 I want to ask you something. Isn't it strange (to that nominal church out there) we have never in all the ages... Never have we ever had a man, a minister, in them churches that his name ended with h-a-m until today, h-a-m. Did you know that's right? We've had a Moody, a Sankey, Billy Sunday, and Knox, Calvin, Spurgeon. All down we've had all kinds of men, but never one ended with h-a-m---G-r-a-h-a-m to the church down in Sodom. G-r-a-h-a-m, the messenger to the church in Sodom, showing exactly the message that they did then.
And did not Jesus say, "As it was in the days of Sodom...?" There's Billy Graham, G-r-a-h-a-m, out there in the field.
Now He sends the messenger to the church elected, the Pentecostal elected, pulled-out: not out there in the nominal church, but the church elected. And the church in itself is... The Holy Spirit moving in the church is what does the works. That wasn't that body of flesh. It probably vanished. But it was God in that flesh, showing that God would again dwell in the redeemed flesh of his church in the last days, and would do the same sign. "As it was in the days of Sodom, so shall it be in the coming of the Son of man." Hallelujah! There you are. Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today, and forever. "Sirs, we would see Jesus."
Oh, sure. What would you see? The manifestation of the Word. And the Word is sharper than a two-edged sword, piercing even the ... sunder of the bones, and a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart. Friends, that was Jesus yesterday. And if the Word is manifested again today, won't it be Jesus today? would be the same yesterday? How many believes that? Let's pray.

90 Heavenly Father, your great, august presence is in here making your children happy, pouring out the oil of faith into their hearts to receive the blessings of God that's laid up for them. Now we are called by your name, and You said if we'd assemble and pray that You'd hear from heaven, heal the land. And here we are tonight, way up here at the end of the road, out here on the island, way out past the West Coast, way back. And You said ... the prophet said, "It shall be light in the evening time."
Sitting in this building tonight are the Indians that You put here. The secret is with You, how You got them here. But You brought them here. We're right at the border of the waters. And we see the messenger that's gone to the called seed of Abraham, the church positionally, that's got out there in Babylon, showing his sign out there.
Oh, Lord, we pray tonight that in Jesus' name that You will let this little group of people know that You're not dead. You've raised from the dead, and two thousand years of criticism couldn't get rid of You. You're still here, proving that You're the same yesterday, today, and forever.

91 Heavenly Father, a lovely group of people here, they sit in this hot building. And now, reward them, Lord. And I'm looking with child anticipation, with a heart like a child around Christmas time, waiting. Ever ... all these years, Lord, You've never failed us. But yet my heart jumps every time I think of You coming into our presence, or us into your presence. Now I pray, Father, that You will come into our hearts.
Give these people faith, tonight, to believe. And grant now that You will give me faith, Lord. But my faith without theirs would do no good. We must have faith together, because we are a unit. We are the body of the Lord Jesus, and we've assembled ourselves together in a little rented hall tonight, as they did in days gone by, two thousand years ago.
Now we pray in this upper room tonight that You will move in here, and will show to this people that You're still alive. And, Father, if you'll just do it, everybody in here will go away happy. They'll go away believing for their sickness and their sins to be forgiven. They'll have courage. Many of these poor people who don't have even hardly enough to eat, perhaps, and some of them are down to meager living. Others are maybe, Lord, just struggling day by day. And we're all poor, Lord, and we're trying to make heaven our home.
Come among us tonight, Father. These words that I've preached, they'll just fall by the wayside if You don't come and confirm them. Grant it, Lord. We'll thank You. We ask it in Jesus' name. Amen.

92 Now, I'm going to tell you... It's a quarter until ten. Would you give me just a little, short, prayer line, about fifteen minutes? Let's ... will you do it? All right. Now. I believe Billy said he give out about fifty prayer cards. All right.
Now, the prayer cards---everybody that's got a prayer card, hold it like this. It's just a little prayer card, with a number on it. It's got a number on a prayer card. And now, we would like to see... Let's see, where shall we start? Let's start at 1 tonight. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. Let's see them stand up. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. Prayer card number 1, who has number 1, 2, 3, 4, 5? Let's see your hand. 1, 2, 3. Let's see another one. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5.
You sure all the people know English? All know English? Who has prayer card number 1? Raise up your hand. Number 1. Number 2, 2. How would the Indian say 2, if he'd say it in his own language. All right. You heard it. Number 2? Prayer card number 2? Number 3? Who has number 3? A lady has number 3. Number 4? Who has number 4 prayer card? That lady there. All right.

93 Surely there is 1, 2, or 3 here somewhere. Look ... everybody look at one another's cards. Everybody's got a card, raise up your hand. Everybody that's got a prayer card, raise up your hand. Now look at one another's cards. Look over ... see, maybe they can't hear. See it may be somebody's deaf, and I missed them right by, or maybe they can't walk. They're crippled and can't walk. 1, 2. Who has 1 or 2? 3?
The lady has it. 4, we have it. All right. 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10. All right. Let them stand up and come over here. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10. Let them just come right over here in the corner. That's good. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7.
There's three cards missing now. There's three missing now. You see, the reason I want to get every one of them, because somebody writes and tells me later, said, "Well, nobody told me. I was deaf. I couldn't get up, and nobody told me," see. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10. Here's another, this fellow here. Now what's his number? 2? All right, 1. 1, prayer card 1. We got 2, 3. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9. We lack one. Number 1. Well, if they stepped out... Maybe they've stepped out, and they'll be back in just in a minute. All right. If they do, they got their place in the line.

94 Now remember, everybody holding a prayer card, if we don't get to it tonight, we're going to get to it. And we're going to pray for everybody that comes to the meeting and wants to be prayed for.
Now, let's see. That's 10, 9. Let's see 10, 11. Who has prayer card 11? No? 12? All right, sir. 13, 14? All right, lady, over here. 15.
Now when you come ... let me say this. Now, when you come and get a card, hold to it, see. Don't change it. You give it to somebody... You've got to be here to get it yourself. Take your card, and hold it, see. You see, someone else would take that place, you see.
If you get a card, hold it. We don't know where the Holy Spirit'll have us pulling, and we want you there on that time. So you come get your card. Let's start right with that. Others come in, and we've got two or three missing, but that will be all right. Now we want you to believe now, with all your heart.

95 Now, I want your attention here. How many in the building that's sick, and does not have a prayer card, and won't be called in the line? Raise up your hand. Let's see. Everybody? Well, it's just practically all the way around.
Now, here now, while they're getting that prayer line up through that room there, I want to ask you something. Listen now, close now. All I've said will go in vain, if this isn't so. If... Any man can say anything. But if it isn't God's Word, don't believe it the first place. But, if it's God's Word, then look for God to keep that promise, 'cause God's got to keep his promise in order to be God. If I'm going to be honest, I've got to keep my promise, see. A man of honor, a man of honor always keeps his word, see. You always keep your word.

96 Now each one of you out there that's not in this prayer line, and won't be in it without prayer cards, you just look this a-way. Let me tell you what you do.
There was a little woman one time in the Bible. I'm going to give you a little story. She didn't have a prayer card either, but she seen Jesus come across the sea, and was down there. Someone told her, and she believed if she could only touch his garment that she'd be made well. Did you ever hear the story? How many of you heard it? Sure.
The woman touched... She had a blood issue. And now, remember, I've been in that country. The Palestinian garment hangs loose. It's a robe, and it's got a underneath garment under that, to keep the dust off the limbs.
Now, if she touched the border of his garment physically, He didn't feel it. You know what I mean. He didn't feel it in his body. But she said within herself, "I believe He's a holy man, and if I can just touch Him, I'll be made well." Is that right? And she had a blood issue.
And she pushed through the crowd, and she got down, and she touched the border. That was that fell from his legs, where the garment swings out. And she touched the border of his garment, and got up, and went back, and maybe sit down in the audience. And Jesus stopped. He said, "Who touched me?"

97 And you know what Peter said? Peter rebuked Him, said, "Lord, why would you say a thing like that?" Said, "Well, everybody's touching you."
"Hello, Rabbi."
"Great prophet of God!"
"You deceiver!"
Everybody, see, everybody's touching Him. He said, "Everybody's touching you. Why would you say 'Who touched me?' "
He said, "But I perceive that I've gotten weak. [Virtue, strength, went from Him.] I've gotten weak." That one little woman touched Him, and made Him weak, and He turned. And He looked over the audience until He found her, told her what her trouble was, and said her faith had made her well. Is that right?
Now, that was Jesus Christ yesterday. Is that right? Well, if He's the same today, won't He do the same?

98 Now for my minister brothers, they might want a scripture for that. I'm going to give you one now. The Bible said in Hebrews, the 3rd chapter, that Jesus Christ---right now, today---is a high priest that can be touched by the feeling of our infirmities. Is that right, brethren? How many knows that's the truth? the Bible says that? He's the high... Well, if He is the same high priest, how would He act today? The same as He did then. Does that make Him the same yesterday, today, and forever?
Then now, if you come here and touched me---I'm like your daddy, or your brother, husband, or whatmore---it wouldn't do a bit of good. I'm just a man. Touch your pastor, same thing.
But you touch Him, and watch the Spirit move down, see. Amen! That's it, you see. That makes Him the same yesterday, today, and forever. It wouldn't be me; it would be a gift that He works through.

99 Brother Wood, did you bring them pictures with you, or anything? You got them? Oh, you have them up there on the platform? Did you see them tonight? We'll have them tomorrow night? How would you like to see a picture of it? We got it right here, brother, right by ... hanging in Washington D.C., copyrighted---the only supernatural being was ever photographed, that same pillar of fire that followed the children of Israel. Here it is. And it will do the same work that it did.
Jesus said, "I come from God." That's ... went to God. He died, rose, ascended into heaven. And Paul, on his road down to Damascus, a big pillar of fire struck him blind. He said, "Lord, who are you?"
He said, "I'm Jesus." Is that right? The same yesterday, today, and forever.

100 Now, you without a prayer card, you look this a-way and you start praying. You start praying, saying, "Lord Jesus, I believe You. And that little old man standing up there on the platform, he doesn't know me."
There isn't a person in this building I know, outside of Brother Wood. I see him standing back there. I believe that's a couple of brethren there. Brother Fred Sothmann from Canada here, I know him, but no one in this vicinity here. How many of you here's a stranger to me? Raise up your hand. Everyone's a stranger, and you know that I don't know you, raise up your hand. You people in the prayer line knows I'm a stranger to you, raise up your hands. All right.
Now you just believe, and say, "Lord Jesus, by faith I believe that what that brother says is truth. I'm sick, Lord. Let me touch You." And then say... Act upon Him. Watch the Holy Spirit move right down through here, and do the same thing He did. If it doesn't do it, then I'm a false prophet. If it does do it, then you believe it. That's right.

101 Now, did you give the boy your card? Speak English all right? We're strangers to one another. I believe he's a Indian brother. Is that...? Indian? Well, here we are, two strangers, two men. Never met before in life. Now, he stands here. He's just a man. I stand here as a man. He's here for some reason I don't know. I've never seen him, and this is our first time.
But now, if Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever, he might be ... this man might be here for... Maybe it's financial needs, maybe it's domestic trouble, something wrong in his home. It may be that he's sick. Or maybe he's standing here for somebody else. I don't know. I never seen him. But now if he was standing here, and I said, "Glory to God! Hallelujah! God sent me to pray for the sick," lay hands on him. I'd say, "You sick, mister?"
He'd say, "Yes, I'm sick."
I'd lay hands on him, and say, "Glory to God. Go, get well."
That'd be all right. But what if the Holy Spirit comes down here, and tells him what he has been? He'll know whether that's the truth or not. And if he knows what he has been, he can surely believe what he will be, if He can tell me what has been. Is that right? Now how many would believe that with all your heart? say, "I will accept it"? Now may the Lord God grant it.

102 I just want you to look this way, sir. Just talk with you a minute, being a stranger. And if there is any way that I could do to help you, I would do it. But if the Lord God can tell me like ... what you're here for, what you've done, what you should have done, or what's wrong with you, or something, you'd know whether that was the truth or not. And so, then it would make the audience believe---make you believe, wouldn't it? 'Cause you know I couldn't do it myself, 'cause I'm just a man like you are. It'd have to be some supernatural power. And if it's a supernatural power...
Now, the Pharisees of that day said it was Beelzebub, the devil. See what happened to them. Them that believed it was Christ received Christ's reward.
Now, I tell you now. The man standing here is under difficult. That's right. He's standing here because he hardly knows which way to go, because it's something strange---first time in this country. Don't be alarmed, sir. That won't hurt you. That's Christ. Let me show you that it is. You're here for healing. You're weak. You've had some trouble. You've been in an operating room. You've had an operation, and that was for an ulcer in the stomach, and you've gotten real weak over that. And you're here for ... Is that right? Raise up your hand. It's all over. You're going to get well. God bless you. Your faith makes you whole.
You believe? Sir, we would see Jesus. We would see Jesus. Now probably his Indian friends out there knew him. If you can just believe... All right.

103 Now here is a woman from the Anglo-Saxon. Now here is a man and a woman. I suppose we're strangers to one another. We've ... first time we've met. Now, I do not know the woman. I have never seen her in my life. She's a stranger. And now we've probably... She's a little older than I, and we're born miles apart, and years apart. This is the first time we meet.
But now if the Holy Spirit of God will let me know what you're here for, or something about you, you know that I don't know. Then it would make you believe, won't it? All right. You just believe now.
The lady, I see her sitting at a table. No, she's backing away. It's her stomach. She has stomach trouble. That's exactly right. Peptic condition, and it causes burning, acids, and so forth. Got a nervous condition ... causes you to get gloomy way late in the evening. You get all wore out, and tore up. That's right. You believe God can tell me who you are? Would that help you? Miss Vering. And... That's right. All right. Go believe now that stomach trouble will leave you. You believe with all your heart? Now just have faith. Don't doubt now.

Sir, we would see Jesus

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1 Only believe;
Only believe, only believe,
All things are possible, only believe.
As we bow our heads now for a word of prayer, I wonder how many here would like to be remembered, just to raise up your hand, and let your request be known? All right. Let us pray.

2 Our heavenly Father, we are grateful to Thee for this, a great privilege that we have of assembling together again before the coming of the Lord. And we pray, Father, that this will just not be an ordinary gathering together, but it'd be a gathering unto Thee, in the bonds of Thy love and fellowship. We pray that You'll save everyone that comes to the meeting. Fill those with the Holy Spirit who so long desired it, Father. Heal every sick and afflicted person. May we sit reverently and be quiet, waiting upon Thee, and waiting for the coming of the answer that we've so long prayed for. Bless this pastor, Brother Vick, and Brother Boze and all the other ministers, all of our friends. Now we commit ourselves, with this building, to You. In the name of the Lord Jesus, that while we're assembled here, You'll use us for your glory. Amen. Amen. Be seated.

3 It is such a privilege to be here. I long waited the time the ... one of the highlights of ... As I said to the pastor, this morning, my pilgrimage was to meet Brother Vick, and to have this time of fellowship with he and you people.
I don't get to New York too often. Looks like it's ... I live in Tucson, Arizona, you know, and I always ministering out in the West there. And we're fixing to go overseas now, right away, for another almost worldwide tour. And so to know that I got to come to New York before going over, I certainly deem it a great privilege and a blessing from God to be here with you.

4 Now, I don't come, as you have known before, to represent any certain church or any certain denomination, or any creed. I just love the Lord, and one of you, we're just here to serve Him. And now, and we serve Him as ...
You say, "Well, as you speak to us, Brother Branham, we are, it serves the Lord." Well, as you believe back, and together we serve the Lord. The two of us together makes a unit.

5 You know, I used to work as an electrician. And I find out that you can have a wire that's got plenty of current, but it's not effective until it's grounded. So when it's grounded, then you get the results, the current. So we must have both parts of the wire, to make it work right.
And if there would be ever such wonderful speaking, and yet no one to believe it, it would be ineffective. But if there's someone to believe it, then it becomes real effective. And we ... Thank you, brother. That's good. I like that, "We believe." That's what we're here for.

6 And I truly believe that we are just facing some great event. I trust it's the coming of the Lord. Become ... We know something has to give away, the world is under too much tension. And there is something wrong, everyone knows that. And I believe that we are facing some great thing, and I believe, with all my heart, that it's the second coming of the Lord Jesus. And I trust that He will pour out His Spirit upon us, and will reveal to us the things that we should do to be prepared for His coming.

7 Now, I realize, to come here with Brother Vick and these brethren, It's a big job, because there has been many great men in here, great influential speakers. I was hearing Brother William Booth-Clibborn, one time, speaking of having a long meeting with the Rock Church. Did I say that right? It's the Rock Church. And I call it "Stone Church," all the time. So it's all the ... And so, and many other great men who has been here visiting. And I've longed to be with the church myself. And to meet men ... or come in a pulpit where people has listened to such men as that, and your pastor, Brother Boze, Doctor Lee Vayle, many of those other great ministers, it kind of makes me feel pretty small. But I'm here to do my part in this. Maybe the finger feels pretty small to the mind but yet it must remain a finger. See, we must have it.

8 So now just a little familiar text, so we won't stay too long, a little text that I usually introduce to the meeting, and each time try to get around somewhere different.
We were going to have a prayer line, tonight, of praying for the sick in a ... in a prayer line. And my son, which I met the lovely ... some of the people of the Stone Church, this morning, Rock Church, excuse me. Brother Boze told me that that was 'cause I was from the West, the reason I call it a stone; out there they call it stone, here they call it rock. So meeting those fine people, and they ... we got everything set in order, I said, "Now I'll go over." And they gave me a bunch of prayer cards, said, "Take these and have my son to give them out, so we can pray for the sick." Well, he didn't know we was going to do it that way, so he and some of the brethren were out and gone, and didn't get in in time to give out those cards. But I suppose they've already announced some way they'd be giving them tomorrow, however it is, how they'd be giving them out tomorrow.

9 But I thought then, tonight, with a little introduction of what we want to talk about.
Now, many people, speaking of divine healing or any other subject in the Bible, the first thing we find, the greatest hindrance, is people try to build it either way back in the past tense or way over in the future tense, or it's so high that no one can reach it. Now that's just the devil doing that.
Because, the Bible said, "He's the same yesterday, today, and forever." He ever remains God. And He is just as great with his people, when He finds believers today, as He ever was. And I believe the Word to be this Bible, to be the Word of God, just no more and no less. I know that God can do things that He has not written in the Bible, because He is God. But as long as I know that what I see Him doing, He has written in here, that He will do it, then I know I'm right, that way. And so He ... If He keeps that much, it'll be enough for me, because I see in there that, "He was wounded for my transgressions, bruised for my iniquity, the chastisement of my peace was upon Him, with His stripes I was healed." So that finishes the journey for me.

10 And He promised it, that we ... He would raise us up at the last day, so we're looking for that time to come. Many precious saints are waiting, of course, for that hour.
Now, this, God has got to judge the people, the world. We believe there is coming a day that when God will judge the world by Jesus Christ. Now there has to be some standard, somewhere, that He has to judge by.
Well, because so many people today would say, "Well, I'm," even people say they are, "Christ," and, "I am Christ," and "I am of Christ," and, "this denomination is of Christ, or this denomination." It would be a bit confusing if there wasn't some standard.
Now, if I'd go to ask the Catholic people in the building here, tonight. "What do you think God will judge the world by?"
They would say, "Well, the standard of the Catholic church."

11 I might ask about maybe some other denomination. Why, it would say, "Why, the standard of our church." They might not right out confess it, but our actions prove that's what we think. But then which church would be right? See, we wouldn't know where to go. And then it isn't by any certain group, any church, any denomination.
It's going to be by His Word. That's the standard. See? For it said in 1st John, St. John that 1st chapter, "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," the same yesterday, today, and forever. So this is one thing that He can judge the world by, that all of us will have to answer to, this Book. And so I trust that God will open this Book this week, to us, in evangelistic messages, and in interpretations that He will give, Himself, of His Word, just the way it's written, and interpret it to us, and then show Himself alive here with us, to do that.
Now there is many things that we can say. Men can say anything, I guess, they desire to say. But to God to say it, that makes it right. And then if God says it, and then comes back and proves that He did say it, then there is no question there, it's all right.

12 Now let us, if you want to kind of follow these Scriptural texts; I see, I believe they're taking a tape over here. And I believe now, before we read, there will be also ...
I'm to speak on a Sunday. Is that right, Brother Vick? On Sunday morning or Sunday--Sunday night? Nights, all through the week. And no day services, no day services. All right. Now, and then we'll ...
How many would like to have a healing service, pray for the sick? Let's see your hands, up through. Oh, my! It's in the majority, by much, I guess ninety-nine hundredths and ninety-nine hundredths. That's about ... Well, that's fine. But we're ...

13 Now, divine healing is not all the message. Jesus put, I think they claimed, about eighty percent of his ministry was on divine healing. But as the late Brother Bosworth ... Many of you knew Brother F. F. Bosworth, a godly, saintly man. He used to say, that, "Divine healing is just like the bait on the hook. You never show the fish the hook, you show him the bait. So divine healing is a minor. And you can never major on a minor, but it leads to the major. So, we see this.
And the Bible is true, every Word. And I feel that we can hang our soul on any word of the Bible. It's God's Word, and I may not have faith enough to make it all act out, but I certainly believe that it can be done, if we have faith enough to believe it. Yes, if we believe it.

14 Now in the Book of St.John 12:20. Many of you that's been in the meetings before, this will be a very familiar text, because I use it as an opening text to introduce what I want to say through the week, and what we want to be talking on, and then Hebrews 13:8. In St.John 12:20.
And there were certain Greeks among them, that came up to the feast to worship:
The same came therefore to Philip, which was of Bethsaida of Galilee, and desired him, saying, Sirs, we would see Jesus.
And I want to take just five words out of that. "Sir, We Would See Jesus." And then on Hebrews 13:8.
He is the same yesterday, ... to day, and for ever.

15 Now if He is the same, and our hearts tonight, I'm sure that I speak for quite a few in this meeting, that our hearts are just as hungry to see Jesus Christ as those Greeks were. We ... No one can ever hear of Him, that would not want to see Him. It's been my heart's desire to know the reality.
And having a broad experience kind of pays up a little for my lack of education, by having dealings with other religions, such as Buddha, and the Mohammedan, and different types of religions. I've seen them around and around the world, as I travel, and looked into them and searched them over. But there is only one true that I believe is right, that's this, Christianity. And then it's the only one that can prove that the founder of this religion is not dead.

16 They have a horse sitting at the ... or standing, rather, at the tomb of Mohammed, and they believe someday he'll rise and ride the world down to victory. And, but he's dead, he's been dead several hundreds of years. Buddha died about twenty-three hundred years ago, he was a philosopher in Japan, China.
But now our religion, of Christ, He did die, He had to die in order to save us. But we show an empty tomb. And now His life, reflected in us, proves that He is not dead, see, and His promises.

17 Now, of course, if you'd say that in a foreign nation, amongst the Mohammedan, they'd say, "Yeah, he reflects his life in us. But he never made any promise, see, these promises." But he said, "Your Jesus made these promises, now we're waiting to see you teachers perform what He said that He promised." See, that's what the wait is for.
And that's where they caught our Brother Billy Graham, that Mohammedan teacher, well, about, said, "If this ... You just bring so many, and I'll bring so many, and I'll do as much with them as you will."
Well, that was quite a challenge. But he will challenge that to the wrong person someday and then, see, it'll be. Now, I would believe that He is the same yesterday, today, and forever.

18 Now, according to the Scriptures, we are supposed to be written epistles of Him. The Bible says that we are written epistles. And if, tonight, we would hunger and thirst to see the Lord Jesus Christ, we as Christian believers should reflect His life, so much, till it would be His entire representative. We should be that. Every Christian should be represent and reflect the life of Jesus Christ. Do you believe that? I believe that every Christian should be reflecting the life of Christ. He said, in St. John 14:12, "He that believeth on Me, the works I do shall he do also." And then we know that that's true, that we are His representatives. And if we claim that Christ lives in us, and if Christ lives in us, then we should do as Christ did. We should reflect His life.

19 What if I said, tonight, that the life of Shakes... What if I said Shakespeare lived in me, or you said Shakespeare lived in you? All right, you would write the poems that Shakespeare wrote, because Shakespeare lives in you. What if you said Beethoven lived in you? You would be the great composer that Beethoven was, because Beethoven lives in you. You're not yourself, now you are Beethoven or you're Shakespeare.
Then if Christ lives in you, there you are, see, the life of Christ you live. See, it's just that way, if He lives in you. But you can't live in there with Him; He has got to live in you. That's how He takes your place, and we are supposed to represent Him in every way.

20 Now we find that the first church did represent Him, as written epistles, His life lived through those people. I can't compare our church today. As hard as it is to say this, as much as I love people, yet you've got to be honest and tell the truth. I can't say that we see, in the churches today, reflecting Christ in the way that those people did.
They knowed that they had been with Jesus. We find in Saint ... No, I believe it is in Acts the 4th chapter, that we find out, that those fishermen, Peter and John, and healing the man at the Gate Beautiful, and was able to answer any question that the Sanhedrin asked them; yet, they with their ignorance, and unlearned. They could perceive that. They had no education, and they was not trained ministers, they were fishermen. "But they perceived that they had been with Jesus," see, because that they were acting the same way He acted on them.

21 You can just live with somebody so long, and around them, until you take up their ways. And it's good for us not to run off and live with the world. But stay with Jesus until we can reflect, His life be reflected in our life.
And that's the way those disciples were. They knew that they had been around Jesus, because they talked like Him, acted like Him, and healed like Him, and every answer was like Him. They was inspired like Him, and they knowed that He was living in them. That's what we should be all the time, as believers. They acting like Him, 'cause, if you associate with someone so long.

22 We find in the Bible, over in the book of Kings, that there was a man by the name of Jehoshaphat, a righteous man. And there was the son of Ahab, Jehoram, and he was taking up the habits of his father, and then the king of Edom. And then they declared war, the Moabites did, upon Israel at that time. And Jehoram being king, after his father, why, he called on Jehoshaphat. And Jehoshaphat, a righteous man, should never have connected hisself with this unrighteous person. But many times Christians do that, just not thinking.
And so they took a seven-day compass, and went into the wilderness, and come to find out, they had run out of water. And one of them cried, "Alas, because God has brought these kings out here to slay them!"

23 But Jehoshaphat, being a righteous man, in the time of trouble, remembered that God still lived. You see, regardless of the ... Though we stepped aside and done wrong, yet God is still with us. God still remains the same. And Jehoshaphat, remembering this, cried out, "Isn't there a prophet of the Lord somewhere, that we could consult?"
And one of the servants of the king of Israel, said back, "Yes, here is Elisha. He poured water on the hands of Elijah."
And Jehoshaphat said, "The word of the Lord is with him."
Why? Look at his association. See, they knowed this man had associated with a genuine prophet. And they knowed that to have that kind of company, and stay in that kind of company, he had to walk a pretty straight life, and he wouldn't say nothing ... because he had been brought up under the tutorship of this great prophet, Elijah.

24 Oh, how it would be today if the church could only stay with Christ, under the tutorship of the Holy Spirit, never leave that Word for no creed nor nothing, believe it just the way it's wrote. And men everywhere would know that you had been with Jesus, also. That's how he would know it.
But today, it's too bad. We kind of look to a well-trained scholar or something. That's who we think we find Christ in. We go to schools. We send our boys, off to school, to seminaries; which is all right, but we find out, they learn how to speak eloquent speeches, and they make great talks. And they're fine men, there is no doubt, thousands of them. And they know how to put the program over. They know how to stand on the platform, they know how to introduce Christ to the people. But you come to find out, most of that, or a lot of it, too much of it, is just that man; not being exactly a representative to Christ, but a lecturer. See, knows, he is trained to give lecture. You could ask him to give a talk that would actually astound the people, from his eloquence of speech and how he could hold himself, and how he could hold the people spellbound. But we find out, he learned that in a seminary somewhere, somewhere where they trained him how to do.

25 How different it was from St. Paul, when he said, "I never come to you with the excellency of speech or with wisdom of the world, but in the power of the Holy Spirit; that your faith would not be in the wisdom of man and his culture, but in the power of the Holy Spirit."
Yes, we have another group we kind of, many people, look to, is a fellow that we call the good fellow. He stands up on the platform, he is a good jokester. He can tell a few jokes and get all the people laughing, and people will crowd out everywhere to hear those jokes. And maybe they're not bad jokes, they're just jokes told from the platform, but I don't think that's right. This is no place for joking.
This is the place for the deepest of sincerity. That's what's the matter with the church today, we get away from that deep sincerity. We got to be right down to the bottom, sincere with this, you see. And then, God loves sincerity, and we don't get sincere enough with it.

26 But we find out, this person can get everybody laughing and going on, and we kind of look for that man. But, to me, he is called, to me, maybe an "entertainer," maybe just simply a "pulpit clown," that's all, see, to stand up there and just get the people laughing. When, they should be, in the coming of the Lord, in the deepness of sincerity, watching every moment for His appearing, for we don't know just what time He might appear. So, we don't need lecturers, we don't need entertainers, and so forth.
Then there is another class of people, that looks for God, if they was looking for Him, in the dress of a person. Many people see a man coming down the street with some great ... some kind of a religious hat on, and religious clothes hanging down, and they think that that's very religious, that's Christ-like. And I don't think so. If that would be so, then ... Christ didn't dress like that, so it isn't in dress. "The Kingdom of God is not in meat and dress, but it's long-suffering, and the Holy Ghost."

27 They look for the people, many of them, look for the people, people look for Christ, rather, among their relatives. You say, "My mother, she has been a certain-certain member of a certain-certain church for so many years. Or, my father come up." And they look for Christ amongst their people like that. "My family raised me up to be such-and-such." But we don't see Christ, see, we don't see it.
You know, Mary and Joseph made that mistake, one time. They were good people. But they went up to Jerusalem to the feast, and on their road back they missed Jesus among them. And so they sought Him among their people, but He wasn't found. And I think that's a whole lot today. And they went trying to find where He was at. Did you know where they found Him? Right where they left Him. That's right.

28 Well, that's where we'll find Him. That's where the church will find Him. We won't find Him in lectures. We won't find Him in entertainers. We won't find Him in the way we dress, or the denomination we belong to. We'll go back to the day of Pentecost, where He came into the church, and there is where we'll find Him. Because, that's where the early church left Him, at the Nicaea Council, and there is where He has been left ever since. So, it's, we have to go back to that time, to get Him. Go back where we left Him, to where we can take His Word; and not add nothing to it, take anything from it. Just believe it the way it is. That, that's the way it's written, that's what it is. God has watched over it, to keep it this way, and that's the standard that we'll be judged by.

29 Now these Greeks were not looking for a lecturer, on Jesus Christ. They wasn't looking for pulpit clowns, as I said a few moments ago. They're not looking for that. They're not looking for entertainers. They wanted to see Him, the person, Jesus Christ. They longed to see Him, because they had heard of Him. "And faith cometh by hearing, hearing the Word." And He is the Word. See, He is the Word. See? And they wanted to see Jesus.
Now, they never said they wanted to hear Him; they had already heard. They wanted to see. That wasn't the question, "We would like to hear Jesus. Sirs, we would ... hear Jesus." They wanted to see Jesus. That was their purpose of inquiring, was to see Him.

30 Not to have Him explained. Today, with great intellectual messages, we can explain it till you can see the picture. But, that isn't what we're looking for tonight. We're not looking for the mechanics, we're looking for the dynamics of it. That's it, see, that's ... We've got the mechanics of the religions of the Bible so bottlized till it looks like a great big sixteen or thirty-five-coach train sitting out here on the track. But if you haven't got any steam in it, then the ... It takes the dynamic to perform with the mechanics. What we need now is to see that this, what we've been taught all these years, is it the truth or is it not? It's been explained, over and over and over, through the different seminaries and churches, and so forth, until we are looking to see who this person is.
Now you say, "Brother Branham, how would you do it?"

31 Well, did you notice they come to a servant of Christ, who had been trained to know what to do. Not to just say, "Wait now, you sit down here, I'll explain it." No, he brought them right straight to Him, 'cause that's what they wanted to see. They said, "We would see Jesus." Not, "We'd like for you to explain it to us and tell us what it's all about." That wasn't the question. But they wanted to see Jesus. And they ... God had someone standing there, Philip, that could take them and show them to the person, Jesus Christ.
Now that's what we want to see. We want to see the person. You say, "Well, Brother Branham, we will see Him when He comes." Yes, but He promised that He, in the person of the Holy Spirit, would come in the last days and would be with us, even in us, to the end of the world. And the things that He did, we would do also. He said, in Hebrews 13:8, as I have quoted that, "He is the same yesterday, today, and forever." Now there would only be one way to know what He is today.

32 We find we couldn't find Him in fine lectures, 'cause we find people who can stand up and can explain the Word in such a way, it's just breathtaking. But when we find it, it's still just a lecture. See, just a lecture, it's the mechanics. And we find the entertainer who can go through all the actions, and so forth, but that still isn't it. That isn't what we're looking for. We find the religious type, with their robes on, and so forth, that still isn't what we're looking for. See? No.
We're looking for the person, Jesus Christ. See, the person, Jesus Christ! Now, if the Bible said, "He is the same yesterday, today, and forever," then He must be that, or the Bible said something wrong. And I don't believe God would judge the world by anything wrong.
Then where're we at again? See, we're all out in a muddle again, because there is everything, this church says, "we got it," and, "we got it," and, "we got it," and so forth. But if you've got it, you would show it, that's right, see, the person, Christ Jesus.

33 Now the only true way to find out what He is, is find out what He was, see, because He is unchangeable. God can never change. He has never changed. "He is the same yesterday, today, and forever. "He must ever remain the same. His Word must remain the same. His plans must ever be the same.
Now we have tried everything in the world, to get by, away from His plans. But it still remains, His is the only way. Man has tried to make a way to educate men to fellowship; it failed. We've tried to denominate them to fellowship; it failed. God has one place that He meets man, that's under the blood. And outside of that ... There is no ... failing. That's right. You got ... must have, under the blood.

34 Now, if a Catholic priest, or Orthodox Jew, and a Nazarene, and a Pilgrim Holiness, and a Pentecostal, can stand out here in their denominations and fuss with one another, all day long, and claim how greater each is, and so forth; but let them all come beneath that blood and kneel beneath the cross, they got their arms around one another, and they are brothers because they have things in common. And that's one thing that every born-again believer has in common, is the blood of Jesus Christ that cleanses them.

35 A little story, here not long ago, of a family, a lovely little family was breaking up. A man and his wife, they'd come to a disagreement and they were going to have a divorce. And the lawyer told them, said, "Now, if you don't want the courts to kind of take everything you've got, you should go down there, and between you, and divide the spoils up, from your family, your union."
So they go down to the home, and they met on a certain day. They went into the living room, and they fussed and they stewed about everything was in the living room. Then they went into the kitchen, and they fussed and stewed about what was in there, and the different rooms of the house. After a while, they decided to go up into the attic, because they had an old trunk up there. They had some old antique things, that they were laid away, so they went up into the attic to pull out this trunk. And they, one would say, "This is mine," "this is mine," and they would argue over it.
In a few moments, they uncovered something, and they both reached for it, and their hands crossed. It was a pair of little baby shoes, that God had give to their union, and had taken away from them. There, who could claim it? It was something they had in common. See? And with tears in each other's eyes, they pulled the little shoes between them. The divorce was annulled. See, they found something that meant something to both of them.
And I think that Christianity should do the same thing. We can find something that means to both of us, that's Christ. See? That means to all of us, there we can take each other by the hand and stand there as brothers and sisters in Christ. He is Christ. Now is He alive? He certainly is, "Alive forevermore! And because I live, you live also."

36 Now we'd have to go back, to watch. We know we wouldn't find Him as a great educator. We don't even have any record of Him ever going to school. And He wouldn't be a different dressed man, because He went in and out men, among men, rather, and never ... Why, people didn't know Him, all of them dressed alike. He didn't dress like a priest. He didn't dress like a religious man. He dressed just like an ordinary man. And then for His ...
We find out that the Bible wrote in such common language, He must have used the grammar that was used out on the street, just the common people. Because, the Bible said, "The common people heard Him gladly," see. So maybe the intellectuals could not associate themselves in such a common person that spoke with drawls, and so forth, that perhaps He did. So, it was a little too much for them. It is yet, today.
And that's the reason the Bible become such a problem to people, because, they try to interpret it by the higher type of language, when it was wrote in a street language, you see.

37 So, God humbles Himself. God is humility. "The man that can humble himself is on his road up. He that exalts himself is on the road down," always. So we must remember that Christianity is not pushing ahead, and trying to get ahead of this fellow, but stepping back and taking the back seat. See, letting the other fellow go on, that's Christianity. Humble yourself. "If he sue you at the court, and takes your coat, give him the cloak also. If he compels you to go a mile, go two. If he smites one cheek, turn the other." He was our example in every way what we should be. And if that life can reflect in us, people will see Christ in you, you see, when they can see that.

38 Well, now let's see, there might have been many men. Jesus was different than all men. There might have been many men who could be humble, and go the second mile, or turn the other cheek, but we find that Jesus was a different person.
Now, God has always stayed with His Word. Remember, He never changes His Word.

39 As I said, a few moments ago, about the blood. In the garden of Eden, when Adam and Eve had sinned, and God had to keep His law because He was just. And the penalty of the law was, well, He had to place upon that family, because, "The wages of sin is death, and you're going to die." But then when they become some kind of a something, He'd have an emancipation proclamation, He decided that it took blood. Adam and Eve tried to make a fig leaf apron; it wouldn't work. So, he required blood.
And He has never changed. He never changes. Now when it come time a person was sick and wanted to be healed by God, God healed Him upon the basis of his faith in Him. He has never changed it. It's still the same, just the same.

40 And any word that God says, it can never be changed. Now that's the reason I believe the Bible is just the way it's written. See, it can never be changed. We can't find nothing better; God cannot. He is infinite. We are finite. We make mistakes, and tomorrow we know more than we knowed today. But not God; He is the eternal, and infinite, omnipotent, omnipresent, omniscient. He, just ... He is God. If He isn't those things, then He isn't God, see, He is finite like we are. So we must remember that He is God, and His words are, that's part of Him. You've heard them say, "Every man is just as good as his word." That's true. God is no better than His Word.

41 Jesus always referred back to the Father's Word, constantly, all the time. "It is written. It is written." That's how He defeated Satan, on the Word. "It is written."
Now we find Him when He was ... He came in the power of the Scripture, exactly the interpretation of the Scripture. But the people of that day, that was looking for Him to come, missed Him, because they had an interpretation, that they could not go from that interpretation. They must have it their way.

42 Now it might come the same way today, again, you see. Wouldn't it be too bad if it would? "And we've got it all drawed out. We've had so much schooling till we put a chart and tell you almost the hour He is coming, and we tell you whether He's going to be riding on a white horse or in a cloud. We know just how it's going to be." And it might be altogether different when He comes. He did. You know, those things are so treacherous when it comes to trying to say, "This is that." Just the way the Scripture is written, that's it.

43 Did you notice, one time, I made a statement like this. One time the disciples said to Jesus, in ... I believe in St. Matthew 6:11 ... or 11:6, I believe it is, pardon me, 11:6, I think it is. That the disciples of John came to Jesus and wanted to know if He really was the one. Now John had been ... introduced Him, and was laying in the prison. And now Jesus said, "Just stay until the service is over, then go back and show John what you saw." Now He never give him a book on how to behave himself in jail, or something like that, or some intellectual speech. He said, "You just stay around till the meeting is over, then go show John what you saw." And as they went, Jesus watched them as they crossed the hill.

44 He said, "What did you go out to see when you went to see John? Did you go to see a man dressed in fine soft clothes, and turned collars, and you know, and so forth?" Said, "That's of kings' palaces. They kiss the babies and bury the dead, and so forth." Said, "But what did you go to see? A man shaken with the wind, like a reed?"
No, not John. You can't tell him, "I'll give you so much if you leave this church and come over here to this one." Not John. He wasn't shaken around, by organizations and things. Not John.
He said, "What did you go to see? A prophet?" And He said, "I say unto you, and more than a prophet." But he was more than a prophet because he was the ... he was the arch between the law and grace. He was the messenger of the covenant of that day, a great man.

45 And we find out that as He was talking, speaking about John and about what a great person he was, He said, "If you can receive it, this is he who the prophet spoke of, 'I'll send my messenger before my face.' " See?
And they said, "Well, then why does Elias say, one time when he was speaking on it, said ... Why did Elias say that the first thing was ..." Or, "Why did the scribes say," pardon me, "that Elias must first come?"
And He said, "Elias has already come and you didn't know it." See? See? Those trained men watching for that forerunner of Jesus to come, trained in every way of the Bible, scribes who wrote the Bible and knowed it from A to Z, backwards, forwards, lectures. My, they were real men, they knowed the Scriptures inside and out, every word, but yet failed to see that John was the Elias. Even His disciples never saw it.

46 Now wouldn't it be too bad, one of these days, if we seen the judgment strike the earth, and we say, "Well, why is it? The rapture is supposed to come."
And He'd say, "Why, it's already come and you didn't know it." See? In a moment, in a twinkling of an eye, when no one is thinking about it, and it'll be stoled away. You'll never know when it leaves. I tell you, it pays us to be ready, say, be ready for this hour.

47 Now let's take and see what He was. We find, as soon as He was baptized, God come upon Him, in the form of a dove, and He went into the wilderness for forty days of temptation. And there He defeated Satan, on the Word, first. He defeated Satan, on the Word.
Then His earthly ministry began. Now we find Him, the first thing, there was a man by the name of Andrew, in Saint John 1. We find that he went out and got his brother, Simon, and brought Simon to the meeting where Jesus was speaking. And when he did, and Jesus saw Simon; quickly, when He saw him, He told him his name was "Simon," and he was "the son of a Jonas." Now then, that took the starch out of this apostle, and he recognized Him then to be the Christ; and finally become the head of the church at Jerusalem, because he had recognized that that was the Christ.

48 Did you ever think what made him recognize this man to be the Christ, by just saying that? Because that the Christ, according to the Scripture, was to be a prophet. Moses, their guide and teacher, had told them, "The Lord your God shall raise up a prophet likened unto Me." No matter how many intellectual men had raised up, there had to come a prophet, and that prophet had to show the sign of a prophet.
Now perhaps I'm talking to many Jewish people, tonight. And you know, in the Scripture, the Jew believed his prophet. Because, it was the prophet that the Word of the Lord came to, him, and him only. The Word of the Lord come to the prophets. "God, in sundry times and divers manners spoke to the fathers through the prophets, but in this last day through His Son, Jesus Christ," Hebrews 1. Now, the Jew believed the prophet because the prophet had the Word of the Lord.

49 Now, the way they told whether that prophet was right or not, was because they watched the prophet. And if he said anything, prophesied, and it come to pass, God said, "You hear that prophet, for I'm with him. But if it doesn't come to pass, then ignore what he says." That's no more than right, see. "If there be one, a prophet among you, spiritual or a prophet, I the Lord will make Myself known to him in visions, speak to him through dreams. And if what this prophet says comes to pass, then hear him, for I'm with him. But if it doesn't, then don't."
So, Jesus standing there. And they had not had a prophet for four hundred years, in Israel. And here stood a man that seen an ordinary fisherman come up, and told him what his name was and what his father's name was. What an astounding thing! What was He doing? He was calling that man. And when that light flashed upon that predestinated seed, life come quickly, he recognized what it was.

50 This man we're speaking of now, Philip, he saw this performed, so he runs around the mountain, is about fifteen miles, to a friend that had been a studier of the Scripture, with him. And, this man, his name was Nathanael. And he must have had a grove, and so he was out in the grove, in prayer, by the time Philip arrived. And they were both Hebrews now, watching for the coming of the Messiah. So when Philip found him, he said, "Come, see who I have found, Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph."
And, course, Nathanael being a great man, and knowing that Nazareth was a mean town, and he said, "Could there be anything good come out of Nazareth?"
He said, "Come, see."

51 That's one of the most astounding statements! So many people will set off and criticize anything, instead of coming and taking it to heart, and searching it and seeing whether it's right. If those scribes would have only done that to Jesus Christ, you Jewish people wouldn't be in the condition you are now. See? And the world, the churches wouldn't be the way they are now. The people, we wouldn't be the way we are, if we studied the Scriptures and if God raised up something. We know there is a lot of fanaticisms; there has always been, there always will be, until Jesus comes. But then, false prophets and false christs, and everything else, is to rise in the world, showing times of the sign, signs of the times, rather, and so forth. But He said, "Don't you believe it." See? But now notice, in this, they didn't stop to think what He was doing.

52 Philip said, "Come, see for yourself." So when Philip and Nathanael went along the side of the mountain, together, come in to the meeting just about like this, say, where Jesus was speaking.
Now, I don't know how they come up. He might have been standing out in the audience, he perhaps might have been up here where Jesus had, was praying for the sick. We're not told just what position they were in. But as soon as Jesus saw the man, He said, "Behold an Israelite, in whom there is no guile!" Now look at what He is making Himself, identified, when He was here yesterday.
See, He never made any great intellectual talks. We have no record of Him schooled in seminaries, as I said. He never wrote a book. He never wrote one word. He wrote something on the ground, and then took His hand and erased it out again. Why didn't He write something? Because He was the Word, see.
If they'd only know, He was the Word. He was the Word itself made flesh. He was God made flesh. God was in Christ, reconciling the world to Himself.

53 Now notice what He did, when Philip bringing this staunch Jew up, He said, "Behold an Israelite, in whom there is no guile."
Well, some might say, "Sure, they could tell the way he was dressed." No, all the Eastern people wore turbans, they wore beards, they wore garments. You couldn't have told him from an Assyrian or any other person. He just had on that type of a garment.
Said, "Behold an Israelite, in whom there is no guile." How did He know that he was the just, honest man that he was? He could have been an outlaw. He could have been a thief that had come up there with Philip. He didn't know, but He had a way of knowing.

54 And it astounded this man so much, that he said, "Rabbi," which means teacher, "when did You ever see me? How do You know me?"
He said, "Before Philip called you, when you were under that tree, I saw you." See?
And what did this scholar of the Word know by that? He knew that was that prophet. He said, "Rabbi, You are the Son of God. You're the King of Israel."
And Jesus said, "Because I told you these things, you have believed, now you'll see greater than this."
You see how He was identifying Himself. Not in a certain dress, not in a great ... being a great famous lecturer, some doctor's degree from some college.

55 Them things are all right. I'm not criticizing them, I'm trying to pull out something that should come out of there, see, to show you. Them denominations and colleges, and dressings, as far as I'm concerned, they're all right, but we're not talking about those things now. See? I'd certainly rather see a man in religious garb than see him like some of these women out here on the street, see, or something. Would rather see him, if he's even a fanatic in his religion, I'd rather see him like that than out here drunk somewhere, in a ditch, see, so I have nothing to say about that.

56 But what I'm trying to say, we're trying to find that person, Jesus. That's the person we're trying to find. What about this Word? Can that Word lie? No, sir, it can't lie and be God. God can't lie. And this Word is God. The Bible said it was. And so now we're trying to find what He is.
How could we identify Him? Not in clothes, not in denominations, not in speeches. How're we going to find Him? We're going to find Him in the person what He is, that He is now. Notice, that's the way they knowed Him back there. Not by his dress, not by his education from His school.
He could declare no school He come from. Said, "Whence cometh Thee? What school did He come from? We know nothing about this man." Sure, they never had any record of Him anywhere.

57 That's the way the prophets come up. They didn't know where they come from. They knew nothing about Elijah, about the rest of them. They just come from nowhere, and went away. That's all they knowed. It's men that God can get a hold of. Men like you, that God can get a hold of and declare Himself, that He might righteously judge a generation, that He might judge a nation, judge a world. Because, the Word has to go forth somewhere, and He sees to it that the elected gets in to hear that.

58 Now we find out, that when Jesus was speaking, and He recognized, this there were those ... three there.
There were those who standing there, who had to answer to their congregation. There were those there who had to answer to their denominations, whether Pharisees, Sadducees, Herodian, whatever they might be. And so they stood there, and they said, "This man does that by Beelzebub. He is a fortune-teller," in other words. "He is a telepathist. He reads their mind."
"Jesus perceiving their thoughts." They didn't have to say it out loud. He knew what they were thinking. He caught their thoughts.

59 He is the same today as He was then. He knows what you're thinking, see. If He is the Word, He has to remain as the Word. Now, in Hebrews 4, the Bible said that, "The Word of God is quicker, more powerful, sharper than a two-edged sword, a discerner even of the thoughts of the heart." What is it? The Word, the Word of God can discern the thoughts that's in your heart.
That's exactly what He was, the Word, and the Word could discern the thoughts that's in the heart. See? Now, that's what the Word was. They should have known that, see, that's the reason. He perceived their thoughts, looked upon them. And He said, "I'll forgive you for it," for He had not yet been crucified. The Holy Spirit had not yet come.

60 "But," He said, "when the Holy Spirit is come," to do the same thing that He was doing, 'cause He promised it would, see, "when the Holy Ghost is come, He'll bring these things to your remembrance, what I've taught you, and will show you things to come." See? "Now when He comes to do this same thing that I'm doing, one word against it will never be forgiven, in this world and in the world that is to come." See, that's how strict it will be in these last days. See? It'll separate, see.
Then God in His judgment, like He did in Eden, He can justly say, "You saw it. You know it. I proved it, and you didn't believe it." That's it.

61 Now, and watch what He did when He did this, what He said. Philip said, "Thou art the Son of God. Thou art the King of Israel." Jesus told him that greater things than this would He say. Now, that was to the Jews.
Now there is three races of people in the earth, as much as we want to believe, that's: Jew, Gentile, and Samaritan. We always ... God is perfect in three's. And there is three sons of Noah, and from them three sons brought forth the whole race of people.

62 We find out that, the Holy Spirit. Peter on the day of ... before the day of Pentecost, was given the keys to the Kingdom. We find out that he opened it to the Jews, on the day of Pentecost. And he went down to Samaria, and opened it to them. Come back to the house of Cornelius, and opened it there. And he never had to do it no more; it was opened to the world, see, like that, the Holy Spirit. But you remember, Philip went down and preached to the Samaritans, and had baptized them in the name of the Lord Jesus, only the Holy Ghost had not fallen upon any of them as yet; so they sent up for him that had the keys, and he laid his hand upon them, and the Holy Ghost came upon them.
That's right. That's Jews, Gen... them three races of people.

63 Now, we Gentiles, we were heathens, Romans, Greeks, and so forth. We worshipped idols. We wasn't looking for no Messiah. We had no time for no Messiah. We had our own gods, our forefathers. But the Jews were looking for a Messiah. And so was the Samaritans, because they were half Jew and Gentile.
Now, Jesus will appear to those who are looking for Him; only those, that's all. He is not obligated to the unbeliever. But to the believer He is obligated. He is obligated to raise the believer up, see, in the last day, only to the believer.

64 Now we find, that Jesus here had made Hisself known to the Jew. Which, we have many others, we could take blind Bartimaeus, but to save time ... many of the others through the Scripture, exactly proving to them that He was the Messiah, by being a prophet. "The Lord your God shall raise up a prophet likened unto Me."
They had had no prophets. But those who had got away from the idea that He was a prophet, had to give an answer to them, so they just said, "He was a devil, a witch, or, you know, some evil spirit doing that."
And He said that, "It was unforgivable sin, calling the work of the Holy Spirit, 'an evil spirit, an evil thing,' that, the Holy Spirit coming and making His Word manifest."

65 Why? It had been prophesied that Jesus would do this very thing. When He told the Jews, He said, "Well, which one of you can condemn Me? Which one of you can accuse Me of sin?" Sin is "unbelief." He said, "Search the Scriptures, for in them you think you have eternal life, and they are the ones that testify of Me." They should have knowed it. They thought they knowed it; but, they didn't, they'd have knowed He was the Word right there. He could discern the very thoughts in their hearts, and so forth, and do just exactly what the prophets did.
Because, He was more than a prophet, He was the God of the prophets. He was the head and the last of the prophets. This day He speaks, Himself, through his church.

66 Now if we notice in here, that, He identified Himself perfectly with the Jews, that He was the Messiah, by proving He was the prophet. We know that. There is no other way. Not by His dress, not by His talk, not by nothing else but by being...
And you say, "Well, He cast out devils."
He claimed that the Pharisees done the same thing. He said, "If I cast out devils, by the finger of God, who does your children cast them out by?" See? So they were casting out devils, too. See? So, but He was casting them out by the finger of God, said, "Then the Kingdom of God is come nigh unto you."

67 Now we find out that the thing that identified Him exactly being the Messiah, was the prophet, because Messiah means "the anointed one." And anointed with what? The Word. The Word anointed is just like a seed with water on it, in the right ground, it brings forth exactly its promise. That's the reason He said, "Who can, who can condemn Me? Who can tell Me that I... If I do not the works of My Father, then don't believe Me. And this is the Word. In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. If I do not what this Word promised for this generation, then don't believe Me," He said.
Oh, wouldn't it be wonderful, today, if the church could say that same thing, we could stand there? This, if we do not do the works of God, then it isn't God. And everywhere God is, supernatural takes place, because He is supernatural. See, He is a Spirit. God is a Spirit.

68 Now we find out that He is going down to Jericho, but He had need to go by Samaria. Now, Samaria is around the mountain. Jericho is down at the bottom of the hill. But on His road down, instead of going right down to Jericho, He goes around by Samaria. I wonder why? And He comes to a city called Sychar. And they ... sent the disciples in to get some victuals, food.
And while they were in to buy this food, He sat down by the well. And it was a well, like a little panoramic, like, a public gathering place for the people coming after their water. And it still is there today, and vines growing over the wall, and Jesus was sitting over against the wall.

69 And as He set there, there was a young lady come out from the city. We would want to call her today, a woman of ill fame. And maybe the child was drove to that, and she, maybe her parents turned her loose on the street. And you know what I mean. And I think the lady, the woman, really something had happened; we're not told in the Scripture, but watch what taken place to that woman's heart. See? She come out to get water, and it must have been along about noon.
Usually the maids, yet today, go out early of a morning and get their water, and put it up on their heads, in their great earthen vessels, and they pack it to do their drinking water and their housework, and whatever they're going to do.

70 And this young woman come out around noon. Why? She couldn't be associated with the rest of the people, the good people. She could not be caught among them. They would shun her, and she felt bad about it, so she'd stay back. She knowed what kind of a life that she was living, so she stayed away from the religious people.
Now we find, as she come out, she perhaps never noticed who was sitting over against the wall.
And those pitchers they have, that I call them. They're ... some of them call them buckets. They got handles. They're made out of clay. And they have a windle, and just the two hooks that goes in. They let them down into the well. And being ... topple them over and they get full of water, and windle it back up. And they pack it on their head, and on their hips, as they walk.

71 And this woman was just about to maybe hook the hooks over the pitcher, and was just about to let it down, and she heard a voice, said, "Woman, bring Me a drink." And she looked over to see who it was. And there sat perhaps, more or less, like a middle-aged Jew sitting there. And He wasn't but about thirty-something years old, thirty-two or thirty-three years old, at the time.
And, but He must have looked a little older than what He was, because He had been called, Saint John 6, to being fifty. Said, "You're a man that's not over fifty years old, and You say You've seen Abraham? Now we know You're crazy. You are mad," which means crazy. "You got a devil."
He said, "Before Abraham was, I Am." See?

72 Now, He must have grayed up a little, or something. He was sitting there, kind of a middle-aged looking man. And She said, "Why, it's not customary." See, there was a segregation among them. They had no dealings with each other. Said, It's not customary for you Jews to ask Samaritans favors like that."
He said, "But if you knew who you were talking with!"
See, oh, there it is! If we only knew, oh, when we read this, who we're talking with, see. When you're praying, if you ... Jesus said, "When thou prayest, believe that you receive what you ask for." See?
"If you only knew who it was you were talking with, you would ask Me for water, and I would bring you water that you don't get from this well."

73 And the conversation went on a little while. She said, "Well, our father..." See, she being a Samaritan, yet said, "Our father, Jacob, dug this well. And he drank from it, and his children, to water the cattle, and so forth." But He said ... "Why, you say, 'worship in Jerusalem.' and others, 'worship in this mountain,' and so forth."
He said, "We ... Jews, salvation is of the Jews. We know what we worship. But, said, "Hear Me. The time is coming, and now is, when the Father seeks the true worshippers, will be worshipping in truth and in Spirit." See, Spirit and in truth!

74 And the conversation went on for a little while. What was He doing? Now you'll almost have to take my word for this. See, I think He was trying to find where her trouble was, what was on her mind. Now, remember, the Father had sent Him up there, "I have need to go by Samaria." Now He said ... And that's Saint John 4.
Now in Saint John 5:19, when He had healed the man at the gate called beautiful, we know He ... I beg your pardon, He was at the pool of Bethesda. He healed this man, and was questioned why He didn't heal all the rest of them.

75 Now, that man. There was people laying there who were lame, halt, withered, blind. And here He come walking through there, walking through this pool, and He went to a man that, I don't know what he had. He might have had TB, prostate trouble, or something. It was retarded, he had had it for thirty-eight years, it wasn't going to kill him. He could walk, he'd go down.
But notice, He come right through that pool of people, where they was all there, multitudes, thousands of them, as they lay at the sheep gate, watching for the moving of the water. God has always had a way for divine healing, for the people. And so the one stepping in first would have had enough faith, it taken the virtue from the water, he was healed.

76 But notice, this man Jesus come through there, which was the very God of the creation, and He came through the gate, and mingled among the people, just think, having compassion. Do you believe He had compassion?
Now stop just a moment and think of this. There is a lady with a baby with a waterhead maybe this big around, passed right by. And here was a man that was blind, "Somebody have mercy on me and put me in the pool." The Bible said they were lame, blind, halt, withered. Some poor man laying there, that probably his arms wasn't that big around. Or, a little mother with a bunch of children at home, and a compassionate Jesus passed right by her. Isn't that strange? And, yet, full of compassion. But that's the Bible. See, now watch. We don't know what compassion means.

77 Notice Him. He found a man laying on a pallet, that could walk, and He said to him, "Wilt thou be made whole?" Why that one? See, why that one? Now watch and He'll tell you. Jesus knew this man had been there in this time, you see, all these years. He healed him, told him to take up his bed and go home. And he did. They found him packing his bed, and found Jesus and brought Him before the court.
Listen what He said, "Verily, verily, I say unto you, the Son can do nothing in Himself, but what He sees the Father doing." There is the compassion, knowing the will of God and then doing it. See? See? "The Son can do nothing in Himself, but what He sees," not hears. "What He sees the Father doing, that doeth the Son likewise."

78 So He must have had a vision of going up there, "He had need to go by Samaria," and He knew this woman would be there. So knowing it, He just to come up there and be at this gate, send the disciples away. Then He didn't know what to do when the woman begin to ask these questions, and so forth, so He just waited for the Father to show Him. And when He found what her trouble was ... How many knows what it was? She had too many husbands. And so He told her, said, "Go get your husband and come here."
"Why," she said, "I don't have any husband." That looked like a straight rebuke. See?
"Why," He said, "you have told the truth, because you've had five, and the one you're now living with is not your husband. In that now you have said right, you 'have no husband.' "

79 Watch that little woman. You know, she could teach ninety percent of the clergy, today, the gospel. See? Why, why did those priests stand there and call Him "Beelzebub," when their very Bible said that's what He would do? Is that right? And here stands a prostitute, a woman of ill fame, and as soon as He said that to that woman, she never said, "Well, You're Beelzebub."
She said, "Sir, I perceive that You are a prophet." Now watch her quotation. "We perceive, I perceive that You are a prophet. We know that when the Messiah cometh, which is called the Christ; we're looking for Him to come, and when He comes, He is going to tell us these things. This is what He's going to do."
That was the sign of Messiah, yesterday. That's the sign of Messiah, today, the same. See?

80 "We know when Messiah cometh, He'll tell us these things, but who are You?" That was the question. "I know You are a prophet. We haven't had one for hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of years."
"Great-great-great-great-great-grandfather's letter over here said they had a prophet, the last one, Malachi, four hundred and something years ago; we never had a prophet in Israel since, but here stands a man telling me this."
"You are a prophet. And we are looking for the Messiah."
Jesus said, "I am He, that speaks to you."
That's His identification. That's how He identified Himself to Israel. Here He is with the Samaritans, identifying Himself.
"I am He, that speaks with you." And, upon that, she never questioned it. See, life was foreknown by God.

81 And no matter how much those Pharisees tried to be religious, Jesus said, "They were blinded." He said, "Well did Isaiah speak of you, "You got eyes, and can't see. You've got knowledge, and don't understand." You're a lecturer, and don't know what you're talking about. You're, you see, you have all these things."
Because, you see, Jesus said, "No man can come to Me except my Father draws him, and all that the Father has given Me will come to Me." He said that, did He not?

82 What was it? There was the Bible, said, in Heb... in the book of Revelation. In the last days when the antichrist raised up on the scene, so close like the real thing, it would deceive the very elected if it was possible. But, and then He said again, "He deceived all upon the earth, whose names were not written on the Lamb's book of life, slain before the foundation of the world."
See, their names were put on the book of life, the book of redemption. Jesus come to redeem those that had their names in the book. And when that last name is redeemed, the Lamb takes the book and walks away; that's all, redemption is over, it's closed. Those!

83 And what was she? She was one that had her name there. No matter what kind of a state she was in there, as soon as that true gospel light struck that little prostitute, she recognized it. Why? There was something in there to spark it off. See, she recognized it.
You might pour water in gasoline, it'll only hinder it; but let a little fire hit it one time, and watch what happens, you see. It takes the sparking of faith, to the Word of God. When they know it's the truth, there is something happens!
She never asked one more question. She knew that was that Messiah. Why? He had fully identified Himself. Just like Philip said, "Why, You're the Son of God, the King of Israel!"
There were those there, said, "That's, He is fortune-tellers, that's what He is."
He said, "You cannot be forgiven for that, when the Holy Spirit does it." He said.
But now watch here how He was identified to her. And she ran quickly into the city, and she said to the men.

84 Now, really, if there is any Easterner here, you, the Bible is a new book to a man from the West, that goes East once, see, because all the customs, they still live it the same way. She had no right to go in the city and talk to the men. She could not do it. They really wouldn't listen to her.
But she had a message, that nothing could stop her. See, she had found life, something had struck. She run into the city and told the men, "Come, see a man that told me the things I've done. Isn't that the very Messiah? Isn't that what we've been looking for?"

85 Identified as the Messiah! And the Bible said that, when Jesus came into the city, He never did that one more time, not to them. But they believed what the woman said, see, and they received Him. He never healed any sick; He knowed Philip was coming down to do that, so, and get them straightened out, after the Holy Spirit come, so He just let them know that he was Messiah.
Now look, there was the Jews, recognized Jesus. He was identified at the end of their dispensation, as Messiah, and that's how He did it.
Same way with the Samaritans, they were looking for a Messiah. That's how He identified Himself as Messiah.

86 Now it's been two thousand years with the Gentiles, they received the gospel. Now our dispensation is running out, the church age, we're finishing. He is the same yesterday, today, and forever, never changes His plans. And if He stood among us tonight, He would not be a man with great clerical clothes on, some orator of speech, or lecturer, or something, but He would prove to us that He was the Messiah. See? He said, when He was here on earth, He said, "As it was in the days of Sodom, so shall it be at the coming of the Son of man."
Watch this real close. In the days of Sodom, and always, there's been three classes of people.
Three is a "perfect" number, we know. And seven is a "completion." Forty is a "temptation." Fifty is a "jubilee." You know the mathematics of the Scripture.

87 But now notice, at Sodom, there was your three classes of people. There was your Sodomites, who were unbelievers. There was Lot and his group, which were lukewarm believers, church natural. There was Abraham, the spiritual, called-out, elected, out into the wilderness away from Sodom.
Watch, three angels came down from heaven, one day. The sins of Sodom got about as bad as it is in the world today. They come down. Now, they were looked like men, they were dressed in clothing like men wear; dust upon them, and their feet were dirty from walking. And Abraham, sitting under the oak, saw them coming at a distance.

88 Now we're referring to what Jesus said to take place at the end time, just before His coming. Now, remember, the Sodomites were Gentiles.
Notice now, we find that, here they come up, these men. And Abraham, spiritually, he noticed there was something about those men were different from ordinary strangers.
There is just something, when a believer meets a believer, when a believer meets the Word! When, something like that woman, you see, they're ordained to that. They just can't help believing it. There is something strikes them, see, they got it.

89 And when Abraham saw these men coming, he went out. And he said, "My Lord, will You come by and let me fetch a little water and wash your feet? And I'll give you a morsel of bread, in your hand, and be on your road, for that's what You come by for." They turned aside.
Now, in the big master tent, was where Abraham lived. And many of his servants, enough to fight an army, lived out around there. They were herdsmen. So he run in and told Sarah, his wife, to "Go knead some flour, or meal." You know, knead it, sift it, like. "And make some cakes and put it upon the hearth." And then, he went out into the herd and found a fat calf, and killed it, and give it to his servant, and said, "Dress it, and make some steaks." And he went out and talked to the men.
Quickly, he went back and got the flour and the bread, and got some milk and some meat, and come out and set it down before them. And the Bible said, "They did eat. They eat."

90 And you notice, the one man kept looking towards Sodom. And He said, "I'll not keep this a secret."
Two of them gets up and goes on. They go down into Sodom.
A modern Billy Graham and an Oral Roberts, just going on their road down, see, go down into the Sodomites, to blast the gospel like Billy Graham and them is doing. Did you ever notice? Keep this now. I hope I don't say anything wrong. But, we've had just ... spiritually.
You must never look at things in the natural. Look at the spirit of anything. You want to look at a city, look at the spirit of it. You look at a family, look at the spirits in the family. Look at a man, look at the spirit's in him. See, anything you look at, everything has got to have a motive and objective. See?

91 And watch here, did you know, all the great men we've had, Sankey, Finney, Moody, Knox, Calvin, and so forth, there has never been a man yet, on the field, with a ministry to the nominal church, that ended up with h-a-m, like A-b-r-a-h-a-m, G-r-a-h-a-m. Never before. He is right in the midst of Sodom, that's why. The man is doing a wonderful work. That's where he is supposed to be, see, h-a-m means "father of nations." See?
Notice now, one of them went down in there to preach to the Sodomites. They went down there.
One of them stayed back here with Abraham. Notice now, he had been "Abram" a few days before that. And she had been "Sarai," not S-a-r-a-h. See? It's S-a-r... And he had been A-b-r-a-h-a-m now. And, notice, He called him by his new name, "Abraham, where is your wife, S-a-r-a-h, Sarah? Where is she at?"

92 Women then were a little different they are now, see, they didn't get out in their husband's business. They was back, stay ... She was back in the tent. So he said, he said, "She is in the tent, behind You."
He said, "Abraham, I," personal pronoun, "I am going to visit you according to the promise that I made you." Who was that? See? Who was this person sitting there with dusty clothes on? "I'm going to visit you according to the promise that I made you."
And Sarah, being an old woman, she kind of, as we would call it today, kind of snickered, you know, laughed to herself. "Me, an old woman?" She was a hundred years old now, see. Said, "Me, an old woman, old; and my lord." which was her husband, "being old, too, have pleasure?" Now we're a mixed audience, but you listen to your doctor; and I'm your brother. See, it certainly as a social affair, it had ceased, many, many years, see, and so they didn't have any family affair. And he said ... "Me have pleasure with my lord, him being old?" She doubted it.

93 And the angel, the messenger, the man, the human, in human flesh, eating the calf of a cow and drinking her milk, and eating bread, said, "Why did Sarah laugh, back behind Me?" See? Think of it.
Jesus said, "That would repeat again, as it was." What to? Now remember, that one didn't do that down in Sodom. He only manifested that sign up here to the elected group that wasn't going to be in the fire. Remember, that was just before the Gentile known kingdoms was burnt up. And that's exactly what is going to happen now. That's what we're looking for, right now. "God," Jesus said, "will be manifested," otherwise, "in the last days, in human beings. As it was in the days of Sodom, so shall it be at the coming of the Son of man."

94 And, remember, the elected never seen any other sign after that. Not one time did God appear to Abraham after that. Nothing else in the world, but Sarah was turned immediately to a young woman, and Abraham to a young man; and they went down, and Abimelech fell in love with her and wanted to marry her, and her a hundred years old. And they brought forth this child. Why? They were looking for a promised son.
And that's what we're looking for today, a promised Son. And before that promised Son arrives, the elected church is to see God manifested in the flesh, telling the secrets of the heart, and knowing the things are done. "Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today, and forever."

95 Remember, the one down yonder in Bab... in Sodom tonight, giving them a message, a noble brother, Billy G-r-a-h-a-m, only six letters, G-r-a-h-a-m, (his was A-b-r-a-h-a-m), the messenger to the church nominal, blasting it out to them, exactly. And what did he do? Only one miracle he done, smite them blind. And preaching the Word smites the unbeliever blind. Yes, he believed. Course, he believes this; but he was sent, he said, to those politicians, to smite them. And that's exactly right, so there he is down there in Babylon of the world, down there in a modern Sodom, preaching to those denominations, pounding away.
And the people are not even accepting it sincerely. The other night, in Los Angeles, at the great rally, seen hundreds times hundreds come up to make decisions. Young people coming up, teen-agers, punching one another, and chewing chewing gum, and pulling one another's hair, and acting, coming up to make a decision. No wonder it's a Babylon! No wonder it's a Sodom! The whole thing is ready to be burned.

96 God is here. Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever. His power is just the same today as it ever was. He does not fail. He cannot fail. He is God. He has to remain God. Right! "Sirs, we would see Jesus," not hear the mechanics, "see the dynamics of Him!" Do you believe that? Now this week we're going to look for Him, we're going to look for Him to walk among us and show us that He is the same yesterday, today, and forever.
Look when He was crucified, the old critics, them drunken Roman soldiers come out there and put a rag around His face, and hit Him on the head, said, "Now, if You're a prophet, prophesy and tell us who hit You." See? He didn't clown for the devil. He never opened His mouth and said a word. Course, He knew. They had passed the stick, one to another, said, "You tell us who hit You now, and we'll believe You." See, that's the critics, they didn't believe it. He was a prophet, but He don't clown for people.

97 These are not sideshows. These are not something, a platform show. It's the presence of Jesus Christ. It's His power among the people, and we must enter it with deepness of sincerity.
Satan also, "If thou be the Son of God! You said You could perform miracles, let me see You do this, or do that."
He said, "Get behind Me, Satan. See, it's written," that's right, "That you shall serve the Lord, and Him only shall you worship." So we ... Or, "Worship the Lord; Him only shall you serve."

98 Now we know that He is the same. Now if we come tonight, we find out if Jesus cannot fail, because He was God. He is the Word. The Word and Christ is the same. Then if the Word promises (the Word) that this is to happen in the last days, the Spirit of Elijah is even to return in the last day, that's right, upon the peoples, and that He's to turn the hearts of the fathers' ... children back to the fathers, the doctrine, the principles of the Bible. They've got away in denomination, organization. And the great power of God is to come upon the people, with a master of peace that'll send their hearts back to remembering that He still remains God, that He is God. Jesus promised that the things that He did, His believers would do it, "The works that I do."
Some fellow said, "Oh, we do! We do greater works."
I said, "Just do the works He did. That's what He said, see. Do that first."
He said, "Well, we got denominational brethren around, that's preaching the gospel all the way around the world. He couldn't do it."
I said, "Then do the works He did, first, then we'll talk about that."

99 Are you lecturing? But Jesus never said, "Go into all the world and teach this, or teach that." He said, "Go into all the world and preach the gospel." Preach is to demonstrate the power of the Holy Spirit." "These signs shall follow them," it don't come by lecturing, that's right, see, "that believe." It doesn't come by lectures. It comes by the presence of the living God moving among, in human flesh, proving Hisself that He's the same yesterday, today, and forever. That's right. He never fails to be the same. It comes so simple. The simplicity of it is what drives the intellectual mind away from it.

100 That's what made them disbelieve Jesus. "How could a man ... Why, You was borned in sin, how can You come teaching us what to do? We are priests. Our fathers were priests, our grandfathers. We, know that Bible, inside and out. And You try to come tell us what to do?"
He said, "You are of your father, the devil, and his works you will do." See? And, well, my, that was a strange thing to say to a bunch of clergymen like that.
But (he) said, "Why we have Moses. We are ... We know."
He said, "If you had believed Moses, you would know Me," He said, "because Moses spoke of Me. Moses spoke of my days. And if you can't believe Moses' words, how you going to believe Me?" Sure. Said, "If you can't believe Me, as a man, then believe the works that I do; they testify who I am."

101 Well, that's the same thing. The great Holy Spirit, Messiah, the anointing, comes upon us today, and it produces exactly His Life.
Just the same as Beethoven would produce Beethoven again, if the life of Beethoven lived in me, why, I could compose songs. If the life of John Dillinger lived in me, I would be a criminal. If the life of some other person, whatever he was, that would be in me, in my life.
And if the life of Jesus Christ is in you, that's just what you'll be. See, that's exactly, you'll do His works. Jesus said so.
I know that's awful hard for people who doesn't believe in the supernatural, and so forth. And I'm way late, friends, but let me just say this to you, just in closing. Don't, close up your heart to it. Come, just be reasonable, sensible, see.

102 Come, read the Scriptures and see if those things are right, see if that's the way the world will know that He was Messiah, see if that's the way He identified Himself. And if He did it then that way to them two races of people, both Samaritan and Jew 'cause they were looking for Him, now when we are looking for Him. Remember, they had had thousands of years of teaching, over two thousand years, of teaching that He was coming and what He would be. And when He come, that's the way He identified Himself.
Well, if He comes at the end of the Gentile age, He has got to identify Himself the same way, or He isn't the same yesterday, today, and forever. He gave them ... If He lets this Gentile age go in, under an intellectual conception, then He certainly harmed them, see, because He performed that to show them that He was that Word. And He must do the same thing.

103 Even though they were taught, they were great religious leaders, they're, far beyond what we got today. They were a nation, a nation governed by the laws of the Bible. They were. We were supposed to be, but, oh, mercy, we all know we're a million miles from it. People couldn't live in them days the way they live now. Men with four or five women ... wives, they would be stoned to death. And the things that we do today, and call ourself a religious nation! We cannot do that ... or they could not do it, rather. They could ... We can, but they can't. Because, and, they had to be taught. Every man had to be circumcised. He had to be that, or he was stoned to death. If he even packed too much weight on the Sabbath day, carried enough ink to make too many letters, he was stoned to death. They had to be religious. And they studied that Bible, day and night, and yet missed knowing their Messiah when He stood right in their midst, when the Bible told them that's exactly what He would be.

104 Now, how we know. If I say, "Have I got a hand?" I don't know whether this will make a shadow or not; no, it's too much light. But when you are standing off from the light, you look at your hand, you see what the shadow is. If you've never seen your hand or never seen yourself, if you see what your shadow is then you know what it will be in reality, because it's only reflecting what you are, see.
Now we know what Christ was, as a shadow, the way He manifested Himself, see. And we know back there what He done, now it must be reflected in us. The gospel, Christ, the way He reflected it there, the way He reflects it today, that makes Him the same yesterday, today, and forever. Do you believe it?

105 Let's bow our heads just a moment for prayer. Now everyone just as reverent as you can be, for just a few moments now.
I'm sorry that Billy never got to give out prayer cards. I'm sorrow about that. We will give them out, tomorrow, I guess, at the service, or wait ... Do you have a morning service? No. It will be a night service, come tomorrow night about seven, seven-fifteen, and receive your prayer cards. We'll be praying for the sick, the Lord willing.

106 Jesus Christ is a healer. Now remember, friends, there is no man that's a healer. No. There is no man that's a Savior. Jesus Christ, "He was wounded for your transgressions." Every sinner is forgiven from Jesus Christ, but it won't do you no good till you accept it. "By His stripes you were healed." You must believe it now. "You were," not you will be. You already are, but you must accept it. Now you believe it with all your heart.
Say, I was just thinking. By the way, how many in here really believe it on the first night, raise your hands, believe what I've told you is the truth?

107 Let's pray. We won't wait for any prayer cards. The Holy Spirit is just as great now as He was if you had a prayer card. Prayer card don't do nothing but give you ... [Gap in the audio.]
Bow your heads. I want to ask you something. One time, Jesus of Nazareth ... If you ever catch me doing anything unscripturally, that this Bible doesn't say, you are duty bound to come to me, see, and tell me. Jesus Christ said ...
When He was here on earth, He was going up across the sea, and He stopped. And on His road, there was a man come to Him, by the name of Jairus, and he was ... his little girl was very sick, and she was dying. Frankly, she died before He got there.
And there was a woman, perhaps lived up on the hill, that had heard about Him, and her faith really believed that it was, He was the Messiah.

108 So there was many of the Scribes and Pharisees standing by, saying, "Don't you listen to that man. That man will get you all tore up, confused. You'll be leaving the synagogue. He won't ... You, won't know what to believe. Don't you listen to that man."
But that didn't stop this little woman. The Bible said she had had a blood issue for many years. And she had spent all of her living and give it to the doctors. And the doctors no doubt had tried hard to help the little woman, but they couldn't do it. She still had a discharge of blood, and she was pale, perhaps sickly-looking. And all of a sudden, she heard. "What's the noise down there on the bank?"
They said, "That prophet from Galilee is coming by."
"That Jesus?"
See, Jesus is just a common Jewish name. I'm acquainted with many people named Jesus. Right where I live there in Arizona, I know three or four men right there, even ministers, named Jesus.

109 But this is Jesus the Christ, the anointed One, see, the Son of God; and this prophet, Jesus, was coming by. She knowed that He was a prophet. And she knowed that God was the Word, and He come to His prophets, so she said, "If I can only touch that man's garment, I'll be made well."
Are you acquainted with the story? All right. Remember, she pressed through the crowd.
Now, anyone knows the Palestinian garment, it has an underneath garment and a robe, and it swings free as they walk. All men, women, and all, wore them. And they down low, and they have like a stocking over their legs, and things, to keep the dust and stuff from settling on their limbs. And as they walk, course, the garment picks up the dust.

110 And so as they passed by, she perhaps had to crawl around them. And everyone was putting their arms around Him, "Rabbi! So-and-so! And some of them saying, "Well, He's ... there is nothing to Him." That's the mixed crowds, we always have it everywhere. But this little woman come through and touched the border of His garment.
That was His outer garment. Now, I'd never feel it, or you wouldn't if I touched your coat, or you touched mine, and it laying against you. This loose Palestinian garment, hanging that far from His feet, of course, physically, He never felt it. And she touched his garment, went back, sat down, or whatever she did.
Jesus stopped, and said, "Who touched Me?" Is that true? All right. Now watch.
Now, that was Jesus yesterday. And nobody said nothing, and He looked around upon the audience till He found where that faith was, and He revealed it to her. He said, "Thy faith has saved thee. Your blood issue stopped." Is that right? "Thy faith." Now, that was Jesus yesterday. Now the Bible said...

111 Now I know there is many ministers and great able scholars sitting here. Now doesn't the Bible say, in the book of Hebrews 3, that, "He is right now a high priest, ever living to make intercessions upon our confession"? Is that right? "A high priest ever living to make intercession, and can be touched by the feeling of our infirmities." Is that right? Now if you touched Him, how would you know you touched Him? He would act the same as He did yesterday. Is that right? See?

112 Now if you touch Him, Him, not someone else; Him, touch Him. He is the high priest, and you touch Him by the feeling of your infirmities. "Lord Jesus, I am sick. I must die, the doctors tell me I can't live, but somehow ... or I've spent my money. I even I can't afford to go to a doctor." And whatever more what your trouble is, or, even, "I haven't been to the doctor," whatever it is. And say, "Lord God, I'm your servant." And if you're not, say, "I'll be your servant. I, believe You. There is something about what has been read tonight, and said to me, that sounds like the Bible. And I've read it and I know that's true. And this man tries to challenge our faith here, challenging our faith, right here in New York City, New York; and telling us that You remain the same, that You right now are high priest and will act upon the same thing, if I can only touch You. Lord, let me touch your garment."

113 Now how would you know it? Now, the only way you know it, "I know that Brother Branham doesn't know me, and he is just a man, see. He is just a man standing there, that's all. He knows nothing about me. But if I can touch You, then You speak to him and let him speak to me."
'Cause, God only works through the agency of man. How many knows that? That's exactly. He never does nothing outside of man. No, sir. "Does nothing till first He reveals it to His prophets." Is that what the Bible said? That's His preachers.
Now you believe it with all your heart, and say, "Lord Jesus, let ..." Now don't be nervous, excited, see; you press yourself, you jump over the top of it, you try to make it something. Well, just simple.

114 How many in here is a stranger to me, and sick? Let's see you raise up your hand, say, "I need healing." Well, practically everybody.
I don't know anyone here, exactly, to speak to, or to know. I know this Brother Anthony sitting here. I ... that's about ... And now, brother, believe that's Brother Tyler sitting right there, I believe. Isn't that Brother Pat Tyler? Yeah. I thought that.
Now just to know anyone else, I might have seen you, and you might have seen me, but the heavenly Father knows I don't recognize anyone at this time back in here. Yes, I know this boy sitting here taking tapes, 'cause he is one of our tape boys. And outside of that ... His father must be here somewhere, because I think they're together. Are you here, Brother Sothmann? Where you at? Oh, it's way back in the back. All right.
Now you yourself, I know we're getting late, and I guess we should have been out of here long ago, but just a moment.

115 There is one thing to say anything, and there is one thing for God to prove it's right. Now if I say that you got a right to ... No, you have no right to disbelieve it, because I'm reading it out of the Bible, see. See? But now if God confirms that to be so, then you'll know whether it is or not.
Now just in humility let's bow our heads for prayer.
Lord Jesus, I know this is a great challenge. It's a challenge that maybe I should not have made. I don't know. But feeling that many of these people has been in meetings before, they know You and they know that You are in the earth today. And they know that You keep your Word by representing Yourself through human agency. And, Lord, if You'll just speak to even one person, or two, or maybe three. And it said, "In the mouth of two or three witnesses, let every word be established." Make it at least three people, here, Lord, unknown to me, that You will speak to them. And let them touch your garment, then let me just see the vision and know what to say. Let the Holy Spirit use my lips, as You have, and so graciously, Lord, such an unworthy person. And there is none of us worthy, none of us; but somebody must do it, so I pray, God, that You will do it tonight. Will You? Just that it might be known, this great city which is doomed for judgment, shortly. The whole world, we know, can't stand in this condition. And there may be people here that'll never be again, maybe that's why I'm doing this, saying this. I pray, Father, that You'll make this Word that I have preached, it's your Word, let it be made known, in Jesus' name.

116 Now just keep your heads bowed, and just pray, say, "Lord Jesus, let me touch your garment." Now when you are finished praying, then you just look up this way, so that you might be ...
Now, I'm not saying look to me, you all know that. As Peter and John passed through the gate called Beautiful, and said to the crippled man, "Look upon us," that didn't mean ... In other words, "pay attention to what I'm telling you."

117 Now you pray, and say, "Lord Jesus, Brother Branham doesn't know me, but You know me. And just let me touch your garment, 'cause he's just told me You're 'a high priest that can be touched by the feeling' of my infirmities, and told me You're 'the same yesterday, today, and forever,' and that You would react just the same way You did then when that woman touched your garment. And it'll certainly take all the doubt away from me, 'cause I know then that You're the same yesterday, today, and forever."
And then the Scripture will be fulfilled exactly. We can know Jesus, tonight, as we knowed Him then. "Sirs, we would see Jesus." If I walked in with nail scars in my hand, I'd be ... could be a hypocrite. You wouldn't know Him by that. You wouldn't know Him by the way He was dressed. You'd know Him by His life, that's what identified Him as being God's servant, prophet.
Now just pray, and have faith.

118 Here is a lady. I don't want to say nothing to her, because you can see what's wrong with her. Lady sitting here, I think it is, she has got a goiter she is praying about. It doesn't show on her neck. But you can look at her neck just in a way, and, when she pulled her skirt back, it does. I don't know you. But if you'll believe with all your heart, that'll go away from you. Yes.
If you will just have faith now, just don't doubt. Just pray, and just say, "Lord Jesus, I'm waiting to touch your garment. Reveal Yourself to me."
You say, "What are you looking for, Brother Branham?" Vision.
Now be real reverent. Don't, don't move around, see, see, you interrupt. Just be real reverent.
Here, watch this, look at here. Here is a lady right in here, praying, sitting, looking right at me. I see dripping of blood. It's in the stomach. She has got a bleeding stomach. If you'll believe! Is that right, lady? Raise your hands up. I'm a stranger to you. I don't know you, but that's true. It just now stopped. You're faith!
I want to ask you, what did the woman touch? I do not know her. I've never seen her in my life. It's just a woman, is all I know. See?

119 Here is a lady up here on the end of the ... out here towards the end of the row. Just then I seen it happen, it seemed like it reflected to another lady just now. No it's her. She's got back trouble and she ... Something wrong with your back.
Put your hand over on the lady next to you, she has something wrong with her back, too. All right. She can't hardly get up and down.
The lady sitting next to you is going blind, this other one on this other side, is going blind. I want you to put your hands on her, too. That's right. That's right. Now believe with all your heart, it'll be over. Now watch what happens.

120 Do you believe? I see a dark shadow hanging right back here, it's over a poor woman. She is going to die; she's got cancer. See, if God doesn't touch her, she must die. I'm sure she'll ... God, help me. Mrs. Katur, if you'll believe with all your heart, Jesus Christ will make you well. Do you believe it. K-a-t-u-r, if you believe with all your heart, Jesus Christ makes you well. Stand up, lady, and give God praise. All right, you can go home and be well. I never seen the woman, in my life. I never seen her in my life. She is a total stranger to me.
You say, "Well, you called her name."
Well, that's no more. Jesus called Simon's name, told him his name was Simon, what his father was. Is that right? "Sirs, we would see Jesus."
"Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever." Don't you believe that? Don't you believe you're right in His presence now? How many believe that? We would see Jesus. Now, Jesus Christ, now, it wasn't me that healed those people. Now here it goes again. See? All right, just have faith.

121 Tell you what you do right now. You believers lay your hands over on each other, like this, see, put your hand on someone next to you. Jesus, I'm going to quote the last words He said when He left earth, "These signs shall follow them that believe." Did you say you believed? "These signs shall follow them that believe."
'Course, we have belief and we have unbelief, mixed. We always have that. There is always three classes of people; believers, make-believers, and unbelievers. And we have that, too. But your prayer now, where you're sitting, have faith for the person you got your hands upon. "Believe," Jesus Christ said this.
Remember now, if you do not believe, be very careful, 'cause these diseases go from one to another. We know that. We read it in the Bible, where evil spirits went out of one right into another. And we see it all ... Many of you has been in the meetings and seen it. If that's right, say "amen." Sure, people that's paralyzed, and strike dumb, die, right there in the meeting, everything.

122 Now in the way that you pray, don't pray for yourself. You pray for the one you've got your hands on. See, you pray for them.
And now if there is a person in here, while they're connected like that, that is not a Christian, and want to accept Christ as your Saviour, would you make it known by just standing to your feet, say, "I want to accept Jesus as my Saviour, right now, in His presence. I want to stand up, to show to this congregation, I'm a testimony to Jesus Christ. I'll accept Him right now, as my Saviour." If you've never did this before, you have the privilege to stand now. He'll ... You stand for Him now, He'll stand for you later when you're at the Judgment Bar. If you're not a Christian, accept it now.

123 And you that's got your hands on one another now, pray for each other. Now remember, they're praying for you, you pray for them, and I'm going to pray up here with you, for all these people.
God bless you back there, my brother. God of heaven, be merciful. That's very fine, a gallant thing. Would there be another would stand, say ... Jesus knows you. "No man can come ..." God bless you, sister. That's fine.
Just see the presence of Jesus Christ come into the meeting and do exactly what He did in the Scripture. That's totally impossible for a man to do that. It takes a Spirit to do that.
Now if you want to call it, like the Pharisees, "an evil spirit," then you'll receive that reward.
And if you call it, "the Spirit of God," then accept it. Accept it as your Saviour, for He is Jesus Christ, is only Saviour of the world. And He is God's Son, died for you, He is here tonight in the person of the Holy Ghost. He is still Jesus, still Jesus Christ in the person of the Holy Ghost, which is Christ in Spirit form. And if you've never accepted Him as Saviour, would you just stand up, you know, and He'll witness for you if you'll witness for Him.

124 Some stood up. If there is another, right quick before we pray. God bless you. God bless you. God bless you, you, you, in His presence. That's fine. Many, that's fine. God bless you. God bless you, sister. God bless you, way back, a man already stand, raised his hand. God bless you. And God bless you. That's good. God bless you. That's wonderful. That's right. Take Him right now.

125 Remember, right now, in the name of Jesus Christ, there isn't a life in here that could be hid from God right now, but what He could reveal to me just exactly. You know that. You, many of you has been in; all you that's been in meetings before, and just see it take massive turns, say, "Amen." Sure you know it's true. And right now, I know there is people here that ought to surrender themselves to Christ. Please do it. Please do it now while you got the chance, in His divine presence. Oh, check up! We may be later than we think, right now.

126 When He, His august presence, comes in and blesses us, and proves by the Scripture, here He is, a word confirmed. Eight or ten people right here, healed, sitting right here. And it's more. If you'll take my word, as His servant, that light that you see in the picture that science has right here in Washington, D.C., as, "the only supernatural being ever taken," that light is just circling this building, around and around, and around and around. Now, that is right.

127 Now you believe. Jesus Christ said, the last words He said when He left the earth, "These signs shall follow them that believe. If they lay their hands on the sick, they shall recover."
"And He was received up into glory. And they went forth everywhere, preaching, the Lord working with them, confirming the Word with signs following."
Pray for each other now while I pray for you from this pulpit.

128 Lord Jesus, the Son of God who rose from the dead, on the third day, death and hell could not hold Him. He ascended on high, set down at the right hand of the majesty on high, to where He ever lives to make intercessions upon our confession. And now, in His vital presence here in the form of the Holy Ghost, that's done the work, and perceived the thoughts that's in the people's hearts, told them their diseases, pronounced them healed. O God, to see your great mighty work; know that in this tangled mixed day, full of politics, full of church politics, full of all kinds of things, yet the living God is right present with us here tonight. No lecture, no nothing but the evidence, the Holy Ghost, right in our midst, Jesus Christ performing these things as He did when He was here on earth. O God, be merciful!

129 And, Satan, you see the hands of these people laid upon each other. You are a defeated being. You cannot no longer hold these people. I charge thee, in the name of Jesus Christ, the Son of God, that you turn this people loose and come out of them. Come out, sickness and affliction, from these people. I adjure thee, in the name of Jesus Christ, that you leave them.
Believe it now with all your heart! If you believe it, stand up to your feet now and accept it. Put up your hands to God, say, "I now accept my healing. I believe." Now raise your hands and give Him praise, say, "Thank You, Lord Jesus!"
All things are possible, only believe;
Only believe, only believe,
All things are possible, only believe.