Sirs, we would see Jesus

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1 ... Christian friends. I want to greet you tonight in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ. Beginning of this revival, I trust that it'll be a great blessing to all who are here, and those who will be coming in, farther in the services.
Each evening, we want to begin just as close as we can, to ... for me to be here around quarter-after to half-past eight. That was my thought today to get over, and I was just a little late. I drove my own car, and I got mixed up in some traffic down there and it held me up me just a little bit, so I'm sorry to be a little late. They were standing out waiting for me when I come up---my boy was.
And so now, tonight, as we are gathered here to start this prayer meeting, praying for the sick, believing God for the supernatural; I trust that every person here will take it upon themselves to be under prayer all the time. In your homes, be fasting and praying. Come with great expectations. For if you don't expect anything, you won't receive anything. You'll just receive as you expect.

2 Now, in the city tonight, I think there's two or three more revivals going on, of healing services. We're not here to be competitors to those brethren. We're only here to do our part. And we're believing God and ask Him to help all the sick and afflicted everywhere where people are praying for the sick; in every church, in every denomination. We believe that God will hear the prayer of any sincere person that will believe.
Now, I am not, by no means, a divine healer. I believe in my other meeting here in Louisville, and many times being here with our dear Brother Cauble and the church, I've never at one time said I was a divine healer. Which, if I did, that would be wrong, because I am not. And there's no other man that's a divine healer. We're just ministers of the Gospel, to preach, to pray for the sick. God is the divine healer.
And all that God can do for you, He did it in Jesus Christ. Your work of redemption for soul and body is completed. Even to the rapture, is already completed. When Jesus rose from the dead, God justified ... justifies us by faith, believing that, that God rose Him up from the dead, and we are waiting for the rapture, which will come. Everything will happen in its season. And our salvation, our healing and everything was completed when Jesus Christ died at Calvary.

3 Now, in here, we have many times that we, in the meetings, we have a system of getting prayer cards. Well, we wish there was some other way that we had of controlling without having to give out prayer cards, but it's the only legitimate way that you can keep the people in line ... lined up.
We've tried many ways. And, I never did like the way before we had prayer cards to give out, of the people clammering and some of them crying and jumping over one another and pushing and shoving through the line. It doesn't seem like Christianity. I think Christianity is orderly. And Paul come to set the church in order and all things to be done decent and in order. And I believe God honors it more when we keep it orderly and under the power of the Holy Spirit to be the leader of the church and of the people.

4 Now, tonight and tomorrow night, and now until the crowds gets enough to... Our seating room here will not be ... will be inadequate. Then we're going over to the Memorial Auditorium, which they're going to let us have. They've promised that.
Now, tomorrow... If you know any sick people, or so forth, get on your phone, call up someone, bring somebody with you; or some unsaved person, that they may get saved in this meeting. That's the main thing: is the people to get saved. Healing...
Jesus Christ only used healing to draw His crowds together, then He preached the Gospel. After He healed a few He brought His altar calls, and so forth. Not what He called "altar calls." Altar calls is something that we have adopted. There never was an altar call given in the Bible. But, the people believed. Believers was added to the church.
We had a system back in the early days. The Methodists: We'd call them up to the altar and have them to pray through. Well, I think that works pretty good, so God has blessed it, and we remain with that system of praying at the altar. I think that's what altars was made for, to have people to pray. It's a place of worship. Come to the altar to worship God.

5 Now, I don't want to take much of the time in the evenings of speaking, for maybe some evenings will be given altogether to preaching services. We have eight days to be here, if God willing, which is quite a long meeting ... lengthy, for... But, it's just locally advertised. And that's the reason we think that our seating capacity... I think even the auditorium over there only seats about, oh, between three and four thousand, something like that. Which, just locally---Jeffersonville, New Albany, and around here ---it ought to be all right to take care of this situation.
I'm asking you people here tonight, as my dear friends in Christ Jesus, that you'll stand by me in prayer during this time. And you'll ... you'll... And I'm not here for a stage show. I'm only here to do the best that I know how to make life a little easier, and to make people a little happier, to bring converts to Jesus Christ.

6 I'm not here to represent any denomination, for I do not belong to any denominational church. And I don't think no more of one than I do of the other, I just love all of its converts to Jesus Christ. And that's why we're here ... and to try to get people to see that.
Divine healing is for the Methodists, the Baptists, the Catholic, the Jew, the sinner, the harlot, whatevermore; divine healing is for every one of you. Jesus Christ died for every one of you, for your healing, the same as He died for the salvation of the whole world. And if you'll just accept it and believe it...
Someone might say, "Well, Brother Branham, does God heal the sinner?"
Yes, sir. And when he's healed, his sins are forgiven him. That's what the Bible said, "Then go and sin no more, or a worse thing will come upon you."
Now, sin is not some kind of immoral act; sin is unbelief. That's right. The Bible said, "He that believeth not is condemned already." So we know then that sin is unbelief. So, do not go and disbelieve anymore.

7 Now, the church... We'll try to carry everything just as orderly and reverent as we know how. We believe in old-time, heartfelt salvation, believe in the people's liberty to say, "Amen," "Praise the Lord." Whatever the Spirit of God leads you to do, do it.
And He won't lead you to do anything but what's right. And He's a Spirit. God is a Spirit: And they that worship Him must worship Him in spirit and in truth.
And God ... the very word God means "object of worship." So God likes to be worshipped by His children; that we can be free and not bound down in yokes, but we can exercise our faith in Him and believe it and not be ashamed to tell the world about Him, that Jesus Christ raised from the dead, lives and reigns in our hearts. And we're not ashamed of it. Doesn't make our face red to testify of the glory of Jesus Christ, for He is worthy of all praise. Don't you believe that? That's right.

8 Now, I wish to turn into the Scripture to read a few words. We're just starting a little late. Each evening we're going to try to be out by nine-thirty, if possible, so you can come back on the following night.
And I was just coming up and I heard Brother Cauble's voice saying about many people in here that had been healed of sickness. I was just looking back in the audience just now and see a woman that was merely a skeleton here recently. Cancer had eaten her so bad till the doctors give her till the next morning to live. Just ... that was all. And that's been about six or seven years ago. And she's sitting here tonight weighing about a hundred and fifty pounds, in perfect health. Not a trace of it anywhere.
You say, "Is healing lasting?"
Just as lasting as long as faith is. That's right. Just as long... Salvation's the same way. Just as long as you got faith, you're healed. When you lose faith, you're gone.

9 Now, I wish to read some of God's Word, because... He's never said my word wouldn't pass away, but He said His Word wouldn't pass away. So, if I read His Word, then I know that if you get no more than just the reading of His Word, then you'll have plenty to go home with. Just one Scripture. You can hang your whole soul right on it and just know that it's "Thus saith the Lord."
And now, while we mention that Word, watch in the prayer lines, watch in the audience, visions hasn't ... just no more than just the sign of God's presence. But watch what He speaks to the person and to the persons in the audience. I see we've got tape recordings here where you could chase it back and find out just what He said.

10 Now, I've had... How many's been in my meetings before? Let's see your hands up, everywhere. Oh, my. It's almost a hundred percent. So there won't be any introduction to the operation of the Holy Spirit. It will only be for you just to believe.
Now in St. John the 12th chapter, the 20 ... and 21st and 22nd verses. I want to read a portion of these.
And there was certain Greeks among them that came up to worship at the feast:
The same came therefore to Philip, which was of Bethsaida of Galilee, and desired him, saying, Sirs, we would see Jesus.

11 Now, shall we bow our heads just a moment?
Our kind Heavenly Father, we thank Thee, tonight, for Thy Word. It is truth. And we pray, now, that You'll break every shackle and set the people free at liberty. And may the blessed Holy Spirit baptize every one in here tonight anew in His presence. May great signs and wonders accompany this meeting, insomuch that'll stir the whole city. May the people come in such a way, not because it's our effort for You, but because of the Gospel's sake.
Grant, Lord, that the buildings will pack and the streets will stand with people, great signs and wonders, ambulances bringing up the sick, going back without them. The cripples pushing their wheelchairs in the corner, walking out, rejoicing. May it start an old-fashioned revival that'll sweep throughout the entire city and the communities here. Bring every church in unity with Christ. And may there be great joy throughout the entire city. Grant it, Lord.
Bless these few words now. Inspire speaker and listener. And may the Holy Spirit move on our hearts in such a way that when we leave here tonight may we say with those who came from Emmaus, "Did not our hearts burn within us?" because of His presence, for we ask it in His name. Amen.

12 This soul cry of these Greeks... The Greeks seek wisdom, and the Jews seek signs. And Paul said, "We preach Christ crucified." And Greeks has always wanted wisdom. But these Greeks come up, perhaps, were proselytes to the Jewish religion, and came up to Jerusalem to worship at the Pentecostal feast. And then, while they were up there, they had heard of the great fame of this one Jesus of Nazareth. His fame had scattered everywhere.
Many disbelieved Him. Thousands disbelieved Him, but thousands believed Him. And it was mostly among the common people who heard Him and believed Him. Those who were of the other type, they did not have much time for Him, because they were satisfied with their religion and the fathers had been taught certain things and they'd had their traditions handed down. And something new, no matter how phenomenal it was, well... He tried to tell them it was in the Scriptures that He was to come. And, oh well, if He was to be the person, the priests would know something about it, and therefore they wasn't interested.
But these Greeks, when they heard... "Faith cometh by hearing, hearing of the Word of God." And they come, seeking Jesus. And this ... I believe that has been the heart's cry of every man and every woman who's ever heard anything about Jesus Christ, has had that same thing: "Sirs, we would see Jesus."
They didn't want to learn His theology. They didn't care nothing about His teachings. They didn't care about whether He ... what kind of clothes He wore. They were only interested in one thing: that they wanted to see Jesus. That's the main thing. And that's the cry of today.

13 Christian friends, as a missionary myself, returning from foreign fields, and as I come into Africa I was met there by the counsel of churches of South Africa and all the ... from one coast to the other. A great counsel of churches. They taken me out, they said, "Brother Branham, we didn't want you to come over to teach us some knew theology. We didn't want you to come over to teach the Word. For perhaps we know more about it over here than you American scholars do, for we find that in your missionaries that come over.
Said, "Well, what we're trying to find: We want to see God's Word made manifest."
The archbishop of India, the eastern orthodox Presbyterian: One of the highest churches, politically religious, politically recognized in the world. Even their baptism will be accepted in the Catholic church of the eastern orthodox. And the archbishop...
I spoke recently at the Chicago Christian Businessmen's banquet. The archbishop with there, and he said, "When they ordained me an archbishop in India... Why," he said, "you all many times send missionaries over," said, "to teach us the Bible." Said, "We know more about it than you ever thought of knowing."
And that's true. You ought to hear them once. It's an Oriental book, we're teaching it in a western way; and it's an Oriental book written in the eastern way. And our parables and things that we teach out of there sometimes is as far as the east from the west to being right, the way we teach it. You have to see ... have to go to the country where the book was written to understand what they mean.

14 He said, "When they ordained me archbishop over India," he said, "all the great presbyters, and the priests, and the cardinals, and all, come around and laid hands upon me to receive the Holy Spirit. And all kinds of ritualistic prayers they read out of books and everything." And said, "They laid hands on me." Said, "Nothing happened."
He said, "I come over here to America to a person that hardly had education enough to speak right, and laid hands on me, and I received the Holy Ghost." Said, "Now what's the difference?" Said, "The thing of it is that in India, we don't want to know your tracts that your passing out, or your theology, or building this or that. We want to know Jesus in the..."
Now, that's the cry of the world today, is to know Christ. I believe Paul said, "To know Christ is life." And he knew Him in the power of His resurrection. Not to know Him by Word. Not to know Him... To know Him by Word, that's all right, but that's a long ways from being sufficient, to know Him by Word. We've got to know Him by person of His resurrection.

15 Now, if tonight, that cry would be in Louisville, it's everywhere, "We would see Jesus."
Now, let's find out who this Jesus is. And I believe that if He is what He said He is, and His Word is correct, then He's just the same today that He was then. If He's changed one bit, then the Word is not correct, and our Bible is in error.
Now, recently... Oh, not recently; some years ago, over in a certain city here on the river, there was a young child ... or, young man, twelve, fourteen years old, who went to church and was a very, very influential boy, and he would love the Lord. And he asked his mother one day, said, "Mother, if God is so great, could someone ever see God?"
She said, "Now, I don't know, Sonny." She said, "We go to church and that's all I know about it." Said, "Now, our pastor's going to visit us for lunch." Said, "Why don't you ask him?"
So that day, he asked the pastor. And the pastor said, "Sonny, no." Said, "No man can see God at any time. Never did, or never will see God at any time."
Well, he wasn't satisfied at that. He asked his Sunday School teacher. She said, "No. No one could see God."

16 And so, he took a little trip up here to Six-Mile Island with an old fisherman down on the river. Coming down that afternoon, after a storm on the river, and oaring his boat, coming along, the rainbow come out back in the east. And as the old fisherman was watching the rainbow, pulling his boat, the tears began to run down his wrinkled cheeks, over his white beard.
And the little boy noticed the old fellow. And he rushed up from the stern of the boat towards the middle, and said, "Sir, I'm going to ask you a question that my pastor couldn't answer, my mother couldn't answer, my Sunday School teacher can't answer. Said, "I'm going to ask you." Said, "Can anyone see God?"
And the old fisherman pulled the oars into his lap and put his arms around the little boy. Said, "God bless you, honey. All I've seen for the past thirty-five years has been God." You get God in here, you can see Him out there, see. But He's got to come in here first. It's got to come here first before you can see Him there.

17 Jesus said the same thing, "A little while and the world seeth Me no more; yet ye shall see Me, for I'll be with you, even in you to the end of the world." Now, there's going to be some ye's in all the generations in all the ages. Is that right? "Ye shall see Me." That is the believer.
Now, if we were going to look for Jesus tonight, we wouldn't exactly look to see what kind of clothes He was wearing, see how much education, what degree He had out of what college, or what denomination He belonged to; for we'd never find Him in any of that. Although, as good as that is, we'd never find Jesus in that: mixed up in some organization, or wearing of some clothes, or a certain way of dressing. He dressed like an ordinary man. He walked through the streets with other men; looked no different from anyone else. And he walked right through people---the crowds---looking for Him, and couldn't recognize Him, because He looked just like an ordinary man. But, yet, He was God Himself. God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself.

18 When He was here on earth... There never was a birth like His, there never was a death like His, and there never was nobody raised from the dead like that. He proved what He was. When He was here on earth, He said He was God, He acted like God, He preached like God, He healed like God, He rose from the dead like God. He proved He was God.
He was more than a philosopher. He was more than a teacher. He was more than a scholar. He was more than a prophet. He was God. That's who He was. And the people today are limiting Him to a good man, to a teacher, or to a scholar, or to a prophet. He was more than that. He was God Himself---our Saviour. God made him manifested in the flesh to take away sin and sickness from the human beings, and to redeem us back to God like we was in the beginning. And thanks be to God, we're on our road back tonight. That's right.
And we're seeing great things and rejoicing as we're going along the journey, as the children of Israel did: passing through the wilderness. They had a brass serpent for their healing. They had water from a rock when they were thirsty. They had manna from heaven; signs and wonders following them all the time.
And there was the others sitting up there, just as fundamental as they was in their teaching, but had no signs and wonders. But God was vindicating His true believers by signs and wonders. And that was a very beautiful type of the church today being led, where signs and wonders are following the believers.
If you notice, those other nations were organized and set down in great organizations, and so forth; but Israel dwelt in tents. I'd call them "interdenominational." They were sitting out there without an organization, without a place, just wandering about through the wilderness, just as the Holy Spirit would lead.
Isn't that a perfect type of the church today? The called-out, separated, set aside. How wonderful.

19 Now, notice again, when Jesus was here, the people knew that He healed the people, but He didn't claim to do it Himself. He said He didn't do it. Who did He say done it? "The Father that dwelleth in Me, He doeth the works. It's not me that doeth the works."
Then if we would see Jesus tonight, we wouldn't see a man saying, "Come to me and I'll show you how to heal you. I'll do this." He wouldn't be that type of person, would He? Because when He was here, He gave credit to the Father that was in Him doing the works. Is that right?
Then we seen Him going about doing good. We seen Him persecuted, made fun of, laughed at, called His hand. Somebody always at His neck, trying their best to get something on Him. They'd get Him into a corner, twist Him around, and everything: trying to make Him a liar, make Him a fake, make Him a deceiver. But every time, God come on the scene and proved that that was His Son. Is that right?
God's still the same tonight. Don't you believe that? Everything that takes place, just sit still. God's on the scene. He'll make all things right.

20 And then, we see Him of that type of person. And now...
And when He was here on earth, we notice the characters about Him that drawed people to Him, was first was His love for the people. He loved the people, and the people knew that He loved them, because He had something to tell them. They knew this man was acquainted behind the curtain, yonder, of death. They knew that He knew something about the world beyond---the regions beyond. So they loved to talk with Him. He talked; His talk was seasoned and mellow. There was something... His character: I doubt whether there'd be an artist could ever paint it.
If it's true, in a vision one time, I saw Him. I say that humbly, because I couldn't say it positive. But, if it is, there's never an artist could paint that picture of the character. He was a man who could be stern and speak, but yet He was a man who was humble and lovely. There was so many different characteristics in Him, that people ... you couldn't paint His picture. He was God's manifestation of love, power, and deity; and everything was in Him.

21 Then we notice Him, as He went around on the earth here, He had something about Him that was different from ordinary men. We see Him one day in His prayer line at the beginning of His ministry when His fame first started; and there was a fellow by the name of Philip who got saved. And he believed on the Lord Jesus, and he began to tell people about Him---wanted to run and tell everybody. That's a good sign he really got saved, isn't it? when he wants to tell somebody.
He ran and tell his friend Nathanael. And when he found Nathanael, he found him under a tree, perhaps praying. And he said, "Come, see who I've found: Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph."
He said, "Could any good thing come out of Nazareth?"
Said, "Come, see."
And when he come to where He was ... where He was... Now, this fine religious man of really ... perhaps Orthodox in his belief, come walking up, "Said, I'll see about this fellow."
And when he walked up, Jesus said, "Behold an Israelite in whom there is no guile."
Well now, what would you think would happen today? The believer today ... or, the man would say, "Say, that guy's a mind-reader. He knew that I was a believer. He knew I was a Christian."
Well, He said, "... in whom there's no guile."
And so he thought, Well, I'll just ask the man. Said, "Whence knewest Thou me, Rabbi?"
"Why," He said, "before Philip called you, when you were under the tree I saw you."
"Why," he said, "You're the Son of God; the King of Israel," see.

22 And then, we see another time where He met a woman at the well. And He talked to her awhile. And He found out that she had some troubles, that was, she'd had five husbands. And the one she lived with then wasn't her husband. And in telling her this, she run, said, "Come, see a man who told me all things I did."
Now, do you imagine He had a lot of critics? He said when He went to the grave of Lazarus, "I am the resurrection and life; he that believeth in Me, though he were dead, yet shall he live. Whosoever lives and believes in me shall never die." He said that. That's the truth.
Well, if He was the resurrection and life, why didn't He raise up all the dead that died in Jerusalem during the time of His stay? If He'd make that statement tonight in Louisville, Kentucky, the newspapers in the morning would be publishing it everywhere. "Well the doctors might as well just get rid of their instruments and everything. We got a man here now that can raise the dead. So it's all over."
But He only raised three people in His entire ministry. Three is a confirmation. Three is a sign. The Bible said, "In the mouth of two or three witnesses, let every word be established." He raised Lazarus from the dead, Jairus' daughter, and the woman ... the widow-woman's son. Three in His ministry for a sign.
Yet, if He was the resurrection and life, probably thousands of Jews right out of the church, orthodox in their belief, renowned in their religion, and so forth, died during that time. Perhaps hundreds of people come to Him: "Come raise my son." "Come raise my daughter." "Raise my father."
Jesus said, "Let the dead bury the dead; follow thou Me."
He never went to them. Then what about that? Here's His word said He was the resurrection and life, and here He is failing to produce that. Only with a sign now and then.

23 Now, we know that He's possessed with powers, and God was in Him. And here He goes to the pool of Bethesda. That's Saint John the 5th chapter. Now, listen close: "There lay great multitudes of people, impotent folks, lame, blind, halt, withered; waiting for the moving of the water. For an Angel went down a certain season and troubled the water: whoever stepping in first was made whole of what disease they had."
Here comes Emmanuel---God Himself---enveiled here before human eyes. God made manifest in the flesh.
He said to Thomas... Thomas said, "Show us the Father and it'll suffice us."
He said, "I've been so long with you and you don't know me?" Said, "When you see Me, you see the Father. Why say, 'Showeth us the Father?'"
Here come, then, God Jehovah, in flesh, walking among crippled, lame, blind, halt, withered people. Full of love, full of compassion, and yet touched none of them.
"I would see Jesus. Sirs, we would see Jesus."
See what I mean? He walked right by each one of them and went over to a man laying on a pallet. Said, "Will you be made whole?"
He said, "I have no one to put me in the water."
"You can walk?"
"Yes. When I'm coming down, somebody can outrun me and beat me into the water. They get the blessing; I sit here month after month waiting."
He had a disease; he wasn't going to die with it. He had it thirty-eight years.
Jesus said, "Wilt thou be made whole?"
And he told Him that he had no one to put him in the water.
He said, "Take up your bed and go into your house."

24 If you'll notice, the previous reading of the Scripture said Jesus knew that the man had been a long time in this way, see. He knew. "Why didn't He go to these?" He knew nothing about them, but He knew about this one.
Then the Jews found this man packing his bed on the Sabbath day and questioned him, and perhaps was questioning Jesus about these things. "Why don't He heal that one?" "Let me see Him make this one well, and I'll believe it." "Let me see Him heal this one, I'll believe it." And yet, people were being healed everywhere.
Them same critical, ungodly spirits still exist today. "Let me see Him heal this one and I'll believe it," see. The devil takes his man, but never his spirit.
God takes His man, but never His Spirit. His Spirit lives right on. God's Spirit lives on in men---on and on and on. "Ye shall see me, for I will be with you, even in you, to the end of the world,"

25 see. Then there's ye's still living that sees it and believes it.
As Brother Cauble just said, as I was standing there at the hall that how the people right here in his church with doctor's statements; and yet the whole country criticizes divine healing. Why is it? They try to think it's fake. It's something put up. It's because that the devil that lives in them won't let men believe. Their eyes are blinded from truth and they can't believe. They haven't got nothing to believe with. How can I move a hand if I haven't got a hand to move with? How can I believe God when I'm just look at a word here, and Him not in here? You've got to have God in here first, before you can believe God.
"Except a man be born again, he can't see the kingdom of God." Is that right? See it is "understand it." So how can a man that's not born again know anything about the kingdom of God? Jesus said Himself, "Except a man be born of water and Spirit, he can in no wise..." He can't understand it. He's only looking at it. He can't do it.
And many of these people who deny these know no more about God than a rabbit would know about snow shoes. They just simply don't know. They say, "Oh, I believe there's God. Yes. Uh-huh. That's all there is to it." But, brother, to know Jesus is to know life: personally accepting the person Christ Jesus that lives in the heart of the human being. Yes.
Then you have a challenging faith. Then there's something in there that you know you're not standing alone. As Jesus said, "The testimony of two is what you require." He said, "I testify and my Father speaks, and both of us make the true testimony."

26 If I stand here tonight and speak of something, and God Almighty speaks back, that's a testimony if two is a confirmation. Is that right? If I say you can receive the Holy Ghost and God comes down and gives you the baptism of the Holy Ghost, that's a confirmation of the truth.
Someone said the Holy Ghost was only for years gone by. The Holy Ghost is today. There's people sitting right here now, a host of them, that's baptized with the Holy Ghost right now.
So, no matter what the critics say, you've got to expect that. Don't listen to it. Just close up your ears and go on. We're holding the services for the Lord Jesus Christ. And by God's help, that's what we're going to do until Jesus comes, or He changes the order.
And men who are ordained of God and sent of God look to God for instructions, and look to God to what to do with. And God takes care of His man. He always does.

27 Now, Jesus passing through there, and the question: "Why didn't He heal the whole bunch?"
Listen at His word now: "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."
"Sirs, we would see Jesus." If you'd see Him, that's the kind of person He would be, see. "A little while and the world seeth me no more, yet you'll see me, for I'll be with you even in you to the end of the world." Is that right? "Jesus Christ, the same yesterday, today, and forever."
Then, as we notice Him, He didn't claim to be any great person. He only bragged on God constantly. He said God was in Him, and God did the works.
Now, if Jesus has risen from the dead... Do you believe that? Say, "Amen." Every one in here will admit that Jesus, according to the Scripture, has risen from the dead. Do you believe the Scriptures to be the truth? Does thou believe this Word to be the truth? Then, if Jesus has risen from the dead, then He's just the same today as He was then. The only difference is: He lived in flesh then, of His own; He lives in the flesh of us, tonight.
"The things that I do shall ye also; for I will be with you, even in you, to the end of the world." Amen. There you are. I hope you see it.

28 Jesus Christ rose from the dead this beautiful Easter, now that we're just about to face, now.
And I think of those men coming from Emmaus, and Jesus walking with them and didn't know it. And many people here in Louisville tonight walk with Christ daily, and yet don't know it. People sitting here in this building tonight has walked today with Christ and perhaps don't know it.
But when He got them inside ... or, Him inside with them one time, they asked Him, said, "Come in and stay with us, the night is far spent. Won't You come in?"
And so He offered ... their invitation. It was a little humble place, perhaps. No matter how humble it is, He'll come. No matter how humble your welcome is to Him, He'll come to the humblest in this building. He'll come to the poorest; He'll come to your home. He'll do something that you'll know He's there, if you'll just open up and let Him.
Then Jesus, once inside with these disciples, who He had walked with, He made Himself known to them. And if you've never believed in divine healing, never believed in the power of the resurrection of Christ, just invite Him into your heart tonight, and He'll make Himself known to you. He'll do something. Just the way He broke that bread; they said, "Why it's been Him all the time," see. And they were believers.

29 And you notice: It'd taken them all day to make that journey over there, and they went back just in a few minutes. How much different your step will be after you know Jesus. How much lighter your life will be, walking on clouds, rejoicing. And all that old, ungodly, shackled-down condition will be gone. And you'll be resurrected with Him in His resurrection; believing Him, having faith in Him, and know that all things are working to the good for you; that He's leading you, loving you, blessing you, going before you. Take you to heaven, making you immortal when the resurrection comes. Healing your sickness along the road; performing miracles.
And your eyes are opened. Then you could see, see. Until your eyes come open you can't see. Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today, and forever.

30 Now, if Jesus has risen from the dead, He can come into this building tonight, and perform and do to these people like He would if He stood here in human flesh. Is that right?
Then if you'd see Jesus, open up your heart tonight. Invite Him in like they did at Emmaus. Say, "Open up my heart, Lord. You just come in. I come here to criticize, but I'm going to change my opinion right now. I'm just going to open up my heart and see if You really will come in."
Watch what you think when you go out the door tonight. You'll think, and know, that Jesus Christ has risen from the dead, and living with us now.
The Lord bless you, my friends. You're lovely. I could talk to you all night. But I keep talking ... I'll be preaching after a while, and that kind of takes away from the value of praying for the sick, because that's what we're going to have for the night. And the Lord bless you now.

31 Now as these Greeks said, "We would see Jesus. Now, we wouldn't hear some of His teaching, or we wouldn't hear this, or we wouldn't know where He stays at, but we would see Jesus."
How many of you would like to see Him tonight? Let's see your hands. All over the building; He's looking at you. Well, my prayer is that He will make Himself manifested to you tonight---each one of you. Make Him manifested to you. And before I start the meeting...
Now, friends, this is nothing to do with me or any individual. I'm trying my best, with all I know how to do, to make life a little easier for my fellowman; to get them to believe on the Lord, be born again of His Spirit, and to pray for the sick when they're needy, and to help them make life a little better.
Many times people are standing... Many people right here in this building tonight from right around the home places here that would've been dead in their grave if it hadn't been for Jesus Christ; and I am one of them. That's right. I'd have went years ago, right here in the Jewish hospital when a doctor of this city, one of the famous doctors of this city, gave me three minutes to live. And I'm here by the grace of God.
Then, when He let me live, I gave my heart to Him, and been screaming from the housetop ever since. And I believe Him with all my heart. May He come tonight and bless your humble souls.

32 Now, I guess that Billy gave out some prayer cards. And he just got me there in the car, and I forgot... Anybody got a prayer card? What's the letter on it? Tell me what a letter is. Y. All right. That'll be fine. All right. That's all I have to know.
All right. We can't pray for everybody at one time, in one meeting. I don't want to call too many at a time, but I want to... I just want to call as many as I can and pray for them.
And now, remember, the only thing that I can do is to pray for you. Remember, God is your healer. Let's say that together: "God is your healer," see. I only pray for you. And not only am I praying for you up here, but them out there'll be praying for you, too. These back here'll be praying for you, too, see. And together, we're trying our best to help you---no other purpose at all. God knows that. It's not a financial affair. If that'd been so, I'd accepted the money a long time ago and in one offering been multi-millionaire, so I'd have retired---retired.
God let me live to be a hundred and still preaching the gospel. There's no retiring to this, if He tarries.

33 No, it's not that, friends. It's not money, it's not popularity. God knows that. He'd take it away from me right now. It's not popularity; it's because I'm wanting to help you. God knows that that's the truth here.
And I tell the truth. God knows that that's the truth. He has backed me up many hard battles, and close places have I been into, like they did my Master. But, every time God has come on the scene and helped me. I've been challenged and everything. I've been challenged about three times here in the United States that I know of. And one of those people that did the challenge is in the insane institution tonight; the other two is in the grave. And so, I didn't have to wait no week for it to happen; it happened then, see.

34 So then, I have never feared. I've just went humbly to preach the gospel. God sent me to do this. And things that I speak of right here...
Even one of your papers here not long ago, the old Global Herald, I believe it was, or something like that, declared the article when it was down here on the river, and that light come down and hung over where I was at when I was baptizing a young minister many years ago. Out across the country... Now they got the picture of it. Many of you have it in your home. Hanging in Washington, DC, throughout, there's thousands times thousands of the pictures. And one of the best in fingerprint and document can be found in the United States has checked it over, and went everywhere; and he declares it to be a supernatural being. There's probably people sitting right here tonight who has seen it come right down, visible before your eyes; and I pray that it'll do it here in Louisville this week, right down before the people.
And, I have told the truth. God has testified that it's the truth. And the scientific world has to say it's the truth. Now, you can draw your opinion. May the Lord bless you.

35 Now, in seeing a vision, as you all know, all of you has been in my meetings. There might be one or two that hasn't been here. It's a divine gift. It's just like a gift to play music. I was watching the little ladies here tonight. And this morning it was when I was here, how they were playing that music so lovely. My, I wish I could do that, but I can't. Only thing I know... I don't whether it's in tune or out of tune, I just know it's making a noise, and it's music, and that's all I know about it. But let it get a little out of tune, they could tell you, because they're musicians. Well, I wouldn't know.
And to build this house, I was noticing the architecture of it. I'd like to see one like this I'd build: It would look horrible. But you see, God has men to build houses, He has some to preach the gospel, some to teach. God has set... God has set in the church first apostles, prophets, teachers, evangelists, and gifts of healing, and working of miracles, and so forth, all for the perfecting of the saints. Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today, and forever.

36 Now, if He stood here tonight, behind this desk where I'm standing, with His human flesh, wearing this same suit, standing here; as far as healing you, He could not do it. For He couldn't do twice what He's done once, see. He's already healed you. "By His stripes you were healed," said Peter in the New Testament. Is that right?
Isaiah spoke of the coming. "He was wounded for our transgressions, bruised for our iniquities,"---Isaiah. Peter, afterward, said that's where it was done. There's where you were forgiven of your sins: at Calvary. You just accepted it. He did it two thousand years ago, you accepted it last week, or two years ago, or whenever it was. He healed you two thousand years ago. You can accept it tonight.
But the only thing we can do is either preaching of the gospel, or some sign to get your faith pointed to Jesus Christ. Is that right? The Lord bless you.

37 Now, let's line the people up to the right over here. Let's take... Where did it begin? One to a hundred? All right. Let's start from one, then, and start over here. Who has prayer card number 1? Hold up your hand, prayer card number one. Look over on your... It's a little bitty card like this; got your name and address on it. Over here it's got the picture and a number. Where is it? Number 1? Yes. Y-1. Come right over here, lady.
Y-2. Who has 2? Prayer card 2? All right, lady. 3? Who has 3? Raise up your hand so I'll know. 3? All right, sir, over here. 4? Who has number 4? Prayer card 4? 5? Who has 5? Raise up your hand. Prayer card number 5? Somebody look on the back of your card; it may be a deaf and dumb person, can't speak or hear. Number 5. Prayer card number 5?
Pardon me? All right. Number 6? Who has number 6? Prayer card 6? 7? Raise up your hand as quickly as you can. 7? 7? Has somebody prayer card 7? Look at somebody sitting next to you. It may be somebody who can't get up, or something. Someone will help them up, if they can just get... Prayer card 7? All right. 8? Who has prayer card number 8? All right. 8? 9? Prayer card 9? 10? 11? 12? 13? 14? 15? 16? 17? 18? 19? 20?
All right. Just line up over there according to your numbers and let's see how many we got in there then. All right.

38 All right. Now, if the sister on the organ there will give us Only Believe. Let's just sing humbly and reverently. I'm going to ask you one thing. Now it's, right now, about twenty-after. If you'll just give me a few minutes, and don't stir around.
Now, listen to these instructions, if you will. Don't stir during the time of the prayer. Stand still. Watch. And if on the platform something takes place, hold your peace. Just sit still, see. Now ushers will see to that from the audience, see. Just sit still.
Now, if God does some miracle, or something, and you want to rejoice, rejoice. That's perfectly all right. We like for you to do that: to rejoice. But we want you to be reverent. Don't stir around. Keep your children near you, and so forth, in the meeting. All right. All things are possible, only believe. Now, like ... slowly now, let's all try to sing it.
Only believe, only believe.
All things are possible, only believe.
Only believe, only believe.
All things are possible, only believe.
I wonder if we could get it this way: Now I believe, right now. I wonder if we could just raise up our hands, with our eyes closed, and sing it to Him now.
Now I believe, now I believe.
All things are possible, now I believe.
Now I believe, now I believe (Praise God!)
All things are possible, now I believe.

39 Father in heaven, we ask that Your blessings will be with us. And may the Lord Jesus come into this church now. Take over our beings. And may the Holy Spirit, tonight, do the work of Jesus Christ. You said in Your Word, "When He, the Holy Spirit, has come, He will bring these things to your remembrance; and will show you things to come. And He will testify of Me."
And I pray, God, that the Holy Spirit in my heart testifying of Jesus Christ will show to the world tonight, or the people that's here present, that our Lord Jesus has risen from the dead, and lives among us. Grant these blessings in Jesus Christ's name and for His glory. Amen.
(Excuse me. I'm going to take this here because I'm not ... don't speak too loud.)
Everybody in harmony, believing now, say "Amen." Everybody in harmony, believing. Now, settle yourself down. Now you can watch this way till you hear me say, "Close your eyes."

40 And now remember, I have to say this according to the law of Indiana and many other places, I suppose Kentucky, also; I never asked. But, I am not responsible for critics, see. For critics are unbelievers who are sitting near.
Remember, if you are that person, don't stay during this part of the service. For let it be known unto you, as I speak in the name of the Lord, these diseases go from one to another. That's right. And on an unbeliever, you can do nothing with it. That's right. So, there's many persons tonight who has been in the meeting, criticizing and so forth, and we have tape recordings to show what happened.
So now, may the Lord help you and bless you. You just sit quiet, be reverent; pray for me, your brother, as I minister to the sick. All right.

41 Now, now how many in this building now, standing here, that doesn't have a prayer card, and wants to be prayed for? Raise up your hands. Everywhere in the building. Well, it's just general, everywhere.
Now, I'm going to ask you something. Now, if you will believe this to be the honest truth with all your heart, I'll assure you the Holy Spirit will move right out there in that audience to where you're at.
Do you believe the same Jesus that the woman touched the hem of His garment ... her faith touched Him in such a way, till He turned and looked over His audience to see who touched Him? Said, "Thy faith has saved thee." She had a blood issue. Do you believe that? That's the Scripture.
Well, if He is the same yesterday, today, and forever, isn't He the same when He's operating in our flesh? Isn't it right? Now, let your faith touch Him; see what He does about it. The Lord bless you.
Now, for God's glory, I take every spirit in this building under my control, in the name of Jesus Christ, for the glory of God. I'm sure you understand what that means. Be reverent.

42 How do you do? I suppose now that you and I are strangers. As far as I know I've never seen you. God has seen us both, knows both of us. And I'm just a man, you're a woman standing here. That's all I know about you. Now, are you a believer? Now, if you're a believer, all things are possible to them that believe.
Now, if Jesus was standing here, mystically, by my side, and He was talking to you, like He did the woman at the well, He would know you, know all about you. Is that right? And He'd know, and could tell you, just like He could out there in the audience. But, would you believe it then to be the truth with all your heart? ["Yes, I would."] You would believe it. ["Yes I would. I received a marvelous healing ... your ministry at Connersville out in the audience. You told me I was healed of rectal trouble."] Is that a fact?
Now, you hear the testimony, I suppose. It was at... Where was it at, lady?" ["Connersville."] At Connersville. That's just a couple summers ago ... or, last summer. ["Last summer."] Last summer. And you had... What was it? ["Rectal trouble."] Rectal trouble. ["I had three operations."] Three operations. And, a rectal trouble out in the audience. And the Holy Spirit moved out there and called you out, and healed you out there in the audience.

43 There's the first patient standing here. ["I passed something, I don't know what it was, but... I don't know what it was, but something I passed."] You hear her testimony, what taken place after that. What supernaturally taken place there? I knew not the woman. I don't know her now. Only just what...
And God in heaven knows that's the truth. [Unclear word] on this Bible laying here before me, and God is my Judge, that's ... that's what I know about her there. As far as I know I never met her, never seen her in my life. I seen her out there. I might not have seen her; I just seen that light standing over her. And maybe just her thoughts, I picked up her thoughts out in the audience.
You say, "You read her mind, then."
Well, if you want to call it that. Jesus did the same thing. He perceived their thoughts. Is that right? Well, tell me the difference between perceiving a thought and reading a mind. Not this devil's group out here, in a little ... on the side of a street, and a little hand out like that. That's psychology. That has nothing to do with God.

44 But then, if the Lord Jesus has risen from the dead, and I'm representing Him here tonight, truly, then He would let me know what was wrong with you now, or what was wrong. And if He would, would that raise your faith to believe for healing again? ["Yes."] It would. All right. May He grant it to you, sister, is my prayer.
But, it's not that now. You got some kind of an inward trouble. It's in the... It's a kidney trouble. It's in a bladder, too. I see a drainage, burning sensation coming from the bladder. Isn't that true? ["That's true."] And you're... There's something else that you got on your mind. No, it's about a loved one. It's a boy---your son. Isn't that right? ["Yes it is."] He's got something like asthmatic. He's coughing, real dry coughing all the time. Isn't that right?
And aren't you from Indianapolis? ["Yes. Oh, thank You, Jesus."] Go back home. You can go get well. Jesus Christ makes you well. God bless you.
Have faith in God. Only believe. All things are possible to them that believe.
Now, to that woman that was here just a few moments ago, she's healed. All right. Have faith in God.

45 How do you do, lady? I suppose from as far as... Of course now, in this ... standing here. I just put my hand over there, because that ... see, it's not... It's the anointing, see, it's the anointing. And it makes me feel different than what I really am in regular life, because you're in a dual condition. You're in two worlds at the same time.
But I suppose we're strangers to each other. We don't know one another. As far as I know I don't know you. And we've... This is our meeting time. But God knows both of us. Do you believe me to be His servant? ["Amen. Absolutely."] I believe that; you have a welcome feeling to your spirit, and His presence being here now. And if there's any help can come, it would have to come through Him, wouldn't it? You realize that it wouldn't be me, your brother; it would be Him, your Saviour. Is that right? You believe it.
I see you moving from me. You're having some kind of ... all through your body, like pains, like, all through your body. That's a arthritis condition in the nerves, it's what's doing it. Causes sharp pains ... pains, aches---through your body. You have something another... I notice you're rubbing your head. It's a sinus trouble. That's what it is. It's come from your head up your sinuses. ["That's right."]
And you got someone that you're interested in. It must be your husband. He has the same thing. Isn't that right? ["Yes, it is."] It's coming from in here.
And there's something strange about you. It seems like I keep seeing blue water moving like that. And there's some kind of a person that you're dealing with that's a... It must be a... It's a different people. There's something that you... It's Indians. You're a missionary (Is that right?) from India. I see the... Well, go. Jesus Christ is going to make you well. God bless you. And may you go in peace. God's peace upon you.

46 Have faith in God. Don't doubt; only believe. Are you believing with all your heart?
Yes. God bless you, sir.
It just keeps moving---that light. I don't guess you can see it. But here it is, standing here. No, it's over this lady, here. She has high blood pressure. Isn't that right, lady? Do you accept your healing now? You don't have to have a card to be healed, but you accept your healing now? Go home then and be well, and may the Lord Jesus bless you and make you well.
Oh, Christian friends, the Lord Jesus Christ's anointing this audience. Only have faith in Him. You shall see the glory of God: His great manifestation of His blessing.

47 Are you a believer, sir, sitting there? Lay your hand over on that lady with that red-looking coat on, sitting there. She's sitting there, praying. She's got sort of a chest trouble that's been bothering her. Isn't that right, lady? Yes. Now lay your hand over on her there, that she be healed.
Lord Jesus, may the power of God come upon the woman and make her completely well. I ask it in Jesus Christ's name. Amen.
God bless you. Do you believe now with all your heart? Now, you lay your hand on the lady next to you there, to get rid of... She's got something wrong with her. Yes, you laid your hand in the right place. She has a asthmatic condition. Isn't that right, lady? Wave your hand if that's right. I see you trying to... All right.
Oh, Almighty God, may Your Spirit come to her now. You're favoring her by standing near her, speaking through Your servant. I ask that she be made well, in Jesus Christ's name. Amen.
As you believe, so will it be to you. You know something left you then. Now just keep believing and it won't return. But when you disbelieve, it will return.

48 Come. Oh, He is so wonderful. His blessings are upon His people. All right. How do you do, sir. 'Course I see you got something on your throat there; looks awful red. I don't know what it is, but God does know. Do you believe me to be His prophet ... or, His servant? You do? With all your heart you believe that, do you? ["Yes."]
Sir, that's a cancer. Isn't that right? Being as that was showing in a plaster on your neck... For the benefit of the audience that they might know: You look to me and believe me with all your heart. Something else might be wrong; because that's showing. If there was a man sitting there crippled, and I said he was crippled, anybody knows that; you're looking at it.
You're a stranger here. You're not from this country. You're from a country where there's a lot hardwood; and there's little lakes like. And that's... It's kind of a lot of swamp country near you there. And you're from a small city. And that... You're from Missouri. And the name of the city starts with a "K." It's Kennett, Missouri. Is that right?
And you're a stranger to me. But your name is Matterson, or something like that, M-a-t-t... Matterson. Isn't it? [The man says, "Masterson."] Masterson. And your initials is I. A. Is that true? Go believe now and the cancer will leave you. God bless you in Jesus Christ's name.
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49 the side. You have something wrong with your side, don't you, lady? You thought I was talking to you a while ago, when I looked at you. Stand up on your feet. Jesus Christ makes you well. Go believing. Have faith in God; don't doubt.
All right. Do you believe Him now, lady? All right. Do you believe me to be His servant? We're strangers to one another, I believe. I have never seen you, if I'm correctly believing right. Now, I want you to come just a little more near me, because of the emotion at the platform.
Well, God's going to judge us both some of these days, lady. You're aware of that. And you're aware, right now, that you're standing in the presence of something besides a man. Is that true? Now, that won't hurt you. That's... It's some power that you say you feel moving through you. That's the Angel of the Lord.
You got... I see you moving away from a table. There's something ... it's in the stomach. You got stomach trouble. And that's caused from a liver condition. It empties into the stomach. It causes sourness and bitterness. And you're with somebody. It's somebody... It's your mother. And she's here too. And she's got stomach trouble also. And isn't there something wrong with her neck? She's got something wrong with her neck?
And you've come here... You're not from this city; you're from up the river---Cincinnati---and you've come here by bus. And you're supposed to leave tonight at nine o'clock. Go in the name of the Lord Jesus and be made well. Go. You won't have to worry about it. Go eat your supper now, and be made well in Jesus' name.

50 Come. Lady, I see you moving slowly. Of course, you're probably, perhaps, very sick. I suppose we're strangers to each other. We're not? ["I've been in the meetings before."] Oh, you've been in my meetings before. Well, God knows both of us, doesn't He? I know nothing about you as far... I don't know nothing about you. But God knows all about you. If God will reveal to me what your trouble is, will you accept Him as your healer? ["Amen."]
I see some kind of a white-looking room. Oh, it's a hospital. You've just been operated. That's been about a year ago. It's caused a weakness that you've never got over. You're suffering with a flu, or something, now. Isn't that right? Aren't you Miss Arnold's mother, or something? I see her standing near you.
Oh God, in the name of Jesus Christ, the Son of God, I bless this poor mother for her healing. May she go tonight and recover in Jesus Christ's name. Amen.
God bless you, sister. Go rejoicing now, being happy, believing with all your heart; and receive your healing.

51 Come. Do you believe? Do you believe, if the Holy Spirit, who's going to judge us both at the day of judgment; if He would reveal your trouble, would you accept your healing? That anointing shakes me so. It makes me so weak, I ... see ... that I try just to see if ... or either pray. If I didn't tell you nothing, pray for the way you are now, you believe you'd be healed.
See, your faith has met something. Before I even say anything, it's gone from you. That's right. I know it's just turned real white around you. I see what was wrong. You had heart trouble. Now you can go home, thanking God, being happy. God bless you.
Father, bless her, I pray, in the name of Jesus. Amen.
God bless you. Have faith now, believing with all your heart.
Do you believe, sir? If I would not say one word to you, but just pray for you, do you believe you'd get well? That's the way to do. You're convinced then that I've told you the truth. All that sickness would leave you and everything. You could go home, be... Is that right? It will. God bless you.

52 Let's say, "Thanks be to God." That man believes God. Just only have faith. Believe it with all your heart; you shall receive.
Come. Are you believing with all your heart? ["I certainly do."] I believe that you do. Now, if I could heal you and wouldn't do it, I'd be a brute, wouldn't I? But I... Blessed be the Lord.
Hanging over that little lady, sitting there looking... You got something wrong with your throat, haven't you, lady. Yes, ma'am. Well, that did it. God bless you. Your faith has saved you now. Go and be made whole.
There's something else. I see that same choking, like... Oh, it's the lady sitting behind you there has a goiter. Yes. Do you want to accept your healing, too? Do you believe that He healed you? God bless you. Go and be made well. May the Lord Jesus grant your faith to be confirmed. Thank the Lord Jesus.
See, friends, pray. You don't need prayer cards; you need faith to believe.
It still hangs there. That lady sitting next to there, the young lady there, has a heart trouble. Do you believe the Lord's going to heal you, sister? He has. Now you can go home and be well. God bless you.
Do you want to get over that diabetes? Do you accept Jesus as your Healer?
Lord Jesus, make her well, and may she ... can be able to stop taking insulin and be made whole, in Jesus' name. Amen.
God bless you, sister. Have faith in God.

53 Come, lady.
Oh, my. What our Lord could do right now in this audience of people. Oh, if you would just, with one accord now, go to believe Him, there wouldn't be a feeble person in this building tonight. That is right. If you believe with all your heart right now, you wouldn't have a thing to worry about, but be made well.
Do you believe me, lady, as God's servant? If God will reveal to me what's your trouble, will you accept your healing? Well, if you'll believe right now, that heart trouble will leave you, and you'll be bothered with it again. Do you believe with all your heart? Go and you can receive it, and God'll be merciful to you and bless you.
Come. Just a moment, lady. Stand here a minute. There's something... It wasn't you, but there's so... That's all right. Thank you. [Brother Branham speaks aside.

54 "What was wrong with that woman? Heart?"]
How many people in here's been suffering with heart trouble? Raise your hands right away, quickly. I believe with all my heart it's over for you. It just lit the whole building, then, when you went away. There was something taking place. Oh, that's the way. That's the way to believe: with one accord---all of you---and be made well.
Praise be to God. Oh, my. How this is right now, I wish I could transfer God's... You think this is strange? This is our Lord Jesus.
Do you believe me to be His servant? Will you accept, without a shadow of doubt, the Lord Jesus Christ in His name, if God will let me know what your trouble is? Stomach trouble. Is that right? Now go eat your supper.

55 Do you believe? How many here has stomach trouble? Raise your hands. All right. Every one of you that has stomach trouble, stand to your feet right now. Every one of you that had heart trouble, stand to your feet right now. Every one has cancer, stand to your feet right. Every one of you got anything wrong with you, stand to you feet right now. Are you believing? Raise up your hands.
Heavenly Father, come in great power and demonstration, and send Thy blessings upon this audience. I condemn every evil spirit, every sickness, every disease, every affliction, as your servant. As the anointing, Holy Spirit moving through this audience, I condemn these diseases and these afflictions, and say in Jesus Christ's name, "Come out of the people."
Everybody that believes God, raise up your hands and say, "Thank You, Lord Jesus." Believe it with all your heart. That's it. Keep praising the Lord.

Sirs, we would see Jesus

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1 Good evening, Christian friends. It certainly is a privilege to be out here again tonight, on this occasion to minister to the needy, the blessings of the Lord Jesus Christ. And I'm so happy to see you all again. And after having two nights of speaking of the services, why, just merely preaching the Gospel to the best of my knowledge, then tonight, we're to have prayer for the sick, for the healing services.
And I trust that you'll pray for me now. And this is the first time since I've come... My last meeting of a healing service, they packed me both in and out in India. And my clothes were torn off, almost, and everything, where nearly five hundred thousand people gathering.
And, it's a wonderful thing to know the Lord Jesus Christ in the power of His resurrection and His love to us.
Now, just before we start praying for the sick, I certainly covet the prayers of all of you for me, tonight. And I want to take the regular theme of our campaigns always, is Hebrews 13:8 of: "Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today, and forever." And that's the theme that we use, that we believe that He is the same yesterday, today, and forever.
And now, for a little Scripture reading, I would like for you to read, maybe not now, but when you can, on the 12th chapter of Saint John and the 20th and 21st and 22nd verses. I'd like to read this, for I, being a man, my words will fail. But when I read His words, it can't fail; it's God's Word. And we believe them to be His words. And then if I know no more takes place than me reading the Word, God will bless His Word. He said it wouldn't return to Him void. It would accomplish that which it was purposed.

2 Now in here, we read this beginning with the 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 of Galilee, and desired him, saying, Sir, we would see Jesus.
Philip cometh and telleth Andrew: and again Andrew and Philip telleth Jesus.
And now, shall we bow our heads just moment while we talk to the Author of this, please.
Our kind, Heavenly Father, with grateful hearts full of assurance that Thou hearest the prayers of Your children. We come approaching tonight knowing that Thou art the same yesterday, today, and forever. And that Your lovely ways and Your attitude towards the people of the days when You were here in flesh, is the same tonight; for You are the same.
And I pray that You'll manifest Your love to these tonight, to the sinner, to the backslider, and to the ungodly, and unto the sick, and the needy, the crippled, the afflicted, the blind, all. And may this be a night, Father, that when we close the services, to walk away, may we say like those who came from Emmaus, "Did not our hearts burn within us because of His presence?"
God, we pray that You'll take us tonight like You did at Emmaus. Now, Father, You're all love and You love Your children everywhere. But when You got those disciples to themselves and they shut the outside world out, You were in a room with them alone. Then You done something just a little different from the average man, though You had preached to them all day. And they still didn't recognize You. But, the way You done something they realized it was only You could do it that way. And they all knew then it was You.
Father, we've shut our hearts' door to the things of the world, to all skeptic thoughts. We want to be shut in with You tonight. God, grant tonight that You'll do something just a little different from the average time; that the people might know that You love them, and You're here, and want to make them well and forgive them of their sins. Grant it, Father.
And now, as Your humble servant, submitting myself to Thee, and this church also, for the working of the Holy Spirit, we ask these blessings in the lovely name of Jesus Christ, the Son of God. Amen.

3 Just for a moment to kind of get used to each other, I want to ask you just a question. And we'll speak about it for a few moments if God willing.
These Greeks was a curious type of people. They ... Bible says, Paul, I believe, said, "The Greeks seek wisdom. The Jews seek signs." And these Greeks when they come to ask about Jesus, they didn't exactly desire to see His miracles. They just wanted to see Jesus. And I believe that that would be the attitude of every Greek here, not only Greek, but of every other nationality that's represented here tonight, of the nations and tribes of the earth, as America is the molding pot, where we all come together of different nationalities. I believe that's the desire of every man that ever read the Bible, or ever had a thought that there was a God of Heaven. His desire was to see Jesus. And I know that everyone will see Him someday. And every knee will bow and every tongue will confess that He's the Son of God.
But, I want to ask this: Do we have to die to see Him? No, we don't. And now, the Scripture theme says that He's the same yesterday, today, and forever. And if He is the same yesterday, today, and forever, therefore, when He died, He was only dead for a few hours, but He rose again.
And my contentions through the Christian church today, beyond the realms of theology, my contention is that Jesus is alive among the Christian people just as real as He ever was, manifesting Himself in His deity and power to forgive sins and to heal the sick, to make the lame to walk, the blind to see, and perform every thing that He did when He was here on earth; He will do it yet now. That's either the truth, or the Bible is wrong.
And for me, if I didn't believe the Bible to be the full truth and the Word of God, I certainly wouldn't be here in New York tonight trying to represent it to the people. I have a wife and two little babies at home. And wife is to be mother again right away. And you know how they need me at home.

4 But I'm here because that I felt that God wanted me to come to Binghamton, New York. And I'm here to do all that I can, to help everybody I can. For I realize that there's no persons here, or nowhere, that would want to be lost. And that every Christian wants to get closer to God; and more we know of God, or see of God, the more we love Him, and the more we believe Him.
And now, I want to ask you something, you Christians, and also nonchristian. If this Scripture tonight is true, that He is the same yesterday, today, and forever, and if He will come into this building, just as real as He was in the days that He was here on earth, will everyone of you accept Him to be the same yesterday, today, and forever? Will you believe Him, love Him, surrender your lives? May He grant it to you.
Now, they wanted to see Jesus. How many of you want to see Him, then? Would you just want to see Him? Sure. I do. God knows that's right. I want to see Him. Well, if He's the same yesterday, today, and forever, why can't we see Him? Why can't we? They seen Him then. And if He's the same today---same in principle, same in compassion, same in power, same in love, same in manifestation---why can't we see Him, then, today as we did then?

5 Now, if we were going down into Binghamton tonight, if our Lord Jesus was here tonight---I say this with reverence---perhaps would be rejected by ninety-nine percent of the church members of Binghamton tonight. In the way that He would come, in the form that, in our theology, the way that we have taught Him to be, and so forth, if He'd walk in, dressed as an ordinary man, and start teaching; perhaps many of them would not welcome Him, and put Him out of the church, because His policies would be so much different. For if Jesus is the same, the religious people of the world is the same.
You see, friends, God never takes His Spirit from the earth. God takes His man, but not His Spirit. The Spirit that was upon Elijah, come upon Elisha, then come upon John the Baptist. And predicted to come again in the last days, see. God never takes His Spirit; He takes His man. He'd taken Christ, but Christ's Spirit returned to the earth. The devil takes his man, but never the spirit.
And the same religious cults of that day---high, classic, educated, scholarly---them same spirits live right on today; same kind of people are captured by the same influence of teachers.
When Jesus would come in today, He'd probably be just as unwelcomed as He was then, for He certainly didn't endorse their churches, or their theology. And was turned out bitterly, because their priests and ministers didn't believe Him. They said He was a devil, because He did the works of God, that the Bible said He would do.
Now, if we were going down in Binghamton, or some of these cities, tonight to find the Lord Jesus, you'd probably find Him among the common people. You believe that? Just be common, humble people, like there is here tonight, would perhaps be the kind of people that would be where the Lord Jesus would be. "For, in that day, the common people heard Him gladly," said, the writer, Luke.

6 Now, would we look for a man that was dressed a little different from the ordinary man, if we were looking for Jesus? No, we would look for a man dressed just like the common man that walks on the street. Jesus walked in among men, many times walked right among them, and them looking for Him everywhere and couldn't see Him, because He was just an ordinary man. He didn't dress any different. He didn't dress in clergy clothes to make Himself any different. He just had nice, neat, clean clothes on, dressed like the average man that walked on the street in that day; spoke the same kind of a language.
It was so simple, His language was, if you only knew the truth, there's where your scholar's get mixed up, see. His language was to interpret the Greek and the Hebrew and so forth, and they try to interpret in the terms of their real high scholarly way of doing it. And He just used common language like we would, see. And that's the way they're all confused in it.
You differ with that; don't go to thinking them things. I can tell you now, see. So, that's right, but that's the truth, what it was.

7 Now, well then, when He was here, would we look for Him to be some great theologian, some great high speaker? No, He wasn't. He was just a common ordinary man. And would we look for all the churches to be patronizing Him, and saying, "This is the big fellow; this is the guy." No, they'd be against Him. There would just be a few common people that would've heard Him.
Well, would His speech be so, with such an eloquent speech that He would just simply be able to with His great swelling words, just to conquer people? No, He wouldn't be that type of person.
Well, what kind of a person would we look for if we was to look for Jesus, tonight? Let's take His ministry. Now the Bible said, He's the same today that He was then.

8 Now, the first thing, when His ministry first started out, there was a fellow by the name of Philip got converted. And as soon as he got converted, he went to find his friend Nathanael; was a good, true sign that he got converted. When a man, once with Jesus, he wants everybody to know about Jesus.
And so, Philip goes to find Nathanael and he found him under a tree. And so, he said, "Come, see who I have found, Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph."
So Nathanael, a very curious sort of fellow, a righteous man, raised up and said, "Jesus of Nazareth? Could any good thing come out of Nazareth?"
Philip give him the real answer. "Come and see." That's the best way to find out whether anything is real or not. Go look at it. That's the way Moses found out about the burning bush. He turned aside to take a look at it, see why it was burning.

9 That's the way you'll ever get anywhere. If you're on the path down life's journey, without God, without Christ, step aside tonight. Look it over and see what God will tell you. Take off your shoes, too, when you step on the holy ground and be reverent about it. Don't come to criticize. Be reverent. Believe. And then listen to what the Holy Spirit will speak in your heart. Be humble. Open up and let God have His way with you.
Now when Philip found out that Nathanael was going back with him, perhaps, Jesus was standing in the prayer line. I don't know where He was. He, perhaps, was in the prayer line. Philip might have come up to Him in the prayer line, or he might have been standing out into the audience somewhere. But when Jesus turned around and He fastened His eyes upon Philip, He said, "Behold, an Israelite in whom there is no guile."
Now if the Holy Spirit would repeat the same thing, tonight, it would say, "Here's a Christian, a truthful man, and honest," see.
"Behold, an Israelite, a believer, in whom there is no guile."
Why, it astonished the Israelite. "How did that man know who I was? How did He know that I was an Israelite, first, and how did He know that I was truthful and honest, and no guile?"
He said, "Whence knowest Thou me, Rabbi (or, reverend, master, teacher), when did You know me?"
He said, "Before Philip called you, when you were under the tree, I saw you." What if that would take place in New York tonight? Do you know what would happen?
They'd say, "That guy is a fortuneteller. That's mental telepathy. He's a witch. I knowed He was a soothsayer." See, that's the reason you don't get nowhere.
You know what Philip done? Philip never stood back and said, "Now wait a minute. How did that...? Is He a fortuneteller?"
Philip run and fell down by him; he said, "Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God."
Jesus said, "Because I told you that, you believe? If he's a believer," He said, "you'll see greater things than this. If you believe."
Now that was Jesus of nineteen hundred years ago. Wouldn't that be Jesus tonight? Same Jesus?

10 One day, in His journey, He went by ... had to go up by Samaria. I wonder why. From Jericho ... He was going to Jericho. On His road from Jerusalem straight path right to Jericho, but He went up around Samaria. I wonder why. And He sent His disciples away. It was about eleven o'clock and they went down to get something to eat. And while they were gone, Jesus was sitting on the well, and a prostitute came out, a woman. Perhaps, she had been out all night, and she just got up at that late, or maybe she couldn't go out with the rest of the women, ashamed to be in their company. But anyhow, she come out, being a Samaritan, and let her kettle down to get water.
You ought to see how they do it in the Orient. And they let their kettle down to get water. And when she come to the well, Jesus said, "Woman, bring Me a drink."
And she said, "Why, it's not customary for You Jews to ask Samaritans such. We have no dealings with one another." In other words, it was a race affair, like between the colored and white today. Said, "Why, we have not dealings with one another."
Jesus said to her, "But if you knew who you were talking to, you'd ask Me for a drink, and I'd give you water that you didn't come here to draw."
Why, she looked at Him. "Well," she said, "the well is deep and You have nothing to draw with."
He said, "But the waters that I give, is the waters of life, springing up, like a geyser in your soul, everlasting life." See what He was trying to do? Now this is what I think, that He was trying to contact her spirit; for He was possessed with all the qualities of God. But, first to this woman He must talk to her, catch her mind, get her directly in line. And so to catch her spirit he had to bring this conversation around.
And then when He caught her spirit, seen something that was vital in her life, He said, "Go get your husband."
She said, "I don't have any husband."
Said, "That's right. You got five." Why, she looked at Him.

11 Notice. She said, "Well, I perceive that Thou art a Prophet." She said ... (Now, watch close.) She said, "We know that Messiah cometh, and when He comes, these signs will be with Him. But being that You're a Prophet ... You must be a Prophet, to have these Messianic signs."
Notice. The sign of a seer was the Messianic sign. She said, "I know when Messiah cometh, He will do these things. But who are You? You must be a Prophet." Said, "But when Messiah comes, He will do this."
He said, "I am He that speaks to you." There you are. That was Jesus yesterday. That was Jesus nineteen hundred years ago. That's Jesus tonight. Don't you believe that? Certainly it is. It's the same Jesus.
Well, she run into the city, all excited. And said, "Come see a man told me everything I ever done." Well, He didn't do that. He just told her one thing. But if God could reveal to Him one thing, He could reveal everything if He wanted to. So she knew that He was empowered with God to see her life and see who she was. Well, God was with Him. And He claimed to be the Messiah. So she said, "Come see a Man that told me everything I ever done. Isn't this the very Christ?"
So they went out and brought Him into the city. And He begin to speak to them. And when He was speaking, they realized that He was different from the ordinary clergymen that they had of that day, 'cause He spoke like He knowed what He was talking about. Wasn't from some theory ... or, theology; He just spoke from what He knowed was the truth, without fear or wavering. He knowed where He was.
Now, that was Jesus nineteen hundred years ago. Now, let's give a little something. You believe He was full of mercy? full of compassion? full of love? All right. I'm not trying to hang you on something, but I want to show you something now, being that we're talking the way we are.
He came down to the pool of Bethesda. The Bible said... (That's Saint John the 5th chapter, you that wants to read it.) And came to the pool of Bethesda. And in this ... around this pool, laid great multitudes of people. It was a porch ... five porches was over it, where they... The washing place, and so forth ... the sheep gates. And they was... In there laid great multitudes of people. For God has always had a way for healing. No matter what it was, since the world began, God has made a way for healing His people.

12 Now, and in there, there was an Angel came down every certain season, maybe once a month. And it troubled the water. You know what troubled waters are? Living close to this river you should know. It's when the river is coming down this way, flowing, and the wind is blowing up that way, chops it. It's very dangerous water. And when this water, with no circulation of current nowhere, but yet it chopped it and troubled it like that. An Angel come down and troubled the water. It would chop up and down. And the first man stepping in, with faith, got healed of whatsoever disease he had. He first must believe it.
The writers tell us, it was such a pathetic sight till they stabbed one another to see who could get it first. And here come Jesus, coming down to this pool. The very Emmanuel! A woman had just touched the hem of His garment. He never prayed for her. She just touched His garment. He turned around, said, "Your faith has made you whole." And here He was coming here, the Emmanuel, walking through that pool.
Let's draw a little dramatic picture here. Here's a mother with a water-head baby, pleading to let her in first. Here's an old dad with arthritis, drawed up like this. Here's a poor blind man that hasn't seen for years. Everyone hollering for mercy: Let them in first, if the Angel comes on the water. For every time anyone stepped in, and a healing taken place, the virtue drawed the Angel off the water. And they waited for months to get back, when the Angel come again. Whenever it would come at a certain season that it came in.
But the healing of the patient drawed the strength of the Angel off the water, and it left again. Now, you wouldn't wonder about weakness then, would you, see? All right. The virtue left the water at the first healing.
Now here comes Jesus, God Himself, incarnate in His Son, Christ Jesus, tabernacled to take away sin. And sickness is an attribute of sin. All sickness originated from sin. Correct. Before we had any... If anyone could preach salvation of the soul and not preach divine healing, I do not see how he could sensibly look at the Bible.

13 For instance, if a dragon or a reptile had me with his foot tonight, pulling my side, I don't have to cut his foot off to get rid of him. Just knock it in the head; it kills the whole body. And sickness is an attribute of sin. Before we had any sin, we never had any sickness. And sickness come because of sin. You see it? So you can't deal with sin on any measure unless you're dealing with sickness, worry, and every attribute that sin produces. See what I mean?
Now, here come Jesus, the atonement for our sickness and sin, walking through the pool ... or, around the pool, and there laid men and women everywhere in that pathetic... Looks to me like He would have said, "Every one of you get up and go on. You're well." If He was full of love and compassion, why didn't He do it? Did you ever think about that? That's a little different light, maybe, than what you read the Bible in, see.
Why didn't He say, "All you sick people get up and go home now." if He loved them and felt sorry for them? But, you know, the Jesus of nineteen hundred years ago, walked right through that pool where great multitudes, (and it takes two thousand to make a multitude) multitudes of people laid. "Lame," the Bible said, "lame, halt, blind, and withered." Is that right? What a pathetic sight! And here, Emmanuel walking around that baby with a water head, walking around... The Son of God, full of love and compassion, walking around that old blind daddy, walking around this man with arthritis, and never said a word about his healing. Strange, isn't it, being full of love and compassion! But that's the Scripture. Saint John 5. Read it. It's the New Testament.
And He walked over to a man laying on a pallet. We call it "pallet" down South. I don't know, just something laying there, he was laying on. Laying on a pallet. Perhaps, he had, oh, prostate trouble. Or he might have had TB. Ever what it was, he had had it thirty-eight years. It was retarded, it wasn't going to kill him. He had had it for thirty-eight years. He wasn't crippled. Neither was he blind, lame, or halt. He could get up and walk. He said, "When I'm coming down, somebody steps down ahead of me." Had it thirty-eight years, and probably that old or older when he took it, so he maybe a man sixty or seventy years old. But he was laying there. He was sick and upset, was laying on this pallet.

14 And Jesus, going around all those crippled, and twisted, and blind, what do you think He'd do tonight if He passed through New York and passed by them people? The same thing they'd said back there, just what they said: "Let me see Him heal this one, and I'll believe it." God doesn't heal on them conditions. No. "Let me see Him make these well. Let me see Him..."
"Well," they say, "well, now if You're Emmanuel, why don't You raise Your hands and say, 'Every one of you go home. You're well.'"
I believe, if He would have done that, they'd all went home well. But He didn't do it. I wonder why? Now, He said, He was full of love and compassion, why didn't He do it?
He walked over to this one man, not no bad shape, not a bad shape at all. He walked over to him, He said, "Will thou be made whole?"
And the man said, "Sir, I have no man to help me in the water. While I'm coming down, someone gets ahead of me." In other words, "A young fellow don't knock them out of the way, and so forth, till I can get into the water, if they stabbed one another with knives and things to get in. How can an old man like that make his way ahead of the young folks?" Said, "I have no one to bust the way for me" in otherwise "to get me in. While I'm coming, somebody has done beat me in."
Jesus said, "Take up your bed and go unto your house." Is that the Scripture? And then, instead of turning around, say, "All the rest of you do the same, you in the cots and the stretchers, and the blind and the lame, and all; all of you do the same thing." Instead of doing that, He turned around and walked away and left everyone of them laying there. Full of love and compassion.
The thing of it is, friends: The human mind today, without the inspiration of the Holy Ghost, don't know what compassion means. Neither do you know what love means.
Look at I Corinthians 13. How would you interpret I Corinthians 13 as love? "Though I have all these fine gifts," Paul said, "though I give my body to be burned a sacrifice for the Lord Jesus Christ, though I give all my goods to feed the poor," and everything. Isn't that love? But that's not Bible love, see. You're talking about natural affection instead of divine revelation of the will of God.

15 Jesus walked away and left every one of them people laying there. That was Jesus nineteen hundred years ago. They found this man packing his pallet on his back. He got up and went on. Jesus told him he was healed. He believed it. If he'd have doubted Him, he'd have just laid there.
And then, when the Jews caught this man, they questioned, and they questioned Jesus. Now here it is, get it, close, so you'll never forget it, 19th verse of the 5th chapter of Saint John. Read it all when you go home. They questioned Jesus.
"Why," He said, "verily, verily, I say unto you..." Listen. "Verily, verily, I say unto you, the Son can do nothing in Himself, but what He sees the Father doing." Well, whatever the Father doeth He showeth the Son. Is that right? "The Father worketh and I worketh hitherto."
In other words, "I can do nothing as the Son of God." And men claiming to be divine healers. When even the Son of God didn't claim to be a divine healer. He said, "I can do nothing." He didn't claim to be a healer. Said, "It isn't Me that does the work. It's My Father that dwelleth in Me, He doeth the works."
Then, if we're sons of God today, with the Father's Spirit in us, what about it? The same Spirit, the same mind, the same works, the same power.
Now, He said, "I can do nothing except My Father shows Me." In other words... Listen close now. This may shock just a little. But, Jesus Christ, the Son of God never performed one miracle without first seeing a vision of it, or He told something wrong there. He said, "The Son can do nothing in Himself, but what I see the Father doing." Is that true? That was Jesus nineteen hundred years ago.
Our time will get away soon. We must give some time for prayer. See, people, what the Scripture means?
Now, Jesus said that He did nothing. You say, "Well, what about some blind man followed Him one day on the street; He had no vision about him?" He was hollering, "Have mercy! Have mercy!" And the disciples put him back. And He went into the house and sat down. After while the blind man got in some way; somebody brought him in. He come up to him, He touched their eyes, and said, "According to your faith, be it unto you." Is that right?

16 One day, He was passing by Jericho. And there in the crowd, the great masses a calling and screaming, and some making fun of Him and everything. His face was set towards Calvary. He was moving on to Calvary. And way back in the shadows, in the dark cold, a poor, old blind beggar, ragged as he could be, begin to cry, "Thou Son of David, have mercy on me." Of course, He couldn't hear him with all that screaming and carrying on they had. And Him walking on, knowing He was going ... the burdens of the ever living thing that ever lived, or ever would live on the earth, was upon His shoulders. He had set His face towards Calvary. But the faith of that blind beggar stopped Him. And He turned around.
A woman, one time, pressed through the crowd. She touched the hem of His garment, for she said, her faith, said within her heart, "If I can only touch His garment, I will be made well." And she crawled under the feet of people, perhaps, and slipped over and touched His garment, went right back and stood out in the audience like that. Jesus begin to feel weak. He turned around; He looked over the audience until He found her. Said, "Thy faith has saved thee. I never healed you. Your faith has saved you." Father never give Him any vision, but her faith pulled Jesus around to her, in all that multitude. Is that right? That was Jesus nineteen hundred years ago. Wouldn't that be Jesus tonight?
Is it possible? Now watch. Jesus said, "The things that I do, shall you also. And greater," which the right interpretation is more, "more than this will you do, for I go unto My Father." Is that true?

17 Now quickly, while we close.
He said, "A little while and the world," cosmos, the word meaning the "world order." "A little while and the world will see Me no more." The world is the unbeliever, the self-styled, the starchy, the heady, high-minded, lovers of pleasure more than lovers of God. "They'll see Me no more, yet, ye shall see Me." There's going to be some "world." There's going to be some "ye's." "Ye shall see Me," the believer, "for I," personal pronoun, "for I will be with you, even in you," until the apostles are gone? No, sir. "Until the end of the world." Is that right?
"I go away. But I come again." Is that right? "And I will be with you, even in you, to the end of the world." Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today, and forever.
No plainer Gospel! I do not know any more plainer Gospel.
Then, here's the challenge. Now, if He would come, how would He? Jesus has no hands on earth today but your hands and my hands. He uses my mouth and your mouth, my eyes and your eyes. And the whole thing is submitting yourself to the Holy Spirit of God and God works through the individuals. Do you believe that?
May the Lord bless you.
Now, if Jesus will come on the scene. Many of you know my ministry. You've read the books. I'm your brother. There's no more grace to me than there is to the drunkard that was saved five minutes ago, see. God loves us all the same. We're not one above another. We're all the same. We're children.
I've got two little girls and a boy. I do not make one ounce of difference in them; they're all the same. That's the way God does. If you're a housewife, or if you're a preacher, or a deacon, or whatever you are, in the sight of God we're all the same. We're just children. Each one has a job to do. And let's do it with all of our heart.

18 And now it's my sincere prayer tonight that God Almighty through the visitation of the Holy Spirit will come and send His Son, Christ Jesus, and I might submit myself completely to the Holy Spirit, that He would come and do the same things that the Lord Jesus Christ did, that you might go away keeping your word tonight: "I believe that He raised from the dead."
Now if He's dead, He can't do it. If He's alive, He's obligated to His Word. Is that right?
Shall we pray?
Father, I pray that in the name of the Lord Jesus the Son of God, that You'll come tonight in great power and force, and love, and manifest Yourself to every heart that's here. Dear God, Thou knowest my life, my soul, my heart, and know that I know no one here, except this minister, or two that I have met. Thou knowest them all and You know what they have need of. And I pray, God, that You'll supply it.
And may You send the Angel of God that came to me that night up there at Green's Mill. And as He promised that He would do these things, may He come and manifest the Lord Jesus tonight in all the power and deity that He was when He was here on earth, that His Word might be fulfilled. Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today, and forever. Grant these things, through His name, we ask it. Amen.
This for a prayer line to call a prayer line, I want you to know friends, it's going to be a difficult thing. Every person has a spirit. In a meeting like this, I said that I wouldn't have no more here in America, because they just don't understand it.
In the Asiatic countries, or so forth, Africa, India, just one thing take place and everybody is elated and alarmed. They just get up and go home healed, thousands times thousands; and every sinner there comes to Christ the first time, see. But America, we go away scratching our heads, saying, "Well, there might be something about it, I don't understand. That guy might be a spiritualist. He might be wrong. I believe I'll just hang on." That's the reason you can't get things done here (That's right.) is the attitude.

19 Remember friends, your approach to any divine gift will determine what you receive from it. What if Martha, that day, when she seen Jesus, and she went out there, and would rebuke Him and said, "Why didn't You come when we called You?"
Jesus had seen a vision about Lazarus. Do you believe that? Sure. Look, before Lazarus got sick, Jesus went away. They sent for Him. He just kept on going. They sent again and He just kept on going. Well, if that would be your pastor, you'd never speak to him again. But see, He was working the will of God. Then when He went away, after a while He stopped, and He said, "Well, our friend sleepeth." He knowed just exactly how many days it would be. The Father had done told Him. Said just how many days it would be before Lazarus would be alive again.
He said, "Our friend Lazarus is dead. And for your sake, I'm glad I wasn't there, because you'd be after Me to go heal him. But, I go wake him."
But, when Martha met Him, look at her attitude. She went up there. Looked like she had a right to upbraid Him. But she didn't. If she would, the story would never been told. She fell down at His feet. She said, "Lord, (that's what He was) if Thou would have been here, my brother would not have died. But I know now, yet he's dead four days: the skin worms is done crawling in; the nose has fell in, so forth. If You would have been here, my brother would not have died, but even now, whatever You ask God, God will give it to You." That's the way to come, see. Humble.
He said, "Thy brother shall rise again."
Said, "Yes, Lord. He was a good boy. He'll raise in the last day in the general resurrection."

20 He wasn't much to look at. The Bible said, "There was no beauty we should desire Him." Little skinny-like fellow, perhaps. But when He straightened His little self up, He made a statement that no one ever could make, or never would make, or can make from hereafter. He said, "I am the resurrection and life. He that believeth in Me, though he were dead, yet shall he live. Whosoever liveth and believeth in Me shall not die." Said, "Believest thou this?"
She said, "Yes, Lord, I believe that You are the Christ that was to come into the world, the Son of God." There you are. There's a broken-hearted woman wanting something, patiently standing before a master of circumstance, and saying, "Every hope is gone, but in You, there's nothing too far gone. You're the Son of God. I don't care how many is making fun of You, or whatever about it, I believe that You're God's servant, His Son."
I believe she had read the Bible and see where that Shunammite went to Elijah, fell down at his feet, for she knew that if she could ever get to that prophet... And they tried to make her leave. And he said, "Go lay this staff (like Paul laying handkerchiefs), lay this staff upon him."
But, she said, "As the Lord liveth and your soul never dies, I will not leave you." She stayed right there. She knowed that God was in His prophet, and He was the voice of God there on the earth, 'cause He was God's prophet in that day. There was none like him on the earth. And she stayed right there with him. So he went, and she got what she asked for. She might not have knowed... The only thing ... she wanted to know why the baby was dead. Just tell her, she ... about losing the child. She hated to do it, but she wanted to know why. And Elijah couldn't tell her, so he went to the child; he never prayed for the child. He just laid his body on the child, And the Spirit of God that was in that prophet, come onto the child. And he sneezed seven times and stood upon his feet.
Now, I suppose that Martha said, "If God was in His prophet, how much more is He in His Son? So I'll go humbly and reverently and kneel down."

21 Look at Jesus at the grave. You don't whether it was a vision or not. He'd seen it beforehand. He said, "Father, I thank Thee Thou has already heard Me. But I say this for those who stand by." Then He pulled His little self together, and with a voice that spoke out yonder, when corruption knew its Master. And a man laying there dead, and the stone rolled away. He said, "Lazarus, come forth." And a man that had been dead for four days stood on his feet and lived again.
Oh, He's still Jesus. Certainly He is. He lives today. And I will say it with humility, and knowing that God will judge me: I have seen practically, not that long dead, but I've seen three people pronounced dead by doctors, laid out and everything, come to life again by the cause of the resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ. He's the same yesterday, today, and forever.
Now, I believe the boy come down and give out some prayer cards a while ago. And where did you give, from one to a hundred? Well, let's just start. Who has prayer card number 1, somebody with prayer card number 1, who has it? We just have to watch.

22 Now, take just a little card, got my picture on it, on the back of it, it's got a number and a letter. What was the letter? B ... B? That's good for Binghamton. All right. Who has prayer card B number 1? You back there, sir? Is that B number-1? All right. Come here.
Who has B number 2? Someone with B number 2, you stand up, if you can. If you can't, just raise your hand. Some of the ushers will help bring you up here when your card number is called. B number 2, who has that? Someone with prayer card B number 2? Surely it was given out. B-number 2? All right, would you... That'd be number 2, lady, come up here. Number 2 and stand here.
Number 3, who has three now? Look at your cards right away so we can catch it quickly. Number 3, raise up your hand. Number 3? All right, lady. Number 4, who has number 4, B number 4? B number 4, raise up your hand. Number 4? All right. Number 5, who has B number 5, raise up your hand. Prayer card B number 5? Where? 5, all right, lady over her. Six, who has B prayer card 6? 6?
All right, 7, who has... We see you have to do this legitimately, friends. A crowd, you'd say, "Everybody want to be prayed for, come here," You'd have an awful congestion. All right. Number (Where was I at?) Seven, prayer card number 7, who has prayer card 7? All right. Little girl.

23 Number 8, who has 8, prayer card number 8? The lady there in blue, do you have it, sister? The lady here. Have you prayer card 8, lady? 8. 9? Raise up your hand so I can see where you are, number 9, prayer card number 9; raise up your hand, if you will; prayer card number 9. Am I over-looking...? All right. Number 9. Number 10, who has 10? 10?
All right, 11, prayer card 11? Is that it there? 11? All right, prayer card 12, raise up your hand, prayer card number 12. Right, 12. Thirteen? Prayer card number 13. You, sir? Fourteen, who had number 14, prayer card 14, raise up your hand so we can see. Prayer card 14, is it here? Prayer card 15, not here? Well, we'll stop then at that. All right. We'll wait just a while, till we get these prayed for then.
Now if 14 or 15 isn't here, or you're here and can't raise up ... Oh, I see, number... What's your ... lady? 15? Come right up here. Is 14 here, prayer card 14, so... It might be somebody deaf and can't hear, you know, and look at your neighbor's card. Is that 14? All right. Bring her right around.
Now let's wait just a minute, 'cause I don't want to get too many on their feet at one time. All right.

24 How many people here that hasn't prayer cards, and you want to be healed anyhow? Raise up your hand, will you, anywhere in the building, regardless of where you are, who you are, just raise up your hand. My!
Now, you haven't a prayer card, and there's no way for you to get up here tonight, 'cause we have to call them by card, I'm going to ask you something. If Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever, can't your faith meet to a place? And if He comes here, not your brother, but if He anoints me with His Spirit, so that you can see that His presence is here, can't your faith touch Him like the woman at the well? He'd turn around like she had a blood issue and say, "Thy faith has saved you." Don't you believe that? How many has ever seen it done in my meetings? Let's see your hands. Why, of course, you have. Thousands times thousands of times.
Now these people standing here, that don't mean they're going to be healed. That means I just talked to them, to see if the Holy Spirit... The only thing it is, is to get it operating. Now, see, it's not me. I'm just a man.
How many has ever seen His picture? Let's see your hand. Isn't that a pity? If I was going to be here a few days... It's over here in Washington DC, copyrighted by the American Photog... It's a light. It's right here now. It's not far from... It's not ten feet from where I'm standing right now. If you'll watch, and be real reverent, you'll see it when it moves over here, see. It's a light. And I got the picture of it. It's went the American Photographer Association. George J. Lacy, the head of the FBI in fingerprinting and document, tested it. Took the cameras and went everywhere. He said, "It is not psychology. The light struck the lens."
It hung over me when I was a little baby, was born, not over two minutes old. There it hung over my little crib. My mother screaming and everything. Born up there in the mountains, they didn't know what it was. My people were Catholic before me. And so they didn't know what that meant. My father and mother didn't go to church at all. And they didn't know what it was.

25 And the first thing I can remember in life was seeing a vision. And it has always been... When I become a minister, my Baptist brethren and them told me, it was the devil. And I was out ... for years fought at it, was out trying to get rid of it. Saying, "God, don't never let it happen to me again. You know I love You, Lord Jesus." And there come someone walking across the floor, this light above Him. He was a great strong man, with His arms folded like that, come to my right-hand side, and He said, "For this cause you was born in the world, to pray for sick people." And said, "You'll be praying for kings and potentates and monarchs all over the world."
I said, "Sir, I dwell among my people. I'm poor." I was scared to death. And I was chewing on my finger nails. You would be too! Yes, you would. And He has come to me hundreds of times since then.
And He said, "If you'll get the people to be sincere, and be... If you'll get the people to believe you, and be sincere when you pray, nothing will stand before the prayer."
And I said, "They won't believe me, Sir." I said, "I'm uneducated. If You would send someone...
He said, "As the prophet Moses was given signs to vindicate his ministry ... or, his calling," said, "so has been given to you." And said, "You'll know the very secrets of their hearts," and so forth.
"Oh," I said, "that's what I'm here praying for, Sir." He let me know how mistaken the ministers was. And said, "Don't you realize that that was the same thing that our Lord Jesus did on earth?" It's the return of His Spirit.
Now, I'm going to ask you, friends: If you're a critic and don't believe, I wouldn't stay in the meeting any longer, see. Because remember, diseases are demons, and they go from one to another: unbelievers, see. 'Cause I've seen some horrible things happen in the meetings. And you know what I'm talking about, see.

26 But if you're a Christian and a believer, I'm responsible. Now, it's hard here, 'cause, see. Here, look sitting here, these people setting this close, and around over here, around behind me. It's spirit everywhere, see. Spirit, everywhere I stand is spirit. And see, each one of those people, there maybe things wrong with them, but they're human beings.
Now remember, each one of you is a spirit. And then when that spirit of you begins to come in, then it's coming from everywhere, and it's hard to tell just where it is like that. Usually I'm up on a platform way away. Thousands of people sitting out there, no one around me at all, and I stand there. Then I got the individual to myself. But sometimes it breaks in, someone sitting out there praying, here I'm looking at somebody, here the vision breaks and it just looks and you see. You see what's going on. And you don't realize what a condition it takes you in.
Now if He comes... Remember, they'll probably take me from the building, as they do. My son, standing by to watch when it's enough. It changes me altogether, go into another world. Just think. Standing here talking to a person, it may go forty years back, and be back there seeing what he done. Talking and knowing my voice is coming in here, yet, I'm forty years back down the line. And maybe go years beyond this and tell them what's going to be in the future.
Remember, watch every word, for "Thus saith the Lord," see. When you hear that, there's probably a tape recording going on. Is there? And if anybody questions about what He said, play the tape recording over, and you'll get it.

27 Remember, when you see anything that He speaks Himself, and saying, "Thus saith the Lord," mark it right down. That's the way it is, see. That's the way. And if God knows ... can tell you what you was, and what's wrong and where you're at and all these things there, what was in your life, and you know whether that's true or not, surely, you can believe what He says about the future will be true. Is that right? That's right.
Now, if He will come and reproduce that life, will you believe? Every one of you believe with all your heart, and go out and say, "Yes, Jesus raised from the dead."
Now, the Lord bless you. Will the organist quietly as you can, sister, the little song: Only Believe, if you will for me. It's been the song that's led me to the platform under hundreds and hundreds of different languages. And there's something about it that I like. Only Believe.
Now no one going out or moving around; sit still till a little interview, or a little time of stopping. If the line lasts long, I don't know, or if He comes, I don't know. But, if it happens, I suppose we will have meeting here tomorrow night again? He'll announce it, as far as I know. But you see He who shows things, He's the One who directs and sends me.
Now be reverent. If the little babies or anything, or a case of epilepsy... Sometime that's the hardest thing I have to deal with. I've seen it throw seats out in the floor, demons, and everything else. And you've heard of it, you know. So just keep ... everybody quiet. If anything starts acting wrong, you just sit real still. Remember, I'm responsible before God, see.
But if you're a critic, I'm not responsible before God. So be that well assured, by the state laws, I've got to say that first, before a meeting, see.
Now may the Lord bless while we bow for prayer.

28 Dear Heavenly Father, let Thy love rest now upon this the congregation of the people. And Thou bear me record, my Father, that I have told this audience that it's Your grace to them, and it's sent for them that they might believe that You are God and Jesus Christ is Your Son, and that You love them, and have redeemed them with His blood to Your own self, a peculiar people; but glorious in Thy sight, that they might have courage to go on believing.
And, Father, alone, that is my cry, and believing that You let these things happen like this, to glorify You. So I go forward now, asking that You'll send that Angel that spoke to me that night and anoint Your servant, for I'm just a man, that it might be known that You are the same yesterday, today, and forever. I go forward now for the sake of the people and the Gospel of Jesus Christ to meet the enemy in Jesus Christ's name. Amen.
Now, if everyone be reverent just a moment. And don't... Just be in... Just silently in prayer. You don't have to bow your head unless I tell you to. Watch, whatever it says, do it, for being just a man, I don't know what He's going to do. I know one thing, that He's here. It's just come in just now from my right hand side here.
And at this time, after I feel His anointing and know that He who has been with me since a baby, I take every spirit in here under my control, in the name of Jesus Christ for the glory of God.
Now be reverent. And now, for the patient, this... You're the patient, sir? Being a patient, and, perhaps, the first patient, I want to talk to you just a moment. As we're perfectly strangers to one another, I suppose. And as far as knowing anybody in this building at this time, God in Heaven knows, I don't even see my own boy. He's here somewhere, but I know these ... some of these men right here, sitting right behind me. I do not know one person out there. That's right. Or no one in the prayer line. Oh, I see my boy now, sitting over here. I'm perfectly strangers. We are here on this earth, but remember, God knows everyone of you. He knows all about you.
And now, if Jesus was standing here, like He did the woman at the well, He'd talk to her a few minutes to catch her spirit. And that's what I'd have to do, if His anointing is on me now. I'd have to do the same thing, sir. And then if He could reproduce His life again, through me, His servant, then He would be the same yesterday, today, and forever. Do you believe that? You do.

29 Now one thing I can perceive about you now, sir, you are a Christian believer, for your spirit comes in welcome. And I know that you are a believer on the Lord Jesus Christ.
One thing you've got wrong with you is an allergy. And then you've got a trouble in the intestinal tract, it's in the colon, I believe he said; it was a fallen colon, says your doctor. You're not from around here. You come from upper New York. You're a minister, a Baptist preacher, at that. Stewart, the name. You live at number 80 Pleasant Street, Brunswick, New York. You've got a wife. I see her standing by you. She's a little woman. She's nervous. She has kind of little spells like. Now her spirit is moving in. She is having a nervous upset conditions. That's her sitting right back there. They come kind of spasmodically, those nervous spells. They come and then... You're wanting a closer walk with God. You're wanting to plunge out into the ministry, the full Gospel and preach it in its power and demonstrations.
Kind Heavenly Father, be merciful now. And at Thy presence here bless who I bless. Thou has said, whatever you do, do it in Your name, that You would recognize it. And now by the grace of God through Jesus Christ the Son of God, I condemn every enemy of his life, and ask for his deliverance in Jesus Christ's name. Amen.
God bless you, sir.
At this time, I don't remember what it was, but whatever it is, it's truth is that right? ["Yes, that's right."] Raise your hand if that's the truth. ["That's right."] God bless you. Go rejoicing now and be whole. God bless you.
Now be reverent. Do you believe with all your heart?

30 This is the patient? I'm not ... I'm not beside myself, but you understand. You are a... You believe the Lord Jesus? ["Surely."] You believe me to be His servant? ["Certainly."] And you are conscious now you're standing in the presence of Something besides your brother, for it's moving between us now. It's a light. It's a feeling on you now that you haven't felt. Isn't that true? Warm feeling of welcome. ["Sure."]
You're worried, upset, bothered, because you're headed for a hospital. That's what you're scared of. Yes. And you're scared you got cancer when you get there. I'm not reading your mind, lady. You couldn't hide your life now if you had to. No, you're... It's not cancer. You've got a female ... dropped female organ. ["True."] Uh-huh! Complications, and so forth. ["True."] Is that true? ["Yes, every word."] Well, if the Lord Jesus is here, and you're standing, perhaps, closer in His presence that you ever did in all your life. He said, "These signs shall follow them that believe. If they lay their hands on the sick they shall recover." Do you believe it? ["I do."] Come here, my sister.
Shall we bow our heads.
Our kind Heavenly Father, feeling the pressure and power of the Holy Spirit moving here now that knows the secret of every heart, nothing can come before You now. Here stands this poor woman, suffering. In obedience to the commission of the Lord Jesus Christ, I lay hands upon this, my sister, and condemn the enemy of her body, in the name of Jesus Christ. Amen.
God bless you, sister. ["Thank you."] God bless you.
Trying to believe, aren't you, sir? You believe the water would leave your lungs if I'd ask God to let it go? Do you believe that God would do it? Take the water off your lungs? Stand up then to your feet, and accept your healing. God bless you, in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ. You don't the handkerchief. Put it back in your pocket. All right. Now go, and the water has left your lungs now. Jesus Christ has made you whole. Amen.
Have faith in God. Every demon is defeated. His majesty, the King, is in our midst tonight. He is here. Nothing, nothing, nowhere... Believe with all your heart.

31 Patient? How do you do, sister? Lovely little person. You have a fine spirit. You're a Christian. ["Amen."] God bless you. Had lots of trouble, haven't you? You're troubled. You're here for me to pray for you. It's in your head. You're having trouble with your head. You had a fall once that give you a concussion ["Right."], and it has injured you. You've had trouble ever since, haven't you? Do you believe it's gone now? Come here. You want me to lay my hands on you.
O Father God, in the name of Your Son, the Lord Jesus, I condemn this enemy that would send her to a premature grave. May the demon come from her, and may she go and be made well, through Thy Son the Lord Jesus. Amen. God bless you, mother. Go thanking the Lord Jesus. Amen. Amen.
Oh, it's everywhere now. Your faith is moving marvelously. If you just only have faith, your diseases leave you right now. That's all you have to do. You don't have to have a prayer card. You don't have to be up here; just have faith in God. That's all I ask you to do. Just believe Him with all your heart. Amen.

32 How do you do, lady. Do you believe? With all your heart? We're strangers to one another, lady. I don't know you, never seen you in my life. Isn't that true? Don't know nothing about you. You know that. We just met here, that's all. God does know you. Don't you believe that? You're a Christian, believer. And we're standing here as brother and sister. God standing here is our Father.
There's no doubt but there's something wrong with you. That I do not know, but Father knows. And He gave me a gift, that I could come help you, my sister. And I can only do it as you believe me to be His servant. I have confidence in you, as my sister, in the Lord. You believe me, as your brother? And God is your Father. And believe that God sent me as your brother. You believe me to be His prophet ... or, minister, seer, whatever? You know it's coming from somewhere. You're conscious that something is going on now. That's right.
I ask the audience to watch the face and the expressions of the people. When they walk here, they know they're in the presence of Something. It's not your brother standing here. You know that. It's your Saviour who has raised from the dead, come to help you. Your trouble's in your neck. You had an accident and slipped a vertebrae in your neck.
You come up the road tonight, when you come up; it's a big dual way. You come from the city below here. You brought some friends with you. They want to be healed, also. One of them is in a wheelchair. And he suffers with multiple sclerosis. Is that true? ["True."] Come here.
Let's bow our heads.
Kind Heavenly Father, show mercy tonight, and grant the healing of our sister, as we know Your Spirit, baptizing, moving through this audience. And while we're in Your presence, God, I obey the commandments of Your Son, the Lord Jesus. The last thing He said leaving the earth, said, "If they lay their hands on the sick, they shall recover." That, I believe, Lord, and make this act of faith for my sister, and condemn the disease, whatever it was, Lord, You know. I don't remember at this time, but You know. And I pray that You'll heal her in Jesus Christ's name. Amen.
Now look, sister. I don't know what it was, but what was said was truth. Is that right? ["Every word of it."] Every word of it---and us strangers. Some way... Of course, when it leaves me, then I don't know. The only way I know is pick up the tapes tomorrow, find out what it was. But you know whether that was true or not. Now you know you're near Something, isn't that right? ["That's right."] You believe it to be the Lord Jesus? Everything that He said, believe the sermon that I preached, or talked about, that He'd come and manifest Himself? You believe that's true? The audience believe that with all their heart? Then He's here. God bless you, sister.

33 Sister, you that's trying to pray. Going to the hospital now for a operation for gall stones. You believe the Lord Jesus could make you well of that without being on...? Yes, ma'am. You believe that He would do it, would heal you and make you well? You do? Aren't you facing an operation? Yes, yes. Do you believe that God will make you well? Raise up your hand.
Lord Jesus, I condemn that demon. Seeing the white thing over her face moving into the hospital. But I ask that Jesus Christ stand at the door and rebuke it. May it leave her and come out of her in the name of Jesus Christ the Son of God. Amen. God bless you, sister. Your faith saves you from death itself.
Believe. That's all you must do is have faith in God.
You believe? You must believe or you're going to the hospital, too. They would cover you over, up around your neck, operate from the head for a tumor. The tumor is in the head. Oh, may God stop that. May you have a right to live. Jesus died that you might live. I'm a stranger to you, but I'm your brother. But now, I'm His servant, too. Do you believe, if I'll obey what He said while this anointing here is on me, do you believe if I'd lay my hand on you and ask God, it would go from you? Would you come forward? Would people bow their head?
Kind Heavenly Father, as my sister stands here knowing that just a short time, and a horrible thing would happen. Satan, you evil thing. You can't hold her. Why, I adjure thee, by the living God in the name of Jesus Christ that you leave her and her life is spared. Come out of her. Through Jesus Christ the Son of God, I bless this, my sister, for her healing. Amen. God bless you, lady.
Have faith in God. If you believe, all...
Sister, you face an operation, too. It'd make anyone weep. You have gall stones, also, sitting right on the end of the row, back there, sitting there crying. I want to tell you, it left you a few minutes ago. Your faith has healed you, lady. Stand up on your feet. You're healed now. Go, and God's peace be upon you. Praise be to God.

34 Your heart trouble, sir. You had heart trouble. It's been bothering you for a long time. Go on your road rejoicing, saying, "Thank You, Lord Jesus, for the healing."
Have faith. Don't doubt. Be reverent. Amen.
Is this the child? Hi, honey. Standing before me is a little girl. And she's little, pretty little girl, little red-headed girl with long plats. I got a little girl at home and her name is Rebekah. And she's trying to have long plats, too. And she said, "Daddy, must you leave?"
And I said, "Yes, I must go." She don't want me to leave. She's afraid for me to travel the roads and fly through the air, 'cause she loves me. But you know, Jesus came all the way from glory and died for the same purpose.
And I left my little girl tonight, to come here to pray for you. If Jesus was here on earth, in a body of flesh, He'd come take little girls like you and lay His hands upon them and bless them. If He'd do you that way, you'd get well, wouldn't you, honey? Do you believe Jesus sent Brother Branham, being He went away, that Jesus sent Brother Branham back for me to pray for you and lay...?
Now if Jesus was here, He would know you, wouldn't He? He'd know all about you. He'd know what was wrong with you, wouldn't He? Can Jesus tell Brother Branham what's wrong with you? And would you believe then that Jesus sent me to pray for you? You got kidney trouble, don't you have, honey? If that's right, raise up your little hand. Now come here just a minute.
Dear God and Father, as this lovely, little, innocent, tender child stands here, and Thou has said in Thy Word, "Suffer little children to come to Me, forbid them not for such is the kingdom of God." I pray that You'll be merciful to this child. In the absence of the body, fleshly speaking, of the Lord Jesus, but His Spirit here, I say to the enemy of this child's body, in the name of Jesus Christ, the Son of God, I come to challenge you, in this duel of faith, and you can't hold the child any longer. We represent Jesus Christ's vicarious suffering and death at Calvary. And you were defeated there, and come out of the child in the name of Jesus, the Son of God. Amen.
Have your hand, just a minute. It's all right. You're going to be all right now, sweetheart. You're going to be well and good. You go to Sunday school and love the Lord Jesus, and just keep serving Him, you'll be all right.

35 Come, lady. You're a stranger to me, aren't you? In the commission of the Lord Jesus, when He told me that night at the mill, His Angel, He said, "Two signs was given to Moses." And Moses with the sign of his hand, he done one sign, and with a stick he did another sign. Isn't that right?
Now one of mine was to take a hold of the people's hand, know the secrets of their heart. Do you believe you're standing in His presence, not your brother? You do? For you have a good faith. Facing an operation for a tumor, but you know ... you have faith. Let me show you something, sister. You've been real nervous, too, haven't you? And especially late of a evening, you get weak and can't do your work right; you sit down. I'm not reading your mind, but that's true. Especially late of an afternoon, you sit down. When you heard this service was coming on, you thought that would be... I'm... That's exactly. And you prayed to God that you'd be brought up here, and here you are tonight. Isn't that true? Who knows your prayer but God alone?
Let me have your hand just a moment. I want you to look at my hand, right here. Just an ordinary man's hand, isn't it? I want you to put your hand here on my hand, and watch what effect it has to my hand. Now look at it swelling up. See them little white things running over my hand there?
I want you to take this hand off and put the other hand on. Now it isn't there, is it? No swelling, nothing. Now, I take your hand off and put my hand on. Doesn't effect it a bit, does it? Now I put this hand here on it, now watch what takes place. Now look at it. Is that right? Little white things rushing over the top of it, like that, vibrations like. That shows that there's an enemy called tumor in you. It's got a life. And the life of that thing, being that I'm anointed now with His Spirit, is throwing back, and it's giving a physical effect, that you can see what's taking place. It's got a life in it, just like you got a life. It's growing just like you grow. But it's... You was put here by God; the devil put that on you.

36 Now divine healing takes it away. Now just move your hand, yourself, off of my hand. Just lay it... Raise your hand up. Take it right off of my hand. There. Now look at my hand now, see. Now just lay this other hand on so you can be sure. Doesn't do a thing, does it? Just the same. Now take your hand again and lay it right back there and watch what takes place. Now look at it. See it swelling, turning dark, and white things jumping over it? That's your tumor. Now that's some physical demonstration that you see yourself. Isn't that right? To this audience, if that's true, raise your hand.
Now, do you believe that Jesus Christ can take that life out of that thing? He can.

37 Our kind Heavenly Father, as we come to Thee, approaching Thee in Jesus Christ's name, grant that the power of this enemy will leave the woman. And may she go from here tonight and be well. Grant it, Father; through Jesus' name I ask it. Amen.
Now you believe now that you're... Let me see again. Well, I'm sorry, it didn't. It didn't go. There it is just the same. Let's see. I see it. Now look. My own faith in God will take it away from you; but, it won't stay unless you have the same... See, don't just come with a real reverence, just don't... Just be normal and say, "God, You promised it and I'm Your child."
Now watch. So you can see what I mean. Ninety percent of the people, sister, ninety-nine and nine-tenths that come saying, "Oh, I got faith." They have hope instead of faith. Faith is positive. When this is off of me, my faith is weak, too. But now, I want you, so the audience... Now audience, this is a stubborn case. I have never seen one time that I ever sincerely asked God, I've never seen the case but what He did it then. I've seen men totally blind stand at the platform, read the Bible, and walk back down in the audience, and two days come back and be as blind as they was in the first place. But the devil has to recognize not me, but what's here now. He has to do it.

38 I want you, because this being stubborn, to bow your head. But I want the lady to watch my hand. You've got the tumor. Now please, friends, this is stubborn. If it comes out, it'll go somewhere. Just keep your head bowed.
Now, sister, you watch my hand, this one. Now you're watching it. See those little white things running there? Now you watch them. Now you can keep watching while I pray.
Now, kind Heavenly Father, not at all, God, do we have to see miracles to be believers. But that this little woman here, knowing that she's in worse shape than she really realizes she is. And, Father, that they might know that You're the Son of God, I ask You to be merciful to the woman. And now, heal her, God. In the name of Jesus I ask it.
Now, with your heads bowed. Now, sister, it hasn't stopped yet. I can see still feel it without my eyes being open. That's right, isn't it? It's still moving. If that's right, say, "Yes." ["Yes."] Yes, it's still moving. Now keep my hand laying right where it is. Don't move at all, so that you'll see that it's actually left.

39 Now, Lord, help me, dear God. I've come here to New York for some purpose to obey the feeling of Your Spirit. And now that these people might know that You are the Son of God, and I'm telling the truth, vindicate Your Word, Lord, if no more. Let Your Word be known tonight as this woman is watching my hand. I pray Thee, Father, to be merciful, and anoint Your servant. And protect us all now, as we go in this challenge.
Satan, you evil spirit, you think you can hold that woman? You can't. You are sure of that Angel of God who is standing here. And I take the jurisdiction over you by the authority of Jesus Christ, whose presence I stand in. Come out of her. In the name of the Lord Jesus, leave her.
Now with your heads bowed, the lady is watching my hand. It's never moved, but, lady, my hand has gone back normal, hasn't it? The lady... Has it turned back normal and white again? ["Yes."]
Now you can raise your heads, folks. Before I look at it myself, my hand laying on this desk, it's turned normally back... Isn't that right, lady? If it is, raise up your hand. ["The white spots are all gone. It looks puffed up."] Tell the people over here. ["The white spots is all gone, but it looks..."]
It did look puffed up; it's gone now. That's normal now, see. That was raised up; it isn't now. Now put this hand over here. Is that just puffed as much...? It's normal, isn't it? Now put this hand back here. Something has happened, hasn't it? Is that right? No white spots! No puffing up! Now look. Put my hand on it. Just the same, isn't it? This hand just the same. Now this hand just the same; is that right? ["Yes."] Then you're healed, see. You see that yourself. It's gone from you. God bless you. Go on your road rejoicing. Little female trouble, too, but don't...
Blessed be the name of the Lord Jesus Christ who made all things for His glory and for His blessing. He's the Alpha, the Omega, the beginning and the end. He that was, which is, and shall come, the Root and Offspring of David, the Morning Star. He will light up the way through the valley of the shadow of death. The fear is taken from His people.
May you realize tonight, people, that you're standing in His divine presence, the majesty of the King of Heaven, the Lord Jesus Christ. And it's not your brother; it's His presence.

40 You believe me, sir, as God's prophet? Got ulcerated stomach. Go eat your supper now. It's gone from you. You can eat like you used to now. Your faith has saved you and made you whole.
Do you believe the heart trouble left you when He come up the steps? Then go your road rejoicing and being happy.
Have faith in God. Believe with all your hearts. Amen.
You think that bronchial trouble will leave you, sitting there, brother? You believe that God will make you whole? You do? You was sitting there praying a few minutes ago, wasn't you? You wanted to know if God would heal you. If that's right, raise up your hand. I'm not reading your mind, but that's the truth. You're bothered with bronchial trouble. You believe? You accept your healing now? If you do, wave your hand like that to Jesus Christ. God bless you. Go! God be with you.
What do think about it, sitting out there with lung trouble? You believe, sitting out there, honey, you believe God will make you well, too? You that's looking at me, sitting out there. Do you believe that God will make you well? Accept it. Wave your hand to God, say, "I believe it and God makes me well." See, you don't need your prayer card. The only thing... You don't have to have prayer cards; you have to have faith in the Son of God. And He's here to manifest and to do exactly what He said He would do.
Had a funny feeling when I spoke "heart trouble" to that man a while ago, didn't you? That's right. You was healed at the same time. You can go on your road, rejoicing, saying, "Thank You, Lord Jesus."
Do you believe, sister, that God heals you? Do you believe that God makes you well, right now? That's exactly what He does. Go rejoicing, saying, "Thank You, Lord Jesus."

41 Let's say, "Praise the Lord." Oh, amazing grace, how sweet the sound!
Do you realize that it's the Lord Jesus Christ here with you tonight? Are you believing with all your heart? I believe that God's all-sufficient power moves over this building right now, and can heal every person here. Do you believe me to be His prophet? If you'll do this, then, obey what I tell you to do, and you'll be healed right now.
Lay your hands over on one another. Put your hands over on each other. Oh, my!
God bless you, brother. That old heart trouble is done gone, you can go off here, rejoicing, happy.

42 O Almighty God, Author of life, giver of every good gift, send Thy blessings upon this people.
And now, Satan, you ugly thing that's bound these dear poor people, you're exposed here tonight. You're defeated. Your time has come. Come out of this people. I adjure thee in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ that You depart from every one of these people, and let them be well, in Jesus Christ's dear name. I ask it for God's glory. Amen.

Sirs, we would see Jesus

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1 ...called Cleveland, Tennessee. And I've looked forward for some time of getting back down into Tennessee, since the last meeting we had over at Chattanooga. We had such a wonderful time there. And we've looked forward with great anticipations of getting back again with the--with you people. And God has granted this, our privilege. We deem it a great privilege to be here tonight for this little time of fellowship together around the Word of God.
And we have come to be a blessing to you, and we know that you'll be blessing to us. And through it all we pray that God, our Father, will be glorified in our meeting together, for that's the purpose that we come from. We have no other alternative but that: is to have fellowship around the Word of God, and to see sinners saved; and backsliders come back to God again; and to see people healed of their sicknesses and diseases. All these privileges is given to us freely in the vicarious suffering and the great atonement of Jesus Christ at Calvary. And we come to share these blessings with you and have fellowship.

2 And now there's... Over to my left is much more abler speakers, setting there, than I am. I am not much of a speaker, but I do like to share the blessings that God has give to me with other brethren. And I see, I believe, a brother setting here on the end. And I tried... He had me to call him--or wanted me to call him back. I tried... Cook... I tried to find that little piece of paper. I lost it: your telephone number. I told the lady it's 88888, the best I could remember. And there, I couldn't get you nowhere. So you forgive me; I didn't mean to do that. And I lost the little piece of paper. I was to call him back as soon as I found Brother Moore... And I don't think Brother Moore come in today. Probably be in tonight: Brother Jack Moore, one of the managers.

3 And now, today, I have had the privilege of meeting some of the officials of the city. If all of the officials of the city are like those that I met, you got a wonderful bunch of people on the boards and in the politics and things around this place. I had the privilege of meeting the dean of the school here today (a very fine gentleman) when we were down looking at the place and testing the acoustics. And it's altogether a privilege to be here.
Tomorrow morning, I believe there's a ministerial breakfast. And so we're... The Lord willing, I think this is ministers. Usually the Christian Businessmen, Full Gospel Businessmen... I don't think they have a chapter here. If they have, I don't know it. I think this is to be ministers. So I think tomorrow morning to speak with them I will share just a few of the experiences that we've had internationally around the world in serving the Lord Jesus, which I believe it'd be a better help, 'cause ministers, they--they know--they're preachers themselves. So we can just share our--our fellowship together around the things that the Lord has done.
And then, I think Sunday I'm to speak at a church here in the city. And Sunday night the closing service. And Saturday night, tomorrow night, praying for the sick again. And we pray that--and trust that you'll be praying for us much.

4 Now, we never come to visit you to represent any certain denomination of church. We didn't come to--to represent a healer in ourselves; we just come to have fellowship. We didn't come to make any differences between denominations; we come to--not to tear up but to weld up that which has already been tore. So that we--we don't represent any church. And we love every one of them. And I know this is the headquarters of two of those great big Churches of God, which is known internationally. I've met their brethren around the world, practically, from these fine churches. And it's a very... That makes your city what it is, to have these fine big churches around here and their... [Gap in the audio]...
Bit of help along, with the things that you've taught and contended for so long, not to preach a new faith, but to earnestly contend for that that's been preached. That's all we're trying to do. Now, the Lord bless you.

5 And now, to... Each time, I try to make this on the first night a little introduction; and I don't speak very long; and we pray for the sick. Now, I'd just like to explain so it can be understood... And I think the recorders picked it up, that in praying for the sick we do not come to say now, that we could heal anyone. I--I hardly think that would be Scriptural from the way I see the Bible. I think that Divine healing, the practice of Divine healing, is not a practice of trying to heal someone, but it's trying to represent that blessing that was freely given to all at the--at Calvary where Jesus... There "He was wounded for our transgressions, bruised for our iniquities, the chastisement of our peace was upon Him, and with His stripes we were healed."
So Divine healing is something that's in the past tense. And I have heard people say that they met men who claimed to be Divine healers. I've never met one yet. But if there is such, or a person would claim such, I would be kindy to doubt the man's word; because Divine healing is something that's already been done; it's a finished work; it's a product of Calvary. It's a product of what Jesus died to give you the privilege to accept by your own individual faith in Him.

6 And we have had many things that we realize... And if they're in a mixed audience like this, there's all kinds of people with different ideas. And Divine healing has, many times, been misrepresented. So has the Gospel in every means has been misrepresented. And every true thing has been misre--misrepresented.
We find that in the virtues of life and everywhere. And so you have to take the pro and con, the--the law of average. You have to have the day to know how to--have the night, rather, to know how to appreciate the day. You have to have the--the rain to appreciate the sunshine. You have to have the valley to appreciate the mountain.

7 And sin is only righteousness perverted. So if you didn't have sin, then you'd never know how to enjoy righteousness. If we had never been sinners, we'd never know the joy of salvation. Therefore, I believe that when the Lord Jesus comes, and all the great family of the earth gathers together upon the canopies of the earth, and sing the redemption story, "Saved by grace," I believe angels will stand with bowed head, not knowing what their talking about. They'll stand around the circle of the earth with bowed heads, not knowing what we're talking about, 'cause they never needed redeeming. And we know what it means to be lost and to be found. We can appreciate salvation, 'cause we were without it one time. And so you have to have the--the bad to make you appreciate the good.
And I think that's the way it is in Divine healing and the Gospel of... Anyway, it just...You have to have the other side to appreciate the real. That's just what I--I believe.

8 So I--I'm trusting with all my heart that God will so let us together forget our differences and look straight to the Bible. And I believe that every teaching must come out of the Bible. And I know that God could do things that's not written in the Bible. He can do anything He wants to, 'cause He's God. But I'm always a little afraid that we get off on some sort of a fantastic if we--or some illusion if we didn't stay with the Bible. But if it's in Bible, then I believe it's the truth, because God said so: we got THUS SAITH THE LORD.

9 I have noticed, many times, that--that sometimes we might get the... And it does happen that way; we get built up on a fantastic or some little phenomena of something, and we run off with it. But if you'll just keep it right in the Bible, then you got THUS SAITH THE LORD, and God will honor His Word. My word will fail. Your word will fail.
And no man's word is... No man is any better than his word. If you can't... If I couldn't take your word, I--I just can't believe you. That's all. And that's the way I believe God: this Bible to be His infallible Word. And if He has wrote this Bible by--sent It by inspiration, It's been written by several men in several ages and not one word contradicts the other one, all the way through. And It's inspiring. I could read a text here tonight, and I will in a few minutes, God willing... Thousands of years men has read the same text through every age, and it's just as inspiring in each age.

10 Now, I might write you a letter and say, "Dear Brother So-and-so, it was a pleasure to meet you..." and how I would express my feeling towards you, and that would be fine. You'd appreciate that if you're my friend. But you would be the only one that that would help. And after while, that--that would go plumb out; it would be no meaning to it at all, after you--the letter would be finished. But not the Bible. Every word is eternal.
When God once speaks anything, He can't take it back; He has to stay with it. And forever and forever that Word will never, just like a circle--finding a corner in a circle, you can't. It's forever the truth.

11 Now, "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God." Now, what it is the Word? The Word is a thought expressed or made manifest. Then before God did anything, He thought it. And when He drew the plan in His mind and then expressed it by the Word, He could never take it back. It had to be--forever be that way; it can't fail; it can't change, 'cause God is infinite. He's omnipresent, omnipotent, and infinite. If He was--if He is infinite, if He isn't, He isn't God. And if He is infinite at the beginning, before the world was ever formed, He knew the end from the beginning. He knew the--every flea, every fly, every gnat, every person. Everything that would ever happen, He knew just exactly what it was before the world ever began. He's infinite. So He, by being that way, could predestinate or foreordain, even for the wrath of His enemies to praise Him.

12 He's not willing that any should perish, but He knew by foreknowledge they would perish. So therefore, listen at the Word. The Bible says, speaking of God... Now listen, the Bible said that Christ was the Lamb of God, slain before the foundation of the world. The Bible say that? Why, listen now. If He was slain before the founda... How was He, until He was only slain four thousand years after the world had existed? When God spoke it, it was the, a finished work when God spoke it. And in the sight of God in the heavens, when God spoke the Word before the foundation of the world, seeing what He would have to do, Christ was really slain when God spoke it. See it? Four thousand years later, it was manifested. How infallible that Word is. God speaks it. Our little finite mind can't fathom it. Because we're got a finite mind, and He's infinite. But when He speaks anything, it has to come to pass. Though it linger, though it goes on, yet in God's ordered time it's got to be fulfilled, 'cause God spoke it.

13 And this might encourage you a little bit, you Christians. The poet used to sing the song. We sang it many times in Baptist church, "There is a new name written down in glory tonight," you know. Someone wrote, "Oh my name was wrote in the Book of Life tonight." The poet was fine by saying that, and it's led many souls to Christ, but how wrong he was. The Bible said that our names were written in the Lamb's Book of Life before the foundation of the world. When was it? When the Lamb was slain, every person that was ever to be saved was associated with the Lamb in the slaying before the foundation of the world. That's the only one thing I find with the Christian church today; It's a scare. It's afraid. It backs up. It doesn't understands it's privileges.
We're living far be--under the--under the privileges that God has ordained for us to live. We are now, not will be, but now you are the sons and daughters of God [Gap in the audio] Now. And we try to put it in the millennium somewhere. But, now you are.

14 I was thinking the other day, on when the Lord Jesus... A man was speaking to me, and he said, "Brother Branham, I don't like to disagree with you, 'cause I like you." He said, "But you try to put Divine healing and powers of healing in the church today, when it is not."
I said, "Well now, brother, that's only according to what people think, and the way they look at things." I said, "Perhaps we'll do this. I'll show you in the Bible where God gave the church power to heal the sick, and raise the dead, and cleanse the lepers, and cast out devils. I'll show you in the Bible where He gave that power. Now, you show me in the Bible where He took it back from the church." See? It isn't there. He gave it, and once given it, He cannot take it back; He's God. If He would...
The man said, "Why, it's such a privilege for people who set in wheelchairs and suffer and show God's goodness and so forth, in suffering..."
I said, "Then Christ defeated His very purpose when He healed the sick then, if God takes pleasure in people being sick, for He healed the sick whenever He come in contact with them. He healed the sick. Then if it's God's will for people to suffer, then, if He did, Christ defeated His own will when He come..." Oh, my, what kind of a Gospel would you have. See? God doesn't run His off... You wouldn't run your office like that. I wouldn't mine, and you wouldn't yours. How about God running His? See?
God works at one purpose: that's to save, and to be good, and to do everything He can. It's His pleasure to give His blessings bountifully to His people. But we fail, not because the power is not in the church; because the power is not in the Pentecostal church, the Methodist church. You Baptists, Presbyterian, Lutheran, whatever you are, you've got the power, but you ain't got the faith to move that power.

15 Look at these disciples in Matthew the 10th chapter. Je--Jesus gave them power to heal the sick, even to raise the dead. And ten, about ten days later, we find them miserably defeated. They had a man with epilepsy and couldn't cast the devil out. And Jesus said to them, "Oh, faithless generation, how long will I suffer you? Bring him here to Me." And He healed the boy.
And when He healed this boy, what taken place? The disciples come around, said, "Well, why couldn't we do it?"
Now, Jesus never said, "I've took My power back from you. I just let you have it for that one mission you were on." He never said that. He said, "Because of your unbelief." That's right, not because of the lack of power, but the lack of, unbelief to operate the power that you had. And if we could ever get it straight in the Word and let the people see it, it operates itself, as soon as the people sees what it is.

16 Now, notice, these same disciples... And how petty people can be, how juvenile that grownups can be. In our organizations, and in our denominations, and in our affiliations, and so forth, and our creeds, we end them with a period, when we ought to end them with comma. "We believe this plus as much more as God will let us know." But if we end it with a period, that settles it. That's all. "We don't care about what God wants to let us know. We just--this is all we want." And there's what we've done when we made a mistake.

17 Now, watch. These same disciples, a few days later, they met a man casting out devils. He was getting the job done. And so they were very jealous. So they... He goes down, and he said, "Now here, you either come join our ranks or don't you do that no more." And the man let them know that he didn't have to join their denomination, their ranks. He went up there, and he heard Jesus saying, "Whosoever will...," so he just received it and went on. And he was getting the job done. Well, the disciples said, "We forbid you." In other words, "We'll boycott you; we'll do all of this if you don't do it."
Went back and told Jesus about it, and Jesus said, "Now, don't you do that," said, "because no man can do a miracle in My Name that could speak lightly of Me. And him that's not with Me, scatters abroad." So there you are.
You see what it was? Little petty jealousy of those disciples. It was in men then; it's still in men today. That's right. 'Cause the man was getting the job done. And many times we find people who are getting the job done and don't belong to our ranks, then we want to fly up about it. But it's just that same element. And if it was in the church of twelve that walked with Jesus, it's bound to be in this one and all the rest of them. That's right.
So brethren, we are here to represent the Lord Jesus Christ and His resurrection, and we pray that you'll fellowship around the Word with us. Shall we pray just a moment.

18 Our Divine heavenly Father, we thank Thee for the--the Lord Jesus Christ, for bringing Him here on the earth and making Him an--an example of what You expect men to be. And we see Him hanging on the cross, suffering, making a way for all these things that we now can appreciate and enjoy. And little do we know how to appreciate them like we will someday when the veil's lifted.
And we see Him laying in the tomb, white and silent, embalmed, with a Roman spear through His heart; nail prints in His hand; mockery spit on his beard. Then we see the power of God manifested as we see Him raise from the dead, standing at the tomb, all hail, with a torch light of hope in His hand, the torch light of power. We see Him gradually being taken up from the earth, and giving His commission to go into all the world, all the world, and preach the Gospel to every creature. And now, only one third of the world's ever heard the Gospel: "To all the world, to every creature, and these signs shall follow them that believe. These signs shall..." He said. And we're so thankful tonight, to be associated with a group of men and women who believe that to be the infallible Word of God, and the general orders, and the last commission from our Lord; that we will try to do reverently with all of our heart as long as Thou will inspire.

19 And help us, tonight, as we enter into this three days of fellowship with Thee, and with Thy Word, and with these brethren. And we pray that You'll drive the enemy from the camp. Take every doubt away. May old grudges and things be buried and done away with. And may there come an old fashion revival to this lovely city here, who stands as a memorial across the world. And may there come a breaking up, a tearing down, and an old fashion revival that'll melt hearts, and churches, and peoples together until the Lord Jesus Christ would be magnified before the whole world. Grant it, Lord.
What a wonderful place, up here in these hills of Tennessee, to start the old fashion revival to sweep the nation. Grant it, Lord.
Now, inspire us. Anoint the lips that speak. Unctionize the Word; give It the life that It needs, and may It fall into the right kind of ground. May It be received with joy, that the people that received It, go and sell all the worldly things out, all the devil's possessions, buy this great Pearl of great price, and there, nourish it to their hearts, and live hereafter for the Lord Jesus. May, in a year's time, they receive children, grandchildren, and great, great grandchildren of the Gospel.
Heal the sick, Lord. Be merciful to those who cannot be merciful. The doctors, your servants, has give many of them up to die and they must die, ere you help them, Lord. And may something be said or done in some way that will cause them to believe on Thy Son, the Lord Jesus, and be healed. For we ask it in His Name. Amen.

20 Now, to open the Word to you who like to read and mark down the different Scriptures that we use... And I know we can't keep this auditorium open too long; it's a school auditorium. And we appreciate the courtesy of this school. God bless them abundantly.
And we wish to turn now, to Saint John the 12th chapter and want to begin about the 20th verse, and read just a couple of verses, by this way, that if my words never take effect, these words will; for this is God's Word, and His Word never fails. And therefore, if we get no more than just the reading of the Word, it'll be a blessing to be here.
And there were certain Greeks among them which came up to the worship at the feast:
And the same came therefore to Philip, which was of Bethsaida of Galilee, and desired him, saying, Sirs, we would see Jesus.
Now, may the Lord add His blessings to this Word.

21 Now, this was just after a--many people had come to the feast, because Lazarus had been raised from the dead, and it caused a great... [Gap in the audio] And people come up to see Lazarus, and they came to see Jesus also. And now, I believe that would be the desire of every heart here, like those Greeks who came, they had heard of the fame of the Lord Jesus, so they wanted to see Him. "Sirs, we would see Jesus."
Now, I wonder how many here tonight, would like to make that same statement and would want to see Jesus? I'd just like to see your hands go up, if you want to see Jesus. All of us wants to see Him: I want to see Him; you want to see Him; and that's the desire of the Christian world, is to see Him. That was the desire of the orthodox world, of the Jewish church when Jesus came; they wanted to see the Messiah; but they didn't believe Him when He was manifested. And I wonder, sometimes, if that just about isn't the way we are too. We long to see Jesus, but when He appears, we think it's something else; turn Him down.

22 The disciples, one night in a boat, where all the hope that they'd ever be saved was gone... The little water-logged ship was about to go down in each pitch of the wave. And they seen Jesus come walking on the waters and they were afraid of Him. The only help that they could get had to come from Jesus, and when He appeared, they was afraid of Him.
I'm almost sure that in great parts of the world that's what the attitude of the people are when they see Him, and He presents Himself to them; they're scared of it. And I want you to notice; they thought He was a spirit, as we would call today, spooks or something, you know: ghosts. When they saw Him, they didn't realize it was the real Jesus.
And when Jesus come and manifested Himself to the church, He was supernatural in His works. He said, "If I do not the works of My Father, what sent Me, then don't believe Me. But if I do the works of My Father, then if you can't believe Me, believe the works. But if I don't do the works that..." In other words, "If I don't confirm the Scriptures that was written of Me, then don't you believe Me because the Scripture will have to bear record of Me."

23 Now, may I use that as a secondarily, a answer tonight. All Scriptures has a compound (prophesies, especially), has a compound meaning or a compound answer. Like, "Out of Nazareth I have... Out of Egypt, I've called my Son." Matthew 1. But we found out, He was calling of the original Scripture for that, was when He called Israel out of Egypt: it had a dual meaning.
And may I add this tonight, likewise: when God's Word is preached, then God's obligated to that Word. And if He doesn't manifest Himself by that Word, you have a right to doubt Him. I would doubt it. Or if He made a promise and then didn't keep His promise, then that wouldn't be the--the God of Creation. We'd be all mixed up in something. But if He keeps His promise, then if we doubt it then, then we become sinners.

24 Now, what is sin? Now, sin is not smoking, drinking, committing adultery, cursing, and so forth. That isn't sin. Committing adultery isn't sin. Smoking cigarettes and drinking whiskey isn't sin; that's the attributes of unbelief. Unbelief is sin. Saint John 3 said, "He that believeth not is condemned already." There's only two roads. One of them is unbelief and the other one is faith. Jesus said, "He that heareth My words and believeth on Him that sent Me has everlasting life." Not "this, that, this or that," but has everlasting life because he believes. And if you believe, your life bears fruit of your belief. If you say you believe and your life don't bear fruit, then by their fruits they're known. And God's fruit tree, here will bear fruit of His Word. If it doesn't then the Word's wrong.
If I told you I was a Christian and I love the Lord Jesus, and tomorrow you saw me on the street drinking and running and doing things wrong, you'd have a right to believe that I--I, my testimony wasn't right. See? Now, the fruit proves what you are.

25 Now, if Jesus... How many believes He's raised from the dead, say, Amen. All right. That's the faith of the Christian church that Jesus has risen from the dead. Well, by the grace of God, it's been my privilege to travel to practically every nation in the world, preaching the Gospel: small and large. It's been my privilege of going into my second million, leading to Christ. Now, I would like... And seen all different religions: Mohammedan, and Buddha, Jains, Sikhs, oh, every different kinds of religion...
Was entertained in India one afternoon by seventeen different religions, that every one denied Christianity. Now all those religions, as many as there are, there's not a one of them but their founder is dead and gone, 'less it's some new one just sprung up. They're dead and gone.
At the grave of Mohammed stands a horse. It's been there for twenty some odd hundred years, about. They change guards every four hours. And a white horse stands at Mohammed's grave, expecting him to raise someday, and ride the whole world down, conquer it. Mohammed, which was a son of Abraham too, but not through the woman which was free.

26 Now, notice this. In all other religions, their founders are dead. There was only One that says, "I have power to lay My life down and take it up again," and that was Jesus Christ. Now, if that's true, then He is not dead. Then as my campaign theme--theme has always been: Hebrews 13:8, Jesus Christ, the same yesterday, today, and forever... Now, if Christ is the same, that Scripture's right... We have no... If we doubt that Scripture, then we're not Christians any more; we're disbelievers. If one word of that Bible is wrong, then all of It's wrong. It has to be perfect because an infinite God wrote It.
Now, if that's Scripture, which we know is right, says that Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever, He's got to be the same in principle; He's got to be the same in power; He's got to be the same in attitude; He's got to be the very same Jesus, or He hasn't risen from the dead. Now, if the Bible said that He is the same, then He's got to be the same. If the Bible said He is the same, and He isn't the same, then the Bible's wrong. Now, we--it--you...
I believe in everything being, it's either right or wrong. You never seen a drunk sober man in your life. No, sir. You never seen a black white bird. No, it's either right or wrong. And that's the way I believe God's Word: It's either right or It's wrong. The promises are true or they're not true.

27 Not long ago, and a famous man was converted and received the Holy Spirit in my room. He come to me with such a heartbreaking story and told me what happened: how that he was totally defeated by a Mohammedan. Morris Reedhead, president of the Sudan missions, biggest in the world... He said, "Brother Branham, a Indian boy came over and was--was--went to school here in a big, good college." And I think... I don't know what he had learned. It might've been electrical mechanics or something. "On his road back, I..." he said. "I said to him, 'Why don't denounce your old dead prophet and receive the resurrected Lord Jesus?'"
And said, the Mohammedan said, "Kind sir, what could your resurrected Jesus, as you call Him, do for me, any more than my prophet?" Said, "They both wrote books: yours, called the Bible, mine called the Koran." Said, "Both promised life after death and we believe it." Said, "What good could your Jesus do me than my Mohammed ha--can do?"
Well, Dr. Reedhead said to him, said, "Why, he could a... My Jesus is raised from the dead and your ha--Mohammed is still in the grave."
He, the Mohammedan said, "Did He? I'd like to see you prove it."
"Oh," he said, "We know that He raised from the dead."
Well, said, "You've had two thousand years to prove it," and said, "one--only one-third the world ever heard His Name." He said, "Let Mohammed raise from the dead, in twenty-four hours all the world will know it." And said, "He will raise some of these days and the world, less than twenty-four hours, will know it, 'cause he'll conquer it." He said, "But your Jesus died just like my Mohammed," and said, "you can't prove it."
And it, Dr. Reedhead said, "Now, wait a minute. We can have joy, the Spirit of God in our heart. We rejoice because that we know that Jesus raised from the dead."
He said, "Now, just a moment, Mr. Reedhead. Mohammedan religion can produce just as much psychology as Christianity can." Said, "We're just as happy, can shout just as loud, expecting Mohammed to return as you can Jesus' return."
Doctor Reedhead said, "I knew I hadn't met some overnight person. That man knowed what he was talking about."

28 And, brother, Jesus never did commission us to go into the world and build churches, although they're good, and to do these things, and get great organizations, and so forth. He never did tell us to do that. His commission was, "Preach the Gospel." And the Gospel come not by word only, but through power and demonstrations of the Holy Ghost. "These signs to follow the believer." And we've done everything but what He commissioned us to do. That's why the world hasn't heard it, because it's the weakness of human theology and not the power of the resurrection of Christ.

29 And he said, "Mr. Reedhead," said, "Let me... Mohammed only promised life after death. Your Jesus promised you believers would do the same thing He did. Now, let us see you believers... We Mohammedan want..." Which they're three to one to Christianity, in numbers. Said, "let us Mohammedans see you Christians produce what your teacher said, then we'll believe he raised from the dead."
"Well, he said, "now, I suppose you're meaning Mark 16."
He said, "That's one Scripture." He said, "Well, now," said, "we--the--the lower class of people, they kindly hummel over that and say it, but we better scholars know that Mark 16, from the 9th verse on, is not inspired."
He said, "Mr. Reedhead, what kind of a Bible are you reading?" Said, "All the Koran's inspired."
See there, the defeat? It's afraid. Now, here it is. I don't want it to hurt, but I want it to get down in your lungs and heart. See? It's afraid to face the issue. It's afraid to call God's Word right, and you're trying to dodge around it. "All the Koran's inspired." But then if part of the Bible's inspired, just the part that you want to be inspired. Well then, if it all isn't inspired, then it isn't the Word of God. And if the Bible said that Jesus raised from the dead, I believe Jesus raised from the dead. That settles it.

30 Now, here some time ago on the Ohio River where I live, there's a little boy went out and asked his mother, he said, "Mother, God is so great, could anybody see Him?"
She said, "Ask the--your Sunday school teacher."
Well, they asked the teacher, and the teacher said, "Ask the pastor."
The pastor said, "No, no one can see God."
He went up the river to the island, six miles above Jeffersonville. One day he was coming down after a storm, a rainbow come out, and the old fisherman pulling his boat. He looked up at the rainbow and started crying: white beard with the tears run down his cheeks. The little fellow, so enthused he run forward and he fell down; he said, "Sir, I want to ask you a question that nobody seems to be able to answer me. Can anybody see God?"
The old fisherman pulled the oars in his lap, and grabbed the little boy, and said, "God bless your heart, honey. All I've seen for the past forty years has been God." You have to get Him in here to see Him out there. He has to dwell within.
Jesus said, "A little while and the world will see Me no more. Yet ye shall see Me for I (and I is a personal pronoun), I'll be with you, even in you to the end of the world." Then He is the same yesterday, today and forever.

31 Now, if we would see Jesus, and He's omnipotent, omnipresent, He's got to be in Cleveland tonight, for He made this promise, "Wherever two or three are gathered in My Name, I will be in their midst." Now, if we've gathered here tonight in Christ's Name, you can now by faith see Him coming out of the corridors of heaven, walking down to be here. If it isn't, His Word's wrong. And if it's wrong, your faith's wrong; your hope's wrong; you're lost, and there's nothing to you.
As Longfellow said,
Tell me not in mournful numbers, that
Life is just an empty dream!
... the soul is dead that slumbers,
And things are not what they seem.
Life is real! And life is earnest!
The grave is not its goal;
Dust thou art, to dust returnest,
Was not spoken of the soul.
And lives of great men all remind us
We can make our lives sublime,
With partings, leave behind us
Footprints on the sands of time.

32 Brother, footprints is possession. Ministering brethren, don't be afraid to put print--footprints where God has told you to go. Amen. It's possession. He told Joshua, "Everywhere the soles of your feet set, that's yours." Amen. We don't back up; we take what God said and that's the truth. No matter what the opposition is, how great it seems, and how difficult it seems, if God said so, it's yours. When He give it to Joshua, He never said, "I'll take all--all the Havites, and Philistines, and give it to you." Joshua had to fight for every inch of ground, but God was with Him. And every inch of ground you'll cover, brother, to make footprints, you'll fight your way through. But take the Sword of the Spirit, brother, and move right on. Footprints is possession.

33 If we went tonight, down into the city to find Jesus, what type of person would we look for? I just want to see if He's the same yesterday, today, and forever. What type of person? Will you--we look for some person dressed different from other men? Someone, maybe with a great big turban on top of his head, and great long gowns a flowing from him, walking down the street? If He's the same yesterday, today, and forever, He wouldn't be dressed like that, 'cause He dressed like common men; walked among them, and they couldn't tell Him from anybody else. That's right.
And would we look for a man that used great big swelling words, that studied all day for great words to speak to their audience who doesn't understand what they're talking about? Certainly not. Jesus talked in such simple street language until today it's got the translators confused. They don't know how to take it, because the words that they speak on the street was so much different from their high classics, till it confuses them now.

34 You... When... The worst place I--where I needed an interpreter worse than anywhere else, was London, England. When I heard those cockney's speak, I didn't know what they were talking about. And one time I called from--from Shreveport, Louisiana. I was calling to New York City. And right here in America, they had to get someone at St. Louis, the little operators did; well, that little northern girl couldn't understand what those southerners was saying. And this little Rebel couldn't understand what that Yankee was saying. And they had to get somebody to interpret between them, right here in the United States. So Jesus used the common language. His...
"Brother Branham, I thought you didn't preach nothing but the Bible." That's right. The Bible said the common people heard Him gladly. He talked like they could understand. Where would we find Him, in the great high cathedrals and big places of the city? No, sir, not if He's the same yesterday, today, and forever. He came to the common people. They refused Him in the big cultured places. They had a classic of their own. And He didn't fit in with their program. I hope He would today. He might not. But He... I don't think He would. He didn't then, so He wouldn't now, if He's the same yesterday, today, and forever.

35 So, what would we look for? Would we look for a scholar out of some seminary? I don't think so. They ask Him where did He get His scholarship, or "Where'd You get this learning? What school did You come out of?" We haven't got one record He ever went to school. He's the same yesterday, today, and forever. The Bible said He was.
Now, if I want to introduce Him to you tonight as your Saviour Who you know, there's only one difference in Jesus tonight, that He was then; that's His corporal body. His corporal body's at the right hand of God. His Spirit is here doing the same thing that He did. So now we'd have to find those ty... We'd have to type His life.
Now, there's got to be somebody right and somebody wrong. They just can't... There's nine hundred and sixty-nine different denomination of churches and there's got to be somebody right and somebody wrong with all that.

36 Now, quickly, I got about ten minutes before we start praying for the sick, if God willing. [Gap in the audio]
Now, I want to ask you something. There's only one way to find out Who He is, what He looks like, what He does, and all about Him. The only way we could justly do it, is not go back over to my church, the Baptist church, and take an example, not go to your church, the Presbyterian; or yours, the Catholic; or yours, the Pentecostal; or the Church of God; or Assemblies of God. That's not it; but go back to God's Word and find out what He was.

37 Let's see. We know the Christmas story; that's fresh to us; we've had it last week or two. Now, let's take Him when He--when He entered His ministry. As soon as He entered His ministry, John the Baptist, which was the one who introduced Him, being the greatest prophet of all the ages, was John the Baptist... And Jesus said so, vindicated him as the greatest. Greater than Elijah, greater than any the rest of them, was John, because He introduced the Messiah. The rest of them prophesied of Him coming, but he said, "Behold the Lamb of God that takes away the sins of the world. He had the privilege of introducing to the world the Messiah God.
And John knew Him because there was a sign following Him, the supernatural. And anywhere in God's Word where Jesus appears, or the Holy Spirit appears, supernatural's there. So we can't get our church to dead theological creeds; it's got to be the Spirit of the living God, moving, proving Himself. We'll get on that Sunday or sometime, the Lord willing.

38 But notice. We'll take His life. Now, to you that wants to read the Bible, to make it... Let's take the Bible then. Let's begin tonight. I'll quote it. You follow me as you read, if you wish to, in Saint John the 1st chapter. We read in John, so we'll just take Saint John the 1st chapter, take Matthew, Luke, Mark or any of the rest of them, brings it out. Let's take Saint John.
As soon as He was tempted of the devil forty days, and the devil left Him for a little season, Jesus began His ministry.

39 Now, let's watch what kind of a ministry. I want to ask you: if we can find the type of ministry... Now, the Bible teaches us that His body is in glory, setting at the right hand of God on the throne of God. But It teaches also, that the Holy Spirit, which is God's Spirit, is here on the earth, continuing His work, and He is the same yesterday, today, and forever. "A little while and the world (That's a--the wor--cosmos, the world order.) won't see Me any more, yet ye shall see Me." He promised to be with us, not in that age only, but to the end of the world: the same yesterday. And, "The things that I do, shall you also." That right? "More than this shall you do." The King James gives "greater" but who--the right translation's "more." Look at it and find out. "More..." You couldn't do greater: He stopped nature; raised the dead; and everything there was to be done. "More than this shall you do, for I go unto My Father. Yet a little while and the world sees Me no more; yet you shall see Me. Ye shall see Me." How long? Every generation to the end of the world. Oh, I love that; that's God's Word. That's where the Holy Spirit feeds, right there. Right on the... "Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every Word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God."

40 And let me give you sick people something right here. Jesus was... Why, He was God. God was in Christ, reconciling the world to Himself. He wasn't just a philosopher. He wasn't just a prophet. He was God.
A woman said to me not long ago. I don't know mean to call anybody's religion. You'd know if I... the church: Christian Science. And she said to me, "Mr. Branham, you put too much emphasis on deity of Jesus Christ. You make Him a god."
I said, "He wasn't a god; He was the God."
She said, "Oh, Mr. Branham, He wasn't divine."
I said, "Oh, yes He was."
She said, "You brag too much on Him."
I said, "I can't brag enough on Him."
Said, "Well, if I prove to you by the Bible that He wasn't nothing but a man, just an example, will you believe it?"
I said, "If the Bible places it that way, I believe the Bible. Yes, 'cause there's where my hopes is set on the Bible."
And she said, "I'll prove it to you by the Bible that He wasn't divine. The Bible makes it clear that He wasn't divine."
I said, "Let me see it."
She said, "Saint John the 11th chapter: Jesus, going down to the grave of Lazarus, the Bible said he wept."
And I said, "Well, what's that got to do with it?"
She said, "Well, that proves He wasn't divine, for He couldn't weep if He was divine."
I said, "That's thinner than the sh--broth made out of a shadow of a chicken that starved to death." I said, "That has nothing to do with it." I said, "He was a Man, the Son of God in flesh, but in Spirit He was Deity; He was God." He was a Man, going down to the grave, weeping, but when He stood there and straightened that little figure up... The Bible said there's no beauty we should desire Him. Maybe not very big said... [Gap in the audio] up. He said, "Lazarus, come forth," and a man been dead four days stood on his feet and lived again, that was more than a man. That was Deity speaking through lips." That's right. Mmm. I said, "It's true. He was a Man when He come down off the mountain, hungry, looking around on some trees there, to find Him something to eat. When He had searched the tree over to find some figs, and He couldn't find nothing to eat, and He was a man when He was hungry. But when He took five biscuits and two pieces of fish and fed five thousand, that was more than a man speaking. That was a man hungry, but God feeding." That's right.

41 "He was a Man." When He laid in the back of that boat that night, when ten thousand devils of the seas swore they'd drowned Him, and the winds a blowing, a howling, the mast pole broke, and the oars, the little ship water-logged and they're plunging... The devil was lightning gleaming on top of every wave, and glistening his eyes, and saying, "I got Him now." He was a man laying in the back of that boat where the winds and waves didn't disturb Him. He was a man laying there asleep, tired like any other man. But when He put His foot upon the brail of the boat, looked up and said, "Peace be still," and the winds and the waves obeyed Him, that was more than a man. That was Deity speaking from Him.
It's true that He was a man when He cried at the cross, "My God, why hast Thou forsaken Me?" He was a man living there--a hanging there on the cross, but when He arose on Easter morning, breaking the Roman seal, and opening up the tomb, He proved He was God.
Oh, the poet said,
Living, He loved me;
Dying, He saved me;
Buried, He carried my sins far away;
Rising, He justified freely forever:
Someday He's coming--oh, glorious day.

42 It's thrilled the hearts of every man, and woman, and poet, or anything else that ever lived from that time to know that He was more than a man. He was a Man; He was the God Man. God was in Christ, reconciling the world to Himself.
I can see Him as His ministry starts. We'll follow Him a few minutes. In His ministry He begin healing the sick, praying for the sick, great signs begin to follow. Now, listen closely; I'm going to be just a little over time. You're such a lovely audience to speak to, all Spirit filled. What could happen here tonight? Oh...

43 Then as we see Him as a Man standing in human flesh, but praying, and signs begin to follow Him. There was a man got converted by the name of Philip. And as soon as he got saved, He wanted to find his buddy. His name was Nathanael. That's a good sign he got saved when you got to tell somebody else. And anyone that finds anything good likes to tell somebody else about it.
So he goes around the mountain several miles, about a day's journey, where Nathanael, a real staunch, Jewish believer, orthodox, gun barrel straight... He goes around the hill to find him. Philip was out to--found Nathanael out in his garden under a fig tree, or a tree, a praying. And so he called him and said, "Come, see Who I have found: Jesus of Nazareth, the Son of Joseph." Now listen close. Listen. After he got through with his prayer, he raised up, and he said, "Now, could there be any good thing come out of a place like Nazareth?"
I think Philip give him the best answer that there is to be given. He said, "Come and see." That's the best way to understand. "Come and see." Don't stand off and criticize. Don't pass your opinion. Come, see for yourself. "Come on," he said. "Let's go back. You draw your own opinion."
"All right. I'll go." And here he goes around the mountain.

44 The next day they come up in the prayer line where Jesus was; a day's journey around the mountain. Now, here's Jesus. Let's look at Him yesterday. Jesus was standing, praying for the sick. Maybe Nathanael might've come in the prayer line. He might've been out in the audience. He was somewhere. But the first time... Now, listen. The first time that Jesus laid His eyes on Nathanael, He said, "Behold, an Israelite in whom there is no guile." In other words, "There's a good, righteous man that's truthful." No guile, he isn't deceitful; he's a real man."
Well, that kindy astonished him. "How did you know I was an Israelite?" First, he might've been a Greek; he might've been a Roman; he might've been someone else. And the next thing you know, "How'd You know that I was so honest and upright? Whence knowest thou me, Rabbi? How did You know that?"
Now, here stood the Jews, standing around. "Uh-huh."
Here was the--here was Nathanael standing there. Listen, there was Philip listening. "When did you know me, Rabbi?"
Jesus said, "Before Philip called you, I saw you. (Thirty miles around the mountain, yesterday.) I saw you under the tree." What eyes. He had to be more than a man. "I saw you under the tree. Before you come to church you was under a tree praying. I saw you." What effect did that have upon this gun-barrel straight orthodox believer?
He said, "Rabbi, Thou art the Son of God. You are the King of Israel." That settled it.
Jesus said, "Because I told you that, you believe?" Sure, that was the sign of the Messiah.

45 Now, what would all those people do that belonged to the big classical church, the Jews? They said, "This man is doing that by Beelzebub." Beelzebub, that was the chief of the fortunetellers, the devil. And we all know fortunetellers is of the devil. So he said, "He's Beelzebub, the chief of the fortunetellers."
Now look. The true in heart recognize the sign of the Messiah: "Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God."
Jesus said, "Because I've said this, you believe Me? You'll see greater things than this."
But the church member said, "He's Beelzebub."
Jesus turned and said, "You can speak that against Me and I'll forgive you." Put this so children will understand it. "You speak that against Me, the Son of Man, it'll be forgiven. But when the Holy Ghost is come and does the same thing, to speak a word against that will never be forgiven in this world or the world to come." So be careful. It'll never be forgiven, because they said He has an unclean spirit. You see it? That's the beginning.

46 Now watch, just for couple quotations. That was Jesus yesterday. If He's the same today, He'll have to be the same. That was His ministry yesterday.
Let's follow Him from Saint John. Here comes Peter up. His name was Simon. Here a big, old, burly looking fisherman, big greasy fishing apron on him, come down, set down there on the side of the--of the log or something, listen at Him preach. When he come up to Jesus, He said, "Pete, your name is Simon. Your father's name is Jonas." How'd He know that? "Your name is Simon. Your father's name is Jonas, but I'm going to give you another name: call you 'little stone,' from now on; Peter."
I can imagine Peter say, "Well, Lord, here I am."

47 Notice. We see Him again. Let's follow Him just a little farther. We see Him in the 4th chapter. He goes up to--He's going down to Jericho. If any of you ever been in Palestine, Jerusalem's on the hill; Jericho's in the mountain--or in the valley. And Samaria's up around the other way. "But He had need..." Now, I want to catch that point there. "He had need to go by Samaria." Why? Let's watch now.
You know the Bible's a love letter. Do you know that? My wife will write me a letter; she'll say, "Dear Billy, I--I'm setting here tonight..." I'll be overseas. "I'm thinking of you," and so forth." That's what she's saying on paper, but I can read between the lines, 'cause I love her. She loves me. You love the Lord; you just read that and it just comes right out. You know, you just... It's a love letter He wrote to His church. You can't understand it. He's hid it from the eyes of the wise and prudent and revealed it to babes such as will learn. See? It ain't seminaries, and education, and scholarship; it's being in love with the Lord.

48 Notice, here He come. And now, He went up to Samaria, and it was about noon time, so He sent all His disciples into the city to buy some vittles. And while He was, it's kind of a little panoramic, there, like this, and some vines growed up. He was setting against the wall, leaned back. Oh, a--a Jew, about thirty something years old, but He looked to be fifty, they said. Saint John 6 they'd just declared Him: said, "You say you seen Abraham and you're just about fifty years old," otherwise, but His work give such a strain on Him, He was a young Man that looked old.
And He's setting there, leaning back. And a woman of ill fame... We won't have to go in that; you know what I mean: prostitute from the street, as we believe her here. So she came out to the well. Maybe she'd been out all night and just got up; maybe... The truth of it is she couldn't come there while the virgins was coming. There's a--there's a difference in segregation right then, between right and wrong. But it's all mixed together today.

49 But when they come up to the well to get the water, Jesus setting there, and He said, "Woman, bring Me a drink."
And she said, "It's not customary for you Jews to ask we Samaritans such. We have no dealings with each other."
He said, "But if you knew Who you were talking to, you'd ask Me for a drink." Said, "I bring you wa--give you water you don't..."
She said, "The well's deep and you have nothing to draw with." And on it went; the conversation went at length. She said, "Our father's worship... And our father Jacob drink at this well, and You say... We worship in this mountain and you say at Jerusalem." And the conversation went on. What was Jesus doing? Now, you have to take my word for this. He was contacting her spirit. The Father had sent Him up there. He didn't know why, but He was waiting. So when He contacted, talked to the woman... Now, listen close. When He was talking to the woman, He found her trouble. Said, ''Go, get your husband." That was her trouble. Is that right? "Go, get your husband." He was talking about Waters of Life, so that's what she needed. Said, "Go, get your husband."
She said, "I don't have any."
He said, ''That's right. You've got five. And the one you have now is not your husband."

50 Now, listen to the woman. Now, what did Nathanael say when Jesus done that on him? Said, "Thou art the Son of God, the King of Israel." That was the Jewish attitude.
Now, what's the Samaritan attitude. Watch. Said, "You said right..." Jesus did--said... "You said right: you don't have any husband."
She said, "Sir, I perceive that You are a Prophet." Now, listen. "We (Samaritans), we know that when the Messiah cometh He'll tell us these things. He telleth all things." But she didn't know Who He was. She knowed that was the sign of the Messiah, so He must be a prophet of the Messiah, because she knew that when Messiah come... And they hadn't had no prophets for years, so she knew that that looks like the sign of the Messiah. She said, "We're taught to believe that the Messiah when He comes, He'll do that, but Who are You?"
He said, "I'm He that speaks to you." Amen. "I'm He."
Into the city she went and said, "Come, see a Man that told me the things that I... Isn't this the very Messiah?" If that was the Messiah then, that He done that, and He's the same yesterday, today, and forever, He has to do the same thing today, if He's the Messiah. Is that right? Now, one more.

51 A little woman, one day, had a blood issue. She'd went to the doctors; they'd done all they could. I am not against doctors. God bless them, they're our--they're our servants; they're gifts to the public. But no medicine heals. The doc don't tell you his medicine heals. Doctor can't heal. He don't say he's a healer. If he does, he [Gap in the audio] healer... You know what I mean; heal-er.
So if I was cranking my Ford, and it broke my arm, and I run in and said, "Doctor, healer, heal my arm right quick; I got to crank my Ford," he'd know I need mental healing. Only thing he could do would be set my arm. Well, I say, "Is it healed? Can I go home and crank my car?"
"Oh, no." He just sets the arm, leaving it for God to heal. Psalm 103:3 said, "I'm the Lord, heals all thy diseases."
What if I cut my hand, say, "I'm bleeding to death, doc. Heal my hand up right quick, that cut." He couldn't heal it. He could sew it up and leave it there so God could heal it. That's all. He's the Lord... Medicine don't build tissue. Medicine keeps clean while God do--builds tissue, just the same as soap and water does to your hand. All right.

52 Now, notice. The Word doesn't contradict Himself. God's Word always runs perfectly smooth through the Bible. Now, this statement then.
This little woman had done all she could. The doctors had done all they could. They were honest and couldn't help the woman. It was probably a menopause case, and she'd been in it for many years. She had an issue of blood, and she was thin and frail. And she said... She'd heard of Him, and she believed He was a holy Man of God. Now, there it is. It's her approach. Now, listen. Are you ready? It's your approach; it depends on what you think about it.
The woman touched His garment. Now, anyone knows the Palestinian garment hung loose, and there's an underneath garment on it too. And I'd never feel it if you touch my coat. But they touched His garment and went back, and He said, "Who touched Me?"
Peter said, "The whole mob's a touching You," rebuked Him.
He said, "Who touched Me?" And everybody denied it; she denied it; all denied it. But Jesus said, "I got weak." Virtue went from Him. And He looked around. I'll explain that in another message, what happened. Said, "He looked around [Gap in the audio] till He found where a... was pulling. And He found her. Ah, He looked at her; He said, "Daughter, be of a good comfort. Your blood issue's all over. You--your faith has saved you." Couldn't hide it. She touched the fountain somewhere. Can that fountain be open tonight? "Brother Branham, could you touch Him tonight?"
"Yes, sir."
"The same way she did?"
"Certainly."
"How can you do it? Does the Bible say so?"
Yes, sir. He is the High Priest that can be touched by the feeling of our infirmities: a High Priest. Touch Him and find out. Your healing's complete, done finished. But He'll have to have another way to let you know that you touched Him. When He comes into the meeting to vindicate Himself, touch Him once and find out if He's the High Priest that can be touched by the feeling of your infirmities.
Touched Him, and He said, "Thy faith has saved thee."

53 Now, He comes down in the 4th chapter of Saint John. He goes... Or 5th chapter... He goes down into a pool called Bethesda. There laid a great big multitude of lame, halt, blind, withered (Now, listen real close; we'll close on this remark.), great crowds, multitudes, hundreds and hundreds of people packed together. Look what a massive people that was. Now, listen close.
Now, do you believe He was full of compassion? Bible said He was, but it's different from the kind of compassion we call compassion. There's two different types of compassion. One of them is human sympathy. The other one is godly compassion. Godly compassion is to do the will of God. Human sympathy throws everything in a puddle.
Here. It's just like the two Greek words for "love." One of them, the Greek word means love for your wife: phileo, a phileo love. That means love that you have for your wife. If a man would insult her, you'd kill him for it. And then there's another Greek word called for love called "agape." And that word means "divine love of God." And that same love would cause a man to pray for the man's lost soul instead of kill him. That's how much difference there is. One make you kill a man; the next would make you pray for him. See? Now, that's the same thing as human sympathy: "Oh, Brother Branham, don't do this. Let..."
"Say, you divine healer, I know old John Jones sets on the street; he's been blind for forty years. You go down, heal him, I'll believe you." That's the devil. That's right.

54 Jesus was asked by the devil to perform a miracle when He first got started, said, "If thou be the Son of God, perform a miracle here before me." Now, that devil hasn't died. And he even gets in churches, even in preachers.
"Now, perform a miracle here before me. Let me see you do something; I'll believe you, you divine healer. You great miracle worker, if you're the Son of God, make these stones bread; let me see you. I'll believe You."
He got in the Pharisees, said, "If thou be the Son of God, come down off the cross and we'll believe you."
A Roman put a rag around his eyes, and hit Him on the head with a stick, and said, "Prophesier, tell us who hit you. Prophesy now, prophesier." God don't clown for nobody. He never opened His mouth. No, He never said a word. He didn't feel any virtue. But the woman that approached Him right and touched His garment, she got virtue. She got her desire. This other guy was condemned; he went to hell for it, no doubt. What's the difference? It's your attitude, what kind of an environment you create around you by your belief or unbelief. So get away from all your superstitions and create around you an environment. That's the difference. It's the environment that makes the difference.
A hen should lay over her egg to hatch it. But put it in an incubator under the same warmth condition, it'll hatch anyhow. It's the environment that makes the difference.

55 Now, Jesus goes down into this pool. You go down some steps into it. And in there, there was a trouble of water. And once in a while, an angel come down and blowed it back up and made a troubled water. You, living here by this river know what a troubled waters are, surely: the current going one way, and--and waves coming another. And it was coming from these spouts that run down, then it come waving back. Ever who's stepping in first, got healed of what disease they had, if they had faith to believe it. Many criticized it, make fun of it, but the Bible said it was an angel. And I believe it. God always makes a way.
Jesus come into this pool and there laid people that was lame, blind, halt, and withered. That's right, brother. Here's what the Bible said. Look at that mess: arthritis, blind, mothers with waterhead babies, all kinds of affliction. And here comes the Son of God, just a few days after that woman touched His garment, walking right through that crowd. Where's all that compassion? Never touched a one of them. He looked around until he found a man laying on a pallet.
Now, we southerners know what a pallet is. You have to use a different word up north, 'cause they don't know what a pallet is. I was raised on one: a pallet.
And He looked around till He found this pallet laying there, and a man laying on it. Maybe he had prostate trouble. He'd had it thirty-eight years. It was retarded, wasn't going to hurt him, wasn't going to kill him. And Jesus come to that man after passed all those lame, blind, halt, and withered, and said, "Wilt thou be made whole?" Now, that's the Scripture: Saint John 5. Just start reading. Said, "Wilt thou be made..." Why not the blind man, "Will thou be made whole?" Why not the crippled man, "Will thou be made whole?" I'm bringing this for a point. He healed the sick and afflicted, but I'm just making this to show you why Jesus is the same yesterday, today, and forever.

56 Now, watch. And when He comes by this man, He seen him, said, "Will thou be made whole?"
He said, "Sir, I have no one to put me in the water, when somebody can outrun me." Said, "When I'm coming down, somebody gets ahead of me." Some people with only toothaches, and so forth, they could outrun the real badly afflicted.
And He said, "Take up your bed and go into your house." And the man picked up his bed, throwed it on his shoulder, and went walking on. He was questioned. If Jesus passed through this city today and done that very same act, He'd be questioned again. But the world knows its own. That was Jesus yesterday. Now, watch Him.
And when He comes down there, Saint John 5:19... Now, get the 19th verse in your 5th chapter. And Jesus under question, what did He say? Now, listen: "Verily, verily (That's absolutely, absolutely.), I say unto you, the Son can do nothing in Himself, but what I see the Father doing; that doeth the Son likewise." Is that right?
How could a man have the audacity to call himself a divine healer when Jesus Christ didn't even claim to be a divine healer? He said, "I can do nothing in Myself." Now, that's either the truth or it isn't the truth. He said, "I only do as the Father shows Me. I do nothing of My own will, or nothing Myself. The Father don't impress it on Me; He shows Me what to do." Is that right? "I do nothing..." Have you got it, Saint John 5:19? "I do nothing on Myself, but what I see the Father doing, that doeth the Son likewise. The Father worketh, I worketh hitherto." In other words, "I just act out in drama what the Father shows Me to do. I just go do it."

57 Look at grave of Lazarus. "Father, I thank Thee..." Why did He leave Lazarus' house and go away? They sent for Him to come. He just kept on going. Your pastor would do that, you'd--you'd oust him out in the next deacon meeting. But, you see, He went on. And when... He said He knew God had told Him. Now, Jesus either told the truth or He didn't tell the truth. He said He done nothing till the Father showed Him first what to do. He saw it in a vision first, and the Father showed Him. He did nothing else but what the Father showed Him. And the Father had showed Him when He was away the certain amount of time was out, he said, "Our friend Lazarus sleepeth, but I'm going to wake him. I'm glad for your sake I wasn't there 'cause if you'd ask Me to pray for him, I'm going against the will of God. I'm going to wake Him up. He has to be buried and lay there four days 'fore I can wake him up." in other wise. He knew it. And when He stood by the grave, He said, "Father, I thank Thee Thou hast already heard Me, but I say it for these who stand around. Lazarus, come forth." That was all was necessary. He did it because the Father had showed Him what to do.

58 Now, here it is, friend. Jesus said (Now, listen close; we're going to pray.), " He that believeth on Me (Saint John, I believe about the--the 14th chapter and the 7th verse) He that believeth on Me, the works that I do, shall he also. More than this will he do, for I go unto My Father." Is that what He said? "These signs shall follow them that believe. A little while and the world (the cold formal world, after His physical being be taken away), they won't see Me no more. No matter what happens, they won't see Me. But yet ye shall see Me." Now, there's going to be a "world" till He comes and there's going to be a "ye'" till He comes. "Ye shall see Me, for I will be with you, I will be in you; I'll be doing the same thing that I done here on--when I was in My own flesh. I'll be in yours doing the same thing to the end of the world," then Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever.

59 Now, the Bible said that God has set in the church, first apostles, or missionaries, both the same word. How people ever want to be called missionary, I don't know. I think apostle's better. But "apostle" means "one sent." What does missionary mean? "One sent." Apostles, prophets (That's seers.), evangelists, pastors, and teachers, five different offices God has set in the church. You can't cut part of them out, and leave the rest of them; you've got to take them all. God has set it... A pastor's not an evangelist, evangelist not apostle. Apostle's not a seer, and so forth. It's all to the edifying of the body of Christ.
Now, my friend, if Jesus Christ will come into the church tonight right now, and will prove and do the very same thing that He did when He was here on earth, will you all receive Him as your--for your Healer, Saviour, or whatever you need, will you raise your hands to Him, say, "I will receive Him"? That's a broad statement. And that's a--one you better know what you're speaking of before you say it.

60 Now, let us pray just a moment. Heavenly Father, it seems like there's no place to stop when we start on Your Word, with such a fine listening audience. And I pray Thee now, kind heavenly Father, that You will speak now. Your servant has spoke at length, and seemingly, the audience has received the Word. But one word from You will do more than all I could say in a many lifetimes. So as I have spoke of Thee, Father, I pray that You will confirm this Word. It may be a little different from the old school of thought, but Thou has never bound Yourself to any school, for You're God. And I pray that You'll make Yourself known tonight and will manifest Your great power and Your great love among the people.
And when we leave here tonight, may this audience on their road home, down the little streets here, and across the hill there, and maybe some of them with a lantern going to their little house, or a flashlight, may they like from Emmaus, those disciples who came from Emmaus, said, "Did not our hearts burn within us when He talked to us along the road?"
And, Father, we know that that day, on that resurrection day, that great first Easter, little did they know that that same Jesus that was--been alive with them for thirty-three and a half years, was alive again, and He was walking with them. But when He got them in the room to theirself, the doors closed behind them, He did something just like He did it when He was here on earth before His crucifixion. No man could deny it, for He was the only One Who could do it. And they recognized it was Him, because He did it just the way He did before His crucifixion. And it proved that He was the same.
And now, Father, may You do the things tonight here at this church, as You did when You were here before Your crucifixion, that this little audience might see, and know, and believe that You've raised from the dead, and Your love is to them, and You want to express Yourself, and You're trying to get them to have faith to believe in Your finished work. I ask it, as we commit ourselves to Thee, in Jesus' Name. Amen.

61 [Gap in the audio] God give the preacher, put his office... Now, there's some man-made preachers; there's some God's sent preachers. See? Man-made preachers are just out for money and things. But a God sent preacher's out for lost souls. See? And that's what the trueness of heart is.
Now--now, Jesus Christ had raised from the dead. Now, He's--He has appeared, and He's sent a gift that's a vision, you--it's to see visions. And just His Spirit worketh. No matter how much, I have no control of it; I can do nothing of it at all. It's your own personal faith. Maybe tomorrow night I'll get into that, where you see it's not me, it's you that does it.
Now, we can't call everybody to the platform at once. We have to call them and just let some come as we can. Each day we give out prayer cards so the newcomers come in will get it. And we'll call somewhere along in them each night, and get a few people up here praying, so you can get to praying out there. But watch the Lord heal ten out there to one here. See? It's your faith. No matter where you are, God knows you; He knows--knows what kind of faith you have. He's bound... You... He's a High Priest. It isn't touching me; it's touching Him. Touching me would just be like your husband, or--or your sister, your wife, or whatever you was touching. You see? It would just... But touching Him is divine. Touching me is just a man; touching Him... No matter where you're here or not; it's whether you're here or not. See? It's in your heart. Now, believe.

62 Now, I believe the boys give out some prayer cards. But I forgot just where... How many? One to fifty? All right. Prayer card... What letter was tonight? T? All right. My son gave out the prayer cards this afternoon. And he said that he gave out T-1 to 50. Now, we can't stand them all at once, 'cause there may be some that have to be packed up and so forth. And we'll just have to call them just a few at a time. So now, let's start from number 1 tonight. Maybe tomorrow night we might start from 20 or somewhere. We'll start from somewhere. But let's start from...
Look through... It's little card and it's got my picture on it. And then on the other side, turn it over and it's got a "T" and a "1." And let's see who has that T-1, would you raise your hand? ... [Gap in the audio]

63 Every one be real reverent; set real quiet now, and be real reverent. Now, keep your minds on the Lord Jesus and be in prayer. "Abide with Me." God knows that's what we all want. Do you realize, Christians, where I'm standing tonight? If someone could take my place here, you'd be welcome. But here I am before, I guess, a thousand people. I don't know: little group. But I stood this way before five hundred thousand when a blind man received his sight and tens of thousands come to Christ at once. See?
Now, this Bible, I have said is the Word of God. Now, It's either the truth or It isn't the truth. I'm basing tonight on Hebrews 13:8, said Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever. The things that He did then, He does now, or the Bible's wrong, and I'm found a false witness. If He does do the same thing, then you disbelieve it, well, that's between you and God. I trust that you won't, but will believe and will receive the same benefit, for you're a very lovely people.

64 Now, Father, into Thy hands we commit ourselves, our spirit. And I realize, Father, no matter how much that You would anoint Your servant, I could not do nothing except the audience also would believe. For You went to Your own country, Your own city, and he said, "Many mighty works He could not do because of their unbelief." So I pray that You'll make all unbelief vanish tonight and prove Yourself alive, the same Lord Jesus. May they not look at the illiterate person who speaks, but may they look to the Word of God which has called it and claimed it, and God has promised that He would do it. And may they be said, maybe like when Peter passed through the gate called Beautiful, they taken heed and knowed that he was ignorant and unlearned, but taken notice that He had been with Jesus. And may that be tonight.
And may You do something tonight now, Lord. The same things that we have spoke of, may You come and perform that same thing, that the people might know that You have risen from the dead and You're here alive, and love us and want us to believe You. And now, I yield myself to Thee, with the audience; in Jesus' Name we pray that You'll get glory from the service. Amen.

65 Now, just keep your children next to you. There's only one thing that usually causes trouble, that's epilepsy. That's the reason we keep the platform empty as possible. Now, be real reverent. Now, we're not... We're--we're in church: in church. Now, be real reverent.
I just want you to come this way, sir, just a moment. Now, here tonight there's, I guess, hundreds of sick people here. And I clearly made it that no man can heal you. You're healing is already done; you have to accept it. But God, through gifts of preaching the Word... Maybe some minister come, explained the Word to you till wouldn't need anything else: it settles it. But through another gift of seeing...
Now, here is a man standing here. I suppose we're strangers to each other? We don't know each other. Now, this man and I are different ages, born miles apart and years apart, and never met before till right now. This is our first time meeting. I never seen him. He never seen me, as far as I know. He--He's here for some cause. I don't know. I couldn't tell you. But he looks healthy enough. Now, if I'd say, "There's a woman setting there in a wheelchair." Anybody can see that. See? I'd say, "There's a lady setting here with glasses on her, she got bad eyes." Anybody can see that, but what's the matter with this man here? There's the miracle. See?

66 Now, if Jesus has raised from the dead, He knows this man. He's knowed him ever since he was born. He knowed him before he was born, yea, before the world begin. He knowed that we'd stand here tonight before the world begin. He knowed it would be a testimony to you if He so made... [Gap in the audio] way before the world begin.
Now, the man could be an infidel, he could be a atheist; he could be a critic. If he is, watch what happens. See? Now, if he's a Christian, watch what happens. See? I don't know him. God does. Now, you see the position it puts me in? First time I've ever seeing him and meeting him...

67 Now, if Jesus was raised from the dead, and He was standing here tonight with this suit on that He gave me down in Africa, and... Now, if this man was sick and say, "Lord, I want You to heal me," what would Jesus say? "I've already done that, child of Mine, don't you know I..." He don't do things twice. He can only do it once. He can't make an atonement for healing, then turn around and make another atonement for it. He's done made the atonement and that settles it. But He would know him, would be something like He did when He was here on earth before He was crucified, to let him know that He was Jesus. Is that right?
Now, if He'll do the same thing by this man as He did in the Bible time, all you promise that you'll believe on the Lord Jesus, every one of you? Does anybody know the man out there in the audience, people that? Raise your hands if you know him. That's all right. There's several here that knows him. Now, you know...
Now, may the Lord help me is my prayer. I don't say He will. But if He does, He'll receive glory and praise.

68 Now, sir, in the Bible there was a woman who came to the Lord Jesus at the well. And He talked to her a few moments till He found where her trouble was, and then He--He told her where her trouble was, and she believed it.
And there was a man came to Him. And He told him where he was, even told him what his name was, and told him all about hisself. And he believed on the Lord because He told him, He had said before he come He--He saw him under a tree praying. See? And that was really wonderful of course. And this fellow knew that only God could do that. That would be God again, wouldn't it?
Now, you know, sir, that I'm just your brother, for I perceive that you are a Christian. You got a Christian spirit. So you're a Christian, and you're conscious that something's going on. It's--it's the Presence of the Holy Spirit. See? That's right. That's all. Well, as the man stands there, if the audience can still hear me, the man moves from me. And he's shadowed for death. The man has a cancer. That is true? Is that true? Raise your hand if that's true.
Now, ever what He told you, that wasn't me; that was Him. Now, see, just talking to him, more you'd to talk to, more would be told. See? But then it just makes me real weak. See? Just gets weaker and weaker all the time, 'cause it--it--it's him touching. See?

69 Now, let's just talk a little bit, being that you're the first man. Just a moment to talk with now. Now, ever what He told you, that was true. You know, you... If He can tell you what was... Now, I just say, "You have the... You're going to be healed." Well then, you have the right to doubt that, because you don't know what the future holds. But if He knows what has been, you know whether that's true or not. And that's right.
Yes, I see the man again; he's got a shadow from him, and it's a--it's cancer. Then he--he's got some kind of trouble at his home. It's a woman. It's his wife, and she's had a stroke, and she can't talk. She's here tonight. Right. They call you, "Ben," don't they? Your last name's Oliver, isn't it? Do you believe that it's the Lord Jesus? Something's here as you know. You believe the...?
Our heavenly Father, Thou hast said, "These signs shall follow them that believe: If they lay their hands on the sick, they shall recover." This I ask in Jesus' Name. Amen. Yes. God bless you, sir. Go now. As you have believed, be it unto you as you have believed. Now, God bless you, my brother. That's right. You just... See?

70 Now, every one have faith and believe. Do you believe with all your heart? Now, be real reverent now. You're in the Presence of the Holy Spirit. See? Now, real reverent then. You have to know that this comes from somewhere supernatural. Now, it's up to you what you allow it to be. Whatever you think of it, that's what you'll draw from (See?), your opinion, your approach to it.
Now, here's a man. I suppose we're... first. I don't know you. But I don't know you. No. All right, sir. Then you're here for some cause, some reason. I don't know that, sir. You're aware that I don't know it; I have no way of knowing that, only except it would be revealed to me or showed to me. Now, if Jesus is the same yesterday, today, and forever, and I be His servant... And I perceive that--that you have a Christian spirit too, so you're a man and I'm a man. And here we are. You are coming here for some reason, to the One that loved you. And I'm just yielding myself to see what He'll say to me to tell you. He's wonderful. You're conscious that something's going on. Just then that Light... We'll have the picture of it here. It's copyrighted in Washington, DC It's copyrighted. And that struck you just then, 'cause between you and I there's a Light now. That's true.
Saints, Jesus Christ is in form of Light. The audience would know that. When Paul saw Him on the road down to Damascus, He was a great Light. And that was the same Light that led the children of Israel through the wilderness: the Pillar of Fire.

71 And you are--you are not only a Christian; you are a minister. I see you at the pulpit. And I see you in a room, begging or agonizing about something. What you're here for, me, you want spiritual help and you want me to pray for you, that you'll receive spiritual help. And you're not from this city. You come from another city, and that city would be kinda north. And it's a big place where they got a super highways run. It's got a great big place like... It's Washington, DC That's where you're from. That's THUS SAITH THE LORD. And I see appear by you an elderly looking person. It's a woman. And I see her younger, and she's holding you. That's your mother, and you want me to pray for her, 'cause she has heart trouble. That's THUS SAITH THE LORD. You believe, sir? Thank you.
Our kind heavenly Father, the Lord Jesus raised from the dead. And now I pray and bless this man, in the Name of Christ, the Son of God, that he will receive that which he has believed for; in Jesus' Name. Amen. God bless you, my dear friend. May He add His blessings. Have faith in God now.

72 You, out there in the audience, just believe with all your heart. Now, howdy do? We are strangers to each other, are we, sir? We never seen before, I suppose. You saw me from the audience but never knowed me. This is our first time of meeting.
Now, just real reverent. We are each one a spirit. It's our own... You can't crowd it into one night, what demons are, how they act, and they're spirits too. We'll get to it a little later. Be real reverent. Something happened here [Gap in the audio] here. Now, just keep praying. You... It's out in the audience. It's not going to be up here in the prayer line, just keep praying. Something's taking place. I was only conscious of it as I felt it by the Holy Spirit. Someone touched Him just then: the High Priest, not me. It only answered this way.

73 Now, the man, you know I don't you, and know nothing about you, but Jesus Christ knows you. He's knowed you since you were born. But I see you're suffering with a tremendous nervous condition, one of those types that hurt you, makes you think deep, and always planning things you never get to them. That's right. It never happens that way: always, as we say, crossing bridges before you get to them; taking other people's worries on yourself. And besides that, you have a--a--a growth on your foot, your growth's on your foot.
That lady, setting right there on the--second from the end then, right here with the little white coat on, she has a growth too on her back. That's right, isn't it, lady? If it is, raise up your hand then. You also have bladder trouble, don't you? If that's right, raise up your hand. See, you've touched Him with the feeling. You're both healed now. You're--you're both healed. Have faith in God. Don't doubt it. Just believe with all your heart.
Those... What happens, those spirits call one to another for help. See? You can un... I can't explain it. There's no way of doing it, so you just believe it. Do you believe? With all your heart? Jesus said, "Thou canst--if thou canst believe... If thou canst believe..."

74 Howdy do, lady? You suffer with a nervous trouble too. That's right. You also have a growth. You have neck trouble: It's a tumor. That's right. Strange, how the Holy Spirit would say the same thing he did. Must be operated, or God has to heal one. I couldn't take it out, but God can. Do you believe that? You believe? All right. I want you to believe with all your heart. If thou canst believe... Got bladder trouble too, don't you? You believe that God will heal you? With all your heart? Uh-huh. Just happened to see that. Just have faith in God.
Little lady, you setting next to her, that raised up a few minutes ago, if thou canst believe... Have faith in God. You believe that God make you well? Our heavenly Father, I ask in Jesus' Name, for her healing. And may it go from her; in Jesus' Name I pray. Amen. Now, rejoice and be happy. Believe with all your heart, to this man here. Have faith in God. The Bible said, "Have faith in God."

75 It's a female trouble and a tumor, isn't it, lady, with the little red coat on? That's right, isn't it? He thought he'd get by with that, but he didn't. Uh-huh. That's right. Hold your hand up if that's true there? See? Your faith touched Him. Amen. The lady next to you has a chest trouble there, doesn't it? Lady setting there with a handkerchief to your mouth, has chest trouble. You're real nervous too, aren't you? That's right, raise up your hand, the lady there. God bless you. Have faith in God. Believe. The Bible said, "Believe."
Howdy do, sir? The Lord Jesus is wonderful. Are you believing? Now, don't move around. Just be real reverent. Just a moment...

Sirs, we would see Jesus

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1 Thank you, Brother Sothmann, it is... [Blank space in tape.] ... of a lady who sat in a wheelchair with ... I never had seen anything like it, quite, looked like elephantiasis: great huge limbs, and they were all raw and in a very bad shape. And I remember, before the service had ended, that the bad place on the lady's limbs had become normal and pink again like a baby.
I wonder if the lady would be in the meeting by chance, or if she's still alive on the earth. How many remembers the woman, sitting in a wheelchair, blankets around her? I just remembered, it was way back towards this end of the building.

2 Now, tomorrow afternoon, as I am told, that my good friend Brother Robert Toms of South Africa, will be bringing the afternoon message tomorrow. It would do you good to hear Brother Toms and his heart-thrilling message of Christ, that how he had been brought into the Gospel as a drunken sailor of the South African Army. And how the Lord saved him and has made him a minister of the Gospel. And he's got the native work on his heart, doing great work over there among the native people of South Africa.
And now, we're expecting the Lord to give us a great meeting. Tomorrow is a holiday, as I understand, a holiday here in Canada. And we perhaps won't be working, so try to get out to the meetings.

3 Now, tonight ... [Brother Branham clears his throat.] Pardon me. I will not speak but just a little while tonight, because we're fixing to run a prayer line to pray for the sick. Therefore, since I have left, I've been in prayer. And I... Most time, in going into these meetings, when you got long meetings, I do not eat or anything: just fast, and pray, and wait on the Lord. It's an anointing, an Angel of the Lord. And it's not the anointing of preaching, because it works under a different gift.
There's many different gifts that God has to His church. But they're all for the perfecting of the church to bring together in unity the great body of the Lord Jesus Christ. And the powers that was in Christ has been given to His church. All that God was, He poured into Christ. And Christ was God manifested on earth. And all that Christ was, He poured into His church. And all the powers that God had, rested in Christ; and the fullness of Christ rests in His church. So what a people this should be.

4 But the only thing that I've found in my travel: I found two different types of people. One of them is the fundamentalist; the other is a Pentecostal. And the fundamentalist positionally knows their place in Christ, by election. But they don't have too much faith. The Pentecostal has a lot of faith, but don't know their position.
So, it's just like a man that had a lot of money in the bank and couldn't write a check, and the other one could write a check, and didn't have no money in the bank. If we could only get those together. Either Pentecostal faith with fundamental doctrine, or fundamental doctrine with Pentecostal faith, it will work.
So if the church only knew its position... And the greatest hindrance in the church is fear. They're afraid that it just won't work. Well, it just won't, for you, that way. It just will not work that way; it must be absolutely believers, not make-believers, but believers from your heart.

5 Now, so that we won't keep you long each night, but we like to read a portion of God's Word. Now, any man that's able to move his hands, can move his hands and open the Word like that. But it takes the Holy Spirit to really open the Word. No man in heaven was worthy, no man in the earth, or beneath the earth, and John wept until he seen a Lamb that had been slain since the foundation of the world, come and take the book out of the right hand of Him that sat upon a throne and open the book and loose the seals thereof.
I'm not a theologian. I do not know the Book real well, but I know the Author real well. So, I know Him, because He's my Saviour; He forgives me of my sins. And I love Him with all my heart. And before we try to open His Word, let us speak to Him just a moment in prayer.

6 Most gracious Father, it is indeed a great pleasure that Thou has given to us to come to Thee by the way of prayer. And we present ourselves to Thee now, as unworthy creatures, creatures of time, speaking to the One Who is eternal. But the reason that we come, we have been bid to come by the Lord Jesus, Thy beloved Son, who said unto us, "Ask the Father anything in My name, I will do it." And we so graciously embrace that invitation, for we are needy people. Oh, our needs are so many, and we pray, Father, that You will meet every need that we have need of tonight. Give unto us Thy presence, and may the power of the Lord be present to heal the sick, as it was once quoted in the Scriptures.
And we pray that You will forgive us of our sins. And You will bring home the backslider that's away from God, and save the sinner. Heal the sick; give comfort to those who are weary. And when we leave this building tonight, may we say like those who were coming from Emmaus one night. On that first beautiful Easter morning, when the flowers were blooming, two brokenhearted, disappointed disciples walked along the road towards Emmaus---Cleopas and his friend. And while in their journey, there came One and talked to them.

7 All day while talking, they did not recognize just who it was. But when the evening shadows begin to fall, and He was asked to come in and abide with them. Once inside the house, the doors closed, He did something just like He did before His crucifixion. It was a proof of His resurrection. No other man in the world could do it like He did. And those disciples knew that it was Him. And quickly they rushed back and said, "Did not our hearts burn within us as He talked to us along the way."
And after these hundreds of years has passed, may we go from this building tonight with the same expression, "Did not our hearts burn within us as He spoke to us along the service." Grant it, Father. Thou hast promised that You would give it to us if we would ask it. So, we ask it with faith believing, in the name of Thy beloved Son, the Lord Jesus Christ. Amen.

8 Just by the way of introducing the meeting tonight... Tomorrow night, the Lord willing, we will take a regular evangelistic subject. But tonight, introducing the campaign to you, I have chosen to read from Saint John the 12th chapter and the 20th verse. And I pray that God will bless the reading of His Word. And we will also include the 21st 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 of Galilee, and desired him, saying, Sir, we would see Jesus.
And I want to take my text from Hebrews 13:8. My subject from the last five words of the preceding reading: "Sirs We Would See Jesus." And Hebrews 13:8 reads like this: Jesus Christ the same yesterday, ... to-day, and for ever.

9 Now, I suppose that every person in the world that ever heard of the Lord Jesus, would have this same desire that these Greeks had when they come up to the worship. For there has no one that's ever heard of that precious name, but what longs to see Him. And their hearts ... yet they were scholars. The Greeks had wisdom, and they were scholars in their fields. They didn't desire His wisdom, and they didn't desire any art that He had. But their question was, and their request, that they wanted to see Him. They'd heard of Him, and they wanted to see Him.
And tonight, if I would say to this audience of people, "Would you love to see Him?" Every person in here, if it was asked, would put up their hand. "I would love to see Him." How many would, just by the way of vindication, would love to see Him? As far as I could see, it was a hundred percent. Every one wants to see Him.

10 Well, I wonder then, if the Bible declares that He is the same yesterday, today, and forever, why is it we can't see Him? For if the Scriptures being right that He has risen from the dead, and the Bible said He's the same, He's got to be the same in principle, the same in power, the same in attitude, the same in motive; He's just got to be the same Jesus.
Now, here's where the showdown comes. When you're talking out and away from the civilized world ... or, into the world of different religions---the Mohammedan, and Buddhist, and so forth... They only can claim that they have a book. The Mohammedans speaking, called the Koran...

11 A good friend of mine some time ago ... his name is Doctor Reedhead, Morris Reedhead; many of you know him. He's the president of the great Sudan Missions, the greatest fundamental mission in the world. And a Mohammedan had been brought over to this country and educated, I believe it was for electronics. But on his road back, after his education in this great school, Dr. Reedhead said to him, "Son, when you go back to your homeland, why don't you take with you the Lord Jesus Christ, the resurrected Christ, and renounce that old dead prophet Mohammed that you serve?"
And the Mohammedan scooted his feet on the ground a few times and looked up to Mr. Reedhead, and he said, "Mr. Reedhead, kind sir, what could your Jesus do for me, any more than what my prophet can do?" Said, "They both wrote books, and they both promised life after death." And said, "You believe your book called the Bible; I believe my book called Koran." He said, "Therefore, what could your Jesus do any more for me ... what more could He do, rather, than what Mohammed could do?"

12 And Mr. Reedhead said, "Well, your Mohammed is dead and in the grave." Perhaps many men here has been to it the same as I. They have a white horse saddled and at his grave. It's been there, changing guards every few hours for the past two thousand years, expecting Mohammed to rise someday, jump on his horse, and ride, and conquer the world.
But said, "Mohammed is dead and in the grave, but Jesus has raised from the dead and He lives."
And the Mohammedan said to Mr. Reedhead, he said, "Did He? I would like to see you prove it to me that He's raised from the dead."
"Well," he said, "I know that He's raised from the dead," said, "because He's in my heart right now. And I have joy and peace, and satisfaction. Therefore," he said, "I know that He has raised from the dead."
And the Mohammedan looked the Christian in the face, and said, "Now, just a moment, Mr. Reedhead; the Mohammedan religion can produce just as much psychology as Christianity can. We're just as happy, can shout just as loud, and jump just as high, believing that Mohammed will come back and ride the world down and conquer the world, as you have believing Jesus will come back. So therefore, you cannot prove any more of your resurrection, than I can by my prophet."

13 And he said, "Furthermore, Mr. Reedhead," he said, "Your Jesus promised more than our Mohammed did. Your Jesus promised that the things that He did, you would do also. Our Mohammed only promised life after death." Said, "We Mohammedans are waiting to see you Christians prove that, and then we will believe it."
He said, "What do you mean by 'promising'?"
Well, he said, "It was promised that you would heal the sick, and great signs and wonders would be done." Said, "We are waiting to see that done. You've had two thousand years to prove that He raised from the dead, and only one third of the world ever heard of it." Said, "We got twice as many in the Mohammedan religion as you have in Christianity---that's Catholic and all---and we're growing twice as fast." That's true; certainly is true. They're up and at it; we sit around like dumb driven cattle.

14 I like Longfellow, that great English poet, said, "Be not like dumb driven cattle, be a hero." That's right.
So he said, Mr. Reedhead said, "Perhaps, sir, you're referring to Mark 16." That was the Scripture I read this afternoon.
He said, "Yes, that's one them, but not all of them, of the promises of your Jesus."
He said, "I perceive that you have read the New Testament."
He said, "I've read the whole Bible of yours through many times."
He said, "But you understand, sir, we better scholars have learned that Mark 16, from the 9th verse on, is not inspired writing---that promise there. That was put in there falsely."
And the Mohammedan looked at the Christian, he said, "What kind of a book are you reading?" Said, "All the Koran's inspired. And if just part of your book is inspired, and other parts are not inspired, how will you know which one is inspired?"

15 Mr. Reedhead said, "I knew right then, I had not come in contact with just an overnight boy. That man knew what he was talking about." He said, "Brother Branham, I kicked my foot in the sand and changed the subject." And he said, "I was called to preach the Gospel at seven years old." And he said, "When I got my B.A.," said, "I thought, surely I'd find Jesus right there; He wasn't there." He said, "When I got my D.D., I thought I would find Jesus there, but He wasn't there." And he said, "I perhaps got enough degrees, honorary degrees, to plaster your wall here." He said, "But where is Christ in all of it?" He said, "Has the teachers been wrong?"
And I said, "Sir, I wouldn't want to say the teachers was wrong. What they told you was all right, but there's some more to it."

16 He said, "Now, Brother Branham, I've been in the Pentecostal meetings," and knowing that I was a Baptist, and he said, "I seen them kick over chairs and tear up the furniture. But I want to ask you something: Is there anything to that Holy Ghost that they talk about?"
I said, "Absolutely, it's the truth."
He said, "Then as a Baptist to a Baptist, I want to ask you: Abraham believed God and it was imputed unto him for righteousness." Said, "What more could Abraham do but believe God?"
I said, "That's true. But God give him circumcision as a witness and a confirmation He had received his faith. And no matter how much you profess faith, until God gives you the Holy Spirit---the confirmation, the Seal of God---He's never recognized your faith yet. Ephesians 4:30 says, 'Grieve not the Holy Spirit of God, whereby you're sealed until the day of your redemption.'"
He said, "Mr. Branham, I want the Holy Spirit now."
And on the floor he fell, and broke the glass in the little coffee table as his hand went down there. And Morris Reedhead has received the baptism of the Holy Spirit and is preaching divine healing in the nation tonight.

17 What is it? It's Jesus. Now, if you wanted to see Him, and you raised your hand that you wanted to see Him... Now, there could be any kind of a false impersonation come in, with a little white robe on, and maybe a little spindly man as Jesus was, and put some nail scars in his hands, and deceive you, in that manner. That Person will never come until the rapture of the church, in that corporal body. For when He comes, every eye shall see Him, every knee shall bow, and every tongue shall confess, when He comes.
But He is here in the person of the Holy Spirit. "I am the vine; ye are the branches." Now, the vine does not bear fruit. Saint John 15. The vine cannot bear fruit; it's the branches that bears fruit, as it's energized from the vine. And Christ is our energy. But your lips is His lips when you're energized. Your hands is His hands when you're energized from the vine. Christ is the life vine of His church. And each member is the branch of His church.

18 Now, if we wanted to be sure that we were right, how would we know that He is the same yesterday, today, and forever? How would we know when we seen Him? Now, if we was talking physically, would... Let's just take it physically for a few moments. Would we go to find a man that was real nattily dressed? No, sir, He wasn't. Would we find a man that like some great bishop? No, sir. He did not have much dealings with such people. He would've had it, if they would've had Him. But if it's the same yesterday, today, and forever, they rejected Him then; they'll reject Him now.
God takes His man, but never His Spirit. The Spirit of Elijah ... Elijah came on Elisha. Several hundred years later it came on John the Baptist and made him act just like Elisha.
The devil takes his man, but never his spirit. So, the spirit of antichrist is not communism; it's a religious spirit. Jesus warned us of that in Matthew 24. The two spirits would be so close together, till it would deceive the very elect in the last days, if it was possible.

19 Now, notice, what type of person would we find? Someone that used great eloquent speech? His speech was so common until the Bible said, "The common people heard Him gladly." The Bible was written in such common language till the translators are all turned around today by it.
Now, in America, we're supposed to speak English. But if I ever needed an interpreter, it was when I was in London. I could not understand that cockney speech; I just couldn't do it. It sounded like way down in their chest somewhere, they were speaking. And to show you the difference, I called from Miami, Florida, to New York one night, to pray for a sick man, and there was such a difference between the little operator at New York and the one at Miami---the little southern girl---till they had to get a girl in St. Louis to interpret for both. That's in the USA.
So, the Bible was written in ordinary language, and the translators are trying to get it up in some great high bracket; and therefore, they can't get the meaning. God did that purposely. He said, "I have hid it from the eyes of the wise and prudent, and will reveal it to babes such as will learn." God did it purposely. Don't worry; God's great time wheels are moving just perfectly in order. It's not God out of order; it's you and I out of order, is what does it.

20 Now, if we wanted to look at Him and to know... I believe we're told by Jude in the 3rd verse (There's only one chapter.), that we should earnestly contend for the faith that was once delivered to the saints. As far as I know, that's the only place in the Bible that we are asked to contend. But that was to contend for ---not a faith, but the faith that was once delivered to the saints.
If I'd ask the Methodists here, they'd say, "That's what we're contending for." I'd ask the Baptists, they'd say, "That what we're contending for." If I'd ask the Pentecostal, "That's what we're contending for." And if I'd ask the Nazarene, "That's what we're contending for." If I'd ask the Catholic, they'd say, "That's what we're contending for."
Well, I believe that's true, to your understanding. But there's only one way to be positive, and that's to go back in the Bible and see what kind of a faith they had, and then earnestly contend for that. That is, laying the Baptist, the Presbyterian, the Pentecostal, and all to one side, going right back into God's Word and seeing what it says about it.

21 Now, my subject ... my thought, rather, tonight, and the campaign thought is this, that Jesus Christ is not dead. Blessed be His name, He is alive forevermore, and the only Mediator between God and man, Christ Jesus. And He lives today; He's alive. And He's omnipresent, omnipotent, omniscient, He's the infinite, immortal Son of the living God and He never changes and never will.
Notice, if that cannot be proved, then it's just common theology, it's just common everyday talking. But if it is proved, then it's right, and it's worth living and dying for, if it is the truth.

22 Let us turn back in the pages of time, and let's take the precious Book tonight, and you just place it in your mind. If you want to follow me, all right; if you do not, then read it when you go home or tomorrow in the quietness of your room. Let's go to the blessed book of Saint John and take the 1st chapter.
We find out that, after the birth of Jesus and after He was baptized by the Holy Spirit... And He received the Spirit without measure. We receive the Spirit by measure. But He received it without measure. The fullness of the Godhead bodily dwelt in Christ. God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself. We are just gifts of God to His church.
Therefore, the Spirit that was in Jesus, was like all the water in the world. And the gifts of the Spirit from Jesus, is like a spoonful of that same water. But the chemicals that's in the entire ocean, is in a spoonful of water; it's the same chemicals, just not as much of it. We have it by measure; He had it without measure.

23 Now, notice, when He started His earthly ministry, the first thing taken place: He begin to preach the Gospel to the poor. And the poor received Him. And immediately He begin praying for the sick. Great signs and wonders begin happening. It stirred the curiosity of the people.
Now, we will take one of His first miracles. The strange thing was, when Simon Peter came to Him (Now He had never seen him in his life.), but He knew who he was. And He called him by name and told him who his daddy was. "Thou art Simon, the son of Jonas. But from hereafter you shall be called Peter." Strange, it startled the fisherman.

24 And then there was the man that we are speaking of tonight by the name of Philip, and he got saved by believing on the Lord Jesus, and he was so anxious to tell everybody about it. He had a good friend, by the name of Nathanael. And so he goes around the mountain from where Jesus was preaching here at Galilee, and finds Nathanael under a tree, praying. Perhaps, I think, they claim about thirty miles around the mountain, the journey would've been.
And so the next day, while Jesus was continuing in His prayer line... Now let's watch and see what He was yesterday. If we can find what He was yesterday, He's got to be the same today if He is the same. Now, just don't not let that pass over you; let it settle. Just lay aside our differences now. If He is the same today that He was yesterday, then He has to do the same that He did yesterday.

25 And after Philip's conversion, and he found Nathanael under a tree praying, he said, "Come, see who we have found, Jesus of Nazareth, the Son of Joseph."
And, you know this Nathanael was a orthodox believer. I can just see him raise up, and brush off his robe, and say, "Now, could there be any good thing come out of Nazareth?" See, he belonged to the high church. And he wanted to know if any good thing can come from Nazareth.
And I think Philip give him the best answer that any man could give him, said, "Come and see." Don't sit off and criticize; come, see for yourself.
And on the road around as they talked, and they came up to where Jesus was the next day, and when those lovely eyes seen Philip coming up with Nathanael, Jesus turned and looked to Nathanael, and He said, "Behold, an Israelite in whom is no guile."
And it astonished the little orthodox, and he said, "Rabbi, when did You know me? Why, this is the first time we've ever met. I have never seen You in my life, neither have You seen me. And how would You know that I was a just and honest man, a believer?"

26 Now, all men dressed just alike in them days, wore beards and garments just alike. He could've been a Greek or something else, but He said he's an Israelite in whom is no guile. It astonished him, that miracle. And he said, "How did You know me?"
Oh, don't let this pass you. Jesus said, "Yesterday, while you were under the tree, I saw you." Thirty miles around the mountain, but "I saw you when you were under the tree."
That little Jew raised up, and he said, "Rabbi, You are the Son of God; You are the King of Israel."
Jesus said, "Because I told you this you believe? You'll see greater things than this."

27 Now, that was the Jewish expression, I mean the believing Jew. Philip expressed the thoughts of the real true believing Jew. But what did the church group do? They said, "This man is Beelzebub, mental telepathy, fortuneteller."
Watch what Jesus said to them. He said, "You call Me Beelzebub; I'll forgive you; but when the Holy Ghost is come to do the same thing, one word against it will never be forgiven in this world or the world to come."
Bear that in mind. Jesus said, when the Holy Ghost came and done the same thing that He did, there would never be forgiveness of speaking against it. That's His Word. Who would dispute it? Because they called the Spirit of God in Him working those miracles, an unclean spirit, like a fortuneteller, or some medium or something, Beelzebub.

28 Now, we find Him on His road going down to Jericho (in the 4th chapter of Saint John). And on His road down to Jericho, He had need to go by Samaria; I wonder why? You'll get to it in a few moments. And when it was about noontime He sent His disciples away in the city to buy victuals.
And in the old world they have wells that they draw their water from. And all the women come out early of a morning with the pitchers and... I call them pitchers; they got like great big handles on them, and they got hooks that goes on this, and a windle goes down into the well, and they get the water, and bring it back up on a windle.
And the ladies all stand out there and talk, just as ladies can do, you know. And they get all... And sometimes they can put a pitcher of water on their head and one on each hip, walk right down the street talking, carrying a conversation, and never spill a drop. How they do it, I don't know. But I've watched them.

29 This was up in the day; it must have been around noon. And there was a lady in the city, as we believe to be a woman of ill fame---prostitute. And she came out to the well about noon to get water. It's commonly believed that she could not come out with the decent women of the city. And so, it was about noon, she came out to get water. And as she let the kettle down to get the water ... or, the pitcher... When she let it down she looked, sitting over against the wall, which is a little panoramic... And vines usually grow over it, grapes and so forth. And she looked, sitting there, and there sat a Jew. A man was only in His thirties, but according to the Scripture He looked to be about fifty. You know, they said, "You're not yet fifty years old and say you saw Abraham; now we know you got a devil."
He said, "Before Abraham was, I AM."

30 But He looked to be about fifty years old, sitting, leaning back against the wall. And as the woman started to put her kettle down to get the water, He said, "Woman, bring Me a drink."
She turned quickly, because there was a law of segregation, just like in the States, in the south now, between the white and the colored---a law of segregation. She said, "You Jews have no dealings with Samaritans, and it's not customary ... it's not a custom for a Jew to have any dealings with a Samaritan."
And He said, "But if you knew who you were talking to, you'd ask Me for a drink."
"Why," she said, "the well is deep, and You have nothing to draw with." That was Jesus yesterday. That wasn't a Jew, now; this is a Samaritan. She said, "You have nothing to draw with."
The conversation went on at length about Jacob digging the well, about worshipping in Jerusalem, or in the mountain. And finally, Jesus, contacting her spirit, said, "Go, get your husband and come here."
She said, "I don't have any husband."
He said, "That's right; you've got five, and the one you're now living with is not your husband."
And she said, "Sir..." Listen to this Samaritan now. What do the Jews say when that was performed on Him? "You're the Son of God." That was the sign of the Messiah. Now, look what the Samaritan said. She said, "Sir, we know that when the Messiah cometh, He will do this ... tell us these things. But, Who are You? You must be a prophet."
He said, "I am He, the Messiah."
And she ran into the city and told those Samaritan people, "Come, see a man who told me the things I done: isn't this the very Messiah?"

31 If that was the sign of the Messiah then, and if He's the same yesterday, today, and forever, it's got to be the sign of Messiah tonight. That's what the Jews thought. That's what the Samaritans thought. What do you Gentiles think about it? You're western people; this is your day. That was their day; this is your day. Christ is obligated to be the same to you as He was to them, or there's a respect of persons in Him. He's obligated to do it.
Let's take Him one more Scripture. There was some people crowding; He'd saw He must go visit Jairus' house and heal his little girl. And there was a woman with a blood issue, and she said within her heart, "If I can only touch that man's garment, I will be made well." And she pressed through the crowd until she touched His garment.
Physically He did not feel it. The Palestinian garment is a loose garment, and they have an underneath garment that goes down about the knees, to keep the dust off. As they walk the road, picks up the dust and comes up, and that's the reason they washed their feet: they're dusty. And along the road where the horses is, and animals, they have an awful smell of the dust, so they have to wash it off before they are fit ... or, feel welcome to come into a house of a guest; they wash their feet.

32 And the lowest paid man in the whole group is a flunky that washes the feet. And how Jesus become a foot-wash flunky. And then we think we're somebody, because we can ride in an automobile and get sixty dollars a week wages. And then we think we're somebody, and we just have to go about and have to have the very best or we won't go.
How about the prophets who wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins, deserts, and destitute, and starved. The Bible said in Hebrews the 11th chapter, "Whom the world is not worthy of such people." And look what a requirement Christianity gives today. Nice plush seats, a smart eloquent speaker, not over fifteen minutes. Oh, my. Preachers have to be promised so much or they won't go to a certain place. They won't take pastoral unless they give them so much money, a Cadillac each year, and so forth.
It's a disgrace. Right. We've got no right to require such as that. Now, you may think I'm an awful hard preacher, but, my brother, truth is truth. We must face it.

33 This little woman touched His garment, and she run back, stood in the audience, and Jesus stopped and said, "Who touched Me?"
Why, Peter rebuked Him, said, "The whole crowd's a touching You. Why do you say, 'Who touched Me'?"
He said, "But I perceive that I've gotten weak, virtue, strength has gone from Me. Somebody touched Me."
That was Jesus yesterday. The Bible said today that He's a High Priest that can be touched by the feeling of our infirmities. He's the same yesterday, today, and forever.
He looked around; every one of them denied it; she denied it; all denied it. But He was endued with power, the Holy Spirit. He watched over that audience until He found the one that touched Him. And He said, "Thy faith has saved thee from that blood issue."

34 That was Jesus yesterday, if He's the same today, He has to be the same. He'll do the same; He'll act the same. And if His church has got His Spirit, they'll be like Christ.
If I told you I had the spirit of some outlaw in me---like John Dillinger---you'd expect me to have big guns and be dangerous to be around me, if his spirit was in me. If I told you I had the spirit of some famous artist, you'd expect me to be able to catch the waves of the ... or, the sunset and so forth, and paint like that artist, if his spirit is in me.
Oh, I hope this goes home. But if the Christian church has got the Spirit of Christ, they'll do the works of Christ; Christ said so. If the Spirit is in the church. What faith are you to contend for? We're just Christians by profession. We might be Christians by cold formal profession; we might be Christians by radical, enthusiastic, hysterical faith. But a real Christian: The Spirit of Christ produces the Bible again, for it's His Spirit.

35 Now, one more scripture, Saint John 5. He went down into a place, Bethesda, a place where hundreds and hundreds of people lay, great multitudes. If I understand right, it takes two thousand to make a multitude. There was in there blind, lame, halt, and withered. Look what a mess that was. Historians tell us that they stabbed one another, trying to get in the water first. For an Angel come where the water is poured out under these five porches of these twelve spouts. The waters come out, and when the waters come back this way, an Angel was standing there troubling the water. The first one stepping in with faith, testing their faith against the water, got healed of whatsoever disease they had. Thousands laid waiting.
And at the healing of this woman, here come Jesus down through here with all these multitudes of people, passed right by every one of them and went and found a man laying on a pallet. I don't know whether you Canadians know what a pallet is or not. How many knows what a pallet is? Well, it's ... most of you do. I was raised on one. Just a quilt and a pillow laying at the door, that's a little pallet.

36 And this man was laying on a little pallet, as to say. And when... Jesus knew he was there. Watch the Scripture closely now, as I close. Jesus knew he was there and knew he had been sick for thirty-eight years. Now, he wasn't crippled; neither was he lame, or halt; he wasn't blind. But let's say he had some kind of disease like TB, prostate trouble. It was retarded; it wasn't going to kill him; he'd had it thirty-eight years. Jesus knew all about it. And He walked over to him and said, "Will thou be made whole?" That's Jesus yesterday. Watch Him.
And he said, "I have no one to put me in the water."
Said, "Take up your bed and go to your house." He never questioned; he just picked up his bed, put it on his shoulder, went on his road: Saint John 5.

37 Now, let's read the 19th verse. He'd been questioned by the Jews. You think you'd be questioned tonight in Edmonton if He was here? How did He pass by thousands of people---lame, blind, halt and withered---and heal one man like that, and walk away, and leave the rest of them laying there? Now, listen at Him; watch His Scripture now. Saint John 5:19. Don't fail to read it. Jesus answered this: "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."
How many ever read that in the Bible? That shows you're Bible readers. Then Jesus Christ never performed one miracle or did one thing, until first God the Father showed Him what to do by a vision, according to His own Word. "Verily, verily (that's "absolutely, absolutely"), I say unto you, the Son can do nothing in Himself, but what He sees the Father doing: that doeth the Son likewise."

38 Now, read the prophets; read the Christ; and find out if any man ever did anything by his own will or his own thoughts. He always did it according to what God showed him to do. No man can take glory, not even to the Son of man. The glory goes to God alone.
Now, that was Jesus yesterday. If He's the same, He's got to be the same today. Now, notice this, in close now. We see what He did yesterday. Now let's take His words just before He died and then rose. He said, "A little while, and the world will see Me no more." All that's ever read that Scripture say, "Amen." "A little while and the world (That word there is cosmos which means 'the world order, the people of the world.'), the world will see Me no more, yet ye shall see Me (That's the church.), for I (personal pronoun) will be with you to the end of the world."

39 "A little while, and the world won't see Me no more (That's the physical being.), yet the church will see Me: for I will be you, even in you to the end of the world." Listen to this promise: "And the things that I do shall you do also; and more than this shall you do." I know the King James gives "greater," but the right translation is "more." No one could do anything greater than He did; He raised the dead; He healed the sick; He stopped nature; He did everything. No man could do greater. But they could do more of it, because He would be in the church universal. "More than this shall you do; for I go to My Father." He ascended on high, led captivity captive, gave gifts to men.
Now, if Jesus is the same yesterday, today, and forever, if He doesn't act the same, do the same in every principle, then He is not the same. If He does it, then He is the same. And if He doesn't do it, then His Word's no good. If He does do it, He's the infallible God of heaven. And He deserves our love and our attention, if He does do it.
And to me, this is either the Word of God or it is not the Word of God. And don't you ever be guilty of being ashamed of the Gospel, to place your soul on any phase of that book. God's obligated to His Word, certainly He is. But you can't do it wishy-washing around. You've got to come out and be exactly what you say you are.

40 Now, if Jesus Christ, God's Son, will come into this audience tonight... Now, it's going to be hard, for it's your first night. And Jesus, no matter if He stood here, wearing this suit that He gave me, He could not heal you tonight. Anybody know that? It's already a past tense. He's already did it. If He stood here with this suit on, you'd come to Him, say, "Lord Jesus, won't You heal me?"
He'd say, "My child, I did that nineteen hundred years ago when I paid the price for your sickness."
"Will You forgive me Lord, of my sins?"
"I did it child nineteen hundred years ago. Do you wish to accept it tonight?"
It's a finished work. But you've got to accept it as your own personal property. It's a love gift that God has given you. But He would still be the same in His power to manifest Himself, God working through Him. He works through His church just like He did through His Son.

41 And if He will do that, and do the same things that He did when He walked the shores of Galilee, how many in here say, by an uplifted hand, "It will increase my faith; it'll give me better hopes. I believe it would make me more of a staunch Christian. And I'll try by the grace of God to live a better life. I'll try to have more faith, testify, be a better member of my church, if Jesus will appear here tonight and do that."? Let's see your hands, all over the audience. The Lord bless you.
Now, you see what a challenge it is? Does anyone want to come here and take the place? You're welcome. But it's a thing that... It's God's Word. How the world can't see that. How you've just been intellectually blinded to the real Spirit of life. Christ will keep His Word.

42 And now, when Jesus went to a group of people one time, who said, "Now, we heard He did this over in another city, let me see Him do it here."
The Bible said, "Many mighty works He could not do (Is that right?), because of their unbelief." No matter how great the gift of God is, it'll never manifest till there's somebody to do it, like the woman touching His garment.
We will pray. And I believe that I've always found... Don't say this because I am standing here; I could just go ahead and bypass it. But I've always found one thing about Canadian people: As a majority, when they promise you something, they'll stick with it, see. They're called, "Royal Canadians," and that's right. They usually stick to their word.
And I believe when you raise your hand to Christ, that if He would manifest Himself in the same powers the same way He did in the days gone by, it would increase your faith as a Christian to believe Him; I trust that sinners will be saved, and what more, and God will heal the sick.

43 Now, if it comes to say, "Brother Branham, would you heal my baby? Would you do this?" I wish I could. But it doesn't lay in my power to do that. Neither does it lay in any other man's power; that's with God alone.
But what's the meetings to do? Have people come up here, so I lay hands on them? That's not even necessary. It's for you. Not to touch me or I touch you, it's for you to touch Him. Right where you are, just look to Him and say, "Lord, You're the High Priest of my confession. You're the High Priest that can be touched by the feeling of my infirmities. I'm sick tonight, Lord Jesus; I now confess my faith and believe that You healed me nineteen hundred years ago, and I now believe it and accept it." Watch what He'll do. He's the same yesterday, today, and forever. He cannot fail.

44 Now, tonight, I don't know just what this arena seats, but there's, I'm going to say, at least a thousand people in the building. All right, now in a few minutes, God, if He doesn't make His Word good, then I'm found a false prophet. But if He makes His Word good, then I've been found to tell the truth.
Now, I have spoken for Him; it's His time to speak whether I have spoke rightly or not. Now, you can see what a predicament we place ourselves. And we ask you to be reverent as you can be for the next few minutes, and we'll pray for the sick. And may the Lord bless you, each one.

45 Now, we give out some prayer cards. What are the prayer cards for? Now, I'll show you. How many in here is sick and wants God to heal them? Raise up your hand. Everybody in the building, anywhere (no matter), balconies, wherever you are, raise your hands, that's got sickness and wants... Now, who's going to be first? There you are. That's what prayer cards are for, see. It's just a little card with a number on it. You just take the number; and as you're called, come to the platform by your number.
And then you that does not have a prayer card tonight, and you want God to heal you, raise up your hand. Does not have a prayer card, everywhere in the building, no matter where you are. See, it's just everywhere. You don't have to have a prayer card; the prayer card has nothing to do with it; just to give you a lot and a number to stand here by. Sometimes we call from one place and another. No matter where it's at, we just call a few people up here so that the presence of God can be known in the audience.
And then when the people realize that Christ is here, that He's not dead, but raised from the dead, and He's the same in principle and power; thousands reach up and accept Him. That's when the healing takes place.

46 Then it isn't Brother Branham; neither is it any other man. It's your faith in Jesus Christ that does it. Your own prayer, your own faith, that's the only thing that'll do any good any how, is your prayer and your faith in God. Let us pray.
Blessed Father, in a little broke up, chopped up, message of this type, but trying to place before this loyal people, that You are the same, that You're not dead. Why, You're very much alive, and has been alive since the very dawn of time. You was back in the bosom of God before there was even a world or a light. You were still Christ.
And when all the world is no more and the seas have wept theirself into deserts, You'll still be Christ, forever more. When there's no more factories, no more men, no more churches, no more organizations, no more nothing left on this earth, You'll still be Christ. And through the eons of time to come, You'll still be Christ.

47 Oh, for the sake of these, Lord, some of them are a little feeble, maybe, in their faith, they're just a little wobbling along, going to church, seeing the great pressure of the Spirit. Today, knowing that we're living in the closing time, and we're aware that there's something going on. Yonder in Russia perhaps a bomb is already centered for the middle of this city, and also in the America, and around the world. But we also have bombs centered for the middle of their city. Just who pulls the trigger or presses the button first. There could be a total annihilation in five minutes. O God, no wonder the world has become neurotic. But You said when these things begin to come to pass, raise up your head; your redemption is drawing nigh. Oh, give us voice to cry out in the darkness, for the sake of lost souls. Grant it, Lord.
Now, speak tonight, Lord, and let the people know that You're still alive. It'll increase the faith of the believers and make believers out of unbelievers. And heal the sick so that they can glorify Thee. I submit and commit this audience and myself into Thy hands that Thou might work through their gift of faith, and the gift that Thou has given to Thy servant for the manifestation of God's presence, in Jesus' name, I pray. Amen.

48 [Leo, who give... Did Billy or you give out...? Billy. Prayer cards, D- 1 to a 100.] Pardon me, I was just seeing who gave out the prayer cards and what they gave. They gave out prayer cards E? ... D---D-1 to a 100. Now, we can't bring them all at once; we just start and bring a few at a time. Now, look at ... take out your card, and you who haven't a card, look over to your neighbor, because someone maybe can't get up; they're paralyzed. Maybe some's deaf and cannot hear. So we will have to ... we want to get them in the line when their numbers are called.
Now, let's see who has D-prayer card D-number-1. It's a little card with my picture on it. Turn it over, and it's got a D and a number 1. Who has that card? Raise up your hand, if you can, raise your hand. All right, the lady here. Would you come right here, lady?
Number-2, who has that prayer card? Would you raise your hand? You can walk, sir? Come right here. Prayer card number 3, would you raise your hand? At the end over there, the man. Come here, sir, if you can. Number 4 raise your hand. Prayer card 4, 4, prayer card 4, would you come here, lady? Prayer card 5. Now, don't come till your number is called.

49 [Gap in the audio.] ... that I know outside of Mr. Mercier sitting here, my tape boy. Mr. Goad's here somewhere; I don't know where he is. Mr. Sothmann and couple of these men behind me. The rest of you are strangers. But God knows all. I suppose in the prayer line, that each one of us is strangers. If we are, raise up your hand. If I don't know you, you don't know me, raise up your hand, up-and-down the prayer line.
Now, Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever. Is that right? Now, again, how many out there doesn't have prayer cards and you want Jesus to heal you, and you believe that you can pray to your High Priest and touch Him, that can be touched, and He'll turn around and do the same thing He did to the woman with the blood issue? How many without prayer cards believe that? Raise your hands. All right, just believe it. Have faith. Don't be in no hurry now; don't be excited. Oh, you say, "It's nine o'clock." No matter what time it is. "I'm getting tired." No matter how tired you're getting, wait just a few minutes. Don't criticize, just wait and say, "I'm going to see it through. Lord, help me not to be a critic, but help me to weigh it out with the Bible."

50 Now, I want to ask you: The things that I said about Christ, are they right and in the Bible? How many believes it? Raise up your hand. Then does the Bible say that He is the same and He promised that He would do the same? Let's see your hands. Was that the sign to the Jews say? When He did that sign to the real believing Jew---the Spirit-filled Jew---he said, "You're the Son of God." He believed it: Nathanael. We all believe that, know the Bible said that.
The unbelieving Jew, though orthodox and religious as he could be, scholarships after scholarships, he said, "It's the devil." He's in torment tonight over it. But Nathanael's immortal.

51 When the Samaritan, when that miracle was done, when Jesus told her, found her fault and told her what her fault was... Now, she never said He was reading her mind. They knowed it was the time of season for that Messiah to come and the Messiah would do that. How many knows that? And she said, "We know that when the Messiah cometh, He'll do this."
Now, that was the sign of the Messiah yesterday. Is that right? Then if He's raised from the dead and the same today, it's still the sign of the Messiah. He said, "I do nothing till the Father shows Me." Now, He said, "The things I do, shall you also." That's just as plain friends as I know how to make the Bible, just as plain. Here it is wrote right out here; here it is.
Now, the next thing, will it work? Now, we've laid it all out here; will it work? It'll work if you believe it. If you don't believe it, it won't work.
Someone said to me one time, said, "Brother Branham, I wouldn't believe it anyhow."
I said, "Of course not; it's not for unbelievers. It's for believers." It's just for believers, not for unbelievers.

52 Now, be real reverent, and I'm asking God, in Christ's name, and take every spirit in here under the control of the Holy Spirit, that He might manifest Jesus Christ, God's Son, to this audience, to let you know tonight that your faith in Him is not in vain.
All right, bring the... Now, reverent. Now, you can realize where I'm standing. Now, I'm going to be found telling the truth or telling a lie. But the reason I don't have any fear: Christ promised it, and I believe with all that is within me, that Jesus Christ is in this building right here now. The scientific world knows it; they got the picture of it back there, you can see it tomorrow, when they have it. It's in Washington, D.C., the only supernatural being was ever photographed. In Germany, it swept Germany like one big blaze. They taken three pictures of it coming and going. Fifty thousand received Christ, five nights' meeting.

53 The one thing is say something; the next thing is do something. Now, man ... as far as a man can do, is just preach this word; that's all over. Now it's God's time to talk.
And this lady standing here by me, as far as I know, I have never seen the woman in all my life. She's a stranger to me. But God does know her. God knows all about her. I don't; He does. If we are strangers to each other, would you just raise up your hand? All right. Now, you understand, with our right hands up---not swearing, because we don't believe in it... But the Bible's laying here, and this is a pulpit. We have never met before in our lives.

54 Now, here's a beautiful picture of this. Now, you may put your hand down now. Here's a beautiful picture of the Bible, of Saint John the 4th chapter: Jesus, a man, met a woman at a well. Here is His church tonight, a man meets a woman, total strangers to each other, a perfect picture.
Now, lady, I don't have one idea who you are, where you come from, what you're here for, or nothing about it; you're aware of that, that I do not. But if you're here for finances, domestic troubles, sickness, whatever it is, Christ will give it to you if you'll believe Him. And now, I perceive that you are a Christian, because the feeling of your Spirit, you are a Christian. Because just then, something happened that you realize that there was something happened between us right then. That's that light; it's coming right down over you now.

55 Now, if Christ will reveal to me what that lady's here for, how many will receive Him as being the resurrected Son of God? I just want to see the audience, if you all over, everywhere, your hand; God sees you, I might not.
Just speaking to her like our Lord did to the woman. What's it doing? Finding her spirit. She's a Christian. And the woman is suffering... I see her very upset. She's real nervous. And I see her going in and coming out of somewhere, keep going in and coming out. It's operations. You've had several operations. I see it, one, two, three, four, five, six, seven operations, you've had. That's right. That's "thus saith the Lord."
How many believes? Now, more you talk to the woman, more would be said. But I'm trying to hold for the prayer line here. Now, just reverently, let's speak to her just again, so that you'll see. Now, what was said, I don't know. I have no idea; it's another world. But my tape here has it.

56 Now, whatever He told you just a few moments ago... You heard a voice speaking, but it wasn't mine. It might've been my voice, but it wasn't me speaking it. It was Him speaking. It's declared to the church that He's the same yesterday, today, and forever. Now, was that true? That's the truth. If it was, raise your hand so the people will see it was true.
Now, I see something again; it's some kind of ... it's surgery, something that you'd surgery, but now I see there's some sort of a blood; it's diabetes. And I see you trying to get out of a bed, or walk across the floor, just holding to something; you got arthritis also. That's "thus saith the Lord." Do you believe now?

57 Now, what could I do for the poor woman? Nothing but pray for her. And I want you out there to bow your heads with me; this woman is somebody's daughter, Christ's child. Let us all pray, your prayers to her. What if it was you? Let's all pray together as a united church.
Jesus of Nazareth, as Your great Holy Spirit, so present now that it could be felt. I lay hands upon this, my sister, in the name of the Lord Jesus, and along with this great ransomed church of Yours, and we pray a prayer of faith the best of our knowledge, that Thou will make our sister to be well of whatsoever is wrong with her. This we ask Thee to do in Jesus' name, Thy Son. Amen.
Now, sister, the Bible said, "These signs shall follow them that believe; if they lay hands on the sick, they shall recover." You believe that God will make you well now? All right, go rejoicing and being happy.

58 Now, be real reverent now; we don't know what's going to happen. And you out there, be ready for the next prayer card call. And also, you that's not able ... haven't got a prayer card, be praying.
We are strangers to each other, I suppose, my brother. Our first time ever meeting face to face like this to talk, as far as I know. Oh, you were at the meeting at Edmonton when I was here before. Oh well, of course, I would never... I'd never know that. See, there's thousands of people that I meet.
You're here for some cause; I don't know. You might be a critic; and you might be a Christian, you might be... I don't know. We're just two men that's met here. Probably born miles apart, years apart, and this is our first time to be this close to one another to meet each other. But you're aware that you're in the presence of something besides a man, your brother. If that's right, raise your hand. Just now it comes settling over you.

59 The man is suffering with something wrong in his stomach; he has a stomach trouble. And it's diagnosed as a tumor, he says a fatty tumor in the stomach. That's "thus saith the Lord." That is true. Now, if I never seen you in my life, there's something here that knows you. Not only that, but you got something on your heart that you're praying for: that's a woman, your wife; she's here. If God will reveal to me what's wrong with your wife out there, will you believe me to be God's prophet and believe that Jesus Christ and what I preached about Him, is the truth? Your wife has a gall bladder trouble. And she also has cancer of the stomach. And you're not from this city; you come from the southeast, about two hundred miles away from here, you come here to this city for prayer. That's "thus saith the Lord." All right, go lay your hands on her and get well in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ. Amen.
If thou canst believe, all things are possible. Have faith.

60 Good evening, sir. We are strangers to each other, and as far as I know, the first time we have ever met in this mortal life. But do you believe me to be His servant?
All right, lady with that blue dress sitting there, you've been suffering with heart trouble---little black hat, looking to me right here. You've been praying; you got a heart trouble. You was just healed then. That's "thus saith the Lord." You believe it with all your heart? Stand up on your feet, the woman I'm talking to there. You was praying; you had a heart trouble, fluttering around your heart and so forth; isn't that right? Mostly when you lay down, because it's a nervous condition that did it. It's finished now; your faith made you whole. Amen.
What did you touch? You never touched me; you're thirty feet away from me. But you touched the High Priest that can be touched by the feeling of your infirmities. I challenge the faith of this audience to believe that. Just believe.

61 What do you think about that, sir? You believe you're in His presence? I see a dark shadow over you; you're dying. You got throat trouble; it's a cancer in your throat. Not only that---you need healing for that---but you need healing for your soul worse than anything else, because you're a sinner; you're not a Christian. Smoking cigarettes and things, that's the worse thing you could do. That's "thus saith the Lord."
See, He who knew the woman's sin, knows yours. Will you accept Him as your personal Saviour now? Raise your hand to Him as you accept Him as your personal Saviour. May your sins be forgiven you, my brother. And oh, Satan, you have defied the doctor; you've hid from him, but you can't hide from God. We adjure thee as the church of the living God, to come out of this man, that he can be made well. In Jesus' name, we defy the enemy of his life, because now he's become a beloved brother. Amen.
As certain as I stand on the platform, you'll live. Go now and be baptized, calling on the name of the Lord, and your sins are under the blood. God bless you.

62 Let us say, "Praise the Lord," for the whole audience, that we love our blessed Saviour. Blessed be His most holy name. Thou art alive, and You're the Alpha and Omega, the Beginning and the End. You are He that was dead and is alive forever more, proving You're great august Being in the presence of Your Saints, enjoying the praises of their lips as they offer to Thee the adoration of their hearts. And we most humbly thank Thee, our blessed Saviour, for Your presence. May this audience look and live, and know that their faith in Thee is not in vain. But Your words have been confirmed by Your presence. In Jesus' name, we offer Thee this praise. Amen.
Just only believe. Now, Jesus has risen from the dead. How many of you here in the tabernacle tonight ... or, the stadium, that was here in the old meeting when this was not operating, but when I told you that the Angel that met me said that I would even know the secret of their hearts, that it would come to pass someday if I kept humble before God, them things would be done. How many remembers me prophesying and saying that? Raise your hands. That's ten years ago.

63 Now, the Bible said, "If there's one among you spiritual or prophet, if he speaks and what he says comes to pass, hear him for I'm with him." Now, I'm telling you to hear Him. He is the One, Jesus Christ. I'm only telling the truth about Him, and He's vindicating it's the truth.
Now, we are strange to each other, my sister. I don't know you; I've never seen you. But Jesus knows you. And if He will reveal to me what you're here for, will you accept Him as your healer? I see something; you're in a room, looking at your limb. It's varicose veins; you have varicose veins. And I see you looking at a growth, and that growth is hid from my sight, but it... No, it's on your left arm, and you're trusting God to remove it for you. That's "thus saith the Lord." Will you believe? We shall pray. Let us bow our heads, everywhere. Come, sister.
Blessed Lord, we bring to Thee, this woman, in Jesus' name, and ask that You will heal her, O our Saviour and healer. Grant it, Lord. We bless her, this great church, as our sister, we ask for her healing, in Christ's name. Amen. Go rejoicing, being happy, believing with all your heart.

64 With your finger to your mouth. You're wondering about it. You believe God will heal you of that sinus and you get well, be made well? If you believe it with all your heart, you can have it. Amen.
What do you think? With all your heart? I do not know you; Christ does know you. But you are ... you are suffering, or have been suffering... You've had a back trouble, and a lady's trouble. And you've had an operation. That's true. But that's not really what you're standing here for. Because I see your spirit doesn't seem ... it seems you know that's true. There's something else that's on your heart. If that's right, raise your hand. If God will reveal it ... Daniel said, "Let it be known to thee, oh, King, that the God of heaven can reveal the secrets of the heart." How many knows the Bible says that?
If God will reveal the secret that's on this woman's heart, how many will say, "That'll settle it forever for me."? The woman, I do not know. You don't know me. We're strangers to each other. But now, God of heaven, Who was in Daniel's day, let it be known that Thou art God tonight. I pray in Jesus' name.

65 I see a great ... some kind of a building appearing before me, and there's a man laying in the bed paralyzed; it's your husband, paralyzed on the left side, your husband. You are believing for him. Take that handkerchief that you wiped the tears from your eyes with, and put it on him. And don't doubt.
O Jesus of Nazareth, make these things a reality to the people, that they might know that Thou art the risen Christ. We ask in Jesus' name. Amen. All right.
Mother, do you believe me to be His servant? If God will reveal to me what's your trouble, will you receive Him as your healer? Then you can get over the asthma, if you'd just believe it now. Do you believe that you will? All right. You cough a lot, especially laying down.
O God of heaven, be merciful to this woman and give unto her, Lord, the healing of her body, in Jesus' name I pray. Amen.

66 All right. Come now. You want to eat your supper, get that old ulcer away? I see you back away from the table; that's the reason I knew that you had ulcer. You're nervous type of person; you're a deep thinker, always crossing bridges before you get to them, taking other people things to your heart, and you make plans that never happen. That's what makes you have the condition; it's a peptic condition, caused from a spasm in the stomach, right at the duodenal. See, it makes you belch your food up and get sour in your mouth and so forth, like that. Now, if you believe with all your heart, go home and be well; get well, believe God. In Jesus' name I lay my hands upon this my brother, and ask for his healing. Amen. Now, go believing; don't doubt.
Well, do you believe that Jesus Christ can cure that back for you, make you well? Take the diabetes away from you, and...? All right, sir. Do you believe with all your heart? Then go believing Him, praising God, making it real.

67 Now, that the people... Somebody back there thinking it's telepathy. Now, that's wrong; quit doing that. Here, anyone know... What is telepathy? It's taking ... somebody take a number. I'm asking this woman here, not to even think about what's wrong with her, but just lay your hand on mine, lady. If God will reveal to me, looking this a way, what's your trouble, will you accept Jesus as your provider for what you have need of? If you will, take your hand off my arm and raise it up towards Him. Now, put it back on my arm again, just in order of contact.
All right, you have a stomach trouble that bothers you. That's right, raise up your hand. Now, go home and eat, you're well, Jesus Christ heals you.
Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today, and forever. Now, I want to tell you something: When I was looking this way, I saw you too. You had the same thing the woman had: stomach trouble. And when I said "stomach trouble," a funny feeling struck you, didn't it? That's when you were healed. Go off the platform, say, "Thanks be to God."

68 This lady's nervous; she has a ladies' trouble and also a stomach trouble. That's exactly right. You believe Christ will make you well, lady? Then in Jesus Christ's name receive your healing. Amen. Have faith.
All right, lady, you sitting on the end of the seat, right there praying, you have varicose veins. The lady with a purple hat on of a thing, little gray headed lady, you had your face up like that, you saying, "Jesus, let this be my night for healing," praying to God to make you well. If that's right, raise up your hand, the lady there. All right, go home and receive your healing; Christ makes you well. Amen. Have faith in God. Just believe Him with all your heart.
What if I told you Jesus healed you, standing here, would you believe me? All right, then, go and be made well, in Jesus' Christ name. Have faith.

69 Christ lives; do you believe that? You realize that that's Him. He can heal that arthritis, make you well, if you believe it. You believe that He will? All right. You have other things wrong with you, ladies, and so forth; it'd be a woman of your age. But if you'll believe with all your heart, and you're scared about something (See), but it's false; it isn't so. So go on now and believe and get well, and be made whole, in Christ's name. Amen.
What do you think, lady? You believe with all your heart? Bring the little girl...
Yes, sister, it was you. Little lady, sitting there looking this way, kind of put her arm over, touched her friend then, you have trouble, with bowel trouble (That's right.), and an arthritis condition. Do you believe with all your heart?
The little lady next to you there, also suffers with a heart trouble. No, she's got trouble with her eyes; she has bad eyes. That's right. You believe with all your heart that God will heal you? That's what you're praying for.

70 The second row, the people there, yes. Kind of surprised you, didn't it? That's right. But you're healed. God bless you. Lay your hands on your little friend there; she didn't get it. She's had bad eyes all of her life.
Lord Jesus, I pray for the woman, that You'll heal her and make her well in Jesus' name. Do you believe now, little lady? With all your heart? You believe it?
What about the lady sitting next to her there, looking around enjoying it? What do you think about it, lady? You believe me to be God's prophet? You believe God could reveal to me here, what's wrong with you? Would you accept it with all your heart? All right, then if He would, you got high blood pressure, for one thing, saw you had a thing wrapped around your arm, when they pumped it up, the doctor did, and told you had a high blood pressure. And also I see him testing your heart; you got heart trouble. That's right, raise up your hands. All right. You touched something, didn't you? If you believe, you can be made well.
And if you'll put your hand on the lady sitting next to you, she also has got heart trouble; she's got a swelling in her body, which is caused from a kidney trouble. If that's right, lady, raise up your hand. All right. Now, you can go be made well, if you believe.
How many you audience can believe these things to be of God?

71 What do you think, lady? You believe with all your heart? You're very nervous; you have a run-down feeling. Just like nervous and run-down, isn't that right? You've had an operation. And the operation did that. And the operation was a cyst. That's right, isn't it? And I see a man keep standing nearby. It was your husband. Well, he's healed too. He can go eat his supper now, and be well. Amen. Go on your road and rejoice.
I challenge your faith, in Jesus Christ's name to believe it. How many believes that He's manifesting Himself right here in the building now? Now, I'm going to ask you to do something if you want to see God in His great power. I want each person here to lay your hand on the person next to you. Just lay your hand over on each other, anywhere you are. Just be merciful to the next person. I want every head bowed, every eye closed. And I want you to repeat this prayer after me. You pray it; I'll just say it.

72 O God, creator of heavens and earth, author of everlasting life, giver of every good gift; send Thy blessings upon me, as I Your penitent child wait. I believe in Jesus Christ the Son of God. I believe that He manifests Himself in this audience now. And I now accept Him as my healer. Be merciful to me, O God; I will praise Thee.
Now, just keep shut in with God. That's your prayer now. Now, just imagine this... Oh, I trust that you won't think I'm a hypocrite. God has vindicated that I'm not, but never have I saw, in any first meeting, this whole audience, the power of God moving over you people. Now, I am not a hypocrite; God has revealed that to you tonight, that I'm not. The Lord Jesus Christ, in the very vision that I'm looking at now, over this audience, is here to make you well. There's only one thing to keep you from being well. That's unbelief. Cast it away. I'm going to ask God to move away every fear and every doubt, then you can be made well. Now, this is my prayer for you.

73 O God, I pray Thee in Jesus' name, look down upon this penitent group of people, as Thy servant is tired. And I look over this audience and see this faith moving among the people; You reveal the secrets of the heart; You make the blind to see. Like that little Indian boy the other night, born practically blind, fell out of his cradle at three weeks old and was blind the rest of his life, and in one moment's time was made perfectly whole. You are the Lord Jesus.
Oh, You are here tonight, and our hearts are burning within us, for You are talking to us and we love You. And Satan is trying to hold the blessings from the people. What more could You do, Lord? You wrote the Word; You send the Spirit; You confirm Your Word with signs of the resurrected Christ, the Messiah, the same yesterday, today, and forever. O God, be merciful to these sick.
And Satan, you spirit of evil, who is come upon the people to bind them with infirmities, you are defeated. Jesus Christ our Lord, who is present now, defeated you at Calvary with His vicarious suffering and death. His burial and resurrection justified our faith. And we now say that you're a bluff, and you cannot bluff us any longer. We call your hand. In Jesus' name depart from here all doubting, all superstition, and may the Holy Spirit break upon this audience and heal every person here in Divine Presence. Grant it, Father, God, in the name of Thy Son, Jesus, we ask it. Amen.

Sirs, we would see Jesus

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1 Whatsoever things ye desire, when ye pray, believe that you receive it. [Gap in the audio.] ... and we're so [unclear word] Thou hast promised to be. We have come here to meet with Your people and to fellowship around Your Word. We pray that You will bless our every effort, that You will save those who are lost. We realize that we're living in the shadows of the evening. Time's about over now. There may be a few souls yet left that You would want to come into the kingdom. We pray that You will help us to glean those out, during this meeting.
And we pray that You'll heal all Your sick children that's so needy. May Your great presence just be with us, night after night, and day after day. Forgive us of our shortcomings and help us as we come closer to the end time, that Thy Spirit will deal with us more presumptuously. Grant it, Lord, for we ask it in Jesus' name, Thy Son. Amen.

2 May be seated. your wonderful city, and to be over here. I was asking a cab driver, coming from the train station, a few moments ago, what was the population. I said, "About five hundred thousand? I suppose about like Louisville."
He said, "I think it's three million."
And I said, "Well, that's the way it goes, you know."
And I understand that this is just across the river from New York City. That's very fine. Wonderful place, and we had a few meetings in New York, and the city of New York. And we find wonderful people wherever we go because they're God's people. And so we're always happy to be associated with such people.

3 We're a little late tonight to begin the service. Last night I had the coldest ride I ever had. I got on the train at Louisville, and they picked the train coach that I was to ride in to come up here, and they said, "There's no lights in it right now." Said, "There's something went wrong. We'll fix them at Cincinnati." Cincinnati they fixed them, and they went out again, and there was no heat in it. So we had really a rough time, and come in three hours and something late, this afternoon ... or, late in the evening. So we were fortunate to get here. So we find out you got plenty of snow, so that goes good with the eastern states in this time of year. I like it.
Only about two weeks ago I was in Miami where everybody was in swimming. And then come here. But someday all the curses of the earth will be lifted when Christ becomes King, and then we'll have no more cold weather, or hot, sultry weather. And God's people shall rule and reign forever on the earth. We're so happy and looking forward to that time.

4 And now, to be here with my good friend, Brother Hudson and Brother Joseph Boze. And this is supposed to be my vacation. This fall I started a vacation; I like to hunt real well, so I went out west to go hunting. The party that I went with, including myself, all broke down with this here Asian flu. We didn't even take our guns from the cases, and come back home.
Then a little later after... I said, "Well, the Christian businessmen who sponsors my overseas meetings, and so forth, they was going to take me down the River of No Return." Just when I got down the River of No Return, a plane come over and I thought, "That's strange, a plane." You only see one plane, or hear it, once a day, well, it's in the evening or night. About eleven-thirty the mail goes over. It's so rugged (the mountains) until the planes can't get down in that place.

5 But here was a little plane just about a mile high. And I was standing out fishing on a rock, and turned around and went back; dropped a little parachute. Howard, my brother, had just passed away; they was trying to get word to me. I rushed home. And in about two hours of time they had the funeral. Many of you remember Howard, has been up here in New York with me. The Lord had showed his going six years ago. He would be the next one to go.
Then I said, "I'll go over to California and have this meeting, Lakeport. I'll come back home, and then I'll take a little vacation."
When I got back home, they called me, said, "Brother Bosworth's dying in Florida." Well, I went to Florida last week to see Brother Bosworth. And the Lord had spared his life, and so when I got back I thought, "Well, my, honey," said to my wife, "I'm going to take a little vacation."

6 That's right about then in about an hour, Brother Hudson said, "Brother Branham, please come up here." Brother Boze got on the phone, and well, there you was. And I said, "Well, honey, hold Christmas holidays, please. I want to be home a little bit because I'm going to Africa this summer, and overseas, to be gone practically all summer."
And so up come ministers and I said, "I'm sorry, brother. I'm sorry, I just got to have..." Well, Brother Daugherty come up (a good friend of mine from down in Kentucky), said, "Brother Branham, I'm glad to take the holidays."
I said, "Well, my wife and children is too." So, but ... finally talked me out of it. So I had to be down there. So there's no rest for the weary [Bro. Branham laughs.], weary. Well, someday across the river we'll rest---across the river. How true.

7 Now, tonight I am, as usual, I'm here to be your brother, to help you in anything that I can, towards spiritual grace of God, to instruct, to help Brother Hudson and those in the church and the call. We're not here with any denomination. We don't have any denomination. And we're just here to be your brother and your friend. And there's no barriers, or race, creed, or color. See, we're just all one in Christ.
And so we want you to feel real at home, and invite your pastors and them, if they don't... Some of them has already called me and apologized that the meeting come so quickly---just a little farewell meeting for our brother here before going overseas. And they apologized to have their own meetings going on at this time, while we're here.

8 But we just come in to have, maybe... If one person gets saved, it'd be worth all the cold rides and everything else. That's right. That one person might hit the mission fields and save ten thousand people before Jesus comes. That's right.
So now, just want to talk a little because you got plenty good preachers. You're not needing preachers up here, but I will class myself as a spare tire. You know, you always carry a spare along, what if you have a flat. Now, we haven't got a flat, but we're going to use a spare maybe for a little bit.
And each night now... And I believe Sunday afternoon, it's the close here. And Sunday night in New York City ... Brooklyn. I get it all mixed up. It's all New York to me, just every better bit of it. And so Brooklyn's where we'll be at for Sunday ... for Sunday evening service.

9 Now, tonight I just want maybe to... Billy, my boy, Brother Hudson caught him at the hotel and said, "I want you to go down and give out some prayer cards." If we'd knowed there'd just been this many, we wouldn't be... And Billy come back and said, "Daddy, you can't give out prayer cards, not enough people there to give them out to." I think he said he give out about twelve or fourteen prayer cards, something like that. He said there wasn't many gathered in yet. Cold weather.
You know what? Down in my country, you wouldn't get anybody out in this kind of a night. They wouldn't come. It's too cold. And so we... But we'll just pray for the sick anyhow. I won't keep you very long. And then tomorrow night, if the Lord willing, I'll preach tomorrow night, the Lord willing. And also a prayer line, if the Lord leads, just pray for the sick.

10 And now, the reason sometimes that we give out prayer cards... I got my two tape boys here, Mr. Mercier and Mr. Goad here, and they have their tapes, and they tape the meetings. And they have them, they sell them, just at a real close margin of what they cost. They go with me everywhere I go, and they got many of the great services. And if you have a tape recorder, I'm sure you'd appreciate these tapes. And so them, or if Billy can't get here, one of those will give out cards each evening ... night, rather. Well, I guess it's evening.
I get this thing all mixed up. When I get up here, I have to watch what I'm saying. Down in the south we have breakfast, dinner, and supper. Up here you have breakfast, lunch, and dinner. I feel like I'm short a meal when it comes time. I didn't get my supper; I don't know... We southerners may be just a little odd, you know, to Yankees up here, but the war is over now. The war is over. Now, we're all together with war on sin, and on sickness.

11 And I want to read just a little bit tonight. And there might be some people here that, perhaps, I have never seen in my life. Perhaps is. Never been in one of my meetings. Frankly, I don't know anyone by face at this time. I believe this man, brother here, with the beard, I believe I've seen him somewhere. I might be ... not be sure.
Have you been in one of my meetings, brother? I thought I remembered him by having a beard and hair. He reminds of Brother Ryan. What about that, Gene, doesn't he look like Brother Ryan? You remember Brother Ryan? Just such a wonderful, dear friend of mine from up in Michigan. Just gone to be with the Lord recently.
But now, I want to explain... How many is here wants to be prayed for tonight? raise up your hands. Let's see. Well, I guess then that'll be fine. We'll just pray for the sick then. I'll just get me something else maybe.

12 Let's see, I want to read a verse of Scripture here anyhow, found in the 12th chapter of Saint John, 20th verse. Very familiar, but just to get a background to talk on healing.
... there were certain of the Greeks among them that came up to worship at the feast:
The same ... therefore came to Philip, which was of Bethsaida of Galilee, and desired him, saying, Sirs, we would see Jesus.
Now, that's a very familiar little scripture, but I'd like to ask this in this little group, "What if this was the last night they would ever be on earth?" Do you know (before we close) I got a message that I had here not long ago in California on: The Handwriting On The Wall, and about the modern sputnik, if it's in the Bible, and so forth, and what it means to this generation in the hour that we're living. And I trust that the Lord will let me speak on that before going and leaving the meeting.

13 Now, we're at such a late hour, and such a time that there's nothing in the world that counts outside of Christ. There isn't a thing that you can put your hands on but what is natural and it will perish, but Christ the invisible One is the only thing that's eternal, that we have tonight. It's Christ, and we love Him.
And so now, if He was in Brooklyn ... or, Newark tonight, if Christ was in Newark, New Jersey, tonight, what would you look for? What type of a person would you look? Now, we know that the Bible teaches in Hebrews 13:8 that He is the same yesterday, today, and forever. Well, now, if He is the same, now He... If He isn't the same, rather, well, then the Scripture is wrong. And if He is the same, there ought to be some way that we could know that He was here. Don't you believe that's right? If there's some visible way that we could know. I believe that He was human, I believe He's been arrested in a human race. He died for them, gave His life for them.

14 And now, if I would go across the street... I seen a sign when I was over there, across the street, of a brother that has services over there called ... I forget just the name now; I was just reading it when I come up. If I go ask the brother, "Do you believe that Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever?"
He'd say, "Yes, sir, Brother Branham."
If I'd go down the next corner to another brother or wherever, each one of them would say, "Yes, I believe that He is the same yesterday, today, and forever." If I'd asked this group of people here tonight, Christians I presume, "Do you believe He's the same yesterday, today, and forever?"
You'd say, "Yes, Brother Branham, I believe that He is the same yesterday, today, and forever."

15 Then if He is so great, and He is the same, and they seen Him in the days yesterday, then why can't we see Him today? That's what I wonder. Now, if He is the same... There's only one thing different in Christ than when He was in Galilee, is that tonight He's in a spiritual body instead of a corporal body.
Now, when He was here on earth, He said, "I am the vine, ye are the branches." Now, the vine doesn't bear fruit. The vine only puts the energy into the branch, and the branch bears fruit. You don't gather fruit off of the vine. You gather it off of the branch. "Every branch in Me that bringeth forth not good fruit" (Saint John), He cuts it off, prunes it, the church, and whatmore.

16 Now, the fruits of Christ, when He was here on earth... The things that He did when He was here on earth, He promised that they would be done by His church after He left: "The works that I do, shall ye do also; greater works than this shall you do; for I go to My Father."
Greater: if anyone who knows Greek, knows that that word greater doesn't mean that it would be in quality; it means in quantity. In other words it would be, "More than this shall you do," would be the way we would read it. "More than this shall you do, for I go to My Father."
Great, because no one could do any greater work than He did, because He raised the dead, He stopped nature. He done everything that could be done. And He stopped the roaring sea, made the winds be still, raised up the dead after they were done corrupted in the grave, and no one could do greater in quality. But being that His Spirit would come into the church and would reach out, it would be a universal church, all around the world, and they could do more of the same things that He was doing.

17 Now, then we look [Gap in the audio.] watch what type of person He was. When we find Him, He wasn't different from any other man to look at. He was so, well, we would call it simple dressed and so forth, till He went among men and no man knowed Him any different from anyone else hardly, but only His disciples. Something He would be talking of, and He would walk right among the people and they didn't know who He was, because all men dressed just alike.
If we would be looking for Him, we wouldn't look for some great high priest, and dress altogether different to make Himself look different from anybody else. He'd just be a common, clean dressed man if He lived today. And that's the type of a person He would be. He wouldn't be so cultured and so highly educated until no one hardly'd know what He was speaking about. The Bible said, "The common people heard Him gladly." That was just people like you and I. We were just common people.

18 The Bible is written in such a common language until the scholars and educators, they'd take a word like this, they'd say, "This word means so-and-so, and so-and-so." Come to find out, it was spoke in the everyday street language and they missed the meanings of it.
Well, you know what? In my times around the world, you know where I needed an interpreter more at than anywhere else was in London, England. Yes. I thought I spoke English till I got there. And I realized that I didn't speak English. No, I couldn't understand nothing they were saying; they couldn't understand me.

19 One time I was in Miami, and I called up here to New York. Someone was on the phone and I had a connection, and the little operator at the south couldn't make this little northern operator understand what she was talking about. And they had to break it down in St. Louis and get one to interpret it between the north and south, right here in America. That's right.
Well, Jesus spoke with such a plain everyday language that you'd hear on the street. And now, if you'd try to use a very high scholarly English interpretation of the... Look where we would be tonight. My, if I'd sit up here with some great... Well, you might understand me, but ordinarily just the run of the people wouldn't understand, if you used such high grammar, good grammar.

20 So God did it that way because He said He would hide it from the eyes of the wise and prudent, and would reveal it to babes such as would learn. God is not known by how much education you have. God is known by what faith you have. God is not known by science, neither is He knowed by any culture, but He's knowed by faith. And through grace He projects Himself to His believer. It's through an act of grace that God projects Himself to the people.
If we would start to follow Him for a little bit, then we would know more about what type of person we would look for. Well, we know His birth (as we're going to celebrate that soon, the Lord willing, at the Christmas time), how He was born in a manger and so forth.
But then we find out that that wasn't just exactly the Christmas story. Many times, if you'd read the Bible, we find out that this Christmas story had ... going to Mary at the manger, and a little baby. That's fiction.

21 You know the wise men didn't come to no little baby. They come to a young child, two years old or better, you see. The Bible said they killed all the children from two years old down to get Him. He was around two years old. But we have all these little things that just becomes a little fictions and little stories that we told; however, in it all, God is glorified.
Now, we want to see Him at His work. Now, Jesus was born for one purpose, that was for God to manifest Himself through that body. God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself. He was a body that was made visible, that men and women could see what He thought, and His expressions to the people, and His gratefulness, and His attitude towards all mankind. He expressed it through Christ.
Christ seemed to be a duel personality. He would speak sometimes and they'd scratch their heads, and they didn't understand Him. He'd speak one thing one time, look like, and something else another time. What it was, was Jesus speaking, and then Christ speaking. Jesus was a man. Christ was the God that was in Him. "Not Me that doeth the works: My Father that dwelleth in Me, He doeth the works," see. God will not share His glory with no one.

22 So it all comes by the Spirit, but Jesus was a virgin born in order to tabernacle the Holy Spirit of God first to manifest Himself to the people, and He gave His life, a willing sacrifice that through His righteousness, we unrighteous people might have a right to come into the fellowship like He had with the Father before the foundation of the world. If that isn't grace and glory, what He did for us.
Then to think that the day that we're living in that so many people cut off that privilege from the people. Why we're living millions of miles below our God-given privilege. Right. The church of the living God should never be divided. We should be one and together.

23 We should never live under our privileges as we are today. The great powers of God lays within the reach of every member of the body of Christ. "Whatsoever things you desire, when you pray, believe that you receive it, and you shall have it." And it shall be given to you.
I was reading in the Lexicon the other day, over there in Luke at that Scripture I was just quoting. The original gives it: "When thou prayest," he said... Here's what I want to get to. He said, "If ye should say to this mountain, Be thou plucked up and cast into the sea, and believe in your heart that it's being done..." Believe that it is being done.

24 Now, lots of people, they say, "Pray for me, brother." All right, "Lord, help this dear brother." Give a prayer card, and best you can. And he's seen others healed, night after night, time after time, but, "I didn't get it, I'll try it again tomorrow night." Oh, my. You discredit God. You discredit His Word.
Watch. "If you believe in your heart that it's being done." Maybe that mountain looks just exactly like it always looked, but in your heart you believe it. There might not be but one little grain of sand, but something is tearing loose. Something is beginning to take place (see), when we believe that it's being done. But you see, we just want something spontaneously that we're going to... And what do we get? Left out. Left out. Because it weakens. In a few nights I want to get onto that, on faith, the Lord of hosts in you, see.

25 But now, to see Jesus. Now, we find out that when you see Jesus, you see God. Said, "He that's seen Me, hath seen the Father; why sayest then, 'Show us the Father?'" John 14. When Thomas said, "Show us the Father, and it'll satisfy us."
He said, "I've been so long with you, and you don't know Me? When you see Me, you see My Father." The Father was in Christ ... in Jesus, expressing Himself to the world.
Now, we watch Him at His beginning when He was baptized with the Holy Spirit, at the day when God came in to dwell in Him, when John baptized Him with water. He went straight into the wilderness, and was tempted of the devil. Don't you see just as soon as a spiritual blessing actually happens, look for the devil to stand there right then, to rob you of it if he can.

26 Now, he took Jesus through every twist that could be taken. He got Him real hungry first. He said, "If Thou be the Son of God, turn these stones into bread."
Jesus come right back, with not His power, not His gifts. When all the fullness of God dwelt in Him, but He didn't use it. He brought it down to where the weakest of Christians could have the privilege of using it. He said, "It's written that man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God." There you are. "Man shall not live by bread alone."
Then Jesus was taken under temptation to the pinnacle of the temple, and said "Perform a miracle for me. Let me see it done." You see, that same enemy lives today. "Let me see something. Let me bring you somebody, and you heal them for me," see. It's the same devil.
The devil takes his man, but never his spirit. God takes His man, but never His Spirit. The Spirit that was upon Elijah, come upon Elisha. From Elisha to John the Baptist, on down. The same Spirit that was in Christ is on His church, and will be till Jesus comes to unite that body with His in glory. Certainly.

27 Never his spirit, but his man. Satan comes down with a religious man, just as religious and renowned as he can be, and he'll work through him to persecute the church of the living God, take his man, put it upon another. Look at those Pharisees and Sadducees: What scholars they were, how educated, how smart, how holy. They had to be born of a certain lineage. They had to come out of a certain tribe. They had to be so scholarly and so holy, but yet rejected Christ.
And I say it with respect, but the same things take place today. God is moving with His Spirit through the earth, doing signs and wonders. And listen here, my friends, I don't want to scare you, or harm you, but I want to tell you the truth. You're looking for something to happen that has already happened. The next thing's the coming of the Lord. It's went right over your head. You didn't know it. Remember the day you're living in. Take heed to what you're listening at. Wake up yourself.

28 A few days ago I was speaking. Someone come for an examination of that picture of the Angel of the Lord, and they was referring to it as the same Angel that led the children of Israel after this famous play you got here: The Ten Commandments. Cecil DeMille tried to put that play on of those ten commandments.
The pillar of fire that led the children of Israel, that was the Angel of the covenant, which was Christ. When He was on earth, He said, "I come from God, I go to God." And when He... Before He came to be the Son in Spirit and flesh, He was the Pillar of Fire. He returned back to the same thing.
Paul, when he was on his road down to Damascus to persecute the church, there was a great light hung before him that put his eyes out. No one seen it but Paul. Christ can appear by here tonight, and one can see it and the other can't see it. He reveals Himself to who He will.

29 But He's had His picture taken now with the mechanical eye of the camera: here in Germany, and around over the world; and it's proven, hangs right here in Washington, DC, now, there at the hall of religious art. The only supernatural Being that was ever photographed. What is it? It's Him expressing Himself that He's here. And you're going to wake up too late.
There wasn't a newspaper packed it, not a magazine got it. Why? Why didn't they get it? God can't be in this day any more than He was. They never knew who Elisha was till Elijah was gone. They never knew who Elisha was till he was gone. They never knew who John was till he was beheaded. They never knew who Jesus was till he was dead, buried, and rose again.
They never knew who Saint Patrick was (The Catholic church persecuted him.) until he was dead and buried. Then they canonized him a saint. Saint Francis of Assisi, what we would call today a walking preacher, with a Bible under his arm. The Catholic church, he protested it and they hated him. But after he was dead, then they canonized him a saint.

30 Joan of Arc, who saved France, a spiritual woman who saw visions and prophesied, the Catholic church burned her as a witch. Right. And said she was a witch and burned her. A hundred years or more after she was dead, they realized that she was a saint. Oh, they done penance, sure: They dug up the priests' bodies and throwed them out in the river. That was a penance. But just the same, they didn't recognize her until she was gone.
And so is it today. The Holy Spirit's moving among the people, with great things and showing Himself, even letting it be known, and they won't realize it till it's gone. They don't realize that God has promised the truth. Say, "Well, when is He going to do these things?"
That's what the disciples said about John. They didn't understand, they said, "Why said the prophets Elias must come first?"
Jesus said, "He has already come, and you didn't know Him." He can't be one thing in one generation, and something else in another. He's got to continue the same.

31 You look, Jesus is here now, and this is your opportunity. This is the day of salvation. Now is the time. Call upon Him, see. This is the hour. This is the time of deliverance. This is the time God is calling out His people. Not another time; now is the day. Manifest Himself, showing Himself.
Then here we come tonight before this fifty or seventy-five people with a challenge that He's raised from the dead. If He isn't I'm an awful person. I am a deceiver, if Christ hasn't raised from the dead, and will meet wherever two or three gathers together, according to His Word, then I'm found a false witness. And every other preacher is too, that preaches the Gospel.
Can you get people to listen to it? Certainly not. Jesus said, "As it was in the days of Noah, so will it be in the coming of the son of man." They mocked, they scoffed, they made fun. So did they... Look at the people when Lot tried, before the destruction of Sodom. He went and tried to tell them, but they said, "Your idle tales." They wouldn't believe it.

32 So He's got to do the same thing today. Here's my message, that's truly unadulterated Gospel and Scripture, and the people have to reject it to fulfill the Word. Although no matter what He does, they still won't believe. The Bible said that though He had done so many miracles among them, yet they could not believe it because Isaiah said, "They got eyes, they can't see. Ears, and they can't hear, that they might see with their eyes, and hear with their ears and be converted."
We're living in a wonderful time for the believer. And we're living in a terrible time for the unbeliever, because he's rejecting. And remember, the very thing that destroyed the world, saved Noah. And the very Gospel that they're laughing at today, will rapture the church and destroy the unbeliever. [Brother Branham coughs.] ( Pardon me.) How true.
Now, we're in the last days. When Jesus, at the closing of the Gentile dispensation... I'm not a much of a dispensationalist, but I know that there is a dispensation of the Gentiles. Jesus said so in Matthew 24. And now, at the end of the Gentiles, I believe this revival that's just struck, is showing the end of the Gentiles.

33 Jesus said, also, in Matthew 24, He said, "When you see the fig tree and all the other trees, putting forth buds, know the time is nigh, even at the door. This generation shall not pass, until all be fulfilled." Just think of it. Not only was the Jews, the fig tree, to put forth its buds, but the other trees.
And every church has had a revival and have been for the last few years. The Pentecostals, you've had a revival. The Baptists has had a revival. The Presbyterians has got a revival. And the Jews are returning to Palestine. "This generation shall not cease, until all be fulfilled."
A generation is forty years. Ten or twelve years of it's already passed since it become a nation on May the 7 ... May the 6, 1946. We're at the end time. Jesus promised these things for the last age. We're a privileged people to hear them. Don't pass them by. Enjoy them. Receive them. Tell others. Embrace it.

34 God doesn't live in glamour. God lives in humility. Glamour comes from Satan. He lives in humility. When He was here on earth, He become the humblest among men, the poorest among men. Who was it wanted glamour? Satan. He wanted his kingdom greater than Michael's, so he set it up in the north, tried to outshine it, son of the morning.
Now, notice when He was here then, after His temptation started, He went through and endured His temptation. Why? How? Through the Word. Stay in the Word. We got a day. I know there's not many here, but I'd like to express this. We got a day when the world is getting full of... You can see the thing is about over.

35 The world, what would be spiritual has become isms. The world, what would be spiritual has become a place where it's went off onto fantastics and emotions and so forth. They don't stay with the Word. The Word is God's way. God's Word will endure. It'll stand the test at any time. But we go off on little emotions, and excitements, and everything, and that's what kind of a trouble we get into.
Now, let's watch Jesus in the beginning and see what takes place now. We see Him the anointed Messiah. Walked out there, He's having a meeting. The first thing, the people begin to come. He was praying with them, and results was taking place. That was Jesus yesterday. If He's the same, that's the kind of a meeting He'd hold today. Not a place denying the powers of the Father; He would be proving the powers of the Father, if He's the same yesterday, today, and forever.

36 Now, we find out He's having a meeting; there was a man by the name of Peter come to Him. Jesus had never seen him. And He said, "Your name is Cephas ... or, Simon, the son of a Jonah ... son of Jonas, rather. Your name is Simon, the son of Jonas. But hereafter thou shall be called Peter." What a strange thing that was.
"You mean to tell me, You knowed that my name was Simon, and that my father's name was Jonas? And then You're going to nickname me now, and call me another name, 'little stone'?" It kind of startled him. But it was the truth. That was Jesus yesterday. If He's the same yesterday, today, and forever, He has to do the same today in order to be Jesus. That was a fisherman of Galilee.

37 We see then in Saint John, I believe, the first chapter, we find out there was a man by the name of Philip who got saved, gave his heart to Him, become His servant and follower. And the first thing you know, he goes and finds another man who was a friend of his, a very good church member. And he lived around the mountain several miles. His name was Nathanael. So Philip goes over, he finds Nathanael and said, "Come, see who we've found."
Now, watch. Now, Nathanael represents the entire Jewish nation, believers. So he finds Nathanael and he said, "Come, see who we've found, Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph."
And he said... This Israelite was down under the tree a-praying. And when he got up, he said, "Now, wait a minute, Philip. Could there be any good thing come from Nazareth?"

38 And I think Philip give him the best answer that anyone could. He said, "Come and see. Be satisfied by yourself."
I imagine along the road as they talked, he said, "Now, Nathanael, when you go, you know what the Messiah's going to be. The Messiah is going to be Jehovah veiled in flesh, shrouded by a body. He's going to be born of a virgin, says the prophets. And He's going to be a man, but He's going to be the God-man. And God knows all things. So this Messiah is going to be a wonderful man. And we know that this Jesus of Nazareth is the Messiah."
I can hear Nathanael say, "Now, you wait till I go. I'm going to find out just for myself. And then I'll give you my opinion after I get to talk to Him awhile."

39 Well, Jesus was having a group of people being prayed for, we'll say. And the next day, here comes Nathanael up with Philip. And they stop out into the audience somewhere or maybe they got in the prayer line to come up so he could meet Jesus. I don't know how it was.
But however, when he got in the presence of Jesus, Jesus looked over at him, just a common Jewish man. And He looked over at him, and He said, "Behold, an Israelite in whom there is no guile."
Well, it so astonished him. I guess he wondered, "Who told You that? How did You know me? Have You ... somebody been talking to You about me?" That's the way God is. He knows you. He knows what you are. He knows what you are made of. He understands you.

40 He said, "How did You know me, Rabbi? How did You know me?"
And Jesus said, "Before Philip called you yesterday, or whenever it was, when you were under the tree praying, as it was, I saw you." What eyes, through a mountain thirty miles away. Looked through a mountain and saw him on his knees praying. It proved what He was.
Then that so astonished this Jewish Orthodox believer, until he said, "Rabbi, You are the Son of God. You are the King of Israel." What was he? The chosen, the selected, the foreordained, the predestinated of God. By the foreknowledge, God before the foundation of the world knew he would be there. God is infinite.

41 Somebody tell me what the word infinite means. You couldn't explain it. He's omnipotent, omniscient, all powerful, infinite God. He knew every flea, every fly. Before the world was created, He knew it would be that way. He knew this meeting would be tonight.
There He is. And when He comes in the presence, there in the body of His Son, Christ, this Jewish believer said, "Thou art the... Rabbi, Thou art the Son of God. Thou art the Christ, the Son of God." Now, look at the real Orthodox teacher which stood by. Now, when they seen this miracle performed, they said, "This man is a fortuneteller. He is Beelzebub. He is the chief... He's the greatest of all the fortunetellers. Now, His inspiration comes from the devil. And the devil has made Him a king. And now He comes down to deceive our people with these things."

42 What did Jesus say to them, them teachers? Why, He said, "You can speak that against the Son of man, He will forgive you. But when the Holy Spirit is come (what we have tonight) speak against that, and it'll never be forgiven you in this world or the world to come." Then what position do we sit in tonight, what are we, to reject Christ.
Now, we have churches and we have great things, which we appreciate. If it was any kind of a church that speaks the name of the Lord Jesus, blessed be that church. I don't care if it's Catholic, if it's Protestant, if it's Jewish, whatever, if it's ... if it's Seventh Day Adventist, if it's Russellism, whatever it is. No matter what it is, I'd rather see them trying to do something for God, than out on the street, living in lust and things like the world's a doing. Certainly. But, brother, in all of this, there's got to be somewhere, there's got to be a showdown to truth.

43 I believe Christ will honor each believer in each church, whoever has their heart right with God; God will honor that person, Catholic, Protestant, whatever he might be. God knows your heart. Now, you can't hide it. God knows your heart.
Now, we will notice Him. Now in that day that's what that Jew said. He represented every believing Jew, 'cause the believers had gathered to Him. Jesus said, "Wherever the carcass is, the eagles will be gathered." That's right. They gather to Him.
Now, let's take Him over for one more statement to the Samaritans. Now, this is Saint John the 5th chapter. Now, we find Him going up, but He was going to Jericho. If anybody knows geographically, Jerusalem sits on a hill, Jericho is in the valley.

44 And on His road going down from Jerusalem to Jericho, He'd went right straight down. But He had need to go up by Samaria. Now, Samaritans was half Jew and Gentile. They were a mixed bunch of people. Why did He have to go up there? What was the compelling something that was driving Him up there?
Did you ever know men that are led by the Spirit of God can't understand their own selves. They are driven by a force that sometimes they think, "Why did I ever do that?" But it's God working in them. Sons and daughters of God are led by the Spirit of God.

45 Look at Simeon in the temple that morning, when he was promised by the Holy Spirit that he would not see death till he seen the Lord's Christ: Came right out in the temple, led by the Holy Spirit, right straight to that little virgin standing there with a baby in her arms, wrapped in swaddling cloth, and picked that little baby up in his arms, and said, "Lord, let Thy servant depart in peace according to Thy word. For mine eyes have seen Thy salvation."
Look at old blind Ann. Anna in the temple, a prophetess, waited for the consolation of Israel. And she served the Lord day and night in the temple, by fasting and praying. And being Spirit led, she come by the Holy Spirit, blind, right straight and picked up the baby and prophesied over Him for those who waited for the consolation of Israel.

46 Jesus led by the Spirit, went up to Samaria and sent all of His disciples away to get victuals in the city. That was when John got angry with them because they wouldn't sell them anything to eat, and wanted to burn the city up. Later become the disciple of love.
Now, we find that while he was gone, a young woman... We believe in this country to be a woman of ill fame. She came out to the well to get water. While she was at the well to draw the water, she looked over, sitting against the little panoramic, something on, maybe a scene like this, and there sat a middle-aged Jewish man, sitting there.

47 He was about thirty-two or thirty-three years old, but according to the Scripture, He looked to be around fifty. They said, "You say that You've seen Abraham and You're not no more than fifty years old." See, His work might have put that look on Him.
He said, "Before Abraham was, I AM." That wasn't Jesus. That was God in Him speaking out, that He was in the burning bush back there at the beginning.
Then we find that this woman, as she looked... Jesus wanted a conversation with her. He said, "Bring Me a drink."
She said, "Why, it's not customary for You Jews to ask Samaritans such."
It was the law of segregation. They didn't want any fellowship together. And Jesus let her know that that wasn't right. He said, "But if you knew who you were speaking to, you'd ask Me for a drink, and I'd bring you water you don't come here to draw."
She said, "Our fathers worshipped in this mountain, and you say at Jerusalem."

48 And the conversation went on till Jesus contacted her spirit. And when He seen then what the Father sent Him up there for. He knowed something was going to happen. It hadn't happened all along the road, so He waited till He got there, and sent His disciples away, and said, "This must be the woman." That was Jesus, the man. But God, the man in Christ, knowed what He wanted. He just led His Son by the Spirit.
So then God goes to work and begins to use His own Son's lips to speak. He said, "Go, get your husband and come here."
She said, "I don't have any husband."
He said, "You're saying well, because you've got five husbands, and the one you're living with now is not your husband. Thou has said well."

49 And listen what she said. What did the Orthodox Jew say when He done that miracle on him? Was that a miracle He done on Philip ... or, Nathanael? Knowed where he was at the day before. Was it a miracle He done on Peter who knew who his father was, and what his name was, and so forth? Now look, that was the Jewish. Now, let's see what the Gentiles is going to say ... or, the Samaritans, which is half Jew and Gentile.
Said, "Now, Sir," this woman said, "Sir, I perceive (He knowing I had five husbands) ... I perceive that You are a prophet." Now, listen to her words. "But we know," the woman said, "we know when the Messiah cometh..." You believe He was Messiah? "We know when the Messiah cometh, He will do these things. He will show us all things. And we know He'll come, but You must be His prophet."

50 Now, wait. What did the Jew say? "Thou art the Son of God. You're the King of Israel."
What did the Samaritan say? "Now, we're looking for such as that to happen, but it has to come through the Son of God. The Son of God when He comes, the Messiah, it must come through Him. But you must be His prophet."
He said, "I am He that speaks to you."
And on this, she run into the city, and said, "Come, see a man that told me the things that I've done. Isn't this the Messiah? Isn't this the sign of the Messiah?" If that was the sign of the Messiah at the closing of the Jewish dispensation, it's the sign of the Messiah at the closing of the Gentile dispensation, if He's the same yesterday, today, and forever. Right.

51 Before He left the earth... (Our time won't permit me to go further.) But, before He left the earth, He said, "The works that I do, shall you do also." The same thing. "Yet a little while and the world won't see Me no more." That's the world order. You see, "The world won't see Me, yet ye shall see Me, for I will be with you (How long?) to the end of the world." Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today, and forever.
One more little scripture. I'll quote it quickly. Saint John 5, the next page over, the 19th verse, when He passed by many crippled people, healed one man laying on a pallet. He knew that that man had been that way for many years, see. He knew he had been that way. He healed him and walked away and left great multitudes of lame, blind, halt, laying there. What? Yes, left them there.

52 And what happened? Why, they questioned Him about the man packing his bed on the Sabbath and so forth. And 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." That was Jesus yesterday. If He's the same today, He'll do the same today.
There was a little woman who had no vision, but she had a leading, and she went down to where Jesus was at at the seashore. She had a blood issue. She touched His garment, for she said in her heart, "If I would touch Him, I'll be made whole." She goes back amongst the people, sits down or however she was. She might've stood up however it was.

53 Jesus turned and said, "Who touched Me?" Now, He didn't know. That was Jesus speaking, the Son. "Somebody touched Me."
And Peter rebuked Him, he said, "Well, all is touching You. Why do You say, 'Who touched Me?'"
He said, "But I've gotten weak." The word virtue means "strength." "Virtue went from Me," or "My strength went from Me. Somebody touched Me." That was the Son of God.
Well, you say, "Oh, Brother Branham, I wish I'd have lived in that day. I'd liked to have touched Him." This is that day. "Is that scriptural, Brother Branham?" Absolutely. The Bible said that He is a high priest that can be touched by the feeling of our infirmities.

54 How would you ever know you touched Him, if there wasn't something that come back and told you? See, faith is not something... It's not a myth. Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence that something has happened of things not seen. It's not just a make believe, and say, "Well, oh, yes. Hallelujah, I got it." That's been too much in you Pentecostal people to begin with. You're rejoicing about something that you don't have.
Faith is absolutely a substance. It's not a hope. Hope is... Faith is the substance of things hoped for. But when faith takes it, it becomes the substance that you hope for, (see) the evidence of things not seen.

55 One of the managers, Dr. Vayle, and I was arguing that for an hour and a half the other day. He tried to say hope and faith is the same thing. I said, "No, no. Hope is what you're looking for, and faith is what you got by hoping." That's right. Certainly. It's not a hope any longer when you've got it. It's yours. It's in possession. You got it just as happy as you can be, for it is the substance of things hoped for.
Now, this little woman said within her heart, her faith said, "If I can touch Him, it'll satisfy me." Amen. Oh, I wish we could have that faith in Newark tonight. "If I can touch Him." Could you do it? Yes, He's a High Priest, ever liveth to make intercession, that can be touched by the feeling of our infirmities. Touch Him and find out whether it's right or not. See if we're just saying this to be standing here. See if the Word's right. If that's not right, where are you? What hope could you build yourself in?

56 I'm an American. I love my country. But everyone sees that boogie-woogie and rock-and-roll and sin has brought it to a place till it's ready for judgment. Don't you think we're going to escape it. There's a sputnik waiting yonder, and one of these... What would they do if they get up in that plane, that thing tonight and roar right around here? They could do it if they want to. What could we do about it? We're five years behind them. Roar right around here and fill them things full of missiles, five hundred miles off the earth where you couldn't touch them.
Look at ours. When they sent it up there in Florida, it fizzled out a few feet off the ground. We're attending the rock-and-roll parties instead of tending the Bible and getting ready for the coming of the Lord. Sure, we're at the end time. They could say, "Surrender or you'll be ashes in five minutes." We'd surrender, too. Then what's going to happen? Oh, I love Him. He's wonderful.

57 But remember, before this happens, the church has to go. Amen. So we're at the end time. We're right in the shadows of His coming right now. I'm so thankful to see that He's come down to prove His Word. If it's before a dozen, or it's before a million, but it'll pass right through the people, and millions will never know about it. It always has been that way, and it always will be that way. Then you'll wonder sometime, "Well, I didn't... I really didn't know it." Got eyes, but can't see.
Watch Him now, as this woman touched His garment. And she received. Jesus looked all around, said, "Who touched Me?"
Peter said, "Everybody is touching You."
He looked around, He said, "But I got weak, somebody... Oh," He said, "it's you. You with the blood issue there, your faith has saved you. It's all over now." That was Jesus yesterday. And when He left, He said, "A little while and the world won't see Me no more, yet you'll see Me, for I will be with you, even in you, unto the end of the world."

58 Now, my beloved friends, that's either the truth or it isn't the truth. If it's the truth, we ought tonight to be the happiest people this side of the heavens. If it isn't the truth, then, well, what can you believe? Now, I know people try to bypass that and say, "Well, that was for the disciples, and that was for this, and..." They did it in the days of Elijah. They did it in the days of John. They did it in the days of Jesus. They'll do it right now just the same, see.
But there is a group of people that God by foreknowledge, has opened their eyes of understanding and they can see. God grant it will be you, tonight, and me. Now, if He will return... Not return, but He's already returned. He's here in Spirit, been here since the day of Pentecost, in the form of the Holy Spirit to work in His branches, to show forth His goodness.
What if I told you tonight that there was a great spirit in me, the spirit of this outlaw Dillinger? What if I said I had Dillinger's spirit? You'd better come search me, I'd have guns, I'd be dangerous to be here.

59 What if I told you that the spirit of some great artist was in me? I'd come here and I'd say, "I have the spirit of some great famous artist." I'd take this down here and put up another picture; in a few minutes music go to playing, and I'd paint you a picture that you'd sit there and gasp to look at, if I had that spirit in me. Sure.
What if I had the... Whatever spirit that's in me governs me and it works, and does just exactly... I do what the spirit that's in me makes me do. And if we're Christians, the Spirit of Christ is in us. Then He'll be just exactly like He was back there. Certainly. He'll have leaders, he'll have children that understands the leader. He'll have people that...

60 If the Spirit of Christ is in you, you'll recognize the Spirit. Didn't Jesus say so? "My sheep know My voice. A stranger they will not follow." Well, you say, "I don't believe in that kind of stuff. I don't believe in healing and stuff." My dearest friend, I'm afraid then you're not a sheep, see. Because Christ, His sheep then heard Him, they followed Him, through every age they followed Him.
He was then like He is today. He is today like He was then. The people are today as they were then, so there was some that would receive Him. Some could not receive Him because they couldn't understand it. May the Lord grant that we'll understand tonight.
And even in this little group of people... Now, remember... You say, "Well, Brother Branham, do you think He would come in this little group of about maybe a hundred people?" Why, sure. He'll come if there's only one. He'll come anywhere. Certainly.

61 Just a few minutes before coming up here on the plane ... on train, rather, there was a lady who was in there with a girl. She was in a motel, she'd been over to Brother Roberts meeting and down there in the... Brother Roberts had prayed for the little girl, and they couldn't find nothing. And, oh, she was in terrible shape.
And my wife kept telling me, said, "Billy, I hope you can get a few minutes." And they was in the hotels and sitting all around. And I just come up from Kentucky. Twenty-five minutes till time to catch my train. And my wife said, "Please spend five minutes with the woman, will you? If I can get her here."
I said, "I'll just ... on the road."
And I run over to the place, the little motel where she was at. I said, "Sister." She just started weeping, the mother did. There sitting in the room, the Holy Spirit begin to move down, come down, and begin to reveal, and went back and told the little lady something that she'd hid from her mother, and everything like that from everybody. She started weeping, said, "Don't say that, Brother Branham. Don't say that. Don't say that."
I said, "Stop it."

62 The Angel of the Lord was there and begin to reveal it. She said, "That's true."
I said, "Sister, confess that. That's the only thing that's wrong with you." She went away happy and rejoicing, said, "Oh, if I'd only knowed this before," see. There you are, see. It's Christ, God's Son. Let us pray.
Father God, we humbly come to Thee now, thanking Thee for Thy Word. Now, the Word has been spoken. Here's a few people here tonight, Lord, that's gathered in. Many of them are needy, or they would not have raised their hands for prayer. We know that they need you.

63 And there may be by chance some in here who does not believe, that's sinners. If they are, Lord, may this be the hour when they realize that they're more needing of Thee tonight than all the sick people in the world. Their soul is sick. Maybe they've tried to believe. Maybe they've made believe, but never been a real believer.
And we realize that unbelief is the original sin. "He that believeth not, is condemned already, because he has not believed on the only begotten Son of God." And You have said this, "These signs shall follow them that believe." Oh, how thankful we are for that, Lord. And in this day, there's no more guessing; Thou has made Thyself known. And blessed be Thy name for doing so.

64 Pray tonight, now. I shall try to minister in Thy name. And I ask that in this little group of people that You'll send a faith in here, Lord, that will believe.
Now, Lord, I've just got in, just a little while ago, here in the city, for my first meeting. And I pray Thee, Father, that Thou will help me to manifest Your love to these that You've sent out tonight to hear. I pray that You'll do it. And may these tell others. And may many be saved and healed; we ask in Jesus' name. Amen.
Now, my beloved friends, I'm just... I promised I wouldn't be late, but I am late, later than usual. We ought to have been gone by now. But just got to talking to you. Tomorrow night I'll be here early, the Lord willing, speak to you on a Gospel subject. Just now tonight, just talking, and you know, we're getting acquainted with each other. And I trust that...
Now, Billy said, I think he said only give just a very, very few prayer cards. And tomorrow night, you go around and get your sick... [Gap in the audio.]

65 Not because... [Gap in the audio.] You know better than that, see. I want to see your people healed. We don't [Gap in the audio.] if they're colored, if they're yellow, brown, if whatever, if they're Catholic, Protestant, Orthodox, Jew, if they're Mohammedans, Buddhists, you bring them. Yes, sir.
I've found, strange... I wished I had time to say something now. The American people, oh, my dear loving friends, you don't realize how bad off you are. That's right [unclear words] to think of it. I met Brother Osborn the other day [Gap in the audio] [ unclear words] stay here. I said, "I'm going."
[Gap in the audio.] ... ism, little cult, and so forth. It's in a place where people don't know what to believe. I feel so sorry for them, my people. My, what can we do? There's nothing, because the Bible said it would be that way. They'd go from east, from west, there'd be a famine, not for bread, but for the hearing of the Word of God. That's right. The prophet said so. It must be.

66 Now, we're here, friends, tonight. We don't know whether we'll any be here tomorrow, or not. That all depends on God. If you sick people here... If there's any way that I could do anything to help you, I'd do it. If I knowed you were sick and something would tell me if I'd take a quarter, a peanut and lay out there on that street and push that peanut with my nose around the corner, right in the public square here, it would make you well, I'd do it.
Now, God knows whether I mean that or not. If I'm a hypocrite, I haven't got no business up behind this pulpit here with this Bible. That's right. I know what sickness is. I've had much of it myself, and I know what it means. I couldn't heal you. And there's not another man on earth can heal you. Your healing is already purchased. Healing is a finished work. I have no healing in my hand. I ha... [Blank spot no tape.]

67 You must be mistaken, Billy, it must be somewhere else. All right. Just stand right there, lady, just right there. Who has 51? Prayer card 5... Why, stand right here by the side of the steps. 51. Raise up your hand, would you, if anybody has it, surely. This lady here. All right. 51, 52, 53, 54, 55.
Billy, get an usher and come here just a minute. 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60. Let's see now if we got this many here. I believe that would be about ten. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8. Got two out. Maybe I called too many. Maybe you didn't give out that many. All right. 60. All right. Now, I want to ... I want to ask something.
Prayer card... There's two missing. There's only eight here. Are you... You was a usher wasn't you, sir? And this usher too? All right. There's two out yet somewhere between 50 and 60. All right.

68 I want to ask you something. What does the Bible say? What's always been a confirmation in the Bible? The mouth of two or three witnesses, let every word be established. All right. He's trying to get them lined up. All right. The lady's very sick, would you-all set her on those chairs, Brother Hudson. Someone's holding someone there which is maybe be very, very sick. All right.
Now, 60, 61, 62, 63. That must be as many as there is then. All right. Now just be real reverent. Now, tomorrow night, you get here early, about six-thirty, so it won't interrupt with the rest of the services, and some of the boys will give you prayer cards. You can have them. The reason we give prayer cards, I'll show you. See, here's what it is. Now, tomorrow night, I don't know where we'll start, just wherever the Lord puts on my heart. But, see, everybody ... say, if there's, say these ten people here, these ten to be prayed for. Who's going to be first.

69 If I get but just one, see, it might be a "three," you might get "two," might get "ten," see. Who would be first, you don't know? Say, tonight, maybe it's fifty out of a hundred here, if there's a hundred. Say there'd be fifty. Well, who's going to be first out of that fifty. We can't get to very many because visions it just... You know what it does to you if anybody's ever been in the meetings.
So you get ... pass out... They bring their cards before you, they shuffle them all up together right before you, so we don't ... give you this, this. Everybody that wants them can have them. All right. Then what takes place? They say, "If I get number 1... If I don't get the first ten, I won't..." Well, it might start at twenty-five, see. So this one may have 1, one back over there have another, way back up here another, see. That way it's just to us, but that has nothing to do with the healing. There may not be one of these people get healed on the platform and everyone of you out there may be healed.

70 How many now don't have a prayer card and want the Lord to heal you, raise up your hand and say, "I want to be healed." All right. Only thing I ask you to do then... Now, here, these people are coming up here. What's that to do? Just get the Holy Spirit ... the people to believe.
Now, you do believe, but you're looking for such a mysterious thing, such a sensation, till it goes right over the top of you, see. Don't look for feeling. Jesus never said, "Did you feel it?" He said, "Did you believe it?" See, not a feeling; a belief, a faith, see.
You just simply like a little child say, "Lord Jesus, well of course, the man just read it out of the Bible, and here it is all through the Scripture. You're just the same through every age. And we see what You was then." Tomorrow night we'll take what He used to be back in the Old Testament, whatever it is. He's just the same.

71 So if You're the same, Your works has got to be the same. He said so. But you see, you say, "Lord, is my eyes so blind that I can't see that? Have mercy on me and open my eyes, Lord." That's when you'll get somewhere. And then like a little child say, "Thank You, Father," till something happens in your heart. Then when that certain something happens in your heart, then watch what takes place. Watch what the Lord will do.
Now, to you here in the prayer line, you that have your cards, now, I want to ask you something. I suppose that all of us, we're strangers to one another, are we? I don't know you. If that's right raise up your hand, you that's in the prayer line. You know that I don't know you, know nothing about you, raise up your hand. All right. That's good.

72 How many out there in the audience knows that I don't know you, raise up your hand, you sick people. Now, see I'm a stranger. Now, if there happens to be someone around who never... I want you to be real reverent. Now, if Jesus is the same yesterday, today, and forever, and...
Is this the lady to be prayed for? Come here. Now, this lady here, I believe... Did you raise your hand that we didn't know each other? Is that right? Now, here's a perfect case to begin with. Here's a lady that has never seen me, and I've never seen her.

73 Now, here's a picture that I've talked of awhile ago, a woman and a man meeting for the first time; the woman of Samaria, and Jesus of Nazareth. Now, Jesus, His body, corporal body, has been taken up and sits at the right hand of God. We know that. The Holy Spirit has come back upon us; the Spirit of God that was in His body, is upon us. Is that right? Promising the same thing.
Now, if this woman... I don't know what's wrong with her. She looks like a good, healthy woman to me. She may... It might not be for her health. It might be finances, it might be domestic, it might be some other trouble. But now, just watch now and be real reverent.

74 Whatever her need is, if she will go to talking to God about it, and God will reveal it back to me what she has need of, then who would know, if she's in prayer but God alone. Is that right? Now, you do the same out there. You don't have to be up here. You be right out there, and just go to praying, see if the same thing don't take place.
Now, that's an awful challenge. But I've done that before five hundred thousand at a time, see, of heathens and witch doctors and everything, standing there, would shed your blood in a second, see. Watch Jehovah when He goes to work. Watch what a different attitude. That's what makes the difference.

75 This is my first visit in Newark. Don't let it go over. Not by me now, see. I'm not talking of myself, I'm talking of Him. Your pastors here represent Him in a certain way. They've been gifted to do that. I'm not a preacher, but this is my gift.
Now, if this sister standing who's a total stranger... We don't know each other, never seen each other in life, and this is our first time meeting. She's standing there, I've asked her to pray and ask God for whatever she has need of. If the Holy Spirit will reveal to me what her trouble is, what she's asking, would that be the same act that the Lord Jesus did when the woman of Samaria come up, and He knowed what her trouble was? Would it be the same act? Would that prove that Jesus is the same yesterday, today, and forever?

76 Now, here's our hands, both of us with our hands up. We've never seen each other in life, as far as I know. She might've been in the meeting, but I don't know her. God knows that I don't know the woman. Know no more about her than you do if you don't know her. Now, I don't say that He will, I don't say that He will, but He may. If He does, then you all start believing Him, and see if He isn't the same yesterday, today, and forever. May the Lord grant it.
Now, lady, I just have to talk to you, because after speaking, it's just catching your spirit. That's exactly, to see what you... I want you in your heart, see, to be praying to the Lord for what you have need of, if it's finances, if it's ... whatever it is, or if it's sickness, or for somebody else, or whatever it is, you just keep praying to the Lord.

77 And now, Father, I've spoke to this group tonight. I'm at the end of my road. I've tried to say just as reverently as I could what You was yesterday, and saying You're the same today. And now, it's Your time to speak, the invisible God who is omnipresent. I pray that You'll grant these blessings, that these people might be Your servants and serve Thee; in Jesus' name we pray. Amen.
Now, I don't know what your trouble is, and we're just meeting our first time. I'm not repeating myself, but you can imagine what a nervous strain this is at this time, because I'm either going to be found a false prophet, or liar. And if I'm found a liar I've quoted the Word, and what's the Word? Then where're we at, what's the use of having churches?

78 If we're just going to have churches to go and gather around, try to do good, why don't it be a Buddhist church, why not a Mohammed? Why not just have a simple continuity, anything you want to believe, anything you want to say, just come together, just make it a lodge. But we speak that there's a living God who lives now, just the same yesterday, today, and forever.
Now, He promised these things. I believe Him. I believe Him. And I'm sure you're believing Him too, because (no one probably might not see this) between you and I, there's something has happened. Now, as a mortal being that's got to meet God, if this isn't true just now, something come to you, a real sweet quiet feeling. If that's right, raise up your hand, see.

79 They probably don't see it, but right around you is that light. And then just to the side of it, is death. And it's a hideous thing. It's a cancer. And that cancer is... I see him examine it for that, that's in the jaw. A cancer in the jaw. Not showing outside, but it's inside, a cancer of the jaw. That's true, isn't it?
Now, did you hear that voice? That wasn't me, but what it said is the truth. Is that right? If it is, wave your hand like this to the audience. Now, you see what the meaning is? See. That's just the Holy Spirit taking my voice. I just look and what I see, I say.

80 Now, more you talk to the woman, more would be said. Now, would you like me to talk to her just a little more? All right. Let's just talk again, see. As we just got a few here, and I will just talk to you just a little more.
Now, I don't know what He said, but it seemed like there was a shadow. Now, it's gone from you now. I don't see it at this time. Now, I see the light returning. Yes, yes, it's a lady and she's something in her jaw. Cancer in the jaw. And you have come here with somebody else; a friend brought you here. You're not from here. You're from a place ... Brooklyn. That's right, isn't it? Now, do you believe? Let us pray now.
Dear Lord and Savior, Thou art so true, and Your words are so true. I pray Thee to open the understanding at this people tonight, that they will understand that it's Your presence, Lord, that it's Your Word being made manifest. And You spoke the world into existence with Your Word. And the same word that spoke it into existence, says it'll go out.

81 And You spoke life, and this woman lives, and Satan is trying to interrupt her with some disease. And I pray with all my heart that You'll remove that disease, and cast away this spirit of disease upon her, and may she go free tonight by her faith in the Son of God. Amen.
Bless you, sister. No room for you to doubt, is there? Just go believing now. Now, do you believe with all your heart? I believe. Is there a way there somewhere? Now, don't doubt. Now, the blessed Holy Spirit... How many ever seen the picture of it, (Let's see your hands.) the picture of the Angel of the Lord as they taken in ... it was taken in Germany and different countries.
Now, that's right here in our little group tonight. That's here in this little theater building tonight, the same Spirit that walked in Galilee in a man called Jesus of Nazareth, who was the Son of God, who promised these things would be done. Now, here it is again tonight. Now, be real reverent. Be in prayer.

82 Now, here's another woman. This is more a picture than the other one, for the little scene that we was speaking of, Jesus and a woman. There was a Samaritan woman, which was of another race. And tonight, this is a colored lady standing here who is another... She's not an Anglo-Saxon. And she's a colored lady; me, a white man. That's the same picture was with Jesus of Nazareth, and the Samaritan woman, see.
How He let her know that there was no difference, all of us are God's children. We all originally came from Adam, and the places we lived in, that turned our skin yellow, brown, white. That had nothing to do. We're offsprings of God. If that colored woman was...

83 If I was sick tonight, she could give me a blood transfusion. Yes, sir. And if the yellow man was sick, she could give him a blood transfusion. But don't never put animal blood with you. It'll kill you, see. We are... God has made of all men, one blood. One blood is in all men. Our colors has nothing to do with it.
Now, here's a white man and a colored woman. And I'm a southerner, and she's a northerner. Here we are, brothers and sisters, I trust tonight, in Christ. I don't know. I can't tell. But if we're not, it's only her fault then. Now, if the Lord Jesus will return and will say to this woman, what He did like to the Samaritan woman... She may have the same trouble. I don't know. We'll know in a few minutes, if the Lord will permit.

84 Now, let us pray, as I speak to the woman. Now, you don't have to look at me, sister. Just be in prayer is all I ask you to do. And it's not a mind reading, it's just... You're just a human being standing there. And if the Lord Jesus will reveal to me what you're here for, and what you have need of, will you believe it with all your heart?
Now, if you're sick and I told you, "Oh, lady, 'Thus saith the Lord,' you're going to get well. Trouble is all over." Well, you might say, "I believe, Brother Branham. I believe I'll take that for His Word." Well, that would be all right. But that wouldn't be... You'd just have to take my word.

85 But if the Lord Jesus is here that'll reveal something that you're in trouble about, or something that you've done in your life that keeps you from getting what you're asking for, or something like that, you'll know yourself whether that's the truth or not. You'll know that. Is that right, audience? You'll know that. And if He knows what was, surely He knows what will be. Now, may the Lord grant, as I look to Him and see what the woman's trouble is.
The first thing, if the audience still hears my voice, I see the woman with her hands up. She, oh, she has spiritual problems that she's in trouble about. That is right, isn't it, lady? It's spiritual. You're all muddled up, as we call it. You can't get...

86 Here's another thing. I hear you in your prayer, speaking for God to give you the baptism of the Holy Ghost, and you come here tonight after praying, and come here for me to lay hands on you, so that you'd receive the baptism of the Holy Ghost. That right, raise your hand. That's right. That's true, isn't it? I trust that God will give it to you.
Do you believe me to be His prophet? Do you believe I actually saw that? What if I tell you your name is Mae, would you believe me? Your last name's Adams. Is that right? If it is, wave your hand. Now, do you believe it? Now, go, you're going to receive it. Lord Jesus, grant it to her; for I ask it in Christ's name. Amen. Have faith in God. Don't doubt. Believe.

87 Another colored lady. How do you do? You there. Do you believe Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today, and forever? Do you believe me to be His servant? You were praying or something there. You touched something. It turned me. Now, you're suffering with a kind of sinus, headache trouble. That's right.
And then you're in prayer also for this little boy sitting next to you, with the epilepsy, and you want God to heal him of that. Isn't that right? If that's right, raise up your hand. Do you believe it? You can have it if you'll believe it. You can. Lay your hands on the little lad.
Father God, I pray that Satan will not be able to get by with this. I pray that you will heal both of them in Jesus' name. Amen.

88 But I still see a man standing beside this woman. She's praying for somebody too. Your trouble is in your spine. You got a spinal trouble. That's right. Do you believe me to be God's prophet? You're praying for a brother. And he's blind, isn't he? Amen.
If you believe it with all your heart, you can have it. O Lord, be near unto this woman, and we bless her. In the name of the Lord Jesus, may she go and receive that what she's asked for; in Jesus' name. Amen. Don't doubt, sister. You'll get better.
Have faith. Don't doubt. All things are possible to them that believe. Are you believing? Now, you out there in the audience, just start praying. Just start praying. Believe.
Now, here is a lady. Is this the patient, brother? All right. I suppose we're strangers to one another. That's right. The Lord Jesus knows us both. Now that feeling, that pulling, coming from the audience, now, what it is, it's your faith.

89 Now, look, friends, what God does right here, He's doing out there just the same, see. If I would come and pray, anoint you with oil, and whatever more, that wouldn't have... That would, only thing it would do, was just be your faith. You'd have to believe it anyhow. If you'll just believe right where you are right now, you will receive it just the same. I challenge you to believe.
Now, the lady's standing here. God be merciful to this woman, for she is in serious condition. Her trouble is in her bowels. That's right. And it's paralyzed, and the bowels are shrinking up. You even... When you do an enema, it just ... the water comes back. You're very seriously. Isn't that right, sister? That's right. All right, come here now. Let us pray. Everyone pray, 'cause this woman must have a touch from God.

90 Now, Heavenly Father, in the name of the Lord Jesus, the Son of God, I ask for this woman's healing. Thou art God, and a woman You can heal. I pray that You'll grant it to her as I lay my hands upon her, while the Holy Spirit that's anointing, who knows her life, is present; may she be healed. I condemn the enemy that's taking her life. And ask for her life to be extended, in the name of Jesus Christ. Amen. God bless you now. Now, if you believe with all your heart, now, you can have your healing.
Now, what about you, sister? You believe God take care of that thyroid trouble, and make you well? You was praying for that when I was praying for the woman, because standing before me was a redheaded woman, praying, with thyroid trouble. That's right. You're the woman, when you was standing back, there's the light above you right now, see.

91 Now, if that's right raise up your hand, if you wasn't praying. There you are. All right. Now, you can go and receive your healing. You touched Something. You never touched me. I don't know you, never seen you. You touched Something. What was it? The High Priest, Christ Jesus, who can be touched by the feeling of our infirmity. If thou canst believe. Have faith.
Let the lady stay there just a minute, turn around. Look this way, lady. You don't have to come up the stairs. Do you believe with all your heart? With this serious trouble, do you believe that God will make you well? [Unclear words]. You believe He will do it? I'm going to lay my hands on you and pray.

92 Father, this woman is in a dying condition. Thou alone can save, Lord. I pray that You'll grant it. May it be known, now, that nothing else can be done, but with her faith. May her faith raise up quickly and touch the hand of Christ, and may she be lifted and filled unto higher heights that she will go from here rejoicing and praising God in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ. Amen. Don't doubt, sister. May your strength mount up, and go be made well and healed. With all your heart, may God grant it to you.
Do you believe God would heal you of the same thing, make you well? That's a horrible thing, isn't it? But Christ, the Son of God, can heal and make well. Come here and let me pray for you. Heavenly Father, seeing this man right under the shadows of death, I pray that You'll be merciful to him and make him well and heal him; for I ask it in Jesus Christ's name and for His glory. Amen.
Now, sir, stop all your habits, see. Because that's what's hindering you now. Don't smoke and things like that. Go on and live for the Lord. And God will make you well. Go believing. Now, have faith in God.

93 All right. You think God will heal that bowel trouble for you, lady, and make you well? You believe it? All right. If you believe it with all your heart, it won't bother you no more. You touched Something, didn't you, sister? You touched Christ. Amen.
Now, I challenge your faith to believe. I just ask you in Christ's name to believe it, see, to see what'll take place, if you can believe it. I believe that everyone of you can be healed right now.

94 See, that's what alarms me, see. This is what gets me, see.
When I can see the Lord Jesus with His blessings come right down, and me take it page by page by the Bible, saying, "This is what He did. Here's what He promised. Read it yourself. This is what He said He'd do when He come. This is just exactly what He..." You read it right through.
I challenge you then, and say "Believe it." He'll come right down and do the same thing that He did then, prove it right straight back over, and yet he walked out just the same as he walked in. Can you see that America is finished? The Spirit has gone from the nation till the only thing's left is just a little bit of emotion. That's right.
Don't the Bible say that this will be the Laodicean age? What was the Laodicean age? A lukewarm church. Just enough that could be a little emotional, and that's about all there is to it. You see, dance while the music's a playing and start all over, just drop down, see. Oh, we ought to be on fire, our hearts a-burning. Christ is coming.

95 What has the devil done to us? He just moves you down to a place until you just seem like, "Well, it's all... Well, bless God, here I am." See, that's the trouble of it, friends. Please believe Him. Have faith in Him. Believe it with all your heart, and say, "Yes, Lord, I receive it. I accept it."
If the little bitty things right in this meeting would've took place in Africa tonight, you know what would've took place? There wouldn't be a feeble one among us. That's right. A Hottentot, he don't know which is right and left hand. That's right.
I offered one prayer, and Dr. F. F. Bosworth estimated and counted as it went through, twenty-five thousand healings after three people had been on the platform. Seven big truckloads of crutches and wheelchairs and things was took off of the ground immediately after prayer was made. Seven big cattle trucks full of clubs and stretchers and things.

96 And you colored people that's been here, that was your people. That was your people in Africa who doesn't have the things that you have. They don't even have clothes to wear. And I can't understand how that they think that civilization brings Christ. You got it mistaken. Christ brings civilization. And these civilization that we have today is not Christ controlled.
Let me ask you something. Women each year are taking more clothes off each year, till you get down till it's a horrible thing to see young and old on the street. And you go to church and call yourself, some of you, sanctified people, and with the Holy Spirit, church members, supposed to be elect. And each year you take off your clothes, ladies.

97 And when them raw heathens with not nothing on, a belt, no clothes up in this way at all. And as soon as they was converted, doubled their arms like this to walk out. If Christ to a heathen who didn't know any different, a thing that condemnation that let them know they're naked, what about people who's supposed to know Him, and civilized? Something's wrong somewhere. And I'm sure it's not with Christ. It's our modern civilization.
You see, right now when Christ doing what He... I challenge anybody to prove that's not the Bible, and that isn't Christ. You can't do it. It is Christ. Then if He's present, what's the matter with us? We should be rejoicing and thanking Him and accepting our healing and saying, "Yes, Lord, I reconsecrate my life to You. I want to love You. I want to do everything I can."

98 It ought not to come to where a minister has to tell you to do that. It ought to be coming from your heart. Not through a psychological, intellectual conception, but through a heartfelt expression to Christ. Amen.
I guess this is the man. I don't know you, sir. We're strangers to each other. If the Lord Jesus will reveal to this man... Here's a Nathanael now, a man standing here, a Nathanael. If the Lord Jesus will reveal this man's trouble, would you be willing to accept Jesus as your healer?
Now, don't pinch your flesh, but pinch your soul with the Word. "Wake me up, Lord. Open my eyes. What's the matter with me? Am I missing this? What's that preacher trying to get to me?" I'm trying to get this that you...
You say, "Well, Brother Branham, I belonged to church for years." But you'll die in your sins, see. What is sin? Unbelief. See, if quickly you receive it and accept Him and praise Him and say, "Thank You, Lord," let it be done. Walk right out of the building tonight perfectly well. If you're not, you're as good as well if you've accepted your healing in the seed form, by the Word, see. That's what...

99 I'm afraid that these big cities needs a lot of teaching. I'm sure they just worked up on emotions and so forth till they need real Scriptural teaching, how to receive it. One of these days, God willing, before the end comes, I want Him to let me get a great big place here somewhere where I can stay for a couple, three months, or a couple, three, four, or five weeks or something, so we can just stay right into it and just stay with the Word. [Audience starts clapping.] Thank you. God grant it.
Now, this man sitting here. If the Lord Jesus will grant this to this man... Are we strangers to each other, sir? We are. We're strangers. If the Lord Jesus will show this man, show to us what he's there praying for, how many in here say, "I'll accept it right then. I'm right now going to open my heart and turn my face right towards Christ." May the Lord grant it.
Got trouble in his neck. Is that right, sir? Raise your hand, see. Now, that can't be guessing. That's the truth. That's got to be truth. He's the judge. Now, how did I know it? I saw him. What did Jesus say to Philip? "I saw you. Thou art an Israelite in whom there is no guile."
Said, "How do You know me?"
Said, "I saw you when you was under the tree."

100 Let's talk to the man just a little longer. Will that satisfy you if the Lord will tell something else to him? Let him be the judge. I'm only just looking, sir, to see what would take place. Yes, you have other troubles. Right. It's trouble with somebody else. It's your brother. And your brother's at home with a nervous breakdown. Do you believe?
Not only that, but I see some sort of a institution appear here. It's your mother. She's in a mental institution. Do you believe? Now, put your hands on each other. Lay your hands, while you got hands up like that; you raise your hands to Christ. The Lord bless you, my brother.
Father God, give him the desires of his heart. May he go tonight and receive everything that he has asked for; in Jesus' name I ask it. Amen. God bless you. Go home and believe.
Now, to you people here, God has promised these things. I'm here to help you, friends. Why would I leave my home, my little children? Why would I come here just at Christmas time, when I'm gone all the year? Why would I come here for this purpose? I feel that maybe the Lord would help me to help you, see. And that's what I'm here for, see.

101 No matter if you're a little bitty group. You say, "Brother Branham, you say you preached?" Yes, sir, to a half a million at a time, see. That's true. Tens of thousands. Don't make any difference if there's only three of you. It's where God can use, or do something.
Now, this is your visitation. Believe me as your servant, as your brother. Now, if you have need of anything right now, while His presence is here... This weakens me. You could understand, if the Son of God saw one vision and said, "Strength went out of Me," what would me a sinner saved by grace, what would it do to me? Certainly. And it's just day, in and out, because He promised, "More than this shall you do, for I go to the Father."
Now, believe Him with all your heart, and you'll receive it. Now, you sick people, all that's sick, raise up your hand. All that's been sick. Now, you sitting by them, lay your hands over one another, the sick and the needy there. And let's pray together now for Father to heal. Now, just believe it with all your heart.

102 There's a lady that... Right there, lady, sitting, the elderly lady right back there with her hands up. Yes. Put your hands on her there if you will. And over here there's some people too with their hands up. Lay your hands on each other.
Now, young and old, while your heads are bowed just a moment. I wonder if there be a sinner here that would raise up your hand, or stand up to your feet, a sinner would say, "I now want to accept Christ while I'm in His presence. I've always wanted to do this, but tonight I now believe with all my heart that He's here, and I want to accept Him as my personal Savior."
Would you stand to your feet, a sinner that's never accepted Him before and you... A sinner is an unbeliever, of course. And now you may be a church member, but you'd still be a sinner if you disbelieve, see. Now, I don't mean intellectually believe. I mean from your heart believe, see. And if you are, would you stand?

103 I suppose there's not one, for that I'm thankful for. I believe you'd be honest and do it. Now, let us pray, all together; all you people who know how to pray, you pray with me now.
Heavenly Father, we now come and bring this people to Thee in the name of Thy Son, the Lord Jesus. We come because that we have been bidden to come. And now, in His presence as we stand waiting for the Holy Spirit to take the Word, and plant this Word right down in their heart. You're here, Lord, Your great Spirit just moving over the audience. Now, heal each one.

104 And I say to Satan who has bound these people with sickness, do you not understand, Satan, that you've lost the battle? Jesus the Son of God is present. We charge you by a commission of the Holy Spirit, that you leave every person in here. Come out, Satan. In Jesus Christ's name go from this audience, and these people might go home free, and go eat their meals, and enjoy health again. For Jesus Christ promised it. And we now take the initiative, by faith we believe it, in Jesus Christ's name. Amen.

Sirs, we would see Jesus

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1 Thank you very much, Brother Palmer. Good evening, friends. It's a privilege to be here in Tifton, Georgia, again tonight, but little did I ever know that I'd be taking the judge's place. I am coming to represent the judge tonight---the Judge of heaven. And I'm thinking, as I walked in the door, and looked at this people, and the way they were situated, to know this---that one day there will come a time where we will all meet again, if we never meet no more until then, and we'll be at another judgment seat. And there we will give an account for what we have done, and what we do tonight, what we say and our actions, and whether we are able to accept what we hear and to believe on the works of the Holy Spirit.
That being the case, it makes us rather tremble to think that what will take place at that day if our sins are not under the blood. It'll be a terrible day for many, and a glorious day for many, for it will be the day of rejoicing for those who have accepted our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. Then all of our sins will be put upon Him and He will be our attorney at the bar. I'm so glad to know tonight that the testimony that I have confessed all my sins to Him some thirty years ago, and have been on the field trying to represent Him to people as a real attorney who can plead the case so perfect until God forgives every sin, and sends back the seal of His recognition to us to be sons and daughters of His, the Holy Spirit, to give us witness.

2 And now, I love your city. I've just had perhaps my first little walk around the city today---and I would not have to say this, but I just want to say it---and the people are so friendly, and even the policemen are friendly and so nice, and everyone trying to help you to find places (I was trying to find a certain store). And then something struck me that just thrilled my heart. A man walked across the street, took ahold of my hand, and I thought I'd seen this gentleman before. And he introduced himself, and as I looked at him, I thought, "I've see him somewhere."
But he said, "Perhaps you don't remember me, Brother Branham," but said, "I brought a little one-eyed girl to you years ago. She only had one eye, for a little girl had scratched out the other eye. And I called you from down around ... somewhere around Miami, and you sent me back a telegram and said, "Come right on. Bring her on."
Well, of course, you know how it is at home. The long distance calls was averaging around forty-two long distance an hour, calling---people calling, wanting to come, and wanting me to come to pray for their sickness. Of course, they're needy. They wouldn't call, they wouldn't spend their money, if they didn't think there was some way of being helped.

3 And I told him to come on, and he brought the little girl along with the eye scratched out. And the doctors had given her up, after $1300 of doctor bills. The eye was scratched out. And praying for the little girl... He reached in his pocket and showed me a picture of a lovely mother now. His daughter married and has a little girl of her own. She was five years old when this happened. And before they left the state of Kentucky, the blue in her eye that was scratched out had begin to come back again, and when they got home the eye was normal as the other. And today she's just as perfectly and well as she can be, a mother of a little girl herself. She sent me a pair of shoes. Bless her heart.

4 All around over the country you find that. And I said to some of my friends that was with me, I said, "I wonder what it will be when we cross over to the other side and all this generation stands up in the judgment? Those who I've preached to, I'll have to stand as a witness for or against." God will know all things, whether they received or whether they did not, and the attitude that they taken. What will it be then when ... into the millions around the world?
I wonder if that gentleman is here now in the building that met me on the street this afternoon. There, yes, he's raising up his hand right there. Would you just stand up, brother, just ... I believe he's a deputy sheriff down here in Florida. That story's true. He's done testified of it, that's fine. Then along with the thousands, I just wonder what it will be at the day of the judgment when we all meet there at that day.

5 Tomorrow night I think they're having services back at the same place. I wish we had several days, where we could stay a little longer and get acquainted. But I thought maybe in this short time, coming here not knowing anyone---but with my precious friends, Brother and Sister Welch Evans, that I have learned to love through the time that I have known them---and just before going overseas, it would give me an opportunity to come get acquainted, and see if all the people down here were like the Evanses. I find that so, so I'm thankful for that.
Now, I'm going to turn the pages of the Bible just in a few moments for a text. Last evening kind of speaking to you on salvation plan, and I want this to be clearly known, that divine healing is not a major plan of God, and we could never major on a minor. But divine healing is included in the plan of salvation for God, for He was wounded---that's Christ, our Saviour, God's Son---He was wounded for our transgressions and with His stripes we were healed.

6 Now, tonight we're going to speak on divine healing and pray for the sick.
Now, I am not a divine healer. I don't believe there is such a person on this earth. I believe that there's people who preach and practice divine healing, but I do not believe that there is a divine healer. If that's so, then the Scripture is wrong, for in Psalm 103 David said, "Bless the Lord, O my soul: ... Who forgiveth all of thine iniquity; who healeth all of thy diseases." And if Jesus was wounded for our transgressions and with His stripes we were... Did you notice the quotation? Past tense, was wounded for our transgressions, with His stripes were... Was and were, past tense, already healed.

7 Now, the thing is to get the person... Divine healing is based upon not the merits of your salvation, or your church affiliation, or your standing, which is very, very fine, but the merits ... divine healing is based upon the merits of your faith---if thou canst believe. And surely if we could place enough faith in God to raise this body up from just a little spoonful of ashes off of the earth, surely we could trust Him to patch up these bodies to live for Him.
I believe it is what we would call the earnest. We have now the Holy Spirit, which is the earnest of our salvation, our eternal hope. Then we have divine healing as the earnest, or the down payment to prove that it belongs to us, of the resurrection, that our bodies will be raised up. When you see a person laying to a shadow of a cancer, eat up, till the cancer rather has eat him to a shadow, and see him rise to a new man, strong and healthy; see a person that's totally deaf and dumb, born that way, begin to speak and hear; a man that never seen daylight in his life, jump forth, screaming and praising God that he can see, and prove it by walking around showing people, and so forth, that he can see, live the rest of his life with good sight; that proves there's a resurrection, for a God that can bring that can bring forth the resurrection.

8 Now before we approach Him and the Scriptures... I do not belong to any denominational church. I did belong to the Missionary Baptist Church, which was the only church I ever joined. And then to come into this ministry when it was given to me---nothing against my precious brethren of that Baptist fellowship, wonderful men. But to come out here, and stand like this, and what little influence the Lord has given me... I don't belong to any certain denomination, so I can stand between them, and work for the kingdom of God, with no selfish motives, nothing to do but bring in the children. Let them pick the church of their choice. That's the way I think God would have us to do it.

9 But everything that we do or say must be based upon the Word of God, because no man can have faith unless it comes from the Word of God. Faith cometh by hearing, hearing of the Word. Now, if I told you that a certain, certain thing would take place, that might be so. It might do that. If I tell you that something seems impossible that it happened, it could happen. But when God has promised this thing, then you can have confidence that God keeps His Word. There's where my faith is built, on nothing less than the eternal Word of the eternal God.
And God is no better than His Word. I'm no better than my word, and you're no better than your word. If I can't take your word, then there's no need of me saying I have confidence in you, because I could not. And if you can't take my word, there's no need of you telling me you have confidence, because you can't. Then if we can't take God's Word, we can't have confidence. But when God has said it, and you believe it with all your heart that it is applied to you, it has to happen.

10 And may I go on record just now saying this, that I believe that the right mental attitude toward any divine promise of God will bring it to pass. If you can take the right attitude toward that promise, for the promise is a seed. A seed goes into the ground, and if it's a germitized seed, got life in it, it'll bring forth its kind if it's put in the proper place. If a seed is put into the ground... And Jesus said the Word of God was a seed a man sowed. He was the man that sowed it. And then if the Word of God is a seed, and the seed's put in proper condition, in a heart full of faith, it'll make every promise live---bring forth what it promised. Therefore, before we approach His Word let's speak to the author, as we bow our heads.

11 O Lord God, the eternal God who brought again the Lord Jesus from the dead, and has presented Him to us tonight in the form of the Holy Spirit as a witness of His resurrection and coming from the dead, some two thousand years has passed, but tonight He's just as real as He was when He walked in Galilee many, many years ago. And His promises are just as true to each believer tonight as it was when He made them in Galilee. And we would pray tonight, heavenly Father, that Thy mercy might be shed abroad in our hearts that we could fellowship around Thy Word and in Thy Spirit. May the great Holy Ghost come to each believer tonight and manifest Hisself as the resurrected Christ. Bless every church that's represented here, the pastors, and all the churches throughout this country and around about, all the members. Bless this court, Lord, who has opened their doors to let us have this courtroom, this city, its officials; and may by the cause of them being so generous to Thy people may there come a sweeping revival of righteousness throughout the city, and around the community, that there'll be no trouble for years to come. Grant it, Lord.

12 Heal the sick and the afflicted. Save those, Lord, who would be saved.
Speak to us through Thy Word and Thy Spirit. May it come and make the Word manifest, for it is written of You in Your last statement to Your church, "Go ye into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature. He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; and he that believeth not shall be damned. And these signs shall follow them that believe; In my name they shall cast out demons; they shall speak with new tongues; if they should take up serpent; or drink any deadly thing, it should not harm them; and if they lay their hands on the sick, they shall recover."
After that, you was received up into heaven, according to the infallible Word of God which cannot fail, and the disciples went everywhere, preaching the Word with signs following. We pray, Lord, that those signs that You said would follow to the end of the world and to every creature, help us to take it, Lord, and all of us together to rejoice around the blessings of the resurrection tonight. We ask it in the name of Jesus, Thy Son. Amen.

13 You who follow the Scriptures, I want you to turn with me now in the Bible to St. John, the twelfth chapter, for a few moments. And we wish to read from the twentieth and twenty-first verses of St. John the twelfth chapter.
And there were certain Greeks among them, that came up to worship at the feast:
And the same came therefore to Philip, which was of Bethsaida of Galilee, and desired him, saying, Sir, we would see Jesus.
And as a subject (that for a topic), and as a subject I would like to read the seventh and eighth verses of Hebrews 13.
Remember them which have rule ... over you, who have spoken to you the word of God: whose faith follow, considering the end of their conversation.
Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today, and for ever.
May the Lord add His blessings to the reading of His Word.

14 Now, these Greeks, I believe, expressed the feeling of all of us, and it's been the cry of the human heart through the ages to see God. Even Job in the Old Testament wanted to know where He lived at. He wanted to go up to His door and knock on the door, as if to say he would like to talk it over with Him. And these Greeks, being scholars, and understood much of their words and of their theology of their day, heard about Jesus as being the Son of God. And they thought the most reasonable thing to do would be to come to see Him, would be to find one of His servants that could introduce Jesus to them. That's the right approach. And when we follow out the right approach, I'm sure God will take care of the rest, if we follow the right approach.
And how their hearts must have been hungering, as ours tonight. I do not believe that there's any person who ever heard the word, the name of Jesus, but what hungers and thirsts to see Him.

15 I believe if I should say to this courtroom tonight, "How many in here would like to see Him?" every hand would go up, because we want to see Him. It's just human nature to know that there's something behind the curtain, and we want to see what that is. Where did we come from? And if our Bible tells us that our names were put on the Lamb's book of life before the foundation of the world, surely there was Someone knew us before there was a world.
Who is that person? The Mohammedans would say that was Mohammed. Buddha worshipers would say Buddha. The Sikhs would ... and the Jains and the different religions of the world, would speak it's their god, or their god. And I've had the grand privilege to stand before twenty or thirty different religions, hold their books in one hand and this Bible in the other, and say, "One of them has got to be wrong, and there's only one of them right."

16 I say this, of course, to a Christian nation (it's called a Christian nation) that Christianity is the only one that's right. It's the only one that can prove that their founder still lives. Mohammed, at his grave there's been a white horse standing for two thousand years, changing the guards every four hours. Buddha died about 2,300 years ago. All the different ones are dead and in the grave; but Jesus lives! The grave could not hold Him. He rose again and He lives forevermore.
And then if He does live, and the Scripture says that He does, then if He does live, the Scripture is right when it says that He is the same yesterday, today, and forever. Now not something like Him, but the same---same life, the same Jesus. Then we've got a right to ask God tonight---or the Holy Spirit, which is His witness---we've got a right to ask Him tonight, "Sir, we would see Jesus." Just as much right as those Greeks had, if He's the same yesterday, today, and forever. The same right. And I'm sure He'll not disappoint us, because His Word said He is the same, and I believe it. If it wasn't so, I wouldn't be here tonight.

17 Someone said to me the other day, said, "What if there isn't any Jesus when you come to the end of the world? What if it's all not true?"
I said, "Sir, it's true, I know it's true."
He said, "Well, what if it isn't?"
I said, "I'll take your side of the argument. If it isn't true, there was One who gave His life to make the world a better place to live, brought us civilization, homes and children, and love and food and clothing. I owe my life to Him anyhow." I'd give it to Him anyhow and if He turns me down at the end of the road He's still just. And if He says, "Depart from me and go into the devil's hell," something will have to change my spirit or I'd love Him in hell, no matter where it is, because I know something happened to me. We owe Him our lives. We owe Him all that we are. All the good things there is come by Him, and there's nothing good but what come by Him. "Sir, we would see Jesus."

18 It reminds me of a little story that I've often referred to. I live by the side of the Ohio river. And there was a little boy who went to a certain church in my city. And he was an enthusiastic little boy, and the little fellow had faith. And he'd heard so much about God. (And he did not go to our church. He went to another church.) And he went to his mother one day and he said, "Mama..." He was about ten years old, I guess, little fellow for his age. And he said, "I want to ask you something."
She said, "Junior, go ahead and ask."
He said, "If this God that you tell me about, and the pastor speaks from the pulpit, and the Sunday school teacher tells us about in Sunday school, if He is such a great God, why can't we see Him?" That's a very sensible question.
And she said, "Sonny, I'm not able to answer such a question. Ask your Sunday school teacher." And the little fellow, the following Sabbath, asked his Sunday school teacher the question.
She said, "I'm not able to answer you. Go see the pastor."
And he went to the pastor and the pastor said, "My little lad, I am fond of your enthusiasm, but I'd like to say to you this, that no man can see God."
Well, it disappointed the little fellow. "How would I really understand if He made the earth and the heavens and all these great things, and then I can't see Him?"

19 He used to go up on the river with an old fisherman. They fished in the ... commercial fishing, and he went up to run the nets up near the Six-Mile Island above Louisville. And it come up a rain, and on the road back they had to get into the bushes to keep from being washed in with the rain and the storm. After the storm was over, the sun came out, the old fisherman bailed out his boat, put the little boy in the stern, and pushed out from the bank and started down the river. And as he was clipping the oars against the waves, as only a boatman knows the rhythm, the sun was going down in the west; and across the east, which he was faced, pulling his boat, there came a rainbow.
And the little fellow, sitting quiet for awhile, noticed the old fisherman breathing, and catching his breath, and snubbing. After a bit he noticed great, glistery, white tears rolling down his gray beard, dropping on his bosom. And the little fellow become emotional, excited, and he rushed from the stern of the boat up to the middle, and fell down at his knees, and said, "Sir, I want to ask of you a question." Said, "My mother, or Sunday school teacher, or neither my pastor can answer me." He said, "I noticed you looking at the rainbow, and as I understand from the Scriptures that God gave it as a sign, and if God is so great, why can't we see Him?"
And the old man, kind of upset because of the little lad's enthusiasm, pulled his oars into his lap, took the little boy in his arms, and looked him in the face, and brushed back his hair, and gazed him in the eyes, and he said, "Sonny, all I've seen for the past forty years has been God." There was so much in the old fisherman. The only way to see God is get Him on the inside of you so He can use your eyes. You'll see Him.
But if you're trying to see Him on an intellectual conception of His Word, or some emotional workup, it'll never count anything. He's got to be in you.

20 Then you'll cry at the sunset and the sunrise. You'll watch the majesty of fall of the year coming, before even frost or a cool breeze has ever hit the earth. The sap will leave the trees and go down in the roots, hide, because if it stays up there the winter will kill the tree. Then I ask this question: what intelligence runs that sap out of the tree down into the roots to hide for the winter? Oh, the infidel has no grounds. But when He comes in, you'll notice Him in everything.
I think the church today... When I say "church" I don't mean just any denomination. I mean all the church together. There's only one church. I've been with the Branham family fifty years and they never did ask me to join their family. Why? I was born a Branham. I was born into the family. That's the reason that we are ... how we get into the church, we are born into the church. By one Spirit we're brought into the fellowship of the Son of God, and we're made partakers of His grace and His glory and within us is eternal life.

21 There was a lady in a ten-cent store not long ago in Louisville. She was attracting the attention of the people. She had about a two-year-old lad in her arms, and she was going from counter to counter picking up little things, and saying, "Look, dearie, looky here. Just look at this, Baby." And she got more nervous all the time, from counter to counter picking up little things to see what ... the baby, to attract its attention, things that ought to attract the attention of a child of that age. And finally she come to a little bell, and she picked the little bell up. Nervously she rang it. She said, "Look, Honey, look, Mama's darling, look." But the little lad just stared.
Then she fell across the counter, crying, "Oh, no, no, it can't be so." The people run to her to see what was wrong. She said, "I've had my little baby to the doctor." Said, "Some weeks ago, he just, like, went into a coma, a daze." And said, "He won't pay any attention to anything that should attract the attention of a child that age. There's something's wrong with him. The doctor says he's better, but he isn't."
I wonder if that ain't the state of the church tonight, after two thousand years that God has shoved everything in front of the church. They ought to be old enough to know these things. They've had a Billy Graham, an Oral Roberts, a Jack Schuller, a Tommy Hicks. The Holy Spirit moving, showing signs and wonders of His coming, and the church seems to sit dazed, not noticing. Oh, if we could only realize, if we could only come to ourself and wake up, that it's the hand of God!

22 The largest crowd I ever had the privilege of preaching to was in Bombay, India, about three years ago, five hundred thousand. And when we got there I read the newspaper, as many of the bishops and so forth come out to the airport to greet us, and piles of garlands, you know how they do, as a salute. And I picked up a paper and it said, "Well, the earthquake must be done." A few days before there, there was something mysteriously happened. All the little birds that lived in the crevices of the big rock fences and the big towers... They don't have fences there, many, like we have. They're poor, pick up the rocks on the field. There's 470,000,000 of them in India, and perhaps over two-thirds of them are beggars. So they pick up the rocks and make the fences.
And little birds make their nests and live in these rocks. And when it comes evening time, and the sun is hot in the tropics, the cattle stand around the side of these fences to get in the shade. But a strange thing happened.

23 One day, nobody knows why at that time, all the little birds took away from the rocks. They went out into the trees. All the cattle run away from the fences and stood in the field, and they wouldn't come back. Hours passed, and they didn't know what caused this strange emotion. Then an earthquake hit, shook the walls down. If the little birds had been there, they'd have perished. If the cattle would've stood there, they'd have been killed.
If those animals by instinct---the same they had in the days of Noah, the Spirit of God through instinct---could run them from danger, what ought the church of God to do, filled with the Holy Spirit, to flee the wrath that is to come, unto the safe place in Christ.
Sirs, we would see Jesus.

24 Oh, we could stay hours at the subject, but let's come to the spot. The only right way, if I should say to all the Baptists here tonight, "Do you believe that Jesus is the same yesterday, today and forever?"
"Yes."
Methodists, Presbyterian, Lutheran, Pentecostals, all the different churches would say, "Yes, we believe it."
Then I'm going to ask you a question like this. If He is the same, then why can't we see Him the same? Now, that's a great statement to make, but I'm not making it otherwise than God's Word said so. I'm just saying what He said. It's not up to me to prove it; it's up to Him to keep His Word. It's up to Him. It lays it in His lap and not in our lap.
Now, I wish you would notice a minute, the only real way that we can believe it is to go back to His life and find out what He was yesterday, and then we'll see what He is today. And if He isn't the same today that He was yesterday, then He isn't the same.

25 Now, we know in the beginning, when He came on earth the people were looking for a Messiah. But thousands of them did not know the nature of this Messiah because they never studied the Word. They studied it in the line of their creed or their denomination or their sect. They studied it according to that, but not according to the way God said. For if you'll notice, God told Moses, in Deuteronomy 18:15, that "The Lord your God shall raise up a Prophet among you, liken unto me." And it would come to pass that whosoever would not hear this prophet will be cut off from the people. The real believers were looking for a God-prophet to come.
Now, let's go back. I believe we read out of St. John. Anywhere in the Scriptures would be all right, but we're studying the book of St. John now. We began at the twelfth chapter. Let's go back to the beginning of St. John and study for a moment. We know we just passed through the holidays about His birth and so forth, how He came. Now He enters His ministry in St. John 1. After His water baptism to fulfill all righteousness---not that He had to be baptized, because He was born the Son of God. Then I want to ask you something: If goodness is all you need, a good clean life, why did Jesus have to go to Jordan to be baptized in water and receive the Holy Ghost, when He ... everything about Him was godly? Conceived in the womb of a virgin, but yet had to go to Jordan and be baptized. And John bare record seeing the Spirit of God like a dove descending, the voice saying, "This is my beloved Son." It behooved Him to fulfill all righteousness! (I'm not yelling at you. I know this little room, but I've been used to speaking outdoors much.)

26 Notice, the first thing He did after His temptation in the wilderness, He came forth as the anointed Messiah, the Messiah, the Christ. Christ means "the anointed one." He was born Jesus, the man; but when the Holy Ghost came into Him, He was the anointed Messiah. The Bible said, "God was in Christ reconciling Himself to the world," God, living in Him. The fullness of the Godhead was in Him.
God poured all He was into Christ; Christ poured all He was into the church. On the day of Pentecost when they were assembled together and that pillar of fire came down, it divided with cloven tongues and sat upon each of them, showing that God was dividing Himself among His people. That's the reason I stand the way I do today between the churches. We've got to come together. The more we are together, the more God there is present. Not as I'm against the denominations, or so forth. No, but don't... Bury your fence, we're all children of God by the new birth.

27 Now, when Jesus took His earthly ministry, let's follow Him a few minutes and watch what kind of a thing He did to prove He was Messiah, and watch the attitudes of the people. Now, not to be rude, but let me repeat that again so that you'll be sure to know it's a double statement that I'm making, the same statement twice. Let us see what He did in that day to prove He was the Messiah; and what He did then to show He was Messiah, if He's the same today He'll do the same today. And remember, He did not visit the Gentiles, and forbid His church to do the same. Only the Jews and the Samaritans, and the Samaritans was half Jew and Gentile. And there's only three classes of people on the earth, any way you want to take it: that's Ham, Shem and Japheth's people. That's Jew, Gentile and Samaritan. That's the tribes of the earth after the antediluvian destruction---Noah's children, we all sprung from them. The places we live change our color---white, black, brown, yellow, whatever it was---but altogether one human race. One can give the other one a blood transfusion and live.

28 Now, notice, then, Jesus, the first thing we find Him... In St. John 1 there was a man named Andrew who saw Jesus and believed on Him as the Messiah, and went quickly to get his brother Simon. And when Simon---who later was called Peter, Cephas, which is by interpretation a stone, little stone---when he found Peter he said, "Come now and go with me." And he brought him to Jesus. And we learn that Peter was an ignorant man, unlearned. I doubt whether he could sign his own name. The Scripture says he was both ignorant and unlearned. Then why do we have to have so much scholarship?
I'd just like to ask that simple question to you ministers. I don't know which side you're on. I want to ask you a question.

29 When Paul was converted, no doubt the church at Jerusalem said, "We got the man now who can match the wits with these Pharisees. He's smart, he's intelligent. We got the man now [after Paul had been saved]. And we'll send this ignorant fisherman who's the head of the church here now at Jerusalem, we'll send him out amongst the ignorant." You notice what God did? He took Paul, the educated, and sent him among the ignorant; and took the ignorant one and sent him among the educated ones. See, God does things in His own way! It's simple faith to believe God, that's what it takes.
But as soon as Jesus laid eyes upon this man Peter, He said, "Your name is Simon and your father's name is Jonas." How that must have struck him. "Your name is Simon [never seen him before in his life], and your father's name is Jonas."
And by this, it struck Simon, "This must be that prophet." And he accepted Jesus as his Saviour, was filled with the Holy Ghost on the day of Pentecost, and become the head of the church, because he recognized that was the sign of the Messiah.

30 Jesus goes a little farther, and He finds one named Philip, and He said, "Follow me, Philip! Philip, follow me." Away went Philip to his friend Nathanael. Now, if you've ever been in Palestine where Jesus was praying for the sick, it's about fifteen miles around the mountain to where he found Philip. Let's use a little drama here so that the children will catch it.
I can see him go up there to Philip's house and knock at the door, and his wife said, "Philip is not in just now, Nathanael" ... or, I mean, "Nathanael is not in, Philip." (Pardon me.) And she said, "He just went out to the olive trees just a few moments ago. He's had a burden on his heart for a few days." You know, when you get a burden on your heart something is fixing to happen. I hope we can all get a burden tonight for this lost nation and lost world that Jesus died for!

31 And He went out into the orchard, and down through the trees, and [unclear word] up the trees. And after awhile I can imagine him hearing something praying, "O Jehovah God, many days have we looked for the coming of the righteous One, Your holy promise to us."
And, of course, Philip, a Christian gentleman (after meeting Jesus, you know it makes you a gentleman), he stood back when they were having prayer and bowed his head. After he was finished praying, got up and dusted off his robe. Oh, now notice, he didn't say, "How do you do, Philip?" or, "How's all the fruit getting along?" He had a message and it was urgent! Brother, we ain't got time for foolishness today, ice cream suppers and chicken suppers. The message is urgent, let's get it out!
Quickly, he said, "Come see who we have found." Oh, when you find Jesus I might say this, that there's something about it that you can't hold still. You've got to tell somebody. "Come see who we have found, Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph."

32 Well, of course, this staunch Israelite, a member of the Sanhedrin, said, "Now, wait a minute, Philip, I know you must be ... you've went off on the deep end. [You know, as they like to say it that way.] I've knowed you to be a good honest man. A man level, a man with good thinking, good judgment, sound doctrine. Now you come tell me that the Messiah come out of Nazareth. Why, if the Messiah would've come out of Nazareth, out of that carpenter's shop... It couldn't be so. If He would've come, He'd have walked down the golden corridors of glory and would have come to Caiaphas the high priest."
Today we think He'd have to come to the Pentecostal church or He wouldn't come at all. Or you'd say He'd have to come to the Baptist church, or the Presbyterian, or the pope of Rome, or the archbishop of Canterbury. Let me tell you, God comes where He wants to come! It's up to us to follow Him, not to question Him.

33 And He said, "Now, you know that such a thing could not happen. And why would you tell me such a thing?"
Now, here's a good sound theology that Nathanael used that all of you should use. It showed just good common sense. He said, "Come see for yourself." That's it, that's good sound thinking. Don't misjudge it; just come see for yourself.
Let's break in on their conversation along the road. I can see Nathanael tell his wife good-bye, and say, "I'm going with this fellow. I think he's all excited. I'll be back dear, in a couple days."
"All right, go on, Philip."
I can hear him say, "Say, I've got something to tell you. Do you know we have always looked forward since the days of Moses and when he gave us the law? And the law was to last till so long, and then the Lord our God should rise up a prophet among us."
"Yes," said Nathanael. "Oh, I've often read the book of Deuteronomy."
"All right, and then this prophet was to be the God-prophet different from other prophets. He was to be a Son of God, said Isaiah."
"Yes, I remember all that."
"Well, you know what happened the other day? Do you remember them fish you bought from that old man called Simon, that was so ignorant he couldn't sign a receipt for you?"
"Yes, I remember him."
"Well, he came walking up in front of this one who we know to be the Messiah, and He said, 'Your name is Simon and you're the son of one called Jonas.' And Simon believed. Oh, Nathanael, it wouldn't surprise me but what He'd call your name when you come up."
"Ahhh, now." That's good preparation anyhow. So he said, "Oh, now, wait just a minute. I couldn't believe that."

34 So they finally, perhaps the next day, arrived on the scene where Jesus was praying for the sick. And I don't know, I wasn't there, but perhaps he come up to the audience where ... like what you're standing. Or maybe he sat down, or perhaps he got into the line. I don't know. The prayer line was probably passing by Jesus, and He was praying for them, and laying hands on them, as about 86% of His ministry, you know, was praying for the sick. Then when He passed by, one to the other, finally He looked up and He saw Nathanael coming, and He cried out, "Behold an Israelite in whom there is no guile." In other words, a just man, a good man.
Why, it startled him. And he didn't ask Philip to speak for him; he spoke for himself. He said, "Sir, how do you know me? I've never met you in my life. How do you know that I'm a just man?" Not by his dress. There were Greeks, and there were Arabs, and all the Eastern people dress alike. Not by his dress or by his dark complected people. Not by his skin, not by his dress, but something inside of Him, God that was in Him. He said, "Behold an Israelite in whom there's no guile."
He said, "When did you know me, sir?"
He said, "Before Philip called you, when you were under the tree, I saw you." Oh! Saw him? What eyes! Fifteen miles around the mountain! "I saw you when you were under the tree."
Nathanael was trained in the Scriptures. He ran forward and said, "Rabbi [that means teacher], Thou art the Son of God. You are the King of Israel." Oh, there you are.
What was He doing? Making Himself known to the Jewish race. That was a sign of the Messiah. Jesus turned and said, "Because I told you that, you believe. Then you'll see greater things than this," because he believed it and accepted it.

35 But, of course, there were those who stood by who did not believe it. Many of the rabbis, scholars, good men, just men, holy men with their hands behind them, and they could not give their congregation an answer. The miracle was performed, the Scripture was fulfilled, and they couldn't answer their congregation. So they said, "He's a mind reader, a devil." We all know that that's of the devil. Fortune-teller, that's a good word. Fortune-teller. "He's of the devil. Beelzebub. He's the prince of all the devils."
What did Jesus say? I might say this for your good. Jesus said, "You speak that against the Son of man, I'll forgive you, but [like this so they'll clearly understand] there'll come a time when the Holy Ghost will come and will do the same thing. One word against it will never be forgiven in this world, nor the world to come." Bear that in mind.

36 Of course, that's the way He declared Himself among His Jewish people.
We could go on and on, to Bethesda and many different places where the things that He did, showing to the Jews that He was the Son of God. But there was Samaritan people. Now, He had need to go by Samaria. Wonder why? Jesus had to give witness of His Messiahship, so He... No doubt the Father had told Him. So He said, in St. John 5:19, "Verily, verily, I say unto you, the Son [the man, the flesh, the baby, the boy, the man, Christ Jesus], the Son can do nothing in Himself, but what He sees the Father doing: that doeth the Son likewise." In other words, "The Father shows me by a vision what to do, and I do just that and nothing else." Now, we all know that's inspired. Now, Jesus said, "Anything outside of that, that scripture is wrong. Verily, verily [that's 'absolutely, absolutely'], I say unto thee, the Son [that's Jesus, the body, the man, the son of Mary], the Son can do nothing in Himself but what He sees [not hears, sees] the Father doing, that doeth the Son likewise." Sign of Messiah. "I always do that which is pleasing to the Father."

37 Now, He had need go by Samaria. (We'll hurry.) And He sent His disciples away to buy some vittles. And they went into the city and was trying to buy food. And while He was sitting there, a Jewish man not but thirty-something years old, about thirty-two, but He must have looked older. You know the Pharisees and them judged Him to be fifty. Perhaps His work in His physical body had grayed Him a little, or broke His shoulders down. Said, "You say that you saw Abraham, when you're not yet over fifty years old. We know now you got a devil."
He said, "Before Abraham was, I am." And I AM was in the burning bush---Moses, as we spoke of last night.

38 But He was sitting over in a little panoramic, if you've ever seen the Oriental wells where ... the public well where all the people come to get water. He was sitting over there, perhaps resting, because the Bible said He was weary in His way, waiting for His disciples to come. Now, I'm going to give a little illustration here. This could be changed a bit, if you ever go to the Orient. But let's say a pretty young woman, say she's twenty-five years old, and it was about noontime, perhaps between eleven and twelve o'clock. They was gone to get some lunch.
And this pretty young woman had a waterpot on her head. That's the oriental. I've watched them put one five-gallon pot on top of their head, one on each arm like that. Stick it on their hips and walk right along, talking as only women can, and never spill a drop. Just walking along, talking about things, and talking and turning their heads to one another. It's amazing. And she ... because they're trained. You talk about in Hollywood, they put books on their head to make them walk right. What we need on the head is the power of the Holy Ghost. That'll make you walk right, not a book. This Book made manifest, that changes your walk altogether.

39 And there she was, walking up to the well with the waterpot. She takes it off and sets it down, puts the little hook in it to let the windle down to take the water. And when she rubbed the bucket a little or the... It's not ... it's earthen pot, it wasn't metal. It was kind of a clay, got handles on them like a jug. And when she did that, she looked over there and she seen a man who had spoke to her, and said, "Woman, bring me a drink." Watch the ... now, He's at Samaria. What's He going to do at Samaria to make them see the Messiahic sign? Because He can't give one nation that sign and not give it to another, because God is infinite---He has to be the same. So He said, "Woman, bring me a drink."
And she said, "Sir, it's not customary for you to ask me that." They had segregation. Said, "It's not right for you to ask me such a thing. I'm a woman of Samaria, and you are a Jew, and we have no dealings with one another." They'd been cast out. You ministers remember when it was, when Balaam taught them and so forth, and brought forth that class of people. And they were an off-cast. They were looking for a holy bloodstream to stay clean, and they wanted no associations with no other nation. Whether it's half-breeds or what, they had nothing to do with them. And when she said, "Bring..."
He said, "Bring me a drink."
She said, "It's not customary for you to ask this."
He said, "If you only knew who's speaking to you, you'd ask me for a drink, and I'd give you waters that you don't come here to draw, everlasting life, joy unspeakable bubbling up within the soul."

40 "Oh," she said, "the well's deep. You don't have nothing to draw with. Where you going to get this water?"
He begin to talk to her. What was He doing? Now you have to take my word for this. He was trying to find her spirit. See, what the Father had told Him, to go down to Samaria, but now He has to wait for the vision. May I say it like this. God sent us here tonight. Now we wait for the vision to see what the Father will say. He waited. He carried a conversation with her, and begin to talk to her.
And she said, "Well, you say worship at Jerusalem, and we say in this mountain."
And He told her, He said, "It's not either in this mountain or at Jerusalem, but God is a Spirit, and they that worship Him must worship Him in Spirit and in truth." What was He doing? Contacting her spirit to see where her trouble was. And when He found it, we all know what it was. He never said nothing exactly about her trouble. He said, "Go get your husband and come here."
"Why," she said, "I have no husband."
He said, "Thou has said well, for you've had five husbands and the one that you're living with now is not your husband, so you've said well."

41 Notice, look at that prostitute! She knowed more about the Bible than a lot of ministers does today. She did. She never called Him a devil. She give Him a fair answer. She said, "Sir, we, the Samaritans, we know that there's coming One. You must be a prophet." Watch, "You must be a prophet." If you run that margin reading, you take it right back to the same thing---the prophet. But she said, "You must be a prophet." Not a Beelzebub like the church told Him. Not a demon or a devil-possessed person but, "You must be a prophet. And we know that when the Messiah cometh, He's going to tell us these things, the Messiah who's called Christ."
Listen to these words. He said, "I am he that speaks with you." She quickly recognized the sign of the Messiah. If that was the Messiahic sign, if that was the Messiahic sign then, it's the same today if He is the same yesterday, today, and forever.

42 Said, "A little while and the world won't see me no more, yet you'll see me, for I [not a thought now---the Holy Spirit is a person], I will be with you, even in you to the end of the world. And the works that I do [St. John 14:12], shall you do also."
Think of it, the Jew, the Samaritans. And she run into the city after the disciples come up and went and told the men of the city. She said, "Come see a man that's told me the things that I've done. Isn't this the very Messiah?" Oh, my, I feel religious right now. Why can't the world see that today? Because they're blinded.
The devil never takes his spirit off the earth. He takes his person, his man. God never takes His Spirit; He takes His man. God took Elijah and the spirit of Elijah come upon Elisha. Then finally it came down eight hundred years later on John the Baptist. Predicted again in the last days. God took His Son Jesus, but the Spirit come back. You got the critics, you got the Pharisees, you got the believers. It's up to you to make the decision. We would see Jesus.

43 Now, you notice, He never went to any Gentile, and forbid his church to go. Now, just one moment now, I want to ask you something. Jesus, speaking of His coming... You remember, He didn't go to the Gentiles. Why? They wasn't looking for Him. We Gentiles, Anglo-Saxons, was walking around with a club on our back two thousand years ago, not much more than cave men. We wasn't looking for no Messiah. So He only comes to those who are looking for Him. You want to see Him? Are you looking for Him? That's how He comes, when you're looking for Him.
Some minister said to me not long ago, "I do not believe in divine healing."
I said, "Well, there's too much evidence against you, sir. The Bible and the evidence." I said, "I can produce thousands and thousands of cases, tens of thousands."
Said, "I don't care, I don't believe it."
I said, "Of course. It wasn't sent to unbelievers. It was only to those who believe. It's not for unbelievers." To him that believeth; not to unbelievers. It's a stumbling block to him; a stepping stone to the believer.
Then when it come to the place

44 before Jesus left, He predicted the end of the Gentile world. He said, "As it was in the days of Sodom, so shall it be in the coming of the Son of man. (If you'll pardon me, you precious ones who are standing in the balcony, in the aisles and around the walls, I don't want to cramp you, but I don't know, we may never meet again this side of the river. I want you to be sure that you got Scripture of what I'm talking to you about. It's not something that I've made up. It's what the Bible has said and promised.)
Now, let's see. We all know that Jesus made that quotation in Luke, "As it was in the days of Sodom, so shall it be in the coming of the Son of man."

45 Did you notice? The people were segregated in three different sections, three different classes. There was the Sodomites. Many Bible readers knows what that is. It's a perversion. And I've read it... I just left San Jose a few weeks ago at the fairgrounds where we had a meeting, and homosexuals is on the increase of about 30% or more over Los Angeles---men with men perverted from the natural course of life. Signs of the end-time. Washington is full of it, the nation is full of it. Beatniks, perversions, everything. "As it was in the days of Sodom," said Jesus, "it'll be that way just before the coming of the Son of God."

46 How the world is perverted! Uncensored television casts, people staying home to watch television instead of going to church. What a disgrace!
You're hungering for something, thirsting for something. God made you to thirst. That's the way He made you. How dare you ... you've got no right to try to hush that holy thirst with the things of the world, when you're supposed to thirst after God, and He'll fill that thirst with the Holy Spirit. You've got no right to give that precious thirst to... God, the creator, made you a place in your heart to thirst for something and you try to satisfy it with the things of the world---sin, drinking, gambling, running around, sinful. You have no right to that. God be merciful to this nation, and others.
As it was in the days of Sodom, there was three. One was the Sodomites, that's the world. The next was Lot, the church nominal---just a church that goes to church, and says ... as I said last night, quoted David DuPlessis, "grandchildren." Just took into the church because, "Well, Mama belonged to the Methodist church, Baptist church, Pentecostal church. I'm just natural a Baptist, or Presbyterian." That's a grandchild. God has got no grandchildren; they're all sons and daughters. You've got to be born again, just like Papa and Mama was, or you're not a child of God. He has no grandchildren. If you're a Methodist and a son of God, God bless you; or a Baptist son of God, or a Pentecostal son of God, just as long as you're a son of God, no matter what church you belong.

47 There was Lot, lukewarm.
And there was Abraham, the third group. Now remember, Abraham had separated himself. The church means "called out." He didn't want any of Sodom and Gomorrah. He didn't care what it was down there. He'd take the way, the rugged way, to live close to God. I wonder if men and women of Tifton, are you ready to do that? You know we've been told that you have to be a millionaire and have a fleet of Cadillacs before you can be spiritual. How different that is from real Pentecost! At Pentecost they sold what they had and laid it at the feet of the apostles, and they didn't ask no easy way. They took the rugged way, and was happy and rejoicing to bear the reproach of His name.
Today we are so different, so different. We want everything easy. "If you'll promise me that I'll have everything easy..." God doesn't give promises like that. I like that old song of the church, "I'll take the way with the Lord's despised few." Abraham did that. "Have for a pillow, like Jacob, a stone." No matter what it is, that's the way we must come.

48 Now, Abraham had separated himself. That meant the church spiritual. Lot was church nominal, and Sodom was the world. That's exactly the position we stand in today. There is the world, perverted; there's the church nominal; and there's the church spiritual.
Now, watch. While Abraham was sitting out under his oak, three men came up. Abraham didn't know who they were, and they seemingly didn't know Abraham. Perhaps dust on their clothes, but there was something in Abraham, he wanted to hear them. Said, "Won't you drop over just a minute and sit down under the oak, and I'll fetch a little water and wash your feet."

49 Now, remember Jesus said this is the way it'll be just before the coming of the Son of man. We see the churches and the conditions just that way---the world in its chaos, the church nominal and the church spiritual.
Now watch. When they sat down, Abraham, as soon as he begin to look around over those three preachers, he began to know that there was some little tinkling somewhere, for "My sheep know my voice." He said... Now, run into the tent, run out behind the tent into the herd, and got a little fat calf, and killed it and said, "Take, dress it right quick." Run in and said to his ninety-year-old wife Sarah, "Make a little hoecake [as we'd call it here in the south], put it on the hearth, and knead your flour right good, or your meal, and lay it on the hearth; and bring me some milk right quick from the herd."
And he went back out, and he said, "Now wait, I'll fetch a little morsel of bread, and you'll rest yourself," and said, "then you can go on your journey."

50 They was sitting there, three men, dust on their clothes. Looked like men, and as far as they was, they were men. They were sitting there, and after awhile they got the meal ready. And Abraham slipped around or the servant brought it. I can see Abraham get the old fly bush.
How many of you Southerners know what a fly bush is? I used to have to fan the flies at the table when company would come, you know, before we had screen doors. Way back in Kentucky where we had to live poor, little ol' cabin up on the side of the hill, seventy-five cents a day hauling logs. It was rough, no clothes.

51 And Abraham standing there, and the servant brought forth the meat, and they sat down and eat. Could you imagine who that was eating? After a bit, the one that talked to Abraham, Abraham called Him Elohim. That was Jehovah God. Elohim, God in the form of a man, sitting there eating the meat of a calf, eating veal chops, drinking milk, eating cornbread---God Himself, the creator. Someone said to me not long ago, "Preacher, you don't mean to say that was God." It was God. The Bible said it was. Abraham said it was. He should know, he was there.
Think our God is not that big? All He had to do was reach over and get a handful of calcium, and potash, and petroleum, and cosmic light, and "whew" breathe in, say "Come here, Gabriel, step in here." Go get another handful, and say, "Come on, Wormwood, you step in this one." And stepped in one Hisself. He's the creator! Abraham called Him Jehovah-jireh---the Lord will provide, whatever He has need of. He can provide a preacher. He can provide anything.

52 Now notice, two of them kept looking towards Sodom. Now I say this reverently and with respect. Let's take a modern Jack Schuller or Billy Graham goes down into Sodom, the world, to the church nominal, and preach the gospel, "Come out, for this place is going to burn." And Lot, the backslidden Christian believer, lukewarm, tried to tell his people, but they laughed at him. "Aw, nonsense!" That's just what you get. But they didn't perform any miracles, only smote some men blind, and the preaching of the gospel does smite blind to the unbeliever. But watch this one that stayed with Abraham. (I'm closing now, we're fixing to close in a minute.)

53 Watch Jesus, what He said it would be in the last day. There was the church nominal getting their message, for Billy Graham and many of the great men has swept the earth with it. The church spiritual has to get their message in the last days because Jesus said, "As it was in that day, so shall it be..."
Watch this angel, how he acts, or this man. He had his back turned to the tent, and he said, "Abraham, where is your wife Sarah?" Women then wasn't like they are now, have to run out and take their husband's place, and butt in everything he's saying. They stayed back in the tent. He'd never seen... He said, "Where is... ?" How did he know he had a wife if he was just a man? How did he know that her name was Sarah?
"Oh," he said, "my wife Sarah is in the tent behind you." And Sarah was inside the tent.
He said, "Abraham, seeing that you're an heir of the world, I am not going to keep this a secret from you. I'm going to visit you according to the time of life."

54 We're a mixed audience and you know what that was with the woman. After it had ceased with her for ... well, about forty or fifty years old that ceases to the woman that way to... And so she's going to be again according to the time of life.
And Sarah, in the tent behind Him, laughed in herself. She said, "Me, an old woman like I am, and my lord out there an old man a hundred years old and me ninety, and to think that we'd have pleasure together again as husband and wife." And she laughed.
And the angel, with his back turned to the tent, said, "Why did Sarah laugh?"
Jesus said that same message will come just before the coming of the Son of God. "Sirs, we would see Jesus." He said, "The works that I do shall you also."

55 That's how He made Hisself known to the Jews. That's how He made Hisself known to the Samaritans. Now, if He lets the Gentiles come into judgment without bringing them the same way He made Himself known there, then He's unjust. If we pass into the judgment, into glory, upon technical theology, He didn't treat us like He did them. He gave them His Messiahic sign, and many of them misunderstood it. Many of them understood it and embraced it. And Jesus said just before His coming this would come again, and it hasn't been since then, but it's in the evening light.
One scripture, I'll close. The prophet said, "There'll be a day that will not be neither night nor day, but in the evening time it shall be light." All prophecy is inspired. Notice, the same sun that rises in the east comes over the horizon and sets in the west. Not another sun, the same sun. And when the Holy Spirit fell, and when Jesus came, it fell on the eastern people. Jesus said, "When He the Holy Ghost is come, He will teach you those things, bring to remembrance the things that I've said to you, and will show you things to come." That's what He did.

56 Now, after the first or second round of disciples, there come to a time the first reformation, the Catholic church about A.D. 66, according to the "Early Nicene Father's History" I think. And then they formed the Catholic church, which means the universal church, universal prayers. After that there was fifteen hundred years of Dark Ages, then come Martin Luther. God poured a little Spirit back in His church. Then come the Methodists age, sanctified. They still become less in the minority. Then come Pentecost. See what it is, He's filling His church.
And now as my hand is a shadow going to the wall, it's dim in the distance, but closer it gets the more positive it becomes. The Lutherans justified, the Methodists sanctified, the Pentecostal filled with the Holy Ghost.

57 Like a grain of corn goes into the ground comes up, it's got two little blades. You say, "Praise God for the crop." You haven't got it yet, but potentially you have. That's the Lutherans. Then it went up into a tassel, and the tassel looked back down to the leaf and said, "I have no need of you, not at all. We are Methodists. We got something that you didn't have." If you only knowed, it took the life that was in the leaf to make the tassel.
Then the tassel blowed off and got into the ... pollen got into the leaf, and the first thing you know it produced an ear of corn, grains on it---Pentecost, like the thing that went into the ground, the original grain come back. Then the Pentecost said, "We ain't got no need of any of you." But it was the life that was in both of them that made you. Certainly!

58 Now, Pentecost is shaking down, and it's coming so positive. What was Pentecost? What is the ear? To restore like it was at the beginning. Same Holy Spirit, just more of it to restore the gifts.
Now the manifestation... Forty years it's been through divine healing, and signs and wonders, and so forth, but now the last sign that was given to a church that was looking for the Messiah. A Messiahic sign was given to the Jews, to the Samaritans, and now it's evening time. It's been a dismal day---you know, it's enough light to see to get around, to join church, and be a good man---but in the evening time it shall be light. The clouds has rolled back. That same Jesus, that same Holy Spirit that moved in the eastern people is moving in the western people. It's the same Holy Ghost, same signs, same wonders, same Jesus, the same yesterday, today, and forever, bringing forth the same results, the same critics. The same unbelief strikes it, but it shall prevail. It shall move on.

59 Sirs, we would see Jesus. How do you know it is Jesus? If it's Jesus, He'll do as He did yesterday, He'll do today. Would you like to see Him? You believe that He still lives and reigns? If He shall come to this building tonight and show and do the same things that He did do yesterday, would you believe Him? Would it strengthen the faith of you believers? Now, remember, divine healing is not done by a man. Divine healing is a finished product. Only thing that a minister can do is preach the Word. That ought to be sufficient, that ought to settle it. Abraham's seed believed it. Abraham ... if you're that seed of Abraham, you believe it. Abraham believed it and held on to it for twenty-five years. When he was seventy-five years old he was supposed to have a baby. He believed God. When he was ninety years old, he still believed God. When he was a hundred years old, he still believed Him! And God confirmed it.

60 But we call ourselves Abraham's seed and can't trust Him out the door. We take ahold of God's promise. It's eternal. We've got a sense inside of us that denies all the five senses. Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things you don't see, taste, feel, smell, or hear. It's something that you believe that God has put in there. It's the Holy Spirit, and God's Holy Spirit will say "amen" to every word that's in the Bible, for it wrote the Bible. Now, Jesus promised that He would come in the last days and perform and do among the Gentiles their last sign, just before His coming, as it was in the days of Sodom. Let us bow our heads just a moment.

61 Heavenly Father, feeling the pressure of the tired, aching feet and limbs, I am constrained just now by the Holy Spirit to stop speaking; and asking Thee, O God, come forth, Lord! One word from You would mean more than a million that any man could speak, just one word from You. Men can preach and say what they wish to, but if they're telling the truth, God, You're obligated to back them up, because it's Your Word and You promised to do it, and You will do it because it's Your promise. No doubt but what there's many sick and afflicted sitting here, needing help. Let them see, Lord, with their instinct, with their spirit, to realize as much ... if You can lead birds and cattle, You can lead men and women. Let them flee to the cross tonight, throw away all unbelief and hang onto the cross till they receive the blessing that they're asking for. Grant it, Lord.

62 Now no matter what You would do here at the platform... You went to Your own city and there was many mighty works You could not do because of their unbelief, and You were astonished. May it not be so in Tifton tonight. May You come, Lord, as I, Your servant, submit myself to You, to use lips, mouth, eyes, soul, body, spirit. May every member of Your body do likewise, that we might see God, that proved that Jesus is the same yesterday, today, and forever; and that we can see Him in the power of His resurrection just as they did at the day of Pentecost, and as the Greeks asked to see Him. We realize that the only difference there is in Him that His corporal body is sitting at the right hand of God the Father; but His Spirit that was in Him has come back to the church and lives in His church to bring sons and daughters unto God.

63 Manifest Yourself tonight, Lord. If I have told them the truth---which I know I have by Your Word---then You speak and confirm that I have told you the truth ... or, told them the truth. Grant it, Lord, and all praise shall be Yours, because no man can do things. It takes God. And then, when we finally leave this building tonight, this courtroom, go to our different homes, along the street may the people say, like those who came from Emmaus that day after the death, burial, of Jesus and the resurrection, after He'd got them in the room to theirself and closed the door... Talking to them all day and they didn't recognize who He was, but when He got them to theirself, then He closed the door and He did something just the way He did it before His death and burial, then they knew that was the same Jesus.
O God, to this polluted Gentile nation and Gentile generation, come forward, Lord Jesus, and show the same thing that You did when You walked in Galilee to the Jews, the same thing to the Samaritans, and many will believe on You. For I ask this in Jesus' name and for Jesus' sake. Amen.

64 Now is the time that something has to happen. Preaching's all right, but will it work? It'll work if Christ comes, for He's duty bound to His Word. I suppose there's not a person in here I know outside of Brother Welch sitting here, and his wife. And I've got two good brothers in here---Brother Leo Mercier, he's somewhere here in the building, and Brother Gene Goad sitting here. Precious boys, goes with me wherever I go, making tapes and so forth. And if you want the tapes, see Brother Mercier. He kind of takes care of it. Brother Goad takes the tapes, Brother Mercier has the selling of them, which is just a ... quite a margin just so they can barely live, two precious boys.

65 My son is here somewhere. Here he is, sitting right down here. Standing in the door stands three or four men that I know---Brother Collins, a Methodist preacher that's just received the Holy Ghost, another brother from Kentucky and one of the trustees of the church, and a brother from Canada, two of them. I thought I seen somebody here a while ago on this side that I knew, but I've lost their ... oh, yes, Brother Palmer right here. Outside of that, there's no one that I see in here that I know. But remember, Jesus knows every one of you.
Now, the boys come down... The reason we give prayer cards is because that it would not be any respect of persons. He comes down and takes a bunch of cards, a hundred, mixes them all up before you. Anybody wants a prayer card, you just take it. Whoever wants it, you can have it. That's got a number on it, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, like that, and sometimes we start from one place and sometimes from another. I might come down ... because no one knows where that prayer line is going to start from. The boy mixing them up, he wouldn't know and what good would it do for anybody to know?

66 Then when I come down, I say, "Well, we'll start from fifty. We'll start from twenty. We'll start..." Wherever the Lord lays on my heart. Therefore we bring a few people up in the line, the Holy Spirit begin to move, so I can talk to them like Jesus did at the well.
Now remember, it's not me. I'm just the clay. I'm just as much... This microphone that you hear me speaking through, that's a mute unless there's something behind it to make a noise. It'll never make any noise itself. And that's the way a man is. He's nothing. He's mortal of the earth. But it takes something to motivate him. If he's evil, the devil is motivating him. If it's the Spirit of God, God motivates him. And you know them by their fruit.

67 Jesus said, "If you cannot believe me being God as a man, then believe the works that I do. If I do not the works of my Father, the Father hasn't sent me." If I told you I had the spirit of Al Capone in me, you'd look for me to have big guns here and it'd be dangerous to be in my presence. If I told you I had the spirit of an artist, you'd expect me to paint a picture like an artist. If we profess to have the Spirit of Christ, we should do the works of Christ. He said it Himself.
Now, Brother Collins, or Billy, what... What say? Prayer cards number A, 1 to 100. All right. We can't get them all tonight. We'll have to get just some of them tonight. Tomorrow night we'll get somewhere else---where we leave off, or maybe somewhere else. I don't know where it'll be, because might not stop where ... start where I leave off. I don't know what we'll do. Just wait and see what the Holy Spirit does.

68 Now how about the people in here that's sick and hasn't got a prayer card? Is there any hope for them? Certainly! Just the same as there is the one with a prayer card. Just your faith. Now, how many hasn't got a prayer card? Raise up your hand, you're sick. Just everywhere. If you haven't got a prayer card, then you say, "Brother Branham, what must I do?" Well, let me give you a scripture because I told you everything must be done or said, must be according to the Word. Jesus one day was passing through a crowd---and we'll say this, it wasn't---but a woman had a blood issue and she didn't have a prayer card. She couldn't get to Him. So she said, "I believe that He's a holy man. I believe He's the Son of God. And if I can touch the border of his garment, I'll be made whole." Do you remember the story?
And she pressed through the audience until she found ... got through and she touched His garment. Now, He couldn't have felt it physically, because the Palestinian garment hung loose and He had an underneath garment also. So He wouldn't have felt that, but He felt the touch of her faith, and He turned around to prove it. He said, "Who touched me?" Now He didn't know. "Who touched me?" Nobody said nothing. And He looked around, but in Him was the Spirit of God, and that woman was the one that had the faith. He looked around till He found her out in the audience, and He told her that her blood issue had stopped because she had believed. "Your faith has saved you."

69 Some that don't believe in divine healing run that word saved down---"sozo." Physically just the same as spiritual, the Greek word. "Thy faith has saved thee." Now if He ... if your faith...
Now, you say, "But, Brother Branham, I couldn't touch Him." Oh, yes. The Scripture says you can. In the book of Hebrews it's written that He is a high priest right now sitting at the right hand of God making intercession upon our confession. Do you believe that? A high priest that can be touched by the feeling of our infirmities. Is that right? Well, if He's the same high priest, wouldn't He act the same as He did when He was here on earth? Now, if you've got the faith that that woman had, He's got the power and the Spirit to do the same thing. High priest that can be touched by the feeling of our... So you just sit quiet and reverently, believe, see what the Holy Spirit will say to us.

70 Well, we'll start from where? Let's say number 1. Who has number 1? If they could raise up, or stand up, or something and put... All right. Come here, sir. Number 2. Who has 2? If you can't stand up now, if you're crippled, when your number's called, tell us, we'll pack you. Number 2, who had number 2? Number 2. Number 3, prayer card number 3. Can I see the hand of the person quickly now, so we won't... Has this lady coming here, does she have prayer card number 2? Number 3. Look at your neighbor's prayer card. Have you got number 3, lady? Number 4, who has it? Raise up your hand. Number 4, that lady. All right. Number 5, this man over here. They're just all over the building now, I suppose. Number 6, who has... Lady right there.
Number 7, someone, number 7? Prayer card number 7. Maybe they stepped out. It may be somebody deaf where he can't hear, somebody crippled and can't raise up. Somebody look around.

71 Here's a little boy in a wheelchair, here's a lady in a wheelchair. Look at their prayer cards. You got prayer cards? No, you don't? You don't need any, now, you don't need it. You just look this way and believe anyhow. You haven't got a prayer card, that has nothing to do with it, see. You just believe with all your heart, sonny. And you, sister, you'll get up and walk away and be well, giving praise to God.
Durban, South Africa, after the Holy Spirit had moved on the platform, we made one call and made one prayer. How many ever knowed F. F. Bosworth, the saintly, godly, old sainted man? They estimated 25,000 miracles taken place at one time. The next morning I heard something singing "Only Believe." I looked out and here come seven van loads, big van loads of crutches and wheelchairs and boards and things they'd packed them in on, going down the street; and the people that was on them the day before, going down the street, through the streets of Durban, singing "Only believe, all things are possible, only believe." Thirty thousand raw heathens at one time gave their life to Jesus Christ. That's ten times bigger than Pentecost.
The Lord is here, friends.

72 All right, 7, 8, 8, 9, 10. Move over here if you can, if you can walk. 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 14, where's it at? I didn't see it. 14, prayer card 14. Here, all right. 15. I want to get every one, because I don't want you to miss your turn. All right. 14, 15, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 20, 21, 20. How many you got? Now we got the hall full right now. We'll have to pray with these, then we'll get some more just in a minute. All right.
Can you hear me all right with the microphone like that? Sometimes, if the Holy Spirit should anoint, I don't know how loud I'm talking, or how low I'm talking, so...

73 Now, I want to say to you, if He will do it, if the Holy Spirit... Here's a case now, and here's a place where we have got to say it's ... God has got to recognize His Word being preached the truth, or it's an error. And if this Bible is a error, there is no God. Do you Christians realize where I stand?
Now, not only here, to maybe two hundred, or about two hundred people here I suppose, but up to where there's forty and fifty thousand of them, 100,000, 500,000. Stand with the heathens, and millions, millions of people throughout the nations is going to hear about what happens. Stand there before witch doctors, and them standing there to challenge you on every move you make, better know what you're talking about. But the God of Elijah still lives today. "Prove me, saith God." Right. He hasn't changed. If He has, then He's mortal like I am, just lives a little longer. But God is infinite. Do you believe that? Omnipotent, omniscient, omnipresent! Hallelujah! That's no disgrace to holler "Hallelujah!" Hallelujah means "praise our God," and He's due all praise.

74 All right. Now, if some of the ushers are somewhere... Now, notice just a moment.
Now I take every soul in here under the control of the Holy Spirit in the name of Jesus Christ. No matter what happens, sit still. Now, sometimes it becomes very strange---if any of you has ever been in the meetings. Now just be reverent, keep your place. No matter what takes place, sit still. The Holy Spirit is in charge. Now, submit yourself to God. Commit your spirits to God.
And you out there in the audience now that will not be in this prayer line, you start like this, saying "Lord God, creator of the heavens and earth, send Thy blessings upon me, Thy servant, and help me and let me touch Your garment. Help me and take away my unbelief. If Satan should come by me and put unbelief around me, take it away, Father. I'm going to watch for the Word that's been preached, because I know that's the Scripture. I'm going to lay my church doctrine over to one side just for a moment. I'm going to walk right up to You, God, and say this [if you believe it], ' that's the truth in the Bible.' " Follow the Scriptures and see if that isn't true, the promises, the works of the Holy Spirit. "Sirs, we would see Jesus."

75 And now remember, tomorrow night the services. Come early and we'll pick up some more of the prayer cards tomorrow night, maybe get some more tonight. It doesn't matter about the prayer cards. The prayer cards has nothing to do with it, see. Not a thing. It's just getting somebody up here to talk to after preaching. I stay in the room and lay before the Lord till I feel His presence and see the light. How many has seen that picture of it? They got it, it's here, see. The science has proved it. If I'd die tonight, the millions around the world ---better than, I guess, ten, twenty million people I've preached to indirectly or direct---they know it to be so. The scientific world come and took the picture of it several times. It hangs in Washington, D.C. It's truth. My testimony is truth of Jesus Christ, if I go tonight.

76 Now, be reverent, everybody real reverent now. And don't take no pictures or flash pictures at this time, because the Holy Spirit is a light. How many knows that? How many knows that the angel that led Moses through the wilderness was Christ, the angel of the covenant? Sure it was. Jesus said, "I come from God and I go to God." That's why He said, "Before Abraham was, I AM." That was God speaking out. And when Paul was on his road down to Damascus, what was it struck him? A light, and put his eyes out. "I come from God, I go to God." That life in the church brings forth the same light that was there---same works, same signs, same wonders, same miracles, same thing. Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today, and forever. God be blessed forevermore.

77 You, my friends, that I've never met no more than this, at the day of the judgment we'll meet. That's one meeting we're going to be there. Christ, the Son of God, His Spirit is moving into this room.
I suppose this man and I, probably born miles apart, years apart, never seen him, first time we've ever met, as far as I know. We're strangers to one another. Is that right, sir? If it is, just raise up your hand so that people can see. We've never met before in life. Now you may put your hands down, all right, I do not know him. I've never seen him. He's just a man, and I'm a man. He's standing there crying and thanking Jesus. Perceiving by that, he is a Christian. I don't know. There's many people says "Thank You, Jesus" that's not a Christian. The rain falls on the just and unjust; by their fruits you know them. He might be here for some sickness. If I could heal him and wouldn't do it, I'm not worthy to stand here as a minister. If I could help that man in any way, if he is sick, if I wouldn't do it then I'm a hypocrite---professing Christ, and not enough man about me to try to help the man that God sent me to help.
But I cannot heal him. If he's sick, God's already healed him when He died at Calvary. I'd say, "Was you saved last night?"
"No, I was saved ten years ago."
No, no, my brother, you were saved 1900 years ago. When Jesus died at Calvary, you was saved. You just accepted it, you just accepted it then, see. The way is already paid for healing and for salvation; your faith accepts it. Now, to bring the presence of the Holy Ghost here to heal, it's manifesting, and you can see working through His church just like He did.

78 Now, let's take a scripture I talked on tonight. Simon Peter, the first one, was a man. He came to Jesus. Jesus said, "You're Simon, you're the son of Jonas," so forth, begin to talk to Him. Now, if He's the same Jesus... If this man is here for himself, for sickness, might be financial trouble, might be domestic trouble. I don't know, he might be just a deceiver standing there. If it is, watch what happens to him. If he's just making out like he is, watch what happens. See if they don't pack him out. Now, but now we're not playing church, friends. This is God's house now. It's a courtroom, of course, of God's justice. Now, the Word of God is at stake. Not my word; His Word.

79 Now, if I should turn and say something to this man, and tell him something about him that he knows that I don't know, there'd have to be some way I'd have to know it. Is that right? It would have to be some spiritual something, because we've never met before. Now, is that the way Jesus did in His day, proving He was Messiah? Then if He's the same yesterday, today and forever, let Him perform His work now. Then all of you believe. Do you believe? Now I don't know that He will do it. I don't say that He will. If He doesn't, I'll just speak to the man. If He doesn't do it, the only thing I can do is pray for him, lay hands on him, let him go. That's all I can do. Then the rest of you believe with all your heart. We'll trust God to do it.

80 Now, Lord, from here it's to You now, Father. It's beyond man. I've preached Your Word just as clean and clear as I know it. Now from here on, Father God, it's for You. I commit myself to Thee as Your servant. Work, speak, see, do whatever You wish, Lord, through Your servant here, and all Your servants that's present. Manifest Yourself among us, for we are Your people, and we love You, and we are sure that You raised up from the dead. God raised You up, and You're alive tonight in the form of the Holy Spirit living in us, doing the same as You did nineteen hundred years ago when You walked in Galilee. It's your promise. Let the Gentiles see that Your words are true: "As it was in the days of Sodom, so shall it be in the coming of the Son of man." For Jesus' sake. Amen.

81 Just the only thing I ask, sir, is for you just to speak or answer as I speak to you, and then let you be the judge. If God knows what you have been, or something that you know back there, then if that's true, you be the judge of it. Then if He knows what has been, surely He could tell what will be. You could believe it. That's only reason. But now, stop thinking that. I'm not trying to read the man's mind. Now that's coming. Don't do that. I'm not ... I don't even have to look at him. Now, remember, He knows every thought. The Bible said that He is quicker, sharper than a two-edged sword, even to the marrow of the bone, and a discerner of the thoughts of the mind. Jesus perceived their thoughts. That's the Spirit of God.
The man has something wrong with his legs that he wants prayed for, soreness in his legs. That's "Thus saith the Lord." Is that true? It is true. All right. Now, do you believe?

82 You say, "Brother Branham, you guessed that." No, I never. Let's talk to him a little more. I don't know what He said, but whatever it, you see, it's... I'm looking at you and seeing you somewhere else, see. It's a vision.
Jesus said, "I can do only as the Father shows me." Yes, I see something in his legs. Then he's got something on his arms or body---it's cancer, skin cancer. I see a woman appear here. It's his wife. She's in the meeting. She's sick too. Do you believe God can tell me what's wrong with her? Will you believe it? Gall bladder trouble. It's exactly right.
Do you believe God knows who you are? Mr. Gregory. Return home and be made well. Jesus Christ heals you and makes you well.

83 Do you believe? That's the Holy Spirit. Now, that's the Holy Spirit, brother, sister. I never seen the man in my life. Let's see this prayer line. I guess there's nobody in here at all that I know of. But He's given it. Now, that man, ever where he was... That little baby received its sight and now is a married woman with a baby, that's the way it happens. The cancer-ridden, the blind, the deaf, the dumb, that's the way it happens. It's the Holy Spirit, God's Holy Spirit.
Where that man sat down, there was a woman got up to give him his seat. Do you believe God can heal you, sister? Right there in front of the man sitting here, got up and give him his seat. You don't have to come here. Just stay right there. Go home, the cancer is going to leave you. Your faith made you whole. See, the blessing on the man from that healed you also as you passed by. What did she touch? Tell me what she touched. She touched the High Priest, not me. I'm thirty feet away from her, but she was praying. Have faith ... presence of God.

84 Come lady. You believe with all your heart? Now, this is another picture like it was in the days of the Bible when our Lord met a woman, the woman at the well. Now, we are two human beings as they were, but just different human beings, but the Spirit of God remains just the same. It doesn't change. Do you believe that Jesus Christ, the Son of God, the one that talked to the woman, that His Spirit is here now? All right.
Now, if God is the same---and I don't know what you're here for, but He knows---and if He will reveal what you're here for, then you will believe Him and accept as your healing? A nervous trouble, and you've got a growth on your right side. That's right. You've got an enlarged heart, and trouble you have with your head. There's someone appearing by you. It's your husband. He's here now. If God can tell me what his trouble is, you believe me? Now, he's nervous, one thing, but he's got heart trouble and stomach trouble. That's right. Mrs. Colvert from down in Athelia, Georgia, return back to your home. You're both well, and go and be made well in the name of Jesus Christ.

85 What did he touch? It was his connection by his wife, believing. Believe! Do you believe with all your heart? "If thou canst believe all things are possible." I know some of you might think them people is a little noisy. If that was you being healed, you'd be noisy too. Just believe on the Lord.
Now, this woman standing here is a total stranger to me. I've never seen her in my life. We are strangers to one another, I suppose, lady? Right. But do you believe that the Lord Jesus can reveal to me what you're here for, your trouble or something on that manner? Would you believe Him? You are very sick. You're suffering with a liver trouble called the cirrhosis of the liver. That is true. That make you believe? If God will tell me who you are, will it make you believe more? Mrs. Hollis. There's some connection with this woman. I see her as a little girl playing with somebody that looks ... some relation, you're something ... you're a sister to Welch Evans. That's exactly right. Where is he at? Somewhere. That's right, ever where you are. Go be made well, sister, in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ.

86 Now, I never seen the woman in my life, but I seen a little boy. He took something out of her hand, sitting under a tree, that's right, many years ago. Believe with all your heart now.
Come, sister dear. This precious old mother standing here, I never seen her ... about like my mother at home. Would I be a deceiver to a poor woman like this? Godly, saintly looking old mother standing here, and think of my own mother at home. Mother, if I could do anything for you, I would do it, but I can't. I'm a man, but you're standing in the presence of not me, your brother, but the Holy Spirit. I want to ask you something. You're aware that something is going on? Now I want to ask you as a sister in Christ, a real sweet, humble feeling, isn't it? Because that light is settled all... If that's right, raise your hand so the people can see.

87 Now, the woman, she's not here for herself; she's standing here for somebody else. That's her son. He's got something wrong with his head, heart trouble, kidney trouble, had an operation. That's right. And you're worried about his spiritual condition. That's "thus saith the Lord." Amen. Believe now with all your heart and, Lord God, creator of heavens and earth, author of everlasting life and giver of every good gift, send Thy blessings upon the woman, who I bless in Jesus' name. May she find it even as she has believed. Amen. Go, returning now happy, rejoicing, and believing with all your heart. God bless you, sister. Believe with all that's in you.
Are you believing? Have faith in God. Jesus said, "Have faith in God."

Sirs, we would see Jesus

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1 Thank you, Brother Neville, thank you. Good evening, friends. I was saying to Brother Neville... I tried to call him at his home this afternoon. I said to the people from down in Georgia and around last week that I didn't suppose I'd be here today---because many of the people come...
And yet, at Christmas, you know, little kiddies, you can't tell them no different. They just... It's Christmas time for them, and they wouldn't have their little sock hung up, there would be something... It's a tradition, even in our nation, that they hang up a sock and something another. Why, I did when I was a kid. And although it's as far off the Scripture beaten path as it is, yet kids are... They hear the other kids say, "Well, I got this for Christmas, I got this." The little fellows stand around and look, you know. You can't make them understand, see.

2 So just, Christmas is here to stay. And it isn't the birthday of our Lord, the time He was born. Now, if you'll get on your ... on the globe and look, Judea is just as about as far under the equator as this is above it. So, we find out in Judea, in them mountains up there, that there's snow. My, it's more snow than there is here. So, the shepherds could not be on the mountain at that time herding their sheep.
And another thing, it'd be contrary to all nature, see. Lambs and so forth are spring-born, not this time of year. Lambs are not born now. The ewes don't lamb now, and He was the Lamb of God, you see. So He was born along in ... they claim along in April sometime, middle of April, or something like that.

3 But this being the 25th of December, why, making it the birthday... This is the sun god's birthday, see, the Roman Balaam, the sun god, see. And the sun is just exactly halfway around now. And from the 20th unto the 25th was when the Roman circus was in celebration of the sun god's birthday. And so they said, "Well, now, to please both Christian and pagan, we'll make instead of sun god, the Son of God and the sun god together. So, we'll put it all together and make it the same birthday and make it on the 25th."
So, it seemed to please the pagan and the nominal church then, or the first church of Rome was just... It was just all right with them, so they didn't care. So, they made it both sun god and Son of God's birthday.

4 Now, the longest day in the year is along about the 21st or 22nd ... the longest night, I mean, in the year is along about the 21st or 22nd, when in the solar system the sun is just bouncing over, coming back. Now, they'll start getting just a few seconds or minutes longer, and then sometime up in June or July we have the longest day in the year.
But Christmas is here to stay, so we can't help it. Tubeless tires are here to stay. I hate them, but they're here to stay. That's right.
Undressed women, they're here to stay. Shorts, they're going to stay. That's all. They're going to get shorter all the time, so ain't nothing I can do about it. I just say it's wrong, stay with it. That's right.
Sin, it's here to stay. It's here to stay. We're going to have it on and on, so just... It's here to stay until Jesus comes. And all these things are here to stay.

5 Now, I do not believe... Let me make this clear. I do not believe that Jesus would care what day you worshipped his birthday on---if it's the 25th, 26th, or whether it's April, May, June, July, or whenever it might be---just so you worship Him on any day.
But here's what it is. They have taken the sacredness from Christmas to make it not a Christmas, a worship day, but a celebration, see. We do not... You hear people say, "We're going to celebrate Christmas." That's wrong! We should never celebrate Christmas. Christmas is a day of worship, not a celebration.

6 We celebrate Lincoln's birthday, we celebrate Washington's birthday. And if you was down in the deep South, we would celebrate Lee's birthday, or Jackson. Their birthday is a celebration. But the birthday of Christ, I believe, should be a day of consecration, worship. Instead of---tonight, of people at church on their knees, praying, thanking God for the real Christmas gift---high-heeled shoes, and painted faces, and frock-tailed coats, and goblets of whiskey will be tipped one to another; and tens of thousands times thousands of dollars worth of whiskey and cigars and cigarettes will be distributed tonight, when thousands of poor, little, hungry children lay without a bite to eat or a place to lay their head.

7 Worship's what we need; celebration's what we've got. Well, that's all right. It isn't all right, but we can't stop it. It's here to stay. We're going to have Christmas right on just the same.
And the word Christmas ... Christmas come from the word of "mass for Christ, Christ's mass"---C-h-r-i-s-t-m-a-s, see, Christ's mass. It's a Catholic tradition.

8 And my little... One of my daughters (I can't call her little no more), Becky, had to write a story the other day on mythology, on mystic. And I said, "Just write about Santa Claus." That's it. Santa Claus has took the place of Christ. And Santa Claus, there never was such a person, see. It's absolutely a Catholic tradition, not anything to do with Protestants or anything about it, see, or Christmas, or the birth of Christ. Not at all. But Santa's here to stay. But someday Jesus will come to stay---that's the One we're looking for.

9 Now, I sure would prefer Brother Neville taking this pulpit tonight, because it's... I told the people that I would stay away today; and if I did come down and say anything, I'd make a tape. (And I hope that they... Have you got a tape recorder going? Have you?) Make a tape, whether... If the Holy Spirit during the time of the meeting spoke anything, it might be that they could hear it, see.
I've got some scriptures and so forth wrote out here, a little text. And I don't know, I trust that the Lord will bless it. But the thing of it is, usually on these Sunday nights, the folks are out of here by around nine or ten minutes after, and you'll be good to get out before one. But I suppose there is a watch ... (Huh? A midnight service? No, not tonight. No.) He thought maybe I had it mixed up---this is New Year's night. Well, we're expecting a great time New Year's night. That's the time where all the brethren come in, and we have great fellowship one with another on New Year's night. But I was just teasing you about that. And I hope that didn't get on the tape.

10 Say, the other day, making a tape, I bumped this thing about several times, and I had that tape just ruined, on that "Christianity Versus Paganism." The tapes was ruined. So, if the tapes are playing or coming in, I wish ever who's taking would come to the door and just open the door or something, so I'll know that it's on now; I'll see which way this thing's turned, if it's operating. Okay, all right, that's fine. I'm going to cover it up, get over on this other side. I wasn't used to it.
Well, I want to take this opportunity to thank this church and its members for the nice things that you gave me for Christmas. Awhile ago my son came in and gave me a great big box, and I was in my study room, studying. I opened it up and found a new suit of clothes from this Tabernacle. And little personal things that people has sent me, just up there, which I haven't opened up until Joe comes in tonight and opens up his, and then... I certainly appreciate that. The Lord bless you.

11 I wish I could give Christmas presents to everyone. I can't do it. You know how it is. You just can't do it, that's all. If you give to one, it shows respects, like that, you just can't do it. A minister just can't do that.
And I understand that Brother Neville, this morning, was presented with a new topcoat. So grateful to you all for my brother. There's a little secret to that that Billy Paul and I know. You know, I'm so slow about anything---catching on, anyhow, about anything. Billy told me the other day, he said, "You know, Daddy, I was over at the supermarket, and," said, "who did I meet over there? [And he had a little quiver in his voice.] Brother Neville." And said, "He had on a topcoat, looked terrible."
And I said, "Would mine fit him?"
And he said, "No, he's a much bigger man than you are."
So I said, "Well, I'm just going down and get him one."

12 So then, I get my check from the church here like he does. So, at that time, Billy come running up with a great big influential word and smile on his face, "Daddy, the church is going to get him one."
Well, I know the church could probably get him a little better one than I, so I thought, "That's just wonderful, so we could all have." But we know that it come in a real fine place in Brother Neville needing that coat.
You know, I want to tell you a little something about that. I was reading in the history. That's all I've done in the last few weeks, months, or two, has been take Bible history.

13 I once read... My first book was the Old Testament---what God was in the Old Testament. Then I took the New Testament and see what God was, to compare it today, because I know He has to remain the same, see. Then there's one place of the church that I missed out---that was between the time of the going of the last apostle until the coming in of the Dark Age, when the Catholic church set in reign. They lost all the miracles, and all the divinity out of the church, and everything. And I wanted to know what took place during that time, so I've just took some of the most ancient histories that there is, such as Hislop's Two Babylons, and Broadbent's Pilgrim Church, Foxe Book of the Martyrs, The Post-Nicene Fathers, The Nicene Council, Pre-Nicene Council, and all those great historians that's wrote during those times, the life of all those precious men. When I read them, it seems like I could hear Longfellow's "Psalm of Life":
Lives of great men all remind us
We can make our lives sublime,
With partings leave behind us
Footprints on the sands of time.

14 When I seen what those men and women went through with back there and see ... to maintain this same gospel; and when they preached this same gospel, the same thing that happened in the Old Testament, New Testament, and them, just exactly the same, so that gives it one, two, three witnesses, every word is established. The same God that dealt with the old prophets, dealt with the apostles and dealt with the Pre-Nicene brethren; and here He is today, dealing the same way with His people, with the same signs, same wonders, same gospel, same power, same God, everything, with three as a witness to us that this is the truth. This is truth, God giving it in three testaments, see, that history is...

15 The Bible is a history of what God was. So, the history of the Old Testament... The New Testament is a history of the New Testament, and The Nicene Council and Fathers, and Post-Nicene Council is the history of the church then. And now, history is making on, just as it was---which, this history will never be written. No, it's too close to the coming now.
And God help a man in these days, people who try to seek human honor, men who try to make themselves popular among human beings. Don't you know that human being, when it perishes, all that perishes with it? But seek to gain the heavenly treasures; they shall never pass away.
God's richest blessings rest upon all you. I told them tonight, usually it's my custom to go to church somewhere on Sunday, if I possibly can.

16 Today, this morning, I wanted to come down real bad and hear Brother Neville's message. But after making that promise, then I didn't want to break it. So then, I tried to listen to radios and so forth. And all I could hear was, "Immediately after this service, we'll all meet out in the lunchroom and have coffee together, and we'll..." What has the church come to? It's a lodge. Why don't you just say lodge instead of church? Church, you're not supposed to do that. Church is not a meeting of coffee or dinners or suppers and things like that. We have communion with the Lord. A church, that's where we commune with Him.

17 I said to the wife, "Honey, I am getting so critical I hate to go down to the Tabernacle or either enter the pulpit." Oh, the older I get, look like worse I get. And I don't want to be like that. But there's something inside me drives me to be like that. And then I said, "Am I losing my mind? Why can't I go with the rest of the crowd? Why can't I go like the other brethren? Why can't I get me an organization and build around it like they do? Or, why can't I go out and quit hammering at people and things like that? Why can't I do it?" And I said then, "I think, 'Have I lost my mind?' " Then I come back to the Word, and there it is. I must stay with that Word.

18 I said, "If it wasn't for the Word of God and I knowed there was a God, I'd build me a little cabin somewhere so far back in British Columbia, way back up in Canada in the mountains, where I wouldn't see a human being once a year. And there I'd hear the voice of God in the rippling streams and hear Him when He screamed out in the wolf on top of the mountain; I'd hear Him as He whispered through the great big pine trees, and look at His lovely face in the mirror of the lake when it reflected the big snowcapped mountains. Why, I'd worship God every day of my life back in there. I know I'd get more real about God back there than I can listening to coffee suppers and tea parties and all this kind of stuff that we have today, so-called church---creeds and fictions and fables and everything else to take the place of the gospel."

19 I'd better read some Scripture---hadn't I?---and get started.
Now, before we read, let's speak to the One who wrote it, as we bow our heads.
All that has a request tonight, this being a Christmas Eve night... Might have something like this: "O Lord, I'm grateful in my heart for Christ, and I want to come just a little closer now than ever before. I want to not go back to a manger in a barn, but I want to make my heart a manger; not for an infant Christ, but a Christ who is God, Immanuel." Would you just let it be known by your uplifted hand to Christ? The Lord grant your request.

20 Heavenly Father, now we are assembled in the house that's called the house of prayer, the place where we come together to worship the Lord Jesus in all of His great works, and to teach His Word, and believe that He is the Word. We thank You for this night and its opportunities that lays before us to bring the Word of the living God to a living people, and especially to those that are living in Christ Jesus, that's been renewed, has been born anew, become new creations; and the opportunity we have to present the facts to those who are not new creations in Christ, that this night they can become new creations in Christ. Give to each of these people the desire of their heart, and may they tonight, if they haven't before, come in to this great, universal, catholic church, this catholic as it is in "worldwide," apostolic, born-again saints of the living God. Grant it, Lord. May each person become a member of it, because it's a body---not a building, but a body, the body of Christ, and we are the members of this body. Grant it, Lord.

21 May great gifts from the Christ be poured out upon the people tonight that belongs in the body. Not a package sealed up, not with Christmas presents in it, as we earthly beings can give to each other in appreciation of our love to each other; but let it be that seal of the Holy Spirit coming down into the soul of mankind, giving them immortal life.
Bless them altogether, Father, while tonight, as far as we know, being healthy and happy, a good warm fire to sit by, a roof over our head and thinking of the thousands around the world with no place to go. Heavenly Father, be merciful to us and grant this request.
We ask, tonight, that You'll bless the Word as it goes forth now. Bless our pastor, bless the trustees and the deacons of the church and every one that's affiliated with it in the membership of the body, being born again, for we ask it in Jesus' name. Amen.

22 As I started a few moments ago to say, (in the reading of the saints) St. Martin come one cold night, and he found a poor old man laying freezing at the gate. And he seen people pass by who was able to give the old man a cloak of some sort, but they didn't do it. And him knowing then that it was his duty to do it---yet his father and mother both heathens---but he was a soldier, so he took off his cloak, took his sword and cut it half in two and wrapped the old fellow up in it, and then went on. And the people laughed at him, snubbed him, said, "A funny-looking soldier, what a fanatic."

23 But the following night he was wakened up in the barracks where he was staying, and he was in a vision. And he looked, and he was in a room. And there stood Jesus with a bunch of angels standing around Him. And Jesus had this piece of robe wrapped around Him, the cloak. And He said to the angels, "Do you know where I got this?"
And they said, "Nay, my Lord."
He said, "Martin wrapped me in this."
So, Brother Martin knew then that was his call to the ministry, because when he wrapped that old man in that robe, Jesus was in that old man. So, if He was in an old man, as we would call a beggar or a bum laying on the street, Jesus will come to any of us. Then he knowed, "What you've done unto the least of these, my little ones, you have did it unto me." God help us to remember that.

24 Now, you that's got your Bibles and wants to take down the text, I want to read two places out of the holy writings tonight---one out of Isaiah, and one out of St. John. I want to read out of Isaiah the forty-second chapter and out of St. John the twelfth chapter. I wish to read the scriptures.
Isaiah 42 starts with 1, the first verse, and goes down inclusive of the seventh verse.
Behold my servant, whom I uphold; mine elect, in whom my soul delighteth; I have put my spirit upon him; he shall bring forth judgment to the Gentiles.
He shall not cry, nor lift up, nor cause his voice to be heard in the street.
A bruised reed shall he not break, and a smoking flax shall he not quench: he shall bring forth judgment unto truth.
He shall not fail nor be discouraged, till he have set judgment in the earth: and the isles shall wait for his law.
Thus saith ... the LORD, he that created the heavens, and stretched them out; he that spread forth the earth, and ... which cometh out of it; he that giveth breath unto the people upon it, and spirit to them that walk therein:
I the LORD have called thee in righteousness, and will hold thine hand, and will keep thee, and give thee for a covenant of the people, for a light of the Gentiles;
To open the blind eyes, to bring out of prison from the prison, and them that sit in darkness ... of the prison house.

25 Now, in the twelfth chapter of St. John, and let's begin with the seventeenth verse and read down about the twenty-eighth verse.
The people therefore ... was with him when he called Lazarus out of his grave, and raised him from the dead, bare record.
For this cause the people also met him, for that they heard that he had done this miracle.
The Pharisees therefore said among themselves, Perceive ye how ye prevail nothing? behold, the world ... goeth after him.
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 of Galilee, and desired him, saying, Sir, we would see Jesus.
Philip cometh and telleth Andrew: and again Andrew and Philip telleth Jesus.
And Jesus answered them, saying, The hour is come, that the Son of man should be glorified.
Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone: but if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit.
He that loveth his life shall lose it; and he that hateth his life in this world shall keep it unto life eternal.
If any man serve me, let him follow me; [Listen now!] and where I am, there shall also my servant be: if any man serve me, him will my Father honour.
Now is my soul troubled; ... what shall I say? Father, save me from this hour: but for this cause came I unto this hour.
Father, glorify thy name. Then came there a voice from heaven, saying, I have both glorified it, and will glorify it again.

26 Now, I draw from this a text that I have used in another way, "Sirs, We Would See Jesus." Times before, I have approached this subject, but a little different from what I aim to tonight.
Now, this is an unusual setting of the scene for a Christmas message. But I suppose today, on the radio, you've heard "Three Men of Orient Are" and "Little Town of Bethlehem" and "Silent Night" and heard ministers speak of His birth and so forth. And me, placing my Christmas message tonight, after you've had so much of it this afternoon and last two or three days, I thought I would take a different view of it---not from His birth---and would speak it in another way.

27 And this most unusual setting... But it's in the unusual things we see the truth of God's Word. It's in the unusual thing. It was in the unusual setting of God's Word that the people recognized Him to be the Messiah, not the usual setting that the Pharisees and Sadducees come telling them. It was the unusual thing to see the Messiah being born in a barn, instead of coming down out of the corridors of heaven, as they thought He would come, or as they said He would come. It was an unusual thing when at the river of Jordan when the mountains skipped like little rams.

28 And the messenger sent before Him, instead of him being a fine, cultured priest that would come out to announce His coming, would see a man with whiskers all over his face, and shaggy hair, and a piece of animal skin wrapped around him for a coat. And walk out in mud up above his ankles, perhaps, and preach such a stirring message, and tell the Pharisees and Sadducees, and call those scholars, "You generation of snakes!"... That was unusual for a man to do that.
But it also was the way of finding truth and life---the unusual way. Not the set, routine way, but the unusual way. And it's my heart's desire tonight that in this unusual scripture that we will find the true meaning of Christmas---what Christmas means to us, the way we should do it, or how we should approach Christmas.

29 Now, we find in here, as we have read, these Greeks wanted to see Him. They came to find Jesus. No doubt that they, like you and I, had heard of Him, the great works that He had done, and the great preaching that He had done, and the unusual things of His life. So, He became an unusual person. And I wish to stop here just long enough to say this---that most always, when you find God in a person, you find a most unusual person being used in the most unusual way.
So, Jesus was this type of person, and He attracted the people to find out just what He was and who He was. And, of course, these Greeks were pagan, heathen, because Greeks worshipped idols. And they were great ... well, I would say, sculptors and athletes. And they had a lot of art, Greeks did, great Grecian art that's never been competed even to this day, until their arts... And they were great athletic people.

30 And being ... knowing that there was some God somewhere---and they had thousands of them that they worshipped---and they had heard of a historical God that done great miracles in among the Hebrews. And then, they had also heard that this God, that used to be the miracle-working Hebrew God, was over there in their land with them again. So, it attracted their attention. So, they came to see Jesus.
And notice, usually the way that people want to find Jesus is to find somebody who knows how to take them to Him. A leader, or one of His servants, is the way they find Him. So, Jesus, if He ever chooses a servant, He always chooses somebody that will bring the people to Him, because it's His purpose to serve the people.

31 Now, we find that they were brought into His presence. Now, these Greeks ... Philip. They had consulted Philip, and Philip said, "Now, here is someone that wants to see our Lord. So, it wouldn't be just right for me to have the honor to introduce these Greeks to my Lord, so I'll go get Andrew to go with me." And so they went and got Andrew, and Andrew and Philip both came and presented these Greeks to Jesus.
Now, here is a great thing, and a text that's unusual. Just as soon as these Greeks was pointed to Jesus, Jesus did not point to Himself, or He did not make Hisself known to them---because you cannot know Jesus in that way. Jesus isn't known in that way. But as soon as... We see here in the Scripture, that when these Greeks was brought up to Jesus and was in His presence, it looks like that Jesus would've said, "Well, this is I. I am the Messiah of the Jewish race that's been predicted by the prophets by inspiration down through the centuries, and I am here now. And I am born of Nazareth. I'm of a Jewish mother, my Father is God. And I'm here now to make Myself known to you Greeks."

32 Now, that would be more like that 1961 version of it. But look, as soon as they were brought in His presence... That's the main thing---get the people in His presence. And as soon as in His presence, Jesus said, "Except a corn of wheat falls into the ground and dies, it abides alone." What an unusual thing. Instead of accepting their introduction, the thing He done was pointed them to a place that they could find Him. "Except a corn of wheat falls into the ground and dies, it abides alone."
What did He do here? He pointed them to that great truth, how to see Him. They could not see Him in the way of eternal life, just standing there the way He was. He was a man.

33 A few mornings ago I had a vision about nine or ten o'clock in the morning. I had been praying to the Lord, feeling a call moving me constantly for the foreign fields this year. Start right away, all the world. I want to go to Norway, and I want to go to Germany, Africa, and many of the nations this year, if the Lord willing. Just a call in my heart to go.
And I was praying to the Lord, and a vision came over my eyes. And I was standing, then walked like across the floor, and entered into a room where there was two women, especially. One was at a counter, and the other one was at a counter. They were selling different things. Well, I stood for a moment and wondered what it was about. Then I seen a man came in, and he bought from the woman at this counter, a little bottle of perfume that goes to another---his wife, perhaps.

34 Then I walked up, and I said, "How much is that perfume? I would like some for my wife, but I want the lilac. I like lilacs."
And he said ... or, the woman said, rather, "This small bottle that that man bought for his wife is 40¢, but it isn't lilac. This other bottle of lilac is $1.98."
And I said, "I will take that." And I went to my purse to get the money. I thought I gave her two one dollar bills.
Handing back, she said, "Sir, I don't know this money."
And she handed it back to me, and it was a Canadian five dollar bill. And I said, "Pardon me. I thought it was a dollar." I said then, "I'm a missionary, and in my missions I get money from different parts of the world. And in this, I have made a mistake."
So, she gave me the five dollar bill back, and I gave her the American one dollar bill. And she gave me the change, and she said, "Missionary?"
And I said, "Yes, ma'am."

35 And while I was talking ... or looking at her, she looked over to the next woman, and she kind of nodded her head. And she said, "Dear, do you believe that Brother Branham is right, that we women today will have to live like he told us, with the cutting of our hair and the wearing of our apparel and things like that?" Said, "Don't you think that he is wrong in that?"
She said, "Yes." And she said, "Go ahead, honey, you ... Ruth [or whatever her name was]," said, "you have the inspiration, say it."
Well, quickly, I knew I was in the vision, so I knew that that was them two women, always ... see. The both oneness and trinity church, there they was standing there. And said, "Yes." Said, "I don't think we should, because we have never seen His eyes. We have never seen His makeup. We wouldn't know what He looked like, so why would we do it?"

36 And I had on an old patrol suit. And I said to the women, I said, "Just a moment, my sisters. See, you do have to live just according to the Bible, no matter how it was."
She said, "But we never lived back there, and we never seen Him."
I said, "I have seen Him." And I said, "The thing of it is..." I thought, "Lord, now, I'm before two great, smart churches. Now You've got to give me wisdom." And so, then I heard myself go to talking. I want you to examine it. Never thought of it in my life. I said, "A man today has to be like he was then, because he's the same man. He's made up of five senses; and if he stood and looked at Him right in the face, he would still have to have that sixth sense of faith to believe Him. No matter what He looked like, he'd have to believe Him anyhow."
And they hid their faces with shame and said, "We never saw it, sir, like that," and started going off. Then I turned and started to the mission fields, which I know was a call back to the field.

37 Now, see, He pointed them---there in His presence---Christ pointed them to the truth. He said how to see Him was to go to the cross. There is where it's at, at the cross. "Except a corn of wheat falls, it abides alone." And if He did not die, He would have to abide alone Himself, if He did not die. But Him being the corn of wheat that fell into the ground ... and then if it falls into the ground, He said it'll bring forth abundance, if it falls into the ground and dies. First it has to be a germitized grain, or it won't bring forth nothing. But it has to have life in it before it can fall into the ground. And He had eternal life in Him, because He was Immanuel. And he had to give His own life in order to bring forth life again.

38 Take like the wheat. You say, "How could one grain of wheat... ?" Here's what happens: One grain falls in. It brings forth a hundred grains. A hundred grains falls in, brings forth a thousand grains. A thousand grains falls in and brings forth a million grains. A million grains falls in and brings forth a barge load, and on and on and on till it feeds the whole world. That's what He meant. "If I live my life alone and die this way, just live my life alone, well then, there'll be no fruit after me. But if I fall into the ground under the will of God... And I'll bring forth a new birth, and in that new birth, it'll bring forth another with new birth and another with new birth, until the whole world will be missionaried, gospel-preached. 'This gospel must be preached in all the world for a witness unto me. These signs shall follow them that believe.' "

39 So, if we ourselves, then, in our ministry and in our thoughts and in our life, if we abide as we are, we can do no good. We've got to also die at the altar, or we'll live alone. We'll live to some denomination or some creed, we'll live to some organization. But if we die to ourselves, then the Holy Spirit will be spread forth everywhere by our lips. We've got to die.
So many today... So it is like now, that we must realize that we've got to die in order to bring forth new life. So, He said so much in this, "If you want to see me, you must die. Die to yourself, and then you'll bring forth a new life."

40 Now, if we want to see Him, if you ever expect to see Him, you'll never see Him by some joining a church, some book of laws that you keep, some creeds that you serve. You'll see Him when you die. When you come to Calvary and are crucified to yourself, then you'll see Jesus.
"We would see Him." First, before He said anything, He pointed them to the place to find Him. Like all Gentiles or all people, you find Jesus at the cross when you're crucified with Him.

41 Today we try to find Him in everything. We try to find Him in a church building. We try to find Him in a denomination. We try to find Him in saying some creed. We try to find Him by keeping certain days, by obeying certain rituals. But we cannot find Him till we come to Calvary. There we are crucified, fall into the dust of the earth, and die to ourselves, and then reborn again. Then we find Jesus.
Oh, so many try today to hold theirself and maintain your own idea, "I've got my way of it. I believe this." But you cannot find Christ until you die to yourself and accept Him, the Word, then you find life. That's it.

42 How different today. How different today when the churches, or the disciples of today... What did they do? If you come to disciples today... Them disciples, before they did anything, they took these Greeks right into the presence of Jesus. And if He's the same yesterday, today, and forever, He'll have to act the same today if you're brought in His presence.
Disciples today is so much different, for today they try to take you to a cradle or a manger or to a Santa Claus or to a bunny rabbit for Easter or something another instead of Christ. They never bring you in the presence of Christ. Christmas isn't Christ. No! Today they bring you some other place, to some statutes, some church, some organization, some doctrinal laws, but never get you in the presence of Christ. A real true disciple would bring you right straight in the presence of Christ, and from there Christ would show you what you had to do.

43 Now, "The spirit is gone from Christmas," someone said today. I heard them on the radio. Said ... a man giving an argument, a minister, about so many people today saying, "Christmas isn't this, and we oughtn't to have Santa Claus and things." And that fellow tried to make his points clear that if you took Santa Claus out of Christmas, you took the spirit out. You took the spirit of Santa Claus out, that's true. And the spirit of Santa Claus isn't... Santa, some myth of Germany, a German Catholic tradition, is not the spirit that makes Christmas. The Spirit Christ pointed to was the Holy Spirit, which is not a celebration but a worship of the living God.

44 But he said, "You take Santa Claus out, there's no more spirit in Christmas." Could you imagine a minister saying that on the air? But that's what he said. Said, "You take Santa Claus out and you've got no more spirit of Christmas." Well, it might be, using the word Christ mass---you might not have much of that. But you take Santa Claus out of your life, open up your heart and let Christ come in, die to these things of the world in order to have the real Christmas.
Yes, it's a lot different than what it used to be, but it's changed. Not ... Christ hasn't changed.

45 The disciples today is a lot different from the disciples of old. Today the disciples brings the speakers ... or, the seekers, rather. Instead, the disciples of old brought the seeker into the presence of God. And today the disciples of today bring them into the presence of some church organization, some affiliation, some creed, some doctrine, instead of bringing them into the presence of Christ.
We take the word Christmas. It's very seldom you ever hear Christ's name mentioned. You don't hear it mentioned. The lights and tinsel is all on Santa Claus, not on Christ. The people hardly knows what Christmas is really for. They've just paganized it and paganized it till it's all become pagan. It's a great commercial day of celebration. Now, if they want to make a commercial day like Mother's Day or Father's Day or son's day or daughter's day, that's all right, but keep that commercial off of Christmas!
And I seen a sign not long ago, said, "Put Christ back in Christmas."

46 Now, they bring you to a church, you learn a creed. They bring you to a Christmas, what do you do? You see a Santa Claus. They bring you to a church, you see an organization. But Christ brought them to the cross. And when you get a real disciple that'll point you to Christ, Christ will bring you to the cross where you are crucified with Him. And His eternal life and your life meet together, and your life dies, and you take on His eternal life, and then you're a son of God. Amen! What a difference from the disciple of old and the disciple of today.

47 If you mention to a disciple, "I would love to know the Lord Jesus"...
"Well, now look, we belong to the certain, certain church, come down and join us," see. Or, "We belong to this certain, certain society and come join that." And that's what you hear.
But Christ Himself pointed people to His death and said, "Except a corn of wheat falls into the ground, it abides alone."
Oh, how different it is. Yes, sir, how different. But your life and His life find each other. Not at the church, not in a building, not in a creed, not in good works, but in the cross where you are crucified with Him, that's where you find Christ. You don't find Him by doing better, turning a new page, starting a new life, you don't find Christ. You find Christ only in death---not in a manger, not in a confession. To believe in certain creeds and fables, you don't find Christ there. A true servant takes you to Him, and He is the Word.

48 You say, "Then, Brother Branham, if Christ was on earth today, a real servant would take him to Him, Christ." Well, Christ is here in the form of the Word, and the Word brings life, because He is the Word. Christ is the Word. Yes, sir! He is the Word Himself. The true servant always takes you to the Word.
Now, He is the Word. He is this Bible made living. And when you die to yourself with Christ like a corn of wheat, then the Word lives in you, brings forth the same results as it did in that living corn of wheat that had to drop into the earth. Amen. You're partakers in His resurrection. You're partakers with Him in all of His blessings, in all of His manifestations. You're partakers with Him in all that He did.

49 Now, He is the Word with its true interpretation. Now, you say, "Oh, we believe the Bible, sir. We believe the Bible."
But now, if you believe the Bible, Jesus said this in the Bible, St. John 14:12: "He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also." That's the true interpretation of the Bible, for God Himself is in you speaking back His own interpretation. Glory! That's the true interpretation---God in you interpreting His own words. Amen!
Didn't Jesus say, "These signs shall follow them that believe"? God in you giving His own interpretation. You don't have to look to somebody else. Say, "The Word says this." Believe it, and it'll interpret itself, because it's God using you to interpret His own Word. Amen! Christ is the living interpretation of His own Word.

50 Let's look at some ... how He interpreted the Word. Now, if He's got the right interpretation... Now, when you go down here to the Methodists, they say, "We got the right interpretation."
The Baptists, they say, "We got the right interpretation."
Presbyterian, "We got the right interpretation."
Church of Christ (so-called), " We got the right interpretation." All of them has got the right interpretation; they're all different one from another. Then there's something wrong somewhere. Now, the only way we can find, is to find the way Jesus told the Jews how to interpret the Word. Amen! And if Christ said so, that makes it right.
The Methodists say, "The way our brethren interpret it, the council..."
The Baptists say, "The way we interpret it..."
The Presbyterians say, "The way we interpret it..." But it's the way that Jesus interpreted it that's right.

51 Let's look at how He interpreted the Word. He said, "If I do not the works of my Father's Word, don't believe me." That settles it. That's how He interpreted. He said, "If you can't believe me, believe the works that I've done. And if I do not the works of my Father, don't believe it at all." Amen! That settles it. "He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also."
Now, there's got to be something right and something wrong, or either what are we doing, what are we playing about? What are we going around here pretending to be Christians, and doing this, that, and the other, and joining these creeds and shaking hands with this kind of Pentecost, or that, or Methodist or Presbyterian or Baptist or Catholic? What is it all about? What are we doing? Playing hide the eraser, cat and mouse? Where are we at?

52 Then there's only one way, only one foundation. There's only one sure way---that's the interpretation that Jesus gave the Word. Hallelujah! That's the interpretation that's right. Said, "If I don't do the works that God said I'd do, then don't believe me." Amen! That's the interpretation. The interpretation today is, Jesus said, "He that believeth on me, the same works that I do shall he do also." And the Scripture also said, "He's the same yesterday, today, and forever." Jesus said, "That's how to know whether I come from God or not." That's how to come to know.
They said, "Now, wait a minute. We got Abraham to our father." They said, "Our fathers ate manna in the wilderness."
And Jesus said, "They're all dead."
"We drank water from a smitten rock."
"And they're all dead." He said, "But I'm that bread of life that come from God out of heaven. And it isn't me that speaks, it's my Father that dwells in me. He is the interpreter of that divine Word. And He proves again that He is God, because He's doing right with me what He said He would do." Amen! That's the Scripture. That's the message to get to people---not a cradle, not a manger.

53 Christmas is not mentioned in the entire book of the Bible. Never one time did Jesus refer them to His birth, but to His death. Not one time did Jesus ever say, "Join a church." Not one time did He ever say, "Recite a creed." But He said, "Come unto me." And He said, "He that does come, the works that I do will follow him just as it is me. For if I don't do the works of my Father, believe me not"; because the Word said when Messiah come, these things would take place. "He'll be a prophet." Yes, He'd be a prophet. He'd be a seer like Moses was. The lame would leap like an hart, the blind would see, the deaf would hear, and the dumb would speak. He would show forth in Him how He could perform the signs of the Messiah. "Now, if the signs of the Messiah doesn't vindicate my ministry," He said, "then don't believe me. But here's where you interpret the Word," He said. "If I don't have these signs, then don't believe it. But if I produce the signs, and you can't believe me interpreting the Word, believe the signs for they speak of the Word." That's the real interpretation of it. That's it. That's the message.

54 You don't have to take nobody's word. You don't have to join any church. You can't join a church. You can join these organizations, but the church of God, you're born into it from Calvary. You say, "Bless God, I am too, Brother Branham." Then the works that Jesus did, you'll do also. That's what Jesus said, see. "Works that I do..." What? He said, "The works that I do testify of me." Hallelujah! "The works that I do, they give witness. Don't you see [in other words] the signs of the Messiah? Can't you see what the Messiah was to do? And you don't believe I got the right interpretation of the Word, then why is my Father backing it up? You think I'm too hard on your organizations?" He said. "If you think I'm too radical, and you say I'm a madman, I've got a devil, I've lost my mind."
They told Jesus He was mad. Mad means crazy. "You're crazy. You don't belong to our groups, and you're out here like a madman. You've lost your mind."

55 Then Jesus could say to them this: "Then if you are of God, where is the signs of God? If you believed in Moses, where is the signs of Moses with you? If you believed in the prophets, where is the sign of the prophets with you? So, if you can't believe I've got the right interpretation, believe the signs, for they testify that I'm right." Hallelujah! "They are the ones that testify of me. They give record whether I'm right or not. All the Father has given me will follow it and come to it. No man will be able to come unless the Father has called Him." Right.
Yet, He had done so many works, the Bible said. Yet, they could not believe Him, because Isaiah said, "They got ears and can't hear, eyes and can't see." They're blind as a bat. Yet, they can't see it, because the prophets said they couldn't.

56 Now, same thing is today as it was then. Yeah, said, "If you can't... It's not me that speaketh the words, not me that doeth the works, otherwise, it's my Father. And if you know what God was... God was a creator. God was the one that was upon Moses, and God in Moses foretold my day. God was in the Old Testament," He said. So much as to say, "The One that was upon the prophets told you that that chief prophet would come someday, and to Him the children would be gathered. If you can't believe what I'm interpreting the Word to you, then believe the signs, for they speak of me."

57 Oh, they couldn't believe. They couldn't see it. He was God in the flesh. Because, what was He? He was the Word made manifest. He was what God had promised. Listen, Branham Tabernacle, buckle yourselves down on this Christmas Eve night, see. If He wasn't, then God would not have vindicated Him. Certainly. In other words, He could say, "Which one of your groups [Pharisees, Sadducees, or whatever they might be], which one of your men, which of your high priests, which of your scholars that God uses to speak His Word through and manifest it to say it's right?"

58 Well, they could've said, "Our men are educated. We're smart. We know that Bible from generation to generation."
Well, then, why don't God make it live again in them men if it's God's Word? "I and my Father are one." Not three. "We are one." God is in Him. God speaks through Him. He's no more His own, but He's God's voice through human lips. Hallelujah! And every believer in Him tonight is likewise possessed, so possessed, so completely given over till his words become like the words of Christ. He speaks and the Word is made flesh. He speaks and the Word is manifested. "The works that I do shall you do also. These signs shall follow them that believe."

59 Isaiah said in the forty-second chapter we just read, "Great light has come!" Light! Oh, I don't want to get off the subject, but the greatest light that ever shined was shining in that humble little Nazarene---a man with no beauty we should desire Him, a man without education worldly speaking, a man that knowed not the rituals and things of this world; but could tie demons, raise the dead, and devils trembled. And God recognized Him from heaven and spoke back, "This is my beloved Son." Not before the plutocrats, but before a selected group that He had called. Great light. Why? A greater light was shining from His Word. What was the Word? Christ. He was what? The Word brought to life. And the Word brought to life gave a greater light than He did when He said, "Let there be light," in Genesis 1. That was a light of a creation, a mortal creation, which must fall. But His Word was life eternal and light eternal. When a man believes that, you have eternal light.

60 "Light to those that sit in the regions of the shadows of death," Matthew 4---bring light to the Gentiles who were possessed and condemned by God in their idols. But He come as a light. What did he say? "Thy Word is a light to my path. A light to lighten the path to my feet, to guide me." And today the light of God is the Word of God made manifest, the light made manifest. The light is the works of God spoken by the Word of God brought to life, and it's a greater light than it was at the dawn of creation. Amen.

61 Light! He's a lamp to my path. Oh, God! Light, the Word. In darkness, as we are today, filled with creeds and denominations, filled with sensations and fanaticism, open hearts to sepulchers of any kind of a spirit that would even deny this Word from being the truth; and say, "The days of miracles is past. There's no such a thing as the baptism of the Holy Ghost, speaking with tongues, prophets, and so forth. They died years ago." Then to see God in the midst of darkness, the darkness of creed, the darkness of denominations, take His Word and a bunch of people that will believe it and shine forth His light and His life. It's more light. It's eternal light, more than what it was at the dawn of creation. "Let there be light, and there was light." Certainly.

62 Now, Jesus never said, now, He's going to bring them to Bethlehem. Jesus never said to the Greeks when they come up, "Now, just a moment. If you want to see it, I'll take you back to Bethlehem where I was born, and I'll tell you how it happened back there." It wasn't that! He pointed them to a future place if they wanted to know Him. "If you want to know me [in other words], I won't take you back and tell you when I was born at Bethlehem, and all about that. I'll point you to a place where I'm going to be crucified for you. And in there, if you'll be crucified with me and take up your cross and follow me, you'll know who I am. Otherwise from that, you'll never learn it through your ancient arts. You'll never..."
Well, you say, "Brother Branham, but we learn it through the art of the Bible." No, we don't! If we learn it through the art of the Bible, then why didn't the Pharisees have it? It isn't learnt through the art of the Bible, because we've got too many artists trying to paint it. But the Bible is right, but God is the artist.

63 The creeds today say, "Join this." "Say this Doxology." "Repeat the Apostles' Creed." "Join our church." "Shake hands." "Be baptized in the name of Father, Son, Holy Ghost." That is denominational creeds. Right! The artist didn't paint the picture that way. The artist painted it that Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today, and forever. "He that heareth my words and believeth on Him that sent me has eternal life. The works that I do shall he do also. These signs shall follow them that believe." That's the way the painter painted it. So, when God reflects that, you know you've struck the right painting. Outside that you got a bogus copy. Amen! Take that old bogus copy of some kind of a creed, and throw the thing out the door tonight, and take the Bible's gospel light, and let the painter paint Christ in you. Amen. That's the way. That's it.
No, He never took them to the manger, He never took them to Christmas.

64 Isaiah said His name would be called... In the same chapter he said, "His name shall be..." No, fifth chapter of Isaiah said, "His name will be called Wonderful, Counselor, the Prince of Peace, the mighty God, the everlasting Father." Amen. Wish I had time. I ought to... I'd like to take a text on each one of them---Counselor, Prince of Peace, mighty God, everlasting Father, and Wonderful.

65 Let's just strike the thought "wonderful" for a minute. Wonder-ful. Oh, Isaiah said He was wonderful. Let's think of some things that He said that made Him wonderful. What made Him wonderful? When He said this: "I and my Father are one." Wonderful! Tell me what Pharisee could have said that. Tell me what high priest could have said that, with God backing it up, see. Said, "If I don't do the works, now, don't believe anything I say. But if I've preached this, then it shows that God sent me to do it." Said, now, He said, "I and my Father are one"; not, "I and my Father are three." Jesus said...

66 Now, the creed says, "I and my Father are three," but the Bible said, and Jesus said, "I and my Father are one." That's wonderful. See how ... God made flesh (Hallelujah!)--- not some second, or third, or fourth person, but God Himself. Jesus said so. Argue with Him, not me. I'm just saying what He said. "I and my Father are one. It's not me that doeth the works, it's my Father. He dwells in me. If you don't believe me, believe the Word, because He is the Word. And the Word was made flesh and I am ... in the beginning was the Word."
This same gospel writer, John, said, "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." That makes Him and God the same person, if God is the Word and He is the Word. "I and the Father is one," then. Oh, that's wonderful. Yes, sir. So many things we could say on that. Wonderful things He said.

67 Another thing He said: "I am the light of the world." Tell me a priest could say that. Tell me a denomination can say that. Tell me a creed that could say that. That's wonderful.
"I am the truth." Oh, my! Our creeds are a million miles from truth. The creed cannot make God manifest. The creed cannot... Just like Elijah said on top of Mount Carmel, "If God be God, let Him answer." The creed won't do it. No, sir! But God will do it. Who is God? The Word, the Word made manifest. He'll do it.
"I am the light of the world. I am the truth that's in the world. I am the way." No other way but Him. That's all. Don't go through a creed; "Come to me," see. "I am the way, the light, the truth." All that He was... Them's wonderful words that He said. "I am the way, I am the truth, I am the light, I am the first. I am the last. I am the beginning, I am the end. I am He that was, which is, and shall come. I'm the root and offspring of David. I'm the morning star. I'm Alpha to Omega. I'm all. I and my Father are one. He dwells in me. I'm Him; He's me.
They said, "You being a man make yourself God?"
Oh, like He said to the Pharisees one time, "You do err not knowing the Word of God, neither the power of God. You do err by not knowing him." Certainly.
Wonderful words, wonderful!

68 Let's think about wonderful works one time. What did He do? What was He that Isaiah said He'd be wonderful? When he got to calling Him all the names he could---Counselor, Prince of Peace, mighty God, everlasting Father, all this---he said, "He's just wonderful." Wonderful words! Now we're going to talk about wonderful works for a minute.
What works did He do that was wonderful? One day there was a funeral possession coming from Nain. A widow with her only son, dead, laying on a bier, stiffened out, corpse, embalmed, going down to the grave to be buried. He had traveled all the way from Nazareth, His feet sore, dusty, tired, weary. And He heard that crying. He looked. Coming down the road there come a little widow, wailing. Her boy, her only son, laid on that stretcher dead. Worked out there that he passed by where Jesus was. And death and life can't come together, you know. One's got to go. He said, "Stop the bier," walked over and touched the boy; and the life that was in the boy, that had been gone maybe two days, returned back. I can just see the shroud begin to move, see the people begin to look, and a man that was dead raised up on his feet, walked over and put his arms around his mother, perhaps. That's the works of God. Wonderful, wasn't it? Sure was.

69 I can see Jairus, a little priest, been a nice man. He believed Jesus, but he had to keep it still on account of his associates. So many secret believers today like that. They're afraid to get put out of their church, see---cowards. God can't use that. God wants a man that can stand there. If it takes death, seal it. Don't fear him who destroys the body, but Him that destroys the body and sends the soul to hell.

70 Jairus---I see Him go to the home of this minister, walked in where a little, only child of twelve years old, a little girl laid stiff, dead, laid out on a couch. Her little lifeless body laid there. Her little pale hands, her nails had turned white. Her lips was drawed down, a fever had killed her, or something. Her little eyes was set and closed, and something was laying over them, perhaps. Her little hair had been combed, with roses and things laying around her. And the mother and father screaming, the neighbors screaming, his only child was gone. I see Him walk into that room. Amen. And He looked around. He seen them all. And they went to laughing at Him. He put them out of the room. That's wonderful. See, one man can take control of the whole crowd. Why didn't they say something? They was scared to say something. Why don't they condemn the Word today? They're scared to say it. That's all.
Walked into that room, took that little cold hand and spoke in an unknown language out yonder somewhere; and the spirit of that child come back and she lived again. Wonderful works. Yes, it was. It was wonderful works, proved that He was wonderful.

71 I might also say of Lazarus, when they'd already embalmed his body four days before, put layer after layer of spices upon him and round the cloth around and around this young man... And there he was, laying in the grave and rotten. His nose done fell in, his lips fell into his face, the skin worms had begin to eat him up, and his soul was four days' journey out somewhere. I see Him, His little stooped shoulders... Oh, my! The world would've said, "Look at that. Look at that Man. Look at Him, and you called Him God. There He is going down to the grave, crying mortal tears." The Bible said He cried. Tears dropping off His cheeks, snubbing as He went to the grave. He was a man then, but I see Him say, "Roll back the stone." Amen, amen. He changed the scene. Lazarus, that had been dead for four days, stood on his feet and lived again.

72 I can see the spice begin to squeeze through the blankets that he had him wrapped with. What? Life had come in again. The stink had gone away, new flesh had come on. A spirit that was four days somewhere else returned into his body, and a man stood on his feet. Talk about being Wonderful, Counselor, the Prince of Peace, the might God---there He was! Sure He was. All right.
We find the woman at the well, when He stood and talked to her a few minutes and told her that she had five husbands at that time.
She said, "Sir, you must be a prophet. We know when the Messiah cometh, that's going to be His sign."
He said, "I am he that speaks to you." Wonderful, wasn't it? Wonderful.
One night the sea was roaring. He was asleep from tiredness like a man. He was asleep from being tired. The devils had swore they was going to drown Him on that night. And they thought they just about had Him. When the sails had tore down, the oars was broke, the boat was waterlogged and filling up, they run back, the disciples, and said, "Carest Thou not that we perish?"

73 And He rose and wiped the sleep from His eyes, said, "Oh, ye of little faith, how long will I be with you? What are you going to do now? What are you going to do out here on this stormy sea when this big Galilee is going plumb to the bottom on every wave? What are you going to do when the devil's sitting across that mountain yonder, whispering them waves down through like that, throwing that tornado down there? It's raking up the water for thirty or forty feet high. What are you going to do?" Said, "How long will I be with you?" Put His foot upon the brail of the boat and said, "Peace, be still." And the winds shut up. In other words, He said, "Wind, shut your mouth. Waves, get back down where you belong." There wasn't even a ripple on the water. Stood there and looked around, walked back with a startled bunch of apostles standing there, laid back down again and continued His sleep.
They said, "What manner of man is this?" Wonderful! Amen! Wonderful! Don't you believe He was wonderful? Sure, He was wonderful. Yes, sir.

74 When that man Himself left the heavens, when the entire solar system was His crown---every billion stars that hung in the earth, every star, that millions of miles beyond... When they look through that glass out yonder at Mt. Palomar and can see a 120 million years of light space, and all those billions and trillions of stars was in His crown... And He left them to take a crown of thorns. Who would do it? Wonderful! Oh, my.
Eternal was His robe. He was robed with eternal life. He never had a beginning. He never started at Bethlehem, you know, as people try to think He did. He had no beginning. Amen!
Robed with eternal life, and pushed it aside to take an old, dirty robe of death for you and I. Wonderful! Heaven was His palace. All heaven belonged to Him. That was His palace. Nothing could ever shine with Him. And He came to the earth and even said, "The foxes has holes and the birds have nests, but I don't even have a place to lay my head." That's wonderful, don't you think so?

75 Friends, a lot of context I got wrote here, but I perhaps ain't got time to get it. I'll quickly hurry.
That's the Jesus that you must see. Not the Jesus of denomination they talk about, not the Jesus of creeds, not the Jesus of some sort of a mythical Christmas, not the Jesus of some bunny rabbit Easter; but the Jesus of Calvary, the Jesus who laid aside everything, who the prophets spoke of. We could go on with here ---wonderful Father, wonderful Counselor, wonderful Prince of Peace, wonderful mighty God. We just keep on going, going, going, see. But to lay aside we say this: We must see... That's the Jesus that we must see to have His eternal life. You can't get it in a creed. You can't get it in joining a church. You can't get it by some kind of a fable you're told about Santa Claus. Santa Claus don't have eternal life. No. A creed don't have eternal life. Not ... to know His Word even gives you ... to know it, it doesn't give you eternal life. To know Him, the Bible said, "To know Him is eternal life." Not know His Word; know Him.

76 The Greeks wanted to see Him. They wanted to know His person. "Sirs, we would see Jesus." Now, you don't see with your eyes; you see with your heart. See, you look with your eyes; you understand with your heart. To see is "to understand." You look right at something and say, "I don't see it," but you're looking at it. But you mean, you don't understand it.
The Greeks wanted to know Jesus, and He give them the way to know Him. To know Him. Not to know His creed, not to know His Word, not to know His miracles, but to know Him. And the only way you find that is at the cross, not the cradle. No, it's the cross, you see.

77 He pointed them to a cross. Not to some creed, or not some manger or manner of denomination, but to the cross. And now, it's the same today, a real disciple... And if you ever come to Jesus... He'll never say, "Jesus told me to go join So-and-so church." He never did do that. He wouldn't do it today. No. You'll see Him, He'll point you to the cross. Go there and die, and then you'll know Him, if you want to know Him.
Not one time did He point any person to any creed, any denomination, or to His birth, or even to Christmas. Not one time did He ever do it. I could linger on that awhile, but I won't.

78 Yet, if it isn't important, if Jesus... You can nowhere find in the Bible, where He ever pointed anyone to anywhere else to know Him but the cross. That's right. And that is self-crucifixion to yourself. "Except a man be born again..."
Then if the manger, Santa Claus... Jesus never did write a creed. He never did ordain a denomination. And then, why is it we make so much of it and even lay every responsibility on it? I want to ask you that, Christmas now. Why is it then that our churches lay so much on it, that you must belong to this church, you've got to say this creed, you've got to do this, that, or the other? Why is it we lay so much on it if it's not important? It shows we've got a different kind of a disciples than we used to have. They want to bring you to their church, to their denomination, or to their creed, and not to the Christ.

79 People today, if they're asked, "Are you a believer?"... I've asked this a many time. "Are you a believer?"
They say, "Oh, I'm Baptist."
"I'm Methodist."
Well, that shows you're not a believer, then, see. That's right. Baptist...
They say, "I'm Pentecostal." That don't have one thing to do with it. No, sir! A believer is a new creature. But that's what they've got it to today, see. Why do they do that? What makes people say that?

80 The other night I was in a hospital. I was going to have prayer for a little woman that was sick. She got healed. And I said... There was a man and his mother sitting there. I suppose it was his mother, and she looked about like his mother. And I was talking to the lady. I said, "We'll have prayer now." And I turned around, "Do you mind if we pray?"
She said, "Pull that curtain!"
I said, "Well, I just asked if you mind if we pray."
She said, "We are Methodists! Pull that curtain!"
I said, "Then this would scare you to death. I better pull the curtain then," see. I said, "If you're just a Methodist, you're not a Christian, so I'll just..."

81 Why do they say that? Some false disciple just took them that far. That's all they know. Some wrong-taught disciple... The disciples of Jesus took them to Jesus. A Methodist disciple takes them to the Methodists, a Baptist takes them to the Baptists, a Pentecostal takes them to the Pentecostals; but a disciple of Christ takes them to Christ, and Christ takes them to Calvary. That's the real thing. Yes, sir.
That's how far they was brought. They've only been brought that far, see. They say... Well, a Baptist, or a Methodist, or Presbyterian, or what, that's all the further they've been brought. Catholic, whatever it is, that's all the farther they've been brought, so that's all they know. But thank God, these disciples knowed Jesus, so they took him to ... they took these Greeks to where they knowed was truth. And a real disciple of Christ that's ever found Christ takes the seeker straight to Jesus; and Jesus points them to Calvary, where they die with Him and are born again, anew. Oh, my! That's as far as they are...

82 But, "Sirs, we would see Jesus." That was the question. "We wouldn't see a creed, we wouldn't see Methodists, we wouldn't see Baptists. We wouldn't see any of these. We want to see Jesus!"
But what's the matter? (I just got to close, my brethren. Listen closely now, just a few comments here before we close. What? I want to make this drive home now if I can, tack the thing down.)

83 The Greeks wanted to see Jesus. They never found Him in Christmas, never found Him in some organization, never found Him in some creed. He never pointed them to such. Have you got that well? But He pointed them to the cross, to die---to die. A real disciple says, "You've got to die." How do I know when I'm dead? When you recognize all this Word to be the truth, then the Word begins to live in you.
"Well," you say, "but our church teaches..." I don't care what your church teaches, it's what the Bible says. Where you going to? The other churches teaches something different, but this Bible teaches the same.

84 As Jesus said, "Whenever you accept this Word, this Word will be made manifest in you. It'll do the same thing that it says it'll do in you."
"Oh," they say, "The days of miracles is past."
And the Bible said, "Jesus the same yesterday, today, and forever." How you going to make that meet? When Jesus said, "He that believeth on me, anywhere, anytime..." Mark 16 said, "Go ye into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature." How long? To all the world. Has never even got there yet. Every creature. "He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved. He that believeth not shall be damned. And these signs shall follow them that believe..." There you are. The Word will be made light. It'll shine itself forth.

85 Not if you go to the cradle and say, "A little baby was born here long years ago." Nonsense! All kinds of creeds and fables told about it... We know Jesus knowed all that thing would perish and get all mixed up. But there's one thing isn't mixed up---that's the Holy Spirit.

86 Oh, one of them say, "He was born right here. We got a church built over it."
Other one said, "He was born over here." Like... You know how many nails they got, can prove it, original nails that was in the cross? Nineteen---each fellow holding a nail.
"This, we got it. Hallelujah, we got it." They just got some dead bones of some... "We got it, we got it. This is the place He was born."
Others say, "This is the place He was born."
They say, "This is the place He was born." What difference does it make? Here's where He was born, in the heart. Amen. When I died, He was born again ... I was born again in Him new. That's it. "Sirs, we would see Jesus." All right.

87 Well, what's the matter? He's got lost again. People's lost Him. That's right. But He's been lost again in the big crowds, the crowds of creeds.
You remember one time He got lost to His parents? He's lost again. He got lost. Go down these streets, like it's been the last few days, look at the mad crowds, pushing and shoving and drinking and cursing and damning. "Jingle bells, jingle bells..." Christ is lost. He ain't lost; the people's lost Him. Where did they find Him? Where they lost Him at. That's where we'll find Him. But He's lost in their creeds and in their crowds.

88 He's lost, Christ is lost in the commercial crowd. The commercial crowd's saying, "We got to celebrate Christmas."
A lady said the other day, standing there, when wife and I was standing there, said, "I bought my dad a quart of whiskey."
Other one said, "I'm going to get... I'll tell you what I'm going to get Dad. I'm going to get him some cards and some chips. We'll play strip poker," see. Celebrate Christmas.
Other said, "I've got a carton of cigarettes for Mom. What'd you get her?" O God, He's lost.
They lost Him in Christmas. They lost Him in Easter---a bunny rabbit or a new hat, not the resurrection, not the birth of Christ. They lost Him in their creeds when they made three gods out of Him, chopped Him to pieces and made idols, instead of knowing who He is. "I and my Father are one." You lost Him!

89 He's lost in the religious crowd. How'd the religious crowd... ? He's lost to His church. In the Laodicean, the last church age, it said He was on the outside of the church, knocking, trying to get in. The most pathetic sight in all the Bible is the condition of the church in the last days before He comes. Not another church age ever put Him out. They didn't know any difference. Now, when they really know the true power of the Holy Ghost, they kicked Him out of the place. On the outside knocking at the door, "Behold, I stand at the door and knock." Sure.

90 They lost Him in their commercial crowds. They lost Him in their religious crowds. That's right. They made creeds out of it. They made denominations out of it. They lost it. They took the ritual instead of the Bible. They took a bunch of men's ideas instead of what God said. They said, "Put your name on the book. Shake hands. That's all you have to do. Be baptized---Father, Son, and Holy Ghost."
The whole thing's false. That's right. There's where the church crowd lost Him. Where they lost Him? Why? Not in their church buildings, not in their what-you-call-its, their group of people, but they lost Him when they left the Word. "If ye abide in me and my Word in you, ask what you will; it'll be given to you. It'll be done for you, if ye abide in me and my words abide in you," because it's God made flesh again, see. "If ye abide in me and my Word in you, then just ask what you will, it'll be done for you." That's it. But today they're not abiding. They're this day a Methodist, tomorrow a Baptist, next day a Presbyterian, ain't got nowhere yet. "If my Word abide in you... And the Word was made flesh and dwelt among us." Hallelujah! Brother Neville, that's so true, the Word made in your flesh, speaking through you.

91 The Pentecostals lost Him. Oh, yes. They had Him a few years ago, but they lost Him. How did they do it? By seeing who could build the biggest building, who could have the biggest church, the best trained choir.
If there's anything I don't like is an overtrained voice, that'll stand up and sing like they got the colic, that "Weee," hold their breath till they're black in the face. They're not singing---they're just making a noise. But what I like is a good old-fashioned, heartfelt, Pentecostal, born-again person, singing from their heart. If they can't carry a tune in a bucket, they still got the Spirit there; you can feel it tearing through you. Hallelujah. I like that. I love that after effects, the Holy Spirit blessing it, you know. I love that. That's just real to me. Yeah.

92 But they lost Him. Well-trained choirs and well-trained preachers. Oh, my! All kinds of curly hair, you know, and bow their head over this way to get their picture taken, and oh... Yeah, well trained. They sure are. That's well trained.
Large Sunday schools, sure. Each church trying to outdo another one in Sunday school, and Sunday school is not even spoke of in the Bible. That's a Methodist dogma. It was first called "ragged school." Everybody now goes to Sunday school that can't stay for church, because they took something besides what God said. Right.
And remember, I never said I preached anything under the inspiration in my life I had to take back, like I did the altars the other day and things. Serpent's seed or any of that, let someone come and tear it down with the Word of God.

93 No, that's where they lost Him. Large Sunday school, or the biggest tent there is, the best dressed group in the town---that's Pentecost. "Why, we belong to the First Church. The best group in the town goes there." Deacons married three or four times, deacon on the boards. Maybe the pastor, too. All kinds of nonsense in the churches today. See, what did they do? They lost Jesus.
"Well, you know our denomination is the biggest one in Pentecost. Our men are the best trained men there is in there." They may be all that. I don't deny that---that goes to lodges and the theological fields. But I'm wanting to know a man that knows Jesus, has seen Him, and been born again, and the Word's reflecting itself in his word. You can see it isn't his... He's give hisself so completely over till it's Christ speaking through him. There you are. That's right. The signs and wonders follows that Word, because it's God's Word. But if God's Word says a certain thing and this group says, "Oh, no, no, no, our organization will kick us out if we believe that," then he's done. Right there he cut hisself off, right there, that's all. You might mechanically work up something, you might put some kind of a hoax out and imagine this, that, or the other; but the real genuine thing isn't there. Yes, sir. Oh, sure.

94 The churches are swapping Christ for the world and creeds. The church is on a swapping program. Oh, they sure want to swap. Yes, sir. They'll go and they'll swap. They want a swapping program. They want to swap what God says for what the denomination says. They want to swap what God says to follow the pastor. They want to swap what God says to follow the organization. They're swapping. Do you know what? The people is shopping. Oh, there's a big commercial going on now. It's another Christmas, just a bogus made-up. (We had just a little more time, I'm going to get back on this subject again one day. Passing too much up here that the Holy Spirit give me a while ago, see.)
While the church is swapping, the church is shopping, the people are---so-called church. Yes, sir! They're swapping. They sure are. Shopping and swapping. They're shopping for what? The biggest church, the best-dressed crowd, the biggest denomination. And the people (I'm going to say something), the people is trying to find (even Pentecostals)...

95 The Pentecostal women is trying to find a place that they'll let them get by with more things of the world---shorts, bobbed hair, paint. They're shopping. "Bless God, I'm Pentecostal. Hallelujah, I belong to this," and, "Oh, our pastor don't believe..." see, you're shopping for the ones that'll let them live the dirtiest (God, have mercy!), the one will let them live the filthiest and the most like the world that they can. They're shopping from place to place, turning down Christ. That might grind like everything. It was meant to do it.
The people's shopping. They're Christmas shopping where they can find bargains, bargain hunters. "Well, I'm Pentecostal, too. Well, we don't have that old narrow-minded stuff." But the Bible says so.

96 If he's a true disciple of Christ, he'll lead you to the cross. "Oh, Brother Branham, I went out and spoke in tongues." That don't mean nothing. A mule did that one day. I don't mean to make fun of God's holy Word. I believe in speaking in tongues, but devils speak with tongues. A people can speak in tongues and live any kind of a life. But I mean that the devil's got a copy of everything that God did. And he can copy everything but the genuine birth of Christ, and he can't do that, because you have to die first, then the Word raises you up. How do you know when you're alive? When that Word, every word of it's made flesh in you. Everything that the Bible says, you say the same thing and it comes to pass, just exactly like He said it. That's when it is. When your spirit agrees with Him---He is the Word---when your spirit agrees with what He said and the Spirit makes itself manifest through His Word, then you're living, see. You're through shopping then, and swapping, and all the rest of it. It's all settled.

97 Yes, the people are shopping to find where they can live the worldliest at---Pentecostals and all. Don't you Pentecostals make fun of them Baptists and Presbyterian. Pot can't call kettle dirty! No, sir. No, indeedy. It's all the same.
So they're shopping to find where they can go into a church and join an organization, that they can be popular, well-thought-of in the city. The mayor of the city goes to the church (which he could go to a church and be born again. Now, I'm just saying in the run), the biggest church in the city.

98 I know people right today that belonged to a little organization up here on the road, a little church. But it was too little, so they said, "So our children will ... and we can be a little better thought of." They took their letter from one church and went down to another, a bigger organization. And besides, this other one had a picture show in the basement and they play bunco, and everything like that, you know, and have these games, and so forth like that. So, they got the children down there. They got a pool table down in the bottom, see, so they can play pool, and have recreation, and things like that; and have a ten-minute Sunday school class and a coffee break, and a break so the pastor can smoke cigarettes and get outside. Oh, yes, that's right. I wouldn't say it unless I knowed what I was talking about. That's right. Oh, sure. See, they're shopping.

99 If they can go ahead and live the kind of life that they want to live, do anything they want to, and still be promised eternal life hereafter, they're shopping for that. I'm telling you, if you want to shop, come to Calvary. That settles it. Die to your dirty self, your sins, and be born again anew. "And if you love the world or the things of the world, the love of God's not even in you." That's what the Bible says. That's right.

100 Say, "I don't believe in holiness." No wonder you can't. But the Bible said without it no man shall see God. God's holy. If God lives in you, you're holy, too! Tell me you can go out on these parties and drink a little sociable drink. Why, the Pentecostals do that. Go out on these parties, and take them women out there and live in these places, and go down and strip yourself off in bathing suits, and go in swimming before men, when your husbands... And brothers and sisters, and so forth, and Pentecostal people going out in bathing suits and calling yourself a member of the bride? The bride of Christ don't do them things.

101 Oh, he's shopping, sure! Getting the easy way, then promised eternal life hereafter. You don't have it, unless it's living in you, the Word of God, being a living witness that He's alive and you're alive in Him. Oh, my!
"Sirs, we would see Jesus." Oh, not these creeds, not these things that the people make up. "We would see Jesus," but He's lost to them.
Why? (Just a moment.) Why? Why is He lost to them? Why is He lost to Pentecost? Why is He lost to the Methodists and Baptists? Why is He lost to those organizations? Because they won't take their corn of wheat, and drop it down at Calvary, and die to their creed, and be born of the Word.

102 Then we are washed by the water of the Word (Amen!), become new creatures in Christ Jesus, and the signs that Christ said follow Him will follow them. Every woman will come to her place; every man will come to his place. The Spirit of God will come to its place, and the church of the living God will be spotless. Sure. Amen. Yes, sir, that's the way it's done.
No death to their corn of wheat. They won't drop their denomination. They won't let it die. If the Baptist organization would drop that Baptist corn of wheat into the ground and let it die, if the Methodist would drop its corn of wheat in, if the Assemblies of God, and the Pentecostal, Jesus' name, and the oneness, and threeness, and all the different ones, Church of God, and all them others would drop that corn of wheat into the Word, and let it die to its own thoughts, and let this Word abide and come to life, then they'd say, "If you don't believe me, believe the works that I do, for they are they which testify of me." What is the works? Jesus said, "These works, the works that God gave me to do." And said, "As the Father sent me, so send I you." The very works that God did was in Him, made Him and the Father one; and the same works that Jesus did, the Holy Spirit of Jesus in you will make you do the same works. "The works that I do shall he do also." Sure. Won't let the corn...

103 What did they do? Only dead members, dead in sin and trespasses, dead in education, dead in the things of the world. It counts to them. That's the reason they're not born again. That's the reason the signs can't follow. Because why? Only dead members have to be... A minister has to have a Ph.D., LL.D., before he can pastor some churches. And maybe he don't know the first alphabetical letters: A-B-C, "Always Believe Christ." If he believed Christ...

104 Some guy got after me the other day and said, "Why don't you leave them people alone, always hammering at them about the way they dress and the things they do? If you're a prophet..." They said, "People think you're a prophet."
I said, "I know. They've said that. I'm not. But," I said, "they..."
Said, "Well, they believe you to be. Then why don't you teach them how to see visions and walk before God."
I said, "If they don't know A-B-C, how am I going to teach them algebra? If they don't know kindergarten, don't know how to behave themselves, don't know how to look, and act, and dress, and be decent, how are you going to teach them prophetic things?"
Jesus said, "If you don't believe the things that's ... earthly things, how you going to believe if I tell you heavenly things?" The things that you can do yourself, stop doing these things. Can't even do that, how are you going to find spiritual things, people? Isn't that right? Yes, sir!
Only dead to their education, they got ... educated crowd.

105 Now, I'm going to close by saying this, just these few words. My Christmas message is, let me point you tonight to the cross. Amen. And you, the corn of wheat, fall into Christ there and die. There you will find His life in His Word being the same yesterday, today, and forever. Let that be my Christmas message to you. I ain't pointing you to a manger, to a cradle, to a church, to a denomination, but "Sirs, we would see Jesus." Then, I'll point you to Him. He points you to His death, burial, and resurrection. And you let your own corn of wheat fall in there, and let His Word become real in you, and you'll see that He is the same yesterday, today, and forever. "Sirs, we would see Jesus." He is the same yesterday, today, and forever. Let us pray.

106 Heavenly Father, though the hours sweep along, and the Holy Spirit moves among the people, and tomorrow is supposed to be the worship of the day that You sent your only begotten Son into the world... And I have tried tonight, not to point the people to a manger where He was born---for He was just a baby then---but I'm trying to point them to the purpose to which He was born for: that He might become their Saviour, that He might become their God, their King, their all in all. That they might know Him who fills all space. That they might know Him, not one that began at Bethlehem, but one that never had a beginning; one that's the eternal God that could stand on the earth and say, "I and my Father are one." I'm trying to act like a disciple the best that I know how.
When hungry-hearted people come to the disciples that were true, Philip and Andrew, they took them in the presence of the Lord Jesus; and He pointed them to a death that was coming, so that they would know Him and could see Him.

107 And tonight, Father, likewise, I point them to a Calvary, where the Son of God, God made manifest in flesh, took on the form of a human being and was tabernacled (changed His cast, become from the eternal God in glory, eternal), become a human being, and pitched His tent among us, and become one of us to be a Kinsman Redeemer, to bring us back to a recollection of a mighty God who created us. There He died at Calvary, and there we must die with Him, as He died, the Son of God. To be sons of God we must die also, and let our corn of wheat fall into the ground with Him, our lives be dead and hid in Him. Oh, and then raised in His resurrection to carry on His work, to let His ... same God that was in Him bring forth the manifestation of the Word of the church in this last days as He promised.

108 And, God, we're so glad to see that He's vindicated every bit of it. To show that He's God, He keeps His Word. The great pillar of fire is still among us. The great signs and wonders that He promised is still happening. Oh, God, we are so happy that tonight ... that the purpose that brought Him to the earth, that we have a right to possess His Spirit in our lives that gives us eternal life, His Word made flesh in our own being.
Let us surrender ourselves tonight, Lord, surrender completely to everything of this world, that we might be dead to the things of the world and rise again to a new life in Christ, to go forth in this coming year (if the year lasts through or if it even gets here), Lord Jesus, to be new consecrated vessels of God, washed by the water of the Word through the blood, and set aside for service for Christ. Grant it, Lord. We commit ourselves to You in the name of Jesus Christ. Amen.

109 Close to Thee, close to Thee,
Close to Thee, close to Thee;
All along life's pilgrim journey,
Saviour, let me walk with Thee.
Let's raise our hands and our hearts as we sing it.
Close to Thee, close to Thee,
Close to Thee, close to Thee;
All along life's pilgrim journey,
Saviour, let me walk with Thee.
Let's bow our heads and our hearts and sing it quietly to Him now, like you're looking right to Him.
Close to Thee, close to Thee,
Close to Thee, close to Thee;
All along life's pilgrim journey,
Saviour, let me walk with Thee.
If that's your testimony, now raise your hand, say,
Close to Thee ... (Truly, Lord, not
the church, You; not a creed, but You;
not a crib or a cradle, You! Oh, God,
let your Word be in me, so I'll be
close to You.)
All along life's pilgrim journey,
Saviour, let me walk with Thee.

110 Now, while we sing again, take hold of somebody's hand, say, "I'll pray for you, Christian." When you take their hand, that's saying that "I'll pray for you, Christian; you pray for me."
Close to Thee, close to Thee,
Close to Thee, close to Thee;
All along life's pilgrim journey,
Saviour, let me walk with Thee.
Now, as you have your heads bowed,
In a manger long ago
I know it's really so,
A babe was born to save men from
their sins.
John saw Him on the shore,
The Lamb forevermore,
O Christ, the crucified, of Calvary.
... ... ... ...
Close to Thee, close to Thee;
All along life's pilgrim journey,
Saviour, let me walk with Thee.
Do you love Him? Isn't He wonderful?
The lame was made to walk;
The dumb was made to talk.
That power was spoken with love
upon the sea.
The blind was made to see,
I know it could only be
The mercy of that man of Galilee.
... ... ... ...
Close to Thee, close to Thee;
All along life's pilgrim journey,
Saviour, let me walk with Thee.

111 That your desire tonight? Say, "Amen!" if it is. Oh, how wonderful.
... ... ... ...
All along life's pilgrim journey,
(We're pilgrims.),
Saviour, let me walk with Thee.
God bless you. Not exactly a "Merry Christmas," but God's blessings of Christmas be upon you. May the Christ of Calvary hide you in Himself, blanket you, so wrap you and enshroud you in His Word till His Word will be made flesh in you is my prayer. God bless you. The pastor now, Brother Neville.

Sirs, we would see Jesus

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1 Heavenly Father, we are just redeeming the time now, until You come. The great revival that we have so wondrously enjoyed has swept across the nation, and around the world, till revival fires has burned in every nation under heaven. Around the world at this time is great healing services going on, all around the clock, and around the world. Started from a few years ago---just simple people going out believing, and brought the revival.
Heavenly Father, we are now gleaning in our cities and across our nation. Is there some, Lord, that has not yet got in? If it be so, our God, we pray that You will send them. If there be any souls in Dallas that's redeemable, grant, Lord, that somehow, some way, You'll get them during this meeting. We're not too much thought of amongst the world, and we expect that. But when our Lord came to the earth, neither was He thought of very well. But there were millions in the world at that time, and just a few heard Him. But all that had been ordained to life heard Him. I pray, God, sincerely that You'll give, tonight and through the meeting, all those that are left in Dallas without the seal of God in their forehead---grant that they'll come in, gloriously be filled with the Holy Spirit.

2 ... pray that You'll heal all the sick and afflicted, throughout the country, here, that has faith. Bless our noble little Brother Grant. Oh, to see him so much stronger---that little man that broke his health right down, standing in the prayer lines and in deep sincerity---and my heart goes for him. I'm so glad to see, Lord, that You have blessed him so marvelously. Let your hand of mercy be upon him, and all those in this country who love You, and are waiting for your coming.
Bless thy Word. And Father we pray that Jesus, Himself, will come to us in such a real form, such a real way that there'll be none of us fail to see Him. And may all that Thou hast ordained to life receive it. May those who are sick receive Him, and may they be healed for the kingdom of God's sake. In Jesus Christ's name we ask it. Amen.

3 Now, we try to get the services out between nine and nine-thirty because of the crowd, and so you can come back tomorrow night. Just a little formal something: tonight I want to take a Scripture that I've read many times and had... Is there people that's never been in one of the meetings? Raise your hands. Let's see. Oh, my! That's practically 80 or 90% of the building or, the people in the building hasn't been in the meeting. Happy to have you for this first time.

4 Now, anyone knows that there's no man that heals another. There's not even a doctor that can heal you. Healing is of God. "I'm the Lord who heals all thy diseases." There's no doctor that will tell you that he has a medicine that'll heal you. If he does, he misinforms you. Because Mayo Brothers on an interview recently... When this little Donnie Martin was healed in Canada, that Mayo's had turned down---which happened on the West Coast... You seen it in "Reader's Digest." They had me up there on a interview and they said, "We do not profess to be healers, Brother Branham. We only profess to assist nature."

5 There's one healer. That's God. God is the only one who can build cells, make life. Therefore it's not in the power of man to do that. A doctor can set a bone, or give you medicine to poison germs, that he puts so much in it---an antidote---to keep it from killing you, and kill the germ, and so forth. He can do that. But the tissue that's been torn down, or the bone that's been broken, the appendicitis that's been taken out---the appendix---He cannot heal that. It takes God.
God heals. Man can remove something that's causing it. If it's possible to remove that organ, he can cut it out, cut off the blood veins, and pull that tissue out that's a wild cell, like tumor, cancer, or something---if he can get ahold of it. He can remove that. But to heal, he cannot. And he'll tell you that.

6 And now, healing is of God alone. God alone has purchased for us our healing. It's up to us to do everything that we can in our life, in every way that God has give us for our healing. But it's God that heals. If God calls you to go home tonight, there isn't enough medicine in the world to keep you here. There's nothing going to keep you here. And if He determines you to stay on the earth, no matter how many physicians says you're going tonight, you're not going. So it's just all up to God.

7 God is life, life eternal. In the beginning was God. He wasn't God at that time, because "God," the English word "God," means "object of worship," and there wasn't nothing but Him. He was the eternal---just the eternal One. There was no moon, no stars, no angels, no nothing. But in this being that we call God, our Father, was attributes. In Him was attribute to be father, in Him was attribute to be God, in Him was attribute to be Son, in Him was attribute to be Saviour, in Him was attribute to be healer. And all these things that we see now is just displaying his attributes.

8 Now, if you were in his thinking at the beginning, if you've got eternal life... There's only one form of eternal life. Eternal life had no beginning and it has no ending. So if you have eternal life, you were an attribute of God's thinking before there was anything but Him. Your form, your shape, and what you're in now, is just a negative.
When you come up to around twenty, twenty-two years old, you were a negative. And death develops the picture to the positive---that when this earthly tabernacle be dissolved, we have one already waiting, see.

9 This ... just a display.
Now, it shows what's being done, like God becoming God when He created angels. He become son when He created Christ Jesus. He become Saviour when Jesus died. He becomes healer when He was wounded for our transgressions, with his stripes we were healed, see.
All these things are attributes of God, just so that in the end... The Bible said ... Jesus said, "You will know that I am in the Father, the Father in Me, I in you, and you in Me." It's God becoming tangible.
Your own wife ... you and your husband is just a shadow, a negative, of God and his wife (the church). See, it's just God's attribute being displayed in shadows and types---like the Old Testament was to the New, see.
Then in the end, it all winds up God tangible---God in Christ tangible, made flesh, dwelt among us. And in that great millennium to come, God in the form of Christ sits upon the throne of David, and the church, his bride: husband and wife together.
Why, it's the most... It's enough to set the heart of a believer on fire in these great hours that we're living when all hopes and nations, and everything else, is crumbling under us! We've got a kingdom. We're baptized into this kingdom.

10 Now, we're going to take this little formal message tonight to introduce what I want you to see in the meetings. We read in (pardon me) in St. John, the 12th chapter, and the 20th verse. And our theme's still ... from the beginning is like it is tonight; and upon all of our literature and everything, Hebrews 13:8: "Jesus Christ, the Same, Yesterday, Today and Forever."
Now 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, Sirs, we would see Jesus.

11 Now there's the question we're asking tonight. If He is the same yesterday, today, and forever, and these Greeks, Gentiles, asked to see Him, and was permitted to do it by one of his servants; and if He still remains the same yesterday, today, and forever, why can't we see Him tonight? "Sirs, we would see Jesus."

12 Now, I'm sure to any believer it would be the most thrilling thing of his heart, a confirmation of his faith, that if he could actually see, and know that he was standing in the presence of Jesus Christ. I think it would be the most 'stounding thing that any person, any believer, could think of---to know, and know positive, that he's standing right in the presence of the Lord Jesus Christ: his solemn judge, his redeemer, and will be his judge at the judgment.

13 Now this question asked... These Greeks had come up at the worship, and they were perhaps proselytes to the Jewish religion. And they were up at the feast, so they must have been proselytes. And they had heard about Jesus. "Faith cometh by hearing, and hearing of the Word of God."
Now somewhere in the Scripture, they had no doubt heard, or read, of what the Messiah was to be like. So knowing if they could... This man claiming to be Messiah, He would have to have the attributes that Messiah was to possess.

14 Now, there'd been many ... there'd been many false messiahs had raised up. We know there was even one named Jesus, who raised up, just before the anointed one. Messiah was the anointed, which means "the Christ," the ... a man anointed with the Holy Spirit. Fullness of God was Messiah: God in a man. Man and God became one, when God came into a man.

15 Now, these Greeks were very curious. They'd heard some great things about this fellow who made these claims. And I admire them for the cause of being sincere enough to look in upon it. I think if we would all do more of that, would look in upon what we hear about, and judge it according to the Word...
Now, God never changes his way of doing things. He always remains the same way. Now, He cannot change, because God's first decision is his... Ever has to remain with that decision when He's called on the scene.
Like today.

16 God was called on the scene when sin was first committed in the garden of Eden. And He had to make a decision how He would redeem man. And He made his decision by redeeming him by the shed blood of an innocent one. And He's never changed it.
We've tried to educate them, we've built towers and cities, and theologies, and educations, and church denominations, and denominated them in. And it's never worked; and it never will work. God saves man by the shed blood of the innocent. He never changes it.
No matter how better way we think, (it's) that's God's decision. And if... He cannot make a decision one thing today, and another thing tomorrow. When He makes one decision, He's perfect. He never has to go back on it. When God says anything, it's eternally right because He is eternal, and his words are eternal.

17 God, knowing the end from the beginning, therefore He 'lotted to his ... the world a certain part of Word for each generation, as they come along. He sent prophets. In the Old Testament we are taught, in Hebrews 1, "God in sundry times and divers manners spake to the fathers through the prophets; in this last day through his Son, Christ Jesus."
Now, if we'll examine that scripture real well,

18 when Jesus was on earth, and He said He was the Son of God, they condemned Him. He said, "Why would you condemn me when I say I am the Son of God, when you call those who the word came to, gods?" Abraham was considered a god. Elijah was a god. Isaiah was a god because the Word of God came to them, and they were, in portion, gods. Jesus said they were. He said, "You call them gods."
Now, you see, when the man was anointed, like Joseph, he portrayed Christ. When Moses was anointed, he portrayed Christ. When David was anointed, he portrayed Christ. All leading up to Christ. And He was the fullness of the Word. The Word was made manifest in Him. He was the complete anointed one. They had it by portions; we have it by portion; He was the anointed one. The entire plan of God laid in Him.
God's plan before the foundation of the world, to redeem a lost world, was in Him. He was the Word; and He's still the Word, the same yesterday, today, and forever. Remember, He came to the fathers through the prophets, made Himself known through the prophets---and then in this last day through his Son, Christ Jesus. He was God made manifest.

19 Notice, the Word always comes to the prophet. God never did work through a group of people. It's an individual He works through. He worked in the days of Noah through Noah. He worked in the days of Moses through Moses. He worked in the days of Elijah through (Elisha) Elijah---through Elisha and Elijah, through Isaiah, and those prophets as they came down through the age. And then when He was here, He was manifested fully; not in Pharisees, Sadducees---but in Jesus Christ. He was the Word. That's why He could say what He said. That's the statement that He could make.
Now, these Greeks knew of this. See,

20 through each age God has 'lotted so much Word, and the churches get it all confused up. Then He sends a prophet among them, and vindicates that Word.
It's just like any other time. We speak today and say the Methodists... Lutherans said, "When you believe, that's all you have to do. You're justified by faith. Believe." Many said they believed, and didn't have it. We know that.
Along came Wesley with what's called the second work of grace, sanctification. "All that shouts, and are sanctified has got it." Many shouted, and didn't have it.
Along come the Pentecost. Said, "All that speaks with tongues has got it." Many spoke with tongues, and didn't have it.
Along comes the Christian Science, and said, "It's love, the fruit of the Spirit." Many of them shows fruit of the Spirit, and don't have it.

21 Those Pharisees could show ten times the fruit that Jesus could. Did you know that?
Now, what if I would take, say... God forgive me, but I'm going to take the other side. I'm going to say, "There's a fellow here in Dallas---just a young fellow, sprung up from down here, nowhere, on the little slum down here---that calls hisself a prophet, down at Galilee. Here He is going about. I've drawed you people together to show you what's wrong.
"This man claims to be a prophet. Now, I want to ask you something. Who studied from a childhood up, but your godly old priest? Who was it stood by your father and your mother when you were born, but your godly old priest? Who was it took you up in their arms, and circumcised you and dedicated you to the Lord, the eighth day, but your godly old priest? Who is it comes to you when you're sick and needy, but your godly old priest? Who was it studied, and sacrificed all their young life to learn all the laws, and things, but your godly old priest?
"Where did this young fellow come from, this Jesus of Nazareth? What school did He go to? What organization does He belong to? What fellowship card does He pack? None.
"Now, the only thing He does is condemn those who have it. Who is this fellow anyhow?

22 "You businessmen---Jehovah required a lamb for a sacrificed blood. Your godly old priest made some stalls out there. You fellows are merchants, and sell silk and stuff. And he made a place out there so you merchants could buy, with your money, a lamb to offer for your sins.
"What did this young fellow do? Come up there and kicked those things over, looked upon them with anger, beat them out and turned the changers' tables over. Would you call that fruit of the Spirit? No. I should say not, trying even to keep you from getting saved. Your blood, the blood that Jehovah required... That couldn't be a Jehovah."
See how real it would sound?

23 Did not those priests that day, or those prophets when Jehoshaphat and Ahab sat together... And four hundred well-trained priests from the school came up there, and told Ahab and them, "That land belongs to you. It's not right that the Philistines would fill their bellies with the wheat that belongs to Israel. God Almighty give us this. And thus saith the Lord, 'Go up.'"
But you know, Jehoshaphat was a spiritual man. That didn't sound just right. He said "Haven't you got one more that you might consult?"
Said, "I got one, but I hate him." That's sure. Said, "He's always prophesying evil. He's condemning our people. And everything he does, he won't agree with the rest of them."
Said, "Don't let the king say so, but bring him out."

24 And when little Micaiah, the son of Imlah, come forth he saw a vision. He compared his vision with the Word. And when he saw his vision and the Word was together, he said, "Go on up. But I seen Israel scattered like a sheep, having no shepherd."
You see who was right? They actually had something, and that land did belong. But it belonged to them under conditions. And so does the blessings of this last day belong to this church, but it's under conditions. You've got to meet those conditions. If you don't, you can have all kinds of healing services, shouting services, praising services, fruit services, speaking in tongues services, and it'll do you no good at all. You've got to come to God's condition.

25 That's why these Greeks was desirous to see this man. They knowed in the Word that what this Messiah was supposed to be, and they wanted to see Him. They were Gentiles. They'd heard about Him, and they wanted to see Him. Now, if they wanted to see Him, and they were given the privilege, don't you think that here in Dallas tonight...
If He said in the Scripture He's the same yesterday, today, and forever---and we desire to see Him---don't you think that He would give us the same? Remember, if He doesn't, then it's not the same yesterday, today, and forever. I believe He's the same.
God in this last day has done marvelous things for the people.

26 It reminds me a lot of a woman here not long ago, in Louisville, Kentucky. She had a little boy about, oh, two or three years old. And the little fellow had a ... must have been developing a mental trouble, and she took him to the doctor. And the doctor had doctored him a while, and he seemed to be getting worse to her. But to the doctor, he said, "I believe he's better." So she gave him a sign test.
She took him into a ten-cent store, and she picked up a little something that should attract the attention of this little lad. And he wouldn't look at it. And she went to another counter, and she picked up something that should attract his attention---a little toy pistol, or something---and still it wouldn't attract his attention. And she did everything that she knew. And the people began to watch the woman getting hysterically.
Then she goes to a place that had a little jingle bell. And she picked that up, and she shook it hysterically before his eyes, and said, "Darling, look!", and the little fellow just stared in space. And she dropped the little thing on the floor and begin to scream out, "Oh, no, no," she screamed.

27 And some of the people in the store went to aid her, and to find out what was wrong. She said, "My little boy. The doctor says he's better; but he's not. Anything that ought to attract his attention of a little boy like that, it doesn't attract him. He only stares in space."
I think that's got the condition our church is getting into. God's shook every gift that He promised in the Bible before us, and we still stare in space, as if we're looking for something else. Seems to be a spiritual condition of the church, that they fail to see the hour that they're living. They're looking for some sensation, or something that ... something way off in the future. Man is forever doing that. He always blesses God for what He has done, looking forward for what He will do, and ignoring what He's doing. You fail to see the hour we're living.

28 That's what those Greeks wanted to know, what the hour was, and what that Messiah should be. The portion of scripture that was made known for that day---if that Messiah fulfilled that---that's the evidence. The a-vindicated Word of the hour is the evidence. Not that He had to have fruits of the Spirit, he had to be a lawyer in the courts of justice for his ... or one of the Pharisees' or Sadducee organizations; He was the manifestation of God's promised Word of that hour.
You want to see what the fruit of the Spirit is? Watch what the Bible promises for a certain hour, then watch for that to be vindicated. That is the evidence. Jesus said, "Search the scriptures. For in them you think you have eternal life. They are they that testify of Me. That's what proves who I am."

29 We're looking now.
One scripture before we go into something else: Jesus said when He was here on earth, in Luke's book, that "As it was in the days of Sodom, so shall it be at the coming of the Son of man." Now, notice, that "as it was in the days of Noah before the flood..."
Now, Jesus was reading the same Bible that you and I are reading, and all those things were shadows. Now, if you want to find out what it was before the day of Noah, go back and read Genesis. He just said they was eating, drinking, marrying, giving in marriage. But if you notice, go back and read Genesis 6, and find out there what taken place. We see back in there, that when the sons of God saw the daughters of men were fair, they'd taken unto them women. Divorce courts. Sons of God, men of renown, men of great name...

30 Look today. Our officers of... The great men of the world, like this great Lord in England---just recently "Life" magazine packed the article of it---found with these striptease, and so forth.
Look at our governor of New York, and all the other countries around, at the immorality. Look at the divorce. America leads the nations in divorce, the rest of the world.
Look at women, how they dress and get on the street; and how that men... The very first thing that's thought of, almost, today is something immoral. Every entertainment, on cigarettes, whiskey, whatever it will, or some other play, or some ... it has to have some immoral woman in it.
"As it was in the days of Noah..."

31 Jesus said, and, "as it was in the days of Sodom..." Remember, He left that alone.
Let's picture Sodom. There was three classes of people in the world always. That's believers, make-believers and unbelievers. They're in every group. We'll speak on it, maybe, one night through the week.
But in that time, there was the unbeliever---the Sodomites. There was the make-believer, which was Lot, and his group. There was the called-out and elected, which was Abraham, which was not in Sodom. Three angels came down just before the promised son came, that... Abraham had sojourned and had looked for a promised son. And Lot had forgot all the promises, went out into Sodom; and the Sodomites didn't believe it in the first place.
But now, notice. One hot morning, three beings came down from heaven. And as they come up to Abraham, one of them remained with him. And two of them went down in Sodom to call out what was left in Sodom---Lot and them that went with him. And he only got three. Eight in the days of Noah. Now, that's a pretty strong statement for this day coming---"as it was"---three and eight.
Notice, there was one though, that had come to Abraham.

32 Now the one that went down into Sodom---they preached down there, those two that went in there. They preached and told them that the time was at hand. The Gentile world was going to be burnt up. Now, look at the picture of Sodom to this day---not Noah, the water; but this time, the fire to destroy the Gentile world. And the Gentile true believers are looking for a promised son, the Son of God. And we've waited. They're not in Sodom; they're called out. The Sodom was that lukewarm church member.
And there was, like a modern Billy Graham, went down into Sodom, amongst the denominations---or Oral Roberts. They're in there pounding away with the gospel that blinded them. Watch the sign that He did down there, those.

33 Now, look to Abraham, the elected in his group. One stayed back there and performed a sign to them. You know in all the history of the world, all the history of the church, there has never been one time that any reformer, or any man that ever had a great ministry to the Gentiles, that their name ever ended in h-a-m, like A-b-r-a-h-a-m, until now. That's G-r-a-h-a-m, six letters. Abraham is seven letters. Six letters, G-r-a-h-a-m; Billy Graham, a great revivalist that's down there in Sodom, amongst those denominational churches, calling out what he can.
We've had Billy Sunday, Finney, Sankey, and Moody, Knox, Calvin, so forth. But never a G-r-a-h-a-m, or any ending with a h-a-m. Never before. There's one down there to the church formal in Sodom, ending with a h-a-m---means father to the nations.

34 Then there was one stayed up there with Abraham, who sat with his tent---back turned to the tent. And He said, "Abraham [not Abram which he was a few days before that], Abraham, where is thy wife, Sarah? [S-a-r-r-a-h, not S-a-r-r-a, see.] Where is thy wife, Sarah?
He said, "She's in the tent behind You."
He said "I'm going to visit you [I am (I, personal pronoun) going to visit you] according to the promise that I give you."
And Sarah, being a hundred years old, in the tent laughed to herself, saying within her heart, "How can I, being old, have pleasure again with my lord, and him old, [Abraham]?" As young people of... Sex life, that had ended years ago. She was ninety, and Abraham was a hundred. Said, "... have pleasure with my lord, him being old, too?"

35 And the angel, the messenger that was to the church spiritual, discerned what she had ... what she said in her heart. And He said, "Why did Sarah doubt this [see], saying in her heart these things cannot be?"
And Sarah tried to deny it. But being that she was part of Abraham... Her unbelief would have condemned her; but God could not take her 'cause she was part of Abraham.
The church should've been condemned long ago; but it's a part of Christ.

36 Notice the sign that He performed, telling what she was doing with his back turned to her. Jesus said that would repeat in the days of the coming of the Son of man. We see the Billy Graham, we see the fire ready to fall, the church looking for a promised son, and here we are. Everything's just exactly in line, waiting for that hour, the promised son to... And remember, the last sign that Abraham saw...
And we who are borned of the Spirit of Christ are Abraham's royal seed. Jesus promised that the royal seed of Abraham would see the same sign that their father Abraham seen, before the promised son came. There wasn't one more sign. Abraham... Right away Sarah became mother, and Isaac arrived. The last sign was God manifested in a man's flesh.

37 Now someone said to me, said, "Brother Branham, you don't believe that was God?" Well, Abraham said it was. He called him "Elohim." And look and see if it isn't spelled with a capital "EL." See if, in the original beginning, it isn't the same as it was. In the beginning, God created..." Elohim, the all-sufficient One,

38 God manifesting Himself in his church among his people.
Jesus said ... here was God manifested in a man---Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today, and forever. The church has come through all kinds of signs. And then when God shakes the last sign before them, they stare into space. God have mercy upon us! How much more time of grace have we got? Maybe, be later than we think. Remember my first quotation. People'll go right on thinking they're being saved, same as Sodom.
What was He? What did those Greeks see in Him? What was He? Whatever they saw in Him then, whatever they looked for, they must have saw it.

39 Now, look. In Deuteronomy the 18th chapter, 15th to the 21st, Moses... God told Moses that ... and Moses told the people, "The Lord your God shall raise up a prophet liken unto me. It shall come to pass, that who will not hear him will be cut off from amongst the people." God never changes his plan.
Now those Greeks were looking for a prophet. Now, they had not had a prophet for four hundred years, since Malachi. But them Greeks knew that that promised Word for that day must be a prophet. "The Lord your God shall raise a prophet like me,"

40 'cause the Word only comes to the prophet. Not to nothing else but the... How many understands that?
Look, it's so perfect, that when John was the prophet standing in the waters baptizing, and Jesus came to him in the water, the Word came to the prophet. He was the Word, and He came to John in the water. God never changes his system. He never changes his way. He's the unchangeable God. Now the churches did not believe that, by no means. But that didn't stop the program of God---it went right on.

41 Now, Peter ... his father was a Pharisee. No doubt, Andrew being a follower of John, heard him introduce... Said, "There is the Messiah. I see a light above Him like a dove, coming upon Him," bore record.
Said, "He that told me in the wilderness, 'Go baptize with water,' said, 'Upon whom thou shalt see the Spirit [that light like a dove coming down, perhaps the same pillar of fire that followed the children of Israel in the wilderness] coming upon Him ...' because that was the anointed, the Logos, came upon Him." And he said, "I bear record this is the Messiah."

42 So Peter came with Andrew to the meeting.
Let's find out what He was. And if we find out what He was, then we'll know what He is now. And how they recognized it then, it should be the same way to recognize Him today, because He's the same yesterday, today, and forever. Now with the background of his promises, what He'd do...
Notice. Now, we find out that when Peter come up into the audience where Jesus was, Jesus (never seeing him before), turned and looked at him, and said, "Your name is Simon. You are the son of Jonas." Not only did He know him, but He knowed his godly old father that had instructed him. And Peter, without enough education to sign his name, considered an ignorant and an unlearned man, who it pleased God to make him the bishop at Jerusalem; and Jesus gave him the keys to the kingdom and made him the head of the church. This man, upon this revealed revelation, knowing what Messiah was to be, he said ... recognized Him as Messiah, and fell at his feet, because He did that.

43 There was one standing there by the name of Philip. It didn't have to be done to him. But he had a Bible teacher he knew real well, by the name of Nathanael. If you'll mark the places where Jesus was then, it was fifteen miles around the mountain---about two days. And Philip goes and finds Nathanael under a tree praying, and brought him back.
No doubt, if we could break in on their conversation going along, say, "Look. Come see who we found. Jesus of Nazareth, son of Joseph."
He said, "Now, could there be any good thing come out of Nazareth?"
"Look, you remember we've read in the Scripture the Messiah is to be a prophet."
"Oh, sure. The Bible said so. Moses---we're his disciples---he said the Lord will raise up a prophet like unto him."
"All right, now. Jesus of Nazareth is that prophet. You remember that old fisherman, Simon, around there?"
"Yes. He was Jonas's son?"
"Yes."
You bought some fish from him once and he couldn't even sign the receipt?"
"Yes."
"He come up into his midst and He said, 'Your name is Simon. You're the son of Jonas.' It wouldn't surprise me if He don't know all about you, when you come."

44 Nathanael had to see this. So he comes up with Philip. I don't guess he got in the prayer line. He might of sat in the audience, or stood in the audience, whichever it was. Jesus was praying for the sick. And as soon as Jesus laid eyes upon him, He said, "Behold an Israelite, in whom there is no guile." Now He didn't know him by the way he dressed. All the eastern people dress alike with turbans, and sandals, and free-swinging garments, had beard.
He said, "Behold an Israelite, in whom there is no guile." Now, he could have been a Mohammedan. He could have been a ... he could have been a Turk, he could have been anything else. But how did He know he was an Israelite and there was no guile in him? And it just deflated him.
And he said, "Rabbi, how did you know me?"
He said, "Before Philip called you when you were under the tree, I saw you." That was it! That was enough. There it was. There was the Messiah.
He said, "Thou art the Christ, the King of Israel!" Maybe his pastor was standing there, but it didn't bother him.

45 There was those standing there said, "This man's Beelzebub." They had to answer to their congregation, you know. Said, "This man does that by the power of the devil. He's a fortuneteller or something."
Jesus said, "You call Me that, a evil name? The works of God an evil name?" He said, "You say that about the Son of man, I'll forgive you. But when the Holy Ghost comes [this age] to do the same thing, one word against it will never be forgiven in this world, neither in the world that is to come." That's what He said. I believe what He says is right.
Philip recognized by that... Why? There was that ... after long years with no prophet---and here this man knew him, and knew what was wrong, and what he had been doing.

46 Jesus (quickly now, before we close), one day He was going down to Jericho, which was below the hill, but He had need go by Samaria. And He went a way around a city named Sychar. Now, there's three races of people. Believe what you want to, but there is. That's Ham, Shem, and Japheth's people. Now, notice. When the Jews... They were looking for a Messiah. And the Samaritan was half-Jew and Gentile. They were looking for a Messiah. But the Gentile---we, the Anglo-Saxon---we were heathens, Philistines and whatmore, see.
But notice, He only comes to those who is looking for Him. He'll only heal, tonight, those who are looking for Him to heal. He'll only save those who are looking to be saved.

47 Notice Him now, as He sends the disciples into the little city of Sychar to get some victuals. While they were gone, a pretty young woman come out, and she was a woman of ill-fame. We'd call her, today maybe, streetwalker. Her parents might have turned her out when she was a little girl, and that was the way she made her living. But there's something in that little lady's heart. She come about eleven o'clock, because she couldn't come with the rest of the maids. If anybody's ever here been in India and the eastern countries, as the customs never change, they cannot associate together. There are right and wrong people. So they ...

48 she come up.
And Jesus was sitting there, in a little panoramic something like this: the vines grow over the back of a well, and the city, public well was there. And the people come out to get water. And she come 'bout almost noon to get her water, when the maids come early of a morning to get the water. And they ... up there they'll do their washing, and things like that. Her way of making a living was a different way.
So she come around noon to get hers, when the maids wasn't there, for she had been drove away from the well. And as she---not noticing no one sitting there---she put the little hooks over the pot, and let it down by the windle into the well, and she started to draw it up. She heard a voice saying, "Woman, give me a drink." And she looked over there, and there was a man sitting there, which was a Jew.

49 He must have looked a little older than what He really was, because He was only thirty---about thirty-three---and the Bible said He looked to be fifty, you know. The Jews said, "Thou art a man not over fifty, and say you seen Abraham?"
He said, "Before Abraham was, I am," see. So his beard must have been a little gray, or something as she looked. And she looked at Him. His work must have had a tremendous effect upon his physical life.
And she said ... He said, "Bring Me a drink."
And she said, "It's not customary for you Samaritans, or for you Jews to ask we women of Samaria such a question."
And He said, "But if you knew who you were talking to, you'd ask Me for a drink."
Now. She said, "The well's deep." What was He doing? He was contacting her spirit, see.
The Father ... He said in St. John 5:19, "Verily, verily, I say unto you, the Son can do nothing in Himself but what He sees the Father doing." Now remember that. Put that down on your books, see.
Jesus never did one thing until He saw in a vision what to do. That's right. Not hear; "what I see." "The Son can do nothing but what He sees the Father doing. Then that doeth the Son likewise." He acted it off in drama. No man can do anything without, really, but what God tells him to do. Now notice. And the Father, perhaps, told Him to go up to Samaria.

50 And then this woman spoke to Him.
He said ... carried a conversation to contact her spirit. And then when ... He'd been talking about worshipping here at Jerusalem. The first thing you know, He found out what her trouble was. We all know what it was. She had too many husbands. And so He said, "Go get your husband, and come here."
And she said, "I don't have any husband."
He said, "You've said right. For you've had five; and the one you're living with now is not yours."

51 And watch this woman.
Notice. In ... her in that condition ... her in that condition, she knowed more about the real Bible than a big bunch of preachers does today. As soon as He... She might have thought that it was just a man seeing her condition, and she wanted to ... wanted to get smart with her, or something. And she said, "I have no husband."
He said, "Thou hast said right. You have five; and the one you're living with now is not your husband."
Quickly that predestinated seed laying in her heart caught fire. She turned. She said, "Sir, I perceive that you are a prophet. We ain't had one for four hundred years, you know. We know [Oh, Dallas, don't miss this!] ... we know we're looking for a Messiah, who's called the Christ. And when He comes this is what He's going to do. This'll be his sign.
Jesus said, "I'm He that speaks with you."
Upon that, she dropped the water pot and in the city she went and said, "Come see a man who told me what I've done. Isn't this the very Messiah?" And the Bible said that they believed Jesus, because what the woman said.

52 Now that's the way He identified Himself as being Messiah---not because of the way He dressed, by his education, by fellowship card, by his honor among men. God was in Him manifesting the Word that He promised. He said in St. John 5:39, "Search the scriptures. For in them you think you have eternal life. They are they that testify [or tell you] who I am": Same yesterday, today, and forever.
My brother, my sister, you're a lovely audience. You could talk all night. You see what Jesus was then? He was manifested---that was God manifested in a man called Jesus Christ, which is the Son of God, promising, "as it was in the days of Noah [every other scene set exactly], so shall it be at the coming of the Son of man." He's the same yesterday, today, and forever.
Oh, church, don't stare, but believe on the Lord Jesus Christ. Sirs, we would see Jesus if He's the same yesterday, today, and forever. Would you like to see Him? Sirs, we... How would you look for Him? If He's the same yesterday, today, and forever, He'll do the same.

53 Now, a man could come up with nail scars in his hand, blood, and smoke and every ... oil running out of him. That wouldn't make it! Any hypocrite can do that. But what it is, is the manifestation of this promised Word. He was God's anointed prophet. He was the God prophet. He was what all the prophets was ... He ... was in him, plus the rest of what God was. God was in Christ reconciling Himself to the world. He was God Immanuel, the fullness of God made known to us in the person of his Son, Jesus Christ---the second attribute of God.

54 Notice. Now, He's alive today. He is not dead; He is alive. He said "A little while, and the world [cosmos, world order] will see Me [see, s-e-e], see Me no more. Yet ye shall see Me, for I [I is a personal pronoun again], I'll be with you, even in you to the end of the world," or at the end of the world, when these scriptures is to be fulfilled. All the way down... It's been God who we believed on in Luther's age, God who shouted in Wesley's age, God who spoke in tongues in the Pentecostal age. He's coming right down before the promised Son comes, to prove his scripture. All scripture's got to be fulfilled. Sirs, we would see Jesus. Let us bow our heads.

55 Heavenly Father, we would see Jesus. Let Him come tonight. Lord Jesus, come in the power of your resurrection. I've been long-speaking, but just a word or two from You would mean more than all anyone could say. And then, let the church not be asleep. Let the... God's last manifestation as He promised, "As it was in the days of Sodom [before the fire fell on the Gentiles], so shall it be at the coming of the Son of man"; the shadow ... the negative and the positive coming so close together till after awhile there'll be a uniting time.
We see the nations are uniting, called the U.N. The churches are uniting---ecumenical council uniting with the Vatican---all churches uniting together, believers and unbelievers. The labor is uniting in labor unions. Lord, let the church wake up and see it's uniting time, that Jesus is uniting with his church, husband and wife. Soon the ceremony will take place and they will become one.
As He shakes the last sign to us, or shows us his promise, may we see Jesus and glorify Him. For it's in his name we pray. Amen.

56 Now, I'm going to be, maybe... I've got ten minutes to get out on time, if everyone will respond. Now, ever who has a prayer card, I won't have time to get to all of them tonight. We'll get to them by and by. Now, Billy is here somewhere I'm sure. Sometimes he don't even give out cards, but I believe he told me he... You've got prayer cards, haven't you? Raise up your hands. Yeah, that's right. [Gap in the audio.] ...

57 L, L. All right. Is that that sick man, very sick there? All right.
L number 1, stand over here. L number 2, where are you at? Number 2? Where is number 2? Would you raise your hand? All right. Come up here. It's a lady.
The boy comes down. Here's what happens. He comes down. And before the audience he takes these cards and mixes them all together. And then he gives you the card as you want it. Anybody can have a card. And then you're called by that number. That shows the boy don't know where they're going to be called for.
One time we ... many of you here might remember. We had a man selling prayer cards, in a meeting, that would guarantee the person would be up on the platform. And besides that, sometimes I start with 1, sometimes I start with 50. Sometimes I start with 14, 20, 16, then come backwards, and pull a few here. How many's been in meetings, and seen that done? Well, sure, see. That prayer card has nothing to do with it. And many are healed out there that don't even have a prayer card.

58 Number 1, 2, 3. Who has 3---prayer card number 3? Raise up your hand. Back there, a lady. Come up here, lady. Number 4? If you can't get up now, we'll pack you. Number 4. There's some I see. There's a cot here, and a couple of wheelchairs sitting around. If you can't come, we will pack. Number 4? Number 5? Prayer card number 5? Number 6, 7, 8, 9, 10. Let those come now, just in numbers, if they can. Let's see. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine. Has that got them? That's got them. Let's just stop right there just a moment. We're just a little short of time. I never like to let out past nine-thirty.

59 Now, how many out there does not have a prayer card, and you want Jesus to heal you, and you know He can heal you? Raise your hand. I don't care if you're in the balcony, wherever you are. Now look. If you don't... That woman that touched the garment (while they're lining them up), that woman that touched his garment, she didn't have any prayer card, maybe. But she said (now listen close, now), she said within her heart, "I believe that man. If I can touch his garment, I'll be made whole." She had a blood issue. How many remembers the story?
She slipped through the crowd, maybe crawled around between them---little pale, sickly woman---and she touched his garment.

60 And the Palestinian garment hangs loose. He'd never feel that. I wouldn't feel if you touched my pocket; and my coat fits me tight. But them Palestinian garments---and they have an underneath garment... And she touched his garment.
And He stopped, and said, "Who touched Me?" She went back out in the audience.
He said... "Why," Peter said, "Lord, that don't sound good. Everybody's touching You."
He said, "But I perceive I've gotten weak. Virtue [strength] went out of Me." How many remembers it? And He looked all around through the audience until He found her. Is that right? And said, "Thy faith has saved thee." Is that right?

61 Now, look. Ministers, does the Bible say that Jesus Christ (Hebrews 3) is a high priest, right now, that can be touched by the feeling of our infirmities? How many knows the Bible says that? Well, if He's the same yesterday, today, and forever, how would He act today? As He did yesterday, sure. Now you, see, wouldn't do no good to touch me. I'd be like your brother, your husband, your father, whatever it might be. Wouldn't be no virtue in me. But if your faith can touch Him, then watch Him turn. Just try it. Don't try it---that's too much today of trying---you do it.
Now, be real reverent. Be quiet. Now, just a few moments will tell. These things that I said, that sounded good, but you see, are they true or not? That's the next thing. Is this all ...

62 I hear the Mohammedans talk, Sikhs, Jains, Buddha, (oh, my), Mohammedans. But they can't... They can talk about something that was; but what about now, see? If He isn't... If He's a God of history, He's no good to us today if He's a God of history only. If He isn't the same yesterday, today, and forever, then the Bible told something wrong. Now, if He can get me in his submissive will---if He can get you in his will---then working between us, see, that's where the power of God comes.

63 Now, if that man is sick, I want him to sit right where he's at. And now, can you see him from the audience? He's sitting right here. Bring his chair right up here if you want to, but... You feel like walking over here, sir? All right, just come right here, and sit down. Bring the chair right here, Brother Grant, if you will, so the man can sit here just a moment. All right. Now just sit down right there, sir.

64 I've been noticing the man for a few minutes---just about to pass out. Must be seriously sick. I do not know. And if I did know, and could help him and wouldn't do it, then I'm not fit to stand behind this platform here and talk to you people, you Christians. But the man probably is not as old as I, and this is our... Probably we're unknown to each other. You don't know me, I suppose. You know me. But I don't know you. [Man speaks to Brother Branham.] Oh, you saw me at Jonesboro, about fifteen years ago when I was over there in a meeting. Yes, sir. Well, that was a great time over there. I believe that was Brother Richard Reeves.

65 Now, if this man sitting here suffering... If I could heal him and wouldn't do it, what kind of a person would I be? But I can't heal him. But now, if we would see Jesus, and Jesus was standing here with this suit of clothes on that He gave me, now would Jesus say, "Come here and I'll heal you"? Now, be careful, if you know your Bible, see. No, sir. He's already done it. He couldn't do it today; He's already done it. He was wounded for our transgressions, with his stripes we were saved---with his stripes we were healed, rather. All right.
Now. But Jesus could declare Himself, to make known to this man what's his trouble, or something the matter, or something he's done. Is that right? And that would let him know that Christ was here, 'cause I don't know him. Here's my hands up. He said he was in the Jonesboro meeting. That was fifteen years ago. I've never seen the man in my life, as I know. He might have sat back... Tomorrow, well, I don't know anyone here.

66 I believe I know this is Mr. Way, sitting right here---an Englishman, sitting right here that I know. Dropped dead in my church the other day, in Jeffersonville, Indiana---dropped dead. There's his wife here, somewhere, that's a nurse. While I was speaking the man dropped dead, fell right there, dead. Went down and laid hands upon him. Here he stands.

67 If I could just get the congregation quiet long enough, till the Holy Spirit could come down. Don't get excited, just sit still, see.
Now sir, I want you to look up this way, just a minute. I've been speaking, and I'm here to help you. Now, and if I can help you I'll do everything I can. Now, what I've said here in the Scripture ... God's obligated (because I believe this is the last days), God is obligated to fulfill that Word. And that is what He promised to do.
And if He would be able to tell me something you have done, or something's wrong with you, or what you're here for, or whatever it is, you'd know whether that's true or not. You're a witness of that. But now if I came up here and laid hands on you and said, "Glory to God. You're healed. Glory to God," that would be all right. That's perfectly all right, if you believe it.

68 But what if He tells you what you have done, or some cause or reason you are sick, or something like that---then you'd know if He could tell you what has been, He'd surely know what will be, will be right. Do you believe that, audience?
Now, what am I doing to the man? I'm trying to contact his spirit, just as our Lord did at the well to that woman. I don't know him, I never seen him. Now, there's many in here sick, many praying.

69 And now heavenly Father, we take every spirit in here under my control for the glory of God, that your scriptures might be fulfilled. The Bible said that's why Jesus healed, that the scriptures might be fulfilled. That's the reason You're showing mercy in this last days---that the scriptures might be fulfilled. We just talked of them tonight. Grant it, Lord, in Jesus' name. Amen.

70 Now, you look on me just a moment, just to see if the Lord will reveal to me what's your trouble. And if He will, will you... If He tells me what's your trouble---you look like you're very sick---if He'd tell me what's wrong with you, or something, you'll believe then? You know it's got to be Him. How many in the audience will believe?

71 One thing that you're suffering tremendously with, is a hernia. That hernia's making you sick. That's right. Now is that right? Raise up your hand if that's right. That's what's making him sick. Do you believe?
Here's another thing. You got a spot there on the right side of your face. You're worried about that. Let me tell you something else. You believe me to be his prophet? You got a spot on your right hip, too, underneath your clothes. If that's right, raise up your hand. Now do you believe? Go and be well. Jesus Christ makes you well. Go believe it. Don't doubt. Just come this way from up there, brother. Just go believing now, and everything will be all right for you.

72 Do you believe now? Just have faith. All right. That ... you know I didn't do it. Here...
Come, sister. I don't know you. We're strangers to one another, I suppose. If that's right, so the audience can see that we're strangers... If... This is just like where our Lord met a woman one day, and here we meet again. We meet after two thousand years on his promise. And here's a man and woman meets in the same way. I never seen you in my life. I guess we're total strangers; but God knows both of us.
Now, if the Holy Spirit, Christ in here, in you, will reveal what you're standing here for, or something about you, would you feel enthused like that woman did that day? Now what you're here for is prayer, and prayer is for a condition in your breast. That's right. If that's true, raise up your hand. Now do you believe God can tell me which breast it is? It's the right breast. That's right.

73 People keep saying, out there... Somebody come in saying, "He's guessing that." I'm not guessing that. Don't think that. Now remember, you can't hide your thoughts now.
Here. You should believe. You're a preacher, a lady preacher. That's right, isn't it? Go believe now, and it will be all right. God bless you.
You believe?

74 How do you do? We're strangers to each other. I don't know you. God does know you. If that's right, raise up your hand so... You're a lot younger than I am. Maybe the woman that met our Lord was a lot younger.
Now, another woman stood here---somebody out there believing. There she sits, right there. She's got trouble in her chest. Is that right? Whose garment did you touch? His. It's over now. Jesus Christ makes you well. He's the same yesterday, today, and forever.
Now, that woman's twenty feet from me, but she touched---not me---she touched the high priest. Don't you see? I had my back to her. It shows that He is the same one that made the promise, just the same today.

75 You're suffering with a nervous trouble, very nervous---especially in the late of the evening when you get tired, and wore out---you're real nervous. Then you have a poisoning in your body, poisoning in your blood. That's right. And then you've got a real burden for somebody to be saved, haven't you? Yes, sir, that's right. You believe now? All right. Go, since you have believed. Don't doubt. Have faith in God. Just believe.
How do you do, lady? I'm a stranger to you, I suppose. If that's right, so ... will you hold up your hand so they'll see? I've never seen her in my life.

76 Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today, and forever. You believe that? If the Lord Jesus will tell this woman, right here now, something about her that I know nothing about... Well, if we're strangers, we ... she's just standing here, see. All right. Would you believe?
You got stomach troubles bothering you, sitting right there, with the black coat on. It's bothering you right now. If that's right, raise up your hand. You know why? It's this woman's stomach too, see. That's right.
See that black streak running between them there? It's a devil, see. He's trying to get away from it, see. He can't. He can't hide from God. That's one thing, sure. We're in the presence of Jesus Christ. You must believe, have faith.
What did he touch? He never touched me. I don't know the man; he's a stranger to me. Are we strangers to one another, sir? I don't know you. Raise up your hand, if that's right, see. What did he touch? Jesus Christ. Don't fail to see something.

77 Now, this lady here, yes. Oh, the lady's shadowed. It's death upon her. She's suffering with cancer, and the cancer is in the stomach, and also in the colon. She's ... they just give her up. She's dying with cancer. That's true, isn't it lady? That's what you've been told. Now, look here. You're ... there's only one hope you have. That's Christ.
You believe me to be his servant? Something's got to tell me that, hasn't it? Something's got to. I don't ... I wouldn't know it myself. If I tell you who you are, would you believe me to be his prophet? Would it help you? It would? Miss Crosley. Then return home.

78 Do you believe? How many of you believe now with all your heart? Stand up on your feet then, and accept it. Just raise right up, and say, "I believe." Raise up your hands, everywhere.
Heavenly Father, in the name of Jesus Christ, may the devil and all of his powers be rebuked. May the Lord Jesus Christ, who has promised this for the last day... He's here now. Let it come to pass, Lord, that this hour---that the people will not fail. May they see what God's shaking before them just before the fire falls. May this Abraham's group, this royal seed of Abraham, understand the hour that we're living. O Jesus, Son of God, touch every sick person in here. Heal them, Lord. May their faith realize that they're standing in the presence of the God that saved them, and will judge them at that day. May his power fall upon them now, and heal everyone here, that's in divine presence.

Sirs, we would see Jesus

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1 ... trying to get the people acquainted with what we're trying to do. Now, what we're trying to do, remember, is to see Jesus Christ so present that every believer's heart will be stimulated (his faith) that he'll reach up and get ahold of God, and for what he has need of. For all that we have need of in this life's journey is in Christ.

2 Just like your trees out here: all that tree has need of... It's an apple tree. Did you ever think of that? When it's about one inch high, every apple that will ever be in the tree is in it right there---ten hundred bushels if there's that many. Say five hundred bushels of apples come off of a tree. All five hundred bushels of apples is in it when it was planted. If it isn't, where did they come from? See, you just plant it; and then it has to draw in water, draw it in from the earth. And it has to draw till it gets more than its portion. Then it pushes out limbs, pushes out leaves, pushes out blossoms, pushes out apples, see. Pushes them out; don't bring them in. It pushes them out so that...
I think Christ is the inexhaustible fountain of life. And when we're planted in Him, all we do is drink from that fountain of life and push out everything that we have need of in this journey. All the things that we have need of is in Him, and we're planted in Him and draw from Him. And He's the inexhaustible fountain of life.

3 Let us stand to our feet now, if you will just a moment, in reverence as we read God's word. For a little text tonight, being it's close to the Lenten season, or good Friday, I want to read a portion of the St. John's gospel, beginning at the 12th verse and the 12th chapter.
On the next day much people ... were come to the feast, when they heard that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem,
Took branches of palm trees, and went forth to meet him, ... cried, Hosanna: Blessed is the King of Israel that cometh in the name of the Lord.
And Jesus, when he had found a young ass, sat thereon; as it was written,
Fear not, daughter of Zion behold, thy King cometh to thee, sitting on an ass's colt.
These things understood not his disciples at ... first: but when Jesus was glorified, they ... remembered ... these things were written of him, and that they had done these things unto him.
The people therefore that was with him when he had called Lazarus from ... the dead, bare record.
For this cause the people also met him, for ... they heard that he had done this miracle.
The Pharisees therefore said among themselves, Perceive ye how ye prevail nothing? behold, the world is gone after him.
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 of Galilee, and desired him, saying, Sir, we would see Jesus.
Philip cometh and telleth Andrew: and again Andrew and Philip tell Jesus.

4 Hebrews 13:8 says, "Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and for ever." Let us bow our heads while we pray. Now, in this solemn moment, with our heads bowed after reading this Word, is there any in here would like to be remembered in this prayer, and want God to do something for you during the time of this meeting, or even this very evening? Would you just let it be known as you raise your hand. He'll know what's beneath your hand.

5 Our heavenly Father, we are now approaching thy Word. We approach with reverence and with prayer, and with bowed heads and bowed hearts, for we know that Thou art always true to this Word. We pray now that you'll set us aside from the things and cares of life in this world, that we might serve Thee with pure and clean hearts, washed in the blood of the Lamb.
We ask You, Lord, is this the hour that there could break out a great revival here in this part of the country? If it is, Lord, we are here to serve You in any way that we can, and we just commit ourselves to You for that service. And may something take place, Lord, that'll stir the hearts of the people. And there may be that the meeting is just set for a few that is scattered out around here yet, that maybe... It may be that the last member of the body of Christ will be added right here in Louisiana, and then the doors will be closed. We don't know just what, Lord. We're just moving cautiously, watching every move.

6 And we pray, heavenly Father, that You'll heal all the sick and afflicted. As I look, laying here a poor little afflicted child, and people laying around sick and needy... God, may they look away from their afflictions tonight, and through this coming week. And may there not be a feeble person among us at the closing of this meeting.
Bless the ministers, Lord, and their fine cooperation, and the things that they're doing to get together. May the people realize that this is the heart of their pastor: to try to bring in every thing and every gift, and everything they can that's honored by God, that it might help their congregation to see, and to believe, and grow. Grant it, Father.
Forgive us of our trespasses. Grant every request beneath those hands tonight, Lord. Mine up---Thou knowest my heart. It's prayer for the people. May Jesus be known among us, Father. Give us a great outpouring of his blessings.
And when we leave here tonight may we be able to say, like those who came from Emmaus that day after the resurrection (as we're entering this holy season), " Did not our hearts burn within us," they said, "as He talked to us along the way?" For we ask it in Jesus' name. Amen. You may be seated.

7 Not to preach or to take much of the time, but just to set in order just a little few thoughts here now, before we call the prayer line... About twenty-five minutes, I suppose, I'll call the prayer line to pray for the sick. And now, each night Mr. Borders and them will be trying to explain to you how ... and how to hold a healing, and so forth. And remember, we're not here trying just to represent divine healing. We're here to represent Jesus Christ, and in Him is healing. And every attribute of God is in Him. And we... He's purchased our salvation, our healing, and all we have.
And healing is a minor, and you can never major on a minor. We know that. So, we are ... but we're trying... Jesus used ... about 86% of his ministry was upon divine healing, that He might attract the attention of the people, then explain what his purpose was there. And that's the same thing. We're trying to continue his ministry in the best way that we know how, believing that He still remains the same yesterday, today, and forever.

8 Now, we know that 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. Therefore, God and his Word is the selfsame thing. It's God in print form. You're no more than your word; God's no more than his Word.
So this great feast that we're approaching here now, in this season (this Lenten, as they call it), and approaching Good Friday, and then Easter... Sunday, a week, is Easter Sunday, I believe. So we're approaching this.
I thought I'd read this scripture, that these hungry-hearted Greeks had come up to worship at the feast of the Passover. And they little knowed that that was the Passover lamb---Christ was to be. But their hearts were hungry. They wanted to see Him---they'd heard so much about Him---and know the great things they'd heard that He did. And so, no doubt, coming to that feast, they must have read much in the Scripture of what He was, and his nature, and what He would do when He come. So they wanted to see. They come to his disciples, and they were given the privilege to see Him, by the goodwill and the ministry of his disciples. They were brought into his presence by his servants.

9 And now, if Hebrews 13:8 says that Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever... And I'm sure that here at Baton Rouge that we're just as hungry to see Jesus as they were to see Him then. Every man that's in his right mind and hears about the Lord Jesus, he longs to see Him. Oh, when I first heard of Him when I was a boy, I just couldn't hardly stand it. I thought, "If He's God, He always was God, He always will be God."
So, trying to put it off on some great time in the past, or some great time that's coming on, that's just the nature of man. Man is always praising God for what He did, looking forward for what He's going to do, and ignoring what He's doing. That's just the nature of man. It's always been that way, and it still remains that way tonight.

10 But now these Greeks wanted to see Him, and we want to see Him.
Well, now, if He is risen from the dead and not... He's not dead; He's alive. And if He is alive, as the Scripture claims He is, then why can't we see Him? We have a right to ask to. Remember, He said, "A little while yet, and the world seeth me no more. Yet ye shall see me. For I will be with you, even in you, to the end of the world. The world won't see me; but ye shall see me." And now, if He's the same yesterday, today, and forever, then why could we not see Him?

11 Now, if I would go to different ideas that we've had... And, remember that God never does anything outside of what He's promised to do, see. He always makes a promise; then He comes to fulfill it. God at the beginning, knowing the end from the beginning 'cause He was infinite... We all know that. He's omnipresent, omnipotent, and infinite. Now, if He's infinite, then He knowed all things. And now ... and omniscient. So notice, then He 'lotted his scriptures down through the ages to come. And then, when this age rolls around, why, we always try to have things figured out the way we think it's right.
But usually, if God's made a promise for that age---his custom way of doing anything, and never changes doing it... Remember, God never changes, never changes his ways, because... That's the reason we can definitely place our faith in what God said to be the truth---the Bible. Now, you've got to place God somewhere.

12 Now, if God was going to judge the world (and He is), if we'd say...
If I might say to the French Catholic, "What do you think He'll judge it by?"
"The French Catholic church."
The Roman Catholic believes He'll judge it by that church. The Orthodox, Greek Orthodox Catholic, believes He'll judge it by that. The Methodists will say, "Our church"; the Baptists, "Our church"; the Pentecostal... See, it would be so confusing a person wouldn't know what to do.
But He said He would judge the world by Jesus Christ; and Jesus Christ is the Word. So He'll judge the world by the Word. Now, the Bible is the entire revelation of Jesus Christ. This is the revelation. Nothing is to be added to it, or taken from it. The same will be taken (our part) from the book of life if we add or take from it. That is the Word of God and we believe it.

13 Now, each generation when... The church usually gets it so mixed up, and everything, till... When the time comes for the Word to be fulfilled, they're looking back to some other generation---way back, what happened way back some other day. And they miss seeing what's happened in that day.
Now, to you Catholic people---how you missed those saints. How about Joan of Arc? A French ... I might just raise that, because ... a French territory. You remember, the priest burnt her to the stake as a witch. She was a witch because the girl was spiritual. She saw visions, and so forth. And you burnt her for a witch. Then after awhile, when you seen your mistake, you dug up the bodies of those priests and throwed them in the river for a penance. But you see, it already passed.

14 And that's the way it always is. It passes us, and we don't see it. Even to the disciples Jesus said, one time, talking to them...
They said, "Why did the scribes say that Elias must first come?"
He said, "He's already come and you didn't know him," and they understood it was John the Baptist. Even those disciples...
That voice in the wilderness, and Malachi 3 being fulfilled, why, it passed right by them, and they never even understood it at all, see. And it's possible that we could let it pass right over us, and fail to see it. God's way is always... Now, if it would come in a whole system, or some certain organization (like Protestant, Methodist, Baptist, Pentecostals), or some of their denominations would produce it, they would believe it. Well, then the others would have nothing to do with it.
So God never does deal in times like this with any organization. He never did. He always deals with an individual, one person, you---just that one person. That's you ... between you and God; not between your organization and God---between you, as a individual... God always does it that way, always has.

15 And now, the Bible said, "He does nothing 'less He reveals it to his prophets---his servants. the prophets." And always, like in Elijah's time, and Moses' time, and all those different times, He would reveal it. Now, it had been written in the Scripture that God was going to give them a super-sign, a great sign, an everlasting sign. A virgin was going to conceive, and then there was going to be one born, a child. We knowed Him as to be the Messiah. All the scriptures, all the way from Genesis up, had linked up to the coming of the Messiah.
The prophets were part of the Word. Jesus said they were called gods. And they were, as long as the Word of God was brought to them. He said, "How can you condemn Me when I say I am the Son of God. And those ... and it's written in your law, those who the Word of the Lord come to, you called them gods." See, it wasn't the prophets; it was the Word of God. And it's the same thing now. And it was Jesus (same thing), the Word of God made manifest. And that's always the light of the hour.

16 Now if we looked around tonight, and we'd go back to some of these great churches, all the way down through the age and say, "This is it. This is it."---if you don't watch, we'll be walking in a glare instead of a light. We're looking at something that passed years past, looking back. Any man who drives the road looking through the rear-view mirror will wreck up. That's right. That's right. You take, like some of our sisters trying (fifty years old), trying to look sixteen---see, you're looking back. Look forward. Look where you're going to. Look where you're going; not what you come from.
Paul said, "Forgetting those things that are in the past, I press towards the mark of the high calling in Christ." You must always look where you're going; not where you been. If you watch the rearview mirror, you will soon wreck up. That's been the trouble. That's the reason that Luther wrecked up when Wesley's light come on. That's the reason that Wesley wrecked up when the Pentecostals come on. And if we don't watch it, the Pentecostals is going to wreck up, too, if you just don't keep on your toes to watch.
You see, you're always looking back referring to what somebody else did back there; when we're commanded to look forward, keep going on. Their prophecy happened in their day, this happens in this day, next happens in the next day. It's allotted out to the end-time. And there's things that's supposed to be going on now, according to the Scripture: the Holy Spirit on earth poured out upon the people.

17 Now, when Jesus come, those scribes, and so forth, ought to have recognized Him. But they didn't, because they were so set in their traditions. Pharisees, Sadducees, Herodians, whatevermore, they was in their traditions so steeped until the very prophecy of Christ, Himself---that what He was supposed to be---they failed to see it.
He said to them, said, "Search the scriptures; for in them you think you have eternal life: and they are they that testify of me."
They said, "We are Moses' disciples."
He said, "If you was Moses' disciples you'd k
now me, for Moses wrote of me: 'The Lord, your God, shall raise up a prophet like unto me.'"
They claimed to be, but they wasn't because that they was so steeped in tradition.
Now, that's how they missed seeing Him in that day that they lived in. Now, that could repeat, you know. It always has. And it could repeat again.

18 Now, let's just go back for a few minutes. And the only way that we can find out what He is... Now, today, if we take the ordinary person ... what Christ ought to be, we... Some of them picture Him as a historical great something. Some bring Him down to just an ordinary man. And some brings Him to a philosopher, a prophet, or something or another like that, a good man, a teacher. But He ... whatever He was He still is, according to the Scripture, see.
Now, if we went down to town to find Him, and we go looking around to see if... Now, you remember his promise is that He'd be with us. Now, if we went to find a certain man, we'd say ... I'd say, maybe, be six foot tall; and you'd say, "No, He'd be seven-and-a-half." Another would say, "No, He's only four foot. He was a little fellow." See, we'd be all mixed up.

19 Well, they'd say, "Maybe He'd have nail scars in his hands." Just any hypocrite could have nail scars in their hands, thorn prints. And after all, Jesus is sitting at the right hand of the Majesty on high.
But how would we ever know who He was? They didn't know Him then because of his dress, because He walked right among men even after his resurrection. And them He'd walked with... And they still didn't know Him, see. It wasn't his dress. He just dressed like anybody else. It wasn't his dress, it wasn't his manner, it wasn't his organization. It wasn't his fellowship card that he packed, because He had none. Frankly, He disagreed with it. So it wasn't that.
They said, "We don't know from whence He come."

20 The blind man said, "That's a strange thing. You're a leader of today, and He's opened my eyes. And yet you don't even know where He come from?" He had some good theology of his own, see. He said, "You don't know what this man's done, the things He's done, and yet you're supposed to be the leaders of the day."
Now, but the sad part with them: their eyes were blinded. It was supposed to be that way. Did you know the church is supposed to be in the last day, too? "Heady, high-minded, lovers of pleasure more than lovers of God, having a form of godliness, and denying the power thereof." That's the same prophecy, the same thing. It certainly is. Laodicea church age, Jesus was on the outside of the church trying to get back in, knocking at the door. The only age that He was ever put out of the church is in the Laodicea age that we are now living. So we see we are right back again where we started.

21 Now, the only true way to find out what He was ... or what He is, is to find out what He was, now, 'cause He'd be the same. Now let's just go back and pull up a few things that He did. We all know his virgin birth, and we'll not start with that. But I read out of St. John...
Let's go back to St. John, the 1st chapter, and just find out what He was. And then we can understand what He is now. Whatever He was then, He's the same thing now. All right. Now, we find out here, in the beginning He was the Word.
"In the beginning was the Word." Then He's still the Word. "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."
All right.

22 Then, that's what He was then. He was the a-vindicated promise of God for that age, that made Him the Word. Is that right? Well, He'd be the same thing today, the Word again, see. And He told them to look at that. That's what He was. He was the Word. The Word was made flesh. That's what He was.
Now, when He became the Word, and God came down in the form of the Holy Spirit, in the form of a dove, and went upon Him, and said, "This is my beloved Son, in whom I am pleased to dwell in," then we find out his ministry started out---prayers for the sick, healing, everybody liked Him. He was fine, known as a fine fellow. And then, when in his first ministry, what identified Him...
Remember, the Jews always believed in divine healing. They had a pool at the gate here of (Bethsaida), Bethesda, the gate ... beautiful gate. The people laid there, multitudes of impotent people that were lame, halt, blind, and went into the waters for healing. God's always made a way for healing. So, his healing wasn't exactly what attracted their attention to Him. There was something more that attracted his attention.

23 Now, we find out that if... What He was supposed to be ... Moses had said what He would be, and all the prophets had spoke of Him. Now, He's got to be identified by that. Now, here's what He is: the Word. Now, Hebrews, the 4th chapter, says that the Word of God is more powerful than a two-edged sword. It is ... cuts to the marrow of the bone, and is a discerner of the thoughts in the heart. That's what the Word is.
Now, see, when the Word come to the prophets, they were identified by their prophecy. God said, "If there be one among you who is spiritual or a prophet, I, the Lord, will speak to him in visions, and show him dreams," and so forth. In other words, interpret dreams like Joseph and them did, and that will be his credentials. And then that was the credentials that He had---the inspired word by revelation, see, the word that was to be fulfilled. His prophecy identified Him as a prophet, and the Word comes to the prophet.

24 So, when Jesus came on the scene, the Bible said He was to be a prophet. Moses said, "The Lord your God shall raise up a prophet like unto me." And Israel always believed their prophets, because that was God identifying Himself in human beings. Always. Any Bible scholar knows that. That's the way He identified Himself---was in his prophets. They were just ordinary men. 'Course they were born for that purpose. As we know, there is local gifts ... of nine gifts in the church. But there is offices of the church, and that God ... that's predestinated, or foreordained.
God has set in the church apostles, prophets, and teachers, pastors, and evangelists, and so forth. That's God's gifts set into the church. Then there's nine spiritual gifts that operate in the local body and ... of believers. And they must be checked by two or three judges before they are to be given to the church, 'cause sometimes they could be wrong.
But notice. These prophets, as they were born... Back in, I believe in Jeremiah here, God said, "Before you was even conceived in your mother's womb, I ordained you a prophet over the nations," see. Moses was borned a prophet. And John the Baptist, 712 years before he was borned, he was "the voice of one crying in the wilderness," Isaiah, the prophet, speaking of him. See, it's not... These gifts are born gifts, God placing them in the church.

25 And now, during the first advent of our Lord, there had not been a prophet on earth for four hundred years. Malachi was the last prophet. And he spoke of the coming of John in the 3rd chapter of Matthew, which would be Isaiah, the prophet, spoke of him. And then also, then Malachi spoke and said Elijah would appear on the scene, of one forerunning Christ. "I send my messenger before my face to prepare the way," as He said in Matthew 11, identifying John.
And the strange thing now... When Jesus began to speak and had been identifying Himself, let's watch how He did that now. If He isn't Scriptural in what He did, then He wasn't Messiah. He has to come according to the Scripture.

26 Now, there had been a man by the name of Andrew had been attending John's revival, and John said He was coming. John was so sure of his coming he said, "He's standing right among you now," 'cause he knowed that he was to announce that Messiah. Now, he never went off to a seminary to learn what the Messiah would be; he went into the wilderness and was out there by himself, and come forth. 'Cause he was ... had to not be man-trained; he had to be trained by God, because...
Now, his father was a priest, and it was customary that the son follow the father's business, and his schooling, and so forth. But John's business was too great, too important. A lot of them people ... he said, "Now you know Brother so-and-so, here. He meets the qualifications." But John went out in the wilderness and till... He was with God till he was ... definitely knew what the sign of the Messiah would be. When He come he said, "I knew Him not. But He that said, 'Upon whom thou shall see the Spirit descending and remaining, He's the one that's going to baptize with the Holy Ghost and fire.'" He knew, and was definitely sure that that was Him.

27 Now, Andrew had been trying to get his brother, Simon (they were fishermen), and they were trying to get his brother to come to the meeting. Now, I read a story some time ago about their life. They were great believers in the order of the Pharisees. And he had a...
His father was named Jonas, and he was a great fisherman, too. And many times they'd have to trust God for what they got to eat, their fish to pay off the debts, and get food.
And I was reading one day where the old father took Simon, and sat him down---him and Andrew. And he said, "Boys, I always believed that I would live to see the coming Messiah, that we've looked forward for all these years. And now, sons, before the Messiah comes... Perhaps I'll be gone, because I'm old, but I don't want you boys to be deceived. Now, there will be all kinds of things raise up before He comes."
It always has to be that way, you know, to kind of knock off the real thing when it gets there, you see. Satan's always out there. Just like, before Jesus come, they said there was other Jesuses raised up, and took groups out into the wilderness, and perished, and so forth.

28 But he said, "Sons, remember, this Messiah will be Scripturally identified. [Oh! How he ought to teach people today, see.] The Messiah will be identified by the Scripture, because Moses said the Lord our God shall raise up a prophet like unto him. And Moses is our leader, and we're looking. Now, it's been hundreds of years---we've had no prophet. But Moses said that one was coming. And no doubt, that this length here without a prophet has been identified, that when it does come, he will meet the qualifications of that prophet. We all know that's Scriptural."

29 Now we find, that later ... that Jesus had never showed any sign yet. One day Simon came up into his presence, just a little skeptic, perhaps, of Andrew's testimony because he had heard all this about this wild man, how ... drowning people down in the river, baptisms, and so forth. And he couldn't go for that, because there had been all kinds of stuff pass through Palestine in that time.
But one day, Simon came into the presence of the Lord Jesus. Now, let's watch what He was yesterday to that elected seed, that Simon that was ordained to this place---that seed that...
Like,

30 in the beginning God was not even God; He was the great eternal, and in there was attributes. Attributes was his thoughts. And then it become a word like this. And a word expressed ... well, a thought expressed is a word. A word expressed is a thought. And then, remember, if you ever was in God's thinking, you'll always be there. If you've got eternal life, you are the expression or the attribute of his thought for this age. If not...
There is only one eternal life, and it always existed. And you in his mind existed before there was a world. That's the reason He said He chose you before the foundation of the world. It isn't what we think, what somebody else thinks, it's what God eternal... You always was in his thinking.

31 It was in Him to be man. That's the reason that Christ was the expressed image, see.
Now, He was to be Father, He was to be Son, He was to be Saviour, He was to be healer. There was nothing. There wasn't even an angel, or nothing. Then He created angels. Then He become God---He was worshipped. Then these are the manifestations of his thinking. There is nothing wrong. Everything's going to turn out all right; don't be scared. God's big timepiece is ticking right along. It'll be there. He'll have a church without spot or wrinkle. It was in his thinking. The thing of it is, am I in there? Are you in there? Here He was the eternal thought of God expressed into sonship. Oh, my! There was God Immanuel, then. Notice. Then He was the Word.
Now here...

32 Am I deafening you? I don't mean to scream at you. Sometimes when you speak in big outdoors and places... And I don't mean to get too loud. Now, let the ... ever who's controlling kind of cut it for me, if they will, if it gets too loud.
Now, notice in this... When Jesus came, here come Simon up, walking up before Him. And as soon as Jesus laid his eyes upon him He said, "Your name is Simon, and you are the son of Jonas." Oh, did that set that fisherman's heart on fire! He couldn't even write his own name. He had no education. But he knowed that was the Word, because it discerned the thoughts that was in his heart. There was Messiah! Though the Bible said he was both ignorant and unlearned, but he would become the head of the church at Jerusalem. He fell down at his feet. He knew that that was... Not only did He know who he was, He knowed that godly old father of his, that had gone on, see. That showed that He was the Word.
The Word discerns the thoughts that's in their hearts. That's exactly what Jesus ... looked upon them and perceived their thoughts, see. And the Bible said that the Word of God is the discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart. That made Him the Word, then. That master-prophet, that God-prophet, more than a prophet. He all the prophets was, plus the rest of God, see. He was Immanuel God, represented in fullness in the Son, Christ Jesus. Now, we find God was in Christ, reconciling the world to Himself.

33 Now, if we notice: then Peter was convinced that that godly old father of his that taught him, here was the Scriptural evidence that that was the Messiah. If that was Him yesterday, it's Him today. How would He identify Himself any more? Now, He didn't identify Himself as some great doctor, Ph.D, LL., see. He didn't identify Himself as some priest. The Word of God identified Him. The Word speaking through Him identified Him. That's how they knowed what ... who He was.

34 Now, there was one standing there, by the name of Philip, and Philip had been having Bible studies, scripture on the scrolls, with a fellow named Nathanael. And when he seen this happen, it just so lit his heart up that he couldn't stand it no more. He knew the thing was there. He was just an ordinary man, but they knew that that was Messiah. So he run around the hills. It's about fifteen miles, if you'd measure where He was preaching. Must have went one day, and come back the next. And he went to find this fellow that had been having study with him in Scripture---very staunch, honest man. You have them around here---men who's ... puts their whole life in studying the Word. So he had studied the Word.
And Philip went to find him, and perhaps knocked on the door. And Nathanael's wife said "Why, he just strolled out through the olive orchard there." He raises olives.

35 So, he run back to see him, and he found him on his knees under one of the trees, praying.
Now, a Christian gentleman always gives ... shows courtesy. So, he waited till he got through praying, and he said, "Come see who we have found---Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph!"
And then this staunch, fine Hebrew named Nathanael, said, "Now, wait a minute, Philip. Have you gone off on the deep side? Now, could there ... where'd you say ... what'd you say this man's name was?"
"Jesus of Nazareth."
He said, "Now, could there be any good thing come out of Nazareth?"
And I think Philip give him the best answer that any man could give another. He said, "Come and see." Don't stay home and criticize. Come find out. Search the Scripture. Come and see.

36 Well, perhaps along the road he began to tell him, said, "Now, you know we know... We know from the Scripture that this Messiah is going to be a prophet, because Moses said He was. And this man... You remember the old fisherman that couldn't sign his name to the receipt when you bought the fish?"
"Yes."
"Well, He told him who he was."
"Oh," I imagine Philip saying, "now wait a minute," or Nathanael, "I got to see that first."
When he finally got to where He was, he came up with Philip. Philip brought him up just like somebody brought you, come up into his presence, to the meeting where Jesus was preaching. And he looked upon Him. He was just an ordinary man, dressed like any other man. He didn't look any different, and He pulled no punches. He always ... just plain man. And He talked sometimes in riddles to them, that they couldn't understand it---even his disciples. That didn't disturb their faith, see. They believed Him.

37 Notice. One time a great multitude had gathered around Him, thousands. He was a great fellow. "Oh, this prophet of Galilee! Great fellow!" He went to every church. Everybody wanted Him. But one day He began to preach doctrine to them. And then, that changed the thing a little bit, you see. He wasn't so popular from then on, see. But the sign was accompanying the voice.

38 Now, we find out that when Philip come up to where He was, him and Nathanael, Jesus turned and looked upon Nathanael, and said, "Behold an Israelite, in whom there is no guile."
Now, you say, "Maybe the way He dressed..." They all dressed alike, see. And, "An Israelite, in whom there is no guile." Now, that almost shocked him so bad, he didn't know what to do.
He said, "Rabbi, when did you ever know me? Why, you've never seen me. This is our first time we've ever met. And they tell me you've been living down there at Bethany. And how did you ever know me?"

39 Well, he thought when the Messiah come, that God would take some kind of a lever and pull it, and the corridors of heaven would drop down on the ... on their big denominational steps out there and say, "Caiaphas, I'm sending down my Messiah to you now."
He'd say, "I've arrived!"
And the angels would come, say, "This is Him."
See, that's the reason He does it. And then He goes right over them people's head that's asleep, and they never know what's taking place. Notice, there He was. He was standing there.
He said, "When did you know me, Rabbi?"
He said, "Before Philip called you, when you were under the tree I saw you." Oh glory!
What eyes! He sees you now. He knows you now. He's just the same yesterday, today, and forever. What eyes! Fifteen miles the day before, around the mountains, "I saw you when you were under the tree."

40 What did he do? He ran up and fell down, and said, "Thou, Rabbi, Thou art the King of Israel. Thou art the Son of God." He believed it. Why? He was thoroughly identified that He was the Word, because He could discern the thoughts that was in the hearts. There He was, standing there.
Now, there was those standing by who didn't believe that. No! Many of them didn't believe it. There, some of the priests, and things standing by, they said, "This man is Beelzebub." The thing was done. The Scripture was identified. And then the clergy of that day had to give an answer to their congregation, and they couldn't answer it no other way but just either say, "He is," or, "He isn't". So they said, "This man does this through Beelzebub." In other words, He's a fortuneteller, an evil spirit. Anybody knows that a fortuneteller is the devil. So he said, "This man does this evil through Beelzebub."
And Jesus said, "Now I'll forgive you for that." The sacrifice had never been made. The atonement wasn't made yet. But He said, "When the Holy Ghost is come to do it, one word against it will never be forgiven, in this world nor the world to come." So you see where it throws us today.

41 Now, this was quite a thing. And ... but Philip and Nathanael believed with all their heart. Now that was the way Jesus identified Himself yesterday as being Messiah.
Now we all know (just a few minutes), now we all know that there is only three races of people in the world. And that's Noah's sons: Ham, Shem, and Japheth. And that's Jew, Gentile, and Samaritan. Now, we, as Gentiles, we were heathens---Romans, and whatevermore in them days, the Anglo-Saxon---and we worshipped idols. But the Jews was looking for a messiah and the Samaritans was looking for a messiah. Now, Jesus said when He was on his road down to Jericho, right down below the hill from Jerusalem, "I have need to go by Samaria."
So He went up there at Samaria, and sat down at the gate at the well. It's still just like it was then. They haven't changed a bit. There's the old panoramic like this here, and the vines growing, rock wall. And He just sat down, and sent his disciples into this little city called Sychar, to get some victuals, food.
While they were gone, a woman of ill-fame... Maybe, as I said, the young lady might have been turned on the street from---not juvenile delinquent---maybe parent delinquent. They let her out on the street. Maybe, a fine-looking young woman, and she'd did evil. And she come up there to get her water, because she couldn't come with the virgins, the nice honorable women. They couldn't do it. They'd get theirs first; then the rest of them, prostitutes and things, come on up in the day. Virgins get their...

42 Well, I've watched them put that big five-gallon kettle on top of their head, that big crock, and one on each shoulder, and walk along talking as women can, and never spill a drop of it. I don't know how they do it; but they sure do it. But they ... through there.
And then she come to get her water for the day. The rest of them was gone. Must have been around noon. And she took the handles, and put it in for the windle, to let it down to get the... It's just like a ... kind of like a crock. And it's got a handle around it. And they put those hooks around those handles. And it being heavy, when it gets down it turns over. Then they windle the water up, just like sometimes we done it here in these countries, and so forth. But it had like a trough we let down.

43 Now we find, she started to let this pitcher down into the well, and she heard... Somebody said, "Woman, bring me a drink." And she looked around, and she saw a middle-aged man sitting there. He must have looked a little older than what He was, because in St. John 6, here, we find out that at the feast they were saying... He said what He was.
And they said, "Well, you say you seen Abraham? And you're a man not over fifty years old?" See, not ... see, He must've looked fifty when He was only thirty. Said, "You're not over fifty years old, and say you seen Abraham?
He said, "Before Abraham was, I AM."
So then, we find out that He must've looked a little aged, sitting over against the side of the wall. We don't know just what He looked like. I wouldn't know. Psychiatrists, or psychology, paints us a picture. But Hofmann, and one, and Sallman, and whoevermore... But that's just what they think about it. See, we don't know just what He looked like.

44 And there He was sitting there. And then He said this. And now He...
Turned the woman to Him quickly, and let Him know that this was a segregation. She said, "Now, just a minute. Said, "Now, you are a Jew, and I'm a ... I'm a woman of Samaria, and we have no dealings with each other." And said...
He said... "But if you knew who you were talking to, you'd ask me for a drink. I'd [bring] give you water you don't come to draw."
And the conversation ... what was He doing? He was trying to contact her spirit now, see, to see what was in her. Now, the Father had sent Him up there, just the same as I believe the Father sent me here. For what, I don't know, see. But there He was and He was talking to her. And she said, "Oh, you say worship at Jerusalem. Our fathers worship in this mountain..." and about the well, and so forth.
He said, "A time's coming, and now is, and God seeks those who worship in spirit and truth." The conversation went on, till He found what her trouble was. How many in my congregation tonight knows what her trouble was? Sure. She had too many husbands.
So He said, "Go get your husband, and come here."
And she said, "I don't have any husband."
He said, "You've said the truth. You've had five, and the one you're living with is not yours."
Now watch. Look at those trained priests failing to see that Word manifested. When He did that before those priests, they said He was Beelzebub. Look at this woman in her estate, what condition she was in, a woman of ill-fame---had six husbands. And here she was out there at the well. And that woman, in that estate, looked quickly.
She said, "Sir, I perceive that You are a prophet. We haven't had a prophet for hundreds of years. I perceive that you are a prophet. We are looking for a messiah. And when this messiah comes, this is his mark. He's going to do this when He comes."
Amen! Oh, my!

45 There you are! That woman, in her condition, knowed more about the Word of God than half the preachers in the country does. That's right. That's right.
She said, "I know when Messiah cometh, that's called Christ, when He comes, that's what He's going to do."
If that was Him yesterday, that's Him today. That's how He identified Himself both to the Jew, and to the Samaritan, see. Notice. That was Him yesterday.
She said, "I know when Messiah cometh, He'll tell us these things. But who are You?"
He said, "I am He that speaks to you."
Into the city she went, leaving that water pot. Said, "Come see a man who told me the things I've done. Isn't that the very Messiah?"
That was his identification to the Jews, and to the Samaritans; but not to the Gentile, not one time to a Gentile. But in Luke, the 17th chapter, He said, "In the last days, as it was in the days of Sodom, when the Son of man will be being revealed, as it was, like it was in the days of Sodom..." Now, in the days of Sodom (we're closing)...
Notice. There was ...

46 always watch this. There's always three classes of people everywhere. One of them is believer, make-believer, and unbeliever. And they are everywhere. Watch Jesus identifying Lot's time with his coming. Now watch.
"As it was in the days of Lot..." Now what kind ... He referred then... He was reading the same book of Genesis that we read, Jesus was. "Days of Noah," and then, "as the days of Lot..." Look back and see what they were doing in the days of Noah, and in the days of Lot, because it's the same Scripture.

47 Now we notice, in the days of Lot there was a man that had been called out from among the people. And he had a group with him, which represents the church spiritual. And that church spiritual was Abraham's group. Then he had one in there, his nephew, that left him (by the name of Lot) and went down and lived in Sodom. And the sins of Sodom vexed his soul, only his wife wouldn't permit him to do anything about it. She belonged to all the clubs, and things.
There is just so many Lots sits around these days, and knows that the thing's wrong. But the woman's church they belong to ... if he'd say anything about it, would take away his card. So that's a meal ticket. So we find out that this...

48 Now, wait. Abraham was looking for a promised son (Is that right?), a spiritual promised son. Now ... and Lot was down ... done forgot about the son. He was just down, living with his wife and his kids, and all, down in Sodom. He'd become the mayor of the city, and he was a great fellow. His wife belonged to all the clubs, and they were getting along pretty good.

49 And then... Notice that setting now. (Now, just give me, just a minute or two longer, your attention, closely.) Watch the setting. The world has never sat in that position since, like it is now---that perfect setting.
Looky here. The called-out group... Now, there were three angels come to Abraham. And two of them went down in Sodom, one of them stayed with Abraham. And the one that stayed with Abraham... Them two went down in Sodom, and preached repentance and, "Get out of here." "Get out of it," he said.
But the one that stayed with Abraham: watch how He identified Himself to Abraham. Now remember, Abraham was Abram a day or two before that. And Sarai was not Sarah. Now he's A-b-r-a- h-a-m, A-b-r-a-h-a... seven letters. And she's S-a-r-r-a-h, five---grace---see. Not S-a-r-r-a; but S-a-r-a-h, see, Sarah. And watch this one sitting here now: eating the calf, drinking milk from the cow, and the butter, and eating corn cakes---sitting there eating, talking to Abraham. And He said, "A-bra-ham."
How did He know his name was Abraham? The Word: He was the Word. "Abraham, where is your wife, Sarah?" Women in them days didn't act like they do now, you know---have to be in the husband's business and everything, you know, they... So they ... so she was in...
He said, "She's in the tent behind You."

50 And He said, "I [Now, that's a personal pronoun.], I am going to visit you according to the promise." And it was made twenty-five years before that! She's ninety and he's a hundred. There he is: his bald head shining, his white whiskers hanging down; her a little old grandma, with a little cane in her hand, back there in the back---a little shawl over her shoulders.
"I'm going to visit you, and you are going to have that promised child." Watch.
And Sarah laughed at it. She said, "How could these things be? I'm old, and my lord [her husband] is old, too."
You see ... what I mean, family relation hadn't been for years, and years, and years. Why, she was ninety years old, and he was a hundred. Her womb was dead, his life stream was dried up and gone. There was no more desire.
Said, "Me, like a young woman, have pleasure with my husband ---him old too?" Why, she laughed.
And the angel, or the messenger, the man (with his back turned to the tent) said, "Why did Sarah say that?" See, what was it? Now, watch. And then, after the sacrifice was made, He vanished.

51 Now, remember, Abraham called that man "Elohim." How many readers know that? You know that's right. Elohim: that's Almighty God in the form of a man. He was the Word, because He could discern the thoughts, see. God in flesh, what does it testify? That in the last days Jesus said, just before, when the Son of man is being revealed to his promised church---the church that's not down yonder in Babylon...
We got a Babylon church, you know that. The denominations, they're in Babylon. And we got a Billy Graham, and an Oral Roberts, and them out there banging away at them, too. And remember, any of you historians, there has never been a man, in all of the history of the church ages, that has ever went out into Babylon out there preaching, and his name ending with h-a-m, until now: Billy G-r-a-h-a-m (which is six, not seven).
There... Watch the messenger out yonder, preaching repenting, and blinding their eyes by the gospel.

52 And there was one to the called-out, elected church that was showing the sign that God was in flesh. Jesus was God in flesh. And if Jesus is in you, tonight, it's still God manifesting Himself in the last days---the Son of man revealing Himself in his church, the human flesh, making Himself known. You get it? See? God down here in his church, making Himself again the Word, the Son of man being revealed in the last days as it was in the days of Sodom.

53 Now remember. If God gave the Jews and the Samaritans that sign---that He was the Word, the prophet that Moses spoke of---the Gentiles... After they had four thousand years to look for Him, we've had two thousand years to look for Him. He has to identify Himself the same way to us as He did then, or He did wrong when He identified Himself that time. God's got to act the (same time), same way every time, or He acted wrong the first time. If He saved a man upon the basis of his faith...
Look. God never changes, friends. When man was lost in the garden of Eden, and was seeking for mercy, God made a decision how He would save man. And He saved him by the shed blood of an innocent one. Is that right? He's never changed it. We've built cities, towers, we've built denominational educational systems---and it still remains the same. We got denominations, and all kinds of things; but He only saves by the blood. He can't change it.
God ever remains true to his system, his Word. Whatever He did the first time, He has to do it again or He acted wrong the first time. Therefore, whatever this Word of God promises, that's what it's got to be. And Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever. He's got to do the same, He's got to act the same, He's got to be the same. As He promised in the last days, He would be in his church.

54 And remember, that was the last sign that the church got before the promised son came. Abraham had seen many signs and wonders. But that was the last one---last visitation before the promised son come. Is that right? Find out.
Now church, watch. As it was in that day, we've had all kinds of signs: healings, miracles, speaking in tongues, prophecies. But remember, we got to have a last sign. Just before... Remember, that was a Gentile world that was burnt up. That's what it's going to be this time. Just before the fire, the Son of man will reveal Himself while here. "A little while, the world won't see me no more. But yet ye shall see me, at the consummation. I'll be with you, even in you at the end of the world." Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today, and forever. Sirs, we would see Jesus. Let's bow our heads.

55 Our heavenly Father, we are told in the Scriptures that God raised Him up on the third day. We are told in St. John---the 14th chapter, the 12th verse---Jesus said, "He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also. Even more than this shall he do; for I go unto my Father."
Lord Jesus, the hours are growing dark and dim. The church is lost out in the wilderness, wandering around from the ... people going from one organization to another, from one denomination to another. Come in your promised Word. Come, Lord Jesus, and come into us tonight. Come into every heart that's here. Come into my heart and my life. And may You identify yourself with our faith in You tonight, that You have raised up from the dead. You're the same yesterday, today, and forever.
May we see You, Lord, in this little group of poor people, as we are all assembled here. We are out here because we are seeking life. What a great thing to know that the resurrection and life is among us, identifying Himself---not with some mystic something---but according to the promised Word, as it was in the days of Noah and as the days of Lot, when the Son of man is being revealed.
I pray, Father, that You'll grant it tonight, that the people here that's sick and needy, and those who are sick in soul, those who are just joining the church and knows nothing about receiving the Holy Spirit---and watch it punctuate every word with an "Amen" that's in the Bible... The Bible is a mysterious book to them. They can't understand it. May they receive the interpreter of the Word tonight, that needs no one to interpret it but Him, making it real to their life. Grant it, Father. We ask in Jesus' name. Amen.

56 I may be ten minutes off tonight for being long. Forgive me. But we're just going to call a few of the prayer cards and let me pray for them. Now I'm going to ask you one thing. Now, don't get up and move around, will you? Just sit still, unless it's just ... just something like a little child or something---you have to take it. But if you'll just sit still just for a few minutes, just... And let's see if He will come.
If He will come and identify Himself tonight (Sirs, we would see Jesus), and you could see his life, living ... right ... doing exactly what He did then... For He'd have to do the same. See, He said, "I am the [what?] vine. Ye are the [what?] branches." Well now, how does the... What kind of a life is in the vine will have to be in the branch.
Now look. Say here today, you people... Don't you all raise fruit down here, citrus fruit and things? What? Plums. All right. You rai... Look here, if your vine puts forth and brings a branch off of that vine, and whatever fruit that's on that vine... If that vine puts forth another branch, it'll be the same thing.

57 I was standing with my friend a couple years ago out in Arizona, Mr. Sharrit, and he had a citrus tree there. I think it had nine different fruits on it. And it had lemon, grapefruit, tangerine, tangelo, orange. I said, "What kind of a tree is that?"
Said, "It's a orange tree."
"Why," I said. "Well, how did them get in there?"
He said, "I grafted them."
"Oh," I said, "I see, Brother Sharrit." I said... I think Brother Sharrit was with me last time I was here. And so, I said, "Well, Brother Sharrit, now, next year they'll all be oranges, and won't be..."
"Oh, no, no, no, huh uh." He said, "The grapefruit will put forth a grapefruit, the lemon will put forth a lemon."
"Well," I said, "how is that?"
He said, "It's all citrus."
Oh, I got it then. I said, "That's it." I said, "Thank you, Lord." See, we graft our organizations into this vine. It'll live by the vine; but it bears that kind of fruit that it is. But if that orange tree ever put forth another limb, it'll bring oranges. And if that life come from Jesus Christ, and they wrote a book of Acts behind that first church; if she puts forth another one they'll write another book of Acts behind it, of the same thing, because it's got to be the same.

58 Don't have time to get them all. So let's just quickly now, while we just got a few minutes, start from M1, 2, 3, 4, 5. Raise up your hand if you... Who's got M1? Is it here? Prayer card M1? Are you sure? Oh, M1? You got prayer card number 1? Who has ... the lady there, number 1? Come right over here. Is this where...? Number 1, come over here, lady. Number 2, who has prayer card number 2? Right here? All right. Come right over here, sir. 3? Raise up your hand.
Now watch these people on the stretchers. When their cards are called, you pack them up here, because I don't think either one of them can walk ... the gentleman there in the wheelchair. All right.

59 1, 2, 3, prayer card 3? All right, 3. 4? 4? Prayer card 4? Look at your card, now, right quick. 5? Right there, get ... go right here, sir. 6? Prayer card 6? 7?
Do these people speak French? 7? All right. 8? 8? Look, it might be somebody deaf, or something. 8? All right? All right. Now you watch ... watch them ... watch them cards, there. 8? 9, 9, 10. You never know where they're at. They're just all mixed up, and give out everywhere, you see. 10? All right. 11? 11? Do you have 11? Prayer card 11? All right, over here. 11, 12? Prayer card 12?
Do they speak French? [Brother Branham speaks off microphone.] Do you speak French? 12, 13. Watch. It might be somebody deaf, you see. They can't hear, and they're just sitting there holding the card. 13, 14, 14? Prayer card 14? 14?
Look at your neighbor. Maybe he's holding a card, sitting there deaf, you know. And he can't hear a thing. Then we just ... it backfires that way. 14.
Now, the prayer cards are unexchangeable and they must be... The person must come get their card, and hold their card. Maybe somebody went out. Well. 15? Let's ... we'll ... go ahead. You got 15? Go ahead. All right.

60 Now, let's wait right here just a minute, then see ... while we're getting ready.
All right, now, please, be real reverent, and sit quiet just a minute. Now, all that I have said tonight, how many believes it's the promise of the Scripture? Now. Now, is it true, is the next thing. Is it true? Well, if it's true, then it's God's word. Then He's obligated to his word, any promise. Do you believe that?
Now, if He will make Hisself known by the same way that He made Hisself known to both Jew and Samaritan, and said He would do it again in the last days to the Gentile, will you believe? Raise up your hand, say, "I will believe."
Now there's ... now,

61 these people here---I don't guess there is anybody here that knows me. I thought I seen somebody here awhile ago I knew, but I think they're gone, somebody. Everybody's strange. How many out there knows that I know nothing about you? Raise up your hands, anywhere in the balconies, wherever you are. Sure. Now, look, while they're getting them ready down there...
There was a little lady one time, and let's say she didn't have a prayer card. She had something better. She had faith. And she said, "I believe the man. If I can just touch the border of his garment, I'll be made well." How many knows that's Scripture? The woman with the blood issue? All right. Now, let's watch now. Just another scripture while ... till they tell me they're ready.

62 This woman didn't have no prayer card, but she had faith. She said... She had no scripture for it, like you've got tonight, but... She didn't have no scripture, but she said, "If I can touch his garment---I believe the man---I'll be healed." And she slipped through the crowd, and touched his garment.
Now, did you ever see the Palestinian garment? It swings loose, and it's also got an underneath garment. Now if you touched my pocket of my coat, I'd never feel it, see. And his garment hung out that far from Him. He never felt the physical touch. So, He proved that. He said, "Who touched me?"
And Peter said, "Well, Lord..." In other words, "You'll make people think You're mentally, see. Don't say that, see. Don't do that, because everybody's touching."
Said, "But I perceive that I got weak. Virtue went from me. [That's strength.] I got weak." And He looked around through the audience, and He found the woman, told her about her blood issue, and said her faith had made her whole. How many knows the story? It's true.

63 Now. Now, ministers, brethren up here: now, the Bible said that He's the high priest tonight that can be touched by the feeling of our infirmities. Is that right? How many out there believe that? He's the high ... sitting at the right hand of God tonight, a high priest that can be touched by the feeling of our infirmities. Then how would He act if you touched Him? He'd act the same way He did then, if He's the same yesterday, and forever. Is that right?
So now, you believe, you pray, you trust. See what God does, see, if you can touch his garment. You touch Him. Say, "Lord Jesus, I know that preacher don't know me. He knows nothing about me. But you do. So, Lord, when I touch You, You speak through him."
Now what is this?

64 A gift is not something that you take, like a sickle, or a knife, and go through with that knife---like a gift cutting. That's not a gift of God. A gift of God is just ... a gift of God is knowing how to relax yourself, get yourself out of the way, so God can come in and use you. It ain't something that you've got in your hand, that you stab around with. You just get yourself out of the way, and let the Holy Spirit use you. Isn't that the way you people do when you speak with tongues, you Pentecostals? Just get yourself out of the way. That's the same thing here now. And if He will grant it, will you believe it, accept it, and know that his presence is here? You won't need no prayer card then.

65 How about the judge of heavens and earth? As Abraham called Him---judge of heaven and earth---would you do wrong, see? If He, in this last days, according to his promise... Now, through the week we'll just keep throwing scripture in there, showing you that's the truth. And if He's here with us tonight, so plain that you can see his works and know He's here, and it's his promised Word ---not some mythical something---but what his Word promised He'd be, then you'd believe Him.

66 Now, I don't know. Now, sometimes if the visions come, then it'll ... I can't tell what I'm saying. So, let the microphone, whatever it is, ever who's on it, louden it up. I want you to be real reverent just a moment. Now is this the lady? Now. Here, it happens to be a woman, just what I was talking about, St. John 4. A woman and a man meet for the first time in life. I'm a total stranger. We're total strangers to one another. If that's right, raise your hand so the people see. We've never met one another in life. There stands a woman. Just a perfect thing of our... You're not the woman there, and I'm not the Lord, but it's two people that meets here, just in a little place, like they met first time in life. Now, if He is the same yesterday, today and forever, He'd perhaps talk to you a minute, see, like He did the woman. See, now the Father...

67 The other day when ... recently when Brother Borders, here, was... We had six hundred and something invitations in the states here, besides overseas. He said, "Baton Rouge, Louisiana---there's a group of men down there."
I said, "Go ahead. That's all right. Set up the meeting down there." I felt to do that. Here I am. Now I don't know what next ---I'm just here. That's all I know, see.
Now, here you are, a person. I'm preaching the Word, saying that He is not dead; He is alive. He's alive, and promised to identify Himself in our flesh (human flesh) like He did back there, see. All that God was, He poured into Christ. All Christ was He poured into the church. That's Him, Christ, in us.
Now, if the Lord Jesus has raised from the dead,

68 and I bring you up here, and lay hands on you, and maybe, like some of our evangelist brethren (which is just exactly right) and lay hands on you, and say, "Your infirmity is gone. The Lord has healed you," that'd be all right. You could go. That's okay. I certainly endorse that 100%. That's what the Bible said.
But now, what if He stands here and tells you something that you have done, or something that you ought not have done? If He knows what you have been, and tells you what you have been---and you know whether it's true or not---then if He tells you what the future's going to be... If that's right, this is going to be right, too. Is that right? That makes it Him, you see. Now, I'm just saying that to contact your spirit, just like He did the woman at the well: "Bring me a drink."

69 Now, there's one thing I want you to notice. Watch the woman, watch the expression change on her face just now, see. She's conscious that something's going on. How many ever seen the picture of that light? That's right on the woman, now. See it there? It's kind of a amber light, moving.
Now, her trouble is this... Now, if I could heal you, I'd do it. But I can't. I can't heal you. God's the healer, your faith in God. You're extremely nervous. You're suffering with a nervous condition. And then you got something wrong with your throat. You can hardly talk just above a whisper. It's a thyroid gland. That's right. Now, do you believe?
Now, just a moment. Just so they wouldn't think I was guessing it, just a minute. So people wouldn't think... You're a nice person. I got a good contact with the Holy Spirit with you, see, so. Now, yes, you've been advised to be operated on, but you turned it down. That's exactly right. You're expecting God... Yes, sir.
Another thing, you have an asthmatic condition that bothers you. That's true, isn't it? Now, you see, something here knows you. Isn't that right? Do you believe it's Him? Then believe it, and walk off the platform, and get well. Believe it with all your heart. Do you believe now with all your heart? If thou canst believe...

70 How do you do, sir? I'm a stranger to you, I suppose, if we... You met me when I was here before at Baton Rouge. My, that's been quite a while ago, hasn't it? I guess it's been twelve years or more, maybe longer---maybe fourteen years. Well, I wouldn't know what ... nothing about you, no more than you was in the meeting or something. But God does know you. And... It's a light. I have to watch it and see where it goes. You see the other people out ... it's anointing.
Now, if the Lord Jesus will... Here, we're ... I believe the last person was a woman. Now, it's just like a dream, you see, you dream something. Now, now you are a man. And now, when Jesus met a man, Simon Peter... When He identified him, his name was Simon---then He called him Peter. Said his name would be... After that He'd be called Peter.
If the Lord Jesus will tell me what your trouble is, will you believe me to be his servant, and believe that He is present? Will every man in here believe the same thing? Perhaps you are known here because you are from the city.
I see something, like you're excited about something. That's ... yes, it is ... because it's blood, something wrong with blood. You're bleeding in the bowels. That's exactly right. It's ulcerated in there too, see. Now that's true, isn't it? Now, you believe? That's the way our Lord would have done it. That's Him doing it. Don't you believe it? What if... Jesus told Simon what his name was. What if God would tell me what your name is? Would you believe it? All right, sir. Louis Carey. That's exactly right. Go on your road. Have faith in God. Do you believe? He's the same yesterday, today, and forever.

71 I'm a stranger to you, sister. I don't know you. I've never seen you in my life. You're just a woman standing here---younger than me, born miles apart, years apart. But He's the same yesterday, today, and forever. Do you believe that? Do you believe that?
Now, you know, standing by the side of a man, your brother here, wouldn't make you feel like that. You know there's got to be something else than that present---real sweet, humble, meek. Isn't that right? If that's right, so the audience will know, just raise up your hand so they can see. See, I'm looking right at her. That light's circling right around her.
The lady is standing here for somebody else. She isn't here for herself---it's for a daughter. That's right. Do you believe the Lord can tell me what's ... ? You're planning on bringing that girl to the meeting. But do you believe God can tell me what's the matter? Will you believe, and put that handkerchief on her, and believe she will get help? It's in her back. That's right. That's exactly. Go believe now. Put that on her, and she'll get well. Do you believe with all your heart? If thou canst believe, all things are possible to them that believe.

72 How do you do? We are strangers to each other, I suppose. I don't know you; you don't know me. But the Lord knows both of us. So, being man and woman meeting for the first time... Now, our Lord said that one thing to that woman, and the whole city believed. They didn't... He didn't do it no more. He just did it one time, and all the city believed.
Now, don't be afraid. There's nothing going to bother you. It's going to help you, see, 'cause I don't think you're a critic, or that vibration of what ... the Spirit of the Lord wouldn't be coming in like that. You're a believer. So you have no reason to be alarmed about anything. You're suffering from a rupture. That's exactly right. And do you believe that the Lord Jesus will heal you of that? What if I tell you something else is wrong with you? Would it make you strong to believe? You got a knot. If I can tell you, it's not on your cheek; it's on your back. If that's right, wave your card. All right. Now believe. Go believe.

73 Do you believe now, every one of you, with all your heart? Now, that ought to make everybody realize they're in the presence of God.
Sir, do you believe God can heal that arthritis, and make you well? If you do, just keep walking, saying, "Thank you, Lord Jesus."
Now, come this way, lady. I see you trying to get up out of a bed, too, real slow, arthritis also. If you'll believe with all your heart, God will make you well. Do you believe it? All right. Just keep walking, saying, "Thank you, Lord Jesus. I certainly believe with all my heart."
Come, sir. A condition of nervousness and stuff, and prostate, and arthritis also. And lay that upon her, and believe with all your heart. Get well also. Now, just keep on walking, believing God. It'll be all right, if you just can believe. All right.

74 Come this way, lady. Do you believe me to be his servant? You do? Do you believe God can heal that heart trouble you got? Well, just keep walking, saying, "Thank you, Lord. I thank you for healing me." All right.
Come, sir. Do you believe what you see to be the truth? What if I told you that stomach trouble was healed down there, and you go eat your supper? Would you believe it? All right. Go on, eat your supper.
You must... You're shadowed with cancer. Do you believe that God can make you well, and heal you? All right. Just keep walking, saying, "Thank you, Lord Jesus. I believe with all my heart."
Also a nervous heart. Do you believe that God will heal it, and make it well? Just keep walking, saying, "Thank you, Lord Jesus," and believe it with all your heart.

75 Come this way, lady. Look over here. Your main thing (you got several things wrong with you---ladies' trouble), but your main thing is a heart trouble, that's bothering you real bad. Do you believe that God will heal it, and make you well? Just keep going on, saying, "Thank you, Lord Jesus. I believe with all my heart."
Come, sir. Got two or three things wrong with you, complications. But your main thing you want me to pray for, or ask about, is that arthritis you have. Look at the arthritis. Just keep moving, believing, and you'll never have to take that stick. Amen. Believe it with all your heart.
You got stomach trouble. It's 'cause ... had you for a long time. It's a nervous condition, making an ulcerated stomach. You drink anything (it's kind of like coffee, or something), it gets sour in your mouth, and things like that. Go believe, now, and it won't bother you no more. Jesus Christ will make you well.

76 Come, lady. Do you believe that Jesus Christ... Just a minute. Do you believe God heals that sinus, sitting there, and make you well from the sinus? Do you believe it with all your heart? The lady sitting there with the checkered-looking dress on---do you believe that God will heal you and make you well of it? You had more faith than you thought you had. It's all right. It's over now. You believe.
What do you think? Do you believe that God will heal you and make you well of that nervous condition, sitting there---that man? You do? You believe it? Now, who'd you touch? You never touched me. You touched Him. That's what did it.
You fell over your... You was having eye trouble. Your eyes are getting so bad, you can't hardly get around. Do you believe that God will make you well? Believe it and you can have it. I challenge you to believe it.
Come with stomach trouble, and it's just left you. Do you believe it? Now go on your road, and rejoice, and say, "Thank you, Lord," and be made well.
This little lady sitting right here, with the green-looking dress on. You're trying to touch something. You're praying. Do you believe God can tell me what you're praying about? Get rid of that gall bladder trouble, and you think you'd be all right? Lady, kind of heavy-set there, with the dress on---big---do you believe that God will heal you of the gall bladder trouble? If you believe, God'll grant it to you, and you can go, and be made well. Amen.

77 You have to believe it. He can only do it as you believe. How many of you wants to believe with all your heart? Now, "Sirs, we would see Jesus." He is raised from the dead. He's alive today. He's here in his church, showing that his coming is drawing nigh. The world is going to be burned, like it was in the days of Sodom. The atoms is already gathered together, and loads and things, to set her afire. But, before that happens, the promised Son will arrive in person, Jesus Christ, to take home his church. Do you believe that with all your heart? Do you believe that He's the same yesterday, today, and forever?
How many believes, now, that his presence is here, and you believe that He made this statement: "These signs shall follow them that believe. If they lay hands on the sick they shall recover"? Raise up your hands. Now, lay your hands on one another. Where the sick people is, lay your hands. Lady, I'm afraid they'll make you [unclear word]. Put your hands... Now, you pray for each other. Don't pray for yourself; pray for the one you got your hands on. Now He's here to heal each one of you. Believe it!
Heavenly Father, we believe now with all of our heart, that in the presence of Jesus Christ, the Son of God, that the devil has lost his power, his influence. And Jesus Christ lives now. Come out, Satan. May these people be made well, for the kingdom of God's sake.