The uncertain sound

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1 ... very happy to be here this morning, and we trust the good Lord's blessings rest upon each and every one of you. And I didn't know that I was going to be here; kind of surprising to me. But they put the meeting off in Germany, one more week, because of something that taken place: They had to use that stadium. So, we don't go until a week from this coming Sunday.
Next Sunday, we'll be at ... next Saturday and Sunday, at the Methodist campgrounds in Campbellsville, Kentucky, for a healing campaign. Saturday night will be a healing service at Campbellsville, the Methodist campgrounds.
The next Sunday afternoon, I want to preach a Gospel message, if the Lord willing. And then Sunday night again, there will be a healing service for the people down... That's near my hometown, where I was born and raised ... or, born. And I was raised here in Indiana. So, you who have friends that's been wanting to come to a healing service, well, the Lord willing, we'll be there next Saturday afternoon ... or, evening, rather. I guess begin about seven-thirty. Our beloved pastor is going to go with us to furnish the singing and so forth.

2 And there will be services at the Tabernacle here, next Sunday morning and Sunday evening. And there will be a very fine minister here to speak to you: a surprise. So, I'll just let it lay like that, 'cause we're trying to get someone who'll be a surprise to you for next Sunday. And so now, you who cannot be down at Campbellsville, to be with us in the meeting, why, come right to the little tabernacle, and services will continue on as usual next Sunday morning and Sunday evening.
We would dismiss, if there happens to be someone here from near Campbellsville; we usually try to dismiss for the services, but we have people who just can't, at the time, get out to those meetings. And we will have services especially for them and the young folks. So, everyone's cordially invited to these fine services.

3 Then, we happen to get a... Now, just talk about time, how it is really increasing! Just think: I'll leave here at eleven o'clock in the morning, out of Louisville; and the next afternoon, immediately after lunch, I'm preaching in Luxembourg, and Frankfurt, Germany. Just think, from eleven o'clock here... I leave Louisville at eleven o'clock, and the next afternoon I'm preaching in Frankfurt, Germany, with five hours difference in the time taken off of it, of the time. Just think of that. My, it's hard to believe, isn't it? So fast. But we happen, by the grace of God, to get a good through-line, the DC-9 from here to New York, and from there on by the Pan American. It takes us right straight to Frankfurt.
And then, we'll be there for several days, and then we go from there to Berlin. And with the famous Hal Herman, I'm to be with him two nights at Berlin, Germany. The famous converted movie director, of Hollywood, was converted in one of the meetings out there. And he's a German by birth. And he is back in Germany, preaching the Gospel under a great tent at Berlin. And many thousands are coming from behind the iron curtain.

4 It certainly is a pathetic thing. One morning, I was sitting at Zurich, Switzerland, then... There was so many people. We had a hundred and twenty-six thousand people there at the meeting, so we couldn't get out of the place, hardly. And so, every one, you know, pathetic, and begging to be prayed for, and wanted to know what the Lord would have to say to them.
And the Lord said to me, "Get out and go down towards the seashore ... or, the lakeshore." Switzerland is such a beautiful country.
And I said, "Billy, you walk with me."
He said, "Now, dad, you're fixing to get all tangled up out there, and they'll have to get the police to get you out."
And I said, "Well, the Lord is telling me to go down towards the shore." So, I went down and walked way up along, no one... The Germans, and Swiss, and Belgian, and French, and Italians, at the meeting. Nobody recognized me, at all. I was walking right on along there. And I have a way of kind of disguising myself, a little bit. And I doubt my own brother would know me if he'd meet me.

5 I was walking right along, and we went up there and sat down. Billy said, "Why, you know they know me, Dad."
I said, "Well," I said, "they might do it." But I said, "The Lord told me to come up."
Said, "But what does the Lord want you to do?" Impatience of a kid, you know.
I said, "He'll take care of that," see.
So, we started walking back, alongside of the shore. I seen an old fellow sitting there, crying, reading, like that. I said, "There he is. That's him."
He said, "You ain't going to walk up and talk to that man?"
I said, "No, he's going to walk up and talk to me." I said, "Now, he is from away away." And I said, "He's come here; it's emergency case. You watch and see if that man don't have something for me. And it's pertaining a woman's arm, see." I said...
Said, "How do you know?"
I said, "A vision just struck, and that's the same man; that's him sitting right there." And so, I said, "Just look the other way, and I walked on by him."
We went walking on by. In a few moments, he said, "Daddy, that man's following us."
I said, "I know it. And we're going to come around a bend; we're going to cross a little bridge, and he's going to walk in front of me and overtake me right there at the bridge. See if he don't."
He said, "All right."

6 So, we went on. And there he stopped, walked in front of me and overtook me right at a little bridge. He said, "Bruder Branham." And he pulled out his little ... had a little satchel, like a lady packs, pulled out of there a little handbag of a thing, his passport. And he was from Russia. And he had a handkerchief in there that he wanted me to pray over, and tear it in six strips for a woman with a real bad arm that had been hurt and wouldn't get well, and is shrinking up. And she was the mother of five children; six strips, you see, just perfect.
And I looked at his passport. He was from Russia, up in behind the Iron Curtain. And to think that how the Lord Jesus, seeing that poor Russian... I asked him how many was down there. He said, "There's several hundred of us has got through the line and come down to your meeting."
I said, "How did you know I was down here?"
He said, "Well, we heard it through the Swiss radio."
And I said, "Did you ever hear of my services up there?"
He said, "When the little boy was raised in Finland, that went plumb through Russia." All the way through Russia; that little boy raised from the dead. So, it just goes to show, God's got His children everywhere, hasn't He?

7 And Hal Herman told me, said, "Billy, we'd be there..." You know, it's close to the line, there at Berlin. He said, "There'll be, maybe, five thousand people, or ten thousand people, standing. When you dismiss the service, in ten minutes (underground passages) you can't see a person." They go back behind the Iron Curtain again. Come through like moles.
So, it just goes to show, that in the spite of all the atheistic, all of the ungodly, all the nazism, Hitlerism, fascism, and communism, will never beat out the light of the Gospel. It's still in the hearts of people. And it'll wave on, and on, and on, and on, and on. It'll never end. For Jesus said, "Upon this rock I will build My church and the gates of hell cannot prevail against it."

8 Isn't it marvelous to know that the very reason that you're sitting in this little old hot building this morning, with fans a fanning, it's something inside of a man calling, a hidden power that the world knows nothing about. Only those who have been partakers of it, knows what it is.
Is the little speakers working up there now? A while ago, I couldn't hardly hear my beloved brother back there---the fans a going---and I couldn't understand much he was saying.

9 Well, we're glad this morning to see you in, out at this hot day. Don't forget Wednesday night service at the Tabernacle. And I guess you'll hear Brother Neville at the same time, next Saturday morning, and then probably he'll go right on from there down to Campbellsville then ... or, that evening, rather, for the services.
And glad to see little Edith, and the Wright family up again this morning, Sister Lawton, many of the rest of you here. And I'd like to hear Sister Angie and them singing, "He guides the eagle through the pathless air," whatever it was, when we was coming in. I was enjoying it.

10 I was trying to shake hands with Brother Fleeman, back there, and speak to him a moment. And that's the way... I didn't get just exactly what it was. Let's see. [Brother Branham quietly reads a prayer request.] Somebody here wants... It's a prayer for a limb---a person.
Well, last Sunday night we had a marvelous meeting over at the Church Of The Open Door, the Lord doing a great miracle there. And it's about filled there house full of people this week. So, been a great time though. A lot of hot weather, but, yet, thanks be to God, we're able to be here at the house of the Lord this morning and ready to serve the Lord. Shall we pray?

11 Our heavenly Father, we thank Thee just now in the name of Jesus, Thy beloved Son, for all that He has did for us in forgiving us of our sins, and inviting us into this wonderful, marvelous fellowship of His suffering, and this fellowship of His glory that followed the resurrection, to know this of a certainty: that Jesus raised from the dead and is alive among us today. How we love Him for what He's done: to see Him, how He heals the sick, made that little, blind girl, reading Braille, the other night, her eyes to come open, and walk through the building, proving to the people that He's raised from the dead.
And now we pray Thee, oh, great risen God, the God of all gods, the supreme Authority over everything there is in heavens and earth, Ruler and Maker, we pray that Your great august Being will bless us today, and Thy great Majesty ride into every heart, this morning, Father, and take control of all. We ask for the glory of God. In Jesus' name we pray. Amen.

12 Over in the book of I Corinthians, just by the way of text, if we would call it that, for a few moments, we'd like to read a verse or two here to give us a background and a little testimony that I want to tell you before we start speaking.
I've got a few notes wrote down here of different things I want to say to you about the services, and something that happened the other day. So, I won't forget it, I hope.
Now, in I Corinthians... God's Word always has the preeminence. It's first. Keep His Word. And now in the fourteenth chapter, and beginning with the sixth verse, I read this:
Now, brethren, if I come unto you speaking with tongues, what shall it profit you, except you ... speak to you either by revelation, or by knowledge, or by prophesying, or by doctrine?
And everything without life give a sound, whether it be pipe ... harp, or except it give a distinction in the sound, how shall it be known whether it is pipe or harp?
For if the trumpet gives an uncertain sound, who shall prepare himself for ... battle? (Paul speaking.)

13 And then over in Psalms, the first Psalm, we read this. "Blessed is the man who God will not impute to him unrighteousness," or sin. And the blessed man is a different man. David speaking, saying that how blessed he was, that, "The blessed man, he was like a tree that's planted by the rivers of water," in Psalms 1, "and how that he would bear his fruit in the season. The ungodly would not be so, but he would perish," and so forth. But the blessed man was God's man.
And now I want, being there's just not too many here today (And I hope it's not too hot for you to sit there for a few moments, or at least forty-five minutes.), I'd like to just talk to you heart-to-heart today.

14 In the Tabernacle I don't get a chance to do this too often, or out in the meetings, to teach doctrine, or to say things that I want to say, but out there, it's always on the subject of divine healing. And out in the other churches where their different mixes-up and certain denominations that teach different theology, well, then, I can't say it, because it hurts feelings and so forth. Even, sometime, the Word being preached simple and plain, it hurts feelings. And the best thing to do is just stay on the fundamental principles of Jesus Christ when we're out there, and His death, burial, resurrection, and His power and love for the people. And that way it causes no confusion.

15 Because I don't... To me, it doesn't matter to me what church, people belongs to. The main thing is: if they're Christians. If you're a Catholic, if you're a Protestant, if you're Methodist, Baptist, or whatever you might be, as long as you are a Christian, that's the main thing. Christ don't look at your church you belong to, because they'll all perish and go away some day, and break up, and they'll not be thought of any more. But the principle of Christianity is the conditions of the heart towards God. And that's the thing that we like to concentrate on: is to know a brother, not by the church he belongs to, or how he wears his clothes, but what he is in his heart.
Now, my subject this morning, of course, is: "The Uncertain Sound."
Now there's many things that gives sounds. And there's many uncertain sounds today. There is uncertainty on every hand. Everywhere you look in the national affairs, it's uncertainty. The Big-Four meetings, they come together. They write out declarations, but there's an uncertainty whether the other side will keep their pledge or not.
There's uncertainty about whether it's going to rain tomorrow, or whether it's going to be fair weather. It's uncertainty in everything that you look at, but one thing: that's in Christ, see. That's one thing that you can be assured that's certain.

16 And there's another thing that's absolutely sure to every person in here. I want to leave that thought to you to begin with. It's uncertain whether you're going to live to get out of this church or not. It's uncertain whether you'll ever be back again or not. It's uncertain whether you'll see another year's life. But there's one thing that certainly is sure: that's death, and the judgment afterwards. You're just as sure to meet that as God is in heaven.
You may make an appointment with your wife, and say, "Honey, I'll take you to a certain place." Something may arise that you can't do that. You might not be able to keep that appointment.
You might tell your best friend, "Brother, I'm going to meet you. I'm going to do a certain thing. I'll let you have money, or I'll let you have my car." All kind of uncertainty against that.
But there's one thing that's sure: that is, you're going to die, and after that you're going to meet the judgment. So, bear that in mind while we're talking on uncertainty.

17 Now, there is people who thinks that just so that we go into church, just so we belong to church, so we hear a good sermon now and then, and so forth, that it's all right.
Now, being it hot and everything, and I perspire so, and under this fan and all usually makes me hoarse. I just want to talk to you today, if I can, teach to you, some things that I know you ought to know: and that is, something that'll make you better, that'll help you along the road. I hope that God will help me today to pass something on to you, that'll make you realize what you ought to be and what you should be. And by telling you, will also make me realize that I've got to be a better man than what I am and what I have been. And each day, let me raise up just a little higher, closer to Christ. That's what we're here for this morning in the sincerity and in the integrity of our hearts.
I believe we wouldn't come to a church, hot today, where we have to sit here and suffer under the heat, just to be coming to church for the fun of coming. I believe there's a certain thing that you come for: that is, for Christ.

18 You never come to hear me. Although I may do the best I can, but I never did draw anybody to God. No one could draw it but Christ.
You come to hear the singing, perhaps. The singing is very fine. We like that kind of singing. But singing doesn't draw people to Christ. It's the Holy Spirit that draws people to Christ, see.
Preaching doesn't draw, although we try the best we can. The pastor and I, we do our very best to draw people to Christ ... or, to preach the Gospel, but it is the Holy Spirit Who has to draw your heart and give you that certain sound. We can preach the Gospel, of what we think is right, but the Holy Spirit has to give the sound that echoes in your heart. And there is a certain sound.

19 "There is a way too, that seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof is the ways of death." It's a little off the subject, but I want to dwell on that just a moment, pertaining to a certain person, that I might just take in my mind, a mythical person, and name it Mrs. John Doe.
This Mrs. John Doe, when she was brought up in church, she was a fine woman. She loved God. Oh, she went to church with her mother. She was taught to do what was right.
Now, God give us more of those old-fashioned mothers that'll teach their girls and boys how to do right, to know right from wrong. That's what we need today. We got too many other kind of examples before our young people, such as smoking, drinking, carousing, and so forth, that ought not to be, and it's by mothers, so called.
Now, notice. In the human body, our make-up, our regular anatomy that we live in here, is not made to sin. It's made to do righteous. It's made to serve God. God never made you just to work, and come home and love your children. That's all good enough. God made you to work. God made you to come home, love your children, love your wife, and the wife to be loyal and love her husband, the children love their father and mother. That's all good. But God made you...
That's just the background for something that God made you to do. God made you to be a worshipper, a worshipper of Him. You'll worship something, regardless of what it is. You'll worship your wife. You'll worship your children. You'll worship anything: your automobile; you'll worship your pleasure; you'll worship something, because it's in mankind to worship. Now, we want to know what we worship.

20 Jesus told the woman at the well, said, "You worship, you know not what. We Jews, we worship... We know that we worship God, 'cause salvation is of the Jew."
Now, and then the woman began to explain to Him how "One said, 'In the mountain'; one said, 'Jerusalem.'
He said, "The hour is coming, and now is, when the Father will seek worshippers who'll worship Him in Spirit and in truth. For God is Spirit, and they that worship Him must worship Him in Spirit and truth."

21 As I was saying a few days ago, either here or somewhere, speaking on the lie detector. Now, notice close now. I want you to pay close attention. Put a lie detector on you, and you try to impersonate that truth, and try to say that it's truth; but down on the inside of you, in the subconscious, lays a place called the soul. And this intellectual mind does not govern that vibration of the system. The mind is only a director. It will direct you, and it's very incapable of bringing you to God---your mind. You cannot know God by your mind, intellectual. It's one of the resources, or the channels that would lead to it, but your soul is what governs you. You are what you are, by your soul.
Jesus said to the Pharisees, said, "Why, you hypocrites. How can you speak good things?"
When, they was calling Him, "Good Master," and so forth.
Said, "Out of the abundance of the heart speaketh the lips. And in your heart you hate Me. And in your lips you call Me, 'Good Master.'" He said, "You hypocrites."
See, your soul is thinking one thing, and you're speaking with your lips another thing. What a case. What a horrible thing. What a deceitful thing is a hypocrite. For out of their mind they say one thing, when their soul says another thing.

22 Now, the lie detector will not work on your mind. It'll work on your soul. It'll not work on your intellects. There's some people can impersonate the truth. They impersonate, yet, it being a lie; and can impersonate it till they can deceive like anything.
And Satan is the best of that there is, for he deceived Eve by that way, saying them same things. And the biggest lie was ever told, had a lot of truth in it.

23 Now, this person, what if you could ever get this soul on the inside so in harmony with God, that your soul and God would be one together, then you could ask what you will and it shall be given to you.
Many people come to me, many times in the prayer line, and stand there, and say, "Oh, Brother Branham, I have plenty faith. I've got faith like to move mountains." And, yet, they haven't any faith. They hardly have enough faith to get to the platform. But they are conscious of one thing, that they do believe. They are believing intellectually with their mind. And their mind will never bring them to God. Your mind is reasonings. And God has no reasonings.

24 If you can reason it out, your mind will tell you, "Now, looky here, the doctor says I can't get over that. It's impossible."
Now, the doctor, with his intellect, with His intelligence, with His knowledge of medical science, he's told you the best of the travel of his mind. And you taking your mind, and using the same thing the doctors told you, you ... God can never touch that line, as long as you reason. But let's put down reasoning. God never made us to live by our intellect. We live by the Holy Spirit that's in our soul, that says "No" to any reasonings that's contrary to God's Word.
When God's Word says it's so, there's nothing in the world stands in its way. Then when you do that, you're getting down on the right side of God. You're getting down, till you can ask what you want to, and it'll be given to you, 'cause there's nothing between there. There's no reason. Let's cast away those reasonings. They stand in your way. Get your mind out of the way. And don't you say what you reason, what you see, what you think; say what God says to be the truth. And that can only come from the inside, from the heart, not from the intellects.

25 There's where so many people today is going to be so terribly disappointed at the day of judgment: to know that they've lived in church, to know that they have done good deeds, to know that they have treated their neighbor right, to know that they have been loyal to the people, loyal to the church, and in their mind has believed that Jesus Christ the Son of God; and be condemned at the day of judgment.
Jesus said, "Many are called and few are chosen. Straight is the gate and narrow is the way that leads to life, but few there will be that find it."
Now, to you people here this morning, I want you to sit up and take notice to this. You're old enough now. You've heard enough Gospel preaching, till you ought to be able to get off of milk and to come to a real solid Gospel diet: come to a place where men and women ought to stand. Paul said, "When you ought to be teachers, why, you have to be taught to, yet."

26 Now, in the soul where the man lives ... You are what you are in your soul, not in your mind, not in your reasoning. Not because you say, "I will have a better standing. I can associate with better company if I become a Christian." That's reasoning, see. You mustn't do that. Don't do that. Let it come from a new experience, a new birth, something that's happened, not in the mind, but in the soul, that's taken all reasonings away, and you become a new creature. And you're in Christ Jesus.
Mrs. John Doe, she was a good woman, as far as we know. She married Mr. Doe. He was a fine Christian man. At the age of about, oh, thirty, or something another like that, Mrs. Doe was an attractive woman. She goes away, and she begins to associate with the neighbors. She gets out amongst the worldly crowd. Now, notice, she gets out amongst the crowd. She begin to associate with the rest of the people---not bad people, good people, the religious people maybe in her neighborhood. She begins to associate with those people. And while she is associating with those people... She knows that she is a good woman.

27 And the first thing you know, something takes a hold of her. She becomes attracted to another man. Why, he's a very attractive man. He's more attractive than her husband. And something happens into her, that she feels she falls in love with this man.
Now, listen. Way down deep in her soul, the Word of God begins to boil up, and says, "You are wrong. Your vow is that you'll stick to this man until death shall separate you, no matter what he looks like."
What a more attractive woman or man, it'd work either way. You're vowed to this person until death you separate. But you will go to intellectual. You'll think, "Here is Mrs. Jones. She plays the piano. She's a good woman. Why, she's did this," and... Reasoning. You'll see the other women begin to dress immorally, that they wear those little old clothes that they wear in summertime around here, mostly---in winter if they could; just simply vulgar. And you'll get out...

28 Now, ladies, I want you to forgive me. I don't want to hurt your feelings. I'm not here to hurt your feelings. God knows it's not. But I'm here as a Gospel preacher to let you know what's truth, then you do with it whatever you wish to. Then when you go to doing those things, you'll begin to reason, "If this woman can do it (She's well thought of; she goes to church; she lives in ranks of society.), why can't I do it?" That's reasoning, when your soul tells you it's wrong. God covered women up, and men up, in the Garden of Eden; never stripped them, see. But it's reasoning. You'll reason it out: "The rest of them are doing it."
Younger girls, you take heed this morning to the Gospel. The Gospel said, "Let the women dress themselves in modest apparel," not immodest, "modest apparel." And it's getting... It's a disgrace.

29 You know what would happen in Zurich, Switzerland, if a woman come down the street dressed like these women do in America? They'd throw her in jail right there and declare her insane. Sure.
When I went to Rome, Italy, and went up to the burying grounds of the saints, they even had a sign at the gate, at Saint Angelo burial place, the catacombs, and said, "American women, please put on clothes before you enter this place, to respect the dead." And a ornery, degraded, debauched, lowdown place as Italy, and have to speak such words as that. And our preachers are the cause of it, from the platform, by not telling the truth. That's right.

30 Notice, the woman carries on. She thinks she's all right. After a while, she leaves her husband. She goes off and marries this traveling salesman, because he's a handsome, big fellow. And after a while she finds out he's not the man that her husband was. See, he's not kind like her husband was.
And after a while, then she thinks, "Oh, well, I've done that; I'll fall in love with somebody else." She goes on. She travels on. She goes to church, continually. The pastor has never took her name from the book. She goes right on to church. She lives just like she wants to live.
And the first thing you know, oh, do... You say, "Now look, Mrs. Doe, do you believe in Jesus Christ?"
"With all my heart I believe in it." But her actions, her fruits prove that she's not. Don't listen to an uncertain sound. Let it sound out from the Gospel here. Proves that she's not, for she wouldn't be doing them things. She wouldn't be acting that way. She'd have different thoughts. She'd be governed by a different thing: her soul.

31 The first time she grieved it back there, when she started running around on her husband... Here's her intellect here; here's her soul here. There's a separating line there, that if it ever crosses, it'll never cross back again. It'll never come again. Think of it. And she keeps on.
And after a while, when she sins against this thing on the inside of her, that speaks about the Word of God, the first thing you know, she'll become all involved in this intellect, leaving the soul alone. The Bible said, "The soul that sinneth, that soul shall die." Die means to "separate."
Then, the soul, the conscience, that once condemns you, isn't there anymore, and you've gone altogether into intellectual. You go join some old, cold, formal church that don't believe in those things, on out into hog-eat-hog, and the first thing you know, the soul that condemns you for the first time you told a lie, the first time you put on those short clothes, the first time you did immoral acts, will become so dead to you, you won't feel it anymore. On and on you'll go. And after a while death will catch up with you.

32 You're living out yonder. Your pastor will come and say, "All things are all right, my sister. You're ready to go now. Everything is all right." She'll believe the same. And the first thing you know, when it comes down...
Why? With all of the reasoning power she has... She's gone to church. She's give to charity. She's done everything that's right, she thinks so, everything that's right in her mind. She has followed the dictates of her mind. "I know I should go to church. I know I should be friendly. I know I should treat my neighbor right. I know I should do this and that." But still, what is it? She has grieved away this fellow.

33 And then, in the hour of her death, when she gets ready to die, she is laying on the bed. And all at once, she wakes up and hollers, "Oh, my God. I'm lost."
The pastor will say, "Give her a hypo. She is delirious." And he'll shoot a hypo in it. And she'll try to speak. She can't speak. She'll murmur. What is it? Her soul has caught up with her before death. Not only women; men, also, who's spurned the love of Jesus Christ, who's turned Him down, made fun of it. It'll catch up with you someday, as certain as I'm standing here this morning. You grieved it so far, till you can't feel it no more. But it'll catch you sometime again. It'll all come back to you, the dirty things, the bad things, the tattling, the babbling, the backbiting, the selfishness, and things that you've done. That'll all come back to you someday, laying on the deathbed.

34 How the hypo needle in these last days has stopped the deathbed confessions of thousands. "Shoot the needle in him. Numb him." He's trying to speak. What is it? His soul has caught up with him here. That soul and spirit is this thing here that the intellectual is fixing to fail. It's only in the mind. The intellectual, what you've lived by, is going to perish. But that soul that you've grieved from your intellectual, is going to haunt you through eternity. Amen.
Don't you listen to an uncertain sound. You believe the Gospel, in its fullness. Yes, sir. Oh, say, "I went to church. I did what was right. I paid my tithes." Those things are all right, but that's intellectual.

35 And look, when they're trying to stop, with that hypo needle in their arm, let them be numbed off so they don't know nothing, When they're trying to speak, their soul has caught up with them. They realize that their reasoning, their mind is perishing with their brain.
"Perishing with their brain, the mind?" Yes, sir. Yes, sir. Your mind will perish with your death.
I will prove it to you. The lie detector don't take your mind; it takes your soul. The vibration of your nerves don't run on your mind; it runs on your soul. Amen. So your intellects will die when your brain ceases to function. When the blood fails to pour through the brain, and the nerves cease, then your mind goes away and your soul catches up with you.

36 And when this woman's soul catches up with her, and she says, "My God, I'm lost."...
And they think it's ... oh, it's delirious. They shoot a hypo in, the needle to her, and she begins to numb off. She can't speak no more. She's trying. She's a rolling. She's in agony. And the doctor says, "Give her another one; deaden her," until the death angel sweeps her spirit from her.
But that hypo needle might deaden the flesh; it might deaden the mind; but that can't deaden that soul that knows it's seen before God. It'll haunt her through ceaseless ages, and through eternity. That soul will still haunt and haunt and haunt, as the ages roll on.
You came from where? You go to where? You came out of eternity. You stepped into a little space called time. You go out of time into eternity. And what you are in your soul as you go out, the same you'll be. Oh, my. All right.

37 That a little better now? I'm getting, I notice, just a little loud with it. All right. When the... I believe it's... Brother Neville, I'm just preaching a little hard.
All right, into eternity, there you are.
Some pastor will come up to the woman, say, "Well, our dear beloved sister, she was such a loyal member in our church. She came every Sabbath day. She helped the poor. She helped the needy. She done all these things. Today she is in glory."
But if the truth was only known, how into a haunting place called hell, that soul that separated from her here on earth, that she listened to an uncertain sound... And she went off into eternity without knowing God, without knowing Christ as the new birth. She believed it in her heart. She believed it in her mind. She thought she was right, but she was wrong. It's your soul what does it. O God, have mercy.

38 Listen to a certain sound. The Gospel has no uncertain sound. Paul said, "If a trumpet sounds, if a soldier hears a bugle blow..."
There's many veterans here this morning. They know what retreat means. They know what these different signals of the bugle sounds. And if this bugle doesn't give a certain sound, just a big bunch of noise, how will the soldier know to prepare himself?
If one church says do this, another church says do that, and one church says do this, another one says do that, how can the Christian know what to do? One says one thing and one another.
But I tell you, my dear brother; I will tell you a place where there's no uncertain sound: That's in the Bible, God's eternal Word. It's the Gospel. And the Gospel is the power and demonstration of the Holy Spirit put in action. Yes. Uncertain sounds.

39 Jesus, standing on earth, He knew where He stood. He knew who He was. He said, "I have power to lay My life down. I have power to take it up again." No uncertainty about that. "I have." Hallelujah! "I now have the power to lay it down. I have the power to take it up." Yes, sir. No one holds Me.
Any man or woman that's borned of the Spirit of God knows where they stand, regardless of what takes place, or how many says yes or no. They know where they stand. There's no uncertain sound. Hallelujah. Oh, my.

40 The man who possesses it, the woman who possesses it, oh, what a blessed person they are. No wonder David said they were blessed, the blessed person. Lay him upon the operating table, and try to cut the blessing out of him, you'd never find it. It's a hidden power. It's a hidden something; oh, but it's there. Every man and woman that ever had it, knew they got it. No uncertainty about it. Every man that's born of the Spirit of God, knows when he passed from death unto life, knows the place, the hour, the minute, when death changed to life, when unbelief of the Bible changed to believe every word of it. When haughty, high-minded things passed; to humble Christians, they know when death passed to life. Amen.
Every man that had it had something different. The world knew it. Every woman had it, had something different, and the world knew it. The world can see it. Your actions prove what you are. You can say you got it, but your actions speak so loud that they can't hear your voice. Your life speaks what you are.

41 Samson, he was a man possessed with it. Now, a lot of people try to make Samson a great big shoulders and a great big man that'd go out, and pick up the gates of the city, and walk away. That's no... That's not no great mystery to me to see a man do that, with shoulders that big. Samson was not a big man. All the Scripture declares him to be a little shrimp, little bitty fellow. And he was blessed. Why? He was born that way.
That's the way you get blessed, is when you are born that way; not when some priest bless you, or some preacher baptizes you, but when God, by the Holy Spirit, gives you birth. Then you're born a child of God.

42 Samson had it in him. And it wasn't Samson; it was the hidden power in him.
It isn't some magic word. It isn't rubbing a rabbit foot behind your ear, spitting on a horseshoe and throwing it over, that makes the magic. That isn't what makes a man live a different life, no more than joining church, or putting your name on a book, or being baptized. What makes a man, is when God, by a birth, gives him the hidden power, and blesses him by the Holy Spirit in his life, what makes him what he is.

43 Samson, when he walked out there, the lion come towards him. Oh, my, the lion was going to get him, a little, curly-headed shrimp, about like that, seven little, sissy locks hanging from his shoulders. And he was a weakling; he was a midget; he was a dwarf, like every man is without God. Yes. But all at once, when the lion got ready to get him, the hidden power come out. The Holy Spirit come on him, and he grabbed the lion and slew it, like it was a lamb.
That's where it is. The Christian don't fight back. The Christian don't fuss about it. The Christian sits still. And that hidden power, the blessing of the Holy Ghost goes to work for him, brings it out. Hallelujah! That's it.

44 David had it. When he danced before the ark of the Lord, he had it. He knowed what he was talking about, so that's the reason he wasn't afraid of Goliath. It wasn't the rock that David had in the sling that killed Goliath. It wasn't the sling that he had in his hand that killed Goliath. It wasn't the stones that he had in his pocket that did it. It was a hidden power, that blessing of God. When David let loose what he had, God took it and blessed it with a hidden power. So, it wasn't David; it wasn't stone; it wasn't slingshot; it was that blessing that was on David, that slew the enemy of David. Amen.
The Hebrew children had it. They had courage. They said, "Our God is able to deliver us from the fiery furnace. But we will never bow." There was no uncertainty to that, no uncertain sound.

45 Was no uncertain sound to David, when he said, "Do you mean to tell me that you will let that uncircumcised Philistine stand there and defy the armies of the living God?" Said, "I'll fight him myself." Amen. No uncertainty, David knew where he stood.
God said, "David, I took you out of the sheepcote, when you were nothing but a sheep boy, and I made your name great among men, like great men of the world."
Nathanael looked at him, said, "Do all is in your heart, for God is with you."
No uncertainty. They knew God. They had the experience, no uncertain sound about it.
David said, "I'll go fight him, and today I'll cut his head off." No uncertainty... It wasn't David; it was God in him. It was that hidden power. Not a bit of uncertainty: all positive, no negative.

46 The Hebrew children said, "We'll not bow to your gods. We'll not worship your old formal religions. God's able to deliver us. But if He don't, we're willing to die." Into the fiery furnace... And you know what happened? When they took God at His Word, and walked into the fiery furnace, that hidden power come out (Amen.), stood all around them. And they had fellowship; One like the Son of God stood among them, fanning away the hot breezes, and having fellowship in the midst of the greatest difficulty they ever went through.
And every man or woman that's born of the Spirit of God, when the hour comes, make your decision and stand for God without any uncertainty. In the midst of trouble you'll have fellowship. No uncertainty...

47 They throwed Daniel in the lions' den. No uncertainty, he stood there. He had hidden power, not a rabbit foot in his pocket, not a charm to wear around his neck.
They make me sick with all those crosses, and charms, and everything, Protestant and Catholic both wear, no virtue in them. It's all right to have it; but to worship it the way you do: hang it in your car and think it'll keep you from having a wreck; it won't do it. Only the hand of God can do that. Amen.
The brass serpent was all right. There was no condemnation in the brass serpent. But when they begin to get away from God and worship the serpent, the prophet tore it up. Amen. There you are.

48 Daniel went in without any uncertainty: "God is able to deliver me from them lions." But they threw him in the fiery furnace... And I believe when them lions started up there to look at him, there stood a halo of fire around Daniel. Any animal is scared of fire; you know that. Those lions backed off. What was it? The hidden power that was in Daniel's heart come out and clothed him all over. It was that hidden power, that blessing of God, that was upon that prophet's life, that enshrouded him with a flaming fire; like down at Dothan that day when Gehazi looked and saw what was around Elijah: angels of fire, chariots of fire. There that hidden power was around Daniel.

49 Peter and John, when they passed through the gate called Beautiful, the Lord spoke to them about a lame man laying there. There was no uncertainty. They didn't have any education. They didn't have... They didn't even belong to a church. They didn't belong to a denomination. But there was no uncertainty about their experience. They had the positive. They didn't have money. They didn't have membership. They didn't have education.
But Peter said, "Such as I have, I'll give it to you. In the name of Jesus Christ, rise up and walk." They had hidden power. They dressed like other men. They walked on the street. They eat like other men. But they had a blessing inside of them that give them a certainty to know where they were standing. Said, "I don't have any education. I don't belong to any church. I don't know any theology. I don't have any money. The only thing I have, I'll give it to you if you'll accept it."
He said, "What is it?"
He said, "In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, stand up and walk." No uncertainty... Not "Stand up and try, and see if you can move your foot"; not "Stand up and try, and see if you'll get better." But "In the name of Jesus Christ, rise up and walk now." There you are.

50 The uncertain sound is ... gives the uncertain sound, what will happen. Oh, my.
Stephen had so much of that blessed in him, that when they stoned Stephen ... oh, my. He had so much of the blessing in him, so much of the hidden power, till Stephen become another person, looked up and seen Jesus standing at the right hand of God, and never even felt a clod when it bonged him in the head.
Why, I can see Stephen there. He knelt down, and His enemies, spitting on him, and everything else, and clodding him. He raised up, and looked up to heaven, and he said, "Father, lay not this sin to their charge. I forgive them, Father." So much of the blessing on the inside of him, what happened? I tell you, then the heavens opened up. That little spirit was on him, opened the way through the clouds, through the stars, through the mist, until he seen Jesus standing at the right hand of God. He said, "Behold, I see heavens open."

51 Brother, I'd rather have it than all the education, all the money you could pile before me. All my education, I'll drop here. All my mental theology, I'll leave here. All my wealth, I'll leave here. But the hidden power, that thing that made the certainty of the Gospel, will take you to heaven, and carry you through the valleys of the shadow of death. Amen.
He knowed what he was talking about. Said, "I see heavens open." He had a blessing. He had a hidden power. And he didn't feel any clods after that. They was hitting him on the head with the rocks, hitting him on one side, and the other. Poor little Stephen, like a baby laid up in his mother's arms, and God ... and He rocked him to sleep on His bosom.
The Bible didn't say Stephen died. The Bible said, "Stephen fell asleep." God have mercy. Brother, that's what I want at the end of the road. Put him on the bosom of God and rocked him to sleep, said, "See, son, where I'm taking you."
He had a blessing. He had hidden power, not a rabbit's foot, not a charm in his pocket, but something in his soul that changed him and made him a different man.

52 Paul said, "The life that I now live..." Showed he lived a different one, one time. "Not me, but Christ lives in me," he said. Yes.
John, the revelator, he had a certain sound to his voice. He loved the Lord. He laid on His bosom. He had fellowship with Jesus. He lived to be nearly a hundred years old. He done miracles and signs and saw visions.
And when they did, they said, "He's a witch." So, they took him over and boiled him twenty-four hours in a big pot of grease. You know what? That hidden power come out. That hidden power that was in his heart enshrouded him all around. And when they looked in the pot of grease, that blessing was on John. And they brought him out of the grease, without even a smell of grease on him. And they said, "He's a witch. He's a fortuneteller. He's Beelzebub."

53 Every man or woman that's ever tried to live for God is accused of ungodly things. "He's a witch. He bewitched the grease." He had so much power of God in Him, so much... Not witchery, but what was it? The hidden power of God that was in him. He looked like a man. He ate like a man. He slept like a man. He cried like a man. He was a man. But God was in His man. The blessing was in the man.
"Blessed is the man...," said David. No uncertainty to him. That man knows what he's talking about. I don't care what the world says, what you say about him, try to make him mad, he won't get mad. I don't care how much you talk about him; he won't pay no attention to it. He'll go on, 'cause he's got a blessing in here. He'll pray for you. That's right. You might do anything in the world; he'd never pay no attention to it. Won't backbite his neighbors, and go around and stir up trouble. He'll be a peacemaker. He'll do everything he can, for he's a child of God. Blessed is that man. Yes.

54 When the Pentecostal people went up into Pentecost, they were just men when they went up there, but all of a sudden... While they were up there, they were scared; they had the windows closed, the doors closed. They were afraid of persecution. They were good church members up to the time. They'd been baptized in water, up to the time. But they didn't have that hidden power. They didn't have that certainty.
One of them said, "If Thou be... Let me put my hands in Thy side. Let me put my fingers in the prints of the nails, in Your hand."
Another one said to the women, "Oh, it's foolish. You didn't see nothing."
But when they climbed them steps and went upstairs, all of a sudden there came a sound from heaven, and the hidden power come down. It come into them. Afterwards they were out in the street, rejoicing and praising God, preaching the Gospel, glorifying God. They had hidden powers. They had powers the world knowed nothing about.

55 Now, it's the same. The uncertain sound... Don't believe the uncertain sound. The Gospel has no uncertain sound.
Say, "Brother Branham, I believe my church preaches the Gospel." All right.
Jesus said, "Now, I'm going to give you a certain thing to believe." He said, "You go into all the world now and preach the Gospel to every creature. He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; he that believeth not shall be damned. And..." Amen. Oh, I feel good. "And" is a conjunction. Don't stop here---preaching the Gospel---"And these signs shall follow them that believe." No uncertain sound. It's the Gospel. Amen. They cast out devils. "In My name they shall cast out devils." That's no uncertain sound. The Gospel said that's the tone that's in the bell. Glory. Hallelujah. Oh, my. That's the tone of the bell, when they are casting out devils.

56 "They shall speak with new tongues." I don't mean the uncertain sound now; they speak with knowledge, with revelation. They had the real gift of speaking in tongues. There's something takes place when they do. That's no uncertain sound. That's no sound of unbelief, not at all. If it's a lot of carrying on, like we see a lot of times, that's unbelief. But when you speak with words, with interpretation, with revelation, (Hallelujah), that's the Gospel bell tolling. There's no uncertain sound.
"If they lay their hands on the sick, they shall recover." That's no uncertain sound.

57 You dear people belong to the Church of Christ, back there, you say, "That's of the devil." It is? Then the Bible is of the devil, see.
The Bible said, "They'll lay hands on the sick; they shall recover. I will be with you, even in you to the end of the world." No uncertain sound.
Be careful; you hear a lot of church theology that's uncertain sounds. It don't cope with the Bible. Paul said, "If the trumpet don't give a certain sound, how can we know who it to prepare for battle?" Yes, sir. Oh, my.

58 Jesus said, "These things that I do shall you do also; even greater, for I go unto My Father." No uncertain sound, not a thing.
Peter said, on the day of Pentecost, in Acts 2:38, "Repent, every one of you, and be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ, for the remission of your sins, and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost." That's no uncertain sound.
There wasn't a place in the Bible, anywhere, from Genesis to Revelation, where God ever sprinkled a person. That's an uncertain sound. There never was a place where anybody was baptized any other way than in the name of Jesus Christ. Anything contrary is an uncertain sound.

59 Read the Bible. That's what the Gospel's made out of. This is the seed. The seed will bear its fruit. Whew. Kind of warm, isn't it? But it's good.
The kind of fire we need is "Holy Ghost and fire," to burn carnality and churchanity out of us to get us back to sons and daughters of God; where this mental theology and what you learn in the seminary out here, and so forth, will pass away, and God can get into your heart. That's what counts.
Not if you'll say a "Hail Mary," or not if you'll go down and say the "Apostles' Creed" at the Protestant church; that has nothing to do with it, not a thing.
Jesus said, "Except a man be borned again, he will in no wise enter the kingdom." Amen. No uncertain sound, not a bit.

60 When Elijah went up there... Look, let me show you something. When Elisha was watching Elijah, he goes up and watches him. Said, "What do you want?" A type of Christ and the church.
He said, "I want to see something."
Said, "What do you want?"
He said, "I want a double portion of your spirit when you leave." That was a hunger. That was theology. That was mental. He was hungering for it. His mind wanted it. His soul cried for it. That don't mean he had it.
Elijah said, "You've asked a hard thing. But if you see me when I go away, all right, it'll come to you." Brother, he watched that prophet, every move he made.

61 And when that final call come, and Elijah was summons to on high to appear in the presence of God, God sent him down a chariot ride. Glory. Oh, my. Sent him down a chariot with horses of chariot ... horses of fire and a chariot of fire; said, "My beloved servant, step on. It's been well done."
Said, "All right, Elisha, I see you're watching me." He pulls off his coat and throws it back. Picked up that same coat and put it on. No uncertainty, walked down to the river. Hallelujah. He seen what Elijah done. He opened it for him to cross that way. He said, "If He's still the same, and His Spirit is upon me, it'll open again." No uncertainty. He whips that around, and said, "Where is the God of Elijah?" And the sea parted from side to side, and he walked across. Did you notice? He didn't have to go to the school of prophets to get him the education. Glory. Whew. No education to that boy. Watch. Mental theology was finished. He had it in his soul. Watch him; he done like Elijah done.

62 Jesus said, "The same cup that I drink, you'll drink. And the same baptism that I'm baptized with, you shall be baptized with. And the same things that I do, shall you also." What did He do? Spoke in tongues, cast out devils, preached the Gospel, healed the sick. The same thing that He did, we can too. And at the end of our days, as He raised from the dead, so will we who are in Him.
I can't get my boy up at morning. He looks like he just got his day and night turned around. I said, "Billy, you'll never be no account laying there like that. Get up. If you don't do no more than go out and wash your teeth, and go out in the yard, look at your car, and come back in and sit down, read. Don't lay in the bed: no good, laziness."

63 God have mercy on these lazy-hearted Christians, become no good: know so much about it, and tell so little to other people about it.
He said, "Daddy, I just can't get up early."
I said, "Look, Billy, one of these days, you ain't going to have no daddy to take care of you. Daddy is going to be gone one of these mornings. You come in the room and look; perhaps, daddy will be laying there. You'll shake him, but he won't wake." I said, "Then they'll haul me down, this little old church, in a box. You'll pass by, your handkerchief in your hand, crying, look down, say, 'That's my old dad. I wished I'd have listened to him.'" I said, "But remember, Billy, I've always been an early riser."
Hallelujah. [Gap in the audio] ... blessed trumpet sounds, I'll come forth in the first resurrection. I believe in rising early (Hallelujah), some glorious day by the grace of God. I believe this Gospel that I preach. I believe it's the honest truth.
Elisha's robe don't have an uncertain sound. There's no uncertain sound.

64 The Congressman Upshaw... There was no uncertain sound when the Holy Spirit told me up yonder, before the doctors could even find the ameba. There was no uncertain sound, when the doctor said that I was dying, and it [unclear word]. God healed me. It was no uncertain sound. It was no uncertain sound at Green's Mill that night, when the Angel of the Lord walked up to me, He said, "For this reason you was born in the world." No uncertain sound.
I went and talked to some preachers about it. They said, "Billy, you had a nightmare." But there's been a million souls won to Christ. There was no uncertain sound. That was the voice of God speaking to a pauper: no uncertain sound. Oh, I just can't preach when I think of that.

65 I was telling the wife, sometime ago. I may have told it here before. You know my family's background. I love my daddy. He has gone on. He died in my arms, praying. But he drank. All my family drank. They done great, harmful things; yet, disgrace to society. My brothers drink; not because I want them to. I cry for them, pray for them, everything else.
It used to be, before God called me, I'd be standing on the street, talking; somebody, on account of the name, they'd, "Oh, Branham. Hmmm, get away." Somebody else come by, look for somebody, say, "Get away from him." All right, then they'd get away. They wouldn't talk to me.
I said to the wife, the other day, "Now, I have to slip out in the woods somewhere and hide to keep people from all over the world, coming."
What did it? Because I studied a lot? Because I learned theology? Because I got an education? Because I joined some church? No. That would've been an uncertain sound. But something sounded one day, down in my heart, not in my mind in my heart. God came in. It's been good ever since. That's amazing grace.

66 The other day I was amazed above anything that's happened in a long time. I'm a great lover of nature. You know I am. I love animals. I just think they're wonderful. I was sitting in my door. Brother Leo and Gene was there. And Brother and Sister Wood was down there. And little Billy Gilmore, the milkman, was standing there. And at ten o'clock in the morning, down the road come something a limping, pulling a leg behind it. It turned into my gate, and come up to my steps. It was an old possum. At ten o'clock in the day ... they're blind at that time of day. They're blind, all, in daylight. They're a night animal that runs at night. They prey, and prey around, and get their food at night. All you know that. A possum is a edible animal.

67 And he turned into the gate. I went out to meet the possum. I took a rake. I thought, Strange. He may be blind. What makes him act and reeling like that?" I laid the rake over him. And he turned and looked at me; he growled. I thought, There's something strange.
And I happened to look down in her pocket. A possum is one thing, besides the kangaroo, there's only two that has a pocket they carry their young in. And in the pocket of the possum, she had eight or nine little hairless babies in there. And a dog had got a hold of her, or either a car, broke her leg, her shoulder bone. Green flies all over her, maggots in the ears, and so forth, and here she was, hobbling up like that. And she growled because she thought I was reaching for her little ones.

68 I said, "That possum has got more motherhood about her than a lot of women, especially this woman throwed her baby in the river the other day to get rid of it." I said to Gene and Leo, sitting back there, I said, "Come here and I will teach you a sermon." I said, "Look at the morals of this woman. Look at the morals of this lady. It's a dumb brute, but she's got more lady about her than forty percent of American women." Right. I said, "She has got just about an hour to live from the looks of her, but she'll spend that hour fighting to protect them little ones. And these women go out here and have little babies, and smother them, and drown them, throw them in fire, and things: worse than dogs, worse than animals."

69 The little lady wouldn't wait. She wouldn't even stop, partly. She went straight to my steps, exhausted, and laid there. We tried to get her up. She was gone. She was still grunting, suffering so tremendously.
Mrs. Wood come up, and Mr. Wood and them, said, "Brother Branham, I believe the humane thing to do would be kill the possum. Them poor little babies will starve." Said, "It's the only thing you could do, would do it."
Someone else come by and said, "Brother Branham, won't you kill the possum?" Said, "Kill her. She's dying." Said, "She's laying there suffering." Said, "Take the little ones out and kill them. They'd be better off." Said, "They haven't got a soul. It's just a dumb brute, just an animal." Said, "The poor little things will starve to death. The poor mother laying there, and them little babies nursing that milk from her, and you know what condition she was in." Said, "They'll die."

70 I said, "It's true, I'm a hunter, but I'm not a killer." I said, "I love to hunt, but I don't kill just to be killing. That's a killer." That's right. I don't kill nothing that I can't eat, or something I can't make use of, or something that's destroying. Not kill to be killing, that's a murderer. Couldn't do it. I just couldn't do it.
And I knowed sensibly, in the mental realms in the right way of thinking, the humane thing would be to do, would be kill the possum and them little ones. The possum was dying, would never gain conscious again. And the little ones would starve to death. And drinking that old curdled milk from their mother would probably die in misery. The best thing to do is put them out of their misery. That was the sensible thing. But something down here wouldn't let me do it.

71 Crowds begin to come. I had a call, went out. That night, Brother Wood and I were riding out on the road---and Sister Wood and my wife. Coming down from up around towards Scottsburg, where I was trying to get a little mental rest, Brother Wood said, "You see that little puppy back there on the road?" Said, "It's going to get run over." I whirled my car around and went back. We picked the poor little fellow up.
He was full of fleas and lice, and mange eat him up. Well, what would be the sensible thing to do? Kill him. I couldn't do it. I brought the little fellow home, got me some flea power, and sprayed him, got me some mange cure; give him a good, decent meal. Got him hid away up there, trying to get the little fellow to get well. He wants to live.

72 There's something about life that's real. Don't impersonate Christianity; get life, live. Don't just have to battle yourself around, say, "Well, I'm a Christian, I oughtn't to do this and I oughtn't to do that." Live. There's One who cares for you.
That night, at ten-thirty or eleven o'clock, there, the little possum was still laying unconscious, green flies all over it, shoulder broken out, laying there suffering, dying.
Long, later, Billy come in. There laid the old possum, laying back there, them little ones trying to nurse the little more milk from her, life coming from the mother. She was still groaning terribly. She'd try to get up, and she couldn't do it. She'd try to get up, and she couldn't do it.

73 I couldn't get that poor old possum off my mind. I thought, God, I ought to go in, and get a gun, and kill that possum, but I can't do it. What's the matter, Lord? I walked up and down the floor. Daylight come, old possum laying there. I went back, thought, O God, there she is, that hot sun, laying right at my step. Started walking back through the floor.
The blessed Holy Spirit stopped me, said, "You called her a lady. You took up for her, for being a real mother. And I sent her to your house to be prayed for, and you're letting her lay there like a woman at your doorstep."
I said, "God, forgive Your stupid servant." I walked out there and said, "God, if You are merciful enough to deal with a dumb animal, who has got lady enough about her to raise her babies, to send an ignorant possum to my doorstep to be prayed for, O God, heal the possum. In Jesus' name, I pray."

74 The old possum turned over and looked at me, raised up on her feet, picked up her babies and put them in there, as if to bow her head, and said, "Thank you," and took off to the woods, rejoicing. She knows a lot more than preachers do, sometimes. She'll follow the leading of the Holy Spirit. If God can deal with a possum, how much could He deal with a human, if they'd [unclear words]. No uncertain sound about that. God uses animals to teach services: sure does.
He used a mule one time to rebuke a backslidden preacher.

75 Great Saint Francis of Assisi, who you Catholic people claim was a Catholic, but he wasn't. He protested the Catholic church as hard as I do. But there wasn't no other church in that day, so they took him and called him a saint. When he went out on the street to preach the same Gospel that I'm preaching now, the birds was chattering in the trees. He said, "My little sisters, I'm going to preach the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Keep still while I'm preaching." And every bird hushed their mouth.
This is no uncertain sound. We're living in the presence of the Lord Jesus Christ. His blessings is here.

76 A God that could floor an airplane down yonder, and hold it for the sake of a poor, ignorant, colored woman, who didn't know her ABC's, to heal her boy with a venereal disease... You know the story.
God that could speak to an ignorant possum, when there's preachers in this city that would laugh about Divine healing; people would turn up their nose and say I was crazy, because I taught it. And God, dealing with an ignorant possum, because she was a lady, because she loved her children, because she was ready to die for them... The same God...

77 We're sent here on this earth for different things. Some are sent to preach the Gospel. Some are sent to prophesy. Some are sent to pray the prayer of faith. Some has gifts of healing.
The same God that spoke yonder in our room that night ... or, down here on the ... driving in that vision, and told me Brother Bosworth was laying yonder at the point of death, in South Africa... And the Holy Ghost beat the telegram here, twenty-four hours. That same God, the same God, for respects of loyalty... O God, bless your heart.
Loyalty: I'd give the last drop of my blood for the blackest or yellowest woman in this world, that would want to live true to her husband. I'd die for her, like I would my own wife. I respect, as a lady.

78 What do you think Jesus Christ did? And why can't you be loyal to Him, and to forsake your selfishness and your indifference? Can't you forsake your church, petty things, and come to Him and be loyal?
That poor ignorant possum, and the Holy Spirit... And me up there on vacation, not even prayed up, and that poor little lady possum laid at my doorstep. When the sun was hot, she laid there faithfully. When the night come, her eyes would come open, she could see. But the Holy Ghost wouldn't let her go. She laid there all night. She couldn't get up. And then, in the early morning, showing she had been laying there around twenty-four hours, waiting for her turn to be prayed for, for she was an animal.
And when the Holy Spirit said, "Go out there and pray for her," the God of heaven healed her. She quickly gathered up her little babies in her pocket, and looked back to me, with the saddest-looking eyes I ever seen, as if to say, "Thank you, kind sir." And down the road she went.

79 She passed four other houses closer to the road than mine to turn into the gate. One, two, three, four; fifth one she turned in: J-e-s-u-s. She dropped into the gate. She didn't wait out there in the bushes. She didn't wait in the shade. She took up through the sun to get to the doorstep. She laid there patiently, not growling, not murmuring, waiting for her turn to be prayed for.
And then when I obeyed the Holy Spirit, God restored the health to the possum. She picked up her babies and went back into her place of abode: No uncertain sound. God, who numbers the feathers in the bird wings, knows where every one of them is. The God who numbers the hairs of your head, God who rides on the wings of morning, He who created the heavens and earth, knows every creature and every being. He is God. This is His Word. Heavens and earth will pass away, but it never will. Don't be deceived by doctrine of men. Believe God, and live. Shall we pray.

80 Heavenly Father, in the name of the Lord Jesus, Thy beloved Son... No uncertain sound, no uncertainty about this: He's the Son of God. He's virgin born. He came here under the power of God. He came here through the virgin Mary. He suffered, bled, and died, under Pontius Pilate. When they would delivered Him up, the Jews crucified Him, and denied the Just One. And it is written, "Why do the heathens rage, and the people imagine a vain thing?"
O God, truly, by stretching forth Thy hand to heal, that signs and wonders might be done in the last days to prove that this is the former and latter rain. The power of God is here. The Son shone at the day of Pentecost on the Eastern people. It's shining on the Western now. They mocked, and made fun of it, and said it was make-belief, and called them witches, and fortunetellers, and unbelievers, and even killed them, burnt them at the stake, and throwed them in oil. But Thou was with them to deliver them.

81 Thou art here today. You're here for the closing hour, for even greater blessings, "for the former and latter rain should come together."
And now, Father, if there be any uncertainty in any person's experience in this room; I pray, Father, at this hour, they'll confine their faith, not to their mental way of thinking, not to reasoning after men's doctrine, but to the believing of God's Word to everlasting life. These blessings we ask in Jesus' name, Thy Son.

82 With our heads bowed, I wonder if there's a person in here now, would reverently raise your hand, and say, "I do this, not to the preacher, but to God. God, change my way of thinking. I've tried to reason how these things would be. I tried to reason what my neighbors would say if I was ever born again, if God ever blessed me in such a way that I would shout, if God ever blessed me in such a way that I would have an experience that would make me weep, and I'd have to leave my associates. I've tried to reason it all out, God. But today, I won't reason anymore. I'm right now raising my hand to You, God, and saying this is my testimony. If You'll take reasonings out of me, and let my soul take its place to believe Your Word without reasoning, I'll believe it's a certain sound given to me."
Will you raise your hand? Anybody in the building, wherever you are. God bless you, you, you, and you, and you, and you. About eighty-five percent of the building.

83 A reasoning? Cast down reasonings. Cast them down. God don't want you to have reason. Reason always tries to find a way out. Faith don't reason. Faith just believes. Your mind, what makes you reason. It's a liar. The lie detector proves that. God's Bible, first, proves it. But your soul is immortal, brother, sister. Your reasoning power will leave you when death strikes you, but your soul will be with you through eternity. Won't you believe God's Word today and accept Him?
In a word of prayer, someone else would raise your hand? Say, "Remember me now, Brother Branham, while you're praying. I want to cast away reasoning." God bless you, little lady. There's another one. God bless you, brother, I see you. God bless you, brother, I see you. God bless you, brother. You, and yes, sister. Somebody else? Somebody else raise your hand, right quick, say, "Remember..." God bless you here, brother. God bless you, brother. Cast away reasoning. God bless you, sister, I see your hand. God bless you, sister, I see your hand. Don't reason anymore. Just believe. God bless you, sister.

84 Someone else, just before we pray now? I'm going to pray and ask God that He will help you. He sees your hand. God bless you, young man, I see your hand. Someone else? God bless you, brother, I see your hand.
Oh, the blessedness of believing. The blessing of not trying to figure it out. The blessing of just resting on God's Word, and say, "It's true," and go on. It's life. It's life. It's real living.

85 My dear, loving, old mother-in-law sitting back her... When I was telling her yesterday about it, she said, "Billy, I had a clock that I couldn't make it run." Said, "I just couldn't stay without that clock. I didn't have money to buy me another one." So said, "I got down and said, 'God, make that clock run for me, will You?'" Said she looked up, and it started running, just run perfectly.
Her refrigerator, she said, a couple days after that, wouldn't defro ... kept defrosting; just a little spot there it would hold ice. She done everything she could do to keep it from defrosting ... or, keep it from defrosting, 'cause she couldn't keep her butter and stuff in it. Poor old thing, she's a widow. Her husband is in glory. That's my father-in-law. Give his last testimony, over here to my left-hand side, before he went home.

86 She got down, knowed she didn't have money to buy another refrigerator. She said, "God, will You be merciful to me again? You know me. Start my refrigerator to freezing again, will You?" Said she got up and went, looked in her refrigerator, and it was froze around.
Be simple. Just ask. Don't try to figure it out. Don't try to study it. Just believe it. Don't mentally figure it out. Just believe it with your soul.

87 Our heavenly Father, many raised their hands this morning. They want prayer. I pray, God, that this will be the final touch today; they won't reason anymore; they'll go, believing. Grant it, Lord. It's a certain sound. It's the Gospel sounding the glorious jubilee year. The time of deliverance is here.
Won't You, please, Father, take each one of them into Thy loving care? And give them of the sincere milk of the Gospel now. And if they have already taken that, may they receive strong meat now, and become full Christians, never no more to tattle with the world, and indulge in the world, but be real men and women, believing the certain sound: that the Gospel is true, no matter who says it's not. The Bible, every Word is truth. "Men teach for doctrine the commandments of men." But God's Word will never fail. May they believe it today.

88 And those who did not raise their hands, really convinced, but did not raise their hands, we pray for them also, Lord, that You'll be merciful to them. These blessings we ask, Father, because that someday we're coming to judgment. And this morning's message will be brought into view at that day. And then may their soul not haunt them, in saying, "You should've did this." But may it be peace in the valley when they pass through. For in Jesus' name we ask it.
.... of Ages, cleft for me,
Let me hide myself in Thee;
Let the water and the blood,
From Thy wounded side which flowed
Be for sin a double cure,
Save from wrath and make me pure.

89 Dear God, if there be in the midst of the people, this day, any afflictions, any diseases, anything that's wrong with their physical being, we pray, Father, as the Holy Spirit is here, just screaming out the blessings, cleansing our souls from all unrighteousness, through the blood of the Lord Jesus, the Son of God, may He, today, with His great persuading Spirit, His great healing virtues, let every clean soul look yonder to Calvary and say, "There He was wounded for my transgressions, and with His stripes we were healed." Grant it, Lord.
Now, with our heads bowed. If there is any to be prayed for, for sickness, would you stand to your feet, wherever you are. God bless you. That's right, just stand right up. [Gap in the audio.]
.............. fountain,
Free to all, the healing stream,
Flows from Calvary's mountain.
In the cross, in the cross,
Be my glory ever; (O God.)
Till my raptured soul shall find
Rest beyond the river.

90 Dear heavenly Father, You see all these standing, Father. They're standing testimonies that they believe You, Father. You who could send that poor old possum into the gate, You who could make that big dangerous bull stand there, and back off, You who could make those hornets go into the box, You who could bring that dog to life---my old hound---after being drug sixty miles an hour, for two miles, laying stiff, dead... I loved the old thing. Prayer brought it around. Prayer put that possum's leg and shoulder in to its place---that little mother---sent her back into the woods, rejoicing. The hand of the living God.
These Christians has their hands laid on another, Lord. And I have my hands laid on this brother, as giving a point of contact for every one in the building. We're believers, Lord. We believe these things. We love You.

91 No uncertain sound: We've seen You heal the sick, raise the dead, cast out evil spirits, take cancers away, make the crippled to walk, save the soul, sanctify the believer, fill with the Holy Ghost, give immortal life; hear them dying, praising, testifying, glorifying God, believing You're coming again.
We need help, Lord. Grant, Lord, that everything that's asked for will be granted: Souls will be saved, above all things, backsliders restored. And we pray that sick bodies will be healed just now. I send forth this prayer of faith in Jesus Christ's Name, for the healing of the sick, the saving of the soul, restoring of those who are out, through Jesus' name.
My faith looks up to Thee, (Shall we stand.)
Thou Lamb of Calvary, Saviour Divine;
Now, hear me while I pray,
Take all my guilt away,
Nor let me ever stray
From Thee aside.
Now, you that can, raise your hands, while we sing this.
While life's dark maze I tread,
And griefs around me spread,
Oh, be Thou my Guide;
Bid darkness turn to day,
Wipe sorrow's tears away,
Nor let me ever stray
From Thee aside.

The uncertain sound

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1 Good morning, friends. I'm so happy to be back in the church again this morning, after a week's ... handing my cold back to the devil every few minutes, you know. Every time he'd hand it to me, I'd hand it back to him. And we're still fighting. I'm just determined he has to keep it, see. Every time he hands it to me, I just push it back to him, see. He hands it to me, and I push it back to him. So, he's good on handing it back, though, you know. He certainly knows how to do that. But we'll finally wear him out, or wear his patience out.
As I said the other night...

2 A fellow said one time he was prayed for, and he said, "Well," said, "the devil told me I wasn't healed." Said, "I looked down and," said, "all my symptoms was there just like they were at the beginning." And he said, "Why, I said, 'Satan, that's true. I don't see any difference. But you know what? Until they leave me I'm just going to testify as hard as I can for the glory of God. So now, if you want to stick around and listen at me, just stay around a while.'" That's real faith.
Testify to the glory of God, 'cause faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. You don't see faith. You just believe faith.

3 And this week I've been pretty busy up at the house, and... 'Course the first day, I think, there was around thirty in, then all my interviews and things coming. It's been a very busy week.
And now, I've learned some things this week. I went down... And I got a friend here in the city that's a very fine fellow. He's a medical doctor. We went to school together---Dr. Sam Adair. And he's just a swell fellow. And so, I haven't seen him for about four years. And I had about a three or four hour talk with him this week. We went down to the office, and just shut her up, and went in and talked.

4 And I was rehearsing to him some things that I'd found out spiritually, about powers of evil, and how they come in. And he was telling me the medical ... or the diagnosis of it in the medical terms, and it's surprising to see how perfect those fit together.
So he was telling me about a certain mucus that comes into the human being, to where that a man don't have to carry a cold like, or anything. Said, "It's just a mucus comes in there. And then the germ gets into this certain mucus, or this mucus makes the germ."
I said, "Well, if the mucus makes the germ, then I would like to know where the life of the germ comes from, see."
"Well, 'course that..." He said, "We don't know that." Said, "Just can't tell. You get chilly, or something or other, and that germ forms in different forms. And then it has a way of multiplying itself, and just keeps putting off germs from this mucus."
I guess a doctor, or somebody'd be by ... or nurse, would understand more about it.

5 But my interest was, and my thoughts was, that germ itself, the life inside of that---inside of that little cap, like a little capsule, so teeny the human eye can't even see it. But inside of that teeny thing that only a great powerful glass could see, inside of that is a life. What causes that life to take so much of that mucus and fold itself around, and make this capsule, see, or a germ? That's the devil. That's spiritual power that they'll never be able...
They have got down to a place even below the molecule, that they could pick up this little germ cell, and so forth; and the little teeny membrane mucus that could only be seen through a powerful glass, and then... But beyond that they can't see, 'cause there's no natural substance to take ahold of.
Now before I ...

6 the people standing... Charlie, I hate to see you, and David, and Rodney, and all of you there... You're so good to me when I come down to your house, and things---can't give you a seat in the house of God. But I tell you what I'll do. If you'll come right here, here's mine. Come right on up, and just make yourself welcome. Any of you that wants to come right here, and take this seat, just walk right on up here, see. You'll be more than welcome. And it's a good one. It really don't belong to me. It belongs to Mr. Wilson, head of the school. I've had it since 1937, so it's old.
Here some time ago, said, "Hey, you still got my chairs?"
I said, "I'm sitting in them every night before I preach."
And he said, "Well, it's in good hands then," so let it go.

7 Now you're welcome. There's one seat here, and then if you'd just like to come here where the little fellows are sitting... Now, don't let that embarrass you ... think you're a little fellow, because you're not. But you'd like to be again!
And here's one more seat here sitting out here, and there's one over here. And so you might be able ... especially some of those ladies there that ... kind of standing there like that. Thank you. And we'd be glad if you come right up here, and sit down. It'd be all right. Just put your arm right around, lean over as we talk, and...

8 Charlie, I thought you was coming up this way. I tease him all the time. I said, "You come up to church." I try to get him to come see me, and I said, "When you come to church, I'm going to say, 'This morning Dr. Charlie Cox will have the message,'" and walk away.
Said, "I'll faint."
But before I called him, he took for the back room.

9 So I would like to just ... before we start in on the lesson... I thought last week that the Lord did bless us. Did you like the...? My! it just went everywhere. That message has got all the way into California. They was calling last night out of California from it. And now they're wanting to set up and have the same thing in California in the next coming month of January, see. The Holy Spirit just seemed to strike all at once, right there at Shreveport, and it's just going from place to place like that---just an hour of revelation.
And so, we're so glad, and trusting ... and seeing our own group here, here at the Tabernacle, so prospering by this, seeing the manifestation of God among us here. We're so happy for it, and believe that we're at that great hour of the calling out of the church, and setting it in order.

10 So, I was finding something that... While talking to my good friend, Dr. Adair, sitting in his office, and he said ... was talking about different things, about X-rays, and said ... about bad colds and different germs; and reaching up, and getting his books, and showing me through them, what... They find out... He said, "I tell you, Billy," he said, "as a bad cold, so many of them," said, "we haven't got one thing for a bad cold."
I said, "Well, I always thought that if you got a sore throat, if you'd gargle something..." I said, "Now, after I get through preaching," I said, "go home of a night a little hoarse," I said, "I get some Lavoris, and gargle it." I said, "We've had it in our house for years and years---mouth wash."
He said, "Cold water would be just as good." He said, "'cause ... don't never think that anything you could gargle would ever do you any good, because only thing it could do is just wash what germs is in your throat out. It can't get down into the blood stream. If it does, it'd burst your throat and you'd have a hemorrhage, see." And said, "Can't do that."
So the old saying comes back again: "Medicine was made to sell; not to take."

11 And after all ... and seeing in medical books that I even have it in my home to read...
I'm interested in medicine, certainly am---anything that'll help God's people, help human beings. If it's peace, studying peace terms, I'm interested in that. I'm interested in a better community to live in. I'm interested in better schools for our children to go to. I'm interested in anything that's good, wholesome and right. And medicine has done some great things. I believe God has used it ... many things. I believe if we'd be more sincere and consecrated to God, they'd already have stuff for cancers and everything else. If we'd just...
God's got the thing, if we'd just ask Him about it, see. I believe the reason the Salk vaccine was ... just because of little children suffering the way it is; and Satan, that evil thing out there, paralyzing them little children. And God just let that be discovered for the inoculation. And it's done a great thing, and to which we are grateful to almighty God for it. Just so thankful that God has ever blest us and...

12 Brother, where...? He ain't going back home, is he, Sister Nash? Oh, that's good. That's fine. All right.

13 Now, in studying ... then after I come home, I sat down there in the room, and studied for a long time. What's this all about? I'm going to pass a little something to you that I'm studying on, that you might study with me. And the Lord, when we was in the room... I take it to be Him, 'cause I have had some great experiences with Him.
But did you know that after the doctor told me that, and showed me in the highest and latest of medical books---which I know that it just discovered... There's a doctor sitting here, anyhow, listening to me. Now, the latest and best thing for a bad cold... They have no medicine. They condemn taking aspirins, and so forth. That only eases the pain, so forth, of the cold, or the misery, but it don't do the cold any good. But it helps rest you. And the best thing for a bad cold is lay down and go to sleep, take it easy. Just lay down in bed, about the best thing you can do.

14 Now, then I got to studying. I said, "Dr. Sam, then this... A bad cold, the best thing is to take rest."
He said, "It's the best thing for anything."
"Well," I said, "thank you, doctor. That's awful good." And we talked a while longer, and then I went home.
And I told him... He likes rabbits, and squirrels and things. Don't get to go out. We used to hunt a lot together, when we were boys---hunt and fish; or, fish especially.
So then, when I went home I got to thinking. What...? You know, I notice ... watch animals. You take a dog. When he gets sick, he'll go drink him some water, and lay down somewhere---go lay down.
Well, then, the thought came to me the next morning... I was laying in bed, waiting for the folks. They get up about 6:30, and so I wake up about 4:30, or 5:00, and I was laying there thinking. Many times God reveals things.

15 You know, I don't teach this, but did you know man in the beginning, when God made him, He didn't make him to be doctored. He had his own doctoring in him. He was a unit of his own, see. Then healing does not come from any outside resource. It has to come from the inside.
Now, we can take outside aids, such as to kill germs, or whatever it is in us. Or we can take our hands, and cut on each other and take a piece out, or something like appendix, or a bad tooth, or something, and take it out. But healing does not come from anything that you apply. Healing only comes by the power that's within yourself, to build back the tissue that's been torn from the place it's been taken out. And therefore, healing is in you. Now, listen close and think hard, now, before you pass your thought of this.

16 Man in the beginning when he was made... A man is a god. He's absolutely a god, for he was made in the image of God, being a son of God. And then he's an heir of all that God is. And man was given a domain, and the domain was the earth. You have power over the fishes, over the fowls of the air, and over everything. He could just speak, and everything obeyed him, because he was a god within himself. Not universal god, but ... I mean the God of heavens and earth, but he was a ruler in his domain. He was a king, a king-ruler. That was man. And even now, in his fallen estate, now he still has the appearance.

17 Now not long ago they were trying to interbreed, and so forth, and say that man come from lower animals; and through evolution he brought himself up. Well, see, they've kept fooling around with science till they disprove their own theory. You cannot interbreed anything and make it go higher. It'll drop right back. It cannot ... hybrid corn or anything cannot breed itself back. Like I was saying the other day, the donkey and the mare horse can breed, and will bring forth a mule. But that mule cannot bring forth another mule. It has to go right back to its beginning, because God said, "Every seed after its kind."

18 Now, when we were made ... if, when we were made... And they just found out recently that your body is full of light. X-ray proves that. The X-ray does not have any light of its own. It's your light that it uses.
You're born with four rays. After a little while, say twenty, twenty-five, one ray goes out, and thirty-five, another one; forty, another one goes out. And finally when you get past about sixty-five, you're living on your last ray. And every time you take an X-ray picture, you're tearing them rays down. That's the reason you don't have no more ... you stick these kids feet in them machines, because it was just tearing their rays right out of their little bodies. And that's cosmic light, that's in you ... that you're made up full of light cells. Now, that's cosmic light.

19 But God is a different light, but yet He's light. I think that the picture there is a great proof of what I'm fixing to say, that God is light. And when we were walking in light of God as sons of God, God (not cosmic light, but God's light) operated through the cosmic light of our bodies, our cells, and we become...
We were absolutely at one time real genuine sons of God. But then, when the fall came... And then where the fruit of the Spirit today is love, joy, faith, longsuffering, meekness, gentleness, patience---all supernatural---it's just got to a spot till where all the whole body, just so gradual... Like a seaweed. You get in the bottom of the sea a lot of times (divers), and they'll get under these seaweeds. And before they know, it, they're wrapped in such a way they can't get out of it. Well, that's the way sin has done the human being. That's the way coldness has done the church. That's the way communists has done the nation. It's so treacherous.
And then in the human body, it wrapped us; and is pushing out this light of God by denominations, and denying faith, and so forth. It's pushed out all the rays of God's great power of faith, see, that's in us that should be. He's pushed all those rays out in such a place till we just got to a lodge, and then now below the lodge---the church is---'cause it's just pushed all the darkness out; and even just saying it doesn't happen, denying that it could happen, see, the miracles of God.

20 And yet the man ... somewhere down in him---somewhere in him---if he could only let that little... As I illustrated it, like a button. When a man's saved, that much of him is God. That's the little light that comes in to make him quit doing what's wrong.
Now, if you can take all the malice, and envy, and strife, and unbelief out, that little button-like of the light and power of God will keep growing, growing, growing, growing, crowding out unbelief. And you don't do it by exhortation of bodily exercise. You do it by sanctified, consecrated life, that the Holy Spirit moves through you.
I caught some of it in a place, where not long ago...

21 How many ever remembers when Lige Perry was raised from the dead that morning? Some of you over here. You've seen it in the paper here many times. I see Sister Wilson and them raising their hands. I was standing there when that man died. He lives right out here now, comes to church once in a while, testifies of it.
He had been dead several hours. He died with hemorrhages of the lungs, and he was so bloody all over. And I walked away. I was just a young preacher in those days. And Sister Jackson used to be a member of the church here. And a Methodist preacher's wife... I forget what that man's name was now. Shaffner, Brother Shaffner and Sister Shaffner. They were some relation to the Wisehearts. And she was standing there at the bedside, and I started to move away.
And he was just bloody as he could be, where he'd died, and his eyes had turned back, and his throat bulged out. And they pulled a sheet over his head, and his wife was out there. They were crying, and trying to get addresses to call the loved ones.

22 And I started to walk away from the bed, and I felt somebody lay their hand on me. I thought it was Sister Shaffner. And when I turned, there was nobody around me. And then I started... It left me when I turned around, and Brother Lige was laying there dead. We had been very good buddies, fished on the river. You know how we did so much together. And he got hurt out here, a railroad ... riding spider, why, it mashed his lungs in. He was bleeding ... he bled ... he took TB from it, and died.
I started to move away this way, and then I felt that hand again. I turned back, it would get off of me. And before I knowed what I was doing, I was laying on top of that man, with my lips against his lips. I was as bloody as he was, laying there on that man, crying out to God. And I felt something come up around the side of my ear. It was his hand. You've heard him stand right here and testify of it, see, how he... And he come back to life. And that's been about twenty-five years ago, or maybe thirty. Living today, right out here on the curve. And he come here not long ago, was testifying of it in the church.

23 Now, that's where Canada called up, and wanted to know. One time I'd testified of it in Canada, when I first started the meetings. They called Mr. Coots, the undertaker, and asked if there'd been a man raised out of the parlor as dead. I've got the clippings yet. It said, "We've heard of many miracles being done," Mr. Coots said. And said, "Mr. Branham is a personal friend of mine, and all kinds of things has happened. But we have no record of anyone being raised out of the dead, especially in this funeral parlor."
The Canadians had misunderstood it. And the next day, the... My! The paper was lined up. He said hundreds of people called from everywhere, and Brother Perry, in there himself, testifying to the resurrection of his body over there, and protesting the thing that he had put in the paper. And so, then it was understood it wasn't there. It taken place in his home, where he was laying dead. They had never taken him to the funeral parlor yet.

24 Then I read the other night of where Irenaeus, I believe it was, or St. Martin that laid his body across his friend after being hung (now that's history), and laid on him for an hour. And the man come to life.
And I see in the Bible where Elisha laid his body across a dead baby's body, and it come to life. I think of the little boy yonder in Finland, when he was laying there dead, laying on the side of the road.
Then about two months ago, I believe it was, Gene, in the "Newsweek" that they turned what they call "the divine healers" loose in London, and let them go praying for the sick. And there was about 80% more healing than there was by medicine, that ... prayer for the sick.

25 "Reader's Digest" picked it up, and in America here we got it wrote out here. And "Reader's Digest," where they had examined for divine healing... And they took a brother that prayed for the sick, and had a sick man, and had him praying for this sick. And then put a piece of lead foil (anyone knows lead foil reflects that ray) upon ... between the man and the man that was praying (the brother, his hand), and laid it down like this, and shot the picture of x-ray. And from the man's hand showed a visible reflection of a ray coming out of his hand going to the other man. Yes, sir!
God knowed what He meant when He said, "They shall lay hands on the sick. They shall recover." Laying on of hands of this man upon a sick man, and the mechanical x-ray (O God), showing the light coming from the man's hand. How can people be so stupid to say there's no such a thing as divine healing! Why, even the mechanical devices, the machines that science has made, is a rebuke to their own ideas of these churches, saying, "There's no such a thing as divine healing, and the power of God."

26 How about the man in Chicago? Just on, and on, telling how he put me before that meter there, and that thing ... how that hand would register like a lie detector of it, see. And that woman laying, dying, put the testimony that even whirled that hand around with enough power to send a radio message around the world forty times, and broke the machine down---that saint dying, making her confession.
Put it on a wicked man, him dying. And when it did, it throwed the hand vice-versa across this other way, enough to break the machine down.
That infidel said, "If there is a God, and He is goodness, of a good heart, to ... His praises would send that machine enough power to throw it around, there's something in that woman making that power. And if on a wicked man would throw it back the other way," said, "God be merciful to me, a sinner," and gave his heart to Christ. That's right.
Why, science knows, and some day you're going to find out, God is in you, see. God, Himself, in the human being; God in us. Oh, how I thank God for those things! So wonderful.

27 Now, before approaching His Word... And now, let's just take our time, because this morning we're going to pray for the sick. And I gave it out. And now someone was asking if we'd be here next Sunday. Well, I don't know just yet. I hardly can know, unless the Lord reveals it. If, the Lord permitting, maybe next Sunday night... I'm taking all these morning sermons from my precious brother, here. Next Sunday night, maybe if I'm around, the Lord willing, which usually I am 'less I have a call out, I want to speak on, "We have seen His Star in the East, and have come to worship Him." See, just a message, a Christmas message.

28 And now, before we approach Him, or His Word, let's approach Him by prayer. If all that can stand, let's stand just a moment.
Our heavenly Father, we are the most happy people that... We get so happy till our human souls cannot contain it. We just have to scream out sometimes, and give vent to the joy that's in our hearts through Jesus Christ---to know that in the hour that we now live, where everything is in the turmoil that it is, yet there is a foundation that's sure; and to see smart men, who's rose up in the days gone by and has tried to disprove that God even existed through their own mechanical devices, that it's come right back, and testify to the glory of God.
Truly Judas had to say, himself, that he had betrayed innocent blood. The Roman centurion said, "Truly, that was the Son of God." His own enemies had to testify. And we've lived to see a scientific age come to its end. They can't go no farther. They're going to, just at any moment, blow each other to pieces. And yet we see that the very scientific machines that they invented, to try to disprove You, turn right around and testify of Your glory. We thank You for that, Lord!
Let us today remember that God's Word shall never fail.

29 Give us faith, Lord. As that little rude expression awhile ago, that I made about the power of God being in us, and all of our fibers to be light of God, and darkness and sin had choked up the little pores in us of our soul, let the Holy Ghost this morning spread forth in our being, pressing faith out into our innermost being; that our whole bodies and lives will be so saturated with the power of God, till people will see that Jesus Christ lives in His church. Grant it, Father.
We commit it all to You, now, and ask that You'll bless these few words that we're going to say now, to try to comment on what has already been written by one of Your apostles, the great St. Paul. And I pray, Father, that the Holy Spirit will take this, and just let it grow out through the hearts of the people to give faith for the oncoming healing service. We ask in Jesus' name. Amen.
You may be seated.

30 [A sister speaks in tongues. Blank spot on tape. A brother speaks in tongues and a brother interprets. "Yea, I say unto thee my people this day, as thou hast assembled in the house of the living God that thou might worship me, I speak these words unto thee this day by my Spirit," saith the almighty God; "that I shall visit thee this morning in a great and mighty way, for thou shalt see, and behold, the demonstration of my power and my Spirit in the midst of thee.
"And I speak unto my prophet this day: As thou uplift these words of faith, yea, and as thou exhort my people that they should put their trust in the almighty God, I say that I shall be mightily with thee this day, and thou shouldst be delivered from thine afflictions, saith the almighty God.
"And I speak unto thee my people that are afflicted, that in the days that lie before thee thou shall behold the hand of the living God outstretched in a great and mighty way. And I say that I shall do great and mighty things in the midst of thee. I shall lead thee in many strange ways that thou hast not walked heretofore, and thou shall behold the workings of the almighty God as never before.
"And my might and my power shall be greatly demonstrated in the earth throughout the nations in the midst of my people for I say that the hour is upon my people, that they should demonstrate these things, that the world may know that I am the almighty God, and that I am rising up by my great and mighty power. And I shall vindicate my truth," saith the Almighty God.]
Thank the Lord. Amen. Praise be to God. God, we thank Thee for Thy goodness and mercy. We thank Thee for Thy manifestation of love and power, for all that You have done for us. We are unworthy of the blessings that You give us. Now, truly by the sound of the message, it must have been the same-self message that went forth, and seemingly was calling to sinners to seek You, for the hour of destruction is near at hand.
And Father God, we pray that if there be that person here this morning, or those persons, that would understand that we know nothing of these things---that it's truly the Holy Spirit speaking through human lips, to give the interpretation to call the people that was ordained before the foundation of the world to be sons and daughters of God, and maybe have shunned this for a long time---may they come today, Lord, to know Thee, and to find that hiding place, for the hour is close at hand. Grant it, Father, as we wait on Thee further in the message. In Jesus Christ's name. Amen.

31 Now, if there would be someone who might not exactly understand how the messages go forth that way, two of them, it might have been that one missed saying something that the other one picked up. For did you notice how small the other one was? Just a few ... maybe the other one left off. And when the translation came, it came all in the same line, see, that brought the message out, calling to the sinners. It just happens to be... These people don't know what I was going to speak on. There's nobody knows it. Not no one in the world knows it till just now. But that's the very thing that I'm talking on, see. Right.
Now, turn with me to I Corinthians, the 14th chapter. It's good to just get all the unbelief out of you, so that the Holy Spirit can come in, and just take its way, you know, and move right through your fibers, and control your life.

32 Now, you that's taking down scriptures, I noticed the other day that kind of teaching along helps so much, till I got three or four pages here on what I'm going to speak on this morning---of scriptures and things---that you might take down, mark the places. And I've got them marked down here so I won't forget them.
Now, in the 14th chapter of I Corinthians, 1 to 8, verses. Listen close now.
Follow after charity, and desire spiritual gifts, but rather that ye may prophesy.
For he that speaketh in an unknown tongue speaketh not unto men, but unto God: for no man understandeth him; howbeit in the spirit he speaketh mysteries.
But he that prophesieth speaketh unto men to edification, and exhortation, and to comfort.
He that speaketh in an unknown tongue edifies himself; but he that prophesieth edifies the church.
I would that you all speak with tongues, ... rather that you prophesy: for greater is he that prophesieth than he that speaketh with an unknown tongue, except he interpret, that the church may receive edifying.
Now, brethren, if I come unto you speaking with tongues, what shall I profit you, except I ... speak to you either by revelation, or by knowledge, or by prophesying, or by doctrine?
And even things without life give a sound, whether it be a pipe or harp, except they give a distinction in the sound, how shall it be known what is piped or harped?
For if the trumpet give an uncertain sound, who shall prepare himself to the battle?

33 Now, I want ... when you go home, just continue to read that full chapter there, because there's many verses of it---forty verses of this chapter. And I want you to read it when you go home. It explains the gifts.
Now, if I would call it a text this morning, on what I want to say, is "The Uncertain Sound."

34 Now, Paul here was speaking on speaking with tongues. If there be no interpreter, who would know what those people said awhile ago? They wouldn't know. But he's just speaking to God. Surely his spirit's giving out the Word, and he's glorious... It just blesses him. He said, he edifies himself because he has a consolation that God's speaking through him. But if there come an interpreter along with that, see, an interpreter comes behind that, then it don't only edify him, it edifies the whole church---gives everybody the word of the Lord through that.

35 Now, they said, "If there be the prophet then, the prophet speaking so that the entire church, which is..." A prophet, what is it? A divine revelator of the divine Word, that has a revelation of the Word to give to the people. Then that edifies everybody, see.
Now, the man that speaks in tongues could speak in tongues... And it's forbidden for anyone to speak in tongues in the church unless there be an interpreter there. So that's the reason that we are permitted here to speak in tongues, because we have three or four interpreters right in the church now---right now, right here with this church, interpreters of unknown tongues. And therefore, if there was no interpreter, then we would not permit them to speak in the church.
However, at home and when they're praying, because they are edifying themselves, because the Spirit is upon them until they're trying... People actually think that they're saying what you can understand, but they don't know what they're saying. They just ... like standing up, and start saying something and you just can't stop it. It just keeps flowing out. And they think that they're speaking where you understand. It's a subconscious condition.

36 Just like on the platform. Like today, you'll notice when the discernments come. There's many people in here I never seen in my life. Watch the Holy Spirit when it comes down. Will begin to go out through the audience, and tell those people who they are, or where they come from, what happened, what disease they got---all that, see.
What is it? It's the Word of God, sharper than a two-edged sword, piercing to the marrow of the bone, and even a discerner of the thoughts and the intents of the heart and mind, see. It's the Word of God.
Now, Paul said, "If you all speak with tongues, and there be no interpreter, unlearned come in, say, 'They're crazy, mad.'" (The word "mad" means "crazy.") And now, say, "They're mad." But if there be one who can prophesy, and reveal the secrets of the hearts, then everybody'll fall down and say God is among them.

37 Now, if there be an interpreter, an interpretation to an unknown tongue is a prophecy, see. It's prophecy itself, 'cause the Holy Spirit's speaking, and it gives the interpretation. It tells certain people certain things to do, and everything, and each one knows when it strikes you. You know who it's talking to. And so, it's good to see that. It's not only... It ain't human beings; it's God in the human beings that's doing His work. Greatly we sure do thank the Lord for it.

38 And I begin to notice that it's begin to come into other places, churches. Charles Fuller... How many ever heard "The Old-Fashioned Revival Hour"? Great man. He said not long ago, he said, "We have the speaking in tongues and interpretation right here." Right there, in Long Beach. And that's true. I've preached right there with him, many times. So, they have the interpretation, and make everybody sit quiet.
See, the thing of it is, we don't reverence those gifts. And then sometimes, if a gift gets out of order, you have to call it down ... not... See, it's Satan trying to push them overboard. If he can't keep a truth from you, he'll take that same truth, and push you overboard with it, see. That's right. He'll make a fanaticism out of it, see.

39 Now, we try to keep it straight here. It's beginning to move up in our church again, for the first time for years. So we keep it straight, to let them know that when... Now, many times, like right now, there may be somebody just feeling like speaking in tongues, see, right now. But they're supposed to hold their peace, see. I've got the Word now, see.
And then, after this is all over, and the altar call or whatever this is finished here, then a message can go forth, you see. The speaker can speak with tongues ... or before this time.
Now, if it keeps on getting on, and gifts coming in, then we'll have a special time for them to meet. And they'll meet together hours before the church ever begins, and sit together, and prophesy, and speak with tongues, and write those messages, and put them right here on the platform.
When the pastor comes down, he'll come right out and say, "Thus saith the Lord: 'It shall come to pass day after tomorrow that Brother Jones, living over here by the railroad track, move, because it's going to be a car fall off the track, and mash his house.'"
"Thus saith the Lord: 'There'll be a woman in here this morning named So-and-so. She come from a certain-certain place, and she stole something when she was a girl. Brother Branham, or Brother Neville, or whoever it is, shall lay hands on her. After she confesses her wrong, and will make it right, she'll be healed. Her name is So-and-so,'" see.
And the pastor, before it ever takes place, the service, shall read these off. That's right, see.

40 Now it's in a baby form among us now, see. It's in a baby form. Then you see, there's nothing can slip up, see.
See, the devil'll get in, and just start in the flesh. Then he does ... he'll just tear the whole church to pieces like that, see. Just go into fanaticism, and carry on any time, you see. But the church is in order, see.
And now, if a person that's got a gift, and then he's called down by the Scripture, and they fly loose at it, it shows it wasn't a gift of God, because any gift of God will respect the Word, see. That's the reason divine healing is such as it is, see. And it's... The Holy Spirit respects the Word, the Holy Ghost, the baptism in the name of Jesus Christ.
The Holy Spirit in you will respect this Word, because He wrote it Himself, see, and He's in you. That's that light of God that's in you, that will honor the Word, regardless of where it is. The spirit of the prophets... The prophesiers' gifts are subject to the prophets, see, which is the divine revelator of the Word. Now ... and aren't we happy to see these things in our day?

41 Now, this is a day of uncertainty. It said here, "If the trumpet gives an uncertain sound, who shall prepare himself for battle," Paul speaking here. 'Course he was speaking to these Corinthians, and many of them were soldiers in those days in the Roman army. Now, now if the trumpet gives an uncertain sound, who shall prepare himself? You got to have the certainty of anything. We got to know whether it's right or not.
And now, we're living in a day of great uncertainty. We all know that---the day of uncertainty, and the time of uncertainty. I don't believe there ever was a time, since time first began---back in the garden of Eden, when sin come in and broke eternity into time ---I do not believe there's ever been a space of time with so much uncertainty as today, because there's not even one hope left in the natural world today.

42 Now you say, "Well, I've seen times, and read in history, when the wars covered the earth."
That is true. But never a time when the whole earth would be blowed to pieces just in one second, see, and such a destruction. It'd take weeks, and hours, and so forth. And now it takes one minute ... maybe not that. Just a button pressed, and she's all over. That's all. And they don't have...
Cuba can do it herself. They don't have to ... a little bitty... Haiti could do it. Just any little nation that wants to can set the world completely on fire, and blow her out of her orbit, any time they want to, see. And it only takes one fanatic, where there's tens of billions of them around the world, to do that.

43 Watch some suicide case just reach up there---and be among there (and the devil so possess him) where these big hangars are hanging---just press that one button: here they go! And as soon as them goes up, it's in the radar screens of others. They press theirs, and here we are, see. That's all, 'cause they just got...
Every fellow has got his screen out watching---out in the sea, submarines, out on the islands, everywhere, sitting around---up in the North Pole, down in the South Pole, everywhere, with these big screens. Just let somebody press a button. That's all they want. And here their button's pressing, the rest of them pressing, pressing, pressing. What's going to happen? But, oh! Think that could happen before we get out of service this morning!

44 But remember, before that happens God has promised to come for His church---has promised to come. So we don't know just what time He will come. What a glorious thing! All those that love His appearing, He will appear. Wouldn't you love to see Him this morning? As we sing that little song, "I want to see Him, look upon His face; there to sing forever of His saving grace,"---when all life is over, and troubles and sorrows have flown for the last time, and we see Him. And there we stand, young, immortal, forever in His presence, where there'll never be sin, sickness, heartaches, sorrows; when all time will fade into eternity. Why, what a glorious thing!

45 Then what does that make you do? Want to work now to get everyone in that position that you can, for that rapture. I've reconsecrated myself. I promised God that I'd try to do a double portion. I done everything that I know how to do, and I just wish I was a young fellow again---eighteen, twenty years old, and know what I know. How ... maybe I could stand up a little longer, visit a few more, or something like that for the kingdom of God's sake.
You young people this morning that's young, got a lot of youth in you yet, and not family ties and things, may God let you see the vision to see what hour we're living.

46 The uncertainty---let's just look over a few uncertain things now, in this uncertain time. There is uncertainty about ... being that we spoke of war, there's uncertainty in the voice of the war lords. We can't understand. They don't know. You go, and they'll have big meetings, and so forth, and they just can't get together. There's uncertainty. They don't know what's going to take place. All the great strategists, and so forth, that study war, and the possibilities, and how this would come out: they don't have the answer this morning. There's nobody does. They just can't tell you.

47 Well, science... After all the great things that they could think of---all the great strategy that they could go through, all the scientific maneuvers and switches they could pull of their scientific machines, and their great masterminds, and minds that think for minds---and when they got it all together in this hour, they said one thing: "It's three minutes before midnight." That's their answer.
Can we survive it? Could we dig down, and get under the ground far enough to keep them bombs from getting us, and survive as a nation? Certainly you couldn't. They'll blow a mile deep in the earth. What if you were ten miles deep? If you would, you'd be in lava. But what if you ... if you could get that far, the concussion would break every bone in your body. There's no way down. The way is up. Oh, I'm so glad to have the answer (aren't you?), a sound that's certain.

48 That trumpet of digging down, and going into caves... Now I hear they're moving all the government and things out here, around Fort Knox, and down around Mammoth Cave, and got a place down in there they're fixing up, that when the... If it comes something like a little fussing of a war, or something, they're going to take the government inside of these caves.
Don't the Bible plainly say that they'd hide themselves in caves, and things of the earth? Exactly. See, they don't have the answer. So our great regime of military strength doesn't have the answer.

49 Now, we used to be... Our science would say, "We can make a great machine. We got a better gun than Germany could make. We got a people's got a lot of grit and power and the old Yankee pep [and play the drums and the bugles blow, and the flags fly and a little "Hurrah," and everything like that]. Boy! We can go over there, and we got the old grit behind us to do it."
You don't have to go over there. This is one time we're going to get it at home, see. Just one guy has to press the button. That's all that has to happen. One man. Don't have to have thousands of soldiers trained; just have one man with no sense, just possessed of the devil just to press that button. And that's enough, see.
So they haven't got the answer. So what do they finally come up and say? "Well, it's three minutes till midnight."

50 I got a film of that. It's loaned out to a doctor friend of mine now. "Three Minutes Until Midnight." Now, that film was made about five years ago, when the Jews first began to return to Palestine. And the film there shows them bringing the old cripples in on their back, walking, and they're going around interviewing them. And so, when they asked them, said, "Are you returning back to the homeland to die in the homeland?"
Said, "We come back to see the Messiah."

51 And what did the prophet promise? Many of you read the "Look" magazine, "Life," and them. They had the picture of those airplanes bringing them up from down in the different places ---down in Iran, and the places where they were at. And when...
They wouldn't get on that plane. They'd never seen... They was still plowing with old wooden plows, like they did about 2500 years ago, when the Roman empire scattered them. And they wouldn't get on them planes. But their old priest walked out there ---one of the old rabbis, the teachers---walked out there, and said, "Didn't God tell us that some day we'd go back to the homeland on the wings of an eagle?" They laid down their plows, got on the plane, and flew back home. On the wings...
Isaiah saw it, but he didn't know what it was. It just looked like a bird flying. He seen Israel coming back, waving back and forth. You who rode the planes know what it is. It's a wave back and forth, just like a bird flying, coming back home. They got off there and they said, "Well, where's the Messiah?" They wanted to see Him.
And I'm telling you, when you see the Jews going back like that... That's God's timepiece. We're at the end. Now just recently become a nation, become... All that they are, got their own money, and own military, and everything their own. Everything. They are a nation again, see. Oh, what a beautiful thought. I got some scripture on that a little farther down in here, yeah, on that.

52 Now, uncertainty of war: We don't know what time. Listen on the radio. You hear them say on the radio, "Get so much stuff in your basement. Get enough water on account of fallout. Get you a radio in there, and take it easy."
I see in magazines they're advertising little buildings to get into to set in your basement, or in your yard, or something. If the bombs start coming, and you survive it, the fallout will get you anyhow, so you just don't have to worry. They could drop a bomb down in New Orleans, and the fallout would get you here. So it doesn't matter. You'd die anyhow. So ... stay in, stay alive a little longer, or something like that.
Oh, my! I don't even believe that... I believe it's nonsense to even try. That's right. But the church don't have to worry. You ain't going to be here then anyhow. That's one thing sure. You're not ... 'cause the certainty of God's Word promises so.

53 Now, let's just take something else that's uncertain---just so many things. Jobs is uncertain. You don't know what time... You're working today, and tomorrow you don't know. It's just uncertainty. You have a good job you think, and the next day the boss comes around, gets somebody else, and kicks you out and puts somebody else in. So it's uncertainty of job.

54 Let's take also, home life is uncertain. I tell you, I don't know what's happened to the moral fiber of our women. Divorce is on the move. It's just terrible. And you see where the divorce courts are crowded, where girls and boys will marry, and live together, and have two or three kiddies or something like that, and they'll separate; and get out and marry another one, and marry another, and marry another, and marry another, and marry another.
And their homes... I was in a real poor home the other night. The man said, "I tell you, I just don't know." Said, "I just don't know how I'm going to make ends meet." And I looked around. And he worked. He had a little old wife there, was just as true blue as could be; and four or five little old dirty-faced kids around on the floor.
And I said, "Boy, you're a millionaire."
And he said, "Well, Brother Branham, I wouldn't dispute your word." He said, "Brother, I ain't got a dime."
And I said, "But you got something that money can't buy." I said, "You got a little old wife here that probably hasn't got two dresses to her name, and if she did it's some somebody gave her," 'cause the man just has a day's work now and then. And I said, "Looky here. But she's just as loyal as loyal can be."
I said, "There's many a multi-millionaire tonight would give every penny he had to come home to a wife like that." Right. I said, "His wife's out with a bunch of men somewhere on a barroom somewhere, cussing, singing, and smoking, night-riding around, and things like that. And yet he loves her; but look what he's got. All of his life wrapped in that woman, and look the way she's doing."

55 And vice-versa, woman to man, see. There's no difference.
It's come time we're all ... everything is just one conglomeration of sin. Little woman at home, trying to take care of her kids; and the husband out somewhere drunk, and carrying on, run with other women. What would she give, if she had millions of dollars, to see that husband really become a man?
There's only one way for it to ever be: Jesus Christ is the answer. And nothing can ever do any good. It's at the end-time. It's Christ and Him alone.

56 Now, then I said, "How many little fathers that's walking around today with millions of dollars, would give everything they had if that little spastic child that he's got was just as healthy as yours is here tonight?" See.
He began to look at me. I said, "Look. You said you had some bologna and beans, and a loaf of bread; that you drawed your money this afternoon, and got some bread and beans for your children tonight." I said, "Every one of them with good stomachs and could eat it, and you did, too. How many...?

57 What would John D. Rockefeller say? He'd give a cold million dollars if he could eat one mess of cabbage."
I said, "You said you sat by the window this morning, the cold wind blowing in; him sitting in a palace, see, somewhere. But yet, if you had to sit there and eat a mess of cabbage with that cold wind blowing in, stuff a piece of paper in it." I said, "John D. Rockefeller would give a million dollars to eat one time like you can eat any time."
"How many blind men with a cane in his hand, pecking along the street, would give every penny he had for your eyes?" See, you can't evaluate the things that are really rich with the things that we call rich.

58 Now, pardon me, church members. That's the reason we're trying to say this morning you can't evaluate your big church, and your big steeples, and things, with the love of God that's in our hearts by the Holy Ghost. No comparison. These things come supernatural. You may think that we're odd because you hear them speak with tongues and interpret, and people cry and shout and scream.
I'd rather have it than all... I'd rather be a pastor of a little old rackled-up building, like this, where the power of God meets with the people, where the church comes together with those things like that, than to have the biggest cathedral there is in all the world to preach in, with a lukewarm bunch of cold, professed, so-called Christians---to have to watch what ... every word you say. And you can't preach by inspiration. You have to have it so-so, and watch every judge, and every doctrine. Everything in there is going to say something to hurt their feelings, because they're big payers on the church.
I'll take the way with the Lord's despised few. You can't evaluate it. There's no way of doing it.

59 So therefore, today, the man that's rich is the man who is in Christ. Now say you had good sight, good health, a lot of money and everything else. But yet, without Christ, you're lost. You're wretched, miserable, poor, blind, naked and don't know it, see. That's what the Laodicean church age was.
You might belong to the biggest church there is in the nation. You might belong to the largest denomination, but still be lost as lost can be, see. So the rich man is the man who is in Christ. That's right.

60 Now, the uncertainty of home life, the uncertainty of jobs, the uncertainty of war, the uncertainty of churches. Being that we struck that, let's just speak on that a few minutes---the uncertainty of church life. You just can't evaluate it, hardly, because there is no way to evaluate what experience in the Holy Ghost is to a membership of a church, see. There's no way you could buy this Holy Spirit. It comes as a free gift from God. It comes to anybody who will...
You say, "Will it just go to Pentecostal?"

61 Pentecostal is not a denomination. They tried to do that, but you can't denominate God. Pentecost is an experience that any believer can have, see. It's for Baptists, for Catholics, for Jews, for black, for white, for brown, for yellow, for red, for any color, creed, or anything. Whether you're poor or rich; got nothing, got plenty; whether you're in between, or whoever you are, it's for you.
And it's God's love and mercy measured out to you, to take it. Don't cost you one thing. Only thing it costs you, just to surrender your life to Him, and receive it. How simple. Just forget all you ever knowed, and just surrender yourself to Him. And that's how it comes, just by receiving it that way.

62 Denominations, it just couldn't be. The denomination gives an uncertain sound. Now, let me just show you that it is an uncertain sound. You go to this denomination, they say, "We got it. The rest of them haven't got it." All right. You go to that denomination, go to the next one: "We got it, they haven't got it," see.
Every denomination... There's nine hundred different denominational churches. Nine hundred and sixty-nine, I think, to be exact, according to the statistics---969 different denominational churches. And every one claims the other one's wrong and they got it. So that certainly is very much of an uncertain sound. Nine hundred...

63 But how does this sound? "Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today, and forever." No uncertainty about that, is there? That's the way to evaluate. That's where to find where truth lays, see.
Say, "We Methodists got it! We Baptists got it! We Catholics got it! We Presbyterians has got it!"
Well, Jesus is the one who has it, because He said, "I am the light, the truth, the way." So it's Christ in you.

64 So these different great denominations certainly is a difference, and they give a ... very much an unreliable sound. And anything that's uncertain as that is, is unreliable, too. Anything that uncertain is unreliable. You can't depend on just joining a church and saying that's it, because each one's giving a different sound, and where you going to? It confuses you.
If there ever was a place... I have made this statement many times, and I say it again this morning. The worst place they need missionaries I know of is the U.S.A.
What is a heathen? A heathen is an unbeliever.

65 Now, we have in Africa, and down in Thailand, and different parts of the countries, we have the native heathen that worships an idol. And we call him a heathen because he worships the idol. He doesn't know right and left hand. He doesn't know his ABC's. The only thing he knows is that's a god that the witch doctor told him of, and that's where god is, is in that. And the only thing he knows now is find something to eat, and eat, any way he can find it. Now that is what we call a heathen. But now that man is not too hard to deal with if you bring him truth.
But the hardest man to deal with is this educated heathen, see, this heathen here in the United States that's got four degrees in college, that stands behind the pulpit---an unbeliever. Say, "Well, we had a service the other morning, and the Lord healed a lady down there."
"Hmm, hmm!" That's a heathen. He's just an educated heathen. "Heathen" is an unbeliever.

66 Day before yesterday, sitting up at the place, a group of people (some of them here now) was ... a little lady drove up out front. There was five or six people inside. And there was a lady drove up out front in a trailer. A man come to the door and said, "Brother Branham, I hate to come over that sign there, but said, "We're just passing through and wanted to say..."
I said, "Come in."
And said, "No," said, "my wife just wants to testify, to tell you something that happened."
Well, she happened to be a good friend to Sister Mercier---Brother Leo here, one of our brethren here at the church, one of the tape men, his mother.

67 About eight or ten years ago, I was somewhere in the East here, and a woman come on the platform to be prayed for. The Holy Spirit said, "You are Mrs. So-and-so, and you came from a certain place. You're suffering with so-and-so."
"Yes." That was all true.
I said, "Now, you've got a friend that lives in California that's a very precious friend of yours, and this woman is dying with cancer of the kidney."
She said, "That is certainly right, Brother Branham."
That's Holy Spirit revealing the secrets of the heart, you see. Should make the American people fall on their face and say, "God!" See, it should do it. But, oh, they're educated heathen. That's the kind that's hard to deal with. See, he's so smart he knows more than God does. So, that's the reason he hybreeds his corn, hybreeds his animals, and everything.
See what he's got hisself? Coming right back, making just simply a ... well, a off-breed of himself (that's right), by doing so. The breed of their mind of the spirit, he just simply gets off on it.

68 Now, we notice that this woman said, "Yes, that's right." Now, until it becomes... I believe she said either seventeen or twenty-seven inches across it, and she was so big that she couldn't stand up with this tumor. When she'd try to stand up, she couldn't balance herself. And they brought her to this church and sat her down right there. And they brought her at nighttime after we'd had the healing service that morning. And the brethren here told her that we'd not be praying for the sick that night, because that we were going to... I'd prayed for the sick that morning, and they didn't want to put too much burden on me at one time.
And so, after the service was over, I was standing talking to some people, and some men got ahold of this woman and packed her around the house, and sat her on that step there as they went out. And she was sitting there (the men packing her).

69 And Brother Taylor, one of our precious brethren here of the church, was right there when it happened, and I think helped get the woman around. Are you here, Brother Taylor? Where are you at? Yeah, back in here. He was standing there present, and helped get her around here to the back, and the tumor out like this.
And so then, said... When I come out the back door, just gazed down and looked at her, said, "Woman, the Lord Jesus that healed you of that cancer of the kidney, many years ago, shall also heal you of that tumor. Thus saith the Lord." Never touched her or nothing. Just walked on out, and got in the car and went away.
And he said, "Will you come out and look at her?"
I said, "Yes, sure, tell her to come on in."
Said, "No, we ain't got time. We just got to go."
Walked out there. And the little woman, she jumped out of the car just as flat as I am. She had a great time out there on the road, running up and down the road, speaking in tongues, and screaming the top of her voice in front of the Presbyterian parsonage---just having a great time.

70 Now, some of the neighbors might have looked out, thought, "Well, that must be somebody out of the insane institution come up for Brother Branham to pray for her."
That woman wasn't out of an insane institution. Her soul was just back from glory, see, having a wonderful time. She said, "Looky here, Brother Branham," opened her coat up, just as flat as she could be.
She said, "Now, for the first two or three months after you told me that," said, "I was so bad." And said, "The doctor said he wasn't going to try anything more if I wouldn't let him try to take that tumor out of there." Said it would weigh better...

71 How much did she say? Around thirty pounds, brother? Brother Taylor? Around thirty pounds they estimated that tumor would weigh. And said, "All at once it started, 'choo, choo, choo, choo...'" Oh-h-h! He keeps His Word! That's right.
Now, if you'd like to write to the woman, we got her address and everything. She left it for Leo, to greet his mother for her, I think.
It happened to be that her brother married a friend of mine up here at Utica. The girl was in there. His name is Clyde Raines. He's run on many a [unclear words]. " Chisel," we call him. I played with him when I was a boy---lives up here on the Utica Pike. Some kind of a state officer there now. And his sister was sitting in the car, and they, I think, go to the Campbellite church. I just wonder what impression that made on her. She said, "Billy, it's wonderful."
I used to know the girl myself. I'd been out with her a couple times as young folks, when we lived up here on the road. And a very nice girl, just as fine as she could be. She's about my age now, and so she... But just sitting there listening to that testimony ... and this was her husband's sister that had been healed. Oh, I tell you, brother, there's no uncertainty about that. That's truth. That's God's Word. That makes it right.

72 So anything that's uncertain is unreliable. And so, when ... days of this time, when they're not certain whether Jesus is the same yesterday, today, and forever, leave the thing alone.
You can be certain. You can know it to be that if He never performs any more miracle on you but the great miracle---forgives your sins... That's the greatest miracle that God ever performed, was to forgive a human being its sins. Take a man, and convert him from the things... Look, that's changed his innermost being. From the things that he once ... drank, and gambled, and done evil and things like that; and all of a sudden turns him right back around to love and...
Goes home to his wife, and says, "Honey, I'm sorry that I've treated you like that." Pick up his little children and hold them in his arms. "Daddy's spent all of his money for whiskey. And Daddy's done this... And Mother's been out all night long, and left you children. I'll never do it again. God forgive me."
And how that testimony... That's one of the greatest things there is. All the Alcoholics Anonymous, and all like that, can never change like that. They can never do for the person...

73 Look at little old Rosella Griffin here, there sitting there with... All the Anonymous in Chicago, four of the major hospitals or staff of doctors, had give her up. And one moment's time on the platform changed that batty-eyed wretch standing there, with coat cut like this---with mink coat on---where her mother bought her.
She was a smart girl. And carried her whiskey bottles down in that coat there, and afraid she'd fall on the street and freeze to death before somebody could find her. There, standing there, when all the Anonymous, and all, had give her up... (She's writing a book on it now.) There she come on the platform. The Holy Spirit said to her, "Your name is Rosella Griffin." No uncertainty about that. "You're an alcoholic. You've been to Anonymous and everything. But thus saith the Lord, it's over now.
"And that lady sitting up there in the balcony---she's a Fred Astair's dancer-partner." She jumped up. That's right. "She's also an alcoholic, and a dope fiend. The law's looking for her now."
And her daddy stood up and said, "I resent that."
She said, "Wait a minute, Daddy. The man's right." No uncertainty about that.
"Thus saith the Lord, 'You're healed. Give yourself up.'" Now, she's out on the field with her husband preaching the gospel. Oh, my! What is it? Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today, forever.
In the days when the denomination gives the uncertainty of it, why would we listen to a church denomination when Christ remains the same? No uncertain about that. It's always certain.

74 Now, we know that the Bible says here, anything that's dead gives a sound. A dead thing, dead churches or whatmore, can give sounds. But unless there is a distinction in the sound, unless there's some way that we can be certain...
Now, we know here... I got some scriptures wrote down here about soldiers. Yes, soldiers can ... in the days of their training they're trained to those bugles, and how them sounds ... to retreat, or what they're to do, and everything. They're trained by a sound. And if they didn't know that sound, how would they know to prepare themselves? That's right. But they're trained to that sound, and they know when that sound goes, it means a certain thing.

75 How, when Titus beseiged the walls of Jerusalem, compassed it about with armies, all those trained soldiers; them disciples ... how the historians write... Jesus, sitting up on the mount that day, He said, "When you see Jerusalem compassed about with armies, let him that's in the field don't return to his house to get his coat. Let him that's in the house go not to the house top, or come down." Said, "But flee to the mountains, for there'll be a time of trouble."
Now look what all the great denominational churches said, when they seen Titus marching up: "Now, we shall go to the house of the Lord to offer prayer." They were too late. That was an uncertain sound of the priest. That was an uncertain sound of the church.
But to those who had been trained to the voice of Jesus, they took for the mountains as fast as they could go---and the only ones that survived it. The uncertain sound. "Flee the city." Now, Jesus, if He hadn't have told them that, and gave them that training, that sound of training, how would they have known to run?

76 Now, Josephus, the great historian, said the only thing that survived it was them disciples of Christ who were cannibals. One of the historians said they were cannibals. Said they took a man named Jesus of Nazareth that Pilate crucified, and they stole His body out of the grave and went out, and would cut it up and eat it. What they were doing was taking communion---the body of the Lord, you know---like we do here, see.
And said they were the only ones that survived it, because they got out of the city. They knowed the sound.
Oh, brother! May the Holy Spirit get in our hearts this morning, give us the sound of that heart beat of the Holy Ghost and His power. Only that will be able to survive---that sound of the trumpet of God, and our hearts prepared for this hour to know what to do.

77 "We which are alive and remain shall not prevent, or hinder, those which are asleep," for the trumpet shall sound. All those soldiers laying yonder asleep, across through the ages, but when the trumpet sounds, though they be dead in sleep, it shall not hinder them, for the trumpet shall sound and awaken them. They're prepared. Those unprepared don't know the sound.
When that sound of the coming of the Lord blasts, it'll shake heaven and hell when it blasts. But those who are in hell, those who are lost, don't know that sound. They don't know what to do. But those, though they be sleeping in Christ, they know that certain sound.
Oh, the trumpet of the Lord shall sound,
and time shall be no more,
And the morning breaks eternal bright
and fair.
When the saved of earth shall gather to
their homes beyond the sky,
And when that roll is called up yonder,
I want to be there.
Put your name on the Lamb's book of life today, by the blood of the Lord Jesus, and it won't be an uncertain sound.

78 Now, we hear the sounding of trouble coming, atomic bombs hanging everywhere; distress between the nations, perplexed of times. Why would we worry about job? Why would we worry about homes? Why would we worry about anything? Jesus never told us to worry, but said, "When you see these things begin to come to pass, lift up your head and rejoice, because your redemption is drawing nigh." That's the certainty of the sound of the gospel.

79 When we see the Holy Spirit come into the church, begin to discern the thoughts of the hearts, doing these great signs; the return of the Spirit back in the evening time, when the lights are shining; we see Him come, and do the very same thing He did there at Sodom before it burnt down.
See that angel with His back turned, say, "Why did Sarah laugh behind him?"
Jesus said, "As it was in the days of Sodom, so shall it be at the coming of the Son of man."
What is it? It's the sounding forth of the coming of the Lord Jesus. "Behold, I'll send you Elijah the prophet before that great and terrible day shall destroy the world." He'll restore the hearts of the children back to the original faith, back to the gospel, back to the power of God, back to the real Holy Spirit, back to Christ again. Before that great day comes, we hear the trumpet sounding. Oh, my!
What is it? "Awake, ye saints of the Lord. Why slumber when the end is nearing? Let's get ready for that final call." If it gives an uncertain sound, who shall prepare themselves for battle? If it's uncertain...
But it's not uncertain.

80 People say, "What is this stuff they're talking about, the Holy Spirit reading the very minds of the people, and the things that He's doing?" That's the certainty of the sound of the gospel. Christ said it would be that way.
"Well, why could all these big churches...?" Christ said it would be that way. It's not uncertain; it's the certainty of it.
We've just been through an eight-day's meeting on that, to know that the Bible strictly says that this thing will be that way. Great denominations will rise. They'll all form themselves into a confederation of churches (We got it.), making an image to the beast (the Catholic hierarchy). We'd make an image unto the beast. There we've got it---confederation, every denomination in it. It's not an uncertain sound. It gives a real true sound. It's a certain sound.

81 "We have got a great faith in our U.N., United Nations." Well, it's just about as deep as the League of Nations was; just the same thing. We had a League of Nations after the first World War. They was going to police the whole world. It didn't work. The real talk of the U.N. now is so uncertain. They don't know what to do.
They were in there when Krushchev taken off his shoe, and beating on the desk. And what good does that do? And all the different ones, it's an uncertainty of the U.N. The U.N.'s all right as far as it goes. But it's too late. It's too late for anything like that.
There's only one certain sound. That's the gospel. Prepare for the battle. What battle? The coming of the Lord. Prepare yourself for battle now against evil, when evil's besetting the people on every hand, everything going wrong: Home life going wrong, and the U.N. falling, and the nations breaking, and atomic bombs around, homes splitting up, and motherhood going low, and immorals among the people, and distrust amongst one another, and all the denominations fussing and stewing.
What you want to do? Be certain. Prepare yourself for the battle.

82 When television is becoming rotten, and radio and newspapers all the way outlets of advertising; and things just constantly ... cigarettes, tobacco, and whiskey and drinking, and immoral-dressed women; dirty jokes and jokesters on the television programs, and America falling for it like a big...
Like King Nebuchadnezzar's house of folly that night, when there come a mad rush through there. And they had a big wine party and dancing. Their television, if it would have been in that day... Their jokesters got out there, and there come a hand writing on the wall.

83 The day when we thought we're so secure, we had the best scientists in the world, we got the best in the world; and come to find out, we're way behind in the missile race. Uh-huh. And then what's happened to the United States? Not only a hand writing on the wall, but there's the ballistics of the missiles is writing in the sky that we're way behind, years behind. What's the matter? The handwriting's on the wall.
And in that day it was wrote in unknown tongues, handwriting on the wall. There wasn't but one man in the whole kingdom could interpret it. But he had the gift of interpretation, and he interpreted, and said, "Thou art weighed in the balance and been found wanting.
"God sent a nation of people in here among you, that you call 'holy rollers.' You went down there and disgraced them, and put them to death, and smothered them out, and took your gods and idols and things, and has worshipped by it, and lived deliciously. And now you've went and took the very vessels out of the temple of their God, and come over here and cracking jokes on them, making fun of the 'holy roller,' the 'bald-headed preacher,' all like that. And God has got enough of it, and the hour of your doom is at hand."
The very nation that would take them was waiting at the gate right then. Just a little after that, they were slaughtered. Their women was cut down, their guards, their army and everything was taken over. "Weighed in the balance and found wanting."

84 And we have been radio- and television-mad at jokes, and dirt, and filth, and crookedness, and orneriness, and everything, until God's tired of it. When the gospel, the true gospel of the Holy Ghost churches, back and forth across the nation, showing the certainty of Jesus Christ and His coming ... until the time is here when God writes across our skies, "Weighed in the balance and found wanting." Amen. We're in a terrible condition. Listen at the certain sound; not the uncertain. U.N., yes, sir.

85 Even the other day when we had election... They said here some time ago that when they counted the votes of the political world, and they would say... Then they said, "We've got a machine now, that all has to be honest, because you just pull a little lever, and it votes for your man. You pull down a little ... click, and votes for your man." Ha! They found out that that's uncertain.
Mr. Edgar Hoover exposed it, exposed the Democrat party the other day, when they had the machine set up that every time they voted for Mr. Nixon, they had to vote for Kennedy the same. And why don't they do something about it then, if they find out it's like that? Why? Well, there's no certainty to it. You know what happened to Mr. Hoover, see. All right.
You see, everything's uncertain. You can't tell who was elected, whether Kennedy or whether... Kennedy was called elected, but I don't know whether he was elected or not. Now, I'm not a politician. I know nothing about it. But I know what's right and wrong. I got that much sense. When it's put before us that... The man is proved by the F.B.I. that they had the machines set up to do it. It wasn't on the other party done that way. It was on Kennedy's party that did it. Why? It has to be that way.
There's nothing in this world that can stand outside the kingdom of God, for every kingdom is weighed in the balance and found wanting. Our nation's... Why is it?

86 Here some years ago... I used to have a big old tree up here, I used to go to and sit down. And I thought, "That tree, when I'm an old man (if I live) I'll come sit under that tree." It's just a snag now.
The place where I used to live, I'd see my daddy come out there. And his little short arms... He was a ... oh, Kentuckian, down there, and he logged and things---a little fellow about 145 or '50 pounds. But stout! Oh, my! Mr. Coots up here told me he'd seen him load a 950-pound ash log by himself---just a real strong man.
I used to see him roll up his sleeves to wash, out there, by an old piece of broken glass stuck on the apple tree. (And some of you Indiana people might not know how we used to have to live, back in there.) An old washpan sitting out there by the pitcher pump, and Mom had an old sack there, meal sack. Made a towel out of it, kind of decorated it---pulled some of the string out, and make little decorations at the end, big old...
She'd scrub me, and then rub me with that towel. The hide'd almost come off, with that old rough meal sack. She was scrubbing me, and rubbing me with that old towel.
Now, I've seen Dad standing there---coming in, you know, roll up them little old sleeves, and he'd be washing. Oh, my! See them muscles! I said, "You know, he'll live to be five hundred years old, he's so strong." But you know what? He died when he was fifty-two. Why? Here we have no continuing city.

87 I stood yonder in Rome, where the great Caesar stood, that walked through the streets with their great mass, and the pomp, and the glory, and all they had. And you know where to find their kingdom? It's twenty feet under the ground. Two thousand years has sunk it.
I stood in Cairo, Egypt, where the great Pharaoh stood in one day, that persecuted the people of God, that run them out and made slaves out of them. Twenty or thirty feet below there is the ruins of their place.
I stood yonder in London, England, where all the great hierarchies and things have stood, and all that---and find out it's sunk beneath the ground. What is it? Here we have no continuing city, but we're seeking one to come.

88 Why are these kingdoms? It's only to tell you ... speaking of one that's eternal.
Why is a tree beautiful? It's waiting. It's waiting for the full manifestation of the sons of God, when that tree shall live forever. There's a kingdom that'll come. And the Bible said, "Here we have no continuing city, but we seek one to come." And God has give us a kingdom that cannot be moved.
Everything on earth is movable, it's shakable. It's falling. Everything is decaying. We're living in a dying world. Everything's dying. Trees are dying; grass is dying; flowers are dying; cities are dying; the world's a-dying; you're dying. Everything's dying. I'm dying. Everything's dying. The certain rays of acids and stuff in the air that ... chemicals in the air.

89 Just...
Even you take this big bridge down here. When I saw it, some twenty-two years before it was put up down there, saw the men lose their lives on it when they put the bridge across there, and spoke of it, my mother wanted to take me to the doctor. Thought I was having nervous spasms. And I told her, I said, "I seen a
bridge go across, and I counted them men." Twenty-two years after that, the bridge went across, and the same amount of men lost their lives. I think it was sixteen, exactly.
Now, I thought when they put those big girders up there, "That bridge will last forever." Oh, they've painted it three or four times, and it's rusting down right now. What is it? The rays in the air, burning it up.

90 We find a beautiful young girl of sixteen, sitting in the church popping chewing gum, and cutting up, and carrying on; going outside and pulling her clothes to a little place where she looks sexy, to twist herself down. It isn't a few settings of the sun, and she's old, and wrinkled, and the flesh dropping off of her.
And that little body that she twisted, and let a spirit live in there control her, that throwed her morals to the dogs and have to answer at the day of judgment for committing adultery...
"Whosoever looketh upon a woman to lust after her has committed adultery with her already." Not realizing that she's nothing but dust, and going back to the dust... "For dust thou art, and dust thou shalt return." What is it? If she could only realize, and stop. That's an uncertain sound.
"Well, now, So-and-so on the television; So-and-so at school..."---trying to impersonate certain little personalities at school. Don't you never let that be your pattern! Look to God.

91 Oh, uncertain sounds.
Elections, how that the time has come now, uncertainty. If we had time ... let's just turn to it. I see the sisters all putting them scriptures down. Now in II Timothy 2, let's read just for a few minutes. II Timothy, the second chapter, and beginning with the third ... II Timothy, the third chapter, let's just read. Listen here. "Know this also..." (Now, this is the Spirit):
Know this also, that in the last days perilous times shall come.
Now, that's the Holy Spirit that you hear in the church this morning, speaking way back yonder two thousand years ago, A.D. 66 of this day.
For men shall be lovers of their own selves, ... boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy...
Look at that day today. You speak of "holy," they call you holy roller. Look at children, how they do. Juvenile deliquency, they talk of it. Now I'm going to differ with you, parents. It isn't juvenile deliquency; it's parent deliquency, see. That's what it is.

92 Some of you call these old Kentucky mothers up here, how illiterate Kentucky was. Them old mammys up there, with the old sunbonnet on like that, and talk about her being so illiterate, and don't know her ABC's.
She might not be so classy, but I tell you: let one of her daughters come in like some of yours some night---clothes twisted off of her, and lipstick all over her face, and her hair all mangled up. She won't say, "Did you have a great time, darling?" She'd grab a slat off of something, and she'd know the last time she went out. Then you call it illiteracy. Yeah. That's it.
... unthankful, unholy,
Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, and despisers of those that are good [Hate the people that try to live right, see.],
Traitors, heady, high-minded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God; ...
My, they'll spend millions of dollars to go to a ball game, or something like that, or where some movie star is going to do a certain something another like that, just like the old Roman circus many years ago; but when it comes to going across the street to a Holy Ghost meeting, they'll sit and laugh on their porch at it.

93 "Well," you say, "Brother Branham, them's communists." All right. Let's see what the 5th verse says:
Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof:...
Denying the power of what? The power of God. Having a form of God, but denying the power of God. Going to church, and belonging to a denomination, but denying the very existence of the Holy Ghost that's in the church, making it act and do with the very same things they did at the beginning. Oh, my! See how that denominational curse is? I hope you don't get angry with me, but I hope you get it in the light that I'm trying to say it in, see.
Now, notice this.
Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such [What's He saying to the church?] turn away.
Turn away from it, come out of it.

94 That's right. Let's read another verse or two. Just listen. For ... let's see how certain them kind of people are, see, if it's uncertain.
For of this sort are they which creep into homes, and lead captive silly women laden with sin, turning away with divers lusts,
Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.
What is truth? Jesus Christ is truth. He said, "I am the truth."
Pilate said, "What is truth?"
"I am the way, the truth, the life."

95 Women with all kind of ladies' societies, and making blankets, and going together and telling jokes, and having suppers, and soup suppers to pay the pastor, and so forth like that; and never able to come to the knowledge of knowing Jesus Christ exists today in the power of His resurrection in the Holy Ghost. Never... "Silly women." I wasn't talking to you sisters. Said "silly" women (all right), laden with divers lusts. You know better than that. So I'm glad for you, my sisters.

96 "Never able..." How uncertain that sound then of formal denomination is. How uncertain is the sound of the church today! Who knows what to do? Let me show you. The church today... There's a war cloud hanging everywhere, troubles everywhere; and people running into their church, and can't find the answer. I want to preach on that Christmas night, "No answer for the star in the East."
Now, notice. Oh, my! There it hangs, and they haven't got the answer. They don't know what to say. Why? The only thing they refer back, "We learned this in college." The church isn't ... depend on what they did in college; but it's the living Holy Spirit in the church, leading it and guiding it, and foreshowing it things to come, like it did in the days of Titus---warning them of things to come, to flee the wrath that is to come. Oh, my! "He that has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches."

97 Now, is there anything, then, I ask... I don't want to keep you too long this morning, but is there anything that is certain? If I've told you so many things that is uncertain, is there anything that is certain? Is there any certainty about anything at all?
Why, certainly. I'm so thankful that there is. Is there anything that is certain? I'll tell you what is certain. That's the gospel of Jesus Christ. If you want to put it down... We won't turn to it, but you can if you want to. Matthew 24:35, Jesus speaking of these days, and what was coming to pass. Matthew 24:35, He said, "Heavens and earth will pass away, but my words shall never pass away." That's certain, isn't it? That's one thing that's certain, is His Word.
Now, there's one thing. We see we can't build upon our church. We can't build upon our nation. It's too uncertain. But there's one thing that's certain. That's God's Word is certain. You're certainly going to have to do it.

98 One of them said, "One certain thing was taxes."
Oh, no. Taxes ain't too certain. The Lord may come. They can charge it off then. It's all over, then.
They said death is certain. No, sir. Death isn't certain. No indeed. There might be a rapture. Then there's no death. Death ain't too certain. No, no. Not in this day. It was many years ago, but not now. Death is not too certain.
And anyhow, I know a man one time that walked with God, for an example to show. And one day he got tired walking, so he just got real light, and started walking up and went on up home. Anybody know who he was? Enoch. And what was he? A type of the church in this day.

99 And Noah, which was a type we had last week in our lesson ... Noah, the type of Israel that's carried over, will be over there on Mount Transfiguration over there, in Europe ... down in Palestine, watching. And when they...
When Noah saw Enoch was missing, he thought, "What become of Enoch? What become of Enoch? Where's he at?", which was grandson ... Noah was grandson to Enoch. And he said, "Where's he at? What become of him? We can't find him no more." Noah started building on that ark. He knowed that the time was at hand right then.

100 And now, when the church is taken up, and people say, "Well, I've called the police. I've put out calls. She was sitting right at the table, and she vanished. I just don't know what become of her. Well, not only that, but the police say, 'We've got five hundred calls of that this morning.'" What happened? It's over then for you Gentiles, that's right. Watching.

101 The Word of God is certain. Heavens and earth will pass away (Matthew 24:35), but God's promises cannot fail. Jesus said, "All heavens and earth will pass away."
You say, "Heavens?" Yeah.
Revelation 21, John said, "I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and first earth was passed away; and there was no more sea. And I, John, saw the Holy City, the new Jerusalem, descending out of heaven as a bride [that's what it was], adorned for her husband." Oh, that's where I want to be! God, help me to be there that day. All right. God's promises is certain. We realize that.

102 Now, let's just take a little scripture, a little trip, and go back and find out someone who believed, in days gone by, how they come out by trusting whether God's Word was a certain sound. Now let's go back to the beginning of the Bible, just for two or three characters. And we'll be ready for the prayer line in the next fifteen minutes, or something.
Now, let's go back to the first and take Brother Noah, in the beginning. Noah, in Genesis. We find out that there was two or three sounds, many sounds, being give out in the days of Noah. One of them, Noah heard the voice of God. Said, "It's going to rain." Now God

103 (listen!), God usually tells you something that's so absolutely foolish to the things of the world, that...
He does it to confound the world. They're just confounded in their mind, and say, "Now, a bunch of holy rollers! Oh, goodness sakes! Don't tell me that---that God, the holy God, would live in such a bunch as that?"
That's the same thing that Balak said ... Balaam said, when he looked down and seen Israel. Said, "Well, they've done everything mean there was on the line to do." But he failed to see that smitten rock, and that brass serpent, and see them signs and wonders of healing, and things, in the camp. Fundamentally, they were just the same.
But God does something so radical. God is a radical. Now, that sounds strange, but He is. Now we just find out with a few characters.

104 Look at Noah. Now, the Bible says that in Noah's day, it'd never rained from heaven. God watered the earth up through the earth. It'd never rained. And here is a fanatic out yonder, building a big old boat about two city blocks long---a boat to float, when there wasn't nothing for it to float in. There was no water. There wasn't even... Only thing on earth, the biggest thing was a spring.
Then, what's he building that thing for, and pitching it within and without, and things like that? Why, they say, "Where's that water coming from, Noah?"
"From up there."
"Well, I'm a scientist, and I can prove by this air that there ain't no water up there. If it would, it'd come right down now. There's none up there. I can scientifically prove to you that there's none up there."
"Well, but," Noah said, "you know, God's able to put some up there, if He... You see, that's it. God said it would be up there, and it will be up there."
"Well, what are you doing, Noah?"
"I'm getting ready for it, see. I'm making ready."

105 Well, now, science was giving a sound. Science said, "That bunch of holy rollers over there on that hill is actually crazy. Why, they're beside themselves. Well, they're hewing out a big old boat there. What in the world are they going to do with it? Well, if we took every spring in the world, and put it all in one, it wouldn't be enough to even dampen the hull. And here they say it's going to float, and that water is coming down from up there."
But, Noah, no matter how foolish science said it was, he was listening to a certain sound. God said, "I'm going to destroy the world with water." Nothing uncertain about that. It sounded uncertain then, but it was God's word, no matter how silly it sounds.

106 God said, "I'm the Lord that healeth thee." There's nothing uncertain about that. You believe that.
God said, "I'll give whosoever will, the Holy Ghost ... that comes." There's nothing uncertain about that.
Say, "I'm a drunkard"; "I'm a prostitute"; "I'm a..."
"I don't care what you are. Whosoever will, let him come." Nothing uncertain.
I'd rather He'd said that than said, "If William Branham will come in 1960, I'll give him the fountains of water of life." Now, that would have been pretty good. Looked like it was me. But there might be two William Branhams. I wouldn't know which one was me. But when He said, "Whosoever," I know that was me, anyhow, 'cause I was one that wanted to come, see. So you see, God's Word is certain.

107 Now, to the outside world, the scientific world, it sounds very uncertain, see, because said, "Now, who would ever think...?" Now, look. There's the moon at night, there's the stars, there's the atmosphere. And they were very ... smarter in that day, you know, than they are now. They built the Sphinx in that day. Could we build it today? One paw would take sixteen flat cars to put it on there, and it sits half a city block high in the air. Could we build it?
They built the pyramid in that day, when those boulders in there weighed hundreds of thousands of tons. Well, we ain't got nothing in the world could build it. We ain't got no power that ... gasoline, or anything else, would never lift it up there. We couldn't have a machine big enough. And it's so perfectly ... till there's no mortar in it. But they cut it here on the ground, and got it up there somehow. And you can't take a razor blade, slice along in it like that, it's fitting so close together. Smarter than we are now. And that same smart...
They had a dye back there. They could make a mummy in that day. We can't make one today. We couldn't make a human body ... a mummy. We don't know what they put in them to make them look natural. They had dye they put in cloth in that day, that we don't have it now. We couldn't do nothing like it. There's just many things they had then that we don't have here.

108 Some time ago they dug up a modern waterworks right here in Mexico, that had been sunk during the antediluvian ... modern waterworks. Way smarter than we are today, see. As it was in the days of Noah (smart people like that), so will it be in the coming of the Son of man---another smart generation.
How smart those people were---probably greater science that could measure how far each star was apart. They were so smart till geographically they put that big pyramid so centered in the earth till no matter where the sun is, there's never a shadow around it. Morning, evening, midday---anywhere, there's no shadow around it, see. I've been there.

109 Now notice. All these things that they did, and the powers that they had... And could you imagine: had never rained, and nothing in the skies to make it rain, how in the world did that man ever get that message over? He didn't. That was it.
But as Noah stood in the door of the ark, and warned the people of the oncoming destruction, so is the gospel preacher that's born again today standing in the door. Christ Jesus is shrouded around by the Holy Ghost, warning the people of a coming destruction. Sure. "As it was in the days of Noah..." Here we are, standing in this day.
Now, how could science say, "Rain come from there?" But you see, God knowed how to bring rain from there. He either caused an earthquake, or somebody had atomic power that they throwed it, and bursted some part of the earth, and it swung the earth backwards, throwed it out of its orbit, and now it leans back. And when they did that, the heat of the earth, and the cold of the earth---from the sun, and away from the sun---caused a cloud to come over. He's Jehovah-jireh. He can provide Himself anything that His Word says.

110 Now He can provide Himself a church. He don't have to have me. He don't have to have you. No, He don't. He doesn't have to have... He can provide. Somebody else can take your place. Be careful some don't take your crown. He don't have to have us; but we have to have Him. If you ever live, you've got to have Him, because He's the only one.
As Peter said, when He said, "Will you go also?" when He got to telling the truth... He was a great man when He was healing all their sick. Oh, when He had signs and wonders following Him, He was a great man. But when He begin to tell them the truth, then what happened? Then He become a fanatic. They walked away from Him. He turned around to His disciples. Remember, He was very independent 'cause He was God. He turned around, said, "You want to go, too?"
Peter said, "Lord, who would we go to? Where would we go? For You're the One that has the words of eternal life. And we're sure of this." See, no uncertainty about that. "We're sure that You're the one has it. We're not tossed about with every wind of doctrine. We know that You've got the words of eternal life, 'cause no man can do the things that You do unless God be in him." Nicodemus said the same remark.

111 Now, let's say then, Noah... Was the sound uncertain Noah was listening to? No, sir. It was right. We had an antediluvian destruction, destroyed all the world. And God sent the water just the way He said. Why? The Word of God said so.
Science drowned and perished. Look, the very thing that saved Noah killed his critics. Did you know that? The very water... If there hadn't been no water, Noah couldn't have been saved. The ark was the one that floated. So the very thing that floated the ark drowned the critic.
And the very Holy Spirit today that people are making fun of, it will save the church and condemn the critic---the very same thing, see, the very same thing. What saves, kills the... What saves the believer, condemns the unbeliever. That's right. So you see, have faith in God's Word. That's one thing you can stand on and know it's certain. What God says, it's certain. Just believe it.

112 Now, let's take another fellow, in the days of Moses. Now, Moses had tried through educational programs. He had tried through military programs to deliver Israel because he knowed he was born to do it. It was the hour for him to do it. But he tried his own way, his education, and forming his big society or something or other, and making a military proposition out of it. With his own ethics he failed. Now, listen close.
But one day God got ahold of him by a burning bush. And look how unreasonable God did that man. Now, God pulled him up to the burning bush and He talked to him. Now, God never talked to him before. He just learned it out of a book. So God talked to him. That's the reason Noah knowed what he was talking about---God talked to him. That's how he knowed he heard it from God, see.

113 And now, one day when Moses, trained, polished... Oh, my! Was he a scholar! My! And was he a military man! And he thought, "With all of my scholarship---I've got a Ph.D, a D.D.D., a LL.D., and all the D.D.'s that can be thought of. But now surely I'll know how to do this, because I'm the brains of Egypt."
I don't care what you're the brains of. It's no good. When it comes to God, it's foolishness. Your brains is foolishness to God, because, "My ways are higher than your ways, and my thoughts are higher than your thoughts," saith God, see. So your best brains...

114 Like Paul said, "I don't come preaching to you words, enchanting words like wisdom does, because if I did that your hopes would be built..." Now Paul could do that, 'cause he was a smart man. He said, "I could do that, but [what was it?] you'd rest upon the philosophy of man. But I come to you in the power and the resurrection, with the Holy Ghost, that your faith would be in God." There you are. 'Cause that's an uncertain sound, the other one is; but this is certain, true.

115 Well, then, Noah had ... pardon me, Moses had tried by an uncertain sound---his ethics, his education. It was uncertain. But one day he heard a certain sound. Oh! Now I feel religious. Yes, he heard a certain sound, for he saw a light hanging in a bush. "Take off your shoes where you're standing, 'cause it's holy ground." He said, "I've heard the cries of my people and I remember my word." Amen. Nothing uncertain about that.
"I remember what I told Isaac, and Jacob, and Abraham, and all of them. I remember my promises. I don't forget them. I've seen the cries of them people, and the time is at hand. I'm going to send you, Moses."
Moses said, "How could I ever go back?"
Listen! "Certainly I will be with you." Nothing uncertain about that.
"As I was with Moses, so will I be with thee. I will be with you." There's nothing uncertain about it. "I'll be with you,"

116 He told Joshua years later, "As I was with Moses, so will I be with you."
"How am I going to take those great, walled cities?"
"That's not for you to figure out. I was with Moses; I'll be with you. And everywhere your foot treads is possession. Just keep walking. Nothing's going to stand before you all the days of your life. [Nothing uncertain about that.] I'll be with you."
"Surely I will be with you," said God to Moses.
And I want you to notice, when a man hears the voice of God, personally hears the Word of God... Now, you can hear it. You say, "Will God have to come to me?" Yes, sir. I could sit here and preach till I fell dead in the pulpit, ten, twenty, thirty, fifty years from now. You'd never hear it, until God reveals the Word to you.
You can sit right in your seat. You don't have to be by a burning bush. Maybe you're closer than you think you are. Just sit there, and let God speak to you in the Word.

117 "I got to quit this kind of life I'm living. I got to be right." That's God---God in His Word making Hisself known to you.
"I ought to make my life right with God." That's God. That's God. It's certain.
"I've got to die some day." Certainly you're going to die. "I've got to answer at the judgment." Certainly you're going to answer at the judgment. Then where is your judgment? Yonder at the throne where you'll have no mercy, or here at the throne where you can get mercy? Now, it's your choice.
That's a tree like in the garden of Eden---one of life, and one of death. Put it off till there, you die; take it now, and you live. Now you're the judge.
See, you're the one that has to... You're the judge now, but He's the judge then. You're judge now, whether you want it or not. He's the judge then, whether you received it or not. So you just have to make up your mind what you want to do. But it's up to you. Every man---like Adam and Eve---the right and wrong set before every person, and you have to make up your mind.
"Surely I'll be with you."

118 "How would I ever go back and tell my boss that I got saved, and filled with the Holy Ghost?"
"Surely I'll be with you."
"How will I ever tell my husband that I'm going to quit my meanness? How will I ever be able to do that?"
"Surely I'll be with you."
"How can I tell my wife that I've lived wrong, I've done things wrong? How can I ever do this? How can I ever stand before my family again? How will they ever believe me, when they know that I've cursed, and carried on, and done the things I've done, and go back and tell them I'm a Christian?"
"Surely I'll be with you," said God.

119 It'll make you do things you wouldn't think... Look at Moses, how radical it made him act. What did he do? That man, eighty years old... You say, "Well, Brother Branham, I'm getting to be a middle-aged man, an old man, or..."
I don't care how old you are. That don't have one thing to do... The day that God can get you quiet enough to speak to you, and you can hear His Word, that's the day He's talking to you; no matter your age.
"How can I ever do it, Brother Branham?"
Look at Moses, eighty years old. Egypt had the whole world conquered. They held all the military secrets and everything in their own hand. And Moses put his wife a-straddle of a little old mule, put Gershom on her hip, and here he goes the next morning with a crooked stick in his hand---the white whiskers hanging down like this, and probably his bald-head shining like that, and this old mule going down through there---pulling this old mule along, just hollering, "Glory to God! Praise the Lord!"
Somebody'd say, "Moses, where're you going?"
"Going down to Egypt to take the thing over."
How ridiculous!

120 But when a man talks to God, and has got the voice of God in him, and the Word of God in him... "If ye abide in me [John 15] ... If you abide in me, and my words in you, you can ask what you will and it'll be done to you." See, nothing uncertain. It shall be done. That's right. Nothing uncertain.
Moses might have said to God, "How am I going to do that?" It would be a one-man invasion. "How can me, an old man here, eighty years old, and how am I going to go down there---with that great big army and millions of men---and take it over?"
"Surely I'll be with you."
That's all he had to know. There he goes. Here he goes. He's going down, and he took over, too. Why? He was certain that the sound that he heard was right.

121 And the sound that you hear this morning is right, because it's the Word of God.
The Hebrew children at the fiery furnace, how did they know they'd be delivered? They said, "Our God's able to deliver us." He'd never done it before. "He's able to deliver us from this fiery furnace. But nevertheless, we're certain that He's able." No uncertainty about that. "We just know His will, but however, we're not bowing to your image. [We're not going out on that party. We're not going to smoke them cigarettes. We're not going to drink that liquor. We're not going to tell them lies. We're not going to commit adultery. We're not going to run out on our wives anymore, or our husbands anymore.] We are certain God can deliver us."

122 "Well, if you do, they'll throw you out of the Bunco game. They'll throw you out of the card party, Ladies Aid."
"I don't care what they do to me. God's able to deliver me."
"You know what they're going to do? They'll call you old-fashioned ... let your hair grow out again. If you do that, then wear them long clothes, and act like a lady, you know what they're going to do? They're going to call you old-fashioned."
"I don't care what they do. But God is able to deliver me, and that's the thing I'm after today. God is able to deliver me. That's all."
"Well, if you don't wear shorts this next summer what's Suzie going to say?"
"I don't care what Suzie says. I want to know what God says, because Suzie has an uncertain sound, but God's is right. That's a certain sound."
So He did deliver them.

123 How certain was Abraham after waiting twenty-five years for a baby that God told him that he'd have? Could you imagine Abraham, an old man, good reputation amongst the people. And one day God spoke to him, said, "Abraham, I'm going to make you a father of nations. Going to change your name now, and call you Abraham. From Abram to Abraham; and I'm going to call ... from Sarai, S-a-r-r-a to S-a-r-a-h, princess. I'm going to change her name.
"And now you're both... Let's see, Abraham. You're seventy-five, and she's sixty-five. You've been living with her since she was about sixteen, seventeen years old, 'cause she's your half-sister. And you've been living with her all this time. You married her when she was just a little girl, and yet you've had no children. But I'm going to do it. I'm going to give you a baby. Do you believe me, Abraham?"
"Yea, Lord. I believe You."
"Now, they're going to say you're crazy."
"Oh, that's all right, Lord. It's okay. You told me ... going to have a baby?"
Well, he goes around, grabs Sarah said, "Honey, you know what? We're going to have a baby."
"What? A baby?"
"Yeah."
"How do you know?"
"God said so.

124 Amen."
"That's right then, honey. We're going to have it. Well, now you know what I'm going to do? You give me a little money. I'm going down to buy some booties, and I'm going to get some Birdeye, and some pins, and we're going to get ready for this baby, see, 'cause it's coming. Right now. Yes, sir."
So down to the store she went. I hear them go down to the doctor, and say, "Doctor, you know what? Want you to make ready over at the hospital. We're going to have a baby."
"Oh-h-h, ah-a-a. Hmm. What did you say your name was?"
"Abraham."
"Hmmm. Yes, sir. Excuse me. I'm in a hurry today, you see. [Goes back.] Say, you better send the authorities out to test that old man's mind. Why he's seventy-five years old; and that old woman standing around there, with a little shawl over her shoulder like a little grandma, and says she's going to have a baby."
"Why, ain't that the son of ... clear down there, that come from up in Shinar up there at the tower? Isn't that his son?"
"Yeah. Well, the poor old fellow. He got out in too much sun. He's ... sun stroke. He's a little crazy, see."
But that's an uncertain sound; but Abraham had a certain sound.

125 Well, the authorities said, "He's been a loyal old man. I know a lot of times he give the widows things; and he gives things. She's awful kind. I don't want to lock them up, or anything. Let's don't put them out there against the tree in them shackles, and things like that. They'd be worse. I tell you, we'll just keep an eye on them, you know."
And they kept watching them, saying, "Uh-huh, uh-huh." What an uncertain sound!
But Abraham knowed that sound was certain. So he said... First month passed, "How you feeling, Honey? Any different?" Now, remember, you ladies, the twenty-eight days, she'd passed it long ago, about forty years old. Here she was sixty-five.
"How you feeling, Honey?"
"Well, dear, there's no difference."
"Glory to God! We're going to have it anyhow." Nothing uncertain; certain.
"I'm positive. Yes, sir! I'm sure we're going to have it."
"How do you know, Abraham?"
"Going to have it. God said so. Going to have it anyhow."
Well, second month, third month, first year. "Feel any different, Honey?"
"No, nothing's happened yet. No, no."
"Well, glory to God, we're going to have it anyhow."

126 "Abraham, I heard that you said you was going to have a baby. Hee, hee, hee." That's an uncertain sound, see.
But Abraham had done heard another sound that drowned all that out. "Glory to God," he said. "Hallelujah! Going to have it anyhow."
"How do you know, Abraham?"
"God said so."
"Now, did God come down and talk to you?"
"Yes."
"How do you know? Let me hear Him."
"He talked to me, not to you. Say, Go on, you old unbeliever. You don't believe anyhow. I believe, see." So he goes on. That's it. "Going to have a baby anyhow."
Twenty-five years passed.

127 But before that time come, they was tee-heeing, laughing.
God said, "You know what? I'm just going to take you away from them. Pack up all your clothes and things. Get ready. Get out. Separate yourself from that bunch of unbelievers. I'm going to give you a little church over here, some people that will believe you. Get away from them old cold, formal, denominations. Get out here. Walk with me alone."
God never blessed him till he completely did that---separated himself from all the unbelief. And He'll never bless you till you do the same. Take all them old superstitions away from you. "Maybe it's so, and maybe it's not."
If you come to be prayed for this morning, you come with a real faith, "God said so and that settles it." That's it. God said so. That's all there is to it. God said so. He said it, and that settles it. Don't have no more fuss about, think about. All right.

128 Now after twenty-five years, and Abraham had become an old man now. He was a hundred years old, and Sarah was ninety years old. Now, think of that: little grandma, little shawl across her shoulders, little dust cap; and grandpa, you know, like this, and...
"How you feeling, Honey?"
"No different."
"Going to have it anyhow. Glory to God!"
One day he happened to look, and here come three men walking up. They sat down. Two of them went down to Sodom to preach. He said, "Abraham, where is your wife, Sarah?" Oh, my, whew!
Now remember, Jesus said that'd take place again, you know, that same angel. He recognized they were angels, see. He had heard that sound. And when he heard that man speak, there was something about that, that he recognized that that was the same voice, see. He knowed that was the same one.

129 He said, "Sarah..." Slipped in, said, "Honey, slip out there real quick, and dust off the hearth real quick, and roll out ... knead some ... take a wedge, and put it in the old sifter. [You remember them?] Sift out some meal."
How many of you Kentuckians remember that? Well, my! You ought to. I've seen Mom take that old thing, and beat, bang, bang, bang, and rub it, and rub it, and bang, bang, bang, shaking that meal out, to make us some hoe cakes. And then boil out them old meat skins in the frying pan, you know, or bread pan, to put the grease in it. And black-eyed peas and turnip greens---pretty good eating. So then, when the cider got hard and made vinegar, you know, and took all the mold off the top of it, and put a little vinegar on it. It's good.
So then,

130 I see Sarah baking these hoe cakes out on this... And Abraham went out, and felt ... to see where he could get a little fat calf, and killed it, and brought it in, and fixed it.
Went out there, he said, "There's something about that man. I've heard that voice before. I know he's got dust all over his clothes, and things. He's sitting there rubbing his face, and looking around like that. But I'm telling you, I know that voice, 'cause it ain't an uncertain sound, 'cause I heard it twenty-five years ago. And, Honey, we've been trusting all this time. There's something about that man. I don't know why, but there's something about Him I believe."

131 All right.
So when he got out ... and he got the fly bush, and shooed all the flies away, you know, and sat there while they ate. So then, after a while two of them begin to look down towards Sodom, and they went on down there. Modern preacher, went down there to preach the gospel to them. So Abraham was sitting there with this man, and He had His back turned to the tent.
He said, "Abraham, where's your wife, Sarah?"
Said, "She's in the tent behind you."
Said, "According to the time of life I'm going to visit you, according to the promise that I made to you."
He knowed that sound was certain, then. What happened? Immediately after the angel left, Sarah become a young woman, beautiful; shook right back, showing what He's going to do to every seed of Abraham. That old grandma become a young woman. And Abraham, the hump went out of his back, and the white beard went away. He was a young man again.

132 And they took a little trip three hundred miles down to Gerar. And when they got down there, Abimelech, the king of the Philistines down there, was looking for a wife. And he looked all around them pretty Philistine women, which, they are beautiful. And so he looked around there, seen all them Philistine women. Said, "I just can't pick one, somehow another."
One day he seen Sarah coming down, now a hundred years old ---little grandma. He said, "That's the one I waited for. There she is. That's her." So he took her, and was going to marry her. And God appeared to him in a dream, said, "You take her..." Said, "That's my prophet's wife." Said, "You're as good as a dead man."
Said, "Lord, You know the integrity..." No uncertainty about that.
"You take him back. I won't hear any prayer that you say to me. I won't hear nothing about it, because he's a prophet. And you take her back, and restore her 'cause... [He needed a little money, that's the reason all this happened.] So he needs some money. So you go out there, and restore his wife back to him. If you don't, you're as good as a dead man."
Was nothing uncertain about that, 'cause God closed up every womb of everything he had. It's exactly right. Went out there and said, "Abraham, why did you do this?"
Said, "Well, she is my sister, as I told you she was." But said, "She become my wife." Then went on.

133 Now what was he? When that little baby was born... After all these years, when they turned back again, God said, one day said, "Take him up on a mountain. Cut his throat." Oh, my! Genesis 22. He took this little baby up there, and took little Isaac... He wasn't a baby. He was about fourteen years old. Put his little curls back like that, and took out the knife.
And that old trembling hand of that old father ... no doubt swallowing hard, choking back, you know, "My only son. I've waited all these years. My! I've never had a boy. Look at him. Look at him. Here he's my only son. Poor little fellow. But God, You told me to do it. I know to trust Your Word. I don't know how You're going to do it. But, Lord, You gave him to me as one from the dead."
Now if you want to put that down, Hebrews 11:17-19. Let us just turn to it, and then we'll just get it. Hebrews 11:17 to 19. We're fixing to close just in a minute. 11:17. All right.
By faith Abraham, when he was tried, offered up Isaac; and he that had received the promise offered up his only begotten son,
Of whom it was said, That in Isaac shall thy seed be called:
Accounting [the 19th verse], accounting that God was able to raise him up, even from the dead; from whence also he received him in a figure.

134 Abraham said, "Lord, if You get... Back yonder when I was barren, I had nothing, I was a sinner, and you made me something. You made me a promise. And here it is. You give me this boy, and I waited twenty-five years for him to come. And now fourteen years later, why, here he is a young man, just the pride of his mother's heart. I slipped him out from the house to keep... Mother wouldn't understand it. But I understand You, Lord. I know that Your voice is true.
"Now You told me to offer him up, to kill him. And You told me that through me---me---I'd be the father of many nations through this boy; that You'd take this boy, and through him... When You made me the promise, and cut those pieces of meat apart that day, and that little white light went between them, You made me a promise that according to this child here that You'd rise up Your own Son [Amen], You'd bring Your own Son. And through the seed of my son, You'd bring Your Son, and He'd save all nations.
"I don't know how You're going to do it, Lord. It's not my business. But I know the certainty of that. I know the certainty of Your promise, and I'm persuaded that I received him as one from the dead. And I'm fully persuaded that You're able to raise him up from the dead. By faith You can raise him back again. I'll take Your word, Lord."

135 Pulled out the knife, and said, "'Bye, Isaac,' kissed him, pulled back.
And God said, "Wait a minute, Abraham. Wait a minute. I know you believe Me. I know you love Me. Stay your hand."
About that time he heard something behind him. He looked, and there was a ram hooked in the bushes. Where did that ram come from? Where did it come from? He was a hundred miles from civilization, back in the wilderness where there's lions, wolves, jackals, and all those things like that would kill sheep. And then he was way up on top of the mountain, where there's no water, or nothing else up there for the sheep to live on. And it wasn't there a minute before that. Looked back, and there it was the next minute, there. Jehovah-jireh. God said...
Abraham looked up, said, "You are Jehovah-jireh." What does "Jehovah-jireh" mean? "You can provide anything that You say. If You said so, that does it. You're able to make it."

136 What did He do? He had heard the same sound that Noah heard when, "How's he going to get the water up there in the skies?"
"I don't know, but He's Jehovah-jireh. He can provide water up there."
How's He going to lift up a man from this earth and take him into glory? I can't tell you. We're heavy. "I weigh 150 lbs." "I weigh 200." I don't care what you weigh; He's Jehovah Jireh. How's the transportation coming. I can't tell you, but He'll have transportation there. And that's where it comes from.

137 Say this in behalf of my colored friends setting here this morning. Down south there was an old colored man packing a Bible around. He said... And his boss making fun of him because he said he had a heartfelt religion.
He said, "There is no such a thing as heartfelt religion."
He said, "Boss, there's one thing you lack." Said, "There's no such thing as heartfelt religion, as far as you know." See? But he knowed different.
Said, "What are you going to do with that Bible you can't read?"
Said, "I believe it." Said, "I believe it, from kiver to kiver; and believe the kiver also, because," he said, "it's got Holy Bible wrote on it."
Said, "I guess you believe all them stories in there?"
Said, "Yes, sir."
Said, "I believe everything that God said, and everything God tells me, I believe."
He said, "Now, now, listen, Sambo. You can't do that." Said, "Now what if God'd tell you to jump through that stone wall there. Would you do it?
And he said, "Yes, sir. I'd jump right through that stone wall."
He said, "How're you going to get through that stone wall, with no hole in it?"
Said, "If God told me to jump, He'd have a hole when I got there."
So that's just about right. That's right. God will keep His Word. There's no uncertainty about that. When the trumpet of God sounds in your ears, the gospel trumpet, that's certain. Amen. Stay right with it. Oh, it's certain.

138 Why, all these people now... (And we're getting past time---just one more comment, or two scriptures here I got wrote down, I think.) Why did all these people do this? Because they had heard the voice of God. Now, real quickly now, to finish up in about three or four minutes.

139 Jesus, when He was on earth, He said, "I have power to lay my life down. I have power to take it up again." Now, there wasn't nothing uncertain about that. "I have!" Not "I will have"; but, "I have now. I have power to lay my life down; I have power to take it up again." All right.
Martha, after she had lost her brother, Lazarus, she heard Him say, "I will go and wake him up." Said, "Where have you buried him?"
Now, she had sent, and said, "Jesus, come heal my brother. He's sick." Jesus never paid any attention to her, and went on. She sent again, her and Mary, and they went on. He never paid any attention to it.

140 Then after a while, Lazarus died; put him in the grave. He was stinking. Laid him there for four days. Nose done dropped in, maggots in him, everything, wrapped up in these clothes, and things; laid rock over the top of the grave, as they bury the dead in the Orient. They just have a hole, and lay a rock over top of it. That was the grave.
So they said... And first thing you know, said Jesus come. And so Martha put her little shawl on, and down the street she went, this young, beautiful girl. She run down there.
She said, "Lord..." Look at that approach. She'd heard a sound one day, and it was certain. She knew that there was something about Him. She said...

141 Now, what if she went and said, "We come out of our denomination because You preached against it. And we did all this because You did so-and-so, and we had faith in You. Now we're the talk of the town. Everybody's saying, 'Where's your holy roller pastor at now? [See, something's in need.] Where's he at? [He run off, see.] Where's them divine healers?'"
Remember that was said to you, Brother Wright, down there by your Church of Christ preachers, and them? Yes, sir. "Where's He at? What all about this? What about it now?" you see.

142 So after a while... It looked like she had a right to upbraid Him, and say something to Him, say, "Why didn't you come when I called?"
But see, that's not the way to approach God. Don't question. Know the sound is certain. Walk right on up and, "Yes, Lord."
"Lord, if they lay hands on me, how do I know I'm going to get well?"
It's none of your business, see. The only thing for you to do is just know that certain sound that God said so, and leave it, and go on. God said so, see. Yes, sir, it's God's word.

143 Now, then first thing you know, little old Martha come running out there, and she said, "Lord..." Oh, I like that. See, she titled Him what He was. He was her Lord. "Lord, if Thou would have been here, my brother would not have died," see. Said, "Even now, whatever you ask God, God will give it to you." Nothing uncertain about that. No, see.
See, that's when two positives meet, see. That's when two omnipotent meet, see. When one omnipotent... She had perfect omnipotent faith in Christ, and Christ was omnipotent, see. She had perfect, infinite faith in Christ that He was the Lord, and knowed whatever He asked God, God would give it to Him. In other words, she said, "You just speak the word. It's all you have to do. Whatever You ask God, God will give it to You." That's omnipotent---all powerful---'cause He just said so, see. All right. And He was all powerful.
That's when two powers, two omnipotent powers meets together. It's a contact then.

144 When a line here has got 150 volts, and this one has got 150 volts, when they come together you got 150 volts both ways, see.
And when you got supreme power... When Jesus said, "Lay hands on the sick, they shall recover," and you got supreme faith in that's being the truth, you need a supreme God that made a supreme promise, and a supreme result will come. Amen! That's it, see.

145 Now, watch her. She come, she said, "Lord, if thou would have been here, my brother would not have died. But even now, whatever You ask God, God will give it to You."
He said, "Thy brother shall rise again."
She said, "Truly, Lord, he'll raise in the last days."
Why? She'd heard that Word. She knowed that was a certain sound. "Sure, Lord, he'll raise in the last days. He was a good boy. He'll come up in the general resurrection at the last days."
Jesus said, "I am..." Nothing uncertain about that. "I am both resurrection and life." Whew! "I am the resurrection and the life. He that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live. Whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die." Nothing uncertain about that. "Believest thou this?"

146 She said, "Yea, Lord. I believe that You're just exactly what You said You were. You're the Son of God that come into the world to save us. And I believe that whatever You do, or say, is just perfect. There's no uncertainty about You at all."
"Where have you laid him? I'll go and wake him." Now, not, "I'll go and see if I can. I'll go and try. I'll go and see what I can do about it." No, nothing uncertain. "I will go and awaken him." Why? The Father had told Him, and He had the promise of God, which was true. He had the promise of God, 'cause He said in John 5:19 that the Son can do nothing in Himself, but what he sees the Father doing.
He already had the vision of what God was going to do, so He had it positive. Not, "I'm going to try"; "I'm going to do it." Amen, amen, amen!
Oh, I wish I could just take that like a corkscrew, and twist it down into every person. See, not, "I'll go try. I'll go see if I can." "I will! I'll go and wake him. I won't go try; I'll go do it. I'll go and wake him." And He did. Oh, my! Nothing uncertain, no, no. "I'll not try; I've got the promise."

147 And when He left now, He didn't leave us. Just say, "Well, now, I'll tell you what. You all go into all the world, and organize great organizations. And, oh, you're going to have several hundred of them, but they'll be all right." Now that would be uncertain. That's what man done.
But here's what He said before He left, to be sure that we wouldn't be deceived. He said, "A little while and the world won't see me no more. That's the unbelievers. Them people's all stopped up with unbelief. They won't see me no more. Yet ye shall see me, for I---I---I will be with you, even in you, to the end of the world."

148 John 14:12, He said, "And the works that I do shall you do also. And greater works than this shall you do," more of it. The word there, absolutely... Look in the Greek. It says, "More shall you do." 'Cause why? God was just in one man. Now God's in His whole church, see. God was in one man then; all men who will believe Him now.
"More than this shall you do, for I go to my Father. I return back to the light that I was, that led the children of Israel through the wilderness. I'll turn back to that. And then a little while, and I'll come again," see. John 14:12. "The works that I do shall you do also."
And now He said more than this.

149 In Mark 16, when He was going away, He said, "Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature. He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved. He that believeth not shall be damned. And these signs shall..." Maybe? No. "Shall!" They are certain!
"Well, you know, we believe that. But 'course, we're living in another day," says the denominations. That's uncertain.
But Jesus said, "They shall, they'll certainly, follow them that believe. What will they do? They'll cast out devils, speak with new tongues, lay hands on the sick and they shall recover." Oh, brother!
Not, "Maybe they'll do this. They might change it, make a denomination out of it." No, no. "These signs..."
"Well, they'll still be believers."
Oh no, no, no, no, "These signs will certainly, they shall, follow them." He's still the same God. He isn't dead. How can the Christian quote say that He raised from the dead, and then deny Him to be the same yesterday, today, and forever?

150 Now, in Matthew 17---if you all want to put it down---Matthew 17:2, you find out there on the transfiguration... Now, if you got a Greek lexicon, you look at it there, on the transfiguration. It said, "And He was transformed... I believe that's ... Let me see if I got that just right now. Matthew 17. I got them all in here.
And after six days Jesus taketh Peter, James, and John his brother, and bringeth them up into an high mountain...
And was transfigured before them:...
Now you know what the real Greek says He done? In transfigured before them, He changed His fashion.

151 (Oh, how much time have we got? Just bear just a little bit. I just got to get this in. Something just struck me so hard there, I just got to say it. Forgive me. Now, the dinner, the beans won't scorch. Just let it go. All right.)
He's still the same. He's never changed. He's still the same. Hebrews 13:12 and 13 said, "Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today, and forever." Now look. If we believe that He resurrected, then if He is not dead, He's not in no grave. He's alive. He's the same yesterday, today and forever. You believe that, don't you?

152 Well, what did He do here when He was transfigured? The Greek says "He changed His fashion."
Oh, look. Look at the order of the resurrection. That's what struck me just then. Notice, what appeared first?
Back over here in the next chapter, the 16th chapter, He told them some standing there should not die, until they seen the kingdom of God coming in power. In other words, what would they do? They'd see the foretaste of the kingdom of God. They'd know the order of the resurrection, and the coming of God, see, in the 16th chapter.
Now, here He goes up there, and what happened? His fashion was changed. In other words, He was revealed in another way. Do you follow me?

153 What do we find the revelation was the other night in the apocalypse? The apocalypse means a sculptor, it said, down here making something; and then what he does, he just takes the curtain off, says, "There it is."
What was He doing here? He was revealing Himself in another fashion. What was He in? A glorified, transfigured condition---His coming, the way He's coming, a glorified Christ, transformed, His raiment shining like the sun. My!
Oh, He stood in the cloud, and He's coming in the clouds of glory, overshadowed by a cloud. Not a little white thunderhead up yonder, but the cloud that He comes in is a cloud of glory---all His angels with Him. Hallelujah! My! That's the way He's coming---coming in a cloud of glory.

154 Now, notice when they seen Him standing there... And before that, there appeared to Him Moses and Elijah. Now watch. What did Moses mean? Moses was representing the ones that had died and was sleeping in the grave, 'cause Moses died and was buried. Nobody knowed where he was buried at, but he represented the ones that were asleep when He come. And Elijah represented the translated ones who didn't have to die, see, entered alive. And Peter, James and John represented that remnant of Israel standing there, saying, "Lo, that's our God, who we believed on."
There's your 144,000. Where are you at, Brother Wood? That's it, see. There you are---Peter, James and John. Three are witness to give when He returns back.

155 What was the first thing? The resurrection. Moses and (conjunction) Elijah appeared to Him, see. The resurrection of the dead, and the ones that don't have to die, was changed and was standing there in His presence. Oh, my!
And there He stood glorified. And there was Peter, James, and John, the remnant of the Jews, looking, saying, "That's Him. That's Him." That's the order of the coming of the Lord. See it? There it is. The resurrection. There they was. Oh, isn't it wonderful!

156 Now, notice. Only thing He done, He took off His mask of humanity, and He come in a glorified state, see. He changed His fashion. Now, not three people, as they try to say in the days of denominations. Oh, brother! Not three people. Not three change ... not three people, but three changes of the same person. Oh! My goodness!
One time He appeared as a Father. He took off the mask, He was the Son. Now, He takes off the mask of flesh, and He's the Holy Ghost. Not three Gods; three changes of the same God. Oh, blessed be the name of the Lord. Three changes of the same person, see.

157 Now, when He was on earth He was the pillar of fire, led the children of Israel. Is that right? Then he was made flesh in the Son of God, in order to taste death for the whole human race, make an atonement. Do you believe that? Now, what is He today? The same Jesus. The same what? Yesterday in the Fatherhood, same in the Sonship, same here in the form of the Holy Spirit---same light.
Paul on his road to Damascus was struck down by a light, and said, "Who are you, Lord?"
Said, "I'm Jesus." That's right. What is...?
Three times He took off His mask. Took off His mask from a pillar of fire, and become what? A man, to take away sin. Then took off His mask as a man, and went back again to be a Spirit called the Holy Ghost, the ghost of a man to come back and be on you, and in you, and the very same works. Do you see it, church?
There's nothing uncertain about that. "The works that I do shall you also, for I will be with you, even in you until the end of the consummation," the end of the world, the end of the time, end of all things. "I'll be right with you, doing the same works." Now, there's no uncertainty about that.

158 But you hear some of them say, "Well, you must be a Presbyterian. You must be a Methodist. Us Baptists have it. Us Pentecostals have it." That's all wrong. That's lies. That's uncertain. How can Pentecost have it, the Pentecostal denomination, when there's about thirty different organizations of them. Which one is it? How can the Methodists have it, when there's Primitive, and Free Methodists, and Methodists times Methodist times Methodists; and sixty some odd, I think, different organizations of Baptists, and so many different organizations of Catholics, and so forth. Where are they all at? Which one is it? That's uncertain sounds.
But when you hear Him, "I'm the same yesterday, today, and forever." That's a certain sound. So, who will know how to prepare themselves, if the trumpet gives an uncertain sound? What is it? How can they ... how can they do it, when there's nine hundred different organizations? All right. You can't do it.

159 When He said in Acts 2:38, "Repent, every one of you, and be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of your sins," there's no uncertain about that. "You shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost." Not, "Maybe you will, perhaps, you ought to"; but you will. When? When you've repented. Now, you go in there without repenting, and you won't get it. But when you thoroughly repent, and believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, you're going to get it. Nothing uncertain. "You shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost." Is that right?
When He said,"If they lay hands on the sick they shall recover. Whatever you ask in my name I'll do it." Nothing uncertain. That's certain. "These signs ... I'll be with you."
Now you say, "Well, our church don't believe in them kind of things." Well, it's uncertain sound.

160 The Bible says that He said Himself, "I'll be with you. And the works that I once did, I'll always do in you, and be with you, plumb to the end of the world. And those that believe in me, when they have hands laid on them if they're sick, they shall recover." They shall; not maybe---they will.
"Jones did, but Johnson didn't." That don't have one thing to do with it. If Johnson believed like Jones, he would have recovered, too. Is that right? Nothing uncertain. Nothing uncertain. "He that comes to me, I will in no wise cast out." Nothing uncertain.
"Well, now, He might not receive me."
Oh, you poor, deluded person. Listen. Let me tell you, as His servant, there's no one can come to Him but what He will receive. "Though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow." Nothing uncertain.
"I'll forgive part of them. Maybe you've done this, and you've done that, and I'll hold it against you."
"They shall be white as snow."
"Well, He won't forgive me for what I done to my husband, what I done to my wife, what I done to my sister, what I done to my brother, what I did."
I don't care what you done, there's nothing uncertain. He'll forgive everything. "Though they be red as crimson, they'll be white like wool." Nothing uncertain.

161 "Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of your sins ... you shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost. The promise is unto you ... your children, them that's far off [Now watch now. Watch, you extreme trinitarians], even as many as the Lord our God shall call."
This same prescription, it'll work through every gener... Not maybe. "It'll change after awhile to Father, Son, Holy Ghost." You poor deluded teacher.

162 God cannot change. He's infinite. The prescription works every time that you give it in the right way. Yes, sir.
Now, "Repent and be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and you shall receive the Holy Ghost, for it is..." What? This prescription, this baptism, this form of baptism, this Holy Ghost, this same power. Not just shake hands and say, "I'll turn a new leaf and do better." No, sir. "You shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost," and the power of God shall change your way, speak in tongues, lay hands on the sick, cast out devils, do the same as they did.
For how many? For how long? "To the end of the disciples." You are a false prophet if you say that. You're a false teacher if you say that.

163 For Jesus Christ ... the Bible teaches us that He's the same yesterday, today, and forever, and the apostle said here that the promise is unto you, and to your children, and to them that's far off even (say it with me), even as many as the Lord our God shall call. How many? Every age, every generation, every color, every creed, every whatever it is, as many as God calls.
If God calls you, He commands you to be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ and receive the Holy Ghost. Then Christ, Hisself, lives in you, and there's no uncertain sound. No uncertainty of it. You've got the Bible. You can stand on it. You can live on it. You can die on it. You will rise on it. Glory! It's God's Word. Whew! My!

164 Like Rebekah, who watered the camels, the very camel that she watered, she rode on it to meet her bridegroom. The very God that we preach about, the very Word which is God, the very God that's in the Word will rise us up some day by the baptism of the Holy Ghost; and our critics will be killed by the same power that raised you to glory. Oh, my! Rise up and ride on it.
You people that's sick, don't you disbelieve God.

165 Did Leo and them...? I don't know whether ... did they give out any prayer cards? Is any prayer cards give out? Billy didn't come this morning. He got a cold yesterday and he... All right. Now we won't need it. We don't need it.
Listen. Do you believe what I've preached to be the truth? Do you believe with all your heart? Is it a certain sound to you? How does this sound? The first commission Jesus give (Matthew 10), to His church: "Go ye and..." (I'm not reading it. I'm just quoting it in Matthew 10. I could get it here.) He called His twelve apostles together, and gave them power against unclean spirits to cast out evil spirits, to heal the sick, and to raise the dead, and to cast out devils, and cure the leprosy (Is that right?), by getting people to believe it, then laying hands on them---getting people to believe it, and then laying hands on them; getting people to believe it and laying hands on them. Was that His first commission, when He sent His seventy?

166 What was the last commission He give? Mark 16: last words that fell from our Lord's lips, when He commissioned His church, "Go into all the world, preach the gospel to every creature. He that believeth, and is baptized shall be saved; he that believeth not shall be damned."
Now remember. He may be damned? He might have a chance? He won't have one earthly chance. No uncertain sound about that. If he don't believe, he'll be damned.

167 Now what kind of sign is going to follow them? These signs... Well, on some of them it will follow? Perhaps it will? Maybe it will? "These signs shall follow them." They'll believe in healing. They'll believe in casting out devils. They'll believe in speaking with tongues. Oh! They'll believe in all the supernatural works of God---the resurrected Jesus working with them. Is that the truth? Is that God's last words? Then cursed is he that tries to add to, or take away from it. That's just the way it is. The way it is.

168 Was the Pentecostal church a noisy church back at the beginning when the Holy Ghost first fell? The virgin Mary, like she was drunk, staggering under the power of God, and all of them like that? And the people said, "They're full of new wine." That's the way the church was ordained.
That's the way that every church was ordained. Every time God has a church, it will be that same kind of church, 'cause it ain't got no uncertain sound. "Well, our bishop said..." I don't care what the bishop says; what the Word says, see.
That bishop's got an uncertain sound. If his sound is sounding the same thing this is, he's right. And then if the church don't act like it did like that, he's wrong. If you say you've got it, and didn't act like that, then there's something wrong with you, 'cause that's exactly what it says. Every one.
Look, after he went down to the house...

169 Philip went down and preached to the Samaritans, laid hands on them. Paul come ... or Peter came down, and laid hands on them. They received the Holy Ghost, done the same things they did at the beginning.
Went up to the house of Cornelius, and there's all the Gentiles up there, the Greeks and so forth. Laid hands upon them, they received the Holy Ghost like they did at the beginning.

170 Let me tell you something. I'm a missionary. You know it. Now, I believe a missionary's a guy that goes and comes. That's a missionary. If you go over there to stay, they call that a missionary; but that's a homesteader. You just change your residence. That's not a missionary. Paul was a missionary. He didn't stay. He just kept going, going, going, a missionary. Not change residence; just keep going---a missionary.
Now, in the missionary field, I tell you... Down into the lowest regions of Africa, down to the little old bushmen... And they didn't even know whether they were human or not for a long time. The British government, when they'd taken over South Africa... You go into a little jungle, and you see the bushes, brrrr, shake like a bunch of monkeys; and look around, and there ain't nothing. Happen to push up through the sand, and you see a little black head looking around, see. He had buried hisself in the sand, run out and scratched the sand over him real quick.
They didn't think they were... They thought they were animals for a long time. But you know how they found out they were human? They had dogs, and a dog won't live with nothing but a human being, see. They found out that they were human.

171 And take one of those little fellows, or take one of the Basutos, or the Songhai, Kozi, any of those tribes, don't even know which is right and left hand, always stammering, and "blaw, blaw, blaw," you know, and talking like that; and naked, women, men, and all. I tell you what you do. You just let the Holy Ghost fall on him, and he'll do the same thing you do right here, when the Holy Ghost falls on you. There's no uncertain sound about it.
You ... never heard such a thing as speaking in tongues in his life, and here he's speaking in tongues to you. But here stands the interpreter. This guy standing there and say, "Blaaa."
"You want to be saved?"
"Blaa, bla, bla."
Somebody up there, "Blaa, blaa."
"Raise up your hands and receive it."
"Blaw!" My! Here he goes, speaking in tongues; never heard of it, knowed nothing about it. There's no uncertainty about that! That's Jesus Christ the same, yesterday, today, and forever. Watch him, he'll go right into the tribes, and go to praying for the sick. You don't have to tell him.

172 And we American women, you church members... (I'm not talking so much of you here. This is tapes. you know.) You church members out there, wearing shorts, and carrying on the way you are, every year you take a little bit off. And then you have shorts, and then shorty shorts, and then shorty shorts, and shorty shorts and all like that.
Well, you poor deluded church member, you're worse than they are in Africa. When them women stood right there that day, when thirty thousand received Christ as their personal Saviour at one time... And you sing in choirs, and wear shorts in the yard to cut your grass, and downtown. You are worse than they are. They'll rise in the day of judgment, and make you ashamed of yourself.

173 I've seen women standing there as naked... Didn't have nothing but a little patch over the front of them, like that, and up in their parts here; their bust parts nothing at all; and just one little strap about four or six inches around their waist, like this, hanging in front of them. And the men, too, standing there totally naked, didn't know right and left hand. And as soon as the power of the Holy Ghost come, them women folded their arms enough to cover their bosom over, folded their arms in shame and walked away. And the next day they had clothes on.
Hallelujah! There's no uncertainty about that. The Holy Spirit makes you put on clothes, makes you act decent. Nothing uncertain about that. Don't you want Him? Wouldn't you love to serve someone like that, the Lord Jesus? Get away from these uncertain sounds.
Oh, you're a popular little thing. Yeah, all fixed up, and everything. You think you're popular. But, honey, you're dying. You think you're living, and you're dying. The Bible said, "The woman that lives in pleasure is dead while she's alive." The Bible said that. That's no uncertain sound. Said she's dead. That's right. No uncertain sound about it. It's certainty, brother.

174 God is a holy God.
And when a man is born of the Holy Spirit, he's a candidate. He's not only that, but he's a king. He's a prince. He's from another nation. His kingdom is above. He's filled with God's power, God's presence.
The woman that does that puts on clothes. The man lives decent, and true to his wife; the wife lives true and decent to the husband. They want nothing of the world. Their affections are set on things above. They're finished with the things of the world. They are new creatures in Christ. And they're holy, live it. Not them holy, but the Holy Spirit's governing them. They don't have their own mind. The Holy Spirit moves in them.
That's the reason they act crazy to the people of the world, because they're moved by a Spirit of another kingdom.

175 Oh, I know it's so, friends.
"I once was lost, but now I'm found. I was blind to those things, but now I see. It was grace that taught my heart to fear, it was grace my fears relieved. How precious did that grace appear the hour I first believed," when I come to Christ.

176 Now in closing: for both salvation and for healing, let me say these words just for a minute. Paul Rader was a friend of mine. I knew him just a little while. I was just a boy, sat at his feet---great minister that died here not long ago, in California. And when he was dying... He took cancer, and was dying out there in California.
The tabernacle now that O. L. Jaggers has, he had it up there, the old ... just a... I forget what the name of it was called then, but it's the World Church now, Paul Rader's old tabernacle. And it was up Eldorado Street, as you go up to cross over to McPherson's Temple, just across the way there, at the park.
Now. And when Paul Rader was pastoring that, they got out there...

177 And before he died, he put his hands on a brother's shoulder, that I know real well---a friend to Ern Baxter---and said, "If I would have took my message of grace, and sold it to the red-hot Pentecostals and ... instead of trying to fool with you bunch of Baptists, I'd've been living today." But said, "You have worried me, and I've got so tore up, and all in such a fix, till now I'm dying."
So he laid in the room there. They pulled down the blinds, and things, and they was standing there singing, "Nearer my God to Thee." And he had a sense of humor. He said, "Who's dying, me or you? You sound more like you're dying than I am." He said, "Don't do that. Sing me some real snappy gospel songs."
And the little quartet from Moody Bible Institute begin to sing, "Down at the cross where my Saviour died."
He said, "That sounds better. Praise God." Said, "Where's Luke?"
And Luke and Paul stuck together just like Billy and I, my son. They were brothers, and they stuck together.

178 Said, "Where's Luke?" And Luke didn't want to see his brother die, and he was in the next room there at the hospital.
Said, "Go get him, and tell him to come here."
And when he come over to where Paul was, Paul reached over and got his hand. And Luke (trying to turn his head) said, "Luke, we've been through many a hard battle together, haven't we, brother?"
Said, "Yes, we have."
"Through these years we've toiled, brother."
"That's right. Many hard battles."
But said, "Luke, think of it. In five minutes from now, I'll be standing in the presence of Jesus Christ, clothed in His righteousness." Squeezed his brother's hands, and died. There's nothing uncertain about that. He knowed the way he was going. He knowed. He had the baptism of the Holy Ghost, power of God in his life.

179 He used to be a log man, and he cut down trees and things, and said... He was a missionary, too, like I go overseas. And he and Luke and them was down in the Islands. They took blackwater fever, if anyone knows what that is---just death. It's really bad. So he took blackwater fever. And he was away back in the jungles where there was nothing.
Him and his lovely little wife was there. You know how he said ... I've told you the story, how he said, "The last time I had a feeling," when she kissed him good-bye. And so, they were back there, and it kept getting darker and darker in the room. He said he knew he was going, or he thought he was.
He told his wife, said, "Honey, it's getting so dark in here." Said, "I'm dying."
And she said, "Oh, Paul, Paul!" And she fell on her face, and began crying.
He said, "Honey, just keep crying out to God, and let me hear your voice. Let somebody pray. I can't pray anymore." Said, "When I'm dying, I want to hear it."

180 And she kept crying out to God, "O God, don't let him die. His work isn't finished yet. O God! Please don't let Paul die." And she was laying across him, like that.
Got darker and darker. He said, "Darling, it's getting darker and darker, darker and darker." Finally he passed out. He said, "When I passed out I dreamed, and I was a young man again."
Said, "I was up in the forest up in Oregon [where he come from]. Said, "I'd felled a tree. The boss told me to 'go up there on top of the hill, Paul, and I want you to fell a certain tree [and so much]. And we got to make some timber.'"

181 And he said, "All right, boss." And said he could smell them, how fresh it was, and how good he felt. Said he was running up through the forest like that, and he took his axe, and said he could feel that old axe bit going into that soft pine, you know, that Oregon pine.
Said, "When it went down in there..."
You know, down south they have that same tree. It's real hard. You go up north, the colder you get the softer the wood gets.
Said he took his axe, and run across with that old double bit, and scraped all the limbs off of it. Said he stuck the axe in there, said, "Well, I'll go right down the hill with it."
He got ahold of it, and said he just couldn't lift it. He just couldn't lift it. He said he tried and he tried. He said he remembered that a man's best muscles is in his back, so he said he put his knees together so he wouldn't rupture himself, and he stooped over, and got ahold of it. And took his knees, muscles the back of the leg up here, the calf of the leg, in his arms, in his back ---put all of his muscle to it. And said he pulled, and he pulled, and he just couldn't do it. Said he just toiled, until he tried and tried.
Said, "I got to get this log down there. I just got to. The boss ordered it down there. I've got to get it there. Well," said, "usually ... I don't know where my strength's all gone." Said, "I could have put that thing on my shoulders, and walked with it," said, "but I just can't get it up."
And he tried, and he tried, and he tried. And he said he just couldn't do it. He just wore hisself out.

182 Said, he just fell down against a tree, and said, "Huh, huh, huh. I've just toiled, and I've toiled. I've toiled and I've toiled till I just can't go no farther. And I've got to get that log down there, but I don't know how to do it. I can't lift it." Said, just sitting there, said, "I just don't know what to do."
And said he heard the voice of his boss say, "Paul," and said it was the sweetest voice he ever heard.
And said, "When I turned to look," said, "it wasn't my boss. It was my real boss. It was Jesus."
He said, "What you toiling at it for, Paul?" Said, "You see that stream going there?" Said, "That stream goes right by the camp. So why don't you just push it in the water, and ride on it, go on down."
So he said he just took the log, and rolled it in the water, and jumped on it, and went over them riffles just a-hollering and screaming, saying, "I'm a-riding on it, I'm a-riding on it."
And said, when he come to in the room, his wife laying over him praying, he jumped up in the middle of the floor, hollering, "I'm riding on it, I'm riding on it."

183 Brother, let me tell you something this morning. Don't toil at it. I'm not trying to toil at it. It'll wear you out. Back and forth, "I'm a Methodist, I'm a Baptist," and "I'm this."
I just received Jesus. I've took His promise. By grace He come to me, and I'm riding on it. I don't care what happens, or what goes; how many times we're called crazy, or fanatic.
On your healing this morning, when we're prayed for... We ain't going to have time now to---going on one o'clock---for a line of discernment. We're going to pray for the sick, and pray for everyone here.
Jesus said, "These signs shall follow them that believe." Is that right? "If they lay their hands on the sick they shall recover." Is that right? I'm riding on it. Are you ready to ride on it? Let's bow our heads just a moment.

184 Gracious God, oh, these last days, when the hours are getting dark, the church has rolled around the Word, and they've twisted to denominations and they know that it's not right, Lord. May they just stop twisting it. There's probably people here this morning that's went from church to church. One time they was in the Methodist, and then the Baptist, and the Pentecostal, then a Church of God, then a Nazarene. O God, may they just stop doing that!
May they just come ride on the promise this morning, Lord, just relax, take God at His promise. When He said, "If you repent and are baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of your sins, you shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost." God, grant that they can just ride on that promise this morning; just fall right into the ocean of His goodness, the sprays of everlasting life, the water of the Spirit. Grant it, Lord.

185 May the Holy Spirit that's running, rippling, freshly right by their door now, may they just step over in the stream on the promise of God, and say, "Lord, I'm riding on it! Here I come! I'm riding on it!
May the sick and afflicted that's sick, and don't know what to do; the doctors give them up... They've wrestled from hospital to hospital, from door to door, from place to place. They don't know what to do, Lord. But the stream of life is rolling right by them this morning. May they take that scripture, Mark 16, "If they lay their hands on the sick they shall recover." The believers will recover when they have hands laid on them."
Lord, may they just take that in consideration this morning, step on it, and say, "Lord, here I am. I don't know how I'm going to go, but I'm riding on it. I'm going right down the streams rejoicing, splashing my hands in the waters of life, throwing it into my soul, and up over my head; and bathing myself in Your goodness, and rejoicing as I go, riding on Your promise that You said, "They shall recover." Grant it, Father.

186 Now, with our heads bowed, I wonder if there is a person in this building this morning... How many in this building this morning, that doesn't know Christ as your Saviour, and you believe that the stream of life has been brought to you? You've had all kinds of uncertain sounds. You've built your house upon things that's sinking sand. You realize that some day you're going to die. You're going out of this world, and you really want to hear a certain sound, and you believe you heard it this morning, that Christ still loves you. I don't care how sinful you are, He still loves you.
And you would like for me to remember you in prayer, and right where you're standing... We can't call you here at the altar. There's no altar, 'cause it's full of children and so forth. But you would like ... you believe that you want to accept Christ just now as your personal Saviour, and you want me to remember you in a word of prayer. Will you raise your hand? You say, "I now..."
God bless you, God bless you, God bless you, God bless you, God bless you, way back, way back, God bless you, up here in the middle, down on this side, God bless you.
"I now accept Christ as my personal Saviour. I want Him to be good to me." God bless you, way back in the back, way back in the aisles, see you back there. God bless you. Would there be another? Raise up your hand, no matter where you are, heads bowed. God bless you, young lady.

187 God bless you back there, sister. God bless you back there, sister. I don't...
You didn't have your hand up, but I went to see your husband last night. He is there in the hospital, real bad---from up there at the brother's church. Don't worry. He'll be all right. The Lord touched him right there last night. I seen what was wrong with him. The doctors has tried for four days to find it, but they couldn't find nothing by the x-rays. But the Holy Spirit goes deeper than an x-ray, so it's all right. He'll be home now. He maybe come home today.

188 All right.
Someone else way back in the back? God bless you. "I want to accept Christ as personal Saviour. I want to be ready. I know the uncertainty of my home. I know the uncertainty of my job. I know the uncertainty of my life. I don't know what time I'm going to die. I may die yet today. I don't know. It's uncertain. But I want a certain sound. I believe I heard it today through the gospel that Jesus Christ loves me, and I want to accept Him as my personal Saviour."
Someone who hasn't lifted their hands, and want to do it? God bless you, God bless you. All right. Someone else? Lift your hand that never has lifted it before. Lift your hand, say, "Remember me, Brother Branham, in prayer." God bless you. All right.

189 Heavenly Father, there has been a certain sound that these people has heard. Many of them here, literally many, that has this morning accepted You as their personal Saviour. Now, Father, I know it's traditional to bring people up to an altar to pray. But it isn't scriptural, because the Scripture said, "As many as believed on Him were baptized."
So I pray, Father, that these who have believed on You, that You've revealed Yourself to them, in that certain sound of a voice that they know it's You. And they want You for Saviour. They raised up their hand for me to remember them, in a word of prayer.
O God, knowing that the hours is closing, lights are going out now. The light of civilization is going out, the light of America is going out, the light of the nations is going out, for the light of the world is coming in. I pray, God, that You'll let them receive this great light.
We realize that no darkness can exist in the presence of light. Light is so much stronger than darkness.

190 And let them know that about ten hours ago this building was as dark as it could be. You could not see a seat. It was midnight dark in this building, ten hours ago. But the sun rose. Where did that darkness go? Find it for me. They cannot find it. Where's the chemistry of it? What happened to it? It cannot be found. It's gone.
So is it their sins now. Where twenty minutes ago, darkness was in their soul, but they've accepted You as their Saviour now, and the darkness is all expelled. Your sins that were many have been purged, and now they're as white as snow. You cannot find them no more. They're off of the book. They're off of the record. The blood of Jesus Christ forgive them of their sins.
May they in return rise, and be baptized tonight in the name of Jesus Christ, calling upon the name of the Lord, and receive the Holy Ghost. Grant it, Father.
I commit them to You as the trophies of the message this morning in the name of Jesus Christ, Thy Son.

191 Now with your heads bowed, each one of you that raised your hands, if you have not been baptized yet in the name of Jesus Christ, the church will have services tonight. And make ready now. Let the pastor put your name down now this morning. (Your baptism is not this morning, is it, brother?) Yeah, baptizing this morning immediately after this service, baptismal. Come right on up. We got clothes ready for you to be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ.

192 You are a Christian now. The light of God has come to your heart. Remember how good that is. Jesus said, "No man can come to me except my Father draws him." Why did you raise your hand? Because something told you to. The same one told you to, made the promise. "He that heareth my words and believeth on Him that sent me has everlasting life." No uncertainty about it. You have everlasting life now. If you believe that with all your heart, you've now passed from death to life. You're living forevermore.
Now receive His Holy Spirit, the power of God to work in your life, and it'll make you work for Him. May you receive it this morning, as you're baptized in the name of Jesus Christ.

193 To those who are sick and wants to be prayed for, I want to see the numbers, so I can see whether ... Raise your hand, see how many, whether to have a line of discernment. There's too many. We'll just have to pray for them. There's too many. There's 150, 200 people to be prayed for. All right.
How many's ever seen the discernment? Raise your hands. Already. That's right. So you know what it is. Now do you believe this morning that you've heard the voice of God?

194 Now, I'm going to ask for Brother Wood, Brother Fred Sothmann, and some of the trustees to come here just a moment. Some of you trustee brothers, deacons, or whatever, come here just a moment. Now, it's going to be rather congested here, and I want you to help.
Now to you people on this ... my right side, that's going to be prayed for, I want you to come on this side here. Brother Collins, stand right down in there, if you will, and come right down here, so they can come by and be prayed for.

195 I'm going to ask you little children on this side of the altar, if you'll go over on this side just for a few minutes, for Brother Branham---not for me, but for the Lord Jesus.
Now you brethren stand here, so that the people can come right through. And then, we'll take all on this other side. Now from this first row, right here ... Brother Charlie, I wonder if you brethren ... David, do you want to come up here, or move kind of towards the back? All right.
Now the first ones here in this row, just raise up like that. Just start from that side over against the wall, as we pray. Now when we get ready to start now---not yet. Then when this side over here, we'll have you all to go back to this side, and then come out to that side, and then come down. Now the trustees and them will get you in the right position.

196 Now if that lady's crippled, and can't get up, and like the little girl here in the chair, now you sit right where you are. I'll come right to you, see. And I know little Edith, she's back there, and we'll bring her right up here. Those who cannot get up, I'll come to you.
Now, what good would it do us to stand here and speak? What good would it do us to preach this Word of God, if you don't hear it? "He that heareth and believeth..." He that heareth... Are you ready ... are each one of you ready to confide yourself to God, and say, "That is God's Word, and I don't care what my state is after I'm prayed for, I'm healed anyhow." Will you believe it?

197 Now a lot of people are looking for something, you know. Like what if that woman, when I prayed for her on the back steps back there---I looked down at her, and then that'd taken place---what if she'd said, "Well, first month passed by. I'm growing bigger all the time," see? No, no. Not her. She heard a voice. And that voice told her, and she believed it with all of her heart. And the tumor after awhile went right on down, and now she's normal and well.
Leo, where are you at? Is he here somewhere? I forget what that lady's name is. Probably somebody would... I've got her address. I'll bring it down to the church. Leo, do you remember her name? Is it Redford, or Redfred, or...? We got her name and address if you'd like to write.

198 She was healed right here, with a tumor weighed over thirty pounds. Not a scratch on her from a knife. There's her picture when she had the tumor. Here she is now, without a scratch anywhere. God healed her, and took it away from her. There's doctor's statements where he give her up to die with cancer eating her kidneys out. And now she's normal and well, without any kidney trouble at all. She's one of the tens of thousands.
What is it? It's not an uncertain sound. But the thing of it is, friend, can you hear it?

199 Now if the trumpet gives an uncertain sound, say, "Well, some gets healed, and some don't." That's uncertain, see. Don't believe that.
Jesus said, "Whosoever." That's certain. "These signs shall follow them that believe. If they have hands laid on them they shall recover." Do you believe that now? With all your heart, you believe it,

200 and I'm going to ask the pastor...
Now we got a baptismal service following this, so you see... Then we won't have too much time. But I'm going to pray for the congregation, for every sick person in here. And when they come by, I'm going...
Do you believe me to be His servant? If you believe that, then the anointing of the Holy Spirit will come right into you, see. It has to, friend. I'm not saying... It's nothing me. I'm just... I'm your brother.

201 I'm the least one among you. But that's what I have to be. "Let him that's least among you..." Let me be servant of all of you, see. That's what I want to be. I'm your servant. You're God's child. I'm just His servant. I'm trying to serve you, you see. I'm the littlest one. Nothing about me. But see, somebody's got to lay hands on you.
And then, if He let me bring the Word, and you believe the Word come to me... Many of you call me a believer, and then the Word comes to me. You judge yourself whether it's right or not. Let God do the judging by His Word. Well, if that's so, then every promise is so. It has to be, see.

202 Noah, he just kept building on the ark. They said, "He's fanatic. There's nothing up there. How you going to get that?"
"Don't make any difference. God can put it up there," and just kept on pounding away.
How ... who else was it I spoke of? Moses. How was Moses going down to take over that army? How was he going to take over all Egypt? How can he do it, one old man eighty years old, his wife, a child. How is he going to do it? That's not my business.
"God said go take it over, and I'm going down."
"How are you going to deliver them out of Pharaoh's hands?"
"Surely I'll be with you." Nothing uncertain.

203 "These signs shall follow them that believe." Nothing uncertain. If you believe it, and have hands laid on you, you've got to get well. Do you believe that with all your heart?
Now, I want every person in here that can pray, I want you to bow your heads. I want you to pray silently. I'm going to pray for these cloths laying here, 'cause I feel the presence of the Holy Ghost.

204 Heavenly Father, we're fixing to close one service, and enter another. Many have received You, Lord, this morning. Many hands went up. They've passed from death unto life in that little slow moment that passed by. A little light passed by. A little smother come over their conscious. What was it? They were dying, and they passed then from death unto life. Like a grain of corn falls into the ground. First thing, it smothers out. It dies, rots away. Then a little spring of life come from it, and it produces another corn.
Now, Lord, this morning a little smother of death passed over them. And when it did, they woke in a few moments, when they raised their hands, feeling themselves smothered down by the Word of God, something saying, "You're condemned. You're a sinner. You'll die, and go to hell. You'll perish. You'll never rise again," that death coming upon them.
Finally they died to that spot, till they heard a voice say, "But I am your Saviour. Come unto me all ye that labor, and are heavy laden." And they raised their hands. "I want to accept Him as my personal Saviour," and then a spring of life come into their soul. They sprung up again to bring forth another Christian.
God, may they go to the water now before the audience, be baptized in Jesus Christ's name, for the remission of their sins, to let the people see that they thoroughly have sold out to the things of the world, and going to serve Christ from now on. For they're dead and buried with Him in baptism, to rise to new life, to walk in a new life.

205 Here's many handkerchiefs I'm holding in my hands, Lord. They represent sick people.
Now in the Bible one time, as I've often quoted this, when Israel was in the path of duty, going over to the promised land, the Red Sea got in their way. God looked down through them clouds with angered eyes, through the pillar of fire. And that Red Sea got scared, because God had made a promise. No uncertain sound.
The sea knowed that God's Word wasn't unsound. They knowed it was certain. Israel was bound for that promised land. Nothing could stand in their way, because God had said so. So the sea got scared, moved back and made a dry path right through the middle of it, and they walked across on dry land.

206 Now there's many Christians that are sick, Lord. Here's their handkerchiefs. They say in the Bible that they took off the body of Paul handkerchiefs and aprons. We know we're not St. Paul, but we know that You're still the same God, with the same Word, and the same promise.
When I send these handkerchiefs to them sick and afflicted may that devil that's got them bound get scared, and move back. May the children of God walk out to the promise of good health. Grant it, Lord.
Now many of them are in this building. Here is your pastor, this morning, my Brother Neville. Here's your deacons and trustees standing here, ordained men of this church, that You are so graciously blessing, though we're unworthy, Lord. But we see Your Spirit moving among us, and we're so happy for this. Looks like a revival moving out for the last time.
O God, we sold out to Egypt now. We're on our road to the promised land. Just a few days' journey now, and we'll be crossing over Jordan. And now, Father God, we pray that You'll move every obstacle in our way. Many of these people are not in marching condition. They are here because they're sick and afflicted. How can that sickness hold them people? How can those afflictions keep them crippled, and in wheelchairs, when they're on the march to the promised land? Hallelujah!
God, when we apply our hands to their body, may the devil get scared and move back. May they be in marching condition.

207 I'm thanking You for that woman I've been talking about all morning. Can't get her off my mind. To see that woman, couldn't even stand up with that big tumor, doctors making fun of her, but she'd heard a voice. It wasn't uncertain. It was a certain sound, and she believed it.
Now, Lord, may every sick person in here hear that same sound this morning, and be in marching condition to leave, Lord, for the journey. Grant it, Lord. We got everything packed up now. Oh, we're ready to march, Lord. We're ready for the wilderness, and across Jordan yonder. Just a few days' journey, and we'll be there. God, let us go in the power of the Holy Ghost.
May we ever be present when we see that light shining yonder, Lord, leading the way, that resurrected Christ, shining to that perfect day. Grant it, Father.

208 Now as we anoint our hands, anoint us, that the Holy Spirit that's in us now, will shine forth the cosmic light, beyond ... the light of God shine forth into them sick, weak bodies, and every one of them be healed.
We come forward, Lord, to meet the devil. We come forward to meet the Red Sea, as it was. The Red Sea, the sea of sickness that's holding these people back from marching. We come forward with the Holy Ghost shining before us, to meet the devil in the name of Jesus Christ. That sickness will have to move back, because You looked down through the power of Your Word, and they have to recover. We come in Jesus' name to meet the enemy. Amen.

The uncertain sound

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1 Thank you very much, brother, God bless you. My son Timothy---God bless you. You don't know how that makes me feel, to see a young man ... hear them words spoken like that. It means, brother, that my work wasn't all in vain. I'm getting up into the years, and he's the one who's following along. And it just makes me feel so good to hear that a meeting like that, what it produced. You never know what you're doing when you're sowing seeds.

2 There's a legend over in Norway that... They have a lot of beautiful flowers in Norway. And the legend is---like John Apple here, you know---that this man loved flowers so well he carried his pockets full of seeds, and he went around just sowing seeds. Everywhere he'd see a place, he sowed seeds of flowers. And that's the reason there's so many flowers, because someone sowed seeds. That's it. Let's sow the seed of the Word of God wherever we are, for we don't know what it's going to produce.
And them few seeds that night fell in fertile soil that brings forth a real genuine servant of God, standing here as a shining light. I passed by his church the other day. And I don't remember the boy, of course, but to me he's just a kid, I doubt being as old as my Billy. But he's... Standing yonder, seeing this nice big Assembly of God church built down there, I stopped just a moment, and I said, "Thank you, Father. Keep your hand on him." And "partings leave behind us footprints on the sands of time."

3 Certainly a happy, real happy, anniversary. God's blessings on you all.
Now, tomorrow's Sunday, and we're expecting all you visitors to attend somebody's church tomorrow. These men here on the platform are men who are local ministers, and they are here representing this gospel that you're hearing us preach. They believe the same thing that we believe and sitting here representing it. And fill up their churches tomorrow, have a great time. And then tomorrow afternoon we're giving the afternoon service instead of having evening service, because it just pulls the people away from their own post of duty, and we can have it in the afternoon. We ought to worship all day Sunday. That's the day set aside for that. So now go to Sunday school in the morning somewhere and stay for church.
And it's always a sin to send your children to Sunday school. You know that. Everyone knows that---a sin to send your children to Sunday school. Take them. Well, then you're doing right; but doing wrong by just sending them.

4 And then tomorrow afternoon at 2:30---be here on time if you can---and we're going to anticipate another healing service for tomorrow afternoon. I pray the Lord will give us exceedingly abundantly tomorrow afternoon. Been such a real service.
If that cook or chef that cooked that breakfast this morning over here in the... I don't know what we call the place, on the grounds here. Say, that was really good. Frankly, that's the first good solid meal I've eaten this week, and that cookies or the bread---ever what it was---sweet bread, that was good. I really liked that. I'd like to have that recipe. Sister Wood, you take it home to Meda, and see if she could try to cook it. That's good Methodist cooking. It was really good. We appreciate it.
And if the dean would happen to be present, we're sorry that we stayed overtime, not knowing it. 'Course I understand, brother, sir, that maybe your services, you all have your services just so much time allotted, and you're automatically used to that. But I tell you, brother, these Pentecostal people really have a gastronomical jubilee when they get around, and they just stay all day. You just have to run them out, that's all there is to it, get them off your hands. But we tried to dismiss ... Billy motioned fifteen minutes. I think we had it cleared before fifteen minutes for you. And we're sorry that we interrupted there, because we didn't know it.
And we certainly thank you from the depth of our heart for letting us have that breakfast. And you fine ladies that served and whatevermore, thank you very kindly. God's rich blessings be with you.

5 Now, I was thinking---can't get it off my mind---of this Brother Hill's conversion. Brother Banks Wood, one of my associates, is sitting here tonight somewhere. I suppose he didn't go home today. But he was in the meeting this morning. That's where his boy, the meeting just before that, was healed. Every time you mention a meeting there's something outstanding. Now, I'd just like ... I don't want to get away from my text here, but I'd just like to tell a little incident that happened that really cut the warts off of me at that meeting---same one you was converted in.
I tell you, how easy it is to just walk away from the kingdom of God, if you don't... My old mammy used to tell me, she said, "Honey, you always think twice and then speak once." That's very good philosophy. It really is.

6 I was staying ... as you know, the meeting was great, and we were staying out in the country. There was a lot of tinsel on the meeting then. It's quietened down quite a bit since then, because, oh, Oral Roberts, and many others, come on the field. The revival in America is just about finished, you know that. We're just gleaning now. It's to where it's just about all over now. And I think... That's the reason I'm warning with all my heart. Judgment will follow this, sure as the world. It's never been any time yet in history but what judgment followed, and judgment will follow this. And the healing revival is just about finished in America now. And my heart yearns for the overseas, which, perhaps in a few months I may make ... might stay the rest of my life in the foreign fields.

7 Now, so in this meeting I had to stay out in the country, and I was at a little motel the brother may know, if he's from that part of the country. And there was a little ... I believe it was a Mennonite restaurant across the road, and they were... Now, the Mennonite people are really fine people. I passed today and seen a Mennonite hospital here in the city. If I'd break my arm and have to go to the hospital, I hope they take me over to the Mennonite hospital because I like those people. They're really nice. And they give you always... I believe it's a ... Gene, how many ounces in a pound? Sixteen, isn't it? They give you seventeen, see. And they're really nice people.
And I was at the restaurant. And the little ladies dressed so nice, clean, and their kitchens were clean. And they were neatly ... nice ladies, just every bit of a real Christian lady. And I really enjoyed eating there. Their food was fine. And so I'd go over there and eat.

8 Well, on Sunday I hadn't eaten for maybe two days, getting ready for the great afternoon service---perhaps when this lad was converted, or brought to Christ. And so ... Mr. Baxter was speaking for me, if you remember, the afternoon services in the preliminaries. And so I got hungry. And I knowed I was just going to preach that afternoon, I wasn't going to have no healing service, so I thought, "Well, it wouldn't hurt me to eat a sandwich." I said, "I preach so hard usually," I said, "and so long, it'll all be digested before night comes for the healing service."
So I went over, and the little Mennonite place had closed up. They'd gone to church, and the place was closed. So I walked across the road to just an ordinary little American stop, where they had sandwiches and cold drinks.

9 I hate to say this. It just hurts me because it's our own nation, but to see it so degrading... When I walked in the place, the first thing was a policeman, standing with his arm around a woman in the wrong place, playing a slot machine. Now, gambling is illegal in Ohio. Many of you Ohio people know that. And then a policeman, which is supposed to be upholding the law, standing there breaking the law; and a man my age---perhaps had children at home and a wife---standing there with an arm around a woman. I looked, and I thought, "Oh, my."
I heard somebody laughing and I looked back towards the back, and a bunch of these here boys ... What is it you call them? Beatniks, or ever what... ? That there flat-looking hair cut on the top, with a duck sitting on the back of their neck or something, overall jackets on, and their pants pulled way down like this. Boys, be a man! You got better making than that. My! So then they sat back there, and a young lady not over seventeen or eighteen years old. And that young lady, the way they were doing, pulling around over her, it was a shame. And I thought, "Well, what about that?"

10 I heard somebody say, "Do you think the rain will hurt the rhubarb?" And I looked over on this side, and there sat a woman... I'm telling ... I don't believe this is a place to joke. This is a place to be honest and truthful. And there sat a woman that could've been my grandmother. She was sitting there with those little bitty immoral clothes on. And the woman had purple-painted toenails. Now, I've had my toenail purple after I'd stumped it or something. It was purple-painted toenails, with purple-painted manicure on her lips, you know, and little spots on her face. And the lady had this real short cut hair, and painted blue.

11 Now, that lady's got a right to anything she wants to. That's nothing to me, see. But I don't believe the Lord ever made anybody with blue hair. It looked real strange. And the poor old thing, old, and the meat on her arm was flabby, hanging, you know, like that. And so I looked at her.
And there was an old man, and it was ... I'm afraid it was up summer time---late spring, around May or June---and the old fellow was sitting there with an army overcoat on, and a big scarf wrapped around his neck, two of them, drunk. They were sitting there drinking. So they excused themselves and went out and left her alone.

12 I stood there, and I said, "Almighty God, creator of heavens and earth, I come from a mountain top to a rat den." And I said, "How can You, being holy as I know You are, ever look upon such a scene as that and let it exist? Why don't you just send an earthquake and sink the whole thing?" I said, "To mean that my little Sarah and Rebekah will have to be raised up under such stuff as that? To have to ... like that young woman back there, and looking here at that ... women and here ... and men acting the way they are. And the laws of our land rotten and polluted, and... The laws are all right, but them who are trying to enforce it, and such a thing as that. I thought...

13 [Someone speaks in tongues. "Yea, what would you have but the love of God? Yea, I say unto thee tonight, my people, wake up. Yea, for I am God and will not stand ... Yea, they will not stand, saith God. Shall I not as he saith? Yea, shall not my prophet bring unto thee the future? Yea, shall I not speak unto thee and say that thou shalt surely perish if thou wilt. Yea, I say it is thee that shall say 'What shall be done?' Yea, I say, it is I, God, who shall be taken. Yea, it is I, God, that shall be given unto thee. Yea, and I say accept tonight. Yea, and I say, accept He that is commander of all things."]

14 Praise the Lord. Now, I do not know that lady, and I don't know who done that interpreting. I do not know this man. But now if you've got any doubt of whether it was right or not, wait till I finish my story.
I wanted God to strike her dead, strike the whole thing out. I felt a real funny feeling. I stepped back behind the door. (Listen, what he said, "It's I, God, that was given," see.) And I stepped back behind the door. Now, this for you Methodist students in the building, listen to this---and God is my judge. I stepped behind the door and I said... Something was going on. And I looked, and it was a vision moving. And I seen the earth, and there was like a circle or a mist of red, around the earth turning. And it looked like my eyes focused upon myself on the earth, doing sinful things that I should not do.
And every time I started to do something wrong, I noticed it would go up before God, and if it wasn't for that misting blood I would have died. But the blood of Jesus acted like a bumper on a car. And every time my sin would hit God, before God's throne, looked like it would strike Jesus before it struck the throne. And He'd shake his head, and the tears would roll down his cheeks, and He'd say, "Father, forgive him, he doesn't know what he's doing."
Then I'd do something else wrong, and then looked like He was just acting like a bumper between me and death, because God had already pronounced my death. The day I sinned, that was the day I died. And then I could not understand, why would that mist around the earth... ?

15 And I looked up there, and a book was open. (Now that's a vision, just like I see here in the building, only these are just ones that you cause. That was one God gave.) And I noticed that there was my name on the book, and all kinds of sins was wrote against me on that book. And I said, "Lord, did my sins make You suffer like that?" And He was crying, the tears was in his face. And He looked so weary, his poor, drooped-down eyes. I seen my sins had caused Him to suffer. And I said, "Lord Jesus, I'm sorry. I'm sorry that my sins caused You to have to suffer for me. Will You forgive me? I promise that I'll be good, and I'll do everything I can if You'll just forgive me."
And He touched his side with his hand and He wrote across that book, "Pardoned." Pushed it over his back into the sea of forgetfulness to remember it no more against me. And I fell on my knees, and I said, "O Lord, I can never live long enough to express to You my gratefulness for You forgiving my sins."
He said, "Now I freely forgive you of everything you done; and you want to destroy her."

16 That taught me a lesson. When the vision left me... Now watch that interpretation: "God was given for us." See it? Perfectly with the words before I said it. And there's people sitting in here from my church and things that's heard me tell that story before, and know that's true. That's exactly, see. Shows how perfect that Spirit of God speaking there in unknown tongues and interpreting, neither one of them knowing me.

17 [Someone speaks in tongues: "Yea, would I send my prophet weeping? Yea, would I send him seeking, lest it was for thee? Yea, I say unto thee tonight, my people, it is thy God that standeth before thee. Yea, would you not follow me? Yea, was I not the One that loved thee? Yea, was I not He that bore thine iniquities? Yea, was I not He that suffered? Yea, wilt thou let me cry? Yea, wilt thou let me weep for thee? Yea, I say unto thee tonight, fear not, for I am standing, yea, I am standing ready to receive. Wilt thou come, sinner?"]

18 Praise the Lord. Listen to that. How long will you halt between two opinions?
You know what I did? Now watch the story as it goes on. I walked out to the woman. Standing out there, I said, "Father, forgive me." I walked out to her. I said, "Could I sit down?"
She said, "Oh, hello." She said, "I got company."
I said, "Lady, I didn't mean it in that way."
I said, "I would just like to sit here just a moment until your friends return." I seen she was drinking.
And she said, "Very well." And I told her the story that was told me by the vision.
She said, "I know who you are." She said, "You're that Mr. Branham that's down here in that armory building."
I said, "Yes, ma'am, I am."
She said, "I passed by your meeting the other night. I couldn't get in." She said, "Mr. Branham, I'm beyond hopes." She said, "My father was a Methodist preacher. I've got two daughters that's Methodist Sunday school teachers."
I said, "What happened?"
She told me the story. She said, "There's not a hope for me."
I said, "Lady, if there is no hope for you then why did God show me that vision?" And there with my hand in hers I led her right out in the middle of the floor, and knelt down there and had a prayer meeting, and led her back to God.

19 There might be somebody here tonight in that condition. The grace of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost. I remember that meeting well, son. It reminds me that no matter what the person's done, love them, and that's what wins them.

20 Tomorrow afternoon, now, don't forget the services. The Lord willing, we want to pray for the sick. And I want to make this statement before I take my text. Last evening when the anointing of the Holy Spirit ... which I was not by no means intending to have any kind of a service like that. It was completely from my mind.
I was going to take my brethren and go down among those people that were sitting here---in cots, stretchers, dying, in wheel chairs, and so forth---and stand down there. And I had told Brother Hearn that when I sent my brethren down here, for him to stand by me. I wanted them to ... I just felt after praying, and hardly eating all week long, that something would happen here that would cause the people to wake up.

21 God can only work where there's faith. And I thought the hard preaching, and so forth, would surely bring the people to a spot... And a vindication of the presence of the Holy Spirit would be so perfect that they could not doubt. And in doing so, I sat, like that, believing with all my heart that God would do something in that manner.
And the first thing you know, the anointing dropped down. It started out there in that building, touching those people that were dying out there, in condition. And here it come right down that line, healing those people right down through those cots and stretchers, cleaning up the outfit as it went through. The last I remember was somewhere along there, and people rising up out of their wheel chairs and cots and stretchers, and being healed. That was about the last thing I remembered. It was such a glorious outpouring of the Holy Spirit. I don't know whether anyone could sit under anointing like that and then turn around and say, "No." I believe that it would be kind of hard for you to ever be healed if you couldn't receive it under that. I don't think there would be any way of ever getting in any more, see, under such anointing as that. Now that was a marvelous time.

22 Now to be honestly ... since I left, I've been constantly in revivals since December. And I've been in places where the people are packed, and bigger meetings and things, but I never knowed any time that the Holy Spirit ever anointed with such unction for healing as it was right here last night. That's right. And I'm so thankful for it.
And you just remember that there's people that was here last evening that you'll hear from them. They're healed and don't know it, see. They're just expecting that something might happen to them all spontaneously. It don't have to come like that. As long as there's something in there says "Yes," that settles it, I don't care how long it takes. So you ministers remember that in your churches you'll be seeing people coming, saying, "You know, I just don't have it any more," see.
And then my son was telling me that a lady come by---may be here now---saying, "Look at my child's eyes," taking the glasses off. Was so hideously cross-eyed. Pulled the glasses off, and Billy said the eyes was straighter than his. So there's just ... It's just that's what it is. See, nobody touched them. See, that's what I'm trying to get to the people, is that it's not whether we touch you or not; it's you touching Him, see. It's your faith that heals you.

23 Now, tonight let's bow our heads just a moment as we pull back the pages of the Book. Then, so ... get quiet. Lord Jesus, we are approaching thy throne of mercy again and asking for divine guidance tonight, that You might direct us in our thoughts, knowing tonight that our hearts are more than happy. As David said of old, "My cup runneth over."
And how that we know after a meeting like that last night, it seemed like, Lord, that this entire city would be set afire. But where are they? Lord, truly how could we but believe that You ordained them to life or... By your foreknowledge You knew who would receive You, and who would not. How can a man come when God hasn't called him or ordained him to life? So we realize as it's been through the ages, so is it now: that poor, miserable, blinded, human beings---yet many kind-hearted people, nice people, that live a good righteous life as far as morals is concerned---and yet are totally lost and gone, without hope, without God, without mercy, in this dark, dying hour.

24 Father, my heart bleeds, and pleads. I don't know what else to do but just keep giving my voice, that at that day it'll be on magnetic tape in the glory. And I pray that You'll continue to be with us and help us.
Bless the services tomorrow as my ministering brethren minister around in their churches. Oh, may there be fire from heaven on every altar. Grant it, Lord. May there be great services throughout the country and throughout the land tomorrow, and save all that is savable. Bless the services tonight and these few words, Lord, that's been read this afternoon here in the Scripture; and where I've chosen to speak a few words tonight, may it be so that many will receive faith and believe on Jesus, for we ask it in his name. Amen.

25 [Someone speaks in tongues.] Usually messages come in three. There can't be over three messages at a time, according to the Scripture. That's the third message, and it might be the Holy Spirit trying to get it to somebody, so be real reverent, everybody.
[Yea, thou that has an ear to hear, let him hear that which the Scripture hath to say. Now I said unto my disciples as I approached them on the road to Emmaus that if they would only believe, and as they had their hearts open unto the Scriptures as I spoke unto them words of life, their hearts burned within them. If thou would only open thine eyes that thou might see, thy ears that they might hear, thou would believe and should receive the glory of God.]

26 Amen. Thank You, Lord.
If I would draw from that that they would be like ... that Jesus... Here is my prayer to Him over those messages. God, let it be tonight, when You shut us in like You did those who came from Emmaus... And may we see tonight You do something among us like You did before your crucifixion, that the world that's here tonight, or the church, might know that You have raised from the dead. May He... How did they know He was the same Jesus? Because He did the same thing that He did. Now, please, everyone keep your seat and be real reverent. I ask you in Jesus' name. Be seated, be real reverent, and listen.

27 Now, the Holy Spirit has spoke through a certain type of gift, of tongues and interpretation. Was not one thing in that that I would dishonor, but believe it come from God. And now it come before I read the Scripture. It's not supposed to be said while we're preaching. The spirit of the prophet is subject to the prophet. And, now, it come orderly, all right. And now it seems like that it's trying to press that God is going to do something. However, I haven't given out any prayer cards for a healing service, but something may take place. I don't know.
But did you notice what it was? That Jesus, when... They thought He was crucified and was gone; but He talked to them all day long, and they did not know Him. And then that night He got them in the room and shut the door, when he was in the inn. Then He done something just like He did. No one else did it like that. And He did it just the way He did before his crucifixion. And then what did He do? He vanished in the dark. And they run all the way back to their people, saying truly Jesus had raised from the dead. They knew it, for they knew He did something just like He did before his crucifixion---was the proof that it was the same Jesus raised from the dead.
May He do the same thing, and when we leave here tonight going to our different homes, may we be able to say like those who came from Emmaus, "Did not our hearts burn within us as He talked to us along the way?"

28 I Corinthians, fourteenth chapter, the eighth verse:
For if the trumpet give an uncertain sound, who shall prepare himself to the battle?
And I want to speak on the subject of "The Uncertain Sound." Now, Paul was speaking (isn't that strange?) upon the same thing here, about giving tongues and interpretation. The uncertain sound.

29 Now we live in a day of uncertainty. We live in the day when there's ... everything, almost, that we can put our hands on, natural, is uncertain. There's so much uncertainty till the nations are quaking. There's uncertainty in our national security. There is no nation safe anymore.
We could either be the victims to Russia by midnight tonight, or either be in bits. It depends on what Russia wants to do about it. We ... talking about our scientists, they have men that they can put two hundred miles in the air, and a little machine that... Come right over it, set it right over the top of this nation, and send a message down and say, "Either surrender, or we pull a lever and that's all of it." They don't have to wait till tomorrow to do it. They can do it right now.

30 If we're sensible what would we do? What would the Pentagon, what would the nation do? It would surrender. They'd have to. Then what would happen? Wave after wave of Russian soldiers would climb into our country here, ravishing our women, taking your homes and kicking you out on the street, and shoot you and kill your children before you, and take over the nation. Then we'd know what sin ... how we've been ... what it meant to laugh in the face of a religious service, and call them a bunch of holy rollers, or... Remember, it's coming.
There's no national security. We're at Belshazzar's feast again. They thought because they were inside those big walls, the best of the scientists, the best chariots... They could run three or four chariots abreast around that wall of Babylon without losing a horse or a chariot, and the great big gates, that was probably half ... oh, forty, fifty feet wide, like that. There was no nation could get to them, or anything else, so they just lived in sin, any way they wanted to. But God can look over the top of the wall.

31 And they had a regular big tea party one night---or a big drunken spree is what it was, something like some of our modern television programs where they... After they got all good and drunk they thought they could crack a few jokes about the bald-headed preacher, or something like that. And what happened? They went and got the vessels of the Lord and drank wine in them to make fun. And that night, you remember, that was the beginning of the Gentile kingdom.
I want to ask you people something that might be a little critical. Anyone that knows the Bible knows that God dealt with the Jews until King Nebuchadnezzar. The head of gold was the beginning of the Gentile empire. Ends out in the feet in Rome. Is that right, brethren? You Bible students? Watch what happened. What did He do at the end of that kingdom? There come a handwriting on the wall that was in unknown tongues. No one could interpret it. But they had a man there had the gift of interpretation, so he came and read the handwriting on the wall.

32 And it's been read here again tonight by the same kind of a Spirit, given by the same God. The handwriting's on the wall. All the time that we've been spending our money, and jokes, and all... We've become just a big bunch of jokesters---laughing at religion, making fun of it. And all the time Russia has been putting things in the air that's as far ahead of us till they're years and years and years ahead of us. You remember the Medo-Persians was at the gate waiting when these things happened; and they knowed nothing about it.

33 There's no more national security. When they tell you we're secure, that we can do this or do that, they're mistaken.
Dig a hole in the ground (some of this here national defense stuff) and run into the ground; and that bomb will blow a hole in the ground a hundred and fifty feet deep, a hundred miles square. Well, if you were five thousand feet under the earth you'd be in the lava. And if you was five thousand feet under the earth the shock would break every bone in your body.
So you can't dig down and get away from it. There's no way at all to escape it. There's only one shelter that you can get under and that shelter's not made of steel; it's made of feathers. Under his wings, that's the only shelter. Go up above it---the rapture coming.

34 Now, there's unsettled peace. You don't have to think great big nations like Russia. Little bitty nations can do it. We're just at the end of the road.
And then what are they doing? One ... we selling a whole lot of stuff to one nation, trying to buy friendship with our money; and the very Indian that we've taken the money from, or taken the land from, we're starving to death out yonder on the prairie, and taking his sheep away from him and letting him live out there with TB and everything else, in a tent. And then sending money overseas over there, call it national defense, trying to buy friendship. You can't buy friendship. Spending millions of dollars every year for whiskey and beer; and our missionaries on the field starving to death.
Oh, sure, we're gone! The nation's gone. All nations are gone, not only this nation. I think this is the queen of nations. It's the truth. It's the great last civilization we have. But she's finished. It's all over. We're just ready for the coming of the Lord, right, the church making herself ready. By the time I get through tomorrow afternoon, if the Lord's willing, you see if it isn't right. Now, with the Word of the Lord, see if that isn't true.

35 Now, remember that we cannot put confidence in any security place on the nations anymore. If we go to Russia, we'll blow them. If they stay here, they'll blow us. If we go to Japan, we'll be just the same thing. She's ready to rot to pieces right now. And there's no way you can stop it, because they have neglected to do exactly what God told them to do. Instead of preach the gospel, they have built buildings and had fine scholarships and educations. They've used their own ideas to educate people to it.
And this man that's on trial, this German now---smart, intelligent, intellectual giant. And take this Eichman that froze them people to death, then thrown hot water on them, and killed the millions. When I was in Germany there, and those places where they took them out there, and give them that bubble in their veins (Hitler), and sent them out there, and... Smart, educated, scientists---way beyond... Why, we was ... half the war was over before we ever had a gun that could compare with their 88. What about you soldiers that faced it? You know that's right. Why, they're so far ahead of us in science, and smart, and everything like that---and would turn and do a thing like that? It's insanity.
And any young people that can stand in a building with their hands up and all that carrying on of rock-and-roll and stuff, and beatniks---it's insanity. It's dangerous. They're gone. The mental faculties has broke down. Remember the tree of knowledge only goes so far and it swings backward.

36 So there we have no sound of security in national defense.
Our jobs---we have no security in our jobs. It's all uncertain. Let a man pass about thirty-five years old, they'll root you out. They'll get a young man so they won't have to retire you. And after you pass forty years old you try to get a job even digging a ditch. You'll have to have a high school diploma before you can do it. And they've got a little button they can press and take care of that anyhow. Your jobs---you ain't got no security in your jobs.
I don't know how true this is, but I've been told that there's more people out of work right now than there was during the time of President Hoover's depression, because there's more people. What's the matter? It's just a place where there's no certainty in these things. You're not certain of your job. Somebody can take your place in the morning.

37 Politics. Let's just talk awhile tonight. This is Saturday night. Politics---crooked? Both sides. Just so crooked as crooked can be. It proved it in this last election, when the FBI exposed it that they had machines that every time they voted for one, for Mr. Nixon, they had to vote for Kennedy at the same time. And they proved it! And what did they do about it? Nothing. Now I'm not a Democrat nor a Republican, neither one. I'm a Christian. The one ... pot can't call kettle black or greasy. One's just as black as the other one, just as dirty as the other one.
But what's the matter? It's because that there's no security in those things. It's played out. The great House of Commons of England one time said about democracy, it said, "Democracy is all sails and no anchor." Said, "It'll come to pass that politicians will stand on soap boxes, and make the elections in America ... pay their way in." That's exactly right. But they didn't think of his own nice, lovely, House of Lords would do the same thing. So it shows that all these things are rotten and decayed, because there's coming a kingdom whose founder ... a city whose builder and maker is God. These things has to give way.

38 Politics is... I believe democracy. Certainly. I'm an American, and I believe in democracy; but, oh, my, it's the rotten things that's in democracy. That's it.
So it shows that all these man-made earthly ideas has to give way to a kingdom that's coming. I've had the privilege of standing on the grounds in Egypt where the pharaohs stood and murdered the people, with the gladiators and so forth. You dig twenty feet under the earth to get their kingdom, where it sits. I stood where the pharaohs stood. I've stood in the great coliseums and the different places in Rome, and in the ... pharaohs and so forth. And their kingdoms has fallen. Instead of just looking out here to see them, you have to dig down to find the ruins of them. Shows that every man-made kingdom, every man-made system, has to give way. So you see, I don't care what kind of a democracy, how many UNs we build, how many League of Nations or anything we got, it's all decaying.
Time is filled with swift transition,
Naught on earth unmoved will stand,
Build your hopes on things eternal,
Hold to God's unchanging hand.
When this journey is completed,
And to God you have been true.
Fair and bright your home in glory,
Your enraptured soul shall view.

39 I don't care how much money you could make or how many buildings you could build or how much president you become of any company---it's falling! crumbling! The thought's in my mind now of that third angel's message that went forth. Martin Luther, John Wesley, and the next angel. What did the last angel's message say when he crossed the three angels? "Babylon is fallen, is fallen, and is become the habitation of every unclean spirit." That's exactly where it's at. Sure, we have no security in our nation.
It's uncertain everywhere. Uncertainty. There's uncertainty in your job, uncertainty in politics. Uncertainty in the Democrat party, uncertainty in the Republican party, uncertainty in all the parties.

40 And in the church it's also uncertainty. How can we have about nine hundred different organizations? And every one of them differing one to the other, and fussing with one another. How can a poor laity know what to do? How can the people know where to stand? One say, "We got it over here," and the other one say, "We got it over here," and "We got it down here." What does the people know what to do? It's uncertainty.
The church gives an uncertain sound, politics gives an uncertain sound, the nation gives an uncertain sound, employment gives an uncertain sound. Oh, I could speak of a hundred things that's uncertain. No certainty to it. The Methodist church says, "We got it." The Baptist church says, "You're lying, we got it." Presbyterian says, "Both of you are lying, we got it." The Pentecostals say, "We got it." Just look how we break up, and fuss and stew and everything. It shows we haven't got it. Exactly right. So that's an uncertain sound.

41 The uncertain sound, you can't... You say, "Well, we're going to get in a hole, dig in the ground, for national security." Try it one time, see what happens. "I got a job, brother, I got a promise." Just let them change bosses once.
Home life is uncertain. A man can marry a nice little woman, get her back out of the country here where she's not polluted, take her into a home and set a television in there; and the first thing you know, you come home, she's acting like some of these movie stars. Uncertainty in home life. Let her kids run out on the street with dirty faces, and out in the street playing; and hold a little snotty-nosed dog in her arm, and give it a child's love. Pack a little old dog around in a car, and practice birth control. Shame on American women!
That's horrible to say that. I don't know, but this is one time you're going to hear it anyhow, if you'll just sit still and don't keep going out. One can just hold so much, and then they have to explode and run. But listen, that's true. It's the truth. Somebody's got to cry out against that thing.

42 And there's many a fine preacher, brethren standing in the pulpit, that knows that's the truth. But what is their pulpit? It's a meal ticket to them. I'd rather lay on my belly and drink branch water and eat salty crackers, preach the truth, than to have fried chicken three times a day and have to compromise with God's Word. Tell the truth, because you've got to answer for it at the day of the judgment.
Certainly, there's an uncertainty. Uncertainty. Oh, we find then you say, "Brother Branham, you're putting us on a limb out here." That's right, so that you'll know where you're at.
You say, "Then, Brother Branham, is there anything that has a certain sound?" Yes, sir. There is one thing that has a perfect, certain sound. What is it? It's the Word of God. It's a certain sound. It's perfect. It's an eternal sound. "Are you sure of that?" Jesus Christ said in Matthew, twenty-fourth chapter, the thirty-fifth verse, He said, "Heavens and earth will pass away but my Word shall not pass away."
My hopes is built on nothing less
Than Jesus' blood and righteousness.
When all around my soul gives way
Then He is all my hope and stay.
For on Christ, that solid rock, I stand;
All other ground is sinking sand.
All other ground is sinking sand.

43 Now, the Word of God, his promises, they're true. Now, there's only one thing to approach anything. Like Israel---Israel was a perfect type of this nation. Israel was a God-fearing people that was in bondage to the Egyptians; and they left that land of bondage, took a pilgrimage. (Listen now. Don't you fail to get this. May God open your understanding.) They left their land of pilgrimage and come to their promised land and drove back the occupants and inhabited the land. Is that right?
We did the same thing. We were under Catholicism and bondage of... And we wanted to be a God-fearing people that loved God and had freedom of religion and we came to this nation, drove back the occupants, and possessed the land.
As long as... When Israel started out they had God-fearing leaders---David, Solomon. They brought a respect. Why, Israel was known all over the world to all the nations and they all respected them. That showed what God could do with a bunch of men and women that feared Him and lived godly before Him.

44 As I preached a few nights ago, even the queen of the South come all the way across the Sahara Desert, three months on a camel, to hear the wisdom of Solomon. The whole world looked to them.
And when this nation was founded we had godly men who founded, it---George Washington, Abraham Lincoln. Valley Forge, when ... prayed all night long, that leader, and bullets went through his coat the next day without hitting him. Abraham Lincoln, a God-fearing man.
What did we do a few days ago? We did the same thing Israel did: elected Ahab to the White House. Now, Ahab was a pretty good sort of a fellow. He wanted to repent. But Jezebel, he was married to her, and he couldn't do it. She was the neck that turned the head. And we did the same thing: put a man up there that's married to that Jezebel system that we run from, and become a free nation from. Oh, you politicians that's sold your birthright of Christianity! I'll stop on that. Let's go back. God's promised it. God said it would happen---Revelation 13---so there's no way of getting around it. I just want you to know where you're standing, and what you did.

45 And some of my precious colored people that voted a ticket like that, why, you've brought disgrace to the blood of Abraham Lincoln that took the slave belt from your father. I wouldn't have thought you would have done it. My, don't you know what you did? What did you sell out to? A few extra dollars---the god of the belly instead of the god of the heart. That's what the nations has gone to, is a few extra dollars.
That's what was the matter with Ahab. But, brother, they had one old prophet down there that he didn't compromise with them. He blasted them out. Every one of the organizations kicked him out. They hated him, but he sure told them what was right. And when he got through blasting that old painted-up Jezebel---about them women, the way they were acting ---they all hated him. But one day God said, "You've preached long enough. Get out there in the wilderness. Now I'm going to send judgment." And it did. He did.
Oh, the hour that we're living, friends. But there's one thing sure, one thing sure. When we see our nation gone, we see the world gone, there's one thing that's eternally sure, and that's God's Word. What God said, God'll keep his Word.

46 Let's just take a few characters that I have written on a piece of paper here that I'd like to refer to, a few characters that were sure. And you can be sure. You cannot be sure of God's Word if you just read it. God's got to speak through the Word to you.
Now, Noah, Noah was just as sure it was going to rain as he could be. He was certain of it. There was no uncertain sound when God said, "Noah, build an ark to prepare for the saving of your household." That was no uncertain sound. It seemed like to the people it was uncertain when some wild man, farmer, got some silly idea in his head that he was going to build away on an ark; and it had never rained, or dew had never fell from heaven, or anything.
I can hear the critics say, "Say, Mr. Noah, tell me, where's the rain coming from?"
Well, Noah might have said something like this: "I am certain that was the voice of Almighty God."
"Well, how's the rain coming?"
"If that was God's voice said it's coming, God's able to put it up there to fall down." He was certain it was going to rain, because God's Word said so and it was certain. And he knew it was certain.

47 As I started to speak this morning---when I was interrupted by having to leave---Moses, he was a great military man we're told by historians. And he tried within himself, knowing he was called to the ministry. Now, brethren, this is a lesson for us all. He knowed he had a call in the ministry. We know that ourselves, but let's watch what we do with it. Moses knowed, his mother had taught him, that he was to be the deliverer. He was born a proper child, and how he was nurtured by his mother, and brought up right under Pharaoh's doorstep, and really had his foot on the throne. He knew that he was to be God's deliverer, but he tried to do it in his own system.
And we know we're ministers, that God called us, but let's not try to do it by seeing how many we can get in our organization. If we do, we're going to make the same mistake they made. Let's follow the Spirit. Let's go with God.

48 Moses had maybe never heard the voice of God, but he knowed by intellectual, he knowed by a feeling inside of him, that he was the deliverer. But he tried to do it and failed, so he said, "Maybe I made a mistake."
There might be preachers sitting out here the same way, that thought you made a mistake when you found your failure. You just never waited long enough. The Bible said, "They that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength, mount up with wings like an eagle."
Moses thought that maybe he'd missed his calling. But one day when God spoke to him face to face, and he heard the Word of God, that angel spoke to him and it coincides with the Word... When he saw that the voice that spoke to him was the same thing the Word had promised, then he had faith. And he was certain that he was going down there. He was certain Israel was going to come out from under the bondage because God made the promise. It was a scriptural promise. And the voice spoke to Moses and said, "I have heard the cries of my people and I've remembered my covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and I am sending you down to deliver them."

49 You know when a man really follows God's Word sometimes he acts silly to the world. Could you imagine an old man building on an ark, standing there building an ark. It was silly to the world. And as I said, an old man now, here, eighty years old. It looked like if God was going to use him, He'd have used him when he was a little curly-headed boy, or when he was just at his best in his education. Take forty years to knock that out of him, so He could use him. Taken forty years to take out of him what Pharaoh and his education had put in him.
Taken three years for God to take it out of Paul down in Arabia, to get him back to God, get him back to the Word, out of all the great ... good as it was, the theology he learned by Gamaliel. And as fine as his theology was that Moses learned from Pharaoh, yet it taken God forty years to get it all out of him.

50 One morning when God spoke to him, the next morning he become a wild man to the people. Let God speak to anybody and in the eyes of the world they become crazy. Now, I don't mean a fanatic. I mean a solid man or woman that comes to God. He takes the fanaticism out of you.
Now, we find out that Moses, the next morning, here he was, with his wife sitting on a mule and his little boy Gershom on her hip, and an old crooked stick in his hand. Here he was going down on the road to Egypt to take over. As I said, a one-man invasion going down to take over.
"Where you going, Moses?"
"Going down to Egypt."
"What are you going to do?"
"Take over."
"What are you going to do it with."
"This stick."
"Who said so?"
"God did." Amen. That settles it.
He was just as certain to that as he could be---with that old dry stick. But this old dry stick in the hands of God means more than every machine gun that could be turned towards Egypt. Yes. One little, ignorant, illiterate boy out there in the hands of God, with not enough education to know his ABC's, could bring more power of God out of heaven than all the doctors of theology there is in this United States.

51 [Gap in the audio] Forgetting all of his theology. He didn't have to polish up on nothing ... towards God. And he was certain it was God. He was certain that he was going to deliver them. How is he going to feed two-and-a-half-million people without a bite to eat? A bunch of slaves out there in the wilderness, how is he going to do it? He was certain God would do something about it.
"Brother Branham, when you preach divine healing, there's people with heart trouble and this, how're you going to make it work?" It ain't my business to make it work. That's God's business to do that. But just as certain as I know his Word is true, He sent that angel and said so, and somewhere in here somebody's going to get healed. I'm just as certain of that as I'm standing here. Something's going to come forth because He said so. I don't know who it is, where it's at, but it'll be there. Who is it? I don't know. It's none of my business who it is.

52 Somebody will be saved. "How do you know?" God has said so. I'm certain of it. I'm positive of it. "Brother Branham, you've had an awful struggle. I thought you said the Lord led you over here." He did. "What do you think good will come out of it?" I don't know, but I'm certain He sent me here. I'm certain that He's doing something. I don't know what it is, but I'm certain He's doing it, because of his Word. No guess work---I know it's true.

53 When Abraham, a man seventy-five years old and his wife sixty-five... God met him one day and said, "Abraham, I'm going to give you a baby by your wife, Sarah." She was barren and him sterile, I suppose. And here they was, after all these years. Well, Abraham was just as positive he was going to have that baby as anything.
I can imagine him saying, "Sarah, knit a bunch of little booties and get you some Birdseye and some diaper pins, and let's get started. We're getting ready. We're going to have it." Well, it sounds silly. What if he went down to the doctor and said, "Doctor, wife and I are wanting to make arrangements at the hospital to have a baby."
The doctor would say, "Oh, certainly, Mr. Abraham. Yes, sir. Uh-huh. (Say, would you call a psychiatrist or the psychopathic ward somewhere? That old man has went off of his head.)" But he was certain God was going to do it.

54 The first twenty-eight days: "How you feeling, Honey?"
"There's no difference."
"Glory to God, I'm just as certain as I was." Five years passed. "How you feeling, sweetheart?"
"Not a bit of difference. I'm seventy years old now."
Yes, and Abraham's eighty, that... "I'm just as certain as anything it's going to happen."
Twenty-five years passed. Now she's ninety and he's a hundred. "How you feeling, Sweetheart?"
"No different."
"Glory to God, we're going to have it anyhow." Why? He was certain God keeps his Word. He was fully persuaded that God was able to perform that what He had promised.
Certain. You're certain when God reveals it to you.

55 If God would reveal to that little girl sitting there she was going to walk, I bet the devil could send every demon he's got out of hell, that wouldn't stop her. That man sitting there in a wheel chair, whoever you are, it wouldn't stop you. No, there ain't nothing can stop you when God says so. That settles it.
There in Finland, when that little boy had been laying over on the ground there dead... Now, I've got that documented and signed---pronounced dead. Went and got the mother and father, before the undertaker could take him. Was laying there. I come down. I said, "That's that little boy I seen two years ago in America."
There stood about five hundred people, the mayor of the city. I said to Mrs. Isaacs, "Interpret this." She did. I said, "If that baby doesn't raise from that..." Dead, laying there dead, every bone in his body broke. Wound him up like that, and throwed him out. Even his little feet and things was through his socks, and his shoes off of him, and everything. "If that baby isn't standing on his feet in five minutes from now, I'm a false prophet and a liar, and run me out of this country." Why? I was certain that was God that showed me the vision. It has to be, so there's nothing can stop it. Amen.

56 That night in India, before all those people, when the rajahs on their pillows, and the holy men sitting all around... I'd been in the temple of the Sikhs and Jains that day, and they made fun of Christianity. Said, "The very idea of Christ dying!" When they won't even kill a flea, mop the floor as they go to keep from stepping on a ant, afraid... They believe in reincarnation, think it might be some of their relatives. How could you preach to them a blood sacrifice?
I said, "Let God speak that's God. Some of us has got to be wrong." I picked up the Koran in one hand, the Bible in the other, and I said, "Something's wrong somewhere. Let the God that's real God speak!" Hallelujah!
About that time they brought a blind man up there. I said, "I cannot heal the man, of course not." I said, "His name is spelled R-a-j-a-p-h-e-w, like that."
"That's right."
I said, "He's a beggar. His wife's a little thin woman. He's got two boys. One of them is six and the other one's eight."
"Correct."

57 Standing out there with that anointing, them rajahs sitting out there, and them holy men said, "He's reading their mind."
I thought, "Oh, them hypocrites." Then I looked back ... thought "God, if You'll just do something." I looked back. Here's a vision. There he stood, looking around, in the vision. Oh, brother! Now something happened. I said, "I challenge every Mohammedan priest in here, every priest of Buddha, you Sikhs and Jains that made fun of Christianity, come here and give him his sight. Surely the God that created him, if you...

58 He said, "I'll serve the God that gives me my sight."
I said, "Oh, of course, you say he's wrong, he's a sun worshiper. Sure, he's worshiping the creation instead of the creator." I said, "What would you Jains do? You'd just proselyte and make him a Jain. What would you Mohammedans do? Do the same thing. What would you Buddhists do? The same thing. Just a psychology. We got the same thing in America." I said, "All the Methodists wants to make all the Baptists Methodists; and the Pentecostals wants to make all the Methodists Pentecostal. It's just psychology, that's all." But I said, "Surely the God that made him [hallelujah], the God that made him ought to do something about it."
Do you think I'd have said that? Not by no means if I hadn't seen that vision. I knowed what was going to happen. The devil couldn't do nothing about it then. If He'd show a vision that George Washington was going to rise from the dead in the morning, I'd invite the whole world to stand watch it done, for it's the Word of God. I've seen those visions for fifty-two years and not one has ever failed in all my life. It's God. No uncertainty about it. It's certain.

59 I said, "Now you Mohammedans that say you're the predominant religion, come give him his sight and I'll be your disciple. You Buddhists, you come give him his sight and I'll be your disciple. You holy men, come give him his sight." Tens of thousands times thousands laying in them big fields like that. There sat the mayor of the city. Got his name and address if you want to write to him and ask him.
I said, "Why, you're a awful still crowd. What's the matter with you? You were telling me today how little Christianity was, how great your religion was." I said, "Look at your people out there. Look at your priests. What's the matter with them? They call me a fanatic, an American soap-box salesman---selling religion like I was on a soap box because I shook my arms when the Holy Spirit was on me." I said, "Let them come forth then and give this man his sight." Hallelujah!

60 Watching that vision, I said, "Why don't you come? Because you can't. And neither can I. But the God of heaven, who raised up his Son, Christ Jesus, that gave the vision to me just now that I saw, that that man was standing here with his sight... I saw him in a vision. If He doesn't give him his sight, then I'm a false prophet, and run me out of India. If He does give him his sight, how many of you Mohammedans, Buddhists, and all of you, will receive Christ as your Saviour?" Just black hands as far as you could see.
I said, "Bring him here." Put my arms on him, I said, "Lord Jesus." No more than I said that, he begin to holler something another like that. He could see as good as I could. Run and grabbed the mayor of the city, running up and down like that. What was it? It's the same God. God's Word is just as real tonight as it ever was.
He's even testified to the president.

61 This coming October they've got an amphitheater---they can put a million people in it---in New Delhi where they're having their convention, want me to come up. Certainly He's still God. But you just can't say it because you think it in your mind. You've got to know it. You've got to know. The Word's got to come to you. You've got to know that it's truth.

62 Old Elijah that day when he took all those ... sacrifice, and said, "Let's prove who's God." Said... (See if he was certain about it.) He said, "You go ahead first." Said, "There's a whole bunch of you. There's four hundred of you priests here." Said, "You make a sacrifice, and let the God that answers by fire, let Him be God."
And they were sincere. They wasn't hypocrites. So, they took the sacrifice, and they climbed up on the altar. Elijah walked around and said, "Say, maybe He's pursuing. He might be taking a nap." What was the matter? He was certain. He had saw a vision. He said so. And when he took and poured all the water on the altar, he said, "Lord God of Abraham, Isaac, and of Israel (his prince name; not his deceiver's name) ... Abraham, Isaac, and of Israel, let it be known this day that You're God and I'm your prophet, and I've done all of this at your command." Amen. Hallelujah!

63 When you meet God's conditions, call for the fire and it'll fall. Let the Pentecostal church forget their organization, denominational difference. Let these people throw theirselves into tears around the altar, and let these people come with one accord in one place, and begin to cry out to God and get things right. There'll be another Pentecost take place, and the powers of God will [unclear word] Satan.
You've got to do it at his command. You can't do it as long as you say, "Well, now I know I'm supposed to believe this, but... Really, the Bible says this but I..." Hunh-unh. You're done whipped to start with, see. "Well, I know our church says the days of miracles is past, but, really, I believe they're not," see. You're whipped. You'll never get nowhere like that. That's an uncertain sound. You don't know what to do.

64 Be certain. Who's word's certain? God's! If your church says the days of miracles is past, the Bible said, "He's the same yesterday, today, and forever." "Let every man's word be a lie and mine be true," said God.
That sound's uncertain. "Shake hands with the preacher, give him the right hand of fellowship, and come and make a confession"? The devil did the same thing. He believed that Jesus Christ was the Son of God. He absolutely did.
Cain built an altar and worshipped just as much as any other religious person did. Made the sacrifice and done a great... Put his money on the altar, his goods, and laid down sincerely, and throwed his hands up to God and worshipped. God blankly refused it. That's right. You've got to be certain, brethren. You've got to know it's God speaking. He did that on his own ideas. Abel done it by divine revelation of God, listened to the Word of God.

65 But when everything got right...
David, he was certain. Walked up there one day, and that big old Goliath standing out there saying, "The days of miracles is past. It's all gone." When the devil thinks he's got the edge on you, brother, he can blow and puff. Yes, he can. Standing out there, said, "I'll tell you what---some of you men over there, some of you theologians, come over and pack me." See, "I'll tell you what I'll do," you know.
But one day he said it at the wrong time. There happened to be a little ruddy fellow, knotty, little bitty old guy, little sheepskin coat on, wrapped up there. Maybe weighed about a hundred and ten pounds, hair hanging down in his eyes. Said, "Who is this over there defying the armies of ... the Word of the living God? Who is that over there saying that?"
"Oh, that's Goliath."
He said, "Are you going to stand and let that uncircumcised denomination say that the days of miracles is past, when our God said He's the same yesterday, today, and forever?" Oh, it hit the wrong guy. Yes, sir. They might compromise, but he said, "I don't."

66 They pulled him up before the bishop, Saul. He said, "Now, I tell you what you have to do, son. Before you get into the ministry you'll have to take four years of college training. You'll have to get a PhD and a LLD." And he said, "After I get all this on you..." And they put it on that poor little fellow---so bony he couldn't hold it up. That's just about the way we go.
He said, "Take this stuff off of me." Saul found out right quick that his ecclesiastical vest didn't fit a man of God. His man-made dogmas, he wasn't bowing down to it. No, sir. He said, "Let me go in what I got confidence in."
Said, "Wait a minute, Saul, I want to talk to you. I know this is just a slingshot. I don't know nothing about them old ... how you're supposed to stand and say 'Aaaamen,' and how you're supposed to do all this, and ... I don't know nothing about that." Said, "Listen, I know what I'm talking about." Said, "One day I was herding my father's sheep [amen] and," said, "a bear came in and got one, and I went after him with this slingshot, and I brought him back." He said, "Then a lion come in and got one and took it out, a lamb." Said, "I took this slingshot and went out and knocked him down. When he rose up, I killed him. I brought the sheep back."
Said, "If the God who delivered that lion into my hands, and that bear into my hands, how much more will He deliver that uncircumcised Philistine into my hands." Amen! He was certain. He knowed what he was talking about.

67 Listen. It's true I say my "his and hain't, and tote, and fetch and carry," and maybe a many man here, and your pastor, might not have any Ph, LL, QURSD, all kinds of stuff, on his name but we know what we're talking about. Right. We may be called holy rollers, and insane, and all excited and everything, but we know what we're talking about. Amen. Let me tell you. The devil...
I don't care how much they preach against divine healing, how much they say the days of miracles is past, I'm herding my Father's sheep. A cancer took one and run off. I ain't got no Ph.D., but I got a F-a-i-t-h, going to come after him. I'll bring that lamb back with [unclear words].

68 Watch what he done. He picked up five stones, the number of grace, J-e-s-u-s. Put it in his hand---f-a-i-t-h. F-a-i-t-h in J-e-s-u-s. Here he comes. Oh, little sick sheep, you that the devil's packed off somewhere, and say you have to fill a premature grave, I'm coming after you. I'm going to bring you back to the shady green pastures, still waters, eat with the rest of the flock.
Oh, yes, he knowed what he was talking about. He was certain it was God. He was certain. No uncertainty about that. Said, "How much more will God deliver him into my hands?" (Oh, people, forgive me. I thought it was seven-thirty. Give me ten more minutes, will you? I'll watch. I'll set my clock to alarm if necessary, if you'll just... I've got an alarm on here, anyhow, but I'm ashamed to set it.) But brother, sister, this is true. If the trumpet gives an uncertain sound...

69 Notice, let's just take another person right quick---Simeon. It was revealed to him by the Holy Ghost that he wasn't going to see death until he seen the Lord's Christ. He was a man of reputation. He had a PhD, LLD, QRST too. But the Holy Ghost revealed to him and he wasn't ashamed. He went around telling everybody, an old man over eighty years old. They made fun, said, "The old fellow with one foot in the grave and slipping with the other one, said he's going to see the Christ." But he was certain. He had a right for his testimony, for the Holy Ghost revealed it to him. Amen. He stood there, and he saw Him too.

70 When Jesus was on earth, Jesus was certain of the Father's Word. He said, "You destroy this temple and I'll raise it up again in three days." Not, "I'll try to, maybe it will, perhaps it'll work." He was certain.
Why? David said so. "I'll not suffer my holy one to see corruption, neither will I leave his soul in hell." He knowed corruption set in in three days; somewhere within that three days He'd rise again. He believed the Father's Word. "Destroy this temple and I'll raise it up again in three days." "I will"; not "I'll try to."

71 When Martha come to Him and said, "Our brother Lazarus, Lord, if you'd have been here, he would not have died. But even now whatever you ask God, God will do it."
He said, "I am the resurrection and the life, saith God. He that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live. Whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die. Believest thou this?"
She said, "Yea, Lord." Not, "I think so, Lord. I'm pretty sure. They tell me that you're just a Beelzebub. They tell me you read people's minds." Hunh-unh, it wouldn't have happened. "Yea, Lord, I believe." Glory to God! "I believe that you are the Son of God that was to come into the world." Oh, oh. Something's got to happen. Listen, that's positive. That's positive. When two straight ultimatives meet, something has to happen. Oh, yes. Oh, sure it does. Said, "I believe that you are the Son of God that was to come into the world."
What did Jesus say to her? What did He say? "Well, I tell you what... Where have you buried him? I'll go down and try and see what I can do about it." Hunh-unh. "I'll go down and ask the Father and see what He'll do." Oh, no, hunh-unh. He didn't say that. He said, "I'll go and wake him." There's nothing uncertain about that. "I'll go wake him." "I will"; not "I'll go try." "I will." He knowed exactly what God had showed him, and he knowed it was going to happen. "I'll go and wake him." No uncertain sound in that. No, sir. Not a bit of uncertainty about that.

72 Oh, "Destroy this body, I'll raise it up in three days." Jesus said, "If you be in me and my Word in you, you can ask what you will and it'll be done to you." "It maybe will be done to you."? No, no, there's no uncertainty about that. "I will. It will be done. It shall be done." Is that right?
When He looked at that fig tree and cursed it, and twenty-four hours later He come by, and it was withered. Peter said, "Look, the tree is already withering."
Jesus said, "Have faith in God, for verily, verily, I say unto you, if you [Not me, but you. Amen. Brethren, if you say to this mountain... Not if I say, but if you] say to this mountain, 'Be moved and plucked up and cast into the sea;' and won't doubt, but believe that what you have said shall come to pass, you shall have what you say." Amen. Not maybe you will. Not maybe you will; but you will.

73 Sinner man---painted this dark picture here at the first of my sermon about the hour we're standing---let me quote you a word. Think of it. St. John 5:24 ---five, handful, two dozen of eggs. Read it when you go home. "He that heareth my words and believeth on him that sent me..."
If your nation's breaking, if your home's breaking, if your nerves are breaking, if your health is breaking, if your hopes is breaking, everything breaking, but Jesus Christ said this: "He that heareth my words and believeth on him that sent me has everlasting life, and shall not come to the judgment, but has passed from death unto life." Hallelujah! Not "he may"; "he shall, he hath." "...he may in the future"; but "he has now." He has passed from death unto life and is alive right now.
Oh, I wish I was twice my size, maybe I'd feel twice this good. I'd have to be twice my size to do it. O God, how can I ever thank You!

74 Positive, down through the ages she's never varied. That little old church that believed that Word of God wades right through every persecution. They try to stamp it out, burn it out, persecute it out, kill it out, drown it out; and she wades on.
Some time ago, standing in the Statue of Liberty, a little bunch of sparrows was laying dead. I said, "What's the matter?"
Said, "There was a storm last night, and that big light was beaming out. And those little birds was lost. If they'd just knowed to have took that light, they could've went on to safety. But," said, "what was they trying to do? They run up here and tried to beat the light out." Said, "What did they do? They beat their brains out trying to put out the light---the light that could help them."
You cold, formal Pentecostals, you cold, formal Methodists, you cold, formal Baptists, you unbeliever, that's trying to beat Christ out of the nation, trying to put education and science instead of the Holy Ghost, you'll beat your brains out and the light will still beam on and on and on. He'll have a church that's filled with the Holy Ghost. He'll come for her, and He'll live and reign in it. You'll never beat it out. You're just beating your brains out, studying all kinds of man-made books and dogmas. Take God's Word and read it and say it's the truth and accept it. Sure.

75 "He that believeth in me," St. John 14: "He that believeth in me the works that I do, maybe he shall do the same." That would be so uncertain, wouldn't it? But, "he shall do ... he shall do the same works that I do. And more than this, because I go to my Father." Nothing uncertain about it. It's positive.
You say, "But, Brother Branham, I've joined all the churches."
On the day of Pentecost, as I said last night about Doctor Simon Peter, Peter said, "Repent every one of you, be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost." Not "maybe you will, perhaps you will"; but "you shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost." "For the promise is unto this generation and that's all"? Oh, no. "Unto you and to your children, and to them that's far off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call." Not "maybe"; but "as many as the Lord God calls, you shall receive the Holy Ghost."

76 The trouble is you want to shake hands and sprinkle, instead of repent and be baptized. Repent means "turn around." Leave your unbelief behind, start up the road, believing God, toward Calvary. Turn around! Start up the road, and you will receive the baptism of the Holy Ghost. You shall receive it.
Is that right, brother? I did not misquote that scripture, did I? I put it just the way it's wrote. "You shall receive the Holy Ghost." You shall! Not "maybe, perhaps you will, you ought to"; but, "you shall receive it." Well, the promise is unto you and to your children, and to them that's far off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call. That's certain.
Now don't just walk up and say, "I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God," hold my head over, and a salt shake ... pour a few drops of water on me. I go back and say, "I'm a full fledged member now. I got the right hand of fellowship." You'll never get the Holy Ghost. You ain't got nothing---a lot of confusion. That's right.

77 Lick out your tongue, take a little wafer that some man made, and the priest drinks the wine, say, "I took the holy communion"---the holy eucharist, which means the Holy Ghost. The Holy Ghost didn't come with a wafer. It come like a sound from heaven, like a rushing mighty wind, that filled all the house where they were sitting.
See, that's right. That's uncertain. I can't read that in the Bible. But when I hear it come from heaven like a rushing mighty wind, that's it. Jesus said, "Wait up there at Jerusalem now. Don't you start preaching, I don't care how much experience you got, and how many seminaries you've went through, and how far you're graduated, if you wait up there until..."
"Until what? Till we get our Bachelor of Art degree?"
"No, sir. Wait until..."
"Two days?"
"Until you're endued with power from on high. And then [and not before] will you be witnesses of me in Jerusalem, Judea and Bloomington, Illinois." Anywhere---the utmost parts of the earth. That's the gospel.

78 And so they said, "Now, we'll go up and see if the bishop comes up"? That's what we do today. "Oh, we'll find out if the priest gives us ... confirms us."
That is uncertain sound. I don't know nothing about that. I'm like David, "Take that old armor off of me."
"Well, if you'll go to school and learn."
I don't know nothing about that either. See, I don't know nothing about that. The Bible don't speak anything about that. I never seen anything in the Bible about that.
"Well, now, listen. If you will confess with your lips that Jesus is the Christ and take Him, you have received the Holy Ghost, because the minute that you believe that Jesus is the Christ, you have the Holy Ghost."
That's an uncertain sound. That's right. Paul said---after he seen the people even was saved, and shouting and jumping up-and-down---he said, "Have you received the Holy Ghost since you believed?" Acts 19:5. Oh, yes, he did. And he said, "If an angel from heaven [let alone a preacher], if an angel from heaven preach any other gospel to you than this which I've already preached, let him be accursed." There's no uncertain sound about that. That's the Bible. Certainly.

79 And when they were all up there in one place and one accord and suddenly there came not an uncertain sound, no, but a certain sound came, and it filled all the house where they were sitting. Cloven tongues sat upon them to fulfill Isaiah 28:19's prophecy, that the Holy Ghost sat upon them and they all began to speak with tongues as the Spirit gave them utterance.
Just a moment. Hebrews 13:8 said, "Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever."
"He's partially the same yesterday, today, and forever."
He is the same! No uncertainty about that.
In closing I might say this. I keep you too long, I know I do. But, oh, you poor sleepy heads that has to get out; when they used to pray all night long. I don't know. Please don't think I'm hurting you. I'm just following what He says ... telling me, because I don't know what to say. I ain't got gumption enough to say it, but I just got gumption enough to say what He says say. It's up to you, see.

80 Look, how many ever heard of Paul Rader? He wrote this famous song, "Only Believe." Paul was a wonderful brother. I knew him. He used to be a woodsman. He used to chop wood. And he said one time when he was in the missionary field, he fell sick. I believe he had blackwater fever or something. He and his wife was down in the islands, and they was way away from doctors and everything. And Paul, anybody knowed Paul knowed he was a believer in divine healing. So then...
I'll be preaching right in his tabernacle week after next. By the way, I'm going to be preaching week after next in the suburbs of Bloomington. The suburbs---Chicago, see---of Bloomington, so you come on over. And so then ... remember, don't tell the Chicago people that though. I don't know whether they'd stand for that or not. But anyhow, I'll be over there, the Lord willing.

81 And then Paul Rader, he said he got real sick. Kept getting sicker, sicker, sicker, and it began to get dark in the room. He said, "Wife, come close." Said, "Honey, I may be going now." Said, "Stand by my bedside. Pray for me." It kept getting darker and darker. He kept confessing, "God, You're my healer." Darker and darker, darker, darker, darker, darker. Kept on going. After a while he passed completely out and he dreamed.
He said he thought he was back... He come from Oregon, you know. He said he thought he was back there chopping wood. And his boss in the log woods said, "Paul, go up and fell a certain eighteen-inch tree [or fourteen-inch tree or something like that], bring it down here."
He said, "All right." Said up the hill he went, smelling them wonderful pine needles, and just having a glorious time. Said he took ... "I could feel that old double-bitted axe as she sunk into that soft timber." You know, farther north you go, colder it gets, softer the timber. Hotter it gets, why, harder the timber---the same material.

82 So then, he said he felled the tree, trimmed it up right quick. Said he stuck his axe down in it. My, he ... pick that tree up... You know, Paul was a strong man---weighed better ... weighed over two hundred pounds. So he reached down, put his knees together and... A man's muscles is in his back, and his legs, and so forth. So he reached down so he could pick it up.
And when he got a hold of it he pulled, and he pulled, and he pulled, and he just couldn't get it up. He said, "I've lost my strength. I just can't get that log up. Why, I've packed them twice that size." And he tried again, and he wrestled, and he wrestled, and he wrestled, until he was just wore out. See, it was that fever. Said he got so depleted till he just sat down against a tree and said, "I just can't go no farther. I'm just gone. I can't go no farther."

83 And said directly he heard his voice, his boss's voice. "Paul."
He said, "Yes, boss." Said, "That sounded awful sweet."
Said, "What you tussling with it for?"
So he turned around. He said it wasn't his boss; it was his real boss.
He said, "Paul, you're just wrestling with it, and wrestling with it, and wrestling with it." Said, "You see that stream of water laying right there?"
Said, "Yes."
Said, "That stream of water comes right down to the camp." Said, "Why don't you just throw it in the river, jump on it and ride on down to the camp?"
"Oh," he said, "I never thought of that." Said he just pushed it over in the water and jumped on it. Said over the riffles he went, was having a big time splashing the water, saying, "I'm a-riding on it! I'm a-riding on it!" And when he come to himself he was standing out in the middle of the floor, screaming at the top of his voice, absolutely healed, saying, "I'm riding on it! I'm riding on it! I'm riding on it!"

84 The Bible said, "Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever." I'm riding on it! "The Holy Ghost is for whosoever will." I'm riding on it! I believe that Jesus Christ is alive from the dead, we're living in the last days, and Jesus said, "The works that I do shall he do also that believes on me." And promised in this last day that that Messiahic sign would return to the church.
Theologians, differ if you want to, and I'll point you to "thus saith the Lord." Night after night I've done it. What about it? I'm riding on it, God's Word. Amen. I feel like shouting. I'm riding on it, God's Word. I believe it's for whosoever will, let him come.
I believe He's right here now. I believe that I'll never ... I can't ... those words, if you disagree with them, they're from God. I'm riding on it. I've rode for thirty-one years on it, and as long as the Lord lets me live and keeps my right mind, by his grace I'll ride on it till I come to the river of Jordan. I'll throw it in and ride on it all the way across. Let God be true, his Word; and heavens and earth shall pass away but his Word shall not pass away. Amen. I'm riding on it.

85 I believe that's the Holy Ghost that's in here now. I believe that's Jesus Christ. I believe that's the same One that appeared to them that night, like the speaking in tongues said tonight, or the interpretation. When they were shut in, He showed Himself alive.
Billy ain't give out prayer cards, I believe, but one time this week, I believe he said. I doubt whether there's any here or not. They don't even have to be. We don't need no prayer card. The prayer card's just a number to get you on the platform. You don't have to get on the platform to find Christ. He's where you'll meet Him. He's right out there where you are now. I challenge you to take God's Word and ride on it and find out if it's right. Believe it?

86 How many doesn't have prayer cards? Raise up your hands. You're sick. Well, I guess it's general everywhere.
Heavenly Father, oh, my rude way, Lord... I didn't get a chance to speak like ministers speak in this last days, God. I don't know why You didn't let me have it, but I wish I could make what I have in my heart ... just speak it in such a way that they'd understand it. Please, Lord, let me by the mercies of God in my heart, prove to them that the thing that I'm trying to tell them is the truth, anyhow, Father. I pray that You'll do it once more.
I ask You to do it, Lord, that the people might know that if You said so, it's the truth, God. It's got to be the truth. And it's no uncertain sound. If You raised up again, You said that your church would see You, You'd be with them; and the church would do the same thing You did, and You'd be with them always, even to the end of the world. God, I'm standing on that. You proved it. You said You was, and I know You're here tonight.

87 Then, God, forgive my hysterical, emotional, nervous disposition. And I pray, Father, that You'll forgive us our sins and our unbelief, and that You'll settle us under the power of the Holy Ghost. And may men and women, somebody in here tonight, Lord, have enough faith to call You down from glory. And may their sickness and things be in such a way ... whether it's great, or whether it's not. You're God, You know all things.
You healed a man with some kind of a retarded disease; and left hundreds sitting there twisted, lame, and blind. And then You come around and did heal the twisted, lame, and blind. You're just God. You do what You want to do.

88 I'm your servant, Lord, and these are your servants sitting here. That it might encourage the church, let it be known tonight, Lord. We're going to shut the doors of all unbelief and take You into our hearts, like Cleopas and them who come from Emmaus. You talked to many of these good people---these good Methodists, Baptists, Catholics, Presbyterian, Pentecostals. Maybe they didn't recognize it was You.
Then, Father, I pray tonight that You'll do something just the way You did there. Just the things that You did before You were crucified, so that they'll know that You are the risen Lord, that You're not dead. You're here. You're alive. They've heard it so much, Lord, till it just becomes common to them. But I pray, God, that tonight it'll be afresh to them, to let them know that this living Jesus that's soon coming is here in our midst. Won't You do it, Father? I ask it for God's glory, and for the edifying of thy church, in Jesus' name. Amen.

89 Look on me as his servant. Believe with all your heart, you sick people. Don't you have one doubt in your mind. But you believe with all your heart and see if He remains ... if Jesus Christ lives.
I solemnly hold my hands before God that the only people that I know that I could identify in this building, and I wouldn't say to them, is my friend here, Brother Gene Goad, and Brother Skaggs from Chicago. Works with the Winchester company and has a sporting place, personal friend of mine. I'm not sure if these two little women or three sitting out on here are friends of mine from Chicago. These two little girls sitting here, a little red-head, a little black-head, if (I'm not sure) that's Brother Welch Evans' daughters. Is that right? Outside of that...
Yes, here's one of the Christian business men from Chicago. I can't think of your name. Your son is secretary. Right here. I can't call your name. Yes, You're two together, and I noticed you sitting there. Preaching, this anointing, it's here. I feel it. I know it just blinds you almost, you see, till you're not yourself. Outside of that I don't know anyone, no person.

90 You have faith in God. You believe. Say, "Lord Jesus, I know the Bible says that You are a high priest that can be touched by the feeling of our infirmities, and I know that You're still that high priest." Do you? Say, "Amen." Then if He's the same yesterday, today and forever... Do you believe that? Are you willing to ride your soul on that from here to eternity? That He's the same yesterday, today, and forever? Then if He is the same, how would He act? The same as He did then. Is that right?
Does the Bible say that Jesus is the Word of God? Do we believe that? And the Bible says that the Word of God is a discerner of the thoughts of the heart. Is that right? Then you pray. Isn't that a challenge?

91 Now to you that's in doubt. If you want to come here to this microphone, you critics, if you want to take this microphone and do the same thing, it's yours. Come take my place. And if you can't, then keep still forever. Bishop, dean, doctor, whoever you are, come do it. Then believe on Jesus Christ. Pray, you Christians. You say, "You afraid, Brother Branham?" I'm certain. I'm sure that that angel that spoke to me that night told me the word of God. I'm not afraid. He'll do it. He promised it.

92 Now, I can't heal you. Anyone thinks that, you're not even... You get that in your head, you'll never be called. You get in your head that Jesus Christ has already done it for you. Then have faith. I'm just waiting. If He don't tell me, I can't say a thing. Brother, would you on that piano, "Only Believe," just a moment for a hymn---I've been preaching so hard. Just quietly, "Only Believe." Let's imagine Him come walking down. Say, "Lord, I'm very sick. Will You have mercy on me?
"I can if you believe. For all things are possible to them that believe."
"I've just been told that your Word says such and such a thing, that You would be in your church and make Yourself known just as You did. I've heard him tell it all week long. The man's bound to be telling the truth because I go right home and read it out of the Bible. It's a promise. Maybe I wasn't taught that, but I know it's the truth. I believe You. I believe You, Lord. Help Thou my unbelief."

93 Now there, there. In the name of Jesus Christ, I take every spirit in here under my control. Here, raise your heads. The little gray-headed lady sitting there, right here, this little lady right here, up here in front. Can't you see that light? Look here. An amber light like you see in the picture, there it is right over the lady. It's moving around. Forgive me if I ask you that. This is another dimension. I realize that I'm in an auditorium, and I realize I'm looking at a woman, and she's praying, and I'm watching her.
I never seen her in my life, but I can ... if I was to tell you by the Holy Spirit what you're praying about, you'll know whether it's the truth or not. You're praying about a rupture. That is right. Also an intestinal trouble, complications. If that is right, raise up your hand like this. If I'm a stranger to you, raise your other hand up.
There's a certain sign of his resurrection. She touched something. Is that right?

94 What about you all? Do you believe? Spinal trouble. I don't know you, do I? We're strangers to one another. You got trouble in your spine. What if God would tell me who you were, would you believe me to be his prophet? Miss Hollinback. That's right.
That helped your friend sitting next to you. I don't know you either, but God knows you. But you're not praying for yourself. You're praying for somebody else. If I tell you what it is, will you believe me to be his prophet? You're praying for a nephew that's an alcoholic. That's right. Raise your hand.
I challenge you to believe. This man sitting here with his head bowed, crying, praying, sitting here on the steps. You've got stomach trouble, haven't you, sir? You're a stranger with us. You can just stay a little while, got to go back home. You're from Des Moines. That's right. Your wife has a gland trouble, doesn't she? Your little boy, little child, has got an asthmatic condition. If that's right, raise up your hand. Put your hand over on both of them. Believe, and go home and be well.

95 You don't have no such a thing as a prayer card, do you, sir? You just believe, is that right? We're strangers to one another, raise up your hand. You and I don't know one another. We're strangers to one another. Have faith.
I seen something happen. I'm not too sure where it was. Believe. Be reverent. It's a man. Raise your head, right in here. You're suffering with a gall bladder trouble. You were praying, "O God, let it be me tonight." Is that right, sir? Are we strangers to one another? Raise up your hand if we're strangers to one another. Can't you... ? No, you can't see it, that light above you. You're not from right here. You're from a city called Canton. Right. Your name is Mr. Elkton. That's true isn't it? Raise up your hand. That's right.

96 Here's a lady, down just below you, sitting down this way, hands up to her mouth, praying. She has a stomach trouble. You have a bronchial condition in your throat, too. We're strangers to one another. Say, you're also from Canton. That's exactly right. Your name is Miss Efflend, E-f-f-l-e-n-d. If that's right raise up your hand, or stand up on your feet so the people can see that that's the truth. Now if we're strangers, raise up your hand. Do you believe me? Then I send you home to be well in the name of Jesus Christ.
I'm riding on it! It can't fail. It's Jesus Christ, the Son of God, raised from the dead, doing the same thing the Holy Spirit interpreted to the man tonight and said like it was coming from Emmaus. You're shut in with God. Do you believe it with all your heart?

97 Now it's getting blind to me. How many is sinners in here? Every one of you come here and stand by me just a minute. Do you want to ride into glory on his Word? Come here and stand just a moment. Another one. Come on out of the balcony. Rise up. All sinners come here just a minute, young and old. That's the way to come. Come right ahead, it's all right. Such conviction, and men falling over one another. Come! Come!
Why do you trust in anything that's uncertain, some church theology? Come be born of the Holy Ghost or you're lost. Your church will never save you, as good as it may be. If you only belong to church, you're lost until you're born again. Come! God gave the Word as a certain sound, He confirms it with a certain sound, and it's perfectly in order. Come. Every soul by sin oppressed, come, trust in the Lord. I invite you to come. No uncertainty about this. God said so. God confirms the Word. And you're hearing, for some of ... the last time, because I'm leaving the country; and there'll never be another on the field till I'm gone. Thus saith the Lord. There has not been, and will not be. Come while you can.

98 Remember, I'll meet you at the judgment. You say, "You ought to sing some pathetic song." You ought to get up out of your seat and come on the conviction, not of a pathetic song, but the Word of God and the witness of the Holy Ghost! Flee the wrath of God to come. Flee the scorch of hell [unclear words]. Come while you got a chance to come. Remember, I say in the name of Jesus Christ, I will not be responsible for your sins at the day of judgment if you don't come right now and receive Christ.
You that have not got the Holy Ghost, you that don't know that you're real Christians, you come. I challenge you, I call you, I persuade you in the name of Jesus Christ to come. You think it's too far up in the balcony? It'll be a longer distance than that when you walk that road to the eternal hell, where you'll scorch [unclear words].

99 Lord, the rest is yours. I can do no more. The hour is growing late. God's patience is growing thin. This may be the last time you'll ever have a call at your heart. You better come. You might cry for that call some night when you're laying out there on the highway, blood running out of your veins, pinned under a car; laying there in the bed, the doctor saying you're gone. You might want that feeling come to your heart. It'll not be there. He'll laugh at you. You'd better come now. Remember, I tell you in the name of the Lord.
You believe... I ain't calling myself his prophet. You did. I know the Word of the Lord, then, is true. He's confirmed it. Come every soul, come. That's right, come, come now while you can come. Flee the wrath that's coming [unclear words].
Saviour, Saviour,
(All right, personal workers)
Hear my humble cry;
While on others Thou art calling,
(Sinner, come with them)
Do not pass me by.
(You say you're afraid of losing a little sleep? What about life?)
Saviour, Saviour,
Hear my humble cry;
While on others Thou art calling,
Do not pass me by.
Saviour, Saviour,
Hear my humble cry.
While on others Thou art calling,
Do not pass me by.

100 Just one moment. You Methodist students here, I'd like to speak to you just a moment. Kneeling here before me is a Methodist preacher. His brother is one of the great men at Asbury. Still a Methodist, but is filled with the Holy Ghost. The power of God's in his life. Brother Collins, will you just stand to your feet a minute? A Methodist preacher, and here all of his family's Methodists, come through the Methodist college, and schools, everything. High degrees, everything, and here he is. Hears the voice of God, and come and received the baptism of the Holy Ghost. Is it real, Brother Collins? To the Methodist students. Come all of you. There is a fountain filled with blood, drawn from Emmanuel's veins. Come.
Oh, hear my humble cry.
While on others Thou art calling,
Do not pass me by.

101 Now let's all bow our heads everywhere. Methodists, you pray the way you do in your Methodist church. Baptists, you do the same. Presbyterian, you do the same. Pentecostals, you do the same. You here upon your knees, I give you to Jesus Christ as the trophies of his Word. Our heavenly Father, I give unto Thee this group of people tonight as trophies of your message, of your Holy Spirit, the certain sound that comes forth that proves that You are not dead; but You're a living Christ that lives in your church, that lives in your people, that gives to them the Holy Spirit [unclear words] to all who will come, regardless of their affiliation, their system, that they might belong to.
You are God, You change not. You proved Yourself to be God. You know the heart of every man. You know the name of every man. You know the place and calling. You know everything, God, because You're omnipresent, omnipotent, infinite God. I pray that You'll save them, Lord, by your grace. Fill them with the Holy Ghost. Send the Spirit of God upon this whole audience, Lord, and just let every heart be saturated. May the believers now be anointed with the Holy Ghost that they might be thankful to God that they are saved in these days. Grant it, Lord. Let every one that's [unclear words]. ( I'm tired and I'm weary. Will you take the service? God bless you.) Right now, this is the hour. Amen. Stand to your feet to receive the Holy Ghost, every one of you.

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1 ... to mean so much to us. He's our life, our all in all. We thank Thee for this another opportunity to embrace Him and to love Him. We thank You for his people, and here tonight they're standing before me, the purchase of his blood, and I have the privilege to speak to them. I pray that You'll anoint the lips, Lord, that speak, the ears that hear, and may the Word of God fall into the good rich soil of faith. May many be healed and saved, for we ask it in Jesus' name. Amen.
[Someone speaks in tongues and another interprets: "I am the Lord that hath redeemed thee. I have redeemed thee at a time that thou knowest not. Yea, my people, as ye humble your hearts before God, the Lord thy God, the everlasting God, will fill you with his glory. For his glory is to descend upon his people and, yea, they that seek Him with their whole heart and that will obey Him in all things the Lord thy God doth give thee. The Lord thy God will reveal thyself to him as the Word of God goes forth. Believe ye in the Lord thy God, believe ye and all will be [unclear words] and God will rejoice greatly as you believe the Word of God."]
Amen. Thanks be to our heavenly Father for that strong exhortation. If we'll believe Him---that's what we must do, believe his Word, and everything that we have need of will be furnished. "Seek ye first the kingdom of God and his righteousness. Other things will be added."

2 Now I know you're probably tired this morning. We kept you over at the building until around eleven thirty (over to the breakfast); and I think our precious brother David had the service this afternoon, and you're probably all filled up with gospel. Only thing you can do now is just go to putting it to action and it'll all be over. So that's what we need.
Now, I'm certainly grateful tonight to have this honorable group of men and women here behind me, which are servants of Christ, to pray for me while I try to speak to you for a few moments. And I appreciate all you out in there that's praying also. If you ever want to do something for me, just pray for me.

3 Feeling better, son? It's going to be all right now.
[Someone speaks in tongues and another interprets: "Yea, I say unto thee, my people, this is my day. Yea, I say unto thee, my people, I would have a people that are called by my name. Yea, I say unto thee, my people, many years, many years have I cried unto thee. Yea, I say unto thee, my people, open up your hearts and I, the Lord thy God, will move in your hearts as I have never moved before. Yea, my people, I love thee with a greater love than thou knowest. Yea, my people, I love thee and I desire to work in these days. Yea, my people, I say yield to my Spirit, yield to my Spirit."]
Amen. Thanks be to God. How wonderful it is to sit in heavenly places in Christ Jesus. By one Spirit we're all baptized into one body and sitting together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus. Don't you love that? Isn't it heavenly and beautiful to be... ?
We're sorry that so many are standing out in the halls and so forth. Wish we had a place for you to be seated, but we don't have tonight. And maybe ... tomorrow afternoon the services will begin at ... I think it's two o'clock. Is that... ? Three o'clock tomorrow afternoon. I'm sorry, three o'clock tomorrow afternoon the services begin.

4 That will give you a chance to go to church and have your service, then get back here, our services tomorrow afternoon, and then back to your own service. Visitors, these pastors here on the platform would certainly welcome you; and around these full gospel churches, if you're visiting here, be sure to find one of them and go to church tomorrow, because that's the place we all need to be---in the house of God on Sunday to worship the Lord.
Now, and then tomorrow afternoon, you that's coming for prayer cards... I'd like to invite especially the pastors tomorrow because I want them to help me pray for the sick. I want to prove to you that God just doesn't answer one man's prayer, He answers anybody's prayer that'll pray. And so come out and help us.

5 And we'll be giving the prayer cards out about three o'clock, or maybe about two-thirty, quarter till three, so that all the ... we won't interrupt with the rest of the service. And the boys will be giving out the prayer cards about two-thirty tomorrow afternoon.
Now, over in the Scriptures if we would turn for a few moments and try to... This morning, I missed it again this morning. I said, "Sure, if it's ten-thirty..." I said to Billy, "You watch me be out at eleven o'clock. Or, you just watch me, I'm going to get up there and just say a few words." And I got talking about the Lord, didn't get out till eleven-thirty. So I can never get that thirty-minutes message, so I guess I might as well give up and just quit trying.

6 Then over in I Corinthians in the fourteenth chapter, the eighth verse, we read this:
For if the trumpet give an uncertain sound, who shall prepare himself for ... battle?
And now, being many are standing, I will try to be just as briefly as possible. And happy to hear these reports here about... Brother ... someone was telling Brother David that hundred and something received the Holy Ghost. Oh, my! Doesn't that burn your heart? Just to see people in this last hours coming into the kingdom of God, receiving the Holy Ghost.

7 And Brother David here has a ministry that he ministers out amongst the ecclesiastical groups that's not Pentecostal, and I read some of the articles (which are astounding) how that God is moving out there, bringing his people in.
We're thanking God for those things; for all these great ministries. Hear him speak of Oral Roberts and Tommy Osborn, and those brethren are really precious, and dear children of God. And I'm so glad to know that the Lord Jesus let me have a little part in their ministry to kind of give a little something, that maybe over in the other lands when we sit down and I see all their tens of thousands coming in, I'll say, "Thank You, Lord. I'm glad I knowed no better than just do what You told me to do." See them come in.

8 Now, "... if the trumpet gives an uncertain sound who shall prepare himself for battle?" Now, that is quite a statement---the uncertain sound. Now, if you're not certain, then you can't have faith. If there's no certainty then you cannot have any faith, because faith is something that's certain. You know it. It's the... "Faith is the substance of things that's hoped for, the evidence of things that's not seen." It's not a myth, it's just not imagination; and it's not hope, but it's faith. And faith is a substance. It's something that God has given you. And then you do not see it, but yet you just as sure got it as if you had it right in your hand. And faith is what purchases the product that you are hoping for.

9 And now, Paul speaking here of the uncertain sound. I kind of chose this because ... for tonight's service, because we're living in such a day of uncertainty. There's so much that's uncertain today. And we're ... like our nation. The national security is so uncertain. A few years ago, why, we said there'd be no more wars, but we find out that we still have wars. And we will have them till Christ comes and takes over the kingdom, because as long as Satan is ruling in the kingdom we'll have wars and troubles. But the uncertainty of the security of the nation... Not only this nation, but all nations. Because little nations now can just ... got the same weapons that the big nations has got. And the security is certainly uncertain.
And we don't know just what, there's unrest amongst the people.

10 Traveling around from nation to nation I find that everyone seems to be nervous. And the psychic wards are filling up, and the people are ... down the street... There seems to be so much anxiety.
And rush just as hard as they can till they don't have courtesy even one for the other. And I've noticed it amongst all people. Here recently I was having a meeting in a certain place where there was a parking ground. And I noticed amongst our Pentecostal people, pulling their cars sideways this way. If they'd just pulled it in straight it would give somebody else a chance. And they have some Pentecostal cursing. I don't know whether you ever heard of it or not.

11 They go down the road at night, and the man will dim his lights. And the next man won't even dim his lights, just go on, pay no attention to it---let him go, and blind him if necessary. That's Pentecostal cursing, you see. Let him alone.
We shouldn't do that. No matter what the other fellow does, let's show what we're made out of. Let's get something down in here to show love and respect. And respect the next man, and love him whether he's right or wrong. If you can just love those who love you, why the sinners do the same thing. But we are different when Christ has come into our heart---we love those who do not love us. Love the unlovable. And we were unlovable one time too, you know, and Christ loved us until we came to Him. And then if we be of Christ and Christ is in us, we have that same Spirit of fellowship, and cooperation, and helping to try to move the great load and make life a little easier for our fellow man.

12 Now, just recently I was interested in reading the paper, watching this here missile race. And I think that Brother DuPlessis gave us a good lesson on that this morning about the world trying to put a man in space, and see who can do it first. We've had a man in space for two thousand years---Jesus Christ. That is right. But Russia thought they could toot a horn the other day when they got a man get up in some kind of a little gadget and go around the world in an hour or two. Why, my, Jesus can come from glory quicker than a thought can get there to Him. That's just how much ... this is how fast this is.

13 You know Einstein proved that if two forces are coming fast enough, they could pass right through each other and never bother each other. If two cars were coming down the road, and they were both going at the terrific speed---faster than sound, just billions of miles per second---they'd probably pass right through each other without hurting one another at all. He proved that by forces striking together.
Well, then, you see, we are such earth-bound people about all we think about, and can think about, is time and space; but when we leave this world we go in to where there is no time.

14 We can think of fifty miles an hour, hundred miles an hour, two thousand miles an hour, or ten thousand miles an hour. That don't even start when we think of eternity.
How fast Jesus, after He had been glorified and received his glorified body, raised up from the dead and had ascended on high to the Father, come back in a few seconds later and with such terrific speed till He come right in before his disciples through a wall and never even moved the wall---and yet with a body that could stand there and eat fish and bread. That's speed, coming through. And He can come all the way from glory to your heart as quick as you can think about Him. Quick as you can confess wrong, He can run the devil out and bring Himself in. Just as fast as you can have enough faith to believe it. How speed...

15 But of course, as I've said, we are an earthen people, and we can only measure inches, miles, and so forth. It's just like, as once quoted, what if a little baby in the womb of its mother could think, and it would happen to say, "Well, you know they tell me it's just a few days and I'm going to be born. Woe is me. They tell me that outside there there's so much room, and there's a sun that shines, and people walk about. Where will I get my living? I derive my living from right inside. What will become of me? Woe is me when I'm born." But then after he's born, he'd never want to go back again.
Well, that's the way we try to think, and multiply that by millions, trying to compare heavenly things with earthly things. It's so much greater. When death strikes us and we leave this great land here called the world to that land beyond, why, we'd never want to come back to this place again, this land of corruption and heartaches.

16 In the Businessmen's Journal they published a ... I'll call it a vision, although it never was like any vision I ever had. I've seen ... the Lord has been graceful to me to let me see visions since I was just about ... less than about two years old. And, then, I've seen many visions but nothing like this, because I was standing there looking down at myself. And I saw those people, shook their hands, and they were just as much people as we are people; only there was no yesterday, no tomorrow, and there was no old aged people. They were all young.
And, oh, I thought I always wanted to live to see Jesus come, because I never wanted to be a spirit, and I was always afraid of spooks. And I didn't want to die and become a little cloud, like a little white cloud floating around somewhere; and see my brother, and say, "There they are. Wish I could shake their hand, but they haven't got no hand to shake. It's dead and they're in the grave."

17 And then was made alive that scripture, "If this earthly tabernacle be dissolved we have one already waiting." Oh, just move out of here right into that one. Oh, I tell you that gives us great hopes. No matter what the world thinks and how unsecure the world is, when we can think on those things, all fear leaves. And then we become fellow citizens of the kingdom, and respect one another. And those who are not fellow citizens we want to woo them to that place, where they can... No one should ever miss that place.
I'm a middle-aged man. I'm fifty-two years old. I got a wife and baby sitting here tonight, a young man, my son here, two daughters at home. And if it wasn't for preaching the gospel, and raising those children to see that they come up right, and for the gospel's sake, it wouldn't scare me one bit to leave right now, right here in your presence. It's a glorious place. So it taken all the fear out of me---that I once feared to die, I do not fear it any more. I'm thankful for that.

18 Now, so then what if the nation doesn't have its security? And what if Russia drops a sputnick, or bomb, or whatever the missiles are, they call them? What difference does it make? Well, that's just a homegoing ladder for us, just a quick escape from all these things that go on, because we'll go before it drops anyhow. So ... the Bible, I believe, teaches that. Jesus said, "As it was in the days of Noah, and the days of Lot..." In the days of Noah, before judgment struck the earth Noah was on the inside of the ark before it even sprinkled rain. Certainly. He was out of danger.
And the angel said to Lot, "Hasten and go hither, because I can do nothing until you're out of here." See, they had to get out first.

19 And I believe the trumpet of God shall sound one of these mornings, the dead in Christ shall rise, we which are alive and remain shall be changed in a moment, in a twinkling of an eye, and be caught up together with them to meet the Lord in the air; and then the great punishment for the wicked will begin on the earth. And if we know we could be blown to pieces before morning, and science says it's about a minute before midnight now, how close then is the coming of the Lord Jesus? But it'll take place before the others can.
So there's no security of the nation. Nervous men trying to sign treaties, and like a bunch of children, fussing and stabbing at one another. And we ought to watch those things because it's necessary that we watch them.

20 Here the other day these conferences they've been having, there was Mr. Eisenhower and Khrushchev met up here in the United States. Eisenhower represented all the western nations, and Khrushchev represented all the eastern nations. And did you notice? There was nothing they could say they could get along. Khrushchev took his shoe off and beat it on the desk, and everything.
Well, don't you know that exactly fulfills what the prophet said? Do you know what Khrushchev means in Russia? Means "clay." You know what Eisenhower means in English? Iron. Iron and clay, the east and west, them two big toes of the vision of Daniel. We're already at the end, friends.

21 Oh, we have to have this unrest amongst the nations. Nations shall rise against nation, kingdom against kingdom, be perplexed of time, distress between the nations, sea roaring. Why, the world seems like it's in a nervous prostration.
Another thing---our jobs. Our jobs are so uncertain. I was talking to a young man just returned from the army, out in the hall. Come back, he had no job. And you don't know one day from the next where somebody's going to... You get up to a place of seniority, somebody steps down. To keep from being retired they find something against you, and you're out on the street, and then too old to get a job. You're past about twenty-five, it don't do much good to look for a job nowadays.

22 So they just ... see, they think, what is a man going to do after he's thirty-five, forty years old if he hasn't got a way of making a living? So, then, if you're at a job, most any time they can just drop you off for one little thing, and that fires you and you're cut off then. So there's no security in jobs, we know that. No certainty of it.
No certainty of what time our nations could be blowed up. Miami, Florida, I think, in this coming Christian Businessmen's meeting there's a man coming that's going to be from up in Greenland, who had his hand on the lever just recently. It would've sent the world to destruction. And was so nervous he didn't know what to do. They got a bomb or some missile in the screen and they thought Russia was fixing to fire it, so... Missiles are sitting everywhere. Right on a powder keg, that the whole thing could be blowed up any time.

23 So there's no security.
There's no way to get away from it. You can't dig down. Them bombs will blow a hundred and fifty feet in the ground for a hundred miles square almost. And that's what we know about. What of those that we do not know about? Every nation has its secret things they're holding back, and just wonder what we do not know about. Then they're talking about all this parading, and going into places and finding somewhere a bomb shelter. Digging down in the ground, going to move the government under some tunnel. What good would it do? Well, if one of them bombs would hit, you'd be fifteen hundred feet below it, it would break every bone in your body, the concussion would.

24 There's no way of hiding down here. There's only one way you have to figure to hide: that's go up, get out of it. And there's only one way up. Oh, I like our man in space. I like it, because He said He would take us out of it, get out of this thing. Yes, sir.
There's no security in the nations. You say, "I'll run to this little nation, that little nation." Why, it'll all be blown up. And there's no security here in the nation. There's no security in our jobs.
And notice in this day that home life has become a situation that ought to be dealt with. My, you see little boys going out and taking a rifle and shooting papa and mama while they're laying in bed. Dishonesty amongst our women and men, our mothers and fathers. In lots of big cities the husband and wife pack secret keys, or same keys rather, passkeys to their apartment. Each one comes in, eat a meal somewhere, and one has got a date, and the other one's got a date. My!

25 Have no more decency, no respect in home. Homes in these days don't have the old fashioned home---too many of them doesn't have---where the Bible's open and Dad reads a chapter, and they kneel around the table and pray.
People go in, sit down, and eat, just... I've seen people go to the table and just start gauming and slopping around, eating, never ask the blessing. You know that just... I don't mean to make this as a joke; I want to say it for a point I noticed one time. It was out when we was living on the farm. It was a hog under an apple tree, and them apples was falling off and hitting him on the head. And he eat apples all day long and he never did look up to see where they was coming from. That's right. Well, that don't only go on hogs. You don't realize where that food comes from. You better look up and thank God for it, because He was the one who gave it.

26 We don't have no more security of the home. Send your children to school, what do they teach them out there? Many times, too many times, they teach them we come from apes. Well, we don't believe that. No, and if a man's no more than an animal, then eat, drink and be merry. That's what makes so many juvenile delinquents. That's what makes so many crimes committed. Because the people's no more than an animal, it makes him act like an animal. We got to tell him he's a son of God, born for the kingdom of God, and he is somebody.
This is just a negative, a picture negative, waiting for it to be developed some day, and death is the only thing that can develop it. When you die out to yourself, a new picture starts on the inside; and then that new creature---Christ Jesus---begins to show itself through. One of these days He'll come and receive you up to Himself. Then the whole thing will be changed, and then this negative shadow will become a positive.

27 We find out that the security of the home is very uncertain. A young man can go out and get him a wife, a young woman take herself a husband. He might act like a gentleman and everything, but it certainly is a chance to take. And we find everything going on in the homes everywhere, breaking up. America has more divorces, I think, than any other nation in the world---where we're supposed to have civilization. And every year we find out that each year people begin to act a little more uncivilized. Could you imagine men that could kill men and women and little children---and that's cultured, what's supposed to be?
In the old times, when the revolution was fought, when... I believe it was Stonewall Jackson on top of Lookout Mountain, and another great general at the bottom. They had their cannons trained to one another. And then when they got ready to fire the next morning, Jackson gave orders to go out, hollered down to the bottom of the hill and said, "Brethren, get ready, we're going to fire on you."

28 And now over there in Germany and different places where fellows like Hitler taking those poor Jews out, and, why, the marks of it's still there. They killed them by the tens of thousands, by the millions. One, two men responsible, supposed to be highly cultured, educated. It'd be good if we didn't know our ABC's, and know Christ, and then it wouldn't produce such stuff as that. No, it certainly is insecure.
National affairs, jobs, homes, and now I want to speak on something else that's giving an uncertain sound, what we put so much confidence in. We make such a fuss about it. That's politics. Old neighbors fall out, fuss and stew, over politics. One's a Democrat and the other one's Republican and, why, they fuss and fight about it, and when both parties is as rotten and dirty as they can be. That's right. So one can't call the other one wrong, because they're both wrong. That's exactly right.

29 But politics... Some years ago when it was first brought out about democracy, one of the lords of England said, "It's all sails and no anchor." Said, "Soon they'll be standing on (politicians) on soap boxes lecturing." Well, that's right, exactly right. But he didn't think of his own beautiful House of Lords, what was going to happen to it too, and ... Commons. But, there you find that all these things has to come to an end.
I believe in democracy, but I believe that democracy is just like it was in France during the time of Joan of Arc. France needed a revolution, that's right; but after they had the revolution they needed a counter revolution to straighten up some of the things that they were revolting about. And I think democracy is right, but after democracy's won, then we need some straightening up in democracy. That's right. I think the church is right, but after the church has conquered, then we need some straightening up in the church. That's right.

30 Politics. Just recently ... I'm neither Democrat nor Republican. I'm a Christian, so I don't... I voted for one man: that was Jesus Christ, and He accepted it. And I'm bound to win on that one, so that's who I'm electioneering for, is for Him. And my mother was a Democrat (oh, my!) and my daddy was that much Republican, so there we had it in the home. And so, one would vote, every time would kill the other one's vote. No, sir, they just wouldn't give in. So that's the way it is, see. It's like a bunch of kids playing. I think there'd be good in either party, or bad in parties. It just depends on the person.
I think that's the way it is about Methodist, Baptist, or Presbyterian, or Pentecostal. It's the individual that's in the church.

31 If you're a Catholic and you're depending on the Catholic church for salvation, you are lost. And if you're a Pentecostal and depending on the Pentecostal church for salvation, you're lost. But if you're a Catholic and you've got faith in Jesus Christ and trust in Him, you're saved by your faith through grace. The same thing by any other church. It's the individual. It's the system, as I've said, that's throwed away brotherhood. It's not the church itself.
Now, politics, you can't put no confidence in them. We just had an election that proved to be one of the most crooked things that ever hit the nation. Right. But what did they do? They had a machine was foolproof. And the FBI exposed it, and give it out in the papers and everywhere, that the machines was set up that every time they voted for Mr. Nixon, they had to vote for Kennedy the same time. And the FBI exposed it. Did they do anything about it? No, sir. Then it's crooked. That's right.

32 Now, somebody said, "You'll get shot one of these days for saying that." This is the best place I know to die. And I know no better cause to die for. This nation has been a great deal like Israel. Israel was a people that was in bondage. And that little group of Israelites that were in bondage and loved freedom and wanted to worship the true and living God, God delivered them from their slave pits, and took them into a land that was promised to them; and drove back the occupants of that land, and they took over the land and become a mighty nation. They had mighty men. And this nation did the same thing. We were a people tied down, no freedom of religion, and God sent our forefathers to this nation. We drove back the occupants and took over, and has become the leading nation of the world.

33 And Israel was the leading nation of the world in her days because they had great godly men, men like David, like Solomon, men of honor, men of integrity, men that knowed God and trusted God. But one day there come a renegade that got elected to the throne, and that was Ahab, a borderline believer.
This nation was known all over the world as the leading nation, because we've had godly men behind it. Abraham Lincoln, George Washington, men like that who trusted God and feared God. But just as Israel made its mistake and put Ahab in, we did the same thing not long ago.
When Ahab come in, he married Jezebel, and Jezebel was a heathen. And it wasn't Ahab. Ahab was a pretty good fellow. He wanted to ... repented many times. But it wasn't Ahab; it was Jezebel behind the throne, because he was married to her; and she controlled him, and brought sin to the nation and sin to the people.

34 And the same thing's happened now. Some of you good square-backed Democrats might disagree with that. But let me tell you, you thought so much of your politics instead of God's Bible, you let it come right in, take over. God first! What are we here for? Freedom of religion of what? That Jezebel system. Our president now is married to that Jezebel system. That's exactly right. Just as it was then, so is it now. Yet in him, the president, I have nothing against him, but that system behind it.
Did you notice just recently about the schools? How slick they tried to get that one over? Certainly. That's just the beginning of it. You just wait. Yes, sir. You just wait. You're better warned than that by Holy Ghost preachers who's warned you.
But what's the matter? We sold our birthrights for politics.

35 You've played politics in church, and so forth, and then what did you do? You've anchored the whole nation and sold out your God-given birthrights to the very thing that you were brought here for, for freedom from. That's exactly right. Amen. I didn't aim to get on that. It's too late now. That's to fulfill prophecy. That's exactly the reason they wouldn't correct it after the machines was proven crooked.
This is later than you think. It's just got to be. Now, no, we cannot ... politics gives an uncertain sound. You don't know. You can vote, and vote, and vote, and vote. Don't make any difference, they run it the way they want to. So there's uncertainty in politics.

36 In the church there's uncertainty. Why, we've got hundreds of denominations, each one saying, "Ours is right. They're no good. We got it."
About nine hundred different organizations here in the United States. How can they all be right? Now, there's an uncertain sound there somewhere. It's not sounding right. One say, "You come over and join our church."
"You leave this one and come join ours."
The next one join... People pack a letter from church to church till they wear it out. Just changing the name from Methodist to Baptist, to Presbyterian, to Lutheran, to Pentecostal, Oneness, twoness, threeness and, why, it's ... my goodness. Why don't you forget it? Put your name on the Lamb's book of life in heaven. You won't have to move it no more.

37 Uncertainty, the church giving uncertain sounds. The Baptists had a slogan not long ago, "A million more in '44." What did we get? You got a million more joiners. Certainly. If all the people that's in this United States that profess to be Christians in some category---Catholic or Protestant---of the churches, if every one of those people were born again Christians, I'm telling you, this country would be so dry a bootlegger would have to prime himself to get enough moisture about him to spit. That's right.

38 It would be, oh, it would be different. But today they sell those people whiskey, and then arrest them for drinking. God have mercy! Politics, church, and everything. Certainly is uncertain sound. Uncertainty.
Come and join, come and put your name on. That's not the idea. Come and be born. Come and die. Come and rot to yourself and your own thoughts and let Christ come in, and become a new creature. That's the idea. Uncertainty in national, uncertainty in jobs, uncertainty in home, uncertainty sounds in politics, uncertain sounds in churches.
Well, even life itself is uncertain. We don't know when we're going, but there's one thing sure, we know we have to go.

39 As the old slogan is, there's two things that's sure---that's taxes and death. And you're going to meet both of them, so why not prepare for it? That's right. Uncertainty of life, uncertainty of church, so much uncertain.
Then you say, "Brother Branham, you're sure taking us out on a limb. Is there anything that is certain?" I can stand here and read off a list of things that is uncertain. Nations uncertain. Uncertain sound, who knows what to do? Jobs, politics, is uncertain, church is uncertain, home life is uncertain. What is certain? Is there anything that's certain?
Yes, there's one thing I'll guarantee is certain. That's the Word of God. That's right.

40 In Matthew, the twenty-fourth chapter and the thirty-fifth verse, Jesus said, "Heavens and earth will pass away but my words shall never fail." Just as certain that God says anything, it's just that certain it's going to come to pass.
Before there was a world, before there was ... four thousand years before Christ was ever born, the Bible said He was the Lamb of God slain since the foundation of the world. For when God's program was drawed out and He knowed what was going to happen, in his great mind He knew that He'd have to slay his own Son to save the world, and it was settled as soon as God spoke it. Amen. When God says anything, it's just as eternal as He is. It cannot fail---God's Word. Jesus said, "Both heavens and earth will pass away but my words shall never fail." Oh, certainly it is certain. There's no uncertainty about it.

41 It might make you act strange when you receive it. You might not act like you used to, and that's one thing certain too. Paul said, "The life that I now live..." He must have lived a different kind of life once. And yet he was raised up religious, but he had a new kind of life. "Not me, but Christ liveth in me." See, he had passed from one life into another. And just as certain as you receive the Word of God into your heart then you'll have eternal life and you'll act strange, look strange, and be different than what you were.
Let's just go back for a few moments now, about ten minutes, and check some of them that has ... men in past times who has rested solely upon the certainty of God's Word sounding.

42 Noah, way back in the beginning before the antediluvian destruction, maybe a farmer out in the field, but one day he met God, and God told him it was going to rain. Noah was just as sure it was going to rain as he was sure he was Noah. And he went about preparing an ark for the saving of his household because he was certain that it was going to rain.
No matter how unscientific it seemed, no matter how many scientists could prove there's not one speck of water up there, there could not be a cloud form, there could not be this, that, or the other, no matter how scientific it seemed, he was certain it was going to rain. And he made arrangements for it. Amen.
That's the way, brother. When you're certain, make arrangements for it. If you're certain tonight that you're not going out of here sick, if God's revealed it to you, you're not going out ... make arrangements. If you say, "I'm crippled, I can't walk, but I'm certain in my heart God spoke to me a while ago and said, 'Tonight you're going to walk out of this building,' " just get ready, you're going out. That's right. Be certain in your heart. When God speaks, it's certain. Eternally certain when God speaks, no uncertain sound about it at all.

43 Moses, a man that was smart, highly educated, polished scholar, could even teach the Egyptians. He was a military man we're told, knowed all the genius of militarism. And he found out that he failed in his militarism, when he had all of the army of Pharaoh behind him and would have been heir to the throne. But one day---after he had run and been out in the wilderness for forty years, married, settled down, had a wife and child---one day on the backside of the desert, an old man eighty years old, with long whiskers, herding sheep, got a glimpse of a burning bush. Stood before that bush, and he heard God say, "Surely I'll be with you. Go down in Egypt." And Moses was certain that nothing was going to bother him. He knowed that he was going down to deliver the people, because he was certain God told him the truth; because he knowed it was God, and he knowed it was God's plan and God's Word to deliver them.

44 Now, if Moses could be that certain, for one old man to go down and take a nation out of a nation, how much more certain ought we to be when we read God's Word and see that we're living in this time that we're living in now. We ought to be so certain of an oncoming revival, we ought to be so certain of a pouring out of the Holy Ghost, we ought to be so certain of our healing. God said so, that settles it.

45 Moses was perfectly certain that Israel was going to be delivered. He didn't know how. He didn't have nothing in his hand but an old stick, but he was going down anyhow. He didn't know how it was going to be done, but he knowed that God had spoke to him, and he was on his road. He'd get down there, and let God do what He wanted to after he got there.
So that's the way you say, "Brother Branham, I got cancer. How can I be certain?" Let God speak to you. Accept the Word. "Well, the doctor said..." I know the man done everything he could do for you, no doubt. But if God has spoke to you, just be certain that it's God, and then move on.

46 God speaks to you, you see God, see his power, see his resurrection, see his works and his signs, and you know that He's here, then accept Him and accept his Word. If you can feel it way down in your heart that it's true, then just go right on. Make preparations, because everything is going to be all right.
That little girl that I spoke of here the other night (maybe the little lady's here tonight), with the baby that had that foot hanging up, from Zion, she was so certain that that baby was going to walk, she got him a pair of shoes, see. And come down for it to be prayed for.

47 And then when she crossed the platform to be prayed for, she looked, the baby tried its foot, and it was no better. So she went down to mother's, and mother knew I was out to the office, so she sent the girl out there. The little girl come in. I said, "Wasn't you the lady was prayed for last night?"
And said, "Yes, but you know the Lord has spoke to me, and said for me to bring my baby to you, and when you laid your hands on my baby it was going to walk."
I said, "Well, then, that's all that's necessary. God said it. That's all you have to do. Just believe it."
Said, "But the baby's not walking."
I said, "That don't have anything to do with it. If you're certain, you won't be questioning it."

48 So we prayed and laid hands on the baby, and I said, "Sister, I could stand and do it all day. Now, if you're certain and you really believe it, it will happen. It'll certainly be that way." And then when she started out she wanted to hear me say something else, poor little fellow. I hope ... are you here tonight, sister? From Zion, had that baby here the other night. Are you in the building? Raise up your hand if you are. Some of you was here the other night when she was here. Anybody was here when she was here the other night? Yeah. All right.
Now, she was certain that the Lord was going to heal that baby, but she wanted me to say something about it. Well, I'd already told the brethren there I'd seen the baby was all right, but I just wanted to see what she was going to do about it.

49 So when she went out of the room, kind of disappointed a little, and kind of crying, she looked back. Her little hubby went on out. So then when she looked back, she said, "Reverend Branham?"
And I said, "Yes, ma'am."
"Is it God's will for my baby to be a cripple?" She just wanted to hear what I was going to say. Pulled it right out.
I said, "No, ma'am, it's not."
She said, "Thank you, sir." Out the door she went.
And about a week after that the little baby's leg come down normally and well. See? See, just hold on to it. Get ahold of something, hold on to it. Certain. Yes, sir.
Moses was certain that God was going to deliver Israel.

50 Elijah, up on top of the mountain, in the days that when he thought he was the only one left---God had taken him up there, and fed him with the ravens, and kept him alive till he could fulfill his prophecy. He just pulled him off the field. Down there in the days of Ahab all the fellows give in, but they had one old fellow down there wouldn't give in. That was Elijah. He still told Jezebel it was wrong for her to act like that. No matter what the rest of them done, he poured it right on to them just as hard as he could.

51 One day God said, "Now you've prophesied enough against them. Come on out of the field, and I'm going to let the judgments of your prophecy rain down on them." So Elijah went up on top of the mountain, up there for three-and-a-half years, or three years, when they was all about gnawing their tongues for pain. But he was sitting by a little brook, little spring, had spiritual revelation all the time, waters of life pouring up. The rest of them...
And listen, brother, sister, let me tell you. One of these days when God has just got enough of this around here, and He'll take all the true off the field and then you'll want a revival. It has to come to pass. The prophet said there'll be a time in the last days when there would not be a famine only for bread and water, but for hearing of the Word of God. And the true servants will be taken off and there'll be a famine in the last days. It surely will be.

52 Now, notice, but God told him then, why... He brought him out of his hibernation up there. He said, "Go call Ahab, and bring him up to the top of the mountain." And then when ... Elijah was so certain that that was ... God had told him to do that, until he called four hundred priests. And they put up a bullock and prayed all day, and Elijah walked around making fun of them. He said, "Why don't you holler a little louder. Maybe he's pursuing, maybe he's asleep, or don't want to be disturbed, or something." Said, "Call a little louder to him," and just made fun of them. Why? Because he was certain. He knowed there was no power in that idol, and he was certain that he was in contact with the living God.

53 That's the reason tonight, brethren (I say it with love and respect), I know there's no revival in organizationism; but I know there is a living God who does have a revival. Let's get back to that. I'm certain of it. I'm positive of it. I know that it is the truth. God will never do that. Nowhere did they ever rise, and they never will. But God will take a people out of those people for his name's sake. He'll do that.
So Elijah, when he laid them twelve blocks up there, and laid the bullock and slaughtered it, and just exactly the way God told him to do, he was just as certain that that fire was going to fall as he was certain he was Elijah. Nothing ... there was no fire up there, and there was no water up there. It hadn't rained for three years and six months.

54 And he walked out there just as cool and quiet, because he was certain. He didn't have to say, "Now, brethren, I'll go out and try. I'll see..." No, no. The voice had spoke to Elijah and Elijah was certain it was God. Amen! When you are certain that it's God, something's got to happen.
Elijah walked out there and said, "O God of Abraham, Isaac, and of Israel..." You notice he never called him his name of deceiver, Jacob; he called him his prince name, Israel. "God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, let it be known this day that Thou art God and I'm your prophet."

55 About that time the fire began to fall. Why? He was certain it was going to fall. He said, "I've done all this at your command." When you're certain of anything... There's one sound that you can be certain of, and that is God's voice. God's Word is certain.
David, he had tried God. One day when he was herding sheep, a bear come in and got one of them. He took a little slingshot and knocked the bear down. Now you know a little rock in a slingshot won't knock a bear down. Then here come in a ferocious lion, grabbed one of the little fellows, and run out with it. David went after him, trusting the Lord, and he threw that rock and knocked the lion down, killed the lion.

56 Then one day he was standing up there and seen an uncircumcised Philistine standing up and saying, "The days of miracles is past. There's no such a thing as this stuff."
And little old David, maybe stooped in his shoulders and so forth, he said, "Do you mean to say that you'll stand there and let that uncircumcised Philistine defy the armies of the living God?" He said, "I'll go fight him."
And, my, when Saul tried to put his Ph.D. on him, why, it didn't fit him at all. He didn't know nothing about it---how to say "amen" just right, you know, and so forth. And he said, "I don't know nothing about that stuff. I don't know nothing about that, but I have something that I have trusted. I don't know what God will do with me with a Ph.D., but I know He's done this for me." And he said, "The God who let me kill a lion with this slingshot, the God who let me kill a bear with this slingshot, how much more, [amen], how much more will He deliver that uncircumcised Philistine into my hands."

57 Men and women, friends, do you realize the God of heaven that raised up Christ Jesus from the dead, He is not dead but He's alive. And if He kept his Word to David, if He kept it to Elijah, if He kept it to Moses, if He kept it to the Hebrew children, if He kept it to Daniel, He'll keep it to you and I if we are certain that it's God. Hallelujah! My, I feel religious right now. Yes, sir.
I knowed ... that night somebody said, "Brother Branham, aren't you afraid of a mistake?" A mistake? How can God make a mistake? Certainly. That angel come up there that night and said he was sending me to do this certain thing, about the visions and so forth. Around the world I've went with it to all kinds of people and all kinds of places---and not one time did it fail.

58 Why? I'm certain it was God. It come according to his Word, it's according to his Spirit, it's according to his nature, and it's exactly on time to Abraham's seed.
I can see why the nominal churches won't receive it. Neither did that Angel go down and preach to Lot and them. He stayed up with the elected. They had one to go down there and preach to the group down there.
That's the reason... They told me when I left my little Baptist church, said, "You're going to be a holy roller. Going to mix up with them holy rollers."
I said, "I don't know what they are, but if God is sending me to them, He's got a message for them." That's right. If God gives a message, somebody's going to hear it somewhere. Amen.

59 It's what John thought when he come out of the wilderness, that Elijah of the New Testament, rugged man. He said, "God's able of these stones to rise children to Abraham." He was certain of his message. He knowed that it was true. He knowed that he was born and received the Holy Ghost in his mother's womb, at the name of Jesus Christ. Nine years old he went into the wilderness without education. Stayed in there till he was thirty, come out without clothes---just a piece of sheep skin draped around him. And he preached the message that shook the regions around about. Amen. Why? He was certain.

60 And when he seen that Holy Ghost, like a light, come down there, with two wings on it, coming down upon Jesus, he said, "I knew him not but he that spoke to me in the wilderness and said, Upon whom thou shall see the Spirit descending and remaining, he is the one that'll baptize with the Holy Ghost and fire.' I'm certain of it."
When he got a little weary (as we talked about the other night), Jesus said, "Go show John what's taken place." Be certain. Be certain it's a certain sound.
Now, Simeon, it was revealed to him by the Holy Ghost that he was not going to see death, and yet he was a real old man. He wasn't going to see death until he seen the Lord's Christ. He wasn't ashamed. He went around telling everybody. "I'm not going to die. I'm going to see the coming of the Christ."

61 Well, I can hear them say, "The poor old fellow, he's just a little upset. He's getting old now, you know, and I believe his mind is collapsing a little, you know."
It makes you do things and act like you never did act before, when you're certain, when you're really certain. Simeon said, "No, I'm not going to die till I see the Christ coming."
Now said, "Think, David looked for Him, Moses looked for Him, and thousands of years ago they looked for Him, and now here we are in Roman cap... Well, how in the world could he ever see it? Poor old fellow, just don't pay no attention to him."

62 That didn't bother him. He went around saying, "No, I ain't going to die till I see the Christ come. I'm going to see it."
One day when he was back in his study out there, Jesus was brought into the temple for the circumcision, the purification of Mary, wrapped in swaddling clothes. And she stood, the little virgin, and the people kept their distance from her, because He had a bad name to start with. They said he was born out of holy wedlock, and I can imagine old self-styled hypocrites, you know, never had nothing to do with anything like that. They kept their room back.

63 But she knowed what she was holding in her arms. She knowed whose son it was.
And that's the way I say today. You can call a real born-again Christian a fanatic, or holy roller, or whatever you want to; if He knows that's the Holy Ghost, you'll never shake him. No, sir! Never have no bother with him. He knows what's in there, he knows where it come from.
Like I always said, this hybrid religion they got in these days, if anything I hate is this hybrid stuff they're talking about. Hybrid this... And I think science has got to a place they disprove their own argument. You know they say that men evoluted from ... coming from a monkey, and coming on up, and getting from a polliwog, and coming on. But Genesis 1:26 said, "Let every seed bring forth of its kind." I believe God made monkeys, yes, sir. I believe God made everything. But He made man, and man never by evolution come ... monkeys come to be men.
God made birds and all things at the beginning, and it proves it.

64 If you hybreed anything and cross it over it can't cross itself back again. That's right, it's dead. Go along, say, "Hybrid corn, hybrid corn, such beautiful corn." I know, but it ain't no good. You can't plant it, won't come back no more. That's right, it's finished.
You take a mule. A mule ... a mule's the awfullest fellow there is. You know, he's neither horse nor mule, and he really don't even know what he is. That's right. And his mother was a mare and his father was a donkey, so he don't know where he belongs. And he can never breed hisself back again. A mule can't have a mule. That's finished, you know that.

65 And that's just the way some of these religions are today---mule religion. That's right. You can talk about days of miracles, the Holy Ghost, and all these things.
Did you ever see an old mule? He's ignorant. He'll stick his big old ears out and just look at you. He has no gentleness, and no feeling of kindness, and you can't do nothing with him. He'll wait all his life to kick you, and then wait till you die. Then when he's dying he'll kick you. He'll stand there with them big ears. Say, "Come on, boy. Whew, whew, whew."
He'll just, "Honk, honk." You see, he don't know nothing. He's a hybrid.

66 That's what's the matter with some of this hybrid religion. You can say, "Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today and forever"; holler, "Honk, honk, honk, the days of miracles is past. There's no such a thing."
Oh, my. No wonder the Bible said they become like a field of braying mules. That's right. Oh, that's right. It's hybrid. What did you try to do? Mix some of the world with the church. That's what started in the beginning, a hybrid church.
Well, you know one thing that's gentle, one thing I like, is a fine pedigreed horse. Oh, my.

67 That pedigreed horse can tell you who his papa was, who his mama was, who his grandpapa, grandmama, great-great-great-great-great-great and go on back. He's pedigreed. That's the way I like to see a pedigreed Christian. Amen, one that knows who his papa is and who his mama is.
You say, "Are you a Christian?"
"I'm a Methodist." Well, that's a good confession that you're not a Christian. "I'm a Baptist," "I'm Presbyterian," "I'm Pentecostal."
Brother, we're Christian because we're pedigreed, born of the Holy Ghost. I know who my Father is. Amen! A Christian's a Christian. Jesus said, "He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also. These signs shall follow them that believe." A pedigreed Christian, one that's filled with the Holy Ghost, no uncertain sound about that. No, sir, that's right. That's the way it sounded on the day of Pentecost, so it's still sounding the same thing, and it's a real certain sound. That's right. That's one good certain sound. Yes.

68 Simeon, he was certain he was going to see Him. Jesus was certain of the Father's Word. Why, certainly. When Mary come up there and she said (or Martha, rather), she said, "Lord, if you would have been here, my brother would not have died; but even now, whatever you ask God, God will do."
And 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 never die. Believest thou this?"
She said, "Yea, Lord: I believe that you're the Son of God like you say you are. I believe you're that Messiah that was to come into the world."
Said, "Where have you buried him?"

69 Now He didn't say, "I'll go down and see what I can do about it." Oh, no. "I'll go wake him." Not, "I'll go try to"; "I will." Amen. That's certain. Jesus said he did nothing till the Father showed him. That's St. John 5:19: "I do nothing till I see the Father doing ... shows me first." And the Father had showed Him that Lazarus was going to raise from the dead. Therefore, before anything was said, He said, "I'll go and wake him." Not, "See if I can."
He said, "I have power to lay my life down and to take it up again." Nothing uncertain about that. Not a thing uncertain about that.

70 "You kill me, you destroy this tabernacle, and I'll build it up again in three days. Destroy this, I will."
"I'll try and see what happens"; "I will," because David said, "I'll not leave his soul in hell; neither will I suffer my holy one to see corruption." He knowed in seventy-two hours corruption set in, and somewhere before that seventy-two hours was up, Jesus' body was going to rise from the dead. Nothing uncertain about it. He trusted God's Word emphatically. Amen. Everything He did, He trusted God by it.
Now, He said, "He that believeth in me, the works that I do shall he do also." Nothing uncertain about that. He said that it was certain. "He shall." He gave his church commission, said, "Go into all the world, and preach the gospel. These signs shall follow them that believe; In my name they shall cast out devils; they shall speak with new tongues. If they take up serpents, or drink deadly things, it'll not harm them; if they lay their hands on the sick, they shall recover." There's nothing uncertain about that. That's right.

71 Jesus said, in the last days---the Spirit said, the Bible---said people would be heady, high-minded, lovers of pleasure more than lovers of God, false accusers, incontinent, despisers of those that are good. Traitors, heady, high-minded, having a form of godliness and would deny the power thereof. Nothing uncertain about it. We got them. Amen.
Daniel said the people that knowed their God in this day would do exploits. There's nothing uncertain about that. God said so, we've got it. Amen. There's nothing uncertain about it.
"Oh," somebody said, "well, the Holy Ghost was for the Pentecostal people back there."
Peter said on the day of Pentecost, "Repent, every one of you, and be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of your sins, and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost. For the promise is unto you, your children, and them that's far off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call." Nothing uncertain about that. They shall receive it. They shall.

72 Every one, as many as the Lord God calls, why, He's going to give them the Holy Ghost. If they'll just follow the instructions, that's all they have to do. Nothing uncertain about it. No.
Jesus said, "The works that I do shall you also." He said, "As it was in the days of Sodom so shall it be in the days of the coming of the Son of man," how the angel of the Lord would come down among the people and show these signs and wonders, the wonders of his resurrection. He's been up from the grave two thousand years. The world don't believe it, but because He lives, He said, we could live also. There's nothing uncertain about it.

73 The works that He did we can do also. There's nothing uncertain about it. All of his promises are "yes" to us. We're living in the last days. We see everything just exactly the way He said, so there's nothing uncertain. You can believe it. Put your trust in it.
Paul Rader (many of you all remember him, from Chicago here), a great man of God, died here a few years ago. I've always loved Paul. And I heard him a few times when I was a boy. And I sat in Redigers' Tabernacle there, in the room where he wrote that song, "Only Believe," that's led me to the pulpit by hundreds of different languages, I guess, across the world---"Only Believe." And I wonder if Paul knew that that little old fellow sitting out there, with a pair of overalls on, would take a song and take it around the world, the one he was writing.

74 I was sitting there, having a meeting, here some time ago, and that come in over the microphone. I just knelt down and wept, because knowing that he was such a great man of God.
He was telling a story one time in his book. I was reading it. I think he come from Oregon, and he used to log. He was a strong man. Luke was a very strong man, his brother. And so Paul said that over in ... I believe it was over in some foreign country he was in, he took blackwater fever, or something. He was dying. And he told his faithful wife to stand by his side, because they couldn't get a doctor in there, it was so far back.
And it kept getting darker in the room, and he said, "Honey," he said, "stand by my side. Just keep praying, keep praying." Paul was a great believer in divine healing. And so ... preached right here in this city at the tabernacle down here.

75 And so he believed in it. He had his wife to keep praying. "So no matter what happens, just keep praying." He said it got darker and darker in the room, and finally everything went black.
And he said he was dreaming. He thought he was back in Oregon again, and the boss told him, of the lumber camp where he used to work, said, "Paul, go up on the hill and fell me a certain tree, a certain size, and bring it down here."
Said, "All right." Said he run up the hill, and he could smell the pines, his lungs breathing in, you know, the odor---how a person that lives in the woods can only enjoy. And said he felled the tree and trimmed it up, and stuck the axe in it and got ahold of the tree, and he just couldn't lift it up. Said he put his knees together and bent his back. (The strongest part of the man is in his back muscles.) He'd lift and lift. He said, why, he could lift a tree twice that size. But somehow, he wrestled with it and he wrestled with it and he wrestled with it, and he just simply couldn't do nothing with it.

76 That's the way a lot of people does. They just ... they take a word and they try to run it here, and make it here and make it there, and wrestle with it, and wrestle with it. Take it through seminaries, and put it down here, and make a Greek word out of it here, and a Hebrew word out of it here. And first thing you know it becomes like that, and not a word of God. See, you just wrestle with it and wrestle with it. You take it over to Dr. Ph.D. John Doe and ask him what he thinks about it, and over to Ph.D. Sam Doe and ask him what to think about it. And he says, "Why, it's mental telepathy"; the other one says, "Fanaticism!"
And the first thing, you just wrestle with it and wrestle with it. "Well, I was down at the meeting, and, honestly, I seen the Spirit of God come down. I heard someone speak in unknown tongues."
"It's the devil."
"Yes, and I heard people shout."
"Oh, it's excitement."
"And I seen a man stand up on the platform and by the power of discernment tell people who they were, and out in the meetings, and what was wrong, just the way the Bible said Jesus done it to show the sign of the Messiah. Well, I'll go ask my pastor."
He says, "Aw, it's telepathy."
See, you just keep wrestling with it and wrestling with it, that's all. You'll never get nowhere.

77 Finally, Paul said, he got wore out, so he sat down. His strength was depleted. He just sat down against the tree and leaned back, said, "What's happened to my strength?" Of course, that was the fever on him was doing that. And he said, "I'm just at the end."
Said after while he heard a real sweet voice, said, "Paul."
He said, "Is that my boss?" And said when he turned, it was his Boss all right. Said he never seen a sweeter face in all of his life.
He said, "Paul, what are you wrestling with it for?" He said, "You see that stream of water there?"
He said, "Yes."
Said, "That stream of water goes right down around the hill here and comes right out to the camp." Said, "Why don't you just throw it in the water, and get on it and ride down?"
"Oh," he said, "I never thought of that."

78 So he just throwed it in the water, started riding down over the riffles, screaming at the top of his voice, "I'm a-riding on it! I'm a-riding on it!" And he said he come to, he was standing right in the middle of the floor, screaming the top of his voice, "I'm a-riding on it! I'm a-riding on it!"---the promise of God.
And tonight, brother, there's nothing uncertain about God's Word. I'm riding on it. It'll bring me to the camp some day. I don't know how many riffles I'll have to cross but I'm a-riding on it. Amen. Praise be to God. Let's all say it together. "I'm riding on it, I'm riding on it. It's God's promise. I'm a-riding on it." It's a certain sound. It's God's sound. It's his voice. "Heavens and earth will pass away, but my words shall never pass away," and I'm a-riding on it tonight. He promised these things in the last days and I believe it's here.

79 Let them call it whatever they want to, I don't care. That doesn't matter to me. I'm certain that it's God. Amen. And I'm a-riding on it.
I've been riding on it now for thirty-one years and the ride's getting sweeter all the time because I'm nearing the gate. Amen. I'm still riding on it. When death strikes my body, I'll ride on it, just keep on riding. "I am the resurrection, and life," saith God. "He that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live: whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die." I'm riding on it. There's nothing uncertain about that. I'm riding on it. It's his Word and I believe it with all my heart. Do you believe it the same way? Everything else is uncertain, but that's a certain sound. "He that believeth in me the works that I do shall he also." Let's bow our heads just now.

80 There is all kinds of uncertain sounds. It's uncertain that this city will be standing by morning. I don't know. It's uncertain that you'll ever get home tonight. I don't know. It's uncertain that I'll ever be in Chicago again. I don't know. It's uncertain if we'll ever meet again. I don't know, see. But there's one thing that is certain. That's God's Word. I don't know how much longer we'll be a nation. How long it will be before we'll be blowed to pieces, I don't know. It's uncertain. But there's one thing that is certain. That's God's Word. I'm riding on it, friends. I believe it with all my heart, with all my soul. I'm riding on it.
[Someone speaks in tongues, and another interprets: "Ye have come to the road of decision. Ye must make up your mind. Whom will I follow? Whom will I obey? What shall I do? Ye must think tonight, and tonight you must decide. Are you going to be for Him? Are you going to decide to go through? Are you going to have faith to believe? Believe that which you have heard. Obey that which you've heard, for it is sent from heaven above unto you to help you in whatever you desire."]
O Lord, how we thank You for that. Now, Father God, we'll be without excuse---to hear now not only that, but hear your prophecies, hear them speak in prophecies and see it fulfilled, see the promises of God of the resurrection of a reviving, of a coming again in a great Messiahic sign of a resurrected Jesus, to appear before the Gentiles like it did the Jews and Samaritans in this last day.

81 O Father God, we thank You for this. I thank You.
Now, them words, God, coming from You, it's... Surely, after I've tried to bring it in the Bible, and hear You speak it through gifts of tongues and interpretation... Now we pray that You'll let Jesus come into our midst and confirm this to be true, so that everyone will be able to have the privilege of knowing that the same Jesus that was once with the children of Israel in the cloud which was called the Fatherhood, also dwelt among men in the Sonship, and now dwells in men by the Holy Ghost. Father, let them see that the same nature of God remains. The same that was in Jesus, so is it in the church, and does the same works here in the last days where the church has come to its destiny, and now the Messiahic sign of the end time.
The destruction is ready, as it was for the Jews in them days. They had to deny that Messiah in order for destruction to come; and today the nations are laughing, they make fun of it, and call it every unclean name. When You did that, when You were here, they said it was Beelzebub, a devil; and You said You'd forgive them, but some day when the Holy Ghost come, to speak one word against it would be unpardonable.

82 And now, Father, we see that the nations have condemned their own selves---their words and their actions. The churches, many, many people has condemned and signed their own doom away, calling the Spirit of God an unclean thing.
Now this is another opportunity tonight. I pray Father that You'll heal every sick person here, save every unsaved in the name of Jesus Christ. Amen.
[Someone speaks in tongues, and another interprets: "I have spoken unto you, I have talked unto you, and I have pricked your hearts. How hard can you be in understanding? How stiff-necked can you be in love? I beseech you. You have come here to hear of Me and to get from Me that which I can give unto you. Yea, I am here in your midst. I am ready to do for you what you desire as you believe unto Me, that only as you open up your belief can I be able to perform the miracles which you are seeking."]
Amen. Thanks be to God. Now, according to that, He promises to be here. I wasn't going to make ... I was just going to make an altar call, but I believe now I feel the anointing of the Spirit for something else.

83 We never give out any prayer cards today, you noticed. So we don't have the prayer cards, but we have Christ. How many is sick out there and wants healed? Raise your hands wherever you are. Now, if I have preached the right truth and done the right thing, then God's obligated to back up what I've said. Now how many of you out there that knows that I do not know you? Raise up your hands that I do not know you. Everywhere.
You Pentecostal people, should it be hard for you to believe me? Look here. I want to show you something here wrote just recently.

84 I was at the Christian Businessmen's breakfast in California, and I just got through preaching a sermon that I thought I tore every organization apart and laid it out by pieces. And a Baptist boy by the name of Danny Henry come up to put his arms around me to pray, and he started speaking in unknown tongues.
And there was a lady sitting out there from Louisiana, a French lady. She said, "That doesn't need any interpretation." Said, "That wasn't unknown tongues. He spoke French."
Another man said, "French."
And then happened to come down, they got it together and got it here, and each one was giving the interpretation. And the interpreter for the U.N. was there. And he raised up, said ... come down. Man here said he'd never seen him before and never after, but called his name, who he was. He was the U.N. interpreter, and he gave the interpretation.
I got it wrote out here. Listen here. You might think I'm hard. Watch here:

85 "Because thou has chosen the narrow path, the harder way, thou has walked of thy own choosing." Now, I can understand that. Moses had to walk of his own choosing. He didn't have to, but he made his decision. That was my decision---to stay with the Word, regardless of what it done, see. "Thou has did this by your own choosing. Thou has picked the correct and precise decision, and it is my way. [Thanks be to God] Because of this momentous decision, a huge portion of heaven awaits thee."
Now this man never knowed nothing about this vision because I just had it a few days before that, see. "What a glorious decision thou has made. This in itself is that which will give and make come to pass the tremendous victory in the love divine."

86 That was interpreted by the U.N. interpreter, about... A Baptist boy that come to put his arms around me, and just made a remark, said, "That message could really be added to the book of Revelations." See, a boy that knowed not me. He's some relation to some movie star there. And he never knowed me. A Baptist boy. And he just come up to thank me, and put his arm around me to pray. And when he did, the Holy Ghost started speaking in tongues through him. And here was people sitting out there---just like it was on Pentecost---it was a language that they understood. That was their native language. And that boy didn't know one word of French. See how it is? It's the Holy Spirit. Amen.

87 He's here.
All right. Pray now. I told you, in the Bible the angel turned his back to the audience. Somebody in these sections over here, somebody in these sections over in here, you pray for God to do something for you. Just see if He still remains the same angel of God. Or somebody, anywhere, wherever it is.
I'll look towards you, brethren. I want you to believe, brethren. This is the Christ that you've preached so long. This is the thing that you've stood for. You men, if there's any honor to be given, it's to you all. You were out here, Pentecostals, preaching, out here on the street corner with tambourines and guitars, when they was laughing, making fun of you. You was only fixing a road that I could run smooth over. How could I come and be anything else but your brother? You prophesied that these things would come, many of you. You heard it in your meetings. And I'm just here fulfilling of what you said that God's Word says, see.

88 Now somebody is contacting God, back this way. There's a man that's sitting behind me, somewhere back this way, he's praying. He's got something wrong with his side. He's got a nervous condition that's bothering him. Is anybody up? Nobody up. I'm looking at the man right here. The man's a minister. He's a Mennonite. His name is Reverend Miller. Stand up, accept your healing. I'm a stranger to you, sir. I do not know you. Is what was said, was that the truth? If it is the truth, would you stand back up again? All right. Do you believe?
Now what did Jesus say? These things would take place. The same angel of God that stood by Abraham and said, "Where is your wife Sarah?"
Said, "She's in the tent behind you."
And He said, "I'm going to visit you according to the time of life."

89 And Sarah (as I told you last Sunday, that family relationships hadn't been for years), she said, "Me have pleasure with my lord again out there, and him old and me old? It couldn't be." And she laughed.
And the angel said, "Why did she laugh, saying that these things wouldn't be?" He said it would be the same thing at the end-time. Have faith, believe.
That colored lady sitting right back there, female trouble, sitting on the end of the row. Yes, ma'am. Have you a prayer card? You don't need one. You don't have one, you don't need one. Do you have female trouble, is that right? Raise up your hand. Wasn't you praying then, "Lord, let it be me tonight?" If that's right, wave your hand like this. All right. You have your desire. Go home, Jesus Christ makes you well. If thou canst believe. Only have faith.

90 This man sitting here, second one from the end coming in there, right here, turned your head and looked. Complications, and lung trouble, and so forth. Do you believe that Christ will make you well? The big fellow on the end, second man back, going in. Do you believe with all your... ? Yes, sir. You're the one, right here, the other man right here, sir. Stand up on your feet. This is the man here that that light's over. All right. Receive your healing. Go home and believe it. Amen. We're strangers to one another. I don't know you. I don't know you. We're strangers to one another. That's right.

91 This woman sitting right next to the man that stood up there, you want to get over that diabetes? Believe with all your heart that God will make you well? If you will, rise up, say, "Amen." All right, that says it. You can have your healing if you believe it. But you've got to believe, don't you?
This lady, yeah, waving your hand, sitting back there in the audience, do you believe that swelling will stop? Your daughter there with epilepsy will cease to have it any more? Mrs. Smallwood, you can go home now and everything's all right. You can be made well, if you'll believe with all your heart. I'm a stranger to you. I do not know you. I've never seen you in my life. If that's so, raise up your hands. Both of you, raise up your hands there. That's exactly right.

92 Do you believe with all your heart? What about some of you people sitting down here? What, do you believe with all your heart? Then have faith. What about you sitting here, this colored man sitting here looking at me. Do you have a prayer card? No. You don't need one. You've got faith, and that's all you need. Do you believe me to be his prophet, or his servant? Do you believe that with all your heart? I'm a stranger to you. We're two different races of people and our first time meeting. But you seem to have a good feeling to your spirit. You've got faith of some sort. That's good faith for somebody else you're praying for, though. That's right. Your sister, she has cancer. If that's right, wave your hand. All right, believe, and she'll get well. Do you believe with all your heart? If thou canst believe, all things are possible.

93 Mrs. Johnson, do you want to go home and be well too? Do you believe with all your heart? Jackson, rather, I meant to say. If you'll believe with all your heart, you can go home and be well also.
What about this woman sitting here with the... Do you believe with all your heart? Do you believe me to be his servant? You got trouble with your feet, trouble with your hands. You're praying for a child, mental condition. If you'll believe with all your heart, you can have what you ask for. Do you believe it? Don't cry, just be thankful.

94 How many of the rest of you believe? Do you believe with all your heart? How many believes on Him as your Saviour now? That's no uncertain sound. The Bible says---that's a certain sound---these signs shall follow them, in the last days it shall come to pass. You that want to receive Him as Saviour, if you're here, stand up for a witness, say, "I will receive Him as my Saviour." While you're in his presence, while the anointing of the Holy Ghost is upon the people, would you receive Him as Saviour? Rise to your feet if you're here, someone want Him as Saviour.
How many here hasn't received the Holy Ghost? God bless you, sister. Someone here hasn't received the Holy Ghost, stand on your feet, say, "I receive Him. Give me the Holy Ghost tonight." Do you believe it? Stand up.

95 Why, He's here. It's the Holy Ghost Himself. Just keep standing. Keep standing, just keep on your feet. All that wants the baptism of the Holy Ghost that hasn't received it, believe you can receive it tonight, stand up on your feet, just receive it. Good. No uncertain sound about that now. Remember, "Blessed are they that do hunger and thirst for righteousness for they shall be filled." Nothing uncertain. Do you believe? Then you're going to be filled. If your belief is right, you've got to be filled.
Look here. Why would you bring it... ? Look here where I got to stand. I got to stand here before everything. It's got to be so. Amen. Just has to be so.

96 Now, how many of you is sick and want to be healed? You stand to your feet. You believe you're going to be healed tonight. If you don't believe it, don't stand up; but if you do believe it, and you've felt a certain sound strike your heart, "This is the hour I'm going to get my healing. This is going to be it right now," if you believe it with all your heart, just stand up on your feet. That's it. Just let the Holy Spirit work right down through your heart and you'll find out something takes place.
Now do you really believe what you stood for, you're going to get it? Then raise up your hands and say, "Thank You, Lord Jesus, I now receive my healing. I now receive the baptism of the Holy Ghost." Just give Him praise. Amen. Praise be to God.

97 That's right. Stay right there. Don't ... just... Keep your hands... Isn't it wonderful? Do you feel his presence? I wish you could stand here and look what I'm looking at. Amen.
I will praise Him. I will praise Him.
Praise the Lamb for sinners slain.
Give Him glory all ye people,
For His blood has washed away each stain.
Do you love Him? Do you believe you got your healing? Say, "Amen. I now claim it. I'm riding on it. I'm riding on it. God promised it. I'm riding on it. I believe every word of it." Then let's raise our hands and sing it again.
I will praise Him. I will praise Him.
Praise the Lamb for sinners slain.
Give Him glory all ye people,
For His blood has washed away each stain.

98 I don't believe you'd think I'd be a hypocrite or a liar. If you could only under... I better not say it, but listen here, friends. Just like anointing, just like ... that light that I watch, it's just hanging all around everywhere. Oh, my! Glorious! If you'd just open up.
I will praise Him. I will praise Him.
Praise the Lamb for sinners slain.
Give Him glory all ye people,
For His blood has washed away each stain.

The uncertain sound

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1 Let's remain standing just a moment for prayer. Shall we bow our heads? Would there be a request now? Raise your hand, and God will see you, I'm sure. Just in your heart say, "Remember me, Lord, I have certain such..."
Our heavenly Father, we're grateful to You as we approach thy throne of grace, with thanksgiving in our hearts, for ever saving our souls from the lost regions of the damned. And we thank Thee that by the grace of God we are your children tonight. I pray for each one of these requests, Father. My hand's up, too, God, to You. I have requests. My request is, Father, tonight (to make it known, as they're making theirs known in their own way of praying), God, mine is that You'll save every lost soul in here tonight, that You'll heal every sick person, that You'll fill every believer with the Holy Ghost.
Come to us, Lord Jesus. We need You. We're waiting on You. And as we wait further we commit ourselves into your hands. Do with us as You see fit, for we ask it in Jesus' name. Amen. You be seated.

2 So happy to be back again tonight at the church, and to be in the service of the Lord God; and trusting that this will be the night that the Lord will get praise, for whatever our gathering to this night. He said, "My word will not return to me void. It will accomplish that which it was purposed for." And we know it will do that.

3 The pastor was just telling me of a little girl, sitting back here with ... at the meeting the same night that Brother Bryant Mitchell's daughter and son-in-law was called out. And this little girl was called out in the audience with some kind of a rash on her face. She was healed immediately, and still well. I believe it's the little girl sitting ... is that...? Yes. I guess you've had her testify. Stand up, honey, if you will. Isn't that a sweet-looking little girl? No rash on her face now, because that Jesus Christ made her well. We are so happy for that.

4 And now I don't want to keep you any longer than one o'clock, if I can help it. Isn't that awful? Forgive me. No, I don't say "forgive me." No. That's wrong, see, because I've never said nothing yet that I've ever thought I'd have to back up on, because I've tried to say it with all my heart from the Word. And I do ... I'm sorry I torture so many people.

5 My precious brother was up to see me this afternoon, and early I went into prayer. And the wife slipped into the door where I was at, and she didn't call me. And she went back and told him I was in prayer, to come back again after awhile. And he never come. And I was a little worried ... wasn't sure he'd understand. And I told her, "You should have called me anyhow when one of the brothers call." But they usually just let me alone, because sometimes visions happen there, and I know what's going to happen before I'd ever get to the church, see. Many times it's happened there.

6 I'm looking at a man right now, a good friend of mine, Banks Wood. When his boy David... Brother Wood, there, was a Jehovah Witness, a contractor, and he brought his boy to the meeting. And he'd seen a girl one night... You know, Jehovah Witness is kind of against divine healing. And he come down, he and his wife. She belonged to the First Church of God, the Anderson Movement Church of God---something on the order of the Methodist church. And they came down to the meeting at Louisville, where we was having it in the auditorium ... field house.
And there was a girl that turned to stone. I don't know what the medical name of it is now. But she was in a terrible shape, couldn't move from her waist down. And a few hours after she was prayed for, she run up and down the steps, and everything just fine.
So they had a boy with polio, and the boy had ... infantile paralysis had drawed his leg up. And I went overseas after that. Oh, no---they went to Houston, Texas. He didn't get in.
And they were there the night the angel of the Lord ... the picture was taken.

7 And by the way, those pictures are here now, and the books and tapes. This is the last night of getting them in the meeting, 'cause we don't sell on Sunday. And so... We made a policy never to sell on Sunday. You can give them your order, and they can send it to you, but we won't sell them.
And Mr. Wood brought ... Mr. Wood brought their boy up to... I can never think of that place in Ohio by the lake there. Columbus, I believe it was, Ohio. Is that right, Brother Banks? Was Cleveland ... Cleveland. Cleveland, Ohio.
And before I come to the building that night (I was way up, about ten stories) I was sitting up there crying. Mr. Baxter came to me. All of you know Brother Ern Baxter, I guess. Was here with me last---very fine brother. And he come up, and I said, "What makes me so moody?"
He said, "Don't feel bad." Said, "Great men even feel like that." That made me feel better then.
So that night when he went down, I seen a little boy with a yellow jersey on, little sweater-like, that had polio---his leg drawed up---and got healed. I kept looking over the audience and I couldn't see them. And finally... I believe the way it was, the Holy Spirit called them out, way back in the back of the building, and somewhere ... in the back of the tent it was, and the boy was instantly healed.
The man give up his job contracting, and moved over. Lives next door to me now. And all of his people---practically every one of them readers in Jehovah Witness---every one of them has become Christians filled with the Holy Ghost.

8 David, I don't want to make a gazing block out of you. Are you here tonight, David? Stand up. That boy's married, and got a couple of children. There, sure. Sitting there right behind his daddy. There was a boy that was crippled with polio, and was made well.
I remember his brother. I'll never forget it. You forgive me, Brother Banks. His brother---fine man---but they kind of disowned Brother Banks as soon as he received the Holy Ghost. They thought he'd went off the deep end, sure enough. So...
Now, if there's Jehovah Witness here, no disregard, see, not a bit. I have respect for every man's belief. That's right. But there ... see, there is a possibility that God will call you. You'll see the way of the Lord more perfect.
So this man come in, and he was kind of upset, you know, to Banks. And he brought another man with him. And so, he wanted to know who this quack was.
He said, "He's out there mowing grass."

9 And you ought to see me when I really relax---beard about that long, and old flop-down hat. And, why, I preached with a guy for two or three years, and I met him on a hunting trip. He said, "Sir, could you tell me where I could find Rev. Branham up here?"
I said, "I believe I could."
Here not long ago a great big Cadillac pulled up to the door, you know, and said ... and I was whiskers, and dirty, and I was washing the windows outside. And the man said, "How do you do, sir." Said, "Could you tell me where Rev. Branham is now?"
I said, "That's his wife right there. You might ask her."
She looked at me. She didn't know what to say. Said ... she just happened to be...
He said, "Where's his next meeting?"
She told him, and she walked away, and said, "Oh, Bill!"

10 So his brother said ... I was sitting there, and the Holy Spirit said, "He's a married man. Left his wife. He's got two children." I said that to him.
He looked over to Banks, as if to say Banks told me. See, that's his brother here.
I caught that right quick. Men just... They don't realize that. Why, of course, He reveals it. Sat in rooms... Many times I've called people out that was critics. Sometimes ... you don't want to do that, though. I did that one time---a minister, very critical. And I called him out. I told him that, "Why did you do this, and that, and something...?"
My, he lost half his congregation and everything else. So, that isn't nice. You see, I just keep it to myself, let it go.
But, however... Standing there I caught that---wasn't no harm in telling him, sitting there with this man. I said, "All right, you might have thought Banks told me that. But what about night before last when you was with a woman, had auburn hair? You was locked up in the room with her. A man knocked on the door, and you didn't go. You looked out the window. It's a good thing. You'd have got your head shot off." That finished him. That's right. He knew then that wasn't... Banks didn't tell that.

11 Then his father come up, which was one of the readers.
He was going to really straighten me out on the Scripture. Never said nothing to him. We was going on a fishing trip the next day. The Lord spoke to me, said, "Tell him all things that's going to happen, just exactly what will take place, how many fish'll be caught, who'll catch them and everything. Come back."
I told him that. I seen him look over kind of funny at Banks, looked back, and thought, "Nonsense." But that day and that night everything happened just perfectly to the dot.
And the next day, come back, I said, "Well, Mr. Wood?"
He said, "Well [he talks kind of funny]," he said, "any man that can see fish before he catches them, and call them out," he said, "I guess that's all right." And so, now he's saved, and filled with the Holy Ghost.

12 One day we was sitting... Lyle, his brother, and I was down there fishing a couple years ago, or three. And my little boy, before I left...
We don't like cats at our house. Now, if you have them, that's all right. I ain't speaking against your little kitty, now, but I don't like the things. Or a house dog. I can't stand it. Give it a baby's love, and practice birth control, and give that love to a little, old, snotty-nosed dog. My! It's a shame. Excuse that expression. That's ... I don't... You know what I'm talking about, when I say it.
Then my little girl come up, and said, "Oh, Daddy, something terrible has happened." Said, "Somebody threw a poor cat away [her and another little girl down the street]," and said, "it's eat poison." Said, "Poor thing's going to die. Can't you let it come in for awhile?"
I said, "Where's the cat at?" Went and got the cat, looked at it. I said, "Go get it a box," and of course, the next morning we had a bunch of kittens. And so...

13 And then the next day... So, my little boy, little ... (he's all boy), he was just holding one in his hand like this, little bitty fellow, and he dropped it. And the little fellow just turned over and over. I hated that so bad. I thought it killed it. I laid it back. Poor little kitty. He couldn't help being a cat. So then, he started rolling around.
Next, we was going fishing that night. And the next day I was catching sunfish to bait with. You know what little sunfish are---little brim, you call them here, I think, to bait on the line. Way down in Kentucky below us, about 120 miles. And I was sitting there, and the Holy Spirit come near into the boat where we were at. He said, "You're going to have a resurrection of life right away."
I turned and said that to Brother Banks sitting right there. If there ever was a good, truthful, honest man, that's him and his family. And he said, "What do you think it will be?"
I said, "It may be that little kitten that Joseph dropped. When we go home tomorrow, that kitten... Probably..." You heard the story of the possum, and so forth. It was in the "Businessmen," and so forth. So, I said, "It's probably that."

14 That night we caught no fish. The next morning we were ... had no fish at all, so we pulled into a cove to ... about a little after daylight, to catch some big brim, and I had a fly line pitching out. It was Brother Lyle who was with us---just had got saved, just a few weeks before that. And he had a great big, long, hook, and he wormed the worm on; and he had a big drop line, and holding it down like this, reeling the pole. And a poor little brim swallowed it plumb down into his stomach. Instead of just snagging him, pulling him out so he could put him for bait, why, he let him swallow it all the way down.
He said, "Now, looky there what that thing did." And he just got a hold of the little brim in one hand, wound the line around the other, just pulled the stomach, gills, and all out; throwed him out on the water. It was just a little old brim about like that. And he wiggled four or five times, and his little fins spread out, and died on the water. And so, he looked over at him, said, "Little fellow, you've shot your last wad."
That's an old Southern expression. How many ever heard it? All you Southerners heard it, didn't you? So ... and he was laying there. He floated around there about a half hour. And I was ... I said, "Lyle, you got too big a hook, brother." I said, "Just pitch your hook with a little bitty number twelve, if you can get it on there. And just as soon as the fish...," telling him how to snag those little brim.
He said, "Oh, I'm just a country boy." Said, "This is the way we do it," like that.

15 And I sat there about a half hour, and the little fish died, and floated all around the water. And it floated back into some lilies, right in a little cove-like. I was sitting there.
All of a sudden... It's in the mountains where the Wolf River's been backed up, and they made the dam there for the hydroplant. And it's a ... I guess there's 150 miles of water, just in and out of these mountains. And the Spirit of the Lord, like a great sound of wind, come rushing right down through ... into the boat. Said, "Stand up." Said, "Speak to that little fish. He'll receive his life."
There laid that little fish, laying there dead on the water for a half hour. I said, "Little fishie, Jesus Christ gives you your life. In the name of Jesus Christ, it's so." I no more than said that, the little fish turned over like that, went "brrr," swam out through the water. Now, here's the Bible before me. God is my judge. Brother Banks was a witness.

16 Lyle just fainted, almost, in the boat. He said. "That meant me, because I said to that little fish 'You've shot your wad.'"
And I said, "No."
Brother Banks, excited, he said, "I feel like Peter. Let's build three tabernacles and stay here. This is good." Then he got to talking about how many people around the world would like to be sitting there, and would've seen that. And said, "Think of us," said, "Jehovah Witness. And then God pulls us aside over here, and see all these things that we've seen this week. And this thing here take place. To hear it prophesied yesterday; here it takes place today," and like that.
I said, "No. That wasn't it. That was just showing you his grace." I said, "Look. On my list at home I've got at least thirty or forty spastic children, praying for them." And I said, "I've got, I don't know how many, cancer cases, dying. There are people laying in hotels, me waiting to see what the Lord will say. And here He comes around, and tells me about a little fish."

17 See, it goes to show He's still God. There was thousands of lepers laying in the days of the Lord Jesus. There were cripples, lame, halt, blind, and afflicted. And yet God used his power to curse a tree. A tree withered at the voice of the Lord Jesus, just to show them that He is concerned about his trees, his fish. He's concerned about everything. Shows that He knows everything, and He does everything well. So many things could be said.

18 I see some of my friends. I see Mrs. Ungren sitting there. I didn't know you was in the meeting, and learned today that Brother Myers, and Sister Myers, was here. Where are they at? I ... you know, Brother Myers, you've got younger. I didn't know you. Sister Myers. Them people's all the way from Nashville, Tennessee, up here in the meeting.
I didn't know till today that you were in the meeting. I just learned it today. Have you been all along? Well, I haven't ... and I didn't know it.
I thought your mother-in-law and sister-in-law had went back home from the other meeting, and here I see them, tonight. Looked over, there, and I said, "He's here somewhere." So ... I could see him.

19 Old Nashville, it's a great town. Holds many good testimonies. Have I got time for one more from Nashville? Is it all right? You forgive me. I was coming from Dallas. This one thing holds out to Nashville to me and that was...
One thing, I called a preacher out from Nashville, one time at Jonesboro, that lived right out of Nashville there. I've kind of bypassed it ever since. Many of you United Pentecostal brothers know him real well. Fine brother. But he was sitting there disbelieving, and I called his name to it, see. And I ... never seen him in my life. And said some things [break in tape] ... real bad. And so I stopped it then. It was Brother Reed's at Jonesboro, where the man was called out.

20 But I remember, one night I was coming from Memphis, flying in a plane coming home, and they got a storm up, and they grounded me at Memphis. It's been years ago. And Memphis is located right on the Mississippi River, as we all know. And so, they sent me up there to that famous hotel, Peabody Hotel. And I thought, "Boy, one time I'm going to be an aristocrat, staying in that hotel."
So they called me up after a while, and said, "Well, everything will be all right (long about ten o'clock)." Said, "Be ready. The flight leaves in the morning at seven o'clock."
"Thank you, sir."
Said, "Be ready. The limousine will pick you up."
"All right, sir."
Many more was in the hotel there that night. So I sat up till about twelve o'clock, writing letters to different ones, and praying over requests that I had; answering some personal mail that had been put in my pockets going through the meeting.
Next morning I got up early, and I thought, "Well, at six o'clock I believe I'll go out and find a post box, and mail them---you know, put them in there."
So then, I went out to this box, and thought I'd find it. Went down the street. I started walking down the street.
And when I got down the street a little ways, I started to cross the street where there was a big Irish cop standing out there. And he whistled, and people'd cross. And something said to me, "Go back the other way."

21 Do you believe children of God are led by the Spirit of God? I just wanted to hear you say that, so I can finish the story. That's true. And He works on both ends of the line, always makes his corners meet. And I thought, "Well, maybe that was just me thinking that." But it sounded like a voice told me.
There was a sporting goods store there, and how I love fishing and hunting. I just got up in the sporting goods store window, and was looking around there to see if I didn't attract the attention of this big cop. Maybe would run me off the corner. And I got up here, and I looked around. Nobody was watching me. I said, "Heavenly Father, was that You? I don't want to miss You, Father. Was that You?"
And a voice just as plain as you hear me, said, "Turn and go back."

22 Well, I turned and started walking back. And I walked and I walked, till I got over to the other side. Got down into the colored section, way down towards the river. Got down in that way, and it was a beautiful morning. I looked up. I had been gone then over an hour. I thought, "Why, the plane's gone."
But something just kept saying, "Keep walking." I know God well enough, just keep doing what He tells you to do. Don't you believe your own thinking. You do what He tells you to. Just keep going. I just kept on walking, walking. I got down amongst where the colored people was, a little old house down there, and I looked... I was going along singing that little song that you Pentecostal people used to sing all the time. Let's see. I sing it once in awhile ... try to get it, something about,
"They were gathered in the upper room,
All praying in his name,
... baptized with the Holy Ghost,
And power for service came;
(You ever hear that?) What He did for them
that day
He'll do for you the same,
... glad that I can say I'm one of them.

23 I'd just learned it, and I was going down saying, "One of them, one of them. Lord, what do you want me to do? I'm so glad that I can say I'm one of them."
And the Holy Spirit just kept saying, "Move on, move on." You know how you're led of the Spirit. Just kept on going down the street singing, you know, and singing.
After awhile I looked. Hanging out over an old whitewashed fence, a little old shack behind it, there was a typical old Aunt Jemima, standing there with a man's shirt tied around her head---great big fat cheeks. I just quit singing. It was about the distance to the door. I just started walking on down the street.

24 When I passed by she said, "Good morning, Parson."
Well, I thought, "Wait a minute." Now, "parson," that means "preacher" in the South, see.
"Good morning, Parson."
And I turned around, I said, "Good morning, Auntie." That's usually the way we regard the colored down there. "Good morning, Auntie." She was laughing, great big tears running off her big black cheeks. Looked like an angel to me, standing there.
She said... I said, "Say, by the way, how did you know I was a parson?"
She said, "I knew you was." Said, "Only thing, you supposed to have a briefcase in your hand."
I said, "I left it up there, and just put the letters under my arm." I thought, "Oh, oh." I stopped.
And she said, "I knew you was coming." Said, "You had that hat on the side of your head, kind of gray-looking, that gray suit on."
I said, "Yes, ma'am."
She said, "Did you ever read the story in the Bible about the Shunammite woman?"
I said, "Yes, ma'am, I have." I got up close to the fence.
She said, "I's was that kind of a woman. I didn't have no children, but I was a wash woman. But me and my husband are Christians." And she said, "I prayed for two years for the Lord to give me a child." And said, "I promised the Lord if He'd give me a child, I'd raise him to honor Him." And she said, "One day a lovely little boy was born in our home."
She said, "Parson, I raised him the best of my knowledge to serve the Lord, but he got out amongst bad company, and he took a social disease, syphilis." And said, "And we didn't know it. Being a Christian family, we didn't know it." And said, "We just never ... he never thought nothing about it," and said, "it went to his heart."
And said, "The doctor man says that he can't live, and said certain parts of his heart is gone." And says, "We've give him all kinds of shots." And he's been unconscious now this is the third day." And she said, "Parson, he's laying in there dying." And said, "He hasn't knowed nothing now this is the third day."
And said, "Last night I prayed all night." She said, "I prayed, 'Lord, You give me this baby, just as You did the Shunammite woman. But where's Elisha?" And she said, "I fell asleep, and I dreamed a dream that I saw a man coming, and he had a little gray hat on, and a gray suit." And she said, "I've been standing at this gate since before daylight this morning, waiting for you to come down the street."

25 God answers on both ends of the line. I looked at her. I patted her on her back. She was damp, from standing there. I looked at her a little bit, and she said, "Won't you come in?" And I come in, old gate with a plow horn hanging on it, for a weight to pull it back together.
When she opened the door---a plain little old hut, just a common little hut with an old iron poster bed (How many knows what they are?), a little old iron bed, and no rug on the floor---typical Southern, but she had a sign hanging on the door, "God bless our home."
I've been in kings' palaces. I prayed for King George of England, you know, when he was healed from multiple sclerosis. I prayed for other kings, potentates, monarchs. I've been in some of the finest homes in America, but I never felt any more welcome than I did right there---that little colored haunt that morning.

26 I looked, laying there on the bed, and there was a great big, fine boy, looked to be about a hundred and seventy or eighty pounds, six foot tall. And he had a blanket, like a little sheet blanket in his hand, and he was going "Ugh, Ugh." Kept complaining about being dark. He said, "Dark in here."
I said, "He's talking."
Said, "He's been saying that for two days." Said, "He thinks he's out on the sea somewhere; and he's lost in a boat, and he can't find his way back." She said, "Parson, all my heart ... if I can just hear him say he's saved, he can go on then."
And I said, "Auntie," I said, "my name is Branham. I pray for the sick. Did you ever hear of my ministry?"
She said, "No, sir, Parson Branham, I never heard of you." She said, "I'm sorry."
And I said, "Do you believe God can heal the boy?"
She wasn't even interested in it. She wanted him saved. She wanted him so she could meet him over there.

27 And I said, "All right, let us pray." And we got down to the side of the bed. I felt his feet. Now they felt cold, sticky, I don't know, see. And I got down to the side of the bed to pray, and I said, "Auntie, what about you praying first?"
I've heard lots of prayers. I'm telling you when that old saint got to talking to God, you knowed she'd talked to Him before. The prayer that she said to God that morning... She said, "Lord, You know I've always respected You. I've loved You. I've worked. I've done all this for You. Not as I deserve it, Lord, but if I can just hear my boy say He's saved..." She got up.
Never said nothing. I just looked at her. I never prayed; I just watched her. She got up to pull the cover back over him again. He just had his little trunks-like on. She kissed him on the forehead, and said, "God bless mama's baby."

28 I just stood there ... knelt on my knees, rather, at the foot of the bed, looking, holding his feet. And I thought, "That's right. No matter how much disgrace he's brought, how big he is, or what about it, how much social disease, and what he's done to the family, a mother can't forget her baby."
ISA49:15,16
And I thought, "If a mother can't forget her suckling babe... Jesus said, 'I can't forget you, because your name's engraved upon the palms of my hand.' How the love of God... No matter what we've done there..." I looked at that ... my heart would break.
Then I said, "Now we'll pray, Auntie. I'll pray, too."
She said, "Thank you, Parson," and she got down again, folded her hands, and laid her head down across the boy, and I held his feet. He kept going "Ugh, it's dark, it's dark in here."
And I said, "Heavenly Father, I'm now two hours late from my plane flight, but I only obeyed your word. This surely is the place. I don't know where else. It's the only place I've found. And I don't know nothing about this boy, and about the woman, but You led me over here some mysterious way. And she said she'd been praying, and she saw in a dream this morning me coming to her.
"So the only thing I know to do is stand and offer prayer for this poor boy. She's not interested in his healing, but she wants him to be saved. I pray, God..."
And about that time, he said, "Ah, Mama. It's getting light in the room." In a few minutes he was sitting up on the side of the bed, talking to us.

29 I took off, flagged a cab, and I was about three hours late for my plane---oh, maybe more than that. It was about half-past nine. I told the driver, I said, "You take me on over to the airport." I'd missed everything. Went by, picked up my briefcase and things, went on over. And just as I was going in the gate, said, "Last call for flight twenty-three for Louisville, Kentucky."
The thing of it is, think... The simple faith of that (excuse me, my colored friend), the simple faith of that ignorant colored woman grounded that plane, and held it there.

30 About two years later I was going to Phoenix. I went out on a train. You know, on the train you have to pay so much for them little old sandwiches that's sliced so thick it's only about ... so thin, it's only got one side to it; and about fifty cents for a sandwich. I couldn't stand that---too rich for me.
So we pulled into Memphis. If you know, you come in from the east going west. The train pulled up there to switch on the turn table. And then, when it pulled up, there was a little hamburger stand over there, and I jumped off, and started running down through there to go get me a sack full of hamburgers, enough to last me till I got to Phoenix. You get them for about ten cents apiece there. That was better than on the train.
So I run over to get me a sack of hamburgers, and I heard somebody say, "Hello there, Parson Branham." I looked over there. There stood a little redcap standing there. I said, "Hello, Sonny," started down.
Said, "Don't you know me?"
I looked back. I thought maybe I might have tipped him sometime or something. I thought, "Now, I never was in here." I said, "No, I don't believe I do."
Said, "You remember about two years ago, you was down here?" Said, "You come over my house one morning, and the Lord led you over down here, and you prayed for me? and I was laying dying?"
I said, "You're not the boy?"
He said, "Yes, I is." He said, "I's healed, and I's saved now, Parson Branham." Saved now, Parson Branham.

31 Amazing grace, how sweet the sound. I could stand here for hours. I'm getting to be an old man now. I'm thirty-one years in the ministry, traveling around the world, sights and things. You take meetings and testify, but... Oh, well.
When we get across on the other side, I want an appointment with each one of you. I want to sit down for a thousand years with each one of you. We won't have any less time when we all get done, than when we did when we started, see. Just sit down, and talk about each thing. Won't it be wonderful when we meet there? The Lord bless. Now friends, we are not pilgrims and strangers with you all; we are pilgrims and strangers to the world.
Now, there are some folks here that's visitors from out of town. Now, tomorrow is Sunday. Now, I won't keep you very long tonight. I don't mind you missing a day's work; but don't you miss Sunday school, for whatever you do. You must go to Sunday school.

32 Now, there's some fine churches here. This is one of them, and these pastors back here are men that has churches that's sponsoring this meeting. They represent this gospel. They stand here... They ... if they didn't do it, they'd be off the platform. That's right. And they're standing here as men of God who believe, and is sponsoring this meeting. They've got churches here, maybe of your own denominational church, and they're here. They'd be glad to have you, and I'm sure they would do you good to go hear them tomorrow. I'd do that tomorrow morning for Sunday school.
And tomorrow afternoon the services will be back here at the tabernacle, or at church. Pardon me, I keep saying "tabernacle." Well, a tabernacle is a gathering place. That's right. So ... it represents the tabernacle in the wilderness. And so, we expect to see you here tomorrow afternoon. At what time? Two o'clock, or something like that---two or two-thirty tomorrow afternoon. Now, be sure to attend Sunday school.

33 And I want to tell you something. It's a sin to send your children to Sunday school. You know that? It's a sin to send them; you must take them. Always take them, see. You go, too.
I seen a little cartoon in the paper not long ago: Modern America. There was the mother and father laying there---beer bottles and cans laying all over the floor, and cigarettes smoking on the floor, and things like that. About nine o'clock, and the little boy had done got up and washed his face, and dressed; knocking on the door, said, "Who's going to take me to Sunday school?" That's right. That's the way it is. God have mercy.

34 Friends, you may think I'm cruel, but I don't mean to be. I ... sin just tears me to pieces. When I see it creeping into my church, oh, my! I'm jealous of this church. I am. That's right. God called me to this church. I may ... you think I hurt your feelings. I hope I don't. I hope you underst... I hope the Holy Spirit will just make you know, in the tone of voice, that I want it to know in, see. You just believe. God bless you. Let's speak to the author, now, before we open the Word.

35 Our heavenly Father, help us tonight now. These testimonies, how we could just stand and... When we get over there and see Daniel, and ... oh, I want to stand for a thousand years, and just listen at him. I want to see Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, Paul, Barnabas. I want to see them all. But above all, I want to see Jesus.
And when we stand there... When the angels encamp around about this earth with bowed heads, and hear us sing the songs of redemption, they don't know what we're talking about. They never was lost; they didn't have to be redeemed. But when we crown Him King of kings, and Lord of lords, and sing the songs of Zion, redeemed by the blood of the Lamb, what a time it will be. We're longing for that hour.
Bless us tonight. We come to fellowship around your Word, Lord. Help us now, and anoint the Word. May it go forth like a sword, and circumcise all the world away from us. For we know the children of God are circumcised of the heart and ears by the Holy Spirit. We pray that He'll circumcise my heart and ears tonight, circumcise every heart and ear here tonight, that we might, in hearing, hear; in seeing, see; in understanding, perceive; and be saved and healed for the kingdom of God. We ask in Jesus' name. Amen.

36 [Brother says, "An emergency call for Pastor Wall, if he'll go back to the office, please."] If it's sickness, announce it on the platform, pastor. Announce it here to us. We'll pray immediately. While he's gone... We don't know. It's an emergency. It's bound to be something. [Brother says, "There's a man dying in his church that's calling for him. We might have prayer for him."] Oh. Yes, a man real sick, in state of death in his church. Pastor Wall, God bless him. Let's bow our heads.
Our heavenly Father, this gracious pastor, now, going to the phone to hear one of his congregation calling... Heavenly Father, no doubt that pastor now remembers, that the hours, and the altar calls, and the things that he's did, trusting now that everything's all right. Not a bad thing, when we're ready to go, Lord. It's wonderful. "Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of his saints."
Now, Father, if it be possible, spare him, won't you, Lord, for the service tonight? Let it be some other time, if the man's time's called. Let him live a little while longer, Lord, just in an answer of prayer. Grant it, Father.
Comfort the hearts of those who are looking upon him. Let us remember, Lord, that our bodies are frail. Dust we are; to dust we return. But let us remember our creator, now, while we have our right mind, and can come sanely and sensibly to the altar, and receive Christ as our saviour. Bless Brother Wall, Lord. I pray for him, and I pray for the one that's dying, in Jesus' name. Amen.

37 I have some scriptures and contexts here that I would like to talk on just for a few moments. Can you hear me all right from here? That's fine. I want you to turn with me for a Scripture reading now.
And I want to announce also for a great healing service tomorrow again. Would you like another healing service tomorrow? How many would be in favor? We want to do just what the Lord would have us do now, and in the congregation... How many up in the balcony thinks we ought to have a great healing service tomorrow, pray for the sick? We don't know about healing; that belongs to God.
All right. I'll send Billy down to give out prayer cards in the afternoon, just before the... You say, it's two-thirty it starts? Well, he'll be here by one-thirty, then, or quarter to two, or something like that, so he can give the cards out before we pray for the sick. All right.

38 Now, in I Corinthians, the 14th chapter, the 8th verse, I wish to read this for a context:
For if the trumpet give an uncertain sound, we should prepare ourself for battle.
I'm going to preach upon the subject, or talk a few minutes upon the subject of "The Uncertain Sound."

39 Now, we live in a day of uncertainty. It's an uncertain time. And I want to ask you something. And as we ... I try to teach just for a moment, and refer to these contexts here, and scriptures. I'd like to ask you... Anything that's uncertain cannot be trusted. If it's uncertain, you can't trust it. Paul said here, "...if the trumpet give an uncertain sound, how shall we prepare ourselves for battle?" Now, uncertainty. There never was a time that things was so uncertain as today. And anything that's uncertain cannot be trusted. Just remember that. Anything that's uncertain cannot be trusted. If there's a question, don't do it at all.

40 A lady come to me not long ago, a woman out of my own church---young girl. And she said to me... They got some kind of a fashion out, about girls wearing scandal skirts, or something that showed the little piece up ... cut up like this, that wore a ... showed their underneath skirt. And she said, "Brother Branham, do you think it's wrong for us Christian girls to wear scandal skirts?"
I said, "Why are you asking me that for?"
She said, "I was just wondering."
I said, "If it's a question in your mind, don't do it." I said, "If it's a question, leave it alone. You can't be certain. Dress the way you know you're certain, see. Don't take any chance."
And I said, "By the way, what would a...?" I said, "What is a scandal skirt?" I didn't know what she was talking about. And she told me what it was, and I said, "What in the world would a Christian girl want to show her underskirt for, I can't understand," see. That's right. I just can't get that in my mind. Don't make sense to me. Christ is our life. All right.

41 Now. But if there's a question... Man come, said, "Do you think it's wrong to smoke?"
"What are you asking about it for?" If it's a question in your mind, leave it alone. For, anything you don't do by faith is sin. Right. Got to be by faith. So, how can you smoke and have faith? See, right in your own conscience shows you that you're wrong. So, if it's uncertain, you'd better leave it alone, 'cause that might be the one thing that keeps you out of the kingdom of God.
"Oh," you say, "Brother Branham, one little thing like that?"
One little thing like that'll do it, just disobeying one commandment of God. One little disobedient---one commandment---caused all sickness. Look, Jesus said in his own text in his sermon, "Remember Lot's wife."
Now, she had a lot more excuse than what we have today, doing the things that we do. That woman's children and grandchildren was burning up in the fires of hell sent down from God. And the poor thing, screaming and crying going up there---and she merely turned to look back, and she turned to a pillar of salt, and stands there yet today. And Jesus said, "Remember Lot's wife." We've got to keep every word of God. Just one little thing...

42 That's the reason ... sometimes people think I get rough with people, bawling them out. It's not because I don't love you; it's because I do love you. What if your little boy was sitting out in the street, and you said, "Junior, dear, you shouldn't sit out there. Daddy don't want to..." You'd better strip the hide off of him, if you love him. Keep him in off of that street. Real love is corrective. Genuine love is corrective.
What if your wife was running around with some other man, and you said, "Dear, I hope you have a good time, but really I don't think you should do it." She ought to kick you out the door! That's right. Yeah. Real love is corrective. That's right.

43 Now, uncertainty. The American home today is uncertain. A man marrying a wife, it sure is a problem. Certainly is. Or a woman marrying a man, it's certainly an uncertain thing. They even got it in the marriage ceremony now, "I take him for better or worse." There's a question on it, uncertain. Be good to pray through on it, don't you think so? I think that would be best. Pray through. But it's uncertain.
Homes are broke up. Remarriage, constantly all the time. Uncertainty of home life. America leads the world in divorce cases. All the rest of the world, America leads it.
Business, uncertainty in business. You don't know whether to start a business or not. There's so much competition, there's so much everything, you don't know whether to start or not. It's kind of questionable.
And another thing is national life. We don't know whether to build a home or not. It might be blowed up before morning. You can't tell. Russia's standing there. They got a bunch of missiles set. The only thing... They don't need an army. Just one man with a little too much vodka to pull a line, and we go to dust. No way ... they've got it set on everywhere. That's all.

44 And remember, we've got it for them the same way. And every little island, and every little nation's got it. They don't have to fight any more wars---just press the trigger. And they'd send enough bombs across here---there'd be no way of stopping it. You can't get away from it. They'll blow a hole in the ground. They got them hydrogen bombs that'll blow a hole in the ground 150 yards deep, I believe it is, and 150 miles square. How would you ever get away from it? And thousands of them set, and explode at one time. The world couldn't stand it.
And we run over there and huddle up our fist, and they run back this way, and run back. It's scared; every nation's scared. Might as well... Like the White House---we're like a little boy in the nighttime passing a graveyard, whistling in the dark, acting like we're big and brave. But all behind, everybody's shaking in his boots. It's uncertain. Right.
Our nation's treaty of peace, and everything else, it's just shaking. The UN's a-shaking, everything's shaking. The Bible said it would. Everything that could be shook would be shook. But we receive a kingdom that cannot be shook, see. Everything's shaking. It's uncertain.

45 The seasons are uncertain. You don't know whether to plant your crop if you haven't got some kind of irrigation. The season's so irregular. Frost, rain, anything else can happen right in the summertime. Look what... Sometime here they was having a freeze down in Florida last year, and a heat wave in Alaska. Uncertain.
Science says the earth is pushed out. I forget how many miles it's pushed out around the earth, swelling out in the middle. Finland is almost one third, or one-eighth bigger than it used to be a few years ago. It's raising up. The middle of the earth is pushing out. Oh, brother!

46 What is it? The red signal's down. He's coming. Be ready. She's right at the door. You don't know where to go to find security. You buy life insurance. How do you know there's going to be any life from here after? How do you... You do everything, but it's all so ... just a gamble-like, so uncertain.
Church life is uncertain. Churches, denominations, are so uncertain. One don't know what to do with the other. They're so uncertain, till they're bundling themselves all together, and they're going into the World Council of Churches. How you going to do that, when you mix yourself up with believers, make-believers, and unbelievers---people who deny the virgin birth, deny the baptism of the Holy Ghost, deny divine healing, and everything---and yoking yourself up amongst unbelievers, trying to do it for security.

47 Security? You know the Bible said let the wheat and tares grow together, and He would bundle up the tares at the end. They are. They're getting bundled up in one great big bunch---all of them coming together to form the image of the beast, an ecclesiastical power, an image like Rome.
Oh, it's coming. Don't you worry. It's going to be here, and you're going to see it. You won't die of old age, none of you I don't think, till you'll see it. We've got the head of it sitting here now, Jezebel turning every Ahab's neck, and... Remember the days of that, don't you? How many of you ever heard my tape on Jezebel religion? Scatters a whole lot. You know what I'm talking about. All right.

48 Now, uncertainty, church life, people belonging to church---they're so uncertain they'll join the Methodist this week. "Is this it?" They'll go over, join the Baptist next week, go back to this, and finally wind up in the Catholic. That's right. Uncertain. They don't know where to go. Catholics running here, and there, and everything else. Nobody knows what to do. Just uncertainty. Whole thing just seems to be crumbling---no foundation.

49 But is there anything that's certain? Yes! Hallelujah! Is there something that's positive? Sure. Yes! Jesus said, "Both heavens and earth'll pass away, but my word shall never." There's something that's certain. Yes, sir. "Heavens and earth'll pass away, but my word shall not pass away." Then that's certain.
One thing's sure. That's God's Word will never fail, no matter how critical critics might criticize it; how educationals might explain it away; how they might do this, that, or the other. But it won't stop it one bit. It'll happen just the same. As John said, "God's able of these stones to rise children to Abraham." God's going to do it. His words are going to be fulfilled in their season, and nothing's going to stop it. I'm so glad of that. Oh, how glad I am!

50 Paul, here, was talking in Corinthians 14:8, of training a soldier. He's trained to a sound. That soldier, if he's a trained soldier, he knows every sound of that trumpet just exactly what to do. He's trained to that trumpet. When that trumpet sounds ... He said, "If a trumpet gives an uncertain sound," then the soldier don't know what to do, because he's only trained to the sound of the trumpet. He knows exactly what to do, because the trumpet sounding tells him what to do.
He said, "Now, if the trumpet gives an uncertain sound, then he don't know what to do." Now, that was training a natural soldier. And the Christian soldier is trained to a trumpet, a sound of a trumpet. And that's the gospel trumpet---the gospel, the sound of the word of God, the gospel trumpet. And if one never knew the sound of the gospel trumpet, he'd be a bit confused. If he didn't know what the Word said, and what the Word taught---just what the church said---he'd be a bit confused when he heard the sound of the trumpet. He wouldn't know how to prepare himself.

51 And I think that's where we've got to, the world today. The trumpet is sounding exactly with the gospel, and the people don't know how to act. They don't know how to stand in line, and make ready the battle. They're confused because they have been listening to a different trumpet---creeds, denomination, sectarianism, all kinds of stuff. And when the true gospel, with the true Word made manifest, proving there that people don't know what to do... Some of them walks back, and says, "It's the devil."
The other one says, "It's telepathy."
"It's a ... they're excited."
"There's no such a thing as the Holy Ghost. Dr. So-and-so said so."
I don't care what Dr. So-and-so said. What did God say? That's the only thing that's solid. His words will fail; but God's Word will never pass away. His word's uncertain; but God's Word's sure. That's the reason I build my hopes on nothing less than that Bible. It's got to be that.
But it's strange. As I go about and preach the Word, and testify of things---maybe taking a simple thing, one statement of the Bible... Usually it's better to do that. I could stand here for weeks, and go through things to show you that the Scripture's pointing right to this time, and they don't believe it.

52 Now, the other night, I scolded you women about having short hair. Did you know the Bible speaks of that for the last days? Right. Do you know in the Bible, it was the disobedience of a woman that started with the feminish---a woman back there---when this thing first issued in of death? And when it's going out the same way? The Gentile nation was issued in with King Nebuchadnezzar with unknown tongues and interpretation, and goes out the same way? Issued in by a worship of an image of a man, and a holy man, Daniel (which was Belteshazzar), the image of Daniel---to make everybody worship that image of a holy man, and go out the same way?
You know, every scripture has a compound answer to it, repeats itself? Certainly it does. And we're in that day. How we could take hours on that, and show you just exactly it's the truth! And you can explain it to people, and show it to people, and they don't know which way to go.

53 One way, you feel like you want to scold them; yet you're sorry for them, because they've been listening to something else that's contrary. But always come back, and see if it's "thus saith the Lord." If it's the Bible, then that's certain. And every ounce of it is certain.
Not even one little phase will ever fail---as much as Lot's wife to turn her head at her own screaming children and grandchildren, burning up in the flames of hell. God's wrath and judgment poured out upon Sodom and the poor grieved-heart mother just turned her head, and looked back. But the angel said... Now, the angel, the messenger of the hour to their people, said, "Don't even look back"; and she disobeyed that messenger and just turned her head. And she stands yet today.
See, friends, that's the trouble. I've noticed it amongst our people. We just don't have the sincerity, the reverence and respect to that Word, that we should have. And that's the only thing that's going to stand, is that Word.

54 Now, if one doesn't know the sound of the trumpet, doesn't know what he's talking about, then he's a bit confused. Now. Today we find people confused. Looky here. Presbyterians, Episcopalians, Lutherans by the hundreds is coming in, seeking the Holy Ghost. Strange. That's right. Hundreds and hundreds of denominational people coming in, seeking the Holy Ghost. And the Pentecostal people, that ought to know what's happening, doesn't do it. Instead of grabbing a hold of their congregation, and shaking them down to the gospel, they let them go right on living as luxurious as they want to.
When ... don't you know Jesus said when the sleeping virgin come to buy oil, it was that very hour that the bridegroom come? When she come, and said, "Let us have some of your oil," said, "We just have enough for ourselves. Go buy." And when she went to buy the oil (the sleeping virgin) then the bridegroom come, and the bride went in. Now, there's never been a time that we've ever knowed that the denominational world has been wanting the Holy Ghost until right now.

55 The evening light, signs, wonders, miracles, everything's sitting right here ready. Sure. They're a bit confused. They don't know... Say, "Oh, hallelujah! Hallelujah!" Going right on to it, and letting everything run loose. Well, we ought to be checking up. It's going up time when that takes place, when the sleeping virgin cried out for oil.
Evening light sound coming on. What is the evening light sound? According to Malachi 4, it's the message to restore the faith of the people to the ... faith of the fathers to the children, a message.

56 Now notice. Jesus... There was two trees in the garden of Eden. One of them was life, and one was death. One of them was the woman; the other one was the man. And life that come by the woman dies. But the life that come by the man lives. Jesus said, "I am the bread of life that come from God out of heaven." The angels ... the seraphims guarded the tree of life, which was the bread of life that come from God out of heaven.
And notice that they wouldn't take it without an atonement. And the atonement had to be made, and then they could take the bread of life. There was that perfect tree, bore perfect fruit. David saw it in the Psalms, and said it's like a tree standing by the rivers of water. Sure. The rivers---many of them---but one water; many gifts, the same Spirit. And He bore every fruit perfectly. And then, the Romans cut Him down, hung Him on a man-made tree.
But when He come back, He ordained on the day of Pentecost... What did He ordain? A bride tree with the Spirit of Himself in that tree, to bear the same fruit. It come up for the first three hundred years, doing fine.

57 Then organization set in it, and the Roman Catholic church today was first the Pentecostal church. Anybody that knows church history knows that. I've just went through it all---pre-Nicene fathers, and Nicene council, post-Nicene council, Hislop's "Two Babylons," Foxe's "Book of the Martyrs," oh, Pemberton's "Early Age," all that. I've taken it all. And the Roman Catholic church was first Pentecost.
The Roman Catholic pope has just said, "All the churches come back now to where the churches began, in Rome." I want some scholar, some theologian, some historian to tell me that the church began in Rome, or show me. I'll go back with him where the church began. It began in Jerusalem, on the day of Pentecost.
Now, I will admit that the Catholic church, the denominational church, began in Rome. Denominations started in Rome, and that's where they're going back---the old mother harlot, and her daughters. It's truly. See, they'll go back there.
But the original church began in Jerusalem, A.D. 33, on the day of Pentecost. That's where we'd have to go back to. I'm trying to get back there. But see that antichrist move, trying to make that antichrist, when the real Spirit of God's trying to move them back to the original faith again? Look there. "What the palmerworm left the caterpillar eat; and what the caterpillar left the cankerworm eaten," on down, down till you get down to a stump. Joel saw it. But he said, "I will restore, saith the Lord, all the years that they've eaten."

58 Now, it was about a thousand years there, there was nothing but a stump. But you cannot, because the life of that tree's predestinated to bring forth a tree... Up come Luther, started it growing. What did it do? Organized. The husbandman pruned the branches. Come up into the Methodist. What did it do? Organized, just like the mother. Prune the branches, come on up into the Pentecostals. It's done the same thing, organized. God's pruned the branches.
But that life in the heart of that tree has to live. God said, "I will restore," for the evening light to ripen. In the middle of that tree stands the heart of God. That's the bride tree to meet the bridegroom tree, just like was in the garden of Eden originally---the tree ... the two trees of life. Take Adam and Eve as a shadow of the two trees that actually stood there, life and death.
And there's where it goes to today. Oh, they're a bit confused. They don't know what to do about it. When they hear the trumpet sound, they don't know which way to go. They say, "Well, I don't know." It's pitiful, it's pathetic. That's right.

59 The churches of his day, they knew not the sound. Look what the churches had done. They had become ecclesiastical, educated, smart, shrewd, and had took all the commandments of God and made traditions out of them. Jesus said, "You take the commandments of God, and make them of none effect by your traditions." They were holy, righteous men. You couldn't lay a finger on one life. He'd be stoned if he done something wrong. Their great-great-great-great-grandfathers was priests.
But Jesus said, "You're of your father the devil." And when Jesus came, and sounded forth the trumpet of the Messiah, they didn't know it. It was an uncertain sound. They didn't know what to believe. Believe me, it's the same thing again. It's repeated itself. The gospel sounds in the purity of its Word, and of its manifestation. And still they don't get it.
They can't understand it. They're not trained to that sound of the Bible. They're trained to some denominational creed, instead of the sound of the Bible. Therefore, when the Bible sounds it out, they don't know what you're talking about. That's right. If the trumpet gives an uncertain sound, who knows how to prepare himself? People just go on, live just like the others. But if they could only see the sound, God moving.

60 I come into India. Here some time ago Billy and I... When we went into India, where we had our greatest meeting we ever had---was in Bombay, the largest one. And I guess there was ... I don't know---there was probably 100,000, 200,000 people accepted Christ at one time. We didn't know how we could control them (just like miles of just black hands going up, accepting Christ), when a total blind man on the platform received his sight, was made well. And there they was.
But because no churches would cooperate with it, then what did they do? They misunderstood the sound of the gospel. When that Methodist bishop stood there, and he said to me, he said, "Sir, we believe you to be an honorable man. We disagree with you. You've got a good name; we respect you. But to sponsor you..."
I said, "Sir, somebody's got to pick up out there. Here's the mayor, standing here, that told me that there's at least ... going to be at least 500,000 people in that gathering." I said, "There's going to be something happen. Come on in and get those people. Lead them to know Christ, if it's only by the book."
But you see, the trumpet was sounded for them, but they ... it was an uncertain sound to them. They didn't know ... they didn't know that gospel trumpet, you see. They only knowed their ritual trumpet, their ecclesiastical trumpet. That's all they knowed, and lost it. And they'll pay for it at the day of the judgment. That's exactly right.

61 Jesus sounded his trumpet. He showed them by his signs and wonders that He was the Messiah. Yes, sir. The Christian soldier is trained to hear the Word-sound of the gospel. The real Christian soldier is trained to that. Jesus said, "My sheep know my voice." What is the voice? Jesus is 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." Then a real sheep of God hears the voice of the Word. "My sheep hear my voice, and a stranger they don't follow." Get it?
Creeds and dogmas, and so forth, is injected into it. They won't follow that. They've got to hear the unadulterated Word, and see it manifested. Watch just a little bit here in the gospel in a few minutes, see if it is or not. They've got to ... "My sheep hear my voice."

62 Look. All of Israel ... of the tens of thousands that there was in them days (around four million)... And there was 120 heard his voice, out of four million. If the rapture would come tonight, it would be scary if I'd tell you what I think would happen. It's true.
There's a lot, as I said to a brother this morning, there's a lot of so-called Christianity bloomed all over the earth. It's only a filler in a garden pointing to a statue. The statue's the thing to look at. Christ is that image. Right! And the true borned-again church is what He'll take with Him. The rest of it's filler. That's right.

63 Now. The church didn't know Him. Why? Because they had been trained to the voice of the ecclesiastical systems of that day. It was an uncertain voice. They didn't know what to do. When Jesus walked out there and foretold things, and prophesied things... And yet their own scripture's telling them that when He come that's what He'd do.
But they had made traditions out of it, and said, "Well, the Messiah will be so-and-so. Now, Dr. So-and-so and Rabbi So-and-so said, 'So-and-so,' " see, taking man's word. It's uncertain. But God's Word is positive the truth.
God said to Moses, his prophet (and the Word always comes to the prophet), and said that He would be a prophet like him, and they were looking for that. And those who looked for it received it, see. "My sheep know my voice."

64 But today... Them days it was trained, educated church men of his days didn't know the sound. They were good men. You couldn't lay your hand on them. You couldn't say they committed adultery, they lied, they stole, they done this. No, sir! You couldn't say they wasn't smart. They were plenty smart, just as shrewd as they could be.
But they didn't know the sound, and they didn't know what to do. They were flusterated. Oh, how I'd... Just holding something back. I'd like to blast them. Talk about a flusteration! Yes, flusterated.
They didn't know what to do. They seen something happen, and they knowed they had to answer to their people. And instead of taking the gospel and searching it out, when He stood there and perceived their thoughts, and... They said they was going to tell their people He was Beelzebub. They just cast it off, and said, "Oh, it's of the devil."
And Jesus turned around, and said, "I forgive you for that. But some day the Holy Ghost is coming to do the same thing, and one word against it will never be forgiven." The uncertainty, and the certainty: when the certain sounds, the uncertain's confused; and when the uncertain sounds, the certain's confused until he sees what's sounding. Yes.
A man who knows where he's standing, he hears what ... the uncertain sound, but he won't listen to it. That's right. A stranger they will not follow.

65 All right. What happened? What made them that way? What did they do? How did they do it? They denied the Word. And when you deny the Word there's only one thing to build upon, and that's the educational system. When the truth is denied, education is accepted. That's exactly right. They took education.
Same thing today. Look at our Pentecostal churches, brethren. Well, we might as well open our eyes and face the truth. Our churches is not what they used to be. Now your churches are my brethren. They're fine. I love them. That's the reason I'm with them. If I didn't believe in them, I sure wouldn't be around here saying what I'm saying. I love them. But what's happened?
Instead of them experiences we used to have with God, we send our children over here to school somewhere, and get a PhD, and a LLD, and bring him home. And he knows no more about God than a Hottentot knows about Egyptian knights. Right. We take our children in the Sunday schools. God don't have any grandchildren. God has sons. That's right. But we take them in, say, "Well, they're Pentecostal because their mother was Pentecostal, raised them up Pentecostal." That don't make them Pentecostals!

66 God don't have any grandkids. He only has sons and daughters, not granddaughters and grandsons. He only has sons and daughters. That little Ricky's got to pay the same price that Grandpa paid, do the same thing that Grandpa had, get the same experience that Grandpa and Grandma had. If he don't, he's lost.
Don't turn your head to look back. Keep on going. Don't look at the world and some of these fashionable things, and some of these hands full of denominational stuff they're handing out. We're all guilty. That's right---don't know that certain sound. We accept little dogmas, and keep them.

67 Jesus, when He come, He couldn't even get any of them. He took fishermen---somebody didn't know nothing that He could show something by. Yes, sir! In I Timothy, the 14th chapter ... I beg your pardon, I Timothy, the 4th chapter, it says that in the last days the Holy Spirit speaks, and there would be an intellectual conception of the church. That's right. I Timothy, the 4th chapter, said, know this: the Holy Spirit speaks that in the last days (that's these days, see) they'd be heady, high-minded, lovers of pleasure more than lovers of God, trucebreakers.
It used to be a shame for women to go in bathing with men. Now it's very popular. Our Pentecostals, sure. All right. "...trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, and despisers of those that are good."
You say, "Brother Branham, that's communism."
That was church members. Watch what He said next: "...having a form of godliness..." That was Pentecostals ... can shout, jump up and down, speak in tongues, bob hair, wear immoral clothes. Preachers go by, and put people in the church---deacons---with four or five wives, anything else. Just money and dress, and popularity; and get the best there is in the town, the society in town.
The best in the town sometimes is on skid row, with God---some honest-hearted woman or man that wants to serve God. Look in the Bible time. Some of the best that come was Mary Magdalene, out of who He cast seven devils, and so forth. We begin to come prissy, high-minded.

68 That's the reason we're losing, because we're taking our boys and teaching them education, instead of the principles of the Bible, and the salvation of God, and the power of the Holy Ghost. That's the reason on this great revival, what have we done? The Assemblies has hatched a great big group, like Oral Roberts. The other one, Church of God. Billy Graham, the Baptists, and so forth, thousands and thousands. But where is that church that Christ spoke of? Where is them great powers of God that He promised?

69 Borderline believing. Israel was in the wilderness forty years, walking around and around, with the blessings of God. But, brother, over in the promised land laid the fullness of God's blessings for them. And today we're walking around and around in circles, like that---and the power of God ready to take us in, too. But what are we doing? Sowing intellectual seed, intellectual talks. No more prayer meetings all night---have to hurry and get away. Sincerity's gone. Where is those things? They let God raise up something; then they criticize it---the church of the living God. Think of it. Uncertain sound. They don't know it. Sure. All right.

70 He spoke of this. Listen ... what He said, too, in II Timothy. He said, "These would be the sort that would go from house to house, and lead silly women, led away with divers lusts"---never learning, never able to come to the knowledge of the truth, laden with sin [lust]. Want to pattern after some movie star, some television program you stayed home from prayer meeting to watch, making that your example.
Half the kids can tell you more about Davey Crockett than they can about Jesus Christ. Go downtown, and you can buy anything from David Crockett; but you hardly hear the name of Jesus Christ mentioned. Oh, it's a shame!

71 I know you think I'm crazy, but some of these days at the judgment bar when I stand there by your side you're going to find different. Now's the time. Don't wait till there. It'll be too late. Judge it with the Word, see if it's right. Then you'll know. Intellectual---they don't want somebody to really stand up and pull the Scripture out, and show it. They want somebody that's trained to bypass it. They don't want to know that. Oh, they just can't stand that.
Fish and loaves is fine. But Jesus done the same thing. What a wonderful prophet! The little prophet of Galilee was healing the sick, and He was a great man. But one day He sat down, and began to pour the truth to them. The whole group walked up and left Him. Even the seventy went, and He turned to the twelve and said, "Do you want to go, too?
That's when Peter made those notable words, and said, "Lord, where would we go?" Certainly. Then He began from that very hour... Long as He was healing the sick, it was fine. But when He went to interfering with their individual life, then that said something different. From right there his ministry begin to diminish, right on to the cross. And every true servant of God will follow the same example. Certainly. People wants patted and played with. But when it comes to truth, they don't want it. Now remember, these are tapes going around the world. All right.

72 Education: I'll say this, that education has been one of the most damnable things that the gospel's ever received. And today education is a must. That's right. You must have it. Look at Cain's children at the beginning. Cain's children were smart, scientists, and could temper metal, build buildings, so forth. They were scientists. But Seth's children were humble sheepherders, and so forth. That's right.
Jesus said the children of the world, of night, are more brighter, more smarter than the children of the day. Jesus said so. And yet, we put so much upon that intellectual. Some man can say "Ah-h-h-men" just right---some man with a Hollywood hair cut, or something or other. He talks so cute ... mixed bathing, goes out, and have everything---bunco parties in the church, and little social parties. And make [unclear words] back for your pastor.
Paul said He wanted separators. God told Paul ... "Separate me Paul and Barnabas." Today they want mixers ... let them get by with anything they want to. But God wants separators. That's right. It's not easy to do; but yet, it's fulfilling what God requires.

73 Sheep are trained to follow the shepherd's voice, and the shepherd's voice is the Word. Today education is so great, it's a must. One of our greatest assemblies, one of our greatest denominations of the Full Gospel people, I'm told, have to take a missionary and stand him before a psychiatrist, to find out whether he's mentally right to go out in the fields or not. What a disgrace!
Today you have to have about four degrees in college, or two degrees, before they even ordain you to preach the gospel. Takes you ten years for some kind of a degree. God done more in ten days than they can do today in ten years. That's right. Men who couldn't even write their own name... He never told them to go to school when...

74 I believe it was Hudson Taylor, the great missionary in China... There was a Chinese boy got saved, and come up and said, "Mr. Taylor, where shall I get my Bachelor of Art? How many years will it take this? How many years will it take to get my doctor's degree?"
Mr. Taylor said, "Go now. Don't wait till the candle's half burned."
That's what I think today. What we need today is men with experience that knows what God means, and takes God's experience by God's Bible and preaches God's Word, has God's signs and God's a-vindication.
If you don't know beans ... or split beans from coffee, preach anyhow. There's one thing you know. If your candle got lit, go tell somebody how it got lit. Maybe theirs will get lit, too---light off of yours. That's what we need today. Certainly it is. We have too much psychiatrists, and so many things we have to do in the line of education. Yes, sir.

75 God made two ... three covenants. The first covenant He made He made with Adam. Broke it. The second covenant was Noahic covenant. It was broke. When God made his covenant with Abraham, He never said, "If you'll do certain things, I'll do certain things"; He said, "I have..." Unconditional covenant. God determined to save man. No uncertain sign about that.
"Abraham, I have saved you, and your seed after you; and I'll swear by myself that I'll do it." Amen. Nothing uncertain about that. "I've done it, already done it." See, man's rotten to begin with. Anything he does is rotten---anything he does.

76 A brother back here in the church (I met him the other morning), his car... We both bought new Fords, and when we come down, why, mine went wrong; his went wrong. Billy bought a new Chevy and it went wrong. I said, "Anything that man builds is corruptible! There's only one thing that's incorruptible. That's Christ. Amen! He lives forever."

77 Noah broke his covenant, or Noahic covenant was broke. Adam's covenant was broke. Anything that God makes with man... But God was determined, and would save man, because He foreknew man. And He was determined to save him, so He saved man by an unconditional covenant. Amen. No uncertainty about it. He said, "I will." It's wholly by grace, and unconditional, which makes it by grace. Not "If you will;" "I will." Oh, how glad I am for that. Not what I am; but what He was. Amen.

78 Abraham, when he heard that covenant, he was so glad and so happy---even being an old man, and God told him he was going to have a baby by Sarah. Years passed, and he didn't have a baby. But he kept saying, "We're going to have it anyhow."
"How do you know?"
"God said so." Nothing uncertain about that. "We're going to have it anyhow. God said so. That settles it." If God said so, there's nothing uncertain about it.

79 Noah, his message that day didn't meet with the church's education. Remember they were smarter then than they are now. They could build a pyramid, and the sphinx. They couldn't do that now. We haven't got nothing to lift them up there, them boulders. Correct. They could make a mummy in that day, or embalm a body to make it last for hundreds and hundreds of years to look natural. We've lost that art. They had a coloring that we don't have today. They were much smarter then than we are now.
What do you think of an old man going out there and saying, "Well, get ready. I'm going to build an ark out here because it's going to rain"?
The scientists would shoot up to the radar, to the moon and back and forth, and say, "There's not any rain between here and there. Where's it coming from?"
Like that Russian in the orbit the other day, said, "I went around the earth seventeen times. I didn't see no God, nor no Holy Ghost, nor no angels." Ignorance, that's all. God just sits and laughs at them.
Why, Noah's message didn't qualify with scientific specifications. But Noah said, "It's going to rain anyhow, 'cause God said so." Yes, sir. There's no uncertain sound about it. "It's going to rain."

80 Moses wasn't questioned. That runaway prophet, back out there at the backside of the desert, he didn't know what to do. Oh, he was all frustrated. Said, "Lord, I can't speak. I stammer. I can't do it. I can't go down there."
But when God said, "I'll be with you," (Amen!) no uncertain sound about that! "I'll be with you." Amen! That settled it. Moses was on his road; nothing uncertain about that.

81 David, when he stood there by the side of Goliath, looking at him; and seen that bunch of tin soldiers (supposed to be God's army) standing there---cowards---backing off, David said, "The God that delivered the lion into my hand, and I slew the bear, that same God will deliver that uncircumcised Philistine in my hand." Now, not, "I hope He does; probably He will." He said, "He will do it." Nothing uncertain about that.
There is a sound that is certain, and that certain sound is God's voice. Hallelujah! Nothing uncertain about that. David said, "He'll do it."

82 John was so sure, out there in that wilderness, that he'd see Jesus Christ. He was so sure he'd see Him, he said, "He's standing in your midst now, and you don't know him." He was positive. Not, "I hope He's out there. Perhaps He will come while I'm yet living."
John had a message straight from God. He didn't go away to school to learn anything; he went to the wilderness to his knees. His message was too important to take some school's idea. So he went till he found God, and God told him, said, "Upon whom thou shall see the Spirit descending and remaining, he'll baptize with the Holy Ghost and fire."
John was sure of it. So, he was so sure he said, "He's standing in your midst now, one that you know not." Amen! He was there, but He hadn't manifested Himself yet.

83 How I'd would like to say something right here. Amen! I believe He's here, but He hasn't manifested Himself yet. I believe Christ is here. I believe in the form of the Holy Ghost He's right here now, in the fullness of his power to do anything that we ask Him to do. He said so. But when He manifests Himself... Remember, He appeared before He come. But we'll see Him come one of these days, that glorious One that we've looked for. Yes. Amen.

84 Jesus was positive of what He done. In St. John, the 5th chapter, the 19th verse, Jesus said, "Verily, verily, I say unto you, the Son can do nothing in himself." That's the flesh that God created, his own Son. You believe He was the Son of God, created? Sure. God created Himself a body, a tabernacle, to live in. He was the Son of God. And He said, "The Son can do nothing in himself. But what He sees the Father do, that doeth the Son likewise." Then He was positive, because God was showing Him what to do. He was certain of Himself.

85 How Elijah was certain. Went out there and cut them bullocks and laid them up down there. Told them, "Call your god, Baalim." Said, "Go ahead, call a little longer. Maybe he's pursuing. Maybe he's on a fishing trip somewhere. Maybe he just got hard to hear all at once." Walked up and down there. Why?
They said, " 'Cause, oh, he's a man of faith. He's a man..." Saw a vision! No man done anything without seeing it first in a vision. Jesus never Himself. He said He didn't.
But what did he say? When he laid all them out there, he said, "Lord, I've done this at your command." Amen. He was certain. Said, "Now, Lord, let it be known that Thou art God, and I am your prophet." And the fire of God began to fall according to his prophecy: "Let the God that speaks by fire answer." No uncertain about that. He knowed what He was doing.

86 Let the God that be God speak like God. Let the God that answers by fire be God. Let the God tonight ... If your systems is better than the Word, then let them speak and heal the sick, and discern the thoughts, and do what God said He would do. Amen! If your denominational systems is better than the Word of God, then let them speak. Let's see them raise up a church---in their Roman dogmas, and so forth---and produce something like Jesus Christ. Let's see them with the dogmas make the Word live again.
They bypass the Word by their dogmas, their creeds, because they're afraid to meet the issue. And they bypass it and base the people upon intellectual education instead of the power of the resurrection of Jesus Christ, and the manifestation of his being. Amen! Nothing uncertain about that. Try it. Certainly it's the truth. Yes, sir.

87 Jesus said, "I do nothing till the Father shows me." Yes, sir. Jesus was so certain of his ministry that He said, "Search the scriptures." Now a man ain't going to say that. "Search the scriptures; for in them you think you have eternal life: and they are they that testify of me."
In other words, "Don't you know that I am the Word? and I'm here to make manifest the Word that was promised? What God promised that Messiah would do, I'm here to confirm it."
Why not that Pentecostal church tonight, then? The very works that God promised the church to do, we ought to rise on our feet in the name of Jesus Christ and do it!

88 When Elijah, the old prophet, represented Christ, Elisha, the young prophet, followed him across Jordan. When he come back, he had a double portion. And the church followed Christ to Calvary, and the mantle of Christ fell down with the baptism of the Holy Ghost. And Jesus said, "These things that I do shall you do also; and even greater than this shall you do [more]; because I go to my Father." Amen.
Where is the God of Jesus Christ? Where is the God that made this promise in the Bible? We need more Elishas. Right. We need more believers on it. We need more believers in truth, because there's been so many twisting creeds, and things, it's an uncertain sound to the people. I'm trying to tell you, get back to the Bible.

89 Don't let nobody tell you the days of miracles is past. Don't let nobody tell you the Holy Ghost ain't just the same as it ever was. Don't you let nobody tell you that Jesus Christ is not alive, and right here in his church tonight, doing the same things that He did. Nothing uncertain about it. He promised it.
But the people with their ecclesiastical wind-up, they begin to think, "Oh, well. You know, that's some kind of a... ," just like they did with Jesus. They said, "Well, he's Beelzebub. He's a fortune-teller, a devil." Beelzebub was a devil spirit. They said he was doing that like a fortune-teller, a Beelzebub. And anybody knows that fortune-telling is the devil. Sure it is. Any of that séance, and black magic, and stuff, is the devil. Sure it is. It's the devil trying to impersonate Christ. Because there is a devil, that shows there is a Christ. As long as there's a wrong, there's a right it come off of. Amen. As long as we've got a fortune-teller, it shows we've got a real prophet somewhere. That's right. Oh, how I thank God for his goodness.

90 "Search the scriptures. In them you think you have eternal life, and they testify of me." Listen what again He said. "If I do not the works of my Father [if my works don't sound that certain sound of the gospel], then don't believe it." Whew! He was... There's no uncertainty about that. "If I don't do the things that God said I would do, then don't you believe me." There's nothing uncertain about that.
"You claim to be a scriptural group," He said, "and if I don't do the things that God said that I would do, then don't believe me. If the scriptures don't testify themselves through me, well, then don't believe me." Oh, there's nothing uncertain about that. No, indeed. "If I do not the works, then don't believe me. But if I do the works, then believe me." Certainly is no uncertain sound about that.
And again, He said this. Listen now. "I have power to lay my life down, and I have power to take it up again." Amen. Not nothing uncertain about that, was there? (I'm bypassing lots of scriptures 'cause it's getting late.) " I have power to lay my life down. I have power to take it up again."

91 Listen! Jesus said ... the Bible, Christ: John 14:12, "He that believeth on me [not make-believeth,] but ... he that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he also..." Shall; not perhaps, will, ought to. He shall do it! Nothing uncertain about that. He said they shall. What kind of works did He do? What kind of works did He show? What was He called by? A devil for doing it. "If they call the master of the house Beelzebub, how much more will they call them of his disciples?" No uncertainty. He said, "If ... he that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also." Nothing uncertain.
Again, he said in St. John, "If ye abide in me, and my word abide in you, then ask what you may, and it will be done for you." Not no uncertain; it shall be given you. It shall be done. Nothing uncertain. Oh, let's crawl out of that turtle shell.

92 Brethren, men of God, women of God, what's the matter with us? There's something needs to move. We're turtling. When I was a little boy... You know what a turtle is, tortoise? We have them back east. An old terrapin, we call them.
Me and my brother saw one one time. We was little bitty fellows. And it was the funniest looking thing you ever seen, moving like that. And when we got to him, went "shhhp," drawed up. Just reminds me of some people, preaching the gospel to them. You go to throwing the gospel out, and they "Shhhp. Days of miracles is past. No such thing as that." Old turtle.
You know what? I said, "I'll make him walk." I went over and got me a switch, and began to whip him. That didn't do no good. I just whipped him; he just smothered up. You can beat them, whip them, do anything you want to, and it won't do a bit of good. I said, "I'll fix him." I took him down at the creek, and I baptized him. I put him under the water, till bubbles just bubbled up, and that's all there was to it. Water'll never do it. You might as well quit your fussing. I just held him there till all the bubbles just bubble, bubble, bubble, and he never done a thing.
But you know what I did? I got me a piece of paper and made me a little fire, and set the old boy on it. He walked then. That's what we need tonight, is the baptism of the Holy Ghost and fire; and not so much church creed backing the thing---back like the forefathers had it. We need another Pentecost that'll line you up with the Holy Ghost, that will send people to their knees, send people to their Bible, to search the scriptures and look for them.

93 It doesn't give an uncertain sound. It gives just exactly what the Bible said it would do, what Jesus said it would do. "Ye abide in me, and my words in you, then ask what you will." Why? You are in Christ by faith, and the Word is in you. That's the Holy Ghost in you, and it is the Word. Then this printed word makes itself manifest, brings it to life. Sure.
Mark 16, after his death, burial, and resurrection, He was commissioning his church. He said, "Go ye into all the world, preach the gospel to 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...
No uncertainty. Not maybe they will, they ought to; they shall follow them that believe. Not they'll shake hands with the preacher, and take the kosher every once in a while, and lick out their tongue, the priest drink the wine. Never said nothing about that. It said, "These signs shall follow..."
Oh, they'll pay their debts, and pay their tithes into the church, and they're good, prosperous people. He never said that. He said, "These signs shall [shall!] follow them that believe; In my name shall they cast out devils; they will speak with new tongues; if they take up serpents or drink deadly things, it won't harm them; if they lay their hands on the sick, they shall recover." Amen. Nothing uncertain about that. It was true.

94 The Bible prophet tells us that it shall be light in the evening time. The Bible predicts that there will be a Son of the God shining in the last days in the evening time, just like it shined at the former time---a Bible church, a Bible gospel just like it was. It shall be.
Jesus said in the Scriptures, "As it was in the days of Noah wherein eight souls were saved..." As it was in the days of Noah so shall... Not no "Maybe, I guess..." I'll hold on that for a little bit. I'm going to let it soak in. "As it was in the days of Noah ... eight souls were saved, so shall it be in the coming of the Son of man. 'Cause strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, but few there'll be that find it." O God. Let us be that few!
What are we going to do? Are you going to be filler, or are you going to be the object? There is only one way you do it: you become Word, and Word become you, God in you. You abide in God, and God in you.

95 Again, Jesus promised in the last days that it shall be so, that the Gentiles at the end-time will receive the same sign that they did at Sodom, before its burning. Now look on this West Coast, where sin has come in waves. It comes in like this. It's coming from the east always.
When the Indian lived here... Somebody... Was talking to a missionary out here, a while ago, or somewhere. I thought I'd see him again---was talking to him, a missionary to the Indians. When they lived here it was peaceful. Only thing they had was a little tribal war. No immorals among them. When the white man come in, he come in with drinking, and women, and immorality.
And it's coming from the east, heaping to the west. It can't go no farther. There's a sound barrier right here God has. When the east and west is meeting, it's coming in, haunting this West Coast; and hanging up, hanging up, banking up. And every time it comes like that, begins to get wickeder and wickeder.
Like the Lutheran day, then come the Methodist day, then come the Baptist day, and then the Church of God, then the Nazarenes, then the Pentecostal. Every time the enemy comes in like a flood, the Spirit of God raises a standard against it. All that, until we're at the end-time now, that last sign that He give. We've had healings, and miracles, and speaking in tongues, and casting out devils, and all, before. But here we are.

96 As that angel sat with his back turned to the tent where she was in there, and told exactly what she was saying there, Jesus said, "So shall it be at the coming of the Son of man." It shall be that way. Israel received it there. The Gentiles ... the Jews, Samaritans, and now the Gentiles. It shall be. Why? The Bible said Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever.
No uncertainty about it. He is the same. And when He's coming in his fullness in this last days, manifesting Himself, He proves Himself the same. Amen. "I do nothing except the Father shows me first." Oh, how I wish I could just make people see it. I wish I could. All right.

97 Nothing uncertain. Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever. Hebrews 13:8. Is that right? Certainly it is. You say, "Well, Brother Branham, I don't know what to do." The Bible said in Acts 2:38, "Repent, every one of you, and be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of your sins, and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost."
Not you may; you shall. Nothing uncertain about that. Not a bit uncertain.
He said you shall receive it. "For the promise is unto you, and to your children, and to them that's far off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call." He promised to do it. There's no uncertainty. You shall receive it. Nothing uncertain.

98 Little old Zacchaeus in the Bible... His wife, Rebekah, she was a follower of the Lord Jesus. It was her influence that helped bring him down there, we are told by history. She wanted Zacchaeus to believe Jesus so much, that He was a prophet. And she told him, told him, said, "Honey, that man is a prophet. I've seen Him stand there, and say what that person ... perceived in their heart. Now look here, the Scripture said... Here's the ... exactly vindication that He..."
"Aw, Rabbi Kobinski [I hope there's none here like that, but...], Rabbi Kobinski told me that it wasn't nothing but a bunch of illusion. What follows him? A bunch of ignoramuses that never went to school a day in their life." That old devil never did die. That's right. So he said, "What are they? I don't believe it."

99 But you know, she prayed constantly for him. And the day that He come to town, he thought he'd meet Him, and see what He looked like.
He didn't believe He was a prophet, so he said, "I'll just deceive him. I'll climb up in a tree, and watch him when he passes." And he covered himself up, and got up in a tree.
Here come Jesus walking down the street, walking along like this. He come right under the tree, looked up in the tree, and sees him. "Zacchaeus, come on down." Nothing uncertain about that.
Zacchaeus said, "Yes, Lord. Here I am. If I've done anything wrong, I'll make it right." Knowed who he was, and knowed he was up there in the tree, too.
"Zacchaeus, come on down. I'm going home with you for dinner." He let loose the limbs, and here he come. He knowed that was the Messiah. There's no uncertain sound about that. He knowed it was.

100 But today that same thing can happen, say, "Oh, well, it was a pretty good meeting." Oh, men, this unadulterated gospel being preached to a perverted generation, it's such a pitiful thing. But yet, the grace of God constrains it to go on, anyhow, not willing that any should perish, but that all might come to repentance. Yes.

101 He not only knowed he was in the tree, but He knowed who he was. "Come on down." That took all the starch out of him. You know, he become a full-fledged member of the Full Gospel Business Men's Association down there, I believe, down there in... Why, sure. He was convinced that that was the Messiah. No matter what Rebekah done, or what Rebekah said, he saw it for himself. Yes, sir.

102 Nathanael, that well-trained scholar we was talking about the other night, when he walked up there, said, "I'll go see for myself."
And when He come, and said, "Behold, an Israelite in whom there's no guile," said, "When did you know me, Rabbi?"
He said, "Before Philip called you, when you were under the tree, I saw you."
"Thou art the King of Israel, thou art the Son of God." No uncertainty about that. He knowed exactly he was under the tree. Oh, yes. He never said, "Why, them Pharisees said that's Beelzebub." But not Zacchaeus. He knowed he was the one under the tree. No uncertain sound to Zacchaeus. His name's immortal tonight, and always will be, because he was saved.

103 That little woman at the well, she had seen so much scruples about all their religions, and churches, and theology of that day, till she was sick and tired of all of it. She didn't go to none of it. Don't know but what she was just as well off. Poor child was maybe, by bad parents, laid out on the street, and she become a prostitute. Maybe the poor little fellow didn't have...
Let me tell you, there's a lot of bad women. We know that. But you can't be a bad woman without ... being a bad man, you know. So, there has to be somebody to make her bad. So ... and sometimes them kids are turned out by a bad mammy---run out to barrooms and everything.

104 You talk about juvenile delinquency; I say it's parent delinquency. You talk about the ignorance of the Kentucky people, some of them old mammies out there... Let their daughters come home of a morning with lipstick all over their face, and hair all twisted up, and clothes half off of them, half sotted, with a cigarette in their hand, they'd take a barrel slat, or one of them hickory saplings out there, and she'd know when she went out the next time! Then you say illiterate. They can teach this bunch of hoodlums how to raise children. That's ... oh, maybe I oughtn't to've said that. Well, no. I don't take it back. I said that when the Holy Spirit was anointing me. That's right, exactly right! Yes, sir. Today, hmph ... oh, my!

105 That little woman, she wandered out to the well that morning, maybe her curls all hanging down. Maybe she'd been out all night. I don't know. She come out about eleven o'clock to get the water for the day. And when she looked over there and seen that Jew, and that Jew said, "Go get your husband," she said, "I don't have any."
Said, "You're telling the truth. You've got five; and the one you're living with is not yours." My goodness!
Said, "Sir [No uncertain sound; nothing uncertain about it.], I perceive that you are a prophet. Now I know that when the Messiah comes ... and all of us down here in Sychar, we're taught, we Samaritans, that when Messiah cometh He'll do this. I'm wondering who you are."
Jesus said, "I am he." No uncertain sound. He said, "I am he."
Somebody said He never confessed to be the Son of God. What about that? Said, "I am he that speaks to you." Watch.
Brother, she didn't say, now, "Shall I go to school, and learn some theology?" She run into the city and said, "Come see a man that told me the things I've done. Isn't that the very Messiah?" Nothing uncertain about that. No, sir! She knew. She said, "We are taught when the Messiah cometh that's what he'll do."

106 Now the Rabbi thought he had to do so-and-so. This denomination thought that; and this had their way; and they was all segregated, and everything, and all starched up, and educated out, and put in... And, oh, like some of these women trying to stretch themselves in these modern dresses like a skinned wiener, or some way like ... going down like that, in and out, and out... I ain't saying that for a joke. This is no place for joking. This is a place to make truth, truth. That's right! The shame and disgrace!
And that's no more disgrace than people who are trying to take some kind of a dogma, and push it down a fellow's neck. If you went to the restaurant and got a bowl of soup and it had a spider in it, you'd sue that restaurant. But you let some of these old cold morgues in here, with their spiritual thermometer a thousand below normal, and inject you with some of that embalming fluid they got in there, when you ... keep you dead all the days of your life. And then say nothing about it---when that body's got to die anyhow, but that soul lives forever somewhere. What's the matter? There's an uncertain sound to it.

107 Jesus said, "He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he also." Nothing uncertain about that. "These signs shall follow them that believe." That's right. "He that believeth on me, though he were dead yet shall he live; and whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die." Nothing uncertain about that. Resurrection is sure. Right.
"He that eats my flesh and drinks my blood has everlasting life, and I'll raise him up at the last day. But he that eats and drinks it unworthily, eats and drinks damnation to himself, not discerning the Lord's body." No uncertainty about any of it. Right. If you eat it worthily, walking in the Word, in the faith, God promised the resurrection. If you eat it unworthy, you're dead right then when you're living. The Bible said the woman that lives in pleasure is dead while she's alive. Exactly. The Bible said that. That's the infinite Word of God. It can't change. Certainly. Oh, no uncertain sound.

108 Here not long ago I was down in Mexico (closing). We was having a great meeting. General Valdina---many of you know him, that great Mexican general---he went to the governor, got permission for me to come in. And the bishop in Rome, a Roman bishop, Catholic bishop, went to him, and said, "Sir, this man that's coming in is not a Catholic." He said, "Our government shouldn't permit such as that."
"Oh," the bishop said, "General Valdina is bringing him in. I guess he's a reputable person. They say he has great crowds of people, and so forth."
"Oh," he said, "nothing goes out to hear them things such as that but the ignorant and unlearned."
The president said to him, said, "Sir, you've had them for five hundred years. Why are they ignorant and unlearned?" Said, "As far as I'm concerned, he can come."

109 Oh, my! I could walk down through there, say, "Uh-huh."
Walked on in, went in there, and had the meeting. Them poor Mexicans! Just about three nights is all. We had room ... the place, to stand, where thousands times thousands...
How many knows Brother Espinoza, the Mexican inter... down here, the brother down here in California? He was my interpreter. I seen some of your hands go up. He was doing my interpreting.
That night coming on the platform... They'd never seen anything like it. There they all stood---no place to sit down. They stayed there at nine o'clock that morning till nine that night, when I'd get there, leaning against one another, piling their sick in piles, like that. Have Brother Espinoza show you the pictures of carloads of wheelchairs, and stretchers.

110 Coming across the platform that one night, an old Mexican man come, and he was going ... was blind. He had an old hat sewed up with twine cord. No shoes on his feet, like a bear's foot on the bottom, pants legs way up, tore up; an old ragged coat on, dust all over him, coming up blind. He reached in that old ragged pocket, and got out a little crucifix. He was going to say a "Hail, Mary." I told him by Brother Espinoza, "Put the thing in your pocket," and he come over there.
And I looked at the poor old fellow. I thought, "My!" Blind as he could be. I thought, "If my daddy would've lived, he'd been about that age." Here I was with a good suit of clothes on, a good pair of shoes, and there stood that old man with nothing. I thought, "Maybe he never had a decent meal in his life; and I eat good."
I put my foot up beside of his, to see if my shoes'd fit him. Thought I could slip them off, and the congregation wouldn't notice. I put my shoulders beside of his, see if my shoulders would fit him for my coat. Of course, he was much bigger, and his feet was much bigger, and I couldn't. "O God! Look at there." Before you could ever pray for people, you've got to feel their condition. You've got to have a feeling for them.

111 That's what I can't understand today---our denominations widening themselves, and building millions of dollars of buildings, and preaching the coming of the Lord is at hand; and poor little missionaries over yonder don't even got shoes on their feet, packing this gospel of Jesus Christ.
When he made an offering over there, a little old woman walked up. Had nothing but a little pair of sandals on, and she put them in for an offering, thought some other woman might could use them better than her.
And tonight, we with our much... O, God! Don't let me get started on that. Yes, sir. How can we put millions of dollars... Say, "Well, they don't belong to our group." God have mercy! When a man gets his mind off of the group, it's... There's what we're talking about---there, standing on this Word. Them poor people don't even know which is right and left hand, and want to know Christ.

112 There them poor Mexicans standing there, leaning against one another, I looked at the old fellow. And I thought, "God, have mercy." Only one thing I can do. I can't talk his language. I just pulled him over next to me. I said, "Heavenly Father, I pray for this poor old man." They don't interpret the prayer. I said, "I pray for him." I said, "Please..."
And I opened up my eyes, and there he was standing before me, looking at me. Nothing uncertain about that, brother! No, no. In a moment I heard him scream, "Gloria a Dios!" (Means "Glory to God.") There he was, could see as good as I could. On up and down through there he went, shouting and praising God.

113 And the next night (there was about three or four times across this platform), there was piles of old shawls and ragged coats that high, to be prayed over. Here they could... They had to let me down over that bull ring of a thing, with a rope around me like this, to get into where the people was at. I got down there, and it'd been raining all day long, and there they stood, laying, piled on top of one another, and everything, all day.
And there had been a little woman there that night, a little Catholic woman, the night before. Had a sick baby. She couldn't get in to where it was at.
And the next morning she had her baby at the doctor. It died, right in the doctor's office at nine o'clock, with pneumonia, and they brought the little baby. She'd come on back over there, about 10:30. Stood there in that rain all day long, and when the brother give out the prayer cards... (A brother, I called him "Mañana," because he was so slow. He never did do anything. And he come ... was supposed to get me at seven o'clock, and get me about nine. I said, "Mañana"---means "tomorrow," you know.) So he was giving out the prayer cards. And he give his prayer cards out, and she didn't get one.

114 When they let me down on the ring, I come out there on the platform. I started speaking. "Faith is the substance of things hoped for." I said, "Now, Jesus Christ in the Bible... Many of you people have read the Bible" (Brother Espinoza giving the interpretation). I said, "What He was, He has to remain the same. What He was... He said He did nothing till the Father showed Him. Whatever the Father showed Him, that He did. Other words, He acted in a drama. It's positive." And as I said that, I said, "That's his faith, because the Father had showed Him. He knowed exactly what to do."
And about that time Billy come, pulled me on the coat, said, "Daddy, you're going to have to do something."
I said, "What's the matter?"
He said, "I've got six hundred ushers standing down there, and there's a little woman with a dead baby in her arms and she'll climb over their back, and run between their legs. And she ain't got no prayer card, and we... There ain't enough ushers [Six hundred] to keep her off the platform!

115 Brother, she was determined. That's right. She was perseverant. She really meant to get there. That's all. She believed! There had been a sound strike her, and it wasn't uncertain. She knowed if God ever was God, He was God yet today.
I said to Brother Jack Moore (many of you know him, of Shreveport), and I said, "Brother Jack, she don't know me. Go on over there, and go down through them ushers, and pray for the baby. She'll never know the difference. Go on."
He said, "All right, Brother Branham." He started.
And Brother Espinoza said, "What shall I say?
I said, "Just go on and say as I said." I said, "As I was saying, Jesus said He did..."
I looked. Standing in front of me, sitting right in the shadow, right in front of me was a little Mexican baby---no teeth, just his little gums, grinning at me. And, oh, brother! Nothing uncertain about that! I said, "Wait a minute, Brother Jack. Tell her to bring the baby here."
The ushers moved back, and this little, pretty little woman come running up there, and fell on her knees and hollered, "Padre!" ("Padre" means "Father.") And I said, "Stand up."
And Brother Espinoza told her, "Stand up." And she was holding this little baby, a blanket over it, a little stiff form just wet as it could be---been standing there since ten o'clock that morning. It was about this time at night, about ten o'clock. She got in there.

116 And I said, "Brother Espinoza, don't interpret this. I just saw a vision. I don't know what it means. I seen that little baby---looked like it---standing right here." I laid my hands upon that little cold form. I said, "Heavenly Father, I don't know what this means, but You spoke. And I was just saying You said You did nothing till the Father showed you. What did that little baby mean, when it was smiling in front of me?"
About that time the little baby went "Wha! Wha! Wha!" No uncertain sound! Everybody began screaming, and falling. They put the ropes around me, lift me out of the pen again, to get me away from the massacre coming like it was, the people coming as hard as they could go.
I said, "Brother Espinoza, don't you publish that. First, everything that we publish must be documented." Yes, sir! I said, "I don't know what the woman... I just saw the baby."
And he put a man with the woman. And the next morning he got with it, went to the doctor, and the doctor signed a statement. It was in the Full Gospel "Businessmen's Voice." When them things are published, it has to have something to back it up. And there was a doctor signed, "I pronounced that baby pulse gone, dead, that morning at nine o'clock. And the next morning it was in my office very much alive." What is it? That's no uncertain sound. That means that Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever. Hallelujah! Do you believe it?

117 Let's bow our heads then. I just won't go on. I'll come back some other time to get the rest of these scriptures for you. You believe. If the trumpet gives an uncertain sound, who shall prepare himself for battle? Oh, there's a battle coming to every one of you, and that's the battle of death. You've got to meet it. Remember last night? But there was one great warrior who went before you, and pulled the stinger out for you. He raised up from the dead. He's alive forevermore.
No uncertain sound; alive forevermore. He's right here now. He doesn't fail. He's Christ. Do you believe Him? Just have faith. How many in here doesn't have prayer cards? I'm too late to run a prayer line right now. I want to get them tomorrow. You without a prayer card, raise up your hand so I can see. All right. It's just about, generally, everywhere. Believe.

118 Do you believe that He's the same yesterday, today, and forever? The Bible said that Jesus Christ is a high priest that can be touched by the feeling of our infirmities. Is that right? No uncertain sound about that. That's the Bible. Do you believe it gives the right sound? Every word of it is true. Don't need any interpretation. The Bible said it's the ... Scripture is no private interpretation. It's already interpreted just the way it's written. Don't need any dogmas added to it to make it this way. It needs to be just the way it is. "Whosoever shall take one word out of it or add one to it..." You believe.
If He's the same yesterday, today, and forever, the same high priest, you have faith and touch the border of his garment, which sits at the right hand of the majesty of God in heaven, and see if He don't answer you back. Now what I've taught will be words in vain if God's ... if Christ died and didn't raise again, if He didn't raise.

119 You see, I'm trying to tell you, friend, this hasn't been... There's no record of it. Ask any Bible reader, ask any historian. There's never been a record of this being done in the Christian church since the death of the apostles, nowhere in history. But here it is in the evening time. It's the Gentile's time now. God promised it. Can't you see it's the Scripture? Now believe. Look on me. Believe with all your heart that Jesus Christ is the Son of God, and He sent me as a messenger to you. And I have not said my own words; I've said his words. I do not believe my words; I believe his words. If my thought is contrary to his words, my thought is wrong.
And if his Word's abiding in here, and the promise that He said, "the works that I do shall you also," and the Bible said that the Word of God is sharper than a two-edged sword and a discerner of the thoughts of the heart, you believe.

120 How many saw the picture of that angel, that light? I guess you've heard the story. The manager and them's told you about it. It's not two foot from where I'm standing right now. No uncertain sound about that. It's the truth.
I can't heal. Nobody can heal. There's not a doctor can heal. There's no doctor'll tell you he can. Medicine don't heal. It's only an aid. Mayo Brothers said, "We do not profess to be healers. We only profess to assist nature." There's one healer---that's God.
The doctor can set your arm, but who heals it? Who creates the cells? A doctor can pull a tooth, but who heals the socket it come from? A doctor can take a growth off of you, but who heals the place? take a rib out, but who heals the hole where it come from? God's the only healer. He's the creator, and it takes a creator to do it. They cannot multiply cells. That's only God. Just have faith.

121 Someone without a prayer card now, that won't be in the line... Just believe. There's a lady sitting right over here, kind of a middle-aged woman, elderly, wearing a pink dress. She's bothered with a bronchial cough. If she'll believe with all of her heart, the cough will leave her. Do you believe it? will accept it? Raise up your hand then, say, "I accept it." God bless you. I never saw the woman in my life.
Can't you see that light hanging over the woman there yet? Now, here it moves, comes up here. Be reverent. Be reverent, please. Don't move. See, each one of you is a spirit. And when that anointing comes on, when you move... See, it's subject to every spirit, see. How many knows the Bible said the subject of the prophet is subject...? Now be real reverent. Hold still. It left me.

122 It's a man that's bothered with heart trouble. Mr. Bailey, if you'll believe with all your heart, God will make you well. Accept it? All right, sir. Stand up on your feet and accept it, and your heart trouble will leave you. There he is. I don't know the man. I've never seen him in my life. We're total strangers. But that man was sitting there praying, then, for the Lord Jesus to touch his body. Is that right, Brother Bailey? Believe with all your heart now, and it will be gone.
Here, just a minute. Here's another man appearing, somebody praying. It's a man with a stomach trouble. Mr. Cooper, believe with all your heart. Your stomach trouble has left you, sir. It's been a nervous stomach bothering you for a long time. It's gone now. I don't know the man. I've never seen him in my life. Ask him, and find out. You know him. All right. Is that what's the trouble, and whatever it said is the truth? That's your pastor. Believe. Don't doubt.

123 Man sitting here looking at me got trouble with his eyes, trouble with his legs. He's a stranger to me, from British Columbia, Canada. If he'll believe with all of his heart, it'll all leave him. If you want to believe, all right, God'll grant it to you.
Little woman sitting over here praying, got a stomach trouble. She's got something like thyroid of the stomach. I'm a stranger to the woman. It's a swelling, water in the glands. I think they call it thyroid of the stomach. I don't know you, lady. You seem to be a believer. Are we strangers to one another? Do you believe me to be God's prophet? Look at me, then. You're not from here. You're from Idaho. That's right. Your name is Mrs. Smith. Return back home. The thing will leave you, if you'll only believe it in the name of Jesus Christ. Do you believe it?

124 Listen, audience. One day there was a little shepherd sent out by his father to herd sheep. A lion come in, and got a sheep, and took it out. He didn't have very much to go after it, but he had faith in God. He took a little slingshot, and he went out and got that sheep, and he brought it back, because his father needed that sheep.
I'm just a small shepherd. The Father sent me up here. Cancers, and diseases, afflictions caught his sheep. I ain't got very much to come after you---I got prayer and faith, but I'm coming after you. I want to bring you back tonight to the shady, green pastures of good health. I'm coming for you now, in prayer. Are you going to believe me? Lay your hands over on one another, then.

125 There's no uncertain sound. Jesus said, "These signs shall follow them that believe." Up here [turns around] I see there's a lot of sickness up here. I've held you back. I've held you back 'cause you're ministers and singers. Don't think I don't know what you're doing. Put your hands on one another. Don't you doubt. Every believer, don't pray for yourself; pray for the man you've got your hands on. He's praying for you. Pray the way you'd pray. Jesus said, "These signs shall follow them that believe. If they lay their hands on the sick, they shall recover." There's no uncertainty about it. That's a certain sound.

126 Heavenly Father, little David of old, he knowed the father loved them sheep, and he was responsible for them, though he had to take his stick, and push them back into line, and sometimes bruise them up a little. But they were the father's sheep. God, one day a lion come in and got one, and he went after it. You was with him, and brought him back. God, sickness, diseases, affliction has come in, and got some of these little lambs, and he's taking them out to kill them. I'm coming to You tonight, Lord. Got them laying their hands on one another, the certain sign that God said would follow the believers. They raised their hands they were believers, and we're coming to bring them back.
Satan, in the name of Jesus Christ, turn them loose. Let them go. In Jesus Christ's name, I command the devil of unbelief to depart from this building.

127 Keep your hands on one another. The prayer of faith shall save the sick. God shall raise them up. Hold your hands on one another, keep praying, keep shut in with God. It'll be all right. Oh, shut in with God, no uncertain sound. That voice that's telling you, that voice that's talking to you is God. It's no uncertain sound. You Pentecostal people ought to know that voice of the Holy Ghost. It's no uncertain sound. That's his virtue coming into you. Believe it. Have faith in God! Don't you doubt it! Don't doubt it. Break that spell of unbelief from around you. Let the Holy Ghost take possession.
Lord, these handkerchiefs, in Jesus' name anoint them for the sick and the afflicted.

128 While you have your hands on one another, if there is one here that never believed before, that wants to confess his faith tonight in God's Son in the presence of the Holy Ghost, just... I won't ask you to come to the altar. Stand to your feet. Just raise up to your feet, saying, "I want to confess my faith tonight. It was very weak, but now I'm strengthened. I believe Him with all my heart." Stand up to your feet, anybody that wants to make that confession. Say, "I used to not believe, but now I am a believer." God bless ... if there's any of you ... some of you standing up there... God bless you, sir. God bless you, sir. God bless you, sir.
Someone else stand, say, "I stand as a testimony"? Oh, how you'll want Him to stand for you on that day, He that'll bear record of me. God bless you. Somebody else stand to your feet, say, "I ... now my faith is strengthened"? God bless you. "Now my faith is strengthened." God bless you. Raise to your feet, and say, "I now believe. I want everybody to know that I believe that I'm right now in the presence of Jesus Christ. I've seen his Word made manifest. I believe we're in the last days. I'm standing here as a witness. I want Him to be good to me, and take all away from me that's unlike Him, and make me wholly his."
God bless you, sir. Another, another.

129 Come on, raise up, men, women. How many of you people confess that "I've been wrong. I want to take God now"? God bless you. God bless you. God bless you. God bless you. Have preachers, and all, that's standing. God bless you. Up here, anywhere you want to be, up in the balcony, stand to your feet, and say, "I now believe. I now accept it. I've been a little skeptical, but now I believe."
There's no uncertain sound. Christ saves sinners. Christ died for that purpose. Stand up. God bless you, God bless you, God bless you, you, oh, the whole group, many are standing. God bless you. Another. Keep standing. "I believe. I believe. I now accept it. Without any shadow of doubt, I now believe in the Son of God. I now believe that we're living in the last days. I now believe that I'm in the presence of Jesus Christ. I now believe that his Word is being confirmed. I believe it. I accept it." Stand up. Anyone else?

130 Heavenly Father, I pray the prayer for them with all my heart. I give them to You. They're trophies of the message. They're trophies of your visitation, being here tonight, seeing You walk among us doing works that never has been done since the foundation of the world, until these last days. Here they are. They're your children.
I commend them to You, Lord. You give them to us, and we give them to You. In the name of Jesus Christ watch over them, and raise them up at the last day. I may never be able to shake their hands on this earth. But when the battle is over, and the last trumpet has sounded; and the dead has risen from the grave, and the live has been caught up together with them to meet the Lord in the air, then may I have fellowship with Jesus Christ and them around the throne as ... through the eternal ages that is to come. Grant it, Lord. They are yours in the name of Jesus Christ. Amen.

131 All that wants to welcome them into the fellowship of Jesus Christ, stand up on your feet around them, and shake their hand. Stand right up by them, and shake their hand, say, "Welcome, brother. Welcome, sister. Welcome, into the kingdom of God." Amen. Amen. Wonderful! That's good. Praise be to God.
Find some good church, now, be baptized, and call upon the Lord for the Holy Ghost. Now, let's all raise our hands to God, and sing, "I love Him, I love Him, because He first loved me."
I love Him, I love Him,
Because He first loved me;
And purchased my salvation
On Calvary's tree.
Do you feel good? Say, "Amen." Do you feel like all scoured out in the presence of the Holy Ghost here? Now, while we sing it again, let's shake hands with somebody at your side---each side, in front of you, and back of you, as we sing it again now.
I love Him, I love Him...