We would see Jesus

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1 Good evening, friends. Oh, it's so good to be back in Phoenix again. So glad to see two different warmnesses here: One of them the warmness of the people, which is always the best; and I just come from where it's about ten below zero. So it's warm two ways. And I'm sure glad to be here tonight.
I'm sorry that I wasn't here last night. Brother Jack's going to help me bear that. I had a meeting scheduled down in Shreveport, and we just couldn't drive it fast enough. My old Ford just wouldn't make it, so we was glad to get in this afternoon around about two-thirty, and to be here tonight in this lovely place, Madison Square Garden, with all you lovely people, and for this two weeks of service. Oh, we're just going to have plenty of time to serve the Lord Jesus. And we're just so happy for this. And down here where it's nice weather, nice people, and a wonderful spirit here tonight, and everybody happy. Why, the Lord Jesus can just do wonders for us, can't He? We're expecting Him.

2 And on the road down we've been praying, and a few moments ago... I've been staying at a lovely home, way back out here in West Phoenix, and I was out in a little patio this afternoon where they had me a place back there to stay to study this afternoon, and, oh, what a wonderful time. So I'm just sure that the Lord's going to bless us.
And now, we will try not to keep you too long each night so that we can just get back the next night. I know many of you people work, and we respect that. And now, for the first part of the week this week, and part of the next week (There's many sick folks here, I understand.), and we're going to try to pray for them. And maybe next week, if the Lord willing, we'd like to get in on some of the precious Word, to teach, and to seek the baptism of the Holy Spirit, and to see children born into the kingdom of God.
I truly believe we're living in the last days. And I am so happy today to know that we know the blessed Lord Jesus.

3 The other day I was listening to a report on one of these outposts, or wherever they watch the ground observers, they watch for airplanes. And this fellow said to me; he said, "You know, Brother Branham," said, "we're not to tell people to get into their basements anymore, or to get to a hiding place." Said, "Well, they got a bomb now, that when it hits in a city, it'll blow a hole in the ground a hundred and seventy-five feet deep, fifteen miles square from either way it falls---fifteen miles. Would blow a hole in the ground a hundred and seventy-five feet deep. Then how far would it go beyond that"?
Well, I said, "Brother, I'm so happy that I got a shelter that beats that all to pieces."
He said, "Well, what would you ever find that would protect you from that?"
I said, "It's a shelter made out of feathers."
He said, "A what?"
I said, "A shelter made out of feathers: under His wings." So, that's the best protection I know of.
Oh, what a day to live, and a hour to preach the Gospel, and to ... just a wonderful time.

4 Now, just before we turn into His Word, let us bow our heads just a moment for prayer. Our kind heavenly Father, we come to Thee tonight with the simplicity of our hearts to pour out to You all that is within us. We adore You. We just couldn't live without You. We just love You. And You're just our life.
And we pray tonight, heavenly Father, that Thou in Thy great mercy will stretch forth Thy hand and touch every sinner in the building. And may when they leave tonight, may they not go from here sinners, disbelievers; but may they go rejoicing, happy, praising God.
And we pray tonight that for every backslider that's in the building, that Thou will put forth Thy hand of mercy, carefully pick him up, and lay him upon Your shoulder, carry him safely back to the fold.

5 And then, O God, as the disciples prayed once just after Pentecost (The great persecution had set in.), and they prayed and said, "O Lord, stretch forth the hands of Thy holy Child to heal the sick and the afflicted." And we would say that tonight, Lord, as we preach the Word. Stretch forth His hand, and touch the sick and the afflicted, and may there not be a feeble one in our midst when we go out of here tonight. May every one be healed. Grant it, Father. May the saints rejoice to see that in this great hour of trial that our God still lives and has the same power, the same authority, and has proven Himself alive tonight. Grant these blessings.
Bless the ministers, all these who are cooperating, all the ministers throughout this valley, everywhere. And just may we have a great gathering, Lord, just the pouring out of the Holy Spirit upon the peoples in this valley, and a great revival, till prayer meetings will be behind cactus stalks and everywhere until Jesus comes. Grant it, Lord.
Now, we pray for the people who let us have this place, and we pray that you'll bless them. And may we altogether be thankful and give Thee the praise. We ask it in the name of the Lord Jesus, Thy Son. Amen.

6 Faith cometh by hearing, hearing of the Word of God. And as we see the day approaching as it is now, I am very happy to know that we still have the Bible, God's eternal blessed Word. And there's nothing will never take its place. There'll never be a denomination, or a church, or never be a person, or an individual will ever take the place of this written Word. 'Cause in the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
And the Bible is just the prophets who by a gift of knowledge, foresaw what God spoke before the foundation of the world. Think of how beautiful. Before the foundation of the world, God spoke these words. See, He looked, and as He seen the great oncoming, and He saw what had taken place...

7 And now, He said, "In the beginning was the Word." And before it could be a word, it had... What is a word? A "word" is a "thought expressed." And God, in His mind He was thinking just what would take place, and then after He received it into His mind, and all was yet not official yet, because it was in His mind. But when He once speaks it, He can never take it back. It's forever. It's part of Him. And there's our confidence we have in Him, because that He cannot take His Word back.
We have to take ours back, because we're human. We make all kinds of mistakes. But God can't take His back, because He's God, and He's infinite. He knows everything. He knows the end from the beginning. And when we look down upon these precious lines, how it thrills our hearts to know that they're just so real---just so real.

8 Now, being we're going to pray for the sick in the manner that I pray for them, I want to read just a little portion of God's Word tonight out of the 12th chapter of Saint John, and about the 30th verse and the 31st. And now, I trust that God will add... I beg your pardon. This is the, 20th verse, 21st verse. And may the Lord add His blessings as we read.
And there were certain Greeks among them that came up to the worship at the feast:
And the same came therefore to Philip, which was of Bethesda of Galilee, desiring ... desired him, saying, Sirs, we would see Jesus.

9 I have just been notified this afternoon, as I'm staying with some friends, that you've had some great meetings here in Phoenix, that many great evangelists which passes through this lovely city. And by you being geographically just in the place you are, you are a privileged people to hear these great evangelists that pass through here.
And they come in a wonderful time, while the winter seasons are on, many tourists are in. And you've had the privilege of sitting under the ministry of great men, and enjoy when you see the advertisement up, a "Brother So-and-so is coming to the city," how it makes you feel. And I know you rejoice, and I rejoice with you.
But, oh, I know that there's One that you would love to see above everyone: that would be the Lord Jesus. "Sirs, we would see Jesus." I don't believe that there's ever been a person who ever heard His sacred name mentioned through lips, but what that's been one of their hearts desires: "We would see Jesus."

10 I've often wondered what I would've done when I stood there that day and would've heard Him say, "Come unto Me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest." I've wondered if I could live long enough to find the time that they could pick that word up by the radio wave, because they say that your voice once speaks, it never dies in the earth.
It's just like a little pebble throwed out into a lake, and those little waves carry on and on, and sometimes till the human eye can't see them no more, but yet in the little vibration, it finally reaches the bank. And, oh, how sweet it would be to hear the radio pick up the vibrations that's still in the earth from that word, "Come unto Me all ye that labor and are heavy laden."
And, by the way, if our voices carry on like that, then our own voices will be a witness to us at the day of the judgment. When the vibration of our voices is still going on, God will have the great microphone ... or, the great crystal there, that'll pick up every vibration that we... And our own words will judge us.

11 And then I know, perhaps, I may never live to see that day that when the radio can pick up that little vibration of His literal voice. But I've longed to live to see that day when I could hear Him say this: "It was well done, My good and faithful servant. Enter into the joys of the Lord."
And if I got a promise in God's Bible... If I can only live true to Him until that day, that's what He promised He would say. And, oh, I look for that day: "Well done, My good and faithful servant."
I believe that we're living in one of the greatest hours for the Gospel that has ever been on the earth. I believe this is the ripening time, one of the greatest times.
I wonder what would take place if Saint Paul could stand on the streets of Phoenix tonight, and see the things taking place that's taking place in the world. I'd imagine he would preach day and night, getting the Word out, for the time is at hand.

12 Traveling around the world, in the different nations, and seeing their condition... There seems to be a great drama fixing to take place. And looks like that everything's moving right into the scene where God can just make that great thing come to life, just at once.
I want to say this tonight, that I believe with all that's within me, that we are just fixing to have one of the greatest shakings that this world has ever witnessed of the Gospel power being poured out. All heavens will turn loose after while. And remember, at the same time, all hell's going to turn loose too.
But, oh, to make your choice tonight, and put your anchor in the Rock of Ages... How beautiful it is to just sit with that perfect assurance, to know that all is well.

13 And then, at this great crucial hour that we are now approaching, where everything's taking place in the great scientific world, and they're trembling, and know that we are living in the day that the Gospel made many great promises for this day. Now, is those promises true? Or if they are true, then we should live by them; and if they're not true, we should get away from them and find out what is true.
Now, this Word is either the truth or it is not the truth. Now, the Bible teaches us here in Hebrews 13:8, that Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever. Now, that either is the truth, or it is not the truth.

14 Now, if He is the same, there's only one thing that would make Him any different from what He was when He walked on the banks of Galilee: that is that He would not be in a corporal body. Now, that body has been lifted up, and on the throne of God tonight. "He that overcometh shall sit with Me on My throne, as I have overcome and sat down on My Father's throne."
And when He comes, He will come like the light, coming from the east to the west. And every eye shall see Him, every knee shall bow, and every tongue shall confess, when He comes.
Coming down the road this afternoon, when I got out of our eastern cloudy skies, and was looking up into the bright blue... My little wife had went to sleep over at the side in the little truck. And as I looked up towards the skies and seen how blue it was, I looked back to Billy to see how far he was behind me. And as I looked back, I looked in the glass, and seen a little-bitty spot of blue in my eye. I thought, "Wonder, God being so great, wonder if all the skies is just the blue of His eye. And that sun yonder, that this little earth turns around, is the sight that's in His eye just looking all over the earth?"
And that's just His eye. How great Thou art. How great Thou art. He can see. And I thought, "O God, how wonderful You are."

15 And then the Bible teaches that Jesus was here on earth and lived with us for thirty-three and a half years and ascended up. And after He... Before He went up, He promised His disciples that He would send the Gospel to all the earth, and every creature should be a witness of it.
Now, He said, "As the Father has sent Me, so send I you." Now, the Father that sent the Son, went with the Son. He said, "It's not Me that doeth the works, it's My Father that dwelleth in Me. He doeth the works." Then if He was to be ... if the church was to be sent in the same measure that God sent the Son and the Son sent the church, then the Father that went with the Son; the Son goes with the church. Amen. It has to be. "As the Father has sent Me to be a witness of Him, I'm sending you to be a witness of Me," in other words. I will be with you, even in you, to the end of the world: Jesus Christ, the same yesterday, today, and forever. What a marvelous thing.
Now, that's either the truth or it isn't the truth. Now, Christ... I know the church fails, and the church has weaknesses, but Christ has no weakness. He cannot fail. He will always be Christ, the Son of God, the anointed, the Logos that went out of God. He will always be that.

16 And now, if He is so great, as we seen Him in Galilee, as we seen Him through the Bible as the pages unfold. And with these promises, I wonder tonight if we as His church wouldn't have just as much right as those Greeks did, that come up to the worship, to say, "Sirs, we would see Jesus."
Now, there's some things in the Bible that God wants us to challenge. God is an all powerful God, and He give His servants a commission to do great things. And we mustn't be afraid to ask God to do great things, because He's asked us to do the impossible without Him. So if He's asked us to do the impossible, we've got to have the omnipotent God to do those impossibles. "Go ye into all the world; preach the Gospel to every creature. These signs shall follow them that believe."---the impossible with man. And we mustn't be afraid to ask God to keep His Word.

17 Now, these Greeks had heard of Him, so they come up to see Him. They wanted to understand who He was. They said, "Sirs, we would see Jesus," told Philip that, and Philip went and told Andrew, and finally they got to the place where they could see Jesus.
Now, I wonder that tonight in... We realize this, and we're all aware of it, dear friends, that this world, all over, has the both pro and con. It has the real, genuine, sainted person of God. And it has people who try to impersonate saints. It has real, genuine neighbors, and it has some who try to impersonate neighbors. It has people who are real drivers of cars, and some who try to think they're drivers of cars. And it's a pro and con.

18 Now, there is tonight a real Lord Jesus Christ. That's just as true as this Bible is true. And now, if we will just look into the Bible, just for a few moments... And if these promises He made, if He will keep those promises... When the Word was written two thousand years ago, and we see them tonight---those promises unfold before us---then there's nothing but to believe with all your heart that He is the risen Son of the living God, that he...
Now, I've heard some great promises. I've heard of Buddha, Mohammed, and a lot of those founders of different religions. I've stood at their graves. But there never was one that ever raised up but the Lord Jesus.
Now, when I was in India, they said, "Oh, this one raised, that one raised, this was a virgin birth, and that a virgin birth. Oh, we..."
I said, "You're trying to compare the ridiculous with the sublime. You can't prove that." I said, "But I can prove to you that the Lord Jesus has raised from the dead and is alive right now." Yes, sir.
Then should not we be the happiest people? No wonder we can feel the way we do tonight. No wonder our hearts can beat like a butterfly in there flopping. Because it's the truth.

19 And I'm looking at my audience tonight, some young, with their black hair, and some old and gray. And it won't be long till the young will be old. It just doesn't take but just a few turns of the sun. And what is it? This life goes away just like a myth, like a story that's told, says the Scriptures. But then, if we have the blessed promise that God will raise us up again, and make us perfect, then what's the worry? Why, we should be happy, above all things.
Now, the only just way that we could do... If I could say this: If Jesus Christ, God's Son, will come to this building tonight, and will prove to you that He's risen from the dead, that He is right here in Phoenix, Arizona, and the Madison Square Garden Building... What a challenge!
I don't mean something mentally worked up, some psychology; I mean the Lord Jesus, in His Spirit. Now, He won't come in His corporal body. If He does it's all over. He might come in a corporal body before this meeting ends. If it does---praise be to God---we'll go in the rapture, and we'll be with Him.

20 But He's never left us. He's here in the Spirit, called the Holy Spirit. Now, when He led the children of Israel, He was in a form of a light (All of you know that.), a pillar of fire.
When He come on earth He was a man, come down into the flesh to take away sin. He said, "I come from God, and I go to God." He went to God.
After His resurrection, there was a man who saw Him. After His resurrection, after He'd ascended on high, and His body had been taken back to God, and was sitting on the throne, there was a man saw Him. And I believe that's Acts about the 8th chapter, or 9th, somewhere along there. And that man's name was Paul. And he was on his road down to Damascus, and a light (That right?) struck him down, right in the middle of the day, and he said, "Who art Thou that I persecute?"
He said, "It's Jesus." He was in Spirit form.
And that's the form He will be until He returns in His corporal body. He will be in Spirit form, a light. God is light. He was in the beginning. He's still the light. He was made flesh, went back to light, and will be light till He comes in the flesh. And when He comes again the second time in the flesh, then our bodies will be transformed, and made like unto His, and we will be with Him forever. What a beautiful, rejoicing thing that is!

21 But now, while He's here working with His church in the form of the Spirit... Then if His Spirit is with us, He will act just exactly like He acted when He was here on earth. It'll make you act the same way, because it's not your spirit any more; it's His Spirit in you, Christ's Spirit in you.
"The things that I do... He that believeth on Me (Saint John 14:12.), the works that I do, shall ye do also," see. We will do the same works, think the same thoughts, live the same type of life. If the Spirit of God is in you, it makes you live like Christ, Christlike. Then you become a written epistle, read of all men, Christ in you, reflecting His light out of you, as God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself, and reflecting God from His own body. No man has seen God at any time, but the only begotten of the Father has declared Him. God was in Christ. And what Christ's attitude was, was God's attitude, because the two work together, the Spirit and flesh united together. (Got a sermon on that: "The Dove And The Lamb." Want to get on it one night, one of these weeks.)

22 All right, notice... [Gap in the audio.] apostle is nothing in the world but a missionary. Now, if you'll tell me what the word missionary means, then tell me what apostle means. Apostle means "one sent," and a missionary means "one sent." It's the same thing.
Apostles, prophets, teachers, pastors, and evangelists, those five ministering gifts is set in the church. They'd all witness the same. "Well," they'd say, "our church teaches that; our church believes that." That's true. I believe that, but with all my heart I believe...
I've just come from a meeting at Lima, Ohio, sponsored by the Baptist, Methodist, and Presbyterian, and such a meeting, I tell you: The hundreds each night, swarmed to the altar, weeping, seeking the baptism of the Holy Spirit.

23 Just recently where Brother Moore and I was up here at Minneapolis, Minnesota, and I got a letter one day from a Lutheran dean that really tore me to pieces. He had twenty-two pages in it. And he said, "The very idea! Last night I drove," he said, "fifteen miles (I believe) through a blinding snowstorm; thought I could hear a man of God. And what did I see but a polished up soothsayer," and just everything ridiculous. And said, "The very idea: A man that preaches to the people that you do, and would say that the devil didn't have power to heal." And he just, oh, he just laid me out on it.
"Well," I thought, "that's..." I love good criticism. If it's decent like that. So I turned around and answered his letter back. And he said, "Now, you was talking about you've been preaching for twenty-five years." Said, "I was preaching before you were born." And went ahead telling me all those things. Then, that was all right.

24 I wrote him a letter back, and I said, "My dear, beloved brother,
I appreciate you, and I know that you must love me. If you don't love me, you love the Lord that I speak about, because you're trying to correct me. If you didn't love me, you wouldn't try to correct me. And I believe that in your heart, you're trying to correct me. And now, if I'm wrong, then I wish to be corrected."
I said, "The first thing, you said the things that you seen last night was by the power of a soothsayer." I said, "When Jesus Christ did the same things that you seen last night, they said He was Beelzebub. And Jesus said, 'You speak a word against Me doing this (in other words), it'll be forgiven you; but when the Holy Spirit is come to do the same thing, (Christ the same yesterday, today, and forever) one word against it will never be forgiven in this world or the world to come.'"
I said, "Now, what if I was right? Remember, the Pharisees, many of those Pharisees and priests of that day had preached a lot longer than you have, and they were sages. But their eyes were actually blind to that, and they couldn't understand it."

25 But I said, "I want to ask you something, my dear brother. On your condemning me for saying the devil couldn't heal: the devil cannot heal." And I said, "Jesus said he could not heal; and if Jesus said he could not heal, that settles it as far as I'm concerned," see.
Jesus said if Satan can cast out Satan, then his kingdom's divided, and he can't stand. Satan cannot cast out Satan, but here's what his reason he give me. He said there was a woman lived in his town that had a spirit of evil, that the people come to her, and she plucked some of the blood out of her veins, and pulled a hair out of their head, or vice versa, one. And wound the blood and the hair together, and walked down to the river behind her, and throwed it over her shoulder. If she was constrained to look back, then the disease come back to the people. If she wasn't constrained to look back, they got well. And he said, "Twenty percent of those people or more'd get well. And then you tell me the devil can't heal."
I said, "I'm..." Wrote and answered him, and I said, "I am certainly surprised that a Lutheran dean would base his theology upon an experience instead of the Word of God."
I said, "God's Bible said he cannot heal." But I said, "If you'll excuse me, I will explain it. There's many people in the land today who say... Healers, claim to be healers, claim to have power to heal, and people go and get healed. Sure." But I said, "I've seen witch doctors in Africa. People go to idols and get healed."

26 Over in France there's an idol sitting up that people go by, goes by that idol, and the doctors go by, and look at the people as they go by, and they get healed.
That wooden or stone idol doesn't heal them. Neither does the witch doctor heal them. Neither does the divine healer heal them. Those people think they are approaching God. And upon the basis of, not your salvation, but on the basis of your faith, God has to honor that faith. Certainly He does. It's the faith that heals them. Never no man has power to heal. God alone can heal.
And I say this in the face of the people: There is no other healing in the world but divine healing. You cannot make out any other kind of healing but divine healing.

27 If I broke my arm out here cranking my car, and run in to the doctor and said, "Doctor, heal my arm right quick. I didn't get my car started. I want to finish my car."
Why, he'd say, "You need mental healing." Well, he can set the arm, but God does the healing.
If you've got appendix, and the doctor cuts it out, he doesn't heal, he just moves the obstruction. God heals, see. There never was a hospital, a doctor, a medicine, or anything else ever done any healing. God's Word doesn't lie. "I'm the Lord who heals all your diseases." Certainly.

28 See, God's alone in creation. The devil can't create. If you say the devil can heal, then you make him a creator, then he's coequal with God. Only God alone can create. The devil can only pervert what's already created.
What is unrighteousness? Is righteousness perverted. You get it? Righteousness perverted... It's right for a man to live ... take his wife, and be husband and wife, to live that way. But with some other woman who could do the same act, it would be righteousness perverted, which would sin. And everything the devil can do, is to pervert what God has created. You get it?
So God alone can develop cells that can heal. And He's the only healer, for He's the only Creator. God alone is a healer.

29 That Lutheran man called Brother Moore and I to the college, wanted a little interview. We didn't know what he was going to say; but when we got up there, they had a great dinner set for us across the big gym. And after eating dinner, he scooted his plate back; he said, "Brother Branham, I want to ask you a question."
I said, "What is it?"
He said, "I've seen all kinds of going on, but I want to ask you, is there really something besides accepting Christ by faith and believing? Is there such a thing as the baptism of the Holy Ghost?"
I said, "Yes, sir."
He said, "What more can a man do but just believe God? Abraham believed God and it was imputed to him for righteousness."
I said, "That's what Abraham could do; but God, to recognize his righteousness, gave him the seal of circumcision as a recognition of his faith." And I said, "We believe God raised up Christ, and accepted Him as our personal Saviour. And then when God recognizes that faith, He gives us the seal of the Holy Ghost, that He's recognized our faith in the resurrected Son of God."
He said, "That's what we want in this seminary ... college."

30 I looked down that long line of students, and I said, "Well, what will the Lutheran church say?"
Said, "We don't care what the Lutheran church wants. We want God."
And I said, "Do you mean that you want to receive the Holy Ghost?"
Said, "How do you do it, Brother Branham?"
I said, "Scoot your plates back, and kneel along side of the wall."
And seventy-one students, and the dean, and all received the baptism of the Holy Ghost, and they're having signs, wonders, and miracles. What's his name, Brother Moore? Aegery? Brother Aegery, the dean of the college.
I was up there a few days ago, and they're having signs, and wonders, and healings, and going on. Now, he's getting a group set, when I come back from Canada this trip, to come by, and just have two days solid meetings with just deans of Lutheran colleges.
Oh, brother, Pentecost is not a denomination; it's an experience that belongs to everybody. It's what we need. And Pentecost is nothing but the vindication of a resurrected Lord Jesus, which is the same yesterday, today, and forever. That's what it is. I know it's been misused. It's been misconstrued, and so forth, and impersonated. But that only shows out the real Christ much better to me. If you see a bogus dollar, it means there's a real dollar.

31 Now, notice, now when Jesus was here on earth, if we want to find out what He was, and see if He is the same yesterday, today, and forever, when He was here on earth, did He claim to be a healer? No, sir, no. He said, "It's not Me that doeth the works; it's My Father that dwelleth in Me, He doeth the works." That right? And then He said, "Verily, verily (Saint John 5:19)... Verily, verily I say unto you, the Son can do nothing in Himself; but what He sees the Father doing, that doeth the Son likewise." How many ever read that? Saint John 5:19.
Then Jesus, who could not lie (Being God incarnate here on earth He could not lie.), and He said that He did nothing until God, who was in Him, showed Him first what to do. Now, that's either the truth, or it isn't the truth. I believe it's the truth.
Verily, verily, I say unto you (Saint John 5:19): the Son can do nothing in Himself (He's talking of a man.), but what I see (not what I hear), what I see the Father doing, that doeth the Son likewise."

32 Notice, now let's go back and find out what He did. And then, if we could find out what He did, and then He will do this coming two weeks, in here in this building, what He did then, oh, we should be the happiest people on all the earth. Because that He who gave us the promise of eternal life is alive and with us tonight to confirm that promise. What a wonderful thing!
Let's follow Him just for a moment now. Then tomorrow night we will pick it up from a different place. Let's follow Him for a moment. Let's take Saint John's Gospel, the first chapter and begin with it. And then, tomorrow night maybe we'll go to another part in the Bible. Let's take Saint John first to begin.
When He came on earth... We know His birth story, how He was conceived by the Holy Spirit, and Mary was overshadowed by the Holy Spirit. And that first little form of life, blood cell, was brought into Mary without any earthly person having anything to do with it. And the cells begin to develop, and He was born. The angels sang and so forth. And we have no record of His ministry from twelve on till about thirty.

33 Then when He appeared on the earth in His ministry again, we find Him being baptized by John the Baptist, and into the wilderness for forty days for temptation; out of the wilderness He came, and immediately He begin praying for the sick.
Now, let's see if He's the same yesterday, today, and forever, and then ask the question, "We would see Jesus." I'm going to give about ten minutes here just to the Scripture, and you follow the Scripture; then see if the Spirit follows the Scripture. If any spirit doesn't follow the Scripture, it's a wrong spirit. That's right. If it goes beyond this Bible, it's a wrong spirit. If it doesn't get to it, it's a wrong spirit.
See, if the devil can't keep you from seeing a truth, he will push you overboard with it, you see. That's his business, see. If... He'll go off onto some fantastic, or either he will keep you from seeing it at all. But to stay right straight on Calvary, it'll always come right back to the Word every time. It's the Word.

34 Now, we're at Saint John the 1st chapter. We find out down there, that there was a man got saved by the name of Philip, and he goes over to find his friend Nathanael. And when he found Nathanael, he was under a tree praying; he said, "Come, see who we have found, Jesus of Nazareth, the Son of Joseph."
And this righteous man, gun-barrel straight, stood up and said, "Could there be any good thing come out of Nazareth?" It was a wicked city.
And I think Nathanael give him the best answer ... or, Philip, rather, gave him the best answer that anyone could receive. Said, "Come and see." Come and see for yourself. Now, look, we could have a sermon right there. Oh, to that man that doesn't have the audacity to come and see for himself, but'll stand on a sideline outside and criticize... How do you know?

35 Old doctor Davis that ordained me in the Missionary Baptist Church. One night in a debate there was an infidel. He was debating with the infidel. And there was an old boy stood in the back of the building; he'd come up, had hair hanging down his neck, carving on an apple. And the infidel said, "What do you want?"
He said, "I want to ask you a question."
Said, "What is it?"
Said, "Is this apple sweet or sour?" He was eating it.
He said, "I don't know. I'm not eating it."
Said, "That's just what I thought." And went back and sat down. That settled it.
How do you know unless you taste and see? The Bible said, "Taste" ... or, the poet said, "Taste and see the Lord is good." He's the rewarder of those who diligently seek after Him, not those who stand back and criticize.

36 A few days ago I read an article---McCalls Magazine---and how it was criticizing some of the men on the field, praying for the sick. And I was in the city where this editor lived. And I said, "These men might deserve some of that criticism, especially on the money and so forth. They might deserve it. I'm ashamed to say it, but they probably do. I'm not the boss." But I said, "I'd like to ask this to that editor: If these men in their mistakes are trying to get something done for God, what's he doing for the kingdom of God?"
And then when I noticed his article, that he said A. A. Allen wrote that book on the biting devil, or so forth, and Allen never wrote that book, Brother Allen never. And if he never checked his articles no better than that, I wonder if half of it's authentic. That's right. If it wasn't checked no more closer than that...

37 But if somebody is trying to do something and yet making blunders, and you're doing nothing, then keep still of those things. They're getting souls saved anyhow. So what they doing? Working against it. I'd rather be found making a mistake, than standing on the sideline criticizing those who are trying to do something anyhow. Certainly would.
All right. Philip said, "Come and see." That's a good thing. Come find out, then pass your opinion.
And as he come up into the line where Jesus was praying for the sick, as He always was. Or wherever He went the people brought to Him the sick and afflicted. And Jesus turns and looks that staunch Jew in the face, and said, "Behold, an Israelite..." Now, he could've been a Greek or anything. They all dressed alike, beards and turbans. Said, "Behold, an Israelite in whom there's no guile." It astonished him.
Said, "Rabbi, when did You know me?"
And Jesus looked straight into his face, and said, "Before Philip called you, when you were under the tree, I saw you." Thirty miles around the mountain! What eyes!

38 That was Jesus yesterday. If He is the same today, He does the same today. Is that right? Now, notice, what did this man say, upon whom the miracle was performed? You say, "A miracle?" Certainly, it was a miracle. Anything that's supernatural's a miracle.
He said, "Rabbi..." Now, this is a Jew now. "Rabbi, Thou art the Son of God. Thou art the King of Israel."
And He said, "Because I said this to you, thou believest? Thou shall see greater things than this."
But now the Jew turned and said, "He's Beelzebub, the chief fortuneteller." And He told them if they spoke that against Him, it would be forgiven, but when the Holy Ghost come to do the same thing, to speak against that would never be forgiven.

39 Now, let's follow Him along. Peter came to Him. And you know what? He knowed that man's name, and knowed who his daddy was. He said, "Your name's Simon. You're the son of Jonas." That kind of startled him. That was Jesus yesterday.
Now, we find out that a little woman had a blood issue, and she pressed through a crowd to touch the border of His garment. And now the Palestinian garment has an underneath garment, because of dust getting on the legs, then a robe that went over that.
And Jesus, thronged with the people pressing Him, and that little woman touching His garment; if she'd touch your coat, you'd never feel it, physically. And she turned and went out into the audience, and Jesus stopped them all and said, "Who touched Me? Someone touched Me."
And Peter withstood Him and said, "Why, everybody's touching you, and why sayest Thou, 'Who touched Me?'"
He said, "But I perceive that I have gotten weak. Virtue's went from Me." It was a different kind of touch.

40 Now, there is... Oh, don't miss this. That's where this educated, high-headed world today is missing it. They're putting their name on church books, but failing to touch with the feeling, see.
And he turned, and he said, "The whole multitude's touched You." And He looked, and every one of them denied it. But He was endued with a power. God was in Him.
And if all that God was, was poured out into Christ, and all that Christ was, was poured into the church by the Holy Ghost, then the Bible said (New Testament, Hebrews) that He's still tonight... Here it is. He is a High Priest that can be touched by the feeling of our infirmities. You can still touch Him.

41 And He looked around till He found the woman. Then He revealed it to her. She could not be hid. And she come and fell down. He said, "Daughter, thy faith..." No vision of His. She'd touched it. That was her vision. That was her faith. "Daughter, thy faith has saved thee."
Notice, there was something about Him that knowed she was healed. He pronounced her healed. "Thy faith has saved thee." Now, that woman could've died a year later with the same disease, but she was healed then.
The doctor could come and give you... You can have pneumonia and out in a hospital. He could come put you in a oxygen tent and give you penicillin, and you can be perfectly well ---pronounce you well---go on home next week and work for a month, and the next month die with pneumonia again. But you were healed the first place. That's right, see, see.

42 Now, I want to ask you something. That was Jesus yesterday. If He is the same today, He does the same thing. He's the same High Priest. "I will never leave thee nor forsake thee. I will be with you till the end of the world."
Now, watch Him. In Saint John 4, we take now. In Saint John 4 He went up to Bethesda. No, I beg your pardon, He went up to Samaria. He was on His road down to Jericho, which is just below Jerusalem
But He went up over the mountain to Samaria. And when He went to the Samaritan ... the Samarian, rather, He sent His disciples into the city to buy some victuals. And while He was gone, a woman came out, a woman of ill fame. She had five husbands.
Now, the Eastern view said she was of ill fame, but our Bible said she had five husbands, and the one she was living with then... She was living with a man not married to him, well, then, it was ill fame to me.

43 Now, she came out to get some water, and as she let down the windle into the place to get the water, she brought it up, and many of you in the orients you know they pack it on their head and on their hip. And as she brought the water up---perhaps a beautiful woman---set it on ... started to set it on her head, and she looked over there in the corner of a little panoramic, and there sat a middle-aged Jew.
Now, the Bible said... 'Course we know He's only thirty-something years old, but He looked to be fifty. They said in Saint John the 6th chapter, "Thou art a man not yet fifty (See, His work had drug Him down so, physically speaking.)--- not yet fifty, and say you've seen Abraham."
He said, "Before Abraham was I AM," see.

44 Now, He might've looked fifty. But He was sitting back in this place, and when He said to her, "Woman, bring Me a drink."
And she said, "Why, You're a Jew." There was a law of segregation. Said, "You have no ... we have no dealings with each other."
He said, "But if you knew who you were talking to, you would ask Me for a drink." What was He doing? Contacting her spirit. Here's the Gospel coming to Samaria.
Now, notice, He never done any miracles there. He left that for Philip, when Philip went down. He knowed there'd be a revival, but He talked to them; He laid the Word down.
But notice, when He did this, the woman said, "Why, we worship in this mountain, and You say in Jerusalem."
And the conversation went on until He found exactly what that woman's trouble was. And when He found her trouble, He said, "Go, get your husband."
She said, "I have none."
Said, "That's right. You've got five, and the one you have now is not your husband. And thou saidst well."

45 Now, watch what she said. This is Samaritan now. What did the Jews say when He did that to the Jew? "Why," he said, "You're the Son of God, the King of Israel."
What about Samaria now? What did she say? "Sir, I perceive that You are a prophet. We know (We Samaritans), we know that when the Messiah cometh, which is called the Christ, when Messiah cometh He will tell us these things, all things." But she couldn't understand who He was.
He said, "I'm He that speaks to you."
Now, watch, and on that, she run into the city and said, "Come, see a man that told me what I've done. Isn't this the very Messiah?"
Then if that was the sign of the Messiah then, and He's the same today in the Spirit of the Holy Ghost, He will do the same thing, because He is the same yesterday, today, and forever. Isn't this the Messiah?
Now, one more statement. Isn't this the Messiah? And they come heard Him speak. Now, that's what the Samaritan thought. That's what the Jew thought was the sign of the Messiah.

46 And at the pool of Bethesda, when He'd healed a man, looked all around and found a certain man, said, "Will thou be made well?" Left the multitude of afflicted, healed that man, and made him well, put him on a his ... bed on his back and went away. And they found Him, and they questioned Him. And He said, "Verily, verily, I say unto you, the Son can do nothing in Himself, but what He sees the Father doing, that doeth the Son likewise."
Now, notice, then if He has raised from the dead, and we who are struggling, and trying, and putting forth every effort... Every one of you from different churches, whether you're Methodist, Baptist, Pentecostal, or Nazarene, Pilgrim Holiness, if you are putting forth your best with all that you know how, to love and to serve the Lord Jesus, He's obligated to His Word, to manifest Himself to you. He's obligated to do it, if He is the same yesterday, today, and forever.

47 Now, then the only way that we would know that He is alive, first... Now, remember, now you could say, "Oh, I feel Him in my heart." That's fine here in America, but that won't work overseas. The Mohammedan said, "I feel Mohammed." The Buddhist says, "I feel Buddha. We can produce just as much psychology as you can." Certainly can. They can work themselves up into such a frantic, they could take a lance...
I've seen one in Zurich, Switzerland, not long ago. Well, I never looked at it, but he stood right there and took a saber and pushed it through his body, over his heart and let a doctor come there and pour water in it, run out on the other side. Pulled it back out, and walked off the platform laughing, see. A Mohammedan.
I've seen them at the, what they call the feast of the prophets, take a sword ... or, a lance and stick it through their chin, and just screaming and going on, till it go up through their nose and plumb up into their forehead, and drop it down like that, and never bleed a drop: under such excitement.

48 But when it comes... There's no such a thing as that in the Bible. That's a fantastic. That's something else. That's just a psychology. But Christ, who raised from the dead, acts according to the way He did in the Bible, see. So those religions can produce psychology, but they can't produce the resurrection. And Christianity is the only religion out of the hundreds that there is under the sun this day, the only one that can produce the evidence that Jesus Christ has raised from the dead.
"Sirs, we would see Jesus." I want to see Him. I love... There's never when I have a meeting, but my heart rejoices when I know that His great presence is near. To watch Him moving, something just takes wings within me. My soul lifts up into a atmosphere that you can't explain. I've seen it set congregations electrified.

49 A few nights ago amongst hundreds, yes, thousands of Lutherans and Presbyterians together, they rolled an old woman to the platform in a wheelchair, and when the Holy Spirit begin to reveal and to tell her who she was, and where she come from, and what was wrong, and then the old woman nodded her head, "That was truth." Told her what church she went to, how they'd moved her in and out of Sunday school for so long, all those things, "Yes, that's right." Started to pray for the old thing, and look, coming down across through the top of the building, there come that old woman walking down through the vision.
Oh, all devils out of hell could never touch it then. It was a finished work. God had showed what was going to take place. Oh, my heart thrilled. I said, "You Lutheran brethren, and to the rest of you that's accepted the Lord Jesus, you that are afraid and was afraid of the baptism of the Holy Spirit, watch the power of Almighty God. Watch what takes place with this woman."
And standing there, I said, "Sister, in the name of the Lord Jesus, rise up from that chair, for your faith has done something. I saw a vision of you coming this way, rejoicing, with your hands up in the air." And there, has been in that wheelchair for I don't know how long, they picked her up by the hands, and off the platform and down through the audience she went, rejoicing.

50 Christ lives. "Sirs, we would see Jesus." Let us pray.
Almighty God, the Creator of heavens and earth, who loved us with such undying love until You gave Your only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but would have eternal life. And, O God, may His presence appear here tonight in His church, among the believers.
There, if by chance might be an unbeliever sitting near, may they then see the infallible proofs of the resurrected Christ. And when they go home tonight, may they be like those who come from Emmaus on that first Easter morning, when the lilies was all blooming. And the fragrance of the rose was in the air on that first Easter morning, as Cleopas and his friend walked down the road discouraged, as the whole world seems to be walking tonight. O God, Someone appeared and begin to speak on the Word, how that the Bible must be fulfilled.

51 And, O Holy Spirit, I pray tonight that You'll take this Word, and will fulfill it this night in the eyes and ears and hearts of this waiting audience. And when once You got them inside and shut the doors, You did something just like You did before Your crucifixion, and they recognized it was You. Then away they went rejoicing, saying, "Truly the Lord has risen."
And may we tonight as we leave here... May You do something tonight here just like You did before Your crucifixion, that this audience might know that their faith is not in vain in the Lord. They're trusting. And may the resurrected Christ do the same things that He promised that He would do, and did do before He was crucified. And He promised that His church would continue the same works until He comes. May it be so, for God's Word and the glory of Christ. We ask it in Jesus' name. Amen.

52 I promised you to be early, and I'm so sorry. But I tell you, if you were standing here and feeling this wonderful, wonderful Spirit... I've been with you Phoenix people many times, and we've had wonderful meetings, but I say this: I just trust that this'll be the same anointing every night while we're here. Oh, it's marvelous. Just look like that everybody's under expectations, and something's fixing to happen. Now, may He bless.
Now, I want this to be thoroughly understood, that I say this from my heart: I am not a healer. Anyone knows that, don't you? I have nothing at all to heal people with. There's no one else in the world is a healer. There's no medicine in the world that'll heal. There's medicines that will keep clean, while God heals. There's medicine that'll kill infections. There's doctors who can set bones, or remove pieces that's dead in the body, but they don't claim to heal. Doctors don't claim to be healers, not at all.

53 Well, you say what about when you got pneumonia and they give you penicillin? Well, that's like putting rat poison out. It just poisons the rats that's in you, that's... It can't heal up them tissues that's been tore down, certainly not. God has to do that, create those blood cells and so forth. Only God can heal.
Now, in order to get the people lined up... How many in here wants to be prayed for? Raise your hands up, ever where you're at. I don't care where you're at, just raise your hands. All right, everywhere.
Now, if you believe... Now, cut off all your outside world now. And if you believe that Jesus Christ, God's Son, is living tonight, not up in heaven, but here in you, in me, in His church, trying to work His way out to unbelievers through us, if you'll believe that with all your heart, and accept it in the same way, I believe Christ will appear here and will heal the sick.

54 Now, let's call some of the prayer cards. [How many did you give out, a hundred? Fifty? A hundred? All right.] All right, number 1, stand up over here if you can. If you can't, raise your hands. Prayer card number 1. We'll just have to line them up. Look at your prayer cards and see who's got it. You have prayer card number 1, woman? All right, right here, lady, if you will.
Number 2. Number 2? Number 3, raise up your hand if you will, just as I call, if you got... Number 3, would you raise your hand, ever who has prayer card 3? I'm sorry, sister, 3. 4? All right, sir. 5? 5, you, sir? All right. 6, who has prayer card 6? 6. 7? 8? 9? 10? 11?
They're forming a line so ... 11, 12, would you raise your hand, ever who has prayer card 12? The little lady with the shawl, do you have 12 there, sister? Your prayer ... 12. Oh, you just go ... 12, prayer card 12? Look, it may be... Have you got a prayer card, sir? It's not 12, is it? No, all right.
Little lady on the stretcher, you have prayer card? No, all right. You don't have to have. That's all right, you... All right, 12? 13? 14? Something must be wrong. All right, that's just as far. That'd be okay then. All right, we will start with them right there then. All right, while, maybe ... maybe they stepped out. And maybe we can call them back just in a few minutes.

55 All right, now let's... Now, I'm going to ask all you little fellows, and if you will, will you help? Will you help the Lord Jesus tonight? Will you help me? Will all you church just try to keep just as reverent as you can for a few moments? And ever who's operating this speaker, if you'll speak it up just a little bit. And now, let's be real reverent just for a few moments now. And let's see if our Lord Jesus will come. Wouldn't it be wonderful to see Him move right down into this audience?
Now, how many here doesn't have prayer cards, and yet you want God to heal you? Raise up your hand. Oh, it's just everywhere. Now, I tell you what: If He's the High Priest that can be touched by the feeling of our infirmities, you look this way and believe. How would you ever know that He touched you, if there wasn't some way for Him to vindicate it back? Is that right?

56 Now, what is the Spirit of God? It's something that lives in you and moves through you. Now, what did Jesus say? "I am (the what?) vine; ye are (the what?) [ Congregation answers, "branches."] The vine doesn't bear fruit, does it? No, sir. What bears fruit? Our branches.
When He was here, He was a branch too, from God. God was in Him. But now, God's in us, and He's the vine. And what does the vine do? It furnishes energy to the branches. Is that right? And the branches bears the fruit. Then His hands... Our hands are His hands. Our eyes are His eyes. Our life is His life. He puts His life in us. We live the life that He would live if He was here on earth in a physical form, while the body is sitting at the right hand of God making intercessions for us all the time. Oh, isn't that beautiful? That just knocks all the kinks out of unbelief, to me. It just makes it so real.

57 Now, now look, I... Let me just see, Brother Moore, if you will. Now, back into the line there, we will... Are we strangers, all of us strangers? How many here knows that I don't know you, know nothing about you? Let's see your hands go up. Everywhere around in the lines there. All right. But there's somebody here does. Now, if God in heaven will manifest Hisself the same way...
Is the woman with the first one? Come here, lady. Here's a woman. As far as I know, I know nothing of that woman. She just raised her hand that I didn't know her. I've never seen her in my life, as far as I know. She's a perfect stranger. She's standing here. She could be an infidel. She could be a critic. She could be a Christian. I don't know. She could have something wrong with her. Maybe she's standing here for something else. She might be standing for someone else. She might be standing for herself. She might be sick. She may be... I don't know what she is. I couldn't tell you.

58 Now, here's the position. Now, if Christ was standing here... Now, if the woman is sick, I don't know. If the woman is sick, if she and Christ was standing here, she could look at Him in His corporal body... And she could look at Him, and she'd say, "Lord Jesus, I am sick. Will you heal me?" Now, He can't go beyond His Word. Is that right? So the only thing He could do would refer back to His Word and say, "I did that nineteen hundred years ago." Is that right?
Now, if you were standing here, and you was a sinner... What if the woman's a sinner, and she's come up here to say, "Lord Jesus, I want You to save me. Will You save me tonight?"
What would He say? He can't go beyond His Word. "I did that when I said, 'It's finished' at Calvary. Do you believe that?"
"Yes, I believe it."
"Then as thou has believed, so be it to you." Is that right?

59 Everything of God... Now, just think of this: Everything of God is a finished work. It's finished, everything. Healing, salvation, everything's a finished work, done finished. Now, the only thing it is, is our personal faith in that finished work. If that ain't the Scripture, I don't know it. That's our personal faith in a finished work. Now, we draw the remunerations of His death at Calvary by our personal faith in what He died for. He was wounded for our transgressions; with His stripes we're healed.
Now, God, first He told that in the Bible. That should settle it forever, but not with God. He said He'd put some in the church, prophets, some with gifts and so forth, to bring the church together, to perfect the church, and to keep you in harmony and loving one another, and moving on with faith, knowing that He's raised from the dead. He'd do the same thing through His church that He did then. Then He's obligated to that Word. Is that right?

60 Now, if Christ was standing here talking to her... Let's take this... Here's a picture. Make it like this just a moment. Here's a picture again of Samaria. Here's a man and a woman.
Now, here's our first time meeting. Here she is. I don't know her. She doesn't know me. And if she was born in Phoenix, and me in Kentucky, we were born miles apart. And here we are first time to meet.
Now, let's take this picture now. Now, Jesus was sitting there, and He walked over to the ... sat down at the well, and the woman walked over and got the water. And He went to talking to her, and as He talked to her, He caught her spirit. And He said ... found out what her trouble was. He said... Her trouble was adultery, so He said, "Go, get your husband."
She said, "I have none."
Said, "That's right. You got five."
She recognized it to be the sign of the Messiah. Here's what she said: "We know (we Samaritans), we know that when the Messiah cometh, He does these things."

61 How many knows the Bible says that? Let's see your hand? Well then, if He's the same yesterday, today, and forever, do you believe as much as the Samaritans did? Sure. Then if He's raised from the dead, He would know what this woman was for.
Now, just a moment for prayer. Heavenly Father, now I've spoke of Your Word at length. This lovely meeting tonight, may this be Phoenix's great visitation. May there be some of the greatest things that's ever been done on the face of the earth, manifested here in Phoenix. Grant it, Lord.
And I pray that just tonight, that the Holy Spirit... We realize that man can't do this. It's not in man to do it. But I pray that the Holy Spirit will come, and will make Himself known, that the people may know that Christ lives tonight.
And, O God, this audience and myself, we yield ourselves, every believer, to You, that You'd work through us and in us, to manifest Your love to us in Jesus' name. Amen.

62 Now, only thing I want you to do is answer me as I speak to you. Now, you're the first person to be on the platform. Just to get the anointed started ... the anointing, rather, started, and then it'll start moving in the audience. Just so you can touch Him there, wherever it is. As soon as you see... If you see it going to work...
Now, this woman here who doesn't know me, and I don't know her... I don't know whether you do or not. All right. But if the Holy Spirit will come and do the same thing that the Lord Jesus would do if He was standing here...
And you know, I don't even have a grammar school education. And there's nothing that I could do. And if some of the rest of you would like to come take my place, you're welcome. You're just welcome to do it, see. But there's... Very silent audience, see. But you see, it's no one can do this but the Holy Spirit.

63 Now, if there be a skeptic or an unbeliever sitting close... Now, you'd say, "Well, it's done, but it's through another power." Then that's just what you would receive, see. Pharisees said the same. Said, "That's Beelzebub." And they're in hell tonight, see.
Nathanael said, "Thou art the Son of God." He's in glory tonight. It just depends on what you class it. You have to know it was supernatural.
Now, as talking to the lady and looking at her, just as a brother... Now, of course, she's wearing glasses. Anyone sees that. If I'd say, "This man here is a cripple." I guess he is. He's sitting in a wheelchair. And this woman may be paralyzed or what, I don't know. She's laying in a stretcher. You'd say, "Sure, anybody can see that." This woman's got on glasses. 'Course she's got bad eyes, or either she's past forty years old and has to use glasses to read by. If you pass forty, why, your eyeballs actually get flat. So you have to use reading glasses.

64 But I don't know her. But now if the Holy Spirit will move and proclaim Jesus Christ, the same yesterday, today, and forever... Now, lady, if there was one thing that I could do to help you, I'd do it. If it was financial troubles, and I had some money, I'd let you have it. If it was domestic troubles, and I could talk to your husband, if you are married, I'd do everything I could. Now, if it's for healing, there's only one thing I could do: pray for you.
But now, the Holy Spirit can go beyond my boundaries, see. The Holy Spirit can let you know whether His ... what His attitude is towards you. He can let me know what you're here for or something, or what you've done, or who you are, or something on that manner. Is that right? All right. And if He will, will you believe Him? Will the audience believe with all your heart?
Now, just look this way as... In the Bible it said, "Look on us." Peter, John said, "Look on us."
And Elisha said, "If it wasn't I respect the present Jehoshaphat, I wouldn't even look at you." See, it's something that attracts your attention, because these others in here that's praying, they're all spirits (Certainly.), and many sick.

65 But you are here for sickness. And you are a Christian (That's right.), a born-again Christian. And I see you going from me, years back, and you're suffering with some sort of a nervous condition causing you to have headaches. And that's at least been five or six years back, you've had those. And you got some kind of a trouble in your back. You've got back trouble, and something under the right side. It's a gallbladder trouble.
And I see you somewhere standing, and someone praying for you. You're very low, very sick with something. That was me. And you had cancer, and you were healed with cancer where I was praying for you. That's "Thus saith the Lord." That's true, isn't it?
Let us pray. Our heavenly Father, we approach Thee in that marvelous, wonderful name of the Lord Jesus, and with hands laid upon this woman, deliver her, Lord, from all her afflictions and sicknesses. May she be made well from this night henceforth. Amen. God bless you, sister. Have faith; believe with all your heart.

66 We are strangers to each other, I suppose. Be real reverent just a moment. If thou canst believe, all things are possible. Now, if the Lord Jesus will let me know what you're here for, will you believe Him with all your heart? You will accept it?
Just a moment. The little lady sitting there praying and weeping, with a little red coat on, sitting there with your hands up over you, don't weep no more. You've been having spells of passing out, collapsing like. If that's right, raise up your hands. That's right. That's over now.
She touched something. She's thirty feet from me. Is that right? What did she touch? The High Priest that can be touched by the feeling of our infirmities, see. No prayer card, no nothing. Just sitting there praying. And I seen someone passing out like, and I looked, and it was a younger woman than this woman. I wondered where it was, and I looked, and there it was coming right across there. And there she is.
Now, do you believe? He's here. God's Word's fulfilled. Have faith in God.

67 Now, little lady, I certainly would not want to stand here as a deceiver. I would want to stand here in some way to try to help you. If the Lord Jesus would let me know what you're here to ask Him... You've come to ask Him something; and if you come to ask Him something, and He will let me know, then He will answer back through me.
Now, if I said, "Little lady, you've come to ask Jesus something; you're going to receive it," and send you on, you'd have a right to doubt that. But when He will come and tell me something that's been in your life or something back down the road that you know that's happened, then you'll know whether that's true or not. Then you'd have faith to know that it was God, that it wasn't Brother Branham, wouldn't you?
You are suffering with a tumor. That's a tumor, and that tumor is in your mouth on the left hand side of the jaw. That's "Thus saith the Spirit." That's right.
Our heavenly Father, laying hands upon the little lady, I ask that the enemy be taken from her, and she be made well for God's glory. Amen, amen. God bless you, lady. Go believing. You believe, lady, with all your heart?

68 Now, be real reverent, real reverent. Keep praying. Now, you're doing just wonderful. Sit in with God. Just sit in with God. Be real quiet. Watch. 'Course, if you feel like giving Him praise, certainly do it. God is an object of worship, and God wants to be worshipped. I don't blame you. I worship Him. I scream His praises to the top of my voice.
But the lady standing here being strange to me, and me not knowing her, but God does and knows all about her...
There's someone in here praying, and I can ca... Oh, it's the lady sitting next to the lady there, has arthritis. That's right. You believe that Christ would heal you, lady? If you can believe, you can receive. Amen. What did she touch? You believe now?

69 You have something wrong in the feet. It's an arches like, dropped down. And you're here wanting to ask me a question; and that is, you're wanting me to pray for somebody else. And that person has something like water in the tissues. It's dropsy. And that person doesn't live here. It's in a high place where there's a lot of wind. It's Lubbock, Texas. That's right. You believe? Go and receive just exactly what you asked for, in Jesus' name.
Howdy. Do you believe Him? I don't know you, sir, but God does know you. There's something wrong in your bones: cancer in the bones. That's right. You believe me to be God's prophet ... or, His servant? Mr. Hatten. That's your name. Go home and be well in Jesus Christ's name, be made whole. Amen. God bless you. Yes. All right, believe now.
All right. Do you believe with all your heart?

70 Just a moment. Oh, He's wonderful. What do you think of that heart trouble? You believe God will heal you of it? The man sitting right there... Now, the lady with her hands up don't have heart trouble; she has ... that lady has arthritis, and she wants to be well of it too. That's right. That right? Uh-huh? Uh-huh. Do you think that digestion would leave you too? Believe God will make you well? You believe it, sir? Believe God will heal you too? Yes, sir. You believe that God would heal you of the heart trouble? Lay your hands on each other along there then.
Our heavenly Father, that devil has been exposed, and I rebuke it in the name of the Lord Jesus. May it leave. Amen. Have faith. Just sit right in with God, now. Don't doubt. Believe with all your heart.

71 You got gall bladder trouble there, praying, haven't you, lady sitting right here? Trouble with the liver, gallbladder, colored lady, with your hands up around your face, do you believe that Jesus Christ, God's Son, make you well? You believe that God will make you well and heal you? You do?
You're so nice till your eyes will get well too, if you believe. You had eye trouble, didn't you? If that's right, raise up your hand. You haven't got on glasses, but you had eye trouble. Put your hands on each other.
O God, in Jesus Christ's name, I rebuke that enemy, and this church rebukes it, that it'll leave these women and come out of them, and they'll be made well. Amen.
You believe? Oh, my, this is it. This is what God wants you to do, is to believe Him.

72 You believe, lady? With all your heart? Oh, all right, have faith in God. You have many things wrong with you: got a rupture, stomach trouble, nervousness, something wrong with your hip. That's right. By a fall, hurt your hip. You're a missionary. Correct? Missionary to these Indians. That's right.
You brought this little girl here. You want me to pray for her, for her eyes. That's exactly right. If that's right, raise up your hand. You believe? All right, little girl, you believe now with all your heart.
All right, you see what's happened to her before we looked. She was cross-eyed when she walked up here. Before I've even prayed her eyes is come straight. Look here, honey. There's her eyes. Look here, sweetheart. Just perfectly normal, without even being prayed for. The Holy Spirit's here. Amen. Go on your road rejoicing, and in Jesus' name, may she receive what she's asked for. Amen. God bless you. You adopted that child now. Believe now. That's right, you've adopted it, see. Yes, sir.
Oh, how wonderful. You believe, lady? I can't heal you, but God can heal TB. You believe He can? How'd I know who you was or what about you? God knows, doesn't He? Sure, I'd get up and take the old cot, and go home, and believe God, and be healed. Amen.
You believe, lady? Believe God will heal that stomach trouble and make you well? You go home and eat what you want to? In the name of Jesus Christ may she receive her healing. Amen. Have faith and believe.

73 Well, the dear lady's making an effort to get up over there to... There she is, on her feet then. Let us say praise the Lord.
You believe, my brother, God will heal you? In the name of the Lord Jesus, may you receive your healing. Amen. Go thanking God.
Little lady, you believe God will heal arthritis, make you well? Go off the platform just rejoicing and saying, "Praise the Lord." How many here will believe right now, God will heal the whole audience and make you well? God can do all things.
Do you believe? Oh, what a wonderful time. Do you realize that... How many believes that that's the Spirit of the Lord Jesus Christ permitting this? Then with one accord, with one great time, the Holy Spirit can make every person here well. You believe it? Let's just lay our hands over on each other and pray this prayer together, all of you with me.
Come, sisters, that we might pray for you. That's right. Pray the prayer of faith shall save the sick. God shall raise them up. Oh, the presence of the Holy Spirit confirming the Word, Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today, and forever.

74 O God, our Father, in Jesus' name, we condemn all sicknesses, and all diseases, and all powers of the devil, and I rebuke the devil. May he come out of this people just now. Go out from them and never bother them no more, in Jesus Christ's name. [Gap in the audio.]
That's right. Are you convinced? Look, right now the Holy Spirit's telling me to stop right now and make that altar call. Right now is the time, while His Spirit is moving. This is Bible days. This is the Holy Spirit, beyond any shadow of a doubt.
I want every person that wants to accept Christ for their Saviour, to come right down here just a minute. [Gap in the audio.] Give this people this opportunity. Will you come? I want to shake your hand and meet you right here. Come on now. Let's walk right down here at the... Come right here. Get up out of your seat. I want to have a word of prayer with you. Come here. Every sinner that wants to come; move right up here now. That's right. Come right down out of the balconies. That's right.

75 Come right here, son. God bless you, my boy. I want God to make you every whit what he should be. God bless you, young man. Will you come, sir? That's right. Come right on. Come right down. Now, give him time to come from the balconies. Come right on down here. All right. You want to bring this man up here? All right, bring him right up. That's good, brother. All right, sir. All right. Come right on down now. That's right. God bless you.
........................ I come!
Just as ..................
(God bless you, my brother)
............... was shed for me,
O Lamb of God, I come! I come!
God bless you, my brother. God bless you, my brother. Just stand right here [unclear words] pray. God bless you, young lady. That's right. Don't be ashamed of Him. That's the greatest thing you've ever done. God bless this girl [unclear words]. Amen. God bless you, sis. Stand right here just a minute while we have prayer. God bless you, my Spanish sister. May God give you what you've asked for. God bless you, my sister. God bless you. Come here, sir. God bless you. God bless you, mother. The Lord bless you, my brother, and give you the baptism of the Holy Spirit even tonight [unclear words].
Just as I am, tho' tossed about
With many a conflict, many a doubt,
Fightings and fears within, without,
O Lamb... (Tell the man there not
to go away; we want...)
............... I come! I come!
Yea, all I need, in Thee to find,
O Lamb ( That's right, brother.
Come right up. Come right...)
............... many a doubt,
Because Thy promise I believe,
(Won't you come down,
someone else now? Here...)
........................ I come!
..................... dark blot,
To Thee.......................
O Lamb of God, I come! I come!

76 There's somebody else come now for the prayer while we're waiting just a moment longer? The Holy Spirit's speaking. Look, friends, the very supernatural Christ is right here. Now, do you see what it means to be led of the Spirit? Look at the sinners come pouring around the altar, see. They are conscious ... the Holy Spirit's here. They know that. Just the same thing that tells me what's wrong. It spoke to me, said, "Make that call right now. I have some in here coming." And I stopped right there and did it. See them packing the stretcher away from the lady? Now, the very God that you're accepting, the very One that you're believing on... God bless you, young man [unclear words].
Oh, such a wonderful time, wonderful time. The Holy Spirit's moving right in.

77 Will you come right in here, sister dear? I'd just like to shake your hand and ask God to bless you, while we all stand here for the prayer. God bless you, my dear sister. God bless you, my little sister. May He just ever richly bless you. The little Spanish girls here, God bless you, little sister. And the little ladies there. God be with you, sister dear. Just want to touch your hand, as I know that He's here. God bless you, sister dear. May His Spirit be upon you.
Now, isn't it wonderful to know that the Lord Jesus is here? You know what? Way over in the old countries, way down where they don't even know what a newspaper is, the Holy Spirit works the same with them people there, and they have the same actions that they do here. Just think that Jesus Christ, God's Son, the One that's going to take us to heaven, is right here now. That's His Spirit moving through us. You say, "Brother Branham, I never seen anything like that." Well, that's the same thing's working in you. That's the Holy Spirit.

78 These little ladies standing here, and young men, just as a little teenage, and this great reckless time that we're living in, to see them come weeping. Oh, you just don't know how that pleases the Holy Spirit. That's wonderful.
Now, let us bow our heads just a moment for prayer. Now, to you that's coming here, I want to quote some Scripture to you, you little ladies, and you elderly people, and all together. The Bible said this... You know what you are tonight? You are God's love gift to Christ. Jesus said, "No man can come to Me except the Father draws him first. And all that the Father has given Me will come to Me."
Think what you've done tonight. You have passed... By coming here on this to accept Christ, you've passed from death to life. Now, if you trust me to be God's servant, if you believe me to be God's... That's just what's happened to you. Now, I'm going to quote the Scripture to you. Here's what Jesus said: "He that heareth My words and believeth on Him that sent Me, has everlasting life and shall never come to the judgment, but has done passed from death to life." Think of that. Jesus said that.

79 And look, just think of the little ladies in the city tonight. Think of the elderly men in city, the middle-aged women and men tonight that doesn't have the opportunity that you've had.
God has sent you here, manifested Himself before you, and you've, with a broken heart, come around the altar weeping. What are you? You are God, Almighty God, you are His love gift that He has chosen you and given you to Jesus Christ tonight. And Jesus loves you so much that He said, "No man can pluck them from My hand. They're Mine. I will raise them up at the last day." God promised you that. Every one of you, you've got life because you're standing right here before this audience as a witness that you believe it and accept it.
Now, you that's come here tonight, every one of you around the altar, and will believe and will take Jesus as your Saviour and believe in it, and in the presence now, you trust my words. Trust me if you can, for discernment...

80 Like the little lady sitting there with the female trouble, just then healed. All right. You believe it? Believe that God made you well? If you do, you... That's right, you can have it. Amen. It's all over, lady, sitting there praying. It's all finished. Have you got a prayer card? You don't have a prayer card? No, no. You don't need one. See, you're healed anyhow. Amen.
See there? Now, you know there's something here that tells me that. Is that right? Mark it. See how infallible it is. Now, that same Lord Jesus is here to say this. If you will accept Him tonight as your Saviour and ask Him to forgive all your sins...
Now, see, you couldn't have come by yourself. Something's happening. You say, "Brother Branham, what I have to do now?" Nothing. Just be thankful, see. Look. "All the Father has given Me will come, and no one can come except My Father draws him first."

81 Now, how many of you here, standing here that's repenting, that is willing to say, "I am finished with sin, and from this night on, by the grace of God, I will live for Jesus Christ," will you raise your hand, just standing around the altar? "I'm finished with sin. I accept Christ as my Saviour." God bless you. Wonderful.
Now, "He that will confess Me before men, him will I confess before My Father and the holy angels." Is that Word the truth. Then what happened just now? When you made your confession, Christ put your name on the Lamb's book of life. You can't perish and He will raise you up at the last day. Now, aren't you happy for that?
Now, let's bow our heads and give Him thanks, and praise Him for what He's done for us. Now, all the rest of you Christians, pray for these here that's just coming to accept Christ. And I believe God will give them the Holy Ghost right here where they're standing. I really believe it, that God will give them the Holy Ghost right here too. All right. Minister brethren, walk up close now, up here close. We want to see God do a great thing here.

82 Wouldn't you love to have this feeling that all this great Holy Spirit that's here now, that just knows all about you and is telling you in your heart, wonderful. Wouldn't you love for Him just to make His abode in a great baptism and come right into your heart and just make you happy and joyful and just give you power to overcome the things of the world? Wouldn't you all like to have that right here where you're standing? Each one of you? Would you like to have the Holy Spirit? Raise up your hands. Each one of you, right here around this... Like to have... Now, He's here to give it to you.
See, you come on confession, you believe Him, you've passed from death to life, but now you need the baptism of the Holy Spirit to give you power to overcome and great things to be done. And just watch what happens this week while the revival, and next week. Oh, I believe God's going to do wonderful things. Don't you believe it, church?

83 Now, let's just walk up and bow our heads now and give God praise. Everywhere now. Our heavenly Father, with a heart that's just jerking for joy, with something down in me that's just letting me know that this is just so pleasing to Thee. Thou hast come down, and going right down these lines and up-and-down these aisles healing the people, and now You've done more than that.
Thou has brought people from death unto life. There's been a resurrection. These sinners who were once alienated, out in the world without hope, without God, and tonight by the moving of the Holy Spirit, has quickened them, and they've come to life, and they rushed to the altar. I've shook their hands in standing them here and quoting to them Thy infallible Word, which heavens and earth will pass away, but Thy Word shall never pass away.

84 And as I look into the face of this young and old and the middle aged, little girls, and little ladies and young men, and old men and old women, as they're standing here, some of them coming down the aisle just shaking under conviction. Oh, great Holy Spirit, this great, tremendous power of Your presence. They've accepted You as their Saviour.
Now, I pray, God, that You'll send down great power from heaven and anchor in their soul the baptism of the Holy Ghost. Grant it, Lord. Just now let something take place, a new child be born, an unction, a power fall upon their hearts just now. And the Holy Ghost set this place to glory and shaking and glorifying and magnifying God. Grant it, Lord. Oh, hear the prayer of your servant. Hear me, Lord, as I pray to Thee and grant these blessings.

85 Now, keep your hands up in the air. Put your hands up. Praise Him now. "I will praise Him." Just raise your hands up. Say, "Thank you, Lord," now. That's it. That's it.
I will praise Him! I will praise Him!
Praise the Lamb for sinners slain:
Give Him glory, all ye people,
For His blood can wash away each stain.
Now, you that's around the altar here, you've just come to Christ, you sing it with me now. Come on, every one of you, together now, with your hands up, around the altar here. Every one now, with your hands to Christ, sing this with me now.
I will praise Him! I will praise Him!
Praise the Lamb for sinners slain:
Give Him glory, all ye people,
For His blood can wash away each stain.
Now, all that's in the building that's been sick and afflicted and would want to accept Him as your healer, would you stand to your feet? Say, "I will accept Him right now." Amen. Amen.

86 All that's in the building wants the baptism of the Holy Ghost, you stand to your feet. Make your acceptance right now of Christ. That's wonderful. That's it. How good, how glorious.
Oh, if this isn't like heaven, I don't know what heaven will be like. Wonderful. Right now something could happen. Are you ready? Now, let's all raise our hands, bow our heads, and give Him praise.
Brother, one of the pastors come here and lead in prayer. Wouldn't you, brother, one of you, come here lead in prayer? Let's give Him praise now, every one.
Father God, in the name of the Lord Jesus we give Thee praise and glory for all...

We would see Jesus

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1 Thank you, brother. Good evening, friends. You may be seated. It's indeed a great privilege to be here in Saskatoon again tonight. There's lots of water has went down the river since the last time I stood on this platform, or one similar to it; about ten years ago, I suppose. And I've always longed for the opportunity to get back again to this prairie people here in the middle of this wonderful country, nation---Canada---and by the grace of God and by the invitation by Brother Sothmann, my good friend... And we didn't have very much time to arrange the meeting; we just had to hurry up to get here. And I told him, though, we didn't have time to get around amongst the ministers much, and so forth, with the different churches, but just to set the meeting and we would come together and have a little fellowship. And by the grace of God, we're here.

2 Last Fall, I was visiting Prince Albert, and we had a wonderful time there, of fellowship, also, with the people up there in the good fishing country. 'Course, I don't say you haven't got good fishing country here. You may have. And so, we had a day of fellowship with the brethren and went out to the lake.
And now, tonight we've come to meet you in the name of the Lord Jesus. I don't come as a healer now, to heal your sickness. I come as your brother, to preach the Gospel. And I have a little saying, a little slogan, that's kind of internationally known: I come to pray for God's children, the doctors' patients, and my friends. And that's what we're here for tonight: preach the Gospel and pray for God's children, the doctors' patients, and my friends. And I'm sure you are.
Now, it's turned cool since we've been here, for one thing; that was little disappointing to many. But I'm sure you people who can stand it here around, below zero, this is a mild thing. Brother Sothmann told me, I believe, it gets way in below zero here on the prairie. And my good brother, Brother Baxter, who was just formerly with me, this is his home town. And he was telling me about how it used to get so cold here in the wintertime. And I love good cold weather.

3 Now, another thing was the change of time. Billy called me up a while ago and he said, "Daddy, there's a change of time; an hour's difference, I believe, between the city and the country out here." So, it's made quite a little difference. Tomorrow night, I think we should start just about a little later. You think that would be all right, Brother Sothmann? And then, to you people who are desiring prayer cards. Come and receive your prayer card. What time are you going to start the service, Brother Sothmann? At eight o'clock. All right, be here at seven. That's this... What would you ... be seven?
Now, I've got a quarter of nine now, what... That's Democrat time, we call it down home. That's Saskatoon time. We call it, at home, Democrat time, because Mr. Roosevelt was the one who did this thing. And our country set it up so they could get a ... oh, I will play golf a little longer, or something another. I don't know what they're... I don't see why they just leave it the way God made it. Don't you think that'd be better? God made the sun to go over, so just... They settled on something about it anyhow. And so, we'll start then according to this time here---fast time, I guess, it's fast time. At eight o'clock. So, at fast time (That's daylight saving time.), at seven o'clock, between seven and quarter after, something, come and get your prayer cards, so it won't interfere with the rest of the meeting. And we will see just how things come out where we have afternoon services for those who come from out of town, for the rest of the week.

4 Now, we will try to let you out as early as possible. Pray for the sick and ask the sinners to accept Christ: that's the object of being here. And we do not represent any certain church or any certain denomination. We're just your brother, and we work for all the churches of the living God.
And I believe that there is a need of healing tonight, more than physical healing. I believe it's a spiritual healing for the sickest body I know of; the body of Jesus Christ is the sickest body I know of. It's so broke up in so many different denominations and factions. And so we're trying to do our best by the Gospel to heal that broken body, that all people might come together with one great unity. I don't mean you have to leave your church and all of them make one organization. Stay in your organizations. That doesn't hurt anything, but be brothers while you're in your organization. I was a Baptist, as you know of, and I'm still a Baptist. I'm a Pentecostal Baptist now since I've received the Holy Spirit.

5 So, down in Little Rock, Arkansas, one night, oh, a few years ago, at the Robison Auditorium, there had been a old brother that had been on crutches for years, and the Lord Jesus healed him. And the next day, he just combed the city up with a sign on these old crutches saying, "These old buddies, I don't need them any longer." And so, that night he was sitting way up in a balcony, and I was preaching and he raised up. He was really enthused. He said, "Just a minute, Brother Branham." He said, "When I hear you preaching, I believe you're a Nazarene." That's what he was, a Nazarene. He said, "I believe you're a Nazarene." And then said, "I see the bigger part of your crowd here is Pentecostal. And now somebody just told me here that you was a Baptist." He said, "I don't get that."
"Oh," I said, "that's easy. I'm a Pentecostal Nazarene Baptist." Both Pentecostal, Nazarene and Baptist. I think that's what we all should be, don't you think? And just rejoice in the Lord.

6 Now, if the Lord willing, it's just a few days before I take another worldwide mission around the world. Leaving on the East coast and coming back to the West. All the way around the world. This is about five times over since I seen you, by the grace of God. The good Lord, in His mercy, has let me, going into my second million souls to win to Him, right in our campaigns. And I'm happy for that. I was a boy when I was here the other time; I'm an old man, now. So, many things that's been done. I've seen the blessedness of God, how He's done great works, and healing the sick, and saving the lost, and calling back the backsliders, bringing brethren together and taking away their differences. I just love to be in that type meeting. Don't you, now---all of you together---don't you just love to be in a good fellowship meeting?
Now, I thought, tonight, the Lord willing, I would just kind of introduce the meeting to you a little while. And Billy told me that he had give out a few prayer cards here. And we want to say this, that with the grace of God we intend to pray for every person that you bring. That's right, every person.

7 I just had a revelation the other day. How many's ever been in my meetings before? Let's see your hands. Well, that's almost a complete hundred percent, friends that's been in my meeting. I'm happy that you're here again tonight to be with you. The big thing that's been in my meetings, the people doesn't get prayed for. I have a very odd, unique ministry the Lord has given me by visions, as you all know. And it's been hard. I can't...
But, the other day, when Mr. Mercier and Mr. Goad here, my tape boys, we were in Maine, up in Moosehead Lake, Maine... And I went from my room ... from their room into my room. And I know, if you're a Christian, you'd understand what I say. The Lord was in the room. I noticed, outside, the wind blowing in the big birch and evergreens, and seemed like the wind came into the room, or either I went out to the wind. And then, all of a sudden, I recognized the Presence of God. There He met me and revealed to me and encouraged me, and told me that He would give me a way that I could use my ministry in this United States and Canada, and through the North America.
It's always been so hard. In Africa, just one of the supernatural miracles; over in India, why, just one time, that's all it needs, and everything there will raise up. I don't care what condition they're in, they'll make an effort. And they'll go the next day just believing that they're going to get well anyhow. And you never hear any more complaint. But in America, we've been taught laying on of hands. Now, I call this America because it is America. It's just North America, the continent. So we... Over here we've been taught laying on of hands, and the people just has to be personally contacted or they just don't get it right.

8 So, the Lord has given me a revelation on what to do. Now, this will be my first time to ever pray for the people in that way, beginning tomorrow night. And I trust that the Lord will bless the efforts that we put forth. Now, get on the phone tomorrow and call somebody, and get the sick and the afflicted out, and especially the sinner. Call up all your friends that's sinner friends, and get them out to the meeting. Above everything, we want to see the sinner saved.
And now, to you pastors here on the platform, Brother Rasmussen was here, said... I'd like to introduce you, but I didn't have time to meet them all just now. I will a little later. I'm certainly happy that you're here. The Lord bless you.
And now, before we open the Word, shall we bow our heads just a moment.

9 Our dear, blessed heavenly Father, it is indeed with great privileges and joyful hearts that we approach Thee this evening, in the name of Thy beloved Son, the most gracious One. And asking Thee for divine favor for this evening and the following evenings to come, in this meeting. We have gathered here for no other purpose but to glorify Thee. And we ask humbly, Lord, that You will forgive us of our mistakes and our shortcomings, that Thy great name might be magnified in this lovely city of Saskatoon.
We pray for every church and for every member, and for the sinner man and woman on the street, for all the roundabout places. Not because that we have set this meeting here, but because of Thy presence. May there come an old-fashioned revival in every church. Grant it, Father. And may real Christian love and brotherhood break out among the peoples and all the churches. And may there be a great rejoicing and a refreshening here on the prairie. Grant it, Father.
Forgive us of all of our shortcomings.
And we pray tonight for our friend, Billy Graham, in New York, hammering away with the gospel in that great crusade in New York. Making the last drags across the nations before divine judgment strikes. And we pray that You'll help him in a marvelous way. May many souls come to Christ tonight throughout the lands, for we ask it in Jesus name. Amen.

10 Now, don't forget it's seven o'clock, daylight saving time, tomorrow afternoon, come for the prayer cards. And at eight o'clock the services will begin.
Now, just for the way of a little talk. And I will try be just as briefly as possible. But just a regular little routine talk, to get the people acquainted with the ministry, 'cause there was probably one third of the people that did not raise up their hands and they never been in one of the meetings before. So, now, just a little routine talk on the Gospel, and a question to ask. Then tomorrow night we will change the subject into another line of thought.
And I want to read tonight a very familiar text in my campaigns, found in Saint John the 11th chapter, 30th verse ... or, (I beg your pardon.) the 20th verse.
And there were certain Greeks among them that came up to worship at the feast:
And the same there came ... to Philip, which was of Bethsaida of Galilee, and desired him, saying, Sirs, we would see Jesus.
Now, in Hebrews the 13th chapter and the eighth verse, I want to read for a text. It's very familiar. We all know it by heart. It said:
Jesus Christ the same yesterday, ... today, and for ever.

11 And that's been my theme through the years. I read that same scripture when I was here before. And I hope to read it until death shall take me from the earth. Because, I do solemnly believe that with all my heart, that Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today and forever. He is called, in the Bible, "The Alpha and Omega; He that was, which is, and shall come." That makes Him the same yesterday, today, and forever. "He that was, He that is, and shall come," just the same. He never changes. We change; time changes; but God never changes.
I was having my dinner today, or I think you call it here, lunch. I always miss out if I call that lunch and call supper dinner, because I've been used to used to having breakfast, dinner and supper. And if I call this lunch, then I will feel like I've missed my dinner somewhere ... my supper somewhere, along the road. So, believe it or not, I was with a Catholic priest having dinner today. And we were talking about the ... how that times had changed so much in the past few years. Oh, it's remarkable!

12 How that same man that God made in Genesis and gave him his five senses, and how he lived for most six thousand years without hardly changing at all. And in the past fifty years has progressed a thousand times to one, what he was fifty years before. Just think, it hasn't been too long ago, the only way to send a message was from lip to ear, or by a letter, a runner. And now news scatters around the world in just about two minutes---completely around the world. Oh, how times change. But oh, I am so happy tonight that we're serving an unchangeable God. He is the same yesterday, today and forever. And I could hardly believe that anyone who ever heard that marvelous name of the Lord Jesus, ever once breathed, but what they longed to see Him.
That was the desire on these Greeks who came up to the feast to worship. They said to Philip of Bethsaida, "Sirs, we would see Jesus." They heard of Him. "Faith cometh by hearing." Now, we've preached the Gospel for many years. For nearly two thousand years the Gospel's been preached. Faith cometh by hearing. But this question was to those Greeks, "We would see Jesus. Not, we would hear His Word; but we would see Him."

13 And now, my thought to you is this: If He is the same yesterday, today and forever, why can't we see Him tonight just as well as we could see Him then, if He is the same? Now, you say, "Oh, well, He's ascended. He died and rose again, and He ascended on High." That is true. But when He ascended on High, the Bible said, "He led captivity captive, and gave gifts unto men."
The Bible also states (Jesus' own words) in the 14th chapter of Saint John, the 7th verse, "He that believeth on Me, the works that I do shall he do also." And He said again, "A little while and the world sees Me no more." That's the word ... the world, "the world order." "Yet, ye shall see Me, for I..." (And "I" is a personal pronoun.) " I will be with you to the end of the world. I, Jesus, will be with you"; one place He put it, "even in you, unto the end of the world. And [Compare these scriptures.] the works that I do shall you also. By this ye would see Me, and the world would ignore it."

14 Now, they found fault with Him in His ministry here on earth, because He didn't affiliate with any of their organizations. He stood out. When people said evil things against Him, He never opened His mouth. He was a different person. And therefore, He wouldn't fuss with them nor argue with them. He never was a graduate of their schools or colleges. And He dealt among the common, poor people. In Luke it says the common people heard Him gladly. The religious people of that day turned Him down. He never was too much of a drawing card to the people. His audiences were rather small, comparison to when the Orthodox church put on something. They'd come by the tens of thousands and up to the millions, I suppose. It was a routine; it was a religious act that they all must be there.
But the ones who come to hear Jesus was those who desired to hear Him. It wasn't a political thing. It was those who were hungry-hearted and wanted to see God. And that would be the type, I think, tonight, that He was speaking of, "Yet ye shall see Me." (There will be an "ye" class, "until the end of the world," until Jesus comes.)
(Am I making you deaf by that? That thing certainly has a good voice. Is it too loud? If it is, raise your hands. Just ... it's a little bit too loud if the... Thank you, Leo or Gene.)

15 "Ye shall see Me. [That better? All right.] Ye shall see Me." Now, if Christ has risen from the dead, and we are given the invitation and the scripture that He promised, that we could see Him, and that He would be the same yesterday, today, and forever, then would you desire to see Him? Would you? If you'd raise your hands? Would every Christian desire that? "I would, with my hands up, I would love to see Him."
Well, now, how can we see Him? The way we can see Him is by His works. Now, He hasn't come in a corporal body yet, among us. He is here in a spiritual body. You believe that? A spiritual body called the Holy Spirit. He's in the form of the Holy Spirit. In the beginning, God was a Spirit.
And all the fountain of goodness and mercy and power, and all the good things of love, God was the center of that fountain. And then the Logos that went out of God, in the beginning, become what we would call a theophany, or a supernatural body. God is not just like the air, but He's in a body. Moses seen Him pass and said it looked like the back part of a man, and so forth. And then that same theophany was made flesh and dwelt among us. And we beheld Him, the only begotten of the Father, Christ.

16 Now, He said, "I come from God and I go to God. Yet a little while and the world sees Me no more." Then He said that we would see Him. Now, if we were looking for Him, what type of person would we look for?
Oh, I just love to take the Word. I believe the Word. That's the truth, always. God's Word is the truth. I believe that every promise of God is absolutely the truth. And that the right mental attitward ... attitude, (pardon me)... The right mental attitude toward any divine promise of God, will bring it to pass. That's right. If you can look at the Word right.
Now, there's many things that maybe I could not bring to pass with my faith. But I would never stand in the way of somebody else who had the faith to bring it to pass. If I couldn't go where I'd drop the walls of Jericho like Joshua did, or take a little afternoon walk like Enoch did and go home with him, I would never stand in somebody's way who could do that. But I'm thankful to have faith to believe that it's true. God said so. That makes it true. It's God's eternal Word.
And our soul rests solemnly upon His Word. And faith cannot be based anywhere else. All theology and man-made isms are sinking sands. And faith cannot find its resting place upon the shifting sands of men's theology. It's got to find its solemn resting place on the immovable rock of Almighty God's Word. There's where it anchors, "God said so." That settles it. That's forever the truth.
Now, if He said that He is the same, and the world would see Him no more, we can't expect, then, the unbeliever to ever witness it or know it. Then if He said, "Ye shall see Me, for I will be with you to the end of the world, even in you," then we know that God's got a remnant somewhere who is going to see Him, because He promised it.

17 Now notice. What would we look for tonight if we thought Christ was in Saskatoon tonight? What kind of a person would we look for? Would we look for a person who was a great, swell educator? No, sir. Would we look for a person in some great, high cathedral or synagogue? No, sir. If He's the same, He wouldn't be there. He would be rejected there just like He was, if He is the same. Would we look for a person who spoke great, with a great education, with a great scholarship? Certainly not, if He's the same.
That's where the translators get mixed up in the Bible. They try to translate it with some great, high word of the Hebrew, when it was just spoken regular street language. The common people heard Him gladly. They didn't understand it.
Like the English, that we call English. Of all my travels, I never needed an interpreter any worse in all my life, than I did in England. That's where I needed it worst. I could not understand that, to save me. Way down, their little cockney type, you know, way down in the throat here. I just couldn't... I just had to give it up. I couldn't talk at all. They said, "What part of Texas you from?", when they hear that talk that I have.
And I called, at Miami, Florida, to New York City, to pray for a man on the telephone. And the little operator at Miami couldn't understand that little Yankee, and neither could the little Yankee understand that Rebel. And they had to go through St. Louis and get someone to interpret for them. Right in the United States! You see, it's the difference. Language varies.
And, so, Jesus spoke the common language. And that's what He would speak tonight, so the common people would hear him. Notice, then we would look for a person of that type.
Now remember, Christ is promised to be in you. Now let's see what He did in His life; see what His ministry was. And if we can see that same thing repeat, then we know that He is still alive. Now, let's notice Him, what He did. Now, be careful, because I'm going to give some trapping questions here.

18 If He was here tonight, standing in this arena, and you'd come to Him, as a sick man, could He heal you? No, sir. He could not heal you, for He has already did that, see. If you are a sinner, could He save you tonight? If you were in the arena, and He was here with you, could He save you? No, sir. He has already did that, see. Healing and salvation is a finished work that was finished at Calvary. The price was paid at Calvary. Those powers to forgive sins, or to heal sick people, does not lay in any individual. They are faith in a finished plan that God laid down from the foundation of the world. So, if people say, "I got healing power," you know that's wrong. If you go to a man, to confess your sins, that's wrong. You go to God to confess your sins, and you go to God to believe for your healing.
Now, men do have gifts. That's true; some pastors, teachers, evangelists, and prophets, and so forth. We have five different gifts that God has ordained to the church, the body. And, through those gifts, God works.

19 Now, let's see what He did. Let's follow His ministry just a few moments. We find Him, the first thing after John had baptized Him, the Holy Spirit coming from heaven and descending upon Him and remaining in Him. John said, "Upon whom thou shall see the Spirit descending and remain... He is the One that will baptize with the Holy Ghost." And now notice, we find, immediately after His temptation, He went straight to the Father's business. What was the business? Preaching the gospel and healing the sick. At any day, any age...
Now, I realize that I'm talking to smart men, and men who are theologians. But I will ask you this, my brother. Did you ever read in history, or in the Bible, or anywhere, where there ever was a revival among the people except there was miracles and signs? Nowhere. Where God comes, the supernatural comes with God, for He is supernatural. And anywhere...
And I will ask you one more question (Take it from the Scripture, wherever you wish, or from history.): Did you ever, in any time, see God take an organization or a denomination and send a revival by it? No, sir. The founders, after they were dead, the revival was over. Certainly. God, and men of God, who has believed God has stood alone in convictions with God. It's truly. Never did He have a revival in an organization. I'm not condemning organizations; they're fine. But I'm just trying to say that you can't revive any organization. It takes God to come down and to do that. And God works through individuals; not through groups, but through individuals.

20 Now, notice closely, now. We find Him at the Father's business. I'm going to give two or three little statements before closing, and start praying for the sick. Now, watch this. The first thing, we find Him...
Let's turn to the grand old book of Saint John, just where I have been reading from tonight. In the 1st chapter of Saint John, we find He was choosing His disciples. And we find that there was one chosen by the name of Philip. And Philip, after he got converted, was all enthused. And any man, when he finds Jesus and gets saved, there is an enthusiasm. Oh, I wish I could get that to many great men like Jack Schuller and Billy Graham, and those great evangelists who God is using. The people who profess to come, are too starchy; they seem to just say, "Well, yes, I believe." And that is an intellectual conception. But, that won't work.
You've got to be born again. And when you're born, there's an enthusiasm rises with that birth, and sets the soul afire. And takes all the differences away, and the isms, and comes straight to Calvary and recognizes Christ, with a burning love and zeal for the lost and fallen world.

21 When a man is converted, eyes are set towards Calvary.
If he's just a little bit nervous, if you don't watch him, he'll go over on the fanatic side. If he's just a little scholarly, he'll go over on the starchy side. But right in the middle of the road is the sane, sensible, born-again, Spirit-led, endowed church of the living God, going straight down the road to Christ. That's the real coming from both the sides. One went one way, and one went the other, shows fanaticism or either scholarly and too stiff to bow. They know more about the Word than they know about the Author.
To know the Word is not life, but to know Him is life. To know Him! You don't have to be a scholar; you have to be a submitted person. And when you submit yourself to Christ, Christ is obligated to fill that vacancy that you've poured out on the altar to Him. He is obligated to His Word, to do it, and He will not fail you.

22 And when Philip was converted, immediately he could not rest till he found his friend. And while I was in the Orient, they pointed out to me that it was some thirty miles where he went around the mountain, to find Nathanael, his friend, a very good Orthodox believer. And many of you readers know that when he found Nathanael, Nathanael was under a tree, praying. And Philip said to him, "Oh, come, see who we have found: Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph."
And then, the man, raising to his feet (Nathanael), he said, "Could there be any good thing come out of Nazareth?"
And I think that he gave him the best answer that I know could be given to mankind. He said, "Come and see."
Don't stay over here under the tree and criticize it, but come, see for yourself. "Is our church cooperating?" That doesn't matter. Come, see for yourself.
And as they went along the sides of the mountains, coming around, to where Jesus was praying for the sick... Now, watch Him. And when Nathanael came up in the line with Philip, Jesus looked out to see him. Never before had He ever laid eyes upon him. But he said, "Behold, an Israelite in whom there is no guile." It astonished the man so!

23 You know, I kind of believe Philip kind of warned him about it before he got there. Said, "Now, if He happens to call you out, well, don't you say nothing, because He will do it."
"Oh, I don't believe it."
"Well, come, find out, but go with an honest heart."
He said, "Behold, an Israelite in whom there is no guile."
And it astonished him so, until he said, "Rabbi! Whence knowest Thou me?" If we have time to break that down. "When did You know me? I never seen You, and I'm way older than You. And when did You ever see me, to know that I was a just and honest and upright man? How did You know I was a Jew? I could have been a Greek or something else. How did you know I was an Israelite?"
Jesus said unto him, "Before Philip called you, when you were under the tree, I saw you."
That was Jesus yesterday. If He is the same yesterday, and He's the same today that He was yesterday, He is duty bound to His Word. That's right.

24 Then, the Orthodox standing around, the church members, they said, "This man is Beelzebub. For He's the chief of the fortunetellers." That's what Beelzebub was: the chief of the devils. They thought it was a telepathy of some sort.
And Jesus said, "You speak that word against the Son of man, it shall be forgiven you. But when the Holy Ghost is come, and you speak a word against His work, it will never be forgiven you, neither in this world or the world that is to come."
Did you get that, church? "It shall never be forgiven thee; a word against it." Do you interpret it? "When the Holy Ghost is come, and shall do the same things." There was an excuse then, because Jesus had not been glorified, neither had the blood been shed. But after the blood had been shed, and sin was paid for, man was left without an excuse. "God once winked at the ignorance of men, but in this day has called all man to repent." One word against it, is unpardonable. It will never be forgiven you, in this world, neither in the world to come: the sin against the Holy Spirit.
What is sin? What is the initial initiative of sin? What is sin? You say smoking, drinking. No, sir. Committing adultery, stealing, lying, gambling, murder, that's not sin. That's the attributes of unbelief, for he that believeth not is condemned already. There's only two faculties: unbelief or faith. And because they believe not, they do these things. But a man that's a believer, doesn't do them, because he's a new creature in Christ. All right. We won't have time to get into much more of the Scripture.

25 But do you understand what Jesus was yesterday? Did He claim to be a healer? No, sir. What did He claim? He claimed that He was here on a mission. How many believe that's the Scripture, say "amen." He was here on a mission to do the will of God in His age, and He did it. And He said, "It is not Me that doeth the works. It's my Father that dwelleth in Me, He doeth the works." Then if He's the same yesterday, today and forever, it has to come by supernatural. Do you see it?
When He met the woman who touched His garments a few days after that. She walked up in the audience and she touched His garment, saying in her heart, "If I can only touch Him... I believe He's a holy man. If I can touch Him, I will be made well of my plague." Many years she'd suffered, and the physicians couldn't heal her. But she said within her heart, "If I can touch Him." And when she touched Him, everybody was swarming Him. He was going on His road to raise a dead girl back to life.
And the little woman touched Him, and Jesus turned and said, "Who touched Me?"
Now, anyone knows, the Palestinian garment hangs loose. And it also has an underneath garment. Because, as they walk, that dust picks up under the robe, and they have an underneath garment, from the knee up, which is tight.

26 And this woman, through that loose hanging garment, much looser than my coat, she just touched the border of it. And everybody crowding around Him, to shake hands and everything, how would He know it? But He was endowed with a power. God was in Him. And when the little woman's faith recorded and touched Him, what did He do? He turned and said, "Who touched Me?" Everyone denied it; she did too. But He looked till He found her, and He said, "Thy faith hath saved thee." That was Jesus yesterday.
If He's the same today, He can do the same today. Now, you ministering brethren might say, "Brother Branham, the Scripture for that?" Absolutely. The New Testament. The book of Hebrews said, "He is a high Priest that can be touched by the feeling of our infirmities." And the way He answered yesterday, by the feeling of her infirmities, He can answer the same today, if He is the same today. And how dare us to dispute with God's Word and say that He is not the same. He is the same.
Now, closing on this thought, so we can pray for the sick. What's any more essential in Canada tonight, or in the United States, or either, I could say, the world, than a meeting that where Jesus Christ would be present to vindicate His resurrection to the people? The whole world ought to have ears turned to hear. For you see, my friend, that we're at the end of the road. You don't have to be a scholar, or a scientist, or neither do you be a prophet, to know that the end is at hand.

27 Your own, and our own, beloved nation, yesterday, in England, bursted its first hydrogen explosive. And today they made the announcement that they were no more a satellite to the United States; they could handle their own affairs. And they can do it.
Did you hear our beloved President's talk the other night, when he asked for that great budget to be given? Said, "We must make the aggressor know that we are standing on the sidelines, that, if he starts anything, he will be annihilated also." Do you see, it just takes one set-off, and it's over.
And can you look through Saskatoon, could you look the world, through the magazines, snap on your radio, and listen to the ungodly stuff that comes through radio and television? Nothing but a conglomeration of sin, under disguisement. When, people who sit up at jig dances all night, on Saturday night, half drunk, preach the gospel on Sunday morning! And all the old dirty boogie-woogie rock-and-rolls, and then try to class those people Christians? No wonder the prophet said, "The time comes when the tables are full of vomit."

28 We're at the end. And the judgments of God is at hand, when this entire world can be annihilated in two or three minutes. That's right. Sinner friend, think of that tonight, and get it way down in the soul.
And I pray that our blessed heavenly Father, the Lord Jesus, will come tonight to this little group. And if there be a sinner here, that you'll repent of your sins, my friend. For you'll hear the Gospel the last time, one of these days or nights. And this might be it. We don't know just what.
The great ships are out in the seas, with their missiles headed towards each other, just waiting for that strike off. The Jews are congregating yonder in Israel. Ishmael and Isaac is at one another's throat. Everything the Scripture said to be fulfilled is now at hand. The Gospel has been preached. Oh, yes. Christ is vindicated. The Gentile days is finished. We're washing up right now.
Look at Billy Graham last night, expecting nearly a hundred thousand people at his first meeting, and turned out with eighteen thousand. Course, that was a marvelous crowd. Look at the thing, how it's cooling off everywhere.

29 Look at the church, look how it's cooled off since ten years ago here in Saskatoon, when I was here before. The enthusiasm, the thing has died down. The people has read old true story magazines and stuff, and listened to Arthur Godfrey and Elvis Presley, until they're become so dead with sin. That's right. That's just the way it is, the world over. Sin has entered in and captured the world. But our blessed Lord Jesus stands with outstretched arms, to forgive the repentant sinner tonight, if you'll only believe. Will you do it while we pray?
With our heads bowed, please.

30 And while our heads are bowed, would you here tonight, who doesn't know Christ in the new birth; maybe you've joined church, maybe you've tried, but really you've never become a Christian. Would you just like to raise up your hand? say, "Brother Branham, remember me, even before the meeting starts. Pray for me. I want to really be right with God, when my hour comes to leave." Would you just so much as raise your hand, say, "Remember me." God bless you. God bless you, sister. And you, sister. Up in the balcony here, would someone raise your hand, say, "Just remember me, Brother Branham, as you pray." The Lord bless you. And God bless you over here, sir. And you here. God bless you over here. Balcony over on the right, I seen your hand there, also. All right, now just take it to the Lord. I see your hand, sir, on the outside of the left-hand line. The Lord bless you.
Now, let us pray.

31 Our dear, loving Savior, as we see the age growing dim; the lights of civilization going out. The hour has arrived. It won't be too long, now, until we will see You coming the second time, the corporal body of the visible Lord Jesus. Oh, how the tribes of the earth will moan at that time! But if they haven't accepted You, then it'll be too late. "Go and buy oil of those who sell." And while they were gone, they were in outer darkness. And they were weeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth; that great tribulation period.
And I pray, Father, that You'll bless tonight, and encourage the old saints along the road. Those who are wayfaring men, women, who's fought a many a hard battle, we pray that You'll encourage them. And the sinner, tonight, may he become ashamed of his or her self, and repent.
And remember, Father, those who raised their hands just now. I pray that You'll bless them, Father, and take away every sin and iniquity from their life. And may this be the hour, as they have raised up their hands, that in their heart, they'll say that one eternal "yes," and really mean it and believe it. And the very moment they believe, they shall be saved. Thou hast said so. We might cry at an altar all night; we might walk floors and fast; but until we believe... Thou hast said so solemnly in Thy Word, "He that heareth My Word and believeth on Him that sent Me, has everlasting, eternal life. And shall never come to the judgment, but has passed from death to life." Believed on God's only begotten Son. I pray, Father, that will be the state of each one who raised their hands. And many of those who did not, maybe they might have needed to.

32 Now, I have spoke at length of Thee. I pray now that You'll come to Your poor unprofitable servant, and will vindicate these words, that You're the same yesterday, today and forever. And You're present now, omnipresent, always, to manifest Your love and to fulfill Your Word, that, "Wherever two or more are gathered in My name, I will be in their midst. The things that I do, shall you, also." Grant that that will be manifested tonight, Lord, not because we need it, but because that Thy Word has promised it. It's Your promise. When You came, You didn't have need to heal the sick. But You did it, that it might fulfill the Word of God. And tonight, many say, "Oh, we don't need those things." But it's to fulfill, for You said You were the same. And I pray that You'll manifest Your love and power tonight; as I submit myself to You and this church. In Jesus' name. Amen.

33 Now, the crucial moment has arrived. And we won't take long. It's eight-thirty, by your regular time out here, daylight time. That will make it... We should be away by nine o'clock, in the next fifteen, twenty minutes. But now, much time could have been put on that Word, which we will get to it much more, later.
But, tonight I would like to ask you this. If our blessed Savior will come to this platform and perform the very same works and things that He did when He was here on earth, will you solemnly promise to believe and do all you can to support His cause, and praying, and getting in the lost, and as long as you live? If you'll do, would you raise your hand so we can just find favor with Him? If you will. God bless you. That's very fine.
Now, no matter what church you're with, that has nothing to do with it. If you're Presbyterian, Baptist, Covenant, Lutheran, Pentecostal, Nazarene, Pilgrim Holiness; that doesn't matter. Just so you are a Christian, born again, accepted by God.

34 Now, tonight I'm going to pray for the sick, if God will permit, in the regular procedure. For I wanted to go on this part of the Scripture, to give you a background that we're not here to try to introduce things that's not in the Scripture. If you'd catch me at any time, preaching anything, or any practice, that's not in "thus saith the Lord," you'll do me a favor to notify me. Yes, sir. Because, I am forty-eight years old, in April the 6th. Now, I have saw visions since I was just a little baby boy and not one time has any ever failed.

35 Just a few days ago, there was a man who has been ... lives next door to me; a Jehovah Witness. His little boy had been crippled up. And he brought him to a meeting. And the Holy Spirit called him, way in the back of the meeting, twice the distance of this here and told him who he was and where he come from. Told him he was healed. "Thus saith the Lord." Watch the Spirit now. We're taking tape recordings. Watch what the Spirit saith. Brother Branham can say most anything, but the Holy Spirit's always the truth, and He will stay with the Word. And you put it down, see if it's right. It's "Thus saith the Lord," see.

36 Now, and the man didn't know what to do. And finally he said to the little boy, "Stand up, David." And the little boy stood up, perfectly normal and well.
Today I said, "Which leg was that, David?"
He said, "Mama, which one was it, I was crippled in?" Infantile paralysis; drawed up. And, oh, the thousands of those things has happened.
But anyhow, his brother came in the other day. Strictly Jehovah Witness. And if there be Jehovah Witness here, I'm not speaking against you, not at all. But he had been told that was of the devil. And then when his brother came down, I just happened to be in the room, his ... the father of David had moved over and bought a little place next door to me. And so he works in the meetings, lots with me, now, and selling books. He was a contractor, a very good, noted contractor. But he just quit his work to go in the work of the Lord. And he just travels around like that.
And as soon as we got in front of the brother, the Holy Spirit begin to tell him this evil thing that he was doing. Said, "You're married to a woman who is a tall, blond-headed woman. You've got two children by her; you broke up a man's home to get that woman, and now you're breaking up another man's home, a red-headed woman. You're living with her in adultery."
He just almost fainted. Took his breath. Nobody in the world knowed that but him and the woman. Said, "Who told you that."
I said, "Almighty God."
He said, "I now surrender my life to Almighty God. And it's the truth, Mr. Branham."

37 There you are. He went and got his old daddy. His daddy come down. He was a reader, or whatever it is---one of the big men in the Jehovah Witness. And he came down. He said, "Oh," he said, "I'm telling you." Said, "I want to go fishing with you in the morning." I never met him before. He said, "But, I tell you, the Jehovah's Witness say that you're a false prophet."
I said, "Well, they got their right to say whatever they want to." And I said, "But I want to know what God says about it." So when we started down the road, I saw a vision. I said, "Now, Mr. Wood, I've got 'thus saith the Lord.'"
Said, "What do you mean?"
I said, "Every stream of water we pass over, this hundred and sixty miles to this place, is going to be muddy. But when we come to the stream, to Dale Hollow where we're going to fish, there that stream will be perfectly blue. And it will come to pass that... I have never caught a catfish in that water yet. But I'm going to catch a whole string of catfish, and you're only going to catch one. Mr. Woods is going to catch one. Then I'm going to catch another fish. I didn't see just what it was. It's an outstanding fish, but it will be a scale fish. That's 'thus saith the Lord.'" He looked over to his boy and winked; went on.

38 Every stream we passed was just... Storms had come through, just as muddy as they could be. And when we peeked up over the hill to look into Dale Hollow, just as blue as it could be. We got down there and begin to fish for crappie, and blue gill, and bass, and so forth; not a one struck. I put on a cat bait and threw out, caught a great big cat, just a few moments. I caught two on one line, two hooks. One weighed five pounds and one weighed three pounds, both on that; and had a whole string. He caught one through that day and that night. And his boy caught a little one, about that long. Other boy didn't catch anything.
And the next morning, I said, "There's another fish coming. That will be the last one we catch." And when I threw in, I caught what we call red-belly there. I don't know what you call them here. It's something on the order of a pan fish, a brim. And it almost weighed a pound. One of the biggest ones I ever seen in my life. And that settled it. We fished all the rest of that day and that night, until midnight, without even having one strike.

39 I said, "Now, Mr. Woods, Mr. Russell said that Christ would come in 1914. He set a time. Which, God said, No man knows the day or hour.' But he spiritualized it, and said He come to His spiritual office, for a hundred and forty-four thousand.' And He came on the day of Pentecost, in that office." And I went ahead and give the different prophesies. I said, "Not a one of them is true. Now what do you think?"
He said, "If a man can see fish before he catches them, I'll believe that God tells him about it," he said. And there he accepted God.
Now, a guy come from Africa, was standing... Well, we won't have time to go into it maybe, but just like that.

40 Now, I can't make it happen. God knows that. I do not control it. I have no control of it, at all. It's Him. Right at the same time, He showed a vision like that. I was praying for at least a hundred and fifty or two hundred little crippled children. Sick people. But He does what He wants to. He is God. I can't tell Him what to do. Who can interpret God? God does His own interpreting. We just do as He says do. Now, because that He promised me these things, that's the reason I'm standing here tonight before this little audience. And I stood in Africa with hundred and something thousand, five hundred thousand in India and different places. And took the Koran in one hand, and the Bible in the other one, and challenged every precept there was, "Come, let's prove who is God." See? That's it.
Now, friends, He's either raised from the dead tonight, the same yesterday, today and forever, or the Bible is wrong and we're in our sins. And if He has raised from the dead and proving Himself, that He is the life, then He deserves everything that we got: All of our love, all our devotion, all our time, ever what we are. [Gap in the audio.] Give it to God. Don't you believe so? And then our religion...

41 I say this, brethren. I was entertained in Bombay, India, one afternoon, by seventeen different religions, and every one of them denied Jesus Christ. But that night at the meeting, before the tens of thousands times thousands, I challenged every one of those religions, in Christ's name, after a vision come on the platform. I said, "Now find out." And a blind man received his sight, standing on the platform. And there's no way of numbering how many.
Durban, South Africa, one day making an altar call there, after a total crippled man, on his hands and feet, not even mentally right, was made well. I gave a challenge. I seen thirty thousand raw heathens come to Jesus Christ at one time. Recorded them: thirty thousand absolute raw heathens.
I stood at a Kiwanis Club not long ago, speaking to Dr. Davis, the one that ordained me in the Baptist church, that said I'd become a holy-roller. I said, "Dr. Davis, we spent millions of dollars, sending missionaries over there. And what did I find them doing? Passing out tracts. What we need is the Gospel. And what you call 'holy-roller' and what you said, I 'lost my mind,' won more souls to Christ, in five-minute's time, and without one penny of money; than all the efforts the Baptist church has made, and the rest of them, in a hundred and fifty years." Absolutely.
We've missed the mark. Jesus didn't say, "Go into all the world and pass tracts." He said, "Preach the Gospel." That's "demonstrate the power of the resurrection of Christ." Certainly, we have. He never said, "Build churches." I ain't got nothing against it; He never said, "Build schools." He said, "Preach the Gospel." That's what we fail to do. Christ is alive. He is not dead. God bless you now.

42 Billy Paul, how many did you give out? Hundred? Hundred. You just about ... everybody just about got a prayer pray card then. All right. Let's begin, then, start with... We can't line them all up at once, so we'll just take little groups at a time. And we'll get as many as we can tonight. But we'll get all of them; before the service is over ... the week is over. God willing. All right, who has ... let's start from number 1.
Who has number 1? Prayer card... What letter is it? G, G? All right. Number 1. Would you raise your hand, ever who has it? All right, lady, would you come here? Number 2. Who has number 2, would you raise your hand? Number 3, would you raise your hand? All right, over here, lady. Number 4, would you raise your hand? All right, lady. Number 5, would you raise your hand? All right, lady. 6? 7, number 7, would you raise your hand? Look at...
The little boy got a prayer card, sir? He hasn't. I seen a couple of wheel chairs. Look at those people back there. Maybe they can't even raise their hand. Number 7 is missing. Oh, I'm sorry. Number 7. Number eight. Who has 8? Look around at your neighbor. Maybe somebody deaf and can't hear; maybe they can't raise their hand up. Do you have 8? 9. Number 9, would you raise your... Is that the lady on the... You have number 9, do you lady? All right, would you come here, then, number 9. Number 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, who has number 15? Well, well, let's stop then at that, then, just for a few minutes. Look around for number 15. Somebody look at your places, then. We will start praying for these. If you find them, put them in the prayer line. All right.
Now, let us pray just a moment.

43 Now, Father, God, this is Your service, and we commit all things to Thee. And looking to Thee, for Thou to help us, O God. Maybe this little group here, how do I know there's not an evangelist sitting here will light up this country. How do I know that there's not some little mother here that might call a neighbor tomorrow, and say, "Truly Christ is raised from the dead."? It might spare the life of a man or woman there in the hospital, dying. I don't know, Father. It might save a soul. It's all Yours. I just commit all things to Thee. You help me, God, as I submit myself to Thee and this audience, too. Speak through my lips, and hear through their ears. I ask it in Christ's name. Amen.
All right. Now, let's see. We have so many... We call for... All right. Now, everybody, just be real reverent, if you will. And be seated. Now, look this way just a little bit. How many doesn't have a prayer card, and you want Christ to heal you, and believe that He will do it? Let's see your hands go up. All of you that believe now, that Christ will heal you, don't have a prayer card; anywhere in our audience.

44 Now, if He's the same yesterday, today, and forever, and can be touched by the feeling of our infirmities, if... How would we know that you touched Him? How would you know you touched Him? Now, if you got the same faith that woman had that touched His garment, can't you look to heaven tonight and touch Him? Wouldn't He speak back?
He doesn't have any hands, but ours. He doesn't have any voice on earth, but ours. How many knows that? You mean some of you don't know that? Sure, you do. What'd He say? "I am the Vine, ye are the" (what?) " branches." The vine doesn't bear fruit. It energizes the branches. The branches bears fruit. How many knows that? Saint John 15. "I am the vine, ye are the branches." That makes..., see. We lay our hands on the sick. He uses our eyes to see visions. He uses our lips to speak. He uses us to pack the Gospel, see. It's given unto His church. And He is in His church, manifesting Himself. And the people can see Him as He works in His church.
Now, as I look down this line of people, are you all strangers to me? Raise up your hand if I don't know you. Just raise up your hands, all along the line, everywhere. All right. How many out there knows that I don't know you? Raise up your hands. You know that I don't know nothing about you, or anything. Just raise up your hand, if you will. All right. Now, I don't know a bit more about you than nothing. But there's one thing sure: Christ knows every one of you. Is that right? He knows every one of you.

45 Then if you'll look this way and pray, and say, "God, I believe Jesus Christ. I believe. Although I might not understand it, but tonight I'm going to set my faith to believe it. And I'm going to say, 'Lord, I'm just going to put this before You. You said, "Prove Me," saith God, "if I will not open the windows of heaven."'"
Now, you be sincere, and don't just make-believe, but really believe with your heart. And say, "Now, I'm not in the prayer line..." You might be it in a little while. But if you haven't got a prayer card, say, "Lord, let Him turn around, and You use his voice to speak to me, and I'll believe with all my heart." Would you put that challenge before God, and just see what God would do? He will do it, friends, as certain as I'm standing here, 'cause He promised He would. He's the same yesterday, today, and forever. All right.

46 Brother Sothmann, if you will. Now, if the pianist, if you will, sister, just real quietly, "Only Believe." Now, just get ourselves quiet just a little bit. Everyone just remain in your seat where you are. Keep real quiet, and believe with all your heart now.
Now, just imagine, coming from the corridors of Glory, coming down (where?) to fulfill His Word: "Wherever two or three are gathered in My name, I will be in their midst." To fulfill this Scripture, "Jesus Christ, the same yesterday, today, and forever." "I will..." "I," personal pronoun, as I've said, "will be in their midst. They'll agree, and ask anything in My name, I will do it." Now, isn't that wonderful?

47 Now, here is a lady standing here before me, which is a total stranger. I never seen the woman in my life; I don't know her. And I guess she doesn't know me, 'less it just be through magazines or something. But we don't know one another. If that's right, raise up your hand. We are totally... [The Sister speaks to Brother Branham.] Pardon me? She was in my meeting, many years ago. Was that in the States or in Canada? In Canada, in Winnipeg. Well, that was about ten years ago then, eleven. Yeah. All right. You was probably very young then. So, so then I don't know the woman, never seen her.
Now, the woman may be a Christian; she may not. She may be sick; she may not. She may be up there just to deceive; she may not. I don't know. No more than He would know how Nathanael said to Philip ... or, to Philip ... or, Nathanael said to Christ, rather, "When did You know me, Rabbi?"
Now, this would settle it. Now, this woman, I never saw in my life. And she saw me ten years ago, sitting at the Winnipeg meeting. If anybody was there, know what it was; it was packed out the doors and everywhere... With Brother Small, I believe it was, Frank Small, I believe that... Might be here tonight, for all I know. The brother, I haven't seen him for years. And here is our time ... first time of meeting on earth. But God knows the woman. Now, if the Lord...

48 Here is the perfect scene of Saint John the fourth chapter, in your Bible. Read it when you get home. Jesus had need to go up to Samaria. And while He sat down by the well, and sent His disciples away, I imagine a beautiful woman, also, came out to the well. And she was a Samaritan, and she went to draw water. She started away. And Jesus told her, said, "Bring Me a drink." How many knows that? And what did He do then? He caught a conversation with her, to pack, this conversation. And He said, "Bring Me a drink."
She said, "The well is deep, and you have nothing to draw with. It's not customary for you Jews to ask Samaritans such. We have no dealings with one another."
He said, "But if you knew who you were speaking to, you'd ask Me for water, and I'd give you water you don't come to draw." What was He doing? He was contacting her spirit. He just seen the woman stand there, so He talked to her.
And she said, "The well is deep, and You have nothing to draw with," and on like that. Finally, they got talking about worshipping on the mountain, and one at Jerusalem.
And Jesus told her, after a while, when He found where her trouble was. He said, "Go get your husband and come here."
She said, "I don't have any husband."
He said, "That's right; you got five, and the one you've got now is not your husband." How many knows that's the Scripture? Now watch what that Samaritan said.

49 Now, I'm going to tie two Scriptures together now. What did Nathanael say as soon as Jesus told Nathanael where he was, and he was an honest man? What did he say? "Rabbi, Thou art the Son of God. Thou art the King of Israel." How many knows that Saint John says that in the first chapter? All right. That's what that Jew thought when he seen that sign done; Jesus seeing him before he come to the meeting.
And then when this Samaritan woman come to Jesus, Jesus said to her ... talked to her a little bit and told her where her trouble was. And she said, "Sir, I perceive that Thou art a (what?) prophet. We know, we Samaritans, we know that when the Messiah cometh..." (You believe Jesus was the Messiah?) " When Messiah cometh, He will do these things. He will tell us all things." But she couldn't understand who He was.
He said, "I am He that speaks to you."
And upon that, she left the water pot and said, "Come, see a man that told me the things I done. Isn't this the very Messiah?"
If that was the sign of Messiah in that day, it's the sign of the Messiah today. How many would believe that? Now, here it is. Now, take all your denominational isms out now, just look at the truth in the Word, if He's raised from the dead.

50 Now, here is a man and woman, both of us standing here, first time meeting. Now, just to talk to you, lady, just a second, 'cause you being the first one here. And now, you say you was at my meeting at Winnipeg. Well, that's mighty fine. That's about ten years ago. The woman is a Christian, exactly, because her spirit is welcome. You're a believer; that's right. Long time. And not only that, but you're something to do in a church. You're a preacher's wife. That's exactly right. And you're suffering with... It's in the breast, the tumor in the breast. It's correct. And you're not from this city; neither are you from Winnipeg. I see the West Coast, and a big city where there's a big park, around Vancouver. That's where it is. That's exactly right. Now, is that the truth? You believe Jesus heals you now?
Almighty God, in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, I bless this woman and ask for her healing in Christ's name. Amen.
God bless you, now, sister. Don't doubt. Go on your road and rejoice, and be happy. Amen.

51 Do you believe? Now, the only way I know what was said, it's on the recording there, see. I pick it up. Whatever was said was the truth. All right. Now, be real reverent, just as reverent as you can be. And now, watch this away. Believe with all your heart now. Just look, and believe that He's raised from the dead.
Now, you say, "Could He heal me now?" He has healed you. This is the sign that He has already done it. It's in the past. Now, the Lord knows that, whether it's true or not. Now, the Bible speaks it to be true.
Now you look this way, and just start believing, saying, "Lord, I now believe with all my heart." Now, is...
You're the next man. [The brother says, "I'm the husband of that woman. I can vouch that that was all true."] You're the husband of the woman. ["That's right."] And you can vouch that it's the truth. ["Yes, I'm the pastor at the West Coast, in Port Moody."] Yes, sir. ["People can hear me. Just as you said. And I'm a perfect stranger to you. And you told my wife the truth."] Can you hear that? All right.

52 Now, my friend, you're here, my brother; and you're for something, too. Now, may the Lord Jesus help me to understand. Now, if it's healing you need, I'd be glad to do it if I could, but I'm not the healer. Christ is the healer who has already done it. And if it's for financial troubles, He has the cattle on a thousand hills. If it's for domestic, whatever it is, He knows and can take care of it. Only, I don't know. You know that. I'm a stranger to you. I'm a stranger. All right. May the Lord have mercy and help me.
Yes, I see the woman standing by your side. That's right. She is your wife. And you are here for me to pray for you, for something wrong with your shoulder. And that was caused by an accident, a motorcycle, that you had an accident. And the shoulder never went back to its place just right, till then. It's over now, and you can go on your road, rejoicing, and be well. God bless you. Amen. It's all over.

53 Do you believe with all your heart? See how simple it is? Just have faith. Now, what is it? I never seen those people. I have nothing to do with their healing. Christ made them well. I believe the man said something about Moody, or Moody church, or something. Moody church, is that right? Port Moody church. All right. The Lord bless.
Now, all right. [A brother says, "Brother Branham, this woman, this lady can't come up the steps."] This lady right here, the next one. All right, you don't have to come up here, lady. Do you believe me to be God's servant? You believe Jesus Christ to be the Son of God? If God, (and us standing many feet apart), will reveal to me what's your trouble... I couldn't heal you. But your trouble, that's up... God can do that. If He can reveal it, you'll accept your healing. Will you do that? All right, you look at me, then, just a moment. Just believe with all your heart, that Jesus Christ is the Son of God, and I be His prophet ... or, His servant.
Now, if the audience can still hear my voice; I see the woman going. She is very nervous about something. Her nerves are torn to pieces. I see her going into a room, a little room. It's a bathroom. And there she fell upon her chest. And she bruised her chest, about a year ago. And she's never went to a doctor to see about it. She has trusted God. And that is the truth. Is that right, lady? [The sister says, "Yes."] All right. Go to your seat and be well, then, in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ. God bless you now. Don't doubt no more, and go on your road and be well. Amen.

54 You believe with all your heart? I ask you out there in the audience. I challenge your faith to look this way and believe. Just believe that Jesus Christ has raised from the dead, and I'm His servant standing here. Not Him; I'm just His servant, His witness. All right.
Lady, we're strangers to each other. I don't know you.
Now, something happened in the audience. Somebody believed, somewhere. It's a lady sitting, looking over another lady's shoulder, right here. She suffers with headaches. A little lady, kind of black-headed. She was looking this a way, praying. She said, "Lord, have him to call me." You been having headaches; tremendous headaches. That's right. Raise up your hand; sitting right here. All right. It's over now. You can go on your road and rejoice, and be made well, in Christ's name.
The lady sitting behind you, kind of raised her hands because she's had arthritis, and she's been wanting to be healed of that. That's right, isn't it, lady? That's right.
See, you couldn't hide your life if you had to. None of you could! Amen. Oh, I'm happy that He's raised from the dead; Jesus Christ, the same yesterday, today, and forever.

55 Now, lady, you're not here for yourself. It's for your son. And he is mentally... That's right, a mental condition. I see him raising, walking. You believe, do you, sister, that God will heal the boy? [The sister says, "I believe it."] Let us pray. Blessed heavenly Father, we ask that the devil will leave the boy, and may the boy be healed. O eternal, blessed Father, we ask it in the name of Thy Son, the Lord Jesus, who died, these things to be made true. Amen.
God bless you, my sister. Go and find it, just the way that you have believed.
Now, have faith. Don't doubt. Just believe with all your heart. Something taking place just then. Well, now be real reverent. Blessed be the Lord. Let's be... Just everyone be reverent, real reverent. Just pray now.

56 How do you do, lady? Is this the next lady in line? I guess we're strangers to one another. I've never seen you. Oh, His blessed presence. How that we don't have to guess anymore! Heaven is real. Christ is real. He's alive tonight. Now, be real reverent. Look and believe. Now, lady, I suppose that this is our first time meeting. We're strangers to each other. I don't know you, never seen you. We were born, perhaps, miles apart and years apart. We just meet the first time. That's right. But God does know you. If God will reveal to me what you're here for, will you believe Him with all your heart? Will the audience do the same thing, with all your hearts?
You're here for growths that's on your nose. That's what you want me to pray for. That's right. That growth. Now, that is true. Now, of course, the growth is visible, but that's what the lady wants me to pray for.

57 Now, look. See, it takes the strength from you, so much. How many knows what visions does to you, you know what the Bible said? My, it's... One made the Lord Jesus say that He got weak, virtue went from Him, what do you think a sinner like me would be when it happened? Now, if you just... More I talk to the woman, more will be told.
Let's take the lady for a minute. She is an elderly lady. Let's just ask, just talk to her a little bit, and see just what the Lord would say. Now, whatever it was. What was it, the growth on your nose. All right. Now, you just look this way and believe with all your heart.

58 Yes, I see it moved right back again. Looks like they keep coming. There is more than one. No, it comes and then goes away. It falls off and then comes back somewhere else. You got one now on your chest. That's right. That's true. You believe the Lord will heal you of it?
You're not from this country, from this city. You come from somewhere else. You come from the west, coming east. You're from Alberta. Edmonton, Alberta. Your name is Pearl. L-e-n-n-o-x, Lennox. Miss Pearl Lennox, from Edmonton. That's right. That's exactly true. Your life cannot be hid. Now if you'll go, believe with all your heart, you get well. You believe it? Then go on your road and rejoice. And I bless thee, my sister, in Christ's name. Amen.

59 You believe? You believe God can heal heart trouble, make you well? Then just go rejoicing, saying, "Thank You, Lord Jesus, for healing me of the heart trouble." All right. All right.
Can't hardly get up at morning, can you? If you'll believe with all your heart, the thing will leave you, go away, and be made well. You believe with all your heart? [The sister says, "I believe."] All right, go, rejoice, and be made well in Christ's name. The Bible said, "If thou canst believe!"
Now, be real reverent. Don't move, you see. Just a moment and I'll go, if you'll just sit still just a moment. See, everybody is a spirit and when you move, that interrupts. You say, "Brother Branham, is that psychology?" If it is, Christ used it. He put everybody out of the house, to heal Jairus' daughter; and led a man outside the city, out of the crowd. How many knows that to be so? And be real reverent. If you'll sit still, just a moment or two longer. All right. All right.
When I mentioned heart trouble, a few minutes ago, had a funny feeling (you were) at the same time. Now, if you go, believe with all your heart, you won't have to fool with it no more, and be well. You believe with all your heart, be made well. All right.
Come now, lady. Without an operation, God can take a tumor, make you absolutely well. You believe He will do it? [The sister says, "Yes."] All right, if you'll believe it, the tumor will leave you. Will you raise your hands, say, "I now accept Christ."? In Christ's name, may it be so. Amen. May the Lord grant it!
Would you like to eat again like you used to? Get rid of that old peptic condition, ulcer in the stomach, and things, make your ... be well? Would you like to? Yeah? You will? You accept Christ as your healer? Then go on your road and be well, in Christ's name.

60 Let's say, "Praise the Lord!"
Insulin is a good thing for diabetes, but a transfusion from Calvary is better. You believe God will give you the transfusion tonight? All right. Go on your road, and rejoice and be happy, and bless the Lord.
Let's say, "Praise the Lord!" Everybody.
Now, just a moment. There's a lady, praying. She is dark-headed, wearing glasses. She is sitting right in front of me, right straight where that lady ... right behind her. If you can believe for that throat condition, Jesus Christ make you well. If you can believe it, God will heal you and make you well. Do you believe it with all your heart? You accept it with all your heart? If you do, raise up your hand, like this, and say, "Praise the Lord!" Little lady with her... That's right. All right. Go and be made well.
Let's say, "Praise be to God!"
You believe with all your heart, lady? What if I told you you was healed, standing there, would you believe it? [The sister says, "Yes."] Now, go on your road and rejoice, and be made well in the name of the Lord Jesus.
Them tired feelings; late in the evening, getting weak, speaks one thing. But what was the first thing Christ healed was TB? Make well; do you believe that Christ will make you well, and heal you? Come here, just a minute.
O eternal God, I bless this woman for her healing. And may she be made well, through Jesus Christ, God's Son. Amen.
God bless you, lady. Have faith now, and go, believing.

61 Would you come, lady? You believe with all your heart? You're a great, deep thinker; worrier, too. Always crossing bridges before you get to it, like that. And thinking that, and studying all the time, and planning things that never happen. It's caused you to have stomach trouble. That's right. That's what your trouble is, stomach trouble. That's right. Now go, and believe with all your heart, and quit studying and thinking. The price is done paid, and Christ healed you. Go, believe it, and get well. And eat your supper; feel good. God bless you.
Do you believe with all your heart?
What about you, lady. Do you believe? [The sister says, "Yes, I do."] The Bible said, "If thou canst believe!"
The young lady sitting back there with a purple hat on, looking this way towards me, way back. You got varicose veins, don't you, lady? And you also, I see you got pains in your legs, have pains in your legs. Second person sitting in, right back there. That's right. You have a rectal trouble, which is piles, that cause you trouble. Got teeth trouble, with your teeth, also. Stand up, lady, so that the people see who... No; right here she is, right here. All right, lady. Raise your hand again. Right. The little lady that just raised up. There is where that light is a hanging. Yes, the lady with her hand up. All right. Go home and be made well, if you believe with all your heart. Amen.

62 Respond quickly, while I'm watching a light. How many ever seen the picture of that light? They've already got it in Wa... Have you ever seen it? We've got some here. I guess the boys want to give them out. And it's right out over you right now. If you can just believe!
Now you, lady, are you the last one in the line? All right. Do you believe with all your heart? [The sister says, "Yes, I do."] I don't know you, never seen you. Christ knows you. Do you believe that He will grant... If He will tell me what you're here for, will you believe that it's Him speaking through me? Because, you know I don't know you. You'll believe it? Will the audience believe with all their heart? Now, there's a doctor connected into it. Something about an operation. You had an operation, and the operation hasn't healed up right. And you've been going back to a doctor, and adhesions has set in, some kind of... It's adhesions, growth, and he wants to cut them out. That's the truth. Is that right? ["Yes, that's right."] All right. You believe with all your heart? ["Yes, I do."] Then go, and may God make you well, in Jesus' name. Amen. ["Yes, I do."]

63 You believing? What do you think about it, sitting there, this man right behind there, an elderly-like man sitting there, glasses on. You're suffering with your throat. That's strange, isn't it? Your wife is sitting next to you. That's your wife. If I tell you what's wrong with your wife, will you believe me to be God's prophet? Will you accept your healing? Your wife don't understand what's wrong with her. Her hands goes numb, gets numb. That's right. It's poor circulation. That's all. Is that right, lady? Raise up your hand if that's right. They won't be numb anymore, now. You've believed on the Lord.
How many believes with all your heart, out there, that right now Jesus Christ is in the midst of us?
Now lay your hands over on each other. Just put your hands on each other, while we pray. With your heads bowed, I want to ask you something: Could you doubt any farther?
Yeah, I see a little lady sitting back here, had female trouble, sitting here. She believed, when she bowed her head. That's good, sister. It's over now.
Now, if you'd just believe... See, He is perfect. He doesn't fail. Now, the resurrected Lord Jesus, that's the same yesterday, today and forever, is right here in this building right now. He is right where you are. He loves you. He wants to make you well. Now, if you'll believe with all your heart, God will hear my prayer from right here; not only hear my prayer, but He will hear your prayer, your prayer. Pray one for the other, and as you got your hands on each other.

64 And I know, people, you're like myself. You're a poor people. You don't have very much of this world's goods. But there's one thing you do have: you have the privilege, tonight, to have Christ by you. And I'd rather have that than all of the money the world ever did have or ever would have: to know that I'm standing here now in the Presence of the Lord Jesus, the Redeemer, and His loving grace has reached out to us.
Here He is, standing here tonight, doing the same things that He did when He was here on earth, working through you and through me. Well, if He just worked through me and didn't through you, it would never work. It's your faith that does that. You people up here with your prayer cards, in the line; you out there without prayer cards; you sitting in the audience; why, it's Jesus Christ. It's your faith that's a doing it. I don't know you, never seen you. And your healing is already done. You're already healed. Christ healed you back yonder. The only thing that keeps you from receiving your healing right now, is because of unbelief. Let's pray that God will take it away from you now. I'm not praying for your healing; I'm praying for unbelief to leave you, so that you will receive it.
Let us pray.

65 Blessed heavenly Father, Thou looks down upon this meeting. You seen those hands go up, a while ago, for salvation. And now those eight or ten people that raised their hands, now can rejoice because that Jesus has proven to be alive. And just as He is alive, their salvation is perfect by Him. "He that heareth My Word and believeth on Him that sent Me, has everlasting life; and shall never come to the judgment, but is passed from death unto life." "He that eateth My flesh and drinketh My blood, has everlasting life, and I will raise him up at the last days," saith the Lord Jesus.
And here they stand tonight, in this audience, the presence of God here. Even a little handful of people in this arena, but yet You've come from Glory, to manifest Yourself. You come all the way across a stormy ocean one night, to heal one maniac over in Gadara, returned back without a revival in that country. O God, You'll come any time or any place that people will call on You. You went plumb down to the belly of the whale in the bottom of the ocean, to deliver Jonah, when he turned himself over and begin to pray. You went into the lions' den with Daniel; into the fiery furnace with the Hebrew children. You're in Saskatoon tonight, in this meeting, the same Jesus; the fourth man of the fiery furnace; the Angel who was with Daniel; the Spirit of God with Jonah in the belly of the whale. You're here tonight.

66 You're looking at these hands as they're laying upon each other. They're poor Canadian people, Lord, whose harvested and worked and struggled, and many of them stricken and downed by the devil. And I ask tonight that the power of Satan will turn them loose. I resent Satan and his achievement. I resent it, because he's nothing but a bluff. Christ died at Calvary, to liberate us from the things of the world, and to heal our sicknesses. And we take that stand tonight, by His blessed Presence to prove that He's here. And may he let these people go. And from this very hour, may they start mending and getting well; coming back to the meeting, testifying, giving God glory. We ask him to leave, in Jesus Christ's name. And may God receive the glory. Amen.

67 Now, every person in here, under the sound of my voice, that believes that Jesus Christ makes you well, raise your hand and say, "Praise the Lord!" Amen. All right. Will you stand to your feet, then, just for a moment? You know that old song, "Take The Name Of Jesus With You?" How many knows that grand old hymn, "Take The Name Of Jesus With You"? Raise your hand. Let's sing it through a couple times, a couple stanzas. All together now.
Take the Name of Jesus with you;
Child of sorrow and of woe;
It will joy and comfort give you,
Take it, everywhere you go.
Precious Name, oh how sweet!
Hope of earth and joy of heaven;
Precious Name, O how sweet!
Hope of earth and joy of heaven.

68 I want to ask you a question. How many Baptists are here? Raise your hands, that was Baptist? Raise your hands up. God bless you, you, and you, and you. Fine. How many Methodists? Raise your hand. How many Pilgrim Holiness? Raise your hand. Fine. Nazarenes, raise your hands. That's good. Pentecostals, raise your hands. Presbyterian, raise your hands. All right. Now while we sing the second verse:
At the name of Jesus bowing,
Falling prostrate at His feet;
King of kings in heaven we'll crown Him,
When our journey is complete.
Don't leave the building. Turn right around and shake hands with each other now. Come on, now.
At the Name of Jesus bow...
(Turn right around now and shake hands.)
Falling prostrate at His feet,
King of kings in heaven we'll crown Him,
When our journey is complete.
Precious Name, O how sweet!
Hope of earth and joy of heaven;
Precious Name, O how sweet!
Hope of earth and joy of heaven.

69 Oh, isn't this wonderful? How many loves the old-fashioned meetings? Let's see your hands. Oh, isn't it wonderful? Sure, it is. Now, you see how, when that Spirit comes on, anointing, then when it goes off? It just like a ... just like a wave comes on, and you're just anointed; then it just goes away, the same way. Just get to singing or something, and it leaves, right away. All right. While we bow our heads...
Remember tomorrow night at seven o'clock, the fast time, that they'll be here to... Is that right? To give the prayer cards. Eight o'clock, at the fast time, we will start the service. Tell somebody! Get on the phone. Tell your pastor. Come on out now.
While we bow our heads, I'm going to ask my good friend, the Reverend Mr. Rasmussen, from Tacoma, Washington, if he will dismiss us in a word of prayer. God bless you, Brother Rasmussen, while we bow our heads. All right.

We would see Jesus

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1 Thank you. Remain standing just a moment now for prayer. Dear God, we have assembled here tonight for no other purpose but to learn of Thee and of Thy goodness to the children of men. And we would ask You to visit us tonight, with a great outpouring of Thy presence. Give unto us, Lord, the desire of our hungry hearts, for it's truly ... that's what we hunger for, is to know Him. And to know Him is life. And oh, what is greater tonight than life? So we would ask You to give us the abundance of life tonight.

2 And Lord, in doing so, if there would be some here who does not know Thee, and has not yet received everlasting life, may this be the night that they'll say that one eternal, "Yes," to the Almighty God.
We would ask You also, Lord, to not forget those who are sick and afflicted and so needy: the dumb, and the blind, and the deaf, and the cancer-ridden, and all manner of sickness. Thou art just the same today as You was yesterday, and shall forever be the same. So help us tonight to enjoy this full fellowship of the presence of the Son of God. For we ask it in His name. Amen.
The Lord bless you, and you may be seated.

3 I deem this a great privilege tonight to be back here in this great city of New York, in the service of the Lord God. It's been some time since I've had this great privilege. And usually when we come, we are on our road overseas. But tonight we're just leaving tomorrow for the neighboring city. And we are trusting that God will meet with us over there also.
Sometime ago, I was asked by our dear friend, Brother Sweet, when I was over in Brooklyn, if I would visit the city or the New England states, for it was on his heart that ... believing that the New England states had been greatly neglected in these type of meetings, such as the meetings of divine healing, and praying for the sick.
And it's always a privilege to get to serve those who are neglected. And we're going now, all through the New England states, this coming thirty days, a full thirty days of service. I believe there's two days, or maybe three, that I will not be preaching.
Then we return back to Dallas, Texas. And then over to the International Fellowship of the Independent Ministerial Association in Greeneville, South Carolina. And then back up to the New England states again for the Full Gospel Businessmen's International Convention.
Then from there we go to Durban, South Africa. Perhaps, back to Germany and some of the places as we can get staged.

4 So, they have taken much time tonight, because of being the first night. There's always just a little miscellaneous that they can't get to right quick. So, it's usually late then, when we get started.
But I'm sure the Lord will bless us if we just don't be nervous. Just... We want to think that maybe it will be our time tonight to receive that great blessing that we've looked forward to for so long. I'm sure that every hungry heart here, is desiring something from our Lord. And He's just good to come and do it for us tonight. And we love Him for that, and we're here, myself, under great expectations for God to do something for us tonight.
And I won't speak to you very long. I just wish to read some of His Word. I love His Word. I'm sure you do too.

5 Now, this place, I suppose, is used for many things here in this great city. It could, perhaps, be used for dances and whatmore, but tonight we have dedicated this place for one purpose: that's for the meeting place of the children of God.
Then the church is in this building. The church is not a building anyhow; it's a people, a called out. The word church, means "called out." And so, we are the people of God, by the grace of God, the called out, tonight, that's assembled ourselves together in this place.
So I wish to read from Saint John the twelfth chapter, the twentieth verse, just a little portion of the Scripture. Two verses.
And there were certain Greeks among them, which came up to the worship at the feast.
The same came therefore to Philip, which was of Bethesda of Galilee, and desired him, saying, Sir, we would see Jesus.
And in Hebrews the 13th chapter, the 8th verse, it says,
Jesus Christ is the same yesterday ... to-day, and forever.

6 This is rather an unusual Scripture reading for a Gospel meeting, yet, it is part of God's eternal, sacred Word. And it just coincides with all the rest of the Word of God. There's no Scripture but what links itself together with Scripture. Jesus said, "The Scripture cannot be broken." Therefore, unusual, because it is a Word that was written in the first century, and this being the 20th century, it would certainly seem unusual.
Jesus is unusual to begin with, because He is unusual to the world, but not to His own. His acts and the things that He does ever remains, because He is God.

7 Now this Scripture tonight teaches that Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever. I wonder if we would believe that with all of our hearts. It's got to be true. If it isn't true, then there's no other Scripture true, because they cannot be broken, and they're the words of the eternal God.
And these hungry Greeks who came to ask the question to Philip, I believe their desires is no more than our desires tonight. Every man that's ever heard of Jesus, that could find a place in his heart or her heart to worship Him and to love Him, desires to see Him.
And the Scripture says that He is the same as He was yesterday. Then it would not be an unusual thing if God would manifest Himself to us tonight just as He did in His Son, Christ Jesus, for we truly believe that He is not dead, He is living. If He is dead, our religion is in vain.

8 And I think that a great deal of trouble tonight, because that Mohammedanism, and Buddhism, and many of the isms of the world is predominate over Christianity, is because the weakness of the members of the body. I don't think that's to be blamed so much on the laity as it is upon the ministers.
Sometime ago, it was said that a young Mohammedan was asking the question ... or, he was asked why didn't he receive Christ as his Saviour instead of his dead prophet? And the young Mohammedan said, "Sir, what could your Christ do for me any more than my Mohammed?"
He said, "Well (the Christian said), our Christ can give you joy and peace, because He is risen from the dead."
And the Mohammedan said, "Mohammed gives me joy and peace, and he's not risen from the dead." And he said, "I do not believe that your Christ has raised from the dead," said the Mohammedan to the Christian.
And the Christian said, "We know that He has risen from the dead, because He lives."
And the Mohammedan said, "Where is He at?"
And the Christian said, "In my heart," and that's good.
But the Mohammedan come back with this and said, "Mohammed lives in my heart." And he said, "Mister, Mohammedanism can produce just as much psychology as Christianity can." And he said, "We're just as happy believing that Mohammed will raise from the dead and conquer the world as you are believing that Christ will come to the earth again."

9 You see, there is a depth to things. And the Mohammedan was correctly right. And the Christian knew that he had not met a man that had just simply---what we would express down in the South---"an overnight man." We have taught Christianity in the line of psychology, many of us. And we've taught it in the line of some theology of our churches and our denominations.
But let me say this: Christianity goes a million miles beyond that. Christianity is presenting a living and a present day Jesus, just the same as He was then, or the Scriptures are wrong. We must face the fact that Christ said these things.

10 And the Mohammedan said to the Christian, "We are waiting for the time for you teachers to produce what He said you would."
And he said, "What do you mean? The promises of, like, Mark 16?"
He said, "That's one of them."
He said, "Well, we learned (the teacher did)," said, "that we learned that Mark 16 from the 9th verse on, is not inspired."
And the Mohammedan come back with this. He said, "What kind of a book are you reading? If part of it is inspired and the rest of it is not inspired, how do you know what part really is inspired?" He said, "All of the Koran is inspired." That's the Mohammedan Bible. And he said, "Mohammed only promised life after death, but your Christ promised that the things that He did, you'd do also, and we're waiting to see that produced, then we will believe." The Christian was defeated. Certainly.

11 What we lack today, when Christ gave this commission to go into all the world---not to make churches, or to build buildings or to make schools (which are all right), but He said, "Preach the Gospel." And the Gospel is not building buildings, or sending people to school, but it's the power and demonstration of the Holy Spirit. Then He said, "These signs shall follow them that believe."
And in the weakness of our theology, we've bypassed that and excused it to another day. But the Bible still remains, that Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever.
Then if He is the same, He has to be the same in principle and power. He has to be the same as He was: only one difference, a corporal body.
But before He left the earth He said, "I am the vine; ye are the branches." Now, the vine does not bear fruit. The branch bears fruit, not the vine. So He left in charge of His church, this great commission to bear the same fruit that He bore when He was here on earth.

12 If you would go to a grape vine, you'd expect to get grapes. If you went to a watermelon vine, you would receive watermelons, if it's a good fertile vine. If you went to a pumpkin vine, you would receive pumpkins.
But when we come to the vine of God's heritage, what do we find but fusses, and troubles, and barriers and all kinds of little isms and not the Spirit of God moving in the church as it should be. And yet, it's the vine of God.
What the palmerworm has left, the caterpillar has eaten. But God said, "I will restore, saith the Lord." That's the glorious promise that we wait for.

13 Now, this Greek said, "We would see Jesus. Not so much as we would hear Him, but we would just love to see Him." I just wonder if that wouldn't be the feeling tonight, of every person here, to see Jesus? Then how could we see Him? In His church, in His people: we are written epistles. The Spirit of Christ lives in His people and produces His life. And His ministry continues to go on until He comes again. And He is here. It's the blindness of our eyes, the reason we don't see Him. If we could just open our eyes to things that are real.
I live on the river (what time I'm home in Indiana); I live by the Ohio River. Sometime ago, a little boy had went to Sunday school in my city. He went up the river with an old fisherman. And he was a discouraged little boy, because he had asked his mommy one day, he said, "Mommy, God is so great, could anybody see Him?"
And she said, "Now, I don't know. You ask the pastor; he's coming home with us for dinner, Sunday."
And he said to the pastor, "Could anyone see God, sir?"
"Why," he said, "certainly not, son. No one can see God."
And he asked his Sunday school teacher and she said, "Why, certainly not. No one can see God."
But the little fellow with his enthusiasm thought, "Well, if He is so great, why can He not be seen?"

14 And up on the river one day, with the old fisherman, there'd come up a storm. And on the road back the old fisherman was pulling his boat, and the little lad was sitting in the stern of the boat. And the rainbow came out after the storm. And the old fisherman, with his gray beard, begin weeping as he looked at the rainbow. And the great bright tears begin to run down his white beard. It enthused the little lad until he ran up into the middle of the boat and fell down at the lap of the old fisherman. And he said, "Sir, I want to ask you a question that my mommy, or Sunday school teacher, or pastor could not answer me. Can anyone see God?"
And it was so much for the old man, he pulled his oars into his lap, and threw his arms around the little lad, and he said, "God bless your little heart. All I've seen for the past forty years has been God." When God gets on the inside, you can see Him; but you can't see Him until He gets inside to look through your eyes.

15 A few weeks ago in our great city of Louisville, Kentucky, there was a noticeable sight of a woman. She had a little boy in her arms, of about six or seven years old. And she was in one of the great ten cent stores. And they noticed her going from counter to counter, picking up little gadgets and holding it before the little boy. And she would go to another counter, and pick up a different little gadget and hold it up to the little boy, and on down along the different counters. And the people begin watching her. And after a while she got to some sort of a little a thing that made a noise and rattled. And she picked it up before the little lad and she rattled it. And she laid it down and fell across the counter, weeping. And some who were around near, came to comfort her. And they said, "Lady, why are you weeping so?"
And she said, "Oh, it's no better."
They said, "What is no better?"
Said, "The little boy." said, "The doctor said he was better, but he is no better, or he could notice some of these things that children ought to notice." His mind was gone.

16 And I just wonder, in this day that we now live, if God isn't taking His child from place to place and manifesting different gifts and so forth before them, and they still sit numb-brained---just so dead in sin and trespasses, until they can't see the glory and the gift of the Lord that He's trying to present before them.
May that be far from this great church tonight that's gathered here. As God reveals Himself, may we be earnest and sincere to see that it is Christ trying to make Himself known to His church, for the salvation of souls, and the healing of the body, and for every redemptive blessing that He died for. All belongs to His church and to every believer.
It would not be fair just to start a meeting upon bare testimony. It is profitable that we should search into the Scriptures for a few moments to find a context of the Scripture to what we are speaking of.

17 Now, we would see what Jesus was and how He made Himself known to people in the days of His walk on earth. Then if He presented Himself in such a way and such a manner in the days of His walk on earth, would not it be logical to think that, if He is the same yesterday, today, and forever, that He would present Himself to His people in the same manner today? It certainly would. Then let us look for a minute and see what He was.
In the book of Saint John, the fifth chapter and the nineteenth verse, we find it reading like this: when He'd been questioned on something that He had did, and why He had left a multitude of people and had healed one man, He answered like this: "Verily, verily, I say unto you, the Son can do nothing in Himself; but what He sees the Father doing, that doeth the Son likewise." If that was His answer yesterday, that would be His answer today, for He could not change it. To remain the same, He must be the same.
"I do nothing in Myself but what I see the Father doing." And God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself. God had confined Himself to one body; that was His Son. Through the death of His Son, brought God to the entire church, universal. Through the sanctifying power of the Holy Spirit, through the blood of Christ, cleanses mortal man and makes them---not in themselves, but by the grace of God through His grace---makes them subjects of the Holy Spirit, that He talks and walks and preaches and acts through His church, His vine ... or, His branches that's connected in Him.

18 He said, "It's not Me that doeth the works. It's My Father that dwelleth in Me; He doeth the works. I do nothing Myself, but what He tells Me to do ... or, shows Me to do---shows Me to do." So Jesus must have (no other way to make that Scripture right), then Jesus had to see visions of what the Father's will was to do, then He went and done it. If you'll read the preceding context of that, you'll find that it's true, for He could not have passed great multitudes of lame, blind, halt, and withered, and went to one man laying on a pallet and healed him---for He knew he'd been in that condition for many years.
Now, we find out then, that He just walked as the Father guided and directed Him.
Oh, would it not be a glorious thing tonight, if this entire church could have that testimony: "I always do that which is pleasing to the Father"? Would not that thrill the heart of His church to have that testimony? There would be a translation like Enoch's time. And it'll have to be that near His coming.

19 Now, let us turn to the first chapter of Saint John, and just preview what He was yesterday. Then we will have some general idea of what He would be today. In the first chapter of Saint John, after the Father had come upon Him in the form of a dove (and Him being the Lamb---for the two natures are exactly the same), the Father represented Himself as a bird; He represented His Son as a lamb.
The dove is the gentlest thing of heaven. And the lamb is the gentlest beast on earth. They had to be the same. If the dove would've flew on a wolf, the wolf would've snorted and the dove would have taken his flight. And that's the way today, that we find ourselves---with all of our tempers and our fussings. The Holy Spirit is gentle. It will only dwell in a gentle place: Lamb led by a dove...

20 And His ministry started. And one of the first things we find, that there was one by the name of Andrew who got converted to Christian religion. And quickly he goes and gets his brother. And his brother's name was Simon. And as soon as Simon came into the presence of the Lord Jesus, we hear the Scripture (Saint John 1) say, that Jesus said, "Your name is Simon, but I'm going to change it and call you Peter." And He said, "Your father's name is Jonas."
What do you think took place in the heart of that illiterate fisherman? The Bible said he was ignorant and unlearned. Jesus didn't say, "You need a seminary experience," or "You need to know all the religious prayers." He just performed a miracle that set that apostle's heart on fire. "Your name is Simon, but thou shalt be called Peter, a little stone. And you are the son of Jonas." And it thrilled him.

21 And then there was another who came, by the name of Philip, that we have just read about. And as soon as he found this great fountain, he could not keep it to himself. And if the church truly found the fountain, there's something about Jesus, when you find Him, you have to tell others. That's how the good news spreads.
And he had a friend that lived some fifteen miles around the mountain. And he took off speedily to find this friend. And when he come to him, perhaps he was under a tree, praying. The Bible said he was under a tree. And Philip waited, of course, being a Christian gentleman, until he had finished praying. Then I could see Nathanael rise up, and brush the dust from his clothes, and greet his friend. And before he could say, "Good morning, or good afternoon, Nathanael." Said, "Oh, come, see who we have found." Oh, there's something about Him that when you find Him, your soul is thrilled and that's the first thing in your mind: "Oh, come, see who we have found, Jesus of Nazareth, the Son of Joseph."

22 And of course this orthodox believer said ... now, I can just hear him say, "Now, just a minute, here, Philip. You must've went off on the deep end. You've come here telling me in such a time as this, that the Messiah has come? And you mean to tell me that He would come out of Nazareth, that wicked little city? If He come, He'd have to come from Jerusalem or some great cathedral, and all the great religious leaders would know about it."
But God does things so peculiar. He just does it in His own blessed way. I'm so glad of that. "Surely He would be at the Vatican, or He would be at the Westminster Abbey, or somewhere, if He comes." But God comes wherever it pleases Him to come. He does things in His own blessed way.
And he said, "Now, just a minute, Philip. I've known you to be an honest man in our dealings, and now you mean to tell me that you've come here with some sort of a enthusiastic expression to say to me, that you've found the Messiah, and He comes from this type of people?"
And I think that Philip give him the best answer that any man could. He said, "Come and see." Now, don't stay home and criticize, and don't take the priest's expression or his thoughts, or take what the pastor said, but come see for yourself,

23 for he had fifteen miles to converse with him.
So, as they went along, I can imagine hearing Philip quote to him the things that our Lord had did about... Said, "You remember that old fisherman down there, that day when you bought those fish, and he couldn't sign the receipt for the fish?"
"Yes."
"When he came up in front of this Nazarene, He told him who he was and told him who his father was." Oh, I can hear him say, "It wouldn't surprise me if He didn't know who you were."
"Now, just a minute," says Nathanael. "I will draw my own conclusions when I get there." And as they went along the road, they came to the meeting that evening where Jesus was at.
And when they walked up into His presence, the eye of the Master looked out and caught him. And He said to him, "Behold, an Israelite in whom there is no guile."

24 Now, it might seem just a little thing for us to think on that, but did you know in that day, all people dressed alike and they looked alike. He could've been a Arab, or he could have been a Greek, or of many other of the people of that day of the Orient. They were dark people, and they all looked about alike and dressed something alike. But Jesus knew he was an Israelite and a honest man.
And it astonished him in such a way, Nathanael, until he said, "Rabbi, whence knowest Thou me?" And he's waiting now, for the answer of Jesus yesterday.
And He said, "Before Philip called you, I saw you under the tree." That was enough.
He said, "Rabbi, Thou art the Son of God. Thou art the King of Israel."
And He said, "Because I said this to you, you believed it?"

25 Now, if that was a sign to the Jews in that day, to mean that He was Messiah, that's the way He made the people to know that He was Messiah---and He hasn't changed a bit---it would have to be the same today if He is the same.
He would be unjust to manifest Himself to us in a way of theology and a way of just keeping a certain declaration of traditions of the elders, and then make Himself known in that way, and then claim that He is the same yesterday, today, and forever. He would have to keep that same thing.

26 There were those who stood by, who did not believe that---and religious, very religious, the cream of the crop, as so to say, as we say it in the south. There were the priests, and the high priest, and the evangelicals, the Orthodox. And they said, "This man has an evil spirit. This man must be a fortuneteller. He must be a Beelzebub, the king and the prince of all the fortunetellers."
And what was the words that come from our Lord? He said, "I forgive you if you speak that word against Me, the Son of man." But in so much like this: "There will come a day when the Holy Ghost will come and will do the same thing, and one word against it will never be forgiven in this world nor in the world that is to come." Then how should we approach the Gospel?

27 Notice, there was one day (And I'm closing), He went, coming from Galilee, he had need to go by Samaria. And while He was weary and tired, he sat down at the well while His disciples went into the city to buy some victuals.
We find that the Orient, the well was just outside the city, usually. And while He was sitting there, weary in His journey, there came a young woman coming out of the city. Let us think that she was an attractive woman. And she let down her pot from off of her head. And they have two large handles and it's very amazing to watch how the women over there can pack water: can set a pot on top of their head, and one on each hip, and carry a conversation, and never spill the water.
But she let this pot down to get the water, and she noticed, sitting back in the corner, a middle aged man which was a Jew. And there was a great law of segregation in the land. And she heard this Jew say to her, "Woman, bring me a drink."
Now, we will see how He manifest Himself before the Samaritans. You know there's only three nationalities of people in the world. They come from Noah's three sons, Ham, Shem, and Japheth: the Jew, the Samaritan, the Gentile.

28 Now, let's see how He manifests Himself to the Samaritans. We see how He did it to the Jew. Let's watch the Samaritan. "Woman bring Me a drink."
And she said, "It's not customary for a Jew to ask a Samaritan such. We don't have any dealings with each other. And this is very unusual. We just don't have this, and we don't have any dealings with each other."
He said, "Woman, if you knew who you were talking to, you would ask Me for a drink." And He was contacting her spirit. And in a little while, after the conversation went at length, He said, "Go get your husband and come here."
She said, "I don't have any husband."
He said, "You have said well. You've had five husbands and the one that you now have, is not your husband; so you said well."
Now, let's see what she says. What if she would have lived in New York, Philadelphia, or had been the members of some of our great churches? "My pastor says this is psychology, or it's telepathy." What did she say? (You know the reason that people would say that? They're not trained in the Word.)

29 But this woman, though we want to believe her to be a prostitute, she'd put some preachers today, to shame on the Word. That's right. She said, "Sir, I perceive that You are a prophet. Now, we know when the Messiah cometh, He will tell us these things. He will tell us all things when He comes. You must be His prophet." And she said, "When the Messiah, which is called Christ, when He comes, He will tell us these things."
And He said, "I am He that speaks to you."
And she left her water pot, and into the city she went with a heart full of revelation. She said to the men in the city, "Come, see a man who told me the things that's in my life. Isn't this the Messiah?"
When the gift of God was dazzled before that prostitute's eyes, she recognized it. But we are so dead and numb with our theologies, until we're blinded from the truth, many times, and can't see the gift of God, the Lord Jesus. "Oh, come, see a man that has told me what I am. Isn't this the Messiah?" Sure it is.

30 Now, if you notice, Jesus did not go to the Gentiles, and He forbid His disciples to go to the Gentiles. Therefore He was only manifested to the Gentiles through the teaching of Saint Paul. Now, if He manifested Himself yesterday to the Jew with that sign, He manifested to the Samaritan with that sign, and never has it been to the Gentile age (And this Gentile age is closing.) then, to be the same yesterday, today, and forever, He has to do the same. And in doing so, I challenge this little group tonight, if He would do such a thing.
Now, it's not the holiness of a man. There is no holy man. As Peter referred to the Mount Transfiguration once, he said, "The holy mount..." He did not mean the holy mountain; he meant the holy God that he met on the mountain. It isn't the holy church; it's the Holy Ghost in the church that makes it what it is. It is not the holy man; it's the Holy Spirit that has outlet through subjects of His earthly kingdom.

31 And if He should dazzle Himself before the blinded world tonight, they would have the same conception (and they are doing it) as the blinded Pharisees of the days of His being. Let us, tonight, ask God to open our eyes, and give us sight, and let His Spirit come into our hearts that He can look through our eyes, and hear through our ears, and reveal Himself to us as the risen Son of the living God, Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today, and forever. May His praises ever ring in the hearts of New York until the last person is sealed into the kingdom of God, that God has ordained to eternal life. Let us pray.

32 O blessed God, just one night in a city with the metropolitan area around here of about fifteen or sixteen million, what could one puny little man do? O Lord God, I would pray Thee to open the eyes of this entire audience tonight, that they might go from this great Manhattan Center here, with the revelation like the woman at the well: "Come, see a man, the man Christ, who is not dead but alive forevermore." God raised Him up from the dead, set His corporal body on His own throne, and sent back the Holy Spirit to live in His church and to make disciples in all the world until He comes again. Grant it, Lord.
Circumcise the lips and the eyes and the ears of Your servants, that we might hear You speak and see You in Your resurrected power.

33 And from across this great city, when the people (The service shall end in a few moments.) and shall be going to their different homes, may they talk like those who came from Emmaus. After they had walked with Him all day, and had heard Him preach and tell them of the Scriptures, yet their eyes were not opened. Many here, Lord, You've fed, You've clothed, You've been good to. You spared their lives. And maybe they have never really realized where it come from. But while we're in the inn tonight, and the door is closed... When You did that little thing just like you did before your crucifixion, Cleopas and his friend was assured that it was You, for no other man did it just that way, or no other man could do it just that way. And they knew it was the Lord, so their eyes were opened. And He vanished to one side, behind the curtain, and was out of their sight. And they went on their road rejoicing, saying, "Did not our hearts burn within us as He spoke to us along the road?"
Lord, as I go to my room and these others go to theirs, may that be our testimony tonight: "Did not our hearts burn within us as He spoke to us in the Manhattan Center, this night?" Grant it, Lord.
Someday when life shall end, and time shall be no more and shall blend itself into eternity, God, we will kneel, bending before Your presence, and worship You, and sit at Your feet. O grant it, Lord, for we ask it in Jesus' name, Thy Son. Amen.

34 Now, I know we have kept you at length. We don't mean to do it. It's just one night. We will be back, I think it's the thirtieth. And it would be hard. And these meetings, of the New England people, it's too bad it has to be set like this, but we're hurried. The message is urgent. God's message is always urgent.
You know, the angels that come to Abraham in his tent, just before Sodom was destroyed, do you remember, the Angel had His back turned to the tent where Sarah was when she laughed? How many ever read that? Let's see your hands. And the Angel said, "Why did Sarah laugh?" What was that? But that was the Angel that brought the last message before the destruction of Sodom. And remember, that was not an Angel; that was God, for Abraham called Him God in the Elohim, which is the Almighty, Jehovah.

35 Now tonight, if it so pleases our God, there's people in here... How many sick people is in the building? Let's see your hands, all everywhere, balconies and all. There's perhaps a thousand or more, maybe more than that that's sick and needy of prayer. Now, my beloved friends, I wish that I could pray for each one of you and lay hands on you.
Now, I know that's a great doctrine, but you bear with me just a moment for this quotation. That's a Jewish sign. Jairus said, "Come, lay Your hands on my daughter and she will live."
But the Gentile said, "I'm not worthy that You come under my roof. Just speak the word."
It's not my hands that would help you, or the hands of any of your lovely pastors and teachers that's here, the servants of God. It isn't their hands or my hands; it's His hands. The Bible said that He is a High Priest that can be touched by the feeling of our infirmities. Do you believe that? Well, how did they touch Him in His day?

36 There was a woman, one time, who had an infirmity a blood issue for several years. And she slipped through the crowd, and touched His garment and went off, and sat down or stood up or whatever she did. And Jesus turned and said, "Who has touched Me?"
"Why," Peter said, "The whole multitude touches You."
He said, "But I've gotten weak. Virtue has gone from Me."
And He looked around until He found where that stream of faith was pouring from. Oh, they were touching Him: "Yes, I'm a member of Your church. I'm this, that..." But that isn't the touch that counts. He found that little weak looking woman, and He told her that she was healed, her faith had made her whole.
If that was Jesus yesterday, it's Jesus today. Now, the book of Hebrews says that He is now, right now, a High Priest that can be touched by the feeling of our infirmity. Now, how would you touch Him if He is the same? It would be the same way she touched Him. Now, He's not here in a corporal body, so you'd have to touch Him spiritually. Then how would you know you touched Him? He would speak back to you as He did then. Would that make Him the same yesterday, today, and forever?

37 We will not, at this hour, call too many up here to the platform to pray for. We'll just call a few. And let every person in here, if you will just give this much attention to the Gospel... Maybe it'd be a little different than what you're taught in your church. I have nothing against the way you teach it in your church; understand, not at all. But it's just like the man that was eating the watermelon down south. He said, "That was good, but there's more of it," see. So it's good. Any man who teaches Christ in any manner, it's good; but there's some more of it coming to us tonight. So let's just not give the children a smell, and rub it across their lips, or paint a fire, and say, "That's what bloomed up in one day." You can't get warm with a painted fire; it takes real fire to warm you.
What they did in the apostles' time, must be done today if the children's hearts are warmed by the presence of Christ. It's true.

38 Let's call a few people up to the platform. I believe... Did you come, give out cards? How many numbers? One hundred? All right. My son, gave out a hundred prayer cards. They bring them down to the church and the people, and mix them up together before you and go out and hand them out one from the other.
All right. Let's start, say from... We start from anywhere. Doesn't matter, just so we get somebody up here: three or four or five, just to get praying, so that ... by people seeing, then it drives the spirit of evil away, when they begin to believe.
Let's call number 1. Who has prayer card number 1, would you just raise up your hand? Where? Would you come right here, lady?
Number 2... If you can get up... If you can't now, the ushers will pack you up to platform if you can't rise when your number's called. Number 2, would you raise your hand, wherever you are? Number 2? Maybe they... [Gap in the audio.]

39 And we're looking for the coming of our Lord. Certainly we do. Now, don't you think that the closing, that the Gentile dispensation could not close...? Did you ever notice? I preached here, some time ago, on the subject of "The Junction." And I was saying, at every junction the church runs cold and starchy for many years. And then at a junction of time, God sends an angel, prophet, manifestation, Spirit, gifts, miracles, wonders. How many know that, you Bible readers, let's see your hand?
Look at the antediluvian destruction. Before the end come, there was prophets, Enoch. There were signs and wonders; angels appeared; great things taking place.
Look at the coming out of the children of Israel out of Egypt. Look what taken place. See it cold and indifferent and a bunch of cold theology. And all at once an angel appeared, a prophet came. Signs and wonders came. Then it cooled off again.
Then the coming of the Lord Jesus. There came an angel, Gabriel, spoke to John's father and mother. And there came a prophet. Out from the prophet came the Christ. From the Christ came signs and wonders and miracles. We're at the end again. It's been a long spell of coldness, church theology, and indifference. We're at the junction time. We have no alternative at all, no other hope, outside the coming of the Lord Jesus.

40 I think we've got a fine president, President Dwight Eisenhower. I think he's a wonderful man. But put one in every county in the United States, would never do a bit of good. It will take the coming of the Lord Jesus to do it. Sin must be judged.
And I say this with respect, and as a Christian minister, if God lets this generation get by without giving them judgment, He would, as a just God, be duty bound to resurrect Sodom and Gomorrah and apologize to them for sinking them. That's right. He can't be one thing in one generation and another in another. For the very sins that we're guilty of, Sodom and Gomorrah was burnt up for that very same sin. And here we are, just as guilty and more today, so, there's nothing left.
I was looking tonight from the hotel room. These great high spires of the great city; I thought, "O God, one of these days, there'll be nothing but a pile of dust laying here, and the souls of these who walk in the street now, will be somewhere. Help me, O God, to do something while I'm here to point them to a Saviour."

41 Did they all get into the line down there, everybody come? All but how many? Four lacking? Number 4. Number 4 was the one who failed to come. If anybody knows---in here, if there's a woman, man, boy or girl, whoever it is---that can find Number 4, put them in the line. It'll be all right.
Now, let's try that now, while we got these standing here. Now, how many in here are total strangers to me, let's see your hand? And now, all of you out there without prayer cards... How many doesn't have a prayer card, and yet you want Christ to heal you, raise your hand? Well, just about... Must not have give out very many cards. Maybe that's what it was. The same group raised their hands looked like. Now, if you haven't got a prayer card, therefore, you won't be in the line, now, as far as we know. But you just look to the Lord Jesus and say, "Lord, this minister has told me tonight that You're a High Priest that can be touched by the feeling of my infirmities. And, O Lord God, I want to touch You for mercy." See what He says. See what He does. See if He acts in the same way that He did when He was here on earth. You don't need to be up here. These are just people that come to get the meeting started. That's no assurance they'll be healed. It's your faith that heals you.

42 Now, I suppose that the lady before me is a stranger. We're strangers to each other, are we lady? You saw me before? I mean, I don't know you? No. I had a meeting, I suppose, when I was here before or something another. You was never in a healing line? You were just sitting out in the audience like that. All right. Now, of course, I would never know. Like somebody come back to service and say, "I was in the meeting at first. I was sitting in the balcony. I was sitting..." I would never know who it was, 'course not.
I don't know the lady, have never seen her in my life. She's seen me from an audience. Now, if the lady is sick, I don't know. But if the lady is sick, and I could heal her, and would not do it, I ought to take this Bible, and present it to some of my ministering brethren, and walk out of New York. That's right. If I could help her and would not do it, I'd be an awful person. But you see...

43 "Well," you say, "Brother Branham, if you lay your hands on her and pray for her..." That might be all right too.
But look. If you went to a doctor's office and said, "Doctor, I'm suffering with terrible headaches" and he give you an aspirin and sent you home, he's only trying to get rid of you. That's right. A real doctor would diagnose that case, till he finds the cause. And from there... You've got to know the cause before you get the cure. You don't know what you're doctoring.
So is it in the kingdom of God. Before you can pray a prayer of faith, you have to know the reason. Why? This might be an infidel. It might be a very ill-famed woman.
I don't know her. She might be a saint. I don't know who she is. And how can I pray a prayer of faith until I know what I'm doing? I will not ask her; I will ask Father, let Him tell me. Then Father, what He tells me, I know will be true.

44 Now, if I don't know her, and if the Lord Jesus will reveal just like He did the woman at the well, and tell her something that she has done, or not done, or something that's wrong with her, like there was with the woman at the well, and let it be right here (not in the...), right here so you can see it and know it, how many in here will believe that Jesus Christ is raised from the dead and lives in His church today? Bless your hearts. It may be a big city, but that's a very good representation of believers of Christ.
You know, God won't save all of New York. We know that. No. He will save the ones that by foreknowledge He knew and has elected to eternal life. The rest of their eyes will be closed. The very flood that saved Noah, drowned the unbelieving world. The very Gospel that's bringing healing and salvation to those who are elected to such, is blinding the eyes of leaders, and teachers, and church members throughout the world. Always the same, God can't change; He remains the same.

45 Now, if I said I could heal the woman, I'd be telling something wrong. I don't say that God will reveal to me; I'm trusting that He will. I have no control of this. I don't control it; it controls me. I don't know whether He will or will not. I cannot tell you. But if He does, we will all be thankful. We're ordained.
And now, Father, this preaching ... I am not a preacher, Lord. I have no education to speak. And I, being kind of broken in my English and my grammar, it's hard to make people understand me. But O Lord, Thou can do something to make the people understand that the cut up message is yet the truth. Declare it to be so, Lord, by manifesting Your Son, the Lord Jesus, in the power of His resurrection. And grant tonight that the life of the vine will come into the branches here and will bring forth to the unbeliever, that they might see and know that Christ still lives in His church. It's the grace of God that He does. Grant it, Lord. We submit ourselves unto Thee, now, for the next few minutes; for one word from You will mean more than all the preachers in the world could say. We're waiting for a word from You. Grant it, Lord, to us in Jesus Christ's name. Amen.

46 Now, everyone just as reverent. And as you people come into the line, just be reverent. All of you in the line, are you strangers? I don't know what you are, or who you are, or to... Raise your hands if you are, you that's standing in the line, put up your hands, up and down like that, just so that you'll know...
Here's a drama. It's not a show by no means. God don't have to do this, but He promised He would do it. He didn't have to heal when Jesus come, but He promised He would do it that it might be fulfilled.
Now, here is a man and a woman meeting for their first time in life like it was in Saint John 4. I do not know her. She does not know me. We're just standing here. But if the Lord God will tell me something as I have said to you, you have promised, and so has the audience, to believe that He is risen from the dead and is the same yesterday, today, and forever.

47 If the audience still hears my voice, I am very thankful to the Lord. The picture that you have of the Angel of the Lord, that light stands right here between me and the woman.
The lady has been somewhere to an examination for a doctor. And the examination, the doctor has advised an operation. That's a tumor and the tumor is located in the stomach. It's enormous tumor. And she's up for an operation to take place this next month. That's "thus saith the Lord." Do you believe? Are those things now true, lady? [Yes.] If they are, wave your hand to the audience.
Now, you say, "That could've been a guess." Let us speak to her just a little further. Maybe now, that the Holy Spirit is...

48 How many have seen the picture of the Angel of the Lord, that picture that's hanging yonder in Washington, DC? They have it here in the book and also... That's what's taken place just now, see. It's the pillar of fire that led the children of Israel. Not me, no more than it was Moses. And when He was on earth, He said ... He was manifested, this same pillar of fire, because He said, "Before Abraham was, I AM." Is that right? That was when He talked to Moses in the burning bush. He said, "I came from God, and I go to God." Is that right? Well, if He went back to where He was before He came flesh, He went back to the pillar of fire. Is that right?
When Paul met Him on the road to Damascus, what was He? Back to a pillar of fire, a light that put Paul's eyes out in His presence, yet He walked. It's Him.
Jesus said, "As the Father has sent Me, so send I you." The Father that sent Him, went with Him and was in Him. The Christ that sends His disciple goes with him, is in you. Not the disciples, but the Christ. "Not me, but My Father that dwelleth in Me," He said.

49 Let's see now, whatever it was, I don't know what was said 'cause it's a vision. The recording boys here have it, what was said. Test it; see if it's true. Now, ever what it was was true; is that right, lady? Now, if you'll just be reverent a moment, let's see if He would tell us something, so it'd take the scare from the people (You see?) ... or the thoughts.
Yes, I see a doctor looking at the woman. That's right. I see a man appear. It's a man that this woman has on her heart to pray for. And she's been praying for this man. And this man suffers with something that's crippling. It's arthritis. The man has arthritis. That is right. And that man, if he's standing now by a vision in the Presence, he has a burden on his heart and that's for the salvation of his daughter. It's exactly right, "thus saith the Lord."
Do you believe? As you have believed, so will it be to you. God bless you. Go and God's peace rest on you. Does the audience believe? Have faith now in God. Just be real reverent for a few moments.

50 How do you do. I suppose our first time meeting, but God knows us both. He knows all about us. Now, be just reverent as you can, friends. Something's happened in the audience. See, I just ... [unclear words]. Each one of you just ... each one of you is a being. Now, you say, "Brother Branham, that's psychology." If it is, Jesus used it when He put them all out of the house when He raised Jairus' daughter; when He took the men outside the multitude. No, you're a spirit, the same as mortal. Just be real reverent now.
I seen an operation. Someone with an operation. Where is the lady that's healed just a few moments ago? Was it... Is she in the audience? Where did she go to? Was there something that taken place about her? Oh, it was a lady there... No, it isn't her. No. The Lord God will reveal it. We shall never be defeated. No matter what takes place, you will never be defeated.
Here's the lady sitting right over here. She's had an operation. Sitting there on the end of the row, she's had an operation, and the sickness keeps pulling her out of the operation. That was you, wasn't it? All right. Go on your road. It's going to stop now. You'll be well. Your faith made you whole.

51 Just love Him now, with all your heart, because He's sweet and humble and the Holy Spirit is very timid. Just love Him and believe with all your heart now. You can receive whatever you ask for, what you believe, and you can receive it.
The lady standing before me... Of course, not knowing you, as different ages and born probably miles apart and years apart, our first time meeting, I suppose. I have no idea who you are or what you are, but if God will reveal to me now, being it's already struck the audience, the people ... their faith now moving. I don't know how far down the line we will come.
But if God will strike or move and will reveal to me something that you are here for, or something that you have done, or some matter, just like I've been preaching about, would you believe that He would give you what you ask for? You would believe it?
The lady, trouble is in her back and in her spine. She has a terrible back and spine condition. She fell and got hurt. That's been two or three months ago you did this. And you're here for me to ask God to heal you. You're not from this city. You're from another city called Brooklyn. Now, return back, for you're going to get well. Jesus Christ will make you well. The thing is cursed; it's gone. You'll be well. God bless you, lady. If thou canst believe, all things are possible.

52 If the Lord God will tell me what you are here for, what's wrong with you, or something in that manner, you will believe on the Lord Jesus? Your main thing here for, is for somebody else. You have already accepted your healing from some time, for a place that runs. But you are here for someone else, a friend of yours which has a stroke. That's right. Go believe it, and they'll come out of it. Believe it with all your heart. All right. Have faith in God. Hast thou believed on the Lord Jesus as yet? Just have faith now. Don't doubt.
We are strangers to each other, I suppose, sister dear? If thou canst believe...
The lady sitting here, right here, right down in front there looking at me, suffering with cancer, do you believe the Lord Jesus is going to heal you and make you well of this cancer? You believe He will do it? You can have what you've said then. God bless you, lady. There was a dark shadow over you; it's passed away now. Just have faith in God.

53 The little lady sitting back there with the little white jacket or thing on, you can't sleep at night. Do you believe the Lord Jesus is going to give you sleep from now on? That you might know I was His prophet, or His servant, that's your husband sitting by you. Do you believe that God can heal him? If God will reveal to me what his trouble is, will you believe it? Then the arthritis will go from you, sir. You can go home now, and be well, and be a happy family. What did they touch? They never touched me. They're twenty yards from me. I don't know them. If I do not know you, sir, wave your hand like this that I don't know you. I do not know you. Never seen them in my life, but they touched something. They touched the High Priest that can be feel ... but He turns around and acts just like He did yesterday, He does today, and will be forever. Just believe Him. Don't doubt Him. Believe Him with all your heart, and God shall make it known unto you, your desire.

54 You believe me to be His servant? Now, the reason I say that, as Peter and John passed through the gate called Beautiful, they said, "Look on us." See, it was to catch their attention. Jesus said to the woman at the well, "Bring Me a drink." It's something that you say to a person to catch their attention, 'cause you are a human being. And you have a soul in which Christ died for. If Christ will reveal to me what your trouble is, or something about you that you know that I know not, or act as He did the days gone by, will you accept Him as you're healer? You will? May the Lord grant it.
Just be real patient. Just keep believing. See, you're touching. I wished I could explain it. There's no way to do it; you can't explain God; you've got to believe God.
I see you standing by a stairway or something. Oh, you've gotten hurt on a stairway sometime ago. And it ruptured the stomach and the intestinal track. I see you go to a hospital twice: You've had two times of surgery, and it hasn't done you any good. You believe it's going to be now, though? You know standing in the presence of a man like me wouldn't make you feel that way. That Angel of the Lord is around you, lady. That you might know I'm His servant, Mrs. Eckerd, you're from Jersey City. Return home, 'cause you're going to get well. Amen. Believe with all your heart. God bless you, sister dear.
Just have faith in God. Don't doubt. Believe with all your heart, and you can receive what you ask for. How many out there is believing that? Don't move, please. Just sit real still. Be real reverent.

55 Now, we're in the presence of Jehovah, not your brother. I haven't even got a grammar school education. I don't know the first thing of... I might say this: I don't know the book too well, but I know the Author of it. And you might disagree with me in my teachings, but when God confirms it, and I read it out of the Bible, that makes it so, for God testifies of the truth.
If thou canst believe, all things are possible. The little lady there with her hand up over her mouth, and suffering with those headaches, sitting right back behind Mother Brown, there, do you believe that God's going to make you well? You do? You were praying about it, wasn't you? That you might know, the lady sitting right on the end from you there. She's got trouble in her arms. She's suffering with a arm trouble. That's right, isn't it, lady? It's all gone now. Your headaches are finished, too. Raise your hands if that's so, dear heart. There you are. It's all over. What did you touch? You touched the High Priest that can be touched with the feeling of infirmity. That's exactly right. Don't fear. Don't be excited. Just have faith; don't doubt. Believe with all that's in you. Believe it with everything that's within you. Now, have faith. People are praying.

56 The little lady sitting here with her head down, suffering with sinus trouble. You believe the Lord healed you, lady? The little lady sitting there with the little pink looking dress on, you were praying, wasn't you? You were praying this prayer: "Lord, let him speak to me." Is that right, raise up your hand? He knows your prayer. That's right.
What did you think about it, sitting next to her, with the white hat on? That thrilled you too, didn't it? It did? You believe He will heal that arthritis you have? You believe He'd make you well? Sure, well, then you can have what you've asked for. Amen.
The lady next to her there, has that bladder trouble. Do you think the Lord Jesus can make you well, lady? You accept it? Raise your hand if you do. All right, you can have what you've ask for. Oh, He's wonderful, isn't He? That's right.

57 Right behind the lady there a man's got bronchial trouble. You believe God will heal that bronchial trouble and make you well? If you believe. The little lady with the white hair, kind of down... You believe He heals that bronchial trouble? All right, you can have what you ask for. I challenge you to believe Him here anywhere. Just believe Him.
The lady right behind there with her eyes up, praying, "Lord, I want to get rid of this arthritis." Is that right, lady, is that what you said? It's gone from you, if you can believe.
The lady sitting next to you, with her hands over her mouth like this, she has sugar diabetes, and she's wanting to get rid of that. Is that right, lady? Wave your hand if that's right. All right. It's gone. If thou canst believe... Do you believe? Just have faith. Every one of you can be healed right now. Just have faith now.

58 Here's a lady sitting here. Let's talk to the lady just a moment. See, friends, I could not heal you. I have nothing to heal you with. I'm not a doctor. I don't know nothing about medicine. I'm just His servant, Christ's. And the only thing I can do... And far as healing, everyone of you is already healed. It's just your faith to accept it. You see what I mean? It's your faith to accept such. Here's the lady standing before me...
Colored lady, do you believe that... Here we are. Here's a beautiful picture: white man and colored woman. Do you... This is a picture of the subject I had tonight, the woman at the well. We are strangers to each other. The Lord Jesus knows us both, doesn't He? He does. If the Lord Jesus shall reveal to me the secret of your heart, or something that you are here for, that you know I don't know, would you be willing to spread it among your people and everywhere else, that He still remains the same? That's what you want to do?

59 Now, here's a picture of Jesus Christ, the same yesterday, today, and forever. I have never seen the woman in my life. God knows that. If I have, I didn't know her. We are strangers to one another, is that right? As a different race of people, both of us. I'm Anglo-Saxon and she's not, and here we are just exactly the same. Jesus let that woman know, there's no difference in the color or race of a person. We are all from the same tree, the same God, whether we are white, black, yellow, brown, whatever we are, we are of one people from one person, Adam. It's exactly right.
The countries we live in is changing our color, has nothing to do with our souls. We're all creatures of God. God made us the way we are, because He wanted us this way. It's exactly right.

60 The lady is Mrs. Weik. That's your name. You're from the city. Your house number is 555 Edgecombs Avenue. You are very nervous for one thing. But you have a great desire in your heart: you've been seeking the baptism of the Holy Ghost, and that's what you want is the baptism of the Holy Ghost. That's "thus saith the Lord." Is that right? Go and receive it now. Christ will give it to you.
How many in here believes now, with all your heart? Do you believe me to be His servant? What about you with the crutches? You don't have to walk out with them if you'll just believe it. What about you in the wheelchairs, wherever you are? Do you believe with all your heart? Then I ask you to do one thing, to believe that the presence of Christ is here, and that's what's bringing these things to pass. Healing is something that's been done since Jesus died at Calvary. The lady sitting there had TB. It's over, sister. You don't have to worry about it no more. That's right.

61 And you, sitting on the edge of the seat there, that's got prostate trouble, at the back near that post. It's finished, sir. You have it no more. You can go home and be well. God bless you. I challenge you to believe Christ just now. I believe if you will do as I ask you... The Bible says this now, Christ promised this. And here's, another thing He said in His last commission, "These signs shall follow them that believe: They shall lay their hands on the sick. They shall recover." How many believers is there in here? Raise your hands. Now, lay your hands on somebody near you. No matter what you want, lay your hands, everywhere, on each other. If Christ keeps this part of His Word, how much easier is it for Him to keep that part of His Word?
Now, the Bible said, "These signs shall follow them that believe. If they lay their hands on the sick..." Now, pray the way you would in your church. Pray for one another, while I pray for you here, and see what the Lord will do. Everyone of you can be healed.

62 Eternal God, author of life, giver of every good gift, blesser of men's souls, we commit unto Thee, this audience of people, just now, that Thou will heal every person that's in Divine Presence. Grant, Almighty God, that their healing will now take place, as Satan has been exposed. His kingdom of darkness has been brought into the light and been made manifest through the resurrected Jesus Christ.
Oh, our God, we now challenge the devil, upon his bluff, we're calling his hand. Satan, you've held these people as long as you can. They have their hands over on one another as believers; that's the Word of the living God. I charge thee, Satan, through the commission of the Angel of God, by the Bible through the Holy Ghost, that you come out of every person in here and let them go free from sin, from sickness, from chains, from diseases, from afflictions. In Jesus' name, come out of the people. Amen.
I believe that every one of you in here was healed by the power of the Almighty God. He is present now. He's moving in the sanctuary. If you're a sinner, stand to your feet and accept Christ as your Saviour. Wonderful. If you are sick, stand to your feet and accept Him as your healer. Some hundred or more stood for salvation. Hundreds are standing for healing. You are healed in the name of Jesus Christ. Amen. "By His stripes people are free..."

We would see Jesus

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1 Thank you very much, Brother Vayle. Good evening, friends. Certainly a privilege to be here tonight in this capital of New Hampshire. New Hampshire holds very much for me, since a little boy. I can well remember my hunting trips up in the White mountains, and across the Presidential range, and around Gorham, and the parts of the country up in there.
Good friends that I've met years ago. So I've always wanted to come to New Hampshire for a service to pray with the sick people, and to visit with you. It's too bad that we just have just two nights here, and just run right in like this, and right out. I've said, "It's something like saying, 'How do you ... goodbye.'" But I'm sure that the blessed Lord will help us to get better acquainted in the years that is to come. We're anticipating coming back some time for a longer stay.

2 This time we're just trying to get acquainted with each other, and I'm sure you love Him. I just stepped into the door, and heard you saying, "Amen," to what Mr. Vayle was saying, and you believe God, and believe that He still lives, and He isn't any different from what He ever was. He isn't any smarter; He can't be any smarter, because He was infinite to begin with. And so, everything that He says, every statement He makes, has to be perfect, because if He could grow in knowledge like we did, then He would be smarter. He could fix things and arrange it a little different. But when God makes a statement or says anything, it has to ever remain that way, because He is perfect to begin with.
Now, our generations, we're finite. And our generations get just a little smarter, and a little smarter as the Scripture says, "Weaker but wiser..." And we grow in knowledge, but God can't. To be infinite, He just has to remain just perfect all the time.

3 So then, if a crisis would arise at any time, and God was called on the scene to act, then the way He acted that time, He will have to act each time that way in order to be God, see. Because if He doesn't act the second time the way He did the first time, then He knows more about it. Then He did wrong when He acted the first time, see. He'd have to act the same each time. If the world's in the need of a Saviour, then if He presented a Saviour, a way of salvation in the garden of Eden, a way of escape, He has continue to do that in order to be God.
If sickness arose into the camp, and God made an atonement for healing, He has to remain on that, or He did wrong when He healed the first person---He did wrong when He forgave the first one, see. He's infinite and we have to accept it that way, and believe it that way; and if you'll believe it that way, it'll work that way.

4 And I come tonight to visit with you for these two nights of service, as your brother. And I'm so happy to be here with you, and I don't come representing any certain denominational church. We don't represent any denomination. Myself, I was a Missionary Baptist. Mr. Vayle here, was an Northern Baptist. I don't belong to the Baptist church anymore; I just come out into the Gospel to work, and stood through the breach, and said, "We're brethren. Whosoever will, let him come." And what little influence the Lord God has given me, I do not try to place it upon any certain denomination, because I believe that denominations is not what God looks at. He looks at the people that's in the denominations.

5 Most of my life ... or, a great deal of it, has been on a ranch. I remember up on Troublesome River, where we used to herd cattle, run them up on through the Arapaho Forest, and they had a drift fence. I don't what you eastern people know about a drift fence, but they keep the cattle from drifting back off the forest. You can raise a ton of hay. And you have from the Chamber of Commerce, the brand, you can put a cow on the forest, if you can raise a ton of hay to take care of the cow through the winter.
And now, the ranger, he always counts the cattle as they goes in, and checks them. And many times have I sat there, and my leg across the horn of the saddle, watching the ranger. He never noticed the brand so much---how many brands there was---because he kind of knew that anyhow. But he checked the blood tag in the ear, see. The blood tag... No matter what the brand was, it had to be a thoroughbred Hereford, or it could not go on the range. No matter how good the brand was placed on it, it had to be a thoroughbred Hereford, or it could not graze on that range.
I think that's what it'll be at the great gate when we get there. He won't say, "Are you branded Methodist, Pentecostal, Baptist, Lutheran?" It's what the blood mark is. All those that are born of the Spirit of God, by the blood of Jesus Christ, will be welcome in no matter what brand you're wearing.

6 Now, and upon that now, we will open His Word, and speak to you from His Word.
I'm not a theologian; I said lots of times that I didn't get a chance to get an education. I'm not much of a preacher. I don't know the Word too well, but I know the Author real well. I love Him, and He will reveal the Word as we go along.
Now, let us bow our heads just a moment, while we speak to Him, before we open the Word.

7 Blessed and eternal God, as we come humbly as the creatures of time into Thy presence, we ask that You'll remember us, Lord, and will forgive us of all of our sins and trespasses against You.
And now, as we open this little building tonight to the Gospel, we would ask that You would dedicate our hearts to Your Word and to Your Spirit, as we dedicate the building and ourselves to the service of the living God.
And Father, we pray tonight that Your blessed Son will come in the form of the Holy Ghost and will reveal to us, Lord, His presence. Oh, may He do for us tonight the exceedingly abundantly.

8 Bless all these dear people who are out tonight. We pray that a special blessing rest upon the sick and the needy, for they've come for that purpose, Lord, that they could be healed. And the reason that they're here proves that there is a healing fountain somewhere. As David said in the days gone by, "When the deep calleth to the deep..." There's got to be a deep to respond to that call.
So, Father, they are here tonight because they believe You, and are looking forward to seeing that fountain filled with blood drawn from Emmanuel's veins.

9 O Lord, grant this blessing to us tonight. And when we leave from this place, may we go like those who came from Emmaus, after they'd walked all day with Jesus. He had talked to them after His resurrection, that first beautiful Easter morning, yet they did not recognize Him. And when He got them inside in the evening time, in the twilight, perhaps about this time, when the doors were closed, He did something. And they recognized that no other man did it that way but Him. And their eyes were opened, and they knew that it was Him, that He had raised from the dead. Oh, their hearts leaping for joy, they run back to meet the rest of their party, and saying, "Truly, the Lord has risen."
Lord, will You do something tonight for us, just like You did it before Your crucifixion, that this company might know that You ever remain God? And when we go to our different homes, may we say like those as they went, "Did not our hearts burn within us, as He talked to us along the way." For we ask it in His name. Amen.

10 Now tonight, our company is small, and just a little get acquainted. And now, maybe tomorrow night, the Lord willing, I'd like to maybe preach just a little to you or speak to you from the Word.
Tonight, just a little opening program that we use along the road to introduce the ministry, that we're trying to represent of our Lord. Just a little opening message, and our theme will be, that's found in Hebrews 13:8: Jesus Christ, the same yesterday, today, and forever. And over in Saint John 12:20, we read this for a context:
And there were certain Greeks among them that came up to worship at the feast:
The same came therefore to Philip, which was of Bethsaida of Galilee, and desired him, saying, Sir, we would see Jesus.
And that's what I want to speak on: We Would See Jesus. Now, if the Scripture says that He is the same yesterday, today, and forever...

11 Now, to me, this Bible is either the truth or it is not the truth. If it is God's Word, then it's truth. If it isn't truth, then it isn't God's Word, because God would never have anything to do with anything but what was absolutely, unadulterated truth. We believe that. I'm sure you do too. It must be the truth.
So let us look now into the Scriptures. And now, I believe that this is the Word. My faith is built on this. Many time have I held the Koran in one hand, the Bible in the other one, before half a million Mohammedans and say, "One of them's got to be right, and one of them's got to be wrong."

12 Now, if Mohammed's living, let him speak. If Jesus is living, let Him speak; you decide. Don't never be afraid to put any divine promise of God to action. Remember, don't never forget this quotation: "That the right mental attitude towards any divine promise in this Bible will bring it to pass." Just remember that. The right mental attitude toward any divine promise that's written in this Bible will bring it to pass. So now, just keep that on your mind. If God made a promise, and you'll take the right attitude towards that promise, God will fulfill everything that He's promised. I know that to be true. And I've seen sarcomas cancer healed with that, because people believe that it was the truth.

13 Now, when they go to speak of divine healing, sometimes they say, "Brother Branham's a divine healer." That's wrong. There's no such a thing as a man being a divine healer, never was and never will be. Jesus was not a divine healer; He said He wasn't. "It's not Me that doeth the works, it's My Father that dwelleth in Me, He doeth the works." It's always been God.
In Psalms 103:3, he said, "He is the Lord that forgives all of our iniquity and heals all of our diseases."

14 And now, how do we teach divine healing today? That He was wounded for our transgressions, with His stripes we were healed.
Now, when you say... If I say in this little group tonight, "How many of you've been saved, got saved last year?" Well, some of you'd raise your hands. "How many got saved twenty years ago?" Some would raise their hands. Well, that's potentially the truth, but yet it isn't all the truth. You were saved nineteen hundred years ago when Jesus died for you. You just accepted your pardon a year ago, and twenty years ago, and so forth. Now that's... See, it's a redemptive blessing that Jesus finished at Calvary, where He was wounded for our transgressions, with His stripes we were healed. No man can forgive your sins, unless you've sinned against him. And no man can heal your diseases, because it's already been done.

15 If Christ, Himself, stood here tonight with this suit on that He's give me, He could not heal you; He's already done it, see. If you've been redeemed, how can you be redeemed the second time? You've already been redeemed. If you had something in a pawn shop, and went, and give a receipt, and you got a receipt that you redeemed that thing from the pawn shop, how can you redeem it the second time? It's already been redeemed. So we are a redeemed product of God's grace. Praise be to His holy name. We are redeemed now, physically and spiritually.
Now, what's happened? We are now drawing the earnest of our salvation. And if there is no earnest money down for divine healing, then there is no resurrection. If there isn't a joy and a new life that makes new nature and a new person, then there is no eternal life. We will have an end someday. But if we got eternal life, it has no end, because that's God's life. And then if we have the joy of that in our hearts, and we know that we've passed from death to life, and our lives shapes up with what God promised, then we've got the earnest of our salvation, knowing that we will live forever, because the attributes of His Spirit is working through us. And then, if there is no divine healing, then there is no resurrection, see. So we must have both witnesses, as both are ... complete eternal life, and for our resurrected body.

16 Now, I believe the Word to be the full Word of God. God can do something that's not written in this Word. I know He's big enough He can do what He wants to, but to me, I believe just what He wrote here is a plenty. I don't want any more than He wrote, but I want all that He wrote, see. I don't want to add anything to it or take anything away from it; I just want what He said.
Now, there's many times that people might say, "Well, different things, this or this, and have little theologies, and little creeds, and so forth." That's all right. But to me, I like to say just what He said, then I ... just say it the way He said it. And then you know you're right.

17 Many of you men, here tonight, you teachers know in the Old Testament they had a way of knowing whether a man was telling the truth or not. And they took a man to the temple, and they had what's called the Urim and Thummim. And that was the breastplate Aaron wore. And it had twelve stones in it, representing the twelve tribes of Israel. And when a prophet prophesied, dreamer told a dream, and if it was the truth, and God was in that dream, or in that prophecy, all those lights put out a supernatural light, a conglomeration of lights that God was answering back. How many knows that's the truth, of you Bible readers here? Fine, them ministers raising there. It was a conglomeration to represent supernatural.
Well then, the Aaronic priesthood and Mosaical laws passed, and now we have a new priesthood, and a new Urim and Thummim. The old Urim and Thummim passed with the priesthood, but we've got a new Urim and Thummim. That's God's Bible. And then, if the man is telling the truth, and representing the truth from God's Word, the same Word that was in the beginning will manifest and make it positive before you in the supernatural. If that isn't just as true as I know how to say it, I don't know it in the Scripture then, see. God made a promise and God has to keep that promise, see.

18 Now, the question was, tonight, to these Greeks; they asked this question, and I do not believe it would be anything different to us tonight. Every man that ever heard the name of Jesus longs to see Him. And these Greeks had come up; they were men of wisdom and understanding. And the Greek seeks wisdom, the Jews signs. And these Greeks came to the feast, and they had heard of Jesus. And they come to one of His servants and said, "Sir, we would see Jesus."
Now, I believe that would be the desire of every heart here. Wouldn't you like to see Him tonight? We all would.
Well then, if we would love to see Him, and these Greeks was given the privilege of seeing Him... Now, if they were given the privilege to see Him, and we've got the same desire tonight to see Him, and the Scripture says, "He is the same yesterday, today, and forever," then why can't we see Him? Does that sound right?
Look. If He is the same yesterday, today, and forever, and they were given the privilege of seeing Jesus, then today they say that He is the same today that He was then, then if we have the same desire, why can't we see Him? Sure, we can, because He promised it. You just have to go according to His Word, work His Word.

19 If you had an artesian well on this side spurting water fifty feet in the air, and across on this side burning up, you can't stand there on this hill and scream over to this water, "Come over here and water my crop. Come over and water my crop." It'll never do it. But if you work according to the laws of gravitation, it'll bring that water right over there and will water that crop.
And if you're standing out in the field, and it's dark, way out in the woods, and you need a light, and you say, "Oh great electricity, the air is full of it. Franklin tells us there's enough in every room to light up the room, of electricity. Oh, great electricity, you're here; scientists proved you're here; now, make a light, so I can walk out of the woods." It'll never do it. But if you'll work according to the laws of electricity, it'll light up the woods for you, see. It's there.

20 Now, God made a promise. And if we will work according to the laws of that promise, and God, His laws of the Spirit, He will do just exactly what it said it'll do. Now, you can't stand out, and imagine something, and holler for it, and scream for it, or do penance, and say rosaries, and run over your knees on rocks, and go to the church and be... That isn't what it takes. It takes a law, and faith is what God's law is for you. You must have faith. In order to have faith... You can't base faith just on the shifting sands of men's theology. Faith takes it's everlasting stand upon the unmovable rock of God's eternal Word and rests there.
Just like Moses' mother, when she put him in the little ark, and scooted him out of the bulrush. There she stood there, putting her baby in the very jaws of the alligators, and death, but you see, faith can take it's stand on the Rock of Ages, right over a grave and look beyond that to Him that said, "I am the resurrection and life," see. Faith knows no defeat. No, sir. Faith cannot be defeated.
So in order to see Jesus, we've got to have faith to believe that He's here and keeps His promise.

21 Now, let's go back into the Scriptures, just a little then. Now, the Bible said, "He is the same yesterday, today, and forever." Now, if we can go back in the Scripture and find out what He was yesterday, then we can expect Him to be the same today (Is that right?) if we find what He was.
Now, the first place we find that He did not claim to be a healer; He claimed that it was His Father that dwelt in Him, did the work. We know that. And then, we see that He did not claim that He could just heal at random. St. John now, you that's taking down the Scriptures, St. John 5:19, Jesus said, "Verily, verily, I say unto you, the Son can do nothing in Himself, but what He sees the Father doing." Anybody ever read that? All right. Now, is that the truth, or is that an error? That's the truth. "Verily, verily," that's, "Absolutely, absolutely, I say unto you, the Son can do nothing in Himself, but what He sees the Father doing. The Father worketh, and I work hitherto."

22 Now, He just passed by a great pool where thousands of people were laying, lame, halt, blind, withered, and He passed through that pool looking around. There was mothers with waterhead babies; there were people all crippled and deformed, trying to get into the water. Passed right through the crowd, never touched a one of them, and looked around, till He found a man laying on a pallet. (Now, I guess you Yankees know what a pallet is? I was raised on one down south, just a quilt laying at the door.) So then this fellow was laying on a little pallet. And Jesus... The Bible said He knew that he had been in that condition for so many years, thirty-eight years, I believe. Now, see, He knew it. Father had showed Him.
And He said to that man, "Take up your bed and go into your house," and turned around and left that whole multitude, thousands of lame, halt, blind, and withered, laying there.
And He was questioned, and He said, "Verily, I say unto you, the Son can do nothing in Himself, but what He sees the Father doing. That doeth the Son likewise." In other words (see), it brought it right back, the Father showed Him where that man was laying there, his condition. He went to him, healed him, walked away. Give praise to God. He could do nothing else, because Father hadn't showed Him nothing else. If that was Jesus yesterday, it's Jesus today.

23 Now, watch what He said. "A little while and the world won't see Me no more." Did He say that? "Yet, ye shall see Me." Now, the world is the unbeliever. We always know it, it's cosmos from the Greek which means "the world order." All right. "The world will see Me no more, yet ye shall see Me ("Ye," the church), for I ("I" is a personal pronoun), I will be with you, even in you to the end of the world." Does the Scripture say that? We all know He said that.
Now, how could He manifest Himself now? He said, "I am the vine, ye are the branches." Now, the vine does not bear fruit. It gives life to the branch and the branch bears fruit. You people up here in Concord ought to know that with your grapes and so forth, that you ... and your fruit. If you go to a grape tree then ... or, a grape vine, you'd expect to find grapes, if it's a grape vine. The vine won't bear the fruit, but the branches will be bearing grapes. That's right. If you go to an apple tree, it's a good fertile tree, it'll bring forth apples. A pear tree will bring forth pears. A watermelon vine will bring forth watermelons. A pumpkin vine will bring forth a pumpkin. Everything's known in itself. Then the Spirit of God in His church, will reproduce the life of Christ, if He is the vine, and we are the branches. Certainly, you see?

24 We've changed that. We've made it to joining church, teaching theology, having schools; nothing against that, but you see, it's not what He said. "The works that I do, shall you do also. More than this shall you do, for I go to My Father. A little while and the world won't see Me no more, yet you'll see Me. For I will be with you, even in you, to the end of the world, Jesus Christ, the same yesterday, today, and forever."
Here, friends, is this picture, I guess they was showing it awhile ago---this picture here. They got that in Germany and all around the world. Since a little child, I saw that.
Now, to me, if you'll pardon it... It's not my picture; I had nothing to do with this part. It's the Angel of the Lord.
Now, how many Bible teachers knows in here, that the Angel of that Lord, that led the children of Israel through the wilderness, was Christ? Is that right? When He was on earth, He said, they was questioning Him, St. John 6, He said, "Why, we know that You have a devil now, that You say You're before Abraham, or before Moses, and before this, that."
He said, "Before Abraham was, I AM." Is that right? Who was the I AM? The Angel that talked to Moses in the pillar of fire, in the burning bush. He led the children of Israel through the wilderness. Then He was made flesh and dwelt among us, God made flesh. The Bible said He was. God was in Christ, reconciling the world to Himself. He was the Tabernacle which God lived in, born a virgin birth, and was in this Tabernacle of His Son, manifesting, showing, expressing Himself to the world, Him being the Son of God, that He might bring other adopted sons into the kingdom.

25 Now, when this pillar of fire was in Him at the end of His journey, He said, "I came from God, and I return to God." Then He came from the pillar of fire and returned back to the same, if He told the truth, if He was the I AM, that was in the burning bush.
Now, let's see if that's Scriptural. A... Not very long after that, there was one named Saul, who later was called Paul. He was on his road to Damascus, and all of a sudden a bright light flashed in his face, that was brighter than the sun, and even blinded Paul until he fell. And He said, "Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou Me?"
He said, "Who art Thou, Lord?"
He said, "I'm Jesus." Is that right? Back to the pillar of fire again, same One that delivered Peter out of the jail, not long after that.
Then in this last days, if He's come to the Gentile church, if this is His picture... George J. Lacy, the head of the FBI, examined it, the German examiners, Switzerland, all through the world, it's sits there. You'll see it tonight if He comes. And you'll see it. Now, if that is the Spirit of Christ, it'll have to bear the same record, it'll have to bear the same fruit, it'll have to do the same thing, it'll have to declare the same God; it'll be exactly the fruit of the vine, if we are His branches. Is that right?

26 Now, it just can't work through one; it'll have to work through all of us. We're all His church. You Methodist, Baptist, Presbyterian, Lutheran, Pentecostal, Assemblies of God, whatever you are, we are His branches, and if we're in that vine, we bear His life, can't keep from it. And if that pillar of fire is the same pillar of fire, it'll act the same way it did when it stood here, made flesh and dwelt among us. It'll be in our flesh tonight, manifesting itself. Is that right? Then we would see Jesus, the same, yesterday, today, and forever.
Lets watch how it manifested itself in His day. Let's take now, we read out of St. John, I believe the 12th chapter, yes. Let's go back to the 1st chapter. You read it when you go home. Follow me now in the Scriptures, if you wish to, just for a few moments. Pardon me.

27 Now, notice, when Jesus was called into His earthly ministry, immediately, there was one converted and run for his brother. And when he got...
Am I speaking too loud there? Is that about to make you deaf? I've been used to speaking outdoors, and stadiums, and things, and I don't mean to yell at you.
But when he went to his ... got his brother, and he brought his brother back... And we know his brother to be Simon Peter. At that time he wasn't that name. So he came up into the presence of Jesus. Let's watch him just a minute now, and see what Jesus was yesterday. And if we can find what He did yesterday, then He's got to act in His church the same today, to be the same. Now, keep that on your mind.

28 And when Philip went and found ... I mean, Andrew went and found his brother, and he brought him to him, and the first thing when Jesus saw this man, the Bible said he was a ignorant and a unlearned man, couldn't even sign his own name. Ignorant and unlearned and became the head of the church. What's our educational program got to do with that? A man who could not sign his own name has the keys of the heavens, and the kingdom of God hanging on his side: St. Peter. That's correctly. An old fisherman, didn't know his ABC's, probably couldn't count very far, couldn't even sign his name. The Bible said he was both ignorant and unlearned. The Scripture's right. That's in Acts 4. All right.

29 Notice. John was too. But as soon as this old fisherman came up into the presence of the Lord Jesus, Jesus looked at him and He said, "Your name is Simon, and your father's name is Jonas." Is that right?
What do you think that fisherman must have thought? "How did You know me? Why, You must be the Messiah. How did You know me ... know what my name was, and who my father was?"
And quickly then, one by the name of Philip run around the mountain fifteen miles to a place where he found a real good Presbyterian, or a real good orthodox believer, and he was out into the vineyard, into the olive orchard, a praying. And as soon...

30 Let's dramatize this so the little ones will get it. And as he went out into the orchard, perhaps his wife, when he went and said, "Where is Nathanael?"
"Oh, Philip, we're so glad to see you. Nathanael, he's back in the orchard."
And here goes Philip back, walking around through the orchard, seeing what he could find. After a while he heard someone praying. He looked under a tree, and there stood Nathanael under the tree ... or, kneeling, rather, praying; and Philip, waiting to see till he finished up, and when he said, "Amen," and looked around, he said, "Why, Philip, I'm glad to see you."
He said, "Come, see who we have found."

31 Oh, if this group tonight, of you people here from Concord, in this great capital of one of the most beautiful states in the union, if you could have that enthusiasm about Christ. He didn't wait, say, "I'm glad to see you," nothing about it; he said, "Come, see who we've found, Jesus of Nazareth, the Son of Joseph."
That enthusiasm, the church today has lost it's enthusiasm. Why? Because it's got out of the vine. It's no more being energized by the Spirit, wells of water bubbling up into everlasting life. They've lost that zeal. Something's missing. God remains the same; Christ remains the same; but His church has disassociated itself with His connection, the vine, the Spirit.

32 And then, when they seen this take place, what do you think happened when he said, "Come, see who we have found, Jesus of Nazareth, the Son of Joseph"?
And this orthodox man, very fine man, principle and every way, he said, "Now, just a minute, Philip, you must have went off on the deep end somewhere. What good thing could come out of Nazareth? If you think that's the Messiah, if the Messiah would come, He'd come to the temple." That's what you Catholic thinks; He would go to Rome. You Presbyterians thinks He'd go to your bishop. You Pentecostals think He'd go to the state presbyter. But He goes to wherever He wants to go; that's His business.

33 "Oh, it would have to come to my denomination, if it comes." That's what Philip thought ... or, what Nathanael thought, "Could any good thing come from Nazareth, a little place like that? If the Messiah would come, He'd come to His great temple in Jerusalem. He would come... Caiaphas, the high priest would be sounding out the alarm everywhere."
You see, the way He represented Himself that day wasn't to them kind of people, and it's the same today. He remains the same, His attitude. Spirit doesn't change. People changes from one spirit to another, but Spirit remains the same. Those stiff orthodox teachers, they still remain today. Those humble flexible people, that was willing to bow in the presence of God, they're here yet today, and the Holy Spirit is here, and the spirit of the devil's here. You're possessed with one or the other, not both of them, one or the other. Can't serve two masters at once, the Scripture says.

34 Now notice, what did he say? "Could there be any good thing come out of Nazareth?"
I think he gave him the best answer that any man could give him, said, "Come, see."
Don't sit at home and criticize; don't just say, "Well, maybe it's all right." Come, find out for yourself. That's the way to do it. Come, sit down, listen yourself. Search the Scriptures.

35 And along the road, as they go along, let's follow them just a little bit. I can hear Philip say to Nathanael, "You know that old fisherman, that day that you got the fish, and you wanted him to sign the receipt, and he couldn't sign it?"
"Yeah."
"He come up into the presence of this Jesus of Nazareth, and He told him who he was. He told him what his pappy's name was, Jonas. And you know, it wouldn't surprise me but what He told you who you were, when you come."
"Oh, now, just a minute. I don't believe in no such stuff as that. I will have to see it with my own eyes."
Said, "Come on."

36 And when they got into the presence of Jesus, a fifteen mile journey around the mountain. And when they come up in the presence of Jesus, perhaps into the prayer line, wherever it was, I do not know; it don't say. But when he come into the presence of Jesus for the first time, watch what Jesus yesterday, did.
He said, "Behold an Israelite in whom there's no guile." Now, you say, "Of course, he was dressed like that." All of them dressed the same. He could've been an Arab; he could've been Greek; all of them wore the outer robe, garment with a turban.
He said, "Behold an Israelite in whom there is no guile." He could have been a cheater, a murderer, or thief.
And it astonished him so, that he said, "Rabbi (which means "teacher"), when did You ever know me?" Watch the answer coming back.
"Before Philip called you, when you were under the tree, I saw you." What eyes! Fifteen miles around the mountain, day before... That was Jesus yesterday. If He's the same today, He's got to remain the same in His people today, as He was then.

37 What did He say? "I do nothing till the Father shows Me." The Father had showed Him that he was under the tree before he come. He showed Him Simon, who he was, before he come. Told him who his father was. You see, now, that's the way Jesus started out representing Himself.
Now, how many knows there's only three races of people? That's Ham, Shem, and Japheth's people. Certainly. Come from the sons of Noah, if the Scripture's correct. All right. That's Jew, Gentile, and Samaritan. The Samaritan is half Jew and Gentile.

38 To you people who read your Scripture, Peter had the keys to the kingdom. At Acts 2, he opened it to the Jews at Jerusalem, went right on down. Philip went down and preached to the Samaritans. And one had been down before him, named Stephen (or, not Stephen, but let's see if I can call his name just in a minute, moves my mind just now) Philip, and he went down and preached to them, and they had received the Word, but hadn't received the Holy Ghost, because Peter had the keys, come down and laid hands on them; Holy Ghost come on them.
Acts 10:49, the Gentiles... Up there when Peter opened the Gospel to the Gentiles, and from then, all nations had it. No more to speak of it. What was it? Jew, Gentile, and Samaritan.

39 Now, when Jesus represented Himself to the Jew, you see how He did it, in the very first of His ministry?
Now, watch what Philip said, "Thou art the Son of God; You are the King of Israel."
That's what that real staunch Jew said, when He said, "I saw you before you ... when you was under that tree, I saw you."
And Philip ... or, Nathanael said, "You are the Son of God, the King of Israel."
Jesus said, "Because I told you, I saw you under that tree, you believe Me?"
Said, "Yes."
Said, "Then you'll see greater than this." See, he was in position to know something, to get farther with God.

40 But there were those who stood by, the Jews, real scholars, Ph.D., DD., double LD., very scholarly. You know what they said? They said, "This man is a fortune-teller. He has the spirit of a devil, Beelzebub." How many knows that? "He does this by the power of Beelzebub, a fortune-teller." And anybody knows that fortune-telling is of the devil. So he said, "He is a fortune-teller, Beelzebub, the prince of them. He's the greatest of all the fortune-tellers."
And what did Jesus say? "You say that against Me, I will forgive you. But when the Holy Ghost is come to do the same thing, one word against it will never be forgiven in this world nor in the world to come." Is that what the Scripture says?
So there are those who are born for eternal destination. There are those who can't help it. They're blind, and the devil has blinded their eyes; they'll never see it. They can't see it.

41 And now remember, then we will see... That's the way He made Himself known to the Jew.
Now, He goes by one day, in St. John, pull your Scripture right over to the 4th chapter. Now, we was in the 1st chapter there; go to the 4th. I'm coming back to 3rd just in a minute. Then we're going to close.
Notice, then when He went over to the Samaritans, He was going to, and He passed by Samaria, and He went to a certain city, and the well's still there on the outside the city, a panoramic, something like this here, vines grew up around it, and a well. All the women go out there of a morning and pack their water. And can talk, as just women do, you know, and let their pot down, got the water, and put it up on their head. I've seen them set a big pot up on their head, hold about five gallon, one on each hip, walk right down the street talking, nod their head to one another, and never spill a drop. Just as perfect, because they're raised from little children to that.

42 And the disciples went in to get some bread, some food. Jesus sat alone. Why? The Bible said, "He had need to go by Samaria."
And He sat down there, and out come... Let's say she was a beautiful woman. Of course, we understand here in this country, that she was a prostitute. She'd been married so many times, and then living in adultery. And she came right by where Jesus was, let down her pot to get some water. And Jesus said, "Woman, bring Me a drink."
And she said, "Sir, it's not customary for you Jews to ask us Samaritans such things." Said, "We have no fellowship with each other. We have no such customs, because there's a segregation. You are Jewish and I am a Samaritan woman. We have no such customs, and no dealings with each other."
Jesus said, "But if you knew who you were talking to, you'd ask Me for a drink. And I'd bring you water ... give you water, you don't come here to draw." What was He doing? Contacting her spirit.
And she said, "Well, You say You're greater than our father Jacob, who dug the well, and he drank from it, and his children and his cattle, and so forth?" And talked about worship in the mountain at Jerusalem.

43 The conversation went on till Jesus found where her trouble was. Does anybody know where her trouble was? Certainly. She had five husbands. He said, "Woman, go get your husband and come here."
She said, "I have no husband, Sir."
Said, "That's right. You've had five husbands, and the one that you're now living with is not your husband. You've said right."
What did she say? "That man's a fortune-teller?" No. She said, "Sir, I perceive that You are a prophet."
Now, if you'll run that "prophet" back, it's the One that Moses was speaking of, that would come, see, see. "I perceive that You are a prophet. Now, we (Samaritans), we know when the Messiah cometh, He will tell us these things. But who are You?"
Jesus said, "I'm He that speaks to you."
And she run into the city, and said, "Come, see a man who told me the things that I've done. Isn't this the very Messiah?"

44 That woman knowed more about God, that prostitute, than half the New England preachers. That's right. Not only New England, but the whole world. See, they've just tied up so much with theology, that's all they know. But this woman was taught spiritual things, and she knew that when that prophet of prophets, the King of prophets come, that He would be the One that would reveal the secret of the heart. Oh, my, why can't we wake up?
Now look, not one time did Jesus ever do that in the presence of a Gentile, not one time. Why? The Gospel had not yet went to the Gentile. Anybody know that? When He was here, He said ... He did not go to the Gentiles, and He forbid His disciples to go to the Gentiles. Is that right? Said, "Go not in the way of the Gentiles, but go rather to the lost sheep of Israel." He forbid it. Why? The Gentiles has had two thousand years in their church. They were heathens in them days, our people were heathens. So they've got two thousand years of theology.

45 Now, if the closing of the Jews, when He turned His back to the Jews, and that's the way He made Himself known to the Jews in that manner, He's got to do it in the closing of the Gentiles, or He did wrong when He manifested Himself that way to the Jew.
If we're going to close this Gentile dispensation with just theology, "I'm a Presbyterian, I'm Pentecostal, I'm Methodist, I'm Catholic." If He closes like that, then He could not be just. He has to represent Himself the same way He did to the Jew, and to the Samaritan. Not one time in all history, has He did it, for this is the close of the Gentile dispensation.
The handwriting's on the wall, and you all know it. They got a sputnik up here, that we could be a satellite in the morning, and the nations are trembling and shaking. And He promised He'd take a people out of the Gentiles for His name. But only those who God foreknew by election will He call.

46 If your heart is hard, God be merciful. If your are open to see, God bless you. That's right. "For no man can come to Me, except My Father draws him first." They didn't see Him; they didn't understand Him; they thought He was a fanatic, or a spiritualist, or a devil, in them days, because their eyes were closed. The prophet said they would be closed.
Many miracles He had done before, yet they could not believe (St. Matthew, 12th chapter), because, Isaiah said, "They got eyes, and can't see, ears, and can't hear," see. Although the miracles that He had done, yet they could not understand it. The big church said, "He's a devil." So that's what they believed too.

47 Now remember, God takes His man, but never His Spirit. The devil takes his man, but never his spirit. The same Spirit was on Elijah, came on Elisha. Same One was on Elisha come on John the Baptist, eight hundred years later. The Holy Spirit that was on Christ, come on the church, and will remain until Jesus comes.
Now, what's happened? What's different from this day, than from the beginning? The prophet said there'll be a time of day, that it won't be neither day nor night, a dismal, foggy time.

48 The sun rose in the east. That's what Jesus was on the Eastern people, Samaritans, and also to the Jew. He shined His light, when He represented Himself there. We've come through all this long day, of just a dismal, enough to have churches, have theology, shake hands, put your name on the book, have denominations, and so forth. But the prophet said, "It'll be light in the evening time." Did He say it? All right.
How did civilization travel? From east to the west. East and west is now met. We're at the Pacific coast. The next move is east again.
Now what? Then the same sun that rises in the east, sets in the west. The same Holy Spirit that come and declared Christ in the Eastern people, and has been all this years of theology and so forth, now, has broke back the clouds. And the light's shining on the Western people just before the setting of the sun.

49 We're at the end time, my brother. We're at the end time, sister. Not me, I have nothing to do with it; I'm just your brother. I have not one thing to do with it. I'm just your brother and your servant in Christ, or fellow citizen of the kingdom. But Christ remains the same, and it's time for these things to happen.
Hearts failing, fear, sputniks in the skies. One extra drink of vodka, and they could pull a little lever, and we'd be powder in two minutes. And the world would fly plumb into the sun yonder. Just what the Scripture predicts it'll do. But remember, the church will go home before that happens. And if that could happen before morning, what could happen to the church, when it goes first? God's just to show Himself, that He still remains Christ the same, yesterday, today, and forever.

50 Have you got time for one more little quotation, before we pray? Listen to this. One day Jesus was passing, and He went along over a sea. There was a little man come down; his daughter was dead. And He said, "I will go wake her." And there was a woman up there, that she seen she couldn't get into the line; men were pressing everywhere, and patting Him on the back, and so forth. And He was walking along, little humble sort of a fellow. The Bible said, "There's no beauty, we should desire Him," probably a little bitty man.
And as He was going along, this little woman had a blood issue for many years, just a passing the menopause, if you understand, and she said in her heart, not in her head, in her heart, "If I touch that man's garment, I will be made well."

51 [Gap in the audio.] ... say such as that. The Bible said he rebuked Him. And said, "Why, the whole multitude's a touching You."
He said, "Yes, but I got weak." There's a different kind of a touch. Oh Concord, give that touch, a touch. He said, "I got weak; virtue's gone from Me, strength. I got weak." And He looked around, fear...
Everybody shaking heads, "Not me, not me, not me." See? "I never... Not me." See?
Looked around, and He looked over in the audience, and He found the little woman. And He said ... told her what her trouble was, and her faith had made her well. Is that right? Was that Jesus yesterday? Well, if He's the same today...? Only difference is His corporal body. As He promised, the vine working through the church. Is that right? That's His promise.

52 Now, how many of you Bible students... Now, listen close. Does the Scripture say in the book of Hebrews that Jesus Christ, today is a High Priest, that can be touched by the feeling of our infirmities? Does He say it? It does.
Then if He is the High Priest that could be touched with the feeling of our infirmities, how would He act? If He is the High Priest, and He's the same yesterday, today, and forever, how would He act? He'd have to act the same way He did, if He is the same. Is that right?

53 So it isn't necessary for you to be up here on the platform. You just believe what I've told you from God's Bible. And you say, "Lord Jesus, I have need tonight. I haven't any prayer card. I won't be in the line. But this preacher has told me that You're the same. And that little woman touched Your garment, and You turned around to her, and You told her her conditions and that her faith had saved her. Lord God, do that for me tonight."
Don't... Not me, you see. I have noth... See, it's just a gift that I yield myself to the Spirit. It's the Spirit working through both of us then (see) that does it. That's the way it was with her. He didn't know who done it. But her faith in God had did it.

54 Now, if He's the same, you can touch Him tonight with a feeling of your infirmities. Is that true? "Sirs, we would see Jesus." How many knows that I have quoted page after page of what the Scripture says Jesus was yesterday? All of you believe that, in the Bible? Now, if He will, with us... Not me, all of us together, cooperating together with the Holy Spirit, will do the same thing, heal the sick, and do the same thing that He did then, how many will say, "I love Him more, if I am a Christian, and if I'm not, I will be a Christian. And if I've done wrong, I will ask Him to forgive me. If I'm sick, I will accept my healing." How many will do it? Raise your hand, say, "I will do it."

55 I'm a total stranger to every person here, outside of Dr. Vayle here, and my son somewhere. He may not even be here now; he's somewhere. That's all that I know in the meeting. I believe this is a recording boy here; I don't know who you are son, but you've been along in the meetings, singing. That's the only person I know. How many knows out there that I'm strange to you? Raise your hands, know nothing of you? Christ does know you.
Did Billy give out prayer cards? Did he? [Gap in the audio.] ... nothing but the Scripture. That's all. All right. How many you got missing, Billy? All, everybody's there then. Well, that's fine then. That's good. We will start anyhow right there. All right. Now, I want you to be real reverent.

56 Now, this is the time that when God must answer to His Word, or His Word is false, and I'm found a false witness. Is that right? I've quoted the Scripture, quoted His promise, told you the day we lived in, whatever, what His promise was. Here it is. It's all sitting here. Showing a picture of Him, that the FBI has hanging in Washington, DC, as the only Supernatural being was ever scientifically proved to be photographed. And what did it happen to be? The same Lord Jesus.
No matter what that picture would look like, if it didn't bear the same fruit, it would be wrong, it could be just any kind of a light. But if that light bears the fruit of the Lord Jesus, then that's Him, the same One. By their what you shall know them? [Audience answers, "Fruit."] There you are.

57 You say, "Brother Branham, you might be something else. This might be ... might not be." But if it bears the fruit of the Holy Spirit, it'll do just exactly the way the Lord Jesus did. Is that right? If it doesn't, then it's not Him. That's just all. I don't want nothing to do with it, if it isn't. It must be Him, or I don't want... I want the right thing, don't you? I don't want some man's teaching. I want what God said in His Bible. Now, let us pray:

58 Lord, this is the hour that something must happen. This is my first time in this lovely state. How I can remember my old friend, Burt Caul. How I can remember Grampy Lowe and all of them up in the northern part of this state, how we sat out in them old sheds and talked, and out on the mountain sides, and the great times that we've had together...
God, some of those men may be sitting here tonight, for all I know. This is the first time to represent You in this great state, right here in their capital. God be merciful. Hide us, Lord. We're believers. We love You. We believe we're at the end of the road, Lord. We believe that You're coming right away, and we believe that You're now preparing Your people's hearts to receive it.

59 O Lord, may we, tonight, do like those at Emmaus, as I have already spoken. May we look and see Him do something just like He did before His crucifixion; then we will know that He's not in no grave; the Jews never stole Him away, no soldiers. He's alive.
Two thousand years has past, and You're still just as alive now as You was before the foundation of the world was ever laid, and will be when there's no more moon, nor stars, nor sun. You'll ever be alive. And because You live, we live also. And You're eternal life working in us, producing the same signs that You did according to Your promise. God, let not these people miss that.
Father, I commit it all to You, submit myself to Thee, and let that Angel of God, whose picture is taken here... O Christ, come now, that the people might know that I haven't falsely told them anything wrong, that it's truth, and You vindicate Your Word, through Jesus Christ. Amen.

60 Now if you, who are operating this here, just watch it, because I don't know how weak I get, how weak my voice gets. I have no idea; it's visions. Is this the lady?
Now, don't move around. Just sit real still. Everybody be in prayer. Be real reverent.

61 Now, here it happens to be tonight, a woman, right what I was talking about. St. John 4, here's a picture of St. John 4, just a drama.
Here's a woman; I've never seen her in my life. I guess we're strangers, are we to one another? We don't know each other. All right. This is our first time meeting in life.
Now, what if it was just like it was back there in the days when our Lord was here in a physical body, now what would He do? Could He say, "Lady, you're sick; I'm going to heal you"? No. He doesn't do it that way. See, He's already did it, see. He would tell her where the trouble was or something just like He did the woman at the well, wouldn't He, if He's the same? Now, all of you will admit that? All right.
Now, knowing not the woman, she doesn't know me. Here's the Bible, and my hand's to God, I've never seen her in my life. As far as I know, unless passing, a street, or somewhere I don't know her. She's witnessed she don't know me, and I don't know her. All right.

62 Now, if something... If I said, "Lady, you're sick. I'm going to put my hands on you; you're going to get well." Now, you could believe that. That'd be all right, see. That would be okay, but yet she could have a doubt. But if the Holy Spirit, Christ, remains the same, will go back in her life and tell her something that she knows I know nothing about, then if He knows what has been, He surely will know what will be. Is that right? There's the miracle of it.
Now, the Lord be blessed and just... You say, "What are you doing, Brother Branham?" I'm waiting for His anointing, the Angel of the Lord. Now, you just pray with me, silently, quietly, while I just see what He would say. I got maybe to talk to the woman, being the first in the city here, and it's not making her a... This is the first one to be dealing with. But just happened to be that you had that card, and here you are. And those out there who doesn't have cards, they're waiting just for their part.

63 But God knows you; I do not know you. He knowed you ever since you was born. All the air that you breathe, He's gave it to you. All the food that you've eaten, the clothes that you have, has been given to you by God. You believe that, do you? You do. Then if the Lord God is so good, and then will let me know what your trouble is, like you say, if you have some disease or something wrong---if He will tell me that, you will believe me then, won't you? Do you believe it come from Him and He's interested in you? See, I'm trying to build your faith to a place to get the anointing on you, sister, see, see. So now, if you'll just look this way now, and just believe. Just keep thinking with your heart. You just watch this way, let Him do the talking, see. You just keep believing. See what He says.

64 Now, there's someone in the audience with a greater faith than stands here, see. Yes, here it is. The woman's not here for herself; she's here for someone else. That's your grandchild. It's in a school. It has multiple sclerosis, and you're here for prayer for that child. That's the truth. Raise your hand, if that's the truth. Do you believe it gets it's healing? All right, then go and find it just the way you've asked, and it'll be that way. All right, sir, then fine. If you believe it, then go rejoicing, thanking the Lord, and find it just the way you've believed it, see.
Have faith now. Do you believe that was Him? See, I can't heal, have no power to heal. He can't heal now, see. It's your faith in His finished work, see. After He finished work, two thousand years He's still here. Be real reverent.

65 I don't believe I know you either. The Lord knows both of us, doesn't He? Do you believe that God will grant to you the things that... Somebody in the audience... Now, be real reverent. The Scripture says, "If thou canst believe, all things are possible." Have faith in God.
Here it is. It's a lady, sitting right back out here, right behind that young gentleman there with the checkered-looking shirt on, spotted. Lady sitting right behind him is suffering with a elephantiasis that she's wanting God to heal her from. Do you believe that God will heal you, lady, and make you well? Sitting right back, straight behind the young man there, do you believe with all your heart? She's got her head down praying, kind of a heavy-set lady, with a little jacket like on. If you believe with all your heart, you can have what you've asked for.

66 It leaves the woman. It comes to another faithful person, a lady sitting here's got varicose veins, sitting here, looking right at me. Sitting right down here. Do you believe God heals you, lady? You do? All right, you can have your healing. God bless you. You don't have a prayer card. You don't need one, see. Your faith did it. There you are. What did she touch?
I don't know you, do I, lady? Never seen you in my life as far as I know of. You're just a stranger that sits there. No prayer card, nothing, just come in, sit down. What did you do? You know that something's happened to you, don't you? If that's right, wave your hands back and forth like this. Sure, see. Your faith did it. What did she do? Touch me? She touched the High Priest, Jesus Christ, and He give to her the desire of her heart.

67 Here's a lady sitting right back here that's got the same thing, sitting with a little pin on ... or, a little flower on her, like that, varicose veins. That's right lady, isn't it? Raise up your hand, if that's right. That's here's the lady, right here with the little pink flower on her coat, elderly lady with glasses on. I don't know you, do I, lady? You accept your healing too? God bless you then. Go, and receive it.
You know why it's left this woman here? You know why it left and went out there? Not because she hasn't faith; she has. She don't know what I'm talking about. She doesn't understand English too well. She's a Finn. You're here from Finland, Finland, Iitto. Heart trouble. It's all gone now, on your road [unclear words]. Jesus, Jesus. How did I know that? From near to Lapland. If thou canst believe. Are you believing? Just have faith in God.

68 We are strangers to each other, sir, I suppose? But the Lord God knows us both. This would be, as far as I know, the first man that's come in the line. All right.
Let's take this as a Bible picture. When Philip went and got Nathanael, I was talking about tonight, and brought Nathanael, and he'd told him about knowing who Peter was, and so forth, coming over. Do you believe that same Jesus lives tonight? Do you believe it in the audience, that He lives? You are suffering with a kidney trouble, and with a heart trouble. That is true. If that's right, raise up your hand.
You say, "You might have guess that, Brother Branham." Oh, no. It isn't a guess, my friend. Here, let's talk to the man just a little longer. It come from somewhere out there; I couldn't catch where it was.

69 I don't know you, do I, sir? We're strangers, but what I said was the truth. Then that wasn't my voice; it was somebody else's voice. Do you believe it was the voice of Christ speaking like He said He'd speak? ["I know it was."] That's right, sir. All right. If you believe like that, then you'll see greater things. Do you believe that? ["I do."] All right, sir. Then you've got a wife here, and she's suffering with headaches and a nervous trouble. That's right, isn't it? ["That's right."] Yes, sir. And your name is Mr. Green, isn't it? ["That's right."] All right, go on your road; you're healed. You'll see greater things. God bless, on your road. If thou canst believe. Do you believe? All things are possible. Just real reverent.

70 The little lady sitting back there, right next to the gentlemen sitting next to the end back there, suffering with arthritis, do you believe the Lord Jesus will make you well, lady? Sitting right back here, sitting right here, next on this middle row, section right back... Say, do you see light above the woman? Now, if she will just see it and accept it. There it is. She's got her head down; she's praying. Will you believe it, lady? The little pink-looking dress on. If thou canst believe, all things are possible to them that believe. But you see, it left her. See, you must respond; you must do as you're told quickly. Be on alert, watching. Grace is a wonderful thing, see. Be alert, be watching.

71 Never left the audience yet. Don't press yourself; just be relaxed. Say, "Lord Jesus, I believe You." Well, you should believe, shouldn't you then. There's nothing else. See, I don't heal people. I can't do it. I've never even touched the person, see. You're touching Him. How many gets it now? How many believes it, with all your heart? Well, that ought to settle it then. You shouldn't have to go any further. We got it then.
The lady there with kidney trouble. All right. If you believe it, lady, you can have your healing too. If thou canst believe. And the gentleman also, sitting on the end. Thou canst believe, all things are possible, to you, my brother.

72 I don't know you. God does know you, doesn't He? You're suffering with a heart trouble. It's... You're bothered with your heart. I see something happened to you. You've been all bothered for quite... It's some kind of accident, like a car accident you've been in, what's caused that. That's right. That's exactly right. Go on your road. Your heart trouble's finished. Jesus Christ makes you well.
Come, lady. I catch that spirit coming from there, thinking I'm reading their mind. Touch my hand, lady. If I will tell you by God's Spirit, if He will reveal to me what's wrong with you, and me looking this way, you'll know whether it's truth or not, won't you? All right, sir, then diabetes won't bother you any more. You go, be well. God bless you, see. Have faith.

73 Come, lady, touch my hand. If God will heal you of that stomach trouble, will you be happy? Raise up your hand, if you will. Go eat your supper. All right, just have faith in God. Don't doubt at all.
Come here, lady. If God will heal you of that heart trouble, will you be happy for it? If you will, raise up your hand. Say, "Thank you, Lord." Go on your road and rejoice. Be happy now.
That arthritis gets pretty sore sometimes, doesn't it? Especially when you're trying to get up of a morning, move out of the bed sideways; well, go ahead and believe. It won't happen anymore, if you'll believe it.
Asthma's an awful thing; causes you to cough and everything. You believe God will make you well of it? Just keep moving, saying, "Thank you, dear God." Believe with all your heart. Yes. Go believe it with all your heart. Don't doubt.

74 Your back's bothering you, so just go ahead and believe God. Do you believe, every one of you? How many does believe with all your heart? Does the Bible say, "These signs shall follow them that believe"? Did He keep His promise? Is He the same yesterday, today, and forever? If you believe it, raise up your hand.
Well, Jesus, the last words He said, "These signs shall follow them that believe. If they lay their hands on the sick, they shall recover." How many knows the Bible says that? Then lay your hands on one another. Put your hands over on each other. Each one of you now, just lay your hands over on one another. Oh, my, He's here. He's not dead.

75 Do you believe, sister. Trouble with coughing and everything? You'll be all right? Go on your road and be healed in the name of the Lord Jesus.
If thou canst believe. You two lay your hands on each other, right there, right there as you go. Now, we're getting set for a drama. Somebody lay their hands on somebody near you now. Somebody near you, lay your hands on them. If God keeps this promise, He keeps... What is it? It's the sign that He's here. Is He the same yesterday, today, and forever? Say "Amen," if that's... Then if He keeps that Word, He keeps all of His Word. Then He said... If you raised your hand, said you were believers, then He said, "These signs shall follow them that believe." Now, each one of you, in your own way you pray at your church, you pray for the person you got your hands on, and they'll pray back for you, each one. I will pray for all of you, and you'll see a healing take place here. There won't be a feeble person in your midst, if you'll believe that Jesus Christ is here, right now. There won't be one sick person left in this building, or one feeble person, if you'll believe that He is the same yesterday, today, and forever. This Spirit that's amongst us now is Him, vindicating that He's here. Do you believe it now? Let's bow our heads:

76 Almighty and eternal God, who we love and believe, and cherish the Son Jesus... Satan has bound these people with sicknesses, fears, doubts, diseases. Lord God, it's near the end time. You might come before morning. And we are so happy to know that we have fellowship in the presence of the risen Lord Jesus, who's right here now, proving Himself the same yesterday, today, and forever.
Lord God, give these people faith to believe, each one of them confessing faith, and laying their hands upon some neighbor that's near them, that they are now praying for. And I ask You, God, to give faith that will not take "no" for an answer. Grant it, Lord.

77 Now, help me to have faith as I go in faith to charge this enemy.
Satan, the enemy, of affliction and sickness, you have no legal rights to hold any of these people. Jesus Christ died for each of them, that they could be healed. His back was beat into whelps and stripes, and He hung on Calvary, died, and rose again to come in the form of the Holy Ghost to vindicate to His people, that they might have faith in Him. And every right that you had over sin, was stripped from you at that time. You have no legal right; therefore, you're just a bluff, and we're calling that tonight.
By the witness of the Holy Ghost, that's now present, the risen Jesus Christ, the Spirit who has His picture taken here with us, who's working with us now, and in us. Thou sickness, and diseases that's in the body of these people, I charge thee, in the name of Jesus Christ, the Son of God, come out of the people, and let them go, in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ.

78 Do you believe you're healed? If you do, stand up on your feet right quick, and give God praise. Each one of you, stand up on your feet, and thank the Lord God for your healing. That's good. That's good. Fine. Wonderful. There's healing of the sick and the afflicted. Let's raise our hands, now, and just say, "Thank you, Lord." And let's sing this good old song, with our hands up in the air,
I will praise Him!
I will praise Him!
Praise the Lamb for sinners slain;
Give us chord, if you will, my brother. All right.
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.
I... (What about it there, brother?
Come up from there and believe Him.)
will praise Him!
I will praise Him!
Praise the Lamb for sinners slain;

79 That's right. Man's standing up out of the wheelchair, giving God glory. Believe it, brother; your time is here. Now, you know you've got it, don't you? Raise your hands up to Him. There it is. A man sitting down in a wheelchair, raised right out of the wheelchair, just now.
Washed away each stain.
Raise up your hands now and praise Him in your own way. Thank You, Lord. Praise the Lord, for His goodness and His mercy. He is in the midst of you people; He is your Saviour; He's your healer. Everyone is healed now. In the name of Jesus Christ claim it and glorify God. Amen.

We would see Jesus

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1 You may be seated if you will. So happy to be out in the tent again tonight to minister in the name of our precious Redeemer, the Lord Jesus. And I'm trusting that His blessings will rest upon us all. And we're a little late to get started. I know these conventions, they take quite a little time in their finances and things. That's the reason I can never have one.
If I had to go after it to get money, I sure would be out of the picture. It's the reason I've kept my meetings humble and little so that I don't have to have money. I can go preach to ten or half a million. If the Lord wants me to preach to ten, then I'm not under any obligation: I don't have any radio, television, or any great things. And I don't need any money---just to live---, and so that way... I just like to live that way.

2 The Lord knew better than to give me anything different. If I think... My expenses runs me about a hundred dollars a day at my office. What about...? You say that's a whole lot. Oral Roberts is between seven and ten thousand. Billy Graham sometimes is twenty-five thousand a minute on his cast. So those people have to have money.
If I had to do that, I'd just walk away. I haven't got the intelligence to do it in the first place. But the Lord just let me live humble, and I don't... My meetings never get big, we just keep it small. I just held a revival in a place held twenty people, then I left India where I had five hundred thousand.

3 Just now, a man laid his arm around me from Germany, just now, where we had on the average of ten thousand converts every night---fifty thousand in five nights. In Durban, South Africa, we had thirty thousand in one altar call. I couldn't estimate what it was in India; there's just oceans of people. But when the Lord wants me to go over there, He just sends somebody around with the money and sends me over. So that's the way I have it, and I just leave it like...
But like these brethren here, in these big conventions, they need lots of money and things, and they have to do it.
So, let us bow our heads just a moment for prayer. Eternal God, breathe Thy Spirit upon us tonight, Lord. And we need Thee, and we pray that You'll minister to us, and let us minister to the congregation. In the name of Thy Son, Jesus, we ask it. Amen.

4 Now tonight, may the Lord add His blessings. Tomorrow night is our leaving night. And we have to go from here, straight, immediately up into Greenville, South Carolina, in another convention. Then we got the Baptist people up in, I believe, it's called Green Pines (or something like that), North Carolina (Pine ... Green Pine or Pines, some kind of a Pine, up in North Carolina with the Baptist people.) And then from there to the Full Gospel Businessmen's Convention at Philadelphia. Then I was scheduled for overseas.
I got to have a little rest pretty soon, because I'm really tired. And I just go... Just think, I've been on the constant move since January the 1st, see. And night after night... So now... Not asking for sympathy, just asking for prayer. That's all. Just prayer is all I need.

5 Now, I wish to read... Now, I know we're a little late and just about a half hour late. I know that many of you people work, but I want to take just enough time to try to explain tonight (because I'm going to pray for the sick), and I want you to understand it thoroughly. It would be a lot better for you to understand what you're coming up here for, and what you're here for, than it would be just a head-long into it and not knowing what you're doing, see. It's not a hit and miss proposition; it's we're meeting God. And we must... I'm not going to preach; I'm just going to explain to you what I think about it.
First, we always want to base everything we do upon the Word, because it must come from God's Word. I believe that this is the foundation, is this blessed Bible. And everything that we do, and all actions of the Spirit must come from the Scripture as a promise of God. If it isn't, well, I won't say God wouldn't be doing it, but I'd be just a little afraid of it if it was that way. But as long as it's from the Scripture, all right.

6 So now, I wish to read some from the book of Saint John and the 12th chapter of Saint John, the 20th verse. And then I want to take Hebrews 13:8 as a text.
And there were certain Greeks among them which came up to ... the feast:
And the same came to Philip, which was of Bethesda, ... and said unto him, ... Sirs, we would see Jesus.
Then in Hebrews 13:8 it is written:
Jesus Christ, the same yesterday, ... today, and for ever.
And now, my subject tonight would be: "We Would See Jesus."
And if I would go in this audience and ask each and every one of you to raise your hands, all here that would love to see Him, I believe that every hand would be up; for no one could ever hear His name, but what would long to see Him. That's my great anticipations, is to someday to come to Him and just lay my hands on His feet, the wonderful One.

7 Sometime ago down in the south, there was an old colored man and he had been out to an old plantation singing, and he got saved. And so on his way back to work the next morning, he was telling among the slaves, "I'm free."
And the boss came up and said, "Mose, what's this, you saying you're free?"
He said, "Yes, boss, I'm free!"
He said, "Come on over to the office, Mose; I want to talk to you about this freedom you're speaking of." So he said, "You remember you're a slave."
And when he got him to the office, he said, "Mose, what's this you're saying?"
He said, "Boss, I said I was free, because last night at a little singing, Jesus Christ set me free from the law of sin and death, and I'm a free man today."
He said, "Mose, do you really mean that?"
He said, "I mean it, boss, with all my heart."
He said, "Then I will go down and sign the proclamation. I'll set you free too, that you can preach it among your brethren."

8 Years after that he come to die. And many of his white brethren come to look upon him, and he seemed to be in a daze or a trance. And he woke up, and he looked around, he said ... some of them said, "Mose, I thought you were gone."
He said, "I was just at the gate."
And he said, "What did you see, Mose?"
He said, "Well, I tell you what I saw." He said, "I was standing at the gate, looking, and I seen Him." And said, "There was someone come up to me and said, 'Mose, come over here and get your crown and your robe.'"
He said, "Don't talk to me about crown and robes."
He said, "Why, Mose, you were a faithful servant. You have earned a robe and a crown."
He said, "Don't talk to me about that. My reward is: Just let me look at Him for a thousand years."

9 I think that's about the feeling of all of us: Just let me look at Him. And yet, according to our Scriptures, the Bible says that He is the same yesterday, today, and forever. So if he is the same, and our anticipations are the same as these Greeks were, "Sirs, we would see Jesus..." Not, "We don't want Him to do a miracle, we don't want to hear His teaching." "We just want to see Him."
Well, if He is the same yesterday, today, and forever, why can't we see Him?
Now, I want you to hold these words. And don't miss them now, because we're having a big campaign, and we're here in this convention where we don't get a chance in the afternoon to go through these things; and you must catch it and weigh it with God's Word.

10 "Can anybody see God?" That question was asked in a Sunday school in my city. A little lad had been in Sunday school and he said to his mammy, he said, "If God is so great, why can't somebody see Him?" Said, "Can we see Him, Mama?"
Said, "Well, why don't you ask your Sunday school teacher?"
She said, "Ask the pastor."
The pastor said, "Certainly not, sonny. No one can see God and live." And the little fellow was amazed at the pastor's statement.

11 And he used to stay down on the Ohio river, where I live at the bank of it (raised on that bank). Way up the river at a Six-Mile Island, where this old fisherman, the little boy used to go with, goes up to run his lines one day, and the little lad was with him. And on the road down, there come up a storm, and they pulled in and get behind some trees. And after awhile, the storm cleared away, and they started off in their little row boat with their catch again. And on their road down, there come a rainbow back in the east. And as they were going westward, the old fisherman with his silver-tipped beard, pulling the boat and watching that rainbow...
And the little lad sitting in the stern of the boat noticed the teardrops running off his gray beard. And he got enthused, and he run up to the middle of the boat, and he fell at the old fisherman's feet. And he said, "Sir, I want to ask you a question that, seemingly, no one can answer me." Said, "You was looking at that rainbow; and we're taught in the Scriptures that God made the rainbow." He said, "If God is so great," said, "can anyone see Him?" Said, "The pastor said no one could see Him. The Sunday school teacher said no one can see Him. What do you say?"

12 The old fisherman, so overcome, he pulled his oars in the boat and hugged the little lad in his arms, and he said, "God bless your little heart, honey. All I've seen for the past forty years has been God." He has to be on the inside, first, before you can see Him on the outside. If He's inside, He will use your eyes to see Him.

13 But I'm wondering... Among... Most of you people are Pentecostal. And I'm wondering... Here a few days ago in Louisville, there was a lady coming down in a certain ten cent store. And she had a little baby in her arms, a little boy, and four or five years old. And she would go to the counter, and she'd pick up a little thing and say, "Look at this, darling," but the little lad just stared. And she'd go to another counter, and seemingly getting nervouser all the time, and she'd pick up another little thing and say, "Look at this, darling," louder. And the little lad just stared. Finally, she went to a certain counter and got a little trinket that made a noise, and she rattled it. And she said, "Looky here, darling," and the little lad just stared. And she fell over on the counter, exhausted and weeping.
And some of the people who had been noticing her, run to her and said, "What's the matter, madam?"
She kept saying, "Oh, no, no!" Said, "The doctor told me he was better, but he isn't." Said, "You see, he's a little boy; he should be interested in things that pertain to little boys." But said, "He got a spell on him not long ago, and he just sits and stares. And he won't pay any attention to things that little boys ought to look at." Said, "His mind has been paralyzed to the things that he ought to be looking at."

14 And I just wonder if that isn't the condition of the Pentecostal church tonight, and all the other churches? God has shook every little gift: Oral Roberts, Billy Grahams, and Jack Coes. And every gift that's in the book, has been shook before them, and they seem to just sit and stare, become spiritually paralyzed: "Oh, well... It was all right. Oh, I know that can happen." Oh, could you realize that that's God trying to catch your attention? We become spiritually numbed.
Now, the question is, "If He is the same yesterday, today, and forever..." And I realize that there's men sitting here to my right, and around in this little group of people tonight, that's better equipped to explain this than myself. But call my attention if I get from the Word.

15 If the Scripture says He is the same yesterday, today, and forever, then He must be the same, or the Scripture is wrong. And if the Scripture is wrong, where are we at, and what condition is the whole world in tonight? And remember Jesus said, "The Scriptures cannot be broken." That come from the mouth of Christ, the Son of God. The Scriptures cannot be broken. And if the Scripture says He is the same yesterday, today, and forever, He has to be the same, or the Scriptures are wrong.
Now, let's just bring God to His Word. If God don't keep His Word, then He's not God. And if He does keep His Word, we should be the happiest people in earth, because God keeps His Word.

16 Now, remember, we are finite. Our minds are finite. God is infinite. And infinite is perfect. God knew the end from the beginning. Then you would say, "Why would He permit sickness?" I will ask you a question: Which was first, a Saviour or a sinner? A Saviour. Which was first, a healer or a sickness? God permitted it, that He might project His love and power to the human race. Why, when we are brought in the presence of the Lord Jesus at His coming, there'll be a million angels stand around the earth with bowed heads, listening at the church sing the songs of redemption, not knowing what we are talking about. They've never been lost. They don't know what it means to be lost. You and I know what it means. They've never been sick. They don't know how to rejoice over healing. They need no healing. If there'd never been any evil, there would've never been no good to... If there'd never been no night, you'd never knowed nothing but day. You see the law of contrast? It must be that way.

17 So God, when He is called on the scene to make a decision for a certain thing (Don't miss this.), and the way God acted when He was called to a certain crisis, He must forever act the same way when the same crisis arises.
If a man was a sinner and called on God to save Him, and God saved him, He's duty bound to keep His Word to every sinner that calls on Him. Or if He didn't, He did wrong when He saved the first one.
See, I can make a mistake. You can make a mistake. But God cannot make a mistake. If He does, then He's not God; He's finite like I am, like you are. But His first decision... See, we get smarter. (We're supposed to.) Each generation: Your grandfather had a ox cart; your daddy had a T-Model; and today they got a jet plane. But you see, each generation gets weaker and wiser. But God was infinite to begin with. He was infinite; He cannot change. So when God makes a decision on any certain thing, if that same crisis arises, He's got to do the same thing, or He acted wrong when He acted the first time. Now, hold that in mind.

18 And now, if Jesus is the same yesterday, today, and forever, and the way He revealed Himself when He was here on earth and He is the same), He's got to act the same way, or He acted wrong with the Jews.
Now remember, Jesus was not sent to the Gentiles, or none of His church was sent to the Gentiles. He was sent to the Jews. He came to His own, and His own received Him not. When He sent His disciples, said, "Don't go to the Gentiles, but go, rather, to the lost sheep of Israel." Is that right? He was sent to the Jew.
So the way that He declared Himself to the Jews to be the Messiah in their day, He's got to do the same to the Gentiles, or He acted wrong when He declared Himself to the Jews in that day.
There's only three nationalities of people; that's Jew, Gentile, and Samaritan, which are Ham's, Shem's, and Japheth's people. They have to come from them three, because all was destroyed in the antediluvian destruction.

19 So if you notice Peter, with the key... Pentecost, Samaritans, Acts 10:49 to the Gentiles, then the Holy Ghost was open to all the races of people.
Notice, He never was called no more with the key to the kingdom. Now, then, if there's... I'd say to you Methodists, "Do you believe that He is the same yesterday, today, and forever?" You'd say, "Sure." To you Baptists? "Sure." You Pentecostal? "Sure." But now, the way we try to make Him the same---the way the Methodists tries to make Him the same, the Baptists, the same; the Pentecostals, the same making it...
Let's go back and, to be just in it, let's go back and see according to the Bible, the way He was. And then if He isn't the same as He was in the Bible, then He isn't the same. Now, if He isn't the same in principle, the same in power, the same in manifestation, every way that He was then, He isn't the same.

20 Now, if we try to say He's the same because He gathers people together, well, the Mohammedans has got us beat three to one. And you say, "Well, we are happy and have joy by knowing it." The Mohammedans can produce just as much psychology as any Pentecostal ever lived.
You ought to've heard what Morris Reedhead said about that when that Mohammedan had his education and going back. Said, "Why don't you take a resurrected Jesus with you instead of a dead prophet, Mohammed." And I've been to Mohammed's grave. They have a white horse change every four hours. And they've been there for two thousand years, expecting Mohammed to raise from the dead.
Buddha died twenty-three hundred years ago in Japan. And he was... That's second the biggest. Christianity (Catholic, and Protestant, all together) is about third or fourth down the line.

21 What's the matter? Is because we failed to do what Jesus commanded us to do. We've went and made organizations, built churches, built schools. He said, "Preach the Gospel." The Gospel isn't organizing churches, building schools. They're all right. But preaching the Gospel... The Bible said the Gospel come to us (Paul said) not in word only, but through power, demonstration, manifestations of the Holy Ghost. "Go manifest the Holy Ghost to all the world."
When He was here on earth, He said, "A little while and the world won't see Me no more. Yet ye shall see Me, for I will be with you, even in you to the end of the world." Now, is that right or wrong?
He said, "I am the vine, ye are the branches." Now, the vine does not bear fruit; the branch bears fruit. How many knows that, raise your hand? Sure you do. Where does it get it's life? From the vine.

22 Now, here not long go, I was discussing that. If I wanted to go to a grape vine, I expect to find grapes. If I went to a pumpkin vine, I'd expect to find pumpkins. If I went to a peach tree, you get peaches. If you go to a watermelon vine, you get watermelon.
But when you go to church, what do you find? A bunch of arguing, discussing, and fussing, and stewing, and organizing, and societies. We need Christ back in the church again in the fullness and the power of His life!
We find everything, almost, but Christ. That's where we're wrong. We are the vine; and if we have His Spirit in us, it'll manifest Him. Certainly it will.

23 Now, when He was here on earth, He said, "I do nothing except the Father shows Me first what to do." How many knows that? Saint John 5:19. He went down to the pool of Bethesda. He found a man laying on a pallet. He looked around. (Now, you southerners know what a pallet is. I can say that up North, and they don't know what I'm talking about.) But a pallet ... I was raised on one. So, it's just a little old quilt laying down at the door.
And so then, when we notice this man laying on a pallet, Jesus went around till He found him, and He healed him, and walked away, and left multitudes of lame, blind, halt, and withered laying there. The Scripture says He did. Blind, deaf, crippled, paralyzed, waterhead babies, He will build right around everyone of them, till He found this certain man laying there. He could walk. He probably had prostate trouble or something. It was retarded; he had it thirty-eight years. He could walk. He said, "When I'm coming down, somebody steps ahead of me."
Jesus said, "Take up your bed." Now, watch. He said He knew He'd been in that condition all this time. Now, when Jesus was questioned at the Sanhedrin (now watch), perhaps it was this: "Why is this man packing his bed on the Sabbath? Why didn't you heal some the rest of them? They got a whole bunch of them down here. Why don't You heal them?"

24 Listen to His words, now, Saint John 5:19: "Verily, verily (which means 'absolutely'), I say unto thee, the Son can do nothing in Himself, but what He sees the Father doing, that doeth the Son likewise." Now, John 5:19. Now, if the Scriptures cannot be broken, if Jesus did anything without the Father telling Him first what to do, He told something wrong there. "The Son can do nothing in Himself, but what He sees (not hears); what He sees the Father doing, that doeth the Son likewise." In other words, He acted it out in drama. There never was a prophet, there was a man in the Scripture, ever done things at random. First, it was vision.
Someone said not long ago, "Call fire down or something another like Elijah did."
I said, "First, God showed Elijah."
"Oh, no," said the man. "He did not."
I said, "Elijah laid those sticks and things in order. And he said, 'Lord, I've done all of this at Your command.'" Always... No man... There's never been a man, even to the Son of man, the Son of God, could ever say within Himself that He did anything outside of God. And if a man tells you he can heal you, what position does he put himself in?
When even the Son of God said He didn't heal people. "Not Me that doeth the works. It's my Father that dwelleth in Me, He doeth the works. And I do nothing till He shows Me what to do first." That was Jesus yesterday. That's Jesus today.

25 Now, let's follow Him just a little bit and see what He would do. We read out of Saint John the 12th chapter. Let's turn back now. These hungry hearted Greeks... Let's go back to the 1st chapter and just read His life.
And now, if we can find what He did yesterday, if He will do the same today, and will let us see Him do it right here before us all, we will all be happy about it, won't we, and know that He still lives?
Now, remember, let me quote this before I go back. "A little while and the world will see Me no more." Now, that word there is cosmos, which means "the world order." "The world will see Me no more. Yet ye shall see Me (that's the believer), for I will be with you to the end of the age (the end of the world)."

26 Now, the world won't see, no matter... There's people born... We hate to say this: there's people that were born to eternal destruction. The Scripture says so. Romans 8 said, "Before that Esau or Jacob was ever born or come from their mother's womb, God said, 'I hate Esau and love Jacob,' before either child had a chance. God by (not predestination) by His will, but by His foreknowledge He knew that Esau was a shyster to begin with. Excuse that expression, but that just means "a renegade." So that's what he was. And God by foreknowledge knew it.
And some people, no matter what you would do, they'll still disbelieve it. But God's just; He keeps His Word.

27 They never knew Elisha, or they wouldn't have sent those little kids behind him when Elisha ... saying, "Old bald head, why didn't you go up?" And Elisha turned and cursed those children. Two she bears killed forty-two children.
They didn't know John the Baptist. Even his disciples didn't know him, till after he was beheaded. They said to Jesus, "Why does the Scribes say that Elias must first come?"
Jesus said, "He's already come and you didn't know him." No one knew, hardly, but just a very few, that Jesus was the Son of God until His death, burial, and resurrection.

28 Say, you Catholics, you claim Saint Patrick. Did you ever read his actual history? He was just about as much Catholic as I am. He protested the Catholic church. And he done miracles. But after he was dead, you recognized him as a saint.
How about Saint Francis of Assisi, a walking preacher with a Bible under his arm, who made the birds keep still while he was preaching? You didn't recognize him then. But you did later, after he was dead.
How about you school children? Joan of Arc, you Catholic people? That spiritual woman, who saw visions and was filled with the Spirit, and you burned her to the stake as a witch, as a Beelzebub, like her Lord was killed. You, the Catholic church, did that. But about a hundred years later, you found out she was a saint. Of course you done a lot of repentance. You dug up the dead bodies of those priests and throwed them in the river. Now you canonize her as a saint.
God declares Himself in every age. And He's got to declare Himself tonight, or He isn't God of the other age. And the people's got to reject it like they did back there. His servants will have to suffer as they did. It must fulfill the Scriptures.

29 Now, notice closely, as we go on. What was He yesterday? Turn back to Saint John 1 and read. We find immediately after He was anointed with the Holy Spirit, Holy Ghost came into Him, He went about ... begin gathering up His disciples. And one got converted and went and got his brother. His name was Andrew. And He went and got Simon, his brother, an old ignorant fisherman. He was so illiterate until he couldn't write his own name.
What's your schooling, and education, and Bible colleges, and things got, if God took a man like that that couldn't write his name? I'm not downing them, but you put too much emphasis on those: getting your preacher out of some seminary. It don't take a seminary experience; it takes a God's experience: a backside of the desert. God takes something that isn't, and makes something out of it to show that He is.

30 This old fisherman couldn't even sign his own name, so illiterate. And Andrew found him and said, "Come see, we've found the Messiah," Saint John 1. And as soon... Watch Jesus yesterday. And as soon as he came into the presence of Jesus, Jesus said, "Your name is Simon. And your father's name is Jonas." What do you think that ignorant unlearned fisherman thought? He never questioned it at all. He knew that he was in the presence of the Messiah. And he got the keys to the kingdom, a man that couldn't sign his name. The next day, there was one converted named Philip. Jesus yesterday, watch what He did.
And as soon as Philip got converted, he went around the mountain to find a friend of his by the name of Nathanael. And let's just dramatize this. There's little children here.

31 And I see Philip going around, hurrying. And he gets to the house and knocks at the door. And the lady comes to the door, and he says, "Where is Nathanael?"
"Oh, Philip, he just went out into the orchard to pray." And out in the orchard goes Philip, just as hard as he can to find Nathanael. And when he finds Nathanael... Of course, Philip was a Christian gentleman. He was on his knees praying. He waited till he got finished and raised up, brushing off his clothing. And I can hear him say, "Good morning, Philip. I'm so glad to see you again."
Notice, before Philip said anything, he said, "Come, see who we found." If the church would be that much interested in getting Christ to the people, instead of so much social gossip and carry-on... Talking about this creed and that creed.
He never even taken time to speak to him. He had something more important. He said, "Come, see who we've found: Jesus of Nazareth, the Son of Joseph."

32 Now, Nathanael was a orthodox, staunch believer. And I can hear him say, "Now, just a minute, Philip. I've knowed you to be a man of honor, a man of integrity. I believe that you're a just man. You must have went off on the deep end somewhere." Everybody that really finds Jesus, the world thinks they've gone on the deep end. "You must have went off into some kind of an ism. Did you say that this Messiah that you're speaking of, come out of Nazareth?" (It's worse than Dallas.)
Said, "Why, you mean to say that it could come out of there? Why it's impossible. Now, looky here, fellow. If that Messiah would come, He would come to Jerusalem. He would come to Caiaphas, the high priest, and all the rest of the priests. He would make Hisself known He was Messiah."

33 You Catholics thinks if He would come, He'd go to the Pope. You Presbyterians would think He'd go to the bishop. You Pentecostal think He'd go to the state presbyter. But God goes to who He wants to and does what He wants to, and it's nobody else's business. He works in mysterious ways. He goes where it pleases Him to go. So, pot can't call kettle black. Remember that. God works His own way. And He does whatever He wants to do.
And He said, "You mean He'd go to Jerusalem."
That's what they think tonight. If there could be any healing power, if there could be any manifestation, it would have to come through my denomination. God fools them so many times. He's always did it, and He always will. He doesn't change. He has to remain the same. Tell me one time that He ever come to a denomination. Mention in the Scripture, anywhere in the age, where God ever dealt with a denomination.
There was a certain man that founded that denomination that He dealt with, but the denomination went to seed. And when it did, He laid her up on the shelf and not one has ever raised since He laid it on the shelf. The pillar of fire moves on, and God moves with it, and somebody sees it and goes on.

34 Martin Luther found it. He said, "The just shall live by faith." But what did he do? Built an organization under it. God isn't in organizations, so He just moved out. And when He did, left Luther with his organization.
And then John Wesley saw it, and away he went: sanctification, second definite work of grace. And the first thing, he organized himself: made the Methodists. God just moved right on out.
The Pentecostals saw it in the baptism of the Holy Ghost, but now you're organized so tight, God's just moving right on out and leaving you. That's right. God is not bound to any denomination or any barrier. He's only duty bound to His Word. That's all. And He does it, and He keeps His Word. He must do it.
Now, you say, "Brother Branham, you fight organization." Who thinks that is not reading my thoughts. I do not. I think there's grand and glorious men in every organization. But when you think that you're the only pebble on the beach, you're wrong. That's right. You Methodists, Baptists, Presbyterian, Lutheran, Pentecostals, Assemblies of God, Church of God, whatever you are, you got great men in every one of them. You've got great people in them. But don't you never get the idea that you're not going to fellowship with the other one, and remain that way. You'll never do it. [Blank place on tape.] The whole church, the whole body of Christ, and that's where He works.

35 Now notice Him... And Nathanael was all sewed up in that. And he said, "Could there be any good thing come out of Nazareth?"
And I think Philip give him the best answer that could be given, said, "Come, see."
"Well, my church is not cooperating."
"That doesn't matter. Come, see anyhow!" And if God's dealing with you, there isn't enough in the world to keep you away from Christ. There is nothing will keep you from Him.
"If I be lifted up, I will draw all men unto Me." That's what He said.
And now, notice. Said, "Come and see."
Now, let's watch them as they go around. It was fifteen miles around the mountain, taking them a day's journey each way. And so on the road back, I could hear Philip say, "Do you know the reason we know this is the Messiah? Did you remember that time you bought them fish down there from that old fellow by the name of Simon?"
"Oh, yes, that old ignorant fisherman that couldn't sign my receipt?"
"Yeah. Well, you know, as soon as that old ignorant fisherman come up in the presence of this Messiah, He told him, 'Your name is Simon, and your father's name is Jonas.' It wouldn't surprise me, Nathanael, that when you come into His presence, He wouldn't tell you who you are too. He seems to know, discern the spirit of man. He knows what's in man. He knows what's the matter with man."

36 And as they walked up, Jesus in His regular procedure, perhaps was standing in the prayer line, and then when Philip come up into the congregation bringing him to the meeting that night ... or, day (whenever it was), walked up in the presence (the first time that he'd ever saw Jesus)--- Watch Jesus yesterday---, Jesus said, "Behold, and Israelite in whom there is no guile."
"Well," you say, "he was dressed..." No, no. He could've been a Arab. He could've been a Greek. They all dressed the same, wore turbans and long garments, robes---dark-complected people. He could've been Arab or been many a nationality.
But He said, "You are a Israelite and a just, honest man in whom there's no guile."
Why, it took that Jew off his feet, till he said, "Rabbi (Teacher), when did You ever see me? When did You know me?"
And Jesus said, "Before Philip called you, I saw you when you were under the tree." That was Jesus yesterday. That's the way He manifested Himself before the Jew. Find out any other Scripture where He ever made Hisself known in any other way but that way. That's the only way He did.

37 Now, watch. There's a expression of the true Jew. What did this true Jew say (on who the miracle was performed)? He said, "Rabbi, You are the Son of God. You are the King of Israel."
Jesus said, "Because I told you that, you believe me? You'll see greater things than this."
But there were those who stood by, very holy, orthodox, staunch, D.D.D., Ph-Double-L.D., standing all by. And you know what they said? They had to brand it something. But their eyes were blinded, the Bible said, to that. Now, there's what the real true Jew said. Nathanael represented the true believer. Jesus recognized him as a believer. And when Jesus told him where he was before he come to the meeting, he knowed that was the sign of the Messiah. If that was the sign of Messiah yesterday, it's the sign of the Messiah today. He's got to express Hisself the same way if He's the Messiah, the same Messiah.

38 Those Jews stood by and said, "This man is a fortuneteller, a Beelzebub." Beelzebub is the prince of the devils, which is a fortuneteller. We all know that fortune-telling is of the devil. So he said, "This man tells these things by Beelzebub."
Now, listen to what Jesus said. Here's His expression, Christian friend and sinner friend too. "I forgive you for that." (But in so many words), " Someday the Holy Ghost will come and will do the same thing. And whosoever speaks one word against it, shall never be forgiven in this world nor in the world to come." Did He say it? Then what kind of a place does it put us in? One word against it... For the Holy Spirit's here two thousand years to manifest Himself; here's His written Scripture pertaining to it.

39 Them days had to know it by revelation. Today, you know it by the Word and the Spirit. The Father seeketh such that'll worship in Spirit and in truth, see. All right. Here we are.
Now, those Jews, we know what happened to them. But the real believer... Let's follow him a little farther. Turn over to Saint John, 4th chapter, right now. We're Saint John 1, Saint John 3, Saint John 4, and Saint John 5. Now, just right down through the Scriptures, just taking his life the way he lived it and what he did. Let's follow him up.

40 Now, there was three classes of people which was Jew, Gentile, and Samarian. He was forbidden to the Gentile. Not one time did He ever perform that before a Gentile. Why? We were heathens of those days. We were worshipping idols, the Anglo-Saxon was.
Notice, now listen close now, so you won't miss this. This is "thus saith the Lord." Jesus, on His journey, had need to go by Samaria. And He sat down at the well, which is a little panoramic, something like this would be here and there's vines over it. All you have been there, have seen the well, the well of Samaria. They have it in all the eastern countries. And vines grow over it, and there's a well where the... It's a public well where the people of the city come to get water.

41 Well, it was about noontime, and He sent His disciples in to buy food. While they were in there, why, a woman came up. Let's say she was a beautiful woman, pretty. We know her as a prostitute. That's a ill-famed woman. Maybe she'd slept all day, been out all night running around. Or maybe she couldn't come out where the descent women was. She had to come out that time to get the water. And the water, it has a windle, they let down a pot. And it's got a handle over this crock---pot. They let it down and get water.
I've seen them take and put one big five gallon jug on top of their head, one on each hip, walk right down the street, nod their head, talking as women can do, you know, and never spill a drop, walking with a pot on each side, fifteen gallons of water, walking right along, talking.

42 Well, this woman come out to get her a bucket of water. And as she put the little hooks around the jar ... handles, and she started to let the windle down, a voice spoke and said, "Woman, bring Me a drink." And she looked. And she saw a Jew sitting over there, a middle-aged Jew. He was only thirty-three, but the Bible said He looked fifty.
"Are you older than Abraham, when you're a man not over fifty years old (Saint John 6) and say that You've seen Abraham?" See.
Now, He said... There sat a middle-aged Jew. And this woman, being a Samaritan, well-taught, she believed in God also, she said, "It's not customary. We have a segregation, that we Samaritans and Jews have no fellowship with each other. We have no dealings together."
He said, "Woman, if you knew who you were talking to you, you'd ask me for a drink. I'd give you water you don't come here to draw."
She said, "Do you mean to say that You're greater than our Father (See) Jacob? (She was an Israelite: believer.) Do you mean to say that You're greater than our Father Jacob, who dug the well, drank from it himself, and his cattle and children drank from it?" And the conversation went on. What was Jesus doing? Contacting her spirit, see. Watch Him.

43 Finally, got to asking about worship at Jerusalem or in this e ountain. He said, "The time's coming when God, seeking those who neither worship in this mountain or at Jerusalem, but in Spirit and truth." When He found where her trouble was... How many knows what her trouble was before I say it? She was living in adultery. He found her trouble. And listen to Him. He said, "Go, get your husband and come here."
She said, "Sir, I don't have any husband."
He said, "You said well, for you've had five, and the one you're living with now is not your husband. Therefore, you said well."
Now, what did she say? "Say, You're Beelzebub, You're a fortuneteller. You have mental telepathy." No, sir. She knowed better. She knowed more about God than half the preachers in the United States does, her being a prostitute.
Listen what she said. She said, "Sir, I perceive that You are a prophet." Now, if you'll run that word back, you'll find out it's "the prophet" that Moses said, "the Lord Your God shall rise up like unto Me." They were looking for that sign.

44 So was Nathanael. So was every true Jew watching for it. But all the big organizations and things, they had their popularity and their big places and they wasn't looking for such. It wasn't spiritual. It's always the spiritual people who sees God. It's always the spiritual people who sees the spiritual things.
A guy said not long ago, "I don't believe in divine healing. I don't care what you say."
I said, "Sure not. It wasn't sent to unbelievers. It was only to those who believe." Certainly. It's just for the believer. "Certainly, you can't see it."

45 And she said, "I perceive that You are a prophet. We Samaritans, we know; we're taught; we believe; it's been revealed to us; we know that when the Messiah cometh, He will tell us these things, but who are You?"
He said, "I am He that speaks to you."
She dropped her water pot. Into the city she went and said, "Come, see a man who told me the things that I've done. Isn't this the Messiah?"
She knowed more about God than (I say again) the preachers know. She knew that was the sign of the Messiah. The educated scholarly people of that day said, "He's Beelzebub." Today, they say it's fortune-telling or demon possession, not knowing that they're sealing their eternal destination.
"We know when the Messiah cometh, He will tell us these things, but who are You?"
He said, "I am He."
And she said, "Isn't this the very Messiah, the man that told me the things that I've done?"

46 Now, does she know more about it than the preachers do? Preachers will come, and listen, and say, "Ah, nonsense to that."
That woman saw it, and she said, "That's the sign of the Messiah." Went into the city and said, "Come, see this man." And remember, He didn't do any miracles, He just told them, direct, who He was, and that was the sign that He let them know that He was Messiah, because Philip went down a little later on from that and held a revival and healed the sick. But that was Jesus yesterday. He's got to be the same.

47 Now remember, He never did that before any Gentile. He did it only to the Jew and Samaritan. And a Samaritan was a half-breed which did believe in Jehovah, but Gentiles were heathen. But the Bible said, the prophet said, "There'll be a day that it won't be neither night nor dark ... dark nor light, but in the evening time, it shall be light." Now the same Christ that brought forth His power and glory on the east... And as the sun travels east west, it's been a dark day. We've had organizations. We've made great scholars. We've got people to confess Jesus to be Christ. They've been saved from their sins and so forth, but remember, civilization has traveled with the sun. Civilization begin in the east. It's went west. And now, east and west has joined together. But the prophet said, "It shall be light in the evening."
Now, the same Jesus that made Hisself known to the Jews and the Samaritans, which was looking for Him to come in that day... The Gentiles wasn't looking for Him to come, because they were heathens; but they were looking for Him to come, and that's the way He manifested Himself. Then if He lets the Gentiles in this day go through with just their church organizations, and their big crowds, and their members, and so forth, and all their theology, then He did wrong when He manifested Hisself to both Jew and Samaritan and don't do the same to the Gentile.

48 At the close of their age, He manifested Hisself to us. He's got to do the same in the close of the Gentile age, or He did wrong when He made Hisself known back there that way. What did He say? "A little while and the world won't see Me no more, yet ye shall see me for I (is a personal pronoun), I will be with you, even in you to the end of the world. And the works that I do, shall you do also: Jesus Christ, the same yesterday, today, and forever."
One more Scripture I want to quote to you. There was a day when a woman (He'd passed over her), going up to a man's house to heal his little daughter that was dead... And there was a little woman with a blood issue, sitting up on the hill. She said, "I believe He's a holy man. If I can only touch His garment, I will be made well." And she come down, and she milled through the crowd, until she touched His garment.

49 Now the Palestinian garment: had an underneath garment, and the outside garment hung loose; it's a robe. Now, I'd never feel if you touched the border (it was a border); you touched the border of my coat, I'd never feel it physically. And that big loose garment hanging on Him, and at the tail of it, the border of it, He never felt it when that little woman crawled through there and touched His garment---never felt it physically. And He stopped. He said so. And He looked around. He said, "Who touched Me?"
And Peter rebuked Him. (Now, a rebuke is to get sharp with Him.) When otherwise something like, "What are You talking about, Lord? 'Who touched You?' Well, look at all this crowd that's shaking your hand and patting you on the back, 'Hello, Reverend, How are you?' so forth. 'What will you do for us?' 'Who touched You?'" Why, he rebuked Him.
But what did Jesus say? "I perceive that I have gotten weak. Virtue has gone from me. (Virtue's strength.) " I perceive that I got weak." And He looked around and the little woman was standing way out in the audience. And He found her, because it was her faith. She had touched with a different kind of a touch.

50 Oh, Dallas, Dallas, you use that touch. Don't touch Him by just saying, "I'm Presbyterian. I'm Methodist. I'm Pentecostal." Touch Him with that touch that He can feel it. And He turned around and He looked there, everyone of them standing there; all was denying it. But He looked around till He found the little woman sitting out in the audience. And He told her her trouble and said, "Thy faith has saved thee." He never saw no vision, but her faith in Him being the Son of God pulled the vision out of Him.
You see, if that was Jesus yesterday, the Bible said (not the Old Testament---the New, the Book of Hebrews) that He is right now, a High Priest that can be touched by the feeling of our infirmities. Is that right? Well then, if He is the High Priest and He can be touched by the feeling of our infirmities, then if He didn't act the same way He did yesterday when He acted, how do you know it was the same High Priest? That's sharp teaching but it's the Bible.

51 Oh, you might jump up-and-down and say, "Hallelujah, hallelujah, I know I've touched Him." You might've done it. That's fine. But if He's the same High Priest, He will act the same way He did then. How will He do it? Through you, His branches, us. He will move in us and act just like He did yesterday, the same thing yesterday, today, and forever.
Now, then if He's gone away, and then if He declared Himself to the Jew and to the Samaritan, those who were looking for Him to come in that age ... and that's the way He acted then, that's the way He declared Hisself then, search the Scriptures and see if that isn't right.
And then if the Gentile had two thousand years of training like the Jews had, two thousand years since the antediluvian destruction... Things happen in cycles of two thousand years. First two thousand years, Noah built the ark: flood. Second two thousand years, Christ come. This is the end of the Gentiles, another two thousand years. Now, at the end of this age He's got to declare Himself the same as He did then or He did wrong, if He declared it that way and let them get by, just with their big fine churches, and fine scholars, and everything. If He don't come back the same Jesus, and do the same thing, then He's not the same Jesus. If He does, He is the same Jesus. Now, is He or isn't He? How many believes that He is the same?

52 Do you understand why I stand here? It's a divine gift. Look, laying here on these stretchers, and cots, wheelchairs. What if I could take and stand at this pulpit for six months, and never leave, and always stay awake, I could not tell the things that I've seen the Lord Jesus do amongst the sick and afflicted and dying people. Congressman Upshaw... Oh, my, I just couldn't start it ... everywhere.
Just a few days ago, right up here in Chicago, there was a woman sitting out in the audience praying, a colored woman, and the Holy Spirit turned and said to her, said, "Lady, back there, you have a cirrhosis of the liver." Told her what her name was. Said, "What you're praying for is your sister in Little Rock, Arkansas. She's in an insane institution, a raging maniac, butting her head against the wall." Said, "She's been there from ten years since the change of life, menopause." And that woman liked to fainted. And then it stood up and said, "Thus saith the Lord, she's just come to herself."
The next morning the matron dismissed the woman from the hospital as a well patient. The second night she stood on the platform and testified of the Lord God come into the room.

53 There was a little Swedish woman sitting up there who said to my boy, Billy, said, "Billy, give me a prayer card." And Brother Osborn was there that night with his picture, "Black Gold," I believe he calls it.
And some woman said later on, she seen that poor little woman get down and go into her pocket book to give that missionary offering. Now, that wasn't what did the miracle. You don't have to give one penny or nothing else. You have to have faith in God. It isn't how much you put on a collection plate; it's how much you've got here in your heart towards Him. That's what it is. So she went down and give this money out. And she said, "Billy, would you give me a prayer card?"
He said, "Sister, I don't know. I will see if Leo and Gene's got one." My boys, they give out cards too. So he said ... went back, and none of them had one. And said, "Well, sister, tomorrow night you meet me here and you get a card."
Said, "That's all right, honey." Very sweet old woman. And she went back into the Lane Tech where several thousand people were seated. And that night, while I was standing there, the Holy Spirit turned and said, "The little woman sitting there with the little calico dress on, she's praying for her husband who's a dispatcher on the railroad, who's got a deaf ear, but 'Thus saith the Lord,' he is just now come open." She looked at her watch. And when she got home, there was her husband screaming and shouting. She said, "Honey, what time did your ear come open?" Said, "I was sitting in my seat..." just exactly the same minute the Lord said do it. It's been that way, it always has been that way, and it always will be that way. It's the same.

54 Here, Billy, you got your scrapbook? Here, I got it here now. Just a few days ago, here's Brother ... Dr. Vayle, here, was sitting in a meeting, and a poor little woman; she got a prayer card. Her number wasn't called. She was sitting back in the back, crying because her prayer card wasn't called. She was suffering with some kind of a epilepsy, heart trouble and epilepsy. And she had epilepsy and heart trouble. Her picture is on the front page of the paper. They throwed it on television, everywhere, throughout the New England states. It went on the Associated Press. And there it was, a little woman sitting back there. I was praying, watching the people. After while I seen that light go milling around. You've seen the picture of it, haven't you? Brother Gordon Lindsay and them was down there when it was taken. It was taken... Here's a man from Germany, here right now, was there when it taken three times by the German camera. Over in Switzerland, taken by the Swiss camera. What is it? That same pillar of fire that followed the children of Israel. You believe it?

55 Look. When He was here on earth, how many knows that that was the pillar of fire that followed the children of Israel in the wilderness, that it was Christ, the Angel of the covenant? All right. And how many knows that that was Jesus ... in Jesus, that same Spirit? Look, when they questioned Him, Saint John 6 (call your attention to it), they said, "You say you're greater than Abraham?" And said, "Why, you're only fifty years old, yet."
He said, "Before Abraham was, I AM." I AM was in the burning bush. Is that right? A pillar of fire... When He was here on earth, He said, "I came from God, and I go to God." Did He say it? And then, if He came from the pillar of fire, He returned back to it again.
After His death, burial, and resurrection, Saint Paul was on his road down to Damascus and a big bright light struck in his face and blinded him. None of the rest of them saw it. Paul saw it. It blinded him; he fell on the ground. What is this pillar of fire, again? "Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou Me?"
"Who are You, Lord?"
"I'm Jesus." Is that right?

56 When Peter was in prison, who was it in that light, walked before him, opened the door? Certainly it was. He returned back to the pillar of fire. That was in that day. Here He is the same today. Here's His picture, even taken by the mechanical eye of the camera. It isn't psychology. It's the power and the resurrection of the living Christ, who remains the same from the Old Testament, New Testament, and today just the same. You say, "Brother Branham, can I depend on that?" The vine will bring forth the same fruit. If that was the Holy Ghost, that pillar of fire in Christ that made Him discern spirit and do that, if He's in us tonight as we say He is, He will do the same or He ain't the same Christ.
Here He is as millions of the church knows it. Millions of the church people knows it. Now the scientific world knows it. One hangs in Washington, DC, in the Religious Hall of Art, the only supernatural being was ever photographed in all the world. George J. Lacy of the FBI, Fingerprint and Documents, here in Houston, Texas, examined it. It's right, and put his own... You can see the write up on it, on the book. That's true. Yes, sir. The only...

57 And in Germany they said they wanted to see if they could take the picture. And they stood there, and we was at a great breakfast where them Dutch Reform, and Lutheran, and all kinds of ministers, and they was questioning me. And this German said, "Can I take the pictures?" (At Lausanne.) One of those great big German cameras with the Polaroid. I said, "He might permit it, sir. I do not know. He did in America two or three times." I said, "He might do it. I don't know." And I said, "If He starts..."
He said, "Can I take the picture?"
I said, "It isn't a flash?"
He said, "No, sir, it isn't a flash. It's just a still picture; they don't have to have a flash."
I said, "All right, because I don't want to see a flash, and don't take pictures while it's going on, because it's a light itself."
And so, just then, I felt it coming, I said, "All right, sir. Here He is." And stood up, I said, "You standing there with that Roman collar on like a priest. I said, "You're not a priest. You're a leader of thirty-two thousand communists."
And he fell across the plat... his table like that. Said, "My God, that's right, mister."
I said, "You're not a German, and neither are you a Swiss, but you're an Italian."
Said, "That's right."
I said, "The reason you never eat your breakfast is because that you got stomach ulcers."
He said, "God, have mercy on me." And right there, God healed him. That big German camera taken the picture just as fast as it could. And that German rushed right down, and put them in the acid, and brought it forth. Here was the Holy Ghost, the pillar of fire, coming down. Here's where it anointed, and here's where it went back. Fifty thousand received Christ as personal Saviour. Certainly. He remains the same.

58 Finish with my little story... The little woman sitting there: she had a prayer card but her number wasn't called. And she said, "Oh, God..." She begin crying and praying to herself. After awhile the Holy Spirit turned around ... turned me around. I seen that light milling around over the woman. I kept watching till it broke into a vision. I said, "You have epilepsy, lady, Mrs. So-and-so."
"Yes."
"Heart trouble."
"Yes," she said.
I said, "Besides that, your husband's in a veteran's hospital, and they give him up to die, and he's in a serious condition."
And she almost fainted. She said, "That's true."
I said, "But 'thus saith the Lord,' the Angel of the Lord stands by his bed right now, and has healed him. And he's sound [unclear words]." And the newspapers packed the article of it. That very next morning he was dismissed from the veteran's hospital and sent home as a miracle being performed.
What is it? You say that was Brother Branham. Brother Branham had no more to do that, than you did down here in Dallas, Texas. That's Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today, and forever. He remains the same. Let us pray.

59 Lord God, what a privilege to talk to an audience like this. Though feeling, scolding sometimes in the Spirit, only for correction, that the people would not be slothful, Lord. Let them know that I love them; and they know You love them. But Lord, that they might be wakened out of this slump that the church is getting into, their spiritual mind has begin... They seen so many things till it become numb like the little boy I spoke of. God, let the numbness leave tonight. Anoint our eyes with eyesalve. Anoint our hearts to believe. Anoint your servant, Lord, that I might be able to yield myself to that great Holy Spirit that followed the children of Israel, and then was manifested in flesh, and was received up in glory, sent back His Spirit and He called Paul on the road to Damascus. And done that for the Jews.

60 And here we are at the end of the Gentiles... And "It shall be light in the evening." Not another light; the same light. The same Jesus that showed the light in the same shade of sun, the same shade of the same Son, that showed on the east, is shining on the west. God, may it not go over the people's head and around their heart, but may it go into their hearts tonight.
Help us now, Lord, as all the words I could say would never mean as much as one word You'd say. Just speak, Lord, as we, Your church, yield ourselves. No matter how much You would deal with me, Father, if the people will not believe, how can You work, for You went into Your own country and many mighty works You could not do because of their unbelief.
And Lord God, we know so much ism and fanaticism has passed through the churches. So many believers, unbelievers, and make believers has went through the church, Lord. So many things... God, the poor people, they're paralyzed; they don't know what to believe. But God, open their eyes tonight to the Scripture and the presence of Jesus, that this great group of people here in Dallas, and adjoining countries, might rally around Your dear Son Jesus, for we ask it in His name and for His glory. Amen.

61 I've just talked a long time to you. I'm nervous. Certainly. Make you nervous too; stand in this just for about five minutes and watch what happens. One thing, one vision will take more out of you than ten hours of constant preaching. You know the Scripture teaches that. Spiritual men are always considered neurotics, did you know that? How about the American song writer Steven Foster? He wrote the best folk songs we ever had: "Old Black Joe" and "Suwannee River." What would he do when the inspiration struck him? He'd get in that inspiration; when he'd come out of it, he'd get drunk. And finally he called a servant, and took a razor and committed suicide.
Look at William Cowper. I stood by his grave with Brother Lindsay, in London, England, not long ago. I wept at his grave. He wrote that famous song, "There is a Fountain Filled With Blood, drawn from Emmanuel's veins; when sinner's plunged beneath the flood, lose all their guilty stains." What was he thought of in England? A neurotic. As soon as he come out of that inspiration, he tried to commit suicide in the river. That's right.

62 Look at Jonah, the prophet, after being in the whale's belly for three days. And when the Spirit left him, and he was sitting up on the mountain, he prayed for God to take his life.
How about Elijah, when the Spirit was on him in the visions, he said he done all this at Your command, and called fire out of heaven, and rain out of the heaven, and then run out in the wilderness, and was forty days---didn't even know where he was at ---wandering around in the wilderness. And God found him pulled back in a cave, see. God always comes.
He keeps His Word. But many times, it's a little different from what the teachers teach it, see. It was that way when He come the first time. It is always.

63 Now, as far as I know, every person in this building is a total stranger to me, except Mr. Vayle, here, and these men sitting here. How many knows out there in the audience, I don't know you? I know nothing about you? Raise your hands; I don't know one thing about you? Certainly I don't.
Billy told me when I come up a few minutes ago, he give out a hundred prayer cards awhile ago. I believe he said it was prayer cards "P." It's a little ... got "Branham Campaigns" on one side. The next side has got a letter "P," and got 1 to 100. We're going to line those people up and pray for them.
Now, we can't have a rush. They're all over the building. We want to give it legitimately. Now, when I call your number, you come. If you can't, if you raise your hand up... If you can't walk, somebody will come pack you. But as I call your number, you raise your hand or watch, and if someone don't answer, then look at your neighbor's card. He maybe deaf and dumb; can't speak or hear or can't move. Look and see if they got it.
Now, who has prayer card---turn it over---got a "P" on it, like "pepper." P-1, who has it? Raise up their hand, in the building. P number 1, a woman way back in the back. Come down here, lady. Number 2, P number 2, would you raise your hand? This woman here. Well, just bring them right down across the platform right here. All right. Number 2, all right. Brother Vayle, go down there. Number 2, number 3, who has P number 3, raise up your hand? You have P number 3? Come right down here, sister.
Number 4, P like in "Paul," P number 4, who has it, raise up your hand? Would you raise your hand or look at your neighbor's card? Look around now. Somebody's got it sitting here, and he maybe can't get up. Here's a little child that couldn't move. I know they can't. P number 4, raise up your hand, please. If they're in the building and wish to be prayed for, inside or out, raise up your hand, please. Who has prayer card, P number 4? Now look at your neighbor's card, everybody, look around to the people's that's sitting next to you, because it may be somebody sitting there deaf, dumb, can't speak, hear, see. Have you found it? P number 4. All right, maybe they stepped out and be back in a minute. We will wait a minute.

64 Number 5, who has P number 5, would you raise up your hand? Number 5, all right. Number 6, over here. Number 6 over here. Number 7? Number 7, way in the back. All right, come. Number 8? See, it ain't an arena, now; we're in church, so you just have to... You all come as quick as you can. Number 8. Number 9? Raise your hand quickly. Number 9? Not yet. Look at your cards now, it may be somebody deaf and can't raise; can't hear, dumb, can't speak; crippled, can't walk; we will get somebody there to pack you up here. Number 9. Now, what was the other one missing? 8 and 9, both missing? There's one other one somewhere way back: 4, I believe it was, 4. Number 4, is it here yet? Number 4, 8 and 9.

65 Friends, you oughtn't to take the cards if you're not going to use them. See, give them to somebody that's going to be here. All right (what?) 8 is here. 9, number 9? 5 is gone. 4 has appeared but 5 is gone. Number 5? Who has prayer card P number 5? Maybe somebody can't even speak English. All right. Is that lady there raising up, has she got number 5? 9, all right. She's been called. Bring her over here. Over here, lady. All right. Number 10? Number 10, would you raise up? 10, all right. 11, 12? That's right. 12, 13? Right. 14, 14? Who has 14? All right. 15, 15, 16, 17, 18, 18? All right. 19, 20, 21, 22, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, -2, -3, -4, -5? How many we getting out there now? We don't too many standing in line? See how many's missing out of there now?

66 Now, now just a moment while I'm waiting for them. Come, come tell me how many's missing out of there, one of you. Now, just a minute. Now, the rest of you here: How many's here that doesn't have a prayer card and you want Jesus to heal you, raise up your hand? All right. Everywhere. Now, He remains the same yesterday, today, and forever.
If you'll believe out there, you don't have to be here. People
out here... It doesn't make any difference about whether you're out here or not ... in here, that doesn't matter. But if you'll just believe where you are, and He's a High Priest that can be touched by the feeling of our infirmity, won't He act the same that He did? See, just the same? He's got to act just the same.
All right. Now, have faith. Don't doubt. Believe with all your heart. All right.
Billy, how many you got missing? Number 5 never showed up. Has anybody got prayer card number 5; that's the only one not showed up. Prayer card---4 and 5, or did you say 5? 5. Prayer card 5. Has that little girl got a card? Any of them? It isn't 5? I hate to leave anyone out. All right. Okay, then.

67 Now, I don't want you move around. I want you to be real reverent. Get you seats, and sit down, and be real quiet now, real quiet. Now, do you realize, the things that I have said tonight... How many believes that I have absolutely quoted the Scripture, the promises of what Jesus was and what He promised to be? Now's the time for it to be showed truth or error. What prayer card do you have, lady? All right.
See what it is down there. Check her prayer card and see what she's got down there. See if that was the one ... if it's... I don't want to put anyone in that... What? She had a card, but it wasn't a number that was supposed to be, it hasn't been... Just let her sit down there. We're going to call the rest of them just in a few minutes anyhow. So just sit real quiet. It's okay. All right.

68 Now, to each one of you... Now, look. Our Lord saw... One woman touched His garment and virtue went out of Him. We know that, is that right? But in that, what did the woman get? She was told that she had a blood issue and that her faith had saved her. Now, that wasn't Jesus saw the vision. That was the woman's faith that touched God in Christ, and God honored her faith. But when God had something to do, He... Like the raising of Lazarus: Lazarus was raised by a vision. Do you believe that? Why, Jesus said, "I do nothing till the Father shows Me." Is that right? Watch the Scripture here, what He said. Standing at the grave of Lazarus, He said, "Father, I thank Thee Thou has already heard me. But for these that stand by, I said it." See? "Look," he said, "our friend Lazarus is asleep." He said, "He's dead. Your sake I'm glad I wasn't there."

69 All right. Now, now just pray. Don't move around. Sit real quiet and pray. And if Jesus will perform... Now, in your pictures, brother dear, if you're going to take it, take it now. Don't take it while the anointing comes on, because it's a light, and I have to follow that light on account of faith. If you want to take it, take it now if it's a flash, (see), because it goes right in...
See, the Angel of the Lord is a consuming fire. How many knows that? It's a light; it's the pillar of fire that was in the wilderness. Here it is. I usually have one laying here. How many's seen the picture of it? Have they had it up here at the platform? All right. Now, if that is... If we are, tonight (This is it)... If that is the pillar of fire, anyone knows by scientific proof, it isn't me that does that. It's that Angel of the Lord. Well, if it is Christ, that same Angel that was in Christ that was in the burning bush, that's promised to be to the Gentile just the same as He was then, then it'll do the same thing that He did then, because each vine will purge through it's branches, the very life that's in the vine. Is that right?

70 Now, if He will perform---I don't say He will---but if He will do the same thing that He did when He was here, how many of you will believe it? All right. Now, look. It doesn't matter. Now, I do not let... If there's doctors sitting near, I do not claim to be a healer or take your place, doctor. I come here to pray for one thing: God's children, your patient, my friend. I don't try to take your place, doctor, not at all. I believe you are God's servant if you're a true servant of God. I believe if you love the Lord and trying to do something for the people, I certainly honor you, sir. I have great doctors. I've been examined or, interviewed, rather, by Mayo's and many of them. And in my own city, fine doctors of big clinics like Dr. Sam Adair...
Any of you call him that wants to, at my expense. Dr. Sam Adair of the big clinic of Jeffersonville, and ask him if this is true or not. Ask what it's done for him. Ask him if them visions happen. Any of the officials of the city, anywhere, see. It's real, friend, so we're... If He comes, we're in His presence.

71 Now, this is... I'm weak to begin with, and it just weakens me more. Now, let's just be real reverent, just as reverent as we can be. And now, you start believing, saying, "Lord, if Brother Branham, quoting the Scripture, I know he doesn't know me or nothing about me, but if that's truth, You just let Brother Branham use Your Spirit to turn... You're the High Priest and I want to touch You. And I'm going to touch You, Lord. And if Brother Branham's told me the truth, then it'll be confirmed with me. And when I turn... Let Brother Branham turn around and tell me, like You did through Jesus, the woman that had the blood issue, there'll never be another doubt in my mind." Is that fair enough? That's you without prayer cards out there, you that won't be in the prayer line. The prayer card is nothing, just simply to get the anointing started among the people, because eighty percent of you here has never been to one of the meetings before, see. I can feel your spirit; I know you're wondering, see.

72 But now, in the name of Jesus Christ the Son of God, I take every soul and spirit in here under my control for His glory. Now, be reverent. (Is this the woman?) Here is the woman that's standing here by me tonight. I've never seen the woman in all my life, as I know of. We're strangers to each other, are we, Madam? We are? If we are, just raise up your hand.
Now, here is the Bible. If you want to know whether Christianity... If He will do it, here's Christianity again. This is Saint John 4. A man and a woman met that had never met before in life: Jesus and the woman at the well. And Jesus talked to her till He found what her trouble was and told her. And she recognized it to be the Messiah. Is that right?

73 Now, here's my hand. I don't swear, because I don't believe it. Neither does she. Now, the woman may be a deceiver. She may be a bad woman. She may be a good woman. She may be a Christian. She may be an infidel. I don't know. She may have cancer. She may not have nothing. I don't know what's the woman. I've never seen her or heard of her. I don't know nothing about her, but there's Someone here who does, and that's the One here. Now, if He wants to, by a divine gift just to humble myself, and relax myself from preaching, till His Spirit will come down and say something...
Now, if I said to this woman, "Lady, hallelujah, you're sick. Glory to God, you're going to be healed. Hallelujah." She could believe that. That'd be all right. That's okay. That'd be all right. But she'd have a right to doubt that. But what if the Holy Spirit goes back down in her life for years, pulls out something that she knows I know nothing about? Then what about that? And if He knows what has been, surely He will know what will be. If He can tell what has been, then let the woman be the judge. And you be the judge.

74 Now, just humble yourselves now. Forget your little superstitions, and your little thinking, and just really lay your heart right out before God, and say, "God..." (Don't look at me, see. I'm just a man, a sinner saved by grace, just with a divine gift that Jesus Christ, God's Son, give me as a poor Baptist preacher to be sent to you Pentecostals and whosoever would come. Now, that's all.)
Now, lady, just a word with you as our Lord did, and ever who's on the microphone or the engineer here---I don't know when a vision comes; I'm in another world, so I don't know how loud I'm talking, so you watch it.

75 Now, just to speak with you a moment. Now, here is a drama again. If Jesus remains the same yesterday, today, and forever, and He will make known to me something about you that you know... Well, I don't know nothing about you, but if He will make it known, would you believe that He would give you the thing you ask for? Would you just raise your hand to that, you'd believe it? Now, will the audience do the same, as both of us has raised our hands that we do not know each other?
Now, Lord God, the rest of the meeting comes to You. All that's accomplished is Yours. And now, let Thy Holy Spirit move sweetly upon us. Anoint the branches, Lord. Be the life in the vine, and give unto us, tonight, the evidence of the resurrection, for we know that two thousand years have meant nothing to You; You live forevermore. And give these poor Christians who struggled, and tried, and spent their money building churches, and done everything, and tried to live good, give them a great joy tonight to know that their Jesus is alive. He isn't just a shout. He isn't a joy, yet He is, but He's a living person, Christ, the Son of God. Grant it, Father. All praise shall be Thine, in Jesus' name.

76 Now, if the Lord God would tell me, you be the judge, as we both raised our hands, we never met or know nothing of each other in life. If the Lord God would reveal to me what you're here for or something on that manner, you know whether it'll be correct or not. The audience has said the same. Now, you see where I stand. Now, if Jesus will do that, He keeps His promise, then this is a sure sign that the Gentile age is ending, and the church is being called out. The last message, as the last to the Jews, it's the last to the Gentiles. And by His grace, and by a divine gift, then His presence here, everyone would believe it. I pray that He will grant it.

77 If the audience can still hear my voice, the woman is going away from me. She's conscious right now that something's going on. The woman is a Christian; she's a believer. And she wants me to pray for her eyes. Her eyes are going bad. That's true. If that's right, raise your hand. You do not wear glasses nor nothing, but your eyes are going dim. It's the nerve in your eye, dying. It's right. Now, you believe?
Now, you're thinking I guessed that. I didn't. Let God be the judge. Look to me again. God knows I'm not trying to show off. I just want these people to know. You seem to be a good person; have a good contact with God. Now, I don't know what I told you. It's on the tape; that's all I ever know. I wouldn't remember it when the meeting's over. But now, may God help me so that the people will get all that out of their thoughts.

78 Yes, I see the woman going from me. It's something with her eyes. She's going blind. And another thing, she's got a lung trouble, something wrong with her lung. And I see you standing in a prayer line. You've just been prayed, for that. Right in this same meeting. You just can't accept it, you seem, can't get it. That's right. That is true. And let me tell you. You believe me to be His prophet? Look.
You're worried about something, and that's a daughter of yours that's fixing to have a baby. And she's got that Rh blood, and you're afraid of a blood clash in the baby. Besides that, you've got a grandson, and he's up for an operation with a male testicle trouble. "Thus saith the Lord." That is true. You believe you receive now? You believe that the voice, ever what it was talking to you, wasn't mine but it was His? Then you receive what you ask for. Go rejoicing. Be happy. It'll be all right. If thou canst believe. Now, just have faith.

79 How do you do, lady. I'm supposing that you and I are total strangers to one another. We do not know each other? This is our first time. You're just a woman, that you got a prayer card and come up here in the line. No way for me to know you, but God does know you. If He will reveal to me what your trouble is, and you know I do not know, but if He will reveal it, you will know it's a supernatural power. Will you say with the Pharisees, "It's Beelzebub" or will you say with the believers, "It's Jesus Christ the same..."? Jesus Christ.
Now, something happened in the audience. Now, just keep believing. There was a woman that was praying. It's a much older woman than this. And she appeared here before me, praying. Someone's praying for a trouble, in here, that's touched the High Priest.
Let us talk again. I can only go as the Spirit leads me. Oh, you're not here for yourself. You're here for someone else. That's a man. It's your husband, and he's suffering with a... You call it a demon oppression. It's a nervous condition that's broke his nerves down. That's "Thus saith the Lord." That's true, isn't it? If it is, wave your hand. Do you believe me to be His prophet? Take that handkerchief that you wiped your tears with, and lay it on him and he will be made well, "Thus saith the Lord." If thou canst believe... Have faith in God. Don't doubt now. Have faith in God. Be real reverent, real reverent, now.

80 Here it is. Here she is. It's a woman sitting right here on the end of the seat with a green dress on. Lady, you were praying just then---Was that right?---for me to call you. If God will reveal to me what your trouble is, will you believe me to be His servant? You suffer with a liver trouble. That's right. You did: You don't have it no more; your faith has made you whole. God bless you. I do not know the woman; I've never seen her in my life. What did she touch? She's twenty feet from me. What did she touch? The High Priest.
There's another woman with her hand up, right behind her, straight behind her there: little white scarf, suffering with a asthmatic condition and a heart trouble. Is that right, lady, that raised your hand? If that's right, stand up on your feet. All right, you're healed; your faith makes you well. Go and believe. You may be seated now. Go home trusting God.

81 Oh, His divine presence... Do you realize, friends, can you understand? What is it? It's got to be a Spirit. Here's His picture. Here's His Word. He's doing the same. It's you doing it. Here, I will show you. That woman was just healed sitting there... Her little friend sitting next to her has been praying too. That's right, the little woman with the blue looking dress on, wiping her eyes. You said, "Lord, let it be me next." If that's right, wave your hand. How would I know what you was praying about and the words you said? You believe God can tell me what your trouble is? You're suffering with trouble in your head. If that's right, wave your hand. It's all over now; your faith has healed you. Go home and be well. Have faith in God. Don't doubt. Believe, for all things are possible to them that believe.

82 This lady, I'm sorry. We are strangers to each other. I do not know you. I've never seen you, but God knows you. All right. If God will reveal to me your trouble, you believe me to be His servant? Now, you're beginning to believe. It just begins to move all through the building now, see. That's the way to do it.
Don't doubt, now. You sitting here in them chairs, you're not hopeless. Get that out of your mind right now. This is the time for you. Believe.
Now, the woman, look to me, just a minute. The reason I say that, like Peter and John said, "Look on us." You're aware that something's going on. You got a real sweet humble feeling. Right between me and you stands this light right here, now. That's what's making you feel that way. Now, to be honest with me and with God, you have a feeling now that you've never had, like a real sweet feel... If that's right, raise up your hand so every one... You're not standing here for yourself. Standing here for someone. You believe that God will make them well? With all your heart you believe it? Your mother will be healed, you believe it? She has diabetes, and she has heart trouble. And that you might know I be God's prophet ... or, His servant, she's not here. She lives in Wichita, Kansas. Send that handkerchief to her. She will get all right. Believe God. Don't doubt. Come, believing. If thou canst believe...

83 You believe God'll heal that female trouble, make you well, ladies' trouble? You do? You think your husband would rejoice over that, he knows about it, reverend? You believe it? You believe, with all God? Go back to your home, then. Jesus Christ makes you well. Have faith.
Come, lady. Don't think now I was reading the woman's mind. I wasn't. Here; lay your hand on mine, lady. Put your hand on... If God will reveal to me (Looking this way), what's your trouble, will you believe me? If you will, take your hand off mine and raise it up. All right. You believe those tumors will go out without the operation? Out of the female...? Go home and rejoice; they have. Amen. Have faith in God. Do you believe? See if the Holy Spirit's here?

84 Lady, that back trouble you had, left you while you were sitting in the chair. Go on your road rejoicing. Go on your road. Be made well. Have faith.
What if I didn't say a thing to you, would you still believe me? What if I said you were healed? Would you believe me? Go rejoicing. Just a minute.
The man sitting there... You got throat trouble, hemorrhoids. Got growths too, haven't you? You believe that God will make you well? If you believe it, you can have it.
That back's been bothering you for a long time, but it's gone now. Go on your road and rejoice. Have faith in God.
Come, that diabetes, you'll never have to be taking any insulin any more if you believe. Just go rejoicing, saying, "Thank you, Lord." Go rejoicing, having faith. All right.
Bring her on. You believe the anemia left him? You believe the anemic condition left? Take him on. Take and be well.

85 How many wants to believe in this building? You believe with all your heart? Is Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today, and forever? What have I done in here? Do you believe it? Lay your hands over on one another, and I will show you what God will do. Jesus said this, "These signs shall follow them that believe." Did He say that? All that's believers, raise up your hands. Lay your hands on somebody, you believers. Lay your hands on one another. Bow your heads.
O God, in Jesus Christ's name, I condemn the devil and all his works, and ask that each person in here be liberated from their sickness. Satan, you've lost the battle. You've been exposed. You're nothing but a bluff. And you've been exposed on the platform. Come out of this people in the name of Jesus Christ. Leave this congregation of people and...

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1 May be seated. Thanks to you, Brother Borders. It's certainly a grand privilege to be here in San Jose tonight. I might say that this was my first invitation to California, and I've been fourteen years getting here. I've been all around everywhere else but finally get to San Jose. And I heard that I was going to get to come this time; it certainly thrilled my heart. For there were some pastor here, perhaps on the platform tonight, that give me the first invitation fourteen years ago, and my first one.
So I have looked around on the map, and over... I've been to Fresno, and around, rim firing it, and just got here. You know they always say the best is last, is that ... save the best till last; is that what it is? The dessert. Looks at this nice audience tonight... So great anticipations on your faces; looks like you're looking for something to happen. Then I am believing this is ... the Lord has saved last the best.

2 We've just closed a great meeting down to the Angelus Temple. We had wonderful time down there. The Lord did bless us, and give us hundreds of souls, great testimonies of all kinds. Wheelchairs, cots...
A young colored girl was called in the meeting. And I believe I have her testimony over there, that she had two tumors that turned to cancer, one on each side, that the doctor could not touch. It was done past that. And within two days, the same doctor could find nothing of them at all. They were gone. So, just to show that our Lord still is Lord. He still rules and reigns. So happy for that.

3 Now, it's too bad we just have three days. I wished we just had three weeks, or four weeks, or something, so we could really have a great time together. Now, I'm so glad to hear that all this fine cooperation of all the different pastors, different: the Church of God, Assemblies of God, and all of them. Every... All different denominations of the Full Gospel brethren has fully cooperated. How thankful we are for that. That just shows that when God gets in anything, we can just drop the differences and take right off after God, don't we?
I believe that's the way it'll be someday when He comes. We will just forget what brand we are, and take right out after Him at the rapture.

4 Used to, in herding cattle... We used to run the old Tripod Ranch, over in Colorado. And I'd help take the cattle up in the spring of the year. And when we got to the drift fence... I'm sure you brethren know what a drift fence is. Well, the ranger would stand there and count those cattle as they went through and check them. Now, the ranger never paid so very much attention about the brand they had, because there's all kinds of brands; but he watched for the blood tag, was the main thing. Then what brand it was, it had to be a thoroughbred Hereford or it could not go in that forest for the summer grazing.
I think that's the way it'll be at the judgment. He will not notice what brand we're wearing, but He will watch that blood tag; that's the one that... All with the blood tag.
I'm so glad that I'm cleansed by that blood. That blood cleanses us now from all of our sins, and we stand justified in His presence, because of the love of Christ that's shed in our heart.

5 Now, the services tonight, I thought would be a little night to kind of get acquainted with each other. And then tomorrow afternoon at two-thirty I'm to speak. Usually I don't speak on the afternoon service. I have someone to do that. But this time, being that the service is quickly, and just the three days, well, I took the afternoon service also.
Now, you that can come out tomorrow afternoon, the prayer cards is give out in the afternoon also. I will be speaking on the next two afternoons on the faith of Abraham, teaching. So, we'd be glad for you to come out and enjoy this if you possibly can. And then tomorrow night will be the beginning of the service, seven-thirty again (I think that's right, isn't it, brother?), seven-thirty. And then, I don't know about the ministerial breakfast. I haven't got to talk to the brethren yet, whether there'll be one or not, or what they'll have. That'll be announced from here. And then tomorrow night at seven-thirty, we will begin right back again with the prayer lines, praying for the sick; a message before, and then praying for the sick. Then Friday afternoon also, and Friday night... So, we're expecting great things.
I go home for just a day or two's rest, and get my children back in school. And then, I'm going to Australia, New Zealand, and through the East. And we're hoping to get back here again in fall of the year.

6 Now, before we open this Book, let's speak to the Author as we bow our heads in prayer.
Precious Lord, it's one of the grandest privileges that we can think, is to come before Thee with bowed heads in the name of the Lord Jesus, because He has promised that You'd hear us. "Ask the Father anything in my name, I will do it."
We pray, Lord, first, You will forgive us of all of our shortcomings. We just want to stand clean tonight, Lord, with open hearts, feeling this wonderful presence of the Holy Ghost. May He just get into our hearts tonight, and teach us great things, show us His power to love, and to serve, and to heal. Get glory out of the service.

7 Lord, we thank You for this great cooperation with this fine bunch of men. We pray that You'll bless them exceedingly abundantly. And may this be a meeting that'll long be remembered, because of the outpouring of the Holy Spirit upon us. Melt our hearts together as one.
And may there not be a wheelchair left in our midst when the service is over. May there be no cripples, no afflictions left, no one sick, no one unsaved. May they surrender their life to God. And may God get glory out of all that we are trying to do for His name. Grant it, Lord. And we will bow our heads and give praise to Thee, for we ask it in Jesus' name. Amen.

8 Being a believer in the Scripture, I think there's no meeting complete without the reading of the Word. The Word is God's foundation. I believe all doctrines, everything should come exactly from the Word of God. I believe God can do things that's not written in the Word, because He's God. But as long as I know that I'm just following what He said He would do, then I know I'm right, as long as He said He would do it.
Now, tonight, I just want to take time... Now, we really should have at least two or three nights before we even pray for the sick, to get the people instructed. But just three nights to be here, then we've got to do it quickly.

9 And I want you to just hold to every word, so that you'll be able to understand. I wonder if you can hear me all the way back in the back, well, if you can. That's fine. That's good. That we might get a grip on God's Word, because it's essential that we do this.
Now, to introduce the ministry, the first I want to make it real clear that I'm not a healer. I do not believe there is a healer outside of God. I just had some wonderful answers to prayer. I pray for the sick. I believe that healing was included in the atonement. If the old atonement had healing, and this is better, so it would have to be better in every way. It would have to have also healing.

10 Now, I believe that all these things we're enjoying are of Christ, was finished for us at Calvary, that that told the story there that "He was wounded for our transgressions, and He was bruised for our iniquity, and the chastisement of our peace is upon Him, and with His stripes we were healed." All something in the past, something that God has already done, and it's just our personal faith in a finished work that we get the benefits of His vicarious suffering and death at Calvary. See, it's something that God has already done. And it's just the people on the platform are no more privileged than the one all the way at the back of the building. It's just when your faith believes it and can lay ahold of it.
And now, divine healing is not the purpose of us being here. As I will quote Brother Bosworth, he said divine healing is like bait that goes on a hook. You don't show the fish the hook; you just show him the bait. So he grabs the bait and gets the hook. That's the way it is by divine healing. When a man is laying at the point of death, and then he takes ahold of God for healing, he gets ... God gets the hooks in his mouth. Then he sees that God loves him.

11 As a shepherd... The story of the shepherd was told once, that the shepherd had a sheep that had a broken leg, and he said, "What caused that sheep's leg to be broke?"
He said, "I did it."
Said, "Well, you must be a cruel shepherd."
Said, "No, I did it so I could show it special care, so it would follow me."
And sometimes God has to let us lay on our backs to look up to let us know that He's still God. Sometimes think... The Scriptures clearly said, "All things work together for good to them that love God." We know the Scriptures is true.

12 Now, as a preacher, I'm a spare tire. I say it with all this around me here. My good friend Booth-Clibborn, and many of the brethren here on the platform tonight, is who I know are real theologians, and I'm just a Kentucky plow-boy, so I'm... Now, you excuse my "hit, haint, tote, fetch, carry," and all my language. Just remember, I may not know the Book too well, but I know the Author real well. And that's what I'm relying on, is the Author. So my mistakes, you know, He just overlooks it.
Now we want to take the subject tonight, first to read a portion of the Scripture found in Saint John, the 12th chapter, 30th ... or, the 20th, rather, 21st.
And there were certain Greeks among them that came up to worship at the feast:
The same ... therefore came unto Philip which was of Bethsaida of Galilee, and desired him, saying, Sir, we would see Jesus.
Hebrews 13:8 said:
Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, to-day, and for ever.

13 Now, I believe that all Scripture is given by inspirations. And the Scripture has got to be right, or all of it right, or there might be that if we could say: some of it's right and some of it's not right, then we get ourself all mixed up. I just believe that it's all the truth.
Now, I may not be able to have faith to make it all manifested, its promises and so forth, to bring them to pass, but I will never stand in somebody's way that does have faith to do it. I might not climb where Enoch did, and take a afternoon walk with God, and go home with Him. I might not have that much faith. And I might not have enough faith to shout like Joshua that knocked the walls down. But I'll certainly not stand in anyone's way who does have that type of faith.

14 So, it's a very odd Scripture tonight, but it's a fitting Scripture. Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today, and forever. And our reading was that these Greeks wanted to see Jesus.
I do not believe there has been any person who has ever heard of the Lord Jesus but what longs to see Him. All of us do. I might ask this audience tonight, how many of you would like to see Jesus, and every hand in here would go up. We want to see Him.
Then, if these Greeks came to one of His ministers and asked to see Him... We know the Scripture reading on proves that they've got to see Him. Then, if He's the same yesterday, today, and forever, and we want to see Him, why can't we see Him then?

15 Now that... I know that sounds strange. But it's truth, just the same. Now, if He is the same yesterday, today, and forever, He's got to be the same in principal, the same in power, all but the corporal body. That corporal body sits at the right hand of God. But the Holy Spirit is back here to manifest Jesus in every way that He lived here on earth. He said, "The works that I do shall you also. A little while and the world will see me no more. Yet, ye shall see me for I (a personal pronoun) will be with you to the end of the world." Christ in us.
Then if the Spirit of Christ is in the church, it should be doing the works of Christ; because God set that body aside, the Lord Jesus, His Son. And it was a sanctified virgin born body, that through His blood He might redeem us, who were born after sexual desire and in corruption; that we might be cleansed, not by ourselves or through our own good works; but through His grace we are cleansed from our sins. Because He is that offering laying there constantly atoning for our sins---we who have confessed faith in Him.

16 Therefore, we are cleansed by His blood, so that His Spirit lives in the church manifesting itself, moving among the members. "The works that I do shall ye also." I know the translation there is greater than this in the King James, but I believe the right translation would be more than this shall you do, for there could hardly be greater. He raised the dead, and stopped nature, and He did everything. More: It'd be a universal, all around the world in the church at the same time; where God was manifested in one person, Jesus, now, it's manifested in the church universal, around.
Now, then that great Spirit... If I said the Spirit of God was in me, I would be doing the works of God. Jesus said, "If I do not the works of my Father, then believe me not."

17 And I think today we come to the church to find Jesus, and we find our programs instead of the Spirit of Christ, see. If we went to a peach orchard, we'd expect to find peaches; if we went to an apple orchard, we'd want apples. And it'd be strange to find pumpkins growing on an apple tree. But that's just about how we get it today. We say, "Well, our theology is this; we've been taught to believe this."
But this is what's truth: Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today, and forever. Then His Spirit in the church moves with His church, His same Spirit, doing the same works, bringing Jesus to the world now, just as He brought it in the form of ... bringing Christ to the world just as He did in the Son, Christ Jesus.

18 Now, we know God does not change. We want to always remember this: that we are finite, and He's infinite. Now, if God ever makes a decision, ever called to make a decision, and God's decision---being He's infinite---He has to continually stay with that decision. See, I can make you a promise, and tomorrow can say, "I was wrong." See, I will say, "I was mistaken. I didn't mean to say that. I see different now." But God cannot, because He's perfect. He knows all things. And His decisions...
If a sinner ever came to Him on bending knees and asked for mercy, and God, upon a certain merit, gave that man pardoning of his sin, the next man has to receive the same. Or if He did not save the second man, then He did wrong when He saved the first man. And if a man that's sick ever comes to God and meets the requirements of God...

19 Now, sometimes when we meet the requirement, we think about, well, it's... Why didn't He answer? God does sometimes that way upon our action to see what our reaction will be, see. Sometimes... Look at the Shunammite woman for instance. See, He wanted to see what her reaction would be. And He does that many times, just to see how we will react. But if we're certain that we have met God's requirement, just stay right with it; He's got to act. You hear it? He's got to act. If He made the promise, He's God and has to keep that promise. He's God. He just can't take it back, and say, "Well, I was mistaken." God makes no mistakes. He's perfect. All right.
Now, when God led the children of Israel in the form of the Pillar of Fire, the Angel of the covenant, then that same Angel was made flesh and dwelt among us... Jesus said, "I came from God, and I go to God."

20 Well now, we find out when it was here on earth, the way it behaved itself, that Holy Spirit that was in the wilderness with the children of Israel. Now, when ... we know it was the Pillar of Fire. Moses met Him at the bush, and the bush was on fire. Then the Pillar of Fire led the children of Israel. And He met him there in the name of I AM.
When He was manifested in flesh, He was still, "Before Abraham was, I AM. A little while and the world sees me no more. (He's going away.) I come from God; I go to God." And then after His death, burial, and resurrection, and ascension, Paul was on his road down to Damascus one day ... or, Saul, rather, and all of a sudden there was a light shone around him that blinded him, and a voice saying, "Saul, Saul, why persecuteth thou me?"
He said, "Who are You, Lord?"
He said, "I'm Jesus. I came from God, and I go back to God." That was the Spirit in Jesus speaking out, God in Christ, manifested.

21 Now, what He was in the days yesterday, living in a body, Jesus, He will do the same today in His church, because that's His program to carry on with His church.
Now, if I asked all the Methodists here tonight, "Do you believe that?"
All of them, "Yes." Baptist, Presbyterian, Pentecostals and so forth, we'd all believe that. Now, the thing the... We know the Bible teaches it, but will it work? It'll work if we believe it'll work, because it's God's Word, see.
Now if we can get a idea of what He was yesterday, we can see clearly what He is, then, today. Now, we was reading just now out of the book of Saint John. Now, hold on to these things with all that's in you. We won't have much time to express them in future meetings. But to save time, let's just go back a little bit and find out what He was yesterday. And whatever He was yesterday, He must remain the same today.

22 Now, we find Him... We'll go back to the first book, the first part of the book we just read, Saint John, and just begin to unfold His life and see what He was yesterday, and see the way they seen Him yesterday, and the way He manifested Himself yesterday, then He's got to do the same thing today.
Now, the first place... Let's settle it for all time. Jesus did not claim to be a healer. He said, "It's not me that doeth the works; it's my Father that dwelleth in me. He doeth the works." Saint John 5:19. Jesus said, "Verily, verily, I say unto you, the Son can do nothing in Himself but what He sees the Father doing."

23 He'd passed through the pool of Bethesda ... or, by it, where there was multitudes of people that were crippled, lame, halt, and blind. And He found a man laying on a ... well, I'd call it in my country, a pallet.
I don't know whether you Californians... How many knows what a pallet is? What part of Kentucky you all from? I thought they was all of Okies and Arkies here. But look like got some Kentuckians here. I was raised on one, so I know what a pallet is.
Well, this man was laying on a pallet, little blanket or something laying there. And when He passed by, Jesus knowed that he'd been in this condition all this time, and healed him, and went on His way. What if He did that here in San Jose tonight? Tomorrow morning He'd have the same criticism He had then: "Why didn't You heal this one, that one, and this one, and that one," see. Jesus said, "I only do as I see the Father doing. The Father worketh, and I worketh hitherto."

24 Now, let's get back and find what He was. We know of His birth in the manger, a little stable in the side and a cave on a hillside in Bethlehem. And we know of His ... part of His boyhood to twelve years old; and then, being showing forth, John the Baptist baptizing Him; and the Holy Spirit coming down from heaven; and then into the wilderness for forty days and nights to be tempted of the devil; and then came forth in His ministry.
Now, follow close. Saint John, the 1st chapter we're beginning with. And we want you to know that the things that you see and hear, may be just a little different from what you have been, maybe, thinking about. But sometimes God does things a little different than what we've got our programs worked out, see. God does that. He did that in the first coming of Jesus. He had it... The ministry had it... They had it all worked out some way that Christ was to be. But then He came so different, till they did not understand it. And it could be that way again. I don't say it will be, but say it could be.

25 Now, we find as soon as He started His ministry, there was someone came to Him by the name of Simon. And as soon as he walked up into the presence of Jesus, Jesus told him that his name was Simon, and his father's name was Jonas. "Thou art Simon, the son of Jonas." That must've affected that man, until we find out that he became later the head of the church at Jerusalem. "Thou art Simon, the son of Jonas."
There was one standing by, by the name of Philip, a righteous man, a good man that became a servant of the Lord Jesus. And later, we find him about two days later making a trip around the mountain to find one of his friends. That was certainly a good sign that he'd really got in contact with Jesus: He went after somebody else.

26 The Spirit of God in a man or a woman, if they have really found this great Pearl of great price, they'll try to get somebody else to it, just as quick as they can, because it's the Spirit of God, trying to call everybody to Him. "If I be lifted up, I will draw all men unto me."
Now, and Philip, when he went... Let's just take a little drama so the young folks will catch it. I can see him go and knock on the door. And Nathanael's wife spoke to him and said, "Good morning, Philip. Looks like you're kind of tired this morning."
"Yes, I've run all night." They tell me it's about fifteen miles around the mountain. And he said, "I come to find Nathanael."
She said, "Why, Philip, he just walked out to the olive orchard just a while ago. You'll perhaps find him out there somewhere looking over the grove." Must have been a farmer, but an honest and just man.
And go out with Nathanael quickly into the grove, and he finds Nathanael on his knees, praying. Well, as a Christian gentleman, he wouldn't interrupt him when he was praying. He just waited till he finished. And when he got up off of his knees, I can see him turn around, say, "Philip, what doest thou here?"

27 Now, they didn't have time to talk over a lot of things like we do. But the message was urgent. And if it was urgent then, how much more is it urgent now? Here he not, "How's your farm getting along," or so forth, but quickly to the point. "Come, see who we have found, Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph."
Quickly, this staunch man rode out, straightened up his robe, and said, "Now, wait just a minute, Philip. I know you to be a just man. I know that you're a good man, and it would be... It's so strange and hard for me to see that you've gone off on the deep end. Do you mean to tell me that you've fallen for some something like that, that this Jesus that you're speaking of, this Galilean prophet, is the Messiah that we're looking for? Why, if the Messiah would come, the high priest would know about it. All the churches would know about it. Everybody would know."
But I think Philip give him the best answer that anyone could give. He said, "Come, see for yourself." That's the best way, friends. Come, take your Scriptures, take the Bible and look it over. Compare scripture to scripture and see if it's right.

28 Now, we find out then, that after he had said that to him, he got ready, and along the road he was coming. I can imagine Philip saying to him something like this, "Nathanael, do you remember that old fisherman that you bought them fish from last summer?"
"Oh, the old fellow, Simon. Yes."
"You know, you wanted a receipt, and he couldn't even sign his name to the receipt." The Bible said he was ignorant and unlearned. "Well, he came up before this One that we know to be the Messiah, and He said to him, 'Your name is Simon, and your father's name is Jonas.' Now, Nathanael, let's us be gentlemen. You know the Messiah is to be the God-prophet, for Moses, the one we believe, said, 'The Lord your God shall raise up a prophet liken unto me,' and the Messiah is to be a prophet, God-prophet, the God of the prophets. But He's to be like a prophet. And wouldn't that just fit Him just exactly? When this old ignorant fisherman came, and He told him that his ... what his name was and what his father's name was?" Philip might have said something like this. "It wouldn't surprise me He didn't know you."
"Oh, now, just a minute. You're not putting any of that... He will never be able to read my mind. You just wait till I get around there; I will tell Him about it."

29 And perhaps Jesus was standing... Maybe it was in a prayer line. Or, maybe it was just standing talking to the people. But however, when they arrived, and Philip came up into the line with Nathanael, Jesus looked at Nathanael for the first time, and said, "Behold, an Israelite in whom there is no guile."
I can imagine Philip punched him, said, "What did I tell you? See there? What did I tell you?"
And it astonished this man. And he said to Him, "When knowest Thou me, Rabbi? Teacher? When did you ever know me? This is the first time we've ever met."
Now, He didn't know him by the way he was... He did not know him the way he was dressed, because all the Oriental people dressed the same way. He could've been an Egyptian, he could've been a Greek, or something else. I'm told they all dressed alike then, wore a beard and so forth.
"When did You know me?"
He said, "Before Philip called you, when you were under the tree, I saw you," fifteen miles around the mountain, day before. Yet, "I saw you." What eyes.
Oh, quickly then, this staunch Hebrew, who was called to eternal life, fell on his face and said, "Rabbi, You are the Son of God. You are the King of Israel." Oh, he believed it, because he knowed that Messiah was the God-prophet, and only Messiah could do that. Now, hold that close. Messiah was the only one could do that. And he was looking for that. That settled it.

30 Oh, there were those standing by now, that did not believe that. We will take that up later, of the Jews, the great staunch and the big high churches and so forth. They were standing by. And not out loud, but in their hearts, they said, "This man is a fortune-teller, or a devil." And we all know that fortune telling's of the devil. "This man is a fortune-teller, or maybe he has a telepathy. He is a mind reader. He has Beelzebub, the chief of the devils telling Him that."
What did Jesus say? He said, "You speak that against the Son of man, it shall be forgiven you." But in so many words, to break it down, "Someday, the Holy Spirit's coming, and He will do the same things that I done. One word against it will never be forgiven."
Now remember, the Jews were looking for Him. He was pointing to the Gentile age. That sign was never performed before a Gentile. It was to a Jew and a Samaritan, because they was both looking for His coming. Now... They were taken out then as a nation. But now, it's the Gentile's age. Only three: Ham, Shem and Japheth's people from Noah, which we believe that all of our human race spring from those three.

31 Now, notice. "Thou art the Son of God, the King of Israel." That's what a real true Jew thought. But the other side said, "He's a fortune-teller." What? Because Jesus pronounced that horrible thing with no forgiveness, because they were calling the Spirit of God an unclean spirit, doing the thing that the Bible predicted He would do, and then when it was done before them, they said it was of the devil. That was to never be forgiven.
Now remember, we Gentiles in those days were still heathens. We were worshipping idols. We wasn't looking for no Christ. But there was another class of people called the Samaritans. Now, Jesus came to His own. When He sent out His disciples, said, "Go not in the way of the Gentiles, but go rather to the lost sheep of Israel." Matthew 10.

32 Then notice, that when He... One day He... Saint John 4 now. He had need to go by Samaria. I wonder why. See, when God does anything one time, He's got to do it the same the next time, or He did wrong when He did it the first time. Then if God made Hisself known through Christ, manifesting it like that to the Jews, and called out the disciples in that manner; there was another class of people that was looking for Him, a Messiah to come. That was Samaritans. And when these Samaritans, when they were looking for Him, Jesus had need to go by to see them.
And we know the story of Saint John 4, when He sent His disciples in to get some vittles. And then when they were gone in for this food, He sat down over against the well, perhaps a panoramic, something like this. And being a Jew, yet about thirty years old...
I think the Scriptures kind've lead us to believe that He looked fifty, because in Saint John 6, they said, "You mean You saw Abraham? and You're not a man over fifty years old? Now we know that You've got a devil, and You're mad."
He said, "Before Abraham was, I AM."

33 Notice. And here now at this Samar... the public well... Now, while they all went up there for water, especially the women to get their daily water to do their cooking and whatever they had to do... All was away from the well at the time, and Jesus being weary in His way, tired, sat down on the side of the well.
Let's just for a drama's sake, say, He's sitting back in some grape vines, just leaning back, resting a little. And up come a lovely woman. Now, she was a woman that we believe to be ill-famed, we Westerners. But she came up to the well to get some water. Maybe she didn't come with the rest of the women, because maybe the way she was living, we'd say. She couldn't come with the rest of them. And then... Yes, as Brother Clibborn said, "It could've been the wrong time for her to come."

34 And however, she came up to the well. And let's say she had a water pot on her shoulder, walking along. And she was thinking about something. She hooks the little hooks into the little pot, and she starts on the windle to let it down in the well. And she heard someone said, "Woman, bring me a drink."
And she turns. She had not seen anyone when she was approaching ... or, coming to the well. And she looked, and she saw a man sitting over against the side of the well. And it was a Jew. And she quickly said to Him, "Oh..." In other words, "We got a law of segregation. You being a Jew, You have no right to ask a woman of Samaria such a question. We have no mixings, no dealings."
And He said, "But if you knew who you were talking to, oh, you would ask me for a drink." What was He doing? Now, you'll have to take my word for this. It's been Scriptural till right here. I believe that He was contacting her spirit. The Father had showed Him to go up there, because He said He did nothing till the Father showed Him. But then He was... He knew this woman was coming. But now what would be next, He doesn't know.

35 For instance, here. I believe that God sent me to San Jose. Now, you're here, but I don't know what next; if it's the Spirit of God, then after awhile, I will begin to speak to somebody, just like He did.
And as He begin to talk, she said, "Oh," she said, "we worship here in this mountain; You say at Jerusalem." And the conversation went on with this man and woman. Now remember, the first time they had ever met...
And Jesus said to her after He'd found what was her trouble... How many knows what her trouble was? Sure. Said, when He found her trouble, He said, "Go get your husband and come here."
Now listen close. Hang on to this. Now remember, this is a second nationality. There's only three, the three sons of Noah. This is a Jew, and a Samaritan, and a Gentile. Now, these two was looking for Him coming. The first, He made Hisself known by telling Peter, and telling Nathanael, and talking to them in that manner as a God-prophet that they were looking for.

36 Now, here's this woman. We're going to say she was ill-famed. And she's standing there. And she's talking to a man that... He's just looks like a ordinary man. But she can't catch just what's He talking about. Finally, He said, "Go, get your husband and come here."
She said, "I have no husband."
Listen at His words. "Thou has said right. You've had five husbands, and the one you're now living with is not yours. You spoke the truth."
Quickly, listen at her. Now, where a lot of the great high church members, the priests and high priest said He's Beelzebub when He did that. What did she say? "Sir, I perceive that You are a prophet. We know when the Messiah cometh..." She knowed more about God than a lot of preachers does. That's right. "We know when the Messiah cometh, He will tell us these things. He will show us these things. Now, You must be His prophet."
What was that? That's that second... The Jew? Now, here's the Samaritan. Gentile wasn't looking for it. Their days is coming now. But God, if He revealed Hisself through Christ ... or, sent the Messiah in that form to the Jew, He's got to send the same thing to the Samaritans, and so will He to the Gentiles, if Jesus is the same yesterday, today, and forever.

37 Now, He said... The woman said, "Sir, I perceive that thou art a prophet." Let me quote it again. "We know when the Messiah cometh, He will tell us all things. We know that's the sign of the Messiah. When He comes, that'll be the sign that'll be following Him, for He is the God-prophet, the one that Moses spoke of. But, who are you, sir?"
He said, "I'm He that speaks with you." Never was nobody could say it but Him. Never will be nobody can say it but Him. That's right. "I'm He that speaks to you."
She dropped that water pot and took off into the well ... from the well as hard as she could to the city, and she said, "Come, see a man that told me the things I've done. Isn't this the Messiah?"
If that was the sign of the Messiah yesterday, and He's the same yesterday, today, and forever, it's the sign of the Messiah now.
One more little thing. The time's getting away. One more little plug I want to put here before we hit the lessons tomorrow and the next day.

38 Remember. That sign was only given at the end of each generation when they were ... was taken away from the... God. God deals with Israel, 'course now it's the individual, but He always deals with Israel as a nation, I believe. Is that right, brethren? With Gentiles as individuals, but Israel as a nation. See, He left... Israel was blinded so that we'd have a chance to come in. God blinded them. Now look. He closed that dispensation there with that, or that dispensation He just closed Israel out, blinded them there. The Samaritans, He gave it there. Now, here we are at the end of the Gentiles.
Let's take what the prophet said. The prophet said, "There'd be a day that wouldn't be called day or night. But in the evening time, it should be light. It'll be light at the evening."
Now, the same sun that rises in the east, sets in the west, not another sun, the same sun. And when the Holy Spirit came on the day of Pentecost, it was on an Eastern people.

39 We've had a day that we've went across the world. We've had great churches, great revivals, organized, built churches, built places. God never did command that. Never did He say do that, see. The commission was: Preach the Gospel, manifest the power of His resurrection. But now, it's come over this dark day. And now the civilization has come from the East traveling westward. Just a few hundred yards out here, a few miles, and we'd be in the ocean. Then East and West is meeting again.
Now, the Western people, it's their time. And the Holy Spirit is here. And God's duty bound to manifest Himself just like He did back there to them, or He did something that one time and did something else to another time. He's got to do it. And He promised to do it. Just to get a little place so you'll see He promised to do it before we hit to the... Here's the place you'll see.

40 One time, Noah... Well, let's take it: Jesus said, "As it was in the days of Lot..." We will take that one: The days of Lot. Now listen close; we're closing.
"As it was in the days of Lot, so shall it be in the coming of the Son of man." Everybody knows that to be true. "As it was..." Not, "pretty near that way," but "as it was."
Now look. Sodom and Gomorrah was burnt up with fire. And we are taught that the world will be destroyed again. The heavens will be on earth and the earth will burn with heat, fire again.
I believe these missiles and things that they're sending through this air is going to strike the moon. One of these days, just outside the orbit of this earth... I may be all wrong in this. I'm not a scientist or... But I'm just thinking... I read where there was miles and hundreds of miles of volcanic acids and gasses gathered outside this earth. What if one of those missiles would happen to set that off? What would it be? Fire in the heavens.

41 And Russia, and other places with missiles, atomic bombs that could strike and blow a hole in the ground a hundred and seventy-five feet deep for a hundred miles square. And thousands of those... I was in a... There's a man sitting right here now, a Chaplain out of the army, was just a few weeks ago in Los Angeles where they was talking it over. You can read in Look Magazine where that great general said the next war will just be minutes. Some fanatic's going to blow his top one of these days, as we call it, and he's going to pull off one of those bombs. And submarines will be rising up out of the ocean, and other nations where they've got these atomic missiles planted and there'll be whirling one way, and the other... The world can't stand it. We're at the end time. We're here at the end.

42 Now, God's going to do this. As it was in the days of Sodom. Always watch your three classes of people. There was the Sodomites. There was the religious world, Lot's people, in Sodom. And here was Abraham out of Sodom, out of the world, living in a place... He was the elect.
One day, standing in his tent door, he saw three men come walking to him. They looked like men. They might've had dust on their clothes. But somehow, Abraham standing there, thinking about the goodness of God, when he saw them coming, there was something begin to strike him. It's when we think on God; that's when we see things. That's when things happen.

43 It's when Cleopas and his friends from the first Easter, on the road down to Emmaus, while they were speaking and thinking about Him, that He stepped out of the bushes and begin to talk to them. It's when we're talking about Him, when we're thinking about Him.
We can't be out here running around, doing one thing and another. The church has got too many programs. We ought to get back to God, the old prayer meetings, and a real back ... Pentecost back in the church. We got too much outside things to do, too many societies to take care of. We've got to come back. Yeah, entertainment... That's right.
The American people want to be entertained. They stay home on Wednesday night to see "Who Loves Suzy," ever what that program is. That shows what's in your heart. If you loved God, you'd be at church. You've got to get back to the church. Back to the Bible, back to Christ.

44 Here they was. There was Abraham, thinking about the goodness of God, twenty-five years, waiting for that baby. And here he was knowing that God was going to do it, and he seen three men coming, and one of them was God.
Now, this might be... If I'm wrong here, just do like I do when I'm eating cherry pie. I don't throw the pie away; I throw the seed away. So you do the same way here. Just keep eating pie.
The reason I don't believe that's a theophany, is because that... I will tell you why: The man eat veal chops; He eat a calf that Abraham slayed; He drink the milk, and eat some corn bread with butter on it. He wasn't no Spirit; He was a man. And Abraham called Him Lord, capital "L," Elohim (Amen.), God.
Someone said to me, "Billy, you don't mean to tell me you believe that was God."
"Sure."

45 God called Gabriel and one of His other angels and said, "Come here a minute. Let's step down and look down in Sodom." Grabbed up a little handful of calcium, potash, and petroleum, cosmic light---sixteen elements we're made out of---went "pheww," and just stepped into it. That's all. That's our God. Sure, it served the purpose. That's the reason I know that someday He will say ... call our name, and we'll come from the dust of the earth. It's God. He just blowed a little calcium together and stepped into it Himself, and had dust on His clothes, walked down there, and He was standing, and said...
Now, two of them modern evangelists, after they'd eaten and... Now remember, as soon as dinner was over, nobody seen any women yet. This One said to Abraham, said, "Where is Sarah, thy wife?"

46 Now we're at the close of the age, you remember, close of the age, close of Sodom and Gomorrah. "Where is Sarah, thy wife?" A total stranger, knowed he was married, and knowed who his wife was, and what her name was.
Said, "She's in the tent." And the Bible said that the tent was behind Him.
And He said, "I'm not going to keep this from Abraham, but I'm going to visit him according to the time of life." You know what I mean.
And Sarah, within her heart, in herself, she went ... laughed.
And the Angel, with His back turned to the tent and heard in the tent said, "Why did she laugh?" While a modern Billy Graham, and a lot of them down holding revival down in Sodom and Gomorrah...

47 But this elected church---Abraham and his group---saw this sign. It was the end time. "As it was in the days of Sodom, so shall it be in the coming of the Son of man." See that sign there just before the time come. God was going to... Sodom caught afire after that. And this world's going to leave here one of these days. God's calling to His church, "Jesus Christ, the same yesterday, today, and forever."
Look at that same Spirit when it's put into a virgin born body, look at things that it done. Did it do the same as it did there? He perceived their thoughts, called them by their names, told them who they was, where they been, so forth. And the real true believers, the elected Jews, believers, believed it to be the truth.
Here it is again today in the last days. Now, if Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever, He will have to manifest Himself, if I've told the truth about this being the end time.

48 Now, we've had revivals; we've had shoutings; we've had gifts; we've had speaking with tongues, and all them things. That's all been the Pentecostal's revival. But remember, this was promised. Paul said, "If you speak with tongues, and there be no interpreter, they'll say you're mad." But said, "When one prophet will say ... reveal the secret of the heart, then they'll all fall down and say truly God's with you."
Do you believe Jesus is the same yesterday, today, and forever?
Let us pray. O Lord, such a wonderful Spirit in the church. [Gap in the audio.] Most anything could happen. Looking out across this audience, and well aware that You know every one of them, and all their conditions. I pray, Father, that Your great mercy and love will be manifested to each and every one. Just a few moments, Lord, here I will be before these people in this... The clergymen, the ministers of the gospel sitting here on the platform, angels ordained to preach life.

49 I pray, Father, that You'll be merciful, and let this church ... every sick person know that You're God, and You know every heart. You know every secret; You know everything; and every promise that You made is the truth.
And we see here that You promised just before the end time, "As it was in the days of Sodom," and as it was at the end for the Jews and the Samaritans, they were all looking for Your coming. And now, the Gentile age is preaching Your coming, been watching for years for the coming of the Messiah. Now, it's closing down. It's their end coming.
Now, Father, we know that Your Word is truth. And let every spirit in here be subject to Your Spirit. And may You come among us now and manifest Your power, and Your Spirit among us, that it might reveal to us that Jesus Christ is not dead, but He is alive forever more, and lives in His church, among His people, walking in and out the door to the sheepfold, the Shepherd of the flock. Grant, Lord, that these things will be done for His glory. We ask it in Jesus' name. Amen.

50 Such a wonderful audience, I spoke just a little long. We won't take... I tell you, being it's a quarter after---we usually are finished at nine-thirty---let's just call a few of the prayer line. Each night, we call a hundred people, about, or maybe more if we can. Let's just call a short group of them tonight, just because we get out on time, and you come back again tomorrow night.
Where's Billy Paul? Prayer cards A-1 to 100 is what he gave out. Now, let's have A number 1. Let's start from number 1, just bring a few of them. Who has number 1? Just raise up your hand. Now, it may be somebody in these chairs can't raise up. To the left? All right. A number 1, would you come right here, lady. Now, if you can't get up, if you let someone know, and we'll pack you. A number 2, would you hold your hand? Right here, sir. Number 3, number 3? Prayer card number 3. Right here? All right. Number 4, who has 4? Prayer card number 4? Now, look around. It maybe somebody deaf and dumb, can't... Oh, have they found it? All right. Bring the lady right over, number 4. Number 5? All right, sister. Number 6, number 6, would you raise...? All right. Number 7? 8, who has prayer card 8? All right. 9, 9? All right. 10, 10, number 10? All right. 11? 11, all right. 12? 13? 14? 15? See, one, two... There's another one, number 15? (Oh, is that right?) 15? 16, 17, 18. Three people. There they are. There's two of them. 16, 17, 18, 18. All right. 19, 20, 20. Move quickly, real quickly, because we don't want to keep the... (Thank you.)

51 Oh, I want to say that I'm expecting really something to take place. Yes, sir. This is wonderful. Our Lord... Now, how many out there that does not have prayer cards, and yet you're sick, and you want Jesus to heal you, just raise up your hand, so I can get a general idea where you're all at---does not have prayer cards, anywhere in the building. Now, while they're lining them up, let's just wait a minute.
The Bible said, the book of Hebrews, that Jesus Christ is now, right now, the High Priest that can be touched by the feeling of our infirmities. How many know that? He's the High Priest now that can be touched by the feeling of our infirmities. All right. Then if He's a High Priest now... And if He's the same High Priest that He was yesterday, the same today, will be forever... How did the High Priest act when somebody touched Him?

52 There was a woman one time who was coming through a crowd of people, and she touched the hem of His garment. How many remember that? And everybody was touching Him. And Jesus turned around and said, "Who touched me?" And everybody denied it. Maybe in a audience that large... Everybody denied it. But He said, "Somebody touched me, for I perceive that virtue..."---that's strength. In other words, if I'd say it like this now, "I got weak." Visions make people weak, see. "I perceive that I have gotten weak."
And Peter rebuked Him. Peter said, otherwise, "Why, Lord, everybody's touching You, and then You come around and say, 'Who touched me?' Everybody's patting You on the back and saying, 'That was fine, Reverend. We're sure glad to see You, sir,' and all like this. Everybody's touching. And then come around and say, 'Who touched me?'"
He said, "But, that was a different touch," see. "Somebody touched..." Now physically, He could not have felt it, because the Palestinian garment hung loose. And I think they had an underneath garment. So, it would not have... He could not have felt it, physically. But He felt it in the Spirit, because that woman was pulling from God what she had need of, see.

53 God, in Christ, was in the fullness. And us, it's just by measure. He had it without measure, see. Now, we just have a... We got a, like a spoonful of water out of the ocean, and He had the whole ocean. But you see, a spoonful of water's got the same chemicals that the whole ocean's got, but just not as much of it.
So, these gifts are put in the church to bring the church to God to let you know, to show you what Jesus died for is your personal property. They have first... In the first there is apostles, prophets, teachers, pastors, evangelists; and that's the church offices. We have pastors, evangelists, and prophets, and so forth in the church. All these are done. Then there's nine spiritual gifts that go into the church also: I Corinthians 12. But those are God called, elected bodies sent to the church to bring the church, keep unity, and keep the church in line and in order. We need it.

54 Now, if Jesus is the High Priest and can be touched by the feeling of our infirmities, how would you know you touched Him if He didn't act the same way He did back there? He'd have to act the same way, wouldn't He. Is that right? He'd have to act it, or He wouldn't be the same High Priest. But if He acts the same way He did then, then you know you touched the same High Priest that that was.
So, now you without prayer cards, you just start and pray and say, "Lord, that man don't know me. He don't know nothing about me. But let me have faith." Now, don't get worked up, just come quietly to Him, just as reverently, and say, "Lord, I believe, and I believe I will touch Your garment." See if He don't turn right around and tell you just the same as He did that woman. Now if He doesn't do that, then I've misrepresented Him to you.
And here, everybody in that prayer line that knows that I do not know you, raise your hands: I know nothing about you, all down along that line know that I don't... How many out in the audience knows that I do not know you, raise your hands. There isn't a person here that I know, out of... I'm sorry to say this. 'Course, some of these ministers I might know if they'd introduce themselves. The only one I really could know of right now is Brother Booth-Clibborn sitting there (That's right.), and Brother Borders. That's the only person that I see now besides my boy over here in the corner, is the only one that I see in the entire building that I know. But Christ knows every one of you.

55 Now, here they are in the prayer line. Now, if there was anything I could do to heal you, I'd do it. If I know that crawling on my knees and pushing a quarter all the way around this city here with my nose would heal you, I'd take off to do it. I sure would, because if that was God's requirement, I'd sure try it.
But it's not God's requirement. See, God has already sent Christ, and Christ died; He was wounded for your transgressions, with His stripes you were healed. And the thing's settled. See, the thing of it now is for you to believe it. It's your... It's yours.
You say, "I got saved last year, Brother Branham." No. I beg your pardon. You just accepted it last year. You was saved nineteen hundred years ago when He died, see, see. No, see, and you're already healed. Every one of you's been healed since back at that time. See, the devil has no legal rights to hold you. He's just a bluff. That's right. Because Christ stripped every legal power he had when He took it away from him at Calvary. You know that. The debt was paid completely right there. So, the only thing is just you to believe what He said, and accept it, and hold on to it.

56 Now, now, here we got all the Scriptures and everything laying right out here. Now, will He do it? Now, the next thing, will He do it? Now, you see where I'm standing? I am absolutely going to be found in a few minutes a false prophet, or telling the truth. God's going to be found, Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today, and forever, or the Scripture's wrong, see.
Now remember, Jesus said He could not heal. We will get into it different nights. He did not heal. He only did what the Father showed Him to do, what He could see the Father doing. How many ever read that? Saint John 5:19, "I do nothing, unless I see (not hear, but see) the Father doing it." Then had to be a vision. The prophets all did that. When Elijah laid everything out at Mount Carmel, he said, "Lord, I've done of all this at Your command." Everything was laid just the way it did, because of His command.

57 Now, I'm your brother. And brother, sister, I wouldn't be here for nothing in the world as a deceiver. I love you too much for that. And God knows; what about Him, see?
I'm here. I've saw visions since I was just a little boy. You've got my life story here and all about. It's went around the world. The picture of the Angel of the Lord, that pillar of fire, how many's ever seen that? Let's see your hands. Sure.
They didn't have any more. The Angelus Temple took it all, and they had enough books to ten minutes awhile ago---a thousand. So, that's all they had. But it's in Washington D.C. They just got another up here in California a few days ago, was the most outstanding you've ever seen. What does it do? If I die tonight, the church knows I've told the truth. God's vindicated it. The scientific world knows it. George J. Lacy said, "The camera will not take psychology. That light struck the lens. It was there." See? There it is in Washington D.C. now, and so forth. It's the truth, friend. It's the truth. And don't let... Now, not me, I'm nothing to do with it, see. I'm just your brother.

58 But you see, in every age, they've let these things go by. How about you Catholics back there about Saint Patrick? They never knowed who he was till he was dead: Saint Francis of Assisi. How about Joan of Ark. You burned her as a witch to a stake, because she saw visions and things. Thought she was a witch and burned her to a stake, because she was God's prophetess. See, she was a Beelzebub to you. Then you dug up them priest's bodies that did it and throwed it in the river to do penance. But let me tell you something. It's always that way. It goes by, and you don't know it until it's over. That's the same way as with our Lord. It's every age that way.
Now, for you people here with this lovely Spirit, come right in and believe now while we pray.

59 Father God, it's a great moment just now. Hundreds of people are sitting here. They're waiting. Hundreds and hundreds, this is their first time. And here I stand. I don't know what to do or what to say. But Thou knowest all things. I pray that You'll help me now, Lord. And may it be so, that I could just submit myself to Thee, and this audience could submit themselves to Thee. We could be so committed to God that we wouldn't think our own thoughts, but we would think His thoughts. And may I be so committed to You, Lord, that Your Spirit would use my lips to speak, my eyes to see, not for the glory of man, but that the people might know that God keeps His Word, and it's at the end time. And may many repent and many be healed. For we ask it for God's glory in the name of His Son, Jesus Christ. Amen.
Now, just for a few moments, everybody reverently. Now, don't move around; just sit real quiet. Watch this a-way, pray. Now, you without... You out there with sickness, not going to be in the prayer line, just look this way and start praying now.

60 Now, the woman and I meet for the first time, I guess, in life. If that's right, so the audience will know way back, just so they see your hand; they can't hear your voice. This is our first time ever meeting. I would never know the woman; I've never saw her. Now, here's a picture of Saint John 5 ... or, Saint John 4, a man and woman meeting for the first time on earth.
Now, if I go up to the woman and say this... Perhaps she's sick, perhaps she isn't. I don't know who she is, don't know nothing about her. But what if I went up to her and say, "Sister, you sick? She'd say, 'Yes, I'm sick,'..." Lay my hands on her, say, "Glory to God, God heals you. Amen. Believe it. Go off the platform rejoicing. Believe that you're healed." She had a right to do that, because the Scriptures teaches that she's already healed. Now that would be fine. That's what God's been doing for years.
But He's God. He wants to get just a little closer to you now. Now, what if the Lord tells her something about herself that she knows I don't know nothing about. Then if He knows what has been, He surely will know what... If He could tell you what has been, you can take His Word for what will be. If He can reveal the past, surely, He could tell the future. Is that right?

61 Now, you do the same thing out there. Just be praying. And after a night or so, when you see the kind of the suspicion, sitting waiting, wonder, anticipation (See), that'll break down. Then the Holy Spirit will just go over the audience, and you'll see everything take place. It's your faith that does it.
Now, if this woman and I, both with our hands up, we never met before in life, never seen each other before, just our first time ever meeting. If the Lord will tell that woman something that's wrong, or something about her I don't know, all of you will believe? Would you just raise your hand, say, "I believe; I believe."
Now you know it'll have to come through some power, 'cause we don't know one another. Now, you can be like the modern Pharisee was, say it's evil, then you get that reward. Then you say it was Christ, like the woman at the well did, and got His reward.

62 Now, just to speak with her just a moment, because I've never seen her. Now, here's the same thing I thought He done to the woman at the well. Now, see, I want to speak with you, but as soon as the anointing gets into the audience and you start believing with all your heart, then it'll go out there.
Now, I don't want you to say nothing, but just whether it's right or wrong to whatever is said. You be the judge. Now, as we're meeting just like our Lord and a woman at the well met to talk, and converse with one another. And He found, by some way, the moving of her spirit, what her trouble was. I believe God sent her up there. Don't you believe that? I believe He sent you here too. Sure He did. For it's for some reason that you've come.

63 Now, if anyone can notice... If you could see, between me and the woman, there stands that light, right here now, going right to her. She is a Christian. She's a born again Christian. She is. And she's suffering with a tremendous nervous condition. That's right. Them feelings comes in the evening time, kind of late, you get weary, weakness from your work. Then you got a... Something else on your mind that's really bothering you. That's right, isn't it? You believe God can reveal it to me? It's a growth. You believe God can tell me where the growth is? It's on the breast. Now, you believe God's going to make you well? If that's right, raise up your hand. All right. Go believing it. That's all there is to it. Me calling you on that... Go this way if you want to, sister. Come right here, sister.
Do you believe out there already? Now, just real reverent...

64 Now, that was at the woman at the well. Now, this is a man. Now, Philip went and found... Or, Andrew went and found Peter, brought him up. Or either it was Philip went and found Nathanael, or one of the men's case (See), like in the 1st chapter of Saint John. A man... I guess this is our first meeting. You've met me one time. Just introduced yourself. 'Course, I guess that's been some time ago, and I wouldn't know nothing about you. All right, here's our first time of meeting. Do you believe that God that was in the days of Philip and Nathanael is still the same God today: Jesus, alive, the same yesterday, today, and forever?
If the Lord will reveal to me something that you know something in the past, like He did, ever what it was. See, I don't know what I say, because it's my lips, but it's His voice. You see, He just speaks it. You believe, would you, sir?
Would every man in here believe if He would do the same? All right. May the Lord grant it. I keep watching that clock. I'm thinking about nine-thirty. You see, I'm trying to keep that off my mind, see.

65 You're suffering with high blood pressure. That's right, isn't it.
You think I guessed that? He's a fine man. That's fine, if it was. Let's look this way. Seemingly, there's something else on his mind anyhow. Yes, he's got heart trouble. That's not all that's on his mind. Something else, there's somebody in here he's interested in. I can feel their spirit, sitting right here. Yes. Comes before him. I see that it's a woman. That's your wife. You believe God can tell me what's wrong with your wife out there? She's got a nervous condition and a colon condition in the colon. That's right. You believe?
You believe God knows who this man is? If God will tell you like He did Simon Peter and that, he'll believe with all ... and all the rest say you believe? Mr. Harris. That's right. Mr. Harris, go home. You have received what you've asked for.
If thou canst believe, all things are possible.

66 The lady sitting there with the red dress on, right in front of that man with the wheelchair there, put her hand down in her lap, looking this way: got spinal trouble. Do you believe Jesus Christ will make you well? You're healed now. What did you touch? The High Priest. That's right. Just have faith, don't doubt.
See, believe out there, just the same as you believe here. God is God. Now, see, she's twenty yards from me. I don't know the woman, never seen her. If that's right, raise your hand up, ever where the lady was? See, there she is right there. I never seen her; I don't know nothing about her. But God knows about her.
There's something else happened there at that time. Yeah, the lady's crying. You had spinal trouble too. You set there with a little, what, green looking ... like there. All right. That's right. I don't know you, do I? If that's right, shake your hands like this to the people; they know I don't know you. Your spinal trouble's over. When that devil left her, he was screaming for mercy. And that's the reason that screamed out there. You see what it did? It left this lady now. Instead of dark over, it's white over you, healed both of you. Jesus Christ makes you well.

67 How many believes on Him now? Sure. Have faith. Don't doubt. Jesus Christ, the same yesterday, today, and forever.
Excuse me. We don't know one another. God knows us both. If God will reveal to me your trouble, will you believe me to be His servant, I'm telling the truth, speaking of Him? I love people, and that's why I'm here, try to help. Well, you're real nervous; you can't hardly eat. You have... That's right. It's true. That's right. And then you've got something wrong with your legs too. You been fallen, haven't you. That's right. Certainly. Do you believe He's going to make you well now? Go off the platform rejoicing; it'll over [unclear words].

68 If thou canst believe. We're strangers to one another. The Lord Jesus knows us both, doesn't He?
I wish I could find that faith like that every night in the first night of a meeting. That's wonderful. Just keep that up.
That side trouble you have, over there on the end of the row, if you believe with all your heart, it leaves you. You accept it? All right. Stand up on your feet. Stand up and accept it. The trouble's gone from your side now; you can go home and be well. God bless you.

69 Hospital's an awful thing, isn't it? I see you've been in the hospital. You got heart trouble, high blood pressure. You believe you're going to get well now? All right, Mrs. Laughlin, you can go home and be well. All right. God bless you [unclear words]. Just go this way and be well. How did He know who you was? Because He's God.
How do you do. We're strangers to each other, isn't it.
Now just a moment, something happened. There's a younger woman standing here than that. I have to watch; it's a light. Now, just somewhere in the audience. Yes, right back over here: hemorrhoids. A lady sitting there, do you believe that God makes you well, with the hemorrhoids, sitting right back behind the wheelchair there, and kind of in through here to the left there, sitting there... Do you believe that God makes you well? Stand up here, so you can testify. Go home; it's all over. Jesus Christ makes... What did she touch? The High Priest.

70 We're strangers to one another. Do you believe that God know who you are and knows all about you? And you believe He could tell me what you're trouble is? Would it help you?
Sitting right back across the top of this chair here praying with that throat trouble, sitting there. Do you believe Jesus Christ makes you well, lady? Stand up on your feet if you believe it. All right. Wave your hand to God and say you accept it. All right. Your throat trouble's left you now. You can go home and be well.
Well, that's the way to do it. What'd you say there? You said, "Oh, Jesus..." then were praying. You was praying, "God, let him call me." Is that right? Sitting right back there. Well, you have arthritis, and you've had gall bladder trouble. That's right. If that's right, stand up on your feet now. You can go home. It's all over. Your arthritis is gone. Your attitude towards God makes you well.
I ask any of you, anywhere in here, to believe with all your heart right now. That's the Holy Spirit. If that isn't Jesus Christ, the same yesterday, today, and forever, I don't know the Scripture.

71 You believe the Lord, sister, with all your heart? You're aware something's going on, see. That feeling, that real sweet, kind feeling, isn't that right? If that's right, raise up your hand so the people can see. Real sweet and kind, because between me and you, there's an Angel of the Lord, that light. You've got a growth. That growth's in your head. You're scared. If God will tell me who you are, would you believe it? Don't doubt. Believe. Mrs. Boyle, go home; Jesus Christ makes you well. Have faith in God.
You want to go eat your supper? That old ulcer's gone. Go on your road rejoicing.
Come, lady. What's you so nervous about? Oh, just nervous. It's just coming that kind of time for your life. It's going to leave you now. Go home and be well. Jesus Christ makes you well. Just have faith.

72 Come here, sir. You got one of the most dangerous diseases there is: heart trouble. But do you believe God will make you well? Well, raise up your hands, say, "I accept it." In the name of Jesus Christ, go and be well.
Come. Oh, my. Asthma! Do you believe God will make you stop with the asthma? All right, go on your road and be well. Go rejoicing, saying, "Thank You, Jesus."
All right. A dark shadow's over the woman: cancer. You believe God will heal you of the cancer and make you well? Raise up your hands, accept Jesus. Go on your road rejoicing, saying, "Thank You, Lord Jesus." That's the way to do it. All right. Believe with all your heart. All right, all right.
Come, sister. That back trouble left you when you come up to the platform. Believe it and just keep on walking, believing God, and you'll get all right. Amen. Don't doubt. Now, go believing.

73 Yours also, son. You believe it with all your heart? Just start rejoicing then, and it'll go right out of your back.
Come believing with all your heart. Oh, my. Here's a baby shadowed with death by cancer. Do you believe that God will heal it, brother? Come here. Satan, you evil spirit. Challenge you tonight in faith. This great ransomed church of God stands here. You are exposed. You're a devil, and we adjure thee by the name of Jesus Christ, the Son of the living God, come out of this child. Believe it; don't you doubt. Baby will get well. Just believe with all your heart; He will do it. All right.
You're a little lame, but not much. The main thing is your diabetes you're scared about. But you believe God will make you well? All right. Go on your road, rejoicing then, and it'll be gone. You'll be all right, if you'll believe.

74 Now, you know you're facing an operation with that tumor. But do you believe that God will heal you? All right, go on your road rejoicing, saying, "Thank You, Lord Jesus, for healing me."
Now I want to ask you something. When I spoke diabetes to that man, something funny happened to you, wasn't it, when I said that. Just keep on. Go on believing. If you believe with all your heart, you also can be made well. God bless you.
Now here's a woman shadowed to death: cancer. Yeah. That's right, you do. All right. Do you believe that God will heal you? Lord God, come in the power of the resurrection of Your Son Jesus and make well this woman. I ask this in Jesus Christ's name. Amen.

75 (It's twenty till ten. Think we... Oh, I tell you. Wait. We will bring them all ... bring them up tomorrow night.)
How many believes with all your heart? If you're ever going to believe, you would believe now. Is that right? You believe now? Now, I want to tell you what the Scripture says. Now, you all... To me, you look like it's just kind of hazy out there.
You can imagine: If one vision made the Son of God weak, what about me? That's the reason I interpreted that Scripture awhile ago, "More than this shall you do," see. Not greater, because there could be no greater, just more. It's His grace that strengthens us.

76 Now, here's what He said in the closing of His ministry, when He was leaving the earth and commissioned His church: "Go ye into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature." You know the Scriptures, Saint Mark 16.
Now, He said, "These signs shall follow them that believe." How many believers are in here? "These signs shall follow them that believe: If they lay their hands on the sick, they shall recover." If God will keep this promise, He will keep every promise. He's God. Don't you believe that?
Now, I want each one of you people that's sick to raise your hand; every person that's sick, raise your hand. Now, somebody that's got their hands up, lay your hands on one another that's sick; just lay your hands over on each another that's sick. Someone on the wheelchair there, the wheelchair there. If you'll just believe, you're going to see something happen like you've never seen before, if you'll just believe it.

77 Now, look. Don't you pray for yourself. No, you pray for the next fellow; the next fellow's praying for you, see. You pray for the person you got your hands on; and the one that's got their hands on you will be praying for you. Now, I will pray for you all here, and this great bunch of ministers will pray, and then, you'll see the glory of God.
Now I wonder, while you got your hands on one another here, if there would be... How many sinners in this building that's never accepted Jesus would want to do it right now, believes that Christ is here, would you just stand up on your feet just a minute and let us pray for you? Sinners that has not believed on the Lord Jesus Christ, and knows that this is His presence, and you're a backslider, whatever you are, would you just stand up to your feet just a moment, you who wants to accept Christ at this time? God bless you. Stand up. Someone else now? God bless you, son. All right, someone else? God bless you. Another one? Stand up to your feet, say, "I now want to accept Christ as my Saviour." Stand up to your feet, anywhere in the building. God bless you back there, sir. Another one? God bless you. God bless you, sister. That's right. Another one? We want to see how many will come to Christ.

78 Look. The Holy Spirit... I was starting to make a prayer for the sick, and the Holy Spirit said to me, "Call them sinners." A young fellow standing up back there, how do I know, might be a minister that'll take the Gospel, see. I don't know. You have to obey the Holy Spirit. Stand, ever who is wanting to accept Christ while His presence is here like this. You'll never be any closer to Him till you see Him face to face. Stand up. God bless you, son. God bless you. God bless you, sister. Someone else? Stand up, say, I now... This is the first night, but I want to accept it. I want Christ to come to me. I believe He's here. And I know if He knows my heart and knows the secrets of my heart, He's the same Jesus that lived in the days gone by. I want Him for my Saviour right now. I belong to church, but really, I've never been saved, Brother Branham. I want to stand." Say, "I want to be saved, borned again, filled with His Spirit. I want it now." Stand up. Who else, while we're waiting just a moment? This might mean the difference between death and life to you, friend. Don't let this pass by. God does these things for His glory. Someone else? Someone else, just before we pray? All right. God bless you, way back there in the back. I see it, like a family standing. God bless you, young fellow. That's very fine. God bless you, sonny boy. That's very fine. God bless you, little boy.

79 Isn't that strange, these little boys up here not over ten, twelve years old. You say, "They don't..." Oh, yes they do. "Suffer little children to come unto me, and forbid them not. Such is the kingdom." Their little hearts hasn't been pulled through too much stuff yet. They're tender, and they can easily receive Christ. The Spirit knocks, and all they know to do is say, "Yes, Lord." I love those little fellows that does that. All right. Anyone else just before we pray now. I see the young lady over here, and a young man and a woman back in the back. I see you way back there, and a young girl. That's fine. God bless you.
All right. Now, lay your hands on one another, you that's sick. Now, you that accepted Christ as personal Saviour, immediately after this prayer, I want you to come up here and stand around the altar where we can pray for you. The Lord bless you.

80 Now, let's pray for the sick, everybody. Heads bowed. Now, you pray for the next person now, just like you want them to pray for you.
His presence, the Holy Spirit moving in the building knows your heart. Feel His glorious presence.
O Lord, Creator of heavens and earth, Author of everlasting life, Giver of every good gift, let Thy Holy Spirit come into this people just now. We know He's in the building. And one time, they laid in the shadow of a man called Peter, and they were healed. They taken aprons and handkerchiefs from the body of another, and they were healed. O Lord, let it know now... Not only the shadow, but the presence of the Holy Ghost is passing over these people. That great Angel of God is moving around over this audience here, dipping down into hearts that will listen, and will believe. Let it be, Lord, this night, that they all might know that Your presence is here. This is a sign. May San Jose believe it right now, Lord, that it's the end time sign, and we're here at the end of the road; and Jesus Christ, the same yesterday, today, and forever is here to minister to their needs.
Satan, you have lost your grip. Come out of here. In the name of Jesus Christ, we adjure thee, as the church of the living God. Get out of these people. Jesus Christ has defeated you, and we stand as His servants ministering with a gift that was brought by an Angel. Come out. In the name of Jesus Christ, leave these people.

81 With your hands on one another now, every one of you that can accept your healing, that somebody has prayed for you, believing now that God's Word is true. I pronounce every one of you healed in the name of Jesus Christ. Now, if you believe it, stand to your feet as a testimony. God bless you. That's right. Just looky. That's the way to do it. Amen. Amen. Amen. Wonderful. Wonderful. That's it. That's it. God bless you. That's right. Just still standing. Look where God healed at one time. Amen. Look at that. Praise God. Oh, that's fine. That's fine. They're still getting up. All right.
While, you're standing there, lift up your hands, and let's sing this song "I Love Him, I Love Him Because He First Loved Me." Everybody now. No, I say, let's change that.. "I Will Praise Him, I Will Praise Him." All right. Praise the Lamb for sinners slain. That's what we want to sing. Everybody together now. All right.
I will praise Him, (Raise up your hands
if you mean it.)
I will praise Him,
Praise the Lamb for sinners slain;
Give Him glory all ye people,
For His blood has washed away each stain.
I will praise Him, I will praise Him,
(Just raise up your voices, praise Him.)
Praise the Lamb for sinners slain;
Give Him glory all ye people,
For His blood has washed away each stain.

82 Let's bow our heads now while we hum it. [Brother Branham begins humming.] While they're praising Him, now, you that raised your hands, and you backsliders, come down here just a minute. Stand close. I want you up here close, so I can pray with you. Come right on out. You that raised your hands, move right down here, come down at the altar just a moment. That's it. Come right out. Come on down, just a moment. I want to pray for you right here myself. I'm going to have answer for you at the day of the judgment, and I want to see that you come out here. "He that will confess me before men, him will I confess before my Father and the holy angels." Now, move right on out. Come right down. That's it. That's it. Now, they're coming right down.
Now, you that... Even if you didn't raise your hands, come on down anyhow. If you feel you want to come down, and come to Christ, come on now.
I will praise Him, I (God bless you, honey;
that's fine.) praise Him,
Praise the Lamb for sinners slain;
You're in the presence of the Holy Ghost now, not your brother, the Holy Spirit.
......glory all ye people,
For His blood has washed away each stain.
I will (Just keep coming. That's right.
We will keep waiting. You just keep coming.)
...will praise Him (Come on. One soul's worth
ten thousand worlds. Come right ahead,
young fellow.)
................slain;
Give Him glory.........
Give Him your life if you want to give Him glory. Come, give yourself up to Him, surrender. The great Holy Spirit, God's Detective, knows all about you.
.................way each stain.
I will praise Him, (Oh, that's fine, just
keep coming on up.)will praise Him,
Praise the Lamb for sinners slain;
Give Him glory all ye people,
For His blood has washed away each stain.

83 Everybody real reverent for a moment now. Now, you people that's standing here, that's come to the Lord Jesus; that's the greatest thing you've ever done in your life. That's the greatest move that you've ever made. Now, look. It's true. Cancer has left this platform from the people tonight. As the nights go by, you'll see lame, blind, halt, withered, everything being healed here; always is. The Lord does that.
But you've done a greater than that. You see, you come up here; you raised up. According to science, you broke scientific rules. You raised your hands first. That breaks a scientific rule, because you're supposed to keep your hands down. Gravitation holds it down. But there's a spirit in you made a decision. You raised your hands, said, "Yes, I want Christ." Now, see, what was it? Jesus said, "He that heareth my words and believeth on Him that sent me, hath (present tense) eternal life and shall never come into the judgment, but has passed from death unto life." Jesus said that. We're here to help you. We love you. You're our sisters; you're our brothers. You've made the greatest decision that anybody could make, is to come to Christ. You've come here... "He that will come to me... He that comes to me, I will in no wise cast out." You're God's. Now, you belong to Him.

84 Now, just bow your heads, and let's pray. And we're going to ask God... And you pray in your own way. Now, your sins, just tell Him you're sorry for them. Now, when you raised up, when you stood up, that you're... If you'll stand for Him, He will stand for you, see. It's over. Now, let's bow our heads and pray now.
Lord, these are the trophies of the gathering tonight, with the healings that's taken place, the little children and the sick people who has been healed---hundreds of them, Lord. There's so many here that was suffering with heart trouble and different diseases, that I'm positive was healed just a few moments ago. Felt that great pressure go away, and I know they were healed. And I pray Thee, Father, to keep them in peace.
And now, these come, Lord, for the salvation of their souls. They're convinced when they see the sign of the Messiah, the Messiahic sign working in His people, proving that He is with us: "I will be with you, even in you to the end of the world." Forgive them, Lord, of every sin. I know You have, because "No man can come to me, except my Father draws him first." And the Father spoke to these people, and they come. Now, Lord, I present them to You as trophies of Your grace. Now, they are love gifts that God has given You. You will keep them in perfect peace, whose heart and mind is stayed on You. Now, grant, Lord, that their sins will be forgiven, washed away; may they take a place in a good church, be baptized into Christian faith, and walk after Thy holiness from henceforth. Grant it, Father. They're Yours now, in Jesus' name.

85 While you have your heads bowed, each of you now that wants to accept Christ as your personal Saviour, believing that He has forgive you of all of your sins, you that's standing close, raise up your hand, wants to... God bless you. That's right. That's right. God bless you. The entire... The whole entire group has accepted the Lord Jesus as their personal Saviour.
There's workers with you who will probably have a room here for the Holy Spirit. I would advise you, as a minister of the Gospel, go right in the room there, where they can give you instructions on how to receive the baptism of the Holy Ghost. Right to the left there. Someone will lead the way there. And you go right into this side room here now, where we can dismiss the audience, and have you in there so they can instruct you.
Then join some of these churches. If I lived here, I'd belong to one of these churches. These men represent exactly what I believe. They wouldn't be standing here if they wasn't. They are God's men, and they are here for this purpose. God bless you now, each one of you.
All right. To the rest of the audience now. Bow your heads, each one out there in the land. Bow your heads now for prayer.

We would see Jesus

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1 Thank you very much, Brother Borders. You may be seated. [Someone asks Brother Branham a question.] If you please. I certainly deem this a great privilege of being here this evening to begin this campaign here in this lovely city. I'm supposed... I'm a little too close to that. Can you hear all right out there? Can you hear back in the back all right? That's fine.

2 We've been looking forward to coming here for some time. I can remember my early days of my ministry---how that I ministered here in Oregon, and the Lord did bless in such a wonderful way. There's no doubt but there's people here tonight who was in those campaigns back in 1948, '49, along in there, at Portland, and Ashland, and Salem, I believe; and, oh, I don't know, several different cities, Eugene, Grant's Pass, we had great meetings. The Lord blessed wonderfully.
And I've always wanted to get back out here and catch some of these trout that you people are missing, but I just haven't had a chance yet. And looks like every time I come, I'm on a mission to preach, but maybe I can... No, I can't retire. Ministers don't retire, do they, brethren? They just can't retire. So maybe some day, I will just take off and go with some of my brethren here fishing. I noticed today coming down, everywhere we seen was fishing license, hunting license, and that certainly looked good to a tired, wore out preacher.

3 And so, we are very glad to be here to start this ten day campaign here in your lovely city. And we're trusting that it'll be a great blessing to you and to me. We are here for no purpose but to bring our ministry to you to help further the cause that you're now contending for: that is the faith once delivered to the saints. We are not here to bring anything different, but just to help our brethren, to pitch our ministry in with theirs, to move along towards the kingdom of God.
We truly believe that the Lord Jesus will come some day in a physical body just like He was taken up. And it looks to me like that that time is certainly drawing nigh. When we see all kinds of signs appearing of His coming, and the Scriptures being fulfilled, and we just wonder how much longer it will be until we will see that blessed One that we've looked for so long.

4 If I'm not mistaken, the last time I was in Oregon (or one time) I was with Dr. F. F. Bosworth, great gallant soul. Died at eighty-four years old recently. Never died---just went to sleep. I went to see him. I heard he was dying, and I went to see him. When I got there---the aged old prophet laying on his little bed---I come in the door, and he raised those little bony arms out. We'd just come from Africa together on a great campaign. I took him in my arms, and I cried, "My father, my father, the chariots of Israel and the horsemen thereof." Such a gallant old soldier for Christ.
And I said to him while I was there, I said, "Brother Bosworth, when was you the most happiest in all your Christian experience?"
He said, "Right now, Brother Branham."
And I said, "Do you realize that you are going?"
He said, "Sure."
And I said, "Why could you say that while you know that death is right on you now?"
He said, "Brother Branham, all that I have stood for and lived for for better then fifty years, I'm expecting Him to walk in that door at any minute to take me with Him."
I thought of the Psalm of Life:
Lives of great men all remind us
We can make our lives sublime,
With partings, leave behind us
Footprints on the sands of time;
That was a footprint to me, to know that after better than fifty-five years of ministry on the field, preaching many years before I was born, that still at the end of the road, Jesus meant more to him than any time in his life.

5 And about one hour before he went to be with the Lord Jesus, before He came in and got him, he had been laying on the bed sleeping. And he woke up, looked in the room. His wife came in, and his son, many of the loved ones. And he looked around the room, and raised up and shook hands for over an hour with friends of his that had been gone on for thirty or forty years. Shook hands, said, "Why, I remember you. You came to Christ in my meeting at Joliet. I remember you. You was at Montreal, when you..." And called them by name, someone who had been dead for years and gone on. The saints don't die; they just go to be with the Lord, that's all.
And then finally, after meeting his mother and father and all, come back and laid down on a little cot there, folded his arms, closed his eyes, went to meet the Lord. Such a gallant man. I'm sure that if we could ever have the privilege of visiting that great land before the coming of the Lord, that we will see Brother Bosworth there with his friends, happy, enjoying eternal life to its sublime.

6 Now, we come to this city on the invitation of our precious brethren here, the different denominations and different phases of the Christian faith. And we come to join forces with them for the benefit of this community, for this city, and for the round about regions; that it'll make it a harder place to do wrong after this meeting, a easier place to do right after this meeting. Come to make life a little sweeter for you, see if we can pray a prayer of faith, that God will heal the sick in the community along with our brethren to make a call to the sinners, maybe the last call that they'll ever receive, that they'll enter into that blessed land where only the redeemed can go.
And that's what we're here for purposely. Our main purpose is to see you be prepared for that. Next is to pray for the sick and see that they get well, praying to the Lord. And then another thing, is to those who have strayed away from church, to go back to your church and take up your fellowship again among the believers. And then also, we would like to get those who've backslid and gone away, back into the precious fellowship of the church again with the people.

7 Now, we will try not to keep you long each night. Tonight being just my first time here, perhaps maybe not five or six people here that I ever seen in my life or ever seen me, but I am... You know, the first night it's usually kind of hard.
You say, "You know, I don't like the way that preacher wears his tie." Well, my wife doesn't either. So you know, and something another... I used to say the way he combed his hair, but that's out of the question now.
And so we... Just something you have to meet, and meet the person. And then after a night or two, you get acquainted. Then the Holy Spirit moves in and begins to bless us, and all the little, you know, as I call it, the little frictions and the little bugs combed out. And then we're ready then to go into the worship. And we got ten days, the Lord willing, for this. We pray that it will be a great thing.

8 Now, it's not my meeting, it's our meeting. We are together and every little effort that we can put forth, even to speak to somebody to come. Send and get some poor sick person and bring them in to be prayed for. Get some poor strayed sinner, that they might come in to be saved. Get some unbeliever to come in, sit back and watch the meetings. Maybe he might change his attitude. Just remember, many great infidels has been converted just listening at the gospel. How can you be converted unless you hear the gospel? because "Faith cometh by hearing, hearing the Word of God."
And now, we're going to open this precious Word and read just a verse out of it, or two, for a little text---to find a context. Then I believe that Billy was supposed to give out some prayer cards tonight. Did he do it? Raise up your hands if there's anybody got... He did it. All right.

9 Sometimes on the first night, we don't pray for the sick. We just... We never have any set, cut and dried program; we just let the Holy Spirit lead. And I think that's what the people want---is just let the Spirit of the Lord lead. We don't know what He will have us to do. But if we will just keep ourselves prayed up. Don't overeat---eat least that you can---and pray. Call on the phone, get somebody to come, attend every meeting you possibly can. And I'm sure that with all that effort, God will meet us more then halfway on the ground. I believe that.
Now, just before we read His Word... We believe this to be the Word of God. We believe this to be the true Word of God. Everything that's in here is God's Word. Do you believe that, the whole church? That's good.

10 Just a few weeks ago, there was a grocery man lives out the lane from where I live. And he's a very staunch believer, a Catholic. And he said to me, he said, "Brother Branham, I've often wondered why you wasn't a Catholic."
And I said, "I am a Catholic."
"Oh," he said, "I don't understand."
I said, "Yes, I am a Catholic."
And he said, "I never see you at our church, and you've got a church down here." And said, "I just don't get that."
I said, "Well, I want to ask you: Is it true that the Catholic church believes that this Bible is a history of the early Catholic church, that Jesus Christ established the Catholic church, Peter was the first pope, and that the acts of the apostles is the acts of the early Catholic church?"
He said, "That's exactly truth." (Of course, many of my people are Catholic. I'm Irish and kind of know their doctrine.) So, he said, "That's true."

11 I said, "Well, and then the reason you don't live by this Bible now, because that the pope has the church... The pope has a right to change anything in the Scripture that he wants to, because he was given the right to do that. And this is just the history of the first church."
He said, "Yes, sir."
I said, "Well, now. See?" I said, "I believe I'm more of a Catholic than you are." I said, "Because you're one of these new day Catholics, the one that takes the doctrine of the Catholic church today. And I'm an old-fashioned Catholic, that believes what the old-fashioned Catholic wrote and done." I said, "Surely, they ought to know more about it. They walked with the Lord Jesus. And Peter, the first pope, said, 'There's no other mediator between God and man, but the Man Christ Jesus.'" And I said, "I just kind of believe that." And I said, "I teach just exactly like the early Catholic church did---just what they wrote in the Bible and what they done."
He said, "I believe you got something, son."

12 So that's right. Oh, I just love God's Word. It's certainly food to us to study it together and read it. I'm not a theologian. I have not the education to be a theologian, and I don't try to be. I just love the Lord Jesus, and just try to walk the way He would have me to walk, and say what He has me to say, and pray for the sick people. And He's blessed me so far, and I believe He will bless us tonight.
Now, before we open His precious Word, let's bow our heads just a moment while we speak to the Author.

13 Our gracious heavenly Father, we come to Thee just as humble as we know how. We come approaching Thee in the name of Thy loving Son, the Lord Jesus, knowing this, that He said, "Ask the Father anything in my name, I will do it." Then we know that we have a right to approach You. Come by the way of His name, coming by the cross, asking mercy and forgiveness of sin and healing for our sick bodies, and for the grace of Thy presence, Lord, in this meeting to just continue to be with us night after night. May this beginning and this revival be just a beginning of an old-fashioned revival that'll break out through this valley, and every church, and amongst all the people, that people will come from over these mountains everywhere to learn of the Lord. Grant it, Lord.
Bless our ministering brethren, these anointed disciples of Yours, that's held forth the fort here, bringing out the truths of the gospel and preaching that without favor of men and standing for truth. And how that You have blessed them. We pray that this meeting will be a stepping stone to them, Lord, that it'll inspire them in their meeting, and in their churches, and their people.

14 And when the services is over, may there not be one among us but what has received Thy Spirit. May there not be one feeble person walking among us, but may the Holy Spirit heal every one. Grant it, Lord. Call back to fellowship those who have strayed away, Father God.
And when we leave tonight to go to our separate homes to begin a new day tomorrow, may we say like those who came from Emmaus, "Did not our hearts burn within us, as He talked to us along the way?" We know that He did something before them, just like He did it before His crucifixion. No other man ever did it like that. And when He got them on the inside and He closed the door, then He did this thing that He did before, and they recognized quickly that it was Him.

15 God, we've come into this school auditorium tonight, to which we are thankful for. We pray that You'll bless the school, and the teachers, and the principals, and the trustees, and all that's concerned, because they've opened the doors to a religious meeting.
And we've come in and closed, as it was, the world on the outside. May You come among us tonight and reveal Yourself the way You did it before You were crucified. Then we'll know that You are the risen Lord. It'll strengthen our faith, Lord. And we will give Thee the praise. For we ask it in the name of our Saviour, the Lord Jesus. Amen.

16 The Lord add His blessings to the reading of His Word now. I want to take just a little Scripture reading found in Saint John twelfth chapter, twentieth verse.
And there were certain Greeks ... that came up to worship at the feast:
And the same came ... to Philip, which was of Bethsaida and desired ... of Galilee, and desired him, saying, Sir, we would see Jesus.
Now, our theme is this ... been my theme since I was here before, or in Oregon: "Jesus Christ, the same yesterday, today, and forever. That's found in Hebrews 13:8: Jesus Christ, the same yesterday, today, and forever." And now, on this familiar (to many of you people) this little scripture: "Sirs, We Would See Jesus."

17 This Greek asked this question. He came to Philip---to a minister---and asked to see the Lord Jesus, and was granted the privilege of seeing the Lord Jesus by a minister of the Lord Jesus. And then, if Jesus is the same yesterday, today, and forever, why can't we ministers then bring to the people, or the people to the Lord Jesus just as Philip brought these Greeks to the Lord Jesus? For He is the same yesterday, today, and forever. Now, it's a sensible... And it's scriptural. And it's just as logical as it was in that day, if He is the same yesterday, today, and forever.
Now, I believe that the Scriptures cannot tell anything that's wrong. There's many things in the Scriptures that I only wish I was able with faith enough to make them real to the people. But I'd never stand in the way of anybody that could do it. If I couldn't take a walk like Enoch one afternoon with the Lord, and just get so overjoyed till I'd just walk up home with Him, I would not stand in anybody's way that did have that much faith, that could just walk up home with Him without dying or tasting death in this world.

18 And we are trying today, as we see the end time approaching, there should be endtime appearings of the Lord Jesus that He predicted in the Scripture. Because whatever He said, it must come to pass.
Now, we ourselves are finite. We can make many mistakes---and I make more than all---because we are finite. But He is infinite, and He cannot make a mistake. Now, I can promise you something, and with the very best of my ability, I can say I really mean that, but not be able to fulfill what I promised, because circumstances would alter cases. But not so with God. He cannot make a promise that He cannot fulfill.
Moses thought the same thing ... or, Abraham, rather, "Staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief, but was strong, giving praise to God; for he was fully persuaded that what God had promised, God was able to perform." Therefore, all the Scriptures that God has given to us are promises.

19 Now, we get ourselves worked in with the human element of the time element. And the only thing we know is inches, feet, yards, miles, measurement, days, weeks, hours, months, years. But God's eternal. We have the limited powers and limited intelligence, but God is infinite in all things. He knows all things, knew all things before the world began. He knew this meeting would be here tonight. He knowed all things before there was a world, because He could tell what would be in the end time from the beginning---makes Him God. Nothing else, no one else, no other being, no other person could ever do that, but God alone.
Now, we sometimes wonder why He's so great, and yet why we don't see Him more than what we do.

20 Now, if I would go down in the city tonight to each denomination of church, and I'd say, "Do you believe that Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever?" to their lovely pastor, he'd say, "I certainly do."
I'd say, "That's very fine." Well then, I'd say, "Do you believe that He is still the same Saviour that He was?"
He'd say, "Most certainly I believe that."
"Do you believe that He lives today as He did then, only in the form of the person of the Holy Spirit?"
"Certainly I believe that."
Then if He died, and through His great, holy blood that He gave at Calvary---which was not Jewish or neither was it Gentile---it was the blood of God... The blood comes from the male sex. And in this case the male was God, created a blood cell in the womb of the virgin that brought forth the Son of God, in which God spread forth His tent and tabernacled with human beings---Emmanuel.

21 Now, through that blood, He sanctified a church that He might continue His work, Himself living in that church. That's the gospel. That makes Him the same yesterday, today, and forever.
We are absolutely unworthy of any blessing. There's nothing that we could do to merit that. But by unmerited grace, God gave us this privilege to be called His children, His sons and His daughters, sanctifying us as we confess our sins, sanctifying the world from us, that He might work His way through us by the Holy Spirit to do and will His work.

22 Now, He said when He was on earth, "The works that I do shall you also; greater than this..." The right translation there is "more." No one could do any greater, but He'd be in more places. Then God was manifested in one man; now He's manifested in the entire church universal, everywhere. God can work through every man and every woman that'll open up their heart and let the Lord Jesus come in and work His will through them.
I don't care if you don't even know your ABCs; just the only thing you have to have is a humble, submitted heart to God, and God will work His will through you. That's right.

23 You don't have to know a whole lot. You only have to know one person: that's the Lord Jesus. To know Him is life. That's the only person you have to know to have eternal life. To know Him---not know the Book, not know the creeds---but know Him is eternal life. Know Him as your personal Saviour, know Him as the one who has filled you with His goodness and His mercy, that's sent the world away from you, discharged it, sent it away like the scapegoat in the Old Testament to go into the wilderness to be killed, to be no more.
And the very thing that made you sin and do the things that you used to do has been drove from you by His precious blood that sanctified you and set you aside for His service, that He might will His will through you, to work through you. Just as simple ... and to believe it.

24 Now, we too would join hands with that minister, saying, "We believe these things."
Now, I might say to this certain person, "Do you believe that He is in every way the same except the corporal body?"
He'd say, "Well, I don't believe that He still performs miracles."
Then He isn't the same. He's got to be the same. He's just as much Saviour today as He was then. He's just as much healer today as He was then. For the prophet said, "He was wounded for our transgressions; with his stripes we were healed." See, past tense.
I do not believe that man has any magic power to heal people. I believe that the power lays within the individual that's being prayed for. It's their faith in Christ that does the healing. Now, the initial and most gracious way of any way to be healed is to hear the gospel preached and accept it. That's the only way to be. The gospel of salvation, the gospel of deliverance, the full gospel---full gospel for the full man, for the full son, for the full daughter. All of the gospel, all that He said, all that He done, all that He promised is to every person that will believe it. "Whosoever will, let him come." Methodists, Baptist, Pentecostal, Pr...

25 Well, Pentecost, I've never... I've been... I was a Baptist minister, you know, just as much Baptist as I ever was. Pentecost is not a denomination; Pentecost is an experience. It's an experience that Methodist, Baptist, Catholic, anybody that wants to receive it is welcome to come and receive it. It's an experience, and you cannot organize an experience. It's something that God has done to the human being, see. And He will do it to any one, no matter what church you belong to.
Now, in this... Now, of course, we have fellowships and organizations. That's exactly fine, because those brethren congregate together and make their organization, which is just exactly right. Sure. But I mean, you can't say, "You have to come to the Pentecostal church before you get the experience." You can get it out in the field if you want it, up there in the woods, down on the street corner. Wherever it is, whatever church you're in, if you're still hungering and thirsting for Christ, Christ is here to fill you with the fullness of His power of His Spirit. That's right. No matter where you are or what your church you belong to, it's for you.

26 Now, if He is the same, He's not just halfway the same, or two-thirds the way the same. He is the same yesterday, today, and forever. Now, His Word said, "A little while and the world (which the Greek word there 'cosmos' which means 'the world order') will see Me no more. Yet ye shall see Me (the church); for I (and I is a personal pronoun), I will be with you, even in you to the end of the world. I will be with you, even in you to the end of the world."
See what His death, burial, and resurrection was? Was to clean and sanctify a church, set it aside, and fill it with His power to continue the same works that He did, making Him the same yesterday, today, and forever to continue on and on.

27 Now, the only way that we will ever be able to draw from this text the thing that we want to say, is to find out what He was yesterday. Then that will be what He will be today, and what He will be forever. What type of a person was He?
As we see the day approaching, it makes me just shiver to look out upon the streets as I pass through the cities, and see and read the newspapers, and hear the broadcasts, and so forth, of sin abounding. And the day drawing nearer, nearer all the time of the coming of the Lord. But you can't do nothing about it, because God said it would be just that way. I can speak a voice against wrong; it's our duties to do that. You and I are supposed to speak against the wrong, the evil. We will never be able to conquer it and stop it. It's just those who has an ear to hear that will hear it. "All the Father has given Me will come to Me. My sheep hear My voice."

28 Now, then as we see this day appearing and see God sending great revivals across the country---you Baptists, a Billy Graham; you Methodists, a Jack Schuller; you Pentecostals, an Oral Roberts ---why, what God has done. Great signs, wonders, and miracles has taken place throughout the nations everywhere and continually the nation wades on into sin. Do you believe that to be the truth? Why, it's right before our eyes. There's no way of... Continually getting worse all the time.
It reminds me of a little story, a little thing that happened rather in Louisville, Kentucky, about six months ago. There was a lady that had her little baby, and she was in one of those five-and-ten-cent stores in Louisville. And they begin to notice the little sister.

29 She picked up little gadgets, you know, and say, "Look, Honey, look, Honey." Then she'd get nervous and run to another counter and say, "Look, Honey, look, Honey." And the little baby would just sit staring, staring.
Then she'd go to another counter, and another counter, getting more nervous all the time. Finally, she picked up a little jingle outfit. And she shook it, and she said, "Look, darling, at this." Anything ought to attract a little boy's attention like that. But he just sat and looked, stared in space. And she fell down at the counter and begin to scream. She said, "Oh, no. It just can't be."

30 And the people that was in the store, they went to her to find out what was wrong. And she said, "My little boy, about a year ago, set in to just staring in space." And said, "I have done everything. I've had him to the doctor. And the doctor said he thought he was better, but he isn't." And said, "I've just done everything I can to attract his attention with little gadgets, that ought to attract a little boy's attention of his age." And said, "This little thing, little horse cart, it's got little jingle bells on it, like a little boy near Christmas time like this ought to be listening to this little bells in the snow and so forth." And said, "And he just sits and stares in space." Said, "He's no better." And her little mother heart screamed out for her baby, because she knew there was something mentally wrong with her baby.
I think that's a great deal with the church today. God has shook every kind of a gift and things that He could before the church. And it just sits and stares in space. "Well, that was a very nice meeting. Brother Roberts had a fine meeting." "Brother Billy Graham has great speaking." But they don't move. What we need today is a soul-stirring revival, something that'll go down to cause all night prayer meetings, men and women getting right with God, and cities turning to God. Great signs and wonders would just keep accumulating.

31 God sends His gifts, He shakes them before our eyes, and if we turn them down, then what can God do about it? If that mother thought that about her baby, what does God think tonight about His church, when we've had so much before us---great men in the land. Tommy Osborn, and Brother Allen, oh, how many great men has crossed the nation from place to place. All kinds of signs and wonders has showed up right at the end time. And yet the church sits dazed, say, "It was pretty good. I believe I may go to another night, see what will take place at the next meeting."
That's not the thing to do! What we need when we see God moving in our midst is to get down to business with it---pray, and cry out, and do all that we know how to do. Let the gospel in this last days attract our attention. The Bible promised that this gospel would just become so each day...

32 Like in the days of Luther, he taught sanctif... or, justification. It come in the minority when He come into the Wesleyan Methodist age through sanctification. Then when they'd settled down to a church, and that was all there was to it, God raised up Pentecost. And now, it's got to the place that Pentecost is becoming formal and indifferent. God moves right on. He won't stop at all, He goes right on.
The children of Israel followed a pillar of fire. And every time that fire stopped, they stopped with it. And if they didn't move, they was left in the wilderness. They had to move where the fire moved. That's the way God's church always does: it moves with the fire.

33 When Martin Luther saw the fire in the first reformation, he come out of the Catholic church, and he built his denomination under it. The fire moved into sanctification. He was already organized under that and couldn't do it, go any farther. Methodists took it, they organized under that. They couldn't go no farther. Pentecost come and took it from them. Now, if we don't watch, the fire will move right on again. Let's stay under the fire, worship under the fire, worship in the power of the Spirit, believing God's Word, laying aside every weight and every sin that doth so easily beset us.
And what is sin? Unbelief. "He that believeth not is condemned already." There's just two sins, two things in the world: one is faith, and the other one is unbelief. Committing adultery, smoking, drinking, that's not sin. That's the attributes of sin. You do that because you're not a believer. A believer doesn't do those things. You either believe or do not believe.

34 There is three classes of people usually attends the meetings anywhere, and that's unbelievers, make-believers, and real believers. And they're always that crowd everywhere. And now what we want to do is be real believers, throw our heart into this Word, and let the Word be ... the Word of God be the final decision of every one of us.
You owe it to me. You owe it to me as a minister. If you ever see anything that's going on in a meeting that's not exactly with the Scripture, then you owe it to me to come tell me. That's right, you do. I believe that God does things that's not wrote in the Bible. I believe that. God's God, He can do what He wishes to. But as long I know it's staying right in that cover there, and know that God made a promise, I feel assured with that. As long as I can have that, I will be satisfied with whatever... Anything else ... nothing else will satisfy me like that, as long as I can stay right with that.

35 Now, the only way to find out what Jesus is today is to go back and find what He was yesterday, if He's the same yesterday, today, and forever. Is that logical? Is that sensible? Well now, let's go back then.
I was reading here a few moments ago in Saint John, the twelfth chapter, I believe it was. Yes, sir, the twelfth chapter and the twentieth and twenty-first verse. Now, let's go back to the first book of Saint John. I want you to study with me, and through the week, so we won't stay too long.
I guess you heard that go off just then. That was my watch. I have an alarm watch from Switzerland, and I think when I've said enough, I have that alarm set. But I haven't got started yet, so I just had to turn it off.

36 Now, Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today and forever. Let's turn back to the first chapter of Saint John and find out... If you read a book, and it said, "Mary and John lived happy ever after," who is Mary and John? You'll never know till you go back to the first of the book and read the book through. And if the Bible says that Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever, the only way we will ever know what He was, what He should be today, we will have to go back to see what He was yesterday. Is that right?
Now, let's find out. We get Saint John 1. We'll will just quote some scriptures---I want you to read it. I'm going to go over a few chapters in it tonight, tomorrow night pick up some more, and so forth as we go along, the way the Holy Spirit will lead. Well, let's find out what He was yesterday. Then if we can see exactly what He was yesterday, and see Him come into our midst, and do the same thing today, every sick person in here ought to get up and thank God and walk out. Say, "It's all over."

37 Now remember, before we get to it, divine healing is not some magic words that someone says over you. Divine healing... Every sick person in here is already healed in the sight of God. He was wounded for our transgression.
You say, "Brother Branham, what do you mean by that?"
All right, sometimes I say, "How many were saved twenty years ago?" A lot of hands would go up. "How many was saved two years ago?" Lots of hands would go up.
Well, I differ with you. You were saved nineteen hundred years ago when Jesus died for you at Calvary. You just accepted it twenty years ago and two years ago, see. That's your salvation. The plan's finished. Jesus said at the cross, "It's finished." The whole plan of man's redemption was finished, and every blessing that he needed in life's journey was completed at the cross. For there "He was wounded for our transgressions, bruised for our iniquity. The chastisement of our peace was upon him; with his stripes we were healed." Do you believe that? Now, there we are.

38 Now, we'll go back then to catch what He was. Now, we find out in Saint John, the first chapter, there was a fellow named Andrew. We know about His birth, and about His preaching of the ... going into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil. And then after forty days, He came back out. And there was a man by the name of Andrew that went and got his brother, Peter, and brought Simon Peter. (Which, his name was not that at that time. His name was Simon, but not Peter. Peter means "a little stone".)
So he brought him into the presence of the Lord Jesus. His ministry was young now. Saint John, the first chapter. He brought him to the Lord Jesus, and as soon as Jesus looked at him, He said, "Your name is Simon, and your father... You're the son of Jonas." Is that right? "Your name is Simon, and your father's name is Jonas." This illiterate fisherman, who the Scripture says that "He was both ignorant and unlearned." Did you know the Bible said that the first pope---according to the doctrine of the Catholic church---was ignorant and unlearned? The Bible said it. "He was ignorant and unlearned." Saint John 4. I mean Acts, the fourth chapter. (I beg your pardon.) And he was both ignorant and unlearned, but they had to take notice he had been with Jesus.

39 And as soon as He said that, quickly he recognized Him to be the Son of God. Why? Why did he recognize it? Because... If there's any Jewish people in here, you'll know it, any Bible reader will know it---that the Jews were looking for a Messiah to come. Is that right?
Moses said, "The Lord your God shall raise up a prophet liken unto me."
Is that right? And they knowed this Messiah would be a God-prophet that would give the sign of a prophet like Moses was, for that was the prophet they were looking for. And when He said to Simon, "Your name is Simon, and you are the son of Jonas," quickly he recognized that that was the Messiah that they were looking for.

40 We find out a few days after that, there was a fellow named Philip. And he was so enthused, he really got in contact with Christ. And I believe beyond any shadow of doubt, that when a man comes in contact with Christ once, he can never be the same no more as long as he ever lives. There's something about Him that's different from any other man or any other person. Once meet Him, and you'll know you've never met any one like that before. No wonder they sent back and said, "Why, never a man spake like this man."
You once here Him speak, that still small voice in your heart, that attracted the prophet, not even the fire and thunder and everything else didn't attract him, but that still small voice. He veiled his face and come to the end of the cave. It's that meeting Christ once, then we find...
Notice, when Philip had got in contact with the Lord Jesus, he was concerned about all of his friends. There's something about Him, that whenever you get in contact with Him, He changes you so much till you want everybody else to have that wonderful fellowship. There's something about it. Oh, it attracts and makes your heart yearn. It'll drive you to the frozen regions of the north, and to the tropical jungles of the south, in the midst of all kinds of devil worship and everything else, to snatch a soul from the hands of the enemy, whenever you have once found that precious jewel, the Lord Jesus Christ.

41 Quickly, he knowed he had a friend that belonged to the orthodox church, and he took out to find him. Now, if you'll go to Palestine, you'll find out it takes a good day---about fifteen miles to walk around the mountains and so forth---to get to where Philip went over to find Nathanael. And I can imagine...
Let's take a little journey and listen at him a minute. I can see him going up to Nathanael's door and knocking at the door, and his wife come to the door.
He says, "Well, how do you do?" Said, "Where is Brother Nathanael?"
"Well, Brother Philip, we're so glad to see you. Believe he's out in the orchard. He was out looking his olive grove over."
Out through the orchard he went, and he found under that fig tree back there, a man knelt down praying. Of course, him being a Christian gentleman, he stood still until he got through praying. I want you to notice, he never jumped up and shook his hand, and asked about how everything was going on. When a man meets Jesus, his heart's on fire, he's got no time for nothing else but Jesus. That's it. He's just got to tell somebody about it.

42 Watch quickly. He said, "Come, see who we have found, Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph."
Not "How do you do?" or "How's everything getting along? Is the fig trees bearing good this year?"
No, sir. The message was urgent. And if it was urgent then, what about now? If it was urgent then when we had two thousand years yet for the gospel to be preached, and this is the end time, how much more is it urgent today? Too many social affairs, too many parties, too many other things besides the real message of the Lord Jesus straight to the core, "Come, see what I've found. Come, get this experience of the precious Holy Spirit that's come into my life, that's changed me, that converted me from what I was to what I am now." Oh, how thankful we are for this.

43 He found Nathanael under this tree. And he said, "Come, see who I found, Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph."
Well, I can imagine this great orthodox believer rising up, dusting off his Palestinian garment, the dust from it. He said, "Now, Philip, I know you to be a good, sane man. And what's this that you're telling me? 'Come see Jesus of Nazareth'? Could any good thing come out of Nazareth?"
Well, I think that Philip gave him the best answer I ever heard in my life. He said, "Come, see."
That's the idea. Don't sit home and criticize; come, see for yourself. "Search the Scriptures; in them you think you have eternal life, and they are they that testify of me," said the Lord Jesus.
Now, he said, "Come, see."

44 I can imagine as they go along the road on over... Well, he was willing to go. Oh, I can hear him telling about seeing the Holy Spirit coming upon the Lord Jesus at the baptism, how He went out into the wilderness.
Why, he said, "When it started, it was just that pillar of fire that was following the children of Israel as we come to this land. And then when it got closer, it looked like a dove. Then the next thing, it was in three different symbols. Then it fell into Him and a voice spoke, saying, 'This is My beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.'"

45 Then I can hear him say, "Do you know that old fisherman that we went to buy them fish from that time, and he was so illiterate, he couldn't sign his name to a receipt, that you wanted a receipt?"
"Yes, I remember it."
"Well, just yesterday before I left, he came up before the Lord Jesus. His brother went and got him. And so he brought him up here. And when He saw Peter ... or, Simon, He said, 'Your name is Simon, and you're the son of Jonas.' Oh, it wouldn't surprise me, Nathanael, that when you walk up before Him, He will say, 'Your name's Nathanael.'"
"Oh, now just a minute now, Philip. You're going just a little bit too deep with that. He will never read my mind; I'm one of them strong-minded men, you know. He will never read my mind. I will never believe that."

46 Well, he comes on up till he gets in the presence of the Lord Jesus. No doubt as soon as he heard Him speak, that man spoke different from any man he had ever heard. He spoke with authority; He knowed what He was talking about. So He said to ... standing, speaking, or in the prayer line, or whatever position He was in when Philip and Nathanael came up.
Jesus turned His eyes and looked out into the congregation, or into the line, wherever it was, and said, "Behold, an Israelite in whom there is no guile."
Well, some critic might say, "Sure He knowed he was an Israelite, it was in Palestine."
There were Greeks, there were Arabians. They all dressed in the eastern garment. Not the way he was dressed, not his color of brown. It would've not made any difference. But Jesus knew that he was an orthodox believer. He said, "Behold, an Israelite in whom there is no guile."

47 Now Philip... Nathanael was a well trained scholar. So he said, "Rabbi (which means "teacher"), when did You know me? How did you know that I was a man with no guile? [I'd say today, "a honest, good man."] How did you know it?"
He said, "Before Philip called you, when you were under the tree, I saw you." That was Jesus yesterday. If He's the same yesterday, today, and forever, that's Jesus today.
You know what Philip said when He... I mean, Nathanael said when He did this? He said, "Rabbi, Thou art the Son of God. Thou art the King of Israel."
Jesus said to him, "Because I've told you this, you believe? Then you'll see greater things than this."
You get it? There it is, see. He believed it, because he knew that the Messiah would be a God-prophet: a man that stood and would prophesy and could foretell, foresee and forthtell. Also He would be Emmanuel.
He said, "Rabbi, Thou art the Son of God. Thou art the King of Israel."
He believed it, and his name is immortal among men tonight and his soul is immortal with God. He will live forever, because he recognized it at the beginning, and said, "Rabbi, You're the Son of God."

48 Now, of course there were those standing by who didn't believe that. There were many of the priests standing by. Great men, religious men, good men stood by. And they had to answer to their congregation. They knowed the thing was being done, and that was more of a miracle than healing the sick, because it could be that the sick could get up. But that could not be---it had to be some supernatural power. So instead of trying to explain it, you know what they did? They just classed it as the devil.
And they said, "He is Beelzebub, the prince of the devils. He does these signs through that." Beelzebub, a fortuneteller, and anybody knows that fortune-telling is of the devil. That's the devil and the devil's works. All right.

49 So he said, "He is a devil."
Jesus turned around and said, "You say that against Me, the Son of man; I will forgive you for it. But [in otherwise like this] there's coming a day that when the Holy Ghost will come, and He will do the same thing. And whosoever speaks one word against it will never be forgiven, in this world and neither in the world that is to come," see. It was new to them then. Now, Christ has died. Now, the Holy Spirit's here.
Then, read the next verse. "Because they call the Spirit of God an unclean spirit." Called the Spirit of God, who knew those things and was revealing it to the secrets of the heart as the God-prophet was supposed to do, they said, "He is a evil person. It's a bad spirit in him. Some kind of a Beelzebub, a devil, that's in Him that's reading the minds of those people. That's what's doing that."

50 Oh, what a horrible sin! Unbelief. Why, those people... There was nothing against their lives. They were holy, just, priests in a lineage of priests. They had to be Levites. They had to be borned a certain... Their daddy and their grandfather, and their great-grandfather on back, had to be priests. They knowed the law. They knowed the Word, just exactly letter by letter, lived in it day and night from childhood up. No one could put a finger on their life. And yet, Jesus said, "You are of your father, the devil,." because they believed not when they seen the work of God going on. He condemned them, because that they believed not. The worst thing there is is to disbelieve God. That's the only sin there is: unbelief, to disbelieve it.

51 Now, we find... Let's go with them a little farther. Let's go over now... That's Acts... Saint John, the first ... the second chapter. Let's go to Saint John the fourth chapter.
Now, there was three classes of people in the world then. There's three classes of people, three generations of people, or classes of people, rather, in the world today. And them was out of the three sons of Noah. If we believe the Bible, the whole world, the generations, all the people in the world, come down from those three children: Ham, Shem and Japheth, those three sons, Jew, Gentile and Samaritan.
Now, the Samaritans was looking for a Messiah also. And when the Messiah comes, He comes to those who is looking for Him. You believe that? I believe when He comes for His church, He will come to the church that's looking for Him to come. Now, don't let it parallel that one: "He came to His own and His own received Him not." But then, He had made Himself known to the Jews by performing this certain sign, that they knowed that He was the Messiah.

52 Now, He had need to go by Samaria. Samaria was ... you know, you ministers and Bible readers, shows how the Samaritan race raised up. Now, we find out that they were looking for a Messiah too. And Jesus came to the well there, Sychar, and along about noon, He sent His disciples away to get some food.
And there was a woman. Let's think that she was a ill-famed woman. And she was living with her sixth husband. And she came out to the well to get some water. No doubt your pastor has preached on it a many time. But I'm trying to say what He was yesterday, so that you can see what He would be today.
Now, He's made Hisself known to the Jews. (Many other places we'll get to later, but just to hit the point, in a few minutes to call the prayer line.)

53 Now, He comes to this woman. Or this woman comes to get water, rather. And it's about noontime. And I can see her coming out with her hair hanging down, not combed. And she had the pitcher on her shoulder, as the oriental women usually carry it. They can put five gallon of water on top of their head, five gallon on their hip, and five gallon over here, walk right on talking to one another and never spill a drop, just as perfectly balanced. And this woman maybe had this water pot. Let's see, she might've been ... because she'd been out all night and just got in, the reason that she was ... or overslept. It might've been because she couldn't come to the well with the decent type of women. There was a great segregation among that in them days. An unclean woman couldn't mix with the clean women.

54 So anyhow, she was at the well. And Jesus... It was kind of a panoramic, the well there at Sychar is something like this, vines growed up over the wall, and the city well there where the people come to get their water. I can see the woman come up, take the two big handles and put the hooks in it, and let the windle down to get water. And she heard a voice, said, "Woman, bring me a drink."
And she looked over, and she seen a middle-aged Jewish man, sitting over against the well. Perhaps He looked a little older than what He really was. I believe when He was about thirty, they told Him that He looked fifty.
They said, "You are a man yet not no more than fifty years old, and you say that you've seen Abraham?"
He said, "Before Abraham was, I AM."
So they... But He looked fifty when He was only thirty. And so He might've looked a little aged sitting back there. Maybe a little streak of gray in His hair or beard, because the great burden, the sins of the world was placed upon His shoulders. And there He sat there.

55 She seen this Jew. And they had a segregation in those days, just like there used to be in the north and south between the white and the colored people.
Then she said, "It's not customary for you Jews to ask a Samaritan woman such a thing as that." Said, "We have no... We have no dealings with one another."
Listen at the voice come back. "Woman, if you knew who it was that speaks with you, you'd ask me for a drink. I'd give you water you don't come here to draw."
And she said, "The well's deep, and you have nothing to draw with."

56 The conversation went on about worshipping in this mountain and at Jerusalem and so forth. After awhile, Jesus standing there... He had need to go by, the Father sent Him there. And then He didn't know what would happen. What was He doing? He was trying to find what the woman's trouble was. When He found her trouble... How many knows what it was? Sure, she was living in sin. And what did He say? "Go get your husband and come here."
She said, "I have no husband."
He said, "Thou has said well, for you have had five husbands, and therefore, the one you're living with now is not your husband."
Now, did she say, "That man is Beelzebub"? No, sir. Did she say, "He must be a ... something wrong with Him. He must have a horrible case of mental telepathy"? No, sir. She knowed more about God than half the ministry does today. That's right.

57 She said, "Sir, I perceive that You are a prophet." Amen. "I perceive that You are a prophet. We Samaritans, we know that when the Messiah cometh, He will tell us these things. But who are You?"
He said, "I'm He that speaks to you." Too bad that we don't know the same thing, isn't it? That's right.
She said, "We know---we Samaritans know---that when that Messiah cometh, He will be a God-prophet. He will tell us these things." She was taught. Yet in her sins, she knowed what to look for when she seen it. And she said, "Sir, I perceive that You are a prophet. And I know that when the Messiah cometh, He will tell us these things."
He said, "I'm he that speaks to you."
And she dropped her water pot and ran into the city. Listen at her: "Come, see a man that told me the things that I've done. Isn't this the very Messiah?" And the Bible said that the men of that city believed on Him because of the saying of the woman. Oh, my!

58 That was Jesus yesterday. That was the way Jesus made Himself known. He never one time represented Hisself amongst the gentiles like that. Why? The gentiles wasn't looking for Him. The gentiles... We had a club on our shoulder, serving idols in them days. But the Jews was looking for a Messiah, and the Samaritans was looking for a Messiah. But we've had two thousand years of church world, and we're looking for a Messiah in the last days. Did you know He promised He'd do the same thing? We'll get to it later in the week. I will give you one right now.
Jesus said over in there (just before we close), Jesus said over in the Scriptures, when He's telling about the coming of the ... His second coming. The seas roaring, waves and every so ... four things taking place, mighty signs to be taking place. He said, "As it was in the days of Sodom, so shall it be in the coming of the Son of man."

59 Do you notice when He said in the days of Noah, He give what they were doing, so that the spiritual mind would be able to pick it up. He's hid it from the eyes of the wise and prudent. Get on your spiritual eyesight now, get on your spiritual understanding. He said, "As it was in the days of Noah, they were eating, drinking, marrying, and giving in marriage." But He said, "As it was in the days of Sodom, so shall it be in the coming of the Son of Man."
Now, watch, we've always had three classes of people, three races of people, three different stages of the people. Look, there was a Sodomite sinner to who wouldn't have it. There was Lot, the lukewarm church member, down there preaching in Sodom. And there was Abraham, the called-out and elected. I feel religious right now. Brother! All the called out, the separated people. The church means "separated, called out from the world."

60 There was Abraham, the called-out, having life kind of hard, persecuted, made fun of, sitting out in the wilderness on the bare ground in the shade of the oak tree. But when the hour of the message came, he looked out in the heat of the day, and he seen three men coming up, dust all over their clothes. And Abraham looked again---he knowed there was just something about it. A real borned-again child of God knows the Spirit of God when it strikes. Yes, sir. "My sheep know my voice."
Abraham looked real quick. He walked out where they was, and said, "Turn aside. Come, sit under the oak a little bit and rest yourselves. And I will fetch you a little water and wash your feet, and I will give you a morsel of bread. Then go on your way."

61 Well, they come by and sat down, strangers from a strange land. Oh, sure, a long ways away. And they sat down under the tree. He slipped in the tent. Let's break in on their conversation. "Sarah, honey, just as certain as I'm standing there, there He stands right out there. Go right quick and start getting this meal ready. Sift it real good and get it fine upon the hearth there. I want you to bake some cakes."
He ran out, and felt around, and got the fattest little calf he could find, slayed it, and had it dressed, and come out and fed them meat and milk and bread. And I can see old Abraham with the flybush, you know, as it was, shooing the flies. How many Kentuckians are in here, difference, knows what a flybush is? No, I'm too far away from home. Oh, no, I am not. That's right. Yes, sir.
Well, I've stood many times at the table with a... Mom used to make a paper thing on a stick when I couldn't get a green brush, you know, and shoo the flies, when we didn't have no screens. Little old cabin door, and no floor on the thing, and just a little old bed in the corner made out of shucks, and... Why, certainly, corn shucks. I seen my daddy with a corn shuck shaving brush like that. Take that corn shucks for ... make a shaving brush. We lived hard.

62 And back in those days, I can see Abraham standing there, watching---you know, there's something. And women wasn't as brazen as they are today. They stayed back and take care of their business in them days, so she was back in the tent. Today, she has to run her husband's business, and all the rest of the business, and everything else. But I ain't saying that to you sisters---of course you all don't do that. But I'm talking about the women of the world. So Sarah, she stayed back in the tents where she belonged.
Abraham said ... begin to notice one of them begin to look over towards Sodom. He knowed something was going to take place. Two of them got up.
[Gap in the audio.] ... these two to bring a message---a modern Billy Graham, if he ever was, to preach repentance. And repentance always... No miracles, only the blinding of the people, and the preaching of the gospel blinds the unbeliever. That's exactly right. There he was down there, preaching, went to the church, to Lot. And with Lot, he tried to bring conviction to that... Why, the blinding of them ... they still felt through the night to find them, to find these men. They were absolutely polluted if there ever was.

63 Now, watch this one that stayed back. Now, that's the message. The nominal church today has had its message through the Billy Grahams, and the great men of that denomination. They've had their message to come out of Babylon. But they won't listen to it, no more then they did back there in that day.
But now wait, there was an Angel stayed. One of them stayed behind. How many knows that's true? One of them stayed behind with Abraham, the elected church. Let's see what He did. He never called for no repentance. Let's see what He did. Jesus said the same thing would repeat. And I want you to notice, after this Angel done what He did and was taken out of the sight of Abraham, Abraham...
[Gap in the audio.] flesh, foreshowing what He would do in the flesh of His church in the last days. "As it was in the days of Sodom, so shall it be in the coming of the Son of man." God, living in the flesh of His church. Doing what? What He did there, what He did when He come on earth. Watch Him. What did He do?

64 He sat there looking at Abraham. The Bible said His back was to the tent. He said, "Abraham, where is your wife, Sarah?" Did you ever read it? "Where is your wife, Sarah?" How did He know he was married, and how did He know he had a wife, and how did He know his name was Sarah? What kind of telepathy was that?
And Abraham said, "She's in the tent behind You."
And then the Angel said, "I'm going to visit you according to the time of life [as we know, the twenty-eighth day]." Said, "I..." Sarah was an old woman. Said, "I'm going to visit you according to the time of life, and you're going to have this child by Sarah, that I said that you was going to have. I'm going to fulfill my promise."
And Sarah, in the tent behind Him, laughed to herself. Is that right? And the Angel, looking this a-way, said, "Why did Sarah laugh?"

65 "As it was in the days of Sodom, so shall it be in the coming of the Son of man." He will come to the gentile church. The gentiles never had it in any age until this age. Here it is today. What is it? Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today, and forever. Jesus Christ---the same Lord Jesus, with the same signs, the same Holy Spirit living in the church today, performing the very things that He did.
Jesus said in Saint John, the fourteenth chapter, I believe about the eighth verse, He said, "He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also."

66 Now, we see what He was yesterday. That's what He was. They believed Him, because that He was the Messiah, proven to be the Messiah. Now, if He's the same yesterday, today, and forever, He will have to do the same to the closing of this age of the gentiles, just like He did to the closing of the age of the Jews and Samaritans. If He doesn't, then He did something for them that He did not do for us. Then He would not be just. He's infinite, He cannot change His plans. And if God lets us come into His presence, this gentile age, without doing and showing to us the same that He did to them back there, then He done something for them He did not do for us. But He has not let us do it. We're here at the hour today when Jesus Christ lives.
He's raised from the dead. He is not dead. He is a-living to perform and to do the same as He did yesterday in His church that will yield itself and let the Holy Spirit move.

67 You Pentecostal people, many of you, upon the baptism of the Holy Spirit, with speaking in tongues, has give messages and all those things. That's exactly what the Bible teaches. That's exactly right. You gave prophecies and so forth. Then why can't we, when we see this has begin to move down now---we're settled on that---God moves His church a little higher, a little higher, just like a pyramid, when it comes to the top, finally to a peak.
Did you notice, the pyramid was rejected. The stone that went on the top of the main pyramid (if you was ever in Egypt) never did cap it. Why? The headstone was rejected. And what's that stone? Each stone, as it comes up to the end, had to be cut just in order for the headstone. Now, the church coming up from Luther, Wesley, Pentecost, it'll have to get into shape till the headstone Christ Jesus and the church will sit together (Hallelujah!) to cap the whole church together for the resurrection of every mortal that died believing on His name. Amen.
I believe that we are here today, that Jesus Christ still remains the same yesterday, today, and forever. Do you believe it?

68 If He would come in this midst tonight, and would perform and do just as He did then... You say, "Would He heal me?" He couldn't heal you; He's already done it. "Would He save me?" He couldn't save you; He's already done it. You have to accept it. He could show Hisself present here. He could prove to you by some saint back there to speak with a tongue, and this one to interpret, or some other way like that, or a prophet raise up and say something was perfectly truth, or do something that the Scripture said that He would do in the last days, Then you could believe He was living with us, He was in us.
Paul said, "If you all speak with tongues, and there be no interpreter, the unlearned sit in the midst," said, "then, won't they go away and say you're all mad or crazy?" See? "But if one is a prophet and prophesies and reveals the secrets of the heart, then they'll all fall down and say, 'God is with you.'"
Is that right? Well, we all know that's the truth. Then if they had that in the early church, we got to have it in this church at the closing of this gentile age. We're at the end time. And I believe that Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever.

69 And you say, "Sir, I would like to see Jesus." I trust tonight with all my heart that He will make Hisself known among you. Now, how will He do it? The same way He did then, just the same way He did then. He promised it, He said it would be in the last days, we believe this is the last days. The last day's signs are appearing everywhere, the church cooling off, and all of the things going the way they're going, there'd come a falling away, all the things that was spoke of. But in that day, He promised these things would take place---and here it is.
Did you notice, when Jesus started out in His ministry, how that He begin to not say so much about His day then. He was telling more about His second coming than He was His first advent to the earth, speaking what this would be in this day.

70 Now, if He will come... Now, no matter what kind of a gift He'd have standing here, or a gift out there, they have to get together. You have to believe it or nothing will happen. The little woman touched His garment and she was healed, because she believed it. She had faith.
A woman pushed through the crowd. Perhaps she... Say they had prayer cards then. (They didn't, but say they did.) She couldn't get to Him. She had no way of getting to Him. She didn't have no means of getting to Him.
There'll be people out there in the audience tonight, will have no way of getting up here to be prayed for. We have to take them just as their numbers come. Well, we'll get everyone if we can, and before... Every man that's got a prayer card, woman, just hold to it; we'll get to you sooner or later. We don't know how it'll be, but the just the way the Spirit will lead it.

71 Now, this little woman, what did she do? She said, "If I will just touch His garment... I believe that man told the truth. I know I'll be healed. Why, certainly. That's what He promised."
All right---her faith. And then when she touched Him... Oh, everybody was touching Him, my, with their arms around Him, and "Hosanna" and some hollering, and criticizing, and everything. Of course that's the mixed-up crowd again, the multitude. Christ's gatherings always produces the believer, unbeliever, and make believer. Now, when they come...
Then she touched His garment, and she went off in the audience (like you are tonight) and sat down maybe. Maybe she stood up, I don't know. However, Jesus turned around and said, "Who touched Me?"
Insomuch till the apostle Peter rebuked Him, and said, "Why do you say such a thing as that? Everybody's touching You."
He said, "But I perceive that virtue has gone from me." Virtue is strength---He got weak. She touched Him, He got weak. He looked out over the audience until He found her and told her about her blood issue. And from that very minute, she believed that she was healed, and she was. Is that right?

72 Now, if Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever, do you believe that He is...? The New Testament, the book of Hebrews says that He is right now sitting at the right hand of God, power on high, and He is a High Priest that can be touched by the feeling of our infirmities. Now, if you're sitting out there and not on the prayer line here, if you believe with all your heart, and you're sick, say, "Lord God, I'm sick too. I need help. Will You help me, O Lord?" See what He does. Certainly.
If you'll believe Him with all your heart, He's the High Priest. Wouldn't do no good to touch me; I'm just a sinner saved by grace. Wouldn't do no good to touch any of the rest of us. We're just sinners saved by grace.

73 But if you'll let your spirit move beyond us, and go up yonder and say, "Lord God, I believe with all my heart that we're living in the last days. This is the signs that You said. The man read it out of the Bible, said it out of the Bible. I will read it. I've read it many times---I know it, and I believe that it's the truth."
If He will come among us tonight, I don't say that He will, but if He will, then you say, "Let me, O Lord God." Then you touch His garment, and see if He don't turn right around and do the same thing that He did yesterday. He's the same yesterday, today, and forever. Let us pray.

74 Our heavenly Father, we are so happy to be Your servants. We are so glad to know that You live. And in this great day that when we know by the turn of history, we know by the looks of things, we know by the way that the U.N. and the different nations are shaping up, that we're not here very much longer. We know that soon somebody's going to do something wrong. They're going to fire one of those missiles. And all around the world, great islands filled with atomic missiles, hydrogen bombs that will go 175 miles square, 150 feet deep in the earth, and thousands of them are aimed right at every city across this nation and around the world, from one side to the other. And the first time one of them hits a screen, the other one will let loose. The world couldn't stand it. And before all this happens, You said we would go. How close is the coming then? If we could look for that at any hour, how much the coming of the Lord.

75 Now, Father God, we know that just a small group of us here tonight. But we're here trusting, Lord, that we're in one accord. We're believing. And this that we've held on to... Here's ministers sitting on the platform, long before I started preaching was ministers preaching the gospel. There's many out there the same way, that's spoke of and prophesied of this day. We're nearing the end, Father. Time is so short. We try to press so much in at one night. We think maybe there might be a sinner here that wouldn't be here again tomorrow night. Catch his soul tonight, Lord. Grant it.
Now, let the Holy Spirit come tonight. Anoint us, anoint the congregation, anoint the ministers on the platform, anoint me, Your unworthy servant. And may You use us, Lord, to fulfill Your Word that You've promised that You would do. You said, "The works that I do shall you also. A little while, and the world will see Me no more." That's true, Lord. This meeting advertised up, down the streets, everywhere. The world's still at its go, water seeping its level.

76 But there's some who has pressed through the heat, sitting in this little building tonight. They're hungering and they're thirsting. They love You. They want to know more about You. And I've stood here by Your Word, telling them that You are the same yesterday, today, and forever to encourage them. If they are hungering for You, You're here to save them. If they're hungering for healing, You're here to heal them. Your very presence is here, and it'll heal them if they'll believe. It'll save them if they'll believe.
So, Father God, come tonight and do something like You did back there. And that was a proof to those coming from Emmaus as we mentioned awhile ago. It was proof to them that You was the resurrected Jesus---not another one, the same one, for You did the same things You did before Your crucifixion. They knew You were alive.
Father God, there may be men and women in here tonight that's never experienced this yet. May they experience it tonight. It's for Your honor, Lord, and Your glory. I commit myself to you, with the rest of the church, that You'll use us to Your honor. In Jesus' name, I pray. Amen.

77 If there was a way for me to make the sick well, I would certainly do it. I would be glad to do it. I have no power to heal. I don't believe anyone else does ... men. I don't believe a doctor does. I believe healing lays in God. A doctor has a right. He can move something, or pull a tooth, sew up something, take appendix out, or an abscess or whatever it might be. But he doesn't build tissue; neither does medicine. Nature, God does that, that's right, all from God. You break your arm. Go to the doctor and let him set it, but he doesn't heal it. He just sets it. God does the healing; He heals it. He furnishes the calcium and whatever goes into the bones to heal it.
Now, how many in here is sick tonight? Raise up your hand that's sick and needs healing in your body. Half of the audience. Now, my son give out some prayer cards. We haven't got room to call them all at one time. But let's just call a few, then later on, we will get the rest of them, maybe tonight, maybe not, tomorrow night, or next night, or whenever the Lord moves.

78 But now remember, I say this: I do not say that He will. Now, that's up to Him. I have no way of assuring it will. But He has never failed me yet before as many as five hundred thousand at one time. And He won't tonight, and I'm sure He won't.
Now, let's let the prayer cards... Now, the prayer card's got a number on it and they number 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, like that. We can't stand them all up. Or, I guess he started from 1. I guess one... Where's he at? Anybody got prayer card number 1? Raise up your hand. Let's see. Boy's not here. Is there a prayer card number 1? Somebody has a prayer card 1? Well, maybe I got... Maybe it didn't start... Oh, this colored lady here? All right. Come right here, lady, right around this side.
Prayer card number 2, would you raise up your hand, ever who has it? The gentleman? Right over here, sir. Prayer card number 3? All right, lady, come right here. Number 4? 4? All right. Number 5? Who has prayer card number 5? Would you raise your hand, ever who has it? Is this lady here got... One, two, three, four, five, six?
Reason I call them one by time, because somebody might be deaf and can't hear it. Number 6? Come on then. If you can't get up, we've got... These are ushers standing here? All right. They'll pack you if you can't come. All right. Number 6, 7? Would you just raise your hand quickly if you can? Look at your prayer card. Number 7? All right. 8? 8? Prayer card 8? (mising text)

79 Now, if you get a prayer card, you keep it yourself. Don't take it off and give it to a neighbor. Let the neighbor come and hear the instructions too, if they're going to be prayed for. The prayer cards are inexchangeable, be turned out of line, see. Now, you must hear the message yourself, come for yourself. And now, if you miss your turn, then remember we called your number.
Eight not here? Don't get one and then leave the building. Stay with it, stay here. All right. 8, 9? 9? Someone with prayer card... All right, bring the lady. 10? 11? That's right. 11? 12? 12? No 12, 11 or 12? 13? 13? No 13? 14? 14? 13? Does that lady have 13? All right. What say? All right. 13, 14? 14? 15?
The reason we call them ... it's not an arena. It's a church, you know, where you... You've been in meetings and seen when you... Oh, they just ramble over one another, and oh, very irreverent. So we don't want... We want reverence and respects to the gospel.

80 Fifteen, did that person come? 15? 16? 17? 18? 19? That's all? How many did you give out? Fifty and something... Well, okay. Maybe some, you get a little bashful and backwards. Let them stand there. All right.
Everyone reverent now. Now, no one moving around. Be reverent. How many ever seen the picture that the science has taken of the Angel of the Lord, right over the building. (Leo, do you have them, son? Leo?) They've took it. It's at Washington, D.C. It's copyrighted---the only supernatural being that was ever photographed, same pillar of fire that led the children of Israel. There was one taken right down here in California just recently, when He was there at the platform. Now, He's just...

81 Jesus said, "I came from God and I go to God." How many knows He said that? He came from God. What was Jesus when He came to the children of Israel? He was the angel of the covenant. We know that. Well, He was a pillar of fire that was in the burning bush. Is that right? How many believes that? Say, "Amen." All right. Then when He died, raised again, and went back to the Father, then when He met Paul on the road to Damascus, what was He? Same pillar of fire, a light that put out Paul's eyes, see. "I come from God; I go to God."
And that same Jesus has appeared even to the mechanical eye. When George J. Lacy, the head of the FBI, of Fingerprint and Document, examined the picture, he said, "The light struck the lens." Put the testimony, and wrote it down and signed his name to it.

82 He said, "Mr. Branham, I once criticized you myself." Said, "I said it was psychology." He said, "But the... I said you were reading those people's minds." He said, "But the mechanical eye of this camera don't take psychology. The light struck the lens."
There it is, the big photographed picture. They got it four or five more times. Took it in Germany here not long ago, three different pictures---it coming down, when it was anointing, going away. Germany said the same thing under their examination. Germany, Switzerland. See there? It's not...
Friends, we're not playing church. We're living in the presence of the Lord Jesus. Now, I want you to remember that. Now, the meeting is your meeting.

83 Now, how many people out there is strangers to me? I don't know. Raise up your hands. You know that I don't know you, or know nothing about you, raise up your hands? You know you're sick and... Well, I guess the whole audience. Far as I can see, there's no one here that I know. My own son, Brother Borders... I met the brother minister there. I think I've seen him before, but I just can't place him exactly. I've been trying to in my mind. Outside of that, I don't know any one.
How many in the prayer line knows that I know nothing about you, nor nothing about...? Raise up your hands, you in the prayer line, I am a stranger to you. Here's my hands---I don't know any of them. And here lays my Bible.
Now, those people... Maybe they're sick, maybe they're not, I don't know. They may have financial troubles, they may... I don't know what it is, domestic affairs, I don't know. But the Lord Jesus knows. Is that right?

84 How many of you is out there that doesn't have a prayer card, and you're sick, and you want Jesus to heal you? Raise up your hand. Everywhere. Well, I guess it's just everywhere, see. All right. You just have faith, believe with all your heart now. Just have faith. If the Lord comes and begins to bless the people, then you say, "Lord, let me too." And watch and see if He don't do the same to you that He does on the platform. This is just getting some people up here, so that you'd see it's just nothing but right here on the platform where everybody's looking.
Now, this lady here. Now, if He will do today, the same tonight that He did in the days gone by, how many will believe it's Him here present? Raise up your hand. Oh, thank you. If you keep that up, you'll see a great meeting here in the next ten days. You keep that faith moving. That's what... Just as soon as you did that, something just lifted out of me, see. The anointing dropped on me right then, see. Now, He's here right now, the presence of the Lord.

85 I'm so glad to know tonight that... You being a colored sister standing here, now, it just gives me to back to what I spoke of. In Saint John, the fourth chapter, there was a man and a woman met, which was a Jew and a Samaritan, two races of people, the first time they'd ever met in their life. Is that right? You believe it? Raise up your hands. That's right, first time they'd ever met.
And Jesus said to the woman, asked her for a drink. He went to talking to her. What do you think He did that for? It was to contact her spirit, see. Contact. The Father... He said He had need to go by ... the Father sent Him by like He did... If you'd turn over to the next chapter, where we will get to maybe tomorrow night---the man at the well ... man on the five porches, beautiful illustration there, how He would come to that one man---pass by lame, halt, blind, withered---went to that one man, for He knew that He had been this way. See, the Father had sent Him.

86 Then He turned around and He said... (Saint John 5:19) They asked Him why didn't He heal all of them or so forth, condemned this man for packing his bed on the Sabbath. He said, "Verily, verily I say unto you: The Son can do nothing in Himself, but what He sees the Father doing." Is that right? Then Jesus never performed one thing until God showed Him a vision on what to do. Is that the Scripture?
Listen, let me quote it. Saint John 5:19: "Verily, verily [That's 'absolutely, absolutely'], I say unto you, the Son can do nothing in Himself. But what He sees [not hear], what He sees the Father doing, that doeth the Son likewise. The Father worketh, and I worketh hitherto."
In other words, He said, "I do nothing till I see the Father show me a vision first on what to do, then I do it."

87 The other night when I met Dr. Lamsa, of the Lamsa Bible, he said, "What's the matter with these American people?"
Said, "I don't know." Seventy percent of the Bible is vision, yet they can't believe.
This is just like it was in Samaria---two races of people. I'm Irish; she's African. We meet here for the first time in a little panoramic---two men. In them days there was a segregation. Jesus let her know right quick there was no difference between a man's color before God. We all come from one family: Adam and Eve. The country we lived in and changed our colors---yellow, brown, black, white---has nothing to do with God. We can give each other a blood transfusion. One blood, God made all men. Do you believe that? Yes, sir.
Where one lived in a hot country and the other a cold country, and like that---tempered and so forth, it changed their colors. That has nothing to do with the blood, or the soul, or anything else. God let her know that God seeks them that'll worship Him in spirit and in truth.

88 Now, this woman, we're strangers to one another. Now, I never saw her in my life. Perhaps she never saw me in her life. And here we are meeting for the first time, like the woman at the well and our Lord. Now, if our Lord remains the same, and if He will...
Now, if the woman's sick, and I could say, "All right, lady. You're sick. Come up here," come up, lay hands on her and say, "I cast out the evil spirit," or stomp my feet, or whatever it was. Say, "Satan, get out of her. Go home, lady. Get well."
That could be all right. That's scriptural. Certainly. "In My name they shall cast out devils." Many brothers has ministries like that, far more success than mine: Oral Roberts, for instance. My ministry don't take in the United States. Takes overseas---then it really goes then. I seen thirty thousand raw heathens come to Christ in one altar call, when something happened on the platform, just telling one, seeing a miracle performed. Thirty thousand blanket natives busted their idols on the ground, come to Christ in Durban, South Africa.

89 Now, if we don't know each other, the Lord Jesus knows her and He knows me. Now, if He will tell her something that she has done, or something that she's intending to do, or something that she knows that I know nothing about, then surely, if He can tell her what she has been, He can certainly know what she will be. Is that right? Now, how much greater would that be if something would tell her, like something happened in the Bible, and would tell her that. If He would do that, would you believe He was the same Lord? You would.
You know it couldn't be your brother here. I just have to yield my spirit. I'm just like this microphone, a mute until He would speak. Because what man would know that? None. It takes God to do it. Now, if God will let me know just by talking to you... Yes, sir, I am trying to contact your spirit. That's exactly right. That's just swept from the audience, and that's right.

90 Now, if He will tell me something about you, something you're here for, like the woman at the well, or like the woman with the blood issue, or something, then you'll believe with all your heart. How many out there will believe also when here, me and this woman here, we don't know one another, never seen her my life till right now. Now, may He do it. I trust that He will. And if He does, then it'll give you faith; make you feel assured that He loves you, and He knows about you. And if He knows about you, He knows about everyone out there. So then, that just shows He's presence. So that would just make everybody accept Him and be well (is that right?), or accept Him as their Saviour and be saved.
Now, if anybody can still hear me: I come to take every spirit in here in the name of Jesus Christ. This woman who knows now that something's going on... The lady is suffering with an extreme nervous condition. That's right. It's just real extremely nervous. Is that right? If that's right, raise up your hand. Now, do you believe?

91 Now, what it was, I don't know what I said. But I told her something. I seen her doing something, seeming like she was trying to wring her hands or something, or upset about something or something another.
You say, "Brother Branham, you guessed that."
I didn't guess that. How could it be perfect every time out of tens of thousands times thousands. If you think I guessed it, let me talk to the woman a little longer. It's your meeting.
She seems like a nice person to me. You just... I don't want you... Just let your mind be dormant. Just... You believe that you're in the presence of the Lord Jesus? Now, you do feel a real sweet feeling. Isn't that right? If that's right, just raise up your hand to the people, see. I'm looking right straight at a light hanging right over the woman.

92 Yes, she's all upset. She's nervous, got a nervous condition. And you're concerned or praying about somebody else. There's a little girl, and the little girl's got a tonsil trouble. That's her sitting right out there. That's right, isn't it? All right, Sis, it's over. Besides that, you're a minister, you're a woman preacher. You believe God knows who you are? Mrs. Peters, your request is answered. Your nervousness is gone. Go home and be well in the name of the Lord.
Do you believe with all your heart? Just have faith. Just believe. Now, that's what He was yesterday; that's what He is today, He will always be. Now, as He manifested Himself before Abraham in human flesh... God was manifested in Christ. Do you believe that? "It's not Me that doeth the works; it's My Father that dwelleth in Me."

93 Now, wasn't that simple? Just believing? I never even asked prayer for her, but she's healed just the same. What did it? Her faith healed her, whatever it was. All right?
How do you do? We are strangers to one another. The Lord Jesus knows us both. Now, we are men, different ages, first time we've met. If God will reveal to me what your trouble is or something, will you believe me to be His prophet, or His servant, rather? You'll believe it?
You're very sick with a stomach trouble, very, very bad. You're not from this city. You're from another city. It's out in a wheat, level country. You're from Oklahoma, Tulsa, Oklahoma. That's right. You're Italian by your nationality. And you were at one of my meetings before. It was at the Tulsa meeting, tried to get into the line and couldn't get a prayer card. That's "Thus saith the Lord." Do you believe with all your heart now? Go eat your supper. Jesus Christ makes you well. Go on and rejoice. God bless you, sir. God be with you.

94 Do you believe on the Lord? Now, whoever you are, just have faith. Don't doubt. If thou canst believe, all things are possible. Do you believe that? All things are possible to them that believe. How many out there in the audience is believing, saying, "I believe with all my heart"? No reason why you shouldn't be healed. Just have faith.
How do you do? Do you believe me to be His servant? We're strangers to each other. But you believe that God knows all about you? Do you believe that He's able to make you well and to heal you? What if I told you you were healed? Would you believe me? You sure would. You want your husband healed too, don't you? Do you believe that He will heal him? You want to know what his troub... You want me tell you what his trouble is? Bladder trouble. You have female trouble. The doctor says a dropping uterus, a fallen uterus. That's right. You're a minister too of the gospel, a woman preacher. Go receive your healing, Jesus Christ makes you well.

95 Have faith; don't doubt. Do you believe with all your heart, lady? If God will reveal to me something about you that I do not know...? We're strangers, are we? If He will reveal to me something that you know that I do not know, then you'll know it's not your brother; it's your Lord. Is that right?
Somebody in the meeting somewhere, you're suffering from a condition that you should be operated on for---they say you should. It's a growth. You believe I can tell you where the growth is by the power of God? On your side, under your right arm. That's right. Go believe with all your heart, be healed in the name of the Lord Jesus. Just have faith. Don't doubt.

96 How do you do? We're strangers to each other, I suppose. You saw me once in the meeting? Just in a meeting. But I mean, I don't know you and you don't know... Just sitting out in the meeting, you saw me once. Well, if the Lord will reveal to me the secret of your heart, tell me of something that you have done or planning on doing, or something's wrong with you, or something or other, then you'll know it has to be God. It has to be a Spirit; it couldn't be me.
Stomach trouble, throat trouble, and then you've got a burden on your heart. It's a boy. Shall I say it? He's in a juvenile home. He's got a heart trouble. Believe on the Lord Jesus, and God will deliver him. Have faith. Do you believe with all your heart?
Now, that you might know it's not a telepathy, this lady here...

97 Come here, lady. I don't know the lady. (Just put your hand on mine.) If the Lord Jesus will show me this way what's wrong with you, will you believe me to be God's servant? Do you? All right, then your heart trouble leaves you. Have faith in God; believe with all your heart.
Now, when I said that to her... You had a real funny feeling when I said that to her, because you had heart trouble too. Go believing with all your heart, and be made well.
Do you believe with all your hearts? All right. Now, this lady must have healing or die. Are you aware of what's wrong with you? You're shadowed for death, a cancer. But do you believe that God can move that cancer? Come here.
Satan, I charge thee by the blood of Jesus Christ, His vicarious suffering at Calvary, His triumph over you, and all your kind. In the name of Jesus Christ, come out of the woman and leave her. Amen. Go, believing with all your heart.

98 Nervous, heart trouble, go believe. Be made well in the name of the Lord Jesus.
Come, lady. Speak English? If the Lord will reveal to me what your trouble is, do you believe that God will make you well then? You do? All right. It's a lady's trouble, female trouble. Go, believe, and the Lord Jesus will stop all that... If thou canst believe.
Do you believe God will heal you of that heart trouble, make you well? Believe it? Will you give up something for Him? You want to give them up anyhow. Cigarettes? Throw them away---don't smoke no more. Remember, don't come here with sin. He knows it. You see?

99 All right, come believing with all your heart. All right. All right, come. Bring him on, sister. That's all right. If I lay hands on you, do you believe you'll get well? Lord Jesus, grant it. I pray in Jesus' name. Amen.
Believe it now with all your heart, and see if you don't get well. Now, believe it.
Nervousness is nothing for God. Do you believe He will make you well? Go, believing then, and the Lord Jesus heal you and make you well.
That lady sitting there by that one's shouting, got something wrong with her arm. Do you believe that God will make you well sitting there, lady? Now, Who did you touch? You touched the High Priest that could be touched by the feeling of your infirmities. He heals you. Go home and believe with all your heart.
Tell me what she touched. She never touched me. She's too far away from me. You believe with all your hearts now?

100 The lady sitting back there weeping, on the end, with that bladder trouble. Do you believe that God will make you well, lady? All right. Handkerchief up to your mouth, crying like this. All right? Do you believe it with all your heart? You suffer with bladder trouble. It's tremendously burning and so forth. Do you believe with all your heart now? Raise up for your feet and accept your healing. I command that demon in the name of Jesus Christ to depart from that believer. Have faith in God, don't doubt. Have faith in God.
The man sitting right back there suffering with hemorrhoids, do you believe that God will make you well, sir? Stand up on your feet; accept your... What did you touch? You're twenty yards from me. You touched the High Priest that can be touched by the feeling of our infirmities. Go home, and be well. Jesus Christ heal you.
Can you believe? Can everyone believe?

101 What about you? That lady... Oh, I know that woman. That's Sister Dauch setting there. I know her. That man next to her, you had your hand up didn't you, sir? Do you believe with all your heart? I seen the Angel of the Lord appear there. Do you believe that back trouble will leave you? All right. That's what your trouble was, wasn't it? Shake your hand like this, if that's right. Wave your hand back and forth. All right. Go home; you received your healing. Jesus Christ makes you well.
Turn around and go back off the platform there, sir. The heart trouble left you, and you can go home and be made well now. God bless you.
Do you believe on the Lord Jesus Christ? How many here that's not a Christian, that's not a Christian and wants to accept the Lord as your personal Saviour, stand up on your feet right now while you're in His presence. Somebody's backslid, wants to come to the Lord, you're right in His presence. You believe Him? Stand on your feet right now and we will have prayer for you. If you'll stand to your feet, any sinner, any backslider. God bless you. Somebody else?

102 Sir, I condemn the evil that's bothered you all these years. In the name of Jesus Christ, your sins are forgiven you. Go, believe with all your heart.
Someone else would rise and say, "I want to accept Jesus."
How many of you here is sick, and believe that He's here in His presence, in His power? Raise up your hand. How many knows the Bible said, "These signs shall follow them that believe"? How many of you is believers? Raise up your hand. Now, what we'll do... "These signs shall follow them that believe." Just the same as He promised this would come to pass, He promised that the believers should lay their hands on one another and the prayer of faith should save the sick. You believe that? Then lay your hands on one another. Just lay your hands over on one another. There you are.

103 Now, don't you pray for yourself. You pray for the person you got your hands on. I will pray for you all.
Our heavenly Father, we bring to You this audience while the baptizing of the Holy Spirit is upon this people. Hear us, O Lord. Hear us, we pray. We condemn all sickness. These believers have their hands on one another. We know that You're here. We know that You're the same yesterday, today, and forever. We know that You cannot fail. We know You've triumphed over the devil, over his power, over every principality and power. You bound every unclean spirit. You cast out every devil when You were here on earth. I pray Thee, Lord, that You'll hear our prayer.
Now, as they have their hands on each other. "These signs shall follow them that believe. If they lay their hands on the sick, they shall recover."
Satan, I charge thee by Jesus Christ, come out of every person in here that's got their hands on ... someone's hands laying on them. I charge thee through Jesus Christ, the Son of God, leave this building and come out of the people, that they all might go home tonight and be free, because the presence of the Lord Jesus Christ.

We would see Jesus

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1 Let us bow our heads now for prayer. Our heavenly Father, we are grateful to Thee tonight for the promises that we have in this song. We can just see the epileptic boy in that spasm, his father coming to meet You and asking if You'd have mercy. And You said, "I can if you believe. All things are possible to them that believe."
You promised that You would never leave us nor forsake us. The Scripture says You're the same yesterday, today, and forever. And You're just as willing tonight to heal our sickness as You were then, for You are the same. And You promised in your Word that the things that You did, we would do also. That's your promise, and we know that it's true.

2 So may all these great promises, Lord, be fulfilled to your children tonight, that each and every one may receive what they have come for. And when the service shall close this evening, and we go to our different homes, may we talk among us like those who came from Emmaus that day. You'd walked with them all day, and they didn't know You. But that night, when You got them alone in the room, You did something just like You did before the crucifixion, something that no one else did it just that way. And they recognized, by this that You did, that You were the risen Christ. And they said, "Did not our hearts burn within us as He talked to us as along the way?"
We pray that You'll return to us tonight, Lord. Just this few people, but You said, "If two or three are gathered in my name, I'll be in their midst." That's your promise, Lord, and we believe it to be true. We're waiting now in the name of the Lord Jesus for the confirmation of thy Word. Amen. You may be seated. [Someone prophesies.] Amen.

3 Thanks be to our heavenly Father for that great encouragement. How it should make us feel before the service begins! He's give us a promise through a spirit of prophesy, that we will see Him in our midst in here. Now, is it so? Certainly it's so. It comes from God. Anything that comes from God is always right. Blessed be the name of the Lord.
I'm so thankful to be living in a time that when the Spirit of God is in the midst of his people, calling out, separating a church to take home; for a remnant that will be left on the earth when He comes, to be received up into the heavens. So thankful for it.
Oh, this is a great hour. I'm so glad to be living here. You know, Moses would've loved to have lived in this time. All the apostles would've liked to have been living in this time. And here we are, living in this time, and living under our privileges. How that God wants to bless his people!

4 Now you know, it's told us that the day when the Lord come, it would be kind of unexpected, and the church would be cooling off. I've just got finished at my tabernacle at home with the seven last church ages, and it's coming out. It's on tape now, and I took each church age each night, made the seven church ages and the seven last ... the candlesticks and the seven messengers of the church ages and...
I'm not much of a preacher, but all that I... Every effort I put forth for the Lord in all my life, I don't believe ever was as effective as that was, for as soon as I come down, and not knowing what ... to draw these church ages on a blackboard, showing just how much the Holy Spirit come in the Ephesus church age, then on down to the Smyrna, and Pergamos, and Thyatira, and on out...

5 And if that angel of the Lord, that light, didn't come right in before three hundred people, moved itself right over on the wall, and drawed with that round light (just the way I drawed the churches), and showed exactly the same depth and everything, as it went through; while three hundred people screaming, and crying, and looking at it on the side of the wall. Why, it stood out here, and reflected itself on the wall, and made that same thing.
And they've got it drawn now, in pictures, and standing in the Tabernacle. Mr. Arganbright, our dear precious brother, has just left up there. Went up to look at it, where it was at on the wall.
We are just living in a tremendous time. But I'm afraid that we don't ... have to pinch ourselves a little bit, and shake a little bit, to find out just where we're at.

6 I've often said, and made this remark: "I find two classes of people as I travel the world. That's Pentecostal for one, and fundamental for the other.
Now, the fundamental people positionally know what they are in Christ by the promise of the Bible, but they haven't received the Holy Ghost to know who they are, or ... have faith. Now, the Pentecostal people has received the Holy Ghost, but they don't know who they are, see. So it's just like a man's got money in the bank, and don't know how to write a check. The other one can write a check, and hasn't got no money in the bank."
Now, if you could get those two together... If the Pentecostal people could settle themselves... As I said last night (I truly believe this with all my heart), the Pentecostal church was in better condition ... Now, I wasn't a minister in those days, and I don't think ... I probably wasn't on earth in those days, but the old Azusa Street meetings that you speak so much of---and I've read the books of---the early Pentecostal church, thirty or forty years back, was in better condition for the coming of the Lord than they are right now. They really was right down-to-earth Christians, and they lived it. They believed it.

7 Now we have classified ourselves, and we've got our organizations, and denominations, that stands in class. And we've got grandchildren in that's been took in by adoption, and so forth. We don't have the old line of Pentecostals that used to die out, and really come through with God---that real genuine faith. They just asked God, and they anointed them with oil, and went on and got healed.
Today, God can come down and show Himself miraculously, right among the people and everything ... and just say, "Well, I guess that was very well." You've had too much teaching, looking for new light. That's what Eve was looking for when she got her eyes put out. See, just go back to the Bible, and stay right with the old trend.
Don't leave that old pathway of the first love, and the first thing that come to you. Live with the Holy Spirit. Don't get off on to some other tantrum. Stay right with God, right in his Word, and the Holy Spirit will never make you do anything that's contrary to this Word. It will stay right in the Word, 'cause the Word is God.

8 Last night I was talking on the subject of "Expectations." Tonight I was going to pray for the sick. Now in the coming part, tomorrow night beginning, we want to start on the evangelistic type of message, maybe "The Coming of the Lord," "The Mark of the Beast," "The Seal of God," "The 144,000," "The Four Horse Riders of Revelation." Well, I believe those messages are what we got to get to the people, to wake them up, shake them, to show them that we ... I see the great results in the "Seven Church Ages." I would go through that again, if I thought it would help here. How that God did bless it!
Now, let me warn the people again and again. Do not expect the last shake of God in the church to be a universal thing. It isn't going to be. It's to the church. It's the great things that'll happen with the people in the little minority. That's the little group that God shakes to get ready to go. Them are gone anyhow, see. Now that's scriptural, and Bible.

9 Not long ago a pastor of a certain great city come to me, and he said, "Well, I'm getting old." Said, "I've been here twenty-some odd years, and we've had some of the most powerful meetings." Chicago, Mattsson-Boze.
He said, "I have longed, Brother Branham... And come here and had a prophesy from the Lord if I would come here I would see the mighty hand of God shake this place before time to leave."
I said, "Brother Joseph, honestly," I said, "you're a great theologian, and you're a great man, a doctor of divinity. There's no doubt about that. I couldn't touch it." But I said, "But my precious brother, you have some poor spiritual discernment."
That's where the church is missing it today. It's that spiritual discernment to see what God's doing. And they look way over the top for something here that's going on right here, and it'll be past you before you know it.

10 Did not Jesus say about John...? The disciples said, "Why do the scribes say that Elias must first come?"
He said, "He's already come and they didn't know him." That's it. They never did know Elijah was a prophet, really, but just the church. They wouldn't have treated him ... wouldn't have called him "bald-head," and carried on like that. They didn't know it.
They didn't know that John was really truly the prophet of God. They thought he was some crazy man out there in the wilderness, trying to drown the people in water. But he never did go into the cities, and things. He stayed out in the wilderness---odd, peculiar. And they thought he was a fanatic, the way he dressed. But the church---the called church---that was called to see that, they recognized right quick that he was a prophet.
They didn't know Jesus was the Son of God until He was dead, and buried, and rose again. Many of them don't know it yet today. True. They never did know.

11 The Catholic Church never did accept St. Patrick. His schools were all in Northern Ireland. He protested the Catholic bishops, and now they make him a saint. Why, the Catholic church burned Joan of Arc, crying at the stake, because they said she was a witch. The girl seen visions. She was a servant of God. About a hundred years later they recognized it, after she was done dead and buried. So they repented. Dug up them priests' bodies that killed her, and throwed them in the river.
They never know it till it's past, and the Holy Spirit's giving the church its last call now, and doing exactly what the Bible said it would do. And the Pentecostal people are groping over the top of it, watching for some... Oh, my! Don't do that, please.
Listen. If we're expecting Christ to come... Do you believe that? Well, if we do it, let's act like it. How can we expect Christ to come, and put six million dollars in a building? How do you get these great big things, talking about Christ coming? Well, brother, we ought to be getting ... making ready for the rapture; not for another five hundred years stay here on earth, see.
There's something wrong. It just don't jive somehow. It don't make sense to me. By their fruits ... you might say it with your lips, but by your heart, see...
You say, "Oh, yeah, I believe Christ is coming." But your action proves different.

12 What if a man told his wife he loved her, and then run off with another woman, see? Actions speak louder than words. That's right. No matter what we say with our lips, our actions prove what really is in our heart. That's what Jesus said: "Hypocrites, how can you say good things? for out of the abundance of the heart speaketh the mouth," see. If it isn't, then it's hypocrisy. So you see where God'd class us? Just in that Laodicean church age, lukewarm, speaking from her lips, but her heart is far away.
O God, let's swing that thing backwards. Let's get down to God. Let's go down to the Scripture, and get down there, till we really get Pentecost back in the human's heart. Not back in an organization, but back in the heart of the people in the organization. That's what we should do. So God help us this week to do it.

13 I'm praying, fasting, waiting on God. I want to do my part while I'm here in California. You do your part. Get out and get the people in. God is doing greater things today than has ever been known since Jesus Christ was on earth. That's right. And it's going right over the top of the people's head, and they're missing seeing it. That's the bad part.
If they would only, like Jesus said ... said about the ... said, "If you'd have only knowed your day... If you'd have only knew it. Jerusalem, Jerusalem, how oft would I have hovered you, as a hen does her brood. But you would not. If you'd have only knowed your day, your visitation."
That's the way it is today. It's always been; that's what it is now. If we'd have only knowed the day of visitation. But the visitation goes right through, and the people are looking way over here for something else. And first thing you know, the visitation is over, and there it is. But as He said, "No man can come to me except my Father has drawed him first. All the Father has given me will come to me." Amen. Oh, that's what makes us...

14 Now we like to talk to people where we can make them feel real good. But the best thing to do, if there's something wrong, let's get that out of the way first. Let's get the thing down to the foundation, see. A fellow said to me, not long ago---a well known minister, one of the best in the world---he said, "Brother Branham, you're making too much of a mistake."
I said, "Pardon me, my brother. Tell me where it's at."
He said, "You cut at people too hard." Said, "For instance, you're always bawling the women out for the way they dress, and you're always slamming this and that." He said, "You better quit that. You'll ruin your ministry."
I said, "Any time that the Word of God ruins my ministry, God, ruin it right quick, because I want it ruined." That's right. I want to give something that's right. The Word of God teaches that. And I say God give us boldness, and men that'll stand for the truth, regardless of what comes or goes. That's what we need.
The gospel's not something for a sissy. The gospel's for men, God-called men.

15 You never judge a man by how big his hands is, and how wide his shoulders is. I've heard them say, "Oh, isn't he a man!" I've seen men that weighed two hundred pounds, didn't have an ounce of man in him. That's right. You don't measure a man by his size. That's brute. You measure him by his character. There never was a greater character in man than Jesus Christ.
A big body... A mule's stouter than any man, or elephant. So that would be brute. But a man's not how big a muscle he's got. I don't measure him by that, but how the bags is in the knees of his trousers, where he's been praying. That's the man that's to be measured. Character.
Jesus was a small man, little fellow, probably stooped-shoulders. Thirty years old; He looked fifty, the Bible said. But there never was a man on earth like Him, and never will be. The Bible said, "There was no beauty for him that we should desire him. When we seen him we hid as it was our face from him," and all like that.
But yet, it pleased God to smite Him. He was smitten, stricken, and afflicted. He bore our transgressions, was bruised for our iniquities, and by his stripes we were healed. Oh, it should be attractive to people. It really should. It should stir the heart.

16 But you know what's the matter? We've took out the Wednesday night prayer meeting, and put in a television program that keeps all the people entertained. And where the heart is---the treasures is---there the heart is also. And what makes people want to go to things of the world? You know the reason you do that? The reason people does that? What makes a man want to get drunk? What makes people want to act the way they do? The world. What would a person stay home on Wednesday night, from a prayer meeting, to watch a certain television program? What would they do that for?
It's because there is something in them that desires to be satisfied. There's a little place in a man's heart, or a woman's heart, and God made that place for Himself. How dare you to try to take the things of the world, and put it in there where God made for Himself to sit there!
God is our joy. God is our pleasure. God is our satisfaction. That's where it belongs. And here, let God in, and then the other things are so dead you don't even care nothing about them no more.

17 Oh, people are very religious. Always been. As I preached the other night over there, a revival always produces twins. Like Esau and Jacob---a man of the world, and the man that desires the birthright, see. It always ... every revival produces that.
This latter day revival has done the same thing. It's true. So let's get on the Jacob side, the one that's going to inherit, the one that's going into the promised land. And we cannot be satisfied just with going to church, and putting our name on the book. If we do, there's something wrong. Let's keep climbing higher and higher, till we reach that promised land.

18 Preaching the other day at the Christian Businessmen's Convention in Phoenix, Arizona, there in a ballroom, I said, "Little could Israel ever think, when they were shouting and dancing in the Spirit---Miriam with that tambourine after they crossed over the Dead Sea, and seen the taskmasters dead behind them---little did they think they were forty years away from the promised land." They couldn't believe that. They was only about four days away.
But they had to have a... You know, had to go up to Exodus 19 and make their biggest mistake they ever made. Had to go up and get a law, so they could fuss and organize, and get theirselves together.
Grace had provided them a prophet. Grace had provided them a lamb. Grace had provided them miracles. Grace had given them the biggest revival they ever had. Grace had provided all these things, and yet they desired a law.
That's exactly where our fathers stood in Pentecost about forty years ago. Grace had provided. They was all in one accord. Every ... Pentecost was Pentecost. But they couldn't be satisfied with that. They had to organize them a class called Assemblies of God. No, they had to get them another---Church of God, Foursquare, Oneness, Twoness, Threeness, Fourness. And you've been sitting right there for forty years. God have mercy! We need a...

19 Well, they stayed there till all them people with that kind of mind died out. Then one day, a Joshua rose up, put his arms around them all, and God said, "You've been on this mountain long enough. Now let's go north, and cross over. Take the promise."
God can take Baptists, or Methodists, or whatever He wants to. But somebody's going over. That's right. And as long as we still get our classical ideas, and sit around that we're ... you'll stay right there. Just exactly. Oh, let's rise! Let's get out of it. My! Shake yourselves and realize God's still God. He has to remain. If He ever was God, He's still God. He don't change to our ways. We've got to change our ways to his ways. Oh, I didn't want to say that. I just...

20 I'll read some Scripture now. All right. St. John 12:20. I'm going to just read a verse here:
And there were certain Greeks among them that came up to the feast to worship... :
The same came therefore to Philip, which was of Bethsaida of Galilee, ... desiring him, saying, Sir, we would see Jesus.
Now turn to Hebrews 13:8:
Jesus Christ the same yesterday, ... to-day, and for ever.
How many believes that solemnly with all your heart? Now tomorrow night we are going on to the evangelistic services. Tonight we're going to give it for divine healing.

21 Now, there's one thing to talk about anything, and then there's another thing to make what we've talked about be true. And it's all God's Word, and the only thing it needs is faith to make any divine promise act. That's right. If God made the promise, then God is obligated to his promise. Now I want you just to give me your undivided time for a few minutes... If you'll give me about thirty minutes, and then we'll call the prayer line; and in a few minutes we can go home.

22 Now, the first thing is, do you believe that Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever? Do you believe that, solemnly? Is He the same in principle, the same in power, the same power that He once had, the same compassion? If He was here (which He is) today, would He act just exactly like He did when He was here before?
Or, do you think after two thousand years He's got a little wiser, and a little smarter, knows how to make a church different? And He'd kind of have to apologize on what He did on the Pentecostal church first, so He just makes Him a different Pentecostal church for the last age? Would that be his idea?
Not if He's the same. He'd have the same ideas. And He was God, so He can't change. God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself. So He'd have the same ideas and the same principles, the same power and the same church. He's the same yesterday, today, and forever.

23 Now, one day there was some people who had never seen Him staggered into the meeting, or up to worship at Pentecost. They'd heard about Him. So they came to one of his servants, and said, "Sir, we would see Jesus." And by asking this servant, this servant produced Jesus for them.
Now, if He's the same yesterday, today, and forever; and you've got up your hands that you'd like to see Him, then why can't we see Him? That's the question. Can't we see Him? If He is the same, then why can't we see Him?
You raised your hands like those Greeks. You'd like to see Him. I raised my hand. I'd like to see Him. And He promised that He would be with us, and never forsake us. "I'm with you always, even to the end of the consummation." He's always here, the same yesterday, today and forever.
Then what's the matter? Why can't we see Him?

24 Now, if He will come into our midst tonight... ? Now if you're a stranger you might not understand this, but I want you just to pull the sideboards down, and sit still for the rest of the meeting, and listen close to these words---promises I'm going to read to you, wrote out here on this paper, out of the Bible. And I want to read you some promises, and find out whether He's still alive or not; to see if our Christian religion is the true religion; and if our Pentecostal conception of it is true, or whether it's wrong.
Even I believe ... now, even in all its error, I still choose it to be the church. Not because that they're Pentecostal. Pentecost is not an organization. Now you Baptists and Methodists remember that, Catholics and Presbyterian. You can't organize God. You don't organize God. Pentecost is an experience that Methodist, Baptist, Presbyterian, Catholics and all, receive.

25 Now, I've always said if a man's a Catholic, and he's depending on the Catholic church for salvation, he's lost. And if he's a Baptist and depending on the Baptist church for salvation, he's lost. If he's Pentecostal and depending on the Pentecostal church for salvation, he's lost.
But if he's a Catholic and depending on Jesus Christ, he's saved by faith, his own faith. If he's a Baptist, or Pentecostal, and looking to Jesus Christ for salvation... For it's by faith are you saved, and that through grace of God. That's right. Your personal faith in Jesus Christ is what saves you.

26 Now, if this is his book... I had an interview not long ago with a Catholic priest. He came to my house to ask about if I'd baptized some girl that ... when she was a baby, or a little girl about fifteen years old. She'd remarried, and remarried Catholic. He had to baptize her over. And the bishop asked me some questions.
He asked me if I'd baptized her, and I told him Christian baptism by immersing.
He said, "The Catholic church used to do that."
I said, "When?"
So he went back and said, "In the days of the Bible."
I said, "Then do you claim that the Bible is ... the Catholic church wrote the Bible?"
Said, "Jesus Christ organized the Catholic church, and placed Peter the head of it, and the twelve apostles and that was the first Catholic church."
I said, "Then if it's infallible, and changes not, why has there been so many more changes made? Why, you've got ten thousand women out here you're praying to, dead people. And there's only one mediator, said the Bible, between God and man, and that's the man Christ Jesus. No Marys, or nothing else, see." I said, "Why?"

27 He said, "Well, you see, Mr. Branham, we're not supposed to argue the Word."
I said, "I'm not arguing the Word. I'm just asking you." I said, "I've got Hislop's 'Two Babylons,' I've got the most ancient histories that I can find. Here's the 'Nicene Fathers,' the 'Nicene Council' the 'Pre-Nicene Council,' and all, right here in my study. Show me anywhere there was a Catholic church till 305. Show me where it was."
He said, "You're quoting history."
I said, "How would I know there was a George Washington here, only by history? Show me something different," see, I said. That's exactly right. God never did organize a church, and it never was God's plan to do it. Organizations, "mother church" is Catholic, and all the rest of them is off of that same organization, according to Revelation 17. That's exactly right---breaking down fellowship.
We're all one. Pentecost is for Methodist, Baptist, Catholic, Presbyterian, "Whosoever will, let him come, drink from the fountains of the waters of life freely." Right. Now if Jesus is the...

28 Now, I ain't talking against these organizations, but when you draw a little fence around... Like a little thing I seen one time, a little monkey sitting up in the tree. And said ... looked over at the other little monkeys, said, "You know they tell us that..." Or, "They say down there that they come from us." Said he couldn't believe that.
Said, "Would I fence up my tree here so my fellow monk couldn't come over, and get a coconut when he wanted it? Would I say that I'm the only monk there is in the trees? If it has, then the monkey race is fallen." That's ... well, that's about right, too. Yeah.

29 When we try to hedge up something... God don't hedge it up. He breaks the hedges down. Tore down the middle wall of partition and all is one in Christ Jesus. The Holy Spirit is for all of us, that we all might see the glory of God. In all my meetings I've never seen Him say, "Well, this fellow's a Presbyterian, so he can't get healed. And this one's Baptist, so he can't get healed." He doesn't heal people that way. It's on the basis of their faith, and not their denomination. That's right.
Now, if He's the same yesterday, today, and forever... The Catholic church would say, "Sure, we believe that. We believe that in our church." The Baptist would say, "We believe that in our church." The Catholic say, "We believe it" in that church.
Now, if I was going to base this talk upon Baptist, the church that I come from... If I was going to base it upon Pentecost, or If I was going to base it upon any one of the organizations of Pentecost, I just might as well stop. That's all.

30 But there's only one thing to do. There's got to be something right, and something wrong. It's exactly true. You can't get wrong and right at the same time. We have a bogus dollar because it was made off of a real dollar.
Now, what is the difference? How would we know then? The Catholic church'd say, "We're the oldest organization."
Pentecost'd say, "Why, we began back there before the organization."
All right, we'll just go on, all this. The Baptist said, "We started in John. He was the first Baptist, even before Jesus came on the scene."
Well, you'd have all kinds of arguments. But let's take it down and find out.

31 Now, what if we go downtown to look for Jesus, that He's the same? We'd see a man come along with a robe on like He wore, and the psychological thought of it that He had long hair. We have no record of that, that He ever had long hair. We don't know. But say that we did see a man that looked like the artist's picture that painted of Jesus. And He had scars in his hands, scars in his feet, and thorn marks, and so forth; and looked like maybe the Hofmann's picture of Him, the "Head at Thirty-three," or maybe some of the other ones, like the inspirational ... or some picture.
That still couldn't be Jesus, because I'll tell you why. Because no man will see Jesus on earth in a physical body until first he goes to glory; because we'll be caught up to meet Him in the air. That's right. For He said in the last days, there'd be false Christs, and everything saying, "Lo, He's in the desert, and in the secret chamber. Believe it not."

32 But He's here in the form of the Holy Spirit, and the Spirit that was in Christ will do the same things that He did, because it's the same life. If you put the life of a grapevine in a cucumber vine, it would bear grapes. If you put the life of a peach tree in a sycamore, it would bear peaches, see. Exactly. Because it's the life that's in it produces. And the life that's in the church of Jesus Christ will bear the works and marks of Jesus Christ.
And the church is an individual. God deals with Israel as a nation, but the Gentiles as individuals. Now you get it, do you? See, individual. A nation will be saved when Israel comes. It'll be just born overnight when Israel will come to God at one time. But then, when the Gentiles ... it's individual. A people He's taken out of the Gentiles for his name's sake, making up his bride.

33 Now, what would we do then tonight, if we wanted to find out whose church He's in? If I wanted to see if He's in the Pentecostal church, if I wanted to see if He's in the Baptist church, or the Catholic church (the oldest organization), or which one of them? Lutheran, that's next to Catholic, and Wesley comes next, and on down like that. If I'd go over and look in them churches, what would I look for? A man that would look like Him? No. There might be many men look like Him, just exactly. What would I look for?
Then I'd look for a man that had a life in him. I'd look for a church that had a Spirit in them, just like his Spirit, see. I'd look to see his works. He said, "He that believeth on me [St. John 14:12], He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also." Is that right? Then He said, "He that believeth in me, the works that I do shall he do also."
Now, you find in the translation there, it said, "Greater than these shall he do." But actually the right translation from it is... I've got the "Emphatic Diaglott," and it says, "He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he also, and more than this shall he do." Not greater, 'cause they couldn't do no greater. He raised the dead, healed the sick, stopped nature. There's nothing could be greater. But it's not in quality, but in quantity He could do greater.

34 Because then God was in one man, Christ Jesus---in Him dwelt the fullness of the Godhead bodily. Now when ... that pillar of fire come down at Pentecost, you know, as tongues of fire set upon each of them. Before they begin to speak with tongues, it was tongues of fire. That was God separating Himself from the pillar of fire into each member of his church; God separating Himself, so He could be universally all over everywhere at one time.
Right now healing meetings is going in Africa. The lame's walking, the blind's seeing, all around the world---the universal church of the Lord Jesus Christ in individuals, men who's living and serving Him. God separated Himself, and placed Himself out among us.
"That day you'll know that I am in the Father, the Father in me, I in you and you in me," see. "I will be... A little while and the world [cosmos there, the world order] will see me no more. Yet ye [the church] shall see me, for I [I is a personal pronoun] I'll be with you, even in you, to the end of the world." That's right. "I, I will be with you..." See, the universal church of the Lord Jesus Christ. "I'll be with you. The works that I do shall you do also."

35 Now, let us think just a minute now, what He did then. Let's see what kind of works He did, and how He made Himself known. Now, we take, for instance, He was called the "Messiah," and the Messiah means, "the anointed one," the Christ. He'd been promised since the garden of Eden, back in Genesis. Now we'll just go back and find out. We read tonight out of St. John 12. Let's go back to St. John 1, and then we'll find out what He was. And if we can find what He was, and what church He belonged to, what organization He went to, then if it's our organization we can be satisfied with it.
And if we find out what He was, and what He was then, and what He did then, He should be the same thing, and do the same thing today, because He said He would. Would that satisfy the church? Now let's just go back and find out now. I'll quote, and you read when you go home. Take these chapters as I refer to them here. And then, when we have ... we was going to have a constant healing service, we'd just keep pounding from Genesis to Revelation to show that this is the truth.

36 Now you might have your ideas all fixed up (so did the Pharisees) to what the Messiah would do when He come. But He come a little different. Yet He come exactly what the Scripture said, the way the Scripture said He would come. Now let's notice Him just a minute.
We find out, after his birth, up to thirty years old, his second cousin, John, was baptizing in the wilderness. And Jesus went down, and was baptized, and heavens was opened when he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove. And He went into the wilderness and was tempted forty days of the devil.
Come back with his ministry, and the first thing He started to do, we find out here in John 1, He started going about healing the sick people. And then there was a man by the name of Andrew had believed on Him. Let's take him just for a moment. Let's take now how He made Himself known as the Messiah.

37 Now, remember that God always gives signs and wonders. How many believes that? Now in the Old Testament... Now listen close. It won't take long. If we can get you to see the message, there won't be a person in here in a wheelchair. There won't be a sick person in this building in forty minutes from now, if you'll listen and catch it close. Now let's just prove it. That's what the Bible said---prove all things. Now, if He made the promise, He's got to keep the promise.
And God, in the Old Testament, if a prophet prophesied, or a dreamer dreamed a dream, the way they found out whether that was true or not, they went down to the Urim Thummim. The pastors and so forth knows about that---the breastplate of Aaron. He had the twelve stones, the birth stones of the patriarchs. It hung on a post in the temple. And when the prophet begin to prophesy, or the dreamer tell the dream, no matter how real it sounded, if it didn't reflect that conglomeration of lights in there, the supernatural wasn't working. So they refused the message.
I don't care how much ... good it sounds, how it fit up with Dr. So-and-so's theology, or how it fit up with this church or that organization, they condemned it because the supernatural didn't act. Amen! I begin to feel religious. Yes, sir. Where a supernatural God is, there's going to be supernatural things happening. It just can't keep from it. It's just got to be that way.

38 Now, notice now, when that priesthood ended---Aaronic priesthood---then that Urim Thummim was taken away. But God has another Urim Thummim, which is his Word, the Bible.
Now, if God makes a promise in the Bible, and then if you receive that, the supernatural promise will make a supernatural manifestation, 'cause God will vindicate his Word. Absolutely. If it doesn't, then it isn't the Word of God. If it isn't...
Then if our faith isn't great enough, don't deny it. If God made the promise, say, "It's so, but I ain't got faith enough to do it." Let the other fellow do it. If I haven't got faith enough to start walking like Enoch did, and take an afternoon walk and go home with God, I'll never stand in somebody else's way who does have enough faith to do it. I'll say, "Praise God for that brother. He walked right on out of the earth. I'm just thankful for that. I can't do it, but I'm thankful he did it," see. I believe that, and I don't want to stand in anybody's way who has faith to make God's Word be confirmed. Now, it's got to come from the Word.

39 Now, when Jesus came He came to his own, the Jews. Now we find out He had a Messiahic sign that followed Him. John bare record of it, and it looked like a dove, a light, coming down from heaven. He noticed it. Now, when that light, or dove, came into the Son of man, we notice what taken place.

40 Andrew, let's start off with him. Now it's St. John 1, the 1st chapter, I'm in. We find out that Andrew, as soon as he believed on the Lord Jesus Christ, he goes to get Simon Peter. His name was Simon then, and he said to Simon, "Now, you must come see." Let's break in on their conversation. They're both fishermen.
I can see Simon, perhaps the older of the two, sit down on the side of the boat, and say, "Andrew, now you know that we're both Pharisees because we're after our old father, the Pharisee. And I remember, Andrew, before father died when I was yet a young boy... One day after we'd fished out on the lake all day long, we'd come in and father had prayed hard that we'd get fish. And right at the last hour we caught fish for our bread the next day.
"Oh, I can see how mother was always on her knees praying. How we trusted God to help us!"
"Oh, certainly, brother Simon. I remember that very well."

41 "Well, I remember, Simon, my father said to me one day as he stroked my hair back, and I put my hands upon his gray hairs...
"And he said, 'Simon, my son, I've always wanted to live to see the day when our deliverer, Messiah, would come. But I'm getting old now, so I suppose I won't be able to see Him, Simon. But you're a young lad. No doubt you'll see Him in your day.'
" 'Now, there's going to be a lot of confusion. Always is, Simon. Just before the supernatural takes place, there'll be a lot of false things take place. But I want you to remember this, Simon, that when Messiah comes, the Messiah will have the sign of the Messiah. And you'll know Him by the sign."
Moses said so, for Moses said (over in the chapter of Deuteronomy we find this) that ... He said that "The Lord [Deuteronomy 18:15, if you want to put it down to read it. Read the rest of the chapter down.], that the Lord your God shall raise up a prophet like unto me. It will come to pass that who will not ever hear this prophet will be cut off from amongst the people," see.

42 "Now he said, 'Now remember, Simon, there may be great forceful speakers raise up. There may be great men will raise up. But remember, as Jews, we know that God is sending to us a prophet, a Messiah-prophet. And the reason... Now, we've had four hundred years now. Since Malachi we haven't had any prophets. But when the Messiah comes, He will be a God-prophet. We'll know Him by that. Now don't forget that, Simon.'"
Now he says, "Andrew, you might say this is a great man. He can hold the people spellbound. But to me, he has to be a prophet because the Messiah ... And I heard you talk about that man in the wilderness, and so forth, John. He, perhaps, is a prophet too. I don't know. But this Messiah will be a God-prophet. He'll be a prophet plus. He'll be more than a prophet. He'll be a prophet plus. I'll go with you someday."

43 I can imagine seeing Andrew, then, go on to the service to hear Jesus of Nazareth, and then come home and told him some things that happened. So the next day maybe Simon decided he would go.
And you remember, he was given the keys---Simon was, later on. He was an ignorant man. He didn't come out of any of the seminaries, any of their Bible schools. He couldn't even sign his own name, Simon Peter. The Bible said he was both ignorant and unlearned, but they'd taken notice that he'd been with Jesus. Now, that's the main thing. That's true Pentecost, see.

44 Now we find out that he went down, and perhaps walked up with Andrew, and a great crowd of people around. And as soon as he got into the sight of the Lord Jesus, wondering if He was the Messiah... (Now, we're going to find out what Messiah was.) And as soon as he got into the presence of the Messiah, He looked at him. And He said, "Your name is Simon, and you are the son of Jonas." Oh, my! That was enough for him. Not only did He know who he was, He knowed that godly old father that had told him what He would be. That settled it forever. That was the Messiah. Yes, sir!
If that was Messiah yesterday making Himself known to his own, that's Messiah today making Himself known to his own. Remember, to his own. We're going to get to that in a minute.

45 Now, what was it? There was many standing there, perhaps, didn't understand that. But Simon knew it, for he was looking for that type of a person. He was led of the Spirit. He knowed by the Scripture that that was exactly Messiah. He not only knowed him but He knowed his father, and he called both their names.
And there stood a man there by the name of Philip, and Philip said, "Say, that's it! I know that's Messiah." And around the hill he went, fifteen miles around the hill, to find a friend, to tell him about it. There's something another, when you really get a vision of Christ, you can't keep still. You've got to tell somebody about it. Just a touch of Him, and it sets your soul aflame. "I've got to find... I've got a friend by the name of Nathanael. He's a great man. He's a good scholar." And around the mountain he went.

46 Probably it was getting evening time when he got in. He knocks at the door, and Mrs. Nathanael come to the door. "Well, if it isn't our friend Philip."
"Oh, where is Nathanael?"
"He's taking a stroll out in the orchard."
Away he went out in the orchard, and he found out there... Under the fig tree he found Nathanael down on his knees, perhaps, saying, "O Lord God, You promised us deliverance. We're looking for it. We've been waiting for it. When will You do it, O Lord God? I'm waiting for that promise that You give."
He gets up, and dusts his clothes off like that, and he turned around, and who was standing there but Philip. He said, no doubt, "Philip, my friend!"
And before he said anything---"How are you getting along? Is the trees all right?"---he had an urgent message, something real. He said, "Come see who we've found." Right straight to the mark.
"Come see who we've found. Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph. He's the Messiah. I know He is the Messiah."

47 "Oh, now," I can imagine Nathanael saying, "now, Philip! Now, I know the many Bible lessons that we've had, the many good schoolings that we've had together. And we know, you and I know... Now what's happened, Philip? Have you went off on the deep end somewhere? What's happened to you, Philip? Now don't you come tell me that this Messiah could ever come out of Nazareth!
"Now, we know we heard Caiaphas's last talk, that some day the Messiah would come, and He'd probably land like an airplane, you know, right out on the canvases of the temple. He would come to our organization, because it's the greatest there is in the country. And He would come right... And if He doesn't come to ours, we won't believe it. We'll have nothing to do with it---won't cooperate with the rest of them. No. He'll come to us. We're the ones.

48 "He'll come out there, and He'll come up to Caiaphas, the high priest, our bishop, and say, 'I am the Messiah. I've come now to take over.' Sure that's the way it will happen."
That idea has never left the people. That's right. But you know what? God does things the way He wants to do it. He usually does it contrary from the way we're all fixed up to receive it, so He can... Well, He's hid Himself from the eyes of the wise and prudent, and revealed Himself to babes such would humble, and learn of Him. Now, quickly, watch what happened.

49 But I can hear Philip go to him with something that was positive---not some words He had said, but something that He had done.
Now, I hear Him say, "Nathanael, you are a scholar of the Scripture."
"Yes, sir."
"What kind of a man will the Messiah be?"
"Why, the Messiah will be a prophet."
"Yes, sir, that is true, because Moses told us, our leader, his words we depended on (and should depend on it), until there came a prophet. And He would be the Messiah, and would show the sign of the Messiah."
"Yes."
"Well, this Jesus of Nazareth I'm talking about... Do you remember that old fisherman down there they call Simon? You bought the fish from that time, he couldn't even sign the receipt for it?"
"Oh, yes. I knowed him. I knowed his father."
"Well, the other day his brother brought him up into the audience where Jesus was standing. He looked around and said, 'Your name is Simon. You're the son of Jonas. You...' Knowed them both."
"And he did that?"
"Yes."
"Who told Him about it?"
"Nobody. Simon just was brought up by Andrew, his brother. Come up there. You know it wouldn't surprise me but what He'd tell you who you are, when you get there."
"Well, I don't know about that now. I've got to see. You know, I've been an Orthodox a long time. So I'll have to see about this."

50 And the first thing you know, the next day when they come up, they might have come in the prayer line, or they might have come in the audience. I don't know. Anyhow, as soon as Jesus saw him the first time, Jesus looked right around at him, said, "Behold an Israelite, in whom there is no guile." That took the starch out of him.
He said... Now maybe some of them stood by, say... Well, today they'd say, "Well, sure. He'd know He was that; 'cause the way He was dressed He was an Israelite."
No, no. All the Easterners dressed alike. He could've been an Arab. He could've been a Greek. Sure, they ... all dark, wore beard and turbans, and garments the same. He said, "Behold an Israelite, in whom there is no guile."
Oh, it just got him so bad. He said, "Rabbi, when did you ever see me?"
He said, "Before Philip called you, when you were under the tree, I saw you."
Listen at him. "Rabbi, thou art the Son of God; thou art the King of Israel." See, making Himself known to his own.

51 Now, there was those stood by who called themselves his own. One of them stood by Him, and he said, "You know what? I've got to give an answer for our churches. He didn't come to our organization. So what will we tell the church about it, when they...? We got to say something, 'cause something's being done. So what will we tell our church?"
One of them said, "I'll tell you. The little ministerial council over in the corner said it's of the devil." That's exactly.
But they couldn't hide it from Him. He turned, perceiving their thoughts. He said, "You say that against me, the Son of man, I'll forgive you for it. But now (to break this Word down) ... but some day, the Holy Ghost will come do the same thing. One word against it will never be forgiven in this world, neither in the world that is to come": the unpardonable sin, to call the Spirit of God that's doing the Messiahic works (as He was doing) an unclean spirit.
Like a fortune-teller. They said, "He's Beelzebub, a fortune-teller. He's reading their minds. He's got a telepathy, a mental telepathy, and he can read their minds. That's what he's doing." They couldn't say He wasn't doing it, 'cause right there it was before the people.

52 But look at these men who were ordained to life. O God! Their name's immortal today. They're in glory with Christ. They recognized it to be the Messiah. He said, "Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God, the King of Israel."
He said, "Because I told you that, you believed? Then, come go along with me. You'll see greater than this." But because he believed...
Now if that was the sign of the Messiah yesterday, and He's the same Messiah today, it'll have to be the same thing today as it was yesterday. That's how He makes Himself known to his church.

53 Now there's only three races of people on the earth. That's Ham, Shem, and Japheth's people; and that day, which was considered Jew, Gentile, and Samaritan. Now, the Gentiles, we Anglo-Saxon, we were heathens in them days. We worshipped idols--- Romans and so forth, with clubs on our backs---and we wasn't looking for no Messiah. And remember, Messiah only comes and makes Himself manifest to those who are looking for Him.
The reason we don't see these things today, we're not looking for Him. We're looking at our churches, our denominations, our great structures, how much we're growing. Get your eyes off of that. Look to the Messiah. We're at the end-time.
Now notice what taken place. Then, we find out that He came. Now, that's how He made Himself known to the Jews.

54 Now we're going to turn over a couple of pages to St. John, the 4th chapter. He was going to Jericho. If anybody's ever been in Palestine, it's down below Jerusalem. That's where He was on his road. But He had need go by Samaria, up on the mountain. Wonder why? Now in St. John 5:19, you'll read this: "Verily, verily, I say unto you, the Son can do nothing in himself, but what he sees the Father doing..." See, He was a prophet, the prophet part of Him. Now He's more than a prophet. Don't think I'm denying him a prophet. I do not.
I heard Sister Florence singing a while ago. I'd like for her some night down here to sing, "Down From His Glory." I love that song. It expresses the supreme deity of Jesus Christ. In the days when they try to make Him just a prophet, He was a God-prophet. He was more than a prophet. He was God made manifest; but his sign of Messiah was a prophet.

55 Now we find out that when... We see Him there, standing there; then goes up to Samaria. Now the Samaritans was also half-Jew and Gentile, that worshipped God. Now we find out that He went up there, and it was about eleven or twelve o'clock. He sent his disciples away to buy some vittles, food; went down into Samaria. He sat down at the well, probably a panoramic---something like this beautiful picture back here---sitting out there at the well. If you was ever at Samaria, notice the public city well there still. It's there.
And it's about eleven o'clock in the day. There was a woman come out to get some water. Let's think she was beautiful, like some of the ladies of today, only it was a little different. Then we find out that she... Yep! I was thinking about her ... I was going to make her have long hair. I was thinking about that woman that washed Jesus' feet, you know, with her tears, and wiped them with her hair.
She'd have a hard time ... she'd have to stand on her head today, to get enough hair down there to wipe his feet with. They've cut it all off. The Bible said it's her glory, so she just cut her glory away. I don't know why. Maybe she looked at somebody up here she thought more about, up in Hollywood. But however...

56 You'll call me a fanatic. You'll call me a crank if you want to, but at the day of the judgment you'll find out it's "Thus saith the Lord." Right. No wonder we got a church that's dying. Not dying, but dead. Right. The Spirit of God is grieved, and gone from it. Our ways have grieved Him away. Our differences and indifferences towards Him is what's done it. I don't want to hurt you. I'm not here to hurt you. I'm here to awaken you. God have mercy!
Give us strength and courage to stay on God's Word, bring it regardless of what it means, what it says. Take ministers to get money in to compromise, to run big television outfits, and things like that, compromise with the people. Not me! I'd rather lay on my stomach, and drink branch water, and eat soda crackers, and preach the truth; than have to stand there before the church on the day of judgment, and condemned with them.
Our kingdom is not of this world. My treasures are not in this world. My treasures is in heaven, and my interest is God's people, his church. Don't pattern yourself after some pastor's wife, or some minister's wife, or evangelist's wife. Pattern yourself after the Bible. Right.

57 Today we got to match. A woman can wear a certain dress to church, or get a certain hairdo, and every woman wants to wear the same thing. Does the same amongst both sexes. I don't care whether my coat matches my trousers, or my tie matches my shirt. I want my experience to match God's Bible! That's what kind of matching we need today. A revival of that kind of match, with the Spirit of Jesus Christ living among us. [Gap in the audio]
They can't mix together like they do up here in Los Angeles, and around here. They can't mix together. You can't tell one from the other now. They all look alike. Them days it was different. If a woman was bad, she was marked bad. She stayed in her own company. She didn't associate with the rest of them. Now it's just like taking an egg, and go picking with the middle of it. Just gets the whole thing yellow, see. So that's what it is now.
Look, I was reading here where a proverb ... perverts, rather, over the nation, in Los Angeles, how it is. Oh, it's terrible! Your increase is about 30% over last year. Why, it's a Sodom. Oh, may God shake the people here, send a revival somewhere, that will shake the Pentecostal church back to its senses again, spitting fire over the audiences that the people might understand this hour that we're living. Sitting asleep. Of course the Bible said they'd do it, I guess. Well, there you are.

58 Now, this woman comes out. And she ... maybe she come out that time; maybe she'd been out all night, and slept till that time. But anyhow, she come out with a pitcher. She put the little strings under with the little hooks, and let the windle down to get the water. And when she'd about got her water drawed up, she heard somebody say, "Woman, bring me a drink."
Now, remember she's a Samaritan. Now He'd showed this sign of Messiah to the Jews. Now here's the Samaritans. "Woman, bring me a drink."
She said ... looked over, and she said, "Well, now [I'll break it down], we have segregation here. It's not customary for you, being a Jew, ask me---a woman of Samaria---such a thing." And she said...

59 He was probably sitting there. He wasn't but thirty-something years old, but the Scripture said (St. John 6) said He looked fifty. Said, "You're not a man fifty years old, and you say you've seen Abraham."
He said, "Before Abraham was, I AM." That's right, see. Probably his work broke Him down. Might've been grayed up a bit, or something.
While He was sitting there and she was looking at Him---man looking about fifty years old sitting up against the side of that wall, said, "It's not customary for you Jews to ask us Samaritans."
He said, "But if you knew who you were talking to, you'd ask me for a drink."
What was He doing? Now, you'll have to take my word for this. He was trying to contact her spirit. God had sent Him down there. God sent me to this church. I don't know you, see. I don't know none of you.
But God had sent Him up there. He had need to go by Samaria. Why? They were looking for a Messiah. He had to go up, and show them that He was Messiah. So He sat there. This woman said, talked to Him, said, "The well's deep, and you have nothing to draw with." Said, "Our fathers worshipped in this mountain [and so forth], and you say at Jerusalem..." And the conversation went on.

60 What was He trying to do? Find where her trouble was. Now, listen close now. Find where her trouble was. Now what is it? The Messiah is going to make Himself known to his own in Samaria, see, to the Samaritans. Now He'd done it to the Jews; He has to do the same thing to the Samaritans. Sure. He has to call his own by the same...
Remember what I said last night? If God ever makes a decision to do a thing a certain way, He has to do it every time the same way. If He didn't, He made a mistake when He done it the first time, see. You don't give one a piece of cornbread, and the other a piece of cake. It's all the same, just exactly, see. Now, notice, He's infinite, perfect, omnipotent, omnipresent. Now we seen that Samaritan ... Now how's He going to make Himself known to a Samaritan? The question's between Him and the woman.

61 And after He looked at her a few minutes, the Father had sent Him up there, so He said, "Go get your husband and come here."
She said, "I don't have any husband."
"Well," He said, "that's right. You've had five, and the one you're living with now is not your husband. So you said well."
I can see that pretty big bunch of curly hair drop down over her shoulders, and her big brown eyes, and the tears roll down her cheeks. She said, "Sir, I perceive that You are a prophet." How much different from that prostitute, and them preachers! She knowed more about God than half of them. It's a great deal that way today, too. That's right.
She said, "Sir, I perceive that You are a prophet. She said, "We know, we Samaritans, we know that when the Messiah comes, that will be the sign that He'll do. So you must be his prophet. We know when Messiah cometh, He'll tell us these things; but who are You?" Oh, my!
There never was but one could ever say this. He said, "I am he who speaks with you." She recognized it. That was the Messiah that she'd been taught that was coming. She knowed He'd be a prophet, a God-prophet. So she said...

62 She dropped her water pot, or set it down, and she ran into the city. And watch her message. She ran in, and said, "Come see a man who's told me the things that I've done. Isn't this the very sign of the Messiah? Isn't this the very Messiah? Don't our Scriptures tell us that when He comes that's what He'll do?"
And the Bible said that the men of that city believed Him to be the Messiah, because of the testimony of the woman that He'd told her the things that she'd done. Is that Scripture? St. John 4.

63 Now I see my time's getting away, so I'm going to have to hurry now, and have the prayer line. I don't want to keep you too long, see. But this will be the last healing service, as far as I know now, until Sunday night. But now wait. Let me get one more little hammer here, to cut this nail in here, to make it stick.

64 Now there was Jews... How did he make Himself known to the Jews as a Messiah? By showing that He was a God-prophet. Is that right? All you agree on that? Now remember, his own. His own. The other Jews, just the regular Jews---them classical ministers, and clergymen standing around there with a DDD, PhD, LLD, standing there, you know, with their collars turned around, so to say, and their turbans on, all like that---they said, "It's mental telepathy. Don't... Look at his class. Look where he come from. What is he to begin with? What school did he come from? Where did he learn this? We have no record of him even attending our seminaries, so you know he can't be right. He don't belong to the Assemblies. He don't belong to the Oneness. He don't belong to the Church of God, the Baptist, Presbyterian or Catholic. We have no record of him being in our schools."

65 I know I'm hurting, but... My Mama used to tell me... When we was little kids we lived so poor, back there in the mountains, we had to take cornbread, you know, and get the grease out of bacon rinds. We'd get and make the cornmeal. And every Saturday night we'd have to take a bath and a dose of castor oil. So we'd get ready for Sunday morning, go back to school. It was so bad, our food, we'd get pellagra and everything. Turnip greens, and black eyed peas, cornbread and sorghum molasses, that's about what we was raised on. So we'd have to take that castor oil, and Mama used to... I'd start to take it, and I'd say, "Oh, Mama! Please, please, it makes me so sick."
And she'd say, "If it doesn't make you sick, it doesn't do you any good."
So maybe this will stir up your spiritual gastronomics somewhere, that'll make you right good and sick; that will make people search the Scriptures, for they're the truth. They are the Word of God. They are the infallible ones. They are the ones that testify of the Messiah. Amen. He stands by his Word. Amen. I'm not "amening" myself, but "Amen" means "So be it." I believe it with all my heart that heavens and earth will pass away, but that Word will never pass.

66 Notice this Samaritan woman. The Samaritan had to realize that He was the Christ.
Now, "What about the Gentiles, Brother Branham? You're leaving them out." Not one place in the Scripture where He ever done that sign before a Gentile. Find it and show it to me. It's not there. No, sir. It isn't there. He showed his Messiahic sign to those who were looking for a Messiah. Oh, please get this straight. That's the same thing He's doing today. Now I'll show you why.
Now notice. Before He left, though, He prophesied of the Gentile age. Now, the Jews, they'd had 4,000 years to believe on a messiah. And the Samaritans from way back in the time of Moses, when they married these Moabite women, and so forth, and broke up and become half-breeds, and so forth... Now, they'd had all these years looking for a messiah, and there was some true in heart in there (now watch), his own. You say it with me: "His own." He made Himself known to his own. Now watch.
Many of the Jews didn't believe Him. Just because they were Jews, That was nothing. But the ones that had had their name on the book of life since the foundation of the world...

67 You remember, the Bible said that the antichrist in the last days, which was the religious organizations... I'm going to get to that this week, the Lord willing, or next time, see (all right), and prove it's the antichrist. The Bible says so. That's right. And he deceived all that dwelt upon the earth whose names were not written in the Lamb's book of life, slain from the foundation of the world. That's when it was, see.
Now, then, "All the Father hath [past tense] given me will come to me." "My sheep know my voice." Not because of a breed or a race, but, "My sheep know my voice." Now, watch.
Now you say that's Calvinistic. I'm not a Calvinist, now. I believe that security goes with the church. Exactly right. But if you're in the church, you're secured with it. But are you in the church? the next thing. That's it. Not because you say you are---that don't put you there.

68 Now, but, notice, brother, leaving that subject, we go back to the Samaritan woman. Now, watch what He said there. Now, she said, "Why, certainly. We know that's the Messiah. He'll do that sign when He comes."
Now, before Jesus left, in the book of St. Luke, He said, "As it was in the days of Sodom, so shall it be in the coming of the Son of man." Did you ever hear that? Now, let's... He said first about Noah's time, He said Noah's eating, drinking, marrying, giving in marriage, but in Sodom... Now, let's watch.

69 Now, there's always three classes of people. Watch them close. Now, Sodom exactly represented the three classes of people as was of Noah's time, when the world was destroyed by water. Now, in Sodom it was destroyed by fire. Is that right? Now, notice. There was three classes of people, and three messengers. Now, Abraham represented "his own." Say it again---"his own." Abraham and his group was out of Sodom, and the very word "church" means "called out," separated.
Lot took his choice with his organizations, and went down there and became mayor of the city. His wife belonged to all the society, and put on a Hollywood style, and so forth. See what happened to her? She still stands there as a pillar of salt. Now, but there she desired to be Hollywood, you see. She wanted to be like the rest of the world.
But Sarah was the most beautiful woman in all the world, and she took her choice with her husband, and lived out there on the poor of the land, so she could serve God and be heir of the promise. What a difference.

70 Now, when things was going hard---not great, big, fine things, but going hard---one day Abraham was sitting in the shade of the oak, and he looked out there. Must've been along about noontime, and he seen three men coming, dust all over their clothes. (Now hold that two scriptures, now.) Now he seen him, dust all over their clothes. And he walked up. And Abraham, being spiritual and waiting to see that promise, quickly (he was the called out) he recognized it. There was something strange about them men.
Oh, of course they might've said, "How do you do sir? We're strangers. We've come from a foreign land."
He went to meet them, said, "Come over and sit down under the tree. I'd like to talk with you just a minute. Let me fetch a little water and wash your feet, and give you a morsel of bread. Then you can go on your way. Sit down. That's why you come by this way. God sent you this way so I could do this for you."
"Well," they said, "Go, so be it," and went and sat down.

71 Now I can see him go in, say, "Sarah" (way back in the tent), and said, "knead a little flour. Get the sifter, and sift out a little meal here, or something, and make some cakes on the hearth." And went out and found a little fat calf, and killed it and give it to the servant, said, "Dress it."
And he fixed it all up, and brought it out before Him, sat down. Now watch.
As it was in Sodom, it's going to be this way, because this is the burning time. Do you believe that? You better believe it, when hydrogen, and atomic bombs, and sputniks, and everything else's flying around you. You better be believing it, because it's coming.

72 Notice, now what taken place? Here's what took place. The angels sat there a little bit---three of them. They kept looking over towards Sodom. After awhile ... now, remember, two of them went down to Sodom. How many knows that? Two of them went down to Sodom, and they preached. Oh, a modern Billy Graham, see, went down to Sodom, because there was... Lot was down there, which represented the lukewarm believer, the borderline believer, the denominational brother. He was down there in Sodom with the rest of the world. His congregation was all worldly, and everything else. He was down there.
And they sent a modern Billy Graham down, and preached to them. No miracles, only smote them blind; and preaching of the gospel does smite the unbeliever blind. We know that. Not Lot was smote blind, but ... smitten blind, rather; but the others was smitten blind.
Now, we see what kind of sign they done---preached the gospel in such a way that blinded the real unbeliever, and called Lot out before the fire fell. Is that right?

73 Watch this fellow that stayed behind, what sign he give the church---his own. The one that stayed behind was not an angel. It was God. The Bible said it was God. Abraham called Him Elohim, the self-existing one. Capital L-o-r-d. He ought to know. He was the one talking to Him. God.
A minister said to me one time, said, "Do you mean that was Jehovah God?"
I said, "That was Jehovah God. Oh," I said, "you just failed to find out how great He is.'
What are we made out of? Sixteen elements---calcium, potash, petroleum, cosmic light... He just got a handful of it, and went (Brother Branham makes blowing sound.) " Whew! Come here, Gabriel. Step in this," see. "Whew," blowed one over here for another angel. "Whew," blowed one for Himself. Come right down and eat the flesh of a calf, drank the milk from the cow, eat the cornbread, and disappeared right before Abraham, see.
Well, that's the God that owns us. I might not be a spoonful of ashes, or neither will you, but He can speak (Hallelujah!), I'll come forth. He'll call me. I'm glad that He knows me, and I'm glad that I know Him. He's Jehovah. There He was. What was He representing? What He would be in the last days, dwelling in flesh.

74 Now watch close. Now we find out that... Let's see what kind of a sign He give to his own. The same as He did when He come on the earth---God made flesh in Christ. Now notice, He had his back turned. And He said, "Abraham [How did He know he was Abraham?], where is your wife, Sarah?" What? Knowed his name was Abraham, knowed that he was married, and had a wife, and her name was Sarah.
Abraham was astonished. Said in the Bible, it specifically says, Abraham said, "She's in the tent behind you."
Women didn't act then like they do now: run out, and have to take their husband's place, and tend to all the business, and vote in politics, and put guys in like they just put in, and things like that. No. They didn't do it then. No. They knowed more about God. Sarah called Abraham her lord.
Now said, "She's in the tent behind you." In the tent behind you.
He said, "Abraham [Listen!], I [Oh, mercy! I---that personal pronoun again], I'm going to visit you according to the time of life, as I made you that promise in the beginning, twenty-five years ago."

75 Here was a man eating cornbread, eating calf's flesh, and drinking milk from a cow, with some butter on the bread, no doubt; sitting there eating that, and saying, "I made you the promise, and I'm going to do it." Amen.
And Abraham called Him Elohim, the Almighty God. There He was, sitting there. Said, "I'm going to visit you according..."
And Sarah, back in the tent, went ... laughed, said, "Me, an old woman near a hundred years old, and have pleasure with my lord again like that? Well, it couldn't be."
And the man sitting there said, "Why did Sarah laugh?" Oh! What kind of telepathy is that? What kind of... The woman in the tent behind Him. Said, "Why did she laugh?"

76 Now watch. Jesus said, "As it was in the days of Sodom, so shall it be in the coming of the Son of man"; that God would manifest Himself in human flesh, his church, the body of Christ, and would do the same sign. There the Gentile gets it.
Now. "Sirs, we would see Jesus." Is He the same yesterday, today, and forever? See how He made Himself known to the Jews, how He made Himself known to the Gentiles ... or to the Samaritans, and promised it to the Gentiles?
Now, we've had two thousand years that's never been in the church. But it shall be light in the evening time. The prophet said, "There'll be a day that it won't be neither called night or day. But in the evening it shall be light."

77 Now listen. Let me ... one day this week, the Lord willing, I'm going to preach on the "When the East and the West Meet."
Now, every person that's got any education knows that civilization has traveled with the sun from the east to the west. How many knows that? Certainly you know it. Civilization, the oldest we have is China, and we come right around. Civilization has traveled with the sun.
Now, in the eastern people... On the eastern horizon the s-u-n rises; and sets in the west, on the western people. S-u-n. And the S-o-n of God the same as the s-u-n of God. The S-o-n of God came to the eastern people first, the Jews. Is that right? Greeks and so forth ... come to the East.

78 Now there's been two thousand years that's been dismal. They've made organizations, and built hospitals, and they've built churches---just what Jesus told them not to do. He never said, "Build churches." He never said, "Build organizations." He said, "Preach the gospel." That's right. "Manifest the power of God."
But these things has took their place. They've lived their day. But now "In the evening time," He said, "it shall be light." And the same sun that shone on the East shines on the West. The same Messiahic signs that was done there to prove was Messiah, shines on the West. And we're on the West Coast. We are five hundred yards, almost, from the sea. And if we go that way, where're we going? Back to China again. The East and the West has come together.
That's the reason sin is bottling up here on this West Coast. It's terrible, and it's wicked. Why, we used to send to France to get patterns. France sends to us to get fashions from the women.

79 Our Pentecostal women, shame on you! You Pentecostal men, smoking cigarettes and carrying on, and marrying three or four wives, and deacons in the churches. Shame on you! God be merciful to your sinful soul. And you organizations of Methodist, and Baptist, and Assemblies of God, and Churches of God that permits that...
You say, "You're always picking on the women." Any man that will let his wife wear shorts, and smoke cigarettes, it shows what he's made out of. He ain't a man.
"Oh," you say, "you're cruel, Brother Branham."
I'm not. I'm not cruel. I'm preaching God's Word. Exactly right. Shame on you. Shake yourselves, and come to yourselves. Come back to God. It shall be light in the evening time. Sirs, we would see Jesus.

80 Did He pull punches? Did any prophet ever pull a punch? He sealed his testimony with his blood. True men of God will never pull punches for a television program somewhere, or to get money in, or some great big educational program. He'll speak the truth. If it takes life, he'll tell the truth. Right.
They might hate you one day; but another day coming when they'll love you, 'cause you're telling the truth. God's Word says it's the truth. There's no scripture in the Bible for the behavior of the Pentecostal church today. Not a bit. It's contrary to it---let alone you Baptist and Methodist. Whew! I know that's strong, but that's what I want it to be, so that you'll straighten out. And some day you'll meet yonder at the judgment bar. Brother, it's the Word of God. Your pastors, and so forth, has got weaker than dish water. The church is a meal ticket instead of the pulpit. Right.
We need men of God who will stand and tell the truth, regardless of who it hurts, if it takes deacons, trustees and everything else out. Be honest.
Stand for God, and believe his Word, and God will confirm that Word. It zeroed once; it'll zero again. But you got to zero with it. You can't hold the gun barrel this way and expect to hit that way. You won't do it. Hold it to the left and to the right. It won't do that. It will shoot a straight line. We got to get in this Scripture and shoot it straight. Amen.

81 Sirs, we would see Jesus. The Bible says He's the same yesterday, today and forever. Give us fifteen minutes, will you, the Holy Spirit and the church here?

82 Now, if I've hurt for... No, don't forgive me. Don't do it. Just go home, and think of it a while. I don't mean... I have to say things sometimes that cuts like knives. But, brother, I'm responsible. I'm responsible before God to tell what's truth. Then, if I've told the truth, God will vindicate it to be the truth. Now let's see if I told the truth or not. Let's ask Father to come on the scene. Let's ask God to come, and back up if that's the truth. If it isn't the truth, He won't back it up. If it is the truth, He will back it up.
And you people that would like to see Him, if He'll come and do the very same thing tonight in this church, no matter how much He anoints me, He's got to anoint you, too. Jesus went into his own country, and many mighty works He could not do because of their unbelief. But when he got somebody believing Him, a woman touched the hem of his garment, and was made perfectly whole. Yes. Would you like to see Jesus?
Now, no matter what He'd be dressed like, what He would look like, if this life is in Him---in the men or the people---it'll do the same things He did, because He promised it. Is that the sign of the Messiah now to the last days? How many understands it well? Raise up your hands, and say "I understand it. I believe it." Let us pray.

83 Merciful Father, oh, why do I have to say those things like that? People who feed my children, the people who put clothes on my back, and pays my way across the country, and yet... God, let them understand that I'm only trying to shake them, Lord. I'm trying to bring the church back to the old path again. Let them understand. May the Holy Spirit let them know it's not in cruelty, it's not to be indifferent, but it's to be truthful, Lord, and to tell the truth regardless.
Now, Father, will You back your truth up for us tonight? I've give them a strong statement that You're the same yesterday, today, and forever. Let the Holy Spirit come tonight, Father, and anoint this little bunch of people here.
And let them know that these people... I'm saying these things, but it's being taped here. This tape will go all over the world. It will be translated in many, many different languages, around the world, and people from everywhere will be hearing it. And I must weigh my words, Lord, that they are true; and your words, and not mine.

84 I'm only quoting You, confessing as the Bible says, that You are now a high priest of our confession. I'm confessing your Word that You are the same yesterday, today, and forever. Speak, Lord God, and let the people know that You gave the message, and not your servant. Grant it, Lord.
We commit it all to You now. I can say no more. And one word from You will be more than any preacher could preach in a million years. Just one word. We know it's there, we know it's the truth.
And now we want You to confirm the Word with signs following, as You promised; that they might know that I've told them the truth, that You are the Messiah, this great pillar of fire that they got the picture of here; and from Germany, from Switzerland, from all over the country where they've taken it---that it's the same pillar of fire that went with the children of Israel.
When He came here on earth, we find out that that pillar of fire dwelt in a body---the Son of God. We watched the works that He done. He said, "I come from God, and I go back to God." Later, after his death, burial and resurrection He returned back to the Father.

85 And one day Saul of Tarsus was on his way down to Damascus to arrest the people, and that same big pillar of fire struck him down. A light that put his eyes out made him blind for a season.
And He said, "Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me?"
He didn't know what that pillar of fire was. He said, "Who are You?"
"It's hard for you to kick against the pricks."
"Who are you, Lord?"
He said, "I'm Jesus."
Now, Lord, the scientific world knows, after they've took the picture, that it's the same pillar of fire. It's a mysterious light that don't only ... is phenomenal, but it's been struck in the lens of the cameras through the nation.
Now, if it is the same Spirit, then it will do the same work if the people can get theirself in the same condition. Let it be tonight, Lord, that I and this church, and these brethren ... that You might prove Yourself to be Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today, and forever.

86 When we leave tonight we'll... Like those from Emmaus, we want to see You do now the things that You did before your crucifixion, and your promises that You would do it; and after two thousand years, may You manifest Yourself tonight.
And when we go home, we'll say, "Did not our hearts burn within us as He made Himself known among us tonight?" And Lord, I believe it'll make the people come back to prayer and fasting, and this little church will grow, and the power of God will be in it, and prophesies and great signs and wonders; and women and men straightening up, and walking before God softly. And, oh, what a fear of God will come over the country, Lord. Give them great signs and wonders. Grant it. Strengthen your church, Lord.
O God! Call your people. Pull them out of this chaos in the last days. Grant it. We'll wait for You, Father, to speak to us in the prayer line, as we call in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ. Amen.

87 Now, if you'll just bear with us just a few [Gap in the audio].
When did you ever see it fail? It don't fail, because it's God. It can't fail. God has set that. And it's just as real to me as it is to you to take a drink of water, see. I'm just as confident that God will move on the scene as I am standing in this platform tonight, because it's his promise. And if He'll do that, then that will show that He is the same Messiah coming back. Now who to? Not to the outside, the big organizations and things, but to the elect, see, to the church. See what I mean? His own. You say, "Why don't you have a great big television program?"
He sent to his own, the elected, the called-out; not the flowerly...
Jesus didn't have showmanship. He wasn't a showman. They said, "Why don't you get away from that bunch down there on the river? You're fooling with just a bunch of holy rollers-like," you know. "Come up here and show Caiaphas what you can do." He never done it. He was kept humbly, quietly.
He came to his own. He made Himself known to his own, before the Jews, them who refused Him. They went on to eternity, those who received Him and believed it. Their name's immortal, and will be forever. That's right.

88 Now, I'm not Him. I'm just your brother. I am your brother, a servant of Jesus Christ, sent here with my brethren, and with you people here, with a gift that manifests. And if I had time to take it through the Bible this week, and prove to you, by scripture after scripture, infallible proof that this is the hour of it... Don't let it go past you.

89 Here's a girl. I never seen her in my life. Lovely young woman. She might be a Christian; she might not. She might be sick; she might not. She might have financial troubles, domestic troubles. I never seen her in my life. But here's a perfect view of what I was talking about.
Here's a little panoramic tonight. Here's a man and here's a woman, meeting for the first time. She just raised her hand, she didn't know me, and here's my hands I never seen her in my life, see. And she said I was a stranger to you. Is that right, lady? Here we are now.
Sirs, we would see Jesus. What would He do if He appeared on the scene? Just like He did today at the well, with the Samaritan woman. Is that right?
Now what can He do? Is anoint me, and anoint her. If He doesn't do it, I can't say one thing. This is a deaf mute until something speaks in it. So am I. I don't know her. She don't know me. So how am I going to know anything about her?

90 Now, what if I'd say, "Lady, are you sick?", she'd say, "Yes, Mr. Branham, I am sick."
"Glory to God! Hallelujah!" Shake her hand, say "Glory to God! Receive it. Hallelujah. Go on. You're healed." That could be all right. Sure, that'd be fine. She'd believe it, she'd get well. Certainly.
Just like what Charlie Fuller said down here, one time, Brother Fuller. He said, "I believe in these gifts, and I believe in these great gifts of healing, too." But said, "They're gifts of healing, but God's going to make them men answer at the judgment bar for commercializing it." And I believe so, too. He's right there. Yes, sir. Don't commercialize God. He can't be commercialized. But God will make you pay for what you're doing, the way you use it.

91 Now, lady, I'm a stranger. Somebody... She's got a prayer card in her hand. Somebody get it. Oh, it's not... I see. It's something else there. I thought it was a prayer card. Excuse me. Oh, she's got somebody else's card. All right.
Now, if Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever... Now I've pictured to you the Bible, Pentecostal church. I mean this here. I've pictured to you the Bible, and what Jesus was yesterday. Now, He said that in this last day He would come down in human flesh, like He did at Sodom, and would do the same thing. Now, if He will return and do just like He did to the Samaritans, and to the Jews, will you believe Him to be the Messiah that's here in the building tonight? Raise your hands.
You say, "If He'll do the same thing, I'll believe Him."
Well, this one case should settle it. If you're honest in your heart, it should settle it.

92 Now, here we are both under oath that we know not one another. All right. Now, if God will reveal to me something that you have done, that you know I know nothing about, or something that you're planning on doing that I know nothing about, or something about you---what your trouble is, what your sickness is, what your affliction, or something another, something like that ---then would you believe that it was Him?
It'll have to come through some kind of power, and if you believe that it's his power, then you get his blessing. If you believe it's another power, well, that's between you and God, see. I wouldn't know what'd happen then.
Now, if He will do it, you will accept it if He'd do it on the same fashion He did it in the Bible, like Him and that woman standing, talking? You'd believe it, will you, lady? And the church says they'd believe it. Now it's God's time to act, see.

93 Now here we are, probably three or four hundred--- three hundred people anyhow---sitting in here tonight. All right. Look here, before three hundred people ... Now I've seen four or five hundred thousand in Bombay, India, see. Two hundred seventy-five thousand in Durban, South Africa. It don't fail. It's God.
Now if He can tell what you have been, surely you'd believe. You'll know whether that's true or not. When He speaks, you'll know whether it's truth.
Well, if it is, and He tells you what you have been, what about what you will be? You could believe that easily, couldn't you, if He'd tell that? All right.
Now, young woman... Now I've never seen her in my life. She's a lot younger than I, born years apart---perhaps miles apart. Now our first time meeting. But, now, I'm just talking to her in order to catch her spirit, just like our Lord did the woman at the well. And I perceive now that she is a believer, and you're suffering. You're wanting prayer for some kind of a skin disease you have. If that's right, raise up your hand. Do you believe?

94 Now I keep... Every meeting I feel that. Somebody said, "He guessed that." Now, you can't hide your thoughts now. He's here, see. Now, I did not guess that. Find out.
You seem to have a fine contact with the Spirit of God. Now, I don't know what I told you. That wasn't me. That was Him. It's on the recorder there. I could run that back and know what it was, but I don't know now.
But if you'll just believe me to be his prophet, or his servant... That name stumbles people. If you'll just believe with all your heart...
Yes, sir, it's a disease of the skin. That's what I told you. And here's another thing. You're having headaches, real bad headaches. And then, there's two children I see, that you want prayed for, and the oldest one is suffering with a nerve condition. The younger one is suffering with something wrong with the hip. It's a tumor in the hip. If God will tell me who you are, would it make you believe now with all your heart? You know I don't know you, but, Mrs. Bowman, you can go home. Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and be made well. God bless you, my sister.

95 Do you believe? "Sirs, we would see Jesus." Now just have faith. Now here's a man. I never seen him in my life. He's perhaps a little older than I. We're strangers to each other; and I don't know you, and you don't know me. But if God can tell me something...
Now be real quiet. Don't nobody move around. See, you're spirits. You see, each one of you is a spirit. You know that? This is my hand. As I said last night, this is my hand, this is my finger, this is my ear, this is my nose, my eyes. But who is me? See, that's something that belongs to me. I'm the spirit.
You're here for somebody else. You're not for yourself. The person that you're here for is very seriously ill. They have death shadow over them. It's a cancer. They're not here. They're in Phoenix, Arizona. Go, believe, and they'll get well. All right. As thou hast believed so be it unto you. God bless you. Just have faith. Don't doubt.

96 Do you believe? What about you, lady, sitting there in the chair? Just thrilled you ... something did, right there, didn't it? This lady sitting here with her coat laying ... with her hand up, looking at me like that. Yeah, right here on the end. Do you believe that high blood pressure will leave you, and you'll be all right? All right, then. Just go ahead. You can be made well.
What did she touch? She's thirty feet away from me. She touched the high priest that can be touched by the feeling of our infirmity. That's Him.

97 We are strangers to each other, sir. I don't know you. You perhaps don't know me, unless just by name, or sat in the meetings somewhere and seen me. But to know each other, we do not know each other. We're strangers to one another.
Now, if the Lord Jesus will reveal to me something about you that you know that I do not know, will you believe Him as the Messiah? Not me, but Him working through me---a gift just to submit myself to his Spirit, and I'm out of the way and He does the talking, see. Well, if He'll tell you, you'll know whether it's truth or not. You're suffering ... something wrong with the veins. It's varicose veins. That's exactly right.
But I see a woman up here, somebody you're praying for. It's your sister. She has a mental break, and you're praying for her. That's "thus saith the Lord." If that's true, raise your hand. Believe on the Lord Jesus now? Go receive what you've asked for in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ.

98 How do you do? Excuse me. I wasn't beside myself; I was watching the light. I wasn't sure. I see where it stopped, but I wasn't sure what taken place. See, I just have to follow it.
Now, you're ready for an operation. But do you believe that God could heal you of that? You have three growths in three different places. If I will explain them to you will it help you? One of them is in the throat, one of them's in the female gland, and the other one's under your right arm. Mrs. Macintosh (that's your name), go home and believe the Lord Jesus Christ, and be made well in the name of the Lord Jesus.

99 Do you believe? "Sirs, we would see Jesus." Well, that's Him, that feeling. Now don't that confirm that the Pentecostal church who feels that blessing... ? That's the Lord Jesus. He's doing the same works. That's not me.
I don't know these people. God in heaven knows that. I don't know the people, but God does know them. If thou canst believe, all things are possible. A woman's got her handkerchief up there. That light's still over the woman. Is that the woman was on the platform just now? Got her handkerchief up. Was you up here?
No, it's right behind you. The lady right behind you, with arthritis, sitting there on the end. Believe ... that's it, sister. Amen. You believe with all your heart? Do you believe that arthritis will leave you? You do? If you had arthritis, shake your hand like this so the people will know. You were sitting there believing. That woman come with the anointing. Now go home, and be well. Jesus Christ heals you. What did she touch?

100 I don't know you. We are strangers to each other. If that's right, would you raise your hands with me? Oh, if the people ... if you would just believe, what would happen right now! There'd be a revival break out on this West Coast, and sweep around the world. If you could only realize what I'm looking at. I hope ... Surely I've found favor in your sight before God. I'm telling you the truth, and God's vindicating it to be the truth. What God is desiring to do right here in this church tonight, it's remarkable. But I'm weakening, you see. Just look on my hand. See the perspiration. How many knows that that weakens you?
One woman touched his garment, and He said virtue went out of Him. And He was the Son of God. Now, I'm a sinner saved by grace. Daniel saw one vision. It troubled him at his head for many days, see. Just believe.

101 Now this man, we're both... Say that we're strangers to one another, do not know each other. But God does know us. Now if He can reveal to me something about you, that you know that I don't know, would it satisfy that you're... ? Would the rest of you, even in the prayer line, believe with all your heart?
This Bible laying here, and this man and I standing here, we never met before in life. With our hands up, we've never met before. Now Jesus said He perceived their thoughts. How many knows that? How many knows that the Bible said the Word of God is sharper than a two-edged sword? And it's also a discerner of the thoughts of the heart, the intents and thoughts of the heart and mind. Does the Bible say that? The Word of God.
Well, what was the Word of God? Jesus. "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." And here the Word is made manifest in our flesh. O God! Surely you won't miss it. Surely, surely. Believe.

102 Just a gift, sir, trying to relax myself, and catch your spirit. As odd as it might seem, I've seen people laying dead---Finland, three or four different places I've seen in my life---and God would let my spirit so leave me till it'd go out into the land, and catch that spirit and bring it right back again to that person. It's true. God in heaven knows it's true. Now, being it's on you, and you're still under free moral agency, you'll have to act. And I couldn't do that, unless it was a commandment of God showing me a vision.
Jesus said, "I do nothing except the Father shows me."
Then you say, "Can He show you that I am well, or what...?" He can show me what's your trouble but you have to accept ... your faith... I couldn't save you, neither could I heal you. It's already done. But He's here now to show that He's the same God that wrote the Word, see.
Now. Yes, you're very sick, fixing to go to the hospital tomorrow for TB. That's right. Do you believe me to be his prophet, or his servant? You do? Do you believe you're going to get well, and come home now? Going to be all right? Do you believe it? If I'd tell you who you were, would that help you? All right. Walter Kaiser, go on, and believe it with all your heart. That's right. Believe with all your heart. Have faith.

103 Sitting there, sir, with the gray suit on, had trouble with your lungs, too. If you can believe... Yeah, see. You had lung trouble. I noticed that light flash over you as soon as he was healed with that what he had there. He had lung trouble, too, of some sort. It went over you. Your faith finished it. Go home, be well. Your faith makes you whole.
Sitting right back behind this woman, another one looking right through here at me right now, she had lung trouble. It's cancer, and in the spine also. Believe with all your heart. The little headed-headed lady. If that's true, raise up on your feet. Raise up on your feet. I'm a perfect stranger to you. If that's right, wave your hand. That's what was your trouble. All right. I take the authority. Do you believe this to be the truth? Then in the name of Jesus Christ, I condemn that devil. Go and be well.

104 Do you believe that that heart trouble will leave and you'll be made well, and you'll go home? With all your heart? Then, go and believe with all your heart, and be made well.
Come. What do you think? Do you believe that asthma will leave you, and you can go home and quit coughing? Then, go believe it with all your heart, and be made well.
Come, sister. What you so nervous? You've been nervous for a long time. All right. You're healed. Now, go believe it with all your heart, and be made well. All right, sir. That's what breaks you out.
All right, lady. Come. Do you believe with all your heart? Your back trouble's healed. Go believe with all your heart. Say, "Thank You, Lord Jesus."
Nervous heart. Do you believe that He heals it? Go, and say, "Thank You, Lord" and be healed. Just have faith. That's all you have to do.
Look here, lady, at me. Do you believe me to be his prophet? That lady's trouble you're having, female trouble, that's right, go be healed in Jesus' name.

105 Just a moment. Something went to the audience. Yes, a man sitting right back here, suffering with back trouble. Looking right at me. Do you believe, sir? All right. Receive your healing. Be made well in the name of Jesus Christ. Have faith in God.
The woman sitting behind the man there has got diabetes. Do you believe with all your heart? Raise up, the little headed-headed lady with glasses on. You touched something, didn't you? Rise up, and be made well. Go home, and believe the Lord Jesus Christ. Have faith.

106 If I wouldn't say a thing to you, and just lay hands on you, would do you believe that's the Holy Spirit? Come here, let me lay hands on you. Then, in the name of Jesus Christ be healed.
Now, come. Just show how they can do it, see. You know I know what's wrong with you. But if I don't say nothing, will it be all right? Lay hands on you? You believe this is anointing of some sort. Believe, and your heart trouble will go. She wanted me to say that so bad. All right, come. In the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, be healed. Go home and be well. Have faith now, don't doubt.
Young lady, a while ago when I was preaching, you was sitting right back there looking at me. You turned around, looked at a woman. A real odd feeling went over you. When I was preaching, saying something about the Lord Jesus, especially in the day ... when I talked about Sodom, had a strange feeling. Remember that? That's when your female trouble was healed. Go home and be well.

107 Do you believe with all your heart?
"Sirs, we would see Jesus." Is He the same yesterday, today, and forever? Raise your hands. Now, I want to ask you, how many of you is believers? Shake your hands like this. All right.
The Bible said this, "These signs shall follow them that believe..." Do you believe that? If this is what He said, "The works that I do shall you do also," then lay your hands on one another. Don't pray for yourself; pray for the person you got your hands on. Lay your hands on one another. These signs shall follow them that believe.
Up in the balcony up there, that man sitting there with prostate trouble, sitting over on the left side. Believe with all your heart, sir. That's it. God heals you, makes you well. Put your hands on one another, and pray for one another now.

108 Our heavenly Father, we now bring Satan to a showdown. He is a deceiver, and he's been exposed tonight by the power and the resurrection of Jesus Christ. Satan, you've lost the battle. Come out of this people. Leave. In the name of Jesus Christ, come out of them.
I command every one of you that believes in Jesus Christ, and knows He keeps his Word, believes that that's his Spirit here now, if you believe it with all of your heart... A believer has had his hands laying on you, which the Bible said Jesus said, "These signs shall follow them that believe." He's the same God that's here making Himself known that He is your Pentecostal Messiah. Every one of you that will accept Him now as your healer, no matter where you are, stand up on your feet and accept Him as your healer. I pronounce you healed in the name of Jesus Christ. Raise your hands to Him now and praise Him. Amen.
I will praise Him (just praise Him.),
I will praise Him,
Praise the Lamb for sinners slain;
Give Him glory all ye people,
For his blood can wash away each stain.

We would see Jesus

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1 ... tonight in Bloomington. I have looked forward to this coming for the past two years. I've been feeling led to come in this part of the country, which I understand that many of the evangelists has not been here. Some of the outstanding evangelists of the nation has never been into this country. And I thought it would be a great thing---as I felt the tug of the Holy Spirit to come and minister with these brethren, these eight nights here, in the name of the Lord---to come and place in our part of the seine, to seine for souls. That's our business of being here is to try to see the church of God increase in its power and in its membership, and to the glory of the kingdom of God.

2 And then, we pray for the sick. That's part of the gospel, as our Lord Jesus has told us that we should go into all the world and preach the gospel and pray for the sick; and we have these nights along in our campaigns that we pray for the sick. We do not claim to be a healer, now. We just claim that we pray for the sick, like anyone else does.
We believe that all that God can do for you has already been purchased for you at Calvary. When He died at Calvary He finished the plan of salvation---redemption for the soul and body. And now we draw the earnest of our salvation, which is the Holy Spirit. And then also we have the earnest of our resurrection: that is, that when our bodies are sick, God is our healer. I believe that it is upon a finished work that was completed for us at Calvary some nineteen hundred years ago, when Christ died for us to redeem us from these things.
I do not believe that there is any one that could forgive sins, unless it's a sin against them. If you'd sinned against me, then ask me to forgive you, I could do that, and would do it; but I believe that the sins that you have committed against God, that God is the only one can forgive those sins.

3 And I believe that divine healing is based upon a faith, just like salvation, that we believe that "He was wounded for our transgressions, with his stripes we were healed." You notice the apostle Peter places it in the past tense: "... we were healed." It's a past tense, just like salvation is a past tense. When Jesus died at Calvary, He saved the whole world. Every human being ever would be on the earth, the sin question was settled once for all when Jesus died.
But it will never ... you'll never be a beneficiary of this policy until you accept it. And there's nothing you can do to merit it. It's an unmerited thing that God has done for you, and you just accept it by faith. In the simplicity of faith, God has made it so we can all reach it. Rich or poor, illiterate or educated, we can all accept it, because it's in reach of all of us---just by childlike simplicity to believe that the finished work at Calvary included me.

4 And the same goes by divine healing, that we believe that divine healing is something that Christ purchased for us at Calvary. It's a finished product of God. And the only thing we do is to receive it by faith, believe it. That's the reason we call it "healed by faith," because that's what it is.
Therefore it could not be in an individual---any person have something or another that would heal another person. Frankly, there's nothing that can heal you outside of God. "I'm the Lord that heals all thy diseases." The Scripture is infallible and cannot be broken.
So therefore medicine doesn't claim to heal. Medicine---we're not against medicine. Medicine is of the Lord, but medicine cannot heal. Medicine only can assist nature in God's divine plan of healing. There never was a medicine ever healed anyone. There's no doctor will tell you that, because...

5 I was interviewed at Mayo Brothers some time ago upon the Reader's Digest writing that article of the miracle of Donny Martin. And on the interview they said, "We do not profess to be healers, Mr. Branham. We only profess to assist nature. There's one healer: that is God."
For instance, if I broke my arm, and I went in to the doctor and said, "Great healer, heal my arm, I must continue my work," why, he'd say, "You need mental healing." That's right, if I would say such a statement as that. Now he can set it. On his scientific profession he can set the arm, but he cannot heal the arm, because healing is a multiplying of cells, and that can only be done by life and God. God is life.
If I cut my hand and I fell down dead they might put medicine in my hand cut, and they could give me shots of penicillin for years after years, and that would never heal. If they could embalm my body to make me look natural, for fifty years I would say, it would not heal, because there's no healing quality in medicine. Medicine only kills the germ, and keeps it clean while God heals, see.
Now, medicine was made ... I've often said that a medicine that would heal a cut in my hand would heal one in my coat. And someone would say, "Well, now, wait a minute. Medicine wasn't for your coat. It was for your body." Well, then, why doesn't it heal, then, after life has gone out of there? Why doesn't it heal, then, if it's for the body? See. It would do just as much healing there as it would here. If it was for the body, it would heal the body.
But you say, "Well, life has to be there." That's right. So, then, life is God, and God is the healer, see. So it's all right back to "God is the healer."

6 The Scriptures does not contradict themselves, and there's no scripture in the Bible that contradicts itself. I've asked for that for years and years. No scripture, no statement that can contradict itself, unless it can be straightened with the rest of the Word of God to rightly put it together---which, Jesus thanked God for, that it was hid from the eyes of the wise and prudent, and would be revealed to babes such as would learn, see.
Now we've got to be humble in this. We've got to throw away our ideas about it. We've got to accept God's plan of it. That's the only way you'll ever be able to get anywhere with God for salvation for soul or body. It'll have to come through God's provided plan.
Now, if you've got an artesian well on this side of the mountain spurting water by the millions of gallons an hour, and a crop on the other side burning up for water, now, you could stand and scream until you took your tonsils out, and screaming, "Oh, great water, come over here and water my crop." It won't do it. No, sir, it'll stay right there. But if you'll work according to the laws of gravitation, and get this water to come around the mountain and water your crop, it'll do it---if you'll work according to the laws.

7 Now, there's enough electricity in this room to light the room if it was correctly... Like we'd be out in a big field where it's dark... And we know that Franklin, and so forth, has proved that---science---that electric is in the air. Now, take a copper wire and hold it up, drop it down, and the static, the electricity, will pick up till it'll almost light the earth if it was a mile high in the air---would set the earth afire.
Now you can stand out in that field and scream as loud as you wish to, "I'm lost! I'm lost! Great electric, come now and light the way up that I can see how to get out of this darkness." It'll never do it. But if you'll work according to the laws of electricity, why, it'll light the way up so you can get out. But you have to work according to those laws.
Now, God has a law, too. And there's healing, and salvation, and God's termination for you, if you'll work according to his plans and his laws on such. So that's the way we must plan the meeting, that's the way... Seven times around the world I have been---to all different races, kinds of people, by the tens of thousands. I have seen great things that our Lord has did. But I always notice that it takes people that will humble themselves, and lay aside their own thoughts of it; and just take God's thought of it and work according to his plan---which is faith in what He said.

8 Now, we believe that God is Almighty God. Here in a Christian college, on this grounds, and with Christian people, I'm sure we could all say a hearty "Amen" to that: that God is God (He's the same God. If He isn't He never was God), and that God is infinite. He is infinite, omnipresent, omniscient, omnipotent. He is God. If those qualities isn't in Him, He isn't God.
And He's the great eternal one. He never did begin, He never will end. And anything that has a beginning, has an end. It's just those things which did not begin, has no end, that's eternal. Eternity has neither beginning or end. And the only way that we can have eternal life is receive part of Him in us; and that makes us sons and daughters with God's life in us. Then we have eternal life as we are sons and daughters of God. Therefore we are eternal with God when we receive eternal life. There's only one way to do it: that's be born of the Holy Spirit. It's the only way we can have eternal life, is be born of his Spirit.

9 Now then, if God being infinite and He has ... then He is perfect. And if God is ever called on the scene to make a decision on something, if the way He makes his first decision (now don't forget this as the services goes on), the way He makes his first decision, his next decision has to be the same thing. And every decision He ever makes thereafter has to be the same. If He does change it, then He did wrong when He made his first decision.
See, we're finite. I can say something, I have to take it back, because I'm a man. The smartest of us has to take it back, year after year.

10 Three hundred years ago a French scientist proved it by rolling a ball over the globe, and said, "If a person would ever ... could be able to obtain the terrific power of thirty miles an hour, gravitation proved that he'd go off the earth."
Now, I tell you, science won't look back and say what they said, because they're going about two thousand miles an hour now; and staying on the ground at about four or five hundred miles an hour, see. So they wouldn't look back to what they said. But yet it was a scientific proof that some way they rolled a ball around, at that speed, they said, at thirty miles an hour it would lift him up off the earth. Now, that's ridiculous today. So we find out that in this we have to ... them fellows were finite. That's the best they knowed how. I would not condemn that man for that. That was the very best that he knowed how, but, you see, he has to change their ideas now, because it wasn't right to begin with.
But that can't be God. If God says anything... He's infinite---that's perfect. If God was ever called on the scene to save a man calling for his lost soul, and God saved him upon a certain basis of facts---a declaration of facts---then if them same facts are met by the next man, and by every man that approaches God, he has to use the same system. And He'll have ... if them qualifications is made, then God will have to act the same way. If He didn't, He did wrong when He saved the first man.
And if a man is healed upon the basis of his faith... A sick man called on God, and this sick man, when calling on God, God healed him because of his faith. If another man calls on God, uses that same faith, God's got to act the same way, see. So I'm trying to let you see

11 there's so much in the lands today that's under the name and the auspices of divine healing that ought to never be on the field. It's some kind of a sensation. And you can be fooled by sensations, but the Word is what stands---God's eternal Word. God's no better than his Word, or no one else is no better than their word. So it's back to the Word.
Now, I don't mean to say that God doesn't do things that He hasn't written in his Word. He could do anything He wishes to. That's God. But if I'll just ... there's plenty wrote here for me. If I can just make this come to pass---the promises that He's give---then I know it can be backed up by the Word of God. So it's God, that's all.

12 Now, we'll remember that as we go along. Remember, God is infinite, He cannot change, He's the same yesterday, today and forever.
He has to stay by his Word. If God ... if this is not the Word of God, then the Catholic church is completely right---it's the church instead of the Word. But if this is the Word, in the book of Revelations, twenty-second chapter, God said, "Whosoever shall take a word out of this or add anything to it, the same will be taken ... his part out of the book of life." So this is the truth.
Now, I may not have faith to make it all come to pass---like Enoch, who believed in God so much till when he'd taken an afternoon stroll with Him, and just got tired staying on earth, and walked up home with Him. I may not have that kind of faith, but I'll never stand in somebody else's way who has that kind of faith. I'll be thankful to God for somebody who can take an afternoon stroll and not have to die, and go right on up with Him. I wish I had that faith. I hope to have it at the end of the road, or before that time if I can.

13 So what we have got, we're here to pool together. Not something new, but the same gospel that's been preached to you all along. Just here to put my net in with these brothers here, and pull together as a group of people for the kingdom of God's sake; to give new life to the church, to place my ministry with these men's ministry. We are not divided. We are brethren. And we're not here to add something to, or take something away. We're here to magnify what's already been preached, and what we believe as children of the living God.
Jesus said, "The kingdom is like a man that went to the sea and cast in a net. When he brought forth he had all kinds..." That's what the gospel net catches. It catches all kinds: turtles, frogs, snakes, lizards, and everything. The gospel net will do that. It's not my business to say which is which, or no one else. It's God makes the decision. That's God. But I just... Some man standing on a corner fishing, throwing his net in, and pulling, someone else come by and help him, that's just what I've done here to Bloomington, is come; because I felt led of the Holy Spirit to come and to place my net with my brothers, and throw it out across this country here and pull for the kingdom of God with them, to bring in all the souls that we can.

14 Now, divine healing is a minor. You can never major on a minor. Anyone knows that, see. You cannot do that. But yet, as Dr. F. F. Bosworth, one of my managers (was in foreign fields with me, and just recently went home to glory, eighty-four years old), he said, "Brother Branham, divine healing is like the bait you put on a hook to catch a fish. You never show the fish the hook; you show him the bait. He grabs the bait and gets the hook." So that's the way it does. Divine healing, and powers of God to heal the sick, draws the attention of the people; and when it does, then you can let the gospel go to catch them into the net, and heal the soul---which is millions of times more than the healing of the body. That is right. The Lord bless you is my prayer.
Now, this is the divine Word and I solemnly believe it from lid to lid, and I rest my soul on any phase of this blessed old Bible. I've been preaching it now for thirty-one years, around and around the world, and I've never seen it fail yet. And it won't fail. As long as it's God, and we have the faith to back up what He said, then God will perform what He said He would do.

15 Jesus said, "The Word of God is like a seed that a sower sowed." And any seed that will fall into good fertile ground will produce its kind. And if I can only, by the help of the Holy Spirit, cast forth the seed into your heart---into the unbeliever's heart, into the lukewarm's heart, into the sick's heart---let that seed catch life. If it's in the right kind of ground and the right conditions, it will live.
Recently I seen where they went down in Egypt and got sunflower seed that had been in there for almost... I forget how many thousand years it was. Some of the wheat that was in the garner Joseph put in there, way back twenty-five hundred years ago or more. Planted it in the ground and it raised a crop of wheat, because it was germitized. That germ lays in there. Any people that will take the seed of God in their heart, under the right condition it will produce just exactly what it says. I've seen sarcoma cancer healed by it, and I know that it's true.

16 Now, first it must come in the right kind of ground, and that ground is not theology. That ground is faith. We just lay aside our theology for a while, because there's difference of us, and let's just think about the faith that we're going to speak of.
Now, did you ever pour a sidewalk in the wintertime? Where is your greatest crop of grass at? At the side, the edges of the sidewalk. Why is it? That seed that fell off that grass beneath that walk is covered over with concrete, but the s-u-n is the life giver of all botany life. It has to come when the sun is in a certain condition. Springtime, the warmness of the sun, will bring that life out. And you can't hide it. That grass may be buried in the middle of that sidewalk, but let the warm sun get just right, it'll make ... you can't hide that life. It'll come right through and stick its head right up, to the praises of God, because the sun, s-u-n, is shining.

17 One day the S-o-n will come, the Son of God. All life---no matter where it's at---that's a born-again life, that's germitized to the Word of God, it'll come forth. I don't care whether it's buried in the ashes, at the bottom of the sea, it'll rise in the likeness of the creator and will live forever. That's God's Word. Let's bow our heads now, while we talk to the author of it for a few moments.
Most gracious and holy God, who brought again Jesus from the dead, we thank Thee from the depths of our heart for this great act; and this great assurance that "He was wounded for our transgressions and was bruised for our iniquity, the chastisement of our peace was upon Him, and with his stripes we were healed"; and that we know that we have been cleansed by the washing of the water by the Word. Now we have eternal life through the grace of God---this treasure that we hold in these earthen vessels, not put in there by man, but by the power of the resurrection of God. And we hear the poet as he wrote, "Living, He loved me; dying, He saved me; buried, He carried my sins far away. Rising, He justified freely forever. Some day He's coming, O glorious day."

18 We wait and groan with nature, Lord, for that great day that's soon to come.
We pray, Father, that You'll search our hearts tonight, and if there be any sin---which is unbelief... No matter how religious we are, if we still disbelieve God's Word, we are sinners; for "he that believeth not is condemned already," for we know at that day the secrets of all hearts shall be disclosed. That great searching light of God will search our hearts tonight, and see if there be any unclean thing about us, any unbelief in God or his Word.
Then cleanse us, Lord, from all that, that we might once again here in Illinois see a great sweeping revival. Lord, we pray that it'll start right here in Bloomington, and will go statewide and nationwide. Grant here among these people that's assembled tonight, and all these cooperating churches, that the power of God will be so manifested in their midst until they'll see and take new heart again.
Grant this college, Lord, that has let us have this auditorium, that there'll be a revival break out here like at Wheaton, and down at Asbury, and many of the other places. It'll be a day and night prayer meeting, Lord, that people will come from the east to the west. God, give them an old-fashioned, John Wesley revival, a burning zeal of these young men's hearts that will leave the college here, that they might go forth like another Asbury. Grant it, Father. Give us of thy grace. We dedicate our lives to Thee, and the services to Thee, and all that we have, both mentally and physically. Speak to us, Father, we pray, in Jesus' name. Amen.

19 In the Word tonight ... which, I believe that no meeting... This is just a little get-together night, so that we could kind of get acquainted. I realize that I'm strange to many of you, but I would not have you feel that way, that... I'm your brother, and I'm here in the interest of helping you, and you helping me, to know Christ better. And over in a familiar text... And the ones who's followed the campaign, I thought just ... I'd speak for these few moments on this subject, that might give a basic background of what we are trying to get to the people. St. John 12:20 (and in Hebrews 13:8, and also we might refer to the book of Acts, the third chap ... third verse, 1 and 3):
And there were certain Greeks among them that came up to the feast to worship: The same came therefore to Philip, which was of Bethsaida of Galilee, and desired him, saying, Sir, we would see Jesus.
And in Hebrews 13:8 says, "Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever." Acts 1 and 3, Jesus showed Himself and many infallible proofs, many infallible signs that He showed the people that He is risen from the dead.

20 Now we'd like to ask this question to you tonight (and I want you to pay real close attention because the future meetings will be based upon something of this type): Have I read from the Word of God, or is that just another book? It's God's Word. Then I believe it with all my heart. Now, if it is God's Word, there is a question asked here, and it was asked by a Greek---or Greeks, rather, I might say. They came up to the feast, of the Pentecostal feast, and they wanted to see Jesus. And they went to Philip, which was of Bethsaida of Galilee, and said these words, "Sirs, we would see Jesus."
And we realize that Philip, the servant of Christ, worked it around so that they got their request. They saw Him, because they were hungry-hearted people that desired to see Jesus. And I don't believe that there is anybody that has ever at any time ever heard or read of Jesus but what would long to see Him. I'm sure that would be the desire of every heart of Christianity---to see the Lord Jesus. That's why we labor, and why we lay aside everything, to try to live so that we will be able to see Him some day.
But I wonder, if the Scriptures plainly say that He is the same yesterday, today, and forever, then why can't we see Him today?

21 Now we have as much right to ask to see Him as those Greeks did. Asked to see Him. They said, "Sirs, we would see Jesus." And by asking a servant of Christ, this servant was able to produce Jesus for them to see. They never asked to see his works, or to hear his wisdom; they just asked to see Jesus. And they were granted that privilege by a servant of Christ.
Now, we are just a few days past celebrating the resurrection. And to many of what we call today "Christians," that's as far as it ever goes---is on Easter to recognize that that is a memorial day of a historical event. But it's more than that. That was just the day that it started. Now it goes on and on and on. It never ends. He is alive forevermore.
And as Luke, writing the Acts of the apostles---or, the Acts of the Holy Spirit in the apostles---sixty-five years after the event, said that He showed Himself by infallible proofs, by signs, infallible signs that He was the same Jesus that had walked on the earth. He showed Himself alive by infallible signs that He was the living, resurrected Lord Jesus.
Now nineteen hundred years has passed since then, or better, but that doesn't mean one little dot to eternity. If we were here ten million years it would still not be... Just as it was, as the old saying is, "Where was the man when he jumped off the bridge?" See, you could not figure it out. Someone said, "In the water." He hadn't jumped yet. Said, "On the bridge." Well, he's still on the bridge. He hasn't jumped. So he ... you see, you can't ... there's no beginning or end to it.

22 Now, the same is by Christ. If He's raised from the dead, the infallible Christ, then He's just the same today that He ever was, or the Scripture's found wrong.
Now, then I wonder tonight how many in this visible audience would like to raise their hands and say, "I would love to see Jesus. Sirs, we would see Jesus."? Well, now, let's see if this is the Word of God. We believe it. Now, if we would long to see Jesus, just about... Two Greeks came and wanted to see Him, and their desire was met. So there's at least two hundred, or three, in here tonight. And more are here wanting to see Jesus, so if He was willing to show Himself to those uncircumcised Greeks because they were desirous of seeing Him, how much more ought He show Himself to his children, that's saved and born of the Spirit of the living God. Why wouldn't He be more willing to show Himself alive to us tonight? as He was to the forty and the different ones as He met with them in the circles. It's a question; but it's a promise.
And then if Hebrews 13:8 said He's the same yesterday, today, and forever, then He's got to be the same in principle, the same in power, the same in every way that He was yesterday, or He isn't the same. Someone say, "He's the same in a certain way." No, He's the same, the Scripture says. That's the same Jesus that was, is today, and will be forever.
Now if I should comb down through this audience of people, and say the Baptists, the Methodists, the Pentecostals, the different types, "Do you teach that in your church?"
"Yes, sure we teach it."
Well, that's what you should do. That's right, because it's the infallible Word of God; but did you ever try to ask God to make it manifest? To make it real to you? Not just as a historical Christ, but a risen Christ.

23 Now, many people accept Christ as their Saviour because they're afraid of hell. Others are afraid to die without it. But have you accepted Him as your Lord, who can stand in the innermost part of you, and open up the doors of your faith, and just let yourself be in his hands? I'm sure if you do, He'll punctuate every promise in here with an "amen." For it's ... his own Spirit that wrote the Bible is here to make it say "Amen," because He's the author of this Bible. And then if you'll just believe Him and open your heart... And we'll ask Him now if He will come and make Himself known to us like He did.
Well, now, I might say, "Do you find Him in your Baptist creeds?"
"Yes."
"Methodist creeds?"
"Yes."
"Pentecostal creed?"
"Yep."
That's right, you find it. It may be written in there, but let's ask this: Is it said that He is the same today as He was yesterday? Then let's ... if I went to your Baptist creed, or Methodist creed, or Pentecostal creeds, to ask for such, you'd say, "Well, it's thus and thus."
And one would say, "No, it's this way."
And another would say, "No, our creed reads it this way."
"We've been taught this way."

24 There'd be different ideas about it. But the only way to justly make it so is to go back and find out what He was yesterday, and what He did yesterday, how He acted yesterday; and then see if He'll come and be that same thing today. Now, everyone believes and knows that the corporal body of the Lord Jesus sits at the right hand of God Almighty, at the throne of God making intercession upon our confession. Do you all believe that? And the Holy Spirit is here which was upon Him, which was God in Christ. Now this is God in his church.
God was in a pillar of fire once---the logos that went out of God, that was the angel of the covenant that went with the children of Israel through the wilderness. Then He was manifested, the same God, in the flesh which was his Son---that He overshadowed a virgin, created a blood cell, and lived in that body of flesh, the Son of God.

25 Now, then, when that Son of God gave his life and his body for a sacrifice, and God raised his body up on the third day and set it at his right hand on high, then the Holy Spirit came back. And on the day of Pentecost, the Bible said, there were tongues of fire---like tongues, like a lick of fire---sat upon each of them. That was God, the same Holy Spirit that was in the wilderness with the children of Israel.
You say, "That wasn't Jesus."
It was. After his death, burial, and resurrection, Saul was on his road down to Damascus, and a great light struck him down. Jesus, on earth, said, "I come from God and I go to God." And after his death, burial, and resurrection, and his ascension, Saul, on his road down to Damascus was struck down onto the ground. And he looked up, and there was a light that blinded him; and cried, "Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me?"
He said, "Who are you, Lord?"
He said, "I'm Jesus." Had returned back to that same pillar of fire that led the children of Israel in the wilderness.

26 St. John, the sixth chapter, they were discussing with Him about different ideas and things, and said, "You said you're as old as Abraham." And said, "You said you seen Abraham, and you're a man not over fifty years old. Now we know you're mad and got a devil."
He said, "Before Abraham was, I AM." Before there was, He was, because He was the I AM that was in the burning bush. The pillar of fire that led the children of Israel through the wilderness was the same God that was manifested in Jesus Christ, died, ascended up on high, and sent back the Holy Spirit, and in John 14:7 said, "He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; greater than this shall he do; for I go unto my Father."
St. John, the fifth chapter, and the nineteenth verse of the fifth chapter, He said, "Verily, verily, I say unto you, The Son can do nothing in himself, but what he sees the Father doing: that doeth the Son likewise." He did as God showed Him. So He said, "I say unto you, I can do nothing..." He didn't claim to be a divine healer. He said He only did as He saw by a vision what God told Him to do; and promised the church to do the same thing.
"Yet a little while and the world seeth me no more; yet ye shall see me." Now watch. "World cosmos, which means "world order" will see me no more. [Unbelievers will see me no more.] Yet ye shall see me [Ye, the believers], for I [I is a personal pronoun] will be with you, even in you, to the end of the world." Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today, and forever.
Now, if He is the same, then his power, his resurrected life should be living in the church, bringing forth the same ministry that He had here on earth, for He promised it. Now, all cannot receive that. We realize that. Men are born to condemnation. The Scripture says so. "But he that has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the church," see.

27 Now, let's find what He did, then we'll find out what He'll do now. Find out what He was, find out what He is now, and see if we're able to discover Jesus Christ in his resurrection. Now, we find out that when He was conceived of the virgin, and born, and then at the age of thirty He was baptized by John the Baptist at the river of Jordan. And then immediately was led into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil, and was there forty days, and came out and began his earthly ministry. Let's go back to the first chapter of St. John, now, as we have started on the book of St. John; and as the week rolls on, we'll continually take this, and wrap it from Genesis to Revelation in such a way there's no critic in his right mind, or no way at all, can dispute it. It's God.
God's in his Word. Do you believe that? "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God ... And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us."---St. John 1. And in Hebrews, the fourth chapter, it said that the Word of God is sharper than a two-edged sword, piercing to the ... asunder of the bone, even a discerner of the thoughts of the heart---the Word, when it becomes flesh in us.

28 Now, we find out Jesus, immediately after He started his earthly ministry, He began healing the sick. Now, listen close. Those people were looking for a Messiah, the Jews were. There's only three classes, or three races, of people on earth: that's Ham, Shem, and Japheth's people, the three sons of Noah, if we believe the Word of God; which, they all spring from there, because the antediluvian destruction destroyed them all. Besides that the whole world was destroyed, and from them three boys came forth all the races of the earth.
And if you notice, that was Jew, Gentile, and Samaritan. Peter was given (in St. Matthew, the fifteenth chapter) the keys to the kingdom. On the day of Pentecost he opened it to the Jews. Philip went down and preached to the Samaritans and baptized them, yet the Holy Spirit hadn't come on them. And he went down and laid hands on them, and they received the Holy Spirit. In Acts, the tenth chapter, the forty-ninth verse, that ... Cornelius had seen a vision in his house, being a Gentile. And Peter received a vision on the housetop, to go up. "And while he yet spake these words, the Holy Ghost fell" on the Gentiles. From there on it was open to all the world then---Jews, Gentiles and Samaritan.

29 Peter had the keys. That was that notable sermon that he preached.
And every church---I don't care if it's Catholic, Protestant, whatever---if you're going to be a Christian, you have to go back; and the first church that God ever ordained was at the day of Pentecost. It was a Pentecostal, believing church with a Pentecostal experience. Now, take the Nicene Council of the early church fathers, or any history that you want to, it'll refer you right back. The first church was a Pentecostal church, filled with the Holy Ghost, signs and wonders and miracles accompanying them.
And if God isn't infinite... God has set his church in order like that on the day at Pentecost. Every time he sets the church in order will be the same thing. Has to be, because He's infinite, it cannot change. Our doctrines and theology has taken us off to one side till we're wandering in a wilderness. God's Bible remains the same, and God's Spirit remains the same. This is the last days. It's back to where the prophet said, "It'll be light in the evening time."

30 Now, if they were looking for a Messiah... How many knows that the Jews seek signs; Greeks, wisdom? Paul said, "We preach Christ crucified." Now, the Jew, to receive a Messiah He had to have a Messiahic sign, because Deuteronomy, the eighteenth chapter, from the fifteenth verse to the twenty-second, proves what the Messiah would be. And if what he showed them as a sign of He was Messiah, that will remain through all generations there is to come, as long as there is a person to receive it.
Moses said, in Deuteronomy, the eighteenth chapter, beginning with the fifteenth verse: "The Lord your God shall raise up a prophet among you like unto me."

31 And the Messiah was to be a prophet---a God prophet---and He would do the sign of the prophet. Also, in many other places in the Scripture that we could refer to, God said, "If there be one among you who is spiritual or a prophet, I, the Lord God, will make myself known to him. And what this prophet says, watch it. If it comes to pass, then hear him; but if it doesn't come to pass, then do not hear him."
Now, that was Israel's sign of this great Messiah was to come. He was to be a God-prophet, show signs of the prophet, because the prophet is the one the word of the Lord came to. So when ... his coming was to change the whole dispensation and everything, and He'd have to have a prophet's sign to prove that He was the prophet. He had to, because everything was changing, and that's the reason they'd have to know it.
Now, we know, as Christians, that Jesus came exactly the way He was prophesied to come; but the churches in them days had it all turned around some other way. They thought that probably God would lower the corridors of heaven, and He'd come down upon wings of fire or something.

32 And John the Baptist---the Elijah that was coming---that he would be some great fellow, because the mountains was to skip like rams, and the leaves was to clap their hands, and the high places made low, and the low places high. Well, they expected some great outstanding something to shake the nation. But when he came, what was he? He was a man with a piece of sheepskin draped around, with beard all over his face, lived off of locusts and wild honey, and came forth preaching on the muddy banks of Jordan, and shaking the churches to repentance. When he seen many coming to his baptism, he said, "Generation of vipers, who has warned you to flee from the wrath? Think not to say within yourself, 'We have Abraham to our father,' for I say unto you that God's able of these stones to rise children to Abraham." Also, "The axe is laid to the root of the tree. Every tree that bringeth forth not good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire." So you see, it was altogether different. They couldn't receive him.
When Jesus came, He came with an illegitimate name, came as a child born out of holy wedlock. Never went to any seminary, school, or anything else that we have any record of in the Bible or history, that He ever attended one day of school. But He astounded the priests. Because He was sent of God, He had the wisdom and power of God to back up everything that He said. And He astounded them at his doctrine, for He didn't teach like a scribe; He taught as one who had the Word of the Lord. We seen his teaching was altogether different than what the churches had it at his day. Perhaps it'd be a lot different today if He was here.

33 Now, we'll notice... The first thing we'll take in St. John 1, we find out that there was a man by the name of Simon and he had a brother named Andrew. They were fishermen. (Now listen close, don't miss this.) So Andrew perhaps talked to Simon after he had been down to the meeting and seen the Holy Spirit descending like a dove upon the Lord Jesus---this great light coming down from heaven like, had wings, and lit upon Him, and a voice saying, "This is my beloved son in whom I'm pleased to dwell."
And then we find that he must have told his brother, so Simon came on his way up to see Jesus. A well-taught Pharisee, knowed his father was a great worshiper of God, and had taught him how the Messiah would be when He came. He said, "There'll be a confusion in that day. No doubt that there'll be all kinds of false things rise up, just to prerun, or in the day. But, Simon, don't you forget, this Messiah will be God's prophet and He'll show the sign of a prophet, because Moses said, 'The Lord our God will raise up a prophet.' So remember He will be a prophet, Simon." (Now, we're looking for Him yesterday.)
And Simon walks up, with a honest heart before God, walked up into the line where Jesus was standing. And as soon as Jesus saw him, throwed his eyes on him, he said, "Your name is Simon. You are the son of Jonas." Oh, I imagine that took all the starch out of Simon. "Your name is Simon, and you are the son of Jonas." Simon maybe staggered, and looked at Him. Not only did He know him, but he knowed that godly old father of his. Then must've come into Simon's mind, "That's Him." And falling down at the feet of the Lord Jesus, Jesus said, "From henceforth you'll be called Peter, which means little stone." And He gave him the keys to the kingdom.

34 There was one standing there by the name of Nathanael. He saw this done and he knowed without a doubt... Or I mean Philip, the one that we're talking of tonight. He saw that done, and he run around the mountain. If anybody here's ever been in Palestine to watch where they mark, it's about fifteen miles from where Jesus was preaching around to where he found his friend Nathanael. Walked up and knocked on the door, no doubt asked where Nathanael was (a great Bible student). And his wife must have said, "He's back under the fig trees back there somewhere, looking at his grove." Around the mountain he went until he hit the little fig tree, and there was Nathanael, on his knees praying. Listen! And as he saw him praying, as a Christian gentleman, he waited till he was finished before he moved around any. And he waited till the man had finished praying, and as he got up and was brushing off his garment, right quick he said, "Come, see who we found---Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph."
Now you know this man was an orthodox believer, and he said, (now, I could imagine him saying this) " Philip, I know you to be a good man. You surely have gone off on the deep end. You mean to tell me that Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph... ? Could there be any good thing come out of Nazareth?"
You know, I think he gave him the best answer that anybody could give: "Come and see." Didn't say, "Stay home and criticize," or "Get up and get out." He said, "Come see for yourself."

35 Around the mountain they went. I can imagine Philip saying to him, "Oh, you know that old man we bought them fish from that time, by the name of Simon?"
"Yes."
"Well, he came up before the Messiah the other day, and the Messiah told him, 'Your name is Simon.' You remember he didn't even have education enough to sign his own name?" The Bible said that Peter---the one that had the keys to the kingdom---was ignorant and unlearned. He couldn't even sign his own name, he was so illiterate. But it pleased God to his faith to give him the keys to the kingdom, for he had the revelation of Jesus Christ---illiterate, unlearned man.

36 And he said, "He told him who he was, and who his father was. Now, Nathanael, you know that the Messiah is to be a God-sent prophet. God is to be in the Messiah, because He is to be a king of the prophets. But He's to give us the Messiahic sign, according to the Scriptures; and if this man would do this, wouldn't you believe He was a prophet?
I can imagine Nathanael saying, "Now, wait just a minute, Philip. We haven't had a prophet for hundreds and hundreds of years, and how can this Galilean, how can this man of Nazareth... ? We have no record of him in schools, or any place where he's been. How could he ever do a thing like that?"
"Just come find out. Come and find out for yourself. See if it's going on or not."
"I heard of that wild man down there, John."
"Well, he was just a forerunner that was the Isaiah ... that was ... or, the prophet that was to come, forerunning Him. But he's now ... that's the Elias that was to come. Now this is the Messiah because He shows the sign of the Messiah."

37 And if that was the sign of the Messiah yesterday, it's the same today or He give the wrong sign. Then Israel was right and justified by killing Him, denying Him to be the Messiah, because He'd be an imposter. But they killed Him because that He proved that He was Messiah. There wasn't a rock to be overturned. As we get to it further in the week you'll see. He is the Messiah.
Now, I imagine him saying, "You know, Philip, I want to believe you, but I just can't do it. I just can't believe that such a thing has happened. It's too good to believe."
Well, you know, Philip might have said this, "Nathanael, it wouldn't surprise me but what He tells you who you are when you come up."
"Oh, it'll never happen like that. No, I don't believe it. I'll have to see it first."
So they came, finally got to the meeting where Jesus was. Maybe he might have come in the prayer line, I don't know. He might have been sitting out in the audience---or which way they were---sitting on the ground, or standing up. But as soon as Jesus' eyes fell upon him (Listen!), he said, "Behold an Israelite in whom there is no guile." That was Jesus yesterday. Is that right? "Behold an Israelite in whom there is no guile."

38 It so astonished that man until he said, "Rabbi, when did you ever know me?" In other words, "This is the first time we ever met. How did you know I was an honest man, just man, an Israelite?" Not the way he was dressed. All Easterners dressed the same---beard, and turban, and long garment, and so forth, dark skin. "How did you know me?"
Listen at his words: "Before Philip called you, when you were under the tree, I saw you." That was Jesus yesterday. That's the way He manifested Himself.
What did He say? "Rabbi, thou art the Son of God; thou art the King of Israel."
Jesus looked at him and said, "Because I told you this you believe. You'll see greater, then." He was a believer, ordained to eternal life, to see the works of God.

39 Oh, there was some standing there didn't believe that---the rabbis of that day. They stood there. They knowed they had to answer to their congregation. There was no way around it. The people were standing there and saw it done, and they knowed the Scriptures taught that's what the Messiah would be. So they had to answer to the people. What did they say? They never said it out loud, but in their hearts they said, "This man is Beelzebub, a fortune-teller, or some evil spirit. See, he's a prince of the devils, a fortune-teller. And that's how he does these things, is by his fortune-telling."
What did Jesus say? He said, "I'll forgive you for that, but some day the Holy Spirit will come. Speak one word against that, it'll never be forgiven in this world nor the world to come." See where we place ourselves then, calling... What is the blaspheme of the Holy Ghost? Calling the Spirit of God---which was doing exactly what the Bible predicted it would do---a demon power. There's never forgiveness for it, nor this world or the one to come.
And Jesus cannot lie because He was God, and it's impossible for God to lie. God was in Him. He said, "It's not me. It's my Father that dwells in me." The Son was a man. God was the Spirit that was in Him, and it was the Spirit speaking out of Him.
Now, you see what He done to them Jews? When He met them, them were ordained to life recognized it. Don't miss it, church! Those that were ordained to life recognized it and believed it; but those who did not believe it was turned away to perdition. Did not Jesus say to those holy, sanctified men who knowed the Scriptures from A to Z---or claimed to---He said, "You are of your father, the devil." That's exactly right.

40 So don't place sin on smoking, drinking, gambling. That's not sin. That's the attributes of unbelief. Sin is unbelief. You might never've touched a cigarette, drank, or never done anything evil in your life, and if you disbelieve God's Word you're still a sinner. Sin is unbelief. There's only two spirits: one believes, and the other does not believe.
No matter... We have based all our thoughts upon some kind of a holy act, something that we want to do, and something that we've done. "I give Joneses some coal when they were... I got a right to heaven." You haven't got no right to heaven till you believe God. You accept it by the basis of faith upon the shed blood of Jesus Christ, the Son of God. You have no rights for no other way. No matter ... you might be a staunch member, a Pentecostal to the core, or Methodist, Baptist, or Catholic to the core. Makes no difference what church you belong to. If you've solemnly believed on Jesus Christ, and accept Him as your personal Saviour, as your faith in Him... I don't care what church you go to, you're saved by faith, and without that there's...
There's no holy church. There's no holy people. It's the Holy Spirit in the people, what makes it holy. A holy God that lives amongst people is what makes the holiness. Not something that I do, something that you do, or something that we would have done; but it's what God has done for us through Christ Jesus. That's the Bible.

41 Watch the Jews. They believed it solemnly, some of them that were ordained to life. Others, staunch orthodox in their beliefs, broad-backed, they wouldn't even make a letter... They had to come through a lineage of priesthood---down, down, down, down, from grandfather to grandfather, grandfather---to be a Levite, to be a teacher. But they'd been taught in a tradition instead of the real Word. Jesus said, "You're the father ... your father is the devil."
But those poor little fishermen, humble, who would receive and believe---who had been taught and knowed that ... what the Messiah would be---they recognized it at the moment they saw it; and believed it. Said, "Truly Thou art the Son of God."
"Truly, Rabbi, we know that Thou art a teacher comes from God."

42 Nicodemus well expressed it. The church wouldn't let him receive it but yet he was... "We know that you're a teacher comes from God, because no man could do the things that you do except God be with him. We know it's infallible. You are the Messiah. You showed us your sign that You are Messiah. We know Moses spoke that You would come. We know the Scripture says You would come. We know that You was to be a God-prophet. And here You are proving to us, even knowing the thoughts that's in our hearts. We know Thou art a teacher comes from God."
Now, He only comes to those who are looking for Him. We Gentiles, the Anglo-Saxon, in them days were heathens---Romans, so forth. We had a club on our back, and worshiping idols. But there was another class of people which was the Samaritan, was half Jew and Gentile. Then they were looking for a Messiah. (Now, quickly now, we've just got about five more minutes.) They were looking for a Messiah.

43 And Jesus was on his road down to Jericho, but He had need go by Samaria. I wonder why? Now listen real close. And when He got to a certain city He sent the disciples in to get some vittles, and He Himself sat down beside of a well.
If you were ever there, it's a panoramic well, still there. Just something like this here, not quite so high, vines around it---the public well where the people come to get their water. The ladies come out there and get these big jugs full of water yet; put them up on their heads, and walk just as smooth as you please. And talk (as ladies can, you know, to each other) go right along and never spill a drop of it. And they come there to get their water.

44 Jesus sat down because He was tired, as He said. And the disciples went into the city to buy food. And while they were gone, a lovely looking young woman came out, which was a woman of ill fame. She had defiled the marriage vows. She had been married five times and was living with her sixth husband. Let's say she came out... In them days, the real truth of it is, she couldn't come with the women early of a morning, because they didn't have no fellowship together, right and wrong.
Today it's all mixed together, can't tell which is which. Dress alike, look alike, talk alike, just the same thing. All smoke cigarettes, and get out and carry on, cut their hair, and use makeup. You can't ... just dog eat dog. There you are.
Here they come.

45 And so she came out to the well after all the rest of the women was gone. And she started to let down the ... it's a windle and they have a hook, a big... It's really not a bucket; it's a pot or a kettle-like, got a long neck on it, got two hooks. And they put the windle under these arms-like and let it down into the well, and get the water, and then windle it up again. So when she started to let the pot down into the well, she heard a man say, "Woman, bring me a drink."
She looked over and she seen a Jew sitting there. Oh, He was only about thirty-three years old, but he must have looked about fifty, because they'd just told Him He looked fifty anyhow. Said, "You're not a man over fifty years old and say you seen Abraham?" See, so his work must have broke Him down quite a bit. So there He was sitting up against the well. Said, "Woman, bring me a drink."

46 And she looked around, and she let Him know that there was segregation in that country. She said, "You are a Jew and I am a woman of Samaria. You have no such customs here as to ask me such a thing as that."
Watch the question come back, "But if you knew [O God], if you knew who you were talking to, you'd ask me for a drink. [Break in tape.] There's waters of life bubbling up." So the question came up about worshiping in the mountain or at Jerusalem. What was Jesus doing? Now, He had need go by Samaria and He said he did nothing till the Father showed Him. Then He had need go by there. The Father had sent Him up there, and no doubt... He said in St. John 5:19, "I do nothing until I see the Father do it. The Father shows me first in a vision what to do." How many ever read that scripture? St. John 5:19. "Yes, I do nothing until I see the Father doing it first, then I do just what he shows me to do."

47 Then He seen this go on, and He must have seen the woman coming, but He had to question her. He was trying to find her spirit, see. So He said... That's the reason He said, "Bring me a drink." He knew by the vision that's what it looked like, the woman... So He knowed she was supposed to look that way---perhaps, maybe, her curls all hanging down in her face. And she wasn't very presentable, but yet she come to get the water. He begin to talk to her, and He said...
She said, "We should worship in this mountain, and our fathers worshipped here, and our father Jacob, see, dug the well." They knowed God was God, too. They were looking for a Messiah to come. And said, "You say at Jerusalem."

48 He said, "The hour is coming, now is, when you won't worship in Jerusalem or in this mountain; but God is a Spirit, and they that worship Him must worship Him in Spirit and truth." The question went on, carrying on, talking to her, until He caught her spirit. Now, I said I'd have to prove all things by the Word of God. Now right there, I couldn't prove that by the Word, but by ... if you would... It had to be that, because He was talking to her. You know He talked to her, and He caught her spirit and He found out where her trouble was. How many knows what her trouble was? Sure, she was living ... had six husbands.
And He said, "Woman, go get your husband and come here." Now watch, this is Messiah. Do you believe He was Messiah? "Go get your husband and come here."
She said, "I have no husband." Oh, what a blank denial of what He'd said.
He said, "You said the truth. You've had five husbands, and the one you're living with now is not your husband, so you told the truth." Look at that woman. Look how much more she knowed about God than what them priests did.
Think of that, brethren. Them priests said, "He's Beelzebub, a fortune-teller."

49 What did that woman say? She said, "Sir, I perceive that thou art a prophet. We know, we Samaritans know, that when the Messiah cometh, that'll be his sign. He'll tell us these things, when Messiah cometh. We know the Messiah---which is called the Christ, the anointed one---when He comes He'll tell us these things. But who are you?"
He said, "I am He that speaks with you." Oh, my! She dropped her waterpot. She ran into the city, and said, "Come, see a man, that told me the things that I've done: isn't this the very Messiah?" And the Bible said the men of that city believed on him for the saying of the woman. Is that right, Bible teachers? Because of the saying of the woman, they believed Him.
That was Jesus yesterday. That's how He made Himself known to both Jews and Samaritans. But not to the Gentiles. Not one time was that done before a Gentile. But He prophesied and said in the evening time that would come.

50 You say, "Whereabouts, Brother Branham?"
All right, I'll give it to you in one scripture, right now in closing. Jesus said, "As it was in the days of Sodom, so shall it be in the coming of the Son of man." Is that right? Let's take Sodom, see what He did. And Sodom ... Lot had separated himself, a lukewarm believer, and had went down into Sodom, and had built him up a nice reputation down there. But Abraham stayed out of Sodom, and lived according to the promise that God had given him.
Now, always there's three classes of people. Every meeting has them, every city has them, every church has them. That is unbelievers, make-believers, and believers. That's exactly right. It's always been that way. It is yet today---every congregation, every assembling together. Even when the sons of God came up before God, there he was.

51 So we find out here, that in the type of Sodom... Now, watch how close He said this---how He said it, how He worded it, see. In Sodom was just before the fire fell, see, and that's what's fixing to fall now---fire. We know that. This is a doomed world. We know it. She's without hope, without God, she's lost. Just a little remnant of people ready for the rapture. This week, God willing, we'll prove that, word by word. Notice, we're a doomed people ... or, the world is. The church is not. Thank God there's a remnant.
Notice. But now notice, the last sign that Sodom received... He'd been with Abraham all along, but one day, just before the burning of the city of Sodom and Gomorrah... We find out that they'd got a lot of perverts down there. Look at the nations today, see. Every thought of men's heart was evil till they were perverting themselves in sexual affairs, so forth.

52 Notice, there were three that came up to meet Abraham. Looked like men---dust on their clothes and professed they were strangers. And two of them went down to preach to Sodom, trying to find ten people. Remember, went down to Sodom, the lukewarm church. A modern Billy Graham, and so forth, down in Sodom, preaching the gospel, blinding the people by the gospel. That's what the evangelist Billy Graham, Oral Roberts, and many of those great men of God have did. Shook the people. This nation has been shook. The world knows about it by the great ministry of these God-given men. Shook the nations with their ministry.
But remember, the word church means "called out." Abraham separated himself from all that stuff. So the one that stayed behind and talked to Abraham, which Abraham called Him "Lord"... That was God. I know you might disagree with that, but look what the Scrip... Abraham was the one talking to Him, called Him L-o-r-d, Elohim, Lord God. What was He doing? Abraham fed Him the meat of a calf, milk of a cow, butter and cakes; and He eat it. And He was Elohim. What did Jesus refer to it?
Now, watch,

53 a few days before that God had changed the name of Abraham ... or, Abram to Abraham; S-a-r-a-i to S-a-r-a-h, Sarah, princess. Abraham---giving him part of his name. Elohim; Abraham, as a father of nations. And watch this one who sat and talked to him---a man dressed in clothes, dust on them, eating meat, just like any other human being. He said, "Abraham, where is your wife, Sarah?" Watch the Scriptures.
Abraham said, "She's in the tent behind you."
He said, "I'm going to visit you." That proved what He was. "I'm going to visit you according to my promise I give you. I'm going to visit you and you're going to have this baby that you've waited twenty-five years on. She's ninety and you're a hundred now, so I'm going to give you that baby."
And Sarah laughed in her heart. To herself, said the Bible (and the angel with his back turned), in the tent, and said, "Me, an old woman, have pleasure with my lord out there, him being old also?"
And the angel, with his back turned, God manifested in flesh, said, "Why did Sarah laugh, saying within herself...?"

54 What did Jesus say? "As it was in the days of Sodom, so shall it be at the coming of the Son of man." That same thing---God manifested in the flesh of his people. Not angels coming down, but men born of the Spirit of God, with eternal life within their bosom, performing and doing the same thing that angel did there at Sodom.
"Sirs, we would see Jesus." If He is alive today, and was in this church, He would do the same as He did then. And this is the closing of the Gentile age. The prophet said there'll be a day that could not be called day or night, but in the evening time it would be light.

55 Now the sun, geographically, rises in the east and sets in the west, the same sun. Well, now, when the S-o-n rose on the eastern people and showed forth his miraculous powers...
We've had a day that's been a dismal, rainy day. We've had enough light till we could join church, build organizations, and have a great time, be Christians, accept Christ; but that sunlight has never poured through since then. But this is... Civilization has traveled with the sun. The oldest civilization is China. We've come ... it's traveled from the east, coming west, with the sun. We're at the West Coast now, and the Bible said, the prophet said, "It'll be light in the evening time." That same sun that rose in the East will be shining with his same power on the western people as he did on the east.
"Sirs, we would see Jesus." Why can't we? Why can't we when He promised it? You say, "Brother Branham that's the Bible, but will it work?" If it's God's promise, it'll work. It's got to work. Do you believe that? If He would come into this audience of people tonight, and perform and do the same thing that He did when He was here then, to let Him know ... let you know that He is here---the same Christ would do the same thing---would you believe on Him? Raise your hands and say, "I would believe if I could see it done."

56 Let us bow our heads.
Almighty and omnipotent God, we thank Thee, O holy Father, for the promise that You gave us. And we know that thy promises is true. Now, it is a bad night outside, but a glorious night inside. Not a night inside, but a day where the Son of God is shining in our hearts and lives. We thank Thee for believers, and for a Christ who promised to come to these believers and manifest Himself; and show in this last day to the Gentile race... Which we know, Father, it's never been, according to history, since the early church died out, until this time.

57 How St. Paul, and those in the old days, how that the visions broke upon them, and they done the same thing; Ananias and Sapphira, and Paul upon the sea that night. And the angel of the Lord stood by him, and he walked out and told the people. And how that the great powers of God was known in that early church---You promised it again in the last days.
I pray, Father, that You'll forgive the mistakes of your servant. And now let the Holy Spirit come forth because it is his Word. Let Him do before these people ... after I have told them, Father, that salvation is what has already been done for them at Calvary, divine healing is what You did for them at Calvary, and I pray Thee, Lord, that they might understand that it's their own faith. And when they see the God that made the promise come forth in his power, and do as He did then, they will know it's the same Jesus that made the promise. Grant it, Lord, as we commit ourselves to Thee, and this congregation, for the kingdom of God's sake. In Jesus Christ's name we ask it. Amen.

58 Now, I'm going to ask if there is anyone here that wishes to go, for the next ten to fifteen minutes, that you would go now, so you won't disturb the service. Now, please don't move around from henceforth, see, after this moment. Just remain in your seats. Each day that we're going to have prayer for the sick ... I'll speak this while ... someone has to go. But if you can, stay another fifteen minutes to watch and see if the Word is right. Now, anybody can come and say that but, now, it takes God to make it work. That's right.
Now, if ... every day that we're having prayer for the sick at night, we will come down and the boys will give out prayer cards. Either be my son, Billy Paul; this boy right here, Gene Goad, which is one of the tape boys; and there's another one called Leo, Leo Mercier. Either of them boys will give out the cards. They'll stand up before the audience and mix the cards all together. Then they'll come down and give you a prayer card. Therefore they don't know what kind of a prayer card they're giving to people, who will be called up, who will not be. That justifies them.
And no one knows, again, where they will start, until that night when the Holy Spirit lays upon a heart wherever. Of course that has nothing to do with the healing of the people, but it's only to get somebody here on the platform before the Spirit of the Lord.

59 Then you out in the audience that does not have a prayer card, don't be worried. Sit there and believe with all your heart, watch what happens. Now I hope you will listen to the thing that I have said, that you will not walk around anymore.
And, please, no one take any pictures during this time, because ... a little later I can tell you. It's a light, the angel of the Lord. We all know it was a pillar of fire. We had the picture of it here from Germany, from Switzerland, from America, from before the FBI, and it's all been proved. It is a supernatural being. It'll be on the platform in a moment. And it's the same Spirit of God exactly. So don't take no pictures from hence, from now on through the service. And be seated and be real reverent and quiet while the people are coming.

60 Now, I believe ... did you, or Billy, you give out ... 1 to 100? This late we'll not be able to call too many, but you hold your cards. Let's call a few of the people up here.
Who has prayer card number 1? If you can raise up, or raise your hand, prayer card number 1. What's the letter on it? A, A number 1. Anyone's got it? There must be something wrong somewhere. Well, we'll start... Oh, I'm sorry. All right. Would you come right here, lady?
Number 2. Prayer card A number 2, raise your hand. All right. Come right here, lady. Number 3, would you raise your hand? All right. Number 3. Did I see it? Yeah. Way back. Number 4, would you raise your hand? Way back. All right. Number ... he gives them out anywhere in the building, anybody that wants them. Number 5. Would you raise your hand, ever who has prayer card number 5? All right. Number 6, would you raise your hand? Raise your hand so I can see. All right, sir. Right here. Number 7, number 8, number 9, as I call you. Number 10. That's fine.
See, this may be a basketball floor, an arena; but it isn't an arena tonight, it's a church of God, see. So we must have reverence and respect to the Holy Spirit. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9. Number 10. Who has prayer card number 10. All right, lady. Number 11. All right. Number 12. Number 12, 13, 14? 14? 14? 14? Well, that's enough. Let's start right there.

61 Now whoever has cards just hold them. They'll be called.
Now, I suppose that 99% of this audience is perhaps strangers to me. All that's in this audience that is strangers to me, raise up your hands. See, I guess about 100%. All right. How many in here that does not have a prayer card, and you're sick and you want God to heal you? You don't have a prayer card and I'm a stranger to you. Raise up your hands, everywhere in the building. I don't care where you're at. It's just about general everywhere.
Now while they're lining the people up, I'd like to say something to you. One time Jesus was going over to raise up a little dead girl, Jairus's daughter. And there was a woman who had an issue of blood. And she said within her heart, "I believe that He's Messiah, so if I can just touch the border of his garment, the hem of his garment, I'll be made well." How many ever read that story? Sure. And she touched his garment, because that was what she wanted to do. She believed Him. She'd never seen Him before, but she believed Him. As soon as she saw Him, she believed Him.

62 So then she touched his garment.
Now, He could not have physically felt it. The Palestinian garment hangs loose, and it's got an underneath garment. And then He could not have felt that. And the little woman touched his garment. Everybody was shaking hands with Him, and so forth, and hugging Him. And so, He said then... She went out in the audience and sat down, or whatever it was. And He said, "Who touched me?"
And Peter rebuked Him, said, "Lord, why did you say such a thing as that?" Said, "Everybody is touching you."
He said, "But I perceive that I have gotten weak." The King James says "virtue," which virtue is strength. "I perceive that virtue has gone from me." And He looked all over the audience until He found the little woman and told her that she had had a blood issue and her faith had saved her. Is that right? Well, now, to you people that don't have a prayer card, if He's the same yesterday, today, and forever, would not He act the same way today if you touched Him? Is that right?

63 Now, how many of you ministers here know this---and you ministers and Bible readers out there---that the Bible said that Jesus Christ right now is a high priest that can be touched by the feeling of our infirmities? Is that right? Right now He's a high priest. Is that right, brethren? Well, if He is the same high priest that He was then, how would He act now? If He's the same high priest He was then, He'd act the same way. Is that right? Because He's the same high priest. He's God, He can't change. He can't be different that what He was.
If He lets this Gentile church go through without having that same Messiahic sign, then He did something for them (the Samaritans and the Jews) that He didn't do for us, so that wouldn't be just. They couldn't get through on theology. They had to have a time to condemn their theology, to bring God's Word manifest to them in flesh and so does ... the Gentile church is getting it now.

64 Now, please, I ask again, don't walk around. Please don't. See, the Holy Spirit is just as timid as it can be, and sometimes when you're moving... See, you're a spirit, you're a soul. Then when you move, that interferes, see. Just sit real quiet. Be reverent. Now, after something is done, if the Holy Spirit does something, you want to say, "Praise the Lord," all right. But when you're coming into the contact of the Spirit of God, keep real quiet. Just keep in prayer.
And you out there that doesn't have a prayer card, you say this, "Lord Jesus, I know that man doesn't know me, and I know he's just a man. But I believe You're God. I believe... He's read the Scripture. He's told me the truth. So I'm sick and needy. Let me touch You, Father." Find out what happens. Say, "Now, you speak through him. He's just a mouthpiece." Look. This microphone is a mute until something speaks into it. So would I be. I don't know any of you.

65 Now everybody in that prayer line that knows I know nothing about you, raise up your hands. All along there, knows I know nothing about you, see.
And here's my hand. I've never seen them people before in my life, as I know. There's not a person along there that I've ever seen. I can't see a person in the building that I know, unless this is my good friend Brother Skaggs from Chicago sitting over on this... Is that you, Brother Skaggs? I thought it was, there. And I know that there's Brother Fred Sothmann. I believe he's here somewhere in the building, and perhaps Tom Simpson, I suppose, is here somewhere in the building. I don't know. Where are you? Are you here, Brother Fred and Brother Tom? I seen their car out... Yes, right here, way back in the back. All right.
Now be real reverent. All right. Now, if the people gets a little weary, give them a chair. Just come up here, lady. Now, here's the Word. How many believe that I read to you and preached to you the Word of God, the promise of God? Now here's God's Word. Now here's a person that I've never seen before. Will it work? It will if she believes, and I believe, and I can yield myself to God, as by a gift, and let Him ... just get rid of myself and let Him talk. So if there's anything done, like it would be the Lord Jesus, you'd know it would have to be Spirit.

66 Now let's take this, like I was quoting a few minutes ago, St. John 4. There's a lady and a man that's never met before, now, being strangers to each other, just in a little panoramic like I was talking about. Now St. John 4, Jesus met a woman of Samaria, and He talked to her a little while till He caught her spirit, then told her her trouble. And now if He would do that same thing to you tonight, knowing that I don't know you, see... God knows you. And you don't know me, or unless you just know me by name or something. But if He'd do the same thing, would it make you believe with all your heart? It will? Would it make the audience believe with all their heart?
Now every soul in here under the control of the Holy Spirit, in the name of Jesus Christ... And ever who's the engineer on these microphones, if my voice gets low---because I don't know what I'm saying---if it gets low, step it up so the audience can hear it. Now be real reverent and quiet while we talk to the woman just a moment. If you'll stand right across here, so I'll be sure that they hear---just across.

67 Now, our Lord, when He came to the woman of Samaria, He said He had need to go by Samaria to see the woman. And, of course, God the Father had sent Him up there. And He met the woman and He knew nothing of her. He'd never seen her in his life; she'd never seen Him. But yet He had to give that Samaritan woman the same sign He gave the Jew. And now you're the Gentile woman, see. Now He has to be the same Jesus yesterday, today, forever. Is that right?
Now, if He would do something like that, you know then it'd have to come from some spirit. You know it would have to be a spirit. Now, you could take the Pharisee's side, the religious of that day, and say it was the devil. Then that's up to you and God. But if you'd say it was Christ, then you receive his reward.

68 Now if the Holy Spirit will tell me...
Now, say, if I'd come here and say, "Sister, I have a gift of healing," lay my hands upon you, and say, "Glory to God, the Bible says, 'These signs shall follow them that believe. Lay hands on the sick, they shall recover.'" That's true. Well, you could go believe that. That would be all right, but yet there could be a little wonder in your mind, wonder if that is true; because the Bible said, "If there be one among you who's spiritual or a prophet, what he says comes to pass then hear him. But if it doesn't, then don't hear him." Now the showdown is here now. Have I told the truth? Is that the Word of God? Is that the promise of God? If it is, then He'll make it manifest.

69 Now the woman is aware that she is in the presence of somebody besides man---a real sweet, humble feeling. Is that right? If it is, just raise your hand, so they all... Between me and the woman is that Spirit of Christ, that light. The woman is here to be prayed for because of a nervous condition. She's got a real serious condition of nerves. If that's right, raise up your hand. Do you believe?
Eventually ... I never seen a first night but what it will do that. Somebody, in your heart (Don't think you can hide your thoughts now, because you can't.) you said I guessed that. I did not. Just for a rebuke for you, that you might know, we'll see if it's so or not. Every time, a first night, when something's said... Now right now I couldn't tell you what I said to the woman, but that you might know that it's the Spirit of God and not what you're thinking, this will be a plain rebuke to you.
You're a good person, a fine-spirited person, but now... Yes, here it comes again. The woman is moving from me. She's bothered with a nervous condition, and an intestinal trouble. That is true. Let me show you whether you believe I'm a servant of the Lord or not. That woman sitting right there on the end of the seat is bothered with intestinal trouble, too. If that's right, raise up your hand, lady. That's right. See them devils trying to get by with it? They can't do it.
It's all finished for you, lady.

70 You have a stomach trouble. That's true, a nervous stomach. Here, that you might know, believe me to be God's servant, standing here under this anointing, your husband, he's here, too. He has a nervous stomach also. You're not from this state or this city. You're from Kansas. Do you believe God knows who you are? Mrs. Walton. Now return home. You're healed, you and your husband, too. You can go home and be made well in the name of Jesus Christ. Do you believe now? Could I have guessed that? Let us just bow our heads and worship.
Our heavenly Father, we thank Thee, in the midst of every kind of thing You still move in on the waves. You're God, You never fail. I pray that You'll bless these people now. Amen.

71 All right, this lady here. Do you believe that what these things are taking place is from the Spirit of God? Do you, lady? Then us being strangers to each other, then if ... something would have to happen, would have to let me know something about you. And if God can tell what you have been, surely He can tell what you will be. If He knows the past, He knows the future. That makes it prove that it is God. And you know that I would know nothing about that, because I'm just a man here, your brother. That's right.
Got a great faith in the audience tonight to begin with. It left me and went towards the audience. You're so happy about your healing a few moments ago, you put your hand over on that woman sitting next to you. Yes, with that growth on your breast. If that's right, raise up your hand. Am I a stranger to you? Wave your hand back and forth. I want to ask you something. What did she touch? She's twenty feet away from me. What did she do? She touched the High Priest. Do you see that God still lives, He's the same Lord Jesus? Just believe. God bless you.
I can only speak as it speaks through me. I have to ... wherever it goes, I have to go with it, see.

72 You have a tumor on the breast. You have a stomach trouble also. Also you have someone here that's sick also. Your husband. He's a preacher, and he's got a nervous stomach. Mrs. Seward, return home and be made well, both of you, and be healed in the name of Jesus Christ. Have faith, don't doubt. Just believe.
Do you believe that Jesus Christ...? "Sirs, we would see Jesus." That's Him, see. That's the Lord Jesus. Now, you have to say it's something. You know that. These people, with their hands up before God we've never met, but it's his Spirit that does these things. Just have faith.
Are you the lady now? We are strangers, one to the other, I suppose. But the Lord Jesus knows us both. But if He can reveal to me something about you that you know that I know not, would it encourage you to make you have faith to believe?

73 You see what it does to me. It makes me so weak I can hardly stand up. We realize that. I'm sure that the audience realizes that, too. How many knows that that... If one vision made our Lord feel virtue go out of Him, the Son of God, what would it do to me, a sinner saved by grace? Because He said, "The works that I do shall you do also. More than this shall you do." Now, I know the King James has "greater," but take down to the original translation, see. How could you do greater? He stopped nature, raised the dead, and done everything that could be done; but more, because He could be in his church universally, see. "More than this shall you do." It's his grace.

74 You're here for somebody else. That's a daughter. You think Christ can tell me what her trouble is? It's her eyes. That is right, isn't it? Do you believe they're going to get well now? You've contacted something, haven't you? Do you believe it to be the Lord Jesus? If He'll tell me who you are, like He did the apostle that came up, would it make you have a lot of faith to believe Him? Well, Miss Nichols, you return home. Believe now Jesus Christ will heal and make well.
Are you believing, everyone? (Please don't walk around. Please don't walk around. Please.) I do not know you. I have never seen you in my life. But Christ does know you. If He will describe to me what you're here for... It might be finances, domestic. It might be sickness, salvation. I do not know. I'm just a man that's standing here, us meeting for the first time in life. One thing, you're really nervous. That is right. And I see you trying to get from the bed real slow. You got arthritis. That is right. Then you've got a bad ill effect from an operation that you had. That's right. It was a gall bladder operation. If that's right, raise up your hand. Do you believe now? Then go. As you have believed, so will it be unto you.

75 If I told you that God healed arthritis would you believe it meant you? Then just go right along thanking God, saying, "Thank You, Father." If I told you God healed from anemic trouble, would you believe that He'd heal you? Just go right on, thanking God, believing with all your heart. Are you believing with all your hearts, everybody with one accord? What if I didn't say one word to you, just laid hands on you? Would you believe? All right, sir, pass by, and in the name of the Lord Jesus, go and be made well. Don't doubt.
(Please don't walk around. See, it grieves the Spirit from me, and I just can't hold it, see. Please. I ask you kindly as a Christian brother. I asked if you did not believe, please don't stay in the building. It's dangerous for you to stay anyhow, see.) Just have faith, don't doubt.

76 If I laid hands upon you, would you believe that you'd get well? Come here. In the name of Jesus Christ, may our brother be healed. Come. Whether I told you your trouble or not, would you believe me as his prophet ... or his servant? Well, your back trouble is finished. Go and believe, have faith in God.
Come, lady. If I didn't say one word to you, but just laid hands on you, would you believe anyhow? Well, I want to tell you, when you was in the line standing down there, got in the line, you seen that first thing happen, the heart trouble left you, so you can go home now.
You walk different since you got in there, haven't you? Your arthritis left you in the line, so just go believing with all your heart.
Sister, of course, one of the great things wrong with you, we all know, but this is one thing there's about ninety-five percent of this audience suffering with the same thing---a nervous condition. You're real nervous, isn't that right? Let me show you how it'd be hard to call them. Every one suffering with nervous condition, raise up your hands out there. See? You've tried to find a place to start. They told you to get next to yourself. Satan told you you were going to lose your mind, and all these things, but it's a lie. Do you believe with all your heart? Then from right here, in the name of Jesus Christ, go and be well for the glory of God. If thou canst believe...

77 That man that's been sitting there weeping for a little while, looking at me, you got trouble in the chest. Do you believe that God Almighty will make you well? If you believe it, you can have it, sir. Raise up your hand to accept it. Go home and be made well.
Your arthritis is finished. Go home and be made well in the name of Jesus Christ. God bless you. A lady just raised her hand up there, put it on the back of her head, with a skin trouble. You believe that God will make you well? Do you have a prayer card? You don't? You don't need one. You're healed anyhow. Jesus Christ heals you and makes you well.

78 Are you believers, each one of you out there now, solemnly believing in the Son of God? Do you believe that it's his Spirit here if He does that, keeps his Word? You say, "Brother Branham, could you heal me?" No, I can't do it; He's already done it, see. It's something He's done. He's just here ... if He was standing here with this suit on, He couldn't heal you, because He's already done it. He'd say, "Won't you believe it?" He's just making Himself known, that He is here.
How many believes it with all your heart? Now I'm going to give you something to do, so that every person here will be healed. How many believers did you say there was? Raise up your hands, all around everywhere. Jesus said ... his last commission to his church... His first commission was, "Go, heal the sick, raise the dead, cast out devils." His last commission was, "These signs shall follow them that believe; In my name they shall cast out devils; speak with new tongues; if they lay their hands on the sick they shall recover." Is that right?

79 Now, each one of you, as believers, lay your hand on somebody next to you. Just lay your hand over, wherever you are, just lay your hand, if you are a believer. You have just as much right to lay your hands on one another as anyone else does. Now do not pray for yourself, because the person you got your hands on is praying for you. You pray for the next person. They'll be praying for you, and I'll pray for you from this platform. And the God of heaven, who raised up Jesus from the dead and made Him alive forevermore, He is here tonight to fulfill every word that He said. It's his presence. Now, you bow your head while I pray for you. Just believe with all your heart that God will hear my prayer. Surely you understand that it's not me. The Holy Spirit now has proved the Word of God right.

80 Just before we pray, with your heads bowed, if there is an unbeliever was in here and now is a believer, would you stand to your feet to be recognized in prayer while we pray? Somebody that wants to receive Christ as personal Saviour, would you stand to your feet to be remembered in prayer just now while you're in his divine presence? Would there be those here who would love to accept Him right now, would stand to your feet? "He that will witness me before men, him will I witness before my Father and the holy angels." Stand up just now, and say, "I will accept Jesus Christ as my Saviour."
You're here and I know it, but ... He's revealed you to me. But don't rely upon your church membership, because it's no good. You've got to receive the Holy Spirit or you're finished. Now, remember it's not me; it's the Holy Spirit that's bringing his Word to pass. So if you wish to stand, stand now while we pray.

81 Our heavenly Father, this is the closing hours of this world's history. We know that there is no remedy left. The coming of the Son of God is at hand. He said, "As it was in the days of Sodom, so shall it be at the coming of the son of man." We see the atomic bombs and the hydrogen bombs, and every little nation just waiting for somebody to let one loose. Then into the midst of the air yonder, as a sun popping open, will this earth go. But before that takes place, and we know it could be before morning... It could be at any minute. As our scientists tells us, it's long ago three minutes until midnight. But we know the hand of God has stopped time, to wait---just longsuffering, like He was in the days of Noah. And now You've proved your last thing that You said You would do just before Sodom was burned. Immediately after that sign was finished, Sodom burned. God, it's just about over. But there is only one who can draw men's hearts. You said, "No man can come to me except my Father draws him first."
Many will see and hear, and walk continually in darkness, ordained to this condemnation, said the book of Jude---perverse minds, souls that's wandering like lost stars, raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame of unbelief. To know tonight that we stand in the presence of the great Holy Spirit, who brought the Word, who wrote the Word, who confirms the Word, and brings Himself present to fulfill the Word that He has promised... I pray for these believers who have their hands on each other. I pray with all my heart that You'll heal their sick bodies, cast away every evil spirit.

82 Satan, you've lost the battle. You are a defeated person. You have no rights any more. Our Lord Jesus died at Calvary, and through his holy, unadulterated blood---the blood of Almighty God that was broke at Calvary---You redeemed the human race, Lord. And you defeated Satan by that same blood, stripped him of every power that he had. And You're alive tonight here in Bloomington, Illinois, in this college ball floor. You are here tonight, alive among your people, proving Yourself that You are the same yesterday, today, and forever.
And Satan is aware of that. He knows that his hour is close. Satan, I adjure thee by the living God. We call your bluff. You can't hold these sick people any longer. Come out of them. In the name of Jesus Christ, depart from them and let them alone. The Lord God of heaven rebuke thee, Satan. You cannot have any power. Jesus is over you. He's taken the powers away from you. He redeemed the human race back to Himself. Come out. I adjure thee by the living God that you depart from this people.
Now as you have your hands laid upon each other, the way you pray in your own church, lay your hands on somebody by you and pray for them. You pray just the way you do in your church. Lay your hands over on somebody and pray for one another. And when you feel the faith of the living God which is present now, pouring down into your soul to make you a believer, then rise in the name of Jesus Christ and claim your healing for the glory of God.

We would see Jesus

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1 Thank you, Brother Borders. You may be seated. Certainly deem this a great privilege to be here tonight. And I don't know whether I can pronounce the name right. Santa Maria? I guess that's the way you pronounce it. And it's my first opportunity to be here in this lovely city, enjoying the atmosphere of good fellowship and fine weather.
We come through Phoenix the other day, when it was around about 111 degrees. When we got up here, why, I was about ready to hunt my overcoat up. Is that ... this is the climate the year 'round, about like this? Somebody said it was this way practically all the time. Haven't got a empty house around here, have you, that you would like to rent out for awhile? This is just a real, fine place to live, this kind of weather here.

2 Someone was telling me in the restaurant today, said, "Why, our hottest time of the year is around December." Said they was barbecuing something out in the backyard for Christmas. If you was from my country and you'd barbecue something in the backyard, you would have an overcoat on, and earmuffs; and sit down on a chunk of ice somewhere to barbecue.
It's fine that God has so fixed this earth that we can all be happy, if we would just try to be that way---live happily, and be thankful to Him for what we have. I'm quite sure that one of the great faults with us is that we're not grateful enough for what we have. He has been so good to us to give us so many good things, and we just don't seem to appreciate it as much as we should.

3 I've had the opportunity to travel quite a bit around the world several times, and seen the other nations and the people and how they have to live, and everything. There's an old saying, "It's great to be an American." Well, that's just a little more than a saying. That's a truth. That's really a fact. It is, when we can get plenty to eat, and at peace, and our little troubles are minor, and we are almost living in a millennium. If we could just get sin out of the way I believe it would be a millennium, then.
But we are happy, though, to have this nation. We don't know how much longer we will be able to have it this a-way, but we trust that it will be until the Lord Jesus comes. This is our last great hold of civilization, we believe. And see other nations---how they've raised and fell---and we see ours going the same route, so we're sad about that. But yet, we know that that only speaks that we have a city, and a nation, that will never perish.

4 Not long ago I went to a tree where I used to go when I was a little boy, and it was such a beautiful big tree. It was what we called in the East there, middle East, a beech tree. And they are a long-life tree, and very pretty when they stand out, when they are not smothered in with other trees and shaped up. And I thought, "That tree will be standing for several generations." But you know, it's just a snag now, and I remember being there when I was seven or eight years old. There used to be a spring below it. I used to go to drink out of that spring. The spring's even dried up. The tree's gone.

5 I remember the old house we used to live in. It was a log house. We had a little... Mama had a piece of looking glass, a mirror, she'd tacked up on a tree out there where we had a little wash bench. And we'd come in out of the field and wash, and had an old meal sack that Mama had fixed for a towel. I don't know whether you people ever had to live like that, or not. But we Kentuckians had a pretty hard time.
So, I remember she used to pull the strings out of the bottom of it, and make little fringes like, to hang down. And that rough towel... And when us kids would get a bath with that (whew!) and have to be rubbed, it'd just take the hide off, almost.

6 And I used to see my father... A small man, yet strong, he was a logger. He'd come in, and roll up his sleeves when he'd go to wash. He was then, I guess, in his twenties---twenty-five, thirty years old---and had great huge muscles, and strong.
I heard a man tell me... It was last year. A man he used to work for said he'd seen him load a nine-hundred-pound ash log by himself. And I thought, the arm of that man, I said, "My, he'll live 150 years." But you know, he died at fifty-two.
It just shows that here we have no continuing city, but we are seeking one to come. That's right. We're seeking one which will last forever.

7 And now, Christian friends, this being my first time among you here in your city... And I deem it a great privilege that your pastors has invited me to come. And I'm here to do all that I can for the kingdom of God. And I'm not much of a preacher, but I love the Lord. If a good preacher loves Him any better than I do with my ignorance, I just wonder how they get by with it, just be able to stand it; because sometimes I get ... just get so much love in my heart for Him, I just can't hardly stand still.
And this just isn't something since I began to get old. I started this when I was just a boy. Just a little boy, I gave my life to the Lord Jesus and served Him ever since. And each day ... as I know I'm nearing the shores on the other side, it gets sweeter each day. I just love Him as the years go by.

8 And I come to place my fellowship with you brethren and sisters, and all of us together, to pull for the kingdom of God, to have the blessings of God with us; and to bring the little message that the Lord has given me to you, and hear your message that God has given you back for me. And we'll pray for the sick people, and see if there's anybody that wants to join this great rank. Not a denomination; just a fellowship with Christ, see. We don't represent any denomination. We are for all of them, nothing against any of them. But for ourselves, we just stand independent. And as I said the other day, we are here seining together out of...

9 Jesus said, "The kingdom of God is liken unto a man who took a net and cast it into the sea." And when he'd pull the net---took in the net---he had all kinds. 'Course he had good fish, and scavenger fish, and craw fish, and turtles, and snakes, and frogs, and everything that's in the water. But that's what the revival catches, see. That is right.
So our brethren here has been seining on their corner, and down on the next corner seining. And now I come to put my seine with theirs so we can reach way around, all the way around, see, and pull for everything that we can. And that's what we're here for, to pull together to see... We just can't afford to ... but what, after knowing what we know about Christ, is to put every effort we can. We don't want nobody to miss that glorious place that He's gone to prepare. (Pardon me.) And we are here to help. Now, I will try and...

10 They say that there hasn't been any of the brethren, I don't think, here---the big evangelists, like Brother Billy Graham, Oral Roberts, and those great evangelists---and I wish... Probably some of you have heard them. And I suppose, being a small city ... and there has to be quite a bit of finance connected with a big meeting like that. And I guess Brother Roberts' finances each day runs better than ten, twelve thousand dollars a day for his television, radio, and so forth. And I guess Billy Graham's runs that, or maybe more. Now how could those men come to a little, small place like this? They couldn't do it, see.
But when the Lord called me, He... You know, I never did start in any radio, or television, or anything so I'd be, you know, bound down---so that I could go anywhere the Lord called me, 'cause I don't need no money. So I just don't have no programs to sponsor, or nothing at all, and just to go and fellowship with the people, and wherever the Lord would call me to go. And I've had grand privileges.

11 I preached just recently a two-night's revival in a church that held twenty. And I was in Bombay, India, where we had 500,000 at one meeting; and Durban, South Africa, about 225,000, where I seen 30,000 raw heathens accept Christ as Saviour in one altar call.
And I seen them taking about seven big van loads (and them vans, my, that would be a Jeep up beside of them big African vans there) of just wheelchairs, crutches, and things the natives had packed, each other, down out of the jungles.

12 And the next morning when Sidney Smith, the mayor of Durban, South Africa, called me and said, "Go to the window and watch, out towards the seashore," and here come a string of people where 25,000 miracles had been performed at one prayer. And there they was with their crutches and wheelchairs. And the natives which was at war at one another a week beforehand, was walking down---had been laying on those crutches and braces, and so forth---the next day walking down with peace, arms around one another, singing "All things are possible, only believe," in the native tongue.
That's what the whole world ought to be doing tonight, all of us with one heart, and one accord, just singing the glorious gospel of the Lord Jesus.

13 And now in the message that I have I will try to make it just as simple as possible, because... being the first time. Maybe people has been in the meetings. And it may seem a little strange to you at first. And if it does, I just ask you if you'll bear with me a little, see, and always search out what I say. If it isn't exactly with the Scripture don't believe it, see, 'cause...
Now, God can do things that's not written in the Bible. He's God. He can do anything He wants to, see. But as long as I see Him doing just what He's promised to do, that'll be fair enough for me. That's all right. Then I know I'm on the right path, then, as long as it's in the Scripture.
God promised to do it. And the way He did it, and the way He does it, and I believe... Here's what I believe: that if He ever was God, He's still God, see. And if He isn't the same God that He was, then He wasn't God, see; because if He's God, He's got to be infinite. Infinite. And then, if He's infinite, He's perfect.

14 And if God ever does anything, see, if He... Just remember now, if God ever does anything, and the way He does it He can never change that way, because, you see, He's perfect. Now, I can do something, and you can do something, and next year we got a little better idea, see, because we learned a little more. And maybe in 10 years we're way smarter than we were. But not God, He's infinite, see. He's perfect to begin with.
And if God's ever called to make a decision... And the decision that He makes has to forever remain that way. He can't do it this way one time, and this way another; take this one and refuse that one. The way He acts the first time, if He doesn't act that way every time, He acted wrong the first time, see, because He's God. He can never change his way, because He's God. And then, He's infinite, omnipresent, omnipotent, and in order to be God He has to be all those things. So, we believe that.

15 And now, I'll try explaining the Scriptures, and reading and everything---making it just as simple as I know how to make it. And then ... now, and follow it close in the Scripture. And then, I will ask you to support me with prayer because, and...
Wouldn't it be wonderful if there would be right in this little city of Santa Maria a great revival break out and all the churches would be...? And people would be flowing in across these mountains, and down across the hills, coming in to see the glory of God---all the churches just on fire for God, and the little differences pushed away, and everybody in one heart and one accord. Why, it would be wonderful! And just think, little Santa Maria up around the lake-coast, would be the one that was ... had this revival.
Now it's not only probable, but it's possible that it could happen. Depends on the attitude that we take. Now, God always sends his gifts and things into the generations, into the churches, and whatever attitude the people take, that's the results of what they get. We know that. God doesn't push Himself on anyone. You have to want Him.

16 Now, nobody can explain God. You have to accept God by faith, because if it isn't faith, then it isn't God. If I could explain God, then I would be equal with Him. And now we cannot do that. We don't attempt to. But the little things that He's give us, we just take his promise, and believe it, and watch it work out just exactly the way He said it would do it. And if we'll do that, I'm sure we'll see the glory of God.

17 Now, I don't want to keep you late at night. I know you're working men---and I've worked all my life, so I know what it is to have to go home, and get up early in the morning after sitting in a meeting. And I have had some awful long ones, so... But we'll try to get through each night, say... Now it's twenty minutes until nine by this time, and I suppose maybe your service is usually out around nine-thirty. And that'll give you time to go home and get your rest, and get back tomorrow night.
Get on the phone, and call somebody. Get the sick and afflicted in. And don't come in like you was ... just rush in like this, and rush back out. You miss it a hundred miles, see.

18 If you had to go to Mayo Brothers for an examination to find out what was wrong with you, the first thing, you'd have to call and get an appointment. And that'd probably take you two or three months before you get an appointment. And then you'll go there and stay in the hospital, maybe for a week or ten days in the hospital. And they don't do a thing for you but examine you.
And then, when you're through all that, after months under sweat, and trial, and medicines and (oh, my) everything, then they only tell you what's wrong with you, see. That's right. And yet, the people clamor from everywhere to find out what's wrong with them; when, if you'll just believe God with all your heart it'll be over in a minute, see, if you just... That's right. You have to believe it, though. And now remember, only by faith we believe it and watch it act.

19 And then, each night the scriptures that I use... Sometimes I write out several scriptures here to refer to. And if I refer to these scriptures, and what you see taking place if it doesn't seem natural to you, go home and check it with the Bible. Then you owe it to me, if it isn't God's promise, to come back and tell me about it. And lay it up here on my desk and say, "Brother Branham, that's not right. That's not Scripture," see. And if it is Scripture, then you owe it to yourself to believe it, don't you, whether it's God.

20 Now, before we take up too much time, now, and I want to thank my brethren again. I suppose these are ministers, and so forth, along here. I appreciate it, and you laity, and members of different parts of the body. We're sojourners here, we're pilgrims. And we come to visit you who are sojourning. We're waiting for the coming of the Lord. Here we've no continuing city. We're going from place to place, and waiting for the coming of the Lord.
Day by day we grow older and older, and don't know what minute (whether we're young or old) that our life can be snapped like that. Then we've got to meet God, and there... This is our preparation time. So let us prepare now to meet the Lord when He comes.

21 Now let us bow our heads and speak to the Author before we read his Word. Now with our heads bowed, and our hearts likewise, I wonder, in the building tonight, before we start, if there would be those here that would like to just raise up their hand to God, and say, "God, now during this meeting I have a need. Would you supply my need, Lord? I'm going to raise up my hand just for this." God bless you, everywhere. Now, He sees what's under your hand, in your heart.

22 Our heavenly Father, we are now approaching the throne of thy grace. Now we would not come by the throne of justice, because if we'd get justice we'd all die. We could not come by the throne of judgment, but we have been bidden to come by the throne of grace, with the promise that our Lord told us, "If you ask the Father anything in my name, I will ... it will be granted." Now we know that that's true. It has to be true; it's the Word. And we believe this Bible to be your infallible Word. Every word of it is of God. And we hold onto it, and cherish it with all our hearts.
Thou knowest how we appreciate this time of fellowship here in this lovely little city, and these fine brothers and sisters. We're reminded of the early days when the apostles met together when their numbers were small, but how the Holy Ghost came among them and did great outstanding things, because the church were assembled together. That was the early apostolic catholic church, way back from the beginning at Pentecost.

23 We pray, heavenly Father, that, as this apostolic catholic church has gathered together that you will return tonight in the form of the Holy Spirit, two thousand years since your crucifixion for our redemption, the propitiation of our ... for our iniquity, providing a water of separation by the washing of the water by the Word. And now to make your Word alive, quicken it and bring it to pass, it takes a living resurrected God to do that.
And now, heavenly Father, we would ask tonight that your presence would be so great among us, that when we leave this building tonight, this little gathering---even on the first night---may we say like those who came from Emmaus, that time after the resurrection that morning... You'd walked with them all day long, talked with them, yet they did not recognize You. And, Father, I'm sure some of us, and many of us---and practically all of us here---have walked with You, and You've walked with us; and yet we were not conscious of it.

24 But when the evening time come, when the toils of the days had finished, You gathered them in together and the doors was closed, and then You were shut in with them. Then You did something just like You did it before the crucifixion, and they recognized by the way You done it that that was You. And they ... then You vanished out of their sight, and they hurried home over to their other comrades and said, "Truly, the Lord has risen."
Won't You tonight, Father, as we have assembled together and closed the doors around us, won't You appear in our midst, and do something tonight like You did when You walked in Galilee, and Capernaum, and different parts of the world, that this little audience, and all of us together, might see the proof of the resurrection? The great Messiah of God lives after two thousand years through critics, and dark places; but yet they cannot kill Him any more. He lives forevermore. Grant it, Father.
And may we, as we go home tonight say, along the road as we go, "Did not our hearts burn within us as he spoke to us along the way?", for we ask it in Jesus' name, and for his sake. Amen.

25 Now in St. John, the 12th chapter and the 20th verse, we read for a little background for a context.
And there were certain Greeks among them that came up to worship at the feast:
The same came therefore to Philip, which was of Bethsaida of Galilee, and desired him, saying, Sir, we would see Jesus.
And then in Hebrews 13:8 (pardon me), " Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today, and forever." Now this is quite a text. And for a little background, we might say that these Greeks had the same curiosity that I have tonight, and I believe we all have.

26 There's no one that ever heard about Jesus but what longs to see Him. If I would say to this little audience tonight, "How many of you would love to see Jesus?", I suppose every hand in here would go up. That's right. Let's just test it. How many would like to see Him? Let's see. See there? Sure. You've heard of Him. "Faith cometh by hearing, hearing the Word of God."
Now we'd all love to see Him, sure. I'd love to see Him. Well, now, if He... That would place us in the same position that those Greeks were. They came to Jesus and said ... came to the disciples and said, "Sir, sir, we would see Jesus." That's their desire. "We would see Jesus." And Philip took them over, and brought them to Jesus---he and another apostle--- and they got to see Jesus.

27 Now Hebrews 13:8 said that He is the same yesterday, today, and forever. And if we desire to see Him, why cannot we have the same privilege that they had? Now, you see the Scriptures cannot lie. They have to be truth, see; they have to be truth. Now, if the Bible said He's the same, then He's got to be the same. Now, I don't believe the Bible is any private interpretation. I believe it's just the way it's written.
I believe that God will have to have some standard that He'll judge the world by. Now, you all know, being an Irishman I came from a Catholic family background. And now, when I was a young boy... Of course, my father and mother both married out of church and ... out of the Catholic church, and therefore they wasn't ... didn't belong to anything. And you've read my life story, perhaps. If you haven't, the books are here. A brother has them here for sale, and so forth.

28 Now, and then in that, when I got a call from God I began to wonder, now... Then when I went to the church, the church says that God will judge the world by the church. Well, I come to find out there's about nine hundred different churches. And one says they're right and the other one's wrong; they're right and the other one's wrong. Now, it's a bit confusing that way. Now if the Lutheran's right, then the Baptist is wrong. If the Baptist is right, then the Methodists is wrong. And then, they got so much different. So then in the whole thing I seen there was a confusion.
How could God ever let them ... bring a people to a judgment so perfect, and then so many different outlets? One this way, and one that way. One says, "This is all right;" the other one says, "No, it's not." And this one this way, and that... It would be a bit confusing. And I don't ... I couldn't believe that a kind heavenly Father would do a thing like that.

29 So then, I thought, "Well, what did He first put judgment on people by? Why did He give them...?" That was in ... you'll have to go back to Genesis. Genesis is the seed chapter, which means "beginning."
And the first thing that God put before man was obey his Word. And just one little slip---not a whole great big chapter, but just misconstruing the Word, just twisting it a little bit (Satan did) by reasoning, and it caused the whole... Every heartache that ever was, every sickness, every death, every little sick baby, every grave on the hillside, just to disbelieve one little word. Just not exactly throwed it out, but just misquoted it, just reasoned. "Isn't it reasonable that God wouldn't do such a thing?" he said. But God said He would do it, see.

30 And then, if God let all this six thousand years of suffering, just because of just taking one word and misguiding it, and caused all of this, how's He going to let us go back with another word all misguided? So with 960-something different denominations, how can we judge by that---everyone's saying this way, or that way?
Then I read in the book where (over in the last part of the book of the Bible) it said, "He that will take anything out of this book or add one thing to it, the same will be taken out of his part of the book of life." That's the clergy, denominations, or so forth, that misquote the Word, or put dogmas in instead of scripture, and so forth, and men's own ideas for their own achievement. It must be exactly God's Word, just exactly the way He said it.

31 Now, I know many of us don't have faith, and I don't have faith to make all of his promises come to pass. But I sure wouldn't stand in the way of somebody that did have that kind of faith. As I've often said, "I wish I had enough faith like Enoch had, to take a little afternoon walk and go up home with Him. I wish I could have that kind of faith." But if I haven't got it, I won't stand in somebody else's way that has got it. I say, "Thank God for that precious brother or sister who has faith to walk right out of life without dying." That would be wonderful.
But we believe that there is coming a time that when there will be an afternoon or morning walk of some kind, and there'll be many on earth will be caught away in the rapture at the coming of the Lord. And I believe we're nearing that time.

32 Now. Now, the Bible's saying that He is the same. That's what I'm trying to get to you, that you must realize this: that the Bible said Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever. And the Greeks wanted to see Him, and they were taken to Him by one of his disciples. Then, would it not be possible, if He is the same, for another true disciple to take you to Him? let us see Him?
Now, it's been the cry of the human heart since the dawn of time to see God. Job, the oldest book in the Bible, they claim was wrote before Moses wrote Genesis. Now, that Moses ... or, Job cried out, "Oh, that I might know [in other words, know where He lives at, if I could knock on the door, if I could talk to Him, see]... If I could just see somewhere that I could go knock on the door, I'd like to reason it out with Him." Every man is trying to look a-past that curtain, knows that he come from somewhere out of the darkness, knows that he's here in human life and he's crossing back through there again somewhere. So every man is trying to find out what is the door, and how to ... where we come from, and where we're going. It's always been the cry of the human heart.

33 And yet, if we would stop just for a moment, He's so real around us until there's... Why, He's just everywhere. God is ... He lives in every creature that's got life in it. He's living there. Every plant, every flower, everything else, God lives in it.
But now, instead of going into that, which we might later, I want to get this point to you: now, if Jesus was in Santa Maria tonight, what type of person would you look for? Now we know that his physical body, which was borned of the virgin Mary, that was crucified and died, buried, and rose the third day, and ascended up to the right hand of the Majesty on high, sits there tonight a high priest, ever living to make intercessions upon our confession. And He's also a high priest that can be touched by the feeling of our infirmities. Right now He is that kind of a high priest that can be touched by the feeling of our infirmities.

34 Now. The only way... If I ask all you Lutheran, "What do you think about Him?", why, He'd be Lutheran; all the Catholic, He'd be Catholic; the Pentecostal, He'd be Pentecostal, and so forth. Let's just... The only true way to find it out is this: let's find out what He was yesterday. And if you can see what He was yesterday, then He's got to be the same today, and will be forever. Just lay the church body aside, of their ideas of it, and let's just find out what He was yesterday.
Now we remember that He's been promised. Since the garden of Eden, from the very first day of sin came in the garden of Eden, and God called Adam and Eve to judgment, He promised the seed of the woman should crush the serpent's head---a Saviour.

35 The next great move, we find Moses, the great ... well, he was a type of Christ---a law-giver, priest, king, and so forth. We find out that he was a perfect type of Christ: born in the time of persecution of the enemy, hid in the bulrushes just like Christ was, and come out, and led the children out, and so forth. And so we find there that Moses at the ... down towards the end of his road, he said now after his going that "The Lord your God shall raise up a prophet liken unto me."
Now, we know that all Israel, all the Old Testaments, always depended on their prophets. Hebrews 1 said, "God, in sundry times and divers manners, spake to the fathers by the prophets, but in this last day through his Son, Christ Jesus," see. Now, the Hebrews, the way that they could tell---we're taught over in Deuteronomy, about the 18th chapter---"If there be one among you who's spiritual or a prophet, I, the Lord God, will make myself known unto him in visions and speak to him in dreams. And if what this prophet says comes to pass, then you hear him. But if it doesn't come to pass, don't you listen to him," see, because... "Don't fear that man because I never sent him."

36 That's only reasonable. If God sends anything, God backs up what He sends. So God sends his Word, God backs his Word up. Now, a man can come in and tell you anything. But when God says anything, then God backs up just exactly what He says He'll do. He's got to, in order to be God. He couldn't make a promise and then not stick with it, then remain God. He couldn't do it, see. He's got to stay with his promise.
Now, we find out then that we... The first time we find Him appearing on the scene... There's lots in there that we'll pick up down through the week, and weed it in so that you'll get more understanding of it. But let's just start with the life of Christ.

37 We know how He was born of the virgin. At the age of thirty years old He was baptized by John, the baptizer; went into the wilderness, and was tempted of the devil for forty days and nights; and came out and started his ministry. The first thing we notice after He come out, well, John saw a sign over him like a light. A form of a dove came down from heaven, and a voice coming from that form of dove (the Spirit of God), a voice coming from the Spirit of God---which, the dove was the Spirit of God---saying, "This is my beloved Son in whom I am well pleased." Now, that's the King James version. Now, in the original version is something the same thing. It says, "in whom I'm pleased to dwell in," and God dwelt in Christ. We know that.
He said, "It's not me that doeth the works. It's my Father that dwelleth in me, He doeth the works." St. John 5:19, He said, "Verily, verily, I say unto you, the Son can do nothing in himself, but what he sees the Father doing: that doeth the Son likewise."

38 Now God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself. Now we all believe that. God was in Christ. He expressed what God was. He was the express image of God. God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself. Now we find out that when He was here, and how the people knew Him... Now they were all Jewish believers that He came to. He came to his own.

39 Now there's only three races of people in the world. Let them say whatever they want to, there's three races: Ham, Shem, and Japheth's people, 'cause that sprung from Noah, from the ark. There's three races of people. And so then, that was the Jew, Gentile, and Samaritan, which we find out that the Pentecostal message went to them three, and Peter with the keys, and from then on it's to everybody then. Now we find out that Peter on the day of Pentecost to the Jews, and down to the Samaritans when Philip went down and preached to them to there, and then at the house of Cornelius, and then that was it---the world had it, had the gospel.

40 Now. Now, let's notice closely now as we come in. Now we see Him coming down out of the wilderness. Immediately the sparks begin to fly from his ministry, healings taking place, and great things taking place. And there happened to be one named Andrew. He had a brother named Simon. I took the history of his father, and of Peter (which we know him as tonight. His name then was Simon). And Andrew persuaded him to come to see Jesus, and told him He was the Messiah. He was thoroughly convinced that was the Messiah.
And when he came to Jesus, Jesus looked at him. Now remember, He is Messiah, and now here's what He was yesterday. And as soon as He looked at Peter (or Simon), He said, "Your name is Simon, and you are the son of Jonas." That ... immediately Simon recognized it, and accepted Him. Now why would that man, upon that condition...? Just because Jesus said those things, "Your name is Simon, and you are the son of Jonas," and he recognized Him immediately to be the Messiah. Why would he do it?

41 See, he was taught in the Scriptures by his father that some day the Messiah will come and there'll be a great disturbance amongst the people. Always before something real happens, there's a lot of counterfeit stuff rises up around it. We know that. Always that's the devil trying to counterfeit it. And remember, when you see a counterfeit, just remember it speaks of a real one coming, you see. That's always, see.
Now. And I can just hear Jonas say, "Simon, my boy [his hair gray, Jonas]..." And say, "I always thought I would see the day when the Messiah would come. But I'm getting old now, and I probably won't see it. But son, you and Andrew sit here. Don't forget. The Messiah ... there'll be a lot of stuff rising up in your days. You may see Him. We've looked for Him now for four thousand years, but He may come in your generation. And don't you forget that our Bible cannot fail. Our Scriptures cannot fail. He will be a prophet, for Moses---the one that we believed all these years, the one that led us out of Egypt---told us that the Lord our God would give us a prophet just like him. And He'll be a God-prophet, and you'll know Him by that."

42 And as soon as Simon seen this Jesus of Nazareth said, "Your name is Simon and the son of Jonas," that godly old father that had instructed him... There was the perfect sign that was the prophet, see.
You know, they said to Him, "Art thou the Christ? Art thou this prophet that was supposed to rise?"
Now, He made Himself known to the man that He gave the keys to the kingdom, that was the head of the church at Jerusalem, by telling him who he was, and what his father's name was. Now that was the way He made Himself known to Simon Peter, and Peter recognized Him to be the Messiah.

43 Philip was standing there. And it so thrilled him, because Philip was a godly man. He was waiting and watching. God... Listen. Don't forget this. He will only appear to those who are looking for Him; no other. That's the reason John saw that light, and he's the only one that saw it. John bare record saying, "I saw it." Nobody else saw it. When Paul saw that same light ... struck him down. Paul saw the light; not the men was with him, see. Remember that it comes to those who are looking for it, who's believing it. That's the only way God reveals Himself---always has, and always will. Notice.

44 Now Philip was standing there when he saw that taking place. He knew of a man that... They'd had Bible school together, and they were Orthodox. They were really believers in the scrolls, and they were looking for something to happen. And around the mountain... If any of you was ever in Palestine, from where Jesus was preaching it was fifteen miles around to where he found his friend, Nathanael.
Nathanael had a orchard, olives. And so he went to the door, knocked at the door, and his wife told him that he was out in the garden. So he goes out in the garden and there's Nathanael.

45 Let's just break in, and see what he was praying about. I can imagine hearing him say, "Father, we have longed for the Messiah, the deliverer, to set us free from this Roman power. Oh, Father God, will I live to see the day when this Messiah shall make Himself known to us? I have read in your Scriptures where He's coming. Moses told us that the Lord our God would raise up to us a prophet liken unto him, and we would know Him. And Father, I'm longing and waiting for that time. I've studied the Scriptures. I've lived in them day and night."
And just about time he said, "Amen," and raised up, Philip said, "Come see who we have found! We've found Him---Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph."

46 Well, I can imagine Nathanael... Now, I give this a little drama. I can imagine Nathanael saying, "Now, Philip. I've knowed you to be a very level-headed man. And I ... surely you haven't went off on the deep end on something. [You know, like we'd say today.] Now, Philip, we've studied the Scriptures too much together. Now you come tell me that the Messiah is here. Now you know good and well if that Messiah come, He would come to us Pharisees alone---our group, and that alone. Or He would ... they'd spread down the corridors, and He'd come down on the temple at the great temple, that Moses built, and He'd introduce Himself to Caiaphas, the high priest. 'I am the Messiah that you're looking for.' "

47 See, that's the way they might've had it all drawed up. But God has his own way of doing things, see. He come just exactly with the Scripture, but they had the Scripture misconstrued. I wonder if He comes, if He'd come tonight, if a lot of us haven't got it all messed up. But the main thing is, be ready when He comes, that's the thing. No matter which way God sends Him, just let Him come the way He is, the way He's got planned for Him to come. Some of us got Him coming on a white cloud, some on a white horse. I don't care how He comes, just so I'm ready when He comes. I want to see Him. And I'm studying hard to know just exactly what the Scripture says, so I'll know Him when He appears, you see. Watch what the Scripture says about Him.

48 Now, he said, "Come see who we found." Well, 'course the conversation went on, and let's break in on it as we go around the bank. I taken it from ... he went probably one day around the mountain, and come back the next day. On the next day around said ... I can hear Philip say to Nathanael, "Nathanael, do you remember that time when you bought them fish from that old fellow called Simon?"
"Oh, yes, Jonas's son. Sure."
"You know, he didn't even have enough education to sign a receipt for you, a ticket that he got the fish."
"Yes."
See, the Bible said Peter was ignorant and unlearned. How many knows that? Yes, sir. He didn't have an education. He wasn't some seminary scholar, and he was an ignorant and unlearned man.

49 And said, "He couldn't sign that ticket. Why," said, "when he came up by his ... the invitation of his brother Andrew, and he came up before this who we know to be the Messiah... And I'm going to tell you why I know it. Now, you know, Nathanael, that you and I know the Scriptures say that He will be a prophet like Moses. And as soon as he walked into the presence of Jesus, Jesus said, 'Your name is Simon, and you are the son of Jonas.' Now, how would He know that if He wasn't a prophet?"
And I hear Philip say, "You know, Nathanael, it wouldn't surprise me a bit but when you come up before Him He wouldn't say, 'Good evening, Nathanael.'"

50 "Ah," he'd say ... Nathanael say, "Let me go and see for myself." That's a good idea, you know. And first he couldn't hardly believe it, and he was invited to come see for himself. Said, "Could anything good come out of Nazareth [that bunch of holy rollers, or you know, people down there]?" Excuse me. "Could anything good come out of there?"
He said, "Come see for yourself. [Don't stay home and criticize it. Come find out. Come see. And don't just take the man's word. Search it, and see if it's scriptural or not, see.] Come see for yourself."

51 And on the road around they talked. Finally they arrived where Jesus was having the healing service. Nathanael might have been in the prayer line, I don't know, or he might have been standing out in the audience. But when he first saw Jesus, and Jesus looked upon him, He said, "Behold an Israelite, in whom there is no guile." That took the wind out of his sails, as to speak. Why, he couldn't understand.
He said, "Rabbi [which means teacher], how did You ever know me? This is the first time we ever met. How would You know me?"
And He said, "Why, before Philip called you, when you were under the tree, I saw you. [Fifteen miles around the mountain! What eyes!] I saw you."

52 Quickly that man recognized that that... They hadn't had a prophet for four hundred years, you know, and he recognized immediately that was Him. So he run up to Him and said, "Rabbi, Thou art the Son of God. Thou art the King of Israel." Is that right?
He said, "Because I told you that, you believed?"
Why? Now, that was Jesus yesterday. If He's the same today, He'd do the same thing. If He's the same yesterday... That's the way He made Himself known to his people. That's how they recognized Him. Not by his teaching; by his works, see.
Jesus said, "Search the scriptures. They are they that testify of me. In them you think you have eternal life: and they are they that testify of me. And if I do not the works of my Father then don't believe me. But if I do the works of my Father, and you can't believe me, well, then believe the works that I do. They're the ones that testifies of me." The work's a confirmation of the Word. That's what testifies. Well, wouldn't it be the same thing today? The works testifies. Here's the Word says so, and here's the works that testifies of the Word. Now He can't change. He's got to be the same.

53 Now, oh, there was them standing there, sure, standing back there---the great, high priest, and priests in the synagogues, and all of them standing there watching, and, of course, they had to give an answer to their congregation. The work was done. You know what they said? They said, "He's Beelzebub [fortune-teller, a devil]."
And Jesus turned and said to them this: "Verily, verily I say unto you [see], you speak that against the Son of man I'll forgive you. But [otherwise] some day the Holy Ghost is coming to do the same work, and to speak a word against it will never be forgiven in this world, nor the world that is to come.
Now see, see, watch that prophecy swinging on into our day, see. To speak a word against it will never be forgiven in this world nor in the world that is to come.

54 And here was Philip, Peter, and them standing there---those Jews---saying He was the Son of God, the King of Israel, because He did those things before them. And the supposed-to-be-orthodox said he was Beelzebub, the devil, fortune-teller, see.
And Jesus testified that that would come in another day by the Holy Ghost, 'cause the Holy Ghost wasn't given then. He hadn't yet been sacrificed. So the Holy Ghost would come, and to speak against it then because... What is it? Calling the Spirit of God, that's doing the works of God, an unclean spirit---a devil, see. Now it's prophesied by Jesus Christ that it would happen that way. It's got to be that way.

55 Now, let's notice Him. Now remember, there's three races of people. That was Ham, Shem, and Japheth's people. It changed our colors by the countries that we lived in, and so forth. That don't have anything to do... God made of one blood all nations. Whether they're Chinese, Japanese, or African, or Anglo-Saxon, or whatever he was, they're all one blood. All come from Adam, see, and they're raised in different parts of the country and tropics.

56 Now you just take anything, it'll do the same thing. You can take a coyote down there in Mexico, and let him live on that red sand ground, he's reddish color; bring him up here on the white sands, he's white colored---kind of a brownish. Take him up yonder, way up in the north country, way up in British Columbia, he's snow white---the same coyote, exactly.
Same deer will change color from red, brown, and black. Yes, sir. Depends on the country he's living in, the food he's feeding on, and so forth like that. Now, that's how our colors and things got changed, but we all come from one race. That's the human race. That's right. All off of that one tree.

57 Now, there was the Jews. He came to those Jews because they were looking for a Messiah. Now we got several others there we'll weave through the parts of the week. And the rest of the week we'll weave them in, and so forth. But just take them two there, Peter and this man Nathanael. And that's the way they knew that He was the Messiah.

58 Now. One day He had need to go by Samaria. Now, that's the Samaritan, which is another race of people, and He had to go up... He was going on his road to Jericho, right straight down. But He went up around Sychar---over at Samaria, and stopped at a city, Sychar. And He sent in his disciples to buy food.
And while they were in, a woman... Well, we would call her a woman of ill-fame here in this country. She had been married several times, and so forth. And she came out to the well---about, I suppose, around noontime, when He sent them in for lunch---and come out to the well.

59 And the well is still there. It's a panoramic something like this, and vines over it. There's a city public well there, where the people comes to draw water. And when she come out to this well, about eleven o'clock, and perhaps all of her... You know, the ladies, how they fixed their curls up and, you know, and everything. She would ... might've been she'd been out all night and just waking up, so I don't know what was the case---but she come out.
And you ought to see the women there, how they can pack that water. I've seen them put a five-gallon pitcher on top their head, and one on each hip, and go down the street talking just as ladies can talk, you know, nodding their head to one another, and never spill a drop. You talk about perfect walking!

60 And so this woman, she couldn't come out with the rest of the women, see, because she was marked. In our country it's not marked; but there it is marked. She can't associate with other women as long as she lives like that. So, she couldn't come the same time the virgins come.
So she come out about eleven o'clock. And there's a well there, and a windle, and she had the ... the hooks goes in this big jar... It's got hooks on it. We call it a jar; they called it a bucket then, I suppose. Put it on it, and just started to let it down. And she heard someone say, "Woman, bring me a drink," and she looks over against the wall. And there sat kind of a middle-aged Jew.
Now we know that He was really, according to Scripture, He was only about ... not quite thirty-three, but He must've looked a little old. You know in St. John, the 6th chapter, they told Him, said, "You're a man not over fifty years old, and you say you have seen Abraham? Now we know you got a devil."
He said, "Before Abraham was, I am," see. He looked fifty according to that, but his work might've had a great pull on Him.
And He was sitting over against the well, said, "Bring me a drink."

61 Well, the woman---thinking nothing, you know---probably a woman type of that, she said, "Sir, it's not custom for you, a Jew, to ask me, a Samaritan woman, for anything, 'cause we have no dealings with one another,"---segregation, see.
And He let them know right quick that there was no segregation with God, so... And so, He spoke to her, and said, "If you knew who you were talking to, you'd ask me for a drink. I'd bring you water you don't come here to draw."
She said, "The well's deep."
What was He doing? Now He's contacting her spirit, see. Now, He's catch... He said He had need to go up there. The Father sent Him, so He had need go by there. Now here's the subject---not knowing what He's going to do, because St. John 5:19 said He did nothing till the Father showed Him.

62 But now He's got to find what's this woman... Perhaps the Father had showed him to go up there, and now here He is. He don't know what to do, but here comes a woman out. Now He's got to contact her spirit. Oh, I hope you see it. And so, then He talks to her, carries a conversation.
And finally they got talking about the places to worship, and the different tribes or denominations, and so forth. And He said, "Oh, the Father seeketh such to worship him in spirit and truth." So finally, He found what her trouble was. And He said to her, "Go get your husband, and come here."
She said, "I have no husband."
Said, "You've said well, for you've had five; and the one you're living with is not yours." My!
Look. Look at the difference between this ill-famed woman and them priests. Them priests, when that was done, they said, "He's Beelzebub, a fortune-teller." But this little ill-famed woman, she said, "Sir, I perceive that you are a prophet. Oh! We [we Samaritans], we know there's coming a Messiah who's called the Christ. And when He comes this will be his sign. That's what He'll do."

63 Remember, He never done it one time before the Gentiles. They wasn't looking for no Messiah. This is their day, see. The Jews and Samaritans were looking for a [Gentile], because the Jew was ... just half-Jew and Gentile, which made the Samaritan.
So He said... Now, look. He said to this...
"I perceive that thou art a prophet. We know when the Messiah cometh, which is called the Christ, that'll be his sign. He'll show us these things when He comes."
And Jesus said, "I am He that speaks with you."
Away to the city she went, and listen at her message: "Come see a man that's told me the things I've done. Isn't this the very Messiah?" Well, if He's the same yesterday, today, and forever... Isn't that right? And the Scripture says that the people... He never did it no more. The Scripture says that the people believed on Him because of the saying of the woman, because they knowed that was the sign of the Messiah. And He's the same yesterday, today, and forever. That's right. Now He is... She saw that to be the sign of the Messiah. The Jews saw it to be the sign of the Messiah.

64 Now, just to push in, just about five minutes longer, one thing more: Jesus said before the coming of the Son of man, it would come a day like it was in the days of Sodom.
Now remember, always keep this in mind, God is in threes. You know his numerals. God is perfected in threes---like Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, and so forth. Now notice. Threes. Now there's always three classes of people, like Ham, Shem, and Japheth. And there's three classes of people usually sits together---that's believers, make-believers, and unbelievers. You have that in every place. And you do. Now, and there's always been a... Looky here, Jesus patterning Sodom, like it was, will be at the coming of the Son of man.

65 Now look. Lot was a relative, a nephew, to Abraham. Maybe this week we'll get in on Abraham and some of his work. Now. And we see that Lot pulled off and went down into the world, in Sodom, to live---oh, the things of the world. He become the chief man of the city, maybe the mayor. He was a judge, sat in the gate and judged the people. His wife belonged to every society there was in the city. Yet he had a touch of God. That's a type at the end time of the church that's in the world, still living in the things of the world, the church natural. Then there was a Sodomite, which ... you people here know what they were.

66 Now. There was... Abraham was a type of the church called out---wasn't in Sodom---sitting way back up here on the barren grounds of the mountains, above the riches and cares of the world. There's your three classes. Abraham called out, and the word "church" means "called out"---Abraham, the elected church. We know there's a church elected. We know that God predestinated the church. It's going to appear before Him without spot or wrinkle. He said so. I hope I'm a member of it. And I know how to get to be a member of it---by dying to yourself, and be borned of it. That's all. Now. But the church elected...
The Bible said in the last days that antichrist would deceive the very elected if it was possible. But it isn't possible, see. If it was possible. Now notice. There's the Sodomites; there's Lot, the lukewarm; and here is Abraham sitting out here on these barren grounds.

67 Now one day there came up three visitors, and those three visitors looked like men. They had dust on their clothes. They sat down with Abraham, and Abraham went and killed a calf, and got some cornbread and some milk, and some veal chops, and came out and fed these angelic beings. And they did eat. Notice. And here they were. And two of them went down in Sodom to preach to Sodom. The one that stayed behind talked to Abraham.
Now let's just take today. Now isn't it strange that the church natural, out in the denominational world, they have had a great blasting, two great ministers? Isn't it strange that A-b-r-a-h-a-m and G-r-a-h-a-m never hit before in all the world? Then we got a Brother Oral Roberts, another great man. And remember as G-r-..., or these angels went down into Sodom, they didn't perform any miracles; only one night they were smitten blind. And the preaching of the Word smites the unbeliever blind. He's blinded by the Word.

68 Now let's watch this one that preached to the church elected. Watch. About a day or two before that, Abram had his name changed from Abram to Abraham, and Sarai (S-a-r-r-a) to (S-a-r-a-h) Sarah, princess. And when... This one that stayed with Abraham, he had his back turned to the tent, and he said, "Abraham, where is thy wife, Sarah (S-a-r-a-h)?" Sarah, princess.
How did he know that He ... that God had changed his name a day or two before from Abram to Abraham, and her name from Sarai to Sarah, see? Watch now. And how did he know he was even married? And how did he know he had a wife? Women then didn't run out and take the men's place like they do today. They stayed in the kitchen where they belonged. But it's changed since then, a whole lot, and so...

69 Then we find out that she was in the tent behind. Said, "Where is Sarah, thy wife?"
And remember, Abraham specifically said now, "She's in the tent behind you."
And He said, "Abraham, I am going to visit you [that "I," that personal pronoun, that shows who He was, right there]. I am going to visit you according to the time of life."
Now, we're a mixed audience. You listen at your doctor; I'm your brother. Now they were old. Abraham was a hundred years old, and Sarah was ninety. Now as husband and wife it had ceased, maybe ten, fifteen, twenty years before that. They had no relationship anymore as husband and wife.

70 And Sarah snickered---what we call it in Kentucky. You all call it here "smile," or whatever. Laughed up her sleeve, I think that's the expression. "Me [now, not out loud], me," she said, "an old woman, and my lord [which was Abraham, her husband] old also, and would have pleasure again?" as young people, you know. "Me, an old woman like this, and him old like that?"
And the angel, with his back turned to the tent, said, "Why did Sarah laugh?" [Unclear words] What kind of telepathy is that? Look. God would have took Sarah's life right there, but He couldn't. She was part of Abraham. And that's the same thing the church today. See, all of our unbeliefs and things, He'd take us off the earth. But He can't; we're part of Christ, you see. So He forgives us of our sins, see. He'd have took her. We'll get into these things deeper later, 'cause our time's getting away. But watch.

71 Now, Jesus said... Now, you said, "What was that man? Who was he?" Abraham ought to know. Abraham called Him "Elohim." Is that right? The self-existing one, God, Himself, made flesh. And showing that God in the last days...
He said, "As it was in the days of Lot, so shall it be in the coming of the Son of man"---that God, Himself, in the form of the Holy Ghost, would be so into his church, so filled till He'd be moving and operating in the church. God in human flesh, see, doing the same thing.

72 Now, if the Jews had that sign of the Messiah at the ending of their time, and the Samaritans at the ending of their time, 'cause they were looking... We've had two thousand years of preaching, theology, never has it been in the church before. And now---here in the last days, the closing out, with the promise of Christ and hundreds of more promises that these things would happen---then if we would want to see Him and want to know who He is, He's got to be the same yesterday, today, and forever. That's right. Got to be the same. Jesus promised it the same.
And "Sirs, we would see Jesus." How would you know Him?

73 If I went down to Santa Maria tonight, and got some person that was dressed like He was, with sandals on, and perhaps a robe on and scars all over his face like this, and nail prints in his hands, that could be the biggest hypocrite there was in the country. Anybody could impersonate that. Certainly.
But how do you know a tree? What did Jesus say you would know them? By their fruit. Now you people are citrus growers around here. Now, what if you took a... If you could take all the life out of an orange tree, and put it over into a ... and take all the life out of a grapefruit tree, and put the orange tree life in the grapefruit tree, what would it bear? Oranges. Sure. It's the life in it produces what it is. Is that right? Now, I don't mean grafting, now. I mean taking the life out. That's what's the matter today. You got too much grafting, and not enough dying out and the life out, and the new life borned in. That's what it is.

74 But when new life... If you took the life out of a pumpkin, and put it into a grapevine, and the life of the grapevine out, the grapevine would bear pumpkins, 'cause that's the life that's in it. Sure it would. It's the life that's in there. It's the life that's in the church produces what it is, see.
Now, his life in these last days is in his church, and Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever. We believe that, don't we? Now, if He has come in this form to appear here at the Gentile church that's looking for Him to come... Now, if He lets the church go ride right on in just on theology alone, then He did something for the Jews and Samaritans that made Him different today. He didn't visit us like that. He can't do it. See, his first decision how to declare Himself, that's the way He did it the second time, and that's the way He'll do it the third time, for He is the same yesterday, today, and forever. That's right. Do you believe it?

75 Now, I could talk all night. It's already time for me to close, but we'll put it in other nights. Search those scriptures when you go home. See if God promised it. See if that's the way. Show me any way that He made Himself known any other way than that way, because the Bible declared that He'd be a prophet.
Now I believe that today the Holy Spirit has come upon the church. I believe it come to restore all that the palmerworm and cankerworm, and so forth, has eaten down through the Dark Ages. And now it's been building up till it's right up here in the head time, now, for the evening lights is the promise of the prophet---that it shall be light in the evening time.

76 Civilization has traveled with the sun. The sun rose in the east, and the same sun, s-u-n, that rises in the east is the same s-u-n that sets in the west. We've had a dismal day, as the Bible said, neither called day nor night---enough to join church, and to do good, and so forth. But it shall be light about the evening time. And the same S-o-n, Son of God, that rose yonder in the east on the Eastern people, and showed his blessings and power... It's been a dismal day, but now on the West Coast... If we go any farther, we go back to China again to the east, and back to the Eastern country.
Now we're at the West Coast, and the S-o-n is appearing before his coming. Remember, appearing and coming is two different words, see. He's appearing now in the church, showing Himself alive after two thousand years. "Sirs, we would see Jesus."

77 Now, if you believers... How many believers is here? If... I could not do it. I cannot bring Him. It takes all of us together to do it. I'm just a part of Him, and you're a part of Him. But if you're sick and needy, I'm your brother. And God set in the church... Now, there's nine spiritual gifts goes in each local body, which is tongues, interpretation of tongues, and prophecy, and so forth. But there is five predestinated offices of the church---apostles, prophets, teachers, pastors and evangelists. That's what God set in the church. The Holy Spirit... That's a office. The Holy Spirit might fall on one tonight and speak in tongues, and the other give the prophecy, and so forth. And then next night it might be on somebody else, and somebody else, like that. That's local gifts in the body to keep us straight. But in the church alone, five offices: apostles (means missionaries), apostles, prophets, teachers, pastors, and evangelists. God sets those in the church.
Now let's believe with all of our heart that through these ministering gifts that the great God of heaven will send Christ among us tonight, that we'll see Jesus. Let us pray now as we bow our heads.

78 Most gracious Father, to whom we have come to dwell in his tent, to live here in the great economy of God on earth, and to be led here as it is in heaven, may the kingdom of God come, and the will of God be done among us tonight. Grant it, Father. Just a few words from You, or one word from You after I've quoted so many of your promises tonight... But just the people are waiting to see You to say so. Your word will prove it, Father. Now my words, I can only say what You have said. But now, if You'll just say it's the truth, Lord, by confirming the Word, then we'll go away from here tonight just like they come from Emmaus, as we asked in our former prayer, saying, "Did not our hearts burn within us?"

79 Now, Father, I pray that while we're gathered together in the next few minutes that You'll do these same things among us tonight, that You did two thousand years ago before your crucifixion, when You was on earth. Then we'll know that You are the same yesterday, today, and forever, and know that there's no power, no time, no age, no nothing can ever kill our risen Christ. He's alive forevermore, and has the keys of death and hell; and pours the waters of life forth freely, for whosoever will may come and drink. Grant it, Father.
Forgive our sins now, and tuck us around your side, as it was. Enshroud us with your presence, and give us these things that we have talked about tonight in confirmation of your own Word. In Jesus Christ's name, we ask it for God's glory, and the up-building of his church, and those who are sojourning around this city. In Jesus' name we pray. Amen.

80 Now, please... Billy, you give out some cards? Now each day... I guess Brother Borders has explained to us what we have ... the way we do. We come down each day and give out the prayer cards if you want them. The boy gets up here before you, he mixes these prayer cards up, and gives them out to anybody that wants them. And then from there, no one knows where we'll call. 'Course little meetings like this it probably wouldn't make any difference.
But when we have big meetings, so that they rally, and push over one another, and everything like that, we don't want that. It's not a... Although it looks like an arena, but it's now dedicated to the kingdom of God. It's a church. We're here to have reverence and order. We're looking for the coming of the Lord Jesus and his presence among us and we must be reverent.
Now, I don't mean not praising the Lord. I believe, oh my, "If they hold their peace, the rocks will immediately cry out," you see. I believe in worshipping the Lord. But we must come before Him in reverence in his presence.

81 Now, I believe... Was it one to a hundred or...? He just said there wasn't very many here to give out cards to, so we just ... call our cards a minute, then we ... being that we got prayer cards. And we get them out of the way, then we can...
These things don't only come in the meetings like this. There's some people sitting here that goes with me in meetings. Oh, my! At home it tells... Of thousands and tens of thousands of things, not one time has it ever failed. Never will. Can't. Long as it's God, it can't fail.

82 Let's call... Who has prayer card number 1, see where that's at. Prayer card number 1? Number 2, prayer card number 2? Now it may be somebody deaf, somebody speak Spanish. Who can speak Spanish? 2? All right. 1, 2, come right here.
Let's just line up a little bit of a line here, just for a few minutes. Just get a little prayer line. 1, 2. Raise your hand when I call your number. 2, 3? Who has 3, prayer card number 3? Over here? Come right here.
If you can't raise up now, we'll pack you over. Number 3, number 4? Who has 4? 1, 2, 3, 4. 1, 2, 3, 4. All right, 5. Who has 5? All right, sir. Number 6, number 7. Number 7? I didn't see it. I'm sorry. Number 7, right there.
Now listen real close now, so we... See, sometimes when they leave the meeting, say, "Brother Branham..." Write me a letter, say, "I was deaf. Nobody told me. My number was called, and I didn't get up there."
You don't have to get up here. You have to have faith. But sometimes somebody's done something in their life that's caused... Now, if you're afraid of sin being called out, you'd better stay out of the prayer line, see.

83 Now, 7, 8, 9. 8? Who has 8, prayer card 8? All right, this lady here. 9? Who has 9? Prayer card #9? How would you say it in Spanish? Number 9? 10? Somebody probably got it, and went home. 10. Did you have 10, lady? 11? 11?
Say, listen, friend. When you come get a card, don't take the card unless you're going to use it. Let somebody else have it that wants it, you see, to get in a prayer line. Let's stop there just a minute. We'll pray for just these here.

84 Now how many in here doesn't have a prayer card, and you want God to heal you? Just raise up your hand. All right. Looks like it's practically everywhere, back in there.
Now look. There was a little woman one time. She didn't ... she didn't have a prayer card, but she believed in Him. And she said, "If I can just touch the border of his garment, I'll be made well." Is that right? Well, now, and she touched Him.
Now remember, He didn't know what her trouble was, but He said, "Who touched me? Who touched me?
And Peter rebuked Him, said, "Who touched me! Well, everybody's touching."
He said, "But I perceive that virtue [that's strength]... I got weak." He said, "Virtue has gone from me. Who touched me?"
And finally He looked around over the audience till He found the little woman that had touched Him. She might be standing way back, or over here. And He told her about her blood issue, and said her faith had saved her. How many knows that story? All right. Now. Listen close, now. Keep it in the Scripture.

85 If He is the same yesterday, today, and forever, then the Bible says ... these clergymen, your pastors here'll... Doesn't the Bible say He's a high priest right now, that can be touched by the feeling of our infirmities? Is that right? Then how would He act? If He's the same high priest, He'd act the same way. Is that right? Now, how many believes that? He'd act the same way. Then you touch Him with the feeling of your infirmities.
Say, "I ... Lord, I believe You, and I want You to heal me. I know that man standing there don't know me, but let me touch your garment. Father God, have mercy upon me. Now, he told me that You was the same, and You're the Spirit that's here, the one we don't see. But I believe that I'm a believer, and I love You, and let me touch your garment. Then You speak back through our brother like You did through your Son. Then it'll confirm it to me that You're the same Lord Jesus."
Wouldn't that be sweet if He did that? Now you believe it, and see if He won't do it. You just believe it.

86 Now the first man coming... This is a man. Now, a man probably younger than I. I don't know him, never seen him in my life. He's just a man. I suppose we're strangers to one another. Now that the audience might know that we are strangers to one another, just so we hold up ... just raise up your hand, so to see that we are strange to one another.
Now, I've never seen him as far as I know. He might have seen me somewhere in meetings. If he'd been in other meetings, or something, he might have seen me. But to say to know him, I don't. Don't know nothing about him. But God does know him. Now, here's two people meeting for the first time in life.

87 And now, if that man was sick, and anything I could do to help him, I sure would do it. I'd help him. I'd do everything I could to help him. And if I could heal him, I'd certainly do it right quick.
But healing doesn't lay in me. Healing is something that's already been done. "By his stripes we were healed." Every sin was forgiven when Jesus died at the cross. Every sinner was forgiven. If it wouldn't, God would destroy the whole world now. It's the blood of Jesus Christ, like a bumper, that holds the world together right now. But some day that blood's going to be taken away.
And then, if you die in your sins, and don't accept that pardon, you stand before God a sinner, see. But as far as your sins, they're already forgiven; but you have to accept it. And healing has already been done. "By his stripes," Peter said, "we were [past tense] healed." Now, you've got to accept your healing.

88 Now, your pastor tells you about it, Brother Roberts comes by and prays, and lays hands on the people, and so forth like that. That's confirmation. Now say, to this man here ... if I'd say, "Mister, what's your trouble?" He'd probably tell me, and maybe he's not for himself; maybe he's standing for somebody else. Maybe he's got a financial troubles, maybe it's domestic troubles, maybe he's done something in life that's holding him back. I don't know. He's just standing there. He's a man.
But the Holy Spirit knows all about him. And if the Holy Spirit can tell him what has been, he'll know whether that's right or not. Surely, if He'd tell him what will be... If He can tell him what has been, he'll know whether it's true or not. Then he'd know what his promise will be, it will be that way. It's just got to be that way. You believe that?

89 Now, may the Lord grant your request. Jesus the same yesterday, today, and forever. "Sirs, we would see Jesus." Our lovely Lord who is here in the form of the Holy Ghost, trusting He's on this man, on me, and by your own faith in a divine gift sent from God grants the request. I trust that it will. Not knowing you, knowing nothing about you, perfectly strangers, and if the Lord will tell me what you're here for, or something about you...
Now if you say ... what if ... someone out there say what's he doing now? Just exactly what Jesus did to the woman at the well. The Father sent me to Santa Maria. Now, I'm here. I don't know what for. But here's the first person comes up before me, so I talk to him like He did the woman at the well. It's to contact his spirit.
You say, "Now, what's that?" Now, wait just a minute. Let us straighten this out now. I felt something come in from out there.

90 Look. "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." Is that right? Hebrews 4 said, "The Word of God is sharper, more powerful than a two-edged sword, piercing asunder the marrow of the bone, and a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart." Is that right? The Word of God. "If ye abide in me and my word in you..." See what I mean? It's the Word made flesh among us, see, the Word. And that Word that was back there that cannot change is the same Word tonight, that would declare the same Messiah (not me but Him), same Messiah. I believe this man believes that.

91 I'm going to stand a little close to the mike because, sometimes when visions come, I don't know what I'm saying. It's just somewhere else, you see. Can you hear me all right, everybody? Now I don't know whether He will tell him or not, but I believe He will. Now, if I had power to heal you I'd do so. But I'm only declaring to you that you're already healed if you need healing, or whatever is wrong.

92 But you believe me to be his servant? Now that's what he asked me, the angel that... Seen that picture of that pillar of fire? They've got it here now, see. Do you see that picture? You've seen it on that picture? That's staying right between me and you right now. Have stomach trouble, had an operation. That's true, isn't it? You believe? Now. "We would see Jesus."
Now, I can't tell you right now what He said. That wasn't me. I know nothing about the man. Whatever it is, I'll find on the recorder. I don't know what I told him. It was somewhere else. I seen something happening, but I couldn't tell you now what it was. That was Him.

93 Why is it at the first of the meetings, you always get somebody saying, "He guessed that." I didn't guess that! You don't guess things like that millions of times perfect. Here, if you think it was a guess, just a minute. Look back to me again, sir. Let me see just a moment. Yes, sir. Stomach trouble, an operation. That's right. You're not from here. You're from Bakersfield. That's right. That's your wife, sitting there. She's sick, too, wants to be prayed for. You believe God can tell me what's her trouble? Bladder trouble. That right? Raise up your hand if that's true. Mr. Ackley, you can go on back home. You all get well. Jesus Christ makes you whole. Believe with all your heart.

94 You say, "How did you know his name?" Well, it's the same Messiah. Can't you see? Not me; Him. Do you believe now? Now, if you want to say, "Praise the Lord!" you can say it. Say, "Praise the Lord." Now, God is a object of worship. We must believe with all of our heart.
How do you do, lady. I'm a stranger to you, don't know you at all. But God knows you. Do you believe if God can tell me what's your trouble, or something on your heart, do you believe that you'd get all right? You do? You're seriously, lady, shadowed with death, see, a dark shadow. Had cancer. Operation, stomach, very bad shape. That is right. But if you'll believe God with all your heart, that's the only opportunity, the only thing that you have to be well.

95 There was some lepers sat at the gate one night, and they said, "If we go inside, it's death in there, because they're eating one another's children. [Syrians had them besieged.] If we sit here we die. But if we go down to the camp of the enemy, then they might spare us," see.
But I see that dark shadow over you. Now, you're not asked to go down to the camp of the enemy; you're asked and expected at the loving Father's throne. Will you believe Him? Come here just a moment. Let me have your hand. Heavenly Father, while the Holy Spirit is here, this evil that's killing this woman... She can't live but a little bit. May the power of Almighty God curse this enemy, and may she live. For the kingdom of God's sake, I ask it in Jesus' name. Amen. God bless you. Now, don't doubt now. Go believing. Now, just must have faith to believe. "If thou canst believe, all things are possible."

96 How do you do? Do you believe with all your heart? Now you know I don't know you. We're strangers to each other, but God does know you. You're not here for yourself. You're here for somebody else, two people. One of them's here in California, and the other one's in Arkansas. Believe with all your heart---one with a eye, the other groin trouble. Believe with all your heart, and they'll both get well. God bless you. Have faith.
Do you believe? Just don't doubt. Struck you, didn't it, sister? Especially when I said cancer. Don't fear. You touched Him. Who'd she touch? The little lady suffers there, with a skin cancer condition. It comes back on her all the time. If that's right, raise up your hand. You believe. God bless you. Cursed be the thing. If you've got enough faith to touch the border of his garment, that He'd speak back through me and tell you what you was talking about, then you have faith. Do you believe? Have faith in God.

97 "Sirs, we would see Jesus." That's Him, the lovely one that saved you here. He is right here in the last days, just before the church is taken in, right here proving Himself the same yesterday, today, and forever. Just think. What He's done already, what He's done already is more compiled than what He's done since way back in the early church. Think of it. Exactly what the Scriptures promised, 'cause He couldn't do it till this time. I just watch the people now. Be real reverent, everywhere you are. Pray, believe God. God'll grant it to you.

98 You believe God will heal you of that leg trouble? Got something wrong with your leg. You believe with all your heart. Now what did she touch? See, she touched Him. See, there it is, see. Don't doubt. It'll get well. Now, you've got to remain with the same faith you have now. If you ever give away your faith, it'll come back. Just keep believing. That's all. Stay with that same faith. Peter walked as long as he believed, but when he went to doubting, he went to sinking. Don't you do it now. You got enough faith for that. Are you convinced that Jesus Christ is with us? Here or out there, you don't have to have prayer cards. You just have to have faith. Isn't He the same Messiah?

99 We got another lady here on the platform. Let's just talk to her a moment. Now you realize that everything is whirling around and around to me now, see. If one person touching the border of his garment made the Son of God get weak, what about me, a sinner saved by grace, see. Daniel saw one vision---troubled at his head for many days. Now you can imagine what it does to you.

100 What's He trying to do? To get you all to believe Him. He's here. His presence is here. Don't make any difference what your trouble is. Believe Him. Don't doubt it. Just have faith.
Look here, sister. From the vibration of the spirit coming from you, you are a believer. You believe. I'm a believer. And we stand here for our first time, I guess, of meeting in life, as far as I know. You might've seen me somewhere in meetings, or something. Or is this the first time we've ever met? We've met before? But I don't know you. No, I don't know you. All right. Of course, there's so many people attends the meetings in different places that I wouldn't know.

101 But if the Lord can tell me what you're here for, or something about you, it would be very convincing that He knows all about it, wouldn't it? Would it be to you all? Seems like a nice person, and yet she could be a deceiver standing there. If it is, just watch what happens. We've had them do that.
No. The lady's sick. She has a stomach trouble also. Ulcers, real nervous complication, just... That is right. Very, very, sick. You believe He'll heal you? Are those things true, what was just said? Raise up your hand if that's true. Now do you believe?
She's such a nice person, I believe I'll talk to her just a little more. Of course, the more you talk, the more it tells, the weaker you get. Being she's such a ... seems to have good faith. I know you do, sister. Your mother's sick, too. You believe He can tell me what's wrong with your mother? Bleeding in the bowels. That's right. Your father in the hospital, bladder operation. And your husband there, he's got varicose veins in his legs too. Now you just believe, and go.

102 Come, believe Him with all your heart now.
All right, sir. Come. You believe God can cure that back trouble for you, make you well? Just go ahead across the platform and say, "Thank you, Lord Jesus." All right, sir.
Just tell him to come back this other way, Paul. Tell him to come this way, if you want to. You know, sir, he can heal heart trouble same as he can heal anything else. You believe that? All right, sir. Just go on off the platform, say, "Thank you, Lord, for healing me and making me well."

103 Now, of course, anybody can see him being stiff like that.
Would you believe the anointing of the Holy Spirit, if I just lay hands on you, you'll get well? Come here just a minute. Our heavenly Father, in the name of Jesus Christ I pray that You make him well. Amen. Now don't you doubt it. Go believing now. Have faith.
That's all right, lady, come right ahead. All right. You're nervous, got a heart trouble, fluttering, everything---mainly after you eat and lay down. It's really not your heart. It's a nervous condition. You've got a nervous heart. Now if you believe with all your heart, the thing will stop, won't bother you anymore. You believe that? Then go on your road, say, "Thank you, dear God," and be made well.
It's a blood condition. Anemia blood. But you believe that God can give you a transfusion tonight from Calvary? You accept it? Go, believing with all your heart now.

104 Do you believe, everybody in here believes with all your heart? "Sirs, we would see Jesus." Do you realize, friends, that that's his presence here? Are you conscious of it? You know that real sweet, sweet humble feeling? Now how many of you are believers again now, and believes it with all your heart?
Now I want to tell you what the Bible says here. In the last commission Jesus gave to his church, He said, "These signs..." I seen something else happen back there. That kidney trouble, it left you. Just forget about it. "These signs shall follow them that believe." While the Holy Spirit's present now, and you want to be healed, these signs shall follow them that believe. "If they lay their hands on the sick, they shall recover." Is that right? Now, you lay your hands on somebody sitting next to you. Just lay your hands over on somebody sitting next to you. Now, don't you pray for yourself; you pray for them, because they're praying for you, see. And let's pray now, that God will heal everybody in the place.

105 Our heavenly Father, I'm offering my prayer for these who are here tonight that is in need. They have their hands laid on each other. Thou art ever present to heal. We cannot doubt You, Lord, no more. You are here. We know that them people could not do that. Neither could I do that. We're all aware that it's God among us, the great Father God in the form of the Holy Ghost. The great Jehovah is in our midst.
He said... When He was here in the form of the Lord Jesus, He said, "These signs shall follow them that believe. If they lay their hands on the sick they shall recover. The prayer of faith shall save the sick, and God shall raise them up. If they have did sin, it shall be forgiven them."

106 O God of heaven, forgive our unbelief. We know that's the only sin there is, the sin of unbelief. And may the Holy Spirit come so upon each person just now that they'll no more disbelieve because of the presence of Christ tonight, showing Himself alive after two thousand years---the Word Himself standing here among us, in us, making his Word manifest.
Satan, you who have made these people sick, entered their bodies, afflicted them, you are a defeated being. Our Lord Jesus Christ defeated you at Calvary. You are defeated. You have no power at all. And we come believing with our faith open before God. Leave every one of them. In the name of Jesus Christ, come out of this audience. And may they go home and be free from all sickness and afflictions.

107 Now with our heads bowed as you continue praying, is there a sinner---man or woman, boy or girl---here that doesn't know Christ as your Saviour, and you believe that this action of the Holy Spirit is according to the Word of God, and you want to be saved? Would you walk up here around this little altar tonight, and let me shake your hand and pray with you? Would you come up just now? Just get up out of your seat.
I'm not very much to persuade. If the Holy Spirit can't convince with his works, then there's no need of me persuading. But if you ... if you're conscious that you're not right with God, and you would desire us to pray for you, we're here to do that. We are the public servant of the Lord Jesus Christ. Me and these ministers here together are here to help you, to instruct you how to find Jesus as your Saviour.

108 If you would want to come, come up now, while we just hum that song that he's a-playing there, "Almost Persuaded", if you would. Just give us a chord on that, brother. And while every Christian in prayer now, and being that the presence of the Holy Spirit... His main object is to save somebody, get somebody saved. Now while we have our heads bowed, everybody praying now for each other:
"Almost persuaded" now to believe;
"Almost persuaded" Christ to receive;
Seems now...................

109 Won't you come while we're waiting now? Now if you're not under the blood of Christ, how could you stand and see the work of God being told from the Bible, being made manifest here among us, and then walk away without knowing Him? Won't you come? We're inviting you now. Just once more, while we hum it. All of us together [everyone hums]. Now you think He don't know what you're thinking about? Certainly. I can see it right here. Don't doubt no more. Come. Why live in a frustrated way? Come. Be sure, 'cause it might be too late tomorrow. This might be your last day on earth. Believe now, and come. Won't you?
Now with our heads bowed again, everybody praying, every Christian now. God bless you. I'm praying with you. Pray that God will save you, heal you and make you well, give you health and strength. "Seems now some soul to say, 'Go, Spirit, go thy way'..." How could you find a more convenient day, a ... convenient than this is, with His presence here, who's knowing even what you're thinking? "....On Thee I'll call."

110 Our heavenly Father, for your presence we are thankful. In this little arena here tonight where basketball perhaps is played, and drills of the army, you're also drilling and training soldiers tonight, Lord, of the great salvation army of God, drilling them in faith to believe, as to go out of here as real soul winners, that'll get on the phone, and ring the neighborhood, and get the people in---bring them in, those who are not Christians, those who are sick and afflicted.
Father, I pray that every person that comes into this room that's sick or afflicted will be healed; and every sinner that passes through these doors will have no peace at all until they come to You; that every believer that comes in these doors will be baptized with the Holy Ghost, and great signs and wonders might be done, Lord. We thank You, Lord.

111 After two thousand years we see the infallible proof that we can still see Jesus. He's appearing in our midst. Just before his coming He's making his appearance in his church, the last sign that He did before the Jews, and He was finished with them. The last sign that He's given before the Gentiles is finished is being showed. We know that was the last sign that Abraham got before Sodom burned. It's the last sign.
We realize that the ministers is out there in Sodom tonight, big revivals going on through Chicago, and across the world. Great signs and wonders are taking place, ministers preaching, crying their hearts out, pastors a-pleading and begging, great wonders being done by the Holy Ghost throughout the world---healings, signs, wonders.

112 God, you never send these things... You never send a judgment before first You send warning, and we see that the warning signal is down. The red light's a-flashing. O God, may men and women be concerned about one another, may they be concerned about this onward generation. A people that's perishing, going out from the way here without knowing God, will die in sin. And, oh, how ... what a horrible thing it'll be that day when they hear the weeping and wailing. There'll never be another opportunity they'll ever see.
Father, if the president come to this city tonight, the flags would be up, the flowers would be strowed through the streets, and there'd be a great big celebration. But, Lord, You come to the city in the form of the Holy Spirit, and, O God, You have to seek, and pull, and beg, and persuade for people to get ready to go to heaven. What a day that we're living in, Lord!

113 We pray now that your great mercies will continue with us. Bless these ministers and their churches. O God, kindle an old-fashioned revival in every one of them, Lord, until the revival fires burn throughout the valley. Grant it, Father. We're your servants. Receive us, forgive us of our slow ... our hostility. Forgive us, Lord, of our negligence. We pray that You'll just forgive us, and help us as we journey on.
May the Spirit each night come deeper and stronger each night, greater signs and greater miracles performed before us night after night, Lord, until the people ... it'll be irresistible to them.

114 And we know, Lord, that You said in your Word, "All the Father has given me will come." And when that light flashes across that predestinated seed, something takes place. Like that poor little adulterous woman that we spoke of tonight, she was sick and tired of the way they were doing. As far as we know she belonged nowhere, but she had been foreseen by God. And as soon as she seen that light flash, even in face of the priests of that day who didn't know what it was...
Like the blind man, when he received his sight, he said, "It's a strange thing. You're the leaders of the day, and yet you know not whence this man comes, and he does these things?"
Lord, so is it today. I pray that You'll stir us, Lord. O God, shake us, for this is the closing hour. Grant it, Lord. We commit to You, now, all things for the kingdom of God's sake. In Jesus' name. Amen.
Till we meet! till we meet!
Till we meet......
Now, your pastors here will take this service over from here. I'm hoping to see you tomorrow night. Come early, get your prayer cards, and get lined up for the service tomorrow night. Brother pastor...

We would see Jesus

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1 Thank you, brother. You may be seated. Certainly a privilege to be here in Grass Valley tonight, to represent our Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ; to pray for God's sick children, the doctor's patient; and to enjoy this fellowship together, for these five days that we have promised.
I bring greetings from all the other pilgrims around the different parts of the world to where I've been. And trusting... And many thousands of people are praying for the success of this meeting here, these nights. I'm sure, together with the prayers of the rest of them, and ourselves, that God will meet with us and bless us.
We don't come now to represent any certain church, or we don't come to call ourselves healers. We come, representing Christ. And we come, not to heal the sick, but to pray for the sick, and to do what we can to help make life a little easier for each and every one. And I'm sure that you'll be a blessing to us. And we trust that we'll be a blessing to you.

2 And now I was just thinking, since we've been over in California this last trip, that it's been that the people like to get home early. Now, at home, and different, many parts of the country, you find people different. Some of them, they just like to hear you preach; I don't care if you don't even pray for the sick, just keep them about four or five hours, preaching, that just satisfies them right. But over here, sure hurts; they just seem like, "Just a short sermon, and pray for the sick, and let's get back home right quick 'cause I got to get back again." And everything seems to be in such a hurry over here. Where we all going? "Hurry, hurry, hurry, hurry, hurry!" Maybe, the Lord willing, I want to preach while I'm over here, "Letting Off The Steam." I guess that's what we ought to do, kind of let down.

3 I just had an accident, a few weeks ago. I love target shooting, hunting. I just had been given a rifle, that had been a rebored rifle by the Weatherby Company down here. And I put the thing up to shoot, and it blowed up in my face. And blowed the barrel about fifty yards, the front of me, and the stock about the same distance behind me, and blowed out the bushes and everything around, where the thing went off. And just the grace of God it didn't blow me the same way, 'cause it was that close to my eye when it went off; the telescope up ... shooting.
And I got a little thought out of it. You see, the rifle really wasn't a Weatherby rifle. It was just bored out to be a Weatherby rifle. It was a model .70 Winchester, to you fellows who hunt. And had been given to me by a good California brother named Art Wilson. He gave it to my son, Billy Paul, a .257 Roberts. And so they... Billy is left-handed, and he never could use it, so he said, "Dad, I'll just give it to you."

4 Well, I always wanted a Weatherby rifle, but I felt like I never could afford one. And then if some of my friends would have bought me one, I wouldn't have wanted them to do it, because they're an expensive gun. And as I've often said, "I've got missionary friends hasn't got shoes on their feet and I can't let someone pay that much for a rifle, me to hunt with or shoot with, when I have friends that ain't even got shoes." So, I just wouldn't do it.
But a friend of mine said, "I can take that model .70 and make a Weatherby rifle out of it. Weatherby does it over there, and guarantees it." I said... Said it won't cost me, just about ten, twelve dollars.
And I said, "Go ahead."
So he gave it, took it out to the company and they rebored it. First, it blowed right up. So it must not have been... Something that got pressure somewhere.

5 Now my lesson on that is this. You see, it had too much pressure, it blowed up, see. We don't want too much pressure, it'll blow up.
And another thing, I'd like to say this, it might get a little doctrinal point in. You see, if that rifle would have been started in the molds, a Weatherby magnum, it wouldn't have blowed up. But, you see, it was something else just part of the way converted, and that's the reason it couldn't stand the pressure.
And I believe in a religion that we don't patch up. We die and are borned again, and then we're a Christian that can stand all the pressure that the Holy Spirit wants to push out. So I think we have to get back to the beginning, not just try to make something out of something that isn't. We got too much of psychic religion today, instead of real born again experiences with God. And so somewhere along the road a little something will come along, will cause a little leak, and blow the pressure back, and you'll find yourself blowed up. So we believe in actually dying to yourself and all your thoughts and everything else, just die right out and let the Holy Spirit remake you. Just, you're a born again Christian, that's what you are, have an experience with God that you know you've passed from death unto life. And that's what we believe.

6 We believe the Bible, and we believe that that is God's book. We just stay right with the Bible. Now, I believe that God can do things that He hasn't got written in the Bible. Now, He's God, He can do whatever He wishes. But if I can just see Him, in my lifetime, perform what He has promised, then I know it's right, see, as long as it's in the Bible.
Now, in the Old Testament, as ministering brothers know, that in the Levitical priesthood, they had a way of knowing whether the prophet was telling the truth, or a dreamer's dream was right. They had what was called Urim and Thummim. Now, that's been disputed what it was. But the most ... the greatest and the most ethical point that I can see, and the most suitable way, was, they took the breastplate that Aaron wore; which represented the twelve tribes by the birthstones of the tribes, and it hung in the temple, on the post. And then when a prophet prophesied, and then they could know whether it was truth, or not; now, if those conglomeration of lights flashed on there, making the supernatural.
God is supernatural, because He is God, a Spirit. And if that supernatural light represented on there, like a rainbow flashing from this, then the prophet was right. That's the way he was identified, or the dreamer was right. But if it did not flash on the Urim and Thummim, then no matter how real it sounds, they would not receive it, because it didn't flash on the Urim and Thummim.

7 Now, the Levitical priesthood ceased at the death of the Lord Jesus. Now we live in the Melchisedec priesthood, Christ. Now we still are not without a Urim and Thummim. This is it now, the Bible. See, we must stay with the Scripture (not put our own interpretations to it) just the way it's written. I believe that God will judge the world someday by Jesus Christ. I believe that. I believe that there will have to be some standard He'll have to judge by, because there's so much representing Christ, and so many.

8 Now, my background, Irish, so my people before me were Catholic. When I was a little boy; you probably read my life story, they have it here in books, and so forth. I went down to the Irish church and I heard what the priest had to say. Then I went over to the Lutheran church, I heard what he had to say, the Lutheran pastor. And there had been a little Baptist back somewhere in our generation, so I went over to the Baptist church. I went to different churches. Well, they, each one, different one from another. Now, each one wanted to say that that church was exactly right.
So, now, they all can't be right, there's got to be something wrong somewhere. And I find out now, there's about nine hundred and something different denominations, so I think there's got to be something wrong somewhere. 'Cause, if this, they all go in by this church...

9 Now we was told, as Catholics, that "God is in His church. And that's where God is, in His church." So then if God is in His church, which one of them is His church? Each one of them says it's the church. So I knowed one thing... Now that's just what the priest said, "God is in His church."
But the Bible said, "God is in His Word." And He said, that "Whosoever shall add anything to this, or take anything out of it, the same will be taken out of the book of life, for him." So I believe with all my heart that this Word is God in print form. Now, why I say that is because that no man is better than his word, he's no more than his word. If you can't take my word for anything, then don't have no dealing with me, see, because you can't believe me. And that's the same thing, I've got to believe that this is God's Word, and I do.

10 Now the Bible said, in St. John, the 1st chapter, "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. And the Word was made flesh and dwelt among us," then that was Christ, and Christ is the Word. Then if He judges the world by Christ, it'll have to be by the Word, see. So, that's the way we believe it, and in our teaching.
Now we'll have just a short, quick as we get out ... What is their, really times, brethren, of getting out here, about two o'clock or something like that? Huh? Two o'clock? They was laughing, so I suppose about nine or nine-thirty, something like that, is about usually getting-out time. That would be in about thirty-five minutes.

11 Tonight, I, being a stranger among you, yet I do not feel that I'm a stranger. I feel I'm your brother. And now I want you to follow what I say in the Scripture. Then the message will probably be altogether different than what you have been expecting, but you check it with the Scripture. It'll be right along the same line you've heard. I'll just read it from the Scripture, and then not try to explain it, just let it explain itself.
Like selling a product. If you've got a product to sell, if it's any good, it'll sell itself. You don't have to do so much advertising about it. I got so much of that advertisement stuff, that I go around, see the ... everybody is "the man of the hour," and "this is the message," and all that, till I wonder who it is. Oh, I believe Christ is the man of the hour, and always has been. And a lot of pomp and stuff is not to be put on.
I got enough of that one time. For you sisters ... I got my wife, she's with us, and I really love her and my children. And so I always want to help her, and I'm a very poor hand to help. And I was ... I know she has so much to do, and the kiddies to get ready and everything, to go to bed at night when I'm home. I thought I'd help her wash the dishes, only I just hate to do it as bad as you do. And I thought, "Well...!"

12 And mama used to stand me up on a little box to wash dishes when I was a little boy, and I thought, "If I ever get married, I'm going to get out of that habit right now."
But here it is, I love my wife the way I loved my mother, only as a wife, and my mother. Then I thought, "Well, I'm going to help her if I can."
And I seen something on a program one time, a television program, where I was waiting for an airplane to go out, and they had a television sitting out there and a great big front, a great big glass in it, and it said, "Use this certain detergent, no wash, no rinse, no wipe, no nothing. Just put it in the water, dunk it down, take it out, that's all you have to do."
I thought, "Oh-oh! My wife is going to really love me from now on, 'cause I'm going to show her how to do the dishes." So, I got me a box of it, next day when I got home. I got me a box before I got home, put it under my coat, and went in.

13 Next morning, I said, "Don't worry, dear. I'm right here to do the dishes for you. That's all you have to do. Now you just slip right on out there and get the sweeper and start on. Before I go to the office or start making my calls, I'll have the dishes done just in a jiffy."
So I got this thing and read on it, you know, "Put two tablespoonfuls." And I thought, "My, I'll make a real job out of it," I poured about half the box in there, stirred it up like that; got all the dishes and set them down in like that, suds come about that high. I thought, "Boy, just a few minutes now, and all I have to do is take them out and put them on the table again." The kids had eat eggs for breakfast; I pulled them out, there was just as much eggs as there ever was.
I said, "When I see anything highly advertised, I just bypass it from then on, don't bother it, because I know it didn't work on that."

14 And so sometimes I think that if we just talk about Jesus and let the people see who He is, and what He is, and I believe that He'll do the rest of it. He'll bring Himself, 'cause "All the Father has given Me will come to Me, anyhow." See, that's what Jesus said. "And no man can come except My Father calls him." So the only thing we do is just sow the seed, and let it go.
Now, I trust that you'll get on the phones and call the people.
And the main thing here is not pray for the sick now, that's one of the sidelines, but the main thing is to get every sinner we can to know the Lord Jesus as his Saviour. That's the main. Secondarily, is to get every person that has accepted Christ as their Saviour, and has not yet been filled with the Holy Spirit, for them to be filled with the Holy Spirit. And that's your second. Then the third thing, is pray for all the sick people that we can pray for. And, through that, we hope that God will give us a great time during this meeting. And I think it's each evening and then Sunday afternoon, I think is right.

15 I want to thank my brethren here, the ministers, for inviting me here. And I thank God for the leading of coming here. Now, the manager here, Mr. Borders, we had a book full of invitations around the world, but somehow something spoke to me about Grass Valley.
And immediately, a friend of mine, the Arganbright family down here around Los Angeles, called me and said, "If you haven't made your itinerary completely for going through, I wish you'd stop in Grass Valley."
I called the manager, got him on the line, I said, "Have you passed by there yet?"
"No."
I said, "Drop in." And here we are.
Now what the Lord is going to do, I don't know. There might be one person here He's for, coming for. I hope it's the whole community that He's coming to save.
Now, upon this, let's bow our heads and speak to the author before we read His Word.

16 Our heavenly Father, it is indeed a privilege that we have, to stand in Thy presence, in this closing hour of the history of this world, and call You "Father," and know that we are approaching Thee by the all-sufficient way, with the blessed assurance that Jesus, Your Son, said, "If you ask the Father anything in my name, I'll do it, it will be granted." Then we know, Father, if we ask in the name of the Lord Jesus, that our petition will be granted. Now we would not want to ask anything contrary to Your will. But we believe after You leading us here, that it is Your will to save people, and to heal people, and to fill people with the Holy Spirit, and to get glory unto Thyself. And we are here to do everything that You lead us to do. So I pray, Father, that You will unfold Your Word to us, and Your will, with Your Word, that we might know what Your will is concerning Your Word. Bless us together now. Forgive our sins.

17 And tonight, as we settle down in this building, we pray that You will bless this building. God, it's perhaps an arena, but it now is being dedicated for the service of the Almighty God, to be a church house where respects and love and reverence is given to the Almighty. Grant, Lord, that every person that walks through these doors during these next five or six days, will fall under conviction in such a way that they'll not be able to leave the building without surrendering their heart to Christ.
We pray, Father, that every sick person that walks in this building, and those who walk in with others on their hearts, praying, that the blessed Lord Jesus will be present to heal the sick. Fill every one's heart with the Holy Spirit.

18 And, God, draw them in out of this drunken, sin-maddened love, pleasure-loving world, before it's too late, before the mountains are leveled down, before the great wrath of God is poured out upon an unbelieving generation. God, bring it so close to us this week that we'll see it, and our hearts will be so filled, till every person in here will become a minister in the street and in the neighborhood, to bring others to Christ.
We know not whether we'll ever finish the revival here, or not, until You come. But we know this one thing, that someday You will come, and we don't know what hour that will be. But let us live each hour that, if it was that hour, we'd be ready to go to stand in Your presence, to hear it be said, "It was well done, my good and faithful servant; enter into the joys of the Lord, that's been prepared for you since the foundation of the world." We dedicate ourselves, with this building, and Your Word, to the honor and glory of God, through the name of Jesus Christ. Amen.

19 The Lord bless you. Now we wish to read some Scripture here, found in the book of St. John, the 12th chapter and the 20th verse.
And our theme is this, our campaign theme is that, "Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever." Now, that's Hebrews 13:8, "Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today, and forever." Now St. John 12:20.
... there were certain Greeks among them that went up to ... the feast:
The same came ... to Philip, which was of Bethsaida, Bethsaida of Galilee, and desired him, saying, Sirs, we would see Jesus.

20 Now, I wish to give now, for the next few minutes, just a little formal talk, on basing and backgrounding. We're going to start off, as it was, on divine healing. And always, Jesus, I believe, in His ministry, about eighty percent of it, was on divine healing.
And as my good old friend, Brother Bosworth, which many of you Christians knowed, he used to say, "You always, to catch fish, you don't show them the hook, you show them the bait. And the fish grabs the bait, and gets the hook."
So that's the way we try to catch Christians for Christ, is by the miracles of divine healing, to show His presence. And then, in that, they know that a man cannot do those things, so it catches the soul of the believer, and he accepts it upon them basis. So now, to start off with, I want to give the talk of saying that He's the same yesterday, today, and forever.
And these Greeks said, "Sir, we would see Jesus."

21 Now, those Greeks would well express our thoughts here tonight. I do not believe that there is a person here but what would want to see Jesus Christ. Just to find out how many in here that's ever heard of Him, would like to see Him, I just want you to put up your hand. See, it's a hundred percent. There's no one can ever hear of Him... Just that charming name makes us desire to see Him!
There's something about Christ that it's not with other men. He was different. He was the Son of God. And there is something so different about Him that other men doesn't seem to have it like He had it. And we have the Spirit, understand, but we have it by measure. He has it without measure, He was Immanuel, God living in the body of Christ Jesus, God manifested in flesh. Christ was the express image of God, manifesting God to the people. What God was, they saw in Christ, His Son. He was the anointed one. The word Christ means "the anointed one."

22 And now if those Greeks, seeking Him... Now, now let's lay onto each word. Those Greeks, seeking Jesus, they came to one of His disciples, which was Philip, of Bethsaida. And he was seeking Jesus, so he came to a disciple, and the disciple taken him to Jesus. If that was the way of seeing Jesus, for those Greeks, and we desire to see that same Jesus, and the Bible says "He's the same yesterday, today, and forever," then why can't we see Him?
Now, the Scriptures cannot lie. They are the truth. I believe that. And if these Scriptures was wrong, then I would be doing something else tonight besides standing here representing this. But I believe that they are right, exactly right. They don't need any interpretation. They're just the way they are supposed to be, just written right in here, 'cause God has seen to it that they stayed that way. Now watch.

23 How many believes that God is infinite, omnipotent, omnipresent, omniscient? Sure. Now, He is God, therefore His first decision on anything has to ever remain the same, because His decisions would be perfect, because He cannot do anything but perfection. That's all He is, is perfection. He can never change. Now here is where our hopes is built on the Word. If God ever called on the scene, to make a decision about any certain thing, His first decision has to forever remain the same. It can never change. Just before we get to the thought, think of this.

24 When God, in the garden of Eden, when He was called on for salvation for Adam and Eve, He had one remedy, that was the blood. And He's never changed it. Forever, it's the blood! He can never change it.
When God was called on, to heal a sick man, He healed him by his faith. And He can never change it, see. And if He healed one man, because of his faith in God to do it, then He'll have to heal the next one, or He acted wrong when He healed the first one, and He acted wrong when He saved the first one, see. So you can't...
We change. We're what you call "finite." And He's the infinite. So He cannot change, because He's perfect. We make a decision, then we say, "Well, that was wrong. I'll make it this way, it'll be a little better." But not Him. His first one is perfect. That's the way it has to ever remain. So He cannot learn more or get smarter, as we think we do, but He is perfect to begin with.

25 Now we hear so much about Jesus in these days, and everywhere you go. Now, I'm a missionary, you understand; this is my seventh time around. Now, this in the mission fields, we find people worshipping idols and so forth, and millions of them. But here in America we find churches on every corner, each one is representing God in some way, and they find so many different opinions of it. Some try to find God through one way, and some another. Surely there is a right way somewhere. There is bound to be a right way somewhere.
Because, like David said, "When the deep calls to the deep, there has to be first, something to respond to that call, or the call wouldn't be there." In other words, there has to be a creator before there could be a creation, see. There has to be something put a creation in you, before; a creator to put a creation, and then there has to be something to respond to that. Before there's a fin on a fish's back, there had to be a water first for him to swim in, or he'd have had no fin. Before there was a tree to grow in the earth, there had to be an earth, first. And as long as there's a hunger in the human heart for God, there's got to be a God somewhere to respond to that call.
And many are here tonight seeking divine healing. Why are you seeking it? Because something inside of you tells you, "There's a fountain somewhere," see. And as long as there's something in you, telling you, "There is a fountain somewhere," there's got to be that fountain, or there'd never be that desire in you. See, the creator, to create the creation.

26 Now we find people in this day, longing, pulling, running here and there, seeking, grabbing, changing churches, changing papers and different denominations, and so forth. What's the matter? They're hungering for something, but they don't seem to be able to find what they're hungering for. There's got to be that thing somewhere.
Now, some today seek God through their creeds. Some people think, through their creeds, they'll "Just go through a certain creed, that finds God." Some thinks, "Joining certain denominations, finds God."

27 Well, Jesus found that same thing when he come to the earth. He found the Pharisees, the Sadducees, and whatmore, the different orders, or organizations and creeds of that day. What did He say to them? "By your traditions you have made the commandments of God of none effect," see.
I think that searching God through creed or through denomination, only thing it does, it gets it so mysteriously fixed up and then you find out that it comes right back. and denies the Word. Comes right back and makes the commandments of God of none effect. For instance, you try to find God in saying the Apostles' Creed. And then you come back to find Mark 16 to be made a reality to you, "these signs shall follow them that believe"; why, they'll tell you right quick, "Well, them days of miracles is past!" Then what does it do? It takes the commandments of God and makes them of none effect; see, they're not effective, the commandments of God.
His commandment was "Go ye into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature." Now, the gospel came not by Word only, but through manifestation of the Word, demonstrations of the Holy Spirit making the Word live. See, it's the Spirit taking the Word.

28 The Word was a thought. And a thought is... A word is a thought expressed, see. Now, it was God's thoughts, what He was going to do, then He expressed it on the Word.
And now when the Holy Spirit gets a hold of the Word, it brings it to pass and manifests it, makes it a reality, every word of God. No Scripture but what is given by inspiration! And every word of God is perfect and correct, and it will be fulfilled. Every word must be fulfilled. "Heavens and earth will pass away," said Jesus, "but My words shall not fail." Every word of it must be fulfilled.
Now, then when God does that, and we find our creed then, if we say certain creeds or certain things that we belong to... And I have nothing against that. That's all right.
It's just like eating watermelon, as the colored man said when he ate a slice of it. He said, "What'd you think about it, Mose?"
He said, "It was good, but surely there's some more of it." So, it wasn't enough to satisfy.

29 A creed is all right, but it just doesn't satisfy till you get down to the Word. "And man shall not live by bread alone, but every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God." That's what man shall live by. The Word of God is a man's spiritual daily bread, is the Word of God made manifest.
And when God gave Israel the promised land, while they were still in Egypt, they had to fight every inch of that land. God told Joshua, in Joshua 1, "Wherever the soles of your foot treads upon, that I've given you for a possession." So footprints means "possession." Some people can just barely get to the edge of the land. Some can take the two-handed sword and cut their way through Philistines and Amorites till they take the whole thing. That's what we should do. Every promise is to us. We got a... Footprints is possession. Walk right up and take it! God gave it to us. It's a promise and it's the truth, and it's for us.
Now, then in these creeds, they come around again, as I say, and make, with their traditions, the commandments of God of none effect. Takes it away, explains it all away.

30 But surely there is some way to know what's truth, because a scripture here says, "He is the same yesterday, today, and forever." Now, you can't take that scripture and take it out of the Bible. You've got to leave it in the Bible, 'cause it belongs in there. And if it says, "He's the same," it doesn't mean He's partially the same, it means that "He's the same yesterday, today, and forever."
Now, then, we want to see Him. I'd like to see Him come in the building tonight. I would like to see Him. Wouldn't you? We said awhile ago, we would. We would like to see Him. Well, then, if He promised it to us, why can't we? That's the idea Now, if we'll just open our eyes and our minds just for a while, I believe that we'll understand, and He will come in and show Himself with us. Now, and then we could go away tonight, saying, "We would see Jesus."

31 Where did they find Jesus in the Old Testament; right in the New Testament, I mean? Right with the Word, because He was the Word. Now, He wasn't the Word in the way they had put it together, but He was in the Word in the way that God put it together, because He was the living Word.
Now, when He met Satan, He met him on the Word. He was God manifested in flesh; but when He met Satan He never used His power of His Godhead, what He was. He said, "It is written, 'Man shall not live by bread alone.' It is written, 'Thou shall worship the Lord thy God, and Him only shall thou serve.'" When He met Satan, He met him with the Word, because He was the Word. Now, the Word was made flesh and dwelt among us. Now, Moses spoke of Him in the Word, now, in Deuteronomy, the 18th chapter, 15th verse.

32 Moses wrote the five books of the Old Testament, Exodus and Genesis; Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Deuteronomy, Numbers. He wrote the five books of the Old Testament. In there, by inspiration from God, he wrote and told what was, then he wrote and told what would be. And what he said would be, come to pass; so we know that what He said was, is true. For a man can look this way and see what's coming to pass, and it does come to pass, then what he said back there was certainly inspirational too.

33 Now, the Jews were all taught to believe their prophets. They do yet. As Paul said, "Jews seek signs, and Greeks wisdom, and so forth. We preach Christ crucified."
Now, the Bible had taught those Jews, "If there be one among you who is spiritual, or a prophet, I the Lord will make myself known to him, in prophecies and visions, dreams, and so forth, and what he says comes to pass, then hear him." Now, that's only sense. "But if it doesn't come to pass like he said, then don't hear him." 'Cause, God can't lie, He's God. But if a man says a thing, and it comes to pass, and then you watch it in him, coming to pass, coming to pass, coming to pass, then you know that can't be that man. That's got to be God. So God told the prophets ... or, told the Jews to listen to that man because he was a prophet sent from God.

34 Now, Moses was that major prophet. We haven't time to go into his life, to show how he typed Christ. But he was a major prophet. And he said that, "The Lord your God shall raise up a prophet likened unto me. It shall come to pass that whosoever shall not hear this one will be cut off from amongst the people." Now, now if Moses spoke, and other prophets... And Moses, remember, wrote Genesis, too. From the garden of Eden, "the seed of the woman would bruise the serpent's head," and all the promises back in there of a coming Messiah, Moses wrote it. And then the other prophets, major, such as Isaiah, Jeremiah, and so forth, they all spoke of the coming Messiah. Prophets, which, their words come to pass. Now, they spoke and said He would be a prophet when He come. "He would be a prophet likened unto me," Moses said. That's what He would be.
Now, if we would want to see Jesus today, and the Bible said, "He's the same yesterday, today, and forever," then there's only one way to do it.

35 Just lay aside our creeds just for a few, for an hour now, or a half hour. Lay aside our creeds, lay aside our denominational views, and so forth, and let's go back and find out what He was. Now would that be... That would be logical, wouldn't it? That would be fair. Go find what He was, and then we'll know what He is if we can find out what He was. But the only way you'll... If He was a creed back there, then the creed's right. If He was a denomination back there, then that's right. Find what denomination it was or what creed it was.
But we find out, back there He was the Word, so He's still the Word. Now I read from St. John. Now if we turn back here to the 1st chapter of St. John, and we'll just take some of what He was, from the 1st chapter of St. John. Now we find out that, "In the beginning was the Word," as I have already quoted, "and the Word was God, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God ... And the Word was made flesh and dwelt among us." Now we find out what He was. Now we've got "the Word being God," and "God being made flesh and dwelling among us," in those days. Now the Bible said, "He's the same yesterday..." That was the New Testament.

36 In the Old Testament, Christ, the same. Christ, the same in the New Testament. And Christ, the same forevermore. Then if we can see what He was, then, what He had been, and what he will be, then we've got it. Is that right?
Moses said, now, "He'll, be like me, a prophet like unto me." Then when He come, what Christ that was, He had to be what He... Then He had to be what He was before then. So now let's start from right there, and then we'll see that He will be forever. That's the only way to make it.

37 Same yesterday, now here was, we find the Hebrew writer, is Paul, saying, "Jesus Christ the same yesterday," speaking to the Hebrews. And we all know that Jehovah of the Old Testament, was Jesus of the New, and it's the Holy Spirit of today. It's just the same God just manifested in three different offices. And, so, the same God! And all that God was, He poured into Christ, all Christ was He poured into the church. So, see, you can find quickly what He is, "The same yesterday, today, and forever."

38 Now, but we have to find His nature, what He was. Now we all know, and all Bible readers will agree, that the pillar of fire that followed Israel in the wilderness, or they followed the pillar of fire, rather, that that was the angel of the covenant that talked to Moses in the burning bush, that same pillar of fire. You, agree with that? We all do. Well, who is the angel of the covenant? Christ. "Moses forsook Egypt, esteeming the reproach of Christ greater treasures than that of Egypt," see.
And now when He was here on earth, that pillar of fire was made flesh, dwelt among us. When He was here on earth, He said, "I come from God, and I go to God." Now remember, "yesterday, today," see. He come from God, from the pillar of fire, He goes back to God.

39 Now, after His death, burial, and resurrection. Saul of Tarsus, on his road down to Damascus to arrest the Pentecostal people, on his road down there, what happened? A pillar of fire, a light struck him down. Nobody else saw it. He saw it. It put his eyes out for a season. It was so real to him; when the rest of them standing there, couldn't see a thing; but it was so bright to him, it put his eyes out. And He said, "Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou Me?"
He said, "Who are You, Lord?" Now listen!
"I am Jesus. And it's hard for you to kick against the pricks." You remember that. Well here He is, that same pillar of fire that was.
Then if He's the same yesterday; then in Paul's day, today; He will be the same forever! So that great pillar of fire, God, the angel of the covenant, is the same today as it was when it led Israel.
Notice! Now we're going to start His ministry, in St. John 1. We know... We'll bypass His calling and birth, and John the Baptist, and take to His baptism, then into the wilderness, tempted of the devil, come back out after forty days and nights of fasting in the wilderness. He come back out and started His ministry. Now let's follow His ministry here. Immediately, people begin to get healed from being prayed for, by Him.

40 And we find that there was a man by the name of Simon, and he came to Jesus by the invitation of his brother, Andrew. And when he walked up in the presence of Jesus... Now remember, here comes the key man. Now we understand, according to Acts the 4th chapter, that he was an ignorant and an unlearned man. We're taught that he couldn't even sign his own name. Now, he wasn't a scholar. He wasn't a bishop. He wasn't a priest. He was a fisherman.
God always takes something that's nothing, and makes something out of it. He manifests Himself through nothing, so that anyone can see it's God. See, He takes something that's nothing.
And He picked up this ignorant man. Now how is He going to make this man know that He is? 'Cause, there had been many fakes had gone on. And we've had them through the ages.

41 And whenever you pick up a bogus dollar, and look at that bogus dollar, you just remember that that bogus dollar is made off of a genuine dollar. For if there was no genuine dollar, then that bogus would be the original copy, see. So as long as you see somebody impersonating or playing the part of hypocrite, just remember there's a genuine Christian somewhere, see. You see somebody introducing some kind of an ecclesiastical system of a false god, or some kind of a psychic, ecclesiastical, mental work-up, just remember, behind there, somewhere, there's a real, genuine God. Notice. Oh, I just love it!
Notice.

42 Now as soon, just as soon as Simon... Let's take just a little back drama of Simon, a minute, being an old man. His father was an old man, too. And perhaps maybe one day, as I read a little story of him; his father was a fisherman, and he was pulling in ... They was needing fish, bad. So they, that day they got a great catch. They always prayed before they went to fish. And so he had some debts to pay, and he caught a big bunch of fish. And he sat down on the side of the boat and put his arm around Simon, and said, "Simon!"
His name was Jonas, you know. And he said, "Simon, my boy, I've thought that someday I'd see Messiah. That's been the hope of our people since we've come from Egypt, or since we knowed there was a promised Messiah. Four thousand years has passed, son. Many great men, prophets, has died, looking for Him. I thought He would come in my generation. But I'm getting old now, perhaps I won't see Him. But, Simon, I want you to remember, you and Andrew, that He'll probably come in your generation, for I'm old now and I'm ready to go be with my people. And I've tried to raise you boys right, tried to raise you on the Word.
"Now listen. Now, Simon and Andrew, before that Messiah really rises, there will be lots of things go on under the name of Messiah, because that will be the enemy. But don't you forget, Simon, you and Andrew always stay with the Word. Don't leave the Word. Remember, Messiah will be a prophet like Moses, for that's exactly. No matter, he might be a great ecclesiastical giant, he might be able to explain the words, he might be able to do anything like that; but the Bible said He will be a prophet like Moses. Amen. Now that's the way you'll know Him."

43 And that day when Simon walked up, and Andrew, in His presence, and Jesus standing there, who Andrew had told him, "We have found the Messiah."
And I'd imagine Peter thought like this, or Simon, and he was then, "Now you've probably gone off on the deep end, Andrew. I'll go over with you, and I'll know."
So as he walked up before Jesus, Jesus said, "Your name is Simon, and you are the son of Jonas."
That was enough. That was it. He believed Him and accepted Him in such a way that he had the keys to the kingdom afterwards. He didn't take any schooling or anything, he had the keys to the kingdom. Because, by the revelation of God he knew that that was Messiah, because it was the Scriptural Messiah. He was a prophet, and they hadn't had a prophet for four hundred years, since Malachi. They had had false prophets. But, a real prophet who told the truth! And here was a man standing here who, as soon as He seen him, not only knew who he was, but knew who his godly old father was that had instructed him. That settled it! "Thou art the Christ, the Son of God," see.
"Your name is Simon. You are the son of Jonas." That was enough to show him. Now that's what Jesus did yesterday, to prove Himself, that He was Messiah.

44 There was one standing there. We'll hurry. There was one standing there, by the name of Philip. Why, it enthused him! That's the one we're reading of here. It enthused him so much! Now, Philip might have said, "Say, that settles it! Now I'm sure!"
Around the hill he went, fifteen miles. He had a friend that he had went to school with, a good man, a man of Scripture, a man of integrity, a man that knowed the Scripture, and loved God. And I can see him knock on the door [Brother Branham knocks on the pulpit.] and say, "Where is Nathanael?"
His wife said, "He's out into the yard out there. He's praying."
He went to find him, and he was under a tree. And when he found him, he said, "Come, see who we have found; Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph."

45 And now I can imagine Philip ... or, Nathanael saying, "Now, Philip, could there be any good thing come out of Nazareth?"
He said, "Come and see."
Now, that's a good statement for anybody. Don't stay home and criticize. Don't get up and walk out. Stay and wait, and find out whether it's the truth, or not, see. "Come, see for yourself."
Well, went around the bend; let's think of their conversation. I can hear Philip say to Nathanael, "Nathanael, what does the Scripture say Messiah will be?"
"Oh, He'll be a prophet like unto Moses."
"Surely. That's right. Well, this Jesus of Nazareth that I'm telling you about, you remember that old fisherman that you bought the fish from, and couldn't sign his name?"
"Yes. Oh, sure, the son of Jonas. I know him well. His name is Simon."
"As soon as he walked into the presence of this man, He told him who he was, and about his father. It wouldn't surprise me that He wouldn't tell you who you are," he said.
"Well," He said, "now, just a moment. I'll have to see that."

46 Well, finally, they arrived at the meeting. As soon as he got in the presence of Jesus, Jesus said, "Behold, an Israelite in whom there is no guile."
Now you might have said, "Well, sure, He knows he's an Israelite, the way he was dressed." All the Easterners dress the same, all of them are dark complected and they wore a beard, and turban, and cloaks, and so forth, just the same. And how would He knowed he was an honest and just man, with no guile?
He said to him, "Behold, an Israelite in whom there is no guile."
And it astonished that scriptural man. He said, "Rabbi [which means teacher], when did You ever know me? This is our first time meeting. When did You ever know me?"
He said, "Before Philip called you, when you were under the tree, I saw you." There you are. That's it. "I saw you," fifteen miles around the mountain, day before. "I saw you when you were under the tree." Now, you know what he did? He ran up to Him, he said, "Rabbi, Thou art the Son of God! Thou art the King of Israel!" That You are! Why? He's Scriptural, that one that the prophet said would come. "Thou art the Son of God! Thou art the King of Israel!" Don't make any difference what the rest of them said.

47 Now, there was those standing there, oh, Pharisees and Sadducees, and bishops, and whatever more, head men, great ecclesiastical leaders, high priests, and priests, and whatmore, standing around there, and they looked at that. They knowed they had to answer their congregation. They had to give them a ques... had to answer their question. So you know what they said? They said, "This man is Beelzebub," see. In other words, "He's a fortune-teller, a devil."
And Jesus turned to them, and said, "I forgive you." See, they called the Spirit of God, that was doing that, an unclean spirit. Said, "I forgive you for doing that. But someday the Holy Ghost will come to do the same thing, and one word against it will never be forgiven in this world, neither in the world that is to come." One word against it. Now, that was for another age. Look at it.

48 Now, the Bible said that "The Word of God [Hebrew 4] is sharper than a two-edged sword. The Word, which was Christ, sharper than a two-edged sword, cutting to the marrow of the bone, and a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart." The Word! When the Word itself goes forward, that's what it is. That's the declaration, that's the vindication of the Word. And there was the Word standing there, made flesh among them, doing exactly what it said it would do, and they didn't perceive it.

49 Now, remember, there's only three races of people on the earth, that's Ham, Shem, and Japheth's people. We know that, if we believe the Bible. They all started from them, three children, Noah's children; Jew, Gentile, and Samaritan.
Did you notice Peter with the keys to the Kingdom? The first one he opened it to, was the Jews, at Pentecost. Is that right? And Philip went down and preached to the Samaritans, they had been baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus, but had not received the Holy Ghost as yet; and they sent up and got Peter to come down and laid hands on them, and they received the Holy Ghost. Is that right? Acts 10:49, "While Peter yet spake these words, the Holy Ghost fell upon them that heard the Word," see. Now notice them three people: Jews, Gentiles, and Samaritans.

50 Now here the Jews and the Samaritans was looking for a Messiah. Now Jesus was on His road to Jericho, from Jerusalem to Jericho, but He had need go by Samaria.
Now remember St. John 5:19, Jesus said, after passing the pool of Bethesda, "Verily, verily, I say unto you, the Son can do nothing in Himself, but what He sees the Father doing." Did you get it? Jesus said, "The Son can do nothing in Himself [that's Him], but what I [not hear the Father, but] see the Father doing." Now, that Scripture is right, or the rest of them might be wrong. He said, "Before I do anything, I see by vision what the Father shows Me to do, and then I go do it," see. It was just all around Him. "But, no man can come unless the Father draws him." That's true.
So He had need go by Samaria, and He went up around Samaria. And it was about twelve o'clock. And He sent His disciples in, when He come to the city of Sychar, and He sent His disciples in to get vittles--food. And while they were gone, a woman of Sychar come out.

51 Now, she was a woman that we'd call a woman of ill fame, probably a beautiful, young woman that took the wrong road, and she was living wrong. And she come out to get water. 'Cause, she can't come out... I've been in the country myself, and the customs are still the same. A woman of that type associates not with decent women; so she can't, she can't come to the well same time they're there, or anything. And so she come to the well after the rest of them had got their water, she come out to get water.
And when she did, she stopped, and was letting down the windle, it's got two hooks, and just put it over the pot handles like this. It's not a bucket; it's kind of a pot, like, made out of clay, and they let it down into the well, and windle it back up. And so she started to let the bucket down, and she heard someone say, "Woman, bring me a drink." And she looked over. It was kind of a little panoramic like this here, where the city public well is out there, out of Sychar. And then she looked over there, and there sat a middle-aged Jew. Now, He was really only about thirty-two.

52 But He had just got through, in St. John 6, where they told Him He looked like He was fifty. But, of course, His work had done that, perhaps. Said, "You're not a man over fifty years old, and say you seen Abraham? We know you're crazy now."
He said, "Before Abraham was, I AM." That's right. They didn't understand it, yet being as ecclesiastical and intelligent as they could be. But intelligence ain't to know God; you have to forget all that, to know God. See. No.

53 And there they were. So this woman said... Now, she was, what we call today, a prostitute, and there she was. She said, "Sir, it's not custom for you Jews to ask me, a woman of Samaria, something, because we have no dealings." In other words, "There's a segregation."
He said, "Woman, if you knew who were talking to, you'd ask me for a drink. I'd give you water you don't come here to draw." What was He doing? Contacting her spirit.
Now remember, He had need go up to Samaria. The Father just said, "Go up to Samaria." He did nothing till the Father showed Him.

54 Now here He was at Samaria. Now He doesn't know just exactly what's going to happen, but here's the woman, so He thought He'd carry a conversation with her. So He said, went to talking about a drink. She went to talking about worship in this mountain or that mountain, or so forth. Directly He caught what her trouble was. How many knows what it was? Sure, she had five husbands, six, really. So she said... He said, "Go, get your husband, and come here."
She said, "I have no husband."
He said, "That's right. You've said well, for you have had five, and the one you're living with now is not your husband. In that thou saidest the truth."

55 Notice! Now I got to nail this down, 'cause I got to quit. Look the difference between that woman, in that shape that she was in, to those high-cultured ministers.
That woman said, "Sir, I perceive that You are a prophet."
The priests and the educated said, "You are Beelzebub, a devil, fortune-teller."
This woman said, "Sir, I perceive that You are a prophet. We know when Messiah cometh, He'll tell us these things."
If that was the sign of Messiah yesterday, and He's the same yesterday, today, and forever, it's got to be the same!
She said, "We know Messiah, which is called the Christ the anointed one; when He comes, He'll tell us these things. But who are You?"
He said, "I am He that speaks with you." That was enough. She saw it!

56 Look at the difference. Look when that light flashed upon that ecclesiastical seed and creed, and denominational, it never took effect at all. But the first time that light flashed upon that little predestinated seed there, it flashed quickly, she recognized it. She said, "Sir, you must be a prophet! We know Messiah is coming, and He'll do those things."
He said, "I am He."
And away she went, into the city, said, "Come, see a man that told me the things I done. Isn't this the very Messiah?" Amen.
There you are! What was He yesterday? That's the same He is today, and will be forever, see. He was.

57 David was anointed with the Spirit of God. The prophets was anointed with the Spirit of God.
That was Christ in Joseph, that made him portray Christ, exactly. Sold for thirty pieces of silver, loved by the father, hated by the brethren, in this prison house. Like Christ was on the cross, one was saved; the butcher and the butler, one saved and the other one lost, the same thing. Set at the right hand of Pharaoh; and every time he went forth, a trumpet sound, "Everyone bow the knee, Joseph is coming." No man could get to Pharaoh, only through Joseph. That was Christ in Joseph!

58 That was Christ in David, as a rejected king, and went up on top of the Mount of Olives, when he had been dethroned down there by his own people, and rejected king, went up to the top of the hill and wept over Jerusalem, and cried, because he was a rejected king. That same Spirit in Christ, wept over Jerusalem, and said, "Jerusalem, Jerusalem, how oft would I have hovered you as a hen doth."
It was Christ in those people, anointed ones, coming up till this perfect anointed One come. The sin-offering wasn't made. He couldn't come into all flesh like that, because it was just under... They was anointed. But now the Holy Spirit has come, which is Christ in Spirit form. Now notice.

59 Now, why didn't He do those signs for the Gentiles? It never was performed by Him. Why? Gentiles wasn't looking for no Messiah. They were heathens, we were, our people, Romans and so forth, back there with a club on our back, worshiping idols. They wasn't looking for no Messiah. And Messiah only comes to those who are looking for Him. That's the only way. "To them that look for Him, will He appear the second time." Just those who are looking for Him! Not just those who's pretending; but those who are really looking for Him. And notice, He never come to Gentile. That miracle was never performed before a Gentile.
And the unchangeable God! Now we've had two thousand years of scholarship and all kinds of things, and now it's come evening time, and now the Gentiles are looking for a coming Messiah. Now, if He's the same! He appeared the same to them two tribes, He's got to appear the same way there. And promised, though...! One more Scripture, and I'll close.
Always remember, keep three classes of people in your mind. They're always there, that's: believers, make-believers, and unbelievers. They're in every crowd, see.

60 And Abraham was given the promise, and Abraham's seed after him. Now notice Abraham's seed, in the form of Lot, went down into Sodom, the pleasures of the world; that's church natural, denominational, organizational. But church spiritual, which was Abraham that God visited personally, the called-out, he never went into Sodom, he was out of Sodom; that's the church, called-out. Now, the end-time come, when He was going to destroy the lands with fire.
That's what He's fixing to do again. Is that right? Now watch. Jesus said, "As it was in the days of Sodom, so shall it be at the coming of the Son of man." Remember, them were Gentile nations, see. The end, as it was in Sodom. Now here's the Gentiles coming up. The Jewish time was destroyed by water. This time, Gentiles is destroyed by fire. Notice, "as it was in Sodom," let's just watch.

61 There was Abraham, the elected church, called out of Sodom; spiritual, God appearing in their camp all the time, signs and wonders, with a promise. Sitting up here on the hills, barren grounds, not rich and like the rest of them; but poor, sitting up; a little, despised group, made fun of. The rest of them had went out and got rich, and rulers of the city, like Cain's children always did, great men, scientists, doctors, and so forth. There they was, just as it always has been. God doesn't change. And there they was sitting there.
Now, down in Sodom was the lukewarm church, Lot and his bunch. Abraham and his bunch was the elected church. Notice. And then the Sodomites, the unbelievers.

62 And there came three messengers from heaven, dressed like men. And Abraham set in the door of his tent one morning, and looked, and three men come up. Now, they had dust on their clothes, like they had been traveling. And Abraham, there was a little something down in him, he knew that them were strange men. They looked like somebody that he ought to know, so he run out.
There's something about a real borned-again Christian, when you meet one! I was coming through a restaurant today, somebody said, "God bless you." I turned around. I said, "Oh-oh, something wrong." A little lady shook my hand. Now, something about a borned-again Christian!
And these angels walked up there and begin to talk to Abraham. Now remember, two of them went down into Sodom, to call out, see if they could find ten just people. Is that right? Two of them went away. One of them stayed back and talked to Abraham. Is that right? Now watch.

63 Down there, there wasn't no miracles, just smote them blind when they come to get in. And preaching the gospel does smite the unbeliever blind. That's what the Bible says. And remember, a modern Billy Graham and intellectuals down there preaching, "Come out! Come out! Come out!" See?
But remember, the one that stayed back with Abraham, done something else with the elected church, He was sitting with His back turned to the tent. Now remember, he had been "Abram" till just a day or two before that, and Sarah had been "S-a-r-r-a." But now she's S-a-r-a-h, and he's A-b-r-a-h-a-m; "father of nations," and "princess," see. Now how did this stranger know, when He set down, with His back to the tent? And He said, "Abraham, where is your wife, Sarah?" How did He know he was married? How did He know her name was Sarah?
And Abraham said, "She's in the tent behind You."
Now watch. "I," personal pronoun, "I am going to visit you." What had He done? Set there and had eat a calf that Abraham killed eat bread that Sarah had baked, and drank milk from the cow.

64 Someone said to me not long ago, said, "Who was that, Brother Branham?"
I said, " It was God."
Abraham ought to know, he talked to Him. Ask any minister. He called Him "Elohim," the self-existing one; capital L-o-r-d, "Lord," the self-existing one.
Now watch, you won't miss it. "Abraham, where is your wife, Sarah?"
Said, "She's in the tent, behind You."
Said, "I'm going to visit you according to the time of life." What He promised him twenty-five years before that! Abraham was a hundred, and Sarah was ninety. "I'm going to visit you according to life."

65 Now remember, Sarah, an old woman, it had ceased to be with her as a wife. No woman ninety years old... Maybe twenty or thirty years, maybe, since she had been a wife to Abraham. They were old. And she laughed in herself; you know, what we call, "laugh up her sleeve." Said, "Me, an old woman like I am; and my lord, Abraham, out there, old, too; and me have pleasure like a bride again, with Abraham?" And she laughed about it.
And the angel, with His back turned to the tent, said, "Why did Sarah laugh, saying that, 'These things can't be'? What kind of a telepathy was that?

66 Jesus said, "As it was in the days of Lot, so shall it be at the coming of the Son of man." There, the church nominal has their messengers. And the messenger of the Holy Spirit is with the church elected, doing the same thing, which makes Him Christ, the same yesterday, today, and forever. Who is the messenger of this hour. No man. The Holy Ghost is the messenger of this hour. What is it? God, dwelling in human flesh. Glory! I feel religious. Amen. God, in human flesh, dwelling among you!
Jesus said, "Lo, a little while and the world seeth Me no more [that's the unbeliever]; yet ye shall see Me [the church], for I [personal pronoun again], I'll be with you, even in you, to the end of the age, the end of the world." Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today, and forever! Our God is not dead! He is living forevermore! He's living at the end time, when the sun is setting.

67 The sun always rises in the East and sets in the West. Civilization has traveled with the sun. We know that. The oldest civilization we have is China. And when the Son (S-o-n) shined its first time, was on the Eastern people. Now civilization has traveled till we're... Right yonder is the West Coast! If we go any further, we'll be East again. The next stop is Japan, China. We'll be East again, if we go any further. Civilization has traveled with the sun.
Now the prophet said, "There will be a day that cannot be called day or night, a dismal, foggy day." People has knowed enough about God to join a church, put there name on a book, walk in what light they had. On a foggy day, there's so much light of the sun, or you couldn't get around at all. But he said, "In the evening time, it shall be light." What is it? The same sun that rises in the East, sets in the West. And the same Son of God that manifested and appeared in the East, is appearing in the West now at the evening time, evening light to the church that's called out and filled with the Holy Spirit.

68 Christ, by the blood and power of His own veins, cleansed an unclean people, and dwells among them in the form of the Holy Ghost. Amen. The picture of it, how many ever seen that picture? It's right back there now. You can go look at it. George J. Lacy, the head of the FBI in fingerprinting and things, been taken. And that same angel that led Israel, is here now performing and doing the same thing it did when it was in the person of Jesus Christ. Christ, the body, has ascended up to the right hand of the Father; but the Holy Spirit come back, the life that was in Christ, is in the church. Now Christ didn't...

69 When Jesus said, in John 15, "I am the vine, ye are the branches." Now, the vine doesn't bear fruit; it's the branch. You know that, you people here, you grape raisers, and so forth. Now, if that first branch that come out of the vine, produced a book of Acts behind it, that first church; if that vine ever puts forth another, another branch, it'll write another book of Acts behind it. For, the very life that's in the vine brings forth into the branch. Sure. We've got a lot of grafted branches in here.

70 I seen a tree the other day in Phoenix, Arizona, had nine different fruits on it, citrus fruits. And I said to somebody, I said, "Brother Sharrit." I said, "Brother Sharrit, what is that? Lemon, tangerine, tangelo, and grapefruit, and everything." I said, "Now when all them are picked off," I said, "next year then it'll bring forth ... it'll bring forth oranges, 'cause it's an orange tree."
Said, 'Oh, no. It'll bring forth grapefruit, lemon, and whatever the branch is."
"Why," I said, "that's a strange thing. You mean you perverted that orange tree into them kind of trees?"
He said, "No. The orange tree is still the same. If it ever puts forth another branch, it'll bring forth an orange. But what's grafted into it like that, it brings forth of its own kind, because it's a citrus fruit."
I said, "There you are!"
Denomination can only bring forth denomination fruit. But if that original vine ever puts out another one, it'll be Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today, and forever! "I will restore," saith the Lord. Amen. (It's time to go home.)

71 What? "Sirs, we would see Jesus." What kind of a person would you look for. The same kind of person that was. Now, you don't go down the street here and look for a man with some kind of a robe on, and nail scars across his head, or whatever it is. Any hypocrite can do that. That's right. Anybody can impersonate that. But it would be the life that was in Christ, will be in His church. That's it, the life!
If you took the life out of a pumpkin vine, and put it over in a grapevine, it would bear pumpkins, if it could live like that. Sure, the life in it.
And that's where the life is now. The life of Christ in the church, produces Christ over again. That's how they see Christ. In John 14:12, he said, "He that believeth in Me, [not make-believeth; but] he that believeth in Me, the works that I do shall he do also. More than this shall he do, for I go to My Father." Jesus Christ, the same yesterday, today, and forever.

72 Christians. Been a missionary, seen hundreds of different gods, yes, thousands of them, all kinds, Sikhs Jains, Buddha, all the other kinds that's put together, see. I was entertained here not long ago, in India (where I had my largest crowd, five hundred thousand in one gathering), and there I was entertained in the temple of the Jains. And in there was seventeen different religions, seventeen different gods, and every one of them against Christianity. But, oh, my, you ought to have seen Him come on the scene. Every one of their founders is dead and gone. Ours rose again, and He's alive forevermore, living in His church, the same yesterday, today, and forever.

73 Let us bow our heads.
Lord Jesus, we're so happy to talk about You. You're so lovely and so worthy of all we could say. But, Father, just one word from You would do more than all I could ever say, or any other minister. Just one word from You would settle it. Won't You do it tonight, Father, as we're waiting now, just for a moment, for You, I pray. We'll wait, not for a moment for You, Lord, we'll wait till You are ready. We want to hear from You. I pray, heavenly Father, tonight, as I've held the audience again, long. But they're so lovely, Lord. And I know the evening sun is gone. We're just living in the shadows now. And, God, there may be somebody that don't know You. I pray that You'll come to us tonight, Lord, in the form of the Holy Spirit, and let the people see You, see the same Jesus that they seen in the days gone by.

74 It wasn't the man, the body (they crucified that, but God raised it up), but it was that life that was in Him. He didn't say, "Come, see the way I wear My clothes, that's the sign I'm Messiah. Come, see what schools I come from, what creed I teach." No, that wasn't how He introduced Himself. But He said, "If I do not the works of My Father, then believe Me not. But though I do the works of My Father and you don't believe Me, believe the works, they are they that testify of Me. They're the one that makes Me known." And they seen that You was Messiah, because You was the prophet, the God-prophet.
And now tonight, Father, we pray that You will bless us tonight like You did Cleopas and his friend after they'd walked with You for three-and-a-half years, and had seen the things that You did; then You were crucified, under Pontius Pilate, You suffered, crucified died. And on the third day, they were on the road to Emmaus. They had heard a rumor by the women and some of the disciples, that "He was risen." But that day You walked with them and talked with them practically all day long. They didn't know You.
Maybe many here ... You've walked with them and talked with them, and they didn't recognize it.

75 But when evening come, they invited You in, and You closed the doors and sat down. Then You did something just the way You did it before Your crucifixion. They knew then it was You. A moment, You disappeared out of their sight, and was gone out into the night. Away they went to their people, saying, "The Lord is risen!"
God, will You do it tonight again? Do something among us tonight, Lord, Just like you did it before Your crucifixion. Then we'll have confidence and know that our Christ is not dead, but He is risen from the dead, and is alive here among us, forevermore. We commit ourselves to You, Father. I commit this church to You, and every spirit in here, to You, that You might use us to honor Christ. In Jesus' name I ask it. Amen.

76 Now before we pray or call the pray line, I'm going to ask you something. I want every person, please, to keep your seat just for a few minutes. Now you must be reverent during this time. Now, if you don't believe, then slip out real easy. But now, if you're going to believe, sit still, just about fifteen minutes, see. Let's see if He'll speak to us. Now we're not in a... We're in an arena, but this is a church. It's dedicated for that purpose, so let's sit real still. Each one of you is a spirit. If you're not, you're dead, see. So then you are a spirit, and then when the Holy Spirit comes down to anoint amongst the people, it contacts, it picks them spirits, see. And you moving, there's a shift.
You say, "Oh, Brother Branham!" Well, why did He lead the blind man out of the city? And so forth, see. See?
Now how many that believe Him? "Sirs, we would see Him."

77 Now we got a little prayer line we're going to call. I believe they call... Where did... Or did he give out, yeah, prayer cards one to a hundred? One to a hundred, what? C, C. All right, let's call some of the prayer cards. C, number 1, who has that card? C, number 1. Look at your prayer card, you who have your prayer card. Number one. All right. You're going to bring them which way, this a-way, back this way? All right.
C, number one. Number 2. All right, lady. Number three. Number 3. If you can stand up, or raise your hand or something another, so I'll... Number 3, who has prayer card? The gentleman, all right. Number 4, prayer card number 4. All right. All right, number 4. Who has number 4, would you raise up your hand, please? All right, lady, come over here. See, they just...

78 They come down, the boy does, and takes these prayer cards and stands up before you. He mixes them together, then he just starts giving you a prayer card. You might get 6, and the other one get 14.
Come over here, lady. 4, 5. And then who has 5, raise up your hand. Prayer card number 5. And then another thing when he... Right down here, lady. And then another thing they do in that, then sometimes I call from one place... How many was ever in a meeting before, one of our meetings? Oh, well, I thought I was amongst strangers. Certainly not. All right. 5, 6. Who has 6? All right, 7, 8, 8, 9. I get this, 'cause deaf people, and people is in wheel chairs and can't walk. 9, 10. Number 10. 10, how would you say that in Spanish? 10. All right, 11, prayer card 11. Thought somebody in the balcony... Here. All right, 12. All right, 12, 13. Prayer card 13, do you have it, lady? 14, 14, 15. Well, let us start like that now. All right.

79 Now, please, now be just reverent. Now how many in here that doesn't have a prayer card, and yet you believe that Jesus Christ will heal you? Raise your hand. I don't care where you are. How many has been in the meetings before, and knows that there is more healed out there than there is up here, by just calling them? Sure, without prayer cards! You just have faith now, don't doubt, believe with all your heart.
Prayer card 5 is missing. The usher is calling prayer card number 5. See, if you get up and... Don't get a prayer card 'less you're going to use it; see, don't. You get your number now, 'cause we're going to pray for everyone's got them cards, see, and we don't want you to miss your time. 'Cause, now, when we call again now, we left off at 15, that's where we'll start probably tomorrow night, same place, see. We're going to get them, every one, so then you'll miss your time, see, here. Now prayer card number 5. All right.

80 And just have faith. Don't doubt. And believe with all your heart. Now, now each one of you now that's got a prayer card, or don't have a prayer card, and you believe, now while they're getting the line ready, look this way now.
One time there was a woman, and maybe she didn't have a prayer card, but she had what it taken, faith. And she passed through the crowd, and she said, "If I can just touch His garment, I'll be made well." How many ever heard that story? The woman with the blood issue. Now that little woman was determined she was going to touch Jesus. She said, "I believe Him. I don't care how many of the priests and all the rest of them don't believe Him, I believe Him. And I believe if I can touch His garment, I'll be made well. I believe He is Messiah."

81 Do you believe He is Messiah? Sure. Now can you touch Him? Now, to the ministers, where's the minister brethren? The minister, now. Does the Bible say, ministering brethren, or all you Bible readers, that "He, right now [book of Hebrews, 3rd chapter], is a high priest that can be touched by the feeling of our infirmities"? How many knows the Bible says it? Sure. Well, then, if He is a high priest, and the same high priest would He not act the same? see. If He's the same yesterday, today, and forever (that's our subject), He would act the same. Now you say...

82 Now if you come up here and touch me, wouldn't make a bit of difference. Touch the pastors, wouldn't make a bit of difference. Touched your pastor there, whoever it is, wouldn't make a bit of difference. But, you touch Him!
Then how would you know you touched Him? He would work right back and do the same thing, see. You touch Him and see if He don't speak right through here, and say, "Your faith ... you had so-and-so," and whatever it is, and tell you what it was, and what happened, all about it. Now, how many seen that done hundreds of times, just raise up your hand, see. Sure, never fail, never fail. Why? He can't fail; He's God, see. Aren't you happy to be a Christian, a real, borned-again Christian, really with the victory of Christ?

83 Now, just you out there in the audience now, you just keep real reverent, and say, "I'm going to believe it, no matter what anybody else does, what anybody else says, "I'm going to believe it with all my heart." And just be faithful and believe now. All right. All right.
The brethren back there, ministers and them is bringing the patients out.
(Now I think, yes, this is alive. Now if the one on ... the engineer on that will kind of keep it a little high.)
'Cause, sometime when the anointing strikes, then I don't know what I'm saying. You see, I'll have to ... It's somewhere else back in life, see. And then when I... Just like you dreamed it, see. And you're dreaming like a dream, if I make it that way to you, yet you're standing right here; and go back for years, in people's life, and find what they did, what's the matter, and whatmore, and bring it up like that, see. And that's the Holy Spirit. Then it tells what was, what is, what will be, so forth. You just watch it and listen close, and you get your tapes, and it'll tell you.

84 Now here's a man that probably just maybe a little older than I. And I believe we're strangers to one another. This is our first time meeting, as far as I know, you and I, we're strangers to each other. [The man says, "I've been in your meetings.] You've been in my meetings. Yeah. ["But I've never met you."] He's been in my meetings, he said, but had never met me. 'Course, there's millions has been in the meetings that I would never know. But, now here's two men that meets for our first time in life. He's just a man standing there, I don't know him. Here's the Bible; I don't know him, I've never seen him in my life. He's seen me, from somewhere in the audience, in a meeting somewhere. But there he stands.

85 Maybe the man is a make-believer. Maybe he's a believer. Maybe he's not a believer at all, no way. Maybe he's just a man. Maybe he's sick, maybe he's not. Maybe it's domestic trouble, financial trouble. Maybe he's standing there for somebody else. I don't know. But there he stands, and here I am.
"Now, sirs, we would see Jesus."
Now, what could I do for that man? Now, I might walk up to him, put my hands on him, say, "Are you sick, sir?" He'd say, "Yes, sir." I put my hands on him, say, "Glory to God, hallelujah! Go, you're going to get well. Hallelujah!" Well, now, that could be he'd get well; it depends on what he thought about it. No matter, might ... me shaking him and putting my hands on him, wouldn't do nothing. It's his faith in God that would do it. But, now, he would have a right to doubt that.
But if the Holy Spirit can stand here and tell him something that he has been, like Moses wrote Genesis, then surely He could tell him what would be. He could believe that, could he? Now, now if He would do that, if Christ would do that, how many of you would believe with all your heart?

86 See, now see, the only one fault I find in America, they have seen so much until they just become spectators, you see. Don't do that. You honor Christ, see. Don't pay no attention to me. I'm a sinner saved by grace. But now no matter how much God would anoint me, He's got to anoint him, too. That's right, it wouldn't do a bit of good. He's got to anoint him, too. He's got to anoint you, see, anoint you out there, the Holy Spirit fall on you.
Then, this is just a channel. You don't speak it yourself. He speaks through you. It's a medium in which God uses to speak through, see. It's like this microphone, that microphone is a mute unless something back here is speaking through it. And, that's me, how do I know that man? Never seen him, but I'm a mute to him, see.

87 So, "Sir, we would see Jesus." Now what would He do? What if the man is sick, would He say, "I'm going to heal you"? He couldn't do it; He's already did it, see. "By His stripes we were healed." He did it on Calvary. But He would do something to show that He was still Messiah. Is that right? Well, then, what would He do, would He say, "Look at My nail scars"? That's not what He said in the beginning. He just told them what was in their heart, and so forth, and they knew that was Messiah. Now that's Him, same yesterday, today, and forever. Do you believe it? Say, "Amen."

88 You say, "Brother Branham, what are you waiting on?" The angel of the Lord. Sure. I can't do a thing. I'm waiting for it. It don't anoint me, I can't say a thing. It just depends on what...
Now He's here. He's here now. And in the name of Jesus Christ I take every spirit in here under my control, for the glory of God.
I don't know you, sir. We are strangers. But you're present something ... or conscious that something is going on. Now the man could not hide his life. He is sick. To heal him, I cannot. There's no way for me to heal him. The man has been to a doctor. He's had an examination. Sure, he's up for an operation. That is right. If that's right, sir, raise up your hand.
Do you believe?

89 Say, "You guessed that, Brother Branham." I didn't.
Watch again. Look this way, sir. Just like our Lord speaking to a woman, it's His Spirit. I'm not Him. I'm a man like you, but it's His Spirit. Whatever He told you, it was right, whatever. Yeah, here it is again. Yes, yes, he's ready for an operation right now, and it's on a bladder trouble and a prostate condition. That's "Thus saith the Holy Spirit. That's right. Raise up your hand if that be so. Do you believe now that you're in His presence? All right. Go, believing, and you'll be well. Amen.
Do you believe? Now it's just that simple to see Christ moving.

90 Now, lady, we are strangers to each other. Here's a... You've been in the meeting. When I say "stranger," that mean I don't know you, you don't know me. And You've seen me in the meetings, and things like that. But to know, say, "Yes, Brother Branham, you come to my house, I know you, we're personal friends," I don't know you that way. And you just been in the meeting somewhere. I wouldn't have no idea, nothing about you, only just you're just a woman that's attended some meeting somewhere. Now, there was a man. Here's a woman.

91 Here's a picture of St. John 4, a man and a woman meets the first time in life, to meet face to face, like the woman of Samaria and our Lord Jesus. Now here's a woman, I don't know her. I've never seen her. She's a total stranger. God in heaven knows that. I've never seen her. But if the Holy Spirit will tell her what she is here for, somebody else or whatever it is, domestic, financial, or sickness or whatever it is, then she'll have to admit that there's some supernatural power here to do that. Is that right?
See, now it depends on what you think it is. You can say "Beelzebub" or you can say "Christ." If you say "Beelzebub," you get his reward, see. Say "Christ," it's His reward. You must believe.
Now what a place it puts you! Does somebody want to take this place? If you don't believe it, come here and take my place once. [Brother Branham pauses.] Always a quiet audience when that is asked.

92 Now, sister, look this way. Why did I call you "sister" when I looked around? I had my back turned to you. But I felt the Spirit on you, that you are a Christian. You're a believer. I don't know you, but I know you're a Christian. Because, the Spirit that's on you, and the Spirit that's on me, is a relative, you see. You just feel like you're welcome, you know, just making you feel good, you're welcome.
Now, if the Holy Spirit, like Jesus speaking to the woman at the well, here we are, just a little panoramic like the well at Sychar, I was talking about. Now, being that we're both believers, and we're standing here, the Holy Spirit on both of us. Now He has give... I'm not a preacher. But He gives me a gift; that's my preaching. It's a prophetic gift. And these are just temporarily; it'll take your faith to do that; like the woman that touched His garment, said, "Thy faith has saved thee," see. Now, that's the same thing that takes now, see, it takes your faith. Then He tells me something, where to go and certain places.

93 Now, here, He had need to go by Samaria. Now I'm on my road to Alaska, but I had need come this way. Why? I felt led to come here. And here I am; here you come up on the platform. That's all I know. And here you stand. You're a Christian and I'm a Christian, both of us with the Holy Spirit. And here's His Word, that He's the same yesterday, today, and forever.
Now, if He'll reveal to you something that's in your life, you'll know whether it's the truth or not. And He'll make you believe then for whatever you're asking for; 'cause a Christian wouldn't stand there like that. You're in need of something or you wouldn't stand there.
Will everybody else believe? Does anybody know the person? Yeah, lots of people knows the person.

94 Well, according to medics, you should have an operation, too. It's cysts. That's right. Do you believe that the Holy Spirit can reveal to me where those cysts are? The kidneys. That's right. Now do you believe? You're not from here. You come here about two or three hundred miles. You traveled a long ways to get here. That's right. That's right. And, by the way, you're a minister's wife. You believe God can tell me who you are? Would it help you? Mrs. Johnson. Go, believing, and be made well; with all your heart.
Do you believe with all your heart? See? Jesus Christ! Sirs, we would ... You say, "How that?" Well, that's no more than what He told the rest of them. Do you believe? "Sirs, we would see Jesus." That's Him. Now go talk to the woman, ask her.

95 Now here's a man, total strange, I don't know him, never seen him in my life. He might be eat up with cancer, He might have domestic troubles, financial. I don't know what's wrong with him. He's standing here, just a man. Now if the Holy Spirit will reveal to that man, you know...
That little lady sitting right back over here towards where I'm pointing my finger, suffering with that eczema. If you'll believe with all your heart...! You believe it, lady, with all your heart? Little gray-headed woman with glasses on, she suffers with eczema. She was standing there, or sitting there, rather, thinking about what was wrong with her, praying in her heart. And now if that's right, and you believe that God will make you well, stand up on your feet.
What did she touch? I ask you, what did she touch? She's twenty yards from me. She touched the high priest, and that high priest is here! He's the same yesterday, today, and forever. Don't you see? Don't doubt it. Believe it! Have faith.

96 Now, I couldn't help that, sir. It's just... I watch a light, you see, and it just went from me, and I seen it hanging over there, and I seen the little lady come up here before me. And she kept coming before me here, and see it was a woman instead of a man, so I just had to speak on what I was seeing.
Oh, if this church, if this group of people would just believe right now, just have faith, what would happen, what would take place!
Sir, we're strangers to one another. Just want to speak to you, in order to just contact your spirit. Here, you're not here for yourself. You're here for somebody else, that's a little fellow, a little fellow, little boy been wrecked in an automobile accident, cut all to pieces, lacerated, very bad, serious condition. You're here, standing for him. That's right. If God doesn't help the little boy, he's got to die. Will you do me a favor? Take that handkerchief out of my pocket; go, put it on him, in the name of the Lord, and don't doubt. And let me hear from him, as the meeting goes on. Have faith.

97 How do you do, sir? We're strangers to each other. Another woman. Are you believing? Now, remember, He's just the same out there that He is here. He's all over. He's everywhere.
Sister Borders, is that you sitting out there? I can't make out. Looked like Sister Borders sitting there. I can't ... Roy, Brother Roy Borders' wife. I guess it isn't. It went right, stood over that lady. Now, just a minute, and maybe it'll call back again, see what it's doing.
I'm a stranger to you. The Lord knows both of us. If the Lord will explain to me, and do something here, that what you're here for, will you believe with all your heart?

98 Mrs. Borders keeps standing here before me, somewhere. Mrs. Borders is in the meeting somewhere. [Brother Branham says to Brother Roy Borders, "Anything wrong with your wife?] All right, it just keeps coming here. And there's a bunch of people, somebody by her, and I keep wondering.
You are suffering with a tumor. That's right. You believe God can tell me where the tumor is? On the hip. You believe with all your heart. You have complications, too, many other things. You believe. That's right. You believe with all your heart? ["Yes."] Go, believing like that, and it'll all be over, and God will heal you and make you well [The sister says, "Brother Branham, that woman came with me, with eczema, came with me. And I didn't know it until we sat back there, she said she had eczema."] Her getting thrilled of getting in a prayer line probably is what done it, prayer for one another.

99 Here it is! Oh, I see! I seen Mrs. Borders standing here, she's praying. And there's one woman sitting by her there, that's praying, has got low blood pressure. If you believe, sitting right there, lady, with all your heart you believe it, and God will make you well, with the low blood pressure. Amen. There you are. There's where the prayer was coming from.
If you don't believe me to be a prophet, or, excuse me, servant (that stumbles the people), lay your hand on the woman sitting next to you, because she suffers with varicose veins. That's right. Amen.
Believe with all your heart now! Tell me what they're touching; some little woman sitting there, praying for another one, it keeps appearing on the platform. Just believe with all your heart! All right.

100 Come here, lady. Do you believe with all your heart? Do you believe? Do you believe that stomach trouble is going to get well? ["Yes."] Then go eat your supper. Jesus Christ makes you well.
What do you believe? Do you believe God is going to heal that back trouble, them kidneys, and make you well? Go home, believing, say, "Jesus Christ makes me well." Just have faith, don't doubt.
Come, sir. You were awful happy when you come out of the line there, when your number was called. God heals heart trouble and can make you well. You believe it? Then go on your road, believing, and it'll all leave you, and you'll be made well. All right.
Have faith. Don't doubt, lady, what do you think about it? You think if I laid my hands on you, you'd get well? Just didn't say nothing, just laid my hand on you? [The sister says, "You don't even have to."] Don't have to, all right, that's good. Go right ahead. Amen. That's the way to do it. All right.

101 Come, lady. What do you believe, sister? Do you believe with all your heart? You know God can tell me what's wrong with you, but will you believe it? Then diabetes is nothing for God, He can heal it. You believe it? All right, go on, get well. Amen.
All right, sir. Come, sir. I'm a stranger to you. Everybody tells you, "Get next to yourself," 'cause you're nervous. But you can't get next to yourself, there's something there that makes you nervous. That's right. But you're standing on the spot now where it's left you now. Go, believe it, and it'll never come back again. Go, believe it. Amen. Have faith. Don't doubt. All right.
Many things, lady's trouble, arthritis. Now you believe God will make you well? Just go, saying, "Praise be to God," and believe with all your heart.

102 Come, lady. (You believe Him out there?) God can heal diabetes, anything in the blood. Don't you believe that? Sure, He can. Go right on, believing, saying, "Amen! Praise the Lord!"
You believe "...lay hands on the sick, they shall recover"? In the name of the Lord Jesus, go get well now, and believe all your heart.
All right, come right on, sir. You believe God can heal heart trouble; make prostate trouble, everything, that nervousness and everything go away from you? Then go, believe, in the name of the Lord Jesus. Amen.
You believe with all your heart? What about the rest of you, you believe?

103 Where is your cripples? I see a wheel chair. What do you say, sir? Look here to me. Do you believe me? You believe me to be God's servant? You do. Look on me, then. Your trouble is with your legs. You're supposed to go to a hospital; but you wouldn't do it, because you thought if you could ever get here, you'd get well, and wouldn't have to go to the hospital. That's right. Do you believe it? If you sit there, you're sure to die; like the lepers. The doctor can't do you no good. So why don't you accept Christ tonight, and believe with all your heart, and rise up out of that wheel chair, and take the end of it and push it around, and go on out the door and go home, and get well? Why don't you do that? Will you believe it? Then rise up. Don't doubt. In the name of Jesus Christ, take your wheel chair and go home!

104 Do you believe with all your heart? Stand up on your feet, anybody wants to be healed. Stand up on your feet, and believe it. Rise up! I don't care what's wrong with you, how crippled you are. That doesn't make any difference. I'm challenging you, stand up! Rise up, everybody, every cripple, wherever you are. In the name of Jesus Christ, stand on your feet and be made well! There you are, the whole audience, standing.

105 Now let us raise our hands to God. Heavenly Father, Sir, we would see Jesus. Here You are! Not a feeble one among us, every one healed. How we thank You, Father! Now we pray, God, that You'll defeat the devil in every instance now, cast out all the unbelief.
Satan, in Jesus' name, leave this audience, come out of here! You've lost the battle. In the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, may they be healed, every one of them.